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  1. Re:Finger in the dyke... on Demonoid Torrent Tracker Shut Down by CRIA · · Score: 1

    Argh, it's down? I had a couple of precious things I wanted but where to lazy to start fetching, crap :(

    Today is a sad day for an OS X user ;D

  2. Re:Is this really different from the RIAA or MPAA? on GPL Lawsuit May Not Settle · · Score: 1

    Less work and a better product if nothing else.

    (Easier to sync with the open version and get new features and if you can just use the open one and support it yourself and others use and develop for it aswell it will become better.)

    But if they don't like it they are free to not submit any changes back aswell of course, and there are no troubles with that either.

  3. Re:True, however ... on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    Someone who says that one should stay away from iTunes doesn't know the difference in name of the application and the actual store, big deal ..

  4. Re:True, however ... on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    I don't know if good and cheap mix to well. But iAudio D2 or 7?
    I don't know how sound quality is from iRiver T50 and T60 but they may be alternatives aswell, better if you want buttons for jogging or whatever. Or iRiver Clix 2 instead of the D2 for touch screen.

    Samsung YP-Z5 is a nice player aswell but the keys aren't that great.

  5. Re:True, however ... on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    Don't you worry, http://thepiratebay.org/ has europe covered, and they deliver to everyone else aswell ;D

  6. Re:True, however ... on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure the majority of the people complaining about DRM won't buy music without it either, I'm sure as hell won't.

    So that makes the whole point of listening to me regarding DRM music quite useless.

  7. Re:I'm not trying to defend NBC...your math is bad on NBC to Offer Free Video Download Service · · Score: 1

    lol, they must be really retarded then, because I wouldn't even pay 2 dollar for an episode of a tv-serie, thought it's close to what I probably could have paid if I missed one and really needed to see it. 5 dollar are retarded, you get a whole movie for that and it's not worth to pay that just to get rid of commercials.

    Why shouldn't people just buy a tvcard and record all the series and watch them when they want to instead?

    How many episodes are Prison Break? (Of of the series which might be worth having.), 20? 40 dollar probably buys you the whole box with extra content. 100 dollar is so stupid that I can't even makeup something to compare it with!

  8. Re:Apple's Offering? on The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Yeah, personally I prefered Claris Works on Apple Classics and LC IIs before Works (5.0?) on Win 3.11 anyway ;D

  9. Re:service pack on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    I've been a Linux user since 1995 aswell and I think the latest Ubuntu release is the first to not even be able to launch the Installer ;D

    (Hurray for livecds!)

    I installed Debian for the small task where I needed Linux.

  10. Re:Windows is the domain of the incompetent on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    I came here to check those urls and later bash the applications because they where so simple and limited, but them seems really decent, I guess for someone like me who just wanna fiddle around with it at home they are enough, and for someone who can use them maybe more than that.

    I've tried inkscape some time but couldn't get it to work much, but that may have been more a problem with me than the software ;D

    The image editing tool seems quite cool, and the later drawing program aswell, thought I guess the first one may not be as powerful as lightroom or aperture it seems easy to use and more powerful than say iPhoto.

    Thanks for the URLs, I've added them all to my delicious account.

  11. Re:Windows is the domain of the incompetent on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    Isn't Vista doing decent in the security regard? And you can also use a firewall, antivirus, antispyware and not behave retarded while using the system.

  12. How to buy a mac on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

    1) Only buy the system when it has been recently updated.
    2) The cheapest one are probably most worth it, 24" iMac is an exception.
    3) Don't add any options.
    4) DON'T BUY THE FUCKING BLACK MACBOOK.
    5) Use education discount, free iPod, ADC student / other pay ADC if possible.

    And your other desktop system are probably not close to the iMac in design, quality and expandibiliy sure.

  13. Re:Plug Shape on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the reason was to make a fat / flat one of almost the same size but no mini-one then.

  14. Re:Why the License on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 1

    Over here in Sweden we have a law to protect peoples personal information which also covers (I think it's the same law atleast) spreading photos on the Internet. Basicly you aren't allowed to spread a photo where someone can be identified without that persons permission. I guess that would have worked here if used, but in any case if they had asked Virgin to not use the photo wouldn't they have agreed on it?

    Anyway it's still the copyright of the photographer so it's up to that person to decide how to license it.

