Guelph, that pretty funny. You don't go to university to learn languages, you go to learn computer science, which has nothing to do with programming in a certain language. I've taken courses (At waterloo) where they make up a language and you do stuff with that. The language dosn't matter, because in 10 years that language won't be used anyway. You go to college to learn languages (although I guess you could make a pretty strong case for guelph being a college). I'm not trolling or anything, I'd love to go to guelph it I though there was any value to the comp sci degree, no one's denying that guelph girls are hot, and waterloo girls are not, but the truth is the program just isn't up to the standard.
You think waterloo has a bad reputation? Well if you own a tech company, who the fuck are you going to get your workforce from? McMaster? Western? U of T? Ya, good luck with that, I have friends in comp eng at all those schools and spend more time at keggers than in class. Waterloo is the only serious school in canada for technology and no matter how bad its reputation gets, young tech students will still want to come here and tech companies will still want to get their workers from here.
He got a score of 0, flamebait, but I swear if you replace windows with linux and linux with windows in his post, it would get +5 insightful. I guess that's just what I get for reading slashdot.
I would pay for a movie because you get to go the theatre for it (a live peformance) that is fun. I won't pay for you're shit music because I can download it. I can even take my girlfriend the movie and feel her up, its a good chance. So the point is I will not pay for music ever again, and I hope you starve to death because of it.
Did you read my post? I know I'm a theif, I don't care because I'm not being punished. If the industry was smart they would punish me, but they arn't so they use paladium to try and stop me from being a theif.
I pirate everything, movies, music, software, whatever.
I haven't bought or rented a movie for the last 2 years. (Queue it in kazaa, its there within a couple of days
I haven't bought a CD for the last 3 years. (Stream it from kazaa)
I haven't really bought software ever. (Well, maybe paid a friend $1 per CD for it)
If anyone I know asks me, I'll give them a copy of a movie or software that I have on CD or just send it to them over ICQ, and I know a lot of people who will do the same thing. Now I realize that this is wrong and everything but I don't want Paladium to go through because of it. The reason its being implemented is because of people like me, and I think there are a lot of us. I know no one in this slashdot crowd will admit to using their computer for anything but playing a DVD in linux or using mp3s to back up a CD that they bought, but from my experience, that's not what a lot of people do. I don't think its just university students either, I've given win2k and office and a lot of other software to relatives, or to my parents friends, people who will typically pay for the stuff. My mom gets me to burn CDs for her now and she doesn't even know how to use a computer. When so many people are getting something for free, it causes a problem with the economy and Palladium is the only solution that I (and I guess the industry) can see that will work. So I guess my point is, don't blame big business for taking away your rights, because people like me are forcing them to do it. Blame the pirates, I'm not denying that its our fault. The Going Concern Principle of accounting states that a corporation must act in a way that will maintain their business as a profitable entity, and prevent it from going bankrupt. That is all these companies are doing, the violation of the rights of the slashdot crowd are just an unfortunate side effect.
Its a well known fact that OGG appears to sound better because its adds 3 decibles to the volume over other formats. In blind listening tests, OGG will tend to win because louder music sounds clearer and better. This dosn't mean that its the better format.
Chapter 11
The part of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code describing how a company or creditor can file for court protection. In the case of a corporation, reorganization occurs under the existing management.
Chapter 7
The part of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code describing the liquidation of a company after bankruptcy.
You are such a moron. I recently bought a copy of visual studio.net from my friend for $3. You know what the retail price is? $2500!
Ya, I could just lay down and program on shitty linux languages, but I'm not going to. I'm a poor student and I'll damn well take whatever software I want for free, and fuck anyone who thinks I'm wrong, because its paying customers like them who are supporting my habit.
And don't give me this shit about how its going to kill the industry, piracy has been going on for years and the industry still grows. Companys get money from businesses or something. The truth is the only people who don't pirate their shit are the FUCKING MORONS.
I really don't know why more people don't use this program. I've been using it for about a month, and its PERFECT, no popups get through. Look, I'm going to make it easy for all of you to get it by posting links:
Now for those of you who don't want to use it, here is a little FAQ:
How much RAM does it take?
Looks like about 4.5 MB
How much does it cost?
Well, you can pay the company $24.99, or you can just use this product key: MP739343291188802719 and use the program for free.
Does it work?
Yes, I have not had a single popup get through since I installed it.
So now you see that you don't have to use a certain browser like Mozilla, you can use Netscape or IE if you want and you will never have to worry about popups again. Whenever I see slashdot articles about popups I think its kind of funny because to me popups don't exist.
In case this post looks suspicious, no I don't work for the company or anything, I just really like this program and want to share it with the slashdot community.
