That only applies if it's a contract between you and the government.
Except any agreement enforced after you left would have to be enforced by the Government!
Enforcing non-compete agreements, and enforcing that the company owns a patent, and not you, are most certainly actions being made by the Government. Or to put it another way - if things were really as "free" as you say, then yes, the company is free to hire who they like, but the employee would be free to work for who they like as well as being free to use his inventions, and the employer could do nothing about it. What are they going to do, fire you?
Yes, people should be free to make whatever contracts they like, but in a free world, I do not expect the Government to enforce every kind of contract, when both parties no longer consent.
I've never used MMS messages either; I frankly don't see the use, since most cellphones have such shitty cameras that you can't tell what it is you're looking at anyway, and most have such shitty screens that you can't make out any detail on the pictures people send you.
I rarely use MMS, but even so, I have occasionally used it to send or receive messages. So even when buying a basic budget phone, I might as well get one that has one - if I'm spending iPhone-type prices, then I find it shocking to miss such as basic feature.
Everyone's pointing out lack of 3G, I wonder how come lacking this fundamental feature isn't more well known?
And I have no trouble making out pics on mine dirt cheap phone; and now basic phones have much better cameras.
Can't do fundamental tasks like copy & paste text: Yes. No. Double negative, bitches!
Is this for real? I use a lot. I mean, it's just just a question of "how much you use it", it's a fundament feature that should be there for when you do need it. Even if I don't use it until having had the phone for 6 months, I'm not going to go and buy a new phone just to use copy and paste - I want it there as standard.
Seriously, is there a reliable source for it lacking MMS and copy/paste? I just can't believe any phone lacking basic features (except a bottom of the line phone), especially one getting so much hype...
Do you know why you need Apple's bootcamp to use another OS on a Mac? Because Apple uses Intel's next-gen BIOS replacement, EFI. Almost nobody else uses EFI.
BootCamp adds in legacy BIOS support, which is necessary for Windows. Tell Microsoft to pull its head out of its ass and support EFI.
I'll complain that Microsoft don't make installing Windows on a Mac as easy as it could be, when Apple make it possible to run OS X on a PC at all...
I've never understood why so many people harbor such resentment toward Apple and it's iPhone. I'm starting to believe it's a lot of mis-placed anger.
Eh? Given the immense amount of hype that any produce released by Apple gets, I'd say it's clearly the opposite situation. Comments like from the poster you replied to are just in response to this.
Instead of being mad/jealous/outraged with Apple for producing such a great phone (at whatever price point), people should be made at Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola for feeding us SUCH CRAP for so many years.
Apple shouldn't have been able to beat the big cell phone companies at their own game so easily.
See what I mean? You never get people saying such stuff with every other new phone that's released - there aren't even Slashdot stories in the first place.
They haven't beaten anyone (though they ought to, simply due to all the free advertising and promotion they get).
It's just another phone. As you say - no need to get angry about it.
It also shows media bias - I know people who can't wait for the release of other phones, but the media doesn't consider that newsworthy.
It's circular - the media hypes Apple (and only Apple), so lots of people rush out to see the iPhone, mistakenly thinking it's the first of a kind, and then the media report "Oh wow, people are rushing to see the iPhone, isn't that amazing".
(8 GB vs 0.125 GB of every other mobile on the market)
Even dirt cheap non-smart pay-as-you-go phones can do way more than that. I "only" have 256MB in my phone I got a few years ago, but I could upgrade that to 6GB for £33 (8GB also availabe, can't find a price off hand). A Nokia N91 and N95 will do 8GB as standard, which you can get free on contract.
Of course, details are hard to find, because the media (Slashdot included) only hypes about products from Apple.
Well, not all workplaces are going to be happy about downloading music on the Internet all day...
Sneakernet was bad when it meant you had to split files up onto 100 floppies that were each slow to read and write. I think it's fine when we can carry hundreds of GBs on a fast medium (especially one that's still much faster than Internet connections).
In most places, electrical energy costs a HELL of a lot more per watt-hour than other sources like natural gas, oil, propane, and so on.
He did say "heater", which usually implies a small electric one.
You are correct if someone was trying to heat their whole house by a fleet of PCs, but I don't think it's a problem if someone just switches on one PC to help give extra heating when it's cold.
Put it another way - if it was freezing cold, I doubt anyone would feel guilty if they turned on an electric heater. I don't know why people do feel guilty about switching on a PC.
