What exactly is confusing the potential consumer in this case? How can he be tricked into buying a fictional product? Its ridiculous to keep defending this action.
/////.not the lawyers who are just dealing with the laws as they are.
Pardon me, but this is clearly parody. The lawyers ALREADY HAVE LAWS TO TELL THEM TO RESPECT PARODY. They chose to ignore them.
Not only is this a parody, its not even a real product, and the phrase is not the same phrase as "the other white meat."
Playing up the "We're just following the law, ma'am and are powerless to think for ourselves" card is a unconvincing excuse. that empowers organizations like SCO.
Lastly, pork is far from the 'other white meat'. Compared to chicken or turkey its incredibly unhealthy.
I think its important to realize that the impetus to their ignorance and hate stems from religion.
In an interview regarding this new song one of these clowns revealed that their entire theme, I believe "the dark carnival" is nothing more than Christian proselytization. Yes, ICP is a Christian rock band. How we went from Black Sabbath to Christian clowns insulting scientists is beyond me.
How exploitable is/was doc? MS's implementations usually asked you if you wanted to run macros and had macro settings. I can't think of any trojans or botnets that scaled to huge numbers by exploiting doc. Adobe reader? Yes, lots. Adobe's Reader out of the box runs js without even a warning. Its one of the largest exploitable apps on the internet today and most people have its plugin running in their browser.
Unfortunately, scripting in documents isn't going away anytime soon. In the meantime, can't I get some sane defaults?
I hope all the major browsers start implementing their own PDF reader just to balkanize the PDF market. At least this will hurt the Adobe monopoly and hopefully force them to compete on security and not unsecure features.
The "government" in Afghanistan had its president executed by the Soviets and then they forcibly installed a Soviet stooge.
>Almost all of the misery in the middle east can be directly traced to Western powers
Err, in this case its Eastern powers - namely Russia. The US was right in moving in and putting a check on their power and expansion, especially considering the hell hole that most Soviet countries were experiencing in both economics and basic human rights.
The Soviets should have left well enough alone, but they had dreams of a vast empire and this was an opportunity to setup in the Middle East. Its hilarious how the US is the bad guy here. Right, we should have let the Soviets carve up the world, eh? Sorry, all of Afghanistans problems staem from Soviet expansion and Soviet power grabs. Carter was right to oppose this and launch the embargo. I guess its easy to sit on your computer and be Mr Pacifist, but sometimes action must be taken.
I just got an EVO and shut off Sense on my second or third day. A few days later I turned it back on. It looks a lot better than stock. I love the "phone" button at the bottom and the plus button on the right. Some of the widgets are Sense-only like the 4G on/off button. IMHO, the stock android looks cheap. I'd love to see Sense or a Sense-like UI put into the stock Android distribution.
Some countries have laws that specify encryption for wifi too. I'd rather have that then bullshit privacy laws "OH NOES HE READ MY WIRELESS UNENCRYPTED TRANSMISSION!!!" How about people take some fucking responsibility for putting in some basic encryption? It takes like two clicks.
>Some things I've heard have been ridiculous (e.g. comparisons of Australia to China and Iran - even the proposed filter, as abhorrent as it was, was not anywhere near the scale and scope of those countries).
Pardon me, how are these so different? Mandatory censorship on a national level is exactly what countries like Iran and the UAE do. Heck, Australia might be even worse because it doesn't have the "backwaters Islamic nation" excuse. I also read that the blacklisting agencies this filter would use routinely blacklist Wikipedia pages. Again, what is the big difference here? That potentially the children's list is opt-in (or allowed opt-out) but the "illegal/immoral" list isnt?
You guys have some serious problems there. Right now you're making the US look like the most liberal EU state and, honestly, that's difficult to do.
>At the end of the day, we are still a very robust democracy, populated mostly by mostly secular, level-headed people.
Wrong again. 62% of your are begging for the filter:
In February 2010 ABC's Hungry Beast program commissioned McNair Ingenuity Research to perform a telephone poll of 1,000 Australians.[92] Key results were To the proposition We need Government regulation of content on the Internet the same as we have Government regulation of content for other media 62% agreed, 35% disagreed.
You're mostly pro-censorship conservatives. Heck, your liberals aren't even against the filter as much as pointing out that its difficult to get right.
>The amount of taxpayer money involved in having a court enter a default judgment is effectively zero.
Are you kidding. Just an hour of the courts time (the court employees, minions, infrastructure, salary, benefits, pensions, etc) and an hour of labor from dozens of people. An hour of one court room is probably a real dollar amount of more than the damn settlement. This is frivolous. This is costly to tax payers. Lets at least accept the real costs here, regardless of the merits or outcomes of the case.
Its job at work is to play Blurays and other videos. So, yes, its perfectly appropriate. Not to mention youre comparing two different chip architectures. While I dont think the AMD is faster per clock, its still pretty darn fast for its job as a media PC.
So according to you capped data is an advantage? The option for flash is a disadvantage? Choice is a disadvantage? Lack of censorship in apps is a disadvantage? Only iphone UI is 'usable?'
Look at the Zino HD. We have three of these at work. The model with 4 gigs or RAM and a Bluray player is around the same price as the vanilla Mini. Apple still seems to have a 20% premium on price, not to mention the price of Apple care.
No, you can get the Zino HD, which is Dell's version of the mac mini. For about the same price as the vanilla Mac Mini you get 4gigs of RAM and a BluRay player. They even toss in a mouse and a keyboard.
>not like Android phones are any cheaper. the top of the line Droid and Evo's go for $199 with 8GB storage.
