The source code doesn't rip any DVDs. It's just a text file with neat words like "void" and "int32" in it. LAME uses the same principle: Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder. It's the source code for one. If you'd like to violate the patent yourself, go ahead and compile it. If you want to violate the DMCA go ahead and compile the ripper. Otherwise it's speech just like this post or that song you got off of Kazaa^H^H^H^H^H iTMS:-D
If someone tells you otherwise it's time to a) write your Congresscritter a nice note or b) burn down a building or two. You didn't hear b) from me though:-)
That's my cat's name and I was just discussing with andreyw why I can't name my powerbook that. Because the next release is Tiger. Tiger box named tigger just doesn't work. So now it's called powerwire. Dumb name *sigh*.
Yes, same here. I was shocked that I got so much battery. I'm on WiFi here, and the battery lasts a good four hours. I was hoping for two, so obviously I'm happy.
Damn this is a nice laptop (I'm on the 1.3GHz one... I do have the cool backlit keyboard though.)
> My IBM X40 (it's a Pentium M, 1GHz) runs 7 hours on a charge of the 8-cell battery.
Damn that's nice. I have to admit that I'm pretty happy with the four hours (or so) of my Powerbook. That's with WiFi, and the backlit keyboard. But the IBM sounds niiiice too:)
Shut the fuck up and die!? This guy has to constantly hear about how good the game is, how cool it is, how fun it is, how OMG 1337 graphics it is, and he wants to play it. His store doesn't have it but it's a few clicks away online. Why WOULDN'T he pirate it. It's not costing ID money; it wasn't for sale anyway.
I think it's you who needs to STFU and die. Or at least think before posting.
Is that you Senator Hatch?? Getting raped is surely different from downloading a video game. I'm sure that if you met someone who was raped they would not appreciate your disrespect. Glad you proved your point, though.
Piracy is fine. If you're a developer and you don't like piracy, make it authenticate to a central server. Works for UT2004, and forced me to buy a copy.
Oh, but this is single player, and you can forge the response on the connection or hack the client. Yes. So maybe single player games aren't the way to get profit. Just because your business model sucks doesn't mean that you need to call us all rapists.
KDE does look better than Windows if you do it right. But Windows looks like shit. GNOME is at least consistient... it's my favorite desktop along with XFCE.
But today I got my Powerbook and all I could say was DAMN. It's really hard to go back to GNOME after that. Not to mention that apt-get install tetex actually installed latex onto my mac.
MacOS is becoming a real platform these days:) I'm sorry I've been missing out for so long...
(This isn't to say that Linux is bad, it's great. I'm still going to use it every day... but, in terms of prettiness and usability, macos wins. Hell even the X11 apps respond to Expose' and _update their content while they're shrunk_. very very very very very cool:)
This is a web-browser-level issue. Everything is the same server, it just checks the URL your browser asks for for things like "it" and "ask" and then colors things appropriately. Nothing hosts can fix. Something that regular expressions in a javascript style sheet can.
I have an Ikea (iKea?) desk. One leg collapsed yesterday and both of my monitors fell off the desk. I made sure it was REALLY TIGHT before I put my monitors back on.
This was no fault of the desk, though... I was trying to lower it without taking anything off. The mechanism inside to tighten the last leg stopped working for some reason, and I had to take everything off the desk* and reinsert the leg into the desk. It was a pisser:)
Yeah, but professional atheletes use steroids and there are judges right there too. Whats to say that the aimbot isn't just rather covert. It only helps aim if you're very close. 83% of the time. And it runs in the background completely undetectable (unless you run `ps aux | grep aimbot` or something).
Anyway, I'm sure they didn't use aimbots, but it's not out of the question.
Oh banks ARE allowed. And so is the DMV. And anyone else.
A few years ago there was a big incident of identity theft at UIllinois (probably UIUC) and they decided to stop using SSNs as the student ID. But nothing forced them to "stop" using SSNs (they say they stopped but some places need SSN some need student ID... surprisingly their databases are REALLY organized... it's scarry how much they know about me...)
'cause they have respect for the NYT's wishes. I'm sure taco himself doesn't care, but OSDN (or whatever they're called now) gets in trouble if he posts links to the print-this-story section. He's just playing nice.
Huh? My ooold high school cancelled all the AP courses so that football could have more money. Thankfully I changed high schools right as that was happening (to a math + science school... no football there...)
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What if I don't want the CD and don't buy it? Am I stealing from them then?
Look at it this way. It isn't "lost revenue" from piracy. If these people weren't going to buy it anyway, how could there be a "loss"?
Anyway, it's still illegal... just like jaywalking or having a cup of coffee on the el. Both of which are a detriment to our society.
The source code doesn't rip any DVDs. It's just a text file with neat words like "void" and "int32" in it. LAME uses the same principle: Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder. It's the source code for one. If you'd like to violate the patent yourself, go ahead and compile it. If you want to violate the DMCA go ahead and compile the ripper. Otherwise it's speech just like this post or that song you got off of Kazaa^H^H^H^H^H iTMS :-D
:-)
If someone tells you otherwise it's time to a) write your Congresscritter a nice note or b) burn down a building or two. You didn't hear b) from me though
> get a Comp Eng degree
Isn't that what EE is?
