Well here would be one big reason to avoid webmail or outsourced mail servers in general.
Although most people really aren't "geeky" enough to avoid having someone else handle their email server. This law is just attempting to take advantage of the average n00b's clueless and disorganized nature....
+...calling something at the bottom of that big pile on your desk "abandoned".
They should enforce a standard like that for out of print creative works...
It's all just a part of the Corporate/Individual double standard that both parties heartily embrace.
> Except that you personally haven't demonstrated or repeated anything.
Not true. Many of us have replicated the principles of physics and chemistry both in high school and college.
The fact that we can't replicate the more expensive experiments really doesn't matter. It's just a red herring to undermine Science and elevate an notion of religion that was outdated 200 years ago.
Quite often certain people attempt to conflate trust and faith as if they are the same thing.
Trust is earned and subject to revision. Faith is not. Faith is expected without justification and is expected to endure regardless of what facts may come to challenge it.
The key difference between science and "faith" is that heretics are burned.
There is no great controversy if someone decides to rearrange the human family tree. There will be no fundies burning you or your effigy in the street or causing riots that cause innocent people to get killed. There will be some discussion and that will be the end of it.
At worst you will be laughed at until the rest of the community comes around to your way of thinking.
Faith is immutable. Scientific "truth" is infinitely maleable.
The ultimate truth of Bosons does not bother me one way or the other. I need not base my life or my actions on whether or not Bosons are bogus.
It doesn't really matter if the Romans invented all of that since their empire promptly fell apart and all of those benefits were lost to everyone.
Ten centuries later, everything had to be reinvented. Once the dark age ended, you still had to convince the average ex-Roman that taking a bath wouldn't kill them.
No. The general public are not doing the dragging.
They are the ones being dragged.
Most of this stuff is being driven by the "elitists". The unwashed masses can be barely bothered to pay attention. That's why stuff like Tivo and Macs become marginalized by the likes of MS-DOS and the average cable provider PVR. Our view of the entire situation is skewed because we are all relatively geeky early adopters. This even includes the Mac users that sneer at the idea of actually knowing what you're buying.
The interesting element here is the younger generation that are growing up with different expectations and experience with things like the web where everything is on demand.
Calling ads creative content is pushing things a bit.
Ads are a sales pitch and as such are driven predominantly by crass and callous motives and in the general case should not be called "creative".
This is the aspect of advertising that people find objectionable. They are disrespectful on a fundemental level that will always be in conflict with any means to grade them and filter out the most objectionable material. The general lack of consideration given by advertisers will always drive people to find ways to block ads completely if only to deal with the very worst offenders.
I think the fact that Photoshop is going to cost you $600 if you aren't pirating it is bit more germane.
Who cares if a $600 has a somewhat sensible GUI? It stands out as a nice example perhaps for the potential of GUIs done right but it's ultimately meaningless in the general case.
You might as well drone on about the power user features of AutoCAD.
No. I think the script-fu masters know full well that both can be used in parallel. The script-fu masters were probably using GUIs when "normal users" were still flagellating themselves with DOS prompts.
Yes. We were using GUIs first. We always used CLI's that weren't crap. We continue to use good CLI's even though they may seem passe.
> Ah it's good to get my daily SlashKos dose, where there's always a > featured story about how stealing is justified because of teh evil > capitalismz0rz!!
+...versus the classic pseudo libertarian mindset.
"Tort reform for the rich. Crime and punishment for the poor."
The sad part is that the poor buy into this nonsense and happily cheer along their corporate overlords as if the last 500 years of social and political progress never happened at all.
Alternatively, you can chase the neighborhood kids until they wear out.
If you can't do this, then your BMI problem is probably not just bullsh*t.
It's not that there is no means to evaluate fitness and you get a free pass as a lard butt just because you can point at some exceptions to the most common heuristic.
No. Many of us see an impending health care crisis with no one interested in paying for it or being held responsible for their part in helping to create it.
No. Someone needs to pick up the tab. It should be the responsible party.
No. Lardbutts are not cheaper. They are not less of a burden on the entire system.
