Dude, your post implicitly approves piracy by people not served by this version of the software. Remember, most humans blessed with the ability to express themselves through the use of written language communicate ideas beyond the sum of the words they write.
Read with an understanding beyond a machine's ability to parse words, your post clearly made the case that I descrbed. If you don't have this basic literate ability of implying ideas, then I apologize (actually, sympathize).
What about people like me who listen to international bands? We're left out in the dark, and therefore we still must illegally download music to get our fix one way or another.
Yep, you have to steal to listen to international bands. Because... er, you'll DIE if you don't?
Their albums are available at Tower. Don't like the fact that imports cost $32? Oh, boo fucking who, you clove-cigarette smoking Eurotrash wannabe.
The music industry obviously considers students (and anyone) that don't run Windows (or Mac) to not be part of the market they are trying to sell to. ...So since they aren't expecting any revenues from Linux and BSD users, they surely have no basis to claim a loss of revenue from any piracy by people in that group.
Okay, I usually stay out of the fray, but this was exceptionally stupid. Fact is, Pogo, the music industry (and every other industry on the planet) go for the fat part of the market first. That's Wintel. With Mac as a distant second. Duh. They'll get to the rest of the market sooner or later. Just hold your breath.
In the meantime... thanks for repealing the laws on property (yes, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, there I said it, it's PROPERTY) for anyone who feels they're not currently served by the owners of that property.
Hey, poor white trailer trash! Mercedes, BMW and Lexus don't expect to be able to sell cars to you! Steal all you like!
I own a Class of '81 - manufactured in 2000, a cocktail style video game with Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga. Last weekend, I bought a Centipede/Millipede/Missile Command/Let's Go Bowling!(Yuck) in upright format.
Exactly like the originals, 3 (or more!) games in one. These games are extremely compelling in my game room, and are very popular at parties. Nostalgic adults and kids love them equally.
And if you want the originals, plenty of refurbished games are available, or you can wait a couple of weeks for the Joust/Robotron combination.
By the way, I don't work for TNT Amusements where I bought these games.
I don't say this as one who passed the written but missed the Morse code speed portion of the license test by a few lousy words (I'm not bitter.).
Ham radio is no longer vital. One day, I saw a mention of little IR tanks, got the review from a site in Australia, then ordered the tanks from some cat in Japan. That's TWO DX's from the other side of the world in a few minutes!
No seriously, I did help create a contract management system for EMI in the early 90's. Biggest piece of shit I ever worked on. No access to the subject matter experts (people who know what it should do), but plenty of "interpretation" from middle management types.
It was made clear to us that the only purpose of record label contracts was to fuck the talent and maximize label profits. Advances on publicity costs for tours to promote the album, holdbacks on royalties until the label had turned a profit, "equalization" so that profits from one album were siphoned off to pay "expenses" incurred for others.
On the other hand, there were stories about how the artists would occasionally score a victory. I think it was Dean Martin, beholden to his label for seven more albums, who showed up, dropped seven albums worth of shit tracks on the desk, and said "Ciao!"
And Christ, don't get me started about the VP who would grab us at the end of the workday and shanghai us to Flash Dancers (Manhattan tittie bar) to force us to charge hundreds on our credit cards which we billed as meal expenses.
Yuck, it's not just the talent who feel like we swam a river of shit for the music industry.
Linux developers form confederation, offer first serious challenge to Microsoft! Promise pay-for-support cooperative to corporations! Gates reported in tears!
Oops, no, they just added shadows to the menu bars. Oh well, maybe Apple will get its head out of its ass and offer more competition to make MS improve its products.
Even their best selling game, Halo, was originaly advertised as a macintosh exclusive.
Ooh, those bastards at Microsoft! They kidnaped Bungie's excellent game from a platform with a whopping 3% of the market and consigned it to the black depths of... the XBox. Yeah, blah blah blah, XBox commercial failure, right. If you really want to make sure a game would never see the light of day, go sign an exclusive with Apple.
World Out of Time by Larry Niven, in which an architect-turned-corpsicle used by a future society as a slave/galactic explorer travels via the black hole at the center of our galaxy 250K years into the future, to help super-intelligent adults rediscover immortality and fight super-intelligent long-lived children. Oh, and he uses a remote-controlled fusion motor to have Venus nudge the Earth farther away from Jupiter, which the Earth orbits since Jupiter was turned into a mini-sun.
Run of the mill Larry Niven tale.
Anyway, the evacuated world-circling subway was how he got around.
Please stop supporting these closed source companies that use Linux and don't contribute anything back other than the bare minimum to be compliant with the GPL (if that). Build a PVR with MythTV.
Please stop supporting these proprietary food companies like ADM (Supermarket to the World!) that use generic foodstuffs like corn and don't contribute back anything to biologic diversity.
I know! Let's form a committee of the people in this thread who don't know squat about physics (but have strong opinions), and let them decide what research gets done and what doesn't!
My cousin is a physicist at Brookhaven. I'll try to get you a heads-up if the world is about to be destroyed by the eggheads.
By the way, it's great to see you posting again, Charly. How's Algernon?
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Am I the ONLY one who finds people who add the "free ipod" line to their posts DISGUSTING???
Let's take a stand, people, and tell these freeloaders and shills to STOP, STOP, STOP using Slashdot to push products and services with their posts!!!
Obviously, that's the function of the editors.
So what? Big deal.
Who cares?
News Flash!!!! Segments of population migrate to portions of media that serve their interests!!!!!
Worst. Metaphor. Ever.
Actually, it was okay through paragraph 3, where I should have stopped reading.
I want those extra two minutes of my life back, please.
(the AC post was mine - at work)
I agree, the temporal cold war was a poor device. It did get them into the expanse though, and there are some pretty cool things going on there.
