I'm amazed that there seems to be a generation that seem to think that capitalism is equivalent, or even in some way superior to democracy.
Here's the difference: a company is *bound by law* to maximise it's profit for the benefit of it's shareholders. It 'cares' about it's customers and doesn't giving a flying crap for society in any wider sense. tis true. This is why Walmart screws its employees and the communities it works in without blinking.
Democracy is a system by which you have 1/230millionth of a say in which your country is run. I hate to break this to you, but that's all you're entitled to, unless you wish to stand for election and other people happen to agree with you.
Your government doesn't have a *vested interest* in screwing you. For a moment imagine you didn't live in the world's most dysfunctional democracy, and take a look around the world for other examples: say Sweden, Canada, Switzerland.
Democracy and capitalism are compatible and, arguably, complimentary. But quit talking about 'government' being a worse problem. Save me your fashionable contempt for the Democrats/Republicans. Government is fine, necessary and totally desirable.
If you disagree, give me one vaguely plausible alternate and *an example of it working well*.
Aw, c'mon. You're fogetting that this article/troll is actually pretty funny and well written. I'm happy feeding funny, entertaining trolls, it's the ugly, bitter, unpleasant one's you gotta watch out for.
Good point. Y'know, I'm such a dork I've been running my laptop with WinXP from user mode for more than 3 years. It's absolute hell. It took me two years to figure out how to change the power settings without logging in as admin, changing user to power user, logging in the user, changing the settings, then going through the whole process again to switch permissions back. aaaRRGGGHH!
If I didn't read Slashdot, life would be so much easier....
let me get this straight. A robot called "HAL" developed by Cyberdyne? For pities sake: stop this evil genius now! Before we have to go back in time and do it!
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Well, I hate to spoil the party, but we already have the technology for Mach 3+ flight (since, say, 1960: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird and it's not like we've solved the problems with creating cost-efficient passenger versions of that yet.....
I wouldn't be reserving those tickets for Mach 7 too soon, considering how much harder that's gonna be. Unless the return "go-one-mile-straight-up-and-then-slam-into-the-gr ound" trip appeals it a loooooong way off.
Oh good grief. I read this every week. I don't buy new music, because it sucks now. New movies suck too.
How old are you people? 60? How did y'all turn into whiners so early in life?
I mean, there's this underground awards ceremony called "The Oscars". This year they honored about 8 high-quality, original, thought provoking movies, all of which were on wide release. It wasn't worse than any other year. Honestly.
Just because you chose to see "Dukes of Hazzard", don't wail on a bunch of creative new stuff you won't go and see.
Don't get me started on music. There is a *ton* of great stuff out there. No, it isn't all on Sony BMG or even iTunes. If you get off your ass and look for it, it's there. Just like it was before.
well, looking at the questions so far, I don't know if one guy's opinion is a realistic way of finding out what's going on in the Arab world, but it's sure going to be a fascinating (and possibly scary) window on what the perceptions of the average western geek.
How do you feel about the at-least-slightly-prejudicial busted-up broken window icon Slashdot use to highlight this article?
realtedly: Do you believe the anti-Microsoft bias of Slashdot is peculiar to this forum or does it reflect a general antipathy in tech circles? Why do you care what the community at Slashdot thinks?
Tony Spaeth does interesting 'break-downs' of what any new Wordmark/logo change is trying to achieve. He's clearly a guy with lots of experience in the industry (designed current Pfizer & Dow Jones logos) - reasonably enlightening. His take on the Intel job is here: http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2006/intel.ht m
Not so important that they intend to release a patch for Win95/98, I hear.
"Note: If you're still running on Win98/ME, this is a watershed moment: we believe (untested) that your system is vulnerable and there will be no patch from MS. Your mitigation options are very limited. You really need to upgrade." http://isc.sans.org/
So finally, Win98 will be hung out to dry - obsolete and dangerous. A pity, since I'd been given to believe that Win98 + appropriate firewalls etc was a reasonable solution until now. Does anyone know if the unofficial patch covers Win 98, even if MS won't?
Wonderful to watch this going south in a big way, dragging the whole concept of DRM with it. We all owe Sony a debt of thanks, really.
I particularly enjoyed this quote from First4Internet's website from their director of Sales & Marketing: "We're not denying people access to the music," Macdonald said. "We're just trying to help them manage their access."
bah! the old watch analogy. remind me, how does this argument work? A watch is an example of something designed by an intelligent being. It clearly shows that by having a logically derived sequence of parts, specifically designed for the purpose that the maker chose. yup. good so far.
life is also complex. eyes are complex. like a watch. so life, like a watch, must be designed.
but life is *nothing like* a watch. a watch has gears, which are, genuinely, useless without, say, a spring driving them. A proto-watch is totally useless. A proto-eye *isn't* useless at all. In fact, you can see them all through nature. An eye has systems that are elaborations and derivations of pre-existing systems. It didn't just appear, it has clear predecessors that also work, with different degrees of success. sure, the bits are 'useless' on their own, but it was the *system* that evolved, not the individual parts.
if you wanted to prove a watch is created by "Intelligent Design", congratulations. but otherwise, it adds nothing to the debate, except parroting something you heard once somewhere.
