I'd love to know whether this is one particular vigilante AC or whether a whole team of them are being trained. If so I vote to make them permanent moderators.
What about being ON the phone? The phone is just the communication device, which is exactly what an instant messenger is. Or were you hoping for a funny mod?
Just because the OS is proprietary doesn't mean I don't want to have access to the tools running on it. I have no interest whatsoever with fucking about with my kernel. On the other hand, I like to tinker with code.
That's the condensed version of the little speech I was about to type. Unfortunately time constraints have forced me to leave out choice phrases like "looks like ass" or "five clocks", but that's probably for the best as far as my karma goes.
I had that. Really fun figuring out what the problem was.
Incidentally, for the record, the amount of rabid, anti-MS garbage on this thread is quite staggering. As is the amount of moderation points that have been spent on making "I bet it crashes! LOL" posts +5 Funny.
What I lack in competence I make up for in cunning, however. Anyway, I've decided I'm either going to be an astronaut or a Nintendo(1) playtester, both of which seem like fun jobs which don't require telnet.
- Chris
(1) I am not affiliated in any way with Nintendo Of America, Inc.
Unfortunately it's impossible to tell, because eveyone who has ever tried one of the two seems to want to stick with it forever. At least that's my experience. EAC gets rave reviews but in my heart of hearts I just know CDex must be better, so won't go and try the alternative.
Seriously, it's not like PC vs Mac or something... CDex vs EAC arguments inevitably end in an amicable agreement to disagree, because no-one has ever been able to tear themselves away from whichever one they chose first in order to make an objective comparison.
Probably. If you're brave enough to try, please do, I'd love to know what EAC's like. (I'm just afraid to ask.)
Nah, that's part of the operating system, remember? the two are one and the same:)
(says he, who is using Phoenix but can still access IE easily despite Service Pack 1 being installed, IE being set to 'totally and utterly hidden, blocked from the end user and just not there any more', and me having manually deleted c:\progra~1\intern~1\ )
I start fourth year of a degree course in computer science in just over a week, and I'm scared of Telnet. Most families have at least one person who can program the VCR, not use unix CLI tools.
The last three or four betas (don't blame me for the versioning) have been rock solid. CDex 1.50 beta 7 is the best CD ripper Windows has, by a long chalk.
The lefty guy thinks that the warez dude should have used legal or at least not as illegal ways to get his point across. To which I replied that if he thinks the warez guys wanted to change the way people think about software distribution and digital copyright, does he think they should join the Free Software Foundation and does he think that would make any significant difference.
Although to add to the argument, the supposed problem here is that the warez guy was more malcolm X than Martin Luther King. Which is silly. Distributing copyrighted material in an illicit manner is an extremely civil way of getting your point across. It's hardly an organised sit-in, but it isn't violent crime, vandalism, incitement to riot... Not to mention the whole 'victimless crime' argument everyone else uses.
But essentially I was getting at the fact that he's treating the warez guy like a political activist who went too far, rather than some blokey who distributed warez and didn't think charging $900 for Photoshop was a good idea. Or whatever.
And to top it off, I'm gradually realising that one-line Funnies are a lot better for karma-collection than picking people apart in six paragraphs. Gah.
Ummm, yeah. see where my first paragraph stops, and the second one begins? Start reading there, and you should have my reply to the post you just made. i'm a mind-reader.
Similarly, Osama should have used his political influence to (try) to bring about the changes he wanted
He did. He used his political and monetary influences to bring about the change he wanted. The Pentagon with a big hole in it and no World Trade Centre.
Back on topic, are you saying that warez guys would make a substantial difference to the world if they all pledged allegiance to the Free Software Foundation (absolutely no pun intended, blame RMS), or are you simply spouting off in what even I, as a bloody Guardian reader, see as an embarrassingly lefty rant?
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I'd love to know whether this is one particular vigilante AC or whether a whole team of them are being trained. If so I vote to make them permanent moderators.
- Chris
What's the point in posting +5 one-liners anonymously?
- Chris
Maybe not +5 Funny, but definitely at least a +2.
- Chris
When Y! blocked illigitimate clients a while back, the Gaim folk contributed a fix to Trillian for nothing. So sez their website at least. So nyah.
- Chris
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Yemen.
Moderation total = -1 (+5 Funny, -5 Offtopic, -1 for not posting anonymously)
- Chris
What about being ON the phone? The phone is just the communication device, which is exactly what an instant messenger is. Or were you hoping for a funny mod?
