There's nothing intrinsically illegal about copying copyrighted works. It's only 99.9% of the time when you don't have a license to do so (GPL, BSD, you know). What? You think half of Slashdot's audience runs on public domain software?
More on-topic: In my case piracy is often best way to find out whether I want to buy somebody's music. For example I illegally downloaded one song a while ago and yesterday I bought the album. I would have never heard the song if I didn't see it on P2P and think `Echobelly, I wonder if they're any good'. So my argument is that if I never hear the music how can I like it (and hense buy it) because I'm sure as hell not buying music without hearing it first. And I won't hear it anywhere else for various reasons.
Even though New South Wales is not in Wales and in Australia we have similar laws in the UK preventing people carrying potential weapons around.
Trust a USAian to think of people not being allowed to carry potential weapons as a negative thing. I think most Brits would regard not being able to carry a potential weapon as a good thing. You know, decreasing violent crime and all that. But then you USAians like your guns too much. It's as if your right to kill people is more important than my right not to be killed.
Protest Records specifically says at the bottom of its mp3s page `use 'em yrself, give 'em to friends, just don't sell 'em'. There's some good music there.
Unfotunately I don't think I know of any sites with lots of free/legal music other than Protest Records. Free is, unfortunately a very common word so it's not easy searching for `free music'.
You can often get an mp3 or two from a band's website too.
I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution.
You never had/have free periods at school (or any other educational institution) then?
I have about four hours in a row free once a fortnight and plenty of three-hour and two-hour frees on my current timetable. I usually sleep in the three and four hour frees (I missed half a lesson once because I slept through the bell). If my mind was kept awake (by music, for example) I may be able to get some work done. It is VERY VERY boring in the common room.
was about discovery and making great things. But apparently it's about patenting the best ideas.
Why can't science be for the good of all not just for the ruling class? I hate it when people come up with good ideas then think they have to patent them.
What would we be allowed to know about physics if Einstein patented his ideas? We'd have to pay to use E=mc^2.
Science is about profit not discovering great things and sharing them with the world.
Maybe we'll tell our friends' grandchildren about the great `IP' wars of the 2000s and they'll laugh. And then we'll tell them about our 64-bit processors with buffer overflow-protection and they'll laugh. And then we'll tell them that when they're older they'll like snogging and then we'll laugh.
She can open it but it just has holes for oil and wiper fluid. Surely this is anti-competetive if only Skoda can open her bonnet (hood). (I'm just guessing that they can open it. I HOPE they can open it) It's a Skoda um... Fabia/Felicia maybe? It might start with a f...
So we shifted the filling station for washer fluid to the side of the car, next to where you fill up fuel, and we closed the bonnet for good.
Yeah that's nice that it's been moved to a convenient place so you don't need to open the bonnet but surely moving a few tubes doesn't mean the bonnet should be permanently closed. What possible reason do they have for welding the thing shut? Let's see... there's aesthetics and there's anti-competitive practices. I'm sure it'll be for aesthetics when the competition comission ask them.
I was going to `submit a site' - www.XFree86.org - as they obviously don't have it when I am confronted with `Please Upgrade Your Browser'
` You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8' They tell me what browser I'm using which is all well and good...
`To view this site you must use: Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer or Netscape(R) Navigator 4.0 or higher' And have the CHEEK to suggest it's not good enough.
`Click here to find the latest free browser from Microsoft' They already know I'm running `Linux i686' so are they saying IE 6 works under Wine? Or maybe they have a GNU/Linux version.
Or maybe they're just big monopolistic meanies!
(I had to go and check if Netscape was even available for GNU/Linux and it is. Their website is so wonderful that I had to type `download Netscape' into their search bar to find where to download it.)
As the logo says, ``Winners don't use drugs.'' But of course winners indiscrimately beat the shit out of everybody who crosses their path as the content of a lot of games suggest.
Yes, I did paraphrase that from something I read somewhere...
I have a little 13" TV and I get terrible reception half the time (the rest of the time I get okay reception) and it's great. Why anybody would want anything bigger is completely beyond me...
won't change lights if you don't press it. However, I have noticed some interesting `features'. If you press the button when there's no traffic nearby the lights go almost immediately. However, if the button is pressed when traffic is anywhere near the lights they wait for ages before changing. If you press it when traffic is near then the traffic moves away from the light it takes longer than when there's no traffic and I think it's shorter than when there's lots of traffic. So basically they don't change when I most need them to. I miss a lot of busses that way.
Can you get traffic light changers to make the pedestrian lights green?
Wasn't there a poll about annoying naming buzzwords recently? Win XP Reloaded is too many buzzwords for me. What next? HypermegaLH Y2K+5 cyber-XP? I'm so good, I should go into marketing... for Microsoft.
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There's nothing intrinsically illegal about copying copyrighted works. It's only 99.9% of the time when you don't have a license to do so (GPL, BSD, you know). What? You think half of Slashdot's audience runs on public domain software?
More on-topic: In my case piracy is often best way to find out whether I want to buy somebody's music. For example I illegally downloaded one song a while ago and yesterday I bought the album. I would have never heard the song if I didn't see it on P2P and think `Echobelly, I wonder if they're any good'. So my argument is that if I never hear the music how can I like it (and hense buy it) because I'm sure as hell not buying music without hearing it first. And I won't hear it anywhere else for various reasons.
And we can see shooting spam as the spamellites hurtle to Earth.
Even though New South Wales is not in Wales and in Australia we have similar laws in the UK preventing people carrying potential weapons around.
