Nonsense. Not that parties like the Democrats haven't had a role in passing draconian drug laws or passing laws like the Patriot Act, but it's conservatives who are toked on their idea of strong law enforcement, national security, and anti-immigration - and passing laws to advance those causes.
Mac OS X is less expensive than WinXP Pro only if you compare retail prices. If you compare the cost of an OEM license, which is how many if not most people obtain Windows, WinXP is cheaper.
That's a red herring, since all Macs also come with OS X. So if you want to compare apples to Apples, you need to look at the retail boxes.
Nope: one of the last installation steps is the account creation dialog which allows the person that does the installation to create several accounts, just like Linux. You can choose to run without admin privileges.
Which is a pain in the ass to do. Many popular applications including games will not run properly unless you run them as administrator. Yes, there is "run as", but that is a piss poor knock off of sudo, especially in a multi-user environment. Either you have one admin account and everyone knows the password, a security risk, or each admin user has two seperate accounts, also a security risk. So the insentive to run as admin all the time is very high, and that's for people who are familiar with security, much less Joe Smoe.
Nothing breaks if the account is not admin.
No, not broken. Just doesn't run.
Or what about your privacy? ANY user on a windows system can read/modify any of your private files because they are all admins!
Pure lies. No one can even see some of my files, because I have setup some of the folders non-visible for them, let alone modify them.
Pure bullshit. If they are admins, they can change those permissions just as easily. Duh. You are only secure if you use encryption.
But that is not a flaw of the design of Windows, it is just a buggy application.
It's not just the messenger application, it's the messenger service, which is also on by default. Again, duh.
How can you claim they are useless, but if you remove'em, things break? they are either useless of useful. They can't be both at the same time.
Because unnessesary services are unnecessarily tied into other parts of the sytem? Example: even if you don't use IE, it's still built into the os. So for the third time: duh.
Internet Explorer is integrated into Windows.
It's not! I don't know why users believe these things! IE is buggy as hell, so I am using Firefox, and have installed it for all users. And I have no problem at all.
Oh, so not only are you a Windows fanboy, you are a dumbass as well. What the hell do you think the major issue of the anti-trust trial was about?
See? a 'design' flaw is about bad design, and Windows is not badly designed. It is actually over-designed. All the problems Windows has is about bugs.
Oh, so ActiveX was not a bad design, integrating IE into Windows (yes, it happened, deal with it) was not a bad idea, have a security model that strongly encourages the user to run as admin all the time is not a bad design decision, and having services and ports open all over the place is not a bad design decision.
Hey, it looks like this nick hasn't been taken yet. You should hop on it now while it's open.
Perhaps, but I think a few convictions that send people to actual PRISON would cause usage to drop greatly.
And pigs may fly. We've had long, harsh sentenses for drug possession for decades, and it hasn't lowered the drug trade one iota, and downloading movies is a lot easier and cheaper than buying drugs.
What if enough ISP's were sued because they failed to block bit-torrent that most decided they had to cave?
Because that's fucking impossible? ISP's do have to cut you off if you are found to be infringing, unless they want to be held liable, but there is no way no how they can be sued for not trying to block the traffic in the first place, any more than they can be sued for not blocking porn.
Unlikely since they have different (and non-NZ) voices.
Not necessarily...in the game Republic Commando, which has a lot of small tie ins to ROTS, your squad of clones have different voices and personalities.
Based on what? Your own anedotes of your family? Interesting.
It's getting from point A to point B without being too angry at all the stop & go traffic that you have to endure along the way.
It probably depends greatly on where you live. I live in a sparsly populated northern state with lots of snow in the winter - so the control of a manual is a great advantage. However, if I spent a great deal of time commuting in heavy trafffic, I would probably prefer a manual as well.
It's no wonder that automatics sell so much better.
More likely it's the fact that most of America's population lives in either the south, where it's warmer, or in metropolitan areas and don't want to ride the clutch all the time on their way to work.
You don't actually think its hard to learn stick, do you?
Compared to an automatic...um, yeah? Learning how to smoothly shift without stalling or grinding gears takes time. More so if you have a tempermental transmission. And the fact most manuals have very different feels to them.
In the minds of their talking heads, maybe. Their legal department seems to know the difference though; they haven't sued a single person for theft but have sued hundereds for copyright infringment.
It's no secret that the people who work for the MPAA are ardent Democrats
Many of them, yes. Many are also Republicans. Remember that Hollywood is Big Business, and the GOP loves giving head to Big Business, so the industry can find plenty of friends in both parties.
I'm sure the MPAA has no official position regarding gun control
Well, duh. Gun control is not going to make them any money, which is the only thing they care about.
