Every single one of your "alternatives" require access to a physical medium owned by a single company. You are an idiot. Without the present regulation, none of the services you listed would be provided at the prices listed.
As a Michigan resident that drives into Toronto several times a year, I'd have to say it works for the 407. I always take it into town because it takes me almost exactly where I want to go, it takes far less time because there is *way* less traffic than the 401 into Toronto, and the speed limit doesn't matter. I go 160kph easily without any trouble.
"(I still can't get used to the horrible idea that you have to tell it to copy what you selected before you can paste it elsewhere)."
You are an unmitigated moron. The INABILITY to copy and replace text under X is the single MOST annoying reason for which I would switch to it.
Of course you are 100% perfect. You never accidentally highlight anything you don't mean to copy. You always delete the offending text in the destination before copying the replacement. You never highlight a URL, switch to your browser, click the address bar, delete the current URL, switch BACK to re-copy the new URL and switch BACK to paste it, because of course, you're perfect.
This comment is just a general FYI on the supposedly god-like feature that FF has that IE doesn't.
I used a browser with tabbed browsing on Windows 3.1. It was stable, fast, compatible with then-current standards, and it was written by a company owned by AOL. To date, it was the best browser I have ever used.
Those who think FF/Mozilla was original in this area are just ignorant, stupid or both.
"IMO we've already paid a price for this with the cd-writing fiasco. Linus chucked out the only decent cd-burning interface because he didn't like it, and it made things worse for everyone."
That's not what happened. The interface that the cd tool used was deprecated because the generic ATAPI->SCSI code was fixed. The cd software author refused to fix his code, so Linus worked with a user to get some code that worked.
"The idea of the popup blocker and the tabbed browsing were not their own idea."
The first tabbed browser I ever used was on Windows 3.1 and was written for GNN, AOL's attempt at an ISP. It wasn't until Mozilla that I saw this feature make a come-back. (The GNN browser still did it better.)
You can link a non-empty partition. You can even link it to a non-empty directory, just like in Unix, and, just like in Unix, it will hide the usual contents of said directory.
In the US, voting in federal elections is pointless. As the electors are not bound (except via penalties and whatever their state laws provide) to vote as you do, your vote truly does not matter. Electors follow the popular vote to avoid trouble with state laws, not to meet federal requirements. Add to that the fact that it makes no difference who the president is and you get a lot of voter apathy. I will not vote because my vote does not matter.
What a stupid argument. You are equating accessibility with discrimination. The lines aren't the same, so why would there be a question of where to draw them? Not helping is not the same as discriminating against. If more people understood this difference, our laws would be a lot saner and people would be a lot better off.
You apparently haven't spent any time with them recently. There is already one new car program using catia, with one more expected within a few months. Not only that, PDGS is still used quite a bit within Ford.
"Piracy" in its original (and real) definition has nothing to do with copyright violation. This term is used to describe such crimes entirely because of the image this invokes of people that violate copyright. "Fair use" is a description of a legal doctrine relating to copyright, and is actually used in legal documents relating to copyright cases, if my understanding is correct.
So yes, one is an emotionally laden term, and the other is not.
I think it's probably because CAD packages and games use a very different subset of OpenGL. This difference is what led to all the mini-drivers in Windows that only supported the subset of OGL that quake(2) used, making these drivers useless for any other use of OGL.
The 100 line has US II processors, not US III. Not that the US III beats an athlon in raw performance, but complaining that an SB 100 isn't as fast is just plain silly.
Ford Motor owns about 7000 Suns, and still buys them. PCs just don't have the applications that CAD/CAM desisgners need to get real work done. There are some big software packages ported to Windows, like I-DEAS, Unigraphics, and Catia, but the whole workflow and ancillary apps are non-existant.
There is no time in recorded history that Jews did not live in the same area currently called Israel. They certainly had a national identity and country in that area that was recognized by the powers-that-be of the time. In this I refer to the Roman government. They conqured Israel, and it's hard to conquer a country that isn't a country. On the other hand, the Arabs (and palestinians are simply Arabs) never had an established state in that area of land. Even when controlled by Turkey, it was not an independant state.
Given that most of the nations of the world ackowledge Israel's existance as a State, with it's own government, I would think that it would be safe to say that Isrealis are indeed just defending themselves.
Actually, it is recorded in the Babylonian Talmud in several places that the Torah scrolls that they had at that time (~2000 yrs ago) were not exact copies.
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Every single one of your "alternatives" require access to a physical medium owned by a single company. You are an idiot. Without the present regulation, none of the services you listed would be provided at the prices listed.
As a Michigan resident that drives into Toronto several times a year, I'd have to say it works for the 407. I always take it into town because it takes me almost exactly where I want to go, it takes far less time because there is *way* less traffic than the 401 into Toronto, and the speed limit doesn't matter. I go 160kph easily without any trouble.
"I'm sorry, you're right.
It was de-regulation that caused every hamburger chain to combine into one.
It was de-regulation that caused every big box consumer store to combine into one.
It was de-regulation that caused every candy bar company to combine into one.
