yeah, your right... hahah. except that there isnt anything that comes close to umm...motion, livetype, finalcut, dvd studio pro, indesign, fastdvdcopy and oh yeah shake, logic and soundtrack...
but other than that, your right - everything else that most people use macs for is opensourse
(take that lightly, im only bustin your balls. im a fan of everything i use. mac, windows.. linux and bsd)
now seriously, this isnt flamebate. this is me trying to illuminate the flaw in your opinion in a very inappropriately lighthearted way.
"If you want change in the system, you have to do so according to the system." tell that to the black people who can now vote/sit at the front of the bus/read... etc. or the women who can now vote... or the college students in china (technically everyone in china) who live "within a system" that doesnt afford the means to change it. it's where we're headed with the riaa and the mpaa and if you cant see the rammifications at this distance - you're gonna get the surprise of your life when they're on top of us.
now im not advocating the stealing of music. but when i go to 3 - 4 concerts a month, buy real cds/dvds, and i DONT share my music collection online... i dont take a very big conscious hit when i download one or two songs i like. whether or not thats legally wrong does not concern me. thoughout all of history people have broken laws that - while good when they were written - have outgrown their usefullness. the music industry needs to evolve with the times or they will stay the "victim" that they are claiming to be. i would say something like an optional tax for all internet users - hell, disguise it as something regulatory, most industries already do that - and have it indemify you for downloading music. i dont know - there are a million ways that the industry could change for the better - where it can make a killing - but instead, it would rather sue its customers? fuck them. hah. just writing this has made me feel better about the 4 gig complete beatles collection torrent i saw somewhere online. (i mean, itunes doesnt have any beatles cause they are so wrapped up in this bullshit - everyone wants more money and none but the end user has to suffer for it)(suffer as in, cant get access to music they are willing to pay for)
this isnt flamebait. honestly. just my opinion, dispite how unpopular it is. the first point covers a basic thought of mine, the other 4 cover the 4 possible situations someone would be in while searching.
1) using a public search engine - there really isnt any expectation of privacy. to expect one is well, silly.
2) searching for fully legal and completely moral things (ie: "new england yacht club") - you have nothing to worry about. morality is in the eye of the vocal majority and it looks like youre in it. congratulations. no problems here outside of your own thoughts on point 1.
3) if youre searching for anything immoral yet completely legal and you're embarrassed (ie: "anal gaping huge dildo men over 18") - sorry, i guess its just not working out for you. you fall into the silent majority (.
3) if youre searching for something moral yet completely illegal (ie: "limited home usage of pot for consenting adults who will not be operating machinery") - then you should be searching unafraid and willing to face the consequences of your actions. not limited to fighting for what you believe. you're part of the vocal minority.. again cheers to you.
and lastly, 4) if youre searching for illegal and immoral things (ie: "kiddie porn warez sites l33t") - why are you using a public search engine? sounds to me like youre a half-assed criminal who doesnt know how to protect himself. you are in the silent minority. thanks for playing.
YESTERDAY i spent all my mod points... you should have totally posted this not A/C man. good shit here. same goes for the 2 other replies below this one.
yeah, but if they include it everyone from mike tyson to joe momma will complain about how they're monopolizing the anti-virus market.
im a mac os person my self but i can see how its a loose loose situation for microsoft.
whats funny is that i have to include this disclaimer to shut up the zealots: i use a mac for video editing and graphics design... and everyday personal use... i use windows for autocad, solid works and a host of other solid modeling and drafting programs... my backup & media server runs linux... my firewall runs openbsd.
im not a fanboy of anything except using the right tool for the job.
dude.. thats so out of line its not even funny. i dont know who you are or what groups you run with - but im stitting here at my windows desktop and im NOT doing any work. im reading slashdot and making funny comments. haha.
i agree with you 110%. i wouldnt shed a single tear either if all the people behind the company were kidnapped, raped, beaten and brutally murdered. they are the epitome of what is vile and disgusting in the business class (note, im limiting that statement only to the business class). those, and the likes of those people have no place in a society like this other than to serve as an example for why we should have the death penalty.
thats not an over-reaction. thats the truth. burn them to the ground.
