I have to agree with you on the kit lense. I've seen a lot of good pics taken with the D-Rebel but they all had a different lense.
The Nikon D-70 on the other hand has an amazing kit lense. We could of course go back and forth over which is better but I think the bodies are pretty comparable, just depends on if you are a Nikon or a Cannon fan. My uncle was tempted to buy the D70 just to get the kit lense because that was the only way you could get it. (Not sure if that is still true)
In fact I almost got the D-Rebel except I already had an investment in Nikon lenses and I didn't really want to replace them all. Then the D70 came out and I couldn't be happier. Of course I find I use the kit lense most of the time.
I recall a run-in I had with a wedding photographer... he did everything he could to get in my way. Those attitudes are definitely out of control as well. It was good to read that these professionals are gradually shifting to getting paid by the time spent taking the pictures rather than by the print.
I have to say it all depends on the photographer. I've had some run ins as well but most good photographers will try and stay out of your way if you look like you even remotely know what you are doing. In fact the photographer for my wedding would setup the shot, take a few and then let anyone who wanted to take some pictures. Aside from the main photographer, I also had two other relatives, one a professional photographer who doesn't normally do weddings and another super ameture who just likes to take lots of pictures. We asked if he minded them and he said not at all. There were a few times he asked them to move (mostly the ameture uncle) and there were no hardships or hurt feelings or anything between any of them. So be sure to shop well for your photographer!
What amateur knows fill flash techniques, good composition, etc etc.
Quite a few actually. By no means do I consider myself a professional but I took a few courses in college and have done quite a bit of shooting and spend countless hours in a darkroom. To some people photography is a great hobby and I think photoshop and digital cameras have taken some fun out of being in the darkroom, I also think it has made it more widely available to the ameture. For instance, I really don't have the room for a darkroom in my house. (I used the one at school) However, nothing is stopping me from using photoshop and my digital camera and then sending them out to get prints made, or even print smaller things (like contact sheets) out on my own printer.
Of course while I feel that my pictures are good, I wouldn't say they are great, but then I know a few "professional" photographers whos work isn't all that great. Of course there are quite a few photographers whos photos look much better than mine. (Including the photographer who did my wedding who did medium format, 35mm and digital)
You must not have much in common with your friends if you can't think of anything to talk about other than current movies that are out. I mean, I can't even remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater yet somehow I still seem to come up with things to talk with my friends about.
Also let's face it, now that movies have gone digital and the turnaround to dvd keeps getting quicker and quicker, this is less of an issue than when it took like 6 months for a movie to come out on video.
By the time the wife and I pay to see a movie, we might have well just bought it. Plus then we can watch it again whereas if we just see it in the theater, that's it. So I guess it's more comparable to renting a movie which is even cheaper. Heck I can rent a movie for less that what it would cost me to go see a movie by myself.
There are only two benefits to seeing a movie in the theater. The first is the large screen, but with the size of most home TVs and the continuing decline in the cost of a projector, this is becoming less important. At what point does seing it on the really big screen differ from seeing it on your moderately big screen? The second of course is time. So I guess you really have to ask yourself if you can wait a few months for the movie to come out on video.
Of course I don't share your feelings on gatherings. I don't usually go out to bars because most people there smoke and I can't stand it and I don't want to pay high prices for crappy beer. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Have fun running wine on that PowerPC platform... There are a few programs that I need to run that are only available under x86, one of which being wine.
Since the new macs will be intel based, I expect people to be running dual boot OS X/Linux systems just because. I know I was pondering what to get next, a new PC so I could run linux or a mac to run OS X. Each have their advantages and disadvantages so apple's news kindof just solved my problem. Now I just have to wait for a bit.
The problem I would have switching is that I use many different computers doing support and such. How hard is it to switch back and forth between QWERTY and DVORAK layouts?
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I think you are missing the point, Open Source software wouldn't be where it is if it wasn't open source. It doesn't matter if you never look at the code, what counts is that the people that work on it and improve it have access to the code.
We'll take apache for instance, I have never looked at the code for apache, in fact I use a binary version that came with the debian distro. Does that mean I don't benefit from it being open source? Of course not, because behind the scenes there are a lot of people working on it because it is open source. If it was a proprietary company and they go out of business or decide to go in a different direction than I want then I'm basically screwed. With open source, if the author decides to give up working on it, and it is a useful program, then others will come and pick up the slack.
