Your decline won't end in a nice environmentally sustainable hippydom either.
Do you mean the factory jobs in China where people find it more beneficial to commit suicide than earn the wages? I don't think I'll miss them.
Or do you mean the jobs in China where people pull apart old motherboards and burn the pieces in the open air to extract the precious metal? I guess you need those jobs for environment.
so the minority decides issues, and then the majority wakes up the next morning and goes "what happened?" example, gay rights: the social conservatives will come out in force and drown out the gay votes, and even though the majority is in favor of gay rights, they simply won't get off their asses and do the right thing and vote for what is right because their own selfish interests are not immediately and obviously threatened. again, a problem, not a fatal one, but a real problem with virtual democracy
Well, "gay rights" encompasses a lot of things. When this gets narrowed down to just one issue, say for example, "gay marriage," you might find that the majority does not agree with you. For example, an article today about Hawaii's governor vetoing "gay civil unions," while it sort of supports your point about politicians being in the way, also reports, "Nationwide, voters have consistently rejected same-sex marriage. Five states -- Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage, through judicial or legislative actions."(See, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100707/pl_nm/us_hawaii_gaymarriage )
So, in a state where the population has voted against gay marriage, but the judiciary has permitted it, is it the majority or the minority who is establishing the law over the objections of the other? How would the virtual representative have voted? I don't think that the "majority" is always as "progressive" as people imagine.
I've seen a lot of comments around the Internet insinuating that if you hate the sound of vuvuzelas, then you're a colonial racist who hates South African culture.
The funny thing is that the vuvuzelas are a recent introduction into South African culture. They are not only post-Colonial, they are post-Apartheid.
Additionally, there's the blaringly obvious notion that the vuvuzela looks nothing like the kudu horn it allegedly comes from and looks everything like a cheap rip-off of the sort of long thin horns you see draped with flags playing fanfares when kings enter in films set in the middle ages, but I suppose it's expecting a lot for everyone to think critically. Last time I checked, kudu horns didn't have embouchures, either, which is what allows the plastic horn blowers to last all game.
Ryan goes on to say "Setting up a decent system for controlling your privacy on a web service shouldn't be hard.". I'd disagree. It's tremendously difficult. Creating interfaces and a data model for managing these settings is very difficult. Implementing it is a pain as well. From a coder perspective, I find this kind of work the least rewarding around. And Ryan actually admits to this saying "the whole system is maddeningly complex.". I rather think Facebook did a decent job with the current set of options.
Perhaps it is complex to implement all these controls. That seems like a red herring when people are complaining about previously working privacy settings being removed or changed. It wasn't too difficult to have those settings in 2005.
The problem for many people is that Facebook keeps removing controls that were previously implemented. The history of Facebook is not one of saying, "Gee, we wish we could implement all these privacy settings you'd like"; it is one of saying, "Gee, you're not really going to miss those privacy settings we are removing, are you?"
Ambrosia's FAQ says: "Hector is there to remind you that Escape Velocity is a shareware product. You have 30 days to try Escape Velocity before registering. Hector keeps track of the days and can become a nuisance when the trial period expires."
It sounds a lot like a simpler form of what Sony patented, as the previous poster wrote. I guess Sony does not look at Mac (and some Windows) shareware authors when it does searches for prior art. It's a shame, because shareware can innovate, too.
their greed feeds off the greed of the PKD silverspoons.
I think that if you'd bother to read about his life you'll find that PKD kids were not "silver spoons." In his lifetime, Dick won awards but was plagued by financial difficulties. Only one film based on a work of his was ever greenlighted during his lifetime, and he died four months before it was released. The financial success of PKD works is all post-mortem, and is largely the result of his estate successfully licensing his works as his works have become marketable later on.
In other words, the heirs you criticize were not born with silver spoons in their mouths; they were born to a writer who was unknown outside of the science fiction community, who hadn't had mainstream success, and took loans from other writers just to get by. His children did not grow up in wealth, living off a successful, creative father who sent them to boarding school, etc. It is because there have been films since Blade Runner, that the works of PKD have enjoyed success outside of the pages of science fiction magazines.
This doesn't make the PKD heirs' lawsuit right in this case, but you can't put them in the same boat as say the heirs of the Walt and Roy O. Disney, both of whom were ridiculously financially successful within their own lifetime and were able to pass on that fortune to their children, such as the late Roy E. Disney.
