MS is being lazy. If they want the rules to protect their revenue stream then they have to stick to the rules themselves.
Secretary: Senator $scumbag's office. Bill: Mr. $scumbag please. Secretary: Who may I ask is calling? Bill: Bill Gates. Secretary: Yes sir Mr. Gates sir. I'll put you right through, sir. $scumbag: Hello? Bill: Hey, it's me. Did you get that last check OK? $scumbag: Yeah, everything's cool. What can I do for you? Bill: I was talking with my lawyers and they want that new anti-piracy bill we talked about to only apply to other people. We should be able to break it as much as we want. $scumbag: No problem.
Yes, in a rational world, corporations would be held to the same standards as everyone else. Tell me if you ever find a rational world, though.
The possibility of an appeal (retrial somehow implicates that the government can keep going and going which is wrong) by the prosecutor is offset by the fact that the losing party has to pay the costs
Except, in this case, the MPAA could pay for 50 trials in a row and never miss the money. I don't know the specifics of Jon's finances, but I doubt he could pay for even one or two trials before bankruptcy.
"The losing party pays the costs" sounds like a good idea, but in the days when lawsuits are often between Joe Blow and some megagajillion dollar corporation, it skews everything.
It's not just the GCC optimization flags, it's total customization. Gentoo (my distro of choice and the most popular source-based Linux distro) also has USE flags, which allow you to compile programs with or without support for various things. If some app supports both KDE and Gnome, normally support for both would be compiled in, even though most users would only use one or the other. In Gentoo you have USE flags for KDE and Gnome, as well as a myriad of others. If you don't want KDE support compiled into apps, stick -kde in USE. Likewise with -gnome. Or put both in if you only use a more minimalist WM. Or -X if you're putting together a headless server, etc etc.
I'm a sophomore in HS, and my history teacher does the exact same thing. For example,
Textbook: "The three main causes of (whatever) were X, Y, and Z."
Homework: "Name three causes of (whatever)."
Test: "What were three causes of (whatever)?"
If I was on the negotiating team, I'd spend hours and hours in the room talking the MS sales dudes into a bunch of discounts and stuff...then laugh in their faces and tell em I already decided on Linux. Maybe buy 1 XP CD at the reduced price though, so I could microwave it it front of them.
Better yet, this article makes me want to put up a webpage with links to my FTP server and describes it as having a ton of awesome "free" software. Then I'll have OOo renamed as Office, XFree86 renamed as Max Payne, etc. Stick as readme.txt in that says what the files really are. The BSA scripts might come in searching and report me, but I don't have any actual illegal stuff. Real humans visiting will read the readme and download the renamed software.
But the digits of Pi are freely and easily available. All the randomness in the universe means nothing if your enemies have access to the same random data you used for your pad.
if you are a felon why should you have the right to vote?
Felons still pay taxes, don't they? If I wasn't allowed to vote, I'd expect not to pay any taxes as well. Otherwise you got taxation w/o representation. If I have to give money to the government I want at least some say in who decides where that money goes.
Treehouse of Horror VII:
Homer: "America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles."
Kodos: "It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a
two-party system. You have to vote for one of us."
Guy in crowd: "He's right, this is a two-party system."
Another guy: "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate."
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away."
Later:
Kodos: "All Hail President Kang!"
Marge: "I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I've never even heard of."
Homer: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."
Install Trillian for instant messaging and you can have it download/.'s.rdf file to keep you updated of headlines. Unfortunately, it's only in the paid version, so you'll have to get it off a P2P program.
Not to say you would ever use instant messaging or P2P at work, of course...
I think you're confusing subplot with the type of lead-in I described. Hiding toxic waste in the park isn't a subplot. It's more of a lead-in to the main plot. They needed some way to explain the town having the money to build the monorail, so they had Burns fined. From what I learned between naps in English, a plot (or subplot) has to have a conflict, complications, climax, and resolution.
And there you have it. My first internet posting about Simpsons. I've crossed a line, and I can never go back...
Exactly. There is way too much at the start of each episode before the main plot gets introduced. Take 13x06 She of Little Faith for an example. They get the rocket, fiddle with it, and end up destroying the church. Burns helps rebuild it, only it now has advertising. It is only here, a significant way through the episode, that the real plot is introduced (Lisa becomes a Buddhist). It seems like everything up to this point has been filler, something the writers felt they needed to include to make the story make sense. The plot lines get less and less believable, and so there needs to be more stuff at the beginning to explain it. Compare this episode with an earlier one like 2x10 Bart Gets Hit by a Car. The episode starts right off with Bart skateboarding and Burns and Smithers hitting him. Boom, less than 60 seconds in and the conflict of the episode is introduced. That is the biggest difference between old and new episodes. (Don't get me wrong though, I like all the episodes)
Most pop-up and ad blockers use a method similiar to this, except they use a proxy server. When the webserver sends whatever page I requested to me, the proxy parses the HTML and kills any IMG tags for ads, etc., then passes the HTML back to the browser. BTW, the best such program I've found is Privoxy
In addition, you can listen to music while driving, working, playing video games, etc. Music is pretty much a 'background' thing, whereas reading is much more of a 'foreground' thing.
Even slashdotters aren't immune to the draw of those shiny DVDs full of computer-generated fantasy.
I am, as I imagine several other people are. I don't own a single DVD, but I have 50+ Divx movies on CD (no, not all of them are porn). Yeah, the quality isn't quite as good as DVD, but with an old crappy small TV like mine it doesn't make much difference.
