One more thing, every system needs different settings for Audacity to use the sound card properly as a recording device. Choose "Sound Mixer" from the drop down box under the Microphone/Input slider. Click on the Edit menu, choose Preferences, select a recording device. Look for the name of your sound card here like "Sound Blaster AWE64" or whatever. For channels, choose at least two for stereo recording.
Do a test run of playing a music file while recording. Bump the speaker slider control all the way up, and move the microphone/input slider to a level where the audio data maxes out in waves but does not go over the range. If you cannot get the range all the way up, you can select the whole data recording and choose the Effect menu and use Amplify to boost the levels. If you do it right, you can find the sweet spot that your Audacity will record music for you at proper levels.
Yes MP3 exports requires the LAME library which can be downloaded from the link to the Audacity site. OGG format is supported because it is a F/OSS standard.
It takes practice, and you have to tweak the settings as I described above. If you set everything up correctly, you have a sound studio on your PC that can record music from iTunes or any other music player. Even web based music players will work with this. No need to pay for commercial audio grabber programs when Audacity is F/OSS.
#1 Download Audacity or some other F/OSS audio program that allows you to capture and edit sounds from your sound card.
#2 Buy MP3 Freeplay Songs from Apple iTunes for your iPod or to play on iTunes.
#3 Open up Audacity, select your sound card output as the source, check the volume. Get the record button ready on a new audio file. Hit the record button in Audacity and hit the play button on iTunes, when the iTunes program is finished playing the song, stop the recording and cut out the silence between the song playing and "Export" to MP3 or OGG or whatever format you wish to export to. (Might need the LAME library to make a MP3)
#4 You now have a MP3 or OGG file without any DRM, quality may vary. Play it on your Non-Freeplay, Linux, OS/2, BeOS, whatever system or music player.
If the RIAA and Apple throws a hissy fit about this, reference the MPAA verses BetaMax case and the RIAA verses Casette recorders case, and see how TiVO brought about digital rights to make recordings of TV shows, movies, songs, etc as long as you paid for access to them first or got them off a free broadcast.
Remember as long as you own the rights to listen to a song, you have a right to a backup. This method does not remove DRM, nor does it crack it, in fact it does not even modify the original SafePlay file, all it does is make a standard audio file recording of the audio file you have the rights to listen to anyway. The downside is that it takes a long while to convert your collection over that way, but the upside is that it is not costly to do so.
Somehow I got signed up to Friendster against my will. They allowed someone to register with my email address without email varification when they first started out their service. I marked all of the messages as spam, because I did not sign up for the service. Then I found out after people were sending me messages that were weird that someone was chatting with them online and the replies would go to my address. So I reset the password and had the account deleted because they used my email address in the first place. I get stuff like that from Qads and other sites, I never signed up for. It ticks me off that social networking sites allow people to register with my info without even verifying who they are. I should sue or something. The person who did it, had an IP that traced back to China or some other Asian nation, though, so I am not sure how a lawsuit might take place there.
Actually I have been ranting since 1995 against Macintoshes. I used to own a few. Oddly enough every rant I had suggested changes that Apple eventually took. In 1995 I suggested that Apple try to port MacOS to the Intel platform and see which system sold better. To add in DMA, USB, 15 pin SVGA ports, etc. After the Mactel systems came out, I really had nothing left to rant about. The Mactels ran Mac OSX, *nix, Windows, etc. The only problem was the price, and that $599 Mac Mini cuts that rant in half. Damn you Steve Jobs, for not giving me anything left to rant about, damn you sir! Can I buy a damn Mac Mini from you Steve, will I be forgiven then?
there are tons of liberal bloggers out there attacking conservatives, some of them even make fake MySpace account profiles for conservatives. What is to stop the conservatives from filing libel lawsuits against the liberal bloggers? I mean there are tons of smear websites and liberal blogs that defame conservatives, well to be honest there are conservative blogs that defame liberals, but liberals are in the majority on the Internet. So all a conservative need do is contact a lawfirm to issue subpeonas to the owners of all liberal blogs that write defaming comments about them. Possibly some of the bloggers will settle out of court and remove the ofending blog entries, others will fight it and exhaust their legal funds. Then after bloggers are targeted, conservatives decide to subpeana newspapers and liberal newspaper editors. It needs a name, and I'll call it the Libel Lottery.
