Which part of "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" you don't understand? Anonymity is only needed if you don't want to be recognized.
How is their right to freedom of speech being violated? They're not being censored. As noted above, freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences, but you seem to be ignoring that and saying it does.
Which consequences do these bitches
And you just insulted them. I think you're proving their point. you seem to think you can hide behind anonymity and say whatever you want. What if you couldn't? I can guarantee you that if you called me a bitch on an internet board and lived anywhere near me you'd get punched in the face. Clearly, what you're advocating is that your identity be protected. That has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
That's definitely *NOT* an actionable consequence of free speech.
Why not? Just because you'd rather it wasn't? What if a lot of other people don't feel the same way? Because a lot of people don't. And before you start calling everyone who disagrees with you stupid and trying to make out like they're morally wrong for not allowing you to get off scot-free with abusing people online anonymously, I have to wonder why you so apparently want to make sure that you can still troll others and keep your identity a secret.
In short, grow up. If you don't have the guts to say something and let it be known that you said it, you should keep it to yourself in the first place.
You're kidding, I know, but the sunsets and sunrises on Venus would be interesting since the planet rotates in the opposite direction. The rotation would affect light.
This is exactly the "I want it the way it is, fork it and fit it yourself" attitude the Pidgin team seems to have, not to mention the Gimp team, the Blender team, etc. And they keep getting lots of criticism for their UI design philosophy, for not listening to their users, and as many/.ers put it, having their heads stuck up their asses. Should a user have to become a coder just to fix a problem or issue because the devs just don't wanna? That is a half-assed development style, not a professional one. I wouldn't hire any of these people to do my coding; I want someone who sees a project all the way through and listens to what I want.
Agreed. It doesn't matter how little it costs them to make, they'll charge big bucks for it as long as they can. I wouldn't be surprised if it was introduced at double the current going price of RAM of equal capacity.
It works both ways -- and if it doesn't, it's going to for me anyhow. (I'm not in a good mood today.) If the game companies are allowed to indulge in name-calling people who rip them off, what name do we get to call the game companies that rip people off? The laws aside (they only enforce the good for the game companies), why should they be allowed to get away with making crappy games that you can't return, loading their games with DRM, that if it doesn't screw up your computer (remember Starforce?), is designed to to make you buy a second copy of the game, thus paying them twice for the same product? But nooooo, it's all about the poor, poor game companies who get ripped off left and right. It's perfectly okay for them to rip us off, now isn't it? Frankly, I'm so sick of that kind of treatment from them, it's enough to drive me to pirate games more. If they didn't pull this crap continually and try to pass laws that prevent you from doing anything about it, I would care. Screw that. Like it or not, we're not going along with it. You rip people off, they rip you off. That's how it is and how it's going to be, no matter what you do. Sure, even if they did dump all this DRM and crap and start treating their customers decently there would still be people pirating the game, but that number would drop significantly -- and yes, I would bet my life on that because I do know how it is out there in gamer-land and pirate-land. Besides, their exorbitant prices on new games more than make up for any of the losses they keep imagining that they're suffering. Again, why should I care?
Yeah, that's what they all say. They somehow think if they convince people they're only "trying" it out then somehow they aren't scumbags.
You're not only an troll who is probably bemoaning the fact that the crummy game company he works for isn't able to screw people over as much they used to, but you're also WRONG. I have done exactly that more times than I can count. Demos are all too often betas that have a habit of screwing up my OS installation, so I avoid them like the plague they are. But I have many times downloaded a game and then bought it because I liked it.
And yes, I definitely do download cd cracks -- to hell with the game companies, I'm not going to buy another copy of your game because you used DRM to make sure I always had to have the cd in the drive, thus insuring that it would get scratched from use and I would need another copy just finish the game. Everybody knows that this is what needing the cd in the drive is for and that's why so few people have no sympathy for the game companies. They are trying to rip you off. So why should we care that they're getting ripped off too? I sure don't.
Well, I am not sure that housewives can't be geeks.
