You are just talking about technology when ipod buyers and users are thinking about useability and style.
True, if someone could make a phone that looked like, felt like and operated as easily as an ipod then ipod users would buy that. But most phones are only really good for typing numbers into. So-called PIM features in most phones are a joke compared to a PDA.
You seem to be arguing that real 'granular' choice will never really exist in our bi-polar DE world. If you choose KDE you will have to use Kopete and if you find Kopete unsatisfactory, the right thing is to help improve Kopete.
This is distinctly different from Windows where, having chosen my DE (lets just call it that) I then have a *very* wide range of apps to choose from all fitting in well with the look and feel (etc) of the enviroment.
Exactly. I had to move out of a flat I liked simply cos the neighbours played happy house 24 hours a day except when they were actually out clubbing. You dreaded the silence that occurred at 10pm of a Friday because it meant you had until 4am to get some sleep before they came in for another session at home.
Thing is that the sound wasn't amazingly loud just incredibly persistant and resonated throughout the flat. You7 couldn't sleep through it but you weren't drowned out by it if you know what I mean.
What's Nazi about it? Many countries have ID that you have to provide on demand - Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain, for example. These are all centrist democracies.
I think you meant to get modded as funny rather than insightful:-)
It's cheaper to let them roam but keep them in 'sight' at all times. Prisons are are expensive.
Most parents I know would prefer that sex criminals were locked up for their natural lives, if not actually executed via bollock removal by alligator. However there a those who think that after the 'punishment' period is over people should be free to go (and commit crime again if they so choose like any other criminal)
What makes sex criminals awkward is the particularly vulnerable nature of the victims and the opinion of most that the perpetrators may well repent but are still powerless to prevent them selves from reoffending.
Hence the idea of registers, extended paroles, signing in etc etc
Not that I give a monkeys but I think the poster was defining the use of guns as being to kill and that, as proportion of those things killed, they kill more humans than was the intention. Wouldn't really matter what the actual percentage was. I doubt the gun vendor has an acceptable human killing number in mind.
If the point of guns was to see how good your aim was, there are many ways that can be tested without requirement that the device must also be good at killing things too.
Thus, to summarise, "use" is being defined by the poster as for the designed purpose rather than during practicing sessions.
Well, you selected the 'government' so I guess that makes it your fault, ultimately,
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There are actually lots of ways in which computerising apparently subsistence-level communities makes more sense that it first appears.
Buying and selling and bartering are all doable in localised systems meaning not having to treck up to market everyday to see if it is worth it or the ability to exchange machinery with other farmers.
then there is the enhanced information coming into the village allowing for better decision making about crop types or weather.
Not to mention medical databases and the like.
So if we now scale up just a little to the township rather than the village, you can see how a mass produced yet functional computer would equip schools, surgeries, local civil service and so on.
And ideally still run games for that fun part too.
However not if you take into account libraries such as the British Library which has 150 million items - this is bigger than Congress and Harvard combined.
I think this was supposed to be moderated as funny, no? American education, like much else there, is based on wealth, the more you have, the better you get.
I know I am late to this 4000-post debate an noone will see this but...
We had this problem in the UK. Although the Tories were unpopular in the 'intelectual' media and so people pretendedf they weren't going to vote for them, when it came to it, they did. For whatever reason, who knows.
"The thing is, it was not the result of a malicious code infection, but a direct addition by the original Borland/Inprise authors done before the program was released as open source"
From the Confederation of British Industry - from accountancyage.com
"The organisation for business leaders has indicated that the minimum wage is working and would be happy to see it increased if the economic environment is right.
The CBI's director general, Digby Jones, said: 'The minimum wage has so far been a success and it should not wither on the vine, so business supports modest rises if economic circumstances allow.'"
Yes, facts is exactly what the orginal poster is after - but when do you know that a fact is just that.
Often, they seem like facts because they are written down or broadcast by what appears to be a reputable source yet even the BBC and the big US Newpapers have all had to admit that they failed to be sceptical enough in recent months and have accepted what turns out to be spin as facts.
During the Falklands conflict there was a now famous incident when the BBC started referring to the Britiach Government and then using the term "according to" to ensure that the viewer could see that it was an assertion from the Government and therefore not absolutely a fact thta they had witnessed. Thatcher went ballistic because it undermined the propaganda war, a proper function of Government. However not necessarily a proper part of an independant news organisation.
