Lame, lame, lame yeah i know. And not that lame, anyway. If you haven't understood it yet. It doesn't matter who made the music, the point is that RIAA deserves revenue. To feed the starving artists ofcourse. Even if you should be streaming your own music, that merely a a technicality.
"All your base are belongs to us."
- RIAA representative
That kinda makes $67 million a fortune or what? Why didn't they fine them at least $500 million? If the fine is lower than the overcharging, seriously, why should they care?
I may be a bit offtopic here, and I might even be a little arrogant towards the worlds biggest ISP and all their users, but here goes.
Why would anyone want AOL-functionality in their Linux-distro? Anyone capable of using Linux really doesnt fit the average AOL-customer-description. I mean make it more Windows like, call it Lindows, but its Linux, right?
Unnless this is modded Offtopic, I might even make first post:)
The fact that the only ones who wants DRM is the MPAA and RIAA together with Microsoft and all their loyal little servants doesn't make you shiver?
These are (evidently) asshole-corporations that have suggested that all PCs in the world should be crippled to the bone, that the open architecture should be closed, that every single component and software should be signed. Hrm... signed. I guess I can't tell who the signing authority in this case woulod be.... Nevermind, it probably isnt those guys from the RIAA that tried to get legalaccess to DOS any person of the net, if the o-mighty RIAA -suspected- that they might be pirating music.
Let's round it up. Those who wants DRM wants the free world as we know it know to be DRMed and crippled to the tiniest atom, they have in every single aspect possible treated ordinary customers as thieves, and all this just to earn some more money. (Haven't they bought enough senators allready?!?)
I guess you could believe that they would not be the enforcing the DRM at top level. I guess you can assume they wont screw you this time as well. And I guess you can believe in St.Clauss knocking up the easterbunny and the man on the moon hatching the eggs.
I'm sorry, but DRM with Palladium is a control architecture. A massive one in fact. And I do not trust people possesing massive power. People with massive power has allways abused it, and probably allways will.
So I did. Well I bought the SBLive! long ago, and now I mailed creative telling them i feel ripped off. And that if this is the way the're going I'm not buying anything from them again. Which indeed is true.
Hold your horses, boy! Is this true? If so, I will -never- install Windows on any of my machines ever again!
What the f... do I need a digital out for, if my DAC doesnt recieve all the freaking signals?!?!? Ok... So it's just DRM-files. Yeay. As if everything isn't gonna be DRMed in the close future anyway.
Guess I'll still stick to Linux, and convert my home Win2k-box when I get a proper network connection....
And if you are a average (and therefore averagely ignorant) user you will also be forced into using the WMP 9 BETA. (Actually not, but average users don't know how to click the second option... We all know this is true.)
You are beeing forced to use a BETA-product to play music you legally purchased... Hrm.. Hows that for "surreptitiously placing anything on a PC that impairs its function"?
This seems more and more far fetched... Am I loosing contact with sense, reality and ordinary logic, or is it just that simple that MS and **AAs really do hate people?
This is a kinda interesting thought. Be prepared to take this to court, though. And don't spend money you don't have on DRM-crippled shit, as I wouldn't be suprised (at all) if some US court gives **AA the right to do so, and eagerly hands out a 23.4 USD "court-expenses"-fine to you, for ever doubting the o-mighty corporate America.
If Hollywood thought so, that might be because he wrote something like this in a letter to them: "I don't know much about making movies, and you don't know much about hitchiking the galaxy".....
I know that it should be technically impassible to produce anything as crappy as that old BBC TV-series. I couldn't stop being annoyed, even after some heavy bonging.... It was too horrible to ignore, and defintly not reflecting the brilliance of the book.
As I thought we all knew, you can read some of his 'Hollywood-letters' in the book released after his death, 'The salmon of doubt - Hitchhiking the galaxy one last time'.
Quite amusing I must admit, and definetly worth reading.
Nice use of the '~'-symbol. Given the use of only 14 digits. Not to mention the use of units probably known to maximum 0.001% of the human population:)
When it comes to performance, IE is admittable good. Quick to use, quick to start. But what would you expect when it is buildt into the kernel?!?
When it comes to security, there probably isn't a browser on earth that is near. In the means of known, unfixed security-issues.
