Firefox has an awesome ability to add-on things very effectively. I don't understand why they don't keep fx slim with with all the proposed additional features as external (and hence optional) add-ons. Perhaps the not-so-computer-literate can use the bloated-up version of fx so they don't have to figure out how to use add-ons (I'm still amazed at how computer illiterate people can be), but leave a streamlined version for us techies to add-on options as we choose.
If I didn't have any intent to buy it if I couldn't aquire it otherwise (no good torrents, perhapse), then I didn't deprive them of anything at all. Now, there are legal (and moral?) issues with copywrite infringement - I'm not defending it - but in all honesty the copyright holders are not losing anything in a good majority of the cases.
My only real defense to things like the Pirate Bay - in countries like the US - is that I am not willing to give up my legal abilities to share non-copyrighted information just to defend some pricks who have plenty of other options to defend their dying business model.
Sorry, I get kind of infuriated when people post nonsense backed by stupid logic.
When you've been burned by Microsoft enough times, when they do something that doesn't look so evil it's natural to become suspicious. I don't see the evil in this, but MS has fooled me before. I don't think the (reasonably educated and experienced in terms of technology)/. community really deserves to be bashed over something as sound as being suspicious over this.
I know/.'ers will most likely be unable to relate to a girlfriend analogy, but...
It's kind of hard to believe an (ex)girlfriend you've caught sleeping with your best friend - even if she seems to be telling the truth in this instance.
Well if I find that turning off my music while working on a paper will give me another hour of battery time, it may well be worth it (particularly so if I don't have access to recharge). However, if I find it doesn't really eat that much power I'd like to keep rocking on.
I don't ~need~ a lot of things as much as I need battery life in certain situations. I doubt I'm unique here.
If you use things such as peer guardian to filter out not-so-genuine peers, the day-of-release seems to be a prime time to "aquire" such things. I'm not trying to advertise it, but I have to say if thats something you'd want to do peer guardian will most definitely help. I clearly only use peer guardian for downloading my Linux Distro ISO's and WoW Patches. >.>
You can have this done automatically with hardware, look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID/. Just be careful, cheap RAID controllers will end up causing more data loss than protection.
I have no problems running MW3 on XP. Or Linux with WINE. Sometimes people get a nagging for nostalgia to play old games; I've been known to go back through the Decent series time and time again.
Then Ubuntu isn't your thing. Try taking a look at Debian - they took a bloody long time for the latest release. Ubuntu is simply one flavor - there's plenty of others. Thats the beauty of open-source: choice.
Google is an advertising company. So long as it gets people to go to Google's sites and (theoretically) view the ads, its feasible for Google to do it. If open-sourcing their work will increase the people who use it (and see ads) - why the bloody hell not? There's more ways of making money then locking your customers out of the full use of the product they purchased.
I'm not familiar with ARIA, but maybe they - unlike the RIAA - actually want their business to thrive rather than shifting it to profit-by-suing-customers? Who knows, they may even have legitimate evidence for the copyright infringement in Australia instead of picking a customer to sue from a hat as the RIAA seems to be doing.
Yes, because giving the people who voted for him more jobs and bringing money into the area is awful. Look, I'm very much for openness, but its not as though this is due to corruption or some such. Sometimes the need for money and food outweighs ideas.
I concur that initially the US would (most likely) not do anything too terrible with the DNS root stuff. That would be, however, yet another step in the wrong direction; should it continue, honestly, what is keeping the US from lowering itself to North Korea? When the US (or any other) government has full control of communications, democracy can very easily be circumvented.
I strongly disagree. Microsoft still owns the market irrelevant of their long history of lax security - this won't make any difference. I highly doubt any notable amount of people will hear about this and go "oh well I guess now its time for me to switch to something more secure." It took MS six years to "re-think" their security, and the result was, as you put it, "some pop up windows that try and give some simbalance [sic] of being secure." Something far more drastic than this is necessary to get MS to make an even greater change in security.
Of course XP is going to be winning popularity contests right now. Same thing would have happened when XP was released if it wasn't following up ME Well then why should anyone "upgrade" to a newer OS, if its inevitable that we'll immediately consider it worse then the current standard. If the new features aren't worth the new downsides, then we shouldn't "upgrade." An inevitable problem does not justify the problem in the slightest bit, especially when it is not essential.
