As another Canadian, I'm far more concerned by the USA's refusal to recognise the water between Canadian Arctic Islands as internal waters of Canada. This has resulted in a few environmental and militaristic shinnanigans.
Here's hoping no one finds oil off the coast up there.
I never quite could swallow this argument. It seems to me that following this line of thinking leads to classifying all sex in this manner, not just viewed. That having a person act in a semi-dominant role through physical sexual positioning results in the subconscious objectification of their partner. Even if this were true, so what? Is it so wrong to allow your subconscious desires to objectify the attractive traits of your partner? Hell, I _like_ to be objectified. I'm certain others do as well. It's flattering and uplifting to be found attractive. Though I do expect a reasonable level of respect during close interaction, casual sexual objectification is hardly offensive.
Windows Media Player - Available for OS X, but so is mPlayer, Xine, and VLC
Nero - Disk Utility will both master and burn regular images, Finder and iTunes have some quick and easy functionality as well. There's software available to handle other formats like nrg.
DVD Express - Not sure what this is, you say DVD player, I say DVD Player for OS X. On the off chance it does mastering, iDVD and iMovie.
NASA World Wind and Google Earth - Geek toys, will get ported to Linux and OS X if there is demand.
Games - Blizzard's games all run on OSX, as do many EA games, MacSoft ports a bunch as well, not to mention id and Epic, and most FOSS games also run on Mac. As another post stated here, games for Mac are readily available and quite good.
I hear you. I didn't mean to sing unending praise of OS X, just that I find it a far more tolerable experience than foo Linux desktop.
The aforemention dvd problem, the horrors of configuring Jack properly, unending NFS difficulties, reems of config files that would be better served with a dialog box populated with checkboxes, and user interface inconsistency are just a few of the problems I can avoid by using OS X over linux.
Of course, I tried updating to OS X 10.4 and encountered far too many immediate compatability problems with existing software to warrant the upgrade, so it's not as though I haven't another long list of grievances for Apple.
I'm just tired of having to/work/ to get my system to behave properly. This is something I shouldn't have to be wasting my time on.
I've been using Linux since 1994 as a staunch Slackware and Debian user. I purchased my first laptop in 2002 or so, based solely on it's compatability with Linux. Due to rather odd circumstances it managed to sail out my front door and onto the pavement. At the time, however, my peers had been snatching up Powerbooks. I wrenched over the idea for a significant amount of time and finally settled on buying one and installing Linux if OS X proved too unwieldy, broadcom be damned.
I haven't looked back, and as a result I'm getting increasingly frustrated with my desktop PCs. Having a slick unix desktop has brought into stark relief just how horrid the Debian/Ubuntu/Slackware desktop experience is. I'm reluctant to slap down the cash for a Mac Mini, but each day that reluctance is whittled down. I'm currently trying to delay the switch by trying out Fedora Core 4, and things seem to be slightly better, save that kernel 2.6 still burns coasters instead of DVDs - hurray for progress.
So, perhaps the Mac OSXi announcement hasn't changed the problem much, but even the slightest drop in price is bringing me one step closer to dropping desktop Linux entirely.
Feel free to try and attempt to choose unemployment, or to become unemployed when feeding a family and paying off a mortgage, I'm sure it'll work out well for you.
In a market where jobs are a commodity and prospective employees must compete for positions the notion of voluntary employment or unemployment is pathetically out of touch with the harsh realities of being middle or low class.
Hmm.. Am I the only one who thinks the controller looks a little cheap? The thumbsticks remind me of the terrible Gamecube controllers, while the overall design harkens to a light, breakable feel. I rather like the large, substantial XBox controllers, it's disappointing to see them move away from that.
External denial of service attack against web server computer, or any participating vendor, or device. Denial of service attacks due to successfully modified content on web server computer are fair game.
Attacks or modifications of any computer or device besides web server or database computers.
I nominate http://www.girlsarepretty.com/
Somehow I think that Prettygirl is the only person who could really capture the value of switching to a cosmetic makeover of Windows XP.
This war of words between Canada and the USA regarding IP has been brewing under the media radar for many years now. Many groups have attempted to filibuster the regression induced by the well-payed USinian lobyists in Ottawa, but they continue to trudge relentlessly onward. I'd like to believe that the many letters I've written, and the many communicae sent by friends and family have had some effect on our MPs, but in my heart I know this is a false hope.
