Nah, because it involves punctuation. Look, it's not hard, the way to create a post-desktop modern tech web 10.0 name is to put 'r' or 'ly' on the end of a word, like:
connectly, voidly, mallocly readr, pointr, newr
That way it'll Google, it'll be kinda unique, and it'll still look just as embarassing and hip in a "Yo young kids, I may be your granddad but I'm hip with your Rick Astleys and Madonna music and Beavis and or Butthead" way as your attempts to include punctuation.
They could stop in Israel, or Jordan, or Lebanon or even Turkey
So if they're economic migrants, why not stop in Israel or Turkey? And Barbara has already dealt with the "malicious intent" argument.
It's pretty straightforward. They're trying to get the hell away from danger and horror. The West is one of the few places in the world you can flee to and, if you're accepted be given a chance to recover - not become rich, but not spend the rest of your miserable life in a refugee camp, which you might accept for yourself but you'll never accept for your family.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone fleeing war and a horrific terrorist group that beheads people for expressing any view or making any action deemed bad by one reading of a 1,500 year old book. Where would you go? One of the many countries that literally can't cope with any influx of refugees, a country that treats people like you as the enemy, or Europe and the US?
The problem is that you'll now have an Android app running on a Windows phone, looking and behaving like an Android app
True, but is this really a problem? The apps will usually run full screen, and so you're not going to have users forced to see a jumble of different UI types as you do with, say, Wine.
Going back to my old Amiga, where apps either ran in windows on the Workbench screen, or on their own screens, there was never really a problem with "different UIs" when apps ran on their own screens - which many developers took advantage of.
To a certain extent, I see that in regular Android apps to. Most (non-games) seem to try to make themselves look as much like GMail as possible, but every now and again you come across something that doesn't resemble any other Android app, and it really doesn't matter as long as the UI is well designed and the implementation isn't clunky. Of course, many of the custom UIs are neither well designed or clunky, but that's not relevent here;-)
It's kinda important though when a large number of politicians are demanding we stop letting refugees in because somehow that'll somehow stop terrorism.
And it's especially important when actually the terror group we're worried about, ISIL, would have its power bolstered by such an action - a sizable number of the refugees the politicians are talking about banning are trying to escape from ISIL.
Pinning terrorism on "refugees" and then whispering "although not necessarily these refugees" is probably not a helpful thing to say right now, in that it's likely to result in support for bad policies.
If only France, the target of this terrorist attack, had some kind of elite military force composed (mostly) of foreigners...;-)
(Not that I agree with the OP, but it's not like your question was without an answer! I guess the youngsters who frequent this site have never watched Laurel and Hardy, with the possible exception of that god-awful Hanna Barbera cartoon...)
Just a clarification: The Media Creation Tool is somewhat misleadingly named. It's actually a generic upgrade tool that has the capability to create installation media but is actually more often used for straight, in place, upgrades (the type where the operating system updates, but your files are still there, your applications are still installed, your device drivers are either upgraded or left alone, the registry is patched not recreated, etc.)
So yeah, you can download the ISOs directly, but you're more likely to actually want to use the MCT as it performs an upgrade not dissimilar to, say, upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 14.10 using Software Updater.
I've not seen a single person in this thread even defend ordinary Muslims (who had nothing to do with it) let alone anyone defend terrorism or Islamists.
It's convenient though for the extreme right to pretend that the "left" is the boogieman. Makes it easier to silence them as radical, anti-Muslim policies are promoted that assume every Muslim is a terrorist.
Me, I thought the bad guys were a bunch of religious extremists who killed 127 people in Paris today. But apparently it's straw left-wingers. Who knew?
They're massive rivals and hate each other. ISIL is largely a bunch of religious nuts who murder people because they hate them. Al Qaeda has more of a specific agenda and is trying to use terrorism to produce certain governmental responses that will result, in the end, in a pan-Arab state.
ISIL is basically fucking things up for Al Qaeda, which would be great if it wasn't for the fact that both groups are evil monsters that see Westerners as convenient scapegoats and great people to murder.
I believe ISIL came out of Al Qaeda, but that's the only connection.
Immediately after UK citizens were disarmed, murder, rape, and total violent crime DOUBLED
"Immediately"?
When, pray, was that? On what date did most Britons, or even just a significant number, have firearms, with that situation changing the following day?
I can tell you that even pre-Hungerford, nobody engaged in crime in the UK expected their victims to be armed. If you're referring to either the post-Hungerford or post-Dublaine laws, any rise or fall in crime was purely coincidental.
Note: I support gun ownership, I just don't like absurd claims made against gun control. Britain has had increasingly strict laws on guns since the late 1940s, and very, very, few Britons have ever seen (outside of a museum or an armed law enforcer/soldier), let alone touched, a real gun since... well, before the 1970s.
