orn because some porn is violent and some of it is just plain gross, like 2girls1cup.
Well, I think the main point was that a society based on sex is better than a society based on violence. Why does video game violence gets much coverage? because it is one of the main things from where people (kids...) have contact with violence. Movies is another one, some kind of music is another.* Of course TV is quite violent too. But it is because the society in which we live is ruled by violence (just gotta see our governments).
Personally, I would really like to live in a society where sex was not as taboo as it is now. Societies a la Friday (from Heinlein) where sex is just an activity you do with someone you like. And why not talk about everything related to sex in an open way. However, we are in the 21st century and there are *lots* of senseless taboos that we have to overcome.
And, about the 2girls1cup video, it is really funny to watch the reactions from people that is about to throw up. As lots of people I watched those videos before watching the actual 2girls1cup vid. When I watched the video I was a bit disenchanted because I did not find it terrible. For one, the first thing I thought is that what the girls where playing with was simple icecream (one of the reasons why there is a "convenient" cut just after the cup has been filled with the crap of on of the girls.) And then, vomit takes are taken so far away that it could be anything (from simple water to anything else).
Now, it might or might not be that, but when I saw it, I was not overwhelmed by it. Maybe it is because I have seen lots of other gross videos... (bebitos en frasquitos, a [black and white] video of some Russian cutting the throat of a man). But one of the things I "experienced" from the 1cup2girls video is that, when thinking of the brown matter as excrement, I did found it a bit repulsive but after I told my mind that it was just icecream I did not have a problem:)
look at what wikipedia has to say:
Similar lawsuits against McDonald's in the United Kingdom failed. The High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench division, rejected the claim that McDonald's could have avoided injury by serving not-so-hot coffee:
If this submission be right, McDonald's should not have served drinks at any temperature which would have caused a bad scalding injury. The evidence is that tea or coffee served at a temperature of 65 C (149 F) will cause a deep thickness burn if it is in contact with the skin for just two seconds. Thus, if McDonald's were going to avoid the risk of injury by a deep thickness burn they would have had to have served tea and coffee at between 55-60 C (131-140 F). But tea ought to be brewed with boiling water if it is to give its best flavour and coffee ought to be brewed at between 85-95 C (185-203 F).[10]
Though defenders of the Liebeck verdict argue that her coffee was unusually hotter than other coffee sold, other major vendors of coffee, including Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Wendy's, and Burger King, produce coffee at a similar or higher temperature, and have been subjected to similar lawsuits over third-degree burns.[13] And moreover, it seems to me that the coffee had the right temperature (more so, considering that it was served at a drive thru which means people will indeed drink the coffee while driving over long distances):
Home and commercial coffee makers often reach comparable temperatures.[14] The National Coffee Association instructs that coffee be brewed "between 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit [91-96 C] for optimal extraction" and consumed "immediately". If not consumed immediately, the coffee is to be "maintained at 180-185 degrees Fahrenheit." [15] I have always thought that such a suit is only possible in the happy suing USA.
Now, returning to the IBM case (and this main story subject), I really hope they sue these bastards as they are counterfeiting merchandise. This is a company trying to profit from a registered trademark (or name?) selling terrible products. IMHO these are the real pirates who should be punished with all the extent of the law
No, clearly some people do want to use Microsoft products, just like some people want to use FOSS or Linux.
I just wanted to give my opinion to this snippet. I think that one of the most important reasons why people *want* to use Microsoft products is because they are the de facto standard software for computer operation these days. People want familiar things.
Suppose for a minute, that Microsoft "monopoly" has ended and when you enter to PC World to get your brand new computer for christmas you are approached by a store clerk who asks you "what kind of computer do you want?", to what you answer "well... just a computer where I can surf the web, watch my BluDiscs films, play my games and to my accounting". To what the clerk will answer giving you the following options:
1. A PC with Microsoft operating system (Windows 8 GreatTecnology-plus-ultra) in which you can do all you wanted "but" to get your music you will have to purchase it from any of the supported online stores (yahoo shop, rhapsody, microsoft music, etc). Of course, you wont be able to do accounting unless you spend $60 more dollars in X program. Two years warranty and call support.
