Yea, but what happens when the local burger joint has to lay people off to keep costs down? Now you have some people earn WAY more than they are worth, and others who have nothing! I don't understand how you can think that someone should be paid more than their work is worth. Someone has to pay for that dicrepency... sometimes it's the customer, sometimes it's the poor schmuck who was "last hired, first fired"
They own the network, they can spy on any data you send as they wish! You MIGHT have an arguement if they send packets to do something like an OS fingerprint, but I think that would be a weak arguement too.
Exactly where does it say that it requires games to be purchased? nowhere? oh, there goes your arguement. The problem with emulators is that they virtually never check copy protection, so i could play a dvd-r just as easily. THAT is the theft.
yes, that is how things like real video work, however, those are lossy algorithms. The problem is that with lossless compression is still subject to the basic laws of information theory. It doesn't matter how much time it spends compressing it, if it shrinks some files, it MUST expand other files.
The current ratio is all based on the type of data, it is not possible for ANY compression algorithm to compress all data by even one bit. This is simply based on irrefutable information theory. If their claim of being able to compress random data were true (which it is not... I will get to that later), it would mean that if you tried to compress something not random (ie- a bitmap or text file), it would make the file significantly larger. I say that they did not succeed in their claim because random dats is by definition data that can not be compressed. I won't get in to the mathematics of it, but anyone with a vague knowledge of information theory knows that their claim is bullshit. As has been said, they are far from the first to make this claim and later admit defeat.
The income tax is not illegal becasue it is allowed for IN THE 16TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
That is not to say I disagree with you about government, I am a Libertarian, and agree with the surplus point, however I think that government's (theoretical) role is to protect our liberties, and if that requires a tax, so be it. This could be accomplished with a very minimal tax compared to what we have now, and I would not complain if it was truly to protect our freedoms.
They are stopping it in the crystal, but the really fucking cool thing is that they can then "unstop" it and it comes out as it was sent in.
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With WindowsXP Pro, you can log in as multiple users at the same time (unix-like), so I live in a user account, but if some piece of software decides to be bitchy, I can hit windows-key-L and be an administrator quickly. Eats ram for breakfast though.
You missed my point, I was rebutting the parent's comment that if software were more reasonably priced, people would pay for it. $10 for a piece of software certainly seems like a small price to pay, but nobody does. Exactly how even if Windows XP were $20 (not $200), it would still be very heavily pirated.
That's a load of crap.... exactly how many people registered their $10 shareware.... maybe 1 out of 100,000? The majority of people don't think about it as a matter of principle, they just see a way to steal without accountablity. If they were to stop and think about it was a matter of princliple, I think most people would realize that what they are doing is no different than going in to Circuit City and taking things. If you don't feel you are getting software worth the sticker price, you have the option to not use it! it's that simple.
Though I agree that it's obscene how our "representatives" are exploiting the deaths of thousands to increase their own power. What i disagree with is the gun control issue.... the terroists didn't use a single gun in the execution of their plan, so it really does show that banning guns won't stop things of that nature. And if anyone else on those planes had been armed, the terrorists would never have succeeded (think pilots..)
Though I realize i'm probably preaching to the choir in your case.....
shut the fuck up, it's called a joke!!! and i found it quite amusing at that. It's not POSSIBLE to not offend one of you oversensitive trolls looking to pick fights.
Shut up, moron, i have an athlon and i support microsoft, but thats not even the issue, JUST BECAUSE A COMPANY IS LARGE DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE EVIL! Microsoft beat the competition fairly, and Intel tries to do the same, what is your problem?
What in the hell are you talking about!?? you somehow made the leap from talking about Fascists and Dictators to business and capitalists, which i think could not be more wrong.
Capitalists believe in free market society!
They are not the propenents of the recent bills sweeping through congress! The true fascists are the anti-corporate people. Take for example the microsoft case, in a truly free society, they would be allowed to thrive or wither in the open market, however the DoJ, anti-corporate whiners, and companies unable to succeed on their own, are demanding Microsoft suffer for being better than everyone else!
Your arguement that the capitalists are the dictators makes no rational sense to me!
I know it works in XP Pro..... I don't remember if i had to reinstall (it was installed prior to upgrading), or deal with compatibility mode, but i'm telling you it works.
I agree they shouldn't be shutdoan, because they are merely filesharing tools, however, to claim that it give little know artists massive exposure is utter bullshit.... All it is is commercial music, movies and porn. Name one artists that has succeeded because of Napster/Gnutella/KaZaA. Can't? THEY DONT EXIST!
You're wrong..... i have morpheus running right now in Windows XP Professional. Oops, someone didn't research before they pathetically tried to bash MS.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that the federal income tax was ruled unconstitutional, and thus ended, until they passed the amendment to the consitution in the late 19th century.
Hello??? He ruined his OWN future when he launched an attack on those sites.... IMO, he should be banned from computers for life, and at least 5 years jail time!