#3 Sell my non-Linux compatible system for a Linux one and run Linux instead.
#4 That $599 Mac Mini is looking pretty good despite my previous Anti-Apple rants of the past decade. This Vista Fascism may be enough to get me to switch.
#5 Buy Vista Ultimate, because all of the games and business applications and other stuff I need/want to use only run with Vista, and I cannot work with limitations.
Sadly, I think most people will opt for #5, and that is what Microsoft is counting on. That is why Microsoft cripples the uses for the lower end Vistas to force people into buying the higher end Vistas.
Anyone remember the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST/TT/Mega systems? If only they decided to port AmigaDOS/AmigaOS and TOS/GEM to the Intel platform before Windows became really really popular in the 1990's. That way there would be no OS Fascism and Microsoft would have had a good run for their money.
Wait a month after January 30, 2007 and visit Pricewatch for the OEM versions, I'll be needing to buy more memory and possibly a new motherboard and CPU anyway to run Vista. My laptop would need a memory upgrade as well, but the graphics on it do not support the new GUI features. I might keep XP on the laptop and trade it in for a new laptop with Vista pre-installed on it after a year or two after Vista comes out when they start making good deals and trade-in offers.
Actually Evolution does not threaten religion as it does not mention if God exists or not. What threatens religion is when professors and teachers teaching Evolution state that it proves that God does not exist, is what threatens religion. Using Evolution to teach Atheism is a violation of the seperation of church and state.
I call BS then, because people have used that FCK* key that millions of people use and got the pirated message from WGA files when they use the original Windows XP install disk and not the P2P pirate version.
Unless he used a key generator program instead and made an original key that nobody else is using, he is bullshitting because I know of cases where people used a pirated key and I had to get them to buy a real copy of XP Home Edition once I found out. It is just too much of a hassle to keep updating the OS each month with a new WGA crack for a lot of noobs I have to deal with that are asking for help. Either that or it was a VLK key he used, which bypasses activation and WGA checks.
Obviously the P2P Pirate edition of XP uses the VLK and has modified the legitcontrol.dll, wgatray.exe, and wga*.dll files to not report a WGA violation.
Want to really test the WGA? Use your original copy of Windows XP and search the Internet for a known CD-Key and install with that key that millions of other people have used. Then watch as the retail or OEM version of Windows with unpatched WGA files reports you as a pirate.
Ninja Pirate Hackers and Crackers have modified the WGA files with something called MSIL that is like assembly language. For example if a valid key is found, you might have a comparision done and a JNE to 2000:1345 which calls the part of the code that turns on the "Your copy of Windows is not legit" function. Turn that JNE 2000:1345 into a NOP and the comparison does not match and the program does not jump into the Anti-Pirate code. Or change it to a JE 2000:1345 and if a valid key is found it jumps to the Anti-Pirate code and if an invalid key it does not. Or just take the code at 2000:1345 that turns on the Pirated bit and fill it with NOPs. I am just guessing here, I could be wrong, but I think the pirated version of Windows and those WGA-Fix patches do those sort of things.
Meanwhile my legit copy of Windows XP has to have the WGA spyware on it to get updates from Microsoft. Yeah Windows Update and Microsoft Update require that I install WGA in order to use them. If not, no updates from the web. WGA trashed my fast user switching after it got installed. I can see the WGA files eating my system memory, CPU cycles, and using up bandwidth to report back to Microsoft, yes folks it is spyware. I would guess the pirate version of the WGA Fixed files remove the spyware as well.
Not only that I heard that the pirate version of XP has special tweaks and bug fixes that the retail and OEM versions do not have. Yet your chances of malware infections are greater with the pirate version, because you never know who last modified it before you got a copy. So beware.
