all apologies for my previous comment. somehow (don't ask) i hit submit instead of preview... i've had a long habit of starting a response post, looking it over and editing it.. and re-editing it, etc. most of the time, i end up not bothering to post at all because i'm able to 'think' myself out of a thoughtless flame, or have otherwise resolved whatever it is that i wanted to comment on... in short, i was playing around with an idea, and hit the wrong button.
in any event.. i wanted to apologize. hopefully you took no offense (guaging from your response, you weren't too terribly put out). thank you for not taking my half-thought out mishap personally.
your UI criticism shows that you didn't take more than a moment to look at the program (at best).
mozilla's got the most user-configure-able UI for a windows browser that i've ever seen. if anything, the UI is so overlaiden with UI options that it can take weeks to determine how you truly want it to look/behave.
just because you don't have to think about it, doesn't make it better... ever heard of the phrase "dumbing down??" or did a popup ad interrupt your concentration that day?
less tax revenue that way. see? our government definitely needs less spare change... it's pretty safe to assume that the FBI's blowing their budget to shit right now, in an effort to collect as much inane mall shopping data as is possible before the law gets thrown out and that whole pesky 'privacy' thing rears it's horridly maimed head.
and to think; i was hoping to keep my shopping trips to WAL*MART a secret from all of my friends, ad infinitum. but, thanks to the FBI, soon everyone will know about that kooky rollback pricing.
okay. is anybody else tired of scrolling through these SCO stories for the funny comments?
i mean... they're a stoner's dream and all, but sorting through all the comments from people who are taking this SCO lawsuit thing seriously is getting tedious.
oh, and to the mod gods: whatever it was that i did to offend you.. i am so sorry.
Doesn't this new policy violate the RIAA's enhanced cd specification? I highly doubt that Universal has plans to discontinue their use of cd text and promotional software on all future new releases.
From the RIAA Specification: "All "Enhanced CD" discs (including but not limited to Single Session, Multisession, "CD Extra") should be capable of playing on all CD audio players including home players, disc changers (jukebox, cartridge, carousel types, etc.), portable players, and car players. "
i'm not sure how or where you make the connection between unibomber styled anthrax delivery and the police being permitted to enter your home without your knowledge or consent... on a suspicion. they're two completely different issues. i mean... why not throw in a comment about abortion in response to this article?
understand this... these changes in law do not represent a direct or absolute threat to our way of life in the same way that random acts of terrorism do; but i find it impossible to believe that you are comfortable with the notion that your mail, email, car, home, pc, medical, financial and political records can now be accessed freely by any authority that has been given an anonymous tip that you might be a terrorist. the reality here is that(ie)this law, by extension, enables an angry ex-girlfriend armed with an FBI 1-800 number to have you investigated and/or incarcarated on a whim.
this is a sad turn of events. paranoia is a form of terror all it's own. if this new legislation doesn't make you feel paranoid... then you weren't bright enough to comment on this issue to begin with.
the technology has been out there for years. nowadays, you can buy a soundblaster card with opti or coax digital connects for around $40. digital outs on cd players are standard now... pure digital. and simple. on the other hand, affordable microphones have always been monural (mono).
okay. pc sound cards have audio in/out jacks. cd and dvd players, similarly, have audio in/out jacks. if you connect the audio out on your cd player to the audio in on your sound card? i mean... whatever. has no one at the RIAA ever visited a radio shack? encrypt my ergo-flattened ass.
Note to the RIAA: if it can be heard on A set of speakers, it can be heard on ANY set of speakers. Your attempts to control and alter this defeats your very existence.
Instead or reporting the business dealings of these massive venture-cap corporations, why doesn't slashdot have the balls to report an advisory to make other connectivity arrangements?
_DSL is a crazy world of nonsense, incompetance and excuses. Most times, it takes months to get a line installed. Beyond that, it usually takes days or weeks to actually get the service to work correctly.
Covad is obviously going under. Northpoint is as well. When these CO's are closed, users never (never ever) have a reasonable amount of time to re-order the service from another provider and end up reverting to dialup while they wait for another confused provider to complicate their lives.
