"For example, they fault Linux OpenOffice desktops for not having all the features in Microsoft Windows Office, even though few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features."
We are computer nerds and we know what YOU need. So don't think you can make any suggestions as to what YOU want on YOUR desktop!
For people who seem to want the average user to migrate to Linux, you are not very accomodating. Yes, for people who know computers well all the buttons and widgets and garbage on your desktop is annoying to say the least. But the average user doesn't want to have to go searching through six menus and thirty sub-menus to find the tools they need.
I used to say that Linux was still just a baby, and one day it would eventually be ready for the average persons desktop, but I am not so sure any more. The people behind Linux and the open source community seem far to arrogant, believing that end users should just accept Linux because you tell them it is better, not because it gives them what they want. It is just too bad, because Linux did have a lot of potential at one point.
"... you are damaging the health of others, both directly through second hand smoke..."
There is no real evidence that second hand smoke has adverse side effects on people not directly smoking the cigarette. That is a bunch of BS made up by all the people who have turned smoking into a social pariah. Then they go run a couple ads with people who worked in a smokey place all their lives and just happened to end up with cancer, and parade them around yelling "SMOKERS ARE MURDERS!"
If some people think I am an idiot because I don't know who Tedy Bruschi is. Then those people must be just slightly above the mental retardation (not all the surprising if they are football fans) line for believing most people give a rats arse about the NFL.
God what a stupid sport, twenty minutes of one guy barking orders at a bunch of other guys. While engaging in questionable, if not blatantly homosexual, rubbing and touching. Surrounded by hours of guys standing around in a big field, almost as exciting as golf. One thing they both have in common, if the people engaging in spectating these things weren't completely smashed while watching it, they would probably realize how ridiculously boring those "sports" really are, and go home.
Oh, thats a great argument.... India is like three times your size and how much less money? And China, do you think China is going to do anything in the worlds interest? I think China's style is usually a little more Chinese centric. How can you say you are better then these people, but then compare yourself to them?
But any ways you are wrong, most emissions, past and present, have been emmited by long established industrialized nations.
Kyoto is not asking the U.S. to clean up the rest of the world. It is a treaty among mainly wealthier countries to risk taking a controlled blow to our economies and try to save what we have left of our dying planet.
Wright described the studio's entry into online movie services as 'something we have to do.'
Meaning, they would rather not, but they are finally getting the picture that they have to. I must say though, I don't have quite as much contempt for the movie industry as I do for the recording industry. They aren't quite as slimey and they do offer a product worth the money they are asking. Plus, they are making this effort on their own. As opposed to being dragged into it kicking and screming, then throwing temper tantrums when they didn't get their way.
I am not sure that BitTorrent will be so easy for the RIAA to crack down on like the other networks. Mainly because you are never sharing your entire library at one time. This would make it more difficutl for them to go after the "big" file sharers as they seem to like doing.
Of course they can always just go after a bunch of people for little things, but this is not very profitable as they do not get the big settlements they do from charging people for having lets say thousands of illegal files. IANAL but I believe they can only charge you for what they see. Meaning if you have BT running downloading an album they can only see those few songs, hence only a handful of charges get laid per suit.
But like I said, IANAL, they are much better at this legal thing then they are at meeting consumer demands, so maybe they will figure out a way.
The US has already started on a gradual decent from the top. Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-American, I am a Canadian, I have many American friends, and our countries are very similar in many ways. But the US is on a path of self-destruction, electing Bush was the beginning.
Now not only are you stuck in a senseless war with no end in sight, you are deeply in debt, mainly to countries such as communist China and Saudi Arabia. On top of all this you are allowing your government to do so many things that are contrary to the traditional view of what it means to be American. America is supposed to stand for "liberty and freedom", but your government has taken away some of the most basic "liberties" in the name of "security". What I do not understand is these liberties were held dear for so long and defended with countless lives by generations past. I realize the need to fight terrorism, but why has this new dynamic changed the American way of life so easily? The majority of the US population seems to be paralyzed by this fear, unable to speak for themselves and thus allowing the government to do as it pleases. Enacting draconian laws, starting fights against the pleas of the international community, keeping prisoners without due legal process, and the behemoth of them all... torture in Iraq. And if you question any of this you are labeled "unpatriotic", as if questioning the government is a privilege.
