First it sounds like you think China is in Europe. OOoops - scary somehow
But that's the stereotypical US citizen: introverted and ignorant. You might think of the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys, but the rest of the world thinks of the US as a bunch of gun-happy, red-necks. Unfair and inaccurate? Sure but that's what you get for choosing one for president.
Reminds me of a recent cover on Private Eye (a satirical magazine published in the UK) it showed George W. Bush looking at a map of the States and asking "Where's the US on this?"
Sorry but that's rubbish. The only thing that would make a difference is the transmitting power: the base station would have to pump out a signal several times higher than the laptop for your scenario to be true. It has nothing to do with the antenna. If a signal can go one way between two antennas, it can go the other way just as well.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. We have defamation laws for a reason: to protect people from the real damage these kinds of antics can do. What is a politician without reputation? The blog is obviously designed to damage this politician and in such a way as to maximise the audience. The judge was wrong, "Proud Citizen" should have been exposed and made to pay the price for his slander.
I'm surprised the judge asserted the blogger had the right to post anonymously.
But that aside: if you've got something to say have the guts to put your name to it. If you're not then perhaps you shouldn't be saying it? How do we know this blogger isn't simply lying? Or is an estranged mistress with a grudge? Or is a political opponent?
If the blogger is concerned about reprisals or being sued for defamation then I can't see how that's a defence. If they should be allowed to say whatever it is then the law should protect them and defamation suits shouldn't be possible. That's where they should receive the courts protection. If they're restricted in what they can say (defamation for example) then they should have to take the consequences of their actions and not be allowed to hide behind their anonymity.
They were a johnny come lately to the internet and browsers as well and now their browser has, what, 97% of the market despite being inferior to many of the alternatives. Don't underestimate Bill: he's not one of the richest men in the world by accident.
Steal their music (most of the money you pay goes to the record companies anyway) and reward the musicians by paying to go to their concerts and buying their t-shirts.
Yes and my taxes pay for Number 10 Downing Street (the UK prime minister's residence) so I should be able to live there for free, right? right? And they also pay for the government's computer systems so I should be able to use them to play Doom. Right?
Well I can beat that. Back in the mid-80s not only did I own a Psion Organiser I; I also worked for Psion programming their Organiser II for their corporate clients.
Cue Grognard telling us how he used to programme mainframes for the navy by toggling switches on the front of the machine;-)
As someone who owns a DS I'm really struggling to work out if your and the gp are serious. The DS I own is some over-large Frankenstein where demented Japanese engineers have taken an original Gameboy Advanced and, here's the clever bit, made it twice as big by bolting on a touch screen! Are you writing about some other DS?
I can just see the Gameboy DS SP: now with foodblender built it!
During the first ever stock market bubble (the South Sea Bubble) a company, offering shares of course, was established to drain the Red Sea in order to recover the treasure lots by the Egyptians when Moses fled Egypt.
This sounds like the equivalent scam for the 21st Century.
That's an easy one: because Verant/Sony utterly destroyed their reputation for customer service with EQ1. They weren't kidding when they told you "you're in OUR world now".
I doubt it. For three reasons:
1. OSX is a more stable and a known quantity: there aren't 10's or 100's of different distributions out there and not every man and their performing penguin can build their flavour of OSX.
2. I suspect that, like me, most Mac users don't emulate Windows so if they don't make an OSX version they've lost a sale. With a Linux user they dual-boot or emulate Windows: no lost sale.
3. What's the basis for your claim re marketshare? And is that marketshare of computers physically capable of running WOW?
Everquest Mac and Everquest PC servers were separate. You couldn't play on a Mac server using a PC and vice-versa. The reason Verant claimed for doing this was so that the new Mac community wasn't overwhelmed by the established PC community: a blatant lie confirmed by the fact that they never patched or kept up to date nor released any expansions for the Mac.
Unlike Blizz they simply didn't have the skill to keep two pieces of client software (Mac and PC) in synch'.
Let's face Linus may be a great project manager (although that's dubious: I'd expect a pm to be a bit more of a diplomat and have a lot less ego) but he's clueless when it comes to the basis of FS/OS: look at the Bitkeeper debacle: a tool he mandated blew up in exactly the way fs advocates would predict. And now he's promoting a patent pool on the same basis which is: if you can't beat them join them.
If I want to hear an informed opinion about OS/FS issues Linus is pretty much the last person I'd turn to.
Here it is legal to protest in public places: eg roads in towns, town centres etc.
However a number of town centres and ostensibly public places (like the centre of Stevenage) are now owned by corporations and demonstrations are banned. So where do people protest when there's no public place to do so?
You're kidding, right? I can see it's to Dell's advantage to be associated with a quality computer brand but why would Apple want to be associated with a cheap box builder noted for the low quality of its consumer machines.
Is this really something that government should be legislating at all?
It let's both ignorant users (whom I can forgive) but also Microsoft (whom I can't) off the hook. Rather than having to secure their systems/fix fundamental security flaws in their OS and applications they can just hide behind this new law: "It's not our fault we didn't do anything wrong, they broke the law!"
