And if you get a rogue app' that hogs all your cpu how do you get rid of it? Re-booting don't work- it just starts up again!
Personally I'd prefer my OS not to do that.
The Government has no, zero, nada right to conduct surveillance of me! Who the fuck do they think they are?
The problem is that people seem to be forgetting that Governments are there to serve the people- not the other way around.
It's Governments that need to be put under surveillance- NOT the public. The problem is that acts like Patriot turn that completely around- and then you get people like the parent poster *accepting* the basic premise of such legislation! Now *THAT'S* scarey.
The problem is that this merging isn't happening with many of the post-war immigrants, they keep themselves apart, speak their own languages and don't integrate. The result is they end up being poorer on average, detached from our Society and this breeds resentment on both sides.
Personally - and it worries me to agree with him- I think Blunkett has got it right in making immigrants take citizenship courses. Its something the US has done for a long time and I've always thought a good idea.
If there was an exam, there would classes in all schools teaching you the answers. That would be a huge improvement over today's situation. I am constantly astonished that schools don't and have never taught even basic politics. And that is such a gaping hole in the current (Government dictated) National Curriculum.
As for the rich/poor question: there are plenty of thick rich people.
Untrue, within the EU I can use pretty much any kind of ID to move around: I just need to be able to prove I'm an EU citizen. So, for example, a Driver's License will work. Some countries even accept any credit card issued in an EU country.
Actually the European Constitution was an extremely good thing for the UK to adopt: finally we actually have a written Constituion and some (limited) restrictions on the power of the Government.
Prior to that the Government could legally do *ANYTHING* as long as it could get it through Parliament: and given the way Parliament operates (or doesn't these days) that means *ANYTHING*- as Blair/Blunkett's pushing of ID cards proves.
The difference is that now they can do almost anything. Not perfect but a move in the right direction.
Whether or not I have something to hide it's none of your's or the Government's business.
The Government is there to serve *ME* not the other way around.
It's a seriously fucked up country where the Government has more rights to know about me and what I'm doing than I have to know about them and what they are doing!
Not strictly true. Great Britain is: the combined Kingdoms of England and Scotland plus the principality of Wales.
It's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So the "indigenous" population is British and Northern Irish.
Mind you, we're such a bunch of Mongrels anyway: Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Poles, Germans, Dutch, French, Normans. What most people mean when they try to define "British" is "White like me".
Historically the UK has absorbed a real hodge-podge of peoples and they've been assimilated into the general population: which culture being transferred in both directions.
The recent problem has been that new migrants haven't been doing that and it's been exacerbated by the ridiculous notion of "multi-culturalism". A bigger pile of PC crap I have never heard of (In fact the Council for Racial Equality's head recently confessed that the CRE's push for multi-culturalism in the 70s was a big, big mistake).
A country can only afford to have ONE culture: new comers' cultures get absorbed into the greater whole and they themselves should pick-up the local culture: the most important element being language. I'm constantly astounded at how badly some 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants speak English.
A fair amount of debate yes: and all of it indicates a) it will be very expensive and b) we don't want it.
But Herr Blair and his propaganda minister Josef Blunkett (aka the blind facist) have decided that that is what we must have, and have it we will.
I think we Brits are getting to the point where we're as desperate to get rid of our right wing Prime Minister as you are to get rid of your right wing President.
The ironic thing is that Blair is the leader of the Labour party: which was historically established to protect the rights of the working class (ie Socialist, left wing). Blair however seems to see his mission to kiss the arse of Corporate Britain and fuck the workers because if they disagree they're probably don't understand what he's saying.
The scarey thing is a comment by Roy Hattersley (a leading old-school labour politician) that Tony Blair has a second rate mind: ie he's as thick as pig-shit. yet another thing he has in common with Bush it seems.
Both Bush and Blair strike me as shining examples of why Universal Suffrage doesn't work. Personally I think you should have to pass an exam before you can vote. Only simple stuff like: "Who are the leaders of the 3 main parties?", "Who is the Constituional head of state?". Let's face it, if you can't answer questions like that a) you're not well enough informed to vote and b) you don't fucking deserve to be able to vote.
That in the case of a conflict between law and the constituion that the constitution over-rode law. So actually it would be the case that the DMCA would get declared unconstituional- or at least not applicable in 1st amendment issues.
So why are the EFF getting their knickers in a twist- sounds like an opportunity to me.
a) I don't know in advance what I want to listen to in those 10 hours of playback.
