It's been a while since I studied that era, but as I remember, the last time Germany invaded Poland, the international community tolerated it rather well. I don't think anyone really got their panties in a twist until they ran through France.
I don't understand why he can't set the record straight. It just seems awfully suspicious that he can't offer any evidence counter to those heinous accusations made against him. It almost makes me think he is hiding something.
I used adblock on/. right up until they gave me that option. I don't use it, but just having them offer it conspicuously on the front page is enough to make me want to support them.:)
Exactly. They may not be the internet messiah that some people like to think that they are, but they are better than any huge corporation that I can think of. Also, I don't think that MS was ever not an evil company, I thought they started out ripping people right from the get-go with DOS. I could be wrong though.
Either way, show me a company of Google's stature (or even close to it) that does better than they do as far as the whole "do no evil thing." With the enormous temptation it must sometimes be to manipulate markets unethically for Google's own benefit, I think they do a damn good job.
I don't mine the intentions of DRM. I'm all for game developers getting payed for what they make. The reality, though, is that the drm gets cracked and the game gets pirated anyway. So the end result is that the game costs more to make in order to put the DRM in, the user experience is often worse from having to deal with said DRM, and the pirates still do what they do. So nobody wins.
At some point (and it may have arguably already happened with some games) the consumer will be able to a get better game by NOT paying for it, simply because they will be able to find a cracked version that doesn't treat them like a criminal. (ie phoning home regularly for security, getting pissy about being reinstalled, etc.)
When ads stop being obnoxious people won't see the need to block them anymore.
I generally run without an ad-blocker, but when I do I specifically allow ads like those from google. It's hard to begrudge a site a small, unobtrusive column of text for ads. Run flashy, bandwidth-heavy ads though, and I'll likely only see the first one before I block them all from your site.:P
It's no longer 2002. Install Ubuntu and you will NEVER have to use the CLI. That's right. NEVER. I like it because you can do some neat things with it, but then I use CLI in windows too. But is it required for normal operation? No. It's not.
Do I think Linux is retard-friendly on the level of windows? No. But It's come a long way. And the old CLI complaint has officially died. Buried next to driver support qq and native-app woes.
Don't like? Fine. But leave your FUD at the door please.
I'd be a lot happier if the government took back the last mile and opened it up to more third party distributors. I think the real problem is the pseudo-monopolies on broadband services.
I don't think this is to make full fledged distros like ubuntu and fedora so much as software appliances like the gparted live cd.
"A software appliance is a full application stack containing the operating system, the application software and any required dependencies, and the configuration and data files required to operate. Everything is preinstalled, preintegrated, and ready to run. You can think of this like an extreme form of static linking."
Although an easy way to make a full custom distro would be hot.
People keep saying this, but any time that I've used Bing I've spent more time sifting through results, although I could just be more accustomed to entering queries for google after a decade or so.
And while less market share definitely != inferior technology *cough*linux*cough, in this case Google's vastly superior data-pool gives them a huge advantage in developing efficient search algorithms. They just have a shitton more data to work with to figure out how to give people what they are looking for.
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It's been a while since I studied that era, but as I remember, the last time Germany invaded Poland, the international community tolerated it rather well. I don't think anyone really got their panties in a twist until they ran through France.
I don't understand why he can't set the record straight. It just seems awfully suspicious that he can't offer any evidence counter to those heinous accusations made against him. It almost makes me think he is hiding something.
But they get so lonely out there...
You can either change them manually through gconf-editor or use one of the non-new themes.
I used adblock on /. right up until they gave me that option. I don't use it, but just having them offer it conspicuously on the front page is enough to make me want to support them. :)
My dad was one of them. :) He still has all the old disks in his closet, and occasionally watches youtube videos about how great it was.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
I almost spit chili all over my computer when I read that....
Exactly. They may not be the internet messiah that some people like to think that they are, but they are better than any huge corporation that I can think of. Also, I don't think that MS was ever not an evil company, I thought they started out ripping people right from the get-go with DOS. I could be wrong though.
Either way, show me a company of Google's stature (or even close to it) that does better than they do as far as the whole "do no evil thing." With the enormous temptation it must sometimes be to manipulate markets unethically for Google's own benefit, I think they do a damn good job.
Now that would be brilliant, an html5 plugin for ie8. Open source and made by google. WTB.
That movie was so awesome.
I bet our youth would feel a hell of a lot less entitled to everything if we instituted the battle royale system here...
It needs that extra battery life, considering it's also the slowest browser.
I don't mine the intentions of DRM. I'm all for game developers getting payed for what they make. The reality, though, is that the drm gets cracked and the game gets pirated anyway. So the end result is that the game costs more to make in order to put the DRM in, the user experience is often worse from having to deal with said DRM, and the pirates still do what they do. So nobody wins.
At some point (and it may have arguably already happened with some games) the consumer will be able to a get better game by NOT paying for it, simply because they will be able to find a cracked version that doesn't treat them like a criminal. (ie phoning home regularly for security, getting pissy about being reinstalled, etc.)
The fastest way to load a page full of javascript is to not load the javascript? Brilliant.
Don't want people to know you are a pervert? There's an add-on for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8631
When ads stop being obnoxious people won't see the need to block them anymore.
I generally run without an ad-blocker, but when I do I specifically allow ads like those from google. It's hard to begrudge a site a small, unobtrusive column of text for ads. Run flashy, bandwidth-heavy ads though, and I'll likely only see the first one before I block them all from your site. :P
Paint.net instead of the GIMP?
Epic fail.
It's no longer 2002. Install Ubuntu and you will NEVER have to use the CLI. That's right. NEVER. I like it because you can do some neat things with it, but then I use CLI in windows too. But is it required for normal operation? No. It's not.
Do I think Linux is retard-friendly on the level of windows? No. But It's come a long way. And the old CLI complaint has officially died. Buried next to driver support qq and native-app woes.
Don't like? Fine. But leave your FUD at the door please.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990307&mode=classic
I feel like such a nerd for posting such a web comic from 10 years ago....
I'd be a lot happier if the government took back the last mile and opened it up to more third party distributors. I think the real problem is the pseudo-monopolies on broadband services.
The sun is powered by nuclear fusion in it's core.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/sun2.htm
I had to use it for my college spanish course recently. It was a pretty shitty website too, and it only worked with ie. Made me very sad. :(
I don't think this is to make full fledged distros like ubuntu and fedora so much as software appliances like the gparted live cd.
"A software appliance is a full application stack containing the operating system, the application software and any required dependencies, and the configuration and data files required to operate. Everything is preinstalled, preintegrated, and ready to run.
You can think of this like an extreme form of static linking."
Although an easy way to make a full custom distro would be hot.
I miss os/2. Warp 4 was great.
People keep saying this, but any time that I've used Bing I've spent more time sifting through results, although I could just be more accustomed to entering queries for google after a decade or so.
And while less market share definitely != inferior technology *cough*linux*cough, in this case Google's vastly superior data-pool gives them a huge advantage in developing efficient search algorithms. They just have a shitton more data to work with to figure out how to give people what they are looking for.