I applaud for that! +javascript, it's the worst when the page has no java or flash applets, no videos and yet consumes 99% CPU for unnecessary and downright annoying AJAXy stuff on background in amounts that "excessive" is a tiny word to describe it.
What difference does it make if it wasn't used back then? It is used now.
If you're 5 months old, it's your first year on Earth. If you're 1 year and 3 months old, it's your second year on Earth. Year 2000 is the 2000th year. In order for us to say that two millennia have passed the year must end, thus the new millennium starts in 2001. There's no year 0, because it would mean the 0th year of Christ on Earth. Which means he did not exist, ergo BC.
Even though I've read it dozens of times with minor wording differences, this still feels so elegant to me in the simplicity of this explanation: How could anyone not understand this and how could anyone possibly argue against it seriously? This should put an end to any disagreements about this issue...
...but then we always under estimate the level of sheer human stupidity - no matter how simply and slowly you explain this there are still people who go mentally "LA-LA-LA-LA..." when reading/hearing it and when you stop they just blindly repeat their own explanation because it's what they feel being absolutely correct as they never actually question it vs. this explanation... It's futile.
Granted though that grandparent obviously was just being silly:)
Is anonymous communication really a right? It's a relatively new thing in human interaction, is it really necessary, or beneficial?
I believe that anonymous communication is a right as long as someone can provide service to do that... And it's really not that new - consider how easy it has been for long time to achieve relatively high anonymous communication via plain mail system... Sure it's not perfect, but a letter written using computer or electronic typewriter sent using different mailbox (not post office) for each letter provides quite a bit of anonymity, even though it can be easier to track the person than one tech savvy poster using anonymous proxies / tor, etc. and anon re-mailer.
I'm not stating an opinion one way or the other, I'm honestly asking, what do we really gain from truly anonymous communication? The things we lose (i.e. accountability for things you say) are clear, so I'm just asking, what are the benefits to society?
Isn't free speech enough? If we truly had the right to free speech, why would anonymity even be necessary?
I think anonymous communication has a load of huge benefits... One pretty obvious example being activists in oppressive countries criticizing the system anonymously to avoid disapearing after men in black paying a visit. Yes, I believe anonymous communication should be a protected right.
I'm not anti-vac, but I am cautious and want to know the pro&cons of any drugs before introducing them into my body or my sons body: We did not get swine flu vaccination because I chose to bet that possible risks of vaccine that has not been tested as well as drugs usually are higher than possible risk of swine flu epidemic.
And I won that bet - no epidemic and vaccine used here in Finland (and Germany and some other countries) has caused narcolepsy on considerable number of children.
I want to be able to choose not to get vaccinated and not to get my child vaccinated if it seems like bad idea to me - and in most cases it doesn't... Swine flu vaccine is the only one I have refused of, and as said, I'm damn glad that I had that freedom!
There were the pig flu and bird flu scares and here in Finland they gave free vaccinations to people who wanted and there was large media scare mongering to push people to get them and their children vaccinated after which ever was the last one.
My choice was no vaccination and I'm dam glad I chose so...
I calculated in my head that the virus would be dangerous if there it ever spread widely but it didn't seem likely scenario to me. The vaccine was not tested as well as drugs usually are before they can be even considered to be approved, it was approved because some people had made conclusion that the threat was so big that it would be a better bet to introduce (and push) the vaccine to general public...
Now later we can see that the virus did not spread as badly as some feared - no pandemia. One really bad side effect that was encountered after pushing the vaccine for general public was that it caused autism on number of small children - that is only a single side effect and nobody knows what severe side-/after- effects might still be found out later...
I would never say that vaccines are generally bad or even that the choice to push the vaccine to general public or peoples choice to agree and take the vaccine - even though it was not properly fully tested on humans - were wrong... But if people would have been forced to take that vaccine, well that I would have condemned. In these scenarios, where choosing between one possible bad scenario and another such, it is in my opinion critically important that the public has the freedom to choose by themselves on which case they are betting for.
I know that this is more extreme example than CPox and other vaccinations discussed here, but as long as two options to choose from where both have their possible benefits and risks of certain level the public needs to have freedom to choose by themselves for them and their children - and without being discriminated for it....and sorry for any bad English! I'm doing my best, but it's not my native language.
Don't just show up. Don't not show up, either. Don't take advise from the Internet. Go and call a lawyer and ask him what your options are and what the consequences are.
Very good advices, would moderate +1, Informative, but don't have points anymore...
I just want to add that you should not blindly ignore advise from internet either but rather discuss about it with your lawyer if it sounds like it might be a reasonable advice to you.
