Meanwhile, Richard Smith notes that the Globally Unique Identifier in every installation of Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.
Of course it's not a security problem... It's a feature!
Each website can anonymously taylor it's own 'internet background music' to suit your personal tastes. Don't care for Kenny G.???? Well, each website you visit would be able to securely connect with a central MS database of all your music listening habits. Then the website could safely stream your favorite music to your web browser. Of course adequate compensation would be made to MS and the RIAA because of this enjoyment but it would still be worthwhile.
In the end, you wouldn't have to listen to Kenny G while browsing the web -- and that's something worth paying for.
In the case of Apocalypse Now Redux, the extra 30 minutes of footage was dry and pointless -- just some extra T & A and not much else. Now I'm a big fan of a little T & A in a movie, but Apocalypse now was already over 2 hours long! This extra footage made the entire movie extrusiatingly long. If you don't believe me, then just ask my butt which is still sore from the ordeal.
Besides, T & A isn't the kind of thing that should go into a movie such as Apocalypse now. It's a different *kind* of movie.
I guess to sum things up, usually what gets cut gets cut for a reason. I'm willing to agree with the producers/directors on what should be cut initially. I'd rather not let the remastering/DVD guys have more say than the original producers!
my roommate is very unstable tonight. He is upset that he doesn't have any friends and has been beating everything in his room senseless with a broken table leg.
Because I feel so strongly about it, I feel the need to follow up...
IMHO civil liberties are MUCH more important than free software.
One might argue that free software leads to more civil liberties and the whole freedom of information thing. But the fact remains that <INSERT VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURER> deserves to make money off of artistic design of both the graphics/storyline as well as the engine of their games. These don't need to be open sourced.
I wouldn't agree that donating software to the EFF goes against their paradigm. The fact remains that good lobbyist efforts require money. The EFF represents MUCH more than free software! PLEASE understand that.
I also don't understand why my original comment is being moderated up. I honestly only wrote it to get a relatively on-topic first post.
Did you notice that one of the editors (mph) uses Jed on his slower machines that are too slow for emacs?
Come on! Does anybody still use a machine that's too slow for emacs? My PowerMac 80 MHz used to run Emacs in Linux very fast. Does this guy still use a i386?
Actually, I spent 100% of my home-computing-time on Linux projects until I had to start bringing home work with this new job. I installed Win98 and Office2000 at home because of this new job.
The fact remains that Excel is the *best* spreadsheet program available.
I am excited about the fact that Gnumeric uses Python as its scripting language, but the fact remains that at work, our Excel Templates have VB scripts. I don't waste time doing redoing things over and over again because we've automated it with VB Scripts or Perl (using OLE library) scripts.
I would rather just 'get the work done' than do it in a less-efficient application. This leaves more time for Tribes2 (which I play in Linux) or web/graphics work (which I use Linux).
Although Linux is still my preferred OS, I've been very impressed with Windows2k (which I use at work).
That quote is valid. I try to use Gnumeric at home for everything. At work I use Excel for about 90% of the time.
Excel is very efficient compared to Gnumeric. I've looked up the keyboard shortcuts in gnumeric, but Gnumeric and many of the Linux Office/Productivity offerings have more sharp edges than the MS Office/Corel Office alternatives.
As I said, I still try use them if at all possible, but they have a ways to go before they offer the same amount of productivity as the finely honed Windows alternatives.
The products, however, have come a long ways and after a few more versions, I could see them becoming just as efficient for the power-user as the MS offerings. If they go the way that the Web Browsers have, they shall become *more* efficient than the MS offerings.
Based upon what you just wrote in your comment, I don't think that you are capable of having a girlfriend. Even if it isn't true, just the mere fact that you are this knowledgeable rules out a girlfriend.
Can somebody please enlighten the irony nazi as to why electromagnetics are noisy?? Granted that I don't have much experience with electromagnetics, but the 90 in 1 Science electric kit that I had when I was a kid made absolutely NO noise, even when making the electromagnetic experiments.
I even saw a electromagnet on a crane once pick up a large car. I don't remember any noises involved (except for the crushing car).
Yet, the article mentions that electromagnets are noisy???
Multiplayer FPS video games would make great spectator events. There are many funny things that happen that could be replayed from the first-person perspective or from a floating third person perspective.
I'm thinking tribes... 2-3 people crossing the field to assault the NME base and they skirmish with a group of defenders. Very interesting indeed!!
