...traditionally we don't ask society to change due to a person's mental illness.
The history of dictatorships and religion is full of examples of just this. Traditionally we do ask society to change, but only if the person with the illness has enough power.
I agree with you to a large extent. I had a horrible time installing Vista originally, on an amazingly powerful machine I had custom built to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture and increased ram limits... However, Vista wouldn't run properly due to driver issues, and XP 64bit was problematic as it created some software issues... so I ended up running a 32bit version of Vista on it, essentially wasting a couple of grand...
However, I do most of my work on my old laptop (Intel T1350/GMA 950/3 Gigs of ram), which isn't even rated to run Vista, but it runs Windows 7 decently inside VirtualBox running on Debian, even seamlessly at 1920x1200. So, I can't speak for (non virtual) driver issues, but as far as running on old hardware, it seems perfectly capable.
A sound system for 17 people isn't ridiculous at all. I have frequently put up a sound system for parties just involving a few people. Mainly because many of my friends are musical. A party of just 17 friends can easily include a couple bands or a few DJ's without any difficulty at all.
And $1,300 dollars is easily reachable for 17 people for a little party like that. The generator rental can be about $200, high quality liquor with a variety of mixers and decent beer can be an additional $500, good food for 17 people can be an additional $600 if you bring some steaks or something equivalent. That might be a bit excessive, but that assumes you didn't have to pay for the location, rent a large tent, or buy any additional gear or equipment. All it would take is the purchase of an additional speaker or a large grill to bring the costs down from excessive to pretty minimal.
I know, as I've spent that much on parties even smaller than that even when I've already had the venue. Plus an event with 17 people confirmed will be lucky to have that many people show up due to cancellations, an event with 75 people confirmed might get larger, but still nowhere near what I would consider to be a rave.
This is really interesting, and would solve casual observing to a large extent, but I wouldn't consider it a high security solution as it could be fairly trivially defeated by a video camera.
I could see where it could be useful for a doctor's office/hospital though to keep medical records secure, or a reception area to automatically screen out snoopers.
Personally, I am wondering. What the hell is wrong with Vista? I know it sucks since I suffer using it but it simply feels so hard to describe. What made Vista suck?
Vista sucks badly mainly because of the way human brains work. This is a perfect example.
We don't make logical evaluations and then come up with an answer. We come up with answers and then collect logical evidence to support it. That is why first impressions are so important. Unfortunately, due to incompatible drivers and binary compatibilities Vista sucked out of the box, and they're going to have an impossible time changing that in the minds of people who already know that.
Everyone is guilty of thinking this way, because it's the way our brains are wired. There are all kinds of reasons why Vista sucks, but even if they fixed all of those things, it would take something drastic to change the conclusions that we've reached.
He's talking about casual shortcuts, alt-f brings up the file menu, then o brings up the open dialog. Casual shortcuts are nice for features you don't use often.
I use them myself for programs like Word that I rarely open.
Thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution license, and some of the more colorful members of our community, this contest may have just made Microsoft's next commercial...
Camera shakily fades in, showing in a bathroom mirror a huge fat man wearing full furry regalia holding a camera.
Man: "I'm a Linux, and I made this commercial myself!"
True, it could be great for small businesses, but you might have a hard time getting your vendors to honor their service contracts if they didn't like the conditions. That could be huge for small businesses without a dedicated IT staff.
As another example, if you aren't Jewish, strapping little boxes to your body seems pretty weird. That doesn't seem weird. I mean where else are you going to keep your Jew gold?
This is the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Congress. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of the United States and maybe you'll see that they weren't any different than we are.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Communist! Lock him up!"
I disagree that the release for free part is a fad, it's now a matter of fact. Your album *will* be released for free, and be available for free in more locations online than it's available to purchase.
Let's say I downloaded an album. If I could download it freely and pay what I wished, I can toss them money at any time, probably when I'm listening to it. However, if I downloaded it illegally, it doesn't make sense to pay now... I already have it, and it would make far more sense to buy it when the copy I have gets corrupted or deleted so I can download it legally this time.
So what would say is first rate fantasy then? George RR Martin.
He's raised the bar of fantasy so high with his latest series that, while I love fantasy, I don't think the rest of it is really all that good in comparison.
Mine is currently using 179mb of memory, with 12 tabs open and 21 addons including custom Greasemonkey scripts and Stylish styles running.
