Do you mean dullards? several billion dullards, in cash, would I suppose, sum it up correctly.
If each of these dullards buys one copy of Windows, one copy of Office, including the dullard's Pandora's Box: Outlook, then, yeah I guess you are right; they do have several billion dullards in cash.
Never really thought of it that way. I bet Oracle's Larry Ellison would like to have even several hundred thousand dullards in cash.
What about Fair Use? You didn't mention that in your rant. Surely you can come up with a scenario whereby the P2P industry, the Internet, and sharing individuals have legally participated.
While it is their property to sell, once purchased, the user does have fair use rights. Let's not forget that.
Does that mean everyone on Kazaa is simply practicing Fair Use? No, not by any stretch, but clearly this is a topic that needs to be revisited with clear, objective goals in mind now that the technology has changed everything.
The only thing those movies had going for them was the nostalgia from childhood, and George ruined that.
That's BS. The originals had great chemistry between the characters. That is what made the movies so great. Han and Leia going at it...Luke and Han arguing...Obi Wan mentoring Luke...even just the right amount of R2 and C3PO arguing, not over done or trying to hard like they are in the prequels.
They still stand the test of time, regardless of the newer movies.
If you can just wait a few more months, Best Will Hunting: Good Will Hunting II will be out and superstar Matt Damon will be writing the answer up on the MIT blackboards all across campus.
So get ready to hit the pause button, and have pencil and paper ready.
Hmm..I can't yet afford *PS CS tm;, so I think I will open up PS 7, scan some hundreds in and print them up...then maybe I can afford PS CS.
*PS CS tm; = Piece of Shit Can't Scan The Money
I have a friend I consider a gravastar...he orbits the center of our universe, called the 'goal', in a perfect hemisphere approximately 19'2" away from center. Anything sent or 'passed' to him is never returned, but automatically is sent on a perpendicular trajectory towards the goal.
Strangely, the behavior upon reaching the goal is very erratic. I would estimate a 10% chance of actually passing over to the side of the goal, casually named 'the trifecta'. This low percentage of success has led us to blackball this blackhole, err, gravastar.
'I see, you're a pirate, eh? Well, where's your buccaneers?
Under my buckin' hat!" - Dick, Third Rock From the Sun
Definition of 'buccaneer' by www.m-w.com:
1 : any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in the West Indies in the 17th century; broadly : PIRATE
2 : an unscrupulous adventurer especially in politics or business
The GAO is very influential, although I imagine they might be the butt of a smear campaign themselves soon.
This adds significant legitimacy to P2P, and holds law enforcement officials responsible for bad things that are shared, rather than blaming the technology.
Someone over there in the GAO has their head screwed on right.
I have a 50" widescreen Samsung DLP HDTV. It is absolutely fabulous in 16:9 for games that support it. Many do. I remember 007 for the N64 did.
Also, since it is DLP, there is no burn-in potential at all. According to Samsung's site, and a few others, no DLP television can ever suffer from burn in.
is that this kind of bullying moves society further in the direction of mistrust and perceived deception.
One can imagine school kids today afraid to use public restrooms or lockerrooms, wary of legitimate picture-taking (like for the yearbook), and never giving out phone numbers, or email addresses, or IM id's, constantly googling their own names looking for threats or hate-sites about them.
It is very disheartening. But, with the rise of technology, society must learn to adapt. And it will, by closing in on itself. But, I agree with many posters earlier statement regarding parental control.
What this really means is we have to learn to be better parents and teach others how to be better parents, at a time when parenting skills are seemingly at an all-time low.
One of the company's most high-profile customers is one of Montag's clients, John Madden, the famed former Oakland Raiders coach and TV football analyst who travels to assignments on a private bus dubbed the Madden Cruiser.
I can just see John driving to the next Monday Night Football (Somebody's gotta feel this!) spot in his Madden Cruiser, loading up Madden 2004 on his PS2 and the three plasma's he's got in there. He loads up the two teams, has his lackey's play a simulation game, while he works on remembering his lines from the game, so he can get them just right on MNF. That's why Al Michaels sucks...he doesn't have his own built-in show prep. He has to go improv.
The martians that keep sabotaging NASA's Pathfinder and other probes as soon as they land on Mars, (and laughing their asses off because we obviously don't have a clue about interplanetary travel), will be thinking, Wow, those silly Earthlings are seriously regressing. Must be the solar flares...what the hell is this, a dentist's drill? Ha ha ha!
Statistics 101 doesn't allow you to extrapolate from 40,000 to millions if the original 40,000 is a biased control group. They knew they were being watched, so they were far more likely to remove illegal, or what they thought were illegal, materials.
Where does the reovirus come from? Reovirus is found naturally in shallow pools of water, lakes or streams or in the sewage system.
Too bad we can't convince the mosquitoes to carry reovirus and spread that around rather than West Nile. Or maybe they do. That would suck if you had cancer, a mosquito got you that carried the reovirus, and you were miraculously cured, only to find out later you have West Nile.
Of course, I would much rather take my chances with the relatively tame West Nile than any form of cancer.
You brought up not saying anything until we get to where China is, I didn't.
I simply stated that it was certainly acceptable for Slashdot to post this article as news because we need to be reminded about those in other places that have it much worse than we do.
I also stated that we are living in the best country in the world. Any problems with that, speedfreak?
I dunno why slashdot posted this like this is some new news. It's common knowledge and it's well documented the Chinese Government actively engages in Internet censorship, and censors anything that makes them uncomfortable.
Well, regardless of whether or not you already knew this, because it is ongoing is precisely the reason it needs to be revisited occasionally. It is a great reminder to those in this country who think we have it so bad, and our rights are trampled on everyday, to see what others on this planet are forced to endure.
