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No way. Thunderbird is stable, Evolution is not.
Thunderbird's renderer works, Evolution's is crap.
Also, while there is a tiny handful of plugins for Evolution, there is a HUGE selection of extensions for Tunderbird which are extremely useful, including one extension which can be used to automatically purge duplicate messages from one's inbox.
With that said, I do use Evolution as my primary email program both at home and at work, but only because the scalix connector is available for Evolution. Thunderbird can access via IMAP only, and cannot use Scalix's calendaring features.
We need to collectively tell the RIAA "No. Die and go to Hell, spawn of satan" by:
- Not buying their tripe
- Not downloading their tripe
- Not trading mix CDs or tapes of their tripe
- Not listening to their tripe for free on the radio
Eventually RIAA members will either embrace a reasonable view of fair use, or they will simply go out of business. At this point in the game I don't think there is any alternative between those two.
The problem is not enough target customers actually follow through on this. You complain whine and bitch and moan about music's being overpriced and the low quality of the vast majority of crap making its way to the market, and yet you keep buying and you keep downloading. Also, you need to educate yourself on Fair Use and realize that when they advertise on CD that you can "own"
a work on CD or DVD, you actually OWN that copy of that work, just like you do a book or a calendar. You are not LICENSED it, you OWN it. You are simply disallowed from copying and distributing it outside the bounds of Fair Use.
So if an idea such as "Tell something to somebody using piglatin" isn't patentable, then "Tell something to somebody using piglatin on a computer" or "Tell something to somebody using piglatin on a PDA" is not patentable either.
However, Tell something to somebody using piglatin wirelessly is innovative and is patented by NTP.;)
What about passengers in the back seat? Passengers who may be catching a nap with a hat over his or her face? Solar-Ray and similar windshields which are almost opaque to IR? Oops. This automated enforcement system needs to be reevaluated.
Thank you for contacting us to resolve your long history of copyright infringement. We are happy to see that you recognize that you have been stealing from us and want to rectify the matter. I am sure that we can reach an amicable solution without having to sue your grandmother. As you know, we, the RIAA members, have long been victimized by earworm performances.
If I get a song stuck in my head and I can't get it out, will I have to pay them each time it runs through?
Excellent question.
Of course you have to pay. Earworms are unlicensed and uncompensated performances of a mechanical recording. Now, did you have a question to which the answer is not obvious?
I keep trying to remember the rest of the song, but I can't. All I can hear is that one stupid line. Over and over and over . . . . driving me crazy. Are they going to start charging me a percentage of the song's cost every time that line tortures me as it mocks my feeble existance playing over and over?
Of course. We will be happy to prorate the licensing fees for you. Our prorated fees for samples/clips start at 50% of the normal rate. However first we need a few details:
- were you thinking about work or doing work while enjoying the earworm, or were you home on your own time?
- were you at an educational institution instructing, attending, or auditing a class? We do offer educational discounts of.003%
- were you at the time singing along, humming, or in your case, grunting along with the performance?
- were you at any time during these unlicensed performance:
- banging your head
- tapping your feet
- tapping your steering wheel
- playing your 'air guitar?"
If so then on top of our usual full rate, you also owe us public performance royalties.
And if I can't remember the song, or the artist, who do I pay?
Us. You pay us. Are you so stupid you could not figure this out? We don't care which artist's work you were enjoying, so long as we get our cut. Don't worry, if you cannot remember the title or artist, we will put the artist's pitiful slice of pie into an interest-bearing account of which the artist will never see a penny. Er, what I mean by that is that we will try to figure out which artist should receive the royal- hell with it I'll come out and say it. We don't give a rat's ass about the artist, but if you do not pay up we will sue.
Thank you for your patronage. We look forward to your continued business.
Well I think Sony Electronics might have heard of this (betamax anyone?) but Sony BMG hasn't? Aren't they part of he same corporate entity, or at least owned by the same corporate entity? Are the board members suffering from multiple personality disorder or something?
Oh, they list the stuff we don't want to know about, like HFCS instead of sugar.:(
What I can't stand is the "natural flavors" catch all on foods. Is it vanilla? Is it anise extract? Is it licorice? Or, is it an allergen like MSG from soy? For folks with food allergies, a wildcard like "natural flavors" is like Russian Roulette.
