Well you can get all that, and could for quite some time. Check out the Nokia 5100, 6250, and another one I can't remember, or Siemens M-series (35, 65, 75). So get one of those or many others fitting your requirements, and quit bitching.
As someone who isn't studying in the US, I think that this idea in general is completley retarded, not to mention the way they decide if a certain country should be licensed or not. And just because other countries have such measures doesn't make it right, just look at ***GODWIN ALERT***!
My point was that DSL and even 56k dialup has higher signal quality requirement than POTS. Some more static and bang, connection failed, while it would still be possible to understand what the other person was saying with the regular phone.
Most people of course have no idea what BT might be, but according to the current CNN poll (probably as accurate as the/. one, but still), 26% would download it somehow.
>video files in various states of compression (almost all lossy).
The government wants technology to advance and the old phone system to be replaced.
Haha, yeah right. In the same way they want everyone to have digital HD TVs... with broadcast flags (Hint: their ??AA/POTS overlords told them to).
Your DSL service may not be reliable, but this is not the Internet.
Sure, the internet is out there, it's reliable. My connection to the internet isn't! The cable/DSL modem can crash, a rat can bite the cable, damaging it just enough for the connection to get dropped. The ISP's router can crash/get hax0r3d, and many more fun things can happen, resulting in your node getting cut off.
Yet it is hard to argue with (cue violins) dead babies.
No, it's not hard to argue because they can't argue back.
That's how the government gets its dirty shit done. Terrorists killed some people? Let's limit everybody's freedom before they kill some more! A dog attacked someone? Let's kill all dogs of that breed before they bite someone! (Yes, I'm talking about you, Denver). Somebody got hit by a car not far away from where I live. Less than a week later, the nearest intersection was full of speed bumps, even a huge (well proportionally to the intersection) roundabout was built, so now everybody has to go in semi-circles instead of going straight. I'm sure that pissed off the bus drivers, as there's a frequent rout on this road.
He also missed the Opera's "Crash every half-hour so you can be reminded of the nifty crash-recovery feature" feature, something I've seen in every version of Opera that I've tried...
Yeah, and he also missed Ff's "Take up all available memory and then crash so you can be reminded how cool OSS is, because this problem is being looked at right now by many eyes" feature which I've seen in all versions up to current. Excellent way to prove something.
As others already said, rendering mode can be changed in preferences.
What's wrong with the keyboard shortcuts? Alt+left/right (or Z/X) to go back/forward, Esc to stop, Ctrl+R to reload, and many others. There are some different ones, like 1 for previous tab and 2 for next, but all of them can be changed.
Ok, there's no adblock, but it was possible to block most ads with user css, and now with user javascript. Lots of functionality can be added through external programs launched by custom buttons, so I can now mirror the page/whole site, or get all images linked from the page with one click.
Ignoring the SLI cards, ATI cards did worse in two tests: DOOM3 and Pacific Fithers (never heard of this one). In others they were either faster, or the differences were insignificant (~1.5fps).
Sorry to break into your dialogue, but this discusion is(was?) quite stupid, IMHO.
Why do we punish people for wrongdoing? A: to compensate the victim, and B: to discourage them and others from doing bad things. It's not about revenge at all.
Let's say your dog keeps trying to jump on your table. Next time you catch him doing this, smack him gently and say bad, bad dog or something like that. What was the purpose? To prevent the dog from doing it again.
Besides, here's what wikipedia has to say about this:
Punitive damages are (not) awarded... in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff. Damages
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
> Earned the right to fail? Like he wasn't allowed to fail before?
I think this quote can mean that now he can make an unpopular [crappy] movie and still be able to make more. You know, when a new director screws up, there's often no second chance. Either get it right the first time, or you'll never be directing anything again.
KIM asks: "I'm working for a repressive regime which is looking for ways to control the use of Internet in its country. Many have in-home Internet access, but, luckily, think it too risky to participate in pro-freedom activities on home PCs. Internet cafés are also available, but although fairly anonymous, every machine is infected with keystroke loggers that give us access to and knowledge of 'banned' sites. Obviously, not only we want to identify the dissidents themselves, but also the sites they access. Any suggestions for products/procedures/systems out there making overwatching access & publishing a reality under our own run Internet access?"
And it is, actually, a right. The only reason the gov. can require license and registration fees is because they also get to own part of your car when you buy it, unless you, and not them, get the manufacturer's statement of origin. You can drive freely on your property, would probably have to ask for permission or pay for private roads, but the public roads are IIRC funded by gas taxes so it should be possible to drive there too.
Getting back on topic though, this ID would be required to receive almost any government services for which you are paying, so not only you'd have to avoid doing stuff, you'd be denied what you are paying for. Cool.
>But tell me, what is the average person going to use: the "starter edition" that doesn't even work on their PC, or the pirated edition that does?
Of course they aren't going to use the starter edition if it does't work with their Extreme Edition P4, but your argument after the quote doesn't make sense. Are you going to use a sparc64 version of FreeBSD which doesn't even work on your x86 PC, or the i386 version? The quote was about providing advantage over the pirated versions.
Oops I forgot:) My point was that in a republic, popular will doesn't have to be the deciding factor. Selling decisions for donations isn't a sign of a good government, but neither would be just doing whatever the majority says (Protect us! Protect us!)
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Well you can get all that, and could for quite some time. Check out the Nokia 5100, 6250, and another one I can't remember, or Siemens M-series (35, 65, 75). So get one of those or many others fitting your requirements, and quit bitching.
NT!
As someone who isn't studying in the US, I think that this idea in general is completley retarded, not to mention the way they decide if a certain country should be licensed or not. And just because other countries have such measures doesn't make it right, just look at ***GODWIN ALERT***!
