You should maybe hide your signature when you say things like that.
Itg is widely accepted that Vista is a waste of resources, and therefore all articles about powerful computer resources are going to have Vista jokes. You can't kill off a meme on your own. If you don't like repetetive humour then perhaps you should change your moderation to mod down all funny comments.
Anyway, slightly back on topic - I think they'd want to keep it a cluster rather than degenerate into a clusterfuck, so it may be better to avoid installing Vista.
Well I had a look again just now, and there is Pro/Engineer, I'd thought that that only ran under WINE, but apparently I was thinking of Solidworks, and there is a full Linux version of Pro/Engineer. Even so, it would still be difficult to convince the engineers and management of any need to move to Linux. And there are still no professional quality 'free' 3D Engineering CAD solutions. To be fair, the cost of the software is negligible compared to the of yearly support contracts. We have been paying ~£8000 a year for support and upgrades to Inventor (I think the licenses are around £500 for an indefinite client license), and ~£12000 for ANSYS/CFX licenses and suppport. ANSYS and CFX do have Linux versions, though not all the plugins we use (mostly for blade modelling and simulation) are available on Linux.
If we were going to move to Pro/Engineer on Linux we'd need a decent versioning software tailored for engineering projects (maybe one exists, I've never used any versioning software before, admittedly I could just write one myself, it wouldn't be that big of a deal), and we'd only be able to use it for new projects as all our current models and assemblies are in Inventor. When MS start trying to force Vista onto the workplace then maybe that won't sound like such a bad idea to management though, will have to wait and see.
Well, for most normal types of glass that we use ourselves it would appear to be a moot point if you'd have to wait for longer than the length of the universe to get any noticeable change in the glass, so it should be regarded as a solid. Just because one type of glass is very stable at room temperature doesn't mean that another won't be. I would think it also depends on the ambient pressure. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that glass is a weird substance and scientists are obviously still confused as to some of its properties:P
He is looking for software that does equivalent things on Linux, which is why he is writing to those companies. Professional quality 3D CAD applications don't (currently) just appear for free, and they need to interoperate like cohen says. You can get some good calculation software for Linux, but I haven't seen any decent 3D CAD software yet:( Apparently the Autodesk codebase in particular is heavily Windows specific these days. Perhaps Mono will help with that but I'd rather have native apps than try to simulate Windows.
Could you please sign this petition for people to do all my laundry and assorted housework please? I've got 394 signatures so far! How can the world refuse?
You should read that section of the wiki article, it's pretty interesting. I especially like the line To observe window glass flowing as liquid at room temperature we would have to wait a much longer time than the universe exists. Heh. Some glasses do flow more freely at room temperature though, apparently. Probably not so quickly that you'd see it with your eyes though.
I think that was actually everyone's first thought:p I was like hey wait a second, then looked down at the tags and predictably enough, there was transparent 'aluminum' heh. I think that other one you link to was covered a couple of years ago on here.
Gut instinct tells me that he didn't, mostly because it was invented as part of a back story for a sci-fi movie. Yet again life mimics Star Trek. Set phasers to time displaced synchronicity!
*sigh* thinking about this some more while walking home (oh am I allowed to call it 'walking' by the way or is that insulting hillwalkers everywhere?). Could you be any more arrogant and insecure about other people doing martial arts? You're like a high school football coach saying that people aren't allowed to mention the word 'sports', they have to call it 'exercise'. I maybe shouldn't have said 'a lot' of martial arts but I was consistently practicing 2 times a week as well as home practice as I said, with full stretching and then working up a sweat from practice, not just a couple of light hearted practices of my patterns. I am sounding like a 'white ninja' (nice racist remark btw), but since you are so insecure about it then it's quite likely that you used to be considered as such by others..
By the way I don't have access to many different styles of classes round here, and most of them are on sunday, which until recently was a problem. I may consider it now because I have stopped going to church, but if the people at Wushu classes have such a disparaging attitude as yours, I don't even want to try one. Good job. At least the japanese and korean arts I know of are based on self control, self improvement and general good will to others where possible.
Slightly better tone but not much. Your elitist attitude is far more immature than me using:p which signifies an element of jokiness.
I am quite aware that swinging your hips slows down the technique a bit (especially if you are inexperienced at it sure). It definitely is more powerful though and fine for a confrontation with a belligerent drunk or general idiot. I was not learning to compete at competition level (in fact there is no competition in Choi), I was training for a bit of exercise and basic self defense. My legs are quite flexible (compared to average, maybe not to yours:P ) so I can kick up to my head even without stretching etc.
