So, people are pre-ordering moderately expensive tech gear from a company who can't keep their servers running under the astronomical load of roughly two hits per minute.
Funny you should mention the financial crisis, gee, wonder what kind of market behaviour got us into that mess!
If you read even one article or review about it yes, you will notice that it was common knowledge, but this was expressed as a critique of the release, not a pink, fluffy and widely accepted fact.
In my opinion, Office 2007 is a superior product. Especially for me who uses it for school to write papers and not much else. Sure, I wouldn't pay for it, but when it's "free" (I mentioned I was a student?), it's unbeatable. It's slick, easy to use and just fulfills my every need in a word processor.
Interface wise, as far as OOo goes, I think it's suitable to use the classic comparison often made between Vista/OS X/KDE4 (intentionally ignoring Gnome here) and Windows 3.1.
So, there's a student, not very geeky, user oriented pov for you:-)
Why is this not modded insightful? The post is spot on. We do what we can with being able to do it as the only justification. This attitude is fundamental to the progress of the human civilization.
It makes me fundamentally frustrated that in the 21st century, religion still has a say. Just imagine where we would be if religion would've been banned some 8-900 years ago...
I see your point, but then the entire case is stupid (well, I guess that's no surprise). According to the summary, the case is about "block transfers of copyrighted materials via P2P". If what you say is true, and I guess it is, then the case itself is flawed and I don't even know what we're talking about. Or why.
I am not surprised, I find this rather expected. The power in Turkey seems to have misunderstood the concept of freedom of religion. It is about guaranteeing citizens the right to do what they wish concerning religion, it is not about safeguarding the citizens from religious influence.
To me, the Turkish position is backwards and uneducated. What would surprise me is if they ever become accepted as an EU member, given their actions on religion (and secularism).
I recently bought my first* and last 3 DVDs ever and when I popped in Boondock Saints in my laptop connected by HDMI to my HDTV, VLC crashed, MPC went black and Windows Media Player said it couldn't play the movie on this device.
But it's ok, I got good speeds of the Bay that night.
Add to the argument that the amount of illegal goods in the public transportation system is substantial, lets say more than 20 percent of everything transported, and also that there is tech available that allowed the transport company to identify commuters carrying the illegal goods.
Now you have an interesting argument, albeit still worthless as you will now try to come to a conclusion for a real case (piracy) based on "facts" derived from a fictional case (transport company).
Everyone who says we still need IPv4 and should focus on reusing the millions of idle addresses, should be sat in front of the internets and told to get on with it. I for one wouldn't have a clue.
money (profit) earned by sales of Viagra helps to fund future research into other drugs.
That's swallowing the industry's argument a bit to easily. The baldness research proponent should rather emphasize the spill-over effect: This is profitable research, so it doesn't mean cutting back on something else, however, the research results obviously benefits the scientific progress in the gene field as a whole without costing as much as a dime.
Currently, such spill-over is not available to the entire research community and this is where a healthy critique of patents and such is needed, which would also be a critique of the zeitgeist behind your initial argument.
Quick hint to the developers of this cool little toy: Artists get nervous when when programmers start talking about "single view symmetric epipolar method" and other very complicated terms.
Just to make sure, to really make sure artists "get it", the tech stuff should be boiled down to something no more technical than "Hi, I'm a Sketch board"
These days financial institutions consider IT (and other) security as something that costs them money, without giving them any benefit.
I'm not sure you have understood the World Bank as a financial institution. They are in the business of things that costs money without giving any benefit. It's what they do. And they do it good.
I'm not following your argument. Are you saying that close elections aren't democratic? I've always thought it was the opposite: that one side constantly winning landslides is undemocratic - but what do I know?
Last time I was in India, I only met one guy who spoke French. So if it's a sad point, then I guess cost minimizing schemes are sad by default.
(Incidentally, this one guy had studied French only to increase his competence at the call center where he worked. But as I said, he was the only one.)
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But they are evidently based on double-speak.
So, people are pre-ordering moderately expensive tech gear from a company who can't keep their servers running under the astronomical load of roughly two hits per minute. Funny you should mention the financial crisis, gee, wonder what kind of market behaviour got us into that mess!
If you read even one article or review about it yes, you will notice that it was common knowledge, but this was expressed as a critique of the release, not a pink, fluffy and widely accepted fact.
