Screw it, lets just sue random email users and claim victory.
Nice idea. Hire a spambot for a few hours and send out demands for an "out of court settlement" to 100 million randomers. Some of them are bound to be filesharers with guilty consciences.
Oh wait, isn't that bascially what the RIAA has been doing?
Erm, we haven't actually run out yet. You see there's this big glowy thing in the middle of our solar system bombarding the Earth with fresh energy every day.
Looking good to me, too. Since upgrading my laptop (to the RC) I have allowed it to run Aero and UAC which I turned off on Vista; the new taskbar is great, but explorer does still crash quite a lot. I might even pay for an official upgrade at some point (£80 is still quite high IMO; there should be an "apology discount" for those upgrading from Vista).
Last weekend I did two installs of W7, a clean one on an oldish laptop, which did indeed take about half an hour, and an upgrade to my year-old Vista laptop with 100+ applications on it. This second install did indeed take many hours (12+), but apart from a hiccup with the old graphics driver which I'm pretty sure was ATI's fault, the process was very smooth. And apart from the few things which I was warned at the start were incompatible and removed, all my applications are working in Win7 just as they did in Vista. I'm comfortable with an upgrade like this taking a long time if at the end you have a perfectly functioning system - far better than clearing everything off and installing it all again.
The biggest problem I can see with it is battery life. How much fun is it if you have to stop your movie in the middle because the iPod ran out of battery? You would probably want to keep it charging, although with every computer these days having a USB port, that might not be too much of an issue......as long as your computer is close enough to your TV.
... and the iPod is drawing as much or more power from the USB that it is consuming serving the video.
Or maybe it's the fact that I don't actually know anyone that has a device in their home that accepts component inputs...
I have two (at least): a DivX capable DVD player and my Archos dock. Never used that feature, don't own an iPod, just sayin'...
(But actually, I'm quite impressed by this and wondering if Apple has finally started to regard video as a core feature. Do you still have to convert popular formats like AVI, FLV and WMV to that iPod-specific one?)
Sony has a lot of employees, and a lot of them come here, and some get mod points. Any time I mention Sony's XCP rootkit I get modded troll or flamebait. But notice the system worked -- the Sony shill was out modded by better mods, and it's a 5 informative now.
Only trouble is the Sony employees can come back 6 days later when no one else is modding. Plenty of times I've mentioned an issue with an Apple product or service and have been reamed days later.
That could easily be fixed - is there any point allowing moderation more than about 48 (or even 24) hours after a story has been posted?
So you're happy for no additional infrastructure to be built to support all those users, in order for Comcast to legally call their service "broadband"?
I hadn't heard of this case before, and am confused. It says here that "Childs eventually did hand over his administrative passwords to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom", so why is he still being held? I understand the high bail because they were worried about what he might do to the network, but surely the passwords have been changed by now? Or has the Mayor now sided with Childs against his employers and refused to hand them over, too?
Why on Earth would anyone buy a treadmill? Don't you have any streets, parks, ground of any kind where you are? Maybe you should have bought an albatross while you were at it.
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Screw it, lets just sue random email users and claim victory.
Nice idea. Hire a spambot for a few hours and send out demands for an "out of court settlement" to 100 million randomers. Some of them are bound to be filesharers with guilty consciences.
Oh wait, isn't that bascially what the RIAA has been doing?
Which OEMs still ship install DVDs? I'm not aware of any.
I thought it was to prevent ISPs from easily fingerprinting torrented data.
Erm, we haven't actually run out yet. You see there's this big glowy thing in the middle of our solar system bombarding the Earth with fresh energy every day.
Oh well, at least MS is doing to vista what they should have done what, 5 years ago?
I agree that Vista was a disaster, but are you really suggesting they should have fixed it two years before it came out?
Do what I did - backup all your stuff on the assumption that it will go horribly wrong, then try the upgrade. You may be pleasantly surprised.
I don't see why - in my experience the upgrade, though slow, went very smoothly.
Curious, then, how it took me half a day to upgrade to Win7 *from* Vista SP2.
Looking good to me, too. Since upgrading my laptop (to the RC) I have allowed it to run Aero and UAC which I turned off on Vista; the new taskbar is great, but explorer does still crash quite a lot. I might even pay for an official upgrade at some point (£80 is still quite high IMO; there should be an "apology discount" for those upgrading from Vista).
Last weekend I did two installs of W7, a clean one on an oldish laptop, which did indeed take about half an hour, and an upgrade to my year-old Vista laptop with 100+ applications on it. This second install did indeed take many hours (12+), but apart from a hiccup with the old graphics driver which I'm pretty sure was ATI's fault, the process was very smooth. And apart from the few things which I was warned at the start were incompatible and removed, all my applications are working in Win7 just as they did in Vista. I'm comfortable with an upgrade like this taking a long time if at the end you have a perfectly functioning system - far better than clearing everything off and installing it all again.
The biggest problem I can see with it is battery life. How much fun is it if you have to stop your movie in the middle because the iPod ran out of battery? You would probably want to keep it charging, although with every computer these days having a USB port, that might not be too much of an issue......as long as your computer is close enough to your TV.
... and the iPod is drawing as much or more power from the USB that it is consuming serving the video.
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Or maybe it's the fact that I don't actually know anyone that has a device in their home that accepts component inputs...
I have two (at least): a DivX capable DVD player and my Archos dock. Never used that feature, don't own an iPod, just sayin'...
(But actually, I'm quite impressed by this and wondering if Apple has finally started to regard video as a core feature. Do you still have to convert popular formats like AVI, FLV and WMV to that iPod-specific one?)
Since somebody is clearly removing all the posts that are actual spam, couldn't they remove ones like this while they're about it?
I wanted to do this, but T-mobile coverage where I live is so abysmal it wasn't really an option. But I think all the carriers have them now.
Sony has a lot of employees, and a lot of them come here, and some get mod points. Any time I mention Sony's XCP rootkit I get modded troll or flamebait. But notice the system worked -- the Sony shill was out modded by better mods, and it's a 5 informative now.
Only trouble is the Sony employees can come back 6 days later when no one else is modding. Plenty of times I've mentioned an issue with an Apple product or service and have been reamed days later.
That could easily be fixed - is there any point allowing moderation more than about 48 (or even 24) hours after a story has been posted?
That's very laudable, and I salute you, but it would have more effect - on PR if not their bottom line - if it was a coordinated campaign.
do not purchase anything branded sony
Why haven't RIAA lawsuits triggered a major boycott campaign, outside of music?
Jesse Vincent invented Re-Tweeting?!
So you're happy for no additional infrastructure to be built to support all those users, in order for Comcast to legally call their service "broadband"?
Isn't that what they call Windows 7 in Europe, after it's been emasculated by having its Internet Explorer removed?
Indeed, the research findings seem to be that we are less mutated than we might have expected.
Or the robes of a Spanish Inquisitor.
No one expects... etc
I hadn't heard of this case before, and am confused. It says here that "Childs eventually did hand over his administrative passwords to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom", so why is he still being held? I understand the high bail because they were worried about what he might do to the network, but surely the passwords have been changed by now? Or has the Mayor now sided with Childs against his employers and refused to hand them over, too?
Correlation is not causation.
Why on Earth would anyone buy a treadmill? Don't you have any streets, parks, ground of any kind where you are? Maybe you should have bought an albatross while you were at it.