Back in the day, if someone was calling an electronic device a 'pod,' I would have thought they were talking about Line 6's Guitar and Bass pods (which I believe have been around for a while). How come they aren't warning Apple about their iPod naming?"
Maybe it's because the Line6 folks aren't litigious bastards?
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
That second part means that, if you don't use it, you're not allowed to use it. Such non-usage is to be considered strictly unauthorized non-usage. Dumb.
yes, he lies. but he mixes in quite a lot of truth, too.
The best liars only speak the truth. In America, we call them "spin doctors."
for example, did the usa not fun iraq in a war to take on iran and kill the family and friends of joe-6-pack iranian?
You had me until "and." The US not only stopped funding him after the mustard gassing of Iranian civilians, we also cut diplomatic ties. We started treating Saddam like one of the bad guys, because he was.
anyway, the guy is very scary and will get his nukes unless military action is taken
I disagree. We only need to wait him out. No matter how eloquant he may be, and no matter how well he may stir up his Islamo-fascist consticuency, the fact is that he has failed to deliver on any of the domestic economic reforms he promised when he ran for office. Iranians continue to live in absolute squalor, and all he can do is point at the "Great Satan" as a justification for why he can't spend that enormous oil wealth on his own people.
unfortunately, his view has been shown to be entirely rational.
No, he isn't rational. He's charismatic. It's a poor substitute, but most people don't notice the difference, anyway. That's the way it is with sociopaths.
1) You think "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon" is compelling and thought-provoking. 2) You think missiles hit the pentagon on 9/11. 3) You think the CIA is cooking your brain with mind-control rays, and only the qualudes keep them out. 4) You think every arrest, every news item, and the arrangement of your morning Alpha-Bits cereal during an election-year cycle are part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
To a net-kook, everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes, the net-kooks are right, if only because a broken clock is still correct twice a day.
During the Renaissance, a number of works by "great" artists (as they are recognized now) had their works "re-used" for the canvas. Before fairly modern times, art mediums were very expesive, and not easy to come by. More often than not, you had to reuse what you had.
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KDE will be the perfect desktop for me when I don't have to include all the extra cruft. I love the UI and basic apps, and I like select apps from each package, but the vast majority of it is a waste of space for me.
Does somebody else find it funny, how the web sites have become verbs. Look at the button 'Google Slashdot'. Imagine 'Slashdot Google' or 'Slashdot University of California' buttons to kill the web sites.
Very appropos. If Slashdot were a university, it would definitely be in California.
You got on cross-platform. I never knew they had a cross platform version.
Back a few years ago (actually it might be five, now), I would design all my web designs with Opera (my main browser, this is back in the Opera 5 days), and later test & tweak for IE. When Mozilla started gaining traction, I started receiving complaints that none of my designs worked in the new browser. After downloading Mozilla, and using the new W3C.org validator, I discovered that all of my designs, while displaying fine in both Opera and IE, were hopelessly broken, both in XHTML and CSS. After fixing my problem designs for Mozilla, I found that they also still worked flawlessly in Opera and IE. So, I decided to start using Mozilla exclusively, with Opera and IE as my final tests. Mozilla was still a bloated warthog next to Opera, which was a drawback, but with the introduction of Firefox that problem was alleviated. As a beginner in web design, Opera and IE allowed me too much leeway in crafting bad code.
As for buying a browser, it's irrelevant now that Opera's free, but I'll say, for the sake of justifying my earlier switch to free browsers, that the cost at the time did not justify (in my opinion) the difference in quality between Opera and IE (or Mozilla). For the same reason, though I acknowledge that VC++ does in fact produce tighter machine code on Win32, I still use the Cygwin g++ compiler, because the difference in quality is not great enought to justify the large investment in the better compiler. g++ is just "good enough," and so was Mozilla when I made the switch from Opera.
Well, there are now two very, very good reasons why I don't use Opera. One I'll quote from my original post: "Also, as a web designer, Opera was a bad development platform because it had the same tolerance for bad HTML IE had."