Our ruling parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, both have great incentive to adhere to demands from the USA if it may boost trade in key large industries. Whether this is beneficial to Canada is debatable, where your position is based solely on whether you choose to follow the GDP or general quality of life. In the end, like USinian politics, those proposing and promoting the bills often stand to gain from such draconian IP laws, whether it be from personal business or positive spin in the next campaign.
In a wonderfully Orweillian gesture the WIPO treaties are being pressured to ratification by our own Heritage Minister. She firmly states that initiating the acceptance of these treaties will help to further protect the interests of Canadian content producers. In actuality, this hardly has any direct benefit for Canadian artists and serves to provide a greater influx of cash into large distributors, the sources being litigation and intimidation of the new IP violators. More often than not the distributors are USinian, and will choose to promote artists on a culturally and nationalistically agnostic basis. This is hardly a promotion or protection of Canadian Heritage, and, in my humble opinion, likely serves to further dissolve what exactly it means to be Canadian.
We have a rich cultural history, with many proud and strong events and persons we can look back upon. Sadly, as these are not markettable to a broad North American audience the distributors have little incentive to invest money in them. The Canadian market is small enough that potentially losing a few Canadians to the CBC over nationalism is hardly an issue in comparison to the net cost of producing content intended for a Canadian audience, rather than simply saturating the market with cheap USinian drivel.
Why was this modded down? For the most part, mOoZik is right. Business doesn't survive on good will, it survives on raw determination, brutality, and underhanded marketting.
I *really* want to like GNUStep. I want to embrace it, develope with it, and use it as a primary environment. But I can't. It's just too damned hideous. Granted, I haven't spent much time trying to figure out how to make it look like something other than a throw back to an early nineties, grayscale interface.
I think that perhaps I'm not alone in this. Has this issue been addressed at all? Is it possible to push the user interface experience of GNUStep out of the dark, muddled, inorganic mess that it is now and into something more appealing, something, dare I say, more feminine?
Where does that logic end?...If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and dial your cell phone, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway....If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and find which CD you want, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway....If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and turn on the DVD, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway.
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Fluxbox has become bloaty in recent years as feature-creep has settled in. I've since switched to Openbox and haven't looked back.
Clearly, then, everyone should be in a union. The market will even itself out once all parties have equal bargaining opportunities. This allows for the supposed wage inflation caused by unions to be evened out across the entire working class and induces a certain level of comraderie amongst employees and employers that otherwise isn't there due to the current adversarial nature of their relationship.
Further, I think your implicit admonishment of Canadian Unionised labour is a rather reprehensible piece of black propoganda. The grandest labour disputes that come to mind where the wages are the unpopular sticking part revolves mostly around CUPE, and even they aren't paid all that well for full time, 40 hours a week unenviable labour.
Perhaps some wage levelling across the entire field should occur. When the CEO is making the same amount and working under the same conditions as those actually producing the product she might actually feel some moticum of empathy for their plight.
Holy shit! Everyone better register for the draft then, because otherwise they'd be breaking the law! Everyone knows that breaking the law is a strong deterrent, especially when backed up with some kind of penalty!
Or they could just NOT register for the draft and break the law. It's not like we're not already accustomed to breaking the law on a daily basis.
Let's see... Why would I, a born-from-Wolf3D doom loving quake player, still play Halo on a consistent basis? This isn't a hypothetical question, becuase I do. It's also clearly not a matter of gaming experience, because frankly, if you can name the FPS, I've probably played it. Even those awful Wolf3D knock-offs (though Blake Stone was kind of cool).
No, Halo is awesome because it's a console game. It's not a pretentious PC shooter that requires me to spend upwards of an hour to gather my clan together for some multiplayer fun just so I can assure myself some half-decent gameplay. It also doesn't mean I have to get everyone to lug their computers to one central location for some social gaming. It's a great game that only requires me to turn the damned XBox on, and it doesn't require me to take gaming beyond the casual level!
Halo is the multiplay FPS for regular people. It may not be as sophisticated as hardcore gamers would like, but it's polished, easy to play, and fun. That's all that matters.
