yeah nice collection of links to backup those claims. heres a test, go to your local bank branch. Look behind the counter at some of their command line type machines. My bank has a few 486dx 66mhz machines still happily ticking along. also many stores have these sorts of PC's visible.
Those IBM POS (point of sale not the other meaning) systems also are over 10 years old. What do you do with a 512k mac? use photoshop 1? i'd recomend a doorstop because you wont be running osx on that!
i've met lots of people who have car bios's.. what exactly was your point with that sentance? people buy cars for their utility. a person buying a beamer and a person buying a kia are buying them for different reasons. same as a mac and PC.
on the other hand DOS still runs flawlessly on a 486. see many MAC POS systems? i wonder why...
wtf are you taking about the dreamcast was the best console i ever had in terms of ease of pirating the games. i had like every dreamcast game. they burned on regular 80 minute cds, not even the 99 minute ones.
and back then, no one had a DVD burner so ps2 games were a bit harder to pirate.
"Do you believe you have the right to steal a beer in order to try it before deciding whether to buy a six-pack?"
no but i like free samples at the liquor store:)
actually your analogy is flawed- maybe if you said: 90% of US beer taste like crap, do you believe you have the right to make an exact copy of that beer and share it with your friend so you both have a beer? thus turning this almost certainly bad beer into a good experience? why would you think that the experience of drinking a beer would not want to make you drink more beers, or recomend the beer to friends? on the other side, if it was crap would you want the beer industry to play you like a sucka? this is about being an empowered consumer. im so tired of people thinking that companies should make money above all else. WHy? what happened to people wanting to make things in order to improve society?? movies are like porn, if the major studios stop producing, theres always some chick with a webcam.
whats the mozilla marketing slogan again? "you are our marketing department" yeah that applies to EVERYTHING
what are you talking about? I havent seen a intel system beat a comperable AMD system in the last year. Not to mention that the intel on average runs 1ghz faster.
in my personal experience, Intel's always have a small lag that is quite noticeable. Although this is comming from the same person who can tell a 85hz refresh rate from a 75 so its probably not something most people have to worry about.
and THEN there is the huge price difference:)
*(i wouldn't personally count office benchmarks like word but i know intel has a weird history of doing well in those)
its called a Varon-T Disruptor and it was made by the federation actually. The idea being that the worst weapon ever created was made by the forces of good, not the "communist" romulans.
"He's management that's forgotten to take its Ritalin"
just to correct a small factual error that alot of people seem to make, you do know that for any adult that takes ritalin its actually a stimulant and would actually cause Kirk to behave that way right?
thats why im always horrified when i see anyone greater than a teenager taking it, unless they are taking it recreationally of course:) A better statement would be " hes management that forgot to take his bong hit " or " take his valium " or something.
"Except in the case of truly "breathrough" innovations, the tried and true usually wins out over the new (and presumably intersting) until there's a critical mass using it."..."So, this is an article about people using familiar currency over new currency"
i sort of read it as people using a stable currency with no possibility of inflation, over something that could fluctuate wildly. This is why he was talking about a finite amount of money as apposed to the unknown amount of gold in the islands mine.
also this sort of explains why the US federal resevere will one day collapse do to lack of being backed by anything (b/c of the abandonment of the gold standard)
"the hubs are sometimes public, but in these cases admission to the hub required you to share your own collection for free as well. So the hub owners are not only sharing music with a select membership, they require their members to share large amounts of music as well."
so filesharing is ok with you as long as your not the one sharing?
*cough* LEECH *cough*
"They were copying, trading, and encouraging others to do the same in large quantities. I don't like seeing people's hard drives raided for any reason, but it's pretty clear these five folks didn't have a leg to stand on."
there is an ethical difference between sharing one mp3 and sharing 100 mp3s? or 1000? where do you draw the line? just because these people had more files then you is no reason to be jealous:)
"and you suddenly have a complete profile, 6+ potential screennames, possibly a website, their gmail address, and voila - you have a strong awareness of who the user is."
ashcroft is that you?
becuase your friends cant be trusted to give you accurate information about themselves - hey lets just "compile a profile" of them! some people dont want everyone to know their favourite brand of snack cakes.
what will really blow your mind is when i tell you they probably have a roll of laminate and a shrinkwrapping machine in the back. doesnt work on large things like a TV but routers and PC equipment its very standard practice to re wrap things.