Unfortunately we can't make that claim on the basis of today's horrors. I hate to be the bad guy here (*puts on Hitler mustache*) but without data on how many terrorist plots France has foiled, we can't say whether France is using the wrong methods, or simply enduring significantly higher numbers of attackers and plots (and being overwhelmed as a result.)
And if France is enduring more attacks, that might explain the draconian laws, rather than vice versa.
Same here. The really annoying part came after logging in and being greeted with what looked like a full screen ad to tell you the system had been updated, but was actually the installer continuing to run (which meant no end of hitting Escape, Space, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and so on until after two or three minutes it finally admitted the installer was still running.
Thus far, on my test laptop, I can't really comment. Things look mostly the same, some minor style changes aside. CPU usage seems dramatically lower (it was pretty much permanently 99% previously on this old X-series Thinkpad with just Mail and Firefox open, now it's generally under 20%, but until I've used it for a few days I really don't want to assume this means they've fixed those problems.)
I think the complaint has never been bloat, but ridiculously high memory usage. While they're similar in concept, bloat generally means "A program that uses up huge amounts of computing resources by implementing crap that nobody wants", vs ridiculously high memory usage which is more of a "Why is that I'm using 2 gigabytes simply by having Twitter, GMail, and a bunch of news articles open?"
Some of it, in fairness, is more to do with how we program webpages these days. jQuery, for example, encourages the use of closures, which are notoriously hard to garbage collect. But... well it does seem to be mindboggling how we've gone from browsers like Firefox 3.x, which I happily ran on a 128Mb (yes, megabyte) Slackware Linux laptop, with no apparent memory leakage and decent performance, to today's Firefox which seem to have added little in features, yet end up sucking gigabytes of memory on a regular basis.
The problem there is that OKCupid never blocked Firefox. They presented Firefox users with a message expressing their concerns, but the website was otherwise entirely accessible to Firefox users.
There's a world of difference between refusing to allow your work to be seen as endorsing a politician whose views you despise, and refusing to allow your work to be used by ordinary people who happen to live in a country with a political position you disagree with.
Remember that many of the people who are banned from using this bit of software agree with its author.
That's a far cry from Bruce Springsteen saying he'd prefer Trump not play "Born in the USA" at his campaign rallies (I have no idea if Trump has done that, or Bruce would object - though I'd guess he probably would, but the point is it's a different situation.)
Well, no I can't because I haven't heard of any cases where a piece of software has been banned from use in a country because of that country's political policies, until now. Even DeCSS, which is technically illegal in the US, was never banned from the US by its author (and has limited scientific purpose anyway, ie is unlikely to be published in a scientific paper.)
The bit you appear to be missing is that they don't really have much of a choice here. The publication is under an undue burden if it has to comply with a license restricting it from doing certain business in countries it otherwise does business with. Withdrawing the paper is entirely correct and was almost certainly taken on legal grounds.
The license change isn't aimed at immigration supporters, but people in countries with immigration policies he disapproves of. You can bet they would have taken the same action if, say, he'd banned usage of the software in countries that host concentration camps, or that have not signed onto the Kyoto protocol.
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The fact the guy's attacks are on nation states should be a big flag that his views concern who those countries willingly let in, rather than illegal immigrants or illegal immigration.
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I notice you have a few AC "Yeah but MacDonalds" responses, so to counter that, may I bolster your point by pointing out that viruses and other malware pretty much rely on network effects. If 95% of people who receive an attachment can't open it, then it's unlikely to get much traction, in much the same way that a biological virus never gets very far when 95% of people are immune and can't pass it on.
When I used to use a Mac, security updates came in via Software Update every week or two. There obviously were security holes galore in the operating system (and don't get me started on early versions of Safari automatically downloading and opening files without asking permission first...), it's just nobody bothered exploiting them.
No, he's right. I've never come across any old analog magnetic media (specifically VHS or compact cassette) that didn't play the content recorded at more or less the same quality as I recall it being when I last played it, no matter how long the time period. I've dusted off cassettes more than 20 years old and they've sounded great.
As for digital media, I'll have to dust off my Amiga and see if I can load some of the old games from disc. I'd be fairly surprised if I have a problem, but we'll see.
I'm pretty sure Firefox 4.0 was the point most of us started seriously panicking about the direction of Firefox, which was some years ago. That was the browser that suddenly kept needing gigabytes of memory, had the first Chrome-inspired UI, and the first enforced updates. It's never been the same each.
Eich? I was going to use Firefox regardless of whether Eich stayed or not. It's ironic how many people seemed to feel that it was an outrage that people might stop using Firefox over Eich's poor handling of his scandal, but then themselves felt they should stop using Firefox because Eich resigned.
Remember when the #1 selling point of Firefox, though, was that it was lean, mean, and efficient (at least compared to the browser then-called Mozilla...)?