You make fair points about reduced balance while on the balls of your foot, but that was basically entirely my point in the first place - I have *better* balance because of practicing techniques like that. I can balance fine on the ball of my foot for kicks and knee strikes.
Any successful kick to your leg is going to throw you off balance or break a bone. The ball of my foot provided enough grip for me to make a full power front kick (the most basic but also the most powerful kick that doesn't also use rotational technique). Having slightly less grip on a foot is good if it lets you move with an enemy's attack anyway (as long as it isn't meaning you slip when performing the attack normally), especially if it's from the side of the leg for example. Just pointing out one of the benefits, it's easy to play devil's advocate. Better to fall over and be able to get up again than to break your knee - which is very easy to do if pressure is applied in the right place. Having a too rigid style will always be bad for that. You can go on about my 'lack of knowledge' all you want but I doubt you have perfect knowledge either. Relaxed muscles are better for speed, and speed is more important than pure strength for a lot of techniques, as you pointed out about the slow punching. You're meant to be relaxed up until just before the point of contact (well, that was only what I was taught at least). Again if you think that any of that is stupid, go read up about Master Choi. He had over many decades of training and fighting at international tournament level, in several styles, and in his day could probably have taken any of your Chinese masters. I don't want to make it into a my penis is larger than yours contest, I know you've had more training than me, but your attitude leaves a lot to be desired. I'd rather have a bit of respect and manners towards others and get along with them than know for sure that I'm going to have to try and kick their ass when I piss them off. One day the other guy just might be better trained than you.
Nothing wrong with 'throwing your hips out of alignment' if it's giving you extra rotation, forward momentum and power either. I hate the rigid styles of things like Karate, they lack any kind of dynamic compared to Tae Kwon Do and Choi Kwang Do. As I've said before, Choi Kwang Do works with your body rather than in-spite of it. It's stupid to think that you can't be good at martial arts just because you're past 36. Wushu simply means 'art', it is not meant to denote any particular style. Choi Kwang Do style of punches may not be as fast as some other techniques but you get good power out of them even if you aren't physically large or strong, because you are making the most of what you have. With practice the techniques can also be performed quite quickly though, and are designed in such a way that you can chain them together in quite a fluid manner.
I enjoy learning and hearing what you think I'd enjoy, but if you don't want to talk to me anymore because you think you're above me somehow, that's fine with me too. I can be quite a petty person sometimes, but I'm not sad enough to think I'm better than someone just because I do a lot of martial arts; I just mentioned it in passing and you had to pick up on it to prove you were better.
I didn't say it was intensive. You're meant to give your body a rest from exercise every couple of days too you know, otherwise your body doesn't have time to recover.
Your elitist attitude shows that you haven't learned much from your training or even being an instructor, either that or your classes are purely about physical force and not cultivating a good attiude. Just because I'm white doesn't mean a damn thing, and I would have done longer classes if they were available, but they weren't (unless I kept training and instructed a few classes myself). Anyway I have other things to do than spend 16 hours each day purely on training o_0 If you think that's more training than I did in a year then you really do spend too much time training and not working on your mind, because if you trained for 5 days straight with no sleep, that would be 120 hours, and 3 hours a week comes to 156 hours a year. I'm pretty happy with my body as it is thanks and don't feel the need to work out for hours each day, plus my technique is fine for the techniques that we were learning, Choi classes focus on quality, not quantity (only at blackbelt level are lots of techniques thrown in). Anyway when you've had to stop your classes 'in a few years' because you wore out your body as Master Choi did (and I doubt you are anywhere near as hardcore as he was), then you might consider techniques that are designed to work with your body instead of in-spite of your body. You don't need to have superhuman strength to win a fight, it's all about technique. Spending time practicing your techniques is good, but I wasn't training to enter any competitions or anything, I was just doing it for a more natural form of exercise than going to the gym. I for one would encourage anyone wanting to even try martial arts for one class a week to go ahead and do it, because there are a lot more benefits than just the training, which I repeat: you seem to have none of, as you're being a jerk.
Indeed. Thinking back on it, I probably shouldn't have encouraged her to pirate even if I don't like Microsoft, it's not the most mature attitude to take. I suppose at least by pointing her to TPB I stopped her from visiting any malicious websites.. she already had an Office CD too so there's an outside chance she owns it and just lost her key, but I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't own it - her family regularly buys pirated movie DVDs months before the movies come out in UK cinemas.
