Yes, I agree with that statement, but it doesn't mean you can use the word "religious" and have people understand it the way you mean it.
It's one of these things that you need to learn by living in the country and hearing how the language is used. I lived in Germany for over two years and I heard people use "religiös" in exactly that same deprecatory sense that you want to use it in English - but in English (at least in UK English but I suspect also in US English), the word "religious" doesn't have those negative connotations. It just doesn't - believe me on this.
There are lots of words that look the same and sound the same but mean quite different things. Falsche Freunde my German teacher used to call them. But there's also a worse phenomenon which is where the words apparently do mean the same thing on the face of it, but have subtly different connotations. This is one such case.
I was and am serious, but I can now see that you are probably not a native speaker of English and thus not aware that you cannot easily bend the meaning of "religious" to what you wished it to mean. "Religious" in English does not have the same connotations as "religiös" does in German.
A better choice of word might have been "irrational", or "inconsistent", or "prejudiced".
I'm sorry, you are religious. You could condemn every damn country on the planet with that argument.
Exactly where in the post you replied to is there the slightest clue that the poster (an AC) is religious?. And even if there were such a clue (which there is not), are you asserting that GWB is not religious?
Object to an argument if you want, but please do so on some basis of evidence.
How can there be any obligation on me, moral or otherwise, to view advertisements for products I don't have the slightest interest in, which I would never consider buying, and which are presented in a grossly intrusive way? No thank you sir.
I cannot see how blocking web site ads is in any way different to my behaviour with the junk hardcopy mail I get from Citibank and others, trying to get me to sign up for a credit card. No joke, I get at least one a week from the same organization. They go straight in the trash (well, the recycling, actually) unopened. And I feel no sense of guilt whatsoever.
I try to unblock ads to my favorite small sites (e.g., sourceforge, slashdot, overclockers, ocforums), especially as survival is not so guaranteed for the smaller sites.
But why? do you think you might actually read these ads and maybe click through and perhaps (shudder) buy something?
Personally, I know I'm not going to do that. Before I took to blocking most ads, I recall that only a tiny proportion of all web page ads would be of sufficient interest to cause me to click through, and not a single one of them ever convinced me to actually buy anything. So - 99.99% probability - the advertisers are not losing a nickel because of my choice to eliminate the visual clutter I would otherwise have to endure.
If I want to buy something, I go looking for it. I would never buy anything opportunistically, simply because some advertiser placed a proposition in front of me. Bottom line: I block as many ad sites as I can, even/.'s, using Firefox's built-in blocker and I freely admit it.
Can it read and save.PSDs? What sort of import/export filters does it offer? Apart from the fact that it's from Microsoft, does it have any compelling advantages?
If not (and even if, to begin with), as a me-too program in a market where Adobe is the 500-pound gorilla, they're going to have to play by the established rules and standards unless & until they can demonstrate an ability to secure a decent market share, and I don't see how they can do that without compatibility and/or killer features.
Or this simply an example of the give-it-away-and-destroy-the-competition school of product positioning?
I keep my Password Safe database and the Windows executable on a memory stick. Takes up next to no space and I can use it on any WinBox. I also keep backup copies of the database on various servers.
not all bloggers are honest about their motives and sponsorship
So, welcome to the world. There is no requirement that bloggers, or anyone else for that matter, should be honest. But in the long run, integrity tells, and those who value it find ways to filter out those who don't.
While corporates may attempt to jump on the blogging bandwagon as another marketing channel, unless their paid-for bloggers really do deliver the goods and establish themselves as worthwhile net contributors to the communities they seek to engage, they will surely fall by the wayside.
Yeah - I installed and tried this (or something else very like it - an iPod-aware Winamp plugin) many months ago. And yes, it makes it easy to copy mp3s off the iPod by generating a filename from the tag data.
But I gave up using it because it screwed up all the smart playlists on my iPod - turned them into simple dumb playlists with whatever content their last evaluation as smart lists had had. Pain in the butt having to recreate them all in iTunes. Perhaps this is a newer version without that bug - but I'll leave it up to others to check. Let me know, OK?
If I was the studios, I'd make sure that any capturable form of the output was fingerprinted in a way that would allow me to track back to the player and/or the copy of the disc and/or the source address from which it was validated and thus be able to pinpoint the source of the "leak".
Of course this isn't going to stop leaks, but it could make life very uncomfortable for casual amateur pirates. Pros will likely work around it - if it's obvious that sources are likely to be traceable, the black hats just need to do enough analysis to determine the nature and format of the fingerprints. Obscuring the source fingerprints might be as simple as doing two or more independent captures (different players, different media, different source address) and generating an averaged digital copy.
