Statistics show that most civilian gun owners are law-abiding and non-violent.
This is a different discussion where I don't disagree. Notice that I did not say that legal gun owners are more violent. My argument is that the gun culture, where guns are seen as really cool things to have and some people define their status by and through guns, results in a more violent culture (accompanied with other "aggressive" ingredient). Having been in the army, I know the feeling of having a gun and shooting guns. It makes people feel very powerful and invincible.
It is also not just about gun ownership, because you have countries like Switzerland that have very high gun ownership (with very strict gun control), but without the coolness status around it (presumably because of the gun control). I'm not against owning guns. I'm against having a gun culture where people use them to increase their self-esteem. Certain groups of people then use this in situations where it's not appropriate and it results in a stronger form of violence.
violence is much more a cultural thing than a product of laws. England had a low violent crime rate. Then they banned guns. Then they had a low violent crime rate.
I believe that that is true and I understand your point. But have you ever considered that the culture might be less violent without a gun culture? And a gun culture can only develop if it is legal and easy to own guns. Gun control is also not about people not owning a gun but it being controlled. Switzerland has very strict gun control laws but nearly every house has a gun.
try checking a 500M file into git, mercurial or bazaar sometime
That's true, unfortunately. About twice per year I try out all the newcomers, because I would really like to use a distributed vcs. Unfortunately they ALL fail badly on big files. I'm using svn much like a versioned filesystem and really like it for that. But if you're working with aerial photos and laser data, it means you're dealing with LARGE files. Subversion is fine with that. And with TortoiseSVN I can even have laymen use it without problems.
I'm open to suggestions for an (open source) alternative.
I understand your argument, but I believe it is based on a fundamental flaw just like the original poster made the mistake to create a strawman argument.
The problem is not that people are copying music and listening to it without paying. That has always been the case. Even the current CEOs of the big music companies will have spent their youth copying music from the radio or from friends' tapes. So, the believe that the music itself should be free for private use is very old and probably will never change.
When recording tapes arrived the industry was worried that they would be destroyed because nobody would pay for music. As we know this was wrong. What they did is that they created a higher value medium (in this case CDs), so people would want to buy the better quality. They adapted to the situation, innovated and continued to be successful.
Now, the industry is making the huge mistake that they want to stop people copying music - something people have always done - instead on focusing how to create higher value so that people will actually buy (more) music again. They are alienating their customers and, funnily enough, also their artists with this stance.
Instead of pouring all this money down the RIAA throat and terrorising their customers, they should put it into finding new innovative solutions. The sector will change radically and the old dinosaur companies that are ruling the market at the moment might disappear if they do not adapt.
In that line of argument, copyright can (and maybe should) be abolished, because companies will find different ways of working with it. But they will be very different which scares many.
Plausible deniability is not really working here, since it is one of TrueCrypt's main features, so if one has TC installed then it's pretty obvious he wants to hide something.
Not really. "Plausible deniability" is one of many features and Truecrypt is by far the best free hard drive encryption software at the moment. I and the organisation that I work for have been using it for many years and only last month I tried the hidden container feature to see how it works (and found it too annoying to always input two passwords). There is simply no better software for it at the moment and if you want to protect yourself from thieves or spies then it's the best solution (IMHO).
Yeah, like Switzerland. About as many guns per inhabitant as in the US, and it has the lowest homicide rate of them all. ...and they have very, very strict gun control, which makes Switzerland an argument for gun control. Or are you mixing up gun ownership and gun control?
You might also want to have a look at the numerous countries that have firearm ban laws, and exceedingly high firearm homicide rate anyway, like Russia, South Africa and Brazil. ...and don't enforce gun control. Which again would be an argument for better gun control, which obviously needs to be enforced.
Anyway, you interpreted my argument wrongly. I was arguing that "gun control == more firearm homicides" and going with that "no gun control == less firearm homicides" are wrong. Gun control does not mean that nobody is allowed to own guns.
