I have a simple solution: make the BBC subscription-only, and STILL force them not to show adverts. Fair? Not really. I don't care. They're loved by enough people in this country that they will get enough subscription money to survive, and you'll still have your beloved ad-free TV... but I won't have to pay for it. Maybe a little subscription via income tax for TRUE public service broadcasting, like BBC Parliament, but that's it.
Full disclosure: I'm a songwriter and a member of a PRS. The money I make a year on songwriting could maybe buy a nice dinner. Without someone looking out for my interests, I'd make nothing.
So you think it's worth making people's lives a misery and giving the PRS superpowers in law, to justify your getting enough money a year to buy a nice dinner? Why don't you stick to your day job? I'm sorry to say it, but you don't seem to be a good enough songwriter to earn a living that way.
Basic email and office apps, what more do you need?
I dunno about need, but there's a hell of a lot of stuff that wouild be desirable. I knew Ubuntu wasn't really finished, but I decided to check just how far along it had gotten by installing it a couple of months ago to function as my home network's router. It could do with huge improvement, to say the lease. Here's just a tip of the iceberg:
- There are two separate clipboards, a mouse one and a keyboard one. Middle-click will often paste something different to ctrl-v. In this day and age, I'm sorry, I can't be generous - this is fucking retarded. Fix it, Canonical. - Sometimes selection copies stuff, sometimes it doesn't. Be consistent. I'd say make it never copy stuff. - This bug meant that I had to hack an init.d script by adding 'sleep 5', just to get a DHCP server working on the Ubuntu box because of the way dhcp3-server assumes interfaces will be immediately available and NetworkManager makes them available asynchronously. Ubuntu enthusiasts tell me NetworkManager is pretty much only good for wireless, and disable it for wired connections. Utterly pathetic. We desperately need Canonical to get this done - and competently. - Make up your mind as to what one should use to install packages. There's an add/remove software GUI, but there's also Synaptic Package Manager. Make up your mind, Canonical!!!!! - Better firewall configuration. I know I've been told a million times that you can't make a GUI for iptables because it's too complex, but I beg to differ - at least you can make a GUI for it that implements a decent swathe of its functionality. No, ufw doesn't cut it, it sucks. Not enough functionality. And how about a firewall that scans app binaries, and gives access on a per-binary basis?
These are just some of the problems I've noticed, off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Linux be a viable alternative, but it can't beat Windows 7 yet... and TBH I was amazed that some of these problems still existed, given how long Canonical had been at it.
The TLD is essentially totally insignificant, and would have to be typed every single time if the order were reversed.
Only if you were using an autocompleter that relied on stored URLs beginning with what you typed, rather than any part of the URL (and even the page title) containing what you typed - a la Firefox 3.
Yeah, you're right. I can't think of any time I regularly use slashes in common speech/reading/writing. And it's not just me; go ask the average man/woman on the street.
The thing is, that's exactly what I hated when Star Trek did that. On the one hand, Picard and (particularly) Riker were meant to be in the very senior positions they were in because they were very good all-round; yes, it's a lot to do with leadership, but surely they should have had great technical knowledge too, to be in command of a starship. So, when Riker would turn around and tell people to say stuff 'in English' because they were using words of more than one syllable, I kind of wished someone would throw him out of an airlock.
Erm, but the whole weakness of the client-server model is that there's a single point of failure - the server. Napster got taken down easily. I don't care if these sites are hosting other fiels amongst illegal torrents, you better believe the MAFIAA will sue the fuck out of Rapidshare and/or they'll just remove these torrents as much as they can.
It doesn't help that the IOC's selection process for which sports should be included is woefully disrespectful of a sport's appropriateness for testing various physical and mental skills, and has everything to do with commercial profitability, resulting in squash being ruled out, whilst golf, table tennis, and fencing get to be included. I've lost pretty much all respect for the Olympics having realized the shittiness of this selection procedure.
You're a twat. Scotland is better off as part of the Union, you've clearly been brainwashed by pompous Scottish nationalists. Scotland should be considered a region of the UK, and if it chooses independence, it will suffer as a result.
Launching first-strike attacks for the reasons of so-called self-defence is outrageous and immoral. You wait until someone has KILLED you, and tehn you get to kill them back. Not before.
How often do you really use the menubar? 90% of the time its wasting screenspace and as people push for a consistent UI across platforms it's worth making the change.
I actually have to disagree with you on this one. Maybe my usage of Firefox is different to most, but the first thing I do is switch to large toolbar icons. My toolbar consists of: back, forward, stop, reload, home, downloads, bookmarks, history, view source, new window, new tab, search box.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those buttons I click on a relatively frequent basis. I do not want them hidden or made smaller, thank you.
So the two (three?) ISPs in the US that most consumers are limited to almost inevitably declare themselves as family friendly, and the consumer is no less screwed than before.
I know I'm taking that cartoon way too seriously, but what the hell. The 2nd amendment doesn't guarantee people to right to export arms from the US.:-) US citizens already have the ability to 'keep and bear crypto', WITHIN the US.
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I have a simple solution: make the BBC subscription-only, and STILL force them not to show adverts. Fair? Not really. I don't care. They're loved by enough people in this country that they will get enough subscription money to survive, and you'll still have your beloved ad-free TV... but I won't have to pay for it. Maybe a little subscription via income tax for TRUE public service broadcasting, like BBC Parliament, but that's it.
Full disclosure: I'm a songwriter and a member of a PRS. The money I make a year on songwriting could maybe buy a nice dinner. Without someone looking out for my interests, I'd make nothing.
