This is one of the dumbest, most henious and dangerous ideas I have ever heard. Every time a nuke is detonated, the result is a dispersion of radioactive material into the environment. The environmental impact of this can be considerably negative. Oil shale mining has already been criticised in altering the hydrography of the environment and erosional and water flow patterns, perhaps causing a permenant change in wildlife habitation patterns and so on for many years to come. We do not need to make this any faster or more destructive than it already is given the amount of damage that is occuring the earths surface and alteration of its landscape, biogeography and so on. This idea belongs in the waste bin where it belongs with other bad, dangerous, ideas which show little concern or sensitivity for the environment and fail to recognise the effect of ecosystem loss, destruction of natural environments and ecosystems, and scenic quality of our planet, things which are of inestimable value. We need to recognise the intrinsic value in the earths environment and scenic beauty as is rather than looking at everything as something to exploit for profit for material greed. We can eat foods grown in the soil but we cant eat cars or oil shale, or food off land polluted by such. Oil shale will be depleted in a few decades anyway but the environmental damage would be permenant, it should not be developed at all. When we destroy or alter the earths landscapes we are stealing the environmental legacy from future generation, an example are people displaced by mines or by dam projects who have lost their homes, land to which they were entitled which were stolen from them. Not enough intrinsic value is placed on the value of the land and environments as is and the people who live in balance on them, and too much on destructive or non sustainable activities that permenantly alter and destroy natural environments, or cause damage and alteration to the earths surface.
The rights of a native people who fish in a river and live off the land in a sustianable way with little impact on it, is more importnat than that of dams and other projects that would destroy the ecosystem which they have lived off of
Whoever made the comment about vegetables is pretty moronic. It makes sense that crabs would feel pain as they have a neurological system. It makes sense vegetables would not as there are no nerves to carry any pain pain signal, or brain to process it.
It is also good advice to bring up the issue with your boss to let them know. OSS is perhaps a good route where possible to replace these programs. It is true, something to keep in mind, that there are other employees who might report it. So bring it up with your boss, but dont call the BSA, software companies, or start talking about it with other people.
ANother poster also mentioned some important information about how to handle the situation if the BSA ever did show up. As they said they have no right to enter the premises dont let them get past the reception desk and let the higher ups know they have no authority to enter the premises and they should be told to leave.
Just ignore it. These commercial programs cost way too much money anyway and the business you work for could probably not afford it. Just ignore it. If you did report something likely their business would be destroyed, they would be ruined, raided, in prison etc. All for just installing a software programs a few times on their computers. Do you really want to be responsible for the ruining of the lives of many other people. Keep your mouth shut.
Actually manufacturers test their drivers, more than Linux kernel developers do. I cant count the times I have had Linux driver problems. Furthermore, allowing for binary drivers does not mean no source drivers. Source drivers can still be developed, but it wont be the only option. More options is better, right?
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. Why would i want to control my TV set with a $100 cell phone? What happens if i want to talk on my cell phone and watch TV at the same time? Do I really want to wear out my cellphones batteries and keypad switching TV channels? NO THANKS. I would rather just use my $10 universal remote instead.
I have long felt that the way things have been planned, IPV6 implementation would never happen, at least not until a catastrophic shortage of IP addresses. Its just the same situation with fossil fuels, no one wants to do anything about it even though someone who does not have their head stuck in the sand can see that in 40 years we will be completely out of oil, but that is another subject. There is a chicken and egg problem with IPV6 addresses, very few clients use IPV6 so no business really needs to support it, but since no websites use IPV6, there is no incentive for users to use it. Instead of making the arrogant assumption that IPV6 conversion would happen universally and spotaneously, we should instead plan on a migration period when IPV4 and IPV6 networks must be able to communicate with each other. This can be done and I have worked out a way to do it.
