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...but the biggest hurdles are more political than technical. You mean you want to have music contect streaming all loosy-goosy on the whatevernet? Can't have that!
What I think you're missing is that the only way to envforce draconian copyright laws would be to restrict what individuals can do on the internet in a draconian way. It is a far lesser evil for people to trade files, than to live in a world where we cannot.
Please learn to read maps. It's really not that hard.
I don't know how many people I've given perfect directions to, only to have them throw them out to trust their super duper GPS unit and end up on the other side of town.
What's really annoying is they sit there and let me give them directions, knowing full well they will ignore them.
You know, I always hated automatic updates until I installed Ubuntu. I realized, suddenly, that it didn't bother me when Ubuntu did it. You know why? Because I know they're doing it for ME.
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From that to this? Far out, man.
We rock!
You have never driven a powerful car.
Or you would not ask such a stupid fucking question.
It's called pleasure.
You keep saying buying a domain you know someone else is likely to want is wrong, but you don't say why.
Why is it wrong? Do we, as a society, really have to mollycoddle those who are too slow to get their damn domain renewed properly?
Heh. It's already happened.
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only took them a decade. not bad, for them.
Gutsy Gibbon still doesn't support SATA DVD drives, so I'm still without an ubuntu.
...but the biggest hurdles are more political than technical. You mean you want to have music contect streaming all loosy-goosy on the whatevernet? Can't have that!
It's unbelievable.
They have a very deceptive cancellation policy. If you can believe it.
I bought a 1 month online subscription once, and they put me on recurring payments. And no, I definitely did not authorize it.
Really.
What I think you're missing is that the only way to envforce draconian copyright laws would be to restrict what individuals can do on the internet in a draconian way. It is a far lesser evil for people to trade files, than to live in a world where we cannot.
It was boring when it came out, it'll be boring now.
And I'm a sci-fi nut.
"4 ebook applications" says it all.
Until there is an open, free format that is actually used by publishers, all will fail and burn as far as the big picture goes.
And also a light, foldable, high resolution reader. Need that, too.
There's always more positive than negative stuff, in the long run. Or we wouldn't have this comfy civilization and internet to complain on. :-)
When I first became an IT pro that happened to me, too.
:-)
Interestingly, when I moved into Sales, my love of computer hobbying came back.
Kinda makes me want to not be a pro geek again
(course now I'm making a game...but that's kinda different somehow)
No shit, jack. Why are Blockbuster and Hollywood Video still in business? The plastic disk rental business should have been killed a decade ago.
But to this day my cable service has, like, 20 movies for rent "on-demand".
How stupid can these motherfuckers really be?
What could be more fun than your ISP checking to see if they approve of what you're putting out on the internet?
That would be great, and I'm sure customers would view it as a great "opportunity".
How stupid can these motherfuckers possibly be?
Too bad they didn't have the sense to do this in the first place.
Do the Microsoft failure dance!
I can't believe they backed out of letting someone else run their format.
Cuz, you know, that's what it is--theirs. Not ours. Kinda their point, really.
He's surprised we haven't had a collision, yet? Just how many of these suckers are we putting up every day? Even in the warzone?
Hmmm, I kinda like that idea.~
Nah. Even Joe Sixpack realized that that's a raw deal.
Quite the contrary, I think we'll soon see the age of very cheap, DRM-free content. It's approaching, now. You'll see.
I just wish it hadn't taken the dumb bastards a decade+ to start figuring it out.
You can see how the current model is unsustainable by the lack of full fledged Free OS distributions available out there.
Please learn to read maps. It's really not that hard.
I don't know how many people I've given perfect directions to, only to have them throw them out to trust their super duper GPS unit and end up on the other side of town.
What's really annoying is they sit there and let me give them directions, knowing full well they will ignore them.
Stupid bastards.
They spent six billion dollars to make an OS that doesn't work. That's all you need to know.
You know, I always hated automatic updates until I installed Ubuntu. I realized, suddenly, that it didn't bother me when Ubuntu did it. You know why? Because I know they're doing it for ME.
With Windows, I know they're doing it for THEM.
Any they just aren't very important to me.