People should always be made to follow the letter of the law and feel the costs where windows is concerned.
Well I definitely can't argue with the last seven words!:-) I don't think you need to buy Windows to feel the cost of using it though. Life.. sapping.. force..
Certain comments, like the grandparent, always come up when certain topics are raised. While many of these are 'funny' (Soviet Russia, beowulf clusters, frist psot) and get modded as such, some are not, and can be marked as Redundant, even though the comment is the first of its type in a thread.
Complaining that the original poster is pirating software is worthless, but done in almost every single case where someone makes a vague reference to installing software on machines.. so, it's redundant.
Wow. Yeah, that's really the industry's fault. I wish everybody would realize that the secret to stopping theft is just to make things cheaper. I mean, shit, nobody would steal a big screen TV or a Porsche if it were only worth a few bucks! Then everybody could have one!
I wasn't talking about money. Some people simply don't like going to the cinema, but would still pay their $10 to watch it at home. There is no way of watching the latest releases at home without pirating. This is not good.
people will always want something 'tangible' for their $$$, something to put in their DVD tower, to lend to friends, to resell if they want to, and to watch whenever and wherever. Given DRM and everything I really doubt video on demand will eclipse DVDs any time soon.
I disagree. Look at music. People are forking over almost the same for albums on iTunes as they do in Wal*Mart. For that, they get a lower quality product, but gain value in convenience.
Anyone I know who has borrowed/bought/been lent a pirated movie watched it because they didn't want to go to the cinema/theater and wanted to watch from the comfort of their own home (no screaming kids, lines, or trailers).. but the industry gives them no other means to see a new movie without ripping it off!
Movies are going to go the same way as music is going in the end.. just you see!:-) (I *love* going to the cinema, so I kinda hope I'm wrong here)
Precisely. I couldn't tell you how many inches are in a meter off the top of my head, but I know how to work it out easily.. 100 / 2.54, and there's your answer. Knowing how to work things out is important than knowing the numbers blindly.
Saying "I'll give you $10,000 to kill my wife" is not a crime. Intending to cause the death of your wife is a crime.
Aren't you aware that making threats is a crime? If you went up to your wife and said, "I'm going to kill you", but without the intention of ever doing it, it doesn't matter, you can be busted. Threats are not some morally or legally protected action.
Who modded this up as Insightful? It's totally illogical.
On the counter to that, just because there's nazi propaganda out there on the web, doesn't mean it has to bother you. If you're not gay, does it bother you that there is gay porn on the internet (or vice versa)? No, at least it should not. You can't make a case for censorship in any form based on one particular thing you don't like.
(Gay) porn on the Internet isn't there to convince people to be gay, or to change opinion. It is there for people who want to see (gay) sex. Propaganda, however, is designed to stir up hatred, and spread misinformation amongst people who may ordinary be disinterested. There is not even any similarity between the two factors in your argument.
Free speech is the right for you to be able to say what you want. However, other laws can punish you for using this right incorrect (screaming 'fire' in a crowded bar, inciting people to commit hate crimes, and so on.) There is nothing wrong in this, and anyone propogating hate materials is going to be on the receiving end of the punishment meted out by the law to keep our society a safe one (or 'safer', rather).
OD2 has actually had this feature for a while (streaming a song for 1p) and I think it's hideous. Forget the WMP stuff, and forget that it demands Internet Explorer... the tracks only play at 32kbps! I thought it was some sort of big joke (or malfunction) until I searched the Net and found out that, indeed, 32kbps was the order of the day. 32kbps? I'm willing to bet my almost-deaf grandmother could tell how poor the quality is at 32kbps in WMP compared to even a 128kbps MP3. Steer clear!
I'm pretty sure there isn't any CCTV at Dunnet Head, nor on most of the roads leading up to it.. come on, you're almost 100 miles away from the nearest city up there and the roads are ramshackle, and that's being optimistic.
That's like arguing Italian is a better language than English because it has consistent pronunciation and less words. Or, better, Turkish.. which only has several thousand words. It's not as if Perl is as large as a language as English.. you can learn to read and write it fluently within a few years.
