Yeah, why buy an iPod when you can buy a refrigerator? Come on, the one thing has nothing to do with the other, if you want a laptop, get one, if you want an ipod, get one, if you can't afford both, choose which you want more.
First of all, you can blame Saddam Hussein's non-compliance for the dead Iraqis.
Ummm, that's like, the bank robber blaming the policeman's noncompliance for the death of the hostage. The sanctions are killing Iraqi civilians, not Saddam's noncompliance. Saddam's noncompliance is our excuse for killing Iraqi civilians; it is not the cause of their death.
Just who are you to bestow "trust" on Iraq's choice of military arsenal? Americans showed that we could not be trusted with nukes back in 1945. To this day America is the only country that has used them, and we used them to slaughter civilian populations. When we arrogantly and hypocritically assume the role of parent in the international arena we should not be too surprised when people in other countries spit at our symbols of greatness, including the space shuttle.
Iraq never publicly praised the 911 attackers. Here is a transcript of Saddam's 9/15/01 "letter to Americans" about 9/11; perhaps he doesn't express as much regret as we'd like to say and perhaps he blames America for the attacks, but he calls the attacks "evil" and clearly does not praise the attackers.
Interesting. It's not like Apple has never contradicted their user interface guidelines, but the link you gave was pretty unequivocal. It's too bad, I really like Safari, but for me tabbed browsing or some kind of MDI in web browsing is essential. It's not just seeing a list of open web pages but also being able to have simultaneous sessions going on and switching sessions without redrawing windows. Switching between tabs is a lot faster and more efficient. I'll be sticking to Chimera if Safari sticks to the guidelines you quoted.
(By the way I do understand why avoiding MDI makes sense from a MacOS v. Windows perspective in other apps, but in a web browser where my primary activity is reading hypertext and following links, MDI is extremely useful).
Tabbed browsing does not belong in a clean interface. Peroid.
Tabbed browsing, or its functional equivalent, will be incorporated into Safari, and the interface will be so clean you'll want to lick it. Mark my words.
More importantly, if they insist on charging for something other companies are willing to give away free, they had better make it worth the money. And it probably isn't in Opera's interest to continue developing a commercial browser for a smaller market that now has 2 outstanding, fast, free browsers (3 if you count Phoenix, but that one still needs work). I haven't seen iCab since Jaguar but the last version of that I saw was also outstanding. It makes a lot of sense for Opera to abandon the Mac market, and concentrate on Wintel, but there is no need for them to act like it's apple's monopolistic practices that led to this. Chimera blows Opera away on os x and it has for longer than anyone even knew Apple was working on a web browser. And most people don't want to pay real money for a web browser. So Opera should concentrate where their strength is, which is not OS X.
OK, so I thought I'd be a smartass and look for a wav file of the wild eep sound and post the link here. What I found were hundreds of pages with wild eep lore. Unofficial wild eep fan pages. People have done 3D visual models of actual wild eeps, as they imagine them to be. I'm a Mac user, and I always knew Mac users were a little bit crazy about their Macs, but I had no idea of the depths of depravity to which we would succumb to support our favorite platform. Jobs help us all.
Interesting. I wonder if they are giving the company's older ads to the LoC too, or if they are quietly burying them? Someone I know did research in the Coca-Cola archive for a documentary; apparently they are extremely careful about what they let anyone access and they are pretty hush-hush about their history. Everyone knows it used to have cocaine in it until about 1903; what's funny is it used to be an alcoholic beverage that was mixed with cocaine, which was apparently advertised as a "feel-good" drink, something that got you high. This changed in response to the temperance movement, and they took the alcohol out, left the cocaine in, added gotu kola, and billed it as a "temperance drink." Of course, you won't see this in any documentaries about Coke.... I don't imagine they'll be donating many ads from that period to the LoC, either.
Not sure why that was modded funny, though I suppose there is some sweet irony there. But rarely does anyone talk about the value of p2p as an archive. In the heyday of napster I downloaded a bunch of speeches, stuff that wasn't easy to find, black nationalist stuff from the 60s, moon landing recordings, lectures, and so forth. But I rarely see that kind of stuff on gnutella when I look for it, and I wish it was still there. When I look for music, it's always easy to find the popular stuff, but I rarely find much of the more obscure stuff I want to find. It's ironic that the death of napster didn't stop what the RIAA wanted stopped - the large-scale trading of their big selling hits - but it did stop the more legitimate use of p2p to give people access to a relatively comprehensive archive of information. It's disgraceful that the RIAA's greed and inflated sense of self-importance would stand in the way of such a significant advancement in the human sciences. And it's pathetic that the rest of the human species is enabling what amounts to the wholesale theft of human history and culture! In ancient times, great advances in knowledge were stopped by the forces of irrationality and superstition. Today we look back and chuckle about how primitive we were then. But today we do the same thing, vilifying our visionaries as thieves instead of heretics. And we do it to mollify greed and ego rather than superstition.