2. A PC with the Linux operating system (Aabantii 3.13.4 Concupiscent Pygmaeus) in which you will be able to surf the web, watch only DVDs... because you know, there is no available software to play BluDiscs... (well, there is but the clerk wont tell you because it is illegal in your beloved USA) and you might or might not be able to play your games. Accounting? well there are some programs used for accounting, they come free! but after you find that they do not work quite well (see the last remark in this paragraph) you will also notice that the $60 program available for option 1 is not compatible with this option. One year hardware warranty, NO support.
3. A brand new shiny and uber cool Mac with OSX operating system (OSX 13.5 Yaguarundi) which is very beautiful and very nice. Although it is the most expensive option of the three, it comes with iTunes, so you will be able to connect your iPod. You will be able to surf the web and watch DVDs and BluDiscs. You might also have problems finding compatible games for this computer. Warranty and support are the problem of Apple computer... you must call their number.
Now, most of us (in slashdot) would ask the clerk to tell us more about whatever X or Y property of the computer, but everybody else will just ask the clerk for the computer which will read all their documents and in which they will be able to play all their games and do their accounting. The price? it does not matter (too much) because after all it is christmas!, they have earned their money and they want to spend it in that brand new computer.
Another problem that will arise, is that for example, being 3 types of operating systems, they will have to take care when buying that new camera because it might work in option 1 but not in option 2 or 3, or maybe it might work for option 2 but not for option 1 and 3... heck, they only want a new webcam!. And what about a new graphics card? well, it might work for 2 but not for 1 and 3, or it might work for 3 but not for 1 and 2... And do not get me started with file formats. After they save their work in option's 2 Kakuki akkounting manager, if they send it to their mom/wife/accountant or they try to open it X place, they will realize that their kakukki akkounting manager program is not compatible with the other computer which are of the type 1 or 3...
All in all, it will be a total mess. For some of us who remember the days when PC and Mac where more or less similarly "famous" (not in the USA), we might remember the mess it was when buying software. My father once bought an about-dinosaur game CD from the USA, just to realize when he arrived here that the game was MAC only...
Microsoft has made all those problem non existent. People expect to go to the store, buy a Game, application or whatever else and after inserting the CD look it work. Similarly to how I expect my toaster to toast my bread after I put them in and push the toast button. No ifs, no buts.
Yeah... it would be easier to post those as mechanical turks. I Google is looking for the equivalent of undergrads for Research (whose "research" projects are focused on gluing receipts from the Dr. last conference trip)
Copyright infringement is a criminal offence in Mexico (I have a friend who IS a Mexican lawyer and he told me this so...). Copyright infringement is also criminal in France (this same friend also told me that, and then... the fact is Mexican law is heavily based on French Law).
Anyway, read Mexican Law review for a summary of mexican law vs american law
One example, Shindlers list, great movie, do NOT want to see it again. Same with Grave of the fireflies. Some movies just ain't for multiple viewings. They are my "favorite movies I never want to see again".
Just out of curiosity, why don't you want to see those films again? both of them are really good films and although I would not see them every weekend (as for example Sin City), I enjoy watching them from time to time. The plot is interesting, the photography/drawing is nice and the screen writing is well done.
I find it difficult to understand your statement, "favorite movies I never want to see again", if you do not want to see them again, then you do not enjoy watching them... unless you dislike enjoyment and only watch films that make you cry or have a bad time (I would suggest you United 93... worst film I have seen in a looong long time... or Broeback Mountain, a 1 hour marlboro country ad).
I not not know about the netflix scoring algorithm but I have found criticker.com quite reliable for my tastes.
