It boils down to this : people on drugs may be dangerous depending on the drug. Drunks can be dangerous, too. We've survived the drunks. We can survive the potheads.
Well, if a pothead is considered dangerous, he's doing it wrong.
For those who don't have the time to read through all the comments, here's the executive summary of what every/. user is saying:
Windows apologists: FireWire's been dead since forever. You shoulda bought a PC.
Apple fanbois: USB2 isn't as good as FireWire. Apple jumped the shark on this one.
Dirty GNU hippies: A plague on both your houses. That's what happens with vendor lock-in.
what will an employer do if they read your profile unless you post things you shouldn't any ways?!?!
Please elaborate on these "things you shouldn't" post in your profile, or anywhere else for that matter. Would these be things that might become an embarrassment, or things that someone would simply not like or disagree with?
I like most of the stuff at The Register, but they jumped the shark a long time ago concerning WikiPedia. Anything like this posted on El Reg should be considered suspect.
So statistically, if you are an US citizen you are more likley to be in prison than you are a Chinese citizen. Maybe we just have more criminals over here, but sometimes it just feels like this anti-Chinese sentiment is pot calling kettle black.
And what was what third kind of lie, after lies and damned lies, called?
Is some better than none? It depends on what you're talking about. Is some education better than none? Yes. Is some bullets better than none? Not if they're coming at my head.
I think everyone would be better off if we just left these people alone. Handing out computers to people in third world countries is like the Pilgrims giving blankets filled with disease-carrying germs, or missionaries giving out bibles, to the natives.
Considering the author is the CTO of Opera, i.e. one of the competitors in the browser market, you have to take whatever he says about IE, or Firefox or Safari for that matter, with a grain of salt.
So, IP isn't about making an assload of money from copyrighting, patenting and licensing ideas and then hiring ambitious, inventive and unscrupulous lawyers and investigators to put the smack down on those who use my ideas, or what look like my ideas, or what my have been at least tangentially inspired by my ideas, and not pay me for the privilege? Well, sir, I can't say that I like this IP stuff. Not one bit.
Every version of Mac OS X has come with a full suite of development tools including an IDE. When will Microsoft include Visual Basic with Windows, and, no, VBScript does not count. However, for the sake of argument lets include VBScript and JScript, especially since Microsoft stopped including QBASIC. Mac OS X includes Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, AppleScript, Java, PHP, and that's *before* installing the development tools. Installing those gives me Xcode, Interface Builder, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++ and other development and debugging tools out the yinyang. So let's look at Windows, now. C? C++? No. Visual Basic? No. Perl? Python? Ruby? No. What *is* included? VBScript and JScript. Wait, there's supposed to be a free version of Visual Studio, isn't there? Oh, I have to download that? Microsoft doesn't just include it with Windows like Apple does XCode with Mac OS X? But, I thought Microsoft cared about developers; that it was easy to develop for Windows. But, Apple actually includes more development tools, including a full blown IDE in XCode, with Mac OS X than Microsoft does with Windows.
Huh, go figure.
Actually, most, if not all, of the notebooks and PCs in the world are manufactured in China and other countries of the Pacific Rim. Lenovo, in particular, has been making the IBM Thinkpads for years. It is only recently that they are being sold under the Lenovo brand rather than IBM. Odds are that your Manhattan publishing house friends are using "off market Chinese crap" with an IBM, Apple, HP/Compaq or some other name brand label on it.
Oh, yeah, those Macs your developer friends are using were manufactured in the Pacific Rim as well.
IANAL, but there are precedents already for having limits on free speech. For example, yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire is not considered free speech. The same principle should apply here.
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work with Linux.
FSF Genius: That's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod! NEXT!
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work.
FSF Genius: OK, which distro?
User: Fedora...
FSF Genius: NEXT!
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work with Debian.
FSF Genius: OK, are you using stable, testing or unstable?
User: testing. I needed the newer version of Firef...
FSF Genius: NEXT!
User: I'm having a probl...Oh my god, don't you ever shower!
FSF Genius: HEY, DON'T JUDGE ME, OK? NEXT!
User: I can't get my sound card to work with Debian Etch stable.
FSF Genius: Well, you have the source code. Fix it yourself. Oh, and make sure you send your changes back to us, OK? Buh-bye. NEXT!
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Yes, but you're still wrong. Spotlight is not Sherlock no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.
Well, if a pothead is considered dangerous, he's doing it wrong.
For those who don't have the time to read through all the comments, here's the executive summary of what every /. user is saying:
Windows apologists: FireWire's been dead since forever. You shoulda bought a PC.
Apple fanbois: USB2 isn't as good as FireWire. Apple jumped the shark on this one.
