Actually we could make this dead simple: Let the people vote. Realizing this internationally may be a wee bit complicated, but imo possible. If somebody's sentenced for life and/or popular demand ensues for shorter convictions, the whole world can vote to relieve said felon of all charges, keep him for whatever sentence he's been given or decide to kill him. All that could be included nicely in some kind of web portal where you, right after the usual check of/. each morning, check whom you want to see dead today. After a few days (like 96 hours of voting per candidate) or a few (hundred?) million votes are cast, the votes are counted and whatever's been voted for the most is done:)
I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but most spammers are based in countries that won't really cooperate with the rest of the world when it comes to matters like spam. This very probably points to a general fear of spam-unfriedly law-enforcement agencies. Now if there was an international death-enforcement agency backed by, let's say, a few russian families don't you think the spammers would probably do their best to move out of that agency's reach? As in not spam anymore 'cause the world wouldn't be safe for spammers?
It's not as simple as "A or B". IIRC, two houses for a total of some 250 people have to be populated out of a few hundred candidates distributed into some "lists" and being able to be voted for individually, a single integer probably won't be a viable option to store a vote (an array of integers might, but I assume it's going to be strings).
Yep, it's rather bad - about 30-50% of all voters actually vote, but the upcoming elections might have a bit higher participation (some very aggressive campaigning been going on for the past weeks). I think this is directly related to Switzerland being a very direct democracy - with enouh support (that's in numbers of people, not money), almost every decision of the Swiss political leaders can be overturned by the Swiss people.
Those sites aren't comparing the prices of the Mozilla suite or Mozilla's products, but the Mozilla foundation, corp and whatever's attached to it. Google leased them, now you have the chance of actually buying them (For three low low payments of only $50'000'000.00)!
'twas "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" as still seen here (page title, not header image). After the 10 year anniversary the image will probably be changed back again.
Now I am no lawyer, but as far as my very limited knowledge goes, there are two approaches to law. The nice one is to use the law to resolve conflicts in a lawful way. It's also the one you seem to be talking about. The other one's different in that, as chief Xenu worshipper L. R. Hubbard beautifully said, defines "The Purpose of a Lawsuit [to be] Harass[ment]". That's the one I assume GP was thinking of. Especially in the USoA's law system it seems to be very easy to force both sides to burn lots of money on lawyers and that kind of cost - up to the point where the (financially) weaker player is bankrupted. That kind of abuse of the law is where Microsoft can really use all their (again financial) power.
If I recall correctly, FIFA, UEFA and the Olympics guys all tried to trademark extremely generic names like "Deutschland 06" (Germany 06) and "WM 2006" (WM referring to the german "Weltmeisterschaft", en. "World Cup"). Seems to be a growing trend, so trademark your favourite words now!
Most people don't spend $87 on Outlook but some $250 on Office 2007 Standard. Many will also get it (almost) free by BitTorrent, KaZaA, some neighbourhood geek or their workplace. In that case "it" will probably be the Enterprise or Professional Edition, not Standard.
The video mentioned in TFS is, of course, a fake. The actual quote was this:
Ballmer: [...] they read your mail and we don't, but our Developers, Developers, Developers are working on that! Developers, Developers, Developers...
After a few minutes of his "developers" chant, Ballmer was reported as throwing chairs at every googly seeming person in the room.
Searching email in a real client always takes years where as in Gmail it keeps everything, ever, and takes a fraction of a second to search it.
Have you tried Outlook 2007 yet? If you're able to type your seach term, start a stop watch and stop it again after your results have appeared you were probably typing onehanded or have three hands. (Or to make it simple: It's wicked fast.)
I'm not saying the Unix approach to this matter is bad, but good PIM software may be doing a tiny little bit more than just piping text from one tool to another. Additionally: If a great Application like Outlook (v12 "2007" is great, stable and not as memory-consuming as previous ones) does all the tasks better than three, five or seventeen mini-apps, I am going to use the monolithic thing. Seems kind of similar to the [Gentoo/LFS]/[Ubuntu/Novell/RedHat], [Firefox + Thunderbird + n Extensions/Opera or Build your Computer/Buy it built debates. The former ideas may be compelling to try stuff out, do it yourself, and have some advantages in few scenarios (a wee bit faster and custom-compiled, more flexible, really capable of gaming) but if you want to get work done, you'll stick to the latter ones and save yourself hours of update, configuration or build time.
Nah, you had to blacken a few of the outermost millimeters of the actual surface to foil that copy protection. GP is referring to marking the edge of a cd with some kind of pen.
Usability is a nightmare. The UI is cluttered with useless, confusing icons and half of the functions behind them don't even work properly.
When was the last time you tried a fresh copy of Ubuntu? 7.10 seems way less cluttered than Vista to me and I think it's quite similar to 7.04 and 6.06 (never tried those, but Screenshots look similar).
Of course it doesn't help that Linus himself is a big antagonist when it comes to making a system that saves the user some time with useful configuration models and efficient UI.
Unfortunately you may be right here. Linus really is focusing on Linux's potential as an "Enterprise" OS, but that's why we need people like ck, Miguel de Icaza and Mark Shuttleworth.
Because Dell know(s (We talking about the company or Michael here?;))) most people expect Windows to ship with their PC. Plus they are extremely probably making a few bucks on each copy of Windows shipped and a few more on each piece of crapware included. And the Dell support helpdesk (including their field staff, I'd imagine) probably isn't ready to support a huge wave of Linux-related questions which they would have to if they rolled out Ubuntu on a really broad basis.
On any modern desktop Linux, software installation is no more complicated than "I want this program. Gimme."
