Yeah the CoE broke off from from the RC Church under Henry VIII, but it was really under Elizabeth I that it became a separate church. She made a lot of changes and made it a protestant church, with priests allowed to marry, the removal of confessions and indulgences, etc. So the reasons for the CoE is the same reason for the reformation in the rest of europe, with a bit of nationalism thrown into the mix (it is called the Church of _England_ after all).
The reason for having a King? In feudal times, the most powerful warlord became the King. His subjects didn't have a choice in the matter. In modern times its because, for some reason, people like the whole pomp and circumstance and all the ceremony that goes a long with it. In the US, the President has to do all the ceremonial stuff along with actually running the executive branch. In England the Queen does all the ceremonial stuff while the prime minister can focus on actually running thing. Sort of a an extra branch of government... you got the judicial branch, legislative branch, executive branch and ceremonial branch.
For example some people in the US are now bitching over how Obama didn't make an appearance at some boy scout meeting. This is the sort of thing you have a king or queen for.
I want a Ford Mustang, but there is only one company out there that sells Mustangs. The Ford Motor Company has a monopoly on Mustangs!
If you you want an RTS game, there are many producers of that style of game. But if you want Starcraft and nothing else, then yeah, Blizzard has a monopoly on that. There is competition among game developers to produce the best RTS game. Copyright makes it illegal to distribute someone else's works without permission, but doesn't prevent anyone from creating their own works. This is because, ever since the invention of the printing press, distributing information is much cheaper than creating information. The internet makes it at least a thousand times easier. So it was decided to encourage competition at the content creation level (the hard part) at the expense of the content distribution level (the easy part).
but sometimes "friends" can become real-life friends. Yes there's a lot of people on my facebook friends list that I don't hang out with regularly, but if I happen to see they're going to in my town I might go meet up for a beer or whatever. Usually it goes like this: Meet someone have a couple of drinks -> exchange FB info -> maybe a week later see in their status that they're going out on the weekend -> send a message and arrange to meet up -> meet up and have some fun.
If you're limited to phone, it goes like this: Meet someone have a couple of drinks -> exchange phone numbers -> write their phone number in my address book -> a week later phone everyone in my address book to find out if anyone is going out for drinks? Not going to happen.
Using FB just makes it a lot easier to make new friends.
yeah having the government provide the infrastructure is another option. Or you can regulate things so that it has to be a separate company maintaining the lines from the ISPs providing the data over those lines. Either way you have to make sure that company or government isn't giving preferential treatment to any of the ISPs.
I think the point was that smaller websites would load slowly while corporate website would load fast.
When making a speech you have to know your audience. Knowing the audience, he told them a site he likes wouldn't work very well and a site they didn't like would work better.
But yeah, without net neutrality, Redstate will run slow and MSNBC will run fast.
Please look up "Natural Monopoly". Governments aren't granting local monopolies they are recognizing that a local monopoly is inevitable and trying to regulate them so they are fair to their customers.
I think having so many buttons on a page is due to the fact that its very easy to skim glyph style languages. ie the character for fish, tuna, cod, haddock, etc, all look similar in japanese or chinese but those words look completely different in english. If you had a list of 233 animals in english it would be hard to find "tuna" out of that list. So we tend to make a hierarchy where you first select between fish, cat, dog, bird, and then select the exact fish you want. In say japanese, you can scroll down through all 233 animals and when you start seeing the kanji characters that look like fish, you slow down and pick out the one you want. Going through a hierarchy just makes people click more.
If the names of fishes were fisha, fishb, fishc, fishd, etc, instead of cod, tuna, haddock, it might be a bit odd to have a hierarchy to make to click fish->fishb->fishbd
About the mojave thing... all that proved was if you have an OS set up on well tested hardware with only well tested software installed so that everything works flawlessly, people will rate it as good. Not exactly a big surprise there. Really they should have had people install "Mojave" on their home PCs and use it for about a month and then rate it. Their ratings would likely have been closer to what people gave for the Vista brand.
