We're in a period of history marked by the fastest, most far reaching technical innovation.
We're in a period of history marked by an all time low in violence, and all time high in overall human rights ?
And you want to use 'force' to stop 'the man' from stopping technical innovation ?
A small local drive with networked entertainment files storage is a good design for people who only use small local files and want to be able to stream the entertainment files to multiple locations.
Large media files for me are work, so they're on the local machine where I can manipulate them fastest.
'Most' people probably only have one computer, so a local drive big enough to fit all their work and entertainment files is a good thing.
From a simpler perspective. Every HDD you buy, for about the same price as you paid for the last one, or cheaper, has a smaller chance of you running into it being full, even with the constant increase in the size of data of arbitary things like 'a movie'.
Yes, fair point. As the child of a coal miner in the north of England I remember Mrs 'Milk Snatcher' and eighteen months of living by the charity of others well.
That's quite a long time ago, and was in the shadow of a very real nuclear arms race between superpowers able to destroy this country easily. Having a big friend made sense, and Europe was still recovering from a horribly destructive war.
Since then we've been involved in 'wars' without general British public support and that have not only made England unpopular in the world, but have shown our previous military ability to be on the wane.
I would expect a new government of any party to be incredibly wary of this, and to be actively moving our involvement in international affairs away from what is now a general distrust of American foreign policy.
As an aside, British people don't generally think of themselves as 'citizens', it's a fairly new term in British politics and generally used in relation to the patriotisation of immigrants.
Depends how you look at it, I'm viewing it as a messy transition from a two ( almost identical ) party system to a three party system, which I see as an improvement and something I didn't believe possible even at the last general election.
We've got rid of the party which has so badly eroded civil liberties, ( the workers party ! ) and we're likely to get a government which is mainly capitalistic, with an element of liberalism which is confined to fighting it's strongest arguments, which is exactly the target my tactical voting hoped for. ( Whether a hung parliment can do any meaningful work is yet to be seen. )
The citizen's vote has just resulted in a change of power away from people who say I'm dying to carry an ID card and run to war everytime America wants something, so as a British voter I feel my vote has changed something pivotal.
That's possibly not a great argument to bring up amidst an internet community likely to contain a large amount of people who's hard work stopped the millennium bug being a massive problem.
Credit card numbers are a bad example as they're a piece of information which is generally transferred securely between two parties who have motive for them to remain private. If credit card numbers were a product which was distributed to many people even one of whom fails to keep them private you would be able to access them on node B.
Furthermore, if node B has internet access and it's user be sufficiently lacking in morals and know where to look, it's entirely possible that credit card numbers could be found from there ( as far as I understand, buyable in large batches ) and it would currently not be possible for the network to recognise and stop the movement of these bits.
Agreed on the BBC. Whilst nothing is immune to politics or government intervention it does it's best to be as fair and unbiased as possible, and to bring it up as a negative point for Britain is a misunderstanding.
Directly around my home there have been several murders recently. It's England so not so hot and dusty.
By your reasoning I can find a long range rifle from somewhere, and sit on top of my building 'guarding' my girlfriend as she walks from the bus. If I see someone close to her ( a member of your family, say ) pull a phone?/camera?/gun?/knife?/buspass? from a pocket in a manner I find alarming I can open fire and you're happy the right thing has been done, yes ?
What choice did I have ? I'm assuming you accept the loss of your loved ones as necessary, one of them actually did have a Swiss army knife in their pocket.
Can we save some of the beautiful/physically gifted/creative/emotionally attuned/kind/brave - but not massively intelligent people too ? It's just that any kind of genetic cleansing would leave the gene pool diminished and weaker, and a human race consisting of just high IQ people would disappear up it's own backside quicker than you can say 'intelectual snob'.
Please don't judge all 'web developers' at the standard of the worst code you have access to, it's rude to those of us who were more 'classically' trained and know what we're doing.
I'm quite sure I could find some incredibly bad examples in your language(s) of choice.
It's hard to see the browser as a failed experiment, even if you mean a simple just html-rendering browser. A prototype stretched beyond it's initial scope possibly, but the browser is a very large part of the reason the world is increasingly online. But yes, it's the line between browser and os that's blurring, and the passing around of text documents is now a very small part of that.
I was so looking forward to reading Lord of the Rings, but the evil capitalistic bastard$ have published a story in THREE books ! I have to pay THREE times to read the whole fcing story ! It's a shame as I really liked The Hobbit, and everything else Tolkein ever wrote, but they've gone too far with this one. I don't care if it's taken three times as long, and cost three times as much money to produce, I want my innovation in exactly the format I'm familiar with, and if not I'm going to scream blue murder on the Internets.
And whilst I'm at it, I'm also pissed that they're releasing a sequal at all, filthy money grabbing a$$holes, I've already paid for the Starcraft story when I bought the first one, and paying them again to continue it is an OUTRAGE!
