While you're right on the first one, try telling yourself the second one while watching me curse the motherfucker that keeps breaking into my house and moving my fucking keys.
I'll get that son of a bitch if it's the last thing I do (it will be the last thing I do).
Let me guess. You always then find your keys in the freezer next to the frozen banana guacamole?
Well, a while back, I tried to legitimately get CuBase and Orange Vocoder for Windows. But the developer no longer sells the Windows version. Because of that, I had to try a pirated copy instead. And good thing too. I discovered it was not the solution I was looking for after all (need a good formant shifter function, and OVC did not have that. I would not have been pleased at all about flushing perfectly good $ down the toilet for a product that ended up not being what I needed.)
Hopefully Melodyne will fit my needs (need to be able to shift voices from male to female, female to male, etc). And hopefully, I haven't taken too long since installing the Melodyne trial to be able to try it. If it works, then I will gladly shell out some moola for the full version. Otherwise, I'll keep looking for alternatives (whether commercial or FOSS).
I would like to see this tech developed further to determine the quality of the weed. Then the results could be given in a classic Tommy Chong slacker voice like: "Oh wow! This is some good shit, man." "That's total crap." "Whoa! That will knock you on your ass. Far out, man!"
There is a fundamental difference between software and cars and french fries, cars wear down very quickly, and french fries are consumable. If you sell used software it is 100% identical to what you bought. This makes it such that every new game competes with every single previously released game. Luckily we have technological decay somewhat.
Well that is just too bad for the publishers then. If they want to keep earning money from their customers, they can work for it and continue producing new games that said customers may be interested in buying. If a publisher isn't interested in actually producing new product, then they should just close up shop and leave it to those who will do the work.
The only reason we don't have this situation in the automobile market today is because of "big government" "anti free-market" "socialist" consumer protection laws. So the solution is to pass computer software consumer protection laws.
At the very least, we need to get fair use and first sale actually codified into copyright law. Then, if publishers take measures to thwart either of these freedoms, they would be guilty of copyright infringement, with all the penalties and pitfalls that entails.
This is one of the most retarded ideas ever. If they go ahead with this bit of USDA Grade A bullshit, it will ensure the 720 is stillborn.
So then, what happens you shell out $60 or whatever for a game, discover it's pure shit and $60 wasted? No way to recoup your purchase, since it is used and the console won't play used games.
Think the retailers will suddenly experience a big influx of chargebacks from the credit card companies due to their customers making use the only means they now have to get a refund on a crap product?
When employees started looking for ways to cut costs without having to cut their salaries that much (and found some) and presented them to the owner, he basically said "This isn't about money; the economy is soft right now, and I'm going to use this opportunity to increase my profit margin by cutting your wages. Don't like it, there's the door."
People should be protected from violence. Offensive wi-fi names? Not so much. Put up an offensive wi-fi network by my house; my family background is Jewish, Native American, Polish, German and Swedish. I'm sure if you think long enough you can come up with a name that offends every one of those ethnic groups. I still won't be calling the police.
Swedish is the only one listed that I can not recall having ever heard any sort of slur in the past 44 years.
Is the person exercising their right to freedom of speech for the sake of exercising their right to the freedom of speech the douche, or is it the person proclaiming in a holier-than-thou manner "that person is a douche" that is the real douche?
I can foresee a time in the not too distant future when The House and Senate will try to pass a bill as big as SOPA/PIPA to protect big organizations from any sort of public criticism whatsoever (most likely spearheaded and funded by the Church of Scientology).
The package of laws in its entirety will be known as The Butthurt Laws.
Commenting on your name: Which 6502 computer are you using, which has VGA or DVI?
Only one that comes to mind would be the Apple IIGS. Granted, it was a 65C816, but that is part of the 6502 family, and there was a third party VGA adapter for it.
I don't know how you guys do it, but I think it's time to get yourself another MP then. Perhaps somebody who won't bend over backwards for industry groups and your former colony.
Which former colony? There were 13 of them that eventually became a part of the U.S, and others that formed Canada.;).
Yeah, within the context of the world itself, trying to fly the ring in on an eagle would have been a stupid risk. People who bring that up as a criticism haven't thought it through, in my opinion. Sauron would have seen them coming miles away and been able to focus all of his attention in one area.
That is why you send some blokes to distract Sauron first...
This is covered under Fair Use as one of the provision is reporting the news. Most RSS only provides a small snippet, enough to cover the basics of the story and is not subject to copyright.
Is fair use written into U.S. and some other nations' copyright laws? If so, then by attempting to stifle fair use, then these news agencies are violating copyright laws, and statutory damages at the very least are in order.
I do understand you using the shopping list as a silly and extreme example. No biggie. Still, there are plenty who really would believe that such would be protected by copyright (usually the same types who confuse copyright with trademark and believe all other forms of imaginary property misinformation the powers that be would try to foist on them.
