It's not that simple. While one single task generally is not coded to take advantage of the entire system (single threaded on a dual system, dual thread on a quad system, whatever), you are able to actually use your computer while said task is underway. Ever encoded a DVD on a single core machine? Not so fun - half the time, you can't even use your mouse. Slap the same task on a dual-core box, and suddenly you can continue to work (or play) while that goes on in the background. Alternately, you can encode two DVDs simultaneously and be done in the speed it would normally take to finish one. Parallelism in its most literal sense.
Of course, many video-related apps these days are multi-threaded, but you get the general idea.
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
Much more importantly, you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent. It's all this nonsense about per-device licensing, except in some sort of insane micromanagement level (which I suppose is to be expected from a company that's developed as many RTS games as Blizzard). This could very well outdo the RIAA in their quest to banish everyone from listening to music while simultaneously charging everyone for every song a dozen times.
This kind of bullshit really makes me want to avoid D3 (as if not losing four years of my life wasn't reason enough).
There is compensation, it's just not financial. In return for your playing habits data, you get future games that are better and patches that improve the game in question.
In general, sending an email to phonenumber@carrier.com texts that number (at least in the states, YMMV). The only special thing AIM does is presumably a carrier lookup.
Um, no? It's a reflection that politicians don't vote in a way that represents their constituents' concerns. Which is why we always end up with a lesser of two evils/more polished of two turds politician in office.
Unfortunately there's not a whole lot that can be done. It's either voting for a candidate that either openly ignores the constitution (McCain) or one that sold out demonstrating that he doesn't care about the constitution (Obama), "throwing away" your vote on a candidate that does seem to care but has zero change (Paul/Kucinich as a write-in), or getting arrested/shot/tortured trying to start an actual revolution old-school style.
I'm not sure that's really relevant; most of this country only has 2.xG service (whatever is attached to first-gen iPhones) and that simply doesn't provide enough bandwidth for VOIP calls.
However, my main concern/desire with VOIP is being able to deal with the shitty cell signal when at home. My iPhone is next to useless as a phone at the house, so I would love to be able to run a VOIP app there and still funnel everything through one device. I could care less about having it on the road - I've got signal there.
I know... it was a joke. Though "Uh uh uh, you didn't say the magic word!" might at least lessen the frustration for a moment with the Jurassic Park reference.
If only you could throw an embed tag in a javascript popup... Rickrolling 2.0.
It's not even so much the filtering solution as simply the lack of data to filter on. Google is dealing with billions of messages a day, so their filtering algorithms can end up stupidly accurate.
Of course, those low end hosting solutions would be wise to aggregate their spam filtering data. I know, data privacy issues become a possibility, but whatever. Just use Google Apps For Your Domain and be done with it.
Is Amazon no longer a third party? Granted I trust them as much as I trust Google (and from an advertising perspective, they probably have better data about me as they have actual data points for my purchases, not just my purchase-related searches) but that still seems like a rather dumb statement.
And if all else fails (and it will, as the elections are probably rigged and everyone running for office is just a different brand of polish on the same extremely rank turd anyways), bombing the state capital. Hardly the ideal solution, but we need a REAL revolution and letter-writing and phone calls quite frankly don't do shit (at least if my canned "here's why I didn't bother reading your letter nor address your concerns and will continue to fuck you over" response is anything to go by).
Of course, attempt this at your own risk, VMMV, IANAL, etc.
Maybe, but I expect that running a tracker can get fairly pricey even if the http side of things for the website people use to get the torrents is cheap. And if it's a few people making this their full-time jobs to improve the service, track down the artists for donation locations, keep everything running nicely, etc... I don't know, it still seems fairly high but knock a bit off for CC processing (down to ~12% now) and having your one-stop shopping, it's not unreasonable either.
And indeed, if someone else will put together the same service for 5%, the people that donate at least will probably flock over there (the rest won't care), and the revenue stream for this site will dry up.
Having a known cap is better than having an unknown cap. Having a cap measured in the hundreds of megabytes per month is utter bullshit regardless of whether you know the number or not. Hell, I'll often download five gigs in a day when screwing around with a linux distro or something. With an automated system-wide backup service (Mozy) and a camera that takes 14MB shots at 6.5FPS I'll often saturate my upload for a day or two at a time getting things synced up (even a reasonably respectable 1Mbit upload by US standards takes a LONG time to push 5-6GB).
Point being that I simply couldn't function with a 10GB monthly cap, let alone 1GB. While I may be a fairly heavy bandwidth user, I'm really not doing anything unreasonable. Obviously my five bucks a month online backup service would be useless if it cost me fifty bucks in overage fees.
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It's not that simple. While one single task generally is not coded to take advantage of the entire system (single threaded on a dual system, dual thread on a quad system, whatever), you are able to actually use your computer while said task is underway. Ever encoded a DVD on a single core machine? Not so fun - half the time, you can't even use your mouse. Slap the same task on a dual-core box, and suddenly you can continue to work (or play) while that goes on in the background. Alternately, you can encode two DVDs simultaneously and be done in the speed it would normally take to finish one. Parallelism in its most literal sense.
Of course, many video-related apps these days are multi-threaded, but you get the general idea.
