Patience, like waiting for Wine to catch up? It'll never be able to play the latest games until they aren't the latest anymore. Rise of Nations is four years old already and it's barely playable. I'm not slamming Wine (it's incredible) and at least I have native UT2004 (giving my 50% of my favorites games), but Linux will never be there for the latest games no matter how much jerry-rigging you do.
Believe me, the US does not GIVE anything out for free.
Israel has never once paid back a loan to the US. Congress votes each time to forgive it. If that ain't giving stuff for free, I don't know what is. It's just more stealing money from me and giving to people I don't agree with. And the end result is that I'm less safe in the world.
You're right, it doesn't matter who supplies the arms. The simply wouldn't be able to afford them without our assistance. Israel's economy is marginal enough with it.
Israel did not have a history of aggressive acquisition of territory
Ummm, the proto-Israeli used terrorism to drive the British out in the first place. As for Japan, regardless of what they had done, they weren't a direct threat to the US and we should have kept to ourselves. We had no right to cripple their economy and then act all indignant when they turned around and punched us in the nose. The vast majority of people at the time wanted nothing to do with another bloody war.
I was young at the time, but was an avid drinker of Coke. I never considered any conspiracy theories on the topic. All I remember is having a distinct memory of "coke made with sugar" being better than "coke made with corn syrup". I didn't even know an ingredient switch had been made until I went looking for a reason as to why Coke Classic didn't taste like the original Coke (which I still had some bottles of).
You know, I almost never see anyone modded a troll or a flamebait who actually is anymore. They need a new category for the people who simply disagree. Not that they would use it.
Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes.
You need some more qualifiers to distinguish what you're saying. Are you talking about Iran, Israel or the US? Either way, I agree with you, none of them should have nukes. But if some must, I'd rather they all do.
What the US does is "give" them money that can only be used to buy AMERICAN-MADE arms, thus entering a mutually-beneficial pact where one side gains arms and the other brings jobs home.
And if we didn't give them that money, they'd be forced to seek peaceful solutions. Giving someone the means to defend themselves is the same as defending them.
Also, I don't see how stealing my money at gunpoint and giving it to a bunch of defense contractors is mutually beneficial. Being robbed is bad. Having more nations armed to the teeth is bad. The way I see it, I get screwed on both ends.
So... basically sealing Israel's land borders, denying flights to or from Israel any use of Arab airspace, and using the newly-nationalized Suez Canal to prevent shipment to/from Israel by water -- none of that was 'provoking' Israel?
Just curious, by the same logic, would you agree that the US provoked the war with Japan and that we should have never enter WWII based on their striking back?
Where do you get this information from? Surely you can see that there is an agenda going on here.
There clearly is an agenda against Iran, but that doesn't mean they aren't after the bomb either. They know we're desperate to invade and they see what happens to other "axis of evil" nations (Korea) once they actually have it. Kisses and candy. If Iran isn't after the bomb, then they are truly the crazies the media makes them out to be (well, make that a different kind of crazy). Personally, I don't care if they get it. In fact, I wish they had it right now so it would put an end to all of the "we gotta invade now" hysteria. I'm sure it would also sober them up a bit.
Why is it assumed it to be the role of mail clients to include calendar functionality?
Whereas I am not a fan of application bloat, I only ever update my calendar based on incoming e-mails. And I've missed meetings that no one else missed because they're using Outlook. I think that calendar support is more important than say embedded cryptographic support. It's a minor feature that you won't notice if you don't use. And it's used all the time in the working world.
When composing a message, if you hit the up or down arrow, it goes to the beginning or end of the line you're moving to. I'm sure that's (yet another) a GTK "feature" that makes me hate GTK worse than Windows, but it didn't use to be that way. It's infuriating. I think the address book interface needs a lot of work as well. I guess I need to spend the time need to get KMail running. I've used Thunderbird for years, but it continues to feel like beta software to me.
The tax code is as complicated as it is for three reasons. One reason is so that anyone rich enough to afford tax lawyers and accounts can avoid paying. A second reason is to collect as much personal data on you as they can (since you have to provide just about everything to do you taxes). The third reason is so that the government will always have something to charge you with (or just make your life hell) if you ever get out of line.
I remember some study where something like 6 out of 10 IRS accountants, preparing the same tax return, came out with different results. For anything but the most simple tax returns, you've probably made a mistake somewhere. Talk to any outspoken conservative who was audited during the Clinton administration or an outspoken liberal who was audited during the Bush administration and you'll start to understand why things are so complicated. The more complicated the law, the more powerful are those in charge.