I believe BT has a plan where you pay 30 a month, including line rental, and all non-mobile calls are free.
Of course, this sounds great, but since everyone else has mobiles.. it kinda makes it worthless unless you're doing hundreds of cold calls from home or something.
Gotta agree with most of what you say though.. the controls for GTA suck on consoles, it's much better to play on the PC.
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Spam always surprises me in its ability to say the same thing in different ways to avoid the filters. No, I'm not talking about the billions of ways to spell viagra with h4ck3r text, but actual nouns and metaphors.
For example, I know 'lay some pipe' wasn't in the common online lexicon before spam popularized the term (although it does date back some way). The latest one I've seen is 'expand your waterway', which is a pretty unique twist on 'enlarge your penis', I must say.
Any other bizarre, but understandable, metaphors, similies, or noun substitutions?
And I quote, from Science Frontiers in March 1988 in a story about black holes: "The long history of science teaches us that all theories are eventually displaced by more accurate, more all-inclusive formulations." The observations made in the virtual observatory may allow the incredible boffins to establish the aforementioned formulations.
Further: Among the observations that hint at the reality of black holes are the X-ray binaries. In a typical X-ray binary, prodigious, flickering fluxes of X-rays reveal the presence of an ultradense star and an orbiting companion. The rapid orbital motion of the companion star tells us that the central X-ray star has a mass of more than three suns. General Relativity assures us that such a star can only collapse further to form a black hole. Therefore, black holes must exist.
However, this speculation may merely be an accessory to a grotesque mythology surrounding the aforementioned black holes. Some people in the scientific community believe that black holes were invented by more advanced civilizations in order to act as a cloaking device for their areas of space.
I am personally of the belief that black holes do not exist, as they suffer from the 'tree falling in the forest' syndrome. If you cannot see it, it does not exist. This applies to everything. So if you wish to exist, please reply to my diatribe.. alternatively, if you haven't even read this far, mod me up as Insightful or Informative.
Eight hours of a Hollywood special-FXathon? No thanks. If I wanted to watch actors get chased by special effects for nine hours, I'd play a computer game, where at least I could keep my actions consistent:-) (unlike that wizard in FOTR who was invincible in all those fights, then fell down a hole in the mountain!!)
Actually, Olivier directed and edited that video, it's not a Michel Gondry direction. Read more. Kudos for mentioning it though, it's a great video (and song).
More specifically, financial density. Japan is the world's second biggest economy, with an economy roughly half that of the US, or three times bigger than the UK, but with only double the population of the UK. Money is also more equally spread between the rich and poor in Japan. This leads to a relatively high monetary density country-wide, meaning lots of people who can afford high-end services.
This would explain why other densely populated counties, like Bangladesh, aren't riding high on the wagon.. it's because Japan is rich, has wealth more fairly disitributed, and has a dense population. Scandinavia also has its wealth more fairly spread between its citizens, and also boasts some of the world's most impressive mass technologies.
Oh, and since you've mentioned iMixes.. for some reason I've considered that giving consent for iTunes to send stuff to Apple could be a bad move.
The RIAA could muscle in on iTunes as it has on other formats, and iTunes could send back audio signatures of all your MP3 files.. allowing the RIAA to come and bust your ass if it detects any of your files were stolen.
Paranoid, I know *g* although luckily I'm not in the US, but I still wonder if this sort of thing could happen.
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People should always be made to follow the letter of the law and feel the costs where windows is concerned.
:-) I don't think you need to buy Windows to feel the cost of using it though. Life.. sapping.. force..
Well I definitely can't argue with the last seven words!
How the hell can the first post be redundant?
Quite easily on Slashdot.
Certain comments, like the grandparent, always come up when certain topics are raised. While many of these are 'funny' (Soviet Russia, beowulf clusters, frist psot) and get modded as such, some are not, and can be marked as Redundant, even though the comment is the first of its type in a thread.
