How is that? Chrome already sends any URLs visited and anything you typed in the address bar to Google. The former is done to make a lookup in the database of malicious URLs (where other browsers such as Iceweasel store the database locally), the latter is done for the uses of Google Suggest.
You a regulation of some sort that gives the companies incentive to create safer nuclear power station. From a purely profit perspective, the chance for a big accident are too small to warrant good safety. You need at least something to make that risk tangible enough so that companies automatically choose safer designs.
It's true that the field is over-regulated, or more accurately - that the wrong regulations are in place. There are strict specific rules on reactor safety - some of them might improve safety, some of them are nonsensical, and most of them are not based on scientific evidence or reason. There's nothing to give an incentive for the creation of new safer designs, the use of Thorium reactors, and there's nothing to give an incentive to shut down century-old plants like Fukushima Daiichi that are totally unsafe. Another negative consequence of the current rules it that the construction of a nuclear power plant is too expensive.
So, yes, at a first glance it does seem that if the government got out of the way, things would be much better, in fact it might be so, but that doesn't mean that some regulation isn't beneficial or even required. And yeah, I don't see why I should trust companies driven by increasing their profits should be trusted more than the government. The government is fucking it all up, remove the government, and the companies will start fucking it all up. So, instead of blanket statements calling for less regulation, let's voice our opinion on how the regulation should change.
I, for one, want my regulatory organs to use science when rewarding and penalizing installations for their environmental impacts.
SIP and XMPP/Jingle are the alternatives. It's difficult to find a good client for either, though.
Jitsi seems to be very promising for SIP - so give it a try, and I have my hopes for XMPP/Jingle in Psi-Plus, but so far I haven't got the chance to try it with another Psi-Plus user and it fails when I'm trying to reach other Jingle clients, so with Jingle YMMV.
Unfortunately, it's not just you. I won't call you out on the rest of your points, but your "The reason.... is" is quite naïve. You're assuming there's one and simple reason, when this is certainly not the case. There are many:
1. As you said, lack of demand. Unfortunately there are users who find that the software "just works" and don't care further, so there's less incentive for a free alternative. 2. It's difficult. The Skype protocol has been made on purpose to be difficult to reverse engineer. 3. A part of the free software community prefers to support an open protocol like SIP or XMPP instead of helping spread Skype even further. 4. It took years for free messengers to support an open protocol (Jingle), some like Kopete don't even have preliminary support for it (it got removed in KDE 4, and it doesn't seem to be koming back) 5. Patent FUD
Porting ZFS would take more effort than completing Btrfs, while Dtrace provides functionality that doesn't exist at all. I wouldn't mind a ZFS port, since after using both, I kinda prefer it to Btrfs, but it's better to first port what's new and doesn't exist at all, and then go to porting things that are already there.
For varying definitions of good. I doubt people who are more concerned about software freedom would agree here. Neither would people who prefer open platforms. And alternatives that provide more of both aren't exactly behind in technical quality.
The iPhone might be good, but for some of us, there's better.
Using the words of their lawyers (e.g. the EULAs) is a great way to describe services of that sort to discredit them, but actually buying their words means that they have won. If I had my account blocked, I'd still sue them, until a judge says so - legal my ass.
This is somewhat flawed. It's not simply how often the operation is used, but how often is used multiplied by the amount of work that it will do for you. Also if the ribbon is rarely used, it's exactly the place to put rarely used commands that might put in handy.
But otherwise, yes, this demonstrates why the menu/toolbar approach is better. The most useful commands go through the shortcuts, the second most useful commands go through the context menu, things that might come in handy go into the toolbar, and everything else go to the menu. The ribbon approach breaks this.
Uh, the clock is just a number, if you believe the day should start earlier, talk to your management. Your colleagues would most likely disagree, but if they don't, you might convince them. It makes most sense if 12:00 is exactly at noon and the time matches the sun, not your work preferences.
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Not possible?
These guys beg to differ: http://underhanded.xcott.com/
Of course, it's much simpler to convince the users that they *want* their data to be sent to the servers than to try to hide it.
is bad?
How is that? Chrome already sends any URLs visited and anything you typed in the address bar to Google. The former is done to make a lookup in the database of malicious URLs (where other browsers such as Iceweasel store the database locally), the latter is done for the uses of Google Suggest.
If this was an iPhone, the browser would only relay data if Apple approved it doing so!
i minted a bitcoin that's 80 centimetres wide and 12 centimetres deep, but it told me there wasn't enough space on my 31" reel :(
6 virgins/kWh
Or because Microsoft was embarrassed that Nokia was still selling it?
