I applaud the use of encryption to protect copyright. Piracy must be prevented! If there weren't so many pirates there wouldn't be a multimillion dollar a year business protecting copyrighted content from pirates.
If you don't like encryption don't pirate copyrighted materials.
Personally I'm all for copyright and DRM, etc. Because I recognize consumers are not on my side. They're on their own. On my side we license all our works with the copyleft, to be fair. But producers don't want to do that so consumers must deal with these anticircumvention devices until they can learn to expect more from their producers.
No matter, it doesn't affect me. I don't steal, I create and share, and avoid all these pitfalls by ignoring (read: boycott) content producers and their content. No use crying over spilt milk.
Wow! Openness in fascist democratic government. Who woulda thunk it.
On the outside I may look angry, possibly even full of hate, but on the inside I'm really just laughing at your collective incompetence. You kids and your "computers".
I have no expectations for fairness and justice from fundamentalist Americans capitalists. They are just words to you, like freedom. Bought and sold for profit, but not much else.
That's why they often include labeled axis and a legend.
I remember once in high school I was in this class and my teacher was explaining all about this. She would draw several graphs on the overhead projector and have us plot out various functions and show us how to label them and everything. It was a lot of fun. You should try it sometime. I suggest you sit down with some graph paper and just play around, plot out a few functions and rescale them. Maybe even pull out the geometry book and try some rotation and translation.
To think this was either malice or incompetence is assuming the graph was misleading. However, I had no problem reading and understanding the graph and I appreciated the rescaling. Perhaps you shouldn't be taking so many pills there, pop. Its obvious from these benchmarks this system was CPU bound and resierfs is not the fastest filesystem in every benchmark when you're running on old CPU bound hardware.
But to think they are intentionally lying with statistics, that's absurd. Hence my original sarcastic comment. My appologies for backing it up with logic.
Yeah, right, they're lying to you. Those evil anti-reiser zealots. They only provided 40 graphs of various benchmarks, and only 80% of those scale up from 0. Its so obvious how biased these results are against ReiserV4. Its so full of lies I bet Microsoft funded this benchmark.
But everyone you leave behind on Earth will be dead before you get back..
We need a way to travel from here to the next star and back without losing more than a year or two here on Earth. That's faster than the speed of light, unfortunately. However, M-Theory and what we currently know about gravity says it might be possible, but probably not.
Anyway, I just think we should send Bush to Mars and forget about it.
Windows is more secure than Mac OSX, all of UNIX and all of Linux combined. But Windows is not more secure than any of those individual operating systems, only when you add them together does math work out.
So, there ya have it folks. I think we can all agree now, Windows truely is the most secure and trusted computing OS available. It has the best TCO, everyone knows this, and is virtually open source. So just buy Windows. I mean, what choice have ya got?
Well, at least all likely options sound like a win-win situation for Microsoft.
Unlikely they'll start supporting Windows 98 anytime soon. But I'm sure they'd recommend an upgrade to Windows XP, complete with all its Trusted Computing Security Enhancements and Everything. Trusted by all Windows users Everywhere. And you only have to call their activation center once during installation.
Everyone must love Windows to keep putting up with this treatment. Either that or they love pain. If its the later I'm going to have to change my business model.
Its probably not compatible with Taoism or Paganism. And what about us Atheists? Must we be subject to your religious mythology in a public biology class? I want to learn about cells and genetics and evolution and science, not theology.
So, talk about the technical issues between ID and evolution all you want. The issue is much larger than that one, and it is really about active oppresion of religious views under the guise of "tolerance".
Okay, I won't talk about the technical issues between ID and evolution. What about this nearly complete hypothesis that is Intelligent Design is any different than other creation myths and why should we include ID and not all of the creation myths in a biology science class?
Science is not mythology. And hypotheses rarely make it into a highschool text book. They save those for college, where students are expected to know how to think for themselves. Trying to introduce this corriculum into a highschool science class seems like a directed assult on the theory of evolution as well as an attempt to brainwash everyone's children before they can learn the difference between a fact, a theory, a hypothesis and a myth.