I'm not sure how protecting your IP is evil... but okay.
Some people seem to consider this line above to be some generic reply that proves that something wrong was indeed done... If one writes a battle.net emulator, it's his, not Blizzards IP - unless the writer stole and used Blizzards own source code instead of simply reverse engineering their protocol.
That is just plain stupid now, but just for fun I'll reply:
If the fuel cap said "property of Ford motors -- only to be removed by authorised personnel" and the pump attendant prised it off with a crowbar, I think it would be the petrol station's problem.
Maybe if you didn't agree to it and the attendant breaks it, but I don't see that as a problem if nothing breaks and everything is same as before after you leave the station...
The sort of stuff that used to be on Ceefax and isn't on the digital text service is now on the BBC website, except that there it's far more extensive and interactive.
Part of the charm of Ceefax was that it didn't have to be interactive - you could lie on the sofa, read a book, and glance over and see that the page had updated. In text actually big enough to be read from the sofa at an angle. You could also use it for multi-language subtitles, or commentary, because the background image could be the TV picture.
I am writing this while sitting on a sofa - and with DVB-T you get to enjoy multi-language subtitles (without delay too) if the channel sends them. Here in Finland YLE-network channels have "digi subtitles" for Finnish and Swedish.
Our "Ceefax" was (is?) called "teksti TV" (trans: Text TV) and I really don't miss it for anything, though it was mighty useful, especially when I had separate TV set and computer and wanted to check what was on without going to 'puter...
Phone companies: provide paper copies only to those customers that explicitly ask for one (opt-in), and charge for the printing / shipping costs.
Customers: don't ask for one, unless you have a very good reason to keep a paper copy around.
Oh wait - where I live (NL), that's already how it works... (and the vast majority of people do without a paper copy these days).
Ha... I wish I could just have an opt-out choice, but noooo - there never has been opt-in here, they pretty much force those books down our mailbox... and to top it off, we have two companies in town spreading their own phone books so we twice the fun, wheeee \o/
C) Quite frankly, it IS unacceptable, because its not the government's job, and it can be terribly counterproductive to have guarenteed safety nets. If you know you can take stupid risks and the government will have your back with a rent check, what incentive is there to live responsibly? You think handing out food stamps by and large encourages people to be responsible with their money?
Im not saying that some government programs cant be good. But part of "freedom" means the freedom to make your own decisions (stupid or not), and to deal with the consequences. Take away the consequences, and you take away any reason NOT to make stupid decisions; mandate that people cant make those decisions and youve mandated the removal of freedom.
We have good social security system - well, relatively good, luxurious in comparison to US - here in Finland, people are covered for little over 450€/month + rent up to certain amount + medical bills and then some more... I don't see a problem here, in fact this system reduces problems - and nobody thinks that living on social security alone is awesome living, making stupid choices do have consequences, no sane person want's to lose their job/business and fall into social security network, but at least we are protected by our government and society so that whatever happens we have at least basic needs and level of decent living covered, as it should be in a civilized western countries (and pretty much is too). Unlike you seem to think, this does not make people into crazy irresponsible idiots who don't give a fsck because their ass is covered anyways - people do want more from their lives that can be gained from social security system alone.
I'm considering that you might have some real points here:) Still I have to say that nowdays when I decide to do OOP it is always - that is, when *I* *decide*, not when I have to do OOP because of the language design or library I need to use being written in OOP - always because I find it helps me to write easier to read, use, re-use, etc. code... Well, if I felt that there is no benefit, why would I use it? I program mostly in perl nowdays, PHP I use for web a lot (not because I like it), and it does not force OOP on me:)
I'm with you on that, at least for schools providing mandatory education to minors. What adults study is their business, do long as they don't ask the state for a penny. Comparative religion though - everybody should study that. Religion is
I'm not sure what "comparative religion" means - english is not my native language - so could you explain it to me? If you mean basically teaching facts of different religions and teaching "what they believe in" instead of teaching one religion and stating that it is the truth, well, I'm all for that:)
You sir have one of my favorite quotes, even if from a fictional character, on your sig... props for that. I have it on bottom of my blogs right sidebar menu:)
I have ADHD and yet I've never ever had any this sort of problems - guess it's something to do with not being able to walk and chew gum at same time...
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...one has to be really naive to believe that this would affect what end user pays for Windows at all, they will just get less for what they pay.
What, huh?
Oh... I see, it's a cute green haired troll =) 3 3
Because the standard MS uses is now public.
Because the standard MS uses is now "public".
