His point is that there's a good chance this $5000 device was manufactured in China anyway. It's not like paying a lot for medical equipment guarantees it was made with care by American workers.
Probably not so much that they think it isn't fair. I'm guessing its more likely that enforcing this adds to their cost of doing business, and they'd rather avoid having do to this for all 50 states.
Yeah, it's a lot more likely that Chinese officials made the same mistake three times:
Yang Yilin, a medal contender in the all-around and uneven bars, was born Aug. 26, 1993, according to the 2004, 2005 and 2006 registration lists previously posted on the website of the General Administration of Sport of China. That would make Yang only 15 later this month. Gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible for the games.
In the 2007 registration list, however, Yang's birthday is listed as Aug. 26, 1992, making her eligible to compete.
There's a difference though. They've designed the product to work in such a way that prevents me from using competitors supplies. However, once I've purchased their product, I'm free to do whatever I want to it, including workarounds to use third-party supplies.
With consoles, they have already implemented these features that make it hard to use games they don't want me to buy (region encoding, etc). If I find a means to circumvent this (say, a mod chip) so I can play backups or games sold in another region, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why does the law need to be invovled?
Its one thing if I'm caught committing copyright infringement by downloading games I haven't purchased, but possession of a mod chip alone shouldn't be committing any sort of crime any more than putting a third-party ink cartridge in your printer should. Which is, not at all.
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His point is that there's a good chance this $5000 device was manufactured in China anyway. It's not like paying a lot for medical equipment guarantees it was made with care by American workers.
Maybe you haven't heard - T-Mobile is offering unbundled plans now. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/Cell-Phone-Plans-Overview.aspx?WT.z_unav=mst_shop_plans The US has a long way to go, but this is a pretty big step. Hopefully other carriers will get in line.
Probably not so much that they think it isn't fair. I'm guessing its more likely that enforcing this adds to their cost of doing business, and they'd rather avoid having do to this for all 50 states.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/2008-08-03-china-ages_N.htm
There's a difference though. They've designed the product to work in such a way that prevents me from using competitors supplies. However, once I've purchased their product, I'm free to do whatever I want to it, including workarounds to use third-party supplies. With consoles, they have already implemented these features that make it hard to use games they don't want me to buy (region encoding, etc). If I find a means to circumvent this (say, a mod chip) so I can play backups or games sold in another region, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why does the law need to be invovled? Its one thing if I'm caught committing copyright infringement by downloading games I haven't purchased, but possession of a mod chip alone shouldn't be committing any sort of crime any more than putting a third-party ink cartridge in your printer should. Which is, not at all.