You can use a gas can to huff gas, and in a perfect world you should never need one since you can fill your car directly at the station, so they should be illegal.
How am I supposed to fill the lawn mower, then? Carry gas in my mouth from the station? Walk my mower a half mile to the pump?
No. It doesn't fucking hold. Go and copy me a book and make it exactly like the original. Now do that for every book in existence. You can go to sites, IRC rooms, whatever, and get huge lists of games and apps to download. There's nothing even remotely similar to this with books.
With software, you can make exact copies with almost no effort or cost. It just doesn't hold for books, dishwashers, cars, anything else. The digital nature of software makes it different from almost every other copywritten material. We've seen that as sound and movies have become digital, they've had the same copyright problems.
ahh I get it, ease of duplication is what makes something diffrent than a regular good.
We've gone around this 10,000 times on slashdot. Why don't you get it yet? What makes it different is that it's copywritten material, not a physical good.
That whole thing about pet rocks? Try to make sense next time, thanks!
The key is usually printed on the jewel case or manual, which are easily misplaced, so to play the game I legitimately bought and even have the CD for, I need to get a new key.
I know this doesn't help you now, and it doesn't work on every CD due to label art, but a good solution is to write the key on the physical CD in sharpie. That way, as long as you have the CD, you have the key, too.
Think if the logic Valve applied here was applied to a physical good, like a dishwasher.
I usually try to stay civil here, but you're just an idiot. The whole reason that there is any copy protection for any software is because software is not a dishwasher, or a car, or an airplane, or ANY physical good.
Can you replicate your dishwasher and give it to your friend at the click of a button?
I did not buy the "license" to use this software until the software developer arbitrarily decides my time is up.
Actually, you probably did. Check the licence.. I'm sure it has what I call the 'should be illegal clause' that states "We can change this whenever we want, nyah nyah!"
If I did this shit to any of my family, the ones that have computers, they'd think I was a complete wanker for basically giving them what amounts to a commercial pitch as a present. I'd be insulted, so would they.
Yeesh. I'd hate to be in your family. Seriously, why are people so worked up about this? People are always asking me computer questions, I don't see why they would get offended if I offered an answer. Sure, it may not be what they're looking for, but if that gets them all bent out of shape, then maybe it's time to look for a new family.
If Windows was also distributed as a demo bootCD that tried to load the entire GUI, it'd be just as slow. Perhaps slower. (I've never really understood why Microsoft hasn't tried that approach yet)
Because they don't need to. Windows is already installed on, what, 95% of new machines? Windows install CDs will boot you into the installer, but that's different. They really don't need a live CD for demo purposes. Now, if they made one for fixing spyware, etc., that would be nice.
Also, I'm trying to figure out why Windows gets slow over time. It's like the installation rots. I'm trying to find out if you can prevent it.
One thing that seems to help a lot is preventing the installation of shell extensions. Shell extensions are the menu options that Winamp, Winrar, AV, CuteFTP, etc. put into the right-click menu in Explorer. Things like "Open in Winamp", "Uncompress using WinRAR", "Scan for Viruses", etc. I find that if you keep the shell untouched, it runs a lot better. I can't remember the exact place, but there's a spot in the registry where all the shell extensions are listed and you can remove the ones you don't want. Also, from time to time go through the file extensions and remove ones that you don't use (In explorer, tools:options, file types tab). Some programs will add what seems to be about a hundred file types (I think Real is a bad one with this). There's no need to have associated icons and actions for file types that you never use. It just slows things down from my experience. YMMV.
Would you buy a cake without an ingredients list? You don't know. It might contain animal fat. It might contain artificial colourings. It might contain nuts. It might contain radioactive isotopes.
As the sibling points out, your analogy is flawed.
In any case, most people buy food without looking at the ingredients. I mean, just look how many people eat at McDonalds. Yes, there are vegetarians/vegans/people with dietary needs/etc. who closely monitor what is in the food that they buy to ensure they aren't eating things that they don't want to consume, but they are in the minority. In your analogy, vegans are Linux users. They are willing to learn about the foods, know which ones are undesired, and actively avoid them. Most people, like Windows users, see a cake and just want to eat it.
Slashdot is always asking why people continue to use Windows, even with all its flaws.
The reason why people continue to use Slashdot is the same: even with flaws, it's still better than the alternatives (at least for my goal of wasting time at work...).
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The plants were grandfathered in because we can not pass laws that are retroactive - you can not currently be held to laws that will be passed in the future. That is in the constitution - the law had to have been made that way. That's the logic in that. But, should you take any of the grandfathered plants and put anything new on them the must, at that point, comply with all existing emissions standards. They can not comply with current emissions standards without putting new parts on them. See the deadlock?
That is correct, on its face. However, the devil's in the details, as always. If you have a power plant (or any significant source) that is grandfathered, you are exempt from new regs. However, once you modify that equipment, you must bring it into compliance. What the Bush Administration did was change the rules of what was considered a 'modification', allowing plant operators to continue to operate their old equipment where the purpose of the law was to force them to change to cleaner technology.
