Nope, I'm pretty sure that's more due to the fact that they don't do stupid things as often. Let's be honest here, men are pretty wreckless. How many women do you know go cliffjumping or start street racing just because of the type of car that pulled up next to her at the stop light?
That is called risk taking. It used to be a valued human male characteristic before being a pussy became the norm.
Risk taking does things like put men on the moon, explore new territory when others believe the world is flat, riot and form new governments, etc.
Ah, you wacky americans with your primitive cellphone technology...
Tell me about it. I'm still waiting for a cell phone here in the US that can reliably receive and make calls.
My ideal cellphone would have:
1) excellent speakerphone capabilities
2) standards based non-line of sight beaming
3) able to do phone calls
4) contact list that auto sorts contacts by frequent use by letter. It kills me when I get a new girl's number and it always seems to bump my regular contacts down a notch. Are female names geared to be alpha sorted higher than males?
5) accurate battery meter. defaulting to 2 bars is not good enough. Showing its fully charged after 3 seconds of charge time is not good enough.
Where do Americans get their crappy phones from? Are they all failed models from Europe and Asia, and they just dump their inventory on us or what?
It's now clear that Sun understood it's possition in the linux/unix world. It's to open up or die eventually. Will Microsoft ever get this?
Sun is really getting it. Before too much longer they will be rebranding Opteron systems and selling them with Linux on them. Or better yet, they might start selling Linux systems at Wal-Mart.
People (at least the ones I know) do not clean their bathroom for health reasons. They do it because it's it's visually discusting. Now matter how healthy this new substance is, it will NOT get rid of the yellow stains on and around the toilet.
But, if the yellow stains were as germfree and clean as a plate that has yellow residue from the fried eggs you just ate, which one would you consider disgusting?
other than minor speed bumps, a PowerBook today is largely unchanged from a Powerbook, what, 2 years ago ?
Honestly, if I were to need to buy a PowerBook today, I would prefer to get one like I have, or a slightly older one.
A friend just got a brand new 17" PowerBook, and I think Apple made a mistake with the higher DPI screen. The older PowerBooks and most all of their monitors had a 100DPI +- 10%, and that was fine in my opinion. My friends new one looks a little to "compact", and it is definitely not uniform across product lines like the other ones.
My reasons for an older PowerBook are longer battery and less heat, and I like the lower resolution screens. I know I'm in the minority with all of the young, squinting at the high-res monitor people, but oh well.
What if claim that I am a African American, but I am actually white. Can they quantify and measure my race, will they sent to a local eugenics clinic to measure the size of my head or take my DNA to identify my race? What would happen, if I just tell them that my grand-grand-grand father came from Africa so deep down I feel like I am part of a minority?
Actually I never check the "White" or "Caucasian" box on the race section on the forms, because putting myself in a race category just reinforces the fact that there are race categories and people are somehow treated differently because of it. Actually the word "Caucasian" comes directly from studies of eugenics at the turn of the century and I consider using it just as offensive as someone using the "n"-word, because it implies endorsing the values and attitudes of the time.
Excellent point. I'm sick of the government and media still claiming that race is of importance for statistics or whatever other reason that they collect data that is differentiated by race.
As it stands today, I believe that socioeconomics are the best differentiator between people, not race. Unfortunately, at this time blacks, hispanics, and whatever other minorities we have are at the lower socioeconomic status, and they report data about these people as if it has something to do with their race. I hate to break it to you, but there is little difference between a black, white, or hispanic inner city poor kid statistic-wise. Also, there is little difference between a wealthy black, white, or hispanic either.
The most interesting racial data I've ever heard is that the most segregated time in the USA is Sunday morning. Think about that.
As far as diversity goes, can anyone tell the difference between applicants over an email or web form?
Oh, thats right. They are required to have the optional information about your race, nationality, and sexual preferences.
In my opinion, racism and all that jazz will just go away as soon as we stop making it a big deal. As some comedian once said (Chris Rock I believe), "Equal Opportunity" was compensation for slavery. Well, those days are gone. My great grandmother was "less than a citizen" when she was born, but that too changed in 1920 and she has been dead since 1981.
