. . . but it would be REALLY nice and infinitely more useful (not to mention probably easier from a programming perspective) if they would add support for little things as editing you AIM profile and transparent buddy icons.
Most people are quite happy with staying at the version they have. And I mean literally the version they have. They don't upgrade, they don't buy new.
This is assuming that the next critical update or SP doesn't conveniently add that link for you. ..
And of course, this is assuming that people actually apply those updates which, extrapolating from the proliferation of viruses exploiting patched holes, does not appear to be the case.
I disagree. I would say both would be unfair competition. Looking at the computer market from the POV of the not-so tech savvy user, making it inconvenient as all hell for somebody to use an alternate music store is a barrier to competition.
IMHO, you shouldn't be allowed to. When you do that whole setup thing at the beginning of first booting up your shiny computer, or the first time you connect to the internet it should ask you what you want to set your homepage to. But of course that would be giving consumers an actual choice and limiting that conveniently built-in advertising revenue stream. . .
You're confusing "as reported in a previous/. article" with fact. Apple has flat-out stated that the iPod will NOT play WMA files (though that could be because as you state it is disabled), and the HP iPod will not play them either. Helpful links refuting your claim can be found here and here.
Sure it will, after Linux supersedes Windows as the OS of choice on the x86 desktop, which will be shortly after we have representatives who actually care about their constituents and not their donors and antitrust laws that are actually enforced.
Yeah but a confidentiality clause won't keep everything quiet. The headline will still read "AutoZone settles lawsuit with SCO for an undisclosed amount." The fact that they settled will be public information.
They appeal to the most social outcasts in our society who are pretty much worthless to the functioning of the country at large. For example, they promise welfare, universal free health care and tax cuts to people who contribute absolutely nothing to the prosperity of the country.
I'd like to hear you say this when you can't get the gas tank on your monster SUV filled, your laundry dry cleaned, or there's nobody to serve you your biggie shake and biggie fries at the local Wendy's. The functioning of the country depends on these "social outcasts" doing the menial, thankless, below poverty level jobs that you are so quick to shit on them for doing.
They wage a class war for their own political gain by facing the "rich" (i.e. families of 4 making more than $50k/year by their own definition) against the "poor". The haves vs. the have-nots.
Once again I'd like to know why it's called waging class warfare if you push for the interests of "the little guy", but if your benefactor is a rich CEO or somebody else in the upper tax bracket, it's not class warfare. I will agree with your point that what the Democrats do is pretty sleazy, but not because they speak up for those on the lower rungs on the ladder; it's because they say they're the party of the common man when in reality they're more interested in those same CEOs, upper class families, and big businesses as the Republicans. At least when the GOP votes for a big tax cut to help their Fortune 500 buddies and screw the working man you expect it, because that's what they stand for. It's scandalous when the Dems do it because from their rhetoric you'd expect them to be better about it.
And this is where I will have to part company from the author of the article as well: if every geek is as politically ignorant as you are, I would just as soon prefer that they stay out of politics, as it's obvious that whatever your technical competence may be, you would only manage to do more harm than good.
My guess is parent poster failed english in the 6th grade and ever since has been unable to put together a complete, understandable paragraph. He's probably referring to the iSight.
Or somebody who doesn't have $1000 to spare, and that there isn't somebody else who could actually really use that money, which based on your smart-ass reply (since I have nothing else to base my opinion of you on), I would have to say you probably wouldn't qualify.
I'm quite willing to share what I have when I am able to, with the only expectation that others do the same, and not necessarily that they give back to me; in fact, I prefer that they return the favor by sharing with others. Think of it as the GPL for life. But then you probably don't like the GPL either...
I'll bet your a person who is always borrowing stuff from other people, and expecting people who own cars to "give you a lift".
No and no. Try again.
You call everybody else selfish, but you're the most selfish of all... not only won't you pay your own way, but you're pissed off when people object to your selfishness.
Actually, I'm pretty adamant about paying my own way. And I make it a point to share what I have with others.
I realize you won't understand how selfish you are; that's the funny part about people like you. You think you're normal, when you're actually a fucking leach.
I would be the last person on earth to claim that I'm normal, though not for any of your fictional reasons.
No wonder you don't have friends (only potential suckers and marks who haven't gotten sick of your leeching.... yet).
I've got plenty of friends actually. Thanks for your concern though.
do something useful with it rather than waste it on people who won't even say thank you."
My guess is this would only be a problem if the people living in the building are a bunch of assholes like you and the rest of your ilk posting here. Yeah, there's probably a whole lot of other more personally beneficial things the guy could choose to do, but he decides to do something nice for his neighbors and he's a leper? Here's a newsflash for ya: not everybody is a selfish prick like you.
People like you are what's wrong with the world. FOAD.
Sorry dude, you lost your credibility right there. You need to re-calibrate your definitions of liberal and conservative if you consider this man to be a moderate.
