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  • On the post: Mark Twain: Copyright Maximalist Who Also Believed That Nearly All Human Utterances Were Plagiarism?

    AzureSky ( profile ), 12 May, 2012 @ 02:03pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    You know whats sad, and yet quite funny(ironic?) I see more PedoBear stuff these days on kids and adults then I see disney stuff, and the people enlarge have no idea who/what they are waring, they just think its neat or cute.....

    its a bit disturbing to see a woman buying her kids pedobear teddybears and shirts.....but funny as well.....

  • On the post: Mark Twain: Copyright Maximalist Who Also Believed That Nearly All Human Utterances Were Plagiarism?

    AzureSky ( profile ), 12 May, 2012 @ 01:58pm

    Re: Difference Between Twain and Masnick

    fail troll is fail....

    I think its time for you to take a trip to IRC and get some seasoning as a troll, so you can learn to be more effective in the real world of trolling.

  • On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 04:27pm

    its zone allover again

    this is the zune all over again.

    they will try and out iphone the iphone.....like they tried to out ipod the ipod.....we all know how well that worked....

    guess the MBA's at ms have been working overtime....the geeks are yet again being ignored in favor of MBA's and Lawyers....

    bah!!!!

  • On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 04:25pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: This is a sad move indeed

    another very strange thing, I have gotten many doc files in every ms office format from 97 to 2010 and not had any issues not related to the original file sent being buggered in some way, but, even using non-ms products to open them or old ms office versions lead to same issues even with the orignal files....I have seen this with staroffice(openoffice) and other office suits when files headers get borked by some software...(use to keep a list but most of that has stopped in recent years)

    My adivice is if you have old documents from MS office or any office app, if possible open them in a program like ABI Word, then save to a more modern format OR just save to RTF, at least that way you avoid formatting issues.

    OH, a big issue people complain about in my exp is MS Works files not working with MS Office, I agree its BS the default works format SUCKS(cant just edit with a text editor and recover text....)

    I have yet to find a better product for serious business use then either MS Office or Corel WordPerfect suit.

    if you hate ms office so much, you may want to test corel's products, I have found keeping both around to be quite helpful with some random files that i get sent(like some idiot saving to a random format with office 98 for mac and it not reading in any version of ms office properly....other then the old mac version of office....lol)

    and be thankful its not clarisworks if you hate ms office....i would love to see you deal with an office that uses clarisworks(appleworks) still...i know of 1, and they only use it because 1/3 of the company systems are still OLD ASS powerpc based mac's.....

    think we talked them into replacing them all with windows 7 systems based on amd A series APU's tho.....will make tossing them help for basic problems alot easier....(even the mac fanatic friend of mine who also helps them out time to time HATES that software, almost as much as he hates groupwise....)

    oh thats another one, if you hate outlook.....you really need to try groupwise....you will love outlook after trying to manage a groupwise server/client environment......

  • On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 04:14pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: This is a sad move indeed

    shhhh you will upset the lintard....

    I should try and find an example of a 1gb excel file and watch them try and open and manipulate it in libreoffice.....(hint, it CHUGS and loads line by line as you scroll)

    I tried to use libreoffice, lotus symphony, and even root OOo for this, and large excell files(even "small" 200mb files where hard to work with...I wouldnt use excell for this stuff but I have had clients who started using excel back in the early days when excel was the best spredsheet bar non who have HUGE files.....)

    MS and Corel products open and work with such files with ease, softmaker office worked OK but couldnt deal with some advanced functions/formulas they had setup....

    and about windows, yeah, but dont try and tell a "windows sucks use linux" type that vista and 7 are rock solid and reliable...they just get mad and spout old tag lines about it being unstable, lines that root back to XP and ME/98/95 era.....

    Im not linux hater, but, I also dont see why people try and say its better then windows for desktop use...

    I use vector on a few systems(linux) and it works great for a basic desktop os for browsing and light word processing....but using linux for the average desktop user who does more then brows and word process from time to time......isnt worth the pain of trying to teach them to do stuff that in windows only takes a few clicks.

  • On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 04:06pm

    Re: Re: This is a sad move indeed

    huh.....you must be using xp or non-updated vista.....because 7 is rock solid for everybody I know.....even idiots who had to reinstall windows every 2-3 months are enlarge going on YEARS on their first 7 install...some thru multi hardware upgrades.

    LibreOffice is great if you dont use it for large excel files or for documents made using MS office or corel word perect suit saved in their native formats.

    anything openoffice based SUCKS for large excel files, I know I tried to not use MS office or corel wordperfect because I wanted to get off the retail software train....didnt work well with files clients sent me....and no, your not gonna convince most people to install another office suit, they would rather find a replacement for me then change office suits.

    I have used LibreOffice, Lotus Synphony, OpenOffice and 2 other variants of OOo, and NON deal well with large complex documents or excel files....

    For my own word processing I use ABI Word and save to doc format when sending to an ms office user.

