Would you be so kind as to explain how American copyright law specifically makes allofmp3.com, a company working entirely out of Russia, illegal? Thankyou
I stopped patching my xp box 2 years ago. The average user of course probably wouldn't be able to do that, but it works fine for most computer geeks. Back when I first stopped, I would have patched if I felt it was necessary. Now, I wouldn't patch unless you held a gun to my head.
To be honest, I am stuck in a position that as my computer software ages, I am unsure how to upgrade. I will be VERY unlikely to switch to Vista or any future MS offering. Switching to some Linux distro will be a pain because my main computer has been windows for so long, and I enjoy playing games and using various software that is generally not supported on Linux. Mac might be a possibility, but it will still be a pain in the ass. Oh well, I'll consider the options when the time comes.
http://www.mkaku.org/ Michio Kaku is a great scientist who has learned to communicate science fluently and interestingly to the layman. I'm sure he and his work would be very interesting to young people.
Hang on, it was the *sister* who was being the ass. My point was simply that if she is being an ass, maybe helping her isn't the best course of action. You can pretend all day long that family is infallible, but in the real world they are people just like everyone else, and can fuck you over and treat you like garbage just like everyone else. *And*... she can answer your "remember all those times *I* bailed *you* out?" question with a "No" whether or not you did!
Not to say that I don't think it's important to have very close friends/family, but the fact is that you don't choose your blood family and they very well might stab you in the back. You can send your 'condolences' all day long and put on a fake smiley face and say that everything is just peachy, but, friend, your haughty attitude doesn't change reality.
If a family member or friend of mine called a bunch of work I had done for them (for free) 'crap', I would take the hint and not do stuff for them anymore. Seriously, why are you maintaining your sisters computer? Is your time less valuable than her money or something?
I think it would be significantly less effort for you to transition to a new email address. This time, don't give it out to anyone you don't trust. Get a throw away address for that and filter/forward it.
What I love about religious peoples comments is how they say nothing, other than 'you should just believe, or you're bad'. They make all these big statements with very little content. They must learn it from priests. Of course it makes sense, since there really isn't much to say.
I was just about to post 'So what IS Web 2.0??'. You put it better.
Honestly I have read 'Web 2.0' too many tme recently on/., and am starting to get tired of hearing about it. Yay, people figured out how to make websites interactive. Let's move on.
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"If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, how are they to pay for content?"
I like PBS better than normal television channels. Problem solved.
Holy fuck I am floored by Americans (I'm assuming you are an American). The majority of Americans homes I've been to have the TV on all the time... it drives me NUTS! No wonder American culture is so messed up and the people are so ignorant.
They generally say 'all you can eat lunch' or something to that affect. The time restrictions are obviously implied. Furthermore, the practice is common enough that they may not need to explicitly say it at all. All you can eat restaurants often close between meals in order to create a clear border.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you believe the bible literally, then any obvious contradictions make your position look very, very weak.
To me it seems a stretch to think that some ancient text has any answers about the universe for modern day humanity, but at least those who believe it to be figurative or metaphorical don't look completely blinded by their desire to have a big daddy taking responsibility for them and everything.
Just tell me where to sign up. Seriously, I'm not trolling... I'd love to help an organization get religious content filtered (I dislike filtration in principle, however in reality I will fight fire with fire).
I personally am highly offended and disturbed by religious programming.
That's odd, my XP machine doesn't complain at all about not having a pagefile. Perhaps it's a setting somewhere I changed long ago (it's a 3 year old install - and works about 10x better than a new install lol - a little regular maintenance goes a long way).
Try TweakUI or fiddle with some other settings and you may be able to get that message to go away.
As technology makes some jobs obselete, it opens up the door for many other jobs. The problem seems to me to be that people can't adjust to change very well. There is absolutely no reason why all 6B people can't be doing constructive things and getting paid a reasonable amount for their efforts, it's really a matter of figuring out how to organize such a change. Available resources is a consideration, but it is obviously possible for the earth to support 6B people. As technology increases it becomes ever easier to support that number.
I really don't see any major reason why everyone couldn't be connected to the internet, if that route is pursued. Of course, it may not occur, only time will tell.
I need to reply to my own comment, because after typing it I got to thinking about the photoshop cropping problem I've been having... and voila I found it wasn't an issue with the page file at all. So in reality, I have absolutely no problems that I've noticed with having my page file turned off!
I run with page file turned off and have very few problems. In fact, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is cropping in photoshop (which doesn't work without a page file). My system runs WAY better with the page file off, it's ridiculous. I used to have slow downs all the time as the HD was accessed, and that has been largely eliminated. I would recommend anyone with plenty of RAM give it a try and see how it goes.
I'll admit, I used to have difficulties setting up a MythTV system. Last month however, I discovered KnoppMyth. End of story for me.
It setup almost everything perfectly, and took me about 15 minutes to do. Basically the only things I had to do was run an included script to get encoded DVD to work properly (legal issue), and plunk in the right X config script.
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Would you be so kind as to explain how American copyright law specifically makes allofmp3.com, a company working entirely out of Russia, illegal?
Thankyou
Please share with us the laws which make allofmp3.com illegal.
Thankyou
I stopped patching my xp box 2 years ago. The average user of course probably wouldn't be able to do that, but it works fine for most computer geeks.
