Yes well, going by that definition, non-violent resistance will always get you killed. Do you really think any Jews would have survived the holocaust if they had followed that example and actively non-violently resisted? Hitler would have gotten exactly what he wanted: Jews would have been exterminated. Instead, many survived to carry on their legacy. Same thing would have happened in above example about villagers. If they would have followed your advice for "non-violent resistance" they'd all be dead already. No matter how you present your case, there's *always* someone out there who just doesn't give a shit, and will be more than happy to use violence in response to your non-violence. In fact, they love your non-violence. It just makes it that much easier for them to blow you out of their way. So the only way your "non-violent resistance" pans out is if you believe you have another life after death, and you're going for a "spiritual victory". Because you're definitely not getting any kind of victory in this life.
I have to agree actually. It used to be a PITA like you say, but when I moved here to Columbus OH, it was about as painless and efficient as can be. And the process was exactly as you described.
The only problem I have with the whole "gay marriage" debate is the actual definition of the word. See, the word "marriage" used to refer to the unique relationship that only 2 people of opposite sexes can form. So if we want to change the definition of that word to include same-sex relationships, ok fine... but now we need to come up with a new word to replace what marriage used to mean. This is also one of the biggest reasons Christians have such a hangup with the whole "gay marriage" thing. Because every place in the Bible it uses the word "marriage", it specifically indicates a long-term relationship between two people of opposite sex. And it's pretty hard to go back and reprint a few billion books to use a different word.
I know this viewpoint isn't popular with the/. crowd, but that's fine. I have karma to burn.
Something like that happened to one of my own videos. Just a stupid little clip from a video game, but it included some music that apparently it's "wrong" to use. So they deleted the video. I made it easy for them - I deleted the rest. I'm done using YouTube. They're stupid for caving in so easily, but the labels issuing the takedown notices are far, far more stupid. They're slaughtering their single best advertising, and it was free for them. Seriously, they should be PAYING people to use their crap on YouTube. You already know no one (and I mean NO one) is going to use YouTube as an alternative to downloading an MP3. Let's see... choice of $0.99 to download the song and use it on your MP3 player, or have to go to a website, on your computer, and stream the video every time you want to listen to it. Yeah, people were DEFINITELY using YouTube to avoid buying music. Lots of lost sales there, yep!
YouTube is going from great to irrelevant, and it's hurting not only them, but the music labels as well. That's fine, I'm done with them.
...but then, I've never had a problem with any other brand of drive either. I've used WD, Maxtor, and Seagate. A lot of it is just the luck of the draw. Yeah, some are notoriously bad, and some have a batch of notoriously bad drives (ie. deskstar drive, already mentioned many times in the comments here).
I did work at a mom&pop computer repair shop for about a year (07/06 - 08/07) where we used exclusively Seagate drives, and I'd guess we had about a 1% failure rate in that year. Don't know for sure, but I do know it wasn't very many.
My personal main drives are 300GB and 320GB (both IDE) Seagate drives, have worked well for 1-2 years now.
The one where I worked, the climbing was the good part. The bad part was at the bottom, where all the skeletons were. Well, the fresh ones weren't skeletons, but they would be eventually.
Speak for yourself. I'm clearly much less addicted than you. Checking email is only the second thing I do when I get home from work, the first is sit down in my comfy chair.
So... how much sense does it make to spend 200,000 on the flying car when a Cessna costs about half of that, and a car too?
None at all. A plane that can also drive on the road is practically useless. You still have to have a pilot's license, you still have to take off from an airport. And because it also functions as a car, it's a lot less efficient to operate, and a lot more expensive to build. And you're also dead right about this not being the first flying car. Even if it actually were a flying car, it's not the first. I'm fairly certain though, that it's still going to be a while before we see any real flying cars in use.
For the most part, I tend to agree with you, but the anti-Vista media campaign wasn't entirely unfounded. Vista did have a lot of compatibility issues for a long while, not to mention problems like outrageous file-transfer times, etc. But the biggest failure of Vista wasn't really any of those. The biggest failure of Vista was the fact they took five years to put out such an underwhelming product. Keep in mind, that the longest gap between any previous versions of Windows was less than 3 years. In general, Vista *is* overall better than XP, but not enough so to warrant a five-year development span.
he structure of that post was classic and obvious Slashtroturfing.
Microsofties have posted like that many times in the past here, along the lines of "Well, I do like my Linux boxes, but ahem, Windows Vista is looking not too bad nowadays and I may actually try it out myself one of these days, hint, hint, everybody."
