To all who are interested in the Intelligent Design theory, and evolution, you might want to check out Richard Dawkin's book "The Blind Watchmaker". It's well thought out, easy to read, and enlightening - and it deals with the Watch Maker theory specifically (which is the most common example Intelligent Design proponents use to explain Intelligent Design).
I'm religious myself (Baha'i), but I'm loving it (though I haven't finished yet - took some time out to read trashy sci-fi;)
Yup, this is why I don't play MORPGs. I've read too many stories with GM's being cocks to want to enter a world they have more control over than I do. It's hardly surprising that GMs tend to turn out to be morons, since the game is not a democracy.
It's a bit like Nazi Germany if you think about it. The state is all powerful and above criticism from the people, and the police are chosen by the state. Not a nice situation.
Also, people who pay for a game, and then pay a monthly charge for the privilege of playing it, will take all sorts of abuse. So, have fun:)
I noticed a few days ago that I could watch a few documentarys online from their site, which was nice. A friend who works there told me they had plans to do stuff like this, so it's good to see that they're going ahead with it.
The only problem is that it's in Real format, which is fine on my Linux desktop, but an absolute pain on my iBook (I have to view the HTML source and look for the.ram file, then feed that into Realplayer manually).
Maybe it's my fault and I'm doing something wrong on my iBook (though I've tried to fix it for ages), but that's not the point really. I wish they'd hurry up with their new open format and release stuff in that soon.
I pay £400 a year and have a server hosted somewhere. So my home machine isn't my mail server, it's simply my home machine. Sometimes it needs to send out mail for various reasons.
I believe machines do that, you know, send out mail sometimes (and no I should not be forced into using smart relaying i.e. using my ISP's mail server, or my co-lo machine to do the actual delivery). It's a clean machine which sends out mail, it also hosts some web content and various other services.
Please consider what you're saying before you hit submit.
Woah woah, you're making the assumption that we all have static IPs. I've never been infected, not once (not running Windows helps;) however since I have a dynamic IP (which is what almost all ISPs give in the UK), I've had to go through the pain of getting my current IP unlisted, or just reconnect and getting another IP.
And let me tell you, those DSBL guys can be real dicks sometimes. My question of "have you guys started blacklisting all dynamic IPs" was met with the answer "your IP is blacklisted because spam came from it". Thanks guys, you freaking retards;)
Admittedly, the overlap between zombie clients and legitimate mail sources is low, but it is no where near non-existent as you claim.
Seems simple enough to me, but then again I'm regularly mistaking what is simple for what I have gotten used to and take for granted (perhaps if I had given myself the above answer a few years ago I would have said "WTF?").
I don't believe that difficulty in using encryption is the problem. Kgpg makes key management (the only part of gpg which I would say is complicated) relatively easy - and Apple have made encryption of your entire home area ridiculously easy. But still, no one uses these things but the people who know their value.
Encryption can be as easy as you like, but the ignorant will not use it, and who can blame them? Why would your average suit use something they've never needed before, if she can get the same job done without using it? I believe that even with education, only a small percentage of suits would start using encryption.
However, I think you touched on something. Apple Keychain and SSL are both examples of things everyone uses (alright in the former, it's everyone with a Mac). Reason being because they don't even know they're using it, they're just forced to without being told. So it would seem that the solution would be to start using crypto in mail clients by default and without the users knowledge (unless she wants to poke around a bit).
Of course this would be difficult given the way public key encryption works, but I believe it's doable.
My friend works at the Beeb and says that they're finally looking into these kinds of licensing issues. They realise that having paid a license fee, people should technically be able to obtain the programming however they want (be it through the Net, teevee, or through mobiles).
This doesn't mean that you should expect to be able to access programming for free (after license fee) through bittorrent and not get done, but it does mean that they realise there is a problem and are looking at ways to resolve it.
So erm, I guess in summary; there's no answer yet.
That's usually my motivation for seeing it through other means.
I've disliked going to the cinema since 16 I think. The people suck, I can't pause it, I refuse to watch adverts, it costs too much and it's not a good social event (what's the point of going with your friends if you have to sit in a dark room in silence for an hour and a half?).... having said that, I've just come back from the cinema;)
This film was daaaaark. It should have been a 15. I think I'm going to cry everytime I see Darth Vader now.
Worth watching in the cinema? Probably more so than most films, but that's not saying much in my opinion.
It would be so nice if some one like Nominet took over *all* of the TLDs. Never going to happen of course, but people who have to deal with both Nominet and Network solutions a great deal know why I wish this.
Maybe if I take the cases off my monitors so there's no plastic bar down the middle. Of course then there's a very good chance that I would die horribly.
Ha, love it. My friend has always told me that I'm crazy for having only one window visible at a time (per monitor) despite have 16000x1280 resolution. The fact that there's a DE out there which works the way I work vindicates the mono-tasking style of my desktop I think which he saw as insane (but then, he's a Gnome user so there you go).