I reread my post and admittedly it is a bit ambiguous.
When I said I extend my dislike for Microsoft to recording companies I meant that I don't like they way they operate either, but I am still paying for all my music these days.
I don't pirate modern commercial software either (though I do do things like download ROMS for emulators for old systems etc, tho often those are for games that I used to own myself, yada yada). It is not legally okay to pirate MS software, but I don't feel very sorry for them if someone does it because they vastly overcharge for their shitty software (not so much if it's bundled, but the non OEM prices are insane).
I did point someone in the direction of where to get an Office crack if they want (The Pirate Bay), and I don't feel 'bad' for doing that, that is what I was saying. If I didn't write in such a stream of consciousness style that would have been more obvious. If you have a problem with that then fine, it's good that you have decent morals and want to apply them evenly to everyone, but I think that if a company or individual wants to be treated well, it should treat others well too. That's generally how the world operates. If a person kills thousands of people, some would say they deserve the death penalty. If a company damages the world of computing to such an extent that MS does, I think they deserve to be out of business. Rampant piracy at least makes them think about lowering their costs.
Doom is a futuristic shooter. We had it back in this thing called the 90s;) And an RTS is an RTS. Driving games on the PC have never been quite as prolific as on consoles either.. something I used to lament, but things are improving these days.
My own world view has changed quite dramatically in the last few months/years so I now consider some things okay that I just dismissed automaticall as wrong because the bible said so before. I hope I don't appear to be claiming to be absolutely correct, I thought I was just pointing out that it is my own opinions. I don't see why I have to consider other's opinions valid at all (though I do), especially if they are complaining about me downloading music when I probably have in fact spent a lot more money on music than any of them (basically have been getting a new album almost every day for the last few weeks). I tend to have kneejerk reactions to criticism, and even when I agree with people I play devil's advocate a lot. But even if I don't agree with someone immediately I think about what people say and my opinion can change over time - it's not easy for me to change my opinions on morality in a couple of minutes, but I think I've done quite well changing my world view by rejecting Christianity and that shows that I am thinking for myself. It's not easy to change your beliefs when you have spent your whole life reinforcing them and arguing for them in your head. But anyway, If I was only thinking about myself I wouldn't pay for any music, or software, but I don't. So I resent the idea that in this case at least I am being self centred. I'm not caliming to be perfect or particularly enlightened either though.
There are already sites where you can listen to songs and that have links to amazon etc, and a lot of artists are happy for their music to be up on youtube, so there are legal ways to share music, but I haven't used them much myself as I prefer just to use Winamp for all my music.
I think I make the excuses for approval rather than to shrug off any responsibility - I'd have to feel I was doing wrong to have to shrug it off. I recently got done for speeding and after considering fighting it as I didn't want to lose my license, but decided pretty quickly just to accept it. I had done something illegal, knowingly, and I accepted the punishment (fairly contentedly, I'm enjoying walking to work in the summer weather..).
I don't think I need to mess about with the laws myself at the moment. Things seem to be heading in a good direction already and I don't like politics. It makes no difference to me what the laws are anyway as I would keep supporting artists I like even if all music was made free, and I could live without ever downloading music again. I know that neither of those situations is likely to happen though.
I bought the Radiohead and NIN albums online to show my support (I actually bought the box set for Radiohead). I suppose you could say even that is "thinking about myself" because I want to keep hearing good music. I also want to encourage other artists to break free of recording companies though, and I don't see how that benefits me, because I'd be happy for artists to still charge about $14 an album which is about the average I pay at Amazon.
If I've ended up twisting my words around again I'm sorry, it's a bad habit of me always seeking approval and genuinely believing that two opinions are resolvable when sometimes they just aren't. My ex got pretty pissed off with that, I hadn't even noticed I was doing it until she pointed it out.
I just read it and thought it was funny *shrug* it's most definitely not true. I've never fucked someone that arrived in a barrel btw, is that some kind of mail order thing? How many are there usually in this barrel?
Fair enough, that is your opinion. When I have received songs in the past I didn't purposely think "I'm receiving this so that I may buy it in future", I was well aware that what was happening was illegal (although the person that sent me most of my music lives in Canada and filesharing wasn't "illegal" there at the time). It just so happens that I have bought a lot of music because of the abundance of filesharing. It is not legal, and yes it's not accepted practice yet, but I thought it was an apt analogy, especially after the guy had put so little effort into his thinking when using his car stealing analogy.
