And Microsoft holds no monopolies when it comes to browsers / media players - they have never tried to stop you from installing another browser or media player on your system. They merely include a default one because people expect it. I only ever use IE when I first launch a new install and go download Chrome or Firefox and VLC.
It's ridiculous to think that just because MS has a large market share that they shouldn't be allowed to include a browser and media player (which are expected) out of the box. Would you also support finding the largest car manufacturer and insisting that it's illegal for them to include air conditioning and a radio? That's the level of idiocy of the anti-IE / media player bundled with windows argument.
Yes, but given Steve Jobs' history of insisting that his idea of the best way be made the only way, it wouldn't surprise me to see him force it at some point in the future.
I know, right? The US may be losing freedoms at a rapid rate, but we're still exponentially more free than the police states that are the EU countries.
Which is where Europe royally screwed up when they formed the EU. I understand the economic decision behind it, but the fact that they let the EU have power to determine laws for sovereign nations that have nothing to do with their joint economic interests is completely idiotic. All it takes is a handful of tyrants in the EU to say "We're outlawing free speech / press for all of Europe" and it must be done. Sorry, but the politicians who designed the EU were either wannabe tyrants or utter morons.
I don't call myself either. British politics isn't really divided on those lines.
True, from what I can tell, the British only really have one party and the individual "parties" are just people who disagree over minor details. It's the same situation in the US now with the Republicans and Democrats having views that are 90+% identical.
The people who are pushing this will never face an election. They will never be sacked. This is why the plans persist from government to government. Ministers come and go, but the civil service is permanent, and always attempting to expand. The bureaucrats lost their battle for ID cards, but they're still winning their war.
Bullshit. While I'm sure you're right about overpaid and underworked government employees pushing for expansion of government, it can't happen without politicians voting in favor of it. The politicians are just as much to blame as the other government employees.
I didn't see Avatar in theaters, but that's how (most) of the 3D in My Bloody Valentine was - it was just there and made it seem more real. I think there was ONE moment where they did a "it's coming at you" moment, but given other movies, I think they'd have used the same shot in a 2D movie as well.
Considering for several years I used to get massive headaches from first person games, I've never had issues with 3D movies. I'd say, it depends on what they DO with the 3D. If they use it to make shots pop a little more (such as My Bloody Valentine 3D, where you could actually see inside the ribcage and such) instead of just cheesy "the bullet is coming right at you!", then I think 3D can actually make a movie better (god knows it made the mediocre My Bloody Valentine better). 3D is a tool, and like any tool, it's usefulness is determined by what you do with it.
Wikileaks has conflated the public "right to know" with an imaginary "need to know,"
Considering that democratic government's are supposed to be run "by the people", the people deserve to know every last detail of what the government does. The government works for us - we do NOT work for them.
Its one thing to release content for the world to see but its another thing to get people killed by releasing it with out at least removing names.
My general rule is, if you're doing something secretive that might cause people to want to kill you if they knew, chances are you probably shouldn't be doing it.
Actually, from what I heard it was the limitations of the 360 that caused FFXIII to be so trimmed down because since Square released the game on both platforms they had to shoot for the lower end 360's storage capacity and leave PS3 players shafted. Why they didn't just target it for the PS3 and for the minority buying it on 360 have a 4+ disc game, I'll never understand...
Well, if it sells, the high sticker price will help them pay back the debt.
I'm sorry, but I find the concept of taxpayers using their money to buy a Volt and the small percent of that cost that's profit goes to pay back the taxdollars GM took to be laughable. Essentially you're telling taxpayers that they have to spend $40k to get $5k of THEIR OWN MONEY to pay the debt that GM owes them. That's some pretty twisted logic. You can't tell the bank that, in order for you to pay off the loan you took, they have to give you several times more (that you won't pay back) for you to pay off the first loan.
On another note, how do you go from a $20,000 Camry to a $40,000 Volt? Even if it does actually have the ability to get you to work on the battery alone, you won't save enough in fuel to make up that $20,000 price difference. You'd save more money just keeping the Camry and doing the occasional necessary repairs.
Exactly. That's why, while I dislike the idea of bailing out the banks, I understand it's necessity. Without banks, no one can get a loan - that means fewer purchases of cars and homes and people not being able to go to college because they can't take out loans. Modern society is so dependent on loans that without banks to provide those loans, everything screeches to a halt.
I do actually like Windows 7, but until I want to use my computer for something that I can't do on XP, I see no point in making a not-inconsiderable outlay of cash to upgrade just for bells and whistles.
Bittorrent requires a "not-inconsiderable outlay of cash"? That's news to me! =D
I very much don't mean this as a "640k should be enough for anyone", but do you really need quad core, over 4GB of RAM, and a video card that could render an older Pixar movie in realtime, just to check your email, surf the web, and play the occasional "casual" game? And if not... Why upgrade?