When it comes to standards, it pollutes the net, by introducing non-standard html, which makes the standard-abiding browsers look buggy.
When it comes to standards, if IE was the only browser to be used, eventually, due to everyone's eventual adaption to the M$-HTML, where would the internet and www's-platform independency be?
You're not a web-developer are you? When creating massive sites I, for once, prefer to check the referer, to know where to return, when I've been trough tons of pages and security precations, because users are too stoopid get it right the first time.
Just because it can be abused, doesn't mean that it doesn't have any legitemite uses as well.
I'll probably lock my self out from the world, but then I'd insist on having anything sent to me in plain HTML. Saves space, saves time, saves conversion, saves platform-issues. And ordinary users probably wouldn't even know what I was talking about.
And then I could complain to the goverment, that M$ is still messing around with monopoly-abuse. But they wouldnt accept my complaint, as I wouldn't "trusted" or "certified".
And they wouldn't know any of this, due to the Win32 trojan called "Auto-update". Mainly used to automativly installed new viruses and keep the flaws up-to-date.
Oh, simplify as much as you want! Actually, javascript can be used for more than popups. The reason it's implemented is that it can be used to construct alot more complex websystems.
As a site-developer I actually have found out that I need javascript to make the dynamic-content-handling functional. Otherwise you would need Weendoze-'one-by-one'-step Wizards (which I by the way hate and despice like the plague. Some of them are so "user-friendly", I have no idea what to do/select/tag... It's too user friendly to use, and if you figure them out they're still pretty bloat. 'nuf rant). Now you don't want the internet to become windows as well, now do you?
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Lame, lame, lame yeah i know. And not that lame, anyway. If you haven't understood it yet. It doesn't matter who made the music, the point is that RIAA deserves revenue. To feed the starving artists ofcourse. Even if you should be streaming your own music, that merely a a technicality.
"All your base are belongs to us."
- RIAA representative
This gotta be the cruelest so far!
I apreciate the use of the word might in such a sentence. It implies you could do it just a little bit more savage. And I'd like that!
You'll have top remember to pay the patent office their new patent-lawsuit-income fee of 10 percent then.
Btw. That's hush hush and unofficial.
That kinda makes $67 million a fortune or what? Why didn't they fine them at least $500 million? If the fine is lower than the overcharging, seriously, why should they care?
I may be a bit offtopic here, and I might even be a little arrogant towards the worlds biggest ISP and all their users, but here goes.
Why would anyone want AOL-functionality in their Linux-distro? Anyone capable of using Linux really doesnt fit the average AOL-customer-description. I mean make it more Windows like, call it Lindows, but its Linux, right?
Unnless this is modded Offtopic, I might even make first post :)
The fact that the only ones who wants DRM is the MPAA and RIAA together with Microsoft and all their loyal little servants doesn't make you shiver?
These are (evidently) asshole-corporations that have suggested that all PCs in the world should be crippled to the bone, that the open architecture should be closed, that every single component and software should be signed. Hrm... signed. I guess I can't tell who the signing authority in this case woulod be.... Nevermind, it probably isnt those guys from the RIAA that tried to get legalaccess to DOS any person of the net, if the o-mighty RIAA -suspected- that they might be pirating music.
Let's round it up. Those who wants DRM wants the free world as we know it know to be DRMed and crippled to the tiniest atom, they have in every single aspect possible treated ordinary customers as thieves, and all this just to earn some more money. (Haven't they bought enough senators allready?!?)
I guess you could believe that they would not be the enforcing the DRM at top level. I guess you can assume they wont screw you this time as well. And I guess you can believe in St.Clauss knocking up the easterbunny and the man on the moon hatching the eggs.
I'm sorry, but DRM with Palladium is a control architecture. A massive one in fact. And I do not trust people possesing massive power. People with massive power has allways abused it, and probably allways will.
So I did. Well I bought the SBLive! long ago, and now I mailed creative telling them i feel ripped off. And that if this is the way the're going I'm not buying anything from them again. Which indeed is true.
Hold your horses, boy! Is this true? If so, I will -never- install Windows on any of my machines ever again!
What the f... do I need a digital out for, if my DAC doesnt recieve all the freaking signals?!?!? Ok... So it's just DRM-files. Yeay. As if everything isn't gonna be DRMed in the close future anyway.