I agree that ALSA is by far better..... For a while I thought I would have to pay more for my sound driver (OSS) than every piece of software on my system! Then I discovered ALSA was the only other way to get my ALS4000 working under linux!:-)
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Yea, but what happens when the local burger joint has to lay people off to keep costs down? Now you have some people earn WAY more than they are worth, and others who have nothing! I don't understand how you can think that someone should be paid more than their work is worth. Someone has to pay for that dicrepency... sometimes it's the customer, sometimes it's the poor schmuck who was "last hired, first fired"
They own the network, they can spy on any data you send as they wish! You MIGHT have an arguement if they send packets to do something like an OS fingerprint, but I think that would be a weak arguement too.
Exactly where does it say that it requires games to be purchased? nowhere? oh, there goes your arguement. The problem with emulators is that they virtually never check copy protection, so i could play a dvd-r just as easily. THAT is the theft.
yes, that is how things like real video work, however, those are lossy algorithms. The problem is that with lossless compression is still subject to the basic laws of information theory. It doesn't matter how much time it spends compressing it, if it shrinks some files, it MUST expand other files.
Dead on.... said it before i could
The current ratio is all based on the type of data, it is not possible for ANY compression algorithm to compress all data by even one bit. This is simply based on irrefutable information theory. If their claim of being able to compress random data were true (which it is not... I will get to that later), it would mean that if you tried to compress something not random (ie- a bitmap or text file), it would make the file significantly larger. I say that they did not succeed in their claim because random dats is by definition data that can not be compressed. I won't get in to the mathematics of it, but anyone with a vague knowledge of information theory knows that their claim is bullshit. As has been said, they are far from the first to make this claim and later admit defeat.
It's not bouncing around, the energy is "frozen" in to the atoms of the crystal.... and are then re=released later
They are stopping it in the crystal, but the really fucking cool thing is that they can then "unstop" it and it comes out as it was sent in.
With WindowsXP Pro, you can log in as multiple users at the same time (unix-like), so I live in a user account, but if some piece of software decides to be bitchy, I can hit windows-key-L and be an administrator quickly. Eats ram for breakfast though.
You missed my point, I was rebutting the parent's comment that if software were more reasonably priced, people would pay for it. $10 for a piece of software certainly seems like a small price to pay, but nobody does. Exactly how even if Windows XP were $20 (not $200), it would still be very heavily pirated.
That's a load of crap.... exactly how many people registered their $10 shareware.... maybe 1 out of 100,000? The majority of people don't think about it as a matter of principle, they just see a way to steal without accountablity. If they were to stop and think about it was a matter of princliple, I think most people would realize that what they are doing is no different than going in to Circuit City and taking things. If you don't feel you are getting software worth the sticker price, you have the option to not use it! it's that simple.
Though I agree that it's obscene how our "representatives" are exploiting the deaths of thousands to increase their own power. What i disagree with is the gun control issue.... the terroists didn't use a single gun in the execution of their plan, so it really does show that banning guns won't stop things of that nature. And if anyone else on those planes had been armed, the terrorists would never have succeeded (think pilots..)
Though I realize i'm probably preaching to the choir in your case.....
shut the fuck up, it's called a joke!!! and i found it quite amusing at that. It's not POSSIBLE to not offend one of you oversensitive trolls looking to pick fights.
Shut up, moron, i have an athlon and i support microsoft, but thats not even the issue, JUST BECAUSE A COMPANY IS LARGE DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE EVIL! Microsoft beat the competition fairly, and Intel tries to do the same, what is your problem?
What in the hell are you talking about!?? you somehow made the leap from talking about Fascists and Dictators to business and capitalists, which i think could not be more wrong.
Capitalists believe in free market society!
They are not the propenents of the recent bills sweeping through congress! The true fascists are the anti-corporate people. Take for example the microsoft case, in a truly free society, they would be allowed to thrive or wither in the open market, however the DoJ, anti-corporate whiners, and companies unable to succeed on their own, are demanding Microsoft suffer for being better than everyone else!
Your arguement that the capitalists are the dictators makes no rational sense to me!
I know it works in XP Pro..... I don't remember if i had to reinstall (it was installed prior to upgrading), or deal with compatibility mode, but i'm telling you it works.
I agree they shouldn't be shutdoan, because they are merely filesharing tools, however, to claim that it give little know artists massive exposure is utter bullshit.... All it is is commercial music, movies and porn. Name one artists that has succeeded because of Napster/Gnutella/KaZaA. Can't? THEY DONT EXIST!
You're wrong..... i have morpheus running right now in Windows XP Professional. Oops, someone didn't research before they pathetically tried to bash MS.
that would actually make sense..... i always had a problem with the battery thing
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that the federal income tax was ruled unconstitutional, and thus ended, until they passed the amendment to the consitution in the late 19th century.
You're probably right that he's talking about that, but that is not technically function of DNS
Hello??? He ruined his OWN future when he launched an attack on those sites.... IMO, he should be banned from computers for life, and at least 5 years jail time!
I agree that ALSA is by far better..... For a while I thought I would have to pay more for my sound driver (OSS) than every piece of software on my system! Then I discovered ALSA was the only other way to get my ALS4000 working under linux! :-)