hey also get to take a swipe at YouTube which is basically a broadcasting entity that really doesn't have to pay Viacom (a middleman) anything to make its own content for mass appeal.
How in hell is Viacom a middleman? They produce an absolute shitload of TV shows, movies and other media...hardly a middleman. Calling them a middleman implies they don't do anything much at all.
they are pissed that they are doing this more often then they are watching Viacom's sponsored programming.
But they're not. People's homemade shows, by and large, are nowhere near as popular or (it must be said) as high in quality as professionally produced ones such as those made/broadcast by Viacom.
They want to monetize this type of entertainment too, but unfortunately there's no real need for a middleman with this type of content delivery system. It's the end of their business model.
But...they're not a middleman. At all. Their business model is "make stuff; get it sponsored; people watch it". There's no middleman there, and if there is one which I can't see they're certainly not Viacom.
The fact that pirated content is what YouTube is less often used for *is* the problem in their eyes.
No, the problem is that the pirated content is what YouTube is often used for and that Google are making money from it while making little to no effort to stop it.
Setting your userprefs as +6 Flamebait is the way to go. In between the stupid shite you occasionally get gems of angry hilarity (like the gp) or just posts which came down on the side of Microsoft/another adversary du jour a little too much.
You really think people are this stupid? For any passing moderators, Erris = twitter = Erris = twitter. They're one and the same. Hence my raucous e-laughter. I bet you'll follow up with a nice long post (under your twitter alias) where you rant about me, dedazo, Macthorpe, Keith Russell and various other people about 1,000,000 times less unhinged than you are.
Disable your old media? That article relates to Zune, not Vista. Try again. Keep you from modifying your kernel? Well, the first response would be "well, it's closed source, what the hell do you expect?" But playing along, those protections would be ideal for keeping rootkits out of home PCs...but of course, Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place with you. They're insecure and buggy, but if they do something about it, they're trampling on your rights. Let's ignore that you can, on boot, disable disabling unsigned drivers for a second. You didn't even cite anything for your trip bits stuff, so moving on to your last thing...you linked to a Zune article again. Not Vista, Zune. This is like me slagging off Fedora munching my data and then linking to an article about Ubuntu munching my data. Which I'm sure you'd be against.
Then, apropos of nothing, you link to a Slashdot article entitled "What Vista Is Really Like" (which at first glance appears to be another "OMG VISTA SUX" Slashdot circle jerk) and another classic link to your new favourite article, the "nobody wants Vista" article (which consists of a notoriously-unreliable online poll with a tiny sample size...do you realise how many Windows users there are, and how small a percentage of them 2223 people is?) Finishing up with a classic twitter "Let me tell it like it is" paragraph, complete with M$ (nothing about "greed heads" though-I love it when you say that, it makes you sound like a hippie.) Wonderful.
XP is just 2000 with a ton of useless eye candy, not to mention the PITA of product activation everytime you want to change the hardware.
XP is about 20,000 times better with regard to wireless support, and I found it had better performance on the gaming side of things. That said, I preferred the look and feel of Windows 2000 (and thought XP's pale imitation of it looked terrible...but hey).
I've been called a shill before. By the same person, actually...in fact, that person has directly accused me of being paid by Microsoft and has made references to my being employed by Steve Ballmer.
Which is odd, because last I checked my job involves selling groceries. And I'm a Mac user (albeit one who doesn't happen to think Bill Gates is some kind of anti-christ).
They have lost the share that matters and it's all downhill from there.
Er....no they haven't. They're still running most of the office and home PCs in the world, they're firmly entrenched. Linux and Mac have both been around for years; if people really were that pissed off with Microsoft they'd have switched yonks ago.
Anyway, outside of Slashdot, the people I've talked to have said they're very impressed with Vista and hope to get it soon. (I'm obviously not getting it, but still.)
Remember when Ars Technica used to be 20 page articles about the details of new processor designs?