When wearing seatbelts became mandatory, people were (and some still are!) arguing against it because "if you have an accident you are trapped". This reminds me a lot of this discussion where people say that if they don't own a gun then crime will be higher. How come this argument isn't true in many other countries? Plenty of countries where gun ownership is extremely restricted and funnily enough they have a lower crime rate (especially on gun crime) than the US. Just look at most European countries.
Gun ownership is in the constitution, so, fine, people should be allowed to own them and I think the decision of the Supreme Court is correct on that account. But that doesn't mean it's a good idea at all and the "but but but it reduces crime"-argument is flawed in my opinion.
G pronounced in German sounds like "gay". A few years ago when I told friends that I got a G-Mail beta account, they made fun of me and asked what my girlfriends thinks about that...
What? That must have been a situation of an English speaker pronouncing the letter wrongly; probably just having read somewhere that it's close to the pronunciation of "gay". If you hear a German pronounce the letter, you will hear that it's nowhere near "gay".
You can compare this to people saying that the English "th" sounds like "s".
I'm sorry, but your analogy to WW2 is so flawed it's not even funny. In WW2 there was a terrible war GOING ON and people were being killed on a grand scheme beyond comprehension. What war was going on in Iraq when the US marched in? Or in Afghanistan? Or now in Iran? Or North Korea? (Notice, I'm talking about war, not suppression of people.)
It is one thing to go somewhere to stop a terrible war or even to stop mass killings (which noone does anyway as we see in Darfur), but it is a completely different thing to START, yes, START a war where there wasn't one. If you want to compare it to WW2, then you have to compare the US to the aggressor of that war, i.e. Nazi Germany, because that was exactly what they did (and they had the rhetoric to paint their actions as morally right in a similar way to your rhetoric). I pray to God the next administration will lead the USA onto the right path, so that it is a respected country representing freedom not terror.
So, short of content I could publish and/or access without Freenet, what am I missing? And more to the point, is it worthwhile to fire up a node to find out? It seems like the sort of thing I'd be in favor of, and would like to support, but at the same time I can't imagine a worthwhile use for it in my own life.
Well, sorry, but this is a bit of a small world view, "you" being somebody who lives in a free society, right? Of course you're not missing anything! That's why it's called a free society!
Some argue that with all these anti-terrorist laws press freedom and freedom of speech slowly get reduced even in our societies, so maybe you (and I) need it in the future too. But this software is not just for you and me, who live in stable democratic societies with (mostly) functioning law systems and a (mostly) free press. It's for those others (think China, Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Russia, etc) and for those, who live in our societies and are censored (think, unfortunately, terrorists, extremists, criminals). But that is true for most things (internet, post system, telephone, protection of your home).
This is the reason why this software is important and even we, who don't really need it (yet), should support it (even if only in spirit).
I haven't even bothered to read the article (in good/. style) and hope the summary is accurate.
Having lived in a development country for 3 years and my partner is working for a development organisation and has a MSc in development, I find this naive (isn't that ironic!) argument of Dvorak (and many other people) just ridiculous. I won't go off in a big rant, just raise my main points:
1. Hunger relief (and medical relief like Medecins Sans Frontieres do) is ok for an emergency situation. Long term it destroys the local markets and makes people dependent on the aid. Educated people in the development sector learnt from the disasters that the old aid systems in the 80ies brought. Handing out freebies that makes people lose skills (farmers leaving their plots because aid food is free, tailors not producing clothes because second-hand clothes from developed countries are cheaper, etc) is a sure-fire way to keep people in poverty.
2. Education and teaching skills is (currently thought of to be) the most effective way to help countries develop. That's what organisations like the Peace Corps or VSO and many others do. After having learnt that the free aid system doesn't work, most hope is on this new transfer skills system. Mind you no-one knows yet if it will work either and every country is different.
3. OLPC is not a laptop project, but an education project. The developed laptop is only developed as a tool to teach and it is designed to be long-lived and not dependent on existing electricity.
