You know, some parents raise their kids in a religion that I don't agree with. They let them read books I don't agree with. Or even discuss political topics I don't agree with. Do we have a right to be subjected to those children who are not raised the way I think they should be raised, or can we do something about it!
But that's exactly the point. Some countries force children to go to public schools in order to teach them the values of their society, exactly because some parents have different values which results in children who never learn to function in the society they grow up in.
Parents have the right to teach their children whatever the hell they want. But the society they grow up in does also have a right to influence these children and teach them the values which are held by the members of this society.
The Germans do have a certain penchant for self-flagellation on this subject. I honestly don't understand it. It's one thing to be penitent about your mistakes, but I don't see the need to beat yourself up for 50+ years over it.
That's one way to put it. Another would be that they simply want to make absolutely sure that some mistakes never happen again. I think the Germans go too far, but on the other hand, it's better to go too far than to not go far enough, and most other countries are clearly on the "not far enough" side of things (and I include my own country in that group).
If India is a democracy by your definition, then the US is one also.
I'd agree, except that Americans always flame me if I say that the US is a democracy:-)
Americans have always been capable of self-criticism
You should go to Germany. I've been there a few months ago. They're celebrating the WW2 bombing of their own cities. That's self-criticism. Americans are in general total jingoists by comparison.
But I really don't want to be ranting about Americans. I think you're right. It takes you a bit of time sometimes, but eventually, you always figure it out:-)
The UN is very far from perfect, but they are doing a lot of good things. They're not doing enough, but htis is mainly because one member of the security council in particular (hrm USA hrm) keeps them from doing more. It's funny how Americans are always the first to criticise the UN when it's their own government that's often to blame.
All manufacturers have problems with laptops. Diff is: If Apple has swelling batteries, the whole internet screams in agony. If Dell's laptops explode, it's just business as usual.
Sony mainly updates the firmware so often in order to close security holes which allow owners of the PSP to run homebrew applications on their PSPs. If you want to run newer PSP games, you need to have updated Firmware versions.
Well, then you should explain what exactly it is that makes India worse than the US.
Although I do find it funny that your post is just as much "flamebait" as mine (Uhm... India is a democracy. Unlike the US., clever), but your post gets modded insighful because I'm a big stupid American.
Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? I was about to remove that part but somehow had already clicked on "Submit" when I decided to remove it. Subsequently, I actually did expect to get modded as Flamebait, even though my remark is not factually wrong.
Considering that the vast majority of visitors on/. are US americans, I find the fact that I got modded up (at least until now) heartening. Americans have often been incapable of criticising themselves, labelling people with dissenting opinions as traitors. I'm glad this is changing.
For all intents and purposes, a republic and a democracy are the same thing.
Wikipedia says: In a broad definition, a republic is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control by the people of that state or country.
That's pretty much a democracy without direct influence by the people. Some US states do, however, have direct influence by citiciens, while most states which call themselves democracies don't.
It's possible that I'm missing something. What exactly is the difference?
i think the continued managment by the u.s. would leave the internet in safe hands.
Or maybe it will leave it in the hands of the next stupid slobbering village idiot which the americans chose to elect as their leader. And maybe then, he won't just kill a certain TLD because he doesn't happen to like nekkid women. Maybe then he'll cut a country or two off the Internets because they're "evil".
I don't trust the ICANN, but frankly, I trust the US government even less.
The RIAA constantly tries to sucker people into thinking that they're helping the artists, that stealing is wrong because it takes money away from the artists and that they're doing all that suing simply to help the poor artists. For that reason, hearing from actual artists who get screwed by the recording companies is good and important, regardless of whether it's their own damn fault.
I suspect it was designed by robot monkeys with a serious crack habbit. What makes an OS usable are the small things, like the exponential acceleration of the mouse cursor on Macs, or the fact that a pixel is actually one pixel in size and square, or the fact that the OS doesn't look like it was written as a DOS application which was subsequently squashed horizontally because mother monkey sat on it.
Fortunately, I hardly ever had to boot into Workbench itself, as I used the Amiga mostly to play games.
Ok so what about the gamers that don't? What about those that play a lot, but only because that's what they like to do? Believe it or not it's perfectly possible to spend lots of time playing games, but simply because you've time to spend and that's what you like spending it on.