But I'm starting to think that the studios could raise the bar high enough to make it enough of a pain to rip their content that only commercially motivated and funded pirates will bother to do it.
Nah. It's only got a 20GB hard drive, which is either a case of cost engineering or someone's idea of a joke.
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Actually, from the perspective of me & my family, Channel 4 is the best TV in UK at present. I recently did an inventory of all the stuff we've recorded onto DVD over the last year, and no joke, 90% of it is from CH4. And that's not stuff we've just time-shifted - it's all kinds of programming - documentaries, reality shows, films and series that we want to hang onto for some time, to watch again. And their evening news is the best too.
Microsoft has not lost its ability to innovate because its people aren't smart any more. They have not lost their ability to innovate because they just don't have any more great ideas. They have not lost their ability to innovate because of poor management or leadership.
Bullshit. Microsoft never demonstrated any ability to create innovative products. I challenge you to name any significant innovations that came from within Microsoft, as opposed to being "borrowed" from others.
Microsoft's skill has always been to take other people's innovations, make them pretty, and market the hell out of them. And they've done very nicely on that basis. But their track record on true innovation is derisory compared to true innovators like HP, IBM, Apple and Xerox.
schools are not training grounds, they are educational facilities to provide basic life skills
If only that were true. While I am sure that many educationalists and teachers may firmly believe it, I rather tend to subscrible to Paul Graham's hypothesis in Why Nerds Are Unpopular -
Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done.
If the objective is simply to teach kids the basics of how computers work, what an operating system does, and what can be achieved with a word processor, a spreadsheet, or a database program, then OSS is perfectly adequate to the task. Given that Free software can easily at least match the basic capabilities of proprietary non-Free offerings, it is surely pretty obvious that there should be no real need to spend large amounts on licenses for proprietary software.
However, don't overlook the wider politics of the matter. To some degree, what employers want is a trained workforce (as opposed to an educated one), and in that case it makes lots of sense to train them with the exact same tools they will be expected to use in employment. Which means Windows, MS Office, etc.
Also, don't forget that it will surely be so much in Microsoft's interest to get those youngsters to equate software with Microsoft that they will provide exceptionally deep discounts to education purchasers - probably as far as giving the stuff away.
It will take some principled political leadership to enforce an OSS policy on education in UK, and I really can't see much prospect of that coming from the current government.
But a large element of the cost of gasoline is tax, and that element is absent from the wholesale cost of electricity. How long would you expect governments to tolerate the loss of tax revenue associated with a widespread switch to electric power for vehicles?
The technology is appealing and there are strong ecological grounds for encouraging a switch to electric, but you cannot simply ignore the heavy-duty politics associated with energy and transportation.
Possibly. While the USA currently generates only about 3% of its electricity from oil, that might need to increase if there was to be a big enough switch to electric vehicles. The energy's got to come from somewhere, and I'd hate to see you guys burning still more coal. And of course there is so much investment in oil extraction and distribution that is not simply going to disappear overnight or without a fight. My money would be on the oil industry eagerly taking up as much business as it possibly can of any power generation slack that may be caused by a switch to electric vehicles. Overall it's not obvious at all to me that this would result in any downward trend in gas prices.
If a municipality needs there to be WiFi across its jurisdiction for use by its operatives, subcontractors and employees, why should it not build out an infrastructure to provide that access? They might be able to make a case that it would be cheaper to own and operate their own infrastructure than it would be to pay for a service provided by a telco or wireless ISP. In that case, and as a side-effect, since it is after all funded by the citizens/taxpayers, it might well decide to make access free for all. It might not cost a whole lot more to put the capacity in place for everyone than for the few internal users.
Video out would be good to have; however it would generate issues like having to support multiple WW TV standards.
WiFi is there already as everyone else pointed out.
Space must to be at a premium in the PSP phsyical package, so why on earth would any designer choose to use the relatively huge CF format rather than the dinky MS Duo?
IBM will not port the Notes client to Linux. The strategic direction for the "thick" client that is Notes today, is something based on Eclipse, which has been announced as the IBM Workplace Client. That is what the Lotus division is selling now, and it's what IBM's internal users will get, sooner or later, to replace the Notes client. And of course it will run on Linux.
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IBM ThinkPads have traditionally omitted this small homage to Redmond, but it looks like this model may see them conforming at last.
Oh well, my next laptop will be a Powerbook anyway.
Yes, I agree with that statement, but it doesn't mean you can use the word "religious" and have people understand it the way you mean it.
