Cricket is perfect for replacing a landline, though. After all, the "coverage area" of a landline is one building. You can pay about the same amount per month for a Cricket phone and carry it all over town - and apparently you also get unlimited usage when you travel to other Cricket markets.
When you turn it on, that little Nintendo logo under the Game Boy logo comes from the cartridge. The BIOS displays that on the screen and if its checksum matches what the Nintendo logo checksum is, it runs. Meaning: if you want to boot a non-genuine cartridge, that cartridge has to contain a digitally identical copy of a picture, so even carts for homebrew use are violating copyright. Not true. If a particular sequence of bytes is required to make the game boot, then copying it isn't an infringement - the sequence is effectively a key in that scenario, not a creative work. This came up in one of the printer cartridge lawsuits, and it's similar to what Sega tried to do with trademarks.
The longer you wait after graduation, the fewer 'leftists' you find in the group. Seems lifelong learning is possible. People learn by observation that they were lied to in college. That's one theory. Here's another: over time, they forget the experiences of being poor and hanging out with a diverse crowd, and their views shift to helping themselves in their current situation, at the expense of others from different backgrounds or in different situations. "Stop taxing me to pay for Medicare. I have a nice job with great benefits now, so why should I care about whether anyone else can get health care? I suffered when I was young, but I made it through OK, so that should be good enough for everyone!"
But education level does not necessarily correlate with education. What about all the "rich republican business leaders" people are always stereotyping with? Don't you think they have a high level of education? I'm referring to well-known studies, which used a well-known definition of education level. The more schooling you've had, in terms of "high school" vs. "4-year degree" vs. "graduate degree" and so on, the more likely you are to be liberal. Of course there are individual exceptions, but this is a statistical observation.
I think your comment, again while mostly accurate, is more reflective of the old maxim: "If you're not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at 40 you have no brain." Age is one correlating factor, but not the only one.
Education level correlates with leftward politics, and college students tend to be more liberal.
Guess who gets cheap Apple products, and who's exposed to the Apple brand every day through iPods, iTunes, and computers in educational settings? That's right, college students.
History as it is, I wouldn't call giving humans religious leanings a mistake -- atheist cultures have, thus far, been just as bloody as theistic ones. Individuals, on the other hand, have not. Atheists are less likely than average to end up in jail.
All that said, Apple's strong point is in the laptop market, where expandibility isn't such an issue. As long as people can add RAM and maybe a new hard drive they seem to be happy. Er, I don't know about that. Expandability might not be an issue, but Apple's laptop lineup still has a huge gaping hole between the MacBook and the MBP.
For example, look at one of the most visible features: screen size. You can't get a 15" screen in a Mac laptop for less than $2000. Meanwhile, you can get it in an HP or Toshiba for around half that price.
Can you get a call timer on that phone so you can see if your bill bears any relationship to your actual usage? Where are you finding all these phones without call timers? I've never seen one, and I've had five phones from Verizon, the lock-downiest provider of them all.
Sounds like you have a beef with a specific provider (verizon?)./quote. That's what it sounds like with the Bluetooth complaint, but I've had 5 phones from Verizon and every one has had a call timer. I don't think they sell a single phone without that feature, especially now that their UI is standardized across brands.
in the US you already have 8002.11a, which works in the same band as 3G does Nope. 3G services in the US use 850/1900 MHz, same as the rest of our mobile phones.
Shareware is not a type of DRM. DRM has a more specific meaning than just a set of restrictions on a digital item. DRM is about selling information while keeping it hidden from the purchaser.
I believe the GP means Win16 uses the same kernel interface as Win32 - it's independent of Win32 and exists at the same level. "Emulation" would be if the Win16 subsystem were implemented as a wrapper around Win32, so that it couldn't function without Win32 and was inherently slower because it was an additional layer on top.
To use a Linux analogy, it's like having Qt and GTK as separate libraries which both directly interface to X11, versus installing only the native Qt library and making an emulation library that implements GTK functions in terms of native Qt functions.
Actually, the Supreme Court ruled in Dowling v. United States that copyright infringement does not "easily equate to theft" for a number of reasons--the rights granted to a copyright holder are significantly different from those granted to a property owner, and copyright is a separate body of law that intentionally uses the term "infringement" instead of "theft"--and that therefore laws about stolen property do not apply to illegal copies.
That means if the application is poorly written and stops handling frame window commands at any point you can't even minimize the window until it gets done processing. Minimize, kill and move should pretty much never stop working for any given window, even if the application is displaying a goddamn modal dialog box[...]
