He's confusing the quote; "information wants to be free". I think that might have been Doctorow who said that, but the misinterpretation is just as sad. Passwords and logins are NOT public information, otherwise we'd all use no authentication, or the same login and password everywhere, or not care. Content is the info being referenced here; music, films, written works. THOSE are data sets that need to be freed. Why? Why not? I can listen to a song for free on the radio, or video on the free digital wireless signals of HDTV, but I'm not supposed to copy those and share them with my friends who missed, or are not aware, of this work? Same thing with a CD or DVD I purchase and make copies for my friends and family. I am protected by fair use and no one can enforce that on me. NO ONE. Good luck if you think otherwise. Tell me how the wall tastes? Thanks for letting me beat your dead horse though!;)
No surprise, the problem is that our country is (over)run by corporations, NOT the citizens, lest we put a stop to this ignorant and greedy behavior. Anything to grease the skids of our corporate assholes, so we don't get it the way of their monopolies and profit making schemes! Fuck the rest of us who don't "get" the bribes, er, lobbyist "gifts for influence." If you disagree, you are probably not a real American anyway, so fuck you too. America is for the people, not asshole corporations. Eventually this will be dismantled, or implode on itself, like the housing and financial markets just did. The problem is STILL HERE and it has nothing to do with repubs or dems. They both suck. It has to do with the clever manipulation of our government away from the proposed design by forces unseen by our Constitution drafting forefathers. It's broken. Please fix.
Square pixels are easy to manipulate to be sure, so are single-core CPUs easier to code against, but the world is not perfectly right-angled. I'm now waiting for my flying car; which will use nano-morphing, variable shaped pixel in-car & HUD displays, and all controlled by a hella-core processor system running Hellabuntu. The sky's the limit! Or something like that.
I witnessed, many many years ago, a satellite setup for an apartment complex that used a Big Ugly Dish that muxed into a matrix of little individual tuner devices, the signals were recombined and then fed into the local F-type cable netwok, with repeater/amps behind that most likely. I wish I could tell you the brand names of these devices but I just don't remember. Let it be said; Comcrap is not the way to go, you could do much better with Dish/DirecTV (or anyone else's) service, I would suspect, and those companies would be much more helpful than your current "provider." Don't let your F-type cable go to waste, ditch Comcast and mux in the channels to your cable network from another vendor.
no other color screen device I own can be seen as clearly in sunlight
The ancient GameBoy Color has such a display. Although horrible indoors, it shines outdoors due to a highly reflective display that lacks back-lighting. And the kids love 'em like the Zune! Plus, none of those messy downloadable games. Just pure cartridgy goodness.
and us too! Great study, but it comes too late I'm afraid. I've already spotted at least 8 wild trees in urban areas that have sprouted what appear to be cell phone tower transmitters in them! We're boned!
A ZUNE! I've never seen one in the wild before. They MUST be awesome! Only 10K Kins in existence? Sounds like a very hard to find product headed straight to eBay. NOW I'm interested! Get out your Zunes and Kins, me Saddos! I'm going to fire up my Windows 95 server and meet up with MS Bob later. Balmer RULES!
Actually, MS does make a very nice product with that Windows XP. I've got one now and it seems pretty usable. Not going to replace my Mac with this thing, but for a work handout, it's decent.
You can bet a dollar to a doughnut that they have some clever verbiage buried deep down in the EULA that removes their responsibility in some meaningful way.
BTW, who the hell is still visiting the crApp Store anyway? I froze my iTouch at 2.2.1 because I refuse to pay another $10 for the elusive Copy/Paste bug they failed to ship, or fix, in my rev. I downloaded all the free games, fart apps, tip computers, and two useful apps back in 2008 and never went back. Not all that impressed with the garden. In fact, it mostly sucks ass. Enjoy at your own peril!
Don't forget backwards game companies, Nintendo the main culprit, who fail at letting legitimate owners of their stupid products migrate our games to the next device. I call shenanigans!!1! I buy a Wii, would love to buy a black one, but can't because of special MarioDRM which makes me purchase the downloaded content all over again. I buy a DSi, would love to buy a DSxl, but can't because of MarioDRM. Nice work, Nintendo! You are teh suck! You just made me walk away from two new system purchases. That's just dumb. Dumb, dumb, Nintendo.