I fully accept that what is happening today and some things that I have done are illegal, and I have bought the albums for the songs I like. There are admittedly still quite a few songs remaining in my Misc folder that I haven't paid for, but this week someone reminded me of one of the songs, I listened to it and then promptly bought the album. Again I know that having it was illegal but personally I don't have a problem with that because I have done the right thing now, and if I didn't get sent the song a couple of years ago I wouldn't have this great Dream Theatre album today (and I'm planning to buy more of their stuff soon), and the artist would have one less sale *shrug*
MS do try to get as much out of consumers as they can, I don't care what other corporations think, I have never liked windows above any other OS I've used, and neither do I like Office any better - well, okay so I like Outlook but the rest of office isn't very special. Technically I don't think I have ever pirated Office or Windows AFAIK - though I certainly have broken the MS license agreement by moving my own license of Windows from machine to machine, and there is still an install of XP on my old broken desktop's hard-drive, so maybe I should destroy that as my bro has the XP CD now.
The penalties against Microsoft hardly hurt them considering how much money they have. I think it's good that they have released documentation now, but the whole ISO fastrack situation pretty much negates anything good they have done recently wouldn't you say? They have not changed, they still have the same intentions of screwing around with people through lock-in, rather than attempting to win people over with well made software.
Yes anything I do in life is based on my own feelings or opinions. At work I comply with licensing issues on our servers and client machines because I don't want my employer to get into hot water over anything. At home however I still don't have an absolute view of some things as being 'wrong' since my religious views have changed a bit recently. My mother would say "obey the authorities because the bible tells you to", yet if the law tells her that being gay is okay she won't agree with that, she'll agree with what the bible says. I doubt any person fully agrees with every letter of the law, the law eventually just turns out to be whatever is commonly accepted as 'right' (well, it should, but it mostly ends up being what the richest people/corporations think is best for them I guess).
Other people are bitching about my opinion despite the fact that I do pay for my music and software - just because I chose to give a friend a piece of information on how to find illegal software if she wants it, I am being branded evil or something *shrug* I thought slashdot wasn't big on censorship but maybe I'm wrong. I'm not a search engine though and I am capable of rational/moral thought on occasion so it probably is my own fault.
I admit I do have a bit of a probem with authority, I recently got banned from driving for speeding and I still don't think what I did was 'wrong'. I know it was illegal but there is nothing inherently wrong with travelling over a certain speed if the conditions are safe, that is quite absurd. I'm not going to start an argument about that either, suffice to say I did my advanced driving course at the start of this year and the police driving instructor was doing 110mph on a co
My enter key is broken you insensitive clod! As well as my & , g, l, t, ; , > , <, b and r keys!
But I will try to remember. I don't realise how long my rants are sometimes. Maybe people wouldn't have thought that I'm a free-loading hippie if I'd been more clear.
It wouldn't affect me much from home, I suppose because if I need to check cinema times and stuff I could just use the browser on my phone. At work it would make my job impossible though if I was never allowed to use the net, though I could always just tell people what to browse for me:p
I wasn't suggesting that people should always get royalties (should a doctor get royalties for every day that a patient survives each day after a life extending operation?:p). But people do need to get money from somewhere otherwise they'll end up leeching off of the state - if the state supports such things - or die.
There aren't many of them round here, but I have been to a few, Radiohead, Kings of Leon etc. I legally bought 3 of the Kings of Leon albums but only listen to 2 of them because there is copy protection on the first and I haven't bothered to use the burn&rip method yet.. fscking DRM
The difference would be that you pay for the car if you like it. Car dealerships let you go for test drives by the way.
I wonder how many times I'm going to have to point out to you people that I do buy all my music these days, though I will send songs I like to my bro just so he can have a listen. I don't have a problem with people pirating a little to try new stuff and expand their tastes, but I do have a problem if people get stuff with no intention of buying it. I felt pretty sickened last week when some girl (a non-geek) was telling me how she got all her music for free using soul seek, she was like "It's ABSOLUTELY FREE!" etc etc and then saw the look on my face and was like "ooh are you scared of going to hell or something for downloading some songs" and I explained that I think artists should be recompensed for their music *shrug*.
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You should maybe hide your signature when you say things like that.
