what country offers more freedoms then the US? The socialist nations of the EU certainly don't. Socialism by definition rules itself out.
I bet you £100 that here in the UK we have more freedom than the US. Except, you aren't allowed to gamble. Freedom, as long as it's Christian, right? Just don't swear or show sex on TV right? Name one freedom, other than firearms (which we don't want) that you have that we don't. Chirst, have you ever been to Amsterdam? Do you even know what freedom and tolerance mean?
"by definition"? You are a complete moron of the highest order if you think the form of ecconomic government has ANY bearing on freedom. Your leaders have brainwashed you with propaganda since the 60s on this subject, to make you associate oppression and totalitainism with socialism. So, the wonderful "free" America has most of it's citizens intentionally kept in the dark about competing ecconomic systems. Your hypocracy is astounding. Having freedom of opinion is worthless when you are spoon-fed bad info. Witness 60% of Americans believing Saddam was involved in 9-11.
Granted Iran is not a Communist country, but it's not exactly a place that encourages any sort of free and open expression of ideas.
Argh!!! Communism/Socialism has nothing to do with freedom. It's an economic system. Your issue is with "totalitairism" and asshole despot leaders.
Until the American public realises that, your fears will continue to be abused by the politicians. If that's your definition of "freedom", then I don't want it.
And what kind of proof can we find that voting a particular way won't involve retaliation...? I'd like this in the USA, but I'm unsure/adjusts tin-foil hat
I'm not sure how it is stateside, but here in the UK the elections are supposed to be anonymous. They aren't however. Each polling card has a unique number that is noted on the voter roll. Tracking back the votes would be easy. I once asked them about this at a polling station and they look at me as though I was actually wearing a tinfoil hat!
Nah, as the post you linked to says, logos are restricted, so it's a little of a grey area. So, in some cases these third parties are probably pushing it a little. Using the iPod "font", Apple logos on. My point was that the car analogy was something were third-party parts made up the majority (official parts == expensive).
It gets weird though with electronics. APIs aren't as tangible as nuts & bolts. Especially with IP and circumvention laws thrown in. Morally, I think anyone should be able to sell anything as a spare for anything, without any worries. But Apple aren't the first to try and assert ownership of the after-market, and they won't be the last!
Oh, well, because you have a web site that agrees with you, you must be right!
I agree with most of their points and it saved me a lot of typing.
"Interface standards"? PDFs don't have interfaces.
Exactly. I'm not talking for the slashdot crowd, I'm talking about mom & pop. A good interface is intuative. The idea of having contents down the left (take a look now) and the top (again, look to the top of the article) is pretty much a given now. PDFs work differently and confuse a lot of the target audience. Sure, you can have the contents frame turned on, but many folk won't figure it out.
"It won't all display on one screen"? You must be using a crappy viewer.
Em, no. I've never seen an A4/Letter sized PDF that could display all at once. My monitor is 4x3. Some are 16x9. Even at 1600x1200 you still can't do it. And yes, the viewer that almost all of the PDF target audience uses is crappy. Scrolling, zooming, text selection and searching work contrary to the vast majority of the applications out there. Yes, I know there are many other viewers, but Acrobat Reader is the one that everyone links to and most people use. I'm not shitting on the PDF file format itself, I'm sure it's well designed as it's stood the test of time. However, the overall package is misused a lot of the time.
However, HTML doesn't allow you to have a single file, containing all design elements
Agreed. It has it's uses. Product leaflets and such like, where you can pretty much guarantee that it'll be printed. For emailing to remote users or offline reading in an easy-to-use package. But for on-screen browsing, PDF just isn't nice.
if a third party manufacturer wanted to include the line "Made specifically for Ford Bronco" on the packaging of their product, Ford would certainly demand a contractual agreement with the manufacturer in order to deal with trademark issues.
Do you own a car? Most car spares are made for specific models, they aren't generic off-the-shelf parts like computers use. They are inherently "designed for". Just about every auto spares store I've been in has had catalogues from the third party manufacturers stating exactly what cars their different parts are for. And many are for specific years of specific models, not just one brand.
For creating display documents, either for printing or online distribution, PDF is great.
It's useful for printing only. For displaying it's useless. It breaks almost all known user interface standards. It won't all display on one screen. Scrolling is a chore. It breaks the readers flow. This article goes into detail about why PDF is a very bad choice for information that would otherwise be on the web.
I believe it was the Linux community that coined the phrase "Winmodem". Offloading modem processing to the CPU is not an cornerstone of Microsoft Global Domination Plans (TM).
The point is that once you move the processing of a WiFi signals to a proprietary software simulator the hardware will no longer work under Linux.
