The problem is, that Microsoft ended up doing this in XP as well. And it alienated its existing user base. I still know people that want the "Classic" start menu set first thing when XP is installed. It's change for the sake of change. Except I notice that Vista's UI is a much more redical change for a much more negligible benefit than 2000 -> XP was.
If it was really better, it wouldn't need to be designed from scratch again every release. Even if the excuse is to make it easier for new users, how many new users are you going to pick up in a market that's so saturated and that you have such a large market share of? And how many of them are really going to make their decision based on what's new in the latest release of a product that they don't know anything about in the first place?
Hey, don't forget in that case the images do harm because the faces are of real children. This type of harm is, at the least, the same as if I cut out your face and put it on some porn image. Now imagine if I shared that image with someone. Or everyone.
You can easily bypass the "20 questions" runaround with Dell Business warranty support without getting their "certification" by simply telling them what part is dead immediately followed by the phrase "I swapped for a known good from another machine of the same model and the problem was solved." This works for me every time.
The Latitude D630 is a business class laptop. Try that with an Inspiron and you'll get a very different experience, I assure you. I support a network with over 350 Dell machines, and I never have the kind of service from Dell that was described in this artcle, because we use all Latitude and Optiplex. One day my cousin, who had a Dimension (consumer class Dell desktop,) had a hardware failure and asked me to help her call tech support. I had a tech support experience much like the one described in TFA when I called to get her power supply replaced.
My problem with Pan's Labyrinth, is that they could have actually gone into the labyrinth, rather than hanging around the entrance for 5 minutes and going back to the real world. What the hell was all that about?
I use Vista at work because I'm going to need to know it eventually. Microsoft probably won't offer XP forever. Among many other problems that I eventually fixed before the service pack, I had a problem with my sound not working so I installed Service Pack 1. It fixed the sound problem, then broke my network adapter. After removing the service pack, the network came back but the sound broke again. And it's over an hour to install and another hour to uninstall.
Can someone tell me why it's even legal to put these charges on the phone bill? On more than one occasion I've had to deal with services being crammed this way, and I don't even think it was from this guy, the service that billed me was not mentioned in TFA. Why should we allow this sleaze to continue? Does anyone know of a way to opt out of this, similar to declining long distance and 1-900 calls on your phone?
I feel this device is mainly a thought provoking work of art. They're trying to sell you on the fact that this work of art will also get better with age like cheese or a grandfather clock, as supported by the fact that moving the weight every day is supposed to be fun, like winding a grandfather clock or making a pot of coffee.
I'm saying that any time you open the door to enforcing a foreign country's laws internationally, it's a bad thing. In the interest of protecting such things as intellectual property rights, there has been a strong push to enforce, for instance, American copyright law internationally. Not to mention other ideas such as some countries' opinions on human rights. As these ideas become the norm for those that are thinking globally, there will be some who see an opportunity to seize power at a higher level. It appears that, since this idea is gaining support rather quickly, the possiblility of the world attempting to supoprt a global government is rising very quickly.
One major drawback of this idea of a world government is a lack of political asylum. Until we perfect space colonization, no person could escape a global government. Additionally, the lack of granularity of such a large goverment would cause a problem due to the lack of flexibility to support people who have different needs and are in different countries. For example, think of a time that you've rolled your eyes at the ridiculously backward federal government because they pass laws that don't cater to needs that your more local state or city government is more keenly aware of. Imagine the idea of "State's Rights" suddenly becoming a very global issue. Do you see the problem with that?
Wow. This is it folks. The tables have turned. A sizeable number of posters on Slashdot are siding with complying with a foreign law. Now this is aside from the fact that the NYT has a British presence, which is the reason I see that NYT is doing this.
A lot of you are talking about respecting laws of other countries simply because that would be the courteous thing to do. Courtesy has no place in international law. We could almost call it a precedent. Ask your 1998 self if it would be thinking these same thoughts as it does in 2006. What has changed in the last few years? Why was your opinion different? I think we've been brainwashed.
Billions of dollars and thousands of talking heads have been hammering for years at this idea of the separation of laws among countries. Whether respecting international law is "right" or "wrong" is subjective. But think of this. I don't support it because it would be impossible to reconcile among individual countries. Too many conflicting laws. Too many existing global conflicts period.
To put all the world's laws on the table and decide to comply with all of them would seem to be an impossible task. I can only see one possible outcome if that were to happen: A new set of global laws. Enforcable by whom? Nothing short of a world government.
I'll leave the rest of this thought exercise to the reader. Try not to be paranoid. Life is to short. And perhaps this is inevitable.
This phenonmenon is related to the fact that you feel closer to, and a stronger influence from, those that are nearest to you. This is the reason you have things like state's rights, so that the big bad, federal government doesn't tell you what to do. People half-jokingly poke fun at people from other states, as if they're from another planet. The lack of a higher power than a federal government implies that once the question of loyalty in a situation rises to the federal level, you have nobody else to answer to; that is, unless you count God, Mother Nature, or the UN. But people in other countries don't believe in "God." At least not "my God." So screw 'em, right? It sucks, but it's human nature.
