Most of the DRM bellyaching is about content created by someone other than the owner of the device.
Therefore I can gaze at my Sony/BMG discs and think "Ooooooooooo, shiney," secure in the knowledge that if I could walk into Howard Stringer's office and pop it into his personal machine music would come out of it without rooting my box or nothin'.
I haven't seen anything done to differentiate between "symptoms of infection" and "traits of average cat owners."
I didn't own my cat, she just lived here, and it didn't make me stupid.
All I did was let her move in and act as if she owned the joint, fed her so she wouldn't have to bestir herself by making a living, gave her affection whenever she demanded it but didn't expect any in return and cleaned up her shit after her. . .
Oh, wait. . .
Maybe I should go read Prachett's Lords and Ladies again.
Our usage of the best farmland for houses is probably the biggest environmental error we make
But at least the first thing we do when building the house is call in the bulldozer to scrape all the topsoil off; making it virtually impossible to change our minds, so we've got that going for us.
One of the things I've always liked about Vermont is that (at least before the New Yorkers started moving in) they have been pretty much forced by the geography to do things right. There's a reason it's known for granite, sheep and cows and any real arable land must be devoted to their feed lots. Not to mention the crappy land left over for houses has the best views from the living room window anyway.
The White European can be considered the orginal settlers of Vermont, because even the precolombian Native Americans couldn't find much of any use for it other than as a transient hunting ground. It has always served as a sink for the disaffected. The Allen brothers were not exactly models of fine citizens. The nation (yes, nation) of Vermont was born out of the guerilla warfare of such, Ethan once threatening to declare war on all of mankind.
They even tend to learn from their mistakes ( at least before the New Yorkers started moving in); as per the aftermath of the "White Gold Rush," which, interestingly, I can't find a single reference to on the web. ("White Gold" is early 19th century Vermonter for wool).
Shame that there's really only two ways to make a living there, even to this day:
a)farm rocks b)rip off New Yorkers
The family homestead perched on the lump of granite which I stand to inheret isn't well situated for ripping off New Yorkers. I might have to retire to the family homestead in Marblehead; where the only way to make a living is:
a)already have more money than God b)rip off New Yorkers
That's why I live in New York at the moment. I'm practicing ripping off New Yorkers.
. ..the fact that an 'older' user is declared 'new' by a newer user on each child post should lead to a division by zero, a black hole, or at least a bazzarro world somewhere...
Second time too, and it's not even one of the ones I'm in, even though that would still leave the "F" part a mystery and there are some people here who've taken the trouble to figure out the rest. Don't they have lives? I've mentioned the farm my mother grew up on recently, this book contains descriptions of life there during The Depression. I never got to see it. It's now the North Dartmouth Mall parking lot or something.
All I got was this lousy ship's lantern off of the Charles W. Morgan out of the deal.
I can't say it's really a great book, but it is an interesting one, combining the memoirs of Uncle Al and Inge who caught TB while intered in a Nazi death camp.
So let me get this straight...he really goes by Al SHATZ?!?
For the past two years he has only used the full Albert, 'cause that's what's carved on the stone. He never saw the book.
So stop buying Shimano stuff. Install some open source gears and a free software chain...
Shimano has driven most of the competition out of the market. They have a virtual monopoly on OEM equipment. The shit came preinstalled.
Does this sound familiar?
The "Open Source" stuff, well, mostly kinda sucks. It's not their fault, it's just that the newer "innovations" are all still tied up in Shimano patents; and the entire industry has to play Shimano's game or, at best, be relegated to a small niche market.
Does this sound familiar?
On my other bike, however, I have a Campy Nouvo Record Grouppo that, although propriatary, established the industry's "Open Standard." Although dating from the early 70's it still functions perfectly. It has actually outlived three frames.
But you must access the system from a console shell and don't expect to play DVDs on it.
Shimano took over an industry where there was already an established giant by cheaply mass producing knockoffs that were of inferior quality; but with the addition of features that made the equipment more convenient to use for the nonexpert. Once they had become the new giant they began throwing their weight around, raised their prices to the premium level and introduced planned, forced obsolesence.
