We'd have to imprison them or roll out some universal means of preventing someone from driving a car without authorization (i.e. some kind of device in every car). Neither of those are practical
In the UK, they're very happy to imprinson you for driving without a licence or driving while uninsured. As well, the US has the greatest prison population in the world. So, it would seem more practical than you make it sound. Popular, though, that's another story.
I'm a native English speaker and it seems like a bizarre, stupid usage of the word to me. But then, Slashdot headline have always had trouble making sense.
then I discovered that not having a TV didn't make any difference to my viewing habits i.e. there was nothing but shit on and the stuff I did want to see I could get other ways *legally* which, for the most part, didn't involve giving corporations money - BBC iPlayer etc.
Wait until a 'net licence fee' is announced. It WILL happen as long as the BBC continues to garner so much support on its past laurels, rather than its current behaviour.
Don't. IE will not support HTML5 for many years, if history is anything to go by, making Flash at least a fallback requirement for any remotely popular video site for the forseable future.
The other thing is: does HTML5 support live streaming video? Flash does.
And a majority of that third live outside the jurisdiction of the US patent system so the license issue becomes moot. Personally I'd rather the rest of the world stick 2 fingers up at the US system... at which point the US uses powerful trade sanctions to ram their IP laws down other countries' throats, and other countries' leaders kowtow because the people see the sanctions as more of an immediate problem than long-term onerous licencing laws.
I guess it just goes to show it's all down to personal taste, because I have to say I disagree with most of that. OK, reading all caps is tougher, but apart from that I find a good fixed-width font just as easy to read as a good proportional font, and serif/sans- just as easy as each other to read; if anything, sans- looks a bit nicer when printed.
Why compare Ubuntu with anything? In my experience it's Debian, with a horrible colour scheme and a screwed up GUI. It's gone downhill so fast it's been like a toboggan ride.
Am I the only one who doesn't give much of a shit about 3d TV content? Woo, so some things seem a bit more foregroundy and others a bit more backgroundy... and I have to wear glasses all the time to see the effect.
Then again, I haven't bought into the HDTV hype, either. Sure, it's higher resolution, but I don't care.
The story line, apart from the apparently necessary political message, is nothing more than a rehash of a million other stories.
I've heard this criticism of the plot many times from many people - but in this day and age, with so many movies having been released, when was the last movie that wasn't basically a rehash of something that came before it? Seriously, I can't think of anything genuinely novel (at least from Hollywood) for years. Maybe The Truman Show is the last unique storyline I can think of.
What if a football team suddenly decided throwing passes was dishonorable, and they wished other people wouldn't do it? They'd get hammered. They'd lose all over the place.
Please don't start about history and rev changes, etc. The point of a reference is to point directly to the source, telling your reader to access something and then dig through rev history is at best annoying and at worst unreliable and potentially a dead end.
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We'd have to imprison them or roll out some universal means of preventing someone from driving a car without authorization (i.e. some kind of device in every car). Neither of those are practical
In the UK, they're very happy to imprinson you for driving without a licence or driving while uninsured. As well, the US has the greatest prison population in the world. So, it would seem more practical than you make it sound. Popular, though, that's another story.
I'm a native English speaker and it seems like a bizarre, stupid usage of the word to me. But then, Slashdot headline have always had trouble making sense.
Then, by all means, go ahead and pay for it. Just don't ask me to. And no, I don't give a shit about or consume any BBC programmes.
Mark Shuttleworth's vision of Ubuntu is that "it just works".
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
This is a relatively old joke. :-)
Any newsletter that sends you regular e-mail without you first confirming your e-mail address should be treated as spam.
then I discovered that not having a TV didn't make any difference to my viewing habits i.e. there was nothing but shit on and the stuff I did want to see I could get other ways *legally* which, for the most part, didn't involve giving corporations money - BBC iPlayer etc.
Wait until a 'net licence fee' is announced. It WILL happen as long as the BBC continues to garner so much support on its past laurels, rather than its current behaviour.
They'll still take our license fee money (or advertising) and sell us the content, but refuse to let us record or copy it
They won't be taking my 'licence fee money'. I don't pay that anachronistic tax. I encourage everyone else to do likewise.
Don't. IE will not support HTML5 for many years, if history is anything to go by, making Flash at least a fallback requirement for any remotely popular video site for the forseable future.
The other thing is: does HTML5 support live streaming video? Flash does.
And a majority of that third live outside the jurisdiction of the US patent system so the license issue becomes moot. Personally I'd rather the rest of the world stick 2 fingers up at the US system ... at which point the US uses powerful trade sanctions to ram their IP laws down other countries' throats, and other countries' leaders kowtow because the people see the sanctions as more of an immediate problem than long-term onerous licencing laws.
I guess it just goes to show it's all down to personal taste, because I have to say I disagree with most of that. OK, reading all caps is tougher, but apart from that I find a good fixed-width font just as easy to read as a good proportional font, and serif/sans- just as easy as each other to read; if anything, sans- looks a bit nicer when printed.
Why compare Ubuntu with anything? In my experience it's Debian, with a horrible colour scheme and a screwed up GUI. It's gone downhill so fast it's been like a toboggan ride.
You don't give a kid powerful psychotropic drugs just because they're rebellious or shy.
Perhaps that's part of the problem. More LSD!!
Obama flies in a plane too, so presumably he has to undergo these checks.
What the hell is happening to peoples' ability to write paragraphs?
'People' is already plural, so the possessive apostrophe goes before the 's'. :-)
Erm, the third disc was digital? What were the first two, then? Or have we gone back to LPs?
The trouble is, everything would be under userus.dumbus.clicktus.pornolinkus so it would just be a common namespace and wasted characters.
Not as good as Windows 386. :-D
The only downside is sometimes you get shot out by mistake and have to swim back to the ship in the middle of the night.
Wow... new stop smoking technique!
Am I the only one who doesn't give much of a shit about 3d TV content? Woo, so some things seem a bit more foregroundy and others a bit more backgroundy... and I have to wear glasses all the time to see the effect.
Then again, I haven't bought into the HDTV hype, either. Sure, it's higher resolution, but I don't care.
The story line, apart from the apparently necessary political message, is nothing more than a rehash of a million other stories.
I've heard this criticism of the plot many times from many people - but in this day and age, with so many movies having been released, when was the last movie that wasn't basically a rehash of something that came before it? Seriously, I can't think of anything genuinely novel (at least from Hollywood) for years. Maybe The Truman Show is the last unique storyline I can think of.
What if a football team suddenly decided throwing passes was dishonorable, and they wished other people wouldn't do it? They'd get hammered. They'd lose all over the place.
Only in the US does this make sense. :-)
Please don't start about history and rev changes, etc. The point of a reference is to point directly to the source, telling your reader to access something and then dig through rev history is at best annoying and at worst unreliable and potentially a dead end.
So point directly to the rev change of the revision you're citing. For example, at the time of writing, my latest revision for the Hamachi WP article is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamachi&oldid=335209920
That's all well and good, but I'm more interested in the theory on the Boskop brain.