well, perhaps you should come back to Japan then? for the sake of accuracy though, it's shochu with hot water, not sake....and don't get me started on the download speeds:-evil grin)
Honestly, I'm going to laugh my ass off 6 months down the road when MS pushes out a mandatory WGA update, disguised as another 'critical update,' that nukes pirated installs
Er...you misunderestimate the 'will' part of 'where there's a will there's a way'. Whatever disruption there may be, 't will only be temporary. Trust me. I've seen it done before, many a time.
your self-centered attitude - lamely justified by the fact that you bathe frequently and don't rape puppies - offends me.
Raping puppies - one rather interesting way of putting things in perspective. I'll make a note to never use that in any conversation. I too was in a band in college, and we spent a lot of our own money making records, most of which we never got back, because we were never that good. But it was a fun few years, and I enjoyed every moment of it, we rehearsed, played in clubs, made friends, did what we liked with our lives. But we never wanted to make a profit off it, we just liked playing. We stopped after a few years, have families, kids, still get together and go watch other bands play. Before you think I'm trying to go somewher with this - I'm not. I'm only saying that it is possible to enjoy what you do and make your living in a different way. As for that cesspool you speak of - fine: snagging Bod Dylan radio shows off the net is a crime, especially they're on satellite radio which is not accessible in Japan; getting the newest Tom Waits album from a Bit Torrent site is murder, even though I went and bought the thing the day it came out in the shops; going to see Metallica live, and ending up spending more money on the ticket and merchandise than I had ever spent on their entire catalogue on CD is just morally wrong; collecting every Tori Amos single ever released, most of which are long out of print, is bad karma; and downloading albums from bands I never heard of, whom I would have never known if it wasn't for the internet, is a sin. Happy? You need to realise there are quite a few people out there in that cesspool who trade music because it is so much a part of their lives, the enjoyment they get from the music itself far outweighs whatever moral qualms they might have if they stop to think about how much money each musician lost from one album they could not sell. The moment you bring money into this, the conversation turns to realms entirely unrelated to the original topic - which is the enjoyment one gets from good music. If you want to quantify that in dollar terms, go right ahead and feel as much indignation as your moral superiority will allow you - but do realise that music is not about money. Not the one that matters anyway.
I've never waded into the content-piracy cesspool so far
Mate, I take offence to that. What do you mean cesspool? We are all very well-behaved here, and (reasonably) clean to boot. Don't tell me you bought into that 'dirty pirates' talk - all we do is infringe on copyright. Tough tit.
Because Kim Jong apparently had his paypal account frozen the week before
If this is all he could come up with, I guess there's no need to worry about his nukes, eh? Then again, the dude has apparently declared war on the sunrise so there might be more trouble brewing.
A bit late to the party, so chances are no one will reply to this, but I really hope someone will: I finally found one thing in Firefox 2.0 that annoys me, and is actually a big step backwards from all previous versions: when you type something in the navigation toolbar, let's say 'apache', it takes you automatically to apache.COM rather than.org. It does the same to any other word you type - takes you to the typed_word.com, whereas all previous versions used to take you to Google's I'm feeling lucky hit, which was accurate 99% of the time. This is a very, very stupid thing to do: if you type whitehouse, it takes you whitehouse.com, some weird page no one needs, rather than the official White House page (not that anyone needs to read that one either...but I digress). Also, if type more than one word, it will simply refuse to do anything - if you typed Jon Stewart it would take you straight to the Daily Show's page on Comedy Central, now it merely goes 'na-aah, wrong!'. Now I am annoyed big time, and want the old functionality back, it was one of the things that made me love Firefox from the old 0.6 days. Anyone know how to fix this? I doubt it's some extension I have. Help?
dont see why we would be attacked by nuculear means as we only help out basically every country in peril. We have practically no means to defend ourselves, I wonder if we now made a move to go nuculear
Mate. If NZ ever went NUCLEAR, perhaps it would be a good thing if the US invaded - they would be sure to bring some Brits along (as they do these days) and they would be able to at least teach you how to spell that bloody word, NUCLEAR. Grrrrrr.
