It's a damn TV! Not every bloody piece of technology is supposed to be able to have something to do with Linux. You want internet on your TV? Run a video cable from your computer to your TV and use a wireless keyboard and mouse. There you go. Internet on your TV!
You Linux users get right on my nerves most of the time. 'Is this microwave open standards compliant?' 'Is this toaster open source?' 'Does anybody know where I can get a Linux compatible table lamp?' 'Has anyone tried installing Linux on an alarm clock?'
Unfortunately no. By using the 'pwned' in reference to a potentially major scientific breakthrough you've actually made AIDS mutate to become airborne and highly contagious.
It's called the 'Nantucket Principle'. Where using idiotic phrases in reference to intelligent work causes the work to be destroyed.
Another case of this principle at work was when the Wright brothers tried their first airplane prototype. Just before they were going to do their first test flight Orville said something to the effect of 'We are going to codfloddle this strumpet!' which caused Bernoulli's principle to completely change, setting flight back many years.
Bell's current business model pretty much relies on people not caring about the shit they pull.
It's sort of interesting (or infuriating depending if I'm trying to use the internet..). My new ISP makes it no secret they hate everything Bell does. I think that largely has to do with them leasing their lines from Bell, and having their service screwed up when Bell does things of this nature. I imagine I'll be getting an email from my ISP soon telling me who to complain to about the service getting buggered yet again. Thanks Bell, I'll be by your office in the morning with a fresh cinderblock. I see you replaced your front window from the last time I put one through it.
My sysadmin tattled on me when I played a prank on a co-worker by changing his wallpaper to look like his computer had an error. The admin took half a second to figure out what was wrong. Then he went off and told my manager and they sent out a company wide email saying that the sysadmin was owed an apology. I've also had a number of run ins with previous sysadmins. Blocking web access randomly and refusing to allow me to change my mouse to left handed mode.
I think it would work better as a holiday if we could couple it with Guy Fawkes day. Maybe burn a few effigies.
I know there are probably a lot of sysadmins on this website so I didn't post anonymously because I know how you people take such pleasure in getting your petty petty revenges. So that's my gift to you on your special day.:)
Cell towers are such a lame target. I mean you can hack them, but there probably (going on my zero knowledge of how these things work) wouldn't be any physical damage, and could be restored to working order in a short period of time.
-I'd be more worried about Terrorists dropping explosives in the sewers and trying to take out water mains and underground cables. Even then I think that was solved by putting locks on manhole covers.
It's called an oligopoly when multiple companies all work together in a sort of monopoly on an industry. Another example is the oil industry. You ought to visit Canada sometime. You think you've got it bad in the States with cell phone providers. It's a utopia compared to Canada.
The Metroid series has completely gone off the rails since the days of the Snes. They have to abandon this FPS fetish they have, put some clothes back on Samus and get her back into some proper side scrolling planet exploring.
You do realize the Liberal's won't be triggering an election over a DMCA law, don't you?
To further clarify this for you. The Liberals will vote for this bill no questions asked because they don't have any issues with terrible new copyright laws. They would be out of their minds to go to the polls over it. (going the polls means voting down a bill which would result in non-confidence in the government and trigger an election) SO even though the Conservatives only form a minority government, passing this law won't be an issue for them. That's really the crux of my argument. I hope this clears it up for you.
-To answer your first question. I know the Conservatives have a minority government. Thanks for asking.
This is the Harper government you understand. This bill's gonna get passed regardless of what people say. Though maybe he's using the 'Linux-based!' website to woo computer nerds to the cause.
'Well he hates the environment, he's plunged the country into a debt our grandchildren will still be burdened with, he hates gays, minorities, the french, socialists, our healthcare system, Ontario, all of eastern Canada, he refuses to give interviews to any Canadian media but frequently appears on Fox news (which we don't get up here), but he likes Linux, so I guess he can't be all that bad!'