What has happened to America, a country that once stood for so much good and fighting for what was right.
I realize this is not a political forum, but I feel the need to warn America and get the word out in any way possible. For we share a common way of life, and common values. And if the US goes down, the Western way of life will take a huge blow. Sorry for the off topic.
"I keep my Windows system pretty well secured, but somehow that doesn't prevent Windows' Security Center from informing me that 'Your computer might be at risk' every morning when I turn on my computer. That message gets old fast. To banish it for good, go to Start, Control Panel, Security Center. Then click Change the way Security Center alerts me in the resources box and uncheck all of the boxes on the resulting screen."
Another way is to disable Security Center all together...
Go to "Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services" and find the one for Security Center, then disable it.
Also in the services window you can disable many other annoying features, like messenger, not the IM client, but the client that lets any one send those annoying messages to your desktop... You know, the grey boxes that say "Go to this website and pay us $50 to stop these annoying messages with our message blocker!"
"And it certainly helps Linus, should he ever want to, to make sure his name is only a[tt]ached to versions he has control over (a key artistic moral right - nobody should have to be associated with something they didn't endorse)..."
Col. Sanders or whatever from KFC was forced out of the company shortly after its creation, for the rest of his life he was the face of a crappy chicken place and got nothing for it.
Well I wouldn't say so much it is a computer telling us what we can and cannot do, it is a company programming a computer to tell us what we can and cannot do.
Untill the day when computers have the ability to reason there is no possible way they could over take humans.
Valve is a whore of a company, I'm sorry to troll, but they are owned by VUGames, the software arm of Vivendi. I bought Half-Life a while ago, then Valve updated to Steam. Unescesary, but ok, there were some problems with the menu GUI, but none the less a very Microsoft solution, can any one say Windows 95/98/ME? "We can't fix this s*it, so we'll just ditch it and use something else."
Sometime in the early days of Half-Life Vivendi accidentaly printed doubles of some CD keys in Europe and North America, this was not a problem before for some reason. But when Steam came along everyone had to register their CD keys. However since mine was in use already, most likely somewhere in Europe, they now want me to either buy the game again, or pay them 2/3's the cost of the game plus I have to do the work of shipping a CD case accross a continent to reset the key. Not to mention they simply ignored me until I flooded their customer service email telling them to stop ignoring me. So yes they create great games, but I will certainly never buy another one again...
Hey, did any one ever think MS just announces stuff then reads/. to come up with their next business strategy, there are so many good evil ideas on here.
This is simply a money grab by the Recording companies. I'm sure little if any of this will ever go to any artist.
Since Canadian copyright law was clarified a little while ago, the only people they can sue are people using music in some sort of public way.
This is sort of the same thing as file sharing in that it is actually a great marketing tool right in front of them that they instead choose to fight. If you wear a nice cologne and someone asks you about it, there is a good chance they might go buy the same cologne. Would it not work the same way with music?
Do you realize how much more money record companies could make if they just stopped trying to fight all these advances and put a little thought and inginuity into using them as TOOLS like they are for their own benefit. They can't fight the future forever, they're gona lose eventually. People are not going to just simply stop using these new, convenient, easy to use tools simply because the record companies say so.
By suing everyone in sight and constantly telling people they are theives they have only alienated their customers and made people completely distrust them.
Since the Liberal scandal the Green Party is now above 5% in the polls. This created a bit of a buzz when the CBC refused to include them in a debate with the other three main parties, which was odd because the Green Party is running higher right now than the NDP was in the last federal election.
