There is no monthly fees to use Quicken, evn for online bill paying. Don't know what version of quicken you're complaining about, but I manage my home and business finances, credit cards, mortgage, etc on the 2005 version. There's nothing wrong with the interface in my opinion. It works just fine, not too complicated, and it does what I ask it to do. Maybe you just got too used to using the M$ version.
Yeah, that's what I mean. You can prove or disprove that certain people or prophets existed, or certain events really occurred. But just proving that a flood really did happen 6000 years ago, doesn't validate anything else about the religion's main concept.
Yeah, probably not. Religions, generally, can't even qualify as theories. A theory requires some amount of factual evidence to support it. Not a lot, but at least something. Some religious events or aspects may qualify under that, but if you take the entire religion as one large entity, it would not. An idea that has not been supported by facts yet would be a hypothesis. So it would be better worded the Christian Hypothesis.:)
Ditto the hateful "Don't get the AIDS!" bits when plague makes the rounds?" What are you trying to say? That AIDS is only a gay disease, and every time someone mentions it they're specifically talking about GAY people with AIDS? I think all the straight AIDS victims would like some honorable mention too. Sure it's annoying to see people use the word fag too much. But come on. Diseases don't care what sexual preference you are. And in a sick way, it's just funnier to see "don't get the AIDS" than it is to see "Don't get the influenza". Don't read too much into it.
That's a pretty positive defense, one I'd like to see tried out. Even if you have WEP and MAC filtering enabled on your router, it's still easy enough to crack that. Any highschooler with the proper software can do it. So you'd have the additional defense of "I turned on all the security features my router provided me, therefore someone has additionally broken the law and trespassed against me, by bypassing my security, and then used my connection to commit further actions by downloading music and movies." Which would have the additional benefit of hopefully trumping their next logical argument against you, the "guilty through negligence" argument.
If there are many, then yes I agree it's newsworthy. A single lawsuit is not proof that there are many.
It only takes one precedent to throw the rest of them into suspicion. If any of the other defendants don't have the "I never owned a computer" defense, then how do they prove they're innocent? It's not that hard to spoof IP addresses, MAC addresses, and the like. The average consumer doesn't know this, the courts don't know this, and the RIAA doesn't care. What if the ISP's records are screwed up? Yeah, try to prove that one. The fact is, the RIAA has the ability to randomly pick an IP address, subpoena the ISP for that user's name, sue them, and win. They can identify a valid IP, belonging to a pirate, subpoena the ISP, who accidentally screws up the records, they sue the wrong person, and win. There's obviously almost no way to truly defend yourself in these cases, innocent or not. How many of these lawsuits has the RIAA actually lost?
All media companies hate it. Movies, music, etc. I don't need to download music anymore. I buy it used for $2, rip it, and then sell it to the next guy and get my money back. Same with DVD's, if I wasn't too lazy to go through the ripping process with them. Either way, I'm buying used copies. My money doesn't go to the labels or the *AA's, but some kid on half.com. Sure, somebody had to have bought it at some point in the past, but the labels don't make a cent of my purchase, so lose one of their sacred "potential" sales. You know, the same potential sales losses that they claim from piracy. So buying used CD's makes you as bad as a pirate to them.
I don't even care about backing up my games. I'm just freaking sick and tired of big companies fucking our machines up with unmentioned secret OS level DRM drivers. Yeah, after having to fix computers they screwed up, I really feel bad for those billion dollar companies and their poor piracy issues. So they lose a theoretical $x in pirated games. How much real world money are they costing their actual customers when they have to pay to have their computers fixed? I bet it's more than their made up piracy dollars.
blah, blah, blah. When I say "ass" I'm being facetious, as most people are able to figure out. Point is, I'd rather look at a female than a male, from any angle, video game or not.
I always play female characters in my games. But I don't roleplay and pretend to act like one. My reasoning is, if I have to look at some video game character's ass for hours at a time, it's not going to be a man's.
I don't mind being able to flash from the desktop, as I don't have floppy drives anymore to boot up to those archaic DOS based updaters. But allowing this with no jumper protection is pretty dumb.
You're right, it's only SP2. And it's easily disabled with the local security policy MMC. This sets up an interesting (and valid IMO) question, if the RIAA actually succeeds in getting some legal precedence behind them in this: If you have a blank password, are you then breaking the copyright "law" simply by having media anywhere on your computer, since Windows provides administrative shares automatically (with no easy way to turn them off)? Or is MS liable for breaching the law, since technically they're the ones who decided to share your hard drives? Not giving your computer a password may be stupid, but it's not proof of intent to infringe copyrights.
