Then to take it one step further, they could start using DRM like the TPM chip to ensure the machine is a Mac.
They already do; every Mac ships with a TPM, and if a check against it fails things like the Finder and the Dock won't run. Hackintoshes just remove the code that checks it.
It's especially unfair, because I know people who can partake of Vista quite happily for extended period without experiencing hallucinations or intense thoughts of suicide.
I did. I called up today and got through to their retentions department. After explaining why, I got asked if someone more senior could ring me back. When he did, and after I sent him a TinyURL of an article about this, he said that he couldn't find the interview in their PR database (which contains any press articles about Virgin Media) and that it "really opened his eyes". I still got my account closed, and am waiting on an explanation or something.
Fine, possible moral exception, if not a legal one.
But the GP's example of a major Hollywood blockbuster is not an exception. It is freely available if you want to pay a few $currencys. That it isn't available under the precise terms you would like also does not count, as it's grossly tilted in your favour ("I'd like it DRM free, and in Ogg Theora, and hosted on a Linux server, and with a penguin on it, and a pony, or else I won't pay a $currency/100").
The Banking Code isn't "law". It's a voluntary code of conduct which banks agree to abide by as a pretense to ensuring that the regulator doesn't pulverise them for being generally anti-consumer.
My favourite Twitterscapade was when, in one of his usual rants at me (basically, because my opinions about Microsoft and their products range between indifference and liking them, not consistent hatred, I am Satan) he repeatedly claimed I was being paid by Microsoft.
Of course, when I posted a link to my MySpace, showing me in a supermarket uniform and being 19, he shut up pretty quick.;)
I don't know if this policy has changed, but what pissed me off was that they never bothered to post drivers on their website, so if I wanted to blow away Windows for whatever reason I'd have to either hunt around the web for about four days, track down the disc (and since I usually got Creative cards as hand-me-downs, this was usually impossible) or just resort to fucking eMule. To download drivers for a sound card. If just about every manufacturer in the universe can provide downloadable drivers (Intel wins special praise here for having a vast library of drivers and software) then so can they.
They're arseholes, truly. I even had an SB Live! 5.1 which, despite the name and the presence of surround sound outputs, never actually worked with my surround sound system. Idiots.
Webcams? Nobody cares, 16-year-old girls included (they can always use a real camera to take nude photos of themselves).
Bullshit.
You know what the most requested features for the way-behind-the-Windows-version-in-features-but-oh-well Microsoft Messenger for Mac are? Smileys, winks and webcam. People obviously do care, and go out of their way to petition Microsoft for these features because they find it fun. I can't stand winks myself and a webcam is of limited utility to me, but then not everyone is a socially repressed nerd like me so I have no desire to enforce these views on others.
I suppose my point is you can't extrapolate your personal views onto many others. YOU don't need fripperies like webcams and winks? Fine, I'll join you in that and be happy to live without them, but for others it's a dealbreaker.
Hmm. My family were watching a DVD last night on my 360, it was really loud at first (as per usual, the thing's as loud as a hoover - excellent in all other respects though) but then quietened right down.
Why? He's telling the truth. Interoperability is more important to the Linux community than it is to Microsoft. Microsoft has no need to give any more than a vague impression of interoperability with Linux or for that matter the Mac, safe in the knowledge that if there is any then it occurs on their terms (Samba, Wine etc).
I'm usually harshly anti-P2P, on the basis that it hurts artists through cheapskates using it instead of buying music through legitimate sources, therefore denying them revenue. Given that I kinda like having said artists around to listen to, I really, really don't like P2P.
For U2, however, I will make an exception. I'd use Azureus and hurt them myself, but my broadband connection would start crying and go on strike at having to carry such shite.
The same goes for the film Lady In The Water. What a godawful piece of shit that movie is. I didn't even pay to see it and I want the ticket price back as compensation.
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So, your small arsenal of shotguns is going to be enough to stand up to one of the biggest and best equipped fighting forces in the world. Right.
Either you're bullshitting or you're Gordon Freeman and you've done this shit before.
And that's why Jesus distilled Maker's Mark whisky.
Damn if that shit isn't the finest beverage ever.
Then to take it one step further, they could start using DRM like the TPM chip to ensure the machine is a Mac.
They already do; every Mac ships with a TPM, and if a check against it fails things like the Finder and the Dock won't run. Hackintoshes just remove the code that checks it.
handed her an Ubuntu disc and said "It's yours when it works" and walked away.
You ARE an evil bastard. If you'd tried to fuck her that night, she should have handed you a box of Kleenex and some KY and walked away.
It's especially unfair, because I know people who can partake of Vista quite happily for extended period without experiencing hallucinations or intense thoughts of suicide.
