Most people seem to check whether their car runs on petrol or diesel. Only an idiot would complain if his car didn't work with the wrong fuel. If you're going to use a bad analogy, you should at least use it properly.
No, that's not how a control group works. This is on par with saying that someone died from cancer after s/he quit smoking, hence it's bad to quit smoking. It's not even pseudo-science.
I use water. Hold my head to the side when showering. Apart from that, ears are supposedly self-cleaning. I don't really know whether that's true, but my hearing is fine despite being mostly unspelunked by Q-tips. I would think people survived the millennia before the invention of the Q-tip without suffering deafness just as well (and hell, those people didn't even bathe daily).
Well, you shouldn't use a Q-tip to clean your ear. It shoves the earwax further in, and does far more damage than good. No doctor would ever recommend Q-tips for ear cleaning. Yes, it's probably the originally intended use, but good intentions don't always give good results. Q-tips are still kind of neat for other uses, though.
Yeah, he basically ignores every technical aspect of the operating systems to choose a few UI and HCI aspects that are more consistent on OS X. Even Apple does this better, with their "Hello, I'm a Mac" commercials. This is a fucking advert, not a review.
I second this. FAT-32 isn't the most robust file system out there, but it's ubiquitous and well understood. Robustness is probably not the most important aspect for archival storage, if that means write once and store, and it's meaningless if you can't read the format. It's not a modern file system, though, and has some problems (4 GB file size limit, etc.).
I wouldn't say the same goes for RAR. It's a proprietary format, owned by a company and used mainly for piracy. I know you can extract it on many OS today, but I wouldn't trust it for tomorrow. Neither would I trust Word to open Word Perfect files -- I've received RTF files created by the latter that I couldn't open in Word. Market share alone doesn't guarantee anything, you need a format that is well known. Sadly, neither WP nor Word documents are.
Double standards? I didn't advocate a particular product, which is what you're doing. And burning to CDs isn't 'moving on', it's moving backwards. You'd understand this if you'd ever bought something from ITMS and suddenly had the need for moving on from iTunes. The product lock-in is unacceptable.
And I've never said I'd ever understand how someone would buy something as ridiculous as the Zune, that something you dreamt up with your stupid fanboy logic.
Your post reeks of fanboy. Apple's DRM is draconian because you need Apple's package to make use of the data you've bought: The AAC file you just bought from iTunes Music Store will only work on your iPod and in iTunes -- one of the few apps with more invasive installation than RealPlayer on Windows. When you decide the iPod is an overpriced fashion product, you can't switch to a more reasonable brand because Apple won't sell licenses for their DRM scheme to their competitors.
Yes, Apple use their pseudo-monopoly in one area (ITMS) to uphold their dominant position in another market. Now, what other Evil Company has been convicted of that practice a few years ago?
Yes, and you can get things working by fixing it yourself.
Yesterday, I became fed up with Windows only giving 60 Hz refresh rate (I only use it for my gaming needs), and decided to do something about it. Googled for '60 hz' something, clicked the first hit and downloaded the app without looking too closely. Now I had a new Explorer bar that I didn't want or need, and my problem was still there. Luckily, this particular version of the spyware had a working uninstaller(!). Then I found a different app that actually worked, but not without a reboot.
So what do you prefer: having to install proprietary apps to fix even the simplest problems, and getting malware installed in the process, or dropping to the shell and pasting a line into your terminal emulator? I know which solution I can expect to work, and I certainly prefer that to fantasies of "world domination".
It doesn't block apt-get. Apt uses http or ftp, and I bet you have set it up to use ftp, which the coffee shop probably blocks. Modify your sources.list to tell it to use http instead, and you'll be fine.
Correct. But it's also why Windows is so full of cruft, and why so many useful features are unused (running as Administrator is an obvious example). OTOH, Word managed to take over without Word Perfect compatibility (largely because WP was useless on Windows 3.x until most of the demand was gone), while being a worse program. I think we should be happy if we can get good programs that value our freedom and our ownership of our own data, and don't play ridiculous games of Domination -- which result in no good, and which we'll end up losing anyway.
Finland has an extreme culture of binge drinking. There's more than a slight difference between four glasses of wine a day to a bottle of vodka on the weekend.
Perhaps you should try playing it with a more modern video card. The graphics are superb (well, for the scenery, that is -- the characters aren't that special up close).
Personally, I like many things in Oblivion. The negatives that stand out are the voice acting (you'd expect better not only after GTA: SA, but also before), the dialogue, the "AI" and the bugs. It crashes far too often, and strange things happen in-game. The levelling system didn't bother me too much at first, since I'm not a regular RPG gamer, but now that I'm level ~30, things are getting far too easy.
I'm perfectly civil, I'm just trying to find out where you're coming from and what you're trying to hide; why you're defending capitalism with a reasoning based in 18th century reality. That's before capitalism, by the way.
Another flaw in your reasoning is that the statement "If I make a beautiful carved wooden table, then it's mine" isn't true. The defining trait of capitalism is that the workers sell their labour to a capitalist, and now the corporation owns the table you just made.
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Most people seem to check whether their car runs on petrol or diesel. Only an idiot would complain if his car didn't work with the wrong fuel. If you're going to use a bad analogy, you should at least use it properly.
No, that's not how a control group works. This is on par with saying that someone died from cancer after s/he quit smoking, hence it's bad to quit smoking. It's not even pseudo-science.