On a side note, I think the ego thing is huge for the RIAA and their cohorts. Their arrogance is megalomaniacal! I mean come on, RIAA, I don't want to download your precious britney spears crap that you spend the rest of your time shoving down my throat anyway. If I wanted that shit I could go to a freakin record store. And it's not like I can't hear it for free on the radio!
No, the beauty and significance of Napster in its prime -- a truly unfettered p2p network -- was not that kids could get for free the stuff that they continued to spend millions on through t-shirts, concerts, etc. It was the fact that at any time, you could be in a conversation about the blues and mention Ethyl Waters or Ida Fox, and you were just a few clicks away from being able to actually listen to the songs you probably wouldn't even be able to find at a record store if you tried. Imagine being able to do that with the library of congress! Or all of film history! Yes, it's true, the entertainment companies will no longer be able to rely on big multimillion dollar stars in order to retain their domination of public consciousness, but is that a bad thing? Think about it.
Re:Big legal mistake...
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Please. No legal leg to stand on. You want the legal protection of being considered a "business entity" under United States Law, you need to have no blood on your hands.
Why would they lose the right to enforce their copyrights? I hope Kazaa wins this, but I don't see any US court saying the RIAA copyrights are invalid as a result.
Is anyone else bored to death of story after story on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to buy DVDs and CDs, how horribly evil DRM and RIAA and MPAA are, how incredibly cool P2P is, ad nauseam et infinitum?
If you want a copy of a song or movie, go buy the damn media and quit bitching.
Is anyone else bored to death of troll after troll on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to steal copyrighted music, how horribly evil pirates are, and how p2p serves no other purpose but theft, ad nauseum et infinitum?
If you want to hear about something else, go listen to a song or watch a movie and quit bitching.
True. Almost as ridiculous as detaining American citizens at a military base on a hostile island without declaring the charges against them, and claiming that they are covered neither by domestic laws nor by the laws of war. What's next, shooting American citizens from unmanned planes? Oh, wait....
Re:Fighting the RIAA using their own tactics
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It's a good idea fighting the RIAA using their own tactics. Just like they fight the p2p networks by filling them with crap files, forcing users to distribute shitty music files, we can do the same to them! Record crap music, get a contract with them and force them to distribute crap music! Everybody wins!
If I were an alien, I'd look for a more direct means of communication, myself.
Who says they're even trying to communicate? Crop circles are just a means of confusing and distracting the human race as the aliens prepare to destroy us.
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They're called "cars." Just fill them up with hardcopies of your information and drive them to your destination.
Yeah, why buy an iPod when you can buy a refrigerator? Come on, the one thing has nothing to do with the other, if you want a laptop, get one, if you want an ipod, get one, if you can't afford both, choose which you want more.
Ummm, that's like, the bank robber blaming the policeman's noncompliance for the death of the hostage. The sanctions are killing Iraqi civilians, not Saddam's noncompliance. Saddam's noncompliance is our excuse for killing Iraqi civilians; it is not the cause of their death.
Just who are you to bestow "trust" on Iraq's choice of military arsenal? Americans showed that we could not be trusted with nukes back in 1945. To this day America is the only country that has used them, and we used them to slaughter civilian populations. When we arrogantly and hypocritically assume the role of parent in the international arena we should not be too surprised when people in other countries spit at our symbols of greatness, including the space shuttle.
Iraq never publicly praised the 911 attackers. Here is a transcript of Saddam's 9/15/01 "letter to Americans" about 9/11; perhaps he doesn't express as much regret as we'd like to say and perhaps he blames America for the attacks, but he calls the attacks "evil" and clearly does not praise the attackers.
Or maybe this only happens to bad sci-fi movies.
(By the way I do understand why avoiding MDI makes sense from a MacOS v. Windows perspective in other apps, but in a web browser where my primary activity is reading hypertext and following links, MDI is extremely useful).
Tabbed browsing, or its functional equivalent, will be incorporated into Safari, and the interface will be so clean you'll want to lick it. Mark my words.
More importantly, if they insist on charging for something other companies are willing to give away free, they had better make it worth the money. And it probably isn't in Opera's interest to continue developing a commercial browser for a smaller market that now has 2 outstanding, fast, free browsers (3 if you count Phoenix, but that one still needs work). I haven't seen iCab since Jaguar but the last version of that I saw was also outstanding. It makes a lot of sense for Opera to abandon the Mac market, and concentrate on Wintel, but there is no need for them to act like it's apple's monopolistic practices that led to this. Chimera blows Opera away on os x and it has for longer than anyone even knew Apple was working on a web browser. And most people don't want to pay real money for a web browser. So Opera should concentrate where their strength is, which is not OS X.
Come on. It's simple. MHz = dick size. All other debates over RISC, CISC, etc., ignore this fundamental fact at their own peril.