Itg is widely accepted that Vista is a waste of resources, and therefore all articles about powerful computer resources are going to have Vista jokes. You can't kill off a meme on your own. If you don't like repetetive humour then perhaps you should change your moderation to mod down all funny comments.
Anyway, slightly back on topic - I think they'd want to keep it a cluster rather than degenerate into a clusterfuck, so it may be better to avoid installing Vista.
Thought someone would do that.. I wasn't entirely serious myself in case you hadn't noticed. I don't often use exclamations when I'm being serious.
Well I had a look again just now, and there is Pro/Engineer, I'd thought that that only ran under WINE, but apparently I was thinking of Solidworks, and there is a full Linux version of Pro/Engineer. Even so, it would still be difficult to convince the engineers and management of any need to move to Linux. And there are still no professional quality 'free' 3D Engineering CAD solutions. To be fair, the cost of the software is negligible compared to the of yearly support contracts. We have been paying ~£8000 a year for support and upgrades to Inventor (I think the licenses are around £500 for an indefinite client license), and ~£12000 for ANSYS/CFX licenses and suppport. ANSYS and CFX do have Linux versions, though not all the plugins we use (mostly for blade modelling and simulation) are available on Linux.
If we were going to move to Pro/Engineer on Linux we'd need a decent versioning software tailored for engineering projects (maybe one exists, I've never used any versioning software before, admittedly I could just write one myself, it wouldn't be that big of a deal), and we'd only be able to use it for new projects as all our current models and assemblies are in Inventor. When MS start trying to force Vista onto the workplace then maybe that won't sound like such a bad idea to management though, will have to wait and see.
Well, for most normal types of glass that we use ourselves it would appear to be a moot point if you'd have to wait for longer than the length of the universe to get any noticeable change in the glass, so it should be regarded as a solid. Just because one type of glass is very stable at room temperature doesn't mean that another won't be. I would think it also depends on the ambient pressure. I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that glass is a weird substance and scientists are obviously still confused as to some of its properties :P
He is looking for software that does equivalent things on Linux, which is why he is writing to those companies. Professional quality 3D CAD applications don't (currently) just appear for free, and they need to interoperate like cohen says. You can get some good calculation software for Linux, but I haven't seen any decent 3D CAD software yet :( Apparently the Autodesk codebase in particular is heavily Windows specific these days. Perhaps Mono will help with that but I'd rather have native apps than try to simulate Windows.
Could you please sign this petition for people to do all my laundry and assorted housework please? I've got 394 signatures so far! How can the world refuse?
You should read that section of the wiki article, it's pretty interesting. I especially like the line To observe window glass flowing as liquid at room temperature we would have to wait a much longer time than the universe exists. Heh. Some glasses do flow more freely at room temperature though, apparently. Probably not so quickly that you'd see it with your eyes though.
I think that was actually everyone's first thought :p I was like hey wait a second, then looked down at the tags and predictably enough, there was transparent 'aluminum' heh. I think that other one you link to was covered a couple of years ago on here.
Gut instinct tells me that he didn't, mostly because it was invented as part of a back story for a sci-fi movie. Yet again life mimics Star Trek. Set phasers to time displaced synchronicity!
*sigh* thinking about this some more while walking home (oh am I allowed to call it 'walking' by the way or is that insulting hillwalkers everywhere?). Could you be any more arrogant and insecure about other people doing martial arts? You're like a high school football coach saying that people aren't allowed to mention the word 'sports', they have to call it 'exercise'. I maybe shouldn't have said 'a lot' of martial arts but I was consistently practicing 2 times a week as well as home practice as I said, with full stretching and then working up a sweat from practice, not just a couple of light hearted practices of my patterns. I am sounding like a 'white ninja' (nice racist remark btw), but since you are so insecure about it then it's quite likely that you used to be considered as such by others..
By the way I don't have access to many different styles of classes round here, and most of them are on sunday, which until recently was a problem. I may consider it now because I have stopped going to church, but if the people at Wushu classes have such a disparaging attitude as yours, I don't even want to try one. Good job. At least the japanese and korean arts I know of are based on self control, self improvement and general good will to others where possible.
Slightly better tone but not much. Your elitist attitude is far more immature than me using :p which signifies an element of jokiness.
I am quite aware that swinging your hips slows down the technique a bit (especially if you are inexperienced at it sure). It definitely is more powerful though and fine for a confrontation with a belligerent drunk or general idiot. I was not learning to compete at competition level (in fact there is no competition in Choi), I was training for a bit of exercise and basic self defense. My legs are quite flexible (compared to average, maybe not to yours :P ) so I can kick up to my head even without stretching etc.