The area of Apple's lineup that was suffering the worst was their laptop line.
Suffering?
Have you been to a technical conference lately? 1/2 or more of the laptops you will see there are PowerBooks.
I've got one, and its my favorite computer, even compared to my 2GHz G5 at home.
Its a little slow with compilations or doing video or something very CPU intensive, but for "normal" use, I have no complaints about performance whatsoever. Apps start fast. The web is instant. Terminal.app is excellent.
No, I can't run OpenOffice, but Keynote and everything else that is necessary for day to day computing is more than fine.
I thought the idea of Universal Binaries was that the packages were compiled for multiple architectures, selectable at runtime? The same binaries are now running on Macintels and G5s, so Apple should be able to continue running apps on either architecture...
They are also known as "fat binaries", and Apple (next too?) has used them in the past with platform changes. Apple is pretty slick in that they store an "application" in a special directory with the extension.app, and in there are all sorts of goodies like libraries, binaries, etc to make the "app" work with one single DND installation.
Personally, I would not mind if Apple carried two lines of processors for a while. They are at this point in time, and as others have pointed out, maybe the Intel relationship was/is not as good as it first seemed.
Its hilarious that Apple actually has a command called 'lipo' which can "lipo - create or operate on fat files". Cute:)
I have also read, but I can't remember where and it's to friggin early for me to take the time to look it up, that drugs and alchol (certain amounts like a lot) can affect the brains development as an organ keeping it in the state of a younger brain.
This could be, and I think the study even said so, one of the reasons drunks and drug addicts act so immature if they have been doing it for a long time or started when they were kids.
I wonder if the study took enviormental factors such as this into account in the study.
Welcome to the science of human psychology. Err, the study of the college freshman:)
Psych is a very difficult field, especially with humans. Control, interperson and intraperson variability, operational definitions, tests and measurements, you name it. Psych science is almost impossible to do do, especially with complex social organisms like humans.
Regarding drugs and alcohol (what is the difference???), I've heard that emotional maturity stops when the abuse begins. To some degree, I would agree with this. A majority of the reasoning behind this is the cultural stigma against substance abuse, and the constant hiding of the usage via lies, hiding, going into "subcultures", and whatnot can certainly hinder emotional development. Basically, its very common for substance abusers to be "full of shit", and they cannot mature when they cannot differentiate from reality and fiction. It hinders normal learning and social interactions. Personally, I believe its more of society's irrational beliefs about altered states of consciousness that create such a problem, than the altered state in itself. But again, psych research on humans is almost impossible.
Regarding maturity in general. I have no clue. Some it depends on the individual and their environment, especially their family. Personally, I would guess that only 20-50% of males mature by their mid to late 20s if ever. At least here in the USA. American young males are the focus of about everything, and its common for them to get this "confidence in their ignorance" attitude. Hey, I knew everything when I was 23-27, didn't you?
Its pretty much common knowledge that females mature faster than males, and that makes sense (disclaimer, I believe there is a difference between the sexes, which is taboo here). Females have to mature, because they are basically potential walking baby factories from about 13-14 years old on. Diet has decreased the age of female puberty to a fairly low age, and biologically they realize that they are potentially responsible for raising another human being for many years, and they usually take this pretty seriously. On average, women have about 1/2 or less sexual partners than males Yes, whores/sluts do exist to skew this number because the men have to have sex with someone right? But even those kinda girls are still responsible enough to prevent pregnancy.
I don't know when a human is "mature". There does seem to be an age when most humans basically stop progressing and become docile or merely creatures of habit, and eventually infantlike in many ways towards the end of their life.
Yes, I have studied psych, have been employed in psych hospitals, including drug and alcohol ones. Yes, I'm a drunk too, but I believe I'm pretty mature, but who knows?
As long as the Software is not using the trade mark BitTorrent within its name, it should not be affected. And many have names distinct names... (like Azureus)
I'm a BitTorrent fan and all that. My favorite client is Bittornado, I do not care for Azureus.