The problem is I have to insert myself into the story like HST did. That turns people off and annoys them. Which is why Gonzo Journalism isn't that popular anymore. I write it on various forums, scoop sites, etc. I do cover technology and other things.
While not on drugs like HST, I do suffer from mental illnesses that give me a HST type style.
So you want to change the Pirate Edition of Windows XP into a legit edition. School facility giving out pirated copies of Windows XP is a new one on me. Anyway you might have to back up all data files, and then do a reinstall because the pirate version of Windows has modifications in it if it was gotten off of a P2P file sharing network, and possible your copy you bought might not match the one the school faculity gave your parents. I think the repair option to reinstall the OS should do the trick, just save your data files first in case it eats the hard drive and forces you to reformat.
Shiver me timbers, arrrrrrrhhhhh, what have ye got against pirates anyway?:)
The RIAA and MPAA don't kick down doors. Not when they have lawyers that can serve subpoena s over the Internet or in person, or to your ISP to get your personal contact info to serve a subpoena to you in real space. Oh by the way, it isn't really criminal charges, but a civil lawsuit that says you deprived them of income by copying a song or movie without permission. You might not go to jail, but you might owe them a lot of money. If you confess over the Internet like on Slashdot, the RIAA or MPAA can subpoena Slashdot to get your IP address and then subpoena your ISP for your personal info so they can serve you the subpoena in person.
Have a nice day, Pirate, you just got served a subpoena over the Internet.
No, not really, but if I did work for the RIAA or MPAA serving subpoenas, you'd be in trouble.
Microsoft will never work out the bugs in order to meet the deadline. We may never see Windows Vista unless it is released with the bugs.
What are the odds of the following things happening before Windows Vista is released?
ReActOS 1.0 is released.
Windows XP SP3 is released.
IBM releases the OS/2 source code to open source.
Duke Nuke'em Forever is released.
The Linux based Indrema game console is released.
Enron comes back from the dead.
SCO makes OpenLinux their main OS and drops the Linux lawsuits.
Mac OSX takes over marketshare from Windows and gains 80% of the market.
George W. Bush pulls US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and signs a peace treaty with the middle-east, and cuts military spending to pay for more welfare programs, and lets the UN police nation states while the USA sits out of foreign policy.
Jesus returns, resserects John and George for a Beatles Reunion Tour.
in my MTG deck. 0/2 creatures with flying. I never knew they actually worked. I thought they were some crackpot invention that didn't really fly and was a MTG joke.
Switch PS3 for Mac Mini, and Sony for Apple, and you just figured out Apple's marketing stradgedy.
Apple knows that people will pay more for a Macintosh than a PC. If the Mac Mini costs $600 and the generic PC clone costs $300, Apple knows that millions of people will buy a Mac Mini anyway despite it being twice the price of the low-end PC. The low-end PC being one without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse like the low end Mac the Mac Mini.
Apple also knows that people will buy a $5000 Macintosh system with all the features and software for video editing, even if that low-end PC with lower quality hardware can also edit video with an el-cheapo video capture card for less than $1000.
I guess Sony is trying to say, like Apple does, that its products have a superior quality to them, and are easier to use, and thus worth the extra money to buy them. Sony seems to think that the Blu-Ray technology alone is worth the $600 price of a PS3, because every movie that Sony's Movie division releases to home video will be on the Blu-Ray DVD format and not be able to be played on HD-DVD and standard DVD players.
because natural human thinking is flawed and chaotic, people ought to be taught Critical Thinking. I already posted a lengthy answer on this. Here it is republished to Slashdot:
It won't be easy. If chaos is the problem, then order is the solution. Human beings are not predictable to scientific theory and formulas, they are more complex than that. Your question is difficult to answer without going into non-science related areas like philosophy, religion, emotions, critical thinking, and psychology.
It is a given that human beings are not computers that can be reprogrammed. However, human beings can be taught and educated. If the human race is to come to order, we would need to be taught and trained in order. It would have to succeed where religion, philosophy, psychology, etc have failed. I talked about critical thinking previously, which I believe may be a possible answer. Critical thinking is not biased by religion, philosophy, emotions, and allows a human being to order their thoughts and find a better way of thinking. Yes the current methods of thinking are flawed, and hence we have a chaotic method of human thinking. Critical thinking is not all logic, but it does use logic. Critical thinking is not about ignoring your emotions, but by using your emotions to sense things and as a thinking tool.