It would be good if people educate themselves better before making comments that professional development workers (at least all that I know) will argue against immediately.
Interesting. I wonder if your comment would have been the same when they introduced RADAR for air traffic control:
No way I'm going to board a plane that only relies on RADAR. RADAR does only work if the airport has electricity, you know. And electricity is far less reliable than plain eye sight. I don't want to trust my life on the optimistic hope that electricity hickups won't be happening when I'm traveling, or that the RADAR will have a mechanical problem just when we're approaching an airport in fog at night you know. Additionally, which is harder: disrupting eye sight of pilots, or shooting down a few RADAR stations? Oh, wait, wait, there's more: how many RADAR stations would we need to cover reliably the whole planet before they can switch totally to RADAR, while the eye sight based system just works ? Ok, I'll leave the rest to you fellas.
You know, just because planes are using GPS doesn't mean that all RADAR stations will be switched off and that no pilots with eye sight are needed anymore. It's not a black and white world.
"We will sell this device through multiple channels. Direct from openmoko.com, the price will be $450 for the Neo Base and $600 for Neo Advanced." Not much of a price advantage, although discounts and subsequent costs are unknown. You're comparing the price of an unlocked phone (no forced contract) with the price of a locked phone which requires a 2-year contract with the choice of exactly one provider. I guess it's clear that the Neo is much cheaper than the iPhone even with the advanced model at $600. The advanced model is for developers with things like a debug card (see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007- June/000013.html). The base model for $450 is the one you need to compare to the iPhone.
OpenMoko is a VERY interesting project and I've been following it for quite a while. The hardware specs are really good (for the phase 2 phone which is going to be released in October) and the open source aspect is just fantastic.
You're right that the Nokia N95 has nearly all things that one would want.
I have to say though that it misses three things which would make it the perfect phone:
1. No integrated qwerty-keyboard. After having had a keyboard on my phone (Treo) there's no way I will ever buy a phone without one. Writing sms/email without it is so painful. Even a small keyboard like on the Treo is quite usable.
2. Crappy QVGA resolution. Why oh why don't they upgrade the resolution of the screens? VGA is possible these days and makes everything so much nicer looking.
3. Only up to 2GB storage? If I have such a capable phone, then I also want to use proper storage so that my ipod can stay at home. 4GB should be the minimum.
I would really like to buy a Nokia, but I guess I have to wait a bit longer... Mind that my perfect phone is obviously not everyone's perfect phone.
According to a story on Ars Technica, the $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140.
This makes it sound like they will sell it for that price. I looked long and hard to find where it say that. It's still called 100$ laptop everywhere official. It turns out that estimates (!) put the production costs at 138$. They will still sell it for 100$.
Man, and I hate these arrogant people of the "first" world who know how to improve the world so much better from watching tv or reading the internet. How come there are so many of those ones here on/. ? This project is about education, not about laptops. Argueing that "regime change", "better infrastructure", "providing food" is much more important doesn't change the fact that those problems are difficult to impossible for outsiders to solve. Starting with something that COULD actually do something good is much better than doing nothing or throwing money away with something most people KNOW doesn't work.
Having lived in China for 3 years I can assure you that football (or soccer) is huge there. They just haven't got good enough players so they didn't qualify for the world cup, but it's definitely the no. 1 sport in China.
You can count the most populous nation as a football nation.
And who exactly is it that wants control of DNS? France, [...] China, [...] Iran and Saudi Arabia, [...] Cuba and North Korea[...]
Apparently you don't know much about the situation. The argument is that no single country should control the internet. They (as in nearly every country except the USA) want the UN to control it.
Notice that I'm not saying that I think that's a good thing, but if you're arguing against it you should at least get your arguments right.
Look at the lawsuit to perhaps change your mind on that.
Thanks for the pointer. I wasn't even aware of it and had a look at it, but it doesn't change my mind.