Back when I first stopped, I would have patched if I felt it was necessary. Now, I wouldn't patch unless you held a gun to my head.
To be honest, I am stuck in a position that as my computer software ages, I am unsure how to upgrade. I will be VERY unlikely to switch to Vista or any future MS offering. Switching to some Linux distro will be a pain because my main computer has been windows for so long, and I enjoy playing games and using various software that is generally not supported on Linux. Mac might be a possibility, but it will still be a pain in the ass.
Oh well, I'll consider the options when the time comes.
http://www.mkaku.org/
Michio Kaku is a great scientist who has learned to communicate science fluently and interestingly to the layman. I'm sure he and his work would be very interesting to young people.
Hang on, it was the *sister* who was being the ass. My point was simply that if she is being an ass, maybe helping her isn't the best course of action. You can pretend all day long that family is infallible, but in the real world they are people just like everyone else, and can fuck you over and treat you like garbage just like everyone else. *And*... she can answer your "remember all those times *I* bailed *you* out?" question with a "No" whether or not you did!
Not to say that I don't think it's important to have very close friends/family, but the fact is that you don't choose your blood family and they very well might stab you in the back. You can send your 'condolences' all day long and put on a fake smiley face and say that everything is just peachy, but, friend, your haughty attitude doesn't change reality.
If a family member or friend of mine called a bunch of work I had done for them (for free) 'crap', I would take the hint and not do stuff for them anymore. Seriously, why are you maintaining your sisters computer? Is your time less valuable than her money or something?
I think it would be significantly less effort for you to transition to a new email address. This time, don't give it out to anyone you don't trust. Get a throw away address for that and filter/forward it.
What I love about religious peoples comments is how they say nothing, other than 'you should just believe, or you're bad'. They make all these big statements with very little content. They must learn it from priests. Of course it makes sense, since there really isn't much to say.
I was just about to post 'So what IS Web 2.0??'. You put it better.
/., and am starting to get tired of hearing about it. Yay, people figured out how to make websites interactive. Let's move on.
Honestly I have read 'Web 2.0' too many tme recently on
"If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, how are they to pay for content?"
I like PBS better than normal television channels. Problem solved.
I can confirm this particular bug. Doesn't work too well lol.
Truthfulness of TV? Ohhh you're making a funny, I get it...
But thats 'illegal' tax evasion... of course the IRS isn't going to acknowledge legal loopholes as evasion.
I thought the 'uh' gave it away pretty good. God that character was annoying.
Holy fuck I am floored by Americans (I'm assuming you are an American). The majority of Americans homes I've been to have the TV on all the time... it drives me NUTS! No wonder American culture is so messed up and the people are so ignorant.
They generally say 'all you can eat lunch' or something to that affect. The time restrictions are obviously implied. Furthermore, the practice is common enough that they may not need to explicitly say it at all. All you can eat restaurants often close between meals in order to create a clear border.
It's hardly the same with broadband.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you believe the bible literally, then any obvious contradictions make your position look very, very weak.
To me it seems a stretch to think that some ancient text has any answers about the universe for modern day humanity, but at least those who believe it to be figurative or metaphorical don't look completely blinded by their desire to have a big daddy taking responsibility for them and everything.
Get over it. Using the term 'stealing' is inaccurate and unfair, and you make yourself look like a shill and asshat by pretending otherwise.
Just tell me where to sign up. Seriously, I'm not trolling... I'd love to help an organization get religious content filtered (I dislike filtration in principle, however in reality I will fight fire with fire).
I personally am highly offended and disturbed by religious programming.
That's odd, my XP machine doesn't complain at all about not having a pagefile. Perhaps it's a setting somewhere I changed long ago (it's a 3 year old install - and works about 10x better than a new install lol - a little regular maintenance goes a long way).
Try TweakUI or fiddle with some other settings and you may be able to get that message to go away.
As technology makes some jobs obselete, it opens up the door for many other jobs. The problem seems to me to be that people can't adjust to change very well. There is absolutely no reason why all 6B people can't be doing constructive things and getting paid a reasonable amount for their efforts, it's really a matter of figuring out how to organize such a change. Available resources is a consideration, but it is obviously possible for the earth to support 6B people. As technology increases it becomes ever easier to support that number.
I really don't see any major reason why everyone couldn't be connected to the internet, if that route is pursued. Of course, it may not occur, only time will tell.
I need to reply to my own comment, because after typing it I got to thinking about the photoshop cropping problem I've been having... and voila I found it wasn't an issue with the page file at all. So in reality, I have absolutely no problems that I've noticed with having my page file turned off!
I run with page file turned off and have very few problems. In fact, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is cropping in photoshop (which doesn't work without a page file). My system runs WAY better with the page file off, it's ridiculous. I used to have slow downs all the time as the HD was accessed, and that has been largely eliminated. I would recommend anyone with plenty of RAM give it a try and see how it goes.
MythTV will underscan for you, check out the setup menu.
I'll admit, I used to have difficulties setting up a MythTV system. Last month however, I discovered KnoppMyth. End of story for me.
It setup almost everything perfectly, and took me about 15 minutes to do. Basically the only things I had to do was run an included script to get encoded DVD to work properly (legal issue), and plunk in the right X config script.
I was seriously blown away how easy it all was.