One doesn't write because there aren't any other ways of communicating, one writes it out because you can be guaranteed of being able to do it anywhere that you can get a writing implement and something to write on. No. One writes because there isn't anything better at the time.
It used to be that we hand-wrote every single book, then we had the first printing presses. Then we only hand-wrote flyers and low-volume books, until we got movable type. And then we hand-wrote letters and calculations, until we got typewriters and the first computers. And so on, and so on.
Your point about being able to write is a valid one -- if you cannot pick up a pen and paper and write down your thoughts, you're lacking in as basic a skill as reading. But just because a skill is basic doesn't mean that it's a best practice.
I still have notes from every class I brought my laptop to. I rarely kept my notes for a no-laptop class through the end of a semester. When you get right down to it, the fleeting impermanence of handwritten notes just makes them unworkable for anything except a one-time mnemonic device.
I simply observed his behavior and concluded from those observations he wasn't very bright. I do respect his right to have a different opinion, you're utterly bewildered if you think otherwise. No. You observed his stated opinions, and concluded that he wasn't very bright. (Me? I say we judge who's bright and who's not by either their creative output or their annual income. I think Ted beats either of us on that one.)
But I'll re-state: if your reaction of someone who disagrees with you is to conclude that they're "not very bright", you're not respecting their right to their own opinion. You're respecting their right to be ignorant, which is something else entirely.
Sure. Try this on for size. Sorry, even a smart man can play an idiot on stage. Try again.
Or his views on subjugating weaker animals to violent death for entertainment. Reason & Intelligence do not lead to compassion for unintelligent creatures. In fact, it takes a measure of reason to differentiate between intelligent and unintelligent creatures.
Or this quote: "America is like Canada. If you can't speak English, get the f**k out!" Makes perfect rational sense -- sorry, you're batting 0 so far. Expecting immigrants to learn the language is rational, even if it's not palatable.
Or his anti-gay stance. Nope. Some of the most intelligent people who ever lived would shun a homosexual the way you'd shun a KKK member.
Or his recent wearing of a confederate flag on stage. See way back on the first quote. Anyone can play on stage, and the Confederate Flag has more pull in this country than any foreign nation's flag.
You're more than welcome to belittle Ted for his positons, but call a spade a spade. He's not an ignorant, unintelligent troll. He's a bigoted, sexist, partisan troll. If he were simply unintelligent, he wouldn't be a problem -- and by assuming that only someone of lesser intelligence could disagree with you, you're not respecting his right to have a different opinion.
a trip to the Moon is just a few millions; while a trillion dollars are at stake Actually, a moon shot is a few billion dollars a pop. Remember to account for inflation.
And MS, as an entire company, is only worth about 272 billion dollars, and had gross revenue of about 50 billion last year.
For OOXML to be worth "a trillion dollars", it'd have to somehow be worth twenty years of Microsoft's 2007 total revenue. Or, four entire companies the size of microsoft.
Much more likely: you're just not from America, and use a nonstandard "Trillion." (This is a US site, default to US measurements or state otherwise, please.) Yes, OOXML being a standard is probably worth about one thousand-million dollars. Or, about 5% of what Microsoft makes from Office anyway.
I don't understand what's wrong with the current GUI either. They better hadn't make it into some MDI bogosity to please Photoshop on Windows trolls who aren't going to switch anyway Actually, MDI would be a hell of a lot better than the "fifteen different windows" approach it does now.
The taskbar should have, at most, one tab for the program and one tab for each file. NOT EVER one tab for each fracking separate dialog box!
If Wikia continues to serve ads over Guild Wiki's content, how can the thousands of contributors to the site stop them without going to the expense/trouble of hiring attorneys? You can't. Either the CC "no commercial" license has a punative clause, in which case you should be able to get an attorney on retainer, or it doesn't, and it's a license with no teeth.
The evidence confirming quantum theory is overwhelming there's a world of difference between "quantum theory" (i.e., what Plank and Einstein were arguing about) and "quantum mechanics" (what Einstein spent the latter part of his career attacking.)
The former says "the world is pixelated, not infinitely divisible", the latter adds "and those pixels might not really be there."
Sure, it's a layman's simplification. But you can't just wave your hand and say "sure, QM is confirmed" and not provided even a single solitary link.
Also, if you read the article, you'd have learned that that RMS doesn't try to force anyone to think his way: "I respect his right to express his views, even though I think they are foolish" But that's exactly what he's doing.
RMS is radically changing the GPL because he wants it to mean what he thinks it means. He thinks Microsoft is out to "get" him, and that companies like TiVo need to be chased out of business for succeeding on a loophole.
If RMS could push a button and change what Linus believes, he'd push that button.