Am I insane in thinking that you can see a movie as being a great artwork and still not liking it or viceversa? It might be akin to the "La Gioconda" painting. Everybody says it is the best piece of art of all the time, yet, after having watched it *twice* live in the Louvre I have yet to find something special about it (I prefer for example, paintings from Giovanni Paninni, which is relatively unknown)
this means that a lot of wrongs are ignored by potential plaintiffs, just as a matter of tradition, convenience and politeness, just as they
That was the main point of the article, it shows you how some of those things which where "traditionally" or "conveniently" ignored (such as passing copies of songs to other people) before are now being actively prosecuted by the plaintiffs (see Recording Industry vs The People. Like that, in 10 years such politeness, ignorance and convenience might be totally suppressed when such companies find that suing people is a more profitable activity than their current buisness model.
- nuisance, trespass, assault** (especially among children), etc..... Nobody goes around saying "Look at how many acts of trespass you committed today. We need to fix trespass law."
And then you actually read about the coffee-Mcdonalds lady or the robber who sued the owners of the home he was robbing.
There already exist public service broadcasters that operate on the basis you proposed, and I do watch some of their shows, but when I look at the list, I see that everything I watch was actually produced very cheaply abroad, making it an exercise in increasing our trade deficit. In contrast the BBC's work, even that which people "didn't want" has been tremendously successful as an export.
Yeah but the problem (which is what the GP sarcasticafulirifully comment is pointing) is that, even if I ONLY watch those public, non-BBC channels or even if I have a TV to kick it when I arrive from work. I must pay the diezmo to the fucking BBC.
Physical distribution of CDs is dead in the water. It's an inefficient, unnecessary and expensive holdover from the ancient past. You might as well give away a free buggy whip with each 'album' (another dying concept) to try and boost sales.
Uhhh I could kind of agree with the statement that CDs are dead but the concept of "Album" meaning a couple of songs all centered around a specific theme is quite fine(some of them even following a story, see for example Legendary Tales or Symphony of Enchanted Lands from Rhapsody, or Metropolis Pt. 2 from Dream Theater).
Nevertheless I think that CDs still have a place, however I am also aware that the producers MUST lower their prices. At the end, CDs will go the way of the LP, a niche market to old farts that somehow can differentiate the quality between a CD and a Q.9 OGG. Or that like having a *tangible* copy of the "music" in gathering dust (count me in those:)
And IIRC because someone patented the idea of playing a mini game while the main game is loading.
I am courious about that fact. I always wondered in the Playstation 1 times why didnt they have such features (a simple atari like game would be OK).
Does anyone have more information about this patent? BTW... such a thing sucks (that someone patented it and hence nobody can use it unless it pays... it is stupid)
Is there anything else you should take measures to protect in open source software? Is it possible to maintain control of a project under the GPL or are you constantly faced with forks?"
FORK!! FORK!! there, run scared... haha
It is really funny how open source developers are so afraid of a fork. It seems that it would be the worst thing that can happen to their precious software/idea... imagine some forking Linux and making it so good that Linus does not matter any more? or what about apache, or any other project.
Recently, I was in a talk given by the founder of Moodle, and when asked which where the treats of his project, he named, maybe competitors, lack of interest and almost as if he did not want do acknowledge it, with a very weak voice, he said "forks".
Of course a fork would mean that the oh great lords and owners of the source (Linus, Theo, Miguel, etc...) would be put aside and they could end as simple coders...
Those of us who leave Firefox running for days at a time have problems. Firefox consumes GIGABYTES of memory in short order for me
Not only that, but some people like me, run firefox and just hibernate hence not closing it (I usually have a virtual desktop where I keep firefox open) and the little beast gets bloated very easily.
Of course, I stopped ranting about it since Firefox 2.0 arrived, because it is *clear* firefox developers are just *lallalaal wont hear you* about this problem. Of course, when [if] it is solved sometime, they will then acknowledge that it was a bug:).
Now that clearly demonstrates the speed in which bugs are fixed in open source software that zealots always talk about.
Reported:2000-07-13 Fixed:2006-10-19
Just 7 years and 3 months! Not bad, for a bug which clearly affected end users and hid information from the users (showing incomplete tooltips). And people expect Mozilla guys to fix the more complex memory problem soon?
Yeah, that is a very interesting point. GPL is supposed to affect distribution of software. That is why some people (I am among them) argue that it is stupid to show the GPL when users RUN a program, and to make them click accept (it gives the false sense that they have to agree to a lot of crap before using the software... similarly to closed source EULA).
