Except that with the way they way these guys sell computers to the public, they think it's another simple appliance like a TV or a toaster, and they'll treat it like such. Now us nerds may know better, but if I try to explain getting security patches to these people, they look at me like I'm on crack or something. After all, they don't get their toasters or TVs patched for security problems, why patch the PC? It's not the user's fault that the PCs are marketed like toasters and TV sets so it's not IMO the user's fault that they get infected with worms as soon as they go online. After all, it's an appliance to them, and they buy them in good faith expecting them to be reliable as toasters and TV sets. So I say "Blame the damned marketdroids and manufacturers for selling them like appliances!"
I wish I could write a shitty, insecure operating system so that I can charge people for fixing the bugs.
Expect the lackluster quality of Windows to drop like a fucking lead weight! There's absolutely no incentive for them to patch the holes now. Why do it for nothing when you can get paid? Terrific! I get to pay $100-$200 to do beta testing on the 'gold' release, and I get to mail them a check just to fix the problems that they were supposed to, but NEVER BOTHER TO FIX in the first place? Sounds like it's time for another antitruat lawsuit to me.
In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether or not he was successful in stealing the credit card information. He was still trying to do it with the full intent of breaking the law. That's a crime in itself. Same as with everybody else that participated in the cracking attempt or knew about the crime and did nothing to stop it. It's also a crime. That's why when you attempt to kill somebody without actually killing the person, you go to prison for attempted murder. IMO, attempted murderers ought to serve the same as real murderers, but that's just my opinion.
Now, why do corporate crime bosses get off so easy for bilking people out of millions? It's the same reason why Hollywood actresses don't serve time for shoplifting. Money, power, and politics. Trust me, the rest of us peons WILL pay full price via canned judgements for our crimes (real or imagined) because nobody really gives a shit about the weak and unknown.
Just checked that site out and read enough in 15 minutes to make me want to throw up. Then I went ahead and instructed my bank not to accept any more EFT withdrawals from my account without my authorization. While I'm at it, it looks like I may have to accept only cashiers checks and money orders from now on when I sell on eBay again.
Kinda wished that I knew sooner, but at least now I can put an end to that crap. With my debit card, I can simply tell the bank and say it was unauthorized and fill out a little form. Thanx for the link.
...and even if it did run on Linux, I still wouldn't get it. Not that I have anything against Apple, but I just don't see the point in paying for DRM'd music files from anybody. I further don't see the point in buying any CDs anymore. I also don't even see the point of pirating them or putting them on p2p if the music sucks hairy rocks, either.
Either the quality of music has taken a sharp nose dive in ten years, or it must be because I'm now 31 instead of 21. Nah, I don't think my age has anything to do with it as I once knew 40+ something friends that were more 'hip' to the music scene back in the day. Nowadays, nobody my age will even touch the shit. Hell, I don't know anyone in their 20's that want to listen to it, either.
Nah, it must be the kiddies or something. Or maybe it's that those teenage boys just get to masturbating over either those Brittney Spears or Jessica Simpson's CD covers because neither one of those bitches can sing worth a damn.
Maybe I am an old fart. Who know? But that's the only opinion that I have on the subject.
When that happens, I'll just throw all that crippled junk out and take up a new hobby, like fishing. Let the brainwashed masses put on their bright and shiny new chains. It will be less stuff for me to worry about buying and more people that won't get any of my money. Oh, well. What are they going to do? Sue me for not shopping? That turkey will never fly.
Does the world really need yet another online music store? Can we get any more trite and utterly lame than this?
I don't get it. Instead of more online music stores, why don't they just make music that's actually worth listening to and worth buying and drop the DRM bullshit? Last I've heard, none of these stores are really raking in the dough and even iTunes is only successful due to the iPod. I haven't even seen anybody going into FYE and the other music stores in the real world in like the past few years now. It makes no sense from a business point. Hell! It makes no damned sense from a simple logical point. Are these people deaf AND stupid? Nobody wants to pay $20 for a CD. Nobody wants to pay a buck for a lossy, DRM'd music file, and slapping lawsuits on people using P2P is doing absolutely nothing to bring people back into the music stores. What a great way to run a business into the ground, man because the RIAA is too stupid and arrogant to see the writing on the wall.