Here's a great idea. Let's take a medium like video games; that works extremely well for a specific method of storytelling which deeply immerses the player, and shoehorn it into another medium like say film. Which to date hasn't been able to adapt a single video game story into anything other than a fiasco.
There's a reasonable expectation. For example my private information shouldn't automatically be made available to some third party just because some half-wit on my friends list took at 'Which punctuation mark are you?' quiz.
I can't view other peoples profiles if they don't want me to, unless I make some idiotic quiz that they take.
If that ever came to be I would wholeheartedly endorse book burning.
Good god, why not just stick ads in all the old works? I'm sure Picasso would have put a coke machine in Guernica if he knew how cool and refreshing it was.... 'I painted this to protest the lack of coca-cola in my homeland. It will be returned to Spain when there is a coke machine on every corner'
You'd be wrong on that point my good man. The Liberals under Paul Martin wanted to pass a similar bill doing the exact same things. The only reason it wasn't passed was because we had an election. The Liberals are just as keen on eroding our rights as the Conservatives are.
We all knew this day would come. We're now officially living in the future. We can expect even greater leaps and bounds in scientific progress now. Like electric cars and drawing energy from the very air we breathe. Our ancestors in the 1950's would be proud.
The main reason the turnout for the last election was so bad was because we shouldn't have had it. There was no real solid issue being fought, and the leaders weren't worth voting for. That's why Mr. Dion is no longer the head of the Liberal party. We wasted millions of dollars for effectively the same government as we had before, give or take a few seats. People just didn't care at that point. There was some talk of having a summer election over possibly EI reform or some non issue like that. Fortunately that didn't happen. We'd just wind up with another minority government with possibly the Liberals in control, but effectively the same dysfunctional mess we've been stuck with for years now.
Eventually a big enough issue will blow that'll cause a good old fashioned proper election. Then we'll see a proper turnout because people will actually care about what's going on. Lack of access to polling stations isn't stopping people from voting. Elections Canada is like any other government office, it's staffed by morons who don't understand the job they were hired to do.
A couple months back I was accepted into the Battlefield Heroes closed beta, so I downloaded, installed it, then after about 20 minutes of play I promptly deleted it. It's like Battlefield 1942 except with all the fun stuff taken out. Seriously, it's a beautiful looking game, but that's it. The controls are dodgey, the weapons are weak, and the unlockables expire. Since this is an EA game you can pay real world money to get unlockables, which after a week will expire and be deleted from your inventory. I suppose that's the next step for DLC, and they've gotta test the water somewhere.
If you want to play a fun cheap battlefield game, then pick up Battlefield 1942, or Battlefield 2, they're bargain bin games now and are still great fun to play. Battlefield Heroes is just a dumbed down piece of crap designed to make you watch ads, and surreptitiously take your money.
So the tyrants of Iran are blaming this whole mess on the American media, then they're tying to placate the protesters with American media? A movie trilogy about a bunch of people banding together to overthrow an evil tyrant no less. Nobody could draw parallels between things like the dark riders and the police riding motorcycles beating people with clubs.
The sense of irony is weak with the Iranian dictatorship...
The fact that people take these free energy claims seriously is the prime example of how scientifically illiterate people are, and it's a real problem. It's what allows things like alt-meds to gain a foothold, UFO abduction proponents to have a voice, and free energy claims to waste everybody's time.
Even somebody like myself with no scientific background whatsoever can understand basic scientific principles like thermodynamics. It's called scientific literacy, it's like regular literacy except you replace regular words with science words.
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It's a damn TV! Not every bloody piece of technology is supposed to be able to have something to do with Linux. You want internet on your TV? Run a video cable from your computer to your TV and use a wireless keyboard and mouse. There you go. Internet on your TV!
You Linux users get right on my nerves most of the time.
'Is this microwave open standards compliant?'
'Is this toaster open source?'
'Does anybody know where I can get a Linux compatible table lamp?'