When it came out for the PC on CD-ROM for $10 in 1995, I bought it because I never really played it in the arcade. I think I plunked two quarters into it and said screw this. But you know, when you don't have to think about how much you're spending, it can get hilarious when you get to that point where you've been staying up way too long and played the same sequence way too many times. But would I buy it again in HD? Not if it's over $10.
But besides this, he blames his first install problem on an upgrade from Windows XP. There has always been problems upgrading from one version of Windows to another. And on top of it, this is a beta! Second, he whines that re-installing from scratch removed all his drivers and Lenovo didn't have Vista drivers. Well hello, this is an unreleased operating system, what did you expect?
Finally, he complains that he had problems with two more laptops that had a dead CMOS battery and a failing hard drive. So it's Microsoft's fault that you have problems with defective hardware? Get a fscking life, Mr. slow news day!
Silicone gaskets over hard disk mounting screws, speed variable fan power supplies like the newer Antec SmartPower 2.0s, 120 MM fans in place of 60 or 80 MM fans which can do more CFMs at slower RPMs. For starts.
To me it sounds like a more meaningful abstraction. Some interface metaphors are more naturally meaningful to most humans than other metaphors. Some fail because of novelty, some for organic reasons. The steering wheel, for instance, is more natural than a joystick for driving because the steering wheel allows for a smoother gradient of control, not just because it's been a metaphor people have been getting used to for 100 years. Whether or not the new metaphors presented by the Revolution will be as meaningful in practice as they sound has yet to be seen, but I don't think you can write it off so easily, unless you've played with one.
Too bad the clutch safety switch will prevent you from doing that in any newer car unless you bypass it. It's a required safety device on all new cars.
I hate noisy cellphones, I think people are rude for thinking they are so important that they can disturb others' peace. Having said that, there is one thing I wish I had when I keep my cell phone on vibrate: a distinctive vibrate "ring." The only thing I think is cool about ringtones is the ability to customize them so you know who is calling without looking at the phone. If I had distinctive vibrate I could definitely say there is no longer any excuse for a noisy phone.
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You might think that you should just dump Thumb, the fat stumpy one. Don't do it! She's the only one who'll go around the back!
Sure women want to hear dieting tips. They just don't want to hear them from their boyfriends.
The problem is, that Microsoft ended up doing this in XP as well. And it alienated its existing user base. I still know people that want the "Classic" start menu set first thing when XP is installed. It's change for the sake of change. Except I notice that Vista's UI is a much more redical change for a much more negligible benefit than 2000 -> XP was.
If it was really better, it wouldn't need to be designed from scratch again every release. Even if the excuse is to make it easier for new users, how many new users are you going to pick up in a market that's so saturated and that you have such a large market share of? And how many of them are really going to make their decision based on what's new in the latest release of a product that they don't know anything about in the first place?
Hey, don't forget in that case the images do harm because the faces are of real children. This type of harm is, at the least, the same as if I cut out your face and put it on some porn image. Now imagine if I shared that image with someone. Or everyone.
You can easily bypass the "20 questions" runaround with Dell Business warranty support without getting their "certification" by simply telling them what part is dead immediately followed by the phrase "I swapped for a known good from another machine of the same model and the problem was solved." This works for me every time.
The Latitude D630 is a business class laptop. Try that with an Inspiron and you'll get a very different experience, I assure you. I support a network with over 350 Dell machines, and I never have the kind of service from Dell that was described in this artcle, because we use all Latitude and Optiplex. One day my cousin, who had a Dimension (consumer class Dell desktop,) had a hardware failure and asked me to help her call tech support. I had a tech support experience much like the one described in TFA when I called to get her power supply replaced.
My problem with Pan's Labyrinth, is that they could have actually gone into the labyrinth, rather than hanging around the entrance for 5 minutes and going back to the real world. What the hell was all that about?
This reminds me of possibly my favorite Bob the Angry Flower cartoon. Enjoy!
My guess would be that it would cost less than the Iraq war. Sounds like a good deal, no?
I use Vista at work because I'm going to need to know it eventually. Microsoft probably won't offer XP forever. Among many other problems that I eventually fixed before the service pack, I had a problem with my sound not working so I installed Service Pack 1. It fixed the sound problem, then broke my network adapter. After removing the service pack, the network came back but the sound broke again. And it's over an hour to install and another hour to uninstall.
All that test would prove is that NASCAR drivers aren't believably human.
Can someone tell me why it's even legal to put these charges on the phone bill? On more than one occasion I've had to deal with services being crammed this way, and I don't even think it was from this guy, the service that billed me was not mentioned in TFA. Why should we allow this sleaze to continue? Does anyone know of a way to opt out of this, similar to declining long distance and 1-900 calls on your phone?