Nevermind that anonymouse MS employee, this is a FANTASTIC time to buy a Dell! Their quality will go up a good 25% over the next two weeks. After that, same-ol' same-ol'.
How do you think they came up to speed so fast on the intertubes? copy everyone else, then adapt and improve. I learnt myself scriptimocations thusly!
Still, I have to admire their balls at making that ridiculous demand. I am going to start using China's methods to better my own life; to wit => I hereby demand that all banks wishing to do business with me keep all of their monies in my mattress! This is not a request!
It looks like it was a Wednesday. She was right in not going for the Holy Grail of the legendary 6-day weekend, but a 5-day weekend? Too greedy! Should have done the suspicious burning desktop system trick, or fire in the lady's bathroom. *Those* are 5-day weekend events. Hey, she got her wish though; plenty of time off from work!
I am reminded by a trip to the southern US; FL, MS, GA, AL, TX, by my favorite TV team at Top Gear... where they fled for their lives from some AL hick town whilst playing some gags with unpopular slogans on their cars. I can rework the quote to be closer to home:
In Alabama; "We're a backwards shithole, filled with intolerant Bible-thumping hicks. Don't even think about coming here or doing business here."
There now, aren't we just a bit more tolerant of our own backward, Cristian shitheads? Me neither. Fuck all religions! Especially YOURS!
Negative. The thing Nintendo needs to learn from Apple is how to create a closed system that also does not violate your common sense by not being able to MIGRATE YOUR DOWNLOADED CONTENT TO THE NEXT SYSTEM. Plain and simple. I have both and I'm telling you I won't purchase an upgrade to the DSi in any way until they pull their heads out of their asses and make it so I can move my downloaded games to my other, rightfully purchased and legal, system. At least my walled-gardening apps for the iPod Touch can go on any other one I choose to sync to. Not so with any DS system, not so with Wiis. Big turnoff and a system killer, not to mention so un-Google like to be laughable. Subscribe to my newsletter, or perish.
Another good thing to copy from Apple would be to have a rating system built into the downloadable content areas. I'm not as willing to purchase any DS downloads that are not top-quality, known games, from good developers. And add some more free content for crapping out loud. The Free section is almost, no, is a joke.
Of course, his cute little puppet hands would do the trick. Being created by those wacky South Park Puppeteers Matt Stein and Trey Parkhurst has its advantages. Team America, although huge dicks, should be alerted post haste!
In other news; I have just perfected Quantum Computing and the language of the Quantum Computer; QBasic, but am waiting to announce it on my birthday. We are still trying to license Q-Bert for our mascot. Stay tuned and subscribe to my newsletterings!
gorgeous device. Surely that's gotta be worth something.
Apparently about 100 quid. No fair equating iPad to two iPod Touches though, that's twice the walled gardening and half the usefulness of a real computing device. Why is Bob *my* uncle again?
I hear that! Sun and Solaris have provided me a very good living for some 20+ years now, briefly as an employee several times and just about every contract and position thereafter, but Oracle is just poisoning the well. They fumbled the MySQL relationship, lost the inventor of Java itself, and countless other valued employees. All in the name of making a quick buck off of Sun's corpse. Long live Open Solaris, but I'm supporting Linux and VMWare data centers from now on. So long Solaris, and thanks for all the fish!
Why does the music industry protest so much? Metallica bitches like four school girls about their IP being ripped off, yet they just played 900 hours of their tunes into my Sirius satellite radio and I recorded, edited, and redistributed it. Thanks, you fuckheads!;)
More importantly, the idea that this so-called "property" needs protection is downright alarming. Most of what Hollywood and the music industry shits out is pure garbage. In the whole of the US we should have banded together and purchased a single copy of Star Wars Ep 1 and shared it amongst ourselves. Protecting what is essentially 99% garbage stinks, IMO. Seriously, good luck with the enforcement, they're gonna need it. Because:
it is your moral duty to ignore it or actively undermine or destroy it
I'm on the case, Sir! I have about 160GB of iPod encoded movies and MP3 files for any device. Not one from a torrent. All from sneakernet. I visit family and friends, copy the goods, rip, mix, burn, redistribute. No one in my family pays for two of anything. We all share. Come and bust us copy-protection police! I double-dog dare you! Still waiting... Just as I thought... I'm still giving it away. No one can fuck with SneakerNet. NO ONE!
