But place it on top in full view. SOMEONE will pick it up, and think that it is a deal.
This sort of problem has been around for years (Decades). One friend of mine would purchase some of those cheap, crappy printers on sale, then when it ran out of ink, he would swap it out for another disposable printer.
One thing I tell everyone who goes printer shopping is to look at BOTH the price of the printer AND the ink. That way they do not get stuck with buying really expensive ink.
One computer shop I worked in had a "Smokers fee" if the computer was owned by a smoker, and the computer smelled like smoke, or was filed with ash, we would add an extra $40.00 Smoker fee to the computer. We would have to wear gloves because of the nasty coating of smoker gunk on EVERYTHING. We had some smokers try to void the fee by cleaning the outside of their computer, but the moment we opened it and smelled the evidence of smoke, we would call the customer and inform them that we would have to add a smoker fee if we were to continue working on the computer. The smokers gunk that coats everything can cause cooling fans to fail, prevent heatsinks from giving off heat, and prevent PCI and other slots from accepting cards! And that shop would void a warranty if we could prove that the SMOKE is what caused the computer to fail. That is the same as flood or water damage. However we did have an entry in our warranty about smokers. The smokers fee was clearly listed on the wall with the other service charges.
We also had a the option to refuse to service any computer if it was a biohazzard. And we had more than one computer come in with a dead animal rotting inside. We would open the case, see dead rotting flesh, close case and wrap it in garbage bags. Then we would call the customer and inform then we could not service their machine because of a dead animal inside. We also put a sticker on the inside body panel we removed as a warning that we have refused to service this machine before because of a biohazzard, and we would flag their name in the computer, so that we would check all incoming machines from that person for biohazzards or the sticker.
I am sorry, but the government is for the people and by the people, therefore the laws are OWNED BY THE PEOPLE, and should be be FREELY MADE AVAILABLE to anyone who asks!
WTF is the city worried about, that another city will use their laws? Who would that harm?
I use RoboForm. I have a master PW to protect all my passwords, it will auto-fill websites if I wish it to. (Preventing Keyloggers from being able to log the data)
It has a portable app so I can put it on a flashdrive.
I can copy the data to my netbook from my gaming machine.
It works great with IE, Maxthon, Chromium (the RF flavor of Chrome), and FireFox.
You can manually look up passwords, it has a PW generator, and a notes function to keep track of other important data.
Only the large chain rental stores will be effected. The small "hole in the wall" ones will go out and purchase some copies from wherever they have to, then offer them for rent on DVD Release day. So they will get loads of $$$ from rentals until the large chains have it for rent.
Plus, how are you (the viewer) supposed to know if the video infringes anything until you have WATCHED it? You can not possibly go by the title! Have you seen how some of the vids are titled? They often have little or NOTHING to do with the video content.
And even after you have watched it, how are you really supposed to know the legal status of the video? It is not like you know if the uploaded has written permission or anything!
Amazon's audio is "Watermarked" by an ID3 tag (Comment). Bulk tools like MP3Tag can strip it out of hundreds (or thousands) of MP3 files in a matter of moments without effecting the sound quality at all.
Nintendo has loosened up as far as that goes. The Wii has supported ALL SD cards (2 gig and under) from day one. And have added SDHC support with a (few months old) update. And they also gave users the option to run Wii Ware and VC software right from the SDHC card. Does Nintendo sell Wii brand memory for loads of $$$ yes, but they have not locked out "Non-Nintendo" brand SD cards.
I thought it was stupid of MS to still require specialized memory while Nintendo and even Sony are getting a hint...
Some games I have played are just too hard. Even on easy settings, it is nearly impossible to beat the game because there are just too many enemies.
What I would like to see is adaptive games... But also have "Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert" levels of difficulties. That way if I want it to be easy, I choose Easy, but the game will adapt if I am doing really well, or really poor. However if I I am a fantastic gamer, and I choose hard or expert, then the game adapting to that would be a good way to keep expert gamers engaged. And it could increase re-play ability of games.
Just because he can afford to have the best people explain it to him, does not mean he is wiling to PAY for that knowledge. It also does not mean he will understand the information.
He may have chosen to NOT seek the knowledge required to understand WHY his ideas have FAIL written all over them. He may want to push this "DO NOT LINK TO MY ARTICLES" business plan to as many as he can in his field. He may be thinking "If I get everyone on board, then we can win." The problem is there are PLENTY of news sites that have accurate news, that LOVE Google linking to their articles.