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
And if you take something from someone, they don't have it anymore. Whatever the item is, it's now soley in your possession and not in the owners. With copyright infringment, you have an (unathorized) copy, but the owner still has the origional item.
I would posit that you are the one that is confused.
You forgot to mention terrorism. After all, accusing anyone whose actions you dislike of being a terrorist, regardless of whether they are in fact instilling fear into anyone, is the best way to prove that you're right and the other guy is wrong.
Ah yes, like calling Iraqi 'insurgents' terrorists because they hide and use sneak attacks...the same sort of tactics we used against the Revolutionary War. Only difference is we think we were terribly smart and clever not to fight against the British on their own terms, but when these tactics get used against us, it's terrorism!
I also hate how words like 'theft' and 'terrorism' are being diluted to the point that they don't mean anything anymore. Like calling people who set logging trucks on fire 'eco-terrorists', even though they are destroying property and not putting people's lives in danger.
He used "theft" and "piracy", both words that are widely recognised in this context, albeit rather inflammatory in some quarters. You used "rape" and "murder". I think you're kinda losing the moral high ground here.
Nonsense. He was demonstrating his point, and you frequently have to beat that into the heads of people who insist that infringment is theft.
Why do you think the phrase "He stole my idea" is in common usage?
Because that's a lot easier to say than "he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea" takes a lot longer to say? Duh?
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have all ipods and other merchandise come with big stickers with the words "BUYER BEWARE" written in big bold red letters.
What merchandise, exactly? Because you would have to put this label on EVERYTHING: electronics, cars, clothing, appliances...
but at least Joe Consumer can go purchase a new battery after his ~320 Lithium Ion Cycles have been used up.
Really? I wasn't aware that Joe was banned from this site, or paying Apple $100 to do it for you.
In an ipod, however, until Apple started their exchange program, there was no way to replace the battery
Not really. And Apple never advertized the iPod as having a user-replaceable battery in the first place.
How long do you thing Stern (who has been threatening to retire for years now)
When his contract is up and he wants more money.
He'll get bored and sick of it
Bored and sick of being free from the FCC's luddites? I don't think so.
Feh, like those are impressive anymore...
Nonsense. Not that parties like the Democrats haven't had a role in passing draconian drug laws or passing laws like the Patriot Act, but it's conservatives who are toked on their idea of strong law enforcement, national security, and anti-immigration - and passing laws to advance those causes.
Mac OS X is less expensive than WinXP Pro only if you compare retail prices. If you compare the cost of an OEM license, which is how many if not most people obtain Windows, WinXP is cheaper.
That's a red herring, since all Macs also come with OS X. So if you want to compare apples to Apples, you need to look at the retail boxes.
Which is a pain in the ass to do. Many popular applications including games will not run properly unless you run them as administrator. Yes, there is "run as", but that is a piss poor knock off of sudo, especially in a multi-user environment. Either you have one admin account and everyone knows the password, a security risk, or each admin user has two seperate accounts, also a security risk. So the insentive to run as admin all the time is very high, and that's for people who are familiar with security, much less Joe Smoe.
Nothing breaks if the account is not admin.
No, not broken. Just doesn't run.
- Or what about your privacy? ANY user on a windows system can read/modify any of your private files because they are all admins!
Pure lies. No one can even see some of my files, because I have setup some of the folders non-visible for them, let alone modify them.Pure bullshit. If they are admins, they can change those permissions just as easily. Duh. You are only secure if you use encryption.
But that is not a flaw of the design of Windows, it is just a buggy application.
It's not just the messenger application, it's the messenger service, which is also on by default. Again, duh.
How can you claim they are useless, but if you remove'em, things break? they are either useless of useful. They can't be both at the same time.
Because unnessesary services are unnecessarily tied into other parts of the sytem? Example: even if you don't use IE, it's still built into the os. So for the third time: duh.
- Internet Explorer is integrated into Windows.
It's not! I don't know why users believe these things! IE is buggy as hell, so I am using Firefox, and have installed it for all users. And I have no problem at all.Oh, so not only are you a Windows fanboy, you are a dumbass as well. What the hell do you think the major issue of the anti-trust trial was about?
See? a 'design' flaw is about bad design, and Windows is not badly designed. It is actually over-designed. All the problems Windows has is about bugs.
Oh, so ActiveX was not a bad design, integrating IE into Windows (yes, it happened, deal with it) was not a bad idea, have a security model that strongly encourages the user to run as admin all the time is not a bad design decision, and having services and ports open all over the place is not a bad design decision.
Hey, it looks like this nick hasn't been taken yet. You should hop on it now while it's open.
