Posts by Tony Paulazzo 1099 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008
>As far as I can see, this government has fucked us up illegally, and non-consensually , and is keeping doing it even though we are yelling 'STOP!'.<
It's not their fault we forgot the safe word.
Also, I don't understand why he didn't get done for the tiger thing too, after all, didn't some guy get prison time in Australia for Bart and Lisa porn, or is animated porn (even extreme) ok as long as it doesn't involve fictitious children?
The illuminati are coming! Bury your heads in the sand, the global overlords are putting the final steps into place, enslavement of the human race...
Mind you, collectively we've been stupid enough to let it happen. It was fun while it lasted. See you in room 101.
War is peace!
Well, saw an ad at the Manchester Odeon the other day that you'll be able to watch some upcoming football match live and in 3D for £9. It'll be just like the 'old days' when people went to the pictures.
In fact, until 3D porn starts selling, I really can't see this taking off in the home at all, Simon Cowel in 3D - shudder...
>Also getting a TV would feel like giving in to the TVL threats. I would rather do without than give in to such legalised extortion.<
Or do what I did, write them a really snotty letter telling them you no longer watch live TV and you will take them to small claims court if their abusive, threatening letters don't stop forthwith. Got a lovely apologetic letter from them stating that someone would come round to ensure my non TV watching status (over a year ago, still waiting), and no more letters.
Glass wearing 3D TV = Epic Fail! I want 4 wall screen holography.
>So they will cut your connection, and it will be written into their terms of service that they will cut your connection on allegations alone.<
I'm pretty sure they've always had this clause in their terms n conditions anyway, if they think you're doing dodgy on their pipes they can terminate the contract.
Basically, anyone who receives two of these letters and continues doing it (I'm assuming false accusations will be strenuously taken to task, checked, corroborated and resolved), deserves to be suspended... then sent on an 'how to use the internet' and 'learn how to be less stupid' course.
IMHO.
Really getting to like Ubuntu (windows7 for web design, games and rendering, Ubuntu for all else), and a fresh coat of paint will def help 'sell' it to the masses, esp. if Open Office follows suit - then I get tons more work sorting out tech issues, goodness all around.
Just wish there were a Dreamweaver type prog for linux.
>and those are the rights of the copyright holder not to have their work blatantly copied around the internet with no consideration of their wishes.<
Yea, well tell em to stop creating original work (ie copied from things they've grown up listening to, reading and or watching), get off the internet and get a real bloody job, humping bricks about, or teaching or something where they can be paid by the hour.
Problem solved, nothing to 'copyright theft'.
Copyright Me!
>Nanny Conroy knows best, and if you don't agree you hate children.<
I don't agree, and I do hate children, they're spoiling everything (stamps foot in nerd rage).
It's like the Americans killing God by invoking His name to kill foreigners who have oil but want water, bad adults invoke the name of children to destroy the internet, interesting sex and any form of free thought.
So I don't really hate children, just the adults who use and abuse them for their own pleasures - ie, politicians...
The biggest complainers about license authentication, ... are from people who are using stolen software<
I rather doubt that.
The third biggest block is people who have valid licenses, but have installed something dodgy on their system which breaks the updates.<
Like a new motherboard after the old one fried? and surely if the anti piracy detection isn't 100% perfect and incorruptible it shouldn't be used.
I hate Apple. I distrust Google. I tolerate MS. I love being in bed with a hot guy on a winters night.
But if the iPad tanks and they start turning up on Ebay for a ton, I'd get one, cool toy! I'd prefer the Archos 9, Win7 FTW (y'know, with Flash, text recognition and all that groovy computery stuff), but that 10 hour battery life sounds sweet - tho' I do wonder if that time halves on jailbroken versions (y'know, with flash, multitasking and so forth).
This life's a fiction, and is made up of contradiction. 'W Blake'
>hot-button issues such as the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989<
Sorry, but that's not a 'hot button issue' it was simply a massacre, tho, not knowing how many were 'purged', maybe better to call it 'The Big Lie'.
As for Google doing, or not doing, business with China, they are precisely the same as every other big business, they'll follow the money, no matter how murky the path. They, at least, unlike 20 other big business' told the world they'd been hacked and that China has human rights 'issues'.
I don't see the USA or UK governments threatening to stop business with a regime that ruthlessly murders or disappears its citizens and invade non oil producing countries.
Will automatically create a root (sorry Admin) and low permission user account at installation then claim its security features are second to none....
Either that, or it will have giant ribbons cluttering up the screen, a redesigned task bar and a start triangle.
It will also return the users ability to de-tick the task bar's 'always on top' option, taken away 'by design' for windows 7, even tho it's been there since Windows 95 and some users found it useful. Especially in the era of 9-12 inch touch-screens and net-books - they really are twats, IMHO, and no, I won't use the 'hide taskbar' option - my windows my way my a¬5e...