Since I believe everything I read on Slashdot, my primary login in XP has always only had User privileges. Given how thoroughly this thing appears to insinuate itself into the system, would that have defeated its attempts to install?
Is that an adequate defense against this kind of sabotage? Or should I just admit that running as User has been nothing but a pain in the butt?
Transparency as a 'cool' effect utterly, utterly baffles me. The point of a button (say maximise) on a window is that it's a language element that's the same every time you see it: that's how you know what it does. So....
Why would I want the buttons to change color, pick up lines and detail from whatever randomly happens to be behind them? Look at how OSX evolved - it started off with waaaay too much transparency and then went up the learning curve to almost none. Looks like we'll see Microsoft running headlong into the same mistake.
Of course, the difference is, MS's mistakes hang around longer. OSX has been updating it's UI every nine month or whatever, when MS will likely screw with default transparency settings until the next major release - 2010?
gah. It's an old argument I guess, but I hate seeing the 'coolness' of transparency being touted without challenge. maybe someone can explain why it is so great after all...
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for one, the arctic monkey's didn't.
s tm
Who?
"The first album from indie band Arctic Monkeys has become the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4660394.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried."
Winston Churchill
I'm amazed that there seems to be a generation that seem to think that capitalism is equivalent, or even in some way superior to democracy.
Here's the difference: a company is *bound by law* to maximise it's profit for the benefit of it's shareholders. It 'cares' about it's customers and doesn't giving a flying crap for society in any wider sense. tis true. This is why Walmart screws its employees and the communities it works in without blinking.
Democracy is a system by which you have 1/230millionth of a say in which your country is run. I hate to break this to you, but that's all you're entitled to, unless you wish to stand for election and other people happen to agree with you.
Your government doesn't have a *vested interest* in screwing you. For a moment imagine you didn't live in the world's most dysfunctional democracy, and take a look around the world for other examples: say Sweden, Canada, Switzerland.
Democracy and capitalism are compatible and, arguably, complimentary. But quit talking about 'government' being a worse problem. Save me your fashionable contempt for the Democrats/Republicans. Government is fine, necessary and totally desirable.
If you disagree, give me one vaguely plausible alternate and *an example of it working well*.
The government is elected by the people, for the people.
Remember?
This makes it somewhat different to frickin' Walmart.
Aw, c'mon. You're fogetting that this article/troll is actually pretty funny and well written. I'm happy feeding funny, entertaining trolls, it's the ugly, bitter, unpleasant one's you gotta watch out for.
Like that Cringely guy.
Good point. Y'know, I'm such a dork I've been running my laptop with WinXP from user mode for more than 3 years. It's absolute hell. It took me two years to figure out how to change the power settings without logging in as admin, changing user to power user, logging in the user, changing the settings, then going through the whole process again to switch permissions back. aaaRRGGGHH!
If I didn't read Slashdot, life would be so much easier....
80% increase in muscle strength "not an amazing achievement"?!
Anyone who's been through physical rehabilitation probably wouldn't agree with that...
"Sankai's venture company Cyberdyne"....
let me get this straight. A robot called "HAL" developed by Cyberdyne?
For pities sake: stop this evil genius now! Before we have to go back in time and do it!
Well, I hate to spoil the party, but we already have the technology for Mach 3+ flight (since, say, 1960: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird and it's not like we've solved the problems with creating cost-efficient passenger versions of that yet.....
r ound" trip appeals it a loooooong way off.
I wouldn't be reserving those tickets for Mach 7 too soon, considering how much harder that's gonna be. Unless the return "go-one-mile-straight-up-and-then-slam-into-the-g
Super fast maglevs will be first - betchya!
ok, so my brain wasn't on right. It is the Brits. Sorry to all offended Brits.
err. more importantly, the freakin' jet engine!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle
entertainingly, the new US show "American Inventor" credited the invention of the motor car and the computer to the Americans last week. doooooh!
meanwhile, this scramjet isn't even by the brits, it the aussies. It's being reported by the BBC, hence the confusion
Oh good grief. I read this every week. I don't buy new music, because it sucks now. New movies suck too.
How old are you people? 60? How did y'all turn into whiners so early in life?