'Yeah, WTF, man! Let's open another music store! What a great idea';-p (intense sarcasm)
Well then maybe you should get up anyways. Maybe we should all just stand up and protest even though we doubt that it might do any good. Why? Because nothing will ever get done if we're too complacent to even get out of our chairs just because we expect the goddamned government to do everything in our behalf.
....EVERYTHING is out of price range for my poor, sorry butt, and with MY strong presence in the whole world economy, everybody may want to listen.
Or maybe not as the whole world shrugs and says, "So? Pay me or fuck off!"
On a more serious note, I don't care to give my money to either Dell or Red Hat. I'll decide later if I'm going to tell them to F off or not.
I once liked Hed Rat. That's what I get for getting all pissy and hitting the wrong button. Guess I really did make an ass of myself, but at least I can live with that!;-)
Oh, there we go. Mod someone a troll for telling it like it is. Guess I'm going to have to lay it on the line right here and risk making a complete ass of myself just to prove a point.
I don't like Hed Rat! I never liked Hed Rat and I never will! First, their RHL 7.0 was junk because they broke compatibility by using a bastardized GCC 2.96 compiler. Far as I remember, they apparently had the arrogant attitude that the GCC developers were moving too slow in releasing GCC 3.
Second off, their so-called support left a lot to be desired. Hey, when they EOL a distro almost as quickly as they release one, then that's almost kin to non-support imo. Let's face it. Even M$ don't EOL their older and crummy Windows OS's that fast!
Lastly, abandoning the 'stable' RHL and the general user and using them as guinea pigs with the 'unstable' Fedora Core. Sorry, that was the last straw for me.
Now don't get me wrong. I have no problems with any company making money off of Linux. I just have major problems with companies that piss all over and stab the backs of a lot of users just to serve their own self interests. We already have M$ for that. Last thing we need is another company doing the same damned thing.
Guess I pissed off every Hed Rat user that's out there, but hey. It's ONLY my opinion based on my experience. If you're happy with Hed Rat, then I'm glad for you. For myself, I simply can't bother with such a distro anymore. It saddens me, too as I first had my taste of Linux with RHL 5.2 and thought it was one of the best CDs I've ever bought. Too bad they forgot their roots.
For the record, I dual boot XP Home and Slackware 10 if anyone cares. I don't want anyone to misunderstand me and think I'm one of those 'anti-Linux' idiots out there. It's just that reading the parent post brought back a lot of anger. It's the type of anger you get when you feel wholly and utterly betrayed by something you once really believed it. Kinda like my ex-girlfriend of long, long ago but that's waaaaay off topic here and a long story anyways.
Well gee whiz! There's no license included with my MS-DOS boot floppies and I don't see M$ slapping me with a six figure copyright suit for giving a boot floppy to my mother. It's only a boot disk, not the whole OS, and you can find those floppy boot images all over the web and I have yet to see M$ use a DMCA threat on any of them. Should we forget how much more restrictive the M$ EULA is compared to the GPL? It's not like they're trying to pirate XP or trying to be dickheads like The SCO Group trying to sell Linux IP licenses contrary to the GPL. If M$ doesn't care about DOS boot floppies, then why get upset about Dell serving up Linux boot floppies? Isn't Linux supposed to be about freedom?
And I thought I was doing okay getting an Asus a8v deluxe. Hearing those specs has me humbled. Then again, anything imo can humble a Pentium 4 so I can't complain, either.
....and I still like dial-up better than TV hands down. At least I can control what I can see and think while online. TV just controls your thinking and basically says, "All your programming are belong to us." and I'm not trying to be funny here, either.
I don't think anybody knows just how bad piracy really is. One of the reasons is that for the most part, people out in public will say, Oh, piracy is bad." while they privately skim the gray line or cross it on occasion. Nobody is going to tell the truth about it one way or another, either. Why do that when it's soooo easy to skew the numbers for your own agenda. That goes for both the IP Nazis and the Robin Hood wannabees. I don't really think there are any good people in this. Just evil people and victims of evil people. That's the problem with 'Intellectual Property'. It only results in two different classes of nasty people that think they have the God given right to do what they will and fuck everyone else. The rights holders, and the pirates. Meanwhile, the victims in all this are the creators and the consumers, and while the rights holders hold the creators and consumers hostage with one sided contracts, DRM, and laws bought and paid for, (The RIAA for example) The pirates pillage from the creators and let the customers suffer through eroded fair use rights and copy protection. The rights holders? What do they care? They're getting paid regardless. Same as the pirates, too. I think it's high time that creative works should just be treated as such and not as intellectual property in that it would go a long way toward greatly reducing the likes of the RIAA (or MPAA, BSA, WIPO, and such) and the professional piracy cartels that are out there, and reestablish a connection between the artists and the consumer.