Unlike St. Anger.
I think the GP was objecting more to people CCing lots of people (who they may not know very well) the same useless jokes.
I get it a lot, it drives me mad. I don't give out my main personal email address to certain people for this reason.
* Penalties may include eating cake.
See, now we KNOW you're lying.
I did. I called up today and got through to their retentions department. After explaining why, I got asked if someone more senior could ring me back. When he did, and after I sent him a TinyURL of an article about this, he said that he couldn't find the interview in their PR database (which contains any press articles about Virgin Media) and that it "really opened his eyes". I still got my account closed, and am waiting on an explanation or something.
Fine, possible moral exception, if not a legal one.
But the GP's example of a major Hollywood blockbuster is not an exception. It is freely available if you want to pay a few $currencys. That it isn't available under the precise terms you would like also does not count, as it's grossly tilted in your favour ("I'd like it DRM free, and in Ogg Theora, and hosted on a Linux server, and with a penguin on it, and a pony, or else I won't pay a $currency/100").
The Banking Code isn't "law". It's a voluntary code of conduct which banks agree to abide by as a pretense to ensuring that the regulator doesn't pulverise them for being generally anti-consumer.
My favourite Twitterscapade was when, in one of his usual rants at me (basically, because my opinions about Microsoft and their products range between indifference and liking them, not consistent hatred, I am Satan) he repeatedly claimed I was being paid by Microsoft.
;)
Of course, when I posted a link to my MySpace, showing me in a supermarket uniform and being 19, he shut up pretty quick.
The man's a dolt, anyway.
I don't know if this policy has changed, but what pissed me off was that they never bothered to post drivers on their website, so if I wanted to blow away Windows for whatever reason I'd have to either hunt around the web for about four days, track down the disc (and since I usually got Creative cards as hand-me-downs, this was usually impossible) or just resort to fucking eMule. To download drivers for a sound card. If just about every manufacturer in the universe can provide downloadable drivers (Intel wins special praise here for having a vast library of drivers and software) then so can they.
They're arseholes, truly. I even had an SB Live! 5.1 which, despite the name and the presence of surround sound outputs, never actually worked with my surround sound system. Idiots.
Advanced retardation, comorbid with schizophrenia.
;)
And believe me, this comment isn't aimed at you.
Webcams? Nobody cares, 16-year-old girls included (they can always use a real camera to take nude photos of themselves).
Bullshit.
You know what the most requested features for the way-behind-the-Windows-version-in-features-but-oh-well Microsoft Messenger for Mac are? Smileys, winks and webcam. People obviously do care, and go out of their way to petition Microsoft for these features because they find it fun. I can't stand winks myself and a webcam is of limited utility to me, but then not everyone is a socially repressed nerd like me so I have no desire to enforce these views on others.
I suppose my point is you can't extrapolate your personal views onto many others. YOU don't need fripperies like webcams and winks? Fine, I'll join you in that and be happy to live without them, but for others it's a dealbreaker.
Hmm. My family were watching a DVD last night on my 360, it was really loud at first (as per usual, the thing's as loud as a hoover - excellent in all other respects though) but then quietened right down.
Why? He's telling the truth. Interoperability is more important to the Linux community than it is to Microsoft. Microsoft has no need to give any more than a vague impression of interoperability with Linux or for that matter the Mac, safe in the knowledge that if there is any then it occurs on their terms (Samba, Wine etc).
They only really started making money after Domino signed them. Try again.
Why in the name of fuck on a pogo stick is this -1? Excellent post,
Good sir, that's the funniest comment I've ever read on Slashdot. Well done to you, my hat is truly off. :D
I'm a Debian developer, who is interested in kink.
;)
If you like to be collared and chained and given untold amounts of pain in the name of pleasure, I think I have just the site for you.
Met my girlfriend on MySpace.
;)
Yes, I know. *ducks*
OSS projects in general hasn't spent years boasting about how much much faster and reliable and more secure their latest and greatest products are?
No, but Slashdot and a significant percentage of the OSS community has.
If he had more people voting for him, he'd have more votes. Wow, keen political insight there. Have you considered a career with CNN?
Epson salts
Priceless.
I'm usually harshly anti-P2P, on the basis that it hurts artists through cheapskates using it instead of buying music through legitimate sources, therefore denying them revenue. Given that I kinda like having said artists around to listen to, I really, really don't like P2P.
For U2, however, I will make an exception. I'd use Azureus and hurt them myself, but my broadband connection would start crying and go on strike at having to carry such shite.
The same goes for the film Lady In The Water. What a godawful piece of shit that movie is. I didn't even pay to see it and I want the ticket price back as compensation.