Yes, I'm running Windows here at work, but I run the same setup at home on KDE, and still use nowhere near 800mb of memory.
Yes, Firefox could stand to lose a bit of weight possibly, but Firefox 3 is supposed to be shedding some of that.
Besides, the integration that everyone is so up in arms about without reading the article, is Prism, a separate stand-alone application. It would be like complaining that Thunderbird is bloating Firefox because they're based on the same code-base.
Of course, I could be completely wrong. Maybe the future will end up like Red Dawn. Which part? The Russians invading Michigan or C. Thomas Howell being a tough guy?
Even better, with a touch screen, EVERYWHERE you put your fingers, initially, is the homerow. That's pretty brilliant actually. In addition, it could learn your common typos, and put the keys in the best place for your fingers. The only downside to a keyboard customized for you, would be that other's keyboards would be less intuitive for you to use, but automatic retrieval of a new users' settings via USB key, cellphone, or a file on an website would be created about a week after the keyboard itself.
I'd just like to change around quotes/brackets for certain programming languages and add some of the special characters I use often, like an em and en dash.
Interesting... I don't see those, although that might be because I'm not running Windows. (I'm not sure why I don't see them.) It's still a far cry from mentioning add-ons for a product that you've chosen to install to making you repeatedly cancel the installation of a product you haven't chosen to install.
...as you couldn't possibly be more incorrect. If you install Firefox, you will most likely start at this page. There is no mention of Thunderbird, no mention of add-ons, no mention of any other Mozilla product at all. The default home page for Firefox is here and contains no mention of add-ons, or other programs.
But all that is completely beside the point, because the real issue is other products being pushed out by default through the software update for an unrelated product by the same company. Which is what Apple Software Updater is doing.
Firefox's update by comparison *cannot* download another product that you don't have installed, not only that, but it doesn't suggest any other products, or even mention that they exist.
Your point was that Firefox "offers" their products, where they do not, they simply provide links in their browser to their site where if you wish, you can choose to go and search for their products. Your other point was that Apple is simply "offering" their products, but it isn't doing that either, it is selecting them for you, and choosing to download them to you if you don't specifically deny them every time there is a product updated.
Hell, if the child molester is outside my house and horny, he's more than welcome to use my wireless to satisfy his urges. It's far, far better than the alternative, even if I did end up being prosecuted for it myself.
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Just no.
...traditionally we don't ask society to change due to a person's mental illness.
The history of dictatorships and religion is full of examples of just this. Traditionally we do ask society to change, but only if the person with the illness has enough power.
I agree with you to a large extent. I had a horrible time installing Vista originally, on an amazingly powerful machine I had custom built to take full advantage of the 64bit architecture and increased ram limits... However, Vista wouldn't run properly due to driver issues, and XP 64bit was problematic as it created some software issues... so I ended up running a 32bit version of Vista on it, essentially wasting a couple of grand...
However, I do most of my work on my old laptop (Intel T1350/GMA 950/3 Gigs of ram), which isn't even rated to run Vista, but it runs Windows 7 decently inside VirtualBox running on Debian, even seamlessly at 1920x1200. So, I can't speak for (non virtual) driver issues, but as far as running on old hardware, it seems perfectly capable.
Ask a lazy person, or even better, a serial procrastinator. They may want to steal your idea, but will never get around to it.
A sound system for 17 people isn't ridiculous at all. I have frequently put up a sound system for parties just involving a few people. Mainly because many of my friends are musical. A party of just 17 friends can easily include a couple bands or a few DJ's without any difficulty at all.
And $1,300 dollars is easily reachable for 17 people for a little party like that. The generator rental can be about $200, high quality liquor with a variety of mixers and decent beer can be an additional $500, good food for 17 people can be an additional $600 if you bring some steaks or something equivalent. That might be a bit excessive, but that assumes you didn't have to pay for the location, rent a large tent, or buy any additional gear or equipment. All it would take is the purchase of an additional speaker or a large grill to bring the costs down from excessive to pretty minimal.
I know, as I've spent that much on parties even smaller than that even when I've already had the venue. Plus an event with 17 people confirmed will be lucky to have that many people show up due to cancellations, an event with 75 people confirmed might get larger, but still nowhere near what I would consider to be a rave.
This is really interesting, and would solve casual observing to a large extent, but I wouldn't consider it a high security solution as it could be fairly trivially defeated by a video camera.
