From TFA:""The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."
They said this in front of the Supreme Court. Legally, they don't have a leg to stand on.
The problem with this is that certain file-sharing clients - bittorrent, eule, etc - force you to share a file as you're downloading it, so you probably upload some of it before you even have all of it.
Dude, I dunno.... it's hard to imagine the duck-bill platypus evolving naturally. Kinda makes it looks like that not only is there a God but he gets crazy-ass drunk occasionally too.
They weren't really supposed to have an ending. Like Tetris and other games of the era, the older arcade and Atari games were designed to be played indefinitely. As far I know, video games that actually end came about with Nintendo - and in point of fact, some of them had no ending either, like Duck Hunt with that damned giggling dog everyone in all creation despised.
Weeks? Dude, more like a couple of hours. The crack will probably appear on the p2p networks within three days (along with a whole load of trojan-ridden fakes, no doubt).
Thank you. My machine has 512 mb RAM (planning ot upgrade soon) and I multi-task a lot, so when I'm running FF I'm almost running 1 or 2 other programs at the same time. That's why it's very high use of memory becomes a problem. And with a fast connection like I have now, I can't tell that my page load performance is suffering at all.
But... what they should do is to put this in the regular optios menu instead of about:config. Lots of users don't even know to use about:config. I really like FF but the "we know better than you" attitude of the Moz team is starting to bug me. No, it's my machine and I know what I want to do with it, so I think I just might know better than they do.
Because so much stuff on the market is made in China we get it shoved down our throats. Google had a choice. They failed to make the good choice and instead made an evil one. The Tiananmen Square massacre is well within living memory of most Chinese and continues to serve as a warning to this day. I don't see the difference between complying with China's government and dealing with, say, Hitler.
As to Picassa, they can keep it. Very annoying and rather slow. I'd much rather see FastStone's Image Viewer ported to *nix (even if it requires using Wine's libs) than Picasa.
Agreed. I have Windows 2000 and when I switch over to Linux running KDE I feel like I've been released from prison. So much cleaner, so much more adjustable and Konqueror as a file manager beats Explorer into a bloody pulp. And Explorer in Windows XP - why is everything so huge since there isn't that much there? Dude, my eyesight admittedly isn't what it was when I was teenager but I'm not that blind yet. With Konqueror little space is wasted, plus I can only have what I want there. I don't love KDE because it's like Windows, I love it because I can make it be like whatever I want. As Slascrunch said, if it became an Explorer-clone I'd switch to something else. I believe KDE has mistakenly gained a reputation as Explorer-like mostly because it's used with all the newbie-friendly distros, but I think KDE is a good choice in that regard simply because it's easier to use. If you use both Windows and Linux with KDE you quickly realize how very different they are.
but let's be honest. "You've probably heard the quote, "BSD is for people that love Unix; Linux is for people that hate Windows."
Okay, I'm being honest. I actually never have heard that before. I hate Windows and MS because my first computer came with Windows ME and I feel that I was totally screwed. If I'd wanted a Mac I'd have gotten one.
"Many Linux users have no particular loyalty to Linux and would just as soon use something else. "
Funny, but I've been thinking the exact opposite, that too many of them are rather blindly loyal to their distro of choice. Mepis retail will require a serial number to update soon, for example, and the serial number is tied to the MAC address of your computer. This means that you'll have to fill out a form to update if you switch computers and that they can refuse to allow you uto update. It also means that you can only use your copy on one machine; even Linspire lets you use one copy on up to 5 computers in your home IIRC. We *nix users have been telling people for years that you don't have to put with this kind of treatment from MS but the Mepis folks are loyal enough to think this is a good idea for Mepis for some reason, even though Mepis has been known for some time as having problems with bug-squashing. As I posted at Distrowatch, why bother with this when there are other distros that are more stable and free? But the Mepis people are loyal.
Much the same can be said for the Libranet people; Libranet was more stable but it was also expensive, and the only original code the developers came up with they've refused to share with the Linux community even though their product was over 90% based on Debian's GPL code. Now that Libranet has been discontinued the adminmenu has remained closed-source. Why the lead developer's son refused to share with the community their product was based on, I don't know. But the Libranet users have remained quite loyal to them. And don't get me started about Mandriva.
