The truley amazing thing about this is that MS is scared of someone. Just think about that for a second. The biggest software company in the world, with a monopoly on the desktop and office suite markets scared of someone. Anyone.
It makes one wonder if there is something rotten in Redmond.
I bought an FM transmitter to use in the car on my last trip to relatives out of state. It saved my sanity from the sewer that is radio. I also bought an extra charger and power cable so I can listen to my iPod at work all day and not run the battery down.
Do they even have a right to sue any of the kids Yes.
its [sic] not like they where charging for access to this information. That has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter if you are charging money or not. It is still a violation of the copyright owner's IP. Where the hell did this idea that it's okay if you don't charge came from?
Is the RIAA going to sue me for making an mp3 rip of my friend's CD now too? If they feel it's worth the time and money, yes. Fair Use does not allow copies to be made in order to give to someone else. You may make backup copies of your copies for your own personal use.
Where do you draw the line? I think they drew it way too low... I think you need to do a little research.
What is [life's] purpose? - To successfully reproduce before you are eaten.
What is *our* purpose? - See #1.
That's it. That's all there is. Reproduction. Everything else is just strategies to help us reproduce or control reproduction. However, you have a massive brain that bestows upon you language and consciousness. This gives you the ability to do more with your life than simply have kids.
The purpose of your life is whatever you decide it will be. If you want a grand purpose then give yourself one. If all you want to do is watch TV until you fall over dead one day, go for it. There is no grand purpose. The universe doesn't give a wet slap what you do or if you live or die.
The large "We want our homeland back but we'd never live there" contingent of ex-Cubans living in Florida have a lot of political pull.
We're still angry because we failed to topple them after they nationalised "our" assets down there.
They are the only communist government in the western hemisphere that we have not been able to topple, in direct conflict with the Monroe Doctrine.
They turned to the Soviet Union for aide after we gave them the cold shoulder.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, though most Americans don't really care abiout that one.
Mostly we're pissed off because of the whole "commies at our doorstep" thing and we're horrifically sore losers. We choose to forget that Castro came to us for aide and we turned him away.
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I bought my PC for both. It's called economy.
I used to think that way. Until I looked at the pile of games I have that I can't play anymore because of:
OS Upgrades
New graphics cards (less of an issue now, but I do have a lot of games that no longer work because of this)
New soundcard (see above)
RAM upgrade (I shit you not)
Driver upgrades for video cards or sound cards
Needed upgrades to get latest game working
Then I looked at my PSOne and noted that with the exception of the CD I ran my chair over, every game I bought for it still works. Every game. The same is true for my Dreamcast and my XBox. With the exception of id Software titles, almost none of my games as old as most of my PSOne games still work. I have refused to upgrade from Win2K to WinXP because even more of my games will stop working if I do that.
So, which is the better economy, a stack of games that no longer work added to the cost of constant upgrades to keep up with the latest titles or a stack of games that will continue to work until either the media fails or the hardware to play them on fails?
Turn off virtual memory and see how many MS apps suddenly stop working at all. And we're not talking memory pigs, either. Some screen savers don't run without virtual memory running, no matter how much RAM you have. It's really stupid.
Next Gen was the first Trek series in decades and would have died a painful, humiliating death had it not had "Star Trek" in the title. The first two years were utter crap.
DS9 hit the ground running and was good from Day One.
Voyager was an embarrassment that should never have been made. After two series they should have known what they were doing.
There is no excuse for Enterprise. None. They've had three series under their belts to figure out how to do this stuff. They should have had good stories from the get-go. And they shouldn't have needed three years to figure out (which they still haven't) that they have their heads up their asses.
Look at the Law And Order franchise. L&O:CI came out of the gate with excellent episodes from the first one because they had their years of experience with L&O to draw upon. SVU is also a great series (I don't like it becuase the stories creep me out, but that's not because they are badly done) and was so from the first episode.
Why should we expect less from a Star Trek show? Does having "Star Trek" in the title excuse them from their failings? Does it make it okay that the stories often come across as written by children with Down's Syndrome ("I can see my house from here!")?
No, I'm not a Trekkie. I can't tolerate putting up with crap just because it has "Star Trek" in it's name. I do like good Star Trek, the original series, seasons 3+ of Next Gen, DS9, the even numbered movies until they started those Next Gen disasters, but that's it.