Heck, you don't even have to be downloading anything large so much as downloading consistently. I stream more then enough music a month to reach the limit without using the connection for anything else.
I don't know who is telling you this "over and over," but they're in the wrong as well. When so-and-so sees my box running Beryl, I say more then "its Linux." "The graphical affects are generated through my otherwise unused graphics card, by something called Beryl." Whoever does this kind of misleading - be they M$ or F/OSS supporters - is in the wrong.
Don't forget about the "RIAA sux0rz" crowd. DRM free and high bitrate are awesome, but I'm still boycotting any music/band/etc affiliated with the RIAA. No, I don't pirate either - that'd defeat my argument. Don't bash all those who aren't buying off of iTunes and accuse us of piracy. Once all of my demands are met I'll consider purchasing music again. There's still the issue of music worthy buying.
With your mentality one should pretty much never, ever buy electronics. I bought my 3G black-and-white-screen iPod quite a ways back. Now they have new-fangled colour screens and play videos. The thing is, however, I don't care for that - all I wanted to do is listen to my music. I guess a colour screen would be nice, but not enough to wait for. If you don't want to get "Appled" as you put it, just wait for a product that has what you want at price you'll accept. If no such thing exists, then wait. Technology has a habit of making the device you want eventually.
The Wii's slot loader is in a way or two rather different then most. I had quite a few discussions trying to guess how exactly they were going to go about it, considering at the time there were no slot-loaders that support both full and mini optical disks. Don't worry about it - the Wii has more originality than just the controller.
For the most part we can't get super-intimate with people such as Presidential Candidates or financial advisers, et al. I generically consider it wise to look at little details such as who is hosting the individual's e-mail as indications of the individual's competency. Plenty of people can make themselves seem competent without actually being so, and thus if you can't take people at face value look at the things they probably forgot to give the nice-over.
You can't just "either trust the guy... or don't" by what he says or looks like. One can come to such decisions with those and other things, however. If you want to look at the world as black-and-white, at least look at the world as a whole.
Super Metroidis considered by many to be the best game of all time. I know this is a disputed title, but when magazines like Electronic Gaming Monthly give it that title, while others like IGN have rated it in the top-3 for several years, its most definitely worth mentioning.
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Firefox has an awesome ability to add-on things very effectively. I don't understand why they don't keep fx slim with with all the proposed additional features as external (and hence optional) add-ons. Perhaps the not-so-computer-literate can use the bloated-up version of fx so they don't have to figure out how to use add-ons (I'm still amazed at how computer illiterate people can be), but leave a streamlined version for us techies to add-on options as we choose.
If I didn't have any intent to buy it if I couldn't aquire it otherwise (no good torrents, perhapse), then I didn't deprive them of anything at all. Now, there are legal (and moral?) issues with copywrite infringement - I'm not defending it - but in all honesty the copyright holders are not losing anything in a good majority of the cases. My only real defense to things like the Pirate Bay - in countries like the US - is that I am not willing to give up my legal abilities to share non-copyrighted information just to defend some pricks who have plenty of other options to defend their dying business model. Sorry, I get kind of infuriated when people post nonsense backed by stupid logic.
When you've been burned by Microsoft enough times, when they do something that doesn't look so evil it's natural to become suspicious. I don't see the evil in this, but MS has fooled me before. I don't think the (reasonably educated and experienced in terms of technology) /. community really deserves to be bashed over something as sound as being suspicious over this.
I know /.'ers will most likely be unable to relate to a girlfriend analogy, but...
It's kind of hard to believe an (ex)girlfriend you've caught sleeping with your best friend - even if she seems to be telling the truth in this instance.
Well if I find that turning off my music while working on a paper will give me another hour of battery time, it may well be worth it (particularly so if I don't have access to recharge). However, if I find it doesn't really eat that much power I'd like to keep rocking on. I don't ~need~ a lot of things as much as I need battery life in certain situations. I doubt I'm unique here.