"If all software was free, why would anyone bother developing it?"
for the imbetterment of mankind? to prove your usefullness to society? in order to solve a problem that will make your life better as well as others?
money is a broken way of trying to insure that everyone can trade with eachother. IE if i have beans and need silk but the silk people need widgets, i dont need to go out and trade my beans for widgets before i get the silk.
problems with money are inflation and an infinte supply on the federal reserve level... need to finance a war? just print more money to pay the troops! since the US is not endorsing a gold standard, it pretty much makes it very easy to just print off money when you aheva problem. i think this has been done since lincoln and the war of 1812 or whatever (not american). I seem to remmeber reading that the US Govt abandons the gold standard every time they had a war up untill vietnam, when they totally scrapped it. this also increases the gap between the rich and poor.
or instead of all that fear based "defense" maybe you could use that money to make sure all the other countries in the world have a better standard of living. in this way you can eliminate terror (or greatly reduce the support of it) and also make the USA out to be something other than an evil empire.
An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cures
"wever, peope who say they wouldn't have bought the game anyway, shouldn't have needed to copy it."
i disagree. most games that i pirate (doom3, bf1942, etc) i just pirate to see what its about. in the case of doom3, i discovered its WAAAY too dark. if your like me, theres already a very good reason to buy the original game. The CD Key. You cant play either of those games online without one. I did end up buying bf1942 exclusivly for that reason.
who wants to play an FPS in masturbatory mode? thats what consoles are for.
trying to get laws changed only goes so far. we need a revolution in this area and i think we already had it. theres no way to put the lid back on the p2p box.
before p2p there were seperate apps, IRC, man i even remember downloading warez from BBS's on a 9600 baud modem before i even heard of the internet.
you cant fight city hall -- but enough small fires will burn it to the ground.
"In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast.""
What victims would those be exactly? someone who shoots out his eye? Like seriously.. what the fuck are you americans even trying to do? Can you say religious fundamentalist state? On some messed up level i can understand the wars on drugs, terror and the poor... BUT SEX AND PR0N???? Do these people even realize that the only reason they exsist is because their mother was wet and wild one day with some dude?
"Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance"
this dude ashcroft, you know, if you take away ALL AREAS for constructive wholesome fun.. i guess it really makes you understand why people like that enjoy starting wars. i mean the fucker doesnt even dance!
"The extra step of brewing Budweiser with rice is perhaps the most misunderstood step in our exclusive process. It provides a balance necessary to Budweiser's trademark "drinkability." It is an extra and more expensive part of the brewing process than using malt alone."
now what they call "drinkability" i call weakening.. i mostly just drink holstien and it doesnt say anywhere on the can that they use rice. its a german beer. you might be right but just dont dilute yourself
i thought the whole point of buying i tunes music was so that you could say you "paid" for it or were scared into it or something... this doesnt change that as you still have to pay for it before you can copy it - just like a cd.
but of course i never have understood why just the fact that people enjoy something you create is not enough of a reward to justify its creation.
the one great use that IMHO beats hands down any other media player, is the use of Hotkeys in winamp 5. with this turned on (not on by default) you have a whole range of keyboard shortcuts that can be used to control winamp.
some ones i use every day are CTRL + ALT + PG DOWN to forward the track, CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow , to lower volume for when phone rings and CTRL + ALT + Insert to restart a track. there are many others to do basically any function. you can change them to whatever you want as well. Primarily i would use these when im in a fullscreen game as before i would have to alt + tab out to change the track (very annoying)
better off using media player classic (my favourite distro is something called the ACE mega codec pack{large DL like 40-50megs}, i have yet to find something it cant play).
basically, its free, its light (680k download 1.5mb install) highly configurable, plays every audio file imagineable, built in crossfader and hotkeys, and is the most popular user driven project in the windows world (IMHO). I say that because most plugins are made by users, and although i havent actually made one, i could imagine it being easy as there are over 30k of them.