And as another poster pointed out, the state you're looking for is Pennsylvania.
Probably from people unintentionally installing their spyware, thus sending traffic to their site and artificially boosting their numbers. I highly doubt all that traffic is because their dishonest business practices are so popular...
Yeah, a suit may happen, but I doubt it would get very far. I think all Apple has to do is show they are taking good-faith efforts to correct the defects and the case would lose, and since lawyers are usually paid out of the award in class action suits, I really can't see one jumping at the bit to take on this one.
Of course, I could be all wrong on this. Standard disclaimer applies: IANAL (but IAALS).
For the most part I would agree with your commentary, but what if we add a little twist to the story: instead of just turning in the paper you wrote for the previous class, what if you used it as a starting point for the second assignment? Would it still be wrong to build off of the work that you had done previously, so long as you put substantial effort into updating and expanding on the original? Personally, I don't think so, but it is within the realm of possibility that if there is enough of the original left in the re-written version, it would get tagged by a anti-plagiarism system.
If you really think that GE food has been tested and approved by the FDA, you're seriously deluding yourself. The FDA considers GE foods to be substantially equivalent to conventionally grown foods, hence why they do not require any labeling or real testing. The only real regulation is that you can't use genes from certain foods with significant allergenic properties (i.e., peanuts) in your experimentation with our food supply.
While I would guess that the hack to play them under linux is indubitably a DMCA violation, it wouldn't necessarily be to play them back under Windows or Mac versions of VLC - I think it has more to do with the method one uses to play the files back. Breaking the encryption key is illegal - but calling a program library that is designed to unlock it wouldn't be. So under XP or OS X, all that VLC has to do is call the quicktime library that unlocks the files and all is good, but of course under linux that's not possible.
I believe they have not yet licensed their DRM to anybody else. However, on either Windows or on a Mac with Quicktime (which actually handles the DRM functions), you can write software that will play the DRM'd files. I suppose it's only a matter of time before somebody writes one that builds on the script the DeCSS guy wrote to remove the DRM wrapper so that said hypothetical program could easily transfer the files to a portable player.
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. . . but it would be REALLY nice and infinitely more useful (not to mention probably easier from a programming perspective) if they would add support for little things as editing you AIM profile and transparent buddy icons.
Most people are quite happy with staying at the version they have. And I mean literally the version they have. They don't upgrade, they don't buy new.
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This is assuming that the next critical update or SP doesn't conveniently add that link for you. .
And of course, this is assuming that people actually apply those updates which, extrapolating from the proliferation of viruses exploiting patched holes, does not appear to be the case.
I disagree. I would say both would be unfair competition. Looking at the computer market from the POV of the not-so tech savvy user, making it inconvenient as all hell for somebody to use an alternate music store is a barrier to competition.
IMHO, you shouldn't be allowed to. When you do that whole setup thing at the beginning of first booting up your shiny computer, or the first time you connect to the internet it should ask you what you want to set your homepage to. But of course that would be giving consumers an actual choice and limiting that conveniently built-in advertising revenue stream. . .
You're confusing "as reported in a previous /. article" with fact. Apple has flat-out stated that the iPod will NOT play WMA files (though that could be because as you state it is disabled), and the HP iPod will not play them either. Helpful links refuting your claim can be found here and here.
Sorry, he's right. It's BREAK. As in fall apart, cease functioning, etc., not as in to slow down or come to a stop.
If you're going to nitpick, do it right.
. . .disimilar. . .
I guess that eliminates you.
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Sure it will, after Linux supersedes Windows as the OS of choice on the x86 desktop, which will be shortly after we have representatives who actually care about their constituents and not their donors and antitrust laws that are actually enforced.
Fuck it, you're right: ain't gonna happen. . .
So basically what you're saying is nothing's going to change except maybe who gets to put the screw in your back.
Yeah but a confidentiality clause won't keep everything quiet. The headline will still read "AutoZone settles lawsuit with SCO for an undisclosed amount." The fact that they settled will be public information.
Ever wonder why New Mexico's license plates are yellow?
They appeal to the most social outcasts in our society who are pretty much worthless to the functioning of the country at large. For example, they promise welfare, universal free health care and tax cuts to people who contribute absolutely nothing to the prosperity of the country.
I'd like to hear you say this when you can't get the gas tank on your monster SUV filled, your laundry dry cleaned, or there's nobody to serve you your biggie shake and biggie fries at the local Wendy's. The functioning of the country depends on these "social outcasts" doing the menial, thankless, below poverty level jobs that you are so quick to shit on them for doing.
They wage a class war for their own political gain by facing the "rich" (i.e. families of 4 making more than $50k/year by their own definition) against the "poor". The haves vs. the have-nots.