  15. Re:Whew on Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time · · Score: 1

    As a pirate all I can say is that I would never buy a console and therefor no games if I couldn't copy games on it in the first place, so while I'm enjoying the information there's noone losing money on me.

    I haven't downloaded movies in a long time but if I did I guess someone might lose "some" money because I guess I could occasional had rented one.

    Music are to expensive and worthless to buy, and there are so much free and great music out there (last.fm and scenemusic.eu for two resources.)

    Of course I also pirate software, but that is because I sometimes feel it might had been good with whatever was the greatest title in it's category, I wouldn't buy it however. I might had buy some Shareware thought, since prices are better on that, but most shareware things are so simple anyway.

  16. Re:Glad the issue is getting some priority, but .. on Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I had used opera every now and then earlier but then Ubuntu where retarded enough to stick to firefox 1.0.7 instead of 1.5 even thought it leaked memory as hell I where angry enough of it's 1.5GB of allocated memory so I switched to Opera and haven't and probably never will look back .. Opera after 8.52 rocks.

  17. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    I'm sure real terrorists would wear the bomb showing!

  18. Re:Incorrect Summary on Apple's Leopard Will Exclude 800MHz G4 Processors · · Score: 1

    And you would run multiple apps on a mac with 512MB ram and Leopard?

  19. Re:Bad News For Macs on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 1

    Ok, started it up now and indeed it doesn't say pro before the swedish version of "use fullscreen", it does before save, save as, export, share and a lot of other things thought. But the fullscreen one where the most disturbing one I guess.

    (I had wc3 screenshots on TGA (targa?) and I wanted them in JPG and my mac got a very limited amount of software, Quicktime could open the images but it didn't let me save them in another format .. So there is why I was hit by that limitation.)

  20. Re:So let me get this straight... on Apple Platform Lock-Ins, A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion · · Score: 1

    English isn't my native language.

  21. Re:So let me get this straight... on Apple Platform Lock-Ins, A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion · · Score: 1

    K, not many of my friends have macs, sort of noone (I got this one 3.5 week ago, my friends gf got a Macbook a halfyear-year ago and another friends gf where thinking about getting one. But I think that is all, weird how only girlfriends get them ;D)

    I tried to convince my sister to get a macbook when she bought her laptop but she's cheap (no, not the way you'd like to think) and wanted something she could use, used in school and there nothing was "different", so no mac for her :(

    I know a lot of people with PCs thought ;D, and very many PCs then aswell ;D

    (I know quite a few people wth macs which I doesn't know IRL aswell, but I don't count those.)

  22. Re:Bad News For Macs on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 1

    Not that it would matter if iTunes where part of iLife since all mac users get it and it's installed from the begining anyway. But it doesn't seem to be part of iLife:
    http://www.apple.com/ilife/

    In Windows iTunes and Quicktime comes in one package so .. And iTunes and Quicktime are installed on all macs (it was on my hack without iLife aswell.)
    Thought it's a lame ass version of Quicktime which doesn't even allow you to save files or go fullscreen, because then you have to pay for pro!

    Not that I care about lots of utilities, I even WANT them, but if people complain on Windows there are other OSes which does it aswell. Also where do you draw a line between an OS utility and an application?

    OS without browser would be fine for me, if there was a decent way to get one =p, in Windows and OS X that may be to tricky, but in any Linux dist/BSD it's an easy thing to do.

    iMovie 06 HD is a free download for iLife 08 users.

  23. Re:Fallacious argument on Lost Odyssey To Span Four DVDs · · Score: 1

    Still I have like 180 .. err.. games for my cube, which I sort of haven't played, and uhm.. gigs of.. uhm.. information for my DS, so I have enough games to play already if I wanted to.

    Sure I would prefer a chiped Wii and sell the cube, but it's still expensive and I doubt the few existing games are worth it in experience compared to all the games I already have.

    I can get a wii 3 years from now instead ;D

  24. Re:Bad News For Macs on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OS X comes with Safari and Quicktime and Itunes, how is that better than IE and Windows media player?

    Or well, how they are better I already know, but you understand my question ;D

  25. Re:Bad News For Macs on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 1

    Exactly, Apple wouldn't like this at all, but it would be a major win for the consumers and I'm sure "NONE" would complain (I'm sure retards who don't know to install an OS would at the begining..)

    I guess they can't force companies to write drivers, and since OS X requires EFI it will still only run on a mac, atleast if they aren't forced to remove the encrypted binaries.