Dirty GNU hippies: A plague on both your houses. That's what happens with vendor lock-in.
And they make money:
Be an asshole, and get paid for it? Brilliant!
Please elaborate on these "things you shouldn't" post in your profile, or anywhere else for that matter. Would these be things that might become an embarrassment, or things that someone would simply not like or disagree with?
I like most of the stuff at The Register, but they jumped the shark a long time ago concerning WikiPedia. Anything like this posted on El Reg should be considered suspect.
And what was what third kind of lie, after lies and damned lies, called?
Actually, it's their fault for not being as smart as I am. :)
Is some better than none? It depends on what you're talking about. Is some education better than none? Yes. Is some bullets better than none? Not if they're coming at my head.
I think everyone would be better off if we just left these people alone. Handing out computers to people in third world countries is like the Pilgrims giving blankets filled with disease-carrying germs, or missionaries giving out bibles, to the natives.
How am I not paying my own bills by using a service like Paytrust? Is the money coming out of someone else's bank account or something?
Considering the author is the CTO of Opera, i.e. one of the competitors in the browser market, you have to take whatever he says about IE, or Firefox or Safari for that matter, with a grain of salt.
So, IP isn't about making an assload of money from copyrighting, patenting and licensing ideas and then hiring ambitious, inventive and unscrupulous lawyers and investigators to put the smack down on those who use my ideas, or what look like my ideas, or what my have been at least tangentially inspired by my ideas, and not pay me for the privilege? Well, sir, I can't say that I like this IP stuff. Not one bit.
Every version of Mac OS X has come with a full suite of development tools including an IDE. When will Microsoft include Visual Basic with Windows, and, no, VBScript does not count. However, for the sake of argument lets include VBScript and JScript, especially since Microsoft stopped including QBASIC. Mac OS X includes Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, AppleScript, Java, PHP, and that's *before* installing the development tools. Installing those gives me Xcode, Interface Builder, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++ and other development and debugging tools out the yinyang. So let's look at Windows, now. C? C++? No. Visual Basic? No. Perl? Python? Ruby? No. What *is* included? VBScript and JScript. Wait, there's supposed to be a free version of Visual Studio, isn't there? Oh, I have to download that? Microsoft doesn't just include it with Windows like Apple does XCode with Mac OS X? But, I thought Microsoft cared about developers; that it was easy to develop for Windows. But, Apple actually includes more development tools, including a full blown IDE in XCode, with Mac OS X than Microsoft does with Windows.
Huh, go figure.
You always could, spunky.
What really killed the Amiga was the rabid Amiga fanboys scaring potential software vendors and users away from the platform.
As was already said earlier, plain http sites do not make any claims about being secure.
I tend to think of them as opportunists or ambulance chasers; seeing a way to make money off of other's paranoia.
Actually, most, if not all, of the notebooks and PCs in the world are manufactured in China and other countries of the Pacific Rim. Lenovo, in particular, has been making the IBM Thinkpads for years. It is only recently that they are being sold under the Lenovo brand rather than IBM. Odds are that your Manhattan publishing house friends are using "off market Chinese crap" with an IBM, Apple, HP/Compaq or some other name brand label on it. Oh, yeah, those Macs your developer friends are using were manufactured in the Pacific Rim as well.
Has anyone suggested a USB Floppy Drive yet?
How does water get above 212 deg. F (100 deg. C)?
IANAL, but there are precedents already for having limits on free speech. For example, yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire is not considered free speech. The same principle should apply here.
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work with Linux.
FSF Genius: That's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod! NEXT!
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work.
FSF Genius: OK, which distro?
User: Fedora...
FSF Genius: NEXT!
User: I'm having a problem getting my sound card to work with Debian.
FSF Genius: OK, are you using stable, testing or unstable?
User: testing. I needed the newer version of Firef...
FSF Genius: NEXT!
User: I'm having a probl...Oh my god, don't you ever shower!
FSF Genius: HEY, DON'T JUDGE ME, OK? NEXT!
User: I can't get my sound card to work with Debian Etch stable.
FSF Genius: Well, you have the source code. Fix it yourself. Oh, and make sure you send your changes back to us, OK? Buh-bye. NEXT!
Really? I thought LAMP was a marketing buzzword for selling O'Reilly books.
just as soon as Congress changes the law to require both men and women to register with Selective Service. To this day, only men are required by law to register. Dual nationals, some non-citizens, conscientious objectors and even disabled men are all required to register, so I don't see why women shouldn't be as well.
We already have a system for eliminating professional politicians. It's called the election process.
Why do people keep voting these people into Congress?
Then explain the Hulk.