Explain why ID is special when you compare it with other creation myths. And explain to me why we should include hypothetical creation myths in highschool biology and maybe, just maybe, you can convince me you aren't trying to spread your gospel. I don't care what you believe. I only care what you can prove. All the rhetoric and alternative perspectives of this situation will not change that.
We're talking about Microsoft here. Have you known them to collaborate with anyone? Ever?
If Saddam wanted to be a freedom loving democratic capitalist today would you be happy about the possibility of more/bigger/fundamental collaborations?
When it has more than one choice per type of application.
When it has more than one choice of application per file.
When two completely seperate applications don't have the exact same menu layout.
When it doesn't have a trash bin folder icon thingy on the desktop AND the "Start" menu bar.
When it doesn't say "Start" on the "Start" menu bar.
When it requires a login AND a password.
When it doesn't have Internet Explorer.
When it doesn't ask confirmation for each and every command.
When it doesn't have a wizard for each and every configuration setting.
When it doesn't have HTML documentation for everything and an application called "Help" to search and index it.
When it doesn't automatically detect and configure sound, video, network, filesystems and any network protocols that the user might stumble upon accidentally while they are playing with their expensive typewriter.
So to solve all these problems we should split up MS and the US government and deport this litigious bastard customer and any laywers who work for MS. Oh, and Bush.
Yeah, Google's webservices kick ass. I don't mind using their stuff and recommending them. Just wish I could use that map program and maybe their picture organizer thingy on Linux.. but maybe it works fine with Wine. I haven't tried that.
Once (if) you grow up and have children, you will understand.
So having kids is like eating from the tree of knowledge, eh?
Guess us homos will never understand.
I still won't come to your and your kids' defense. Hope you can force stability and sanity in the hearts and minds of the rest of these animals when your precious limited resources aren't enough to feed everyone's children.
Money and Authority seem the be the only thing you adults care about until a hurricane is staring you in the face. Even then it takes the richest country in the world a week to bring food from 300 miles away, several days after the military orders your family to wade through toxic sludge to gather with the rest of the animals in some disorganized chaotic mess that scares us civilized people into thinking you're all savages and barbarians and gangs of theives and murders. Better hope your teenagers come to your rescue because no one else will. We're not that stupid. We know how you vote.
But I bet you won't vote the same way after an experience like that. I bet you would be more socialist, more liberal, and possibility even believe in the constitution, for once. It says:
Amendment XXVI - Voting age set to 18 years. Ratified 7/1/1971. History
1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Notice it does not say the age of consent is 18 or the age of an adult is 18. It says no one 18 years or older can be denied their right to vote. Under that age they still have all their other rights, however. Denying them those rights is against the law, too.
But I know, you read that and inside that biased conservative mind of yours it gets translated into believing that anyone under the age of 18 is not an adult, therefore they don't have rights.
So what we have here today, because of idiots like you, is censorship for a significant section of our population. I will never forget how I was treated as a child, forced to cut my hair to go to public school, censored from movies and content, etc. All to protect my fragile little mind. And now today I see what you adults have done with my country. Well, no thanks. I'll take my freedom. You can keep your lies.
Until you are an adult, your rights *are* limited. ( as they should be ).
And even after you are an adult your rights are limited. If you want to draw a line, draw one line and draw it clearly. Why can't an adult drink alcohol?
I was a kid once and I remember this shit clearly. And I hate ALL OF YOU for it. You're sofa king retarded. If it was up to me I'd deny YOU all your constitutional rights for the rest of your life. What do you think about that?
I'm voting against the constitution until you freaks grow a fucking brain. I'm voting against freedom until we decide freedom is good for EVERYONE.
You will have to convince someone else to come to your defense when the fascists take power again.
I'd feel more comfortable using Apple's software than Googles, now that I think about it. Google seemed like a good company, but they didn't fully embrace Linux and *nix. I think that was a mistake. What it means is I don't have any loyalty to them whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned they are sellouts just the same as Microsoft and Apple. But at least Apple is selling out to style, attitude, open source, etc. Instead of just for the money.
