Like every other AI-opponent, the major flaw in your reasoning is, well the fact that you can't describe your reasoning. You can say "well, I group things into this and that", but you're only describing the experience of thought. Not the actual mechanisms behind it. Discussions like these tend to never lead anywhere, but no one knows how the mind works. We only experience it at a high level.
Your analogy is flawed. A better analogy would be walking into a store and buying a coke. When the coke is bought you find out that it is, in fact, chained to the store and you have to drink it inside. Hymn is the glass you pour the coke into in order to be able to chill outside where you want to be.
>> How often have *you* wondered why fonts on windows and OSX still look better?
Uhm, actually, not for the past few years. Fonts on Microsoft Windows look like crap. Mac OS X does it good enough. Have you tried using an X11-desktop lately? The fonts were an issue, but not any more.
So judging other people living in another culture according to your local moral standards is "enlightened, cultural superior[...]" ?
Yes. I would absolutely argue that thailand's culture is unenlightened when it comes to (laws surrounding) their king. I will refer to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505237.st m/ as my source and say that things like this put thailand WAY below an enlightened modern society.
I think Evolution is just too unbelievable. It is right up their with the Toothfairy and the Easter Bunny.
That's crazy. You've got the best explanation, and arguably the best supported scientific theory in the history of mankind, for life as we know it. Gravity is less explained damnit.
If you say "Evolution is just too unbelievable" then you're siding with an alternative, which is strange considering THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVE THEORIES. Only religion. And that, my friend, is a cheap way out of actually trying to understand the world. You're not interested, fine, but don't belittle the most complex interactions of the known world. Evolution is FACT. Not fiction. It's not some idea, it's observed fact. You can't argue your way out of it. Micro-evolution is a fancy word for saying "well, we were proven wrong but... ARGH"
The "only two instances" you mention are pretty big ones.
I despise the fact that you _have_ to use iTunes (or 3rd party soft) in order to operate the iPod. I absolutely loathe the fact. I hate it. I hate apple for it. I make it pretty clear that I'm not a fan. I hate to explain myself each and every time. The iPod requires iTunes. iTunes is only available on OSX and Windows. If I want to use the iPod on FC2 for example, I have to use some alternative software. Granted, if I want to use the database function on my iRiver, I do to, but I can still operate the unit fine without a database.
And what the hell is wrong with the file system? I can queue transfers just fine. There's software for that. My collection is larger than 20GB anyway, so I'm going to have to choose what to put on the player, I'd have to do that in iTunes too.
You're being pretty subjective there. Then again, you're modded funny.
I am a Mac user. I recently bought av iRiver. Why not an iPod? Because I weighed them against each other and decided the iRiver was the better choice because of the following.
- The iRiver supports Ogg Vorbis. - The iRiver has better battery life. - The iRiver _can_ play directly from the file system.
You're telling me in your post that these are "generally useless" features. To me they are not. That's why I didn't buy an iPod.
"No its not simple, its a god damn pain in the ass to use regular file system transfers."
To you maybe. To me it's the other way around. You're writing like it's fact, when it really is preference.
I have to make one small comment. Where you said the "O" in Torvalds lacks the stroke in the middle. Torvalds is spelled correctly. There is no "O" with a stroke in the middle. You mean his name is really Törvålds? No.
What you seem to mean is that the letter o and the letter ö, or the letter a and ä, are the same. They are not. They are as different as e and y.
I once had a 40GB Fujitsu drive that decided to fail me. It wouldn't show up at boot. I checked all the cables, nothing. It was my only drive at the time, so I buy a new drive as soon as possible. While being away my computer and the drive cooled a bit, and booting it with the new drive (setting the old as a slave) worked for a while, until things became warm again. I let the computer cool for that night and as soon as I wake up I copy everything from the old drive. I got everything off of it before it died again. Thank god. No data loss, I was happy. But it was close.
Another stupid thing I did was resize a reiserfs partition, ending up trashing my entire hda partition table. I was pretty new to Linux and unix-like systems at the time, but I sat down at my server and read manuals for a few hours. I booted knoppix (which I had burned earlier thank god) and fixed my partition table. No data loss, I was happy. And pretty amazed that I managed it by myself.