Trust a USAian to think of people not being allowed to carry potential weapons as a negative thing. I think most Brits would regard not being able to carry a potential weapon as a good thing. You know, decreasing violent crime and all that. But then you USAians like your guns too much. It's as if your right to kill people is more important than my right not to be killed.
Protest Records specifically says at the bottom of its mp3s page `use 'em yrself, give 'em to friends, just don't sell 'em'. There's some good music there. Unfotunately I don't think I know of any sites with lots of free/legal music other than Protest Records. Free is, unfortunately a very common word so it's not easy searching for `free music'.
You can often get an mp3 or two from a band's website too.
Indeed. I can't tell you how many fights erupt when a Brit asks a Yank for a cigarette.
Or the other way around when the USians try to `bum a cig'
I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution.
You never had/have free periods at school (or any other educational institution) then?
I have about four hours in a row free once a fortnight and plenty of three-hour and two-hour frees on my current timetable. I usually sleep in the three and four hour frees (I missed half a lesson once because I slept through the bell). If my mind was kept awake (by music, for example) I may be able to get some work done. It is VERY VERY boring in the common room.
I hope no-one realises this is a comb-over!
I meet new people via friends. You know, I get added into a group conversation (IM or IRL) and I say hi and they say hi.
I've never used social networking websites.
was about discovery and making great things. But apparently it's about patenting the best ideas.
Why can't science be for the good of all not just for the ruling class? I hate it when people come up with good ideas then think they have to patent them.
What would we be allowed to know about physics if Einstein patented his ideas? We'd have to pay to use E=mc^2.
Science is about profit not discovering great things and sharing them with the world.
Super Martian Ball!
(forgetting the fact that this is /. for a minute)
Maybe we'll tell our friends' grandchildren about the great `IP' wars of the 2000s and they'll laugh. And then we'll tell them about our 64-bit processors with buffer overflow-protection and they'll laugh. And then we'll tell them that when they're older they'll like snogging and then we'll laugh.
She can open it but it just has holes for oil and wiper fluid. Surely this is anti-competetive if only Skoda can open her bonnet (hood). (I'm just guessing that they can open it. I HOPE they can open it)
It's a Skoda um... Fabia/Felicia maybe? It might start with a f...
So we shifted the filling station for washer fluid to the side of the car, next to where you fill up fuel, and we closed the bonnet for good.
Yeah that's nice that it's been moved to a convenient place so you don't need to open the bonnet but surely moving a few tubes doesn't mean the bonnet should be permanently closed. What possible reason do they have for welding the thing shut? Let's see... there's aesthetics and there's anti-competitive practices. I'm sure it'll be for aesthetics when the competition comission ask them.
Sure it makes sense. It also makes sense that if you have a car I like, I should just take it, right?
There are components I copyrighted in your car but it's your lucky day because I have one license left!
A video would be preferable. Just make sure they don't have any MPAA digital tags on them.
*whispers* You searched for XFree89, this topic is about XFree86.
To be honest as far as I know the only difference between the two is XFree3 but then I'm no professional geek.
I was going to `submit a site' - www.XFree86.org - as they obviously don't have it when I am confronted with `Please Upgrade Your Browser'
` You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8'
They tell me what browser I'm using which is all well and good...
`To view this site you must use:
Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer or Netscape(R) Navigator 4.0 or higher'
And have the CHEEK to suggest it's not good enough.
`Click here to find the latest free browser from Microsoft'
They already know I'm running `Linux i686' so are they saying IE 6 works under Wine? Or maybe they have a GNU/Linux version.
Or maybe they're just big monopolistic meanies!
(I had to go and check if Netscape was even available for GNU/Linux and it is. Their website is so wonderful that I had to type `download Netscape' into their search bar to find where to download it.)
Also, there is a bit of fun about this in the Phantom Forums...that actually exist.
It's `Down for maintainance'... so for all intents and purposes it doesn't exist.
As the logo says, ``Winners don't use drugs.'' But of course winners indiscrimately beat the shit out of everybody who crosses their path as the content of a lot of games suggest.
Yes, I did paraphrase that from something I read somewhere...
*click* No
Oh, you do?
*click* NO!
Sorry I thought you clicked yes. All your MP3s are now DRM-enabled.
I have a little 13" TV and I get terrible reception half the time (the rest of the time I get okay reception) and it's great. Why anybody would want anything bigger is completely beyond me...
won't change lights if you don't press it. However, I have noticed some interesting `features'.
If you press the button when there's no traffic nearby the lights go almost immediately. However, if the button is pressed when traffic is anywhere near the lights they wait for ages before changing. If you press it when traffic is near then the traffic moves away from the light it takes longer than when there's no traffic and I think it's shorter than when there's lots of traffic. So basically they don't change when I most need them to. I miss a lot of busses that way.
Can you get traffic light changers to make the pedestrian lights green?
You don't hang in a basket above a submarine. And balloons have fuel.
that people can press Ctrl when they put their DRM-CDs in now?
Oh I've waited to press that key for sooo long.
Anyone who ever has turned Java down in favor of something else, because it is not free?
I don't use Java (because it's not free) and YAST (YAST is semi-free, shush) won't let me forget it. OOo needs it, apparently.
So in short, YAST is evil and so is Java.
Wasn't there a poll about annoying naming buzzwords recently? Win XP Reloaded is too many buzzwords for me. What next? HypermegaLH Y2K+5 cyber-XP? I'm so good, I should go into marketing... for Microsoft.