You make fair points about reduced balance while on the balls of your foot, but that was basically entirely my point in the first place - I have *better* balance because of practicing techniques like that. I can balance fine on the ball of my foot for kicks and knee strikes.
Any successful kick to your leg is going to throw you off balance or break a bone. The ball of my foot provided enough grip for me to make a full power front kick (the most basic but also the most powerful kick that doesn't also use rotational technique). Having slightly less grip on a foot is good if it lets you move with an enemy's attack anyway (as long as it isn't meaning you slip when performing the attack normally), especially if it's from the side of the leg for example. Just pointing out one of the benefits, it's easy to play devil's advocate. Better to fall over and be able to get up again than to break your knee - which is very easy to do if pressure is applied in the right place. Having a too rigid style will always be bad for that. You can go on about my 'lack of knowledge' all you want but I doubt you have perfect knowledge either. Relaxed muscles are better for speed, and speed is more important than pure strength for a lot of techniques, as you pointed out about the slow punching. You're meant to be relaxed up until just before the point of contact (well, that was only what I was taught at least). Again if you think that any of that is stupid, go read up about Master Choi. He had over many decades of training and fighting at international tournament level, in several styles, and in his day could probably have taken any of your Chinese masters. I don't want to make it into a my penis is larger than yours contest, I know you've had more training than me, but your attitude leaves a lot to be desired. I'd rather have a bit of respect and manners towards others and get along with them than know for sure that I'm going to have to try and kick their ass when I piss them off. One day the other guy just might be better trained than you.
Nothing wrong with 'throwing your hips out of alignment' if it's giving you extra rotation, forward momentum and power either. I hate the rigid styles of things like Karate, they lack any kind of dynamic compared to Tae Kwon Do and Choi Kwang Do. As I've said before, Choi Kwang Do works with your body rather than in-spite of it. It's stupid to think that you can't be good at martial arts just because you're past 36. Wushu simply means 'art', it is not meant to denote any particular style. Choi Kwang Do style of punches may not be as fast as some other techniques but you get good power out of them even if you aren't physically large or strong, because you are making the most of what you have. With practice the techniques can also be performed quite quickly though, and are designed in such a way that you can chain them together in quite a fluid manner.
I enjoy learning and hearing what you think I'd enjoy, but if you don't want to talk to me anymore because you think you're above me somehow, that's fine with me too. I can be quite a petty person sometimes, but I'm not sad enough to think I'm better than someone just because I do a lot of martial arts; I just mentioned it in passing and you had to pick up on it to prove you were better.
I didn't say it was intensive. You're meant to give your body a rest from exercise every couple of days too you know, otherwise your body doesn't have time to recover.
Your elitist attitude shows that you haven't learned much from your training or even being an instructor, either that or your classes are purely about physical force and not cultivating a good attiude. Just because I'm white doesn't mean a damn thing, and I would have done longer classes if they were available, but they weren't (unless I kept training and instructed a few classes myself). Anyway I have other things to do than spend 16 hours each day purely on training o_0 If you think that's more training than I did in a year then you really do spend too much time training and not working on your mind, because if you trained for 5 days straight with no sleep, that would be 120 hours, and 3 hours a week comes to 156 hours a year. I'm pretty happy with my body as it is thanks and don't feel the need to work out for hours each day, plus my technique is fine for the techniques that we were learning, Choi classes focus on quality, not quantity (only at blackbelt level are lots of techniques thrown in). Anyway when you've had to stop your classes 'in a few years' because you wore out your body as Master Choi did (and I doubt you are anywhere near as hardcore as he was), then you might consider techniques that are designed to work with your body instead of in-spite of your body. You don't need to have superhuman strength to win a fight, it's all about technique. Spending time practicing your techniques is good, but I wasn't training to enter any competitions or anything, I was just doing it for a more natural form of exercise than going to the gym. I for one would encourage anyone wanting to even try martial arts for one class a week to go ahead and do it, because there are a lot more benefits than just the training, which I repeat: you seem to have none of, as you're being a jerk.
Indeed. Thinking back on it, I probably shouldn't have encouraged her to pirate even if I don't like Microsoft, it's not the most mature attitude to take. I suppose at least by pointing her to TPB I stopped her from visiting any malicious websites.. she already had an Office CD too so there's an outside chance she owns it and just lost her key, but I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't own it - her family regularly buys pirated movie DVDs months before the movies come out in UK cinemas.