Anywho, can someone point me to the mentioning of BitTorrent owning a trademark?
use, display, frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Sites, or any individual element or materials within the Sites, including without limitation, the BitTorrent name, any BitTorrent trademark, logo or other proprietary information, the content of any text, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page without BitTorrent's express written consent;
But it does not mention anywhere on the site that BitTorrent or any of its logos are trademarked. As it stands, they say that you cannot use the BiTorrent name.
Of course, IANAL, but what is going on here? At most they seem to have typical EULA TOS crap, that we all know is not binding. Trademarks are, but I see nowhere on their site where they have trademarked anything.
The strikes against Afghanistan were legitimate, if largely ineffective; the strikes the same night against Sudan were not.
Depends on how you define ineffective. Opium production came out of a slump after the attacks.
Seriously, I almost agree that the attack on Afghanistan could be deemed legitimate. I have no conflicting evidence.
Any person that can think and read that does not believe that the "War on Terror" and the Iraq war are made up is a moron. I flipped off Rumsfeld the other day while watching TV in a store. He was crying wolf again about the "War on Terror".
Just last week or so, a tunnel was discovered that went from Mexico to the US. It was 2400 feet long, had a cement floor, took over a year to build, and some chump got caught with 1 ton of Mexican swag.
Now, that was one operation. I forget the estimated tonnage of pot that comes from British Columbia every year (not much better than Mexican swag, but I digress). But its a bunch.
Oh, and sometimes people bring in tons of cocaine. And other stuff.
Now, how difficult would it be to replace the multi-ton cargo with say a few tons of explosives, poisons, or whatever nasty stuff a "terrorist" can think of? Zero.
The "War on Terror" is such a joke, that a few weeks ago, CNN broadcasted that there were "confirmed" bin Laden tapes saying that he was planning to attack the US or something. Read the disinformation here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/19/binladen.tape/
Nothing happened. No response. The terror "threat level" did not raise up from "elevated" than it has in years. Remember that Bush used to jack up the terror threat level during his reelection campaign for the fun of it.
The American people are being lied to and they simply accept it.
There is nothing you can do to stop a well funded suicidally driven person. Period.
Just ask Ireland when they really had issues with terrorism.
I always get modded all over the place with posts like this from insightful, informative, overrated, and flamebait. So here we go again.
The war in Iraq is about profit, inflation prevention, and basic economics. Or was it really about WMDs? Or was it really for 9/11/01? Well, WMDs were a farce, and Saddam didn't have anything to do with the plane thing.
"less risk of any holes being exploited" is better than "more secure"
These quoted items are synonymous.
No system is 100% secure. My baseball bat against someone's head and a Linux boot CD can break into any system. The same goes for OS X with an OS X boot CD. I may have to reset the password in the bios if necessary.
The risk of a baseball bat attack is very low, and that is more secure than running Windows with a network connection any day.
I can't help but laugh at their desperate grab for status, often poorly masked by a desire for "performance".
The problem is the my original post. Deception in marketing mixed in with self centeredness and greed of the consumer.
Ever watch TV at night? Every ad break on the national networks has a car ad. You need them, even though people only buy cars a few times in their lives, they market the fuck out of them, and people suck that crap up. Mix that with a little MTV cribs and some fancy cars on movies, and they are literally sold.
I have spent a grand total of $16,801 for 5 cars in my almost 20 years of driving. Only 4 were for me, I bought a car for a friend because he needed one. I met a 22 year old just out of college that is in the process of paying over $20k for a car. His insurance is $200/mo. Plus whatever his car payment + interest is. My insurance is something like $400/year.
The difference is whether or not one of their staff did this, or whether they hired a 'professional' firm who assured them that these were accepted practices. Yes, the end result is the same, but with the latter you can give them the benefit of hte doubt that they were misled by their consultants.
Just ask Sony about their rootkit...
For a point of reference, I remember Sony, I don't remember who wrote the rootkit.
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Their customers are advertisers. Their product is you and me.