- Chris
That would be TINRA - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/tinra.html - then. Works like a charm.
- Chris
first post? PLEASE let it be so.
Just because the OS is proprietary doesn't mean I don't want to have access to the tools running on it. I have no interest whatsoever with fucking about with my kernel. On the other hand, I like to tinker with code.
That's the condensed version of the little speech I was about to type. Unfortunately time constraints have forced me to leave out choice phrases like "looks like ass" or "five clocks", but that's probably for the best as far as my karma goes.
- Chris
I had that. Really fun figuring out what the problem was.
Incidentally, for the record, the amount of rabid, anti-MS garbage on this thread is quite staggering. As is the amount of moderation points that have been spent on making "I bet it crashes! LOL" posts +5 Funny.
- Chris
What I lack in competence I make up for in cunning, however. Anyway, I've decided I'm either going to be an astronaut or a Nintendo(1) playtester, both of which seem like fun jobs which don't require telnet.
- Chris
(1) I am not affiliated in any way with Nintendo Of America, Inc.
Unfortunately it's impossible to tell, because eveyone who has ever tried one of the two seems to want to stick with it forever. At least that's my experience. EAC gets rave reviews but in my heart of hearts I just know CDex must be better, so won't go and try the alternative.
Seriously, it's not like PC vs Mac or something... CDex vs EAC arguments inevitably end in an amicable agreement to disagree, because no-one has ever been able to tear themselves away from whichever one they chose first in order to make an objective comparison.
Probably. If you're brave enough to try, please do, I'd love to know what EAC's like. (I'm just afraid to ask.)
- Chris
Nah, that's part of the operating system, remember? the two are one and the same :)
(says he, who is using Phoenix but can still access IE easily despite Service Pack 1 being installed, IE being set to 'totally and utterly hidden, blocked from the end user and just not there any more', and me having manually deleted c:\progra~1\intern~1\ )
- Chris
Before I switch, could you tell me how it compares to SmartFTP, which as far as I'm concerned is so sexy I would betray Drew Barrymore for it?
- Chris
Are you aware that there isn't a Windows build mentioned anywhere on the site?
- Chris
so, ummm, there.
- Chris
As do I now. Nice one :)
- Chris
I start fourth year of a degree course in computer science in just over a week, and I'm scared of Telnet. Most families have at least one person who can program the VCR, not use unix CLI tools.
- Chris
Oh right. Just send us the source then and it can go on the disk.
What's that Lassie? The troll forgot to hit Post Anonymously before that one?
- Chris
The last three or four betas (don't blame me for the versioning) have been rock solid. CDex 1.50 beta 7 is the best CD ripper Windows has, by a long chalk.
- Chris
What would be the point in downloading crap music?
- Chris
The lefty guy thinks that the warez dude should have used legal or at least not as illegal ways to get his point across. To which I replied that if he thinks the warez guys wanted to change the way people think about software distribution and digital copyright, does he think they should join the Free Software Foundation and does he think that would make any significant difference.
Although to add to the argument, the supposed problem here is that the warez guy was more malcolm X than Martin Luther King. Which is silly. Distributing copyrighted material in an illicit manner is an extremely civil way of getting your point across. It's hardly an organised sit-in, but it isn't violent crime, vandalism, incitement to riot... Not to mention the whole 'victimless crime' argument everyone else uses.
But essentially I was getting at the fact that he's treating the warez guy like a political activist who went too far, rather than some blokey who distributed warez and didn't think charging $900 for Photoshop was a good idea. Or whatever.
And to top it off, I'm gradually realising that one-line Funnies are a lot better for karma-collection than picking people apart in six paragraphs. Gah.
- Chris
Ummm, yeah. see where my first paragraph stops, and the second one begins? Start reading there, and you should have my reply to the post you just made. i'm a mind-reader.
- Chris
May I say then sir, that you don't know what you're missing. Have fun with those morals there.
c - Chris
He did. He used his political and monetary influences to bring about the change he wanted. The Pentagon with a big hole in it and no World Trade Centre.
Back on topic, are you saying that warez guys would make a substantial difference to the world if they all pledged allegiance to the Free Software Foundation (absolutely no pun intended, blame RMS), or are you simply spouting off in what even I, as a bloody Guardian reader, see as an embarrassingly lefty rant?
- Chris