I bought a Blu-ray external USB drive, and was amazed that I could find free software to rip and burn BR's, but not to *play* BR's (without spending > $100).
So, I can circumvent copyright+DRM easier than I can play a legally-owned movie!
Well done, media companies, well done.
"Google on its official apps update blog stated that the company will now be focusing on 'building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser.'"...and a crappy experience anywhere else. The new-look Gmail is horrible. Takes me back to the 1990s. Is this where the Internet is headed?
I wonder how many IT departments in the French government use and even depend on non-p2p applications hosted on SourceForge.
Of course, no one listens to IT, heh, but if SourceForge were to forced to prohibit downloading by all French sites, including business and government, I'm sure the position of the government would change pretty quickly.
I've felt this way for a while. Every Olympics, 1/2 the articles in the Sports section are about (suspected) drug use. And, it only takes the spotlight off of Olympic Committee corruption.
So, I think that so long as no one has a rocket strapped to their ass -- as long as they're using their own power -- they should be allowed to compete.
I wouldn't do this, I use NoScript for exactly this reason -- if I'm on www.a.com, the last thing I want is to have my browser be directed to adshit.com, adsshoveddownyourthroat.com, adadfuckingad.com, tracker.com, privacybuster.com, etc., making the page slow to load and filling my hard drive with tracker cookies and graphics I don't want, reducing my privacy in the process.
I only want stuff off of the web server I'm presently on, with only non-ad images or other general elements coming from other servers. No one can force me to view material/accept connections from servers I don't want to connect to.
I agree, MP3.com was a great site before they started a legal battle by offering to stream music to you.
Late last year, I stumbled upon some great music I didn't even know I had in my collection, and all of the MP3s were tagged with MP3.com. Made me miss that site.
To be in the business of persuading the society to make policy from particular moral viewpoints. In symbolic interactionism (or labeling theory) social policy is not seen as the implementation of a shared consensus about what is best. Rather the society is viewed as consisting of a plurality of understandings of what is best. In order for social policy to arise, some individual or group has to initiate a social movement whose task is to articulate a definition of a social problem such that a desired social policy is consistent with this definition of the problem. These individual or groups are referred to as moral entrepreneurs. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), the pro-life movement, the gun lobby, anti-pornography groups, Emily Murphy, and the anti-tobacco lobby would all be examples of moral entrepreneurs.
The 3.1 desktop was okay, but you still couldn't put folders within folders, so the desktop (at an impressive 640x480 resolution) got cluttered real fast. They 'fixed' that with Win95.
Isn't this kind of thing one of the most basic ways to try to cheat the system? How could something this obvious slip through?
It's obvious they intended to do this. They actually don't care about upgrades, or licensing, they just want to make sure that you get to see Vista's groovy new installation routine twice. See, they're being helpful!
How is it that OSX gets the pass on this? I M$ built it into Windows Vista (and if it worked) you'd scream foul over anticompetitive bullying.
Dude, what are you talking about? IF MS had the foresight to do this, it would be great. Imagine getting WinXP SP3 at the full download speed your Internet connection is capable of. Heck, MS could save thousands, if not millions of dollars in server and bandwidth costs if they used BT to distribute their service packs and updates.
But, all MS has done is to try to sell BT-like vapor ware. Apple has the vision, if they implement BT they will be the ones saving millions, and getting my respect.
Right.. because it's Microsoft's fault that these companies have blatent bugs in their code?
Blatent bugs in their code?
Oh, you must mean the bug where they forgot to use ESP to figure out that somewhere down the line, Microsoft was going to release a patch that affected their software in very specific ways, right?
Actually, I thought the whole last part of the game was extremely enjoyable. I won't ruin the surprise, but I was very happy that I could actually do something I saw in the E3 demo, that you can't do for most of the game.
If you're talking about what happens to you at the very end of the game, well, it obviously leaves a lot of room for HL3, doesn't it? And, I don't understand why any of you are complaining about 0.001% of the game.
Surely it didn't ruin the other 99.999% of the game?
