You have to take into account that Microsoft has optimized IE with Windows, using closed source binaries and tweaks only they could ever do being as they wrote the bloody operating system.
This is the most hypocritical criterion I can imagine. Not only are the contenders running on a open-source OS they can analyze and tweak at their leisure, they can even look into each other's sources to learn from.
You are also ignoring the fact that the main advantage (beside speed) of MSIE is better adherence to standards.
You did notice that the article is about browsers under Linux, right?
Yup.
Suggesting a browser not available for Linux is as silly as a Windows magazine including reviews of MacOS and Linux software.
The magazine's name is 'Linux Magazin' so can be sure that they are not suggesting MSIE. It is not, however, good journalistic practice to ignore stuff related to the realm at hand. If MSIE running on Windows is a superior browsing platform than Linux running Whatever, this is worth mentioning, especially if lacking adherence to standards by the Free contenders is the reason.
Free software should win on merits, not on misinformation.
A German magazine did a similar thing a while ago, only they included MSIE. It won hands on in every discipline from speed to adherence to standards.
A pity that it wasn't at least mentioned.
Vinge does not require the advancement of computers to a point at which they are regarded intelligent. This is only one of several possibilities mentioned in his paper.
Other possibilities include:
"Waking up" of computer networks.
Humans using sophisticated HCI. (e.g. Vinge's Focused, Stephenson's Drummers)
'Deepness' is the Prequel to 'Fire upon the Deep' and even better. Read it first.
While there is more discussion about non-human intelligence in 'Fire', the actual impact of Vinge's idea is greater in 'Deepness', where his excellent world-building skill is used to create the best traditional SF I know.
Both 'Deepness' and 'Fire' also feature some really neat alien races.
If you don't like Democracies, just say so and don't use semantic obfuscation tactics typical for totalitarian regimes.
A Republic is rule by representative Democracy
Merrian-Webster:
Main Entry: republic
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
Absolute rule by the majority *IS* Mob Rule
Main Entry: democracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Main Entry: ochlocracy
government by the mob : mob rule
If you don't like Democracies, just say so and don't use semantic obfuscation tactics typical for totalitarian regimes.
Neither is it a Republic.
Merrian-Webster:
Main Entry: republic
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
DEMOCRACY (mob rule)
Main Entry: democracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Main Entry: ochlocracy
government by the mob : mob rule
Well, I don't know about "on purpose", but I won't deny that a populace composed of individuals who are unwilling to think rationally for themselves has benefits for both big business AND big government...
I just read a very good article about DVD Region Codes. They violated Godwin's right from the start by comparing the Region Codes with the Nazi's Volksempfänger. In both cases, the hardware is crippled to enforce a non-obvious (but easy to make out) agenda.
According to the article, the countries where the Region Code is least contended are the US and Germany, where nearly everyone relevant is filled with material goods.
Shouldn't (presumably) educated people in (we assume) advanced nations have SOME responsibility for their own interests at the *front-end* of the whole data collection process?
Yes, they should. No, they don't, because they have been down-entertained to morons. On purpose. Ever heard of the show 'Big Brother'?
I don't claim that business is more important to people, only that if your information is really that important to you, don't let it go, or at least get something worthwhile in exchange for it.
Again, yes, you shouldn't do that, but again, most don't realize the consequences. First of all that your data is not kept for one analysis, but for life.
With the European law (as I understand it) you could only rent out your data, and I would like that very much. I'm a quite happy customer at Amazon, and them knowing about my preferences helps a lot. But if I ever reconsider I want to have sovereignty over my data.
I'm not allowed to sell myself as a slave, only to rent me out.
Why should I not be free to take this information that I have collected, categorized, and analyzed, and do what I want with it?
Most of the people you ask know nothing about the ways their data can be analyzed. Thus, they are protected from their own stupidity.
I think that good laws are better than bad laws, no matter which one is more popular. (Lots of good did the very popular death penalty did to the US crime statistics.) That's the reason for democracies to be representative.
Anyway, why do so many people think that business is more important than people?
And the judges who sit on the constitutional court are appointed by the government - not elected by the people.
I count ourself lucky for that.
Pretty much sounds like the CDU et al can ban whoever they want with rules like that.
Pretty much sounds like you heard the name of a german party without knowing anything else about anything. Just think of the crosses-in-classrooms decision.
All right, but it's not the government that forbids parties, it the german constitutional court.
I see. yes, that's probably what he meant. The idea that parties would be verboten at the government's whim is so strange that I didn't get it.
Why is every babeled translation considered informative? Because then people don't have to manually Babel it themselves, thereby saving them time.
So it's just basic karma whoring.
However, which of the following do you understand better?