If someone doesn't keep bringing it up, the extreme left would have us believe we live in the worst country in the world, rather then the best.
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Do you mean dullards? several billion dullards, in cash, would I suppose, sum it up correctly.
If each of these dullards buys one copy of Windows, one copy of Office, including the dullard's Pandora's Box: Outlook, then, yeah I guess you are right; they do have several billion dullards in cash.
Never really thought of it that way. I bet Oracle's Larry Ellison would like to have even several hundred thousand dullards in cash.
Or was it Guildenstern? I can never tell those two apart!
Hmmm...not quite what I meant by 'created something', but I can see where you might have gotten confused, 3terra. I did say 'anything'.
I wish I had created something, anything, that I could sell over and over, and people would just keep buying and buying.
It would sure beat the hell out of what I am doing now.
While it is their property to sell, once purchased, the user does have fair use rights. Let's not forget that.
Does that mean everyone on Kazaa is simply practicing Fair Use? No, not by any stretch, but clearly this is a topic that needs to be revisited with clear, objective goals in mind now that the technology has changed everything.
That's BS. The originals had great chemistry between the characters. That is what made the movies so great. Han and Leia going at it...Luke and Han arguing...Obi Wan mentoring Luke...even just the right amount of R2 and C3PO arguing, not over done or trying to hard like they are in the prequels.
They still stand the test of time, regardless of the newer movies.
Talk about brilliant, Gary Larson is one funny and intelligent guy. We need a swarm of Larsons.
Why would they sit around for hours playing (cards) with themselves?
I wonder if I could patent human solitaire? Or better yet, humans playing with themselves...I would be richer than Billy Gates!
So get ready to hit the pause button, and have pencil and paper ready.
Hmm..I can't yet afford *PS CS tm;, so I think I will open up PS 7, scan some hundreds in and print them up...then maybe I can afford PS CS. *PS CS tm; = Piece of Shit Can't Scan The Money
We wouldn't want to give up our latest and greatest just yet...so, they will graduate to Galaga and Ms. Pac Man when Odyssey lands in a few days.
It will be quite some time before we set up a WAN for them to play Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament.
Strangely, the behavior upon reaching the goal is very erratic. I would estimate a 10% chance of actually passing over to the side of the goal, casually named 'the trifecta'. This low percentage of success has led us to blackball this blackhole, err, gravastar.
Peter Jackson - huge LOTR/King Kong Nerd.
Tobey Maguire - kind of an impish Nerd, but easily has the nerd look and feel
George Lucas - King of the Nerds
Harry Potter - Uses ineffective magic to make himself seem more Nerdish.
So, what are the reasons you kill people?
Under my buckin' hat!" - Dick, Third Rock From the Sun
Definition of 'buccaneer' by www.m-w.com:
1 : any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in the West Indies in the 17th century; broadly : PIRATE
2 : an unscrupulous adventurer especially in politics or business
*emphasis mine
This adds significant legitimacy to P2P, and holds law enforcement officials responsible for bad things that are shared, rather than blaming the technology.
Someone over there in the GAO has their head screwed on right.
Also, since it is DLP, there is no burn-in potential at all. According to Samsung's site, and a few others, no DLP television can ever suffer from burn in.
One can imagine school kids today afraid to use public restrooms or lockerrooms, wary of legitimate picture-taking (like for the yearbook), and never giving out phone numbers, or email addresses, or IM id's, constantly googling their own names looking for threats or hate-sites about them.
It is very disheartening. But, with the rise of technology, society must learn to adapt. And it will, by closing in on itself. But, I agree with many posters earlier statement regarding parental control.
What this really means is we have to learn to be better parents and teach others how to be better parents, at a time when parenting skills are seemingly at an all-time low.
I can just see John driving to the next Monday Night Football (Somebody's gotta feel this!) spot in his Madden Cruiser, loading up Madden 2004 on his PS2 and the three plasma's he's got in there. He loads up the two teams, has his lackey's play a simulation game, while he works on remembering his lines from the game, so he can get them just right on MNF. That's why Al Michaels sucks...he doesn't have his own built-in show prep. He has to go improv.
The martians that keep sabotaging NASA's Pathfinder and other probes as soon as they land on Mars, (and laughing their asses off because we obviously don't have a clue about interplanetary travel), will be thinking, Wow, those silly Earthlings are seriously regressing. Must be the solar flares...what the hell is this, a dentist's drill? Ha ha ha!
Statistics 101 doesn't allow you to extrapolate from 40,000 to millions if the original 40,000 is a biased control group. They knew they were being watched, so they were far more likely to remove illegal, or what they thought were illegal, materials.
Idiots.
Too bad we can't convince the mosquitoes to carry reovirus and spread that around rather than West Nile. Or maybe they do. That would suck if you had cancer, a mosquito got you that carried the reovirus, and you were miraculously cured, only to find out later you have West Nile.
Of course, I would much rather take my chances with the relatively tame West Nile than any form of cancer.
I simply stated that it was certainly acceptable for Slashdot to post this article as news because we need to be reminded about those in other places that have it much worse than we do.
I also stated that we are living in the best country in the world. Any problems with that, speedfreak?
And don't put words in my mouth anymore.
Well, regardless of whether or not you already knew this, because it is ongoing is precisely the reason it needs to be revisited occasionally. It is a great reminder to those in this country who think we have it so bad, and our rights are trampled on everyday, to see what others on this planet are forced to endure.
If someone doesn't keep bringing it up, the extreme left would have us believe we live in the worst country in the world, rather then the best.