Firstly you have to realize that this is all in reaction to the fact thet people on the net took "Fair use" and used it unfairly. Yes they should be stopped from removing all trace of the expectation of fair use (Although it is not now nor has it ever been a legal right). But at least realise WHY this is happening. Napster was a terrible thing. Just because you CAN doesn't mean it's your RIGHT to...
Begining? Sun and Oracle have ALWAYS acted this way. In fact most large computing machine and software companies have acted this way for the last 40 years. Why do you think this is something brand new? MS has actually been a kitten when you compare them to the big iron companies. They jusy do it to consumers where consumers never see what the other companies do to each other and the government.
You need to check again! CO2 is currently the most feared air pollutant. Acid rain will be nothing compared to raising the entire earths temperature by 10 degrees over the next 100 years!
(Not to belittle the other pollutants but CO2 is bay far the most severe problem)
"(C#)will still be disabled whenever I browse the net"
FYI C# is a language NOT a runtime. You cannot "Turn off" C# any more than you could "Turn off" C or C++ on your computer. You're probably confused because "Java" is a language AND a runtime. When you say your turning off Java, you mean your disabling the Java runtime environment..NET is the runtime environment you mean that you'll be turning off..NET can be used by VB, C, C++, C#, Perl, Python and a dozen other languages.
I would agree with this, but it has already been stated by "Experts" to the court that that it "not enough" they want mshtml gone too. And that WILL destroy many many user level applications including one I wrote myself!
Except that as an absolute (as you and most everyone else here put it) it's completely untrue. You ARE responsible for what your say or write and for what you read. (Re: Child porn) It's not at all black and white and yet those are the only 2 colors ever presented here:(
It is quite ironic that LCDs fall far short when doing color accurate work and doing film editing. Two of Macintoshes greatest strengths. THen Steve "Design over funtion" Jobs comes in and forces all new mac users to use LCDs (Or buy a third party monitor seperately). A little insite into his priorities...
Over time a few pixels will generally stop working but the HUGE dirty little secret of the LCD industry is that the backlights fail! They grow dimmer and dimmer each month till the monitor is useless with 1-2 years of continuous use.
Might not be as bad for the casual user, but to have the brightness and even the color temp change on you as a graphics designer from month to month is a disaster!
Large scale energy trasmission by HF RF is ABSOLUTLE BULLSHIT! People freak out over 0.2 watt uW transmission from their cell phones and yet bathing in gigawatt RF transmitting our daily power is in any way a workable idea? We'd need RF transmission towers radiating millions of times more energy that a typical 50,000 watt FM station! Tesla was a brilliant mad man. He invented someinteresting stuff, but his plans for putting it to use were absolutely insane.
Thank god AC power won out over Edisons DC wishes however. Though maybe there's a lesson here for you conspiricy theorists out there. DC power transmission would also have been insane. And as usual saner and more practical heads prevailed. So now we have easily transmitted low loss AC power transmission and by WIRES not RF!
Christ man, most of your reasons also apply to computers!
Too expensize! Does nothing by itself! Does not satisfy your thirst for knowledge! It damages your wrists! It causes you to not excersize and you get fat! It wastes ALL your time! Sites like/. dull your wit, judgement and intelligence! It creates all sorts of societal problems when used irresponsively! Used as an escape, it is highly unhealthy psychologically!
I could also go on about cars, or fire or any other possible subject that I was personally aganst! Oh NO!
You know there have been several studies that beer is actually good for you in moderation (1-2 drinks a day!)
But thanks for your uninformed FUD,/. would be nothing without it.
Never mind that there are at least 3 of these things commercially avialable RIGHT NOW. They work amazingly great. Course you can't hear your boss yelling for you or the phone ringing so maybe not so great for maintaining your job...
I agree, traded mine for an Nvidia Personal Cinima. The ATI drivers were constantly locking up during recording and even just sitting idle. The Personal Cinima is far from a perfect PVR solution, but the fact that I can leave my media computer on for months instead of just days now is more thn enough of a plus...
I mean really, the Big Brother Beer Stein! Now my drinking is being electronicly spied on. Does everyone on the planet have to know everything that I'm doing every second?
How annoying to have the waitress zoom over the very second you sip the last of your beer every time. "Would you like another?". Uh, no... I'll ask for another if I want one thank you:P
Because UNISYS makes "big iron" servers and they finally wised up about old UNIX vendors that all make MS look like a kitten? Besides. Why does anyone here care? Linux != UNIX remember?
Web based anything blows! (Well now that I got that out of the way) The net, and even local networks I've found to be far more unreliable than a local machine. I think you'd find the downtime because of any number of network, server, internet or ISP failures to be far more problematic than a single machine failure.
Just have a plan for a fast recovery (I.e. actually BACKUP you data frequently) should there actually be a catestrophic failure of your local machine.
Getting to your mail or data is sort of nice as a secondary interface, but with all the security problems involved, and it's general flakiness/slowness all around in accessing your programs or data over even a LOCAL network, I've never understood the want.