It doesn't seem to work very well with two monitors though, so I guess I'll stick with XFCE4 for now and pray that one day while I'm still alive, this new version of which you peoples speak will make it's way into Debian.
Don't stress about it, I think when some one starts a post with "I don't care what you say" and then proceeds to show that he really doesn't care what anyone says, it's safe to assume that they're trolling.
As for the PDF solution above, yeah I tried that. The problem is that it's mostly agencies that I have to deal with. I offer my CV in both PDF and Openoffice format, but they don't even look at it before saying they need it in.doc. The irony is that the people they represent (some quite enlightened companies sometimes) most likely feel the same way about.doc as I do, so it's really just for the sake of the agency.
If you find a site's ads to be so intrusive as to make the page unviewable, don't go back. I doubt anyone forced you to go there in the first place.
This type of argument is invalid because of the premise that being explicitly forced to do something is not the same as being tacitly forced in some (these) instances. For example, when I apply for IT jobs I am not explicitly forced (in most cases) to use MS Word, yet if my CV is not in.doc format and I have expressed that it is not an option, then I am told to submit it in plain text. So the options are to either have my CV not submitted at all, or submitted in an unflattering format which will decrease the chances of it being viewed by a potential employer searching through a recruitment site.
It is pretty much the same with some websites. No one is forcing me to view the Register, yet I must in order to keep up to date in one of the most rapidly changing professions the world has known. The reasons why some websites become obligatory reading is more off topic than I want to go (already way off right here), so we'll leave that.
But please, do not use the "nobody forced you to" argument as it ceased to impress after primary school.
Also, not paying for something which is put out for public consumption on the web is not stealing. It is the equivalent of throwing away the last few pages of a newspaper which are filled with advertisements (and sport;).
Okay so clearly we can see (from the other replies to this) that DVD play back was an issue for some. Though I doubt it was for the majority, we'll let it go.
I think the reason the PS2 killed DC however was more to do with a slice of the social pie that I like to call the Stupids. You remember those kids who used to beat you senseless for being such a geek at secondary school? Yeah, those were the PS2 buyers, and guess what? *There are more of them than there are of us*.
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Jesus Christ.
And it got +5 insightful too.
Jesus Easter Christ.
Ho,
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To all who are interested in the Intelligent Design theory, and evolution, you might want to check out Richard Dawkin's book "The Blind Watchmaker". It's well thought out, easy to read, and enlightening - and it deals with the Watch Maker theory specifically (which is the most common example Intelligent Design proponents use to explain Intelligent Design).
I'm religious myself (Baha'i), but I'm loving it (though I haven't finished yet - took some time out to read trashy sci-fi
Yup, this is why I don't play MORPGs. I've read too many stories with GM's being cocks to want to enter a world they have more control over than I do. It's hardly surprising that GMs tend to turn out to be morons, since the game is not a democracy.
:)
It's a bit like Nazi Germany if you think about it. The state is all powerful and above criticism from the people, and the police are chosen by the state. Not a nice situation.
Also, people who pay for a game, and then pay a monthly charge for the privilege of playing it, will take all sorts of abuse. So, have fun
Actually they fixed that bug now. So ignore that message.
I noticed a few days ago that I could watch a few documentarys online from their site, which was nice. A friend who works there told me they had plans to do stuff like this, so it's good to see that they're going ahead with it.
The only problem is that it's in Real format, which is fine on my Linux desktop, but an absolute pain on my iBook (I have to view the HTML source and look for the .ram file, then feed that into Realplayer manually).
Maybe it's my fault and I'm doing something wrong on my iBook (though I've tried to fix it for ages), but that's not the point really. I wish they'd hurry up with their new open format and release stuff in that soon.
That's about right, yes. See I know because I know that we pay import tax for having things like this shipped.
I pay £400 a year and have a server hosted somewhere. So my home machine isn't my mail server, it's simply my home machine. Sometimes it needs to send out mail for various reasons.
:)
I believe machines do that, you know, send out mail sometimes (and no I should not be forced into using smart relaying i.e. using my ISP's mail server, or my co-lo machine to do the actual delivery). It's a clean machine which sends out mail, it also hosts some web content and various other services.
Please consider what you're saying before you hit submit.
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Woah woah, you're making the assumption that we all have static IPs. I've never been infected, not once (not running Windows helps;) however since I have a dynamic IP (which is what almost all ISPs give in the UK), I've had to go through the pain of getting my current IP unlisted, or just reconnect and getting another IP.
;)
And let me tell you, those DSBL guys can be real dicks sometimes. My question of "have you guys started blacklisting all dynamic IPs" was met with the answer "your IP is blacklisted because spam came from it". Thanks guys, you freaking retards
Admittedly, the overlap between zombie clients and legitimate mail sources is low, but it is no where near non-existent as you claim.