However as you point out, with web software the end users ARE the system administrators! say for example that Moodle started to use the license. The end users are the people that install the software on their servers. This AGPL license will in such case block the USAGE of the application instead of the distribution. Therefore it seems quite plausible to call it an EULA.
X-ray hair removal:
The discovery of x-rays in 1895 captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. Before the effects of x-rays were fully understood, x-rays also captured the imagination of quacks, who began opening women's hair removal clinics almost as soon as x-ray researchers began reporting they were losing their hair.
The faceless experience of being online is not just limited to rudeness, but other behavior too. People who would never buy porn at a newsstand will surf porn. Lol, that just reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend when back when I was in the University (around 1999). We where talking about pr0n rental shops, and I told him
" I will never understand how is it that there is people who actually PAYS to see porn... I mean, you should be really fucked up to have to actually pay to get it",
to what he replied something like:
"well duh, you do not pay for it because you can download it for free... but what if you couldn't do it??"
There is a newsgroup, perhaps not too unlike many others, where a troll has taken up residence. He insults members and has found some method of posting every few minutes a lot of gibberish under various names and forged addresses.
Yeah, I used to frequent to comp.os.linux.advocacy to enjoy quality time reading the flames and trolls... that was until slashdot became my main source for those.
Yeah... maybe it is that I only surf the same 5 or 6 websites each day (gmail, slashdot, news.google, jornada, google, wikipedia mostly + scientific journals from SCOPUS datasbase or citeseer) but since installing AdBlock I have not seen an ad for quite some time while browsing.
However it is really annoying when I have to use some computer with IE 5,6 or 7 without adblock because I feel the web *very* polluted. It akin to when you live in a small city with almost no advertising and then you move to Mexico City where the spectacular ads are almost stomped in your face. It is pollution. In this case it is information pollution.
Howdy freaking mother of god, thanks for posting this!, you give me the chance of my life:
Is Linux stable? I don't care... Will my programs be stable on it... I do care
If the 3rd party apps that work on XP/2000 don't work on Linux then it will appear to be unstable, it does not matter if it is the OS or the app the impression is that Linux is unstable.
Blaming Linux if a 3rd party app that works on XP does not work on Linux should be blamed on Linux, the 3rd party wrote the app for PC, not XP, so it should work on "PC". Losing support for legacy apps (16 bit etc..) is fine but all 32 bit apps should work. It is not like a PC app not working on a Mac, the app probably has a "Designed for a PC" sticker on the box and Vista is a "PC"! One of the annoying parts of LInux is the collection of.conf files it does specifically to support older apps.
If I can't get stable drivers for my hardware - why should I upgrade If I have to upgrade my hardware to use it - why should I upgrade If I can't run my apps - why should I upgrade If I can't video chat with my loved ones - why should I upgrade [note:added by my, as there is no *real* application which allows you to chat using video with my mom, girlfriend and other friends... I need Windowsze XP and skype just for that...]
Please don't say apache - I don't run servers Please don't say security - I don't believe it is *secure* and XP is secure enough (with other apps to close the gaps) Please don't say it's free as in libre - I don't care
Give me a real reason.....
There! Brought to you by a Ubuntu and Fedora core user (although I am bitter because since upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 I can only login using the "failsafe gnome" option... or the x-server wont start).
The characters are of course larger than life and more extreme than reality usually is, but some of the differences in how Asians
Yeah, those thousand penis tentacle monsters surely are more extreme and larger than life uh?
BTW for all of you porno cartoons fans, I remember watching a hentai movie where the girl needed to have an orgasm to avoid transforming to a wolf in a full moon (yeah... for those of u not in the know... japanese are that crazy). Anyone knows what is the name of that film??
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orn because some porn is violent and some of it is just plain gross, like 2girls1cup.
:)
Well, I think the main point was that a society based on sex is better than a society based on violence. Why does video game violence gets much coverage? because it is one of the main things from where people (kids...) have contact with violence. Movies is another one, some kind of music is another.* Of course TV is quite violent too. But it is because the society in which we live is ruled by violence (just gotta see our governments).
