Point well taken, but I think you need to admit that there is still a complete lack of MEANINGFUL regulation (or enforcement thereof, for that matter). In all honesty, the intensity targets of the present regime are just as bad as the all talk no action policies of the liberals past. Either way, both parties have got it wrong on a federal level and certainly the provincial party of the day/decade(s) never gave a flying fig for the environment. Your last comment, whilst largely true in North America and vast swathes of the developing world is not universally true. As someone who worked as as an environmental regulator back in my home country, and has traveled almost all of Northern Alberta, I can guarantee you there is no way in hell the sort of environmental rape that goes on around fort Mcmurray would be allowed back home. Just some food for thought. Thankfully I am still not a Canadian citizen yet, so don't need to choose sides on the present election. Lets hope for another minority government, so some checks and balances continue to be in place, allowing the more outlandish schemes of all the parties to be tempered with a bit of cold hard reality.
My dear friend, clearly you have not spent too much time installing windows apps for you have seem to have omitted some of the more delightful steps in the process.
* open browser
* search for application
Then hunt for know spyware/malware/trojans associated with this app.
find numerous know issues, search for similar app to do the same functions, rinse and repeat until..
* find their official website (hopefully, perhaps lots of various other versions available on other sites)
* finally find the right download link
* click and download
* find and execute the installer (or unzip and run an installer... or unzip and copy to Program Files?)
click the next, bug me, next time, piss off you annoying little window button on your unzipping app.
Then lets not forget
Do you agree to the above soul sucking hand over your first born give us complete freedom to do whatever the F... we want to your system with no liability license...
Scroll through 9 pages of legalese
Click I agree
Then
* Next > Next > Next > Next >
Uncheck the "spam me forever with useless shit" button
Uncheck the "garnish my desktop/launcher/system tray with crappy icons button"
Next > Next >
Get to the "App XYZ needs to reboot your computer to finish install", click Finish
Panic to save all your work as the system goes down in the middle of an interesting MSN session with cyberhottie75446 (who you are beginning to secretly suspect is a 78 year old...)
Grab a coffee and settle in
Clean all those icons it promised not to install off your desktop.
Fire up msconfig and get rid of all the crap that it added to the startup
Finally fire up the new piece of software..
Click your way through the register now window, or scramble for a credit card..
and finally start using the App, which you find after about 20 minutes will require some serious reverse engineering to do more than 50% of what you need it for.
Give up after 3 days with this piece of crap and try the uninstall (HAHAHAHAAHAHAH....)
Clearly , you have never tried to cancel anything with Rogers. Mere offerings of your firstborn are normally not sufficient to escape one of their contracts a day before expiry date.
Three guesses... the generosity knows no bounds. Pity it is not better placed than a rant on/.
Ok, I'll take you up on that
Guess one...The project works marginally in some countries, fails in others and in a couple of small but notable instances is a success. A small number of Children of other wise littles mean go on to things that they could otherwise never have done
Guess two.. Spammers of the world suffer as the industry is taken over by hunger driven third world cyber terrorists who pillage your mail box on a daily basis. Some of these little mongrels actually turn out to be damn fine coders and attain positions of wealth and knowledge that they could never otherwise obtain, a few of which even end up going legit.
Guess three Dousaf Alliwanbad cracks the best security on the planet, hacks the Pentagon, turns all the WMD's in the vast arsenal of the US on itself and duly launches.
All of which seem like better alternatives to chasing the cows around and dying at 32 of preventable causes if you ask me.. And heh, you did!
And your HUGE POINT would be that the better long term alternative is ___
Please, kind sir, do fill in the blank, or are we to think that you would rather have nothing done other than the status quo, in which case I fear the slamming of naiveté will fall quite firmly upon thy head.
Hell, what do you know, this little article has actually pissed me off enough to get me contribute. A fair achievement in my long and almost entirely parasitic slashdot relationship.
Before we even start on a response, the eternal question arises: Did he, or did he not donate a single google ad earned cent to hunger relief as he so glibly concludes at the end of his tirade?