Other than that? Well, I've spilled drinks on my keyboard a few times. A couple of sticky keys, but nothing serious. I use a laptop now, so I always keep any drinks about 60cm away to be on the safe side.
...is not the fact that Apple went after PlayFair, that was more or less expected. What scares me is the fact that a large part of the slashdot crowd are siding with apple and big media on this one. Hacking your DVD-player is okay, the right to fiddle with your own devices shall not be infringed upon. Media files, however, are sacred. You shall not use them in any way big media does not approve of.
And why? To please big media, otherwise they would not venture into this internet selling thingy, posts explain. Anyone who does not accept the control big media is forcing upon buyers is a damn dirty pirate, responsible for the thousands of plagues in the world and puts 'us' in a bad light. The brainwashing is apparently working.
Really, what's the difference between deCSS and PlayFair? I don't recall anyone posting that Jon Johansen was guilty.
What's the problem? What can of worms? Homosexual couples can have babies, great! Is there a reason denying homosexuals that if the technology exists (and they're willing to pay for it)?
Ok, it's going to hurt Apple. So what? I'm an Apple user myself, and I like Apple, but I'm not going to treat them differently just because I happen to enjoy their products.
The fact is, they're trying to control something they, in my opinion, have no right to control. They wan't to control my use of my purchased music. If trying to control me is ok, then so is taking that control away from them and giving it back to myself.
Actually, no. You can plug in an USB-WIFI (I use Netgear something or other) and use KisMAC. By the by, why would Linux help if the Airport specs are closed?
Neither is Microsoft Windows. It isn't easy as pie to install and hassle free once running. It takes time to install patches and configure Microsoft Windows too.
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Like every other AI-opponent, the major flaw in your reasoning is, well the fact that you can't describe your reasoning. You can say "well, I group things into this and that", but you're only describing the experience of thought. Not the actual mechanisms behind it. Discussions like these tend to never lead anywhere, but no one knows how the mind works. We only experience it at a high level.
Your analogy is flawed. A better analogy would be walking into a store and buying a coke. When the coke is bought you find out that it is, in fact, chained to the store and you have to drink it inside. Hymn is the glass you pour the coke into in order to be able to chill outside where you want to be.
>> How often have *you* wondered why fonts on windows and OSX still look better?
Uhm, actually, not for the past few years. Fonts on Microsoft Windows look like crap. Mac OS X does it good enough. Have you tried using an X11-desktop lately? The fonts were an issue, but not any more.
Yes. I would absolutely argue that thailand's culture is unenlightened when it comes to (laws surrounding) their king. I will refer to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505237.st m/ as my source and say that things like this put thailand WAY below an enlightened modern society.
That's Hammer and Sickle GNU/Linux!
I don't get it. We've got architects over here in Europe using the metric system. Exactly what's your point?
That's crazy. You've got the best explanation, and arguably the best supported scientific theory in the history of mankind, for life as we know it. Gravity is less explained damnit.
If you say "Evolution is just too unbelievable" then you're siding with an alternative, which is strange considering THERE ARE NO ALTERNATIVE THEORIES. Only religion. And that, my friend, is a cheap way out of actually trying to understand the world. You're not interested, fine, but don't belittle the most complex interactions of the known world. Evolution is FACT. Not fiction. It's not some idea, it's observed fact. You can't argue your way out of it. Micro-evolution is a fancy word for saying "well, we were proven wrong but... ARGH"
Something X is far more useful for actual human usage because reason Y
Give it a rest. This argument is what you use with whatever you prefer against what you are unfamiliar with.
I don't care myself. I have to know a lot of different units to function. I do believe the SI-units are the no-bullshit forms of measurement though.
Considering how easy it is these days to develop cross-platform software, your comment makes no sense at all.
And you shall receive. There are arcade games in the 24/7 stores around San Andreas...
The iRiver also has a database you know...
The "only two instances" you mention are pretty big ones.
I despise the fact that you _have_ to use iTunes (or 3rd party soft) in order to operate the iPod. I absolutely loathe the fact. I hate it. I hate apple for it. I make it pretty clear that I'm not a fan. I hate to explain myself each and every time. The iPod requires iTunes. iTunes is only available on OSX and Windows. If I want to use the iPod on FC2 for example, I have to use some alternative software. Granted, if I want to use the database function on my iRiver, I do to, but I can still operate the unit fine without a database.