But you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. I know people still running OS X 1.1 and 1.2 and are happy. Just like i know people still running Windows 98SE and are happy. Heck, my Windows boxes still run Win2K because I see no compelling reason to upgrade to XP.
Yes, OS X 10.4 looks like it has some sexy features, but no one is forcing you to upgrade when it comes out.
Then you are shit out of luck. Apple sells computers. Apple-branded computers. X86 machines are not part of their roadmap and I doubt they ever will be.
I switched last year. Bought a nice, shiny dual 1.8GHz G5 Powermac and have never been happier. Yeah, it's not perfect and I do keep my old secondary PC around for games (along with my XBox, PSX and Dreamcast) but the crap I no longer have to put up with is worth it.
For me it wasn't the iPod. It was iTunes. I was using iTuines for six months before I got my iPod and it was my experience with iTunes that made me look at the Mac for the first time in five years. I had not liked OS 9 and below and I used to consider Macs to be a joke back when they first came out.
And yes, I did give Linux a try. Several, as a matter of fact, starting with SLS 1.0 back in 1993/1994 and the last time with Suse 9 last year. I never got along with Linux very well. I figured that if I tried it out seven times in ten years and never got comfortable with it it probably wasn't for me. But I did give it an honest try.
The Mac, well, OS X, I got along with from Day One and am quite happy with. A++ Would do it again.
Will it never end? Can we hire ninjas to go beat the crap out of him? Not kill him. Just hurt him a lot. No perminant damage. Just lots of bruises and abrassions.
There is nothing dreadful or boring about "Chicken Run", unless yoiu know nothing at all about WWII movies like "The Geat Escape" and "Stalag 17" (sp?). While not as slapstick funny as "Trousers" (which is not as good as "Grand Day Out", IMHO) it is still a very funny movie.
Wow. Can I be really cool like you? Can I spell "Microsoft" with a dollarsign to show that I'm hip and with it and not a Microsoft drone? Can I be so smart that I don't need to read the story to find out if I'm right or just blowing smoke out of my ass?
I'm about as far from a Microsoft fan as you can get, but acting like an idiot child does your side no good at all.
You don't remember it because the press didn't play it up. Actual voilent crime among teens is dowm, not up. The media is showcasing every violent crime because it gets ratings, not because there's so many of them. The so-called epidemic is a fabrication of a money-hungry news media.
Now, the nature of these violent acts has changed. Instead of fistfights its shooting sprees and the occasional bombing. But why? Because an inner-city fist-fight or stabbing doesn't make the national news. Two disafected white kids shooting up a school does. Mix that with the nomral desire to be remembered and the knowledge that most of us will never dio anything worth remembering in our lives, kids choose to become infamous.
The same thing is at play with all of the high-speed car chases in large cities. The local media interupts all programming to showcase this dink running away from police for what is often asomething as meaningless as a broken taillight and suddenly people are doing it left and right just to get on TV.
Even ignoring all of the above, children have always been violent. Many childhood games revolve around violence or the simulation of violence: Cowboys And Indians, Cops And Robbers, dogdeball, etc... I remember playing these games as a kid and I'm pretty sure that I'm older than you are.
Now, do you not remember childhood being violent because it was fairly normal and didn't leave an impression on you, or because you spent your time alone with your Atari?
Before video games it was rap music. Before rap music it was heavy metal music. Before heavy metal music it was the Beatles. Before the Beatles it was Elvis Presley. Before Elvis it was comic books. Before comic books it was jazz. Before jazz it was...
There are, and have always been, people who blame all of society's ills on whatever new medium they do not understand or did not grow up with.
It predicted the exact day of the lauch of the first manned moon mission!
No. They guessed which day of the week the launch would take place. They had a 1 in 7 chance of being right. If they had prediicted the date they would have said "July 16, 1969", which they did not. They didn't even say which year Appolo 11 launched.
Did "Blossom" not teach tolerance? Did "Saved By The Bell" not spread hope among its fans? Isn't "AbFab" a movement to its fans? Isn't "Gilligan's Planet" not something more than just a TV show?
Why is Star Trek more worthy of being a cultural messiah than other shows? And why a series that jumoed teh shark in the first ten minutes of teh first episode? There is nothing special about Enterprise. And if it wasn't a part of the Star Trek franchise it would have been cancled its first year and no one would have cared.
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The truley amazing thing about this is that MS is scared of someone. Just think about that for a second. The biggest software company in the world, with a monopoly on the desktop and office suite markets scared of someone. Anyone.
