...and still spews some record-company bullshit, like equating the copying of music to stealing.
They just don't get it. If the music was unrestricted, I'd buy it even at $1 a shitty, uber-compressed song. But their business model actively sodomizes the legitimate customers while pirated music remains restriction-free. DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy, and it never will. In fact, it is such a thoroughly broken idea that I find DRM's continued use to be insulting on a personal level.
I blame both the recording industry cartel and Apple - It takes two to tango.
...and within that narrow temperature window, only some samples proved to be significantly stiffer than diamond. I agree - article title gets an F, but experiment maintains interesting factor.
If that doesn't make Bush and Co. sign the check, nothing else will.
If he's going to sign the check, he better hurry up and do it, because budget plans for next year are going to slightly shrink NASA's chunk. If he's going to tell them to go to the moon and keep the shuttle running for a few more years and maintain important earth science programs, he'd better back it up with a commensurate budgetary infusion, or they might just tell him to shove his VSE where the sun don't shine and keep on keepin' on.
Crack it. Why should you have to beg daddy Bill to run your copy of the operating system every time you make a hardware change? Tell Microshit to take their lousy "product activation" and shove it up their ass sideways.
Or install Linux, which amounts to the same message.
So I got curious and poked around a bit...there are registry hacks available now allow you to bypass the current incarnation of WGA. And they work flawlessly. Excellent.
Good point. There are lots of academic copies of Photoshop Pro, MS Office, and such. I am older and didn't get these in school, so I am much more versed in The Gimp and Open Office. This is especialy true when the big anti-piracy business busting BSA started their heavy handed tactics. I very quickly fled to free alternative legit software and started avoiding those behind the BSA squad.
I flat-out pirated those in college. No money, no time to mess around. After graduating, I went legit. Except, I still crack my legit XP on reinstallation so I don't have to ask daddy Bill if can I pleeeeeeeease have my windows back cuz I messsed up my compie again. Yeah, no IE7, no noncritical updates, but these "tantalizing fruits" have yet to overcome my serious case of M$ apathy. In fact, if there's no similar crack for Vista by the time I get around to wanting to buy an OS upgrade, I will be going 100% FOS, and WGA can suck it.
Once I discovered the Gimp, I realized I had zero use for Photoshop, and so I just deleted my pirated version and stuck with the freebie. MSOffice is unfortunately necessary due to work, but I try very hard to use openoffice whenever possible. Seeing that crossover office gets the job done in linux quite nicely, it looks like the only thing standing in the way of a full switch (sans the office suite) is...laziness.
And OpenOffice does ask you to register, but it's quite polite and not pushy about the whole thing.:)
If this isn't just an internet rumor, let it stand as further proof that no one in DC understands the "intertubes." As if we needed further proof. Gah.
And what I'm saying is that art made out of poop is still art, even if it's poop. It doesn't have to be great art to be art; any art is worthy of protection just as any other expression that doesn't hurt anyone is.
I'm with you on the "it's art" train, worthy of public expression and free speech protection. I'm mostly disappointed that it's not great art - hence my objection to the Picasso comparison. Not very poetic, ya know?;-)
Why don't you just admit that you don't get it, and save yourself the time of making such an ignorant statement?
Have you played SCMRPG? It doesn't deserve comparison on any level to a Picasso. It's tedious, repetative, only mildly disturbing (and only in that it's loosely based around a real event), and built on a tired, over-simplistic and worn-out RPG interface. The further you get into the game, the more apparent all of this becomes.
There's no subtle emotion, no master grand image, no deep lessons, no delving into the minds murderous teenagers. There's nothing to "get." Really. Sometimes monkey poo is just that - monkey poo.
It's not always about what you would do with photos of yourself, but what other people do with your image that you have no control over.
Especially with the advent of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and with user-supplied content, a-la YouTube. It's tough to keep a firm grasp on your privacy these days if you're at all part of any aspect of modern culture.
Luckily, encrypted traffic is not yet outlawed - we can fall back defensively to darknets. It may not be what the internet once was, but it can have the same spirit.
There's something to that as well. Before I completely gave up on Microsoft, I used my legit version of XP - but I always cracked it instead of activating, because that was easier (and more dignified) than having to call MS to ask permission every time I wanted re-install.
If you're reading this Microsoft, take your shitty "product activation" and go f*** yourself.
The truly sad thing is that they push WPA, WGA, DRM, Trusted Computing, overly-restrictive licensing, etc.
No kidding there. As long as Microsoft goes out of their way to treat me like a criminal, I will go out of my way to find alternative computing solutions. Not running an OS that requires me to call Microsoft every time I want to re-install it was just the incentive I needed to spend the time to get all of my hardware running under Linux.
Now I'm over the major part of the Linux learning curve! The view from up here is much nicer, and I have Microsoft to thank for it.
They emailed everyone they had addresses for on that list. The "I care" numbers are probably a bit higher, especially considering that many of them were graduate school applicants.
