Voting doesn't do much good when the EU government isn't elected by the populace of it's member nations. Look how little it does here in the US, then imagine how much worse it could get if Congress (both houses) were appointed by the various State governments and not elected, and if the President were a rotating chair that round-robined between the Governors of various States.
I should have been more clear in my rhetoric. I was disagreeing with you but I didn't mean to imply that you were being an apologist. However, many other posts already made when I replied to you did have that tone. I apologise for not being clearer about that.
He was in their employ. Once they asked for access and/or recinded his 'permission' and he refused to cooperate he became a criminal. Let's not rationalize or glorify him just because he's a geek...shades of the apologists for Reiser come to mind now, though this crime isn't as bad as murder.
You should turn in your geek card for falling for that one! Any site you don't 100% trust that asks you to install a codec for a file format you can play already screams 'malware' in a loud shrill voice.
Not to mention that aside from geeks, most people who buy Macs do so because they want something that just works and doesn't require lots of configuration or searching for How-To's and drivers.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but I am not your average user and neither is just about anyone who reads/.
No no no...it will be a truly state of the art chair made of carbon fiber composites...it's just that the duct tape will be used to hold it in place on the elastic band.
What it amounts to is a fancy way to describe theft. SCO stole money from Novell by not reporting it and turning it over. I would *love* to see SCO's management face civil and/or legal penalties directly for this but IANAL.
I just got a wi-fi radio, with over 100k stations, and a easy to use search function and favorites function. Now, even when I'm not at my computer, I can listen to whatever I want. So who cares about the "dinosaur" radio stations?
Some of us like to leave our basements. Some of us even still drive cars around.
I would rather see them take what we have learned from the ISS and previous Lunar missions to build an orbiting station around Luna that is actually designed to be there. Two things would be very important: a way to get home in an emergency and sufficient storage that resupplies wouldn't have to be quite so often. You'd probably want a bit more in the way of living space as well but that's negotiable.
Fair enough. I'll admit I'm a compulsive/. reader, and since I have a Hackintosh that I built myself just for the hell of it I found their idea interesting. It isn't a real Mac replacement though; for one thing it is said it's quite loud. Performance wise it would seem to fill a middle niche that Apple is missing out on though. A low to mid cost mini tower system would be a good thing coming from Apple.
Of course they'll come. They came when there was text only. They came when you had a simple tiny framebuffer. They came when you got VGA, then when SVGA and VESA arrived they came as well. They came when you had T&L. They came when you had vertex and pixel shaders. They came when cards got 512 megs for a standard high end one.
They will come. Two gigabytes is overkill today, but in a year or two it won't be.
I can also see some serious scientific uses for such a beast.
Global Warming IS real and IS caused by humans. Well, by one human. All of Al Gore's bloviating on the subject has created such a huge amount of hot air that it has upset the balance.
No, because if it's truly urgent it will be marked urgent and they will call my phone. If a crisis is going on I know to check. If not, then then can track me down.
As for my work schedule, I agree to be on call and get paid very well for it. I just don't agree to jump every time someone has a trivial issue or question
Sounds like your coworker just lacks self control and/or assertiveness. I find having a laptop and mobile email to be liberating, rather than the 'electronic ball and chain' that many seem to think.
See, I know how to NOT answer every email immediately unless it is truly urgent.
You are lucky you work somewhere that gives you any choice at all though. If one of my employees refused a mobile device when it's been decided his or her job should require one then they'd be looking for a new job really fast. Then again, I also respect that they have lives and don't send them trivial requests after hours and expect them to answer right away.
Yes, exactly. It seems we didn't need writing until we began commerce in early agrarian societies. The need for language probably coincided with the budding technology of our ancestors. Being able to explain how something was done and why was probably pretty important when teaching craftwork, be it firemaking or the chipping of stone into tools.
Language probably developed gradually over tens of thousands of years. The first words were probably danger warnings, then maybe things related to day to day survival such as words for various foodstuffs. I would not be surprised to find out that Homo Erectus had rudimentary language. Even today various animals have calls that correspond to danger signs, and primates such as chimps seem to be able to communicate fairly well without what we would call acutal language. Communication predates humanity, so it's only natural that apes with big brains (us) would take it to the next level and begin to transmit abstract information using vocalizations.
That was my thought too when I saw this. If you have to reboot your router very often then you're doing it wrong.
We are heavy Internet users here at my home, especially since I work from home frequently and use VPN with the sending and recieving of large attachements, etc. I don't think I've ever *had* to reboot my WR54GT in the past year that I've had it.
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Voting doesn't do much good when the EU government isn't elected by the populace of it's member nations. Look how little it does here in the US, then imagine how much worse it could get if Congress (both houses) were appointed by the various State governments and not elected, and if the President were a rotating chair that round-robined between the Governors of various States.
How can you manage to hear a movie being played on a 360 over all that noise the box makes?
