Try using it to save or select a file in a directory with a few thousand files in it, and come back... much later... to ask again. (Even worse, do it twice; if it caches the information it gathers during that long, tedious interval, I see no evidence of it.)
Well... there are some controversial things that Linden Lab has done, e.g. the notorious statement about what is "broadly offensive", or restraining everyone on SL because of laws in a country where SL wants a presence--that may well drive a sufficient number of people to alternate grids.
While you're correct in theory, I've yet to see a web message board with killfile abilities such as I recall from USENET newsreaders. (I seriously hope that such software exists and that it becomes widely used.)
"Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office earlier this year conducted an unprecedented undercover investigation that revealed a major source of online child pornography known as Newsgroups, an online service not associated with websites."
Well... that's all well and good, unless the stupid stuff is all the web site provides--and with MS's ability to leverage its monopooly to make sure the majority of people have Silverlight (or whatever proprietary thing they want to force on the world), the temptation to only do the proprietary version is strong.
Check out the new page for weather at www.kcci.com (the Des Moines, IA CBS affiliate). Unless you have Silverlight, it's useless.
...than their choice of the "Top 100 Reads" of the past 25 years. Any such list that omits The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is seriously broken. Others have already mentioned many books that should be on such a list.
Without the 25 year limit, there's Asimov, Clarke, Bronowski, and Bertrand Russell for science, Jagjit Singh, Hogben, and Polya for math, just to mention a very few.
Not just in software acquisition; otherwise, stores wouldn't carry homeopathic "rememdies," and Personna wouldn't have had to explain its "Personna 74" razor blades by saying that 74 is the "element number" of tungsten rather than the correct term, "atomic number", which would scare the ignorant.
"If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows."
Somehow we seem to have managed in the millenia since Plato, despite having the crutch of writing; I dare say that we'll survive Google as well.
Looks like they use the standard deceptive practice amongst such groups of only including discretionary spending in the pie chart; since discretionary spending is less than half the spending and shrinking quickly as the "entitlements" grow at an insane rate, the pie chart is worse than useless; it's lying with statistics, to borrow the title of Darrell Huff's classic book.
Perhaps in part, but if Vista is like XP, it spends a lot of time when it first comes up preloading big apps like IE and Word, so that when the rubes click for them, they say "Wow! That sure started up fast!"
Sure. "s/obscene/dissenting/g" means "everywhere you see 'obscene', substitute 'dissenting'". It's the syntax of the Unix ed text editor; see this page for details.
Reread Milton Friedman's _Free to Choose_. When you buy it, you're communicating with the market, saying "I want a computer with Linux." When you buy a computer with Windows preinstalled so you can wipe it and install Linux, you're fibbing to the market--it will interpret that as "I want a computer with Windows", and be more likely to do that and ultimately to stop selling computers with Linux preinstalled. And for that matter, they aren't going to press hardware makers for Linux-friendly hardware, either--why should they?
You may be able to install Linux on such a computer, but the proverbial Joe Sixpack or grandmother can't, or will be afraid to, or won't want to bother. If you lie to the market, you're making it less likely that _they_ will have the option to buy a computer with Linux preinstalled.
(And yes, I've put my money where my mouth is; I'm waiting for the Dell laptop with Linux preinstalled to arrive.)
A lot of non-nerds must be reading /. these days
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...because all true nerds are laughing their heads off at this video. It's a hoot.
Yes, but cable companies are starting to encrypt all non-OTA digital TV signals they put out, and the pcHDTV-5500 doesn't support encryption.
Back to the original topic: I for one hope that this is as big a mistake for the content providers as I think it is. Basically, someone just turned the heat up too quickly on the stove, and I want the frog to notice that the water's getting kinda hot.
You're supposing that the federal government pays some sort of attention to the Constitutional limitations on its powers, aren't you? It's not clear to me that it has for a very, very long time.
I don't remember Gates ever being loved, either... Microsoft started out as the authors of what Kemeny and Kurtz referred to as "gutter BASIC", then went on to be a source of so-so compilers. I still recall a letter published in BYTE magazine from someone who tried repeatedly to get MS to correct an error in FORMAT handling in their FORTRAN compiler (for the Z-80, I think), and after several releases went by, finally got a letter from Microsoft saying that they had no intention of ever fixing the bug.
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Try using it to save or select a file in a directory with a few thousand files in it, and come back... much later... to ask again. (Even worse, do it twice; if it caches the information it gathers during that long, tedious interval, I see no evidence of it.)
