I think I said they would try to migrate from CD to another disc which cannot be read in a CD-ROM drive. Hopefully market forces will make that impossible, but that won't stop the RIAA. They have no competition, and they can legislate success.
There are things the Xbox has the the Gamecube and the PS2 do not. Like the hard drive and the near-x86 chipset. The Gamecube is largely useless for hacking, and it doesn't even play regular discs, so you can't really even add anything to it, or boot to a non-gamedisc. The PS2 already has Linux for it, and the only way to get it is to buy the Linux kit from Sony, which doubles the price. The Xbox is usefully hackable, and people like to do it for the challenge. An Xbox with linux is more useful than a Gamecube running linux, regardless of who builds them.
Yes, it will be hacked, but the system will not dissolve and fade away. It will continue to get worse and worse and more draconian until the CD as we know it is replaced by something that simply cannot be read by a CD-ROM drive, and cannot be opened in a computer. Then, we would not be able to hack it, and we would all have to purchase new stereos. It would work, because people have been raised to believe that they have to buy new things. As a whole, we are a very small percentage of the market, and they simply do not care about us. Which, of course, makes it interesting that they are spending so much money trying to thwart us, when so many of us wouldn't spend our money on them anyway. Maybe they just need to up their expenses on something they know they won't make money on so they can "prove" to Congress that we the geeks are costing them billions.
Well you could eat off your clothes or wear your dishes, and your problem would be solved! But I don't think anyone would think you're particularly cool... yum.
Interesting, I don't think I ever mentioned an apocalypse situation, unless you think a single man's death is equivalent to the apocalypse. Perhaps just in your case, right? People are largely morons, so you may well be right: if the world was going to be destroyed, people like you would terrorize the earth. Of course, some people would respectfully decline to participate in the festivities. However, the situation I had written about is totally different. It was the death of one man. Are you expecting me to believe that upon the death of a single person, all of civilization would run amuck? Would there be riots in the streets? Actually, people die every day, but the average riot has nothing to do with someone who is fortunate enough to have a deathbed. On a deathbed, a person has enough time to contemplate a little, and only an idiot would decide after true, genuine contemplation, that violence is good, or that other people are unimportant. You are not, surprisingly, the only person on this planet. In fact, many other people are more important than you are. You should not be so arrogant as to assume that your death will correspond to the apocalypse, or that other people's opinions of you matter not. In truth, you have proven that their opinions probably matter more than your own.
Cease your skewing of words to your own purposes. I have no use for them, nor you.
I don't think you ought to feel as if you should cater to the lowest common denominator. Your ".sig" is your final words, a parting shot, and it is your space, not anyone else's. If I had a vote, I'd vote for the return of the nom de plume. Pen name may mean the same, but it just isn't as good.
Perhaps you've never seen anyone close to death or been close to death yourself. If your typical deathbed occupant is essentially a bad person, they will try to make amends. If this same person is essentially good, they will give everyone the finger before leaving the building.
You speak of faulty logic and then follow it with that statement? That is highly illogical. Explain to me how only a good person would "give the finger" to everyone who cares about him before he dies. Would not a good person thank those around him for being there for him? Would not a good person prefer to be remembered as he was, rather than as an ass? Or are you giving a personal example of someone who gave the finger as he passed? Are you making amends?
however the rest of the world is full of ignorant uneducated degenerates who are brain-washed into hating anything that is not their religion.
And that is different from the people here... how? A sentence like that can be penned only by an ignorant, uneducated degenerate. In fact, someone who is brainwashed into hating anything that disagrees with his religion. Perhaps someone who would advocate attacking the rest of the world with nuclear weapons out of the fear that someday, someone will attack him. Which, by the way, is a fabulous way to get people overseas to like you: "if you try to develop weapons, which we feel is wrong, we will kill you with those very weapons. Yes, the weapons we feel are wrong. Yes, we have them. No, I don't see how we're being hypocritical. According to new American laws, you are a terrorist and are subject to a juryless military tribunal at a time and place of our choosing. Do not dissent."
If everybody considers it wise to strike first rather than burn later, everybody burns now. In fact, if anybody considers it wise to strike first rather than burn later, everybody burns now. Don't be so quick to advise violence. Someone might listen.
Nearly dead last? Yeah, you must mean second place. After all, there are only 3 real players, so "nearly dead last" is the same as "nearly in the lead." Gamecube is dead last, PS2 is in the lead. Xbox is between them.
Interesting comparison. Protecting Microsoft with words is like protecting god with a sword. If that is true, it follows that Microsoft is, or is at least akin to, a god. But since it is often said that the pen is mightier than the sword, the more powerful method of protection is used for Microsoft, which is therefore greater. So, according to your claim, Microsoft is greater than God.