This is like the thing with Bestbuy and Future Shop, although Bestbuy owns futureshop, they still set up stores right across from each other to create the illusion of competition. In this case, if Microsoft is concerned about its image, it just buys another image (corel) and sells that to customers instead, its still all microsoft.
The slashdot crowd are typically very intelligent and arn't going to just lie back and do what the union leader says. We all have different opinions or issues and I really don't think there is any way that we could all agree on any issue enough to have some kind of union.
I guess I had a very different experience from you... I also failed freshman algebra but as soon as I was able to pass it I never took it again. Now I have a successful career as a programmer and I use barly any math. I think its all a waste of time for CS students.
I don't buy a computer based on adds, I go to hardware sites and look at benchmarks and read reviews. People who are too lazy to do this deserve to get ripped off. I don't expect companies to be honest about the quality of their product in any industry and no one else should. I will say this though, if this law suit is won by the customers, I'll be suing Cheer for misleading me into buying their product when I later find out that Tide is clearly better.
I don't buy a computer based on adds, I go to hardware sites and look at benchmarks and read reviews. People who are too lazy to do this deserve to get ripped off. I don't expect companies to be honest about the quality of their product in any industry and no one else should. I will say this though, if this law suit is won by the customers, I'll be suing Cheer for misleading me into buying their product when I later find out that Tide is clearly better.
This is just stupid, if the ISPs are guilty of the copywrite infringment, than arn't the power companies guilty for powering the net? The telecom companys for laying the cable? The grocery stores for providing food to the workers who did this? Does it ever stop?
Waterloo, Canada is named for Waterloo, Germany (it was founded by German people and it used to be called Berlin before WW2 when people made them change it).
Napolean's battle of waterloo took place in Belgium, not Germany, therefore a Napoleon joke is not required.
I actually have something like this
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Its a cool toy but holding my hand up in the air gets tiring. I will admit though, that for quake 3, it improves my precision a lot.
I wonder how long it will be...
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before someone hacks the rat and get linux running on it.
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Guelph, that pretty funny. You don't go to university to learn languages, you go to learn computer science, which has nothing to do with programming in a certain language. I've taken courses (At waterloo) where they make up a language and you do stuff with that. The language dosn't matter, because in 10 years that language won't be used anyway. You go to college to learn languages (although I guess you could make a pretty strong case for guelph being a college). I'm not trolling or anything, I'd love to go to guelph it I though there was any value to the comp sci degree, no one's denying that guelph girls are hot, and waterloo girls are not, but the truth is the program just isn't up to the standard.
You think waterloo has a bad reputation? Well if you own a tech company, who the fuck are you going to get your workforce from? McMaster? Western? U of T? Ya, good luck with that, I have friends in comp eng at all those schools and spend more time at keggers than in class. Waterloo is the only serious school in canada for technology and no matter how bad its reputation gets, young tech students will still want to come here and tech companies will still want to get their workers from here.
He got a score of 0, flamebait, but I swear if you replace windows with linux and linux with windows in his post, it would get +5 insightful. I guess that's just what I get for reading slashdot.
I would pay for a movie because you get to go the theatre for it (a live peformance) that is fun. I won't pay for you're shit music because I can download it. I can even take my girlfriend the movie and feel her up, its a good chance. So the point is I will not pay for music ever again, and I hope you starve to death because of it.
Heh, you can't be jaild or fined for anything without a trial, what are you talking about?
Even if you get a parking ticket you get a trial.
Did you read my post? I know I'm a theif, I don't care because I'm not being punished. If the industry was smart they would punish me, but they arn't so they use paladium to try and stop me from being a theif.
I'm 20, I'm in university.
I pirate everything, movies, music, software, whatever.
I haven't bought or rented a movie for the last 2 years. (Queue it in kazaa, its there within a couple of days
I haven't bought a CD for the last 3 years. (Stream it from kazaa)
I haven't really bought software ever. (Well, maybe paid a friend $1 per CD for it)
If anyone I know asks me, I'll give them a copy of a movie or software that I have on CD or just send it to them over ICQ, and I know a lot of people who will do the same thing. Now I realize that this is wrong and everything but I don't want Paladium to go through because of it. The reason its being implemented is because of people like me, and I think there are a lot of us. I know no one in this slashdot crowd will admit to using their computer for anything but playing a DVD in linux or using mp3s to back up a CD that they bought, but from my experience, that's not what a lot of people do. I don't think its just university students either, I've given win2k and office and a lot of other software to relatives, or to my parents friends, people who will typically pay for the stuff. My mom gets me to burn CDs for her now and she doesn't even know how to use a computer. When so many people are getting something for free, it causes a problem with the economy and Palladium is the only solution that I (and I guess the industry) can see that will work. So I guess my point is, don't blame big business for taking away your rights, because people like me are forcing them to do it. Blame the pirates, I'm not denying that its our fault. The Going Concern Principle of accounting states that a corporation must act in a way that will maintain their business as a profitable entity, and prevent it from going bankrupt. That is all these companies are doing, the violation of the rights of the slashdot crowd are just an unfortunate side effect.