So the fact that BeOS is not open source I think will hurt it because it's a small company that would be easy for windows to target and get rid of. However I do wish them the best of luck, I remember when BeOS first came out and I installed it and kindof got it working but it's lack of hardware support made me put linux back on.
Wow, what a Troll. I normally don't feed trolls but what the hell...
First of you can't install a application as a user, now how stupid is that? If *I* want to install a bleeding edge version of Gimp, I neither want to bother the admin with it nor do I want to force it an all the others users, yet Debian requires me todo exactly that.
It's not stupid at all and is in fact what OS X does and what windows is slowly moving towards. Fact is, if you aren't a trusted users, you shouldn't be installing anything. On a multi-user system, the admin can give you sudo access to be able to install things. Allowing anyone to install anything is just plain stupid. If you want a cutting edge version of gimp, download and compile it in your home directory. You definately should not be able to install it system-wide no matter what package management system you have.
Secondly Debian packages work great, but only for stuff that is in Debian, which might be a lot, but is *far* from everything and its also often *way* outdated, remember those three year release cycles.
Spoken by someone who must not actually use debian. Sure debian stable is a little behind but remember, it's *stable* meaning that buggy cutting edge program won't be there. However there is also testing and unstable which contain much more recent versions of things.
Software packaging should be done by those that provide the software in the first place, the distro might run a quality check on it, but thats it.
Sure that would be great and it happens to some extent but I don't expect the author of a program to package their program up for each distro. The only way that this would happen is if there was only one package management system. But there's not and probably never will be. Different flavors of Linux put things in different spots... If they didn't, there would really be only one distro of Linux.
There are very few programs that I have not beed able to find a.deb for. Usually because it's a relatively unknown program or carries a restrictive license not allowing it to be redistrubuted. (Such as Java)
So maybe you should shut your mouth unless you know what you are talking about.
Nope, Holy Grail quote, the Spanish Inquisition one went something like this:
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.
etc...
And of course see other replies to see the Holy Grail quote. Most people don't really know the sketches but can quote the Holy Grail. It frustrates me because when someone makes a Grail joke, I think they are a python fan so then I make a joke from one of the sketches and they just look at me funny. Oh well.
No, a crappy os that ran on 1% of the hardware out there is what killed OS/2.
Personally I think 100% compatability with wine would be a good thing because then people wouldn't have an excuse to ditch windows for linux. The biggest excuse I hear is that program X isn't available. If that obstical weren't there then I think more people would switch away from windows.
In my town, trash pickup is twice a week and recycling comes around every other week. The recycling guys pickup plastic and paper and such but not things like tires, computers or other things not included in normal recycling. For those you have to take it to the town dump (or I think you can get a special sticker for the guys to take it) and then pay a fee depending on the item. I'm not sure of the fees off the top of my head but it's something like $5-$10 for most items.
In Vermont, my landlord had to pay a garbage company to come and get the trash. It sucked and I definately like the municipal method I have now more. Vermont also had deposits which I think are one of the stupidest things ever. The cans and bottles take up a lot of room and quite honestly, it's a lot easier to just put them out at the curb to be collected by the recycling guys than it is to cart them back to the store to get $0.05 per can/bottle. I don't think it really encourages recycling at all because a lot of people just eat the 5 cents because they are lazy.
First, I think iPod's intent to not allow you to download tracks from your iPod was to help their stance with the music industry. (namely RIAA) However it is really easy to find programs that will allow you to get songs off of your iPod. You can however, easily upload/download other files to your iPod without any external programs.
Pros and cons of an iPod: First, an iPod has one of the best interfaces of any portable music player I've ever seen. However I think the most powerful aspect of the iPod is using it in conjunction with iTunes. Yes, it sucks that it's not available for Linux but I use a powerbook as my main personal desktop and Linux mainly for mythtv and my servers. I really love the smart playlists and the ratings that you have available to you in iTunes. I can easily create complicated filters to say include all songs that have a rating of 4 or higher but don't include any Christmas songs.
