I don't personally agree with making sex offenders do that, but I can see how it can be a good idea in certain cases. I think they also have levels for how dangerous a sex offender is to a community, and one thing that I really find crazy is that some sex offenders are actually forced to go door to door in their new neighborhood and say "Howdy! My name is Bill and I'm a registered sex offender, I hope we can have a great relationship as neighbors!" That might just be in the movies though, Lebowski fan here.:)
As for the beer, sorry, but I'm not 21 quite yet.:D
You didn't realize that I was responding to exactly what the poster put there -- I admit that I did go off topic if he/she was talking about privacy for users of this software, and if I missed the target, I'm sorry. For the record, whatever the software developer wants to ask of it's users I don't really care, you can take it or not, nobody's forcing you to pay for it. I think they are being a little rude to Gentoo users, though.
The parent post was pretty ambiguous, it helps to clarify.
I don't know if this is a troll or not but everybody has a right to privacy, at least in America. You can't just strip someone of their fundamental rights just because they were found guilty of a crime (Note how you simply said criminals, so that's ambiguous), because they (Or at least they should've) did their time already if they were convicted. Besides, people are falsely accused and convicted on a regular basis.
Dunno why I'm responding to an anon, but what the hell, I'm bored.:)
Well gee, I wonder why middle-class white kids purchase the most hip-hop records? Maybe because they have the most exposure to resources such as MTV and usually pay attention to what's new on the radio. Not to mention middle-class white kids have more money for buying CDs. It's all economics.
Unless you're trying to imply that hip-hop should be limited to black fans only, but that's just silly.
What AOL should do is release a transitional client w/the Gecko rendering engine, side-by-side with the Internet Explorer one. That way, users could decide during installation if they want to use the Gecko rendering engine (Marked as EXPERIMENTAL for the reason of some incompatible websites may refuse to load/function properly if it's designed for Internet Explorer only) or Internet Explorer.
Of course it wouldn't be some instant and insane adoption by the masses, but the few users of the then-EXPERIMENTAL Gecko enging AOL would be encouraged to send in feedback about what works and what doesn't. Basically, AOL would work towards eventually ditching the now-dead (It might as well be for AOL, Microsoft isn't going to be developing Internet Explorer any further, outside of Longhorn development. I doubt AOL is going to become a Longhorn-only outfit) IE engine and start developing their Netscape browser as if it were a serious project (I like it as it is but it needs much more active development). Add speed, add features, remove bloat, and maybe, down the line, adopt Firefox as the AOL browser. They could call it the AOL TopSpeed Browser or something equally lame like that to go along with their recent marketing campaign.
When I encode my albums in OGG it's -q7 all the way.;)
Probably not necessary yet since I still have to upgrade my audio from a SoundBlaster Live! Value. Eying an Audigy 2 or Terratec 7.1 Space card, and then some nice headphones. Got some Sony MDR-V300 headphones right now, wanna upgrade those, too.
In case you can't tell, I'm not a regular iTunes user either, and unless I misunderstand the iTunes website, it's not subscription-based. I was thinking about some other service I test-drove for a bit.
Who's to say that a song is a "premium" song in the first place, I wonder?
If by "premium" you mean it's been a single with radio play, then shit boy, let's see here. 4x3 for a good album with songs that have a reasonable amount of singles on it (And on the music I listen to, I consider all of it to be premium, otherwise I wouldn't listen to it or consider purchasing it), that makes the price 12 dollars already for those 3 tracks. Add 10 regular songs which sounds pretty reasonable to me, that means a CD could run you as much as 22 bucks online, with less ability to do what you want with it than a CD.
I understand that it's probably not something you spent days and days thinking about, but really, it just wouldn't work. You think people are mad about paying 16-18 bucks for a CD, think about how angry they'll be when their favorite album would cost them more online when it costs less to distribute it online, AND it's a subscription-based service.
Subscription-based services can only survive so long as they're selling things for less than you can get it elsewhere so as to attract as many customers as possible. Otherwise there would be no point, as far as I can see.