Recently, we have seen the opposite, where new organisations have taken propaganda and reported on it as fact.
It's all very tricky to see a way out unless all records of government, business and the civic world were permanently and immediately open and transparent yet this would cause all manner of new unforseen problems, some disasterous. Maybe not.
I get my emails and meetings and corporate address book delivered without any hassle what so ever, not one single bit of hassle, where ever I am. And, as the Head of IT responsible for supporting these devices, this is worth it's weight in gold.
No synching, no cables, no drivers, no connection errors, no download while you wait frustrations, no overly complicated apps, no ability for users to add yet more overly complicated apps and so on.
Now, is the best phone? No. Is it the best PDA? No. But is the best mobile diary and email tool in the corporate or organisation environment for all users regardless of ability? Yes.
So the Nike CEO gets a bit richer but needs some ice cream which maybe he buys off of you or something like that... using the money he made off selling the shoes to the Indian chap. Nike CEO makes more profit by making those shoes in Indonesia than if he were doing so in Texas or Scotland etc. So maybe, just maybe, he'll buy two tubs of mint choc chunk! Of course, you'll want to take on an extra worker now with all this demand but, hey, they're especially costly in Texas or Scotland so... maybe outsource this to the Philipines? That way you'll get a bigger share off the trickle down.
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You are just talking about technology when ipod buyers and users are thinking about useability and style.
True, if someone could make a phone that looked like, felt like and operated as easily as an ipod then ipod users would buy that. But most phones are only really good for typing numbers into. So-called PIM features in most phones are a joke compared to a PDA.
You seem to be arguing that real 'granular' choice will never really exist in our bi-polar DE world. If you choose KDE you will have to use Kopete and if you find Kopete unsatisfactory, the right thing is to help improve Kopete.
...
This is distinctly different from Windows where, having chosen my DE (lets just call it that) I then have a *very* wide range of apps to choose from all fitting in well with the look and feel (etc) of the enviroment.
Maybe I interpreted you wrong
Exactly. I had to move out of a flat I liked simply cos the neighbours played happy house 24 hours a day except when they were actually out clubbing. You dreaded the silence that occurred at 10pm of a Friday because it meant you had until 4am to get some sleep before they came in for another session at home.
Thing is that the sound wasn't amazingly loud just incredibly persistant and resonated throughout the flat. You7 couldn't sleep through it but you weren't drowned out by it if you know what I mean.
Psychological torture!
What's Nazi about it? Many countries have ID that you have to provide on demand - Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain, for example. These are all centrist democracies.
:-)
I think you meant to get modded as funny rather than insightful
It's cheaper to let them roam but keep them in 'sight' at all times. Prisons are are expensive.
Most parents I know would prefer that sex criminals were locked up for their natural lives, if not actually executed via bollock removal by alligator. However there a those who think that after the 'punishment' period is over people should be free to go (and commit crime again if they so choose like any other criminal)
What makes sex criminals awkward is the particularly vulnerable nature of the victims and the opinion of most that the perpetrators may well repent but are still powerless to prevent them selves from reoffending.
Hence the idea of registers, extended paroles, signing in etc etc
Not that I give a monkeys but I think the poster was defining the use of guns as being to kill and that, as proportion of those things killed, they kill more humans than was the intention. Wouldn't really matter what the actual percentage was. I doubt the gun vendor has an acceptable human killing number in mind.
If the point of guns was to see how good your aim was, there are many ways that can be tested without requirement that the device must also be good at killing things too.
Thus, to summarise, "use" is being defined by the poster as for the designed purpose rather than during practicing sessions.
" Other countries have experienced terrorism for many decades without becoming so draconian"
That's because this is only superficially related to terrorism - the threat of which is really rather small.
However, like all dodgy governments throughout history, you take your opportunities where they arise to roll back excessive freedoms.
"If the reaction begins to cascade, the elements heat up and expand"
Or crack or even explode!
whereas random models, one of each, from ebay = nightmare to support.
