Most probably they won't have an IBM logo on it. Loot at the harddrive division they sold a while ago, these disks are clearly Hitachi, so I assume the same would happen here.
First of all, Large Company® is NOT a monopoly. Next, it would be the government creating the monopoly if they were to provide access themselves. Really easy plan: take the everyone's money and provide connections to those who wants it for 'free' (or very cheaply), they would be able to do this becasue they can just tax everyone without actually asking. Who's anti-competitive now?
Some people already replied with disagreement, but support your point and add this: Righs come together with responsobility. You can't get one without the other, and I'm afraid animals aren't as good as this as some of the least responsible humans.
> Personally, if there has to be copy protection, I'd rather see the HL2 model, or the Halo 2 model than that used on Doom 3
This is choosing the lesser of two evils again, so I'd again prefered the third option;).
However, if these two types were the only things which would make the game run, I'd prefer the DOOM3 copy protection. The reasoning is also simple. I'd rather shut down one program than have some software ring home, download some crap, send my information and make me wait until the dev/pub thinks I can play it. Also it is much easier to take a CD/DVD with me than a good fast internet connection.
You were moded as Troll, but I'll asume you just expressed your oppinion.
Their bookmark system is insane, organized very strangely.
In which particular way is it insane? You can use it in the same way you can in IE (menu/submenu), or through the manager, which works like explorer, with the 'folders' on the left and items on the right, and lets you search among other things.
Their menus are cluttered and disorganized to a degree that would make the original pre-1.0 Mozilla browser jelous.
How are the menus cluttered? Panel, Toolbar, Skin and other settigns are in View, mail related stuff is in Mail and chat related stuff is in Chat. How often do you use the menus in a borwser anyway?
Closing a tab throws you to the last open one (which is stupid).
Seems very logical to me. By clicking on the tab you bring it to the top of the stack, above the others, and when you close it you reveal what was below it. Just as in Windows.
Also, their bookmarks and other files can't be exported to another format... That attempt to lock-in customers, also works to lock themselves out.
You can import bookmarks from Opera, IE, Netscape and Konqueror, and export to HTML. It's the other browser's job to provide improting from Opera or HTML.
The strangest thing, though, is that their interface on embedded devices is actually pretty dammed good. It seems like the Opera developers NEED restrictions, to prevent them from throwing every weird feature, menu, and kitchen-sink into their browser for no good reason.
Yeah, by default there are a few huge toolbars takeing up a lot of space, but a few clicks removes them. Right now I have only two toolbars: one with the navigation buttons and the url box, and the other with tabs. I have just a little less space then I do in IE, because IE lets you have the buttons right next to the main menu.
> [They can't quit] if they have mortgages and families and other responsibilities, then they can't quit so easily. Not in this job market.
This should be taken into consideration when choosing a job. You don't go flipping burgers permanently when you have a huge debt and a large family; don't get a new house/car if you're planning to wash the dishes for the next 10 years.
That said, I'm not arguing against suing EA for violating the contract/agreement, I think it's a valid (even from a liberterian POV) defense.
Nope, that's only a part of the libertarian idea. Of course, you are free to leave if you don't like something, but you are also able to defend yourself. In this case this would mean suing the employer for violation of contract or agreement. Besides, almost anyone on/. knows that game development often requires a lot of hard work and overtime, so somebody going into such a job should know what they might face.
There is a Java IM client, called Colibry IM, that supports most major networks, IIRC AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. It should work on most phones with Java and GPRS.
If companies can increase their profit while screwign up the invironment less, then there is no need for a treaty. Losing to the european competition would be reminder for them to start doing something.
> A shotgun is a pretty complicated weapon to fire, whereas an uzi-nine-millimeder isn't.
When they teach them to fire the shotgun properly, then they could give them an Uzi or maybe even two, John Woo style! Otherwise imagine if the robot runs out of ammo for the Uzi, and there's a shotgun on the ground nearby which the robot won't be able to use!
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Giants... yeah that was a cool game. There's a more recent game, also done by Planet Moon Studios, called Armed And Dangerous, just as funny as the first one. Everybody seems to mention the Monkey Island series, and I also liked all of them, but for some strange reason nobody mentioned Full Throttle.
>it took me all of 10 minutes to change battery in my ipod
Oh, so you'll just stop in the middle of the street, take out your screwdriver set, screw out the cover, put the screws in you mouth, replace the battery, and put the cover back? Or run 20 miles to the nearest apple store?
I have a Zen Xtra, so I assume that they work about the same. You have to use their software, but if you have some mp3s with id2/3 tags just drag them to the device and that's it. You don't have to move your library anywhere.
