Why should they? What is gained by IPv6? Nothing currently. Oh you get to say, "Dude! I'm IPv6!" Big deal. NAT has stifled IPv6 for the masses and brought at least some level of security to Winblows users around the globe. The idea that the whole government should be on it is probably the compulsion of a bunch of advocates. In the case of the government, I can live with it. As for the rest of us it's really just a solution who's problem has largely already been solved.
With the level of censorship in China saying these folks are "on the Internet" is like saying all those AOL users are "on the Internet." To take it further, it's like saying people who eat Spam are carnivours. I mean, c'mon!
Even right here in America catfish get pretty big. My middle school bus driver hauled in a 130lb and there were tales of fish way bigger than that in Pickwick Lake in Tennessee. Deep lakes and river channels apparently are favored by these monsters!
It's moot anyway. Analog isn't just going to go dark anytime soon. The idea that within 5 years it will is rediculous. Why? Because the vast majority of users probably still get TV this way. Until that number lowers significantly enough that advertisers can simply write them off, it's here.
Okay. If podcasting exists then it stands to reason that it already had such support. Isn't it just downloading someone's audio and playing it? Is iTunes merely adding "sites" to iTunes that you can goto and GET audio like this?
THat's nuts. If that's the case why do so many businesses do it? Especially small businesses. There is little cost to dispute it unless it goes to court and it generally isn't going to. The Dept. of Labor has a dispute process. I would venture to guess when you lose there you don't fight it that often. I can't see a fraud going through that process because he would be discovered. Perhaps it's different in other states.
This is smart. By delaying the release of both Longhorn and IE7 they'e been able to incorperate technology that we've all been using for months or a year. What it will give them is time to bastardize it, which they will no doubt do. This is why stories like this are somewhat important, so other companies can have some idea of what they are up to and not be blindsided by M$ "innovation."
Frankly, I give about as much of a $hit about Longhorn as I do my next defication and less about IE7. What's sad is people will lap this up like thirsty dogs when it's released.
My aren't we naive! I got a $50 that says if they touch RSS they WILL fsck it up. A tiger can't change his stripes and M$ doesn't seem to even want too. Anytime someone takes off, they seem to take the attitude that "If we could introduce some extension in there that only our software could correctly interpret, then the market for other applications will be hindered. Print it!" I think I'm up to exhibit S that M$ is inherently evil.
In my state, you unemployment is based on the last job you had (or jobs). They look at like the last 6 - 24 months or something. A company has the right to appeal as well. I'm not sure how one would defraud in this case. Joe Schmoe files against Acme Widget. Acme Widget says either a) He never worked here, b) wait, he still works here! (if say the phisher knew he worked there), or c) we don't think he's entitled.
No. It just means that there are more minorities in the Democrat Party. That doesn't mean that Democrats have made good on promises. The problem is one of perception. Democrats are perceived to have all of this tolerance. They have more minorities in their party yet don't appoint them to the highest positions. Hmmm wonder why? Who's really holding them back? Republicans have far less yet are more willing to tap their talent and appoint them to higher positions. You're right, it's no accident that Democrats are viewed as the party most friendly to minorities. It's just what they want them to think. "Keep the bruthuh voting my way but keep him in his place." And when it's a fellow bruthuh doing it, they are more trusting it would seem. An educated minority is bad thing for Democrats.
Is that a bell I hear?
Uh...Democrats telling southerners how to treat blacks? You're really stupid. Like, "requiring surgery" stupid. The Republican Party has done more for blacks than the Democrat Party. Blacks after the Civil War recognized this point and quickly elected Republican governments in nearly every southern state after the war. The Democrats quickly started replacing those governments in subsequent elections by intimidating the blacks from voting. I would remind you that via the Republicans we have a black Supreme Court justice and have had two black Secretaries of State and one is a woman! What promises has the Democrat Party delivered to blacks?
I use 2 Hotmail accounts. The first gets NOTHING but spam. In fact, I have a rule setup that just deletes it all. I really should change that, but the idea that all that spam is impacting their server gives me a warm feeling. The other, I use for anything that I need to fill out. If it happens to generate spam or can I use that.
Look, I don't mind M$ doing stupid things like this. How big of a share does Hotmail have? Probably not much. The more people have problems with it the more they'll stay away. Even better! I live for the day M$ is reduced to an applications company. Where Windows no longer exists. Where THEY are dependent upon licenses from vendors. Total destruction would be nice but I can live with "just another player." I'm convinced M$ is inherently evil. Like murder, molestation, Satan, Eminem. The world would be much better off without it.