They cost more in terms of chronic illnesses, prescription drugs, obesity related diseases and nonsense like extra emergency room visits.
There's high risk auto insurance. Imposing the same for medical insurance makes some sense.
Ultimately, people are not responsible for themselves and expecting everyone else to pick up the slack for them. This is further aggravated by the idea that someone else's equipment and labor (medical care) is some sort of natural right rather than a government handout.
People have gotten out of touch with the consequences of their actions and the most common response seems to be to make people even more out of touch.
> you know, the only thing that 99% of the world does on computers. > > Have you ever gone online on the world-wide-web?
Yup. Did that very thing recently.
Got stonewalled when the information I needed was at a site that was flash only. They hadn't made any special acommodations for PhoneOS, so I my device might have been made out of clay or stone in terms of being useful.
Apple tablets are devices that require constant excuses.
Slashdot Mirror
...clearly someone suffering from not actually bothering to read the article.
A common affliction here at Slashdot.
Although even without that it still belies a certain 16th century mentality.
Well here would be one big reason to avoid webmail or outsourced mail servers in general.
Although most people really aren't "geeky" enough to avoid having someone else handle their email server. This law is just attempting to take advantage of the average n00b's clueless and disorganized nature....
+...calling something at the bottom of that big pile on your desk "abandoned".
They should enforce a standard like that for out of print creative works...
It's all just a part of the Corporate/Individual double standard that both parties heartily embrace.
You want to conflate being burned at the stake with a little social discomfort?
Really. This is precisely the sort of conflation nonsense I am talking about.
This is precisely the stupid sort of crap that leads to the modern notion of false-martyrdom by American religious fundementalists.
> Except that you personally haven't demonstrated or repeated anything.
Not true. Many of us have replicated the principles of physics and chemistry both in high school and college.
The fact that we can't replicate the more expensive experiments really doesn't matter. It's just a red herring to undermine Science and elevate an notion of religion that was outdated 200 years ago.
Quite often certain people attempt to conflate trust and faith as if they are the same thing.
Trust is earned and subject to revision. Faith is not. Faith is expected without justification and is expected to endure regardless of what facts may come to challenge it.
The key difference between science and "faith" is that heretics are burned.
There is no great controversy if someone decides to rearrange the human family tree. There will be no fundies burning you or your effigy in the street or causing riots that cause innocent people to get killed. There will be some discussion and that will be the end of it.
At worst you will be laughed at until the rest of the community comes around to your way of thinking.
Faith is immutable. Scientific "truth" is infinitely maleable.
The ultimate truth of Bosons does not bother me one way or the other. I need not base my life or my actions on whether or not Bosons are bogus.
Why should they be immune from "tear downs". Nothing else is.
It doesn't really matter if the Romans invented all of that since their empire promptly fell apart and all of those benefits were lost to everyone.
Ten centuries later, everything had to be reinvented. Once the dark age ended, you still had to convince the average ex-Roman that taking a bath wouldn't kill them.
> Just press the activities key
In other words its more Mac wannabe nonsense that doesn't actually work better in practice.
There is an inverse relationship between quality/usefulness and the number of marketing buzzwords used.
I don't like the originals of the Mac knockoff bits. I doubt I will like them any better force fed to me by Gnome or Ubuntu.
No. The general public are not doing the dragging.
They are the ones being dragged.
Most of this stuff is being driven by the "elitists". The unwashed masses can be barely bothered to pay attention. That's why stuff like Tivo and Macs become marginalized by the likes of MS-DOS and the average cable provider PVR. Our view of the entire situation is skewed because we are all relatively geeky early adopters. This even includes the Mac users that sneer at the idea of actually knowing what you're buying.
The interesting element here is the younger generation that are growing up with different expectations and experience with things like the web where everything is on demand.
No. The Internet is not generally fast enough to stream video at the same quality level and resolution as cable.
In a lot of places, it's not even fast enough to stream video badly. Never mind replacing an MPEG2 broadcast or h264 satellite feed.
My PVR has done all of "difficult" stuff you whine about since the first Series 1 Tivo in the 90s.