Sound fam. . . ooooooooooh, nevermind.
Within the context of the story, however, the fact remains that until such time as the "chain" on XP wears out:
Why bother upgrading? XP has all those nifty "consumer" features already. Your existing system still works. What does it matter that Vista needs a new kind of AV package? As the OP illustrates the average consumer (note the absence of scare quotes) has come to simply expect all the little balls of needless shit he has to buy in order to upgrade.
So that isn't the real reason that uptake is a bit slow.
No, the real reason is that XP still works and for first time Microsoft has not been able to put forward a single compelling reason for the business consumer to find Vista desirable. It only seems to exist for the sole reason that Microsoft wants more of your money. For nothing.
Ok, so we have to buy new AV software for Vista, but why should we buy Vista?!
For the first time they have introduced a "new" operating system and the majority response is:
"Right, Bill. Blow me."
And they ain't gonna change that tune until the chain wears out.
This isn't strictly an issue with Microsoft either; I'm posting this from a Mandrake 8.0 box, but I could fire up the Red Hat 5.2 or Mac System 7 box.
But it's getting harder by the day to keep them up and usefully connected. Sooner or later I'll just say "Screw it" and put the Kubuntu box into frontline service.
When all I really need for Mandrake 8.0 (which on the whole I like better) is an improved chain. Carving chains by hand, however, while possible, is a pain in the ass.
But why would you care that the XP version of an AV product doesn't work on Vista? Surely there are enough differences between the OSes that you'll need a new virus scan?
Assuming this to be true, it still does not answer the fundamental question:
"Why bother?"
There's a new Shimano Grouppo out too. The mere fact that Shimano has released it doesn't in any way compel or obligate me to buy it. Releasing it is their issue, not mine.
My old Grouppo still works just fine.
So here's what they do:
The Grouppos require special, made only by Shimano (they have patents and shit) chains. They will discontinue making the chain for the Grouppo I already have, so just to buy a new chain I will eventually have to buy a new Grouppo.
It's a bubble because the FED is printing too much money.
It's a bubble because, as has already been pointed out, there is no Web 2.0.
It doesn't matter what nation's currency is poured into it, it's all going down the toilet hole, because a hole is all there is to go down. There is no "there" there.
I assume you were joking about 'primarily' turning out to be true, as the instances of restriction interpretation are rare. ..
No knock warrants. Criminal possesion of a screwdriver. You're looking through the end of the telescope they've taught you to look through. Condsider that it might be the wrong end.
I think he just liked to argue with Jefferson!
I don't think there's any controversy there.:)
. ..he did get "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" in there on #9.
Legally voided before the ink was dry.
It took nearly 40 years for the 10th amendment to be remembered by the courts.
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I hope they are very careful with their experiments.
Indeed,we wouldn't want a petri dish to catch cold.
KFG
Most of the DRM bellyaching is about content created by someone other than the owner of the device.
Therefore I can gaze at my Sony/BMG discs and think "Ooooooooooo, shiney," secure in the knowledge that if I could walk into Howard Stringer's office and pop it into his personal machine music would come out of it without rooting my box or nothin'.
KFG
You still do have full access to your files. Microsoft is not restricting this at all
Remember when you became obese, not because you had put on weight, but simply because they changed the definition?
KFG
How, we all ask, will it achieve such wonders?
More chrome, bigger tailfins and silicon Double Ds on the squid.
KFG
How do they figure five years? 2003 to 2007, that's four years at best. . .
The author obviously lacks opposable thumbs:
"One, Two, Three, Four, more than Five"
KFG
This is where Microsoft failed, their security model was flawed, so with Vista they've fixed it (or so they say).
Yeah, you used to be allowed full access to your own files and do with them as you please.
We'll have no more of that nonsense.
KFG
A BSOD on the 405 in LA.
Didn't Dylan write a song about this?
Tangled up in Blue.
KFG
Found On Road DoSed.
KFG
Your doctor gave you sugar pills.
KFG
I haven't seen anything done to differentiate between "symptoms of infection" and "traits of average cat owners."