I reread my post and admittedly it is a bit ambiguous.
When I said I extend my dislike for Microsoft to recording companies I meant that I don't like they way they operate either, but I am still paying for all my music these days.
I don't pirate modern commercial software either (though I do do things like download ROMS for emulators for old systems etc, tho often those are for games that I used to own myself, yada yada). It is not legally okay to pirate MS software, but I don't feel very sorry for them if someone does it because they vastly overcharge for their shitty software (not so much if it's bundled, but the non OEM prices are insane).
I did point someone in the direction of where to get an Office crack if they want (The Pirate Bay), and I don't feel 'bad' for doing that, that is what I was saying. If I didn't write in such a stream of consciousness style that would have been more obvious. If you have a problem with that then fine, it's good that you have decent morals and want to apply them evenly to everyone, but I think that if a company or individual wants to be treated well, it should treat others well too. That's generally how the world operates. If a person kills thousands of people, some would say they deserve the death penalty. If a company damages the world of computing to such an extent that MS does, I think they deserve to be out of business. Rampant piracy at least makes them think about lowering their costs.
Doom is a futuristic shooter. We had it back in this thing called the 90s ;) And an RTS is an RTS. Driving games on the PC have never been quite as prolific as on consoles either.. something I used to lament, but things are improving these days.
Not as disturbing as the Chronicles of Goatse.cx Part IV: Rick Astley's Revenge
Mmmmm.. hardware accelerated litter..
I do strive too much for approval from others :p
My own world view has changed quite dramatically in the last few months/years so I now consider some things okay that I just dismissed automaticall as wrong because the bible said so before. I hope I don't appear to be claiming to be absolutely correct, I thought I was just pointing out that it is my own opinions. I don't see why I have to consider other's opinions valid at all (though I do), especially if they are complaining about me downloading music when I probably have in fact spent a lot more money on music than any of them (basically have been getting a new album almost every day for the last few weeks). I tend to have kneejerk reactions to criticism, and even when I agree with people I play devil's advocate a lot. But even if I don't agree with someone immediately I think about what people say and my opinion can change over time - it's not easy for me to change my opinions on morality in a couple of minutes, but I think I've done quite well changing my world view by rejecting Christianity and that shows that I am thinking for myself. It's not easy to change your beliefs when you have spent your whole life reinforcing them and arguing for them in your head. But anyway, If I was only thinking about myself I wouldn't pay for any music, or software, but I don't. So I resent the idea that in this case at least I am being self centred. I'm not caliming to be perfect or particularly enlightened either though.
There are already sites where you can listen to songs and that have links to amazon etc, and a lot of artists are happy for their music to be up on youtube, so there are legal ways to share music, but I haven't used them much myself as I prefer just to use Winamp for all my music.
I think I make the excuses for approval rather than to shrug off any responsibility - I'd have to feel I was doing wrong to have to shrug it off. I recently got done for speeding and after considering fighting it as I didn't want to lose my license, but decided pretty quickly just to accept it. I had done something illegal, knowingly, and I accepted the punishment (fairly contentedly, I'm enjoying walking to work in the summer weather..).
I don't think I need to mess about with the laws myself at the moment. Things seem to be heading in a good direction already and I don't like politics. It makes no difference to me what the laws are anyway as I would keep supporting artists I like even if all music was made free, and I could live without ever downloading music again. I know that neither of those situations is likely to happen though.
I bought the Radiohead and NIN albums online to show my support (I actually bought the box set for Radiohead). I suppose you could say even that is "thinking about myself" because I want to keep hearing good music. I also want to encourage other artists to break free of recording companies though, and I don't see how that benefits me, because I'd be happy for artists to still charge about $14 an album which is about the average I pay at Amazon.
If I've ended up twisting my words around again I'm sorry, it's a bad habit of me always seeking approval and genuinely believing that two opinions are resolvable when sometimes they just aren't. My ex got pretty pissed off with that, I hadn't even noticed I was doing it until she pointed it out.
I just read it and thought it was funny *shrug* it's most definitely not true. I've never fucked someone that arrived in a barrel btw, is that some kind of mail order thing? How many are there usually in this barrel?
