Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 28th at 8:35pm 2007
Well, I've taken up way to much time in this discussion considering I prolly know the least about it and nothing I could add would be of use.
I wish I could see your side of it though Reaper. Most here know my views on borrowed content, but I just cannot grasp the problem with Itune being an issue.
Sorry. 
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Crono on Mon Jan 29th at 7:22pm 2007
? quote:
The solution is revolution. That or it's "radio."
... I forgot the solution...
DRM is Direct Rectal Mutilation. all they are doing is trying to squeeze more money out of you. Any company that does this should be embargoed by all competent people to outwiegh the idiots who buy something like an iPod because of a flashy commercial of a dancing city-person.
I plan on embargoing all Apple products for as long as I live... I won't even install Quicktime on my computer. One of the reasons is becaus they are spearheading the "screw the consumer" movement that is gaining popularity in most american tech products.
Yet you use Microsoft products without a care in the world. What's up with that?
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 31st at 12:33am 2007
? quoting parakeet
A good amount of us use linux i'm sure
If it were a whopping 10 million souls, it would still be a small percentage of all the PC's currently running around the globe.
I think Adam proved his point with that one reply. ![<img src=]()
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 31st at 2:19am 2007
Maybe when I get more time I'll tinker with a Linux kernel and have the balls most Open Source developers don't and just f**king reverse engineer the windows platform (APIs) and integrate it into my Freakin' Awesome Gaming OS. That's totally what I'll call it too. Then get a bunch of law suites because the name is not P-C.
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Not really.
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Forceflow on Wed Jan 31st at 6:56am 2007
I managed to get Hammer working under wine, but the 3d preview doesn't show up. Quark however, runs fine under linux+wine.
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 31st at 7:49am 2007
This is just a guess, but I would imagine it uses Direct 3D for the 3D view, which would mean you need WineX (now known as Cedega) to run that portion.
Wine only emulates the Windows API, but nothing in the DirectX API.
I would also guess that Quark uses Open GL for its 3D rendering.
This is all stipulation of course. But, taking that the founders of valve are ex-Microsoft employees, they'd probably use said company's product.
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Forceflow on Wed Jan 31st at 2:19pm 2007
Can't get it working under cedega either.
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 31st at 10:51pm 2007
I'm well aware of the acronym it makes. As that post was a joke.
Microsoft's products aren't as predominant as say ... air. I mean, there ARE other alternatives to Windows that are far more realistic than finding something else to live on besides air. So, you don't really have a choice when it comes to air ... but regardless of that, they're not even comparable though analogy because they are completely different in the way they're managed and dealt with. Not to mention, Air is not a product that is sold and there aren't any DRM issues that arise with it.
In your comment you're so adamant about stopping things like this, but you still show support (even if it's unwilling) for a company that is one of the worst about these issues.
Linux isn't that hard to use. It's just got the issues of being completely open source that makes it a very crowded market. It takes more effort to choose which distribution is right for you than actually using any of them (besides Gentoo).
I still think, people should move away from calling all Operating Systems built on the Linux kernel, "Linux". It might help clear the confusion.
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Re: Norway outlaws i-tunes
Posted by Crono on Thu Feb 8th at 4:22am 2007
This is an important new "development" that I think most people ranting and raving here should check out.
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