Well, if you're one of those people, who miss the "good" old times, where the only way to inform themselves was the unidirectional stream of bullshit that is called TV, and there was a strong suppression of free thought / self-thinking (compared to now), then I bet you want to go back to where it was easy to control people.
The Internet really opened a can of worms. For the first time, it was impossible to control information anymore. On a global scale. Must have been a disaster for some people.
So what you're saying is that since the state provides a service, if you could use that service you should pay for it?
How is this different from, oh, say EVERY OTHER STATE SPONSORED SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE for broadcasting.
If it is different is not the question an completely irrelevant. So stop shaking that straw-man. He can't scare us.
And if you think it is ok to let people pay because they *could* use it, then you should go to prison, because clearly you have the necessary tools, and thereby *could* rape a dozen women. Right? Also I will open a hot dog stand in front or your house, and bill you every time you pass it, because you *could* have bought a hot dog.:P
Yes you are right. Not all men/women like that. That's why I only care if someone is the best at his job, and we can work together, when he/she/(it?) has to work for me.:) But I hate so see when it just goes over the top with everything. Same thing with gays. I saw guys that told me about women they adored and things, turn into gays, not because they were gay, but because someone told them to. Same shit as telling gays that they now have to be not gay. Just the other way around. The most funny think is, that nobody said you have to be 100% gay, 100% straight or 100%bi. I bet everybody is a bit in-between, or outside of the average straight or gay (eg extremely straight and extreme gay).
I know as a fact, that this is the case with women too. And the looks and the brain are even two separate entities. So If a women looks like a model, and acts like a girlish boy... Well. Maybe she likes being a construction worker. (But of course it can be just something else.) Conclusion: In reality, nothing is black and white.:)
I loved Delphi and then JBuilder back in the days. And the TurboPascal environment was the best thing I ever coded in. I even adapt todays RAD software to the style that it had (plus my own color scheme from back in the days).
But I wornder what you will do to finally get back to being a real competitor against MS and things like NetBeans. Because you certainly have the brains for it!
And what happens if your Kindle's storage dies? Can you back them up?
The most important thing: What will happen, when Amazon *and* the Kindles died? All books lost, and some people quickly transcribing everything by hand? With DRM I guess so. Defective by design. Indeed. ^^
I want just a generic PDF, HTML (basic formatting is enough) and TXT reader.
So either their DRM is even more of a joke as it is in itself, because if you crack it, it will stay cracked forever......or, there is just a delay until the think asks you, to re-sync with Amazon, or it will stop working. A month? 3 months? more? Have you tested it that long? Is there something in the terms that does state that it will never require something like this? Because in my experience, if it's not explicitly stated, it will happen. ^^
Anyone with the expertise here, to know the facts?
And it absolutely does not matter that it is ludicrous. Because the person who gains from this will not care for all the things you mention. It could even be the very point of installing that system.
Never think you politicians were stupid, when someone can obviously gain something from in. ^^
Educating users? What parallel reality are you from? ^^
It has never worked. So perhaps it would be time to learn that it never will. ^^
After years of designing the interface of an internally used program of a medium-sized company, I learned one thing for sure: They will *not* ever learn to do it right, as long as they have a choice. So if you want users to use your software in the correct way, you have to make it the only way to use the program. This does not mean that you can't offer a version for power-users who know and care about what they're doing. But for most people, who just want to get the job done in the most effortless way (and rightfully so!), this is the only way to go.
I leave it as a homework to you, how to implement this in an OS. ^^
...it will have *absolutely no changes on the character of the person*, to have periodical injections of hormones into the body.
Yeah right.
This might be a wild guess, as I have no proof, but the correlation between the anti-baby-pill and and the rise of feminism is pretty disturbing... Mind you that I am a strong defender of equal rights (the intonation is on "rights"), as I have never understood why there were different rights in the first place. It just makes no sense. So I thing it was great that they stopped accepting that shit.
What was not that great, was that women themselves somehow acted, as if some female *qualities* were something bad that they needed to fight. We're *not* the same. We share similarities, and have differences. And it is perfectly fine this way. Women for example just love different things than men. If we like to build machines, and they like to care for people, then why force us into the opposite, just to be "equal"? Or to think further: If you force anything into something, to fight being forced into something, something is very wrong.