Similarly AT&T could get people to try their network under a different name in an area where there is good coverage and the network is fast. Guess what they'll find? Yeah, people like it.
Oh and I had a similar experience with the MacBook Pro. When I tried it in the apple store it worked really well and I liked it. But after I bought the damn thing and used it for a few months, I didn't really like it anymore.
ummm cable and telephone lines are pretty much in the definition of Natural Monopoly.
Bell and Rogers would have a "duopoly" regardless of what the government did. All the government really did was to force them to provide services in rural areas so Canada doesn't have shitty rural internet service like the US does.
Actually economics, not the government resulted in the problem. See "Natural Monopoly".
ie. for there to be more than one cable provider available, there has to be more than one cable line running past your house. There is a fixed cost to maintaining those cable lines. More cable lines means more costs for the providers. And those costs ultimately get passed down to the customers.
I've never understood the Ctrl-Alt-Del thing on the windows login. Yeah if it comes up and asks for you to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, you can be certain its the real login screen. But really, how many users are going to get a login screen and notice that it didn't ask for Ctrl-Alt-Del and then call up tech support? 99.9% of people will just enter their username and password and not take any notice.
no one is saying that ad blocking should be illegal, just that its immoral. Or maybe I should fight hyperbole with hyperbole and say that you're suggesting that websites with ads should be illegal.
Also subscription based content has been tried and it failed. See salon.com for example. The problem with web content is that you don't know the quality of the content until after you've consumed it. but once you've consumed the content, you have no incentive to buy it. Ads are really the only effective way to pay for producing content on the web in all but a few cases.
If you ad-block you're leeching content and hurting the businesses that produce the content you enjoy.
I've used Linux for years and then tried to "switch" to MacOS. I used MacOS exclusively for three months. Then I got tired of it and switched back. It was much more difficult than Ubuntu.
Yes MacOS is more intuitive than Ubuntu, but ubuntu is a lot more user-friendly.
Ok you want your browser, there's a big icon on the dock for the browser. If I want to open a new browser window? clicking that icon doesn't do that. I either have to right-click on the icon (or command click, since there's only one button) or click around in the menu at the top of the screen. Now I want to go back to the first browser window... ummm how do I do that again? The apple menu in the corner? Right-clicking on the icon in the dock? (damn only have one mouse button!) Oh, press F9 and watch some fancy animation and then randomly choose one of two windows that look nearly identical when zoomed out. Oops that wasn't it. F9... last time I picked the one on the right and that wasn't it, I'll take the left one this time. Still not it? Oh I guess expose puts windows in random places. F9, watch animation, click, right-click, select option, more animation... Why am I putting myself through this again? Because MacOS is easier?
Go back to Ubuntu. Click the icon for my browser thats at the top of the screen. I want a new browser window, so I click the same icon again. I want to switch back to the first window, I glance down at the bottom of the screen and click the item on the taskbar. Wow, I sure do miss using MacOS when things were so much easier!
If you want to run windows programs you should run windows. Your programs have been developed and tested for windows, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it doesn't work so well under an OS it was never meant to run under.
You're far better off finding native linux apps that equivalent functionality to your windows apps. They're developed and tested for linux, so everything will run much smoother.
Wine is sort of a last resort. If there is no app for linux that does what you need, then try fiddling with wine to get your windows app to work. This is of course excepting the few apps like picasa which are developed and tested to work under wine.
editing smb.conf yourself is far more technical than opening a terminal and running a single command. If you made editing system files easier you'd make it easier for people to seriously screw up their computer.
Oh and right click on a file, select "Open with other Application" Click the arrow beside "Use custom command" and type in "gksudo gedit". it will open in gedit as root. And once you've done that once you can just right-click the file and select "open with gksudo" after that to open your "root editor". You can even go to properties and make that the default action so you only need to double click to open with root.
any OS thats usable is going to have susceptible to PBKAC. If the user is able to make and run executable, send and receive over the network, create and delete files, then malware is also going to have that ability. Yeah malware won't be able to mess with stuff in/usr/bin or/etc, but if can send out spam, delete all the files in your home directory, screw with your video settings, etc.