An ISPs DNS and Routers will work in concert, utilising NAT. When an IPV4 network sends a DNS request to the ISP DNS server, the DNS server may sees it is for an IPV6 address. It contacts the router and reserves a private IPv4 address. The private ipv4 address is returned to the client by the DNS server as the IP address associated wirth the DNS query, the client then sends all packets to the router with that destination ipv4 address, the router translates it using a translation table to the real IPv6 address and sends it to the real ipv6 address. This way IPv4 hosts can contact IPv6 hosts. A tld should be reserved called.ipv6. This allows ipv4 clients to access ipv6 hosts by sending a DNS request to for a DNS address in the form.ipv6, which completes the above process using a private address locally for the ipv4 client. The private address space can be reused for each client, the router using the MAC address to differentiate between packets from different clients.
I have often heard Linux developers actually say they did not want to make system easy to use or make things preconfigured or work out of the box because they thought all Linux users should learn how to edit 20 file formats just to use to the OS. They think everyone can write shell scripts and edit configuration files as they can. Of course its unreasonable to expect grandma to do these things. Its like saying a person should know how to assemble a car engine if they are to drive a car. Taking that analogy further, we also want to make it easy to get into the engine so that he mechanics can easily fix a car when there is something wrong with it. Same for Linux, it needs to be both expert and user friendly. The expert should be able to easily get under the hood but the user should be able to use it without doing so. Things like installing a hardware device and hardware are things users need to be able to do as easily as they are done on Windows. I have worked with getting hardware to work on Linux and software. Getting a third party app to work is a huge disaster as there is almost always a dozen libraries which are avialable on the system but cant be found by the app. Drivers, which did not ship with the distribution, often have to be compiled against kernel files which also creates a huge mess trying to get the driver and the kernel files to connect properly. If a manufacturer ships a binary driver with hardware (which is often the only thing they can do because some driver code is licenced from other companies, or they are paranoid about their IP), they often must ship too many versions, one for each major kernel revision, often different ones for different distributions, because of the shifting ABI. In other words, a mess. I have also heard Linux developers ssay they have made it intentionally hard to make a binary driver for Linux. It is very naive to assume that all hardware manufacturers will open source their drivers just to support Linux. I support open source but we also need to be pragmatic. Supporting binary drivers might not be to the liking of an open souce purist, but, it will actually lead to massively increased adoption of Linux. The net result is more open source code will be run by more users. By tolerating some binary drivers we can get an open source Linux OS installed onto many more desktops. This will generate more revenue for Linux development efforts and allow more work to be done on writing open source drivers. The result will be an increase in open source driver availability over what we would see without binary drivers. Allowing binary drivers would actually help open source and not allowing it hurts open source. Furthermore binary drivers would also allow the communications between the driver and Linux to be monitored, making it easier to back engineer hardware interfaces.
No stable driver ABI, this makes it hard to support a hardware device on older installations of Linux for a hardware device released after that Linux was installed. A new hardware device should not trigger a complete system upgrade of a system that is only 6 months of a year old, but on Linux it can.
Solaris and Linux are hopeless as far as providing a windows alternative. As far as a realistic alternative to Windows, Linux wouldnt know how to do it if it hit them in the head. For Linux to really be a viable Windows alternative it is vital that it makes it easy for binary only drivers and apps to be made for Linux and to provide stable driver ABIs. Linux has to stop being so arrogant in assuming everything they use will come with a distro, and realise that real users will want to use third party software and drivers. They also have to assume that a user may want to choose between using different drivers and will need to be easily be able to choose a manufacturer supplied driver. basically the user has to be able to throw in a disc, click install and have the hardware or software work. Gnome meanwhile have entirely the wrong idea about what makes software useable. I dont know where they got the idea that making software rigid, inflexible and feature sparse makes it more useable, but it doesnt. Gnome is an inflexible memory hogging disaster that has only gotten worse. The idea of good design is to make software configurable and flexible as possible, but place lesser used features in advanced screens. useability is all in layout, not in number of features. Software should work out of the box with reasonable defaults with no configuration but user should be able to fine tune them if they wish. This allows users as little or as much control as they need and allows them to grow into the software.
