I assume law enforcement is exempt from this? Have you seen lately all the computer equipment in the front seat of a police car, aimed directly at the officer driving? Doesn't seem fair that they are allowed to use that stuff and the average joe isn't. Most of the time around here, I see the police driving far worse than anyone else on the road.
"No, you don't get it. The $0.00 price tag isn't what 'the pedantic slashbots' are defending. If that were true, iTunes would not be wildly successful. Instead, what we really want is for the Music Industry to realize there is demand here, and supply it. Instead, they insist we buy their content at a premium, thus paying for content we do not want."
Well, the real problem is that instead of facing the painfully obvious conclusion that there was a demand for digital music on the internet, they tried to take an existing technology and make it non-upwards-compatible. They wanted to make CDs not work in newer gadgets (like computers, which also killed a lot of other newer cd players which were more like customized cd-roms). They tried to sue their own potential customers who were guilty of wanting to listen to music instead of try to offer them a legal alternative. They have been artificially inflating the prices of cds for around 20 years now (and were CONVICTED in court of this), while giving the artists responsible for the music a very small portion of their profits.
If you can't find one reason in there to not like the RIAA, please let me know why.
"Ahh... but with VirtualPC you can run the all AT THE SAME TIME. Or at the very least you are running your primary OS at the same time as whichever one (or two or three) you are working with."
Yes, and with VMWare he could do much of the same on an X86 platform (minus the PPC OS's, that is). Still, an interesting if not pointless venture.
IMHO, someone better EOL this BPL idea PDQ before FEMA gets PO'ed. OTOH, if this could somehow work in GNU or dare I say BSD as well as MS PCs, despite the dangers to FNARS, lets give it a try. Sure beats DSL to speed those TCP/IP connections.
maybe the dumb bastards are being attacked from inside their subnet aimed directly at their web server (and apparently their email server). i tend to think they had a cpu pop, but if there is any tiny shred of a possibility that $co is actually telling the truth for once, all the evidence would rule out all but an internally propagated attack.
anyone else think this could be possible? don't make me a karma scapegoat here for trying to find truth in an $co statement...
"Orrin Hatch is the type of a**hole who gives all Republicans a bad name.
But there's also a lack of parallelism here: Republicans constantly get shit for the actions of these buffoons, but is the senior blimp from Massachusetts, the infamous Teddy Kennedy, ever called on the evil things he stands for?"
I find it amusing that you decided to censor the word ass and not shit. Frankly, if anything should have been censored in your post, it should have been the name of Boring Snatch (Orrin Hatch).
"A few years ago when I was a naive young UNIX programmer I came to the cash machine and got the firght of my life. There, floating over the blocky PIN login screen was a windows Illegal Error box."
My bank, Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union, has biometrics (i.e. finger scanner) ATMs in several locations. One day I came to make a deposit and BLAMO! Blue screen of death. NT Kernel Protection error. I bet windoze is more widespread than you think in the banking industry (unfortunately), and not always in the somewhat-safer "windows lite" versions. Just wait until the US Navy has battleships and aircraft carriers running windows. Can clippy land an F-14? I doubt it.
"There was a time just a few years ago when, if I bought a music CD, I could play it anywhere. I could play it at home, on my computer, in my car, in the PC at work... - whereever I wanted to play it, it worked. I could copy it to tape and listen to it in my Walkman, and it was all totally legal."
Quick! This one's brainwashing has come undone! Get the drugs! Silly human, don't you know that you have to buy a different format of the same thing for each place you want to use it? If I buy a car in Illinois, it'll work on Illinois roads. However, if I want to venture into Indiana, well, those roads are different, and I need to buy a car that is compatible with those roads. Sheesh, what where you thinking. Buy once, use anywhere. What a fantasy!
"Are we going to have the online music wars now? MS, again late to the party says, "Well, we've got Media player already installed by default and it's free. Now all we have to do is undercut everyone else on the prices of singles and albums and we'll own the market."
Even if MS comes out with a lower price point, if their songs ar emore restrictive, I think people would rather spend an extra dime per song for something they can actually use.
"Observers expect that the company will use Windows or the bundled Windows Media Player to gain a competitive advantage over other services that require a software download to use them."