One can argue that BMW's behavior was improper and that Google's reaction was justified. But claiming that displaying different content to different classes of users (crawler, real-life person) constitutes "fraud" is going over the top.
No, it is NOT fraud to display different kinds of content to different site visitors, and I hope it never will be. And if it were fraud, it would be a matter for the police, not Google's page rank algorithm.
i would say that the bmw cars in germany have a status of (at least for the 3-series) a chav car. the higher class models still are percepted as cars driven by some arrogant assholes.
In the US, the 3-series are bought by those that want to be arrogant assholes, but cannot afford the good models.
I agree. Gimp is pretty cool, but Photoshop is the "industry standard".
Being that there is a UNIX version of Photoshop (OS X) it should not be too difficult to wrap the inners with an X GUI outers.
Apps drive the OS. Linux/UNIX has all of the server stuff available, and that is where it is. OS X has tons of good apps. Linux on the desktop? Maybe when brand name apps are available (and usability increases, yada yada).
Keep in mind that this is google.de, which is probably not the google.com that you use.
Anyone that searches for "free" stuff or porn or whatever off of google that hasn't learned by now how to find the stuff reliably are just going to continue being lost. A case in point, I do not use Windows. If I search for Linux or OS X things I find reasonable results. I was trying to help a friend find Windows software to rip DVDs, and the signal to noise ratio was very low. Its just the nature of the beast.
products on the shelves of your local grocery or department store will disabuse you of this utopian notion pretty quickly.
Hmm. Let me see what I bought from the grocery store tonight. I bought some burritos that are made in a town called Taxco, which I have visited. I bought some Kraft cheese. The real stuff, not the "cheese food" or "cheese byproducts". I bought some Coke and Sprite because not all of my friends drink what I do -- beer and water. I bought some bread that has preservatives in it so it won't go bad in a day or so. This was from a large chain grocery store. Nothing spectacular. I don't shop in department stores.
Price and quality are important, but it is arguable whether they are the most important factors in the success of a product, and quality is largely subjective anyway.
I can't disagree with this in the least bit. Subjective evaluation is all there is. Why is my art valued less than that of that of van Gogh? I guess people's subjective value of the art rules here.
Marketing is the manipulation of perceptions, and that is what really drives sales.
To some degree this is true, but that is not absolute. Some marketing is purely for PR, like a company that talks about how nice they are to the environment or they say something else that has nothing directly to the products or services that the company provides. Some marketing is purely product awareness. Like I saw an ad on TV the other day for a new sinus product that is a flush to clean out your sinuses. This year has been better for me because I have set my dry gas heat to a lower temperature, but if I do have other sinus issues, I will look for that product. If it doesn't work, well its cheaper than going to the doctor and having that not work either. Now there is the deceptive marketing that we all know about too, and that is what I have a beef against. So does google.
Wal-Mart offers neither the best quality nor the lowest prices, for example, but they have successfully convinced a very large number of people that they do, and that's as good as the real thing.
I would guess that nobody would argue the quality thing. Wal-Mart does have low prices. Economists believe that Wal-Mart has helped reduce inflation. I don't shop at Wal-Mart. To me its just perpetuates poor people, and the focus on price vs quality and a positive shopping experience are against my beliefs. The local Wal-Mart here always looks like a hurricane went though with products opened and thrown on the floor. Its packed with lower income people. Wal-Mart abuses their employees, and promotes cheap low-quality products from China and whatnot. I can buy my junk elsewhere.
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Nope, I'm pretty sure that's more due to the fact that they don't do stupid things as often. Let's be honest here, men are pretty wreckless. How many women do you know go cliffjumping or start street racing just because of the type of car that pulled up next to her at the stop light?
That is called risk taking. It used to be a valued human male characteristic before being a pussy became the norm.
Risk taking does things like put men on the moon, explore new territory when others believe the world is flat, riot and form new governments, etc.
But, I digress. The woman's way is the right way.
Ah, you wacky americans with your primitive cellphone technology...
Tell me about it. I'm still waiting for a cell phone here in the US that can reliably receive and make calls.
