Selling them to governments sounds scary, selling them to private citizens sounds scary. It's a shame we live in a world where such wonderful technology (there are other GOOD should be obvious uses for things such as this) seems scary no matter who you give it to unless it's Batman.
Maybe we should just all get a pair and beat on each other until we get bored and move on to something better, or resort to bio/chem/nuclear warfare!
Some new routers have filtering capabilities, I filtered my little brother all the time to stop him from getting on p2p and downloading shit that would get my dad in trouble. You can filter a range of things, depending on the router. Anything from content filtering, website black listing (or white listing), or even only allowing certain computers to connect at certain times.
There are a lot of options, but of course if you never take the time to find what you do not know about, you'll most likely never find out about it.
"How else do high-tech products keep improving other than by continual innovation meriting patent protection?!" - Patent Half
I think all patents do is grant a temporary control over a certain field of creation. If we were to eliminate or limit patents then that means in order to be #1 seller, your product has to be the best and decently priced. Of course, there's also marketing in there but that's a whole other subject.
What I'm trying to say is that Company A makes zig, Company B makes ziglar, a remarkably similar product which may be cheaper and maybe even better. If it's better and cheaper, then hey! How does Company A keep up? They make Zigziglar.
Of course there would need to be some restrictions, but nothing so bizarre as what we have today. This could, of course, be achieved through a more human process than just filling out forms and wording everything a certain way as to persuade different people. But hey, what do I know? I'm not an economist, professional engineer, or a marketer.
As much as we'd like some software companies to just update our current products it's unlikely that it'll happen. For you see, giving updates for free is not where the money is at, especially when you have an astronomical user base.
It's that way with a lot of things, for example I have a Wireless card that was sold AFTER the release of WPA but its drivers were never updated to work with WPA because they decided to abandon a perfectly fine card. If you contact the company they'll admit it no problem, they know they can get away with it and make even more money by doing something else.
For a lot of companies money comes before security. Unfortunately, thanks to a large ignorant user base (not everyone, but the majority), this is a perfectly fine business model for them.
Not only that but more to break, I'd imagine something like that's durability isn't that great. I think they look large and grotesque, this is probably something someone with too much money would buy just for a toy, and then never use them. That or this guy who said he uses them while he skis, that wouldn't be so bad I guess
I think the money is from the fact that they can import on demand pretty much, they don't have to overproduce in case there's a large demand for it. The Anime sub-culture of the US is interesting in that it seems to often times follow certain trends and when something is popular you can just import it and sell it for a lot more than you usually would a normal DVD.
There's also the fact that a lot of anime sales are online which can be on demand as well, it's just a safer business I think than producing large numbers of an item and hoping they all sell.
I'm so jealous! I only have a 486 Laptop with 8mb RAM. Actually, it's quite fun to bring older computers to life so you can experiment with them in ways you'd be afraid to on a newer computer you use constantly.
Most people would just consider this to be garbage and junk it, and if you brought this in for service where I work, I would agree with you.
I think it's kind of lame when people just discard computers, there's a lot you could do with them aside from throwing them in the dumpster. You could take them to a GoodWill/Habitat For Humanity/Whatever, recycle them, or even use them for something trivial. There are still a lot of people out there who don't have a computer.
Ah, Monty Python's Flying Circus! On almost every day on BBC America, dunno about the real BBC though. That episode was on last week I'm pretty sure (:
I've been saying the same thing, even the rolling in graves thing, for quite some time now. I don't know whether it should be a relief if someone else feels the same way or whether I should feel worse because it wasn't just paranoia afterall.
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There is a lot of uh... loosely written stuff there that can be interpreted by whatever billion dollar budget company sees fit. I think they just wrote the same stuff over and over again using different synonyms to make it look long, while in fact it's just saying, "HEY! Use us however you want *insert a Captain Plan... err Pollution the power is your's*!
I guess I wasn't too clear on the time frame, my fault. I meant that I switched from Slackware quite a long time ago before there was even the thought of Fedora Core or many of the newer distros. I was mainly trying to say that when I originally switched to a distro that had package management, it was alien/strange/bizzare.
