Though the RIAA-types will seek extra damages "over and above" the tax if they catch you and they win in court.
Also, I know that the RIAA and other RIAA-type groups from other countries are in regular contact. What are the chances they jointly decided to try these laws out in "testbed" countries, ones who have more liberal-leaning governments, thus creating a world precedent for when the RIAA approaches the US Government?
Just a thought -- it's not a conspiracy, it's business. That's how it's done. Coordination and strategy.
Well, I know my mom had damn good reason to constantly warn me to stay abstinent when I was a teenager, but it was irritating just the same. Stop telling me what to think and just give me unbiased complete specs or nothing at all.
The MacSlashdot Sales Stalkers are a pain in the ass. They make this site feel less like a true conversation with give and take and appreciation of other's viewpoints, and more like there are Jehovah's Witlesses constantly coming to my door, bothering me with something I don't want and will NEVER agree to. Slashdot discussions are becoming all the same cookie-cutter crap. "Whatever you're using is worse than a Mac. You won't be truly happy until you buy a Mac. I can offer you salvation! Buy a Mac. Buy a Mac. Buy a Mac. Don't look too close at the specs, just buy one." If people wanted a sales pitch, they'd go to Apple.com.
But read my posting history, you'll see that I already have a Mac. It's good. OS X beats Windows by far and is more user-friendly than Linux. The only thing I truly hate about it is you people. The sales drones who constantly lie about how great it is on this site and others like it. And if they're not lying, they're twisting the facts just enough that everyone believes one thing without the salesman actually saying it. But they lead everyone on and let them jump to incorrect conclusions without correcting them. Everywhere I go there's somebody telling me something I can prove is not true, just by turning my own computer on! Much of it is true, but it's still not cool to post "Macs are the greatest!" to every damn thread. It's irritating as hell. I partly base my purchase decisions on these comments, and I certainly feel I was lied to in order to make a sale. That's dishonest and I don't respect it one bit.
... Macolytes who have a use for the command-line can really use GeekTool to improve their quality of life. See this picture for an example of its GUI goodness.
Okay, okay, so it's sitting there just churning the CPU. But it looks cool enough to get me chicks, so I figured you guys could use it too.
This is slashdot. You can break the law if it's disobedience against Microsoft, RIAA labels, Disney or any other mean big business. But you can't break the law when it comes to GPL code. Mod it flamebait, whatever, but look at the trends of moderations here anyways.
Yes, you're on SLASHDOT. When you're HERE, you may notice that people support Linux and the Mac (thanks to OS X) and don't really like MS. That's OUR culture.
Over on the Microsoft-Zealot boards, you'd notice that they support Microsoft's law-breaking as "smart business", while they attack the GPL as communist, a cancer, etc. Don't try to convince us to "play nice" with the people who are trying to kill us, please. Because *they're* not going to play nice, and any "sympathy for the devil" we adopt will end up with us dead.
I may be new here, but will someone give a quick rundown on what exactly Y windows is and how it is different or is an improvement over X windows or any other windowing system?
Dude, there is *no* alternative which will allow you to be successful to even a fraction of what the RIAA allows. I'm trying to think of examples, and I can't think of any. I mean, even the amazing fricking genius Prince went out on his own and promptly disappeared. And 99.9% of artists will never have one-tenth the talent Prince has in his fluffy Purple Pirate Shirts. So if *he* can't make it on his own, what chance does anyone else have? There's a lot of CRAP getting to the top WITH the RIAA, and a lot of GREATNESS going nowhere WITHOUT the RIAA. If you have examples to disprove this, I'd be happy. But I think "work hard, kids, and keep your chin up" ain't working against the walls the RIAA has put up (paying radio stations to never play independant music, etc.).
Which reminds me, the Prince bio page on iTunes has many technical inaccuracies, and clearly sides with the record company against the Artist. Does anyone know if Apple wrote the bio, or was it sent from the record company? And I noticed that you can't buy Prince's newer albums through iTunes - basically the bands that NEED iTunes' help with distribution most can't get it, while the Britney crap that you can find anywhere is well represented....
Looking at this article, and all that dit-dah-dah-blah-blah-yadda-yadda stuff these Morse Code guys speak instead of a civilized language with dirty words, commas, and all the other good things English has, I realized I'd heard this type of code before. But WHERE?? Ah, yes, it was that British wanker, Sting. This part-time academic and world-saving genius actually put code snippets in the chorus of his famous song "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da".
