Apparently you dont know what a straw man is, but regardless my point is that every time one of these stupid internet monitoring bills comes up people make claims like "If DMCA passes, the US will be just like North Korea!" And guess what, it passed, and we still arent North Korea, and now everyone knows that youre just an ignorant loon.
Does it have some awful provisions? Sure. We can discuss that like adults. Are we Nazi Germany? No, we're not, and you drag the conversation into the ground when you assert that.
So really, they singular tyrant is a a group of 535 people, split over two bodies, in perpetual disagreement, who only have the power to partially implement laws, and no ability to enforce them.
Its not really a tyranny when your leader is booted from office every 4, or 8 tops years, and you have freedom to vote for whom you want with no repercussions.
Viewed by whom? Lots of people still come here to get away from repressive governments. And here you can actually choose who you vote for; and actually have a high confidence that the number of voters will match the number of votes.
Not claiming its perfect, but id be really surprised to hear whom these defenders of freedom are. UK? The country with cameras all throughout London, and no right to bear arms? Australia, with its fascination for global ISP filtering? Germany, with its stiff censorship laws? Or perhaps you meant Italy, with its so-free media, or Russia, with its impeccable balots?
Thats not the issue, the issue is that it is trivial to infringe and difficult and expensive to enforce. In the real world, for these kind of laws to work, they have to have some kind of teeth, realistically, to deal with those realities.
My experience with it was while working on someone's macbook. We had just changed the SMTP server to one that is only reachable via VPN, and the user had several messages in outbox. Immediately on startup the program tried to connect to the smtp server, failed, and popped up one dialog box per failing message, one by one, until the system bogged down and became unresponsive (there were at least 50 messages in outbox). Of course, OSX doesnt have an example of a full screen terminal (like linux) or of an "interrupting" task manager (like windows), so we had no choice but to slowly wade into Apps/Utilities/Activity monitor and kill the whole program.
OSX GUI actively tries to hide how many instances of a program you have open. Have 3 excel documents? only one icon shows. Want to see what folder youve opened in finder? Hidden by the GUI.
OSX isnt terrible GUI wise, but Win7s is IMO much better and cleaner. The one thing I like better about OSX is the unified menu-bar (which Unity has now too).
Maybe some of their stuff do not suck as badly as the alternatives (esp. where they successfully cut off their competitor's air supply), but "great software" and "Microsoft" in one sentence???
Exchange might have been bought a looong time ago (not sure), but it is currently developed by MS and has been for at least the last decade.
What alternative would you recommend to Exchange, then? I keep seeing this said, and Ive never seen a suitable, non-beta, maintained example given. There are some VERY recently (iRedMail, Zentyal) that might be close contenders, but thats it.
As for outlook, youll note that the best contenders for Exchange work best with Outlook, as they use MAPI (I believe).
Id be really interested to hear what you think would be a suitable contender for an LDAP-integrated, active-sync (or comparable) compatible, full email / calendaring / contacts solution would be, though-- fire away.
OWA 2007 / 2003, yes. 2010 probably the best web interface for email out there. I prefer it over google's interface, certainly. Fast, full featured, and completely cross-browser compatible: whats not to like?
with all the ms tripe......."great software" from Microsoft, google sucks, etc.
If thats not implying that Microsoft cant make great software, I dont know what is.
Is it possible that some people ACTUALLY LIKE the Win7 GUI more than OSX, KDE, and Fluxbox? That we like a GUI that is minimal, usable, has sane defaults (and keyboard shortcuts), and doesnt get in your way?
No, of course not. Anyone claiming so is spouting "ms tripe".
Thunderbird is absolute garbage compared to outlook, and Evolution is worse. What would you recommend as a good integrated groupware product? Preferably one that can handle about 3 GB of email, by the way.
And no, Mac Mail doesnt count. Its terrible in its own way.
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Apparently you dont know what a straw man is, but regardless my point is that every time one of these stupid internet monitoring bills comes up people make claims like "If DMCA passes, the US will be just like North Korea!" And guess what, it passed, and we still arent North Korea, and now everyone knows that youre just an ignorant loon.
Does it have some awful provisions? Sure. We can discuss that like adults. Are we Nazi Germany? No, we're not, and you drag the conversation into the ground when you assert that.
And North Korea is apparently a republic. Hey, theyre just like us, right???
So really, they singular tyrant is a a group of 535 people, split over two bodies, in perpetual disagreement, who only have the power to partially implement laws, and no ability to enforce them.
