the point is, we should be given the freedom to get to the point where we need to answer such moral questions like "when is an cloned organ donor human?" for ourselfs, and not have that taken away by the moralist right.
Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean its not right. Or are you ok with the "moralist right" saying that we were created because they have the right to answer it for the world? You see, the problem is, you end up possibly killing someone else if you are wrong. And really, the least you can say is that its not human even though it is A) living B) has human DNA and C) if developed would be a functioning human being. But I'm sure you also believe that each parent can choose what to do with their kid including abusing or even killing them right?
So? Guess what it -is- controversial. Some people believe that it is akin to taking your young and killing them for their organs. There is no scientific consensus on when life begins, but most would agree that the thing is a living human whenever the egg is fertilized. Just because you believe otherwise doesn't mean that other people believe the same way you do.
But lets say for a moment that a fertilized egg is a human being. That adds a totally new dimension to the argument. Something tells me that my right to live doesn't trample the right of anyone else to live.
The difference is, MS doesn't make most of its money with support. MS makes most of their consumer sales by sale of the OS and applications alone. Ubuntu makes all of its money with support.
Because Firefox is better known than Chromium. If you tell people "Hey this is the guts that power Firefox" you are going to get a lot more people to look at it than if you say "Hey this is the guts that powers Chrome".
Lie would also like to see Apple and Linux makers follow suit with browser ballot boxes of their own."
What would this accomplish? For one, it makes it a heck of a lot easier if Ubuntu has to only support one or two browsers, especially when there are multitudes of browsers available. Then there is Apple which a non-Apple browser would again, ruin the unified experience. If Opera wants to be used then release the code if you want your rendering engines to be accepted release the code. Don't start complaining about how much you want open standards to be followed when your browser itself is the most closed browser next to IE.
Its easy though to see why teaching cursive is "bad" because its a waste of taxpayer funds. The education I had on cursive would have been much better spent learning how to type faster. I use typing every day, and even though I'm quite fast at touch-typing today, back in elementary school I could have done a lot more things if I could type as fast as I do today. I don't think there is a person alive who is going to be a alive much longer who lives in 21st century America who honestly thinks that cursive is more relevant than typing. I haven't used cursive since they stopped requiring it in 5th grade, I see no need to. If anyone has notes for me that are really that important to get done and they are written in cursive I send them an e-mail or call them, if they are that important they will respond. Cursive is dead and shouldn't receive taxpayer funds to keep it alive when it is worthless.
I fail to see any situation where I would need to write out large amounts of text outside of a presentation that I would use a computer for. I don't think I've every come across a situation like that. And I doubt you can even come up with a reasonable example. Other than for notes, I can safely say on a daily basis I don't need to write anything outside of a computer.
For a lot of my classes (even back in high school, and yes, I am young) I can simply go on the university's website and get powerpoints and all sorts of notes on it. Mix that with the fact that most of my hard classes in high school were AP classes that you could go to any bookstore and get a book of all the stuff that was going to be on the test, and I had a situation where I don't think I actually wrote down any notes in high school or college but still made decent grades.
So who really cares about handwriting? I have -terrible- handwriting to the point that in elementary school a lot of my teachers couldn't read it. Most of the problem resulted from two things, one was I was pretty much ambidextrous at a young age, however my Kindergarten teacher decided that there was no way that she was going to have a student that could use both hands to write, so she made me write using only my right hand so that became normal, however, I think I was more or less born left-handed and because of that my handwriting is quite messy and the other reason is that I didn't and still don't really write much on paper. I've been using computers since I was 4 or 5 and my typing speed is much better than my handwriting speed. I struggled through cursive for a few reasons, one being that I (correctly) knew that it really didn't matter in the real world because everyone would type everything important. Today all the things that teachers would tell you that you just -had- to learn to write in cursive for letters (can't remember the last hand-written letter I've done), checks (I've used my debit card, more secure and easier than checks, plus no possibility of accidentally overdrawing your account) and they thinking that I would need to use it always in high school and college. Well, in high school I printed everything that had to be written (and I have very messy print too) and typed up anything that was really important to no complaints. And in college I haven't had to write anything save for notes and taking an old netbook to classes to type them up is just as easy and more readable/search-able.
I put in a few search strings, mostly random ones on both Web and Image, (the search strings included USB Flash drive, how to start a fire, iPhone reviews, and a lot of other ones) I ended up for web preferring Google's 5 times, Yahoo! 2 times and Bing 1 time. On images I ended up preferring Google's 6 time, Yahoo! 1 time and Bing 0 times.