Interacting with this is the fact that without AMD, Intel will have a monopoly and is using patents to maintain an unhealthy anticompetitive position. Really patent law should be modified to be require non discriminative licencing of the patent under reasonable terms to encourage competition in the market. I am surprised that the ISA is patentable at all, there is nothing at all innovative about it. Its really just an implementation of technology that has already been around for a while, just a reimplementation of an existing idea. ISAs like x86 have been implemented dozens of times. its not unique. Its like FAT, the idea is natural, its like patenting a fork.
The idea that GlobalFoundry does not have the licence rightly is mute anyway. Basically foundry is a piece of AMD that has broken off, the spirit of AMD lives in it, its different than if AMD has transferred the patent to a completely different company. GLobalFoundry is basically a broken off part of AMD and therefore rightly inherits the patent.
First of all, AMDs foundry probably is considered to have inherited the licence so I dont know if Intels claims really hold up.
Its been a long time since the chip architecture and schematic of AMDs chips have been directly based on Intels, if they ever have been. The only thing they share is the instruction set. Instruction sets are basically a language or communication protocol and these should not be copyrightable, just as someone could not copyright HTML, IM protocols or English. Only an implementation of software of these can be copyrighted not the language itself.
In my opinion, AMD does not need any licence to implement the ISA in the first place, just as a licence is not required to implement an SQL server or a computer language. Languages are simply not copywritable.
There is a noticeable difference between $5 and $40 headphones, for certain. I would rather spend more money on the radio which has a more sensitive receiver and better antenna than headphone, since i like to pick up distant stations and listen to shortwave. I do have great doubts if i could however notice the difference between $40 and $1500 headphones.
It seems like connectors fail on all headphones from $1500 pairs to $5 pairs. I dont spend anything more than $5 on headphones because i know the connector will fail. Often times its the wire, connector or jack. It seems as though some sort of short develops. Its probably due to the fragile design of the cable and the headphone plugs and jacks.
Its really interesting how people seem to find the USA so dull and boring, they anticipate being able to go to some european city that has real culture and beauty. It says a lot about our country. Indeed, i do not think endless wal-marts and mcdonalds is nice at all. Most of the USA is a so greedy and materialistic that we have placed no value on natural beauty or art and thus we have cities which are bland, dull, homogeneous wastelands of corporate stores and outlets with little uniqueness or unique flavour. This is what you have a society which is basically centered entirely on making money and individual self gratification, no concern for the quality of our communities. Even americans in many cities I have been are just rude compared with Europeans, who are always having parties with their neighbours. In the USA you are strange if you invite your neighbours over. I have been to other countries, such as Austria, the natural beauty is just stunning, and the people there actually seem to care about it and preserving it, and they care about how their cities look, the cities themselves are a work of art!
Whoever said graphics on a web page is not content? Whoever said that the beautiful graphics intensive web pages today are not a form art? Is the only form of content is text? No! Is telling an artist they can only use a pencil and are not allowed to use any colours at all in their work reasonable limitations on an artist? No. Using colour, paint and so on gives you more capability that allows you to create even more exquisite content. The greater graphics capability of flash, and hopefully soon open spec web environment equivalents, allows one to portray and create art not possible with text.
I doubt gopher would have met the needs of the internet as well as the web, and would have been sufficient. The combination of HTTP and HTML has been proven to be enormously successful. Gopher would have needed some major work to make it as flexible as HTML. Web would have probably have replaced Gopher in any case. The design of the web is more practical and better thought out than gopher.
Quite frankly, support for protocols and languages is more important than a 1 second change in speed. One of the reason the Flash plague has become so common is that the web environment has not kept up with the needs of web developers. SVG has come long after the need for such arose. There is still a lack however of advanced graphics programming. If web developers dont get what they need from the open spec AJAX environment, they will use a proprietary Flash plugin.
Dont you think that never lying is going a bit too far? Let's say you are living back in Europe in ww2. You have decided to help save some jews from the nazis. One day the nazis show up at your door. Do you be really good and honest like a good person and tell the Nazis the truth, that the jews are in the back. Or do you lie, and tell them that no, you have not seen any jews around and dont know what they are talking about? So at times, lying can save lives.
