This is the thing that most Linux critics simply don't recognize: Linux keeps improving and gets closer and closer.
Perhaps, but the flipside of that is that most linux advocates don't seem to recognize that other operating systems are improving as well (at least here, where people love to bash Windows or the Mac by pointing out things that were true of them five years ago and are completely untrue now). So Linux can improve and still not be "closer" to them.
I'm surprised no one has mentioend the "hallucinations" in Eternal Darkness as ane example of breaking the fourth wall in a way that's a coherent part of the game, rather than a stupid wisecrack from a character about it being a game.
One of the biggest design flaws in Windows from a security perspective is that nearly every service that comes with the system is turned on by default
It seems a little unfair that people consistently point out "flaws" in Windows by referring to things that were only true in old versions. Isn't it more interesting to discuss the current versions, even if not everyone uses them?
The obvious solution is that someone should make a video game version of The Passion that's just as violent as the movie to get this point across. I'm sure the parents complaining would love that.
Here in the UK, we classify videogames in the same way as we classify movies. A 12-rated game can only be bought by people aged 12 and above, a 15-rated game can only be bought by people aged 15 up, and so on.
Because it's supposed to be up to parents to decide what is appopriate for their children at different ages. If a box says that the game includes nudity, a parent can decide if they think that's okay for their fifteen year old. If the box does says "contains content appropriate for ages 15 and up", the parents just have to trust the person giving the rating to have the same opinions as them on what is okay for a 15 year old. Tell the parents what's in it and let them decide the ages, if we have to have ratings at all.
I really think that piracy should make a come back. The ones on the high seas!
It has. If you do some research (I'm too lazy to hunt for links for you), there are people now who basically pull up near a cargo ship in a small boat with a bazooka (or rocket launcher or whatever it is) and demand payment/ goods or they will sink the ship. Also, some guy who had competed in the America's Cup or some other sailing-type event was killed by pirates. Seriously. Piracy is like slavery in that most of think of it as just history, but it's still going on in parts of the world.
Microsoft really needs to cease all work on Longhorn, tighten down XP
Um, taking the time to make XP more secure at the expense of Longhorn is pretty much what they're doing right now. In fact, this is pretty much what the story to which you're posting is about.
It would certainly piss me off if some guy was speeding ahead of me and caused the light ahead of us to turn red, stopping both of us. People on the road get mad at other drivers too often already; do we really need to give people another excuse to get mad at someone, blaming "that idiot speeder" for making them late?
See a few movies that you have absolutely no concept of when going in, it makes for a much more interesting ride.
I like doing this too, but I think the most important way to avoid knowing what's going to happen is to avoid reading reviews. I really hate the way many (possibly most) movie reviews give away major plot elements. They don't even seem to be doing it most of the time in service of illustrating a particular point about the movie, they just seem to do it to fill up space. Ebert seems particularly bad about this. I've sometimes seen reviews (although I can't remember now for which specific movies) where he essentially gives away the ending. Sometimes he tries to be a little subtle rather than saying explicitly what happens, but he usualy fails at that and after reading his review, you're pretty sure what's going to happen in the movie. But it's not really him in particular; there are tons of newspaper movie critics who do this.
I also tend not to read the back covers of books when possible since I've seen some that give away plot points that don't happen until a few hundred pages in.
Because it might not be you personally who decided to filter the word viagra. For example, if your using a hotmail or yahoo account, that word is going to make the mail more likley to be flagged as spam and go to your "bulk mail" folder (I would think). Similarly, you might have installed a third-party spam filter (or your isp or workplace might be using one) that looks for words like this. The fact that "viagra" mail isn't going to reach the enduser doesn't mean that he has personally decided to kill all mail to his account about viagra.
Back in the 1980's a Pittsburgh area politician was caught up in a corruption scandal, his solutionm was to blow his brains out at a press conference
Yeah, the band "Filter" had a song called "Hey, Man Nice Shot" that was about this incident. I had thought that they used that footage in the video for the song, but from searching now online, I don't think that's the case (anyone know?).