You might think that about my post, but you'd be wrong. You obviously don't know what my posts about MS looked like 2 years ago, and I wouldn't expect you to. It's the interwebs, where everyone has an opinion and no one's opinion really matters.
I do agree with you about the mod though. A person on the internet that used to hate MS and now less so isn't particularly interesting.
And please, FFS don't mod this shit up either. If you have to mod it, hit it up with Offtopic, which it clearly is.
I'm right there with you. Couldn't agree more. And I'm one of the guys that spent about 1-2 months researching and downloading WinXP drivers for the laptop I was going to buy so I could replace Vista immediately (which I ended up doing). I am really looking forward to Win7, which I would have sworn I would never say about another MS operating system about 2 years ago.
Yes, because Win ME was a last minute (OMG it's a Y2K OS!!) cash-grab they threw together after they realized the NT kernel wasn't quite ready for prime-time as a home user OS with Win2K. GP point still stands.
Not likely. I don't recall exactly what the time is you have to wait between AC posts from the same IP address, but it's a good deal longer than 11 minutes. Sure, it's possible to try to renew your IP, but why bother for something as insignificant as this?
You'd think so, but it's actually not true. I find it amazing myself, but UAC actually works. I work at a PC phone support center, and we get tons of calls about computers infected with Antivirus 2009/Antivirus Pro/etc. Out of the dozens (if not hundreds) of these calls I've taken over the last few months, I got exactly one call about a Vista machine that was infected. A good 99%+ of those calls we get are for infected XP machines, and I can guarantee you XP does not have 99x the marketshare of Vista, by any measurement. I also had another call where the caller had gotten a popup that would have infected her computer, and she believed the popup and pressed "scan". Only problem for the malware was, the next screen she got was a "continue or cancel" screen from UAC, and that apparently scared her more than the panic popup had, and she clicked cancel.
That's all an OS has ever been for. It's only in recent years that real features and things have been added to the OS itself, and if anything the OS is *more* important now than ever.
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Yes well, going by that definition, non-violent resistance will always get you killed. Do you really think any Jews would have survived the holocaust if they had followed that example and actively non-violently resisted? Hitler would have gotten exactly what he wanted: Jews would have been exterminated. Instead, many survived to carry on their legacy. Same thing would have happened in above example about villagers. If they would have followed your advice for "non-violent resistance" they'd all be dead already. No matter how you present your case, there's *always* someone out there who just doesn't give a shit, and will be more than happy to use violence in response to your non-violence. In fact, they love your non-violence. It just makes it that much easier for them to blow you out of their way. So the only way your "non-violent resistance" pans out is if you believe you have another life after death, and you're going for a "spiritual victory". Because you're definitely not getting any kind of victory in this life.
This whole thing was written by frakkin' Cylons, you can't trust any of them!
I have to agree actually. It used to be a PITA like you say, but when I moved here to Columbus OH, it was about as painless and efficient as can be. And the process was exactly as you described.
The only problem I have with the whole "gay marriage" debate is the actual definition of the word. See, the word "marriage" used to refer to the unique relationship that only 2 people of opposite sexes can form. So if we want to change the definition of that word to include same-sex relationships, ok fine... but now we need to come up with a new word to replace what marriage used to mean. This is also one of the biggest reasons Christians have such a hangup with the whole "gay marriage" thing. Because every place in the Bible it uses the word "marriage", it specifically indicates a long-term relationship between two people of opposite sex. And it's pretty hard to go back and reprint a few billion books to use a different word.
I know this viewpoint isn't popular with the /. crowd, but that's fine. I have karma to burn.
Maybe they're using Belkin router as well?
Something like that happened to one of my own videos. Just a stupid little clip from a video game, but it included some music that apparently it's "wrong" to use. So they deleted the video. I made it easy for them - I deleted the rest. I'm done using YouTube. They're stupid for caving in so easily, but the labels issuing the takedown notices are far, far more stupid. They're slaughtering their single best advertising, and it was free for them. Seriously, they should be PAYING people to use their crap on YouTube. You already know no one (and I mean NO one) is going to use YouTube as an alternative to downloading an MP3. Let's see... choice of $0.99 to download the song and use it on your MP3 player, or have to go to a website, on your computer, and stream the video every time you want to listen to it. Yeah, people were DEFINITELY using YouTube to avoid buying music. Lots of lost sales there, yep!
YouTube is going from great to irrelevant, and it's hurting not only them, but the music labels as well. That's fine, I'm done with them.
...but then, I've never had a problem with any other brand of drive either. I've used WD, Maxtor, and Seagate. A lot of it is just the luck of the draw. Yeah, some are notoriously bad, and some have a batch of notoriously bad drives (ie. deskstar drive, already mentioned many times in the comments here).