It's one of these things that you need to learn by living in the country and hearing how the language is used. I lived in Germany for over two years and I heard people use "religiös" in exactly that same deprecatory sense that you want to use it in English - but in English (at least in UK English but I suspect also in US English), the word "religious" doesn't have those negative connotations. It just doesn't - believe me on this.
There are lots of words that look the same and sound the same but mean quite different things. Falsche Freunde my German teacher used to call them.
But there's also a worse phenomenon which is where the words apparently do mean the same thing on the face of it, but have subtly different connotations. This is one such case.
I was and am serious, but I can now see that you are probably not a native speaker of English and thus not aware that you cannot easily bend the meaning of "religious" to what you wished it to mean. "Religious" in English does not have the same connotations as "religiös" does in German.
A better choice of word might have been "irrational", or "inconsistent", or "prejudiced".
Exactly where in the post you replied to is there the slightest clue that the poster (an AC) is religious?. And even if there were such a clue (which there is not), are you asserting that GWB is not religious?
Object to an argument if you want, but please do so on some basis of evidence.
Oh you are so right.
How can there be any obligation on me, moral or otherwise, to view advertisements for products I don't have the slightest interest in, which I would never consider buying, and which are presented in a grossly intrusive way? No thank you sir.
I cannot see how blocking web site ads is in any way different to my behaviour with the junk hardcopy mail I get from Citibank and others, trying to get me to sign up for a credit card. No joke, I get at least one a week from the same organization. They go straight in the trash (well, the recycling, actually) unopened. And I feel no sense of guilt whatsoever.
I try to unblock ads to my favorite small sites (e.g., sourceforge, slashdot, overclockers, ocforums), especially as survival is not so guaranteed for the smaller sites.
/.'s, using Firefox's built-in blocker and I freely admit it.
But why? do you think you might actually read these ads and maybe click through and perhaps (shudder) buy something?
Personally, I know I'm not going to do that. Before I took to blocking most ads, I recall that only a tiny proportion of all web page ads would be of sufficient interest to cause me to click through, and not a single one of them ever convinced me to actually buy anything. So - 99.99% probability - the advertisers are not losing a nickel because of my choice to eliminate the visual clutter I would otherwise have to endure.
If I want to buy something, I go looking for it. I would never buy anything opportunistically, simply because some advertiser placed a proposition in front of me. Bottom line: I block as many ad sites as I can, even
So sue me.
Can it read and save .PSDs? What sort of import/export filters does it offer? Apart from the fact that it's from Microsoft, does it have any compelling advantages?
If not (and even if, to begin with), as a me-too program in a market where Adobe is the 500-pound gorilla, they're going to have to play by the established rules and standards unless & until they can demonstrate an ability to secure a decent market share, and I don't see how they can do that without compatibility and/or killer features.
Or this simply an example of the give-it-away-and-destroy-the-competition school of product positioning?
I keep my Password Safe database and the Windows executable on a memory stick. Takes up next to no space and I can use it on any WinBox. I also keep backup copies of the database on various servers.
Give them a break. They have to start somewhere after all.
I have no clue what to do - which just about sums up the problem, I guess.
not all bloggers are honest about their motives and sponsorship
So, welcome to the world. There is no requirement that bloggers, or anyone else for that matter, should be honest. But in the long run, integrity tells, and those who value it find ways to filter out those who don't.
An insightful comment to be sure.
While corporates may attempt to jump on the blogging bandwagon as another marketing channel, unless their paid-for bloggers really do deliver the goods and establish themselves as worthwhile net contributors to the communities they seek to engage, they will surely fall by the wayside.
Yeah - I installed and tried this (or something else very like it - an iPod-aware Winamp plugin) many months ago. And yes, it makes it easy to copy mp3s off the iPod by generating a filename from the tag data.
But I gave up using it because it screwed up all the smart playlists on my iPod - turned them into simple dumb playlists with whatever content their last evaluation as smart lists had had. Pain in the butt having to recreate them all in iTunes. Perhaps this is a newer version without that bug - but I'll leave it up to others to check. Let me know, OK?
If I was the studios, I'd make sure that any capturable form of the output was fingerprinted in a way that would allow me to track back to the player and/or the copy of the disc and/or the source address from which it was validated and thus be able to pinpoint the source of the "leak".
Of course this isn't going to stop leaks, but it could make life very uncomfortable for casual amateur pirates. Pros will likely work around it - if it's obvious that sources are likely to be traceable, the black hats just need to do enough analysis to determine the nature and format of the fingerprints. Obscuring the source fingerprints might be as simple as doing two or more independent captures (different players, different media, different source address) and generating an averaged digital copy.