Usually, for switchers it'll be more like "I want a program that does X. Gimme.". This is also the problem I think TFA is addressing with this excluded "average" group – people who are used to Windows and know Windows software with which they (want to) do their work. While I am sure most of those programs have acceptable or sometimes even superior counterparts on Linux, we'd really need wine to be easier to handle and more feature-complete to satisfy those users too.
You're in a bit of a dilemma here. Running beta software will cause some instabilities there (as mentioned by all others responding to you), but going back to stable 7.04 will probably get you the hardware-related problems GP was talking about (if you're running exotic or really new hardware anyways, Gutsy really fixed tons of issues there). I'm happy with Gutsy and a few problems, hope you are too:]
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Actually we could make this dead simple: Let the people vote. Realizing this internationally may be a wee bit complicated, but imo possible. If somebody's sentenced for life and/or popular demand ensues for shorter convictions, the whole world can vote to relieve said felon of all charges, keep him for whatever sentence he's been given or decide to kill him. All that could be included nicely in some kind of web portal where you, right after the usual check of /. each morning, check whom you want to see dead today. After a few days (like 96 hours of voting per candidate) or a few (hundred?) million votes are cast, the votes are counted and whatever's been voted for the most is done :)
I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but most spammers are based in countries that won't really cooperate with the rest of the world when it comes to matters like spam. This very probably points to a general fear of spam-unfriedly law-enforcement agencies. Now if there was an international death-enforcement agency backed by, let's say, a few russian families don't you think the spammers would probably do their best to move out of that agency's reach? As in not spam anymore 'cause the world wouldn't be safe for spammers?
It's not as simple as "A or B". IIRC, two houses for a total of some 250 people have to be populated out of a few hundred candidates distributed into some "lists" and being able to be voted for individually, a single integer probably won't be a viable option to store a vote (an array of integers might, but I assume it's going to be strings).
Yep, it's rather bad - about 30-50% of all voters actually vote, but the upcoming elections might have a bit higher participation (some very aggressive campaigning been going on for the past weeks). I think this is directly related to Switzerland being a very direct democracy - with enouh support (that's in numbers of people, not money), almost every decision of the Swiss political leaders can be overturned by the Swiss people.
No, you got it totally wrong!
Those sites aren't comparing the prices of the Mozilla suite or Mozilla's products, but the Mozilla foundation, corp and whatever's attached to it. Google leased them, now you have the chance of actually buying them (For three low low payments of only $50'000'000.00)!
'twas "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" as still seen here (page title, not header image).
After the 10 year anniversary the image will probably be changed back again.
... and in the meantime I can really recommend Sawmill which I finde quite loveable as a log processor.
... welcome our mind-reading, futuristic-headband-enforcing UI-adjusting overlords!
Precedent? Ever heard of .aero? .museum is available, too.
By the way:
Now I am no lawyer, but as far as my very limited knowledge goes, there are two approaches to law. The nice one is to use the law to resolve conflicts in a lawful way. It's also the one you seem to be talking about. The other one's different in that, as chief Xenu worshipper L. R. Hubbard beautifully said, defines "The Purpose of a Lawsuit [to be] Harass[ment]". That's the one I assume GP was thinking of. Especially in the USoA's law system it seems to be very easy to force both sides to burn lots of money on lawyers and that kind of cost - up to the point where the (financially) weaker player is bankrupted. That kind of abuse of the law is where Microsoft can really use all their (again financial) power.
If I recall correctly, FIFA, UEFA and the Olympics guys all tried to trademark extremely generic names like "Deutschland 06" (Germany 06) and "WM 2006" (WM referring to the german "Weltmeisterschaft", en. "World Cup"). Seems to be a growing trend, so trademark your favourite words now!
Most people don't spend $87 on Outlook but some $250 on Office 2007 Standard. Many will also get it (almost) free by BitTorrent, KaZaA, some neighbourhood geek or their workplace. In that case "it" will probably be the Enterprise or Professional Edition, not Standard.
The video mentioned in TFS is, of course, a fake. The actual quote was this: Ballmer: [...] they read your mail and we don't, but our Developers, Developers, Developers are working on that! Developers, Developers, Developers...
After a few minutes of his "developers" chant, Ballmer was reported as throwing chairs at every googly seeming person in the room.
So... If this access is secret, how exactly do you know of it?
("Sometimes I wish the government would actually kill conspiracy theorists, even if it were just to prove them right")
I'm not saying the Unix approach to this matter is bad, but good PIM software may be doing a tiny little bit more than just piping text from one tool to another. Additionally: If a great Application like Outlook (v12 "2007" is great, stable and not as memory-consuming as previous ones) does all the tasks better than three, five or seventeen mini-apps, I am going to use the monolithic thing. Seems kind of similar to the [Gentoo/LFS]/[Ubuntu/Novell/RedHat], [Firefox + Thunderbird + n Extensions/Opera or Build your Computer/Buy it built debates. The former ideas may be compelling to try stuff out, do it yourself, and have some advantages in few scenarios (a wee bit faster and custom-compiled, more flexible, really capable of gaming) but if you want to get work done, you'll stick to the latter ones and save yourself hours of update, configuration or build time.
Nah, you had to blacken a few of the outermost millimeters of the actual surface to foil that copy protection. GP is referring to marking the edge of a cd with some kind of pen.
The tubes vs solid-state thing? Don't you mean the (series of) tubes vs big truck (you just dump something on)? ;)
You're in a bit of a dilemma here. Running beta software will cause some instabilities there (as mentioned by all others responding to you), but going back to stable 7.04 will probably get you the hardware-related problems GP was talking about (if you're running exotic or really new hardware anyways, Gutsy really fixed tons of issues there). I'm happy with Gutsy and a few problems, hope you are too :]