My ideal cellphone would have:
1) excellent speakerphone capabilities
2) standards based non-line of sight beaming
3) able to do phone calls
4) contact list that auto sorts contacts by frequent use by letter. It kills me when I get a new girl's number and it always seems to bump my regular contacts down a notch. Are female names geared to be alpha sorted higher than males?
5) accurate battery meter. defaulting to 2 bars is not good enough. Showing its fully charged after 3 seconds of charge time is not good enough.
Where do Americans get their crappy phones from? Are they all failed models from Europe and Asia, and they just dump their inventory on us or what?
So does this mean that the BeOS will be under the ownership of Apple as well?
Who cares. They already have the BeOS filesystem guy that made Spotlight for Tiger.
While we are wondering about the relevance of this, what has Palm done since the 90s?
It seems like the PDA fad has gone away in lieu of online services and cell phones.
The only thing I thought was cool about Palms was the "beaming" feature, where you could inject your contact info straight into someone else's Palm.
Now if only cell phones could do this.
I'll add electrical sense like the article alludes to, but some may not agree that the sensation of electricity is a separate sense or not.
This page covers all the ones that the parent mentions. I don't believe he missed one if electricity is ignored or refuted
http://www.sirinet.net/~jgjohnso/senses.html
It's now clear that Sun understood it's possition in the linux/unix world. It's to open up or die eventually. Will Microsoft ever get this?
Sun is really getting it. Before too much longer they will be rebranding Opteron systems and selling them with Linux on them. Or better yet, they might start selling Linux systems at Wal-Mart.
Sun is really sharpening the cutting edge.
People (at least the ones I know) do not clean their bathroom for health reasons. They do it because it's it's visually discusting. Now matter how healthy this new substance is, it will NOT get rid of the yellow stains on and around the toilet.
But, if the yellow stains were as germfree and clean as a plate that has yellow residue from the fried eggs you just ate, which one would you consider disgusting?
other than minor speed bumps, a PowerBook today is largely unchanged from a Powerbook, what, 2 years ago ?
Honestly, if I were to need to buy a PowerBook today, I would prefer to get one like I have, or a slightly older one.
A friend just got a brand new 17" PowerBook, and I think Apple made a mistake with the higher DPI screen. The older PowerBooks and most all of their monitors had a 100DPI +- 10%, and that was fine in my opinion. My friends new one looks a little to "compact", and it is definitely not uniform across product lines like the other ones.
My reasons for an older PowerBook are longer battery and less heat, and I like the lower resolution screens. I know I'm in the minority with all of the young, squinting at the high-res monitor people, but oh well.
What if claim that I am a African American, but I am actually white. Can they quantify and measure my race, will they sent to a local eugenics clinic to measure the size of my head or take my DNA to identify my race?
What would happen, if I just tell them that my grand-grand-grand father came from Africa so deep down I feel like I am part of a minority?
Actually I never check the "White" or "Caucasian" box on the race section on the forms, because putting myself in a race category just reinforces the fact that there are race categories and people are somehow treated differently because of it. Actually the word "Caucasian" comes directly from studies of eugenics at the turn of the century and I consider using it just as offensive as someone using the "n"-word, because it implies endorsing the values and attitudes of the time.
Excellent point. I'm sick of the government and media still claiming that race is of importance for statistics or whatever other reason that they collect data that is differentiated by race.
As it stands today, I believe that socioeconomics are the best differentiator between people, not race. Unfortunately, at this time blacks, hispanics, and whatever other minorities we have are at the lower socioeconomic status, and they report data about these people as if it has something to do with their race. I hate to break it to you, but there is little difference between a black, white, or hispanic inner city poor kid statistic-wise. Also, there is little difference between a wealthy black, white, or hispanic either.
The most interesting racial data I've ever heard is that the most segregated time in the USA is Sunday morning. Think about that.
More feminization via legislation.
As far as diversity goes, can anyone tell the difference between applicants over an email or web form?
Oh, thats right. They are required to have the optional information about your race, nationality, and sexual preferences.