Derivative works; fair use. However, the copy that's being stored in the amplifier for a split-second between the needle and the speaker absolutely needs a license, as does each wall in the room unless they're certified to be 100% reflective to audio waves.
The license for your pants' copy of the song is, of course, easily avoided. Though it does drastically change the nature of public performance.
Much more importantly, you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent. It's all this nonsense about per-device licensing, except in some sort of insane micromanagement level (which I suppose is to be expected from a company that's developed as many RTS games as Blizzard). This could very well outdo the RIAA in their quest to banish everyone from listening to music while simultaneously charging everyone for every song a dozen times.
This kind of bullshit really makes me want to avoid D3 (as if not losing four years of my life wasn't reason enough).
God I hope this doesn't become a new meme.
The identically-specced white Macbook is $50 cheaper, IIRC.
There is compensation, it's just not financial. In return for your playing habits data, you get future games that are better and patches that improve the game in question.
In general, sending an email to phonenumber@carrier.com texts that number (at least in the states, YMMV). The only special thing AIM does is presumably a carrier lookup.
Um, no? It's a reflection that politicians don't vote in a way that represents their constituents' concerns. Which is why we always end up with a lesser of two evils/more polished of two turds politician in office.
Unfortunately there's not a whole lot that can be done. It's either voting for a candidate that either openly ignores the constitution (McCain) or one that sold out demonstrating that he doesn't care about the constitution (Obama), "throwing away" your vote on a candidate that does seem to care but has zero change (Paul/Kucinich as a write-in), or getting arrested/shot/tortured trying to start an actual revolution old-school style.
I'm not sure that's really relevant; most of this country only has 2.xG service (whatever is attached to first-gen iPhones) and that simply doesn't provide enough bandwidth for VOIP calls.
However, my main concern/desire with VOIP is being able to deal with the shitty cell signal when at home. My iPhone is next to useless as a phone at the house, so I would love to be able to run a VOIP app there and still funnel everything through one device. I could care less about having it on the road - I've got signal there.
Well that would be great if Access was a database. We all know it's really just an Excel sheet with some crappy input validation.
I know... it was a joke. Though "Uh uh uh, you didn't say the magic word!" might at least lessen the frustration for a moment with the Jurassic Park reference.
If only you could throw an embed tag in a javascript popup... Rickrolling 2.0.
Not at all. I need measurements in a) Libraries of Congress and b) High-quality photos of Natalie Portman (and remember that grits do not jpeg well).
For good measure, please also add a car analogy.
You forgot the little javascript equivalent of sudo rm -rf /.
It's not even so much the filtering solution as simply the lack of data to filter on. Google is dealing with billions of messages a day, so their filtering algorithms can end up stupidly accurate.
Of course, those low end hosting solutions would be wise to aggregate their spam filtering data. I know, data privacy issues become a possibility, but whatever. Just use Google Apps For Your Domain and be done with it.
Is Amazon no longer a third party? Granted I trust them as much as I trust Google (and from an advertising perspective, they probably have better data about me as they have actual data points for my purchases, not just my purchase-related searches) but that still seems like a rather dumb statement.
Check out the Add Font dialog... that hasn't changed since Win3.11. Big surprise that most designers use Macs :p
And if all else fails (and it will, as the elections are probably rigged and everyone running for office is just a different brand of polish on the same extremely rank turd anyways), bombing the state capital. Hardly the ideal solution, but we need a REAL revolution and letter-writing and phone calls quite frankly don't do shit (at least if my canned "here's why I didn't bother reading your letter nor address your concerns and will continue to fuck you over" response is anything to go by).
Of course, attempt this at your own risk, VMMV, IANAL, etc.
Unfortunately I don't think I can carry a guillotine on to a plane anymore, especially not one headed to Washington.
If everyone did that, we'd probably elect Oprah.
Which, all things considered, I'm sure would be a big improvement.
A very valid point, though even by technology pricing standards, the iPhone's price drop (33% off after two months) was pretty unusual.
Windows 3.!1?
Maybe, but I expect that running a tracker can get fairly pricey even if the http side of things for the website people use to get the torrents is cheap. And if it's a few people making this their full-time jobs to improve the service, track down the artists for donation locations, keep everything running nicely, etc... I don't know, it still seems fairly high but knock a bit off for CC processing (down to ~12% now) and having your one-stop shopping, it's not unreasonable either.
And indeed, if someone else will put together the same service for 5%, the people that donate at least will probably flock over there (the rest won't care), and the revenue stream for this site will dry up.
Having a known cap is better than having an unknown cap. Having a cap measured in the hundreds of megabytes per month is utter bullshit regardless of whether you know the number or not. Hell, I'll often download five gigs in a day when screwing around with a linux distro or something. With an automated system-wide backup service (Mozy) and a camera that takes 14MB shots at 6.5FPS I'll often saturate my upload for a day or two at a time getting things synced up (even a reasonably respectable 1Mbit upload by US standards takes a LONG time to push 5-6GB).
Point being that I simply couldn't function with a 10GB monthly cap, let alone 1GB. While I may be a fairly heavy bandwidth user, I'm really not doing anything unreasonable. Obviously my five bucks a month online backup service would be useless if it cost me fifty bucks in overage fees.
You seem to have forgotten to which website you're posting.
So, pretend to call as the RIAA.