"Community standards" are bullshit regardless. If I want to watch something in the privacy of my own home, that's my right, whether the "community" thinks it's indecent or not. Barring things that obviously hurt or abuse others, such as child porn or snuff films. But those aren't illegal for indecency reasons, they're illegal for much more important reasons.
highlight it and display a list of the servers that will be notifified when you click. Maybe in a contextual menu or something. *hint, hint* extension devs...
When a DJ buys a CD or record, they actually buy a special "public performace-licensed" version which costs more than the standard consumer version. They do? I know lots of DJ's in my town. They buy the same CD's and records as everyone else. Then of course make their own burned CD's of selected tracks, or put it all on their laptops. Or are you talking about only like wedding/social function DJ's? There is no regulation in the US for what kind of media or what music a DJ uses in clubs, shows, and etc. Well, let me rephrase. There could be legislation on the books about it, but it's damn near impossible to enforce and/or not enforced if it exists.
I agree with your points, but I still think multiple partitions in Windows is useless for most people. Reason being, most people like to keep their data files either on their desktop or in their 'my documents' folder (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do), especially on a multiuser system where you don't want your files in a public place for everyone else to play with. The problem is, Windows offers no easy way to move the default location of your user profile to another partition. You have to do some registry hacks to make it work. So everything in 'my documents' gets formatted with the system. Unless you specifically put your documents in another drive and make your own shortcut to it. Sounds easy enough, but trying to get non-technical people to understand the concept will drive you nuts.
ah, no, that should not be the case. Because it uses it's own rendering and doesn't natively support wmf's, it will try to display the image as a jpg, and when that fails it would either not display the image at all, or ask to open it with a another program. I think the former is more likely. I'll have to test it out now.
heh, because Windows would break if IE didn't have full access to the Windows subsystem. We all know how necessary that is to display text web pages and jpg images.
Same as IE. It's in the way Windows processes and displays this type of image file, so it doesn't matter what program is displaying the image. At least in Firefox, you will get a prompt asking you to run the script before it executes. So as long as you always remember to click on "Hell NO", you should be pretty safe.
gods yes. I used to freak out my old non-computer literate roommates when I left AIM on all night. They'd be in bed hearing doors opening and closing all night long. They were starting to think the place was haunted.
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A lot of other apps?
What company in their right mind (besides MS) is going to write their software to only work with Vista?
There is no monthly fees to use Quicken, evn for online bill paying.
Don't know what version of quicken you're complaining about, but I manage my home and business finances, credit cards, mortgage, etc on the 2005 version. There's nothing wrong with the interface in my opinion. It works just fine, not too complicated, and it does what I ask it to do.
Maybe you just got too used to using the M$ version.
Yeah, that's what I mean. You can prove or disprove that certain people or prophets existed, or certain events really occurred. But just proving that a flood really did happen 6000 years ago, doesn't validate anything else about the religion's main concept.
Yeah, probably not. Religions, generally, can't even qualify as theories. A theory requires some amount of factual evidence to support it. Not a lot, but at least something. Some religious events or aspects may qualify under that, but if you take the entire religion as one large entity, it would not. :)
An idea that has not been supported by facts yet would be a hypothesis.
So it would be better worded the Christian Hypothesis.
Ditto the hateful "Don't get the AIDS!" bits when plague makes the rounds?"
What are you trying to say? That AIDS is only a gay disease, and every time someone mentions it they're specifically talking about GAY people with AIDS? I think all the straight AIDS victims would like some honorable mention too.
Sure it's annoying to see people use the word fag too much.
But come on. Diseases don't care what sexual preference you are.
And in a sick way, it's just funnier to see "don't get the AIDS" than it is to see "Don't get the influenza". Don't read too much into it.
That's a pretty positive defense, one I'd like to see tried out.
Even if you have WEP and MAC filtering enabled on your router, it's still easy enough to crack that. Any highschooler with the proper software can do it. So you'd have the additional defense of "I turned on all the security features my router provided me, therefore someone has additionally broken the law and trespassed against me, by bypassing my security, and then used my connection to commit further actions by downloading music and movies."
Which would have the additional benefit of hopefully trumping their next logical argument against you, the "guilty through negligence" argument.
If there are many, then yes I agree it's newsworthy. A single lawsuit is not proof that there are many.
It only takes one precedent to throw the rest of them into suspicion. If any of the other defendants don't have the "I never owned a computer" defense, then how do they prove they're innocent?
It's not that hard to spoof IP addresses, MAC addresses, and the like. The average consumer doesn't know this, the courts don't know this, and the RIAA doesn't care. What if the ISP's records are screwed up? Yeah, try to prove that one.
The fact is, the RIAA has the ability to randomly pick an IP address, subpoena the ISP for that user's name, sue them, and win.