Also why pick on Google? ALL search engines are linking to his articles! So mention as many as you can! It will sound like this made up problem is even BIGGER.
Printer makers DO block third party ink and toner. It is just that 3rd party ink and toner makers do the same thing Palm is doing. Some inks have a chip in them and 3rd party ink makers are bootlegging those chips.
OK I double checked... It is only illegal to mod your own gear, if it breakes any encryption. So if I mod my Wii to play ISO files off of a USB HD, that is illegal. If I mod my Wii to have a headphone jack, that is legal.
Personally I feel that if I paid for it, I should be allowed to do what I want with it. However I can see where modding for prof fit could be a grey area... If I mod Wii's to play any disk, than that is making it easier for people to play illegally copied games... But I should be allowed to mod a Wii to have a headphone jack and sell that, as many parents would LOVE to not have to hear video game music all day.
I verify my burns too. However I also burn at slower speeds. For CD-R I do not burn faster than 16x. For DVD-R I do not burn faster than 8x. For DVD-R(DL) I do not burn faster than 4x. When I stick to these speed limits my failure rate drops from 25% (Burning at the fastest speed) to 1%. Plus if I burn at a faster speed, even if Nero verifies it as fine, it is often not readable by other drives/devices.
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All you need are 2 things.
Download K-Lite Codec Pack:
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
It includes Media Player Classic...
AND some HD videos in almost ANY codec.
Enjoy!
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This is nothing more than an advert for a $10 codec!
But place it on top in full view. SOMEONE will pick it up, and think that it is a deal.
This sort of problem has been around for years (Decades). One friend of mine would purchase some of those cheap, crappy printers on sale, then when it ran out of ink, he would swap it out for another disposable printer.
One thing I tell everyone who goes printer shopping is to look at BOTH the price of the printer AND the ink. That way they do not get stuck with buying really expensive ink.
This reminds me of the Torchwood Episode "Meat".
One computer shop I worked in had a "Smokers fee" if the computer was owned by a smoker, and the computer smelled like smoke, or was filed with ash, we would add an extra $40.00 Smoker fee to the computer. We would have to wear gloves because of the nasty coating of smoker gunk on EVERYTHING. We had some smokers try to void the fee by cleaning the outside of their computer, but the moment we opened it and smelled the evidence of smoke, we would call the customer and inform them that we would have to add a smoker fee if we were to continue working on the computer.
The smokers gunk that coats everything can cause cooling fans to fail, prevent heatsinks from giving off heat, and prevent PCI and other slots from accepting cards!
And that shop would void a warranty if we could prove that the SMOKE is what caused the computer to fail. That is the same as flood or water damage.
However we did have an entry in our warranty about smokers. The smokers fee was clearly listed on the wall with the other service charges.
We also had a the option to refuse to service any computer if it was a biohazzard. And we had more than one computer come in with a dead animal rotting inside. We would open the case, see dead rotting flesh, close case and wrap it in garbage bags. Then we would call the customer and inform then we could not service their machine because of a dead animal inside. We also put a sticker on the inside body panel we removed as a warning that we have refused to service this machine before because of a biohazzard, and we would flag their name in the computer, so that we would check all incoming machines from that person for biohazzards or the sticker.
I ment millions of hits a day, not month... Sorry!
Great! Then I can't wait for you to create your own URL Shortening service, and show them ALL how to do it correctly!
Some things you are forgetting about is...
Bandwidth. If you have thousands or millions of hits a month, even if they consume a tiny amount of bandwidth, adds up to ALOT.
CPU load, Every hit will also consume CPU resources as you site looks up the proper URL for the short URL it received...
Most shared hosting providers frown on one person consuming alot of the resources of a shared server.
So you have to add in the cost of dedicated server... And well you can see it grow from there...
However feel free to prove me and everyone else wrong by spending a few hundred dollars and have a URL shortening service that lasts a decade!
I am sorry, but the government is for the people and by the people, therefore the laws are OWNED BY THE PEOPLE, and should be be FREELY MADE AVAILABLE to anyone who asks!
WTF is the city worried about, that another city will use their laws? Who would that harm?
Talk about a waste of public funds!
I use RoboForm. I have a master PW to protect all my passwords, it will auto-fill websites if I wish it to. (Preventing Keyloggers from being able to log the data)
It has a portable app so I can put it on a flashdrive.
I can copy the data to my netbook from my gaming machine.
It works great with IE, Maxthon, Chromium (the RF flavor of Chrome), and FireFox.