I applaud for that! +javascript, it's the worst when the page has no java or flash applets, no videos and yet consumes 99% CPU for unnecessary and downright annoying AJAXy stuff on background in amounts that "excessive" is a tiny word to describe it.
What difference does it make if it wasn't used back then? It is used now.
If you're 5 months old, it's your first year on Earth. If you're 1 year and 3 months old, it's your second year on Earth. Year 2000 is the 2000th year. In order for us to say that two millennia have passed the year must end, thus the new millennium starts in 2001. There's no year 0, because it would mean the 0th year of Christ on Earth. Which means he did not exist, ergo BC.
Even though I've read it dozens of times with minor wording differences, this still feels so elegant to me in the simplicity of this explanation: How could anyone not understand this and how could anyone possibly argue against it seriously? This should put an end to any disagreements about this issue...
...but then we always under estimate the level of sheer human stupidity - no matter how simply and slowly you explain this there are still people who go mentally "LA-LA-LA-LA..." when reading/hearing it and when you stop they just blindly repeat their own explanation because it's what they feel being absolutely correct as they never actually question it vs. this explanation... It's futile.
Granted though that grandparent obviously was just being silly :)
Is anonymous communication really a right? It's a relatively new thing in human interaction, is it really necessary, or beneficial?
I believe that anonymous communication is a right as long as someone can provide service to do that... And it's really not that new - consider how easy it has been for long time to achieve relatively high anonymous communication via plain mail system... Sure it's not perfect, but a letter written using computer or electronic typewriter sent using different mailbox (not post office) for each letter provides quite a bit of anonymity, even though it can be easier to track the person than one tech savvy poster using anonymous proxies / tor, etc. and anon re-mailer.
I'm not stating an opinion one way or the other, I'm honestly asking, what do we really gain from truly anonymous communication? The things we lose (i.e. accountability for things you say) are clear, so I'm just asking, what are the benefits to society?
Isn't free speech enough? If we truly had the right to free speech, why would anonymity even be necessary?
I think anonymous communication has a load of huge benefits... One pretty obvious example being activists in oppressive countries criticizing the system anonymously to avoid disapearing after men in black paying a visit. Yes, I believe anonymous communication should be a protected right.
I'm not anti-vac, but I am cautious and want to know the pro&cons of any drugs before introducing them into my body or my sons body: We did not get swine flu vaccination because I chose to bet that possible risks of vaccine that has not been tested as well as drugs usually are higher than possible risk of swine flu epidemic.
And I won that bet - no epidemic and vaccine used here in Finland (and Germany and some other countries) has caused narcolepsy on considerable number of children.
I want to be able to choose not to get vaccinated and not to get my child vaccinated if it seems like bad idea to me - and in most cases it doesn't... Swine flu vaccine is the only one I have refused of, and as said, I'm damn glad that I had that freedom!
Sorry, I wrote that the swine flu vaccine caused autism, which was wrong. It caused narcolepsy.
There were the pig flu and bird flu scares and here in Finland they gave free vaccinations to people who wanted and there was large media scare mongering to push people to get them and their children vaccinated after which ever was the last one.
My choice was no vaccination and I'm dam glad I chose so...
I calculated in my head that the virus would be dangerous if there it ever spread widely but it didn't seem likely scenario to me. The vaccine was not tested as well as drugs usually are before they can be even considered to be approved, it was approved because some people had made conclusion that the threat was so big that it would be a better bet to introduce (and push) the vaccine to general public...
Now later we can see that the virus did not spread as badly as some feared - no pandemia. One really bad side effect that was encountered after pushing the vaccine for general public was that it caused autism on number of small children - that is only a single side effect and nobody knows what severe side-/after- effects might still be found out later...
I would never say that vaccines are generally bad or even that the choice to push the vaccine to general public or peoples choice to agree and take the vaccine - even though it was not properly fully tested on humans - were wrong... But if people would have been forced to take that vaccine, well that I would have condemned. In these scenarios, where choosing between one possible bad scenario and another such, it is in my opinion critically important that the public has the freedom to choose by themselves on which case they are betting for.
I know that this is more extreme example than CPox and other vaccinations discussed here, but as long as two options to choose from where both have their possible benefits and risks of certain level the public needs to have freedom to choose by themselves for them and their children - and without being discriminated for it. ...and sorry for any bad English! I'm doing my best, but it's not my native language.
Don't just show up. Don't not show up, either. Don't take advise from the Internet. Go and call a lawyer and ask him what your options are and what the consequences are.
Very good advices, would moderate +1, Informative, but don't have points anymore...
I just want to add that you should not blindly ignore advise from internet either but rather discuss about it with your lawyer if it sounds like it might be a reasonable advice to you.