If you just go to his website, all those questions and more will be answered. Be prepared though, the answers are completely dull and without controversy...
Should I be able to take one of his articles and rearrange it anyway I like (as you're suggesting for this tv show)? You know that by rearranging the words I can basically make Cringly say anything I want! Does he really want that? How is that useful in any way? Some of the worst posts on/. come from taking things out of context or combining mixmatched quotes. Not we're going to have OSS news shows and (why not also) articles that anyone can take any part of and rearrange to suit their own interest reguardless of the intent of the original author? What's the point? Don't we have enough disinformation already?
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This is psychologically interesting. Nethack is a stupid little game. I mean really. Certainly Chess or Go are infinately more qualified to be called "The greatest game ever". Anyone that is new to net hack immediately sees that it is nothing. The only people that say it's "The greatest game ever" are people that have played it a long time and are extremely nostalgic about it, or have heard it's "The greatest game ever" and want to be cool so they play it and call it "The greatest game ever". The Salon article is the best. The authour agrees that it is "The best game ever" (as he calls it) merely on the say so of others... It's a cult and only cult members or cult member wannabes see any greatness in it at all. Non members see nothing. It's a zen test.
Considering how you failed to show how it negatively impacted you or your life in any way whatsoever even though it's been going on for years. Shouldn't the title of your post have been "It's nowhere near as bad as you think"?
Not *quite*. This has already been hashed to death, but you probably weren't listening. Napster advertised the fact that they were in the buisness of trading copyrighted material for free. That's what got them in trouble. AOL is a general purpose transport, like your phone or the mail. If someone were to set up a system for phoning free music to you and that's all it did and they advertised that, then they would go down while ma bell stayed up. The term "Primary and overriding purpose" is the phrase on which such laws turn.
I really don't think that it's KDEs mission to convert every command line lovin' Linux hacker over to a GUI. KDE is oviously trying to appeal to non-Linux users! And as such, is probably VERY widely accepted over some of the more minimalist or non existant window managers out there...
"Not true. In windows, the GUI code is intimately linked to the kernel, and cannot be separated out."
Why is there not a -1 anti-informative mod? This statement is 100% wrong. The windows desktop is a user level application that can be stopped and restarted at will with no interruption to the kernel or kernel services in any way. In fact a hell of a lot of "crashed" windows can be recovered by bringing up the task manager and starting a new process called "explorer.exe", rather than blindly hitting the reset button like a monkey.
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Firstly you have to realize that this is all in reaction to the fact thet people on the net took "Fair use" and used it unfairly. Yes they should be stopped from removing all trace of the expectation of fair use (Although it is not now nor has it ever been a legal right). But at least realise WHY this is happening. Napster was a terrible thing. Just because you CAN doesn't mean it's your RIGHT to...
Begining? Sun and Oracle have ALWAYS acted this way. In fact most large computing machine and software companies have acted this way for the last 40 years. Why do you think this is something brand new? MS has actually been a kitten when you compare them to the big iron companies. They jusy do it to consumers where consumers never see what the other companies do to each other and the government.
You need to check again! CO2 is currently the most feared air pollutant. Acid rain will be nothing compared to raising the entire earths temperature by 10 degrees over the next 100 years!
(Not to belittle the other pollutants but CO2 is bay far the most severe problem)
"(C#)will still be disabled whenever I browse the net"
.NET is the runtime environment you mean that you'll be turning off. .NET can be used by VB, C, C++, C#, Perl, Python and a dozen other languages.
FYI C# is a language NOT a runtime. You cannot "Turn off" C# any more than you could "Turn off" C or C++ on your computer. You're probably confused because "Java" is a language AND a runtime. When you say your turning off Java, you mean your disabling the Java runtime environment.
I would agree with this, but it has already been stated by "Experts" to the court that that it "not enough" they want mshtml gone too. And that WILL destroy many many user level applications including one I wrote myself!
Except that as an absolute (as you and most everyone else here put it) it's completely untrue. You ARE responsible for what your say or write and for what you read. (Re: Child porn) It's not at all black and white and yet those are the only 2 colors ever presented here :(
Why oh why aren't you and everyone else on /. using WebWasher?!?!? I haven't seen an ad, pop-up, pop-under or pop-download in months!
It is quite ironic that LCDs fall far short when doing color accurate work and doing film editing. Two of Macintoshes greatest strengths. THen Steve "Design over funtion" Jobs comes in and forces all new mac users to use LCDs (Or buy a third party monitor seperately). A little insite into his priorities...
Over time a few pixels will generally stop working but the HUGE dirty little secret of the LCD industry is that the backlights fail! They grow dimmer and dimmer each month till the monitor is useless with 1-2 years of continuous use.
Might not be as bad for the casual user, but to have the brightness and even the color temp change on you as a graphics designer from month to month is a disaster!
Large scale energy trasmission by HF RF is ABSOLUTLE BULLSHIT! People freak out over 0.2 watt uW transmission from their cell phones and yet bathing in gigawatt RF transmitting our daily power is in any way a workable idea? We'd need RF transmission towers radiating millions of times more energy that a typical 50,000 watt FM station! Tesla was a brilliant mad man. He invented someinteresting stuff, but his plans for putting it to use were absolutely insane.
