DRM only exists because of thieving Bohemians like you that don't respect copyrights.
And somehow putting putting restrictions on legal music that don't exist on illegal music is going to fix this? This only serves to fuel the piracy. Online music store's only put DRM on their music because they need control.
And furthermore, maybe we should be thinking about a business model that gets rid of all these bullshit middle-men and puts the money in the hands of those who deserve it: the artists and the producers. Who cares if the the marketers, retailers and distributers are doing work if that work is only important because of a restrictive and arbitrary piece of legislation? We do have respect for the right of companies to make a profit, but not if they're making a profit doing something that, in our interconnected high-tech world, is innefficient, invasive, and worst of all, legally sound.
Look into tomorrow, when everyone is a musician, and everyone can listen to what they damn well want to. We are not theiving Bohemians, they are. They're the ones making money off of someone else's art, the ones telling us what we can and cannot listen to.
What, specifically, is wrong with OpenOffice? I use MS Office for MacOS X at school and OOo at home, and I hardly notice any difference at all. Switching your hypothetical analyst's computer to OOo would only be a problem because of differences between OOo and MSoffice, not because of OOo's shortcomings.
No, GIMP is not really as good as Photoshop (though it does do a few things better than PS, IMO), but that is completely unrelated to OpenOffice calc vs. Excel. And, hey, even if it wasn't as good, 2.0 is in beta now, right? So how do you know that's not as good?
And, on top of that, how many employees use in a given company use Excel? Quite a few, true, but for every one that doesn't (also quite a few) you can save the couple hundred (or whatever corporations pay for it) for an MS office license, because OO Writer definitely is as good as (read: better than) Word.
WINDOWS!!! Don't believe microsoft's lies, Windows XP is still on top of DOS, as is every other god damn iteration of windows INCLUDING the upcoming Longhorn! Saying that "DOS is no longer there" is as stupid as saying you can replace all of your utilities, your API's and your shell with brand new code and expect your programs to work.
"If you sit up and watch this and play these games over and over again... it seems that this is alright to walk up and hit a police officer over the head with a bat,"
I really wonder if this guy has ever talked to someone (like me) who is under 18 and plays a lot of the games in question? It's not as if I believe that just because in GTA I can kill innocent bystanders doesn't mean that I think it's ok to actually do it. I mean, has anybody ever bothered to look at the family background behind the people who commit these crimes? I'm willing to bet they had a history of violence from their parents, perhaps even sexual or mental abuse. Has anybody looked at the rate of violent youth crime versus the advent of violent video games and seen an actual, substantial trend? I'm just as revolted and horrified by violent crime as an adult is, even when playing "M" games all the time. It's not as if you can morally shift the blame the artist.
Yes, I do, but that's not the point. I have tried it several different ways, even going to the length of installing Mandrake (shudder) which does the drivers for you. Any way you cut, it doesn't work.:/
Go tuesdays and sundays, and get the broccoli cheddar in a breadbowl. Dunno what it costs, but man, that's worth it motherfuker.
So then you get free wifi:)
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IANAL, but I believe he can't require any notice at all. Perhaps it's different in the crazy state, but for the U.S. at large...
Did your old bosses tell you they could require 2 weeks? They may have lied.
DRM only exists because of thieving Bohemians like you that don't respect copyrights.
And somehow putting putting restrictions on legal music that don't exist on illegal music is going to fix this? This only serves to fuel the piracy. Online music store's only put DRM on their music because they need control.
And furthermore, maybe we should be thinking about a business model that gets rid of all these bullshit middle-men and puts the money in the hands of those who deserve it: the artists and the producers. Who cares if the the marketers, retailers and distributers are doing work if that work is only important because of a restrictive and arbitrary piece of legislation? We do have respect for the right of companies to make a profit, but not if they're making a profit doing something that, in our interconnected high-tech world, is innefficient, invasive, and worst of all, legally sound.
Look into tomorrow, when everyone is a musician, and everyone can listen to what they damn well want to. We are not theiving Bohemians, they are. They're the ones making money off of someone else's art, the ones telling us what we can and cannot listen to.
Exec? It's PBS, or some form of public television, as Bill Nye's show has always been. That's why he can talk about serious science. :)
No no no, you have to tape a card in place so the spokes hit it and make the noise for you.
You obviously haven't read the book. :)
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Either that or I'm overanalysing the parents post.
You get today's virtual high-five of fortune for that comment.
bing!
Slower clockspeed, nothing else.
Aye, and ye surely also know that the installation CD's for Debian and many others actually boot a linux kernel and then install the distro?
Hey man, stop shooting up on testosterone. I didn't copy-paste fucking anything, you spastic crazy fuck, and I believe I italicised about one word.
Can you get it up to 4.4 Ghz? No. But it's still not worth 1500 dollars.
What, specifically, is wrong with OpenOffice? I use MS Office for MacOS X at school and OOo at home, and I hardly notice any difference at all. Switching your hypothetical analyst's computer to OOo would only be a problem because of differences between OOo and MSoffice, not because of OOo's shortcomings.
No, GIMP is not really as good as Photoshop (though it does do a few things better than PS, IMO), but that is completely unrelated to OpenOffice calc vs. Excel. And, hey, even if it wasn't as good, 2.0 is in beta now, right? So how do you know that's not as good?
And, on top of that, how many employees use in a given company use Excel? Quite a few, true, but for every one that doesn't (also quite a few) you can save the couple hundred (or whatever corporations pay for it) for an MS office license, because OO Writer definitely is as good as (read: better than) Word.
Did I miss something? Did something happen to the X-38?
WINDOWS!!! Don't believe microsoft's lies, Windows XP is still on top of DOS, as is every other god damn iteration of windows INCLUDING the upcoming Longhorn! Saying that "DOS is no longer there" is as stupid as saying you can replace all of your utilities, your API's and your shell with brand new code and expect your programs to work.
"If you sit up and watch this and play these games over and over again... it seems that this is alright to walk up and hit a police officer over the head with a bat,"
I really wonder if this guy has ever talked to someone (like me) who is under 18 and plays a lot of the games in question? It's not as if I believe that just because in GTA I can kill innocent bystanders doesn't mean that I think it's ok to actually do it. I mean, has anybody ever bothered to look at the family background behind the people who commit these crimes? I'm willing to bet they had a history of violence from their parents, perhaps even sexual or mental abuse. Has anybody looked at the rate of violent youth crime versus the advent of violent video games and seen an actual, substantial trend? I'm just as revolted and horrified by violent crime as an adult is, even when playing "M" games all the time. It's not as if you can morally shift the blame the artist.
The RIAA and the major labels are already fucking them, ok?
But the artist gets almost none of the money anyway, so who cares?
I agree.
Oh no, I have to go cure cancer and save babies from burning houses!
Gotta run!
Wrong - To me it's still Linux, but quite a bit of the code is RMS's.
tried to push an amendment banning gay marriage (which I don't oppose). You do oppose gay marriage, or you don't?
Have fun being a tool!
Regards,
Andrew
Eww... get your... KDE... out of here...
:P just kidding.
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That's why.
Yes, I do, but that's not the point. I have tried it several different ways, even going to the length of installing Mandrake (shudder) which does the drivers for you. Any way you cut, it doesn't work. :/
Which is a logical impossibility (read: improbability) due to the nature of MD5 checksums.
Go tuesdays and sundays, and get the broccoli cheddar in a breadbowl. Dunno what it costs, but man, that's worth it motherfuker. So then you get free wifi :)