I don't know, but I've found myself pretty happy with Google's search. I've used Bing and can't find any difference other than the fact that Bing randomly decides what it thinks i'm meaning and tries to give me those results. When usually its wrong. With Google I basically get the information I need quickly, with Bing I have to wade through all kinds of "suggestions" that are usually wrong. For example, because it was on its main page as a "featured search" I typed in mosquito bite. I got 5 results on the actual mosquito bite and then other "suggestions" of first aid, symptoms, news, treatments, etc. Google's was a bit better, with actual results (though it did have a few YouTube videos, news and images mixed in) but it didn't try to suggest me what it thought I meant which is nice.
Then I decided to do another search, of SNES to see how well both engines did with acronyms. Bing ended up with a typical first segment, until you got down to suggestions of "SNES games"... However they were all NES related(!) totally different than what I was searching for. Than about half the "suggested" results were of things for the NES(!) which is totally different. For example the suggestions for "SNES Repair" ended up with pages about how to repair the NES. Google's results were typical, mods, ROMs and general history of the SNES with no mention of the NES in the first 3 pages.
The book The Best of 2600, a Hacker Odyssey is pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/0470294191 . And while it might not have the scope you are looking for on the groups themselves, it does seem to give mention to every major event in hacker history since 1984 when the magazine was published. Plus its pretty recent being published just in July of 08.
But you -do- have that right, you just don't feel like using it. That is what happens with freedom, even though I have pretty much every right to fill this post with random links to Goatse, penis jokes and conspiracy theories about how 9/11 was planed by Jewish people, I choose not to. Same with you, you have, and should have every right to publish it, you just choose not to.
Whenever I play a J-RPG the first thing I do if there is an option is set the voice acting to Japanese with English subs. It makes the game a whole lot better I have found. I don't mind watching subbed versions of anything, especially when the dubbed version is usually terrible. And then you have the issues of fan translations for the older RPGs that end up failing whenever they release the "official" version (though I do think Bartz is better than Butz)
How? For the average person they want the application to work. Not the underlying kernel and userland.
I guardsmen you that if WINE had 100% compatibility with no slowdowns you could stick a Windows XP theme on Ubuntu with WINE set to open up all.exe files, install some of the software the person was used to running and they wouldn't know the difference.
Just look at all the iPhone clones, as long as the UI and a few of the apps are there, people will buy it.
This idea will fail, no one really -likes- MS. I mean, how many people actually go out of their way to make sure that Windows comes with their computer? Its just what comes with it. Similarly, I don't think there is an informed person who actually thinks MS innovates anymore (well, not like they really innovated in the past but they've been more obvious in the past few years). Its impossible to see the Zune as anything other than a rip off of the iPod, Bing as a rip-off of Google/Ask/Yahoo!/Wolfram Alpha/etc. and its impossible to see the MS store as a pathetic attempt to stay relevant in an era where the OS doesn't matter. Apple computers are more or less "luxury" computers, they cost more, in general have better specs and have a (in most people's opinion) better OS. On the other hand PCs got marketshare for being dirt cheap, available anywhere and easy to program with crap code. MS is attempting to reinvent itself as a "luxury" brand similar to Apple. However, it fails because of a few reasons, number one, other than the Zune with questionable design, the 360 with its ability to kill itself with the Red Ring of Death and a few keyboards and mice, MS doesn't have much hardware. Compare this to Apple with a very popular MP3 player, decent laptops, decent desktops and other visibly "Apple" products. Number two, Windows isn't that great. Other than for legacy purposes no one really uses Windows because they really -like- Windows itself. Some people do like Windows only programs but for the OS itself, no one but a few programmers tied into various MS languages really care. And third, MS has -no- competition yet. They -are- the low end of the spectrum. Linux, while gaining momentum is tied into low-end hardware when supplied by an OEM in a big-box store. You can't walk into Best Buy and get a desktop with Linux pre-installed, you might be able to get an EEE with the awful Xandros distro on it if you are lucky, but your not going to find any decent hardware running Linux. So how can MS compete when it has no competition?
then don't get an iPod touch as all the features that make it an ipod touch would be useless without itunes
Owning a touch and really hating booting into Windows to sync with it, what I want is. A) about 6 gigs of space (I don't have a huge music library) B) Wi-Fi and a usable browser C) a decent enough e-mail client D) games E) Costs no more than $225. Right now the iPod touch is about the only thing that can give me all of those. I had a GP2x that I used for a while that gave me everything but Wi-Fi but it had questionable build quality (it never broke but it felt very fragile), chewed through batteries like there was no tomorrow (seriously, I got about 6 hours of use with a set of batteries playing music). If the iPod Touch let you use emulators I would almost forgive the other faults but the games are seriously lacking on the iPhone. I'm thinking about getting a Pandora if they ever end up shipping.
