Also, the thought of a liquid methanol next to all those hot electronics make me wince.
I'm sure the though of having 10-20 gallons of GAS! just a yard away from your ass, and forcing the gas into cylinders where it will be mixed with air and EXPLODE thousands of times a second might also make you wince!
I guess I can cross of full cells for the Palm, and cars from your x-mas wish list.:)
Once they do this, I will make it a point to STEAL EVERY FUCKING SONG I LIKE, even if it takes 10 times longer than using an on-line music store. If I'm paying for music when I buy the hardware, then in my mind the music is paid for and I'm downloading to my hearts content.
True... but I'm only working the problem regarding spyware, adware, keystroke loggers, trojans, etc. Apart from IP, which they are welcome to have, they don't touch my real box.
Use VMware to run the P2P client in. After downloading the file, ftp it to the main box. No shared drives, and with sw firewall on main box AND inside the VMware session, the main box is clean from whatever nastyness is happening inside VMware. RAM is cheap. Get 2 gigs of it. It'll change your life.
I could care less what a program wants to "spy" on when it's on a VMware os with a bare bones WinXP Pro install. Shut down VMware, don't save the changes, and I start VMware every time with a fresh, uh... virgin:) os and my P2P app.
www.vmware.com
Here's a tip, make one VMware session that has all the known P2P apps outthere. Let the spyware install! Horray! Bwcause there is nothing to spy on. Inside the dedicated "P2P machine" I keep all the P2P's in the startup and hide all desktop icons and even the taskbar is set to autohide. Start the machine, download stuff, then just ftp to main box. Then shut down vmware without saving. Simple.
Open source equivs to VMware? There are some I think. Know of any?
Who? People who type e-mails offline. People who have a bunch of messages in their Outlook or Mozilla "outbox" and then go online. Messages get sent and they get fucked under this new system.
26 letters and 0-9 are the best, most simple way to use and communicate with a computer, IMO, other than speaking binary at the CPU with a f*cking megaphone. To accomodate people who are "insulted" or "offended" that thier native language is not fully "respected" by the internet is ludacris. What's next? Everyone must accept WingDing fonts so Lesbians and African Americans can have the femail sex symbol or the African flag as a URL?
I'm all for information being free, and the web remaining a pace for a free flow of information to the whole world, but complicating the very foundation of the way the tech works to avoid some learning curve is just plain stupid. As much as the information on the web should be free, if you can't handle a little learning curce to access the info, IMO you aren't capable mentaly of doing anything with the info once you access it. No accent marks in URL's? Tough sh!t I say.
3) Play in desktop or iPod. Optimum setup, you can't mention one thing that beats it for large libraries of music.
4) Don't care about technology mentioned in step one.
PS. RIAA, you can replace "finder-nail-sized card" with any other technology you can dream up, and I'm still going to follow the same four aforementioned easy steps. Fuck you very much.
Everyone here is affected by, but probrably doesn't have a clue just by how much there are by, the USER INTERFACE.
That is where Apple spends a lot of it's $$$ and I'm hapy to reap the benefits and rewards. They make music players that focus on the music, as opposed to other players that are too buy trying to LOOK like, uh, a music player! (think MusicMatch, and all of those shitty WinAmp skins that look great but suck for usability).
Interesting you mention that and the "street cred". Good point. I also remember seeing Jenniger Lopez, or "J-Lo(TM)", listening to an iPod in her Jenny From The Bronx video.
Any other major (sic) "artists", anyone see with an iPod in a video?
And yeah, 50 Cent gave the iPod major video time, and close zoom-ups too. Very kewl.
Now we can expect a lot more of those lame "no carrier" posts on Wed. Although for once, they could be for real since the interf32#@a#%$ATDT01[NO CARRIER]
My point was about how the RIAA is boiling such a complex thing like IP down to a simple sentence to scare kids. The logic you refered to fails, of course, 'cause it was a sarcastic exageration of the RIAA's own failed logic.
Conversely, that means if I paid for it, I OWN it. Not a license of it, not some right to it, but OWN it. Now I can copy, broadcast, whatever. If the RIAA is going to boil things down, so will I. Time to give all those mp3's I OWN to my friends.
