Because it has to be! They were just peace-loving innocents until the big bad United States came along. Never mind that they've been fighting amongst themselves and with those same groups you mentioned for hundreds of years before the US ever existed.
I see DeCSS code linked on a Wikipedia server hosted in the US. I can get to Wikileaks just fine in the US as well. Internet gambling for real money was a dumb to ban but it's hardly censored since anyone who wants to do it can still do so. Kiddie porn? Boohoo.
Second, there is only one country in the world that has, throughout its history, used its military power and political influence consistently to try to export its ideas of morality and law to the world, and it ain't no abode of Muslin desperation, it is the U-S-of-A.
What a load of bullshit. There have been plenty of empires that have done this throughout the last 3000+ years. Plenty of them pushed their laws and their cultures on their conquered territories.
Except first-to-file/first-to-invent have to do with deciding who to award a patent to if multiple people seek to patent the same idea. It changes nothing with respect to prior art. First-to-file still uses prior art to determine patentability of the claims. Are you people who repeat this really this dimb?
How can a book that has a ton of errata, poor writing and buggy examples possibly be given an 8 out of 10? What's the point of a 10 point scale when what sounds like a poorly written book gets 8 points? You might as well just make the scale just 8, 9 and 10 at that point.
Be glad that there are people of integrity in our world who don't let pragmatism get in the way of their belief system.
Why should I be glad about people who can never admit they might be wrong about something. Blind devotion to anything is not a good thing. The people who are constantly questioning their belief systems and changing their minds when they are wrong are the people who we should be glad to have. The world doesn't need more dogmatists.
Because Unity is the epitome of cargo cult programming. This is an old comment by Matthew Paul Thomas but it summarizes quite well the usability problems with Unity caused by the cargo cult:
In the April usability test, eight of ten people discovered the hidden menus. But seven of them discovered the menus by hovering over the maximized window controls, which in 11.04 were visible all the time. In 11.10, even those window controls will be hidden by default. So I look forward to seeing whether in 11.10, the fraction of people who learn how to access menus is even smaller, or even slower, or both.
But I don’t think that’s even the primary issue. You write as if learnability (or more specifically, discoverability) and aesthetics are the only two aspects of usability. They are important, but so is efficiency.
In the same usability test, whenever one of those seven people needed to use the menus a second time, they didn’t aim directly for the relevant menu. They again moused over the window controls to reveal the menus, and then scooted along to the right. This was, of course, grossly inefficient — especially compared with the speed that a top-of-screen menu bar exists to provide in the first place. In 11.10 the window controls will be hidden too, but the basic efficiency problem will remain: at the moment you’re aiming for the target, you can’t see it.
Every so often, some Ubuntu contributor asks why most of the Unity designers use Mac OS X. The reason, of course, is that those designers are experienced with Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and other applications that don’t work (or if they do work in Wine, work much less pleasantly) on Ubuntu. And it is precisely those kinds of applications, with their deep feature sets, that use menus most heavily. Anyone who points to Web browsers or mobile OSes as harbingers of a menu-less world is, I think, misguided about what kinds of things people will still use non-mobile OSes for in ten years. It is a small irony that hiding menus by default makes it even less likely that anything like those applications will ever work well on Ubuntu.
Yeah because the GNOME people are well-known for collaborating with others and being open to criticism. Oh wait... Why should anyone want to work with a project whose team is filled with a bunch of pigheaded people to whom NIH syndrome is a way of life?
In many parts of the world there are shortages of water. If you think there won't be more constrained water supplies as we add a few more billion people you are incredibly naive.
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Except that samzenpus has years of history of duping stories on the same day that another editor has posted them.
How could this all be due to US mid-east policy?
Because it has to be! They were just peace-loving innocents until the big bad United States came along. Never mind that they've been fighting amongst themselves and with those same groups you mentioned for hundreds of years before the US ever existed.
I see DeCSS code linked on a Wikipedia server hosted in the US. I can get to Wikileaks just fine in the US as well. Internet gambling for real money was a dumb to ban but it's hardly censored since anyone who wants to do it can still do so. Kiddie porn? Boohoo.
Not to mention that most of what is now the Muslim world become so through exportation of Islam through conquering.
Those are things called "facts". They are just inconvenient things that get in the way of unsubstantiated rants.
