Just because we create something does not mean that we can claim ownership of it, I wonder if that's why no one has ever seen god?
I think the RIAA might disagree with you on the first point.
And no one has seen God because he's been involved in a long legal battle with Michael Jackson over buying back the rights to "The Universe" back catalogue.
I don't know about you, but I don't know any Americans who "rejoice" at the exploitation of cheap workers
Perhaps not, but then I don't know many people who "rejoice" at the way battery farm chickens are kept, while they tuck into their bucket of KFC.
Face it, you are a nation of consumers with no real manufacturing left. You all demand cheap goods, and if that comes with the price of outsourcing to foreign sweatshops, you accept it by turning a blind eye... if all your manufacturing was done inside the US, none of you could afford to buy anything.
And this isn't particularly a dig at the US... I think all Western economies will go the same way, as the governments and people all have the same short-sighted attitude. Pretty soon the only things left will be service jobs and tech jobs in the West, all manufacturing and production will be done in China and the surrounding ASEAN nations.
and also switches contexts about 5 times as fast as well (and these are full processes, not threads)
Seeing as Linux has about 1/5th of useful software compared to Windows, I guess it all balances out in the end.
And here's me, with a ton of recent Insightfuls and a good backlog of Excellent karma, pissing it all up the wall for one dig at an obvious Linux fanboi... when will I ever learn ?
I suppose it probably does, I just get irritated by the fanbois who seem to think it's the *only* mobile device that does.
Personally, I've stayed with Nokia through N95, E90 and just as soon as the N900 is available here, I'll treat myself to one of those. I prefer black to neon pink anyway, it gives a slightly better impression when you're in a business meeting;-)
Yes, there are pros and cons for both "named" and anonymous posts.
But I'd understood from the OP that he'd force people to either post "named" or not at all, which simply serves to silence the voices of all those who cannot risk posting "named" e.g. Iranians, Burmese, Chinese, in fact citizens of any country that are under a repressive regime.
I think that alone is enough justification to allow anonymous, and if it also means some people will post derogatory slurs against their college mates, then I think we have to live with it.
Oh, and plover, a big thanks for the "Davee is teh gaye" comment... it'll be on Google in a couple of hours, and random search keywords on some spammer's blog in a matter of days;-)
Water off a duck's back to be honest, it's a shame that people seem to have forgotten this old adage, and prefer the politically correct position of blaming the Internet for all the ills that plague our society. Despite the fact that all those ills existed long before the Internet, and those of us old enough to remember that can laugh at the PC crowd for their naivety.
The "candidates for an early death by driveby shooting or long prison sentence for drug dealing and 'whippin ma ho'" section was too wide to fit on the iPhone display.
Since the 1960s the International System of Units ("Système International d'Unités" in French, hence "SI") has been the internationally recognised standard metric system.
Yet you still want an e-book that is 11 inches x 8 1/2 inches ?
Only three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States.
Ah, that explains it.
How does it feel to be one of the 3 nations of the world who just *have* to be fucking awkward ?
Despite the myth that invisible pink unicorns last for 100,000 years, in practice you'll find they die after about 6 months, AND cost about 3 times the price of regular unicorns.
Plus you can't dispose of the dead invisible pink unicorns in landfills, as they decompose into all kinds of nasty shit.
I don't think LED means Laser Emitting Diode in the context of display panels, so your point is somewhat moot. Staring into the sun can seriously mess you up too, but it's unlikely you'll find a superheated ball of gas in your Kindle either.
But just think of the advertising possibilities. Pop-up ads could be burned directly onto your retina, saving advetisers a fortune in bandwidth costs.
And who is going to determine that a post is trivial / unimportant ?
The fact that Jenkins expresses a sexual preference for the dead is perhaps a valid and important fact for other people to be made aware of, especially if he is currently studying for a Bachelor of Arts in Embalming.
And really, kids start calling each other names in the kindergarten playground. Why does the fact it is posted on the internet make it any more important. Just because it's exposed to perhaps a wider audience doesn't mean discerning people can't simply ignore it for the puerile drivel it is. The only people who will get upset are those who *always* get upset, and there's no helping them anyway, oversensitive bunch of pussies that they are.