I hope Google comes around, but I won't count on it.
But they deserve this pain for using Windows and funding Microsoft.
Its not my fault they chose to take that path. And its not like they didn't get the memo or see the warning signs or read all the writing all over their desktop wallpaper and TV and newpaper and on the side of buses and in magazines and all over websites and all over the face of the Linux geek next door.
One day I hope all us Linux geeks transcend this stupidity and leave you all behind to fend for yourselves. Maybe one day we will and then you'll be all nice to us and ask us to help you learn because you forgot how through all those years of watching TV and Microsoft advertisements.
But there will be no mercy for you. It will be too late. You will be trapped in Microsoft Hell forever. Stuck in a reboot with that stupid login sound playing in the background, endlessly repeating.
If I were you I'd ask for our forgiveness right now, before its too late.
But seriously, why do people criticize Microsoft so much for requiring occasional reboots when a much simpler application, Firefox, requires a restart every time an extension is installed.
Because they have to keep resetting Firefox as the default browser after every service pack update. Microsoft loves to control things they don't own, like your Desktop and soon your files. But as long as they are making you happy and wasting your time, I'm cool with that..
And don't tell us you're not going to use Vista for moral reasons. You know full well you'll be using it along with every other spineless Windows user, because you can't stand your ground, you don't know how. And Apple is just too expensive, or is it? Retreat to Apple, they'll keep you safe. Hehe. Cowards.
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I applaud the use of encryption to protect copyright. Piracy must be prevented! If there weren't so many pirates there wouldn't be a multimillion dollar a year business protecting copyrighted content from pirates.
If you don't like encryption don't pirate copyrighted materials.
Personally I'm all for copyright and DRM, etc. Because I recognize consumers are not on my side. They're on their own. On my side we license all our works with the copyleft, to be fair. But producers don't want to do that so consumers must deal with these anticircumvention devices until they can learn to expect more from their producers.
No matter, it doesn't affect me. I don't steal, I create and share, and avoid all these pitfalls by ignoring (read: boycott) content producers and their content. No use crying over spilt milk.
Wow! Openness in fascist democratic government. Who woulda thunk it.
On the outside I may look angry, possibly even full of hate, but on the inside I'm really just laughing at your collective incompetence. You kids and your "computers".
I have no expectations for fairness and justice from fundamentalist Americans capitalists. They are just words to you, like freedom. Bought and sold for profit, but not much else.
You actually read that? Hehe
Yeah, I heard of that classic, but I never read it because I already know how to lie with statistics.. isn't it obvious?
Anyway, did he lie with these statistics?
Is that what you are trying to say?
Does that make you feel bad or something?
Get over it..
Yes, graphs can be misleading.
That's why they often include labeled axis and a legend.
I remember once in high school I was in this class and my teacher was explaining all about this. She would draw several graphs on the overhead projector and have us plot out various functions and show us how to label them and everything. It was a lot of fun. You should try it sometime. I suggest you sit down with some graph paper and just play around, plot out a few functions and rescale them. Maybe even pull out the geometry book and try some rotation and translation.
To think this was either malice or incompetence is assuming the graph was misleading. However, I had no problem reading and understanding the graph and I appreciated the rescaling. Perhaps you shouldn't be taking so many pills there, pop. Its obvious from these benchmarks this system was CPU bound and resierfs is not the fastest filesystem in every benchmark when you're running on old CPU bound hardware.
But to think they are intentionally lying with statistics, that's absurd. Hence my original sarcastic comment. My appologies for backing it up with logic.
FWIW, the JAA is not global, its just part of the EU. There is no global AA. We're all doomed.
Yeah, right, they're lying to you. Those evil anti-reiser zealots. They only provided 40 graphs of various benchmarks, and only 80% of those scale up from 0. Its so obvious how biased these results are against ReiserV4. Its so full of lies I bet Microsoft funded this benchmark.
But everyone you leave behind on Earth will be dead before you get back..
We need a way to travel from here to the next star and back without losing more than a year or two here on Earth. That's faster than the speed of light, unfortunately. However, M-Theory and what we currently know about gravity says it might be possible, but probably not.
