So if I want to Jump, I have to buy the ultimate version, eh? I see how it is..
Considering that WoW almost defines the PC game market these days, the Gamer's Edition should support the full keyboard, plus a second keyboard with all 50,000 kanji characters.
Violence is a last resort. What other actions have been taken to try to reform the RIAA? A couple people fighting back in court? Give me a break. If people really cared, they'd stop patronizing the big record labels, but they don't, and they won't. Most of the public believes piracy is wrong, and the RIAA are going after criminals. Maybe some of that is PR, but turning into an abortion clinic bomber certainly won't help the other side at all.
Don't confuse the fact that women remember what shoes another woman was wearing 3 years ago in March with some sort of all-encompassing perception of reality, because it's not. And seriously, when's the last time a woman ever told you exactly what she really wanted or needed? The only time that happens is right before or after a fight/breakup, because they're so upset that you didn't know to begin with. "You should have known I wanted you to vacuum upstairs because I left the vacuum cleaner sitting in the middle of the floor!"
You, sir, must have some very large rabbits, if they're bigger than, for example this pile. (Yes, this is an actual picture of deer droppings.. if you're somehow offended by that sort of thing, don't click the link.)
And to my knowledge, it's just normal crap.. nothing divine about it.
Pfft.. I've already accused 63 municipal police, 39 municipal government officials, and 7 government contractors of conspiracy and corruption just today, and it's not even lunchtime yet.
Christ, I'm sorry. I thought everyone knew that WISPs are ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight, especially over bogs. The story is that they can now be used for internet access instead of just frightening children.
Wait, are you saying that your wife does NOT live in her own little world AND effectively communicates her wants/needs? I'm not sure you appreciate the full magnitude of your discovery, sir. Please.. go on.
Here's a hint: you'll be able to discriminate between rabbit shit and deer shit in that you won't ever notice the little pellets of the former, and the latter will be a large pile of shit, possibly as big as a rabbit.
Thus the highest crime and death by firearm rate in the world, by far.
And space has the highest rate of death by vacuum.
We don't have the highest murder rate (by far), and while it's up there, firearms are clearly not the underlying cause, otherwise we should rank first in both categories. That guns may be used to commit a majority of murders in the US means only that they were the most convenient/effective method available, not that the murders would not have taken place in the absence of firearms. Personally, I blame the "gangsta" culture, pussies who can't deal with the fact that a girl doesn't like them, and spoiled bitches who don't realize how good their lives actually are compared to everyone else in the world. Actually, the first 2 are just a subset of the 3rd.
I'd wager heavily that most of the 250+ GBers are those who get new broadband and/or recently discovered the joys of torrents and/or just hit age 15.. (14? 13??). Once they get a couple TB of pr0n under their belts (so to speak), they'll probably become more discriminating in what they download, for the simple fact that not all pr0n = good pr0n.
The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user.
Depends on what you value. I value not having to hunt down and configure obscure software to sync my phone. I value the ability to use third party software when it's released, not when they get around to making a Linux port. I value having drivers that are updated regularly, and a wide variety of quality software options, with actual support, and a user community that doesn't tell me I'm stupid because I couldn't get figure out how to connect to my WiFi network (the solution for which depends on what minor version of the windows manager I'm using, which affects which connection manager is installed by default, etc., etc.)
I also appreciate a uniform interface and application model, which Windows provides. It neither looks nor performs like a hodgepodge mix of new and ancient components, regardless of what may be present under the hood. I appreciate a clipboard which performs as expected. I've also had, by far, more success installing Windows on a wider array of hardware than Linux, including Ubuntu. Oh, the LiveCD won't work for that hardward. Oh, there's no wireless driver for that NIC, but you can wrap this other driver and then do this, and it will work most of the time, except when it doesn't.