"In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series"
oh i guess you missed anne of green gables (ew but it was mad popular) trailer park boys ed the sock 22 minutes the national all those rick mercer shows
well thats all i remmber for now, i dont own a tv so its all from memory. not to mention all the quality films that have come out of the NFB, Lions Gate or TVO. some that wont even be touched by US studios. (manufacturing consent, and the corporation come to mind. I think bowling for columbine was released under NFB but i might be wrong).
as for direct TV i had a dish and you can see plenty of them where i live. I only had to take it down when they built a building next to mine that blocked the signal. the RCMP isnt going to waste its time busting people who have dishes, maybe distribution but im sure they are under presure from bell and such to do that. they barely even bust growers unless someone tells them to "get tough on crime" and as everyone knows, stoners are an easy target.
if the RCMP bust people for stealing sat signals and growing weed, and those are the biggest problems, well that isn't very bad now is it?
your definition of pc is biased and i would assume different from what people with sense assume the phrase "PC" to mean. I am pretty sure most people would agree that political correctness's goals are to create equality. in your wonderful example, the person is still being treated unequally. do things like that happen where you live? its probably closet racists or weird conservative converts or something.
also you are dumb because you are confusing the "face" of fox news, with what actually goes on there. Take for example the "investigative reporters" hired by fox to do a report on a steroid that is added to all american milk products. this steroid (rBGH i think it was called) has been proven to cause cancer and make people more resistant to antibiotics. When they found this out, fox fired them as it was too controversial for their pharmacutical industry (monstanto) backed news. LINK
i think its safe to say that if you have to go to so much trouble to promote yourself as hard hitting, indept and 'fair and balanced', your probably lacking in it.
as for news, all amerkian news is pretty much the same. i would suggest the bbc, or cbc for a bit more balanced reporting. and if you dont want to listen to me, i have found this conservative article lambasting them for doing what i would consider a more societally correct, good job.
"A BBC-type public broadcaster is responsible only to Parliament. Unlike its counterparts in most continental European countries, public broadcasters in the British or Canadian tradition report to no ministry of culture or information. British governments, democratically elected as they may be, can't tell the BBC what to do. If the BBC wants to engage in partisan politics, if it feels like opposing, discrediting, or undermining the government, it's in a good position to do so. Although a government might control the BBC's purse-strings through Parliament, and may give the board of governors some headaches at licence renewal time, no cabinet minister can give the BBC directives about daily operations, or about what it should put on the air, and how."
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yeah nice collection of links to backup those claims. heres a test, go to your local bank branch. Look behind the counter at some of their command line type machines. My bank has a few 486dx 66mhz machines still happily ticking along. also many stores have these sorts of PC's visible.
Those IBM POS (point of sale not the other meaning) systems also are over 10 years old. What do you do with a 512k mac? use photoshop 1? i'd recomend a doorstop because you wont be running osx on that!
i've met lots of people who have car bios's.. what exactly was your point with that sentance? people buy cars for their utility. a person buying a beamer and a person buying a kia are buying them for different reasons. same as a mac and PC.
on the other hand DOS still runs flawlessly on a 486. see many MAC POS systems? i wonder why...
and back then, no one had a DVD burner so ps2 games were a bit harder to pirate.
"Behold! For now I wear the human pants!"
so thats what they call pyjamas in america. i had no idea!!
"Do you believe you have the right to steal a beer in order to try it before deciding whether to buy a six-pack?"