But then I realized that I didn't really need to use my computers as heaters...and did a number for the planet and closed the client.
Well it's a matter of priority. I'd agree with this when it comes to the pointless ones like RC5 cracking, but I think trying to cure cancer counts as one of the more worthwhile causes for using energy, compared with all the other things we humans do.
Put it this way, you think you're saving the planet by not running this program, but you still use your computer to come onto Slashdot to tell us about it?;)
I don't think that anyone's claiming that Apple is using some new voodoo or advanced technique to make Time Machine work. It's just that they are the first to make everything work together in such a useful way for the average computer user.
Also, "Time Machine" has limitations, in that it requires a second hard disk.
Just because you prefer Time Machine doesn't mean that it is better for everyone - and in certainly doesn't mean it was first! (This seems to be a common trend with the Mac - users think "It was the first for me" and therefore conclude it was the first for everyone.)
You should read some of the other comments in response to the parent post. In short, just because something feels good, doesn't mean it's going to have a positive effect on your life, or that it's in any way beneficial.
I'm sure kicking him out of school or sending him away to the nuthouse will have a wonderfully positive effect on his life!
If I have a headache, I can inject some heroin and it'll go away and I'll feel real nice, but the that temporary relief isn't worth the long-term results. And while I certainly wish you hadn't had to go through such a horrible experience, I can say for a fact that life is FULL of traumatizing and life-altering experiences, and that brooding on them and letting yourself descend into a fantasy world of "dark and violent stuff" isn't going to help your situation any.
I think the question is: Should he be getting his therapy advice off of someone on Slashdot, especially someone who compares writing out thoughts to injecting heroin?
Well I guess that's me signing up for a free email account next time I go flying - although it's a pain in that the airline might need to send me necessary information, and I forget to check that account.
Sensitive information such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership as well as health and sexual orientation should not be revealed.
Oh well that's something. To be honest, it scares me that anyone would even consider including that. Sexual orientation? What about those people who don't neatly fit into a category? Would I later be arrested because they found I've been snogging a guy but I only identified as straight?
And write me up as a card carrying member of the Church Of The FSM.
Curious it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on Slashdot, since I know a lot of people here seem to be strongly against the fixed CCTVs.
(Also in your example, I suspect the simple presence of police had an effect. Although I suppose that is one way that mobile CCTVs aren't as bad as the fixed ones, in that they only see what the police officers would be seeing anyway, and that the presence of cameras is at least a lot more obvious...)
If you don't like it, don't buy it. But people are bothered because of attempts at censorship.
Here in the UK it is not even legal for me as an adult to buy the game. Normally I wouldn't give a "rat's ass" about this type of game, but I do give a rat's ass that a nanny state decides to tell me what I can and can't play.
Crappy games that use it to sell instead of actually being decent suck, let's move on.
Given the trouble it's having being sold in stores, or even at all in some countries, I hardly think it's using it to sell it. But I commend them for trying to stand up to censorship.
Talking of which, that reminds me, the other week I saw mobile CCTV police vans. I don't know if these are a new thing or not. I would've taken a photo of it, but I feared getting arrested for doing so...
He got it wrong, he was man enough to admit that he got it wrong. Why do you have to make such a big deal out of it?
He was man enough to admit he got it wrong, but that doesn't imply the new figures must be correct.
If I was developing a cross-platform application or service, commercial or otherwise, then I'd still plan on putting out the Windows version first, the Apple one second and the Linux one third.
If I was developing something, I'd develop for Windows and forget about niche platforms like Apple.
Probably because Apple users are willing to pay for products, whereas Linux users dont't. There might be more money to make in the first group.
Since when are they selling products? The BBC is funded by the compulsory TV licence fee, they aren't a private commercial company. That's the whole point. If this was some private company, people would be a lot less bothered what they do.
Imagine some jerkwad walked into a 7-11, got a Slurpee, tried to walk out without paying for it, then shot the clerk when the clerk confronted him. Then imagine the Slashdot article saying "this guy could get the death penalty just for stealing a Slurpee."
That's an extreme example, but it gets my message across. They're being prosecuted not only for what they did, but how they did it.
But in that case, they would be punished for what they did - murdering someone. It seems reasonable that murder is a crime in itself, even when no other crime is committed. I don't know if that's so true of hacking - at least, true to the extent of 20 years.