I guess you can now be sure that they can. Sure, I fix other peoples' computers occasionally but I'm still a housewife. I've been posting here for years now. I've used several different Linux distros, including Mandrake, Xandros (believe it or not, there WAS a time when it didn't suck), Red Hat (before there was Fedora), Slackware, Debian, and of late, Kubuntu. I even know HTML, though I don't know any coding languages; I've thought about learning python, but my guitar takes up enough time. On the other hand, maybe I'm not a true geek, since if it came to a choice between my computers and my guitars, the guitars will win. No contest.
Y'know, I could say something here about how music fans today are so accustomed to being spoon-fed muzak manufactured to the RIAA formula that a robot band sounds no less lively or soulful than modern pop stars, but I won't. That would just make me look like an old fogie.
Most of you seem to be saying no, but I think you've forgotten about Singularity. Sure, it's a research OS, but rumor has long had it that it's more stable than Windows. All the Windows apps could be run via virtualization -- since they have the original code, they should be able to make it work better than even the Wine project, right? (Cue the MS incompetence jokes....) The only real problem is legacy hardware but a lot of that could be abandoned; some Mac-users were pissed off when old apps and hardware didn't work with OS X, but they got over it. Don't make the mistake of thinking that some of the initial negative reactions would really hurt them in the long run. Lots of people would buy new hardware after a while rather than be left behind (with an appropriate amount of grumbling, of course).
Security? At first glance it well seems that Vista hurt more than it helped, but I think maybe it did help. A lot of Vista users did gain a little awareness of security. What they really need to do is introduce some consistency there, something a lot closer to Unix-style permissions instead of constant pop-ups. Make it a little easier to deal with -- BSD and Linux did. Contrary to popular belief among Vista-users, most forms of Linux and BSD do not nag you constantly for the root password, actually a bit less than Vista. Yes, I have used both Linux and Vista recently. And that brings me to another point: Vista's memory usage, even with SP 1, still sucks in comparison to XP. XP on my other computer is using 619 MB of RAM right now and it has a explorer window open, Jet Audio running, plus a small host of other apps running in the background. The Vista computer I was using Saturday was using 820 MB of RAM while idle! And it was a fresh install. Sure, I expect that memory-usage is going to go up as the OS itself advances, but Vista isn't advanced enough in comparison to XP to justify that. I've heard Server 2008 is better even though it also has Aero. If that's true, MS needs to figure out how to do that with Vista.
I suppose the real problem is that management dictates what is supposed to be done and doesn't make good decisions. Security? Meh, who cares, we want features! We want to continue supporting old, unstable code! We want a shiny new interface! Give users choices? Ha! We're qualified to make the choices, not them! So, if MS were to become a decent company, I think it would have to be not after the departure of Gates, but after the departure of Ballmer and other powerful individuals in management. In short, what MS really needs is for the biggest part of their management to be replaced with people who know about writing software and some from among their "dogfood-eaters" who use the software on a daily basis.
Acoustic and electric guitars are fundamentally different, but an electric guitar is still a guitar to a guitarist. Seems to me that we're in the electric guitar age of the web now.
Well, of course, there's Avast, which is usually what I recommend to most people. If you're interested in on-demand scanners besides ClamWin, there's also Arcamicroscan, which has proven to be pretty good in my experience.
Dude, I'm almost sorry for you -- almost -- but more amused. What, you didn't think your parents might have gotten bored with missionary position eventually? Or did you assume they didn't have sex at all and they created you with some kind of magical pill? But seriously, why would spanking fiction sites fit under a "depression" category? Maybe your dad just likes spanking. It doesn't necessarily follow that this means he is depressed. That's much like assuming that someone who likes porn (of any kind) is depressed because porn has nothing to do with sex.
I'm using FF3, have one tab open and FF is using 94,865 K of RAM. And they were supposed to have fixed all those memory leaks?! Doesn't look like it from here. It's about:config time again, I see.
There are a few things about the old west that I really hate... one of them is the disrespect for the land. And wolves and mountain lions are part of the land here, just like the pines and rattlers.
