I just recently got an N9 (after using an Android phone for about 2 years) and it's just an amazing phone (hardware *and* software wise). Maybe that would be an option for you, if you still manage to get one somewhere.
The difference is that if you're a (proper) democracy there might be a way to make a referendum. This tends to make politicians behave a little less like complete douchebags and sort-of forces them to take the people's opinion into consideration even after the elections.
But then, of course they'll just be "protecting" you, the country and the children from all those horrible thing on the interwebs so maybe it really doesn't make much of a difference.
I'm not sure that "most of us can agree [that these] should be illegal". Trying to outlaw that is usually accompanied by banning essential security tools like nmap, wireshark etc., tools that some of us actually need for "peaceful" purposes.
Seeing is believing. You see it working fine, so you believe it. I see flickering, tearing, a Unity 3D desktop that regularly explodes into shards, and occasional hard lockups, so I believe that. Installing the ATI binary driver solves my problem.
"pretty damn good" doesn't mean "free of bugs" and compared to the binary ATi driver it works significantly better (at least for me), supports all the latest fancy stuff (KMS etc.) and generally just does its job without needing special attention – pretty much what I'd expect from a driver. That there are issues is unfortunate but happens to any piece of software (I still occasionally get a corrupted mouse pointer).
The "works for me, you must be doing something wrong" attitude prevalent in open source gets tiring pretty fast, by the way.
Which I said where exactly? Loving the attitude, btw.
I wouldn't necessarily blame this on the federalization, other countries (eg. Switzerland) seem to be doing reasonably well with a similar system. It would be interesting to see whether such a system could work throughout the EU and is IMHO a sine qua non for me to even consider joining that union.
In my country the delay would probably be around a year plus there's a good chance that we'd have to watch a poorly dubbed German version instead of the original English thus there's really no other option except piracy.
Thanks, never heard of this, sounds like quite an interesting idea though!
My main point, however, was that in Firefox it's painfully cumbersome to click past a broken certificate for people who know what they are doing which is a major usability issue for me (I have lots of broken certificates everywhere, mostly expired ones). Making your product more annoying for "expert" users to use means that they are also less likely to recommend it (personally I wouldn't know whether I can recommend current versions of Firefox because I haven't used one in ages, due to the SSL stuff).
Also, on a related note, it's not like a valid SSL certificate means a lot these days anyway. But that's an altogether different issue, I guess.
Yet the only thing they really need to copy to get me to come back and try Firefox again is to replace the 13-click procedure for broken SSL certificates with a simple pop-up window. As it used to be.
For some reason it seems you still think of politicians as rational beings. Once you get over that, a whole lot of things will suddenly start making sense...
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Nice graph. I always thought Android used Linux. Guess I was wrong.
I just recently got an N9 (after using an Android phone for about 2 years) and it's just an amazing phone (hardware *and* software wise). Maybe that would be an option for you, if you still manage to get one somewhere.
The difference is that if you're a (proper) democracy there might be a way to make a referendum. This tends to make politicians behave a little less like complete douchebags and sort-of forces them to take the people's opinion into consideration even after the elections.
But then, of course they'll just be "protecting" you, the country and the children from all those horrible thing on the interwebs so maybe it really doesn't make much of a difference.
I'm not sure that "most of us can agree [that these] should be illegal". Trying to outlaw that is usually accompanied by banning essential security tools like nmap, wireshark etc., tools that some of us actually need for "peaceful" purposes.
Because, you know, all your eggs, one basket, single point of failure etc.
I for one would love to lose my phone, cell and TV connection too whenever my ISP has one of their "little technical difficulties".
Not even Ford Timelord?
+1 Insightful.
Seeing is believing. You see it working fine, so you believe it. I see flickering, tearing, a Unity 3D desktop that regularly explodes into shards, and occasional hard lockups, so I believe that. Installing the ATI binary driver solves my problem.
"pretty damn good" doesn't mean "free of bugs" and compared to the binary ATi driver it works significantly better (at least for me), supports all the latest fancy stuff (KMS etc.) and generally just does its job without needing special attention – pretty much what I'd expect from a driver. That there are issues is unfortunate but happens to any piece of software (I still occasionally get a corrupted mouse pointer).
The "works for me, you must be doing something wrong" attitude prevalent in open source gets tiring pretty fast, by the way.
Which I said where exactly? Loving the attitude, btw.
Huh? The radeon driver is pretty damn good these days.
Yeah, how about drinking water instead of concentrated weapons-grade diabeetus juice?
This, very much. Too bad I can't mod you.
I wouldn't necessarily blame this on the federalization, other countries (eg. Switzerland) seem to be doing reasonably well with a similar system. It would be interesting to see whether such a system could work throughout the EU and is IMHO a sine qua non for me to even consider joining that union.
Gah, sorry, I mis-modded your post and can't seem to find an undo button anywhere. I meant to choose "Insightful", not "Redundant".
Just posting to (hopefully) undo my moderation :)
Nice excuse. Too bad direct democracy works quite well in other places.
How do you "pirate" software? Are they talking about GPL violations? :)
lol, that sounds about right.
In my country the delay would probably be around a year plus there's a good chance that we'd have to watch a poorly dubbed German version instead of the original English thus there's really no other option except piracy.
only 22% of respondents with postgraduate degrees believed
"Only"!?
Seriously?
My personal favourite is still farbrausch's "fr-08 - the product": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcrV_7JpXQ
It was amazing "back then" and even today I still think it's highly awesome. All of that in 64k.
Thanks, never heard of this, sounds like quite an interesting idea though!
My main point, however, was that in Firefox it's painfully cumbersome to click past a broken certificate for people who know what they are doing which is a major usability issue for me (I have lots of broken certificates everywhere, mostly expired ones). Making your product more annoying for "expert" users to use means that they are also less likely to recommend it (personally I wouldn't know whether I can recommend current versions of Firefox because I haven't used one in ages, due to the SSL stuff).
Also, on a related note, it's not like a valid SSL certificate means a lot these days anyway. But that's an altogether different issue, I guess.
Yet the only thing they really need to copy to get me to come back and try Firefox again is to replace the 13-click procedure for broken SSL certificates with a simple pop-up window. As it used to be.
7:30 in Switzerland. Talk about crazy...
For some reason it seems you still think of politicians as rational beings. Once you get over that, a whole lot of things will suddenly start making sense...
Well, this highly depends on your card. I do agree that the madwifi driver tends to be a PITA, my laptop's Intel chip works flawlessly, though...
Yes I did.