The other is this: it's not cross-platform. I run Windows at work, Linux at home, and I want a homogeneous set of software. That means I run Firefox, Thunderbird, and OO.org at both locations. I'm also soon going to need to run a Mac at home, as well, and Opera doesn't support that, either.
Unless you are talking about rendering eye-candy? I still don't get what you're talking about here.
I think it's just guilt-by-association. No, Firefox does not have any "eye candy" to speak of. When trying to find fault with FOSS apps though, it's a popular criticism to trot out. So, we'll complain about the icons and say all Mozilla cares about is "eye candy."
In any event, my opinion of Opera is pretty low. I used it exclusively back when Firefox was nascent, and Mozilla was a bloated warthog. But when Firefox really came into its own, I switched away from (what I considered) annoying adware (and no, I won't buy a browser; it's not 1995 anymore).
Also, as a web designer, Opera was a bad development platform because it had the same tolerance for bad HTML IE had.
If you approached the situation from a non-American point of view, most of the issues you raise with Iran could be applied to the US equally, and with more historical evidence rather than mere conjecture.
With the exception that we have a secularist court system comprised mostly of progressives (one judge with the 10 commandments is actually national news over here), a public education system that is fanatically progressive, and journalists who say all manner of things about the ruling government without any repercussions whatsoever. If, from a non-American point of view, you find a large number of similarities between America and Iran, it is probably because your view of America is as uninformed as your view of Iran.
Yes, USA, where the ignorant (that's you) can choose not to listen to people because of a LABEL. If you were as progressive as you think you are, you might actually RTFA and find out it's not a religious publication.
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"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
That second part means that, if you don't use it, you're not allowed to use it. Such non-usage is to be considered strictly unauthorized non-usage. Dumb.
You had me until "and." The US not only stopped funding him after the mustard gassing of Iranian civilians, we also cut diplomatic ties. We started treating Saddam like one of the bad guys, because he was.
I disagree. We only need to wait him out. No matter how eloquant he may be, and no matter how well he may stir up his Islamo-fascist consticuency, the fact is that he has failed to deliver on any of the domestic economic reforms he promised when he ran for office. Iranians continue to live in absolute squalor, and all he can do is point at the "Great Satan" as a justification for why he can't spend that enormous oil wealth on his own people.
No, he isn't rational. He's charismatic. It's a poor substitute, but most people don't notice the difference, anyway. That's the way it is with sociopaths.
Yeah, poets make great heads of state. Maybe you should try reading some history books, and be smart, too. Start with Depression-era German politics.
Well spoken != good.
Well spoken == good at lying to you.
In my day, we had 320x200, and 16 colors. By God, we were thankful for it!
The goal is eliminate, not integrate.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
You're right. These days, we catch them, first.
You might be a TFH net-kook if:
1) You think "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon" is compelling and thought-provoking.
2) You think missiles hit the pentagon on 9/11.
3) You think the CIA is cooking your brain with mind-control rays, and only the qualudes keep them out.
4) You think every arrest, every news item, and the arrangement of your morning Alpha-Bits cereal during an election-year cycle are part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
To a net-kook, everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes, the net-kooks are right, if only because a broken clock is still correct twice a day.
You're right, it can't possibly be a real terrorist plot. I mean, blowing up airplanes? Sounds a little far-fetched for me.
Troo dat.
During the Renaissance, a number of works by "great" artists (as they are recognized now) had their works "re-used" for the canvas. Before fairly modern times, art mediums were very expesive, and not easy to come by. More often than not, you had to reuse what you had.
Think of it as mideval recycling.
Bob,
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KDE will be the perfect desktop for me when I don't have to include all the extra cruft. I love the UI and basic apps, and I like select apps from each package, but the vast majority of it is a waste of space for me.
That said, I'm still emerging it today.
Does somebody else find it funny, how the web sites have become verbs. Look at the button 'Google Slashdot'. Imagine 'Slashdot Google' or 'Slashdot University of California' buttons to kill the web sites.
