Its scary how much this mirrors Scientology. You pay more and more each time to get deeper into the system, and it seems you get more and more useless crap the deeper you go and the more you pay.
What does this mean? Is this just a big bunch of buzzwords for "file copying?" It sure sounds to me like it simply means you can copy from multiple devices (mp3 player ect).
Shouldn't it be able to do this already? Can't it do this already? If its a more strict definition (meaning it copies to about anything) then doesn't Mac OS X already meet this requirement, after all you can copy files (or content if you want to use the buzzwords) to or from about any device. Digital cameras, mp3 players, removable disks, you name it. Is this what M$ means?
Apple computer realized this a good while back. Steve Jobs himself even came out and said that the RIAA is wasting its time and money on this as no matter what they do, hard core pirates will find a way to steal music.
Gateway is only following Apple's lead, just the way the rest of the PC industry often follows their lead. Granted this is a good thing this time:)
Of course it isn't dead, the article was meant to be sarcastic I think.
On a slightly off topic note but I think it needs to be said for Mac users who read this thread:
BAD idea to delete your OS 9 install, even if you do not regularly use it. Recently OS X stopped working on my system and the only way I was able to fix it was to boot into OS 9 and remove a corrupted/System/Library/Extensions.mkext file.
It was the first time I had booted into OS 9 in over 9 months but I was glad I had that handy when I needed it.
No, there is always AmigaOS (which may be unix based now?) and BeOS and OS/2 and a slew of other OS's which probably never made it very far out of academia. But there are a few alternatives out there to Unix and Win32 based systems.
How long before there are enough Quake and Home Porn/Warez servers filling the airwaves with frags and grainy shots of Britney Spears to make it as slow as a 56k connection on a bad phone line.
Eww, just think, I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves. That alone might add credence to the celluar gives cancer argument.
Someone mentioned it in the forums yesterday. So yes it already was a great April 1st sounding thing which was actually true! I don't remember which one it was in and I can't be pained to go find and link to it but if you are interested, it is there... along with a comment that www.linux64.com is running IIS on a 2k server.
Wow, amazing lack of a sense of humor among the posters here... Will a bit of silly news and fun kill you one day out of the year? Lighten up and have a laugh guys!
Hmm, and while I'm blathering, is it just me or is everyone posting at a starting rating of 2 in this thread? Another April fools gag?
Really, take a look at Xenu.net and all the other pages out there which detail the stuff they do.
Just like Al Qaida they:
- Go after young impressionable people and turn them into zealots. - Have armed camps and compounds (See Gold Base) - Abuse the law and system as much as they can - Attack and threaten anyone who speaks out against them or tries to leave the organization - Meddle and infiltrate the government of their hosting countries. The Taliban in Afghanistan were also Al Qaida people to a large extent. The same is happening here, just look at the DA in California who went after Henson. Look at Clearwater Florida.
If we were really running a fully serious war on terrorism, we would have a couple of B1-B's level Gold base and the Navy would blow the Free Winds out of the fucking water. The FBI and CIA would fall upon Clearwater and put the town under martial law until they had rooted out the Scientologists there.
I think countries like Germany, Canada, France, and especially any Islamic countries should turn around and point a finger at the US and say, "Look, before you go waging war in other countries, why don't you take care of your own criminal organizations similar to Al Qaida?"
Really? Why aren't we looking as much into them as we are into Al Qaida? Especially after the stunt they pulled at Ground Zero after the attacks, trying to recruit by posing as medical workers.
I think its time that Bush and Co. took a look at home as much as they are abroad.
Unless they get them smart enough to be declared sentient, then he can go to jail instead of you. That would be fun, filling up the countrys prisons and courts with singing robots. They'd beg congress to repeal the DMCA then.
Then they either find something cheaper or they can scratch the itch themselves for free if they have the skills or resources.
If they can't do either of those, then they either do without, save money, or bite the bullet and spend the money.
Honestly, I just can't see justification of cracking shareware. These guys may not be living off of this, but it is their work and they are sometimes quite good at what they do. Some even contribute to the open source movement as well as having shareware on the side. These are the little guys we are always wanting to protect from Microsoft and other big companies. Yet it seems we can't even protect them from ourselves and that is pretty sad.
For most shareware it isn't a barrier at all! $15? $25? Please... that's the price of a pizza and maybe some beer. I've seen people bitch about $25 shareware and yet happily go blow twice that at the local pubs. Of course maybe the latter is more entertaining, but for some software, especially Ambrosia's games, it is well worth going dry for one weekend.