True. Thats what doing drafting for eight years will do to you though. I type with caps-lock on all day and when I finally take it off I always forget to *shift for sentence case. Then when I'm done typing I'm usually too lazy to go back and fix it.
ah yes.. i did one of these for a friend of mine.. actually.. i offered to do one of these for a friend of mine with absolutely NO prior experience or instruction manuals...
heres how it went..
day 1. order replacement CCFL from ebay. luckily one seller had it in the original housing meant for my laptop screen. for 50$ + next day shipping - 65$. day 3. put in new CCFL after an HOUR of painfully slow and arduous task. removing all the foil tape in once piece. saving and identifying the millions of screws. reapplying all the foil tape... fun. power up - no light. oh my. now whats the problem. day 4. i realized there was an isolated power inverter circut board running power directly to the CCFL. my only guess was that this is bad and needed to be replaced. went online and ordered one from singapore. searched about 50 websites with nothing to go on but a circuit board p/n and serial number. found it... for 60$ + priority international shipping - 85$ day 8. installed new power inverter.. BAM works like a charm. reassembled entire laptop and gave it back to the friend.. since i quoted her at 100$ (another shop quoted her at 400$ and said they couldnt gaurante that it would work after)... i basically lost about 50$ on the deal.. but shes a good friend and i decided not to tell her how much it actually cost me in parts... after all, i told her it was about 50$ in parts and about 50 for a hours labor...
my advise.. do all your research before you get started. examine the inside of your monitor... see what work needs to be done.. look up the boards on ebay and elsewhere to get a feel for the price of your replacement parts... and if all else fails.. send it to me. ill do it for less than 400$...
what youre saying might be correct if perhaps the writers of the declaration used the words "inalienable".... but they didnt. they used the words "unalienable". there is a difference which you might be interested in. by the virtue of their very definition, rights that are INalienable can be superceded by other parties or even yourself - and our forefathers knew that. which is why you read "unalienable" rights in our declaration - no entity, PRIVATE or public has the right to encroach on those rights - for any reason. those who do - or would try to - are in breech of the very contract which defines this nation.
sure - the school could read that blog and expell you for say.... some made up bullshit reason... like.. you were a threat to the student body or something else creative... but no one.. no thing - that is under the jurisdiction of the Unitited States of America can have their UNalienable rights revoked. when someone settles for anything less - they, little by little, set the precedent that the people arent responsible enough to have democracy... and those people do not deserve it. those who would like to pray upon these people and encroach upon their rights are the real terrorists "at home".
we have the framework for an excellent system of government yet there is nothing being done to advance it. granted, its current state it doesnt scale well to our size country and the confines of the world in which we have to compromise with - but to scale well to the size of our country and more importantly, the depth of our beurocracy..... would require hard work that just isn't in americas guts anymore. we're a country of weak people now and its a shame.
to paraphrase robin williams..."so we're helping iraq write their new constitution... we should just give them ours, we arent using it".
yeah... so your saying that the school is wrong but since we wont have 2 million students there with flaming torches trying to burn the building to the ground we have to deal with it?
actually - i have been in that position before. although, not as a boss. and just as i try to not be a shit boss, i try to not hire shit employess. im a people person - if someone has a problem, the first solution is resolution... try to talk to them and find where the problems are coming from. if you cant come to a mutual resolution - hey sometimes people are impossible.. you have to break ties. this should HARDLY be the case in an educational system.
as for unalienable rights, you might be confused - unalienable rights are, by deffinition, not able to become allienated. INalienable rights are those that come from the barrel of a gun. and when you dont have the biggest gun - youre a martyr.
the current state of foreign policy and american history are indeed both dismal - its the peoples responsibility to abolish and/or alter their government when it... for lack of words... becomes a piece of shit... its a disgusting testament to the weakness, ignorance and arrogence of my fellow americans that we have this history and that we have this foreign policy.
now, i may sound like a left wing liberal. im not. these are just specific things i believe in. i do believe we need some kind of social security reform and i dont mind the idea of a "good" republican president... after all, america is a Republic - based on democracy. just felt the need to clarify that.. but the fact remains that it is these specific rights that men died for, lost their families for, and sacrificed it all to protect.... they didnt do it for oil... they didnt do it as a way to get reelected.. and they didnt use it as a platform to spread fear, uncertancy and doubt.
sorry. im rambling and shouldnt be. hope this does a little to clarify my position.
idealogical criteria does get the privilege to superceed the constitution. if you want to write rules into your agenda that superceed the constitution FEEL FREE TO MOVE YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.
