Yes, but their name refers to copyright infringement. Not exactly the best way to get across the message that what you REALLY care about is cheap drugs for everyone and privacy for all (admirable goals).
I'm aware my MySpace page is (consciously, and as a parody) an abomination unto the Interweb, but hell, there's nothing wrong with MySpace. It's peoples' way of expressing themselves, just as your way is posting on Slashdot/designing websites or whatever.
FreeBSD's driver support has been perfect for me, and nowhere near as painfully inadequate as that of Linux. A working OSS implementation comes in handy too.
Yeah, in the UK at least it's the seller of the booze (i.e the actual cashier, not the company) who gets fined and possibly fired for selling booze to minors. No idea about the culpability of the buyer, mind.
Talk Talk offer free broadband if you sign up for their (already cheap) phone package. In total it costs £21 a month (about 40 dollars). We just switched, partially because my current provider (NTL) have had connection problems all day and their technical support is crap.
1. There are GPLed MP3 decoders. Debian etc have clearly never been sued for including such things. The reason content distributors use MP3 is because just about every music player on earth can play it, whereas if they used FanboyCodecDuJour#392 they wouldn't be able to reach the same market.
2. Isn't backporting security fixes in code by hand sort of stupid and time-consuming for someone who wants to get work done on a desktop? How on earth is that superior to Windows Update?
3. It's not about NVidia controlling your system, it's about keeping trade secrets under wraps. Considering the fine work they've done on the drivers so far, I'm inclined to let any source code quibbles slip. The reason nobody uses non-ATI/NVidia graphics cards is because those cards suck a hard one for gaming. Anyway, he wouldn't have to redo his drivers if the kernel devs could standardise on one single interface, which they have refused to do in the interests of irritating the fuck out of people^W^W^W^W^W^Wpreventing binary drivers from becoming too widespread.
4. That doesn't exactly help him with his problem, does it? He doesn't want flexibility, he wants easy configuration.
5. That's your opinion. I'm fine with both CLI and GUI browsers, but again that's just my opinion. Just because you don't find GUI file managers useful doesn't mean anyone else shouldn't either or that the Linux browsers shouldn't be improved.
I have often wondered whether Steam has a similar feature - if Valve goes bankrupt, for instance, does it release you from the (ridiculous) copy protection/licensing arrangements put in place when you install Half Life 2 and other products?
Valve have said that patches would be released to release you from the copy protection in such a situation.
The best way to do any of this would be to simply check if the parent company's server is still there and able to provide authentication/updating. If it is unavailable for some reason the local software should function autonomously, as it always should, but without the need for approval from the parent.
If that was the case, pirates would disable their Internet connection temporarily to use the software. It wouldn't work.
I think the point is that racial discrimination is unfairly judging and acting against someone because of a factor they cannot change, something which leads to societal problems and many other ill effects all the way up from a simple "it makes people sad". Not having open source software means you don't get to look at computer code. Boo fucking hoo, frankly.
Anyway, back on topic, I remember a comment somewhere here saying "I bought a hammer because I wanted to bash some nails in, I didn't want to join some kind of hammer cult". Same thing.
I just bought FEAR, a non Steam game. Installing it was a pain; it didn't tell me how much disk space it was going to use (Steam does) or how much I have left (Steam does), it just popped up saying "You're out of disk space" (Steam doesn't). I have to install game updates manually (Steam does it automatically) and if I lose my game media I'm fucked.
I like Steam. It's far from spyware, and at any rate Valve have proven themselves to be trustworthy.
Or CDEX. Or CDparanoia. Or iTunes. Or even Windows Media Player.
I've never had any trouble ripping any copy protected CDs with any of those at any time (except with abcde on Linux...had some trouble with the data track at the end).
I have NEVER, EVER had to use the Registry to fix a problem with Windows. EVER. I might have dropped into it just to play around with some tweak site stuff, but even that is ultimately unnecessary. And the only text file I've ever had to edit is the hosts file (itself a holdover from UNIX).
Nice straw man. He didn't say anything about a monopoly being necessary, he just suggested that maybe, just maybe, people might be encouraged by being paid money for stuff they make. Quite a radical idea, I'm sure you'll agree.
They obviously mean things like the news on your country's latest genocide or human rights injustice. Only an idiot would assume it means music, movies and games.
Heh, I love those little install messages. "The new My Music folder makes organising your music collection more fun"...um, how? "I'm rearranging folders, wheeeeee!"
Thank god it's only half an hour of those and you don't have to see them again...
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Yes, but their name refers to copyright infringement. Not exactly the best way to get across the message that what you REALLY care about is cheap drugs for everyone and privacy for all (admirable goals).
Can I ask why the fuck they'd do that?
I dunno. Meeting new people? Finding new music?
I'm aware my MySpace page is (consciously, and as a parody) an abomination unto the Interweb, but hell, there's nothing wrong with MySpace. It's peoples' way of expressing themselves, just as your way is posting on Slashdot/designing websites or whatever.