No No NOOOOO! The moment you add new capabilities to a windows driver, then the linux driver won't have these capabilities. Sheesh. So, let me get this straight: By your logic if I add a car stereo to my Ford, I am directly attacking BMW as their cars won't have my stereo? Does that make sense? Of course not!
We have killed more Iraqi's in the last two years than China has killed in Tibet. Oh, and the previous Tibetan government weren't angels, in fact they were pretty evil. Someone should mention the words "regime change" to the Chinese PR people.
it _IS_ wrong that their spending billions on developing a space program with the amount of poverty there...
That's the point!! China has LESS poverty than most western nations. In theory, Communism is supposed to look after the poor. We have space programs etc...
it _IS_ wrong what they have done, and continue to do to the tibetan people, etc...
And the west occupies several countries for it's own gain. In fact, I believe that we have killed more Iraqi civilians in the last two years than China ever has in Tibet. The grandparent poster is complaining about the complete and utter ignorance and hypocracy present on ANY threat that involves China. Or France. It's pathetic and I completely agree with him.
Essentially they require an uneducated, uninformed populace for control. They need an educated informed populace to move forward. They are trying the impossible right now - to have them educated and informed about 85% of the world and totally ingorant of the rest.
Sounds exactly how the war on Iraq was started then. Witness this level of ignorance. People believe that Saddam was involved in 9-11, and that terrorists "hate freedom".
Personally, I believe that if half your country can't point it out on a map, then you should not be allowed to conquor it.;-)
Just imagine a free prosperous China, US, britain, and EU working together
Where's the profit in that to those who are in the position to make it happen?
its not the closed country that it was 30 years ago... or even 10 years ago.
I visited just over 10 years ago. Even then you could tell things were changing. The fact I got a visa for no real reason other than sightseeing was pretty telling!!
I was able to talk to anyone, and had complete freedom of movement. Never spoke to an official or police officer once other than customs. Passing thru USA immigration the previous month was far more stringent! Never got any reaction from the locals, except curiosity (many Chinese tourists coming to e.g. Bejing for their own holidays and I was the first westerner they'd ever seen). Highly recommended, though apparently "it's getting too touristy now"...;-)
The telling factor will be "does anyone who has interests in this technology also have access to the whitehouse?". If they "donate" enough money to the politicians then the whole army gets it and everyone is rich^H^H^H^Hhappy.
Expect to see this to enter the consumer market for things like - IPod nano screens, watch faces, scratch reistant coverings on eyeglasses,etc.
These things have been available for years already and they aren't expensive to make. I've got a cheap fake watch that I've worn for 10 years, I'm always banging it into things, not a single scratch on the face. Consumers seem to be happy with disposable (easilly damaged) stuff, as are the companies that make it.
I am fighting to keep ~300 500MHz machines running, you can see why I am bitter. So screw you. Either you're a liar (at worst) or you are in a preferential area (at best). Either way, screw you.
Have you contacted any charities or foundations for help? Or are you just sitting there whining away doing nothing about the real problem?
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but Acrobat 7 finally fixed the issue of loading a bazillion plugins at startup that almost no one uses. I believe it now dynamically loads them as needed.
I wouldn't know, I stopped using Acrobat after it crashed my browser for the 100th time. Dreadful software, I wonder if those who produce PDFs realise that they are alienating a large portion of potential customers.
In seriousness, I've tried version 7 and I'm still not impressed, you are still fully aware that you are starting a new bloated application. If you deactivate the plugin in Firefox at least your browser stops hogging the CPU or crashing. Right-click and "save as..." if you absolutely must put yourself through the user-unfriendly abortion that is "pdf". If it's intended to be printed, sure pdf is good. All other times it's a hinderance.
Do you also remember that they did not work on Linux? I remember trying some Linux drivers made for a Lucent modem and don't think I got it working on my laptop.
Sigh. "They did not work on Linux" is entirely wrong. The phrase you are looking for is "Linux drivers were not available". There is NO reason why Linux cannot work with a software based modem. Your beef is with the modem manufacturer for not having drivers, not Microsoft trying to "discourage people from using a different OS".
I don't like having to edit the registry to remove things, it is annoying to say the least.
Did you read what you posted? "Is there a brute force method?" is asked by someone for whom the regular uninstall isn't working. They offer the registry instructions to help people do a complete manual clean-out should things go wrong. Fairly standard stuff, especially for pre-release stuff.
I currently use dual nics to connect to my home and office network as I presume a lot of other people do
Why? Do you need to connect to both wireless networks at the same time? All WiFi cards should have some profile management software, even if it is the basic stuff that comes with the OS.
