One should really blame poor translation and propagandists on that line.
Actually, the conclusion of Brommer, after looking at translation issues, is that he very much did say so, but that he didn't go as far as to declare war.
I really wish we'd get away from the idea that all of these apps have to be implemented in a browser over HTTP. There's a reason nobody ever developed a GUI toolkit that works like that -- and it's because it's a horrible mess, and makes simple things hard and hard things impossible.
This has been going on ever since Netscape envisioned the browser as the user interface, and NOW you complain? It's not like nobody has ever tried before - webmail has been a successful browser application for years. And now indeed the browser is everything: news, maps, banking, gambling, shopping, marketplaces, advertising, forums (ever heard of Slashdot?), and so on. It's not perfect, but then again are any other GUI toolkits?
Bluetooth device IDs can be forged, so if someone knows the ID of a paired device they can easily gain access, so this isn't a good idea. As long as you have a device that requires you to accept incoming objects (v-cards/images/mp3s/etc) you should be fine. Never accept an incoming object unless you trust the source - it's kind of like e-mail.
Ribbons or not, issues of second-class treatment of said people remain though. I just wish there was a way to get rid of the mullahs without harming the Iranian people.
Of course, powers within Iran that are more relevant than Ahmedinejad have declared that atomic weaponry is unislamic and issued a fatwa against gaining them, and Ahmedinejad isn't the head of the military anyway. But look! Over there! They're making Jews wear yellow ribbons! Quick, bomb them!
Sigh.
Ah, you're one of those people saying "as long as there is no direct (nuclear) threat to myself, I don't care about public profiling and second class treatment of others". (Jews, but also Christians, gays and women.)
I don't think Skype is a very good long-term asset. SIP providers are popping up everywhere and most people considering VOIP would rather plug a proper phone in their DSL modem than buy a headset only to be used from their computer.
In the end, services like MySpace is one of the signs of the decline of society as a whole.
Look at it, people no longer care about privacy as they are publishing every single aspect of their daily lives for everyone to read about, including things like "My boyfriend dumped me today! I wanna die!"
Since when is a society on the decline when people can express themselves freely without any serious repercussions? The only use for privacy is protection against intolerant people, so societies where people voluntarily do not make use of it are probably very tolerant of individuals. I might have missed a few developments, but I always thought that kind of freedom is one of the things we consider to be a fundamental values of ours?
I doubt Microsoft is after Ebay itself. I think - for Microsoft - PayPal (owned by Ebay) is the interesting asset here, especially considering their plans for subscription models.
That's right, you have to pay two bucks for the "convenience" of using your own paper and ink, and saving Ticketmaster the cost of an envelope and postage.
It could be argued that you pay two bucks so staff can be hired to check any kind of reference number presentation (print, stored in phone, etc) you might bring against venue administration, which is probably less convenient for venues than standard issue tickets.
I bought four tickets with them in the last month alone (three at.nl and one at.co.uk, I see over 50 shows a year). Sure, I paid more than face value, but in return I get the tickets delivered and/or ready for me at the venue, without having to leave my house except for seeing the gig. I also buy a lot of tickets at venues' box offices, but sometimes that just doesn't work out as 90% of the shows are not in the cities I live and work, in which case the guarantee of seeing the show is well worth the Ticketmaster charge.
I don't like the last minute 'fees' and 'surcharges' - they should just list an all inclusive price up front, it's not like they have competitors in most cases, unless you want to drive to the box office of the event venue during limited hours.
Maybe you should get your tickets earlier as then there are no last minute fees. Shipping and handling charges make sense, especially as venue pickup and international deliveries make these costs variable.
I'm tired of the cavity search to get into a rock concert. I don't consider that part of a pleasant evening out. Concert security lately resembles the presidential motorcade. This is a problem in general with live events where any semi-famous person is present. It's just gotten silly and I'm not interested in feeling like I'm in the Soviet Union. It ruins the atmosphere.
Did you stop flying also? By the way, most rock concert searches focus on drinks brought outside and professional digital cameras, not security. And it only happens for a small amount of semi-mainstream rock artists.