Calling ads creative content is pushing things a bit.
Ads are a sales pitch and as such are driven predominantly by crass and callous motives and in the general case should not be called "creative".
This is the aspect of advertising that people find objectionable. They are disrespectful on a fundemental level that will always be in conflict with any means to grade them and filter out the most objectionable material. The general lack of consideration given by advertisers will always drive people to find ways to block ads completely if only to deal with the very worst offenders.
I think the fact that Photoshop is going to cost you $600 if you aren't pirating it is bit more germane.
Who cares if a $600 has a somewhat sensible GUI? It stands out as a nice example perhaps for the potential of GUIs done right but it's ultimately meaningless in the general case.
You might as well drone on about the power user features of AutoCAD.
No. I think the script-fu masters know full well that both can be used in parallel. The script-fu masters were probably using GUIs when "normal users" were still flagellating themselves with DOS prompts.
Yes. We were using GUIs first. We always used CLI's that weren't crap. We continue to use good CLI's even though they may seem passe.
> Ah it's good to get my daily SlashKos dose, where there's always a
> featured story about how stealing is justified because of teh evil
> capitalismz0rz!!
+...versus the classic pseudo libertarian mindset.
"Tort reform for the rich. Crime and punishment for the poor."
The sad part is that the poor buy into this nonsense and happily cheer along their corporate overlords as if the last 500 years of social and political progress never happened at all.
...as I've said already, there's a very simple way to "appeal" the "lard butt" verdict.
Just go for a run. If you can finish without needing to be stopped by the doctor for fear of ending up in the ER then you pass the appeal.
Physical fitness is something that can be objectively measured.
The idea that it can't be is just weak excuses for those that don't have enough sense to instinctively look after their own well being.
...yes it is.
Alternatively, you can chase the neighborhood kids until they wear out.
If you can't do this, then your BMI problem is probably not just bullsh*t.
It's not that there is no means to evaluate fitness and you get a free pass as a lard butt just because you can point at some exceptions to the most common heuristic.
A proper physical can sort all of this out.
...oh pulleeeze.
Buy stuff in amounts that can be subdivided. Cook as needed.
Get a little pot. Get a little skillet.
Spend about 15 minutes total cooking your food from scratch.
Cut the stupid roast if you are stupid enough to buy a piece of meat intended for a family of meat.
THIS is the "willful ignorant" mentality at it's finest. Ignorant and helpless...
Really. You gotta wonder how some of these people dress themselves in the morning.
No. Many of us see an impending health care crisis with no one interested in paying for it or being held responsible for their part in helping to create it.
No. Someone needs to pick up the tab. It should be the responsible party.
No. Lardbutts are not cheaper. They are not less of a burden on the entire system.
They cost more in terms of chronic illnesses, prescription drugs, obesity related diseases and nonsense like extra emergency room visits.
There's high risk auto insurance. Imposing the same for medical insurance makes some sense.
Ultimately, people are not responsible for themselves and expecting everyone else to pick up the slack for them. This is further aggravated by the idea that someone else's equipment and labor (medical care) is some sort of natural right rather than a government handout.
People have gotten out of touch with the consequences of their actions and the most common response seems to be to make people even more out of touch.
How to spell the guy's name isn't the important bit of information...
> you know, the only thing that 99% of the world does on computers.
>
> Have you ever gone online on the world-wide-web?
Yup. Did that very thing recently.
Got stonewalled when the information I needed was at a site that was flash only. They hadn't made any special acommodations for PhoneOS, so I my device might have been made out of clay or stone in terms of being useful.
Apple tablets are devices that require constant excuses.
> Well, there is your problem. Of your 3 tasks listed, only
> 1 of them is something that a normal person is only likely
> ever to do.
Print. Attach my video camera. Access an arbitrary (flash) website.
Each of those is a "mundane use case" that a PhoneOS tablet fails at.
You weenies will continue to redefine "geeky" in a manner reminscent of 1984 until you are left with a 50s toaster.
...and yet you don't add anything meaningful. Perhaps you can't. Perhaps there just isn't anything.
Perhaps the OP has a point then.