And you can't already do that with any other gateway server?
Well, you can max anyones pipe out and DoS anything. However, with NAT the device has to cache stateful information in tables about the active connections. Fake a few million connections and a badly hardened NAT will fall on it's arse well before you max out the wire. The more complex something is, the easy it is to subvert.
But the ordinary Linksys is a good enough hardware fireall via NAT for the average user.
Sure. Until you want to run services or VoIP. Using your connection in only one direction is soooo 20th Century.
NAT and port-forwarding requires a little bit of thought from even the most experienced tech. You can forget your Grampa Pamade and Granny Goldbond scenario there...
Weaker how? If you can't address a node, how can you attack it?
You attack the device doing the NAT. And as NAT is more complicated than straight forwarding, you have far more points of failure to go for. Most of the work will be done in software. At the very least, you'd likely be able to DoS every box behind the NAT by DoS'ing the NAT.
The firewall aspect of NAT is a quirk. I wouldn't rely on it alone.
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I bet you £100 that here in the UK we have more freedom than the US. Except, you aren't allowed to gamble. Freedom, as long as it's Christian, right? Just don't swear or show sex on TV right? Name one freedom, other than firearms (which we don't want) that you have that we don't. Chirst, have you ever been to Amsterdam? Do you even know what freedom and tolerance mean?
"by definition"? You are a complete moron of the highest order if you think the form of ecconomic government has ANY bearing on freedom. Your leaders have brainwashed you with propaganda since the 60s on this subject, to make you associate oppression and totalitainism with socialism. So, the wonderful "free" America has most of it's citizens intentionally kept in the dark about competing ecconomic systems. Your hypocracy is astounding. Having freedom of opinion is worthless when you are spoon-fed bad info. Witness 60% of Americans believing Saddam was involved in 9-11.
You are free. Free to do what you are told.
Argh!!! Communism/Socialism has nothing to do with freedom. It's an economic system. Your issue is with "totalitairism" and asshole despot leaders.
Until the American public realises that, your fears will continue to be abused by the politicians. If that's your definition of "freedom", then I don't want it.
I'm not sure how it is stateside, but here in the UK the elections are supposed to be anonymous. They aren't however. Each polling card has a unique number that is noted on the voter roll. Tracking back the votes would be easy. I once asked them about this at a polling station and they look at me as though I was actually wearing a tinfoil hat!
It gets weird though with electronics. APIs aren't as tangible as nuts & bolts. Especially with IP and circumvention laws thrown in. Morally, I think anyone should be able to sell anything as a spare for anything, without any worries. But Apple aren't the first to try and assert ownership of the after-market, and they won't be the last!
I agree with most of their points and it saved me a lot of typing.
"Interface standards"? PDFs don't have interfaces.
Exactly. I'm not talking for the slashdot crowd, I'm talking about mom & pop. A good interface is intuative. The idea of having contents down the left (take a look now) and the top (again, look to the top of the article) is pretty much a given now. PDFs work differently and confuse a lot of the target audience. Sure, you can have the contents frame turned on, but many folk won't figure it out.
"It won't all display on one screen"? You must be using a crappy viewer.
Em, no. I've never seen an A4/Letter sized PDF that could display all at once. My monitor is 4x3. Some are 16x9. Even at 1600x1200 you still can't do it. And yes, the viewer that almost all of the PDF target audience uses is crappy. Scrolling, zooming, text selection and searching work contrary to the vast majority of the applications out there. Yes, I know there are many other viewers, but Acrobat Reader is the one that everyone links to and most people use. I'm not shitting on the PDF file format itself, I'm sure it's well designed as it's stood the test of time. However, the overall package is misused a lot of the time.
However, HTML doesn't allow you to have a single file, containing all design elements
Agreed. It has it's uses. Product leaflets and such like, where you can pretty much guarantee that it'll be printed. For emailing to remote users or offline reading in an easy-to-use package. But for on-screen browsing, PDF just isn't nice.
Do you own a car? Most car spares are made for specific models, they aren't generic off-the-shelf parts like computers use. They are inherently "designed for". Just about every auto spares store I've been in has had catalogues from the third party manufacturers stating exactly what cars their different parts are for. And many are for specific years of specific models, not just one brand.
It's useful for printing only. For displaying it's useless. It breaks almost all known user interface standards. It won't all display on one screen. Scrolling is a chore. It breaks the readers flow. This article goes into detail about why PDF is a very bad choice for information that would otherwise be on the web.
The point is that once you move the processing of a WiFi signals to a proprietary software simulator the hardware will no longer work under Linux.