And what the hell is wrong with the file system? I can queue transfers just fine. There's software for that. My collection is larger than 20GB anyway, so I'm going to have to choose what to put on the player, I'd have to do that in iTunes too.
You're being pretty subjective there. Then again, you're modded funny.
I am a Mac user. I recently bought av iRiver. Why not an iPod? Because I weighed them against each other and decided the iRiver was the better choice because of the following.
- The iRiver supports Ogg Vorbis.
- The iRiver has better battery life.
- The iRiver _can_ play directly from the file system.
You're telling me in your post that these are "generally useless" features. To me they are not. That's why I didn't buy an iPod.
"No its not simple, its a god damn pain in the ass to use regular file system transfers."
To you maybe. To me it's the other way around. You're writing like it's fact, when it really is preference.
I have to make one small comment. Where you said the "O" in Torvalds lacks the stroke in the middle. Torvalds is spelled correctly. There is no "O" with a stroke in the middle. You mean his name is really Törvålds? No.
What you seem to mean is that the letter o and the letter ö, or the letter a and ä, are the same. They are not. They are as different as e and y.
I once had a 40GB Fujitsu drive that decided to fail me. It wouldn't show up at boot. I checked all the cables, nothing. It was my only drive at the time, so I buy a new drive as soon as possible. While being away my computer and the drive cooled a bit, and booting it with the new drive (setting the old as a slave) worked for a while, until things became warm again. I let the computer cool for that night and as soon as I wake up I copy everything from the old drive. I got everything off of it before it died again. Thank god. No data loss, I was happy. But it was close.
Another stupid thing I did was resize a reiserfs partition, ending up trashing my entire hda partition table. I was pretty new to Linux and unix-like systems at the time, but I sat down at my server and read manuals for a few hours. I booted knoppix (which I had burned earlier thank god) and fixed my partition table. No data loss, I was happy. And pretty amazed that I managed it by myself.
Other than that? Well, I've spilled drinks on my keyboard a few times. A couple of sticky keys, but nothing serious. I use a laptop now, so I always keep any drinks about 60cm away to be on the safe side.
...is not the fact that Apple went after PlayFair, that was more or less expected. What scares me is the fact that a large part of the slashdot crowd are siding with apple and big media on this one. Hacking your DVD-player is okay, the right to fiddle with your own devices shall not be infringed upon. Media files, however, are sacred. You shall not use them in any way big media does not approve of.
And why? To please big media, otherwise they would not venture into this internet selling thingy, posts explain. Anyone who does not accept the control big media is forcing upon buyers is a damn dirty pirate, responsible for the thousands of plagues in the world and puts 'us' in a bad light. The brainwashing is apparently working.
Really, what's the difference between deCSS and PlayFair? I don't recall anyone posting that Jon Johansen was guilty.
What's the problem? What can of worms? Homosexual couples can have babies, great! Is there a reason denying homosexuals that if the technology exists (and they're willing to pay for it)?
Yes, I do.
I only have optical mice, but I do prefer a mousepad. Why? Friction and noise.
I use a hard cheap ad-mousepad and a func surface, both reduce noise and friction, compared to when I slide my mouse across my desk.
Ok, it's going to hurt Apple. So what? I'm an Apple user myself, and I like Apple, but I'm not going to treat them differently just because I happen to enjoy their products.
The fact is, they're trying to control something they, in my opinion, have no right to control. They wan't to control my use of my purchased music. If trying to control me is ok, then so is taking that control away from them and giving it back to myself.
They had to. Freedom is too expensive in the US.
Comparing cars to bicycles is like comparing an airplane to an eagle.
I'm sorry, I just like bicycles so much. I really don't think it's fair portraying bicycles as cheap meaningless things.
Actually, no. You can plug in an USB-WIFI (I use Netgear something or other) and use KisMAC. By the by, why would Linux help if the Airport specs are closed?
Oh my, you actually think they are assholes for breaking Fairplay? You think they are the ones making your life harder? Think again.
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Are you high, or have you just never used MacOS 10?
Neither is Microsoft Windows. It isn't easy as pie to install and hassle free once running. It takes time to install patches and configure Microsoft Windows too.