Actually while Windows certainly does have its problems, from a useability standpoint it actually is better. Linux i am sorry to say is a disaster and while it may be open source, the OS is simply a pathetic mess for this, and it only has itself to blame for this. On windows, you can run out and buy a new hardware or software, bring it home, throw in the install disk, click install, and your done. With Linux it is rarely so easy. hen Linux developers make everything worse by thinking that less features make it easier to use, which the opposite is true. They are not fixing the real problem, which is not flexibility, but software should come with reasonable defaults, and everything should be able to be accomplished in GUI and CLI. Software can thus be made to work the way the user wants to use it, if a user does not want to hassle with configuring it they dont have to, if they want to configure it they may, The idea as well is that useability at GUI level is in layout, not sparse features. There should be a lot of flexibility but less used features placed in advanced screens. Gnome and KDE are mostly useless for those who need real features and flexibility and are not any better as far as useability as they were 10 years ago.
Another are where Linux has messed up is not properly documented kernel driver APIs and ABIs, not providing a stable software and driver ABI, and assuming that the user will not use any third party software or drivers that are not installed by a distros packaging system. It also assumes that a user will always use a single driver that comes with the OS and will never need to be able to unload and load different drivers easily. The situation with libraries is also a huge mess that makes the windows dll hell of past times seem minor.
I have always liked CD better than FM, Tape or LP. I find the broader range of frequencies that a CD could convey added more depth than the more compressed nature of the other formats. So having music on a CD was definitely preferable and provided a more enjoyable listening experience for me. When CDs came along it was better than the tapes and FM radio i had been listening to. MP3 have never liked, again, I feel that it seems to flat or distorted somehow, its a little bit of a regression from CDs, like going back to tapes.
Ive always preferred CDs. More than tapes or LPs or FM, which we had prior to the 90s. When CDs came along the quality of the audio was impressive and much better than previous technologies. When MP3 came along, it was like going back to tapes with all the artifacts. I do not like the sound of MP3s, it seems distorted to me.
if you wish to spend five times as long designing a web page than maybe gimp and vi is good for you. For those who need a faster workflow Dreamweaver is wonderful. Gimp is really inadequate and lacks many of the important features one needs. Its not as convenient. If you are making little personal webpages for yourself your vi is okay. But for big time commercial development when you have deadlines, and time is money, dreamweaver streamlines the process. Sure, I know HTML, Javascript, CSS, like the back of my hand. yet do everything in these languages directly would just waste more of time. To design the graphics that meets todays high standards of quality that customers expect and to do it in timely manner you really need good quality graphics packages. Why waste my time trying to hand edit code when a GUI is faster. This is especially true with commercial websites. Visual elements make a huge impact on customers and a well designed website does create customer confidence, making a company look more reliable, larger, etc. Most people like the eye candy and the main reason dreamweaver and flash do so well is because of that, and and mainline webstandards have failed to keep up the pace with flash.
Actually it has gotten easier to hijack BGP and DNS and these vulnerabilities have been recently shown. So the network protecting itself from these attacks has grown more important. For instance, Pakistan and its global youtube reroute.
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I admire the internet for its democratic approach which allows for free expression and creation of content, sharing of ideas among all people. It is the first true realisation of free speech. I do think there will still be a place for movies and shows and so on, but this will be more driven by writers of these and directors rather than large corporations marketing departments. And I say, good riddance to those who have given us britney spears and endless remakes of old movies rather than something new, and waht is new is unimaginative. I do see DVD and physical media remaining a major method of content distribution simply due to the fact that movies still take 4-40 GB. Internet connections are not really up to that yet. And as well, even when i download them, just a few movies fill up a $100 HD so i still need to burn them onto DVD anyway, and a DVD which will not last as long as a commercially pressed one. So this idea that DVDs are not a good distribution method still are a little misguided.