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I bought a Blu-ray external USB drive, and was amazed that I could find free software to rip and burn BR's, but not to *play* BR's (without spending > $100). So, I can circumvent copyright+DRM easier than I can play a legally-owned movie! Well done, media companies, well done.
...he just bought the patent from two Toronto inventors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor)
"Google on its official apps update blog stated that the company will now be focusing on 'building a great Gmail experience in the mobile browser.'" ...and a crappy experience anywhere else. The new-look Gmail is horrible. Takes me back to the 1990s. Is this where the Internet is headed?
...I love living in Toronto.
I wonder how many IT departments in the French government use and even depend on non-p2p applications hosted on SourceForge.
Of course, no one listens to IT, heh, but if SourceForge were to forced to prohibit downloading by all French sites, including business and government, I'm sure the position of the government would change pretty quickly.
So, I think that so long as no one has a rocket strapped to their ass -- as long as they're using their own power -- they should be allowed to compete.
I'm currently listening to three full tracks from my friend's band, no account required.
I only want stuff off of the web server I'm presently on, with only non-ad images or other general elements coming from other servers. No one can force me to view material/accept connections from servers I don't want to connect to.
Late last year, I stumbled upon some great music I didn't even know I had in my collection, and all of the MP3s were tagged with MP3.com. Made me miss that site.
MORAL ENTREPRENEUR
To be in the business of persuading the society to make policy from particular moral viewpoints. In symbolic interactionism (or labeling theory) social policy is not seen as the implementation of a shared consensus about what is best. Rather the society is viewed as consisting of a plurality of understandings of what is best. In order for social policy to arise, some individual or group has to initiate a social movement whose task is to articulate a definition of a social problem such that a desired social policy is consistent with this definition of the problem. These individual or groups are referred to as moral entrepreneurs. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), the pro-life movement, the gun lobby, anti-pornography groups, Emily Murphy, and the anti-tobacco lobby would all be examples of moral entrepreneurs.
The 3.1 desktop was okay, but you still couldn't put folders within folders, so the desktop (at an impressive 640x480 resolution) got cluttered real fast. They 'fixed' that with Win95.
Damnit! Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C...
It's obvious they intended to do this. They actually don't care about upgrades, or licensing, they just want to make sure that you get to see Vista's groovy new installation routine twice. See, they're being helpful!
- making filters by right-clicking a message
- checking mail by right-clicking the Windows task button
- moving through unread email by using the spacebar
If these features were incorporated in Thunderbird, I'd be a very happy camper.
Dude, what are you talking about? IF MS had the foresight to do this, it would be great. Imagine getting WinXP SP3 at the full download speed your Internet connection is capable of. Heck, MS could save thousands, if not millions of dollars in server and bandwidth costs if they used BT to distribute their service packs and updates.
But, all MS has done is to try to sell BT-like vapor ware. Apple has the vision, if they implement BT they will be the ones saving millions, and getting my respect.
"Help make Windows more annoying!"
...and apparently in Vista, Windows Update won't use IE at all. Good thing they're spending so much time and money developing IE7...
"Help me Andy, I've got a monkey on my foot!"
I didn't know Steve Ballmer, OMB (official monkeyboy of Microsoft) subscribes to Slashdot, but there ya go.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/ 1248201&tid=176&tid=109
Will I be navigating away from "Control Panel" every time I need to save a file where I want it to go?
Blatent bugs in their code?
Oh, you must mean the bug where they forgot to use ESP to figure out that somewhere down the line, Microsoft was going to release a patch that affected their software in very specific ways, right?
You're forgetting the absolutely horrid theme song.
I never watched because I kept barfing when that song came on. Totally killed any chance of suspension of disbelief.
~80FPS in HL2.
And you can actually tell what's happening in HL2!
If you're talking about what happens to you at the very end of the game, well, it obviously leaves a lot of room for HL3, doesn't it? And, I don't understand why any of you are complaining about 0.001% of the game.
Surely it didn't ruin the other 99.999% of the game?