I'll start replying to your digressions when you start answering my questions.
I don't see that happening as you have been caught out defending the indefensible and will continue to use cheap debating tricks to try & divert that fact.
Go teach your granny to suck eggs junior, I've been telling you since the beginning to start thinking with no visible results so far. Words are only noises until you start applying the concepts behind them.
The point of sanctions is to bring pressure from multiple points to induce the desired changes. None of the sanctions need inconvenience the Syrians in any insurmountable way, yet added together they may yet induce the desired abandonment of terrorism as a policy. Only a twit would single out a single sanction as being unlikely to effect change and therefore useless. Unless, of course, if the person was an Assad apologist who is in favor of the continued use of terrorism by the Syrian regime.
No. By refusing to accord that the reason the syrian geeks are being cut off is due to despicable actions performed by their own government & criticizing the USG for a by comparison extremely benign reprisal you explicitly become an apologist for the Assads. Once again, Think!
Oh grow up & join the adult world will you? Syria's government has been using terrorism to further it's goals for decades. The US & other governments around the world have tried many different tactics to try to convince them that these methods are not acceptable. How exactly is making access to OpenSource a little more difficult worse that any of the other methods used? Because it's geeky? Because you weirdly perceive the access to open source servers to be of a higher moral value than basic human rights? Think!
Funny how all the Europeans denouncing the USA are ignorant of the dirty arm twisting their governments are attempting to apply to Canada. Note that I live in europe & vote against this crap but too many here are just to ignorant to care.
It's funny but I feel more sympathy for the people imprisoned for working for human rights in Syria than I do for the poor Syrian geeks who are no longer able to access sourceforge.
Cell phone transmitters are directional and the direction where they transmit the least is usually straight up & straight down. Assuming that a cell tower on your roof will assemble a number of antennas to give 360 coverage, the spot with the least intesity is just about always the building just beneath it. This fact amuses me no end every time some nut blames his insomnia/impotence/mental imbalance/other ill defined ailment on the cell tower implanted 6 stories above his bedroom...
Why are you defending the media establishment? Do you work for one?
Have you actually talked with any authors? My father in law is an author of some repute in France & one of his novels was turned into one of the five biggest box office draws of the year some years back. Much like the RIAA, the publishing houses make lots of noises about defending the poor authors/musicians while making their business accounting as opaque as possible in order to avoid actually paying said authors. They refuse to reedit older books of marginal residual value (due to limited sales) to which they have the rights & block the authors from attempting to find ways like google to continue publishing these works. Why? Because it doesn't fit into their model of how things should be run so they can make money (& damn the authors). So what if many works are now unavailable because THEY don't know how to make it work.
My FIL & many others are actively fighting for the works that the publishing houses are refusing to re-edit be available solutions like google that would reduce the cost of publishing books of marginal commercial sales value but to read from the publishing houses press releases, Google is the devil incarnate.
If the publishing houses were really protecting the authors, some of the money that they have extorted from google would go to the authors of books that google has scanned. This, however is not the case and no author will see a single cent of this money.
ouais c'est ça, c'est grâce a Mitterand que tous les jeunes parlent anglais, mon cul oui...
France, despite the it's ingrained anti "anglo-saxon" snobbery (which is even more present in the teachers unions than it is in the rest of french society) has been ever so slowly opening up to english because everyone realizes that by refusing to learn english that they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. English is often the only common language business partners throughout europe will have in common. While everything anglo-saxon is commonly equated with everything that is bad in modern France (as in outsoucing=bad, pollution=bad, fast-food=bad, etc) having thousands of France's most motivated young adults leave the country to work in the UK & have that regularly shown on TV is finally getting through the chauvinism.
My wife teaches english in a high school & I have two kids that were in grade school during Mitterand's tenure. Mitterand's "great" measure was to declare that all grade school kids would receive an hour and a half of english a week for a semester without hiring any new teachers or allotting a budget to train the existing teachers.The only reason My kids (& all their classmates) actually received their allotted hour and a half a week is because my wife used some of her private time and taught them for free. This was only possible because she was already a teacher. Wow, thanks Mitterand...
Chirac, & now Sarko have done more for the teaching of english to kids in France than Mitterand did by actually financing what little they decided on forcing through the teachers unions. The kids of my friends are actually getting english classes without having to beg for volunteers.
3: Your declaration that he cannot get a fair trial in the US exposes your bias. He'll do time for confessing to unauthorized access to USG computers & refusing to assume any responsibility for his actions.