Hell, all I want is just to be a more informed consumer and to upgrade my PC without having to phone for M$'s permission or use some sort of crack. Maybe I'd be more willing as a consumer to help out against piracy if I wasn't the one who's automatically treated like a pirate just for being an informed consumer.
I don't think rampant copyright infringement is a 'good thing'. However, Acclaim wasn't the only company out there that's being pirated left and right, and yet I don't see the sky falling here. If piracy was really as bad as what the 'IP Nazis' would like us to believe, then everybody would be out of a job. People pirate DVDs like crazy, but I don't see everybody in Hollywood out on the street panhandling or selling pencils for a nickel because of it. The argument of them going broke due to piracy is so weak, I find it amusing.
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Is that supposed to be funny?
I wouldn't even make the effort of pirating that junk. What makes you think I'm going to bother to buy it? Their games sucked
so bad,
'suck' would be quite the understatement. The stuff they were putting out was abyssmally close to "E.T." that ran off the Atari 2600, and I've already suffered
permanent, emotional scarring
from THAT damned game way back in the day.
They could've got their heads out of their asses and turned it around, but shitty work, shitty advertising, and bullshit copy protection did them in. It's lunacy! Just like how the North Korean's get to starve to death, but the only thing Kim Sung whatever-the-fuck his name is thinks about, is building nukes. WTF!?! Nobody this mentally defective deserves a successful company. Why do another galactically stupid thing as making excuses for bad management?
I can definately agree with you on that one.
For myself, I'm planning on upgrading my home built machine soon and the only type of processors that I'm considering at this point are from AMD. Now back when I first built this thing in 2001, I gave Intel's offerings some consideration, but I went for the Athlon. Why? Price and performance. Nowadays, I'm simply skipping over the Pentium 4 and going straight for the Athlon64. I'm simply not impressed with what Intel has for sale for the price. They seem to be doing worse in the technology curve IMHO, than they were 4 years ago.
Even the name 'Pentium 4' seems a bit trite and dated. Hell, if they took the money out of advertising the 'Blue Man Group' commercials and put it into R&D, perhaps they wouldn't be dropping the ball now. I suppose it's probably not-as-simple at that, either. Maybe the company needs a real direction and to have some executives canned.
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Except that with the way they way these guys sell computers to the public, they think it's another simple appliance like a TV or a toaster, and they'll treat it like such. Now us nerds may know better, but if I try to explain getting security patches to these people, they look at me like I'm on crack or something. After all, they don't get their toasters or TVs patched for security problems, why patch the PC? It's not the user's fault that the PCs are marketed like toasters and TV sets so it's not IMO the user's fault that they get infected with worms as soon as they go online. After all, it's an appliance to them, and they buy them in good faith expecting them to be reliable as toasters and TV sets. So I say "Blame the damned marketdroids and manufacturers for selling them like appliances!"
Expect the lackluster quality of Windows to drop like a fucking lead weight! There's absolutely no incentive for them to patch the holes now. Why do it for nothing when you can get paid? Terrific! I get to pay $100-$200 to do beta testing on the 'gold' release, and I get to mail them a check just to fix the problems that they were supposed to, but NEVER BOTHER TO FIX in the first place? Sounds like it's time for another antitruat lawsuit to me.
And before you can say either yes or no, he'll just say with a dirty grin, "Good!"
Too bad stupidity isn't a crime. If it was, then ALL of us would be lifers.
Now, why do corporate crime bosses get off so easy for bilking people out of millions? It's the same reason why Hollywood actresses don't serve time for shoplifting. Money, power, and politics. Trust me, the rest of us peons WILL pay full price via canned judgements for our crimes (real or imagined) because nobody really gives a shit about the weak and unknown.
Kinda wished that I knew sooner, but at least now I can put an end to that crap. With my debit card, I can simply tell the bank and say it was unauthorized and fill out a little form. Thanx for the link.
Either the quality of music has taken a sharp nose dive in ten years, or it must be because I'm now 31 instead of 21. Nah, I don't think my age has anything to do with it as I once knew 40+ something friends that were more 'hip' to the music scene back in the day. Nowadays, nobody my age will even touch the shit. Hell, I don't know anyone in their 20's that want to listen to it, either.