    I still have a hard time believing that 7 or even updated vista arent stable for you....I never had any stability issues with windows 2000, 2003, 2008/vista, 2008 r2/7 xp and 9x based windows where hit and miss but, so was linux back then on many systems(bad open source drivers mostly)

  • On the post: Verizon, Once Again, Fights For Consumer Privacy Against Copyright Shakedown Attempts

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 03:44pm

    if only

    if only they hadnt signed an accord with cable providers to stop expanding FIOS....but we love our monopolies in this country......so i guess thats to be expected.

  • On the post: EMI Kills Off More Innovation: MP3Tunes Declares Bankruptcy Due To 'Withering' Legal Costs

    AzureSky ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 03:42pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    a note on the bitter quotes and such, its mostly due to linspire/lindows and the MS lawsuit, many of the people who hate the man hated lindows/linspire because it wasnt "Free" (had pay software in it)

    there are also those who hate him because he didnt keep fighting and liquidated or sold off the company flat out, because, the point of it was gone, and alot of money was wasted in court...

    Having delt with the militant factions of the linux movement, I can tell you, they are self centered egotists who will attack anybody who dosnt do what they think is right/proper, and they will atack eachother for not agreeing....

    this is part of why linux is the mess it is over all, nobody can get them to agree to a set of ISO's to cover things like drivers and installer packages, so your stuck with each distro picking what it wants....no 2 identical.....

    makes me sad. but its how they are....they will trash anything from anybody whos not one of them.

    i mean look at the site, its clearly not a professional job, looks like somebody with to much time on their hands and to little skill slapped it up so they could trash him....

  • On the post: Indie Film Maker Is Creating A DRM-Free Open HD Video Format

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 05:10pm

    Re: Missing the point on DRM

    where to start...where to start.

    first, in the eyes of the IP industry we have no rights, only they have rights, and all of us are infringing on those rights constantly.

    drm is different because its preceved as protecting the rights of the rich against us dirty pissants who are constantly infringing on their intellectual property rights.

    how long have you lived in the western world?

    not long if you think your arguements hold any validity in the eyes of those who govern the Incorporated States of America.

    in there eyes we are here simply to act as a giant endless wallet/moneybag they can just keep exploiting as they treat us like(and even call is) thieves at every turn.

    buy a song on itunes and download it, burn it to a cd to use in your car/old boombox= your a thief because you should have bought the original cd in redbook format.

    rip a cd you own to your computer to use on your digital media device: your a pirate/thief because you should have bought a separate digital copy for use on each device.

    I could go on, the point is, despite my agreement with your sentiment, this isnt how this country/part of the world works, the whole western world is under the control of the corporations and those very corporations are using themoney they bleed off the public to maintain and expand their power and control.

    only fix is to starve them....and thats not gonna happen, to many people cant help but give them money.....

    I am standing firm, I want to see a few movies that are out/coming out, but wont because the MPAA would get money out of it.....(fuck i wana see 2 of them...but....again fuck the mpaa!!!)

  • On the post: Indie Film Maker Is Creating A DRM-Free Open HD Video Format

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 04:56pm

    Merius, wouldnt it be better to throw money at vp8(webm) encoder development since Theora is just an older version of VP8 thats development was continued by the community.

    Dirac's a good/need idea but it takes to much time and power to decode and encode, further development could help but that would take years from what I have read.

    BUT from what i can tell, this isnt about codec as much as container and management of special features, this could be done with a modern container being extended, such as MKV or NUT being extended to have support for muti tracks per file as well as menus and "features"

    from what i can tell, his main goal is a way to put out full dvd/bluray features via streaming and direct download without need to burn to a disk, again this could be done using NUT or MKV (or a few other new/future containers being expanded a bit feature wise)

    I think my move would be to just fund extention or development and support of the .nut container and have it include the option for menus and extra features internally, this could also be done with mkv, and as mkv is in active dev it may be easier to get that group to get-r-done in a timely fashion.

    I like the idea, but dont need the feature myself...but it would be great for people like my parents who actually use the dvd/bd menus and extras(they bore me..so i dont use them)

    it would be nice if somebody could put some money into developing a truly optimized and feature rich vp8 encoder tho, the default one shows it lacks serious optimization and development.

    a side note, from what i have read, if theora or vp8 become a threat to h264/avc there will likely be a law suit, even without valid cause, because our system promotes these actions to protect profits.....and dosnt punish the rich for being dicks....rather it rewards dickish behavior

  • On the post: Senator Leahy Still Insisting That SOPA/PIPA Are 'Needed'

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 04:10pm

    Re: interwebz crossed up

    see theres the problem he needs to go to /b/ for his shitty advice...... :P

  • On the post: Senator Leahy Still Insisting That SOPA/PIPA Are 'Needed'

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 03:32pm

    Re:

    +insightful

    so so true....need to have a test for them to see if they have the competence to vote on a subject before they can vote on it, or infact have any hand in drafting laws on that subject.

