Front facing video cameras have been around on phones for about 5ys. The reason nobody uses them is because you look like a tool if you video chat to your phone in public.
Given that the whole point of of the iPhone is to wave it around as much as possible, I expect it'll be a hit on that platform.
Caffeine withdrawal happens because caffeine, like most stimulants, is vasoconstrictor. When you stop using caffeine regularly, the arteries that carry blood to your brain expand, causing the classic caffeine withdrawal headache.
The worst caffeine withdrawal I've experienced featured double vision and little bit of vomiting, and I'm not American.
Hurm, I just ran \\hostname\c$ and it seems you're correct. Even though My Computer claims that my C: drive isn't shared and it's not presented in the list of shares when browsing my host via the network, \\hostname\c$ brings up my C: drive.
This renders the traditional struggle between workers and bosses increasingly meaningless in Marxist terms, because it's no longer a struggle between a wage-earning class and a property-owning class: it's a struggle within the wage-earning class.
Those managers, at least up to a certain level, are still working class (they sell their labour in return for a wage) and we'll still need them after the revolution. The fact that they are on our side of the class divide means we need to build solidarity with them as the so called "managerial class" have the skills needed to organise large numbers of people in productive enterprise.
This split between worker and capitalist within the individual has grave implications for the idea of class consciousness.
This is a form of false conciousness and needs to be defeated through education. That's not newspeak for totalitarian brainwashing btw, I simply mean pointing out how being involved in exploitation is ultimately self defeating.
I mean, the Merrill Lynchs of the world are still doing OK even though the market is tanking. Here in the UK, the 1,000 richest people are 30% richer than last year! Small investors and small businesspeople will almost always get screwed under Capitalism.
Globalisation
Socialism can only have a world historical existence. The Bolsheviks were quite clear that their revolution would only succeed if supported by revolutions in more developed countries. This insight was written out of history by Stalin and his idea of Socialism in one country, but we know where that went - a monstrous, bureaucratic class system of another kind.
Because the whole world is now interconnected, any attempt at a revolution would have to be global. Even new attempts to form Trade Unions in disorganised industries in developing countries would, in my view, have to involve global coordination. The Flint sit-down strikes were successful because the UAW activists were able to target the factories where the car chassis were being manufactured. Those factories represented a bottleneck in the production process and so were a prime target. Any attempt to unionise the global car industry today would have to involve simultaneous action at several factories around the globe. The process of doing that is the process that will build international working class solidarity of the kind needed to eventually overthrow Capitalism.
Financialisation.
This, to me, shows how useless modern Capitalism has become. Money for billionaires is, in the words of Bernie Ecclestone, a way of keeping score. This "financialisation" is just a form of gambling and like any casino, the house always wins.
If Marxist economics is a science, it must learn from its mistakes. To fight exploitation with 19th century economics would be as inappropriate as to fight cancer with 19th century biology.
I agree wholeheartedly. Engels always called Marx's ideas scientific socialism and so open, honest debate is vital to any understanding of real Socialism.
Marx wouldn't recognise Social Democracy? Funny how the First and Second Internationals used the term to describe its ideas and the German Social-Democratic party was part of the Second International.
Social Democracy split from Bolshevik Communism with the formation of the Third International. Social Democracy is just reformism, it's supported by people who think that it's possible to achieve Socialism without a revolutionary break or that the job of of politics is to maintain a degree of "fairness" in the Capitalist class system.
which was certainly a dictatorship but by no stretch of the imagination could it be thought of as a dictatorship of the proletariat (which Marx himself said was only a temporary state).
Dictatorship of the proletariat is one of the more misunderstood Marxist slogans. To put it in context, Marx and Engels described the current situation as a dictatorship of the bourgeois.
Even with our limited democracy, with its elections every 4 or 5 years and our limited rights to protest, we still have a society that's governed according to the needs and desires of the ruling class. The idea is that a dictatorship of the proletariat will come about as a result of a working class revolution. This "dictatorship" would use the current, bourgeois tools of government to dismantle the capitalist state and reconfigure it according to the needs of workers.
The automatic sharing of the C: drive as \\hostname\c$\, for example, has been nearly impossible to turn off for even a competent systems administrator without ripping out parts of the operating system you may want.
I'm running Windows 7 right now and my C isn't shared. I don't recall any version of Windows since at least XP automatically sharing the root of any drive, in fact if you try to do it you get a security warning.