A value to me is not saving 7 minutes on the install, or clicking 12 fewer times, (in what should be a one-shot deal anyway), or an OS footprint that saves me 0.01% of my available storage space. Value to me is reliability, choice and quality of software, and minimal fuss with configuring devices and hardware. With XP, Windows reached a level of maturity/stability that I now expect of any OS residing on my desktop (or laptop). That I have to actually pay for the OS and keep Avast resident is an acceptable tradeoff for those things.
There is a welfare TIME limit. I don't know anything about welfare beyond that. Most people are not on Welfare anymore, they're on "Workfare", which is EITC, and, as stated previously, limited to claiming 2 children.
Health care is not a handout; it benefits everyone. Taking children to get their immunizations, get checkups, etc., TODAY saves everyone lots of money in the long run -- and saves even MORE money if they go on to be uninsured (because we still have to pay when they show up in the emergency room).
There's no limit to what people can dream up, no. I'm not sure where that falls in the scope of this discussion though.
Not 7 state legislatures; 7 nutjobs out of 1000s of people in state legislatures have introduced these bills in committee. Not that I disagree with State's Rights, I just think these bills are kneejerk BS that will accomplish nothing. If you really want reverse the trend of centralism, stop following every law that Congress spits out and stop complying with every "incentive" to get highway funds.
Right, because Bush was in the habit of respectfully addressing the middle-east, he believed in single-payer healthcare, and he had been toiling endlessly to shut down Gitmo. Bush was such an ally of middle and lower income earners, he was on the verge of fixing our economy by giving out money "without preconditions", and, oh right, he was just wrapping up the War on Tactic^wTerror when he got kicked out of office by that stupid term limits thing.
Damn, some people wouldn't be happy if their unicorns shit gold that was only three 9s pure.
As long as we live in a society where people earn a living by getting paid for their work, there must be a method in place to compensate them for that work. That method is copyright protection. Other methods have been tried, are being tried, and may turn out to work better, but for now copyright is still the law.
We pretty much agree (as a society, though perhaps not as Slashdotters) that it is immoral to willfully violate a just law. Since copyright is not depriving you of any inalienable rights, and since it facilitates the existence of people who create intangible works for a living, there doesn't appear to be anything unjust about copyright.
I commonly hear that, "Copyright infringement isn't stealing because it doesn't deprive anyone of anything." No, it's not stealing, because we decided to make different words for different actions, but it still deprives someone of something -- it deprives someone of compensation for their work. No, that's not a tangible object, but neither is "being alive." Neither is "being free." They're both far more abstract than an audio recording, yet we agree that depriving people of their freedom or life is generally also wrong. There are acceptable reasons for doing all of the above, but "because you wanted to" is not among them.
Are there cases in which copyright fails to create the desired results? Sure. There's abandonware, out of print works, bizzare licensing schemes, etc. But that's no excuse for copying a work just because "I wouldn't have bought it anyway."
Hosted apps ARE bad, unless you can resolve the following:
* Availability. Your favorite app site is getting DDoS'd? Another undersea cable got cut by an anchor? Sucks to be you. * Portability. UnprofitableSite.com just went black without notice. Do you have a local copy of your work, and if so, what can you do with it? * Security. It's highly unlikely that anyone is working 24/7 to hack YOUR particular workstation/network. Even if you don't know anything about configuring a firewall, at least you can unplug a desktop from the network and it will be essentially immune from remote attacks. A publicly accessible repository of private data, however, is a much juicier target, and if history is any lesson, security will not be a primary concern from the start. * Privacy. I'm the proud owner of a site with over 500,000 term papers on it that my users graciously "donated." What's to keep me from selling them, letting people data mine them, or anything else? My privacy policy? The one that's subject to change without notice?
What problems do hosted apps solve, or what advantages do they provide?
* People wouldn't have to install or maintain their own software. That's a possible advantage, but doesn't really outweigh all of the above liabilities. And what if I don't want to "upgrade" and learn a new UI right this second. What if I just need to finish my work?