Nah, it must be the kiddies or something. Or maybe it's that those teenage boys just get to masturbating over either those Brittney Spears or Jessica Simpson's CD covers because neither one of those bitches can sing worth a damn.
Maybe I am an old fart. Who know? But that's the only opinion that I have on the subject.
Faithfully submitted,
Douglas C. Neidermayer
Sergent of Arms
Rock and roll dying? Who would've thought? ;-)
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/15167
When that happens, I'll just throw all that crippled junk out and take up a new hobby, like fishing. Let the brainwashed masses put on their bright and shiny new chains. It will be less stuff for me to worry about buying and more people that won't get any of my money. Oh, well. What are they going to do? Sue me for not shopping? That turkey will never fly.
Ranting? I think you're right on the money imho.
I don't get it. Instead of more online music stores, why don't they just make music that's actually worth listening to and worth buying and drop the DRM bullshit? Last I've heard, none of these stores are really raking in the dough and even iTunes is only successful due to the iPod. I haven't even seen anybody going into FYE and the other music stores in the real world in like the past few years now. It makes no sense from a business point. Hell! It makes no damned sense from a simple logical point. Are these people deaf AND stupid? Nobody wants to pay $20 for a CD. Nobody wants to pay a buck for a lossy, DRM'd music file, and slapping lawsuits on people using P2P is doing absolutely nothing to bring people back into the music stores. What a great way to run a business into the ground, man because the RIAA is too stupid and arrogant to see the writing on the wall.
'Yeah, WTF, man! Let's open another music store! What a great idea' ;-p (intense sarcasm)
Well then maybe you should get up anyways. Maybe we should all just stand up and protest even though we doubt that it might do any good. Why? Because nothing will ever get done if we're too complacent to even get out of our chairs just because we expect the goddamned government to do everything in our behalf.
....EVERYTHING is out of price range for my poor, sorry butt, and with MY strong presence in the whole world economy, everybody may want to listen. Or maybe not as the whole world shrugs and says, "So? Pay me or fuck off!" On a more serious note, I don't care to give my money to either Dell or Red Hat. I'll decide later if I'm going to tell them to F off or not.
I once liked Hed Rat. That's what I get for getting all pissy and hitting the wrong button. Guess I really did make an ass of myself, but at least I can live with that! ;-)
Oh, there we go. Mod someone a troll for telling it like it is. Guess I'm going to have to lay it on the line right here and risk making a complete ass of myself just to prove a point. I don't like Hed Rat! I never liked Hed Rat and I never will! First, their RHL 7.0 was junk because they broke compatibility by using a bastardized GCC 2.96 compiler. Far as I remember, they apparently had the arrogant attitude that the GCC developers were moving too slow in releasing GCC 3. Second off, their so-called support left a lot to be desired. Hey, when they EOL a distro almost as quickly as they release one, then that's almost kin to non-support imo. Let's face it. Even M$ don't EOL their older and crummy Windows OS's that fast! Lastly, abandoning the 'stable' RHL and the general user and using them as guinea pigs with the 'unstable' Fedora Core. Sorry, that was the last straw for me. Now don't get me wrong. I have no problems with any company making money off of Linux. I just have major problems with companies that piss all over and stab the backs of a lot of users just to serve their own self interests. We already have M$ for that. Last thing we need is another company doing the same damned thing. Guess I pissed off every Hed Rat user that's out there, but hey. It's ONLY my opinion based on my experience. If you're happy with Hed Rat, then I'm glad for you. For myself, I simply can't bother with such a distro anymore. It saddens me, too as I first had my taste of Linux with RHL 5.2 and thought it was one of the best CDs I've ever bought. Too bad they forgot their roots. For the record, I dual boot XP Home and Slackware 10 if anyone cares. I don't want anyone to misunderstand me and think I'm one of those 'anti-Linux' idiots out there. It's just that reading the parent post brought back a lot of anger. It's the type of anger you get when you feel wholly and utterly betrayed by something you once really believed it. Kinda like my ex-girlfriend of long, long ago but that's waaaaay off topic here and a long story anyways.