With chaotic thinking, human beings cannot follow a budget or control their spending which leads to poverty. With chaotic thinking human beings try to solve their conflicts with violence. With chaotic thinking, human beings cannot properly take care of themselves and allow their health to get worse. With chaotic thinking human beings only think of themselves and not of others. With chaotic thinking human beings waste energy, food, and other things.
With critical thinking, human beings learn how to follow a budget and save money nd learn to live within their incomes and also help out others financially. With critical thinking human beings learn that there are other ways to settle conflicts than violence, and that violence should be a last resort and that compromise can be taken before violence. With critical thinking human beings learn to be responsible for their actions and behavior, which leads to fewer health issues. With critical thinking, human beings learn how to help out other human beings and be kind and generous to them. With critical thinking, human beings learn how to manage their resources to save energy, food, etc.
Many colleges teach critical thinking, but not everyone follows it. If critical thinking was taught in grade school and high school, as well as free classes offered for adults who lack college educations, maybe more people can become critical thinkers?
To make the answer to your question simple, we just need to change our way of thinking and learn to think about everyone else in the world and how to take responsibility for our actions and behaviors.
AOL is to Normal ISPS that the Macintosh is to the Windows PC. AOL is designed to be so easy to use that even morons can use it. All one needs to do is install the AOL client from an AOL install disk that can be found everywhere and the CD Autoinstall program does that for them.
AOL then becomes an easy to use search engine and media file finder for people too stupid to use Google and BitTorrent.
AOL rips off dial-up users with that $24.99 a month rate, but now wants to provide AOL software for free to existing dial-up and broadband users. I guess they want to expand their market, because the AOL software is really spyware/adware and the more people they can get to use it, the bigger their data collection on web usage becomes that they can sell to other companies.
Well I own legit versions of XP. After the WGA was installed, somehow my Terminal Services service stopped working, and it disabled my fast user switching. WGA says I have a legit version of Windows, but seems to have done something bad to my system after it installed. Plus every week XP downloads a new version of WGA, wasting my bandwidth and eating up my resources.
Microsoft just ought to offer a cheaper version of XP and improve that CD-KEY formula so it isn't as easy to reverse engineer.
I've known people who were using MSDN copies of XP that they paid for with a MSDN license than somehow WGA finds as not legit. I am not sure why, but yes there seems to be some false positives. Even at.001% that is still a lot of people getting screwed by Microsoft because they bought a legit copy and WGA says it is not legit.
Once ReactOS goes to version 1.0, I think I'll be switching over to it.
Well Vista has been worked on, for how long now? It isn't really a whole new OS from scratch, it still has some design flaws that XP and other Windows have like the BSOD, resource memory glitches, API flaws, and other things. I noticed all of them in the beta, if it is a rewrite, then Microsoft is making the same stupid mistakes they made in the older versions of Windows.
ReactOS is an OS written from scratch, but working with the WINE development team to impliment API calls and versions of DLLs found in Windows written from scratch to support the known API calls. Because it does not support the undocumented API calls, it has some problems. Because it is a new OS written from scratch it only has a 32M RAM needed to run it, verses the 512M needed for Vista which may contain legacy code etc. The way Vista is being delayed, ReactOS might actually make a 1.0 release before we see a Vista release unless Microsoft starts cutting out features.
Oh BTW, Vista breaks a lot of legacy programs, so Microsoft will force people to buy new software anyway. All the better for Microsoft who makes most of the software that Windows users buy anyway.
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One more thing, every system needs different settings for Audacity to use the sound card properly as a recording device. Choose "Sound Mixer" from the drop down box under the Microphone/Input slider. Click on the Edit menu, choose Preferences, select a recording device. Look for the name of your sound card here like "Sound Blaster AWE64" or whatever. For channels, choose at least two for stereo recording.
