>A society that restricts the spread of >information and ideas hampers cultural progress >massively. And making it illegal to transfer our >knowledge and works of art to reliable media and >new display platforms will deny future >generations their cultural heritage.
DRM gives the author control. Not society.
so where you say, illegaly transfer OUR knowledge and OUR works of art...
you really mean someone else's against their will.
for if it were their will they would allow it.;)
^ above makes sense v below is me losing coherency
this would actually spread culture, as culture would be sponsered and no longer raped.:|
all in all tho.. im kinda upset im gonna have to pay for music in the soon future:(
altho that's several dollars less spent on liquor:D
..... normal/casual connections need no more than a mbps? are you mad man!!!
at BCIT, where you normally/casually take your laptop to school every single day, playing lan game after lan game of generals/war3/etc amongst at least 20 different laptop users, you want to see all those cables laying around the room?
i dont think so;)
everyone just starts tripping all over the place and everyone yells at them for ripping a plug from it's socket as they fall...
seems to be having a shorter and shorter lifespan..
i still have an 8 year old 500mb maxtor harddrive running a web server 24/7! no probelems as of yet:D
now that's quality
Personally, MS's recent activation policies piss me off...
I have 3 licensed copies of windows xp... They all worked pretty much fine, UNTIL my network got a funny virus (thank you family members who don't understand that.jpg.exe is not a picture)..
so hence, i reformatted attempted to reinstall xp
yet every single one of my 3 PAID FOR keys claimed that "THIS KEY HAS BEEN USED ALREADY BLAH BLAH BLAH"
WTF??!!!
screw you MS!!
i realize you can call ms regarding this, but i'm not gonna sit on the phone calling long distance, for 30 mins per key i need working every time i reformat...
so what do i do?
download a pirated winxp sp1 iso for the meanwhile..
and download gentoo linux, install it on an extra pc, and start getting ready to switch.
so when the riaa spreads worms over the net, potentially damaging people's files/wip, who download copy right freed mp3s..... it isn't illegal??? right... class action time
libraries are deemed ehtical over their free book distrubution because there are a limited amount of copies available and the time available to check them out...
now why isn't there a music library full of some "e-music" files that you can freely download any song, but there are only a certain amount of "copies" that can be "checked out" at any time, with a limit on how long it will stay playable?
making online music "piracy" just like a public library:D
OR
radio stations play songs legitimately, the reasoning behind that is you as an individual can't choose when your favorite song plays, although the radio does give you different stations to listen to tailoring to your music tastes... maybe some sort of secure (hahaha) software could be written to allow users to check which artists they like, and randomly hear songs by those artists... minus the commercials of course seeing as the user would be incurring the expense:D
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sentience is synonymous to awareness...
1) do you seriously belive animals do not have awareness...?
2) i'm not complaining about myself.. maybe you should.
3).. attitude is based on experience... including awareness, which is proof of our sentience.
perhaps he made fun of the zealous nature of some peta members... yet, to some, it may seem that he was mocking those with the belief that animals are capable of perceiving pain.
No, we'll have People for the Ethical Treatment of Lab Grown Protien Supliments. "They can feel pain, just like you and me, oh, wait...",
you really make me happy. Since people will read your post, and begin to realize the level of intelligence of those who fail to comprehend the issue of ethics regarding the treatment of sentient beings. Subsequently they will begin to educate themselves,
"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915
http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/~f-kon/vegetarian.htm l Read a few lines from above URL:D
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PETA People for the ETHICAL Treatment of Animals...
not... People for the (whatever has good space travel nutrition advantages) Treatment of Animals...
.... treating humans as animals SHOULD BE ethically justifiable..:D
life is life, treat is with respect.
you're going about it kinda backwards.. the line between animal and human should be blurred, not elimnated of course that is ridiculous, we can't have voting monkeys (or do we already? jk:D)
I suppose I would have to agree that when choosing between saving the life of a human or an animal, I would choose human, yet when it comes to inducing pain and suffering... well then no sentient being should be subjected to such.
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cheap laptop eh?
:D
www.ecsusa.com
or
www.ecs.com.tw
check out the Green732 model : i've replaced my desktop + ibm thinkpad with this baby.
wireless 54mpbs g
p4 2.4 ghz
radeon 9k 64mb
etc.
hence,
uber for those 1337 campus lan games! w00t!!
all for 1700 canadian.. so thats like 1200 american?
and all the hardware works under linux
that's right, i got x going with gl acceleration & everything.
>A society that restricts the spread of >information and ideas hampers cultural progress >massively. And making it illegal to transfer our >knowledge and works of art to reliable media and >new display platforms will deny future >generations their cultural heritage.
;)
:|
:(
:D
:D WEEE
DRM gives the author control. Not society.
so where you say, illegaly transfer OUR knowledge and OUR works of art...
you really mean someone else's against their will.
for if it were their will they would allow it.
^ above makes sense
v below is me losing coherency
this would actually spread culture, as culture would be sponsered and no longer raped.
all in all tho.. im kinda upset im gonna have to pay for music in the soon future
altho that's several dollars less spent on liquor
liquor is ur friend.
so is DRM.
they go hand in hand!!
..... normal/casual connections need no more than a mbps? are you mad man!!!
;)
at BCIT,
where you normally/casually take your laptop to school every single day, playing lan game after lan game of generals/war3/etc amongst at least 20 different laptop users, you want to see all those cables laying around the room?
i dont think so
everyone just starts tripping all over the place and everyone yells at them for ripping a plug from it's socket as they fall...
*0;
never follow the null pointer they said... what are they hiding there????
so...
