(I find it sad that in America, private property is often guarded with deadly force, but private property is replaceable, whereas privacy has no protection at all and privacy can never be replaced. Once privacy is lost, it is lost forever.)
Only that privacy doesn't exist in any physical sense. It is a purely abstract concept and its boundaries are very poorly defined.
As a professional scientist who travelled a lot between universities in Europe, USA and Japan, I can say the following:
a) Correlation does not imply causation. Some regions are generally poorer, meaning their universities get less money, they attract less good scientists, etc. And these regions also have higher alcohol consumption. And so observation that alcohol consumption anti-correlates with scientific achievements doesn't necessarily imply that drinking makes you bad scientist.
b) I just moved from UK to USA and the amount of alcohol people drink in UK is completely unheard of in USA. Basically, we used to have three British pints 4 times a week. Properly drunk. In USA I can convince my colleagues to have one beer (over two hours!!) once a week. And yet, UK is THE most scientifically successful country per dollar spent.
c) My feeling is actually the opposite: alcohol acts as a social lubricant and many personal frictions can get dissolved that way. After two pints, the guy who you hate so much for having more papers than you, suddenly seems an ok chap. People are more likely to speak about their work, share opinions on papers, don't be secretive about future projects, etc. This effect must have bigger positive impact than negative effects of drinking.
Local news is the most important, followed by regional news, followed by your country's news, THEN world news - if there's room.
With all due respect: maybe that explains why America is so recklessly fucking up all the wars they try to wage. A little bit of wider perspective is useful every now and then.
Dude, different distributions mean just different packaging systems, artwork, support, etc. Underlying kernel and drivers are the same. The performance is essentially the same, especially for things like graphics subsystem!
I am one of those guys. Most Europeans are actually. I just don't get it. It is just an American obsession, just like with guns (I don't get that either). I am willing to have cameras in my home, no problem. Encrypting bank traffic is a completely different issue to privacy (in American sense). Most people here actually don't want to have cameras at home because they feel uncomfortable being naked or something... I lived in UK and really liked that fact that everything is CCTVed, made me feel safe, but also gave me this cozy feeling that there is a guy looking at me...
What is the problem? I am on a J-1 visa in the states and go in and out regularly. Why shouldn't they keep a profile of me? At least someone who cares...;)
I think USA would be a much better country if people learned that coffee should be drank from a porcelain cup rather than a paper one and that beer should be drunk from a glass rather than a bottle. Next you should fix the medical insurance or at least regulate it more seriously if you don't think universal insurance is not good enough. Then you should do something about taking mentally ill people off the streets, this is really quite bad. There are real things that need to be fixed in this country, rather than worry about privacy!
I don't give money to Sony, however, so I'll be waiting for an Apple variant.
You're right. Sony is evil because of their rootkit, but Apple is soo good, they don't have any DRM whatsoever:, they let you copy the downloaded iTunes to any player you like, back and fort from ipod, they also give you unlimited region changes on DVD player, no DRM whatsoever. It's just pure hippie!
Well, this just tells you how individual these things are. My wife wanted a basic computer for editing text, printing, browsing, e-mail. I recommended macbook, which everyone loves and I though it would be ideal. Nothing worked, she absolutely hated it and I was responsible. I had real big trouble getting even printer to work, having to manually compile drivers, which I haven't done on ubuntu for ages, etc. etc. Fast forward one year - we sold macbook, bought a cheap dell and now she is a very happy ubuntu user. I think I was just unlucky and so were you. (However, I still don't understand my problem as I always though macbooks are all the same so they should work equally bad for everyone... But maybe people are just massively hypnotised...)
My main email account is with gmail. I actually use the POP/SMTP interface of gmail with Thunderbird, so haven't really used the web interface that much, but when I did and I had no problems under Safari or Firefox.
As another note, I have yet to have a firefox lockup on OSX, except with dodgy addons (which also happens on my Windows and Linux boxes)
Things like gchat didn't work. Maybe they do now. As far as lockups - just google as I advised.
In the unlikely event that it's a GDI printer ("Windows only"), I'm actually pretty surprised you made it work at all, but hey, you would've had the same problems under any non Microsoft OS.
Exactly, it is a GDI printer. I am ok with hacking things around, but don't bullshit me, that everything just works.. If I knew I need to spend time for getting a windows printer to work, I could have done it in linux.
When you say "movies didn't work", what format were they in? I don't have this problem with my Firefox web browsing, and I must (shamefully) admit to often visiting websites with embedded video.
It was wmv. These days it's actually much better as everyone uses flash.
But it is not just this. Is the entire experience. No virtual desktops. Pay for every fucking add-one, for example divx. Shit package management, that is not followed by most piece of software. Download manually, etc. Look, I hate linux, it giving me hard time on so many fronts, but ubuntu is a more pleasant experience, all in all.