To quote an article about the lawsuit (filed by only 3 people by the way):
Palm is expected to have shipped about 480,000 Treo devices in the company's first fiscal quarter, which ended in August, said Todd Kort, principal analyst with Gartner Inc. About 90 percent of those shipments are of the Treo 650, which was first introduced in October of last year. The Treo 600 made its debut in 2003 from Handspring Inc., which was later acquired by Palm.
No manufacturer is immune to problems with computer hardware, but the Treo has been a success for Palm and wireless carriers over the first few years of its life, Kort said. If the problems with the device were as widespread as the plaintiffs claim, it's likely that wireless carriers would have pulled the device from their shelves after receiving complaints, as T-Mobile USA Inc. did earlier this year with HP's h6315, he said.
If there really were that many problems, then I'm sure we would have heard more about it. It's more likely that those people who have these problems either a) had a bad batch of the Treo, which is not unlikely with that many sold, or most likely b) installed software on the Treo which made it totally unstable.
It is very unlikely that with 480,000 units sold there wouldn't be a huge outcry if only 1 in 50 units work as expected like the original poster claimed.
It's strange that you had such bad experiences them because you seem to be quite alone with that as far as I know.
I have one for some months now and I absolutely love it. I occasionally read the forums for treo users (mytreo.net, treocentral.com,...) and I haven't seen anything like you mention on there. And those forums are normally very quick in showing if a product has problems. Like they did when the first version had problems with the memory which finally got resolved by Palm. I have the GSM version, so maybe it's the CDMA version that you have problems with?
Personally I think it is finally a usable pda-phone that works as it should. I can totally recommend it.
Very similar system in Cologne/Germany. Only we have much smaller glasses (0.2 liters) so it makes even more sense, because otherwise you would be ordering all the time.
If it's empty, you automatically get a new one (all visitors are mightily impressed when they first experience it provided they like beer). If you don't want more, you just leave a small amount in the glass. Unfortunately not all pubs are still doing this because many non-Cologne people get too confused.
I love it and wish other cities in Germany and around the world would do the same (maybe not in bavaria with their one liter glasses;-) ).
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Statistics show that most civilian gun owners are law-abiding and non-violent.
This is a different discussion where I don't disagree. Notice that I did not say that legal gun owners are more violent. My argument is that the gun culture, where guns are seen as really cool things to have and some people define their status by and through guns, results in a more violent culture (accompanied with other "aggressive" ingredient). Having been in the army, I know the feeling of having a gun and shooting guns. It makes people feel very powerful and invincible.
It is also not just about gun ownership, because you have countries like Switzerland that have very high gun ownership (with very strict gun control), but without the coolness status around it (presumably because of the gun control). I'm not against owning guns. I'm against having a gun culture where people use them to increase their self-esteem. Certain groups of people then use this in situations where it's not appropriate and it results in a stronger form of violence.
violence is much more a cultural thing than a product of laws. England had a low violent crime rate. Then they banned guns. Then they had a low violent crime rate.
I believe that that is true and I understand your point. But have you ever considered that the culture might be less violent without a gun culture? And a gun culture can only develop if it is legal and easy to own guns. Gun control is also not about people not owning a gun but it being controlled. Switzerland has very strict gun control laws but nearly every house has a gun.
try checking a 500M file into git, mercurial or bazaar sometime
That's true, unfortunately. About twice per year I try out all the newcomers, because I would really like to use a distributed vcs. Unfortunately they ALL fail badly on big files. I'm using svn much like a versioned filesystem and really like it for that. But if you're working with aerial photos and laser data, it means you're dealing with LARGE files. Subversion is fine with that. And with TortoiseSVN I can even have laymen use it without problems.
I'm open to suggestions for an (open source) alternative.
I understand your argument, but I believe it is based on a fundamental flaw just like the original poster made the mistake to create a strawman argument.
The problem is not that people are copying music and listening to it without paying. That has always been the case. Even the current CEOs of the big music companies will have spent their youth copying music from the radio or from friends' tapes. So, the believe that the music itself should be free for private use is very old and probably will never change.