That's my cat's name and I was just discussing with andreyw why I can't name my powerbook that. Because the next release is Tiger. Tiger box named tigger just doesn't work. So now it's called powerwire. Dumb name *sigh*.
YOU handed them the cluestick? I recall you yelling at me (and walking away very quickly) as I was running mkfs.ext2 on the root partition :D
:)
Thanks for the idea though
Oh, and to the system admins reading this, I... uh... DIDN'T do that.
Uhh the new iPod gets 12 hours. I've never had it run out, so I can't attest to that myself. But reviews can (see ipodlounge.com, for example).
Yes, same here. I was shocked that I got so much battery. I'm on WiFi here, and the battery lasts a good four hours. I was hoping for two, so obviously I'm happy.
Damn this is a nice laptop (I'm on the 1.3GHz one... I do have the cool backlit keyboard though.)
> My IBM X40 (it's a Pentium M, 1GHz) runs 7 hours on a charge of the 8-cell battery.
:)
Damn that's nice. I have to admit that I'm pretty happy with the four hours (or so) of my Powerbook. That's with WiFi, and the backlit keyboard. But the IBM sounds niiiice too
Shut the fuck up and die!? This guy has to constantly hear about how good the game is, how cool it is, how fun it is, how OMG 1337 graphics it is, and he wants to play it. His store doesn't have it but it's a few clicks away online. Why WOULDN'T he pirate it. It's not costing ID money; it wasn't for sale anyway.
I think it's you who needs to STFU and die. Or at least think before posting.
Is that you Senator Hatch?? Getting raped is surely different from downloading a video game. I'm sure that if you met someone who was raped they would not appreciate your disrespect. Glad you proved your point, though.
Piracy is fine. If you're a developer and you don't like piracy, make it authenticate to a central server. Works for UT2004, and forced me to buy a copy.
Oh, but this is single player, and you can forge the response on the connection or hack the client. Yes. So maybe single player games aren't the way to get profit. Just because your business model sucks doesn't mean that you need to call us all rapists.
KDE does look better than Windows if you do it right. But Windows looks like shit. GNOME is at least consistient... it's my favorite desktop along with XFCE.
:) I'm sorry I've been missing out for so long...
:)
But today I got my Powerbook and all I could say was DAMN. It's really hard to go back to GNOME after that. Not to mention that apt-get install tetex actually installed latex onto my mac.
MacOS is becoming a real platform these days
(This isn't to say that Linux is bad, it's great. I'm still going to use it every day... but, in terms of prettiness and usability, macos wins. Hell even the X11 apps respond to Expose' and _update their content while they're shrunk_. very very very very very cool
Looks as if you losed your grammar manual too!
It's too bad George Bush doesn't know how to talk!
This is a web-browser-level issue. Everything is the same server, it just checks the URL your browser asks for for things like "it" and "ask" and then colors things appropriately. Nothing hosts can fix. Something that regular expressions in a javascript style sheet can.
If you pay someone $50,000 and you win $100,000 you come out ahead.
I know. This is a true story but I get modded down. That's okay I have more karma than taco.
I have an Ikea (iKea?) desk. One leg collapsed yesterday and both of my monitors fell off the desk. I made sure it was REALLY TIGHT before I put my monitors back on.
:)
This was no fault of the desk, though... I was trying to lower it without taking anything off. The mechanism inside to tighten the last leg stopped working for some reason, and I had to take everything off the desk* and reinsert the leg into the desk. It was a pisser
* Actually that was done for me.
Yeah, but professional atheletes use steroids and there are judges right there too. Whats to say that the aimbot isn't just rather covert. It only helps aim if you're very close. 83% of the time. And it runs in the background completely undetectable (unless you run `ps aux | grep aimbot` or something).
Anyway, I'm sure they didn't use aimbots, but it's not out of the question.
They are all dead after forgetting to use the bathroom for 48 hours. Good job, guys!
(Can you tell by the other posts by me in this thread that I don't like computer games that much?)
Yeah installing an aimbot is uber-athletic, right. And also 31337!!
Too bad they have no friends in real life nor will they ever reproduce. How can you live with yourself playing CS all day...
Oh banks ARE allowed. And so is the DMV. And anyone else.
A few years ago there was a big incident of identity theft at UIllinois (probably UIUC) and they decided to stop using SSNs as the student ID. But nothing forced them to "stop" using SSNs (they say they stopped but some places need SSN some need student ID... surprisingly their databases are REALLY organized... it's scarry how much they know about me...)
Yeah. You can see the J and the Y and everything else is just random :)
Keeps people guessing. I like that.
'cause they have respect for the NYT's wishes. I'm sure taco himself doesn't care, but OSDN (or whatever they're called now) gets in trouble if he posts links to the print-this-story section. He's just playing nice.
:)
No need for us to do that, tho
And the NSA doesn't already know who I am?
Spook A: "Holy shit! He reads the NYT!"
Spook B: "That has absolutely no relevance to anything!"
A+B: "Damn!"
Huh? My ooold high school cancelled all the AP courses so that football could have more money. Thankfully I changed high schools right as that was happening (to a math + science school... no football there...)