Thats some tyrant, there.
Not when youre comparing the US to Nazi Germany its not. For the record--
People groups slaughtered:
US: 0
Nazi Germany: several
Its not really a tyranny when your leader is booted from office every 4, or 8 tops years, and you have freedom to vote for whom you want with no repercussions.
wow someone hit a nerve.
AAAAAAAAAND Godwin. I think we're done here.
Viewed by whom? Lots of people still come here to get away from repressive governments. And here you can actually choose who you vote for; and actually have a high confidence that the number of voters will match the number of votes.
Not claiming its perfect, but id be really surprised to hear whom these defenders of freedom are. UK? The country with cameras all throughout London, and no right to bear arms? Australia, with its fascination for global ISP filtering? Germany, with its stiff censorship laws? Or perhaps you meant Italy, with its so-free media, or Russia, with its impeccable balots?
Do tell, Im all ears.
Apparently its strawman day on slashdot. I wait with bated breath to see the next one.
Yea, just the other day I went to www.baidu.cn and the secret police arrived and arrested me.
Seriously, what are you smoking?
Criticisms of SOPA or anything else will fall on deaf ears when you lose all perspective and compare the US to a repressive dictatorship.
It was "in abstentia", which cant help your case.
Thats not the issue, the issue is that it is trivial to infringe and difficult and expensive to enforce. In the real world, for these kind of laws to work, they have to have some kind of teeth, realistically, to deal with those realities.
You forgot the vertical axis. All you do is drop from above onto the hood of the tailgaiting punk and hit the accelerator.
Noone expects it, but it works wonders at those tricky merges.
My experience with it was while working on someone's macbook. We had just changed the SMTP server to one that is only reachable via VPN, and the user had several messages in outbox. Immediately on startup the program tried to connect to the smtp server, failed, and popped up one dialog box per failing message, one by one, until the system bogged down and became unresponsive (there were at least 50 messages in outbox). Of course, OSX doesnt have an example of a full screen terminal (like linux) or of an "interrupting" task manager (like windows), so we had no choice but to slowly wade into Apps/Utilities/Activity monitor and kill the whole program.
If thats not "failure", i dont know what is.
OSX GUI actively tries to hide how many instances of a program you have open. Have 3 excel documents? only one icon shows. Want to see what folder youve opened in finder? Hidden by the GUI.
OSX isnt terrible GUI wise, but Win7s is IMO much better and cleaner. The one thing I like better about OSX is the unified menu-bar (which Unity has now too).
Yes, called, if I remember correctly, "gkSUDO".
Had you actually heard about Google Health before today? Be honest.
And if you had, what would your level of interest be in handing over your health records to google?
Thats why this cancellation is really not any surprise at all.
Maybe some of their stuff do not suck as badly as the alternatives (esp. where they successfully cut off their competitor's air supply), but "great software" and "Microsoft" in one sentence???
Exchange might have been bought a looong time ago (not sure), but it is currently developed by MS and has been for at least the last decade.
What alternative would you recommend to Exchange, then? I keep seeing this said, and Ive never seen a suitable, non-beta, maintained example given. There are some VERY recently (iRedMail, Zentyal) that might be close contenders, but thats it.
As for outlook, youll note that the best contenders for Exchange work best with Outlook, as they use MAPI (I believe).
Id be really interested to hear what you think would be a suitable contender for an LDAP-integrated, active-sync (or comparable) compatible, full email / calendaring / contacts solution would be, though-- fire away.
OWA 2007 / 2003, yes. 2010 probably the best web interface for email out there. I prefer it over google's interface, certainly. Fast, full featured, and completely cross-browser compatible: whats not to like?
with all the ms tripe......."great software" from Microsoft, google sucks, etc.
If thats not implying that Microsoft cant make great software, I dont know what is.
Is it possible that some people ACTUALLY LIKE the Win7 GUI more than OSX, KDE, and Fluxbox? That we like a GUI that is minimal, usable, has sane defaults (and keyboard shortcuts), and doesnt get in your way?
No, of course not. Anyone claiming so is spouting "ms tripe".
Thunderbird is absolute garbage compared to outlook, and Evolution is worse. What would you recommend as a good integrated groupware product? Preferably one that can handle about 3 GB of email, by the way.
And no, Mac Mail doesnt count. Its terrible in its own way.
Not if you do it right, it is very difficult to stop someone from merging from the side of a vehicle to behind it.
And you didnt read his whole post.