Yeah the end users on linux surprise me. Here, many of them want their computer to "just work", and none of the CS majors here know anything about windows, so we can't fix it when it breaks. Free from viruses, and can't afford a mac, don't want to bother making a hackintosh/bad hardware support. It's a niche of surprising size.
Many of them will switch back after college, of course. Hell, I know one computer savvy physics major who dual boots Windows and Ubuntu on his macbook, and spends most of his time in Ubuntu. You knew there had to be at least one;)
A few summers ago I developed Windows software, never had to touch the damn thing. Did all my devel on Linux, my teammates used mac exclusively. There were no problems resulting from this. I love wxWidgets. It may not look great, but it beats the s**t out of GTK and is usuable.
"So it is not so much the upgrade myth is broken so much as Vista=WinME II. Although to be fair I didn't have nearly as many folks hating WinME as I have had Vista hate."
IIRC, the Slashdot poll on fanbois found that Apple ones were most annoying, followed by MS, followed by Linux. Clearly your argument is flawed, since slashdot is not annoying. Therefore God exists, and is dead.
More importantly, Vista might finally be out of beta. Remember XP when it first came out? Xtra Problems we called it, and not just anti-MS bias either.
MS is a corporation, they have a motivation to release as quickly as possible. Vista in the design room was a far better OS than the pre-alpha crap that was released. It's improving, it might eventually overtake XP, especially if MS stops supporting it.
My money's on it ending up another ME, but the above/could/ happen.
But no, I do believe in merit above all else. I've seen a lot of racism in my life; black people being told "we don't serve your kind" in restaurants, being beaten up after school by the black kids for being white, and minorities and majorities of all kinds being harassed for one thing or another, being intimidated for refusing to sign a petition in favor of affirmative action at a high school assembly. One Muslim friend of mine invited to a minority achievement dinner, then when he got there being angrily thrown out. They'd seen his last name and thought he was black.
I learned that some people (across all lines) just like to hate each other, and race/hair color/eye color/sex is a convenient battle line to draw and throw stones across. Racism and its ilk strike me as excuses, not causes, for violence. Some people like privilege. Some people like to hurt other people.
So I see little difference between a KKK member chanting "White unity, white pride, white power" and a black pride rally with the frighteningly similar slogan "Black unity, black pride, black power" (I use those examples because they're the only two such slogans I've seen). At least the latter is generally less about murdering other people. But not always.
But when I see these battle lines being drawn over stupid, I just want to smile sadly and tell the racists and haters of all types "grow up, while you bicker over who to hate for no good reason, some of us are trying to build a world free of such anger". I feel like if we'd back down from the blame game and the rhetoric we could start to look at the true causes of the injustice, and work together for a better tomorrow.
So the only minority [majority? I'd like to think not] I hate is racists, sexists, etc;) But's more of a sad disapproval than "hate" in the sense these hate groups throw it around.
None of these statements should be taken as reflecting on socioeconomic discrepancies, as those are a whole different problem (and in my opinion a far more serious one).
You can summarize my statement as "Death to intolerant people and murderers":-) But I do believe that justice can never come out of injustice. So it's an ironic serious comment;)
When will people realize that any kind of hatred, racism, sexism, or divisiveness can only perpetuate the evil of immoral discrimination. Affirmative action, racialism (black, white, and otherwise), white privilege, and the like are all scourges that must be eliminated for a just future.
1) P2P has lots of legitimate uses (linux much?). I use it more for legal than illegal these days actually. 2) Just because you're not breaking hte law doesn't mean they won't target you. Remember their business model: rather than producing anything of value they send letter, receive money, profit. Reference: all the people without computers getting sued. Reference: that study where they got a cease and desist sent to a network printer
What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't say the attorney won't represent them if they get such a letter, you should say that the attorney won't represent them if they break the law, or even scare the shit out of them by saying the company will cooperate fully. Since it's a company machine, you can search it at will. Every job I've worked at has warned me they were keylogging, and while they never actually were, I certainly feel they have that right as long as they warn me.
So don't be a buzzword-based PHB. P2P is not some evil Nigerian pirate tactic for hijacking video game tankers. It's a way of transferring a large file, like Blizzard's WoW updates, Ubuntu CD images, or imaginary property.
Good point, we should probably just chip everyone since it's invisible, small, and only licensed physicians can read it for privacy.
Your personal data will never be shared with anyone.
