If you go grab the source code now then there is nothing that they can do to prevent you from redistributing it after they close it. The BSD licence means that anyone can take that code, use it in their own closed source project and not have to make the code available to anyone.
7 does not show the file total for more than 15 files.
It does on my system, which runs Home Premium. However, I have seen it just display "XX files selected" before.
Oh, I just managed to recreate it. I went into a folder that had over a hundred files in it and did a Ctrl-A to select them all. It just displayed the number of files (with no click for details message). I noticed the green progress bar going across the address line as it scanned the rather large video files to get their resolution. Once this was done it showed those details as well as the total file size. This was on an external USB drive, so it is not as fast as my internal drives.
I just tried it in my Windows\System32 folder on nearly 3000 files. I got the "Show more details" message. When I clicked it the green progress bar showed again and it eventually just shows the file date ranges. I tried just selecting the files and not the folders and it showed the file sizes. Hovering the mouse over a folder still shows the folder size.
Try that folder for yourself and see what happens. Pay attention to the address line.
Calm down. There is no chance that this will be locked away. If you look at the project pages linked in the article, you can see that they have both been released under the New BSD licence. And at the bottom of the Angle Mouse project page, it states:
This work was supported in part by Microsoft Research, Intel Labs, and the National Science Foundation under grants IIS-0811063 and IIS-0812590. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of any supporter.
So there you go, the project is still owned by the authors and not the companies that provided support.
If gaming is their primary use, then tablet is doomed because the general purpose computers, game consoles and portable game consoles are all much, much better for playing games.
That depends on the type of game. Tablets do not work for an FPS game, or a button bashing one. But they are suitable for mouse type games like Civilization or puzzle games. I loaded SCUMMVM on my tablet, and found that point and click adventures are well suited to it. I guess it is going to be more popular with the ever-growing casual gaming market rather than hardcore gamingt.
I imagine that click and flick games would be ideal when interactive with your finger, and this isn't an action that suits a mouse. This demonstrates that it requires the game developers to have a mindset change to really take advantage of the user interface. The problems that you identify with tablet computing happen when you try to emulate the UI of existing computers or consoles.
The biggest benefit that tablet computing brings is the portability. It doesn't matter that a full computer may be easier to use if that computer is sitting back in the office, or is a hassle to take out of the case and setup. Admittedly, I am a bit of a gadget guy myself, but I have always thought that small and light, low powered devices always trump heavier powerful systems because it doesn't matter how much more powerful something is if it hurts your back to carry it around all the time. I want a computing device that does not require any decision to lug it around all day.
Which sounds like a nice idea, until (for example) an application you're using becomes a pain to install on Linux because one of the Mono Project additional libraries that it relies on stops working on newer Mono versions, and you have to either compile an older version or just switch to Windows and.Net to run it.
That seems like a valid concern. Backwards compatibility is one thing that Microsoft usually does well. Other programming languages have also had their share of orphaned libraries, but that does not excuse Mono for getting this wrong.
LMOL....yeah Microsoft needs Mono for legitimacy? From who??
You answered your own question later when you said:
FYI.NET has been around since 2000. It has been touted as cross platform and cross language. That has not materialized in the past 10 years.
The reason Microsoft needs Mono is exactly because they tout their platform as cross platform. You say that it hasn't materialized in 10 years, but here we are talking about being able to use Mono in Linux, iOS and now Android. As for cross language support, I can't see how you could possibly deny that claim!
The rest of your post just seems to say that if you only care about running on Windows then you use.NET, but if you want Linux support then you use Mono. That doesn't actually contradict what I said. And if nobody cares about Mono, when why are you bothering to post here about it?
or just "reset" the password of the account and give it to the French police.
This tips off the target that they cops are onto them. I was going to write suspect, but assumes that this will not get abused by the government to spy on non-suspects too.
I guess the way to protect yourself from this surveillance is to change your password on a daily basis (or even twice a day). By the time that the request has been processed by the service provider and passed onto the authority, then it will already be out of date.
A win for everyone? I doubt it. I don't think that would be a "win" for clients/consumers/end-users. Are you really that myopic or is this a troll?
Did you just stop reading at that sentence? Did you think that anyone could seriously suggest this? The final paragaph puts it in context when the "win" for the French people was that they get to learn to care about their data security. It is a lesson that they can pass on to the government at the next election.
