Interesting thing I predicted this. And just how did I predict this, you may ask. Those typos were the first thing I noticed after pressing "Submit":D
I did however not advocate nor claim that I mastered the english language. I just filed a general request for concistency in my fellow/.er's argument:)
Needless to say, that's borderline to trolling these days.
Granted, the IBM-PC platform is a collection of hacks and limitations, so doing something non-standard is often the only way to accomplish something
Do I see someone missing the days of Motorola computing as well? I surely do!
God damnit, my 7.14MHz Amiga never froze when I did anything IO-related. My 2.4GHz Pentium4 still refuses to initiate any new IO until the CD-ROM has been spun up when I insert a CD into the drive. And the x86 platform has only had what? 10-15 years to evolve into something decent?
Porn is nothing like a loving relationship. And for you to say it is okay for a child to watch it, that makes you a pedophile
Wow. Just wow. Either you're a troll, or it's a joke. I dunno. But just how did this insane rant get mod'ed insightful?
I watched porn when I was little. Took a little more effort getting hold of it back then, but I still got my porn. And it didn't harm me one bit. Does taking that into account make me a pedophile?
I predict that 90% of the male population on this planet would be classified as pedophiles if you had it your way.
the person is free to make a choice, even if everyone else says it is wrong. That is what you are saying.
I believe that is the part about freedom that conservatives doesn't like. We'll remove all your freedom to... um... protect your freedom! Seriously though, what part about freedom is it that you don't understand?
These people were likely the old fassioned type of copyright theft
Excuse me. Did you just say copyright theft? I'd be very interested to hear what that word actually means. Does it mean that someone stole the copyright? Or did you just conjur up a new word to dillute the difference between copyright infringement and actual theft?
Is it really that hard to have an oppinion without distorting the arguments to support it?
That's it for todays pedantish rant. But yeah, I do agree that these people should be locked up.
Microsoft-certified Professional is an oxymoron. (I should know, I have a certificate!)
Be reasonable. So do I. And probably thousands of other people who may prefer Linux.
But as a MCP you are supposed to know you can harden Microsoft servers as well. For anyone somewhat seasoned in computing setting up a Linux box with Apache, PHP & MySQL is no problem either. However there's is nothing stopping them from running a insecure setup and running lousy (security wise) scripts either.
No machine is more secure than it's admin. Claiming that you can't secure a Microsoft server just shows that a MCP-paper itself proves nothing. It doesn't mean that the MCP-program itself is a joke.
And, yes, I prefer administering *nix boxes. I even got a machine with Solaris 10 x86 running!
Wow. Just wow! Never have I, as a intelligent being felt so insulted. Ok, maybe, but that's still pretty retarded shit.
That's not even design-guidelines. That's "Let assume people are too stupid to even use their toaster" as a computing philosophy.
Jesus H. Christ. No wonder Windows is getting more and more uselss by each and every release.
and as very few actually want to watch movies on a 19 inch monitor,
I don't know about you, but I haven't seen one machine sold without TV-out for the last 3 years. I don't think people will be watching it on their 19", but rather their home-cinema system.
I know I do, and planned to when I got my Matrox Millennium G400 Dual-head Max some 5-6 years ago.
Microsoft and others have online activation crap... So, it looks like the lesson learned has been "include copy protection, but don't make it too heinous on the customer
Which doesn't always work. Which sometimes doesn't even give you an installation ID you can phone in. When you got a legal, working setup and an activation pops out of fucking nowwhere. And then there's just no way of fixing it. Genius.
When I had to do a reinstall... Guess what? I used a pirated edition without activation to not ever see that crap happen again.
Fuck copy protection. All it does is piss off or annoy legit customers. The pirated goods always has it removed, so why should they care?
Dude. You're on crack. Please tell me you didn't write that insane rambling sober and clean.
