The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Win ME is not nearly half as disastrous as most people will tell you, provided that you configure it correctly. Most of the out-of-the-box default settings glitchy at best and system crashing at worst, though going menu by menu and rearranging everything manually will fix most of its glaring problems (notably the RAM management and ballooning system restore folder). I've had Win ME installed on a system at home since 2001 and it's been running as close as it will get to flawlessly. When I mention how it will leap through hoops of fire if I ask it nicely, however, people always seem to recoil in fear and reach for their bible and holy water...
"What's your billing address?"
That's not exactly an unequivocal rejection.
Where would all you music sharers be if the RIAA responds with a valid billing address? It is just a matter of money before those ISPs start cooperating.
He's not saying that all the RIAA needs to do is open their checkbooks. What he really meant was that the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats shouldn't be expecting a free lunch from the ISPs for the dubious honor of being their loyal army of thuggish lapdogs. And that any legal threat letters to do so for free will be redirected to the nearest convenient trashbin.
This isn't about getting the money back, of course, it's abou tstriking fear into the hearts of small people. Do maffia thugs care about the lost money when they break someone's legs, or sink his feet into cement and dump him in the river? Of course not, it's all about sending a message to others that this could be YOU next time.
No, that was the psychiatrist association because they didn't want the meaning of life to become widespread knowledge and thus relieve people of their bread-winning anguish and angst. So they hired the Vogon constructor fleet to blow it up for them, under the pretense of clearing up the path of a hyperspace bypass.
This concept is central to the galactic government in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where the galactic president is chosen to be a figurehead, a distraction whose sole purpose is to wo wthe media with his moronic antics. This explains why Zaphod Beeblebrox was so succesful in the role. The people really in charge knew well that anyone wanting power was always a menace to the people they sought to represent, so anyone manifestin gthe slightest desire to be president was kept away from real power by any means possible. The true leader of the galaxy was in reality a man who had no idea about anything that happened outside his isolated wood cabin, and whose biggest preoccupation was keeping his cat happy. The whole system worked as good (if not better) than anything else the galaxy had ever seen.
Expect the newest blocking-filtering avoiding P2P technology to go live within hours of this filter going up, ensuring that your influx of music and porn will be virtually uninterrupted.
The ability to work forever with no loss of efficiency as energy is converted back and forth between usable and stored form is in itself a claim at 100% efficiency, as all systems suffer material degradation over time, a manifestation of entropy.
Second-hand sales have become the new second-hand smoke. The new leprosy, the new social evil now that communism has fallen out of fashion. Expect the movie theaters to have the Munite of Hate ads encouraging you against it very soon, because "when you buy a used game, you're buying from Hitler."
This may sound extreme, but all this talk of publishers not getting money from used game sales is utter nonsense. Does Ford get money from used cars being resold? Do house builders get money when someone flips a house? No, they don't. If they want more of my money, they just find noriginal and interesting ways to get me to buy new instead of pre-owned.
It's about time that game publishers start thinking the same way instead of taking a leaf from the RIAA and launching a new inquisition.
First off, no ISP has agreed to anything yet. Second, the RIAA is likely to DEMAND so much money (and let's be honest, the RIAA never asks politely for anything) that the ISPs would likely tell them to go screw themselves. Thirdly, the ISPs will be so terrified at the thought of being the ONLY RIAA-approved provider and losing all their clients to unregulated competitors that no one will want to be first. And finally... they'll probably just scoff at them and say "You're the MUSIC industry, what business do you have telling us HOW to do our business?" and shoo them off like children being told to come back to the bar when they turn 21.
That's what happens when it's possible to buy the ONLY new track on the latest album of rehashed crap. Guess the music industry needs a new trick to sell dusty b-sides at premium price.
An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
It's also raised public awareness that the RIAA is the scum of the earth who will sue 12 year old girls for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've personally never understood the concept that any kind of publicity that could make people spit on you when you walk on the street could possibly have any positive value down the line.
I use email so rarely these days that any piece of email I get which I did not directly request from the sender I treat as suspicious, no matter who sent it. So far it's been proven to be a perfectly valid policy to follow.
Been no word on a release for Prototype in ages... so it makes me wonder - is it stuck in development hell (like DNF) or in publisher limbo (like Ghostbusters until the recent pickup by Atari)?
