I personally don't give a flying fuck how educated and eloquent you are. It means aboso-fucking-lutely *NOTHING* if your making a point in any context in favor of the likes of the RIAA/MPAA. In their minds and yours they have to make money. In my mind I have to eat and find content which is aligned with my will in everything. If it's not it will not even be considered. I appreciate the most lame posts that are against the RIAA more than I would ever appreciate a post from you or anyone else who essentially says. You know nothing of the foundation of the topic at hand. There for you are not qualified to make money purchase decisions for your self. Here listen to use without using you mind. We are right. We are good. All our naysayers know nothing. See you don't fucking get it. For what ever we don't know we DO have the RIAA/MPAA pegged and nothing you retards have to say will influence any of us except those that are sheep. To you sheep, fuck you! Don't like that? WAKE UP! Like it? I have nothing to say to you, go back to the trough.
There is no reasonable replacement and can not be as DRM was NOT resonable to begin with! The end goal would be NO different than a Tyrant sitting on his ill gotten thrown pondering and pontificating about how to prevent or make impossible a uprising. With them and their mentality there can be NO peace or mutual (bi-directional) respect.
Really? You mean my hardware I currently own will be magicaly bestowed with the ability to read encrypted media? No? OH I have to *BUY* their new hardware/media. That's EASY. DON'T buy it. I'm not. However I think it would be great fun to talk like I'm going to around all the no nothing idiots and make up fake features it's supposed to support cause *they* ALL love gossip right? Then they'll all go out and buy it and try those new crazy "fair use" features only to find they're non-existent. HAH HAH HAH What great fun. That'll put a sour taste in their mouth. Maybe then they'll wake up?
They don't need any more money. They have gotten enough through meritless lawsuits against innocent people. Of those that couldn't be labeled innocent they should be brought into civil court and made to pay the media price, nothing approaching the high end of double digits let alone leaving them.
I know this is where the music/movie industry wants to go but if you believe it is the right way to go and believe what your writing up above then I'd love to meet you and kick you in the nuts. I'll live *with* **NON** of it. Don't like it? Eat shit and die. Please pass that on to your ??aa friendly fellow shills.
I personally don't give a damn if they have to see the consequences of their actions. They should be able to *THINK* and *SEE* *THROUGH* *FORSIGHT* that this ***WOULD*** happen. I will never forgive them. All who were on board with this I will never forgive and I will eternally curse all who were part of the problem. I hope they all enjoy their eternity in a lake of fire because they ******DESERVE****** IT!!!
Also. Knowing that some one is whoring their political views for money WOULD affect mine and others view of said people with regards to respecting them or assigning any merit to their views. Denying us the understanding that a person is NOT posting SOLEY of their own free will but is as I said before whoring them selves out politically for money is a practice of deception and fraud. Again curse you and God Damn you. YOU are a part of what is wrong with the USA. Your ilk is responsible for the problems of the world. Don't argue with me. Argue with the BIG guy up there when the time comes. We'll see how far you get.
I value my rights strongly. I'll say your a holier than thou ASS. This is NOT free speech. Free speech is EVEARYONE being able to voice they're opinion and be HEARD BY ALL THAT WANT TO HERE THEM equally. Those that want can walk away, stop reading, turn the channel. When ANYONE can exploit loop holes like this and people can be paid to blog all day and astroturf for someone else whether they believe what they're posting or are doing it just for the money disadvantages others, especially those who don't have the time because they actually have to "work for living" (NO, NO, being paid to astroturf for some asswipes interests is NOT "working for a living.") This gives those paying the astroturfers "more free speech" than your average citizen as they now have many mouth pieces instead of their own. As others have posted before me they can now drown out everyone elses free speech. If you think that is right and just I'll tell you that in my view it is then right and just for me to shove a shotgun in your face and blow you away. I mean after all, it's ok for the rich to override my freedom of speech? If I don't have money too then the only way to regain balance of freedom of speech to each individual is to take yours away as well as others like you. Corporations **DO NOT** represent the freedom of speech of their employers. NO employee is going to put their job on the line when they need to take care of them selves and their family to tell the truth to their employee that NO they don't support the views of their boss or higher ups. You are simply justifying might makes right. For that I curse you and all like you. Die a painfull death you sack of shit.
"Staying more on topic, I'd like to know why ANYONE in Congress is allowed to attach a rider that doesn't have a thing to do with the original bill. Congress would have to change their rules to prevent it, but both major parties apparently are addicted to this sort of nonsense."