Yeah, sure your linux system will reliably boot up no matter what a user does. But is anything going to work after the user logs in? Do you consider a computer to be working if it reliably gets to a login prompt? Most people have a higher standard where the computer isn't working unless they can actually do stuff after they log in.
I'd say you're the one who doesn't understand economics.
You seem to think its only businesses that do ROI calculations. Consumers do ROI calculations too, you know.
If I bought a product from a company that doesn't give me support, I'm going to consider future purchases from that company to be a bad ROI. In fact I may even come to the conclusion that pretty much all of the corporations won't support their products. So I'll just assume that all products have no warranty and buy the cheapest stuff I can. Which basically means stuff manufactured in china. If it breaks or doesn't work with newer tech, I'll just buy another one. And then happily ignore all the big corps whining about how nobody is buying their stuff anymore.
If supporting your customers doesn't have a high enough ROI to be worthwhile, don't be surprised if your customers think your products don't have a high enough ROI to be worthwhile either.
I think the opposite. DNS has gone to shit because of the squatters. To the point that its pretty much useless now.
And with all the phishing sites.... well we should be discouraging people from typing in $COMPANY_NAME.com to get information they need. They make one typo or if the site they want is under a TLD other than.com then at best they're going to be inconvenienced by loading up the wrong page, and at worst they've entered their banking logon into a phishing site.
Its far better for people to simply enter a reasonable approximation into a search bar and have a search engine give the site thats most likely what they wanted. Google is much more forgiving of typos than DNS.
And if you actually know the exact URL, then the functionality is still there for you to bypass the search engine and go directly there. I don't really see a downside.
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Yeah the CoE broke off from from the RC Church under Henry VIII, but it was really under Elizabeth I that it became a separate church. She made a lot of changes and made it a protestant church, with priests allowed to marry, the removal of confessions and indulgences, etc. So the reasons for the CoE is the same reason for the reformation in the rest of europe, with a bit of nationalism thrown into the mix (it is called the Church of _England_ after all).
The reason for having a King? In feudal times, the most powerful warlord became the King. His subjects didn't have a choice in the matter. In modern times its because, for some reason, people like the whole pomp and circumstance and all the ceremony that goes a long with it. In the US, the President has to do all the ceremonial stuff along with actually running the executive branch. In England the Queen does all the ceremonial stuff while the prime minister can focus on actually running thing. Sort of a an extra branch of government... you got the judicial branch, legislative branch, executive branch and ceremonial branch.
For example some people in the US are now bitching over how Obama didn't make an appearance at some boy scout meeting. This is the sort of thing you have a king or queen for.
I want a Ford Mustang, but there is only one company out there that sells Mustangs. The Ford Motor Company has a monopoly on Mustangs!
If you you want an RTS game, there are many producers of that style of game. But if you want Starcraft and nothing else, then yeah, Blizzard has a monopoly on that. There is competition among game developers to produce the best RTS game. Copyright makes it illegal to distribute someone else's works without permission, but doesn't prevent anyone from creating their own works. This is because, ever since the invention of the printing press, distributing information is much cheaper than creating information. The internet makes it at least a thousand times easier. So it was decided to encourage competition at the content creation level (the hard part) at the expense of the content distribution level (the easy part).
but sometimes "friends" can become real-life friends. Yes there's a lot of people on my facebook friends list that I don't hang out with regularly, but if I happen to see they're going to in my town I might go meet up for a beer or whatever. Usually it goes like this: Meet someone have a couple of drinks -> exchange FB info -> maybe a week later see in their status that they're going out on the weekend -> send a message and arrange to meet up -> meet up and have some fun.
If you're limited to phone, it goes like this: Meet someone have a couple of drinks -> exchange phone numbers -> write their phone number in my address book -> a week later phone everyone in my address book to find out if anyone is going out for drinks? Not going to happen.
