I just installed it this weekend. It is indeed part of the EULA (I skimmed it). What gets me is that I made a 30GB partition for the 64bit version, and the install has taken up almost 20GB of that. I can't check now, it may be because the automatic swap file size is retarded because of the 6GB of RAM in the box, but still... 20GB for a damn OS?
Why in the fuck is this insightful? Do you really think that the government should make anything some people find distasteful illegal? I find religion distasteful. Ban it! Oh, and skirts that don't cover the ankles. And Jews. Removing the freedom of people to do what they want as long as they aren't affecting other people is taking long strides to being a police state. The last major European/Eurasian police states happened in Russia, Germany, Italy... you get the drift.
I thought that Microsoft gives you a "valid" copy of the OS if you finger the person who sold it to you, and provide them with a receipt. But that's pretty minimal consolation.
Laws being misapplied FTW! Gotta love how the government has gotten laws passed that encourage the police to take shit that's not theirs because the police stand to profit from it.
The problem is that they think that it's a patentable "invention". Seriously... server side access limitations? How in the hell is that novel in ANY way?
There's not really any reason to run a 32bit host any more, unless you have a need to use a badly programmed application that's not compatible with a 64bit OS's 32bit layer.
A bunch of technically proficient individuals knowing that idiots run the school? There are such things as bad publicity, when you piss off people in positions of trust in the community. Anyone here who's asked "Should I got to SRJC?" will have a bad opinion about the school. I mean, if they'll threaten people over email addresses, what other stupid things will they cause people grief over?
Just because she only wanted medical bills covered does not make it right. Is the city responsible for my medical bills if I trip and break my arm on a public street?
So... how is it McDonald's fault that she was wearing sweatpants and spilled coffee on them? I mean, it's not like you can't tell that that shit is hot. It'll radiate even through thick styrofoam.
How many people injured themselves walking into a door at McDonald's? How many by tripping over the sidewalk? Do they get to sue McDonald's for not padding every part of every building where people might get hurt? They say the fucking coffee was hot. Everybody knows what "hot" is. You can feel it through the styrofoam. If you are so stupid to put the coffee in a place where it could EASILY spill and hurt you, you deserve what you get. Just like you shouldn't have a lawsuit against someone if you run across the highway and get hit.
We should also put foam rubber on all sidewalks, because someone could trip and fall and break an arm! That's just negligent, having hard things on the ground! And keep cars from going faster than 5mph. They might actually cause some damage. Seriously... there's an acceptable risk to everything. Hot coffee is understood to be hot by most reasonable people. That's why you have to be careful with it. Sure, someone COULD bump into you, but someone could also run over your toe if you don't watch where you're walking. I'm tired of this "It's not my fault!" bullshit in our society. If you screw up, take responsibility. Even if you didn't MEAN to do it, it's something you SHOULD have watched out for, a risk that should have been accepted.
It's not a metaphor when it's the truth. The average person, in current American culture, abhors knowledge of anything but what celebrity is sleeping with who.
See, in theory, that's how it works in practice. In practice, it doesn't. Appearances are very much related to the punishments and charges. Police don't pull over well-dressed people and search their cars, they pull over the people with rustbuckets and shitty clothes. They pull the rich looking people over for a speeding ticket, and they pull the poor looking people over to try to find drugs. The same thing happens all the way through the judicial system... you cuss at the judge, or don't respond with "Yes sir, no sir", he will give you a heavier sentence.
If you use the exact same version of the encoder, all the options are set the same, and the rip is identical, and the encoding algorithm doesn't misuse the floating point values from the FPU in the processor, and you get the identical information to fill the m3u... only a few things that could be different;)
I didn't think that acquiring the content was what was illegal. It was reproducing and distributing the content that was against the law. And MediaSentry provided it knowing exactly what would happen to it, which means that they either actively induced copyright infringement, or implicitly licensed it by providing the files in the first place.
But that's just what logic tells me, and logic and the legal system are two very separate beasts.
DRM is a bad thing in general. If someone shouldn't see it, don't let them see it. If they should, let them. Filesystems have had read/write permissions forever.
As for graphs, I don't use them, so I don't know. But OO.o0 2.x is old... 3 is much improved overall. Why not try it first? It's not like it's free or anything.
I use adblock, but I let through most things from Google. Mostly because they're actually relevant to what I'm searching for, and they're not annoying. I actually buy things through froogle somewhat often, which I assume has a kickback mechanism for the merchant. Advertising is useful, but it has to be done right. You cannot force people to look at it, you have to give them a reason to WANT to look at it. Same thing with newspapers. We've reached a place where the companies no longer have a captive audience, and they're shitting bricks. If they create something that people want, people will buy it. EVERY economic transaction is a trade. I trade you money for what you provide me. If you don't provide enough value, I'm not going to give you my money. The sooner newspapers study some basic economics, the better.
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I just installed it this weekend. It is indeed part of the EULA (I skimmed it). What gets me is that I made a 30GB partition for the 64bit version, and the install has taken up almost 20GB of that. I can't check now, it may be because the automatic swap file size is retarded because of the 6GB of RAM in the box, but still... 20GB for a damn OS?