And yes, in case you were wondering, that was quite specious. I've been reading Tertullian, give me a break.
Well, something bad could happen, theoretically. The current administration holds views that are very favorable toward Big Business; the bigger the business, the better. Said administration also holds views that are very unfavorable toward anyone or anything that might be detrimental to the "American" way of life (that includes Big Business).
If Sun is seen as attacking Microsoft (the Bigger Business), it could be seen as attacking American interests. They could find themselves on the wrong end of economic sanctions. After all, they would be the newest addition to the ever-growing Axis of Evil. Excuse me, agents are knocking at my door.
I understand that it might be alright for the residents of Omaha to see this, and that they might be used to it, but if the newspaper is going to release the article on the web, they should be beholden to another set of rules. This set of rules should apply nationally, and be based on the protection of the individual. Releasing this information to his neighbors might be acceptable; releasing it to everyone in the world, however, is not.
Okay, so who thought it would be a good idea to include their full names and addresses? That seems, at least to me, to be a huge invasion of privacy. It would be one thing if it was just a local paper with a readership consisting of people who mostly know who these people are, but this is on the internet. Putting their addresses on the web is just mean. I can only hope that the only thing that comes from it is fan mail and lawyer funding, but I cannot see that happening.
Please, if you're going to post an article like this, respect the people involved a little bit more than that. That was very despicable.
Exactly. And whoever was responsible for putting the salt in that water that is obviously intended only for killing frog larvae will be severely punished. You know who you are.
I've got a Compaq with XP and a GeForce4 Ti4600, and my drivers are as updated as the nvidia site is. When I use clone, the tv just shows the exact same thing as the monitor, so I can't do anything. And that's no matter what I have running.
What are your settings, by the way? That would probably be helpful.
Crap, I already have a GF4, and I'm not prepared to buy another one, if you know what I mean. It sounds like your setup is pretty sweet though. I bet you don't have any tips if it just worked straight out of the box...
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I think I said they would try to migrate from CD to another disc which cannot be read in a CD-ROM drive. Hopefully market forces will make that impossible, but that won't stop the RIAA. They have no competition, and they can legislate success.
There are things the Xbox has the the Gamecube and the PS2 do not. Like the hard drive and the near-x86 chipset. The Gamecube is largely useless for hacking, and it doesn't even play regular discs, so you can't really even add anything to it, or boot to a non-gamedisc. The PS2 already has Linux for it, and the only way to get it is to buy the Linux kit from Sony, which doubles the price. The Xbox is usefully hackable, and people like to do it for the challenge. An Xbox with linux is more useful than a Gamecube running linux, regardless of who builds them.
Yes, it will be hacked, but the system will not dissolve and fade away. It will continue to get worse and worse and more draconian until the CD as we know it is replaced by something that simply cannot be read by a CD-ROM drive, and cannot be opened in a computer. Then, we would not be able to hack it, and we would all have to purchase new stereos. It would work, because people have been raised to believe that they have to buy new things. As a whole, we are a very small percentage of the market, and they simply do not care about us. Which, of course, makes it interesting that they are spending so much money trying to thwart us, when so many of us wouldn't spend our money on them anyway. Maybe they just need to up their expenses on something they know they won't make money on so they can "prove" to Congress that we the geeks are costing them billions.
+1 Paranoid, -1 Conspiratorial.
Well you could eat off your clothes or wear your dishes, and your problem would be solved! But I don't think anyone would think you're particularly cool... yum.
Interesting, I don't think I ever mentioned an apocalypse situation, unless you think a single man's death is equivalent to the apocalypse. Perhaps just in your case, right? People are largely morons, so you may well be right: if the world was going to be destroyed, people like you would terrorize the earth. Of course, some people would respectfully decline to participate in the festivities. However, the situation I had written about is totally different. It was the death of one man. Are you expecting me to believe that upon the death of a single person, all of civilization would run amuck? Would there be riots in the streets? Actually, people die every day, but the average riot has nothing to do with someone who is fortunate enough to have a deathbed. On a deathbed, a person has enough time to contemplate a little, and only an idiot would decide after true, genuine contemplation, that violence is good, or that other people are unimportant. You are not, surprisingly, the only person on this planet. In fact, many other people are more important than you are. You should not be so arrogant as to assume that your death will correspond to the apocalypse, or that other people's opinions of you matter not. In truth, you have proven that their opinions probably matter more than your own.
Cease your skewing of words to your own purposes. I have no use for them, nor you.
I don't think you ought to feel as if you should cater to the lowest common denominator. Your ".sig" is your final words, a parting shot, and it is your space, not anyone else's. If I had a vote, I'd vote for the return of the nom de plume. Pen name may mean the same, but it just isn't as good.