"More than a few people from my local LUG have installed a bootlegged copy of the OSx86 beta. One of our members showed off his toshiba laptop running OS X, which was quite popular, even among the old school unix types."
Why they bother is beyond me. Oh wait, I do know - bragging rights. That's what a MAC is apparently all about as Apple fanboys spend so much time bragging on how great it is. One would think if it was so perfectly functioal they'd spend more time using it. "Plus I have a system that everyone envies!" was one post I read at Digg. C'mon, admit it- we all know that's really why people want a Mac.
"While we may protest that KDE or GNOME are better than OS X, the collective orgasm when Apple announced an OSx86 show that free (beer) beats free (speech)"
Really? I don't remember having an orgasm over OSX. I have had plenty of orgasms since it was released, but my thoughts at the time had nothing to with OSX (or even computers, for that matter). The media and people at Digg have been fawning over it and they seem to think that everyone in the world wants a Mac. They're wrong; give me a Mac and I'll sell it and use the money to upgrade my AMD running Linux, thank you very much.
"It doesn't really matter what features or eye candy KDE or GNOME add, because OS X does it better. "
I disagree. I don't like OSX's cluttered UI and I don't like vendor lock-in. With KDE I can remove the icons and have everything on auto-hide if I want to. And sometimes I do; if I wanted all this junk on my dekstop why would I bother using a wallpaer? Plus it's convenient to get everything out of my way when I'm multi-tasking. Apple has a lot of great eye-candy if you don't mind it being in your way, but I do mind. And when I want eye candy KDE has plenty enough of it to satisfy me. Plus I want freedom of choice, not what Apple chooses for me. Kde lets me choose when I wan the eye candy, how I want it to look, but only when I want it.
I agree.... but I'd like to see more chip-manufacturers. Two companies just aren't enough to breed good competition, imho. Consider if our only choices of OS were still Unix and the Mac - no BSD (and consequently no OSX), no Windows, no Linux, no Solaris and so on. But does any other company that got into the business now stand a chance? Only if they were already powerful enough in some other area of the PC hardware world, I think. It's too bad none of them seem to be willing to step up to the plate because more competition would (hopefully) produce more innovation.
Maybe redundant, but I'll post this anyway. My husband is a gamer, and a game from MS was the ONLY game we've run across that wouldn't install or work on Windows 2000, plus 90% of all the games we have claim to still support Windows 98. No, I take that back; there was an idiot somewhere who made a freeware game that wouldn't install on Windows 2000 but supported Windows 98, ME and XP (I'll leave you guys to figure that one out). Anyway, MS's games aren't that great compared to those produced by other game companies so he says he isn't missing much. To summarize: if MS produces games that will only on Vista, so what? Other game companies apparently aren't going to drop support for older versions of Windows, and even Microsoft isn't powerful enough to force them to.
I think you're missing something. "They even shared the little they had" is the key phrase. They have a communal society. People rely on each other emotionally there. Western culture is very lonely by comparison. How much do you rely emotionally on your neighbors? We're very, very alienated from our own culture. They're genuinely a part of their community, not just residents in it.
I believe that was the parent poster's point, and all these other comparisons about electric generators and such are just plain silly. I have a fast connection, but I've seen a bad storm knock out the lines so no one in my area could connect with any internet service, and it took the companies days to fix them all. So if I can't connect to the net I can at least still use the Gimp, use swriter to read/work on stuff, play games or listen to music. But if the OS and most of the apps I want to use are completely internet-based? What then?
Making guns isn't really comparable to an adware company offering incentives to execute botnet attacks, imho. It would only be comparable if the gun manufacturer offered rewards for shooting people, which I've never heard of any doing. If someone takes out a contract on another person's life, we don't let them walk away and just punish the hitman.