Those are broken though. You either have a bunch of 5 star ratings so the app is rated like 5 stars... except for the fact that the newest update pretty much broke the app (see the lolcats app for an example) or a bunch of 1 and 2 star ratings but an update made the app amazing.
Depends what you mean by easy, in my experience there have been two types of power connectors for PCs, ones that fall out during regular use and ones you can easily trip over. Even if you don't trip over cords, kids, dogs, etc. tend to trip over them. While I haven't used MagSafe connectors extensively, I find that they are pretty much the best connector. As for breaking, the Gateway I had for 3 years had 2 power cords, the Dell I had for 3 years had 4 power cords.
Why even use cookies? I can't really think of any good idea for a standard, public government website to use cookies. I mean, theres not any preferences, logging in, etc. by members of the general public. If they are employees of the government, well they already sold their soul...
Assembly can be fun with very well documented code. I had a week or two of fun by playing with Mike-OS ( http://mikeos.berlios.de/ ) because it is very, very, very well documented. However, if it weren't for all the helpful comments in the source, I would have been lost. Assembly is not a good first language because it doesn't really -teach- you how to program for anything other than a certain computer. Sure, Ti-86 assembly is kinda fun to write games in to pass the time away in Algebra, but most of those skills become useless when you go to a different language. I would start new programmers off with Python then move up to C and finally Java.
I have to wonder, what do the governments think they have to accomplish by removing free speech? Do they really think that it will let them hold on to more power? I mean, with increasing freedom of religion you see an increase of lack of religion (atheism, agnosticism, etc). Give enough people unrestricted freedoms and they will tend not to use it, tighten down those freedoms and you have a large amount of people wanting to test every limit of it.
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the point is, we should be given the freedom to get to the point where we need to answer such moral questions like "when is an cloned organ donor human?" for ourselfs, and not have that taken away by the moralist right.
Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean its not right. Or are you ok with the "moralist right" saying that we were created because they have the right to answer it for the world? You see, the problem is, you end up possibly killing someone else if you are wrong. And really, the least you can say is that its not human even though it is A) living B) has human DNA and C) if developed would be a functioning human being. But I'm sure you also believe that each parent can choose what to do with their kid including abusing or even killing them right?
So? Guess what it -is- controversial. Some people believe that it is akin to taking your young and killing them for their organs. There is no scientific consensus on when life begins, but most would agree that the thing is a living human whenever the egg is fertilized. Just because you believe otherwise doesn't mean that other people believe the same way you do.
But lets say for a moment that a fertilized egg is a human being. That adds a totally new dimension to the argument. Something tells me that my right to live doesn't trample the right of anyone else to live.
The difference is, MS doesn't make most of its money with support. MS makes most of their consumer sales by sale of the OS and applications alone. Ubuntu makes all of its money with support.
Because Firefox is better known than Chromium. If you tell people "Hey this is the guts that power Firefox" you are going to get a lot more people to look at it than if you say "Hey this is the guts that powers Chrome".
Lie would also like to see Apple and Linux makers follow suit with browser ballot boxes of their own."
What would this accomplish? For one, it makes it a heck of a lot easier if Ubuntu has to only support one or two browsers, especially when there are multitudes of browsers available. Then there is Apple which a non-Apple browser would again, ruin the unified experience. If Opera wants to be used then release the code if you want your rendering engines to be accepted release the code. Don't start complaining about how much you want open standards to be followed when your browser itself is the most closed browser next to IE.
Its easy though to see why teaching cursive is "bad" because its a waste of taxpayer funds. The education I had on cursive would have been much better spent learning how to type faster. I use typing every day, and even though I'm quite fast at touch-typing today, back in elementary school I could have done a lot more things if I could type as fast as I do today. I don't think there is a person alive who is going to be a alive much longer who lives in 21st century America who honestly thinks that cursive is more relevant than typing. I haven't used cursive since they stopped requiring it in 5th grade, I see no need to. If anyone has notes for me that are really that important to get done and they are written in cursive I send them an e-mail or call them, if they are that important they will respond. Cursive is dead and shouldn't receive taxpayer funds to keep it alive when it is worthless.
