Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity
Weird. I thought anti-CP laws were about preventing child abuse. But if they are simply about obscenity... well, from now on I'll have to regard CP-producers as free speech activists!
The Model M uses buckling springs; old Mac keyboards used mechanical keyswitches. I think they moved to really shitty keyboards with the original iMac.
Thing is, those are too common. Brown, on the other hand, makes Ubuntu unique. It also gives it a certain "ethnic" image; as I recall, african art traditionally uses a lot of brown and orange.
I know, to some new users it may be scary to see those colors and realize: 'This is not Windows. It does not even tries to look similar. It's a completely different thing.' For the same reason, I find it very comforting.
so it's more like complaining that a cup of gourmet coffee is $8 when you could scoop parasite infested water from a drainage ditch for free.
That's a bit of an extreme comparison you did there! I'd say it's more like: "Why go to an expensive italian restaurant, if you can get a pack of instant noodles for 50 cents?"
Now, if we were talking about those awful roll-up rubber keyboards...
I started to realize that I was getting a bad deal out of buying CDs:
* got booklets with no lyrics (two Midnight Oil albums), or incomplete lyrics (some Aerosmith album). * one or two good songs, the rest is filler (several albums, including the aforementioned Aerosmith one). * very limited choice in local stores (could never find any Chris Isaak album). * couldn't justify the price after a point. * audio quality gone downhill with the loudness war.
And after all of that, unethical moves by the record companies, and DRM.
I've mentioned this one here before: I was about to get Iron Maiden's Dance of Death, pretty much had the wallet in my hand. Then I saw a 'copy protection' logo. Put the disc back on the shelf, looked around, picked Judas Priest's Painkiller instead. Some time later, I downloaded Dance of Death (so much for copy protection). And it was the most awful thing they had ever done.
So I won't fall for that trap again. I'll download as fuckin much as I goddamn want. If the artists want my money, come to my city and do a concert!
From the context, I assume that "USians" is used sarcastically; for example, OP was mocking the fact that Americans still have not moved to metric for good.
My wife and I have an MP3 CD player in the car and use it. We and the kids can't tell the difference between the average mp3, FM, and most CDs.
Well, duh. It's a car! Of course you can't tell the difference, it's NOISY out there. Anyone would have a hard time telling the difference between a CD and a 64kbps mp3 while driving. Now, no audiophile overkill/bullshit, just try listening with a good set of speakers, in a quiet, reasonably insulated room. Maybe the result will be the same, but if you want to test something, do it properly.
I'd guess there are much more people working on Windows 7 at Microsoft.
But that list you just posted is about contributors to the kernel. Produce a list of contributors to everything else that makes an operating system, and you will have a fair comparison.
There are more eyeballs on Windows 7 than Linux, and more programmers working to fix the bugs the eyeballs find, because Windows is a multibillion dollar product.
No, because the "eyeballs" law does not refer only to testers, but also developers.
Microsoft has a legion of unpaid beta-testers, sure. But those people are not allowed to read the code. They can't fix stuff by themselves. To use a popular car metaphor: even those with mechanical skills can't fix the "Windows car" because the hood is welded shut. They can say: "it won't start if I turn the key and the radio at the same time", or something like that, but they can't really say why. The "Linux car" is the opposite: everyone so inclined can look under the hood and find just why something is not working right.
That's funny how you cherry picked that whole event and then left out the part where the brutality occurred.
I did not cherry-pick, just summarized. What, I was supposed to copy the whole section from Wikipedia? The whole article, maybe? But I don't doubt you would find a way to say they cherry-picked the facts as well. And I did mention the scene, except it's only "brutality" if you IGNORE THE WHOLE DAMN CONTEXT.
BTW, have you actually read about the events leading to it? You can check it on Wikipedia, but let me summarize:
- Rodney King was drunk and speeding, two friends in the car; is spotted by police; refuses to pull over because a DUI would violate his parole.
- CHASE ENSUES, SEVERAL POLICE CARS AND A HELICOPTER.
- King's car is finally cornered; 5 policemen at the scene.
- occupants told to lie on the ground to be cuffed. King's friends comply, taken into custody without incident.
- King at first refused to leave the car; then did, but behaves bizarrely - giggling, patting the ground, waving to the police helicopter.
- King grabs own buttock; policeman thinks he's reaching for a gun, draws his own and orders King to lie down.
- King finally complies, policeman holsters gun.
- policemen attempt to subdue and cuff King.
- KING RISES, TOSSES POLICEMEN OFF HIS BACK AND STRIKES ANOTHER ON CHEST.
- policemen fall back, King is shot with taser. Falls, rises, tasered again.
- tape recording began here: KING RISES AGAIN AND CHARGES AGAINST A POLICEMAN; is hit on the leg with a baton.
...but only HERE begins the part of the tape that everyone saw on TV: a helpless, innocent black man being beaten by racist cops. But now you know it was not the case.