Second, there is only one country in the world that has, throughout its history, used its military power and political influence consistently to try to export its ideas of morality and law to the world, and it ain't no abode of Muslin desperation, it is the U-S-of-A.
What a load of bullshit. There have been plenty of empires that have done this throughout the last 3000+ years. Plenty of them pushed their laws and their cultures on their conquered territories.
You mean that don't have that excuse. They'll always think of others which is why the appeasement tactic against aggressors never works.
The "reason" was that they were assholes who wanted to attack those embassies anyway and they just used the video as a convenient excuse.
You think samzenpus can read?
Except first-to-file/first-to-invent have to do with deciding who to award a patent to if multiple people seek to patent the same idea. It changes nothing with respect to prior art. First-to-file still uses prior art to determine patentability of the claims. Are you people who repeat this really this dimb?
How can a book that has a ton of errata, poor writing and buggy examples possibly be given an 8 out of 10? What's the point of a 10 point scale when what sounds like a poorly written book gets 8 points? You might as well just make the scale just 8, 9 and 10 at that point.
Yeah because W3Schools is totally a realistic sampling of the general population. On the other hand Wikimedia's stats peg it as under 20%.
Yeah it works so awesome that now people need to know to downgrade because they too rapidly released a product with a huge security hole.
Be glad that there are people of integrity in our world who don't let pragmatism get in the way of their belief system.
Why should I be glad about people who can never admit they might be wrong about something. Blind devotion to anything is not a good thing. The people who are constantly questioning their belief systems and changing their minds when they are wrong are the people who we should be glad to have. The world doesn't need more dogmatists.
Because Unity is the epitome of cargo cult programming. This is an old comment by Matthew Paul Thomas but it summarizes quite well the usability problems with Unity caused by the cargo cult:
In the April usability test, eight of ten people discovered
the hidden menus. But seven of them discovered the menus by
hovering over the maximized window controls, which in 11.04 were visible all the
time. In 11.10, even those window controls will be hidden by default. So I look forward to seeing whether in 11.10, the fraction of people who learn how to access menus is even smaller, or even slower, or both.
But I don’t think that’s even the primary issue. You write as if learnability (or more specifically, discoverability)
and aesthetics are the only two aspects of usability. They are
important, but so is efficiency.
In the same usability test, whenever one of those seven people needed to use the menus a second time, they didn’t aim directly for the relevant menu. They again moused over the window controls to reveal the menus, and then scooted along to the right. This was, of course, grossly inefficient — especially compared with the speed that a top-of-screen menu bar exists to provide in the first place. In 11.10 the window controls will be hidden too, but the basic efficiency problem will remain: at the moment you’re aiming for the target, you can’t see it.
Every so often, some Ubuntu contributor asks why most of the Unity designers use Mac OS X. The reason, of course, is that those designers are experienced with Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and other applications that don’t work (or if they do work in Wine, work much less pleasantly) on Ubuntu. And it is precisely those kinds of applications, with their deep feature sets, that use menus most heavily. Anyone who points to Web browsers or mobile OSes as harbingers of a menu-less world is, I think, misguided about what kinds of things people will still use non-mobile OSes for in ten years. It is a small irony that hiding menus by default makes it even less likely that anything like those applications will ever work well on Ubuntu.
Yeah because the GNOME people are well-known for collaborating with others and being open to criticism. Oh wait... Why should anyone want to work with a project whose team is filled with a bunch of pigheaded people to whom NIH syndrome is a way of life?
Latency wasn't the main concern, but then I have a reasonable connection (~25Mbps)
The speed of your connection has nothing to do with latency. I can get 40mbps down on my Verizon LTE but the latency is always about 110-160 ms.
But his statement is true, though. People do believe that mostly on blind faith. That doesn't mean it's not true. That is a separate issue.
Because he's a terrible editor and writer? His story was uninaginative schlock. Michael Bay could have written something less contrived and inane.
I've lived in the midwest and the water usage was metered just like the electricity or any other utility.
Your usage is still metered even if you don't pay the water bill.
In many parts of the world there are shortages of water. If you think there won't be more constrained water supplies as we add a few more billion people you are incredibly naive.
Where do you live that your water usage isn't already metered?
He shouldn't consider himself an editor but he does anyway.
So soulskill has found something he's even worse at then editing submissions. Good job, man!