In the Norwegian language we've always had "fri" for free as in speech and "gratis" for free as in beer.
Because of the popularity of the english language (and the general cluelessness of people) advertisement agencies decided that using "fri" for both "fri" and "gratis" was a cool thing to do. And they were right. Now all the young people (I'm 27, mind you) say "fri" for everything.
Call me stubborn, call me a pedant, but I still correct people when they make that mistake. And, yes, I know I am the one losing this battle.
He's not missing the point. What he does is that he refuses to take corporate fud as law.
We buy the CDs. If they break, we have to buy new ones. By that logic we aren't buying a priviledge or a licence. We buy the CD. It's ours. The fact that someone else has the copyright for that CD means nada in this context.
Our CDs. Ours to do as we please with, unless we break copyright law. Backups is fair use. Just because this asshat doesn't like it that way (now that backing CDs up is trivial and inexpensive) doesn't make it so.
No they cant. Noone has ever heard the word "licence", no one has ever been verbally informed of conditions under wich the CD is bought, noone has ever been asked to sign a paper with the text "licence" on it when buying a CD. Noone. Never.
This licence bullshit is just that: namley bullshit. Just because the cokeheads at the RIAA main office would want it to not to be so, and has repeated the same bullshit for a few years now, doesn't make the bullshit real. Stop spreading fud.
I'm just impressed that installing a user-level application (a web browser) is able to interfere with Wireless drivers in anyway what so ever.
Maybe I'm a dinosaur not seeing the benefits of integrating webbrowsers into wireless-drivers, but can someone please tell me how any sane architecture could allow this? Thanks. That's all.
Seriously. Don't the slashdot editors know by now that quite a large chunk of the slashdot community is fed up with the use of the word "blog" everywhere and anywhere?
The only reason for this article seems to be to generate "it is not blogging" kind of repsonses (and it did succeed). Aka a standard troll. Or should it be called "a blog"?
Your statement regarding "studies have shown that where politics involve more than 2 sides" is complete bullshit/pulled out of your ass/etc
Indeed. In this particular case I'd refer to it as "sarcasm". But I thought that was rather obvious.
Basicly it was more of a rant against the article in general, and here seemed like the most fitting place to put it. People emotional about stuff, or emotional people in general think less coherently and logical? Wow, that's certainly news to me. lgt;/sarcasm>
Studies show that where politics involve more than 2 sides, people must actually justify their arguments rather than bash and demonize the other side, as there is no simple "other side" to blame for everything wrong.
Ofcourse, this is utterly unimagineable for people living in the US, and I will be flamed into oblivion being named labeled both Neocon, Liberal and what not.
Since I'll probably get bashed however I put this, let me put it this way: There's no politics or democracy in the US, only corrupt government and manipulation of the public. There, I said it. I have karma to burn.
Jeez. Relax, ok? It's a joke. Irony, sarcasm, whatever. You know... A mocking of those articles telling how Linux is hard to use and inferiour to Windows.
You'd know that if you RTFA. But I must admit, it may be kinda of hard as that site went down faster than anyone I've seen slashdot link to earlier.
In that case it wouldn't be compression, it would be expansion. CD-quality = 150kb/s. 150 kb/s * 60 s/m = 9MB/m. That's raw, uncompressed CD-quality audio.
I know this is slashdot, but can't you at least keep your trolling within reasonable limits?
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In the Norwegian language we've always had "fri" for free as in speech and "gratis" for free as in beer.
Because of the popularity of the english language (and the general cluelessness of people) advertisement agencies decided that using "fri" for both "fri" and "gratis" was a cool thing to do. And they were right. Now all the young people (I'm 27, mind you) say "fri" for everything.
Call me stubborn, call me a pedant, but I still correct people when they make that mistake. And, yes, I know I am the one losing this battle.
$5.400.000.000?! ...snip... politicians who will pass more and more stringent laws, copyright will be extended to 500 years
When copyright is extended to 5 times todays "limited period", expect to see that number turn into $27,000,000,000 + inflation.
He's not missing the point. What he does is that he refuses to take corporate fud as law.
We buy the CDs. If they break, we have to buy new ones. By that logic we aren't buying a priviledge or a licence. We buy the CD. It's ours. The fact that someone else has the copyright for that CD means nada in this context.
Our CDs. Ours to do as we please with, unless we break copyright law. Backups is fair use. Just because this asshat doesn't like it that way (now that backing CDs up is trivial and inexpensive) doesn't make it so.