Slashdot Mirror
The script to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back would produce much more code.
Secretary: Senator $scumbag's office.
Bill: Mr. $scumbag please.
Secretary: Who may I ask is calling?
Bill: Bill Gates.
Secretary: Yes sir Mr. Gates sir. I'll put you right through, sir.
$scumbag: Hello?
Bill: Hey, it's me. Did you get that last check OK?
$scumbag: Yeah, everything's cool. What can I do for you?
Bill: I was talking with my lawyers and they want that new anti-piracy bill we talked about to only apply to other people. We should be able to break it as much as we want.
$scumbag: No problem.
Yes, in a rational world, corporations would be held to the same standards as everyone else. Tell me if you ever find a rational world, though.
Yeah, I was surprised at /.'s coverage of the new RFC. You'd think on something this big they'd have at least one article about it.
Except, in this case, the MPAA could pay for 50 trials in a row and never miss the money. I don't know the specifics of Jon's finances, but I doubt he could pay for even one or two trials before bankruptcy.
"The losing party pays the costs" sounds like a good idea, but in the days when lawsuits are often between Joe Blow and some megagajillion dollar corporation, it skews everything.
It's not just the GCC optimization flags, it's total customization. Gentoo (my distro of choice and the most popular source-based Linux distro) also has USE flags, which allow you to compile programs with or without support for various things. If some app supports both KDE and Gnome, normally support for both would be compiled in, even though most users would only use one or the other. In Gentoo you have USE flags for KDE and Gnome, as well as a myriad of others. If you don't want KDE support compiled into apps, stick -kde in USE. Likewise with -gnome. Or put both in if you only use a more minimalist WM. Or -X if you're putting together a headless server, etc etc.
$ cd ~/kitchen/fridge
$ more caffeine
I'm a sophomore in HS, and my history teacher does the exact same thing. For example,
Textbook: "The three main causes of (whatever) were X, Y, and Z."
Homework: "Name three causes of (whatever)."
Test: "What were three causes of (whatever)?"
It's 2003 and we already have SUVs the size of dump trucks. By 2013 the smallest SUV will be roughly the size of a train.
Ethics commitees shouldn't require the threat of the media to get their jobs done.
That's why almost all the pirated versions of XP are Corporate editions - people don't want to activate it because they can't really.
If I was on the negotiating team, I'd spend hours and hours in the room talking the MS sales dudes into a bunch of discounts and stuff...then laugh in their faces and tell em I already decided on Linux. Maybe buy 1 XP CD at the reduced price though, so I could microwave it it front of them.
Better yet, this article makes me want to put up a webpage with links to my FTP server and describes it as having a ton of awesome "free" software. Then I'll have OOo renamed as Office, XFree86 renamed as Max Payne, etc. Stick as readme.txt in that says what the files really are. The BSA scripts might come in searching and report me, but I don't have any actual illegal stuff. Real humans visiting will read the readme and download the renamed software.
But the digits of Pi are freely and easily available. All the randomness in the universe means nothing if your enemies have access to the same random data you used for your pad.
They do get it right, but then those elite squirrels show up and everything goes to hell.
Felons still pay taxes, don't they? If I wasn't allowed to vote, I'd expect not to pay any taxes as well. Otherwise you got taxation w/o representation. If I have to give money to the government I want at least some say in who decides where that money goes.
Homer: "America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles."
Kodos: "It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system. You have to vote for one of us."
Guy in crowd: "He's right, this is a two-party system."
Another guy: "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate."
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away."
Later:
Kodos: "All Hail President Kang!"
Marge: "I don't understand why we have to build a ray gun to aim at a planet I've never even heard of."
Homer: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."
Not to say you would ever use instant messaging or P2P at work, of course...
And there you have it. My first internet posting about Simpsons. I've crossed a line, and I can never go back...
One of us...one of us...
Apu cooks dinner:
Marge: "Ooh, Lisa is that too spicy for you?"
Lisa: "I can see through time!"
Exactly. There is way too much at the start of each episode before the main plot gets introduced. Take 13x06 She of Little Faith for an example. They get the rocket, fiddle with it, and end up destroying the church. Burns helps rebuild it, only it now has advertising. It is only here, a significant way through the episode, that the real plot is introduced (Lisa becomes a Buddhist). It seems like everything up to this point has been filler, something the writers felt they needed to include to make the story make sense. The plot lines get less and less believable, and so there needs to be more stuff at the beginning to explain it. Compare this episode with an earlier one like 2x10 Bart Gets Hit by a Car. The episode starts right off with Bart skateboarding and Burns and Smithers hitting him. Boom, less than 60 seconds in and the conflict of the episode is introduced. That is the biggest difference between old and new episodes. (Don't get me wrong though, I like all the episodes)
I'm not not licking toads...
Most pop-up and ad blockers use a method similiar to this, except they use a proxy server. When the webserver sends whatever page I requested to me, the proxy parses the HTML and kills any IMG tags for ads, etc., then passes the HTML back to the browser. BTW, the best such program I've found is Privoxy
In addition, you can listen to music while driving, working, playing video games, etc. Music is pretty much a 'background' thing, whereas reading is much more of a 'foreground' thing.
I am, as I imagine several other people are. I don't own a single DVD, but I have 50+ Divx movies on CD (no, not all of them are porn). Yeah, the quality isn't quite as good as DVD, but with an old crappy small TV like mine it doesn't make much difference.
Real men use binary! That said, I am definitely not going to spend 11110 bucks for this. I'll probably just download it off eDonkey11111010000.