I always thought it had something to do with being compassionate and tender-hearted. Some people just can't stand the thought of animals suffering in any way, whether by being out in the cold or going hungry, because they consider them to be more innocent than humans (a typical anti-social trait, in fact).
Um... the same thing can often apply with regards to depression, treating the cause rather than the sympton. God knows I went through enough of that when I was a kid. Gee whiz, I need to treat this poor little girl for depression. Wait, could it be her neglectful and abusive parents who make her depressed? Nah, that's pretty unlikely. Let's give her anti-depressants instead.
Clicnical depression - depression without an actual cause - is a separate problem, usually caused by a chemical imbalance. But many cases of depression are symptoms of other problems, and treating the person for depression rather than helping them with said problems isn't going to be very effective. Unfortunately, that's the approach most doctors take. (And a cynical person might note that since their problems aren't going away the doctor continues to make money for treating them.)
I have to agree with some of the posts made to reply to this. The more people I meet, the more I like my cats. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm getting older and therefore more experienced, but it just seems to me that people's real motives shine through and I can all too easily discern how greedy, selfish and manipulative most are. People are unreally unpleasant the more you get to understand what motivates them, and you realize why this nice individual is being nice to you - chances are, it's not because he or she is actually a nice person. And what the hell is so wrong with being self-reliant anyway? Sounds a bit like fearing someone because they don't conform.
Human nature? There have been cultures where such actions would bring shame upon the perpetrator's family line for generations. It's our modern cultural nature that makes us like this, not because we're simply human. Otherwise, I totally agree with you, but people need to know about pre-modern societies that have existed before making broad sweeping statements about human nature. You'd probably be amazed at how rigidly people stuck by their ethics is many cultures and how different those ethics could be.
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From TFA:""The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it's been on their website for some time now, that it's perfectly lawful to take a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, put it onto your iPod."
They said this in front of the Supreme Court. Legally, they don't have a leg to stand on.
The problem with this is that certain file-sharing clients - bittorrent, eule, etc - force you to share a file as you're downloading it, so you probably upload some of it before you even have all of it.
Dude, I dunno.... it's hard to imagine the duck-bill platypus evolving naturally. Kinda makes it looks like that not only is there a God but he gets crazy-ass drunk occasionally too.
Giving a politician an ethics course would only give them new ideas on how to be dishonest. That's the way they are.
They weren't really supposed to have an ending. Like Tetris and other games of the era, the older arcade and Atari games were designed to be played indefinitely. As far I know, video games that actually end came about with Nintendo - and in point of fact, some of them had no ending either, like Duck Hunt with that damned giggling dog everyone in all creation despised.
Weeks? Dude, more like a couple of hours. The crack will probably appear on the p2p networks within three days (along with a whole load of trojan-ridden fakes, no doubt).
Thank you. My machine has 512 mb RAM (planning ot upgrade soon) and I multi-task a lot, so when I'm running FF I'm almost running 1 or 2 other programs at the same time. That's why it's very high use of memory becomes a problem. And with a fast connection like I have now, I can't tell that my page load performance is suffering at all.
But... what they should do is to put this in the regular optios menu instead of about:config. Lots of users don't even know to use about:config. I really like FF but the "we know better than you" attitude of the Moz team is starting to bug me. No, it's my machine and I know what I want to do with it, so I think I just might know better than they do.
Indeed.
(Not mine.)
Because so much stuff on the market is made in China we get it shoved down our throats. Google had a choice. They failed to make the good choice and instead made an evil one. The Tiananmen Square massacre is well within living memory of most Chinese and continues to serve as a warning to this day. I don't see the difference between complying with China's government and dealing with, say, Hitler.
As to Picassa, they can keep it. Very annoying and rather slow. I'd much rather see FastStone's Image Viewer ported to *nix (even if it requires using Wine's libs) than Picasa.
