I wonder who paid who to rule that Microsoft is not an anti-competetive monopoly.
Seriously, I think the people should just give up on the state's lawsuit since it obviously isn't serving the interests of the people. The sheer volume of civil lawsuits against Microsoft for extortion would surely send the right message.
Of course, there is any easy solution to all of this: don't buy prefabricated systems. If you can, buy all of your parts seperate and build your own system. That way, no company can force you to do anything you don't want to with your new computer.
If you don't know how to build a system on your own, find a friend that does know, or put up a wanted ad on local bulletin boards, whether they be online or real world.
What is implied by the term "electronic music" is not that something electronic was involved in the production of the music, but that it is purely electronic, synthetic sound, as opposed to acoustic sound produced physically by strings, wind, or percussion.
While acoustic instruments may be included sometimes in the music, that is not usually the focus.
There are some much more profound artists out there than a lot of people here are mentioning, and I think it's rather shameful that nobody is really searching for new electronic music, and only waiting for the next movie soundtrack or "Electronica" compilation to come out.
Having said that, I'd also like to say that I hate the term "electronica", as it really only describes the range of electronic music that MTV and MuchMusic dare to tell you about, and doesn't even hope to cover a wider range of electronic music that doesn't necessarily include techno.
Here are some electronic artists with a bit more diversity:
Now that you've got a real place to start, find out who the artists you listen to collaberate with, and who they are influenced by, and listen to their music too. You'll discover a whole new world of electronic music that mainstream music outlets will probably never even hope to tell you about.
How do CD keys help reduce piracy?
Blizzard uses two main methods to combat piracy: disc-based copy protection and CD keys. As part of the login process, Battle.net authenticates the user's CD key and prevents people from logging in with the same key or an invalid key.
This sure doesn't tell me how CD keys reduce piracy. It tells me that CD keys are used to prevent people from using bad CD keys. Disc-based copy protection can be broken. CD keys can be generated by a program, which will likely be written by someone in the cracking community eventually.
I don't there should be any question about it.. it's very racist. If anything, racial blending should spur evolution on, not stop it.
I haven't read the article, but I can only assume that this person has not done a great deal of research or paid much attention to facts, if they can so easily conclude that we're just "done."
All of the major earlier evolutions of primate took about one million years to produce another species, and we've been here for about 100,000 years. To conclude that we're done is not only silly but entirely preposterous.
That's one country out of how many? What are they doing about East Timor?
Nothing! Why? Because it's such a small part of Indonesia that they've
decided it doesn't matter if those people are all killed for their
religious beliefs.
What about just about Myanmar (Burma)? They've been
under military control (aka State Law and Order Restoration Council
(SLORC)) after they had a democratically elected leader over a decade
ago, who was instantly removed from power by this military organization.
Corporations are having a field day making money from this terrible
regime, one of the most noted ones is the cell phone manufacturer,
Ericsson. They sell cell phones to the Burmese military, while civilians
are not allowed to have any sort of communication with the outside world,
right down to pencil and paper. Forced labour is their means of acquiring
funds to buy their equipment. Who gives them the means to do
this? Corporations like Nike and half the clothing brand names you can
find at Walmart. This has been going on for about twenty years, yet our
western governments sit back and do nothing about it.
Then there's the Chinese government. They make just about every brand of
shoe, among other articles of clothing sold in north america. Where do you
think the labour to make all that comes from? Certainly not the
law-abiding pro-status-quo public. It comes from prison labour, where most
of the prisoners are political and religious prisoners considered a threat
to China's communist state. This has been going on since 1988.
And that's only the beginning. There's also Nepal, Egypt, India, and whole
other great big assortment of countries where this is happening. Then
count on top of that how many other war torn countries are being allowed
to rot in peril simply because they either provide cheap labour or because
nobody on this side of the ocean with the power to actually do anything
about it bothers to lift a finger.
The only reason Afghanistan suddenly counts is because Osama bin Laden was
hiding out there, and somebody finally decided that enough was enough. Had
he been elsewhere, the war in Afghanistan that has been raging since the
1980's would have kept right on going.
I find it slightly amusing and very disturbing that what the Republican
party started back then with the Mujahedeen and Osama bin Laden turned
back on them and ended up killing their own people. You could say that
america accidentally started a proxy war with itself.
Perhaps the US is not all racist, oil mongering people. In fact, I have a number of american friends who are not racist or oil mongering. But the majority of americans do nothing to dispell this idea, in fact they often perpetuate it.
"Funny how everything Orwell said 60 odd years ago, applies in spades today."
Funny how it applies better to the one group of people (the Republican party and supporters), who most often claim to be so vehemently anti-socialist, than anyone else.
Yet, here you are, defending the Republican party's actions - the same Republican party that was very instrumental in making sure that Bill Clinton could get nothing done due to his extended stay in a courtroom full of jesters, making a big deal out of something that shouldn't have mattered as much as the media made it matter. A lot of time was wasted because the Republican party just had to have the upper hand. Osama bin Laden could have been smoked out of his hole two years ago, but Clinton had his hands tied. Well, world.. this is the cost: hundreds of dead African civilians, approximately six thousand dead american civialians, and countless lives of Afghani civilians, and more dead bodies coming with the "continuing war on terrorism." Hope that brightens your day.
If nobody cares about civilians dying, why have we been bombing Afghanistan since October, and going to ridiculous extremes of screening at airports all in the name of "security".
Oh, that's right.. if you're not an american, you don't count.
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Seriously, I think the people should just give up on the state's lawsuit since it obviously isn't serving the interests of the people. The sheer volume of civil lawsuits against Microsoft for extortion would surely send the right message.