Do a test run of playing a music file while recording. Bump the speaker slider control all the way up, and move the microphone/input slider to a level where the audio data maxes out in waves but does not go over the range. If you cannot get the range all the way up, you can select the whole data recording and choose the Effect menu and use Amplify to boost the levels. If you do it right, you can find the sweet spot that your Audacity will record music for you at proper levels.
Yes MP3 exports requires the LAME library which can be downloaded from the link to the Audacity site. OGG format is supported because it is a F/OSS standard.
It takes practice, and you have to tweak the settings as I described above. If you set everything up correctly, you have a sound studio on your PC that can record music from iTunes or any other music player. Even web based music players will work with this. No need to pay for commercial audio grabber programs when Audacity is F/OSS.
Enjoy it, you music lovers!
#1 Download Audacity or some other F/OSS audio program that allows you to capture and edit sounds from your sound card.
#2 Buy MP3 Freeplay Songs from Apple iTunes for your iPod or to play on iTunes.
#3 Open up Audacity, select your sound card output as the source, check the volume. Get the record button ready on a new audio file. Hit the record button in Audacity and hit the play button on iTunes, when the iTunes program is finished playing the song, stop the recording and cut out the silence between the song playing and "Export" to MP3 or OGG or whatever format you wish to export to. (Might need the LAME library to make a MP3)
#4 You now have a MP3 or OGG file without any DRM, quality may vary. Play it on your Non-Freeplay, Linux, OS/2, BeOS, whatever system or music player.
If the RIAA and Apple throws a hissy fit about this, reference the MPAA verses BetaMax case and the RIAA verses Casette recorders case, and see how TiVO brought about digital rights to make recordings of TV shows, movies, songs, etc as long as you paid for access to them first or got them off a free broadcast.
Remember as long as you own the rights to listen to a song, you have a right to a backup. This method does not remove DRM, nor does it crack it, in fact it does not even modify the original SafePlay file, all it does is make a standard audio file recording of the audio file you have the rights to listen to anyway. The downside is that it takes a long while to convert your collection over that way, but the upside is that it is not costly to do so.
for when they put Uncyclopedia on mobile devices as well. I need access to the funny stuff as well.
Somehow I got signed up to Friendster against my will. They allowed someone to register with my email address without email varification when they first started out their service. I marked all of the messages as spam, because I did not sign up for the service. Then I found out after people were sending me messages that were weird that someone was chatting with them online and the replies would go to my address. So I reset the password and had the account deleted because they used my email address in the first place. I get stuff like that from Qads and other sites, I never signed up for. It ticks me off that social networking sites allow people to register with my info without even verifying who they are. I should sue or something. The person who did it, had an IP that traced back to China or some other Asian nation, though, so I am not sure how a lawsuit might take place there.
Actually I have been ranting since 1995 against Macintoshes. I used to own a few. Oddly enough every rant I had suggested changes that Apple eventually took. In 1995 I suggested that Apple try to port MacOS to the Intel platform and see which system sold better. To add in DMA, USB, 15 pin SVGA ports, etc. After the Mactel systems came out, I really had nothing left to rant about. The Mactels ran Mac OSX, *nix, Windows, etc. The only problem was the price, and that $599 Mac Mini cuts that rant in half. Damn you Steve Jobs, for not giving me anything left to rant about, damn you sir! Can I buy a damn Mac Mini from you Steve, will I be forgiven then?
there are tons of liberal bloggers out there attacking conservatives, some of them even make fake MySpace account profiles for conservatives. What is to stop the conservatives from filing libel lawsuits against the liberal bloggers? I mean there are tons of smear websites and liberal blogs that defame conservatives, well to be honest there are conservative blogs that defame liberals, but liberals are in the majority on the Internet. So all a conservative need do is contact a lawfirm to issue subpeonas to the owners of all liberal blogs that write defaming comments about them. Possibly some of the bloggers will settle out of court and remove the ofending blog entries, others will fight it and exhaust their legal funds. Then after bloggers are targeted, conservatives decide to subpeana newspapers and liberal newspaper editors. It needs a name, and I'll call it the Libel Lottery.