Agreed. I have Windows 2000 and when I switch over to Linux running KDE I feel like I've been released from prison. So much cleaner, so much more adjustable and Konqueror as a file manager beats Explorer into a bloody pulp. And Explorer in Windows XP - why is everything so huge since there isn't that much there? Dude, my eyesight admittedly isn't what it was when I was teenager but I'm not that blind yet. With Konqueror little space is wasted, plus I can only have what I want there. I don't love KDE because it's like Windows, I love it because I can make it be like whatever I want. As Slascrunch said, if it became an Explorer-clone I'd switch to something else. I believe KDE has mistakenly gained a reputation as Explorer-like mostly because it's used with all the newbie-friendly distros, but I think KDE is a good choice in that regard simply because it's easier to use. If you use both Windows and Linux with KDE you quickly realize how very different they are.
but let's be honest. "You've probably heard the quote, "BSD is for people that love Unix; Linux is for people that hate Windows."
Okay, I'm being honest. I actually never have heard that before. I hate Windows and MS because my first computer came with Windows ME and I feel that I was totally screwed. If I'd wanted a Mac I'd have gotten one.
"Many Linux users have no particular loyalty to Linux and would just as soon use something else. "
Funny, but I've been thinking the exact opposite, that too many of them are rather blindly loyal to their distro of choice. Mepis retail will require a serial number to update soon, for example, and the serial number is tied to the MAC address of your computer. This means that you'll have to fill out a form to update if you switch computers and that they can refuse to allow you uto update. It also means that you can only use your copy on one machine; even Linspire lets you use one copy on up to 5 computers in your home IIRC. We *nix users have been telling people for years that you don't have to put with this kind of treatment from MS but the Mepis folks are loyal enough to think this is a good idea for Mepis for some reason, even though Mepis has been known for some time as having problems with bug-squashing. As I posted at Distrowatch, why bother with this when there are other distros that are more stable and free? But the Mepis people are loyal.
Much the same can be said for the Libranet people; Libranet was more stable but it was also expensive, and the only original code the developers came up with they've refused to share with the Linux community even though their product was over 90% based on Debian's GPL code. Now that Libranet has been discontinued the adminmenu has remained closed-source. Why the lead developer's son refused to share with the community their product was based on, I don't know. But the Libranet users have remained quite loyal to them. And don't get me started about Mandriva.
"More than a few people from my local LUG have installed a bootlegged copy of the OSx86 beta. One of our members showed off his toshiba laptop running OS X, which was quite popular, even among the old school unix types."
Why they bother is beyond me. Oh wait, I do know - bragging rights. That's what a MAC is apparently all about as Apple fanboys spend so much time bragging on how great it is. One would think if it was so perfectly functioal they'd spend more time using it. "Plus I have a system that everyone envies!" was one post I read at Digg. C'mon, admit it- we all know that's really why people want a Mac.
"While we may protest that KDE or GNOME are better than OS X, the collective orgasm when Apple announced an OSx86 show that free (beer) beats free (speech)"
Really? I don't remember having an orgasm over OSX. I have had plenty of orgasms since it was released, but my thoughts at the time had nothing to with OSX (or even computers, for that matter). The media and people at Digg have been fawning over it and they seem to think that everyone in the world wants a Mac. They're wrong; give me a Mac and I'll sell it and use the money to upgrade my AMD running Linux, thank you very much.
"It doesn't really matter what features or eye candy KDE or GNOME add, because OS X does it better. "
I disagree. I don't like OSX's cluttered UI and I don't like vendor lock-in. With KDE I can remove the icons and have everything on auto-hide if I want to. And sometimes I do; if I wanted all this junk on my dekstop why would I bother using a wallpaer? Plus it's convenient to get everything out of my way when I'm multi-tasking. Apple has a lot of great eye-candy if you don't mind it being in your way, but I do mind. And when I want eye candy KDE has plenty enough of it to satisfy me. Plus I want freedom of choice, not what Apple chooses for me. Kde lets me choose when I wan the eye candy, how I want it to look, but only when I want it.
I agree.... but I'd like to see more chip-manufacturers. Two companies just aren't enough to breed good competition, imho. Consider if our only choices of OS were still Unix and the Mac - no BSD (and consequently no OSX), no Windows, no Linux, no Solaris and so on. But does any other company that got into the business now stand a chance? Only if they were already powerful enough in some other area of the PC hardware world, I think. It's too bad none of them seem to be willing to step up to the plate because more competition would (hopefully) produce more innovation.
