If the coffee was hot enough to give third degree burns as many have mentioned, how was it not dangerously hot?
I think you're relying on yet another idiotic oversimplification so you can pretend you have a point.
Considering the stab at "liberal propoganda", I can only assume you're yet moron who thinks that their ignorance and oversimplification counts as "right wing", when only enlightened students of history can truly take up the monkier truthfully.
Go stab yourself in the face. The world will thank you for once.
And most people wait until they know history before critisising.
The tobacco companies went through hell and high water to stop the truth that cigarettes are deadly from getting out. Look it up, recall how long a person dying of cancer will have had to smoke, and you may have a greater appreciation for the beauty of the punishment doled out to the cigarette companies.
Also, there's the price to be paid in the fact that very very few p2p programs are very safe; most fill your machine with crap, and others can utterly saturate your connection, crippling the internet.
Fast Food is an interesting one because the more calories you can give to your customers cheaper, the better chance that they'll return soon to consume more.:)
The joke is that by using the textbook definition of liberal, you are utilizing the traditional meaning of the word, which is, by following the traditional definition of conservative, a conservative thing to do.
Liberal (adj.) - open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Figures a conservative wackjob like you would bring up the dictionary definition of Liberal.(the joke is in the dictionary definition of conservative):P
(Actually, neither the naieve, childish "liberals" nor the ignorant, selfish, childish "conservatives" fit either worldview in my opinion. They're so far up their own asses that both traditional views of liberalism and conservatism are now thrown under the wierd blanket term "moderate", while the radical nutjobs without any real affiliation to the philosophy they espouse hijack the words to mean things they were never meant to mean....)
The DMCA only prohibits circumvention for the purpose of copyright infringement, as far as I understand. That's why the X-Box linux project hasn't been killed to death.
Get off your high horse. I am certain that you've jaywalked at some point in your life, a crime about as bad as personal copyright infringement. Hell, there are a lot of laws out there, I would stake money on the fact that you've certainly broken your fair share of them, you sick bastard.:P
You should re-examine whose misconception is here -- I've never seen anyone on slashdot advocate real-world property theft. I can sell a rock or a stick or a pile of dirt without any IP rights at all! If I take a picture of said rock, stick, dirt, no hassles, I have a picture of dirt! Yaay! The CD is just some refined dirt, after all.:)
"Listen guys, we've been over this a thousand times before. We don't really want to sell music, we want to screw people, and you guys selling popular music at reasonable prices really cuts into the number of college kids we can sue for downloading music!"
Listen, if you REALLY want a web browser that barely runs in text mode, or has very basic 1 bit(or even 4 bit! Look at 'em all!) graphical text and such, options *are* available. Realistically though, comparing a super optimized game designed to run with a single low resolution, low bitdepth, and utilizing every trick possible to appear to use more data than it actually has will always do better than a program designed to run in 1600x1200x32 utilizing a huge variety of different file formats including several different text parsers, a dozen raster image formats, math markup languages, vector image formats, extensibility, and more!
I appreciate good optimization as much as the next guy (I did 16-bit dos game development until just this year!), but you're comparing apples to oranges here. A basic html parser with limited to no graphics support(at a limited resolution and bitdepth as well) and limited font and image format support could absolutely be done on an old machine. In fact, there are text/limited graphics html parsers out there which run just fine on an 8088 or 286(lynx comes immediately to mind), but they SUCK, because they're designed to be limited.
A commodore 64 was **NOT** ready when you turned it on in the same sense that a Windows XP box is ready. If it was, you'd be running gwbasic on ms-dos, which is comperable in startup time to the C64 (even though the BIOS tends to do more checks, which makes sense, and neither program is kept in BIOS ROM, unlike MS Basic on the C64).
When people speak of bloat, it's usually from the latest and greatest software. If you truly believe it's bloat, go ahead and install Windows 3.1 (or even Windows 95 or 98 with the 98lite microgui), and use THAT on your machine. Hell, install it on a ramdrive in some of your 512MB of memory. I guarantee you it'll be as fast as you can click. Just don't try to make use of your computer for much, because you'll quickly discover that much bloat is just the natural evolution of usable softare.
I mean, the floppy QNX doesn't even support 2 methods of getting on the internet at once(and how many ethernet cards and modems are supported? A handful). It's a nice looking demo, but it's a demo regardless.
I don't know about others here, but I pay my cable bill every month, which in my view authorizes me to watch those TV shows. Frankly, the idea that downloading a show rather than taping it is immoral and illegal is insulting.
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That's because you're unenlightened. (JOKE!)
Actually, a new gpl'd basic that is 99.9% source compatible was released, so it is. :)
http://www.freeBASIC.net
What about the Queen of England? Sure she doesn't use the power she has, but she holds a helluva lot of power regardless.
If the coffee was hot enough to give third degree burns as many have mentioned, how was it not dangerously hot?
I think you're relying on yet another idiotic oversimplification so you can pretend you have a point.