Personally, I would really like to live in a society where sex was not as taboo as it is now. Societies a la Friday (from Heinlein) where sex is just an activity you do with someone you like. And why not talk about everything related to sex in an open way. However, we are in the 21st century and there are *lots* of senseless taboos that we have to overcome.
And, about the 2girls1cup video, it is really funny to watch the reactions from people that is about to throw up. As lots of people I watched those videos before watching the actual 2girls1cup vid. When I watched the video I was a bit disenchanted because I did not find it terrible. For one, the first thing I thought is that what the girls where playing with was simple icecream (one of the reasons why there is a "convenient" cut just after the cup has been filled with the crap of on of the girls.) And then, vomit takes are taken so far away that it could be anything (from simple water to anything else).
Now, it might or might not be that, but when I saw it, I was not overwhelmed by it. Maybe it is because I have seen lots of other gross videos... (bebitos en frasquitos, a [black and white] video of some Russian cutting the throat of a man). But one of the things I "experienced" from the 1cup2girls video is that, when thinking of the brown matter as excrement, I did found it a bit repulsive but after I told my mind that it was just icecream I did not have a problem
If this submission be right, McDonald's should not have served drinks at any temperature which would have caused a bad scalding injury. The evidence is that tea or coffee served at a temperature of 65 C (149 F) will cause a deep thickness burn if it is in contact with the skin for just two seconds. Thus, if McDonald's were going to avoid the risk of injury by a deep thickness burn they would have had to have served tea and coffee at between 55-60 C (131-140 F). But tea ought to be brewed with boiling water if it is to give its best flavour and coffee ought to be brewed at between 85-95 C (185-203 F).[10]
Though defenders of the Liebeck verdict argue that her coffee was unusually hotter than other coffee sold, other major vendors of coffee, including Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Wendy's, and Burger King, produce coffee at a similar or higher temperature, and have been subjected to similar lawsuits over third-degree burns.[13] And moreover, it seems to me that the coffee had the right temperature (more so, considering that it was served at a drive thru which means people will indeed drink the coffee while driving over long distances): Home and commercial coffee makers often reach comparable temperatures.[14] The National Coffee Association instructs that coffee be brewed "between 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit [91-96 C] for optimal extraction" and consumed "immediately". If not consumed immediately, the coffee is to be "maintained at 180-185 degrees Fahrenheit." [15] I have always thought that such a suit is only possible in the happy suing USA.
Now, returning to the IBM case (and this main story subject), I really hope they sue these bastards as they are counterfeiting merchandise. This is a company trying to profit from a registered trademark (or name?) selling terrible products. IMHO these are the real pirates who should be punished with all the extent of the law
No, clearly some people do want to use Microsoft products, just like some people want to use FOSS or Linux.
I just wanted to give my opinion to this snippet. I think that one of the most important reasons why people *want* to use Microsoft products is because they are the de facto standard software for computer operation these days. People want familiar things.
Suppose for a minute, that Microsoft "monopoly" has ended and when you enter to PC World to get your brand new computer for christmas you are approached by a store clerk who asks you "what kind of computer do you want?", to what you answer "well... just a computer where I can surf the web, watch my BluDiscs films, play my games and to my accounting". To what the clerk will answer giving you the following options:
1. A PC with Microsoft operating system (Windows 8 GreatTecnology-plus-ultra) in which you can do all you wanted "but" to get your music you will have to purchase it from any of the supported online stores (yahoo shop, rhapsody, microsoft music, etc). Of course, you wont be able to do accounting unless you spend $60 more dollars in X program. Two years warranty and call support.
2. A PC with the Linux operating system (Aabantii 3.13.4 Concupiscent Pygmaeus) in which you will be able to surf the web, watch only DVDs... because you know, there is no available software to play BluDiscs... (well, there is but the clerk wont tell you because it is illegal in your beloved USA) and you might or might not be able to play your games. Accounting? well there are some programs used for accounting, they come free! but after you find that they do not work quite well (see the last remark in this paragraph) you will also notice that the $60 program available for option 1 is not compatible with this option. One year hardware warranty, NO support.
