Similarly, while I'm partial to a bit of metal, industrial, etc as well, I'm a goth at heart and I tend to find that the most melancholic and/or angst-ridden songs are actually the most uplifting. Songs that if anything you would expect to bring your mood down have exactly the opposite effect on me.
You may not, but in general people do. Humans are basically tribal thanks to our ancestry; just look at the way people form bonds with their companies, or sports teams. Humans have a deep-seated need to feel that they belong, that they are part of a group. Even those that spurn mainstream culture tend to group together. The old saying "there is safety in numbers" doesn't just apply to physical safety.
I'm sorry, you're making some pretty extraordinary claims, you're going to have to provide some equally extraordinary proof to back them up.
The European Parliament can send a piece of legislation back to the Council for amendment (and the Council usually just makes superficial changes), but the second time around it goes through (different rules regarding the majority).
Then how come the recent patent legislation was sent back so many times before finally not being passed at all?
Somehow I think the judge is upset that the defendant may not have the chance to be declared innocent - that is, that the RIAA appear to be trying to walk away from making a baseless claim without the defendant having the opportunity to have his name cleared officially.
Were that to happen, I wonder if there would be any scope in pursuing a claim for defamation? (No, I don't think I would in that position, but it would almost certainly cross my mind...)
The key communications protocols are the ones where Microsoft has a monopoly position...
To my knowledge, Exchange Server, Share Point etc. are not areas of monopoly for Microsoft.
From TFA:
The list of available protocols, XML schemas and application programming interfaces (APIs) include transport protocols for communications between Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. (Emphasis added)
Seriously, it was in the very next paragraph to the one you quoted. Of all the products produced by MS, the only ones I care about being replaced with serious, 100% interoperable alternatives (any alternatives, not just open ones) are Exchange and Outlook. I'm effectively forced to use Outlook at work because of the calendaring, and I hate almost every second I have to use that sorry excuse for an email client. It was bad enough when I had to put up with people around me using it, breaking email threads, but having to use it myself is almost too much. (Come on MS, email threading was in the versions of mutt and pine I used back in the mid 90s!)
In which case they'll almost certainly still be in violation of the terms of the court ruling. The intention was to open up the protocols and APIs for everyone, not just for those few companies with deep pockets and clever lawyers.
I had the exact opposite experience with my ex's Packard Bell. The onboard sound started sounding very, very bad whenever the machine was working hard - for example there were huge numbers of clicks, pops, drop-outs and other problems with the sound when playing The Sims 2. I bought a cheap Audigy 2 card, popped it in the machine, and all the problems disappeared.
You know how important packages get lost in the mail.
Something important you wouldn't just drop in the post, you'd either hire a courier firm or take it round in person.
I tend to agree though, that in this case I'd either request them to work on site or, if that's not possible for some reason, hand the disk (or even the whole machine) over in person.
It seems closer to the way Star Office used to be (or maybe still is? been a long time since I looked at staroffice...)
I remember that, and like you, it's been a long, long time since I last looked at StarOffice.
That is pretty much the reason why. I utterly loathed that fake desktop thing. I already have a desktop, thank you, now stop trying to replace it and work with it just like every other application does.
Yes, they went on to make dozens of other products (some great, some not so great), but what they didn't do was make them all part of (or modules for) httpd. I can use Tomcat standalone, or with httpd, or IIS, or any other web server. I can use anything from Jakarta without having to install httpd; httpd isn't trying to manage my desktop as well as serve my files, and so on.
No-one is suggesting that Mozilla shouldn't create their own desktop environment if that's what they want to spend their time doing - I personally would question the sense of it, but that's up to them. However, they certainly shouldn't make it part of Mozilla (or Firefox) or even an extension to it, which is essentially what was being suggested.