When this came up last spring I contacted ministers responsible with a short message detailing my distaste for WIPO and attempted to explain in layman's terms just why it's a very bad idea. Their response came down to "this is what the CRIA wants" padded in beuracratic bull shit. I thought this might have disappeared with Hélène Scherrer being voted out, but I see now this was wishful thinking.
Still, we can make a difference if we contact them and explain in simple yet clear terms why it's bad. By Canadian law they must respond to your email, so at the very least you know someone is reviewing it, and if enough people write in we can probably enact some change.
So, here's the important info:
The email address for the Heritage Committee: HERI@parl.gc.ca
The email address for Heritage Minister Liza Frulla (head of the committee): Frulla.L@parl.gc.ca
The web site for the Heritage Committee (Gee, seems like all they care about is copyright. Nice doublespeak): http://www.parl.gc.ca/committee/CommitteeHome.aspx ?CommitteeId=8974&Lang=1&ParlSession=381&SelectedE lementId=e17_
And for future reference, in case you're wondering where I get all this information from: The list of members of the House of Commons, with contact information: http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb /house/members/CurrentMemberList.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=1&Se ct=Hoccur&Order=OrganizationName
It will only take 5 minutes, go write them! Even if you're not Canadian, the message will still be read, so go write them!
Amazing, a direct link to a ginormous jpeg. Do you have a hate on for the admins at sonypictures.com? It's still late at night for most of north america and this story hasn't been posted that long, yet already the site is starting to show some drag.
Poor server... Probably didn't even see it coming.
Ok, I normally don't post, but this is just absurd.
This isn't an "off the shelf" set up like an easy to use Windows or Macintosh machine, and this certainly isn't a boot and use knoppix set up. This is a hack.
Comparing the ease of setting up a MythTV box to using a basic Macintosh or Windows install is beyond unreasonable, it's purely inane.
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Did you ever stop to think that perhaps finding it difficult to be monogamous is normal and natural for men?
The genetically successful male breeds with as many partners as he can, as often as he can.
Wow, I didn't mean that as a troll. I'm actually concerned by that prospect.
As another Canadian, I'm far more concerned by the USA's refusal to recognise the water between Canadian Arctic Islands as internal waters of Canada. This has resulted in a few environmental and militaristic shinnanigans.
Here's hoping no one finds oil off the coast up there.
I never quite could swallow this argument.
It seems to me that following this line of thinking leads to classifying all sex in this manner, not just viewed. That having a person act in a semi-dominant role through physical sexual positioning results in the subconscious objectification of their partner.
Even if this were true, so what? Is it so wrong to allow your subconscious desires to objectify the attractive traits of your partner? Hell, I _like_ to be objectified. I'm certain others do as well. It's flattering and uplifting to be found attractive. Though I do expect a reasonable level of respect during close interaction, casual sexual objectification is hardly offensive.
AIM - iChat and AdiumX both support it
Windows Media Player - Available for OS X, but so is mPlayer, Xine, and VLC
Nero - Disk Utility will both master and burn regular images, Finder and iTunes have some quick and easy functionality as well. There's software available to handle other formats like nrg.
DVD Express - Not sure what this is, you say DVD player, I say DVD Player for OS X. On the off chance it does mastering, iDVD and iMovie.
NASA World Wind and Google Earth - Geek toys, will get ported to Linux and OS X if there is demand.
Games - Blizzard's games all run on OSX, as do many EA games, MacSoft ports a bunch as well, not to mention id and Epic, and most FOSS games also run on Mac. As another post stated here, games for Mac are readily available and quite good.
I hear you.
/work/ to get my system to behave properly. This is something I shouldn't have to be wasting my time on.
I didn't mean to sing unending praise of OS X, just that I find it a far more tolerable experience than foo Linux desktop.
The aforemention dvd problem, the horrors of configuring Jack properly, unending NFS difficulties, reems of config files that would be better served with a dialog box populated with checkboxes, and user interface inconsistency are just a few of the problems I can avoid by using OS X over linux.
Of course, I tried updating to OS X 10.4 and encountered far too many immediate compatability problems with existing software to warrant the upgrade, so it's not as though I haven't another long list of grievances for Apple.
I'm just tired of having to
Because people like myself are switching.