In my opinion, racism and all that jazz will just go away as soon as we stop making it a big deal. As some comedian once said (Chris Rock I believe), "Equal Opportunity" was compensation for slavery. Well, those days are gone. My great grandmother was "less than a citizen" when she was born, but that too changed in 1920 and she has been dead since 1981.
Can't we all get along?
The area of Apple's lineup that was suffering the worst was their laptop line.
Suffering?
Have you been to a technical conference lately? 1/2 or more of the laptops you will see there are PowerBooks.
I've got one, and its my favorite computer, even compared to my 2GHz G5 at home.
Its a little slow with compilations or doing video or something very CPU intensive, but for "normal" use, I have no complaints about performance whatsoever. Apps start fast. The web is instant. Terminal.app is excellent.
No, I can't run OpenOffice, but Keynote and everything else that is necessary for day to day computing is more than fine.
I thought the idea of Universal Binaries was that the packages were compiled for multiple architectures, selectable at runtime? The same binaries are now running on Macintels and G5s, so Apple should be able to continue running apps on either architecture...
.app, and in there are all sorts of goodies like libraries, binaries, etc to make the "app" work with one single DND installation.
:)
They are also known as "fat binaries", and Apple (next too?) has used them in the past with platform changes. Apple is pretty slick in that they store an "application" in a special directory with the extension
Personally, I would not mind if Apple carried two lines of processors for a while. They are at this point in time, and as others have pointed out, maybe the Intel relationship was/is not as good as it first seemed.
Its hilarious that Apple actually has a command called 'lipo' which can "lipo - create or operate on fat files". Cute
I have also read, but I can't remember where and it's to friggin early for me to take the time to look it up, that drugs and alchol (certain amounts like a lot) can affect the brains development as an organ keeping it in the state of a younger brain.
:)
This could be, and I think the study even said so, one of the reasons drunks and drug addicts act so immature if they have been doing it for a long time or started when they were kids.
I wonder if the study took enviormental factors such as this into account in the study.
Welcome to the science of human psychology. Err, the study of the college freshman
Psych is a very difficult field, especially with humans. Control, interperson and intraperson variability, operational definitions, tests and measurements, you name it. Psych science is almost impossible to do do, especially with complex social organisms like humans.
Regarding drugs and alcohol (what is the difference???), I've heard that emotional maturity stops when the abuse begins. To some degree, I would agree with this. A majority of the reasoning behind this is the cultural stigma against substance abuse, and the constant hiding of the usage via lies, hiding, going into "subcultures", and whatnot can certainly hinder emotional development. Basically, its very common for substance abusers to be "full of shit", and they cannot mature when they cannot differentiate from reality and fiction. It hinders normal learning and social interactions. Personally, I believe its more of society's irrational beliefs about altered states of consciousness that create such a problem, than the altered state in itself. But again, psych research on humans is almost impossible.
Regarding maturity in general. I have no clue. Some it depends on the individual and their environment, especially their family. Personally, I would guess that only 20-50% of males mature by their mid to late 20s if ever. At least here in the USA. American young males are the focus of about everything, and its common for them to get this "confidence in their ignorance" attitude. Hey, I knew everything when I was 23-27, didn't you?
Its pretty much common knowledge that females mature faster than males, and that makes sense (disclaimer, I believe there is a difference between the sexes, which is taboo here). Females have to mature, because they are basically potential walking baby factories from about 13-14 years old on. Diet has decreased the age of female puberty to a fairly low age, and biologically they realize that they are potentially responsible for raising another human being for many years, and they usually take this pretty seriously. On average, women have about 1/2 or less sexual partners than males Yes, whores/sluts do exist to skew this number because the men have to have sex with someone right? But even those kinda girls are still responsible enough to prevent pregnancy.
I don't know when a human is "mature". There does seem to be an age when most humans basically stop progressing and become docile or merely creatures of habit, and eventually infantlike in many ways towards the end of their life.
Yes, I have studied psych, have been employed in psych hospitals, including drug and alcohol ones. Yes, I'm a drunk too, but I believe I'm pretty mature, but who knows?