*sigh* You still refuse to look at other countries and realize that they deal with the same damn things. They may not have professional "lobbyists" but it's still one powerful person using threats or money to get another powerful person to do something in their interest. It happens every day in every society.
Every society is run by corrupt assholes. Sure, you might occasionally have a revolution (like the US did) and fix that for a brief period, but the nature of government is corruption. The fact that your solution to a corrupt government is to put more control in the hands of the government is so ironic that I think we're hitting lethal levels of irony here.
No, the ruling elite in every society are corrupt. This has always happened, regardless of the type of government or the type of economic policies. Even in communist societies there's only limits on how much the peasants can accumulate - the ruling elite never have to follow the rules because they're the ones making the rules.
Remember, there are many people in the office being "attacked", not just greedy lawyers. There are assistants, secretaries, paralegals and more.
While I don't support bombing, this gives the non-lawyers reason to get on the corrupt lawyers to end this sociopathic campaign. If you knew you might die because someone else is an asshole, wouldn't you try your hardest get get them to stop being a dick? I know I sure would.
We've seen how free market ideology works in the real world where there are no scruples and money makes the rules and if you don't have money your voice doesn't matter.
The same thing happens in socialist and communist countries as well. It has nothing to do with the economic system and everything to do with the fact that some people are assholes who will always try to dick other people over. Do you blame baseball when a player gets caught doing steroids? No, he's a cheating asshole. It's horribly naive to blame the economic system when someone breaks the rules and tries to hurt others, because it happens in every country since the beginning of time and it will continue to happen until the end of time.
While, yeah, I have zero love for a law firm that engages in the RIAA/MPAA's tactics, the best way to make one's point is to do so w/o breaking other, more important laws.
All of your "nice" tactics are completely ineffective. The government and all the money crazed lawyers in the country are supporting this crap. There is no kind or legal way to work to get it overturned. The only way is to force it to be unprofitable for those attacking citizens, which means things like DDOS attacks.
At least the data won't be DRM-d so if the cd's DO last 300 years, you'll still be able to use it, regardless of if an activation server still exists or not.
Slashdot Mirror
And Microsoft holds no monopolies when it comes to browsers / media players - they have never tried to stop you from installing another browser or media player on your system. They merely include a default one because people expect it. I only ever use IE when I first launch a new install and go download Chrome or Firefox and VLC.
It's ridiculous to think that just because MS has a large market share that they shouldn't be allowed to include a browser and media player (which are expected) out of the box. Would you also support finding the largest car manufacturer and insisting that it's illegal for them to include air conditioning and a radio? That's the level of idiocy of the anti-IE / media player bundled with windows argument.
Yes, but given Steve Jobs' history of insisting that his idea of the best way be made the only way, it wouldn't surprise me to see him force it at some point in the future.
I know, right? The US may be losing freedoms at a rapid rate, but we're still exponentially more free than the police states that are the EU countries.
Which is where Europe royally screwed up when they formed the EU. I understand the economic decision behind it, but the fact that they let the EU have power to determine laws for sovereign nations that have nothing to do with their joint economic interests is completely idiotic. All it takes is a handful of tyrants in the EU to say "We're outlawing free speech / press for all of Europe" and it must be done. Sorry, but the politicians who designed the EU were either wannabe tyrants or utter morons.
I don't call myself either. British politics isn't really divided on those lines.
True, from what I can tell, the British only really have one party and the individual "parties" are just people who disagree over minor details. It's the same situation in the US now with the Republicans and Democrats having views that are 90+% identical.
The people who are pushing this will never face an election. They will never be sacked. This is why the plans persist from government to government. Ministers come and go, but the civil service is permanent, and always attempting to expand. The bureaucrats lost their battle for ID cards, but they're still winning their war.
Bullshit. While I'm sure you're right about overpaid and underworked government employees pushing for expansion of government, it can't happen without politicians voting in favor of it. The politicians are just as much to blame as the other government employees.
One of them is finishing up a degree in marketing degree
Just curious - is he by any chance getting his degree in marketing degree at the University of Redundancy University?
I didn't see Avatar in theaters, but that's how (most) of the 3D in My Bloody Valentine was - it was just there and made it seem more real. I think there was ONE moment where they did a "it's coming at you" moment, but given other movies, I think they'd have used the same shot in a 2D movie as well.
Considering for several years I used to get massive headaches from first person games, I've never had issues with 3D movies. I'd say, it depends on what they DO with the 3D. If they use it to make shots pop a little more (such as My Bloody Valentine 3D, where you could actually see inside the ribcage and such) instead of just cheesy "the bullet is coming right at you!", then I think 3D can actually make a movie better (god knows it made the mediocre My Bloody Valentine better). 3D is a tool, and like any tool, it's usefulness is determined by what you do with it.