It makes one wonder if there is something rotten in Redmond.
I use the search feature about three times a year. But I try to keep my stuff oranized in the first place.
I bought an FM transmitter to use in the car on my last trip to relatives out of state. It saved my sanity from the sewer that is radio. I also bought an extra charger and power cable so I can listen to my iPod at work all day and not run the battery down.
And what about TOS? It was quality out of the gate. Why does it take so long for the new series to get their shit together?
Yes.
That has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter if you are charging money or not. It is still a violation of the copyright owner's IP.
Where the hell did this idea that it's okay if you don't charge came from?
If they feel it's worth the time and money, yes. Fair Use does not allow copies to be made in order to give to someone else. You may make backup copies of your copies for your own personal use.
I think you need to do a little research.
- What is [life's] purpose? - To successfully reproduce before you are eaten.
- What is *our* purpose? - See #1.
That's it. That's all there is. Reproduction. Everything else is just strategies to help us reproduce or control reproduction. However, you have a massive brain that bestows upon you language and consciousness. This gives you the ability to do more with your life than simply have kids.The purpose of your life is whatever you decide it will be. If you want a grand purpose then give yourself one. If all you want to do is watch TV until you fall over dead one day, go for it. There is no grand purpose. The universe doesn't give a wet slap what you do or if you live or die.
You know what I'd like to see supported with iSync? Plain old USB thumb/jump/key/etc... drives.
- The large "We want our homeland back but we'd never live there" contingent of ex-Cubans living in Florida have a lot of political pull.
- We're still angry because we failed to topple them after they nationalised "our" assets down there.
- They are the only communist government in the western hemisphere that we have not been able to topple, in direct conflict with the Monroe Doctrine.
- They turned to the Soviet Union for aide after we gave them the cold shoulder.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, though most Americans don't really care abiout that one.
Mostly we're pissed off because of the whole "commies at our doorstep" thing and we're horrifically sore losers. We choose to forget that Castro came to us for aide and we turned him away.I used to think that way. Until I looked at the pile of games I have that I can't play anymore because of:
- OS Upgrades
- New graphics cards (less of an issue now, but I do have a lot of games that no longer work because of this)
- New soundcard (see above)
- RAM upgrade (I shit you not)
- Driver upgrades for video cards or sound cards
- Needed upgrades to get latest game working
Then I looked at my PSOne and noted that with the exception of the CD I ran my chair over, every game I bought for it still works. Every game. The same is true for my Dreamcast and my XBox. With the exception of id Software titles, almost none of my games as old as most of my PSOne games still work. I have refused to upgrade from Win2K to WinXP because even more of my games will stop working if I do that.So, which is the better economy, a stack of games that no longer work added to the cost of constant upgrades to keep up with the latest titles or a stack of games that will continue to work until either the media fails or the hardware to play them on fails?
Turn off virtual memory and see how many MS apps suddenly stop working at all. And we're not talking memory pigs, either. Some screen savers don't run without virtual memory running, no matter how much RAM you have. It's really stupid.
Hey! My Slashdot user ID is 949 and I have a WIFE!
Next Gen was the first Trek series in decades and would have died a painful, humiliating death had it not had "Star Trek" in the title. The first two years were utter crap.
DS9 hit the ground running and was good from Day One.
Voyager was an embarrassment that should never have been made. After two series they should have known what they were doing.
There is no excuse for Enterprise. None. They've had three series under their belts to figure out how to do this stuff. They should have had good stories from the get-go. And they shouldn't have needed three years to figure out (which they still haven't) that they have their heads up their asses.
Look at the Law And Order franchise. L&O:CI came out of the gate with excellent episodes from the first one because they had their years of experience with L&O to draw upon. SVU is also a great series (I don't like it becuase the stories creep me out, but that's not because they are badly done) and was so from the first episode.
Why should we expect less from a Star Trek show? Does having "Star Trek" in the title excuse them from their failings? Does it make it okay that the stories often come across as written by children with Down's Syndrome ("I can see my house from here!")?
No, I'm not a Trekkie. I can't tolerate putting up with crap just because it has "Star Trek" in it's name. I do like good Star Trek, the original series, seasons 3+ of Next Gen, DS9, the even numbered movies until they started those Next Gen disasters, but that's it.
Riker: [Wakes up]: Dianna, I just had the strangest dream...
Troy: Go back to sleep, Will.