Copyright Me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book
1998 the first ebook reader came to market. They've had 12 years to corner the market, to create the market, but a decade later here comes a multi function device that lets you read ebooks (not as good as a reader), though magazines and newspapers in full colour, surf the web (not as good as a laptop), listen to music, watch video and run various apps, at a price not much costlier than the ereader.
I think it's a little to late - I'd have brought an ereader years ago for £75, but my personal price/value perception of these things is that is the upper ceiling on their worth.
>The patent claim - ‘Image Capturing Device with Touch Screen for Adjusting Camera Settings’ <
Proof the patent system is broken.
Point of fact, my HP TX2s inbuilt camera is controlled via the touch screen, pretty sure these systems have been on the market since before June of last year.
I kind'a actually like the ribbon now... but, what's the reason for this new version? is it leaner, faster, more intelligent? does it intuitively know what you want to do and finish it for you? maybe the grammar checker is now utterly infallible, or they finally have a built in PDF creator.
I know Outlook now gives you a 'conversation tree' option (and something to do with Journal), but exactly how is Word and Excel 2010 a couple of hundred quid better than 2007? Serious question by the way. 2007 gave us a new file system and UI overhaul.
If the iPad is successful, it's curtains for the internet<
Yay, and once more the geek shall inherit the 'net. Once the majority leave the open net, so the governments of the world will forget it ever existed. Win win.
Apple didn't hype anything<
Yea, and santa clause totally exists.
Why my mum will love the iPad.
My mum will love the iPad because I have to buy it because Apple made it. I will have to give it to her, because it's useless to me, being neither a phone, real computer (multitasking), or multimedia device (Flash - loathe it or indifference, it's still part of the web media experience for a couple years yet), and offers no onboard HDMI or even DVD watching abilities. So, I will give it to my mum who shall be pleased that one her offspring actually remember her, and whenever I go round (once a year at Xmas for four hours so she can give presents to the grandkids), it will be sitting there on the coffee table, pristine and untouched.
Apple happy, me happy, mum happy, 3000 more starving kids in never-heard-of-it-stan, not so much.
And my disconnect from reality shall finally be complete. Thumbs up Apple.
Copyright Tony F Paulazzo.
>For touch screens, we provide much larger tab and toolbar targets than on standard chrome. This UI takes up more screen space, but is ideal for portrait devices, and can be autohidden to have full-screen<
Good idea, shame MS didn't think of that for Win7's awesome touch stuff. Balmer, fingers are fatter than onscreen cursors.
'About the Australian Human Rights Commission
Working towards an Australian society where human rights are for everyone, everywhere, every day.'
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/
There's a lovely picture of a young aboriginal boy on there (and no, I'm not a paedo, tho' he is cute), just wondering if any Australian websites should be allowed to portray images of prepubescent humans - just in case.
Evil Jobs - just because.
We're all encased in sonic armor
Beltin' it out through chrome grenades
Miles and miles of medusan chord
The electronic sonic boom
It's what's happening baby
it's where it's at daddy
They chain ya and brainwash ya
When you least suspect it
They feed ya mass media
The age is electric
Hair-1960's
>The problem is it's become a useful social tool so much that it can rival the phone / text / email some days... and I refuse to join twitter. Difficult.<
Same here, I just went thru my profile, changed my email to my hotmail spam catching account and deleted as much personal info as was possible, probably a pointless exercise but make it a little harder for 'em.
>I normally dip into the Guardian most days - but possibly for 10 mins max. Read headlines and maybe an article that grabs my fancy. This is not the same as having a whole physical paper in my hands. <
ditto. I've even registered. if there was a pay pal button asking for 'donations to keep us inexistence' I would even donate, probably not as much as they'd like, but if everyone did it..
As for tablets, give it five years. Once they're as powerful as laptops (and even Win7 voice recog isn't too shabby now), they'll take over.
Been trying to work out the math, unemployed single mother on the dole, probably have to pay a tenner a fortnight out of her jsa (assuming food, utilities, kids and catalogues payout - legal requirement to have enough to survive - ie free laptop, booze n fags), so after 40 years she'll have paid about 10 grand back.
Seems fricking pointless, to actually punish her they should have put her kids in care and given her 3 years prison.
Or, ya know, changed their marketing practice to turn her into a paying consumer sheep.
For Gods sake, when did the entertainment business, primarily a waste of time (oh look, you've drawn a picture of a flower I can already see; I like that sound you're humming; wow, you can kick a ball around with some skill; you have an ability to string some words together in a pleasing way), become so insane?
Hi, Mozilla here,
You've probably heard that Google is using you on their youtube page, rather than Flash and we were wondering, since our browser is free to the end user, whether you would give us permission to use your decoding for free, rather like Adobe does with Flash, then you would continue making money on people and companies encoding - we're more in the market for content delivery than creation. Many thanks for considering our request and we look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely Yours.
