Better yet, why should the university even be asked to furnish the data? They have no control over who does what online -they are just providing access to the internet. How can it be presumed that they are responsible for even keeping those records? I guess they're probably required to log access to make sure they're doing their part in the war on terror....
Why aren't they suing Google to hand over it's logs (they aren't, are they)? I bet you can find more copyrighted material there..
These things are just the last-ditch throes of a dying parasite that is in the process of being removed from its host. Wasting money trying to artificially stave off the demise of an outmoded business model -instead of investing that cash into developing new business models that work with the way people want to receive their music.
Umm.. well actually no you're not. And if you have to tell people that you are, your speech is even more suspect... kind of along the lines of "I have lots of black friends".
Additionally...look at some of the ID's issued by certain states.... But some states are still issuing ID's that are literally little more than a laminated piece of paper.
Reallly? I used to check quite a few ID's for a living, can't claim to have seen them all... but I used to have the book... please show your work. Thanks.
Ummm yeah.. Apple is a *hardware* company... (at least currently) that is sitting comfortably -and in a good space- in it's niche.
I use, or try to use, the 3 "major" platforms (Win XP, Linux, OS X) from time to time, and OS X provides the best user experience hands down. I also own hardware both from Apple, and a couple of PC's that I built myself from various parts. I have also seen numerous PC's from Dell, Micron, etc.
The build quality of the average Apple machine is also light years better than your average PC, what you get may not be bleeding edge (component-wise), or the mind-numbing combinations of BTO parts that can be swapped in, but it's a tradeoff for the level of stability that the Apple harware/software combination provides.
The complaint takes issue with Apple's refusal to support the Windows Media Audio format. "Apple's iPod is alone among mass-market Digital Music Players in not supporting the WMA format," it states, noting that America Online, Wal-Mart, Napster, MusicMatch, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Music, FYE Download Zone, and Virgin Digital all support protected WMA files.
OR, you could say that the other services colluded to exclude the iPod by using a proprietary Windows format, unfairly, in attempt to make it fail.
My iPod doesn't play Nintendo ROMS either (OK, one of them does, but not by default)... maybe I should sue for that as well.
And yet, you have cleverly obfuscated your ISP-assigned email address with a cypher similar in quality to the one used by Ray Barrone as a teenager on "Everybody Loves Raymond". I bet the combination to your luggage is 1-2-3-4-5.
I do RF shielding for a living (for MRI mostly), and occasionaly get to work with ramped magnets (magnets at field)...
I'm thinking all one would need to use the "suitcase" MR in multiple locations is a "generic" RF shield, and a "standard" magnetic shield. If you place the unit in a room (or rooms) that are all acceptably similar in compsition and geometry, I would think that it would function normally -all other things being fairly equal, I think you could then have a "standard" shim, or a shim kit for the magnet that would allow you to compensate for the small differences in the different environments.
I wonder what RF attenuation specs the shield would need for this smaller unit --wondering when the day will come that my trade will be made obsolete by better image processing software, DSP's, etc.
Yes, the "knees" (the highest points) would be at the bottom (which would become the top when you flip it over) -- but since the knees would come to a "V" point, it should be possible to start at the apex of the "V" and build up from there.
So... by your reasoning, people that buy iPods, iPhones, what-have-you are not acting rationally? Which begs the question: Who made you the barometer for rationality? Or the authority on what's "better" as well?
If the product -what ever it is, is over-priced, people won't buy it.
If the iPhone is truly as bad as they ultra-vocal (yes, I know this is slashdot) naysayers proclaim it to be, the market will take care of it... just as it has taken care of the Zune.
Oh yeah.. and in the last 5 years, I have _never_ purchased an extra battery for a cell phone. After things went all-digital, the standby/talktime afforded by the battery it came with was, generally, long enough. --Plus I (and I'd suspect the average user) spends enough time in the car, or close proximity to a power outlet to pretty much make this a non-issue.
OK.. just looked at securitytracker.com.. Vendor specific topics..
Apple - 5 pages Microsoft - 16 pages
Last time I've encountered a Mac virus/worm in the wild was in the 90's (late 90's I think) on a MacAddict Magazine CD-ROM.... On the PC side.. a little more frequently.
If I sell a used item on eBay, to my neighbor, at a yard sale, etc.: Sales tax (most-likley) has already been paid on the item at the time of the original sale. Charging sales tax again is double-dipping --like they do to you when you buy/sell a car, boat, etc.
If the IRS wants to count my selling of an old pair of skis on eBay as income, then I should be able to write off their original purchase price (or the difference between the two) as a loss.
People that are using eBay as a business and selling a lot of product should have a tax ID # like any other business, or be prepared to file profit & loss statements on their personal taxes.
As far as working long, hard hours to try to improve your station in life to only see others gaming the system and getting ahead: Don't be mad.. no matter how hard you work there will always be somebody who skates by you making more, doing less, possibly "cheating" the system. It's the way things work. Some would call it innovation.
