[...] Firefox is a has been. People in the know are switching to Chrome or Safari. [...]
Apparently I do not know anyone "in the know". Out of all people whose desktop I have seen up close not one is using anything but Firefox or IE. Not at university, not at work, not amongst friends and acquaintances. No matter whether they are power users, developers or technically challenged. Even the odd Opera has disappeared. I know more people who use Linux as their desktop OS than I know people who do not use Firefox.
Having to memorize keyboard shortcuts to do anything is for shit. That kind of crap went out in the 90's, [...]
Oh, how good to know. Be sure to tell that to the millions of people who play video games more complex than minesweeper. They apparently haven't noticed.
[...] It's always "shut up or help", let's all ignore our actual users who are just trying to make it just a little bit easier for themselves.
So I assume you already brought this issue to the attention of the MythTV developers and received a similar response? Just asking, because I do not remember seeing anything to that effect on either the mailing list or the issue tracker.
Flash CS5 is the only product that comes with the Flash-to-.ipa converter. It retails for $700. The Mac Mini starts at $600. Last I checked, $600 was less than $700.
Flash can be used for other things than iWhatever app development. The Mac Mini on the other hand...
Nonsense. Law is simply morality that's been codified. We believe killing people is wrong, so we make a law to reflect our shared morality. [...]
I call bullshit. The one of astronomic proportions. We use laws where morality (as in a shared common set of rules and norms everyone agrees upon) fails, else we would not need it. I do not want to be killed, you do not want to be killed, so we make a law that makes it punishable to kill you or me or anyone else. In contrast neither you or me need a law to make us greet people back when they greet us. Courtesy demands it.
With copyright morality obviously has reached a limit to its applicability. There is no consensus on whether and in what form and to which degree creators and distributors of intangible goods shall be compensated and what rights they should have and what limits they should be able to declare on the use of their works.
It is not useless, however, to be able to understand what religious people are talking about. We all live on the same planet, and we can all benefit from reconciling our differences in a non-violent manner.
Yes and no. It is useless in so far as that you cannot reconcile everyone's religious beliefs, just as you cannot get everyone to agree upon the colour public buildings should be painted in. Some want black, some want white, but few people would be happy with grey. Faith is not grounded in logic or objective reasoning, it is essentially a matter of personal taste. And we all know how well consensus works for taste.
If you seek consistency in your beliefs, try agnosticism.
Were I to care about other people's faith I would rather recommend apatheistic ignosticism. Since I don't, I recommend spending your time on improving your area's data on OpenStreetmap rather than meditating about the finer aspects of particular faiths. Religion has yet to do anything useful for the world at large, but OSM has aided me innumerable times in the few years since its inception.
Sure there is. But once the Source engine is ported to OS X - or more precisely: to OpenGL - it should be trivial to bring any Source game to Linux, allowing Valve to tap into a market that is not yet all that large but virtually devoid of competition. Gaming on Linux is a chicken-and-egg type of problem: No games means low adoption (relative to the Windows market), low adoption means no games. This is Valve's chance to essentially establish a monopoly on an expanding platform with relatively little expenses. They would be stupid not to do it.
Mod parent up. Piracy (as in people boarding ships to ransack the cargo or kidnap the crew) has never ceased, it was simply marginalised to third-world regions where it did not affect "our" trade and therefore seldom made it into the news.
[...] if you had a Windows Domain Controller. That's probably outside of your budget. [...]
Some linux-friendly routers will allow you to run a Samba DC on them. Samba 4 supports Group Policies. It is marked as not being production-ready, but it should be safe enough for a home network. While you're at it, the same Samba could provide printer sharing for all the machines.
(Not that I believe that Group Policies can replace proper parenting, though. Using technology to solve social problems seldom is a smart idea.)
I very much doubt that. The fines for their knockoffs of works by Shakespeare, Brothers Grimm and the likes alone would likely leave them with empty pockets.
I concur. Using emergency services as an example for natural "supertaskers" misses the point. You already pointed out training. Another aspect is that such personnel is following given - and usually rather simple - protocols and operating (at least ideally) with their focus on their surroundings, since they know that what they are doing is dangerous.
I regularly run as First Responder, and my experience is that using a radio while hurrying through rush-hour traffic with the siren at full blast is child's play compared to talking on the phone while driving leisurely down the freeway, hands-free or not. I know what intructions to expect and how to respond, and I usually do not exchange more than five or six words at a time with the dispatcher. In a phone call, on the other hand, people tend to just flood you with information in a conversation, and they expect complex and probably unforeseen responses from you. This makes a huge difference, at least for me. I do not mind operating the radio while driving, but I usually leave even the GPS to my co-driver - even trying to make sense of what that bloody thing is trying to tell me on its small display is an enormous distraction.
So no, as much as I like to think of us as naturally superior drivers I am afraid we simply have more training and higher awareness to keep us from killing ourselves and the people around us.