Very appropos. If Slashdot were a university, it would definitely be in California.
Ba-DUM-bum-CCCCHHHHH!!!!
You clicked on the link. Stop whining.
You got on cross-platform. I never knew they had a cross platform version.
Back a few years ago (actually it might be five, now), I would design all my web designs with Opera (my main browser, this is back in the Opera 5 days), and later test & tweak for IE. When Mozilla started gaining traction, I started receiving complaints that none of my designs worked in the new browser. After downloading Mozilla, and using the new W3C.org validator, I discovered that all of my designs, while displaying fine in both Opera and IE, were hopelessly broken, both in XHTML and CSS. After fixing my problem designs for Mozilla, I found that they also still worked flawlessly in Opera and IE. So, I decided to start using Mozilla exclusively, with Opera and IE as my final tests. Mozilla was still a bloated warthog next to Opera, which was a drawback, but with the introduction of Firefox that problem was alleviated. As a beginner in web design, Opera and IE allowed me too much leeway in crafting bad code.
As for buying a browser, it's irrelevant now that Opera's free, but I'll say, for the sake of justifying my earlier switch to free browsers, that the cost at the time did not justify (in my opinion) the difference in quality between Opera and IE (or Mozilla). For the same reason, though I acknowledge that VC++ does in fact produce tighter machine code on Win32, I still use the Cygwin g++ compiler, because the difference in quality is not great enought to justify the large investment in the better compiler. g++ is just "good enough," and so was Mozilla when I made the switch from Opera.
Well, there are now two very, very good reasons why I don't use Opera. One I'll quote from my original post: "Also, as a web designer, Opera was a bad development platform because it had the same tolerance for bad HTML IE had."
The other is this: it's not cross-platform. I run Windows at work, Linux at home, and I want a homogeneous set of software. That means I run Firefox, Thunderbird, and OO.org at both locations. I'm also soon going to need to run a Mac at home, as well, and Opera doesn't support that, either.
Unless you are talking about rendering eye-candy? I still don't get what you're talking about here.
I think it's just guilt-by-association. No, Firefox does not have any "eye candy" to speak of. When trying to find fault with FOSS apps though, it's a popular criticism to trot out. So, we'll complain about the icons and say all Mozilla cares about is "eye candy."
In any event, my opinion of Opera is pretty low. I used it exclusively back when Firefox was nascent, and Mozilla was a bloated warthog. But when Firefox really came into its own, I switched away from (what I considered) annoying adware (and no, I won't buy a browser; it's not 1995 anymore).
Also, as a web designer, Opera was a bad development platform because it had the same tolerance for bad HTML IE had.
So, if I read a ten, fifteen, maybe thirty-year-old book, can I submit quotes from it as news, too?
Heck, tomorrow I think I'll submit a story about Sir Isaac Newton discovering gravity.
I don't disagree with anything you said, you simply seem to have misread my comment and the post it was replying to.
You're right. I did. My apologies.
Last thing we need is another horde of thirteen-year-old boys running around a virtual playground dressed up as hot female zerg hydralisks.
If you approached the situation from a non-American point of view, most of the issues you raise with Iran could be applied to the US equally, and with more historical evidence rather than mere conjecture.
With the exception that we have a secularist court system comprised mostly of progressives (one judge with the 10 commandments is actually national news over here), a public education system that is fanatically progressive, and journalists who say all manner of things about the ruling government without any repercussions whatsoever. If, from a non-American point of view, you find a large number of similarities between America and Iran, it is probably because your view of America is as uninformed as your view of Iran.
Yes, USA, where the ignorant (that's you) can choose not to listen to people because of a LABEL. If you were as progressive as you think you are, you might actually RTFA and find out it's not a religious publication.
Smooth you.
Yeah, and I'll mod you down before you even post.
You convinced me. I'm staying the hell away from these "alternative fuels" The Man (tm) wants me to use. More gasoline for me, please!
I don't mind tinfoil hats, but the melodrama was a bit much.