How many times do I have to say this?: no-one uses the kazaa client people use kazaa lite, not kazaa, its very simple, anyone who found out about kazaa also found out from their geek friends about kazaa lite.
This seems pretty disturbing itself, looking at that picture of the bed you can see a ghostly outline just detailed enough to make out a person which somone obviously spent quite allot of time editing out with a clone tool when really a black box would have done. It just seems a little ott?
Ok wait wait... Im missing something here? I don't live in the US so im going to assume that if a gun/hunting/knife shop sells weapons to a minor or some other store sells say fireworks or dangerous chemicals or even just porn to a minor then they loose their license and get fines of over $10,000 right? In fact I know thats right because if it wasn't that would make these people fucking retards?
Windows still has a few things going for it - it has a fast responsive gui (lets face it, KDE is like walking through shit), perhaps the best hardware support because everyone supports it because everyone else does. Also, applications come more often than not with easy to use installers so you can have something installed and ready to use within about 30 seconds of clicking next, to get most programs on most linux distros you have to first figure out if its available in your distros package format - eg dep or rpm, if it is then installing is pretty easy, although you're probably gonna have to figure out menu and desktop shortcuts yourself. However if its not packaged the chances are you're in for a make, 9 times out of 10 that means dependencies will be missing and must also be installed - a hassle that the user doesn't want, if it can't be installed easily on the spot the average user will give up in a matter of minutes. Windows isn't that bad security wise for _desktop_ use, spend about a minute installing say Sygates free firewall and you're pretty much set, another minute to install firefox and thunderbird and you're free from adware.
About a year ago if i had said the FCC would be censoring cartoon butts you would have laughed and said "the FCC doesn't do that", next year the FCC will regulating video games and the year after that they will be regulating what you say in public..
I think its time the mainstream manufactured music industry faced up to the music: they're selling a commodity! all their songs are practically interchangable - even manure is a more demanding and specialised market. They might as well dump the crap out like this and just charge for bandwidth and high-quality compression.
Who here actually uses Kazaa? No not 'lite or another cracked client but the actual original Kazaa client? I think I tried it once about 3-4 years ago, fact is, only idiots are using Kazaa (i was young and foolish), lesser idiots use Kazaa Lite Resurrection, and really you should be using something else as a primary P2P client or network.
Im not sure if most people have RTFA (hey this is slashdot) but from what im gathering here this isn't the same thing as Bill Gates' utopian "now bosses can send emails but turn off printing and forwarding", so you can stand down from attack mode.. unless im wrong, in which case kill it.
Not really, firefox and thunderbird practically look and feel like IE and Outlook, all it takes is to click download and follow the installer, there's no special configuration or tweaking needed, personally i like to configure it nicely and use a few extensions but that's not needed to make it work like IE. I don't use an external firewall, I use Sygates free personal firewall, again, download and it practically installs itself and just asks you from time to time if you want to give new programs permission to use the net. Windows update occasionally tells you it has something to install and you clickety click and wait for it to restart (yes i know, *nix would just let me switch run levels). In actual fact the first two things are software issues, not part of the OS, I use win2k but i hear XP has some basic firewall. Computer manufacturers should just tailor windows with these few things already there.
I say 3 parties because bipartisan politics is a bad stale thing and something that the US, UK and many other countries need to get out of. Kids need to be made aware at an early age that there are in fact more than two - you could teach them about all of them but I think once you have gotten them used to 3 they will be more likely to think 'hm I wonder what the others are like'.
Yes its a theory, but the actual logic behind it is obviously true: things do evolve, the question is does this explain life on earth full. Unfortunately some people of the Christian right-wing category have miss-understood this and taken it on themselves to deny that evolution exists at all.
Truck driver yeah, but they probably shouldn't Pilot - planes don't need to suddenly stop or change direction because of a dear walking in the sky, they fly several miles away from other planes and the pilot has a head-set. Trian engineer - a train takes about a mile to stop anyway, and again isn't near other trains Ships Captin - again, quick reactions arn't needed, the ship takes several minutes to stop or turn and there are half a dozen people looking out for other ships.
Also in all of these cases they keep conversations short and to the point and don't start having arguments about who's mother in-law is the biggest bitch, also they practice doing it for a long time and arn't tards like the average driver.
I think we can conclude that a good desktop Linux distro needs to look and feel exactly like windows from the start - that means a window manager that works the same way, no extras like multiple desktops etc - extras should be turned on afterwards. absolutely every little config file needs a gui front-end, or at least every config option that windows has, all software needs to be pre-built and just work, and if that means dirty directories full of copies of old libraries and statically compiled programs and not optimising for the current system then so be it. Oh and no bloated KDE, this magic distro needs to be able to run on 128MB of ram on a 333Mhz Celeron and actually be usable like windows.