I could see where it could be useful for a doctor's office/hospital though to keep medical records secure, or a reception area to automatically screen out snoopers.
Personally, I am wondering. What the hell is wrong with Vista? I know it sucks since I suffer using it but it simply feels so hard to describe. What made Vista suck?
Vista sucks badly mainly because of the way human brains work. This is a perfect example.
We don't make logical evaluations and then come up with an answer. We come up with answers and then collect logical evidence to support it. That is why first impressions are so important. Unfortunately, due to incompatible drivers and binary compatibilities Vista sucked out of the box, and they're going to have an impossible time changing that in the minds of people who already know that.
Everyone is guilty of thinking this way, because it's the way our brains are wired. There are all kinds of reasons why Vista sucks, but even if they fixed all of those things, it would take something drastic to change the conclusions that we've reached.
And how exactly are we supposed to believe her study?
He's talking about casual shortcuts, alt-f brings up the file menu, then o brings up the open dialog. Casual shortcuts are nice for features you don't use often.
I use them myself for programs like Word that I rarely open.
I read Orbital Cartoon Observatory... I'm not exactly sure what I was picturing...
Unless John Ashcroft is #2 I don't really see how this could be any worse.
He could bring in Robert Mugabe for Secretary of Agriculture...
http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war17/
Thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution license, and some of the more colorful members of our community, this contest may have just made Microsoft's next commercial...
Camera shakily fades in, showing in a bathroom mirror a huge fat man wearing full furry regalia holding a camera.
Man: "I'm a Linux, and I made this commercial myself!"
Voiceover: "Buy Windows."
True, it could be great for small businesses, but you might have a hard time getting your vendors to honor their service contracts if they didn't like the conditions. That could be huge for small businesses without a dedicated IT staff.
This is the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.
They even had a Congress. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of the United States and maybe you'll see that they weren't any different than we are.
Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.
All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.
Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.
And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.
You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.
Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Communist! Lock him up!"
So they put him in jail.
I disagree that the release for free part is a fad, it's now a matter of fact. Your album *will* be released for free, and be available for free in more locations online than it's available to purchase.
Let's say I downloaded an album. If I could download it freely and pay what I wished, I can toss them money at any time, probably when I'm listening to it. However, if I downloaded it illegally, it doesn't make sense to pay now... I already have it, and it would make far more sense to buy it when the copy I have gets corrupted or deleted so I can download it legally this time.
800mb? You're doing something wrong.
Mine is currently using 179mb of memory, with 12 tabs open and 21 addons including custom Greasemonkey scripts and Stylish styles running.
Yes, I'm running Windows here at work, but I run the same setup at home on KDE, and still use nowhere near 800mb of memory.
Yes, Firefox could stand to lose a bit of weight possibly, but Firefox 3 is supposed to be shedding some of that.
Besides, the integration that everyone is so up in arms about without reading the article, is Prism, a separate stand-alone application. It would be like complaining that Thunderbird is bloating Firefox because they're based on the same code-base.
I'd just like to change around quotes/brackets for certain programming languages and add some of the special characters I use often, like an em and en dash.
I bow before Your Perversity.
Interesting... I don't see those, although that might be because I'm not running Windows. (I'm not sure why I don't see them.) It's still a far cry from mentioning add-ons for a product that you've chosen to install to making you repeatedly cancel the installation of a product you haven't chosen to install.
...as you couldn't possibly be more incorrect. If you install Firefox, you will most likely start at this page. There is no mention of Thunderbird, no mention of add-ons, no mention of any other Mozilla product at all. The default home page for Firefox is here and contains no mention of add-ons, or other programs.
But all that is completely beside the point, because the real issue is other products being pushed out by default through the software update for an unrelated product by the same company. Which is what Apple Software Updater is doing.
Firefox's update by comparison *cannot* download another product that you don't have installed, not only that, but it doesn't suggest any other products, or even mention that they exist.
Your point was that Firefox "offers" their products, where they do not, they simply provide links in their browser to their site where if you wish, you can choose to go and search for their products. Your other point was that Apple is simply "offering" their products, but it isn't doing that either, it is selecting them for you, and choosing to download them to you if you don't specifically deny them every time there is a product updated.
These are two completely different things.
Hell, if the child molester is outside my house and horny, he's more than welcome to use my wireless to satisfy his urges. It's far, far better than the alternative, even if I did end up being prosecuted for it myself.