I'm not sure how protecting your IP is evil... but okay.
Some people seem to consider this line above to be some generic reply that proves that something wrong was indeed done... If one writes a battle.net emulator, it's his, not Blizzards IP - unless the writer stole and used Blizzards own source code instead of simply reverse engineering their protocol.
Considering all this I can't see how UMaple would be responsible for any sort of infringement...
That is just plain stupid now, but just for fun I'll reply:
If the fuel cap said "property of Ford motors -- only to be removed by authorised personnel" and the pump attendant prised it off with a crowbar, I think it would be the petrol station's problem.
Maybe if you didn't agree to it and the attendant breaks it, but I don't see that as a problem if nothing breaks and everything is same as before after you leave the station...
The sort of stuff that used to be on Ceefax and isn't on the digital text service is now on the BBC website, except that there it's far more extensive and interactive.
Part of the charm of Ceefax was that it didn't have to be interactive - you could lie on the sofa, read a book, and glance over and see that the page had updated.
In text actually big enough to be read from the sofa at an angle. You could also use it for multi-language subtitles, or commentary, because the background image could be the TV picture.
I am writing this while sitting on a sofa - and with DVB-T you get to enjoy multi-language subtitles (without delay too) if the channel sends them. Here in Finland YLE-network channels have "digi subtitles" for Finnish and Swedish.
Our "Ceefax" was (is?) called "teksti TV" (trans: Text TV) and I really don't miss it for anything, though it was mighty useful, especially when I had separate TV set and computer and wanted to check what was on without going to 'puter...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode
Phone companies: provide paper copies only to those customers that explicitly ask for one (opt-in), and charge for the printing / shipping costs.
Customers: don't ask for one, unless you have a very good reason to keep a paper copy around.
Oh wait - where I live (NL), that's already how it works... (and the vast majority of people do without a paper copy these days).
Ha... I wish I could just have an opt-out choice, but noooo - there never has been opt-in here, they pretty much force those books down our mailbox... and to top it off, we have two companies in town spreading their own phone books so we twice the fun, wheeee \o/
Mod +1 funny =)
Translation: Terrorists have scared you away from flying.
C) Quite frankly, it IS unacceptable, because its not the government's job, and it can be terribly counterproductive to have guarenteed safety nets. If you know you can take stupid risks and the government will have your back with a rent check, what incentive is there to live responsibly? You think handing out food stamps by and large encourages people to be responsible with their money?
Im not saying that some government programs cant be good. But part of "freedom" means the freedom to make your own decisions (stupid or not), and to deal with the consequences. Take away the consequences, and you take away any reason NOT to make stupid decisions; mandate that people cant make those decisions and youve mandated the removal of freedom.
We have good social security system - well, relatively good, luxurious in comparison to US - here in Finland, people are covered for little over 450€/month + rent up to certain amount + medical bills and then some more... I don't see a problem here, in fact this system reduces problems - and nobody thinks that living on social security alone is awesome living, making stupid choices do have consequences, no sane person want's to lose their job/business and fall into social security network, but at least we are protected by our government and society so that whatever happens we have at least basic needs and level of decent living covered, as it should be in a civilized western countries (and pretty much is too).
Unlike you seem to think, this does not make people into crazy irresponsible idiots who don't give a fsck because their ass is covered anyways - people do want more from their lives that can be gained from social security system alone.
I'm considering that you might have some real points here :) Still I have to say that nowdays when I decide to do OOP it is always - that is, when *I* *decide*, not when I have to do OOP because of the language design or library I need to use being written in OOP - always because I find it helps me to write easier to read, use, re-use, etc. code... Well, if I felt that there is no benefit, why would I use it? I program mostly in perl nowdays, PHP I use for web a lot (not because I like it), and it does not force OOP on me :)
I'm with you on that, at least for schools providing mandatory education to minors. What adults study is their business, do long as they don't ask the state for a penny. Comparative religion though - everybody should study that. Religion is
I'm not sure what "comparative religion" means - english is not my native language - so could you explain it to me? If you mean basically teaching facts of different religions and teaching "what they believe in" instead of teaching one religion and stating that it is the truth, well, I'm all for that :)
You sir have one of my favorite quotes, even if from a fictional character, on your sig... props for that. I have it on bottom of my blogs right sidebar menu :)
I don't mind the fluff being taught. What I object to is the teaching of outright falsehoods.
This is exactly why I object to teaching religion as truth.
I have ADHD and yet I've never ever had any this sort of problems - guess it's something to do with not being able to walk and chew gum at same time...
I don't support any of these companies and I'm a gamer.