Murdering someone is clearly more serious than stealing something; but changing their grades is the more serious crime than hacking, imo.
I think that's mostly true of *nix systems, usability has gotten a lot better as of late- especially debian-based *nix systems. But looking at Windows OSes this doesn't seem to be as much the case. Are Windows Vista or Windows XP easier to use than say Windows 95? Why not when Windows 95 only needs 1/20th the RAM to run? Are the new versions that much easier to use? Security? no that's not it either, Vista and XP still get infected with viruses and spyware like the prior versions. Software compatibility? No not that either, there is actually a version of WINE for Windows that emulates later versions that isn't that bad. So where exactly was that code used to good effect?
Most notably, they are massively more stable, in that they implement memory protection properly (I know, people still joke about Windows's stability, but most of this perception stems from the Windows 9x days which crashed several times a day; Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista very rarely crashes).
There were other limitations too - I remember having trouble browsing large webpages (e.g., Slashdot when you have moderation points, due to all the combo boxes) under Windows 98, because it ran out of "resources", even though I had 384MB RAM.
When was the last time you used Windows 9x? I think anyone should spend a few days using old software before they make comments on how it was just as good as modern software...
I don't think it's unreasonable for modern OSs to take advantage of typical modern PCs, but...
No it isnt. It takes only a coulpe hours for a non-technical person to learn how to operate a modern OS becuase of all the GUI-ness, wizards, etc. Modern applications dont even ship with manuals.
Now put them in front of a box running DOS 6.22 and well, you can figure it out.
You can't say that modern machines are needed for a GUI, as platforms had GUIs over 20 years ago, running on an ancient 68000 processor and less than a meg of RAM. It was only DOS that was behind the times.
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That only applies if it's a contract between you and the government.
Except any agreement enforced after you left would have to be enforced by the Government!
Enforcing non-compete agreements, and enforcing that the company owns a patent, and not you, are most certainly actions being made by the Government. Or to put it another way - if things were really as "free" as you say, then yes, the company is free to hire who they like, but the employee would be free to work for who they like as well as being free to use his inventions, and the employer could do nothing about it. What are they going to do, fire you?
Yes, people should be free to make whatever contracts they like, but in a free world, I do not expect the Government to enforce every kind of contract, when both parties no longer consent.
I've never used MMS messages either; I frankly don't see the use, since most cellphones have such shitty cameras that you can't tell what it is you're looking at anyway, and most have such shitty screens that you can't make out any detail on the pictures people send you.
I rarely use MMS, but even so, I have occasionally used it to send or receive messages. So even when buying a basic budget phone, I might as well get one that has one - if I'm spending iPhone-type prices, then I find it shocking to miss such as basic feature.
Everyone's pointing out lack of 3G, I wonder how come lacking this fundamental feature isn't more well known?
And I have no trouble making out pics on mine dirt cheap phone; and now basic phones have much better cameras.
Can't do fundamental tasks like copy & paste text: Yes. No. Double negative, bitches!
Is this for real? I use a lot. I mean, it's just just a question of "how much you use it", it's a fundament feature that should be there for when you do need it. Even if I don't use it until having had the phone for 6 months, I'm not going to go and buy a new phone just to use copy and paste - I want it there as standard.
Seriously, is there a reliable source for it lacking MMS and copy/paste? I just can't believe any phone lacking basic features (except a bottom of the line phone), especially one getting so much hype...
Do you know why you need Apple's bootcamp to use another OS on a Mac? Because Apple uses Intel's next-gen BIOS replacement, EFI. Almost nobody else uses EFI.
BootCamp adds in legacy BIOS support, which is necessary for Windows. Tell Microsoft to pull its head out of its ass and support EFI.
I'll complain that Microsoft don't make installing Windows on a Mac as easy as it could be, when Apple make it possible to run OS X on a PC at all...
I've never understood why so many people harbor such resentment toward Apple and it's iPhone. I'm starting to believe it's a lot of mis-placed anger.
Eh? Given the immense amount of hype that any produce released by Apple gets, I'd say it's clearly the opposite situation. Comments like from the poster you replied to are just in response to this.
Instead of being mad/jealous/outraged with Apple for producing such a great phone (at whatever price point), people should be made at Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola for feeding us SUCH CRAP for so many years.
Apple shouldn't have been able to beat the big cell phone companies at their own game so easily.
