I hear they still can't forward text messages either.
Apple couldn't decide if the iPhone was supposed to be a phone or a computer, and in the end, it does neither particularly well.
I think they did get a lot right tho in terms of user interface and design. I'd also like to develop for the platform. I'll be keeping my eyes on the iPhone to see if they get these failing eliminated in some future firmware release.
The Conservatives have been responsible for numerous restrictions being placed on the activities of private individuals that affect no-one other than the individuals concerned throughout the 80s and 90s.
They are still the same party, even if there is a little bit of fresh blood mixed in there.
In a similar vein to Labour since '97, they have done some good, but the good comes with the bad, and quite frankly, I could really do without the bad.
Great logic there. Everyone votes for someone other than Labour, so Lavour get back in? WTF? Whom would you rather have in power? The Tories? Get to fuck. I'm not letting those Smithite screw-ups run my affairs ever again. Compaired to their 18 years of fuckups, Labour aren't too bad. At least they managed to get working social reforms in place (and don't give me any of your Daily Mail anecdotal bullshit about scallies and gun crime).
My ISP actually has a local mirror for Ubuntu updates. Pretty cool, huh? Of course, they also have a reputation for being greedy bastards, so I won't give them carte blanch yet.
This is still a useful development. I can now allow MSN Messenger using friends to read my friends-only livejournal posts without having to ask them to sign up for LiveJournal or OpenID (which most people outside of geekdom will not have heard of)
I don't think Youtube has brought any benefit to the Internet except to centralize things further. Personally, I can't see how a small number of hosting providers controlling what the majority of casual internet users see and hear can possibly be a good thing.
I fully understand that corporations are composed of people and they act in the interests of shareholders. But that doesn't make a corporation a person (despite what the legal definition states).
A person who makes an informed decision to be a greedy bastard is fair enough (though they don't have my respect).
A corporation on the other hand, having a contractual obligation to maximize shareholder profits, is acting blindly in the interests of greed. It cannot see the consequences of its own actions.
There are a lot of things Microsoft does, but I can't really argue with. Similarly with Apple.
I don't own an iPod, and I have no interest in buying an iPhone. Someone who enters into a contract with Apple and gets fucked over as a consequence of the document they signed and didn't read deserves everything they get.
Someone who buys a copy of Windows shouldn't bitch about the consequences. (Oh well, I do, but I have no real right to. If I didn't want the consequences, I shouldn't have bought Windows.)
I like to think I invest ethically and make informed purchasing decisions.
I just think that blind free market capitalism, with little or no incentive to "be nice" is dangerous at the present point in time.
The difference is of course, that Apple and MS are not people.
Although personally, I'm not particularly statist about Apple and Microsoft. I just wish they would stop being cunts.
IMO, libertarianism, like communism, is heavily reliant on empathy. Neither will work until people realize they have to stop being nasty to each other for the world to progress beyond its current level of barbarism.
I would have thought most/. readers would be familiar with distributed.net (what with all the beowulf trolls an' all). I know fuck all about crystallography, but I know roughly what a Golomb Ruler is from my past visits to the d.net site (and occasional participation).
So I do not agree that it is an obscure subject, at least in the context of Slashdot readers.
I'm middle class. I don't feel threatened by the police, or by the junkies living upstairs. None of this paranoia makes any sense to me. Maybe it's because I don't drive a car or read the Sun. But to my eyes, it's all a bit removed from reality.
I can't say I've had any nightmares installing Windows at work. On maybe around twenty PCs so far. Can't say I had any nightmares installing Ubuntu either, mind you.
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More like Windows $200 + $200, RedHat $0 + $200.
Getting support for Windows means paying someone on top of the cost of paying for the software. Just as with Linux.
Duke Nukem Forever is written in Perl 6. There's your answer.
He cited his buddy.
Any time you have to manipulate data in more than one document, source file, whatever.
Any time you are editing source whose output can be viewed in real time in another window.
Any time you are editing a document or sourcefile whilst consulting reference material.
Every context switch leads to a drop in productivity, Having two monitors helps. A lot. To this I can attest.
Real Slashdotters use Ninnle.
Pah. Buckfast is the fortified wine to rule them all.
I hear they still can't forward text messages either.
Apple couldn't decide if the iPhone was supposed to be a phone or a computer, and in the end, it does neither particularly well.
I think they did get a lot right tho in terms of user interface and design. I'd also like to develop for the platform. I'll be keeping my eyes on the iPhone to see if they get these failing eliminated in some future firmware release.