What does being socially liberal have to do with being a good target for recruitment into a terrorist cell? Just curious because terrorism is actually driven in part by a hatred towards America's liberal image put forth by Hollywood and thusly exported to the corners of the Earth. Not to mention the whole foreign policy thing. Remember that many of the terrorists we're fighting these days are religious fundamentalists, who just so happen to have ideals which many people would consider conservative, especially when it comes to social issues.
If I went off the handle here about what you said feel free to let me know.;)
By the way, I meant to keep that firewall proggie on a CD-R/CD-RW disc, hehe. If you use a CD-R, of course, it would probably be a good idea to put some other useful proggies you install before anything else.:)
Keep a copy of ZoneAlarm or some other free firewall program to put onto any Windows 2000 installation.
When I do Windows XP installations, I never enable internet connections by default, and after the first boot is done, it's a simple task to enable the Windows XP firewall, get the device an IP, and then run Windows Update.
Last time I checked KaZaA was supposedly a de-centralized P2P service, so Sharman Networks does not run the servers. And since when do people do anything but freeload off the FastTrack (KaZaA) network? It's not like you pay for jack unless you're one of those loons that bought the official KaZaA Media Desktop.
Basically Sharman's getting pissed because people don't have to use their crapass spyware-filled client anymore, and they don't seem to interested in simply booting third-party clients, either, by modifying the network in some way (If that's at all possible).
KCEasy bundles all of giFT and makes it much easier to get online using OpenFT, Gnutella, and up until a few days ago FastTrack. I don't know of any other Windows client that made it as easy as installing the program and everything works like a charm out of the package. It took me about 15 minutes to setup Apollon in Linux, and I never did figure out giFToxic.
I believe KCEasy is open sourced, so it wouldn't be that hard to create a modified version that has FastTrack support and was distributed via Gnutella or maybe ed2k network. Bittorrent, even? Meh.
I realize that Christ's teachings are what you're apparently all about, but you simply cannot say "Yeah but look at all this instead, this is all good stuff!"
I don't understand why you're shrugging off what your God himself stated.
Again, if you'd look at Christian teaching it would tell you that war is only justified when it is absolutely necessary for defending oneself from an imminent threat.
Yeah, sure.
Deut 13:6 states "if your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, daughter, the wife of your bosom or the friend of your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "let us go and serve other gods" which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the people that are around you whether near or far, from one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him, but you shall kill him. Your hand shall be the first against him to kill him and after that the others can strike him"
Check out this page here for some more interesting tidbits, especially the "Attitude to War" section.
I'm not trying to rail on Christians, one of my best friends is a Catholic and we've been friends since the days I hated Christians. I've been past that for a few years now and in fact have gone to church events w/friends. However, I take offense to you acting like the Bible's not full of contradiction after contradiction. It's bull, you simply cannot act like the Bible doesn't have it's fair share of warmongering, hatred of people, religions, and ideas.
"When I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders" Deut 32:41-42 -- Damn that sounds like fun. Also a really good passage to cite in support of war.
Yeah the real problem I see with Konqueror's adoption is that people are just way, way too intimidated by the flooding of options that KDE developers offer in the same place. There should be specialized configuration dialogs.
Don't neuter the program or make it so that you have to delve into a config file, just organize things a little better. I hate to say it, but imitating Firefox's look-and-feel is the best thing Konq developers could do at this point. The engine rocks, I love Konqueror, but I admit that when most people see me setting it up or making changes to the config, they're like WTF is going on here?
NOTE: I mention KDE developers because KDE suffers the exact same criticism, it's not Konq-exclusive, unfortunately.
Look buddy, you still have to load the new stuff on the old Windows system, and in the case of fonts (Which this particular mini-discussion _was_ about), tell me, how do you enable ClearType in any Windows OS other than XP and any post-XP (2k3, Longhorn) OSes/projects. Windows 98SE did not come with ClearType fonts, jerk. Nor did Windows ME or 2k.