When recording tapes arrived the industry was worried that they would be destroyed because nobody would pay for music. As we know this was wrong. What they did is that they created a higher value medium (in this case CDs), so people would want to buy the better quality. They adapted to the situation, innovated and continued to be successful.
Now, the industry is making the huge mistake that they want to stop people copying music - something people have always done - instead on focusing how to create higher value so that people will actually buy (more) music again. They are alienating their customers and, funnily enough, also their artists with this stance.
Instead of pouring all this money down the RIAA throat and terrorising their customers, they should put it into finding new innovative solutions. The sector will change radically and the old dinosaur companies that are ruling the market at the moment might disappear if they do not adapt.
In that line of argument, copyright can (and maybe should) be abolished, because companies will find different ways of working with it. But they will be very different which scares many.
You don't have to enter 2 passwords to use the hidden volume.
You have to enter 2 passwords if you want to use the outer volume without damaging the inner one.
Plausible deniability is not really working here, since it is one of TrueCrypt's main features, so if one has TC installed then it's pretty obvious he wants to hide something.
Not really. "Plausible deniability" is one of many features and Truecrypt is by far the best free hard drive encryption software at the moment. I and the organisation that I work for have been using it for many years and only last month I tried the hidden container feature to see how it works (and found it too annoying to always input two passwords). There is simply no better software for it at the moment and if you want to protect yourself from thieves or spies then it's the best solution (IMHO).
Yeah, like Switzerland. About as many guns per inhabitant as in the US, and it has the lowest homicide rate of them all.
...and they have very, very strict gun control, which makes Switzerland an argument for gun control. Or are you mixing up gun ownership and gun control?
You might also want to have a look at the numerous countries that have firearm ban laws, and exceedingly high firearm homicide rate anyway, like Russia, South Africa and Brazil.
...and don't enforce gun control. Which again would be an argument for better gun control, which obviously needs to be enforced.
Anyway, you interpreted my argument wrongly. I was arguing that "gun control == more firearm homicides" and going with that "no gun control == less firearm homicides" are wrong. Gun control does not mean that nobody is allowed to own guns.
When wearing seatbelts became mandatory, people were (and some still are!) arguing against it because "if you have an accident you are trapped". This reminds me a lot of this discussion where people say that if they don't own a gun then crime will be higher. How come this argument isn't true in many other countries? Plenty of countries where gun ownership is extremely restricted and funnily enough they have a lower crime rate (especially on gun crime) than the US. Just look at most European countries.
Gun ownership is in the constitution, so, fine, people should be allowed to own them and I think the decision of the Supreme Court is correct on that account. But that doesn't mean it's a good idea at all and the "but but but it reduces crime"-argument is flawed in my opinion.
G pronounced in German sounds like "gay". A few years ago when I told friends that I got a G-Mail beta account, they made fun of me and asked what my girlfriends thinks about that...
What? That must have been a situation of an English speaker pronouncing the letter wrongly; probably just having read somewhere that it's close to the pronunciation of "gay". If you hear a German pronounce the letter, you will hear that it's nowhere near "gay".
You can compare this to people saying that the English "th" sounds like "s".
I'm sorry, but your analogy to WW2 is so flawed it's not even funny. In WW2 there was a terrible war GOING ON and people were being killed on a grand scheme beyond comprehension. What war was going on in Iraq when the US marched in? Or in Afghanistan? Or now in Iran? Or North Korea? (Notice, I'm talking about war, not suppression of people.)
It is one thing to go somewhere to stop a terrible war or even to stop mass killings (which noone does anyway as we see in Darfur), but it is a completely different thing to START, yes, START a war where there wasn't one. If you want to compare it to WW2, then you have to compare the US to the aggressor of that war, i.e. Nazi Germany, because that was exactly what they did (and they had the rhetoric to paint their actions as morally right in a similar way to your rhetoric). I pray to God the next administration will lead the USA onto the right path, so that it is a respected country representing freedom not terror.