* My data is accessible anywhere. Again, that's a two-edged sword, and 99% of the time I don't really need/want my data to be accessible from anywhere other than the location I'm in. I suspect most other people don't either, and when they do they just e-mail a file to themselves.
Software as a service is great for companies. They can implement subscription models so the customer doesn't realize how much he's paying over the long term. They don't have to worry about piracy. Distribution is basically free, allowing for a higher profit margin. I just don't see very many advantages for *customers*, especially long-term.
And it hasn't happened since Windows 95. That makes mass migrations the exception, not the rule. Take a look at the postings about the release of XP for some perspective. Not very many prescient posts there. Lots of complaints about the overhead of a "glitzy" OS, an OS that must be activated, etc. "Howard Stern dissed it, hopefully it will fail!!"
Vista may not have been a revolutionary improvement, but it is still better than XP in almost every way except, perhaps, that it was not "done" at launch. But Win7 is an improvement over Vista as well. Again, it's incremental -- and perhaps W7 is what Vista should have been in the first place -- but I don't think there's any chance it will be rejected because it's "not XP." On the contrary, I think it will resolve most of the real and perceived roadblocks to upgrading. Vista (and hence W7) driver issues are essentially resolved, and have been for quite some time for all but the most obscure hardware. Any PC made in the past 2 years should be able to handle it just fine (past 3 years from the point it goes live late this year or early next). It's faster than Vista, has more shiny while simultaneously reducing overhead, it's less obtrusive with those UAC dialogs, and despite the fact that it's in beta and has a few flaws, the advantages already have me using it as my default OS.
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At least, not until you reach 3rd dan black hat.
So if I want to Jump, I have to buy the ultimate version, eh? I see how it is..
Considering that WoW almost defines the PC game market these days, the Gamer's Edition should support the full keyboard, plus a second keyboard with all 50,000 kanji characters.
Violence is a last resort. What other actions have been taken to try to reform the RIAA? A couple people fighting back in court? Give me a break. If people really cared, they'd stop patronizing the big record labels, but they don't, and they won't. Most of the public believes piracy is wrong, and the RIAA are going after criminals. Maybe some of that is PR, but turning into an abortion clinic bomber certainly won't help the other side at all.
you may want to test drive very carefully any display boasting low integer millisecond pixel response times
So what you're saying is, stick with the low non-integer millisecond response times...?
Don't confuse the fact that women remember what shoes another woman was wearing 3 years ago in March with some sort of all-encompassing perception of reality, because it's not. And seriously, when's the last time a woman ever told you exactly what she really wanted or needed? The only time that happens is right before or after a fight/breakup, because they're so upset that you didn't know to begin with. "You should have known I wanted you to vacuum upstairs because I left the vacuum cleaner sitting in the middle of the floor!"
My bad.. I just thought you left the vacuum out.
You, sir, must have some very large rabbits, if they're bigger than, for example this pile. (Yes, this is an actual picture of deer droppings.. if you're somehow offended by that sort of thing, don't click the link.)
And to my knowledge, it's just normal crap.. nothing divine about it.
Pfft.. I've already accused 63 municipal police, 39 municipal government officials, and 7 government contractors of conspiracy and corruption just today, and it's not even lunchtime yet.
Yeah, if only we relied more on violence. Why, I bet it could even solve international disputes too!
Christ, I'm sorry. I thought everyone knew that WISPs are ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight, especially over bogs. The story is that they can now be used for internet access instead of just frightening children.
Wait, are you saying that your wife does NOT live in her own little world AND effectively communicates her wants/needs? I'm not sure you appreciate the full magnitude of your discovery, sir. Please.. go on.
Here's a hint: you'll be able to discriminate between rabbit shit and deer shit in that you won't ever notice the little pellets of the former, and the latter will be a large pile of shit, possibly as big as a rabbit.
Thus the highest crime and death by firearm rate in the world, by far.
And space has the highest rate of death by vacuum.