Also while I agree that DRM sucks, you can easily burn a cd and then rip the resulting CD back into mp3s with no DRM. I've also found that the iTunes store has a decent selection of music.
The iPod also has the ability to remember where you stopped playing audiobooks. I think this is really cool because I have a long commute and I don't have to fiddle with fast forwarding or anything.
There are a lot of car manufacturers who now offer easy ways of attaching your iPod to your cars stereo, you can also usually use the controls on the steering wheel if your car has them.
I will admit that the iPod also has some downsides... first if you use napster, you are out of luck. The only option I have seen to get napster songs onto your iPod is to use a program that records the output of your soundcard. This just takes forever. Personally I don't have a napster subscription but I know some people who do and I know that some colleges (like psu) have subscriptions for all their students.
It also won't play ogg formatted songs. For me this is a biggie. While most of my songs are already in mp3 format, I have been thinking of switching to ogg for my new songs but I guess I will have to wait on that.
I recently got a 60GB iPod photo and I think it rocks! I plan on getting one of the speaker docks to put in the nursery for our new baby and have a playlist of just children's music. I will also always have said music with me in the car and then when I go to work, I don't have to worry about having the car loaded with children's music, I just change the playlist to one of my own. My wife also has an iPod mini so she can use the speaker dock while I'm at work.
Why do you get that impression? "Child pornography" is just the red herring people always trot out when they want to censor speech.
Since when is pornography speech? If freenet really was all about encouraging and supporting open, public debates, limit it to just text and disallow any uuencoded postings. Now everyone's happy, not child porn or anything else that might be construed as hurting someone and all that's left is speech.
The problem is, I don't think that these pornographic materials would really fufill the needs of a pedofile. Odds are, if someone is going looking for child porn, they are also looking for children to partake in their sick perversion. For every child porn picture, someone was exploited. To say that well, they already did it so let's just let them have those pictures is only supporting them to continue taking pictures and exploiting children.
Personally I think the child porn issue is one of the biggest things hurting freenet. Different people have different tolerances for things but child porn is one of those things that very few people tolerate, myself included. I personally don't care what your opinions, views or sexual preferences are. I do draw the line when someone, especially a child, is in any danger.
So what is the solution? I don't know. I certainly agree that a 16 year old boy looking at pictures of a 16 year old girl probably isn't all that harmful, however a 40 year old looking at pictures of a naked 12 year old girl is. How do you differentiate and where do you draw the line? I don't really know but I do know I will not be using freenet if there is any chance that I would be hosting child pornography... that just crosses my own personal line. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution that satisfies everyone but freenet has been around for a while and it's still known as a harbor for child porn.
What happened then? MPAA sued & forced Replay TV to disable this feature. Now, what there's virtually no advancement in DVRs, they now serve nothing more than glorified VCRs.
And hence why I built my own PVR with Mythtv. "But a Tivo is cheaper" were the cries of many detractors. Now who has the last laugh. Sure the commercial detection isn't 100% perfect but it seems to get most of the shows I watch pretty well. Besides, I also have a 30 second (or however long I want) skip button.
Well if JDeveloper is any indication, that won't necessarily be the case. Sure it will probably be easier to use Oracle but I know JDeveloper will allow you to use any Application Server with any database.
I don't think anyone is really picking on him because he opened the device up, I think they are picking on him for opening the device up and puncturing the battery which let off a toxic gas. Duh.... don't mess with the battery... kindof like rule number 1 in taking things apart. Also up there is unplug things before you take them apart, watch out for those capacitors, if something is humming... don't touch it.
But I guess you're right, it's not a natural selection issue, the warning labels must not have been big enough. Maybe we need to make devices talk to you when you open them up and say things like "WARNING, WARNING! DON'T PUNCTURE THE BATTERY!!" Of course that doesn't help if you are deaf then does it? Hmmmm.... well I guess we just need to invent a force field or some other impenetrable casing that we can put things in.
Come on, where does it end? Personally I think we should forget all these safety measures and let the theory of evolution work. If someone wants to take apart their battery, then they should have to deal with the resulting toxic gas.
Also it's not quite analogous to cutting yourself while chopping celery. The toxic gas probably would have killed him if he wasn't taken to the hospital whereas most cuts might render you digitless at worse, they usually don't kill you.