Fair enough, that is your opinion. When I have received songs in the past I didn't purposely think "I'm receiving this so that I may buy it in future", I was well aware that what was happening was illegal (although the person that sent me most of my music lives in Canada and filesharing wasn't "illegal" there at the time). It just so happens that I have bought a lot of music because of the abundance of filesharing. It is not legal, and yes it's not accepted practice yet, but I thought it was an apt analogy, especially after the guy had put so little effort into his thinking when using his car stealing analogy.
I fully accept that what is happening today and some things that I have done are illegal, and I have bought the albums for the songs I like. There are admittedly still quite a few songs remaining in my Misc folder that I haven't paid for, but this week someone reminded me of one of the songs, I listened to it and then promptly bought the album. Again I know that having it was illegal but personally I don't have a problem with that because I have done the right thing now, and if I didn't get sent the song a couple of years ago I wouldn't have this great Dream Theatre album today (and I'm planning to buy more of their stuff soon), and the artist would have one less sale *shrug*
MS do try to get as much out of consumers as they can, I don't care what other corporations think, I have never liked windows above any other OS I've used, and neither do I like Office any better - well, okay so I like Outlook but the rest of office isn't very special. Technically I don't think I have ever pirated Office or Windows AFAIK - though I certainly have broken the MS license agreement by moving my own license of Windows from machine to machine, and there is still an install of XP on my old broken desktop's hard-drive, so maybe I should destroy that as my bro has the XP CD now.
The penalties against Microsoft hardly hurt them considering how much money they have. I think it's good that they have released documentation now, but the whole ISO fastrack situation pretty much negates anything good they have done recently wouldn't you say? They have not changed, they still have the same intentions of screwing around with people through lock-in, rather than attempting to win people over with well made software.
Yes anything I do in life is based on my own feelings or opinions. At work I comply with licensing issues on our servers and client machines because I don't want my employer to get into hot water over anything. At home however I still don't have an absolute view of some things as being 'wrong' since my religious views have changed a bit recently. My mother would say "obey the authorities because the bible tells you to", yet if the law tells her that being gay is okay she won't agree with that, she'll agree with what the bible says. I doubt any person fully agrees with every letter of the law, the law eventually just turns out to be whatever is commonly accepted as 'right' (well, it should, but it mostly ends up being what the richest people/corporations think is best for them I guess).
Other people are bitching about my opinion despite the fact that I do pay for my music and software - just because I chose to give a friend a piece of information on how to find illegal software if she wants it, I am being branded evil or something *shrug* I thought slashdot wasn't big on censorship but maybe I'm wrong. I'm not a search engine though and I am capable of rational/moral thought on occasion so it probably is my own fault.
I admit I do have a bit of a probem with authority, I recently got banned from driving for speeding and I still don't think what I did was 'wrong'. I know it was illegal but there is nothing inherently wrong with travelling over a certain speed if the conditions are safe, that is quite absurd. I'm not going to start an argument about that either, suffice to say I did my advanced driving course at the start of this year and the police driving instructor was doing 110mph on a co
My enter key is broken you insensitive clod! As well as my & , g, l, t, ; , > , <, b and r keys!
But I will try to remember. I don't realise how long my rants are sometimes. Maybe people wouldn't have thought that I'm a free-loading hippie if I'd been more clear.
It wouldn't affect me much from home, I suppose because if I need to check cinema times and stuff I could just use the browser on my phone. At work it would make my job impossible though if I was never allowed to use the net, though I could always just tell people what to browse for me :p
I wasn't suggesting that people should always get royalties (should a doctor get royalties for every day that a patient survives each day after a life extending operation? :p). But people do need to get money from somewhere otherwise they'll end up leeching off of the state - if the state supports such things - or die.
There aren't many of them round here, but I have been to a few, Radiohead, Kings of Leon etc. I legally bought 3 of the Kings of Leon albums but only listen to 2 of them because there is copy protection on the first and I haven't bothered to use the burn&rip method yet.. fscking DRM
The difference would be that you pay for the car if you like it. Car dealerships let you go for test drives by the way.
I wonder how many times I'm going to have to point out to you people that I do buy all my music these days, though I will send songs I like to my bro just so he can have a listen. I don't have a problem with people pirating a little to try new stuff and expand their tastes, but I do have a problem if people get stuff with no intention of buying it. I felt pretty sickened last week when some girl (a non-geek) was telling me how she got all her music for free using soul seek, she was like "It's ABSOLUTELY FREE!" etc etc and then saw the look on my face and was like "ooh are you scared of going to hell or something for downloading some songs" and I explained that I think artists should be recompensed for their music *shrug*.