I'm tired of rock concerts being at volume 11 - why should I wear earplugs when you can just turn the volume down? Are you doing that to benefit the one already-partially deaf person in the audience? Movie theaters with nice sound systems are pleasantly loud. Concerts are deafening. What's the point? Why have sound above what human hearing can tolerate without hearing protection?
Perhaps you should attend Celine Dion concerts instead of rock concerts.
the crowds, the stanky toilets, the not being able to see the band from across the stadium....
If you queue early you'll have an excellent view from the very front row (assuming a general admission show, which most rock concerts are). The bigger the crowd, the least I expect from venue facilities. Perhaps you should stay clear of large public events though, if crowds piss you off.
The enormous prices. I appreciate that the shows are big and expensive, but I'd much rather go to a symphony hall or a Loreena McKennitt concert. Maybe I'm just getting old. 20 years ago concerts were an order of magnitude cheaper - and that's taking inflation into account. $16 for Oingo Boingo. I have my ticket stub still.
There are still many, many shows to be seen in the $5-$15 range. Perhaps not mainstream artists, but you can't then compare to Oingo Boingo who haven't had a chart hit ever.
Maybe one day live music will return to a more sane level of operation. In the mean time I'll continue to partake of smaller venues and lesser known bands.
As do I.:-)
But don't hold your breath for live music ever "returning" to your ideal situation. Your issues are with mainstream events, not with live music events. You'd get the same shitty prices, facilities and obnoxious crowds at a popular sports game.
What about MP3 players? Sony has their bean-shaped Walkman players (1GB) available for $120-$160 depending on features. Compare that to an iPod shuffle for $100 or an iPod Nano for $140.
Sony has never performed well in commodity technology, which an MP3 player most certainly is.
Sony's flagship for the Walkman series is not the Sony Walkman, but any of the newer Sony Ericsson Walkman phones (K750i although not branded as such, W800 and W810). It is probably the most popular series of mobile phones since the Nokia 3310.
Give it a few more years and there will be a Sony Ericsson PSP.
I think this is actually an argument in favor of a strong EU, rather than the other way around. If EU citizens got their act together and created more grass roots pressure groups to put pressure on Brussels, it would be easier to keep a united europe from being arm twisted by the US rather than so many small countries.
I am well aware of the distrust against the elected US government, but I have no idea why I should trust the unelected European Commission more. Considering the state of European privacy laws, I am not at all convinced there was any arm twisting by the US here.
WTF? I didn't think the US did racial profiling - this is quite sad for Muslims.
It's not racial profiling. Eating halal food doesn't make one a Muslim. Some unorthodox Muslims will eat non-Halal food. And regardless, it'd be religious profiling, not racial.
Frankly, I could see a market for this *maybe* 10-12 years ago.
I worked on a project just like this in 1996 for Philips Magnavox. Their CD-i players had a lousy 14k4 (if not worse) and they wanted me to index a shitload of "static" content, such as images, to be distributed as browser cache, with monthly CD updates. Might even have worked if CD-i itself wasn't a doomed platform.
If people depend on Google for their searches, e-mail, instant messaging, maps, satellite views, advertising and news (beta).. they might as well use it for their web presence.
Anyone who has ever worked for the KGB must be so jealous at the rate of voluntary user data centralisation.
Simply put: take the combined budget of the US and Europe on military spending for ONE year, and you already have the money to fund half a century of all programs on acknowledged "big" problems like poverty, disease, education, clean water, most environmental issues etc etc etc. on a world scale, yes sir.
Yup. But it remains a question whether Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung Il and the other then rulers over Northern America and Europe would really care and even if they did, whether you'd be allowed to speak freely about any disagreements in policy you might have.
I'm not saying our defence budgets are optimal or efficient, but I wouldn't say they're completely unnecessary either. It just doesn't work that way.
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Furthermore, it's not like those activities do not also take place outside of summer camps.
Google block queries as well and not just in China.
(Ignore parent. I should stop using sites that use BB code.)
[url=http://www.robertjohnkaper.com/journal/200606 08234402.html]Google block queries as well[/url] and not just in China.
This, of course, is where the gold is at.
To me, the Talk pages and revision control system are gold. Except for minor fixes I would never edit articles without checking them.
One should really blame poor translation and propagandists on that line.
