"Personal responsibility and ownership of one's actions goes a long way here."
Are you honestly arguing for a world where you have to pay for culture? To participate in society, please deposit $5.99. I am personally responsible, it seems, for spreading the ideals of a free culture society. You pay for culture, you get britney spears. Free culture, and you get the velvet underground. Or at the very least, the opportunity to hear them.
"Trust me: I got through all seven years of college without once firing up a P2P app"
Yeah, and it shows. You are clearly closeminded. Lack of musical/cultural diversity has the effect. Its easy to take ownership of your actions when the law backs you up.
"If you do that, you'll have a display just as sharp as DVI."
What in the hell are you talking about? Are you saying that there is no percievable difference between DVI and VGA? are you on drugs?
DVI looks SOO much crisper its not even funny. Especially the higher up you scale the display. Try putting a 42inch plasma on VGA. It looks horrid. Are you actually suggesting that any amount of calibration can bring a vga connection up to the quality of a DVI one?
I see nothing obvious about that statement at all. The reason for government to do something is for the common good, precisely the opposite of for profit initiatves. Its frankly shocking to me what the gp wrote about quotas and hauntings. Give them as much money and time as they fucking need to do the job right, the first time! This isnt a sack of nails, to be contracted to the lowest bidder, we are talking about here, its the laws, power and control of Intelectual Property. It defines peoples rights! I thought this was america, not done cheap, but done right.
"They're here to die for Allah's greatness and get the fast pass into Paradise."
The FLQ were muslims?
"You can't talk with them. You can't reason with them."
Ok now I'm sure your talking about quebecois. Relax dude, they are people too. Sure they may be terrorists, but even they deserve to have their crazy no right-turning systems of belief.
"Otherwise you haven't rented it, you now own the file"
How is this different from going to blockbuster, renting a dvd, then ripping it to your pc with dvd shrink? Sure you technically "rented" it, but you still have a copy too. My point is that "renting" already includes the ability to keep the content, and has even back in the day, with 2 VCRs.
If I've seen something once, doesn't my brain own it? Shouldn't I be able to summon back memories of scenes at will? The only thing stopping me from doing that is a less than perfect memory. Well I personally use the computer to augment my memory, so I fail to see how copying a dvd is any different than having a picture perfect memory.
Whats with that phrase, 'get on peoples chimes'. Im seeing it everywhere since about two weeks ago. Is this some sort of guerrilla doorbell marketting campagne?
"So you know (most of the time) that the product has already broken and been fixed."
How optimistic of you. Hard drives are ok, since Im pretty sure the only part of the drive that stays in the metal enclosure. But referbished something more complicated, like a video card or a TV? Well it has been my experience that refurbished means "mostly working" not "recertified".
Everyone knows you buy computer parts from small chinese stores that take cash only.
Sure they do. Bad ram, overheated components. If computers didnt make errors, you wouldn't need CRC checking - to name but one common error identifier.
Lets try and think more, go for frosty pist less. Ok?
ID Processing Computer: "Please repeat your license key as it occurs on your M$ identity card. Document number G24L8" Joe: "Well, I'm not sure if--" ID Processing Computer: "You have entered the license status of 'Not Sure'. Is this correct, Not sure?" Joe: "No, it is not correct." ID Processing Computer: "Thank you. 'Not' is correct. Is 'Sure' correct? Joe: No, it's not. My license key is rm233-" ID Processing Computer: "You've already confirmed that your license key starts with 'Not'." ID Processing Computer: "Please confirm the last part of your key, 'Sure'." Joe: "My ke-- The last part of my key is not sure. No." ID Processing Computer: "Thank you. Your pirating status has been entered as Not Sure." Joe: "What I mean is my status is legi--" ID Processing Computer: "Confirmation is complete. Please wait while I tattoo your pirate status on all your word documents and email correspondences." Joe: "Tattoo, wait what?!?"
Article has a giant javascript ad that scrolls with the page. Seriously how fucking annoying is that? I have ad and flashblock, couldn't backup off your pc magazine site fast enough. Hmm that wasnt snarky enough.