I feel this device is mainly a thought provoking work of art. They're trying to sell you on the fact that this work of art will also get better with age like cheese or a grandfather clock, as supported by the fact that moving the weight every day is supposed to be fun, like winding a grandfather clock or making a pot of coffee.
http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=40a4cfdf- 683e-4db7-9675-c5c57399329c&la
I saw that link and at first thought, "Pah-jy-nah? WTF?" Then I realized it was Spanish. "Oh, pah-hee-nah! That explains it!"
I'm saying that any time you open the door to enforcing a foreign country's laws internationally, it's a bad thing. In the interest of protecting such things as intellectual property rights, there has been a strong push to enforce, for instance, American copyright law internationally. Not to mention other ideas such as some countries' opinions on human rights. As these ideas become the norm for those that are thinking globally, there will be some who see an opportunity to seize power at a higher level. It appears that, since this idea is gaining support rather quickly, the possiblility of the world attempting to supoprt a global government is rising very quickly.
One major drawback of this idea of a world government is a lack of political asylum. Until we perfect space colonization, no person could escape a global government. Additionally, the lack of granularity of such a large goverment would cause a problem due to the lack of flexibility to support people who have different needs and are in different countries. For example, think of a time that you've rolled your eyes at the ridiculously backward federal government because they pass laws that don't cater to needs that your more local state or city government is more keenly aware of. Imagine the idea of "State's Rights" suddenly becoming a very global issue. Do you see the problem with that?
Wow. This is it folks. The tables have turned. A sizeable number of posters on Slashdot are siding with complying with a foreign law. Now this is aside from the fact that the NYT has a British presence, which is the reason I see that NYT is doing this.
A lot of you are talking about respecting laws of other countries simply because that would be the courteous thing to do. Courtesy has no place in international law. We could almost call it a precedent. Ask your 1998 self if it would be thinking these same thoughts as it does in 2006. What has changed in the last few years? Why was your opinion different? I think we've been brainwashed.
Billions of dollars and thousands of talking heads have been hammering for years at this idea of the separation of laws among countries. Whether respecting international law is "right" or "wrong" is subjective. But think of this. I don't support it because it would be impossible to reconcile among individual countries. Too many conflicting laws. Too many existing global conflicts period.
To put all the world's laws on the table and decide to comply with all of them would seem to be an impossible task. I can only see one possible outcome if that were to happen: A new set of global laws. Enforcable by whom? Nothing short of a world government.
I'll leave the rest of this thought exercise to the reader. Try not to be paranoid. Life is to short. And perhaps this is inevitable.
This phenonmenon is related to the fact that you feel closer to, and a stronger influence from, those that are nearest to you. This is the reason you have things like state's rights, so that the big bad, federal government doesn't tell you what to do. People half-jokingly poke fun at people from other states, as if they're from another planet. The lack of a higher power than a federal government implies that once the question of loyalty in a situation rises to the federal level, you have nobody else to answer to; that is, unless you count God, Mother Nature, or the UN. But people in other countries don't believe in "God." At least not "my God." So screw 'em, right? It sucks, but it's human nature.
ROFL... StFU, RtFA, and GBtW, n00b!
When it came out for the PC on CD-ROM for $10 in 1995, I bought it because I never really played it in the arcade. I think I plunked two quarters into it and said screw this. But you know, when you don't have to think about how much you're spending, it can get hilarious when you get to that point where you've been staying up way too long and played the same sequence way too many times. But would I buy it again in HD? Not if it's over $10.
But besides this, he blames his first install problem on an upgrade from Windows XP. There has always been problems upgrading from one version of Windows to another. And on top of it, this is a beta! Second, he whines that re-installing from scratch removed all his drivers and Lenovo didn't have Vista drivers. Well hello, this is an unreleased operating system, what did you expect?
Finally, he complains that he had problems with two more laptops that had a dead CMOS battery and a failing hard drive. So it's Microsoft's fault that you have problems with defective hardware? Get a fscking life, Mr. slow news day!
Silicone gaskets over hard disk mounting screws, speed variable fan power supplies like the newer Antec SmartPower 2.0s, 120 MM fans in place of 60 or 80 MM fans which can do more CFMs at slower RPMs. For starts.
To me it sounds like a more meaningful abstraction. Some interface metaphors are more naturally meaningful to most humans than other metaphors. Some fail because of novelty, some for organic reasons. The steering wheel, for instance, is more natural than a joystick for driving because the steering wheel allows for a smoother gradient of control, not just because it's been a metaphor people have been getting used to for 100 years. Whether or not the new metaphors presented by the Revolution will be as meaningful in practice as they sound has yet to be seen, but I don't think you can write it off so easily, unless you've played with one.
Too bad the clutch safety switch will prevent you from doing that in any newer car unless you bypass it. It's a required safety device on all new cars.
I hate noisy cellphones, I think people are rude for thinking they are so important that they can disturb others' peace. Having said that, there is one thing I wish I had when I keep my cell phone on vibrate: a distinctive vibrate "ring." The only thing I think is cool about ringtones is the ability to customize them so you know who is calling without looking at the phone. If I had distinctive vibrate I could definitely say there is no longer any excuse for a noisy phone.
If there's now time travel, then how did this story get posted in The Mysterious Future?