I didn't own my cat, she just lived here, and it didn't make me stupid.
All I did was let her move in and act as if she owned the joint, fed her so she wouldn't have to bestir herself by making a living, gave her affection whenever she demanded it but didn't expect any in return and cleaned up her shit after her. . .
Oh, wait. . .
Maybe I should go read Prachett's Lords and Ladies again.
KFG
The next time some vegan gloats about wearing plastic shoes just whip out a picture of the Exxon Valdez cleanup efforts.
I happen to think that their hearts are in the right place (I'm a veggie myself), but they aren't very good at thinking things through.
Life lives on death. It's the way the system works. You cannot opt out.
KFG
Our usage of the best farmland for houses is probably the biggest environmental error we make
But at least the first thing we do when building the house is call in the bulldozer to scrape all the topsoil off; making it virtually impossible to change our minds, so we've got that going for us.
One of the things I've always liked about Vermont is that (at least before the New Yorkers started moving in) they have been pretty much forced by the geography to do things right. There's a reason it's known for granite, sheep and cows and any real arable land must be devoted to their feed lots. Not to mention the crappy land left over for houses has the best views from the living room window anyway.
The White European can be considered the orginal settlers of Vermont, because even the precolombian Native Americans couldn't find much of any use for it other than as a transient hunting ground. It has always served as a sink for the disaffected. The Allen brothers were not exactly models of fine citizens. The nation (yes, nation) of Vermont was born out of the guerilla warfare of such, Ethan once threatening to declare war on all of mankind.
They even tend to learn from their mistakes ( at least before the New Yorkers started moving in); as per the aftermath of the "White Gold Rush," which, interestingly, I can't find a single reference to on the web. ("White Gold" is early 19th century Vermonter for wool).
Shame that there's really only two ways to make a living there, even to this day:
a)farm rocks
b)rip off New Yorkers
The family homestead perched on the lump of granite which I stand to inheret isn't well situated for ripping off New Yorkers. I might have to retire to the family homestead in Marblehead; where the only way to make a living is:
a)already have more money than God
b)rip off New Yorkers
That's why I live in New York at the moment. I'm practicing ripping off New Yorkers.
KFG
. . .the fact that an 'older' user is declared 'new' by a newer user on each child post should lead to a division by zero, a black hole, or at least a bazzarro world somewhere...
.in Japan!
. .
KFG
Hey you're good enough to plug a book!
Second time too, and it's not even one of the ones I'm in, even though that would still leave the "F" part a mystery and there are some people here who've taken the trouble to figure out the rest. Don't they have lives? I've mentioned the farm my mother grew up on recently, this book contains descriptions of life there during The Depression. I never got to see it. It's now the North Dartmouth Mall parking lot or something.
All I got was this lousy ship's lantern off of the Charles W. Morgan out of the deal.
I can't say it's really a great book, but it is an interesting one, combining the memoirs of Uncle Al and Inge who caught TB while intered in a Nazi death camp.
So let me get this straight...he really goes by Al SHATZ?!?
For the past two years he has only used the full Albert, 'cause that's what's carved on the stone. He never saw the book.
KFG
http://www.riflebarrels.com/articles/50calibre/mat erial_50cal_bullets.htm
Pick yer poison.
KFG
Do you see smallpox around anymore?
Yes, although they keep it in a vault. We might "need it, " for, ummmmmmmmmm, "something."
A friend of mine is one of those unfortunates who caught polio from the vacine; although that issue was certainly addressed long ago.
KFG
Finding Dr. Schatz:The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life it Saved; Inge Auerbach & Albert Schatz
My Uncle Al. Thank God that my family has amounted to something, to make up for the fact that I haven't.
However, I must point out that there is a difference between a cure and a prophylactic.
KFG
Are there any vaccines or medical products that really do anything permanent?
The universal, permanent cure for all that ails you; and it only takes a single shot
KFG
Slashdotters spontaneously orgasmn whenever a frikkin' 0.000001 incremental build of the Linux kernel is released. . .
Guess who didn't read my defense of Debian stable?
kfg
So stop buying Shimano stuff. Install some open source gears and a free software chain...