Whether the loss of sound quality is audible will also depend on what equipment you are using. You may not hear the difference today, but what if in the future you decide to spend some money on higher quality audio equipment on which the difference is audible? Are you going to buy everything you burned from iTMS tracks again on regular cd's? Or are you going to just have worse quality than you otherwise could have, if you had just bought it on cd in the first place? This may not be a concern for you (because there is no chance you will ever buy high-end audio equipment or because you aren't likely in a few years to want to listen to the music you purchased today), but I think it is for some people (for exmaple, college students who like to buy music online and currently have crappy audio equipment, but will buy better stuff once they have a real job), and people seem not to think about it.
If you don't have the attention span to listen to an album for more than four minutes, maybe that's the problem rather than any technical issue. Do you also rip your dvd's onto your computer so that you can watch movies three minutes at a time without having to swap discs?
The article already adresses this: "Investigators could program their supercomputers to flag packets of information that met certain criteria, such as a certain IP number, a certain traffic pattern or a certain kind of content. As soon as a packet is flagged, investigators would apply for warrants to assemble the packets and read the messages' contents."
This has been established before as being legal (I don't like it either). They can have a computer combing through all the packets without a warrant, but they can't actually look at what it finds or use what it finds to arrest someone until they get a warrant. I think the rules for monitoring the telephone networks are tougher than for monitoring internet traffic, but I'm not sure (the article says that they "analyze millions of messages and phone calls each day", but I'm not sure if "phone calls" here means actual phone calls or if it supposed to refer back to the early mention of "Internet-based phone call"s).
It's a good think that I know to trust the anectodal claims from complete strangers on slashdot who say they've bought more cd's due to p2p, and thus completely disregard any evidence to the contrary. It's a shame that everyone in the mass media is a clueless phb idiot who isn't as smart as me and can't do the same.
And, of course, ripping off tabbed browsing and pop up blockers.
Is referring to me as a "troll" supposed to make it less obvious that you're trolling? In particular, that your claiming that it includes tabbed browsing, which isn't even true.
I'm sorry, but I simply can't believe that a research company, a company DEVOTED TO RESEARCH, would come out with biased opinions influenced by money.
Yes, let's instead listen to the unbiased people at Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SUSE. Surely their opinions on this issue are less biased than those of the research company.
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Perhaps, but the flipside of that is that most linux advocates don't seem to recognize that other operating systems are improving as well (at least here, where people love to bash Windows or the Mac by pointing out things that were true of them five years ago and are completely untrue now). So Linux can improve and still not be "closer" to them.
If I'm going to have to "ignore object-oriented programming", then I don't think I'd bother programming in java at all.
I'm surprised no one has mentioend the "hallucinations" in Eternal Darkness as ane example of breaking the fourth wall in a way that's a coherent part of the game, rather than a stupid wisecrack from a character about it being a game.
It seems a little unfair that people consistently point out "flaws" in Windows by referring to things that were only true in old versions. Isn't it more interesting to discuss the current versions, even if not everyone uses them?
The obvious solution is that someone should make a video game version of The Passion that's just as violent as the movie to get this point across. I'm sure the parents complaining would love that.
Or I just buy it online (probably from a store not based in California).
Because it's supposed to be up to parents to decide what is appopriate for their children at different ages. If a box says that the game includes nudity, a parent can decide if they think that's okay for their fifteen year old. If the box does says "contains content appropriate for ages 15 and up", the parents just have to trust the person giving the rating to have the same opinions as them on what is okay for a 15 year old. Tell the parents what's in it and let them decide the ages, if we have to have ratings at all.
I stopped being lazy and found a link. Apparently they were "river pirates".
It has. If you do some research (I'm too lazy to hunt for links for you), there are people now who basically pull up near a cargo ship in a small boat with a bazooka (or rocket launcher or whatever it is) and demand payment/ goods or they will sink the ship. Also, some guy who had competed in the America's Cup or some other sailing-type event was killed by pirates. Seriously. Piracy is like slavery in that most of think of it as just history, but it's still going on in parts of the world.
I haven't checked, but I don't think so. Wouldn't this mess with people who are behind a proxy?