Server does data stuff, browser does monkey see monkey do stuff. This kind of "you can have any color so long as it's black" thinking is why I had to suffer through a web form user-account system that told me "invalid password" ten times as I tried to guess what their specific rules were.
Make the user's browser guide the data, check the input once, and then send to the server. There, the server checks it AGAIN. That gives you a redundant check in case someone hacks your client-side script, and lets the non-hacker still get the benefit of an intelligent page.
What I want is PS3 videogames that have a long, detailed "attract mode": a script that runs the game through its paces. Once someone has "solved" these games, there isn't any reason that a script showing how it's played through shouldn't be available. Sure there is -- those are games meant to be played, not movies meant to be watched.
If you consider them a work of art at all, then you should respect the artist's intention. Metroid Prime:3, for example, has a first encounter with metroids that got me on the edge of my seat--but that would be completely missing in a scripted play. Heck, it'd be completely missing if I just recorded the signal of me playing and sent that to you. the game was meant to be played.
OTOH, you mentioned a PS3. Which is probably a good reinforcement that you don't actually want to play games.
Come to think of it, Sony should just cut out the studio and "script" a few "rendered-on-the-PS3" movies. Hmmm... the $700 system might have a purpose then.
Considering the source material for Transformers, just how could you have made a live action movie any different when space alien robots decided to transform into truck to fight compat jets? Drop the "my brother" crap from Optimus & Megatron, and just let them beat each other a'la a good ol' monster movie?
NO ONE went to the movie for the storyline. They went to see giant robots fighting. So, with that being the case -- why make a crap story?
And how did those members of societies become compassionate in the first place? Oh yes -- randomly, got it./sarcasm for the same values of "random" that affecting how parking spaces fill up, yes.
Barbarian A says "screw you, me eat all antelope."
Barbarian B says to Barbarian C "Man, A sucks. How about you and me kill us an antelope and not let him have one?"
A is a society, B & C are a society. Barbarians D - ZQH also form societies, and from there it's just a matter of which one works better.
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You are also forgetting the NDA is excluding basic human rights organized by the constitution, one of which is the freedom of the press. NO.
The bill of rights is limits on what the government can do unilaterally through force of law. Those are your constitutional rights, and you may suspend them as you see fit, especially if it gets you some benefit. (For example, if you've ever gotten a DMV ticket, you probably waived your right to a trial by jury to get it over with faster.)
An NDA is a perfectly acceptable contract -- you agree not to tell, and I agree to tell you something I wouldn't otherwise. You could even argue that the NDA is part of your first amendment right of freedom to associate.
This is NOT legal, and they cannot enforce this in a court of law. Yes, they can. Go to your local community college and take a basic business law class. You're woefully underinformed as to what the law will and won't do, who the Constitution applies to, and apparently even the basic understanding of what the Bill of Rights says.
("Congress shall make no law..." can be stretched to apply to the various legislatures of the states fairly well. Hoewver, we do NOT want any legal precdent at all eqauting "business" with "congress" in any way. I don't want Microsoft to have even the slightest chance of being able to declare war.)
Next on the todo list: throw out the rest of that abomination of a document that is the Patriot Act. Why don't you, oh, name the parts you don't like?
The Patriot Act isn't a "document" any more than Wikipedia is. It's a HUGE bill, with several distinct parts -- the vast majority of which fall clearly under the "well, duh" type of law.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, there will never be a Foleo II.... Even die-hard Palm fans hated it, renaming it the Flopeo or Fooleo. You are. There were more than a few die-hard palm fans that looked at the Foleo, and though "hey, that's worth $600." Most of those that didn't did not as much ridicule the concept (a Palm OS pseudo-Laptop!) as mock its lack of media capability.
If the Foleo could manage a plug-in USB 2.0 DVD drive, had a full PCMCIA slot, and out-of-the-box could be used to watch YouTube, it'd be on shelves right now. I'd expect the last one to be fixed, and then the Foleo launched in six months or so with the single "Palm Linux" OS.
2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2 I never got that. Shouldn't it be 6? No. 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, ~= 5 Anything that could possibly add up to 6 (~ 5.5 or greater) would be ~= 3.
If the guy lied and said he didn't have his license, the police could charge him for perjury. No, they can't. Depending on the state they might slap him for a lesser charge of "obstructing police business" (which is what he was charged with) or "failure to follow a lawful order by a police officer" (in NY), but it isn't perjury unless he's under oath.