#1 Stay with Windows XP
#2 Use ReactOS when it gets a 1.0 release.
#3 Sell my non-Linux compatible system for a Linux one and run Linux instead.
#4 That $599 Mac Mini is looking pretty good despite my previous Anti-Apple rants of the past decade. This Vista Fascism may be enough to get me to switch.
#5 Buy Vista Ultimate, because all of the games and business applications and other stuff I need/want to use only run with Vista, and I cannot work with limitations.
Sadly, I think most people will opt for #5, and that is what Microsoft is counting on. That is why Microsoft cripples the uses for the lower end Vistas to force people into buying the higher end Vistas.
Anyone remember the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST/TT/Mega systems? If only they decided to port AmigaDOS/AmigaOS and TOS/GEM to the Intel platform before Windows became really really popular in the 1990's. That way there would be no OS Fascism and Microsoft would have had a good run for their money.
Wait a month after January 30, 2007 and visit Pricewatch for the OEM versions, I'll be needing to buy more memory and possibly a new motherboard and CPU anyway to run Vista. My laptop would need a memory upgrade as well, but the graphics on it do not support the new GUI features. I might keep XP on the laptop and trade it in for a new laptop with Vista pre-installed on it after a year or two after Vista comes out when they start making good deals and trade-in offers.
Actually Evolution does not threaten religion as it does not mention if God exists or not. What threatens religion is when professors and teachers teaching Evolution state that it proves that God does not exist, is what threatens religion. Using Evolution to teach Atheism is a violation of the seperation of church and state.
Oh oh, bats, your turn to drive pig****er! :)
I call BS then, because people have used that FCK* key that millions of people use and got the pirated message from WGA files when they use the original Windows XP install disk and not the P2P pirate version.
Unless he used a key generator program instead and made an original key that nobody else is using, he is bullshitting because I know of cases where people used a pirated key and I had to get them to buy a real copy of XP Home Edition once I found out. It is just too much of a hassle to keep updating the OS each month with a new WGA crack for a lot of noobs I have to deal with that are asking for help. Either that or it was a VLK key he used, which bypasses activation and WGA checks.
Autopatcher does not like me having SP2 installed and says my Windows XP is the wrong version and it refuses to run. Feh!
Obviously the P2P Pirate edition of XP uses the VLK and has modified the legitcontrol.dll, wgatray.exe, and wga*.dll files to not report a WGA violation.
Want to really test the WGA? Use your original copy of Windows XP and search the Internet for a known CD-Key and install with that key that millions of other people have used. Then watch as the retail or OEM version of Windows with unpatched WGA files reports you as a pirate.
Ninja Pirate Hackers and Crackers have modified the WGA files with something called MSIL that is like assembly language. For example if a valid key is found, you might have a comparision done and a JNE to 2000:1345 which calls the part of the code that turns on the "Your copy of Windows is not legit" function. Turn that JNE 2000:1345 into a NOP and the comparison does not match and the program does not jump into the Anti-Pirate code. Or change it to a JE 2000:1345 and if a valid key is found it jumps to the Anti-Pirate code and if an invalid key it does not. Or just take the code at 2000:1345 that turns on the Pirated bit and fill it with NOPs. I am just guessing here, I could be wrong, but I think the pirated version of Windows and those WGA-Fix patches do those sort of things.
Meanwhile my legit copy of Windows XP has to have the WGA spyware on it to get updates from Microsoft. Yeah Windows Update and Microsoft Update require that I install WGA in order to use them. If not, no updates from the web. WGA trashed my fast user switching after it got installed. I can see the WGA files eating my system memory, CPU cycles, and using up bandwidth to report back to Microsoft, yes folks it is spyware. I would guess the pirate version of the WGA Fixed files remove the spyware as well.
Not only that I heard that the pirate version of XP has special tweaks and bug fixes that the retail and OEM versions do not have. Yet your chances of malware infections are greater with the pirate version, because you never know who last modified it before you got a copy. So beware.