Shimano has driven most of the competition out of the market. They have a virtual monopoly on OEM equipment. The shit came preinstalled.
Does this sound familiar?
The "Open Source" stuff, well, mostly kinda sucks. It's not their fault, it's just that the newer "innovations" are all still tied up in Shimano patents; and the entire industry has to play Shimano's game or, at best, be relegated to a small niche market.
Does this sound familiar?
On my other bike, however, I have a Campy Nouvo Record Grouppo that, although propriatary, established the industry's "Open Standard." Although dating from the early 70's it still functions perfectly. It has actually outlived three frames.
But you must access the system from a console shell and don't expect to play DVDs on it.
Shimano took over an industry where there was already an established giant by cheaply mass producing knockoffs that were of inferior quality; but with the addition of features that made the equipment more convenient to use for the nonexpert. Once they had become the new giant they began throwing their weight around, raised their prices to the premium level and introduced planned, forced obsolesence.
Sound fam. . . ooooooooooh, nevermind.
Within the context of the story, however, the fact remains that until such time as the "chain" on XP wears out:
Why bother upgrading? XP has all those nifty "consumer" features already. Your existing system still works. What does it matter that Vista needs a new kind of AV package? As the OP illustrates the average consumer (note the absence of scare quotes) has come to simply expect all the little balls of needless shit he has to buy in order to upgrade.
So that isn't the real reason that uptake is a bit slow.
No, the real reason is that XP still works and for first time Microsoft has not been able to put forward a single compelling reason for the business consumer to find Vista desirable. It only seems to exist for the sole reason that Microsoft wants more of your money. For nothing.
Ok, so we have to buy new AV software for Vista, but why should we buy Vista?!
For the first time they have introduced a "new" operating system and the majority response is:
"Right, Bill. Blow me."
And they ain't gonna change that tune until the chain wears out.
This isn't strictly an issue with Microsoft either; I'm posting this from a Mandrake 8.0 box, but I could fire up the Red Hat 5.2 or Mac System 7 box.
But it's getting harder by the day to keep them up and usefully connected. Sooner or later I'll just say "Screw it" and put the Kubuntu box into frontline service.
When all I really need for Mandrake 8.0 (which on the whole I like better) is an improved chain. Carving chains by hand, however, while possible, is a pain in the ass.
KFG
But why would you care that the XP version of an AV product doesn't work on Vista? Surely there are enough differences between the OSes that you'll need a new virus scan?
Assuming this to be true, it still does not answer the fundamental question:
"Why bother?"
There's a new Shimano Grouppo out too. The mere fact that Shimano has released it doesn't in any way compel or obligate me to buy it. Releasing it is their issue, not mine.
My old Grouppo still works just fine.
So here's what they do:
The Grouppos require special, made only by Shimano (they have patents and shit) chains. They will discontinue making the chain for the Grouppo I already have, so just to buy a new chain I will eventually have to buy a new Grouppo.
Does this behavior sound at all familiar?
KFG
It's a bubble because the FED is printing too much money.
It's a bubble because, as has already been pointed out, there is no Web 2.0.
It doesn't matter what nation's currency is poured into it, it's all going down the toilet hole, because a hole is all there is to go down. There is no "there" there.
KFG
So they underestimated how successful they'd be. . .
s html
Maybe they decided to take that report that Forrester pulled out of its ass seriously:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/12/12/0357223.
Or maybe not.
KFG
Plus you look pretty stupid pusing an atom around your desktop while making "Vroom, vroom" noises.
KFG
I assume you were joking about 'primarily' turning out to be true, as the instances of restriction interpretation are rare. . .
:)
.he did get "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" in there on #9.
No knock warrants. Criminal possesion of a screwdriver. You're looking through the end of the telescope they've taught you to look through. Condsider that it might be the wrong end.
I think he just liked to argue with Jefferson!
I don't think there's any controversy there.
. .
Legally voided before the ink was dry.
It took nearly 40 years for the 10th amendment to be remembered by the courts.
Say Hallelujah!
KFG