De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do do do, de da da da Their innocence will pull me through De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do do do, de da da da They're meaningless and all that's true
I haven't finished translating it yet, but I think he's planning a prison break. Be on your guard, I think he's gonna bust out OJ.
Using the word "AT" means you have built in spam filtering as opposed to using the actual "@" symbol in your email addresses. You never know when people are listening in, waiting to scoop a few million morse code email addresses. Protect yourselves. Use "AT" in your email addresses, or at least something like, for example:
dit-dah-dah-dit-dah -dah-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit dit-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah -dit-dah-dit-dah-dah- dit dah-dit-dah-dit-dah-dit-dit -dah-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah -dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah
This translates to : cmdrtacoREMOVESPAMTRAP@slashSPAMdot.com
If they don't use good solid spamtraps, these Morse code newbies don't know what fresh hell they're in for.
...that this hard-hitting piece of "journalism" made Slashdot's *front page*. I mean, I understand -- slow news day and all, and, well, Slashdot's front page was never a real "exclusive club" in the first place.... "Try to read the cap and see if you've won before you buy the Pepsi." That's it. THAT made the front page. He even put pictures for the, shall we say, "less intellectually fortunate" among the Mac faithful. What's next, "shake your Christmas present and maybe you can tell what's inside?" How about "Check your fruit for bruises BEFORE you buy it to avoid getting bruised fruit!"? GENIUS, I tell you, SHEER GENIUS. Yes, Bobby, "Genius" as in "Genius Bar". I bet Apple's already looking for this Einstein's number as we speak. But they'll have to beat NASA to him! He's like the guy off Phenomenon, I wonder if he can learn Spanish in a half hour. Frickin' Brilliant. I hope he uses his powers for Good, not Evil. Hey, I'm not kidding. He managed to make Slashdot's FRONT PAGE. The FreeBSD guys could cure cancer with their ass and they wouldn't make the front page.
Why do the Editors even *bother* with apple.slashdot.org when something this fundamentally NON-earth-shakingly important (ie remember that credo "Stuff that Matters"?) makes the front page? SLASHDOT is now apple.slashdot.org. Get it? Slashdot = Apple. Everything NON-Apple seems secondary. Linux stories are tolerated. Books are ignored. YRO is buried. Games are irrelevant.
You know, I used to think the guys who say "the Slashdot Editors are on Apple's payroll" and that "Apple is astroturfing here" were crazy. Now, I'm starting to believe it. Or has the definition of "stuff that matters" changed fundamentally since Apple is involved?
Either the editors are slipping or they have an agenda. Take your pick. I like cheating as much as the next guy, but this doesn't deserve front page coverage. I guess that's why I'm not an editor. I'd be fair, I speak in full sentences, and my spelling is adequate. Hell, right there my chances are shot.
This Dual G5 PowerMac of mine runs so fast, I know IBM has to be cutting corners someplace. I mean, it gets to the finish line before my Dell even gets out of the gate! CHEATERS!!!
If you ever have trouble opening files made for Windows, "launder" them. You may have to run it through QuickTime or one of those great free Linux audio players (Audigy I think?) and save as a different "standard" format, which will strip the Acid stuff, then use GB to import them as true GB files....
Using BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is "patently stupid because it's not anonymous, and it can't be made anonymous because it's fundamentally antithetical to the architecture."
WHAAAAATTTT???!!!??? Oh, sh*t.
Uh......I just remembered something I have to do right away. Sorry, gotta go!
[*mumbling*] Dammit, computers should all come with a Pirate Manual!
Yeah, you can, it's just an auto-unpacking zip file -- the only reason it's executable is because the zip software is built right in (for windows).
But I have a very very crappy Windows box that I often unzip them on, or do it at work and burn them all to a CD every week or two. I have WinRar at work that recognizes it as a zip file and can bypass the executable part of it, maybe Stuffit or something will allow you to manually open it and extract the contents as well. I haven't really tried, but I should before I open my big mouth on Slashdot.
Maybe we should write the Acid guys a letter requesting standard zips; although they don't want to support Mac users at all, if we tell them we're PC users who don't have Admin rights to run a strange executable on our PC, they might just switch to zipping it normally, which would be better for everyone.
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As much as can fit on the device, of course.
Though the RIAA-types will seek extra damages "over and above" the tax if they catch you and they win in court.