Dual t1s? is that you gramps? is it 1996? Get some fibre for gods sake! oc3s like what, a few grand a month? For 60 employees doing internet related business thats nothing!
Either that or put a dns entry in for youtube of 0.0.0.0 , or block it on your fancy ciscos. Honestly, if you are at work you should have no expectation of youtube working. I can think of no honest way that watching youtube could be considered work.
Well you are currently online are you not? Are we not talking about this, online? Your rights offline? What would that be, this newsletter I keep hearing about, that everyone seems so anxious to subscribe to?
It really depends if you live in a city with good public transit or in the country/suburbs.
Theres a world of difference between easy access to the metro/subways every other block, and a $60, 50km cab ride. Its the makeup of the community that determines whether people drink and drive.
You do realize that not restarting machines is very very bad practice right? Otherwise some update you installed 140 days ago that causes the system not to boot is a major pain in the ass to troubleshoot.
And just for comparison the best I could do currently was:
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 System Up Time: 49 Days, 4 Hours, 18 Minutes, 26 Seconds
On a file server that does nothing but serve files and hand out dhcp leases with dualserver. (it needed patches applied so I just rebooted it, thanks slashdot!)
Uptime is a really shitty metric in the real world. Everything needs patches and should be restarted regularly. What if the pc needs a keyboard plugged in to boot and the last time you were at that site, you borrowed the k/b to do something else? Now after 200 days you find you urgently need to remote reboot the machine and it doesnt come back up. And btw its 4 hours away, in a blizzard.
As for the "greater value" comment, I was just reminded of how you cant select a line of text in a cmd.exe prompt, and instead have to "select all", the whole session. So don't think im claiming windows is better in any way.
"my power supply is quite good (as far as my APC monitoring system tells me"
I am not sure how a UPS would know if you had a bad power supply, but the best way to check is to crack that sucker open and look for blown oozing caps. Power supplies can work seemingly flawlessly and with no symptoms and still be bad. Although you do have a symptom, dying drives. A good power supply usually costs more than a hundred bucks, and should be made by a company that you can recognize (their homepage isnt all in chinese would be a good start). There are SO MANY bad power supplies out there. I wont even buy power supplies anymore that cost less than 50 bucks. Usually if, it comes in a cardboard box (as in non OEM) its an ok unit. Those $29 dollar 400 watt psu's just scream "rape my system".
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Yeah, and it shows. You are clearly closeminded. Lack of musical/cultural diversity has the effect.
Its easy to take ownership of your actions when the law backs you up.
DVI looks SOO much crisper its not even funny. Especially the higher up you scale the display. Try putting a 42inch plasma on VGA. It looks horrid. Are you actually suggesting that any amount of calibration can bring a vga connection up to the quality of a DVI one?
I thought this was america, not done cheap, but done right.
Perhaps that was a different age...
How is this different from going to blockbuster, renting a dvd, then ripping it to your pc with dvd shrink? Sure you technically "rented" it, but you still have a copy too. My point is that "renting" already includes the ability to keep the content, and has even back in the day, with 2 VCRs.
If I've seen something once, doesn't my brain own it? Shouldn't I be able to summon back memories of scenes at will? The only thing stopping me from doing that is a less than perfect memory. Well I personally use the computer to augment my memory, so I fail to see how copying a dvd is any different than having a picture perfect memory.
Whats with that phrase, 'get on peoples chimes'. Im seeing it everywhere since about two weeks ago. Is this some sort of guerrilla doorbell marketting campagne?
Do you not have dollar stores where you live? For cables they undercut everyone. Even online.
How optimistic of you. Hard drives are ok, since Im pretty sure the only part of the drive that stays in the metal enclosure. But referbished something more complicated, like a video card or a TV? Well it has been my experience that refurbished means "mostly working" not "recertified".
Everyone knows you buy computer parts from small chinese stores that take cash only.
Sure they do. Bad ram, overheated components. If computers didnt make errors, you wouldn't need CRC checking - to name but one common error identifier.
Lets try and think more, go for frosty pist less. Ok?