Even if the shit MS is shoveling was true, which it isn't, I'd rather have a system with 100 security holes a year that all get fixed in hours (think *BSD, Linux, and with a sprinkle of extra time even MasOS X) than a system with 10 security holes a year that get patched months later if at all (think Windowe).
LOL. Nice post. Reminds me of when Homer Simpson was reading a pamphlet titled "So You Decided To Steal Cable" and Marge asks if they can afford this new service. His response was, "Zero dollars a month? Yeah, I think we can swing it."
...i've got it set to autoupdate (yeah, I trust apple with that). And they have MILLION$ more reasons to make sure it works than Trillian fold, and if Trillian can get updates out in days, you can bet Apple will. They already are pretty fast with bug fixes and security holes.
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Perfectly stated. All I want and care for from an ISP is a good stable connection. That's why I've been with AOL for six montH^@@!0%$*ATDT[NO CARRIER]
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Blah blah blah... disease... blah blah... two million dead... blah blah... spread so quickly... HyperSoar(TM)... blah blah... FreeBSD 14.2.0 is dying.
Also, the thought of a liquid methanol next to all those hot electronics make me wince.
I'm sure the though of having 10-20 gallons of GAS! just a yard away from your ass, and forcing the gas into cylinders where it will be mixed with air and EXPLODE thousands of times a second might also make you wince!
I guess I can cross of full cells for the Palm, and cars from your x-mas wish list. :)
I could care less what a program wants to "spy" on when it's on a VMware os with a bare bones WinXP Pro install. Shut down VMware, don't save the changes, and I start VMware every time with a fresh, uh... virgin :) os and my P2P app.
www.vmware.com
Here's a tip, make one VMware session that has all the known P2P apps outthere. Let the spyware install! Horray! Bwcause there is nothing to spy on. Inside the dedicated "P2P machine" I keep all the P2P's in the startup and hide all desktop icons and even the taskbar is set to autohide. Start the machine, download stuff, then just ftp to main box. Then shut down vmware without saving. Simple.
Open source equivs to VMware? There are some I think. Know of any?
I'm all for information being free, and the web remaining a pace for a free flow of information to the whole world, but complicating the very foundation of the way the tech works to avoid some learning curve is just plain stupid. As much as the information on the web should be free, if you can't handle a little learning curce to access the info, IMO you aren't capable mentaly of doing anything with the info once you access it. No accent marks in URL's? Tough sh!t I say.
2) Rip onto iPod.
3) Play in desktop or iPod. Optimum setup, you can't mention one thing that beats it for large libraries of music.
4) Don't care about technology mentioned in step one.
PS. RIAA, you can replace "finder-nail-sized card" with any other technology you can dream up, and I'm still going to follow the same four aforementioned easy steps. Fuck you very much.
* throws PS2 out of window *
Horray!
That is where Apple spends a lot of it's $$$ and I'm hapy to reap the benefits and rewards. They make music players that focus on the music, as opposed to other players that are too buy trying to LOOK like, uh, a music player! (think MusicMatch, and all of those shitty WinAmp skins that look great but suck for usability).
Interesting you mention that and the "street cred". Good point. I also remember seeing Jenniger Lopez, or "J-Lo(TM)", listening to an iPod in her Jenny From The Bronx video.
Any other major (sic) "artists", anyone see with an iPod in a video?
And yeah, 50 Cent gave the iPod major video time, and close zoom-ups too. Very kewl.
Also, if If everything is posted twice, like on slashdot, and like THIS story, that 800 MB is really 400 MB.
I downloaded my OS, too!
"If you haven't paid for it, you've stolen it."
Conversely, that means if I paid for it, I OWN it. Not a license of it, not some right to it, but OWN it. Now I can copy, broadcast, whatever. If the RIAA is going to boil things down, so will I. Time to give all those mp3's I OWN to my friends.
All CD's and Stereo junk is gone: replaced with iPod.
All DVD's are gone: replaced with divx on single 250 gig drive.
All photo's are gone: scanned and sitting as high quality jpgs on computer.
iTunes -> Amp -> Speakers.
Everything else can go fuck itself 'cause music-wise, I'm done.