In other news, dumbass inhales Carbon Monoxide, wonders why he now feel really sick.
Hehe.... yeah, I'm gonna trust my $3000+ laptop to a $20 tripod. I don't think so. I might trust my Manfrotto tripod to hold my laptop but it was a little more than $20.
(It's been a while but I think it was about $100 USD when I got it)
That's complete and utter BS... we have AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy to thank for the countless idiots on the internet. It was a natural evolution. Also students who got used to the internet in college also wanted it after they graduated.
Al Gore may have generated a bit of a buzz about the internet in washington but to think that did anything in reality is just silly.
Because I take your code, something you worked really hard on to get working and all I do is make a nice little GUI for it, something you've been meaning to do for a while but have been busy with other things and haven't gotten around to it. I then claim the entire work as my own and sell it without giving you anything at all, not even my source code modifications.
It is stealing, I'm taking your work and claiming it as my own.
Sure if you mean more portable as in can-only-use-on-windows.... I've had issues getting certain excel "programs" to run on my mac version of excel. Oh, and have fun trying to get it to work on Linux, any of the BSDs or any of the many UNIXes out there.
Perl and Python both have installers for most platforms so assuming you install (perl|python) on the computer you intend to run it on, I'd say it's more portable.
So yes, in an office environment where everyone runs windows XP, then yes.... excel is probably more portable without changing anything. However all a sysadmin would have to do would be to install (perl|python) as part of the default set of programs and now (perl|python) is more portable than excel will ever be.
While excel might be a good thing for someone to write a quick script in (I've been known to do such things in the past), I certainly wouldn't recommend it for anything big because what happens when windows stops supporting your version of excel and that version of VB? (They have been known to do similar things in the past)
People complain about not being able to switch to Linux because program X isn't available for it. Then they go and write all these little programs in excel that they depend on. Excel *IS NOT* more portable than perl, python or Java.
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I have to agree with you on the kit lense. I've seen a lot of good pics taken with the D-Rebel but they all had a different lense.
The Nikon D-70 on the other hand has an amazing kit lense. We could of course go back and forth over which is better but I think the bodies are pretty comparable, just depends on if you are a Nikon or a Cannon fan. My uncle was tempted to buy the D70 just to get the kit lense because that was the only way you could get it. (Not sure if that is still true)
In fact I almost got the D-Rebel except I already had an investment in Nikon lenses and I didn't really want to replace them all. Then the D70 came out and I couldn't be happier. Of course I find I use the kit lense most of the time.
I recall a run-in I had with a wedding photographer... he did everything he could to get in my way. Those attitudes are definitely out of control as well. It was good to read that these professionals are gradually shifting to getting paid by the time spent taking the pictures rather than by the print.
I have to say it all depends on the photographer. I've had some run ins as well but most good photographers will try and stay out of your way if you look like you even remotely know what you are doing. In fact the photographer for my wedding would setup the shot, take a few and then let anyone who wanted to take some pictures. Aside from the main photographer, I also had two other relatives, one a professional photographer who doesn't normally do weddings and another super ameture who just likes to take lots of pictures. We asked if he minded them and he said not at all. There were a few times he asked them to move (mostly the ameture uncle) and there were no hardships or hurt feelings or anything between any of them. So be sure to shop well for your photographer!
What amateur knows fill flash techniques, good composition, etc etc.
Quite a few actually. By no means do I consider myself a professional but I took a few courses in college and have done quite a bit of shooting and spend countless hours in a darkroom. To some people photography is a great hobby and I think photoshop and digital cameras have taken some fun out of being in the darkroom, I also think it has made it more widely available to the ameture. For instance, I really don't have the room for a darkroom in my house. (I used the one at school) However, nothing is stopping me from using photoshop and my digital camera and then sending them out to get prints made, or even print smaller things (like contact sheets) out on my own printer.
Of course while I feel that my pictures are good, I wouldn't say they are great, but then I know a few "professional" photographers whos work isn't all that great. Of course there are quite a few photographers whos photos look much better than mine. (Including the photographer who did my wedding who did medium format, 35mm and digital)
You must not have much in common with your friends if you can't think of anything to talk about other than current movies that are out. I mean, I can't even remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater yet somehow I still seem to come up with things to talk with my friends about.
