Seriously, I loathe the damn menus in office 2007. Must we copy them? At least tell me we can/will be able to revert.
I'm not the only person - even some of my less 'open source friendly' co-workers and friends switched to open office right after discovering the new office menu system.
You've been given the chance to host the worlds most premier games, to participate in the grand community of olympic nations - and you still behave like an irrational child.
I vote veto the games - Even though they're becoming corporateized and anal-retentiviesed, they shouldn't be Chinaized!
We should have made an example of the first spammer 30 years ago and strung him up by the giblets to a tree or something. Perhaps that would have helped scared people straight.
Ban guns because guns kill people. Ban lasers because lasers blind/distract/kill people.
Can we ban cars? Cars kill more people then both here... How about trains? Been a few people killed by them... Hospitals? Lots of people die/get killed in hospitals...
I wonder how long it'll be till my condom has more processing power then a space shuttle... Perhaps even the ability to upload performance data via bluetooth...
Such an idea couldn't possibly work! Someone could pay the $X, download our entire collection and share it all on bittorrent for everyone else!! </mode>
TBH, I think that's a great idea - I havn't downloaded a single mp3 in over 3 years (sorry, but nothing good has come out recently - yes that's how bad your music is, I won't even go to the effort of downloading it for free). Making me pay $x per month on my ISP bill would be wrong - unless you were giving it to the porn industry.
However, if you made a site with a monthly subscription that let you download limitless or X per month songs (be reasonable about it - remember you have to compete with free) and made it easy to search/use with no DRM. People will generally prefer to use such a site as it'll be faster and easier then most of the other methods of downloading such files.
Sorry for flying off the handle at your post, I could give hundreds of reasons to justify it - but then we'd end up back where we started:)
RE ALP quote.
Yeh that's how they sell it so that everyone who opposes it looks like a porn addict. If that's all they block with it, I really don't have a problem (outside of the fact that it's going to break my internet - and I have this thing called self control - and I think the money could be better used for education/medical - and...).
The biggest problem I have with it is they (and the media) keep trying to sell it as a method for protecting children. Both from predators and "accidental exposure" then when you don't support it they fall back to calling you a hard core porn addict or a child porn viewer. When in reality if sold and installed as the ALP say on their website it will do much sweet FA for protecting children.
I frankly don't care at all for the discussion of censorship - if you can do it and 100% don't effect my regular use of the internet without spending my money or my taxes on it (because I'll never use it and would rather see my money/taxes go to education/etc) then go for it but I know you can't so this is why I'm opposed.
I'm going to be paying for something I have no intention of using. - Even if/when I had/have kids, I'd rather educate and monitor my children, not burden the government with my responsibilities.
I'm going to be paying for yet more lazy people who are just going to get lulled into a false sense of security.
It's going to effect, restrict and decrease the value of other services I'm paying for.
We already paid millions of dollars for something that only a few thousand use (Especially relevant to your last line of text)
My privacy is going to be at risk because of the opt-out nature of this censorship
However, approximately 90% of those parents do not install filters for reasons other than "cost and poor computer literacy"
Households without children under 15: 2.772 million
Households with children under 15: 1.621 million
Total: 4.393 million
I like the Command & Conquer version of the quote better
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." - Kane
I might add this one for good measure
"Well, of course it's not true. But the world only believes what the media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe. It's really quite simple."
If not immediately then within days if not weeks of it's release, and knowing the Linux community it'd probably work better with more features and less bloat.
The Linux folk will GPL it, and the Windows/Mac folk will download it and port it.
I have to laugh tho, it shows what the game is worth if you think about it.
I have no problems going out and buying GTA games (PC only I don't believe in consoles), in fact I own every one that's come out on PC - I even bought 1&2 before they were released free.
I have no intention to buy CoD4 because Activision jacked the prices to screw up us Aussies - When it first came out you could buy it for 50 odd USD, now it's 80 odd USD - It makes me want to pirate it to spite them, I know I can get it from the US far far far far cheaper. When was the last time Americans payed $80+ in any currency for a game?