My parents are Republican. I have registered as Republican and Libertarian and am now leaning towards independant. I find my self agreeing more with Libertarian views than Republican or Democrat views although I agree with them over Libertarian views on occasion. Anyway I agree with you on what I quoted from you above. I don't have the time in my life right now to look into this but would gladly help and work with others who have the time if we could get this damned loophole or whatever anyone wants to call it CLOSED. It's not good for either of the two major parties or any of the smaller parties. I'm a member of the EFF and FSF and would love to sign on with anyone organizing to start doing something about problems in the system such as this. Has anyone organized over this who isn't dormant and still has steam?
If too many are porting to windows or devloping for windows that is bad because if you get everyone in windows land wanting to move over and a completely free open system from the groundup isn't up to expectations your going to loose some of the momentum you built up with them. Porting to and devoping FLOSS software for windows is good but not if it's meeting or exceeding development for GNU/Linux or any of the BSD's or any other free software OS. People want to be at the edge of technology without it being the bleeding edge. To maintain that edge development for Free/Open software on Free/Open Software should exceed development of Free/Open software on Non-Free/Proprietary software so the grass truly is greener on the other side.
At least in my opinion. Also if anyone else reading this leans in favor of Non-Free/Proprietary software let your hands rest, don't waste your energy. I don't care to read about your view or perspective. Reading your thoughts is not going to make me a richer more rounded person and I'm open minded enough already. I draw the line at what is open minded when others think I should approve of exploitation in place of equitable utilization of ideas in truly win/win humble ways for the betterment and benefit of all to the exclusion of only those who will take any thing good coming there way and twist it for evil. Buyable extensions to copyright and immortal patents can never sit well with me and are nothing but products of peoples greed. ALL should have to work to support them selves. No one has any entitlement to kick there feet up, never working and getting money for nothing because grandma or grandpa essentially have exclusive taxation without representation where the only involvement government has it to approve because money is being made and nothing can trump that what so ever.
I'm going to have to say that your the asshole despite making a some what similar post my self a couple days ago (But from a different perspective in another context.)
He is not at the whim of bulletin boards etc..... Bulletin boards are supposed to be there for discussion and getting help. Of course you also have to put up with assholes such as your self as you do on any board. Been that way since bbs days as far as I know and likely going back to news groups to some extent. Just because you don't find the answer your looking for on the web or in a bulletin board doesn't mean your at their whim. Your under your own whim where you have the ability to do something about it and trapped otherwise but only due to ignorance not due to some monolithic greedy empire building piece-o-shit corp indifferent to your woes. Projects in linux are very well documented for the most part and where the author isn't interested in documenting or doesn't have time many people put together small faqs and howtos that you can find with google for the majority of projects out there. Lack of drivers does suck but it is not the communities fault that some hardware vendors by choice or coersion won't write there own or release specs. I think you know damn good and well who is responsible for that and if you don't own up to it your either self delusional as a ass licking shill of that corp. Now for morons such as your self who don't value freedom you may be right (again for you freedom de-valuing morons.) Where servers are concerned in an organization/corp where the best tool for the job dictates what is used your right in some cases but there are those who run for those reasons AND the FREEDOM. Now I've been a desktop user of Linux Since midlife of kernel 2.0 because I wanted to learn a unix like os and hated the windows interface at that time and by the time it was polished enough to be acceptable I had gnome, kde, and enlightenment to play with as well as afterstep, blackbox, fvwm, fvwm2, mwm if I wanted a more stable invironment. Not to mention xfce which although I haven't run it recently is pretty nice and stable as well.
What I want to know is why **MORONS** such as your self HATE FREEDOM *SO* much. If you've become accustomed to bending over and are now just angry that others don't follow suite and give up their freedom of choice as you did then I'd have to say you have no one but your self to blame for being a corporate whore.
"It amazes me that you are so blinded by your hate for MS that you could actually believe this, never mind post it. I can only hope you meant it sarcastically."
Shut The Fuck Up. You ARE a retard. WHY are you a retard? Because in your mind anyone who doesn't worship and glorify microshit for all their past acts to get to where they are must be blinded by hate. He can mean it anyway he fucking wants. MAYBE his definetion of success differs from miroshits and shits such as your self. Of course we can't have that, right? Everyone should agree to what you believe is of value and what is not and what something is and is not because we all know the world revolves around you, or better yet money. You know what? If in your view the world revolves around money then it revolves around money in YOUR mind and in the minds of other equally inept MORONS such as your self. Life after all is all about the pursuit of money right?
"MS is the most successful software/computer company in the history of the world. Their closest competitors are half their size. Ya, MS has no idea what works... they got to be the biggest company in the world by luck."