He is only facing that amount of time because he refuses to accept any responsibility for his actions.
Secondly, in some cases once he has been sentenced & served a portion of his time in the US, he may be repatriated to the UK to finish his incarceration where, he may benefit from clemency. Once again, much of this depends on his finally accepting responsibility.
ah because Ben Laden confessing to having financed & organized the 9/11 assailants was insufficient for them to conclude that apprehending & turning Ben Laden over to the USG, noooo...
The twit has been plotting from the beginning to beat the system.
First he trespasses onto US govt property looking for information that only he "knows" is there.
When identified, he tries to blow it off as a victimless prank & refuses to assume any responsability.
When informed that it was a serious crime for the USG & that he would be better off copping a plea he attempts to use GWB's unpopularity to his benefit by attempting to be a poor poor little guy who is being abused by the big bad mean USG.
When that doesn't work he's suddenly diagnosed as an aspie, so it's not his fault.
We all know that had he attempted to assume responsability for his actions the USG would have made some motions of clemancy. After his continual refusal to accept any responsbility for his actions, he can expect none.
I can't wait to see him finally get what he deserves.
If I shoot a gun in the air I am guilty of reckless of just reckless endangerment in my country. When the bullet comes down on your side of the border, kills your mother & there is an extradition treaty between the two, I'd be put on trial in your country.
WUXGA 15" screens have been out for at least five years if you needed them. I'm on my second. Having such a high screen resolution just means that the icons are smaller (which i appreciate, as I've always found the default icon sizes too big). After you adjust the zoom you get a really clean display with the fonts rendered cleanly in high DPI. Is you can't read something, just zoom out.
The only games I can think of that try to be as close to RL as they can get are the Sims & GTA. OK, for these games the times square example has some validity, but even there, we are not really there for the ads, but to play the damned game. As soon as they start modifying the gameplay to make the ads more visible than they are in RL they will have gone too far.
I don't want a driving game where the ads are so in your face that you cannot see the track. I don't want a soccer game where the ads are 5 times the size they are in RL. I do not want to be pestered by ads for softdrinks in WoW. Unfortunately I'm sure that once advertising gets a foothold in gaming these & other abuses will outweigh any increase in "realism".
Junior, the migration bit being well nigh painless you excerpted is true yet I ever backpedaled away from any statements I made.
The comparison is clear between Apple supporting old CPU architectures for a few years & MS cutting & running within 3 months of assuring clients that Mips & Alpha were strategic future development paths. It's not Apple "we do anything to help you" as Apple eventually did abandon the old CPUs, however I never said "we do anything to help you". You set up that strawman so you could knock it down & feel righteous.
Yeah, & while they are at it, they should port all versions of OSX to the 680X0 Macs too! I'm really disappointed that I can't get a recent OS for them. After all, given the ease and few ressouces needed to port OSX to the iPhone the 680X0 macs should be real easy...
</sarcasm>
If the platform is no longer in use by more than a small minority & just doesn't have the horsepower to profit it's dumb to waste the ressources. As has been pointed out here, using a too recent OSX release just makes the machine too slow & you can always use another OS as was pointed out
here.
Hey junior, if you don't like the condesension then learn your computing history before showing your ignorance in public.
This thread started when commodore64 complained about his jurassic PPC Mac not being able to install a recent OS X.
I replied that Apple has migrated CPU architectures twice pretty much painlessly, & at least his systems had some support which is better than MS did when it abandoned CPUs.
You come into thread saying that the CPU's MS abandoned were only used by a small minority
I pointed out that apple's support of old CPU's was only abandoned after the old CPUs in use had diminished to a similar percentage.
Moving goalposts? No. I addressed the points in their original context.
So Apple should have pulled a Vista & watered down their requirements so that any old PPC Mac no matter how old would be "ready"? Sorry that you find yourself on the wrong side of that partition but I'm grateful that Apple places reasonable limits that will reliably let me know upon which Macs a given OS X release will function.
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I'll start replying to your digressions when you start answering my questions. I don't see that happening as you have been caught out defending the indefensible and will continue to use cheap debating tricks to try & divert that fact.
Go teach your granny to suck eggs junior, I've been telling you since the beginning to start thinking with no visible results so far. Words are only noises until you start applying the concepts behind them.