You are a tool.
No they cant. Noone has ever heard the word "licence", no one has ever been verbally informed of conditions under wich the CD is bought, noone has ever been asked to sign a paper with the text "licence" on it when buying a CD. Noone. Never.
This licence bullshit is just that: namley bullshit. Just because the cokeheads at the RIAA main office would want it to not to be so, and has repeated the same bullshit for a few years now, doesn't make the bullshit real. Stop spreading fud.
Oh. And you're a tool. Now kindly fuck off.
Karma to burn. blah blah.
I hate to tell you, but your deep linking violates copyright, and your argument is therefore nullified.
Oh well, that might be BS, but it's not like we don't know that some people would like it that way.
I'll surely be mod'ed down for this off-topic remark. Too bad you can't use your mod-points in this thread *grin*
When the original case is as fucked up as this, its hard to put any real effort into whatever analogy you're trying to make.
Just saying.
Greedy idiots is more like it.
I hope they get smacked bad for this one.
I'm just impressed that installing a user-level application (a web browser) is able to interfere with Wireless drivers in anyway what so ever.
Maybe I'm a dinosaur not seeing the benefits of integrating webbrowsers into wireless-drivers, but can someone please tell me how any sane architecture could allow this? Thanks. That's all.
Sane laws went out the window long ago.
It's the equivalent of the retail price! I don't care about the other numbers, nor do the RIAA, MPAA and BSA.
Why would anyone use a word like "blog" when it is not needed. Especially in this case where it makes no friggen sense.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thougt that was the whole point?
Blogging: Because using informative verbs are just so passé.
Blogging is the new "smurfing". No doubt.
Seriously. Don't the slashdot editors know by now that quite a large chunk of the slashdot community is fed up with the use of the word "blog" everywhere and anywhere?
The only reason for this article seems to be to generate "it is not blogging" kind of repsonses (and it did succeed). Aka a standard troll. Or should it be called "a blog"?
<sarcasm>Blog this, motherblogger.</sarcasm>
Except that you'll probably have to spell it in Japanese lettering at some point, so 'Porunno wa doko desu ka' might be the way forward :)
'ERO was doko desu ka?' will do fine. ero as in erotic, and hence written in katakana. Behold all the useless knowledge do I possess!
Slashdot ate my kana as well :(
I've never seen a double u before.
Does uchuu () count, or is that a chu followed by a u?
And, yes. My japanese is crappy at best as well :)
But will it teach them how to type or spellcheck? >:)
Sorry. I just couldn't resist it.
Indeed. Which is why i emphesized "more or less".
It is very hard to tell the difference between works in the public domain and copyrighted works without a notice.
No, it isn't. Anything released after the first Micket Mouse movie = copyrighted.
I don't know if this is supposed to be funny or just sad, but that's more or less the essence of copyright these days.
Your statement regarding "studies have shown that where politics involve more than 2 sides" is complete bullshit/pulled out of your ass/etc
Indeed. In this particular case I'd refer to it as "sarcasm". But I thought that was rather obvious.
Basicly it was more of a rant against the article in general, and here seemed like the most fitting place to put it. People emotional about stuff, or emotional people in general think less coherently and logical? Wow, that's certainly news to me. lgt;/sarcasm>
And I haven't even been with that many girls!
Studies show that where politics involve more than 2 sides, people must actually justify their arguments rather than bash and demonize the other side, as there is no simple "other side" to blame for everything wrong.
Ofcourse, this is utterly unimagineable for people living in the US, and I will be flamed into oblivion being named labeled both Neocon, Liberal and what not.
Since I'll probably get bashed however I put this, let me put it this way: There's no politics or democracy in the US, only corrupt government and manipulation of the public. There, I said it. I have karma to burn.
That's page 1, and I guess it's better than nothing, but what about page 2?
Jeez. Relax, ok? It's a joke. Irony, sarcasm, whatever. You know... A mocking of those articles telling how Linux is hard to use and inferiour to Windows.
You'd know that if you RTFA. But I must admit, it may be kinda of hard as that site went down faster than anyone I've seen slashdot link to earlier.
Lossless formats can easily need 30MB a minute.
In that case it wouldn't be compression, it would be expansion. CD-quality = 150kb/s. 150 kb/s * 60 s/m = 9MB/m. That's raw, uncompressed CD-quality audio.
I know this is slashdot, but can't you at least keep your trolling within reasonable limits?