:)
no but i like free samples at the liquor store
actually your analogy is flawed- maybe if you said: 90% of US beer taste like crap, do you believe you have the right to make an exact copy of that beer and share it with your friend so you both have a beer? thus turning this almost certainly bad beer into a good experience? why would you think that the experience of drinking a beer would not want to make you drink more beers, or recomend the beer to friends? on the other side, if it was crap would you want the beer industry to play you like a sucka? this is about being an empowered consumer.
im so tired of people thinking that companies should make money above all else. WHy? what happened to people wanting to make things in order to improve society?? movies are like porn, if the major studios stop producing, theres always some chick with a webcam.
whats the mozilla marketing slogan again? "you are our marketing department" yeah that applies to EVERYTHING
where are all those intel favourable benchmarks?*
lots of amd favourable ones
in my personal experience, Intel's always have a small lag that is quite noticeable. Although this is comming from the same person who can tell a 85hz refresh rate from a 75 so its probably not something most people have to worry about.
and THEN there is the huge price difference
*(i wouldn't personally count office benchmarks like word but i know intel has a weird history of doing well in those)
its called a Varon-T Disruptor and it was made by the federation actually. The idea being that the worst weapon ever created was made by the forces of good, not the "communist" romulans.
two words:
dual amds
you'll never have mp3s lag again.
i can run two games and still have my mp3s playing.
"He's management that's forgotten to take its Ritalin"
:) A better statement would be " hes management that forgot to take his bong hit " or " take his valium " or something.
just to correct a small factual error that alot of people seem to make, you do know that for any adult that takes ritalin its actually a stimulant and would actually cause Kirk to behave that way right?
ritalin
thats why im always horrified when i see anyone greater than a teenager taking it, unless they are taking it recreationally of course
"Except in the case of truly "breathrough" innovations, the tried and true usually wins out over the new (and presumably intersting) until there's a critical mass using it."..."So, this is an article about people using familiar currency over new currency"
i sort of read it as people using a stable currency with no possibility of inflation, over something that could fluctuate wildly. This is why he was talking about a finite amount of money as apposed to the unknown amount of gold in the islands mine.
also this sort of explains why the US federal resevere will one day collapse do to lack of being backed by anything (b/c of the abandonment of the gold standard)
or at least thats how i read the article.
"the hubs are sometimes public, but in these cases admission to the hub required you to share your own collection for free as well. So the hub owners are not only sharing music with a select membership, they require their members to share large amounts of music as well."
:)
so filesharing is ok with you as long as your not the one sharing?
*cough* LEECH *cough*
"They were copying, trading, and encouraging others to do the same in large quantities. I don't like seeing people's hard drives raided for any reason, but it's pretty clear these five folks didn't have a leg to stand on."
there is an ethical difference between sharing one mp3 and sharing 100 mp3s? or 1000? where do you draw the line?
just because these people had more files then you is no reason to be jealous
lets not be total hypocrites ok???
"and you suddenly have a complete profile, 6+ potential screennames, possibly a website, their gmail address, and voila - you have a strong awareness of who the user is."
ashcroft is that you?
becuase your friends cant be trusted to give you accurate information about themselves - hey lets just "compile a profile" of them!
some people dont want everyone to know their favourite brand of snack cakes.
what will really blow your mind is when i tell you they probably have a roll of laminate and a shrinkwrapping machine in the back.
doesnt work on large things like a TV but routers and PC equipment its very standard practice to re wrap things.
"If all software was free, why would anyone bother developing it?"
for the imbetterment of mankind? to prove your usefullness to society? in order to solve a problem that will make your life better as well as others?
money is a broken way of trying to insure that everyone can trade with eachother. IE if i have beans and need silk but the silk people need widgets, i dont need to go out and trade my beans for widgets before i get the silk.
problems with money are inflation and an infinte supply on the federal reserve level... need to finance a war? just print more money to pay the troops! since the US is not endorsing a gold standard, it pretty much makes it very easy to just print off money when you aheva problem. i think this has been done since lincoln and the war of 1812 or whatever (not american). I seem to remmeber reading that the US Govt abandons the gold standard every time they had a war up untill vietnam, when they totally scrapped it. this also increases the gap between the rich and poor.
cheers.
An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cures
"wever, peope who say they wouldn't have bought the game anyway, shouldn't have needed to copy it."
i disagree. most games that i pirate (doom3, bf1942, etc) i just pirate to see what its about. in the case of doom3, i discovered its WAAAY too dark. if your like me, theres already a very good reason to buy the original game. The CD Key. You cant play either of those games online without one. I did end up buying bf1942 exclusivly for that reason.
who wants to play an FPS in masturbatory mode? thats what consoles are for.