This way, maybe with the model spec held for a year, a country could buy 10,000 and 10,000 rebuild cd's or whatever.
nor google, but Ask Jeeves has a reply which seems to promise the earth. I am at work so don't dare proceed towards the glories that lie beyond.
Well, you selected the 'government' so I guess that makes it your fault, ultimately,
There are actually lots of ways in which computerising apparently subsistence-level communities makes more sense that it first appears.
Buying and selling and bartering are all doable in localised systems meaning not having to treck up to market everyday to see if it is worth it or the ability to exchange machinery with other farmers.
then there is the enhanced information coming into the village allowing for better decision making about crop types or weather.
Not to mention medical databases and the like.
So if we now scale up just a little to the township rather than the village, you can see how a mass produced yet functional computer would equip schools, surgeries, local civil service and so on.
And ideally still run games for that fun part too.
although I don't even have a dvd player. Somehow,incredibly, people are getting happy without one!
Something like Chandler might be the thing
http://www.osafoundation.org/index.htm
Has some amazing features in the pipeline relating to this whole conversation.
However not if you take into account libraries such as the British Library which has 150 million items - this is bigger than Congress and Harvard combined.
:-)
Granted, some of these are just stamps
I think this was supposed to be moderated as funny, no? American education, like much else there, is based on wealth, the more you have, the better you get.
It's not the same everywhere else, you know
Not saying that the others don't but Suse 9.2 does just this. Novell Linux desktop too - 25 mins and completely installed, no fuss.
If that's what you are looking for then it can be found.
Correct. What if it is an unjust law?
I think D&D has had such a press in the past,so yes.
I know I am late to this 4000-post debate an noone will see this but ...
We had this problem in the UK. Although the Tories were unpopular in the 'intelectual' media and so people pretendedf they weren't going to vote for them, when it came to it, they did. For whatever reason, who knows.
Same here maybe.
"The thing is, it was not the result of a malicious code infection, but a direct addition by the original Borland/Inprise authors done before the program was released as open source"
So, an admin type back door, not a hack.
From the Confederation of British Industry - from accountancyage.com
"The organisation for business leaders has indicated that the minimum wage is working and would be happy to see it increased if the economic environment is right.
The CBI's director general, Digby Jones, said: 'The minimum wage has so far been a success and it should not wither on the vine, so business supports modest rises if economic circumstances allow.'"
Yes, facts is exactly what the orginal poster is after - but when do you know that a fact is just that.
Often, they seem like facts because they are written down or broadcast by what appears to be a reputable source yet even the BBC and the big US Newpapers have all had to admit that they failed to be sceptical enough in recent months and have accepted what turns out to be spin as facts.
During the Falklands conflict there was a now famous incident when the BBC started referring to the Britiach Government and then using the term "according to" to ensure that the viewer could see that it was an assertion from the Government and therefore not absolutely a fact thta they had witnessed. Thatcher went ballistic because it undermined the propaganda war, a proper function of Government. However not necessarily a proper part of an independant news organisation.
Recently, we have seen the opposite, where new organisations have taken propaganda and reported on it as fact.
It's all very tricky to see a way out unless all records of government, business and the civic world were permanently and immediately open and transparent yet this would cause all manner of new unforseen problems, some disasterous. Maybe not.
because, and despite the above quirks ...
I get my emails and meetings and corporate address book delivered without any hassle what so ever, not one single bit of hassle, where ever I am. And, as the Head of IT responsible for supporting these devices, this is worth it's weight in gold.
No synching, no cables, no drivers, no connection errors, no download while you wait frustrations, no overly complicated apps, no ability for users to add yet more overly complicated apps and so on.
Now, is the best phone? No. Is it the best PDA? No. But is the best mobile diary and email tool in the corporate or organisation environment for all users regardless of ability? Yes.
So the Nike CEO gets a bit richer but needs some ice cream which maybe he buys off of you or something like that ... using the money he made off selling the shoes to the Indian chap. Nike CEO makes more profit by making those shoes in Indonesia than if he were doing so in Texas or Scotland etc. So maybe, just maybe, he'll buy two tubs of mint choc chunk! Of course, you'll want to take on an extra worker now with all this demand but, hey, they're especially costly in Texas or Scotland so ... maybe outsource this to the Philipines? That way you'll get a bigger share off the trickle down.
Excellent.