the Chinese government are largely not interested in what you, a Westerner, are doing on the internet. The Great Firewall is there to monitor and control Chinese citizens.
Yeah, people are overreacting, but there is the fact that the guy is going to live there. Could that possibly put him in a gray area even if he maintains Western citizenship? It's a fair question to at least ask.
Personally, I'd like to know what's motivating his move to China. I assume a job.
The Mac OS supports multibutton mice. The mouse that comes with a Mac has one button, but the OS is in no way limited to that. It's a complete non-issue that gets far more sound and fury than it deserves.
The 1-button mouse was intended for beginning users. Claiming it sucks for CAD work is like claiming a Kia is inadequate for the NASCAR racing circuit. Aw, shit, I stumbled into a car analogy. Sorry.:-\
You can plug a Microsoft Intellimouse with scroll wheel into a Mac OS X machine, and it works perfectly. What people get tired of is the implication that the Mac OS is LIMITED to one button. Multibutton support is built into Mac OS X, and before that you could buy any mouse with umpteen buttons, install the driver, and click away happily. Apple simply provides a one button mouse, but you can use multibutton mice no problem.
Now I agree with the argument that maybe Apple should offer a better mouse out of the box, but, well, mice are pretty cheap.
They're overhyping a bit, aren't they?
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I'm using Firefox at the moment, but it's not the utopic experience they seem to be pushing. It gets very slow sometimes for no discernable reason. The automatic plug-in download hasn't worked once. And sometimes the text on Slashdot pages shows up shifted way over to the right completely at random. It also chokes on my company's online timecard page, and looking at the page code I don't see anything particularly unusual or esoteric. I'll keep using it, though. It *is* better than IE overall.
I'd like to see them put the tab close "X" on the tabs themselves like Safari.
I didn't see much coverage of the RC4 flaw in Microsoft Office that was uncovered recently...
Maybe everyone is just burned out and tired of the topic. We all know that the state of PCs in the world today is a vast, pathetic farce of biblical proportions thanks to MS. What's left to say about it? Windows is a shitpile, but people keep gobbling it up. Just like they gobble up all the other sludge in our culture. Nothing unusual to be seen here. Move along.
I want to make the camera replace my face with an amusing animated logo like The Laughing Man did on the Ghost In The Shell series. That's the next step. Besides, my face can scare small children, although that's not such a bad thing if you think about it.
Just connect the spigot to my house, and get the fuck out of my way. I pay you every month, you give me uncensored bandwidth. Anything beyond that begins to tick the needle on the annoyance meter.
Re:Really weird list of banned games...
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I live in Germany
Speaking of bans, they mentioned during one of the Prince Dumbass (the guy who wore the Nazi outfit to the party) news blurbs about Germany's ban on the swastica. Do they grant waivers for things like history books? Or do they have to blur out the symbol in any historical photos, or something?
Seriously, how could the culture that discovered gunpower, steam power, acupuncture, and nearly started the industrial revolution hundreds of years before Europe/America did end up in its current situation?
They also banned Barbie's Horse Adventures, but I can't really blame them for that one.
If they banned Katamari Damacy I think we should go immediately to DEFCON 2. And if they banned Ratchet & Clank games, well, it's time to send in Marines armed with sheepinators.
An OS that runs faster on the same hardware when a major update is introduced. What is all that extra delay? What new things are happeneing, and why did I survive without them before?
A computer interface where, if I click something involving something on another computer that is currently unavailable, it doesn't completely hose out on me for over five minutes, and then suddenly come back to life in a massive flurry of window activations and deactivations.
A web coding standard where I don't have to implement IE workarounds, "be nice to Opera" workarounds, box definition problem workarounds, CSS (lack of) support workarounds, just to get the look I am after without feeling like I am using greasy lego blocks in the dark to build a presentation of something for the world. The phrase "graphical interface layout language" drifts about my head often.
An IT department that, when they change the fixed IP addresses for important servers (Exceed On Demand, for example), the location of source scripts to invoke the engineering tools I use every day, and other important bits of info over a holiday break, thinks to inform the users of these little items so that the user has some clue when they come back from vacation WHY NOTHING IS FUCKING WORKING!!!!!!! I know you people read this site, and I know you know who you are.
Know when, as a "manager", when to leave me the FUCK alone! I see my manager once every 3 months. I hit my milestones. He's happy. I'm hap- well, I'm never happy, but at least it's not my manager making me unhappy.
Capisca?
The problem with new "managers" is that they think they have to manage every last little thing, and they become pointy-haired bosses so fast you wouldn't think it thermodynamically possible.
