Posts by rciafardone

@Bee. The problem is overuse and/or missuse.

Most of the time i see freetard assosiated with articles about thing like an idiot getting his machine infected for a file he got via bittorrent (I love bittorrent and never got a bug for it), and while Stallman has fallen from my grace for how he has been going a little overboard these last few years i did find it offensive. Please mrs. Bee, i am not telling you shouldn´t use the term, i find it quite funny and on line with el reg general editorial line, but try to focus it use on what the word (i think) originaly was coinded for, idiots who like to get this for free and get what they deserve for not being modicaly cautious.

freetard comes from free and retard, am i wrong?

Yes, she is.

She is a cheating whore. And also stupid, oh and ambitius too. She is maried and she is a lier. If you want the "modern" aproach, ok, this is indeed the 21th century so open marriage is an option, but and "open marriange" where only 1 of the couple is aware of the openness is not.

If you like to fuk around without caring about your couple dont get married or marry someone who is like minded, otherwise you are a whore in my book, and anyone else with common sense.

Wasnt compensation for that...

It was compensation for the cow he lost, because the people of the village ceremonialy drowned it. It was actually quite cheap, in USA a cow can cost around 900 bucks.

OSX has a Linux Kernel...

So you wont feel so bad if you move on... :D

You forget only 1 thing

Your reasoning is correct, but you forget that in a vacuum, water has the odd custom of freazzing and boiling at the same time!!! :D.

Otherwhise it would work as you think.

They make an "educated" guess...

Actually it is a mathematic trick, sort of making up the numbers without totally pulling them out of your arse, since it is impossible to count the number of pirated OS or the number of pirated apps running on either legal or pirated OS.

For OS is relatively simple. You can get a pretty good approximation on the number of computers sold, either full or in parts, simply by learning the max number of motherboards (using processors would be trickier, since there are MB that support multiple processors). Since you know how many computers “may” exist in the market of a country, then all you have to do is add up all the known numbers for legal OS sold, preinstalled or in the case of distros like Ubuntu, how many downloads are there (you can even be more precise by checking how many computer download the updates for these OS as to prevent double counting people that downloaded the same system multiple times). You compare those figures and you get a good approximation of how many pirated OS are out there.

Now for apps, like games, is way harder. In fact the numbers are probably overblown by an order of magnitude if not more. There are only 3 sources to make the guess and all are way imprecise, 1 is monitoring traffic for downloads, witch with p2p programs is crazy; 2 is checking local authorities estimates on street sales, with is even more crazy; 3 is the estimates of a publishers for an app sells compared to the actual sells compared to the estimates of the people using the app, this is total BS from all angles. There is tecnic number 4… spying, but this is just as unreliable and quite illegal if I am not mistaken.

In conclusion, it is all pretty inaccurate, probably with an error way over 10% (I am totally making that number up, but who isn’t?). It would be sad if publisher actually believe it is thanks to their DRM policies that piracy “is picking”, cause is not, remember, all it takes is a single lonely cracked copy for the floodgates of piracy to be open wide, and it takes like 48 hours in average to crake the harder DRMs… so make the math…

I dissagree

I dissagree so hard that i injured myself... :D

C and it childrens (C++, C# and somehow JAVA) are the best forever!!!

Dont waste time...

This is the endless moronic communist agument: "Some people is rich because they take away from the poor". It will never end, no matter hjow much suffering and poverty socialist goverments caused (i mean the real marxist breeds like Cuba, China, N. Korea, Venezuela, ect, ect, not the current european socialist parties).

Not quite...

I think you mean that climate change is natural and not related to human activity... since a relationship within CO2 and Climate does exist since higher temperatures wield larger amounts of CO2, or so the records show.

"Sadly" God's blessings doesnt work as magic would...

God blessing is a petition that has attached no obligation on part of the deity in question. This simply means that God may or may not bless the target; we "assume" the target is blessed but we have no possibility to be sure.

Magic on the other hand is supposed to work always if the rituals and power of the performer are "real" and correct and no “magical counter attack” is performed by other party, like what geeks out there can recognize as protective spells.

That’s why magic can actually be easily falsified while religions like Christianity and Judaism can’t be subject to scientific process.

Is a 50750 thing

As i read the books i imagined someone with the look, voice and demeanor of the D.Lynch movie but with the public persona and machinations shwon in the series. but given a choice i would get the lynch version, we know the plotting and scheaming was there, it was just an over the top performance, but in my opinion perfect.

Your are reading it backwards...

If I say that something is happening, it is I who must show the evidence. Saying that someone doesn’t "believe" in AGW because there is no evidence AGAINST it is nonsense.

- Where is the hard data that shows that HUMANS are responsible? There isn’t.

- Is the World’s climate changing? Yes. It always is.

- What are we doing to ensure our survival when climate DO changes and crops around the World start dying for drought, too much heat or too much cold? Nothing, because everyone is too busy with the fucking fossil fuels, something that in 50 or 60 years will no longer need or have because it is not renewable. We should be planning to see what to do when freaking next ice age starts, not harassing governments and industries to make sure “BIG OIL” is stopped.

It is sad when scientist do their research with political agendas in mind instead of pure pursuit of knowledge, be it on the left o right of the political spectrum.

I assume AGW stands for Anthropogenic Global Warming. And indeed so far there are no real evidence that it is true. But since it has became such a popular topic in the mind of the general public now politicians are following suit.

You nailed it mate...

Indeed, a fucking irony that really pisses me off.

I you think you are talking about Colombia

...Not Brazil.

In any case penalty kicks practice should be increased if England sucks so hard at them, that is the conclusion as i understud it.

You my friend seam to be.... lacking.

It is assumed that we are talking about equal sized holes...

It would be most fitting...

Since we could called Soylent Green for more than 1 reason :D

This is a test of capabilities...

This is a test of capabilities, not a superfluos use of great resourses.

These are not medical scientist...

And "Manmade" Climate change is BS since all the "science" behind it is BS.

Actually i wow for your extermination Anonimous coward...

Because is exactly such a mind set that started the things that you say you hate so much about catholics: intolerance.

Obviously you a wuss or troll otherwise you would add at least your name.

Water is not good enough.

Problem with water is that it will get "dirty" overtime and become conductive, also it constantly evaporates at room tempeture, so you would need sealed containers to prevent te constant lose, not to mention the inclease in humidity. Also is freezes at 0ºC and boils at 100ºC. Oil is much more reciliant to both enviromental low and high tempetures.

Xbox360 vs PS3?

There is no Xbox360 vs PS3... is WII vs the other poor bastards... lol

that is SO NOT the point...

The point here my friend is not if smoking is good or bad, everyone knows is bad, The point is that if Apple can refuse tech support on such a weak reason as somebody "smoke near the machine" thats a can of worms that nobody wnat to open. Specially US consumers, whats next? Warranty not covering "fishy smell"? The kids owner had the flu? or whatever...

Apple is way out of line, is they are worried about the hazard of "absorving" nicotine by contact or breathing then USE GLOVES and a FREAKING MASK.