If a particular brand of a common device were ever to absolutely dominate the market I could see it becoming a major concern.
My guess is that about 70% of all laptops and netbooks produced in the last two to three years run one out of maybe five or six different Intel NICs. On desktops targeting the four most widely used Realtek chips should give at least 30% coverage. On servers it boils down to a handful of widely used professional chips.
I do see it being an issue already. Not one of end-of-the-world-like seriousness, but for certain critical applications I would take it into consideration, CYA wise.
Not getting into the flamewar, but one minor issue I cannot let stand unchallenged:
Any indexed search system adds a substantial amount of bloat to Windows.
Apple may be able to pull off a lot of things, but even they have to use CPU cycles and memory to index your hard-drive. Their bloat is simply already included in the sum of what is OS X. And there are relatively efficient indexing tools for Windows. So no, this is not a valid point.
I believe everyone here can agree that Windows as shipped by Microsoft lacks many features that other OSs like OS X or modern Linux distros have bundled into themselves. But you cannot have it both ways by saying that adding those features to Windows is bloat.
I did not miss those, there simply are none other than that you do not like the current system. Your proposals are, sorry, laughable. Essentially you want everyone to be able to go as fast as they think is reasonable. Well, except in front of schools, where you still think it reasonable to lose your license only if you go almost three times the allowed speed.
Most people overestimate their driving skills. Most people do not keep up with maintenance on their cars as much as they should. Most people do not keep their mind on the road while driving as much as they should. So most people need a limit to keep them and their fellow drivers safe. If you do not need one, fine. Then the limit is not there because of you. But it still protects your life from inexperienced or distracted drivers and inconsiderate morons.
What specifics? That everyone breaks the law at that part of the road, and so breaking it a little more does not hurt?
To break that down: You say there are road with a 100km/h limit where everyone goes 130 (and, deducting from your post the police do nothing about that), and you complain when people get busted for going 150. What exactly is your issue? Are you arguing that the limit is unreasonable and should be raised to the 130 everyone is doing? Well, even then those who go 150 would be open to punishment. Are you arguing that the limit should be raised to 150? Are you arguing that there should not be limits at all? What is your point?
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[...] Firefox is a has been. People in the know are switching to Chrome or Safari. [...]
Apparently I do not know anyone "in the know". Out of all people whose desktop I have seen up close not one is using anything but Firefox or IE. Not at university, not at work, not amongst friends and acquaintances. No matter whether they are power users, developers or technically challenged. Even the odd Opera has disappeared. I know more people who use Linux as their desktop OS than I know people who do not use Firefox.
Having to memorize keyboard shortcuts to do anything is for shit. That kind of crap went out in the 90's, [...]
Oh, how good to know. Be sure to tell that to the millions of people who play video games more complex than minesweeper. They apparently haven't noticed.
[...] It's always "shut up or help", let's all ignore our actual users who are just trying to make it just a little bit easier for themselves.
So I assume you already brought this issue to the attention of the MythTV developers and received a similar response? Just asking, because I do not remember seeing anything to that effect on either the mailing list or the issue tracker.
Too bad there is no -1 Making me envious moderation.
Universal iron rule of economics: Different consumers have different demands and pricing expectations. What was your point again?
Flash CS5 is the only product that comes with the Flash-to-.ipa converter. It retails for $700. The Mac Mini starts at $600. Last I checked, $600 was less than $700.
Flash can be used for other things than iWhatever app development. The Mac Mini on the other hand...
Nonsense. Law is simply morality that's been codified. We believe killing people is wrong, so we make a law to reflect our shared morality. [...]
I call bullshit. The one of astronomic proportions. We use laws where morality (as in a shared common set of rules and norms everyone agrees upon) fails, else we would not need it. I do not want to be killed, you do not want to be killed, so we make a law that makes it punishable to kill you or me or anyone else. In contrast neither you or me need a law to make us greet people back when they greet us. Courtesy demands it.
With copyright morality obviously has reached a limit to its applicability. There is no consensus on whether and in what form and to which degree creators and distributors of intangible goods shall be compensated and what rights they should have and what limits they should be able to declare on the use of their works.
"We" have not decided anything.
It is not useless, however, to be able to understand what religious people are talking about. We all live on the same planet, and we can all benefit from reconciling our differences in a non-violent manner.
Yes and no. It is useless in so far as that you cannot reconcile everyone's religious beliefs, just as you cannot get everyone to agree upon the colour public buildings should be painted in. Some want black, some want white, but few people would be happy with grey. Faith is not grounded in logic or objective reasoning, it is essentially a matter of personal taste. And we all know how well consensus works for taste.
If you seek consistency in your beliefs, try agnosticism.
Were I to care about other people's faith I would rather recommend apatheistic ignosticism. Since I don't, I recommend spending your time on improving your area's data on OpenStreetmap rather than meditating about the finer aspects of particular faiths. Religion has yet to do anything useful for the world at large, but OSM has aided me innumerable times in the few years since its inception.
