I'm not the GP, incase you don't check, but I have learned one very good rule in life: People will only behave decently when they suspect that you could lunge at them and beat the shit out of them if they don't behave.
Fear is the greatest motivator, and the internet takes it away. What if everytime you were a prick to someone on the internet you got tasered? You'd be a lot nicer, right? Ever noticed how people used to be 'so much more polite' (or atleast, from what I have read it seems they used to be,) back in the day, in cultures where dueling was legal?
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as if millions of voices suddenly cried out 'DUH!' and were suddenly modded down.
Actually, I think this entire problem can be taken care of with a new RFC I'm working on: Sissy-Slap-Fu Protocol. (SSFP). I forsee a day when TCP/SSFP will enable many problems to be resolved without ever having to leave the house, although we might need to wait for the Knee-to-Groin and Kick-to-Back (KGP and KBP) protocols, which will obviously be written later, as logical extensions, to provide for truely satisfying discourse via the DARPAnet.
My logic is that the Stringray death was a freak accident. I seem to recall that he is the first person killed in Australia by a String-ray since 1945.
I challenge you (or anyone else) to show me how coming close enough to feed a chicken to an unrestrained crocodile, is [i]not[/i] extremely dangerous and [i]not[/i] a major gamble with your life (and your kid's).
Crocs jump at their prey like lightning. They're highly unpredictable. They have jaws like steel beartraps. That's three points against you. I'm waiting.
Well, since Steve Irwin was arguably an expert on Crocodiles, more so than either you or I, and considering that his child is still alive, we can only assume he knew what he was doing, since there is no such thing as luck.
Trying to resist the urge to make yet another bad Deja Vu joke, I offer up this question: Has anyone ever had something like Deja Vu, but where they feel familiarity of an event or situation, not from a memory of real life, but that it occurred in a dream that they can't quite remember? I get this sometimes, and it's much creepier (IMHO).
Yes, Paul, we've all had that feeling. Try laying off the spice.
I use an ad-supported LJ account, and the mentioned advertisement was made in flash. I had to deal with it a couple of days ago. Hoo-ray for security holes. Can't we just sue the ad company for unauthorized usage of our computer's resources?
What unauthorised use? You viewed the webpage, and part of the webpage was said advert. You authorised the use. Just because you were unaware of your doing so does not mean you didn't agree to it. Caveat Emptor.
Newspapers clear ads before printing. Radio stations clear ads before airing them, and so do tv stations. Why should websites be any different?
Probably because those listed Media Outlets are supposed to have some sort of Integrity behind them, in addition to being Money-Making ventures. MySpace is solely a money-making venture. The Social Networking aspect was just a gimmick to get Ads Viewed.
"Challenging and competitive" is one thing. "Replaying the stupid skateboarding minigame 112 times to shave that last 0.2 seconds off your clear time and get the gold mickey token" isn't challenging, it's an OCD screener.
I once claimed that I would take a bullet for this country.
I never explicitly stated where I would take it, what calibre it would be, or whom I would be firing it at. Unfortunately, the odds of getting all the people I can think of to stand in a single line whilst I aimed a High-Powered Elephant Gun at them are low to nil.
1) People don't buy windows, it comes with their system.
2) It comes with their system because businesses buy it and people want to take work home.
3) Businesses buy it because it is the only OS that runs their software.
4) For an increasing number of businesses (3) is no longer valid.
Yes the foundations of the windows monopoly is cracking. MS knows this too which is why they are so intent on diversifying as fast as they can and buying companies left and right.
<advocatvs diaboli> The foundations of the Windows Monopoly are not cracking. They are just as strong as they ever have been. Windows is the De Facto Standard for around ninety per cent of people who use computers for the following reasons:
They want to use their computer like they use a hammer. Very few people will actually take the time to learn how a computer functions beyond the bare minimum of what they need to get whatever it is they want to do, done. Windows does this extremely well. They point, they click. When is the last time you had to use the CLI on a Modern Windows Box?
Tying in with the first and the fact that Windows is the De Facto Standard: It just works(tm, please god don't sue me -ed) If you goto the store, and you know nothing about computers, but you know that your kid wants "KILL'EM'ALL'07" or you need PhotoShop CS (n+1) for your business, you don't have to pause and think, "Now, is this the version for OS/2 Warp, or are these binaries that will only run on Red Hat Linux 7pointsomething with Pthreads, or is this a NetBSD app that requires native thread support, etc..." Ninety Nine Per cent of all software (And yes, I did pull that figure out of my ass -ed) that you will see in a store will be for Windows, and Windows only, because it costs time and money having to develop the same thing for more than one platform, particularly when you're not even sure it's going to sell enough copies for platform XyxOS to recoup the spent capital. The biggest thing that Open Source Software has going against it are Standards -- there are too many of them. The day that Linux, the various *BSDs, et al, will have a snowball's chance in hell of converting your average computer user, and read that word 'user,' not 'programmer,' not 'software engineer,' not 'computer scientist,' but 'user,' is when they can run whatever Flavour of Linux they Love and I can write code on my NetBSD box and that person doesn't even have to compile from source, because the binaries just work. That is the great strength of Windows that everything else (excepting possibly Mac OS X, but it's a bit too early yet in the PPC/x86 game to call that one,) lacks.