Well, here in the UK it almost certainly falls foul of the Computer Misuse Act, which explicitly outlaws using computer resources without permission. You can hardly compare malware to automatic updates either (even if you were thinking of adware), as for the vast majority of computer users auto-updates are a very, very good thing, as it's the only hope they have of keeping their machine patched. In my experience, a lot of people still see computers as an appliance; you don't patch your washing machine, or your TV, or your toaster, they simply wouldn't think to patch their PC.
This is absolutely basic stuff - the higher you go up in the atmosphere, the less air there is, the less air there is above you and hence the lower the pressure. What they mean when they say "the air is thinner at altitude" is that there is less of it the higher you go; if you go high enough, you will not be able to breathe enough oxygen and you will die. That's what causes altitude sickness - there's less air around, and so less oxygen, and so you get less of it (as you can only breathe in so much air with each breath), and so you're starved of oxygen, causing light-headedness, nausea, headaches, etc.
There's plenty of it but due to the lower pressure, it's not as accessible for the lungs.
No, there's less of it - still lots (you're not going to suffer explosive decompression!), but if you go high enough, not enough to breathe properly.
Are you seriously suggesting we exchange controlled testing of new drugs for an easily manipulated crap-fest?
A Wikipedia article is vandalised and you get bum information - too bad, you drop a grade or two on your assignment. A drugs rating board is vandalised and ballot-stuffed and you get bum information and you might just die. There are far too many vested interests to trust that sort of thing.
A lot of those PhD candidates have no intention of going into industry on graduating, and remain in academia. I don't know what sort of proportion you're talking about (and I quit a PhD to get a "real" job myself), but certainly some would continue.
"Never again will you fear the BSA (Business Software Alliance) knocking on your door wanting to perform a software audit."
It's funny, but when *I* say "Nice business, be a shame to see it audited..." people start talking about calling the cops if I don't leave immediately.
Seriously though, FUD is FUD whoever it comes from; just because they do it doesn't mean it's ok for us to do it too.
or more broadly, any practice that identifies members of a group
I'd say in this case it's the practice of bemoaning an imagined pro-MS bias in the media that broadly identifies a subset of slashdot readers and other associated techy types. Meanwhile the reality is that for Vista, for example, all the press coverage I've seen has been along the lines of "Meh, what's the fuss about? Sure there are some nice features, and Aero is kind of pretty, but it's nothing to get excited about". To read some people here, though, you'd think that we were fighting a constant, losing battle to get the truth out past the MS shills in the press.
Wow, that sure sounds like a lot. Oh, except that IBM has that beaten into a cocked hat.
I know that the general opinion here is that MS is evil, and (software) patents are evil, but IBM is still by far the largest patentee in this field, and some of us still remember when Big Blue was as evil and hated as MS is now.
Point being don't single MS out for criticism, as they're all doing it, even our "friends".
And clearly it matters because nobody with a UID over 10000 could possibly say anything intelligent(/sarchasm). Oh wait, you're 15035. Make that 15036 and under.
I'd feel insulted, only I can actually spell "sarcasm";)
but if the majority of that content was segregated
And that's pretty much the entire problem. Even if you managed to get a law in place that bound each and every State in the US, you still have zero control over the rest of the world. As long as the world is made up of a bunch of independent nations, you are *never* going to be able to segregate the majority of anything on the net.
Keep in mind mad cow also crosses the species barrier, not pretty.
It's not so much that mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) can cross the species barrier, it's more that it and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or vCJD) have essentially the same cause - a misshapen protein called a prion. The effect is the same though; eating infected beef can indeed give you (the human form of) the disease.
Given the number of Internet users versus the number of police and associated investigative officials, I'd say "a very, very long time indeed". Even assuming an automated system to automatically summon people in for questioning, the workload would be completely unmanageable for any "useful" list of forbidden knowledge.
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Similarly, while I'm partial to a bit of metal, industrial, etc as well, I'm a goth at heart and I tend to find that the most melancholic and/or angst-ridden songs are actually the most uplifting. Songs that if anything you would expect to bring your mood down have exactly the opposite effect on me.