It was de-regulation that caused every shoe company to combine into one."
You are a fucking idiot. And I understate my opinion greatly.
If it were possible for McDonalds to monopolize the source of hamburger -- they would.
Walmart is well on the way to squeezing others out of their market.
The big ISPs ALREADY OWN THE PHYSICAL MEDIUM that is the internet backbone. Without regulation, they WILL lock out competitors.
"(I still can't get used to the horrible idea that you have to tell it to copy what you selected before you can paste it elsewhere)."
You are an unmitigated moron. The INABILITY to copy and replace text under X is the single MOST annoying reason for which I would switch to it.
Of course you are 100% perfect. You never accidentally highlight anything you don't mean to copy. You always delete the offending text in the destination before copying the replacement. You never highlight a URL, switch to your browser, click the address bar, delete the current URL, switch BACK to re-copy the new URL and switch BACK to paste it, because of course, you're perfect.
A perfect moron.
Within a year or three, Linux hardware will outnumber Solaris hardware in Ford's NA datacenters.
This comment is just a general FYI on the supposedly god-like feature that FF has that IE doesn't.
I used a browser with tabbed browsing on Windows 3.1. It was stable, fast, compatible with then-current standards, and it was written by a company owned by AOL. To date, it was the best browser I have ever used.
Those who think FF/Mozilla was original in this area are just ignorant, stupid or both.
"It's important to consider how people come to believe things that aren't true."
It's not science because it's not proveably false. Yet you can declare that it's not true.
Hypocrite.
War in Iraq. (To pick a recent example.)
"IMO we've already paid a price for this with the cd-writing fiasco. Linus chucked out the only decent cd-burning interface because he didn't like it, and it made things worse for everyone."
That's not what happened. The interface that the cd tool used was deprecated because the generic ATAPI->SCSI code was fixed. The cd software author refused to fix his code, so Linus worked with a user to get some code that worked.
How is that different from government, exactly?
You don't choose to pay the government. You pay.
It's a fairly safe bet that NASA already has one. They sort of invented it, after all.
"The idea of the popup blocker and the tabbed browsing were not their own idea."
The first tabbed browser I ever used was on Windows 3.1 and was written for GNN, AOL's attempt at an ISP. It wasn't until Mozilla that I saw this feature make a come-back. (The GNN browser still did it better.)
You can link a non-empty partition. You can even link it to a non-empty directory, just like in Unix, and, just like in Unix, it will hide the usual contents of said directory.
In the US, voting in federal elections is pointless. As the electors are not bound (except via penalties and whatever their state laws provide) to vote as you do, your vote truly does not matter. Electors follow the popular vote to avoid trouble with state laws, not to meet federal requirements. Add to that the fact that it makes no difference who the president is and you get a lot of voter apathy. I will not vote because my vote does not matter.
What a stupid argument. You are equating accessibility with discrimination. The lines aren't the same, so why would there be a question of where to draw them? Not helping is not the same as discriminating against. If more people understood this difference, our laws would be a lot saner and people would be a lot better off.
We shall also ignore the fact that I used a tabbed browser written by AOL on Windows 3.1. Mozilla hasn't had a new interface idea yet.
She can change her hair color, that's one power she uses that he doesn't. However they would both die to the BatMagicWand.
You apparently haven't spent any time with them recently. There is already one new car program using catia, with one more expected within a few months. Not only that, PDGS is still used quite a bit within Ford.
"Piracy" in its original (and real) definition has nothing to do with copyright violation. This term is used to describe such crimes entirely because of the image this invokes of people that violate copyright. "Fair use" is a description of a legal doctrine relating to copyright, and is actually used in legal documents relating to copyright cases, if my understanding is correct.
So yes, one is an emotionally laden term, and the other is not.
I think it's probably because CAD packages and games use a very different subset of OpenGL. This difference is what led to all the mini-drivers in Windows that only supported the subset of OGL that quake(2) used, making these drivers useless for any other use of OGL.
The 100 line has US II processors, not US III. Not that the US III beats an athlon in raw performance, but complaining that an SB 100 isn't as fast is just plain silly.
Ford Motor owns about 7000 Suns, and still buys them. PCs just don't have the applications that CAD/CAM desisgners need to get real work done. There are some big software packages ported to Windows, like I-DEAS, Unigraphics, and Catia, but the whole workflow and ancillary apps are non-existant.
I fail to see how the current economic system has any bearing on morality.
There is no time in recorded history that Jews did not live in the same area currently called Israel. They certainly had a national identity and country in that area that was recognized by the powers-that-be of the time. In this I refer to the Roman government. They conqured Israel, and it's hard to conquer a country that isn't a country. On the other hand, the Arabs (and palestinians are simply Arabs) never had an established state in that area of land. Even when controlled by Turkey, it was not an independant state.
Given that most of the nations of the world ackowledge Israel's existance as a State, with it's own government, I would think that it would be safe to say that Isrealis are indeed just defending themselves.
Actually, it is recorded in the Babylonian Talmud in several places that the Torah scrolls that they had at that time (~2000 yrs ago) were not exact copies.