You can listen to music while you browse the web, jog, write code. You can't really watch a video using a portable device while doing those things. (other than porn...)
Dude. You code while watching porn? Would love to see what you end up with.
OK, I've been running windows XP without reinstalling it for over 3 years. In that time the only reason I've seen it crash is problems with 3rd party apps going haywire.
Mate - hats off to your luck, but here's my story: I've had XP installed for little over a year, and it's grown so impossibly bloated, nothing works right anymore, the funniest things happen when you least expect them. This weekend I'm going through the reinstall grinder, while cursing the bloody Windows registry and its myriad of problems. So yes, you can keep XP going for a long time if you only use for 'normal' stuff, but if you try different codecs, uninstall stuff and then update etc etc (you know what I mean), it's just as bloated a mess as Windows has ever been. And I should know, I've been using it since the early 90's (come on, Linux boys, tell me what I'm missing). Vista means nothing to me. More of the same. And I'm not the only one.
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people hit 60 (or 70) and lose interest
If you get to 70 and are still playing WoW at that age, there is something wrong with you indeed.
Oh come on, before you start bashing them - look, they have a nice Tetris game for you to play while it installs! That's got to be worth something, no?
Preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), [pitch of voice higher], preperation (clap), preperation (clap), [wheeze out of breath, pitch even higher], preperation (clap), preperation (clap), yeah!!!
One would be inclined to think that since you went and typed that word nine times, you would have managed to spell preparation correctly at least once...
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Dude. You're dangerously close to Hunter territory now. Stay off the ether.
well, perhaps you should come back to Japan then? ...and don't get me started on the download speeds :-evil grin)
for the sake of accuracy though, it's shochu with hot water, not sake.
Everyone's got it wrong.
This is the real reason.
Er...you misunderestimate the 'will' part of 'where there's a will there's a way'.
Whatever disruption there may be, 't will only be temporary.
Trust me. I've seen it done before, many a time.
Hey, cool, flamewar everybody, let's fight WWI + WWII all over again!
Way to go Slashdot.
Raping puppies - one rather interesting way of putting things in perspective. I'll make a note to never use that in any conversation.
I too was in a band in college, and we spent a lot of our own money making records, most of which we never got back, because we were never that good. But it was a fun few years, and I enjoyed every moment of it, we rehearsed, played in clubs, made friends, did what we liked with our lives. But we never wanted to make a profit off it, we just liked playing. We stopped after a few years, have families, kids, still get together and go watch other bands play. Before you think I'm trying to go somewher with this - I'm not. I'm only saying that it is possible to enjoy what you do and make your living in a different way.
As for that cesspool you speak of - fine: snagging Bod Dylan radio shows off the net is a crime, especially they're on satellite radio which is not accessible in Japan; getting the newest Tom Waits album from a Bit Torrent site is murder, even though I went and bought the thing the day it came out in the shops; going to see Metallica live, and ending up spending more money on the ticket and merchandise than I had ever spent on their entire catalogue on CD is just morally wrong; collecting every Tori Amos single ever released, most of which are long out of print, is bad karma; and downloading albums from bands I never heard of, whom I would have never known if it wasn't for the internet, is a sin. Happy?
You need to realise there are quite a few people out there in that cesspool who trade music because it is so much a part of their lives, the enjoyment they get from the music itself far outweighs whatever moral qualms they might have if they stop to think about how much money each musician lost from one album they could not sell. The moment you bring money into this, the conversation turns to realms entirely unrelated to the original topic - which is the enjoyment one gets from good music. If you want to quantify that in dollar terms, go right ahead and feel as much indignation as your moral superiority will allow you - but do realise that music is not about money.
Not the one that matters anyway.
Well. Paying for sex gets you laid, while paying for fake friends is more like masturbation. Which has been always been free.
Mate, I take offence to that. What do you mean cesspool? We are all very well-behaved here, and (reasonably) clean to boot. Don't tell me you bought into that 'dirty pirates' talk - all we do is infringe on copyright. Tough tit.
