Social interaction, not "social media". Hunt went to someone else's event, and his speech pissed on his hosts. He lost an honorary position because he was an embarrassment.
Here's the statement from the hosts, and Hunt's apology. No "social media" in sight. The world's sexists really are good at making up excuses for crappy behaviour.
https://conniestlouis.files.wo...
This is total insanity, and really begs the question what on earth do you pay for when you buy a CD now?
About a third of the plastic it took to make a 12-inch LP, at double the price. The extra is your contribution to cocaine being stuffed up snouts. Since that will happen more than once, they need you to pay multiple times.
Your X's, Y's and Z's obscure the issue by artificially limiting the choices: no business should be trading in, profiting from and ultimately supporting totalitarian states. This includes Yahoo and the Do-No-Evil Empire.
...or more likely - you "pirate" an album and Britney Spears loses nothing - because your were *never* going to pay a penny for the bilge, but you might grab it for free to have a giggle over it.
My mother started playing with newly-arthritic hands at about the same age (on a shiny new Atari) and she still plays games now. Don't plan on stopping (but maybe plan on buying really chunky controllers).
And, of course, sooo much easier for our chickenshit government to put the "environmental" onus onto individuals rather than the corporations doing the real damage. People don't just suddenly decide to produce a mountain of crap, they get helped to that point - and people on council estates getting taxed and fined are so much less likely to mount a costly fightback than overpackaging Cadburys, town-ripping Asda (the UK incarnation of Wal-mart), etc, etc.
The idea that every individual's small contribution to improving things will add up and make a difference is great and broadly sensible. But we're seeing it twisted into something where individual blame is all there is, and that allows politics and business to abdicate responsibility for the damage they do. If Blair suddenly proposed a penalty for supermarkets selling non-recycleable packages, we might see change. Until then, just expect to get screwed, while the nation gets filthier.
"Programs seem to load quicker and ot just seems more responsive."
One thing MS is now good at is managing perceptions of speed - look at this
Bloatware HOW-TO
- especially the part about speeding up the spplication start. Just because you see a form on the screen sooner doesn't mean your app is going to actually work any faster. It could be loading up lots of nice, heavy background programs while you're not looking. Media bar, anyone?
(Love that bit at the bottom about loading all your VB runtimes at start-up under the guise of a calendar...)
Personally, I was amused by the flash ad for a whole 15 seconds. Then I tried to play the video. But I would've had to "upgrade" from netscape 6 to 4.7.
You're quite right, advertisers don't understand linux (yet). But the closer it gets to attracting non-technical users (the folks who wouldn't dream of editing/etc/hosts - or doing the windows equivalent right now), the more of this kind of thing we'll see. That is, assuming there's not enough good-quality free software to make adware redundant. One of the cute things in this article was the vague implication that bannerjacking = theft. Wonder what that same lawyer thinks of me getting the benefit of a site while blocking its ads myself? Or better, refusing to buy a key for my copy of Opera, but blocking the site that sends me the ads that are supposed to pay for me?
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Social interaction, not "social media". Hunt went to someone else's event, and his speech pissed on his hosts. He lost an honorary position because he was an embarrassment. Here's the statement from the hosts, and Hunt's apology. No "social media" in sight. The world's sexists really are good at making up excuses for crappy behaviour. https://conniestlouis.files.wo...
About a third of the plastic it took to make a 12-inch LP, at double the price. The extra is your contribution to cocaine being stuffed up snouts. Since that will happen more than once, they need you to pay multiple times.
And then they wonder why people rip CD's...
...scientists have confirmed that aliens have CCD imaging technology, they have a concept of "pixels", and it's exactly the same as ours.
Your X's, Y's and Z's obscure the issue by artificially limiting the choices: no business should be trading in, profiting from and ultimately supporting totalitarian states. This includes Yahoo and the Do-No-Evil Empire.
...or more likely - you "pirate" an album and Britney Spears loses nothing - because your were *never* going to pay a penny for the bilge, but you might grab it for free to have a giggle over it.
My mother started playing with newly-arthritic hands at about the same age (on a shiny new Atari) and she still plays games now. Don't plan on stopping (but maybe plan on buying really chunky controllers).
And, of course, sooo much easier for our chickenshit government to put the "environmental" onus onto individuals rather than the corporations doing the real damage. People don't just suddenly decide to produce a mountain of crap, they get helped to that point - and people on council estates getting taxed and fined are so much less likely to mount a costly fightback than overpackaging Cadburys, town-ripping Asda (the UK incarnation of Wal-mart), etc, etc. The idea that every individual's small contribution to improving things will add up and make a difference is great and broadly sensible. But we're seeing it twisted into something where individual blame is all there is, and that allows politics and business to abdicate responsibility for the damage they do. If Blair suddenly proposed a penalty for supermarkets selling non-recycleable packages, we might see change. Until then, just expect to get screwed, while the nation gets filthier.
...we can't find a shelf for the rack. So someone hammers-in some bit of metal that doesn't quite fit, and we perch 2 sun blades and a dcp on top.
Keep it real, dood. Balance it on some bricks.
(Love that bit at the bottom about loading all your VB runtimes at start-up under the guise of a calendar...)
Personally, I was amused by the flash ad for a whole 15 seconds. Then I tried to play the video. But I would've had to "upgrade" from netscape 6 to 4.7.
/etc/hosts - or doing the windows equivalent right now), the more of this kind of thing we'll see. That is, assuming there's not enough good-quality free software to make adware redundant. One of the cute things in this article was the vague implication that bannerjacking = theft. Wonder what that same lawyer thinks of me getting the benefit of a site while blocking its ads myself? Or better, refusing to buy a key for my copy of Opera, but blocking the site that sends me the ads that are supposed to pay for me?
You're quite right, advertisers don't understand linux (yet). But the closer it gets to attracting non-technical users (the folks who wouldn't dream of editing
I'm sold! Do you write advertisements for a living?