It's not April 1 yet, is it? This is so bizarre that I think it might be a counter-counter conspiracy that is perpetrated on the easy to blame government. Very convincing, Truthers, but you failed to cover-up the evidence of this mock-up to your "news release" by removing the joke name of one of the characters in your grand scheme... to wit; from the wired article "It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says."
I mean, come on, can't you come up with a more realistic name that that? Very funny, but we're on to you, matey.
-An ordinary citizen and part-time software pirate and NOT an agent of the Air Force Cyber-Posting Army. Go, Flying Nerds! Woot!!1!
I'm sure this is all a huge misunderstanding. The Chinese have some corruption, but the majority of people just want to get on with their lives and walk around a nice city and put on umbrellas when the rains come. I learned this from playing GTA Chinatown Wars. Why can't we all get along and just crash some cars and sell some drugs and have a laugh?
OMFG, how dare you hit the nail on the head instead of writing a throwaway line to be frist psot! Actually, I am writing to complain because you have just given away some of the points in my own idiom on how to raise my daughter in a world filled with stupid people hell bent on being "football heros|rock stars|famous actors" instead of what makes us more effective, happy people; learning a useful skill and living a normal life. This goes against the Ralph Cramden ethic of anything to get rich quick, but it's the "secret" to what has made my life and career so enjoyable. This is what I want for my little bot, only with more STEM and a degree.
Indeed! And it sounds like it's just duct taped onto the back of the card. Some hack. I'm so inspired I'm gonna "hack" the bottom of a movie theater popcorn container and then when the mood is just right... I'll offer some to my date. Damn, I'm smooth!
Why not artificial eggs? It'd beat Egg Beaters, and would also have the advantage of being green. Why that is an advantage, I leave up to the consumer. I would like the label to be a cartoon steer, with Xs for eyes and a saggy tongue, and a big red circle-X through it. Looking forward to sampling artificial meat jerky and Slim Jims and the new "artificial meat farts!" Go, science, GO!
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He's confusing the quote; "information wants to be free". I think that might have been Doctorow who said that, but the misinterpretation is just as sad. Passwords and logins are NOT public information, otherwise we'd all use no authentication, or the same login and password everywhere, or not care. Content is the info being referenced here; music, films, written works. THOSE are data sets that need to be freed. Why? Why not? I can listen to a song for free on the radio, or video on the free digital wireless signals of HDTV, but I'm not supposed to copy those and share them with my friends who missed, or are not aware, of this work? Same thing with a CD or DVD I purchase and make copies for my friends and family. I am protected by fair use and no one can enforce that on me. NO ONE. Good luck if you think otherwise. Tell me how the wall tastes? Thanks for letting me beat your dead horse though! ;)
No surprise, the problem is that our country is (over)run by corporations, NOT the citizens, lest we put a stop to this ignorant and greedy behavior. Anything to grease the skids of our corporate assholes, so we don't get it the way of their monopolies and profit making schemes! Fuck the rest of us who don't "get" the bribes, er, lobbyist "gifts for influence." If you disagree, you are probably not a real American anyway, so fuck you too. America is for the people, not asshole corporations. Eventually this will be dismantled, or implode on itself, like the housing and financial markets just did. The problem is STILL HERE and it has nothing to do with repubs or dems. They both suck. It has to do with the clever manipulation of our government away from the proposed design by forces unseen by our Constitution drafting forefathers. It's broken. Please fix.
Square pixels are easy to manipulate to be sure, so are single-core CPUs easier to code against, but the world is not perfectly right-angled. I'm now waiting for my flying car; which will use nano-morphing, variable shaped pixel in-car & HUD displays, and all controlled by a hella-core processor system running Hellabuntu. The sky's the limit! Or something like that.
I witnessed, many many years ago, a satellite setup for an apartment complex that used a Big Ugly Dish that muxed into a matrix of little individual tuner devices, the signals were recombined and then fed into the local F-type cable netwok, with repeater/amps behind that most likely. I wish I could tell you the brand names of these devices but I just don't remember. Let it be said; Comcrap is not the way to go, you could do much better with Dish/DirecTV (or anyone else's) service, I would suspect, and those companies would be much more helpful than your current "provider." Don't let your F-type cable go to waste, ditch Comcast and mux in the channels to your cable network from another vendor.
no other color screen device I own can be seen as clearly in sunlight
The ancient GameBoy Color has such a display. Although horrible indoors, it shines outdoors due to a highly reflective display that lacks back-lighting. And the kids love 'em like the Zune! Plus, none of those messy downloadable games. Just pure cartridgy goodness.
and us too! Great study, but it comes too late I'm afraid. I've already spotted at least 8 wild trees in urban areas that have sprouted what appear to be cell phone tower transmitters in them! We're boned!
