Buy the songs you downloaded from iTunes. They're at 99 cents each. This way you clean your conscience, your legal reputation, and make sure the RIAA gets the least money possible.
On the other hand, if you really want the RIAA to stop lobbying the congress and pass stupid laws, you should give the money directly to the groups - I'm not sure how to do this, tho - and take the following measures:
- boycott the RIAA. - Donate money to the EFF. - Only buy songs from independent record labels.
...in establishing online relationships (be them work, personal, friendship, etc). An emoticon gives you the ability to express the emotions that you can't when you're typing words on the keyboard. I really don't know how chat could be established without emoticons (well, acronyms help but i don't want to RTFM just to find out WTF does an acronym mean). And custom emoticons (i.e. in MSN) are very valuable to express your personality online, and this is a feature I miss in other instant messengers. I have around 30 custom emoticons that I use on a daily basis, and help me express a part of myself that I find difficult to express even offline.
Simply because Linux devs aren't ready for Joe users.
Joe: Hey why don't you make this like this and that? Penguin: I don't have time for that, I'm trying to optimize the blablabla - remember this is an open source project so we don't get pay, and don't have time for users' whims. If you want improvements you better pay for them, or submit your own patch. It's open source, you can change it! And if you don't like it our way, just fork.
Joe: Hey, I have trouble using this and that Penguin: RTFM!
(Later, Joe buys a copy of Windows and installs it, destroying his Linux partition in the process).
Actually my point is that if you search enough, you'll be able to decode the stuff. Criminal minds will only search a little and find a good hacker to do the dirty job for them.
The heck, they'll just sale the tapes at underground auctions.
No, but socializing with them will make you ACT like if you're dumb. The point of the study is that you LEARN from your friends to eat more and more often.
Except in this case, the study includes a clear timeline, analyzing who gained weight and when.
Their study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved a detailed analysis of a large social network of 12,067 people who had been closely followed for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003. The investigators knew who was friends with whom, as well as who was a spouse or sibling or neighbor, and they knew how much each person weighed at various times over three decades.
I'm going to protest against your discrimination! It's not that I'm the main cause of my obesity, it's everyone else's fault! I should sue them for trying to make me eat more!
A friend of mine had a similar problem with his webpages. They were on a free host (rolls eyes). I wrote a script for him to store special tags to denote the beginning and the end of his webpage content. After the webpage was loaded, a script erased everything and replaced all the html with his marked content. Ta-da, no ads!
If you want to be stricter, encode your webpage content with base64 to make sure the ads don't intrude your precious content.
Wake me up in 2013 when a practical implementation exists. No wait, in 2020 when IE implements it.
To be honest, I simply got tired of new amazing, wonderful and promising specs appearing, to only be supported by a minority of browsers - and in an incomplete way. Firefox 3 is still in alpha, and it's only started to pass the ACID2 test. 9 years after CSS2 was published. (And don't get me started on IE)
When the XSLT spec came out, I thought it would mean a whole new web. I started making my webpages on geocities with XML - only to find out that geo's ads defecated on my markup, rendering it unusable.
Call me pesimist - but I just lost almost all hope. What use is publishing the greatest spec in the world, if the industrydoesn't give a damn?
A refreshment on the html standard is good - but how will we solve the problem of standards NOT being enforced? A practically optional standard is like no standard at all.
No, voters are about 30% of the population, intelligent citizens are maybe 3% of the population, but you have yet to demonstrate that the intersection of the two sets is non-null.
The answer is simple. If you don't vote, don't count yourself as "intelligent".
So typical that the anti-republican, anti-bush stories get front page attention from him.
I don't know, maybe because a lot of slashdotters are anti-republican and anti-bush (and also anti-congress lobbying by the RIAA,anti-bipartisan and anti-big brother)?
News for nerds my ass.
Just because we're nerds doesn't mean we don't care about politics. In fact, we SHOULD care.
Perhaps that was the cause for her lack of problems. My guess is that she didn't need much to do with the computer anyway, apart than writing stuff for homework.
An OS is like a car. The more you know it, the more you tune it, and you optimize and squeeze every little bit of performance from it to fit your needs. You install new seats, a more comfy steering wheel, cup holders, etc etc.