I've been using Linux since 1994 as a staunch Slackware and Debian user. I purchased my first laptop in 2002 or so, based solely on it's compatability with Linux. Due to rather odd circumstances it managed to sail out my front door and onto the pavement. At the time, however, my peers had been snatching up Powerbooks. I wrenched over the idea for a significant amount of time and finally settled on buying one and installing Linux if OS X proved too unwieldy, broadcom be damned.
I haven't looked back, and as a result I'm getting increasingly frustrated with my desktop PCs. Having a slick unix desktop has brought into stark relief just how horrid the Debian/Ubuntu/Slackware desktop experience is. I'm reluctant to slap down the cash for a Mac Mini, but each day that reluctance is whittled down. I'm currently trying to delay the switch by trying out Fedora Core 4, and things seem to be slightly better, save that kernel 2.6 still burns coasters instead of DVDs - hurray for progress.
So, perhaps the Mac OSXi announcement hasn't changed the problem much, but even the slightest drop in price is bringing me one step closer to dropping desktop Linux entirely.
I hear OSX makes a nice server too.
Employment is NOT voluntary.
Feel free to try and attempt to choose unemployment, or to become unemployed when feeding a family and paying off a mortgage, I'm sure it'll work out well for you.
In a market where jobs are a commodity and prospective employees must compete for positions the notion of voluntary employment or unemployment is pathetically out of touch with the harsh realities of being middle or low class.
The linked picture looks a lot like the USB plug for the old Diamond Rio MP3 players. Is it likely that Microsoft would use that same design?
Hmm.. Am I the only one who thinks the controller looks a little cheap? The thumbsticks remind me of the terrible Gamecube controllers, while the overall design harkens to a light, breakable feel. I rather like the large, substantial XBox controllers, it's disappointing to see them move away from that.
"A successful hack does not include:
I nominate http://www.girlsarepretty.com/
Somehow I think that Prettygirl is the only person who could really capture the value of switching to a cosmetic makeover of Windows XP.
This war of words between Canada and the USA regarding IP has been brewing under the media radar for many years now. Many groups have attempted to filibuster the regression induced by the well-payed USinian lobyists in Ottawa, but they continue to trudge relentlessly onward. I'd like to believe that the many letters I've written, and the many communicae sent by friends and family have had some effect on our MPs, but in my heart I know this is a false hope.
Our ruling parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, both have great incentive to adhere to demands from the USA if it may boost trade in key large industries. Whether this is beneficial to Canada is debatable, where your position is based solely on whether you choose to follow the GDP or general quality of life. In the end, like USinian politics, those proposing and promoting the bills often stand to gain from such draconian IP laws, whether it be from personal business or positive spin in the next campaign.
In a wonderfully Orweillian gesture the WIPO treaties are being pressured to ratification by our own Heritage Minister. She firmly states that initiating the acceptance of these treaties will help to further protect the interests of Canadian content producers. In actuality, this hardly has any direct benefit for Canadian artists and serves to provide a greater influx of cash into large distributors, the sources being litigation and intimidation of the new IP violators. More often than not the distributors are USinian, and will choose to promote artists on a culturally and nationalistically agnostic basis. This is hardly a promotion or protection of Canadian Heritage, and, in my humble opinion, likely serves to further dissolve what exactly it means to be Canadian.
We have a rich cultural history, with many proud and strong events and persons we can look back upon. Sadly, as these are not markettable to a broad North American audience the distributors have little incentive to invest money in them. The Canadian market is small enough that potentially losing a few Canadians to the CBC over nationalism is hardly an issue in comparison to the net cost of producing content intended for a Canadian audience, rather than simply saturating the market with cheap USinian drivel.
Why was this modded down?
For the most part, mOoZik is right. Business doesn't survive on good will, it survives on raw determination, brutality, and underhanded marketting.
I *really* want to like GNUStep. I want to embrace it, develope with it, and use it as a primary environment. But I can't. It's just too damned hideous. Granted, I haven't spent much time trying to figure out how to make it look like something other than a throw back to an early nineties, grayscale interface.
I think that perhaps I'm not alone in this. Has this issue been addressed at all? Is it possible to push the user interface experience of GNUStep out of the dark, muddled, inorganic mess that it is now and into something more appealing, something, dare I say, more feminine?