I would not define successful as appealing to the lowest common denominator and expecting all others not belonging to that group to accept it or take a hike. I would think the most successful computer company would be the one that overcomes it's hurdles in a ethical, moral, and principled way that leaves their customer(s) happy and satisfied with the product they spent they're hard earned money on rather than regreting they did in the first place. Many of the people I have talked to about microshit who run windows HATE them and windows. They upgrade because they have to not because they want to. Clearly your id of success is akin to playing "king of the hill." TRULY MATURE individuals running a company would want to make money to stay afloat, earn a living, and actually provide a product or service to the community or world which IMPROVES peoples lives and their overall condition. When a company could no longer provide a product or service that's of benefit it's time to adapt (ethically) or close up shop. Not to try and leverage and manipulate and blackmail organizations and companies into doing what they want for the sake of the continued existence of microshit.
"What blows my mind even more is people modded this at 3 and insightful (when I wrote this). I guess that's/. for ya."
Yep, imagine that. People have a mind of their own and everyone is different, some in good ways, others in rank ways.
"You have to understand that for HP to hire a guy that is knowledgable enough (not that it takes much) costs HP money in both the position as well as training costs."
It costs HP or any manufacturer money to hire and train anyone whether they will be supporting Linux or Windows or anything else for that matter. pointless
"Look, I like Linux as much as the next guy, but is it worth the extra money to HP for doing your custom partitioning??"
In your view obviously not. In my view yes. Also take into account that there are freely available disk paritioning tools that run under both dos and linux which someone could create a simple bootdisk for the soul purpose of partioning systems according to pre-defined layouts. Combine that with syslinux and memdisk on a dhcp network and they could prep several systems an hour. Your arguement at first thought makes since but doesn't hold water with further research and awareness for what's *possible*.
"Is it worth HP's money and time to do a custom job on your laptop? No, they can't do thatas they would be bombarded with many requests to do the same thing."
Here maybe not, but you know what? They could contract that out to a smaller company or many companies in different states and make money doing it. Forget that Linux is the os. Were talking about a custom install. People if they are serious will pay more for that.
As for everythin else you have to say I agree except for: He didn't complain that he couldn't view the site in linux. He complained that the logical layout of the site when customizing his laptop would not allow him to customize his laptop to the extent that he wished to. He then got upset when the customer support blamed his problems on the website.
I don't code html but even so why should you need a hack? It's MS's lazy slothful or indifferent holier than thou attitude to blam for IE not supporting web standards that were established years ago.
Anyway stop promoting Micro$loth and Windows. What there isn't a chance of that happening? But you think those you perceive as bashing them whether true or not will just stop because you tell them to? Go jump off a cliff at low tide. It was worth a shot.
My experience is that most people who think they are so qualified, aren't particularly impressive.
And, in your "experience", does the Sun revolve around the Earth?
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If intellectual elitists are going to talk about average people like they're chimps, the way people on slashdot usually do, how can you blame anyone for not wanting to listen to what you have to say?
Again, you're confusing an emotional reaction with a fact.
Self righteous high and mighty ass. Hope you don't fall off your pedestal. You would appreciate me or anyone else talking of you or regarding you as a Chimp, Amoeba, or just PAWN SCUM? I would think you wouldn't. But according to your thinking according to how you strung your words together I have to assume that people should be indifferent to being referred to as chimps. Maybe even appreciative. After all with your high and mighty attitude we can all be sure you and others like you have everyones best interests at heart with no conflicts of interest.
I don't care if you don't want to hear that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
I don't see anywhere where they said they believe the Sun revolves around the Earth and if you don't care why then are you posting?
I don't care if you get upset when I tell you that you are wrong for believing anything other than that.
Again why are you posting?
The criteria should NOT be your feelings, but what the FACTS are.
In my opinion your use of the word criteria shows that you set out to come to the "facts" your kind like to state for everyone to blindly believe and take as the gospel truth. People who operate solely on emotion don't give a damn about facts. If you were intelligent as you obviously hold your self to be then you would realize this and that posting with regards to that is pointless. Also I don't give a damn for "scientists" in schools who want to propagandize children with their biased "facts." Maybe you can answer a question for me. To the exclusion of Christian Scientists why do scientists always start off with the premise that there is no God and that all of Creation *magically* as a one time only event formed as it did? Why is every new discovery from a Non Christian Scientist offering the answer that all of reality around us is not due to A God when the question was never asked (except by maybe you and others like you.) Seems to me your just upset people don't agree with you and due to your ego, arrogance, and pride cast them as sub-human. We should all look up to you and eagerly accept your beliefs as our own and view you as a leader and visionary as you have all our interest at heart and will not let ego, arrogance, pride, immorality, unprincipled, or unethical thinking get in the way. Please tell me just what you think you'll gain if you convince everyone that there is no God? You think religion is a waste of time and energy and people should instead do what with their time oh wise and benevolent guide?