Well, since you have asked, the German one.
However, they would be legally fully justified to mount a DoS attack on German servers hosting NN material.
The German police is much more comfortable kicking in doors than in mounting DoS attacks, so I think we can count this out.
Even the government wanted to forbid a fascist party and it couldn't.
What are you referring to? IIRC two parties have been forbidden, the DKP and the SRP.
Why not shoot it up? I got this deorbiting-on-a-major-population-center part, but wouldn't it be sufficient to put a couple of Progresses on its behind and send it to where the Discovery should be right now?
That way, we can pick it up in a few years/decades when we feel like it. It may even do a M'r on us to save us time.
Gert Ledig wrote two books in the fifties, 'Stalinorgel' and 'Vergeltung'. They are like the first 20 Minutes of 'Private Ryan', but with less sympathy.
Depends on how they measure that 11 hours. Is it 11 hours of continuous usage, or 11 hours of standby?
I just assumed that Sony wants to advertise the best of the three.
Incidentally, the high-praised Yopi has 11 hours standby, 4 hours running time according to the Yopi guy at the CeBIT 2000. I never saw Yopi's battery life mentioned anywhere else.
If the US government were to send in the marines they'd be invading another country. A declaration of war. That would violate more treaties than you can count. The repercussions would be horrendous politcally.
That got me laughing real, real hard. The USA do not care for international treaties. Have never, will never. Examples: Iraq, Grenada, Iraq, Panama, Iraq, LaGrand, Iraq, Kosovo, Iraq, ABM Treaty, Iraq. You think Bush would hesitate for a steel plate sitting on a stone?
I'm not surprised but mildly annoyed that so many/.ers are posting without having the slightest idea. Nearly everything (non-technical) said here about the situation in Germany is guessed wrong, in one direction or the other.
Germany is neither the Last Defense of Freedom nor a pack of nazis. Please keep talking about 'KDE vs. Gnome' or the finer points of different thermal pastes until you get a clue.
I played it only once, but I liked it very much and it seems to fit. Each Player is a Hobbit, together they must destroy the One Ring. Cooperation is the key, and even then you would need some practice to win your first time.
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You have to take into account that Microsoft has optimized IE with Windows, using closed source binaries and tweaks only they could ever do being as they wrote the bloody operating system.
This is the most hypocritical criterion I can imagine. Not only are the contenders running on a open-source OS they can analyze and tweak at their leisure, they can even look into each other's sources to learn from.
You are also ignoring the fact that the main advantage (beside speed) of MSIE is better adherence to standards.
You did notice that the article is about browsers under Linux, right?
Yup.
Suggesting a browser not available for Linux is as silly as a Windows magazine including reviews of MacOS and Linux software.
The magazine's name is 'Linux Magazin' so can be sure that they are not suggesting MSIE. It is not, however, good journalistic practice to ignore stuff related to the realm at hand. If MSIE running on Windows is a superior browsing platform than Linux running Whatever, this is worth mentioning, especially if lacking adherence to standards by the Free contenders is the reason.
Free software should win on merits, not on misinformation.
A German magazine did a similar thing a while ago, only they included MSIE. It won hands on in every discipline from speed to adherence to standards.
A pity that it wasn't at least mentioned.
Your recollection, lacking exactly the substantiation you mention, is worthless. You can find plenty of detailed comments using Google.
Vinge does not require the advancement of computers to a point at which they are regarded intelligent. This is only one of several possibilities mentioned in his paper.
Other possibilities include:
'Deepness' is the Prequel to 'Fire upon the Deep' and even better. Read it first.
While there is more discussion about non-human intelligence in 'Fire', the actual impact of Vinge's idea is greater in 'Deepness', where his excellent world-building skill is used to create the best traditional SF I know.
Both 'Deepness' and 'Fire' also feature some really neat alien races.
Could you please name your supplier of recreational pharmaceuticals?
If you don't like Democracies, just say so and don't use semantic obfuscation tactics typical for totalitarian regimes.
A Republic is rule by representative Democracy
Merrian-Webster:
Main Entry: republic
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
Absolute rule by the majority *IS* Mob Rule
Main Entry: democracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Main Entry: ochlocracy
government by the mob : mob rule
If you don't like Democracies, just say so and don't use semantic obfuscation tactics typical for totalitarian regimes.
Neither is it a Republic.
Merrian-Webster:
Main Entry: republic
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
DEMOCRACY (mob rule)
Main Entry: democracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Main Entry: ochlocracy
government by the mob : mob rule
Well, I don't know about "on purpose", but I won't deny that a populace composed of individuals who are unwilling to think rationally for themselves has benefits for both big business AND big government...