This is especially aimed towards the "I have got nothing to hide, so why should I care" type of person. It bad enough that the government can access the logs of what you do online, but with the passwords they can also log in as you and make it look like you have done something bad. (Makes for an interesting legal defence...)
I know a lot of people will say that these companies should block France to bully the government to repeal the law, but that really is not workable and would be against shareholder's interests.
The easiest solution is just to comply with the law. But rather than change the data structures of the backend software to accommodate one country, they should just blank out all the passwords and disable the ability to change them. It is a win for everyone then. The companies comply with the law. The police, fraud office, customs, tax and social security bodies can all access the citizens records directly without burdening the service providers.
And of course, the French people get a valuable lesson in why they should care about who can access their accounts. Let the French people decide whether this is a good idea or not at the next election!
VFAT was never covered by Microsoft with a Microsoft Community Promise, have patent grants under MS-PL or Apache2 licenses, be covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, or be directly specified by patent covenants. There are parts of.NET that are not explicity covered by these various patent grants, but 1) you don't have to use them and 2) (AFAIK) they are not used in these versions of Mono for Mobile phones.
Microsoft never touted VFAT as a cross platform technology like it did with.NET. The decision to licence VFAT was made after people just started using it for themselves. On the other hand, Microsoft actively encouraged the development of other implementations of.NET. It would be a PR nightmare for them to start making legal threats against the very project that they wanted to come about.
Microsoft doesn't care about Mono for the same reason as Wine - because it doesn't - and never will - work well enough to be a factor either way.
Only if you assume that the point of Mono is to run.NET apps. True, that is what it can do to some extent, but it is also a development platform of its own (which is what TFA is all about). Developing using Mono is the best way to ensure you have a cross platform program.
Applications developed using the base Mono libraries will work on Mono and.NET runtime. You can use libraries that will not run on Microsoft's.NET (the reverse of the problem that you had). The ultimate example is if you develop something in Mono for the Android or the iPhone then the MS CLR will not support it. But if you do decide to use a Mono library that is not supported by.NET, then you can always run it using Mono for Windows.
In your examples, I can understand Netflix not being compatible because I don't believe Mono has implemented the DRM that Netflix uses, but there is no excuse for a tax filing application for being incompatible with both CLRs. You should complain to them, just as you would complain if someone wrote a website that only worked in Internet Explorer.
Did you see the episode where they used netting directly in front of the mirrors to allow the participants to focus their mirror on a close point without any distractions from all the other lights? They also tried a focussing system that used a similar principle to your cited idea, but that didn't prove to be successful (can't remember why now). They still didn't get any burning boat, so even with the aiming system the myth result still stands.
...the reason for this is because Microsoft can wipe the floor with it at any point it feels like.
The same FUD has been used for the last seven years, and Microsoft is still yet to "wipe the floor". As each year passes without the predicted backlash, your suggestion looks more and more like it should come with a free tinfoil hat!
There is no indication at all that Microsoft is unhappy with Mono. In fact, Microsoft needs the Mono project to give its.NET platform legitimacy as a cross platform solution. If it tried to stop Mono then it would only serve to scare developers away from.NET completely.
You can hardly say that Microsoft is turning a blind eye to this only 3½ working days after announcing that they are looking into it. It will take time to process the logs to find the trends and then make some changes so this cannot happen again. The blogger from TFA has had longer to come up with some figures and still only says that he has a "personal hunch" that the figures have been manipulated based on what he thinks the games should be rated.
If you look at the first blog mentioning this they single out the fans of College Lacrosse 2011 to be the bad guys and yet the graphs shown a week later have the lacrosse game dropping in the ratings. With any rating system, I assume that there must be some attempts to fudge the figures, so it seems quite plausible that the blogger may end up being correct. But my point is that it takes time to find out what is really happening. They have to be more sure than just saying that something looks fishy before they take action.
A shill would not be so obvious. A shill would not use the name "r.stallman". A shill would not follow the same pattern so precisely that the fingerprints of the author can be spotted from a mile away. Sure, I don't know the name of the author, but you can be damn sure that all these different users are the work of one person.
We should all just ignore the posts and let the moderators mod them down.
Technically Microsoft do not have to pay for product placement on slashdot (and it seems unlikely that they would have done so and even more unlikely that this traditionally anti-Microsoft site would have acquiesced). Favourable articles about Windows 7 results in a large number of posts, and this translates into more ad views. Like it or not, Slashdot makes money by being controversial.