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This is one of the dumbest, most henious and dangerous ideas I have ever heard. Every time a nuke is detonated, the result is a dispersion of radioactive material into the environment. The environmental impact of this can be considerably negative. Oil shale mining has already been criticised in altering the hydrography of the environment and erosional and water flow patterns, perhaps causing a permenant change in wildlife habitation patterns and so on for many years to come. We do not need to make this any faster or more destructive than it already is given the amount of damage that is occuring the earths surface and alteration of its landscape, biogeography and so on. This idea belongs in the waste bin where it belongs with other bad, dangerous, ideas which show little concern or sensitivity for the environment and fail to recognise the effect of ecosystem loss, destruction of natural environments and ecosystems, and scenic quality of our planet, things which are of inestimable value. We need to recognise the intrinsic value in the earths environment and scenic beauty as is rather than looking at everything as something to exploit for profit for material greed. We can eat foods grown in the soil but we cant eat cars or oil shale, or food off land polluted by such. Oil shale will be depleted in a few decades anyway but the environmental damage would be permenant, it should not be developed at all. When we destroy or alter the earths landscapes we are stealing the environmental legacy from future generation, an example are people displaced by mines or by dam projects who have lost their homes, land to which they were entitled which were stolen from them. Not enough intrinsic value is placed on the value of the land and environments as is and the people who live in balance on them, and too much on destructive or non sustainable activities that permenantly alter and destroy natural environments, or cause damage and alteration to the earths surface.
The rights of a native people who fish in a river and live off the land in a sustianable way with little impact on it, is more importnat than that of dams and other projects that would destroy the ecosystem which they have lived off of
Whoever made the comment about vegetables is pretty moronic. It makes sense that crabs would feel pain as they have a neurological system. It makes sense vegetables would not as there are no nerves to carry any pain pain signal, or brain to process it.
It is also good advice to bring up the issue with your boss to let them know. OSS is perhaps a good route where possible to replace these programs. It is true, something to keep in mind, that there are other employees who might report it. So bring it up with your boss, but dont call the BSA, software companies, or start talking about it with other people.
ANother poster also mentioned some important information about how to handle the situation if the BSA ever did show up. As they said they have no right to enter the premises dont let them get past the reception desk and let the higher ups know they have no authority to enter the premises and they should be told to leave.
Just ignore it. These commercial programs cost way too much money anyway and the business you work for could probably not afford it. Just ignore it. If you did report something likely their business would be destroyed, they would be ruined, raided, in prison etc. All for just installing a software programs a few times on their computers. Do you really want to be responsible for the ruining of the lives of many other people. Keep your mouth shut.
Actually manufacturers test their drivers, more than Linux kernel developers do. I cant count the times I have had Linux driver problems. Furthermore, allowing for binary drivers does not mean no source drivers. Source drivers can still be developed, but it wont be the only option. More options is better, right?
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. Why would i want to control my TV set with a $100 cell phone? What happens if i want to talk on my cell phone and watch TV at the same time? Do I really want to wear out my cellphones batteries and keypad switching TV channels? NO THANKS. I would rather just use my $10 universal remote instead.
I have long felt that the way things have been planned, IPV6 implementation would never happen, at least not until a catastrophic shortage of IP addresses. Its just the same situation with fossil fuels, no one wants to do anything about it even though someone who does not have their head stuck in the sand can see that in 40 years we will be completely out of oil, but that is another subject. There is a chicken and egg problem with IPV6 addresses, very few clients use IPV6 so no business really needs to support it, but since no websites use IPV6, there is no incentive for users to use it. Instead of making the arrogant assumption that IPV6 conversion would happen universally and spotaneously, we should instead plan on a migration period when IPV4 and IPV6 networks must be able to communicate with each other. This can be done and I have worked out a way to do it.
