...suggests Microsoft has fiddled with the registry in its stripped-down Windows offerings and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example.
Naaah...those things don't work worth a damn in the non-stripped down versions either.
BTW Why would you want to embed video in a Word doc anyway?!? I mean what do you think's gonna happen when you print it? Gee, my video is broken...I wonder why?
The word "freedom" has been bastardized and has become so meaningless due to americans' Orwellian over-use and misuse that it's almost become an epithet unto itself. Sort of like what the homosexuals have done to the word "gay"...now they appear to have "pride" in their sights too.
There's a fundamental flaw in your analogy (often used by the "copying is theft" crowd): Information is not real property and the two should never be compared. A more correct analogy would be for you to scan your neighbour's Lambourghini and replicate a copy for yourself (BTW I believe that there are kits available that allow you to do basically that, and Lambourghini doesn't see one dime).
BTW as far as "sides agreeing" goes, I don't recall EVER being asked when big media companies took it upon themselves to award themselves ridiculous copyright extensions. Continuing with your line of reasoning, IMO they are already operating outside the current so-called "social contract".
They've been given it away for free for years on the radio. I can go over to my friend's place and listen to his music for free. Plus the whole concept of receiving payment for recordings of music was unheard of, prior to the advent of recording technology. Prior to that, musicians got paid when they played...to an audience. Now the ability to mass replicate digital media across a shared network has rendered the "payment for recordings" model obsolete, which had in turn made obsolete a different model. How does guilt even enter into the picture? There is no guilt. "Guilt" in this instance is an artifical construct of the record industry, trying to stave off obsolescence.
Jupiter Research senior analyst Joe Wilcox said the change shouldn't affect many PC buyers. "Seeing as how the typical OEM would normally preactivate Windows XP, most legitimate users shouldn't have much need to go through the activation process," noted Wilcox.
Bullshit. While the vendors we buy systems from ship with Windows installed, but one is still required to enter the install key and activate within 30 days.
I've got an activation removal tool and damned if I'm not going to start using it! Piss on 'em...I've got better things to do than wait on the phone, besides I have a strong aversion to doing business with anyone who enters our business relationship entertaining the presumption that I am going to steal from them.
If your GPS unit says you travelled 100 miles this month but you've filled up with enough gas to go 10 times that distance, it'd probably raise some flags...
Uhhh...last time I checked, gas could still be purchased with cash and without ID.
I run MySQL on W2K Server and it doesn't lock up...ever. Power failures are the most common cause of re-boots.
Of course achieving that requires that you know something about configuring Windows servers. For a change, maybe instead of just bashing Microsoft every time there's a problem, maybe some of you anti-MS trolls should learn how to...um...actually do your jobs?
This list is for shit...
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I mean that colossal turd Pearl Harbour shouldn't even have made the list, never mind at #22, ahead of the Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Back to the Future, just to name a few! I DL'd Pearl Harbour and after watching it blew it off my hard drive and contemplated sending a bill to the MPAA for wasting my time with that crap.
They can also get rid of frigging Goonies and replace it with something decent like The Usual Suspects, which I notice didn't make list! An unforgiveable ommission (as was The Unforgiven:-P).
I also notice that the fanboys managed to push LOTR into the #1 spot...Yes, the LOTR trilogy was enjoyable and deserves to be on the list, but #1?!? No chance in hell...
There are also a ton of other classic movies that should be here and aren't. Thanks, but I'll stick to The Filthy Critic for recommendations as to what's worth watching.
I don't know about you...
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...but I'm still disappointed that 1997 came and went and New York wsn't turned into a maximum security prison as predicted.
The new Star Wars films aren't really geared towards children any less than the originals were.
C'mon! Anakin introduced as some obnoxious cutsey child? Jar-Jar? Lucas intending to include the members of some cheesy boy-band in one of the scenes in Ep 2??? If that ain't pandering to the kiddies, than what is? Of course Lucas is gearing his movies to the kids and the reason should be obvious: There's a ton of additional money to be made licensing and merchandising Star Wars Toys, and you don't market that stuff to grown-ups (except as the would-be buyers for their whining offspring).
...who are likely to give up their computers for some dumb terminal or "internet appliance" never should have had a real, configurable computer in the first place. That sort of power is way beyond them and it always will be. This sort of travesty is what happens when marketing departments are allowed to make decisions....the outcome is something akin to what happens when one allows politicians to make the decision to say, build atomic weapons. Something incredibly powerful is put into the hands of the incredibly stupid or avaricious. Bad idea!
1) A passport isn't a national ID card, which appears to still be in the works. Americans still have "May I see your papers, citizen?" in their futures.
2) Even with a Faraday cover, you will still need to take your passport out and open it. The would-be data thieves will simply hang around those places...airport check-ins, Immigration desks, hotels...etc
Yeah sure...and of course these "legal rights" will be "interpreted" by Micro$oft or the RIAA or the MPAA, or any other greedy corporate-spawned "interest group" for the express purpose of wresting control of computers away from their owners.