Somehow I suspect he smugly punched the submit button on his blog and went back to browsing around looking for more soft targets to lure more indignant ad clickers in with, without a second thought for the starving millions he so crassly claims concern for.
Honestly the man is so clueless as to how the rest of the world that he claims empathy for operates he might as well start writing on the subtle nuances of Mongolian yodelling.
First, kudos for googling iSiswati and isiZulu. I'll be interested to see if his next article that mentions German calls it Deutsche. Honestly, if you going to write in English use the English words. Swazi and Zulu. And had he taken the time actually scroll down the wikipedia page he used for the spelling he may have noticed links to projects concerning translations of software to those exact languages or even, heaven forbid, an online Zulu Newspaper. And er, perhaps if my mates in KwaZulu Natal has a few more of these computer things, they could uh, you know, actual write those "missing" wiki's. Oh wait, hold on THEY DID!
Now, if you will bear with my rant a little longer, for those seething uneducated masses that daily have to choose between mastering MySQl and filling the belly, I think that dear old dozy Dvorak will get a rude surprise if ever he ventures out of his oh so grounded in reality Silicon Valley and met some staving minions. I know from personal experience that many families that have to choose between food on the tables for themselves and an education for their children, will give both the food and education to their children and suffer in silence themselves in the hope that those children at least can escape the lives that they as parents feel they cannot escape themselves.
How, pray tell, will the expired and rancid grain not fit western tables that Mr Dvorak claims so to be so keen to sponsor, help to create a better life for those children? Seriously, I actually want to know how.
And as for theft, does our dear old correspondent in the land of the free(speech, NOT) even know how little of that relief he is so generously offering to pay for actually makes it to the people who need it after all the officials, leaders, warlords and general low life opportunist have taken their cut.
Good point, of course there will be losses to theft etc. But as he so deftly points out only 13% of the Niger population can read. Last time anyone checked, 100% of them could eat. So if they had to choose between raiding the latest food package or stealing some kids laptop, I don't know about him, but I would rather be protecting the laptops.
War, what war? Over here most Taiwanese are too busy shopping and complaining about their own cowboy trading on local stock markets to actually notice if china invaded. Most people accept that sooner or later something will happen, but as natural cowards and born capitalist, there is very little chance of Taiwan actually defending itself. Unless big bad US of Bush drops a few big ones on shanghai within an hour of a fleet of converted fishing boats heading out to Taiwan (which, given the mental stability of the man, is actually possible (scary)), the Taiwanese will happily surrender and begin a "one country three systems" negotiation that is probably already more advanced than anyone lets on. Actually folks, China would be mad to do anything other than shout obscenities across the strait until after the election. Most Taiwanese, rightly or wrongly, blame the DPP for the present economic decline, and the independence rhetoric is basically a DPP election strategy. The KMT, china's old foe, looks set to sweep the DPP aside and then we can go back to a more traditional military junta/democracy that has existed here for many decades (and seems to be taking root elsewhere, if you know what I mean). China would be happy with that and it could tone down its rhetoric a notch for a few years while supplying more of its children to the Taiwanese businesses that proliferate along its coastline so that you can have your cheap toys across the placid lake.
Not just ebooks, but rather good newspapers too. My girlfriend, bless her, decided to give me a pocket pc for my birthday. I spent weeks trying to contrive a decent use for the thing. Then i discovered Avantgo. Heh, now instead of spending too many hours of home time staring at the old CRT, i can get my daily dose of news and reviews anytime, any place. E books are much the same, although it takes a bit more tailoring. Then one day i saw a targus keyboard in a shop window, and finally i found that these little things can be useful. Not so much for the electronic diary thing, but more as a laptop replacement. Not too long ago/. an interesting article on why we still use windows. Well, i use it for my PDA really. With the keybaord, and word, my PDA becomes pretty much a laptop, with no boot up time and a realistic size to carry around. So finally i can grap a minute to write a mail or do a report, anytime, anywhere. Unfortunately i haven't taken the time or effort to work out how to get linux on the PDA, (i'm sure it can be done) and get the keyboard working. So for now, its Windows CE, ebooks and Avantgo.
