Aqua certainly is out on vinyl -- if that's an issue for you I'd have thought you'd have looked.
Even Aqua's one single successful song, however long ago _that_ was, sucked, and so did the video, and their mothers wear army boots.
In the world of techno/dance, vinyl is still the dominant medium -- CDs are what the music is collected on for sale in Tower Records the year _after_ it stops being fashionable.
Given that the semantic web has been in development for years, and that the opinions(*) have long ago finished forming, I'm a little confused as to what this is doing on a news site.
(*) Said opinions break down roughly thus:
1% -- This is an amazing new way of percieving and connecting data that will revolutionize computing in the future. 9% -- This is a waste of time, a clearly impossible task that would seem of interest only to a certain breed of dysfunctional academics. 90% -- Huh?
Erm, what he is doing is portraying MS as a menacing, hostile force. Which is kind of his job. In other news, MS spokesmen portray Netscape in a negative light...
Resident Evil (the first one) was an excellent movie, beautifully paced and choreographed (dogs and doors sequence!). Given the director's record in general, this must have been a coincidence, but still, great movie.
I haven't seen the others you mention but I may decide to give them a miss -- SPECIALLY the Resident Evil sequel.
Well, you didn't bother to find out what copyright infringement is, or indeed to consult any relevant legal resource at all, or indeed to spell, but as this is _such_ a common problem I'm putting some links together. I must admit that by the time you're old enough to understand them the law may have changed.
There really ought to be a copyright law FAQ that someone can post a link to after each 'I know nothing about law but copyright violation _is_ theft, it _is_, for I truly _believe_ it is!' post -- but I couldn't find one.
Short:
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/archives/000183.html
Long but freindly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/28/copying_ is _theft_and_other/
I agree that it _sounds like it to you_. I and countless others have tried to explain the actual difference which is enshrined in the law of your country for _how_ long now?
Honestly, it's like trying to teach quantum physics to a guppy.
Except, of course, that in the case of movies you're not stealing but infringing copyright, a completely seperate area of law from theft.
Now, the question is, is there a way to develop some kind of virus that spreads between these poor retarded kids who can't grasp basic legal disinctions like copyright infringement / theft, and that educates each one of them before spreading to infect two or more further idiots? Because there's way too many of them to bring them up to speed manually.
I think my TV's busted if not this country's dusted 'cause I think I saw 7 Mary 3, and they were on the MTV They were telling the people to rock the what?
Talentless hippies, Hootie wannabees, Southern fried kings of mediocrity
Now let me get this straight you want MTV viewers, the worlds biggest losers, to vote?
the idea's wrong in fact there ought to be a law if you can sit through a Silverchair video you shouldn't be allowed to vote at all
It's quite telling that you pick two obscure, nitpicky issues while ignoring vastly bigger things such as ASCII dependency and the lack of a component system.
...is Steve Ballmer. Seriously. They put a marketeer in charge -- bankruptcy at 11.
Ballmer's appointment marked a switch from customer focus and innovation (all the GNU type people should go off and hate me quietly in a corner at this point) to concept focus and buzzwords. It's amazing to think that there was a time (early-mid 90's) when if I wanted a vendor who'd actually listen and do stuff, I wanted MS. Now, they literally can't make a single statement without chanting a mantra -- 'developers! xml! digital nervous system! drm!' and getting actual action from them is like blood from a stone. Actual development units remain largely unchanged -- but they simply aren't running the show now.
It's a tragedy of classic proportions, with Microsoft as the protagonist and Ballmer as the hubris that drives him to his fatal excesses -- and maybe IBM/Linux as the nemesis waiting around the corner.
I am _so_ not looking forward to everything being run by IBM again:/
This article tries to turn the sow's ear of an overstretched metaphor into the silk purse of a pithy comment, but winds up counting it's chickens in a castle built on sand as the skeletons in the closet come home to roost.
That's great -- now that the high school hordes have kazaa AND edonkey, I can keep right on using the good networks with even less chance of legal trouble and Britney Spears pr0n.
Again I profit from the folly of my inferiors! Muahahahahah! Ahahah... harrumph. Hm. Right, well, back to my desk then.
And what about what the Chechnian's did to Russia?
Er, it was Russia that invaded Chechnya (and the other causcasian regions) and has been wiping out the indigenous population and replacing them with Russians and Cossacks. That school thing looks pretty small by comparison.
I think the point is that paying you and the other guy to guard the nuke didn't cost anything (to speak of) and didn't cause any PR issues, whereas excavating this one will cost a fair bit and will publicise the fact that they left a decaying nuke next to a town in the first place:)
Probably better to hope it enters the water supply during someone else's watch.
Look at Slashdot -- remember that 'mushroom cloud over Korea' thread and how many enlightned technologically-aware people instantly suggested nuking north korea and maybe a few other places they'd heard about one time on Fox?
Destructive as the government has been, it's nothing to the actual people. That's why the people don't govern directly.
Slashdot Mirror
Aqua certainly is out on vinyl -- if that's an issue for you I'd have thought you'd have looked.
Even Aqua's one single successful song, however long ago _that_ was, sucked, and so did the video, and their mothers wear army boots.
In the world of techno/dance, vinyl is still the dominant medium -- CDs are what the music is collected on for sale in Tower Records the year _after_ it stops being fashionable.
Given that the semantic web has been in development for years, and that the opinions(*) have long ago finished forming, I'm a little confused as to what this is doing on a news site.
(*) Said opinions break down roughly thus:
1% -- This is an amazing new way of percieving and connecting data that will revolutionize computing in the future.
