The reason I'm singling out cyclists is that they're much never cited when they violate traffic laws. I see a lot more cyclists willfully violating the traffic laws than I do cars and pedestrians. The reaction locally to a string of pedestrian deaths was to crack down on jay walking. The reaction to a string of cyclists being hit was to crack down on the motorists.
Around here delaying more than 5 vehicles is illegal and can net you a ticket. So, if you're going the speed limit and you delay the vehicles you're OK, although you're not allowed to drive in the passing lane. But, if you're going under the speed limit they can ticket you for doing it.
As for speed, you can't drive on the freeways if you're vehicle isn't capable of keeping up, it gets a little odd with some of the rural highways IIRC, but you're not likely to be driving on one of those unless you're a local.
That's really not analogous. Being in a crash doesn't necessarily mean that you're literally in the car, you could be in the other car, or you could just be hit by a car. It takes a purposeful misreading to come to any other conclusion.
They will all the proposals I've heard require that they be car sounds. You might be allowed to choose the car. The only reason I don't like that is if they allow for sideloading unapproved MP3s then you can end up with people choosing stupid car sounds. The police aren't necessarily going to be there to write the citations in most cases before it's too late.
Because this isn't about deaf people, this is about blind people. Being blind is a much more dangerous proposition when it comes to crossing a street than being deaf is. There are a lot more options for safely crossing a street as a deaf person than as a blind person.
I take it you aren't blind and don't know anybody that's blind. The reason for this mandate is because pedestrians need all the help they can get to locate potential hazards. Seeing and hearing a car is vastly superior to just hearing it or just seeing it.
And yes, I do look both ways, but that doesn't mean that I have eyes on the back of my head, so if I'm nearly half way into the lane as I cross the street, I can't necessarily see the car behind me that thinks it's OK to take a sudden right turn.
The problem around here is that cyclists don't get issued citations except on rare occasions and since they don't have license plates good luck reporting them to the police. They're supposed to adhere to the normal rules that apply to other vehicles on the road but generally don't. And they regularly don't comply with the minimum speed limit regulations creating an unsafe situation for everybody involved when people have to drive along at a crawl and figure out how to pass.
And yes, that's illegal in all 50 states, you can't impede the flow of traffic. It's just not a ticket that's often issued.
I take it that you either aren't a native English speaker or that you have some sort of learning disorder because it's exceedingly clear what the title and summary mean. And this ain't it.
You can, but unetbootin is pretty unreliable sometimes it works but other times it inexplicably fails to actually do the job. It might work for Ubuntu, but most of the time I have to try three or four times to get it to write the appropriate files to the disk.
That's a pretty blatant misrepresentation. The question at the time was when would the floppy be obsolete. At that time CDs were still fairly expensive to use, IIRC the CD burners that were included were still several hundred dollars, I know my ZipCD was over $200 about that time. Floppies were affordable and mostly worked. Most files of that era were still small enough to fit on a floppy as internet connections and most programs didn't require them to be huge.
So yes, the ridicule was well justified, nobody believed that the 3.5" disks were going to survive the future, but it wasn't until years later that they were really ready for being removed from computers.
That's interesting, I'll have to try that. I personally use discs for that because I haven't yet found a convenient way of booting from USB that works reliably and conveniently. IIRC EasyBCD will do that as well if you have a Vista or 7 install.
Having a local backup that you can't delete or change is something that's useful sometimes. And unless you're dealing with large files a DVD is great for that.
DVDShrink does that for you, although then you're stuck with VLC or similar to play it, but it's really that difficult. And all of it without having to visit the command line.
If you have a computer you can do what I do and rip the discs to the HDD and then just copy them either over the network or on a thumbdrive to the laptop. At this point even Windows allows you to conveniently mount an ISO without external tools.
But yeah, I'm guessing most folks get around the limitation by piracy.