Also let's face it, now that movies have gone digital and the turnaround to dvd keeps getting quicker and quicker, this is less of an issue than when it took like 6 months for a movie to come out on video.
By the time the wife and I pay to see a movie, we might have well just bought it. Plus then we can watch it again whereas if we just see it in the theater, that's it. So I guess it's more comparable to renting a movie which is even cheaper. Heck I can rent a movie for less that what it would cost me to go see a movie by myself.
There are only two benefits to seeing a movie in the theater. The first is the large screen, but with the size of most home TVs and the continuing decline in the cost of a projector, this is becoming less important. At what point does seing it on the really big screen differ from seeing it on your moderately big screen? The second of course is time. So I guess you really have to ask yourself if you can wait a few months for the movie to come out on video.
Of course I don't share your feelings on gatherings. I don't usually go out to bars because most people there smoke and I can't stand it and I don't want to pay high prices for crappy beer. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
This would be like Bill Gates saying linux is for losers.
Let's face it, Raadt is pissed off that linux has supassed OpenBSD in terms of userbase. A little resentment? I think so.
Have fun running wine on that PowerPC platform... There are a few programs that I need to run that are only available under x86, one of which being wine.
Since the new macs will be intel based, I expect people to be running dual boot OS X/Linux systems just because. I know I was pondering what to get next, a new PC so I could run linux or a mac to run OS X. Each have their advantages and disadvantages so apple's news kindof just solved my problem. Now I just have to wait for a bit.
The problem I would have switching is that I use many different computers doing support and such. How hard is it to switch back and forth between QWERTY and DVORAK layouts?
I think you are missing the point, Open Source software wouldn't be where it is if it wasn't open source. It doesn't matter if you never look at the code, what counts is that the people that work on it and improve it have access to the code.
We'll take apache for instance, I have never looked at the code for apache, in fact I use a binary version that came with the debian distro. Does that mean I don't benefit from it being open source? Of course not, because behind the scenes there are a lot of people working on it because it is open source. If it was a proprietary company and they go out of business or decide to go in a different direction than I want then I'm basically screwed. With open source, if the author decides to give up working on it, and it is a useful program, then others will come and pick up the slack.
So the fact that BeOS is not open source I think will hurt it because it's a small company that would be easy for windows to target and get rid of. However I do wish them the best of luck, I remember when BeOS first came out and I installed it and kindof got it working but it's lack of hardware support made me put linux back on.
Wow, what a Troll. I normally don't feed trolls but what the hell...
.deb for. Usually because it's a relatively unknown program or carries a restrictive license not allowing it to be redistrubuted. (Such as Java)
First of you can't install a application as a user, now how stupid is that? If *I* want to install a bleeding edge version of Gimp, I neither want to bother the admin with it nor do I want to force it an all the others users, yet Debian requires me todo exactly that.
It's not stupid at all and is in fact what OS X does and what windows is slowly moving towards. Fact is, if you aren't a trusted users, you shouldn't be installing anything. On a multi-user system, the admin can give you sudo access to be able to install things. Allowing anyone to install anything is just plain stupid. If you want a cutting edge version of gimp, download and compile it in your home directory. You definately should not be able to install it system-wide no matter what package management system you have.
Secondly Debian packages work great, but only for stuff that is in Debian, which might be a lot, but is *far* from everything and its also often *way* outdated, remember those three year release cycles.
Spoken by someone who must not actually use debian. Sure debian stable is a little behind but remember, it's *stable* meaning that buggy cutting edge program won't be there. However there is also testing and unstable which contain much more recent versions of things.
Software packaging should be done by those that provide the software in the first place, the distro might run a quality check on it, but thats it.
Sure that would be great and it happens to some extent but I don't expect the author of a program to package their program up for each distro. The only way that this would happen is if there was only one package management system. But there's not and probably never will be. Different flavors of Linux put things in different spots... If they didn't, there would really be only one distro of Linux.
There are very few programs that I have not beed able to find a
So maybe you should shut your mouth unless you know what you are talking about.