I use water. Hold my head to the side when showering. Apart from that, ears are supposedly self-cleaning. I don't really know whether that's true, but my hearing is fine despite being mostly unspelunked by Q-tips. I would think people survived the millennia before the invention of the Q-tip without suffering deafness just as well (and hell, those people didn't even bathe daily).
I'm sure you used a control group as well for your exemplary scientific experiment.
Well, you shouldn't use a Q-tip to clean your ear. It shoves the earwax further in, and does far more damage than good. No doctor would ever recommend Q-tips for ear cleaning. Yes, it's probably the originally intended use, but good intentions don't always give good results. Q-tips are still kind of neat for other uses, though.
Yeah, he basically ignores every technical aspect of the operating systems to choose a few UI and HCI aspects that are more consistent on OS X. Even Apple does this better, with their "Hello, I'm a Mac" commercials. This is a fucking advert, not a review.
I second this. FAT-32 isn't the most robust file system out there, but it's ubiquitous and well understood. Robustness is probably not the most important aspect for archival storage, if that means write once and store, and it's meaningless if you can't read the format. It's not a modern file system, though, and has some problems (4 GB file size limit, etc.).
I wouldn't say the same goes for RAR. It's a proprietary format, owned by a company and used mainly for piracy. I know you can extract it on many OS today, but I wouldn't trust it for tomorrow. Neither would I trust Word to open Word Perfect files -- I've received RTF files created by the latter that I couldn't open in Word. Market share alone doesn't guarantee anything, you need a format that is well known. Sadly, neither WP nor Word documents are.
Compared to Oblivion, it seems like an engineering masterpiece.
You do realise that this is a way of visualising a concept, right? Or are you some sort of autist?
Here is a link explaining what a civil liberty is. Smoking isn't any more of a civil liberty than using your neighbour's bathtub as a urinal.
The Pope has also been known (to some) to be the Anti-Christ.
Well, fuck you too. Singing the praise of Apple's DRM is about as close you can get to fanboyism without sucking Steve Jobs's cock.
Double standards? I didn't advocate a particular product, which is what you're doing. And burning to CDs isn't 'moving on', it's moving backwards. You'd understand this if you'd ever bought something from ITMS and suddenly had the need for moving on from iTunes. The product lock-in is unacceptable.
And I've never said I'd ever understand how someone would buy something as ridiculous as the Zune, that something you dreamt up with your stupid fanboy logic.
Your post reeks of fanboy. Apple's DRM is draconian because you need Apple's package to make use of the data you've bought: The AAC file you just bought from iTunes Music Store will only work on your iPod and in iTunes -- one of the few apps with more invasive installation than RealPlayer on Windows. When you decide the iPod is an overpriced fashion product, you can't switch to a more reasonable brand because Apple won't sell licenses for their DRM scheme to their competitors.
Yes, Apple use their pseudo-monopoly in one area (ITMS) to uphold their dominant position in another market. Now, what other Evil Company has been convicted of that practice a few years ago?
Yes, and you can get things working by fixing it yourself.
Yesterday, I became fed up with Windows only giving 60 Hz refresh rate (I only use it for my gaming needs), and decided to do something about it. Googled for '60 hz' something, clicked the first hit and downloaded the app without looking too closely. Now I had a new Explorer bar that I didn't want or need, and my problem was still there. Luckily, this particular version of the spyware had a working uninstaller(!). Then I found a different app that actually worked, but not without a reboot.
So what do you prefer: having to install proprietary apps to fix even the simplest problems, and getting malware installed in the process, or dropping to the shell and pasting a line into your terminal emulator? I know which solution I can expect to work, and I certainly prefer that to fantasies of "world domination".
It doesn't block apt-get. Apt uses http or ftp, and I bet you have set it up to use ftp, which the coffee shop probably blocks. Modify your sources.list to tell it to use http instead, and you'll be fine.
Correct. But it's also why Windows is so full of cruft, and why so many useful features are unused (running as Administrator is an obvious example). OTOH, Word managed to take over without Word Perfect compatibility (largely because WP was useless on Windows 3.x until most of the demand was gone), while being a worse program. I think we should be happy if we can get good programs that value our freedom and our ownership of our own data, and don't play ridiculous games of Domination -- which result in no good, and which we'll end up losing anyway.
Finland has an extreme culture of binge drinking. There's more than a slight difference between four glasses of wine a day to a bottle of vodka on the weekend.
Of course. But why turn Debian into yet another *ubuntu? We who actually use Debian like it better than the alternatives. (I usually run Sid, though.)
On the positive side, it's not all that much slower on slow computers. It's usable on a 266 MHz G3. I don't think it's fast on any computer.
That's Komplexity vs gnome-eazel-nonproperties.
Perhaps you should try playing it with a more modern video card. The graphics are superb (well, for the scenery, that is -- the characters aren't that special up close).
Personally, I like many things in Oblivion. The negatives that stand out are the voice acting (you'd expect better not only after GTA: SA, but also before), the dialogue, the "AI" and the bugs. It crashes far too often, and strange things happen in-game. The levelling system didn't bother me too much at first, since I'm not a regular RPG gamer, but now that I'm level ~30, things are getting far too easy.
I'm perfectly civil, I'm just trying to find out where you're coming from and what you're trying to hide; why you're defending capitalism with a reasoning based in 18th century reality. That's before capitalism, by the way.
Another flaw in your reasoning is that the statement "If I make a beautiful carved wooden table, then it's mine" isn't true. The defining trait of capitalism is that the workers sell their labour to a capitalist, and now the corporation owns the table you just made.
So what are you, a Marxist, a troll, or both?
That would make sense only if the state is unable to sell things.