That said, the pro-Windows 7 comments (at least for the desktop version) are in keeping with the positive reception of the platform all over the net and is reflected in the increased sales of the OS compared to Vista. For this reason, claims of paid product placement and astroturfing seem highly unlikely. Obviously the recent douche who made incredibly obvious pro-Microsoft "astroturfings" under a variety of new accounts is the exception. But that was so blatant that it had to be a troll, rather than a real shill.
As for Windows Phone 7 (back on topic), often the people who have actually used it seem to report favourably on the platform. But like me, most people haven't even tried it and just assume that it will not be very good. I suspect that this is due one incredibly stupid mistake, and that was to not support copy and paste.
This was such a major (and publicly derided) problem on the first version of the iPhone that the lack of the feature in Microsoft's product just screams that the platform is unfinished. Whoever made that decision at Microsoft should be hung, drawn and quartered - and then sacked.
As with the original iPhone, it will be worth waiting for the next version of Windows Phone 7 before buying. Myself, I'm going to wait until Windows Phone 7 version 3.1 - that was the right strategy in the past!
Who on EARTH do you & others like you *THINK* they're fooling?
What on Earth are YOU talking about??? What do you think that I am fooling anyone about? I state that a blog about IE will be (by definition) a partial source. How is that trying to fool anyone? How does that make me a fanboy?
And a fanboy of what? Do you think I am for or against Microsoft? Seriously, I can't think how you could think that the line of mine that you quoted could in any way be labelled as fanboyism. Of all the things that I have posted, this must surely be the LEAST controversial statement ever to come from my keyboard!
It is on msdn.com. Can we consider this a partial and fair article? I'm asking, not accusing.
Given how well Firefox fared then it seems that they have been fair with their reporting. Considering the tiny difference between IE9 and FF4 then you might as well choose between the browsers based on the features that you want.
That said, this is an IE9 blog we are talking about. I doubt that anyone could consider them to be impartial. They posted this because they want to spruik their browser. But at least they did not try to hide this by paying for it to appear in an "independent" magazine or website.
My only complaint is that I would like to know the system specs of their test machines. I would like to see this comparison on a netbook platform with a feeble GPU, because if you are seriously concerned with power usage then you probably already use a power-friendly processor like the Intel Atom.
Fiji is run by a dictatorship. What is your point?
And the Bahamas and Cayman Islands? What is YOUR point? That the original poster was wrong because of one incorrect example? Do you have any proof that this was some massive international conspiracy?
why did such a thing NOT happen at any given point, before ?
Good question. At any given time in history, there is civil unrest going on somewhere in the world. Some oppressive regime will be clamping down on their citizens. So why did this thing NOT happen at all those given points before?
If this was a demonstration of a policy of helping out dictatorships, then why has it not been apparent on previous occasions. I suppose that you could say that this is a new policy, but then that would devalue your intimation that this is proof of malevolent intentions. It could just as easily be the first time that this bug appeared.
Given that others here have pointed out that this didn't stop HTTPS from working (only from allowing new people to opt use it) and that it didn't just affect countries that are currently undergoing unrest then I think it seems more likely that this was just some bug.
I'd sooner boycott the city and find a job in the suburbs, than have to waste several hours each day trying to transition from my "regular" car to a train or bike. Time is finite (~80 years for each of us) but alternative options are not.
If you are so worried about time, then surely public transport can be a winning option. I take the train to work from the 'burbs into the city. I read the news, answer emails, post here on slashdot, watch TV, and when I am really bored I actually start work on the train. If you make sure that you send work related emails then you can justify leaving work earlier (if you have a good boss).
Finally, on those occasions when I have had to make a really early start at work, I sleep on the train. Sure, I could get in 15 minutes quicker if I went by car, but then there would be so much that I would miss out on. That sounds like much better use of my finite time.
Of course, if you ride a bike then you don't get these advantages. But then you also don't need to go to the gym after work and actually pay to exercise.
Hang on, folks... So we are supposed to care what Threni thinks about the AIIA? Who? Personally I'm not going to reconsider my views until I heard what pedo666 has to say about this.
Seriously, just because you haven't heard of an organization does not mean that you should simply discount their views. It only takes one person in the world to have an insightful thought, and it is most likely that you have never heard of that person before.
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If you go grab the source code now then there is nothing that they can do to prevent you from redistributing it after they close it. The BSD licence means that anyone can take that code, use it in their own closed source project and not have to make the code available to anyone.