It isn't a problem if they use some service like Kagi. I've registered shareware via Kagi before and its about as easy as it gets. I got my response instantly and was up and running the software within 5 minutes of going to the Kagi page. I guess it depends on how they are handling payments. Maybe you should email them to make sure they can use something like Kagi before you buy.
Its actually ~520 light years away. I've seen figures ranging from 500 to 600 but it may be a difficult one to gauge the distance because it is of variable brightness (changes in brightness from day to day as it expands and shrinks).
More info here: http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/antx.html an d here http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980726.html
Still more than far enough away to not worry us. However when it does go supernova (I personally hope it already has blown up), it will be a spactacular show and will turn night into day for weeks or even months.
If you wonder what I meant by already has blown up, remember, it could have blown up already and we won't see it until the light gets here, which will be 520 or so years AFTER the actual event:)
Ok at the risk of losing a bit of Karma (it won't kill me and I'm not a coward afraid to take a Karma hit) I am going to reply to this and suggest something to you. I suggest that if you have a rant like this, put it on your web page and post a link in your signature so people who are interested can go there and then comment on their own. You can also create your own Journal on here and link to that. Or go create a Live Journal and link to the discussion there. Otherwise you risk becoming a troll or part of the noise yourself like you have here.
P.S. Just to save you a bit of time, you won't get anywhere with this. The trolls are a necessary evil if there is to be no (or in this case I'd argue limited, via scoring) censorship here. If you don't like them, don't browse at -1 and if one got through, hit refresh, I bet it will be gone within 2 minutes as the moderators keep up.
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Its scary how much this mirrors Scientology. You pay more and more each time to get deeper into the system, and it seems you get more and more useless crap the deeper you go and the more you pay.
What does this mean? Is this just a big bunch of buzzwords for "file copying?" It sure sounds to me like it simply means you can copy from multiple devices (mp3 player ect).
Shouldn't it be able to do this already? Can't it do this already? If its a more strict definition (meaning it copies to about anything) then doesn't Mac OS X already meet this requirement, after all you can copy files (or content if you want to use the buzzwords) to or from about any device. Digital cameras, mp3 players, removable disks, you name it. Is this what M$ means?
Apple computer realized this a good while back. Steve Jobs himself even came out and said that the RIAA is wasting its time and money on this as no matter what they do, hard core pirates will find a way to steal music.
:)
Gateway is only following Apple's lead, just the way the rest of the PC industry often follows their lead. Granted this is a good thing this time
Of course it isn't dead, the article was meant to be sarcastic I think.
/System/Library/Extensions.mkext file.
On a slightly off topic note but I think it needs to be said for Mac users who read this thread:
BAD idea to delete your OS 9 install, even if you do not regularly use it. Recently OS X stopped working on my system and the only way I was able to fix it was to boot into OS 9 and remove a corrupted
It was the first time I had booted into OS 9 in over 9 months but I was glad I had that handy when I needed it.
No, there is always AmigaOS (which may be unix based now?) and BeOS and OS/2 and a slew of other OS's which probably never made it very far out of academia. But there are a few alternatives out there to Unix and Win32 based systems.
Honestly, I've considered Windows an E-bomb for years. You as much as sneeze and it will bomb out on you as often as not.
How long before there are enough Quake and Home Porn/Warez servers filling the airwaves with frags and grainy shots of Britney Spears to make it as slow as a 56k connection on a bad phone line.
Eww, just think, I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves. That alone might add credence to the celluar gives cancer argument.
Someone mentioned it in the forums yesterday. So yes it already was a great April 1st sounding thing which was actually true! I don't remember which one it was in and I can't be pained to go find and link to it but if you are interested, it is there... along with a comment that www.linux64.com is running IIS on a 2k server.
Where everyone with Mod points got so fed up they started modding all the trolls and first posters to +5 :)
Now *THAT* was funny!
Wow, amazing lack of a sense of humor among the posters here... Will a bit of silly news and fun kill you one day out of the year? Lighten up and have a laugh guys!
Hmm, and while I'm blathering, is it just me or is everyone posting at a starting rating of 2 in this thread? Another April fools gag?
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Despite that they don't openly use guns and grenades, they still have managed to kill a lot of people, emotionally if not physically.
Here is an article about their interference at ground zero.
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http://cisar.org/010919a.htm
They also have been posing as mental health professionals:
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/08/Worldandnatio
or from their OWN MOUTHS here
http://www.scientology.org/message/Scientol
They claim to have been volunteering, but they were actually recruiting.