I mean, there's this underground awards ceremony called "The Oscars". This year they honored about 8 high-quality, original, thought provoking movies, all of which were on wide release. It wasn't worse than any other year. Honestly.
Just because you chose to see "Dukes of Hazzard", don't wail on a bunch of creative new stuff you won't go and see.
Don't get me started on music. There is a *ton* of great stuff out there. No, it isn't all on Sony BMG or even iTunes. If you get off your ass and look for it, it's there. Just like it was before.
quality writing in journalism - the first line...
"Athletes with infected scrapes that won't go away."
"Dammit, man, get out of my *house*! And take that nasty scrape with you!"
I had no idea at all. Unfortuntate co-incidence.
well, looking at the questions so far, I don't know if one guy's opinion is a realistic way of finding out what's going on in the Arab world, but it's sure going to be a fascinating (and possibly scary) window on what the perceptions of the average western geek.
Are these controls always at the far right of the screen?
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So the menus will always open backwards?
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s
Tell me it ain't so! (Can't install the beta, can't check it out myself)
"The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone."
ahh. well.... if you're *really* old school, you remember when a mobile phone was virtually the size of a storage closet.
(heck. That wasn't even that long ago, come to think of it....)
That's the thing I've just spent five minutes working out how to switch off, right?
How do you feel about the at-least-slightly-prejudicial busted-up broken window icon Slashdot use to highlight this article?
realtedly: Do you believe the anti-Microsoft bias of Slashdot is peculiar to this forum or does it reflect a general antipathy in tech circles? Why do you care what the community at Slashdot thinks?
Tony Spaeth does interesting 'break-downs' of what any new Wordmark/logo change is trying to achieve. He's clearly a guy with lots of experience in the industry (designed current Pfizer & Dow Jones logos) - reasonably enlightening. His take on the Intel job is here:t m
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2006/intel.h
and entertaining reviews and demolitions live here:
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/index.htm
Not so important that they intend to release a patch for Win95/98, I hear.
"Note: If you're still running on Win98/ME, this is a watershed moment: we believe (untested) that your system is vulnerable and there will be no patch from MS. Your mitigation options are very limited. You really need to upgrade." http://isc.sans.org/
So finally, Win98 will be hung out to dry - obsolete and dangerous. A pity, since I'd been given to believe that Win98 + appropriate firewalls etc was a reasonable solution until now. Does anyone know if the unofficial patch covers Win 98, even if MS won't?
Wonderful to watch this going south in a big way, dragging the whole concept of DRM with it. We all owe Sony a debt of thanks, really.
x cp_art10
I particularly enjoyed this quote from First4Internet's website from their director of Sales & Marketing:
"We're not denying people access to the music," Macdonald said. "We're just trying to help them manage their access."
http://www.xcp-aurora.com/press_article.aspx?art=
Please! Please, Mr. MacDonald! Help me manage my access to my media by installing a rootkit!
bah! the old watch analogy.
remind me, how does this argument work? A watch is an example of something designed by an intelligent being. It clearly shows that by having a logically derived sequence of parts, specifically designed for the purpose that the maker chose. yup. good so far.
life is also complex. eyes are complex. like a watch. so life, like a watch, must be designed.
but life is *nothing like* a watch. a watch has gears, which are, genuinely, useless without, say, a spring driving them. A proto-watch is totally useless. A proto-eye *isn't* useless at all. In fact, you can see them all through nature. An eye has systems that are elaborations and derivations of pre-existing systems. It didn't just appear, it has clear predecessors that also work, with different degrees of success. sure, the bits are 'useless' on their own, but it was the *system* that evolved, not the individual parts.
if you wanted to prove a watch is created by "Intelligent Design", congratulations. but otherwise, it adds nothing to the debate, except parroting something you heard once somewhere.
Since I believe everything I read on Slashdot, my primary login in XP has always only had User privileges. Given how thoroughly this thing appears to insinuate itself into the system, would that have defeated its attempts to install?
Is that an adequate defense against this kind of sabotage? Or should I just admit that running as User has been nothing but a pain in the butt?
Transparency as a 'cool' effect utterly, utterly baffles me. The point of a button (say maximise) on a window is that it's a language element that's the same every time you see it: that's how you know what it does. So....
Why would I want the buttons to change color, pick up lines and detail from whatever randomly happens to be behind them? Look at how OSX evolved - it started off with waaaay too much transparency and then went up the learning curve to almost none. Looks like we'll see Microsoft running headlong into the same mistake.
Of course, the difference is, MS's mistakes hang around longer. OSX has been updating it's UI every nine month or whatever, when MS will likely screw with default transparency settings until the next major release - 2010?
gah. It's an old argument I guess, but I hate seeing the 'coolness' of transparency being touted without challenge. maybe someone can explain why it is so great after all...