7 does not show the file total for more than 15 files.
It does on my system, which runs Home Premium. However, I have seen it just display "XX files selected" before.
Oh, I just managed to recreate it. I went into a folder that had over a hundred files in it and did a Ctrl-A to select them all. It just displayed the number of files (with no click for details message). I noticed the green progress bar going across the address line as it scanned the rather large video files to get their resolution. Once this was done it showed those details as well as the total file size. This was on an external USB drive, so it is not as fast as my internal drives.
I just tried it in my Windows\System32 folder on nearly 3000 files. I got the "Show more details" message. When I clicked it the green progress bar showed again and it eventually just shows the file date ranges. I tried just selecting the files and not the folders and it showed the file sizes. Hovering the mouse over a folder still shows the folder size.
Try that folder for yourself and see what happens. Pay attention to the address line.
Calm down. There is no chance that this will be locked away. If you look at the project pages linked in the article, you can see that they have both been released under the New BSD licence. And at the bottom of the Angle Mouse project page, it states:
This work was supported in part by Microsoft Research, Intel Labs, and the National Science Foundation under grants IIS-0811063 and IIS-0812590. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of any supporter.
So there you go, the project is still owned by the authors and not the companies that provided support.
If gaming is their primary use, then tablet is doomed because the general purpose computers, game consoles and portable game consoles are all much, much better for playing games.
That depends on the type of game. Tablets do not work for an FPS game, or a button bashing one. But they are suitable for mouse type games like Civilization or puzzle games. I loaded SCUMMVM on my tablet, and found that point and click adventures are well suited to it. I guess it is going to be more popular with the ever-growing casual gaming market rather than hardcore gamingt.
I imagine that click and flick games would be ideal when interactive with your finger, and this isn't an action that suits a mouse. This demonstrates that it requires the game developers to have a mindset change to really take advantage of the user interface. The problems that you identify with tablet computing happen when you try to emulate the UI of existing computers or consoles.
The biggest benefit that tablet computing brings is the portability. It doesn't matter that a full computer may be easier to use if that computer is sitting back in the office, or is a hassle to take out of the case and setup. Admittedly, I am a bit of a gadget guy myself, but I have always thought that small and light, low powered devices always trump heavier powerful systems because it doesn't matter how much more powerful something is if it hurts your back to carry it around all the time. I want a computing device that does not require any decision to lug it around all day.
Which sounds like a nice idea, until (for example) an application you're using becomes a pain to install on Linux because one of the Mono Project additional libraries that it relies on stops working on newer Mono versions, and you have to either compile an older version or just switch to Windows and .Net to run it.
That seems like a valid concern. Backwards compatibility is one thing that Microsoft usually does well. Other programming languages have also had their share of orphaned libraries, but that does not excuse Mono for getting this wrong.
LMOL....yeah Microsoft needs Mono for legitimacy? From who??
You answered your own question later when you said:
FYI .NET has been around since 2000. It has been touted as cross platform and cross language. That has not materialized in the past 10 years.
The reason Microsoft needs Mono is exactly because they tout their platform as cross platform. You say that it hasn't materialized in 10 years, but here we are talking about being able to use Mono in Linux, iOS and now Android. As for cross language support, I can't see how you could possibly deny that claim!
The rest of your post just seems to say that if you only care about running on Windows then you use .NET, but if you want Linux support then you use Mono. That doesn't actually contradict what I said. And if nobody cares about Mono, when why are you bothering to post here about it?
or just "reset" the password of the account and give it to the French police.
This tips off the target that they cops are onto them. I was going to write suspect, but assumes that this will not get abused by the government to spy on non-suspects too.
I guess the way to protect yourself from this surveillance is to change your password on a daily basis (or even twice a day). By the time that the request has been processed by the service provider and passed onto the authority, then it will already be out of date.
A win for everyone? I doubt it. I don't think that would be a "win" for clients/consumers/end-users. Are you really that myopic or is this a troll?
Did you just stop reading at that sentence? Did you think that anyone could seriously suggest this? The final paragaph puts it in context when the "win" for the French people was that they get to learn to care about their data security. It is a lesson that they can pass on to the government at the next election.
This is especially aimed towards the "I have got nothing to hide, so why should I care" type of person. It bad enough that the government can access the logs of what you do online, but with the passwords they can also log in as you and make it look like you have done something bad. (Makes for an interesting legal defence...)