'Has anyone tried installing Linux on an alarm clock?'
I tells ya it never ends!
Unfortunately no. By using the 'pwned' in reference to a potentially major scientific breakthrough you've actually made AIDS mutate to become airborne and highly contagious.
It's called the 'Nantucket Principle'. Where using idiotic phrases in reference to intelligent work causes the work to be destroyed.
Another case of this principle at work was when the Wright brothers tried their first airplane prototype. Just before they were going to do their first test flight Orville said something to the effect of 'We are going to codfloddle this strumpet!' which caused Bernoulli's principle to completely change, setting flight back many years.
So you have to watch it.
Well that certainly explains why Mike Harris closed down all those mental hospitals. All the seriously ill mental patients were all holding office.
Bell's current business model pretty much relies on people not caring about the shit they pull.
It's sort of interesting (or infuriating depending if I'm trying to use the internet..). My new ISP makes it no secret they hate everything Bell does. I think that largely has to do with them leasing their lines from Bell, and having their service screwed up when Bell does things of this nature. I imagine I'll be getting an email from my ISP soon telling me who to complain to about the service getting buggered yet again. Thanks Bell, I'll be by your office in the morning with a fresh cinderblock. I see you replaced your front window from the last time I put one through it.
One minute out of work where the solution was 'change your wallpaper' is not comparable to having to clean up an entire office covered in pop.
My sysadmin tattled on me when I played a prank on a co-worker by changing his wallpaper to look like his computer had an error. The admin took half a second to figure out what was wrong. Then he went off and told my manager and they sent out a company wide email saying that the sysadmin was owed an apology. I've also had a number of run ins with previous sysadmins. Blocking web access randomly and refusing to allow me to change my mouse to left handed mode.
I think it would work better as a holiday if we could couple it with Guy Fawkes day. Maybe burn a few effigies.
I know there are probably a lot of sysadmins on this website so I didn't post anonymously because I know how you people take such pleasure in getting your petty petty revenges. So that's my gift to you on your special day. :)
Cell towers are such a lame target. I mean you can hack them, but there probably (going on my zero knowledge of how these things work) wouldn't be any physical damage, and could be restored to working order in a short period of time.
-I'd be more worried about Terrorists dropping explosives in the sewers and trying to take out water mains and underground cables. Even then I think that was solved by putting locks on manhole covers.
Maybe fortunately the terrorists use cell phones to communicate, so they don't really want to sever one of their means of communication...
It's called an oligopoly when multiple companies all work together in a sort of monopoly on an industry. Another example is the oil industry.
You ought to visit Canada sometime. You think you've got it bad in the States with cell phone providers. It's a utopia compared to Canada.
Wish somebody had told me that when I was signing up for Slashdot. Had I known I wouldn't have used my real name as my username.
The Metroid series has completely gone off the rails since the days of the Snes. They have to abandon this FPS fetish they have, put some clothes back on Samus and get her back into some proper side scrolling planet exploring.
You do realize the Liberal's won't be triggering an election over a DMCA law, don't you?
To further clarify this for you. The Liberals will vote for this bill no questions asked because they don't have any issues with terrible new copyright laws. They would be out of their minds to go to the polls over it. (going the polls means voting down a bill which would result in non-confidence in the government and trigger an election)
SO even though the Conservatives only form a minority government, passing this law won't be an issue for them. That's really the crux of my argument. I hope this clears it up for you.
-To answer your first question. I know the Conservatives have a minority government. Thanks for asking.
This is the Harper government you understand. This bill's gonna get passed regardless of what people say. Though maybe he's using the 'Linux-based!' website to woo computer nerds to the cause.
'Well he hates the environment, he's plunged the country into a debt our grandchildren will still be burdened with, he hates gays, minorities, the french, socialists, our healthcare system, Ontario, all of eastern Canada, he refuses to give interviews to any Canadian media but frequently appears on Fox news (which we don't get up here), but he likes Linux, so I guess he can't be all that bad!'