In my experience, if you want your wife to stop bugging you about computer problems, buy her a Mac.
NO, NO, NO! I did exactly that. My wife had 4 wishes: be able to read e-mail, use word-processor, print things out, read her favourite website and I thought macbook would be perfect for her. It was one of the biggest mistakes I've done with computer ever. Guess what, nothing works:
a) E-mail. gmail poorly supported under safari. firefox experience constant lock-up : google for "firefox freeze mac" if you don't believe that
b) word-processor: neooffice useless, word is incredibily slow on a dual core machine and constantly brings machine with 1/2 gb to swapping. I know it is rosetta emulated, but this is not my problem.
c) Printer - had to install compiler suite to compile driver for linux to get my konica minolta working. It felt like early days of linux, haven't done that in ages.
d) Websites: movies didn't work and flip4mac didn't help either. My wife was furious. Luckily the converted to flash movies.
So, she's used to it now and doesn't give me much trouble. Every time it comes to a grinding halt with spinning wheel she just patiently waits, she's given up swearing at it ages ago, but I still feel shit.
Have you tried OINK? Guaranteed 192k and pretty much anything you ever wanted. I haven't bought a single CD since I discovered that. So yes, BT does hurt CD sales (but I am not going to buy CDs until prices drop to 1$ per CD).
I am one of those "nothing to hide" people... Even if I have "nothing to hide", I would still get bored to death and hate my companions. This trip has absolutely nothing to do with privacy...
If you are one of those privacy idiots just go and use other services. It is a public company and if people will start to leave their services en masse they will change. Otherwise they will not. As simple as that. I couldn't care less about policemen reading my e-mail or whatever you virgin retards whine about. I will happily carry on using their service...
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(I find it sad that in America, private property is often guarded with deadly force, but private property is replaceable, whereas privacy has no protection at all and privacy can never be replaced. Once privacy is lost, it is lost forever.)
Only that privacy doesn't exist in any physical sense. It is a purely abstract concept and its boundaries are very poorly defined.
As a professional scientist who travelled a lot between universities in Europe, USA and Japan, I can say the following:
a) Correlation does not imply causation. Some regions are generally poorer, meaning their universities get less money, they attract less good scientists, etc. And these regions also have higher alcohol consumption. And so observation that alcohol consumption anti-correlates with scientific achievements doesn't necessarily imply that drinking makes you bad scientist.
b) I just moved from UK to USA and the amount of alcohol people drink in UK is completely unheard of in USA. Basically, we used to have three British pints 4 times a week. Properly drunk. In USA I can convince my colleagues to have one beer (over two hours!!) once a week. And yet, UK is THE most scientifically successful country per dollar spent.
c) My feeling is actually the opposite: alcohol acts as a social lubricant and many personal frictions can get dissolved that way. After two pints, the guy who you hate so much for having more papers than you, suddenly seems an ok chap. People are more likely to speak about their work, share opinions on papers, don't be secretive about future projects, etc. This effect must have bigger positive impact than negative effects of drinking.
Local news is the most important, followed by regional news, followed by your country's news, THEN world news - if there's room.
With all due respect: maybe that explains why America is so recklessly fucking up all the wars they try to wage. A little bit of wider perspective is useful every now and then.
Dude,
different distributions mean just different packaging systems, artwork, support, etc. Underlying kernel and drivers are the same. The performance is essentially the same, especially for things like graphics subsystem!
I am one of those guys. Most Europeans are actually. I just don't get it. It is just an American obsession, just like with guns (I don't get that either). I am willing to have cameras in my home, no problem.
Encrypting bank traffic is a completely different issue to privacy (in American sense). Most people here actually don't want to have cameras at home because they feel uncomfortable being naked or something...
I lived in UK and really liked that fact that everything is CCTVed, made me feel safe, but also gave me this cozy feeling that there is a guy looking at me...
What is the problem? I am on a J-1 visa in the states and go in and out regularly. Why shouldn't they keep a profile of me? At least someone who cares... ;)
I think USA would be a much better country if people learned that coffee should be drank from a porcelain cup rather than a paper one and that beer should be drunk from a glass rather than a bottle. Next you should fix the medical insurance or at least regulate it more seriously if you don't think universal insurance is not good enough. Then you should do something about taking mentally ill people off the streets, this is really quite bad. There are real things that need to be fixed in this country, rather than worry about privacy!
I don't give money to Sony, however, so I'll be waiting for an Apple variant.
You're right. Sony is evil because of their rootkit, but Apple is soo good, they don't have any DRM whatsoever:, they let you copy the downloaded iTunes to any player you like, back and fort from ipod, they also give you unlimited region changes on DVD player, no DRM whatsoever. It's just pure hippie!