I could go into the list of crap games I've paid for without 'trying' first - or buying after playing a demo that made things look better then they are (BF*.* for starters) but the fact remains, I'm not going to spend $80usd (not $80aud) on a game that the Americans can get for less then 50 usd. (Note, I don't have a copy of CoD4 but I have considered it.)
You also seem to forget that PIRACY is just as much of a problem on consoles, a quick survey online shows that almost all the most recent games can be downloaded - for example Mass Effect (Was the only one I could think of - isn't panic media marketing great?).
I don't have a problem buying a good game at a good price (In the case of GTA, I would pay 80usd because I get months of game play out of it, not hours - but then, I'd hope they charge the Americans 80usd for it also.)
The problem being that 90% of software and products for American users end up being used by the rest of the world, and we might be, perhaps, getting a little tired of the limited view American users appear to have?
Catch #1: You have to let them watch you Catch #2: You have to use their software (hugs linux) Catch #3: You have to be American.
Now, I don't know about you lot, but I really don't care about #1 - if they can gleam useful information from my porn habits and game play time, go ahead.
Catch #2 is more of an issue for me, cos I hate using Microsoft software
Catch #3: Who wants to be an American? Why is my feedback any less important then an Americans feedback? Just because I say G'day at the top of my emails doesn't make my opinion that Windows/Microsoft sux any less valid.
You know. Almost 3 years ago when I was researching VoIP I found that this was already capable and software existed (at least) for Linux that did it.
Why is it so much more scary now?
Is this chaps method easier? Perhaps it works on windows?
You can spend billions of dollars securing your network end to end, but so long as you still employ staff (or let them have communication with the outside world) nothing you buy can protect you from ID-10-T security breaches
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Seriously, I loathe the damn menus in office 2007. Must we copy them? At least tell me we can/will be able to revert.
I'm not the only person - even some of my less 'open source friendly' co-workers and friends switched to open office right after discovering the new office menu system.
I find it unintuitive and cumbersome.
Reason #197237395 why I will never ever travel to or through the US. I even avoid buying products made there where I can.
Maybe it'll make them a little less aggressive if the president can get laid, and we know Billy boy is capable of that...
Grow up.
You've been given the chance to host the worlds most premier games, to participate in the grand community of olympic nations - and you still behave like an irrational child.
I vote veto the games - Even though they're becoming corporateized and anal-retentiviesed, they shouldn't be Chinaized!
We should have made an example of the first spammer 30 years ago and strung him up by the giblets to a tree or something. Perhaps that would have helped scared people straight.
They're not.
:)
I can have one!
And I only have a modest $2k investment in astronomy gear
I dunno...
Ban guns because guns kill people.
Ban lasers because lasers blind/distract/kill people.
Can we ban cars? Cars kill more people then both here...
How about trains? Been a few people killed by them...
Hospitals? Lots of people die/get killed in hospitals...
I say Mr Rudd might have been digging in his nose for dinner a little too deep and is now suffering brain damage...
1) Grab a laptop, and a 3g modem and byo email/msn - work can't spy on what they can't see :)
2) It's ssl, use it.
3) Tunnel
I wonder how long it'll be till my condom has more processing power then a space shuttle...
Perhaps even the ability to upload performance data via bluetooth...
How dare you be logical.
Such an idea couldn't possibly work! Someone could pay the $X, download our entire collection and share it all on bittorrent for everyone else!!
</mode>
TBH, I think that's a great idea - I havn't downloaded a single mp3 in over 3 years (sorry, but nothing good has come out recently - yes that's how bad your music is, I won't even go to the effort of downloading it for free). Making me pay $x per month on my ISP bill would be wrong - unless you were giving it to the porn industry.
However, if you made a site with a monthly subscription that let you download limitless or X per month songs (be reasonable about it - remember you have to compete with free) and made it easy to search/use with no DRM. People will generally prefer to use such a site as it'll be faster and easier then most of the other methods of downloading such files.
Yeh it's true - Sorry Australia - comming soon.
