Just as with everything else Microshit do there's a load of effort put into making sure the user's locked in and has to keep crawling back to Bill for bugfixes and upgrades.
Until Micro$oft bundles WMP in with their new version of MSLinux we have a choice.
You misunderstand the target of a Linux WMP: it's music publishers, not users. If MS can say "release your music using WMP DRM and it will play everywhere, even Mac and Linux" then that's what publishers will do and that's what users will have to live with, whether they're on MSLinux or RedHat or Debian.
I've been using face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size=-1 for a few years
I agree with the earlier poster: Arial should be last after "sans serif"; it is the ugliest font in common usage today. At home I have Opera set to use Gill Sans (anti-aliased under X) for the base font but obviously I don't expect many people to have that setup for reading webpages.
See, I think the over-riding point of concern there is that some 9 year old kids had a loaded gun
I agree that's the worst part but it does tell you something about what sort of attitude to guns 9-year-olds are growing up with (whether they have guns at 9 or 18).
I mean, kids should know that matches are dangerous, it's not enought to simply say "just don't give them matches".
And those people forget how easy it is to inform kids of how much guns 'hurt' rather than banning everything under the sun that could possibly give them the idea that it isnt that way.
I'm not in favour of a ban; I just think that people that say everyone should be treated like an adult, regardless of their actual age, are foolish.
Now go back to the hole from whence you came you Lord-of-The-Rings-hating-ninny!
I like Lord of the Rings! It's a good book, a good radio series, a promising but disappointing film, and two bloody awful films.
The individuals beating people up in the streets of Stockholm in the 1980:ies most likely had others and more severe personal issues to deal with than playing Last Ninja 2.
This is true but the issue is kids, not adults. A doctor was on the TV today complaining that he's seeing lots of kids (under 18's, I think from the context) that really don't understand what a gun does; in particular he had to treat a 9-year-old who allowed his friend to shoot him because he didn't know it would hurt! Many, very young, kids play games where people get shot multiple times and all that happens is that their "energy level" drops or the have to re-start the level.
It's not just a game issue, of course, but a lot of the "it doesn't effect kids" people forget how easy it is for really young kids to be exposed to high levels of violence, and also how naive they were when they were 9, or even 13.
Did I miss something? Perhaps it's simply a question of not telling the user about the confusing stuff. I generally set new users up with a WindowMaker desktop with icons already installed, and categorised by screen (1 to 10), and leave them to it.
"The violation of Dow' s invaluable copyrights is causing and will continue to cause Dow to suffer irreparable damage as long as the website remains operational."
given that we are talking about an action that resulted in nine 9/11's I think that Dow's statement shows how important this parody is; we are not just dealing with a little joke or jibe at the expense of a few overpaid suits - this isn't just a Dilbert cartoon. This is a massive issue of far greater importance than Dow's copyright. The fact that this is the first thing in 18 years that has actually hurt someone responsible for the deaths of 20000 people shows just why it was important not to weakly disclaim the content.
Put it this way: if the same material had appeared in The Onion, would it have stung Dow so badly? Would they have even cared? If not then it wouldn't have been worth doing.
Plus, of course, there are the questions: what would you think if your family had lost two or three members and been given 3000 dollars each for your trouble while the people responsible had just gone home and were living in luxury on a pension generated by the same company that killed so many of your friends and relations? What if you had had to bury children in unnamed graves because their entire families had been wiped out leaving no one that knew their names? Would you give a toss about Dow's silly little copyright?
And to be honest I really doubt that there are any people that were involved with the Bhopal incident still with UC at the time of its acquisition by Dow.
There is the question of how Anderson was able to live in luxury in America while it was know that there was a warrent out for his arrest; I seriously doubt that Dow did not know of the existance of the warrent or of his whereabouts.
And they paid the price for it, both financial and in the courts of public opinion.
I wish I could belive you are joking. The price they paid was a pittance both in terms of the absoulte level of compensation (less than 3000 dollars per death and 500 per survivor - many of whom were crippled for life, with many claims still soutstanding today due to legal teams determined to sit out the victim's willpower or lifespans) and in the relative sense of what it would have cost if the same "accident" had happened in the US.
Murder involves intent to kill somebody.
Given that the state of the site was well know to the people in charge who had a responsibility to ensure the safety of their workers and that the western workers, mainly management, were alerted very early on that they had to get out of the area quick while the Indian workers and their families were told nothing untill well after 20000 of them had received leathel doses of various compounds, it is really pushing it to say that there was anything truely accidental about most of these deaths.
