Or you have freedom-loving people like me who can put together a superior MythTV box and sell it at $800 instead of your $1600 Micro$oft love-box.
Did you know that Microsoft won't even sell you Media Centre Edition unless you are a "preferred partner," and that there is no way to "upgrade" a Windows install to Media Centre Edition?
The PSP does not support AVI; it rather supports SVI, Sony's DRM-encumbered "replacement for AVI." Likewise, you must convert all your MP3s to ATRAC3, Sony's DRM-encumbered "replacement for MP3."
Frankly, I would sooner urinate myself than spend $150 for a "MagicGate" equipped Memory Stick. How can you break the worst memory card "standard" even more? Add encryption.
Oh, and I'm going to jail for violating the DCMA with this post. See you next year.
This is all just a rip-off of Google's Video Search. I am assured by a reliable weblog that Google will unveil a beta of Google Video during the next two months. I highly recommend that you boycott Yahoo! and Alltheweb's derivative search technology in favour of Google, the true innovatrix.
Dude, you own vinyl. Unless you want to borrow my LP-ROM drive, you're going to have to jump through hoops to get your music onto an iPod (or any portable player, for that matter).
What did you expect Apple to do -- give you free downloads from their catalogue because you claim to own the vinyl? My.MP3.com tried that with CDs 12 years ago, and they got sued out of existence.
I bought one of these so-called "MP3 players" but quickly returned it. Sony insists on bundling the crapware they call "SonicStage" onto their players' software CDs. This software, which is not compatible with Linux or BSD, takes up several hundred mebibytes of RAM and is merely a glossy front end to the so-called "Sony Connect music store.
No thanks, Sony. I want an MP3 player that I can load up by copying files over from any OS. I don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars for hundreds of gibibytes of DRM-encrusted "music" from your so-called "popular" artists when I can instead acquire legal music from authorised channels such as allofmp3.com.
In conclusion, I highly recommend that you boycott Sony and all of their so-called "products."
That's good, but who watches football any more? I'd prefer to see this technology used in more appropriate media such as televised Starcraft and televised chess.
This so-called "drawing tool" is utterly useless for professional artists. I prefer to use software developed with sound, secure Open Source principles instead of corporate greed.
Frankly, I can't see this tool being any more useful than any closed-source application. Name one so-called "professional" program that hasn't been matched by community-driven efforts.
Five years ago? Stupid Micro$soft sympathizer. The Xbox cost $375 to make three years ago when it was introduced. Today it costs $175 to make and sells for $150. Including the bundle of shitty games and 2 months of Live, Microsoft loses about $80 on every Xbox sold.
Steam adds negative value. When I buy a game, I expect to do whatever I want with it.
Steam's so-called "Digital 'Rights' Management" actually deprives my rights as a consumer and is intended to protect the rights of the so-called "Intellectual Property holders."
I've got news for you, Valve: I own your "Intellectual Property." I paid $50 for a copy of it at the store. Now get the fuck out of my bedroom and let me hack in peace.
10 REM Voting machine simulator. 20 PRINT "Who do you vote for? "; 30 INPUT VOTE$ 35 LPRINT "THANK YOU FOR VOTING FOR" ; VOTE$ 40 IF VOTE$ <> "BUSH" THEN VOTE$ = "BUSH" 50 OPEN "voterec1" FOR APPEND AS #1 60 PRINT #1, VOTE$
When I "go to a movie," I download the movie using SuperNova and watch it on my home theater entertainment box. Exactly how does my car enter into the equation?
Sun is completely lacking in clue here, as always.
Sun, of course, feels heavily threatened by Linux and is merely spreading FUD in order to cement Sun's (TINY) market share and bolster Sun's (TINY) share price.
I have been an active member of the Linux community since its inception and we have been exorbitantly friendly to new users and developers. Sun, by contrast, makes you sign restrictive participatory agreements and agree to non-Free licences for community-owned code.
Google News includes such feeds as Xinhua News and PRAVDA. These are not news. Just because Google News thinks it's a news story doesn't make it so. PRAVDA is a bunch of government-sponsored hokum that has no business on a news site.
WARNING: The parent post was made by a known Microsoft sympathizer who buys into the discredited notion that Linux's so-called "TCO" is higher. What he actually means is that PHBs are too scared to change.
Frequently, I am asked to participate in open source projects. I always decline.
"Why?" they ask me. "We'd really like to have your skills."
I look right back at the interlocutor and answer "Egos. I can't deal with them."
Frankly, the Mozilla team looks after its own interests first. The same can be said about every open source program. The products in question inevitably become software written for developers by developers. If someone's grandma can understand the software then it's a "success," but if not then "Joe Sixpack isn't ready for our technology." The elitism and self-serving nature of the open source community is going to kill it.
"Now, excuse me," I say while waving my hand toward the interlocutor and then to the door. "I'm going to see what the blogosphere has to say about this."
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Or you have freedom-loving people like me who can put together a superior MythTV box and sell it at $800 instead of your $1600 Micro$oft love-box.
Did you know that Microsoft won't even sell you Media Centre Edition unless you are a "preferred partner," and that there is no way to "upgrade" a Windows install to Media Centre Edition?
In conclusion, you are a troll.
The PSP does not support AVI; it rather supports SVI, Sony's DRM-encumbered "replacement for AVI." Likewise, you must convert all your MP3s to ATRAC3, Sony's DRM-encumbered "replacement for MP3."
Frankly, I would sooner urinate myself than spend $150 for a "MagicGate" equipped Memory Stick. How can you break the worst memory card "standard" even more? Add encryption.
Oh, and I'm going to jail for violating the DCMA with this post. See you next year.