The Conservatives have been responsible for numerous restrictions being placed on the activities of private individuals that affect no-one other than the individuals concerned throughout the 80s and 90s.
They are still the same party, even if there is a little bit of fresh blood mixed in there.
In a similar vein to Labour since '97, they have done some good, but the good comes with the bad, and quite frankly, I could really do without the bad.
Trouble is, they're then your governemnt as well.
Agreed.
The only reason apathy rules is because those with the potential to change things don't act.
Great logic there. Everyone votes for someone other than Labour, so Lavour get back in? WTF? Whom would you rather have in power? The Tories? Get to fuck. I'm not letting those Smithite screw-ups run my affairs ever again. Compaired to their 18 years of fuckups, Labour aren't too bad. At least they managed to get working social reforms in place (and don't give me any of your Daily Mail anecdotal bullshit about scallies and gun crime).
Start->Run
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My ISP actually has a local mirror for Ubuntu updates. Pretty cool, huh? Of course, they also have a reputation for being greedy bastards, so I won't give them carte blanch yet.
One possibility is that these numbers aren't accessible for security reasons to anyone who doesn't need them to collect funds.
This is still a useful development. I can now allow MSN Messenger using friends to read my friends-only livejournal posts without having to ask them to sign up for LiveJournal or OpenID (which most people outside of geekdom will not have heard of)
I don't think Youtube has brought any benefit to the Internet except to centralize things further. Personally, I can't see how a small number of hosting providers controlling what the majority of casual internet users see and hear can possibly be a good thing.
The internet should not be television.
I fully understand that corporations are composed of people and they act in the interests of shareholders. But that doesn't make a corporation a person (despite what the legal definition states).
A person who makes an informed decision to be a greedy bastard is fair enough (though they don't have my respect).
A corporation on the other hand, having a contractual obligation to maximize shareholder profits, is acting blindly in the interests of greed. It cannot see the consequences of its own actions.
There are a lot of things Microsoft does, but I can't really argue with. Similarly with Apple.
I don't own an iPod, and I have no interest in buying an iPhone. Someone who enters into a contract with Apple and gets fucked over as a consequence of the document they signed and didn't read deserves everything they get.
Someone who buys a copy of Windows shouldn't bitch about the consequences. (Oh well, I do, but I have no real right to. If I didn't want the consequences, I shouldn't have bought Windows.)
I like to think I invest ethically and make informed purchasing decisions.
I just think that blind free market capitalism, with little or no incentive to "be nice" is dangerous at the present point in time.
I'm not very up on American beer (although I hear it's akin to sex in a canoe *baddum tish*), but here are my calculations:
For the six pack, I'm going to assume 4% abv. This would be a moderate strength lager in the UK. Therefore:
12oz * 4% * 6 cans = 2.88oz of ethanol
Now Wikipedia informs me that the median strengh of malt liquor in the US is 8% abv. Therefore:
40oz * 8% = 3.2oz of ethanol
Surely then the 40oz drinker is getting more bang for their buck?
As I say, I'm not too up on American drinking culture here, so please correct any mis-understandings or false assumptions I have made here.
Regards,
Leynos
The difference is of course, that Apple and MS are not people.
Although personally, I'm not particularly statist about Apple and Microsoft. I just wish they would stop being cunts.
IMO, libertarianism, like communism, is heavily reliant on empathy. Neither will work until people realize they have to stop being nasty to each other for the world to progress beyond its current level of barbarism.
I would have thought most /. readers would be familiar with distributed.net (what with all the beowulf trolls an' all). I know fuck all about crystallography, but I know roughly what a Golomb Ruler is from my past visits to the d.net site (and occasional participation).
So I do not agree that it is an obscure subject, at least in the context of Slashdot readers.
I don't know any service in which one purchases content to be stores on you own media where a second download is allowed.
Xbox Live allows you to re-download the software as many times as you want. Ditto the Wii Store.
Of course, they each come with their own set of restrictions, none of which I am happy about.
I nominate her for a Darwin Award.
Anyone who doesn't treat recently boiled water with respect, which means not resting it on your crotch, deserves everything they get.
I'm middle class. I don't feel threatened by the police, or by the junkies living upstairs. None of this paranoia makes any sense to me. Maybe it's because I don't drive a car or read the Sun. But to my eyes, it's all a bit removed from reality.
I can't say I've had any nightmares installing Windows at work. On maybe around twenty PCs so far. Can't say I had any nightmares installing Ubuntu either, mind you.
Sadly, that excludes the films which don't fall into a clearly defined genre.