Um, taking the time to make XP more secure at the expense of Longhorn is pretty much what they're doing right now. In fact, this is pretty much what the story to which you're posting is about.
There's some deal where people who are members of msdn can get it for free. I'm not, so I don't have any more info than that.
It would certainly piss me off if some guy was speeding ahead of me and caused the light ahead of us to turn red, stopping both of us. People on the road get mad at other drivers too often already; do we really need to give people another excuse to get mad at someone, blaming "that idiot speeder" for making them late?
I like doing this too, but I think the most important way to avoid knowing what's going to happen is to avoid reading reviews. I really hate the way many (possibly most) movie reviews give away major plot elements. They don't even seem to be doing it most of the time in service of illustrating a particular point about the movie, they just seem to do it to fill up space. Ebert seems particularly bad about this. I've sometimes seen reviews (although I can't remember now for which specific movies) where he essentially gives away the ending. Sometimes he tries to be a little subtle rather than saying explicitly what happens, but he usualy fails at that and after reading his review, you're pretty sure what's going to happen in the movie. But it's not really him in particular; there are tons of newspaper movie critics who do this.
I also tend not to read the back covers of books when possible since I've seen some that give away plot points that don't happen until a few hundred pages in.
Because it might not be you personally who decided to filter the word viagra. For example, if your using a hotmail or yahoo account, that word is going to make the mail more likley to be flagged as spam and go to your "bulk mail" folder (I would think). Similarly, you might have installed a third-party spam filter (or your isp or workplace might be using one) that looks for words like this. The fact that "viagra" mail isn't going to reach the enduser doesn't mean that he has personally decided to kill all mail to his account about viagra.
Did you read the article? The person taking action here is his mother who is still alive and most certainly cares.
Yeah, the band "Filter" had a song called "Hey, Man Nice Shot" that was about this incident. I had thought that they used that footage in the video for the song, but from searching now online, I don't think that's the case (anyone know?).
Whether the loss of sound quality is audible will also depend on what equipment you are using. You may not hear the difference today, but what if in the future you decide to spend some money on higher quality audio equipment on which the difference is audible? Are you going to buy everything you burned from iTMS tracks again on regular cd's? Or are you going to just have worse quality than you otherwise could have, if you had just bought it on cd in the first place? This may not be a concern for you (because there is no chance you will ever buy high-end audio equipment or because you aren't likely in a few years to want to listen to the music you purchased today), but I think it is for some people (for exmaple, college students who like to buy music online and currently have crappy audio equipment, but will buy better stuff once they have a real job), and people seem not to think about it.
If you don't have the attention span to listen to an album for more than four minutes, maybe that's the problem rather than any technical issue. Do you also rip your dvd's onto your computer so that you can watch movies three minutes at a time without having to swap discs?
The article already adresses this:
"Investigators could program their supercomputers to flag packets of information that met certain criteria, such as a certain IP number, a certain traffic pattern or a certain kind of content. As soon as a packet is flagged, investigators would apply for warrants to assemble the packets and read the messages' contents."
This has been established before as being legal (I don't like it either). They can have a computer combing through all the packets without a warrant, but they can't actually look at what it finds or use what it finds to arrest someone until they get a warrant. I think the rules for monitoring the telephone networks are tougher than for monitoring internet traffic, but I'm not sure (the article says that they "analyze millions of messages and phone calls each day", but I'm not sure if "phone calls" here means actual phone calls or if it supposed to refer back to the early mention of "Internet-based phone call"s).
It's a good think that I know to trust the anectodal claims from complete strangers on slashdot who say they've bought more cd's due to p2p, and thus completely disregard any evidence to the contrary. It's a shame that everyone in the mass media is a clueless phb idiot who isn't as smart as me and can't do the same.
What's sexier than that?!
If we could just get him out of office, most of us would be happy.
Is referring to me as a "troll" supposed to make it less obvious that you're trolling? In particular, that your claiming that it includes tabbed browsing, which isn't even true.
Yes, let's instead listen to the unbiased people at Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SUSE. Surely their opinions on this issue are less biased than those of the research company.