I fail to see any situation where I would need to write out large amounts of text outside of a presentation that I would use a computer for. I don't think I've every come across a situation like that. And I doubt you can even come up with a reasonable example. Other than for notes, I can safely say on a daily basis I don't need to write anything outside of a computer.
For a lot of my classes (even back in high school, and yes, I am young) I can simply go on the university's website and get powerpoints and all sorts of notes on it. Mix that with the fact that most of my hard classes in high school were AP classes that you could go to any bookstore and get a book of all the stuff that was going to be on the test, and I had a situation where I don't think I actually wrote down any notes in high school or college but still made decent grades.
So who really cares about handwriting? I have -terrible- handwriting to the point that in elementary school a lot of my teachers couldn't read it. Most of the problem resulted from two things, one was I was pretty much ambidextrous at a young age, however my Kindergarten teacher decided that there was no way that she was going to have a student that could use both hands to write, so she made me write using only my right hand so that became normal, however, I think I was more or less born left-handed and because of that my handwriting is quite messy and the other reason is that I didn't and still don't really write much on paper. I've been using computers since I was 4 or 5 and my typing speed is much better than my handwriting speed. I struggled through cursive for a few reasons, one being that I (correctly) knew that it really didn't matter in the real world because everyone would type everything important. Today all the things that teachers would tell you that you just -had- to learn to write in cursive for letters (can't remember the last hand-written letter I've done), checks (I've used my debit card, more secure and easier than checks, plus no possibility of accidentally overdrawing your account) and they thinking that I would need to use it always in high school and college. Well, in high school I printed everything that had to be written (and I have very messy print too) and typed up anything that was really important to no complaints. And in college I haven't had to write anything save for notes and taking an old netbook to classes to type them up is just as easy and more readable/search-able.
They have pills for that you know
-ducks-
I put in a few search strings, mostly random ones on both Web and Image, (the search strings included USB Flash drive, how to start a fire, iPhone reviews, and a lot of other ones) I ended up for web preferring Google's 5 times, Yahoo! 2 times and Bing 1 time. On images I ended up preferring Google's 6 time, Yahoo! 1 time and Bing 0 times.
I don't know, but I've found myself pretty happy with Google's search. I've used Bing and can't find any difference other than the fact that Bing randomly decides what it thinks i'm meaning and tries to give me those results. When usually its wrong. With Google I basically get the information I need quickly, with Bing I have to wade through all kinds of "suggestions" that are usually wrong. For example, because it was on its main page as a "featured search" I typed in mosquito bite. I got 5 results on the actual mosquito bite and then other "suggestions" of first aid, symptoms, news, treatments, etc. Google's was a bit better, with actual results (though it did have a few YouTube videos, news and images mixed in) but it didn't try to suggest me what it thought I meant which is nice.
Then I decided to do another search, of SNES to see how well both engines did with acronyms. Bing ended up with a typical first segment, until you got down to suggestions of "SNES games"... However they were all NES related(!) totally different than what I was searching for. Than about half the "suggested" results were of things for the NES(!) which is totally different. For example the suggestions for "SNES Repair" ended up with pages about how to repair the NES. Google's results were typical, mods, ROMs and general history of the SNES with no mention of the NES in the first 3 pages.
The book The Best of 2600, a Hacker Odyssey is pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/0470294191 . And while it might not have the scope you are looking for on the groups themselves, it does seem to give mention to every major event in hacker history since 1984 when the magazine was published. Plus its pretty recent being published just in July of 08.
But you -do- have that right, you just don't feel like using it. That is what happens with freedom, even though I have pretty much every right to fill this post with random links to Goatse, penis jokes and conspiracy theories about how 9/11 was planed by Jewish people, I choose not to. Same with you, you have, and should have every right to publish it, you just choose not to.
Whenever I play a J-RPG the first thing I do if there is an option is set the voice acting to Japanese with English subs. It makes the game a whole lot better I have found. I don't mind watching subbed versions of anything, especially when the dubbed version is usually terrible. And then you have the issues of fan translations for the older RPGs that end up failing whenever they release the "official" version (though I do think Bartz is better than Butz)
How? For the average person they want the application to work. Not the underlying kernel and userland.
.exe files, install some of the software the person was used to running and they wouldn't know the difference.
I guardsmen you that if WINE had 100% compatibility with no slowdowns you could stick a Windows XP theme on Ubuntu with WINE set to open up all
Just look at all the iPhone clones, as long as the UI and a few of the apps are there, people will buy it.