Actually, the conclusion of Brommer, after looking at translation issues, is that he very much did say so, but that he didn't go as far as to declare war.
I really wish we'd get away from the idea that all of these apps have to be implemented in a browser over HTTP. There's a reason nobody ever developed a GUI toolkit that works like that -- and it's because it's a horrible mess, and makes simple things hard and hard things impossible.
This has been going on ever since Netscape envisioned the browser as the user interface, and NOW you complain? It's not like nobody has ever tried before - webmail has been a successful browser application for years. And now indeed the browser is everything: news, maps, banking, gambling, shopping, marketplaces, advertising, forums (ever heard of Slashdot?), and so on. It's not perfect, but then again are any other GUI toolkits?
Bluetooth device IDs can be forged, so if someone knows the ID of a paired device they can easily gain access, so this isn't a good idea. As long as you have a device that requires you to accept incoming objects (v-cards/images/mp3s/etc) you should be fine. Never accept an incoming object unless you trust the source - it's kind of like e-mail.
Ribbons or not, issues of second-class treatment of said people remain though. I just wish there was a way to get rid of the mullahs without harming the Iranian people.
Of course, powers within Iran that are more relevant than Ahmedinejad have declared that atomic weaponry is unislamic and issued a fatwa against gaining them, and Ahmedinejad isn't the head of the military anyway. But look! Over there! They're making Jews wear yellow ribbons! Quick, bomb them!
Sigh.
Ah, you're one of those people saying "as long as there is no direct (nuclear) threat to myself, I don't care about public profiling and second class treatment of others". (Jews, but also Christians, gays and women.)
Sigh.
I don't think Skype is a very good long-term asset. SIP providers are popping up everywhere and most people considering VOIP would rather plug a proper phone in their DSL modem than buy a headset only to be used from their computer.
In the end, services like MySpace is one of the signs of the decline of society as a whole.
Look at it, people no longer care about privacy as they are publishing every single aspect of their daily lives for everyone to read about, including things like "My boyfriend dumped me today! I wanna die!"
Since when is a society on the decline when people can express themselves freely without any serious repercussions? The only use for privacy is protection against intolerant people, so societies where people voluntarily do not make use of it are probably very tolerant of individuals. I might have missed a few developments, but I always thought that kind of freedom is one of the things we consider to be a fundamental values of ours?
What percentage of those who did not had been killed 12 years later? If close to 75%, the census did not have a significant impact.
I doubt Microsoft is after Ebay itself. I think - for Microsoft - PayPal (owned by Ebay) is the interesting asset here, especially considering their plans for subscription models.
AFAIK KHTML is licensed under the LGPL. If the S60 Webkit is based on it, shouldn't Nokia then propagate the limiting terms of that license?
That's right, you have to pay two bucks for the "convenience" of using your own paper and ink, and saving Ticketmaster the cost of an envelope and postage.
It could be argued that you pay two bucks so staff can be hired to check any kind of reference number presentation (print, stored in phone, etc) you might bring against venue administration, which is probably less convenient for venues than standard issue tickets.
But I see your point, that's a bit weird.
I bought four tickets with them in the last month alone (three at .nl and one at .co.uk, I see over 50 shows a year). Sure, I paid more than face value, but in return I get the tickets delivered and/or ready for me at the venue, without having to leave my house except for seeing the gig. I also buy a lot of tickets at venues' box offices, but sometimes that just doesn't work out as 90% of the shows are not in the cities I live and work, in which case the guarantee of seeing the show is well worth the Ticketmaster charge.
Moan, moan, moan.
:-)
I don't like the last minute 'fees' and 'surcharges' - they should just list an all inclusive price up front, it's not like they have competitors in most cases, unless you want to drive to the box office of the event venue during limited hours.
Maybe you should get your tickets earlier as then there are no last minute fees. Shipping and handling charges make sense, especially as venue pickup and international deliveries make these costs variable.
I'm tired of the cavity search to get into a rock concert. I don't consider that part of a pleasant evening out. Concert security lately resembles the presidential motorcade. This is a problem in general with live events where any semi-famous person is present. It's just gotten silly and I'm not interested in feeling like I'm in the Soviet Union. It ruins the atmosphere.