One thing that comes to mind, is that those pills simulate being pregnant. And if you know how most animals act when they are pregnant... I mean things like wild cats chasing huge bears up into the trees, and small critters attacking you because you are too close, you know that this state makes one very defensive. Which is just right when there are kids to protect. But without kids very likely misdirected.
So what I really would like to know is: What are the real effects on the psyche of a woman, when she is on that stuff. Because I would really hate to know, that my GF is sad or angry for no reason (according to herself), just because of that stuff. I could not do that to her, just for sex. At least I would take my share of it. And ideally, nobody would have to.
True that. But what if you have a good game AND shiny graphics? I mean look at Quake 3. No story. Grapically very outdated too, but had shiny graphics when it was new. But still alive and kicking, with a big loving community. Think of things like CPMA and Defrag.
Or how Half-Life became Counterstrike in the early days.
I think the graphics can be there, and still if it's a great game it will continue to be played.
About the hallucinations and unpredicable ways? have you ever played System Shock 1 and 2? Because if you don't care for the outdated graphics, and have a working imagination, boy will you be in for a ride! (Try throwing grenades in an the robots in the core reactor in System Shock 1, when you are on berzerk drugs, and still have to constantly inject anti-radiation stuff, *and* watch the cameras... while Shodan creeps the hell outta you. Or hearing the log of a person, seeing his face, then finding his head lying around in some air duct, and throwing it at the crazy robot that attacks you. The meaning behind this... of the totally crazy robot who wants to control the world, and fails because of simple things. Or of the betrayal....is just as deep things like as Neuromancer. Just with much more adrenaline! ^^)
I realize it does reflect poorly on Apple to have apps that are in very poor taste
No, it doesn't. It reflects poorly on those that created the app.
Some people are just retarded, and would call the street builder criminal because someone got killed on their streets. Which reflects poorly on those people.
Vista 64 is a very stable operating system when your computer is fast enough to support it and the drivers are good.
This was already said. And no matter what you make of it, the big when still stays. And it still is an additional limitation (to Linux) for no reason. The question why anyone would deliberately waste those resources still stands.
As for your anecdote of the freeze: You went on it with the Windows attitude. "If it freezes, there is nothing I can do" (And: How would you "boot" Firefox? Starting it, yes. Booting = OS startup.) If you ever understood Linux (and most distributions deliberately hinder you from doing so), you would know that the very point of Linux is, that there is no dead end. In your case, I would have waited (5 minutes) to see if it really freezes, and if not rebooted. Then I would have looked at the logs for that time frame, and checked for any errors. (If there were none, I would have raised the log level, and repeated everything up to this point.) Then I would have searched the net for the error messages, or for the freezing problem (if there still were no errors in the log). In case I found nothing, I would have tried some chat, posted my question to the Ubuntu forum, to the bug-tracker (of course I expect you to find the name and version of that wireless driver), and finally written a mail to the developer himself (Address is usually easy to find, in the code or on the site given by the package manager's info output). Then I would just have disabled the wireless net, and maybe looked for another driver or way to get to it. And 1) Yes I expect every computer user to be able to do this. Else he is not a user, but just plays on the thing like a chimp on a glockenspiel. 2) Exactly the same driver problem could have happened in Windows. And in fact it is not even relevant for the OS, because it's the failure of the driver developer. Which most likely is the fault of the company producing the device, for being lazy bums. Nearly no OS can help you against this. (And you wouldn't want to use such a OS for your daily work anyway. ^^)
I have Norton Internet Security 2009, and it keeps the OS safe.
Sorry, but right there, I stopped taking your comment serious. I mean: For real?? Also: You must be new here! ^^
Guys guys. I have nothing against Apple, when it is the right thing for some people.:)
And I would not know why to have anything against gays. I mean, how in the world would they hurt me? I don't get it...