HAHAHA!
:)
You owe me a new monitor to replace this nasty coffee soaked one I have here now
FreeBSD's driver support has been perfect for me, and nowhere near as painfully inadequate as that of Linux. A working OSS implementation comes in handy too.
People with lots of photos. Duh.
And in the UK there's always Ocado.
Yeah, in the UK at least it's the seller of the booze (i.e the actual cashier, not the company) who gets fined and possibly fired for selling booze to minors. No idea about the culpability of the buyer, mind.
Talk Talk offer free broadband if you sign up for their (already cheap) phone package. In total it costs £21 a month (about 40 dollars). We just switched, partially because my current provider (NTL) have had connection problems all day and their technical support is crap.
1. There are GPLed MP3 decoders. Debian etc have clearly never been sued for including such things. The reason content distributors use MP3 is because just about every music player on earth can play it, whereas if they used FanboyCodecDuJour#392 they wouldn't be able to reach the same market.
2. Isn't backporting security fixes in code by hand sort of stupid and time-consuming for someone who wants to get work done on a desktop? How on earth is that superior to Windows Update?
3. It's not about NVidia controlling your system, it's about keeping trade secrets under wraps. Considering the fine work they've done on the drivers so far, I'm inclined to let any source code quibbles slip. The reason nobody uses non-ATI/NVidia graphics cards is because those cards suck a hard one for gaming. Anyway, he wouldn't have to redo his drivers if the kernel devs could standardise on one single interface, which they have refused to do in the interests of irritating the fuck out of people^W^W^W^W^W^Wpreventing binary drivers from becoming too widespread.
4. That doesn't exactly help him with his problem, does it? He doesn't want flexibility, he wants easy configuration.
5. That's your opinion. I'm fine with both CLI and GUI browsers, but again that's just my opinion. Just because you don't find GUI file managers useful doesn't mean anyone else shouldn't either or that the Linux browsers shouldn't be improved.
*sings* Video killed the Linux pic sites, video killed the Linux pic sites... :)
Shut up.
I have often wondered whether Steam has a similar feature - if Valve goes bankrupt, for instance, does it release you from the (ridiculous) copy protection/licensing arrangements put in place when you install Half Life 2 and other products?
Valve have said that patches would be released to release you from the copy protection in such a situation.
The best way to do any of this would be to simply check if the parent company's server is still there and able to provide authentication/updating. If it is unavailable for some reason the local software should function autonomously, as it always should, but without the need for approval from the parent.
If that was the case, pirates would disable their Internet connection temporarily to use the software. It wouldn't work.
I think the point is that racial discrimination is unfairly judging and acting against someone because of a factor they cannot change, something which leads to societal problems and many other ill effects all the way up from a simple "it makes people sad". Not having open source software means you don't get to look at computer code. Boo fucking hoo, frankly.
Anyway, back on topic, I remember a comment somewhere here saying "I bought a hammer because I wanted to bash some nails in, I didn't want to join some kind of hammer cult". Same thing.
I just bought FEAR, a non Steam game. Installing it was a pain; it didn't tell me how much disk space it was going to use (Steam does) or how much I have left (Steam does), it just popped up saying "You're out of disk space" (Steam doesn't). I have to install game updates manually (Steam does it automatically) and if I lose my game media I'm fucked.
I like Steam. It's far from spyware, and at any rate Valve have proven themselves to be trustworthy.
Or CDEX. Or CDparanoia. Or iTunes. Or even Windows Media Player.
I've never had any trouble ripping any copy protected CDs with any of those at any time (except with abcde on Linux...had some trouble with the data track at the end).
No; you own the ink but not the words the ink forms.
That's a mighty fine post you made there...all it's missing is a point.
I have NEVER, EVER had to use the Registry to fix a problem with Windows. EVER. I might have dropped into it just to play around with some tweak site stuff, but even that is ultimately unnecessary. And the only text file I've ever had to edit is the hosts file (itself a holdover from UNIX).
Nice straw man. He didn't say anything about a monopoly being necessary, he just suggested that maybe, just maybe, people might be encouraged by being paid money for stuff they make. Quite a radical idea, I'm sure you'll agree.
Good point, succintly made.
They obviously mean things like the news on your country's latest genocide or human rights injustice. Only an idiot would assume it means music, movies and games.
It'd sure be lovely, but up til then RTF is the best you're gonna get.
the only thing left of the promissed features is massive hardware requirements, DRM and media that won't work
You missed out all those other ones.
And just to reiterate:
SAYING M$ MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT
Alrighty? Good.
Heh, I love those little install messages. "The new My Music folder makes organising your music collection more fun"...um, how? "I'm rearranging folders, wheeeeee!"
Thank god it's only half an hour of those and you don't have to see them again...
I'd agree, but (for me at least) 3D performance under Win2k is noticeably slower than under XP. Kind of a clincher ;)