People like your self have on occasion liked to ask me this inane question, "Could God create a rock so big he couldn't lift it?" I have one for you. If you've read Genesis of the Bible and know of man's fall. Please tell me then how you can disprove God exists if he has withdrawn him self and doesn't wish to be tangible in any provably way except through his teaching's and Word? When thinking about this if you do please remember that the Bible is the result of the "actions" of those influenced by God and anyone you have come across is responsible for *their* actions if they don't adhere to the Word.
Backing up one's media which one has purchased and owns is valid and is in NO WAY "COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT." You can't have piracy without theft. Copyright infringement is not theft. Backing up your media because you paid for it, you own it, and have no intention of buying it again due to ware and tear is not immoral, unethical, unprincipled, wrong, breaking the law, or otherwise illegal. Also once the media is payed for, I and anyone else can make use of our purchased property any damn way we see fit even against your perogative of how people should use THEIR purchased media. We don't have to restrict our selves to use of our media according to the whims of greedy bastards in the media cartels. We are not obligated to pay more for new unthought of ways to use our media. We are paying for the media, NOT to be able to use the media in some confined way and in no other way. You seek to set a very unhealthy precedent and I don't feel a bit bad about telling you to go burn in hell as you sure as hell don't represent me or anyone who understands what the correct balance of copyright was intended to set. Shill. People can talk aboit what ever the fuck they want.
Thank you for that link. I prefer to be informed so I can react accordingly as best I can than fake like everything is ok or sit there and justify that kind of shit by saying, "well they will suffer so that we all might live" horseshit.
Godbless you for the link and mindset and curse to indescribable hell all who would think along the lines of the mentality I gave an example of above.
"iTMS is destroying the RIAA's right to speech:" horseshit
"1. The RIAA can't pat iTMS DJs and Producers to force users to download the hot song of the week." They have no buiness doing this anyway and the RIAA doesn't force me to do ANYTHING.
"2. The RIAA can't pay iTMS to list the proper version of the Top 40 Charts." It's Apple's service. They can do what ever the fuck they want asshat.
"3. The RIAA can't control which markets get their music, heaven forbid a black consumer getting a listen to Kenny G by accident." Let me get this straight. Your saying that black people should buy black music and white people should buy white music and they some how don't have control over this any longer? When the hell did they ever? I'm also so sure we all appriciate being cast into stereo typical roles and being told you people should be listening to this while you people should be listening to this. You don't think people have a mind of their own to like listening to the things THEY THEM SELVES want to listen to?
By the way I think your a bit confused as to just what free speech is. Free speech would be me telling you in public that your a media cartel worshipping mindless piece of shit who's taking up good oxygen everyone else could be making use of.
By your interpretation of free speech however my free speech is obstructed if I can't wrap my hands around your neck and deprive you of that oxygen your wasteing by existing there by doing everyone else a favor. That goes for the shit for brains that modded you up as well.
In long past, yes I believe so. I don't think death would require status as a martyr in todays age. If they are fined and so heavily burdened to the point of "cruel and unussual" punishment for something petty dumb and stupid according to a absurd ruling it could work. But only if the public at large left and right are condeming the bought finding and those behind it and calling for people to "swing."
You know, for anyone's website to be able to do that it would have to execute some kind of code locally on your system to determine that. It is not inconceivable that an extension for firefox/mozilla or patch to squid and other proxies could be written which would detect that and stop all communication dead to the point of not adhering to standard protocol. In essessense cutting the server your visiting off in mid speech so to speek. Web masters and their bosses who are worth a shit would notice this especially if it became a wide spread phenomenon and would research it to determine why it's happening. If the traffic peaking in and immediately passing becomes large enough THEY WILL CARE! If everyone utilised this patches/extensions/addons and NO ONE sold out then the community would now have businesses fighting other businesses to regain their lost business. Don't give up, and don't give in. Are you living your life for you or are you living it for those greedy a$$hats!?
Sorry? Did I miss something? Your treating them with respect and to some extent honor by apologizing. What the hell do you or any of us have to be apologetic for? They're the fucktards that put them selves in the position they're in. Maybe you want to rethink who your sorry for and why? When have they ever treated the public with any respect or honor?