But you totally and completely fell for it. Lol. Makes it even more funny. You guys are suuuch hypocrites, my children will not believe me when I tell them in 20 years. So funny! XD
I will *ever* not publish anything in the Apple store, as long as there is any limitation at all. I don't care, even if I lose most of my potential clients because of it. Mod me troll, but I think if they are stupid enough, to buy that crappy piece of shit that the iPhone is, and put up with all those weirdo and hypocrite US-bible-belt-style rules of Apple, that they would not be clients you want to have anyway.
Imagine them approaching your work with that attitude, and then spamming in all the forums and blogs on the net about it, with their retarded attitude. No thanks.
I hope that the USA splits up in retardo-country and a normal country as soon an possible. So good people don't have to be punished for the idiocy of others.
The more you will mod me troll for this, the more I will know how right I am. ^^
Come on. That one is nearly too simple to answer: Is there any way at all, to submit non-personal data on that site?
If yes, then the code that is rendered personally for you can submit that too.
Also, I have a tip for you: People who try to emphasize words by writing them all-caps, look like aggressively screaming idiots. Not what you would want to have associated with your arguments, if you really want to convince others. You know... offended people have the habit of not taking you very serious, no matter if your arguments were good or bad.
I have searched all over, for the German version of "The principles of relativity" and/or "Relativity : the Special and General Theory", but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone have a link?
I feel kinda dirty or stupid, living in Germany, having German as my quasi-first-language, and reading the words of a German scientist... in English. ^^
So you tell me someone made something up. And it goes against everything else (like the owners not wanting to sell). And now we should tell you our opinion about it?
Get the fuck out, before a kick your sorry ass, loser! We're not going to fall for that shi.... oh, wait...
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Well, if you're one of those people, who miss the "good" old times, where the only way to inform themselves was the unidirectional stream of bullshit that is called TV, and there was a strong suppression of free thought / self-thinking (compared to now), then I bet you want to go back to where it was easy to control people.
The Internet really opened a can of worms. For the first time, it was impossible to control information anymore. On a global scale. Must have been a disaster for some people.
So what you're saying is that since the state provides a service, if you could use that service you should pay for it?
How is this different from, oh, say EVERY OTHER STATE SPONSORED SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE for broadcasting.
If it is different is not the question an completely irrelevant. So stop shaking that straw-man. He can't scare us.
And if you think it is ok to let people pay because they *could* use it, then you should go to prison, because clearly you have the necessary tools, and thereby *could* rape a dozen women. Right? :P
Also I will open a hot dog stand in front or your house, and bill you every time you pass it, because you *could* have bought a hot dog.
Simple: You only know when you look at both of them. ^^
Does the universe exist, when I don't look at it?
Mind you: You can not ever prove that the whole universe is *not* an imagination of your brain. ^^
Yes you are right. Not all men/women like that. That's why I only care if someone is the best at his job, and we can work together, when he/she/(it?) has to work for me. :)
But I hate so see when it just goes over the top with everything. Same thing with gays. I saw guys that told me about women they adored and things, turn into gays, not because they were gay, but because someone told them to. Same shit as telling gays that they now have to be not gay. Just the other way around.
The most funny think is, that nobody said you have to be 100% gay, 100% straight or 100%bi. I bet everybody is a bit in-between, or outside of the average straight or gay (eg extremely straight and extreme gay).
I know as a fact, that this is the case with women too. And the looks and the brain are even two separate entities. So If a women looks like a model, and acts like a girlish boy... Well. Maybe she likes being a construction worker. (But of course it can be just something else.) Conclusion: In reality, nothing is black and white. :)
I bet you found it funny. And you still snickered right now. You just had to act like you don't. Admit it. Admit it! ;)
and now it's You*. YouTube, YouPorn, YouEverything...
Let me guess: You were barefoot all trough the all year long show storms, and it was uphill to the generator, and uphill back.
So you must have been on a arctic station on the south pole, with the shoe container lost on the way, correct? ^^
I loved Delphi and then JBuilder back in the days. And the TurboPascal environment was the best thing I ever coded in. I even adapt todays RAD software to the style that it had (plus my own color scheme from back in the days).
But I wornder what you will do to finally get back to being a real competitor against MS and things like NetBeans. Because you certainly have the brains for it!