You just gave a damn good reason to carry a gun in the last word of your post -- rattlers. In case you don't know, they're not friendly. They may be more scared of you than you are of them, and no, not every rattlesnake bite kills, but they can kill and are likely to bite. I'm all for respecting the land, but what would you have someone faced with a scared rattler do, let it bite them? Where I live, we have a lot of copperheads (wet area) so many people carry guns around here because of that. And all of you seem to be forgetting that you can have a run-in with a vicious stray or rabid dog anywhere in the US (rabies is pretty uncommon or even eliminated in some parts of the world, but not here).
I'm no astrophysicist, but I'm curious about something. What's against the possibility that the Big Bang was simply very large and created multiple universes, of which one is ours? Wouldn't that explain the directional microwave radiation variance, as some would have come from the other universes that were created at the same time?
It is your ethical duty to adhere to a contract that you sign, though.
I fail to see how that applies to a contract you are forced to sign in order to buy the product. And to all those who are referring to this as an illegal unlock -- if memory serves, there's no such thing in the US. You are allowed by law to unlock a phone, no matter what Apple or any other company wants. In fact, their contract may not even hold up in court should anyone want to challenge it.
You eliminate the incentives, you cut back drastically on peoples' willingness to produce, not just the willingness to publish or distribute. Which means that the spread and development of culture and ideas slows down.
Yeah, that's why open source software is decades behind proprietary software and there are so few open source developers.... oh, wait, it's not like that. Maybe they have plenty of developers and state-of-the-art software in most areas because they attract the people who care about producing a good product, rather than manufactured stars who just want their money. Kind of like the musicians of old whose copyright privileges only covered someone else trying to steal the credit of composing music. You do know that there were musicians before music could be recorded and controlled by the record companies, right? I wonder why, as their copyright so limited, they would bother, since there wasn't much incentive for them to be musicians at all by your argument.
I have to somewhat agree with this. I'd been playing since 1st Edition AD&D. Some of the the changes that WotC brought were just completely unnecessary. Sure, AD&D's combat system was a bit primitive, but 3rd Edition D&D's was so complex that it took three times as long to do anything, and it had a lot of unrealistic restrictions that were created to do nothing more than hinder the players. WotC threw the baby out with the bath water with 3rd Edition, and having looked at the 4th edition books at my local store, it looks that they did a lot of that again. There's a big difference between refining the rules and rewriting them for no good reason. No one at WotC seems to understand this. But then what did I expect? They've never known how to balance the powers players get against each other either; just compare the powers clerics of different religion would be receiving, for Christ's sake. Clerics of a religion that worship death would be significantly more powerful than those that worship, say, the moon.
Do I sound bitter? Yeah, because I loved the game. I remember eagerly awaiting to see the new refinements that TSR was too stubborn to implement, only to wind up with a new system that kept that old and bad while getting rid of the old and good.
Because most of the people doing the pirating are not big corps making big money by stealing GPL code. Sure, that doesn't include the pirates selling stuff, which most/.ers do object to, but the Avergae Joe does do a little pirating and never makes a dime off of it.
I mean, yeah, if we take a Linux box and a Windows box and give them to the kind of bozos who surf for porn and click on all their pop-ups, the Linux box is going to get way less shit on it... but normal people who have Windows machines who don't do crap like that and also don't run antivirus, etc. don't end up with that shit.
People are always saying if you avoid shady sites with Windows you'll be fine (which isn't even entirely true). How is that supposed to be a point in its favor? When you're not using Windows you can browse any site and you'll be fine.
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How is their right to freedom of speech being violated? They're not being censored. As noted above, freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences, but you seem to be ignoring that and saying it does.
And you just insulted them. I think you're proving their point. you seem to think you can hide behind anonymity and say whatever you want. What if you couldn't? I can guarantee you that if you called me a bitch on an internet board and lived anywhere near me you'd get punched in the face. Clearly, what you're advocating is that your identity be protected. That has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
Why not? Just because you'd rather it wasn't? What if a lot of other people don't feel the same way? Because a lot of people don't. And before you start calling everyone who disagrees with you stupid and trying to make out like they're morally wrong for not allowing you to get off scot-free with abusing people online anonymously, I have to wonder why you so apparently want to make sure that you can still troll others and keep your identity a secret.
In short, grow up. If you don't have the guts to say something and let it be known that you said it, you should keep it to yourself in the first place.