5. Get a copy of MacTheRipper and get rid of that pesky region encoding 6. Find some region-free firmware for your drive and flash it (this is a little risky.. ) http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
C'mon... it had the word "hardware" in it:p
Although, I admit that, it may have resulted from "build-up" reading from the beginning to where I jumped in.
Get your eyeballs up "real close" to the screen so you don't miss anything... APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY. They provide their (IMO) superior OS and applications as part of the deal to get you to buy the hardware at somewhat of a premium. The fact that this simply infuriates some people is just an added bonus. =)
I don' think the people/governments that are interested in eroding your civil liberties really care _where_ you step on to the slippery slope... just as long as you get there.
Until you figure out that as the analog phones go away, so do the analog voice channels (radios) at the cell sites... most of the sites in my area (Northern WI) have only 1 analog voice channel.. which means only 1 analog phone call per site.
This also pretty much negates the possibility of using that old 3-watt bag phone as a "works virtually anywhere" system -- which sucks because sometimes you need the extra juice to punch through the trees.
A Chris Rock quote comes to mind: "You can drive a car with your feet -- but that doesn't make it a good idea" (I'm paraphrasing.. hope I got it right)
Nobody said you had to hire an attorney... but I'm pretty sure that it's a generally accepted idea that you'd be a fool to go to court against a party that most-definitely does have a lawyer(s) advocating for their interest.
I don't think many civil lawsuits get thrown out of court just because "someone" says "The plaintiff has no case..." Not to mention, they could drop the case before you actually go to trial -- but definitely after you've incurred an amount of legal fees.
Basically, they are fishing - and taking the path of least resistance. Most of these type of out of court settlements are calculated to be just low enough to make hiring an attorney and fighting it out in court cost-prohibitive. (DirecTV did a lot of this years ago).
If they truly had you "dead to rights", why would they not sue you in court for the full amount allowed by law? They'd rather take the low-hanging fruit (and all-together remove their chance of losing in court and thereby setting a legal precedent).
It is a form of extortion.. someone should charge them under the RICO act (if they haven't already, can't remember).
I believe that strong encryption (past a certain point, or at least without a backdoor for the Feds) is considered to be munitions by the government -- which are not to be exported or sold internationally.
Remember if you can encrypt your data so well that nobody (read: the cops, feds, insert your fav. arm of the gov't here) can decipher it, the terrrrrists win.
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Better yet, why should the university even be asked to furnish the data? They have no control over who does what online -they are just providing access to the internet. How can it be presumed that they are responsible for even keeping those records? I guess they're probably required to log access to make sure they're doing their part in the war on terror.... Why aren't they suing Google to hand over it's logs (they aren't, are they)? I bet you can find more copyrighted material there.. These things are just the last-ditch throes of a dying parasite that is in the process of being removed from its host. Wasting money trying to artificially stave off the demise of an outmoded business model -instead of investing that cash into developing new business models that work with the way people want to receive their music.
3 burrito sterility here you come! Better hack yourself some lead-lined Fruit of the Looms as well...
I find it interesting that you consider a payday loan place a "legit" business. Bottom feeders attacking bottom feeders... interesting.
Umm.. well actually no you're not. And if you have to tell people that you are, your speech is even more suspect... kind of along the lines of "I have lots of black friends".
Reallly? I used to check quite a few ID's for a living, can't claim to have seen them all... but I used to have the book... please show your work. Thanks.
Ummm yeah.. Apple is a *hardware* company... (at least currently) that is sitting comfortably -and in a good space- in it's niche.
I use, or try to use, the 3 "major" platforms (Win XP, Linux, OS X) from time to time, and OS X provides the best user experience hands down. I also own hardware both from Apple, and a couple of PC's that I built myself from various parts. I have also seen numerous PC's from Dell, Micron, etc.
The build quality of the average Apple machine is also light years better than your average PC, what you get may not be bleeding edge (component-wise), or the mind-numbing combinations of BTO parts that can be swapped in, but it's a tradeoff for the level of stability that the Apple harware/software combination provides.
OR, you could say that the other services colluded to exclude the iPod by using a proprietary Windows format, unfairly, in attempt to make it fail.
My iPod doesn't play Nintendo ROMS either (OK, one of them does, but not by default)... maybe I should sue for that as well.
In what universe does ripping songs to WMA = advocating format compatibility?
Universe A, 1, or the Fighting Mongooses?
...lol..
And yet, you have cleverly obfuscated your ISP-assigned email address with a cypher similar in quality to the one used by Ray Barrone as a teenager on "Everybody Loves Raymond". I bet the combination to your luggage is 1-2-3-4-5.
=)
I do RF shielding for a living (for MRI mostly), and occasionaly get to work with ramped magnets (magnets at field)...
I'm thinking all one would need to use the "suitcase" MR in multiple locations is a "generic" RF shield, and a "standard" magnetic shield. If you place the unit in a room (or rooms) that are all acceptably similar in compsition and geometry, I would think that it would function normally -all other things being fairly equal, I think you could then have a "standard" shim, or a shim kit for the magnet that would allow you to compensate for the small differences in the different environments.