Guess I'll still stick to Linux, and convert my home Win2k-box when I get a proper network connection....
You forgot the Microsoft Messenger that as magic shows up in the systemtray everytime you enter a Microsoft site surfing with IE. Thats just sick.
And if you are a average (and therefore averagely ignorant) user you will also be forced into using the WMP 9 BETA. (Actually not, but average users don't know how to click the second option... We all know this is true.)
You are beeing forced to use a BETA-product to play music you legally purchased... Hrm.. Hows that for "surreptitiously placing anything on a PC that impairs its function"?
This seems more and more far fetched... Am I loosing contact with sense, reality and ordinary logic, or is it just that simple that MS and **AAs really do hate people?
This is a kinda interesting thought. Be prepared to take this to court, though. And don't spend money you don't have on DRM-crippled shit, as I wouldn't be suprised (at all) if some US court gives **AA the right to do so, and eagerly hands out a 23.4 USD "court-expenses"-fine to you, for ever doubting the o-mighty corporate America.
If Hollywood thought so, that might be because he wrote something like this in a letter to them:
"I don't know much about making movies, and you don't know much about hitchiking the galaxy".....
I know that it should be technically impassible to produce anything as crappy as that old BBC TV-series. I couldn't stop being annoyed, even after some heavy bonging.... It was too horrible to ignore, and defintly not reflecting the brilliance of the book.
Can you say imdb? Ian McKellen shows up...
Damn! How could I forget about Chloe?
But how old is she getting these days? Red Dwarf been off the air for a while now. At least where I live.... )-:
As I thought we all knew, you can read some of his 'Hollywood-letters' in the book released after his death, 'The salmon of doubt - Hitchhiking the galaxy one last time'.
Quite amusing I must admit, and definetly worth reading.
Define "one second". :) The time taken for light to travel 1 / 299792458 metre?
Actually. That would make the speed of light 1/299792458 meters/second. Out of only two "seemingly good" answers, you picked excactly the wrong one.
Math is hard sometimes, huh? :) Reminds me of a slashdot.sig
Calculus and alchohol don't mix. Don't drink and derive!
"c ~ 1802617528320.3 furlongs/fortnight"
Nice use of the '~'-symbol. Given the use of only 14 digits. Not to mention the use of units probably known to maximum 0.001% of the human population :)
When it comes to performance, IE is admittable good. Quick to use, quick to start. But what would you expect when it is buildt into the kernel?!?
When it comes to security, there probably isn't a browser on earth that is near. In the means of known, unfixed security-issues.
When it comes to standards, it pollutes the net, by introducing non-standard html, which makes the standard-abiding browsers look buggy.
When it comes to standards, if IE was the only browser to be used, eventually, due to everyone's eventual adaption to the M$-HTML, where would the internet and www's-platform independency be?
When it comes to moral, it is bad for your karma
Now you choose.
And I don't know how to read, evidently :)
So you don't know html, that's it? *grin*
So should Referrer be removed from existence.
You're not a web-developer are you? When creating massive sites I, for once, prefer to check the referer, to know where to return, when I've been trough tons of pages and security precations, because users are too stoopid get it right the first time.
Just because it can be abused, doesn't mean that it doesn't have any legitemite uses as well.
I'll probably lock my self out from the world, but then I'd insist on having anything sent to me in plain HTML. Saves space, saves time, saves conversion, saves platform-issues. And ordinary users probably wouldn't even know what I was talking about.
And then I could complain to the goverment, that M$ is still messing around with monopoly-abuse. But they wouldnt accept my complaint, as I wouldn't "trusted" or "certified".
And they wouldn't know any of this, due to the Win32 trojan called "Auto-update". Mainly used to automativly installed new viruses and keep the flaws up-to-date.
Oh, simplify as much as you want! Actually, javascript can be used for more than popups. The reason it's implemented is that it can be used to construct alot more complex websystems.
As a site-developer I actually have found out that I need javascript to make the dynamic-content-handling functional. Otherwise you would need Weendoze-'one-by-one'-step Wizards (which I by the way hate and despice like the plague. Some of them are so "user-friendly", I have no idea what to do/select/tag... It's too user friendly to use, and if you figure them out they're still pretty bloat. 'nuf rant). Now you don't want the internet to become windows as well, now do you?