I know a lot of people will say that these companies should block France to bully the government to repeal the law, but that really is not workable and would be against shareholder's interests.
The easiest solution is just to comply with the law. But rather than change the data structures of the backend software to accommodate one country, they should just blank out all the passwords and disable the ability to change them. It is a win for everyone then. The companies comply with the law. The police, fraud office, customs, tax and social security bodies can all access the citizens records directly without burdening the service providers.
And of course, the French people get a valuable lesson in why they should care about who can access their accounts. Let the French people decide whether this is a good idea or not at the next election!
VFAT was never covered by Microsoft with a Microsoft Community Promise, have patent grants under MS-PL or Apache2 licenses, be covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, or be directly specified by patent covenants. There are parts of .NET that are not explicity covered by these various patent grants, but 1) you don't have to use them and 2) (AFAIK) they are not used in these versions of Mono for Mobile phones.
Microsoft never touted VFAT as a cross platform technology like it did with .NET. The decision to licence VFAT was made after people just started using it for themselves. On the other hand, Microsoft actively encouraged the development of other implementations of .NET. It would be a PR nightmare for them to start making legal threats against the very project that they wanted to come about.
Microsoft doesn't care about Mono for the same reason as Wine - because it doesn't - and never will - work well enough to be a factor either way.
Only if you assume that the point of Mono is to run .NET apps. True, that is what it can do to some extent, but it is also a development platform of its own (which is what TFA is all about). Developing using Mono is the best way to ensure you have a cross platform program.
Applications developed using the base Mono libraries will work on Mono and .NET runtime. You can use libraries that will not run on Microsoft's .NET (the reverse of the problem that you had). The ultimate example is if you develop something in Mono for the Android or the iPhone then the MS CLR will not support it. But if you do decide to use a Mono library that is not supported by .NET, then you can always run it using Mono for Windows.
In your examples, I can understand Netflix not being compatible because I don't believe Mono has implemented the DRM that Netflix uses, but there is no excuse for a tax filing application for being incompatible with both CLRs. You should complain to them, just as you would complain if someone wrote a website that only worked in Internet Explorer.
Did you see the episode where they used netting directly in front of the mirrors to allow the participants to focus their mirror on a close point without any distractions from all the other lights? They also tried a focussing system that used a similar principle to your cited idea, but that didn't prove to be successful (can't remember why now). They still didn't get any burning boat, so even with the aiming system the myth result still stands.
...the reason for this is because Microsoft can wipe the floor with it at any point it feels like.
The same FUD has been used for the last seven years, and Microsoft is still yet to "wipe the floor". As each year passes without the predicted backlash, your suggestion looks more and more like it should come with a free tinfoil hat!
There is no indication at all that Microsoft is unhappy with Mono. In fact, Microsoft needs the Mono project to give its .NET platform legitimacy as a cross platform solution. If it tried to stop Mono then it would only serve to scare developers away from .NET completely.
You can hardly say that Microsoft is turning a blind eye to this only 3½ working days after announcing that they are looking into it. It will take time to process the logs to find the trends and then make some changes so this cannot happen again. The blogger from TFA has had longer to come up with some figures and still only says that he has a "personal hunch" that the figures have been manipulated based on what he thinks the games should be rated.
If you look at the first blog mentioning this they single out the fans of College Lacrosse 2011 to be the bad guys and yet the graphs shown a week later have the lacrosse game dropping in the ratings. With any rating system, I assume that there must be some attempts to fudge the figures, so it seems quite plausible that the blogger may end up being correct. But my point is that it takes time to find out what is really happening. They have to be more sure than just saying that something looks fishy before they take action.
No, it is not a shill. It is a troll.
A shill would not be so obvious. A shill would not use the name "r.stallman". A shill would not follow the same pattern so precisely that the fingerprints of the author can be spotted from a mile away. Sure, I don't know the name of the author, but you can be damn sure that all these different users are the work of one person.
We should all just ignore the posts and let the moderators mod them down.
Technically Microsoft do not have to pay for product placement on slashdot (and it seems unlikely that they would have done so and even more unlikely that this traditionally anti-Microsoft site would have acquiesced). Favourable articles about Windows 7 results in a large number of posts, and this translates into more ad views. Like it or not, Slashdot makes money by being controversial.