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I personally don't give a flying fuck how educated and eloquent you are. It means aboso-fucking-lutely *NOTHING* if your making a point in any context in favor of the likes of the RIAA/MPAA. In their minds and yours they have to make money. In my mind I have to eat and find content which is aligned with my will in everything. If it's not it will not even be considered. I appreciate the most lame posts that are against the RIAA more than I would ever appreciate a post from you or anyone else who essentially says. You know nothing of the foundation of the topic at hand. There for you are not qualified to make money purchase decisions for your self. Here listen to use without using you mind. We are right. We are good. All our naysayers know nothing. See you don't fucking get it. For what ever we don't know we DO have the RIAA/MPAA pegged and nothing you retards have to say will influence any of us except those that are sheep. To you sheep, fuck you! Don't like that? WAKE UP! Like it? I have nothing to say to you, go back to the trough.
There is no reasonable replacement and can not be as DRM was NOT resonable to begin with! The end goal would be NO different than a Tyrant sitting on his ill gotten thrown pondering and pontificating about how to prevent or make impossible a uprising. With them and their mentality there can be NO peace or mutual (bi-directional) respect.
Really? You mean my hardware I currently own will be magicaly bestowed with the ability to read encrypted media? No? OH I have to *BUY* their new hardware/media. That's EASY. DON'T buy it. I'm not. However I think it would be great fun to talk like I'm going to around all the no nothing idiots and make up fake features it's supposed to support cause *they* ALL love gossip right? Then they'll all go out and buy it and try those new crazy "fair use" features only to find they're non-existent. HAH HAH HAH What great fun. That'll put a sour taste in their mouth. Maybe then they'll wake up?
They don't need any more money. They have gotten enough through meritless lawsuits against innocent people. Of those that couldn't be labeled innocent they should be brought into civil court and made to pay the media price, nothing approaching the high end of double digits let alone leaving them.
I know this is where the music/movie industry wants to go but if you believe it is the right way to go and believe what your writing up above then I'd love to meet you and kick you in the nuts. I'll live *with* **NON** of it. Don't like it? Eat shit and die. Please pass that on to your ??aa friendly fellow shills.
I personally don't give a damn if they have to see the consequences of their actions. They should be able to *THINK* and *SEE* *THROUGH* *FORSIGHT* that this ***WOULD*** happen. I will never forgive them. All who were on board with this I will never forgive and I will eternally curse all who were part of the problem.
I hope they all enjoy their eternity in a lake of fire because they ******DESERVE****** IT!!!
NO SECOND CHANCES
Also. Knowing that some one is whoring their political views for money WOULD affect mine and others view of said people with regards to respecting them or assigning any merit to their views. Denying us the understanding that a person is NOT posting SOLEY of their own free will but is as I said before whoring them selves out politically for money is a practice of deception and fraud.
Again curse you and God Damn you. YOU are a part of what is wrong with the USA. Your ilk is responsible for the problems of the world. Don't argue with me. Argue with the BIG guy up there when the time comes. We'll see how far you get.
I value my rights strongly.
I'll say your a holier than thou ASS.
This is NOT free speech.
Free speech is EVEARYONE being able to voice they're opinion and be HEARD BY ALL THAT WANT TO HERE THEM equally. Those that want can walk away, stop reading, turn the channel. When ANYONE can exploit loop holes like this and people can be paid to blog all day and astroturf for someone else whether they believe what they're posting or are doing it just for the money disadvantages others, especially those who don't have the time because they actually have to "work for living" (NO, NO, being paid to astroturf for some asswipes interests is NOT "working for a living.") This gives those paying the astroturfers "more free speech" than your average citizen as they now have many mouth pieces instead of their own. As others have posted before me they can now drown out everyone elses free speech. If you think that is right and just I'll tell you that in my view it is then right and just for me to shove a shotgun in your face and blow you away. I mean after all, it's ok for the rich to override my freedom of speech? If I don't have money too then the only way to regain balance of freedom of speech to each individual is to take yours away as well as others like you. Corporations **DO NOT** represent the freedom of speech of their employers. NO employee is going to put their job on the line when they need to take care of them selves and their family to tell the truth to their employee that NO they don't support the views of their boss or higher ups.
You are simply justifying might makes right. For that I curse you and all like you. Die a painfull death you sack of shit.
"Staying more on topic, I'd like to know why ANYONE in Congress is allowed to attach a rider that doesn't have a thing to do with the original bill. Congress would have to change their rules to prevent it, but both major parties apparently are addicted to this sort of nonsense."
My parents are Republican. I have registered as Republican and Libertarian and am now leaning towards independant. I find my self agreeing more with Libertarian views than Republican or Democrat views although I agree with them over Libertarian views on occasion. Anyway I agree with you on what I quoted from you above. I don't have the time in my life right now to look into this but would gladly help and work with others who have the time if we could get this damned loophole or whatever anyone wants to call it CLOSED. It's not good for either of the two major parties or any of the smaller parties. I'm a member of the EFF and FSF and would love to sign on with anyone organizing to start doing something about problems in the system such as this. Has anyone organized over this who isn't dormant and still has steam?