I would really like to see a different party in power other than just another one of the main three. They are all old, worn out and have major downsides. I think the Green Party would be a nice change and could bring the government back down to earth. It's sureal to see our government act as if it is running some crappy little country where this type of behaviour is expected.
"... OR uses an illegal copy which can't be updated"
Why does every one on here seem to think pirated copies of Windows can't be updated? I have never and will never owned a copy of Windows but I still use it and I update it all the time, the Windows Update site doesn't work, sure... But auto-update most certainly does. Infact the little icon just appeared in the system tray while I was typing this.
I have pirated copies of Windoze on all my dual boot machines, sure going to the Windows update site won't work, so I just turn on auto-update. It downloads all the updates as they become available I screen them then install. Over the last few weeks I have been getting an unusually high number of updates, any one know the reason for this? Is it just Microsoft trying to stay one step ahead of the viruses?
This is just more typical Air Canada stuff. They are constantly plagued by these problems, mainly due to bad management. Every few years Air Canada goes through some huge financial crisis and all of a sudden becomes public property forcing the tax payers to foot the bill of their frivilous spending then as soon as they become profitable again (not usually for very long) the profits are directed into the pockets of the very people who put the company in that position in the first place and whos asses the tax payers just saved. So I personally would like to see Air Canada chopped to bits by one of those "vulture" companies so they stop costing me, and the rest of the Canadian tax payers, money.
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"For example, they fault Linux OpenOffice desktops for not having all the features in Microsoft Windows Office, even though few actually use all of the Microsoft stuff. So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features."
We are computer nerds and we know what YOU need. So don't think you can make any suggestions as to what YOU want on YOUR desktop!
For people who seem to want the average user to migrate to Linux, you are not very accomodating. Yes, for people who know computers well all the buttons and widgets and garbage on your desktop is annoying to say the least. But the average user doesn't want to have to go searching through six menus and thirty sub-menus to find the tools they need.
I used to say that Linux was still just a baby, and one day it would eventually be ready for the average persons desktop, but I am not so sure any more. The people behind Linux and the open source community seem far to arrogant, believing that end users should just accept Linux because you tell them it is better, not because it gives them what they want. It is just too bad, because Linux did have a lot of potential at one point.
MS will make this better the same way they make everything else better, by adding stuff on top.
I think their moto should be "if its broke, pour some paint on it so you don't see that part!"
Bloat...? Whats that?
"... you are damaging the health of others, both directly through second hand smoke..."
There is no real evidence that second hand smoke has adverse side effects on people not directly smoking the cigarette. That is a bunch of BS made up by all the people who have turned smoking into a social pariah. Then they go run a couple ads with people who worked in a smokey place all their lives and just happened to end up with cancer, and parade them around yelling "SMOKERS ARE MURDERS!"
Very intelligent reply... "OMG like you put the commas in the wrong places, like you're such a noob OMG!"
How do, you, like these commas, Mr.A,C?
If some people think I am an idiot because I don't know who Tedy Bruschi is. Then those people must be just slightly above the mental retardation (not all the surprising if they are football fans) line for believing most people give a rats arse about the NFL.
God what a stupid sport, twenty minutes of one guy barking orders at a bunch of other guys. While engaging in questionable, if not blatantly homosexual, rubbing and touching. Surrounded by hours of guys standing around in a big field, almost as exciting as golf. One thing they both have in common, if the people engaging in spectating these things weren't completely smashed while watching it, they would probably realize how ridiculously boring those "sports" really are, and go home.
Oh, thats a great argument.... India is like three times your size and how much less money? And China, do you think China is going to do anything in the worlds interest? I think China's style is usually a little more Chinese centric. How can you say you are better then these people, but then compare yourself to them?
But any ways you are wrong, most emissions, past and present, have been emmited by long established industrialized nations.