You inject some experimental bone growth component in some random guy, next thing you know you have a rampaging monster with indestructible bone growths killing Superman and inflicting the cash-grabbing "Funeral for a Friend" crossover storyline...
The only "right" the Canadian blank media tax grants is the right to make copies of the media you already own, and only for personal use. Most Canadians would be surprised to learn they can't just do this without paying extra for it.
Wouldn't you be amazed to know we had this right years before the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats demanded to be given a cut on all CD-Rs and hard drives sales?
Personally, I found it even more hilarious when copper thieves tried to steal copper parts from live electric power lines, and unsurprisingly found that it held (GASP) live current. Ha ha ha, you silly copper thieves, when will you ever learn?
Didn't we learn anything from the refusal of the big telecoms to give their subscribers the option to opt-out of incoming spam text messages? These guys make their huge profits by nickel and diming us into oblivion, and roaming charges are part of the big picture.
Of course, the same argument could be made to just install security cameras in every public place, as well as every room of every house and record everything round the clock. Time sure flies, is it 1984 already?
Maybe all the criminals can just meta-tag all the data so the cops have an easier time. Finally the semantic web would come alive, all for helping kiddy porn criminals bust themselves.
Just watch how non-criminal citizens who have a deep-seated hate for anything that robs them of their privacy start to meta-tag EVERY file they have with criminal-positive tags until the ENTIRE web gives massive, constant and useless false positive readings and the tool simply becomes worthless!
Combine this with a remote access software, and you don't even need to enter a person's home to scan their PC for files anymore. Forget all this pesky due process for warrants and investigation, we can now scan tens of thousands of computers every day and just fish idly for perps. All done without even needing to look at your screen while the software does the dirty work for you.
If scientists can understand perfectly how the brain translates images into neural signals, it opens up the possibility to build full cybernetic eye replacements, even if the nerve tissue is damaged and non-functional. The medical applications are mind-boggling.
Also, I'm reminded of the interrogation device from the movie Barb Wire, the one that pulls out images from your brain whether you want it to or not...
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The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Win ME is not nearly half as disastrous as most people will tell you, provided that you configure it correctly. Most of the out-of-the-box default settings glitchy at best and system crashing at worst, though going menu by menu and rearranging everything manually will fix most of its glaring problems (notably the RAM management and ballooning system restore folder). I've had Win ME installed on a system at home since 2001 and it's been running as close as it will get to flawlessly. When I mention how it will leap through hoops of fire if I ask it nicely, however, people always seem to recoil in fear and reach for their bible and holy water...
"What's your billing address?" That's not exactly an unequivocal rejection. Where would all you music sharers be if the RIAA responds with a valid billing address? It is just a matter of money before those ISPs start cooperating.
He's not saying that all the RIAA needs to do is open their checkbooks. What he really meant was that the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats shouldn't be expecting a free lunch from the ISPs for the dubious honor of being their loyal army of thuggish lapdogs. And that any legal threat letters to do so for free will be redirected to the nearest convenient trashbin.
This isn't about getting the money back, of course, it's abou tstriking fear into the hearts of small people. Do maffia thugs care about the lost money when they break someone's legs, or sink his feet into cement and dump him in the river? Of course not, it's all about sending a message to others that this could be YOU next time.
Didn't he order the destruction of Earth?
No, that was the psychiatrist association because they didn't want the meaning of life to become widespread knowledge and thus relieve people of their bread-winning anguish and angst. So they hired the Vogon constructor fleet to blow it up for them, under the pretense of clearing up the path of a hyperspace bypass.
This concept is central to the galactic government in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy where the galactic president is chosen to be a figurehead, a distraction whose sole purpose is to wo wthe media with his moronic antics. This explains why Zaphod Beeblebrox was so succesful in the role. The people really in charge knew well that anyone wanting power was always a menace to the people they sought to represent, so anyone manifestin gthe slightest desire to be president was kept away from real power by any means possible. The true leader of the galaxy was in reality a man who had no idea about anything that happened outside his isolated wood cabin, and whose biggest preoccupation was keeping his cat happy. The whole system worked as good (if not better) than anything else the galaxy had ever seen.