ID Processing Computer: "Please repeat your license key as it occurs on your M$ identity card. Document number G24L8"
Joe: "Well, I'm not sure if--"
ID Processing Computer: "You have entered the license status of 'Not Sure'. Is this correct, Not sure?"
Joe: "No, it is not correct."
ID Processing Computer: "Thank you. 'Not' is correct. Is 'Sure' correct?
Joe: No, it's not. My license key is rm233-"
ID Processing Computer: "You've already confirmed that your license key starts with 'Not'."
ID Processing Computer: "Please confirm the last part of your key, 'Sure'."
Joe: "My ke-- The last part of my key is not sure. No."
ID Processing Computer: "Thank you. Your pirating status has been entered as Not Sure."
Joe: "What I mean is my status is legi--"
ID Processing Computer: "Confirmation is complete. Please wait while I tattoo your pirate status on all your word documents and email correspondences."
Joe: "Tattoo, wait what?!?"
Article has a giant javascript ad that scrolls with the page. Seriously how fucking annoying is that? I have ad and flashblock, couldn't backup off your pc magazine site fast enough. Hmm that wasnt snarky enough.
You dick!
There we go.
sand-nine.
Dual t1s? is that you gramps? is it 1996? Get some fibre for gods sake! oc3s like what, a few grand a month? For 60 employees doing internet related business thats nothing!
Either that or put a dns entry in for youtube of 0.0.0.0 , or block it on your fancy ciscos. Honestly, if you are at work you should have no expectation of youtube working. I can think of no honest way that watching youtube could be considered work.
Play eve. Whole different kind of pellets there. And you can also loot and pillage other peoples pellets :)
And going to a bar plunges you into a sea of masks and unrealities. Dont lie to yourself, clubbing with other meat puppets is easily more fake.
Well you are currently online are you not? Are we not talking about this, online? Your rights offline? What would that be, this newsletter I keep hearing about, that everyone seems so anxious to subscribe to?
It really depends if you live in a city with good public transit or in the country/suburbs.
Theres a world of difference between easy access to the metro/subways every other block, and a $60, 50km cab ride. Its the makeup of the community that determines whether people drink and drive.
Cool! Got a torrent?
Compairing serving in kuwait, and the relative peace that followed to whats going on now = free
Completely missing the point to brag about your own military history = priceless.
Dont forget findfast. #1 disabled app of all time!
American money has the symbol of the illuminati and an oath to an imaginary supernatural being. I think canada wins here.
You do realize that not restarting machines is very very bad practice right? Otherwise some update you installed 140 days ago that causes the system not to boot is a major pain in the ass to troubleshoot.
And just for comparison the best I could do currently was:
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Up Time: 49 Days, 4 Hours, 18 Minutes, 26 Seconds
On a file server that does nothing but serve files and hand out dhcp leases with dualserver. (it needed patches applied so I just rebooted it, thanks slashdot!)
Uptime is a really shitty metric in the real world. Everything needs patches and should be restarted regularly. What if the pc needs a keyboard plugged in to boot and the last time you were at that site, you borrowed the k/b to do something else? Now after 200 days you find you urgently need to remote reboot the machine and it doesnt come back up. And btw its 4 hours away, in a blizzard.
As for the "greater value" comment, I was just reminded of how you cant select a line of text in a cmd.exe prompt, and instead have to "select all", the whole session. So don't think im claiming windows is better in any way.
I am not sure how a UPS would know if you had a bad power supply, but the best way to check is to crack that sucker open and look for blown oozing caps. Power supplies can work seemingly flawlessly and with no symptoms and still be bad. Although you do have a symptom, dying drives. A good power supply usually costs more than a hundred bucks, and should be made by a company that you can recognize (their homepage isnt all in chinese would be a good start). There are SO MANY bad power supplies out there. I wont even buy power supplies anymore that cost less than 50 bucks. Usually if, it comes in a cardboard box (as in non OEM) its an ok unit. Those $29 dollar 400 watt psu's just scream "rape my system".
Please. Ive been portscanned and spammed by many a compromised linux box. Some people just don't do any OS maintenece, like keeping up with updates.
I think you've just consented all your actions to ones of the "ordinary"