A shortcut that has aways been on my gnome desktop
Now there's a feature that really deserves to die. My desktop is covered with applications essentially 100% of the time. What genius decided to put useful functions in a space that is always covered? This is what docks, menus, and hot keys are for.
I have a Das Keyboard. I'd recommend going with the Unicomp or Model M. The click is good, but it's not as sturdy as it should be. I can easily twist the entire frame with my hands, and I wouldn't even think of assailing an intruder with it.
Absolutely correct, this is going to swamp us in false positives. Remember, in order for science to work the way it's supposed to we have to report the negative results as well as the positive results. If 20 groups do the same experiment and only one gets a result significant at p=.05, that "positive" result doesn't mean anything. p=.05 means there's a one in 20 chance of the correlation being random.
It's the same thing here. If Google goes out looking for positive results, and ignores all the negative results this is going to be so skewed as to be worthless.
This still requires the user to deliberately install the malware. Since it's not compromising the system, but the user, it doesn't need privileges to do this.
This is easily explained. The UK has no pretense of the rule of law. It's not fair because it's not intended to be fair. It's intended to fuck you over.
This is why internet telephony should be peer to peer instead of client server. If we both have a presence on the internet, there's no reason to involve a third party for us to communicate.
If there was no copyright, then what's to stop a cinema from purchasing a single print, copying it to all 2000 of their locations, and then never paying another dime to the movie studio?
Contracts.
Its ridiculous to think that no copyright would result in the same revenues as today's copyright strict world provides
I don't think anyone claimed that. What IP hawks seem to be claiming, and IS ridiculous is that they are entitled to the same revenues in a post-scarcity world as they are in a scarce world.
It's worth pointing out that the best streaming media player around got its start on the original Xbox console. Convergence of streaming media and game consoles is natural.
Does that mean that streaming media players are a passing fad? Not any more than game consoles are a passing fad.
Have these dentists never heard of the Streisand Effect? If anyone asked me to sign one of these I'd go right on Yelp and report it. Then everyone would know the professional in question has something to hide.
An illuminating comment from one of the speakers quoted in the linked article was "We do not believe that you can remove 'content' from the Internet, and if you do this, what is there left? Basically, the Internet then is a set of empty pieces and boxes.â (Bertelsmann [Worldwide Media, I presume])
This is a particularly devious phrase, relying on ambiguity of what 'content' is. By the most general definition, sure the internet is nothing without content. But in this sense we are all content creators, and this right here is content.
What dude means is without big media content, the internet is nothing. So he makes a statement that everyone can agree to, then he changes the meaning of one of the words for the rest of his argument. Terribly, terribly disingenuous.
Avatar. Enormous budget and they made it back 10 fold. They didn't even need copyright protection to be profitable either, you can't copy a 3d imax projector.
That's not the grow ops fault, that's the governments fault. Hydroponic tomato "grow ops" (aka farms) suffer none of these problems. The ONLY problem here is Prohibition.
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I ain't sayin it doesn't ever happen. I'm sayin it's nobodys fault but your own when it happens to you.
A shortcut that has aways been on my gnome desktop
Now there's a feature that really deserves to die. My desktop is covered with applications essentially 100% of the time. What genius decided to put useful functions in a space that is always covered? This is what docks, menus, and hot keys are for.
I have a Das Keyboard. I'd recommend going with the Unicomp or Model M. The click is good, but it's not as sturdy as it should be. I can easily twist the entire frame with my hands, and I wouldn't even think of assailing an intruder with it.
Not currently able to view more than just the first page
Yes, let's add a couple to the list:
- Articles on the web that are entirely within one page
- Websites that reflow to fit your window/font size, instead of forcing you to adopt theirs.
Absolutely correct, this is going to swamp us in false positives. Remember, in order for science to work the way it's supposed to we have to report the negative results as well as the positive results. If 20 groups do the same experiment and only one gets a result significant at p=.05, that "positive" result doesn't mean anything. p=.05 means there's a one in 20 chance of the correlation being random.
It's the same thing here. If Google goes out looking for positive results, and ignores all the negative results this is going to be so skewed as to be worthless.
This still requires the user to deliberately install the malware. Since it's not compromising the system, but the user, it doesn't need privileges to do this.
If that were the case, why does the network go down?
This is easily explained. The UK has no pretense of the rule of law. It's not fair because it's not intended to be fair. It's intended to fuck you over.
my understanding is that English law doesn't require you to be aware of the injunction
Sorry, secret laws are not valid. This is nothing but thuggery.
This is why internet telephony should be peer to peer instead of client server. If we both have a presence on the internet, there's no reason to involve a third party for us to communicate.
Skype is just badly designed.
If there was no copyright, then what's to stop a cinema from purchasing a single print, copying it to all 2000 of their locations, and then never paying another dime to the movie studio?
Contracts.
Its ridiculous to think that no copyright would result in the same revenues as today's copyright strict world provides
I don't think anyone claimed that. What IP hawks seem to be claiming, and IS ridiculous is that they are entitled to the same revenues in a post-scarcity world as they are in a scarce world.
What expense? We all have a decommissioned PC that's plenty capable of running XBMC.
What ongoing hassle? I'll grant you that setup can be a bit of a hassle, but you only have to do it once.
I wouldn't give up my XBMC box for any streaming box on the market.
It's worth pointing out that the best streaming media player around got its start on the original Xbox console. Convergence of streaming media and game consoles is natural.
Does that mean that streaming media players are a passing fad? Not any more than game consoles are a passing fad.
It's a doomed market because commercial offerings can't compete with what we can do for free. XBMC isn't going anywhere.
Don't blame Yelp. Blame the War on Drugs.
Perhaps, but everyone is subject to these negative reviews. You can't argue that the playing field isn't negative.
Have these dentists never heard of the Streisand Effect? If anyone asked me to sign one of these I'd go right on Yelp and report it. Then everyone would know the professional in question has something to hide.
Oh there's an URL bar all right, it's right above the text input bar. See the URL?
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it poorly. " Fortunately, there's a browser for those of use who do understand UNIX.
An illuminating comment from one of the speakers quoted in the linked article was "We do not believe that you can remove 'content' from the Internet, and if you do this, what is there left? Basically, the Internet then is a set of empty pieces and boxes.â (Bertelsmann [Worldwide Media, I presume])
This is a particularly devious phrase, relying on ambiguity of what 'content' is. By the most general definition, sure the internet is nothing without content. But in this sense we are all content creators, and this right here is content.
What dude means is without big media content, the internet is nothing. So he makes a statement that everyone can agree to, then he changes the meaning of one of the words for the rest of his argument. Terribly, terribly disingenuous.
millions of people actually enjoyed some of those big budget movies and spent actual money to see them
If millions of people actually wish to spend money on a film, the lack of copyright won't stop them.
Avatar. Enormous budget and they made it back 10 fold. They didn't even need copyright protection to be profitable either, you can't copy a 3d imax projector.
Anyone know the difference between a pixel scaler and a vectorizer?
This is allowing us to play all those games from our youth without them looking like blocks at 1080 HD.
This is bad for the same reason that colorizing black and white movies is bad.
That's not the grow ops fault, that's the governments fault. Hydroponic tomato "grow ops" (aka farms) suffer none of these problems. The ONLY problem here is Prohibition.