The point of sanctions is to bring pressure from multiple points to induce the desired changes. None of the sanctions need inconvenience the Syrians in any insurmountable way, yet added together they may yet induce the desired abandonment of terrorism as a policy. Only a twit would single out a single sanction as being unlikely to effect change and therefore useless. Unless, of course, if the person was an Assad apologist who is in favor of the continued use of terrorism by the Syrian regime.
So, which is it?
No. By refusing to accord that the reason the syrian geeks are being cut off is due to despicable actions performed by their own government & criticizing the USG for a by comparison extremely benign reprisal you explicitly become an apologist for the Assads. Once again, Think!
Oh grow up & join the adult world will you? Syria's government has been using terrorism to further it's goals for decades. The US & other governments around the world have tried many different tactics to try to convince them that these methods are not acceptable. How exactly is making access to OpenSource a little more difficult worse that any of the other methods used? Because it's geeky? Because you weirdly perceive the access to open source servers to be of a higher moral value than basic human rights? Think!
Funny how all the Europeans denouncing the USA are ignorant of the dirty arm twisting their governments are attempting to apply to Canada. Note that I live in europe & vote against this crap but too many here are just to ignorant to care.
Sometimes you do have to go to jail for what you believe in. But this isn't one of them.
Yeah, that's true. And then there are those who are assassinated for defying Syria's domination of Lebanon.
It's funny but I feel more sympathy for the people imprisoned for working for human rights in Syria than I do for the poor Syrian geeks who are no longer able to access sourceforge.
Cell phone transmitters are directional and the direction where they transmit the least is usually straight up & straight down. Assuming that a cell tower on your roof will assemble a number of antennas to give 360 coverage, the spot with the least intesity is just about always the building just beneath it. This fact amuses me no end every time some nut blames his insomnia/impotence/mental imbalance/other ill defined ailment on the cell tower implanted 6 stories above his bedroom...
So true... I wish I had mod points right now.
Why are you defending the media establishment? Do you work for one? Have you actually talked with any authors? My father in law is an author of some repute in France & one of his novels was turned into one of the five biggest box office draws of the year some years back. Much like the RIAA, the publishing houses make lots of noises about defending the poor authors/musicians while making their business accounting as opaque as possible in order to avoid actually paying said authors. They refuse to reedit older books of marginal residual value (due to limited sales) to which they have the rights & block the authors from attempting to find ways like google to continue publishing these works. Why? Because it doesn't fit into their model of how things should be run so they can make money (& damn the authors). So what if many works are now unavailable because THEY don't know how to make it work. My FIL & many others are actively fighting for the works that the publishing houses are refusing to re-edit be available solutions like google that would reduce the cost of publishing books of marginal commercial sales value but to read from the publishing houses press releases, Google is the devil incarnate. If the publishing houses were really protecting the authors, some of the money that they have extorted from google would go to the authors of books that google has scanned. This, however is not the case and no author will see a single cent of this money.
ouais c'est ça, c'est grâce a Mitterand que tous les jeunes parlent anglais, mon cul oui... France, despite the it's ingrained anti "anglo-saxon" snobbery (which is even more present in the teachers unions than it is in the rest of french society) has been ever so slowly opening up to english because everyone realizes that by refusing to learn english that they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. English is often the only common language business partners throughout europe will have in common. While everything anglo-saxon is commonly equated with everything that is bad in modern France (as in outsoucing=bad, pollution=bad, fast-food=bad, etc) having thousands of France's most motivated young adults leave the country to work in the UK & have that regularly shown on TV is finally getting through the chauvinism. My wife teaches english in a high school & I have two kids that were in grade school during Mitterand's tenure. Mitterand's "great" measure was to declare that all grade school kids would receive an hour and a half of english a week for a semester without hiring any new teachers or allotting a budget to train the existing teachers.The only reason My kids (& all their classmates) actually received their allotted hour and a half a week is because my wife used some of her private time and taught them for free. This was only possible because she was already a teacher. Wow, thanks Mitterand... Chirac, & now Sarko have done more for the teaching of english to kids in France than Mitterand did by actually financing what little they decided on forcing through the teachers unions. The kids of my friends are actually getting english classes without having to beg for volunteers.
Too bad it's ugly as sin & you have to bend in two to be able to actually drive it.
Keep repeating that dialectic, maybe someday when you're senile you'll honestly believe it
3: Your declaration that he cannot get a fair trial in the US exposes your bias. He'll do time for confessing to unauthorized access to USG computers & refusing to assume any responsibility for his actions.