I'm surprised you only called them a cult. They are more than a cult, they are a full blown organized crime syndicate.
Really, take a look at Xenu.net and all the other pages out there which detail the stuff they do.
Just like Al Qaida they:
- Go after young impressionable people and turn them into zealots.
- Have armed camps and compounds (See Gold Base)
- Abuse the law and system as much as they can
- Attack and threaten anyone who speaks out against them or tries to leave the organization
- Meddle and infiltrate the government of their hosting countries. The Taliban in Afghanistan were also Al Qaida people to a large extent. The same is happening here, just look at the DA in California who went after Henson. Look at Clearwater Florida.
If we were really running a fully serious war on terrorism, we would have a couple of B1-B's level Gold base and the Navy would blow the Free Winds out of the fucking water. The FBI and CIA would fall upon Clearwater and put the town under martial law until they had rooted out the Scientologists there.
I think countries like Germany, Canada, France, and especially any Islamic countries should turn around and point a finger at the US and say, "Look, before you go waging war in other countries, why don't you take care of your own criminal organizations similar to Al Qaida?"
Really? Why aren't we looking as much into them as we are into Al Qaida? Especially after the stunt they pulled at Ground Zero after the attacks, trying to recruit by posing as medical workers.
I think its time that Bush and Co. took a look at home as much as they are abroad.
The Windows blue screen of death burned into my retinas for life.
Realdoll in itself sound scary, I've seen their website and their player. I don't think I would feel safe around one of their robots.
Perhaps they are forming an invasion.
Their army of robots will push us all down the stairs, and save us from the terrible secret of Cowboy Neal.
Unless they get them smart enough to be declared sentient, then he can go to jail instead of you. That would be fun, filling up the countrys prisons and courts with singing robots. They'd beg congress to repeal the DMCA then.
Then they either find something cheaper or they can scratch the itch themselves for free if they have the skills or resources.
If they can't do either of those, then they either do without, save money, or bite the bullet and spend the money.
Honestly, I just can't see justification of cracking shareware. These guys may not be living off of this, but it is their work and they are sometimes quite good at what they do. Some even contribute to the open source movement as well as having shareware on the side. These are the little guys we are always wanting to protect from Microsoft and other big companies. Yet it seems we can't even protect them from ourselves and that is pretty sad.
For most shareware it isn't a barrier at all! $15? $25? Please... that's the price of a pizza and maybe some beer. I've seen people bitch about $25 shareware and yet happily go blow twice that at the local pubs. Of course maybe the latter is more entertaining, but for some software, especially Ambrosia's games, it is well worth going dry for one weekend.
It isn't a problem if they use some service like Kagi. I've registered shareware via Kagi before and its about as easy as it gets. I got my response instantly and was up and running the software within 5 minutes of going to the Kagi page. I guess it depends on how they are handling payments. Maybe you should email them to make sure they can use something like Kagi before you buy.
Really? So what would happen when you panned the camera past say a poster for Star Wars... would it just leave a black hole in its place?
Hmm but then Knowing Hollywood, I bet it will put a banner ad in there instead.
Time to stock up on analog recording devices it seems...
Its actually ~520 light years away. I've seen figures ranging from 500 to 600 but it may be a difficult one to gauge the distance because it is of variable brightness (changes in brightness from day to day as it expands and shrinks).
n d here http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980726.html
:)
More info here:
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/antx.html
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Still more than far enough away to not worry us. However when it does go supernova (I personally hope it already has blown up), it will be a spactacular show and will turn night into day for weeks or even months.
If you wonder what I meant by already has blown up, remember, it could have blown up already and we won't see it until the light gets here, which will be 520 or so years AFTER the actual event
Ok at the risk of losing a bit of Karma (it won't kill me and I'm not a coward afraid to take a Karma hit) I am going to reply to this and suggest something to you. I suggest that if you have a rant like this, put it on your web page and post a link in your signature so people who are interested can go there and then comment on their own. You can also create your own Journal on here and link to that. Or go create a Live Journal and link to the discussion there. Otherwise you risk becoming a troll or part of the noise yourself like you have here.
P.S. Just to save you a bit of time, you won't get anywhere with this. The trolls are a necessary evil if there is to be no (or in this case I'd argue limited, via scoring) censorship here. If you don't like them, don't browse at -1 and if one got through, hit refresh, I bet it will be gone within 2 minutes as the moderators keep up.
Now back to the discussion at hand...