Paul Graham is a spammer? Could you tell me exactly which variety and flavour of crack you're smoking?
:) Some one joked about Disney having to release Toy Story 3 in order to allow Debian to continue infringing on their copyrights.
Doh. You're right sorry. I was actually thinking of this though when I posted.
apt-get -t unstable
Seems simple enough to me, but then again I'm regularly mistaking what is simple for what I have gotten used to and take for granted (perhaps if I had given myself the above answer a few years ago I would have said "WTF?").
And no.
Or did you mean other apps compiled specifically for 64bit arch? If so then sorry, and ignore.
I don't believe that difficulty in using encryption is the problem. Kgpg makes key management (the only part of gpg which I would say is complicated) relatively easy - and Apple have made encryption of your entire home area ridiculously easy. But still, no one uses these things but the people who know their value.
Encryption can be as easy as you like, but the ignorant will not use it, and who can blame them? Why would your average suit use something they've never needed before, if she can get the same job done without using it? I believe that even with education, only a small percentage of suits would start using encryption.
However, I think you touched on something. Apple Keychain and SSL are both examples of things everyone uses (alright in the former, it's everyone with a Mac). Reason being because they don't even know they're using it, they're just forced to without being told. So it would seem that the solution would be to start using crypto in mail clients by default and without the users knowledge (unless she wants to poke around a bit).
Of course this would be difficult given the way public key encryption works, but I believe it's doable.
My friend works at the Beeb and says that they're finally looking into these kinds of licensing issues. They realise that having paid a license fee, people should technically be able to obtain the programming however they want (be it through the Net, teevee, or through mobiles).
This doesn't mean that you should expect to be able to access programming for free (after license fee) through bittorrent and not get done, but it does mean that they realise there is a problem and are looking at ways to resolve it.
So erm, I guess in summary; there's no answer yet.
That's usually my motivation for seeing it through other means.
... having said that, I've just come back from the cinema ;)
I've disliked going to the cinema since 16 I think. The people suck, I can't pause it, I refuse to watch adverts, it costs too much and it's not a good social event (what's the point of going with your friends if you have to sit in a dark room in silence for an hour and a half?).
This film was daaaaark. It should have been a 15. I think I'm going to cry everytime I see Darth Vader now.
Worth watching in the cinema? Probably more so than most films, but that's not saying much in my opinion.
It would be so nice if some one like Nominet took over *all* of the TLDs. Never going to happen of course, but people who have to deal with both Nominet and Network solutions a great deal know why I wish this.
Maybe if I take the cases off my monitors so there's no plastic bar down the middle. Of course then there's a very good chance that I would die horribly.
Ha, love it. My friend has always told me that I'm crazy for having only one window visible at a time (per monitor) despite have 16000x1280 resolution. The fact that there's a DE out there which works the way I work vindicates the mono-tasking style of my desktop I think which he saw as insane (but then, he's a Gnome user so there you go).
It doesn't seem to work very well with two monitors though, so I guess I'll stick with XFCE4 for now and pray that one day while I'm still alive, this new version of which you peoples speak will make it's way into Debian.
Maybe I should have a +5 insightful filter on to avoid this sort of trolling.
Don't stress about it, I think when some one starts a post with "I don't care what you say" and then proceeds to show that he really doesn't care what anyone says, it's safe to assume that they're trolling.
.doc. The irony is that the people they represent (some quite enlightened companies sometimes) most likely feel the same way about .doc as I do, so it's really just for the sake of the agency.
As for the PDF solution above, yeah I tried that. The problem is that it's mostly agencies that I have to deal with. I offer my CV in both PDF and Openoffice format, but they don't even look at it before saying they need it in
This type of argument is invalid because of the premise that being explicitly forced to do something is not the same as being tacitly forced in some (these) instances. For example, when I apply for IT jobs I am not explicitly forced (in most cases) to use MS Word, yet if my CV is not in
It is pretty much the same with some websites. No one is forcing me to view the Register, yet I must in order to keep up to date in one of the most rapidly changing professions the world has known. The reasons why some websites become obligatory reading is more off topic than I want to go (already way off right here), so we'll leave that.
But please, do not use the "nobody forced you to" argument as it ceased to impress after primary school.
Also, not paying for something which is put out for public consumption on the web is not stealing. It is the equivalent of throwing away the last few pages of a newspaper which are filled with advertisements (and sport;).
Okay so clearly we can see (from the other replies to this) that DVD play back was an issue for some. Though I doubt it was for the majority, we'll let it go.
I think the reason the PS2 killed DC however was more to do with a slice of the social pie that I like to call the Stupids. You remember those kids who used to beat you senseless for being such a geek at secondary school? Yeah, those were the PS2 buyers, and guess what? *There are more of them than there are of us*.