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Nah, because it involves punctuation. Look, it's not hard, the way to create a post-desktop modern tech web 10.0 name is to put 'r' or 'ly' on the end of a word, like:
connectly, voidly, mallocly
readr, pointr, newr
That way it'll Google, it'll be kinda unique, and it'll still look just as embarassing and hip in a "Yo young kids, I may be your granddad but I'm hip with your Rick Astleys and Madonna music and Beavis and or Butthead" way as your attempts to include punctuation.
No it isn't, they both share the same framework but one is not derived from the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So if they're economic migrants, why not stop in Israel or Turkey? And Barbara has already dealt with the "malicious intent" argument.
It's pretty straightforward. They're trying to get the hell away from danger and horror. The West is one of the few places in the world you can flee to and, if you're accepted be given a chance to recover - not become rich, but not spend the rest of your miserable life in a refugee camp, which you might accept for yourself but you'll never accept for your family.
Put yourself in the shoes of someone fleeing war and a horrific terrorist group that beheads people for expressing any view or making any action deemed bad by one reading of a 1,500 year old book. Where would you go? One of the many countries that literally can't cope with any influx of refugees, a country that treats people like you as the enemy, or Europe and the US?
True, but is this really a problem? The apps will usually run full screen, and so you're not going to have users forced to see a jumble of different UI types as you do with, say, Wine.
Going back to my old Amiga, where apps either ran in windows on the Workbench screen, or on their own screens, there was never really a problem with "different UIs" when apps ran on their own screens - which many developers took advantage of.
To a certain extent, I see that in regular Android apps to. Most (non-games) seem to try to make themselves look as much like GMail as possible, but every now and again you come across something that doesn't resemble any other Android app, and it really doesn't matter as long as the UI is well designed and the implementation isn't clunky. Of course, many of the custom UIs are neither well designed or clunky, but that's not relevent here ;-)
It's kinda important though when a large number of politicians are demanding we stop letting refugees in because somehow that'll somehow stop terrorism.
And it's especially important when actually the terror group we're worried about, ISIL, would have its power bolstered by such an action - a sizable number of the refugees the politicians are talking about banning are trying to escape from ISIL.
Pinning terrorism on "refugees" and then whispering "although not necessarily these refugees" is probably not a helpful thing to say right now, in that it's likely to result in support for bad policies.
Nah, he's just still pissed about that Sony rootkit thing, and has figured out an ingenious excuse to ban one of their major products...
If only France, the target of this terrorist attack, had some kind of elite military force composed (mostly) of foreigners... ;-)
(Not that I agree with the OP, but it's not like your question was without an answer! I guess the youngsters who frequent this site have never watched Laurel and Hardy, with the possible exception of that god-awful Hanna Barbera cartoon...)
Just a clarification: The Media Creation Tool is somewhat misleadingly named. It's actually a generic upgrade tool that has the capability to create installation media but is actually more often used for straight, in place, upgrades (the type where the operating system updates, but your files are still there, your applications are still installed, your device drivers are either upgraded or left alone, the registry is patched not recreated, etc.)
So yeah, you can download the ISOs directly, but you're more likely to actually want to use the MCT as it performs an upgrade not dissimilar to, say, upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 14.10 using Software Updater.
I've not seen a single person in this thread even defend ordinary Muslims (who had nothing to do with it) let alone anyone defend terrorism or Islamists.
It's convenient though for the extreme right to pretend that the "left" is the boogieman. Makes it easier to silence them as radical, anti-Muslim policies are promoted that assume every Muslim is a terrorist.
Me, I thought the bad guys were a bunch of religious extremists who killed 127 people in Paris today. But apparently it's straw left-wingers. Who knew?
They're massive rivals and hate each other. ISIL is largely a bunch of religious nuts who murder people because they hate them. Al Qaeda has more of a specific agenda and is trying to use terrorism to produce certain governmental responses that will result, in the end, in a pan-Arab state.
ISIL is basically fucking things up for Al Qaeda, which would be great if it wasn't for the fact that both groups are evil monsters that see Westerners as convenient scapegoats and great people to murder.
I believe ISIL came out of Al Qaeda, but that's the only connection.
"Immediately"?
When, pray, was that? On what date did most Britons, or even just a significant number, have firearms, with that situation changing the following day?
I can tell you that even pre-Hungerford, nobody engaged in crime in the UK expected their victims to be armed. If you're referring to either the post-Hungerford or post-Dublaine laws, any rise or fall in crime was purely coincidental.
Note: I support gun ownership, I just don't like absurd claims made against gun control. Britain has had increasingly strict laws on guns since the late 1940s, and very, very, few Britons have ever seen (outside of a museum or an armed law enforcer/soldier), let alone touched, a real gun since... well, before the 1970s.