I sometimes listen to stuff at random. My music tastes change so some stuff I didn't like when I bought it, I do now, (I buy some CDs 'on spec' just to try new stuff).
I also listen to my favourites (around 2000 tracks) on random.
I don't want to have to micromanage my iPod. One of the things I really hated about my previous mp3 player was having to choose what I wanted to listen to each time I recharged. What a pain in the arse. With my iPod I just uncheck everything I really hate (eg everything from Madonna's latest album) and synch' the rest.
I have lots of audio books. Never know when I'll be in the mood for one of them.
I commute by train. Sometimes they run late/get cancelled. I like soothing music then. Or sometimes something really heavy like Children of Bodom. I just never know in advance.
I can do all this on my 2nd gen' iPod which is about the size of a pack of cards and weighs about the same. When they bring out the inevitable mini iPod with 20+gigs I'll probably buy one (although I don't care for the 3rd gen button layout).
And you guys wonder why your jobs are being shipped to India? $45K for someone with no experience! $60K for 6 months experience and with little responsibility- that is just fucking insane!
When I graduated I started on 10K ($18K at today's exchange rate) and that was working in central London- one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
I now have 16 years experience- pretty much all bleeding-and am a senior J2EE architect with other related skills/experience (I was a Rational consultant for a while so: RUP, UML, requirements management) and I'm now on 55K (around$95K at today's exchange rate).
No-one thought there would be much difference in having another piece of spyware on your machine. I mean 29? 30? So what. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/172923 8&mode=nested&tid=109&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid= 187&tid=190&tid=201
What utter tosh. Even something with a 0.999 probability of occuring might never, ever happen. And that doesn't even take into account that the Universe is finite in size and lifespan.
Every other planet or planet-like body -even moons- in our Solar system are named after Graeco-Roman gods: Mars, Mercury, Titan, Europa, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune and of course every school boy's favourite: Uranus.
But now we get Sedna. Sedna? Who the hell is that? Some "native-American" (aka Red Indian to most people) god. Huh? Who? Anyone ever HEARD of this god before the planetoid? Anyone know what it is the god of?
It's not as if we'd run out of Graeco-Roman Gods: Hephastus hasn't been used (I don't think) neither has Hermes (well Mercury).
No-one else think it's yet another case of political correctness gone mad? Or was it actually a red indian that discovered it? That would be a *partial* justification- but I doubt it.
Do we write books by pointing and clicking at icons, avatars,
Extremely poor analogy.
We spend literally decades learning to read and write and even then very few people are actually any good at writing books. Natural language is also, compared to computer languages, extremely stable. Natural language are also exactly that - natural. Our brains evolved to support them and our languages evolved over millenia to suit our brains.
Understanding images is considerably more important than language and certainly long pre-dates any human language- written or spoken.
And I'm sure you've heard the expression "A picture is worth a thousand words".
pVisual Studio is and always has been a superb development environment. So where's the problem with that award? Just because it's MS doesn't automatically make it unworthy of awards.
Britain still had the largest Empire in the world. The well established policy for retaining as much of that Empire as possible, as cheaply as possible was appeasement. Britain was a small island people ruling a huge empire, fighting to keep all of it wasn't really viable.
This also applied to countries that Germany (ie other major Western powers) that aspired to have their own overseas Empires.
And don't forget a) Germany was very badly dealt with after WW1- unlike WW2 I think it's much harder to pin the blame on Germany for WW2. And b) a lot of people had a sympathy with what Hitler was doing in Germany- sorting out hyperinflation, building auto-bahns, instilling some discipline. That at least was the perception.
So Chamberlain was following a century of, succesful, British foreign policy in appeasing Hitler. His only mistake was not realising that Hitler was not one of his "civilised peers: he could not be appeased. He really did mean it when he said he aimed to wipe out whole peoples. Everything else was a means to that end.
Idiot. Of course there is a system being changed! The fact that it's a paper-based system makes that even more important as the change is much more radical!
If that's how the meeting went then you fucked up big time.
You mean you seriously went away, defined a UI and everything - WITHOUT INVOLVING THE CUSTOMER?!?
If you didn't involve all the stakeholders, then you deserved to have your arse kicked. If it was my project you'd been working on I'd have done my damndest to see you didn't get paid for your "consultancy".
If you did involve the stakeholders - how come you didn't know what their objections would be and addressed them? Accepting feedback, incorporating into the proposed solution, educating the stakeholders and informing them is all part of the job - that's why it's called CONSULTancy.