You're kidding, I know, but the sunsets and sunrises on Venus would be interesting since the planet rotates in the opposite direction. The rotation would affect light.
This is exactly the "I want it the way it is, fork it and fit it yourself" attitude the Pidgin team seems to have, not to mention the Gimp team, the Blender team, etc. And they keep getting lots of criticism for their UI design philosophy, for not listening to their users, and as many /.ers put it, having their heads stuck up their asses. Should a user have to become a coder just to fix a problem or issue because the devs just don't wanna? That is a half-assed development style, not a professional one. I wouldn't hire any of these people to do my coding; I want someone who sees a project all the way through and listens to what I want.
Agreed. It doesn't matter how little it costs them to make, they'll charge big bucks for it as long as they can. I wouldn't be surprised if it was introduced at double the current going price of RAM of equal capacity.
It works both ways -- and if it doesn't, it's going to for me anyhow. (I'm not in a good mood today.) If the game companies are allowed to indulge in name-calling people who rip them off, what name do we get to call the game companies that rip people off? The laws aside (they only enforce the good for the game companies), why should they be allowed to get away with making crappy games that you can't return, loading their games with DRM, that if it doesn't screw up your computer (remember Starforce?), is designed to to make you buy a second copy of the game, thus paying them twice for the same product? But nooooo, it's all about the poor, poor game companies who get ripped off left and right. It's perfectly okay for them to rip us off, now isn't it? Frankly, I'm so sick of that kind of treatment from them, it's enough to drive me to pirate games more. If they didn't pull this crap continually and try to pass laws that prevent you from doing anything about it, I would care. Screw that. Like it or not, we're not going along with it. You rip people off, they rip you off. That's how it is and how it's going to be, no matter what you do. Sure, even if they did dump all this DRM and crap and start treating their customers decently there would still be people pirating the game, but that number would drop significantly -- and yes, I would bet my life on that because I do know how it is out there in gamer-land and pirate-land. Besides, their exorbitant prices on new games more than make up for any of the losses they keep imagining that they're suffering. Again, why should I care?
You're not only an troll who is probably bemoaning the fact that the crummy game company he works for isn't able to screw people over as much they used to, but you're also WRONG. I have done exactly that more times than I can count. Demos are all too often betas that have a habit of screwing up my OS installation, so I avoid them like the plague they are. But I have many times downloaded a game and then bought it because I liked it.
And yes, I definitely do download cd cracks -- to hell with the game companies, I'm not going to buy another copy of your game because you used DRM to make sure I always had to have the cd in the drive, thus insuring that it would get scratched from use and I would need another copy just finish the game. Everybody knows that this is what needing the cd in the drive is for and that's why so few people have no sympathy for the game companies. They are trying to rip you off. So why should we care that they're getting ripped off too? I sure don't.
I guess you can now be sure that they can. Sure, I fix other peoples' computers occasionally but I'm still a housewife. I've been posting here for years now. I've used several different Linux distros, including Mandrake, Xandros (believe it or not, there WAS a time when it didn't suck), Red Hat (before there was Fedora), Slackware, Debian, and of late, Kubuntu. I even know HTML, though I don't know any coding languages; I've thought about learning python, but my guitar takes up enough time. On the other hand, maybe I'm not a true geek, since if it came to a choice between my computers and my guitars, the guitars will win. No contest.
Y'know, I could say something here about how music fans today are so accustomed to being spoon-fed muzak manufactured to the RIAA formula that a robot band sounds no less lively or soulful than modern pop stars, but I won't. That would just make me look like an old fogie.
How about Germany? Let him try it will red balloons too.
Most of you seem to be saying no, but I think you've forgotten about Singularity. Sure, it's a research OS, but rumor has long had it that it's more stable than Windows. All the Windows apps could be run via virtualization -- since they have the original code, they should be able to make it work better than even the Wine project, right? (Cue the MS incompetence jokes....) The only real problem is legacy hardware but a lot of that could be abandoned; some Mac-users were pissed off when old apps and hardware didn't work with OS X, but they got over it. Don't make the mistake of thinking that some of the initial negative reactions would really hurt them in the long run. Lots of people would buy new hardware after a while rather than be left behind (with an appropriate amount of grumbling, of course).