Once again I'd like to know why it's called waging class warfare if you push for the interests of "the little guy", but if your benefactor is a rich CEO or somebody else in the upper tax bracket, it's not class warfare. I will agree with your point that what the Democrats do is pretty sleazy, but not because they speak up for those on the lower rungs on the ladder; it's because they say they're the party of the common man when in reality they're more interested in those same CEOs, upper class families, and big businesses as the Republicans. At least when the GOP votes for a big tax cut to help their Fortune 500 buddies and screw the working man you expect it, because that's what they stand for. It's scandalous when the Dems do it because from their rhetoric you'd expect them to be better about it.
And this is where I will have to part company from the author of the article as well: if every geek is as politically ignorant as you are, I would just as soon prefer that they stay out of politics, as it's obvious that whatever your technical competence may be, you would only manage to do more harm than good.
My guess is parent poster failed english in the 6th grade and ever since has been unable to put together a complete, understandable paragraph. He's probably referring to the iSight.
Only a selfish person would say no.
Or somebody who doesn't have $1000 to spare, and that there isn't somebody else who could actually really use that money, which based on your smart-ass reply (since I have nothing else to base my opinion of you on), I would have to say you probably wouldn't qualify.
I'm quite willing to share what I have when I am able to, with the only expectation that others do the same, and not necessarily that they give back to me; in fact, I prefer that they return the favor by sharing with others. Think of it as the GPL for life. But then you probably don't like the GPL either...
I'll bet your a person who is always borrowing stuff from other people, and expecting people who own cars to "give you a lift".
No and no. Try again.
You call everybody else selfish, but you're the most selfish of all... not only won't you pay your own way, but you're pissed off when people object to your selfishness.
Actually, I'm pretty adamant about paying my own way. And I make it a point to share what I have with others.
I realize you won't understand how selfish you are; that's the funny part about people like you. You think you're normal, when you're actually a fucking leach.
I would be the last person on earth to claim that I'm normal, though not for any of your fictional reasons.
No wonder you don't have friends (only potential suckers and marks who haven't gotten sick of your leeching.... yet).
I've got plenty of friends actually. Thanks for your concern though.
do something useful with it rather than waste it on people who won't even say thank you."
My guess is this would only be a problem if the people living in the building are a bunch of assholes like you and the rest of your ilk posting here. Yeah, there's probably a whole lot of other more personally beneficial things the guy could choose to do, but he decides to do something nice for his neighbors and he's a leper? Here's a newsflash for ya: not everybody is a selfish prick like you.
People like you are what's wrong with the world. FOAD.
He's a moderate Republican...
Sorry dude, you lost your credibility right there. You need to re-calibrate your definitions of liberal and conservative if you consider this man to be a moderate.
And as another poster pointed out, the state you're looking for is Pennsylvania.
Probably from people unintentionally installing their spyware, thus sending traffic to their site and artificially boosting their numbers. I highly doubt all that traffic is because their dishonest business practices are so popular...
Yeah, a suit may happen, but I doubt it would get very far. I think all Apple has to do is show they are taking good-faith efforts to correct the defects and the case would lose, and since lawyers are usually paid out of the award in class action suits, I really can't see one jumping at the bit to take on this one.
Of course, I could be all wrong on this. Standard disclaimer applies: IANAL (but IAALS).
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the joke whizzing right over your head...
For the most part I would agree with your commentary, but what if we add a little twist to the story: instead of just turning in the paper you wrote for the previous class, what if you used it as a starting point for the second assignment? Would it still be wrong to build off of the work that you had done previously, so long as you put substantial effort into updating and expanding on the original? Personally, I don't think so, but it is within the realm of possibility that if there is enough of the original left in the re-written version, it would get tagged by a anti-plagiarism system.
If you really think that GE food has been tested and approved by the FDA, you're seriously deluding yourself. The FDA considers GE foods to be substantially equivalent to conventionally grown foods, hence why they do not require any labeling or real testing. The only real regulation is that you can't use genes from certain foods with significant allergenic properties (i.e., peanuts) in your experimentation with our food supply.
In this iLife/Express/Pro product matrix for audio and video, I wonder where this leaves Soundtrack.
The glue that holds it all together?
While I would guess that the hack to play them under linux is indubitably a DMCA violation, it wouldn't necessarily be to play them back under Windows or Mac versions of VLC - I think it has more to do with the method one uses to play the files back. Breaking the encryption key is illegal - but calling a program library that is designed to unlock it wouldn't be. So under XP or OS X, all that VLC has to do is call the quicktime library that unlocks the files and all is good, but of course under linux that's not possible.
I believe they have not yet licensed their DRM to anybody else. However, on either Windows or on a Mac with Quicktime (which actually handles the DRM functions), you can write software that will play the DRM'd files. I suppose it's only a matter of time before somebody writes one that builds on the script the DeCSS guy wrote to remove the DRM wrapper so that said hypothetical program could easily transfer the files to a portable player.