How is Unix UID/GID equal to Windows ACLs? I'm genuinely curious, as looking at the permissions tab in Windows it looks like it's possible to have more fine grained permissions in Windows than in Unix. I thought SELinux was aimed at replicating that functionality and going a bit further!
If you read the forum post referenced by that Wikipedia article, you'll notice it's not a binding guarantee.
According to the Steam Subscriber Agreement, we don't buy games on Steam. We subscribe to the Steam service and purchase Subscriptions (i.e. games) via the service.
The idea that Valve would unlock non-Valve games in the event of Steam going under is madness. No publisher would agree to it; all Valve does is distribute games from other publishers under license and breaking the terms of that license in the event of bankruptcy would probably result in the directors of Valve being sued.
Of course, I'm not really concerned about this scenario. Steam is a golden goose and is run by people who understand the gaming market, all they have to do is carry on as they are and they'll continue to make megabucks and provide the service we all expect.
offline mode that wants to go online whenever it feels like it
Steam will only make itself go online when you try to play a Valve / Steamworks game online. If you're just playing single player, you can stay offline indefinitely.
I completely stopped illegally downloading games when I became hooked on Steam. Between the convenience, the selection and the regular sales, I'd never go back.
There needs to be a Steam for TV shows and movies!
Also, there needs to be something better than iTunes. I hate the iTunes UI.
There's no "maybe" about it. The IT people knew what they were doing was wrong and so stored all incriminating evidence in a manner that would allow them to easily destroy it when the shit hit the fan. They most likely had it all on a single hard drive and then just used something like GNU shred on it when the scandal came to light.
Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change is a fucking scam. I sat on the other side of the fence for a while then on the fence for a short time. But the more I looked into it for myself (Google that shit... I'm not doing your homework for you) the more I became convinced that the scientific process has been corrupted and bastardized, and the majority of the support for it is emotional and based upon "facts" which refer to themselves
You know, until I read your post I used to believe in AGW. Now, thanks to your expert commentary learned from the Google School of Climate Science, I know it's a fraud!
Sure, the IRA played heavily on the Catholic vs. non-Catholic angle as a recruiting tool
There were no Protestants in the IRA and there were no Catholics in the UVF. You're correct that the Irish question was about conflicting national identities but it's also true to say that those two different national identities had different religious identities. The two fed into each other.
In my opinion it is impossible for either Apple or MS to be considered a Monopoly.
Well, in the case of MS, the judiciary disagrees so therefore your opinion is worthless. They've taken the view that a monopoly is when you effectively have nowhere else to go, and a good thing that is to!
Perhaps the Drupal XML Sitemap module would help? It's just a module to implement the sitemap.xml protocol mentioned above. It'd involve messing with your setup but has the potential to save you a lot of bandwidth.
In the UK, all electrical goods worth more than a certain value (and some other classes of goods) are automatically garuanteed for one year, as part of the customer's statutory rights
That should be two years now because of the EU Directive on Consumer Rights. The same directive gives a minimum warranty period of two years but UK law extends that to six, except for Scotland where it's five.
Better yet, the onus is on the shop to show that the failure to prove that it was due to your misuse, not you having to prove that it was a poor design or manufacturing defect.
Actually that's only true for the first six months in the UK or three months (as a minimum) for the rest of the EU. After that you have to show that the fault was present when you originally purchased the item. For most classes of "the damn thing just broke!" that's not too hard though.
Here's the full directive; the relevant chapter starts on page 30.
But if multitasking isn't "integral" but would be nice then the developer is still left with coding and testing two scenarios. That's fragmentation, although admittedly a little less than Android.
I did A level computing (between ages 16 - 18 here in UK, before going to University) with a guy like that. The collage we went to was all Mac and so we spent our lessons coding in Pascal on iMacs (the originals, about when they first came out) in OS8.
I'd be sarcastic and say having simple Pascal programmes cause the OS to hard lock was hilarious, but it's not worth it cos it really, really wasn't. The computer lab was designed with the power plugs within easy reach because the reset button on those iMacs was a PITA too.
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It would be nice if there was a standard for video calls on phones.
There is. Phones in Europe have been doing video calls for years.
Front facing video cameras have been around on phones for about 5ys. The reason nobody uses them is because you look like a tool if you video chat to your phone in public.
Given that the whole point of of the iPhone is to wave it around as much as possible, I expect it'll be a hit on that platform.