:|
i've got exams next week...
and i need... to study...
but it would be more productive to play games? OK!
not that i needed this article to make me ignore studying for games
sounds more like a ploy by the mental institute to gather more residents. :)
..we're looking for a klingon translator.. apply within..
:|
bob walks down street.
reads sign.
bob walks in door.
flash of light, then darkness
bob hears voices
--quick boys! we got another one!
bag pulled over bobs head...
loses conscienceness
wakes up in stray jacket, in small white padded room.
well us geeks need to code ourselves girlfriends we can --interact-- with geeze, we aren't total recluseses... me have good spelling :D
unless ur a jigallo... :|
right... adsl can't be defined as broadband?
:P
with 4mbps down and 768k up...
i think it's safe to say that it can
yes .. built in avatar eh?
to help you with your tasks... eh?
sounds like another paperclip to me
let's see ... 3 copies of winxp .. 300$ CDN each so 900$ ....
... 3 * 30 mins on the phone with a 50/50 chance of getting my install to work..
... 3 copies... free..
.. hooray fisher price... :(
everytime i reformat
piracy hindered? maybe?
these activation keys cost MS more than they "SAVE"...
vs linux
everytime i reformat.... reformat?
piracy? gpl?
before activation keys
i was quite zealous about win2k.. win2k was a step up from win9x
then xp came out
at least its not a mac.. what's with the one button? hell even fisher price toys have more than 1 button
seems to be having a shorter and shorter lifespan.. i still have an 8 year old 500mb maxtor harddrive running a web server 24/7! no probelems as of yet :D
now that's quality
Personally, MS's recent activation policies piss me off...
.jpg.exe is not a picture)..
I have 3 licensed copies of windows xp... They all worked pretty much fine, UNTIL my network got a funny virus (thank you family members who don't understand that
so hence,
i reformatted
attempted to reinstall xp
yet every single one of my 3 PAID FOR keys claimed that "THIS KEY HAS BEEN USED ALREADY BLAH BLAH BLAH"
WTF??!!!
screw you MS!!
i realize you can call ms regarding this, but i'm not gonna sit on the phone calling long distance, for 30 mins per key i need working every time i reformat...
so what do i do?
download a pirated winxp sp1 iso for the meanwhile..
and download gentoo linux, install it on an extra pc, and start getting ready to switch.
benchmarks benchmarks...
didn't the parahelia beat nvidia at their own sharkmark?
yet... we all know what fate the parahelia is suffering
Funny you should find this offensive and no one seemed to complain about Red Alert II ...
which was about Russia invading the USA... :D
so when the riaa spreads worms over the net, potentially damaging people's files/wip, who download copy right freed mp3s..... it isn't illegal??? right... class action time
the best way to punish crackers is with cream cheese... :D
libraries are deemed ehtical over their free book distrubution because there are a limited amount of copies available and the time available to check them out...
:D
:D
now why isn't there a music library full of some "e-music" files that you can freely download any song, but there are only a certain amount of "copies" that can be "checked out" at any time, with a limit on how long it will stay playable?
making online music "piracy" just like a public library
OR
radio stations play songs legitimately, the reasoning behind that is you as an individual can't choose when your favorite song plays, although the radio does give you different stations to listen to tailoring to your music tastes... maybe some sort of secure (hahaha) software could be written to allow users to check which artists they like, and randomly hear songs by those artists... minus the commercials of course seeing as the user would be incurring the expense
sentience is synonymous to awareness...
.. attitude is based on experience... including awareness, which is proof of our sentience.
1) do you seriously belive animals do not have awareness...?
2) i'm not complaining about myself.. maybe you should.
3)
perhaps he made fun of the zealous nature of some peta members... yet, to some, it may seem that he was mocking those with the belief that animals are capable of perceiving pain.
... ok, here's how it works ...
m l :D
when you mockingly say,
No, we'll have People for the Ethical Treatment of Lab Grown Protien Supliments. "They can feel pain, just like you and me, oh, wait...",
you really make me happy. Since people will read your post, and begin to realize the level of intelligence of those who fail to comprehend the issue of ethics regarding the treatment of sentient beings. Subsequently they will begin to educate themselves,
"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915
http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/~f-kon/vegetarian.ht
Read a few lines from above URL
PETA
... People for the (whatever has good space travel nutrition advantages) Treatment of Animals...
/= Science
People for the ETHICAL Treatment of Animals...
not
Ethics
.... treating humans as animals SHOULD BE ethically justifiable.. :D
life is life, treat is with respect.
you're going about it kinda backwards.. the line between animal and human should be blurred, not elimnated of course that is ridiculous, we can't have voting monkeys (or do we already? jk :D)
I suppose I would have to agree that when choosing between saving the life of a human or an animal, I would choose human, yet when it comes to inducing pain and suffering... well then no sentient being should be subjected to such.
probably for the best ...
:D
maybe you shouldn't be spending ur time playing games if a radeon 9500 costs a significant amount of ur paycheck..
AI can manage to hold a conversation with itself... maybe then ! will we have SOMETHING..
it would show the ability to stimulate as opposed to merely responding to it.
http://www.nik.com.au/alice/
i have a duron 1ghz .. and i run all my games fast!
i run the BEST games to date! that's right, the BEST games! and I NEVER notice a drop in frame rate.
i play moo2, ascendancy, starcraft, etc etc. on my win2k box. No loading times, no "chunking" up.. all the best games.
the only reason u need a new computer, is if u play some of the NEW/BAD games.
My 286 can run CHESS. Let's see unreal2k stay around for hundreds of years and still be played by thousands of people.