Using FB just makes it a lot easier to make new friends.
a bit of tape stuck over the bottom left corner can fix a homophone.
yeah every economist in the world has this big conspiracy going on. You caught us, please don't tell the rest of the world.
yeah having the government provide the infrastructure is another option. Or you can regulate things so that it has to be a separate company maintaining the lines from the ISPs providing the data over those lines. Either way you have to make sure that company or government isn't giving preferential treatment to any of the ISPs.
I think the point was that smaller websites would load slowly while corporate website would load fast.
When making a speech you have to know your audience. Knowing the audience, he told them a site he likes wouldn't work very well and a site they didn't like would work better.
But yeah, without net neutrality, Redstate will run slow and MSNBC will run fast.
Please look up "Natural Monopoly". Governments aren't granting local monopolies they are recognizing that a local monopoly is inevitable and trying to regulate them so they are fair to their customers.
What happens when one state works really hard an eliminates all pollution only to have all the neighboring state's pollution blow over onto them?
I think having so many buttons on a page is due to the fact that its very easy to skim glyph style languages. ie the character for fish, tuna, cod, haddock, etc, all look similar in japanese or chinese but those words look completely different in english. If you had a list of 233 animals in english it would be hard to find "tuna" out of that list. So we tend to make a hierarchy where you first select between fish, cat, dog, bird, and then select the exact fish you want. In say japanese, you can scroll down through all 233 animals and when you start seeing the kanji characters that look like fish, you slow down and pick out the one you want. Going through a hierarchy just makes people click more.
If the names of fishes were fisha, fishb, fishc, fishd, etc, instead of cod, tuna, haddock, it might be a bit odd to have a hierarchy to make to click fish->fishb->fishbd
About the mojave thing... all that proved was if you have an OS set up on well tested hardware with only well tested software installed so that everything works flawlessly, people will rate it as good. Not exactly a big surprise there. Really they should have had people install "Mojave" on their home PCs and use it for about a month and then rate it. Their ratings would likely have been closer to what people gave for the Vista brand.
Similarly AT&T could get people to try their network under a different name in an area where there is good coverage and the network is fast. Guess what they'll find? Yeah, people like it.
Oh and I had a similar experience with the MacBook Pro. When I tried it in the apple store it worked really well and I liked it. But after I bought the damn thing and used it for a few months, I didn't really like it anymore.
ummm cable and telephone lines are pretty much in the definition of Natural Monopoly.
Bell and Rogers would have a "duopoly" regardless of what the government did. All the government really did was to force them to provide services in rural areas so Canada doesn't have shitty rural internet service like the US does.
Actually economics, not the government resulted in the problem. See "Natural Monopoly".
ie. for there to be more than one cable provider available, there has to be more than one cable line running past your house. There is a fixed cost to maintaining those cable lines. More cable lines means more costs for the providers. And those costs ultimately get passed down to the customers.
I've never understood the Ctrl-Alt-Del thing on the windows login. Yeah if it comes up and asks for you to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, you can be certain its the real login screen. But really, how many users are going to get a login screen and notice that it didn't ask for Ctrl-Alt-Del and then call up tech support? 99.9% of people will just enter their username and password and not take any notice.
wow hyperbole much?
no one is saying that ad blocking should be illegal, just that its immoral. Or maybe I should fight hyperbole with hyperbole and say that you're suggesting that websites with ads should be illegal.
Also subscription based content has been tried and it failed. See salon.com for example. The problem with web content is that you don't know the quality of the content until after you've consumed it. but once you've consumed the content, you have no incentive to buy it. Ads are really the only effective way to pay for producing content on the web in all but a few cases.
If you ad-block you're leeching content and hurting the businesses that produce the content you enjoy.
I've used Linux for years and then tried to "switch" to MacOS. I used MacOS exclusively for three months. Then I got tired of it and switched back. It was much more difficult than Ubuntu.
Yes MacOS is more intuitive than Ubuntu, but ubuntu is a lot more user-friendly.