And what happens if your Kindle's storage dies? Can you back them up?
The most important thing: What will happen, when Amazon *and* the Kindles died? All books lost, and some people quickly transcribing everything by hand?
With DRM I guess so. Defective by design. Indeed. ^^
I want just a generic PDF, HTML (basic formatting is enough) and TXT reader.
So either their DRM is even more of a joke as it is in itself, because if you crack it, it will stay cracked forever... ...or, there is just a delay until the think asks you, to re-sync with Amazon, or it will stop working.
A month? 3 months? more? Have you tested it that long? Is there something in the terms that does state that it will never require something like this?
Because in my experience, if it's not explicitly stated, it will happen. ^^
Anyone with the expertise here, to know the facts?
And it absolutely does not matter that it is ludicrous. Because the person who gains from this will not care for all the things you mention. It could even be the very point of installing that system.
Never think you politicians were stupid, when someone can obviously gain something from in. ^^
Educating users? What parallel reality are you from? ^^
It has never worked. So perhaps it would be time to learn that it never will. ^^
After years of designing the interface of an internally used program of a medium-sized company, I learned one thing for sure:
They will *not* ever learn to do it right, as long as they have a choice. So if you want users to use your software in the correct way, you have to make it the only way to use the program.
This does not mean that you can't offer a version for power-users who know and care about what they're doing.
But for most people, who just want to get the job done in the most effortless way (and rightfully so!), this is the only way to go.
I leave it as a homework to you, how to implement this in an OS. ^^
That thing doesn't work anyway. ;)
...it will have *absolutely no changes on the character of the person*, to have periodical injections of hormones into the body.
Yeah right.
This might be a wild guess, as I have no proof, but the correlation between the anti-baby-pill and and the rise of feminism is pretty disturbing...
Mind you that I am a strong defender of equal rights (the intonation is on "rights"), as I have never understood why there were different rights in the first place. It just makes no sense. So I thing it was great that they stopped accepting that shit.
What was not that great, was that women themselves somehow acted, as if some female *qualities* were something bad that they needed to fight.
We're *not* the same. We share similarities, and have differences. And it is perfectly fine this way.
Women for example just love different things than men. If we like to build machines, and they like to care for people, then why force us into the opposite, just to be "equal"?
Or to think further: If you force anything into something, to fight being forced into something, something is very wrong.
One thing that comes to mind, is that those pills simulate being pregnant. And if you know how most animals act when they are pregnant... I mean things like wild cats chasing huge bears up into the trees, and small critters attacking you because you are too close, you know that this state makes one very defensive. Which is just right when there are kids to protect. But without kids very likely misdirected.
So what I really would like to know is: What are the real effects on the psyche of a woman, when she is on that stuff. Because I would really hate to know, that my GF is sad or angry for no reason (according to herself), just because of that stuff. I could not do that to her, just for sex. At least I would take my share of it. And ideally, nobody would have to.
... game with VoIP, that needs 15 MB and has its own in-game browser. How will I sell this thing now! *waaaaahh*
I even had a cool name for it: eMacs mobile
True that. But what if you have a good game AND shiny graphics? I mean look at Quake 3. No story. Grapically very outdated too, but had shiny graphics when it was new. But still alive and kicking, with a big loving community. Think of things like CPMA and Defrag.
Or how Half-Life became Counterstrike in the early days.
I think the graphics can be there, and still if it's a great game it will continue to be played.
About the hallucinations and unpredicable ways? have you ever played System Shock 1 and 2? ...is just as deep things like as Neuromancer. Just with much more adrenaline! ^^)
Because if you don't care for the outdated graphics, and have a working imagination, boy will you be in for a ride!
(Try throwing grenades in an the robots in the core reactor in System Shock 1, when you are on berzerk drugs, and still have to constantly inject anti-radiation stuff, *and* watch the cameras... while Shodan creeps the hell outta you. Or hearing the log of a person, seeing his face, then finding his head lying around in some air duct, and throwing it at the crazy robot that attacks you. The meaning behind this... of the totally crazy robot who wants to control the world, and fails because of simple things. Or of the betrayal.
