I loaded the movies into a RAM disk and set the hard drive to power down, shut off syslog, and removed the DVD drive completely. Try that on a Windows box!
You mean like using RAMDiskXP to do exactly the same thing?
Or a Windows user could just enable the "power saver" option in the Power Management window in any Windows OS and could save themselves countless hours of effort and trouble.
That stopped being true when Windows XP began being sold on netbooks over a year ago. Linux is now relegated back to the same niche status it holds on the desktop.
I know, right? Where do they get off actually benefiting from their activism instead of suffering for it?
Because it's entirely hypocritical bullshit. The same people who will incessantly whine about the low quality of music and movies will be the same people who jump on the torrents for these same products when released on a bittorrent tracker.
A: The "Yanks" are a baseball team, so I have no idea what you're referring to here.
Wow you must be pretty fucking stupid if you don't even know about the usage of Yankee or Yank to refer to an American. It's been used that way for over 250 years.
New York State regulates insurance companies when they choose to do business here, even if they are located elsewhere. Is that not interstate commerce?
No, it's not. That insurance company is doing business in New York and as such New York is well within it's power to regulate their actions within their state.
What about regulating utility companies?
What about it?
How about California imposing their own standards on cars manufactured outside the state?
They don't. They only impose standards that must be followed if you want to do business in their state. There is nothing stopping any car manufacturer from ignoring California's regulations when selling cars in other states.
Yeah this article is funny in light of previous threads on Google's anti-malware list that show it blocking legitimate sites and it flagging everything as harmful. How soon we forget these things when it comes to posting a bash Microsoft submission.
The point of such a clause is so that every member country in the EU is notified of any regulations you have passed that affect doing commerce in your country so that they know all know about. Seems to be a rather sane idea contrary to the usual knee-jerk anti-EU hysteria that will come about in this thread. Would you like to be sued because you sold something in the UK, for instance, and didn't know they had passed some new regulation that required you to jump through some legal loophole before you could sell your product?
Yeah of course people "just" want stuff for free, but you say that as if it's a badf thing.
No, I don't. I just want people to stop acting like they are doing some noble protesting when in fact they are just downloading stuff from trackers like The Pirate Bay because they just didn't want to pay for it.
You know, I don't have any pirated material on my computer. Every song, every video, every piece of software, every file of any kind is something I either bought, downloaded legally for free, or wrote myself.
Then you aren't the subject of what I was saying. The point is that so many people are trying to act like what the users of the Pirate Bay was some great act of disobedience when the motivation for the vast, vast majority of its users were just there to get some for free and nothing else.
I don't think of it as "But we just want free warez and dont want to pay for entertainment!", but as "Your silly model based on restricting distribution is a total fail, get another one!".
Yeah because all the users of the site would totally stick around if they were no longer getting all the content for free. *rolls eyes* Why must everyone make up bullshit excuses instead of just admitting that they were downloading stuff because they wanted to get it for free? No one is falling for these bullshit excuses anyway.
They aren't going to and all the whining in the world isn't going to change that. There is only so many times you can whip a dead horse before it just becomes nothing more than a pile of bloody meat.
10.0 to 10.1 etc are not point upgrades. Point upgrades would be like 10.5.1 to 10.5.2. 10.5 to 10.6 is a major update. This has been explained over and over again how the version numbers for OS X works so at this point anyone who makes such ridiculous claims is willfully being an idiot.
People who would have bought it will still have it, but will chose to get the version that enables LAN play, which will only be available as a pirate version.
So you claim, but the real life stats show that most people aren't going to care because they will play multiplayer on Battle.net.
No, not even close. It's got a lot of cruft, but it's still managed to keep up with the times quite well.
Yeah, it's so great that for nvidia and ATI to even get remotely decent results from their binary 3d drivers that they basically scrap most of the X Windows layer and all the accompanying cruft and write their own rendering pipeline.
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I loaded the movies into a RAM disk and set the hard drive to power down, shut off syslog, and removed the DVD drive completely. Try that on a Windows box!
You mean like using RAMDiskXP to do exactly the same thing?
Or a Windows user could just enable the "power saver" option in the Power Management window in any Windows OS and could save themselves countless hours of effort and trouble.
Why would the manufacturer lie in a way that makes its own product look worse?
Except one doesn't have to go through those extra steps when using Windows which is kind of the point.
