uh Vector linux has been out much longer than this and its had Firebird AND its minimalist. Just cause the guys who made the distro didnt mention that damn book they dont get on the main./ page. How moronic
Not only will they shut you off but they wont tell you specifically WHY they shut you off. Just that you were 'abusing the system' and 'hindering others access to the service'. So technically you can use all the p2p you want you'll just get trashed when you use up the oh so big pipe they have for you and 21 of your neighbours.
Honestly think about it though 'Longhorn' has its browser so entangled in the system that they wont develop IE further. So how much do you wanna bet that the MSN toolbar will be installed automatically with MSN Messenger and the home page of IE will point straight to the MSN page. People wont install a 'new' google toolbar when the MSN one is installed by default. Users dont like change and if MS put it in then it must be usefull/good right?
Its better than having your operating system ( made in you native language ) made by a corporation which contributes very little to your nation. Also keep in mind that Linux worked on the Linux Kernel while in school. Anyway, i know your making a joke but it erked me.
yea a car is a REAL good analogy. Ive never bought a car used it for 3 days ( only one part of the car though ) and then never touched it again. The point being made is that when you buy a CD for 17 bucks youre paying for all the extra crap the record company needs money for ( payola comes to mind, so do lawsuits sent to 12 and 70 yo ). But to be honest, im not going to buy a CD for only a few songs. Most people see all these record franchises with fancy displays and Huge stores on broadway. Most people see britney spears and justin timberlake taking million dollar vacations after their break up. If i was able to buy a CD for a few dollars ( 2 - 3 bucks ) then maybe i wouldnt download music, who knows. What i do know is that the record companies are WAY over charging for their products. We all know how much it costs to make a CD. ( And dont give me studio equipment cost bull, they use programs now instead of multi million dollar sound boards ). We've all heard the music before, we've mostly learned that a CD of 15 tracks has 2 or 3 good tracks. The RIAA is fighting a loosing battle. I know im off topic and ranting. But then again it doesnt matter what i think. I can download anything i want in good ole Canada. ( Thank god for levies ). So maybe even if CD prices dropped i wouldnt buy em cause technically ive already paid for em!
in all reality do you really need the cd? If you rip it to mp3 and store it on your harddrive what are you doing thats illegal? No different then making a tape copy of the CD. Then if you share the mp3s of the CDs you own your not breaking the law ( IANAL by any means ). So Technically speaking if you downloading songs from iTunes and shared them on kazaa your not breaking the law.Am i right or way off?
SO, a movie costs $100m to make and you're still crying over the 20 million over $100m they make opening weekend. (And so what if a million individuals didnt go see the movie? That pays for what? One of the over paid actors? Wow i REALLY feel bad now. Besides, your taking my statements to the extreme. ( Except for Exon Mobil, they do make billions [in profits] and they shouldnt ). When IBM makes 10 Billion they spend it on research or other projects. When Walmart makes 10 billion they use it to make more stores, buy more products. Its not like im ever going to go to walmart, buy a vacume for 13.50 ( even though its worth 7.50 ) use it for 2 hours and never touch it again. But even if that was the case with that vacume i have the option of returning it because it sucks or it doesnt work. Your analogies sucked. Try something else.
do you honestly feel sorry for the actors loosing money? Cause in all honesty i couldnt give a rats ass if Tom Cruise cant buy his 5th beach house this year cause i downloaded the 'Last Samurai'. In all honesty i cant really take those anti-piracy comercials seiously cause when i see em they're on infront of the bick Blockbusters. So as Matrix Reloaded sets records for the amount of money it made in a weekend this guy is telling that his job is at risk. HMMMmmmm.
And please dont try to tell youve NEVER watched a pirated movie or listened to a burned CD. If you went to the dentist and they were playing a CD you had a part in piracy ( according to the RIAA ). But i digress. It just makes me angry to think that as blockbuster movis are setting new records for the most money made in a single weekend ever im supposed to feel bad. Whats $13.50 CDN compared to 300 million dollars. Thats 0.000000045% Wow, do i feel bad now..GM
key word being *modded* which is grey area at best. This system is legit and requires no modding. Yes i love my XBMP but i would have rather had a system that was just easy and didnt take up more room than my receiver.( the xbox is HUGE ).
I hate to say it but i agree. As i read this article i started thinking the author must have slept with his copy of halo. I mean he was almost spraying seminal fluid over the game. Yea it was an entertaining game, but it wasnt THAT good. I didnt play and think "This game has just revolutionized consoles", i thought "Didnt i just play this level". It just seemed to me that Microsoft was stroking their own wang with this article to drum up support for the lacking Xbox. Just a thought.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you. -- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of
Lisa Simpson"
wasnt there a study that said the GDP in the states dropped because of episode one fanboys?