Oh, and did I mention Hardware support? Let's face it. Even if Linux, or NetBSD, or BeOS did every little office trick you could possibly want, and even those you hated (PaperClip included,) it would still never catch on as heavily as Windows, because Windows can do all those things, and more! -- Gaming. People develop for the biggest market, and that's Windows, because Windows has the biggest Market. Sure, you have a few companies here and there that release Binaries for Linux (I'm still waiting for NetBSD/ALPHA binaries for NWN), but until you get a Killer App on some Open Source OS, say, Sims 3, or Spore, or God Forbid, an exclusive release of, say, Quake 5 Or Unreal Tournament Two Thousand and Man This Francise is Older than Your Mother, and have it publicised as being, say, due to the reliability of (LINUX||BSD||OTHER) being needed to create the perfect way to kill your friends and see them at school the next day, until you get that, you're never going to have the same user base as Windows.
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I'm not the GP, incase you don't check, but I have learned one very good rule in life: People will only behave decently when they suspect that you could lunge at them and beat the shit out of them if they don't behave.
Fear is the greatest motivator, and the internet takes it away. What if everytime you were a prick to someone on the internet you got tasered? You'd be a lot nicer, right? Ever noticed how people used to be 'so much more polite' (or atleast, from what I have read it seems they used to be,) back in the day, in cultures where dueling was legal?
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out 'DUH!' and were suddenly modded down.
Can we get a -1, Laypersonspeakify mod?
Actually, I think this entire problem can be taken care of with a new RFC I'm working on: Sissy-Slap-Fu Protocol. (SSFP). I forsee a day when TCP/SSFP will enable many problems to be resolved without ever having to leave the house, although we might need to wait for the Knee-to-Groin and Kick-to-Back (KGP and KBP) protocols, which will obviously be written later, as logical extensions, to provide for truely satisfying discourse via the DARPAnet.
My logic is that the Stringray death was a freak accident. I seem to recall that he is the first person killed in Australia by a String-ray since 1945.
Whatever happened to due process? You know, waiting for someone to do something wrong before punishing them?
Well, since Steve Irwin was arguably an expert on Crocodiles, more so than either you or I, and considering that his child is still alive, we can only assume he knew what he was doing, since there is no such thing as luck.
My roommate is/was on the NetBSD dev team, and at LinuxWorld last year they had a toaster than ran on BSD. Link Here.
What about applying for a license for my pet Halibut?
The text is true. The text has always been true.
You don't know many goths, do you? I think you have Goths and Emo-Kiddies confused.
Yes, Paul, we've all had that feeling. Try laying off the spice.
I knew it! Al Gore is the Ghost in the Machine!
What unauthorised use? You viewed the webpage, and part of the webpage was said advert. You authorised the use. Just because you were unaware of your doing so does not mean you didn't agree to it. Caveat Emptor.
Probably because those listed Media Outlets are supposed to have some sort of Integrity behind them, in addition to being Money-Making ventures. MySpace is solely a money-making venture. The Social Networking aspect was just a gimmick to get Ads Viewed.
This just in: Capitalism and Morals do not necessarily go hand in hand.
That's what Proud Mode is for.
After what that man has done to his father's works, him even being in the same line of familial descent on paper makes me shudder.
I once claimed that I would take a bullet for this country.
I never explicitly stated where I would take it, what calibre it would be, or whom I would be firing it at. Unfortunately, the odds of getting all the people I can think of to stand in a single line whilst I aimed a High-Powered Elephant Gun at them are low to nil.
What, and mix up our presidental insults with our insults for idiots who ruin their father's book series?
I once paid 50 dollars for a thermite grenade at an Army-Navy surplus store and kept it inside my laptop case. Said lap top was stolen.
Ramen!
<advocatvs diaboli> The foundations of the Windows Monopoly are not cracking. They are just as strong as they ever have been. Windows is the De Facto Standard for around ninety per cent of people who use computers for the following reasons:
Very few people will actually take the time to learn how a computer functions beyond the bare minimum of what they need to get whatever it is they want to do, done. Windows does this extremely well. They point, they click. When is the last time you had to use the CLI on a Modern Windows Box?
If you goto the store, and you know nothing about computers, but you know that your kid wants "KILL'EM'ALL'07" or you need PhotoShop CS (n+1) for your business, you don't have to pause and think, "Now, is this the version for OS/2 Warp, or are these binaries that will only run on Red Hat Linux 7pointsomething with Pthreads, or is this a NetBSD app that requires native thread support, etc..." Ninety Nine Per cent of all software (And yes, I did pull that figure out of my ass -ed) that you will see in a store will be for Windows, and Windows only, because it costs time and money having to develop the same thing for more than one platform, particularly when you're not even sure it's going to sell enough copies for platform XyxOS to recoup the spent capital. The biggest thing that Open Source Software has going against it are Standards -- there are too many of them. The day that Linux, the various *BSDs, et al, will have a snowball's chance in hell of converting your average computer user, and read that word 'user,' not 'programmer,' not 'software engineer,' not 'computer scientist,' but 'user,' is when they can run whatever Flavour of Linux they Love and I can write code on my NetBSD box and that person doesn't even have to compile from source, because the binaries just work. That is the great strength of Windows that everything else (excepting possibly Mac OS X, but it's a bit too early yet in the PPC/x86 game to call that one,) lacks.
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