In other news, it has been discovered that this was not GRAIL-A after all. Instead, it was merely a beacon that just happened to be shaped like a GRAIL-A.
Operation Galahad has been initiated to investigate this situation.
The Copyright Act of 1976 eliminated any need to place a copyright notice.
The 1976 law changed it so that anything you write down is automatically copyrighted, the instant you write it. You can scribble your grocery shopping list on a napkin, milk+eggs+etc+etc+etc, toss it in the garbage, and you have a legally enforcible copyright on it. If someone digs that napkin out of the county garbage dump and publishes it, you can sue him for copyright infringement. And win.
Just like a list of ingredients in a recipe, or a list of phone numbers and addresses, a shopping list is not copyrightable and has no protections.
What does copyright protect? Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."
If Babbage had succeeded, then there would have been a programming language called Babbage, and a software store chain in malls called Ada's instead of the other way around.
Honestly, if you buy any home theater gear there and listen to the no education morons they have on staff then you are a complete idiot.
They caret to the morons of the world. People who have any IQ will buy their stuff from dealers that are honest and deliver a superior product. Not the low grade dog food they sell at Best Buy.
So this is what former Circuit City employees are doing with their free time, post AC on Slashdot? Surely you have better things to do than go spewing insults at anyone who might buy something at Best Buy?
I agree. A professional studio should buy the $5 cable instead of the $1 cable. Perhaps a laboratory should get the $10 cable and an EMP testing facility might pay $20 for additional shielding. For safety reasons, I'd go for two or possibly even three of those $20 cables in a satelite or space craft. But that still begs the question; who'd need the $1095 cable?
That would be assorted U.S. government agencies for the $1095 cable. But, they would only buy those during the month of September, right before the Fiscal New Year, in order to avoid being allocated a smaller budget come 01-OCT.
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While you're right on the first one, try telling yourself the second one while watching me curse the motherfucker that keeps breaking into my house and moving my fucking keys.
I'll get that son of a bitch if it's the last thing I do (it will be the last thing I do).
Let me guess. You always then find your keys in the freezer next to the frozen banana guacamole?
Actually I found it quite ironic that the ebook reader is called Kindle. What happens if you kindle a book?
Well... If you manage to get it up to a temperature of, measured in Farenheit, 451...
or they could just use a different window manager... all the fancy stuff in KDE 4 is slow anyway
Yes indeed, Anonymous Grasshopper. This is a chance for KDE/Radeon users to gain Enlightenment.
Well, a while back, I tried to legitimately get CuBase and Orange Vocoder for Windows. But the developer no longer sells the Windows version. Because of that, I had to try a pirated copy instead. And good thing too. I discovered it was not the solution I was looking for after all (need a good formant shifter function, and OVC did not have that. I would not have been pleased at all about flushing perfectly good $ down the toilet for a product that ended up not being what I needed.)
Hopefully Melodyne will fit my needs (need to be able to shift voices from male to female, female to male, etc). And hopefully, I haven't taken too long since installing the Melodyne trial to be able to try it. If it works, then I will gladly shell out some moola for the full version. Otherwise, I'll keep looking for alternatives (whether commercial or FOSS).
It may initially drive them away. But as they are leaving, they warn that they'll be bach.
I would like to see this tech developed further to determine the quality of the weed. Then the results could be given in a classic Tommy Chong slacker voice like: "Oh wow! This is some good shit, man." "That's total crap." "Whoa! That will knock you on your ass. Far out, man!"
There is a fundamental difference between software and cars and french fries, cars wear down very quickly, and french fries are consumable. If you sell used software it is 100% identical to what you bought. This makes it such that every new game competes with every single previously released game. Luckily we have technological decay somewhat.
Well that is just too bad for the publishers then. If they want to keep earning money from their customers, they can work for it and continue producing new games that said customers may be interested in buying. If a publisher isn't interested in actually producing new product, then they should just close up shop and leave it to those who will do the work.
The only reason we don't have this situation in the automobile market today is because of "big government" "anti free-market" "socialist" consumer protection laws. So the solution is to pass computer software consumer protection laws.
At the very least, we need to get fair use and first sale actually codified into copyright law. Then, if publishers take measures to thwart either of these freedoms, they would be guilty of copyright infringement, with all the penalties and pitfalls that entails.
This is one of the most retarded ideas ever. If they go ahead with this bit of USDA Grade A bullshit, it will ensure the 720 is stillborn.
So then, what happens you shell out $60 or whatever for a game, discover it's pure shit and $60 wasted? No way to recoup your purchase, since it is used and the console won't play used games.
Think the retailers will suddenly experience a big influx of chargebacks from the credit card companies due to their customers making use the only means they now have to get a refund on a crap product?