So you think it's worth making people's lives a misery and giving the PRS superpowers in law, to justify your getting enough money a year to buy a nice dinner? Why don't you stick to your day job? I'm sorry to say it, but you don't seem to be a good enough songwriter to earn a living that way.
Basic email and office apps, what more do you need?
I dunno about need, but there's a hell of a lot of stuff that wouild be desirable. I knew Ubuntu wasn't really finished, but I decided to check just how far along it had gotten by installing it a couple of months ago to function as my home network's router. It could do with huge improvement, to say the lease. Here's just a tip of the iceberg:
- There are two separate clipboards, a mouse one and a keyboard one. Middle-click will often paste something different to ctrl-v. In this day and age, I'm sorry, I can't be generous - this is fucking retarded. Fix it, Canonical.
- Sometimes selection copies stuff, sometimes it doesn't. Be consistent. I'd say make it never copy stuff.
- This bug meant that I had to hack an init.d script by adding 'sleep 5', just to get a DHCP server working on the Ubuntu box because of the way dhcp3-server assumes interfaces will be immediately available and NetworkManager makes them available asynchronously. Ubuntu enthusiasts tell me NetworkManager is pretty much only good for wireless, and disable it for wired connections. Utterly pathetic. We desperately need Canonical to get this done - and competently.
- Make up your mind as to what one should use to install packages. There's an add/remove software GUI, but there's also Synaptic Package Manager. Make up your mind, Canonical!!!!!
- Better firewall configuration. I know I've been told a million times that you can't make a GUI for iptables because it's too complex, but I beg to differ - at least you can make a GUI for it that implements a decent swathe of its functionality. No, ufw doesn't cut it, it sucks. Not enough functionality. And how about a firewall that scans app binaries, and gives access on a per-binary basis?
These are just some of the problems I've noticed, off the top of my head. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Linux be a viable alternative, but it can't beat Windows 7 yet... and TBH I was amazed that some of these problems still existed, given how long Canonical had been at it.
The TLD is essentially totally insignificant, and would have to be typed every single time if the order were reversed.
Only if you were using an autocompleter that relied on stored URLs beginning with what you typed, rather than any part of the URL (and even the page title) containing what you typed - a la Firefox 3.
Yeah, you're right. I can't think of any time I regularly use slashes in common speech/reading/writing. And it's not just me; go ask the average man/woman on the street.
The thing is, that's exactly what I hated when Star Trek did that. On the one hand, Picard and (particularly) Riker were meant to be in the very senior positions they were in because they were very good all-round; yes, it's a lot to do with leadership, but surely they should have had great technical knowledge too, to be in command of a starship. So, when Riker would turn around and tell people to say stuff 'in English' because they were using words of more than one syllable, I kind of wished someone would throw him out of an airlock.
Pee Wee Herman... is that you?
Leela and Amy? :-)
Erm, but the whole weakness of the client-server model is that there's a single point of failure - the server. Napster got taken down easily. I don't care if these sites are hosting other fiels amongst illegal torrents, you better believe the MAFIAA will sue the fuck out of Rapidshare and/or they'll just remove these torrents as much as they can.
Is it as annoying as people who use 'she' as a gender-neutral pronoun in a desperate act of political correctness?
It doesn't help that the IOC's selection process for which sports should be included is woefully disrespectful of a sport's appropriateness for testing various physical and mental skills, and has everything to do with commercial profitability, resulting in squash being ruled out, whilst golf, table tennis, and fencing get to be included. I've lost pretty much all respect for the Olympics having realized the shittiness of this selection procedure.
It's easier for dogs to lap water up from them.
What it writes can't be easily rubbed out = weakness, not strength.
To sharpen it, you need to use sandpaper. Ouch.
You're a twat. Scotland is better off as part of the Union, you've clearly been brainwashed by pompous Scottish nationalists. Scotland should be considered a region of the UK, and if it chooses independence, it will suffer as a result.
Ooh. 5, insightful. Well let's see whether the Slashdot mods are unbiased. It's my capital also. And I say no.
What if the Democrats' answer to John McCain had been John McCain 2? Would you have voted the bad leadership out then?
Launching first-strike attacks for the reasons of so-called self-defence is outrageous and immoral. You wait until someone has KILLED you, and tehn you get to kill them back. Not before.
Actually, the BBC do these kinds of headlines all the time. It pisses me off. They should know better.
Actually, they're no longer known as that. Their new name is:
BE *eyes explode at fluorescent cyan*
How often do you really use the menubar? 90% of the time its wasting screenspace and as people push for a consistent UI across platforms it's worth making the change.
I actually have to disagree with you on this one. Maybe my usage of Firefox is different to most, but the first thing I do is switch to large toolbar icons. My toolbar consists of:
back, forward, stop, reload, home, downloads, bookmarks, history, view source, new window, new tab, search box.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those buttons I click on a relatively frequent basis. I do not want them hidden or made smaller, thank you.
So the two (three?) ISPs in the US that most consumers are limited to almost inevitably declare themselves as family friendly, and the consumer is no less screwed than before.
I know I'm taking that cartoon way too seriously, but what the hell. The 2nd amendment doesn't guarantee people to right to export arms from the US. :-) US citizens already have the ability to 'keep and bear crypto', WITHIN the US.
If they are not doing the will of the people, the people are not using enough boxes.
This is not news, and hasn't been for a long time.
See what happened to The Pirate Bay for providing BT links. :-)
Since when was Duct Tape made out of cardboard?