Well... there are some controversial things that Linden Lab has done, e.g. the notorious statement about what is "broadly offensive", or restraining everyone on SL because of laws in a country where SL wants a presence--that may well drive a sufficient number of people to alternate grids.
While you're correct in theory, I've yet to see a web message board with killfile abilities such as I recall from USENET newsreaders. (I seriously hope that such software exists and that it becomes widely used.)
From the front page of "nystopchildporn.com":
"Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office earlier this year conducted an unprecedented undercover investigation that revealed a major source of online child pornography known as Newsgroups, an online service not associated with websites."
I always thought those who can't teach, teach education.
Well... that's all well and good, unless the stupid stuff is all the web site provides--and with MS's ability to leverage its monopooly to make sure the majority of people have Silverlight (or whatever proprietary thing they want to force on the world), the temptation to only do the proprietary version is strong.
Check out the new page for weather at www.kcci.com (the Des Moines, IA CBS affiliate). Unless you have Silverlight, it's useless.
First Linux Reality, now LugRadio. Darn it.
There's got to be a good song in this.
...than their choice of the "Top 100 Reads" of the past 25 years. Any such list that omits The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is seriously broken. Others have already mentioned many books that should be on such a list.
Without the 25 year limit, there's Asimov, Clarke, Bronowski, and Bertrand Russell for science, Jagjit Singh, Hogben, and Polya for math, just to mention a very few.
Not just in software acquisition; otherwise, stores wouldn't carry homeopathic "rememdies," and Personna wouldn't have had to explain its "Personna 74" razor blades by saying that 74 is the "element number" of tungsten rather than the correct term, "atomic number", which would scare the ignorant.
"If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows."
Somehow we seem to have managed in the millenia since Plato, despite having the crutch of writing; I dare say that we'll survive Google as well.
Looks like they use the standard deceptive practice amongst such groups of only including discretionary spending in the pie chart; since discretionary spending is less than half the spending and shrinking quickly as the "entitlements" grow at an insane rate, the pie chart is worse than useless; it's lying with statistics, to borrow the title of Darrell Huff's classic book.
Perhaps in part, but if Vista is like XP, it spends a lot of time when it first comes up preloading big apps like IE and Word, so that when the rubes click for them, they say "Wow! That sure started up fast!"
Sure. "s/obscene/dissenting/g" means "everywhere you see 'obscene', substitute 'dissenting'". It's the syntax of the Unix ed text editor; see this page for details.
If someone likes his job; indefinite pronouns are singular. ("His or her" if you have to be politically correct.)
Reread Milton Friedman's _Free to Choose_. When you buy it, you're communicating with the market, saying "I want a computer with Linux." When you buy a computer with Windows preinstalled so you can wipe it and install Linux, you're fibbing to the market--it will interpret that as "I want a computer with Windows", and be more likely to do that and ultimately to stop selling computers with Linux preinstalled. And for that matter, they aren't going to press hardware makers for Linux-friendly hardware, either--why should they?
You may be able to install Linux on such a computer, but the proverbial Joe Sixpack or grandmother can't, or will be afraid to, or won't want to bother. If you lie to the market, you're making it less likely that _they_ will have the option to buy a computer with Linux preinstalled.
(And yes, I've put my money where my mouth is; I'm waiting for the Dell laptop with Linux preinstalled to arrive.)
...because all true nerds are laughing their heads off at this video. It's a hoot.
.."système d'exploitation". In the case of Windows, that seems appropriate.
Yes, but cable companies are starting to encrypt all non-OTA digital TV signals they put out, and the pcHDTV-5500 doesn't support encryption.
Back to the original topic: I for one hope that this is as big a mistake for the content providers as I think it is. Basically, someone just turned the heat up too quickly on the stove, and I want the frog to notice that the water's getting kinda hot.
So in the end the "safety net" boils down to "give me your money or I'll steal from you/mug you/etc." So much for claims of ethical superiority.
Same here. I thought "it's gnome-screensaver all over again."
You're supposing that the federal government pays some sort of attention to the Constitutional limitations on its powers, aren't you? It's not clear to me that it has for a very, very long time.
I've been trying to check this, but I'm having a hard time setting the POV to get the full effect.
Would that (1) I had moderator points and (2) I could apply all of them to one article.
I don't remember Gates ever being loved, either... Microsoft started out as the authors of what Kemeny and Kurtz referred to as "gutter BASIC", then went on to be a source of so-so compilers. I still recall a letter published in BYTE magazine from someone who tried repeatedly to get MS to correct an error in FORMAT handling in their FORTRAN compiler (for the Z-80, I think), and after several releases went by, finally got a letter from Microsoft saying that they had no intention of ever fixing the bug.