No, the problem is that user was a raging moron. I've seen similar things happen with Linux users. Stupidity exists on all platforms.
But you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. I know people still running OS X 1.1 and 1.2 and are happy. Just like i know people still running Windows 98SE and are happy. Heck, my Windows boxes still run Win2K because I see no compelling reason to upgrade to XP.
Yes, OS X 10.4 looks like it has some sexy features, but no one is forcing you to upgrade when it comes out.
Then you are shit out of luck. Apple sells computers. Apple-branded computers. X86 machines are not part of their roadmap and I doubt they ever will be.
I switched last year. Bought a nice, shiny dual 1.8GHz G5 Powermac and have never been happier. Yeah, it's not perfect and I do keep my old secondary PC around for games (along with my XBox, PSX and Dreamcast) but the crap I no longer have to put up with is worth it.
For me it wasn't the iPod. It was iTunes. I was using iTuines for six months before I got my iPod and it was my experience with iTunes that made me look at the Mac for the first time in five years. I had not liked OS 9 and below and I used to consider Macs to be a joke back when they first came out.
And yes, I did give Linux a try. Several, as a matter of fact, starting with SLS 1.0 back in 1993/1994 and the last time with Suse 9 last year. I never got along with Linux very well. I figured that if I tried it out seven times in ten years and never got comfortable with it it probably wasn't for me. But I did give it an honest try.
The Mac, well, OS X, I got along with from Day One and am quite happy with. A++ Would do it again.
He's dead. Eaten by a giant vagina in the sand.
Will it never end? Can we hire ninjas to go beat the crap out of him? Not kill him. Just hurt him a lot. No perminant damage. Just lots of bruises and abrassions.
There is nothing dreadful or boring about "Chicken Run", unless yoiu know nothing at all about WWII movies like "The Geat Escape" and "Stalag 17" (sp?). While not as slapstick funny as "Trousers" (which is not as good as "Grand Day Out", IMHO) it is still a very funny movie.
Wow. Can I be really cool like you? Can I spell "Microsoft" with a dollarsign to show that I'm hip and with it and not a Microsoft drone? Can I be so smart that I don't need to read the story to find out if I'm right or just blowing smoke out of my ass?
I'm about as far from a Microsoft fan as you can get, but acting like an idiot child does your side no good at all.
You don't remember it because the press didn't play it up. Actual voilent crime among teens is dowm, not up. The media is showcasing every violent crime because it gets ratings, not because there's so many of them. The so-called epidemic is a fabrication of a money-hungry news media.
Now, the nature of these violent acts has changed. Instead of fistfights its shooting sprees and the occasional bombing. But why? Because an inner-city fist-fight or stabbing doesn't make the national news. Two disafected white kids shooting up a school does. Mix that with the nomral desire to be remembered and the knowledge that most of us will never dio anything worth remembering in our lives, kids choose to become infamous.
The same thing is at play with all of the high-speed car chases in large cities. The local media interupts all programming to showcase this dink running away from police for what is often asomething as meaningless as a broken taillight and suddenly people are doing it left and right just to get on TV.
Even ignoring all of the above, children have always been violent. Many childhood games revolve around violence or the simulation of violence: Cowboys And Indians, Cops And Robbers, dogdeball, etc... I remember playing these games as a kid and I'm pretty sure that I'm older than you are.
Now, do you not remember childhood being violent because it was fairly normal and didn't leave an impression on you, or because you spent your time alone with your Atari?
Before video games it was rap music.
Before rap music it was heavy metal music.
Before heavy metal music it was the Beatles.
Before the Beatles it was Elvis Presley.
Before Elvis it was comic books.
Before comic books it was jazz.
Before jazz it was...
There are, and have always been, people who blame all of society's ills on whatever new medium they do not understand or did not grow up with.
No. They guessed which day of the week the launch would take place. They had a 1 in 7 chance of being right. If they had prediicted the date they would have said "July 16, 1969", which they did not. They didn't even say which year Appolo 11 launched.
Did "Blossom" not teach tolerance? Did "Saved By The Bell" not spread hope among its fans? Isn't "AbFab" a movement to its fans? Isn't "Gilligan's Planet" not something more than just a TV show?
Why is Star Trek more worthy of being a cultural messiah than other shows? And why a series that jumoed teh shark in the first ten minutes of teh first episode? There is nothing special about Enterprise. And if it wasn't a part of the Star Trek franchise it would have been cancled its first year and no one would have cared.