Actually, I agree with you, and I think the organization's approach to the matter is dumb, and Google has every right to just remove the content.
I just think it's telling that of the actual quotes being addressed by/. posters, most of them are along the lines of "fuck that greedy bastard who wrote that Rick Astley song and is already rich and wants even more money for his 20 year old song so boycott him and everybody else who is a member of that organization", rather than even grazing the larger questions about how songwriters can be compensated for their work when the younger generations have been raised to believe "if it's available on the Internet, it's free"?
Question to poster: how does it follow from their statements that the music writers are clueless?
The individual songwriters' requests for compensation injects cognitive dissonance into the minds of the people who insist that only Big Evil Corporations with their Obsolete Buisiness Model want people to pay for music (to finance Lear jets and hot tubs full of hookers for fatcat executives), and that the Brave New World of music is that all music is free and all artists support themselves through touring and merchandise, and all the greedy recording executives are out of a job, and therefore you are entitled to download whatever copyrighted works you can find for free while congratulating yourself for helping to bring about a new utopia for musicians.
Therefore, the music writer's statements must be discarded as clueless, otherwise you have to accept that you're not just sticking it to The Man when you download free stuff, you're sticking it to the actual creator.
...is MP3FS, a virtual file system that transcodes your FLAC files to MP3 on the fly (including metadata).
Just keep all your FLAC files on PC or NAS, and when you want to load them on a player, copy them from the MP3FS directory.
You don't need to keep duplicate lossy files around, and you don't have huge chunks of lossless music taking up space on a player that can't play them anyway.
The Homosexual Gene
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· Score: 2, Interesting
So, what happens when they find the genetic marker that indicates homosexuality?
Will it be okay for parents to not select an embryo because he/she might grow up to be gay?
Watergate is a God Damned Hotel You Turds
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I have this fantasy in which I am kind of superhero who travels the country tracking down hack reporters who slap the "gate" suffix on anything vaguely resembling a scandal, then jabbing them with a cattle prod until I'm satisfied justice has been served.
How about building a robot that can actually do my laundry and cook my dinner before worrying about making it look "sympathetic" when I'm asking for less vermouth in my martini?
And while we're on the subject of technological promises that will undoubtedly never materialize in my lifetime, where's my goddamn flying car?
I realize that agressive posturing against censorship is a sure-fire way to score unearned points with this audience, but exactly what the fuck has anything about this technology or anything said by the GP got to do with government interference with your plan to raise potty-mouthed children?
It should also be pointed out the the QT4 builds are not available as dynamically linked binaries, unlike the QT3 version, which is available with static or dynamic builds.
Oh, well, hey, if they say so on their own site, it must be true!
Of course, my own objective tests showed me that WINE was getting around 55-65% of the framerate that I'd get when running the same game under Windows... and that was even with wine not rendering some of the advanced effects (because it was unable to do so).
In my objective point of view, WINE, while an incredible technical achievement, is a piss-poor substitute for platform-native games. I would not pay for a game being sold as a "Linux" if it runs under WINE. In fact, I wouldn't even bother to pirate it.
I loved the fact that whenever I saw Stan Winston's name in the opening credits of a movie, I would know that no matter how lame the movie turned out to be, there was always going to be some kind of cool monster/robot creation.
I guess that won't be happening anymore.
Thank goodness they've updated The Day the Earth Stood Still to preach about environmentalism, since a commentary on mankind's violent, destructive nature is no longer relevant in these modern times.
The original Das Keyboard was a Keytronic, the new one is made by Cherry and has mechanical keyswitches (as opposed to the membrane switches on the Keytronic).
AFAIK, you can't get the reasonably-priced, non-pretentious equivalent of Das Keyboard II anywhere.
"Pro gaming" equipment is just like specialty "audiophile" hardware -- overpriced, showy crap that only makes a difference in the mind of the buyer.
