have aboriginies been in Australia then? Just a couple thousand years we're now supposed to believe.
And that land bridge connecting tasmania? Went away real fast, didn't it?
I'm sure people of the Nhaowa(pop)mwhd(click-click)dghuhu tribe in darkest africa will be surprised to learn that they've all come from a Shiite muslim, the definition for which was set at most 1,300 years ago.
True, but remember you're only wasting power if you have no desire to create heat.
Not the case where I live at the moment. There's frost outside but my folding computers are taking the chill of the air indoors. I would still be drawing the same current if I just ran an 800W bar heater, but I also get the benefit of helping protein research.
However in cold climates/seasons you can happily run SETI/Folding/whatever to supplement whatever heating system you have. In this sense you are getting 100% efficiency - all the 'wasted' energy is heating your room. If you have a decent thermostat-controlled heater this will result in a zero increase in your power bill.
I guess you don't call it stealing either when people sneak into concerts, plays and movies.
Do you do that? If the theatres aren't full then you're not depriving anyone of anything and the only difference between that and digital copyright infringement is the higher risk of getting caught.
Well let's try a reasonable business price then. Paying $500 for Windows and Office to a man who has billions of dollars at his disposal is ludicrous. $300 for writing PDF files is insane. Paying $1,000 for a code to have 25 more users log on to a server is just nuts.
That's fine, you certainly don't have to pay for it. Of course you don't have to use the software either, especially when there are better alternatives that cost nothing. Either you pay for it, or you don't use it; which will it be?
A more important question is why did this shop have so many unlicensed fonts?
Were they not aware they were supposed to pay for them? Perhaps, but I doubt it.
Were they trying to stick it to the man? I suspect not.
What's more likely is that the ludicrous price of font packages drove them to two options: use them anyway or go out of business.
In a capatilist society, prices are (supposed to be) driven by demand, by what the customer will pay for them. Now I suspect these people aren't the only ones 'pirating' fonts. I would be surprised if there were any printing outfits that had all their font licences up to date. Therefore they are not priced at a level their customers are willing to pay.
I wonder if this place will follow suit with other businesses that have been bitten by the BS Alliance.
It would have been more fitting to mod you +5, Troll. Trolls like to eat babies too, don't they?
Actually, as a parent I'm sickened that you got any positive moderation at all. Then again this is socialist save-the-whales-kill-the-babies slashdot so I shouldn't be too surprised I suppose.
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I nominate this the soup du jour in the book of irony.
As for a player, good question too. Gnash is making progress, but it still has a long, long way to go before it's remotely usable for most flash content.
Even God has been turned into the cosmic wetnurse, who will rapture us up, clean our nappies, and dry our tears. ID promises us the fantasy of every child; that we are the center of the universe, that it's really all for us. Since you're saved by faith alone, you don't have to do jack, just show up at the mega-church for the show and listen to a postmodernist drivel which is equal parts fairy tale and new-age glurge. You gotta hand it to them, they know their market. Why stop at frying your pancreas with candy, when you can get diabetes of the soul too?
Good grief, where did this come from?
Do you actually know anything about Christianity (presumably the faith you're referring to here)? If you have a problem with todays human-God relationship resembling that of a child-parent one then it's got nothing to do with the present generation (or the previous 75 for that matter).
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At one large store that's taking pre-orders in my country, the PS3 is already outselling the XBox 360.
Refresh the page. It looks a lot better now.
I forgot to mention it in the OP, but I believe a sufficiently small copy (say 200x200) would constitute fair use while still being recognizable.
A blob field for album covers would be great too, so programs like Amarok don't have to point to Amazon.com's limited collection.
have aboriginies been in Australia then? Just a couple thousand years we're now supposed to believe.
And that land bridge connecting tasmania? Went away real fast, didn't it?
I'm sure people of the Nhaowa(pop)mwhd(click-click)dghuhu tribe in darkest africa will be surprised to learn that they've all come from a Shiite muslim, the definition for which was set at most 1,300 years ago.