If this is all he could come up with, I guess there's no need to worry about his nukes, eh?
Then again, the dude has apparently declared war on the sunrise so there might be more trouble brewing.
A bit late to the party, so chances are no one will reply to this, but I really hope someone will: I finally found one thing in Firefox 2.0 that annoys me, and is actually a big step backwards from all previous versions: when you type something in the navigation toolbar, let's say 'apache', it takes you automatically to apache.COM rather than .org. It does the same to any other word you type - takes you to the typed_word.com, whereas all previous versions used to take you to Google's I'm feeling lucky hit, which was accurate 99% of the time. This is a very, very stupid thing to do: if you type whitehouse, it takes you whitehouse.com, some weird page no one needs, rather than the official White House page (not that anyone needs to read that one either...but I digress). Also, if type more than one word, it will simply refuse to do anything - if you typed Jon Stewart it would take you straight to the Daily Show's page on Comedy Central, now it merely goes 'na-aah, wrong!'. Now I am annoyed big time, and want the old functionality back, it was one of the things that made me love Firefox from the old 0.6 days. Anyone know how to fix this? I doubt it's some extension I have.
Help?
dont see why we would be attacked by nuculear means as we only help out basically every country in peril. We have practically no means to defend ourselves, I wonder if we now made a move to go nuculear
Mate. If NZ ever went NUCLEAR, perhaps it would be a good thing if the US invaded - they would be sure to bring some Brits along (as they do these days) and they would be able to at least teach you how to spell that bloody word, NUCLEAR.
Grrrrrr.
Only geeks who build their own computers need to buy an OS
I hate to break this to you mate, but these days most geeks I know either install some *nix flavour, or a cracked version of XP.
Well, someone has to provide internet on a plain.
How else are you suppose to email the pictures of the snakes?
hey, do you then think the snakes in Spain stay mainly in the plane?
You can listen to music while you browse the web, jog, write code.
You can't really watch a video using a portable device while doing those things. (other than porn...)
Dude. You code while watching porn? Would love to see what you end up with.
OK, I've been running windows XP without reinstalling it for over 3 years. In that time the only reason I've seen it crash is problems with 3rd party apps going haywire.
Mate - hats off to your luck, but here's my story: I've had XP installed for little over a year, and it's grown so impossibly bloated, nothing works right anymore, the funniest things happen when you least expect them. This weekend I'm going through the reinstall grinder, while cursing the bloody Windows registry and its myriad of problems. So yes, you can keep XP going for a long time if you only use for 'normal' stuff, but if you try different codecs, uninstall stuff and then update etc etc (you know what I mean), it's just as bloated a mess as Windows has ever been. And I should know, I've been using it since the early 90's (come on, Linux boys, tell me what I'm missing).
Vista means nothing to me. More of the same. And I'm not the only one.
people hit 60 (or 70) and lose interest
If you get to 70 and are still playing WoW at that age, there is something wrong with you indeed.
No points left or else I would mod you up. Quite why a simple statement of fact like yours was modded down as a troll is beyond me.
ODF should be the default on all new Office releases
Dude, whatever it is you are on, I want some.
Sure I can get another account, or post anomalously but surely we shouldn't be afraid to post
Dude, if you post anomalously you should be afraid.
Oh come on, before you start bashing them - look, they have a nice Tetris game for you to play while it installs!
That's got to be worth something, no?
there is a joke in there waiting to come out, about men, women and 6.9...
hmmmm.
I used the Vista Beta Speech Recognition
:)
that figures then
Preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), preperation (clap), [pitch of voice higher], preperation (clap), preperation (clap), [wheeze out of breath, pitch even higher], preperation (clap), preperation (clap), yeah!!!
One would be inclined to think that since you went and typed that word nine times, you would have managed to spell preparation correctly at least once...
only on slashdot a post that teaches people how to spell (and a painfully obvious word at that) can be modded 'informative'. oh well.
...will they run dupes?