Its a well known fact that OGG appears to sound better because its adds 3 decibles to the volume over other formats. In blind listening tests, OGG will tend to win because louder music sounds clearer and better. This dosn't mean that its the better format.
Kind souls? I think you mean karma whores!
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... I feel so dirty......
Chapter 11
The part of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code describing how a company or creditor can file for court protection. In the case of a corporation, reorganization occurs under the existing management.
Chapter 7
The part of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code describing the liquidation of a company after bankruptcy.
Actually, the slashdot crowd will inherit the earth. You can only get HIV if you're having sex ;)
and I got several results that were not really related to physics. Not that I'm complaing :)
You are such a moron. I recently bought a copy of visual studio.net from my friend for $3. You know what the retail price is? $2500!
Ya, I could just lay down and program on shitty linux languages, but I'm not going to. I'm a poor student and I'll damn well take whatever software I want for free, and fuck anyone who thinks I'm wrong, because its paying customers like them who are supporting my habit.
And don't give me this shit about how its going to kill the industry, piracy has been going on for years and the industry still grows. Companys get money from businesses or something. The truth is the only people who don't pirate their shit are the FUCKING MORONS.
Hey, I am in school right now, I'll start supporting the programmers when I enter the industry.
I really don't know why more people don't use this program. I've been using it for about a month, and its PERFECT, no popups get through. Look, I'm going to make it easy for all of you to get it by posting links:
The download page
The actual file
Now for those of you who don't want to use it, here is a little FAQ:
How much RAM does it take?
Looks like about 4.5 MB
How much does it cost?
Well, you can pay the company $24.99, or you can just use this product key: MP739343291188802719 and use the program for free.
Does it work?
Yes, I have not had a single popup get through since I installed it.
So now you see that you don't have to use a certain browser like Mozilla, you can use Netscape or IE if you want and you will never have to worry about popups again. Whenever I see slashdot articles about popups I think its kind of funny because to me popups don't exist.
In case this post looks suspicious, no I don't work for the company or anything, I just really like this program and want to share it with the slashdot community.
This is like the thing with Bestbuy and Future Shop, although Bestbuy owns futureshop, they still set up stores right across from each other to create the illusion of competition. In this case, if Microsoft is concerned about its image, it just buys another image (corel) and sells that to customers instead, its still all microsoft.
The slashdot crowd are typically very intelligent and arn't going to just lie back and do what the union leader says. We all have different opinions or issues and I really don't think there is any way that we could all agree on any issue enough to have some kind of union.
I guess I had a very different experience from you... I also failed freshman algebra but as soon as I was able to pass it I never took it again. Now I have a successful career as a programmer and I use barly any math. I think its all a waste of time for CS students.
I don't buy a computer based on adds, I go to hardware sites and look at benchmarks and read reviews. People who are too lazy to do this deserve to get ripped off. I don't expect companies to be honest about the quality of their product in any industry and no one else should. I will say this though, if this law suit is won by the customers, I'll be suing Cheer for misleading me into buying their product when I later find out that Tide is clearly better.
I don't buy a computer based on adds, I go to hardware sites and look at benchmarks and read reviews. People who are too lazy to do this deserve to get ripped off. I don't expect companies to be honest about the quality of their product in any industry and no one else should. I will say this though, if this law suit is won by the customers, I'll be suing Cheer for misleading me into buying their product when I later find out that Tide is clearly better.
Yes, good luck slashdotting a backbone.
This is just stupid, if the ISPs are guilty of the copywrite infringment, than arn't the power companies guilty for powering the net? The telecom companys for laying the cable? The grocery stores for providing food to the workers who did this? Does it ever stop?
Waterloo, Canada is named for Waterloo, Germany (it was founded by German people and it used to be called Berlin before WW2 when people made them change it).
Napolean's battle of waterloo took place in Belgium, not Germany, therefore a Napoleon joke is not required.
Its a cool toy but holding my hand up in the air gets tiring. I will admit though, that for quake 3, it improves my precision a lot.
before someone hacks the rat and get linux running on it.
Microsoft's passport system has been around for years.