You can manually look up passwords, it has a PW generator, and a notes function to keep track of other important data.
Check it out: http://www.roboform.com/
Only the large chain rental stores will be effected. The small "hole in the wall" ones will go out and purchase some copies from wherever they have to, then offer them for rent on DVD Release day. So they will get loads of $$$ from rentals until the large chains have it for rent.
Plus, how are you (the viewer) supposed to know if the video infringes anything until you have WATCHED it? You can not possibly go by the title! Have you seen how some of the vids are titled? They often have little or NOTHING to do with the video content.
And even after you have watched it, how are you really supposed to know the legal status of the video? It is not like you know if the uploaded has written permission or anything!
With this:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
there is no need for Apple's QuickTime! (That requires you also have iTunes bloatware)
Amazon's audio is "Watermarked" by an ID3 tag (Comment). Bulk tools like MP3Tag can strip it out of hundreds (or thousands) of MP3 files in a matter of moments without effecting the sound quality at all.
Nintendo has loosened up as far as that goes. The Wii has supported ALL SD cards (2 gig and under) from day one. And have added SDHC support with a (few months old) update. And they also gave users the option to run Wii Ware and VC software right from the SDHC card.
Does Nintendo sell Wii brand memory for loads of $$$ yes, but they have not locked out "Non-Nintendo" brand SD cards.
I thought it was stupid of MS to still require specialized memory while Nintendo and even Sony are getting a hint...
Some games I have played are just too hard. Even on easy settings, it is nearly impossible to beat the game because there are just too many enemies.
What I would like to see is adaptive games... But also have "Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert" levels of difficulties. That way if I want it to be easy, I choose Easy, but the game will adapt if I am doing really well, or really poor. However if I I am a fantastic gamer, and I choose hard or expert, then the game adapting to that would be a good way to keep expert gamers engaged.
And it could increase re-play ability of games.
Just because he can afford to have the best people explain it to him, does not mean he is wiling to PAY for that knowledge.
It also does not mean he will understand the information.
He may have chosen to NOT seek the knowledge required to understand WHY his ideas have FAIL written all over them. He may want to push this "DO NOT LINK TO MY ARTICLES" business plan to as many as he can in his field. He may be thinking "If I get everyone on board, then we can win." The problem is there are PLENTY of news sites that have accurate news, that LOVE Google linking to their articles.
Also why pick on Google? ALL search engines are linking to his articles! So mention as many as you can! It will sound like this made up problem is even BIGGER.
Just sell it and use the money to get a real Set Top media player...
http://www.popcornhour.com/
Printer makers DO block third party ink and toner. It is just that 3rd party ink and toner makers do the same thing Palm is doing. Some inks have a chip in them and 3rd party ink makers are bootlegging those chips.
Intel GPU's suck. Stick to Nvidia or ATI, unless you do NOT play games...
OK I double checked... It is only illegal to mod your own gear, if it breakes any encryption. So if I mod my Wii to play ISO files off of a USB HD, that is illegal. If I mod my Wii to have a headphone jack, that is legal.
Personally I feel that if I paid for it, I should be allowed to do what I want with it.
However I can see where modding for prof fit could be a grey area... If I mod Wii's to play any disk, than that is making it easier for people to play illegally copied games...
But I should be allowed to mod a Wii to have a headphone jack and sell that, as many parents would LOVE to not have to hear video game music all day.
Each individual can modify their gear all they want.
HOWEVER if you modify gear for others for profit, THAT is where you get into trouble.
I can hack my Wii all I want. But if I start hacking Wii's for money, then I can get arrested. (Or if I start selling hacked Wii's)
That way everyone will be afraid to use it incase of a "Memory dump".
Secret of Monkey island would have been my first choice... But they are already doing that.
So I would say Journeyman Project! I would LOVE to see another game!
OK that makes sense. I was unsure about long term storage with re-writeable CD's.
CD-RW are less compatible for reading than CD-R is.
I also am unsure how well CD-RW is for long term storage. RW's are short term, re-usable storage.
I verify my burns too. However I also burn at slower speeds. For CD-R I do not burn faster than 16x. For DVD-R I do not burn faster than 8x. For DVD-R(DL) I do not burn faster than 4x.
When I stick to these speed limits my failure rate drops from 25% (Burning at the fastest speed) to 1%.
Plus if I burn at a faster speed, even if Nero verifies it as fine, it is often not readable by other drives/devices.