Also, I know that the RIAA and other RIAA-type groups from other countries are in regular contact. What are the chances they jointly decided to try these laws out in "testbed" countries, ones who have more liberal-leaning governments, thus creating a world precedent for when the RIAA approaches the US Government?
Just a thought -- it's not a conspiracy, it's business. That's how it's done. Coordination and strategy.
Thanks for the link. Scary.
Well, I know my mom had damn good reason to constantly warn me to stay abstinent when I was a teenager, but it was irritating just the same. Stop telling me what to think and just give me unbiased complete specs or nothing at all.
The MacSlashdot Sales Stalkers are a pain in the ass. They make this site feel less like a true conversation with give and take and appreciation of other's viewpoints, and more like there are Jehovah's Witlesses constantly coming to my door, bothering me with something I don't want and will NEVER agree to. Slashdot discussions are becoming all the same cookie-cutter crap. "Whatever you're using is worse than a Mac. You won't be truly happy until you buy a Mac. I can offer you salvation! Buy a Mac. Buy a Mac. Buy a Mac. Don't look too close at the specs, just buy one." If people wanted a sales pitch, they'd go to Apple.com.
But read my posting history, you'll see that I already have a Mac. It's good. OS X beats Windows by far and is more user-friendly than Linux. The only thing I truly hate about it is you people. The sales drones who constantly lie about how great it is on this site and others like it. And if they're not lying, they're twisting the facts just enough that everyone believes one thing without the salesman actually saying it. But they lead everyone on and let them jump to incorrect conclusions without correcting them. Everywhere I go there's somebody telling me something I can prove is not true, just by turning my own computer on! Much of it is true, but it's still not cool to post "Macs are the greatest!" to every damn thread. It's irritating as hell. I partly base my purchase decisions on these comments, and I certainly feel I was lied to in order to make a sale. That's dishonest and I don't respect it one bit.
You know, I haven't seen a single article, on any topic, in the last 6 months where at least one person didn't try to sell me a Mac.
Simply hit Ctrl-Meta-Shift-X-U-G, then Meta-Shift-Q-Shift-P-77, then type gvaomp-txt
Don't worry, it becomes quite natural after a while.
They must have forgotten the decimal point.
I love the tangerine iBook with a flamey flamey passion... I'm running a stripped-down YellowDog, natch.
... Macolytes who have a use for the command-line can really use GeekTool to improve their quality of life. See this picture for an example of its GUI goodness.
Okay, okay, so it's sitting there just churning the CPU. But it looks cool enough to get me chicks, so I figured you guys could use it too.
[drumroll] bah-dum-DUM!
Well, looks like THAT joke bombed.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
This is slashdot. You can break the law if it's disobedience against Microsoft, RIAA labels, Disney or any other mean big business. But you can't break the law when it comes to GPL code. Mod it flamebait, whatever, but look at the trends of moderations here anyways.
Yes, you're on SLASHDOT. When you're HERE, you may notice that people support Linux and the Mac (thanks to OS X) and don't really like MS. That's OUR culture.
Over on the Microsoft-Zealot boards, you'd notice that they support Microsoft's law-breaking as "smart business", while they attack the GPL as communist, a cancer, etc. Don't try to convince us to "play nice" with the people who are trying to kill us, please. Because *they're* not going to play nice, and any "sympathy for the devil" we adopt will end up with us dead.
I may be new here, but will someone give a quick rundown on what exactly Y windows is and how it is different or is an improvement over X windows or any other windowing system?
Simple, Y is One Better.
Just like my amplifier, which goes to 11.
Dude, there is *no* alternative which will allow you to be successful to even a fraction of what the RIAA allows. I'm trying to think of examples, and I can't think of any. I mean, even the amazing fricking genius Prince went out on his own and promptly disappeared. And 99.9% of artists will never have one-tenth the talent Prince has in his fluffy Purple Pirate Shirts. So if *he* can't make it on his own, what chance does anyone else have? There's a lot of CRAP getting to the top WITH the RIAA, and a lot of GREATNESS going nowhere WITHOUT the RIAA. If you have examples to disprove this, I'd be happy. But I think "work hard, kids, and keep your chin up" ain't working against the walls the RIAA has put up (paying radio stations to never play independant music, etc.).
Which reminds me, the Prince bio page on iTunes has many technical inaccuracies, and clearly sides with the record company against the Artist. Does anyone know if Apple wrote the bio, or was it sent from the record company? And I noticed that you can't buy Prince's newer albums through iTunes - basically the bands that NEED iTunes' help with distribution most can't get it, while the Britney crap that you can find anywhere is well represented....