  • On the post: ICE & FBI Hatch Ingenious Plan To Make DVD Piracy Warnings Longer

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 09:39am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    your all forgetting AOL....the software that broke MS Office for 9 months before they fixed it....LOL

  • On the post: Yeah, It Turns Out That Technology Doesn't Make Us Lonely

    AzureSky ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 09:32am

    Re: Re: Jake

    Fox: Do a Barrel Roll.

  • On the post: FAA Warns Guy Who Filmed Birds Striking Plane Engine

    AzureSky ( profile ), 08 May, 2012 @ 02:23pm

    Re: Re: Re: This myth was busted.

    but you also need to take into account that cell phones enlarge only use digital signals these days, and those signals are far more LOS(line of site) Dependant then older analog cell phones where.

    so the plane is 6 miles up, but you also have to take into account the angle of the phone/window to towers, so most likely a minimum of 8-10 miles, and no, modern normal handset phones dont work at those ranges from my exp even when in direct line of site of a tower, older analog phones in some cases could and suitcase style phone today MAY(very hit and miss).

    in the past when the rules where made, it was not done to protect planes or cell networks, it was to protect profits from airline controlled in fight phones, phones you rarely if ever see on domestic fights anymore.

    this case is silly, its just somebody deciding that somebody had to do something......kinda like at my last major job when we would get memo's telling us to do things XX way, then a few days later we would be told not to do it XX way, and so on, we all just kept doing things the way we always did them(you know the efficient way that worked) but somebody was doing something.....lol (all got worse when some moron cut off the end of his pinkey with a hot cable saw....idiot...)

  • On the post: Ebook Sales Of Harry Potter Lead To Increased Physical Sales As Well

    AzureSky ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 03:26pm

    Re: Unable to purchase the English version as opposed to Americanize

    use a proxy or have a friend order it for you if you want to pay, if not, pirate it, email them letting them know you would have paid but where not allowed to.

  • On the post: AT&T Argues That More Competition Is Bad For You & Leads To Higher Prices

    AzureSky ( profile ), 07 May, 2012 @ 11:13am

    does not compute.....error....error....does not compute.....

  • On the post: Paulo Coelho Ebook Sales Jump Way Up Thanks To $0.99 Sale

    AzureSky ( profile ), 06 May, 2012 @ 10:41pm

    Re: missing the point

    having looked at and responded on Keithpp's blog, its very clear he feels ebooks are of zero value, a quick rundown of the whole thing is, he only thinks paper books have any value and that everybody should agree with him because "an ebook is not a book"

    I guess that also means an FLAC album is not a cd, only a cd is a cd..(true but misses the point)

    I tried to point out that you can lend and share DRM free ebooks, and infact you can do this much easier then with dead tree books but he just responded with the same "an ebook is not a book" and "why would anybody want an ereader even if its cheap" (paraphrasing actually)

    to me, ebooks at 99cents or less are a great deal if you have a decent ebook reader, and you can get a decent reader for 20-30bucks, you can get a great one for 45-60...sure thats more then buying a paperback, but most hardcovers I have run across in recent years are 20bucks or more....so an ereader and reasonably priced ebook would be a better option for me, specially seeing as its much easier to carry a small ereader then a big heavy hardcover book(or even a paperback.)

    meh, just wanted to save any new readers some time.

    all you can take from his blog is "ebooks suck and have no value, buy real books"

  • On the post: Dan Bull Shares His Thoughts On The Pirate Bay Being Blocked Right After Helping His Music Get On The Charts

    AzureSky ( profile ), 06 May, 2012 @ 12:59pm

    Re:

    well, heres the funny part, its not the file sharing that directly causes any of it, its their reaction.

    they spend MILLION a year to fight a non-problem, rather then looking at ways to maximize profits.

    they admit they loose money every year, they act like they are proud of it...

    but, having worked with a major game developer for a while as a community rep(paid), I can say, Having listened to the meetings, what the stardock guy a while back said is true.

    these kind of people are more worried about ensuring that people who dont pay dont enjoy their products then they are about maximizing sales and profit, so much so that in the case of game companies they will invest MILLIONS on DRM on the world of DRM sales people, despite the fact that those below them try to make them understand it wont help, DRM wont work.

    One time we had a video confrance, one of the guys showed how fast you could remove the DRM from a game file using freeware (community created) software, it took around 15 seconds to remove the DRM from 3 games.....that didnt impress the higher ups at all, they said "it will still stop piracy, because XX said so, and their numbers are pretty solid"

    makes me sick.....all the money that could be used to create new amazing content, wasted on fucking useless wars with your fans/customers.

  • On the post: Dan Bull Shares His Thoughts On The Pirate Bay Being Blocked Right After Helping His Music Get On The Charts

    AzureSky ( profile ), 06 May, 2012 @ 01:59am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dan the Pirate

    and forks
    and toothpicks
    and ice picks
    and shovels
    and pitch forks
    and wires/cables
    and bleach
    and and and....

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