No the *real* trick in Monopoly was buying Park Lane and Mayfair as quickly as possible. You'd get them every time right before "Go", and if not, they'd land on the most expensive tax square instead.
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal.
[deletes text, starts again]
Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
And did you check to see if your tuner card was compatible with Ubuntu, first? It would've saved you some time
I shouldn't HAVE to !!! It's only 2 years old, and works fine under Windows. How old is linux ? regardless of distros and their little idiosyncracies, they all have the same core kernel and drivers right ? I don't think I've ever bought a product and then had to wait 2 years for the driver to be made available... but that's what you have to accept if you choose the FOSS road. Maybe in the next kernel, maybe in the next distro... who knows ?
If something works with product (a) out of the box, but with product (b) I have to go trawling around forums first, checking compatibility lists, hunting down possibly non-existent drivers from either the manufacturer of some third party hack, it's too much trouble.
I'm tired of this FOSS attitude that after you've had a problem, the standard response is "oh, you should have done X,Y,Z", like I'm in the wrong for not knowing the latest hacks and tricks. It's an O/S. Install and go yes ?
Now of course it's anecdotal, (the FOSS crowds favorite excuse and as such, can safely be ignored), but never since Windows XP have I had any hardware that didn't work out of the box, and most of the time, even before installing the supplied drivers, Windows would have a go at using some kind of default one, no matter how crippled.
Now regardless of whether this is a driver manufacturer reluctance to serve FOSS, for the end user, the important thing is "it just works". If it doesn't then you'll never see the adoption of other O/S that you will continue to see with MS products.
MacOS is kinda exempt, seeing as how the majority of hardware comes from Apple also, and the O/S is tuned to "always work" with that tiny subset. It's a nice experience, but comes with a price.
Well no, because like everything else, there is far more choice of software for installing on a Windows box than you can ever find for a Linux box.
I don't like DRM any more than the next guy, but all that means is that I install VLC Player on Windows, and I'm done. It doesn't mean I'm going to undergo some religious conversion, install Linux and burn my Windows CD on a ceremonial funeral pyre.
My Windows (Vista) box hapilly runs Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, VLC PLayer, and many other open and free stuff, as well as all my existing Office apps, games etc. My one foray this year into Linux was a trial install of Ubuntu, and I couldn't even get it to play nicely with my TV Tuner card after 12 hours of frustration.
It still isn't the year of the Linux Desktop, and pretending that DRM is the holy grail that will convert the masses to Linux is simply crazy.
At what point are YOU going to accept that Javascript in itself is not inherently dangerous, only the flawed security of certain browsers that allow you to script ActiveX controls and interact with things outside the browser model.
I don't understand how you can equate web usability with a form that requires your basic information, niehter the implication that a bit of js implies "bad web site design" ?
Please enter your birthdate - submit - oops, not a valid date. Please enter your SSN number - submit - opps, not a valid SSN number. etc etc...
Javascript allows a lot of client side interaction and saves on all those damn submits... people want to fill in a form, and know it's correct before they submit it.
Still, you stay in 1995... I'm amazed you don't just use Lynx and have done with it.
I always understood that there was a North American continent and a South American continent.
When referring to someone from say Argentina or Brazil, they are called South Americans.
When referring to someone from Kansas or Texas, we use the shortened form "Americans", and it is implicit that they mean NORTH Americans... that and the fact anyone from "North America" believes that they are the centre of the universe, and anyone else doesn't count.
It brainwashes it's members into handing over some proportion of their wealth to "the cause", and proclaims that they have the one true God (or lizard, or whatever), and that all the others are false. Believers shall get a reward when they die, while non-believers shall go to hell (or the centre of a black hole, or whatever).
Everything must be taken on faith, because no God worth his salt will ever manifest himself, or actually DO anything for his followers until they die, except torture / punish / bring acts of God upon them, in some bizarre kind of test to see if he made them right in the first place.
They did what they wanted and no one was hurt. That means they weren't trying to hurt anyone.
No, that's the problem... you cannot infer any intention on their part because of something that didn't happen... it was perhaps just lucky that no one was in the vicinity when they brought the towers down.
Or perhaps you are suggesting that they cordoned off the area with yello and black stripy ELF tape and big signs warning "Do not enter, environmental terrorism in progress" kind of thing ?
And how do you know there was no intention to hurt somebody? Because they didn't hurt anyone
What kind of warped logic is that ? So attempted murder doesn't count, because they didn't actually murder anyone ? And armed robbery can be forgiven if they didn't actually manage to steal any money ?
What would the world be like if everyone could enjoy the same patent system we use in the USA?
You ARE joking right ? There are patents being awarded today that have absolutely no merit, and are patently (excuse the pun) prior art. I'm not sure "enjoy" is the correct word... tolerate ? endure ? grind teeth at ?
And MS want the world to all use the same system, when they have patents on such things as pressing a button on a mouse and other equally trivial bullshit ? Nah, think the rest of the world will pass on that one.