This is the kind of lame-arsed arrogant behaviour that gets consultants a bad name.
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Virus writers liable? Of course not: didn't you read the EULA?
And if you get a rogue app' that hogs all your cpu how do you get rid of it? Re-booting don't work- it just starts up again! Personally I'd prefer my OS not to do that.
What utter, utter rubbish.
The Government has no, zero, nada right to conduct surveillance of me! Who the fuck do they think they are?
The problem is that people seem to be forgetting that Governments are there to serve the people- not the other way around.
It's Governments that need to be put under surveillance- NOT the public. The problem is that acts like Patriot turn that completely around- and then you get people like the parent poster *accepting* the basic premise of such legislation! Now *THAT'S* scarey.
Thanks for reapeating my point for me:-)
The problem is that this merging isn't happening with many of the post-war immigrants, they keep themselves apart, speak their own languages and don't integrate. The result is they end up being poorer on average, detached from our Society and this breeds resentment on both sides.
Personally - and it worries me to agree with him- I think Blunkett has got it right in making immigrants take citizenship courses. Its something the US has done for a long time and I've always thought a good idea.
If there was an exam, there would classes in all schools teaching you the answers. That would be a huge improvement over today's situation. I am constantly astonished that schools don't and have never taught even basic politics. And that is such a gaping hole in the current (Government dictated) National Curriculum.
As for the rich/poor question: there are plenty of thick rich people.
Untrue, within the EU I can use pretty much any kind of ID to move around: I just need to be able to prove I'm an EU citizen. So, for example, a Driver's License will work. Some countries even accept any credit card issued in an EU country.
Actually the European Constitution was an extremely good thing for the UK to adopt: finally we actually have a written Constituion and some (limited) restrictions on the power of the Government.
Prior to that the Government could legally do *ANYTHING* as long as it could get it through Parliament: and given the way Parliament operates (or doesn't these days) that means *ANYTHING*- as Blair/Blunkett's pushing of ID cards proves.
The difference is that now they can do almost anything. Not perfect but a move in the right direction.
Whether or not I have something to hide it's none of your's or the Government's business.
The Government is there to serve *ME* not the other way around.
It's a seriously fucked up country where the Government has more rights to know about me and what I'm doing than I have to know about them and what they are doing!
You: "What have you got to hide?"
Me: "That's none of your's or the Government's damn business."
Not strictly true. Great Britain is: the combined Kingdoms of England and Scotland plus the principality of Wales.
It's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So the "indigenous" population is British and Northern Irish.
Mind you, we're such a bunch of Mongrels anyway: Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Poles, Germans, Dutch, French, Normans. What most people mean when they try to define "British" is "White like me".
Historically the UK has absorbed a real hodge-podge of peoples and they've been assimilated into the general population: which culture being transferred in both directions.
The recent problem has been that new migrants haven't been doing that and it's been exacerbated by the ridiculous notion of "multi-culturalism". A bigger pile of PC crap I have never heard of (In fact the Council for Racial Equality's head recently confessed that the CRE's push for multi-culturalism in the 70s was a big, big mistake).
A country can only afford to have ONE culture: new comers' cultures get absorbed into the greater whole and they themselves should pick-up the local culture: the most important element being language. I'm constantly astounded at how badly some 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants speak English.
A fair amount of debate yes: and all of it indicates a) it will be very expensive and b) we don't want it.
But Herr Blair and his propaganda minister Josef Blunkett (aka the blind facist) have decided that that is what we must have, and have it we will.
I think we Brits are getting to the point where we're as desperate to get rid of our right wing Prime Minister as you are to get rid of your right wing President.
The ironic thing is that Blair is the leader of the Labour party: which was historically established to protect the rights of the working class (ie Socialist, left wing). Blair however seems to see his mission to kiss the arse of Corporate Britain and fuck the workers because if they disagree they're probably don't understand what he's saying.
The scarey thing is a comment by Roy Hattersley (a leading old-school labour politician) that Tony Blair has a second rate mind: ie he's as thick as pig-shit. yet another thing he has in common with Bush it seems.
Both Bush and Blair strike me as shining examples of why Universal Suffrage doesn't work. Personally I think you should have to pass an exam before you can vote. Only simple stuff like: "Who are the leaders of the 3 main parties?", "Who is the Constituional head of state?". Let's face it, if you can't answer questions like that a) you're not well enough informed to vote and b) you don't fucking deserve to be able to vote.