Ok you want your browser, there's a big icon on the dock for the browser. If I want to open a new browser window? clicking that icon doesn't do that. I either have to right-click on the icon (or command click, since there's only one button) or click around in the menu at the top of the screen. Now I want to go back to the first browser window... ummm how do I do that again? The apple menu in the corner? Right-clicking on the icon in the dock? (damn only have one mouse button!) Oh, press F9 and watch some fancy animation and then randomly choose one of two windows that look nearly identical when zoomed out. Oops that wasn't it. F9... last time I picked the one on the right and that wasn't it, I'll take the left one this time. Still not it? Oh I guess expose puts windows in random places. F9, watch animation, click, right-click, select option, more animation... Why am I putting myself through this again? Because MacOS is easier?
Go back to Ubuntu. Click the icon for my browser thats at the top of the screen. I want a new browser window, so I click the same icon again. I want to switch back to the first window, I glance down at the bottom of the screen and click the item on the taskbar. Wow, I sure do miss using MacOS when things were so much easier!
well there is no iTunes for Ubuntu.
That being said, Rhythmbox is far superior to iTunes anyway, so whatever.
If you want to run windows programs you should run windows. Your programs have been developed and tested for windows, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it doesn't work so well under an OS it was never meant to run under.
You're far better off finding native linux apps that equivalent functionality to your windows apps. They're developed and tested for linux, so everything will run much smoother.
Wine is sort of a last resort. If there is no app for linux that does what you need, then try fiddling with wine to get your windows app to work. This is of course excepting the few apps like picasa which are developed and tested to work under wine.
editing smb.conf yourself is far more technical than opening a terminal and running a single command. If you made editing system files easier you'd make it easier for people to seriously screw up their computer.
Oh and right click on a file, select "Open with other Application" Click the arrow beside "Use custom command" and type in "gksudo gedit". it will open in gedit as root. And once you've done that once you can just right-click the file and select "open with gksudo" after that to open your "root editor". You can even go to properties and make that the default action so you only need to double click to open with root.
any OS thats usable is going to have susceptible to PBKAC. If the user is able to make and run executable, send and receive over the network, create and delete files, then malware is also going to have that ability. Yeah malware won't be able to mess with stuff in /usr/bin or /etc, but if can send out spam, delete all the files in your home directory, screw with your video settings, etc.
Yeah, sure your linux system will reliably boot up no matter what a user does. But is anything going to work after the user logs in? Do you consider a computer to be working if it reliably gets to a login prompt? Most people have a higher standard where the computer isn't working unless they can actually do stuff after they log in.
yeah but you sound like a douche when you use octopi or octopodes.
if you use "virii", you not only sound like a douche, you're also wrong. "virii" is not a valid plural of virus.
I'd say you're the one who doesn't understand economics.
You seem to think its only businesses that do ROI calculations. Consumers do ROI calculations too, you know.
If I bought a product from a company that doesn't give me support, I'm going to consider future purchases from that company to be a bad ROI. In fact I may even come to the conclusion that pretty much all of the corporations won't support their products. So I'll just assume that all products have no warranty and buy the cheapest stuff I can. Which basically means stuff manufactured in china. If it breaks or doesn't work with newer tech, I'll just buy another one. And then happily ignore all the big corps whining about how nobody is buying their stuff anymore.
If supporting your customers doesn't have a high enough ROI to be worthwhile, don't be surprised if your customers think your products don't have a high enough ROI to be worthwhile either.
its free?
please read this
yeah its bad if you paint your blimp with a flamable paint and got hit by lightning.
I think the opposite. DNS has gone to shit because of the squatters. To the point that its pretty much useless now.
And with all the phishing sites.... well we should be discouraging people from typing in $COMPANY_NAME.com to get information they need. They make one typo or if the site they want is under a TLD other than .com then at best they're going to be inconvenienced by loading up the wrong page, and at worst they've entered their banking logon into a phishing site.
Its far better for people to simply enter a reasonable approximation into a search bar and have a search engine give the site thats most likely what they wanted. Google is much more forgiving of typos than DNS.
And if you actually know the exact URL, then the functionality is still there for you to bypass the search engine and go directly there. I don't really see a downside.