The problem comes with the change. One day you're sitting in your perfectly-tuned american car FR with V8 engine, and then you switch to an european car. And suppose it's a 4WD or FF with a rotary engine. For starters, the steering wheel is on what you knew was the passenger's seat. You have to change speed with the left hand instead of the right hand. You have to look to the right instead of the left. It's much worse when you realize that the knowledge and tools that helped you to tune your old car don't work with the new car (how the heck do you fix a rotary?). It's a completely different monster, and you have to RELEARN EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH. Lots of knowledge lost.
For example, to quickly search for a file in Windows, I open a commandline, and type dir *mask*/s/b. In Linux it's a different command (find -name), and if you're not logged in as root, you get all these "access denied" warnings (where the heck did i put that web server root directory?).
To get help, you don't type "command/?". You type "man command", and then you have to scroll thru pages of explanations that you don't fully understand. (And don't get me started on the config).
Back to the cars analogy. If you're just LEARNING to drive, "ah, it has a steering wheel and pedals." It's easy. Of course it's easy! Because you don't know ANYTHING.
The real problem with switching to Linux is having to UNLEARN every bit of knowledge you've gained about windows with the years. It's much more painful when you're a Windows power user.
And to the GP, the move away from TV to the Wii will definitely affect Anime.
Depends on the quality. See, there's this thing called "Otakus" that wouldn't miss their favorite anime just to play Wii.
Think about it - the article says PRIME TIME. In other words, for all the family. Anime isn't exactly "for all the family". It's aimed at either teenagers or children. And don't forget that Anime, most of the time, is a byproduct of Manga.
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Buy the songs you downloaded from iTunes. They're at 99 cents each. This way you clean your conscience, your legal reputation, and make sure the RIAA gets the least money possible.
On the other hand, if you really want the RIAA to stop lobbying the congress and pass stupid laws, you should give the money directly to the groups - I'm not sure how to do this, tho - and take the following measures:
- boycott the RIAA.
- Donate money to the EFF.
- Only buy songs from independent record labels.
...in establishing online relationships (be them work, personal, friendship, etc). An emoticon gives you the ability to express the emotions that you can't when you're typing words on the keyboard. I really don't know how chat could be established without emoticons (well, acronyms help but i don't want to RTFM just to find out WTF does an acronym mean). And custom emoticons (i.e. in MSN) are very valuable to express your personality online, and this is a feature I miss in other instant messengers. I have around 30 custom emoticons that I use on a daily basis, and help me express a part of myself that I find difficult to express even offline.
Simply because Linux devs aren't ready for Joe users.
Joe: Hey why don't you make this like this and that?
Penguin: I don't have time for that, I'm trying to optimize the blablabla - remember this is an open source project so we don't get pay, and don't have time for users' whims. If you want improvements you better pay for them, or submit your own patch. It's open source, you can change it! And if you don't like it our way, just fork.
Joe: Hey, I have trouble using this and that
Penguin: RTFM!
(Later, Joe buys a copy of Windows and installs it, destroying his Linux partition in the process).
THE END.
do you really want REBOOT FANFICTION?
Well, at least Roger Avary isn't writing the script!
Just set up a triple truecrypt partition and in the middle one put some cheap porn files. The real stuff goes in the third one.
[ standard truecrypt [ deacoy porn ] [ hidden truecrypt [ deacoy gay porn ] [ doubly-hidden true crypt [ secret spy stuff muahahahaha ] ] ] ]
I'm just using these dark glasses to conceal my identity from Tenma-chan!
Actually my point is that if you search enough, you'll be able to decode the stuff. Criminal minds will only search a little and find a good hacker to do the dirty job for them.
The heck, they'll just sale the tapes at underground auctions.
You'd have to be a pretty-determined attacker to round up a tape machine, make it work, and figure out the encoding technique on the tape.
Oh, really?
and it's the first time that such a thing happened?
Wow, they were lucky.
Open source IE. 'Nuff said.
Microsoft surely knows how to write applications using their own APIs on the operating system *they* developed.
:)
If by "developing" you mean "IT'S ALIVE, IGOR!! IT'S ALIVE!!!", then, yes, I agree with you!
Does having dumb friends make you dumb?