If I want to modify a 5GB webpage, why would I want to checkout unrelated pieces?
;-)
Wow, that is one hell of a webpage!!! Maybe you should trim it a bit to improve loading times.
So, short of content I could publish and/or access without Freenet, what am I missing? And more to the point, is it worthwhile to fire up a node to find out?
It seems like the sort of thing I'd be in favor of, and would like to support, but at the same time I can't imagine a worthwhile use for it in my own life.
Well, sorry, but this is a bit of a small world view, "you" being somebody who lives in a free society, right? Of course you're not missing anything! That's why it's called a free society!
Some argue that with all these anti-terrorist laws press freedom and freedom of speech slowly get reduced even in our societies, so maybe you (and I) need it in the future too. But this software is not just for you and me, who live in stable democratic societies with (mostly) functioning law systems and a (mostly) free press. It's for those others (think China, Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Russia, etc) and for those, who live in our societies and are censored (think, unfortunately, terrorists, extremists, criminals). But that is true for most things (internet, post system, telephone, protection of your home).
This is the reason why this software is important and even we, who don't really need it (yet), should support it (even if only in spirit).
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
I have to say, I'm posting from it right now and it is impressive how much quicker it is than FF2!
I haven't even bothered to read the article (in good /. style) and hope the summary is accurate.
Having lived in a development country for 3 years and my partner is working for a development organisation and has a MSc in development, I find this naive (isn't that ironic!) argument of Dvorak (and many other people) just ridiculous. I won't go off in a big rant, just raise my main points:
1. Hunger relief (and medical relief like Medecins Sans Frontieres do) is ok for an emergency situation. Long term it destroys the local markets and makes people dependent on the aid. Educated people in the development sector learnt from the disasters that the old aid systems in the 80ies brought. Handing out freebies that makes people lose skills (farmers leaving their plots because aid food is free, tailors not producing clothes because second-hand clothes from developed countries are cheaper, etc) is a sure-fire way to keep people in poverty.
2. Education and teaching skills is (currently thought of to be) the most effective way to help countries develop. That's what organisations like the Peace Corps or VSO and many others do. After having learnt that the free aid system doesn't work, most hope is on this new transfer skills system. Mind you no-one knows yet if it will work either and every country is different.
3. OLPC is not a laptop project, but an education project. The developed laptop is only developed as a tool to teach and it is designed to be long-lived and not dependent on existing electricity.
It would be good if people educate themselves better before making comments that professional development workers (at least all that I know) will argue against immediately.
Interesting. I wonder if your comment would have been the same when they introduced RADAR for air traffic control:
No way I'm going to board a plane that only relies on RADAR. RADAR does only work if the airport has electricity, you know. And electricity is far less reliable than plain eye sight. I don't want to trust my life on the optimistic hope that electricity hickups won't be happening when I'm traveling, or that the RADAR will have a mechanical problem just when we're approaching an airport in fog at night you know. Additionally, which is harder: disrupting eye sight of pilots, or shooting down a few RADAR stations? Oh, wait, wait, there's more: how many RADAR stations would we need to cover reliably the whole planet before they can switch totally to RADAR, while the eye sight based system just works ? Ok, I'll leave the rest to you fellas.
You know, just because planes are using GPS doesn't mean that all RADAR stations will be switched off and that no pilots with eye sight are needed anymore. It's not a black and white world.
Not much of a price advantage, although discounts and subsequent costs are unknown. You're comparing the price of an unlocked phone (no forced contract) with the price of a locked phone which requires a 2-year contract with the choice of exactly one provider. I guess it's clear that the Neo is much cheaper than the iPhone even with the advanced model at $600. The advanced model is for developers with things like a debug card (see http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007
OpenMoko is a VERY interesting project and I've been following it for quite a while. The hardware specs are really good (for the phase 2 phone which is going to be released in October) and the open source aspect is just fantastic.
