I agree to an extent, but the IS should can and does put a lot of pressure on other countries.
What if Bob says "I will beat you up if you do not do x?". Or if Bob says "I will pay you to do X"? Surely Bob has to take some of the blame.
Now consider the US telling Canada that other trade disputes will be resolved if Canada passes the copyright laws the US wants. If Canada passes those laws, then the US has to share the blame.
Drugs are not exactly a good example of things that are made illegal because they infringe on the rights of others, are they?
Also, the US has definitely been responsible for drug laws around the world. The UK, for example, originally banned a range of drugs from marijuana to heroin because of US pressure.
1. Not in my experience. 2. The only study I know said break even was five mins. 3. A few watts of US is going to do significant damage? 4. You may have a point.
Why is Gnome Look a trusted site? It is a place people upload stuff of.
Anyone can register and start uploading (at least thats the impression their FAQs give). There is not personal contact, no verification, no bug tracking system, no signing, no real community etc.
I am not saying it would be impossible to get malware into a repo, but it would take either:
1) Compromising a mirror and being able to fake signatures, or, 2) Making actual contributions, or, 3) placing the malware in the upstream source.
Note that using two or three to put the malware in a widely installed package is going to take a lot of patience.
X-screensavers includes one that is supposed to reverse the LCD equivalent of screen burn. I run it occasionally. It makes the screen flicker, and will probably hospitalise any epileptic who sees it.
If you want Linux to grow and reach more people, as opposed to being a geek niche, then you should forget about requiring people to have the skills necessary to patch the source.
Not every user needs to do it, but that every skilled user can do it AND they can help everyone else by doing so: one person in a big organisation can create a patch that can then be applied to all their machines, a package maintainer can apply a patch and tens of millions of people using the same distro will get it automatically, etc.
The fact that so many people make sense of the new names by thinking of them in terms of the old suggests that this was not a great piece of branding. Why did anyone think "we have three distinct product lines with different features and strong brand images within our market, so lets give them all new names, all three of which are nearly the same"
The traditional dictionaries you use are poor if the do not cover common and well established slang like that. The OED does, even in the free web version: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/cock
Urban dictionary is useful for slang, but you are somewhat exaggerating things.
You should only use the web to look at proper websites owned by proper big media companies, preferably ones you pay a subscription for. There is no porn on the WSJ web site, is there?
This guy was not only looking at hippy commie child porn websites, he was looking at P2P which is evil and only used to steal music and films to fund terrorism.
This is is why the owners of the internet tubes are trying to make sure that people can only see content that they know is safe. The "net neutrality" lobby want some idiotic system called "free markets" or "competition" - it is far better to trust The Great Leader and The Dear Leader to tell us what is good for us.
God also commands you to read what your leader tell you. This is why the great Christian writer CS Lewis, in his book The Last Battle, has the heroic ape Shift say "True freedom is doing what I tell you". Some people will tell you that lion us the real hero, but why does the lion see his country destroyed, while Shift is last seen leaving with the god Tash?
The FBI should have had the power to hang him on the spot without wasting time arresting him. Anyone who might have had child porn, or might have thought about child porn, smiles at a child, or takes a photograph of child (even their own) is clearly an evil child pornographer and should be immediately dealt with.
No, its best if MS, and other big tech companies lose a few of these. Then they will start lobbying for better patent laws, and perhaps even an end to software patents.
It is perfectly possible to put ads on the side of the page, and have them load after the page content.
People do click on ads if they see something that they are interested in: that why contextual ads work well. They can easily get click through rates in low single digit percentages without deception, and with the advertisers getting decent conversions (of clicks to sales).
I think "chinese made" is the clue. IF you tie it in with efforts to make it harder for small Chinese manufacturers to get IMEI's, this is part of an effort by phone manufacturers to get cheap phones off the market.
Your right, I love easy app installs. The app stores I use are called "Synaptc" and "RPMDrake".
It actually takes me three clicks, rather than one, but maybe that's why Linux is regarded as geeky.
More seriously, app stores are a problem if they are the only way to install software. I would like something like these Archaos tablets, but with an OS that allowed me to install the same hardware as on the desktop.
I have a friend who's an amateur musician and devices (his mobile phone) have started to deny him the ability to play his own music due to it being "unlicensed".
Its not his music. All music belongs to the properly recognised music industry. You see the music industry is God, therefore nothing can be created except by them or with their help.
He is clearly some sort of hippy communist terrorist music thief.
Outsources are mostly not governments. If you are a private sector business, there is not particular reason to think foreign nationals are less trustworthy than your own.
A lot of outsources are multinationals, so the idea of foreign nationals is not necessarily important anyway. If a company is officially head-quartered in Ireland for tax purposes, but most of the operations are in the UK, and the biggest shareholders lives in Monaco (also for tax reasons), what does nationality mean?
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I agree to an extent, but the IS should can and does put a lot of pressure on other countries.
What if Bob says "I will beat you up if you do not do x?". Or if Bob says "I will pay you to do X"? Surely Bob has to take some of the blame.
Now consider the US telling Canada that other trade disputes will be resolved if Canada passes the copyright laws the US wants. If Canada passes those laws, then the US has to share the blame.
Drugs are not exactly a good example of things that are made illegal because they infringe on the rights of others, are they?
Also, the US has definitely been responsible for drug laws around the world. The UK, for example, originally banned a range of drugs from marijuana to heroin because of US pressure.
That's a good thing. They would have no idea what to do if they had nothing to compile.