If too many are porting to windows or devloping for windows that is bad because if you get everyone in windows land wanting to move over and a completely free open system from the groundup isn't up to expectations your going to loose some of the momentum you built up with them. Porting to and devoping FLOSS software for windows is good but not if it's meeting or exceeding development for GNU/Linux or any of the BSD's or any other free software OS. People want to be at the edge of technology without it being the bleeding edge. To maintain that edge development for Free/Open software on Free/Open Software should exceed development of Free/Open software on Non-Free/Proprietary software so the grass truly is greener on the other side.
At least in my opinion. Also if anyone else reading this leans in favor of Non-Free/Proprietary software let your hands rest, don't waste your energy. I don't care to read about your view or perspective. Reading your thoughts is not going to make me a richer more rounded person and I'm open minded enough already. I draw the line at what is open minded when others think I should approve of exploitation in place of equitable utilization of ideas in truly win/win humble ways for the betterment and benefit of all to the exclusion of only those who will take any thing good coming there way and twist it for evil. Buyable extensions to copyright and immortal patents can never sit well with me and are nothing but products of peoples greed. ALL should have to work to support them selves. No one has any entitlement to kick there feet up, never working and getting money for nothing because grandma or grandpa essentially have exclusive taxation without representation where the only involvement government has it to approve because money is being made and nothing can trump that what so ever.
I'm going to have to say that your the asshole despite making a some what similar post my self a couple days ago (But from a different perspective in another context.)
He is not at the whim of bulletin boards etc.....
Bulletin boards are supposed to be there for discussion and getting help. Of course you also have to put up with assholes such as your self as you do on any board. Been that way since bbs days as far as I know and likely going back to news groups to some extent. Just because you don't find the answer your looking for on the web or in a bulletin board doesn't mean your at their whim. Your under your own whim where you have the ability to do something about it and trapped otherwise but only due to ignorance not due to some monolithic greedy empire building piece-o-shit corp indifferent to your woes. Projects in linux are very well documented for the most part and where the author isn't interested in documenting or doesn't have time many people put together small faqs and howtos that you can find with google for the majority of projects out there. Lack of drivers does suck but it is not the communities fault that some hardware vendors by choice or coersion won't write there own or release specs. I think you know damn good and well who is responsible for that and if you don't own up to it your either self delusional as a ass licking shill of that corp. Now for morons such as your self who don't value freedom you may be right (again for you freedom de-valuing morons.) Where servers are concerned in an organization/corp where the best tool for the job dictates what is used your right in some cases but there are those who run for those reasons AND the FREEDOM. Now I've been a desktop user of Linux Since midlife of kernel 2.0 because I wanted to learn a unix like os and hated the windows interface at that time and by the time it was polished enough to be acceptable I had gnome, kde, and enlightenment to play with as well as afterstep, blackbox, fvwm, fvwm2, mwm if I wanted a more stable invironment. Not to mention xfce which although I haven't run it recently is pretty nice and stable as well.
What I want to know is why **MORONS** such as your self HATE FREEDOM *SO* much.
If you've become accustomed to bending over and are now just angry that others don't follow suite and give up their freedom of choice as you did then I'd have to say you have no one but your self to blame for being a corporate whore.
"It amazes me that you are so blinded by your hate for MS that you could actually believe this, never mind post it. I can only hope you meant it sarcastically."
/. for ya."
Shut The Fuck Up. You ARE a retard. WHY are you a retard? Because in your mind anyone who doesn't worship and glorify microshit for all their past acts to get to where they are must be blinded by hate. He can mean it anyway he fucking wants. MAYBE his definetion of success differs from miroshits and shits such as your self. Of course we can't have that, right? Everyone should agree to what you believe is of value and what is not and what something is and is not because we all know the world revolves around you, or better yet money. You know what? If in your view the world revolves around money then it revolves around money in YOUR mind and in the minds of other equally inept MORONS such as your self. Life after all is all about the pursuit of money right?
"MS is the most successful software/computer company in the history of the world. Their closest competitors are half their size. Ya, MS has no idea what works... they got to be the biggest company in the world by luck."