I realize it does reflect poorly on Apple to have apps that are in very poor taste
No, it doesn't. It reflects poorly on those that created the app.
Some people are just retarded, and would call the street builder criminal because someone got killed on their streets.
Which reflects poorly on those people.
But it's not disabled by default. And even if it were: You can still enable it. Try that with rejected AppStore apps...
Vista 64 is a very stable operating system when your computer is fast enough to support it and the drivers are good.
This was already said. And no matter what you make of it, the big when still stays. And it still is an additional limitation (to Linux) for no reason.
The question why anyone would deliberately waste those resources still stands.
As for your anecdote of the freeze: You went on it with the Windows attitude. "If it freezes, there is nothing I can do" (And: How would you "boot" Firefox? Starting it, yes. Booting = OS startup.)
If you ever understood Linux (and most distributions deliberately hinder you from doing so), you would know that the very point of Linux is, that there is no dead end.
In your case, I would have waited (5 minutes) to see if it really freezes, and if not rebooted. Then I would have looked at the logs for that time frame, and checked for any errors. (If there were none, I would have raised the log level, and repeated everything up to this point.) Then I would have searched the net for the error messages, or for the freezing problem (if there still were no errors in the log). In case I found nothing, I would have tried some chat, posted my question to the Ubuntu forum, to the bug-tracker (of course I expect you to find the name and version of that wireless driver), and finally written a mail to the developer himself (Address is usually easy to find, in the code or on the site given by the package manager's info output).
Then I would just have disabled the wireless net, and maybe looked for another driver or way to get to it.
And
1) Yes I expect every computer user to be able to do this. Else he is not a user, but just plays on the thing like a chimp on a glockenspiel.
2) Exactly the same driver problem could have happened in Windows. And in fact it is not even relevant for the OS, because it's the failure of the driver developer. Which most likely is the fault of the company producing the device, for being lazy bums. Nearly no OS can help you against this. (And you wouldn't want to use such a OS for your daily work anyway. ^^)
I have Norton Internet Security 2009, and it keeps the OS safe.
Sorry, but right there, I stopped taking your comment serious. I mean: For real?? Also: You must be new here! ^^
Guys guys. I have nothing against Apple, when it is the right thing for some people. :)
And I would not know why to have anything against gays. I mean, how in the world would they hurt me? I don't get it...
But you totally and completely fell for it. Lol. Makes it even more funny. You guys are suuuch hypocrites, my children will not believe me when I tell them in 20 years. So funny! XD
I will *ever* not publish anything in the Apple store, as long as there is any limitation at all. I don't care, even if I lose most of my potential clients because of it. Mod me troll, but I think if they are stupid enough, to buy that crappy piece of shit that the iPhone is, and put up with all those weirdo and hypocrite US-bible-belt-style rules of Apple, that they would not be clients you want to have anyway.
Imagine them approaching your work with that attitude, and then spamming in all the forums and blogs on the net about it, with their retarded attitude. No thanks.
I hope that the USA splits up in retardo-country and a normal country as soon an possible. So good people don't have to be punished for the idiocy of others.
The more you will mod me troll for this, the more I will know how right I am. ^^
Come on. That one is nearly too simple to answer: Is there any way at all, to submit non-personal data on that site?
If yes, then the code that is rendered personally for you can submit that too.
Also, I have a tip for you: People who try to emphasize words by writing them all-caps, look like aggressively screaming idiots. Not what you would want to have associated with your arguments, if you really want to convince others. You know... offended people have the habit of not taking you very serious, no matter if your arguments were good or bad.
I have searched all over, for the German version of "The principles of relativity" and/or "Relativity : the Special and General Theory", but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone have a link?
I feel kinda dirty or stupid, living in Germany, having German as my quasi-first-language, and reading the words of a German scientist... in English. ^^
So you tell me someone made something up. And it goes against everything else (like the owners not wanting to sell). And now we should tell you our opinion about it?
Get the fuck out, before a kick your sorry ass, loser! We're not going to fall for that shi.... oh, wait...
Europe and Asia are NOT countries, and never will be!
Get it in your head, before I come and beat it in.
What an insult...!