You may not, but in general people do. Humans are basically tribal thanks to our ancestry; just look at the way people form bonds with their companies, or sports teams. Humans have a deep-seated need to feel that they belong, that they are part of a group. Even those that spurn mainstream culture tend to group together. The old saying "there is safety in numbers" doesn't just apply to physical safety.
I'm sorry, you're making some pretty extraordinary claims, you're going to have to provide some equally extraordinary proof to back them up.
The European Parliament can send a piece of legislation back to the Council for amendment (and the Council usually just makes superficial changes), but the second time around it goes through (different rules regarding the majority).
Then how come the recent patent legislation was sent back so many times before finally not being passed at all?
Somehow I think the judge is upset that the defendant may not have the chance to be declared innocent - that is, that the RIAA appear to be trying to walk away from making a baseless claim without the defendant having the opportunity to have his name cleared officially.
Were that to happen, I wonder if there would be any scope in pursuing a claim for defamation? (No, I don't think I would in that position, but it would almost certainly cross my mind...)
software I own that's labeled 'Do not make copies of this disc'
You were ripped off - mine says "Do not make illegal copies of this disc" (emphasis added).
The key communications protocols are the ones where Microsoft has a monopoly position...
To my knowledge, Exchange Server, Share Point etc. are not areas of monopoly for Microsoft.
From TFA:
The list of available protocols, XML schemas and application programming interfaces (APIs) include transport protocols for communications between Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. (Emphasis added)
Seriously, it was in the very next paragraph to the one you quoted. Of all the products produced by MS, the only ones I care about being replaced with serious, 100% interoperable alternatives (any alternatives, not just open ones) are Exchange and Outlook. I'm effectively forced to use Outlook at work because of the calendaring, and I hate almost every second I have to use that sorry excuse for an email client. It was bad enough when I had to put up with people around me using it, breaking email threads, but having to use it myself is almost too much. (Come on MS, email threading was in the versions of mutt and pine I used back in the mid 90s!)
In which case they'll almost certainly still be in violation of the terms of the court ruling. The intention was to open up the protocols and APIs for everyone, not just for those few companies with deep pockets and clever lawyers.
I had the exact opposite experience with my ex's Packard Bell. The onboard sound started sounding very, very bad whenever the machine was working hard - for example there were huge numbers of clicks, pops, drop-outs and other problems with the sound when playing The Sims 2. I bought a cheap Audigy 2 card, popped it in the machine, and all the problems disappeared.
You know how important packages get lost in the mail.
Something important you wouldn't just drop in the post, you'd either hire a courier firm or take it round in person.
I tend to agree though, that in this case I'd either request them to work on site or, if that's not possible for some reason, hand the disk (or even the whole machine) over in person.
Until music is sold without DRM in mp3/flac form for reasonable prices people will continue to download and nobody will buy cds.
I hate to break it to you, but plenty of people are still buying CDs.
It seems closer to the way Star Office used to be (or maybe still is? been a long time since I looked at staroffice...)
I remember that, and like you, it's been a long, long time since I last looked at StarOffice.
That is pretty much the reason why. I utterly loathed that fake desktop thing. I already have a desktop, thank you, now stop trying to replace it and work with it just like every other application does.
Yes, they went on to make dozens of other products (some great, some not so great), but what they didn't do was make them all part of (or modules for) httpd. I can use Tomcat standalone, or with httpd, or IIS, or any other web server. I can use anything from Jakarta without having to install httpd; httpd isn't trying to manage my desktop as well as serve my files, and so on.
No-one is suggesting that Mozilla shouldn't create their own desktop environment if that's what they want to spend their time doing - I personally would question the sense of it, but that's up to them. However, they certainly shouldn't make it part of Mozilla (or Firefox) or even an extension to it, which is essentially what was being suggested.