I would not define successful as appealing to the lowest common denominator and expecting all others not belonging to that group to accept it or take a hike. I would think the most successful computer company would be the one that overcomes it's hurdles in a ethical, moral, and principled way that leaves their customer(s) happy and satisfied with the product they spent they're hard earned money on rather than regreting they did in the first place. Many of the people I have talked to about microshit who run windows HATE them and windows. They upgrade because they have to not because they want to. Clearly your id of success is akin to playing "king of the hill." TRULY MATURE individuals running a company would want to make money to stay afloat, earn a living, and actually provide a product or service to the community or world which IMPROVES peoples lives and their overall condition. When a company could no longer provide a product or service that's of benefit it's time to adapt (ethically) or close up shop. Not to try and leverage and manipulate and blackmail organizations and companies into doing what they want for the sake of the continued existence of microshit.
"What blows my mind even more is people modded this at 3 and insightful (when I wrote this). I guess that's
Yep, imagine that. People have a mind of their own and everyone is different, some in good ways, others in rank ways.
"You have to understand that for HP to hire a guy that is knowledgable enough (not that it takes much) costs HP money in both the position as well as training costs."
It costs HP or any manufacturer money to hire and train anyone whether they will be supporting Linux or Windows or anything else for that matter. pointless
"Look, I like Linux as much as the next guy, but is it worth the extra money to HP for doing your custom partitioning??"
In your view obviously not. In my view yes. Also take into account that there are freely available disk paritioning tools that run under both dos and linux which someone could create a simple bootdisk for the soul purpose of partioning systems according to pre-defined layouts. Combine that with syslinux and memdisk on a dhcp network and they could prep several systems an hour. Your arguement at first thought makes since but doesn't hold water with further research and awareness for what's *possible*.
"Is it worth HP's money and time to do a custom job on your laptop? No, they can't do thatas they would be bombarded with many requests to do the same thing."
Here maybe not, but you know what? They could contract that out to a smaller company or many companies in different states and make money doing it. Forget that Linux is the os. Were talking about a custom install. People if they are serious will pay more for that.
As for everythin else you have to say I agree except for:
He didn't complain that he couldn't view the site in linux.
He complained that the logical layout of the site when customizing his
laptop would not allow him to customize his laptop to the extent that he
wished to. He then got upset when the customer support blamed his problems
on the website.
I don't code html but even so why should you need a hack?
It's MS's lazy slothful or indifferent holier than thou attitude to blam for IE not supporting web standards that were established years ago.
And that would conter the problem and help society so much.
GEE Thanks!
Anyway stop promoting Micro$loth and Windows.
What there isn't a chance of that happening?
But you think those you perceive as bashing them whether true or not will just stop because you tell them to?
Go jump off a cliff at low tide.
It was worth a shot.
My experience is that most people who think they are so qualified, aren't particularly impressive.
And, in your "experience", does the Sun revolve around the Earth?
Ass
If intellectual elitists are going to talk about average people like they're chimps, the way people on slashdot usually do, how can you blame anyone for not wanting to listen to what you have to say?
Again, you're confusing an emotional reaction with a fact.
Self righteous high and mighty ass. Hope you don't fall off your pedestal.
You would appreciate me or anyone else talking of you or regarding you as a Chimp, Amoeba, or just PAWN SCUM? I would think you wouldn't. But according to your thinking according to how you strung your words together I have to assume that people should be indifferent to being referred to as chimps. Maybe even appreciative. After all with your high and mighty attitude we can all be sure you and others like you have everyones best interests at heart with no conflicts of interest.
I don't care if you don't want to hear that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
I don't see anywhere where they said they believe the Sun revolves around the Earth and if you don't care why then are you posting?
I don't care if you get upset when I tell you that you are wrong for believing anything other than that.
Again why are you posting?
The criteria should NOT be your feelings, but what the FACTS are.
In my opinion your use of the word criteria shows that you set out to come to the "facts" your kind like to state for everyone to blindly believe and take as the gospel truth. People who operate solely on emotion don't give a damn about facts. If you were intelligent as you obviously hold your self to be then you would realize this and that posting with regards to that is pointless. Also I don't give a damn for "scientists" in schools who want to propagandize children with their biased "facts." Maybe you can answer a question for me. To the exclusion of Christian Scientists why do scientists always start off with the premise that there is no God and that all of Creation *magically* as a one time only event formed as it did? Why is every new discovery from a Non Christian Scientist offering the answer that all of reality around us is not due to A God when the question was never asked (except by maybe you and others like you.) Seems to me your just upset people don't agree with you and due to your ego, arrogance, and pride cast them as sub-human.
We should all look up to you and eagerly accept your beliefs as our own and view you as a leader and visionary as you have all our interest at heart and will not let ego, arrogance, pride, immorality, unprincipled, or unethical thinking get in the way. Please tell me just what you think you'll gain if you convince everyone that there is no God? You think religion is a waste of time and energy and people should instead do what with their time oh wise and benevolent guide?