I just read a very good article about DVD Region Codes. They violated Godwin's right from the start by comparing the Region Codes with the Nazi's Volksempfänger. In both cases, the hardware is crippled to enforce a non-obvious (but easy to make out) agenda.
According to the article, the countries where the Region Code is least contended are the US and Germany, where nearly everyone relevant is filled with material goods.
Shouldn't (presumably) educated people in (we assume) advanced nations have SOME responsibility for their own interests at the *front-end* of the whole data collection process?
Yes, they should. No, they don't, because they have been down-entertained to morons. On purpose. Ever heard of the show 'Big Brother'?
I don't claim that business is more important to people, only that if your information is really that important to you, don't let it go, or at least get something worthwhile in exchange for it.
Again, yes, you shouldn't do that, but again, most don't realize the consequences. First of all that your data is not kept for one analysis, but for life.
With the European law (as I understand it) you could only rent out your data, and I would like that very much. I'm a quite happy customer at Amazon, and them knowing about my preferences helps a lot. But if I ever reconsider I want to have sovereignty over my data.
I'm not allowed to sell myself as a slave, only to rent me out.
Why should I not be free to take this information that I have collected, categorized, and analyzed, and do what I want with it?
Most of the people you ask know nothing about the ways their data can be analyzed. Thus, they are protected from their own stupidity.
I think that good laws are better than bad laws, no matter which one is more popular. (Lots of good did the very popular death penalty did to the US crime statistics.) That's the reason for democracies to be representative.
Anyway, why do so many people think that business is more important than people?
And the judges who sit on the constitutional court are appointed by the government - not elected by the people.
I count ourself lucky for that.
Pretty much sounds like the CDU et al can ban whoever they want with rules like that.
Pretty much sounds like you heard the name of a german party without knowing anything else about anything. Just think of the crosses-in-classrooms decision.
All right, but it's not the government that forbids parties, it the german constitutional court.
I see. yes, that's probably what he meant. The idea that parties would be verboten at the government's whim is so strange that I didn't get it.
Why is every babeled translation considered informative?
Because then people don't have to manually Babel it themselves, thereby saving them time.
So it's just basic karma whoring.
However, which of the following do you understand better?
Well, since you have asked, the German one.
However, they would be legally fully justified to mount a DoS attack on German servers hosting NN material.
The German police is much more comfortable kicking in doors than in mounting DoS attacks, so I think we can count this out.
Even the government wanted to forbid a fascist party and it couldn't.
What are you referring to? IIRC two parties have been forbidden, the DKP and the SRP.
Why is every babeled translation considered informative? 'The German law causes itself however out'? What a crap.
Why not shoot it up? I got this deorbiting-on-a-major-population-center part, but wouldn't it be sufficient to put a couple of Progresses on its behind and send it to where the Discovery should be right now?
That way, we can pick it up in a few years/decades when we feel like it. It may even do a M'r on us to save us time.
Gert Ledig wrote two books in the fifties, 'Stalinorgel' and 'Vergeltung'. They are like the first 20 Minutes of 'Private Ryan', but with less sympathy.
Depends on how they measure that 11 hours. Is it 11 hours of continuous usage, or 11 hours of standby?
I just assumed that Sony wants to advertise the best of the three.
Incidentally, the high-praised Yopi has 11 hours standby, 4 hours running time according to the Yopi guy at the CeBIT 2000. I never saw Yopi's battery life mentioned anywhere else.
- Size
- Battery life
The Sony puts up a good fight, but 11 hours is peanuts for people outsourcing major parts of their brain (like me).If the US government were to send in the marines they'd be invading another country. A declaration of war. That would violate more treaties than you can count. The repercussions would be horrendous politcally.
That got me laughing real, real hard. The USA do not care for international treaties. Have never, will never. Examples: Iraq, Grenada, Iraq, Panama, Iraq, LaGrand, Iraq, Kosovo, Iraq, ABM Treaty, Iraq. You think Bush would hesitate for a steel plate sitting on a stone?
Oh, wait a moment, I am.
/.ers are posting without having the slightest idea. Nearly everything (non-technical) said here about the situation in Germany is guessed wrong, in one direction or the other.
I'm not surprised but mildly annoyed that so many
Germany is neither the Last Defense of Freedom nor a pack of nazis. Please keep talking about 'KDE vs. Gnome' or the finer points of different thermal pastes until you get a clue.
Tia.
I played it only once, but I liked it very much and it seems to fit. Each Player is a Hobbit, together they must destroy the One Ring. Cooperation is the key, and even then you would need some practice to win your first time.
It's homepage is in german, but you can hassle them for a translation. Or order the german game at your favorite bookshop.