Right, but only if you've got end-to-end connectivity. If you don't, TCP breaks, and you get zero delivery. There are situations (see data mules and wireless sensor networks in disconnected environments) where you simply cannot have a complete end-to-end link, but periodic links within the larger path are still possible or even predictable. DTN can take advantage of single TCP connections without requiring the entire set of nodes from source to destination to be up at one time, and, if this project works, account for route changes and guarantee delivery while it's at it. And it doesn't need TCP - it can use most any type of convergence layer to operate. It's a step up for certain types of networks, and can help extend networking into new places, such as deep space (light-time delays) and battlefields.
Look for DTN to be used in upcoming NASA missions (see interplanetary internet) as well as next-generation military networks. DARPA and NASA are serious about this, and have Vint Cerf's backing as well. I expect that there will be quite a few commercial-off-the-shelf solutions that spin off once the dust settles around the standard.
It won't replace the current internet protocol suite - just augment it.
You missed the point of DTN (available when you RTFA) - at any instant in time, no end-to-end connectivity is needed. Standard network protocols (including those developed back in '83) cannot function without end-to-end communication.
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...and still spews some record-company bullshit, like equating the copying of music to stealing.
They just don't get it. If the music was unrestricted, I'd buy it even at $1 a shitty, uber-compressed song. But their business model actively sodomizes the legitimate customers while pirated music remains restriction-free. DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy, and it never will. In fact, it is such a thoroughly broken idea that I find DRM's continued use to be insulting on a personal level.
I blame both the recording industry cartel and Apple - It takes two to tango.
LEO is the orbital equivalent of a white-trash trailer park.
Cite something, and maybe I'll cite something too.
Or not.
...and within that narrow temperature window, only some samples proved to be significantly stiffer than diamond. I agree - article title gets an F, but experiment maintains interesting factor.
If he's going to sign the check, he better hurry up and do it, because budget plans for next year are going to slightly shrink NASA's chunk. If he's going to tell them to go to the moon and keep the shuttle running for a few more years and maintain important earth science programs, he'd better back it up with a commensurate budgetary infusion, or they might just tell him to shove his VSE where the sun don't shine and keep on keepin' on.
If not, then the sales numbers analyzed are absolutely meaningless. Revisit once the adult industry has ramped up to full production.
Not that I know of. Would be a nice feature though. Perhaps a little code customization is in order...
Crack it. Why should you have to beg daddy Bill to run your copy of the operating system every time you make a hardware change? Tell Microshit to take their lousy "product activation" and shove it up their ass sideways.
Or install Linux, which amounts to the same message.
Or use g4u, the paragon of drive backup simplicity...
I think that was the point of the spelling. Wake up and smell the internets, n00b.
So I got curious and poked around a bit...there are registry hacks available now allow you to bypass the current incarnation of WGA. And they work flawlessly. Excellent.
I flat-out pirated those in college. No money, no time to mess around. After graduating, I went legit. Except, I still crack my legit XP on reinstallation so I don't have to ask daddy Bill if can I pleeeeeeeease have my windows back cuz I messsed up my compie again. Yeah, no IE7, no noncritical updates, but these "tantalizing fruits" have yet to overcome my serious case of M$ apathy. In fact, if there's no similar crack for Vista by the time I get around to wanting to buy an OS upgrade, I will be going 100% FOS, and WGA can suck it.
Once I discovered the Gimp, I realized I had zero use for Photoshop, and so I just deleted my pirated version and stuck with the freebie. MSOffice is unfortunately necessary due to work, but I try very hard to use openoffice whenever possible. Seeing that crossover office gets the job done in linux quite nicely, it looks like the only thing standing in the way of a full switch (sans the office suite) is...laziness.
And OpenOffice does ask you to register, but it's quite polite and not pushy about the whole thing.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
*cough* *choke*
If this isn't just an internet rumor, let it stand as further proof that no one in DC understands the "intertubes." As if we needed further proof. Gah.
Peter Jackson is being reasonably civil about it in the public eye, while Shaye is acting like a shitcock.
In this case, I prefer the word "spawned" over "invented."
There's no subtle emotion, no master grand image, no deep lessons, no delving into the minds murderous teenagers. There's nothing to "get." Really. Sometimes monkey poo is just that - monkey poo.
...and oil burned in a power plant is still more efficiently used than gas in a car.
I'll cite Tesla Motors (warning, PDF) research for that one.
Luckily, encrypted traffic is not yet outlawed - we can fall back defensively to darknets. It may not be what the internet once was, but it can have the same spirit.
If you're reading this Microsoft, take your shitty "product activation" and go f*** yourself.
Now I'm over the major part of the Linux learning curve! The view from up here is much nicer, and I have Microsoft to thank for it.
They emailed everyone they had addresses for on that list. The "I care" numbers are probably a bit higher, especially considering that many of them were graduate school applicants.
Look for DTN to be used in upcoming NASA missions (see interplanetary internet) as well as next-generation military networks. DARPA and NASA are serious about this, and have Vint Cerf's backing as well. I expect that there will be quite a few commercial-off-the-shelf solutions that spin off once the dust settles around the standard.
It won't replace the current internet protocol suite - just augment it.
You missed the point of DTN (available when you RTFA) - at any instant in time, no end-to-end connectivity is needed. Standard network protocols (including those developed back in '83) cannot function without end-to-end communication.