Nobody has any evidence that anyone at UC said 'let's kill off a bunch of folks in India'
As I said above, there is a lot of evidence that plenty of people at UC said "Who gives a fuck if a bunch of folks in India get killed off?" which, for the Indians at least, amounts to the same thing.
and all of this was used to deceive the public as to the intents and actions of Dow.
I think you mean "make clear to the public the real intents and actions of Dow", don't you? That is the point of satire and I don't see any reason why mass murderers should be allowed to hide behind something as trivial as copyright laws to protect them from having their actions brought to larger attention.
I have yet to hear a reasonable argument for why human cloning should be banned.
Well it should at least be banned until the clone has a chance at a decent life. Twins start with a genetic clock set to zero; a clone currently will start at the template's age. So it's hello to arthritis at about 25-35 years old and heart trouble at 35-45.
In the longer term cloning is an issue in countries where power is held by a small number of rich people, such as America, and can be used to keep the elite in fresh organs and even to eventually replace them with copies so that "the party" becomes immortal.
In the much longer term the real problem is in the combination of gentic manipulation and cloning - soldiers with IQ 80 and high strength created in large numbers, leaders that replace their country's people with "better" ones and so forth. Any abuse of this science will be carried out somewhere and it's not like nuclear where the raw material is difficult to get, cloning is liable to become very cheap.
Plus, what good can come from it? Almost nothing important. So, the bad far outweighs the good.
It's a game and it's addictive because it lets you set your own goals and work with other people to achieve them.
Don't talk bollocks. Try setting your goal as working alone or with a single partner. Try setting you goal as ridding the world of monsters or evil or whatever; can't be done.
EQ is a badly designed load of shit game that lives off it's players' foolish belief that anyone that designs a game must, surely, want the game to be interesting and fun and that if it turns out not to be either the company will fix it. That way they don't have to rationalise to themselves why they wasted hundreds of dollars on a piece of crap, and don't even have the piece of crap to show for it at the end!
He looks the way he does because a Coca-Cola ad campaign seriously caught on (hence the red and white)
This is only half-true. Before the campaign Santa was depicted in several ways, green was popular but so was red and white. Coke picked up on the red and white one for obvious reasons but they didn't originate it.
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How is a space represented in Morse? I thought the codes were "dot", "dash" and "pause".
Except that clogs are still seen and tulips account for 40 percent of the whole of Duch agriculture earnings at over 150 million dollars worth per year. Sounds pretty here-and-now to me.
Linux's main problem is that the geeks are in charge.
Linux's biggest bonus is that the geeks are in charge; Window's biggest problem is that clueless users and marketing 'droids are in charge.
You see, it depends on what you are looking for. All you're saying is that all operating systems should be aimed at the same market and that choice is some sort of elitist disease.
Apple's experience is that when you aim at the users and marketeers you lose if you also try to do quality; there just isn't time to do both and Microsoft will beat you because they don't have to spend time on quality.
Though I do wonder what specifically you would have done differently from Jackson
I would have allowed Frodo's character to develop in the way it does in the book; I think this is the "spine" of the story, at least in the frst book, and the one thing I would not say was up for grabs as regards the changes that have to be made in an adaption for film. Jackson dropped the ball in two key places (as well as several small ones): the flight to the ford is Frodo's chance to show, after some poor performances up to that point, why Gandalf has faith in him it is very important that he faces the nazgul alone. Jackson has him rescued too easily. The other main place was at the end: Frodo checks with Aragorn before leaving instead of taking the decision on his own. These are important character establishing points and are in no way difficult to adapt to the screen but Jackson fiddled with them - why? Because he doesn't understand the story; he thinks it's just a straight-forward adventure story with battles and loads of wargs (he recently complained that Tolkien didn't have enought fights with wargs so he added some).
I would most definitely not have done the scenes between Gandalf and Saruman the way Jackson did them. Almost anything would have been better, including cutting them out altogether and just having Gandalf say "Suruman imprisioned me and I had to escape". Something that expressed the fact that the combat between them was on a much higher plane would have been good.
which scenes you think were stolen from the animated version
The very first scene, ie the prelude explaining the history. Bakshi put that there to try to save himself time in exposition later but at the expense of not allowing the background of Gollum, the ring, Elrond, Gondor etc. to develop a bit more gradually. With four hours at his disposal I don't think Jackson had any readon to do it that way except that that's the way it had been done before. The scene that was almost traced over from Bakshi was the stabbing of the beds in the Prancing Pony. Tolkien does not discribe the actual events, only the aftermath in the morning but Jackson's version is a clone of Bakshi's invented image of the nazgul appearing, raising their weapons, pausing and then stabbing or a while followed by general cries of "disapointment". Quite a lot of Sam's incidental mutterings were lifted too, although that might have been the actor rather than the director.
