I'd like to say that all this is true in a general sense I believe that in certain specific instances it is true. For example the Financial Times is a pay for subscription service to allow unlimited access to their archives. It's just mostly read by people in the financial industry but we all subscribed to the actual paper and got the services and we tended to use them. Does that count? This is purely anecdotal of course. But really the people I knew who didn't pay for it were in the minority.
I understand what you're saying but considering that a lot of the telco's were practically handed the networks from public ownership, funded in part by public funds, given access to public research e.g. ARPANET and CERN with TCP/IP etc etc if it wasn't for all that public money used to build the core technologies of these early networks or the actual networks themselves these companies wouldn't be able to make all this money. Couldn't it be argued that because of the very history of the internet and it's founding that the FCC does have such a mandate?
To be honest, I tried to read the above post that stu replied to, and it didn't make any sense to me at all. If you're making the point on whether or not he shared the files on the balance of probabilities is one thing (It wouldn't have worked then either) but to prove the issue beyond "A reasonable doubt" is quite different indeed.
You tell us we're missing your point? Please write things in plain English. I had to read it half a dozen times and I still couldn't make any sense of it.
So instead anything about Nanking gets labelled a lie and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was a glorious idea destroyed by the evil western colonials?
My cellphone has full PDA functionality. I sync my outlook calendar with the phone so when I have a new meeting or appointment from a call I just add the details in my phone and then sych to my machine. Life is easier.
I get to quickly check the emails I have online and even download my voicemails to wav file (ok that is a functionality from my provider as opposed to the phone itself) and I can listen to them again quite easily without having to press 2 2 2 2 to repeat it 5 times if the message isn't clear.
I also use the browser to check online and book cinema tickets quickly and easily and to top it all off I sync my cellphone to my laptop via BT and then use the 3G features to get a semi decentish broadbandish connection when I'm on the go and I would like to be on the internet proper.
Like other people have said I don't carry my dSLR around with me all the time and it's a simple point and click situation to take a couple of quick and memorable snapshots.
Like someone else said about using public transportation a lot, I do too and being able to listen to my music and play some games on it means I don't need to have my mp3 player and PSP/DS on me. Instead I carry one phone and my laptop.
So to Dezzie_boy and Joe Snuffy, are any of those features useful or do they help me keep in contact with people? I'd say yes. What's really funny is you use the term "capitalist world" in what I would say to be a negative manner and then suggest that we go out and spend even more money. S'great.
I'd like to say that all this is true in a general sense I believe that in certain specific instances it is true. For example the Financial Times is a pay for subscription service to allow unlimited access to their archives. It's just mostly read by people in the financial industry but we all subscribed to the actual paper and got the services and we tended to use them. Does that count? This is purely anecdotal of course. But really the people I knew who didn't pay for it were in the minority.
Is it really a private network though?
I understand what you're saying but considering that a lot of the telco's were practically handed the networks from public ownership, funded in part by public funds, given access to public research e.g. ARPANET and CERN with TCP/IP etc etc if it wasn't for all that public money used to build the core technologies of these early networks or the actual networks themselves these companies wouldn't be able to make all this money. Couldn't it be argued that because of the very history of the internet and it's founding that the FCC does have such a mandate?
To be honest, I tried to read the above post that stu replied to, and it didn't make any sense to me at all. If you're making the point on whether or not he shared the files on the balance of probabilities is one thing (It wouldn't have worked then either) but to prove the issue beyond "A reasonable doubt" is quite different indeed.
You tell us we're missing your point? Please write things in plain English. I had to read it half a dozen times and I still couldn't make any sense of it.
So instead anything about Nanking gets labelled a lie and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was a glorious idea destroyed by the evil western colonials?
My cellphone has full PDA functionality. I sync my outlook calendar with the phone so when I have a new meeting or appointment from a call I just add the details in my phone and then sych to my machine. Life is easier.
I get to quickly check the emails I have online and even download my voicemails to wav file (ok that is a functionality from my provider as opposed to the phone itself) and I can listen to them again quite easily without having to press 2 2 2 2 to repeat it 5 times if the message isn't clear.
I also use the browser to check online and book cinema tickets quickly and easily and to top it all off I sync my cellphone to my laptop via BT and then use the 3G features to get a semi decentish broadbandish connection when I'm on the go and I would like to be on the internet proper.
Like other people have said I don't carry my dSLR around with me all the time and it's a simple point and click situation to take a couple of quick and memorable snapshots.
Like someone else said about using public transportation a lot, I do too and being able to listen to my music and play some games on it means I don't need to have my mp3 player and PSP/DS on me. Instead I carry one phone and my laptop.
So to Dezzie_boy and Joe Snuffy, are any of those features useful or do they help me keep in contact with people? I'd say yes. What's really funny is you use the term "capitalist world" in what I would say to be a negative manner and then suggest that we go out and spend even more money. S'great.
Nothing to do with Congress either, or Orrin Hatch, or the DMCA or the Democrats or Republicans.
Seriously.. can ANY of you people actually read?
To all the Americans here talking about the RIAA
This is about fair use in the UNITED KINGDOM so the Recording Industry Association of AMERICA doesn't really have much to do with it now does it?
I wish people would actually read the articles first before shooting their mouths off...
Or...
Or you could use robots.txt and just type
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
or the metacode
?
Little things like that work and aren't THAT hard to do.