godwin's law (ahem, suggestion) has as much weight as a stern warning from a transexual midget from the stone age.
i cannot even fathom how anyone with at least a single brain cell can even for a moment conceieve of why this bullshit "law" holds even the tiniest amount of weight in any setting, let alone one that flows online.
my law: no one is allowed to say/type/think anything i don't want and comes into effect as soon as you finish reading this sentence.
when the signal is in equipment i own, i can do anything i please.
get out of the paradigm that there are content "owners".
they no more own that "content" than a squirrel on main street.
information is for the benefit of everyone.
even the framers of the US constitution knew this... and hence copyright is a RIGHT to COPY, not YOU OWN THIS AS LONG AS YOUR LITTLE HEART DESIRES AND YOUR DESCENDANTS TOO.
in other words, a government sanctioned monopoly to promote science and the arts.
if you can't do with it as you please, it's not free.
paying for anything is acceptable to me and even as i've read, to RMS.
just a small aside, i take the same position on the selling/buying of virtual or intangible "goods". If you haven't noticed, software is one of the aforementioned goods. but, and this is a big but, if the vendor tries to tell me what i can and cannot do with it after i buy it... well thats where i draw the line.
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one day the people will realize buying does not mean owning.
and that day they will find something else to amuse themselves.
the only good drm is a dead drm.
shame on you very much.
but now you've learned a valuable lesson.
if you don't control it, someone else does.
please evangelize apple's "good drm" some more then.
as that will solve all our worries.
any amount of drm is too much.
if you couldn't see that before, you sure as heck see it now...
vbr has virtually no effect on file size (zero in fact in my personal experiments).
i guess some people can hear a tiny difference in quality.
i don't though.
personally neither microsoft nor apple will get any money from me in the future.
the industry is headed for open source and free(dom)
software.
proprietary products are a 20th century concept.
i'm not sure thats not a good thing.
pdf may be portable but the performance sucks a lot in the gfx display front.
a pdf document with gfx bogs down on a very high end machine...
i don't know what's at fault but i sure do mind it a ton.
no thats the price in euros of a mac with comparable hardware of a pc system running longhorn.
ba dum pssh.
yeah its annoying from both sides.
win2k and classic on xp are quite good and refined looking.
perhaps you are addicted to eye candy but i'm not.
as if apple (lets appease the RIAA with DRM in itunes) will not jump on the bandwagon.
you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise.
eventually they will be locked out of more and more services/sites/etc. or it will be mandated by law, as if that hasn't happened already.
the only real solution is to stop them at the social level, because technologically, they have the advantage.
and btw, moving from one proprietary system (windows) to another (mac) is not the smart thing to do by any stretch of the imagination.
if one truly wants freedom, they'll go to gnu\linux or write their own system (or do without computing).
and of course the real meat of the argument is that you don't "own" it in the first place.
information is in the public domain and always has/will be.
people who claim otherwise are of course spawn of the devil.
and this man's an asshole for even implying such a connection exists.
in other words, he's a shill.
because intel bribed/blackmailed them.
it wouldn't look good if amd had the only 64bit processor and windows 64bit only ran on it.
intel has done this before.
intel is as corrupt as or even more so than ms.
and thats a pretty bold statement to make.
in order to lose a discussion one must be sure that is in fact a contest or an event where the loser suffers and the winner benefits.
seeing as how you give godwins SUGGESTION even the slightest bit of crediblity tells me a good deal about you as a person.
by the way, hitler hitler hitler.
seems the sky is falling, must get back.
its very simple why most people can't see this or any other important problem that afflicts us.
i'll give you a hint, see my name...
godwin's law (ahem, suggestion) has as much weight as a stern warning from a transexual midget from the stone age.
i cannot even fathom how anyone with at least a single brain cell can even for a moment conceieve of why this bullshit "law" holds even the tiniest amount of weight in any setting, let alone one that flows online.
my law: no one is allowed to say/type/think anything i don't want and comes into effect as soon as you finish reading this sentence.
hitler hitler hitler hitler hitler
apparently he died of 2 gunshot wounds to the head.
he's even pretty skilled when killing himself.
neat guy.
when the signal is in equipment i own, i can do anything i please.
get out of the paradigm that there are content "owners".
they no more own that "content" than a squirrel on main street.
information is for the benefit of everyone.
even the framers of the US constitution knew this... and hence copyright is a RIGHT to COPY, not YOU OWN THIS AS LONG AS YOUR LITTLE HEART DESIRES AND YOUR DESCENDANTS TOO.
in other words, a government sanctioned monopoly to promote science and the arts.
copyright is not ownership.
television is also a display device.
while i admire people who don't watch television, what do you use as a general purpose LARGE display?
computer monitors are too small for most uses a tv provides.
there are no "intellectual property" rights.
there are copyrights, patents and trademarks.
you sir are identified as a shill and hereby terminated.
you mean regions.
css is for encryption.
its also used for price fixing but in another way.
very funny, i haven't had a good laugh like that in a while.
open source is NOT (necessarily) free software.
free means freedom.
if you can't do with it as you please, it's not free.
paying for anything is acceptable to me and even as i've read, to RMS.
just a small aside, i take the same position on the selling/buying of virtual or intangible "goods". If you haven't noticed, software is one of the aforementioned goods. but, and this is a big but, if the vendor tries to tell me what i can and cannot do with it after i buy it... well thats where i draw the line.
if something has value it can be bought and sold.
which has a nice corollary in the game world ala STEAM.
as i always remind myself, if you're not in control, someone else is.
the fact is, a lot of the public doesn't even know such a situation exists and that more importantly, they can do something about it.
"i'm a citizen, not a consumer".
in the context of a business transaction (which is when everyone who quotes the above, does), you are A CUSTOMER.
citizen relates to the state, as a customer does to a business (your word of choice here)
this is junior high level stuff. not to be insulting though.
but as they say, let the buyer (customer) beware.
don't pay any attention to them.
they're just shills after all.
non-free (as in libre) software is just plain evil.
information is for everyone and should not be hidden or hoarded or anything of the sort.
find a new business model, don't try to pervert the human system of information copying/sharing.