Assuming it works, the times I've tried that I've found it to be a hit or miss affair. I'd rather do that because I don't want to waste a disc on something I might only use once.
Unless you're looking to be locked into vendor DRM, you're stuck with an optical drive for some things. I have a Samsung external USB DVDRW that I plug in from time to time. I don't use it very often, but I do need it sometimes as USB booting is still unreliable at best when done from a thumbdrive.
Plus, I have 3 computers total and only the desktop has a built in optical drive, next time I get a new desktop it won't. By that measure having one driver per several computers isn't unreasonable, I only spent $30 on it and I mostly use it for DVDs.
It doesn't matter whether or not that's the case it's still an antitrust violation no matter how you spin it. The reality is that there were an awful lot of exclusives that the ITMS managed to get in large part due to its size and it was effectively preventing people who owned other brands of MP3 player from getting full quality out of their purchases.
It doesn't matter what you cite, the fact remains that Apple was using the ITMS in a way that damaged competition.
Hollywood has been perfectly fine doing just that as has the recording industry. I'm not sure how else you explain all the music stores that managed to get licenses to sell DRMed music from mainstream artists. None of the stores is as big as the ITMS but that's mostly because they weren't in early enough and didn't have the ability to sell to iPod owners.
The fact of the matter is that there's absolutely no reason to believe that Apple's unwillingness to license Fairplay to anybody else was anything other than a transparent attempt to abuse the ITMS to harm competitors.
Yes, although I don't really consider that to be the same thing as in those days there was a really good technological reason for that. VHS was expensive as was the means of setting up another station. It was less about control and more a matter of pragmatics back then.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have pulled this sort of crap, but the technology didn't really require it at the time.
Right, they encouraged the industry to go DRM free after they had gotten all the mileage that they were going to get out of abusing their ITMS to harm the competition. Don't make Steve out to be something he's not, he was every bit as vicious and arrogant as MS, it's just that early on he got booted from Apple when he could have been building up a dominant market position in computers.
Chances are that the insurance company will pick up a significant portion of the tab to have the vehicle lojaced. I was looking into it when I was going to buy a motorcycle and the cost after insurance company rebate and discount makes it quite inexpensive. Plus they have a good record for recovery and ever car that's lojaced increases the likelihood that a vehicle thief is going to be caught red handed and sent to prison.
Yes, but that's rather a moot point as I doubt very much that he has the energy to spend 12-16 hours every day working on the show and promoting it. The show itself was rather the impressive feat as they were basically filming a new movie every 2 weeks which is just absolutely insane as far as pacing goes.
More or less, but it's been that way for ages. I remember Apple using that as a way of damaging competing brands of MP3 player. They would have tons of DRMed ITMS exclusives that couldn't be played on other players without degrading the sound quality. All because Apple refused to license its DRM to competitors and wasn't willing to license MS' DRM.
These days it's not about the player but about making it as inconvenient and expensive as possible to get access to the entire catalog. In this case rather than Netflix, Hulu et al., being responsible it's the industry wanting to receive payment multiple times for the same consumer's access to the work.
Unfortunately, Bruce Campbell is too old to play Brisco again. Similar for most of the other series that Fox has cancelled prematurely. Not that I begrudge any fans of whatever shows Netflix can resurrect.
Bullshit. The observation that the speaker is being hypocritical is completely germane to the argument as the speaker in this case is trading on his position in order to advance his line of reasoning. Not all Ad Hominem Tu Quoque attacks constitute a logical fallacy and this would be one of those times. It is very much relevant to the process of debunking his argument to point out that there's an apparent logical inconsistency being presented. The speaker has the burden of proof in this case and would have to demonstrate that the apparent inconsistency isn't inconsistent.