Mozilla.
Or am I just being stupid? Like, the Mozilla Foundation is non profit, but the Mozilla corporation is a taxable entity (Techcrunch reports for 2007: Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million). But it sounds like a lot of that was from Google (something like 88%), who now have their own browser in direct competition with them, so would love to see them lose market share.
Ah f^*k it, I'll stick with FF anyway, Noscript / Adblock FTW! someone will release a grey plugin that'll work with youtube.
It's useful for updated motorway traffic info whilst in motion, other than that, my lappy is usually near a wifi with more screen estate and free, Virgin mobile-phone internet on the other hand, cost me 30p a day unlimited (limited to 25 MBs) and a tiny 3in. (or whatever) screen.
Also, the iPhone is sold more as a consumer media device that can also be used as a phone, rather than just a phone with extras - so the demographic kind'a fits.
Mobile Facebook - why? if someone wants to get hold of me in a hurry, they can phone,txt or let it ring once (I have some tight friends).
IMHO.
>YouTube movie rentals — as planned thus far — will be available to US users only<
So close, see, i wanna watch The Big Bang Theory and a few other American shows, not a couple of months after my American cousins, but at the latest, a day later, so when reading chatter on the 'global net' forums I don't get spoilers. I'd even pay for low quality Youtube streaming (after all, it's not porn), but if it's USA only, what's the point? No free ride for the middlemen? from tv station via youtube to me - direct income for them. Meanwhile, as previously noted, the rest of the world will happily dl it from whatever channels are available.
Games developers have finally realised direct download content nets them almost pure profit, sometimes in the millions.
>In 5 years, everything will be paywall, and they will be chasing the last few torrent sites into oblivion<
Yea, just like murder, rape, theft and other undesirable things have been consigned to human history... oh wait.
Netflix isn't available in the UK.
>a dystopian future in which the common people were systematically bled dry paying for sensational garbage while the real news and entertainment had become a prerogative of the rich.<
I've read a couple of Bear books, must check it out. Couple of things, don't herds always follow the thing in front? Xfactor, lemmings, cliffs etc? and I doubt the rich know what's real any more than the serfs, and their enjoyment is probably akin to the Moorlocks and Eloi. Blood Music is brilliant by him.
>How does that shift your future parallel speculative non-existent universe?<
As Arthur Dent once said, 'It must be Thursday...' Thanks for the Thursday morning chuckle. I'm trying to quit smoking, so every little helps.
As for the coming iThing (which, I could be wrong, feels like the rumours have been tightly controlled from head quarter from the start), the same people who bought the iPhone n iMac will see the Jobsian need for the iThing -
Especially as, upstream noted, poor people are now buying the iPhone.
Well, I just googled (is that a verb now?), and the top listed, most secure browser was... Chrome! Wow, big surprise, round of applause, google search tells me Google Chrome is the best... second listed was... IE8 (by a MS funded study, natch).
The closest independent study I could find (early 2009), reported they were all pretty much of a muchness (but admitted that as Noscripts wasn't installed by default on Firefox that was taken out of the equation, but the fact he mentioned it made it more trustworthy IMHO).
Review (March 09) also touted FF as the most netbook friendly browser, closely followed by IE8 as both do full screen.
Having done a Task Manager test on both FF and IE8 (deleted Chrome a week after installation, never tried Opera - should do really), I have noticed FF doesn't return memory to the system when closing tabs, but IE8 is sneaky as it opens separate processes even when only opening tabs (and whilst it appears to use slightly less memory that could be to do with the fact that it's so intertwined with the OS).
I use Firefox (update when it tells me), with 11 addins (inc Noscript and Adblock), and no complaints - and I regularly have it open with MS Word, Excel and Outlook (not always together), running on a system with 3GBs RAM.
>alternative to "Barbie, that have nothing to do with our culture."<
The west, where they have made an eating disorder desirable, violence is preferable to sexuality, and the innocence of childhood has been sacrificed on the altar of perversity.
Man, we are so blameless.
A friend of mine lives in London and a group of cheeky chavies kicked his head in whilst filming it on their mobiles - he didn't call it happy slapping, he did end up in hospital, and with all those big brother cameras they never got caught.
Entertainers (footballers, film and music stars and their pimps etc) live in mansions away from the realities of day to day life or fair tax payments, yet feel the need for government intervention (who are only to happy to comply), when their third or fourth Bugatti is threatened by filthy pirates (I see the Beckhams flew a pooch halfway across the world in a private chartered jet).
Oil in Iraq and Afghanistan, none in Tibet or Haiti. Doesn't it cost 14p a litre for petrol in Venezuela for the local citizens, or was that propaganda? In fact, can anyone tell the difference between real news and propaganda anywhere anymore?
One fact I know: I am opposed to censorship and oppression in any form.
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