Well gee whiz! There's no license included with my MS-DOS boot floppies and I don't see M$ slapping me with a six figure copyright suit for giving a boot floppy to my mother. It's only a boot disk, not the whole OS, and you can find those floppy boot images all over the web and I have yet to see M$ use a DMCA threat on any of them. Should we forget how much more restrictive the M$ EULA is compared to the GPL? It's not like they're trying to pirate XP or trying to be dickheads like The SCO Group trying to sell Linux IP licenses contrary to the GPL. If M$ doesn't care about DOS boot floppies, then why get upset about Dell serving up Linux boot floppies? Isn't Linux supposed to be about freedom?
I didn't quite understand him, either but I know a sweet rig when I hear one and it sure isn't mine. ;-)
And I thought I was doing okay getting an Asus a8v deluxe. Hearing those specs has me humbled. Then again, anything imo can humble a Pentium 4 so I can't complain, either.
....and I still like dial-up better than TV hands down. At least I can control what I can see and think while online. TV just controls your thinking and basically says, "All your programming are belong to us." and I'm not trying to be funny here, either.
It's been quite a while since they did an update. I was starting to get worried.
I don't think anybody knows just how bad piracy really is. One of the reasons is that for the most part, people out in public will say, Oh, piracy is bad." while they privately skim the gray line or cross it on occasion. Nobody is going to tell the truth about it one way or another, either. Why do that when it's soooo easy to skew the numbers for your own agenda. That goes for both the IP Nazis and the Robin Hood wannabees. I don't really think there are any good people in this. Just evil people and victims of evil people. That's the problem with 'Intellectual Property'. It only results in two different classes of nasty people that think they have the God given right to do what they will and fuck everyone else. The rights holders, and the pirates. Meanwhile, the victims in all this are the creators and the consumers, and while the rights holders hold the creators and consumers hostage with one sided contracts, DRM, and laws bought and paid for, (The RIAA for example) The pirates pillage from the creators and let the customers suffer through eroded fair use rights and copy protection. The rights holders? What do they care? They're getting paid regardless. Same as the pirates, too. I think it's high time that creative works should just be treated as such and not as intellectual property in that it would go a long way toward greatly reducing the likes of the RIAA (or MPAA, BSA, WIPO, and such) and the professional piracy cartels that are out there, and reestablish a connection between the artists and the consumer. Hell, all I want is just to be a more informed consumer and to upgrade my PC without having to phone for M$'s permission or use some sort of crack. Maybe I'd be more willing as a consumer to help out against piracy if I wasn't the one who's automatically treated like a pirate just for being an informed consumer.
I don't think rampant copyright infringement is a 'good thing'. However, Acclaim wasn't the only company out there that's being pirated left and right, and yet I don't see the sky falling here. If piracy was really as bad as what the 'IP Nazis' would like us to believe, then everybody would be out of a job. People pirate DVDs like crazy, but I don't see everybody in Hollywood out on the street panhandling or selling pencils for a nickel because of it. The argument of them going broke due to piracy is so weak, I find it amusing.
- so bad,
'suck' would be quite the understatement. The stuff they were putting out was abyssmally close to "E.T." that ran off the Atari 2600, and I've already suffered- permanent, emotional scarring
from THAT damned game way back in the day. They could've got their heads out of their asses and turned it around, but shitty work, shitty advertising, and bullshit copy protection did them in. It's lunacy! Just like how the North Korean's get to starve to death, but the only thing Kim Sung whatever-the-fuck his name is thinks about, is building nukes. WTF!?! Nobody this mentally defective deserves a successful company. Why do another galactically stupid thing as making excuses for bad management?I can definately agree with you on that one. For myself, I'm planning on upgrading my home built machine soon and the only type of processors that I'm considering at this point are from AMD. Now back when I first built this thing in 2001, I gave Intel's offerings some consideration, but I went for the Athlon. Why? Price and performance. Nowadays, I'm simply skipping over the Pentium 4 and going straight for the Athlon64. I'm simply not impressed with what Intel has for sale for the price. They seem to be doing worse in the technology curve IMHO, than they were 4 years ago. Even the name 'Pentium 4' seems a bit trite and dated. Hell, if they took the money out of advertising the 'Blue Man Group' commercials and put it into R&D, perhaps they wouldn't be dropping the ball now. I suppose it's probably not-as-simple at that, either. Maybe the company needs a real direction and to have some executives canned.
Intel Chairman: Somebody set up us the bomb!!
It's fine by me. I like AMD's chips anyways.