Considering the stab at "liberal propoganda", I can only assume you're yet moron who thinks that their ignorance and oversimplification counts as "right wing", when only enlightened students of history can truly take up the monkier truthfully.
Go stab yourself in the face. The world will thank you for once.
And most people wait until they know history before critisising.
The tobacco companies went through hell and high water to stop the truth that cigarettes are deadly from getting out. Look it up, recall how long a person dying of cancer will have had to smoke, and you may have a greater appreciation for the beauty of the punishment doled out to the cigarette companies.
Did you know that you have to spend ten thousand dollars to use the song "Happy Birthday" in a movie?
Also, there's the price to be paid in the fact that very very few p2p programs are very safe; most fill your machine with crap, and others can utterly saturate your connection, crippling the internet.
Fast Food is an interesting one because the more calories you can give to your customers cheaper, the better chance that they'll return soon to consume more. :)
Or...you could...I dunno....try this Open Source remake of privateer....seeing as it's here and all. :P /me shrugs
I dunno.
It's a sad state of affairs when nobody gets the joke.
The joke is that by using the textbook definition of liberal, you are utilizing the traditional meaning of the word, which is, by following the traditional definition of conservative, a conservative thing to do.
Liberal (adj.) - open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Figures a conservative wackjob like you would bring up the dictionary definition of Liberal.(the joke is in the dictionary definition of conservative)
(Actually, neither the naieve, childish "liberals" nor the ignorant, selfish, childish "conservatives" fit either worldview in my opinion. They're so far up their own asses that both traditional views of liberalism and conservatism are now thrown under the wierd blanket term "moderate", while the radical nutjobs without any real affiliation to the philosophy they espouse hijack the words to mean things they were never meant to mean....)
but I digress...
There is no excuse other than age to use the words "slack ass" in a sentence. :P
My ancientness is showing -- I haven't been paying enough attention, I guess. ^ ^
The DMCA only prohibits circumvention for the purpose of copyright infringement, as far as I understand. That's why the X-Box linux project hasn't been killed to death.
Get off your high horse. I am certain that you've jaywalked at some point in your life, a crime about as bad as personal copyright infringement. Hell, there are a lot of laws out there, I would stake money on the fact that you've certainly broken your fair share of them, you sick bastard. :P
You're undoubtedly older than the parent poster, who just used the words "slack ass" in a sentence.
You should re-examine whose misconception is here -- I've never seen anyone on slashdot advocate real-world property theft. I can sell a rock or a stick or a pile of dirt without any IP rights at all! If I take a picture of said rock, stick, dirt, no hassles, I have a picture of dirt! Yaay! The CD is just some refined dirt, after all. :)
"Listen guys, we've been over this a thousand times before. We don't really want to sell music, we want to screw people, and you guys selling popular music at reasonable prices really cuts into the number of college kids we can sue for downloading music!"
Listen, if you REALLY want a web browser that barely runs in text mode, or has very basic 1 bit(or even 4 bit! Look at 'em all!) graphical text and such, options *are* available. Realistically though, comparing a super optimized game designed to run with a single low resolution, low bitdepth, and utilizing every trick possible to appear to use more data than it actually has will always do better than a program designed to run in 1600x1200x32 utilizing a huge variety of different file formats including several different text parsers, a dozen raster image formats, math markup languages, vector image formats, extensibility, and more!
I appreciate good optimization as much as the next guy (I did 16-bit dos game development until just this year!), but you're comparing apples to oranges here. A basic html parser with limited to no graphics support(at a limited resolution and bitdepth as well) and limited font and image format support could absolutely be done on an old machine. In fact, there are text/limited graphics html parsers out there which run just fine on an 8088 or 286(lynx comes immediately to mind), but they SUCK, because they're designed to be limited.
You're comparing apples to banquets here.
A commodore 64 was **NOT** ready when you turned it on in the same sense that a Windows XP box is ready. If it was, you'd be running gwbasic on ms-dos, which is comperable in startup time to the C64 (even though the BIOS tends to do more checks, which makes sense, and neither program is kept in BIOS ROM, unlike MS Basic on the C64).
When people speak of bloat, it's usually from the latest and greatest software. If you truly believe it's bloat, go ahead and install Windows 3.1 (or even Windows 95 or 98 with the 98lite microgui), and use THAT on your machine. Hell, install it on a ramdrive in some of your 512MB of memory. I guarantee you it'll be as fast as you can click. Just don't try to make use of your computer for much, because you'll quickly discover that much bloat is just the natural evolution of usable softare.
I mean, the floppy QNX doesn't even support 2 methods of getting on the internet at once(and how many ethernet cards and modems are supported? A handful). It's a nice looking demo, but it's a demo regardless.
The floppy disk couldn't even fit the video file.
I don't know about others here, but I pay my cable bill every month, which in my view authorizes me to watch those TV shows. Frankly, the idea that downloading a show rather than taping it is immoral and illegal is insulting.
Do you think data springs from the ether? The log is filled with incoming connections.
Because I'm a man of the people. :P