I guess you've never used an MS keyboard or mouse?
I had a MS keyboard. Fine for a couple months, then got worn out worse than the average generic Chinese piece of junk. Keys jammed, shiny silver coating got smudged, all that crap. A waste of money. If you're not going for an actual high-end keyboard (Unicomp, Das, Cherry), just get the real cheap stuff. Microsoft is a very pointless "middle of the road".
ethical? get over it. it's software. not a religious movement.
Bull. Ethics and politics are the very root, the origin of free software. Richard Stallman did not kickstart the whole thing because he wanted stuff at zero cost, but to help the fellow man!
and even note your own wording. he adopted free software. not open source software.
Note your own: your words say that he adopted libre software, not gratis software, but I suppose you meant it backwards.
Wait, I don't get it. The way I read it, you're dismissing the guy because he adopted free software for its legal, financial, and ethical advantages, rather than its technical advantages. Is there anything wrong with that?
"The Copyright Act's statutory damages provision serves both to compensate and deter. Congress established a scheme to allow copyright holders to elect to receive statutory damages for copyright infringement instead of actual damages and profits because of the difficulty of calculating and proving actual damages."
Damages to WHAT, again? Cry me a fucking river, assholes. They make it sound like someone is actually stealing from someone else... and like copyright is actually a right. Well, no. Go check the US constitution: Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, aka "Copyright Clause". It says copyright exists to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
See? Copyright is not a right. It is not a property. It is not life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is a GOVERNMENT-GRANTED TEMPORARY MONOPOLY. It has a very specific purpose: an incentive to the creation of works of art and science, for the good of society as a whole; the welfare of copyright holders is not - AND SHOULD NOT BE - a concern at all.
Copyright was never "good" per se, more like a "necessary evil" - it is a temporary hindrance to everyone's access to a work of art or science, in exchange to the very existence of that given work. It is ludicrous to think a century-long copyright is an incentive to the creation of more works, therefore one must assume it must be reformed, reversed to a more sensible; but, frankly, I doubt it fulfills its supposed purpose at any length. Therefore it is simply "evil", and ought to be ABOLISHED.
Actually, maybe we're already well into the world of the next sonic revolutionary: Andy Hildebrand, inventor of Auto-Tune.
"Revolutionary"? Let's not mince word, call him a music terrorist! Auto-Tune is next only to dynamic range compression in the turning of modern music into UNLISTENABLE SHIT.
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots
Some ads and product placement make sense in the context of a game. In sports stadiums or racing tracks, they may even ad realism. You just have to do it right.
But a video during a loading screen -- and worse, making it ten seconds longer? That's NOT acceptable.
Hope you got it on LP, cause the mastering is compressed to shit on all the other formats these days, and sounds ghastly...
Sometimes, but too often the LP gets the same crushed shit mastering as the CD. But anyway, that must be another reason for people ceasing to buying music: ALMOST EVERYTHING SOUNDS LIKE SHIT NOWADAYS.
Mind you, these are the people that purposely destroy sound quality. Rather than make a product in which you may be interested, seemingly they want to force you into being interested in whatever they are selling.
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I had a MS keyboard. Fine for a couple months, then got worn out worse than the average generic Chinese piece of junk. Keys jammed, shiny silver coating got smudged, all that crap. A waste of money. If you're not going for an actual high-end keyboard (Unicomp, Das, Cherry), just get the real cheap stuff. Microsoft is a very pointless "middle of the road".
Bull. Ethics and politics are the very root, the origin of free software. Richard Stallman did not kickstart the whole thing because he wanted stuff at zero cost, but to help the fellow man!
Note your own: your words say that he adopted libre software, not gratis software, but I suppose you meant it backwards.
Well, I use one to play video games.
Because the GMA 950 is a sad joke of a video card? :P
Because BSD is dying, Netcraft has confirmed it!
Wait, I don't get it. The way I read it, you're dismissing the guy because he adopted free software for its legal, financial, and ethical advantages, rather than its technical advantages. Is there anything wrong with that?
Keep in mind, MS owns Bungie...
Damages to WHAT, again? Cry me a fucking river, assholes. They make it sound like someone is actually stealing from someone else... and like copyright is actually a right. Well, no. Go check the US constitution: Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, aka "Copyright Clause". It says copyright exists to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
See? Copyright is not a right. It is not a property. It is not life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is a GOVERNMENT-GRANTED TEMPORARY MONOPOLY. It has a very specific purpose: an incentive to the creation of works of art and science, for the good of society as a whole; the welfare of copyright holders is not - AND SHOULD NOT BE - a concern at all.
Copyright was never "good" per se, more like a "necessary evil" - it is a temporary hindrance to everyone's access to a work of art or science, in exchange to the very existence of that given work. It is ludicrous to think a century-long copyright is an incentive to the creation of more works, therefore one must assume it must be reformed, reversed to a more sensible; but, frankly, I doubt it fulfills its supposed purpose at any length. Therefore it is simply "evil", and ought to be ABOLISHED.
Wow! Dancing and fighting at the same time!
"Revolutionary"? Let's not mince word, call him a music terrorist! Auto-Tune is next only to dynamic range compression in the turning of modern music into UNLISTENABLE SHIT.
Why?
Actually, he's not the dad. Here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2435283.ece
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots
Given the recent news, he doesn't seem to have much of a clue about Internet-related business.
...nothing of value was lost.
Some ads and product placement make sense in the context of a game. In sports stadiums or racing tracks, they may even ad realism. You just have to do it right.
But a video during a loading screen -- and worse, making it ten seconds longer? That's NOT acceptable.
AFAIK, they often use the same squashed mastering, just turned down a bit.
Don't be selfish. If you have good stuff, start a torrent of it!
Sometimes, but too often the LP gets the same crushed shit mastering as the CD. But anyway, that must be another reason for people ceasing to buying music: ALMOST EVERYTHING SOUNDS LIKE SHIT NOWADAYS.
NeXT bought Apple for minus $429 million.
Mind you, these are the people that purposely destroy sound quality. Rather than make a product in which you may be interested, seemingly they want to force you into being interested in whatever they are selling.
I'd blame Marvel before Image. Remember the spider-clone saga? Good gawd what was THAT?!
Having sex with your monozygotic twin (a natural clone) would not be masturbation, would it?
To open a whole 'nother can of worms: why not stop sending pot dealers to jail, because cannabis shouldn't have been made illegal in the first place?
What do you mean? Mechanical keyboards are always far superior to touchscreen panels, unless you need to make it a tiny device.