They can identify a valid IP, belonging to a pirate, subpoena the ISP, who accidentally screws up the records, they sue the wrong person, and win.
There's obviously almost no way to truly defend yourself in these cases, innocent or not. How many of these lawsuits has the RIAA actually lost?
All media companies hate it. Movies, music, etc.
I don't need to download music anymore. I buy it used for $2, rip it, and then sell it to the next guy and get my money back.
Same with DVD's, if I wasn't too lazy to go through the ripping process with them.
Either way, I'm buying used copies. My money doesn't go to the labels or the *AA's, but some kid on half.com.
Sure, somebody had to have bought it at some point in the past, but the labels don't make a cent of my purchase, so lose one of their sacred "potential" sales. You know, the same potential sales losses that they claim from piracy. So buying used CD's makes you as bad as a pirate to them.
You know, I would laugh at that... if only the PhD in Bangalore working for $10/hr wasn't taking my job.
I don't even care about backing up my games. I'm just freaking sick and tired of big companies fucking our machines up with unmentioned secret OS level DRM drivers. Yeah, after having to fix computers they screwed up, I really feel bad for those billion dollar companies and their poor piracy issues.
So they lose a theoretical $x in pirated games.
How much real world money are they costing their actual customers when they have to pay to have their computers fixed?
I bet it's more than their made up piracy dollars.
blah, blah, blah. When I say "ass" I'm being facetious, as most people are able to figure out.
Point is, I'd rather look at a female than a male, from any angle, video game or not.
If I were a girl I would.
I always play female characters in my games. But I don't roleplay and pretend to act like one.
My reasoning is, if I have to look at some video game character's ass for hours at a time, it's not going to be a man's.
I don't mind being able to flash from the desktop, as I don't have floppy drives anymore to boot up to those archaic DOS based updaters. But allowing this with no jumper protection is pretty dumb.
You're right, it's only SP2. And it's easily disabled with the local security policy MMC.
This sets up an interesting (and valid IMO) question, if the RIAA actually succeeds in getting some legal precedence behind them in this:
If you have a blank password, are you then breaking the copyright "law" simply by having media anywhere on your computer, since Windows provides administrative shares automatically (with no easy way to turn them off)?
Or is MS liable for breaching the law, since technically they're the ones who decided to share your hard drives?
Not giving your computer a password may be stupid, but it's not proof of intent to infringe copyrights.
"Community standards" are bullshit regardless. If I want to watch something in the privacy of my own home, that's my right, whether the "community" thinks it's indecent or not. Barring things that obviously hurt or abuse others, such as child porn or snuff films. But those aren't illegal for indecency reasons, they're illegal for much more important reasons.
highlight it and display a list of the servers that will be notifified when you click. Maybe in a contextual menu or something.
*hint, hint* extension devs...
Actually, I think he was making to be funny and act like he didn't where underwear, and so was confused.
When a DJ buys a CD or record, they actually buy a special "public performace-licensed" version which costs more than the standard consumer version.
They do? I know lots of DJ's in my town. They buy the same CD's and records as everyone else. Then of course make their own burned CD's of selected tracks, or put it all on their laptops.
Or are you talking about only like wedding/social function DJ's? There is no regulation in the US for what kind of media or what music a DJ uses in clubs, shows, and etc.
Well, let me rephrase. There could be legislation on the books about it, but it's damn near impossible to enforce and/or not enforced if it exists.
I agree with your points, but I still think multiple partitions in Windows is useless for most people.
Reason being, most people like to keep their data files either on their desktop or in their 'my documents' folder (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do), especially on a multiuser system where you don't want your files in a public place for everyone else to play with.
The problem is, Windows offers no easy way to move the default location of your user profile to another partition. You have to do some registry hacks to make it work. So everything in 'my documents' gets formatted with the system. Unless you specifically put your documents in another drive and make your own shortcut to it. Sounds easy enough, but trying to get non-technical people to understand the concept will drive you nuts.
No, it doesn't view them natively. So it must open them in another program.
ah, no, that should not be the case. Because it uses it's own rendering and doesn't natively support wmf's, it will try to display the image as a jpg, and when that fails it would either not display the image at all, or ask to open it with a another program. I think the former is more likely. I'll have to test it out now.
heh, because Windows would break if IE didn't have full access to the Windows subsystem. We all know how necessary that is to display text web pages and jpg images.
Same as IE. It's in the way Windows processes and displays this type of image file, so it doesn't matter what program is displaying the image.
At least in Firefox, you will get a prompt asking you to run the script before it executes. So as long as you always remember to click on "Hell NO", you should be pretty safe.
gods yes. I used to freak out my old non-computer literate roommates when I left AIM on all night. They'd be in bed hearing doors opening and closing all night long. They were starting to think the place was haunted.