No, you managed to completely miss my point.
The current solution (the remote control) has no flaws which this system solves. Television, toilet paper, the internet are all inventions to solve problems; this is just use of technology because it exists. And, use where it complicates the situation.
Why not just have a button on the remote marked "Dad's prefs", "Mum's prefs", "Johnny's prefs"? That way conflicts can be managed sensibly (by talking about who wants to watch what) rather than some priority system which the TiVo attributes to different RFIDs.
Why do *you* think this system is *not* overkill?
Because choosing preferences onscreen or by pressing a button on a remote control is so labour-intensive and laborious. It's a wonder mankind manages to use things as they are.
I believe you. And I believe her. I believe everything I read on the internet. Especially accusations of Communism; they tend to ring particularly true.
I've never seen a legitimate real book (nor heard the term fake book for one). Only ever seen illegal ones. No-one will admit to having a real book round here; strictly under the counter stuff. And this is in jazz schools and jazz pubs, etc. The term fake book doesn't exist here. A real book is fake for everyone I know.
They were not written in Old English. No-one studies Old English until university because it is completely incomprehensible to the modern english speaker. The works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, et al, were written in Middle English.
I suspect someone will lose a job over this. It's a shame, they probably don't "deserve" it, for just being stupid.
A shame?! They shouldn't just lose their job, there should be criminal prosecutions of corporate bosses for stuff like this. Anything that lets people who were directly responsible walk away with clean hands is just not right.
The only way to stop this kind of thing happening again is to hit the current perpetrators hard and fast. Corporate responsibility means nothing until the people in charge actually have something to fear. Until there's precedent for prosecutions (with extensive jail time: I hate white-collar crime) you can bet your ass this will happen again. The next company will just try to hide it better.
Blogs don't have to be publicly viewable. I'm sure many people write completely private entries. If you wander round LiveJournal an awful lot of people post to a select group of friends, ie their blogs are "by invitation only".
You have to go to the effort of loading up a blog in order to reading - hardly comparable to spraying stuff on a wall.
Being a celebrity is hardly a reason to have an interesting blog; being able to write is. The successful blogs belong to people who are interesting writers. Whether they write about their experiences in computer security, the London Ambulance Service or evolutionary biology, it always comes down to content. It takes a lot of skill to write about nothing and make it interesting, so why are you complaining that 14-year-olds don't write interesting blogs? They're probably sub-literate to start with!
Complaining that anything is bad when all you've seen are the very worst examples is misguided and childish. Or flamebait.
English law, or Scots law? (The latter has no slander or libel, but the combined, two-in-one, double-whammy defamation. Which, in all probability, is defined differently. IANAL but I've lived with a few!)
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No, it hasn't become more harmful: it has merely (as the name suggests) become resistant to certain forms of attack.
To use a really silly analogy: if a rabbit becomes resistant to myxie, it doesn't automatically become any more dangerous. The resistance doesn't make it develop a thirst for blood, double in size or able to breathe fire (I'm scaring myself now...).
Same with the bacteria, or the virus. It doesn't do any more to the human body, there's just less we can do to it. (This in no way means that it isn't more of a threat, but its effect on us is unchanged.)
I don't think you understand my point. There's a whole load of aspects to japanese culture which permeate manga and anime, which are confusing and/or totally lost on western audiences. That's one instance where good fan-subs for anime are a godsend, as they *explain* the joke as well as translating it.
(One instance I can think of right now is the nose bleed as shorthand for someone being sexually aroused. Is your average American likely to know that?)
Despite the fact that this is the most sensible reasoning I've seen so far for using "manga" instead of "comic", it seems a bit daft to make a product full of cultural references and market it exclusively to people outside that culture.
"By it very nature, an OS that is user friendly and uniformly installed cannot be Open Source."
I take it you hold MS Windows to be a user friendly operating system. Sp does that mean if (thought experiment) Windows were to be open-sourced it would suddenly become user-unfriendly?
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No, you managed to completely miss my point. The current solution (the remote control) has no flaws which this system solves. Television, toilet paper, the internet are all inventions to solve problems; this is just use of technology because it exists. And, use where it complicates the situation. Why not just have a button on the remote marked "Dad's prefs", "Mum's prefs", "Johnny's prefs"? That way conflicts can be managed sensibly (by talking about who wants to watch what) rather than some priority system which the TiVo attributes to different RFIDs. Why do *you* think this system is *not* overkill?