I'm not saying there's no difference between a quality keyboard and a cheap hunk of plastic, but the difference in performance between a $20 Key Tronic and a $150 L337 G4m3r Pr0 Blingmaster Xtreme sure as hell isn't going to be noticed by "casual" gamers, and probably makes no difference to somebody who is already good enough to be a "pro".
Godwin's law doesn't pass judgement on the use of Nazis in an argument, it merely states that the longer an argument goes on, the greater the probability that somebody will compare something to the Nazis.
The fact that some people think that mentioning Nazis means that Godwin's law in "invoked" and you "lose" the argument is not Godwin's fault. That belief is largely due to misinformation from Hitler-loving Nazi fascist pigdogs.
Like any political organization that has been in place for too long, its purpose is no longer to accomplish the goals it was founded for, but to simply perpetuate its own existence and increase its power base.
"Environmental extremism arose in the mid-1980s. It arose because the majority of people accepted all of the reasonable points in the environmental agenda, and the only way to remain adversarial and confrontational and anti-everything was to adopt even more extreme positions - eventually abandoning all science and logic altogether."
The U.S. Constitution doesn't grant rights, the rights are "unalienable". The "Bill of Rights" portion of the Constitution prohibits the government from violating those rights.
Note how everything is expressed in negatives, i.e. "shall not be infringed".
...as if there are legions of qualified 3D device driver writers just waiting around with nothing better to do.
Writing drivers for 3D cards is difficult work. "Release the specs and we'll write the drivers" has been the mantra of the open source community for years, but I think we're all in for a disappointment if we're expecting feature-complete, high-performance open-source drivers for these cards any time soon.
I think some kind of sponsorship to dedicated, full-time devolopers is going to be necessary if we want to see drivers that can compete with even ATI's crappy binary drivers. Otherwise I'll bet the hardware will be long obsolete before the drivers are complete.
Slashdot Mirror
Confusion and nausea are the new action and excitement!
Get with the program! If you can't tell what the hell's going on, that means it's a thrilling action sequence!
Yeah, and font humor is too oblique for most people.
Actually, I agree with you, and I think the organization's approach to the matter is dumb, and Google has every right to just remove the content.
I just think it's telling that of the actual quotes being addressed by /. posters, most of them are along the lines of "fuck that greedy bastard who wrote that Rick Astley song and is already rich and wants even more money for his 20 year old song so boycott him and everybody else who is a member of that organization", rather than even grazing the larger questions about how songwriters can be compensated for their work when the younger generations have been raised to believe "if it's available on the Internet, it's free"?
Question to poster: how does it follow from their statements that the music writers are clueless?
The individual songwriters' requests for compensation injects cognitive dissonance into the minds of the people who insist that only Big Evil Corporations with their Obsolete Buisiness Model want people to pay for music (to finance Lear jets and hot tubs full of hookers for fatcat executives), and that the Brave New World of music is that all music is free and all artists support themselves through touring and merchandise, and all the greedy recording executives are out of a job, and therefore you are entitled to download whatever copyrighted works you can find for free while congratulating yourself for helping to bring about a new utopia for musicians.
Therefore, the music writer's statements must be discarded as clueless, otherwise you have to accept that you're not just sticking it to The Man when you download free stuff, you're sticking it to the actual creator.
Just keep all your FLAC files on PC or NAS, and when you want to load them on a player, copy them from the MP3FS directory.
You don't need to keep duplicate lossy files around, and you don't have huge chunks of lossless music taking up space on a player that can't play them anyway.
So, what happens when they find the genetic marker that indicates homosexuality?
Will it be okay for parents to not select an embryo because he/she might grow up to be gay?
I've gone back in time six months!
I have this fantasy in which I am kind of superhero who travels the country tracking down hack reporters who slap the "gate" suffix on anything vaguely resembling a scandal, then jabbing them with a cattle prod until I'm satisfied justice has been served.
How about building a robot that can actually do my laundry and cook my dinner before worrying about making it look "sympathetic" when I'm asking for less vermouth in my martini?