I hadn't heard him referred to as Count Bakula. Cruel, but fair.
Oh well. I guess the AC who posted this doesn't believe in his arguments enough to post as a user, so I guess they're not worth a response.
Dude, your post implicitly approves piracy by people not served by this version of the software. Remember, most humans blessed with the ability to express themselves through the use of written language communicate ideas beyond the sum of the words they write.
Read with an understanding beyond a machine's ability to parse words, your post clearly made the case that I descrbed. If you don't have this basic literate ability of implying ideas, then I apologize (actually, sympathize).
What about people like me who listen to international bands? We're left out in the dark, and therefore we still must illegally download music to get our fix one way or another.
Yep, you have to steal to listen to international bands. Because... er, you'll DIE if you don't?
Their albums are available at Tower. Don't like the fact that imports cost $32? Oh, boo fucking who, you clove-cigarette smoking Eurotrash wannabe.
The music industry obviously considers students (and anyone) that don't run Windows (or Mac) to not be part of the market they are trying to sell to.
...So since they aren't expecting any revenues from Linux and BSD users, they surely have no basis to claim a loss of revenue from any piracy by people in that group.
Okay, I usually stay out of the fray, but this was exceptionally stupid. Fact is, Pogo, the music industry (and every other industry on the planet) go for the fat part of the market first. That's Wintel. With Mac as a distant second. Duh. They'll get to the rest of the market sooner or later. Just hold your breath.
In the meantime... thanks for repealing the laws on property (yes, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, there I said it, it's PROPERTY) for anyone who feels they're not currently served by the owners of that property.
Hey, poor white trailer trash! Mercedes, BMW and Lexus don't expect to be able to sell cars to you! Steal all you like!
I own a Class of '81 - manufactured in 2000, a cocktail style video game with Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga. Last weekend, I bought a Centipede/Millipede/Missile Command/Let's Go Bowling!(Yuck) in upright format.
Exactly like the originals, 3 (or more!) games in one. These games are extremely compelling in my game room, and are very popular at parties. Nostalgic adults and kids love them equally.
And if you want the originals, plenty of refurbished games are available, or you can wait a couple of weeks for the Joust/Robotron combination.
By the way, I don't work for TNT Amusements where I bought these games.
Screw 'em.
I don't say this as one who passed the written but missed the Morse code speed portion of the license test by a few lousy words (I'm not bitter.).
Ham radio is no longer vital. One day, I saw a mention of little IR tanks, got the review from a site in Australia, then ordered the tanks from some cat in Japan. That's TWO DX's from the other side of the world in a few minutes!
This would be a misapplication of technology to use it to explore Antarctica. Dammit, I paid over $7K each for myself and my wife to go to there!
If you want to see it, see it the way God intended; from the deck of a ship with very, very strong hull plating.
(By the way, it's all water, rocks, sea lions and penguins.)
...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!
No seriously, I did help create a contract management system for EMI in the early 90's. Biggest piece of shit I ever worked on. No access to the subject matter experts (people who know what it should do), but plenty of "interpretation" from middle management types.
It was made clear to us that the only purpose of record label contracts was to fuck the talent and maximize label profits. Advances on publicity costs for tours to promote the album, holdbacks on royalties until the label had turned a profit, "equalization" so that profits from one album were siphoned off to pay "expenses" incurred for others.
On the other hand, there were stories about how the artists would occasionally score a victory. I think it was Dean Martin, beholden to his label for seven more albums, who showed up, dropped seven albums worth of shit tracks on the desk, and said "Ciao!"
And Christ, don't get me started about the VP who would grab us at the end of the workday and shanghai us to Flash Dancers (Manhattan tittie bar) to force us to charge hundreds on our credit cards which we billed as meal expenses.
Yuck, it's not just the talent who feel like we swam a river of shit for the music industry.
...and you know, love is like oxygen. You get too much, you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die.
Linux developers form confederation, offer first serious challenge to Microsoft! Promise pay-for-support cooperative to corporations! Gates reported in tears!
Oops, no, they just added shadows to the menu bars. Oh well, maybe Apple will get its head out of its ass and offer more competition to make MS improve its products.
Even their best selling game, Halo, was originaly advertised as a macintosh exclusive.
Ooh, those bastards at Microsoft! They kidnaped Bungie's excellent game from a platform with a whopping 3% of the market and consigned it to the black depths of... the XBox. Yeah, blah blah blah, XBox commercial failure, right. If you really want to make sure a game would never see the light of day, go sign an exclusive with Apple.
Actually, a subset of BASIC would be IC(!)
World Out of Time by Larry Niven, in which an architect-turned-corpsicle used by a future society as a slave/galactic explorer travels via the black hole at the center of our galaxy 250K years into the future, to help super-intelligent adults rediscover immortality and fight super-intelligent long-lived children. Oh, and he uses a remote-controlled fusion motor to have Venus nudge the Earth farther away from Jupiter, which the Earth orbits since Jupiter was turned into a mini-sun.
Run of the mill Larry Niven tale.
Anyway, the evacuated world-circling subway was how he got around.
Please stop supporting these closed source companies that use Linux and don't contribute anything back other than the bare minimum to be compliant with the GPL (if that). Build a PVR with MythTV.
Please stop supporting these proprietary food companies like ADM (Supermarket to the World!) that use generic foodstuffs like corn and don't contribute back anything to biologic diversity.
Raze your house, buy a plow, AND FARM!
I know! Let's form a committee of the people in this thread who don't know squat about physics (but have strong opinions), and let them decide what research gets done and what doesn't!
My cousin is a physicist at Brookhaven. I'll try to get you a heads-up if the world is about to be destroyed by the eggheads.
By the way, it's great to see you posting again, Charly. How's Algernon?