Because choosing preferences onscreen or by pressing a button on a remote control is so labour-intensive and laborious. It's a wonder mankind manages to use things as they are.
You forgot force the user to move to your distro of choice and I only play Nethack.
I believe you. And I believe her. I believe everything I read on the internet. Especially accusations of Communism; they tend to ring particularly true.
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Are those 19-foot flatscreens really free?
You are, of course, quite correct :) However, my original point still stands - nothing like Old English.
I've never seen a legitimate real book (nor heard the term fake book for one). Only ever seen illegal ones. No-one will admit to having a real book round here; strictly under the counter stuff. And this is in jazz schools and jazz pubs, etc. The term fake book doesn't exist here. A real book is fake for everyone I know.
They were not written in Old English. No-one studies Old English until university because it is completely incomprehensible to the modern english speaker. The works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, et al, were written in Middle English.
WTF is a fake book? Are you talking about real books?
I suspect someone will lose a job over this. It's a shame, they probably don't "deserve" it, for just being stupid.
A shame?! They shouldn't just lose their job, there should be criminal prosecutions of corporate bosses for stuff like this. Anything that lets people who were directly responsible walk away with clean hands is just not right.
The only way to stop this kind of thing happening again is to hit the current perpetrators hard and fast. Corporate responsibility means nothing until the people in charge actually have something to fear. Until there's precedent for prosecutions (with extensive jail time: I hate white-collar crime) you can bet your ass this will happen again. The next company will just try to hide it better.
Question is though: who would win in a fight between a grue and a wumpus? Maybe this should go to Slashdot poll?
Seriously, that is one of the most cunning off-topic comments I've seen on Slashdot. Many thanks for the laugh! :)
Blogs don't have to be publicly viewable. I'm sure many people write completely private entries. If you wander round LiveJournal an awful lot of people post to a select group of friends, ie their blogs are "by invitation only".
You have to go to the effort of loading up a blog in order to reading - hardly comparable to spraying stuff on a wall.
Being a celebrity is hardly a reason to have an interesting blog; being able to write is. The successful blogs belong to people who are interesting writers. Whether they write about their experiences in computer security, the London Ambulance Service or evolutionary biology, it always comes down to content. It takes a lot of skill to write about nothing and make it interesting, so why are you complaining that 14-year-olds don't write interesting blogs? They're probably sub-literate to start with!
Complaining that anything is bad when all you've seen are the very worst examples is misguided and childish. Or flamebait.
English law, or Scots law? (The latter has no slander or libel, but the combined, two-in-one, double-whammy defamation. Which, in all probability, is defined differently. IANAL but I've lived with a few!)
No, it hasn't become more harmful: it has merely (as the name suggests) become resistant to certain forms of attack.
To use a really silly analogy: if a rabbit becomes resistant to myxie, it doesn't automatically become any more dangerous. The resistance doesn't make it develop a thirst for blood, double in size or able to breathe fire (I'm scaring myself now...).
Same with the bacteria, or the virus. It doesn't do any more to the human body, there's just less we can do to it. (This in no way means that it isn't more of a threat, but its effect on us is unchanged.)
I don't think you understand my point. There's a whole load of aspects to japanese culture which permeate manga and anime, which are confusing and/or totally lost on western audiences. That's one instance where good fan-subs for anime are a godsend, as they *explain* the joke as well as translating it.
(One instance I can think of right now is the nose bleed as shorthand for someone being sexually aroused. Is your average American likely to know that?)
Despite the fact that this is the most sensible reasoning I've seen so far for using "manga" instead of "comic", it seems a bit daft to make a product full of cultural references and market it exclusively to people outside that culture.
Where does the line between manga and comic art exist then, if not by country of origin?
I wish they had topped themselves.
You mean everyone else knows who you're talking about but God hasn't cottoned on? That sounds ... a mite unlikely.
He's an editor - what else, apart from editorialising and editing, does an editor do?
I'm guessing he accidentally posted from his trolling account ;)
I think it's pretty obvious that that is not the private information he wishes to hide. Cos if it is he's really going the wrong way about it...
I take it you hold MS Windows to be a user friendly operating system. Sp does that mean if (thought experiment) Windows were to be open-sourced it would suddenly become user-unfriendly?
Or were you just trolling?