They really should have seen Firefox (or something similar) coming, especially as IE hasn't really had any new development since 5.0 or so, save periodic security patches and such.
What makes you think they didn't? They still have an overwhelmingly dominant share of the market... and they're innovating on IE long before they "need" to... of all things, when it comes to business, MS is not dumb.
Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist", as is anyone suspected of liking the color. People who like orange are tolerated but viewed with suspicion. Suppose you realize there is nothing wrong with yellow. If you go around saying this, you'll be denounced as a yellowist too, and you'll find yourself having a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists. If your aim in life is to rehabilitate the color yellow, that may be what you want. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction.
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Pick your fights more wisely... it's obviously that the more you know, the more you realize there is left to learn. Wasting time explaining those that know even less than you that they don't know much may be easier than going out and trying to learn even more yourself, but doing so amounts to nothing but laziness.
Our society has systems of education not to inspire the Einsteins, but to educate the masses (how well it does that is a different topic).
From TFA: "...One can see this data in the archives of the mailists; it comes right after the episode where Ian revoked my freenet-emailaddress, because my critical attitude to the current development-proces was aparently not to his likings)."
How would you react if your seven year old daughter was raped and videos of the assault were posted to the net?
C'mon... that doesn't mean they're the exact same thing. Don't argue a fight you know you've lost. What if I send an e-mail through a country that violates the censorship laws in that country, are all of the servers that passed on my e-mail liable?
If you think that's bad, look at the Democratic primaries... by the time my state voted in those, my top two choices weren't even on the ballot anymore (Dean, then Kucinich)!
Personally, I literally haven't watched TV (not counting btefnet) for over a year. 99% of TV airtime is seen by people who don't know or care about copyright law.
The public editor serves as the readers' representative. His opinions and conclusions are his own.
I don't see how this is NYT admitting anything. It's one person's argument. Because he works for the NYT makes for a stronger point, but it does not constitute the paper 'admitting' anything.
Once it is accepted that Clark (the cop) reasonably thought he saw a marijuana pipe in the red pouch, then there was probable cause to search the pouch, even though Clark turned out to be mistaken.
...but what if everyone that has a cell phone had a Ham radio? What would that be like in the middle of a disaster? I don't see it working out too well...
The problem with this is that the retention rate goes to Everyone is going to try it, some people are even going to reinstall it and play a little of every kind of charachter. Newbie spots will be swarmed with non-paying players and ruin the game for the people that are actually dishing out $15/month.
You have to be a really dedicated researcher if you want to get beyond the multi-million dollar marketing hype surrounding most products and people these days.
It's a lifestyle, like eating healthy. Once you get into the habbit of ignoring propaganda, it's hard do imagine living otherwise.
I think we agree more than we disagree. Although one could argue egoism as a motivation for everythign we do, I was pointing out that people too often assume that material wealth is an unsatisfiable urge within human nature. This seems pretty rediculous to me, so I may just be talking to the wrong people...
I don't think any of Stallman's "solutions" are real solutions as they merely mitigate the symptoms; they don't eliminate the cause, which is basic human selfishness.
Selfishness is not inherently human. This is a common fallacy on which way too many people explain way too many things.
What is going to be the attitude towards the rest of the world from these guys who don't even know where they are? This is one of the many reasons a lot of people *really* dislike America.
That's the problem: there will be no attitude. There won't be any reaction at all, except what the party advocates. They know no better than to accept rhetoric like "they hate us because we are free". How can you expect Americans to form opinions on these things when so many of them are so ignorant?
How many Canadian provinces can the average spaniard name? How many Peruvian districts can the average Chinaman name? It's irrelevant, it's trivia.
I think parent was talking about their own geography. I don't know about China/Spain, but in Russia (where I'm originally from), one cannot pass a high-school geography class without knowing every major country and every capital in the world (how many US citizens know the capitals of Canada and Mexico?)... Russian highschool geography classes also cover the geological and economic properties of East European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries. That includes not only rivers and mountains, but coal, oil, and iron production... (how many US Citizens know the exports/imports to/from Canada/Mexico?).
Because of this lack of basic geographical knowledge of the world (one that statesmen and politicians understand infinitely more), how should we expect the American people to understand why our government does things like go to war with Iraq?
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I don't think 60% is that much, speaking statistically... I'm pretty much talking out of my ass, though.
Tell me about it...:) I was wondering if that may be why, though... I would have expected the peak shopping day to have been a couple of weeks ago, when people were buying presents...
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They really should have seen Firefox (or something similar) coming, especially as IE hasn't really had any new development since 5.0 or so, save periodic security patches and such.
What makes you think they didn't? They still have an overwhelmingly dominant share of the market... and they're innovating on IE long before they "need" to... of all things, when it comes to business, MS is not dumb.