Meanwhile OSX[...] Er... when an OSX app stops responding, the window can also become impossible to move, minimize, or close. I see it all the time. The best part is when cmd-opt-Esc brings up the Force Quit dialog box behind a frozen window, where you can't get at it. (Unless you remember to use Expose.)
I agree about the dedicated servers. For a paid service, it's outrageous that the games are still hosted on individual players' home connections, which is what makes all the "standby" cheating possible. Matchmaking is cool and all, but Halo is a much better experience on the PC than on the Xbox because of dedicated hosts.
Really? How about alphabet letters? How about numerals? How about words? Do you really believe that there should be no "copyrights" at all? Yes. Copying information is not immoral (commercially available information, at least). It doesn't harm anyone, it doesn't deprive anyone of anything they already had or were morally owed, and it isn't fraudulent.
Copyright is simply a crutch for people who think that because they work in a certain field, they deserve an exemption from the rules of "work" that everyone else plays by. Everyone else finds someone to pay them before they start working, and they don't do the work unless someone has already agreed to pay. Those who insist on copyright, however, think that they (and only they) should instead be able to do the work up front for free, broadcast it to potential customers, and then restrict what those people can do with the information they've already received--as well as the equipment they're allowed to buy and manufacture--in order to force them to pay... and that this complicated system is necessary because it's somehow unfair to expect them to play by the same rules as everyone else.
Except we're not talking about copying bits, we're talking about copying a piece of music or movie. Yes, one which is represented by bits. Copying the song or movie == copying the bits. There's nothing immoral about copying music or movies either.
There's nothing immoral about chemically propelling a small hunk of lead really fast either, but if you propel it AT someone, things change rather quickly. Indeed - because someone is harmed when you hit them with a bullet. No one is harmed, however, when you copy a song.
The worst that can happen is the artist won't make a sale because you don't buy a copy from them, but there's nothing inherently wrong with failing to buy copies either. If there were, every movie reviewer would be acting immorally because their negative reviews result in a loss of sales.
Context is key - but by all means, don't let me stop you from trying to justify infringement. Don't worry, you won't.
PS. The speed of light is a fact, and as such, isn't subject to copyright or trademark. All information boils down to facts. If I encode a song in MP3 format and print it out as a big hex string, then I can call up my friend on the phone and say "it is a fact that the following hex string can be decoded to play the song" before reading off the digits. It's no less factual than saying "the speed of light is" before reading off a different set of digits. If you restrict the sharing of strings which encode music, then you are restricting the communication of facts.
Why would you go to CompUSA to look for video games? Sure, they sell Video Games, but they only have a few titles, and low stock levels, so chances are you're not going to find what you're looking for. Or it might be just the opposite. I went to Best Buy, Circuit City, and Costco looking for a Wii - but they didn't have any in stock, they didn't take preorders, and they had no idea when more were coming in. Then I went to CompUSA, and they had seven Wiis in stock.
Copyright infringement is both morally and legally wrong. Obviously you think Piracy is okay, because you think everything should be free. Ridiculous. There's nothing immoral about copying bits.
Do you think every time you make a calculation using, say, the speed of light, you should have to pay royalties to the heirs of the scientists who first discovered it? Because that's really the same thing, morally speaking. How about paying royalties to the first person to coin the words every time you write "internet", "zipper", "blog", etc.? After all, someone invented those words, so they own them forever and it's immoral to "steal" those words from them, right?
2. Mocking that Christians are concerned about pornography 3. Defending that pronography never has harmful effects Well, it is hard to take seriously the claim that blocking pornography "keeps kids safe". Looking at a picture never harmed anyone, and it's hard to imagine any means by which it could.
(Yes, porn addiction exists, but so do shopping addiction and exercise addiction. No one claims that kids need to be kept away from stores, or that gym class is inherently harmful, even though those otherwise-harmless activities become a problem for a tiny minority.)
If the "cassette tapes" are 3-10 times as expensive as "8-tracks", infested with DRM, and plagued with compatibility problems, all for a benefit that's subjective at best, then yes, over 80% of Americans and I will pass for now.
why? because you say it is? I gave you evidence, you gave me comedy. I gave you nearly as much evidence as you've given me (and my evidence hasn't been debunked repeatedly by experts). You haven't researched any of the questions I gave you, have you? I bet you think it's just a coincidence that the Red Sox won the World Series. Just like The Man wants you to think. Maybe if it was just one of those things, we could write it off as a coincidence... but the direction of turning, the number of planes that hit, and the hot dog connection? You'd have to be brainwashed not to see it.
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Cricket is perfect for replacing a landline, though. After all, the "coverage area" of a landline is one building. You can pay about the same amount per month for a Cricket phone and carry it all over town - and apparently you also get unlimited usage when you travel to other Cricket markets.