3. A brand new shiny and uber cool Mac with OSX operating system (OSX 13.5 Yaguarundi) which is very beautiful and very nice. Although it is the most expensive option of the three, it comes with iTunes, so you will be able to connect your iPod. You will be able to surf the web and watch DVDs and BluDiscs. You might also have problems finding compatible games for this computer. Warranty and support are the problem of Apple computer... you must call their number.
Now, most of us (in slashdot) would ask the clerk to tell us more about whatever X or Y property of the computer, but everybody else will just ask the clerk for the computer which will read all their documents and in which they will be able to play all their games and do their accounting. The price? it does not matter (too much) because after all it is christmas!, they have earned their money and they want to spend it in that brand new computer.
Another problem that will arise, is that for example, being 3 types of operating systems, they will have to take care when buying that new camera because it might work in option 1 but not in option 2 or 3, or maybe it might work for option 2 but not for option 1 and 3... heck, they only want a new webcam!. And what about a new graphics card? well, it might work for 2 but not for 1 and 3, or it might work for 3 but not for 1 and 2... And do not get me started with file formats. After they save their work in option's 2 Kakuki akkounting manager, if they send it to their mom/wife/accountant or they try to open it X place, they will realize that their kakukki akkounting manager program is not compatible with the other computer which are of the type 1 or 3...
All in all, it will be a total mess. For some of us who remember the days when PC and Mac where more or less similarly "famous" (not in the USA), we might remember the mess it was when buying software. My father once bought an about-dinosaur game CD from the USA, just to realize when he arrived here that the game was MAC only...
Microsoft has made all those problem non existent. People expect to go to the store, buy a Game, application or whatever else and after inserting the CD look it work. Similarly to how I expect my toaster to toast my bread after I put them in and push the toast button. No ifs, no buts.
Yeah... it would be easier to post those as mechanical turks. I Google is looking for the equivalent of undergrads for Research (whose "research" projects are focused on gluing receipts from the Dr. last conference trip)
AFAIK, IAANAL, etc
Copyright infringement is a criminal offence in Mexico (I have a friend who IS a Mexican lawyer and he told me this so...).
Copyright infringement is also criminal in France (this same friend also told me that, and then... the fact is Mexican law is heavily based on French Law).
Anyway, read Mexican Law review for a summary of mexican law vs american law
Or the wikipedia article on Legal systems of the world
Is it me, or are the two chicks dressed as Luigi and Princess Peach quite hot?
That's a princess I would rescue from another castle...
One example, Shindlers list, great movie, do NOT want to see it again. Same with Grave of the fireflies. Some movies just ain't for multiple viewings. They are my "favorite movies I never want to see again".
Just out of curiosity, why don't you want to see those films again? both of them are really good films and although I would not see them every weekend (as for example Sin City), I enjoy watching them from time to time. The plot is interesting, the photography/drawing is nice and the screen writing is well done.
I find it difficult to understand your statement, "favorite movies I never want to see again", if you do not want to see them again, then you do not enjoy watching them... unless you dislike enjoyment and only watch films that make you cry or have a bad time (I would suggest you United 93... worst film I have seen in a looong long time... or Broeback Mountain, a 1 hour marlboro country ad).
I not not know about the netflix scoring algorithm but I have found criticker.com quite reliable for my tastes.
Am I insane in thinking that you can see a movie as being a great artwork and still not liking it or viceversa?
It might be akin to the "La Gioconda" painting. Everybody says it is the best piece of art of all the time, yet, after having watched it *twice* live in the Louvre I have yet to find something special about it (I prefer for example, paintings from Giovanni Paninni, which is relatively unknown)
this means that a lot of wrongs are ignored by potential plaintiffs, just as a matter of tradition, convenience and politeness, just as they
That was the main point of the article, it shows you how some of those things which where "traditionally" or "conveniently" ignored (such as passing copies of songs to other people) before are now being actively prosecuted by the plaintiffs (see Recording Industry vs The People. Like that, in 10 years such politeness, ignorance and convenience might be totally suppressed when such companies find that suing people is a more profitable activity than their current buisness model.