I used to use Slackware, and I'd imagine it hasn't changed that much since then. Granted it was fun while it lasted, I think it was too high caliber for me. When I finally switched to using distros with package management, everything felt alien. Recently I've been using Ubuntu though which I'd like to say is absolutely amazing so far.
This is why, ladies and gentlemen, I listen to public radio. I do not buy CDs from any label that is under the RIAA, and if I do buy a CD it's for a physical copy of something that is in Public Domain.
Only listening to PD stuff doesn't stop me from being afraid of a large corporation like this though, they're bullies and it's apparent that they'll sue anyone, guilty or not. I honestly don't think I could list a single band that is on the top 40, let alone very many current (as in new) bands!
Zero tolerance is a real bitch, and I say this from first hand experience. A school I used to go to would suspend you if you were in a fight, even if you didn't defend yourself etc. If someone jumps/mugs/etc you, you'll likely be suspended even though you yourself didn't do anything wrong.
I got so fed up with the bull shit of being jumped (I was a minority in the school and was often alienated) I just started to fight back. School is kind of like prison now, you beat someone up on the first day and they'll respect you. If you don't beat someone up on the first day, someone will beat you up and you'll be suspended regardless!
It upsets me with what's happening to what used to be a fine country. What's worse is 90% of the people don't seem to care until it's too late.
we're going to have to get Blizzard and all them out there to put up a ToS where no real money is involved for the purpose of buying/purchasing, and they have an online police for sorting these things out.
Most major MMO's that I know of treat selling of in game currency and other items as a bannable offense. Stuff like that is already in the Terms of Service. The Online Police thing is usually done through GM's etc.
The necessary rules are in place, the competent staff are not.
Whatever happened to the government that was supposed to represent what the people thought? Am I missing something here or was I misinformed in my fucking history class.
Why is there a bunch of BS that people disagree with that is still passed? This pisses me off, a lot.
I need to drop all YRO articles or something, I feel so helpless with the current progression of society leading to the hell of 1984 or something.
"Evidently, as part of their investigation, the SEC has concluded that Tim [Roberts] has done something wrong. We don't know what it was. I don't know if Tim even knows what it was."
SEC doesn't know what it was or Infinium Labs? That's kind of scary if it's SEC.
Yes, some people DO install the stuff that comes with their CD's, because sometimes that "crap" gives them the ability to rip so many licensed copies of the song to share with friends.
For example, a friend of mine wanted to share a few Velvet Revolver songs with me so she used the built in feature to rip them to a phone home.wma, which of course I couldn't use...
I'd like to say the same thing, really. I personally use both Linux and Windows, and while coding for Windows (C and C++) using the Windows API, it's very convenient to have something solid like Visual Studio. I myself have a purchased copy of Visual Studio.NET 2003 and it's wonderful.
Nothing is forced upon me, the GUI was easy to learn, and I can still do everything by hand. Even though there are a lot of pretty things to look at, you have a choice and at the end of the day, that's what I want. Visual Basic on the other hand? It seems like a lot of people mis-interpret the visual part. By the way if anyone wants to say you have to use their visual resource editor, you don't, there's an open as option!
This is simply amazing, and if they're even remotely as powerful compared to their future competitors and their initial cost is not so bad, you could easilly factor in the energy savings for spending more on hardware versus spending more on electricty.
If they're so anxious to save the whales and stop us from using important technology in certain locations, why don't we ship them off to North Korea and other possible threats so they can tell them to stay away from that water as well?
Perhaps you missed my point, maybe I missed yours, maybe we're seeing things entirely different. There are a lot of possibilities but this is leading nowhere, I would just like to wish you a nice day.
I hope that if we ever converse in that future that it will be both positive and constructive. I have seen your posts in the past and I hope to see them in the future, and even though you do not seem too fond of me (atleast in my perspective, sorry to assume) I will look forward to them still!