A ZUNE! I've never seen one in the wild before. They MUST be awesome! Only 10K Kins in existence? Sounds like a very hard to find product headed straight to eBay. NOW I'm interested! Get out your Zunes and Kins, me Saddos! I'm going to fire up my Windows 95 server and meet up with MS Bob later. Balmer RULES!
Actually, MS does make a very nice product with that Windows XP. I've got one now and it seems pretty usable. Not going to replace my Mac with this thing, but for a work handout, it's decent.
You can bet a dollar to a doughnut that they have some clever verbiage buried deep down in the EULA that removes their responsibility in some meaningful way.
BTW, who the hell is still visiting the crApp Store anyway? I froze my iTouch at 2.2.1 because I refuse to pay another $10 for the elusive Copy/Paste bug they failed to ship, or fix, in my rev. I downloaded all the free games, fart apps, tip computers, and two useful apps back in 2008 and never went back. Not all that impressed with the garden. In fact, it mostly sucks ass. Enjoy at your own peril!
Don't forget backwards game companies, Nintendo the main culprit, who fail at letting legitimate owners of their stupid products migrate our games to the next device. I call shenanigans!!1! I buy a Wii, would love to buy a black one, but can't because of special MarioDRM which makes me purchase the downloaded content all over again. I buy a DSi, would love to buy a DSxl, but can't because of MarioDRM. Nice work, Nintendo! You are teh suck! You just made me walk away from two new system purchases. That's just dumb. Dumb, dumb, Nintendo.
Nevermind that anonymouse MS employee, this is a FANTASTIC time to buy a Dell! Their quality will go up a good 25% over the next two weeks. After that, same-ol' same-ol'.
How do you think they came up to speed so fast on the intertubes? copy everyone else, then adapt and improve. I learnt myself scriptimocations thusly!
Still, I have to admire their balls at making that ridiculous demand. I am going to start using China's methods to better my own life; to wit => I hereby demand that all banks wishing to do business with me keep all of their monies in my mattress! This is not a request!
It looks like it was a Wednesday. She was right in not going for the Holy Grail of the legendary 6-day weekend, but a 5-day weekend? Too greedy! Should have done the suspicious burning desktop system trick, or fire in the lady's bathroom. *Those* are 5-day weekend events. Hey, she got her wish though; plenty of time off from work!
I am reminded by a trip to the southern US; FL, MS, GA, AL, TX, by my favorite TV team at Top Gear... where they fled for their lives from some AL hick town whilst playing some gags with unpopular slogans on their cars. I can rework the quote to be closer to home:
In Alabama; "We're a backwards shithole, filled with intolerant Bible-thumping hicks. Don't even think about coming here or doing business here."
There now, aren't we just a bit more tolerant of our own backward, Cristian shitheads? Me neither. Fuck all religions! Especially YOURS!
'nuff said. What do I win?!1!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooga_Booga
Bad idea; unknown media decay rate + Sony is involved, so it WILL suck.
All I have to say about the summary is; Dumb Terminal == Smart User who needs no mouse to gui
Copy that floppy!
Negative. The thing Nintendo needs to learn from Apple is how to create a closed system that also does not violate your common sense by not being able to MIGRATE YOUR DOWNLOADED CONTENT TO THE NEXT SYSTEM. Plain and simple. I have both and I'm telling you I won't purchase an upgrade to the DSi in any way until they pull their heads out of their asses and make it so I can move my downloaded games to my other, rightfully purchased and legal, system. At least my walled-gardening apps for the iPod Touch can go on any other one I choose to sync to. Not so with any DS system, not so with Wiis. Big turnoff and a system killer, not to mention so un-Google like to be laughable. Subscribe to my newsletter, or perish.