- nuisance, trespass, assault** (especially among children), etc..... Nobody goes around saying "Look at how many acts of trespass you committed today. We need to fix trespass law."
And then you actually read about the coffee-Mcdonalds lady or the robber who sued the owners of the home he was robbing.
Anyone got the printer friendly version?? I *HATE* with passion those sparmticles where the content is split in lots of pages just to put more adds...
There already exist public service broadcasters that operate on the basis you proposed, and I do watch some of their shows, but when I look at the list, I see that everything I watch was actually produced very cheaply abroad, making it an exercise in increasing our trade deficit. In contrast the BBC's work, even that which people "didn't want" has been tremendously successful as an export.
Yeah but the problem (which is what the GP sarcasticafulirifully comment is pointing) is that, even if I ONLY watch those public, non-BBC channels or even if I have a TV to kick it when I arrive from work. I must pay the diezmo to the fucking BBC.
As a poor student, I hate that...
No. We also need to stop calling it DRM. Does it manage my digital rights? No. (In fact it does the opposite of that, it cripples my digital rights
What is wrong with calling it Digital Restrictions Management??
Physical distribution of CDs is dead in the water. It's an inefficient, unnecessary and expensive holdover from the ancient past. You might as well give away a free buggy whip with each 'album' (another dying concept) to try and boost sales.
:)
Uhhh I could kind of agree with the statement that CDs are dead but the concept of "Album" meaning a couple of songs all centered around a specific theme is quite fine(some of them even following a story, see for example Legendary Tales or Symphony of Enchanted Lands from Rhapsody, or Metropolis Pt. 2 from Dream Theater).
Nevertheless I think that CDs still have a place, however I am also aware that the producers MUST lower their prices. At the end, CDs will go the way of the LP, a niche market to old farts that somehow can differentiate the quality between a CD and a Q.9 OGG. Or that like having a *tangible* copy of the "music" in gathering dust (count me in those
And IIRC because someone patented the idea of playing a mini game while the main game is loading.
I am courious about that fact. I always wondered in the Playstation 1 times why didnt they have such features (a simple atari like game would be OK).
Does anyone have more information about this patent?
BTW... such a thing sucks (that someone patented it and hence nobody can use it unless it pays... it is stupid)
Does anyone have the torrent which includes this new DS game??
I'd like to.. uhm... test it before I buy it, yeah.
Is there anything else you should take measures to protect in open source software? Is it possible to maintain control of a project under the GPL or are you constantly faced with forks?"
:) have a nice day
FORK!! FORK!! there, run scared... haha
It is really funny how open source developers are so afraid of a fork. It seems that it would be the worst thing that can happen to their precious software/idea... imagine some forking Linux and making it so good that Linus does not matter any more? or what about apache, or any other project.
Recently, I was in a talk given by the founder of Moodle, and when asked which where the treats of his project, he named, maybe competitors, lack of interest and almost as if he did not want do acknowledge it, with a very weak voice, he said "forks".
Of course a fork would mean that the oh great lords and owners of the source (Linus, Theo, Miguel, etc...) would be put aside and they could end as simple coders...
Sorry for the flame
Those of us who leave Firefox running for days at a time have problems. Firefox consumes GIGABYTES of memory in short order for me
:).
Not only that, but some people like me, run firefox and just hibernate hence not closing it (I usually have a virtual desktop where I keep firefox open) and the little beast gets bloated very easily.
Of course, I stopped ranting about it since Firefox 2.0 arrived, because it is *clear* firefox developers are just *lallalaal wont hear you* about this problem. Of course, when [if] it is solved sometime, they will then acknowledge that it was a bug
ROFLMAO
Now that clearly demonstrates the speed in which bugs are fixed in open source software that zealots always talk about.