You're right that the Nokia N95 has nearly all things that one would want.
I have to say though that it misses three things which would make it the perfect phone:
1. No integrated qwerty-keyboard. After having had a keyboard on my phone (Treo) there's no way I will ever buy a phone without one. Writing sms/email without it is so painful. Even a small keyboard like on the Treo is quite usable.
2. Crappy QVGA resolution. Why oh why don't they upgrade the resolution of the screens? VGA is possible these days and makes everything so much nicer looking.
3. Only up to 2GB storage? If I have such a capable phone, then I also want to use proper storage so that my ipod can stay at home. 4GB should be the minimum.
I would really like to buy a Nokia, but I guess I have to wait a bit longer... Mind that my perfect phone is obviously not everyone's perfect phone.
According to a story on Ars Technica, the $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140.
/. ? This project is about education, not about laptops. Argueing that "regime change", "better infrastructure", "providing food" is much more important doesn't change the fact that those problems are difficult to impossible for outsiders to solve. Starting with something that COULD actually do something good is much better than doing nothing or throwing money away with something most people KNOW doesn't work.
This makes it sound like they will sell it for that price. I looked long and hard to find where it say that. It's still called 100$ laptop everywhere official. It turns out that estimates (!) put the production costs at 138$. They will still sell it for 100$.
Man, and I hate these arrogant people of the "first" world who know how to improve the world so much better from watching tv or reading the internet. How come there are so many of those ones here on
China? What's their problem?
Having lived in China for 3 years I can assure you that football (or soccer) is huge there. They just haven't got good enough players so they didn't qualify for the world cup, but it's definitely the no. 1 sport in China.
You can count the most populous nation as a football nation.
Update your account here: http://ebay.com/updateAccount.html
;-)
I tried to update my account details there, but it only shows a search box!!!!!!! Can I email it to you instead???
And who exactly is it that wants control of DNS? France, [...] China, [...] Iran and Saudi Arabia, [...] Cuba and North Korea[...]
Apparently you don't know much about the situation. The argument is that no single country should control the internet. They (as in nearly every country except the USA) want the UN to control it.
Notice that I'm not saying that I think that's a good thing, but if you're arguing against it you should at least get your arguments right.
sheesh. You were modded funny. maybe you meant it as a joke. Maybe you didn't. =P
:-)
You must be new here.
Read this to understand why it's funny. Notice the editor's comment to the story. Still cracks me up every time I read it.
Thanks for the pointer. I wasn't even aware of it and had a look at it, but it doesn't change my mind.
To quote an article about the lawsuit (filed by only 3 people by the way):
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/21/HNtreos
If there really were that many problems, then I'm sure we would have heard more about it. It's more likely that those people who have these problems either a) had a bad batch of the Treo, which is not unlikely with that many sold, or most likely b) installed software on the Treo which made it totally unstable.
It is very unlikely that with 480,000 units sold there wouldn't be a huge outcry if only 1 in 50 units work as expected like the original poster claimed.
It's strange that you had such bad experiences them because you seem to be quite alone with that as far as I know.
...) and I haven't seen anything like you mention on there. And those forums are normally very quick in showing if a product has problems. Like they did when the first version had problems with the memory which finally got resolved by Palm. I have the GSM version, so maybe it's the CDMA version that you have problems with?
I have one for some months now and I absolutely love it. I occasionally read the forums for treo users (mytreo.net, treocentral.com,
Personally I think it is finally a usable pda-phone that works as it should. I can totally recommend it.
Very similar system in Cologne/Germany. Only we have much smaller glasses (0.2 liters) so it makes even more sense, because otherwise you would be ordering all the time.
;-) ).
If it's empty, you automatically get a new one (all visitors are mightily impressed when they first experience it provided they like beer). If you don't want more, you just leave a small amount in the glass. Unfortunately not all pubs are still doing this because many non-Cologne people get too confused.
I love it and wish other cities in Germany and around the world would do the same (maybe not in bavaria with their one liter glasses