As much as I hate windows and as useless as it is for any server work or programming, its still the absolute best _desktop_ OS, and the security issues are overrated - use a firewall and keep reasonably patched, and obviously don't use IE or Outlook and you will never have a problem, its not for mission critical use its for people typing, doing spreadsheets and playing games.
They arn't pissed off about the translating they're pissed off about the distribution of the videos? Why not just release the translations (which are much smaller and easier to share anyway) and let people get the video which ever way they want? Also all this crap about linking needs to stop, linking should not be illegal.
Mass automation of CAPTCHA cracking isn't done by computers anymore, people have realised that they can get real humans to do it instead - they just stick the CAPTCHA in another web page such as on warez or porn sites, the user is told to solve the CAPTCHA to enter the site, which they will gladly do..
You should be careful like that, they might have decided to burn you for not thinking like them... Out of interest, what reasons did they give for making an amendment? were they all something like 'because people died for the flag blah blah' bullshit?
Am I missing something? go look at Yahoo and MSN, they look exactly like google right down to the colours and ad-placement, all that differs is the search results and that just depends on who has paid you the most money...
Pretty simple: If you buy some software (in the UK anyway) i.e. in a shop and you are not expressly and clearly told before purchasing that certain features maybe disabled then they've broken the law. AFAIK, (& ANAL) click-through EULAs don't let them off the hook. Otherwise you're out of luck, they have a profit to keep up and they're going to do it any legal way they can, thats called capitalism. If they do it illigally you can use capitalism too and sue them for every penny but most companies have better lawyers than you'll ever afford...
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So whens the global vote on this gonna be? There _is_ going to be a global vote on this right? Ya know democracy and stuff?
How many times do I have to say this?: no-one uses the kazaa client people use kazaa lite, not kazaa, its very simple, anyone who found out about kazaa also found out from their geek friends about kazaa lite.
This seems pretty disturbing itself, looking at that picture of the bed you can see a ghostly outline just detailed enough to make out a person which somone obviously spent quite allot of time editing out with a clone tool when really a black box would have done. It just seems a little ott?
Did anyone else misread something about firm pornographic discs?
"Will the interactions between all the individual devices create something more than the sum of their parts?"
No, but they will get broken down into some parts when I kick them across the room for getting in my way.
Ok wait wait...
Im missing something here? I don't live in the US so im going to assume that if a gun/hunting/knife shop sells weapons to a minor or some other store sells say fireworks or dangerous chemicals or even just porn to a minor then they loose their license and get fines of over $10,000 right? In fact I know thats right because if it wasn't that would make these people fucking retards?
Windows still has a few things going for it - it has a fast responsive gui (lets face it, KDE is like walking through shit), perhaps the best hardware support because everyone supports it because everyone else does. Also, applications come more often than not with easy to use installers so you can have something installed and ready to use within about 30 seconds of clicking next, to get most programs on most linux distros you have to first figure out if its available in your distros package format - eg dep or rpm, if it is then installing is pretty easy, although you're probably gonna have to figure out menu and desktop shortcuts yourself. However if its not packaged the chances are you're in for a make, 9 times out of 10 that means dependencies will be missing and must also be installed - a hassle that the user doesn't want, if it can't be installed easily on the spot the average user will give up in a matter of minutes. Windows isn't that bad security wise for _desktop_ use, spend about a minute installing say Sygates free firewall and you're pretty much set, another minute to install firefox and thunderbird and you're free from adware.
Yeah but lets face it, the republicans are facists when it comes to censorship
About a year ago if i had said the FCC would be censoring cartoon butts you would have laughed and said "the FCC doesn't do that", next year the FCC will regulating video games and the year after that they will be regulating what you say in public..
The US version will have all nudity heavily pixelated in accordance with strict republican censorship standards.
I think its time the mainstream manufactured music industry faced up to the music: they're selling a commodity! all their songs are practically interchangable - even manure is a more demanding and specialised market. They might as well dump the crap out like this and just charge for bandwidth and high-quality compression.
Seriously, who actually uses the white headphones? you're gonna get jacked within the year.
Who here actually uses Kazaa? No not 'lite or another cracked client but the actual original Kazaa client? I think I tried it once about 3-4 years ago, fact is, only idiots are using Kazaa (i was young and foolish), lesser idiots use Kazaa Lite Resurrection, and really you should be using something else as a primary P2P client or network.