"U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally"
In Canada, I can buy a hell of a lot of blank disks for 150 grand...
Plus, at least in Vancouver, if I don't like paying the levy at all, there are plenty of chinese-run computer stores that don't seem to care much about collecting any such levy.
I spil;l;ed a gl;asasas of waster on the keyas asnd now thias ias whast happenas when I type./ Thias ias reasl;l;y asl;owing down my productivityl./
Thaasnkas
thias ias not as joke (name withheld)
Yes I did actually receive this from an employee (actually an manager) of a client that I provide tech support for (Though in his defense, he really had spilled water on his keyboard).
Does anyone remember how to write a proper business letter? Well a business e-mail should be structured in much the same fashion, maybe without the addresses, but definitely with complete sentences, proper punctuation and coherently organized paragraphs.
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Naaah...those things don't work worth a damn in the non-stripped down versions either.
BTW Why would you want to embed video in a Word doc anyway?!? I mean what do you think's gonna happen when you print it? Gee, my video is broken...I wonder why?
LOS ENGELES (Reooters) - Zee U.S. feelm indoostry oon Freedey heeeled a reeed by Svedeesh puleece-a egeeenst un Internet serfeece-a prufeeder es a mejur bloo tu Ioorupeun purecy ooff mufeees und mooseec oon zee Veb. Zee reeed ves cerreeed oooot oon Thoorsdey et zee Stuckhulm ooffffeeces ooff Behnhuff, Sveden's ooldest und lergest ISP, vheech U.S. cupyreeght prutecshun ixperts hefe-a cunseedered a hefee fur heegh-lefel Internet purecy fur yeers. Um gesh dee bork, bork! "Thees ves a fery beeg reeed," seeed Juhn Melculm, vurldveede-a untee-purecy oopereshuns durectur et zee Mushun Peectoore-a Essuceeeshun ooff Emereeca (MPEA), vheech represents Hullyvuud's mejur stoodeeus. Um gesh dee bork, bork! "Zee metereeel thet ves seeezed cunteeened nut oonly ifeedence-a ooff a purecy oorguneezeshun oopereteeng in Svedee boot ooff oonleene-a purecy oorguneezeshuns oopereteeng thruooghuoot ell ooff Ioorupe-a," he-a tuld Reooters. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Behnhuff, zee furst mejur ISP reeeded by zee Svedes veethuoot edfunce-a nuteece-a, ves hume-a tu sume-a ooff zee beeggest und festest serfers in Ioorupe-a, zee MPEA seeed in a stetement. Um de hur de hur de hur. Oothureeties in Svedee seeezed fuoor cumpooter serfers -- oone-a repooted tu be-a zee beeggest purete-a serfer in Ioorupe-a -- cunteeening inuoogh deegitel feelm und mooseec cuntent fur up tu 3-1/2 yeers ooff uneenterroopted pley, zee oorguneezeshun seeed. Bork bork bork! Melculm seeed oothureeties in Scundeenefiun cuoontreees hed beee relooctunt tu teke-a sooch ecshun in zee pest boot vere-a recently creckeeng doon oon purecy. Bork bork bork! Ebuoot 20 indeefidooels soospected ooff Internet purecy hefe-a beee zee tergets ooff smeller reeeds by Svedeesh oothureeties dooreeng zee pest munt. Zee serfers seeezed dooreeng zee oopereshun cunteeened a tutel ooff 1,800 deegitel mufeee-a feeles, 5,000 sufftvere-a eppleeceshun feeles und 450,000 deegitel oodeeu feeles -- emuoonteeng tu 23 terebytes ooff deta. Zee MPEA seys zee feelm indoostry luses $3.5 beelliun a yeer tu feedeutepes und DFDs suld oon zee bleck merket, boot it hes nu isteemete-a fur hoo mooch Internet purecy custs zee indoostry. Bork bork bork!
The word "freedom" has been bastardized and has become so meaningless due to americans' Orwellian over-use and misuse that it's almost become an epithet unto itself. Sort of like what the homosexuals have done to the word "gay"...now they appear to have "pride" in their sights too.
There's a fundamental flaw in your analogy (often used by the "copying is theft" crowd): Information is not real property and the two should never be compared. A more correct analogy would be for you to scan your neighbour's Lambourghini and replicate a copy for yourself (BTW I believe that there are kits available that allow you to do basically that, and Lambourghini doesn't see one dime).
BTW as far as "sides agreeing" goes, I don't recall EVER being asked when big media companies took it upon themselves to award themselves ridiculous copyright extensions. Continuing with your line of reasoning, IMO they are already operating outside the current so-called "social contract".