And how would Dell know if you sold your computer to someone else, with or without an operating system?
Why is it any of Dell's business if you sell your computer to someone else without an OS?
If you don't know how to build a system on your own, find a friend that does know, or put up a wanted ad on local bulletin boards, whether they be online or real world.
Of course, a system like that would be easily circumvented by having every OS identify to the BIOS as a Microsoft OS.
Wow, you've got $200 - $300 to waste on stuff you're just gonna smash? That's food for a month or two, where I come from.
How is Microsoft going to track your system down if you sell it to someone else, especially if you do so without an OS on it?
Why would you throw it in the trash? Sell it to someone who wants a copy of the newest Windows OS.
While acoustic instruments may be included sometimes in the music, that is not usually the focus.
Having said that, I'd also like to say that I hate the term "electronica", as it really only describes the range of electronic music that MTV and MuchMusic dare to tell you about, and doesn't even hope to cover a wider range of electronic music that doesn't necessarily include techno.
Here are some electronic artists with a bit more diversity:
Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV)
Kraftwerk
Brian Eno
Laibach
Nash The Slash
Coil
David Thrussel (Black Lung/Snog/Soma)
Pieter Bourke
Boards Of Canada
David Kristian
cEvin key (Skinny Puppy/Download/The Tear Garden/and more...)
Brian Eno
Merzbow
CPI/DXM
Tribes Of Neurot
Lab Report
Thighpaulsandra
Atari Teenage Riot
Now that you've got a real place to start, find out who the artists you listen to collaberate with, and who they are influenced by, and listen to their music too. You'll discover a whole new world of electronic music that mainstream music outlets will probably never even hope to tell you about.
People are still buying and installing Windows, aren't they?
haha, April fools. Real funny. Now turn anonymous posting back on. Oh.. you're not kidding :(
This is flamebait.. why does it even get a positive score?
Looks like Blizzard has a pistol with a full clip, and is prepared to use every one of those bullets on its own feet.
Blizzard uses two main methods to combat piracy: disc-based copy protection and CD keys. As part of the login process, Battle.net authenticates the user's CD key and prevents people from logging in with the same key or an invalid key.
This sure doesn't tell me how CD keys reduce piracy. It tells me that CD keys are used to prevent people from using bad CD keys. Disc-based copy protection can be broken. CD keys can be generated by a program, which will likely be written by someone in the cracking community eventually.
Try again, Blizzard.
China, India, Egypt, Nepal, among many other countries where slave labour seems to be common practice.
All about extinction.
A lot of the time, I think I prefer the latter more than the former.
I haven't read the article, but I can only assume that this person has not done a great deal of research or paid much attention to facts, if they can so easily conclude that we're just "done."
All of the major earlier evolutions of primate took about one million years to produce another species, and we've been here for about 100,000 years. To conclude that we're done is not only silly but entirely preposterous.
Star Wars Episode IV was second best of the original three, IMO.. Episode I, on the other hand, sucked. Ha! Shot that theory to hell. ;)
Indiana Jones 4: Lethal Weapon 5!
What about just about Myanmar (Burma)? They've been under military control (aka State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)) after they had a democratically elected leader over a decade ago, who was instantly removed from power by this military organization. Corporations are having a field day making money from this terrible regime, one of the most noted ones is the cell phone manufacturer, Ericsson. They sell cell phones to the Burmese military, while civilians are not allowed to have any sort of communication with the outside world, right down to pencil and paper. Forced labour is their means of acquiring funds to buy their equipment. Who gives them the means to do this? Corporations like Nike and half the clothing brand names you can find at Walmart. This has been going on for about twenty years, yet our western governments sit back and do nothing about it.
Then there's the Chinese government. They make just about every brand of shoe, among other articles of clothing sold in north america. Where do you think the labour to make all that comes from? Certainly not the law-abiding pro-status-quo public. It comes from prison labour, where most of the prisoners are political and religious prisoners considered a threat to China's communist state. This has been going on since 1988.
And that's only the beginning. There's also Nepal, Egypt, India, and whole other great big assortment of countries where this is happening. Then count on top of that how many other war torn countries are being allowed to rot in peril simply because they either provide cheap labour or because nobody on this side of the ocean with the power to actually do anything about it bothers to lift a finger.
The only reason Afghanistan suddenly counts is because Osama bin Laden was hiding out there, and somebody finally decided that enough was enough. Had he been elsewhere, the war in Afghanistan that has been raging since the 1980's would have kept right on going.
I find it slightly amusing and very disturbing that what the Republican party started back then with the Mujahedeen and Osama bin Laden turned back on them and ended up killing their own people. You could say that america accidentally started a proxy war with itself.
Perhaps the US is not all racist, oil mongering people. In fact, I have a number of american friends who are not racist or oil mongering. But the majority of americans do nothing to dispell this idea, in fact they often perpetuate it.
Funny how it applies better to the one group of people (the Republican party and supporters), who most often claim to be so vehemently anti-socialist, than anyone else.
Yet, here you are, defending the Republican party's actions - the same Republican party that was very instrumental in making sure that Bill Clinton could get nothing done due to his extended stay in a courtroom full of jesters, making a big deal out of something that shouldn't have mattered as much as the media made it matter. A lot of time was wasted because the Republican party just had to have the upper hand. Osama bin Laden could have been smoked out of his hole two years ago, but Clinton had his hands tied. Well, world.. this is the cost: hundreds of dead African civilians, approximately six thousand dead american civialians, and countless lives of Afghani civilians, and more dead bodies coming with the "continuing war on terrorism." Hope that brightens your day.
Oh, that's right.. if you're not an american, you don't count.