We don't have the highest murder rate (by far), and while it's up there, firearms are clearly not the underlying cause, otherwise we should rank first in both categories. That guns may be used to commit a majority of murders in the US means only that they were the most convenient/effective method available, not that the murders would not have taken place in the absence of firearms. Personally, I blame the "gangsta" culture, pussies who can't deal with the fact that a girl doesn't like them, and spoiled bitches who don't realize how good their lives actually are compared to everyone else in the world. Actually, the first 2 are just a subset of the 3rd.
Windows: Download driver, copy it over, point windows to the location when it's installing the driver.
Ubuntu: Follow this guide.
This really isn't an argument you want to have.
I'd wager heavily that most of the 250+ GBers are those who get new broadband and/or recently discovered the joys of torrents and/or just hit age 15.. (14? 13??). Once they get a couple TB of pr0n under their belts (so to speak), they'll probably become more discriminating in what they download, for the simple fact that not all pr0n = good pr0n.
The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user.
Depends on what you value. I value not having to hunt down and configure obscure software to sync my phone. I value the ability to use third party software when it's released, not when they get around to making a Linux port. I value having drivers that are updated regularly, and a wide variety of quality software options, with actual support, and a user community that doesn't tell me I'm stupid because I couldn't get figure out how to connect to my WiFi network (the solution for which depends on what minor version of the windows manager I'm using, which affects which connection manager is installed by default, etc., etc.)
I also appreciate a uniform interface and application model, which Windows provides. It neither looks nor performs like a hodgepodge mix of new and ancient components, regardless of what may be present under the hood. I appreciate a clipboard which performs as expected. I've also had, by far, more success installing Windows on a wider array of hardware than Linux, including Ubuntu. Oh, the LiveCD won't work for that hardward. Oh, there's no wireless driver for that NIC, but you can wrap this other driver and then do this, and it will work most of the time, except when it doesn't.
A value to me is not saving 7 minutes on the install, or clicking 12 fewer times, (in what should be a one-shot deal anyway), or an OS footprint that saves me 0.01% of my available storage space. Value to me is reliability, choice and quality of software, and minimal fuss with configuring devices and hardware. With XP, Windows reached a level of maturity/stability that I now expect of any OS residing on my desktop (or laptop). That I have to actually pay for the OS and keep Avast resident is an acceptable tradeoff for those things.
Really? Please share. It's a rough economy and I'm down for some babymaking, especially if it'll earn me a few bucks.
There is a welfare TIME limit. I don't know anything about welfare beyond that. Most people are not on Welfare anymore, they're on "Workfare", which is EITC, and, as stated previously, limited to claiming 2 children.
Health care is not a handout; it benefits everyone. Taking children to get their immunizations, get checkups, etc., TODAY saves everyone lots of money in the long run -- and saves even MORE money if they go on to be uninsured (because we still have to pay when they show up in the emergency room).
There's no limit to what people can dream up, no. I'm not sure where that falls in the scope of this discussion though.
Not 7 state legislatures; 7 nutjobs out of 1000s of people in state legislatures have introduced these bills in committee. Not that I disagree with State's Rights, I just think these bills are kneejerk BS that will accomplish nothing. If you really want reverse the trend of centralism, stop following every law that Congress spits out and stop complying with every "incentive" to get highway funds.
There already IS a limit. EITC only lets you claim up to 2 children.
Right, because Bush was in the habit of respectfully addressing the middle-east, he believed in single-payer healthcare, and he had been toiling endlessly to shut down Gitmo. Bush was such an ally of middle and lower income earners, he was on the verge of fixing our economy by giving out money "without preconditions", and, oh right, he was just wrapping up the War on Tactic^wTerror when he got kicked out of office by that stupid term limits thing.
Damn, some people wouldn't be happy if their unicorns shit gold that was only three 9s pure.