I'm a BitTorrent fan and all that. My favorite client is Bittornado, I do not care for Azureus.
Anywho, can someone point me to the mentioning of BitTorrent owning a trademark?
I see here, http://www.bittorrent.com/tos.html , that it says:But it does not mention anywhere on the site that BitTorrent or any of its logos are trademarked. As it stands, they say that you cannot use the BiTorrent name.
Of course, IANAL, but what is going on here? At most they seem to have typical EULA TOS crap, that we all know is not binding. Trademarks are, but I see nowhere on their site where they have trademarked anything.
Am I the only one confused here?
The strikes against Afghanistan were legitimate, if largely ineffective; the strikes the same night against Sudan were not.
Depends on how you define ineffective. Opium production came out of a slump after the attacks.
Seriously, I almost agree that the attack on Afghanistan could be deemed legitimate. I have no conflicting evidence.
Any person that can think and read that does not believe that the "War on Terror" and the Iraq war are made up is a moron. I flipped off Rumsfeld the other day while watching TV in a store. He was crying wolf again about the "War on Terror".
Just last week or so, a tunnel was discovered that went from Mexico to the US. It was 2400 feet long, had a cement floor, took over a year to build, and some chump got caught with 1 ton of Mexican swag.
Now, that was one operation. I forget the estimated tonnage of pot that comes from British Columbia every year (not much better than Mexican swag, but I digress). But its a bunch.
Oh, and sometimes people bring in tons of cocaine. And other stuff.
Now, how difficult would it be to replace the multi-ton cargo with say a few tons of explosives, poisons, or whatever nasty stuff a "terrorist" can think of? Zero.
The "War on Terror" is such a joke, that a few weeks ago, CNN broadcasted that there were "confirmed" bin Laden tapes saying that he was planning to attack the US or something. Read the disinformation here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/19/binladen.tape/
Nothing happened. No response. The terror "threat level" did not raise up from "elevated" than it has in years. Remember that Bush used to jack up the terror threat level during his reelection campaign for the fun of it.
The American people are being lied to and they simply accept it.
There is nothing you can do to stop a well funded suicidally driven person. Period.
Just ask Ireland when they really had issues with terrorism.
I always get modded all over the place with posts like this from insightful, informative, overrated, and flamebait. So here we go again.
The war in Iraq is about profit, inflation prevention, and basic economics. Or was it really about WMDs? Or was it really for 9/11/01? Well, WMDs were a farce, and Saddam didn't have anything to do with the plane thing.
Oh, but North Korea is next, right?
"less risk of any holes being exploited" is better than "more secure"
These quoted items are synonymous.
No system is 100% secure. My baseball bat against someone's head and a Linux boot CD can break into any system. The same goes for OS X with an OS X boot CD. I may have to reset the password in the bios if necessary.
The risk of a baseball bat attack is very low, and that is more secure than running Windows with a network connection any day.
I can't help but laugh at their desperate grab for status, often poorly masked by a desire for "performance".
The problem is the my original post. Deception in marketing mixed in with self centeredness and greed of the consumer.
Ever watch TV at night? Every ad break on the national networks has a car ad. You need them, even though people only buy cars a few times in their lives, they market the fuck out of them, and people suck that crap up. Mix that with a little MTV cribs and some fancy cars on movies, and they are literally sold.
I have spent a grand total of $16,801 for 5 cars in my almost 20 years of driving. Only 4 were for me, I bought a car for a friend because he needed one. I met a 22 year old just out of college that is in the process of paying over $20k for a car. His insurance is $200/mo. Plus whatever his car payment + interest is. My insurance is something like $400/year.
Sukka!
The difference is whether or not one of their staff did this, or whether they hired a 'professional' firm who assured them that these were accepted practices. Yes, the end result is the same, but with the latter you can give them the benefit of hte doubt that they were misled by their consultants.
Just ask Sony about their rootkit...
For a point of reference, I remember Sony, I don't remember who wrote the rootkit.
Their customers are advertisers. Their product is you and me.