Only if done in a consortium along with T-Systems, Motorola and EADS.
Sure there is. But once the Source engine is ported to OS X - or more precisely: to OpenGL - it should be trivial to bring any Source game to Linux, allowing Valve to tap into a market that is not yet all that large but virtually devoid of competition. Gaming on Linux is a chicken-and-egg type of problem: No games means low adoption (relative to the Windows market), low adoption means no games. This is Valve's chance to essentially establish a monopoly on an expanding platform with relatively little expenses. They would be stupid not to do it.
Do you see Steam and Source based games coming to mobile phones any time soon? He is obviously talking about a different market, namely desktop games.
By that reasoning copyright violations should not make the news either.
Mod parent up. Piracy (as in people boarding ships to ransack the cargo or kidnap the crew) has never ceased, it was simply marginalised to third-world regions where it did not affect "our" trade and therefore seldom made it into the news.
[...] if you had a Windows Domain Controller. That's probably outside of your budget. [...]
Some linux-friendly routers will allow you to run a Samba DC on them. Samba 4 supports Group Policies. It is marked as not being production-ready, but it should be safe enough for a home network. While you're at it, the same Samba could provide printer sharing for all the machines.
(Not that I believe that Group Policies can replace proper parenting, though. Using technology to solve social problems seldom is a smart idea.)
I very much doubt that. The fines for their knockoffs of works by Shakespeare, Brothers Grimm and the likes alone would likely leave them with empty pockets.
I concur. Using emergency services as an example for natural "supertaskers" misses the point. You already pointed out training. Another aspect is that such personnel is following given - and usually rather simple - protocols and operating (at least ideally) with their focus on their surroundings, since they know that what they are doing is dangerous.
I regularly run as First Responder, and my experience is that using a radio while hurrying through rush-hour traffic with the siren at full blast is child's play compared to talking on the phone while driving leisurely down the freeway, hands-free or not. I know what intructions to expect and how to respond, and I usually do not exchange more than five or six words at a time with the dispatcher. In a phone call, on the other hand, people tend to just flood you with information in a conversation, and they expect complex and probably unforeseen responses from you. This makes a huge difference, at least for me. I do not mind operating the radio while driving, but I usually leave even the GPS to my co-driver - even trying to make sense of what that bloody thing is trying to tell me on its small display is an enormous distraction.
So no, as much as I like to think of us as naturally superior drivers I am afraid we simply have more training and higher awareness to keep us from killing ourselves and the people around us.
Hint: I am not British.
Since you likely do not contribute to the funding of BBC what exactly is your complaint? That you do not get to free-ride?
If a particular brand of a common device were ever to absolutely dominate the market I could see it becoming a major concern.
My guess is that about 70% of all laptops and netbooks produced in the last two to three years run one out of maybe five or six different Intel NICs. On desktops targeting the four most widely used Realtek chips should give at least 30% coverage. On servers it boils down to a handful of widely used professional chips.
I do see it being an issue already. Not one of end-of-the-world-like seriousness, but for certain critical applications I would take it into consideration, CYA wise.
Not having read TFA, this is EA we are talking about. The parent's assumption may well be right.
Not getting into the flamewar, but one minor issue I cannot let stand unchallenged:
Any indexed search system adds a substantial amount of bloat to Windows.
Apple may be able to pull off a lot of things, but even they have to use CPU cycles and memory to index your hard-drive. Their bloat is simply already included in the sum of what is OS X. And there are relatively efficient indexing tools for Windows. So no, this is not a valid point.
I believe everyone here can agree that Windows as shipped by Microsoft lacks many features that other OSs like OS X or modern Linux distros have bundled into themselves. But you cannot have it both ways by saying that adding those features to Windows is bloat.
Now this one is easy to answer.
I did not miss those, there simply are none other than that you do not like the current system. Your proposals are, sorry, laughable. Essentially you want everyone to be able to go as fast as they think is reasonable. Well, except in front of schools, where you still think it reasonable to lose your license only if you go almost three times the allowed speed.
Most people overestimate their driving skills. Most people do not keep up with maintenance on their cars as much as they should. Most people do not keep their mind on the road while driving as much as they should. So most people need a limit to keep them and their fellow drivers safe. If you do not need one, fine. Then the limit is not there because of you. But it still protects your life from inexperienced or distracted drivers and inconsiderate morons.
What specifics? That everyone breaks the law at that part of the road, and so breaking it a little more does not hurt?
To break that down: You say there are road with a 100km/h limit where everyone goes 130 (and, deducting from your post the police do nothing about that), and you complain when people get busted for going 150. What exactly is your issue? Are you arguing that the limit is unreasonable and should be raised to the 130 everyone is doing? Well, even then those who go 150 would be open to punishment. Are you arguing that the limit should be raised to 150? Are you arguing that there should not be limits at all? What is your point?