and would be more likely to purchase/be dependent on it later on.
Most people, (except for a small minority) are already very likely to purchase MS products and be dependent on them, the monopoly thing remember?
Macs were big in schools in the days of DOS but ever since windows 3.1 MS has been replacing Macs at a pretty good rate.... I used Macs in high-school and at the time they were definitely easier to use than DOS machines (ironically I used mainly MS Word and Excel on those macs). When I went to university I started using windows, first 3.11 and then 95 and 2000. Until somewhere in my early windows 95 days I still had the feeling that Macs were superior because I remembered them being so cool in high-school. That feeling quickly left when I had to use a Mac again, the first thing that struck me was that the interface which I remembered to be *so* cool actually seemed dated and not as easy to use as 95. On top of that the machine wasn't as fast and responsive as a contemporary wintel machine, and that one button mouse.... Add to that that Macs were very expensive and very closed format. I started not to like Macs anymore. Now I still don't like Macs even though I've heard OSX is supposed to be nice. Macs are just so expensive and propriatry-format.... IMO Mac people have no business attacking MS because of it's closed-software philosopy because Apple is every bit as bad, they're just not so big and rich.
yeah, I know, you've got a point. I may have misworded my view/feelings a bit. I guess to me RMS just seems inable to relax about the issue, that raises some concern with me. I mean here's someone who has strong views on a concept as important as freedom yet he gets all uptight about a little thing like a name. There's something about that which doesn't seem right to me.
I had an email discussion once with a guy who had gotten emails from RMS personally asking him to add gnu to Linux, and it wasn't like it was someone in RMS' inner circle either, just a guy that happened to get in contact with RMS for some reason or other.
I know no-one is going to go to jail for leaving gnu out of Linux but I'm not so sure about what kind of things RMS would (ab)use to get his way if he could.
for someone so concerned with freedom RMS sure makes a lot of fuss about a name. What about my freedom to call something anything I like. Freedom of *speech* you know?
It may be fun at the moment, but if you are injured so that you won't be able to function normally for the rest of your life (brain damage, (partial)-paralysis, etc. etc.), it will suck severly, you might even start a campaign to legislate coaster safety.
fighter pilots (and other people) black out when their bodies take too many g's for too long (measured in seconds). They've got special suits and in some case special training to retard the blackout. The blackout is caused by blood flowing away (or sometimes to) the brain because of centrifugal acceleration (mainly directed along the main axis of the body). I don't know what the effect of a sustained exposure to high acceleration after blackout has set in is but it doesn't seem so healthy to have no blood in your brains for a while.
A Fighter planes can tear off it's wings if it makes certain moves that stress it's construction beyond it's limits. The limits depend on the construction of the plane. There are different moves which can tear off wings but the general principle is that the pressure on the wings is so great that it creates a massive shear force and bending moment where the wing joins the fuselage.
"The new line of BMWs use a navigating system from Siemens, called the Siemens VDO Automotive AG, which includes Microsoft's operating system. Microsoft also recently announced the launch of Windows CE for Automotive v3.5, the newest version of its software for cars based on Windows CE.
Microsoft said last July, that over the next year and a half, nine automakers would ship cars with built-in devices that use the Windows CE operating system, which allows drivers to check their calendars or stock portfolios and use voice commands. "
It seems to me that what they are saying is that CE will only be a part of the system, I don't think the navigating system and other more essential feautures of the car will run on CE, just some address-book, internet apps, etc. etc.
While I agree that it is very expensive to tour because of all the equipment/organization etc, I disagree that there aren't any bands making money on tours. An example of a band making lots of money on tours is the Rolling Stones. I do believe that there are bands out there that lose on touring but I think that most of the big name bands make money.
not a good analogy... With music cd's it's commonly accepted that a cd is a cd and will play on any cd player (also the ones on your pc) no matter who makes the cd or the player. With your pen it's a totally different story because everyone knows that different fountain pens take different cartridges. And everyone understands that VHS tapes won't play in Betamax etc. etc. CD's are or were more standardized, changing that causes confusion amongst consumers. It's like if you buy some floppy disks and you don't bother to read the package because you know they're all the same anyway but then they suddenly mess up your pc.
Touring doesn't "cost" money, it makes money. I assume you're thinking of the investment costs? Tours make a lot of money provided that enough people come.
In my evolving "theory of civilisation", I can't help noticing that the fact that something is written down means that people give it more importance than if it weren't. Hence the importance of the Bible and Koran: they're written down, so they must be true. The fact that it is written in "the book" is the basis for a point of view, neglecting the fact that the person or persons who wrote that book are as human as the rest of us.