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Take it from the irony nazi, it's ironic in its entirety!
--the irony nazi
Sorry maggard... maybe you should just go to bed and get some extra sleep for tommorrow. It's been a rough day, hasn't it?
Take it from the irony nazi... it's very ironic and quite funny, too!!
Of course it's not a security problem... It's a feature!
Each website can anonymously taylor it's own 'internet background music' to suit your personal tastes. Don't care for Kenny G.???? Well, each website you visit would be able to securely connect with a central MS database of all your music listening habits. Then the website could safely stream your favorite music to your web browser. Of course adequate compensation would be made to MS and the RIAA because of this enjoyment but it would still be worthwhile. In the end, you wouldn't have to listen to Kenny G while browsing the web -- and that's something worth paying for.
Besides, T & A isn't the kind of thing that should go into a movie such as Apocalypse now. It's a different *kind* of movie.
I guess to sum things up, usually what gets cut gets cut for a reason. I'm willing to agree with the producers/directors on what should be cut initially. I'd rather not let the remastering/DVD guys have more say than the original producers!
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The "powered by emacs" thing at the bottom is NOT irony.
Do people even know what irony is nowadays?
I do not jest. It is beginning to freak me out.
IMHO civil liberties are MUCH more important than free software.
One might argue that free software leads to more civil liberties and the whole freedom of information thing. But the fact remains that <INSERT VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURER> deserves to make money off of artistic design of both the graphics/storyline as well as the engine of their games. These don't need to be open sourced.
I also don't understand why my original comment is being moderated up. I honestly only wrote it to get a relatively on-topic first post.
Donate money to the EFF. For your Bday, ask that people donate money in your name.
For the Irony Nazi, tonight will be a 6-pack of Pilsner Urquell (Czech beer) and 100-200 pages of Stephenson's Snowcrash.
I'm very much looking forward to it! Besides, I saw a practice drop of the 2002 Ball in Times Square on Sunday.
Come on! Does anybody still use a machine that's too slow for emacs? My PowerMac 80 MHz used to run Emacs in Linux very fast. Does this guy still use a i386?
You forgot to mention that it used a snappy multi-threaded windowing/GUI system and had probably the best SMP support of any OS to date.
...a Beowulf Cluster of these?
I'm not exactly correcting any Irony here, but I've not yet met a Slashdot Statistics Nazi.
The fact remains that Excel is the *best* spreadsheet program available.
I am excited about the fact that Gnumeric uses Python as its scripting language, but the fact remains that at work, our Excel Templates have VB scripts. I don't waste time doing redoing things over and over again because we've automated it with VB Scripts or Perl (using OLE library) scripts.
I would rather just 'get the work done' than do it in a less-efficient application. This leaves more time for Tribes2 (which I play in Linux) or web/graphics work (which I use Linux).
Although Linux is still my preferred OS, I've been very impressed with Windows2k (which I use at work).
Underground Railroad, NOW, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Fighting for your rights and freedoms from the last century into the next.
EFF -- the other-other white meat.
Excel is very efficient compared to Gnumeric. I've looked up the keyboard shortcuts in gnumeric, but Gnumeric and many of the Linux Office/Productivity offerings have more sharp edges than the MS Office/Corel Office alternatives.
As I said, I still try use them if at all possible, but they have a ways to go before they offer the same amount of productivity as the finely honed Windows alternatives.
The products, however, have come a long ways and after a few more versions, I could see them becoming just as efficient for the power-user as the MS offerings. If they go the way that the Web Browsers have, they shall become *more* efficient than the MS offerings.
Based upon what you just wrote in your comment, I don't think that you are capable of having a girlfriend. Even if it isn't true, just the mere fact that you are this knowledgeable rules out a girlfriend.
I even saw a electromagnet on a crane once pick up a large car. I don't remember any noises involved (except for the crushing car).
Yet, the article mentions that electromagnets are noisy???
Since Microsoft couldn't even do the DVD CSS correctly with their XBox, how would they come up with their own format.
I hope that I'm not the only one to spot just how ironic this whole thing is.
I'm thinking tribes... 2-3 people crossing the field to assault the NME base and they skirmish with a group of defenders. Very interesting indeed!!
The irony is thick here: Larry Ellison has a summer home in Oregon due to the leanient drivers laws, he has a Oregon driver's license.
...at least I can speculate.