What's your opinion about Macwarez?!

[AppleWatcher]

Yes OK ElDiablo,

But there's a little bug (I assume): If you quote more than one alinea, you only get the first alinea...

Thanks for bringing up this thread again

AppleWatcher

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally posted by AppleWatcher
But there's a little bug (I assume): If you quote more than one alinea, you only get the first alinea...

What's an alinea?

[AppleWatcher]

I thought alinea was an English word...
I don't know what it's name in english texts, but I do know what it is called in poems etc:

stanza

AppleWatcher

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Oh, you mean like those posts where the quoted text is broken up into multiple quote "stanzas" or paragraphs, and the quoter responds to individual quotes after each one? If that's what you mean, mine's always worked for me -- although you have to manually put (B)(QUOTE) and (/B)(/QUOTE) before and after the individual paragraphs manually... (and replace those '(' and ')' symbols with square brackets)

[AppleWatcher]

Ah thank you!

AppleWatcher

[Joseph Spiros]

Okay first off, sorry this is a bit late.. just been away for a while...

First thing I will admit to is pirating software and music. It's something I do.. I use the software I pirate. On the other side of the spectrum, I am an official beta tester (well, I was, since they are done now) for Adobe Photoshop 7, and I am in Apple's seeding program. 'Nuff said about software.. as I ahve something else I would rather you all think about...

First of all, on music, I end up buying the CD's of MP3s I download... example, the Harry Potter soundtrack.. I d/led the whole thing to my hard drive, only to go out and buy it and RIP IT TO MY HARD DRIVE... Why did I do thaT? not becase I felt bad, but because I like the booklets and nice looking CDs :P

Anyawy, the thing I want you all to think about:

I collect operating systems.. Its almost an obsession. I have every version of Windows ever shipped, even some that werent (Chicago [win95 beta], and Bob [yes, it did exist.. if you want screenshots, lemme know]), and yes, I have version 1.0.... on the Mac side, I have the first publically available version of System 0.whateveritwas (i have too many things).... all the way up to a couple betas of Mac OS X 10.2. I even have the System 7 ported to x86, and I have Rhapsody DR2 for Intel. Heck, I even have CD's and CD Images of restore CD's and disks from older systems (have some nice Performas).

Anyway, I collect the OSes... with me, it is a "ooh look at me I have this" and I *DONT* use the OSes, I just *HAVE* them. Which brings up the question... since I dont use the OSes myself, and I dont give them to anyone (which then would bring the possiblity of people using it themselves)... is it really WRONG of me to get CD Images from people who have OSes I dont? for example, I want images of Every CD that comes with a new iMac... since I dont use them, would it really be WRONG of me to just HAVE a copy of the CDs for my own personal collection?

Just something to think about....

[fryke]

Reference 'alinea'.

When I first used a Macintosh Plus in 1987 I had to learn some Pascal (MacPascal was nice and easy). I didn't have ANY english course before doing Pascal. I naturally assumed that 'writeln' was the verb for 'to write'. I actually asked an English girl the following: "Would you writeln me a letter?"

This got cleared up only about a year later, when my English courses began and I found out that 'writeln' was 'write line' or something like that.

Well, it's easy to mix things up and often hard to unwire. Is this thread long enough now?

[theed]

I don't think it's an issue to collect software if you don't use it. You are not the intended demographic that would pay for the software. You are not keeping the intended demographic from having it. No harm, no foul.

And to wrap up my "intellectual thread" into here. I think that commercial organizations are too powerful, and are overcharging (generally) for software. There should be some sort of governing body looking out for consumers of software, and there isn't. At least not in the US. Just think if some government decided to put $50 million on a word processor application that would then be freely available. A public work like a dam or a bridge. Wouldn't that be worth something?

Hell, we gave Airlines several billion dollars so that they could continue charging us to fly! I think this would be way more beneficial. Too much profiteering, too little social concern. Pirating is generally wrong, but it's also a symptom of another, possibly larger, problem.

"Die you stupid horse." (whack whack whack)