That would be up to the container, not the codec. MKV supposedly can do menus and is a commonly used container for MPEG-4. I'm not sure how extensive it's capabilities are, but it might do the trick.
I think this crap has a lot more to do with piracy than the media companies can imagine. I'm in the extremely long process of converting my DVD collection over to mkv, primarily so I don't have to fiddle around for five minutes, just to get the DVD playing. This is especially bad when trying to watch a TV series and having to deal with it once or twice a day (Fox is the worst). The slow, complex animated menus are a large part of the problem. But the FBI warnings are the ultimate head scratcher. It can only have the opposite effect as intended.
I don't upload stuff cause it ain't worth the risk to me, but I'm quite proud of my collection (high quality, subtitles, commentaries and chapter stops) and I would love to share it. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who've done the same thing, for the same reasons and aren't really concerned with legal risks of sharing. Restrictions are always going to lead people in search of alternatives. Being a staunch capitalist myself, I can never understand why corporations these days, seem to always be in a state of conflict with their customers. If you disrespect your customers, they will disrespect you.
Amen, for the love of Christ. I would also like to see XviD go away as well. It has it's uses (preserving grain), but only at ridiculously high bit rates. Give me mkv with h.264 and is it so freakin' hard to include chapter stops and subtitles while you're at it? It's kind of the whole point of using mkv over avi. Those two features are the entire reason I'm finally converting my entire DVD collection over now whereas I wasn't willing to do that before mkv. I just wish the uploaders would do the same already.
The worst thing about all of this is I will start wondering if future female candidates have any decent training or desire to be in this field. I suppose it won't prevent women from finding jobs in the field, but I'm sure that actions like this will introduce a bias against them. It's definitely an anti-women measure.
As for why women don't get into this field, I think there is a clear difference between how men and women get their work done (can't speak to any other). The women talk more. It's that simple. Women like to talk and take their time with social niceties or theoretical discussions. The guys are grunting out the minimal amount of words needed to convey a thought. Women don't like to work in such a harsh environment and men don't like to waste time with inconsequential crap. I'm not saying that one side is right and the other is wrong, I just think men and women are too different to work efficiently together on technical problems.
and I think the police are so shocked when someone's polite to them, they completely forget to write a ticket
I think everyone thinks this and most probably act polite (especially in this nation of sheep), so the cop probably wasn't shocked. I'm fairly certain that it has no effect on him. Everyone has some theory about what got them out of their ticket, but you'll never truly know.
in a world where no one gets hired without an employer doing a google search on them
Why does everyone assume that all employers are doing Google searches on applicants? What would be the point in it? When I do a search on my name, I just find a bunch of other people with my name. Nothing ties back to me. I'd assume that's true of most people. How would you know that John Doe on google is the John Doe I'm interviewing unless they happen to put a picture up next to his name. Myspace might include a picture, but outside of 12 year olds and politicians trying to seem hip, who actually uses it?
Although perhaps I'm being naive. I have a close Jewish friend who once googled for me and found some college professor with a bunch of anti-Jewish remarks on his home page. Now I'm not a college professor and my friend knows I've never been a professor, but he still asked if that was me (only half jokingly). I guess whereas I naturally assume that peoples names are not unique, I can't assume that other people realize that. Still, googling for a person is pointless in almost all cases.
I think that when you are raped a little more than just your ego is bruised
Exactly, like when George Lucas raped my childhood by making Greedo shoot first. Someone actually died there and his reputation is now ruined for all time because people will just think of Greedo as a brute killer and not the formidable bounty hunter, serving up justice, that he was. Far more serious than a measly myspace profile.
I'm not sensitive to audio differences (not much anyway), but I can sure as hell tell the difference between 1080i an 1080p. Then again, I use an HTPC so I have more opportunity to see text, which gives it away the interlacing. 1080i is simply not an option for HTPCs, as far as I'm concerned. Telling the difference between 720p and 1080p can be a little harder however.
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Patience, like waiting for Wine to catch up? It'll never be able to play the latest games until they aren't the latest anymore. Rise of Nations is four years old already and it's barely playable. I'm not slamming Wine (it's incredible) and at least I have native UT2004 (giving my 50% of my favorites games), but Linux will never be there for the latest games no matter how much jerry-rigging you do.