They've been given it away for free for years on the radio. I can go over to my friend's place and listen to his music for free. Plus the whole concept of receiving payment for recordings of music was unheard of, prior to the advent of recording technology. Prior to that, musicians got paid when they played...to an audience. Now the ability to mass replicate digital media across a shared network has rendered the "payment for recordings" model obsolete, which had in turn made obsolete a different model. How does guilt even enter into the picture? There is no guilt. "Guilt" in this instance is an artifical construct of the record industry, trying to stave off obsolescence.
Bullshit. While the vendors we buy systems from ship with Windows installed, but one is still required to enter the install key and activate within 30 days.
I've got an activation removal tool and damned if I'm not going to start using it! Piss on 'em...I've got better things to do than wait on the phone, besides I have a strong aversion to doing business with anyone who enters our business relationship entertaining the presumption that I am going to steal from them.
Solaris 10 anyone?
If your GPS unit says you travelled 100 miles this month but you've filled up with enough gas to go 10 times that distance, it'd probably raise some flags...
Uhhh...last time I checked, gas could still be purchased with cash and without ID.
What...you mean most open source software is also a buggy resource hog and doesn't live up to the author's exagerated claims?
Troll, troll, troll...
I run MySQL on W2K Server and it doesn't lock up...ever. Power failures are the most common cause of re-boots.
Of course achieving that requires that you know something about configuring Windows servers. For a change, maybe instead of just bashing Microsoft every time there's a problem, maybe some of you anti-MS trolls should learn how to...um...actually do your jobs?
I think I can see my house...
I mean that colossal turd Pearl Harbour shouldn't even have made the list, never mind at #22, ahead of the Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Back to the Future, just to name a few! I DL'd Pearl Harbour and after watching it blew it off my hard drive and contemplated sending a bill to the MPAA for wasting my time with that crap.
They can also get rid of frigging Goonies and replace it with something decent like The Usual Suspects, which I notice didn't make list! An unforgiveable ommission (as was The Unforgiven:-P).
I also notice that the fanboys managed to push LOTR into the #1 spot...Yes, the LOTR trilogy was enjoyable and deserves to be on the list, but #1?!? No chance in hell...
There are also a ton of other classic movies that should be here and aren't. Thanks, but I'll stick to The Filthy Critic for recommendations as to what's worth watching.
...but I'm still disappointed that 1997 came and went and New York wsn't turned into a maximum security prison as predicted.
...to a post about Natalie Portman and not one refrence to "Hot Grits"? You guys are slipping...
The new Star Wars films aren't really geared towards children any less than the originals were.
C'mon! Anakin introduced as some obnoxious cutsey child? Jar-Jar? Lucas intending to include the members of some cheesy boy-band in one of the scenes in Ep 2??? If that ain't pandering to the kiddies, than what is? Of course Lucas is gearing his movies to the kids and the reason should be obvious: There's a ton of additional money to be made licensing and merchandising Star Wars Toys, and you don't market that stuff to grown-ups (except as the would-be buyers for their whining offspring).
...does not an argument make.
...who are likely to give up their computers for some dumb terminal or "internet appliance" never should have had a real, configurable computer in the first place. That sort of power is way beyond them and it always will be. This sort of travesty is what happens when marketing departments are allowed to make decisions. ...the outcome is something akin to what happens when one allows politicians to make the decision to say, build atomic weapons. Something incredibly powerful is put into the hands of the incredibly stupid or avaricious. Bad idea!
So what's the point in overclocking it?
You're new here, aren't you?
1) A passport isn't a national ID card, which appears to still be in the works. Americans still have "May I see your papers, citizen?" in their futures.
2) Even with a Faraday cover, you will still need to take your passport out and open it. The would-be data thieves will simply hang around those places...airport check-ins, Immigration desks, hotels...etc
...or how about goatse made out of gingerbread?
Yeah sure...and of course these "legal rights" will be "interpreted" by Micro$oft or the RIAA or the MPAA, or any other greedy corporate-spawned "interest group" for the express purpose of wresting control of computers away from their owners.
So I can buy a spindle of 50 disks for $14...and the levy is $0.21/disk. There ain't no collecting of any levy being done.
Let's see...which system is less egregious?
"U.S. copyright laws allow for damages of $750 to $150,000 for each song offered illegally"
In Canada, I can buy a hell of a lot of blank disks for 150 grand...
Plus, at least in Vancouver, if I don't like paying the levy at all, there are plenty of chinese-run computer stores that don't seem to care much about collecting any such levy.
Does frenzied swearing count?
I spil;l;ed a gl;asasas of waster on the keyas asnd now thias ias whast happenas when I type./ Thias ias reasl;l;y asl;owing down my productivityl./
Thaasnkas
thias ias not as joke
(name withheld)
Yes I did actually receive this from an employee (actually an manager) of a client that I provide tech support for (Though in his defense, he really had spilled water on his keyboard).
Does anyone remember how to write a proper business letter? Well a business e-mail should be structured in much the same fashion, maybe without the addresses, but definitely with complete sentences, proper punctuation and coherently organized paragraphs.