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i think the thing i enjoy so much about Stephensons writting is that its actually a challenge to read at times. You read a micheal chrichton book or robin cook and its like reading a comic book. To me its like the difference between watching a program on Discovery and watching Power Rangers. You might enjoy non-intelligent writing that doesnt actually push you but there are those of us who enjoy it.
Yea okay, what about the dead people? When do they get to come back? Oh wait, they don't cause these kids fucking murdered them. So because the american prison system is fucked up we should let them be? Im all for rehab, put im also all for punishement. Isnt that really what prison is for? Everyone says it should be for rehab but thats bullshit to me you comitted a crime you should be PUNISHED for it. What is this kid going to learn by spending a few years in prison "Hey, that wasnt too bad, i killed some people and i have the rest of my life to live".
well, atleast we dont have wastelands like Alabama or any southern states where one could marry their brother/sister. Oh and BTW this model for the future has a higher broadband usage rate than the states ( but thats prolly cause of our low population... )
Problem is they won't attribute the sales dropping to people not buying CD's they'll just say "Well, sales dropped another 30%, looks like more people are pirating CD's online then we thought, get our friends at Washington on the phone."
Thats the problem, no company ( or group of them in this case ) will admit to sales dropping because of customer dissatisfaction. They'll say its because of market trends, because of a recession or because of webcasting etc.
The RIAA isn't Evil in itself. Its just like two drowning men. One is causing the other to drown as he clambers up to the surface. One man dies as the other lives. It just depends which is stronger and which has the greater will to live.
Ok, frankly i cant see how DirectTV is loosing money up here in canada. They dont sell a product up here for them to loose. It would prolly cost more for them to figure out a way to block their signal from getting onto canadian soil then anything else. It shouldnt be the responsability of a Canadian entity to stop americans from viewing the site. Does china shut down sites hosted in the states that talk bad about china? No, they setup a firewall to stop chinese citizens from accessing the site. American corp. doesnt like it? Maybe they should convince the 'FREE' ( HAH! ) states to setup a country wide firewall to stop citizens from accessing information on sites they deem unnacceptable. Just because its illegal in your country doesnt mean you have any jurisdiction in my country!
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uh Vector linux has been out much longer than this and its had Firebird AND its minimalist. Just cause the guys who made the distro didnt mention that damn book they dont get on the main ./ page. How moronic
The only problem is that Lucas wont listen to suggestions about a game from the forums. GC will!
Not only will they shut you off but they wont tell you specifically WHY they shut you off. Just that you were 'abusing the system' and 'hindering others access to the service'. So technically you can use all the p2p you want you'll just get trashed when you use up the oh so big pipe they have for you and 21 of your neighbours.
So i buy an OS, then i have to buy 3rd party applications just to keep it running? Do you see anything wrong in this picture?
Honestly think about it though 'Longhorn' has its browser so entangled in the system that they wont develop IE further. So how much do you wanna bet that the MSN toolbar will be installed automatically with MSN Messenger and the home page of IE will point straight to the MSN page. People wont install a 'new' google toolbar when the MSN one is installed by default. Users dont like change and if MS put it in then it must be usefull/good right?
Its better than having your operating system ( made in you native language ) made by a corporation which contributes very little to your nation. Also keep in mind that Linux worked on the Linux Kernel while in school. Anyway, i know your making a joke but it erked me.
yea a car is a REAL good analogy. Ive never bought a car used it for 3 days ( only one part of the car though ) and then never touched it again. The point being made is that when you buy a CD for 17 bucks youre paying for all the extra crap the record company needs money for ( payola comes to mind, so do lawsuits sent to 12 and 70 yo ). But to be honest, im not going to buy a CD for only a few songs. Most people see all these record franchises with fancy displays and Huge stores on broadway. Most people see britney spears and justin timberlake taking million dollar vacations after their break up. If i was able to buy a CD for a few dollars ( 2 - 3 bucks ) then maybe i wouldnt download music, who knows. What i do know is that the record companies are WAY over charging for their products. We all know how much it costs to make a CD. ( And dont give me studio equipment cost bull, they use programs now instead of multi million dollar sound boards ). We've all heard the music before, we've mostly learned that a CD of 15 tracks has 2 or 3 good tracks. The RIAA is fighting a loosing battle. I know im off topic and ranting. But then again it doesnt matter what i think. I can download anything i want in good ole Canada. ( Thank god for levies ). So maybe even if CD prices dropped i wouldnt buy em cause technically ive already paid for em!
just look at the movies this year. Movies were the 'Year of the sequel' try and name a handfull of blockbusters that werent sequels this year.
in all reality do you really need the cd? If you rip it to mp3 and store it on your harddrive what are you doing thats illegal? No different then making a tape copy of the CD. Then if you share the mp3s of the CDs you own your not breaking the law ( IANAL by any means ). So Technically speaking if you downloading songs from iTunes and shared them on kazaa your not breaking the law.Am i right or way off?