Honestly, I get sick of this attitude from developers when someone suggests a useful feature - "why would you need that?" That's why Linux will always by a system "by programmers, for programmers.
You don't need to know Morris code any more, but you do need to study up on radio & electronic theory. Radio shack used to sell the Ham license study guides, but I don't know if they have them any more.
Morris code, would that be the way that Morris Dancers signal each other?
John Fogerty had been the lead singer of and primary songwriter for the band Creedence Clearwater Revival ("CCR"). The record label for CCR was Fantasy Records. When Fogerty started his solo career, Fantasy Records sued him, saying that his song "The Old Man Down the Road" was simply a rewrite of his CCR song "Run Through the Jungle."
As I recall Fogerty's argument at trial (which he won) was basically that he always wrote in the same basic style and there were bound to be similarities. There was a second lawsuit for a song on the album that seemed to reference the head of Fantasy Records, Saul Zaentz ("'Zanz Kant Dance'" but he'll steal your money.").
Anyway, the case went all the way to the US Supreme Court (Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517 (1994)) on the issue of granting Fogerty attorney's fees. See http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1750.ZO.html .
For the Brits here, Foosball is table football. No idea why it's called that over there. Maybe from the German, Fußball?
"Foosball" does come from the German word. The game increased in popularity in the USA in the wake of WWII, although the first American patent dates to 1901. One helpful article to read is http://www.foosball.com/learn/knowledge/chp1hist.html from the book The Complete Book Of Foosball (Lott & Brainard, 1980)
I've never heard an exact explanation for why Foosball (or just Foos) specifically caught on as a name. Maybe "table soccer" is just too awkward. Obviously, Americans couldn't call it "table football," since football is a different sport there.
Americans don't "leave out" the 'u' in 'colour'. Americans simply don't know it is supposed to be there in the first place. The agnorant "leave out" theory is nothing more than a primitive way to cover up their embarrassment when they finally discover that it is actually spelled with 'u'.
I think Americans will be better off not taking spelling lessons from someone who cannot properly spell ignorant.
The fact that the discussion did not take place in English but in German, French and Italian does not mean that it did not take place at all. Once again, the Romansh-speaking portion of Switzerland is left out of the loop.
NIN was late to the game. Peter Gabriel put out two CD-ROMs in the mid-90s that allowed for remixing of his tracks. Even before that, I remember that when The Shaman released the CD-single for their "Move Any Mountain" track, it included all of the tracks and samples that made up the recording.
While the German car industry has come up with fuel injection, ABS braking and constant four wheel drive over the past 20 years the US industry has invented the cupholder and the SUV.
The Germans invented Electronic Fuel injection more than 50 years ago. It's more than a little unfair to credit the German industry with a 50 year spread and limit the US industry to the past 20 years. I guess you don't want to count the catalytic converter.
If these students had truly critical minds they would be more like these so-called "radical" professors. They would be more interested in undermining authority...
Teachers are authority figures. These students are interested in undermining them. Therefore, these students have truly critical minds.
The previous commentor name-checked Jesus and his teachings. I'm pretty sure that his words aren't in the Old Testament. If I'm wrong, I'd love to see you tell that to my Jewish friends.
You don't make any sense. You say the UN is not finished with its new regulations, and then cite current European cars as evidence as the UN being far ahead. What do current models have to do with rules for future models? I guess you guys need better lights, since your automobile emissions standards have lagged behind the US for decades.
Well, they aren't parodying the seal, are they? They are parodying the president and then using an unmodified seal.
I wonder how well The Onion's lawyers would take it if I parodied their site, but used an exact copy of their Registered Trademark "The ONION" to do it? Would they let their trademark be diluted or would they ask me to satirize it as "the UNYUN" or something?
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most employment...
...has been shipped to China.
Thanks for playing, USA.
Your decline won't end in a nice environmentally sustainable hippydom either.
Do you mean the factory jobs in China where people find it more beneficial to commit suicide than earn the wages? I don't think I'll miss them.
Or do you mean the jobs in China where people pull apart old motherboards and burn the pieces in the open air to extract the precious metal? I guess you need those jobs for environment.
if you truly have the stomach of a klingon, we also have Fosters.