The article list is prettey much BS. Most of things you listed can be found in the Czech Republic, as well as others which the article mentioned: cell phone coverage is about 98%, small things like tickets are often delivered for free, a computer company will deliver you almost anything for $3, same day. Taxis print out receipts with time, milage, and other info. Transit debit cards? I've seen these in almost every country I visited. Computer Seating Maps in theaters? Same thing applies. Anti-theft slipcovers?? WTF does that have to do with technology?! Saw these 'intelligent' LED stop lights in Kiev, Ukraine.
give giant interest free loans, tax breaks etc. to giant energy corporations... what this means is our tax dollars are used to capitalize it and absorb most of the risk, the corporations rake in all the profits.
Then there is another solution: stop subsidizing oil/coal power, and as the prices go up, nuclear (and other alt.) power would become more and more profitable so companies will be more interested in investing into nuclear power. Of course currnet regulations would have to be reconsidered to make it possible for a private organization to build a nuke power plat.
Of course it won't get photoshop ported to luinux! Did you read the summary?
A company spokesman said they are not currently looking to port any of their flagship products such as Photoshop to Linux yet
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Macintosh zealot
I'm usually very afraid of Mac/Apple zealots, but I thought I was safe on this one. In this case it's just a Personal Computer, as opposed to Navigation Computer or Life Support Computer. Saying PC or Mac would make me sound like a stupid PC supporter (the last PC = "politically correct"). Also, somebody on/. was trying to prove that PC doesn't exclude Macs, and that the term was hijacked by the x86 people, but I can't find that thread right now.
>Don't get me wrong, I'm typing this post in Firefox right now, it's undoubtedly a great browser, but wouldn't $250 000 be better spent fighting third world poverty or providing clean drinking water?
I'm typing this post in Opera right now, BLOW ME!;P
I think this just shows that OSS zealots take their software a little bit too seriously. I mean $250 000 in 10 days?? The third largest political party in the US is having trouble getting a million bucks, currently it looks like only $58k was donated in the last 6 days. Looks like people prefer promoting a browser anybody is free to use anyway to changing their government, which takes more effort than clicking on the download button.
First of all, I'm not American, but I'd still like to ask you to vote! No, not for any of the main two wankers, but for a third party candidate. It's up to you which one, but my personal suggestion is Michael Badnarik. You can safely vote for him because he is not an idiot.
>Some might argue that OS X is so secure because the developers had an opportunity to view OSes which came before them. This may seem like a reasonable argument, but quickly falls apart once OS X's heritage is investigated.
I don't know whou would argue like that but yeah, you are probably right, it's not in the heritage, at least not on Apple's side. Still, it's very simple: OSX is so secure becasuse it's based on BSD!
As somebody already said, it's from Snow Crash, a NS book.
He is wearing shiny goggles that wrap halfway around his head the bows of the goggles have little earphones that are plugged into his outer ears.
... The goggles throw a light, smoky haze across his eyes and reflect a distorted wide-angle view of a brilliantly lit boulevard that stretches off into an infinite blackness. This boulevard does not really exist, it is a computerrendered view of an imaginary place.
... The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished glass dome with a purplish optical coating. Whenever Hiro is using the machine, this lens emerges and clicks into place, its base flush with the surface computer.... In this way, a narrow beam of any color can be shot out of the innards of the computer, up through that fisheye lens, in any direction. Through the use of electronic mirrors inside the computer, this beam is made to sweep back and forth across the lenses of Hiro's goggles, in much the same way as the electron beam in a television paints the inner surface of the eponymous Tube. The resulting image hangs in space in front of Hiro's view of Reality.
>There's no reason why a.us domain, for example, shouldn't be browsable from pretty much everywhere just like it is at present.
Ok, but then what's the point? Most sites will have.us domain instead of.com like they do now, and I still fail to see any benefits here.
>Who supposes it to be free?
We, the peoples, users of interent;)
>If by 'free' they mean unregulated or beyond the reach of giovernments then their supposition is wrong.
I probably didn't say that clear enough, but my idea is that making it too easy to control would result in government messign with everything; however I didn't say (or didn't want to say) to completley get rid of any laws, child porn is bad, mkay.
Or it again won't solve anything, for example there was a case with Yahoo having some nazi stuff on their auctions and the French government getting pissed about that and ordering Yahoo to stop selling that or prevent ppl from France getting there. Now this would seem to be easy, just remove the nazi stuff from.fr, but the problem is that.us is still accesable! Again, what's the point?
And no, I didn't say that there shouldn't be any laws/regulations, but as little as possible, without making it too easy.
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Most probably they won't have an IBM logo on it. Loot at the harddrive division they sold a while ago, these disks are clearly Hitachi, so I assume the same would happen here.
