You mean to tell me that RMS is urging developers to use GNU's license? Yeah, sure...I suppose next you'll try to convince me that Redhat is urging people to use RPM, or TimeWarner is urging me to use AOL. Why is RMS urging us to use a license he created / helped create news worthy? Or is it only because he's RMS, and it's ok to bash him? Fucking slashbots..."MS is evil, they want everything proprietary...RMS is evil, he wants everything free..."
the part about him being a former MS employee was directly quoted from the submitter, not inserted there by michael. I know it's slashdot reader policy to not read the story, but at least read the fucking summary on the front page before flaming away...
Probably because making such a stink about it brings it to the attention of your average joe. I'm sure a lot of people didn't know about napster until it was all over the media for being evil. Wave it under their noses, show them it's there, then when they get hooked on the free stuff, take it away and they'll pay for your product to get it. Kind of like how a drug dealer works...
even if someone did...hell, even if they BELONGED there...you know they'd just mysteriously disappear. I'm sure there must be fringe benefits to being the guy that gives the bureau all of it's power...
Well, in that case, mission #2 would go something like:
*Watch football game *Choke on pretzel *Forget to mention to New Yorkers that some dumbfuck is about to crash planes into you
Oh, wait...that's only if you're the fucking president.
btw, show some respect for our dead soldiers. They are, after all, protecting YOUR interests. We're not fighting for ourselves - the world doesn't hate US...
Your analogy is flawed, since movies are actually sold. They make money on vhs, whereas they don't make money on p2p trading (yet). I agree that it's stupid to fight the free advertising. Problem is they want control. Radio works because you hear what they want you to. They don't care that you're not paying for it, because you only hear what they dictate. With p2p, you get to hear whatever you feel like downloading. Oh, and the other thing is that they ARE potentially losing customers. The people who download and don't buy. They may have actually bought the album if they couldn't preview it to find out that the rest of it sucked. Mind you, that's a shitty business model (hook 'em with one catchy tune, make 'em buy an album full of crap to get the good one)
fantastic. I'm glad they have a nice *program*. Now let's compare the number of actual users and files shared on the network. I'd bet kazaa wins that one no problem.
Somehow, a slashdot post criticizing someone for bashing MS seems like the NRA trying to accuse Texans of being obsessed with guns. Talk about the pot and the kettle...
I'll avoid the obvious bashing of pro-MS comments, since there are thousands of others who will take that on. But seriously, console over computer for a lan party? You can't play strategy since everyone else can see what you're doing (if you're all on the same tv...and if you're not, then a portable console is no good if you have to lug around televisions). And even if you're not playing strategy, why would you want to share a television screen with someone else for a fps or even racing? About the only good multiplayer you can have with a console is arena fighting, like Mortal Kombat, or something like Super Smash Brothers Melee, which is the best reason ever to own a console. Other than that, lan parties are the way to go.
Thank god. I thought *I* was the only one who hated that system. I was in Montreal last summer and I got lost every single damn day. Wonderful city, amazing food, beautiful architecture, but the highway system was hell. Traffic moving along at 120 km does not bode well for those trying to hit a 7m ramp.
And a big congrats to you as well. As noted *in the article* he freelances as a signmaker. So your comment about making a sign on your own not being that easy doesn't hold much water. For the record, I do signmaking for a living and I can tell you that making the actual sign couldn't have taken more than a couple hours, start to finish. And how is it any more of an artwork because he got away with it? How many murderers get away with their crimes for years? Does that qualify them as artists? And since it just clarified directions that should have been there in the first place, it's even easier to go unnoticed.
Surely you can see how something as simple as your choice of TLDs makes your site more secure. I just wish I didn't have one of those oh-so-easily-hackable dot-coms to deal with...they're so insecure. If only all other TLDs could provide the security of dot pro. And on another note, I couldn't help but see the "LOL" in your post and think that I should try to get that to be universally accepted as a TLD for humour sites, then charge exorbitant prices for it. After all, no other TLD can ensure as much funny for the money as ".LOL"
Visa's not cold and hard, it's warm and comforting. It's the *bill* that's cold and hard. At least that's how it works with my mastercard. Oh yeah, and the Spiderman score by Danny Elfman is friggin' amazing, but hey, so's everything else of his. How many times have we heard that same sentiment, that people would readily pay 25-50 cents (or more) per track for music they liked, so long as they didn't get stuck with a disc full of absolute garbage? Why is it then the suits only half listen, and give us shitty swapping services (pressplay, the new napster, and so on) with "high quality" 128 kbit fucking encoded trash? Of *course* your service will fail when you only offer top 40 at low bitrates. Either these people are really really stupid, or they're really really smart - I just can't figure out which.
If you're the adventurous type you can get it to run under wine, but I've only gotten it to work when I had a full windows install on another partition and kazaalite installed there. And it was still quite a bit of work.
My spare cpu cycles and bandwidth are being used to cure cancer, which I think is a slightly better use of it than for some dipshit's piggyback trojan.
Not to bash the stupid people of the world, but if you're paying for bandwidth by the mb, wouldn't you be best off not using kazaa in the first place? I'm not sure what the rates are like but it seems that would be a rather frivolous use of by-the-byte bandwidth.
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I've seen Dark Angel, but I was always more fond of Manticore's software than their hardware...
I think it was BSD, but I'm not entirely sure.