If they truly have the stomach of a Klingon, I'll expect them to enjoy Vegemite crumpets.
so the minority decides issues, and then the majority wakes up the next morning and goes "what happened?" example, gay rights: the social conservatives will come out in force and drown out the gay votes, and even though the majority is in favor of gay rights, they simply won't get off their asses and do the right thing and vote for what is right because their own selfish interests are not immediately and obviously threatened. again, a problem, not a fatal one, but a real problem with virtual democracy
Well, "gay rights" encompasses a lot of things. When this gets narrowed down to just one issue, say for example, "gay marriage," you might find that the majority does not agree with you. For example, an article today about Hawaii's governor vetoing "gay civil unions," while it sort of supports your point about politicians being in the way, also reports, "Nationwide, voters have consistently rejected same-sex marriage. Five states -- Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont -- and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage, through judicial or legislative actions."(See, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100707/pl_nm/us_hawaii_gaymarriage )
So, in a state where the population has voted against gay marriage, but the judiciary has permitted it, is it the majority or the minority who is establishing the law over the objections of the other? How would the virtual representative have voted? I don't think that the "majority" is always as "progressive" as people imagine.
An earlier poster wrote:
I've seen a lot of comments around the Internet insinuating that if you hate the sound of vuvuzelas, then you're a colonial racist who hates South African culture.
The funny thing is that the vuvuzelas are a recent introduction into South African culture. They are not only post-Colonial, they are post-Apartheid.
The maker of the horns admits that the prototype came from the USA... http://www.boogieblast.co.za/vuvuzela.htm
and this has been known in wider soccer circles for at least a year... http://www.footballiscominghome.net/the-hosts/the-vuvuzela/
and while the plastic horns have been around since the late 90s in South Africa... http://www.southafrica.info/2010/vuvuzela.htm
the current mass-producer only started up in 2001... http://www.vuvuzelas.com/about.html
Additionally, there's the blaringly obvious notion that the vuvuzela looks nothing like the kudu horn it allegedly comes from and looks everything like a cheap rip-off of the sort of long thin horns you see draped with flags playing fanfares when kings enter in films set in the middle ages, but I suppose it's expecting a lot for everyone to think critically. Last time I checked, kudu horns didn't have embouchures, either, which is what allows the plastic horn blowers to last all game.
I'm going to start calling myself slashdot now.
OK, but now if I ever agree with one of your posts I'm going to have to say "I agree with Slashdot", and that alone will put me right.back.in.therapy
You think you have problems? What if this becomes a trend? How will I stand out anymore?
I'm going to start calling myself slashdot now.
I request that you take steps to distinguish yourself from my prior art!
Ryan goes on to say "Setting up a decent system for controlling your privacy on a web service shouldn't be hard.". I'd disagree. It's tremendously difficult. Creating interfaces and a data model for managing these settings is very difficult. Implementing it is a pain as well. From a coder perspective, I find this kind of work the least rewarding around. And Ryan actually admits to this saying "the whole system is maddeningly complex.". I rather think Facebook did a decent job with the current set of options.
Perhaps it is complex to implement all these controls. That seems like a red herring when people are complaining about previously working privacy settings being removed or changed. It wasn't too difficult to have those settings in 2005.
The problem for many people is that Facebook keeps removing controls that were previously implemented. The history of Facebook is not one of saying, "Gee, we wish we could implement all these privacy settings you'd like"; it is one of saying, "Gee, you're not really going to miss those privacy settings we are removing, are you?"
Of course they later reversed their stance
According to Ambrosia Software's website, Captain Hector still shows up in Escape Velocity Nova.
See: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/support/faqs/products/ev-nova/Why-should-I-register-EV-Nova
or: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/support/faqs/products/escape-velocity/Does-Captain-Hector-serve-any-real-purpose
Ambrosia's FAQ says: "Hector is there to remind you that Escape Velocity is a shareware product. You have 30 days to try Escape Velocity before registering. Hector keeps track of the days and can become a nuisance when the trial period expires."
It sounds a lot like a simpler form of what Sony patented, as the previous poster wrote. I guess Sony does not look at Mac (and some Windows) shareware authors when it does searches for prior art. It's a shame, because shareware can innovate, too.
their greed feeds off the greed of the PKD silverspoons.
I think that if you'd bother to read about his life you'll find that PKD kids were not "silver spoons." In his lifetime, Dick won awards but was plagued by financial difficulties. Only one film based on a work of his was ever greenlighted during his lifetime, and he died four months before it was released. The financial success of PKD works is all post-mortem, and is largely the result of his estate successfully licensing his works as his works have become marketable later on.