No, but socializing with them will make you ACT like if you're dumb. The point of the study is that you LEARN from your friends to eat more and more often.
In other words, yes, the study PROVES causality.
I'm going to protest against your discrimination! It's not that I'm the main cause of my obesity, it's everyone else's fault! I should sue them for trying to make me eat more!
A friend of mine had a similar problem with his webpages. They were on a free host (rolls eyes). I wrote a script for him to store special tags to denote the beginning and the end of his webpage content. After the webpage was loaded, a script erased everything and replaced all the html with his marked content. Ta-da, no ads!
If you want to be stricter, encode your webpage content with base64 to make sure the ads don't intrude your precious content.
Wake me up in 2013 when a practical implementation exists.
No wait, in 2020 when IE implements it.
To be honest, I simply got tired of new amazing, wonderful and promising specs appearing, to only be supported by a minority of browsers - and in an incomplete way. Firefox 3 is still in alpha, and it's only started to pass the ACID2 test. 9 years after CSS2 was published. (And don't get me started on IE)
When the XSLT spec came out, I thought it would mean a whole new web. I started making my webpages on geocities with XML - only to find out that geo's ads defecated on my markup, rendering it unusable.
Call me pesimist - but I just lost almost all hope. What use is publishing the greatest spec in the world, if the industry doesn't give a damn?
A refreshment on the html standard is good - but how will we solve the problem of standards NOT being enforced? A practically optional standard is like no standard at all.
Oh, wait, SF = San Francisco.
Whew.
The answer is simple. If you don't vote, don't count yourself as "intelligent".
Anyway -
I don't know, maybe because a lot of slashdotters are anti-republican and anti-bush (and also anti-congress lobbying by the RIAA,anti-bipartisan and anti-big brother)?
Just because we're nerds doesn't mean we don't care about politics. In fact, we SHOULD care.
When are you guys going to re-take your country?
They can't. Intelligent voters are about 1% of the population.
and she's not that computer savvy.
/s /b. In Linux it's a different command (find -name), and if you're not logged in as root, you get all these "access denied" warnings (where the heck did i put that web server root directory?).
/?". You type "man command", and then you have to scroll thru pages of explanations that you don't fully understand. (And don't get me started on the config).
Perhaps that was the cause for her lack of problems. My guess is that she didn't need much to do with the computer anyway, apart than writing stuff for homework.
An OS is like a car. The more you know it, the more you tune it, and you optimize and squeeze every little bit of performance from it to fit your needs. You install new seats, a more comfy steering wheel, cup holders, etc etc.
The problem comes with the change. One day you're sitting in your perfectly-tuned american car FR with V8 engine, and then you switch to an european car. And suppose it's a 4WD or FF with a rotary engine. For starters, the steering wheel is on what you knew was the passenger's seat. You have to change speed with the left hand instead of the right hand. You have to look to the right instead of the left.
It's much worse when you realize that the knowledge and tools that helped you to tune your old car don't work with the new car (how the heck do you fix a rotary?). It's a completely different monster, and you have to RELEARN EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH. Lots of knowledge lost.
For example, to quickly search for a file in Windows, I open a commandline, and type dir *mask*
To get help, you don't type "command
Back to the cars analogy. If you're just LEARNING to drive, "ah, it has a steering wheel and pedals." It's easy. Of course it's easy! Because you don't know ANYTHING.
The real problem with switching to Linux is having to UNLEARN every bit of knowledge you've gained about windows with the years. It's much more painful when you're a Windows power user.
and Copper Top jokes.
Hey, I was gonna say that - (gasp) déja vu...
And to the GP, the move away from TV to the Wii will definitely affect Anime.
Depends on the quality. See, there's this thing called "Otakus" that wouldn't miss their favorite anime just to play Wii.
Think about it - the article says PRIME TIME. In other words, for all the family. Anime isn't exactly "for all the family". It's aimed at either teenagers or children. And don't forget that Anime, most of the time, is a byproduct of Manga.
Except that lately, even their anime is sucking.
:(
Well, you have to look for the really good series (i.e. Fullmetal alchemist). Unfortunately, they're rare
I left TV for videogames, the web, chat, forums, downloadable music and anime episodes long time ago.