Now, had the hypocrisy not involved such an important facet of the argument I would tend to agree, but as is it deeply undermines the view that they should be allowed to enforce as they see fit as they can't even agree upon a definition
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The reason I'm singling out cyclists is that they're much never cited when they violate traffic laws. I see a lot more cyclists willfully violating the traffic laws than I do cars and pedestrians. The reaction locally to a string of pedestrian deaths was to crack down on jay walking. The reaction to a string of cyclists being hit was to crack down on the motorists.
Around here delaying more than 5 vehicles is illegal and can net you a ticket. So, if you're going the speed limit and you delay the vehicles you're OK, although you're not allowed to drive in the passing lane. But, if you're going under the speed limit they can ticket you for doing it.
As for speed, you can't drive on the freeways if you're vehicle isn't capable of keeping up, it gets a little odd with some of the rural highways IIRC, but you're not likely to be driving on one of those unless you're a local.
That's really not analogous. Being in a crash doesn't necessarily mean that you're literally in the car, you could be in the other car, or you could just be hit by a car. It takes a purposeful misreading to come to any other conclusion.
They will all the proposals I've heard require that they be car sounds. You might be allowed to choose the car. The only reason I don't like that is if they allow for sideloading unapproved MP3s then you can end up with people choosing stupid car sounds. The police aren't necessarily going to be there to write the citations in most cases before it's too late.
Because this isn't about deaf people, this is about blind people. Being blind is a much more dangerous proposition when it comes to crossing a street than being deaf is. There are a lot more options for safely crossing a street as a deaf person than as a blind person.
I take it you aren't blind and don't know anybody that's blind. The reason for this mandate is because pedestrians need all the help they can get to locate potential hazards. Seeing and hearing a car is vastly superior to just hearing it or just seeing it.
And yes, I do look both ways, but that doesn't mean that I have eyes on the back of my head, so if I'm nearly half way into the lane as I cross the street, I can't necessarily see the car behind me that thinks it's OK to take a sudden right turn.
The problem around here is that cyclists don't get issued citations except on rare occasions and since they don't have license plates good luck reporting them to the police. They're supposed to adhere to the normal rules that apply to other vehicles on the road but generally don't. And they regularly don't comply with the minimum speed limit regulations creating an unsafe situation for everybody involved when people have to drive along at a crawl and figure out how to pass.
And yes, that's illegal in all 50 states, you can't impede the flow of traffic. It's just not a ticket that's often issued.
I take it that you either aren't a native English speaker or that you have some sort of learning disorder because it's exceedingly clear what the title and summary mean. And this ain't it.
You can, but unetbootin is pretty unreliable sometimes it works but other times it inexplicably fails to actually do the job. It might work for Ubuntu, but most of the time I have to try three or four times to get it to write the appropriate files to the disk.
That's a pretty blatant misrepresentation. The question at the time was when would the floppy be obsolete. At that time CDs were still fairly expensive to use, IIRC the CD burners that were included were still several hundred dollars, I know my ZipCD was over $200 about that time. Floppies were affordable and mostly worked. Most files of that era were still small enough to fit on a floppy as internet connections and most programs didn't require them to be huge.
So yes, the ridicule was well justified, nobody believed that the 3.5" disks were going to survive the future, but it wasn't until years later that they were really ready for being removed from computers.
That's interesting, I'll have to try that. I personally use discs for that because I haven't yet found a convenient way of booting from USB that works reliably and conveniently. IIRC EasyBCD will do that as well if you have a Vista or 7 install.
Having a local backup that you can't delete or change is something that's useful sometimes. And unless you're dealing with large files a DVD is great for that.
DVDShrink does that for you, although then you're stuck with VLC or similar to play it, but it's really that difficult. And all of it without having to visit the command line.
If you have a computer you can do what I do and rip the discs to the HDD and then just copy them either over the network or on a thumbdrive to the laptop. At this point even Windows allows you to conveniently mount an ISO without external tools.
But yeah, I'm guessing most folks get around the limitation by piracy.
Assuming it works, the times I've tried that I've found it to be a hit or miss affair. I'd rather do that because I don't want to waste a disc on something I might only use once.