The Bible is the most popular book in the world. It doesn't people are going to sit through a movie about it that pays attention to every single fucking detail, no matter how irrelevant.
Yes, but if it left out the crucifixion I think it would be fair to complain.
Yes, that's right: the Lord of the Rings became one of the world's most popular books because it was too hard to understand. Fortunately "a couple hundred Tolkien purists" bought the book 10000 times each and got the sales figures up.
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You sad, sad little man.
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Did you read the article?
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Throw it on the fire.
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You misunderstand the target of a Linux WMP: it's music publishers, not users. If MS can say "release your music using WMP DRM and it will play everywhere, even Mac and Linux" then that's what publishers will do and that's what users will have to live with, whether they're on MSLinux or RedHat or Debian.
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I agree with the earlier poster: Arial should be last after "sans serif"; it is the ugliest font in common usage today. At home I have Opera set to use Gill Sans (anti-aliased under X) for the base font but obviously I don't expect many people to have that setup for reading webpages.
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Clueless ones. Look around sometime: there's lots of them.
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I agree that's the worst part but it does tell you something about what sort of attitude to guns 9-year-olds are growing up with (whether they have guns at 9 or 18).
I mean, kids should know that matches are dangerous, it's not enought to simply say "just don't give them matches".
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He didn't die, though. Perhaps a Lamarck award should be started...
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I'm not in favour of a ban; I just think that people that say everyone should be treated like an adult, regardless of their actual age, are foolish.
Now go back to the hole from whence you came you Lord-of-The-Rings-hating-ninny!
I like Lord of the Rings! It's a good book, a good radio series, a promising but disappointing film, and two bloody awful films.
TWW
This is true but the issue is kids, not adults. A doctor was on the TV today complaining that he's seeing lots of kids (under 18's, I think from the context) that really don't understand what a gun does; in particular he had to treat a 9-year-old who allowed his friend to shoot him because he didn't know it would hurt! Many, very young, kids play games where people get shot multiple times and all that happens is that their "energy level" drops or the have to re-start the level.
It's not just a game issue, of course, but a lot of the "it doesn't effect kids" people forget how easy it is for really young kids to be exposed to high levels of violence, and also how naive they were when they were 9, or even 13.
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Other crap that makes the computer run
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Did I miss something? Perhaps it's simply a question of not telling the user about the confusing stuff. I generally set new users up with a WindowMaker desktop with icons already installed, and categorised by screen (1 to 10), and leave them to it.
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Dow said, in their complaint that
given that we are talking about an action that resulted in nine 9/11's I think that Dow's statement shows how important this parody is; we are not just dealing with a little joke or jibe at the expense of a few overpaid suits - this isn't just a Dilbert cartoon. This is a massive issue of far greater importance than Dow's copyright. The fact that this is the first thing in 18 years that has actually hurt someone responsible for the deaths of 20000 people shows just why it was important not to weakly disclaim the content.Put it this way: if the same material had appeared in The Onion, would it have stung Dow so badly? Would they have even cared? If not then it wouldn't have been worth doing.
Plus, of course, there are the questions: what would you think if your family had lost two or three members and been given 3000 dollars each for your trouble while the people responsible had just gone home and were living in luxury on a pension generated by the same company that killed so many of your friends and relations? What if you had had to bury children in unnamed graves because their entire families had been wiped out leaving no one that knew their names? Would you give a toss about Dow's silly little copyright?
TWW
There is the question of how Anderson was able to live in luxury in America while it was know that there was a warrent out for his arrest; I seriously doubt that Dow did not know of the existance of the warrent or of his whereabouts.
And they paid the price for it, both financial and in the courts of public opinion.
I wish I could belive you are joking. The price they paid was a pittance both in terms of the absoulte level of compensation (less than 3000 dollars per death and 500 per survivor - many of whom were crippled for life, with many claims still soutstanding today due to legal teams determined to sit out the victim's willpower or lifespans) and in the relative sense of what it would have cost if the same "accident" had happened in the US.
Murder involves intent to kill somebody.
Given that the state of the site was well know to the people in charge who had a responsibility to ensure the safety of their workers and that the western workers, mainly management, were alerted very early on that they had to get out of the area quick while the Indian workers and their families were told nothing untill well after 20000 of them had received leathel doses of various compounds, it is really pushing it to say that there was anything truely accidental about most of these deaths.