In the case of the bible and the torah this is not true, there have been extensive debates in both Judaism and Christianity about exactly which books to include in the bible and torah. The bible and the Torah are not just a collection of stuff that was written, some books were rejected, some included. In the case of the Koran I have heard that indeed non-western logic like "it is written therefore true" is used but I am not too sure on this so don't flame me on it.
This is what annoys me about traffic cameras: the police tend to place them in place where it is possible to drive fast safely. They know this is where the money is to be made.
Just because the d/a conversion (my soundcard) happens in my place instead of theirs (FM radio) doesn't make it any different. It's a really poor excuse for the application of the DMCA.
I think the quality of FM is even better than that of 128kb streams. If one would do an a/d on an FM stream they would have pretty much the same thing as the digital stream if not better. And I've never recorded anything of internet radio, I don't even know how to do it.
There are tons of artists and songs that I've "discovered" through internet radio wheras I hardly ever "discover" anything through FM radio because all they ever play is the same old chart shit. But I guess the RIAA et all want me to listen to and buy chart shit.
4 in a row is much simpler in the sense that once a move is made it can't be undone. In chess you can move pieces back and forth which greatly increases the number of possibilites.
Violation of copyright and theft are not the same. If I copy something it only hurts the copyright-holder if it stops me from buying a copy legitimately.
I know from experience that they are used a lot in the "recording industry" itself too. Do you seriously think people use all this digital recording equipment to make tapes? There are digital recording devices with built in cd burners on the market.
I just finished reinstalling windows 2K pro. While it is true that it never crashed much the administration of the OS is a nightmare. Try to get services running on their own accounts and then try to restrict the user rights of those accounts to the minimum neccessary to see what I'm talking about. There is also much bugginess, sometimes w2k takes forever to shut down because it can't unload some registry key (no real resolution for this apart from re-creating a user profile) just for one thing. I'm stuck in w2k for now but pretty soon I'm going to go completely Linux. I know that Linux has it's issues but I think that there is less "undocumented" bugginess and there might be more and better tools available for administration.
The Bible, by many accounts, is about 80% Roman propaganda
I think you meant probably meant "new testament" as the whole old testament was written mainly before Roman times. And even the New Testament mainly teaches to respect the authorities.
As for the rest of your comment; you can neither prove that the bible is a huge lie nor that "this is a free choice universe". Incidentally freedom of choice is something that is biblical. Saying that the bible promotes shutting down natural human thinking shows a lack of knowledge of basic historical facts. You should study the enlightenment sometimes..
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Most people, (except for a small minority) are already very likely to purchase MS products and be dependent on them, the monopoly thing remember?
Macs were big in schools in the days of DOS but ever since windows 3.1 MS has been replacing Macs at a pretty good rate.... I used Macs in high-school and at the time they were definitely easier to use than DOS machines (ironically I used mainly MS Word and Excel on those macs). When I went to university I started using windows, first 3.11 and then 95 and 2000. Until somewhere in my early windows 95 days I still had the feeling that Macs were superior because I remembered them being so cool in high-school. That feeling quickly left when I had to use a Mac again, the first thing that struck me was that the interface which I remembered to be *so* cool actually seemed dated and not as easy to use as 95. On top of that the machine wasn't as fast and responsive as a contemporary wintel machine, and that one button mouse.... Add to that that Macs were very expensive and very closed format. I started not to like Macs anymore. Now I still don't like Macs even though I've heard OSX is supposed to be nice. Macs are just so expensive and propriatry-format.... IMO Mac people have no business attacking MS because of it's closed-software philosopy because Apple is every bit as bad, they're just not so big and rich.
yeah, I know, you've got a point. I may have misworded my view/feelings a bit. I guess to me RMS just seems inable to relax about the issue, that raises some concern with me. I mean here's someone who has strong views on a concept as important as freedom yet he gets all uptight about a little thing like a name. There's something about that which doesn't seem right to me.
I had an email discussion once with a guy who had gotten emails from RMS personally asking him to add gnu to Linux, and it wasn't like it was someone in RMS' inner circle either, just a guy that happened to get in contact with RMS for some reason or other.
I know no-one is going to go to jail for leaving gnu out of Linux but I'm not so sure about what kind of things RMS would (ab)use to get his way if he could.
for someone so concerned with freedom RMS sure makes a lot of fuss about a name. What about my freedom to call something anything I like. Freedom of *speech* you know?
It may be fun at the moment, but if you are injured so that you won't be able to function normally for the rest of your life (brain damage, (partial)-paralysis, etc. etc.), it will suck severly, you might even start a campaign to legislate coaster safety.
fighter pilots (and other people) black out when their bodies take too many g's for too long (measured in seconds). They've got special suits and in some case special training to retard the blackout. The blackout is caused by blood flowing away (or sometimes to) the brain because of centrifugal acceleration (mainly directed along the main axis of the body). I don't know what the effect of a sustained exposure to high acceleration after blackout has set in is but it doesn't seem so healthy to have no blood in your brains for a while.