yes, private institutions are and SHOULD be allowed to make their own rules - so long as those rules do not even try to touch a persons unalienable rights. living and breathing in the united states means you have UNALIENABLE rights - no one, not even the government - can take that from you. anyone who trys to infringe on them needs to find a new home.
for the record, i would have modded you up +1 underratted.... but i think i can do better with a pat on the back. hopefully someone else reads it and mods it up. then again, highly modded comments may not be something you care about. anyway.
if what you're saying is true - and believe me, im about as unknowlegable about the french as the rest of america - this is a pretty big relief. thanks for the heads up.
its a world of choice - if you have that much of a problem with gpl then dont use it. just because you dont like it doesnt mean others shouldnt be freely allowed to use it if they like. natural selection will sort it all out in the end - who are you to play god?
the future isnt about narrowing down our choices to only one style of license - its about broadening them. to some companies, real - money driven - licenses make sense. others it doesnt. you'll be ok. i promise.
yeah, i hope dreamtheater falls into the unpopular category... a year or so back my cd case was taken out of my car (ie, stolen) and with it went my entire collection of dreamtheater... i had practically every studio album up to six degress of inner turbulence and i had live scenes from new york.
talk about depressing. thats not the type of collection that lends itself to just going to walmart and rebuying.. not to mention, im lazy and poor (ie, cheap)...
as for opeth.. eh.. i could live without... id rather have some vicious circle (the real vc, from south jersey.. haha now thats metal).
to hell with that a/c post below this.. im with you man. you know of any good sites that provide that kinda stuff besides suicidegirls? haha. bright redheads in boxers with tattos are HOTTTTTT. hahah. late, - frank
you posted a/c because you know most ppl would have modded that down in a heartbeat but i do agree with you. "oh look mommy, they just bought us cheap laptops.. yay!!!..." "okay dear, lets just starve some more and you can die of dehydration then ill buy one for your sister"
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yeah, your right... hahah. except that there isnt anything that comes close to umm...motion, livetype, finalcut, dvd studio pro, indesign, fastdvdcopy and oh yeah shake, logic and soundtrack...
but other than that, your right - everything else that most people use macs for is opensourse
(take that lightly, im only bustin your balls. im a fan of everything i use. mac, windows.. linux and bsd)
now seriously, this isnt flamebate. this is me trying to illuminate the flaw in your opinion in a very inappropriately lighthearted way.
"If you want change in the system, you have to do so according to the system." tell that to the black people who can now vote/sit at the front of the bus/read... etc. or the women who can now vote... or the college students in china (technically everyone in china) who live "within a system" that doesnt afford the means to change it. it's where we're headed with the riaa and the mpaa and if you cant see the rammifications at this distance - you're gonna get the surprise of your life when they're on top of us.
now im not advocating the stealing of music. but when i go to 3 - 4 concerts a month, buy real cds/dvds, and i DONT share my music collection online... i dont take a very big conscious hit when i download one or two songs i like. whether or not thats legally wrong does not concern me. thoughout all of history people have broken laws that - while good when they were written - have outgrown their usefullness. the music industry needs to evolve with the times or they will stay the "victim" that they are claiming to be. i would say something like an optional tax for all internet users - hell, disguise it as something regulatory, most industries already do that - and have it indemify you for downloading music. i dont know - there are a million ways that the industry could change for the better - where it can make a killing - but instead, it would rather sue its customers? fuck them. hah. just writing this has made me feel better about the 4 gig complete beatles collection torrent i saw somewhere online. (i mean, itunes doesnt have any beatles cause they are so wrapped up in this bullshit - everyone wants more money and none but the end user has to suffer for it)(suffer as in, cant get access to music they are willing to pay for)
whatever, im done. mod me to hell.
this isnt flamebait. honestly. just my opinion, dispite how unpopular it is. the first point covers a basic thought of mine, the other 4 cover the 4 possible situations someone would be in while searching.
1) using a public search engine - there really isnt any expectation of privacy. to expect one is well, silly.
2) searching for fully legal and completely moral things (ie: "new england yacht club") - you have nothing to worry about. morality is in the eye of the vocal majority and it looks like youre in it. congratulations. no problems here outside of your own thoughts on point 1.
3) if youre searching for anything immoral yet completely legal and you're embarrassed (ie: "anal gaping huge dildo men over 18") - sorry, i guess its just not working out for you. you fall into the silent majority (.