Viable? I'd hope so. But perhaps the word "liable" would be more correct.
Why in the fuck is this insightful? Do you really think that the government should make anything some people find distasteful illegal? I find religion distasteful. Ban it! Oh, and skirts that don't cover the ankles. And Jews. Removing the freedom of people to do what they want as long as they aren't affecting other people is taking long strides to being a police state. The last major European/Eurasian police states happened in Russia, Germany, Italy... you get the drift.
I thought that Microsoft gives you a "valid" copy of the OS if you finger the person who sold it to you, and provide them with a receipt. But that's pretty minimal consolation.
I know it's bad form replying to myself, but I found the relevant link finally.
Laws being misapplied FTW! Gotta love how the government has gotten laws passed that encourage the police to take shit that's not theirs because the police stand to profit from it.
The problem is that they think that it's a patentable "invention". Seriously... server side access limitations? How in the hell is that novel in ANY way?
And this post's grandparent wins the "You can't spell Virtualization either, eh?" award
Try Dosbox. But if you did that, you could get off Windows entirely ;)
There's not really any reason to run a 32bit host any more, unless you have a need to use a badly programmed application that's not compatible with a 64bit OS's 32bit layer.
A bunch of technically proficient individuals knowing that idiots run the school? There are such things as bad publicity, when you piss off people in positions of trust in the community. Anyone here who's asked "Should I got to SRJC?" will have a bad opinion about the school. I mean, if they'll threaten people over email addresses, what other stupid things will they cause people grief over?
Just because she only wanted medical bills covered does not make it right. Is the city responsible for my medical bills if I trip and break my arm on a public street?
So... how is it McDonald's fault that she was wearing sweatpants and spilled coffee on them? I mean, it's not like you can't tell that that shit is hot. It'll radiate even through thick styrofoam.
How many people injured themselves walking into a door at McDonald's? How many by tripping over the sidewalk? Do they get to sue McDonald's for not padding every part of every building where people might get hurt? They say the fucking coffee was hot. Everybody knows what "hot" is. You can feel it through the styrofoam. If you are so stupid to put the coffee in a place where it could EASILY spill and hurt you, you deserve what you get. Just like you shouldn't have a lawsuit against someone if you run across the highway and get hit.
The problem is that it's not "abnormally hot".
We should also put foam rubber on all sidewalks, because someone could trip and fall and break an arm! That's just negligent, having hard things on the ground! And keep cars from going faster than 5mph. They might actually cause some damage. Seriously... there's an acceptable risk to everything. Hot coffee is understood to be hot by most reasonable people. That's why you have to be careful with it. Sure, someone COULD bump into you, but someone could also run over your toe if you don't watch where you're walking. I'm tired of this "It's not my fault!" bullshit in our society. If you screw up, take responsibility. Even if you didn't MEAN to do it, it's something you SHOULD have watched out for, a risk that should have been accepted.
It's over 9000? There's no way that can be right!
It's not a metaphor when it's the truth. The average person, in current American culture, abhors knowledge of anything but what celebrity is sleeping with who.
See, in theory, that's how it works in practice. In practice, it doesn't.
Appearances are very much related to the punishments and charges. Police don't pull over well-dressed people and search their cars, they pull over the people with rustbuckets and shitty clothes. They pull the rich looking people over for a speeding ticket, and they pull the poor looking people over to try to find drugs. The same thing happens all the way through the judicial system... you cuss at the judge, or don't respond with "Yes sir, no sir", he will give you a heavier sentence.
For those who may not know, the parent is referencing this classic engineer joke
Between 98 and XP, it didn't. And there are FAR more XP installs out there than Vista and later. It's still a very valid problem with Windows design.
If you use the exact same version of the encoder, all the options are set the same, and the rip is identical, and the encoding algorithm doesn't misuse the floating point values from the FPU in the processor, and you get the identical information to fill the m3u... only a few things that could be different ;)
I didn't think that acquiring the content was what was illegal. It was reproducing and distributing the content that was against the law. And MediaSentry provided it knowing exactly what would happen to it, which means that they either actively induced copyright infringement, or implicitly licensed it by providing the files in the first place.
But that's just what logic tells me, and logic and the legal system are two very separate beasts.
DRM is a bad thing in general. If someone shouldn't see it, don't let them see it. If they should, let them. Filesystems have had read/write permissions forever.
As for graphs, I don't use them, so I don't know. But OO.o0 2.x is old... 3 is much improved overall. Why not try it first? It's not like it's free or anything.
The Daily Show has more truth to it than many newspapers. If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.
I use adblock, but I let through most things from Google. Mostly because they're actually relevant to what I'm searching for, and they're not annoying. I actually buy things through froogle somewhat often, which I assume has a kickback mechanism for the merchant. Advertising is useful, but it has to be done right. You cannot force people to look at it, you have to give them a reason to WANT to look at it. Same thing with newspapers. We've reached a place where the companies no longer have a captive audience, and they're shitting bricks. If they create something that people want, people will buy it. EVERY economic transaction is a trade. I trade you money for what you provide me. If you don't provide enough value, I'm not going to give you my money. The sooner newspapers study some basic economics, the better.