Fascinating, but this is not what the article is about. Newsflash: Some people drink a glass of wine every evening and don't get addicted. That doesn't mean that alcohol addiction doesn't exist.
You know, a lot of people watch television in excess of 4-6 hours a day. I've never once heard any of them referred to as "addicts."
I have.
Likewise, a lot of retired people play golf all afternoon six days a week. Are they "addicted" to golf?
They're retired. If they were still working and would neglect their work and friends for golfing, then yea, that would count as addiction too.
Let's face it, it's a small minority of gamers that are addicted to games, but they do exist. People who spend all their time on WoW while forgetting about friends, family and work/school need help, plain and simple.
You can compile your own PPC Darwin. You can boot that and log into it. There's no Intel version of Darwin (yet - maybe Apple will never release it, maybe they will do it after 10.5), but again, what is Mac OS X? The relevant userland parts are from BSD, anyway. You can combine FreeBSD or OpenBSD with some of Apple's code and KDE to get something that shares a lot of the functionality with Mac OS X.
There are some things you can't get: The most obvious are Cocoa, Carbon, the Finder and the Core compenents (like Core Graphics). There's a simple reason for that: Apple relies on these parts for its competitive advantage. If you want Apple to exist, you must accept that they will keep this proprietary. If they were to open these things, they'd lose their competitive advantage and would be an iPod-only company within few years.
Most Mac users buy Macs for two reasons:
They prefer the look and feel of Mac OS X
They prefer the applications on Mac OS X
Opening the Finder and stuff like Core Graphics would mean that Linux would have a superior file manager and UI within months. Opening Carbon and Cocoa would mean that Mac apps would run under Linux within months.
Blaming Apple for not opening these parts is hardly fair. They need these parts to remain proprietary if they want to keep existing as a computer manufacturer and OS developer.
Even considering everything the others have said, you'd still be wrong.
If you wanted to learn a new language, knowing about its predecessors, knowing what the language builds on, why this was decided, who first came up with the concepts and why; all this would be extremely valuable.
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Wow. I see MIB counts as a philosophy lesson nowadays.
But that's exactly the point. Some countries force children to go to public schools in order to teach them the values of their society, exactly because some parents have different values which results in children who never learn to function in the society they grow up in.
Parents have the right to teach their children whatever the hell they want. But the society they grow up in does also have a right to influence these children and teach them the values which are held by the members of this society.
I know an even better application for this technology. Type
Me having sex with Jenna J. and Asia C. at the same timeConvert to 3D-enactment.
That's one way to put it. Another would be that they simply want to make absolutely sure that some mistakes never happen again. I think the Germans go too far, but on the other hand, it's better to go too far than to not go far enough, and most other countries are clearly on the "not far enough" side of things (and I include my own country in that group).
I'd agree, except that Americans always flame me if I say that the US is a democracy :-)
You should go to Germany. I've been there a few months ago. They're celebrating the WW2 bombing of their own cities. That's self-criticism. Americans are in general total jingoists by comparison.
But I really don't want to be ranting about Americans. I think you're right. It takes you a bit of time sometimes, but eventually, you always figure it out :-)
But that's exactly my point.
More than one Dell exploded. Not all MacBooks show the whining problem. In fact, I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro which has no problem at all.
The UN is very far from perfect, but they are doing a lot of good things. They're not doing enough, but htis is mainly because one member of the security council in particular (hrm USA hrm) keeps them from doing more. It's funny how Americans are always the first to criticise the UN when it's their own government that's often to blame.
Why in the world would I do that?
Why should I care if people do something illegal? Why should Sony be able to use that as an excuse to keep me from doing something legal?
If people drive too fast and the government takes your car away, do you blame those who drive too fast or the government?
First of all, wow, what the hell is wrong with you? What did I do to make you insult me like that?
Second, you're wrong. Does that mean that your insults actually apply to you now?
All manufacturers have problems with laptops. Diff is: If Apple has swelling batteries, the whole internet screams in agony. If Dell's laptops explode, it's just business as usual.
The DS firmware can't be updated at all.