Another good thing to copy from Apple would be to have a rating system built into the downloadable content areas. I'm not as willing to purchase any DS downloads that are not top-quality, known games, from good developers. And add some more free content for crapping out loud. The Free section is almost, no, is a joke.
Of course, his cute little puppet hands would do the trick. Being created by those wacky South Park Puppeteers Matt Stein and Trey Parkhurst has its advantages. Team America, although huge dicks, should be alerted post haste!
In other news; I have just perfected Quantum Computing and the language of the Quantum Computer; QBasic, but am waiting to announce it on my birthday. We are still trying to license Q-Bert for our mascot. Stay tuned and subscribe to my newsletterings!
gorgeous device. Surely that's gotta be worth something.
Apparently about 100 quid. No fair equating iPad to two iPod Touches though, that's twice the walled gardening and half the usefulness of a real computing device. Why is Bob *my* uncle again?
I hear that! Sun and Solaris have provided me a very good living for some 20+ years now, briefly as an employee several times and just about every contract and position thereafter, but Oracle is just poisoning the well. They fumbled the MySQL relationship, lost the inventor of Java itself, and countless other valued employees. All in the name of making a quick buck off of Sun's corpse. Long live Open Solaris, but I'm supporting Linux and VMWare data centers from now on. So long Solaris, and thanks for all the fish!
Why does the music industry protest so much? Metallica bitches like four school girls about their IP being ripped off, yet they just played 900 hours of their tunes into my Sirius satellite radio and I recorded, edited, and redistributed it. Thanks, you fuckheads! ;)
More importantly, the idea that this so-called "property" needs protection is downright alarming. Most of what Hollywood and the music industry shits out is pure garbage. In the whole of the US we should have banded together and purchased a single copy of Star Wars Ep 1 and shared it amongst ourselves. Protecting what is essentially 99% garbage stinks, IMO. Seriously, good luck with the enforcement, they're gonna need it. Because:
it is your moral duty to ignore it or actively undermine or destroy it
I'm on the case, Sir! I have about 160GB of iPod encoded movies and MP3 files for any device. Not one from a torrent. All from sneakernet. I visit family and friends, copy the goods, rip, mix, burn, redistribute. No one in my family pays for two of anything. We all share. Come and bust us copy-protection police! I double-dog dare you! Still waiting... Just as I thought... I'm still giving it away. No one can fuck with SneakerNet. NO ONE!
It's not April 1 yet, is it? This is so bizarre that I think it might be a counter-counter conspiracy that is perpetrated on the easy to blame government. Very convincing, Truthers, but you failed to cover-up the evidence of this mock-up to your "news release" by removing the joke name of one of the characters in your grand scheme... to wit; from the wired article "It's all part of an Air Force push to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force," Captain David Faggard says."
I mean, come on, can't you come up with a more realistic name that that? Very funny, but we're on to you, matey.
-An ordinary citizen and part-time software pirate and NOT an agent of the Air Force Cyber-Posting Army. Go, Flying Nerds! Woot!!1!
I'm sure this is all a huge misunderstanding. The Chinese have some corruption, but the majority of people just want to get on with their lives and walk around a nice city and put on umbrellas when the rains come. I learned this from playing GTA Chinatown Wars. Why can't we all get along and just crash some cars and sell some drugs and have a laugh?
OMFG, how dare you hit the nail on the head instead of writing a throwaway line to be frist psot! Actually, I am writing to complain because you have just given away some of the points in my own idiom on how to raise my daughter in a world filled with stupid people hell bent on being "football heros|rock stars|famous actors" instead of what makes us more effective, happy people; learning a useful skill and living a normal life. This goes against the Ralph Cramden ethic of anything to get rich quick, but it's the "secret" to what has made my life and career so enjoyable. This is what I want for my little bot, only with more STEM and a degree.
Indeed! And it sounds like it's just duct taped onto the back of the card. Some hack. I'm so inspired I'm gonna "hack" the bottom of a movie theater popcorn container and then when the mood is just right... I'll offer some to my date. Damn, I'm smooth!
Why not artificial eggs? It'd beat Egg Beaters, and would also have the advantage of being green. Why that is an advantage, I leave up to the consumer. I would like the label to be a cartoon steer, with Xs for eyes and a saggy tongue, and a big red circle-X through it. Looking forward to sampling artificial meat jerky and Slim Jims and the new "artificial meat farts!" Go, science, GO!