An ISPs DNS and Routers will work in concert, utilising NAT. When an IPV4 network sends a DNS request to the ISP DNS server, the DNS server may sees it is for an IPV6 address. It contacts the router and reserves a private IPv4 address. The private ipv4 address is returned to the client by the DNS server as the IP address associated wirth the DNS query, the client then sends all packets to the router with that destination ipv4 address, the router translates it using a translation table to the real IPv6 address and sends it to the real ipv6 address. This way IPv4 hosts can contact IPv6 hosts. A tld should be reserved called .ipv6. This allows ipv4 clients to access ipv6 hosts by sending a DNS request to for a DNS address in the form .ipv6, which completes the above process using a private address locally for the ipv4 client. The private address space can be reused for each client, the router using the MAC address to differentiate between packets from different clients.
I have often heard Linux developers actually say they did not want to make system easy to use or make things preconfigured or work out of the box because they thought all Linux users should learn how to edit 20 file formats just to use to the OS. They think everyone can write shell scripts and edit configuration files as they can. Of course its unreasonable to expect grandma to do these things. Its like saying a person should know how to assemble a car engine if they are to drive a car. Taking that analogy further, we also want to make it easy to get into the engine so that he mechanics can easily fix a car when there is something wrong with it. Same for Linux, it needs to be both expert and user friendly. The expert should be able to easily get under the hood but the user should be able to use it without doing so. Things like installing a hardware device and hardware are things users need to be able to do as easily as they are done on Windows. I have worked with getting hardware to work on Linux and software. Getting a third party app to work is a huge disaster as there is almost always a dozen libraries which are avialable on the system but cant be found by the app. Drivers, which did not ship with the distribution, often have to be compiled against kernel files which also creates a huge mess trying to get the driver and the kernel files to connect properly. If a manufacturer ships a binary driver with hardware (which is often the only thing they can do because some driver code is licenced from other companies, or they are paranoid about their IP), they often must ship too many versions, one for each major kernel revision, often different ones for different distributions, because of the shifting ABI. In other words, a mess. I have also heard Linux developers ssay they have made it intentionally hard to make a binary driver for Linux. It is very naive to assume that all hardware manufacturers will open source their drivers just to support Linux. I support open source but we also need to be pragmatic. Supporting binary drivers might not be to the liking of an open souce purist, but, it will actually lead to massively increased adoption of Linux. The net result is more open source code will be run by more users. By tolerating some binary drivers we can get an open source Linux OS installed onto many more desktops. This will generate more revenue for Linux development efforts and allow more work to be done on writing open source drivers. The result will be an increase in open source driver availability over what we would see without binary drivers. Allowing binary drivers would actually help open source and not allowing it hurts open source. Furthermore binary drivers would also allow the communications between the driver and Linux to be monitored, making it easier to back engineer hardware interfaces.
No stable driver ABI, this makes it hard to support a hardware device on older installations of Linux for a hardware device released after that Linux was installed. A new hardware device should not trigger a complete system upgrade of a system that is only 6 months of a year old, but on Linux it can.
Solaris and Linux are hopeless as far as providing a windows alternative. As far as a realistic alternative to Windows, Linux wouldnt know how to do it if it hit them in the head. For Linux to really be a viable Windows alternative it is vital that it makes it easy for binary only drivers and apps to be made for Linux and to provide stable driver ABIs. Linux has to stop being so arrogant in assuming everything they use will come with a distro, and realise that real users will want to use third party software and drivers. They also have to assume that a user may want to choose between using different drivers and will need to be easily be able to choose a manufacturer supplied driver. basically the user has to be able to throw in a disc, click install and have the hardware or software work. Gnome meanwhile have entirely the wrong idea about what makes software useable. I dont know where they got the idea that making software rigid, inflexible and feature sparse makes it more useable, but it doesnt. Gnome is an inflexible memory hogging disaster that has only gotten worse. The idea of good design is to make software configurable and flexible as possible, but place lesser used features in advanced screens. useability is all in layout, not in number of features. Software should work out of the box with reasonable defaults with no configuration but user should be able to fine tune them if they wish. This allows users as little or as much control as they need and allows them to grow into the software.