But I'm starting to think that the studios could raise the bar high enough to make it enough of a pain to rip their content that only commercially motivated and funded pirates will bother to do it.
Nah. It's only got a 20GB hard drive, which is either a case of cost engineering or someone's idea of a joke.
Actually, from the perspective of me & my family, Channel 4 is the best TV in UK at present. I recently did an inventory of all the stuff we've recorded onto DVD over the last year, and no joke, 90% of it is from CH4. And that's not stuff we've just time-shifted - it's all kinds of programming - documentaries, reality shows, films and series that we want to hang onto for some time, to watch again. And their evening news is the best too.
Microsoft has not lost its ability to innovate because its people aren't smart any more. They have not lost their ability to innovate because they just don't have any more great ideas. They have not lost their ability to innovate because of poor management or leadership.
Bullshit. Microsoft never demonstrated any ability to create innovative products. I challenge you to name any significant innovations that came from within Microsoft, as opposed to being "borrowed" from others.
Microsoft's skill has always been to take other people's innovations, make them pretty, and market the hell out of them. And they've done very nicely on that basis. But their track record on true innovation is derisory compared to true innovators like HP, IBM, Apple and Xerox.
If only that were true. While I am sure that many educationalists and teachers may firmly believe it, I rather tend to subscrible to Paul Graham's hypothesis in Why Nerds Are Unpopular -
If the objective is simply to teach kids the basics of how computers work, what an operating system does, and what can be achieved with a word processor, a spreadsheet, or a database program, then OSS is perfectly adequate to the task. Given that Free software can easily at least match the basic capabilities of proprietary non-Free offerings, it is surely pretty obvious that there should be no real need to spend large amounts on licenses for proprietary software.
However, don't overlook the wider politics of the matter. To some degree, what employers want is a trained workforce (as opposed to an educated one), and in that case it makes lots of sense to train them with the exact same tools they will be expected to use in employment. Which means Windows, MS Office, etc.
Also, don't forget that it will surely be so much in Microsoft's interest to get those youngsters to equate software with Microsoft that they will provide exceptionally deep discounts to education purchasers - probably as far as giving the stuff away.
It will take some principled political leadership to enforce an OSS policy on education in UK, and I really can't see much prospect of that coming from the current government.
But a large element of the cost of gasoline is tax, and that element is absent from the wholesale cost of electricity. How long would you expect governments to tolerate the loss of tax revenue associated with a widespread switch to electric power for vehicles?
The technology is appealing and there are strong ecological grounds for encouraging a switch to electric, but you cannot simply ignore the heavy-duty politics associated with energy and transportation.
Possibly. While the USA currently generates only about 3% of its electricity from oil, that might need to increase if there was to be a big enough switch to electric vehicles. The energy's got to come from somewhere, and I'd hate to see you guys burning still more coal. And of course there is so much investment in oil extraction and distribution that is not simply going to disappear overnight or without a fight. My money would be on the oil industry eagerly taking up as much business as it possibly can of any power generation slack that may be caused by a switch to electric vehicles. Overall it's not obvious at all to me that this would result in any downward trend in gas prices.
If a municipality needs there to be WiFi across its jurisdiction for use by its operatives, subcontractors and employees, why should it not build out an infrastructure to provide that access? They might be able to make a case that it would be cheaper to own and operate their own infrastructure than it would be to pay for a service provided by a telco or wireless ISP. In that case, and as a side-effect, since it is after all funded by the citizens/taxpayers, it might well decide to make access free for all. It might not cost a whole lot more to put the capacity in place for everyone than for the few internal users.
Video out would be good to have; however it would generate issues like having to support multiple WW TV standards.
WiFi is there already as everyone else pointed out.
Space must to be at a premium in the PSP phsyical package, so why on earth would any designer choose to use the relatively huge CF format rather than the dinky MS Duo?
IBM will not port the Notes client to Linux. The strategic direction for the "thick" client that is Notes today, is something based on Eclipse, which has been announced as the IBM Workplace Client. That is what the Lotus division is selling now, and it's what IBM's internal users will get, sooner or later, to replace the Notes client.
And of course it will run on Linux.
What if some punter comes in with a defective charger that fuses the outlet circuits or worse, starts a fire?
Some establishments (my kid's school for example) don't allow any electrical appliances to be used unless they have been through a safety check.
The same concern may apply at hotels etc. I wonder what the liability position is. Is it the establishment owner or the owner of the defective device?