May I humbly suggest that you have absolutely no idea about the unquanifiable 'enjoyment' return on your possible monetary investment, the product in question only just having gone into beta, for what may be a game you play for hundreds of hours, and are quite welcome to buy just the parts of that you want. ( Protoss! Go! )
I'm not sure what standards you think you can be upholding with your wallet as you can't have enough information yet to judge whether this is 3 * ( standard game you're happy to buy ) or 3 * ( 1/3 of standard game you're happy to buy. ) So all you can possibly be complaining about is that this isn't how it's normally done. And if you chose to use your wallet to encourage more-of-the-same, then I'm happy my wallet disagrees with you.
Even intelligent people without a direct interest in, or need to learn about, computers find even OSX and modern Windows difficult as soon as they have to do something unfamiliar.
The iPhone/iPad + apps interface has it closer to correct for most people, personal documents aside, they don't need or want access even to the filesystem.
I do, ofc, but I feel it's starting to become a minority viewpoint, and maybe the success of Linux will be that in the near future it's the best way to have what we now regard as a OS.
And how does your ideology countenence that you're spending your clients/employers money on the extra time you spend using a non optimum toolset ?
If someone who was building me a house took an extra five weeks to build it because they had a personal issue with the monopolistic hammer makers, and so were using a selection of not-quite hammers, I'd think them petty and unprofessional.
I'm for open source software ( and against Adobe's monopoly ), and use it where suitable, but it provides far from the best tools for graphic design in general and in most specifics.
Given two graphic designers of identical skill, the one who spends most time having to think about/get tools to work is the one with the least time for design, and therefore produces work of a worse quality.
The store owner is unlikely to accept the deal as he will lose money on the sale, and he may get a buyer at full price later.
What if the store owner has a copying machine, and so an infinate amount of the item ?
What if everyone else has a copying machine also.
This is a new type of market, and this is an attempt at maturing. The problem isn't how this can be equated to a traditional 'thing' marketplace, it's how you get people to pay when they can get the same item for free.
Slashdot Mirror
And a way to keep the details in sync across many, many light years ...
And yes, look what a sterling example of a tolerant, thoughtful individual you turned out to be.
Look at you, pouring your rage at strangers, just like Jesus does in the stories.
We're in a period of history marked by the fastest, most far reaching technical innovation.
We're in a period of history marked by an all time low in violence, and all time high in overall human rights ?
And you want to use 'force' to stop 'the man' from stopping technical innovation ?
Erm, what ?
A small local drive with networked entertainment files storage is a good design for people who only use small local files and want to be able to stream the entertainment files to multiple locations.
Large media files for me are work, so they're on the local machine where I can manipulate them fastest.
'Most' people probably only have one computer, so a local drive big enough to fit all their work and entertainment files is a good thing.
From a simpler perspective. Every HDD you buy, for about the same price as you paid for the last one, or cheaper, has a smaller chance of you running into it being full, even with the constant increase in the size of data of arbitary things like 'a movie'.
I'm currently sitting in a park in London, using free wifi. It's 25C and there are very nearly naked people tanning themselves all around.
If the alternative is your unsubstantiated pessimism then I'll probably stay here, thanks.
And the cycle scheme:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/12444.aspx
Yes, fair point. As the child of a coal miner in the north of England I remember Mrs 'Milk Snatcher' and eighteen months of living by the charity of others well.
That's quite a long time ago, and was in the shadow of a very real nuclear arms race between superpowers able to destroy this country easily. Having a big friend made sense, and Europe was still recovering from a horribly destructive war.
Since then we've been involved in 'wars' without general British public support and that have not only made England unpopular in the world, but have shown our previous military ability to be on the wane.
I would expect a new government of any party to be incredibly wary of this, and to be actively moving our involvement in international affairs away from what is now a general distrust of American foreign policy.
Empires fade quickly.
As an aside, British people don't generally think of themselves as 'citizens', it's a fairly new term in British politics and generally used in relation to the patriotisation of immigrants.
Depends how you look at it, I'm viewing it as a messy transition from a two ( almost identical ) party system to a three party system, which I see as an improvement and something I didn't believe possible even at the last general election.
We've got rid of the party which has so badly eroded civil liberties, ( the workers party ! ) and we're likely to get a government which is mainly capitalistic, with an element of liberalism which is confined to fighting it's strongest arguments, which is exactly the target my tactical voting hoped for. ( Whether a hung parliment can do any meaningful work is yet to be seen. )
The citizen's vote has just resulted in a change of power away from people who say I'm dying to carry an ID card and run to war everytime America wants something, so as a British voter I feel my vote has changed something pivotal.
That's possibly not a great argument to bring up amidst an internet community likely to contain a large amount of people who's hard work stopped the millennium bug being a massive problem.