The problem is I have to insert myself into the story like HST did. That turns people off and annoys them. Which is why Gonzo Journalism isn't that popular anymore. I write it on various forums, scoop sites, etc. I do cover technology and other things.
While not on drugs like HST, I do suffer from mental illnesses that give me a HST type style.
So you want to change the Pirate Edition of Windows XP into a legit edition. School facility giving out pirated copies of Windows XP is a new one on me. Anyway you might have to back up all data files, and then do a reinstall because the pirate version of Windows has modifications in it if it was gotten off of a P2P file sharing network, and possible your copy you bought might not match the one the school faculity gave your parents. I think the repair option to reinstall the OS should do the trick, just save your data files first in case it eats the hard drive and forces you to reformat.
:)
Shiver me timbers, arrrrrrrhhhhh, what have ye got against pirates anyway?
The RIAA and MPAA don't kick down doors. Not when they have lawyers that can serve subpoena s over the Internet or in person, or to your ISP to get your personal contact info to serve a subpoena to you in real space. Oh by the way, it isn't really criminal charges, but a civil lawsuit that says you deprived them of income by copying a song or movie without permission. You might not go to jail, but you might owe them a lot of money. If you confess over the Internet like on Slashdot, the RIAA or MPAA can subpoena Slashdot to get your IP address and then subpoena your ISP for your personal info so they can serve you the subpoena in person.
Have a nice day, Pirate, you just got served a subpoena over the Internet.
No, not really, but if I did work for the RIAA or MPAA serving subpoenas, you'd be in trouble.
Microsoft will never work out the bugs in order to meet the deadline. We may never see Windows Vista unless it is released with the bugs.
What are the odds of the following things happening before Windows Vista is released?
ReActOS 1.0 is released.
Windows XP SP3 is released.
IBM releases the OS/2 source code to open source.
Duke Nuke'em Forever is released.
The Linux based Indrema game console is released.
Enron comes back from the dead.
SCO makes OpenLinux their main OS and drops the Linux lawsuits.
Mac OSX takes over marketshare from Windows and gains 80% of the market.
George W. Bush pulls US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and signs a peace treaty with the middle-east, and cuts military spending to pay for more welfare programs, and lets the UN police nation states while the USA sits out of foreign policy.
Jesus returns, resserects John and George for a Beatles Reunion Tour.
in my MTG deck. 0/2 creatures with flying. I never knew they actually worked. I thought they were some crackpot invention that didn't really fly and was a MTG joke.
Switch PS3 for Mac Mini, and Sony for Apple, and you just figured out Apple's marketing stradgedy.
Apple knows that people will pay more for a Macintosh than a PC. If the Mac Mini costs $600 and the generic PC clone costs $300, Apple knows that millions of people will buy a Mac Mini anyway despite it being twice the price of the low-end PC. The low-end PC being one without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse like the low end Mac the Mac Mini.
Apple also knows that people will buy a $5000 Macintosh system with all the features and software for video editing, even if that low-end PC with lower quality hardware can also edit video with an el-cheapo video capture card for less than $1000.
I guess Sony is trying to say, like Apple does, that its products have a superior quality to them, and are easier to use, and thus worth the extra money to buy them. Sony seems to think that the Blu-Ray technology alone is worth the $600 price of a PS3, because every movie that Sony's Movie division releases to home video will be on the Blu-Ray DVD format and not be able to be played on HD-DVD and standard DVD players.
Odds are, which one will be done first. Then the new odds would be which one is done right with the fewest bugs and security exploits.
I forgot the links.
Critical Thinking Web Site
Book on Critical Thinking
because natural human thinking is flawed and chaotic, people ought to be taught Critical Thinking. I already posted a lengthy answer on this. Here it is republished to Slashdot:
It won't be easy. If chaos is the problem, then order is the solution. Human beings are not predictable to scientific theory and formulas, they are more complex than that. Your question is difficult to answer without going into non-science related areas like philosophy, religion, emotions, critical thinking, and psychology.