It's going back a bit (late 80's), but I remember the uproar at the time as it got (as usual) the support of the US. Arabs were required to wear white badges. Not so far removed from a yellow star, agreed ?
I'm taking about what the Nazis did to the Jews before the concentration camps were created.
s/Jews/Palestinians/ s/Nazis/Jews/
FTFY
I'm amazed that any mention of the atrocities of 50 years ago raise such emotion, yet the atrocities being carried out right now are somehow "acceptable".
I guess it depends if your on the receiving end, or the giving end, eh ?
And not posting anonymously, because some things need to be said, no matter how painful.
Yes, and every single opposition party also say they will lower taxes, raise spending, cure AIDs etc etc.
The problem is, once they are in power, all those promises never become reality, and a general rule of thumb is that they never throw away anything implemented by the other side, they simply rename it so everyone thinks it's new and was actually their idea in the first place.
For a party to say they will abolish the card, the database and everything" will *never* happen. For a party to keep the database, and issue a "community participation certificate" (complete with serial number) to every person in the country is a far more likely outcome.
If there's been a 20% drop in P2P traffic, that means a 20% drop in the evil pirates arrrr matey, and hence a 20% increase in profits for the RIAA and their scum sucking brethren ? Right, right ?
And when it becomes 90% MAC, 8% MS and *still* 2% for Linux, maybe then you'll realise the fallacy of your statements.
Exchanging one corporation for another isn't going to help your movement one bit. Neither is exchanging one set of proprietary formats for another. Don't kid yourself, MAC is a proprietary O/S with a few userland bits of BSD on top to give the impression it's open.
Jobs in some ways already does things far more insidious than Ballmer. At least you don't have to jailbreak Windows before you can run competing software on it. Neither do you have to pay double price for your hardware just for the privilege of running a specific OS on it.
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No the *real* trick in Monopoly was buying Park Lane and Mayfair as quickly as possible. You'd get them every time right before "Go", and if not, they'd land on the most expensive tax square instead.
That must have been some seriously tall office, seeing as the diameter of the earth is only about 24,900 miles.
Or perhaps they simply laid two sets of cables, for redundancy / fallback purposes ?
Why does the file sharing system in Windows rely on the cartoon baddie from Mario games ? Bowser, srsly ?
Subject: Fire.
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal.
[deletes text, starts again]
Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
And did you check to see if your tuner card was compatible with Ubuntu, first? It would've saved you some time
I shouldn't HAVE to !!! It's only 2 years old, and works fine under Windows. How old is linux ? regardless of distros and their little idiosyncracies, they all have the same core kernel and drivers right ? I don't think I've ever bought a product and then had to wait 2 years for the driver to be made available ... but that's what you have to accept if you choose the FOSS road. Maybe in the next kernel, maybe in the next distro ... who knows ?
If something works with product (a) out of the box, but with product (b) I have to go trawling around forums first, checking compatibility lists, hunting down possibly non-existent drivers from either the manufacturer of some third party hack, it's too much trouble.
I'm tired of this FOSS attitude that after you've had a problem, the standard response is "oh, you should have done X,Y,Z", like I'm in the wrong for not knowing the latest hacks and tricks. It's an O/S. Install and go yes ?
Now of course it's anecdotal, (the FOSS crowds favorite excuse and as such, can safely be ignored), but never since Windows XP have I had any hardware that didn't work out of the box, and most of the time, even before installing the supplied drivers, Windows would have a go at using some kind of default one, no matter how crippled.
Now regardless of whether this is a driver manufacturer reluctance to serve FOSS, for the end user, the important thing is "it just works". If it doesn't then you'll never see the adoption of other O/S that you will continue to see with MS products.
MacOS is kinda exempt, seeing as how the majority of hardware comes from Apple also, and the O/S is tuned to "always work" with that tiny subset. It's a nice experience, but comes with a price.
Well no, because like everything else, there is far more choice of software for installing on a Windows box than you can ever find for a Linux box.
I don't like DRM any more than the next guy, but all that means is that I install VLC Player on Windows, and I'm done. It doesn't mean I'm going to undergo some religious conversion, install Linux and burn my Windows CD on a ceremonial funeral pyre.
My Windows (Vista) box hapilly runs Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, VLC PLayer, and many other open and free stuff, as well as all my existing Office apps, games etc. My one foray this year into Linux was a trial install of Ubuntu, and I couldn't even get it to play nicely with my TV Tuner card after 12 hours of frustration.
It still isn't the year of the Linux Desktop, and pretending that DRM is the holy grail that will convert the masses to Linux is simply crazy.
and the effect of treating people as objects is the source of pretty much all I consider crime in the world.
Granny Weatherwax, is that you ?
Except if she'd killed an old man, she probably would have got anger management counselling and community service.
When are you going to learn, USA means corporations first, citizens last ?
Javascript was first seen in 1995 on Netscape 2.
At what point are YOU going to accept that Javascript in itself is not inherently dangerous, only the flawed security of certain browsers that allow you to script ActiveX controls and interact with things outside the browser model.