Kyoto is not asking the U.S. to clean up the rest of the world. It is a treaty among mainly wealthier countries to risk taking a controlled blow to our economies and try to save what we have left of our dying planet.
ROFLMFAO
Am I the only one who found this post to be absoloutly hilarious? I am literaly crying right now from laughing so hard.
"I don't know, Jenny. I don't know."
LMFAO, classic man... classic.
Wright described the studio's entry into online movie services as 'something we have to do.'
Meaning, they would rather not, but they are finally getting the picture that they have to. I must say though, I don't have quite as much contempt for the movie industry as I do for the recording industry. They aren't quite as slimey and they do offer a product worth the money they are asking. Plus, they are making this effort on their own. As opposed to being dragged into it kicking and screming, then throwing temper tantrums when they didn't get their way.
I am not sure that BitTorrent will be so easy for the RIAA to crack down on like the other networks. Mainly because you are never sharing your entire library at one time. This would make it more difficutl for them to go after the "big" file sharers as they seem to like doing.
Of course they can always just go after a bunch of people for little things, but this is not very profitable as they do not get the big settlements they do from charging people for having lets say thousands of illegal files. IANAL but I believe they can only charge you for what they see. Meaning if you have BT running downloading an album they can only see those few songs, hence only a handful of charges get laid per suit.
But like I said, IANAL, they are much better at this legal thing then they are at meeting consumer demands, so maybe they will figure out a way.
The US has already started on a gradual decent from the top. Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-American, I am a Canadian, I have many American friends, and our countries are very similar in many ways. But the US is on a path of self-destruction, electing Bush was the beginning.
Now not only are you stuck in a senseless war with no end in sight, you are deeply in debt, mainly to countries such as communist China and Saudi Arabia. On top of all this you are allowing your government to do so many things that are contrary to the traditional view of what it means to be American. America is supposed to stand for "liberty and freedom", but your government has taken away some of the most basic "liberties" in the name of "security". What I do not understand is these liberties were held dear for so long and defended with countless lives by generations past. I realize the need to fight terrorism, but why has this new dynamic changed the American way of life so easily? The majority of the US population seems to be paralyzed by this fear, unable to speak for themselves and thus allowing the government to do as it pleases. Enacting draconian laws, starting fights against the pleas of the international community, keeping prisoners without due legal process, and the behemoth of them all... torture in Iraq. And if you question any of this you are labeled "unpatriotic", as if questioning the government is a privilege.
What has happened to America, a country that once stood for so much good and fighting for what was right.
I realize this is not a political forum, but I feel the need to warn America and get the word out in any way possible. For we share a common way of life, and common values. And if the US goes down, the Western way of life will take a huge blow. Sorry for the off topic.
"I keep my Windows system pretty well secured, but somehow that doesn't prevent Windows' Security Center from informing me that 'Your computer might be at risk' every morning when I turn on my computer. That message gets old fast. To banish it for good, go to Start, Control Panel, Security Center. Then click Change the way Security Center alerts me in the resources box and uncheck all of the boxes on the resulting screen."
Another way is to disable Security Center all together...
Go to "Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services" and find the one for Security Center, then disable it.
Also in the services window you can disable many other annoying features, like messenger, not the IM client, but the client that lets any one send those annoying messages to your desktop... You know, the grey boxes that say "Go to this website and pay us $50 to stop these annoying messages with our message blocker!"
"And it certainly helps Linus, should he ever want to, to make sure his name is only a[tt]ached to versions he has control over (a key artistic moral right - nobody should have to be associated with something they didn't endorse)..."
Col. Sanders or whatever from KFC was forced out of the company shortly after its creation, for the rest of his life he was the face of a crappy chicken place and got nothing for it.
Would this not play into their hands though, if you were Blizzard would you want customers buying used copies off eBay or new copies from you?
Centre is the Canadian way of spelling it.