You mean to tell me that RMS is urging developers to use GNU's license? Yeah, sure...I suppose next you'll try to convince me that Redhat is urging people to use RPM, or TimeWarner is urging me to use AOL. Why is RMS urging us to use a license he created / helped create news worthy? Or is it only because he's RMS, and it's ok to bash him? Fucking slashbots..."MS is evil, they want everything proprietary...RMS is evil, he wants everything free..."
the part about him being a former MS employee was directly quoted from the submitter, not inserted there by michael. I know it's slashdot reader policy to not read the story, but at least read the fucking summary on the front page before flaming away...
Probably because making such a stink about it brings it to the attention of your average joe. I'm sure a lot of people didn't know about napster until it was all over the media for being evil. Wave it under their noses, show them it's there, then when they get hooked on the free stuff, take it away and they'll pay for your product to get it. Kind of like how a drug dealer works...
even if someone did...hell, even if they BELONGED there...you know they'd just mysteriously disappear. I'm sure there must be fringe benefits to being the guy that gives the bureau all of it's power...
could it be?
um, on topic...let's see...
yeah, free cds...wooo!
Well, in that case, mission #2 would go something like:
*Watch football game
*Choke on pretzel
*Forget to mention to New Yorkers that some dumbfuck is about to crash planes into you
Oh, wait...that's only if you're the fucking president.
btw, show some respect for our dead soldiers. They are, after all, protecting YOUR interests. We're not fighting for ourselves - the world doesn't hate US...
Your analogy is flawed, since movies are actually sold. They make money on vhs, whereas they don't make money on p2p trading (yet). I agree that it's stupid to fight the free advertising. Problem is they want control. Radio works because you hear what they want you to. They don't care that you're not paying for it, because you only hear what they dictate. With p2p, you get to hear whatever you feel like downloading. Oh, and the other thing is that they ARE potentially losing customers. The people who download and don't buy. They may have actually bought the album if they couldn't preview it to find out that the rest of it sucked. Mind you, that's a shitty business model (hook 'em with one catchy tune, make 'em buy an album full of crap to get the good one)
fantastic. I'm glad they have a nice *program*. Now let's compare the number of actual users and files shared on the network. I'd bet kazaa wins that one no problem.
Somehow, a slashdot post criticizing someone for bashing MS seems like the NRA trying to accuse Texans of being obsessed with guns. Talk about the pot and the kettle...
Some of us just enjoyed the video games...
The Dune game that was like warcraft (erect buildings, build army, kill foes) was the first pc game I ever bought, I think...
Your points labeled "first", "second" and "fourth" all seem valid, but the third one...
If he can't figure out his finances without software, what makes you think he could figure out perl?
I'll avoid the obvious bashing of pro-MS comments, since there are thousands of others who will take that on. But seriously, console over computer for a lan party? You can't play strategy since everyone else can see what you're doing (if you're all on the same tv...and if you're not, then a portable console is no good if you have to lug around televisions). And even if you're not playing strategy, why would you want to share a television screen with someone else for a fps or even racing? About the only good multiplayer you can have with a console is arena fighting, like Mortal Kombat, or something like Super Smash Brothers Melee, which is the best reason ever to own a console. Other than that, lan parties are the way to go.
Thank god. I thought *I* was the only one who hated that system. I was in Montreal last summer and I got lost every single damn day. Wonderful city, amazing food, beautiful architecture, but the highway system was hell. Traffic moving along at 120 km does not bode well for those trying to hit a 7m ramp.
Hey, that's MY sig, but I've always heard it being attributed to Voltaire. Anybody know who's quote it really is?
And a big congrats to you as well. As noted *in the article* he freelances as a signmaker. So your comment about making a sign on your own not being that easy doesn't hold much water. For the record, I do signmaking for a living and I can tell you that making the actual sign couldn't have taken more than a couple hours, start to finish. And how is it any more of an artwork because he got away with it? How many murderers get away with their crimes for years? Does that qualify them as artists? And since it just clarified directions that should have been there in the first place, it's even easier to go unnoticed.
...the existing documented Windows OS APIs...
I didn't think such things existed...
Yeah, really. Who in their right mind would want to be associated, if only by TLD, with lawyers?!? *shudder*
Surely you can see how something as simple as your choice of TLDs makes your site more secure. I just wish I didn't have one of those oh-so-easily-hackable dot-coms to deal with...they're so insecure. If only all other TLDs could provide the security of dot pro. And on another note, I couldn't help but see the "LOL" in your post and think that I should try to get that to be universally accepted as a TLD for humour sites, then charge exorbitant prices for it. After all, no other TLD can ensure as much funny for the money as ".LOL"
Visa's not cold and hard, it's warm and comforting. It's the *bill* that's cold and hard. At least that's how it works with my mastercard. Oh yeah, and the Spiderman score by Danny Elfman is friggin' amazing, but hey, so's everything else of his.
How many times have we heard that same sentiment, that people would readily pay 25-50 cents (or more) per track for music they liked, so long as they didn't get stuck with a disc full of absolute garbage? Why is it then the suits only half listen, and give us shitty swapping services (pressplay, the new napster, and so on) with "high quality" 128 kbit fucking encoded trash? Of *course* your service will fail when you only offer top 40 at low bitrates. Either these people are really really stupid, or they're really really smart - I just can't figure out which.
If you're the adventurous type you can get it to run under wine, but I've only gotten it to work when I had a full windows install on another partition and kazaalite installed there. And it was still quite a bit of work.
My spare cpu cycles and bandwidth are being used to cure cancer, which I think is a slightly better use of it than for some dipshit's piggyback trojan.
Not to bash the stupid people of the world, but if you're paying for bandwidth by the mb, wouldn't you be best off not using kazaa in the first place? I'm not sure what the rates are like but it seems that would be a rather frivolous use of by-the-byte bandwidth.