1. Not in my experience.
2. The only study I know said break even was five mins.
3. A few watts of US is going to do significant damage?
4. You may have a point.
Green patent trolls, green cross-licensing agreements, green blocking of competitors....
Why is Gnome Look a trusted site? It is a place people upload stuff of.
Anyone can register and start uploading (at least thats the impression their FAQs give). There is not personal contact, no verification, no bug tracking system, no signing, no real community etc.
I am not saying it would be impossible to get malware into a repo, but it would take either:
1) Compromising a mirror and being able to fake signatures, or,
2) Making actual contributions, or,
3) placing the malware in the upstream source.
Note that using two or three to put the malware in a widely installed package is going to take a lot of patience.
X-screensavers includes one that is supposed to reverse the LCD equivalent of screen burn. I run it occasionally. It makes the screen flicker, and will probably hospitalise any epileptic who sees it.
If you want Linux to grow and reach more people, as opposed to being a geek niche, then you should forget about requiring people to have the skills necessary to patch the source.
Not every user needs to do it, but that every skilled user can do it AND they can help everyone else by doing so: one person in a big organisation can create a patch that can then be applied to all their machines, a package maintainer can apply a patch and tens of millions of people using the same distro will get it automatically, etc.
The fact that so many people make sense of the new names by thinking of them in terms of the old suggests that this was not a great piece of branding. Why did anyone think "we have three distinct product lines with different features and strong brand images within our market, so lets give them all new names, all three of which are nearly the same"
The traditional dictionaries you use are poor if the do not cover common and well established slang like that. The OED does, even in the free web version: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/cock
Urban dictionary is useful for slang, but you are somewhat exaggerating things.
You should only use the web to look at proper websites owned by proper big media companies, preferably ones you pay a subscription for. There is no porn on the WSJ web site, is there?
This guy was not only looking at hippy commie child porn websites, he was looking at P2P which is evil and only used to steal music and films to fund terrorism.
This is is why the owners of the internet tubes are trying to make sure that people can only see content that they know is safe. The "net neutrality" lobby want some idiotic system called "free markets" or "competition" - it is far better to trust The Great Leader and The Dear Leader to tell us what is good for us.
God also commands you to read what your leader tell you. This is why the great Christian writer CS Lewis, in his book The Last Battle, has the heroic ape Shift say "True freedom is doing what I tell you". Some people will tell you that lion us the real hero, but why does the lion see his country destroyed, while Shift is last seen leaving with the god Tash?
The FBI should have had the power to hang him on the spot without wasting time arresting him. Anyone who might have had child porn, or might have thought about child porn, smiles at a child, or takes a photograph of child (even their own) is clearly an evil child pornographer and should be immediately dealt with.
Aren't educational establishments supposed to be doing research, as a part of their fundamental reason for being?
The computers were in schools, not educational establishments. Their job is to keep kids out of the way so their parents can go to work.
If something bad happens, it is ALWAYS someone's fault. There is no room for what were once called "accidents", "acts of God", or "fate".
That's because God is difficult to sue, and it is even harder to enforce a judgement against Him.
If you print only a few pages a month it takes a long time for that to compensate for the difference in upfront cost.
You do not.
You insert a blank CD, the CD buring app will start automatically. If you cannot figure it out, then click on the help menu.
If it does not start automatically then you look through the start menu for the CD burning app.
GP is wrong. You do not send non-geek newbies to man pages or the command line.
No, its best if MS, and other big tech companies lose a few of these. Then they will start lobbying for better patent laws, and perhaps even an end to software patents.
Exactly. Its a meaningless concession that will work to the disadvantage of Murdoch and - although I think some sites will gain from it.
Slashdot is so slow that by the time I see anything here I have read it, blogged about it, and twittered about it hours ago.
It beginning to discourage me from commenting here (especially as I use twitter more).
Sorry, we are too busy trying to restrain OUR insane leaders.
It is perfectly possible to put ads on the side of the page, and have them load after the page content.
People do click on ads if they see something that they are interested in: that why contextual ads work well. They can easily get click through rates in low single digit percentages without deception, and with the advertisers getting decent conversions (of clicks to sales).
I think "chinese made" is the clue. IF you tie it in with efforts to make it harder for small Chinese manufacturers to get IMEI's, this is part of an effort by phone manufacturers to get cheap phones off the market.
Your right, I love easy app installs. The app stores I use are called "Synaptc" and "RPMDrake".
It actually takes me three clicks, rather than one, but maybe that's why Linux is regarded as geeky.
More seriously, app stores are a problem if they are the only way to install software. I would like something like these Archaos tablets, but with an OS that allowed me to install the same hardware as on the desktop.
Paying to pirate solves a lot of problems, like things not being available in your country, or only in an DRM'd format. It could be well worth it.
I have a friend who's an amateur musician and devices (his mobile phone) have started to deny him the ability to play his own music due to it being "unlicensed".
Its not his music. All music belongs to the properly recognised music industry. You see the music industry is God, therefore nothing can be created except by them or with their help.
He is clearly some sort of hippy communist terrorist music thief.
Outsources are mostly not governments. If you are a private sector business, there is not particular reason to think foreign nationals are less trustworthy than your own.
A lot of outsources are multinationals, so the idea of foreign nationals is not necessarily important anyway. If a company is officially head-quartered in Ireland for tax purposes, but most of the operations are in the UK, and the biggest shareholders lives in Monaco (also for tax reasons), what does nationality mean?
It appears that the picture has been removed from the site it appears on, not manually removed from Google search results.