Interacting with this is the fact that without AMD, Intel will have a monopoly and is using patents to maintain an unhealthy anticompetitive position. Really patent law should be modified to be require non discriminative licencing of the patent under reasonable terms to encourage competition in the market. I am surprised that the ISA is patentable at all, there is nothing at all innovative about it. Its really just an implementation of technology that has already been around for a while, just a reimplementation of an existing idea. ISAs like x86 have been implemented dozens of times. its not unique. Its like FAT, the idea is natural, its like patenting a fork.
The idea that GlobalFoundry does not have the licence rightly is mute anyway. Basically foundry is a piece of AMD that has broken off, the spirit of AMD lives in it, its different than if AMD has transferred the patent to a completely different company. GLobalFoundry is basically a broken off part of AMD and therefore rightly inherits the patent.
First of all, AMDs foundry probably is considered to have inherited the licence so I dont know if Intels claims really hold up.
Its been a long time since the chip architecture and schematic of AMDs chips have been directly based on Intels, if they ever have been. The only thing they share is the instruction set. Instruction sets are basically a language or communication protocol and these should not be copyrightable, just as someone could not copyright HTML, IM protocols or English. Only an implementation of software of these can be copyrighted not the language itself.
In my opinion, AMD does not need any licence to implement the ISA in the first place, just as a licence is not required to implement an SQL server or a computer language. Languages are simply not copywritable.
There is a noticeable difference between $5 and $40 headphones, for certain. I would rather spend more money on the radio which has a more sensitive receiver and better antenna than headphone, since i like to pick up distant stations and listen to shortwave. I do have great doubts if i could however notice the difference between $40 and $1500 headphones.
It seems like connectors fail on all headphones from $1500 pairs to $5 pairs. I dont spend anything more than $5 on headphones because i know the connector will fail. Often times its the wire, connector or jack. It seems as though some sort of short develops. Its probably due to the fragile design of the cable and the headphone plugs and jacks.
Its really interesting how people seem to find the USA so dull and boring, they anticipate being able to go to some european city that has real culture and beauty. It says a lot about our country. Indeed, i do not think endless wal-marts and mcdonalds is nice at all. Most of the USA is a so greedy and materialistic that we have placed no value on natural beauty or art and thus we have cities which are bland, dull, homogeneous wastelands of corporate stores and outlets with little uniqueness or unique flavour. This is what you have a society which is basically centered entirely on making money and individual self gratification, no concern for the quality of our communities. Even americans in many cities I have been are just rude compared with Europeans, who are always having parties with their neighbours. In the USA you are strange if you invite your neighbours over. I have been to other countries, such as Austria, the natural beauty is just stunning, and the people there actually seem to care about it and preserving it, and they care about how their cities look, the cities themselves are a work of art!
Whoever said graphics on a web page is not content? Whoever said that the beautiful graphics intensive web pages today are not a form art? Is the only form of content is text? No! Is telling an artist they can only use a pencil and are not allowed to use any colours at all in their work reasonable limitations on an artist? No. Using colour, paint and so on gives you more capability that allows you to create even more exquisite content. The greater graphics capability of flash, and hopefully soon open spec web environment equivalents, allows one to portray and create art not possible with text.
I doubt gopher would have met the needs of the internet as well as the web, and would have been sufficient. The combination of HTTP and HTML has been proven to be enormously successful. Gopher would have needed some major work to make it as flexible as HTML. Web would have probably have replaced Gopher in any case. The design of the web is more practical and better thought out than gopher.
Quite frankly, support for protocols and languages is more important than a 1 second change in speed. One of the reason the Flash plague has become so common is that the web environment has not kept up with the needs of web developers. SVG has come long after the need for such arose. There is still a lack however of advanced graphics programming. If web developers dont get what they need from the open spec AJAX environment, they will use a proprietary Flash plugin.
Dont you think that never lying is going a bit too far? Let's say you are living back in Europe in ww2. You have decided to help save some jews from the nazis. One day the nazis show up at your door. Do you be really good and honest like a good person and tell the Nazis the truth, that the jews are in the back. Or do you lie, and tell them that no, you have not seen any jews around and dont know what they are talking about? So at times, lying can save lives.
