While I agree with your overall assumption, I know that those "unscrupulous" people will find ways around the paywalls as well. The newspapers are trying to make a blanket rule against everyone, but the problem is any blanket always has holes. The fact that these newspaper corps refuse to use the tools already at hand, but would rather force the government to get involved to make new rules and tools, shows just how out of touch they really are concerning technology. Creating new standards to benefit only one thing does not solve the underlying issue: People want news, they want it now, and they don't want to jump through hoops to get it.
Eve touts that it's economy is basically that of a small country, roughly 80 trillion ISK (their in game currency). He stole 200bln. That is a quarter of 1% of the total money in game. How much of the total money in the U.S has the banks caused to be lost? The banks were a direct influence on the car manufacturers. The banks were the direct influence on the housing lenders. All this trickled down due to mismanagement. The same is happening in EVE. The difference is, EVE doesn't have a government offering bailouts to the people that lost money. Yes, there will be a credit crunch in eve. That big of a loss is going to affect prices for a long time. Just like that last big issue in EVE, the starbase Exploit - but that is a different story.
"The fact that they announced the error and offered compensation for it is pretty telling in a company as large as Dell."
Dell manufactures in bulk, so much so, that the monitors probably only cost them 15 dollars each. Also, typographical error from 150 to 15 I could understand, but not 148 to 15. That was deliberate. Whether they wound up mixing their wholesale price with their retail price, that is their problem. Again, if it was caught before the transactions were completed, I would say ok on the apology. If the transaction went through, a deals a deal. The contract has been signed. Dell is out of luck there.
actually, you are wrong. The minute you posted it on the web, it became two pictures, one of which you lost control over by posting. You want complete ownership, don't post.
"Orange County California officially recognizes the existence of tattoos and deems that tattoos can only have lettering of 72pt Arial font with no more than 8% obliquing.
Underline and Bold fonts will be barred from all tattoo parlors as well as any other font style.
we as consumers need to "listen" to these bozo's. We need to pay attention that the enemy of good is free. Therefore I think it is about time, that we are compensated by these labels, and request the money we are rightfully owed for listening to their music. We deserve our fair share of their marketing dollars for all of the people that we have talk to about their music. We deserve our compensation as instruments of their advertising.
Well, not get caught right away, as they usually have a relative that is in criminal law to get them out of any wrongdoing when they do get caught. The greased bills make their rounds.
cool, so the mpaa has given "teachers" a way of getting the cam films onto torrent sites legally, after all, a movie screen is just a very large projection tv. And, well I teach movie critic style journalism, and the downloaders for the movie are my students. I grade my students based on how well then critique the cams based on audio and video quality. Roll call and class discussion is done through the comments section of said torrent. Woohoo, no more jail time for us poor, underpaid teachers.
and who gets to decide which AV company get's the contract? Is said AV company authorized in "insert name of country here"? Does said AV company have multiple controls to make sure program installs in native language? Not counting the myriad of O.S.'s. Nothing like fueling the conspiracy theory fire that viruses are created by the anti-virus companies as a form of job security.
OUR internet infrastructure? Last time I checked the internet was global, so you are effectively wanting to place one country's military in charge of a global infrastructure? Nice. And they though Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and Hitler had ambitions.
No thanks.
In my view, it would only take one proxxied ip address, and the military takes control of some foreign national's computer and you are talking an act of WAR.
On another note, You are talking about the military blocking systems that have malware. So teh military is going to clandestinely install software to restrict a machines access, because the machine has software already that is restricting access. So effectively, you are replacing one malware with a government sanctioned malware?
Once you start giving away your freedom, it will only stop when you have none.
If choruss is a mandatory fee to have access to something similar to itunes or whatnot, that still requires payment per item, then it is no better than what we have now, other than as a means to recuperate alleged losses from those that get their stuff for free. If it is a blanket project similar to a buffet, where a dollar at the door gets you in for grab all you want, then who is the people that are going to choose what is available to grab? Sounds to me that not only are they trying to brace the old draconian methods, but also bringing back the days of payola.
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Creating a shortcut to an ftp location for automatic downloading is within range. It's the same way the old 95/98 systems were with their links in the accessories/communications were with compuserv, prodigy, and aol. There are ways around the "no browser" argument that can be implemented. The problem is, as Mike well knows, that for microsoft to include those links, it forms a quasi-endorsement of said product, which then opens a new can of worms of litigation for "application placement". I also think, the real issue isn't so much concerning the browser as it is the proprietary formats that it uses. One commenter mentioned activex. If W3 could lobby to remove the locked formats and make them open sourced, to where any browser can use items like activex, it would eliminate the need to be locked into IE. Nick, you want to keep harping on the fact that there are other ways to get browsers, but are you thinking from an end-user's point of view, or a techie? Using linux as an example is not a good idea, as most users that are non-technical do not understand the functions or configurations of repositories.
What I've noticed, is that abstractly, prices haven't really changed, only the technology has. 10 years ago, top of the line (non-beast gamer rig) desktop was about 3,000. Today, it';s still about 3,000. Someone mentioned the vcr originally selling for 700, today it's the blu-ray. Same with console tv's compared to plasma's and the like. laptops and netbooks are basically the same way, with netbooks being the "new kid on the block". There are always exceptions to this, but as a general rule, that is the trend I have seen. Netbooks hurting tech? Nope just another doorway.
There are some of us, that through the past have noticed a particular title not living up to it's intended hype. And thanks to the EULA being inside the box, thus effectively negating the EULA's own reasoning, it is not worth the hassle. Astatement that says if I don't agree to all the terms and conditions, I can't install and should take it back, yet with shrinkwrap broken, I can't take it back. Does this not equate to a form of piracy from the company no less? Godfather tactics of "Making an offer you can't refuse" doesn't sit well with me. In situations like that, of course I will look for alternative avenues to either try, or get.
lol Mike, another prime example is the RIAA, who repeated stop thinking (when did they start) when the word "zero". The can't comprehend it either. If you want proof, look at the "zero" new lawsuits.
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"The fact that they announced the error and offered compensation for it is pretty telling in a company as large as Dell."
Dell manufactures in bulk, so much so, that the monitors probably only cost them 15 dollars each. Also, typographical error from 150 to 15 I could understand, but not 148 to 15. That was deliberate. Whether they wound up mixing their wholesale price with their retail price, that is their problem. Again, if it was caught before the transactions were completed, I would say ok on the apology. If the transaction went through, a deals a deal. The contract has been signed. Dell is out of luck there.
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Underline and Bold fonts will be barred from all tattoo parlors as well as any other font style.
Thank you"
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It works for them, it should work for us.
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No thanks.
In my view, it would only take one proxxied ip address, and the military takes control of some foreign national's computer and you are talking an act of WAR.
On another note, You are talking about the military blocking systems that have malware. So teh military is going to clandestinely install software to restrict a machines access, because the machine has software already that is restricting access. So effectively, you are replacing one malware with a government sanctioned malware?
Once you start giving away your freedom, it will only stop when you have none.
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80 Kr heading her way.
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