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Define the word. For me, "obscene" means: something that makes the prudes freak out.
Andres Serrano. HR Giger. Larry Flynt. 2 Live Crew. Mortal Kombat. Jyllands-Posten. Getting the idea now?
Weird. I thought anti-CP laws were about preventing child abuse. But if they are simply about obscenity... well, from now on I'll have to regard CP-producers as free speech activists!
The Model M uses buckling springs; old Mac keyboards used mechanical keyswitches. I think they moved to really shitty keyboards with the original iMac.
Thing is, those are too common. Brown, on the other hand, makes Ubuntu unique. It also gives it a certain "ethnic" image; as I recall, african art traditionally uses a lot of brown and orange.
I know, to some new users it may be scary to see those colors and realize: 'This is not Windows. It does not even tries to look similar. It's a completely different thing.' For the same reason, I find it very comforting.
Strange, I always thought the brown theme was really cool.
You sure you're not looking at screenshots of Kubuntu?
Frog blast the vent core!
That's a bit of an extreme comparison you did there! I'd say it's more like: "Why go to an expensive italian restaurant, if you can get a pack of instant noodles for 50 cents?"
Now, if we were talking about those awful roll-up rubber keyboards...
The Windows way:
Save?
Yes / no / cancel.
The Macintosh way:
Save?
Save / don't save / cancel.
I started to realize that I was getting a bad deal out of buying CDs:
* got booklets with no lyrics (two Midnight Oil albums), or incomplete lyrics (some Aerosmith album).
* one or two good songs, the rest is filler (several albums, including the aforementioned Aerosmith one).
* very limited choice in local stores (could never find any Chris Isaak album).
* couldn't justify the price after a point.
* audio quality gone downhill with the loudness war.
And after all of that, unethical moves by the record companies, and DRM.
I've mentioned this one here before: I was about to get Iron Maiden's Dance of Death, pretty much had the wallet in my hand. Then I saw a 'copy protection' logo. Put the disc back on the shelf, looked around, picked Judas Priest's Painkiller instead. Some time later, I downloaded Dance of Death (so much for copy protection). And it was the most awful thing they had ever done.
So I won't fall for that trap again. I'll download as fuckin much as I goddamn want. If the artists want my money, come to my city and do a concert!
Well, I bought a band's DVD after their concert. It's a nicer deal than a CD.
It's dead, Jim.
What religion isn't?
As a non-native English speaker, I must ask you to explain the difference.
Always ask - cui bono?.
From the context, I assume that "USians" is used sarcastically; for example, OP was mocking the fact that Americans still have not moved to metric for good.
Well, duh. It's a car! Of course you can't tell the difference, it's NOISY out there. Anyone would have a hard time telling the difference between a CD and a 64kbps mp3 while driving. Now, no audiophile overkill/bullshit, just try listening with a good set of speakers, in a quiet, reasonably insulated room. Maybe the result will be the same, but if you want to test something, do it properly.
No, it means she is turing-complete.
But that list you just posted is about contributors to the kernel. Produce a list of contributors to everything else that makes an operating system, and you will have a fair comparison.
No, because the "eyeballs" law does not refer only to testers, but also developers.
Microsoft has a legion of unpaid beta-testers, sure. But those people are not allowed to read the code. They can't fix stuff by themselves. To use a popular car metaphor: even those with mechanical skills can't fix the "Windows car" because the hood is welded shut. They can say: "it won't start if I turn the key and the radio at the same time", or something like that, but they can't really say why. The "Linux car" is the opposite: everyone so inclined can look under the hood and find just why something is not working right.
My take on it. (I showed it to Romero, he thought it was funny.)
BTW, have you actually read about the events leading to it? You can check it on Wikipedia, but let me summarize:
- Rodney King was drunk and speeding, two friends in the car; is spotted by police; refuses to pull over because a DUI would violate his parole.
- CHASE ENSUES, SEVERAL POLICE CARS AND A HELICOPTER.
- King's car is finally cornered; 5 policemen at the scene.
- occupants told to lie on the ground to be cuffed. King's friends comply, taken into custody without incident.
- King at first refused to leave the car; then did, but behaves bizarrely - giggling, patting the ground, waving to the police helicopter.
- King grabs own buttock; policeman thinks he's reaching for a gun, draws his own and orders King to lie down.
- King finally complies, policeman holsters gun.
- policemen attempt to subdue and cuff King.
- KING RISES, TOSSES POLICEMEN OFF HIS BACK AND STRIKES ANOTHER ON CHEST.
- policemen fall back, King is shot with taser. Falls, rises, tasered again.
- tape recording began here: KING RISES AGAIN AND CHARGES AGAINST A POLICEMAN; is hit on the leg with a baton.
...but only HERE begins the part of the tape that everyone saw on TV: a helpless, innocent black man being beaten by racist cops. But now you know it was not the case.
The circumstances that make NECESSARY to kick the crap out of a suspect.