Nobody has any evidence that anyone at UC said 'let's kill off a bunch of folks in India'
As I said above, there is a lot of evidence that plenty of people at UC said "Who gives a fuck if a bunch of folks in India get killed off?" which, for the Indians at least, amounts to the same thing.
TWW
I think you mean "make clear to the public the real intents and actions of Dow", don't you? That is the point of satire and I don't see any reason why mass murderers should be allowed to hide behind something as trivial as copyright laws to protect them from having their actions brought to larger attention.
TWW
Well it should at least be banned until the clone has a chance at a decent life. Twins start with a genetic clock set to zero; a clone currently will start at the template's age. So it's hello to arthritis at about 25-35 years old and heart trouble at 35-45.
In the longer term cloning is an issue in countries where power is held by a small number of rich people, such as America, and can be used to keep the elite in fresh organs and even to eventually replace them with copies so that "the party" becomes immortal.
In the much longer term the real problem is in the combination of gentic manipulation and cloning - soldiers with IQ 80 and high strength created in large numbers, leaders that replace their country's people with "better" ones and so forth. Any abuse of this science will be carried out somewhere and it's not like nuclear where the raw material is difficult to get, cloning is liable to become very cheap.
Plus, what good can come from it? Almost nothing important. So, the bad far outweighs the good.
TWW
Don't talk bollocks. Try setting your goal as working alone or with a single partner. Try setting you goal as ridding the world of monsters or evil or whatever; can't be done.
EQ is a badly designed load of shit game that lives off it's players' foolish belief that anyone that designs a game must, surely, want the game to be interesting and fun and that if it turns out not to be either the company will fix it. That way they don't have to rationalise to themselves why they wasted hundreds of dollars on a piece of crap, and don't even have the piece of crap to show for it at the end!
TWW
This is only half-true. Before the campaign Santa was depicted in several ways, green was popular but so was red and white. Coke picked up on the red and white one for obvious reasons but they didn't originate it.
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Except that clogs are still seen and tulips account for 40 percent of the whole of Duch agriculture earnings at over 150 million dollars worth per year. Sounds pretty here-and-now to me.
TWW
Linux's biggest bonus is that the geeks are in charge; Window's biggest problem is that clueless users and marketing 'droids are in charge.
You see, it depends on what you are looking for. All you're saying is that all operating systems should be aimed at the same market and that choice is some sort of elitist disease.
Apple's experience is that when you aim at the users and marketeers you lose if you also try to do quality; there just isn't time to do both and Microsoft will beat you because they don't have to spend time on quality.
TWW
Jeez, I said I liked the balrog. I can live with the wings if it means we get that great "heat haze" effect.
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I would have allowed Frodo's character to develop in the way it does in the book; I think this is the "spine" of the story, at least in the frst book, and the one thing I would not say was up for grabs as regards the changes that have to be made in an adaption for film. Jackson dropped the ball in two key places (as well as several small ones): the flight to the ford is Frodo's chance to show, after some poor performances up to that point, why Gandalf has faith in him it is very important that he faces the nazgul alone. Jackson has him rescued too easily. The other main place was at the end: Frodo checks with Aragorn before leaving instead of taking the decision on his own. These are important character establishing points and are in no way difficult to adapt to the screen but Jackson fiddled with them - why? Because he doesn't understand the story; he thinks it's just a straight-forward adventure story with battles and loads of wargs (he recently complained that Tolkien didn't have enought fights with wargs so he added some).
I would most definitely not have done the scenes between Gandalf and Saruman the way Jackson did them. Almost anything would have been better, including cutting them out altogether and just having Gandalf say "Suruman imprisioned me and I had to escape". Something that expressed the fact that the combat between them was on a much higher plane would have been good.
which scenes you think were stolen from the animated version
The very first scene, ie the prelude explaining the history. Bakshi put that there to try to save himself time in exposition later but at the expense of not allowing the background of Gollum, the ring, Elrond, Gondor etc. to develop a bit more gradually. With four hours at his disposal I don't think Jackson had any readon to do it that way except that that's the way it had been done before. The scene that was almost traced over from Bakshi was the stabbing of the beds in the Prancing Pony. Tolkien does not discribe the actual events, only the aftermath in the morning but Jackson's version is a clone of Bakshi's invented image of the nazgul appearing, raising their weapons, pausing and then stabbing or a while followed by general cries of "disapointment". Quite a lot of Sam's incidental mutterings were lifted too, although that might have been the actor rather than the director.
TWW
Yes, but if it left out the crucifixion I think it would be fair to complain.
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