SO, a movie costs $100m to make and you're still crying over the 20 million over $100m they make opening weekend. (And so what if a million individuals didnt go see the movie? That pays for what? One of the over paid actors? Wow i REALLY feel bad now. Besides, your taking my statements to the extreme. ( Except for Exon Mobil, they do make billions [in profits] and they shouldnt ). When IBM makes 10 Billion they spend it on research or other projects. When Walmart makes 10 billion they use it to make more stores, buy more products. Its not like im ever going to go to walmart, buy a vacume for 13.50 ( even though its worth 7.50 ) use it for 2 hours and never touch it again. But even if that was the case with that vacume i have the option of returning it because it sucks or it doesnt work. Your analogies sucked. Try something else.
do you honestly feel sorry for the actors loosing money? Cause in all honesty i couldnt give a rats ass if Tom Cruise cant buy his 5th beach house this year cause i downloaded the 'Last Samurai'. In all honesty i cant really take those anti-piracy comercials seiously cause when i see em they're on infront of the bick Blockbusters. So as Matrix Reloaded sets records for the amount of money it made in a weekend this guy is telling that his job is at risk. HMMMmmmm. And please dont try to tell youve NEVER watched a pirated movie or listened to a burned CD. If you went to the dentist and they were playing a CD you had a part in piracy ( according to the RIAA ). But i digress. It just makes me angry to think that as blockbuster movis are setting new records for the most money made in a single weekend ever im supposed to feel bad. Whats $13.50 CDN compared to 300 million dollars. Thats 0.000000045% Wow, do i feel bad now. .GM
key word being *modded* which is grey area at best. This system is legit and requires no modding. Yes i love my XBMP but i would have rather had a system that was just easy and didnt take up more room than my receiver.( the xbox is HUGE ).
Too bad rent-a-coder is also filled with loosers who want 'PHP website with all the bells and whistles from scratch to my specifications: $150'
I hate to say it but i agree. As i read this article i started thinking the author must have slept with his copy of halo. I mean he was almost spraying seminal fluid over the game. Yea it was an entertaining game, but it wasnt THAT good. I didnt play and think "This game has just revolutionized consoles", i thought "Didnt i just play this level". It just seemed to me that Microsoft was stroking their own wang with this article to drum up support for the lacking Xbox. Just a thought.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Thank you.
-- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of
Lisa Simpson"
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wasnt there a study that said the GDP in the states dropped because of episode one fanboys?
i think the thing i enjoy so much about Stephensons writting is that its actually a challenge to read at times. You read a micheal chrichton book or robin cook and its like reading a comic book. To me its like the difference between watching a program on Discovery and watching Power Rangers. You might enjoy non-intelligent writing that doesnt actually push you but there are those of us who enjoy it.
Yea okay, what about the dead people? When do they get to come back? Oh wait, they don't cause these kids fucking murdered them. So because the american prison system is fucked up we should let them be? Im all for rehab, put im also all for punishement. Isnt that really what prison is for? Everyone says it should be for rehab but thats bullshit to me you comitted a crime you should be PUNISHED for it. What is this kid going to learn by spending a few years in prison
"Hey, that wasnt too bad, i killed some people and i have the rest of my life to live".
well, atleast we dont have wastelands like Alabama or any southern states where one could marry their brother/sister. Oh and BTW this model for the future has a higher broadband usage rate than the states ( but thats prolly cause of our low population... )
I think they need to make a game that follows trogdor on his journey from a man to a Burninator with consumate V's.
thats every adventure game ever made
WOW, if i type windows into MSN i get nothing but microsoft pages.
Problem is they won't attribute the sales dropping to people not buying CD's they'll just say "Well, sales dropped another 30%, looks like more people are pirating CD's online then we thought, get our friends at Washington on the phone."
Thats the problem, no company ( or group of them in this case ) will admit to sales dropping because of customer dissatisfaction. They'll say its because of market trends, because of a recession or because of webcasting etc.
The RIAA isn't Evil in itself. Its just like two drowning men. One is causing the other to drown as he clambers up to the surface. One man dies as the other lives. It just depends which is stronger and which has the greater will to live.
Ok, frankly i cant see how DirectTV is loosing money up here in canada. They dont sell a product up here for them to loose. It would prolly cost more for them to figure out a way to block their signal from getting onto canadian soil then anything else. It shouldnt be the responsability of a Canadian entity to stop americans from viewing the site. Does china shut down sites hosted in the states that talk bad about china? No, they setup a firewall to stop chinese citizens from accessing the site. American corp. doesnt like it? Maybe they should convince the 'FREE' ( HAH! ) states to setup a country wide firewall to stop citizens from accessing information on sites they deem unnacceptable. Just because its illegal in your country doesnt mean you have any jurisdiction in my country!