That is a given. But trying to stop people from accessing Kiddie Porn is a good thing. You will get zero traction from the general population trying to keep access to kiddie porn. You can get traction trying to keep it from being abused.
This is called a slippery slope argument and it is a logical fallacy. Blocking sites with illegal content can be done without destroying freedom of speech. The blacklist MUST be public. If it isn't then yes political speech can be restricted. Frankly it all ready is in much of the EU anyway. Before throwing up your hands and crying foul why not see if it can be done correctly. While I really don't think this will solve the problem with kiddie porn I am also not going to scream foul over it.
"but our problems are too big to be rooting for the failure of our President." Isn't that the way it should always be? I think Obama's Nuclear policy is a disaster as is his space policy. Do I hope that changes, of course I do. But as I said isn't that the way it should have always been? Should we ever be cheerleaders for the success of failure of any President? That is what I hated about Obama in the election. The freaking cheerleaders. I too hope he does well.
Yea as a simple VESA framebuffer! I hate it the fake fast boot. Vista kinda does that. We had a bunch of customers that would try to run our software and get a strange error and then it worked fine. The reason? A device driver that the program needed wasn't loaded yet and it gave an error.
Part of the problem is that we now expect the computer to detect new hardware. If you plug in a new Video card or monitor you expect the computer to find the hardware and start using it.
Except that theora isn't all that good. Yes it is free but the quality isn't as good as many other codecs out there. I wish that Dirac would get more attention as a codec.
If they where going to sneaky about it they would have encrypted it. Heck a simple shift substitution would have been good enough to hide it for a very long time.
Nice on Mozilla but makes me wonder about one other thing. How about Swing ported to us QT for widgets or QT for Java. Now that it is GPL maybe we could fold QT into Java for GUI applications.
Yea I saw that list a while ago. The thing is that it doesn't provide anything like which one is best or which one works best for you. That isn't really Wikipedia's function.
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Since two of the big ten rules of religion are. Don't kill. and Honor your mother and father. I would say that it is totally far to rule out Religion. Guns. I am not fond of Guns but the kid did pull the trigger on his own. Easy access I can see as an issue. For goodness sakes if you own a gun the you should own a Gun safe and not some silly lock box. Video Games. I also believe that Video Games can have a negative effect on people just as I believe any media can. How ever to say Halo caused it is just dumb. There could be a lot of other issues. Part of me wonders if there was any abuse in the home. But then I know good parents that happen to have rotten kids.
I do believe that video games can have a negative effect on people along with other types of media. Yet I have to agree with you on this one. By the time your 17 I would hope that people know that shooting someone in the head is going to have a very negative effect on them at best. But then I also don't have a gun in my home. I have what has been proven to been proven to be a better system for home defense, three dogs.
Works for Apple. Honestly after playing with Windows 7 Beta I still don't feel that it is worth the cost to upgrade. It just doesn't add enough features to make any real difference. XP is still good enough. It may be worth $99 for an update but no more than that.
I really like Gnome better than KDE. You can run QT applications under Gnome just fine. What I wonder is if we could see OpenOffice or Mozilla move to QT for the widgets:)
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To expensive? It seemed fair to me. My company bought it. I just hope they keep selling it. LGPL means that you can not legally statically link it in a close program. That can actually be pretty handy at times.
"People tend to forget that emulation, possibly even if you own copies of the software you're using, can still count as piracy." I have never heard that. Breaking copy protection under the DMCA is but even then I think you would be hard pressed to convict someone playing games they own on an emulator. I have been meaning to pick up a flash cart for my DS. I do not want to pirate any games. What I want is to not have to carry around a bunch of carts with me every where I take my DS! If I can carry all my games on one microsd cards then I will be happy. I am also looking to try out some homebrew software. I admit I am probably a small a member of a small minority of potental fashcart users. Here is a question, what is the best best flashcart for the DS and where can you get one?
Or c) One version. The total cost of manufacture for all the versions is the same. Make ONE version. If you must make two but I say one version. When you do the install select form Home, Office, or Netbook. It will then load exactly what you want. Oh and make the price $99.95 if that high.
"GP brought up: interoperability, encapsulation, etc." 1. What other network offers a fully documented protocol that supports audio and video? Goog uses XMPP and Jingle. Implementing Voice and Audio for XMPP.Jingle networks would be a good stat and frankly if we want to move away from closed proprietary IN networks the way to go!
The current beta seems to Windows 7 Ultimate... Good grief they have learned nothing... My guess is we will be seeing at least 5 or 6 version of Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Enterprise come right to mind. I just hope they don't offer 32 and 64 bit versions of each... I just found out one of my programs that I tested under W2k,XP, and Vista doesn't work right under Vista 64!!!! And what is worse I can not figure out what is causing it!
It should be impossible to have any damage to a file or user input crash a system. Part of the problem came from the early day of micros where performance was everything. It was actually common to block write data structures right to the disk and read them right form the disk. Of course any damage to the structure would crash the system.
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That is a given. But trying to stop people from accessing Kiddie Porn is a good thing. You will get zero traction from the general population trying to keep access to kiddie porn.
You can get traction trying to keep it from being abused.
This is called a slippery slope argument and it is a logical fallacy.
Blocking sites with illegal content can be done without destroying freedom of speech.
