This is the mother of all tech discussions. Slashdot is all about exchange of ideas and news, censorship is the opposite of that. We understand the issue, we know what censorship smells like, and we have the power to do something about it. That means you, reading this.
Humans are better, if only potentially. We have the possibility to stop wars, but I wouldn't expect whales and orcas to spontaneously enage in peace talks. If procreation is the only meaning of life, we can not only procreate ourselves, but we can help all other species procreate, even the ones that otherwise would die out.
Adding some sugar on top of that, we can not only create favourable conditions for procreating, we can create new meaning in life, where none (presumably) existed before. Life has meaning because we made it that way.
I think all of these problems point to one basic thing: the human/computer interface is fundamentally flawed as it is, or at least woefully inadequate.
Here're my thoughts: if use the keyboard for a lot of typing and shortcuts, get a nice touch screen monitor, for the occasional clicking on link/repositioning cursor/dragging icon. Revert to mouse for more complex pointing actions. Optionally use a trackball or one of these mouses for extended mousing, use a joystick for Google Earth, switch hands occasionally, get a keyboard with scroll wheel and lots of special buttons positioned strategically around the keyboard (the Microsoft Natural has some niceties). One interface doesn't rule them all, use whatever suits the task.
Hah, that reminds me... When I was much younger, I wondered how the heck there could be only 4 digits in the PIN, since that gives only 10 000 combinations, while there are millions of different cards. There's bound to be a collision! Took me a while before I slapped my forehead...
The solution is easy and very educational: learn to think about what you write, before you write it. Structure your writing, form the complete idea in your mind, avoid rambling down on paper. It's like the difference between structured programming and cowboy coding.
My problem: Open source existed for decades before the OSI was founded. What gives the OSI the right to hijack the term and then coerce companies into using the term by the OSI's rules?
They took the right because you were too lazy to do anything. Stop complaining and be glad someone else is doing it for you, because someone has to.
You can't use the term "Champagne" about any other drinks than those from Champagne, the same for Cognac (at least in Europe). These drinks are produced in specific soil under specific circumstances, anything else is false advertising. The same should apply to Open Source software, and this should be enforced.
If you don't agree with the definition of Open Source, you're a bit too late to the party, as the sharing of source code is a long tradition by now. Would anyone seriously talk about Open Source Software (OSS as we know it), if you could only look but not touch? No, of course not. Should any vendor then be allowed to piss on the meaning of OSS? No, of course not.
They may just end up doing that, though. I can't see how it would take them very long, if it was needed, since they spent so much time bashing the Vista codebase. I.e. it doesn't have to be "new" as in 98->2K, but rather like 2K->XP. Or maybe XP->2K, actually.
Routing number? Check? What are these things you speak of?
I just don't see the point in a 'pull' system, where I give someone authorization to pull money from my account, as opposed to pushing the money directly to their account.
Every time cash&money comes up on slashdot, I get to read these unbelievable things.. what's wrong with transferring money directly from one account to another?
Nope. That's only 7 KB/s below the maximum, which is to be expected. The maximum can be reached only if there's no other traffic at all on the line, especially upload. If you're sending anything at all other than what the download requires you'll saturate 128kbps pretty quickly, causing the downstream to slow down, since TCP requires return packets.
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This is the mother of all tech discussions. Slashdot is all about exchange of ideas and news, censorship is the opposite of that. We understand the issue, we know what censorship smells like, and we have the power to do something about it. That means you, reading this.
Adding some sugar on top of that, we can not only create favourable conditions for procreating, we can create new meaning in life, where none (presumably) existed before. Life has meaning because we made it that way.
Here're my thoughts: if use the keyboard for a lot of typing and shortcuts, get a nice touch screen monitor, for the occasional clicking on link/repositioning cursor/dragging icon. Revert to mouse for more complex pointing actions. Optionally use a trackball or one of these mouses for extended mousing, use a joystick for Google Earth, switch hands occasionally, get a keyboard with scroll wheel and lots of special buttons positioned strategically around the keyboard (the Microsoft Natural has some niceties). One interface doesn't rule them all, use whatever suits the task.
You can get a keyboard with a scroll wheel on the left side.
Hah, that reminds me... When I was much younger, I wondered how the heck there could be only 4 digits in the PIN, since that gives only 10 000 combinations, while there are millions of different cards. There's bound to be a collision! Took me a while before I slapped my forehead...
After trying to wrap my head around the physics here, I feel like I just want to call it 'quit'.
The solution is easy and very educational: learn to think about what you write, before you write it. Structure your writing, form the complete idea in your mind, avoid rambling down on paper. It's like the difference between structured programming and cowboy coding.
Of course, it's a matter of taste, but there are a million that are worse / taste cheaper.
Subtitles are not a problem. You'll get used to them fairly quickly, and when you do, you won't want to go back to poor voice acting again.
You can't use the term "Champagne" about any other drinks than those from Champagne, the same for Cognac (at least in Europe). These drinks are produced in specific soil under specific circumstances, anything else is false advertising. The same should apply to Open Source software, and this should be enforced.
If you don't agree with the definition of Open Source, you're a bit too late to the party, as the sharing of source code is a long tradition by now. Would anyone seriously talk about Open Source Software (OSS as we know it), if you could only look but not touch? No, of course not. Should any vendor then be allowed to piss on the meaning of OSS? No, of course not.
It's the vendors who are subverting the original understanding and subsequent definition of open source, not the other way around.
They may just end up doing that, though. I can't see how it would take them very long, if it was needed, since they spent so much time bashing the Vista codebase. I.e. it doesn't have to be "new" as in 98->2K, but rather like 2K->XP. Or maybe XP->2K, actually.
No no, they simply took a snapshot before the announcement, then accidentally reverted to the previous state.
It seems a lot of people talk about things as if US government = Bush. I'm wondering, does the US president really have that much power?
I just don't see the point in a 'pull' system, where I give someone authorization to pull money from my account, as opposed to pushing the money directly to their account.
Slashdot isn't blocked. Yet.
Like what kind of concerns?
Every time cash&money comes up on slashdot, I get to read these unbelievable things.. what's wrong with transferring money directly from one account to another?
The catch is that the condom always breaks.
Gah, I mean USD, not euro. It's 39 euro/month.
Holy crap your options are expensive, I pay 50 euro/month for 8M/1M. Are you in a city or on the outskirts?
Nope. That's only 7 KB/s below the maximum, which is to be expected. The maximum can be reached only if there's no other traffic at all on the line, especially upload. If you're sending anything at all other than what the download requires you'll saturate 128kbps pretty quickly, causing the downstream to slow down, since TCP requires return packets.