To each his own. I have no use for iTunes, and OpenOffice suffices for my needs. You say it's a detriment to OpenOffice that it's not entirely compatible with MS Office, wheas I say MS Office's total and utter lack of compatibility with any other product is a complete deal breaker.
My biggest problem with Linux is that there's no equivalent (that I've found) to Exact Audio Copy, which is one of the reasons I still have Windows on my machine.
I own copies of all four, plus other Tolkien works. They are in paperbvack, I'll probably be buying hardbound copies.
Yet Tolkien is dead. He can no longer be rewarded for my purchase. He wrote those books over half a century ago, before even I was born (and I'm a geezer) yet you are for protecting them?
OTOH there was a slashdot story a while back where a fellow linked to a short story by an author I'd never heard of in reply to a comment I made. I'm now seeking out this author's stuff in bookstores. In that case it was the author who put it online, but had it been someone else (provided the author was properly credited) the result would have been the same - a sale (or sales) that would otherwise not have been made.
I can't agree. P2P can be used as a form of advertising. Roger McGuinn has stated that the old, outlawed Napster revitalized his career, bringing his music to a new generation. There's your proof that P2P helps artists, yet I have never seen any proof it has hurt any artist.
Yes, it is. An evil person, by definition, is one who does evil things. Thompson seeks to impose his values on others through malicious, frivolous litigation, slander, and harassment. That's evil, even if he himself believes otherwise.
"Tou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". Slander is one of the "big ten", right up there with thievery, adultery, and murder. I may hire the occasional prostitute (hey, I'm single) but JESUS!!! I'd say this guy was evil if it weren't for the injunction against judging others...
-mcgrew (formerly owner/webmaster of the Springfield Fragfest Quake site... anybody still remember me after all these years?)
Jack Thompson is one of the best things ever to happen to Penny Arcade, the ERSB, Gaming Journalism, and communist pedophiles who make snuff films
How about a clown/policeman/big brother/preacher/child molester? Yes, I'm referring to Klutzo the Clown who was recently tasered to death in the Sangamon County Jail (links to news articles included in that journal).
Somehow I was amused as hell and thought you guys might be, too.
("slow down cowboy it's bee 8 seconds since you hit reply" grumble grumble... ironic that only on slashdot, "news for nerds" are you punished for reading fast and typing fast.)
Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to athiesm than atheists to Christianity.
My sins have been paid for and are forgiven. In return I must forgive others who harm me. Seems a fair enough deal to me, since I'm imperfect. If I was a banker or a lwayer or a $5000 suit-wearing preacher I might have cause to worry.
The biggest question is, and I don't know enough about the process to know whether this could happen, if he can get accepted into the bar anyplace else.
If you actually read that tome, rather than listening to the wolves in sheep's clothing, you will find that whoremongers (pimps) are in trouble with God, but not the whores or their customers. Yes, fornication is a sin but I am a man made of flesh, mortal, imperfect, and my sins were paid for.
Christianity is about forgiveness, not perfection.
My lusts are human. When God decides to give me a good woman to be my wife, I will no longer fornicate, nor will I have need of prostitutes (although they will remain my friends).
Never trust a preacher wearing a five thousand dollar suit. I would guess that the likes of Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to athiesm than athisets to Christianity. The "religious right" is neither religious nor right.
Erm, IINM both Stalin and Hitler were carbon based life forms. I, for one, would not have welcomed them. The corporate overlords who buy our laws are carbon based and I, for one, wish they would eat shit and die.
Are you sure your signal actually starts lighting up early enough?
Yes. The lights on the dash flash at exectly the same time as the lights outside; I check them periodically to make sure they're not burned out, and have someone else turn them on.
You ever drive slow enough that the guy behind you is too close? get tagged for unsafe driving
That's stupid. You're not supposed to speed up for the guy behind you, he's supposed to slow down.
Ever adjusted the volume on your stereo while taking a hand off the steering wheel?
Yes, it's legal here. Also the car I drive now has controls on the wheel.
When do you turn on your headlights? It's vague in many jurisdictions when it's required. (How dark is dusk?)
It's not vague in Illinois, the law says turn them on 1/2 hour before sunset and until 1/2 hour after sunrise.
Where's John Cleese when you need him? This sketch is getting way too silly...