This is all just a rip-off of Google's Video Search. I am assured by a reliable weblog that Google will unveil a beta of Google Video during the next two months. I highly recommend that you boycott Yahoo! and Alltheweb's derivative search technology in favour of Google, the true innovatrix.
Dude, you own vinyl. Unless you want to borrow my LP-ROM drive, you're going to have to jump through hoops to get your music onto an iPod (or any portable player, for that matter).
What did you expect Apple to do -- give you free downloads from their catalogue because you claim to own the vinyl? My.MP3.com tried that with CDs 12 years ago, and they got sued out of existence.
I bought one of these so-called "MP3 players" but quickly returned it. Sony insists on bundling the crapware they call "SonicStage" onto their players' software CDs. This software, which is not compatible with Linux or BSD , takes up several hundred mebibytes of RAM and is merely a glossy front end to the so-called "Sony Connect music store.
No thanks, Sony. I want an MP3 player that I can load up by copying files over from any OS. I don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars for hundreds of gibibytes of DRM-encrusted "music" from your so-called "popular" artists when I can instead acquire legal music from authorised channels such as allofmp3.com.
In conclusion, I highly recommend that you boycott Sony and all of their so-called "products."
That's good, but who watches football any more? I'd prefer to see this technology used in more appropriate media such as televised Starcraft and televised chess.
This so-called "drawing tool" is utterly useless for professional artists. I prefer to use software developed with sound, secure Open Source principles instead of corporate greed.
Frankly, I can't see this tool being any more useful than any closed-source application. Name one so-called "professional" program that hasn't been matched by community-driven efforts.
I blame Bill Clinton.
Five years ago? Stupid Micro$soft sympathizer. The Xbox cost $375 to make three years ago when it was introduced. Today it costs $175 to make and sells for $150. Including the bundle of shitty games and 2 months of Live, Microsoft loses about $80 on every Xbox sold.
Steam adds negative value. When I buy a game, I expect to do whatever I want with it.
Steam's so-called "Digital 'Rights' Management" actually deprives my rights as a consumer and is intended to protect the rights of the so-called "Intellectual Property holders."
I've got news for you, Valve: I own your "Intellectual Property." I paid $50 for a copy of it at the store. Now get the fuck out of my bedroom and let me hack in peace.
Sorry, I only get my sex tips from known experts in the field.
10 REM Voting machine simulator.
20 PRINT "Who do you vote for? ";
30 INPUT VOTE$
35 LPRINT "THANK YOU FOR VOTING FOR" ; VOTE$
40 IF VOTE$ <> "BUSH" THEN VOTE$ = "BUSH"
50 OPEN "voterec1" FOR APPEND AS #1
60 PRINT #1, VOTE$
Simple as that.
..."How much harm can one do to a web site?"
That would be a good question to ask Michael Sims, who goatse'd my web site last year and said of the experience, "I'd do it again."
This Ron Artest-like display shall not stand. Read all about it in my upcoming book entitled Cheating Death: How the Censorware Project Became Fraudened .
When I "go to a movie," I download the movie using SuperNova and watch it on my home theater entertainment box. Exactly how does my car enter into the equation?
The Cathedral refers to closed-source software like Java where an oppressive figurehead dictates what you may and may not do.
The Bazaar refers to open-source software which, unlike Java, may be distributed Free as in Speechly and is utterly open to all improvements.
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Sun is completely lacking in clue here, as always.
Sun, of course, feels heavily threatened by Linux and is merely spreading FUD in order to cement Sun's (TINY) market share and bolster Sun's (TINY) share price.
I have been an active member of the Linux community since its inception and we have been exorbitantly friendly to new users and developers. Sun, by contrast, makes you sign restrictive participatory agreements and agree to non-Free licences for community-owned code.
Sun is dead. Long live Linux.
It worked for me. My FreeBSD partitions were completely unbroken after doing a Fedora GNU/Linux install.
Oh man! I just finished downloading Fedora Core 2 and installed it on all of my boxen. Don't tell me that I have to upgrade again!
Oh well, at least it's better than Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 With 60 Hotfixes Installed. Linux is so much stabler and securer.
That's true, but Google News also considers Faux News Channel to be news. That's much worse than Xinhua or PRAVDA.
Google News includes such feeds as Xinhua News and PRAVDA. These are not news. Just because Google News thinks it's a news story doesn't make it so. PRAVDA is a bunch of government-sponsored hokum that has no business on a news site.
WARNING: The parent post was made by a known Microsoft sympathizer who buys into the discredited notion that Linux's so-called "TCO" is higher. What he actually means is that PHBs are too scared to change.
Linux is cheaper; Linux is better. Don't even.
My iPod 20GB plays all that plus industry-standard AAC music for $300.
Oh, and I don't have to pay some so-called "mobile telephone operator" $50 a month for the privilege of using it.
Ta.
Good post. Good, good post.
Frequently, I am asked to participate in open source projects. I always decline.
"Why?" they ask me. "We'd really like to have your skills."
I look right back at the interlocutor and answer "Egos. I can't deal with them."
Frankly, the Mozilla team looks after its own interests first. The same can be said about every open source program. The products in question inevitably become software written for developers by developers. If someone's grandma can understand the software then it's a "success," but if not then "Joe Sixpack isn't ready for our technology." The elitism and self-serving nature of the open source community is going to kill it.
"Now, excuse me," I say while waving my hand toward the interlocutor and then to the door. "I'm going to see what the blogosphere has to say about this."
I have it on good authority that Google won't do that. They care too much about the integrity of their customers.
In any case, I can just outsource "Captcha" processing to my network of freedom-fighting web sites.