Where does that logic end? ...If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and dial your cell phone, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway. ...If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and find which CD you want, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway. ...If you're too incompetent to take your hand off the wheel and turn on the DVD, you probably shouldn't be driving anyway.
Fluxbox has become bloaty in recent years as feature-creep has settled in. I've since switched to Openbox and haven't looked back.
Clearly, then, everyone should be in a union. The market will even itself out once all parties have equal bargaining opportunities. This allows for the supposed wage inflation caused by unions to be evened out across the entire working class and induces a certain level of comraderie amongst employees and employers that otherwise isn't there due to the current adversarial nature of their relationship.
Further, I think your implicit admonishment of Canadian Unionised labour is a rather reprehensible piece of black propoganda. The grandest labour disputes that come to mind where the wages are the unpopular sticking part revolves mostly around CUPE, and even they aren't paid all that well for full time, 40 hours a week unenviable labour.
Perhaps some wage levelling across the entire field should occur. When the CEO is making the same amount and working under the same conditions as those actually producing the product she might actually feel some moticum of empathy for their plight.
Holy shit! Everyone better register for the draft then, because otherwise they'd be breaking the law! Everyone knows that breaking the law is a strong deterrent, especially when backed up with some kind of penalty!
Or they could just NOT register for the draft and break the law. It's not like we're not already accustomed to breaking the law on a daily basis.
Let's see... Why would I, a born-from-Wolf3D doom loving quake player, still play Halo on a consistent basis? This isn't a hypothetical question, becuase I do. It's also clearly not a matter of gaming experience, because frankly, if you can name the FPS, I've probably played it. Even those awful Wolf3D knock-offs (though Blake Stone was kind of cool).
No, Halo is awesome because it's a console game. It's not a pretentious PC shooter that requires me to spend upwards of an hour to gather my clan together for some multiplayer fun just so I can assure myself some half-decent gameplay. It also doesn't mean I have to get everyone to lug their computers to one central location for some social gaming. It's a great game that only requires me to turn the damned XBox on, and it doesn't require me to take gaming beyond the casual level!
Halo is the multiplay FPS for regular people. It may not be as sophisticated as hardcore gamers would like, but it's polished, easy to play, and fun. That's all that matters.
When this came up last spring I contacted ministers responsible with a short message detailing my distaste for WIPO and attempted to explain in layman's terms just why it's a very bad idea. Their response came down to "this is what the CRIA wants" padded in beuracratic bull shit. I thought this might have disappeared with Hélène Scherrer being voted out, but I see now this was wishful thinking.
x ?CommitteeId=8974&Lang=1&ParlSession=381&SelectedE lementId=e17_
b /house/members /CurrentMemberList.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=1&Se ct=Hoccur&Order=OrganizationName
Still, we can make a difference if we contact them and explain in simple yet clear terms why it's bad. By Canadian law they must respond to your email, so at the very least you know someone is reviewing it, and if enough people write in we can probably enact some change.
So, here's the important info:
The email address for the Heritage Committee: HERI@parl.gc.ca
The email address for Heritage Minister Liza Frulla (head of the committee): Frulla.L@parl.gc.ca
The web site for the Heritage Committee (Gee, seems like all they care about is copyright. Nice doublespeak): http://www.parl.gc.ca/committee/CommitteeHome.asp
And for future reference, in case you're wondering where I get all this
information from:
The list of members of the House of Commons, with contact information:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmem
It will only take 5 minutes, go write them!
Even if you're not Canadian, the message will still be read, so go write them!
Amazing, a direct link to a ginormous jpeg. Do you have a hate on for the admins at sonypictures.com? It's still late at night for most of north america and this story hasn't been posted that long, yet already the site is starting to show some drag.
Poor server... Probably didn't even see it coming.
And only the aristocrats can afford to drink tea.
Ok, I normally don't post, but this is just absurd.
This isn't an "off the shelf" set up like an easy to use Windows or Macintosh machine, and this certainly isn't a boot and use knoppix set up. This is a hack.
Comparing the ease of setting up a MythTV box to using a basic Macintosh or Windows install is beyond unreasonable, it's purely inane.
Of course, you could use KnoppMyth.
so give them something that matches your values to parrot and stop relying on someone else to do it for you