The number of people reading Wikipedia continues to grow. In October, we had 344 million unique visitors from around the world, according to comScore Media Metrix, up 6% from September.
I don't think the number of readers was actually a point of contention. How long those readers actually stay on Wikipedia and how useful they find it now that everything is getting culled by overzealous moderators citing "lack of sources" etc. is possibly more the point.
Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property in the world. The number of articles in Wikipedia keeps growing. There are about 14.4 million articles in Wikipedia, with thousands of new ones added every day.
Wikipedia's own article on Wikipedia has a nice graph of article count. Since Jul 2007 it seems they've typically been adding about 2000 articles a day... so "thousands" is being used in it's most literal sense. But without the number of articles being edited down to nothing, or simply being culled, this data is useless, and they damn well know it. Tell us how many articles are being deleted each day, and that that number isn't increasing !
The number of people writing Wikipedia peaked about two and a half years ago, declined slightly for a brief period, and has remained stable since then. Every month, some people stop writing, and every month, they are replaced by new people.
Interesting this is exactly the point at which the increase in articles per day flatlined, meanign that the number of editors they ave maintained since means a linear addition to the total volume of articles, and not the "projected doubling that they expected" on the graph.
They also note that it's impossible to tell whether someone has left and will never return, as their account still remains there.
So they don't maintain a timestamp of "last activity by author" ??? Fucking nonsense, pardon my language.
The report touched a nerve, and their response with half-assed, half-complete figures does nothing to convince me the report was incorrect.
And they have the gall to ask for 7.5 million US in donations for a diminshing product. Jimbo's days of champagne, caviar and jet planes are numbered methinks.
Businesses such as recordable DVD manufacturers / VHS, Betamax, Blu-Ray recorders want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of the provision of recordable media and equipment and they enjoy that benefit. But it carries with it a responsibility,' said Tony Bannon SC, the film industry's lawyer. 'They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes. If they don't like having to deal with copyright notices then they should get out of the business.'
Business such as movie studios want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of a rapidly dying horse (I see they've remade Nightmare on Elm Street now, ffs can't these people come up with an original idea anymore), while trying to keep that industry firmly locked in 1970s style price-fixing. If THEY don't like having to deal with offering reasonably priced products based on the distribution method (i.e. higher price for physical media, liver concerts, cinema seats etc, and a lower price for digital distribution), then they should get out of the business.
As all of the EU can use IBAN for European transfers, I don't see the issue. The only reason we're still stuck with SWIFT is when making a transfer to/from outside the EU anyway, which invariably means US / Canada, in which case they already have access to the data.
EMule / EDonkey stopped itself, without any outside help. Last time I checked (over a year ago), there was 1 decent search server, and about 1000 spam servers that fed you millions of dummy hits to any search term, only to send you a WMV virus.
The benefit of centralised servers was in the "trust" value, and the ability to see the comments of other sharers. Bad torrents were quickly detected as such, and good torrents were evident by the numbers of seeds / leeches.
Decentralised searches rely on the premise that unscrupulous entity isn't going to poison the results with spam, viruses and crap with titles like "2012 good movie guaranteed clean honest mate would I lie to you.wmv"
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Just because we create something does not mean that we can claim ownership of it, I wonder if that's why no one has ever seen god?
I think the RIAA might disagree with you on the first point.
And no one has seen God because he's been involved in a long legal battle with Michael Jackson over buying back the rights to "The Universe" back catalogue.
I don't know about you, but I don't know any Americans who "rejoice" at the exploitation of cheap workers
Perhaps not, but then I don't know many people who "rejoice" at the way battery farm chickens are kept, while they tuck into their bucket of KFC.
Face it, you are a nation of consumers with no real manufacturing left. You all demand cheap goods, and if that comes with the price of outsourcing to foreign sweatshops, you accept it by turning a blind eye ... if all your manufacturing was done inside the US, none of you could afford to buy anything.