That said, the pro-Windows 7 comments (at least for the desktop version) are in keeping with the positive reception of the platform all over the net and is reflected in the increased sales of the OS compared to Vista. For this reason, claims of paid product placement and astroturfing seem highly unlikely. Obviously the recent douche who made incredibly obvious pro-Microsoft "astroturfings" under a variety of new accounts is the exception. But that was so blatant that it had to be a troll, rather than a real shill.
As for Windows Phone 7 (back on topic), often the people who have actually used it seem to report favourably on the platform. But like me, most people haven't even tried it and just assume that it will not be very good. I suspect that this is due one incredibly stupid mistake, and that was to not support copy and paste.
This was such a major (and publicly derided) problem on the first version of the iPhone that the lack of the feature in Microsoft's product just screams that the platform is unfinished. Whoever made that decision at Microsoft should be hung, drawn and quartered - and then sacked.
As with the original iPhone, it will be worth waiting for the next version of Windows Phone 7 before buying. Myself, I'm going to wait until Windows Phone 7 version 3.1 - that was the right strategy in the past!
I'm betting that by 2012 we'll have videos of cats on here.
So that WILL be the end of the world. I guess the Myans were right.
I suppose this means any Simpsons episodes that don't display the correct time on their clocks will have to be banned.
And don't get me started on those times when the Bart and Lisa are late for school!
Who on EARTH do you & others like you *THINK* they're fooling?
What on Earth are YOU talking about??? What do you think that I am fooling anyone about? I state that a blog about IE will be (by definition) a partial source. How is that trying to fool anyone? How does that make me a fanboy?
And a fanboy of what? Do you think I am for or against Microsoft? Seriously, I can't think how you could think that the line of mine that you quoted could in any way be labelled as fanboyism. Of all the things that I have posted, this must surely be the LEAST controversial statement ever to come from my keyboard!
It is on msdn.com. Can we consider this a partial and fair article? I'm asking, not accusing.
Given how well Firefox fared then it seems that they have been fair with their reporting. Considering the tiny difference between IE9 and FF4 then you might as well choose between the browsers based on the features that you want.
That said, this is an IE9 blog we are talking about. I doubt that anyone could consider them to be impartial. They posted this because they want to spruik their browser. But at least they did not try to hide this by paying for it to appear in an "independent" magazine or website.
My only complaint is that I would like to know the system specs of their test machines. I would like to see this comparison on a netbook platform with a feeble GPU, because if you are seriously concerned with power usage then you probably already use a power-friendly processor like the Intel Atom.
Fiji is run by a dictatorship. What is your point?
And the Bahamas and Cayman Islands? What is YOUR point? That the original poster was wrong because of one incorrect example? Do you have any proof that this was some massive international conspiracy?
why did such a thing NOT happen at any given point, before ?
Good question. At any given time in history, there is civil unrest going on somewhere in the world. Some oppressive regime will be clamping down on their citizens. So why did this thing NOT happen at all those given points before?
If this was a demonstration of a policy of helping out dictatorships, then why has it not been apparent on previous occasions. I suppose that you could say that this is a new policy, but then that would devalue your intimation that this is proof of malevolent intentions. It could just as easily be the first time that this bug appeared.
Given that others here have pointed out that this didn't stop HTTPS from working (only from allowing new people to opt use it) and that it didn't just affect countries that are currently undergoing unrest then I think it seems more likely that this was just some bug.
See subject run.
I'd sooner boycott the city and find a job in the suburbs, than have to waste several hours each day trying to transition from my "regular" car to a train or bike. Time is finite (~80 years for each of us) but alternative options are not.
If you are so worried about time, then surely public transport can be a winning option. I take the train to work from the 'burbs into the city. I read the news, answer emails, post here on slashdot, watch TV, and when I am really bored I actually start work on the train. If you make sure that you send work related emails then you can justify leaving work earlier (if you have a good boss).
Finally, on those occasions when I have had to make a really early start at work, I sleep on the train. Sure, I could get in 15 minutes quicker if I went by car, but then there would be so much that I would miss out on. That sounds like much better use of my finite time.
Of course, if you ride a bike then you don't get these advantages. But then you also don't need to go to the gym after work and actually pay to exercise.
Hang on, folks... So we are supposed to care what Threni thinks about the AIIA? Who? Personally I'm not going to reconsider my views until I heard what pedo666 has to say about this.
Seriously, just because you haven't heard of an organization does not mean that you should simply discount their views. It only takes one person in the world to have an insightful thought, and it is most likely that you have never heard of that person before.