Caffeine withdrawal happens because caffeine, like most stimulants, is vasoconstrictor. When you stop using caffeine regularly, the arteries that carry blood to your brain expand, causing the classic caffeine withdrawal headache.
The worst caffeine withdrawal I've experienced featured double vision and little bit of vomiting, and I'm not American.
Hurm, I just ran \\hostname\c$ and it seems you're correct. Even though My Computer claims that my C: drive isn't shared and it's not presented in the list of shares when browsing my host via the network, \\hostname\c$ brings up my C: drive.
That's faintly terrifying...
This renders the traditional struggle between workers and bosses increasingly meaningless in Marxist terms, because it's no longer a struggle between a wage-earning class and a property-owning class: it's a struggle within the wage-earning class.
Those managers, at least up to a certain level, are still working class (they sell their labour in return for a wage) and we'll still need them after the revolution. The fact that they are on our side of the class divide means we need to build solidarity with them as the so called "managerial class" have the skills needed to organise large numbers of people in productive enterprise.
This split between worker and capitalist within the individual has grave implications for the idea of class consciousness.
This is a form of false conciousness and needs to be defeated through education. That's not newspeak for totalitarian brainwashing btw, I simply mean pointing out how being involved in exploitation is ultimately self defeating.
I mean, the Merrill Lynchs of the world are still doing OK even though the market is tanking. Here in the UK, the 1,000 richest people are 30% richer than last year! Small investors and small businesspeople will almost always get screwed under Capitalism.
Globalisation
Socialism can only have a world historical existence. The Bolsheviks were quite clear that their revolution would only succeed if supported by revolutions in more developed countries. This insight was written out of history by Stalin and his idea of Socialism in one country, but we know where that went - a monstrous, bureaucratic class system of another kind.
Because the whole world is now interconnected, any attempt at a revolution would have to be global. Even new attempts to form Trade Unions in disorganised industries in developing countries would, in my view, have to involve global coordination. The Flint sit-down strikes were successful because the UAW activists were able to target the factories where the car chassis were being manufactured. Those factories represented a bottleneck in the production process and so were a prime target. Any attempt to unionise the global car industry today would have to involve simultaneous action at several factories around the globe. The process of doing that is the process that will build international working class solidarity of the kind needed to eventually overthrow Capitalism.
Financialisation.
This, to me, shows how useless modern Capitalism has become. Money for billionaires is, in the words of Bernie Ecclestone, a way of keeping score. This "financialisation" is just a form of gambling and like any casino, the house always wins.
If Marxist economics is a science, it must learn from its mistakes. To fight exploitation with 19th century economics would be as inappropriate as to fight cancer with 19th century biology.
I agree wholeheartedly. Engels always called Marx's ideas scientific socialism and so open, honest debate is vital to any understanding of real Socialism.
Marx wouldn't recognise Social Democracy? Funny how the First and Second Internationals used the term to describe its ideas and the German Social-Democratic party was part of the Second International.
Social Democracy split from Bolshevik Communism with the formation of the Third International. Social Democracy is just reformism, it's supported by people who think that it's possible to achieve Socialism without a revolutionary break or that the job of of politics is to maintain a degree of "fairness" in the Capitalist class system.
which was certainly a dictatorship but by no stretch of the imagination could it be thought of as a dictatorship of the proletariat (which Marx himself said was only a temporary state).
Dictatorship of the proletariat is one of the more misunderstood Marxist slogans. To put it in context, Marx and Engels described the current situation as a dictatorship of the bourgeois.
Even with our limited democracy, with its elections every 4 or 5 years and our limited rights to protest, we still have a society that's governed according to the needs and desires of the ruling class. The idea is that a dictatorship of the proletariat will come about as a result of a working class revolution. This "dictatorship" would use the current, bourgeois tools of government to dismantle the capitalist state and reconfigure it according to the needs of workers.
The automatic sharing of the C: drive as \\hostname\c$\, for example, has been nearly impossible to turn off for even a competent systems administrator without ripping out parts of the operating system you may want.
I'm running Windows 7 right now and my C isn't shared. I don't recall any version of Windows since at least XP automatically sharing the root of any drive, in fact if you try to do it you get a security warning.
How is Unix UID/GID equal to Windows ACLs? I'm genuinely curious, as looking at the permissions tab in Windows it looks like it's possible to have more fine grained permissions in Windows than in Unix. I thought SELinux was aimed at replicating that functionality and going a bit further!
If you read the forum post referenced by that Wikipedia article, you'll notice it's not a binding guarantee.
