Even if I was a rabid prince fan, this release won't stop me going to music shops to buy CDs. There is no way that a newspaper could give me the specific CD that I want - it just produces millions of CDs that it thinks everyone wants. If I want a certain CD, I'll do what I've always done and buy it in a shop, and not a supermarket - supermarkets don't stock CDs I like.
Because by putting this data into the file (which I have no problem conforming to - there's no loss of privacy, because the file is my private data, and I'm not sharing it) is the best compromise we have to stop DRM. It means that the I'm not inconvenienced, while the theives that push up the price of music I buy are made public. Sounds great to me.
The BBC Trust is a seperate organisation whos job it is to monitor the BBC and ensure they're obeying their charter. They report their findings publicly, and if there's a scandal, then it usually results in the boss of the BBC getting the sack. In other words, the BBC Trust will check every 6 months if the BBC has made any effort to produce a linux format player (and whether they should be doing), and if people are still kicking up a stink about it, the public will get to know about it, and it the BBC's board of directors will be "in the shit".
The literal read types are only guilty of taking at face value what some 1600 year old "prophets" literal-wrote. Taking an interpretive stance over the words of the bible is a great way of producing vagueness and factionism in religion - that's why we have so many forms of Christianity.
The bible should be read literally, and criticised (and hopefully discredited) on its literal content, not a vague adaptation to current affairs.
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I tried something similar, but washing your hair in the toilet is highly impractical.
It's a physical one. Alcohol withdrawal is a potentially fatal state where you lose control of most of your motor-neuron system while your seratonine levels go bezerk. Trust me, I've had it, and it's really not funny. There is a mental association aspect of it - being drawn towards pubs - but no gamer would experience detectable physical withdrawal symptoms, except minor agitation. You certainly can't get hospitalised by going "cold turkey" on games.
I currently have "gears of war" for PS2, which works pretty well on the european software emulation. I was looking forward to getting a decent football game, but microsoft buggered that one up when they got exclusive rights to both FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer (if you can't compete on quality...). All things considered though, it's a good little machine:-)
As for the TV.. 42 inches baby!
still..
105 is better than the two I've got sitting on my shelf, both completed. I'm quite looking forward to powering up my PS3 again for a decent game.
You could argue that although "cookie" is the established term, it's a bit of a silly one in the first place.
It starts OK - you visit a website, it gives you a cookie (yummy! thanks!) You go back to the website, it wants its cookie back (aww..) Fortunately, your cookie is magic, and can replicate every time you have to give it back (yay for cookies!)
So it's not really very analogous with cookies at all. Sadly, there already was a term which is perfectly adequate for the purpose of cookies:
"token"
You visit a website, it gives you a token You return to the website, you show it your token.
"access pass" would've done too, or even "client id", "session key", etc..etc..
"cookie" is just dumb if you ask me. Not as annoying as "podcast" though.
Speaking of which, what twat shortened "umbrella" to "brolly"? At least "prolly" sounds a bit like somebody trying to say "probably" after about 11 pints of wife beater.
Quite. It also connects to the "OS is part of the hardware" philosophy of Microsoft. If you buy a new PC with windows on it, they see it as just that. I bought one, installed KVM, then tried to install my OEM on it, and guess what, they wouldn't license it. They're happy for me to pay for the software, but if it involves interoperating with linux, they don't want anything to do with it.
It's not so much crying wolf as crying stoat. A stoat is nowhere near as much of a problem, but it's still likely to eat one of your chickens.
In other words, just because another country is worse, you shouldn't let your own country slide in that direction. In fact, it would be downright hypocritical for the USA to promote free speech when there are questions about it within.
Whenever an 3rd party criticises Iran, they always reply "compare this to the atrocities of Israel and the United States". That doesn't make Iran right. In fact, that's the definition of spin.
Open source software is supposed to be -free-.. if the copyright holder of an important open-source project starts to dictate who can and can't use the software by how "evil" they are, then we're as good as communist.
In Soviet Venezula....! aww forget it.
What a moron. It's one thing to criticise Bush while making your own policies.. it's another to base an entire country's manifesto on anti-Bush rhetoric. That guy's got some serious growing up to do.
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I don't quite know the exchange rate for kroner, but I doubt a bad-willing person will be poor enough to care about 10-20 kroner.
You've seen the price of beer in Norway, right?
Even if I was a rabid prince fan, this release won't stop me going to music shops to buy CDs. There is no way that a newspaper could give me the specific CD that I want - it just produces millions of CDs that it thinks everyone wants. If I want a certain CD, I'll do what I've always done and buy it in a shop, and not a supermarket - supermarkets don't stock CDs I like.
Because by putting this data into the file (which I have no problem conforming to - there's no loss of privacy, because the file is my private data, and I'm not sharing it) is the best compromise we have to stop DRM. It means that the I'm not inconvenienced, while the theives that push up the price of music I buy are made public. Sounds great to me.
