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Are DVDs Software Or Films?
NewsWatcher writes: "In Australia a court case with international ramifications will decide if DVDs are software or films. If they are designated as software, rental prices will go through the roof, if they are films their distribution cannot be limited under copyright laws.
This article explains the ins and outs ." Unrelated incident -- FatRatBastard writes: "C|Net News is reporting that the new Warner Bros Powerpuff Girls DVD is infected with the FunLove virus. Note this only effects those who install the supplemental Windows software that comes on the DVD. The article claims that "The virus only affects PCs that load the disc, not DVD players" so I'm not sure if the DVD auto installs software if loaded on a Win PC, or if infection only happens if the user chooses to install the supplemental software."
Troll Wars I: first post
Fo sheezy my neezy
There is a special key on your keyboard located next to the Enter key. It makes this character: '
You need to learn where that button is, as you have no clue when to use it.
It could also be that you do not understand the difference between a contraction of it is -> it's and the posessive form of -> its. You used only the contraction form of it + is, yet you wrote the posessive form.
How can you expect to communicate effectively if you don't write intelligently?
_virii_, though a common term in computer circles, isn't a real word. It isn't even constructed like a real word. The root of that word is no doubt _virus_, and consulting any dictionary, or a simple knowledge of Greek and Latin based words implies something seriously wrong with that spelling. The actual plural of _virus_ is _viruses_.
I realize that you might think, "Oh, I'm being very correct and making my neato sounding word look all scholarly and shit." Well fact is, _virus_ is not like _media_ versus _medium_ or _datum_ and _data_, it's just a simple construction to get the plural.
What you accidemics fail to recall is that english is driven by usage, NOT by accidemic wishes. The french (and spanish to some extent) are different, but in english speaking worlds you can use the language any way you want to.
Now if you can't get your point across because the words are not recignised that is your problem. You will look more intelligent if you use the more standard language. Accidemics can help with getting your point across better, so long as you remember they love big words (linguistic, scene, regional variant, linguists, lexicographers, colloquial, and non-standard) that don't help the clear communication cause. They do make you appear more intelligent though.
Killing to avenge the deaths of 9/11 is not justice - it's murder
Do you not think a country has a right to defend itself? What if someone broke into your house and was trying to kill your family? You would talk it out and not resort to "murder"?
They're called VIRUSES !! There's no such word as virii!!
First off I consider analog or digital recordings, regardless of physical media, to be data. If, to manipulate that data, there resides on same media a mechanism, that should be considered software. Encrypted, compressed, whatever, it's data on your CD/DVD disk and to convert it to music requires logic circuitry and a D/A converter.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Err, if someone broke into my house and killed my (white) family, and I came over and started killing YOUR family because I understood that people staying with you don't like whites and MAY or MAY NOT have been involved in killing my family how would YOU feel? Violence begets violence.
Yes, we should let the people who did this get away without retribution for fear of possibly hurting someone. We are are at war with the Taliban, and Bin Laden.
So climate's changing. So what? It has always changed. The big news would be if it wasn't changing. - Dr. Philip Stone
It's practically a Usenet tradition.
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Pick One: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stremler/sigs/sigs.html (Note - disable Javascript first!)
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Yes I know this is off-topic but it is in a good cause.