I have a similiar project.... (Score:3, Interesting)
COME ON PEOPLE!!!
he just said pr0n.... thats it. and posted anonymously.. its hardly worth an interesting rating. more like funny if anything.
dont reinforce these sex addicted geek sterotypes
before p2p there were seperate apps, IRC, man i even remember downloading warez from BBS's on a 9600 baud modem before i even heard of the internet.
you cant fight city hall -- but enough small fires will burn it to the ground.
What victims would those be exactly? someone who shoots out his eye? Like seriously.. what the fuck are you americans even trying to do? Can you say religious fundamentalist state?
On some messed up level i can understand the wars on drugs, terror and the poor... BUT SEX AND PR0N???? Do these people even realize that the only reason they exsist is because their mother was wet and wild one day with some dude?
"Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance"
this dude ashcroft, you know, if you take away ALL AREAS for constructive wholesome fun.. i guess it really makes you understand why people like that enjoy starting wars. i mean the fucker doesnt even dance!
what a complete square, man...
from the webpage www.budwiser.com
"The extra step of brewing Budweiser with rice is perhaps the most misunderstood step in our exclusive process. It provides a balance necessary to Budweiser's trademark "drinkability." It is an extra and more expensive part of the brewing process than using malt alone."
now what they call "drinkability" i call weakening.. i mostly just drink holstien and it doesnt say anywhere on the can that they use rice. its a german beer. you might be right but just dont dilute yourself
bwahaha
but of course i never have understood why just the fact that people enjoy something you create is not enough of a reward to justify its creation.
but i dont get alot of things these days
some ones i use every day are CTRL + ALT + PG DOWN to forward the track, CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow , to lower volume for when phone rings and CTRL + ALT + Insert to restart a track. there are many others to do basically any function. you can change them to whatever you want as well. Primarily i would use these when im in a fullscreen game as before i would have to alt + tab out to change the track (very annoying)
better off using media player classic (my favourite distro is something called the ACE mega codec pack{large DL like 40-50megs}, i have yet to find something it cant play).
basically, its free, its light (680k download 1.5mb install) highly configurable, plays every audio file imagineable, built in crossfader and hotkeys, and is the most popular user driven project in the windows world (IMHO). I say that because most plugins are made by users, and although i havent actually made one, i could imagine it being easy as there are over 30k of them.
the world, or how i enjoyed to eat more rice.
"In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series"
oh i guess you missed
anne of green gables (ew but it was mad popular)
trailer park boys
ed the sock
22 minutes
the national
all those rick mercer shows
well thats all i remmber for now, i dont own a tv so its all from memory. not to mention all the quality films that have come out of the NFB, Lions Gate or TVO. some that wont even be touched by US studios. (manufacturing consent, and the corporation come to mind. I think bowling for columbine was released under NFB but i might be wrong).
as for direct TV i had a dish and you can see plenty of them where i live. I only had to take it down when they built a building next to mine that blocked the signal. the RCMP isnt going to waste its time busting people who have dishes, maybe distribution but im sure they are under presure from bell and such to do that. they barely even bust growers unless someone tells them to "get tough on crime" and as everyone knows, stoners are an easy target.
if the RCMP bust people for stealing sat signals and growing weed, and those are the biggest problems, well that isn't very bad now is it?
also you are dumb because you are confusing the "face" of fox news, with what actually goes on there. Take for example the "investigative reporters" hired by fox to do a report on a steroid that is added to all american milk products. this steroid (rBGH i think it was called) has been proven to cause cancer and make people more resistant to antibiotics. When they found this out, fox fired them as it was too controversial for their pharmacutical industry (monstanto) backed news. LINK
i think its safe to say that if you have to go to so much trouble to promote yourself as hard hitting, indept and 'fair and balanced', your probably lacking in it.
as for news, all amerkian news is pretty much the same. i would suggest the bbc, or cbc for a bit more balanced reporting. and if you dont want to listen to me, i have found this conservative article lambasting them for doing what i would consider a more societally correct, good job.
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Untill they give us, the judas kiss.