I did work at a mom&pop computer repair shop for about a year (07/06 - 08/07) where we used exclusively Seagate drives, and I'd guess we had about a 1% failure rate in that year. Don't know for sure, but I do know it wasn't very many.
My personal main drives are 300GB and 320GB (both IDE) Seagate drives, have worked well for 1-2 years now.
It reduces the chance someone will sue them.
I checked the calendar and today is definitely not April 1st, so somewhere this story must ultimately lead back to an Onion.
his kids will already be 6 yrs old then- and he'll finally be able to spend some time with them
FTFY.
The one where I worked, the climbing was the good part. The bad part was at the bottom, where all the skeletons were. Well, the fresh ones weren't skeletons, but they would be eventually.
My chair has wheels.
WHEELS baby!
Speak for yourself. I'm clearly much less addicted than you. Checking email is only the second thing I do when I get home from work, the first is sit down in my comfy chair.
So... how much sense does it make to spend 200,000 on the flying car when a Cessna costs about half of that, and a car too?
None at all. A plane that can also drive on the road is practically useless. You still have to have a pilot's license, you still have to take off from an airport. And because it also functions as a car, it's a lot less efficient to operate, and a lot more expensive to build. And you're also dead right about this not being the first flying car. Even if it actually were a flying car, it's not the first. I'm fairly certain though, that it's still going to be a while before we see any real flying cars in use.
For the most part, I tend to agree with you, but the anti-Vista media campaign wasn't entirely unfounded. Vista did have a lot of compatibility issues for a long while, not to mention problems like outrageous file-transfer times, etc. But the biggest failure of Vista wasn't really any of those. The biggest failure of Vista was the fact they took five years to put out such an underwhelming product. Keep in mind, that the longest gap between any previous versions of Windows was less than 3 years. In general, Vista *is* overall better than XP, but not enough so to warrant a five-year development span.
he structure of that post was classic and obvious Slashtroturfing.
Microsofties have posted like that many times in the past here, along the lines of "Well, I do like my Linux boxes, but ahem, Windows Vista is looking not too bad nowadays and I may actually try it out myself one of these days, hint, hint, everybody."
You might think that about my post, but you'd be wrong. You obviously don't know what my posts about MS looked like 2 years ago, and I wouldn't expect you to. It's the interwebs, where everyone has an opinion and no one's opinion really matters.
I do agree with you about the mod though. A person on the internet that used to hate MS and now less so isn't particularly interesting.
And please, FFS don't mod this shit up either. If you have to mod it, hit it up with Offtopic, which it clearly is.
I'm right there with you. Couldn't agree more. And I'm one of the guys that spent about 1-2 months researching and downloading WinXP drivers for the laptop I was going to buy so I could replace Vista immediately (which I ended up doing). I am really looking forward to Win7, which I would have sworn I would never say about another MS operating system about 2 years ago.
Yes, because Win ME was a last minute (OMG it's a Y2K OS!!) cash-grab they threw together after they realized the NT kernel wasn't quite ready for prime-time as a home user OS with Win2K. GP point still stands.
Yes. SP4 actually included the exact same compatibility mode feature found in XP that was highly touted at its release.
Not likely. I don't recall exactly what the time is you have to wait between AC posts from the same IP address, but it's a good deal longer than 11 minutes. Sure, it's possible to try to renew your IP, but why bother for something as insignificant as this?
I'm sorry, are you getting DOS confused with AOL?
I don't know who modded that down, but that's pretty damn funny. Someone please give that guy his karma back.
Yes, "notorious" would be a much better word, but "popular" still fits. However, by any metric, Vista is not the least popular.
And FWIW, here's another definition I found:
6. Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. [Obs.] --Johnson.
You'd think so, but it's actually not true. I find it amazing myself, but UAC actually works. I work at a PC phone support center, and we get tons of calls about computers infected with Antivirus 2009/Antivirus Pro/etc. Out of the dozens (if not hundreds) of these calls I've taken over the last few months, I got exactly one call about a Vista machine that was infected. A good 99%+ of those calls we get are for infected XP machines, and I can guarantee you XP does not have 99x the marketshare of Vista, by any measurement. I also had another call where the caller had gotten a popup that would have infected her computer, and she believed the popup and pressed "scan". Only problem for the malware was, the next screen she got was a "continue or cancel" screen from UAC, and that apparently scared her more than the panic popup had, and she clicked cancel.
That's all an OS has ever been for. It's only in recent years that real features and things have been added to the OS itself, and if anything the OS is *more* important now than ever.
What exactly did you do with DOS anyway??