As long as water is wet, this statement will always evaluate to true. Why does this even have to be stated any more? Can we mod the post to -1 Redundant?
"So as you can see, the latest versions of Windows & Office are definitely more secure."
No, it just means that the script kiddies haven't had as much time with WS2003 as they have with XP. XP looked good at first, but the more time the kiddies have had with it, the number of exploits seems to have grown exponentially. Give WS2003 a year and i bet there will be just as many/month. I've been wrong before though. I'd love for M$ to produce bug free software, my broadband bill would probably go down as they wouldn't need to use as much bandwidth without the gazillion Klez and Sobig crap propagating through every wire.
What the fuck did NORML ever do to be included in a comparison with the RIAA? Give you a choice to be able to smoke pot? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Do you even know what the hell you are talking about?
"Finally in the interest of full disclosure and to pre-empt the anti-Mac zealots, I should mention that the $4.2 million for the G5 machines is probably the education list price, because when you go to Apple Store, putting 2GB of RAM into 1100 2x2Ghz G5's will cost you $4.4 million (+ a little more for having some spare machines)."
From what I remember about the press release, they did not purchase all the RAM through the Apple store. They got the standard 2x2GHz model and bought the RAM elsewhere, at a cheaper price.
"Actually I was 22 at the time I tried to buy the movie and dressed in my work clothes (suit & tie) and I still got carded. Yet I've made beer runs to Wally-World (knew it was 24 hours for a reason) in my "rag" clothes and not gotten carded. Something is wrong with that picture....
Personally the paranoid part of me thinks they just wanted the excuse to key my license number into their database. Doesn't explain why I've gotten away with buying booze there and not being carded thou."
That doesn't surprise me. I got carded at Wal-Mart for buying paint (not industrial size, little jars so I could paint a plastic table) when I was 22. PAINT! I've also been carded there for buying white-out. That is why I'll never go back to Wal-Mart. Apparently, wal-mart shoppers have a problem with inhaling said products and killing brain cells. They'll card you for buying office supplies, or home improvement supplies, but here! Have a gun! Don't listen to music with nasty words though, it might make you want to use that gun in a bad way. Oh, and don't look at magazine covers while you're in line, that's immoral. The sooner that place goes away the better off this country is as far as our rights and freedoms go.
SCOs problem (amongst others), is that in their apparent selective licensing scheme, they seem to only bill the larger corporations, like IBM. If you think about it, its ridiculous. They should have at least spread it around to all businesses so they don't look even more like the bunch of loonies they are.
How is this front page news? Wasn't it a matter of time before people started getting subpoenaed in this clusterfuck? I, for one, vote for an SCO subsection so we can funnel all this nonsense off the front page. I'd like to read about progress, but on my own time.
It even looks like a dick. They could have at least made it look like a lantern style light or something. Although there is something strangely homo-erotic about it... did I just say that out loud?
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I assume law enforcement is exempt from this? Have you seen lately all the computer equipment in the front seat of a police car, aimed directly at the officer driving? Doesn't seem fair that they are allowed to use that stuff and the average joe isn't. Most of the time around here, I see the police driving far worse than anyone else on the road.
you can still spot users by their uncontrollable, spastic dancing wherever they go.
Well, the real problem is that instead of facing the painfully obvious conclusion that there was a demand for digital music on the internet, they tried to take an existing technology and make it non-upwards-compatible. They wanted to make CDs not work in newer gadgets (like computers, which also killed a lot of other newer cd players which were more like customized cd-roms). They tried to sue their own potential customers who were guilty of wanting to listen to music instead of try to offer them a legal alternative. They have been artificially inflating the prices of cds for around 20 years now (and were CONVICTED in court of this), while giving the artists responsible for the music a very small portion of their profits.
If you can't find one reason in there to not like the RIAA, please let me know why.
Yes, and with VMWare he could do much of the same on an X86 platform (minus the PPC OS's, that is). Still, an interesting if not pointless venture.
IMHO, someone better EOL this BPL idea PDQ before FEMA gets PO'ed. OTOH, if this could somehow work in GNU or dare I say BSD as well as MS PCs, despite the dangers to FNARS, lets give it a try. Sure beats DSL to speed those TCP/IP connections.
did you *really* just start a post with "dude"?