You wanna stop by and shoot the breeze, fine, but DON'T FUCK WITH THE PROCESS!
I think you need to look up the word "troll" in the context of the Internet. Nothing you have lebelled a troll has been a troll. One was misplaced sarcasm and the other was a mere quip.
I gave up on FM long ago. The self-important, annoying dumbass DJs just became too much. Oh, gee, the DJ just implied that at some time in his distant past he might have though about "toking a doob". Wow. What a fucking rebel! Ooo! He just made a joke implying Bush is a big dummy. Wow. What a fucking radical!
Just spin another corporate record, monkey-boy. And know that the ability of talking your blather over a song just until the vocals start is the most useless skill known to humanity.
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Yeah, people are overreacting, but there is the fact that the guy is going to live there. Could that possibly put him in a gray area even if he maintains Western citizenship? It's a fair question to at least ask.
Personally, I'd like to know what's motivating his move to China. I assume a job.
Aw, you have a Salman Rushdie? I want one. Where'd you get yours? Answer me, puny human!
Although the Firefox folks might want to read Apple's notes on the concept of "discoverability". ;-)
The 1-button mouse was intended for beginning users. Claiming it sucks for CAD work is like claiming a Kia is inadequate for the NASCAR racing circuit. Aw, shit, I stumbled into a car analogy. Sorry. :-\
Now I agree with the argument that maybe Apple should offer a better mouse out of the box, but, well, mice are pretty cheap.
I'd like to see them put the tab close "X" on the tabs themselves like Safari.
Maybe everyone is just burned out and tired of the topic. We all know that the state of PCs in the world today is a vast, pathetic farce of biblical proportions thanks to MS. What's left to say about it? Windows is a shitpile, but people keep gobbling it up. Just like they gobble up all the other sludge in our culture. Nothing unusual to be seen here. Move along.
Exactly. Of course, I didn't make a mistake, you dumb hippie. :-) People just missed the point.
To my fine critics: You are all pussies, and not fit to lick my boots. :-P
I want to make the camera replace my face with an amusing animated logo like The Laughing Man did on the Ghost In The Shell series. That's the next step. Besides, my face can scare small children, although that's not such a bad thing if you think about it.
Just connect the spigot to my house, and get the fuck out of my way. I pay you every month, you give me uncensored bandwidth. Anything beyond that begins to tick the needle on the annoyance meter.
They created the Apple II.
Speaking of bans, they mentioned during one of the Prince Dumbass (the guy who wore the Nazi outfit to the party) news blurbs about Germany's ban on the swastica. Do they grant waivers for things like history books? Or do they have to blur out the symbol in any historical photos, or something?
They discovered ideology.
If they banned Katamari Damacy I think we should go immediately to DEFCON 2. And if they banned Ratchet & Clank games, well, it's time to send in Marines armed with sheepinators.
And this is a problem... why?
A computer interface where, if I click something involving something on another computer that is currently unavailable, it doesn't completely hose out on me for over five minutes, and then suddenly come back to life in a massive flurry of window activations and deactivations.
A web coding standard where I don't have to implement IE workarounds, "be nice to Opera" workarounds, box definition problem workarounds, CSS (lack of) support workarounds, just to get the look I am after without feeling like I am using greasy lego blocks in the dark to build a presentation of something for the world. The phrase "graphical interface layout language" drifts about my head often.
An IT department that, when they change the fixed IP addresses for important servers (Exceed On Demand, for example), the location of source scripts to invoke the engineering tools I use every day, and other important bits of info over a holiday break, thinks to inform the users of these little items so that the user has some clue when they come back from vacation WHY NOTHING IS FUCKING WORKING!!!!!!! I know you people read this site, and I know you know who you are.
The mind wobbles at the thought.
Capisca?
The problem with new "managers" is that they think they have to manage every last little thing, and they become pointy-haired bosses so fast you wouldn't think it thermodynamically possible.
You wanna stop by and shoot the breeze, fine, but DON'T FUCK WITH THE PROCESS!
I think you need to look up the word "troll" in the context of the Internet. Nothing you have lebelled a troll has been a troll. One was misplaced sarcasm and the other was a mere quip.
We'll survive. Thanks. Buh-bye AOL.
Geezus... A typo is fine in the body of an article, but at least proof your headlines, people.
And people wonder why I call ideology a mental illness.
Just spin another corporate record, monkey-boy. And know that the ability of talking your blather over a song just until the vocals start is the most useless skill known to humanity.
Well, back to my MP3 harvesting.
Much maligned for his business practices, is this proof that sometimes the ends justify the means?
Well, let me give that the deep thought it deserves. [33 milliseconds later] Uh, no.