My point was that DSL and even 56k dialup has higher signal quality requirement than POTS. Some more static and bang, connection failed, while it would still be possible to understand what the other person was saying with the regular phone.
Most people of course have no idea what BT might be, but according to the current CNN poll (probably as accurate as the /. one, but still), 26% would download it somehow.
;)
>video files in various states of compression (almost all lossy).
Well what did you expect, raw HD footage?
On a FARK thread here
The government wants technology to advance and the old phone system to be replaced.
Haha, yeah right. In the same way they want everyone to have digital HD TVs... with broadcast flags (Hint: their ??AA/POTS overlords told them to).
Your DSL service may not be reliable, but this is not the Internet.
Sure, the internet is out there, it's reliable. My connection to the internet isn't! The cable/DSL modem can crash, a rat can bite the cable, damaging it just enough for the connection to get dropped. The ISP's router can crash/get hax0r3d, and many more fun things can happen, resulting in your node getting cut off.
Yet it is hard to argue with (cue violins) dead babies.
No, it's not hard to argue because they can't argue back.
That's how the government gets its dirty shit done. Terrorists killed some people? Let's limit everybody's freedom before they kill some more! A dog attacked someone? Let's kill all dogs of that breed before they bite someone! (Yes, I'm talking about you, Denver). Somebody got hit by a car not far away from where I live. Less than a week later, the nearest intersection was full of speed bumps, even a huge (well proportionally to the intersection) roundabout was built, so now everybody has to go in semi-circles instead of going straight. I'm sure that pissed off the bus drivers, as there's a frequent rout on this road.
He also missed the Opera's "Crash every half-hour so you can be reminded of the nifty crash-recovery feature" feature, something I've seen in every version of Opera that I've tried...
Yeah, and he also missed Ff's "Take up all available memory and then crash so you can be reminded how cool OSS is, because this problem is being looked at right now by many eyes" feature which I've seen in all versions up to current. Excellent way to prove something.
As others already said, rendering mode can be changed in preferences.
What's wrong with the keyboard shortcuts? Alt+left/right (or Z/X) to go back/forward, Esc to stop, Ctrl+R to reload, and many others. There are some different ones, like 1 for previous tab and 2 for next, but all of them can be changed.
Ok, there's no adblock, but it was possible to block most ads with user css, and now with user javascript. Lots of functionality can be added through external programs launched by custom buttons, so I can now mirror the page/whole site, or get all images linked from the page with one click.
Ignoring the SLI cards, ATI cards did worse in two tests: DOOM3 and Pacific Fithers (never heard of this one). In others they were either faster, or the differences were insignificant (~1.5fps).
Sorry to break into your dialogue, but this discusion is(was?) quite stupid, IMHO.
... in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff.
Why do we punish people for wrongdoing? A: to compensate the victim, and B: to discourage them and others from doing bad things. It's not about revenge at all.
Let's say your dog keeps trying to jump on your table. Next time you catch him doing this, smack him gently and say bad, bad dog or something like that. What was the purpose? To prevent the dog from doing it again.
Besides, here's what wikipedia has to say about this:
Punitive damages are (not) awarded
Damages
A Møøse once bit my sister ...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
Ok, ok, I'm sorry =)
Well if a CowboyNeal option was included, as I insisted, we wouldn't have this problem right now.
I have two already, what do I do now?
> Earned the right to fail? Like he wasn't allowed to fail before?
I think this quote can mean that now he can make an unpopular [crappy] movie and still be able to make more. You know, when a new director screws up, there's often no second chance. Either get it right the first time, or you'll never be directing anything again.
KIM asks: "I'm working for a repressive regime which is looking for ways to control the use of Internet in its country. Many have in-home Internet access, but, luckily, think it too risky to participate in pro-freedom activities on home PCs. Internet cafés are also available, but although fairly anonymous, every machine is infected with keystroke loggers that give us access to and knowledge of 'banned' sites. Obviously, not only we want to identify the dissidents themselves, but also the sites they access. Any suggestions for products/procedures/systems out there making overwatching access & publishing a reality under our own run Internet access?"
What about NationalFuckingLicense? Not that it makes any sense...
And it is, actually, a right. The only reason the gov. can require license and registration fees is because they also get to own part of your car when you buy it, unless you, and not them, get the manufacturer's statement of origin. You can drive freely on your property, would probably have to ask for permission or pay for private roads, but the public roads are IIRC funded by gas taxes so it should be possible to drive there too.
Getting back on topic though, this ID would be required to receive almost any government services for which you are paying, so not only you'd have to avoid doing stuff, you'd be denied what you are paying for. Cool.
>But tell me, what is the average person going to use: the "starter edition" that doesn't even work on their PC, or the pirated edition that does?
Of course they aren't going to use the starter edition if it does't work with their Extreme Edition P4, but your argument after the quote doesn't make sense. Are you going to use a sparc64 version of FreeBSD which doesn't even work on your x86 PC, or the i386 version? The quote was about providing advantage over the pirated versions.
They aren't doing this to please the anti-trust crowd, but to try to reduce piracy among people with low demand for OS functionality.
I also don't see how this creates a market for Linux, the legitimate companies were probably offering both XP Home and Pro anyway.
They won't. Pentium Pro is still high-end, just very old high-end.
No, you aren't paranoid. They really are out to get you.
Oops I forgot :) My point was that in a republic, popular will doesn't have to be the deciding factor. Selling decisions for donations isn't a sign of a good government, but neither would be just doing whatever the majority says (Protect us! Protect us!)
The US isn't a democracy.
I heard they're also good at football, those bastards!