It is a given that human beings are not computers that can be reprogrammed. However, human beings can be taught and educated. If the human race is to come to order, we would need to be taught and trained in order. It would have to succeed where religion, philosophy, psychology, etc have failed. I talked about critical thinking previously, which I believe may be a possible answer. Critical thinking is not biased by religion, philosophy, emotions, and allows a human being to order their thoughts and find a better way of thinking. Yes the current methods of thinking are flawed, and hence we have a chaotic method of human thinking. Critical thinking is not all logic, but it does use logic. Critical thinking is not about ignoring your emotions, but by using your emotions to sense things and as a thinking tool.
With chaotic thinking, human beings cannot follow a budget or control their spending which leads to poverty. With chaotic thinking human beings try to solve their conflicts with violence. With chaotic thinking, human beings cannot properly take care of themselves and allow their health to get worse. With chaotic thinking human beings only think of themselves and not of others. With chaotic thinking human beings waste energy, food, and other things.
With critical thinking, human beings learn how to follow a budget and save money nd learn to live within their incomes and also help out others financially. With critical thinking human beings learn that there are other ways to settle conflicts than violence, and that violence should be a last resort and that compromise can be taken before violence. With critical thinking human beings learn to be responsible for their actions and behavior, which leads to fewer health issues. With critical thinking, human beings learn how to help out other human beings and be kind and generous to them. With critical thinking, human beings learn how to manage their resources to save energy, food, etc.
Many colleges teach critical thinking, but not everyone follows it. If critical thinking was taught in grade school and high school, as well as free classes offered for adults who lack college educations, maybe more people can become critical thinkers?
To make the answer to your question simple, we just need to change our way of thinking and learn to think about everyone else in the world and how to take responsibility for our actions and behaviors.
AOL is to Normal ISPS that the Macintosh is to the Windows PC. AOL is designed to be so easy to use that even morons can use it. All one needs to do is install the AOL client from an AOL install disk that can be found everywhere and the CD Autoinstall program does that for them.
AOL then becomes an easy to use search engine and media file finder for people too stupid to use Google and BitTorrent.
AOL rips off dial-up users with that $24.99 a month rate, but now wants to provide AOL software for free to existing dial-up and broadband users. I guess they want to expand their market, because the AOL software is really spyware/adware and the more people they can get to use it, the bigger their data collection on web usage becomes that they can sell to other companies.
Well I own legit versions of XP. After the WGA was installed, somehow my Terminal Services service stopped working, and it disabled my fast user switching. WGA says I have a legit version of Windows, but seems to have done something bad to my system after it installed. Plus every week XP downloads a new version of WGA, wasting my bandwidth and eating up my resources.
.001% that is still a lot of people getting screwed by Microsoft because they bought a legit copy and WGA says it is not legit.
Microsoft just ought to offer a cheaper version of XP and improve that CD-KEY formula so it isn't as easy to reverse engineer.
I've known people who were using MSDN copies of XP that they paid for with a MSDN license than somehow WGA finds as not legit. I am not sure why, but yes there seems to be some false positives. Even at
Once ReactOS goes to version 1.0, I think I'll be switching over to it.
Well Vista has been worked on, for how long now? It isn't really a whole new OS from scratch, it still has some design flaws that XP and other Windows have like the BSOD, resource memory glitches, API flaws, and other things. I noticed all of them in the beta, if it is a rewrite, then Microsoft is making the same stupid mistakes they made in the older versions of Windows.
ReactOS is an OS written from scratch, but working with the WINE development team to impliment API calls and versions of DLLs found in Windows written from scratch to support the known API calls. Because it does not support the undocumented API calls, it has some problems. Because it is a new OS written from scratch it only has a 32M RAM needed to run it, verses the 512M needed for Vista which may contain legacy code etc. The way Vista is being delayed, ReactOS might actually make a 1.0 release before we see a Vista release unless Microsoft starts cutting out features.
Oh BTW, Vista breaks a lot of legacy programs, so Microsoft will force people to buy new software anyway. All the better for Microsoft who makes most of the software that Windows users buy anyway.