Sony mainly updates the firmware so often in order to close security holes which allow owners of the PSP to run homebrew applications on their PSPs. If you want to run newer PSP games, you need to have updated Firmware versions.
Well, then you should explain what exactly it is that makes India worse than the US.
Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? I was about to remove that part but somehow had already clicked on "Submit" when I decided to remove it. Subsequently, I actually did expect to get modded as Flamebait, even though my remark is not factually wrong.
Considering that the vast majority of visitors on /. are US americans, I find the fact that I got modded up (at least until now) heartening. Americans have often been incapable of criticising themselves, labelling people with dissenting opinions as traitors. I'm glad this is changing.
For all intents and purposes, a republic and a democracy are the same thing.
Wikipedia says: In a broad definition, a republic is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control by the people of that state or country.
That's pretty much a democracy without direct influence by the people. Some US states do, however, have direct influence by citiciens, while most states which call themselves democracies don't.
It's possible that I'm missing something. What exactly is the difference?
And of course, the US government would never censor anything, and would not let personal values influence decisions concerned with the Internet.
I can see how Iranian control can be considered worse than US control. Indian? Not so much.
Still a step up from being run with the efficiency and integrity of the US government.
Uhm... India is a democracy. Unlike the US.
Maybe you were thinking of Iran?
I know, it's hard. All those foreigh countries...
Not a good idea. But a better idea than leaving it to Bush's successor.
Or maybe it will leave it in the hands of the next stupid slobbering village idiot which the americans chose to elect as their leader. And maybe then, he won't just kill a certain TLD because he doesn't happen to like nekkid women. Maybe then he'll cut a country or two off the Internets because they're "evil".
I don't trust the ICANN, but frankly, I trust the US government even less.
The RIAA constantly tries to sucker people into thinking that they're helping the artists, that stealing is wrong because it takes money away from the artists and that they're doing all that suing simply to help the poor artists. For that reason, hearing from actual artists who get screwed by the recording companies is good and important, regardless of whether it's their own damn fault.
As I said: It was an unusable ugly piece of trash.
I suspect it was designed by robot monkeys with a serious crack habbit. What makes an OS usable are the small things, like the exponential acceleration of the mouse cursor on Macs, or the fact that a pixel is actually one pixel in size and square, or the fact that the OS doesn't look like it was written as a DOS application which was subsequently squashed horizontally because mother monkey sat on it.
Fortunately, I hardly ever had to boot into Workbench itself, as I used the Amiga mostly to play games.
Fascinating, but this is not what the article is about. Newsflash: Some people drink a glass of wine every evening and don't get addicted. That doesn't mean that alcohol addiction doesn't exist.
I have.
They're retired. If they were still working and would neglect their work and friends for golfing, then yea, that would count as addiction too.
Let's face it, it's a small minority of gamers that are addicted to games, but they do exist. People who spend all their time on WoW while forgetting about friends, family and work/school need help, plain and simple.
The question here is: What is Mac OS X?
You can compile your own PPC Darwin. You can boot that and log into it. There's no Intel version of Darwin (yet - maybe Apple will never release it, maybe they will do it after 10.5), but again, what is Mac OS X? The relevant userland parts are from BSD, anyway. You can combine FreeBSD or OpenBSD with some of Apple's code and KDE to get something that shares a lot of the functionality with Mac OS X.
There are some things you can't get: The most obvious are Cocoa, Carbon, the Finder and the Core compenents (like Core Graphics). There's a simple reason for that: Apple relies on these parts for its competitive advantage. If you want Apple to exist, you must accept that they will keep this proprietary. If they were to open these things, they'd lose their competitive advantage and would be an iPod-only company within few years.
Most Mac users buy Macs for two reasons:
Opening the Finder and stuff like Core Graphics would mean that Linux would have a superior file manager and UI within months. Opening Carbon and Cocoa would mean that Mac apps would run under Linux within months.
Blaming Apple for not opening these parts is hardly fair. They need these parts to remain proprietary if they want to keep existing as a computer manufacturer and OS developer.
Even considering everything the others have said, you'd still be wrong.
If you wanted to learn a new language, knowing about its predecessors, knowing what the language builds on, why this was decided, who first came up with the concepts and why; all this would be extremely valuable.