They still do that but those details don't mean a thing when bad laws get in the way of your using that processor the way you want. Bill that threaten the freedom of the internet are news worthy. You need to stand up and express your concern while you still can. QoS and similar programs are designed to lock you out of the digital future the way your parents were locked out of publishing in the analog past.
It's been over for a while, but people don't realize it because M$ spends about a billion dollars a month telling the world they are number one. Even grandmas are seeing through it.
Are they? Are they really? It's funny, because every single PC that isn't my own that I've seen recently has run Windows. People run Windows, and get on with their lives. And frankly, I very much doubt you can claim that Windows is losing somehow when the market share of Apple and Linux is utterly dwarfed by that of Windows, even if Windows' is slowly shrinking.
I know it's hard to find sites so poorly run even in the wintel press, but anything can happen when you "get the facts".
Well, it's hard to find sites like that because THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
IIS is just a web server, you can access sites served by it with any browser from Lynx to Firefox. It doesn't discriminate unless you're very stupid and decide to start blocking user agents for no discernible reason.
How many public websites use ActiveX now, twitter (for reasons other than installing malware of course)? Very few indeed. Although you probably won't have noticed that.
A bomb will just destroy the train and the people on it. A train's fixed to rails, can't really do much damage to anything which isn't in the immediate vicinity of the railway.
A plane, on the other hand, can be piloted just about everywhere and crashed into just about anything. What's more, if THAT gets bombed the debris will be fun...
128 is absolutely pisspoor on my equipment on a few songs (the one in my sig sounds like shit in 128), but otherwise it's OK. I only really stick with it because I haven't got the storage space for anything higher.
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Agreed wholeheartedly.
The shit the Daily Mail/Express put out (condensed: We're All Going To Die Penniless In 20 Minutes) has to be doing SOME damage.
it was invented by a 12-year-old who wasn't half as clever as he liked to think he was.
'nuff said.
Incredible the number of people that throw up blogs and go on as if they're journalists. Talk about undeserved senses of superiority.
That "switcheur" troll springs readily to mind. ;)
I'd start bitching that my crossbow isn't as accurate at 500 yards as its Half-Life copycat.
Mine is, but it's equally imaginary.
hey also get to take a swipe at YouTube which is basically a broadcasting entity that really doesn't have to pay Viacom (a middleman) anything to make its own content for mass appeal.
How in hell is Viacom a middleman? They produce an absolute shitload of TV shows, movies and other media...hardly a middleman. Calling them a middleman implies they don't do anything much at all.
they are pissed that they are doing this more often then they are watching Viacom's sponsored programming.
But they're not. People's homemade shows, by and large, are nowhere near as popular or (it must be said) as high in quality as professionally produced ones such as those made/broadcast by Viacom.
They want to monetize this type of entertainment too, but unfortunately there's no real need for a middleman with this type of content delivery system. It's the end of their business model.
But...they're not a middleman. At all. Their business model is "make stuff; get it sponsored; people watch it". There's no middleman there, and if there is one which I can't see they're certainly not Viacom.
The fact that pirated content is what YouTube is less often used for *is* the problem in their eyes.
No, the problem is that the pirated content is what YouTube is often used for and that Google are making money from it while making little to no effort to stop it.
Someone needs to call him out on his shit, really. If I had mod points (and I haven't had points for months) then I'd use those probably.
Setting your userprefs as +6 Flamebait is the way to go. In between the stupid shite you occasionally get gems of angry hilarity (like the gp) or just posts which came down on the side of Microsoft/another adversary du jour a little too much.
Makes threads a lot more interesting, I swear.
Please, give up. It isn't working.
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You really think people are this stupid? For any passing moderators, Erris = twitter = Erris = twitter. They're one and the same. Hence my raucous e-laughter. I bet you'll follow up with a nice long post (under your twitter alias) where you rant about me, dedazo, Macthorpe, Keith Russell and various other people about 1,000,000 times less unhinged than you are.
Hi there twitter! Let's play Debunk The Zealot!
Disable your old media? That article relates to Zune, not Vista. Try again.