Believe me, the US does not GIVE anything out for free.
Israel has never once paid back a loan to the US. Congress votes each time to forgive it. If that ain't giving stuff for free, I don't know what is. It's just more stealing money from me and giving to people I don't agree with. And the end result is that I'm less safe in the world.
You're right, it doesn't matter who supplies the arms. The simply wouldn't be able to afford them without our assistance. Israel's economy is marginal enough with it.
Israel did not have a history of aggressive acquisition of territory
Ummm, the proto-Israeli used terrorism to drive the British out in the first place. As for Japan, regardless of what they had done, they weren't a direct threat to the US and we should have kept to ourselves. We had no right to cripple their economy and then act all indignant when they turned around and punched us in the nose. The vast majority of people at the time wanted nothing to do with another bloody war.
I was young at the time, but was an avid drinker of Coke. I never considered any conspiracy theories on the topic. All I remember is having a distinct memory of "coke made with sugar" being better than "coke made with corn syrup". I didn't even know an ingredient switch had been made until I went looking for a reason as to why Coke Classic didn't taste like the original Coke (which I still had some bottles of).
You know, I almost never see anyone modded a troll or a flamebait who actually is anymore. They need a new category for the people who simply disagree. Not that they would use it.
Iran however seems to relish the scenario of massive retaliation and would by the words of the current leader love to be obliterated
If Iran is so genocidal against the Jews, then why haven't they eliminated the tens or thousands who still live in Iran?
Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes.
You need some more qualifiers to distinguish what you're saying. Are you talking about Iran, Israel or the US? Either way, I agree with you, none of them should have nukes. But if some must, I'd rather they all do.
What the US does is "give" them money that can only be used to buy AMERICAN-MADE arms, thus entering a mutually-beneficial pact where one side gains arms and the other brings jobs home.
And if we didn't give them that money, they'd be forced to seek peaceful solutions. Giving someone the means to defend themselves is the same as defending them.
Also, I don't see how stealing my money at gunpoint and giving it to a bunch of defense contractors is mutually beneficial. Being robbed is bad. Having more nations armed to the teeth is bad. The way I see it, I get screwed on both ends.
So... basically sealing Israel's land borders, denying flights to or from Israel any use of Arab airspace, and using the newly-nationalized Suez Canal to prevent shipment to/from Israel by water -- none of that was 'provoking' Israel?
Just curious, by the same logic, would you agree that the US provoked the war with Japan and that we should have never enter WWII based on their striking back?
Where do you get this information from? Surely you can see that there is an agenda going on here.
There clearly is an agenda against Iran, but that doesn't mean they aren't after the bomb either. They know we're desperate to invade and they see what happens to other "axis of evil" nations (Korea) once they actually have it. Kisses and candy. If Iran isn't after the bomb, then they are truly the crazies the media makes them out to be (well, make that a different kind of crazy). Personally, I don't care if they get it. In fact, I wish they had it right now so it would put an end to all of the "we gotta invade now" hysteria. I'm sure it would also sober them up a bit.
We'll see in 20 years or so if that did us any better.
And no doubt we'll still be there in 20 years to see it first hand.
hard drives are big enough
What kind of a geek are you? Take it back!
Why is it assumed it to be the role of mail clients to include calendar functionality?
Whereas I am not a fan of application bloat, I only ever update my calendar based on incoming e-mails. And I've missed meetings that no one else missed because they're using Outlook. I think that calendar support is more important than say embedded cryptographic support. It's a minor feature that you won't notice if you don't use. And it's used all the time in the working world.
When composing a message, if you hit the up or down arrow, it goes to the beginning or end of the line you're moving to. I'm sure that's (yet another) a GTK "feature" that makes me hate GTK worse than Windows, but it didn't use to be that way. It's infuriating. I think the address book interface needs a lot of work as well. I guess I need to spend the time need to get KMail running. I've used Thunderbird for years, but it continues to feel like beta software to me.
The tax code is as complicated as it is for three reasons. One reason is so that anyone rich enough to afford tax lawyers and accounts can avoid paying. A second reason is to collect as much personal data on you as they can (since you have to provide just about everything to do you taxes). The third reason is so that the government will always have something to charge you with (or just make your life hell) if you ever get out of line.