Or right click on "my computer" (or whatever you've renamed it to), choose "Manage..." then click on services. Same difference though.
I just submitted my patent application for the character '>'. i'm gonna have all the money, g. word
anyone else think this could be possible? don't make me a karma scapegoat here for trying to find truth in an $co statement...
Man, that is one ugly vehicle. Well, I guess it is better than the aztek, but it looks like an cougar with wings strapped on.
But there's also a lack of parallelism here: Republicans constantly get shit for the actions of these buffoons, but is the senior blimp from Massachusetts, the infamous Teddy Kennedy, ever called on the evil things he stands for?"
I find it amusing that you decided to censor the word ass and not shit. Frankly, if anything should have been censored in your post, it should have been the name of Boring Snatch (Orrin Hatch).
My bank, Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union, has biometrics (i.e. finger scanner) ATMs in several locations. One day I came to make a deposit and BLAMO! Blue screen of death. NT Kernel Protection error. I bet windoze is more widespread than you think in the banking industry (unfortunately), and not always in the somewhat-safer "windows lite" versions. Just wait until the US Navy has battleships and aircraft carriers running windows. Can clippy land an F-14? I doubt it.
Quick! This one's brainwashing has come undone! Get the drugs! Silly human, don't you know that you have to buy a different format of the same thing for each place you want to use it? If I buy a car in Illinois, it'll work on Illinois roads. However, if I want to venture into Indiana, well, those roads are different, and I need to buy a car that is compatible with those roads. Sheesh, what where you thinking. Buy once, use anywhere. What a fantasy!
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Even if MS comes out with a lower price point, if their songs ar emore restrictive, I think people would rather spend an extra dime per song for something they can actually use.
As long as water is wet, this statement will always evaluate to true. Why does this even have to be stated any more? Can we mod the post to -1 Redundant?
No, it just means that the script kiddies haven't had as much time with WS2003 as they have with XP. XP looked good at first, but the more time the kiddies have had with it, the number of exploits seems to have grown exponentially. Give WS2003 a year and i bet there will be just as many/month. I've been wrong before though. I'd love for M$ to produce bug free software, my broadband bill would probably go down as they wouldn't need to use as much bandwidth without the gazillion Klez and Sobig crap propagating through every wire.
What the fuck did NORML ever do to be included in a comparison with the RIAA? Give you a choice to be able to smoke pot? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Do you even know what the hell you are talking about?
From what I remember about the press release, they did not purchase all the RAM through the Apple store. They got the standard 2x2GHz model and bought the RAM elsewhere, at a cheaper price.
He might be an all-around troll, but he makes some valid points in the article I linked.
Personally the paranoid part of me thinks they just wanted the excuse to key my license number into their database. Doesn't explain why I've gotten away with buying booze there and not being carded thou."
That doesn't surprise me. I got carded at Wal-Mart for buying paint (not industrial size, little jars so I could paint a plastic table) when I was 22. PAINT! I've also been carded there for buying white-out. That is why I'll never go back to Wal-Mart. Apparently, wal-mart shoppers have a problem with inhaling said products and killing brain cells. They'll card you for buying office supplies, or home improvement supplies, but here! Have a gun! Don't listen to music with nasty words though, it might make you want to use that gun in a bad way. Oh, and don't look at magazine covers while you're in line, that's immoral. The sooner that place goes away the better off this country is as far as our rights and freedoms go.
I am male, thanks for asking, and I was joking about it turning me on. Nice try though.
SCOs problem (amongst others), is that in their apparent selective licensing scheme, they seem to only bill the larger corporations, like IBM. If you think about it, its ridiculous. They should have at least spread it around to all businesses so they don't look even more like the bunch of loonies they are.
How is this front page news? Wasn't it a matter of time before people started getting subpoenaed in this clusterfuck? I, for one, vote for an SCO subsection so we can funnel all this nonsense off the front page. I'd like to read about progress, but on my own time.
It even looks like a dick. They could have at least made it look like a lantern style light or something. Although there is something strangely homo-erotic about it... did I just say that out loud?
(sorry)