Well I wouldn't say so much it is a computer telling us what we can and cannot do, it is a company programming a computer to tell us what we can and cannot do.
Untill the day when computers have the ability to reason there is no possible way they could over take humans.
Valve is a whore of a company, I'm sorry to troll, but they are owned by VUGames, the software arm of Vivendi. I bought Half-Life a while ago, then Valve updated to Steam. Unescesary, but ok, there were some problems with the menu GUI, but none the less a very Microsoft solution, can any one say Windows 95/98/ME? "We can't fix this s*it, so we'll just ditch it and use something else."
;-P
Sometime in the early days of Half-Life Vivendi accidentaly printed doubles of some CD keys in Europe and North America, this was not a problem before for some reason. But when Steam came along everyone had to register their CD keys. However since mine was in use already, most likely somewhere in Europe, they now want me to either buy the game again, or pay them 2/3's the cost of the game plus I have to do the work of shipping a CD case accross a continent to reset the key. Not to mention they simply ignored me until I flooded their customer service email telling them to stop ignoring me. So yes they create great games, but I will certainly never buy another one again...
Hello eDonkey
Hey, did any one ever think MS just announces stuff then reads /. to come up with their next business strategy, there are so many good evil ideas on here.
This is simply a money grab by the Recording companies. I'm sure little if any of this will ever go to any artist.
Since Canadian copyright law was clarified a little while ago, the only people they can sue are people using music in some sort of public way.
This is sort of the same thing as file sharing in that it is actually a great marketing tool right in front of them that they instead choose to fight. If you wear a nice cologne and someone asks you about it, there is a good chance they might go buy the same cologne. Would it not work the same way with music?
Do you realize how much more money record companies could make if they just stopped trying to fight all these advances and put a little thought and inginuity into using them as TOOLS like they are for their own benefit. They can't fight the future forever, they're gona lose eventually. People are not going to just simply stop using these new, convenient, easy to use tools simply because the record companies say so.
By suing everyone in sight and constantly telling people they are theives they have only alienated their customers and made people completely distrust them.
Since the Liberal scandal the Green Party is now above 5% in the polls. This created a bit of a buzz when the CBC refused to include them in a debate with the other three main parties, which was odd because the Green Party is running higher right now than the NDP was in the last federal election.
I would really like to see a different party in power other than just another one of the main three. They are all old, worn out and have major downsides. I think the Green Party would be a nice change and could bring the government back down to earth. It's sureal to see our government act as if it is running some crappy little country where this type of behaviour is expected.
Wow, who didn't see that Slashdotting coming.
"... OR uses an illegal copy which can't be updated"
Why does every one on here seem to think pirated copies of Windows can't be updated? I have never and will never owned a copy of Windows but I still use it and I update it all the time, the Windows Update site doesn't work, sure... But auto-update most certainly does. Infact the little icon just appeared in the system tray while I was typing this.
I have pirated copies of Windoze on all my dual boot machines, sure going to the Windows update site won't work, so I just turn on auto-update. It downloads all the updates as they become available I screen them then install. Over the last few weeks I have been getting an unusually high number of updates, any one know the reason for this? Is it just Microsoft trying to stay one step ahead of the viruses?
This has been posted on the Apple site for a couple months now.
This is just more typical Air Canada stuff. They are constantly plagued by these problems, mainly due to bad management. Every few years Air Canada goes through some huge financial crisis and all of a sudden becomes public property forcing the tax payers to foot the bill of their frivilous spending then as soon as they become profitable again (not usually for very long) the profits are directed into the pockets of the very people who put the company in that position in the first place and whos asses the tax payers just saved. So I personally would like to see Air Canada chopped to bits by one of those "vulture" companies so they stop costing me, and the rest of the Canadian tax payers, money.
I think the one thing that bothers me most about Real is their belief that NOTHING is free.
Even in the free player you are paying for it through advertising.
I mean comon, $20 for a visulization plugin for RealPlayer?