See what I mean? You never get people saying such stuff with every other new phone that's released - there aren't even Slashdot stories in the first place.
They haven't beaten anyone (though they ought to, simply due to all the free advertising and promotion they get).
It's just another phone. As you say - no need to get angry about it.
It also shows media bias - I know people who can't wait for the release of other phones, but the media doesn't consider that newsworthy.
It's circular - the media hypes Apple (and only Apple), so lots of people rush out to see the iPhone, mistakenly thinking it's the first of a kind, and then the media report "Oh wow, people are rushing to see the iPhone, isn't that amazing".
(8 GB vs 0.125 GB of every other mobile on the market)
Even dirt cheap non-smart pay-as-you-go phones can do way more than that. I "only" have 256MB in my phone I got a few years ago, but I could upgrade that to 6GB for £33 (8GB also availabe, can't find a price off hand). A Nokia N91 and N95 will do 8GB as standard, which you can get free on contract.
Of course, details are hard to find, because the media (Slashdot included) only hypes about products from Apple.
Well, not all workplaces are going to be happy about downloading music on the Internet all day...
Sneakernet was bad when it meant you had to split files up onto 100 floppies that were each slow to read and write. I think it's fine when we can carry hundreds of GBs on a fast medium (especially one that's still much faster than Internet connections).
This only applies if you use electric heating.
In most places, electrical energy costs a HELL of a lot more per watt-hour than other sources like natural gas, oil, propane, and so on.
He did say "heater", which usually implies a small electric one.
You are correct if someone was trying to heat their whole house by a fleet of PCs, but I don't think it's a problem if someone just switches on one PC to help give extra heating when it's cold.
Put it another way - if it was freezing cold, I doubt anyone would feel guilty if they turned on an electric heater. I don't know why people do feel guilty about switching on a PC.
But then I realized that I didn't really need to use my computers as heaters...and did a number for the planet and closed the client.
Well it's a matter of priority. I'd agree with this when it comes to the pointless ones like RC5 cracking, but I think trying to cure cancer counts as one of the more worthwhile causes for using energy, compared with all the other things we humans do.
Put it this way, you think you're saving the planet by not running this program, but you still use your computer to come onto Slashdot to tell us about it?;)
I don't think that anyone's claiming that Apple is using some new voodoo or advanced technique to make Time Machine work. It's just that they are the first to make everything work together in such a useful way for the average computer user.
Vista has just the same ( http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/27/leopard-vs-vista-feature-chart-showdown/ ). Even ancient Windows 2000 has a backup that allows you to restore an individual file.
Also, "Time Machine" has limitations, in that it requires a second hard disk.
Just because you prefer Time Machine doesn't mean that it is better for everyone - and in certainly doesn't mean it was first! (This seems to be a common trend with the Mac - users think "It was the first for me" and therefore conclude it was the first for everyone.)
You should read some of the other comments in response to the parent post. In short, just because something feels good, doesn't mean it's going to have a positive effect on your life, or that it's in any way beneficial.
I'm sure kicking him out of school or sending him away to the nuthouse will have a wonderfully positive effect on his life!
If I have a headache, I can inject some heroin and it'll go away and I'll feel real nice, but the that temporary relief isn't worth the long-term results. And while I certainly wish you hadn't had to go through such a horrible experience, I can say for a fact that life is FULL of traumatizing and life-altering experiences, and that brooding on them and letting yourself descend into a fantasy world of "dark and violent stuff" isn't going to help your situation any.
I think the question is: Should he be getting his therapy advice off of someone on Slashdot, especially someone who compares writing out thoughts to injecting heroin?
Simply, this way EU can have the same data of US and use them if and when needed...
Indeed, it is a "retaliation" where in both cases, we end up losing, and the Governments gain.
Well I guess that's me signing up for a free email account next time I go flying - although it's a pain in that the airline might need to send me necessary information, and I forget to check that account.
Sensitive information such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership as well as health and sexual orientation should not be revealed.
Oh well that's something. To be honest, it scares me that anyone would even consider including that. Sexual orientation? What about those people who don't neatly fit into a category? Would I later be arrested because they found I've been snogging a guy but I only identified as straight?
And write me up as a card carrying member of the Church Of The FSM.
You see an invasion of privacy
I never said it was an invasion of privacy.
Curious it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on Slashdot, since I know a lot of people here seem to be strongly against the fixed CCTVs.