3) if youre searching for something moral yet completely illegal (ie: "limited home usage of pot for consenting adults who will not be operating machinery") - then you should be searching unafraid and willing to face the consequences of your actions. not limited to fighting for what you believe. you're part of the vocal minority.. again cheers to you.
and lastly,
4) if youre searching for illegal and immoral things (ie: "kiddie porn warez sites l33t") - why are you using a public search engine? sounds to me like youre a half-assed criminal who doesnt know how to protect himself. you are in the silent minority. thanks for playing.
hope that sheds some insight to what i think.
YESTERDAY i spent all my mod points... you should have totally posted this not A/C man. good shit here. same goes for the 2 other replies below this one.
at the price of spanking the adults too? dont think so. give a little more thought to that one. </ not a a flame but will be taken as one>
yeah, but if they include it everyone from mike tyson to joe momma will complain about how they're monopolizing the anti-virus market.
im a mac os person my self but i can see how its a loose loose situation for microsoft.
whats funny is that i have to include this disclaimer to shut up the zealots:
i use a mac for video editing and graphics design... and everyday personal use...
i use windows for autocad, solid works and a host of other solid modeling and drafting programs...
my backup & media server runs linux...
my firewall runs openbsd.
im not a fanboy of anything except using the right tool for the job.
dude.. thats so out of line its not even funny. i dont know who you are or what groups you run with - but im stitting here at my windows desktop and im NOT doing any work. im reading slashdot and making funny comments. haha.
you know im just joking around =)
hah. later.
sorry man, i would have modded you +1 funny -1 off topic... nevermind. i cant do that. looks like you got screwed.
its dumb of me to not post this a/c but oh well.
i agree with you 110%. i wouldnt shed a single tear either if all the people behind the company were kidnapped, raped, beaten and brutally murdered. they are the epitome of what is vile and disgusting in the business class (note, im limiting that statement only to the business class). those, and the likes of those people have no place in a society like this other than to serve as an example for why we should have the death penalty.
thats not an over-reaction. thats the truth.
burn them to the ground.
hahah, that was my first thought, actually.
plus c'est la meme chose?
Rush fan much?
why am i responding to an ac?
True. Thats what doing drafting for eight years will do to you though. I type with caps-lock on all day and when I finally take it off I always forget to *shift for sentence case. Then when I'm done typing I'm usually too lazy to go back and fix it.
damnit why dont i proof read my comments..
that should read "an hours labor"
and "my advice"
wheres integrated spell/grammer check slashdot!
ah yes.. i did one of these for a friend of mine.. actually.. i offered to do one of these for a friend of mine with absolutely NO prior experience or instruction manuals...
heres how it went..
day 1. order replacement CCFL from ebay. luckily one seller had it in the original housing meant for my laptop screen. for 50$ + next day shipping - 65$.
day 3. put in new CCFL after an HOUR of painfully slow and arduous task. removing all the foil tape in once piece. saving and identifying the millions of screws. reapplying all the foil tape... fun. power up - no light. oh my. now whats the problem.
day 4. i realized there was an isolated power inverter circut board running power directly to the CCFL. my only guess was that this is bad and needed to be replaced. went online and ordered one from singapore. searched about 50 websites with nothing to go on but a circuit board p/n and serial number. found it... for 60$ + priority international shipping - 85$
day 8. installed new power inverter.. BAM works like a charm. reassembled entire laptop and gave it back to the friend.. since i quoted her at 100$ (another shop quoted her at 400$ and said they couldnt gaurante that it would work after)... i basically lost about 50$ on the deal.. but shes a good friend and i decided not to tell her how much it actually cost me in parts... after all, i told her it was about 50$ in parts and about 50 for a hours labor...
my advise.. do all your research before you get started. examine the inside of your monitor... see what work needs to be done.. look up the boards on ebay and elsewhere to get a feel for the price of your replacement parts... and if all else fails.. send it to me. ill do it for less than 400$...
what youre saying might be correct if perhaps the writers of the declaration used the words "inalienable".... but they didnt. they used the words "unalienable". there is a difference which you might be interested in. by the virtue of their very definition, rights that are INalienable can be superceded by other parties or even yourself - and our forefathers knew that. which is why you read "unalienable" rights in our declaration - no entity, PRIVATE or public has the right to encroach on those rights - for any reason. those who do - or would try to - are in breech of the very contract which defines this nation.