I wonder what RF attenuation specs the shield would need for this smaller unit --wondering when the day will come that my trade will be made obsolete by better image processing software, DSP's, etc.
Yes, the "knees" (the highest points) would be at the bottom (which would become the top when you flip it over) -- but since the knees would come to a "V" point, it should be possible to start at the apex of the "V" and build up from there.
Why not just "print" it upside-down, laying on it's back?
So... by your reasoning, people that buy iPods, iPhones, what-have-you are not acting rationally? Which begs the question: Who made you the barometer for rationality? Or the authority on what's "better" as well?
If the product -what ever it is, is over-priced, people won't buy it.
If the iPhone is truly as bad as they ultra-vocal (yes, I know this is slashdot) naysayers proclaim it to be, the market will take care of it... just as it has taken care of the Zune.
Oh yeah.. and in the last 5 years, I have _never_ purchased an extra battery for a cell phone. After things went all-digital, the standby/talktime afforded by the battery it came with was, generally, long enough. --Plus I (and I'd suspect the average user) spends enough time in the car, or close proximity to a power outlet to pretty much make this a non-issue.
OK.. just looked at securitytracker.com.. Vendor specific topics..
Apple - 5 pages
Microsoft - 16 pages
Last time I've encountered a Mac virus/worm in the wild was in the 90's (late 90's I think) on a MacAddict Magazine CD-ROM.... On the PC side.. a little more frequently.
LOL.. but what would Scientology be without you?
If I sell a used item on eBay, to my neighbor, at a yard sale, etc.: Sales tax (most-likley) has already been paid on the item at the time of the original sale. Charging sales tax again is double-dipping --like they do to you when you buy/sell a car, boat, etc.
If the IRS wants to count my selling of an old pair of skis on eBay as income, then I should be able to write off their original purchase price (or the difference between the two) as a loss.
People that are using eBay as a business and selling a lot of product should have a tax ID # like any other business, or be prepared to file profit & loss statements on their personal taxes.
As far as working long, hard hours to try to improve your station in life to only see others gaming the system and getting ahead: Don't be mad.. no matter how hard you work there will always be somebody who skates by you making more, doing less, possibly "cheating" the system. It's the way things work. Some would call it innovation.
5. Get a copy of MacTheRipper and get rid of that pesky region encoding
6. Find some region-free firmware for your drive and flash it (this is a little risky.. ) http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
(I know this is off topic...kinda)
C'mon... it had the word "hardware" in it :p
Although, I admit that, it may have resulted from "build-up" reading from the beginning to where I jumped in.
OK guys & gals...
Get your eyeballs up "real close" to the screen so you don't miss anything... APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY. They provide their (IMO) superior OS and applications as part of the deal to get you to buy the hardware at somewhat of a premium. The fact that this simply infuriates some people is just an added bonus. =)
I don' think the people/governments that are interested in eroding your civil liberties really care _where_ you step on to the slippery slope... just as long as you get there.
Until you figure out that as the analog phones go away, so do the analog voice channels (radios) at the cell sites... most of the sites in my area (Northern WI) have only 1 analog voice channel.. which means only 1 analog phone call per site.
This also pretty much negates the possibility of using that old 3-watt bag phone as a "works virtually anywhere" system -- which sucks because sometimes you need the extra juice to punch through the trees.
Not very handy in an emergency.
A Chris Rock quote comes to mind: "You can drive a car with your feet -- but that doesn't make it a good idea" (I'm paraphrasing.. hope I got it right)
Nobody said you had to hire an attorney... but I'm pretty sure that it's a generally accepted idea that you'd be a fool to go to court against a party that most-definitely does have a lawyer(s) advocating for their interest.
I don't think many civil lawsuits get thrown out of court just because "someone" says "The plaintiff has no case..."
Not to mention, they could drop the case before you actually go to trial -- but definitely after you've incurred an amount of legal fees.
They (the **AA's) are abusing the system, period.
Basically, they are fishing - and taking the path of least resistance. Most of these type of out of court settlements are calculated to be just low enough to make hiring an attorney and fighting it out in court cost-prohibitive. (DirecTV did a lot of this years ago).
If they truly had you "dead to rights", why would they not sue you in court for the full amount allowed by law? They'd rather take the low-hanging fruit (and all-together remove their chance of losing in court and thereby setting a legal precedent).
It is a form of extortion.. someone should charge them under the RICO act (if they haven't already, can't remember).
I believe that strong encryption (past a certain point, or at least without a backdoor for the Feds) is considered to be munitions by the government -- which are not to be exported or sold internationally.
Remember if you can encrypt your data so well that nobody (read: the cops, feds, insert your fav. arm of the gov't here) can decipher it, the terrrrrists win.
Behold: The power of cheese.
(do what you gotta' do... I couldn't resist.)