Im not sure if most people have RTFA (hey this is slashdot) but from what im gathering here this isn't the same thing as Bill Gates' utopian "now bosses can send emails but turn off printing and forwarding", so you can stand down from attack mode.. unless im wrong, in which case kill it.
Not really, firefox and thunderbird practically look and feel like IE and Outlook, all it takes is to click download and follow the installer, there's no special configuration or tweaking needed, personally i like to configure it nicely and use a few extensions but that's not needed to make it work like IE. I don't use an external firewall, I use Sygates free personal firewall, again, download and it practically installs itself and just asks you from time to time if you want to give new programs permission to use the net. Windows update occasionally tells you it has something to install and you clickety click and wait for it to restart (yes i know, *nix would just let me switch run levels). In actual fact the first two things are software issues, not part of the OS, I use win2k but i hear XP has some basic firewall. Computer manufacturers should just tailor windows with these few things already there.
I say 3 parties because bipartisan politics is a bad stale thing and something that the US, UK and many other countries need to get out of. Kids need to be made aware at an early age that there are in fact more than two - you could teach them about all of them but I think once you have gotten them used to 3 they will be more likely to think 'hm I wonder what the others are like'.
Yes its a theory, but the actual logic behind it is obviously true: things do evolve, the question is does this explain life on earth full. Unfortunately some people of the Christian right-wing category have miss-understood this and taken it on themselves to deny that evolution exists at all.
Truck driver yeah, but they probably shouldn't
Pilot - planes don't need to suddenly stop or change direction because of a dear walking in the sky, they fly several miles away from other planes and the pilot has a head-set.
Trian engineer - a train takes about a mile to stop anyway, and again isn't near other trains
Ships Captin - again, quick reactions arn't needed, the ship takes several minutes to stop or turn and there are half a dozen people looking out for other ships.
Also in all of these cases they keep conversations short and to the point and don't start having arguments about who's mother in-law is the biggest bitch, also they practice doing it for a long time and arn't tards like the average driver.
I think we can conclude that a good desktop Linux distro needs to look and feel exactly like windows from the start - that means a window manager that works the same way, no extras like multiple desktops etc - extras should be turned on afterwards. absolutely every little config file needs a gui front-end, or at least every config option that windows has, all software needs to be pre-built and just work, and if that means dirty directories full of copies of old libraries and statically compiled programs and not optimising for the current system then so be it. Oh and no bloated KDE, this magic distro needs to be able to run on 128MB of ram on a 333Mhz Celeron and actually be usable like windows.
As much as I hate windows and as useless as it is for any server work or programming, its still the absolute best _desktop_ OS, and the security issues are overrated - use a firewall and keep reasonably patched, and obviously don't use IE or Outlook and you will never have a problem, its not for mission critical use its for people typing, doing spreadsheets and playing games.
They arn't pissed off about the translating they're pissed off about the distribution of the videos? Why not just release the translations (which are much smaller and easier to share anyway) and let people get the video which ever way they want? Also all this crap about linking needs to stop, linking should not be illegal.
Mass automation of CAPTCHA cracking isn't done by computers anymore, people have realised that they can get real humans to do it instead - they just stick the CAPTCHA in another web page such as on warez or porn sites, the user is told to solve the CAPTCHA to enter the site, which they will gladly do..
Sadly theres no real way to stop this.
suck my dick AC bitch. I whore karma and dump it on trolls like you!
You should be careful like that, they might have decided to burn you for not thinking like them...
Out of interest, what reasons did they give for making an amendment? were they all something like 'because people died for the flag blah blah' bullshit?
Things US school kids are forced to learn, practically at gun point:
-The pledge of allegiance, recited fascist style
-That evolution is just a theory damnit!
-The name of every single (male) US president
Things US school kids probably should be taught at an early age:
-The Bill of Rights, from memory
-The policies of the 3 major political parties
-Where a few countries are
Am I missing something? go look at Yahoo and MSN, they look exactly like google right down to the colours and ad-placement, all that differs is the search results and that just depends on who has paid you the most money...
Pretty simple: If you buy some software (in the UK anyway) i.e. in a shop and you are not expressly and clearly told before purchasing that certain features maybe disabled then they've broken the law. AFAIK, (& ANAL) click-through EULAs don't let them off the hook. Otherwise you're out of luck, they have a profit to keep up and they're going to do it any legal way they can, thats called capitalism. If they do it illigally you can use capitalism too and sue them for every penny but most companies have better lawyers than you'll ever afford...