I understand the reason for the mask, but it still looked really stupid.
There should be no such thing as secret police in a free society. You can call them "undercover agents" or any other euphamism you want, but they are Secret Police, no different from the Gestapo or KGB.
The American Secret Police are a stain on society, as are the laws that attempt to excuse them.
Remember that you only ever hear about the problems. You don't hear about the millions who have no problems.
Ford and Firestone should have used that excuse when the SUVs were rolling over. Only a couple hundred people had rollovers, millions had no problems.
The same with the cars with electrical problems that started fires. It dodn't affect meny people at all.
What matters to me is that I had problems with their shitty software. I don't care how many people didn't have problems, I had problems galore. It disabled the Roxio drivers, and told me so every time the damned thing booted even though I uninstalled Roxio through Control Panel. Its Automatic Update replaced a perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work at all. It won't recognize the onboard sound chip, even though 98 had no problem with it and Linux has no problems with it.
In fact, I suspect that the booting problems are caused by the fact that I have it dual booting Linux. Microsoft has never been any good at following standards, or interoperating with even their own stuff, let alone anyone else's.
From where I sit, it's crap. You'll have a hard time convinciong me otherwise.
After some sour incidents with that company, I landed a job in 2000 with an outsource partner for MS, supporting Windows 2000
That says a lot, doesn't it?
That's f*ing crazy. If you were running NT4 pre-SP4, I'd suggest that you used a 3rd party app to make a system partition greater than 8GB and your boot files got moved beyond the 8GB boundary when defragging
It's a 10 gig drive. The problem is likely that Microsoft doesn't work or play well with others, and never has.
There was another whopping yet dissimilar problem with XP. After installing the POS, I stupidly turned on automatic update.
One morning the internet was hosed. I called my ISP's tech support, who couldn't see the computer, even with my firewall shut off. He suggested that my ethernet card (actually a chip on the MP) was bad. I tried a different ethernet cable, to no avail. Since ethernet cards are only about ten bucks each I figured WTF I'll shell out ten bucks.
But there had been another problem- the CD burning software that came with my Imation drive wasn't supported by XP. Every time I booted the computer I got a message telling me that it had disabled the software's driver, aven though I'd gone into Control Panel and uninstalled the offending program.
So I reinstalled XP. And guess what? I had internet access again! Microsoft had "upgraded" my perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work AT ALL.
I don't have those problems with Linux. It just works.
Every programmer worth his salt knows that one and one is one. One plus one is two. And there are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary, and those that don't.
When everything is illegal, there is no law. When the law is unjust, ther eis no law. When lawmakers are for sale, there is no law.
In the US, the Constitution is the supreme law. Yet it is ignored by all three houses of government; the Supreme Court has ruled that "limited time" is whatever Congress says it is.
So I'll just ignore your God damned laws that were BOUGHT AND PAID FOR if you don't mind, Mr. Coward. My non-lawyer interpretation of the very clear, understandable wording of the Constitution says I can smoke dope, hire hookers, gamble, and share music and music so long as that sharing is noncommercial.
When corporations and unions are no longer allowed to bribe politicians, and I'm no longer allowed to vote with my wallet for a candidate I'm not allowed to vote with my ballot, and legislators, judges, DAs and cops start respecting the Constitution I'll start respecting the law.
But for me to respect the law, it will have to be respectabe.
And yes, I intend to register as arepublican so I can vote for Ron Paul. When he loses I'll vote Libertarian and Green in the general elections. I'm finished voting for the sleazy traitorous Republicrats.
Here's some more free music from some friends of mine (I think the links are still good, the band broke up iinm). here are some more, they're still togather and I doubt you've heard anything like them. Their first CD, All That Lies Between is IMO their best.
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To each his own. I have no use for iTunes, and OpenOffice suffices for my needs. You say it's a detriment to OpenOffice that it's not entirely compatible with MS Office, wheas I say MS Office's total and utter lack of compatibility with any other product is a complete deal breaker.
My biggest problem with Linux is that there's no equivalent (that I've found) to Exact Audio Copy, which is one of the reasons I still have Windows on my machine.
I own copies of all four, plus other Tolkien works. They are in paperbvack, I'll probably be buying hardbound copies.
Yet Tolkien is dead. He can no longer be rewarded for my purchase. He wrote those books over half a century ago, before even I was born (and I'm a geezer) yet you are for protecting them?