And while we're on the subject of technological promises that will undoubtedly never materialize in my lifetime, where's my goddamn flying car?
I dunno. Sounds like a lot of hot air to me.
I realize that agressive posturing against censorship is a sure-fire way to score unearned points with this audience, but exactly what the fuck has anything about this technology or anything said by the GP got to do with government interference with your plan to raise potty-mouthed children?
GNUmerica!
OpenStates!
YAFAGS (Yet Athother Failed Attempt at Government Stability)
It should also be pointed out the the QT4 builds are not available as dynamically linked binaries, unlike the QT3 version, which is available with static or dynamic builds.
Perhaps next year's model can be equipped with side panel full body condoms that instantly deploy when sensors detect imminent genital collision.
I can see future generations sitting down for a good read:
MOBY COCK
Chapturd One
Call me LOLOLFAG...
Oh, well, hey, if they say so on their own site, it must be true!
Of course, my own objective tests showed me that WINE was getting around 55-65% of the framerate that I'd get when running the same game under Windows... and that was even with wine not rendering some of the advanced effects (because it was unable to do so).
In my objective point of view, WINE, while an incredible technical achievement, is a piss-poor substitute for platform-native games. I would not pay for a game being sold as a "Linux" if it runs under WINE. In fact, I wouldn't even bother to pirate it.
I loved the fact that whenever I saw Stan Winston's name in the opening credits of a movie, I would know that no matter how lame the movie turned out to be, there was always going to be some kind of cool monster/robot creation. I guess that won't be happening anymore.
Thank goodness they've updated The Day the Earth Stood Still to preach about environmentalism, since a commentary on mankind's violent, destructive nature is no longer relevant in these modern times.
The original Das Keyboard was a Keytronic, the new one is made by Cherry and has mechanical keyswitches (as opposed to the membrane switches on the Keytronic). AFAIK, you can't get the reasonably-priced, non-pretentious equivalent of Das Keyboard II anywhere.
"Pro gaming" equipment is just like specialty "audiophile" hardware -- overpriced, showy crap that only makes a difference in the mind of the buyer.
I'm not saying there's no difference between a quality keyboard and a cheap hunk of plastic, but the difference in performance between a $20 Key Tronic and a $150 L337 G4m3r Pr0 Blingmaster Xtreme sure as hell isn't going to be noticed by "casual" gamers, and probably makes no difference to somebody who is already good enough to be a "pro".
Godwin's law doesn't pass judgement on the use of Nazis in an argument, it merely states that the longer an argument goes on, the greater the probability that somebody will compare something to the Nazis.
The fact that some people think that mentioning Nazis means that Godwin's law in "invoked" and you "lose" the argument is not Godwin's fault. That belief is largely due to misinformation from Hitler-loving Nazi fascist pigdogs.
At least that's what I've heard.
Like any political organization that has been in place for too long, its purpose is no longer to accomplish the goals it was founded for, but to simply perpetuate its own existence and increase its power base.
"Environmental extremism arose in the mid-1980s. It arose because the majority of people accepted all of the reasonable points in the environmental agenda, and the only way to remain adversarial and confrontational and anti-everything was to adopt even more extreme positions - eventually abandoning all science and logic altogether."
~ Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace.
I pirated it because forbidden fruit is sooo much sweeter.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't grant rights, the rights are "unalienable". The "Bill of Rights" portion of the Constitution prohibits the government from violating those rights.
Note how everything is expressed in negatives, i.e. "shall not be infringed".
...as if there are legions of qualified 3D device driver writers just waiting around with nothing better to do.
Writing drivers for 3D cards is difficult work. "Release the specs and we'll write the drivers" has been the mantra of the open source community for years, but I think we're all in for a disappointment if we're expecting feature-complete, high-performance open-source drivers for these cards any time soon.
I think some kind of sponsorship to dedicated, full-time devolopers is going to be necessary if we want to see drivers that can compete with even ATI's crappy binary drivers. Otherwise I'll bet the hardware will be long obsolete before the drivers are complete.