There is a BIG difference between revealing code and revealing what is in food. Some ingredients can KILL people. Keeping Photoshop proprietary will not ever kill anyone, nor will it even ever give anyone an upset tummy or a migraine or hives.
Presuming you HAVE RTFA (it's obvious you haven't)
What about temporary installations? MSDN users are advised NOT to activate if they plan to reinstall the system within a couple of months. How does one download the latest updates to set up a proper test environment on a non-activated system?
Microsoft is abusing their monopoly position and actually INCREASING value of "pirated" copies of their software.
Why should the mom-and-pop diner that ekes out a living by selling coffee and donuts be forced to comply with the onerous burden of collecting and remitting taxes on every cup of joe they sell while the multi-billion dollar sale companies like Amazon get a free ride?
Amazon does not get a free ride: they have to charge and remit taxes in any state in which they have a physical presence. If you live in say, Nebraska and an Amazon vendor has a physical presence in NE and you purchase from them, you will be charged sales tax.
Likewise, if that mom & pop diner got into selling meals via mail order, they would be collecting sales tax in their local state, any state they have a physical presence in, but would not have to for states in which they do not.
* Don't listen to artists from member labels. Well, at least not new artists * Don't buy their product. If you MUST buy, find a way to buy directly from the artist, or download artist-authorized bootlegs and send your money to the artist. * Don't download RIAA product. Downloads only help them to justify their whining.
It's very annoying, but as I posted elsewhere in this thread, I don't care about analog vs. digital going to the receiver. I care about the guide and programmability features. In fact I hope the analog feed is kept for years to come because I use tuner cards and VCRs for time shifting.
In either case, what is fed to my televison (or PC TV tuner card) is NTSC, so either way it is low-def, and high-def doesn't make crappy shows any betters, so analog or digital to the converter box is fine by me. Want to know why I subscribe to digital cable? The guide. The guide is fantastic and I can browse the guide while the show is still displaying in the upper-right corner of the screen. I wouldn't care if the 300 channels or so I get were all analog, as long as I get a usable guide with the system.
HDTV? I have a few 1080i movies I bought in PC format to watch on my 24" monitor. I have to say that the difference is not enough of an improvement for me to dump a perfectly good NTSC television for HDTV any time soon. I will upgrade to a nice 1080i LCD television when my Sony 36" CRT dinosaur dies, but I watch television for entertainment and news, not pixel peeping. I have to be critical of illustrations and photographs at work. When I am home, I don't want to worry about it. I just want to enjoy what I watch.
On Comcast it's easy to tell analog from digital feeds: on digital cables the S/PDIF signal is present, on analog feeds it is not, so on the analog feeds I need to switch my audio receiver to use the line-level input instead of digital.
Bullshit. It's a commodity good sold over the shelf, not a work for hire. It is not leased or rented, it is SOLD. You have your first sale doctrine rights. They just haven't been beaten in court on that point -- yet.
The 2008 laneder has no wheels, but the next one in 2009 is the largest yet. Its the size of minivan and will use retro-rocket landers instead of air-bags, and will be mostly nuclear powered instead of solar.
Oh good grief, when will our destruction of planets ever end? Mars has been experiencing global warming at an alarming rate, ever since we landed vehicles there, and now we're sending FULL-SIZE SUVs there even though it's obvious we are the cause of global warming? Good lord, what the hell is NASA thinking?;)
Even "cheap" ambulatory EEGs are not affected in that manner, unless they're defective or the cables are worn out. Otherwise, ambulatory EEGs would not be possible. Also, what happens when you have a neurological clinic right next to a busy street where people are walking by the EEG just six feet away? Oh sure there's a wall and glass, but that is not going to stop RFI. I don't see any faraday cages at that client site, and I see folks going in and out wearing ambulatory EEG equipment, gabbing on cellphones, and the doctors don't say a thing about it. Also, the doctors there are often taking calls on their cellphones. If it were a problem they would not accept that liability.
Also, what about ambulances which carry ECGs? EMTs are on radios all the time, whether long-range motorolas putting out way more power than a cellphone, or a typical 300mw t-mobile cellphone, gabbing on them all the time, and yet the equipment manages to function.