Security? At first glance it well seems that Vista hurt more than it helped, but I think maybe it did help. A lot of Vista users did gain a little awareness of security. What they really need to do is introduce some consistency there, something a lot closer to Unix-style permissions instead of constant pop-ups. Make it a little easier to deal with -- BSD and Linux did. Contrary to popular belief among Vista-users, most forms of Linux and BSD do not nag you constantly for the root password, actually a bit less than Vista. Yes, I have used both Linux and Vista recently. And that brings me to another point: Vista's memory usage, even with SP 1, still sucks in comparison to XP. XP on my other computer is using 619 MB of RAM right now and it has a explorer window open, Jet Audio running, plus a small host of other apps running in the background. The Vista computer I was using Saturday was using 820 MB of RAM while idle! And it was a fresh install. Sure, I expect that memory-usage is going to go up as the OS itself advances, but Vista isn't advanced enough in comparison to XP to justify that. I've heard Server 2008 is better even though it also has Aero. If that's true, MS needs to figure out how to do that with Vista.
I suppose the real problem is that management dictates what is supposed to be done and doesn't make good decisions. Security? Meh, who cares, we want features! We want to continue supporting old, unstable code! We want a shiny new interface! Give users choices? Ha! We're qualified to make the choices, not them! So, if MS were to become a decent company, I think it would have to be not after the departure of Gates, but after the departure of Ballmer and other powerful individuals in management. In short, what MS really needs is for the biggest part of their management to be replaced with people who know about writing software and some from among their "dogfood-eaters" who use the software on a daily basis.
Acoustic and electric guitars are fundamentally different, but an electric guitar is still a guitar to a guitarist. Seems to me that we're in the electric guitar age of the web now.
Well, of course, there's Avast, which is usually what I recommend to most people. If you're interested in on-demand scanners besides ClamWin, there's also Arcamicroscan, which has proven to be pretty good in my experience.
... who read the title as "Adobe Makes Flesh Crawl"? My first thought was, yeah, so what else is new?
Dude, I'm almost sorry for you -- almost -- but more amused. What, you didn't think your parents might have gotten bored with missionary position eventually? Or did you assume they didn't have sex at all and they created you with some kind of magical pill? But seriously, why would spanking fiction sites fit under a "depression" category? Maybe your dad just likes spanking. It doesn't necessarily follow that this means he is depressed. That's much like assuming that someone who likes porn (of any kind) is depressed because porn has nothing to do with sex.
I'm using FF3, have one tab open and FF is using 94,865 K of RAM. And they were supposed to have fixed all those memory leaks?! Doesn't look like it from here. It's about:config time again, I see.
Dude... those don't exist. No matter how much you're paying her to say that, she doesn't really mean it.
The best I've seen so far is Ice Walkers, but Linux Download isn't bad either.
I'm no astrophysicist, but I'm curious about something. What's against the possibility that the Big Bang was simply very large and created multiple universes, of which one is ours? Wouldn't that explain the directional microwave radiation variance, as some would have come from the other universes that were created at the same time?
Yeah, that's why open source software is decades behind proprietary software and there are so few open source developers.... oh, wait, it's not like that. Maybe they have plenty of developers and state-of-the-art software in most areas because they attract the people who care about producing a good product, rather than manufactured stars who just want their money. Kind of like the musicians of old whose copyright privileges only covered someone else trying to steal the credit of composing music. You do know that there were musicians before music could be recorded and controlled by the record companies, right? I wonder why, as their copyright so limited, they would bother, since there wasn't much incentive for them to be musicians at all by your argument.
Do I sound bitter? Yeah, because I loved the game. I remember eagerly awaiting to see the new refinements that TSR was too stubborn to implement, only to wind up with a new system that kept that old and bad while getting rid of the old and good.
What kind of enhancements does a steampunk dildo have? Where would a person get one if they were interested? My, uh, friend wants to know.
Because most of the people doing the pirating are not big corps making big money by stealing GPL code. Sure, that doesn't include the pirates selling stuff, which most /.ers do object to, but the Avergae Joe does do a little pirating and never makes a dime off of it.