When employees started looking for ways to cut costs without having to cut their salaries that much (and found some) and presented them to the owner, he basically said "This isn't about money; the economy is soft right now, and I'm going to use this opportunity to increase my profit margin by cutting your wages. Don't like it, there's the door."
And that fucker is still alive? That is amazing.
People should be protected from violence. Offensive wi-fi names? Not so much. Put up an offensive wi-fi network by my house; my family background is Jewish, Native American, Polish, German and Swedish. I'm sure if you think long enough you can come up with a name that offends every one of those ethnic groups. I still won't be calling the police.
Swedish is the only one listed that I can not recall having ever heard any sort of slur in the past 44 years.
Is the person exercising their right to freedom of speech for the sake of exercising their right to the freedom of speech the douche, or is it the person proclaiming in a holier-than-thou manner "that person is a douche" that is the real douche?
Why would it have to be either one or the other?
They are both douches, equally.
I can foresee a time in the not too distant future when The House and Senate will try to pass a bill as big as SOPA/PIPA to protect big organizations from any sort of public criticism whatsoever (most likely spearheaded and funded by the Church of Scientology).
The package of laws in its entirety will be known as The Butthurt Laws.
Commenting on your name: Which 6502 computer are you using, which has VGA or DVI?
Only one that comes to mind would be the Apple IIGS. Granted, it was a 65C816, but that is part of the 6502 family, and there was a third party VGA adapter for it.
I don't know how you guys do it, but I think it's time to get yourself another MP then. Perhaps somebody who won't bend over backwards for industry groups and your former colony.
Which former colony? There were 13 of them that eventually became a part of the U.S, and others that formed Canada. ;).
Yeah, within the context of the world itself, trying to fly the ring in on an eagle would have been a stupid risk. People who bring that up as a criticism haven't thought it through, in my opinion. Sauron would have seen them coming miles away and been able to focus all of his attention in one area.
That is why you send some blokes to distract Sauron first...
How Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended.
This is covered under Fair Use as one of the provision is reporting the news. Most RSS only provides a small snippet, enough to cover the basics of the story and is not subject to copyright.
Is fair use written into U.S. and some other nations' copyright laws? If so, then by attempting to stifle fair use, then these news agencies are violating copyright laws, and statutory damages at the very least are in order.
I do understand you using the shopping list as a silly and extreme example. No biggie. Still, there are plenty who really would believe that such would be protected by copyright (usually the same types who confuse copyright with trademark and believe all other forms of imaginary property misinformation the powers that be would try to foist on them.
In other news, it has been discovered that this was not GRAIL-A after all. Instead, it was merely a beacon that just happened to be shaped like a GRAIL-A.
Operation Galahad has been initiated to investigate this situation.
The Copyright Act of 1976 eliminated any need to place a copyright notice.
The 1976 law changed it so that anything you write down is automatically copyrighted, the instant you write it. You can scribble your grocery shopping list on a napkin, milk+eggs+etc+etc+etc, toss it in the garbage, and you have a legally enforcible copyright on it. If someone digs that napkin out of the county garbage dump and publishes it, you can sue him for copyright infringement. And win.
Just like a list of ingredients in a recipe, or a list of phone numbers and addresses, a shopping list is not copyrightable and has no protections.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#recipe
What is protected?
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#what_protect
What does copyright protect?
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "What Works Are Protected."
If Babbage had succeeded, then there would have been a programming language called Babbage, and a software store chain in malls called Ada's instead of the other way around.
AC is and always will be Atlantic City :)
Actually, it is the first part of AC/DC. Do you've been... Thunderstruck!
Honestly, if you buy any home theater gear there and listen to the no education morons they have on staff then you are a complete idiot.
They caret to the morons of the world. People who have any IQ will buy their stuff from dealers that are honest and deliver a superior product. Not the low grade dog food they sell at Best Buy.
So this is what former Circuit City employees are doing with their free time, post AC on Slashdot? Surely you have better things to do than go spewing insults at anyone who might buy something at Best Buy?
I agree. A professional studio should buy the $5 cable instead of the $1 cable.
Perhaps a laboratory should get the $10 cable and an EMP testing facility might pay $20 for additional shielding.
For safety reasons, I'd go for two or possibly even three of those $20 cables in a satelite or space craft.
But that still begs the question; who'd need the $1095 cable?
That would be assorted U.S. government agencies for the $1095 cable. But, they would only buy those during the month of September, right before the Fiscal New Year, in order to avoid being allocated a smaller budget come 01-OCT.
The problem lies within my guitar circuitry. Changing cable type only changes what I pick up.
Right now, I'm getting shortwave Russian radio.
That's nothing. I keep getting these strange 5 notes over and over and over again; purest sounds I have ever heard...
G
A
F
F (octave lower)
C
I wonder if this means something important?