I was thinking more along these lines... http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF213-Mario_Too.jpg
Here's a great idea. Let's take a medium like video games; that works extremely well for a specific method of storytelling which deeply immerses the player, and shoehorn it into another medium like say film. Which to date hasn't been able to adapt a single video game story into anything other than a fiasco.
This looks like bad news for Heavy Metal bands in Ireland.
Maybe they ought to hold some giant concert in defiance of this obscene law.
There's a reasonable expectation.
For example my private information shouldn't automatically be made available to some third party just because some half-wit on my friends list took at 'Which punctuation mark are you?' quiz.
I can't view other peoples profiles if they don't want me to, unless I make some idiotic quiz that they take.
If that ever came to be I would wholeheartedly endorse book burning.
Good god, why not just stick ads in all the old works? I'm sure Picasso would have put a coke machine in Guernica if he knew how cool and refreshing it was....
'I painted this to protest the lack of coca-cola in my homeland. It will be returned to Spain when there is a coke machine on every corner'
You'd be wrong on that point my good man. The Liberals under Paul Martin wanted to pass a similar bill doing the exact same things. The only reason it wasn't passed was because we had an election. The Liberals are just as keen on eroding our rights as the Conservatives are.
But still I've been hearing about this for so long, any news is good news.
Apparently the mods don't approve of my enthusiasm though.
We all knew this day would come. We're now officially living in the future. We can expect even greater leaps and bounds in scientific progress now. Like electric cars and drawing energy from the very air we breathe. Our ancestors in the 1950's would be proud.
The main reason the turnout for the last election was so bad was because we shouldn't have had it. There was no real solid issue being fought, and the leaders weren't worth voting for. That's why Mr. Dion is no longer the head of the Liberal party. We wasted millions of dollars for effectively the same government as we had before, give or take a few seats. People just didn't care at that point. There was some talk of having a summer election over possibly EI reform or some non issue like that. Fortunately that didn't happen. We'd just wind up with another minority government with possibly the Liberals in control, but effectively the same dysfunctional mess we've been stuck with for years now.
Eventually a big enough issue will blow that'll cause a good old fashioned proper election. Then we'll see a proper turnout because people will actually care about what's going on. Lack of access to polling stations isn't stopping people from voting. Elections Canada is like any other government office, it's staffed by morons who don't understand the job they were hired to do.
A couple months back I was accepted into the Battlefield Heroes closed beta, so I downloaded, installed it, then after about 20 minutes of play I promptly deleted it.
It's like Battlefield 1942 except with all the fun stuff taken out. Seriously, it's a beautiful looking game, but that's it. The controls are dodgey, the weapons are weak, and the unlockables expire. Since this is an EA game you can pay real world money to get unlockables, which after a week will expire and be deleted from your inventory. I suppose that's the next step for DLC, and they've gotta test the water somewhere.
If you want to play a fun cheap battlefield game, then pick up Battlefield 1942, or Battlefield 2, they're bargain bin games now and are still great fun to play. Battlefield Heroes is just a dumbed down piece of crap designed to make you watch ads, and surreptitiously take your money.
So the tyrants of Iran are blaming this whole mess on the American media, then they're tying to placate the protesters with American media? A movie trilogy about a bunch of people banding together to overthrow an evil tyrant no less. Nobody could draw parallels between things like the dark riders and the police riding motorcycles beating people with clubs.
The sense of irony is weak with the Iranian dictatorship...
The fact that people take these free energy claims seriously is the prime example of how scientifically illiterate people are, and it's a real problem. It's what allows things like alt-meds to gain a foothold, UFO abduction proponents to have a voice, and free energy claims to waste everybody's time.
Even somebody like myself with no scientific background whatsoever can understand basic scientific principles like thermodynamics. It's called scientific literacy, it's like regular literacy except you replace regular words with science words.