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KHTML devs don't like being nagged by KHTML users: how is this in anyway Apple's fault or problem?
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Surely this is a joke?
But that's the stereotypical US citizen: introverted and ignorant. You might think of the French as cheese eating surrender monkeys, but the rest of the world thinks of the US as a bunch of gun-happy, red-necks. Unfair and inaccurate? Sure but that's what you get for choosing one for president.
Reminds me of a recent cover on Private Eye (a satirical magazine published in the UK) it showed George W. Bush looking at a map of the States and asking "Where's the US on this?"
You know there is a difference between "lawful" and "right", "unlawful" and "wrong" don't you? The judgeS were wrong.
Sorry but that's rubbish. The only thing that would make a difference is the transmitting power: the base station would have to pump out a signal several times higher than the laptop for your scenario to be true. It has nothing to do with the antenna. If a signal can go one way between two antennas, it can go the other way just as well.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. We have defamation laws for a reason: to protect people from the real damage these kinds of antics can do. What is a politician without reputation? The blog is obviously designed to damage this politician and in such a way as to maximise the audience. The judge was wrong, "Proud Citizen" should have been exposed and made to pay the price for his slander.
I'm surprised the judge asserted the blogger had the right to post anonymously.
But that aside: if you've got something to say have the guts to put your name to it. If you're not then perhaps you shouldn't be saying it? How do we know this blogger isn't simply lying? Or is an estranged mistress with a grudge? Or is a political opponent?
If the blogger is concerned about reprisals or being sued for defamation then I can't see how that's a defence. If they should be allowed to say whatever it is then the law should protect them and defamation suits shouldn't be possible. That's where they should receive the courts protection. If they're restricted in what they can say (defamation for example) then they should have to take the consequences of their actions and not be allowed to hide behind their anonymity.
They were a johnny come lately to the internet and browsers as well and now their browser has, what, 97% of the market despite being inferior to many of the alternatives. Don't underestimate Bill: he's not one of the richest men in the world by accident.
Steal their music (most of the money you pay goes to the record companies anyway) and reward the musicians by paying to go to their concerts and buying their t-shirts.
Your logic is flawed.
Well I can beat that. Back in the mid-80s not only did I own a Psion Organiser I; I also worked for Psion programming their Organiser II for their corporate clients.
Cue Grognard telling us how he used to programme mainframes for the navy by toggling switches on the front of the machine ;-)
I can just see the Gameboy DS SP: now with foodblender built it!
First line, last paragraph I think you meant to write "If it ain't cheap I ain't buying it and quality means nothing to me."
The problem is your english not the bolding: "does not register and tags" makes no sense.
This sounds like the equivalent scam for the 21st Century.
That's an easy one: because Verant/Sony utterly destroyed their reputation for customer service with EQ1. They weren't kidding when they told you "you're in OUR world now".
I doubt it. For three reasons: 1. OSX is a more stable and a known quantity: there aren't 10's or 100's of different distributions out there and not every man and their performing penguin can build their flavour of OSX. 2. I suspect that, like me, most Mac users don't emulate Windows so if they don't make an OSX version they've lost a sale. With a Linux user they dual-boot or emulate Windows: no lost sale. 3. What's the basis for your claim re marketshare? And is that marketshare of computers physically capable of running WOW?
Unlike Blizz they simply didn't have the skill to keep two pieces of client software (Mac and PC) in synch'.
Let's face Linus may be a great project manager (although that's dubious: I'd expect a pm to be a bit more of a diplomat and have a lot less ego) but he's clueless when it comes to the basis of FS/OS: look at the Bitkeeper debacle: a tool he mandated blew up in exactly the way fs advocates would predict. And now he's promoting a patent pool on the same basis which is: if you can't beat them join them.
If I want to hear an informed opinion about OS/FS issues Linus is pretty much the last person I'd turn to.
Let me illustrate with an example from the UK.
Here it is legal to protest in public places: eg roads in towns, town centres etc.
However a number of town centres and ostensibly public places (like the centre of Stevenage) are now owned by corporations and demonstrations are banned. So where do people protest when there's no public place to do so?
You're kidding, right? I can see it's to Dell's advantage to be associated with a quality computer brand but why would Apple want to be associated with a cheap box builder noted for the low quality of its consumer machines.
Is this really something that government should be legislating at all?
It let's both ignorant users (whom I can forgive) but also Microsoft (whom I can't) off the hook. Rather than having to secure their systems/fix fundamental security flaws in their OS and applications they can just hide behind this new law: "It's not our fault we didn't do anything wrong, they broke the law!"
There are two kinds of zealots: the zealots and the anti-zealots desperate to "save" us.
KHTML devs don't like being nagged by KHTML users: how is this in anyway Apple's fault or problem?
I said to him, man, relax: your two tense[1].
And so are you.
[1]Thanks Blizz.