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Point well taken, but I think you need to admit that there is still a complete lack of MEANINGFUL regulation (or enforcement thereof, for that matter). In all honesty, the intensity targets of the present regime are just as bad as the all talk no action policies of the liberals past. Either way, both parties have got it wrong on a federal level and certainly the provincial party of the day/decade(s) never gave a flying fig for the environment.
Your last comment, whilst largely true in North America and vast swathes of the developing world is not universally true. As someone who worked as as an environmental regulator back in my home country, and has traveled almost all of Northern Alberta, I can guarantee you there is no way in hell the sort of environmental rape that goes on around fort Mcmurray would be allowed back home.
Just some food for thought. Thankfully I am still not a Canadian citizen yet, so don't need to choose sides on the present election. Lets hope for another minority government, so some checks and balances continue to be in place, allowing the more outlandish schemes of all the parties to be tempered with a bit of cold hard reality.
My dear friend, clearly you have not spent too much time installing windows apps for you have seem to have omitted some of the more delightful steps in the process.
... or unzip and copy to Program Files?)
/launcher /system tray with crappy icons button"
* open browser
* search for application
Then hunt for know spyware/malware/trojans associated with this app.
find numerous know issues, search for similar app to do the same functions, rinse and repeat until..
* find their official website (hopefully, perhaps lots of various other versions available on other sites)
* finally find the right download link
* click and download
* find and execute the installer (or unzip and run an installer
click the next, bug me, next time, piss off you annoying little window button on your unzipping app.
Then lets not forget
Do you agree to the above soul sucking hand over your first born give us complete freedom to do whatever the F... we want to your system with no liability license...
Scroll through 9 pages of legalese
Click I agree
Then
* Next > Next > Next > Next >
Uncheck the "spam me forever with useless shit" button
Uncheck the "garnish my desktop
Next > Next >
Get to the "App XYZ needs to reboot your computer to finish install", click Finish
Panic to save all your work as the system goes down in the middle of an interesting MSN session with cyberhottie75446 (who you are beginning to secretly suspect is a 78 year old...)
Grab a coffee and settle in
Clean all those icons it promised not to install off your desktop.
Fire up msconfig and get rid of all the crap that it added to the startup
Finally fire up the new piece of software..
Click your way through the register now window, or scramble for a credit card..
and finally start using the App, which you find after about 20 minutes will require some serious reverse engineering to do more than 50% of what you need it for.
Give up after 3 days with this piece of crap and try the uninstall (HAHAHAHAAHAHAH....)
Clearly , you have never tried to cancel anything with Rogers. Mere offerings of your firstborn are normally not sufficient to escape one of their contracts a day before expiry date.
Three guesses... the generosity knows no bounds. Pity it is not better placed than a rant on /.
Ok, I'll take you up on that
Guess one...The project works marginally in some countries, fails in others and in a couple of small but notable instances is a success. A small number of Children of other wise littles mean go on to things that they could otherwise never have done
Guess two.. Spammers of the world suffer as the industry is taken over by hunger driven third world cyber terrorists who pillage your mail box on a daily basis. Some of these little mongrels actually turn out to be damn fine coders and attain positions of wealth and knowledge that they could never otherwise obtain, a few of which even end up going legit.
Guess three Dousaf Alliwanbad cracks the best security on the planet, hacks the Pentagon, turns all the WMD's in the vast arsenal of the US on itself and duly launches.
All of which seem like better alternatives to chasing the cows around and dying at 32 of preventable causes if you ask me.. And heh, you did!
And your HUGE POINT would be that the better long term alternative is ___ Please, kind sir, do fill in the blank, or are we to think that you would rather have nothing done other than the status quo, in which case I fear the slamming of naiveté will fall quite firmly upon thy head.
Hell, what do you know, this little article has actually pissed me off enough to get me contribute. A fair achievement in my long and almost entirely parasitic slashdot relationship.
Before we even start on a response, the eternal question arises: Did he, or did he not donate a single google ad earned cent to hunger relief as he so glibly concludes at the end of his tirade?
Somehow I suspect he smugly punched the submit button on his blog and went back to browsing around looking for more soft targets to lure more indignant ad clickers in with, without a second thought for the starving millions he so crassly claims concern for.
