The justification is simple that this is (childishly clumsy) propaganda aimed at Israel and the USA, and according to the Quran and Hadith, it's absolutely fine to lie to, cheat and swindle infidels.
Poor show, Google. You had a chance to stare these dinosaurs down, and instead you chose to subsidise their legacy industry by giving in to their blackmail demands.
That is the way it's done in Europe, and in socialist France in particular, but I had hoped that Google of all entities would be an agent for changing that busted system.
Right, because that one thing that press and commentards chose to fasten on to like pit bulls was his only idea.
Painting buildings and vehicles white is such a no-brainer in a hot climate that it's barely worth commenting on before implementing, let alone sardonic eye rolling.
So, were they lying then, or are they lying now? Either way, we seem to be getting different story from anonymous PR bunnies in unspecified divisions.
Me, I get the vague impression that Uncle Fester is losing his grip, and that Microsoft's System Lords are preparing to carve mini-empires out of the wreckage when it comes off the rails.
Coulton says that he licensed rights to perform and distribute the original. Presumably Fox did that too.
Coulton then produced a distinctively transformed version, creating new rights in his composition.
Fox then used Coulton's distinctive composition (possibly even a straight rip-n-play) without licensing, permission, thanks or acknowledgement, except a surly "Damn hippy should be grateful for the publicity, not that we meant to give him any".
Serious question: why pay top dollar to educate, and start people off in adult life with hundreds of thousands of debt, when you can just import people whom other countries have paid to educate?
Where's the downside? Bonus point if you avoid a slippery slope "Yehbut, eventually..." argument.
The Slashdot "editors" were replaced a decade ago by Very Small Shell Scripts written by Rob Malda's frat buddies. You're as well trying to win an argument with ELIZA.
You can "combine" as many penny-ante distros as you like, but Debian, by which I mean Mint (and I guess still Ubuntu) gives them by far the most penetration.
This is a beta. Once they've got the edges properly smoothed off on the distros that Joe User actually has, they can extend it to the tag-alongs.
Hey, I had a P4 "laptop". Actually sold as a "desktop replacement", which I guess it was, if you wanted to replace your desktop with something about the same weight that screamed like a banshee and cooked anything placed within a foot of its fan outlets.
I'm with you: shizzle be fast enough. I've just bought a new gaming rig to replace my 5 year old Athlon XP, also a bit of a screamer. I plumped for an i3 rather than an i5 or i7, to get more clocks per active core per buck. It's never come near to using its 8GB of RAM, and the HDD was the cheapest 500GB that I could find with a 64MB cache. It's more than capable of playing anything in my Steam library with all the options cranked to 11, while running whisper quiet and cool.
A major consideration in upgrading was first securing a copy of Win 7 (thanks, MSDN!) to replace the XP on the old box, on because I will be God damned if I'm paying Redmond a penny for their jumped up gaming OS. The only USP of Windows is now DirectX and acting as a Steam client as far as I'm concerned. If they slough off "entertainment" and take their eye off of that ball then, really, what do they have left?
$200 consoles do just fine, really. And you can use any old beige boxen you have lying around for so much more than just games.
OK, I agree with you, I've just upgraded my gaming + other stuff box, but you can be sure that it got my MSDN Windows 7 on it (for, you know, evaluation). However, I'm posting this from my wife's rinky dink little nettop (remember those?), freshly resurrected with another GB of RAM, a re-glooping of thermal paste. It's been upgraded over the years from (the sticker proudly boasts) "Windows Vista Basic" to Windows XP then Mint LXDE.
But even my gaming box is essentially just a Steam client now. If Valve launch a decent "console", this could really mark the end of my PC purchases. We're a dying breed.
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USPTO, please read the Goddamn Constitution.
Then refer them to Arkell v. Pressdram.
The justification is simple that this is (childishly clumsy) propaganda aimed at Israel and the USA, and according to the Quran and Hadith, it's absolutely fine to lie to, cheat and swindle infidels.
What the Dickens are you on about?
You never get rid of the Frog.
Poor show, Google. You had a chance to stare these dinosaurs down, and instead you chose to subsidise their legacy industry by giving in to their blackmail demands.
That is the way it's done in Europe, and in socialist France in particular, but I had hoped that Google of all entities would be an agent for changing that busted system.