You're an idiot. Frankly you not having kids is the best thing you could do for your fellow man. Most firearms deaths in the U.S. are due to illegal firearms. So the idea that we need to make firearms illegal is pointless. Crooks will find them and use them because oddly enough, they have a low esteem for the law to start with. To the rest of us on this planet, this is an obvious point. Many people in this country deter crime everyday with guns. Many police officers do the same. Take away the guns and you get knives and bats and brutal beatings. Killers kill. They will find a way. If they can find a gun or steal one from a cop they'll use it. As someone who has experienced armed abduction first hand, I am thankful the U.S. allows it's citizens to carry guns. Frankly, the more guns in the hands of the diligent, the less likely someone will die at the hands of a killer.
It'd be interesting to know how they arrived at both figures. I mean if you come up with 40% as pirated, could one not give themselves that figure as an arbitrary target. Thus they can surpass it rather quickly and voila! "Efforts via our anti-piracy campaign, and the technology sector embracing legal downloads has allowed us to surpass piracy!"
In other news, Dvorak also suspects the sun has a predisposition to rise in the East. "How else can you explain this routine rising, everyday it seems to follow this blind path from East to West!" This is really getting old. I mean, every new, remotely appealing technology gets mimicked by M$...er..."innovated" by M$.
I wonder how much of this has to do with Yahoo's age. Yahoo has been around long enough to become a more "standard" company. One that eventually loses touch with its grassroots beginnings and has to take it's catchy phrases from travelling self-help speakers. Google is probably headed that way, but for now they seem to have a few original ideas left in their backpacks.
The more M$ fails at jumping into a technology just because they can the better. "Cool! File sharing! Let's do that!" They've already fscked up the web browsing. Hopefully filesharing has been spared some of their antics. There's enough to deal with already with MPAA and RIAA.
Forget the fact that we should have actually committed ourselves to destroying that government 30 years ago. What sucks is those fsckers will likely pay less for their Xp than people in the U.S. I believe that's Exhibit R, Microsoft if just evil.
Exactly. OSX running on WhiteBoxen is just a hack. It would be rife with incompatibilities and therefore of little use to the public. I think the assumption by many "in the know" is that moving to an x86 processor = moving to standard PC hardware. This doesn't seem to be what Apple is doing at all. They will still only code to specific motherboards, chipsets, and video cards.
I would only tend to agree with him on that point. Linux really needs a new paradigm in the UI. Chasing Windows is not a way to really win acclaim. What ends up happening is what is happening now, comparison's to Windows.
My problem, philosophically, is that I don't care that M$ might be getting it. I don't distrust M$ because they have shitty software. True, this knowledge should make me want something better, but my problem is with the company culture. They want to do it all at the expense of everyone else. Rather than partnering, they would rather consume. Some think this is just good business, but I'm not sure. Eventually you become a monopoly and quality is secondary. True, they partner with some companies now, but on many key technologies they have simply "innovated" the technology either away from another company or added it into their OS to help stifle one. A big part of me doesn't want them to "get it." Just being honest.
I wonder how much "selling out" has to do with this. Just this week there's a story going around about how voice actors are losing their jobs to big-name celebs. The focus seems to be making animated movies more like their "real" counterparts. So you get movies that are basically Men In Black or Beverly Hills Cop-ish but animated.
As for Anime, while I may be impressed with what these artists are able to do, I'm not sure that is the path for Disney. Personally, it seems if you're not a general follower of the genre you'll find watching it a bit confusing. Most of what I've seen has very fast dialogue and often a hurried feel. That's just a lay-persons observation. I'm not saying it's crap or anything, but I know the zealots will hammer me for "not getting it."
I would agree that KDE is getting as fat as Gnome. It was not always thus, though. I think OSX is definitely less configurable, I'll give you that too. But in the long run, for me, the smoothness and the general functionality makes it not only a pleasant interface, it's execution of style and function just make it taylor-made for the masses. It does so in a way that Windows attempts and Linux just hasn't approached. Perhaps that's why you find it less functional because you are not a typical user. Nor am I, really, but for general use I can appreciate and even enjoy the relative simplicity.
OT: This has been refreshing! We've discussed something in a civil manner, presented points of view, and neither has resorted to even the remotest of negative tones! We may have broken some kind of weird code here!
