Originally Posted by Makeclick (Post 1241689)

Sulu, thank you, but you do not helping. If you are happy the way it is, i am happy for you.

Originally Posted by Makeclick

But i am not happy, so i complain.

Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness (Post 1240930)

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 1241725)

You could not possibly have understood what he said, if you think he is happy with the way things are.


And when the day is over, do the multi-billion dollar/euro/yen/whatever corporations have any less power to screw you over the way ovi store screws everyone over with the download limit, because you complained? No. Complaining is onky useful for 1: spreading the truth about a problem people are unaware of, and 2: telling a huge company or political power that the world is not okay with their policies.

But your complaining is insufficiently informed to fulfill criteria 1 fully (sulu's statements, on the other hand, ARE actually spreading accurate information about the problem, and ARE a form of disagreement/complaining), and it's directed to the wrong people to even begin to qualify for criteria 2.

On the other hand, it's better than nothing, so by all means keep complaining, it does raise awareness and brings people's dissatisfaction with the system to the surface. But don't get the misguided notion that just because someone is correcting you on your misconceptions, they aren't actually also dissatisfied with the same problem. Because in this case, you obviously missed the fact that even though sulu is correcting you, he not only understands the problem more (at least, the U.S.A. version of the problem, although copyright basics are almost the same everywhere), but he is actually being more useful towards eradicating that problem than you (not by much, but more nonetheless).


You know, someone should really make a script and throw it in the repos with some basic GUI, that automates this.

You could run it before any ovi-store installs, and it would do, in pseudocode:
while ('ls /var/cache/apt' returns no text)
{
wait 1 second
}
cp -a /var/ca.....

Hell, wrap it up in some better code, and it could execute that inside another loop, and print out output to console every time it copies a file over.

And the best thing is, at least in U.S. law (and I would hope most laws elsewhere), that's 100% legal, because you're allowed your 1 archival copy.

Then just slap it in the repos.

...why has no one done this yet?