While there does appear to be a 'deadlock' in the regs, my experience in the air permitting business says otherwise. State DEPs and EPA are usually very willing to accomodate you, assuming the end goal is a reduction in pollution. If you just read regulations, you won't get this sense. However, there are many provisions in regulations for non-compliant sources, and being non-compliant is not an automatic sanction or fine.
State DEPs and EPA do *not* like you when you try to run around the regs for 10 years, and then come forward and try to make nice. If you're upfront from the start, they are extremely accomodating.
You really don't. I'm running it through on-board video (whatever Dell uses.. an intel chip?), and 256 MB ram. Yeah, it's slow to load and doesn't look pretty, but it runs just fine.
GP isn't arguing that buying drugs from Canada would actually be cheaper (or that Canada would continue to allow it if it occurred en masse).
What GP is saying is that the GOP says "Free Market! Free Market!" and then they go and restrict the market. It's the same with "Fiscal Responsibility". They go on and on about "tax and spend liberals" and yet they're running the highest defecits, and we've had to raise the debt ceiling 3 times in 4 years!
They're hypocrites, plain and simple. That's the GP's point.
Why not something like paying the government politicos a 'living wage' or the mean national wage.
The traditional justification for paying Congresspeople more is two fold. One, it gives people incentive to do the job. Yes, serving the people and all that bullshit should be the real reason, but let's be realistic. People want money. That hasn't changed since the Constitution was written. The second reason is that congresspeople have to maintain two residences: One in DC, and one in their home state. I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's the reasoning.
Haven't used JFK, but AirTrain Newark is great. Yes, there are some minor delays like the doors saying open for 30 seconds even when no one is there, but they are minor. At Newark, the Red Jackets are always around to answer questions and point you where you need to go. Furthermore, it's electric. Quiet and clean.
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You can use a gas can to huff gas, and in a perfect world you should never need one since you can fill your car directly at the station, so they should be illegal.
How am I supposed to fill the lawn mower, then? Carry gas in my mouth from the station? Walk my mower a half mile to the pump?
Analogies suck.
No. It doesn't fucking hold. Go and copy me a book and make it exactly like the original. Now do that for every book in existence. You can go to sites, IRC rooms, whatever, and get huge lists of games and apps to download. There's nothing even remotely similar to this with books.
With software, you can make exact copies with almost no effort or cost. It just doesn't hold for books, dishwashers, cars, anything else. The digital nature of software makes it different from almost every other copywritten material. We've seen that as sound and movies have become digital, they've had the same copyright problems.
ahh I get it, ease of duplication is what makes something diffrent than a regular good.
We've gone around this 10,000 times on slashdot. Why don't you get it yet? What makes it different is that it's copywritten material, not a physical good.
That whole thing about pet rocks? Try to make sense next time, thanks!
Also, if I'm reading the complaints correctly, they can remotely disable a "pirated" copy without the user's consent if steam is online.
WRONG! You consent when you agree to the Steam license.
The key is usually printed on the jewel case or manual, which are easily misplaced, so to play the game I legitimately bought and even have the CD for, I need to get a new key.
I know this doesn't help you now, and it doesn't work on every CD due to label art, but a good solution is to write the key on the physical CD in sharpie. That way, as long as you have the CD, you have the key, too.
Think if the logic Valve applied here was applied to a physical good, like a dishwasher.
I usually try to stay civil here, but you're just an idiot. The whole reason that there is any copy protection for any software is because software is not a dishwasher, or a car, or an airplane, or ANY physical good.
Can you replicate your dishwasher and give it to your friend at the click of a button?
I did not buy the "license" to use this software until the software developer arbitrarily decides my time is up.
Actually, you probably did. Check the licence.. I'm sure it has what I call the 'should be illegal clause' that states "We can change this whenever we want, nyah nyah!"
Maybe I don't understand the new math, but aren't we customers? Why would anyone put up with this crap?
Because the game is fun, and because for a majority of paying customers, there have been no problems.
it sounds like you made a much more eloquent, erudite argument.
His argument was simple: "I would take my business elsewhere before using IE for banking."
Money talks.
Even Windows 95 can run a webbrowser. So why buy a newer version of Windows?
Can != Should.
If I did this shit to any of my family, the ones that have computers, they'd think I was a complete wanker for basically giving them what amounts to a commercial pitch as a present. I'd be insulted, so would they.
Yeesh. I'd hate to be in your family. Seriously, why are people so worked up about this? People are always asking me computer questions, I don't see why they would get offended if I offered an answer. Sure, it may not be what they're looking for, but if that gets them all bent out of shape, then maybe it's time to look for a new family.
If one of my relatives tried to use a christmas card to evangelize an operating system, they'd be spending Christmas outside in the barn.
Sounds like someone takes some things a little too seriously (it's either you, or the people that modded this 'insightful').
If your friends aren't looking to change their OS then just forget your little crusade because all you're going to do is piss people off.
Not sure what kind of friends you have, but my friends would simply say "No Thanks!"