I don't understand how you can equate web usability with a form that requires your basic information, niehter the implication that a bit of js implies "bad web site design" ?
Please enter your birthdate - submit - oops, not a valid date. ...
Please enter your SSN number - submit - opps, not a valid SSN number.
etc etc
Javascript allows a lot of client side interaction and saves on all those damn submits ... people want to fill in a form, and know it's correct before they submit it.
Still, you stay in 1995 ... I'm amazed you don't just use Lynx and have done with it.
What about a computer that isn't neon pink and shiny ?
Well no shit Sherlock ... how long does it take to render an empty page ?
I think you have to wait for 2010, and something to do with an obelisk measuring 1 x 4 x 9.
I'd say Yale ... at least they can spell Berkeley
I always understood that there was a North American continent and a South American continent.
When referring to someone from say Argentina or Brazil, they are called South Americans.
When referring to someone from Kansas or Texas, we use the shortened form "Americans", and it is implicit that they mean NORTH Americans ... that and the fact anyone from "North America" believes that they are the centre of the universe, and anyone else doesn't count.
It brainwashes it's members into handing over some proportion of their wealth to "the cause", and proclaims that they have the one true God (or lizard, or whatever), and that all the others are false. Believers shall get a reward when they die, while non-believers shall go to hell (or the centre of a black hole, or whatever).
Everything must be taken on faith, because no God worth his salt will ever manifest himself, or actually DO anything for his followers until they die, except torture / punish / bring acts of God upon them, in some bizarre kind of test to see if he made them right in the first place.
Sound just like any other religion to me ...
They did what they wanted and no one was hurt. That means they weren't trying to hurt anyone.
No, that's the problem ... you cannot infer any intention on their part because of something that didn't happen ... it was perhaps just lucky that no one was in the vicinity when they brought the towers down.
Or perhaps you are suggesting that they cordoned off the area with yello and black stripy ELF tape and big signs warning "Do not enter, environmental terrorism in progress" kind of thing ?
And how do you know there was no intention to hurt somebody?
Because they didn't hurt anyone
What kind of warped logic is that ? So attempted murder doesn't count, because they didn't actually murder anyone ? And armed robbery can be forgiven if they didn't actually manage to steal any money ?
Get a grip, ffs.
What would the world be like if everyone could enjoy the same patent system we use in the USA?
You ARE joking right ? There are patents being awarded today that have absolutely no merit, and are patently (excuse the pun) prior art. I'm not sure "enjoy" is the correct word ... tolerate ? endure ? grind teeth at ?
And MS want the world to all use the same system, when they have patents on such things as pressing a button on a mouse and other equally trivial bullshit ? Nah, think the rest of the world will pass on that one.
It's going back a bit (late 80's), but I remember the uproar at the time as it got (as usual) the support of the US. Arabs were required to wear white badges. Not so far removed from a yellow star, agreed ?
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1S1-9198906010671189.html
I'm taking about what the Nazis did to the Jews before the concentration camps were created.
s/Jews/Palestinians/
s/Nazis/Jews/
FTFY
I'm amazed that any mention of the atrocities of 50 years ago raise such emotion, yet the atrocities being carried out right now are somehow "acceptable".
I guess it depends if your on the receiving end, or the giving end, eh ?
And not posting anonymously, because some things need to be said, no matter how painful.
Yes, and every single opposition party also say they will lower taxes, raise spending, cure AIDs etc etc.
The problem is, once they are in power, all those promises never become reality, and a general rule of thumb is that they never throw away anything implemented by the other side, they simply rename it so everyone thinks it's new and was actually their idea in the first place.
For a party to say they will abolish the card, the database and everything" will *never* happen. For a party to keep the database, and issue a "community participation certificate" (complete with serial number) to every person in the country is a far more likely outcome.
You see how that works ?
Birth Certificate (which most people lose)
You are not, in fact, "most people".
You lost your Birth Certificate, and wish to alleviate your feelings of self-loathing by displacing your stupidity onto everyone else.
Now get over it, contact your local Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and get a replacement.
A addressed gas bill proves that it's the bill for that address ... it does not prove anything about the person holding it.
If there's been a 20% drop in P2P traffic, that means a 20% drop in the evil pirates arrrr matey, and hence a 20% increase in profits for the RIAA and their scum sucking brethren ? Right, right ?
It's amazingly quiet over there guys ???
And when it becomes 90% MAC, 8% MS and *still* 2% for Linux, maybe then you'll realise the fallacy of your statements.
Exchanging one corporation for another isn't going to help your movement one bit. Neither is exchanging one set of proprietary formats for another. Don't kid yourself, MAC is a proprietary O/S with a few userland bits of BSD on top to give the impression it's open.
Jobs in some ways already does things far more insidious than Ballmer. At least you don't have to jailbreak Windows before you can run competing software on it. Neither do you have to pay double price for your hardware just for the privilege of running a specific OS on it.
I'd be careful what you wish for.