And for morals... How moral is it to steal the public domain. The reason copyright law was founded. You know, to enrich a public domain of arts and science. How moral is it to remain in possession of copyright when you kill of the public domain?
That's right. There is no longer no balance, and thus no reason of right for copyright protection. Unless the law is balanced back to something sane.
DRM is the ultimate theft of the public domain, and should be fought vigeriously.
I can also tell you "fuck you" and find someone who isn't a fascist prick. I'm not required to deal with the RIAA
For the last few years I haven't bought one CD, as a direct response to this crap. They say we are "stealing" when the correct term is copyright infridgement.
I somehow supsect that is to divert our attention away from the fact that they have actually, in the true sense of the word stolen the public domain.
They violated the intent of copyright law first. See me care if I infridge now.
For most people this will make fetching torrents a lot easier. Problem is ofcourse that most people are still using IE.
It wont make me switch back from Firefox (I used to use Opera), as I'm simply addicted too extensions. Plus I still haven't encountered a better bittorrent client than Azureus.
And as the rest of the people here say: I bet we will see a bittorrent extention for Firefox pretty soon. The wonders of competition. Security issues apart, this shows why a browser monopoly is just as bad as other monopolies.
And after you install CVS to update your ports tree you get the newer versions. Granted, it's not releasing fixes for the old ones, but saying there is no consistent way of doing stuff in FreeBSD is just flat out wrong.
Well... Blame the mods if you like. I tried to go for the "+1, Funny". I have access to the latest Longhorn betas from the MSDN-site myself, so I do know it exists.
However, what I meant with "vaporware" was that all the glorious and wonderful technology and promises brought to you by Microsoft regarding Longhorn seems to disappear one at a time for every report we get.
And in my honest opinion... They are facing the vaporware timeline when it comes to delivery.
For being absolute vaporware....
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...Microsoft seems to be putting a lot of effort into the way it looks!
I run Windows due to some hardware issues, and I feel like I have put in enough effort trying to make stuff work.
However there is no ting which annoys the hell out of me in Windows than the pressumed useful and slightly forced data-organization.
Why on earth would I put my music in a folder called "My music" in a hidden folder called "My Documents" when I obviously want it in a common, shared folder? Not to mention I keep my system and data on clearly seperated partitions, and Windows insists on putting everything on the system-partition.
Add to this that a lot of applications now have started applying this idea and you get "My downloaded files", "My shared files". Even "My Virtual Machines"! You would think that if you did virtual machines, you had enough clue and brains to organize your files.
Here's hoping (not believing) that the removal of "My" in Longhorn may put an end to this madness.
I think it was more in the lines that you seemed to think it was a bad thing that someone would actually do something for the enjoyment of doing it.
You know, like artists are expected to. You know, the art copyright was supposed to protect. People doing stuff just for the money aren't artists, sorry.
Stealing also does not require you to take a physical object
You seem to be missing the point. Stealing means taking something away from it's owner.
Now note how the idiom you so elgantly quoted takes something away from someone.
Now please explain how something gets taken away from people when you pirate stuff.
And finally, even if it were the case that once the word 'Steal' required an object, it doesn't any more.
Because you say so? Because the RIAA says so? Why should your definition of a word be the correct one, and not ours? I call your BS newspeak, and as we all know newspeak is only used for propaganda purposes. People who resort to propaganda are rarely trustworthy.
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Gotta love sessions and time-outs for the many ways they can be used to prevent deep linking.
You mean linking, right? Or did my sarcasm-meter miss anything?
Interesting thing I predicted this. And just how did I predict this, you may ask. Those typos were the first thing I noticed after pressing "Submit" :D
I did however not advocate nor claim that I mastered the english language. I just filed a general request for concistency in my fellow /.er's argument :)
Needless to say, that's borderline to trolling these days.
Granted, the IBM-PC platform is a collection of hacks and limitations, so doing something non-standard is often the only way to accomplish something
Do I see someone missing the days of Motorola computing as well? I surely do!