Did you stop flying also? By the way, most rock concert searches focus on drinks brought outside and professional digital cameras, not security. And it only happens for a small amount of semi-mainstream rock artists.
I'm tired of rock concerts being at volume 11 - why should I wear earplugs when you can just turn the volume down? Are you doing that to benefit the one already-partially deaf person in the audience? Movie theaters with nice sound systems are pleasantly loud. Concerts are deafening. What's the point? Why have sound above what human hearing can tolerate without hearing protection?
Perhaps you should attend Celine Dion concerts instead of rock concerts.
the crowds, the stanky toilets, the not being able to see the band from across the stadium....
If you queue early you'll have an excellent view from the very front row (assuming a general admission show, which most rock concerts are). The bigger the crowd, the least I expect from venue facilities. Perhaps you should stay clear of large public events though, if crowds piss you off.
The enormous prices. I appreciate that the shows are big and expensive, but I'd much rather go to a symphony hall or a Loreena McKennitt concert. Maybe I'm just getting old. 20 years ago concerts were an order of magnitude cheaper - and that's taking inflation into account. $16 for Oingo Boingo. I have my ticket stub still.
There are still many, many shows to be seen in the $5-$15 range. Perhaps not mainstream artists, but you can't then compare to Oingo Boingo who haven't had a chart hit ever.
Maybe one day live music will return to a more sane level of operation. In the mean time I'll continue to partake of smaller venues and lesser known bands.
As do I.
But don't hold your breath for live music ever "returning" to your ideal situation. Your issues are with mainstream events, not with live music events. You'd get the same shitty prices, facilities and obnoxious crowds at a popular sports game.
What about MP3 players? Sony has their bean-shaped Walkman players (1GB) available for $120-$160 depending on features. Compare that to an iPod shuffle for $100 or an iPod Nano for $140.
Sony has never performed well in commodity technology, which an MP3 player most certainly is.
Sony's flagship for the Walkman series is not the Sony Walkman, but any of the newer Sony Ericsson Walkman phones (K750i although not branded as such, W800 and W810). It is probably the most popular series of mobile phones since the Nokia 3310.
Give it a few more years and there will be a Sony Ericsson PSP.
I think this is actually an argument in favor of a strong EU, rather than the other way around. If EU citizens got their act together and created more grass roots pressure groups to put pressure on Brussels, it would be easier to keep a united europe from being arm twisted by the US rather than so many small countries.
I am well aware of the distrust against the elected US government, but I have no idea why I should trust the unelected European Commission more. Considering the state of European privacy laws, I am not at all convinced there was any arm twisting by the US here.
Well, we are talking about China and I wouldn't like to make assumptions on what kind of "evidence" is necessary to be incriminated there.
WTF? I didn't think the US did racial profiling - this is quite sad for Muslims.
It's not racial profiling. Eating halal food doesn't make one a Muslim. Some unorthodox Muslims will eat non-Halal food. And regardless, it'd be religious profiling, not racial.
Frankly, I could see a market for this *maybe* 10-12 years ago.
I worked on a project just like this in 1996 for Philips Magnavox. Their CD-i players had a lousy 14k4 (if not worse) and they wanted me to index a shitload of "static" content, such as images, to be distributed as browser cache, with monthly CD updates. Might even have worked if CD-i itself wasn't a doomed platform.
If people depend on Google for their searches, e-mail, instant messaging, maps, satellite views, advertising and news (beta).. they might as well use it for their web presence.
Anyone who has ever worked for the KGB must be so jealous at the rate of voluntary user data centralisation.
Simply put: take the combined budget of the US and Europe on military spending for ONE year, and you already have the money to fund half a century of all programs on acknowledged "big" problems like poverty, disease, education, clean water, most environmental issues etc etc etc. on a world scale, yes sir.
Yup. But it remains a question whether Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung Il and the other then rulers over Northern America and Europe would really care and even if they did, whether you'd be allowed to speak freely about any disagreements in policy you might have.
I'm not saying our defence budgets are optimal or efficient, but I wouldn't say they're completely unnecessary either. It just doesn't work that way.
Have you considered they might keep talking about it because it actually did happen?