Wikileaks has conflated the public "right to know" with an imaginary "need to know,"
Considering that democratic government's are supposed to be run "by the people", the people deserve to know every last detail of what the government does. The government works for us - we do NOT work for them.
Its one thing to release content for the world to see but its another thing to get people killed by releasing it with out at least removing names.
My general rule is, if you're doing something secretive that might cause people to want to kill you if they knew, chances are you probably shouldn't be doing it.
But I don't see the entirety of the US government sitting around thinking of how much they hate freedom and democracy and conspiring ways to end it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're not a US citizen...
I take that you're not a fan of the iPhone 3.9999999.... then? What about Sprint's 3.9999999..G network?
Actually, from what I heard it was the limitations of the 360 that caused FFXIII to be so trimmed down because since Square released the game on both platforms they had to shoot for the lower end 360's storage capacity and leave PS3 players shafted. Why they didn't just target it for the PS3 and for the minority buying it on 360 have a 4+ disc game, I'll never understand...
Well, if it sells, the high sticker price will help them pay back the debt.
I'm sorry, but I find the concept of taxpayers using their money to buy a Volt and the small percent of that cost that's profit goes to pay back the taxdollars GM took to be laughable. Essentially you're telling taxpayers that they have to spend $40k to get $5k of THEIR OWN MONEY to pay the debt that GM owes them. That's some pretty twisted logic. You can't tell the bank that, in order for you to pay off the loan you took, they have to give you several times more (that you won't pay back) for you to pay off the first loan.
On another note, how do you go from a $20,000 Camry to a $40,000 Volt? Even if it does actually have the ability to get you to work on the battery alone, you won't save enough in fuel to make up that $20,000 price difference. You'd save more money just keeping the Camry and doing the occasional necessary repairs.
Well honestly, what did you expect? GM has a long standing reputation for making the automotive equivalent of vaporware.
Exactly. That's why, while I dislike the idea of bailing out the banks, I understand it's necessity. Without banks, no one can get a loan - that means fewer purchases of cars and homes and people not being able to go to college because they can't take out loans. Modern society is so dependent on loans that without banks to provide those loans, everything screeches to a halt.
I do actually like Windows 7, but until I want to use my computer for something that I can't do on XP, I see no point in making a not-inconsiderable outlay of cash to upgrade just for bells and whistles.
Bittorrent requires a "not-inconsiderable outlay of cash"? That's news to me! =D
I very much don't mean this as a "640k should be enough for anyone", but do you really need quad core, over 4GB of RAM, and a video card that could render an older Pixar movie in realtime, just to check your email, surf the web, and play the occasional "casual" game? And if not... Why upgrade?
Because, now my computer goes up to eleven.
*sigh* You still refuse to look at other countries and realize that they deal with the same damn things. They may not have professional "lobbyists" but it's still one powerful person using threats or money to get another powerful person to do something in their interest. It happens every day in every society.
Every society is run by corrupt assholes. Sure, you might occasionally have a revolution (like the US did) and fix that for a brief period, but the nature of government is corruption. The fact that your solution to a corrupt government is to put more control in the hands of the government is so ironic that I think we're hitting lethal levels of irony here.
No, the ruling elite in every society are corrupt. This has always happened, regardless of the type of government or the type of economic policies. Even in communist societies there's only limits on how much the peasants can accumulate - the ruling elite never have to follow the rules because they're the ones making the rules.
Remember, there are many people in the office being "attacked", not just greedy lawyers. There are assistants, secretaries, paralegals and more.
While I don't support bombing, this gives the non-lawyers reason to get on the corrupt lawyers to end this sociopathic campaign. If you knew you might die because someone else is an asshole, wouldn't you try your hardest get get them to stop being a dick? I know I sure would.
We've seen how free market ideology works in the real world where there are no scruples and money makes the rules and if you don't have money your voice doesn't matter.
The same thing happens in socialist and communist countries as well. It has nothing to do with the economic system and everything to do with the fact that some people are assholes who will always try to dick other people over. Do you blame baseball when a player gets caught doing steroids? No, he's a cheating asshole. It's horribly naive to blame the economic system when someone breaks the rules and tries to hurt others, because it happens in every country since the beginning of time and it will continue to happen until the end of time.
While, yeah, I have zero love for a law firm that engages in the RIAA/MPAA's tactics, the best way to make one's point is to do so w/o breaking other, more important laws.
All of your "nice" tactics are completely ineffective. The government and all the money crazed lawyers in the country are supporting this crap. There is no kind or legal way to work to get it overturned. The only way is to force it to be unprofitable for those attacking citizens, which means things like DDOS attacks.
At least the data won't be DRM-d so if the cd's DO last 300 years, you'll still be able to use it, regardless of if an activation server still exists or not.
OK. I understand there have to be limits, but 200? I say, 640 fart apps should be enough for anybody.
Don't you mean 640K?