The blacklist MUST be public. If it isn't then yes political speech can be restricted. Frankly it all ready is in much of the EU anyway.
Before throwing up your hands and crying foul why not see if it can be done correctly.
While I really don't think this will solve the problem with kiddie porn I am also not going to scream foul over it.
"but our problems are too big to be rooting for the failure of our President."
Isn't that the way it should always be?
I think Obama's Nuclear policy is a disaster as is his space policy. Do I hope that changes, of course I do.
But as I said isn't that the way it should have always been?
Should we ever be cheerleaders for the success of failure of any President?
That is what I hated about Obama in the election. The freaking cheerleaders.
I too hope he does well.
Yea as a simple VESA framebuffer!
I hate it the fake fast boot. Vista kinda does that. We had a bunch of customers that would try to run our software and get a strange error and then it worked fine. The reason? A device driver that the program needed wasn't loaded yet and it gave an error.
Part of the problem is that we now expect the computer to detect new hardware. If you plug in a new Video card or monitor you expect the computer to find the hardware and start using it.
Except that theora isn't all that good. Yes it is free but the quality isn't as good as many other codecs out there. I wish that Dirac would get more attention as a codec.
If they where going to sneaky about it they would have encrypted it. Heck a simple shift substitution would have been good enough to hide it for a very long time.
Nice on Mozilla but makes me wonder about one other thing. How about Swing ported to us QT for widgets or QT for Java.
Now that it is GPL maybe we could fold QT into Java for GUI applications.
Yea I saw that list a while ago. The thing is that it doesn't provide anything like which one is best or which one works best for you.
That isn't really Wikipedia's function.
Maybe you missed that in a closed program part?
Since two of the big ten rules of religion are.
Don't kill.
and Honor your mother and father.
I would say that it is totally far to rule out Religion.
Guns. I am not fond of Guns but the kid did pull the trigger on his own. Easy access I can see as an issue. For goodness sakes if you own a gun the you should own a Gun safe and not some silly lock box.
Video Games. I also believe that Video Games can have a negative effect on people just as I believe any media can. How ever to say Halo caused it is just dumb.
There could be a lot of other issues.
Part of me wonders if there was any abuse in the home. But then I know good parents that happen to have rotten kids.
But if the gun wasn't in the house...
Besides a lockbox isn't all that secure most of the time. That is why they make gun safes.
I do believe that video games can have a negative effect on people along with other types of media. Yet I have to agree with you on this one. By the time your 17 I would hope that people know that shooting someone in the head is going to have a very negative effect on them at best.
But then I also don't have a gun in my home. I have what has been proven to been proven to be a better system for home defense, three dogs.
Works for Apple. Honestly after playing with Windows 7 Beta I still don't feel that it is worth the cost to upgrade. It just doesn't add enough features to make any real difference. XP is still good enough. It may be worth $99 for an update but no more than that.
I really like Gnome better than KDE. You can run QT applications under Gnome just fine. :)
What I wonder is if we could see OpenOffice or Mozilla move to QT for the widgets
To expensive? It seemed fair to me. My company bought it. I just hope they keep selling it. LGPL means that you can not legally statically link it in a close program. That can actually be pretty handy at times.
"People tend to forget that emulation, possibly even if you own copies of the software you're using, can still count as piracy."
I have never heard that. Breaking copy protection under the DMCA is but even then I think you would be hard pressed to convict someone playing games they own on an emulator.
I have been meaning to pick up a flash cart for my DS. I do not want to pirate any games. What I want is to not have to carry around a bunch of carts with me every where I take my DS! If I can carry all my games on one microsd cards then I will be happy. I am also looking to try out some homebrew software. I admit I am probably a small a member of a small minority of potental fashcart users.
Here is a question, what is the best best flashcart for the DS and where can you get one?
I have not tried it. Right now I am setting up a Vista 64 Dev station.
Notice that I said, my guess is....
But beta is called Windows 7 Ultimate so it is a good guess.
Then you loose the one big advantages of Windows. The huge software base.
The API will have to be complete or you might as well use Linux.
Or c) One version. The total cost of manufacture for all the versions is the same. Make ONE version. If you must make two but I say one version.
When you do the install select form Home, Office, or Netbook.
It will then load exactly what you want.
Oh and make the price $99.95 if that high.
I am running just the binary. No recompile nothing so yes in 32bit mode.
It is just acting really odd to say the least so yes I am ticked.
"GP brought up: interoperability, encapsulation, etc."
1. What other network offers a fully documented protocol that supports audio and video?
Goog uses XMPP and Jingle. Implementing Voice and Audio for XMPP.Jingle networks would be a good stat and frankly if we want to move away from closed proprietary IN networks the way to go!
The current beta seems to Windows 7 Ultimate... Good grief they have learned nothing... My guess is we will be seeing at least 5 or 6 version of Windows 7
Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, and Enterprise come right to mind. I just hope they don't offer 32 and 64 bit versions of each...
I just found out one of my programs that I tested under W2k,XP, and Vista doesn't work right under Vista 64!!!! And what is worse I can not figure out what is causing it!
It should be impossible to have any damage to a file or user input crash a system.
Part of the problem came from the early day of micros where performance was everything.
It was actually common to block write data structures right to the disk and read them right form the disk.
Of course any damage to the structure would crash the system.