Unless you're looking to be locked into vendor DRM, you're stuck with an optical drive for some things. I have a Samsung external USB DVDRW that I plug in from time to time. I don't use it very often, but I do need it sometimes as USB booting is still unreliable at best when done from a thumbdrive.
Plus, I have 3 computers total and only the desktop has a built in optical drive, next time I get a new desktop it won't. By that measure having one driver per several computers isn't unreasonable, I only spent $30 on it and I mostly use it for DVDs.
It doesn't matter whether or not that's the case it's still an antitrust violation no matter how you spin it. The reality is that there were an awful lot of exclusives that the ITMS managed to get in large part due to its size and it was effectively preventing people who owned other brands of MP3 player from getting full quality out of their purchases.
It doesn't matter what you cite, the fact remains that Apple was using the ITMS in a way that damaged competition.
Hollywood has been perfectly fine doing just that as has the recording industry. I'm not sure how else you explain all the music stores that managed to get licenses to sell DRMed music from mainstream artists. None of the stores is as big as the ITMS but that's mostly because they weren't in early enough and didn't have the ability to sell to iPod owners.
The fact of the matter is that there's absolutely no reason to believe that Apple's unwillingness to license Fairplay to anybody else was anything other than a transparent attempt to abuse the ITMS to harm competitors.
Yes, although I don't really consider that to be the same thing as in those days there was a really good technological reason for that. VHS was expensive as was the means of setting up another station. It was less about control and more a matter of pragmatics back then.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be surprised if they wouldn't have pulled this sort of crap, but the technology didn't really require it at the time.
Right, they encouraged the industry to go DRM free after they had gotten all the mileage that they were going to get out of abusing their ITMS to harm the competition. Don't make Steve out to be something he's not, he was every bit as vicious and arrogant as MS, it's just that early on he got booted from Apple when he could have been building up a dominant market position in computers.
Chances are that the insurance company will pick up a significant portion of the tab to have the vehicle lojaced. I was looking into it when I was going to buy a motorcycle and the cost after insurance company rebate and discount makes it quite inexpensive. Plus they have a good record for recovery and ever car that's lojaced increases the likelihood that a vehicle thief is going to be caught red handed and sent to prison.
Yes, but that's rather a moot point as I doubt very much that he has the energy to spend 12-16 hours every day working on the show and promoting it. The show itself was rather the impressive feat as they were basically filming a new movie every 2 weeks which is just absolutely insane as far as pacing goes.
In the '80s we were freaked out about losing the bozone layer, don't you remember anything about that time period?
More or less, but it's been that way for ages. I remember Apple using that as a way of damaging competing brands of MP3 player. They would have tons of DRMed ITMS exclusives that couldn't be played on other players without degrading the sound quality. All because Apple refused to license its DRM to competitors and wasn't willing to license MS' DRM.
These days it's not about the player but about making it as inconvenient and expensive as possible to get access to the entire catalog. In this case rather than Netflix, Hulu et al., being responsible it's the industry wanting to receive payment multiple times for the same consumer's access to the work.
Unfortunately, Bruce Campbell is too old to play Brisco again. Similar for most of the other series that Fox has cancelled prematurely. Not that I begrudge any fans of whatever shows Netflix can resurrect.
Bullshit. The observation that the speaker is being hypocritical is completely germane to the argument as the speaker in this case is trading on his position in order to advance his line of reasoning. Not all Ad Hominem Tu Quoque attacks constitute a logical fallacy and this would be one of those times. It is very much relevant to the process of debunking his argument to point out that there's an apparent logical inconsistency being presented. The speaker has the burden of proof in this case and would have to demonstrate that the apparent inconsistency isn't inconsistent.
Now, had the hypocrisy not involved such an important facet of the argument I would tend to agree, but as is it deeply undermines the view that they should be allowed to enforce as they see fit as they can't even agree upon a definition