As far as I know, there is no operating system that magically develops/adapts itself over time, making itself better without the user or a developer needing to do anything. Just because your preferred distro is antiquated doesn't mean the Free/OSS community hasn't addressed a particular issue plaguing you. It's not about it being a user-end problem, it's about being realistic.
Personally, I havn't had to deal with ugly fonts in Linux for a long, long while. But hey, maybe I'm just spoiled on using recent software.
Distributions put these things together for end-users to enjoy, and any recently updated distro worth it's beans has either Gnome 2.4 or the Bitstream Vera fonts. In my not-so-humble opinion, they are far superiour to the fonts in Windows. Unfortunately, however, they look pretty horrid in Windows, if you ask me.
Don't you think you're being pretty unreasonable saying Linux w/KDE or Gnome is unsuitable for anything like this (fonts) when it's already been addressed? You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, download a better distro plz.
Right. And the infamous Celerons that were able to O/C to twice their standard clock never existed.
I don't know much about the marketing of CPUs, but it's a simple fact that moderate overclocking doesn't pose a threat to many people's system stability. It's when you go overboard that you run into issues, and it's time to tone it down a bit to see what your maximum safest clock is.
And even if someone does pull a retard and clock WAY over what they should, most motherboards these days come with burn-proof technology that monitors the CPU and will perform whatever task you tell it to (I dunno myself since I don't bother with that stuff. Little crazy that I don't, maybe, but I just havn't really had any issues when I did O/C) when it's overheating.
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I don't personally agree with making sex offenders do that, but I can see how it can be a good idea in certain cases. I think they also have levels for how dangerous a sex offender is to a community, and one thing that I really find crazy is that some sex offenders are actually forced to go door to door in their new neighborhood and say "Howdy! My name is Bill and I'm a registered sex offender, I hope we can have a great relationship as neighbors!" That might just be in the movies though, Lebowski fan here. :)
:D
As for the beer, sorry, but I'm not 21 quite yet.
You didn't realize that I was responding to exactly what the poster put there -- I admit that I did go off topic if he/she was talking about privacy for users of this software, and if I missed the target, I'm sorry. For the record, whatever the software developer wants to ask of it's users I don't really care, you can take it or not, nobody's forcing you to pay for it. I think they are being a little rude to Gentoo users, though.
The parent post was pretty ambiguous, it helps to clarify.
I don't know if this is a troll or not but everybody has a right to privacy, at least in America. You can't just strip someone of their fundamental rights just because they were found guilty of a crime (Note how you simply said criminals, so that's ambiguous), because they (Or at least they should've) did their time already if they were convicted. Besides, people are falsely accused and convicted on a regular basis.
:)
Dunno why I'm responding to an anon, but what the hell, I'm bored.
Well gee, I wonder why middle-class white kids purchase the most hip-hop records? Maybe because they have the most exposure to resources such as MTV and usually pay attention to what's new on the radio. Not to mention middle-class white kids have more money for buying CDs. It's all economics.
Unless you're trying to imply that hip-hop should be limited to black fans only, but that's just silly.
What AOL should do is release a transitional client w/the Gecko rendering engine, side-by-side with the Internet Explorer one. That way, users could decide during installation if they want to use the Gecko rendering engine (Marked as EXPERIMENTAL for the reason of some incompatible websites may refuse to load/function properly if it's designed for Internet Explorer only) or Internet Explorer.
Of course it wouldn't be some instant and insane adoption by the masses, but the few users of the then-EXPERIMENTAL Gecko enging AOL would be encouraged to send in feedback about what works and what doesn't. Basically, AOL would work towards eventually ditching the now-dead (It might as well be for AOL, Microsoft isn't going to be developing Internet Explorer any further, outside of Longhorn development. I doubt AOL is going to become a Longhorn-only outfit) IE engine and start developing their Netscape browser as if it were a serious project (I like it as it is but it needs much more active development). Add speed, add features, remove bloat, and maybe, down the line, adopt Firefox as the AOL browser. They could call it the AOL TopSpeed Browser or something equally lame like that to go along with their recent marketing campaign.