Instead of talking about bankruptcy and low share trades, wouldn't it be nice if someone would just spell it out: Time is running out on your current carrier. Go find a new one... immediately.
if this guy's opinions and attitude are at all indicative of the overal mood, feel and attitude at openBSD, why do they bother marketing the products at all? if he were any more elitist, i doubt that he would have bothered to reply at all. i mean: all of his programmers are sloppy and stupid; the end-users aren't bright enough to use it anyway, so why bother to explain it; selective development based on personal interest; exceptionally poor documentation is acceptable because we [he] know what we're doing; learn to program better if you can't make it work? did he *try* to be abrasive, prickish and condescending?
if these responses are the best that he can do, he might better prove his intellectual superiority by opting to hand those questions over to someone who will answer them; rather than letting us know why he isn't going to answer them... in longform.
folks, this interview is strongly representative of the precise reason that OpenBSD can exist as a superior OS, but hold such a minimal share of users and interest within the *nix community.
As it stands now, there is no assurance of quality or guarantee of availability in any media product that I am aware of.
Remember the LP? I don't recall the recording industry putting together an upgrade program to aide you in converting your lo-fi audio to the higher fidelity quality of the cassette or the compact disc. Instead, you are expected to either continue to deal with an inferior product or pay full price a second time for the privelage of enjoying something that you've already paid for. And, remember this, folks... they expect that you'll willingly offer up an additional $20 for the title because they've finally figured out how to get the item to sound or look better, not because the copyrighted material has changed in any sense of a change worthy of introducing it as a new product. Fact is, a consumer group should have filed actions years ago, demanding compensation for parties who have been forced to buy an inferior product and then forced to buy that product a second time so that they can have a the quality of recording that the manufacturers claimed to have provided to begin with.
Anti-circumvention technologies violate your licensed rights as a comsumer if you are attempting to preserve (even, justify) your investment.
Until the MPAA and the RIAA address their own quality issues, I will continue to make illegal copies of items that I have legally purchased. It is my right as the license holder of a specific title to take whatever measures I have available to me in order to assure that my money does not go to waste.
I won't even mention the whole notion of items that copyright holders have opted to allow to go "out of print."
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all apologies for my previous comment. somehow (don't ask) i hit submit instead of preview... i've had a long habit of starting a response post, looking it over and editing it.. and re-editing it, etc. most of the time, i end up not bothering to post at all because i'm able to 'think' myself out of a thoughtless flame, or have otherwise resolved whatever it is that i wanted to comment on... in short, i was playing around with an idea, and hit the wrong button.
in any event.. i wanted to apologize. hopefully you took no offense (guaging from your response, you weren't too terribly put out).
thank you for not taking my half-thought out mishap personally.
i use mozilla and i don't use a wheel mouse.
your UI criticism shows that you didn't take more than a moment to look at the program (at best).
mozilla's got the most user-configure-able UI for a windows browser that i've ever seen. if anything, the UI is so overlaiden with UI options that it can take weeks to determine how you truly want it to look/behave.
just because you don't have to think about it, doesn't make it better... ever heard of the phrase "dumbing down??" or did a popup ad interrupt your concentration that day?
That is all.
less tax revenue that way. see? our government definitely needs less spare change... it's pretty safe to assume that the FBI's blowing their budget to shit right now, in an effort to collect as much inane mall shopping data as is possible before the law gets thrown out and that whole pesky 'privacy' thing rears it's horridly maimed head.
and to think; i was hoping to keep my shopping trips to WAL*MART a secret from all of my friends, ad infinitum. but, thanks to the FBI, soon everyone will know about that kooky rollback pricing.
okay. is anybody else tired of scrolling through these SCO stories for the funny comments?
i mean... they're a stoner's dream and all, but sorting through all the comments from people who are taking this SCO lawsuit thing seriously is getting tedious.
oh, and to the mod gods: whatever it was that i did to offend you.. i am so sorry.
Doesn't this new policy violate the RIAA's enhanced cd specification? I highly doubt that Universal has plans to discontinue their use of cd text and promotional software on all future new releases.