Look, a Mac isn't secure out of the box.
Yes, it is. No services are running, so you have nothing to hack into in the first place.
Perhaps, but I think a few convictions that send people to actual PRISON would cause usage to drop greatly.
And pigs may fly. We've had long, harsh sentenses for drug possession for decades, and it hasn't lowered the drug trade one iota, and downloading movies is a lot easier and cheaper than buying drugs.
What if enough ISP's were sued because they failed to block bit-torrent that most decided they had to cave?
Because that's fucking impossible? ISP's do have to cut you off if you are found to be infringing, unless they want to be held liable, but there is no way no how they can be sued for not trying to block the traffic in the first place, any more than they can be sued for not blocking porn.
Unlikely since they have different (and non-NZ) voices.
Not necessarily...in the game Republic Commando, which has a lot of small tie ins to ROTS, your squad of clones have different voices and personalities.
Or does anyone else not give a flying fuck about all these overanalysed, selfserving reviews. Not just Star Wars, but any movie.
Then don't fucking read it, you moron. Or try to waste other people's time complaining about it.
Your case is the exception, not the rule.
Based on what? Your own anedotes of your family? Interesting.
It's getting from point A to point B without being too angry at all the stop & go traffic that you have to endure along the way.
It probably depends greatly on where you live. I live in a sparsly populated northern state with lots of snow in the winter - so the control of a manual is a great advantage. However, if I spent a great deal of time commuting in heavy trafffic, I would probably prefer a manual as well.
It's no wonder that automatics sell so much better.
More likely it's the fact that most of America's population lives in either the south, where it's warmer, or in metropolitan areas and don't want to ride the clutch all the time on their way to work.
You don't actually think its hard to learn stick, do you?
Compared to an automatic...um, yeah? Learning how to smoothly shift without stalling or grinding gears takes time. More so if you have a tempermental transmission. And the fact most manuals have very different feels to them.
So, in RIAA's mind, it is stealing.
In the minds of their talking heads, maybe. Their legal department seems to know the difference though; they haven't sued a single person for theft but have sued hundereds for copyright infringment.
It's no secret that the people who work for the MPAA are ardent Democrats
Many of them, yes. Many are also Republicans. Remember that Hollywood is Big Business, and the GOP loves giving head to Big Business, so the industry can find plenty of friends in both parties.
I'm sure the MPAA has no official position regarding gun control
Well, duh. Gun control is not going to make them any money, which is the only thing they care about.
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
And if you take something from someone, they don't have it anymore. Whatever the item is, it's now soley in your possession and not in the owners. With copyright infringment, you have an (unathorized) copy, but the owner still has the origional item.
I would posit that you are the one that is confused.
Wrong again.
You forgot to mention terrorism. After all, accusing anyone whose actions you dislike of being a terrorist, regardless of whether they are in fact instilling fear into anyone, is the best way to prove that you're right and the other guy is wrong.
Ah yes, like calling Iraqi 'insurgents' terrorists because they hide and use sneak attacks...the same sort of tactics we used against the Revolutionary War. Only difference is we think we were terribly smart and clever not to fight against the British on their own terms, but when these tactics get used against us, it's terrorism!
I also hate how words like 'theft' and 'terrorism' are being diluted to the point that they don't mean anything anymore. Like calling people who set logging trucks on fire 'eco-terrorists', even though they are destroying property and not putting people's lives in danger.
He used "theft" and "piracy", both words that are widely recognised in this context, albeit rather inflammatory in some quarters. You used "rape" and "murder". I think you're kinda losing the moral high ground here.
Nonsense. He was demonstrating his point, and you frequently have to beat that into the heads of people who insist that infringment is theft.
Copyright infringement is theft.
Never has been never will be.
Why do you think the phrase "He stole my idea" is in common usage?
Because that's a lot easier to say than "he copied my idea and used it without my permission while passing it off as his idea" takes a lot longer to say? Duh?
The MPAA is painfully liberal
Nonsense. They'll give money to whoever they think will listen to them, Democrat or Republican. Senator Disney, anyone?
I'd rather talk about what Nathalie Portman is doing to make ends meet! :)
Nooooooooooooo!
a poster of that blonde swordswoman from Lord of the Rings in a chain-mail bikini!
:-)
You mean Miranda Otto? You wouldn't have a link to this picture by any chance, would you?
150 Terabytes = 153600 Giabytes
153600 Gigabytes / 1500 employees = 102.4 Gigabytes per employee
That is like saying the most a person can be fined for stealing
Copyright infringment isn't stealing, it's copyright infringment. Next bad analogy?
Probably, but you wouldn't be able to boot from it.