People with AIDS have rights too. We let people buy guns which can be used to kill people. We then punish them for it. I see no reason to fight Futurecrime in such a barbaric manner as tagging them.
Or captive networks. There is a guy at your college/company that controls your DNS, unless you explicitly set an external DNS.
This doesn't mean that anyone can trivially get into your mail, but it does man that more people than should can, and furthermore that this is trivial to prevent.
I don't know, most of my surprise and disillusionment has been in a good way so far. He has actually exceeded my expectations which, while exceedingly easy for him to do, is still neat.
But talk is cheap. It's been a while since Columbine, maybe things have changed. Or maybe someone else in hte gvmt will fight censorship.
Fact is, both parties like censorship, they just pull out different boogeymen and want to censor different things (hate speech/flag burning, etc)
This is true in general. Everyone wants free speech, but not everyone is truely willing to learn that for their speech to be tolerated, they must put up with some horrible things. Use freenet for a while, you'll see what I mean.
If censorship is occurring, someone is saying what can and cannot be said. To me, this makes it unacceptable in all forms. But there are good arguments in favor too.
Yeah, I figured this might happen, especially with Biden on the ticket. Still, when your choices are certain loss of rights and likely loss of rights...
Plagerizing from elsewhere on the tubes, I've heard it said Jobs is against *music* drm since CDs have no DRM. The differential defect to users is significant. Since all HD content is crippled already, the argument doesn't hold.
None yet, the MAFIAA hasn't bought them yet. ACTA?
This failed back when Biden and Stevens tried it in '03, but I fear the last throes of the antiquated business model could bring with it some serious repercussions.
Some [but not all] of the greater flaming MS is likely to receive is due to having done it first. On the other hand, I'd expect this crap from Apple but my heart would stop with surprise if it didn't happen from MS.
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Yeah the end users on linux surprise me. Here, many of them want their computer to "just work", and none of the CS majors here know anything about windows, so we can't fix it when it breaks. Free from viruses, and can't afford a mac, don't want to bother making a hackintosh/bad hardware support. It's a niche of surprising size.
Many of them will switch back after college, of course. Hell, I know one computer savvy physics major who dual boots Windows and Ubuntu on his macbook, and spends most of his time in Ubuntu. You knew there had to be at least one;)
A few summers ago I developed Windows software, never had to touch the damn thing. Did all my devel on Linux, my teammates used mac exclusively. There were no problems resulting from this. I love wxWidgets. It may not look great, but it beats the s**t out of GTK and is usuable.
"So it is not so much the upgrade myth is broken so much as Vista=WinME II. Although to be fair I didn't have nearly as many folks hating WinME as I have had Vista hate."
MS realized its mistake sooner.
To be fair, OEM installations of XP have similar problems.
IIRC, the Slashdot poll on fanbois found that Apple ones were most annoying, followed by MS, followed by Linux. Clearly your argument is flawed, since slashdot is not annoying. Therefore God exists, and is dead.
More importantly, Vista might finally be out of beta. Remember XP when it first came out? Xtra Problems we called it, and not just anti-MS bias either.
MS is a corporation, they have a motivation to release as quickly as possible. Vista in the design room was a far better OS than the pre-alpha crap that was released. It's improving, it might eventually overtake XP, especially if MS stops supporting it.
My money's on it ending up another ME, but the above /could/ happen.
Playing devil's advocate; have any of you actually read the patent? It's still absurd, but it is more than a single phrase/title.
I'm fairly sure a method can be patented. For example, you can patent a chemical process, which is arguably a method.
This would probably fall under the "trivial works" category of unsuitable.
I am a an extremely tired CS college student so don't take this as legal advice.
(mostly ironic but I had a point as well)
But no, I do believe in merit above all else. I've seen a lot of racism in my life; black people being told "we don't serve your kind" in restaurants, being beaten up after school by the black kids for being white, and minorities and majorities of all kinds being harassed for one thing or another, being intimidated for refusing to sign a petition in favor of affirmative action at a high school assembly. One Muslim friend of mine invited to a minority achievement dinner, then when he got there being angrily thrown out. They'd seen his last name and thought he was black.
I learned that some people (across all lines) just like to hate each other, and race/hair color/eye color/sex is a convenient battle line to draw and throw stones across. Racism and its ilk strike me as excuses, not causes, for violence. Some people like privilege. Some people like to hurt other people.