Complaining that the original poster is pirating software is worthless, but done in almost every single case where someone makes a vague reference to installing software on machines.. so, it's redundant.
Can't wait to see what happens when you park that baby in certain states on your trip!
How is an IE exploit an advertisment for Apple? Dos this specific problem not exist in IE for Macs?
Uh, no. An Apple Mac couldn't run the executable, it uses a different family of CPU. Even if it could, IE's browser share on Mac OS X is very low.
Wow. Yeah, that's really the industry's fault. I wish everybody would realize that the secret to stopping theft is just to make things cheaper. I mean, shit, nobody would steal a big screen TV or a Porsche if it were only worth a few bucks! Then everybody could have one!
I wasn't talking about money. Some people simply don't like going to the cinema, but would still pay their $10 to watch it at home. There is no way of watching the latest releases at home without pirating. This is not good.
people will always want something 'tangible' for their $$$, something to put in their DVD tower, to lend to friends, to resell if they want to, and to watch whenever and wherever. Given DRM and everything I really doubt video on demand will eclipse DVDs any time soon.
:-) (I *love* going to the cinema, so I kinda hope I'm wrong here)
I disagree. Look at music. People are forking over almost the same for albums on iTunes as they do in Wal*Mart. For that, they get a lower quality product, but gain value in convenience.
Anyone I know who has borrowed/bought/been lent a pirated movie watched it because they didn't want to go to the cinema/theater and wanted to watch from the comfort of their own home (no screaming kids, lines, or trailers).. but the industry gives them no other means to see a new movie without ripping it off!
Movies are going to go the same way as music is going in the end.. just you see!
No, which is one of the many benefits of leaving Earth :-)
Precisely. I couldn't tell you how many inches are in a meter off the top of my head, but I know how to work it out easily.. 100 / 2.54, and there's your answer. Knowing how to work things out is important than knowing the numbers blindly.
Saying "I'll give you $10,000 to kill my wife" is not a crime. Intending to cause the death of your wife is a crime.
Aren't you aware that making threats is a crime? If you went up to your wife and said, "I'm going to kill you", but without the intention of ever doing it, it doesn't matter, you can be busted. Threats are not some morally or legally protected action.
Insert a couple of 'ly's into some dodgy words there ;-)
Who modded this up as Insightful? It's totally illogical.
On the counter to that, just because there's nazi propaganda out there on the web, doesn't mean it has to bother you. If you're not gay, does it bother you that there is gay porn on the internet (or vice versa)? No, at least it should not. You can't make a case for censorship in any form based on one particular thing you don't like.
(Gay) porn on the Internet isn't there to convince people to be gay, or to change opinion. It is there for people who want to see (gay) sex. Propaganda, however, is designed to stir up hatred, and spread misinformation amongst people who may ordinary be disinterested. There is not even any similarity between the two factors in your argument.
Free speech is the right for you to be able to say what you want. However, other laws can punish you for using this right incorrect (screaming 'fire' in a crowded bar, inciting people to commit hate crimes, and so on.) There is nothing wrong in this, and anyone propogating hate materials is going to be on the receiving end of the punishment meted out by the law to keep our society a safe one (or 'safer', rather).
IDE speeds are not significantly below SCSI's these days, however. Even previous SCSI zealots like Apple have made the switch.
OD2 has actually had this feature for a while (streaming a song for 1p) and I think it's hideous. Forget the WMP stuff, and forget that it demands Internet Explorer... the tracks only play at 32kbps! I thought it was some sort of big joke (or malfunction) until I searched the Net and found out that, indeed, 32kbps was the order of the day. 32kbps? I'm willing to bet my almost-deaf grandmother could tell how poor the quality is at 32kbps in WMP compared to even a 128kbps MP3. Steer clear!
I'm pretty sure there isn't any CCTV at Dunnet Head, nor on most of the roads leading up to it.. come on, you're almost 100 miles away from the nearest city up there and the roads are ramshackle, and that's being optimistic.