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Selling them to governments sounds scary, selling them to private citizens sounds scary. It's a shame we live in a world where such wonderful technology (there are other GOOD should be obvious uses for things such as this) seems scary no matter who you give it to unless it's Batman.
Maybe we should just all get a pair and beat on each other until we get bored and move on to something better, or resort to bio/chem/nuclear warfare!
Some new routers have filtering capabilities, I filtered my little brother all the time to stop him from getting on p2p and downloading shit that would get my dad in trouble. You can filter a range of things, depending on the router. Anything from content filtering, website black listing (or white listing), or even only allowing certain computers to connect at certain times.
There are a lot of options, but of course if you never take the time to find what you do not know about, you'll most likely never find out about it.
"How else do high-tech products keep improving other than by continual innovation meriting patent protection?!" - Patent Half
I think all patents do is grant a temporary control over a certain field of creation. If we were to eliminate or limit patents then that means in order to be #1 seller, your product has to be the best and decently priced. Of course, there's also marketing in there but that's a whole other subject.
What I'm trying to say is that Company A makes zig, Company B makes ziglar, a remarkably similar product which may be cheaper and maybe even better. If it's better and cheaper, then hey! How does Company A keep up? They make Zigziglar.
Of course there would need to be some restrictions, but nothing so bizarre as what we have today. This could, of course, be achieved through a more human process than just filling out forms and wording everything a certain way as to persuade different people. But hey, what do I know? I'm not an economist, professional engineer, or a marketer.
As much as we'd like some software companies to just update our current products it's unlikely that it'll happen. For you see, giving updates for free is not where the money is at, especially when you have an astronomical user base.
It's that way with a lot of things, for example I have a Wireless card that was sold AFTER the release of WPA but its drivers were never updated to work with WPA because they decided to abandon a perfectly fine card. If you contact the company they'll admit it no problem, they know they can get away with it and make even more money by doing something else.
For a lot of companies money comes before security. Unfortunately, thanks to a large ignorant user base (not everyone, but the majority), this is a perfectly fine business model for them.
Not only that but more to break, I'd imagine something like that's durability isn't that great. I think they look large and grotesque, this is probably something someone with too much money would buy just for a toy, and then never use them. That or this guy who said he uses them while he skis, that wouldn't be so bad I guess
"Dude, you just sat on my glasses!"
They recently had all Studio Ghibli on some kind of special sale for $14 each at Bestbuy [: It's over now, but I got a few good movies for cheap!
I think the money is from the fact that they can import on demand pretty much, they don't have to overproduce in case there's a large demand for it. The Anime sub-culture of the US is interesting in that it seems to often times follow certain trends and when something is popular you can just import it and sell it for a lot more than you usually would a normal DVD.
There's also the fact that a lot of anime sales are online which can be on demand as well, it's just a safer business I think than producing large numbers of an item and hoping they all sell.
I'm so jealous! I only have a 486 Laptop with 8mb RAM. Actually, it's quite fun to bring older computers to life so you can experiment with them in ways you'd be afraid to on a newer computer you use constantly.
Most people would just consider this to be garbage and junk it, and if you brought this in for service where I work, I would agree with you.
I think it's kind of lame when people just discard computers, there's a lot you could do with them aside from throwing them in the dumpster. You could take them to a GoodWill/Habitat For Humanity/Whatever, recycle them, or even use them for something trivial. There are still a lot of people out there who don't have a computer.
Ah, Monty Python's Flying Circus! On almost every day on BBC America, dunno about the real BBC though. That episode was on last week I'm pretty sure (:
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I've been saying the same thing, even the rolling in graves thing, for quite some time now. I don't know whether it should be a relief if someone else feels the same way or whether I should feel worse because it wasn't just paranoia afterall.
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
There is a lot of uh... loosely written stuff there that can be interpreted by whatever billion dollar budget company sees fit. I think they just wrote the same stuff over and over again using different synonyms to make it look long, while in fact it's just saying, "HEY! Use us however you want *insert a Captain Plan... err Pollution the power is your's*!
