As soon as Google stops indexing/posting material people want (legal or not) people will stop using Google. I believe they know what a fine line they're walking between 'do no evil' and survival here, I wonder which will pervail?
I actuallly agree with you, when I was flying a lot for work, I got into the routine, standing there with my my shoes and laptop in one hand, the bag in the other, coat off, ticket/passport sticking out of my shirt pocket. One day I was dreading being in the security line behind a large family dreading life. The TSA Agent stoped them, pulled them asside, and waved at me to go past. The Father protested why I got to skip in line when the agent answered "Because he'll be done and gone before you get your shoes off." Sure enough, I was too far away to hear the answer to the father demanding to know why they needed his shoes.
Yes, heaven forbid a government asks its citizens for assistance. Next they'll want you to pick your own leaders, or volunteer to fight to defend your country. Hell, with this kind of thinking they'll be asking you to help write contributions to an Operating System next, like that would ever work.
I'm not a blindly faithful flag-waving patriot, but come-on! Isn't it a GOOD thing when ANY government asks the people it governs to contribute?
I'd could see the change from DOS to OS/2 since OS/2 came out in 1987. I just don't know how you managed to use OS/2 it straight through until OS X came out in 2001. I can't imagine what you were doing on the machine in 2000, what software still ran on the machine? I'm lucky to get 2 years out of a machine from the office, maybe 5 from a home machine, but 13 years? I'm impressed.
Actually, I bet this is going to give them some really good PR. Sound science, new territory, and explosions.
The so-called 'news' people may actually run a story like this, getting average people into space again, which has done so much for scientific research as a whole.
Now, what celebrity could we also send there.... and blow up?
Wasn't the FCC in the USA going to require this changeover by the year 2000 once upon a time? I've been hearing this story since I first took TV production classes 20 years ago. Sure the future marches forward, but I don't have a flying car yet either. Sometimes change takes a while...
I believe most states, even in the mid-east view marital assets as community property, so who stole it may be tricky.
But yes, if you can't make a backup for yourself, you certainly can't give a copy to everyone in your family, they should each buy one if you listen to in different places/formats at the same time.
Don't forget if you play your radio/CD/IPOD in your cubicle, you're inviolation of the broadcasting rules unless you pay BMI/ASCAP for playing it in a public place without properly licensing it.
If you download from Itunes, they only let you install the song to X number of Ipods, even if you own them yourself too.
If you have your CD's stolen (not copies, but the original CD's) is the person who took them guilty of theft, or copyright infringement?
Surely you could not be guilty of distribution, since they were wrongly taken from you. Giving them away would not be a crime either, as you are giving up ownership willingly. The key to the argument is numbers. When you, and the 2nd party are both using a single purchased copy, at the same time (as opposed to, say, renting and returning a movie) the IP owner's are not getting the money they deserve for creating it.
Giving someone a copy would clearly be wrong, and them taking a copy would clearly be wrong. Courts exist to decide which of you should be punnished, it's what they do in every case of theft.
What courts (lawyers) are up to now is deciding if the person who made the copy, or the person who took the copy is the one who wronged the IP holder. The rest is just mechanics.
And a time machine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payphone "In the United States, the coin rate for a local direct-dialed station-to-station call from a payphone has been 50 in most areas since mid-2001"
Maybe the next generation is learning it is not the tool, it's how you use the tool. Hammeacher Schlemmer makes a cool looking tool kit of screwdrivers and wrenches, but I don't see many actual handyman with the set. People use what they have at the office (windows) for practicality, and their kids are learning to use it, for better or worse. They don't see the need to get a Mac, when they've learned to do what they want (tweak their MySpace page) from the PC.
If you can't print a fake boarding pass, you can always scribble something illegible on an old ticket with a magic marker. Ever had that happen? "Sorry your flight is delayed, we're transfering you to another airline, just show them this.." and you're thinking, wonder if this scribble will get me to Hawaii?
