The idea of digital rentals makes absolutely no sense. With physical media renting makes sense, for example, it is impossible for a single VHS tape to be in 2 VHS players at the same time. On the other hand, there is not a single copy of a digital game to "rent", but there is in fact an infinite number of copies that can be created with no loss to the original.
Yeah, really "glorious". Lets face it, most of the people we are in physical contact with suck at interesting convos. For example, unless you are really lucky, the majority of your co-worker's convos will revolve around A) Survivor/American Idol/The Bachelor(ette)/Big Brother/other reality shows B) Sports C) Rather boring stories about their (grand)kids/spouse/other family member or D) Small talk/gossip about the weather, other co-workers, or other idle chitchat.
Lets face it, without the internet/media our convos wouldn't suddenly turn to philosophy, engineering, science and literature, but would be mostly the same only you couldn't talk to people outside of your geographic area.
Exactly. You aren't that important and the data important to marketers isn't your most personal information and the data that they use in the end often benefits you in a way because marketers use that data to find an audience. If you enjoy, for example, playing Japanese RPGs, and Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/Square/etc. see that you are one of many who enjoy that, they will release more Japanese RPGs for sale, meaning more games (or better games) for you.
Think back to your college professors, just because they had advanced education didn't make them brilliant In all areas, even within their fields of study, an amateur with a passion for a niche can easily have more knowledge and expertise.
Exactly. And quite honestly Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and the rest of them should join in too. Heck, when you look at it what all the software companies say about software patents is they only patent it so other people can't use it against them and sue.
Patents have fast become obsolete. The original purpose of increasing knowledge has long since been accomplished.
But with Starcraft you don't get the full game, with Fallout you do. With Starcraft all you get is the campaign mode, which really isn't much fun. You don't have access to multiplayer which is the entire reason why you play Starcraft (to get pwned by Koreans). On the other hand, with Fallout, a pirated game is missing nothing but the DRM.
Change for the sake of change is pointless and harms usability. No one was complaining about the basics of GNOME 2 and changing to GNOME-shell or whatever is fixing something that doesn't need fixed.
And somehow you don't see it as a big deal that they are denying someone's freedom? Being arrested -is- a big deal because it often causes more damage than being charged with a crime.
Chances are slim that the government will pay you for the emotional trauma of being arrested, the loss to your reputation if you are arrested and all other effects of you being arrested even if you aren't charged with a crime in the end.
Which is why pointlessly changing the UI is a bad thing. If people want a different UI either create the other UI as an add-on or make a small fork project (sort of like the way Xubuntu and Kubuntu are from Ubuntu) with the different UI.
Yeah, nothing better than a UI where you can't actually change anything. If anything we are going backwards with GUIs, taking out things that could be done with the GUI and making them only able to be done by editing a config file or add-ons and the like.
It isn't just the OSS community, take a look at Facebook for instance.
Everyone wants to chat with their friends and know which friends are online. Therefore, we must change it to make it harder to chat with friends!
All of technology seems to be breaking UIs just for the sake of change, look at Unity and GNOME-shell too, perfect examples of fixing what isn't broken.
While I can't speak about the mobile parts, game console browsers are nearly unusable. While the Wii has a pretty decent browser and the PS3s isn't terrible, both the PSP and 3DS browsers are unusable except for looking up basic info. Slow, no flash, etc.
...Because he clearly is on a budget. You can't buy more than one Mac for $750. Macs are not for those on a budget, while if you are looking for a fairly high-end system Macs aren't that bad of a deal, but as for a budget system, Macs aren't an option.
That is the minimum though, running XP like that over 7 will be like running XP on a 64 MB system with a 600 Mhz CPU or worse. Barely usable for more than basic testing.
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Lets see here, in the US you pay a factory worker about $10+ along with benefits an hour. In China you can pay a factory worker a few cents an hour. In the US there are a ton of environmental regulations which make it harder for a factory to turn a profit, there are few of those in China. In the US there are unions which make it nearly impossible to fire a lazy worker or change pay/benefits/hours. In China there are none.
If I was a business, I'd put most of my manufacturing jobs in China, it makes a lot more sense. And as for currency, I'd put it in something non-fiat, not the US dollar, not the Euro, not the Japanese Yen, but something tangible such as gold/silver/oil/etc. Because the US dollar is not stable and has rampant inflation.
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What we really need to do is:
A) End the many wars we are involved in (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, "war on drugs", etc.)
B) Close a lot of unneeded military bases in various countries, not only would this save a lot of money, we'd gain the respect of other nations.
C) Work to privatize social security, but those who've paid in need to get the money that was taken from them by force and promised to them. If the government wants to run social security, make it a voluntary program.
D) Sell a lot of the vacant, unused and generally worthless land holdings the US has. While selling it in the bottom of the market isn't ideal, it will help reduce unneeded staff, and gain the government more revenue.
Do all those and we'll end up doing better than "cutting" 1 trillion only to spend 10 trillion more down the line.