Honestly the man is so clueless as to how the rest of the world that he claims empathy for operates he might as well start writing on the subtle nuances of Mongolian yodelling.
First, kudos for googling iSiswati and isiZulu. I'll be interested to see if his next article that mentions German calls it Deutsche. Honestly, if you going to write in English use the English words. Swazi and Zulu. And had he taken the time actually scroll down the wikipedia page he used for the spelling he may have noticed links to projects concerning translations of software to those exact languages or even, heaven forbid, an online Zulu Newspaper. And er, perhaps if my mates in KwaZulu Natal has a few more of these computer things, they could uh, you know, actual write those "missing" wiki's. Oh wait, hold on THEY DID!
Now, if you will bear with my rant a little longer, for those seething uneducated masses that daily have to choose between mastering MySQl and filling the belly, I think that dear old dozy Dvorak will get a rude surprise if ever he ventures out of his oh so grounded in reality Silicon Valley and met some staving minions.
I know from personal experience that many families that have to choose between food on the tables for themselves and an education for their children, will give both the food and education to their children and suffer in silence themselves in the hope that those children at least can escape the lives that they as parents feel they cannot escape themselves.
How, pray tell, will the expired and rancid grain not fit western tables that Mr Dvorak claims so to be so keen to sponsor, help to create a better life for those children? Seriously, I actually want to know how.
And as for theft, does our dear old correspondent in the land of the free(speech, NOT) even know how little of that relief he is so generously offering to pay for actually makes it to the people who need it after all the officials, leaders, warlords and general low life opportunist have taken their cut.
Good point, of course there will be losses to theft etc. But as he so deftly points out only 13% of the Niger population can read. Last time anyone checked, 100% of them could eat. So if they had to choose between raiding the latest food package or stealing some kids laptop, I don't know about him, but I would rather be protecting the laptops.
I agree but /. !!!
Antarctic bird.....geesh dude, this is
War, what war? Over here most Taiwanese are too busy shopping and complaining about their own cowboy trading on local stock markets to actually notice if china invaded. Most people accept that sooner or later something will happen, but as natural cowards and born capitalist, there is very little chance of Taiwan actually defending itself. Unless big bad US of Bush drops a few big ones on shanghai within an hour of a fleet of converted fishing boats heading out to Taiwan (which, given the mental stability of the man, is actually possible (scary)), the Taiwanese will happily surrender and begin a "one country three systems" negotiation that is probably already more advanced than anyone lets on.
Actually folks, China would be mad to do anything other than shout obscenities across the strait until after the election. Most Taiwanese, rightly or wrongly, blame the DPP for the present economic decline, and the independence rhetoric is basically a DPP election strategy. The KMT, china's old foe, looks set to sweep the DPP aside and then we can go back to a more traditional military junta/democracy that has existed here for many decades (and seems to be taking root elsewhere, if you know what I mean). China would be happy with that and it could tone down its rhetoric a notch for a few years while supplying more of its children to the Taiwanese businesses that proliferate along its coastline so that you can have your cheap toys across the placid lake.
Not just ebooks, but rather good newspapers too. My girlfriend, bless her, decided to give me a pocket pc for my birthday. I spent weeks trying to contrive a decent use for the thing. Then i discovered Avantgo. Heh, now instead of spending too many hours of home time staring at the old CRT, i can get my daily dose of news and reviews anytime, any place. E books are much the same, although it takes a bit more tailoring. /. an interesting article on why we still use windows. Well, i use it for my PDA really. With the keybaord, and word, my PDA becomes pretty much a laptop, with no boot up time and a realistic size to carry around. So finally i can grap a minute to write a mail or do a report, anytime, anywhere.
Then one day i saw a targus keyboard in a shop window, and finally i found that these little things can be useful. Not so much for the electronic diary thing, but more as a laptop replacement. Not too long ago
Unfortunately i haven't taken the time or effort to work out how to get linux on the PDA, (i'm sure it can be done) and get the keyboard working. So for now, its Windows CE, ebooks and Avantgo.