You a regulation of some sort that gives the companies incentive to create safer nuclear power station. From a purely profit perspective, the chance for a big accident are too small to warrant good safety. You need at least something to make that risk tangible enough so that companies automatically choose safer designs.
It's true that the field is over-regulated, or more accurately - that the wrong regulations are in place. There are strict specific rules on reactor safety - some of them might improve safety, some of them are nonsensical, and most of them are not based on scientific evidence or reason. There's nothing to give an incentive for the creation of new safer designs, the use of Thorium reactors, and there's nothing to give an incentive to shut down century-old plants like Fukushima Daiichi that are totally unsafe. Another negative consequence of the current rules it that the construction of a nuclear power plant is too expensive.
So, yes, at a first glance it does seem that if the government got out of the way, things would be much better, in fact it might be so, but that doesn't mean that some regulation isn't beneficial or even required. And yeah, I don't see why I should trust companies driven by increasing their profits should be trusted more than the government. The government is fucking it all up, remove the government, and the companies will start fucking it all up. So, instead of blanket statements calling for less regulation, let's voice our opinion on how the regulation should change.
I, for one, want my regulatory organs to use science when rewarding and penalizing installations for their environmental impacts.
What's wrong with time since the Unix epoch? I'm using that and I'm doing fine!
FreOffice does a good job for that on my Nokia N900.
SIP and XMPP/Jingle are the alternatives. It's difficult to find a good client for either, though.
Jitsi seems to be very promising for SIP - so give it a try, and I have my hopes for XMPP/Jingle in Psi-Plus, but so far I haven't got the chance to try it with another Psi-Plus user and it fails when I'm trying to reach other Jingle clients, so with Jingle YMMV.
Unfortunately, it's not just you. I won't call you out on the rest of your points, but your "The reason .... is" is quite naïve. You're assuming there's one and simple reason, when this is certainly not the case. There are many:
1. As you said, lack of demand. Unfortunately there are users who find that the software "just works" and don't care further, so there's less incentive for a free alternative.
2. It's difficult. The Skype protocol has been made on purpose to be difficult to reverse engineer.
3. A part of the free software community prefers to support an open protocol like SIP or XMPP instead of helping spread Skype even further.
4. It took years for free messengers to support an open protocol (Jingle), some like Kopete don't even have preliminary support for it (it got removed in KDE 4, and it doesn't seem to be koming back)
5. Patent FUD
Porting ZFS would take more effort than completing Btrfs, while Dtrace provides functionality that doesn't exist at all. I wouldn't mind a ZFS port, since after using both, I kinda prefer it to Btrfs, but it's better to first port what's new and doesn't exist at all, and then go to porting things that are already there.
For varying definitions of good. I doubt people who are more concerned about software freedom would agree here. Neither would people who prefer open platforms. And alternatives that provide more of both aren't exactly behind in technical quality.
The iPhone might be good, but for some of us, there's better.
Hey, wouldn't you want to have a dinner with the book authors?
Meh, I don't care, even an AIDS epidemic can't possibly be worse than Miracle Day.
If nothing runs on time in Italy, tachyons will always arrive too early.
It could work before too. The predictions will be self-fulfilling prophecies that provoke the start of the revolutions.
Of course modern humans inbred with evolutionary predecessors. If they didn't, they wouldn't exist!
So, you're saying a huge monopoly consisting of the two major operating system developers is generally a bad idea? I thought everybody knew that.
Intercal is peanuts compared to Malbolge.
If I download the same works and put them on the same drive
Kids these days! Not even the slightest bit of originality, sheesh! When we stole copyrighted works, we stole them creatively!
Using the words of their lawyers (e.g. the EULAs) is a great way to describe services of that sort to discredit them, but actually buying their words means that they have won. If I had my account blocked, I'd still sue them, until a judge says so - legal my ass.
CPython can't be sandboxed.
This is somewhat flawed. It's not simply how often the operation is used, but how often is used multiplied by the amount of work that it will do for you. Also if the ribbon is rarely used, it's exactly the place to put rarely used commands that might put in handy.
But otherwise, yes, this demonstrates why the menu/toolbar approach is better. The most useful commands go through the shortcuts, the second most useful commands go through the context menu, things that might come in handy go into the toolbar, and everything else go to the menu. The ribbon approach breaks this.
Uh, the clock is just a number, if you believe the day should start earlier, talk to your management. Your colleagues would most likely disagree, but if they don't, you might convince them. It makes most sense if 12:00 is exactly at noon and the time matches the sun, not your work preferences.