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Why should they? What is gained by IPv6? Nothing currently. Oh you get to say, "Dude! I'm IPv6!" Big deal. NAT has stifled IPv6 for the masses and brought at least some level of security to Winblows users around the globe. The idea that the whole government should be on it is probably the compulsion of a bunch of advocates. In the case of the government, I can live with it. As for the rest of us it's really just a solution who's problem has largely already been solved.
With the level of censorship in China saying these folks are "on the Internet" is like saying all those AOL users are "on the Internet." To take it further, it's like saying people who eat Spam are carnivours. I mean, c'mon!
Even right here in America catfish get pretty big. My middle school bus driver hauled in a 130lb and there were tales of fish way bigger than that in Pickwick Lake in Tennessee. Deep lakes and river channels apparently are favored by these monsters!
Thanks for the info. That makes more sense and sounds pretty cool, actually.
It's moot anyway. Analog isn't just going to go dark anytime soon. The idea that within 5 years it will is rediculous. Why? Because the vast majority of users probably still get TV this way. Until that number lowers significantly enough that advertisers can simply write them off, it's here.
Okay. If podcasting exists then it stands to reason that it already had such support. Isn't it just downloading someone's audio and playing it? Is iTunes merely adding "sites" to iTunes that you can goto and GET audio like this?
THat's nuts. If that's the case why do so many businesses do it? Especially small businesses. There is little cost to dispute it unless it goes to court and it generally isn't going to. The Dept. of Labor has a dispute process. I would venture to guess when you lose there you don't fight it that often. I can't see a fraud going through that process because he would be discovered. Perhaps it's different in other states.
This is smart. By delaying the release of both Longhorn and IE7 they'e been able to incorperate technology that we've all been using for months or a year. What it will give them is time to bastardize it, which they will no doubt do. This is why stories like this are somewhat important, so other companies can have some idea of what they are up to and not be blindsided by M$ "innovation."
Frankly, I give about as much of a $hit about Longhorn as I do my next defication and less about IE7. What's sad is people will lap this up like thirsty dogs when it's released.
My aren't we naive! I got a $50 that says if they touch RSS they WILL fsck it up. A tiger can't change his stripes and M$ doesn't seem to even want too. Anytime someone takes off, they seem to take the attitude that "If we could introduce some extension in there that only our software could correctly interpret, then the market for other applications will be hindered. Print it!" I think I'm up to exhibit S that M$ is inherently evil.
In my state, you unemployment is based on the last job you had (or jobs). They look at like the last 6 - 24 months or something. A company has the right to appeal as well. I'm not sure how one would defraud in this case. Joe Schmoe files against Acme Widget. Acme Widget says either a) He never worked here, b) wait, he still works here! (if say the phisher knew he worked there), or c) we don't think he's entitled.
No. It just means that there are more minorities in the Democrat Party. That doesn't mean that Democrats have made good on promises. The problem is one of perception. Democrats are perceived to have all of this tolerance. They have more minorities in their party yet don't appoint them to the highest positions. Hmmm wonder why? Who's really holding them back? Republicans have far less yet are more willing to tap their talent and appoint them to higher positions. You're right, it's no accident that Democrats are viewed as the party most friendly to minorities. It's just what they want them to think. "Keep the bruthuh voting my way but keep him in his place." And when it's a fellow bruthuh doing it, they are more trusting it would seem. An educated minority is bad thing for Democrats.
Is that a bell I hear?
Uh...Democrats telling southerners how to treat blacks? You're really stupid. Like, "requiring surgery" stupid. The Republican Party has done more for blacks than the Democrat Party. Blacks after the Civil War recognized this point and quickly elected Republican governments in nearly every southern state after the war. The Democrats quickly started replacing those governments in subsequent elections by intimidating the blacks from voting. I would remind you that via the Republicans we have a black Supreme Court justice and have had two black Secretaries of State and one is a woman! What promises has the Democrat Party delivered to blacks?
I use 2 Hotmail accounts. The first gets NOTHING but spam. In fact, I have a rule setup that just deletes it all. I really should change that, but the idea that all that spam is impacting their server gives me a warm feeling. The other, I use for anything that I need to fill out. If it happens to generate spam or can I use that.
Look, I don't mind M$ doing stupid things like this. How big of a share does Hotmail have? Probably not much. The more people have problems with it the more they'll stay away. Even better! I live for the day M$ is reduced to an applications company. Where Windows no longer exists. Where THEY are dependent upon licenses from vendors. Total destruction would be nice but I can live with "just another player."