And this isn't particularly a dig at the US ... I think all Western economies will go the same way, as the governments and people all have the same short-sighted attitude. Pretty soon the only things left will be service jobs and tech jobs in the West, all manufacturing and production will be done in China and the surrounding ASEAN nations.
So the bloody leprechaun lied to us !
You need to have two very thin pots of gold first, so you can find the end of the rainbow.
and also switches contexts about 5 times as fast as well (and these are full processes, not threads)
Seeing as Linux has about 1/5th of useful software compared to Windows, I guess it all balances out in the end.
And here's me, with a ton of recent Insightfuls and a good backlog of Excellent karma, pissing it all up the wall for one dig at an obvious Linux fanboi ... when will I ever learn ?
the important thing is that it works really well.
I suppose it probably does, I just get irritated by the fanbois who seem to think it's the *only* mobile device that does.
Personally, I've stayed with Nokia through N95, E90 and just as soon as the N900 is available here, I'll treat myself to one of those. I prefer black to neon pink anyway, it gives a slightly better impression when you're in a business meeting ;-)
Yes, there are pros and cons for both "named" and anonymous posts.
But I'd understood from the OP that he'd force people to either post "named" or not at all, which simply serves to silence the voices of all those who cannot risk posting "named" e.g. Iranians, Burmese, Chinese, in fact citizens of any country that are under a repressive regime.
I think that alone is enough justification to allow anonymous, and if it also means some people will post derogatory slurs against their college mates, then I think we have to live with it.
Oh, and plover, a big thanks for the "Davee is teh gaye" comment ... it'll be on Google in a couple of hours, and random search keywords on some spammer's blog in a matter of days ;-)
Water off a duck's back to be honest, it's a shame that people seem to have forgotten this old adage, and prefer the politically correct position of blaming the Internet for all the ills that plague our society. Despite the fact that all those ills existed long before the Internet, and those of us old enough to remember that can laugh at the PC crowd for their naivety.
Hmm, let's see ...
"London" English - "Excuse me Sir, have you seen my Chicken Sandwich"
"Scouse" English - "Hey la, wess me Shicken Butty"
Yup, completely plain an intelligible language, provided you live in a 10 mile radius of Big Ben.
Finding a boat anchor would be a bonus. Boat anchors tend to be attached to boats, which have GPS that works.
The "candidates for an early death by driveby shooting or long prison sentence for drug dealing and 'whippin ma ho'" section was too wide to fit on the iPhone display.
You're just *starting* to get an attitude ?
Why does that really scare me ?
How many times ? Unless the iBoom missile hardware is made by Apple, you can not install Mac OSX on it ! It says so in the EULA !
Yes, but how would you know that the "record time" was accurate ?
Hanging him upside down, and letting him bleed to death ? Sounds good to me (but far too good for him).
Gratuitous Wiki Copypasta.
Since the 1960s the International System of Units ("Système International d'Unités" in French, hence "SI") has been the internationally recognised standard metric system.
Yet you still want an e-book that is 11 inches x 8 1/2 inches ?
Only three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States.
Ah, that explains it.
How does it feel to be one of the 3 nations of the world who just *have* to be fucking awkward ?
Yes, but the people who buy iPhones like shiny ... they probably can't see the display from the glare emitted from the neon pink case.
Despite the myth that invisible pink unicorns last for 100,000 years, in practice you'll find they die after about 6 months, AND cost about 3 times the price of regular unicorns.
Plus you can't dispose of the dead invisible pink unicorns in landfills, as they decompose into all kinds of nasty shit.
You don't even see that, you see the light *reflected* by them.
Chairs, Tables, Buildings are not light sources (except possibly Chairs thrown by Ballmer, those can make you see stars).
I don't think LED means Laser Emitting Diode in the context of display panels, so your point is somewhat moot. Staring into the sun can seriously mess you up too, but it's unlikely you'll find a superheated ball of gas in your Kindle either.
But just think of the advertising possibilities. Pop-up ads could be burned directly onto your retina, saving advetisers a fortune in bandwidth costs.