Unfortunately we can't make that claim on the basis of today's horrors. I hate to be the bad guy here (*puts on Hitler mustache*) but without data on how many terrorist plots France has foiled, we can't say whether France is using the wrong methods, or simply enduring significantly higher numbers of attackers and plots (and being overwhelmed as a result.)
And if France is enduring more attacks, that might explain the draconian laws, rather than vice versa.
Same here. The really annoying part came after logging in and being greeted with what looked like a full screen ad to tell you the system had been updated, but was actually the installer continuing to run (which meant no end of hitting Escape, Space, Ctrl-Alt-Del, and so on until after two or three minutes it finally admitted the installer was still running.
Thus far, on my test laptop, I can't really comment. Things look mostly the same, some minor style changes aside. CPU usage seems dramatically lower (it was pretty much permanently 99% previously on this old X-series Thinkpad with just Mail and Firefox open, now it's generally under 20%, but until I've used it for a few days I really don't want to assume this means they've fixed those problems.)
I think the complaint has never been bloat, but ridiculously high memory usage. While they're similar in concept, bloat generally means "A program that uses up huge amounts of computing resources by implementing crap that nobody wants", vs ridiculously high memory usage which is more of a "Why is that I'm using 2 gigabytes simply by having Twitter, GMail, and a bunch of news articles open?"
Some of it, in fairness, is more to do with how we program webpages these days. jQuery, for example, encourages the use of closures, which are notoriously hard to garbage collect. But... well it does seem to be mindboggling how we've gone from browsers like Firefox 3.x, which I happily ran on a 128Mb (yes, megabyte) Slackware Linux laptop, with no apparent memory leakage and decent performance, to today's Firefox which seem to have added little in features, yet end up sucking gigabytes of memory on a regular basis.
So... Chrome or Edge then? ;-) *ducks*
The problem there is that OKCupid never blocked Firefox. They presented Firefox users with a message expressing their concerns, but the website was otherwise entirely accessible to Firefox users.
There's a world of difference between refusing to allow your work to be seen as endorsing a politician whose views you despise, and refusing to allow your work to be used by ordinary people who happen to live in a country with a political position you disagree with.
Remember that many of the people who are banned from using this bit of software agree with its author.
That's a far cry from Bruce Springsteen saying he'd prefer Trump not play "Born in the USA" at his campaign rallies (I have no idea if Trump has done that, or Bruce would object - though I'd guess he probably would, but the point is it's a different situation.)
Well, no I can't because I haven't heard of any cases where a piece of software has been banned from use in a country because of that country's political policies, until now. Even DeCSS, which is technically illegal in the US, was never banned from the US by its author (and has limited scientific purpose anyway, ie is unlikely to be published in a scientific paper.)
The bit you appear to be missing is that they don't really have much of a choice here. The publication is under an undue burden if it has to comply with a license restricting it from doing certain business in countries it otherwise does business with. Withdrawing the paper is entirely correct and was almost certainly taken on legal grounds.
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The fact the guy's attacks are on nation states should be a big flag that his views concern who those countries willingly let in, rather than illegal immigrants or illegal immigration.
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If he's retroactively changed the license, it's not as if they have any choice in the matter.
I notice you have a few AC "Yeah but MacDonalds" responses, so to counter that, may I bolster your point by pointing out that viruses and other malware pretty much rely on network effects. If 95% of people who receive an attachment can't open it, then it's unlikely to get much traction, in much the same way that a biological virus never gets very far when 95% of people are immune and can't pass it on.
When I used to use a Mac, security updates came in via Software Update every week or two. There obviously were security holes galore in the operating system (and don't get me started on early versions of Safari automatically downloading and opening files without asking permission first...), it's just nobody bothered exploiting them.
No, he's right. I've never come across any old analog magnetic media (specifically VHS or compact cassette) that didn't play the content recorded at more or less the same quality as I recall it being when I last played it, no matter how long the time period. I've dusted off cassettes more than 20 years old and they've sounded great.
As for digital media, I'll have to dust off my Amiga and see if I can load some of the old games from disc. I'd be fairly surprised if I have a problem, but we'll see.
I'm pretty sure Firefox 4.0 was the point most of us started seriously panicking about the direction of Firefox, which was some years ago. That was the browser that suddenly kept needing gigabytes of memory, had the first Chrome-inspired UI, and the first enforced updates. It's never been the same each.
Eich? I was going to use Firefox regardless of whether Eich stayed or not. It's ironic how many people seemed to feel that it was an outrage that people might stop using Firefox over Eich's poor handling of his scandal, but then themselves felt they should stop using Firefox because Eich resigned.
Remember when the #1 selling point of Firefox, though, was that it was lean, mean, and efficient (at least compared to the browser then-called Mozilla...)?