Yes, there is, but it has nothing to do with hormones in the food they eat. It has to do with their overall nutritional intake.
It certainly can be, if the investigation itself is immoral. Surely you've heard of the fallacious "Nuremberg defense"?
Education level correlates with leftward politics, and college students tend to be more liberal.
Guess who gets cheap Apple products, and who's exposed to the Apple brand every day through iPods, iTunes, and computers in educational settings? That's right, college students.
For example, look at one of the most visible features: screen size. You can't get a 15" screen in a Mac laptop for less than $2000. Meanwhile, you can get it in an HP or Toshiba for around half that price.
That's what it sounds like with the Bluetooth complaint, but I've had 5 phones from Verizon and every one has had a call timer. I don't think they sell a single phone without that feature, especially now that their UI is standardized across brands.
Shareware is not a type of DRM. DRM has a more specific meaning than just a set of restrictions on a digital item. DRM is about selling information while keeping it hidden from the purchaser.
I believe the GP means Win16 uses the same kernel interface as Win32 - it's independent of Win32 and exists at the same level. "Emulation" would be if the Win16 subsystem were implemented as a wrapper around Win32, so that it couldn't function without Win32 and was inherently slower because it was an additional layer on top.
To use a Linux analogy, it's like having Qt and GTK as separate libraries which both directly interface to X11, versus installing only the native Qt library and making an emulation library that implements GTK functions in terms of native Qt functions.
Actually, the Supreme Court ruled in Dowling v. United States that copyright infringement does not "easily equate to theft" for a number of reasons--the rights granted to a copyright holder are significantly different from those granted to a property owner, and copyright is a separate body of law that intentionally uses the term "infringement" instead of "theft"--and that therefore laws about stolen property do not apply to illegal copies.
Meanwhile OSX[...] Er... when an OSX app stops responding, the window can also become impossible to move, minimize, or close. I see it all the time. The best part is when cmd-opt-Esc brings up the Force Quit dialog box behind a frozen window, where you can't get at it. (Unless you remember to use Expose.)
I agree about the dedicated servers. For a paid service, it's outrageous that the games are still hosted on individual players' home connections, which is what makes all the "standby" cheating possible. Matchmaking is cool and all, but Halo is a much better experience on the PC than on the Xbox because of dedicated hosts.
Copyright is simply a crutch for people who think that because they work in a certain field, they deserve an exemption from the rules of "work" that everyone else plays by. Everyone else finds someone to pay them before they start working, and they don't do the work unless someone has already agreed to pay. Those who insist on copyright, however, think that they (and only they) should instead be able to do the work up front for free, broadcast it to potential customers, and then restrict what those people can do with the information they've already received--as well as the equipment they're allowed to buy and manufacture--in order to force them to pay... and that this complicated system is necessary because it's somehow unfair to expect them to play by the same rules as everyone else.
The worst that can happen is the artist won't make a sale because you don't buy a copy from them, but there's nothing inherently wrong with failing to buy copies either. If there were, every movie reviewer would be acting immorally because their negative reviews result in a loss of sales. Context is key - but by all means, don't let me stop you from trying to justify infringement. Don't worry, you won't. PS. The speed of light is a fact, and as such, isn't subject to copyright or trademark. All information boils down to facts. If I encode a song in MP3 format and print it out as a big hex string, then I can call up my friend on the phone and say "it is a fact that the following hex string can be decoded to play the song" before reading off the digits. It's no less factual than saying "the speed of light is" before reading off a different set of digits. If you restrict the sharing of strings which encode music, then you are restricting the communication of facts.
Do you think every time you make a calculation using, say, the speed of light, you should have to pay royalties to the heirs of the scientists who first discovered it? Because that's really the same thing, morally speaking. How about paying royalties to the first person to coin the words every time you write "internet", "zipper", "blog", etc.? After all, someone invented those words, so they own them forever and it's immoral to "steal" those words from them, right?
3. Defending that pronography never has harmful effects Well, it is hard to take seriously the claim that blocking pornography "keeps kids safe". Looking at a picture never harmed anyone, and it's hard to imagine any means by which it could.
(Yes, porn addiction exists, but so do shopping addiction and exercise addiction. No one claims that kids need to be kept away from stores, or that gym class is inherently harmful, even though those otherwise-harmless activities become a problem for a tiny minority.)
If the "cassette tapes" are 3-10 times as expensive as "8-tracks", infested with DRM, and plagued with compatibility problems, all for a benefit that's subjective at best, then yes, over 80% of Americans and I will pass for now.