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  1. Re:Original? Hardly. on New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan · · Score: 1

    You think that major chord progressions (like I-IV-V-I) are classical melodies? Most pop music is severely lacking in musical technique. Classical music was (and is) real music; far more creative and complex than whatever you'll get from the **AA. Jazz is like that, but in its own completely new way (i.e. improv, interpretation, style).

  2. Re:Bring it on! on New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan · · Score: 1

    Checks and balances, son. There's always the Judicial branch to look at for this sort of thing. If this sort of bullshit got through Congress, I'm sure hell would be let loose in the Judicial side of things. "Joe Sixpack" can't view his home movies anymore because he hasn't paid the **AA tax? Watch out for flying chairs...

  3. Re:So do something about it! on New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, why doesn't it support Illinois? Chicago is one of the biggest cities in the world, yet we get excluded... They forgot New York even! Bah...

  4. Re:MOD PARENT +INF INSIGHTFUL! on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    I don't know what he'll do, but I'm sure that you can be one of the owners of said IP for about $27 or so. Sure, it's a far smaller share of the company (i.e. a single share), but you'd still be the owner of a miniscule piece of Disney and its copyrighted works.

  5. Re:Azureus on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone want to install java anyways?

    Why would anyone want to install Microsoft Windows anyways? I'm serious here...

  6. Re:Speaking of Azureus.. on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear that this is a good place to check as well as here.

  7. Re:Eeeeeyyyyyyy, Azureus! on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend something like rTorrent or even the original BitTorrent for both robustness and low resource usage. CLI torrent programs will always be far less resource-intensive than a full-blown GUI like the non-free Windows ones or other popular programs like Azureus.

  8. I completely agree. on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I would much rather spend $100 on a gig or two of RAM than ~$140 on a Microsoft Windows license just to use non-free software like BitComet or muTorrent. At least I can resell the RAM to a friend when I upgraded my memory again in a year or two (if needed).

  9. Re:The point? on BitTorrent Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I think he meant Free as I never see no-cost music published without some sort of gimmick. It takes money to buy equipment to do all the recording and whatnot, so it's sorta hard to publish music as gratis unless you are doing live gigs in the first place (which you should be doing if you're a musician; it's the best way of living as a musician).

  10. Re:This is Easy... on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 1

    He said Firefox and Safari, so that would cover Konqueror, Epiphany, Galeon, Mozilla, Firefox, and probably others I'm not remembering.

  11. Re:You should literally ask Slashdot on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 1

    Register an account and you wouldn't have to worry about them. ;)

  12. Re:This is NOT a Trupe! RTFA - Original Research on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    Third time's a charm...

  13. Re:Wow, a 1.0 release is buggy? This has never hap on Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting · · Score: 1

    Unless you're throwing all that data into a block, you'll have to use XHTML the same way the Atom specification says.

  14. Re:Would be a great move. on Steve Jobs to Sell Pixar and Join Disney Board? · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you saw a short Mickey Mouse cartoon?

    Never if Disney continues to corrupt the copyright laws. I'd rather consider anything published before 1986 to be public domain, but I'm not going to do anything large enough to warrant legal issues.

  15. Re:an example of "doing no evil"? on DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes" · · Score: 1

    It's doing no evil if by answering their questions you're possibly incriminating yourself. I prefer to use my Fifth Amendment rights to do otherwise. Those nutjobs can find anything wrong with you if they don't like you, so it's best to stay quiet.

  16. Re:GPL violators are at risk on Some Linux Users Violate Sarbanes-Oxley · · Score: 1

    Then explain how Trolltech makes money off of selling proprietary licenses for GPL software? Legitly might I add.

  17. Re:Monster on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    Shut up! You're ruining our perfect chance to roll out a "fibre to every home" political campaign so that us Americans don't have to suffer with Ma Bell's crappy DSL services. :(

  18. Re:It's about freedom on GPL 3 to Take Hard Line on DRM · · Score: 1

    Show me how to stream ice and I'll show you a group of pissed off physicists who say otherwise.

  19. Re:More like where do you draw the line? on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    I remember the reasoning behind people trusting him was that he would give an outright bullshit reason for any problem they had, so they would do whatever possible to fix it.

  20. Re:Not what a geek is... on ZDNet on the Essence of Geek · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like an audiophile to me. ;)

    Multimedia geeks are the ones who make things like Xiph.org, Xine, MPlayer, VLC, MPEG, etc.

  21. Re:And geek is not chic. on ZDNet on the Essence of Geek · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean nerds...

  22. Re:Firefox is unstable. on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Second only to Windows itself I'd presume?

  23. Re:Firefox User statistics on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 1

    He means Gecko 1.8. Firefox 1.5 (and 2.0 eventually) use Gecko 1.8. The current Firefox trunk is Gecko 1.9a1 (Firefox 3.0, that of which will be based on their ongoing efforts to make a platform called XULRunner by then). The different 1.7 versions would probably be Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla Suite.

  24. Re:I'm progressively switching to konqueror ... on Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Konqueror does indeed kick massive amounts of ass, but I still prefer Firefox. There is an ongoing effort to include usage of Qt, so we'll eventually get good Mozilla products that work well with KDE. In the meantime, I just stick with gtk-qt-engine.

  25. Re:Web services? on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    So, does that mean if you include a method that basically self-checkout's itself from your modified version and allows for download (excluding personal data files I'd assume), you must respect that feature? I don't get how this is supposed to be done; if there's no way to do it, there's no way to enforce it either.