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And of course see other replies to see the Holy Grail quote. Most people don't really know the sketches but can quote the Holy Grail. It frustrates me because when someone makes a Grail joke, I think they are a python fan so then I make a joke from one of the sketches and they just look at me funny. Oh well.
No, a crappy os that ran on 1% of the hardware out there is what killed OS/2.
Personally I think 100% compatability with wine would be a good thing because then people wouldn't have an excuse to ditch windows for linux. The biggest excuse I hear is that program X isn't available. If that obstical weren't there then I think more people would switch away from windows.
In my town, trash pickup is twice a week and recycling comes around every other week. The recycling guys pickup plastic and paper and such but not things like tires, computers or other things not included in normal recycling. For those you have to take it to the town dump (or I think you can get a special sticker for the guys to take it) and then pay a fee depending on the item. I'm not sure of the fees off the top of my head but it's something like $5-$10 for most items.
In Vermont, my landlord had to pay a garbage company to come and get the trash. It sucked and I definately like the municipal method I have now more. Vermont also had deposits which I think are one of the stupidest things ever. The cans and bottles take up a lot of room and quite honestly, it's a lot easier to just put them out at the curb to be collected by the recycling guys than it is to cart them back to the store to get $0.05 per can/bottle. I don't think it really encourages recycling at all because a lot of people just eat the 5 cents because they are lazy.
I pitty you fools who trust everything they read as fact.
As it has been mention many times already, it is possible to do this without a plugin, it's just not completely obvious on how to do it.
First, I think iPod's intent to not allow you to download tracks from your iPod was to help their stance with the music industry. (namely RIAA) However it is really easy to find programs that will allow you to get songs off of your iPod. You can however, easily upload/download other files to your iPod without any external programs.
Pros and cons of an iPod:
First, an iPod has one of the best interfaces of any portable music player I've ever seen. However I think the most powerful aspect of the iPod is using it in conjunction with iTunes. Yes, it sucks that it's not available for Linux but I use a powerbook as my main personal desktop and Linux mainly for mythtv and my servers. I really love the smart playlists and the ratings that you have available to you in iTunes. I can easily create complicated filters to say include all songs that have a rating of 4 or higher but don't include any Christmas songs.
Also while I agree that DRM sucks, you can easily burn a cd and then rip the resulting CD back into mp3s with no DRM. I've also found that the iTunes store has a decent selection of music.
The iPod also has the ability to remember where you stopped playing audiobooks. I think this is really cool because I have a long commute and I don't have to fiddle with fast forwarding or anything.
There are a lot of car manufacturers who now offer easy ways of attaching your iPod to your cars stereo, you can also usually use the controls on the steering wheel if your car has them.
I will admit that the iPod also has some downsides... first if you use napster, you are out of luck. The only option I have seen to get napster songs onto your iPod is to use a program that records the output of your soundcard. This just takes forever. Personally I don't have a napster subscription but I know some people who do and I know that some colleges (like psu) have subscriptions for all their students.
It also won't play ogg formatted songs. For me this is a biggie. While most of my songs are already in mp3 format, I have been thinking of switching to ogg for my new songs but I guess I will have to wait on that.
I recently got a 60GB iPod photo and I think it rocks! I plan on getting one of the speaker docks to put in the nursery for our new baby and have a playlist of just children's music. I will also always have said music with me in the car and then when I go to work, I don't have to worry about having the car loaded with children's music, I just change the playlist to one of my own. My wife also has an iPod mini so she can use the speaker dock while I'm at work.
Why do you get that impression? "Child pornography" is just the red herring people always trot out when they want to censor speech.
Since when is pornography speech? If freenet really was all about encouraging and supporting open, public debates, limit it to just text and disallow any uuencoded postings. Now everyone's happy, not child porn or anything else that might be construed as hurting someone and all that's left is speech.
The problem is, I don't think that these pornographic materials would really fufill the needs of a pedofile. Odds are, if someone is going looking for child porn, they are also looking for children to partake in their sick perversion. For every child porn picture, someone was exploited. To say that well, they already did it so let's just let them have those pictures is only supporting them to continue taking pictures and exploiting children.