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...There was no Federal Reserve prior to 1913 when it was created in a secret agreement by bankers and then spun to the public as a way to "regulate" and prevent abuses in the banking industry.
However Jefferson opposed the first bank of the United States which was similar to the Federal Reserve system but yet entirely different because it didn't deal in fiat currency and money creation.
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Well of course government debt should be downgraded from its "perfect" rating because the idea of even -having- 14 trillion+ of debt is absurd. The US is equivalent to a family living off of their credit cards and using one card to pay another. There is no real way to gain more revenue short of raising taxes which will lead to an overall worsening of the economy because it will force companies to move overseas because there is absolutely no reason to do business in the US anymore when compared to China/India and other developing nations.
Yes there is a "sidewalk" to a DoS attack, its called the internet. If you don't want people accessing your site you can block their IP and take steps to guard against a DoS attack, something that you can't do with a protest.
Personally I hate Gnome-Shell too, once all distros "upgrade" to GNOME 3.0, I'll either have to manually switch to Gnome-Panel or start using XFCE. I personally don't understand what is with developers "fixing" what isn't broken on their UIs, it isn't just a problem with OSS, but even websites such as Facebook. UIs that aren't broken don't need change just for the sake of change. While I can understand a change to something like Gnome-Shell for things such as tablets, it makes no sense for full sized desktops/laptops.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I actually switched from Ubuntu to Debian a few weeks ago because it was taking me longer to configure Ubuntu the way I wanted it than it did to configure Debian the way I wanted it.
It used to be that Ubuntu was just pre-configured Debian, now you have to spend so much time reversing crap that Canonical added in that the "expert" distros are easier. And no, this isn't based on obscure technical stuff, but just basic UI and usability. Like, why are the close/minimize buttons on the left side? Sure, its easy enough to fix, but I shouldn't have to do it. Also, what was with getting rid of GNOME and adding in a crappy UI that makes it harder to do anything?
Ubuntu has gone downhill majorly in the past few years.
This is needed more than most people think. In a lot of college towns, ISPs are terrible and in some of the smaller towns there isn't any 3G to speak of. And the same problem persists even in medium-sized state schools which have a moderately to large sized computer science program.
Then why is it that there are different "packages" with cable when it should cost the same? Why does it cost less to get only 80 channels but it costs more to get, say 120 channels and cost even more to get 200 channels. If you were simply paying for a service you'd get all of your channels normally and cable TV channels would get their money through advertisement only.
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The idea of digital rentals makes absolutely no sense. With physical media renting makes sense, for example, it is impossible for a single VHS tape to be in 2 VHS players at the same time. On the other hand, there is not a single copy of a digital game to "rent", but there is in fact an infinite number of copies that can be created with no loss to the original.
Yeah, really "glorious". Lets face it, most of the people we are in physical contact with suck at interesting convos. For example, unless you are really lucky, the majority of your co-worker's convos will revolve around A) Survivor/American Idol/The Bachelor(ette)/Big Brother/other reality shows B) Sports C) Rather boring stories about their (grand)kids/spouse/other family member or D) Small talk/gossip about the weather, other co-workers, or other idle chitchat.
Lets face it, without the internet/media our convos wouldn't suddenly turn to philosophy, engineering, science and literature, but would be mostly the same only you couldn't talk to people outside of your geographic area.
Exactly. You aren't that important and the data important to marketers isn't your most personal information and the data that they use in the end often benefits you in a way because marketers use that data to find an audience. If you enjoy, for example, playing Japanese RPGs, and Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft/Square/etc. see that you are one of many who enjoy that, they will release more Japanese RPGs for sale, meaning more games (or better games) for you.
But "qualification" means nothing.
Think back to your college professors, just because they had advanced education didn't make them brilliant In all areas, even within their fields of study, an amateur with a passion for a niche can easily have more knowledge and expertise.
Exactly. And quite honestly Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and the rest of them should join in too. Heck, when you look at it what all the software companies say about software patents is they only patent it so other people can't use it against them and sue.
Patents have fast become obsolete. The original purpose of increasing knowledge has long since been accomplished.
But with Starcraft you don't get the full game, with Fallout you do. With Starcraft all you get is the campaign mode, which really isn't much fun. You don't have access to multiplayer which is the entire reason why you play Starcraft (to get pwned by Koreans). On the other hand, with Fallout, a pirated game is missing nothing but the DRM.
Clearly you must be in charge of Facebook's UI.
Change for the sake of change is pointless and harms usability. No one was complaining about the basics of GNOME 2 and changing to GNOME-shell or whatever is fixing something that doesn't need fixed.
Beats iTunes which seems to need to install half of OS X to work on Windows.
And somehow you don't see it as a big deal that they are denying someone's freedom? Being arrested -is- a big deal because it often causes more damage than being charged with a crime.
Chances are slim that the government will pay you for the emotional trauma of being arrested, the loss to your reputation if you are arrested and all other effects of you being arrested even if you aren't charged with a crime in the end.
Exactly. While Windows 7 isn't terrible, XP still does its job, and does it very well, so why does it really matter?