When I encode my albums in OGG it's -q7 all the way. ;)
Probably not necessary yet since I still have to upgrade my audio from a SoundBlaster Live! Value. Eying an Audigy 2 or Terratec 7.1 Space card, and then some nice headphones. Got some Sony MDR-V300 headphones right now, wanna upgrade those, too.
In case you can't tell, I'm not a regular iTunes user either, and unless I misunderstand the iTunes website, it's not subscription-based. I was thinking about some other service I test-drove for a bit.
Who's to say that a song is a "premium" song in the first place, I wonder?
If by "premium" you mean it's been a single with radio play, then shit boy, let's see here. 4x3 for a good album with songs that have a reasonable amount of singles on it (And on the music I listen to, I consider all of it to be premium, otherwise I wouldn't listen to it or consider purchasing it), that makes the price 12 dollars already for those 3 tracks. Add 10 regular songs which sounds pretty reasonable to me, that means a CD could run you as much as 22 bucks online, with less ability to do what you want with it than a CD.
I understand that it's probably not something you spent days and days thinking about, but really, it just wouldn't work. You think people are mad about paying 16-18 bucks for a CD, think about how angry they'll be when their favorite album would cost them more online when it costs less to distribute it online, AND it's a subscription-based service.
Subscription-based services can only survive so long as they're selling things for less than you can get it elsewhere so as to attract as many customers as possible. Otherwise there would be no point, as far as I can see.
What does being socially liberal have to do with being a good target for recruitment into a terrorist cell? Just curious because terrorism is actually driven in part by a hatred towards America's liberal image put forth by Hollywood and thusly exported to the corners of the Earth. Not to mention the whole foreign policy thing. Remember that many of the terrorists we're fighting these days are religious fundamentalists, who just so happen to have ideals which many people would consider conservative, especially when it comes to social issues.
If I went off the handle here about what you said feel free to let me know. ;)
By the way, I meant to keep that firewall proggie on a CD-R/CD-RW disc, hehe. If you use a CD-R, of course, it would probably be a good idea to put some other useful proggies you install before anything else. :)
Keep a copy of ZoneAlarm or some other free firewall program to put onto any Windows 2000 installation.
When I do Windows XP installations, I never enable internet connections by default, and after the first boot is done, it's a simple task to enable the Windows XP firewall, get the device an IP, and then run Windows Update.
The process hasn't failed me quite yet.
Last time I checked KaZaA was supposedly a de-centralized P2P service, so Sharman Networks does not run the servers. And since when do people do anything but freeload off the FastTrack (KaZaA) network? It's not like you pay for jack unless you're one of those loons that bought the official KaZaA Media Desktop.
Basically Sharman's getting pissed because people don't have to use their crapass spyware-filled client anymore, and they don't seem to interested in simply booting third-party clients, either, by modifying the network in some way (If that's at all possible).
KCEasy bundles all of giFT and makes it much easier to get online using OpenFT, Gnutella, and up until a few days ago FastTrack. I don't know of any other Windows client that made it as easy as installing the program and everything works like a charm out of the package. It took me about 15 minutes to setup Apollon in Linux, and I never did figure out giFToxic.
I believe KCEasy is open sourced, so it wouldn't be that hard to create a modified version that has FastTrack support and was distributed via Gnutella or maybe ed2k network. Bittorrent, even? Meh.
How about this -- The sound lags by 1-2 seconds, it's an acknowledged issue, yet Macromedia has done nothing to fix it.
Quite annoying when trying to watch Trogdor burninate the countryside and the audio's out of synch with the video.
"I am the LORD, I change not" Malachi 3:6
I realize that Christ's teachings are what you're apparently all about, but you simply cannot say "Yeah but look at all this instead, this is all good stuff!"