If Windows was also distributed as a demo bootCD that tried to load the entire GUI, it'd be just as slow. Perhaps slower. (I've never really understood why Microsoft hasn't tried that approach yet)
Because they don't need to. Windows is already installed on, what, 95% of new machines? Windows install CDs will boot you into the installer, but that's different. They really don't need a live CD for demo purposes. Now, if they made one for fixing spyware, etc., that would be nice.
Also, I'm trying to figure out why Windows gets slow over time. It's like the installation rots. I'm trying to find out if you can prevent it.
One thing that seems to help a lot is preventing the installation of shell extensions. Shell extensions are the menu options that Winamp, Winrar, AV, CuteFTP, etc. put into the right-click menu in Explorer. Things like "Open in Winamp", "Uncompress using WinRAR", "Scan for Viruses", etc. I find that if you keep the shell untouched, it runs a lot better. I can't remember the exact place, but there's a spot in the registry where all the shell extensions are listed and you can remove the ones you don't want. Also, from time to time go through the file extensions and remove ones that you don't use (In explorer, tools:options, file types tab). Some programs will add what seems to be about a hundred file types (I think Real is a bad one with this). There's no need to have associated icons and actions for file types that you never use. It just slows things down from my experience. YMMV.
Would you buy a cake without an ingredients list? You don't know. It might contain animal fat. It might contain artificial colourings. It might contain nuts. It might contain radioactive isotopes.
As the sibling points out, your analogy is flawed.
In any case, most people buy food without looking at the ingredients. I mean, just look how many people eat at McDonalds. Yes, there are vegetarians/vegans/people with dietary needs/etc. who closely monitor what is in the food that they buy to ensure they aren't eating things that they don't want to consume, but they are in the minority. In your analogy, vegans are Linux users. They are willing to learn about the foods, know which ones are undesired, and actively avoid them. Most people, like Windows users, see a cake and just want to eat it.
Slashdot is always asking why people continue to use Windows, even with all its flaws.
The reason why people continue to use Slashdot is the same: even with flaws, it's still better than the alternatives (at least for my goal of wasting time at work...).
The plants were grandfathered in because we can not pass laws that are retroactive - you can not currently be held to laws that will be passed in the future. That is in the constitution - the law had to have been made that way. That's the logic in that. But, should you take any of the grandfathered plants and put anything new on them the must, at that point, comply with all existing emissions standards. They can not comply with current emissions standards without putting new parts on them. See the deadlock?
That is correct, on its face. However, the devil's in the details, as always. If you have a power plant (or any significant source) that is grandfathered, you are exempt from new regs. However, once you modify that equipment, you must bring it into compliance. What the Bush Administration did was change the rules of what was considered a 'modification', allowing plant operators to continue to operate their old equipment where the purpose of the law was to force them to change to cleaner technology.
While there does appear to be a 'deadlock' in the regs, my experience in the air permitting business says otherwise. State DEPs and EPA are usually very willing to accomodate you, assuming the end goal is a reduction in pollution. If you just read regulations, you won't get this sense. However, there are many provisions in regulations for non-compliant sources, and being non-compliant is not an automatic sanction or fine.
State DEPs and EPA do *not* like you when you try to run around the regs for 10 years, and then come forward and try to make nice. If you're upfront from the start, they are extremely accomodating.
Why did you stop there? Why not just make up more figures to support your position? I mean, you forgot the 22% electric car tax!
Yes, there are still obvious problems with electric cars. However, you don't need to make up numbers to talk about it.
you do need good hardware
You really don't. I'm running it through on-board video (whatever Dell uses.. an intel chip?), and 256 MB ram. Yeah, it's slow to load and doesn't look pretty, but it runs just fine.
Sure Steam has its issues, mostly being an annoying adware program that currently pops up messages about HL2
Looks like you're misinformed. I've received no popups from Steam.
GP isn't arguing that buying drugs from Canada would actually be cheaper (or that Canada would continue to allow it if it occurred en masse).
What GP is saying is that the GOP says "Free Market! Free Market!" and then they go and restrict the market. It's the same with "Fiscal Responsibility". They go on and on about "tax and spend liberals" and yet they're running the highest defecits, and we've had to raise the debt ceiling 3 times in 4 years!
They're hypocrites, plain and simple. That's the GP's point.
Why not something like paying the government politicos a 'living wage' or the mean national wage.
The traditional justification for paying Congresspeople more is two fold. One, it gives people incentive to do the job. Yes, serving the people and all that bullshit should be the real reason, but let's be realistic. People want money. That hasn't changed since the Constitution was written. The second reason is that congresspeople have to maintain two residences: One in DC, and one in their home state. I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's the reasoning.
Why are they so obsessed with ten thousand or so people sharing rotgut quality Div-X copies?
Rotgut.. now that was a good band.
*crickets*
Haven't used JFK, but AirTrain Newark is great. Yes, there are some minor delays like the doors saying open for 30 seconds even when no one is there, but they are minor. At Newark, the Red Jackets are always around to answer questions and point you where you need to go. Furthermore, it's electric. Quiet and clean.