Between the DRM, Practically everyone either doesn't care about DRM, or simply avoids it. It's not like the system will leap on your 30 GB of MP3s from Napster and slap them all with DRM.
the DirectX 10 incompatibilities, Last I heard, the DirectX 10 problem was that, if you weren't using Vista, you didn't have DX10. Not a very good point.
the high cost, Ok, you've got me there. Vista costs more than "$0".
the extreme hardware requirements, My wife's bottom-basement laptop bought a year and a half ago could run Vista just fine. If by "extreme" you mean "modern", I suppose that holds up.
the inability to play multimedia and download at the same time, I'm sorry, but I've never had a PC that wasn't slowed down when downloading. Most of the time I don't notice it, but that doesn't make me think it's suddenly slowed down. (And what you're referring to as a bug, that, gasp, they're working on.)
and now this, "This" being a single ISP in the entire world that's got enough vendor lock-in to screw windows users. You're right, that's entirely Microsoft's fault.
I just don't understand why anyone would still be using Windows. And it's not like there aren't alternatives. Between even just OS X and Ubuntu, there are systems that don't have such inherent flaws. Well, that's the rub. If a typical computer user wants to switch to OS X or Ubuntu, they need to re-learn everything they know about using a computer. For a system that does most of the same things.
Linux will take over Windows when it is hands-down better than the current version of windows from the user's perspective. Not just "good enough", but UNARGUABLY BETTER.
Right now, there is nothing I can do on Linux that I can't do on Windows, nothing that care to do that I can do better on Linux than Windows, and more than one thing that I can do on Windows that I either can't do on Linux, or can't do on Linux without more than $100 worth of headache.
If that ever changes, Linux's adoption will increase. But if you don't have a vested interest in using Linux, there's no reason to set it up on your desktop.
Every four years, my wife tells me I'm just throwing away my vote; I respectfully disagree.
You're right. You're not only throwing away your vote, you're ceeding responsibility to select the next elected official, and encouraging said official to simply ignore you.
Especially if you only vote every four years.
Americans who belong to third parties are exercising their Constitutional right of free association. Americans who vote for a third party's luck-to-get-one-percent candidates, though, are just being fools.
Don't say the OS is broken...its not. If Microsoft doesn't get to say that IE and a ham sandwich are part of an "operating system", then GNU/Linux geeks don't get to say that the GUI isn't part of the OS.
How many Linux users do you think do anything without loading a GUI on their userspace system?
This is what insurance is for though - the unexpected. Surely general household cover would be sufficient? As a matter of interest is it common to bill the houseowner for the fire departments response? Point 1: Even if you have insurance, the matter of liability is always something that needs to be determined. If I have total coverage on my car, I may not care if you hit me or if I hit you, but I can assure you that my insurance company does.
Point 2: No, it isn't. Ambulance services, yes. But not "mere" fire prevention. OTOH, the homeowner does have to foot the bill for the damage to his house.
this theory is easily dismissed by the fact that electrons flowing TO the sun have NEVER been detected with the explanation from the believers of the electric model being "we're not looking hard enough"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we have NO way to detect electrons that don't strike normal matter? As in, if I send a stream of electrons 10 meters away from you in your spaceship, aren't you completely oblivious to what I did if I missed?
We also haven't detected one species splitting into two -- does that mean that evolution's a load of crap?
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It used to be that we hand-wrote every single book, then we had the first printing presses. Then we only hand-wrote flyers and low-volume books, until we got movable type. And then we hand-wrote letters and calculations, until we got typewriters and the first computers. And so on, and so on.
Your point about being able to write is a valid one -- if you cannot pick up a pen and paper and write down your thoughts, you're lacking in as basic a skill as reading. But just because a skill is basic doesn't mean that it's a best practice.
I still have notes from every class I brought my laptop to. I rarely kept my notes for a no-laptop class through the end of a semester. When you get right down to it, the fleeting impermanence of handwritten notes just makes them unworkable for anything except a one-time mnemonic device.
But I'll re-state: if your reaction of someone who disagrees with you is to conclude that they're "not very bright", you're not respecting their right to their own opinion. You're respecting their right to be ignorant, which is something else entirely.
You're more than welcome to belittle Ted for his positons, but call a spade a spade. He's not an ignorant, unintelligent troll. He's a bigoted, sexist, partisan troll. If he were simply unintelligent, he wouldn't be a problem -- and by assuming that only someone of lesser intelligence could disagree with you, you're not respecting his right to have a different opinion.
Alice No, Alice, they mean "impassible". It's a real word, it means something other than "impossible." Look it up.
And MS, as an entire company, is only worth about 272 billion dollars, and had gross revenue of about 50 billion last year.
For OOXML to be worth "a trillion dollars", it'd have to somehow be worth twenty years of Microsoft's 2007 total revenue. Or, four entire companies the size of microsoft.
Much more likely: you're just not from America, and use a nonstandard "Trillion." (This is a US site, default to US measurements or state otherwise, please.) Yes, OOXML being a standard is probably worth about one thousand-million dollars. Or, about 5% of what Microsoft makes from Office anyway.
The taskbar should have, at most, one tab for the program and one tab for each file. NOT EVER one tab for each fracking separate dialog box!
Either suck it up, sue, or fork.