However, Google's #1 philosophy is:
Focus on the user and all else will follow. As witnessed here: http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
Google's product is searching for the user. Advertisers simply dump money to them because of the prime real estate as a byproduct.
One can argue that BMW's behavior was improper and that Google's reaction was justified. But claiming that displaying different content to different classes of users (crawler, real-life person) constitutes "fraud" is going over the top.
No, it is NOT fraud to display different kinds of content to different site visitors, and I hope it never will be. And if it were fraud, it would be a matter for the police, not Google's page rank algorithm.
One must remember the golden rule.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
i would say that the bmw cars in germany have a status of (at least for the 3-series) a chav car. the higher class models still are percepted as cars driven by some arrogant assholes.
In the US, the 3-series are bought by those that want to be arrogant assholes, but cannot afford the good models.
I agree. Gimp is pretty cool, but Photoshop is the "industry standard".
Being that there is a UNIX version of Photoshop (OS X) it should not be too difficult to wrap the inners with an X GUI outers.
Apps drive the OS. Linux/UNIX has all of the server stuff available, and that is where it is. OS X has tons of good apps. Linux on the desktop? Maybe when brand name apps are available (and usability increases, yada yada).
Keep in mind that this is google.de, which is probably not the google.com that you use.
Anyone that searches for "free" stuff or porn or whatever off of google that hasn't learned by now how to find the stuff reliably are just going to continue being lost. A case in point, I do not use Windows. If I search for Linux or OS X things I find reasonable results. I was trying to help a friend find Windows software to rip DVDs, and the signal to noise ratio was very low. Its just the nature of the beast.
Like it or not, Wikipedia wants information to be free. They are not responsible for people abusing that freedom for their personal gain.
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Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Forking_FA
They even offer http://download.wikimedia.org/ to facilitate the process.
OK, try this: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=bmw&btnG=Googl e-Suche&meta=
For me, BMW _international_ comes up as #3 -- http://www.bmw.com./ But you do NOT see http://bmw.de/
Google.de really means business here!
products on the shelves of your local grocery or department store will disabuse you of this utopian notion pretty quickly.
Hmm. Let me see what I bought from the grocery store tonight. I bought some burritos that are made in a town called Taxco, which I have visited. I bought some Kraft cheese. The real stuff, not the "cheese food" or "cheese byproducts". I bought some Coke and Sprite because not all of my friends drink what I do -- beer and water. I bought some bread that has preservatives in it so it won't go bad in a day or so. This was from a large chain grocery store. Nothing spectacular. I don't shop in department stores.
Price and quality are important, but it is arguable whether they are the most important factors in the success of a product, and quality is largely subjective anyway.
I can't disagree with this in the least bit. Subjective evaluation is all there is. Why is my art valued less than that of that of van Gogh? I guess people's subjective value of the art rules here.
Marketing is the manipulation of perceptions, and that is what really drives sales.
To some degree this is true, but that is not absolute. Some marketing is purely for PR, like a company that talks about how nice they are to the environment or they say something else that has nothing directly to the products or services that the company provides. Some marketing is purely product awareness. Like I saw an ad on TV the other day for a new sinus product that is a flush to clean out your sinuses. This year has been better for me because I have set my dry gas heat to a lower temperature, but if I do have other sinus issues, I will look for that product. If it doesn't work, well its cheaper than going to the doctor and having that not work either. Now there is the deceptive marketing that we all know about too, and that is what I have a beef against. So does google.
Wal-Mart offers neither the best quality nor the lowest prices, for example, but they have successfully convinced a very large number of people that they do, and that's as good as the real thing.
I would guess that nobody would argue the quality thing. Wal-Mart does have low prices. Economists believe that Wal-Mart has helped reduce inflation. I don't shop at Wal-Mart. To me its just perpetuates poor people, and the focus on price vs quality and a positive shopping experience are against my beliefs. The local Wal-Mart here always looks like a hurricane went though with products opened and thrown on the floor. Its packed with lower income people. Wal-Mart abuses their employees, and promotes cheap low-quality products from China and whatnot. I can buy my junk elsewhere.