sure - the school could read that blog and expell you for say.... some made up bullshit reason... like.. you were a threat to the student body or something else creative... but no one.. no thing - that is under the jurisdiction of the Unitited States of America can have their UNalienable rights revoked. when someone settles for anything less - they, little by little, set the precedent that the people arent responsible enough to have democracy... and those people do not deserve it. those who would like to pray upon these people and encroach upon their rights are the real terrorists "at home".
we have the framework for an excellent system of government yet there is nothing being done to advance it. granted, its current state it doesnt scale well to our size country and the confines of the world in which we have to compromise with - but to scale well to the size of our country and more importantly, the depth of our beurocracy..... would require hard work that just isn't in americas guts anymore. we're a country of weak people now and its a shame.
to paraphrase robin williams..."so we're helping iraq write their new constitution... we should just give them ours, we arent using it".
yeah... so your saying that the school is wrong but since we wont have 2 million students there with flaming torches trying to burn the building to the ground we have to deal with it?
actually - i have been in that position before. although, not as a boss. and just as i try to not be a shit boss, i try to not hire shit employess. im a people person - if someone has a problem, the first solution is resolution... try to talk to them and find where the problems are coming from. if you cant come to a mutual resolution - hey sometimes people are impossible.. you have to break ties. this should HARDLY be the case in an educational system.
as for unalienable rights, you might be confused - unalienable rights are, by deffinition, not able to become allienated. INalienable rights are those that come from the barrel of a gun. and when you dont have the biggest gun - youre a martyr.
the current state of foreign policy and american history are indeed both dismal - its the peoples responsibility to abolish and/or alter their government when it... for lack of words... becomes a piece of shit... its a disgusting testament to the weakness, ignorance and arrogence of my fellow americans that we have this history and that we have this foreign policy.
now, i may sound like a left wing liberal. im not. these are just specific things i believe in. i do believe we need some kind of social security reform and i dont mind the idea of a "good" republican president... after all, america is a Republic - based on democracy. just felt the need to clarify that.. but the fact remains that it is these specific rights that men died for, lost their families for, and sacrificed it all to protect.... they didnt do it for oil... they didnt do it as a way to get reelected.. and they didnt use it as a platform to spread fear, uncertancy and doubt.
sorry. im rambling and shouldnt be. hope this does a little to clarify my position.
idealogical criteria does get the privilege to superceed the constitution. if you want to write rules into your agenda that superceed the constitution FEEL FREE TO MOVE YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.
yes, private institutions are and SHOULD be allowed to make their own rules - so long as those rules do not even try to touch a persons unalienable rights. living and breathing in the united states means you have UNALIENABLE rights - no one, not even the government - can take that from you. anyone who trys to infringe on them needs to find a new home.
for the record, i would have modded you up +1 underratted.... but i think i can do better with a pat on the back. hopefully someone else reads it and mods it up. then again, highly modded comments may not be something you care about. anyway.
if what you're saying is true - and believe me, im about as unknowlegable about the french as the rest of america - this is a pretty big relief. thanks for the heads up.
its a world of choice - if you have that much of a problem with gpl then dont use it. just because you dont like it doesnt mean others shouldnt be freely allowed to use it if they like. natural selection will sort it all out in the end - who are you to play god?
the future isnt about narrowing down our choices to only one style of license - its about broadening them. to some companies, real - money driven - licenses make sense. others it doesnt. you'll be ok. i promise.
touché
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yeah, i hope dreamtheater falls into the unpopular category... a year or so back my cd case was taken out of my car (ie, stolen) and with it went my entire collection of dreamtheater... i had practically every studio album up to six degress of inner turbulence and i had live scenes from new york.
talk about depressing. thats not the type of collection that lends itself to just going to walmart and rebuying.. not to mention, im lazy and poor (ie, cheap)...
as for opeth.. eh.. i could live without... id rather have some vicious circle (the real vc, from south jersey.. haha now thats metal).
to hell with that a/c post below this.. im with you man. you know of any good sites that provide that kinda stuff besides suicidegirls? haha. bright redheads in boxers with tattos are HOTTTTTT. hahah.
late,
- frank
you posted a/c because you know most ppl would have modded that down in a heartbeat but i do agree with you.
"oh look mommy, they just bought us cheap laptops.. yay!!!..."
"okay dear, lets just starve some more and you can die of dehydration then ill buy one for your sister"
haha. i didnt have a laptop growing up... wtf.