Linux is a popular choice for netbooks,
That stopped being true when Windows XP began being sold on netbooks over a year ago. Linux is now relegated back to the same niche status it holds on the desktop.
I know, right? Where do they get off actually benefiting from their activism instead of suffering for it?
Because it's entirely hypocritical bullshit. The same people who will incessantly whine about the low quality of music and movies will be the same people who jump on the torrents for these same products when released on a bittorrent tracker.
A: The "Yanks" are a baseball team, so I have no idea what you're referring to here.
Wow you must be pretty fucking stupid if you don't even know about the usage of Yankee or Yank to refer to an American. It's been used that way for over 250 years.
New York State regulates insurance companies when they choose to do business here, even if they are located elsewhere. Is that not interstate commerce?
No, it's not. That insurance company is doing business in New York and as such New York is well within it's power to regulate their actions within their state.
What about regulating utility companies?
What about it?
How about California imposing their own standards on cars manufactured outside the state?
They don't. They only impose standards that must be followed if you want to do business in their state. There is nothing stopping any car manufacturer from ignoring California's regulations when selling cars in other states.
Yeah this article is funny in light of previous threads on Google's anti-malware list that show it blocking legitimate sites and it flagging everything as harmful. How soon we forget these things when it comes to posting a bash Microsoft submission.
The point of such a clause is so that every member country in the EU is notified of any regulations you have passed that affect doing commerce in your country so that they know all know about. Seems to be a rather sane idea contrary to the usual knee-jerk anti-EU hysteria that will come about in this thread. Would you like to be sued because you sold something in the UK, for instance, and didn't know they had passed some new regulation that required you to jump through some legal loophole before you could sell your product?
Problem being that without a license, nobody else is permitted to distribute your software.
I'm pretty sure he was implying to just release it as public domain.
Yeah of course people "just" want stuff for free, but you say that as if it's a badf thing.
No, I don't. I just want people to stop acting like they are doing some noble protesting when in fact they are just downloading stuff from trackers like The Pirate Bay because they just didn't want to pay for it.
You know, I don't have any pirated material on my computer. Every song, every video, every piece of software, every file of any kind is something I either bought, downloaded legally for free, or wrote myself.
Then you aren't the subject of what I was saying. The point is that so many people are trying to act like what the users of the Pirate Bay was some great act of disobedience when the motivation for the vast, vast majority of its users were just there to get some for free and nothing else.
I don't think of it as "But we just want free warez and dont want to pay for entertainment!", but as "Your silly model based on restricting distribution is a total fail, get another one!".
Yeah because all the users of the site would totally stick around if they were no longer getting all the content for free. *rolls eyes* Why must everyone make up bullshit excuses instead of just admitting that they were downloading stuff because they wanted to get it for free? No one is falling for these bullshit excuses anyway.
They aren't going to and all the whining in the world isn't going to change that. There is only so many times you can whip a dead horse before it just becomes nothing more than a pile of bloody meat.
10.0 to 10.1 etc are not point upgrades. Point upgrades would be like 10.5.1 to 10.5.2. 10.5 to 10.6 is a major update. This has been explained over and over again how the version numbers for OS X works so at this point anyone who makes such ridiculous claims is willfully being an idiot.
A clean install of Windows 7 is less than 7 GB. That would be an amazing thing that an install of Windows XP takes up negative space on your HDD.
I remember when entertainment media was effectively licensed for use within a person's house and/or on their person.
Since when was that ever the case? This seems to be something you dreamed up.
Blizzard will be losing sales.
An insignificant amount.
People who would have bought it will still have it, but will chose to get the version that enables LAN play, which will only be available as a pirate version.
So you claim, but the real life stats show that most people aren't going to care because they will play multiplayer on Battle.net.
Welcome to 5 years ago when they started this with WoW.
There's a real world out there, people! You won't find the meaning of life at level 80.
Well duh, you have to wait until you reach level 85.
No, not even close. It's got a lot of cruft, but it's still managed to keep up with the times quite well.
Yeah, it's so great that for nvidia and ATI to even get remotely decent results from their binary 3d drivers that they basically scrap most of the X Windows layer and all the accompanying cruft and write their own rendering pipeline.
Because some weird person might want to watch an ad over and over and over and over for the next 40 years of their life?
Because it means there is less paper schedules that people just dump into the normal trash?
What? You expected that this the editor proofread the submission?