I guess I wasn't too clear on the time frame, my fault. I meant that I switched from Slackware quite a long time ago before there was even the thought of Fedora Core or many of the newer distros. I was mainly trying to say that when I originally switched to a distro that had package management, it was alien/strange/bizzare.
I used to use Slackware, and I'd imagine it hasn't changed that much since then. Granted it was fun while it lasted, I think it was too high caliber for me. When I finally switched to using distros with package management, everything felt alien. Recently I've been using Ubuntu though which I'd like to say is absolutely amazing so far.
This is why, ladies and gentlemen, I listen to public radio. I do not buy CDs from any label that is under the RIAA, and if I do buy a CD it's for a physical copy of something that is in Public Domain.
Only listening to PD stuff doesn't stop me from being afraid of a large corporation like this though, they're bullies and it's apparent that they'll sue anyone, guilty or not. I honestly don't think I could list a single band that is on the top 40, let alone very many current (as in new) bands!
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Zero tolerance is a real bitch, and I say this from first hand experience. A school I used to go to would suspend you if you were in a fight, even if you didn't defend yourself etc. If someone jumps/mugs/etc you, you'll likely be suspended even though you yourself didn't do anything wrong.
I got so fed up with the bull shit of being jumped (I was a minority in the school and was often alienated) I just started to fight back. School is kind of like prison now, you beat someone up on the first day and they'll respect you. If you don't beat someone up on the first day, someone will beat you up and you'll be suspended regardless!
It upsets me with what's happening to what used to be a fine country. What's worse is 90% of the people don't seem to care until it's too late.
we're going to have to get Blizzard and all them out there to put up a ToS where no real money is involved for the purpose of buying/purchasing, and they have an online police for sorting these things out.
Most major MMO's that I know of treat selling of in game currency and other items as a bannable offense. Stuff like that is already in the Terms of Service. The Online Police thing is usually done through GM's etc.
The necessary rules are in place, the competent staff are not.
Whatever happened to the government that was supposed to represent what the people thought? Am I missing something here or was I misinformed in my fucking history class.
Why is there a bunch of BS that people disagree with that is still passed? This pisses me off, a lot.
I need to drop all YRO articles or something, I feel so helpless with the current progression of society leading to the hell of 1984 or something.
"Evidently, as part of their investigation, the SEC has concluded that Tim [Roberts] has done something wrong. We don't know what it was. I don't know if Tim even knows what it was." SEC doesn't know what it was or Infinium Labs? That's kind of scary if it's SEC.
Yes, some people DO install the stuff that comes with their CD's, because sometimes that "crap" gives them the ability to rip so many licensed copies of the song to share with friends.
.wma, which of course I couldn't use...
For example, a friend of mine wanted to share a few Velvet Revolver songs with me so she used the built in feature to rip them to a phone home
I'd like to say the same thing, really. I personally use both Linux and Windows, and while coding for Windows (C and C++) using the Windows API, it's very convenient to have something solid like Visual Studio. I myself have a purchased copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and it's wonderful.
Nothing is forced upon me, the GUI was easy to learn, and I can still do everything by hand. Even though there are a lot of pretty things to look at, you have a choice and at the end of the day, that's what I want. Visual Basic on the other hand? It seems like a lot of people mis-interpret the visual part. By the way if anyone wants to say you have to use their visual resource editor, you don't, there's an open as option!
This is simply amazing, and if they're even remotely as powerful compared to their future competitors and their initial cost is not so bad, you could easilly factor in the energy savings for spending more on hardware versus spending more on electricty.
If they're so anxious to save the whales and stop us from using important technology in certain locations, why don't we ship them off to North Korea and other possible threats so they can tell them to stay away from that water as well?
It'd only be fair, dammit!
Perhaps you missed my point, maybe I missed yours, maybe we're seeing things entirely different. There are a lot of possibilities but this is leading nowhere, I would just like to wish you a nice day.
I hope that if we ever converse in that future that it will be both positive and constructive. I have seen your posts in the past and I hope to see them in the future, and even though you do not seem too fond of me (atleast in my perspective, sorry to assume) I will look forward to them still!