If you use things such as peer guardian to filter out not-so-genuine peers, the day-of-release seems to be a prime time to "aquire" such things. I'm not trying to advertise it, but I have to say if thats something you'd want to do peer guardian will most definitely help. I clearly only use peer guardian for downloading my Linux Distro ISO's and WoW Patches. >.>
You can have this done automatically with hardware, look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID/. Just be careful, cheap RAID controllers will end up causing more data loss than protection.
I have no problems running MW3 on XP. Or Linux with WINE. Sometimes people get a nagging for nostalgia to play old games; I've been known to go back through the Decent series time and time again.
Then Ubuntu isn't your thing. Try taking a look at Debian - they took a bloody long time for the latest release. Ubuntu is simply one flavor - there's plenty of others. Thats the beauty of open-source: choice.
Google is an advertising company. So long as it gets people to go to Google's sites and (theoretically) view the ads, its feasible for Google to do it. If open-sourcing their work will increase the people who use it (and see ads) - why the bloody hell not? There's more ways of making money then locking your customers out of the full use of the product they purchased.
I'm not familiar with ARIA, but maybe they - unlike the RIAA - actually want their business to thrive rather than shifting it to profit-by-suing-customers? Who knows, they may even have legitimate evidence for the copyright infringement in Australia instead of picking a customer to sue from a hat as the RIAA seems to be doing.
Yes, because giving the people who voted for him more jobs and bringing money into the area is awful. Look, I'm very much for openness, but its not as though this is due to corruption or some such. Sometimes the need for money and food outweighs ideas.
I concur that initially the US would (most likely) not do anything too terrible with the DNS root stuff. That would be, however, yet another step in the wrong direction; should it continue, honestly, what is keeping the US from lowering itself to North Korea? When the US (or any other) government has full control of communications, democracy can very easily be circumvented.
I strongly disagree. Microsoft still owns the market irrelevant of their long history of lax security - this won't make any difference. I highly doubt any notable amount of people will hear about this and go "oh well I guess now its time for me to switch to something more secure." It took MS six years to "re-think" their security, and the result was, as you put it, "some pop up windows that try and give some simbalance [sic] of being secure." Something far more drastic than this is necessary to get MS to make an even greater change in security.
...being hygenic... You do realize you posted that on slashdot, right?Heck, you don't even have to be downloading anything large so much as downloading consistently. I stream more then enough music a month to reach the limit without using the connection for anything else.
I don't know who is telling you this "over and over," but they're in the wrong as well. When so-and-so sees my box running Beryl, I say more then "its Linux." "The graphical affects are generated through my otherwise unused graphics card, by something called Beryl." Whoever does this kind of misleading - be they M$ or F/OSS supporters - is in the wrong.
First, they take the blood out of the body. Next, then strip the markers off. Its kind of hard to get the order mixed up there.
Don't forget about the "RIAA sux0rz" crowd. DRM free and high bitrate are awesome, but I'm still boycotting any music/band/etc affiliated with the RIAA. No, I don't pirate either - that'd defeat my argument. Don't bash all those who aren't buying off of iTunes and accuse us of piracy. Once all of my demands are met I'll consider purchasing music again. There's still the issue of music worthy buying.
With your mentality one should pretty much never, ever buy electronics. I bought my 3G black-and-white-screen iPod quite a ways back. Now they have new-fangled colour screens and play videos. The thing is, however, I don't care for that - all I wanted to do is listen to my music. I guess a colour screen would be nice, but not enough to wait for. If you don't want to get "Appled" as you put it, just wait for a product that has what you want at price you'll accept. If no such thing exists, then wait. Technology has a habit of making the device you want eventually.
The Wii's slot loader is in a way or two rather different then most. I had quite a few discussions trying to guess how exactly they were going to go about it, considering at the time there were no slot-loaders that support both full and mini optical disks. Don't worry about it - the Wii has more originality than just the controller.
You can't just "either trust the guy... or don't" by what he says or looks like. One can come to such decisions with those and other things, however. If you want to look at the world as black-and-white, at least look at the world as a whole.
Super Metroidis considered by many to be the best game of all time. I know this is a disputed title, but when magazines like Electronic Gaming Monthly give it that title, while others like IGN have rated it in the top-3 for several years, its most definitely worth mentioning.