:)
However - pop the url into just about any proxy - and problem is solved
I love how they go to the effort of obscuring the IP addresses and URLs yet leave the packet dumps completely untouched :)
Sorry for flying off the handle at your post, I could give hundreds of reasons to justify it - but then we'd end up back where we started :)
RE ALP quote.
Yeh that's how they sell it so that everyone who opposes it looks like a porn addict. If that's all they block with it, I really don't have a problem (outside of the fact that it's going to break my internet - and I have this thing called self control - and I think the money could be better used for education/medical - and...).
The biggest problem I have with it is they (and the media) keep trying to sell it as a method for protecting children. Both from predators and "accidental exposure" then when you don't support it they fall back to calling you a hard core porn addict or a child porn viewer. When in reality if sold and installed as the ALP say on their website it will do much sweet FA for protecting children.
I frankly don't care at all for the discussion of censorship - if you can do it and 100% don't effect my regular use of the internet without spending my money or my taxes on it (because I'll never use it and would rather see my money/taxes go to education/etc) then go for it but I know you can't so this is why I'm opposed.
A couple of quotes from http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking
However, approximately 90% of those parents do not install filters for reasons other than "cost and poor computer literacy" Households without children under 15: 2.772 million Households with children under 15: 1.621 million Total: 4.393 millionI like the Command & Conquer version of the quote better "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." - Kane I might add this one for good measure "Well, of course it's not true. But the world only believes what the media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe. It's really quite simple."
No seriously, do. Anyone have the IP addresses of the wikileaks.org servers, lets all add a records to our own dns's.
Of course it'll work on Linux.
If not immediately then within days if not weeks of it's release, and knowing the Linux community it'd probably work better with more features and less bloat.
The Linux folk will GPL it, and the Windows/Mac folk will download it and port it.
I have to laugh tho, it shows what the game is worth if you think about it. I have no problems going out and buying GTA games (PC only I don't believe in consoles), in fact I own every one that's come out on PC - I even bought 1&2 before they were released free. I have no intention to buy CoD4 because Activision jacked the prices to screw up us Aussies - When it first came out you could buy it for 50 odd USD, now it's 80 odd USD - It makes me want to pirate it to spite them, I know I can get it from the US far far far far cheaper. When was the last time Americans payed $80+ in any currency for a game? I could go into the list of crap games I've paid for without 'trying' first - or buying after playing a demo that made things look better then they are (BF*.* for starters) but the fact remains, I'm not going to spend $80usd (not $80aud) on a game that the Americans can get for less then 50 usd. (Note, I don't have a copy of CoD4 but I have considered it.) You also seem to forget that PIRACY is just as much of a problem on consoles, a quick survey online shows that almost all the most recent games can be downloaded - for example Mass Effect (Was the only one I could think of - isn't panic media marketing great?). I don't have a problem buying a good game at a good price (In the case of GTA, I would pay 80usd because I get months of game play out of it, not hours - but then, I'd hope they charge the Americans 80usd for it also.)
The problem being that 90% of software and products for American users end up being used by the rest of the world, and we might be, perhaps, getting a little tired of the limited view American users appear to have?
Catch #1: You have to let them watch you
Catch #2: You have to use their software (hugs linux)
Catch #3: You have to be American.
Now, I don't know about you lot, but I really don't care about #1 - if they can gleam useful information from my porn habits and game play time, go ahead.
Catch #2 is more of an issue for me, cos I hate using Microsoft software
Catch #3: Who wants to be an American? Why is my feedback any less important then an Americans feedback? Just because I say G'day at the top of my emails doesn't make my opinion that Windows/Microsoft sux any less valid.
You know. Almost 3 years ago when I was researching VoIP I found that this was already capable and software existed (at least) for Linux that did it. Why is it so much more scary now? Is this chaps method easier? Perhaps it works on windows?
You can spend billions of dollars securing your network end to end, but so long as you still employ staff (or let them have communication with the outside world) nothing you buy can protect you from ID-10-T security breaches