So I see little difference between a KKK member chanting "White unity, white pride, white power" and a black pride rally with the frighteningly similar slogan "Black unity, black pride, black power" (I use those examples because they're the only two such slogans I've seen). At least the latter is generally less about murdering other people. But not always.
But when I see these battle lines being drawn over stupid, I just want to smile sadly and tell the racists and haters of all types "grow up, while you bicker over who to hate for no good reason, some of us are trying to build a world free of such anger". I feel like if we'd back down from the blame game and the rhetoric we could start to look at the true causes of the injustice, and work together for a better tomorrow.
So the only minority [majority? I'd like to think not] I hate is racists, sexists, etc;) But's more of a sad disapproval than "hate" in the sense these hate groups throw it around.
None of these statements should be taken as reflecting on socioeconomic discrepancies, as those are a whole different problem (and in my opinion a far more serious one).
You can summarize my statement as "Death to intolerant people and murderers":-) But I do believe that justice can never come out of injustice. So it's an ironic serious comment;)
When will people realize that any kind of hatred, racism, sexism, or divisiveness can only perpetuate the evil of immoral discrimination. Affirmative action, racialism (black, white, and otherwise), white privilege, and the like are all scourges that must be eliminated for a just future.
CSS sounds like prior art to me, but I only read the abstract.
Um...naive a bit?
1) P2P has lots of legitimate uses (linux much?). I use it more for legal than illegal these days actually.
2) Just because you're not breaking hte law doesn't mean they won't target you. Remember their business model: rather than producing anything of value they send letter, receive money, profit. Reference: all the people without computers getting sued. Reference: that study where they got a cease and desist sent to a network printer
What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't say the attorney won't represent them if they get such a letter, you should say that the attorney won't represent them if they break the law, or even scare the shit out of them by saying the company will cooperate fully. Since it's a company machine, you can search it at will. Every job I've worked at has warned me they were keylogging, and while they never actually were, I certainly feel they have that right as long as they warn me.
So don't be a buzzword-based PHB. P2P is not some evil Nigerian pirate tactic for hijacking video game tankers. It's a way of transferring a large file, like Blizzard's WoW updates, Ubuntu CD images, or imaginary property.
Good point, we should probably just chip everyone since it's invisible, small, and only licensed physicians can read it for privacy.
Your personal data will never be shared with anyone.
People with AIDS have rights too. We let people buy guns which can be used to kill people. We then punish them for it. I see no reason to fight Futurecrime in such a barbaric manner as tagging them.
Exactly. It's sovereignty. Sealand is welcome to tell UK to fuck off. With guns.
Or captive networks. There is a guy at your college/company that controls your DNS, unless you explicitly set an external DNS.
This doesn't mean that anyone can trivially get into your mail, but it does man that more people than should can, and furthermore that this is trivial to prevent.
I don't know, most of my surprise and disillusionment has been in a good way so far. He has actually exceeded my expectations which, while exceedingly easy for him to do, is still neat.
But talk is cheap. It's been a while since Columbine, maybe things have changed. Or maybe someone else in hte gvmt will fight censorship.
Fact is, both parties like censorship, they just pull out different boogeymen and want to censor different things (hate speech/flag burning, etc)
This is true in general. Everyone wants free speech, but not everyone is truely willing to learn that for their speech to be tolerated, they must put up with some horrible things. Use freenet for a while, you'll see what I mean.
If censorship is occurring, someone is saying what can and cannot be said. To me, this makes it unacceptable in all forms. But there are good arguments in favor too.
Yeah, I figured this might happen, especially with Biden on the ticket. Still, when your choices are certain loss of rights and likely loss of rights...
Surveillance gvmt's wet dream?
no such luck for mac users........yet.
Requiem.
Plagerizing from elsewhere on the tubes, I've heard it said Jobs is against *music* drm since CDs have no DRM. The differential defect to users is significant. Since all HD content is crippled already, the argument doesn't hold.
None yet, the MAFIAA hasn't bought them yet. ACTA?
This failed back when Biden and Stevens tried it in '03, but I fear the last throes of the antiquated business model could bring with it some serious repercussions.
Some [but not all] of the greater flaming MS is likely to receive is due to having done it first. On the other hand, I'd expect this crap from Apple but my heart would stop with surprise if it didn't happen from MS.
*shrug*
Did you try to play it on an old projector/monitor?