Anyway, I just think we should send Bush to Mars and forget about it.
Windows is more secure than Mac OSX, all of UNIX and all of Linux combined. But Windows is not more secure than any of those individual operating systems, only when you add them together does math work out.
So, there ya have it folks. I think we can all agree now, Windows truely is the most secure and trusted computing OS available. It has the best TCO, everyone knows this, and is virtually open source. So just buy Windows. I mean, what choice have ya got?
Well, at least all likely options sound like a win-win situation for Microsoft.
Unlikely they'll start supporting Windows 98 anytime soon. But I'm sure they'd recommend an upgrade to Windows XP, complete with all its Trusted Computing Security Enhancements and Everything. Trusted by all Windows users Everywhere. And you only have to call their activation center once during installation.
Everyone must love Windows to keep putting up with this treatment. Either that or they love pain. If its the later I'm going to have to change my business model.
Its probably not compatible with Taoism or Paganism. And what about us Atheists? Must we be subject to your religious mythology in a public biology class? I want to learn about cells and genetics and evolution and science, not theology.
So, talk about the technical issues between ID and evolution all you want. The issue is much larger than that one, and it is really about active oppresion of religious views under the guise of "tolerance".
Okay, I won't talk about the technical issues between ID and evolution. What about this nearly complete hypothesis that is Intelligent Design is any different than other creation myths and why should we include ID and not all of the creation myths in a biology science class?
Science is not mythology. And hypotheses rarely make it into a highschool text book. They save those for college, where students are expected to know how to think for themselves. Trying to introduce this corriculum into a highschool science class seems like a directed assult on the theory of evolution as well as an attempt to brainwash everyone's children before they can learn the difference between a fact, a theory, a hypothesis and a myth.
Explain why ID is special when you compare it with other creation myths. And explain to me why we should include hypothetical creation myths in highschool biology and maybe, just maybe, you can convince me you aren't trying to spread your gospel. I don't care what you believe. I only care what you can prove. All the rhetoric and alternative perspectives of this situation will not change that.
We're talking about Microsoft here. Have you known them to collaborate with anyone? Ever?
If Saddam wanted to be a freedom loving democratic capitalist today would you be happy about the possibility of more/bigger/fundamental collaborations?
Microsoft is a weapon of mass destruction.
When is a desktop unnecessarily complex?
When it has more than one virtual desktop.
When it has more than one mouse button.
When it has a resolution higher than 800x600.
When it has more than one choice per type of application.
When it has more than one choice of application per file.
When two completely seperate applications don't have the exact same menu layout.
When it doesn't have a trash bin folder icon thingy on the desktop AND the "Start" menu bar.
When it doesn't say "Start" on the "Start" menu bar.
When it requires a login AND a password.
When it doesn't have Internet Explorer.
When it doesn't ask confirmation for each and every command.
When it doesn't have a wizard for each and every configuration setting.
When it doesn't have HTML documentation for everything and an application called "Help" to search and index it.
When it doesn't automatically detect and configure sound, video, network, filesystems and any network protocols that the user might stumble upon accidentally while they are playing with their expensive typewriter.
Did I forget anything?
Good point! :)
So to solve all these problems we should split up MS and the US government and deport this litigious bastard customer and any laywers who work for MS. Oh, and Bush.
This is News for Nerds, not News for Geeks.
I know!
Charge per road you drive on. A monthly fee. If you want to use the highway you have to pay more because it costs more to maintain and stuff.
Nothing's free. Don't ever give 'em anything for free! They'll just ask for more.
And socialists suck balls.
Motorists must pay!
Yeah, Google's webservices kick ass. I don't mind using their stuff and recommending them. Just wish I could use that map program and maybe their picture organizer thingy on Linux.. but maybe it works fine with Wine. I haven't tried that.
Um, Hello, it was about Microsoft..
But I guess once you become a monopoly all is forgiven. I'm sorry. You may continue blaming the customer..
People who sue over this stuff are worse than companies that unknowingly release a faulty product.