(Also in your example, I suspect the simple presence of police had an effect. Although I suppose that is one way that mobile CCTVs aren't as bad as the fixed ones, in that they only see what the police officers would be seeing anyway, and that the presence of cameras is at least a lot more obvious...)
The difference is, we can legally go out and buy an iPhone. Hype means nothing when we can't buy it (here in the UK).
If you don't like it, don't buy it. But people are bothered because of attempts at censorship.
Here in the UK it is not even legal for me as an adult to buy the game. Normally I wouldn't give a "rat's ass" about this type of game, but I do give a rat's ass that a nanny state decides to tell me what I can and can't play.
Crappy games that use it to sell instead of actually being decent suck, let's move on.
Given the trouble it's having being sold in stores, or even at all in some countries, I hardly think it's using it to sell it. But I commend them for trying to stand up to censorship.
Me too. I do find it rather odd when they seem to be at the forefront of defending civil liberties. I'm not sure what to think when that happens.
Talking of which, that reminds me, the other week I saw mobile CCTV police vans. I don't know if these are a new thing or not. I would've taken a photo of it, but I feared getting arrested for doing so...
He got it wrong, he was man enough to admit that he got it wrong. Why do you have to make such a big deal out of it?
He was man enough to admit he got it wrong, but that doesn't imply the new figures must be correct.
If I was developing a cross-platform application or service, commercial or otherwise, then I'd still plan on putting out the Windows version first, the Apple one second and the Linux one third.
If I was developing something, I'd develop for Windows and forget about niche platforms like Apple.
But I'm not funded by a compulsory licence fee.
Probably because Apple users are willing to pay for products, whereas Linux users dont't. There might be more money to make in the first group.
Since when are they selling products? The BBC is funded by the compulsory TV licence fee, they aren't a private commercial company. That's the whole point. If this was some private company, people would be a lot less bothered what they do.
Imagine some jerkwad walked into a 7-11, got a Slurpee, tried to walk out without paying for it, then shot the clerk when the clerk confronted him. Then imagine the Slashdot article saying "this guy could get the death penalty just for stealing a Slurpee."
That's an extreme example, but it gets my message across. They're being prosecuted not only for what they did, but how they did it.
But in that case, they would be punished for what they did - murdering someone. It seems reasonable that murder is a crime in itself, even when no other crime is committed. I don't know if that's so true of hacking - at least, true to the extent of 20 years.
Murdering someone is clearly more serious than stealing something; but changing their grades is the more serious crime than hacking, imo.
I think that's mostly true of *nix systems, usability has gotten a lot better as of late- especially debian-based *nix systems. But looking at Windows OSes this doesn't seem to be as much the case. Are Windows Vista or Windows XP easier to use than say Windows 95? Why not when Windows 95 only needs 1/20th the RAM to run? Are the new versions that much easier to use? Security? no that's not it either, Vista and XP still get infected with viruses and spyware like the prior versions. Software compatibility? No not that either, there is actually a version of WINE for Windows that emulates later versions that isn't that bad. So where exactly was that code used to good effect?
Most notably, they are massively more stable, in that they implement memory protection properly (I know, people still joke about Windows's stability, but most of this perception stems from the Windows 9x days which crashed several times a day; Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista very rarely crashes).
There were other limitations too - I remember having trouble browsing large webpages (e.g., Slashdot when you have moderation points, due to all the combo boxes) under Windows 98, because it ran out of "resources", even though I had 384MB RAM.
When was the last time you used Windows 9x? I think anyone should spend a few days using old software before they make comments on how it was just as good as modern software...
But why are the system requirements for a simple word processor so much higher than they used to be? Bloat.
If you don't like the new features, then why are you paying for the new version?
I don't think it's unreasonable for modern OSs to take advantage of typical modern PCs, but...
No it isnt. It takes only a coulpe hours for a non-technical person to learn how to operate a modern OS becuase of all the GUI-ness, wizards, etc. Modern applications dont even ship with manuals.
Now put them in front of a box running DOS 6.22 and well, you can figure it out.
You can't say that modern machines are needed for a GUI, as platforms had GUIs over 20 years ago, running on an ancient 68000 processor and less than a meg of RAM. It was only DOS that was behind the times.
the 1950pro (an AGP card none-the-less)
Actually it's a PCI-E card (though there's probably an AGP version too).