Keep you from modifying your kernel? Well, the first response would be "well, it's closed source, what the hell do you expect?" But playing along, those protections would be ideal for keeping rootkits out of home PCs...but of course, Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place with you. They're insecure and buggy, but if they do something about it, they're trampling on your rights. Let's ignore that you can, on boot, disable disabling unsigned drivers for a second.
You didn't even cite anything for your trip bits stuff, so moving on to your last thing...you linked to a Zune article again. Not Vista, Zune. This is like me slagging off Fedora munching my data and then linking to an article about Ubuntu munching my data. Which I'm sure you'd be against.
Then, apropos of nothing, you link to a Slashdot article entitled "What Vista Is Really Like" (which at first glance appears to be another "OMG VISTA SUX" Slashdot circle jerk) and another classic link to your new favourite article, the "nobody wants Vista" article (which consists of a notoriously-unreliable online poll with a tiny sample size...do you realise how many Windows users there are, and how small a percentage of them 2223 people is?) Finishing up with a classic twitter "Let me tell it like it is" paragraph, complete with M$ (nothing about "greed heads" though-I love it when you say that, it makes you sound like a hippie.) Wonderful.
XP is just 2000 with a ton of useless eye candy, not to mention the PITA of product activation everytime you want to change the hardware.
XP is about 20,000 times better with regard to wireless support, and I found it had better performance on the gaming side of things. That said, I preferred the look and feel of Windows 2000 (and thought XP's pale imitation of it looked terrible...but hey).
I'm sorry, "Flamebait"? Buh?
I really cannot believe you have sunk even lower, to the level of "Bill Gates smells funny".
I'm not sure why I'm surprised, but I am.
I've been called a shill before. By the same person, actually...in fact, that person has directly accused me of being paid by Microsoft and has made references to my being employed by Steve Ballmer.
Which is odd, because last I checked my job involves selling groceries. And I'm a Mac user (albeit one who doesn't happen to think Bill Gates is some kind of anti-christ).
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You can catch plenty of ambulance chasers that way, though.
Or just use an ambulance. Might be a tad easier.
New memes are born...in Japan!
(now THAT'S an old, stillborn meme)
Mail In Lightweight Folders.
Failing that, there's always the Communication Utility for Now and Tomorrow.
They have lost the share that matters and it's all downhill from there.
Er....no they haven't. They're still running most of the office and home PCs in the world, they're firmly entrenched. Linux and Mac have both been around for years; if people really were that pissed off with Microsoft they'd have switched yonks ago.
Anyway, outside of Slashdot, the people I've talked to have said they're very impressed with Vista and hope to get it soon. (I'm obviously not getting it, but still.)
Talk about a non-sequitur.
It's been over for a while, but people don't realize it because M$ spends about a billion dollars a month telling the world they are number one. Even grandmas are seeing through it.
Are they? Are they really? It's funny, because every single PC that isn't my own that I've seen recently has run Windows. People run Windows, and get on with their lives. And frankly, I very much doubt you can claim that Windows is losing somehow when the market share of Apple and Linux is utterly dwarfed by that of Windows, even if Windows' is slowly shrinking.
Bollocks, forgot to close my tag. Ah well.
I know it's hard to find sites so poorly run even in the wintel press, but anything can happen when you "get the facts".
Well, it's hard to find sites like that because THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
IIS is just a web server, you can access sites served by it with any browser from Lynx to Firefox. It doesn't discriminate unless you're very stupid and decide to start blocking user agents for no discernible reason.
How many public websites use ActiveX now, twitter (for reasons other than installing malware of course)? Very few indeed. Although you probably won't have noticed that.
A bomb will just destroy the train and the people on it. A train's fixed to rails, can't really do much damage to anything which isn't in the immediate vicinity of the railway.
A plane, on the other hand, can be piloted just about everywhere and crashed into just about anything. What's more, if THAT gets bombed the debris will be fun...
128 is absolutely pisspoor on my equipment on a few songs (the one in my sig sounds like shit in 128), but otherwise it's OK. I only really stick with it because I haven't got the storage space for anything higher.