Credit card numbers are a bad example as they're a piece of information which is generally transferred securely between two parties who have motive for them to remain private. If credit card numbers were a product which was distributed to many people even one of whom fails to keep them private you would be able to access them on node B.
Furthermore, if node B has internet access and it's user be sufficiently lacking in morals and know where to look, it's entirely possible that credit card numbers could be found from there ( as far as I understand, buyable in large batches ) and it would currently not be possible for the network to recognise and stop the movement of these bits.
Agreed on the BBC. Whilst nothing is immune to politics or government intervention it does it's best to be as fair and unbiased as possible, and to bring it up as a negative point for Britain is a misunderstanding.
No, it's an small example of why there are so many USA-hating countries.
Directly around my home there have been several murders recently. It's England so not so hot and dusty.
By your reasoning I can find a long range rifle from somewhere, and sit on top of my building 'guarding' my girlfriend as she walks from the bus. If I see someone close to her ( a member of your family, say ) pull a phone?/camera?/gun?/knife?/buspass? from a pocket in a manner I find alarming I can open fire and you're happy the right thing has been done, yes ?
What choice did I have ? I'm assuming you accept the loss of your loved ones as necessary, one of them actually did have a Swiss army knife in their pocket.
World of Warcraft ...
Can we save some of the beautiful/physically gifted/creative/emotionally attuned/kind/brave - but not massively intelligent people too ? It's just that any kind of genetic cleansing would leave the gene pool diminished and weaker, and a human race consisting of just high IQ people would disappear up it's own backside quicker than you can say 'intelectual snob'.
Please don't judge all 'web developers' at the standard of the worst code you have access to, it's rude to those of us who were more 'classically' trained and know what we're doing. I'm quite sure I could find some incredibly bad examples in your language(s) of choice.
World of Warcarft demands you type in DELETE to delete a char, or even to destoy some higher level items.
It's hard to see the browser as a failed experiment, even if you mean a simple just html-rendering browser. A prototype stretched beyond it's initial scope possibly, but the browser is a very large part of the reason the world is increasingly online. But yes, it's the line between browser and os that's blurring, and the passing around of text documents is now a very small part of that.
That's what all the kids say ( :
I was so looking forward to reading Lord of the Rings, but the evil capitalistic bastard$ have published a story in THREE books ! I have to pay THREE times to read the whole fcing story ! It's a shame as I really liked The Hobbit, and everything else Tolkein ever wrote, but they've gone too far with this one. I don't care if it's taken three times as long, and cost three times as much money to produce, I want my innovation in exactly the format I'm familiar with, and if not I'm going to scream blue murder on the Internets.
And whilst I'm at it, I'm also pissed that they're releasing a sequal at all, filthy money grabbing a$$holes, I've already paid for the Starcraft story when I bought the first one, and paying them again to continue it is an OUTRAGE!
May I humbly suggest that you have absolutely no idea about the unquanifiable 'enjoyment' return on your possible monetary investment, the product in question only just having gone into beta, for what may be a game you play for hundreds of hours, and are quite welcome to buy just the parts of that you want. ( Protoss! Go! )
I'm not sure what standards you think you can be upholding with your wallet as you can't have enough information yet to judge whether this is 3 * ( standard game you're happy to buy ) or 3 * ( 1/3 of standard game you're happy to buy. ) So all you can possibly be complaining about is that this isn't how it's normally done. And if you chose to use your wallet to encourage more-of-the-same, then I'm happy my wallet disagrees with you.
Even intelligent people without a direct interest in, or need to learn about, computers find even OSX and modern Windows difficult as soon as they have to do something unfamiliar.
The iPhone/iPad + apps interface has it closer to correct for most people, personal documents aside, they don't need or want access even to the filesystem.
I do, ofc, but I feel it's starting to become a minority viewpoint, and maybe the success of Linux will be that in the near future it's the best way to have what we now regard as a OS.
And how does your ideology countenence that you're spending your clients/employers money on the extra time you spend using a non optimum toolset ?
If someone who was building me a house took an extra five weeks to build it because they had a personal issue with the monopolistic hammer makers, and so were using a selection of not-quite hammers, I'd think them petty and unprofessional.
I'm for open source software ( and against Adobe's monopoly ), and use it where suitable, but it provides far from the best tools for graphic design in general and in most specifics.
Given two graphic designers of identical skill, the one who spends most time having to think about/get tools to work is the one with the least time for design, and therefore produces work of a worse quality.
The store owner is unlikely to accept the deal as he will lose money on the sale, and he may get a buyer at full price later.
What if the store owner has a copying machine, and so an infinate amount of the item ?
What if everyone else has a copying machine also.
This is a new type of market, and this is an attempt at maturing. The problem isn't how this can be equated to a traditional 'thing' marketplace, it's how you get people to pay when they can get the same item for free.
You seem to be implying that money being an abstraction itself stops Flattr being an abstraction of money, which seems unlikely.
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