Since this is organic, how is it affected by temperature? Will it have problems in freezing weather? What about hot weather? Will animals want to eat it? Will it biodegrade?
Liberal Fascists should be careful, because the more power they grab now, will just mean more power that the Conservatives get to use when it is their turn again. All the Liberal are happy that they get to tell everyone what to do, but they forget that eventually the Conservatives will be in the same position. The last time the Conservatives where in power they basically wasted it by doing nothing. Do you honestly think that they will do that again? The Liberal are showing the Conservatives how do it. Which I think is also a bad thing.
Due to my Scandinavian heritage I insist that everyone boycott anything portraying Vikings as bloodthirsty barbarians. Due to my Italian heritage I insist that everyone boycott anything portraying Italians as bloodthirsty criminals.
The problem is that government does not work the same way as we do. Once they decide to spend money on item X on an annual basis, the debate is not whether to spend on it again. The debate always seems to be how much do we increase spending on item X. Decreases NEVER happen. At best they will stop increasing spending.
Suburban Ussault Vehicles are a danger to everyone. I don't care about how much gas they use. They are a menace on the roads. They are too big. It is impossible to drive a normal car anywhere near them without problems. They take up too much room. They barely fit into parking spots. Last weekend I parked my car at the store, and when I came out there was an SUV on either side of my car. They both barely fit inbetween the lines. Of course they were parked badly, but that is not a surprise given how huge they are. It was impossible for me to get into my car. I had to get the store's PA guy to get the dumb SUV drivers to move their vehicles.
Actually, I am happy that Sony Music and Sony Electronic don't agree. It demonstrates that this issue is not as cut and dry as the RIAA would like veryone to believe.
What I have never understood, is how can unlawful laws be created? I think that things like this ban and the DMCA for example should be reviewed before they are passed into law. It just seems to be a bigger pain in the butt to have to challenge the laws afterward.
The problem with MS being involved in this is that they are in a unique position as far as delivery of their product. Their software will already be installed on most PCs, which means zero delivery effort (except that the price will be built into the price of the OS). Mr & Mrs Smith do not need to drive to the store, or download for an hour or more to get the product.
AOL gets around this by mailing their disks to everyone.
What are Tribal Voice and the others going to do that can possibly compete? Get OEMs like Dell and Gateway to preinstall? Mail their software to everyone? I don't think so.
AOL and MS will dominate this market unless/until linux gains alot more market share (another situation where the delivery will be zero, because the OS will include it ).
Only people who are actually interested in a particular brand or features will bother with the hassle of getting different IM software.
As far as this being an open standard so MS cannot embrace and extend it, just try to visit a majority of the web pages without IE and tell me that there are no problems. And as far as email being 'standard', think again. Outlook email messages look like gibberish to a text only email system, its the software that decyphers Microsoft's 'rich text format'
This sounds kinda like AOL. Where AOL makes the user think they are on the internet, but really just getting there info on the local/proprietary AOL servers. Here it sounds like the Excite is just routing the requests for specific IP addresses and sending that request over its own network, which it says will be faster. That is until they contracts with many web sites, and then suddenly their wires are just as full as the the rest of the internet.
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Actually, unless your destination is NYC, it will be MORE likely that you will need the car.
Since this is organic, how is it affected by temperature?
Will it have problems in freezing weather? What about hot weather?
Will animals want to eat it?
Will it biodegrade?
Liberal Fascists should be careful, because the more power they grab now, will just mean more power that the Conservatives get to use when it is their turn again. All the Liberal are happy that they get to tell everyone what to do, but they forget that eventually the Conservatives will be in the same position. The last time the Conservatives where in power they basically wasted it by doing nothing. Do you honestly think that they will do that again? The Liberal are showing the Conservatives how do it. Which I think is also a bad thing.
Another monopoly holds its customers hostage.
Slashdot usually hates monopolies.
What about this time?
The labor monopoly held their customers hostage and got away with it.
Due to my Scandinavian heritage I insist that everyone boycott anything portraying Vikings as bloodthirsty barbarians.
Due to my Italian heritage I insist that everyone boycott anything portraying Italians as bloodthirsty criminals.
So if you buy something over the state border they want you to pay sales tax twice?
Once when you bought it in state X, and then again as a use tax?
The problem is that government does not work the same way as we do. Once they decide to spend money on item X on an annual basis, the debate is not whether to spend on it again. The debate always seems to be how much do we increase spending on item X. Decreases NEVER happen. At best they will stop increasing spending.
Suburban Ussault Vehicles are a danger to everyone. I don't care about how much gas they use. They are a menace on the roads. They are too big. It is impossible to drive a normal car anywhere near them without problems. They take up too much room. They barely fit into parking spots. Last weekend I parked my car at the store, and when I came out there was an SUV on either side of my car. They both barely fit inbetween the lines. Of course they were parked badly, but that is not a surprise given how huge they are. It was impossible for me to get into my car. I had to get the store's PA guy to get the dumb SUV drivers to move their vehicles.
Actually, I am happy that Sony Music and Sony Electronic don't agree. It demonstrates that this issue is not as cut and dry as the RIAA would like veryone to believe.
7. The rights previously mentioned cannot be hampered by technology.
We need a law that says there CANNOT be anything built into hardware to prevent copying.
Win9x and XP Home don't allow multi processors, so they would not gain any benefit from this, right?
He used idle cpu cycles. Those cpu cycles were not going to be used, they were going to be thrown away. He "stole" trash.
What I have never understood, is how can unlawful laws be created? I think that things like this ban and the DMCA for example should be reviewed before they are passed into law. It just seems to be a bigger pain in the butt to have to challenge the laws afterward.
Just because you(the creator) feel that the book is worth $10 does not make it so. Some people would say that a copy of IP has very little worth.
The problem with MS being involved in this is that they are in a unique position as far as delivery of their product. Their software will already be installed on most PCs, which means zero delivery effort (except that the price will be built into the price of the OS). Mr & Mrs Smith do not need to drive to the store, or download for an hour or more to get the product.
AOL gets around this by mailing their disks to everyone.
What are Tribal Voice and the others going to do that can possibly compete? Get OEMs like Dell and Gateway to preinstall? Mail their software to everyone? I don't think so.
AOL and MS will dominate this market unless/until linux gains alot more market share (another situation where the delivery will be zero, because the OS will include it ).
Only people who are actually interested in a particular brand or features will bother with the hassle of getting different IM software.
As far as this being an open standard so MS cannot embrace and extend it, just try to visit a majority of the web pages without IE and tell me that there are no problems. And as far as email being 'standard', think again. Outlook email messages look like gibberish to a text only email system, its the software that decyphers Microsoft's 'rich text format'
This sounds just like browsers, doesn't it?
Why can't congress say 'Hey, why don't we see if this new law is constitutional BEFORE we try to make it a law'?
This sounds kinda like AOL. Where AOL makes the user think they are on the internet, but really just getting there info on the local/proprietary AOL servers. Here it sounds like the Excite is just routing the requests for specific IP addresses and sending that request over its own network, which it says will be faster. That is until they contracts with many web sites, and then suddenly their wires are just as full as the the rest of the internet.