Well, this just tells you how individual these things are. My wife wanted a basic computer for editing text, printing, browsing, e-mail. I recommended macbook, which everyone loves and I though it would be ideal.
Nothing worked, she absolutely hated it and I was responsible. I had real big trouble getting even printer to work, having to manually compile drivers, which I haven't done on ubuntu for ages, etc. etc. Fast forward one year - we sold macbook, bought a cheap dell and now she is a very happy ubuntu user.
I think I was just unlucky and so were you. (However, I still don't understand my problem as I always though macbooks are all the same so they should work equally bad for everyone... But maybe people are just massively hypnotised...)
...so the iPhone pays for itself.
Dude, get 10 of them and leave job!
Mod parent up, you privacy idiots. Show at least some fairness and stop modding up just privacy psychos and nobody else.
Wait a minute! Isn't it true that with macs "everything just works"? Why do you need codecs then?
Besides, I am shocked that Mac users look at porn...
Oh no:
Password too simple. Password must be at least 8 strokes with at least one diagonal one and one wiggly one.
Dude, the sun runs its nuclear reactions by quantum tunelling. It is really inefficient. What makes it bright is its size!
Dude,
you need to go to one of those presentations where they hand out mice for free...
You're obviously a pessimist, aren't you?
First post: does it go through the walls? It's going to be difficult at these frequencies!
Mona "the Hammer" Shaw vs Steve "the Chair" Ballmer.
Just imagine!
My main email account is with gmail. I actually use the POP/SMTP interface of gmail with Thunderbird, so haven't really used the web interface that much, but when I did and I had no problems under Safari or Firefox.
As another note, I have yet to have a firefox lockup on OSX, except with dodgy addons (which also happens on my Windows and Linux boxes)
Things like gchat didn't work. Maybe they do now. As far as lockups - just google as I advised.
In the unlikely event that it's a GDI printer ("Windows only"), I'm actually pretty surprised you made it work at all, but hey, you would've had the same problems under any non Microsoft OS.
Exactly, it is a GDI printer. I am ok with hacking things around, but don't bullshit me, that everything just works.. If I knew I need to spend time for getting a windows printer to work, I could have done it in linux.
When you say "movies didn't work", what format were they in? I don't have this problem with my Firefox web browsing, and I must (shamefully) admit to often visiting websites with embedded video.
It was wmv. These days it's actually much better as everyone uses flash.
But it is not just this. Is the entire experience. No virtual desktops. Pay for every fucking add-one, for example divx. Shit package management, that is not followed by most piece of software. Download manually, etc. Look, I hate linux, it giving me hard time on so many fronts, but ubuntu is a more pleasant experience, all in all.
In my experience, if you want your wife to stop bugging you about computer problems, buy her a Mac.
NO, NO, NO!
I did exactly that. My wife had 4 wishes: be able to read e-mail, use word-processor, print things out, read her favourite website and I thought macbook would be perfect for her. It was one of the biggest mistakes I've done with computer ever. Guess what, nothing works:
a) E-mail. gmail poorly supported under safari. firefox experience constant lock-up : google for "firefox freeze mac" if you don't believe that
b) word-processor: neooffice useless, word is incredibily slow on a dual core machine and constantly brings machine with 1/2 gb to swapping. I know it is rosetta emulated, but this is not my problem.
c) Printer - had to install compiler suite to compile driver for linux to get my konica minolta working. It felt like early days of linux, haven't done that in ages.
d) Websites: movies didn't work and flip4mac didn't help either. My wife was furious. Luckily the converted to flash movies.
So, she's used to it now and doesn't give me much trouble. Every time it comes to a grinding halt with spinning wheel she just patiently waits, she's given up swearing at it ages ago, but I still feel shit.
Never, ever again.
Have you tried OINK? Guaranteed 192k and pretty much anything you ever wanted. I haven't bought a single CD since I discovered that. So yes, BT does hurt CD sales (but I am not going to buy CDs until prices drop to 1$ per CD).
Especially because these usually have essids like default, belkin54g, NETGEAR, etc and so everyone had used them before in a hotel room or something.
Well, you can expand binomial series as
(1.024)^n = 1 + 0.024*n+O(0.024^2)
and since exponential growth of capacity implies n linear with time it also means that the discrepancy is increasing linearly with time...
I am one of those "nothing to hide" people... Even if I have "nothing to hide", I would still get bored to death and hate my companions. This trip has absolutely nothing to do with privacy...
Nobody is forced to use it!
If you are one of those privacy idiots just go and use other services. It is a public company and if people will start to leave their services en masse they will change. Otherwise they will not. As simple as that. I couldn't care less about policemen reading my e-mail or whatever you virgin retards whine about. I will happily carry on using their service...
No, no, your definition is wrong as well. Here is the correct definition.