First of all, Large Company® is NOT a monopoly. Next, it would be the government creating the monopoly if they were to provide access themselves. Really easy plan: take the everyone's money and provide connections to those who wants it for 'free' (or very cheaply), they would be able to do this becasue they can just tax everyone without actually asking. Who's anti-competitive now?
>None of these play Vorbis/FLAC?
Dammit, at least RTFSlashdotSummary: "and an Ogg/photo/FM broadcast record, flash unit from SAFA."
Some people already replied with disagreement, but support your point and add this:
Righs come together with responsobility. You can't get one without the other, and I'm afraid animals aren't as good as this as some of the least responsible humans.
>It should be easier to cut class now. [...] the school's computers will think your there.
You obviously know what you are talking about!
> Personally, if there has to be copy protection, I'd rather see the HL2 model, or the Halo 2 model than that used on Doom 3
;).
This is choosing the lesser of two evils again, so I'd again prefered the third option
However, if these two types were the only things which would make the game run, I'd prefer the DOOM3 copy protection. The reasoning is also simple. I'd rather shut down one program than have some software ring home, download some crap, send my information and make me wait until the dev/pub thinks I can play it. Also it is much easier to take a CD/DVD with me than a good fast internet connection.
You were moded as Troll, but I'll asume you just expressed your oppinion.
Their bookmark system is insane, organized very strangely.
In which particular way is it insane? You can use it in the same way you can in IE (menu/submenu), or through the manager, which works like explorer, with the 'folders' on the left and items on the right, and lets you search among other things.
Their menus are cluttered and disorganized to a degree that would make the original pre-1.0 Mozilla browser jelous.
How are the menus cluttered? Panel, Toolbar, Skin and other settigns are in View, mail related stuff is in Mail and chat related stuff is in Chat. How often do you use the menus in a borwser anyway?
Closing a tab throws you to the last open one (which is stupid).
Seems very logical to me. By clicking on the tab you bring it to the top of the stack, above the others, and when you close it you reveal what was below it. Just as in Windows.
Also, their bookmarks and other files can't be exported to another format... That attempt to lock-in customers, also works to lock themselves out.
You can import bookmarks from Opera, IE, Netscape and Konqueror, and export to HTML. It's the other browser's job to provide improting from Opera or HTML.
The strangest thing, though, is that their interface on embedded devices is actually pretty dammed good. It seems like the Opera developers NEED restrictions, to prevent them from throwing every weird feature, menu, and kitchen-sink into their browser for no good reason.
Yeah, by default there are a few huge toolbars takeing up a lot of space, but a few clicks removes them. Right now I have only two toolbars: one with the navigation buttons and the url box, and the other with tabs. I have just a little less space then I do in IE, because IE lets you have the buttons right next to the main menu.
> [They can't quit] if they have mortgages and families and other responsibilities, then they can't quit so easily. Not in this job market.
This should be taken into consideration when choosing a job. You don't go flipping burgers permanently when you have a huge debt and a large family; don't get a new house/car if you're planning to wash the dishes for the next 10 years.
That said, I'm not arguing against suing EA for violating the contract/agreement, I think it's a valid (even from a liberterian POV) defense.
Nope, that's only a part of the libertarian idea. Of course, you are free to leave if you don't like something, but you are also able to defend yourself. In this case this would mean suing the employer for violation of contract or agreement. Besides, almost anyone on /. knows that game development often requires a lot of hard work and overtime, so somebody going into such a job should know what they might face.
There is a Java IM client, called Colibry IM, that supports most major networks, IIRC AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. It should work on most phones with Java and GPRS.
If companies can increase their profit while screwign up the invironment less, then there is no need for a treaty. Losing to the european competition would be reminder for them to start doing something.
> A shotgun is a pretty complicated weapon to fire, whereas an uzi-nine-millimeder isn't.
When they teach them to fire the shotgun properly, then they could give them an Uzi or maybe even two, John Woo style! Otherwise imagine if the robot runs out of ammo for the Uzi, and there's a shotgun on the ground nearby which the robot won't be able to use!
Giants... yeah that was a cool game. There's a more recent game, also done by Planet Moon Studios, called Armed And Dangerous, just as funny as the first one. Everybody seems to mention the Monkey Island series, and I also liked all of them, but for some strange reason nobody mentioned Full Throttle.
>it took me all of 10 minutes to change battery in my ipod
Oh, so you'll just stop in the middle of the street, take out your screwdriver set, screw out the cover, put the screws in you mouth, replace the battery, and put the cover back? Or run 20 miles to the nearest apple store?
I have a Zen Xtra, so I assume that they work about the same. You have to use their software, but if you have some mp3s with id2/3 tags just drag them to the device and that's it. You don't have to move your library anywhere.