Actually while Windows certainly does have its problems, from a useability standpoint it actually is better. Linux i am sorry to say is a disaster and while it may be open source, the OS is simply a pathetic mess for this, and it only has itself to blame for this. On windows, you can run out and buy a new hardware or software, bring it home, throw in the install disk, click install, and your done. With Linux it is rarely so easy. hen Linux developers make everything worse by thinking that less features make it easier to use, which the opposite is true. They are not fixing the real problem, which is not flexibility, but software should come with reasonable defaults, and everything should be able to be accomplished in GUI and CLI. Software can thus be made to work the way the user wants to use it, if a user does not want to hassle with configuring it they dont have to, if they want to configure it they may, The idea as well is that useability at GUI level is in layout, not sparse features. There should be a lot of flexibility but less used features placed in advanced screens. Gnome and KDE are mostly useless for those who need real features and flexibility and are not any better as far as useability as they were 10 years ago.
Another are where Linux has messed up is not properly documented kernel driver APIs and ABIs, not providing a stable software and driver ABI, and assuming that the user will not use any third party software or drivers that are not installed by a distros packaging system. It also assumes that a user will always use a single driver that comes with the OS and will never need to be able to unload and load different drivers easily. The situation with libraries is also a huge mess that makes the windows dll hell of past times seem minor.
I have always liked CD better than FM, Tape or LP. I find the broader range of frequencies that a CD could convey added more depth than the more compressed nature of the other formats. So having music on a CD was definitely preferable and provided a more enjoyable listening experience for me. When CDs came along it was better than the tapes and FM radio i had been listening to. MP3 have never liked, again, I feel that it seems to flat or distorted somehow, its a little bit of a regression from CDs, like going back to tapes.
Ive always preferred CDs. More than tapes or LPs or FM, which we had prior to the 90s. When CDs came along the quality of the audio was impressive and much better than previous technologies. When MP3 came along, it was like going back to tapes with all the artifacts. I do not like the sound of MP3s, it seems distorted to me.
if you wish to spend five times as long designing a web page than maybe gimp and vi is good for you. For those who need a faster workflow Dreamweaver is wonderful. Gimp is really inadequate and lacks many of the important features one needs. Its not as convenient. If you are making little personal webpages for yourself your vi is okay. But for big time commercial development when you have deadlines, and time is money, dreamweaver streamlines the process. Sure, I know HTML, Javascript, CSS, like the back of my hand. yet do everything in these languages directly would just waste more of time. To design the graphics that meets todays high standards of quality that customers expect and to do it in timely manner you really need good quality graphics packages. Why waste my time trying to hand edit code when a GUI is faster. This is especially true with commercial websites. Visual elements make a huge impact on customers and a well designed website does create customer confidence, making a company look more reliable, larger, etc. Most people like the eye candy and the main reason dreamweaver and flash do so well is because of that, and and mainline webstandards have failed to keep up the pace with flash.
Actually it has gotten easier to hijack BGP and DNS and these vulnerabilities have been recently shown. So the network protecting itself from these attacks has grown more important. For instance, Pakistan and its global youtube reroute.
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I admire the internet for its democratic approach which allows for free expression and creation of content, sharing of ideas among all people. It is the first true realisation of free speech. I do think there will still be a place for movies and shows and so on, but this will be more driven by writers of these and directors rather than large corporations marketing departments. And I say, good riddance to those who have given us britney spears and endless remakes of old movies rather than something new, and waht is new is unimaginative. I do see DVD and physical media remaining a major method of content distribution simply due to the fact that movies still take 4-40 GB. Internet connections are not really up to that yet. And as well, even when i download them, just a few movies fill up a $100 HD so i still need to burn them onto DVD anyway, and a DVD which will not last as long as a commercially pressed one. So this idea that DVDs are not a good distribution method still are a little misguided.
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