Maybe redundant, but I'll post this anyway. My husband is a gamer, and a game from MS was the ONLY game we've run across that wouldn't install or work on Windows 2000, plus 90% of all the games we have claim to still support Windows 98. No, I take that back; there was an idiot somewhere who made a freeware game that wouldn't install on Windows 2000 but supported Windows 98, ME and XP (I'll leave you guys to figure that one out). Anyway, MS's games aren't that great compared to those produced by other game companies so he says he isn't missing much. To summarize: if MS produces games that will only on Vista, so what? Other game companies apparently aren't going to drop support for older versions of Windows, and even Microsoft isn't powerful enough to force them to.
I think you're missing something. "They even shared the little they had" is the key phrase. They have a communal society. People rely on each other emotionally there. Western culture is very lonely by comparison. How much do you rely emotionally on your neighbors? We're very, very alienated from our own culture. They're genuinely a part of their community, not just residents in it.
Even though the taxpayers have already paid for extra-high speed broadband that has never become available?
Will a basic pat-down and frisk be enough, or do I have to get a flashlight and gloves?
Seems to be that would depend on who the searchee was.... (and hot they were)."but if you can't connect, you're fucked
I believe that was the parent poster's point, and all these other comparisons about electric generators and such are just plain silly. I have a fast connection, but I've seen a bad storm knock out the lines so no one in my area could connect with any internet service, and it took the companies days to fix them all. So if I can't connect to the net I can at least still use the Gimp, use swriter to read/work on stuff, play games or listen to music. But if the OS and most of the apps I want to use are completely internet-based? What then?Making guns isn't really comparable to an adware company offering incentives to execute botnet attacks, imho. It would only be comparable if the gun manufacturer offered rewards for shooting people, which I've never heard of any doing. If someone takes out a contract on another person's life, we don't let them walk away and just punish the hitman.
I always thought it had something to do with being compassionate and tender-hearted. Some people just can't stand the thought of animals suffering in any way, whether by being out in the cold or going hungry, because they consider them to be more innocent than humans (a typical anti-social trait, in fact).
Um... the same thing can often apply with regards to depression, treating the cause rather than the sympton. God knows I went through enough of that when I was a kid. Gee whiz, I need to treat this poor little girl for depression. Wait, could it be her neglectful and abusive parents who make her depressed? Nah, that's pretty unlikely. Let's give her anti-depressants instead.
Clicnical depression - depression without an actual cause - is a separate problem, usually caused by a chemical imbalance. But many cases of depression are symptoms of other problems, and treating the person for depression rather than helping them with said problems isn't going to be very effective. Unfortunately, that's the approach most doctors take. (And a cynical person might note that since their problems aren't going away the doctor continues to make money for treating them.)
I have to agree with some of the posts made to reply to this. The more people I meet, the more I like my cats. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm getting older and therefore more experienced, but it just seems to me that people's real motives shine through and I can all too easily discern how greedy, selfish and manipulative most are. People are unreally unpleasant the more you get to understand what motivates them, and you realize why this nice individual is being nice to you - chances are, it's not because he or she is actually a nice person. And what the hell is so wrong with being self-reliant anyway? Sounds a bit like fearing someone because they don't conform.
Human nature? There have been cultures where such actions would bring shame upon the perpetrator's family line for generations. It's our modern cultural nature that makes us like this, not because we're simply human. Otherwise, I totally agree with you, but people need to know about pre-modern societies that have existed before making broad sweeping statements about human nature. You'd probably be amazed at how rigidly people stuck by their ethics is many cultures and how different those ethics could be.
SCO may try to claim ownership of it, but I'll bet AT&T will say they already have a patent on it.
No, but I guess if you add a few more syllables and it could be turned into some bizarre cop fetish. Or (ick!) a cop and tick fetish......
Well, for some reason the link turn out right right, crap. Sorry about that. Trying again: Windows patches