He is only facing that amount of time because he refuses to accept any responsibility for his actions. Secondly, in some cases once he has been sentenced & served a portion of his time in the US, he may be repatriated to the UK to finish his incarceration where, he may benefit from clemency. Once again, much of this depends on his finally accepting responsibility.
ah because Ben Laden confessing to having financed & organized the 9/11 assailants was insufficient for them to conclude that apprehending & turning Ben Laden over to the USG, noooo...
The twit has been plotting from the beginning to beat the system.
First he trespasses onto US govt property looking for information that only he "knows" is there.
When identified, he tries to blow it off as a victimless prank & refuses to assume any responsability.
When informed that it was a serious crime for the USG & that he would be better off copping a plea he attempts to use GWB's unpopularity to his benefit by attempting to be a poor poor little guy who is being abused by the big bad mean USG.
When that doesn't work he's suddenly diagnosed as an aspie, so it's not his fault.
We all know that had he attempted to assume responsability for his actions the USG would have made some motions of clemancy. After his continual refusal to accept any responsbility for his actions, he can expect none.
I can't wait to see him finally get what he deserves.
because the crime was committed in the USA.
If I shoot a gun in the air I am guilty of reckless of just reckless endangerment in my country. When the bullet comes down on your side of the border, kills your mother & there is an extradition treaty between the two, I'd be put on trial in your country.
Don't like it? Get the treaty changed.
WUXGA 15" screens have been out for at least five years if you needed them. I'm on my second. Having such a high screen resolution just means that the icons are smaller (which i appreciate, as I've always found the default icon sizes too big). After you adjust the zoom you get a really clean display with the fonts rendered cleanly in high DPI. Is you can't read something, just zoom out.
Pfff... My last two Dell 15.4" laptops (a D810 & an E6500) have had WUXGA 1980x1200 screens.
15" Macbook Pros only go up to 1440x900. While I lust after the OS & the multitouch the screen resolution just isn't high enough.
Easily done with a robots.txt tailored to exclude all google domains. Something like: /google.com /gmail.com ...
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow:
The only games I can think of that try to be as close to RL as they can get are the Sims & GTA. OK, for these games the times square example has some validity, but even there, we are not really there for the ads, but to play the damned game. As soon as they start modifying the gameplay to make the ads more visible than they are in RL they will have gone too far.
I don't want a driving game where the ads are so in your face that you cannot see the track. I don't want a soccer game where the ads are 5 times the size they are in RL. I do not want to be pestered by ads for softdrinks in WoW. Unfortunately I'm sure that once advertising gets a foothold in gaming these & other abuses will outweigh any increase in "realism".
Junior, the migration bit being well nigh painless you excerpted is true yet I ever backpedaled away from any statements I made.
The comparison is clear between Apple supporting old CPU architectures for a few years & MS cutting & running within 3 months of assuring clients that Mips & Alpha were strategic future development paths. It's not Apple "we do anything to help you" as Apple eventually did abandon the old CPUs, however I never said "we do anything to help you". You set up that strawman so you could knock it down & feel righteous.
Yeah, & while they are at it, they should port all versions of OSX to the 680X0 Macs too! I'm really disappointed that I can't get a recent OS for them. After all, given the ease and few ressouces needed to port OSX to the iPhone the 680X0 macs should be real easy...
</sarcasm>
If the platform is no longer in use by more than a small minority & just doesn't have the horsepower to profit it's dumb to waste the ressources. As has been pointed out here, using a too recent OSX release just makes the machine too slow & you can always use another OS as was pointed out here.
Hey junior, if you don't like the condesension then learn your computing history before showing your ignorance in public. This thread started when commodore64 complained about his jurassic PPC Mac not being able to install a recent OS X. I replied that Apple has migrated CPU architectures twice pretty much painlessly, & at least his systems had some support which is better than MS did when it abandoned CPUs. You come into thread saying that the CPU's MS abandoned were only used by a small minority I pointed out that apple's support of old CPU's was only abandoned after the old CPUs in use had diminished to a similar percentage. Moving goalposts? No. I addressed the points in their original context.
So Apple should have pulled a Vista & watered down their requirements so that any old PPC Mac no matter how old would be "ready"? Sorry that you find yourself on the wrong side of that partition but I'm grateful that Apple places reasonable limits that will reliably let me know upon which Macs a given OS X release will function.