OTOH there was a slashdot story a while back where a fellow linked to a short story by an author I'd never heard of in reply to a comment I made. I'm now seeking out this author's stuff in bookstores. In that case it was the author who put it online, but had it been someone else (provided the author was properly credited) the result would have been the same - a sale (or sales) that would otherwise not have been made.
Thank you. Some people have no sense of humor at all.
Minor correctiuon... his agenda is not moral.
I can't agree. P2P can be used as a form of advertising. Roger McGuinn has stated that the old, outlawed Napster revitalized his career, bringing his music to a new generation. There's your proof that P2P helps artists, yet I have never seen any proof it has hurt any artist.
Yes, and that's not the only one. It was a poor paper and does NOT advance the cause of copyright reform. IMO it hurts rather than helps.
Yes, it is. An evil person, by definition, is one who does evil things. Thompson seeks to impose his values on others through malicious, frivolous litigation, slander, and harassment. That's evil, even if he himself believes otherwise.
"Tou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". Slander is one of the "big ten", right up there with thievery, adultery, and murder. I may hire the occasional prostitute (hey, I'm single) but JESUS!!! I'd say this guy was evil if it weren't for the injunction against judging others...
-mcgrew
(formerly owner/webmaster of the Springfield Fragfest Quake site... anybody still remember me after all these years?)
Jack Thompson is one of the best things ever to happen to Penny Arcade, the ERSB, Gaming Journalism, and communist pedophiles who make snuff films
How about a clown/policeman/big brother/preacher/child molester? Yes, I'm referring to Klutzo the Clown who was recently tasered to death in the Sangamon County Jail (links to news articles included in that journal).
Somehow I was amused as hell and thought you guys might be, too.
Yes yes and yes
("slow down cowboy it's bee 8 seconds since you hit reply" grumble grumble... ironic that only on slashdot, "news for nerds" are you punished for reading fast and typing fast.)
Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to athiesm than atheists to Christianity.
My sins have been paid for and are forgiven. In return I must forgive others who harm me. Seems a fair enough deal to me, since I'm imperfect. If I was a banker or a lwayer or a $5000 suit-wearing preacher I might have cause to worry.
The biggest question is, and I don't know enough about the process to know whether this could happen, if he can get accepted into the bar anyplace else.
If he was a doctor he could!
-mcgrew
I'd be willing to bet this article will be proven wrong. No, I did not RTFA. Where's that Randi guy?
If you actually read that tome, rather than listening to the wolves in sheep's clothing, you will find that whoremongers (pimps) are in trouble with God, but not the whores or their customers. Yes, fornication is a sin but I am a man made of flesh, mortal, imperfect, and my sins were paid for.
Christianity is about forgiveness, not perfection.
My lusts are human. When God decides to give me a good woman to be my wife, I will no longer fornicate, nor will I have need of prostitutes (although they will remain my friends).
Never trust a preacher wearing a five thousand dollar suit. I would guess that the likes of Pat Robertson has converted far more Christians to athiesm than athisets to Christianity. The "religious right" is neither religious nor right.
Erm, IINM both Stalin and Hitler were carbon based life forms. I, for one, would not have welcomed them. The corporate overlords who buy our laws are carbon based and I, for one, wish they would eat shit and die.
That's crazy. I'm not robbing ANYBODY. And if I buy a thing, I own it, not the person that sells it.
Don't tell me you're selling me a car and then try to say afterwards that I'm only renting it. If you sell it, it's not your any more.
Your stance is inherently dishonest and insane.
Are you sure your signal actually starts lighting up early enough?
Yes. The lights on the dash flash at exectly the same time as the lights outside; I check them periodically to make sure they're not burned out, and have someone else turn them on.
You ever drive slow enough that the guy behind you is too close? get tagged for unsafe driving
That's stupid. You're not supposed to speed up for the guy behind you, he's supposed to slow down.
Ever adjusted the volume on your stereo while taking a hand off the steering wheel?
Yes, it's legal here. Also the car I drive now has controls on the wheel.
When do you turn on your headlights? It's vague in many jurisdictions when it's required. (How dark is dusk?)
It's not vague in Illinois, the law says turn them on 1/2 hour before sunset and until 1/2 hour after sunrise.