Using the word "AT" means you have built in spam filtering as opposed to using the actual "@" symbol in your email addresses. You never know when people are listening in, waiting to scoop a few million morse code email addresses. Protect yourselves. Use "AT" in your email addresses, or at least something like, for example:
- dit dah-dit-dah-dit-dah-dit-dit -dah-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah -dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah
dit-dah-dah-dit-dah -dah-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit dit-dah-dit-dah-dah-dit-dah
-dit-dah-dit-dah-dah
This translates to : cmdrtacoREMOVESPAMTRAP@slashSPAMdot.com
If they don't use good solid spamtraps, these Morse code newbies don't know what fresh hell they're in for.
...that this hard-hitting piece of "journalism" made Slashdot's *front page*. I mean, I understand -- slow news day and all, and, well, Slashdot's front page was never a real "exclusive club" in the first place.... "Try to read the cap and see if you've won before you buy the Pepsi." That's it. THAT made the front page. He even put pictures for the, shall we say, "less intellectually fortunate" among the Mac faithful. What's next, "shake your Christmas present and maybe you can tell what's inside?" How about "Check your fruit for bruises BEFORE you buy it to avoid getting bruised fruit!"? GENIUS, I tell you, SHEER GENIUS. Yes, Bobby, "Genius" as in "Genius Bar". I bet Apple's already looking for this Einstein's number as we speak. But they'll have to beat NASA to him! He's like the guy off Phenomenon, I wonder if he can learn Spanish in a half hour. Frickin' Brilliant. I hope he uses his powers for Good, not Evil. Hey, I'm not kidding. He managed to make Slashdot's FRONT PAGE. The FreeBSD guys could cure cancer with their ass and they wouldn't make the front page.
Why do the Editors even *bother* with apple.slashdot.org when something this fundamentally NON-earth-shakingly important (ie remember that credo "Stuff that Matters"?) makes the front page? SLASHDOT is now apple.slashdot.org. Get it? Slashdot = Apple. Everything NON-Apple seems secondary. Linux stories are tolerated. Books are ignored. YRO is buried. Games are irrelevant.
You know, I used to think the guys who say "the Slashdot Editors are on Apple's payroll" and that "Apple is astroturfing here" were crazy. Now, I'm starting to believe it. Or has the definition of "stuff that matters" changed fundamentally since Apple is involved?
Either the editors are slipping or they have an agenda. Take your pick. I like cheating as much as the next guy, but this doesn't deserve front page coverage. I guess that's why I'm not an editor. I'd be fair, I speak in full sentences, and my spelling is adequate. Hell, right there my chances are shot.
you're an idiot.
Sorry, just testing a theory I have on moderators here.
You can still go higher on the "lie chain" than a CEO.
This Dual G5 PowerMac of mine runs so fast, I know IBM has to be cutting corners someplace. I mean, it gets to the finish line before my Dell even gets out of the gate! CHEATERS!!!
If you ever have trouble opening files made for Windows, "launder" them. You may have to run it through QuickTime or one of those great free Linux audio players (Audigy I think?) and save as a different "standard" format, which will strip the Acid stuff, then use GB to import them as true GB files....
Using BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is "patently stupid because it's not anonymous, and it can't be made anonymous because it's fundamentally antithetical to the architecture."
...I just remembered something I have to do right away. Sorry, gotta go!
!
WHAAAAATTTT???!!!??? Oh, sh*t.
Uh...
[*mumbling*] Dammit, computers should all come with a Pirate Manual!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!!!
Ah, hell, it was worth a try!
So who's gonna port some Mac software to Linux?
That's what I got. Thanks for the Mac unzip tip, I should have thought of it, being an old Unix hack ;-P
Yeah, you can, it's just an auto-unpacking zip file -- the only reason it's executable is because the zip software is built right in (for windows).
But I have a very very crappy Windows box that I often unzip them on, or do it at work and burn them all to a CD every week or two. I have WinRar at work that recognizes it as a zip file and can bypass the executable part of it, maybe Stuffit or something will allow you to manually open it and extract the contents as well. I haven't really tried, but I should before I open my big mouth on Slashdot.
Maybe we should write the Acid guys a letter requesting standard zips; although they don't want to support Mac users at all, if we tell them we're PC users who don't have Admin rights to run a strange executable on our PC, they might just switch to zipping it normally, which would be better for everyone.