The article list is prettey much BS. Most of things you listed can be found in the Czech Republic, as well as others which the article mentioned: cell phone coverage is about 98%, small things like tickets are often delivered for free, a computer company will deliver you almost anything for $3, same day. Taxis print out receipts with time, milage, and other info. Transit debit cards? I've seen these in almost every country I visited. Computer Seating Maps in theaters? Same thing applies. Anti-theft slipcovers?? WTF does that have to do with technology?! Saw these 'intelligent' LED stop lights in Kiev, Ukraine.
give giant interest free loans, tax breaks etc. to giant energy corporations ... what this means is our tax dollars are used to capitalize it and absorb most of the risk, the corporations rake in all the profits.
Then there is another solution: stop subsidizing oil/coal power, and as the prices go up, nuclear (and other alt.) power would become more and more profitable so companies will be more interested in investing into nuclear power. Of course currnet regulations would have to be reconsidered to make it possible for a private organization to build a nuke power plat.
Of course it won't get photoshop ported to luinux! Did you read the summary?
A company spokesman said they are not currently looking to port any of their flagship products such as Photoshop to Linux yet
Macintosh zealot
/. was trying to prove that PC doesn't exclude Macs, and that the term was hijacked by the x86 people, but I can't find that thread right now.
I'm usually very afraid of Mac/Apple zealots, but I thought I was safe on this one. In this case it's just a Personal Computer, as opposed to Navigation Computer or Life Support Computer. Saying PC or Mac would make me sound like a stupid PC supporter (the last PC = "politically correct"). Also, somebody on
>Just give them TV a Fridge and Chips
/. readers!
>...
>works for most of USA
or a PC with an internet connection, works for all
>Don't get me wrong, I'm typing this post in Firefox right now, it's undoubtedly a great browser, but wouldn't $250 000 be better spent fighting third world poverty or providing clean drinking water?
;P
I'm typing this post in Opera right now, BLOW ME!
I think this just shows that OSS zealots take their software a little bit too seriously. I mean $250 000 in 10 days?? The third largest political party in the US is having trouble getting a million bucks, currently it looks like only $58k was donated in the last 6 days. Looks like people prefer promoting a browser anybody is free to use anyway to changing their government, which takes more effort than clicking on the download button.
First of all, I'm not American, but I'd still like to ask you to vote! No, not for any of the main two wankers, but for a third party candidate. It's up to you which one, but my personal suggestion is Michael Badnarik. You can safely vote for him because he is not an idiot.
>Some might argue that OS X is so secure because the developers had an opportunity to view OSes which came before them. This may seem like a reasonable argument, but quickly falls apart once OS X's heritage is investigated.
I don't know whou would argue like that but yeah, you are probably right, it's not in the heritage, at least not on Apple's side. Still, it's very simple: OSX is so secure becasuse it's based on BSD!
As somebody already said, it's from Snow Crash, a NS book.
...
He is wearing shiny goggles that wrap halfway around his head the
bows of the goggles have little earphones that are plugged into his outer ears.
...
The goggles throw a light, smoky haze across his eyes and reflect a distorted
wide-angle view of a brilliantly lit boulevard that stretches off into an
infinite blackness. This boulevard does not really exist, it is a computerrendered
view of an imaginary place.
...
The top surface of the computer is smooth except for a fisheye lens, a polished
glass dome with a purplish optical coating. Whenever Hiro is using the machine,
this lens emerges and clicks into place, its base flush with the surface
computer.
In this way, a narrow beam of any color can be shot out of the innards of the
computer, up through that fisheye lens, in any direction. Through the use of
electronic mirrors inside the computer, this beam is made to sweep back and
forth across the lenses of Hiro's goggles, in much the same way as the electron
beam in a television paints the inner surface of the eponymous Tube. The
resulting image hangs in space in front of Hiro's view of Reality.
>There's no reason why a .us domain, for example, shouldn't be browsable from pretty much everywhere just like it is at present.
.us domain instead of .com like they do now, and I still fail to see any benefits here.
;)
.fr, but the problem is that .us is still accesable! Again, what's the point?
Ok, but then what's the point? Most sites will have
>Who supposes it to be free?
We, the peoples, users of interent
>If by 'free' they mean unregulated or beyond the reach of giovernments then their supposition is wrong.
I probably didn't say that clear enough, but my idea is that making it too easy to control would result in government messign with everything; however I didn't say (or didn't want to say) to completley get rid of any laws, child porn is bad, mkay.
Or it again won't solve anything, for example there was a case with Yahoo having some nazi stuff on their auctions and the French government getting pissed about that and ordering Yahoo to stop selling that or prevent ppl from France getting there. Now this would seem to be easy, just remove the nazi stuff from
And no, I didn't say that there shouldn't be any laws/regulations, but as little as possible, without making it too easy.