In other words, the heirs you criticize were not born with silver spoons in their mouths; they were born to a writer who was unknown outside of the science fiction community, who hadn't had mainstream success, and took loans from other writers just to get by. His children did not grow up in wealth, living off a successful, creative father who sent them to boarding school, etc. It is because there have been films since Blade Runner, that the works of PKD have enjoyed success outside of the pages of science fiction magazines.
This doesn't make the PKD heirs' lawsuit right in this case, but you can't put them in the same boat as say the heirs of the Walt and Roy O. Disney, both of whom were ridiculously financially successful within their own lifetime and were able to pass on that fortune to their children, such as the late Roy E. Disney.
Macs used STREAMS from system 7.5.2 onwards. Was kind of sad to see that go away with the switch to OS X.
Honestly, I get sick of this attitude from developers when someone suggests a useful feature - "why would you need that?" That's why Linux will always by a system "by programmers, for programmers.
Programmers! Programmers! Programmers!
(cue flight of ergonomic chair?)
You don't need to know Morris code any more, but you do need to study up on radio & electronic theory. Radio shack used to sell the Ham license study guides, but I don't know if they have them any more.
Morris code, would that be the way that Morris Dancers signal each other?
John Fogerty had been the lead singer of and primary songwriter for the band Creedence Clearwater Revival ("CCR"). The record label for CCR was Fantasy Records. When Fogerty started his solo career, Fantasy Records sued him, saying that his song "The Old Man Down the Road" was simply a rewrite of his CCR song "Run Through the Jungle."
As I recall Fogerty's argument at trial (which he won) was basically that he always wrote in the same basic style and there were bound to be similarities. There was a second lawsuit for a song on the album that seemed to reference the head of Fantasy Records, Saul Zaentz ("'Zanz Kant Dance'" but he'll steal your money.").
Anyway, the case went all the way to the US Supreme Court (Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517 (1994)) on the issue of granting Fogerty attorney's fees. See http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1750.ZO.html .
For the Brits here, Foosball is table football. No idea why it's called that over there. Maybe from the German, Fußball?
"Foosball" does come from the German word. The game increased in popularity in the USA in the wake of WWII, although the first American patent dates to 1901. One helpful article to read is http://www.foosball.com/learn/knowledge/chp1hist.html from the book The Complete Book Of Foosball (Lott & Brainard, 1980)
I've never heard an exact explanation for why Foosball (or just Foos) specifically caught on as a name. Maybe "table soccer" is just too awkward. Obviously, Americans couldn't call it "table football," since football is a different sport there.
or he could be like me and didn't even register til 5 years after he started reading /.
I sympathize. I also waited a few years. Both of us also probably missed the cut-off for the 5-digit UID club achievement. :(
Americans don't "leave out" the 'u' in 'colour'. Americans simply don't know it is supposed to be there in the first place. The agnorant "leave out" theory is nothing more than a primitive way to cover up their embarrassment when they finally discover that it is actually spelled with 'u'.
I think Americans will be better off not taking spelling lessons from someone who cannot properly spell ignorant.
NIN was late to the game. Peter Gabriel put out two CD-ROMs in the mid-90s that allowed for remixing of his tracks. Even before that, I remember that when The Shaman released the CD-single for their "Move Any Mountain" track, it included all of the tracks and samples that made up the recording.
"Centre" is not an example of the prefix + stem + suffix model. It is a reminder that England was for a time ruled by the French.
Teachers are authority figures. These students are interested in undermining them. Therefore, these students have truly critical minds.
The previous commentor name-checked Jesus and his teachings. I'm pretty sure that his words aren't in the Old Testament. If I'm wrong, I'd love to see you tell that to my Jewish friends.
Sure, 'cause letting them aim is a much better move.
You don't make any sense. You say the UN is not finished with its new regulations, and then cite current European cars as evidence as the UN being far ahead. What do current models have to do with rules for future models? I guess you guys need better lights, since your automobile emissions standards have lagged behind the US for decades.
Well, they aren't parodying the seal, are they? They are parodying the president and then using an unmodified seal.
I wonder how well The Onion's lawyers would take it if I parodied their site, but used an exact copy of their Registered Trademark "The ONION" to do it? Would they let their trademark be diluted or would they ask me to satirize it as "the UNYUN" or something?