9% -- This is a waste of time, a clearly impossible task that would seem of interest only to a certain breed of dysfunctional academics.
90% -- Huh?
Actually, anyone who would make fun of someone for using a particular operating system pretty much doesn't count...
What horrible English!
Addendum:
Using expressions such as 'save for' does not necessarily make you a good writer. It _does_ make you look a bit full of yourself, though...
Erm, what he is doing is portraying MS as a menacing, hostile force. Which is kind of his job. In other news, MS spokesmen portray Netscape in a negative light...
Oh. Hmm, in that case I guess I will see it.
If it's good, I'll owe you a beer.
But if it's NOT good... your very LIFE shall be FORFEIT!!
Yay, this is what's so good about BBSes -- both sides can dictate terms unilaterally!
Resident Evil (the first one) was an excellent movie, beautifully paced and choreographed (dogs and doors sequence!). Given the director's record in general, this must have been a coincidence, but still, great movie.
I haven't seen the others you mention but I may decide to give them a miss -- SPECIALLY the Resident Evil sequel.
Well, you didn't bother to find out what copyright infringement is, or indeed to consult any relevant legal resource at all, or indeed to spell, but as this is _such_ a common problem I'm putting some links together. I must admit that by the time you're old enough to understand them the law may have changed.
There really ought to be a copyright law FAQ that someone can post a link to after each 'I know nothing about law but copyright violation _is_ theft, it _is_, for I truly _believe_ it is!' post -- but I couldn't find one.
Short:
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/archives/000183.htm
Long but freindly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/28/copying
Misc:
http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?section=gues
An interesting thing to consider for anyone who has an interest in law is the effect of the NET act:
http://eric_goldman.tripod.com/articles/nljneta
I agree that it _sounds like it to you_. I and countless others have tried to explain the actual difference which is enshrined in the law of your country for _how_ long now?
Honestly, it's like trying to teach quantum physics to a guppy.
Except, of course, that in the case of movies you're not stealing but infringing copyright, a completely seperate area of law from theft.
Now, the question is, is there a way to develop some kind of virus that spreads between these poor retarded kids who can't grasp basic legal disinctions like copyright infringement / theft, and that educates each one of them before spreading to infect two or more further idiots? Because there's way too many of them to bring them up to speed manually.
I think my TV's busted
if not this country's dusted
'cause I think I saw 7 Mary 3,
and they were on the MTV
They were telling the people to rock the what?
Talentless hippies, Hootie wannabees,
Southern fried kings of mediocrity
Now let me get this straight
you want MTV viewers,
the worlds biggest losers,
to vote?
the idea's wrong
in fact there ought to be a law
if you can sit through a Silverchair video
you shouldn't be allowed to vote at all
--The Vandals
It's quite telling that you pick two obscure, nitpicky issues while ignoring vastly bigger things such as ASCII dependency and the lack of a component system.
It's a Bob Calvert reference.
Ballmer's appointment marked a switch from customer focus and innovation (all the GNU type people should go off and hate me quietly in a corner at this point) to concept focus and buzzwords. It's amazing to think that there was a time (early-mid 90's) when if I wanted a vendor who'd actually listen and do stuff, I wanted MS. Now, they literally can't make a single statement without chanting a mantra -- 'developers! xml! digital nervous system! drm!' and getting actual action from them is like blood from a stone. Actual development units remain largely unchanged -- but they simply aren't running the show now.
It's a tragedy of classic proportions, with Microsoft as the protagonist and Ballmer as the hubris that drives him to his fatal excesses -- and maybe IBM/Linux as the nemesis waiting around the corner.
I am _so_ not looking forward to everything being run by IBM again
Blurring the line between merriness -- and MADNESS!
browse websites that can ONLY be viewed properly in IE.
Such as the world's largest bbs, 2ch.net. Doesn't work in Firefox. ARGH.
This article tries to turn the sow's ear of an overstretched metaphor into the silk purse of a pithy comment, but winds up counting it's chickens in a castle built on sand as the skeletons in the closet come home to roost.
That's great -- now that the high school hordes have kazaa AND edonkey, I can keep right on using the good networks with even less chance of legal trouble and Britney Spears pr0n.
Again I profit from the folly of my inferiors! Muahahahahah! Ahahah... harrumph. Hm. Right, well, back to my desk then.
8 gigabits = 1 gigabyte
I use a PDP-9, you insensitive clod!
Seriously, there is a fair amount of non-8-bit hardware out there... That's why we have MIME types that speak of 'octets' rather than 'bytes'.
These are breasts; this is source code.
Why do you have a problem with those two things belonging to one person?
Because that person can't count.
Both the facts above are correct, in Opposites World, the wacky world where everything is frack-to-bont!
In the real world, they're rubbish, but you knew that you wicked lil' troll you
And what about what the Chechnian's did to Russia?
Er, it was Russia that invaded Chechnya (and the other causcasian regions) and has been wiping out the indigenous population and replacing them with Russians and Cossacks. That school thing looks pretty small by comparison.
Vote libertarian!!
Yeah, free market forces would have recovered that bomb in no time!
I think the point is that paying you and the other guy to guard the nuke didn't cost anything (to speak of) and didn't cause any PR issues, whereas excavating this one will cost a fair bit and will publicise the fact that they left a decaying nuke next to a town in the first place
Probably better to hope it enters the water supply during someone else's watch.
I agree.
Look at Slashdot -- remember that 'mushroom cloud over Korea' thread and how many enlightned technologically-aware people instantly suggested nuking north korea and maybe a few other places they'd heard about one time on Fox?
Destructive as the government has been, it's nothing to the actual people. That's why the people don't govern directly.