Mod parent up. Apple extends a hand of trust to its users, and some idiot comes along and deliberately screws up the one argument I had against DRM:
* I'm not trying to steal/share it, I just want to be in control of it.
I was quite happy to put my name in there if it's enough to keep the music producers happy.
The BBC Trust is a seperate organisation whos job it is to monitor the BBC and ensure they're obeying their charter. They report their findings publicly, and if there's a scandal, then it usually results in the boss of the BBC getting the sack. In other words, the BBC Trust will check every 6 months if the BBC has made any effort to produce a linux format player (and whether they should be doing), and if people are still kicking up a stink about it, the public will get to know about it, and it the BBC's board of directors will be "in the shit".
No, it's true.. Tina Turner wrote a song about it - "steamy windows".
oh, there's my coat. bye!
The literal read types are only guilty of taking at face value what some 1600 year old "prophets" literal-wrote. Taking an interpretive stance over the words of the bible is a great way of producing vagueness and factionism in religion - that's why we have so many forms of Christianity.
The bible should be read literally, and criticised (and hopefully discredited) on its literal content, not a vague adaptation to current affairs.
I tried something similar, but washing your hair in the toilet is highly impractical.
It's a physical one. Alcohol withdrawal is a potentially fatal state where you lose control of most of your motor-neuron system while your seratonine levels go bezerk. Trust me, I've had it, and it's really not funny. There is a mental association aspect of it - being drawn towards pubs - but no gamer would experience detectable physical withdrawal symptoms, except minor agitation. You certainly can't get hospitalised by going "cold turkey" on games.
well.. I've never tried to shove a mouse up someone's arse.. maybe i'm not using enough imagination.
damn.. they didn't teach me at school!
:-)
wait.. i'm "neutral" again. The stigma is gone! to be honest, i was happy wallowing in self pity
I currently have "gears of war" for PS2, which works pretty well on the european software emulation. I was looking forward to getting a decent football game, but microsoft buggered that one up when they got exclusive rights to both FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer (if you can't compete on quality...). All things considered though, it's a good little machine :-)
As for the TV.. 42 inches baby!
It looks like tabletop bhukaki
still.. 105 is better than the two I've got sitting on my shelf, both completed. I'm quite looking forward to powering up my PS3 again for a decent game.
can I just say "NINE MOUSE BUTTONS?" one more time for the sake of emphasis?
NINE MOUSE BUTTONS?
NINE FUCKING MOUSE BUTTONS?
What in the name of jesus christ in a spacesuit could you possibly use NINE MOUSE BUTTONS (?) for?!
Call me old fashioned, but I'm one of those regular guys with four fingers and a thumb on each hand.
You could argue that although "cookie" is the established term, it's a bit of a silly one in the first place.
It starts OK - you visit a website, it gives you a cookie (yummy! thanks!)
You go back to the website, it wants its cookie back (aww..)
Fortunately, your cookie is magic, and can replicate every time you have to give it back (yay for cookies!)
So it's not really very analogous with cookies at all. Sadly, there already was a term which is perfectly adequate for the purpose of cookies:
"token"
You visit a website, it gives you a token
You return to the website, you show it your token.
"access pass" would've done too, or even "client id", "session key", etc..etc..
"cookie" is just dumb if you ask me. Not as annoying as "podcast" though.
Speaking of which, what twat shortened "umbrella" to "brolly"? At least "prolly" sounds a bit like somebody trying to say "probably" after about 11 pints of wife beater.
Quite. It also connects to the "OS is part of the hardware" philosophy of Microsoft. If you buy a new PC with windows on it, they see it as just that. I bought one, installed KVM, then tried to install my OEM on it, and guess what, they wouldn't license it. They're happy for me to pay for the software, but if it involves interoperating with linux, they don't want anything to do with it.
..and make a clucking sound when it rings
It's not so much crying wolf as crying stoat. A stoat is nowhere near as much of a problem, but it's still likely to eat one of your chickens. In other words, just because another country is worse, you shouldn't let your own country slide in that direction. In fact, it would be downright hypocritical for the USA to promote free speech when there are questions about it within. Whenever an 3rd party criticises Iran, they always reply "compare this to the atrocities of Israel and the United States". That doesn't make Iran right. In fact, that's the definition of spin.
Amusing, but a *bad* idea.
Open source software is supposed to be -free-.. if the copyright holder of an important open-source project starts to dictate who can and can't use the software by how "evil" they are, then we're as good as communist.
Of course, this works right up until the US puts an export levy on intel CPUs headed for venezula. hahaha :-D
In Soviet Venezula....! aww forget it. What a moron. It's one thing to criticise Bush while making your own policies.. it's another to base an entire country's manifesto on anti-Bush rhetoric. That guy's got some serious growing up to do.
1) cheap Wii....
2) Hey this sort of thing works for bottled water companies...
I sincerely hope that wasn't deliberate..
Why don't they release a version for linux? Oh, because apple are cunts.