A Fighter planes can tear off it's wings if it makes certain moves that stress it's construction beyond it's limits. The limits depend on the construction of the plane. There are different moves which can tear off wings but the general principle is that the pressure on the wings is so great that it creates a massive shear force and bending moment where the wing joins the fuselage.
next thing you know you're not gonna be able to unclick "hide system files" in windows because it threatens security
It seems to me that what they are saying is that CE will only be a part of the system, I don't think the navigating system and other more essential feautures of the car will run on CE, just some address-book, internet apps, etc. etc.
While I agree that it is very expensive to tour because of all the equipment/organization etc, I disagree that there aren't any bands making money on tours. An example of a band making lots of money on tours is the Rolling Stones. I do believe that there are bands out there that lose on touring but I think that most of the big name bands make money.
not a good analogy... With music cd's it's commonly accepted that a cd is a cd and will play on any cd player (also the ones on your pc) no matter who makes the cd or the player. With your pen it's a totally different story because everyone knows that different fountain pens take different cartridges. And everyone understands that VHS tapes won't play in Betamax etc. etc. CD's are or were more standardized, changing that causes confusion amongst consumers. It's like if you buy some floppy disks and you don't bother to read the package because you know they're all the same anyway but then they suddenly mess up your pc.
Touring doesn't "cost" money, it makes money. I assume you're thinking of the investment costs? Tours make a lot of money provided that enough people come.
Shoutcast has offered the possibility of starting your own station for quite a while already, it's free too.
In the case of the bible and the torah this is not true, there have been extensive debates in both Judaism and Christianity about exactly which books to include in the bible and torah. The bible and the Torah are not just a collection of stuff that was written, some books were rejected, some included. In the case of the Koran I have heard that indeed non-western logic like "it is written therefore true" is used but I am not too sure on this so don't flame me on it.
you could also keep a local cache of everything on Kazaa (provided that you manage to download it)
This is what annoys me about traffic cameras: the police tend to place them in place where it is possible to drive fast safely. They know this is where the money is to be made.
Ever been to Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany etc. ? Pretty rich countries with a very high standard of living.
so maybe that's what they figure; if they bitch about filesharing sales go up.... Magic!
The Indian Gov. will shut you down real fast when the US starts threatening with trade sanctions/ stopping development aid etc.
Totally agree....
Just because the d/a conversion (my soundcard) happens in my place instead of theirs (FM radio) doesn't make it any different. It's a really poor excuse for the application of the DMCA.
I think the quality of FM is even better than that of 128kb streams. If one would do an a/d on an FM stream they would have pretty much the same thing as the digital stream if not better. And I've never recorded anything of internet radio, I don't even know how to do it.
There are tons of artists and songs that I've "discovered" through internet radio wheras I hardly ever "discover" anything through FM radio because all they ever play is the same old chart shit. But I guess the RIAA et all want me to listen to and buy chart shit.
don't forget Radio Paradise
4 in a row is much simpler in the sense that once a move is made it can't be undone. In chess you can move pieces back and forth which greatly increases the number of possibilites.
Huh, but there's more software companies in the BSA than MS and Autocad isn't there?
Violation of copyright and theft are not the same. If I copy something it only hurts the copyright-holder if it stops me from buying a copy legitimately.
I know from experience that they are used a lot in the "recording industry" itself too. Do you seriously think people use all this digital recording equipment to make tapes? There are digital recording devices with built in cd burners on the market.
I just finished reinstalling windows 2K pro. While it is true that it never crashed much the administration of the OS is a nightmare. Try to get services running on their own accounts and then try to restrict the user rights of those accounts to the minimum neccessary to see what I'm talking about. There is also much bugginess, sometimes w2k takes forever to shut down because it can't unload some registry key (no real resolution for this apart from re-creating a user profile) just for one thing. I'm stuck in w2k for now but pretty soon I'm going to go completely Linux. I know that Linux has it's issues but I think that there is less "undocumented" bugginess and there might be more and better tools available for administration.
I think you meant probably meant "new testament" as the whole old testament was written mainly before Roman times. And even the New Testament mainly teaches to respect the authorities.
As for the rest of your comment; you can neither prove that the bible is a huge lie nor that "this is a free choice universe". Incidentally freedom of choice is something that is biblical. Saying that the bible promotes shutting down natural human thinking shows a lack of knowledge of basic historical facts. You should study the enlightenment sometimes..