Which is why pointlessly changing the UI is a bad thing. If people want a different UI either create the other UI as an add-on or make a small fork project (sort of like the way Xubuntu and Kubuntu are from Ubuntu) with the different UI.
Yeah, nothing better than a UI where you can't actually change anything. If anything we are going backwards with GUIs, taking out things that could be done with the GUI and making them only able to be done by editing a config file or add-ons and the like.
It isn't just the OSS community, take a look at Facebook for instance.
Everyone wants to chat with their friends and know which friends are online. Therefore, we must change it to make it harder to chat with friends!
All of technology seems to be breaking UIs just for the sake of change, look at Unity and GNOME-shell too, perfect examples of fixing what isn't broken.
While I can't speak about the mobile parts, game console browsers are nearly unusable. While the Wii has a pretty decent browser and the PS3s isn't terrible, both the PSP and 3DS browsers are unusable except for looking up basic info. Slow, no flash, etc.
...Because he clearly is on a budget. You can't buy more than one Mac for $750. Macs are not for those on a budget, while if you are looking for a fairly high-end system Macs aren't that bad of a deal, but as for a budget system, Macs aren't an option.
That is the minimum though, running XP like that over 7 will be like running XP on a 64 MB system with a 600 Mhz CPU or worse. Barely usable for more than basic testing.
Lets see here, in the US you pay a factory worker about $10+ along with benefits an hour. In China you can pay a factory worker a few cents an hour. In the US there are a ton of environmental regulations which make it harder for a factory to turn a profit, there are few of those in China. In the US there are unions which make it nearly impossible to fire a lazy worker or change pay/benefits/hours. In China there are none.
If I was a business, I'd put most of my manufacturing jobs in China, it makes a lot more sense. And as for currency, I'd put it in something non-fiat, not the US dollar, not the Euro, not the Japanese Yen, but something tangible such as gold/silver/oil/etc. Because the US dollar is not stable and has rampant inflation.
What we really need to do is:
A) End the many wars we are involved in (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, "war on drugs", etc.)
B) Close a lot of unneeded military bases in various countries, not only would this save a lot of money, we'd gain the respect of other nations.
C) Work to privatize social security, but those who've paid in need to get the money that was taken from them by force and promised to them. If the government wants to run social security, make it a voluntary program.
D) Sell a lot of the vacant, unused and generally worthless land holdings the US has. While selling it in the bottom of the market isn't ideal, it will help reduce unneeded staff, and gain the government more revenue.
Do all those and we'll end up doing better than "cutting" 1 trillion only to spend 10 trillion more down the line.
...There was no Federal Reserve prior to 1913 when it was created in a secret agreement by bankers and then spun to the public as a way to "regulate" and prevent abuses in the banking industry.
However Jefferson opposed the first bank of the United States which was similar to the Federal Reserve system but yet entirely different because it didn't deal in fiat currency and money creation.
Well of course government debt should be downgraded from its "perfect" rating because the idea of even -having- 14 trillion+ of debt is absurd. The US is equivalent to a family living off of their credit cards and using one card to pay another. There is no real way to gain more revenue short of raising taxes which will lead to an overall worsening of the economy because it will force companies to move overseas because there is absolutely no reason to do business in the US anymore when compared to China/India and other developing nations.
Yes there is a "sidewalk" to a DoS attack, its called the internet. If you don't want people accessing your site you can block their IP and take steps to guard against a DoS attack, something that you can't do with a protest.
Personally I hate Gnome-Shell too, once all distros "upgrade" to GNOME 3.0, I'll either have to manually switch to Gnome-Panel or start using XFCE. I personally don't understand what is with developers "fixing" what isn't broken on their UIs, it isn't just a problem with OSS, but even websites such as Facebook. UIs that aren't broken don't need change just for the sake of change. While I can understand a change to something like Gnome-Shell for things such as tablets, it makes no sense for full sized desktops/laptops.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I actually switched from Ubuntu to Debian a few weeks ago because it was taking me longer to configure Ubuntu the way I wanted it than it did to configure Debian the way I wanted it.
It used to be that Ubuntu was just pre-configured Debian, now you have to spend so much time reversing crap that Canonical added in that the "expert" distros are easier. And no, this isn't based on obscure technical stuff, but just basic UI and usability. Like, why are the close/minimize buttons on the left side? Sure, its easy enough to fix, but I shouldn't have to do it. Also, what was with getting rid of GNOME and adding in a crappy UI that makes it harder to do anything?
Ubuntu has gone downhill majorly in the past few years.
This is needed more than most people think. In a lot of college towns, ISPs are terrible and in some of the smaller towns there isn't any 3G to speak of. And the same problem persists even in medium-sized state schools which have a moderately to large sized computer science program.
Then why is it that there are different "packages" with cable when it should cost the same? Why does it cost less to get only 80 channels but it costs more to get, say 120 channels and cost even more to get 200 channels. If you were simply paying for a service you'd get all of your channels normally and cable TV channels would get their money through advertisement only.