No, the analogy is more like this:
As long as we live in a society where people earn a living by getting paid for their work, there must be a method in place to compensate them for that work. That method is copyright protection. Other methods have been tried, are being tried, and may turn out to work better, but for now copyright is still the law.
We pretty much agree (as a society, though perhaps not as Slashdotters) that it is immoral to willfully violate a just law. Since copyright is not depriving you of any inalienable rights, and since it facilitates the existence of people who create intangible works for a living, there doesn't appear to be anything unjust about copyright.
I commonly hear that, "Copyright infringement isn't stealing because it doesn't deprive anyone of anything." No, it's not stealing, because we decided to make different words for different actions, but it still deprives someone of something -- it deprives someone of compensation for their work. No, that's not a tangible object, but neither is "being alive." Neither is "being free." They're both far more abstract than an audio recording, yet we agree that depriving people of their freedom or life is generally also wrong. There are acceptable reasons for doing all of the above, but "because you wanted to" is not among them.
Are there cases in which copyright fails to create the desired results? Sure. There's abandonware, out of print works, bizzare licensing schemes, etc. But that's no excuse for copying a work just because "I wouldn't have bought it anyway."
What if I have my own island and I breed humans for food.
Then I'd say, "Please pass the Grey Houmon."
Hosted apps ARE bad, unless you can resolve the following:
* Availability. Your favorite app site is getting DDoS'd? Another undersea cable got cut by an anchor? Sucks to be you.
* Portability. UnprofitableSite.com just went black without notice. Do you have a local copy of your work, and if so, what can you do with it?
* Security. It's highly unlikely that anyone is working 24/7 to hack YOUR particular workstation/network. Even if you don't know anything about configuring a firewall, at least you can unplug a desktop from the network and it will be essentially immune from remote attacks. A publicly accessible repository of private data, however, is a much juicier target, and if history is any lesson, security will not be a primary concern from the start.
* Privacy. I'm the proud owner of a site with over 500,000 term papers on it that my users graciously "donated." What's to keep me from selling them, letting people data mine them, or anything else? My privacy policy? The one that's subject to change without notice?
What problems do hosted apps solve, or what advantages do they provide?
* People wouldn't have to install or maintain their own software. That's a possible advantage, but doesn't really outweigh all of the above liabilities. And what if I don't want to "upgrade" and learn a new UI right this second. What if I just need to finish my work?
* My data is accessible anywhere. Again, that's a two-edged sword, and 99% of the time I don't really need/want my data to be accessible from anywhere other than the location I'm in. I suspect most other people don't either, and when they do they just e-mail a file to themselves.
Software as a service is great for companies. They can implement subscription models so the customer doesn't realize how much he's paying over the long term. They don't have to worry about piracy. Distribution is basically free, allowing for a higher profit margin. I just don't see very many advantages for *customers*, especially long-term.
And it hasn't happened since Windows 95. That makes mass migrations the exception, not the rule. Take a look at the postings about the release of XP for some perspective. Not very many prescient posts there. Lots of complaints about the overhead of a "glitzy" OS, an OS that must be activated, etc. "Howard Stern dissed it, hopefully it will fail!!"
Vista may not have been a revolutionary improvement, but it is still better than XP in almost every way except, perhaps, that it was not "done" at launch. But Win7 is an improvement over Vista as well. Again, it's incremental -- and perhaps W7 is what Vista should have been in the first place -- but I don't think there's any chance it will be rejected because it's "not XP." On the contrary, I think it will resolve most of the real and perceived roadblocks to upgrading. Vista (and hence W7) driver issues are essentially resolved, and have been for quite some time for all but the most obscure hardware. Any PC made in the past 2 years should be able to handle it just fine (past 3 years from the point it goes live late this year or early next). It's faster than Vista, has more shiny while simultaneously reducing overhead, it's less obtrusive with those UAC dialogs, and despite the fact that it's in beta and has a few flaws, the advantages already have me using it as my default OS.
Let's all start growing cucumber indoors.