Where's John Cleese when you need him? This sketch is getting way too silly...
I understand the reason for the mask, but it still looked really stupid.
There should be no such thing as secret police in a free society. You can call them "undercover agents" or any other euphamism you want, but they are Secret Police, no different from the Gestapo or KGB.
The American Secret Police are a stain on society, as are the laws that attempt to excuse them.
Remember that you only ever hear about the problems. You don't hear about the millions who have no problems.
Ford and Firestone should have used that excuse when the SUVs were rolling over. Only a couple hundred people had rollovers, millions had no problems.
The same with the cars with electrical problems that started fires. It dodn't affect meny people at all.
What matters to me is that I had problems with their shitty software. I don't care how many people didn't have problems, I had problems galore. It disabled the Roxio drivers, and told me so every time the damned thing booted even though I uninstalled Roxio through Control Panel. Its Automatic Update replaced a perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work at all. It won't recognize the onboard sound chip, even though 98 had no problem with it and Linux has no problems with it.
In fact, I suspect that the booting problems are caused by the fact that I have it dual booting Linux. Microsoft has never been any good at following standards, or interoperating with even their own stuff, let alone anyone else's.
From where I sit, it's crap. You'll have a hard time convinciong me otherwise.
After some sour incidents with that company, I landed a job in 2000 with an outsource partner for MS, supporting Windows 2000
That says a lot, doesn't it?
That's f*ing crazy. If you were running NT4 pre-SP4, I'd suggest that you used a 3rd party app to make a system partition greater than 8GB and your boot files got moved beyond the 8GB boundary when defragging
It's a 10 gig drive. The problem is likely that Microsoft doesn't work or play well with others, and never has.
There was another whopping yet dissimilar problem with XP. After installing the POS, I stupidly turned on automatic update.
One morning the internet was hosed. I called my ISP's tech support, who couldn't see the computer, even with my firewall shut off. He suggested that my ethernet card (actually a chip on the MP) was bad. I tried a different ethernet cable, to no avail. Since ethernet cards are only about ten bucks each I figured WTF I'll shell out ten bucks.
But there had been another problem- the CD burning software that came with my Imation drive wasn't supported by XP. Every time I booted the computer I got a message telling me that it had disabled the software's driver, aven though I'd gone into Control Panel and uninstalled the offending program.
So I reinstalled XP. And guess what? I had internet access again! Microsoft had "upgraded" my perfectly good ethernet driver with one that didn't work AT ALL.
I don't have those problems with Linux. It just works.
This is why I love slashdot!
It's been 11 seconds since you hit "reply"
This is why I hate slashdot...
As you said, "for limited times" the exclusive right. If I rent a house, I do not own that house.
1+1=3
Every programmer worth his salt knows that one and one is one. One plus one is two. And there are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary, and those that don't.
Thus endeth the lesson.
-mcgrew
When everything is illegal, there is no law. When the law is unjust, ther eis no law. When lawmakers are for sale, there is no law.
In the US, the Constitution is the supreme law. Yet it is ignored by all three houses of government; the Supreme Court has ruled that "limited time" is whatever Congress says it is.
So I'll just ignore your God damned laws that were BOUGHT AND PAID FOR if you don't mind, Mr. Coward. My non-lawyer interpretation of the very clear, understandable wording of the Constitution says I can smoke dope, hire hookers, gamble, and share music and music so long as that sharing is noncommercial.
When corporations and unions are no longer allowed to bribe politicians, and I'm no longer allowed to vote with my wallet for a candidate I'm not allowed to vote with my ballot, and legislators, judges, DAs and cops start respecting the Constitution I'll start respecting the law.
But for me to respect the law, it will have to be respectabe.
And yes, I intend to register as arepublican so I can vote for Ron Paul. When he loses I'll vote Libertarian and Green in the general elections. I'm finished voting for the sleazy traitorous Republicrats.
-mcgrew
Here's some more free music from some friends of mine (I think the links are still good, the band broke up iinm). here are some more, they're still togather and I doubt you've heard anything like them. Their first CD, All That Lies Between is IMO their best.
-mcgrew
And yet, people go right on buying CDs and downloading this product which isn't wanted, according to you.
Then what's the problem? Either sales are down, or they aren't. You can't have it both ways.