God damnit, my 7.14MHz Amiga never froze when I did anything IO-related. My 2.4GHz Pentium4 still refuses to initiate any new IO until the CD-ROM has been spun up when I insert a CD into the drive. And the x86 platform has only had what? 10-15 years to evolve into something decent?
What a craptastic platform. Oh, offtopic. Sorry.
It is intersting to see someone advocating the use of standard-compliant markup language, when they don't even master the english language themselves.
It's called their pages. No need to thanks me :)
Porn is nothing like a loving relationship. And for you to say it is okay for a child to watch it, that makes you a pedophile
Wow. Just wow. Either you're a troll, or it's a joke. I dunno. But just how did this insane rant get mod'ed insightful?
I watched porn when I was little. Took a little more effort getting hold of it back then, but I still got my porn. And it didn't harm me one bit. Does taking that into account make me a pedophile?
I predict that 90% of the male population on this planet would be classified as pedophiles if you had it your way.
the person is free to make a choice, even if everyone else says it is wrong. That is what you are saying.
I believe that is the part about freedom that conservatives doesn't like. We'll remove all your freedom to ... um ... protect your freedom! Seriously though, what part about freedom is it that you don't understand?
These people were likely the old fassioned type of copyright theft
Excuse me. Did you just say copyright theft? I'd be very interested to hear what that word actually means. Does it mean that someone stole the copyright? Or did you just conjur up a new word to dillute the difference between copyright infringement and actual theft?
Is it really that hard to have an oppinion without distorting the arguments to support it?
That's it for todays pedantish rant. But yeah, I do agree that these people should be locked up.
Microsoft-certified Professional is an oxymoron. (I should know, I have a certificate!)
Be reasonable. So do I. And probably thousands of other people who may prefer Linux.
But as a MCP you are supposed to know you can harden Microsoft servers as well. For anyone somewhat seasoned in computing setting up a Linux box with Apache, PHP & MySQL is no problem either. However there's is nothing stopping them from running a insecure setup and running lousy (security wise) scripts either.
No machine is more secure than it's admin. Claiming that you can't secure a Microsoft server just shows that a MCP-paper itself proves nothing. It doesn't mean that the MCP-program itself is a joke.
And, yes, I prefer administering *nix boxes. I even got a machine with Solaris 10 x86 running!
Windows User Experience
Wow. Just wow! Never have I, as a intelligent being felt so insulted. Ok, maybe, but that's still pretty retarded shit. That's not even design-guidelines. That's "Let assume people are too stupid to even use their toaster" as a computing philosophy.
Jesus H. Christ. No wonder Windows is getting more and more uselss by each and every release.
the player read the permission's ID and send it to the server to obtain a deciphering key
Just what I've always wanted. A music-player that needs to be online to work. I bet that'll sound good to the portable crowd.
and as very few actually want to watch movies on a 19 inch monitor,
I don't know about you, but I haven't seen one machine sold without TV-out for the last 3 years. I don't think people will be watching it on their 19", but rather their home-cinema system.
I know I do, and planned to when I got my Matrox Millennium G400 Dual-head Max some 5-6 years ago.
Microsoft and others have online activation crap ... So, it looks like the lesson learned has been "include copy protection, but don't make it too heinous on the customer
Which doesn't always work. Which sometimes doesn't even give you an installation ID you can phone in. When you got a legal, working setup and an activation pops out of fucking nowwhere. And then there's just no way of fixing it. Genius.
When I had to do a reinstall... Guess what? I used a pirated edition without activation to not ever see that crap happen again.
Fuck copy protection. All it does is piss off or annoy legit customers. The pirated goods always has it removed, so why should they care?
How does this harm regular consumers?
Have you tried to backup up your original DVDs without using a DeCSSed ripper lately? Ahhhhhh.
Dude. You're on crack. Please tell me you didn't write that insane rambling sober and clean.