What could go wrong? As long as we train a large group of individuals for combat before abandon their unstable country, they're bound to stay allies right? RIGHT? I mean didn't this work in several of the *stans?
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
My nephew is 6. He's been 'playing' the N64 or Gamecube games for 3 years. Granted, at 3 he was just running zelda around the big field, ocasionally swinging his sword at random objects, but he played. He is growing up knowing how to navigate an avatar in 3D space as naturally as he can draw on the kids menus mazes. He can hit pause, sneeze, and unpause to re-attack mid-battle now at a speed that impresses me. Odd to think the connections that will from in his brain this way.
The other day, i broke out the Atari Joystick that has the origional Asteroids, Missle command, etc games in it to show a friend 'the good old days'. My nephew, saw asteroids on the screen, with the flat triangle ship and 8 sided boulders rolling across the screen and ask "is that a video game?" It was so crude, he barely recognized it, then proceeded to pay for an hour.
Did you read his post, or just generally upset I may have suggested he use something as intended out of the box without modifying it?
Feel free to use linux, but don't complain about the software interface for your device if it isn't supported by the Mfr. for use on that platform. Complain they don't supply Itunes for Linux. If he had a 'better program' I guess he COULD do what he wants (access the interface while charging) just like the software (Itunes) that comes with the hardware. If he wants to use it as an external hard drive, he wouldn't be complaining about accessing the interface while connected.
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As soon as Google stops indexing/posting material people want (legal or not) people will stop using Google. I believe they know what a fine line they're walking between 'do no evil' and survival here, I wonder which will pervail?
I actuallly agree with you, when I was flying a lot for work, I got into the routine, standing there with my my shoes and laptop in one hand, the bag in the other, coat off, ticket/passport sticking out of my shirt pocket. One day I was dreading being in the security line behind a large family dreading life. The TSA Agent stoped them, pulled them asside, and waved at me to go past. The Father protested why I got to skip in line when the agent answered "Because he'll be done and gone before you get your shoes off." Sure enough, I was too far away to hear the answer to the father demanding to know why they needed his shoes.
Not all of the TSA is clueless.
Most of it was off the record... I told him to be more transparent, and stop ducking the hard questions. He said that he wanted to do that.
Hey buddy, if you want to be more transparent, hold less of your meeting 'off the record'.
No, I'm sure the very first, you should go to the USPTO right now. Quick, before your read anything else!
Yes, heaven forbid a government asks its citizens for assistance. Next they'll want you to pick your own leaders, or volunteer to fight to defend your country. Hell, with this kind of thinking they'll be asking you to help write contributions to an Operating System next, like that would ever work.
I'm not a blindly faithful flag-waving patriot, but come-on! Isn't it a GOOD thing when ANY government asks the people it governs to contribute?
from DOS to OS/2 to Mac OS X
Woah, you really hang onto a system don't you?
I'd could see the change from DOS to OS/2 since OS/2 came out in 1987. I just don't know how you managed to use OS/2 it straight through until OS X came out in 2001. I can't imagine what you were doing on the machine in 2000, what software still ran on the machine? I'm lucky to get 2 years out of a machine from the office, maybe 5 from a home machine, but 13 years? I'm impressed.
I don't see why all the childish mocking is justified
Really? Are you new here?
While the letters we use right now are Latin, the numbers are Arabic
and interestingly, the Arab world now uses indian numbers...
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Actually, I bet this is going to give them some really good PR. Sound science, new territory, and explosions.
The so-called 'news' people may actually run a story like this, getting average people into space again, which has done so much for scientific research as a whole.
Now, what celebrity could we also send there.... and blow up?
Wasn't the FCC in the USA going to require this changeover by the year 2000 once upon a time? I've been hearing this story since I first took TV production classes 20 years ago. Sure the future marches forward, but I don't have a flying car yet either. Sometimes change takes a while...
I believe most states, even in the mid-east view marital assets as community property, so who stole it may be tricky.