In my opinion, Office 2007 is a superior product. Especially for me who uses it for school to write papers and not much else. Sure, I wouldn't pay for it, but when it's "free" (I mentioned I was a student?), it's unbeatable. It's slick, easy to use and just fulfills my every need in a word processor. Interface wise, as far as OOo goes, I think it's suitable to use the classic comparison often made between Vista/OS X/KDE4 (intentionally ignoring Gnome here) and Windows 3.1. So, there's a student, not very geeky, user oriented pov for you :-)
Here is the thing, I hate the drug laws, despise them actually. So I go out and start smoking pot because today it is STILL ILLEGAL....
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Why is this not modded insightful? The post is spot on. We do what we can with being able to do it as the only justification. This attitude is fundamental to the progress of the human civilization.
It makes me fundamentally frustrated that in the 21st century, religion still has a say. Just imagine where we would be if religion would've been banned some 8-900 years ago...
Well, that involves inked thumbs and other hitech gadgets.
Then again, the new 2007 interface in Microsoft Office is the only reason I wont even bother with OOo3.
Sorry, I didn't read your entire post, I just want to thank you for proving my point.
I see your point, but then the entire case is stupid (well, I guess that's no surprise). According to the summary, the case is about "block transfers of copyrighted materials via P2P". If what you say is true, and I guess it is, then the case itself is flawed and I don't even know what we're talking about. Or why.
Indeed, that makes the parent's analogy even more flawed.
I am not surprised, I find this rather expected. The power in Turkey seems to have misunderstood the concept of freedom of religion. It is about guaranteeing citizens the right to do what they wish concerning religion, it is not about safeguarding the citizens from religious influence. To me, the Turkish position is backwards and uneducated. What would surprise me is if they ever become accepted as an EU member, given their actions on religion (and secularism).
I recently bought my first* and last 3 DVDs ever and when I popped in Boondock Saints in my laptop connected by HDMI to my HDTV, VLC crashed, MPC went black and Windows Media Player said it couldn't play the movie on this device.
But it's ok, I got good speeds of the Bay that night.
*Why I did this is another story
Add to the argument that the amount of illegal goods in the public transportation system is substantial, lets say more than 20 percent of everything transported, and also that there is tech available that allowed the transport company to identify commuters carrying the illegal goods.
Now you have an interesting argument, albeit still worthless as you will now try to come to a conclusion for a real case (piracy) based on "facts" derived from a fictional case (transport company).
Everyone who says we still need IPv4 and should focus on reusing the millions of idle addresses, should be sat in front of the internets and told to get on with it. I for one wouldn't have a clue.
Since DVI and HDMI basically are the same thing with different sockets, capability of one means capability of both.
It could have meant something, but instead it's a reward for people who do things that are politically popular in northern Europe.
I'm from northern Europe and I can say for a fact that things that are politically popular here generally are for the benefit of mankind.
money (profit) earned by sales of Viagra helps to fund future research into other drugs.
That's swallowing the industry's argument a bit to easily. The baldness research proponent should rather emphasize the spill-over effect: This is profitable research, so it doesn't mean cutting back on something else, however, the research results obviously benefits the scientific progress in the gene field as a whole without costing as much as a dime.
Currently, such spill-over is not available to the entire research community and this is where a healthy critique of patents and such is needed, which would also be a critique of the zeitgeist behind your initial argument.
Quick hint to the developers of this cool little toy: Artists get nervous when when programmers start talking about "single view symmetric epipolar method" and other very complicated terms.
Just to make sure, to really make sure artists "get it", the tech stuff should be boiled down to something no more technical than "Hi, I'm a Sketch board"
These days financial institutions consider IT (and other) security as something that costs them money, without giving them any benefit.
I'm not sure you have understood the World Bank as a financial institution. They are in the business of things that costs money without giving any benefit. It's what they do. And they do it good.
I'm not following your argument. Are you saying that close elections aren't democratic? I've always thought it was the opposite: that one side constantly winning landslides is undemocratic - but what do I know?
Dell usually overshoots the anticipation by weeks, so count on getting is much earlier.
Last time I was in India, I only met one guy who spoke French. So if it's a sad point, then I guess cost minimizing schemes are sad by default. (Incidentally, this one guy had studied French only to increase his competence at the call center where he worked. But as I said, he was the only one.)
ReWalk, soon in a tv shop near you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRQs-N-ZIM