I'm convinced M$ is inherently evil. Like murder, molestation, Satan, Eminem. The world would be much better off without it.
You're an idiot. Frankly you not having kids is the best thing you could do for your fellow man. Most firearms deaths in the U.S. are due to illegal firearms. So the idea that we need to make firearms illegal is pointless. Crooks will find them and use them because oddly enough, they have a low esteem for the law to start with. To the rest of us on this planet, this is an obvious point. Many people in this country deter crime everyday with guns. Many police officers do the same. Take away the guns and you get knives and bats and brutal beatings. Killers kill. They will find a way. If they can find a gun or steal one from a cop they'll use it. As someone who has experienced armed abduction first hand, I am thankful the U.S. allows it's citizens to carry guns. Frankly, the more guns in the hands of the diligent, the less likely someone will die at the hands of a killer.
It'd be interesting to know how they arrived at both figures. I mean if you come up with 40% as pirated, could one not give themselves that figure as an arbitrary target. Thus they can surpass it rather quickly and voila! "Efforts via our anti-piracy campaign, and the technology sector embracing legal downloads has allowed us to surpass piracy!"
In other news, Dvorak also suspects the sun has a predisposition to rise in the East. "How else can you explain this routine rising, everyday it seems to follow this blind path from East to West!"
This is really getting old. I mean, every new, remotely appealing technology gets mimicked by M$...er..."innovated" by M$.
I wonder how much of this has to do with Yahoo's age. Yahoo has been around long enough to become a more "standard" company. One that eventually loses touch with its grassroots beginnings and has to take it's catchy phrases from travelling self-help speakers. Google is probably headed that way, but for now they seem to have a few original ideas left in their backpacks.
The more M$ fails at jumping into a technology just because they can the better. "Cool! File sharing! Let's do that!" They've already fscked up the web browsing. Hopefully filesharing has been spared some of their antics. There's enough to deal with already with MPAA and RIAA.
Forget the fact that we should have actually committed ourselves to destroying that government 30 years ago. What sucks is those fsckers will likely pay less for their Xp than people in the U.S. I believe that's Exhibit R, Microsoft if just evil.
PearPC, oh yeah that bastion of emulation! I forget the throngs of people living a life of bliss running that.
Exactly. OSX running on WhiteBoxen is just a hack. It would be rife with incompatibilities and therefore of little use to the public. I think the assumption by many "in the know" is that moving to an x86 processor = moving to standard PC hardware. This doesn't seem to be what Apple is doing at all. They will still only code to specific motherboards, chipsets, and video cards.
I would only tend to agree with him on that point. Linux really needs a new paradigm in the UI. Chasing Windows is not a way to really win acclaim. What ends up happening is what is happening now, comparison's to Windows.
My problem, philosophically, is that I don't care that M$ might be getting it. I don't distrust M$ because they have shitty software. True, this knowledge should make me want something better, but my problem is with the company culture. They want to do it all at the expense of everyone else. Rather than partnering, they would rather consume. Some think this is just good business, but I'm not sure. Eventually you become a monopoly and quality is secondary. True, they partner with some companies now, but on many key technologies they have simply "innovated" the technology either away from another company or added it into their OS to help stifle one. A big part of me doesn't want them to "get it." Just being honest.
I wonder how much "selling out" has to do with this. Just this week there's a story going around about how voice actors are losing their jobs to big-name celebs. The focus seems to be making animated movies more like their "real" counterparts. So you get movies that are basically Men In Black or Beverly Hills Cop-ish but animated.
As for Anime, while I may be impressed with what these artists are able to do, I'm not sure that is the path for Disney. Personally, it seems if you're not a general follower of the genre you'll find watching it a bit confusing. Most of what I've seen has very fast dialogue and often a hurried feel. That's just a lay-persons observation. I'm not saying it's crap or anything, but I know the zealots will hammer me for "not getting it."
I would agree that KDE is getting as fat as Gnome. It was not always thus, though. I think OSX is definitely less configurable, I'll give you that too. But in the long run, for me, the smoothness and the general functionality makes it not only a pleasant interface, it's execution of style and function just make it taylor-made for the masses. It does so in a way that Windows attempts and Linux just hasn't approached. Perhaps that's why you find it less functional because you are not a typical user. Nor am I, really, but for general use I can appreciate and even enjoy the relative simplicity.
OT: This has been refreshing! We've discussed something in a civil manner, presented points of view, and neither has resorted to even the remotest of negative tones! We may have broken some kind of weird code here!