And for morals... How moral is it to steal the public domain. The reason copyright law was founded. You know, to enrich a public domain of arts and science. How moral is it to remain in possession of copyright when you kill of the public domain?
That's right. There is no longer no balance, and thus no reason of right for copyright protection. Unless the law is balanced back to something sane.
DRM is the ultimate theft of the public domain, and should be fought vigeriously.
But do the powers-that-DVD have the right to break the players of a much larger group of innocent legitimate users?
Ofcourse not. Probably not. Not really. That would be straight out fraud (or maybe even "theft"). But see them care, and see them get away with it.
Remember the revoked DVD-keys anyone?
I can also tell you "fuck you" and find someone who isn't a fascist prick. I'm not required to deal with the RIAA
For the last few years I haven't bought one CD, as a direct response to this crap. They say we are "stealing" when the correct term is copyright infridgement.
I somehow supsect that is to divert our attention away from the fact that they have actually, in the true sense of the word stolen the public domain.
They violated the intent of copyright law first. See me care if I infridge now.
It may be another "emacs vs vi", but I hardly doubt that as long as both emacs and vi exists that that war will ever go away :)
For most people this will make fetching torrents a lot easier. Problem is ofcourse that most people are still using IE.
It wont make me switch back from Firefox (I used to use Opera), as I'm simply addicted too extensions. Plus I still haven't encountered a better bittorrent client than Azureus.
And as the rest of the people here say: I bet we will see a bittorrent extention for Firefox pretty soon. The wonders of competition. Security issues apart, this shows why a browser monopoly is just as bad as other monopolies.
More like:
And after you install CVS to update your ports tree you get the newer versions. Granted, it's not releasing fixes for the old ones, but saying there is no consistent way of doing stuff in FreeBSD is just flat out wrong.
Well... Blame the mods if you like. I tried to go for the "+1, Funny". I have access to the latest Longhorn betas from the MSDN-site myself, so I do know it exists.
However, what I meant with "vaporware" was that all the glorious and wonderful technology and promises brought to you by Microsoft regarding Longhorn seems to disappear one at a time for every report we get.
And in my honest opinion... They are facing the vaporware timeline when it comes to delivery.
Seems like you and me and every slashdotter reading this story has a issue with the UI. Ridiculous space-consumption excluded.
Organize the files in virtual folders whose 10 icons consume a full 1280x1024 desktop. You guys complain about everything.
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I run Windows due to some hardware issues, and I feel like I have put in enough effort trying to make stuff work.
However there is no ting which annoys the hell out of me in Windows than the pressumed useful and slightly forced data-organization.
Why on earth would I put my music in a folder called "My music" in a hidden folder called "My Documents" when I obviously want it in a common, shared folder? Not to mention I keep my system and data on clearly seperated partitions, and Windows insists on putting everything on the system-partition.
Add to this that a lot of applications now have started applying this idea and you get "My downloaded files", "My shared files". Even "My Virtual Machines"! You would think that if you did virtual machines, you had enough clue and brains to organize your files.
Here's hoping (not believing) that the removal of "My" in Longhorn may put an end to this madness.
I think it was more in the lines that you seemed to think it was a bad thing that someone would actually do something for the enjoyment of doing it.
You know, like artists are expected to. You know, the art copyright was supposed to protect. People doing stuff just for the money aren't artists, sorry.
Stealing also does not require you to take a physical object
You seem to be missing the point. Stealing means taking something away from it's owner. Now note how the idiom you so elgantly quoted takes something away from someone.
Now please explain how something gets taken away from people when you pirate stuff.
And finally, even if it were the case that once the word 'Steal' required an object, it doesn't any more.
Because you say so? Because the RIAA says so? Why should your definition of a word be the correct one, and not ours? I call your BS newspeak, and as we all know newspeak is only used for propaganda purposes. People who resort to propaganda are rarely trustworthy.
Also, see my sig.