But yes, if you can't make a backup for yourself, you certainly can't give a copy to everyone in your family, they should each buy one if you listen to in different places/formats at the same time.
Don't forget if you play your radio/CD/IPOD in your cubicle, you're inviolation of the broadcasting rules unless you pay BMI/ASCAP for playing it in a public place without properly licensing it.
If you download from Itunes, they only let you install the song to X number of Ipods, even if you own them yourself too.
Let's take this to another level
If you have your CD's stolen (not copies, but the original CD's) is the person who took them guilty of theft, or copyright infringement?
Surely you could not be guilty of distribution, since they were wrongly taken from you. Giving them away would not be a crime either, as you are giving up ownership willingly. The key to the argument is numbers. When you, and the 2nd party are both using a single purchased copy, at the same time (as opposed to, say, renting and returning a movie) the IP owner's are not getting the money they deserve for creating it.
Giving someone a copy would clearly be wrong, and them taking a copy would clearly be wrong. Courts exist to decide which of you should be punnished, it's what they do in every case of theft.
What courts (lawyers) are up to now is deciding if the person who made the copy, or the person who took the copy is the one who wronged the IP holder. The rest is just mechanics.
Get rolls of dimes from the bank.
And a time machine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payphone
"In the United States, the coin rate for a local direct-dialed station-to-station call from a payphone has been 50 in most areas since mid-2001"
Maybe the next generation is learning it is not the tool, it's how you use the tool. Hammeacher Schlemmer makes a cool looking tool kit of screwdrivers and wrenches, but I don't see many actual handyman with the set. People use what they have at the office (windows) for practicality, and their kids are learning to use it, for better or worse. They don't see the need to get a Mac, when they've learned to do what they want (tweak their MySpace page) from the PC.
Tyler Durden: Fight Club was the beginning, now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Mayhem
Hey who knows, this whole networking thing could catch on... NAH, we'll just keep working in isolation and see if everyone else is wrong about it...
If you can't print a fake boarding pass, you can always scribble something illegible on an old ticket with a magic marker. Ever had that happen? "Sorry your flight is delayed, we're transfering you to another airline, just show them this.." and you're thinking, wonder if this scribble will get me to Hawaii?
If TV can't raise America's kids, and now Videogames can't either, who is left?
What could go wrong? As long as we train a large group of individuals for combat before abandon their unstable country, they're bound to stay allies right? RIGHT? I mean didn't this work in several of the *stans?
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
Join Project Mayhem today!
Remember in the movie 'The Jerk' when Steve Martin was running the carnival weight guessing booth?
"Ohhh, it's a PROFIT thing!"
My nephew is 6. He's been 'playing' the N64 or Gamecube games for 3 years. Granted, at 3 he was just running zelda around the big field, ocasionally swinging his sword at random objects, but he played. He is growing up knowing how to navigate an avatar in 3D space as naturally as he can draw on the kids menus mazes. He can hit pause, sneeze, and unpause to re-attack mid-battle now at a speed that impresses me. Odd to think the connections that will from in his brain this way.
The other day, i broke out the Atari Joystick that has the origional Asteroids, Missle command, etc games in it to show a friend 'the good old days'. My nephew, saw asteroids on the screen, with the flat triangle ship and 8 sided boulders rolling across the screen and ask "is that a video game?" It was so crude, he barely recognized it, then proceeded to pay for an hour.
Only here on slashdot could a new OS get POUNDED (appropriately so) and still have everyone asking for a copy...
At least he doesn't claim to use maps from 'the google' on the 'internets'.
Did you read his post, or just generally upset I may have suggested he use something as intended out of the box without modifying it?
Feel free to use linux, but don't complain about the software interface for your device if it isn't supported by the Mfr. for use on that platform. Complain they don't supply Itunes for Linux.
If he had a 'better program' I guess he COULD do what he wants (access the interface while charging) just like the software (Itunes) that comes with the hardware.
If he wants to use it as an external hard drive, he wouldn't be complaining about accessing the interface while connected.