Reported:2000-07-13
Fixed:2006-10-19
Just 7 years and 3 months! Not bad, for a bug which clearly affected end users and hid information from the users (showing incomplete tooltips). And people expect Mozilla guys to fix the more complex memory problem soon?
HAHAHAHAhaha
Yeah, that is a very interesting point. GPL is supposed to affect distribution of software. That is why some people (I am among them) argue that it is stupid to show the GPL when users RUN a program, and to make them click accept (it gives the false sense that they have to agree to a lot of crap before using the software... similarly to closed source EULA).
However as you point out, with web software the end users ARE the system administrators! say for example that Moodle started to use the license. The end users are the people that install the software on their servers. This AGPL license will in such case block the USAGE of the application instead of the distribution. Therefore it seems quite plausible to call it an EULA.
go quite a non-meterian distance to obtain a device which emits "non-Hertzian frequencies."
So now you travel by sea?
The faceless experience of being online is not just limited to rudeness, but other behavior too. People who would never buy porn at a newsstand will surf porn.
:oP
Lol, that just reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend when back when I was in the University (around 1999). We where talking about pr0n rental shops, and I told him
" I will never understand how is it that there is people who actually PAYS to see porn... I mean, you should be really fucked up to have to actually pay to get it",
to what he replied something like:
"well duh, you do not pay for it because you can download it for free... but what if you couldn't do it??"
I just STFU and we changed conversation
There is a newsgroup, perhaps not too unlike many others, where a troll has taken up residence. He insults members and has found some method of posting every few minutes a lot of gibberish under various names and forged addresses.
Yeah, I used to frequent to comp.os.linux.advocacy to enjoy quality time reading the flames and trolls... that was until slashdot became my main source for those.
Yeah... maybe it is that I only surf the same 5 or 6 websites each day (gmail, slashdot, news.google, jornada, google, wikipedia mostly + scientific journals from SCOPUS datasbase or citeseer) but since installing AdBlock I have not seen an ad for quite some time while browsing.
However it is really annoying when I have to use some computer with IE 5,6 or 7 without adblock because I feel the web *very* polluted. It akin to when you live in a small city with almost no advertising and then you move to Mexico City where the spectacular ads are almost stomped in your face. It is pollution. In this case it is information pollution.
Howdy freaking mother of god, thanks for posting this!, you give me the chance of my life:
... I do care
.conf files it does specifically to support older apps.
Is Linux stable? I don't care... Will my programs be stable on it
If the 3rd party apps that work on XP/2000 don't work on Linux then it will appear to be unstable, it does not matter if it is the OS or the app the impression is that Linux is unstable.
Blaming Linux if a 3rd party app that works on XP does not work on Linux should be blamed on Linux, the 3rd party wrote the app for PC, not XP, so it should work on "PC". Losing support for legacy apps (16 bit etc..) is fine but all 32 bit apps should work. It is not like a PC app not working on a Mac, the app probably has a "Designed for a PC" sticker on the box and Vista is a "PC"! One of the annoying parts of LInux is the collection of
If I can't get stable drivers for my hardware - why should I upgrade
If I have to upgrade my hardware to use it - why should I upgrade
If I can't run my apps - why should I upgrade
If I can't video chat with my loved ones - why should I upgrade [note:added by my, as there is no *real* application which allows you to chat using video with my mom, girlfriend and other friends... I need Windowsze XP and skype just for that...]
Please don't say apache - I don't run servers
Please don't say security - I don't believe it is *secure* and XP is secure enough (with other apps to close the gaps)
Please don't say it's free as in libre - I don't care
Give me a real reason.....
There!
Brought to you by a Ubuntu and Fedora core user (although I am bitter because since upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 I can only login using the "failsafe gnome" option... or the x-server wont start).
The characters are of course larger than life and more extreme than reality usually is, but some of the differences in how Asians
Yeah, those thousand penis tentacle monsters surely are more extreme and larger than life uh?
BTW for all of you porno cartoons fans, I remember watching a hentai movie where the girl needed to have an orgasm to avoid transforming to a wolf in a full moon (yeah... for those of u not in the know... japanese are that crazy). Anyone knows what is the name of that film??