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No way. Thunderbird is stable, Evolution is not.
Thunderbird's renderer works, Evolution's is crap.
Also, while there is a tiny handful of plugins for Evolution, there is a HUGE selection of extensions for Tunderbird which are extremely useful, including one extension which can be used to automatically purge duplicate messages from one's inbox.
With that said, I do use Evolution as my primary email program both at home and at work, but only because the scalix connector is available for Evolution. Thunderbird can access via IMAP only, and cannot use Scalix's calendaring features.
We need to collectively tell the RIAA "No. Die and go to Hell, spawn of satan" by:
- Not buying their tripe
- Not downloading their tripe
- Not trading mix CDs or tapes of their tripe
- Not listening to their tripe for free on the radio
Eventually RIAA members will either embrace a reasonable view of fair use, or they will simply go out of business. At this point in the game I don't think there is any alternative between those two.
The problem is not enough target customers actually follow through on this. You complain whine and bitch and moan about music's being overpriced and the low quality of the vast majority of crap making its way to the market, and yet you keep buying and you keep downloading. Also, you need to educate yourself on Fair Use and realize that when they advertise on CD that you can "own"
a work on CD or DVD, you actually OWN that copy of that work, just like you do a book or a calendar. You are not LICENSED it, you OWN it. You are simply disallowed from copying and distributing it outside the bounds of Fair Use.
However, Tell something to somebody using piglatin wirelessly is innovative and is patented by NTP.
What about passengers in the back seat?
Passengers who may be catching a nap with a hat over his or her face?
Solar-Ray and similar windshields which are almost opaque to IR?
Oops. This automated enforcement system needs to be reevaluated.
Nope, seems to be working. I don't use my ISP's dns; I run bind locally.
Thank you for contacting us to resolve your long history of copyright infringement. We are happy to see that you recognize that you have been stealing from us and want to rectify the matter. I am sure that we can reach an amicable solution without having to sue your grandmother. As you know, we, the RIAA members, have long been victimized by earworm performances.
Excellent question.
Of course you have to pay. Earworms are unlicensed and uncompensated performances of a mechanical recording. Now, did you have a question to which the answer is not obvious?
Of course. We will be happy to prorate the licensing fees for you. Our prorated fees for samples/clips start at 50% of the normal rate. However first we need a few details:
- were you thinking about work or doing work while enjoying the earworm, or were you home on your own time?
- were you at an educational institution instructing, attending, or auditing a class? We do offer educational discounts of
- were you at the time singing along, humming, or in your case, grunting along with the performance?
- were you at any time during these unlicensed performance:
- banging your head
- tapping your feet
- tapping your steering wheel
- playing your 'air guitar?"
If so then on top of our usual full rate, you also owe us public performance royalties.
Us. You pay us. Are you so stupid you could not figure this out? We don't care which artist's work you were enjoying, so long as we get our cut. Don't worry, if you cannot remember the title or artist, we will put the artist's pitiful slice of pie into an interest-bearing account of which the artist will never see a penny. Er, what I mean by that is that we will try to figure out which artist should receive the royal- hell with it I'll come out and say it. We don't give a rat's ass about the artist, but if you do not pay up we will sue.
Thank you for your patronage. We look forward to your continued business.
Sincerely,
RIAA Member
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act
Well I think Sony Electronics might have heard of this (betamax anyone?) but Sony BMG hasn't? Aren't they part of he same corporate entity, or at least owned by the same corporate entity? Are the board members suffering from multiple personality disorder or something?
I am an AT&T (formerly Cingular) customer. I love AT&T. AT&T can do no wrong.
AT&T, thank you for not disconnecting my service upon reading this post.
Yes, it is. Most people want to be able to pay for food, a house, maybe a car to get around in, and so forth.
Oh, they list the stuff we don't want to know about, like HFCS instead of sugar. :(
What I can't stand is the "natural flavors" catch all on foods. Is it vanilla? Is it anise extract? Is it licorice? Or, is it an allergen like MSG from soy? For folks with food allergies, a wildcard like "natural flavors" is like Russian Roulette.