People like your self have on occasion liked to ask me this inane question, "Could God create a rock so big he couldn't lift it?"
I have one for you. If you've read Genesis of the Bible and know of man's fall. Please tell me then how you can disprove God exists if he has withdrawn him self and doesn't wish to be tangible in any provably way except through his teaching's and Word? When thinking about this if you do please remember that the Bible is the result of the "actions" of those influenced by God and anyone you have come across is responsible for *their* actions if they don't adhere to the Word.
I haven't found it.
But I'm fairly certain you don't even grasp what it is.
Maybe it's my slashdot preferences but I don't see where any of you saw those names or that address.
Someone please hit me with the clue stick.
Backing up one's media which one has purchased and owns is valid and is in NO WAY "COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT."
You can't have piracy without theft.
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Backing up your media because you paid for it, you own it, and have no intention of buying it again due to ware and tear is not immoral, unethical, unprincipled, wrong, breaking the law, or otherwise illegal.
Also once the media is payed for, I and anyone else can make use of our purchased property any damn way we see fit even against your perogative of how people should use THEIR purchased media. We don't have to restrict our selves to use of our media according to the whims of greedy bastards in the media cartels. We are not obligated to pay more for new unthought of ways to use our media. We are paying for the media, NOT to be able to use the media in some confined way and in no other way.
You seek to set a very unhealthy precedent and I don't feel a bit bad about telling you to go burn in hell as you sure as hell don't represent me or anyone who understands what the correct balance of copyright was intended to set.
Shill. People can talk aboit what ever the fuck they want.
Thank you for that link.
I prefer to be informed so I can react accordingly as best I can than fake like everything is ok or sit there and justify that kind of shit by saying, "well they will suffer so that we all might live" horseshit.
Godbless you for the link and mindset and curse to indescribable hell all who would think along the lines of the mentality I gave an example of above.
Why not name names?
What use is your comment if you don't?
"iTMS is destroying the RIAA's right to speech:"
horseshit
"1. The RIAA can't pat iTMS DJs and Producers to force users to download the hot song of the week."
They have no buiness doing this anyway and the RIAA doesn't force me to do ANYTHING.
"2. The RIAA can't pay iTMS to list the proper version of the Top 40 Charts."
It's Apple's service. They can do what ever the fuck they want asshat.
"3. The RIAA can't control which markets get their music, heaven forbid a black consumer getting a listen to Kenny G by accident."
Let me get this straight. Your saying that black people should buy black music and white people should buy white music and they some how don't have control over this any longer? When the hell did they ever? I'm also so sure we all appriciate being cast into stereo typical roles and being told you people should be listening to this while you people should be listening to this. You don't think people have a mind of their own to like listening to the things THEY THEM SELVES want to listen to?
By the way I think your a bit confused as to just what free speech is.
Free speech would be me telling you in public that your a media cartel worshipping mindless piece of shit who's taking up good oxygen everyone else could be making use of.
By your interpretation of free speech however my free speech is obstructed if I can't wrap my hands around your neck and deprive you of that oxygen your wasteing by existing there by doing everyone else a favor. That goes for the shit for brains that modded you up as well.
In long past, yes I believe so.
I don't think death would require status as a martyr in todays age.
If they are fined and so heavily burdened to the point of "cruel and unussual"
punishment for something petty dumb and stupid according to a absurd ruling
it could work. But only if the public at large left and right are condeming
the bought finding and those behind it and calling for people to "swing."
You know, for anyone's website to be able to do that it would have to execute some kind of code locally on your system to determine that.
It is not inconceivable that an extension for firefox/mozilla or patch to squid and other proxies could be written which would detect that and stop all communication dead to the point of not adhering to standard protocol. In essessense cutting the server your visiting off in mid speech so to speek. Web masters and their bosses who are worth a shit would notice this especially if it became a wide spread phenomenon and would research it to determine why it's happening. If the traffic peaking in and immediately passing becomes large enough THEY WILL CARE!
If everyone utilised this patches/extensions/addons and NO ONE sold out then the community would now have businesses fighting other businesses to regain their lost business.
Don't give up, and don't give in.
Are you living your life for you or are you living it for those greedy a$$hats!?
Sorry?
Did I miss something?
Your treating them with respect and to some extent honor by apologizing.
What the hell do you or any of us have to be apologetic for?
They're the fucktards that put them selves in the position they're in.
Maybe you want to rethink who your sorry for and why?
When have they ever treated the public with any respect or honor?
Please mod parent up!!!