From a Paul Graham essay:
Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist", as is anyone suspected of liking the color. People who like orange are tolerated but viewed with suspicion. Suppose you realize there is nothing wrong with yellow. If you go around saying this, you'll be denounced as a yellowist too, and you'll find yourself having a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists. If your aim in life is to rehabilitate the color yellow, that may be what you want. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction.
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Pick your fights more wisely... it's obviously that the more you know, the more you realize there is left to learn. Wasting time explaining those that know even less than you that they don't know much may be easier than going out and trying to learn even more yourself, but doing so amounts to nothing but laziness.
Our society has systems of education not to inspire the Einsteins, but to educate the masses (how well it does that is a different topic).
From TFA: "...One can see this data in the archives of the mailists; it comes right after the episode where Ian revoked my freenet-emailaddress, because my critical attitude to the current development-proces was aparently not to his likings)."
How would you react if your seven year old daughter was raped and videos of the assault were posted to the net?
C'mon... that doesn't mean they're the exact same thing. Don't argue a fight you know you've lost. What if I send an e-mail through a country that violates the censorship laws in that country, are all of the servers that passed on my e-mail liable?
If you think that's bad, look at the Democratic primaries... by the time my state voted in those, my top two choices weren't even on the ballot anymore (Dean, then Kucinich)!
Ha, no worried. If there's one community which has no lack of creativity, it's the one that'll figure out a way to infringe copyright.
Um, you're preaching to the wrong people.
Personally, I literally haven't watched TV (not counting btefnet) for over a year. 99% of TV airtime is seen by people who don't know or care about copyright law.
"It's his sled. Rosebud is the name of his sled. There, I just saved you 2 boobless hours."
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Cinemas using the technology will be able to download the latest releases to a computer server via satellite at a lower cost.
How would one stop the satellite signal from being intercepted by pirates?
Fine... I stand corrected. :-P
Maybe if you read your own link...
The public editor serves as the readers' representative. His opinions and conclusions are his own.
I don't see how this is NYT admitting anything. It's one person's argument. Because he works for the NYT makes for a stronger point, but it does not constitute the paper 'admitting' anything.
Everyone understands and knows the bias that the NY Times has.
No, everyone doesn't. Would you care to explain so that I may prove you wrong and make fun of you?
Once it is accepted that Clark (the cop) reasonably thought he saw a marijuana pipe in the red pouch, then there was probable cause to search the pouch, even though Clark turned out to be mistaken.
I dunno about you, but that's pretty scary...
...but what if everyone that has a cell phone had a Ham radio? What would that be like in the middle of a disaster? I don't see it working out too well...
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The problem with this is that the retention rate goes to Everyone is going to try it, some people are even going to reinstall it and play a little of every kind of charachter. Newbie spots will be swarmed with non-paying players and ruin the game for the people that are actually dishing out $15/month.
You have to be a really dedicated researcher if you want to get beyond the multi-million dollar marketing hype surrounding most products and people these days.
It's a lifestyle, like eating healthy. Once you get into the habbit of ignoring propaganda, it's hard do imagine living otherwise.
I think we agree more than we disagree. Although one could argue egoism as a motivation for everythign we do, I was pointing out that people too often assume that material wealth is an unsatisfiable urge within human nature. This seems pretty rediculous to me, so I may just be talking to the wrong people...
I don't think any of Stallman's "solutions" are real solutions as they merely mitigate the symptoms; they don't eliminate the cause, which is basic human selfishness. Selfishness is not inherently human. This is a common fallacy on which way too many people explain way too many things.
What is going to be the attitude towards the rest of the world from these guys who don't even know where they are? This is one of the many reasons a lot of people *really* dislike America.
That's the problem: there will be no attitude. There won't be any reaction at all, except what the party advocates. They know no better than to accept rhetoric like "they hate us because we are free". How can you expect Americans to form opinions on these things when so many of them are so ignorant?
How many Canadian provinces can the average spaniard name? How many Peruvian districts can the average Chinaman name? It's irrelevant, it's trivia.
I think parent was talking about their own geography. I don't know about China/Spain, but in Russia (where I'm originally from), one cannot pass a high-school geography class without knowing every major country and every capital in the world (how many US citizens know the capitals of Canada and Mexico?)... Russian highschool geography classes also cover the geological and economic properties of East European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries. That includes not only rivers and mountains, but coal, oil, and iron production... (how many US Citizens know the exports/imports to/from Canada/Mexico?).
Because of this lack of basic geographical knowledge of the world (one that statesmen and politicians understand infinitely more), how should we expect the American people to understand why our government does things like go to war with Iraq?
I don't think 60% is that much, speaking statistically... I'm pretty much talking out of my ass, though.
Man, you're living it up.
:) I was wondering if that may be why, though... I would have expected the peak shopping day to have been a couple of weeks ago, when people were buying presents...
Tell me about it...
I call 65-70k by the end of the week.