That aspect of EULA's has never been tested in court. It's quite possible that it would be deemed null and void.
I should have been more clear in my rhetoric. I was disagreeing with you but I didn't mean to imply that you were being an apologist. However, many other posts already made when I replied to you did have that tone. I apologise for not being clearer about that.
Indeed. I am waiting for a P2P technology that is so stealthy, nobody knows it even exists. Then I can be a Ninja and not a Pirate.
He was in their employ. Once they asked for access and/or recinded his 'permission' and he refused to cooperate he became a criminal. Let's not rationalize or glorify him just because he's a geek...shades of the apologists for Reiser come to mind now, though this crime isn't as bad as murder.
You should turn in your geek card for falling for that one! Any site you don't 100% trust that asks you to install a codec for a file format you can play already screams 'malware' in a loud shrill voice.
You didn't train long enough, or you'd know that in any real defense situation there is no such thing as a fair fight.
Self Defense: You're doing it wrong.
Not to mention that aside from geeks, most people who buy Macs do so because they want something that just works and doesn't require lots of configuration or searching for How-To's and drivers.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but I am not your average user and neither is just about anyone who reads /.
No no no...it will be a truly state of the art chair made of carbon fiber composites...it's just that the duct tape will be used to hold it in place on the elastic band.
What it amounts to is a fancy way to describe theft. SCO stole money from Novell by not reporting it and turning it over. I would *love* to see SCO's management face civil and/or legal penalties directly for this but IANAL.
I just got a wi-fi radio, with over 100k stations, and a easy to use search function and favorites function. Now, even when I'm not at my computer, I can listen to whatever I want. So who cares about the "dinosaur" radio stations?
Some of us like to leave our basements. Some of us even still drive cars around.
I would rather see them take what we have learned from the ISS and previous Lunar missions to build an orbiting station around Luna that is actually designed to be there. Two things would be very important: a way to get home in an emergency and sufficient storage that resupplies wouldn't have to be quite so often. You'd probably want a bit more in the way of living space as well but that's negotiable.
Fair enough. I'll admit I'm a compulsive /. reader, and since I have a Hackintosh that I built myself just for the hell of it I found their idea interesting. It isn't a real Mac replacement though; for one thing it is said it's quite loud. Performance wise it would seem to fill a middle niche that Apple is missing out on though. A low to mid cost mini tower system would be a good thing coming from Apple.
There are many references to them here on Slashdot alone.
How could you have missed it? Those are just the first three :)
Of course they'll come. They came when there was text only. They came when you had a simple tiny framebuffer. They came when you got VGA, then when SVGA and VESA arrived they came as well. They came when you had T&L. They came when you had vertex and pixel shaders. They came when cards got 512 megs for a standard high end one.
They will come. Two gigabytes is overkill today, but in a year or two it won't be.
I can also see some serious scientific uses for such a beast.
Global Warming IS real and IS caused by humans. Well, by one human. All of Al Gore's bloviating on the subject has created such a huge amount of hot air that it has upset the balance.
Save the planet! Stop Al Gore!
No, because if it's truly urgent it will be marked urgent and they will call my phone. If a crisis is going on I know to check. If not, then then can track me down.
As for my work schedule, I agree to be on call and get paid very well for it. I just don't agree to jump every time someone has a trivial issue or question
Sounds like your coworker just lacks self control and/or assertiveness. I find having a laptop and mobile email to be liberating, rather than the 'electronic ball and chain' that many seem to think.
See, I know how to NOT answer every email immediately unless it is truly urgent.
You are lucky you work somewhere that gives you any choice at all though. If one of my employees refused a mobile device when it's been decided his or her job should require one then they'd be looking for a new job really fast. Then again, I also respect that they have lives and don't send them trivial requests after hours and expect them to answer right away.
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Google is pretty easy to use, you could have looked yourself.
Yes, exactly. It seems we didn't need writing until we began commerce in early agrarian societies. The need for language probably coincided with the budding technology of our ancestors. Being able to explain how something was done and why was probably pretty important when teaching craftwork, be it firemaking or the chipping of stone into tools.
Language probably developed gradually over tens of thousands of years. The first words were probably danger warnings, then maybe things related to day to day survival such as words for various foodstuffs. I would not be surprised to find out that Homo Erectus had rudimentary language. Even today various animals have calls that correspond to danger signs, and primates such as chimps seem to be able to communicate fairly well without what we would call acutal language. Communication predates humanity, so it's only natural that apes with big brains (us) would take it to the next level and begin to transmit abstract information using vocalizations.
That was my thought too when I saw this. If you have to reboot your router very often then you're doing it wrong.
We are heavy Internet users here at my home, especially since I work from home frequently and use VPN with the sending and recieving of large attachements, etc. I don't think I've ever *had* to reboot my WR54GT in the past year that I've had it.
I am just happy to see some bipartisan cooperation in Washington for a change.
Timothy, is that you????