Well, here in the UK it almost certainly falls foul of the Computer Misuse Act, which explicitly outlaws using computer resources without permission. You can hardly compare malware to automatic updates either (even if you were thinking of adware), as for the vast majority of computer users auto-updates are a very, very good thing, as it's the only hope they have of keeping their machine patched. In my experience, a lot of people still see computers as an appliance; you don't patch your washing machine, or your TV, or your toaster, they simply wouldn't think to patch their PC.
This is absolutely basic stuff - the higher you go up in the atmosphere, the less air there is, the less air there is above you and hence the lower the pressure. What they mean when they say "the air is thinner at altitude" is that there is less of it the higher you go; if you go high enough, you will not be able to breathe enough oxygen and you will die. That's what causes altitude sickness - there's less air around, and so less oxygen, and so you get less of it (as you can only breathe in so much air with each breath), and so you're starved of oxygen, causing light-headedness, nausea, headaches, etc.
There's plenty of it but due to the lower pressure, it's not as accessible for the lungs.
No, there's less of it - still lots (you're not going to suffer explosive decompression!), but if you go high enough, not enough to breathe properly.
Are you seriously suggesting we exchange controlled testing of new drugs for an easily manipulated crap-fest?
A Wikipedia article is vandalised and you get bum information - too bad, you drop a grade or two on your assignment. A drugs rating board is vandalised and ballot-stuffed and you get bum information and you might just die. There are far too many vested interests to trust that sort of thing.
A lot of those PhD candidates have no intention of going into industry on graduating, and remain in academia. I don't know what sort of proportion you're talking about (and I quit a PhD to get a "real" job myself), but certainly some would continue.
"Never again will you fear the BSA (Business Software Alliance) knocking on your door wanting to perform a software audit."
It's funny, but when *I* say "Nice business, be a shame to see it audited..." people start talking about calling the cops if I don't leave immediately.
Seriously though, FUD is FUD whoever it comes from; just because they do it doesn't mean it's ok for us to do it too.
Shibboleth, I'm not sure what you mean by that.
From the page you linked to:
or more broadly, any practice that identifies members of a group
I'd say in this case it's the practice of bemoaning an imagined pro-MS bias in the media that broadly identifies a subset of slashdot readers and other associated techy types. Meanwhile the reality is that for Vista, for example, all the press coverage I've seen has been along the lines of "Meh, what's the fuss about? Sure there are some nice features, and Aero is kind of pretty, but it's nothing to get excited about". To read some people here, though, you'd think that we were fighting a constant, losing battle to get the truth out past the MS shills in the press.
Nitpick: That should probably read "provided evidence for the existence dark matter."
Nitpick of nitpick: That should probably read "provided evidence for the existence of dark matter."
Wow, that sure sounds like a lot. Oh, except that IBM has that beaten into a cocked hat.
I know that the general opinion here is that MS is evil, and (software) patents are evil, but IBM is still by far the largest patentee in this field, and some of us still remember when Big Blue was as evil and hated as MS is now.
Point being don't single MS out for criticism, as they're all doing it, even our "friends".
And clearly it matters because nobody with a UID over 10000 could possibly say anything intelligent(/sarchasm). Oh wait, you're 15035. Make that 15036 and under.
;)
I'd feel insulted, only I can actually spell "sarcasm"
but if the majority of that content was segregated
And that's pretty much the entire problem. Even if you managed to get a law in place that bound each and every State in the US, you still have zero control over the rest of the world. As long as the world is made up of a bunch of independent nations, you are *never* going to be able to segregate the majority of anything on the net.
Story? The RFC is dated 1st April, and there's a long-running tradition of publishing a joke RFC on 1st April...
Keep in mind mad cow also crosses the species barrier, not pretty.
It's not so much that mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) can cross the species barrier, it's more that it and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or vCJD) have essentially the same cause - a misshapen protein called a prion. The effect is the same though; eating infected beef can indeed give you (the human form of) the disease.
Given the number of Internet users versus the number of police and associated investigative officials, I'd say "a very, very long time indeed". Even assuming an automated system to automatically summon people in for questioning, the workload would be completely unmanageable for any "useful" list of forbidden knowledge.