From the RIAA Specification: "All "Enhanced CD" discs (including but not limited to Single Session, Multisession, "CD Extra") should be capable of playing on all CD audio players including home players, disc changers (jukebox, cartridge, carousel types, etc.), portable players, and car players. "
You can read the full spec. sheet here
i'm not sure how or where you make the connection between unibomber styled anthrax delivery and the police being permitted to enter your home without your knowledge or consent... on a suspicion. they're two completely different issues. i mean... why not throw in a comment about abortion in response to this article?
understand this... these changes in law do not represent a direct or absolute threat to our way of life in the same way that random acts of terrorism do; but i find it impossible to believe that you are comfortable with the notion that your mail, email, car, home, pc, medical, financial and political records can now be accessed freely by any authority that has been given an anonymous tip that you might be a terrorist. the reality here is that(ie)this law, by extension, enables an angry ex-girlfriend armed with an FBI 1-800 number to have you investigated and/or incarcarated on a whim.
this is a sad turn of events. paranoia is a form of terror all it's own. if this new legislation doesn't make you feel paranoid... then you weren't bright enough to comment on this issue to begin with.
the technology has been out there for years. nowadays, you can buy a soundblaster card with opti or coax digital connects for around $40. digital outs on cd players are standard now... pure digital. and simple. on the other hand, affordable microphones have always been monural (mono).
okay. pc sound cards have audio in/out jacks. cd and dvd players, similarly, have audio in/out jacks. if you connect the audio out on your cd player to the audio in on your sound card? i mean... whatever. has no one at the RIAA ever visited a radio shack? encrypt my ergo-flattened ass.
Note to the RIAA: if it can be heard on A set of speakers, it can be heard on ANY set of speakers. Your attempts to control and alter this defeats your very existence.
Instead or reporting the business dealings of these massive venture-cap corporations, why doesn't slashdot have the balls to report an advisory to make other connectivity arrangements?
_DSL is a crazy world of nonsense, incompetance and excuses. Most times, it takes months to get a line installed. Beyond that, it usually takes days or weeks to actually get the service to work correctly.
Covad is obviously going under. Northpoint is as well. When these CO's are closed, users never (never ever) have a reasonable amount of time to re-order the service from another provider and end up reverting to dialup while they wait for another confused provider to complicate their lives.
Instead of talking about bankruptcy and low share trades, wouldn't it be nice if someone would just spell it out: Time is running out on your current carrier. Go find a new one... immediately.
if this guy's opinions and attitude are at all indicative of the overal mood, feel and attitude at openBSD, why do they bother marketing the products at all? if he were any more elitist, i doubt that he would have bothered to reply at all. i mean: all of his programmers are sloppy and stupid; the end-users aren't bright enough to use it anyway, so why bother to explain it; selective development based on personal interest; exceptionally poor documentation is acceptable because we [he] know what we're doing; learn to program better if you can't make it work? did he *try* to be abrasive, prickish and condescending?
if these responses are the best that he can do, he might better prove his intellectual superiority by opting to hand those questions over to someone who will answer them; rather than letting us know why he isn't going to answer them... in longform.
folks, this interview is strongly representative of the precise reason that OpenBSD can exist as a superior OS, but hold such a minimal share of users and interest within the *nix community.
As it stands now, there is no assurance of quality or guarantee of availability in any media product that I am aware of.
Remember the LP? I don't recall the recording industry putting together an upgrade program to aide you in converting your lo-fi audio to the higher fidelity quality of the cassette or the compact disc. Instead, you are expected to either continue to deal with an inferior product or pay full price a second time for the privelage of enjoying something that you've already paid for. And, remember this, folks... they expect that you'll willingly offer up an additional $20 for the title because they've finally figured out how to get the item to sound or look better, not because the copyrighted material has changed in any sense of a change worthy of introducing it as a new product. Fact is, a consumer group should have filed actions years ago, demanding compensation for parties who have been forced to buy an inferior product and then forced to buy that product a second time so that they can have a the quality of recording that the manufacturers claimed to have provided to begin with.
Anti-circumvention technologies violate your licensed rights as a comsumer if you are attempting to preserve (even, justify) your investment.
Until the MPAA and the RIAA address their own quality issues, I will continue to make illegal copies of items that I have legally purchased. It is my right as the license holder of a specific title to take whatever measures I have available to me in order to assure that my money does not go to waste.
I won't even mention the whole notion of items that copyright holders have opted to allow to go "out of print."