The former says "the world is pixelated, not infinitely divisible", the latter adds "and those pixels might not really be there."
Sure, it's a layman's simplification. But you can't just wave your hand and say "sure, QM is confirmed" and not provided even a single solitary link.
RMS is radically changing the GPL because he wants it to mean what he thinks it means. He thinks Microsoft is out to "get" him, and that companies like TiVo need to be chased out of business for succeeding on a loophole.
If RMS could push a button and change what Linus believes, he'd push that button.
Screwy berk, you can't chant the new rules? Armor class going up instead of down makin' ya all wobbly?
Go back to the Prime; real cutters went to d20 almost ten years ago.
Make the user's browser guide the data, check the input once, and then send to the server. There, the server checks it AGAIN. That gives you a redundant check in case someone hacks your client-side script, and lets the non-hacker still get the benefit of an intelligent page.
If you consider them a work of art at all, then you should respect the artist's intention. Metroid Prime:3, for example, has a first encounter with metroids that got me on the edge of my seat--but that would be completely missing in a scripted play. Heck, it'd be completely missing if I just recorded the signal of me playing and sent that to you. the game was meant to be played.
OTOH, you mentioned a PS3. Which is probably a good reinforcement that you don't actually want to play games.
Come to think of it, Sony should just cut out the studio and "script" a few "rendered-on-the-PS3" movies. Hmmm... the $700 system might have a purpose then.
NO ONE went to the movie for the storyline. They went to see giant robots fighting. So, with that being the case -- why make a crap story?
Barbarian A says "screw you, me eat all antelope."
Barbarian B says to Barbarian C "Man, A sucks. How about you and me kill us an antelope and not let him have one?"
A is a society, B & C are a society. Barbarians D - ZQH also form societies, and from there it's just a matter of which one works better.
The bill of rights is limits on what the government can do unilaterally through force of law. Those are your constitutional rights, and you may suspend them as you see fit, especially if it gets you some benefit. (For example, if you've ever gotten a DMV ticket, you probably waived your right to a trial by jury to get it over with faster.)
An NDA is a perfectly acceptable contract -- you agree not to tell, and I agree to tell you something I wouldn't otherwise. You could even argue that the NDA is part of your first amendment right of freedom to associate. This is NOT legal, and they cannot enforce this in a court of law. Yes, they can. Go to your local community college and take a basic business law class. You're woefully underinformed as to what the law will and won't do, who the Constitution applies to, and apparently even the basic understanding of what the Bill of Rights says.
("Congress shall make no law..." can be stretched to apply to the various legislatures of the states fairly well. Hoewver, we do NOT want any legal precdent at all eqauting "business" with "congress" in any way. I don't want Microsoft to have even the slightest chance of being able to declare war.)
The Patriot Act isn't a "document" any more than Wikipedia is. It's a HUGE bill, with several distinct parts -- the vast majority of which fall clearly under the "well, duh" type of law.
If the Foleo could manage a plug-in USB 2.0 DVD drive, had a full PCMCIA slot, and out-of-the-box could be used to watch YouTube, it'd be on shelves right now. I'd expect the last one to be fixed, and then the Foleo launched in six months or so with the single "Palm Linux" OS.
Linux will take over Windows when it is hands-down better than the current version of windows from the user's perspective. Not just "good enough", but UNARGUABLY BETTER.
Right now, there is nothing I can do on Linux that I can't do on Windows, nothing that care to do that I can do better on Linux than Windows, and more than one thing that I can do on Windows that I either can't do on Linux, or can't do on Linux without more than $100 worth of headache.
If that ever changes, Linux's adoption will increase. But if you don't have a vested interest in using Linux, there's no reason to set it up on your desktop.
Every four years, my wife tells me I'm just throwing away my vote; I respectfully disagree.
You're right. You're not only throwing away your vote, you're ceeding responsibility to select the next elected official, and encouraging said official to simply ignore you.
Especially if you only vote every four years.
Americans who belong to third parties are exercising their Constitutional right of free association. Americans who vote for a third party's luck-to-get-one-percent candidates, though, are just being fools.
How many Linux users do you think do anything without loading a GUI on their userspace system?
Point 2: No, it isn't. Ambulance services, yes. But not "mere" fire prevention. OTOH, the homeowner does have to foot the bill for the damage to his house.
Basic democracy from Robert's Rules of Order: Silence equals agreement.
this theory is easily dismissed by the fact that electrons flowing TO the sun have NEVER been detected with the explanation from the believers of the electric model being "we're not looking hard enough"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we have NO way to detect electrons that don't strike normal matter? As in, if I send a stream of electrons 10 meters away from you in your spaceship, aren't you completely oblivious to what I did if I missed?
We also haven't detected one species splitting into two -- does that mean that evolution's a load of crap?