There is a BIG difference between revealing code and revealing what is in food. Some ingredients can KILL people. Keeping Photoshop proprietary will not ever kill anyone, nor will it even ever give anyone an upset tummy or a migraine or hives.
Bad analogy.
It already did, about 32 years before Luke blew up the first Death Star. There should be another burst from another Death Star in five years or so.
RTFA - you do not understand the issue is here. Hell even the SUMMARY makes the issue clear in this case, so it's obvious you didn't even RTFS.
Presuming you HAVE RTFA (it's obvious you haven't)
What about temporary installations? MSDN users are advised NOT to activate if they plan to reinstall the system within a couple of months. How does one download the latest updates to set up a proper test environment on a non-activated system?
Microsoft is abusing their monopoly position and actually INCREASING value of "pirated" copies of their software.
Amazon does not get a free ride: they have to charge and remit taxes in any state in which they have a physical presence. If you live in say, Nebraska and an Amazon vendor has a physical presence in NE and you purchase from them, you will be charged sales tax.
Likewise, if that mom & pop diner got into selling meals via mail order, they would be collecting sales tax in their local state, any state they have a physical presence in, but would not have to for states in which they do not.
It IS fair when you come down to it.
Downgrades?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
* Don't listen to artists from member labels. Well, at least not new artists
* Don't buy their product. If you MUST buy, find a way to buy directly from the artist, or download artist-authorized bootlegs and send your money to the artist.
* Don't download RIAA product. Downloads only help them to justify their whining.
Hopefully the end result is lower package prices. My cable bill is around $150 per month. :(
It's very annoying, but as I posted elsewhere in this thread, I don't care about analog vs. digital going to the receiver. I care about the guide and programmability features. In fact I hope the analog feed is kept for years to come because I use tuner cards and VCRs for time shifting.
In either case, what is fed to my televison (or PC TV tuner card) is NTSC, so either way it is low-def, and high-def doesn't make crappy shows any betters, so analog or digital to the converter box is fine by me. Want to know why I subscribe to digital cable? The guide. The guide is fantastic and I can browse the guide while the show is still displaying in the upper-right corner of the screen. I wouldn't care if the 300 channels or so I get were all analog, as long as I get a usable guide with the system.
HDTV? I have a few 1080i movies I bought in PC format to watch on my 24" monitor. I have to say that the difference is not enough of an improvement for me to dump a perfectly good NTSC television for HDTV any time soon. I will upgrade to a nice 1080i LCD television when my Sony 36" CRT dinosaur dies, but I watch television for entertainment and news, not pixel peeping. I have to be critical of illustrations and photographs at work. When I am home, I don't want to worry about it. I just want to enjoy what I watch.
On Comcast it's easy to tell analog from digital feeds: on digital cables the S/PDIF signal is present, on analog feeds it is not, so on the analog feeds I need to switch my audio receiver to use the line-level input instead of digital.
Bullshit. It's a commodity good sold over the shelf, not a work for hire. It is not leased or rented, it is SOLD. You have your first sale doctrine rights. They just haven't been beaten in court on that point -- yet.
Oh good grief, when will our destruction of planets ever end? Mars has been experiencing global warming at an alarming rate, ever since we landed vehicles there, and now we're sending FULL-SIZE SUVs there even though it's obvious we are the cause of global warming? Good lord, what the hell is NASA thinking?
Nazi.
;)
There. Not only do I lose, but the discussion is immediately over. New topic!
It could grasp it by the husk?
Even "cheap" ambulatory EEGs are not affected in that manner, unless they're defective or the cables are worn out. Otherwise, ambulatory EEGs would not be possible. Also, what happens when you have a neurological clinic right next to a busy street where people are walking by the EEG just six feet away? Oh sure there's a wall and glass, but that is not going to stop RFI. I don't see any faraday cages at that client site, and I see folks going in and out wearing ambulatory EEG equipment, gabbing on cellphones, and the doctors don't say a thing about it. Also, the doctors there are often taking calls on their cellphones. If it were a problem they would not accept that liability.
Also, what about ambulances which carry ECGs? EMTs are on radios all the time, whether long-range motorolas putting out way more power than a cellphone, or a typical 300mw t-mobile cellphone, gabbing on them all the time, and yet the equipment manages to function.