What about companies that sue their competition? Or companies that steal from their competition?
Once (if) you grow up and have children, you will understand.
So having kids is like eating from the tree of knowledge, eh?
Guess us homos will never understand.
I still won't come to your and your kids' defense. Hope you can force stability and sanity in the hearts and minds of the rest of these animals when your precious limited resources aren't enough to feed everyone's children.
Money and Authority seem the be the only thing you adults care about until a hurricane is staring you in the face. Even then it takes the richest country in the world a week to bring food from 300 miles away, several days after the military orders your family to wade through toxic sludge to gather with the rest of the animals in some disorganized chaotic mess that scares us civilized people into thinking you're all savages and barbarians and gangs of theives and murders. Better hope your teenagers come to your rescue because no one else will. We're not that stupid. We know how you vote.
But I bet you won't vote the same way after an experience like that. I bet you would be more socialist, more liberal, and possibility even believe in the constitution, for once. It says:
Amendment XXVI - Voting age set to 18 years. Ratified 7/1/1971. History
1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Notice it does not say the age of consent is 18 or the age of an adult is 18. It says no one 18 years or older can be denied their right to vote. Under that age they still have all their other rights, however. Denying them those rights is against the law, too.
But I know, you read that and inside that biased conservative mind of yours it gets translated into believing that anyone under the age of 18 is not an adult, therefore they don't have rights.
So what we have here today, because of idiots like you, is censorship for a significant section of our population. I will never forget how I was treated as a child, forced to cut my hair to go to public school, censored from movies and content, etc. All to protect my fragile little mind. And now today I see what you adults have done with my country. Well, no thanks. I'll take my freedom. You can keep your lies.
Until you are an adult, your rights *are* limited. ( as they should be ).
And even after you are an adult your rights are limited. If you want to draw a line, draw one line and draw it clearly. Why can't an adult drink alcohol?
I was a kid once and I remember this shit clearly. And I hate ALL OF YOU for it. You're sofa king retarded. If it was up to me I'd deny YOU all your constitutional rights for the rest of your life. What do you think about that?
I'm voting against the constitution until you freaks grow a fucking brain. I'm voting against freedom until we decide freedom is good for EVERYONE.
You will have to convince someone else to come to your defense when the fascists take power again.
I'd feel more comfortable using Apple's software than Googles, now that I think about it. Google seemed like a good company, but they didn't fully embrace Linux and *nix. I think that was a mistake. What it means is I don't have any loyalty to them whatsoever, as far as I'm concerned they are sellouts just the same as Microsoft and Apple. But at least Apple is selling out to style, attitude, open source, etc. Instead of just for the money.
I hope Google comes around, but I won't count on it.
But they deserve this pain for using Windows and funding Microsoft.
Its not my fault they chose to take that path. And its not like they didn't get the memo or see the warning signs or read all the writing all over their desktop wallpaper and TV and newpaper and on the side of buses and in magazines and all over websites and all over the face of the Linux geek next door.
One day I hope all us Linux geeks transcend this stupidity and leave you all behind to fend for yourselves. Maybe one day we will and then you'll be all nice to us and ask us to help you learn because you forgot how through all those years of watching TV and Microsoft advertisements.
But there will be no mercy for you. It will be too late. You will be trapped in Microsoft Hell forever. Stuck in a reboot with that stupid login sound playing in the background, endlessly repeating.
If I were you I'd ask for our forgiveness right now, before its too late.
But seriously, why do people criticize Microsoft so much for requiring occasional reboots when a much simpler application, Firefox, requires a restart every time an extension is installed.
Because they have to keep resetting Firefox as the default browser after every service pack update. Microsoft loves to control things they don't own, like your Desktop and soon your files. But as long as they are making you happy and wasting your time, I'm cool with that..
And don't tell us you're not going to use Vista for moral reasons. You know full well you'll be using it along with every other spineless Windows user, because you can't stand your ground, you don't know how. And Apple is just too expensive, or is it? Retreat to Apple, they'll keep you safe. Hehe. Cowards.