Perhaps you've never seen anyone close to death or been close to death yourself. If your typical deathbed occupant is essentially a bad person, they will try to make amends. If this same person is essentially good, they will give everyone the finger before leaving the building.
You speak of faulty logic and then follow it with that statement? That is highly illogical. Explain to me how only a good person would "give the finger" to everyone who cares about him before he dies. Would not a good person thank those around him for being there for him? Would not a good person prefer to be remembered as he was, rather than as an ass? Or are you giving a personal example of someone who gave the finger as he passed? Are you making amends?
however the rest of the world is full of ignorant uneducated degenerates who are brain-washed into hating anything that is not their religion.
And that is different from the people here... how? A sentence like that can be penned only by an ignorant, uneducated degenerate. In fact, someone who is brainwashed into hating anything that disagrees with his religion. Perhaps someone who would advocate attacking the rest of the world with nuclear weapons out of the fear that someday, someone will attack him. Which, by the way, is a fabulous way to get people overseas to like you: "if you try to develop weapons, which we feel is wrong, we will kill you with those very weapons. Yes, the weapons we feel are wrong. Yes, we have them. No, I don't see how we're being hypocritical. According to new American laws, you are a terrorist and are subject to a juryless military tribunal at a time and place of our choosing. Do not dissent."
If everybody considers it wise to strike first rather than burn later, everybody burns now. In fact, if anybody considers it wise to strike first rather than burn later, everybody burns now. Don't be so quick to advise violence. Someone might listen.
Anonymous Cowards filtered. If their words aren't worth so much as a pen name why should I value them any more?
When did "nom de plume" get the axe?
Nearly dead last? Yeah, you must mean second place. After all, there are only 3 real players, so "nearly dead last" is the same as "nearly in the lead." Gamecube is dead last, PS2 is in the lead. Xbox is between them.
Interesting comparison. Protecting Microsoft with words is like protecting god with a sword. If that is true, it follows that Microsoft is, or is at least akin to, a god. But since it is often said that the pen is mightier than the sword, the more powerful method of protection is used for Microsoft, which is therefore greater. So, according to your claim, Microsoft is greater than God.
And yes, in case you were wondering, that was quite specious. I've been reading Tertullian, give me a break.
Hmmm... as opposed to what? Legal pirates? What kind of pirate is not illegal?
Wow. You are sooooo lame.
Well, something bad could happen, theoretically. The current administration holds views that are very favorable toward Big Business; the bigger the business, the better. Said administration also holds views that are very unfavorable toward anyone or anything that might be detrimental to the "American" way of life (that includes Big Business).
If Sun is seen as attacking Microsoft (the Bigger Business), it could be seen as attacking American interests. They could find themselves on the wrong end of economic sanctions. After all, they would be the newest addition to the ever-growing Axis of Evil. Excuse me, agents are knocking at my door.
I understand that it might be alright for the residents of Omaha to see this, and that they might be used to it, but if the newspaper is going to release the article on the web, they should be beholden to another set of rules. This set of rules should apply nationally, and be based on the protection of the individual. Releasing this information to his neighbors might be acceptable; releasing it to everyone in the world, however, is not.
Okay, so who thought it would be a good idea to include their full names and addresses? That seems, at least to me, to be a huge invasion of privacy. It would be one thing if it was just a local paper with a readership consisting of people who mostly know who these people are, but this is on the internet. Putting their addresses on the web is just mean. I can only hope that the only thing that comes from it is fan mail and lawyer funding, but I cannot see that happening.
Please, if you're going to post an article like this, respect the people involved a little bit more than that. That was very despicable.
5. Profit!
Oh, wait... that's a different list. Heh.
Exactly. And whoever was responsible for putting the salt in that water that is obviously intended only for killing frog larvae will be severely punished. You know who you are.
Is it more of a sin to have a couple of porn windows open in the background while you're doing it?
If one out of every 100 people made a bajillion dollars, there would be far too much money out there... :)
Yes, infinitely so in all cases. ;)
That sounds like the kind of password an idiot would have on his email.
Note to self: 12345 no longer an acceptable password for this account...
I've got a Compaq with XP and a GeForce4 Ti4600, and my drivers are as updated as the nvidia site is. When I use clone, the tv just shows the exact same thing as the monitor, so I can't do anything. And that's no matter what I have running.
What are your settings, by the way? That would probably be helpful.
But PowerDVD can only play DVDs, right? Or can it also play DivX and MPG, like the Media Player?
Crap, I already have a GF4, and I'm not prepared to buy another one, if you know what I mean. It sounds like your setup is pretty sweet though. I bet you don't have any tips if it just worked straight out of the box...