You obviously have not had to deal with the retarded sycophant author of no-squint plus. A truly needed add-on for many people.
He is either retarded or maybe he is twelve.
I understand that, but then the guy forgets, the addon breaks, and you have to edit it manually.
And 3 days later he sends an update that only refreshes the expiration date with no other changes.
I am grateful for the extension, but the guy is still an idiot.
My main reason for using Firefox is "NoSquint", it allows you to change the zoom/font size based on domain.
The developer is an idiot who periodically breaks the extension just to have an excuse to send an update (with expiration date), but it is very useful.
Well, in my case it is because the first western digital I bought died on me three days after warranty expired.
Admittedly it was just one disk, but I got so angry for that that I have never bought another disk from them. Until now I have been lucky.
And as of late I have been purchasing 8tb disks from seagate.
I have had my share of HTC phones at the start of android (can't remember all the models), but I remember clearly that at some point the removed the sdcard, then the battery, then they made them more and more difficult to root and install roms, and afterwards it was just a matter of time.
They shot themselves in the foot, they kept taking out the things people liked in their phones, what the hell did they expect was gonna happen?
Most of the people I knew moved to nexus, and certainly all stopped buying htc.
There are many of this so called sticks pc's, minipc's or whatever. But none of them have full support (for now) for hardware accelerated drivers.
The first of them that has open drivers and support for XBMC is going to sell millions. What I don't understand is why manufacturers do not see it yet.
(replied to myself 'cos I was not logged in...)
Ok, usually I don't get into guns discussions, but just for your information, in my country you have to have your guns locked, dismantled and inside a safe box.
Thing is, the safebox is too complicated for my father to go throuhg, so, so you know who was the one in charge of opening it most of the times? Yeah, his 7 years old son, that was me, by the way.
And although I admit to being a full sociopath, I am not a crazy or assassin or anything.
I am a foreigner, how does that compare to, for example, an homicide crime?
I understand the points made that the music was prereleased, but this still makes no sense for me. I think the law has better things to do than wasting time on this issues. And five years is a lot of time.
So fuck them. Yeah, fuck them. Does the customers need the DRM in their lives? I thought so...
Unfortunately, they still have two other ways to take: -Ignore completely the different upgrades to come to the software and keep maintaining the dammned DRM. -Change everything to... let's say BSD? Last time I checked they were not forcing anything in the license.
Why they just not drop the drm and put the functionalities the customer wants? I will never understand bussiness choices...
I pray every day for every DRM abusing bussines to DIE.
My opinion has been meditated for a long time, based on personal experiences, feelings to different companies and the fact that I am no the other end of the deal. So the conclusion is:
Fuck DRM, Fuck Macrovision, Fuck any company, retailer, producer, whatsoever that supports drm.
DRM just hurts the legal users, it has never, never stopped me from pirating content, so what's the point?
Why the never tried to, don't know, lower the prices to increase the sales? and not try all the time to increase profit by sale.
Is that in spain there is "law" that allow the sgae and company (RIAA equivalent in here) to tax the cd's and dvd's with more than one euro each (in the case of dvd's), to "compensate" for loses due to piracy.
Just so you can understand better... last year they got 300 million euros just in that concept. And believe me, you can bribe a lot of people with that.
Oh, I almost forgot, that money is shared unequally among the capos of the SGAE, leaving all the other 80.000 members with nothing.
Reminds me a little to a documental I saw on tv like 10 years ago or so, the interpol was using a new system to correlate all known law offenders from databases in a boss to contact way, the results (although in only 2D) were most interesting.
I don have the 15, shit I consider myself fortunate because I am not exactly poor, but come on...
Is this an ad or something? What do I care that the richest people in the globe can do something I can never do(tm)? Is this some kinda trick to make me realize how much better they are or something?
I don't get it.
And I don't need an specialiced company for nothing: for big enough amounts of money you can do WHATEVER you want, yes, I mean it, forget about laws, ethics morals and such, that is just for the lowly like us.
Only news here is that there is a company making it possible (translation, getting the profits).
Is strange there is no company to "realize your forbidden fantasy", or maybe there is but is not anounced in the local channels of course...
Thank you, I didn't see it myself, somehow I was actually expecting something like that, and believe it or not, my intention was not to start a flamewar.
right now I am too scared of any viable solution I could think of (French revolution anyone?)...
And yes, I agree that only half your country voted for the asshole, but I am talking about the view from outside:-( and here "we" only see the stupid war on terror crap.
On another side... could someone explain to me where is my first post?? I didn't know that slashdot had any kind of censorship, but it looks exactly like that.
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Agreed, but there is a middle point between Dr. Mengele and "God will punish you, dirty sinners!". And for now, God is winning.
You obviously have not had to deal with the retarded sycophant author of no-squint plus. A truly needed add-on for many people. He is either retarded or maybe he is twelve.
I understand that, but then the guy forgets, the addon breaks, and you have to edit it manually. And 3 days later he sends an update that only refreshes the expiration date with no other changes. I am grateful for the extension, but the guy is still an idiot.