"Flying Robots Made From Cellphone"?
I'd thought the phones were taking over. I need to buy a new one now.
True, but remember you're only wasting power if you have no desire to create heat.
Not the case where I live at the moment. There's frost outside but my folding computers are taking the chill of the air indoors. I would still be drawing the same current if I just ran an 800W bar heater, but I also get the benefit of helping protein research.
That is true.
However in cold climates/seasons you can happily run SETI/Folding/whatever to supplement whatever heating system you have. In this sense you are getting 100% efficiency - all the 'wasted' energy is heating your room. If you have a decent thermostat-controlled heater this will result in a zero increase in your power bill.
maybe IN SOVIET RUSSIA.
If Global Dimming continues, we won't need to go to any trouble to block the sun.
I guess you don't call it stealing either when people sneak into concerts, plays and movies.
Do you do that? If the theatres aren't full then you're not depriving anyone of anything and the only difference between that and digital copyright infringement is the higher risk of getting caught.
Well let's try a reasonable business price then. Paying $500 for Windows and Office to a man who has billions of dollars at his disposal is ludicrous. $300 for writing PDF files is insane. Paying $1,000 for a code to have 25 more users log on to a server is just nuts.
That's fine, you certainly don't have to pay for it. Of course you don't have to use the software either, especially when there are better alternatives that cost nothing. Either you pay for it, or you don't use it; which will it be?
A more important question is why did this shop have so many unlicensed fonts?
Were they not aware they were supposed to pay for them? Perhaps, but I doubt it.
Were they trying to stick it to the man? I suspect not.
What's more likely is that the ludicrous price of font packages drove them to two options: use them anyway or go out of business.
In a capatilist society, prices are (supposed to be) driven by demand, by what the customer will pay for them. Now I suspect these people aren't the only ones 'pirating' fonts. I would be surprised if there were any printing outfits that had all their font licences up to date. Therefore they are not priced at a level their customers are willing to pay.
I wonder if this place will follow suit with other businesses that have been bitten by the BS Alliance.
What, you mean the EULA that has no legal standing in any jurisdiction on the planet? Yes I read it, and threw it away. Why?
It would have been more fitting to mod you +5, Troll. Trolls like to eat babies too, don't they?
Actually, as a parent I'm sickened that you got any positive moderation at all. Then again this is socialist save-the-whales-kill-the-babies slashdot so I shouldn't be too surprised I suppose.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/
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I nominate this the soup du jour in the book of irony.
As for a player, good question too. Gnash is making progress, but it still has a long, long way to go before it's remotely usable for most flash content.
If that's the case then perhaps the GP and myself have more in common than first thought.
Though his use of the term 'fairy tail' is a bit telling.
Even God has been turned into the cosmic wetnurse, who will rapture us up, clean our nappies, and dry our tears. ID promises us the fantasy of every child; that we are the center of the universe, that it's really all for us. Since you're saved by faith alone, you don't have to do jack, just show up at the mega-church for the show and listen to a postmodernist drivel which is equal parts fairy tale and new-age glurge. You gotta hand it to them, they know their market. Why stop at frying your pancreas with candy, when you can get diabetes of the soul too?
Good grief, where did this come from?
Do you actually know anything about Christianity (presumably the faith you're referring to here)? If you have a problem with todays human-God relationship resembling that of a child-parent one then it's got nothing to do with the present generation (or the previous 75 for that matter).
Consider that although both chimps and dolphins are sentient, they're not necessarily interested in the same kind of things as humans are.
Sentient? By what definition?
A lot of kids in orphanages are simply not wanted by their parents.
Should we kill them too?
Well, I guess my plane is a shape-shifter too.
Except I call my super-duper morphing acuators "ailerons" and "flaps".
No.
Hot dogs, like a lot of proprietary software, are something you probably don't want to know what's inside.
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Monsters Inc.
he finally Got The Facts