This idea will fail, no one really -likes- MS. I mean, how many people actually go out of their way to make sure that Windows comes with their computer? Its just what comes with it. Similarly, I don't think there is an informed person who actually thinks MS innovates anymore (well, not like they really innovated in the past but they've been more obvious in the past few years). Its impossible to see the Zune as anything other than a rip off of the iPod, Bing as a rip-off of Google/Ask/Yahoo!/Wolfram Alpha/etc. and its impossible to see the MS store as a pathetic attempt to stay relevant in an era where the OS doesn't matter. Apple computers are more or less "luxury" computers, they cost more, in general have better specs and have a (in most people's opinion) better OS. On the other hand PCs got marketshare for being dirt cheap, available anywhere and easy to program with crap code. MS is attempting to reinvent itself as a "luxury" brand similar to Apple. However, it fails because of a few reasons, number one, other than the Zune with questionable design, the 360 with its ability to kill itself with the Red Ring of Death and a few keyboards and mice, MS doesn't have much hardware. Compare this to Apple with a very popular MP3 player, decent laptops, decent desktops and other visibly "Apple" products. Number two, Windows isn't that great. Other than for legacy purposes no one really uses Windows because they really -like- Windows itself. Some people do like Windows only programs but for the OS itself, no one but a few programmers tied into various MS languages really care. And third, MS has -no- competition yet. They -are- the low end of the spectrum. Linux, while gaining momentum is tied into low-end hardware when supplied by an OEM in a big-box store. You can't walk into Best Buy and get a desktop with Linux pre-installed, you might be able to get an EEE with the awful Xandros distro on it if you are lucky, but your not going to find any decent hardware running Linux. So how can MS compete when it has no competition?
then don't get an iPod touch as all the features that make it an ipod touch would be useless without itunes
Owning a touch and really hating booting into Windows to sync with it, what I want is. A) about 6 gigs of space (I don't have a huge music library) B) Wi-Fi and a usable browser C) a decent enough e-mail client D) games E) Costs no more than $225. Right now the iPod touch is about the only thing that can give me all of those. I had a GP2x that I used for a while that gave me everything but Wi-Fi but it had questionable build quality (it never broke but it felt very fragile), chewed through batteries like there was no tomorrow (seriously, I got about 6 hours of use with a set of batteries playing music). If the iPod Touch let you use emulators I would almost forgive the other faults but the games are seriously lacking on the iPhone. I'm thinking about getting a Pandora if they ever end up shipping.
or browse by user ratings
Those are broken though. You either have a bunch of 5 star ratings so the app is rated like 5 stars... except for the fact that the newest update pretty much broke the app (see the lolcats app for an example) or a bunch of 1 and 2 star ratings but an update made the app amazing.
Almost all modern laptops have that.
Depends what you mean by easy, in my experience there have been two types of power connectors for PCs, ones that fall out during regular use and ones you can easily trip over. Even if you don't trip over cords, kids, dogs, etc. tend to trip over them. While I haven't used MagSafe connectors extensively, I find that they are pretty much the best connector. As for breaking, the Gateway I had for 3 years had 2 power cords, the Dell I had for 3 years had 4 power cords.
All laptops do that, don't they?
A few do, but the majority don't.
Why even use cookies? I can't really think of any good idea for a standard, public government website to use cookies. I mean, theres not any preferences, logging in, etc. by members of the general public. If they are employees of the government, well they already sold their soul...
Assembly can be fun with very well documented code. I had a week or two of fun by playing with Mike-OS ( http://mikeos.berlios.de/ ) because it is very, very, very well documented. However, if it weren't for all the helpful comments in the source, I would have been lost. Assembly is not a good first language because it doesn't really -teach- you how to program for anything other than a certain computer. Sure, Ti-86 assembly is kinda fun to write games in to pass the time away in Algebra, but most of those skills become useless when you go to a different language. I would start new programmers off with Python then move up to C and finally Java.
I have to wonder, what do the governments think they have to accomplish by removing free speech? Do they really think that it will let them hold on to more power? I mean, with increasing freedom of religion you see an increase of lack of religion (atheism, agnosticism, etc). Give enough people unrestricted freedoms and they will tend not to use it, tighten down those freedoms and you have a large amount of people wanting to test every limit of it.
Something tells me 0212 is going to do a lot better against an unknown attacker than the 19xx pins that are ever so common....