And who is going to determine that a post is trivial / unimportant ?
The fact that Jenkins expresses a sexual preference for the dead is perhaps a valid and important fact for other people to be made aware of, especially if he is currently studying for a Bachelor of Arts in Embalming.
And really, kids start calling each other names in the kindergarten playground. Why does the fact it is posted on the internet make it any more important. Just because it's exposed to perhaps a wider audience doesn't mean discerning people can't simply ignore it for the puerile drivel it is. The only people who will get upset are those who *always* get upset, and there's no helping them anyway, oversensitive bunch of pussies that they are.
The summary did have the tag, but then some other editor deleted it.
The number of people reading Wikipedia continues to grow. In October, we had 344 million unique visitors from around the world, according to comScore Media Metrix, up 6% from September.
I don't think the number of readers was actually a point of contention. How long those readers actually stay on Wikipedia and how useful they find it now that everything is getting culled by overzealous moderators citing "lack of sources" etc. is possibly more the point.
Wikipedia is the fifth most popular web property in the world. The number of articles in Wikipedia keeps growing. There are about 14.4 million articles in Wikipedia, with thousands of new ones added every day.
Wikipedia's own article on Wikipedia has a nice graph of article count. Since Jul 2007 it seems they've typically been adding about 2000 articles a day ... so "thousands" is being used in it's most literal sense. But without the number of articles being edited down to nothing, or simply being culled, this data is useless, and they damn well know it. Tell us how many articles are being deleted each day, and that that number isn't increasing !
The number of people writing Wikipedia peaked about two and a half years ago, declined slightly for a brief period, and has remained stable since then. Every month, some people stop writing, and every month, they are replaced by new people.
Interesting this is exactly the point at which the increase in articles per day flatlined, meanign that the number of editors they ave maintained since means a linear addition to the total volume of articles, and not the "projected doubling that they expected" on the graph.
They also note that it's impossible to tell whether someone has left and will never return, as their account still remains there.
So they don't maintain a timestamp of "last activity by author" ??? Fucking nonsense, pardon my language.
The report touched a nerve, and their response with half-assed, half-complete figures does nothing to convince me the report was incorrect.
And they have the gall to ask for 7.5 million US in donations for a diminshing product. Jimbo's days of champagne, caviar and jet planes are numbered methinks.
... and "liver concerts" have nothing to do with musical dialysis machines or using medical equipment as theremins ... it was a typo, ok ?
Businesses such as recordable DVD manufacturers / VHS, Betamax, Blu-Ray recorders want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of the provision of recordable media and equipment and they enjoy that benefit. But it carries with it a responsibility,' said Tony Bannon SC, the film industry's lawyer. 'They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes. If they don't like having to deal with copyright notices then they should get out of the business.'
Business such as movie studios want to enjoy the benefit of being able to make money out of a rapidly dying horse (I see they've remade Nightmare on Elm Street now, ffs can't these people come up with an original idea anymore), while trying to keep that industry firmly locked in 1970s style price-fixing. If THEY don't like having to deal with offering reasonably priced products based on the distribution method (i.e. higher price for physical media, liver concerts, cinema seats etc, and a lower price for digital distribution), then they should get out of the business.
As all of the EU can use IBAN for European transfers, I don't see the issue. The only reason we're still stuck with SWIFT is when making a transfer to/from outside the EU anyway, which invariably means US / Canada, in which case they already have access to the data.
EMule / EDonkey stopped itself, without any outside help. Last time I checked (over a year ago), there was 1 decent search server, and about 1000 spam servers that fed you millions of dummy hits to any search term, only to send you a WMV virus.
The benefit of centralised servers was in the "trust" value, and the ability to see the comments of other sharers. Bad torrents were quickly detected as such, and good torrents were evident by the numbers of seeds / leeches.
Decentralised searches rely on the premise that unscrupulous entity isn't going to poison the results with spam, viruses and crap with titles like "2012 good movie guaranteed clean honest mate would I lie to you.wmv"