The thing I dislike about UF is that not only is it not funny, it tries to get its laughs by making fun of people who aren't in the know about computers and other "geek" topics. Many of us know someone who uses some unix variant and walks with an air of superiority and condescension because of that. UF is just that person in comic form.
FTC Representative: You guys have been extremely deceptive. You lied about your privacy policy and collected information you weren't supposed to collect. No more Mr. Nice FTC Guy: it's time to be punished. So -- please don't ever do it again.
Microsoft: Okay, chief.
FTC Representative: Okay, now that that's squared away, can I get you anything? Doughnuts? Coffee? What are you doing after work?
You've got a few people pointing out that you're wrong about his views on Socialism, but you're right on about technology. Compare 1984 to something like the Terminator films. Was Orwell afraid of technology? Not really. He was afraid of political extremes.
Seriously, you have a bigger risk of getting your credit card number stolen when you pay for your dinner at a restaurant with it then by submitting it to a website using SSL.
I never hear anyone complaining about transmission of the number over the wire; what frightens people is having it stored in a database connected to a public network.
You must have gone to a bad university. None of my math classes ever had anything presented as a formula to use in some problem. We did nothing but proofs.
I don't mind paying $15 for a CD that I like. I think that's worth it. It's not the price that irritates me, it's that the RIAA's efforts to quash piracy harm consumers. Not only that, but I'm probably like a lot of people in that I really dislike the way media companies pretend as though they are working on behalf of artists. Hey, I know that everyone wants to make a buck, but if your company refuses to change with the times, that's your own problem and no one elses. Obviously this is a recurring theme on/.
Last week I bought a CD directly from an artist. $15 included postage. I sent the band money and they sent me the CD. That's the way it should be, because the artists get compensated rather than the middlemen.
That's a good analogy. I also liken the MPAA and the RIAA to Chicken Little. In their eyes, everyone is a pirate and whenever new technology comes along (audio cassettes, video cassettes, compacts discs, digital versatile discs, etc) the sky is going to fall because of it.
C++ is such a huge, complex language that it is a monumental effort to write an ISO/ANSI compliant compiler for it. With gcc, it's not that full compliance was left out, it's just that no one has gotten around to adding all of it yet. I'm unsure about the reasons why commercial compilers are not compliant, but I'd bet it has something to do with the sheer enormousness of the task and they'd rather sell compilers than wait for years.
I haven't watched an advert in years. I don't own a TV. Very easy solution. I'm not trying to sound high-and-mighty. Try it sometime, it's really quite nice.
Wow, say something intelligent and get labeled a troll. It's not like Microsoft treats consumers like dirt for ideological reasons; they just want money.
Well, I agree with you. MS is not the only one, either.
I am shocked that the authors of Mozilla and Konqueror have not yet been sued by someone claiming that allowing the disabling of popups is intentionally breaking his/her God-given business model.
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The thing I dislike about UF is that not only is it not funny, it tries to get its laughs by making fun of people who aren't in the know about computers and other "geek" topics. Many of us know someone who uses some unix variant and walks with an air of superiority and condescension because of that. UF is just that person in comic form.
Breaking into computer system = bad
Erosion of personal privacy = good
But if so many people are using Mozilla they wouldn't block it because that's a huge chunk of their users.
FTC Representative: You guys have been extremely deceptive. You lied about your privacy policy and collected information you weren't supposed to collect. No more Mr. Nice FTC Guy: it's time to be punished. So -- please don't ever do it again.
Microsoft: Okay, chief.
FTC Representative: Okay, now that that's squared away, can I get you anything? Doughnuts? Coffee?
What are you doing after work?
I was just about to post something similar to what you posted. That is the most incoherent submission I've read in a while.
Amen -- they rule. I just noticed that they released a special 2-disc edition of Blackwater Park with a video for Harvest and two new songs.
I had to laugh out loud at this one. Already three different people had the same response I had:
Eventually?!
You almost got the bulk of them...
but forgot Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman.
You've got a few people pointing out that you're wrong about his views on Socialism, but you're right on about technology. Compare 1984 to something like the Terminator films. Was Orwell afraid of technology? Not really. He was afraid of political extremes.
"How convenient."
I used Moray for a long time. It's pretty good and has probably drastically improved since I was using it in 1996-97 (the DOS version!)
I never hear anyone complaining about transmission of the number over the wire; what frightens people is having it stored in a database connected to a public network.
I think the difference is because we can rent DVDs, whereas there is no legal, easy way to preview an entire CD.
You must have gone to a bad university. None of my math classes ever had anything presented as a formula to use in some problem. We did nothing but proofs.
Right. It's not like someone cannot make more virtual desktops. I think the submitter just needed an excuse to justify talking about LCD screens.
Not that your story isn't valid, but we have hearing this anecdote since as long as the RIAA has been complaining.
Last week I bought a CD directly from an artist. $15 included postage. I sent the band money and they sent me the CD. That's the way it should be, because the artists get compensated rather than the middlemen.
$290 at Amazon.
That's a good analogy. I also liken the MPAA and the RIAA to Chicken Little. In their eyes, everyone is a pirate and whenever new technology comes along (audio cassettes, video cassettes, compacts discs, digital versatile discs, etc) the sky is going to fall because of it.
C++ is such a huge, complex language that it is a monumental effort to write an ISO/ANSI compliant compiler for it. With gcc, it's not that full compliance was left out, it's just that no one has gotten around to adding all of it yet. I'm unsure about the reasons why commercial compilers are not compliant, but I'd bet it has something to do with the sheer enormousness of the task and they'd rather sell compilers than wait for years.
We all have to be ready to leverage a paradigm shift in lingual architecture.
sed stands for stream editor and lex is a tool for creating lexical scanners. They are not based on Latin.
I haven't watched an advert in years. I don't own a TV. Very easy solution. I'm not trying to sound high-and-mighty. Try it sometime, it's really quite nice.
Well, I agree with you. MS is not the only one, either.
I am shocked that the authors of Mozilla and Konqueror have not yet been sued by someone claiming that allowing the disabling of popups is intentionally breaking his/her God-given business model.