Expect the newest blocking-filtering avoiding P2P technology to go live within hours of this filter going up, ensuring that your influx of music and porn will be virtually uninterrupted.
The ability to work forever with no loss of efficiency as energy is converted back and forth between usable and stored form is in itself a claim at 100% efficiency, as all systems suffer material degradation over time, a manifestation of entropy.
This may sound extreme, but all this talk of publishers not getting money from used game sales is utter nonsense. Does Ford get money from used cars being resold? Do house builders get money when someone flips a house? No, they don't. If they want more of my money, they just find noriginal and interesting ways to get me to buy new instead of pre-owned.
It's about time that game publishers start thinking the same way instead of taking a leaf from the RIAA and launching a new inquisition.
Unlike lithium-ion cells, the technology is said not to degrade with cycling and thus has a functionally unlimited lifetime.
"Lisa! In this house, we respect the laws of thermodynamics!!!"
First off, no ISP has agreed to anything yet. Second, the RIAA is likely to DEMAND so much money (and let's be honest, the RIAA never asks politely for anything) that the ISPs would likely tell them to go screw themselves. Thirdly, the ISPs will be so terrified at the thought of being the ONLY RIAA-approved provider and losing all their clients to unregulated competitors that no one will want to be first. And finally... they'll probably just scoff at them and say "You're the MUSIC industry, what business do you have telling us HOW to do our business?" and shoo them off like children being told to come back to the bar when they turn 21.
That's what happens when it's possible to buy the ONLY new track on the latest album of rehashed crap. Guess the music industry needs a new trick to sell dusty b-sides at premium price.
An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
It's also raised public awareness that the RIAA is the scum of the earth who will sue 12 year old girls for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've personally never understood the concept that any kind of publicity that could make people spit on you when you walk on the street could possibly have any positive value down the line.
I use email so rarely these days that any piece of email I get which I did not directly request from the sender I treat as suspicious, no matter who sent it. So far it's been proven to be a perfectly valid policy to follow.
Been no word on a release for Prototype in ages... so it makes me wonder - is it stuck in development hell (like DNF) or in publisher limbo (like Ghostbusters until the recent pickup by Atari)?
You inject some experimental bone growth component in some random guy, next thing you know you have a rampaging monster with indestructible bone growths killing Superman and inflicting the cash-grabbing "Funeral for a Friend" crossover storyline...
The only "right" the Canadian blank media tax grants is the right to make copies of the media you already own, and only for personal use. Most Canadians would be surprised to learn they can't just do this without paying extra for it.
Wouldn't you be amazed to know we had this right years before the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats demanded to be given a cut on all CD-Rs and hard drives sales?
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the calamari!
Isn't that exactly what Rui's been doing? *rimshot*
Sarcasm is actually different from irony, but it is ironic that you didn't know the difference.
Personally, I found it even more hilarious when copper thieves tried to steal copper parts from live electric power lines, and unsurprisingly found that it held (GASP) live current. Ha ha ha, you silly copper thieves, when will you ever learn?
Didn't we learn anything from the refusal of the big telecoms to give their subscribers the option to opt-out of incoming spam text messages? These guys make their huge profits by nickel and diming us into oblivion, and roaming charges are part of the big picture.
My mom and dad always warned me as a kid to never follow strange Sony execs into their van even if they promise candy or DRM-free MP3s.
Of course, the same argument could be made to just install security cameras in every public place, as well as every room of every house and record everything round the clock. Time sure flies, is it 1984 already?
Maybe all the criminals can just meta-tag all the data so the cops have an easier time. Finally the semantic web would come alive, all for helping kiddy porn criminals bust themselves.
Just watch how non-criminal citizens who have a deep-seated hate for anything that robs them of their privacy start to meta-tag EVERY file they have with criminal-positive tags until the ENTIRE web gives massive, constant and useless false positive readings and the tool simply becomes worthless!
Combine this with a remote access software, and you don't even need to enter a person's home to scan their PC for files anymore. Forget all this pesky due process for warrants and investigation, we can now scan tens of thousands of computers every day and just fish idly for perps. All done without even needing to look at your screen while the software does the dirty work for you.
Also, I'm reminded of the interrogation device from the movie Barb Wire, the one that pulls out images from your brain whether you want it to or not...