That in the case of a conflict between law and the constituion that the constitution over-rode law. So actually it would be the case that the DMCA would get declared unconstituional- or at least not applicable in 1st amendment issues.
So why are the EFF getting their knickers in a twist- sounds like an opportunity to me.
Because I don't want to waste my time micro-managing my iPod.
Simple. Because:
I can do all this on my 2nd gen' iPod which is about the size of a pack of cards and weighs about the same. When they bring out the inevitable mini iPod with 20+gigs I'll probably buy one (although I don't care for the 3rd gen button layout).
well using that logic you US programmers are worth less than the minimum wage- if you were your jobs wouldn't be being shipped to India...
And you guys wonder why your jobs are being shipped to India? $45K for someone with no experience! $60K for 6 months experience and with little responsibility- that is just fucking insane!
When I graduated I started on 10K ($18K at today's exchange rate) and that was working in central London- one of the most expensive places in the world to live.
I now have 16 years experience- pretty much all bleeding-and am a senior J2EE architect with other related skills/experience (I was a Rational consultant for a while so: RUP, UML, requirements management) and I'm now on 55K (around$95K at today's exchange rate).
No-one thought there would be much difference in having another piece of spyware on your machine. I mean 29? 30? So what. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/172923 8&mode=nested&tid=109&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid= 187&tid=190&tid=201
What utter tosh. Even something with a 0.999 probability of occuring might never, ever happen. And that doesn't even take into account that the Universe is finite in size and lifespan.
I mean, Sedna! WTF is that all about!
Every other planet or planet-like body -even moons- in our Solar system are named after Graeco-Roman gods: Mars, Mercury, Titan, Europa, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune and of course every school boy's favourite: Uranus.
But now we get Sedna. Sedna? Who the hell is that? Some "native-American" (aka Red Indian to most people) god. Huh? Who? Anyone ever HEARD of this god before the planetoid? Anyone know what it is the god of?
It's not as if we'd run out of Graeco-Roman Gods: Hephastus hasn't been used (I don't think) neither has Hermes (well Mercury).
No-one else think it's yet another case of political correctness gone mad? Or was it actually a red indian that discovered it? That would be a *partial* justification- but I doubt it.
Extremely poor analogy.
We spend literally decades learning to read and write and even then very few people are actually any good at writing books. Natural language is also, compared to computer languages, extremely stable. Natural language are also exactly that - natural. Our brains evolved to support them and our languages evolved over millenia to suit our brains.
Understanding images is considerably more important than language and certainly long pre-dates any human language- written or spoken.
And I'm sure you've heard the expression "A picture is worth a thousand words".
So, your point would be?
pVisual Studio is and always has been a superb development environment. So where's the problem with that award? Just because it's MS doesn't automatically make it unworthy of awards.
Actually both of you are wrong.
Britain still had the largest Empire in the world. The well established policy for retaining as much of that Empire as possible, as cheaply as possible was appeasement. Britain was a small island people ruling a huge empire, fighting to keep all of it wasn't really viable.
This also applied to countries that Germany (ie other major Western powers) that aspired to have their own overseas Empires.
And don't forget a) Germany was very badly dealt with after WW1- unlike WW2 I think it's much harder to pin the blame on Germany for WW2. And b) a lot of people had a sympathy with what Hitler was doing in Germany- sorting out hyperinflation, building auto-bahns, instilling some discipline. That at least was the perception.
So Chamberlain was following a century of, succesful, British foreign policy in appeasing Hitler. His only mistake was not realising that Hitler was not one of his "civilised peers: he could not be appeased. He really did mean it when he said he aimed to wipe out whole peoples. Everything else was a means to that end.
Idiot. Of course there is a system being changed! The fact that it's a paper-based system makes that even more important as the change is much more radical!
If that's how the meeting went then you fucked up big time.
You mean you seriously went away, defined a UI and everything - WITHOUT INVOLVING THE CUSTOMER?!?
If you didn't involve all the stakeholders, then you deserved to have your arse kicked. If it was my project you'd been working on I'd have done my damndest to see you didn't get paid for your "consultancy".
If you did involve the stakeholders - how come you didn't know what their objections would be and addressed them? Accepting feedback, incorporating into the proposed solution, educating the stakeholders and informing them is all part of the job - that's why it's called CONSULTancy.
This is the kind of lame-arsed arrogant behaviour that gets consultants a bad name.
And how is that supposed to synch' my browser favourites, address book, calendar, email etc etc - and in both directions ?