Personally I think the child porn issue is one of the biggest things hurting freenet. Different people have different tolerances for things but child porn is one of those things that very few people tolerate, myself included. I personally don't care what your opinions, views or sexual preferences are. I do draw the line when someone, especially a child, is in any danger.
So what is the solution? I don't know. I certainly agree that a 16 year old boy looking at pictures of a 16 year old girl probably isn't all that harmful, however a 40 year old looking at pictures of a naked 12 year old girl is. How do you differentiate and where do you draw the line? I don't really know but I do know I will not be using freenet if there is any chance that I would be hosting child pornography... that just crosses my own personal line. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution that satisfies everyone but freenet has been around for a while and it's still known as a harbor for child porn.
What happened then? MPAA sued & forced Replay TV to disable this feature. Now, what there's virtually no advancement in DVRs, they now serve nothing more than glorified VCRs.
And hence why I built my own PVR with Mythtv. "But a Tivo is cheaper" were the cries of many detractors. Now who has the last laugh. Sure the commercial detection isn't 100% perfect but it seems to get most of the shows I watch pretty well. Besides, I also have a 30 second (or however long I want) skip button.
Well if JDeveloper is any indication, that won't necessarily be the case. Sure it will probably be easier to use Oracle but I know JDeveloper will allow you to use any Application Server with any database.
I don't think anyone is really picking on him because he opened the device up, I think they are picking on him for opening the device up and puncturing the battery which let off a toxic gas. Duh.... don't mess with the battery... kindof like rule number 1 in taking things apart. Also up there is unplug things before you take them apart, watch out for those capacitors, if something is humming... don't touch it.
But I guess you're right, it's not a natural selection issue, the warning labels must not have been big enough. Maybe we need to make devices talk to you when you open them up and say things like "WARNING, WARNING! DON'T PUNCTURE THE BATTERY!!" Of course that doesn't help if you are deaf then does it? Hmmmm.... well I guess we just need to invent a force field or some other impenetrable casing that we can put things in.
Come on, where does it end? Personally I think we should forget all these safety measures and let the theory of evolution work. If someone wants to take apart their battery, then they should have to deal with the resulting toxic gas.
Also it's not quite analogous to cutting yourself while chopping celery. The toxic gas probably would have killed him if he wasn't taken to the hospital whereas most cuts might render you digitless at worse, they usually don't kill you.
In other news, dumbass inhales Carbon Monoxide, wonders why he now feel really sick.
Hehe.... yeah, I'm gonna trust my $3000+ laptop to a $20 tripod. I don't think so. I might trust my Manfrotto tripod to hold my laptop but it was a little more than $20.
(It's been a while but I think it was about $100 USD when I got it)
That's complete and utter BS... we have AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy to thank for the countless idiots on the internet. It was a natural evolution. Also students who got used to the internet in college also wanted it after they graduated.
Al Gore may have generated a bit of a buzz about the internet in washington but to think that did anything in reality is just silly.
I have to say that your piss water (Fosters) tastes better than our piss water (budweiser).
Because I take your code, something you worked really hard on to get working and all I do is make a nice little GUI for it, something you've been meaning to do for a while but have been busy with other things and haven't gotten around to it. I then claim the entire work as my own and sell it without giving you anything at all, not even my source code modifications.
It is stealing, I'm taking your work and claiming it as my own.
Sure if you mean more portable as in can-only-use-on-windows.... I've had issues getting certain excel "programs" to run on my mac version of excel. Oh, and have fun trying to get it to work on Linux, any of the BSDs or any of the many UNIXes out there.
Perl and Python both have installers for most platforms so assuming you install (perl|python) on the computer you intend to run it on, I'd say it's more portable.
So yes, in an office environment where everyone runs windows XP, then yes.... excel is probably more portable without changing anything. However all a sysadmin would have to do would be to install (perl|python) as part of the default set of programs and now (perl|python) is more portable than excel will ever be.
While excel might be a good thing for someone to write a quick script in (I've been known to do such things in the past), I certainly wouldn't recommend it for anything big because what happens when windows stops supporting your version of excel and that version of VB? (They have been known to do similar things in the past)
People complain about not being able to switch to Linux because program X isn't available for it. Then they go and write all these little programs in excel that they depend on. Excel *IS NOT* more portable than perl, python or Java.