TPB's very public and unapologetic support for people who want to rip off that creative work immediately
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe if they made any distinction between legal/illegal files they would be culpabale for damages on the ones that slip through.
What they need to do is expand their view of "open." If they created a product that was completely modular, they would have a competitive product.
I'm talking completely. Don't need a keyboard? Swap it for a double length touchscreen. need battery life? Switch to a monochrome LCD. Add in 6 or so slots and call them something dumb like wedges. Then have a camera wedge and a wifi wedge fm/UHF radio wedge and a godknowswhatthehellyouwant wedge. swappable cell radios to work across multiple providers, etc etc etc.
If you are a hardware company you make your money on HARDWARE. It can only benefit them to have a large variety of add-ons. It also benefits the user as they can start with a barebones kit and purchase extras as they can afford to.
But what do I know, I am just a company drone without a high school degree.
Probably because the guy who makes those decisions is also doing the bare minimum to get by.
BTW- I'm in the same boat. I work just hard enough to be slightly better than half of my peers (call it a security blanket against being laid off). This affords me the luxury of watching Orb/Hulu/ProjectFreeTV for the entirety of my workday, frequent coffee and cig breaks and minimal responsibilities, in addition to ample time to poke around and play with pretty much whatever to see how it works. Conversely, my closet peer (by proximity and friendship) always tries to lead the pack in productivity and is constantly being given extra assignments and what not (that I usually help him with out of boredom and curiosity). But when the end of year bonuses came around he received an additional.13% than me! We calculated it to roughly $1.80 per workday. All his extra effort was worth a cup of coffee as far as the brass were concerned. Unfortunately, I don't think he learned the lesson.
Third, there's a $250,000 reward, and no claimants, so the people behind this have the sense to shut up. They're not going to be found boasting on some IRC channel.
If your boss paid you to build one of the largest computer spynets in the world, would you use a computer to out him?
The more time I spend with children the more I realize that learning is nothing more than the elimination of options. By 20 we have removed all but the most probable options, and by 30 we simply run out of, for lack of a better term, "possibilities."
The state of colorado made attempts to be "ahead" of the curve when it came to an online presence (see also denvergov.com and the atrocity that is netfile; we were one of the first states to have online tax filing). Unfortunately they hired people who knew ass all about javascript (or proper DB handling) and no one knew enough to stop it in it's infancy. Now it has snowballed into something too costly to replace and too borked to simply repair. I imagine someone told some user that ff was a security risk, rather than go into the technical details of why the site falls to crap on browser it was never tested for. Eventually, through what I like to call "the wiki effect" that same information got passed back as fact to the current web coders who promptly put up a notice to inform their end users.
If HULU still gets the revenue and I get to avoid the ad I'm all for it, but if it is like any other adblocker I'll suffer through it to support a great website. Hulu is one of the first media services who get it AFAIC, and I short of ORB it's the only service that I can rely on for something mindless to listen to while I'm working.
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TPB's very public and unapologetic support for people who want to rip off that creative work immediately
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe if they made any distinction between legal/illegal files they would be culpabale for damages on the ones that slip through.
I have had all of the above issues since 8.10 with the addition of the following:
Screwed up login screen (due to dual monitor)
Support for my HP remote (in any capacity) is virtually nonexistant.
No sound through HDMI (and no working fixes for the Nvidia 9600)
Running Konversation in the taskbar will randomly kill my ability to click on things with the mouse.
This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of lame "Fixed that for you" jokes will be impotently read and disregarded.
FTFY
Wasn't this added in after the PR nonsense about the G3 being classified as a "supercomputer?"
What they need to do is expand their view of "open." If they created a product that was completely modular, they would have a competitive product.
I'm talking completely. Don't need a keyboard? Swap it for a double length touchscreen. need battery life? Switch to a monochrome LCD. Add in 6 or so slots and call them something dumb like wedges. Then have a camera wedge and a wifi wedge fm/UHF radio wedge and a godknowswhatthehellyouwant wedge. swappable cell radios to work across multiple providers, etc etc etc.
If you are a hardware company you make your money on HARDWARE. It can only benefit them to have a large variety of add-ons. It also benefits the user as they can start with a barebones kit and purchase extras as they can afford to.
But what do I know, I am just a company drone without a high school degree.
from a whole bunch of people here that would apply Godwin to Bush at the drop of a hat.
I do not have a hat, but if I did and it dropped I could compare bush to hitler before it hit the ground!
Probably because the guy who makes those decisions is also doing the bare minimum to get by.
BTW- I'm in the same boat. I work just hard enough to be slightly better than half of my peers (call it a security blanket against being laid off). This affords me the luxury of watching Orb/Hulu/ProjectFreeTV for the entirety of my workday, frequent coffee and cig breaks and minimal responsibilities, in addition to ample time to poke around and play with pretty much whatever to see how it works. Conversely, my closet peer (by proximity and friendship) always tries to lead the pack in productivity and is constantly being given extra assignments and what not (that I usually help him with out of boredom and curiosity). But when the end of year bonuses came around he received an additional .13% than me! We calculated it to roughly $1.80 per workday. All his extra effort was worth a cup of coffee as far as the brass were concerned. Unfortunately, I don't think he learned the lesson.
Except for everything kdawson posted. Spooky.
Third, there's a $250,000 reward, and no claimants, so the people behind this have the sense to shut up. They're not going to be found boasting on some IRC channel.
If your boss paid you to build one of the largest computer spynets in the world, would you use a computer to out him?
The more time I spend with children the more I realize that learning is nothing more than the elimination of options. By 20 we have removed all but the most probable options, and by 30 we simply run out of, for lack of a better term, "possibilities."
I can't believe you set up this account 9 years ago just to make this joke.
I actually know that I don't want to use Gentoo
No worries, with all the configuring and compiling, you'll never have to. Welcome to the fold!
"For Images of a Blue Wang."
Isn't that spinal taps new album?
The state of colorado made attempts to be "ahead" of the curve when it came to an online presence (see also denvergov.com and the atrocity that is netfile; we were one of the first states to have online tax filing). Unfortunately they hired people who knew ass all about javascript (or proper DB handling) and no one knew enough to stop it in it's infancy. Now it has snowballed into something too costly to replace and too borked to simply repair.
I imagine someone told some user that ff was a security risk, rather than go into the technical details of why the site falls to crap on browser it was never tested for. Eventually, through what I like to call "the wiki effect" that same information got passed back as fact to the current web coders who promptly put up a notice to inform their end users.
Even still, fail.
We understand the economy in almost exactly the same sense as we understand the weather.
I'm tempted to make that my new signature.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
If HULU still gets the revenue and I get to avoid the ad I'm all for it, but if it is like any other adblocker I'll suffer through it to support a great website. Hulu is one of the first media services who get it AFAIC, and I short of ORB it's the only service that I can rely on for something mindless to listen to while I'm working.
I find it hard to believe that they don't have control over their own copyrights.
ORLY?
Just don't put it down. I was roughly 900 pages in and I put it on hold to move and find a job; when I finally got back to it I was lost.
Reverse psychology is a trick.
I'll prove to you what's a trick! No wait, that what you want me to do...
Transistors are naively analog
Oh those simple-minded transistors. When will they learn?
They were all in the same place: In RBS WorldPay, stealin' ur fundz.
what's a fail?
So if I write a EULA that invalidates all other EULAS would that be valid?