Everyone knows the way to quit smoking is with smokable nicotine sticks. Accept no substitutions.
Who the hell is going to read Plato's Symposium in edlin?
OK, so I thought I'd be a smartass and look for a wav file of the wild eep sound and post the link here. What I found were hundreds of pages with wild eep lore. Unofficial wild eep fan pages. People have done 3D visual models of actual wild eeps, as they imagine them to be. I'm a Mac user, and I always knew Mac users were a little bit crazy about their Macs, but I had no idea of the depths of depravity to which we would succumb to support our favorite platform. Jobs help us all.
They also tried to change the transcript when Ari Fleisher said Americans better "watch what they say."
Interesting. I wonder if they are giving the company's older ads to the LoC too, or if they are quietly burying them? Someone I know did research in the Coca-Cola archive for a documentary; apparently they are extremely careful about what they let anyone access and they are pretty hush-hush about their history. Everyone knows it used to have cocaine in it until about 1903; what's funny is it used to be an alcoholic beverage that was mixed with cocaine, which was apparently advertised as a "feel-good" drink, something that got you high. This changed in response to the temperance movement, and they took the alcohol out, left the cocaine in, added gotu kola, and billed it as a "temperance drink." Of course, you won't see this in any documentaries about Coke.... I don't imagine they'll be donating many ads from that period to the LoC, either.
Bush: Hey Greenspan, what ever happened to that cash we were storing on the side of a mountain somewhere?
.... sorry, Sir, I guess I must have left it in my other pants.
Greenspan: Hmmmm... (checking pockets)
Not sure why that was modded funny, though I suppose there is some sweet irony there. But rarely does anyone talk about the value of p2p as an archive. In the heyday of napster I downloaded a bunch of speeches, stuff that wasn't easy to find, black nationalist stuff from the 60s, moon landing recordings, lectures, and so forth. But I rarely see that kind of stuff on gnutella when I look for it, and I wish it was still there. When I look for music, it's always easy to find the popular stuff, but I rarely find much of the more obscure stuff I want to find. It's ironic that the death of napster didn't stop what the RIAA wanted stopped - the large-scale trading of their big selling hits - but it did stop the more legitimate use of p2p to give people access to a relatively comprehensive archive of information. It's disgraceful that the RIAA's greed and inflated sense of self-importance would stand in the way of such a significant advancement in the human sciences. And it's pathetic that the rest of the human species is enabling what amounts to the wholesale theft of human history and culture! In ancient times, great advances in knowledge were stopped by the forces of irrationality and superstition. Today we look back and chuckle about how primitive we were then. But today we do the same thing, vilifying our visionaries as thieves instead of heretics. And we do it to mollify greed and ego rather than superstition.
On a side note, I think the ego thing is huge for the RIAA and their cohorts. Their arrogance is megalomaniacal! I mean come on, RIAA, I don't want to download your precious britney spears crap that you spend the rest of your time shoving down my throat anyway. If I wanted that shit I could go to a freakin record store. And it's not like I can't hear it for free on the radio!
No, the beauty and significance of Napster in its prime -- a truly unfettered p2p network -- was not that kids could get for free the stuff that they continued to spend millions on through t-shirts, concerts, etc. It was the fact that at any time, you could be in a conversation about the blues and mention Ethyl Waters or Ida Fox, and you were just a few clicks away from being able to actually listen to the songs you probably wouldn't even be able to find at a record store if you tried. Imagine being able to do that with the library of congress! Or all of film history! Yes, it's true, the entertainment companies will no longer be able to rely on big multimillion dollar stars in order to retain their domination of public consciousness, but is that a bad thing? Think about it.
Unless you're an oil company.
Why would they lose the right to enforce their copyrights? I hope Kazaa wins this, but I don't see any US court saying the RIAA copyrights are invalid as a result.
If you want a copy of a song or movie, go buy the damn media and quit bitching.
Is anyone else bored to death of troll after troll on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to steal copyrighted music, how horribly evil pirates are, and how p2p serves no other purpose but theft, ad nauseum et infinitum?
If you want to hear about something else, go listen to a song or watch a movie and quit bitching.
True. Almost as ridiculous as detaining American citizens at a military base on a hostile island without declaring the charges against them, and claiming that they are covered neither by domestic laws nor by the laws of war. What's next, shooting American citizens from unmanned planes? Oh, wait....
It's a good idea fighting the RIAA using their own tactics. Just like they fight the p2p networks by filling them with crap files, forcing users to distribute shitty music files, we can do the same to them! Record crap music, get a contract with them and force them to distribute crap music! Everybody wins!
Oh, wait..... never mind.
How are you enjoying your new suite at the Guantanamo Bay Hilton?
We don't have to. We'll simply send an unmanned drone plane to shoot missiles up your ass.
Who says they're even trying to communicate? Crop circles are just a means of confusing and distracting the human race as the aliens prepare to destroy us.