According to the Steam Subscriber Agreement, we don't buy games on Steam. We subscribe to the Steam service and purchase Subscriptions (i.e. games) via the service.
The idea that Valve would unlock non-Valve games in the event of Steam going under is madness. No publisher would agree to it; all Valve does is distribute games from other publishers under license and breaking the terms of that license in the event of bankruptcy would probably result in the directors of Valve being sued.
Of course, I'm not really concerned about this scenario. Steam is a golden goose and is run by people who understand the gaming market, all they have to do is carry on as they are and they'll continue to make megabucks and provide the service we all expect.
offline mode that wants to go online whenever it feels like it
Steam will only make itself go online when you try to play a Valve / Steamworks game online. If you're just playing single player, you can stay offline indefinitely.
The only thing missing is a way to synchronize saved games through your Steam account.
This is called Steam Cloud and I believe Civ V supports it. Other games like Torchlight support it too!
I completely stopped illegally downloading games when I became hooked on Steam. Between the convenience, the selection and the regular sales, I'd never go back.
There needs to be a Steam for TV shows and movies!
Also, there needs to be something better than iTunes. I hate the iTunes UI.
There's no "maybe" about it. The IT people knew what they were doing was wrong and so stored all incriminating evidence in a manner that would allow them to easily destroy it when the shit hit the fan. They most likely had it all on a single hard drive and then just used something like GNU shred on it when the scandal came to light.
Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change is a fucking scam. I sat on the other side of the fence for a while then on the fence for a short time. But the more I looked into it for myself (Google that shit... I'm not doing your homework for you) the more I became convinced that the scientific process has been corrupted and bastardized, and the majority of the support for it is emotional and based upon "facts" which refer to themselves
You know, until I read your post I used to believe in AGW. Now, thanks to your expert commentary learned from the Google School of Climate Science, I know it's a fraud!
Oh dear, ignore me, I'm wrong on UK law here it seems!
The same is true here in the UK. A better car analogy would be removal of an optional feature like a CD changer or air conditioning.
Sure, the IRA played heavily on the Catholic vs. non-Catholic angle as a recruiting tool
There were no Protestants in the IRA and there were no Catholics in the UVF. You're correct that the Irish question was about conflicting national identities but it's also true to say that those two different national identities had different religious identities. The two fed into each other.
For free home anti-virus, I currently recommend Avast to most people... but again, I realize this is subject to change at any time.
What's wrong with Microsoft Security Essentials? It seems good enough...
In my opinion it is impossible for either Apple or MS to be considered a Monopoly.
Well, in the case of MS, the judiciary disagrees so therefore your opinion is worthless. They've taken the view that a monopoly is when you effectively have nowhere else to go, and a good thing that is to!
Perhaps the Drupal XML Sitemap module would help? It's just a module to implement the sitemap.xml protocol mentioned above. It'd involve messing with your setup but has the potential to save you a lot of bandwidth.
In the UK, all electrical goods worth more than a certain value (and some other classes of goods) are automatically garuanteed for one year, as part of the customer's statutory rights
That should be two years now because of the EU Directive on Consumer Rights. The same directive gives a minimum warranty period of two years but UK law extends that to six, except for Scotland where it's five.
Better yet, the onus is on the shop to show that the failure to prove that it was due to your misuse, not you having to prove that it was a poor design or manufacturing defect.
Actually that's only true for the first six months in the UK or three months (as a minimum) for the rest of the EU. After that you have to show that the fault was present when you originally purchased the item. For most classes of "the damn thing just broke!" that's not too hard though.
Here's the full directive; the relevant chapter starts on page 30.
But if multitasking isn't "integral" but would be nice then the developer is still left with coding and testing two scenarios. That's fragmentation, although admittedly a little less than Android.
Funny comment :)
Multitasking slows down human learning, so don't try to learn Spanish whilst making cheesy bacon chips. You'll get distracted!
This is why we have hardware like phones and computers to multitask for us.
I did A level computing (between ages 16 - 18 here in UK, before going to University) with a guy like that. The collage we went to was all Mac and so we spent our lessons coding in Pascal on iMacs (the originals, about when they first came out) in OS8.
I'd be sarcastic and say having simple Pascal programmes cause the OS to hard lock was hilarious, but it's not worth it cos it really, really wasn't. The computer lab was designed with the power plugs within easy reach because the reset button on those iMacs was a PITA too.