I remember some study where something like 6 out of 10 IRS accountants, preparing the same tax return, came out with different results. For anything but the most simple tax returns, you've probably made a mistake somewhere. Talk to any outspoken conservative who was audited during the Clinton administration or an outspoken liberal who was audited during the Bush administration and you'll start to understand why things are so complicated. The more complicated the law, the more powerful are those in charge.
That would be up to the container, not the codec. MKV supposedly can do menus and is a commonly used container for MPEG-4. I'm not sure how extensive it's capabilities are, but it might do the trick.
Sadly, this will only be available at McDonald's for the time being.
And anywhere else that sells thousand island dressing.
I think this crap has a lot more to do with piracy than the media companies can imagine. I'm in the extremely long process of converting my DVD collection over to mkv, primarily so I don't have to fiddle around for five minutes, just to get the DVD playing. This is especially bad when trying to watch a TV series and having to deal with it once or twice a day (Fox is the worst). The slow, complex animated menus are a large part of the problem. But the FBI warnings are the ultimate head scratcher. It can only have the opposite effect as intended.
I don't upload stuff cause it ain't worth the risk to me, but I'm quite proud of my collection (high quality, subtitles, commentaries and chapter stops) and I would love to share it. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who've done the same thing, for the same reasons and aren't really concerned with legal risks of sharing. Restrictions are always going to lead people in search of alternatives. Being a staunch capitalist myself, I can never understand why corporations these days, seem to always be in a state of conflict with their customers. If you disrespect your customers, they will disrespect you.
Amen, for the love of Christ. I would also like to see XviD go away as well. It has it's uses (preserving grain), but only at ridiculously high bit rates. Give me mkv with h.264 and is it so freakin' hard to include chapter stops and subtitles while you're at it? It's kind of the whole point of using mkv over avi. Those two features are the entire reason I'm finally converting my entire DVD collection over now whereas I wasn't willing to do that before mkv. I just wish the uploaders would do the same already.
The worst thing about all of this is I will start wondering if future female candidates have any decent training or desire to be in this field. I suppose it won't prevent women from finding jobs in the field, but I'm sure that actions like this will introduce a bias against them. It's definitely an anti-women measure.
As for why women don't get into this field, I think there is a clear difference between how men and women get their work done (can't speak to any other). The women talk more. It's that simple. Women like to talk and take their time with social niceties or theoretical discussions. The guys are grunting out the minimal amount of words needed to convey a thought. Women don't like to work in such a harsh environment and men don't like to waste time with inconsequential crap. I'm not saying that one side is right and the other is wrong, I just think men and women are too different to work efficiently together on technical problems.
and I think the police are so shocked when someone's polite to them, they completely forget to write a ticket
I think everyone thinks this and most probably act polite (especially in this nation of sheep), so the cop probably wasn't shocked. I'm fairly certain that it has no effect on him. Everyone has some theory about what got them out of their ticket, but you'll never truly know.
in a world where no one gets hired without an employer doing a google search on them
Why does everyone assume that all employers are doing Google searches on applicants? What would be the point in it? When I do a search on my name, I just find a bunch of other people with my name. Nothing ties back to me. I'd assume that's true of most people. How would you know that John Doe on google is the John Doe I'm interviewing unless they happen to put a picture up next to his name. Myspace might include a picture, but outside of 12 year olds and politicians trying to seem hip, who actually uses it?
Although perhaps I'm being naive. I have a close Jewish friend who once googled for me and found some college professor with a bunch of anti-Jewish remarks on his home page. Now I'm not a college professor and my friend knows I've never been a professor, but he still asked if that was me (only half jokingly). I guess whereas I naturally assume that peoples names are not unique, I can't assume that other people realize that. Still, googling for a person is pointless in almost all cases.
I think that when you are raped a little more than just your ego is bruised
Exactly, like when George Lucas raped my childhood by making Greedo shoot first. Someone actually died there and his reputation is now ruined for all time because people will just think of Greedo as a brute killer and not the formidable bounty hunter, serving up justice, that he was. Far more serious than a measly myspace profile.
Can you tell me what I did to piss my wife off yesterday, she's acting like a real bitch!
I'm the Google executive sleeping with your wife. Sorry about giving her access to your search history.
I'm not sensitive to audio differences (not much anyway), but I can sure as hell tell the difference between 1080i an 1080p. Then again, I use an HTPC so I have more opportunity to see text, which gives it away the interlacing. 1080i is simply not an option for HTPCs, as far as I'm concerned. Telling the difference between 720p and 1080p can be a little harder however.