My main reason for using Firefox is "NoSquint", it allows you to change the zoom/font size based on domain. The developer is an idiot who periodically breaks the extension just to have an excuse to send an update (with expiration date), but it is very useful.
Well, in my case it is because the first western digital I bought died on me three days after warranty expired. Admittedly it was just one disk, but I got so angry for that that I have never bought another disk from them. Until now I have been lucky. And as of late I have been purchasing 8tb disks from seagate.
I have had my share of HTC phones at the start of android (can't remember all the models), but I remember clearly that at some point the removed the sdcard, then the battery, then they made them more and more difficult to root and install roms, and afterwards it was just a matter of time. They shot themselves in the foot, they kept taking out the things people liked in their phones, what the hell did they expect was gonna happen? Most of the people I knew moved to nexus, and certainly all stopped buying htc.
So, what service did you use or recommend?
They may be working on it, but right now not only xbmc does not have hd acces on them, it doesn't even boot...
So no. There aren't.
There are many of this so called sticks pc's, minipc's or whatever. But none of them have full support (for now) for hardware accelerated drivers. The first of them that has open drivers and support for XBMC is going to sell millions. What I don't understand is why manufacturers do not see it yet. (replied to myself 'cos I was not logged in...)
Ok, usually I don't get into guns discussions, but just for your information, in my country you have to have your guns locked, dismantled and inside a safe box.
Thing is, the safebox is too complicated for my father to go throuhg, so, so you know who was the one in charge of opening it most of the times? Yeah, his 7 years old son, that was me, by the way.
And although I admit to being a full sociopath, I am not a crazy or assassin or anything.
I am sorry, I can not conceive the internet any more without add-block...
Around 1998 I saw a poster for Intel with an image similar to this one: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/images/1993_intel_pentium_large.jpg But with much more colour, in a shop as advertisment, I have never forgotten it, and it still amazes me.
Can someone please tag this as "Zardoz" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/?
Thanks
I am a foreigner, how does that compare to, for example, an homicide crime? I understand the points made that the music was prereleased, but this still makes no sense for me. I think the law has better things to do than wasting time on this issues. And five years is a lot of time.
Because everyone knows that terrorists read "How to make a bomb explode for dummies" just before entering a plane...
Could someone please explain to me the logic after this ?
Will this mean that they will stop selling Tom Clancy's books in the airports shops?
All things considered... that means those machines are PERFECT for a voting in US, right?
(Ok, now you can mod me down...)
So fuck them. Yeah, fuck them. Does the customers need the DRM in their lives? I thought so...
Unfortunately, they still have two other ways to take:
-Ignore completely the different upgrades to come to the software and keep maintaining the dammned DRM.
-Change everything to... let's say BSD? Last time I checked they were not forcing anything in the license.
Why they just not drop the drm and put the functionalities the customer wants? I will never understand bussiness choices...
I pray every day for every DRM abusing bussines to DIE.
Am I the only one who thought about this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
I say:
My opinion has been meditated for a long time, based on personal experiences, feelings to different companies and the fact that I am no the other end of the deal. So the conclusion is:
Fuck DRM, Fuck Macrovision, Fuck any company, retailer, producer, whatsoever that supports drm.
DRM just hurts the legal users, it has never, never stopped me from pirating content, so what's the point?
Why the never tried to, don't know, lower the prices to increase the sales? and not try all the time to increase profit by sale.
Is that in spain there is "law" that allow the sgae and company (RIAA equivalent in here) to tax the cd's and dvd's with more than one euro each (in the case of dvd's), to "compensate" for loses due to piracy.
Just so you can understand better... last year they got 300 million euros just in that concept. And believe me, you can bribe a lot of people with that.
Oh, I almost forgot, that money is shared unequally among the capos of the SGAE, leaving all the other 80.000 members with nothing.
Reminds me a little to a documental I saw on tv like 10 years ago or so, the interpol was using a new system to correlate all known law offenders from databases in a boss to contact way, the results (although in only 2D) were most interesting.
I do extraordinary things everyday of my life, is just that I don't need to spend 15 millions on it to have a selfmasturbation...
I don have the 15, shit I consider myself fortunate because I am not exactly poor, but come on...
Is this an ad or something? What do I care that the richest people in the globe can do something I can never do(tm)? Is this some kinda trick to make me realize how much better they are or something?
I don't get it.
And I don't need an specialiced company for nothing: for big enough amounts of money you can do WHATEVER you want, yes, I mean it, forget about laws, ethics morals and such, that is just for the lowly like us.
Only news here is that there is a company making it possible (translation, getting the profits).
Is strange there is no company to "realize your forbidden fantasy", or maybe there is but is not anounced in the local channels of course...
Thank you, I didn't see it myself, somehow I was actually expecting something like that, and believe it or not, my intention was not to start a flamewar.
Regards
right now I am too scared of any viable solution I could think of (French revolution anyone?)...
:-( and here "we" only see the stupid war on terror crap.
And yes, I agree that only half your country voted for the asshole, but I am talking about the view from outside
On another side... could someone explain to me where is my first post?? I didn't know that slashdot had any kind of censorship, but it looks exactly like that.