Right, because that one thing that press and commentards chose to fasten on to like pit bulls was his only idea.
Painting buildings and vehicles white is such a no-brainer in a hot climate that it's barely worth commenting on before implementing, let alone sardonic eye rolling.
So, were they lying then, or are they lying now? Either way, we seem to be getting different story from anonymous PR bunnies in unspecified divisions.
Me, I get the vague impression that Uncle Fester is losing his grip, and that Microsoft's System Lords are preparing to carve mini-empires out of the wreckage when it comes off the rails.
Hurrah, it's already in a vaccum!
-1 Confusing. I've played football in my yard, you don't need 100 of them to make a field.
But what will this signify for my extensive opium and tiger pelt holdings in the East India Company?
Sounds like some sort of Flintstones / Jetsons crossover.
Aren't they also having trouble filling vacancies toiling in the iFactories? Consider it as training.
Coulton says that he licensed rights to perform and distribute the original. Presumably Fox did that too.
Coulton then produced a distinctively transformed version, creating new rights in his composition.
Fox then used Coulton's distinctive composition (possibly even a straight rip-n-play) without licensing, permission, thanks or acknowledgement, except a surly "Damn hippy should be grateful for the publicity, not that we meant to give him any".
All the good genes emigrated. What's left is the dross (hello from Sunny East Kilbride). It's really that simple.
Serious question: why pay top dollar to educate, and start people off in adult life with hundreds of thousands of debt, when you can just import people whom other countries have paid to educate?
Where's the downside? Bonus point if you avoid a slippery slope "Yehbut, eventually..." argument.
You know what they say. Kill one nerd and you're a monster. Kill a hundred and you're ready to be the Attorney General.
Bingo. When folks start viewing you as ersatz Nazis, perhaps you should question your choices rather than theirs.
If not, why not?
It's OK, apply the MS Excel fix: just add 2038.
The Slashdot "editors" were replaced a decade ago by Very Small Shell Scripts written by Rob Malda's frat buddies. You're as well trying to win an argument with ELIZA.
You can "combine" as many penny-ante distros as you like, but Debian, by which I mean Mint (and I guess still Ubuntu) gives them by far the most penetration.
This is a beta. Once they've got the edges properly smoothed off on the distros that Joe User actually has, they can extend it to the tag-alongs.
Aside, I'm pretty sure that anyone minded to try Steam for Linux isn't going to be using Windows 8.
Great rant, A-.
Hey, I had a P4 "laptop". Actually sold as a "desktop replacement", which I guess it was, if you wanted to replace your desktop with something about the same weight that screamed like a banshee and cooked anything placed within a foot of its fan outlets.
I'm with you: shizzle be fast enough. I've just bought a new gaming rig to replace my 5 year old Athlon XP, also a bit of a screamer. I plumped for an i3 rather than an i5 or i7, to get more clocks per active core per buck. It's never come near to using its 8GB of RAM, and the HDD was the cheapest 500GB that I could find with a 64MB cache. It's more than capable of playing anything in my Steam library with all the options cranked to 11, while running whisper quiet and cool.
A major consideration in upgrading was first securing a copy of Win 7 (thanks, MSDN!) to replace the XP on the old box, on because I will be God damned if I'm paying Redmond a penny for their jumped up gaming OS. The only USP of Windows is now DirectX and acting as a Steam client as far as I'm concerned. If they slough off "entertainment" and take their eye off of that ball then, really, what do they have left?
It also contains a split infinitive. I don't care how incisive the analysis is, the author is a cad and a boor and has no place in Forbes.
$200 consoles do just fine, really. And you can use any old beige boxen you have lying around for so much more than just games.
OK, I agree with you, I've just upgraded my gaming + other stuff box, but you can be sure that it got my MSDN Windows 7 on it (for, you know, evaluation). However, I'm posting this from my wife's rinky dink little nettop (remember those?), freshly resurrected with another GB of RAM, a re-glooping of thermal paste. It's been upgraded over the years from (the sticker proudly boasts) "Windows Vista Basic" to Windows XP then Mint LXDE.
But even my gaming box is essentially just a Steam client now. If Valve launch a decent "console", this could really mark the end of my PC purchases. We're a dying breed.