Thank god AC power won out over Edisons DC wishes however. Though maybe there's a lesson here for you conspiricy theorists out there. DC power transmission would also have been insane. And as usual saner and more practical heads prevailed. So now we have easily transmitted low loss AC power transmission and by WIRES not RF!
Christ man, most of your reasons also apply to computers!
/. dull your wit, judgement and intelligence!
/. would be nothing without it.
Too expensize!
Does nothing by itself!
Does not satisfy your thirst for knowledge!
It damages your wrists!
It causes you to not excersize and you get fat!
It wastes ALL your time!
Sites like
It creates all sorts of societal problems when used irresponsively!
Used as an escape, it is highly unhealthy psychologically!
I could also go on about cars, or fire or any other possible subject that I was personally aganst! Oh NO!
You know there have been several studies that beer is actually good for you in moderation
(1-2 drinks a day!)
But thanks for your uninformed FUD,
Never mind that there are at least 3 of these things commercially avialable RIGHT NOW. They work amazingly great. Course you can't hear your boss yelling for you or the phone ringing so maybe not so great for maintaining your job...
I agree, traded mine for an Nvidia Personal Cinima. The ATI drivers were constantly locking up during recording and even just sitting idle. The Personal Cinima is far from a perfect PVR solution, but the fact that I can leave my media computer on for months instead of just days now is more thn enough of a plus...
I mean really, the Big Brother Beer Stein! Now my drinking is being electronicly spied on. Does everyone on the planet have to know everything that I'm doing every second?
:P
How annoying to have the waitress zoom over the very second you sip the last of your beer every time. "Would you like another?". Uh, no... I'll ask for another if I want one thank you
Because UNISYS makes "big iron" servers and they finally wised up about old UNIX vendors that all make MS look like a kitten? Besides. Why does anyone here care? Linux != UNIX remember?
"Small children who have few brain cells should NOT be allowed to post."
I wholeheartedly concur...
Web based anything blows! (Well now that I got that out of the way) The net, and even local networks I've found to be far more unreliable than a local machine. I think you'd find the downtime because of any number of network, server, internet or ISP failures to be far more problematic than a single machine failure.
Just have a plan for a fast recovery (I.e. actually BACKUP you data frequently) should there actually be a catestrophic failure of your local machine.
Getting to your mail or data is sort of nice as a secondary interface, but with all the security problems involved, and it's general flakiness/slowness all around in accessing your programs or data over even a LOCAL network, I've never understood the want.
If you just go to his website, all those questions and more will be answered. Be prepared though, the answers are completely dull and without controversy...
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
Well?
/. come from taking things out of context or combining mixmatched quotes. Not we're going to have OSS news shows and (why not also) articles that anyone can take any part of and rearrange to suit their own interest reguardless of the intent of the original author? What's the point? Don't we have enough disinformation already?
Should I be able to take one of his articles and rearrange it anyway I like (as you're suggesting for this tv show)? You know that by rearranging the words I can basically make Cringly say anything I want! Does he really want that? How is that useful in any way? Some of the worst posts on
This is psychologically interesting. Nethack is a stupid little game. I mean really. Certainly Chess or Go are infinately more qualified to be called "The greatest game ever". Anyone that is new to net hack immediately sees that it is nothing. The only people that say it's "The greatest game ever" are people that have played it a long time and are extremely nostalgic about it, or have heard it's "The greatest game ever" and want to be cool so they play it and call it "The greatest game ever". The Salon article is the best. The authour agrees that it is "The best game ever" (as he calls it) merely on the say so of others... It's a cult and only cult members or cult member wannabes see any greatness in it at all. Non members see nothing. It's a zen test.
You're one mean little elf! :)
Considering how you failed to show how it negatively impacted you or your life in any way whatsoever even though it's been going on for years. Shouldn't the title of your post have been "It's nowhere near as bad as you think"?
Not *quite*. This has already been hashed to death, but you probably weren't listening. Napster advertised the fact that they were in the buisness of trading copyrighted material for free. That's what got them in trouble. AOL is a general purpose transport, like your phone or the mail. If someone were to set up a system for phoning free music to you and that's all it did and they advertised that, then they would go down while ma bell stayed up. The term "Primary and overriding purpose" is the phrase on which such laws turn.
I really don't think that it's KDEs mission to convert every command line lovin' Linux hacker over to a GUI. KDE is oviously trying to appeal to non-Linux users! And as such, is probably VERY widely accepted over some of the more minimalist or non existant window managers out there...
"Not true. In windows, the GUI code is intimately linked to the kernel, and cannot be separated out."
Why is there not a -1 anti-informative mod? This statement is 100% wrong. The windows desktop is a user level application that can be stopped and restarted at will with no interruption to the kernel or kernel services in any way. In fact a hell of a lot of "crashed" windows can be recovered by bringing up the task manager and starting a new process called "explorer.exe", rather than blindly hitting the reset button like a monkey.