I don't understand why you're shrugging off what your God himself stated.
Again, if you'd look at Christian teaching it would tell you that war is only justified when it is absolutely necessary for defending oneself from an imminent threat.
Yeah, sure.
Deut 13:6 states "if your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, daughter, the wife of your bosom or the friend of your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, "let us go and serve other gods" which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the people that are around you whether near or far, from one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him, but you shall kill him. Your hand shall be the first against him to kill him and after that the others can strike him"
Check out this page here for some more interesting tidbits, especially the "Attitude to War" section.
I'm not trying to rail on Christians, one of my best friends is a Catholic and we've been friends since the days I hated Christians. I've been past that for a few years now and in fact have gone to church events w/friends. However, I take offense to you acting like the Bible's not full of contradiction after contradiction. It's bull, you simply cannot act like the Bible doesn't have it's fair share of warmongering, hatred of people, religions, and ideas.
"When I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders" Deut 32:41-42 -- Damn that sounds like fun. Also a really good passage to cite in support of war.
I'd like to see a web browser that's integrated into the Linux kernel. ;)
The desktop (Or, in this case, a desktop) is not the OS, remember that.
Yeah the real problem I see with Konqueror's adoption is that people are just way, way too intimidated by the flooding of options that KDE developers offer in the same place. There should be specialized configuration dialogs.
Don't neuter the program or make it so that you have to delve into a config file, just organize things a little better. I hate to say it, but imitating Firefox's look-and-feel is the best thing Konq developers could do at this point. The engine rocks, I love Konqueror, but I admit that when most people see me setting it up or making changes to the config, they're like WTF is going on here?
NOTE: I mention KDE developers because KDE suffers the exact same criticism, it's not Konq-exclusive, unfortunately.
Mayhaps it's been a while since I've fooled around in my Gentoo system.
I think your system clock is slow a few days, bud. :)
That's not what I meant. What I meant is that ClearType is not available to users of Pre-XP Windows OSes.
I guess I should've dropped the "fonts" off the end of ClearType.
Look buddy, you still have to load the new stuff on the old Windows system, and in the case of fonts (Which this particular mini-discussion _was_ about), tell me, how do you enable ClearType in any Windows OS other than XP and any post-XP (2k3, Longhorn) OSes/projects. Windows 98SE did not come with ClearType fonts, jerk. Nor did Windows ME or 2k.
As far as I know, there is no operating system that magically develops/adapts itself over time, making itself better without the user or a developer needing to do anything. Just because your preferred distro is antiquated doesn't mean the Free/OSS community hasn't addressed a particular issue plaguing you. It's not about it being a user-end problem, it's about being realistic.
Personally, I havn't had to deal with ugly fonts in Linux for a long, long while. But hey, maybe I'm just spoiled on using recent software.
Distributions.
Distributions put these things together for end-users to enjoy, and any recently updated distro worth it's beans has either Gnome 2.4 or the Bitstream Vera fonts. In my not-so-humble opinion, they are far superiour to the fonts in Windows. Unfortunately, however, they look pretty horrid in Windows, if you ask me.
Don't you think you're being pretty unreasonable saying Linux w/KDE or Gnome is unsuitable for anything like this (fonts) when it's already been addressed? You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, download a better distro plz.
And who are you, exactly, to be saying anyone's life is a waste of life?
Right. And the infamous Celerons that were able to O/C to twice their standard clock never existed.
I don't know much about the marketing of CPUs, but it's a simple fact that moderate overclocking doesn't pose a threat to many people's system stability. It's when you go overboard that you run into issues, and it's time to tone it down a bit to see what your maximum safest clock is.
And even if someone does pull a retard and clock WAY over what they should, most motherboards these days come with burn-proof technology that monitors the CPU and will perform whatever task you tell it to (I dunno myself since I don't bother with that stuff. Little crazy that I don't, maybe, but I just havn't really had any issues when I did O/C) when it's overheating.