No No NOOOOO! The moment you add new capabilities to a windows driver, then the linux driver won't have these capabilities. Sheesh. So, let me get this straight: By your logic if I add a car stereo to my Ford, I am directly attacking BMW as their cars won't have my stereo? Does that make sense? Of course not!
We have killed more Iraqi's in the last two years than China has killed in Tibet. Oh, and the previous Tibetan government weren't angels, in fact they were pretty evil. Someone should mention the words "regime change" to the Chinese PR people.
That's the point!! China has LESS poverty than most western nations. In theory, Communism is supposed to look after the poor. We have space programs etc...
it _IS_ wrong what they have done, and continue to do to the tibetan people, etc...
And the west occupies several countries for it's own gain. In fact, I believe that we have killed more Iraqi civilians in the last two years than China ever has in Tibet. The grandparent poster is complaining about the complete and utter ignorance and hypocracy present on ANY threat that involves China. Or France. It's pathetic and I completely agree with him.
Metal expands when heated. Here's what can happen: http://www.charmec.chalmers.se/railtech/suncurves. html
Sounds exactly how the war on Iraq was started then. Witness this level of ignorance. People believe that Saddam was involved in 9-11, and that terrorists "hate freedom".
Personally, I believe that if half your country can't point it out on a map, then you should not be allowed to conquor it. ;-)
Just imagine a free prosperous China, US, britain, and EU working together
Where's the profit in that to those who are in the position to make it happen?
I visited just over 10 years ago. Even then you could tell things were changing. The fact I got a visa for no real reason other than sightseeing was pretty telling!!
I was able to talk to anyone, and had complete freedom of movement. Never spoke to an official or police officer once other than customs. Passing thru USA immigration the previous month was far more stringent! Never got any reaction from the locals, except curiosity (many Chinese tourists coming to e.g. Bejing for their own holidays and I was the first westerner they'd ever seen). Highly recommended, though apparently "it's getting too touristy now"... ;-)
"horrible"? It was quite possibly the second biggest genocide in human history. Only Stalin has it beat.
The telling factor will be "does anyone who has interests in this technology also have access to the whitehouse?". If they "donate" enough money to the politicians then the whole army gets it and everyone is rich^H^H^H^Hhappy.
These things have been available for years already and they aren't expensive to make. I've got a cheap fake watch that I've worn for 10 years, I'm always banging it into things, not a single scratch on the face. Consumers seem to be happy with disposable (easilly damaged) stuff, as are the companies that make it.
Both.
Have you contacted any charities or foundations for help? Or are you just sitting there whining away doing nothing about the real problem?
I wouldn't know, I stopped using Acrobat after it crashed my browser for the 100th time. Dreadful software, I wonder if those who produce PDFs realise that they are alienating a large portion of potential customers.
In seriousness, I've tried version 7 and I'm still not impressed, you are still fully aware that you are starting a new bloated application. If you deactivate the plugin in Firefox at least your browser stops hogging the CPU or crashing. Right-click and "save as..." if you absolutely must put yourself through the user-unfriendly abortion that is "pdf". If it's intended to be printed, sure pdf is good. All other times it's a hinderance.
Sigh. "They did not work on Linux" is entirely wrong. The phrase you are looking for is "Linux drivers were not available". There is NO reason why Linux cannot work with a software based modem. Your beef is with the modem manufacturer for not having drivers, not Microsoft trying to "discourage people from using a different OS".
Did you read what you posted? "Is there a brute force method?" is asked by someone for whom the regular uninstall isn't working. They offer the registry instructions to help people do a complete manual clean-out should things go wrong. Fairly standard stuff, especially for pre-release stuff.
Why? Do you need to connect to both wireless networks at the same time? All WiFi cards should have some profile management software, even if it is the basic stuff that comes with the OS.
Well, you can max anyones pipe out and DoS anything. However, with NAT the device has to cache stateful information in tables about the active connections. Fake a few million connections and a badly hardened NAT will fall on it's arse well before you max out the wire. The more complex something is, the easy it is to subvert.
Sure. Until you want to run services or VoIP. Using your connection in only one direction is soooo 20th Century.
NAT and port-forwarding requires a little bit of thought from even the most experienced tech. You can forget your Grampa Pamade and Granny Goldbond scenario there...
You attack the device doing the NAT. And as NAT is more complicated than straight forwarding, you have far more points of failure to go for. Most of the work will be done in software. At the very least, you'd likely be able to DoS every box behind the NAT by DoS'ing the NAT.
The firewall aspect of NAT is a quirk. I wouldn't rely on it alone.