You could, although I thought 'handsome' would have been a much more amusing word to use, Hansom. ;-)
That's like arguing Italian is a better language than English because it has consistent pronunciation and less words. Or, better, Turkish.. which only has several thousand words. It's not as if Perl is as large as a language as English.. you can learn to read and write it fluently within a few years.
Poor CLI.
Horrible to develop for (archaic messy libraries).
Bad file system, and poor directory structures.
Non open interface. Hard to customize properly.
Susceptible to more viruses, due to its popularity.
More open holes which are hard to fix.
Not enough proper stuff built in (no programming language with XP, no GOOD firewall, no stable Web server).
Costs too much.
I could go on. And I've been suffering MS stuff for 16 years, and had a Mac for a month now.. I'm won over.
I believe BT has a plan where you pay 30 a month, including line rental, and all non-mobile calls are free.
Of course, this sounds great, but since everyone else has mobiles.. it kinda makes it worthless unless you're doing hundreds of cold calls from home or something.
Yes, CounterStrike is out on the Xbox.
Gotta agree with most of what you say though.. the controls for GTA suck on consoles, it's much better to play on the PC.
Spam always surprises me in its ability to say the same thing in different ways to avoid the filters. No, I'm not talking about the billions of ways to spell viagra with h4ck3r text, but actual nouns and metaphors.
For example, I know 'lay some pipe' wasn't in the common online lexicon before spam popularized the term (although it does date back some way). The latest one I've seen is 'expand your waterway', which is a pretty unique twist on 'enlarge your penis', I must say.
Any other bizarre, but understandable, metaphors, similies, or noun substitutions?
And I quote, from Science Frontiers in March 1988 in a story about black holes: "The long history of science teaches us that all theories are eventually displaced by more accurate, more all-inclusive formulations." The observations made in the virtual observatory may allow the incredible boffins to establish the aforementioned formulations.
Further: Among the observations that hint at the reality of black holes are the X-ray binaries. In a typical X-ray binary, prodigious, flickering fluxes of X-rays reveal the presence of an ultradense star and an orbiting companion. The rapid orbital motion of the companion star tells us that the central X-ray star has a mass of more than three suns. General Relativity assures us that such a star can only collapse further to form a black hole. Therefore, black holes must exist.
However, this speculation may merely be an accessory to a grotesque mythology surrounding the aforementioned black holes. Some people in the scientific community believe that black holes were invented by more advanced civilizations in order to act as a cloaking device for their areas of space.
I am personally of the belief that black holes do not exist, as they suffer from the 'tree falling in the forest' syndrome. If you cannot see it, it does not exist. This applies to everything. So if you wish to exist, please reply to my diatribe.. alternatively, if you haven't even read this far, mod me up as Insightful or Informative.
Eight hours of a Hollywood special-FXathon? No thanks. If I wanted to watch actors get chased by special effects for nine hours, I'd play a computer game, where at least I could keep my actions consistent :-) (unlike that wizard in FOTR who was invincible in all those fights, then fell down a hole in the mountain!!)
Actually, Olivier directed and edited that video, it's not a Michel Gondry direction. Read more. Kudos for mentioning it though, it's a great video (and song).
More specifically, financial density. Japan is the world's second biggest economy, with an economy roughly half that of the US, or three times bigger than the UK, but with only double the population of the UK. Money is also more equally spread between the rich and poor in Japan. This leads to a relatively high monetary density country-wide, meaning lots of people who can afford high-end services.
This would explain why other densely populated counties, like Bangladesh, aren't riding high on the wagon.. it's because Japan is rich, has wealth more fairly disitributed, and has a dense population. Scandinavia also has its wealth more fairly spread between its citizens, and also boasts some of the world's most impressive mass technologies.
Oh, and since you've mentioned iMixes.. for some reason I've considered that giving consent for iTunes to send stuff to Apple could be a bad move.
The RIAA could muscle in on iTunes as it has on other formats, and iTunes could send back audio signatures of all your MP3 files.. allowing the RIAA to come and bust your ass if it detects any of your files were stolen.
Paranoid, I know *g* although luckily I'm not in the US, but I still wonder if this sort of thing could happen.