Well, what do you get for you money?
iphone: Capped data. Evo: Unlimited 3g and 4g iphone: costly tethering Evo: Free USB tethering, again unlimited iphone: walled garden Evo: open market, install apk files from anywhere iphone: at&t 3g Evo: 4G iphone: no flash Evo: HTC mobile flash, Froyo full flash in a couple months
So, are you willing to take all those downside for slightly cheaper flash memory? Your call.
Oh, its great when you have a solid 3G signal, but even in downtown Chicago that can be a problem. Toss in all the dropped calls and its really not as great as those links suggest. Essentially, those tests, if memory serves, are just data speed tests. I don't think they were done in random spots, but where 3G worked and where they had a solid signal.
I'm in a similar boat now with Sprint's 4G service. Spotty reception, but crazy speeds. I just rooted my EVO, enabled wireless tethering, and with one bar of 4G I got 2.3mbps. With 2-3bars I get 3-4mbps.
Right now saying "We're the best 3G" is a little like saying "We're the best horse and buggy company." When is LTE coming out? 2012? If you aren't doing 4G upgrades now then you've already falled behind.
La-dee-da! Aren't you Mr. Millionaire! I fill a mug with my fresh warm urine in the morning and go through Starbucks dumpsters looking for used tea bags and yesterday's lemons!
Look at the "How Natal Works" articles. The tracking is excellent. Its tight enough to have you manipulate desktop items in this fashion. You'd have constant feedback because you would see the cursor move on the screen. You would drag that item into the trash. This is really a non-issue.
>No one likes to be the guy with an out-of-date system not getting the full experience of the game.
The difference between playing a game on medium settings vs high are trivial, yet a system that can handle high costs twice as much. If you shoot for the bang-for-the-buck magic middle, you'll find that PC gaming is affordable. I get the full experience with my $100 video card and frankenputer, thank you very much.
Well put. I pretty excited by the possibilities of this technology. The idea of having a "Minority Report" type interface is pretty cool. I'm not so jazzed about the games but of how this could be a new interface. I'm sick of mice and keyboards. I almost never type on my android phone. I just use speech to text. I hate having to pull out a giant keyboard to type things into my HTPC. I hate having to find a surface for the wireless mouse, replace batteries, etc. I hate playing the occasional console game and having to learn what the 20 or so buttons on the controller do.
A camera-based interface done well could revolutionize how we interface with all sorts of technologies, not just games. Sony tried it in the PS2 days and now MS is trying it. Hopefully, they'll get it right. We shouldn't need input devices for what are essentially trivial inputs.
Speaking and reading are two very different things. The GP is right. We are made for fucking and fighting and little else.
>which adapts naturally to written language and symbolic computation.
There's nothing natural about reading and writing. Its a technology. Writing is very much a recent invention. Your generous use of the use "naturally" is far from convincing.
>What literate person today could even dream of carrying out such immense tasks of memorization?
Memorization is just a technology, nothing more. You don't farm your own food anymore, do you? Are you going to lament not doing 16 hours of back breaking labor everyday? Of course not. Then don't do it with mass memorization, which is actually very difficult mentally.
Private ownership of computers and cell phones are of course banned, but the state run business can get these things. Only high level party and military members are allowed things like phones or PCs.
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>Floppy disks, various external ports, etc.
Hey, anyone got a display port to VGA adapter?! I need to connect this laptop to a projector for a client meeting!
What exactly is confusing the potential consumer in this case? How can he be tricked into buying a fictional product? Its ridiculous to keep defending this action.
/////.not the lawyers who are just dealing with the laws as they are.
Pardon me, but this is clearly parody. The lawyers ALREADY HAVE LAWS TO TELL THEM TO RESPECT PARODY. They chose to ignore them.
Not only is this a parody, its not even a real product, and the phrase is not the same phrase as "the other white meat."
Playing up the "We're just following the law, ma'am and are powerless to think for ourselves" card is a unconvincing excuse. that empowers organizations like SCO.
Lastly, pork is far from the 'other white meat'. Compared to chicken or turkey its incredibly unhealthy.
I think its important to realize that the impetus to their ignorance and hate stems from religion.
In an interview regarding this new song one of these clowns revealed that their entire theme, I believe "the dark carnival" is nothing more than Christian proselytization. Yes, ICP is a Christian rock band. How we went from Black Sabbath to Christian clowns insulting scientists is beyond me.
How exploitable is/was doc? MS's implementations usually asked you if you wanted to run macros and had macro settings. I can't think of any trojans or botnets that scaled to huge numbers by exploiting doc. Adobe reader? Yes, lots. Adobe's Reader out of the box runs js without even a warning. Its one of the largest exploitable apps on the internet today and most people have its plugin running in their browser.
Unfortunately, scripting in documents isn't going away anytime soon. In the meantime, can't I get some sane defaults?
I hope all the major browsers start implementing their own PDF reader just to balkanize the PDF market. At least this will hurt the Adobe monopoly and hopefully force them to compete on security and not unsecure features.
The "government" in Afghanistan had its president executed by the Soviets and then they forcibly installed a Soviet stooge.
>Almost all of the misery in the middle east can be directly traced to Western powers
Err, in this case its Eastern powers - namely Russia. The US was right in moving in and putting a check on their power and expansion, especially considering the hell hole that most Soviet countries were experiencing in both economics and basic human rights.
The Soviets should have left well enough alone, but they had dreams of a vast empire and this was an opportunity to setup in the Middle East. Its hilarious how the US is the bad guy here. Right, we should have let the Soviets carve up the world, eh? Sorry, all of Afghanistans problems staem from Soviet expansion and Soviet power grabs. Carter was right to oppose this and launch the embargo. I guess its easy to sit on your computer and be Mr Pacifist, but sometimes action must be taken.
I just got an EVO and shut off Sense on my second or third day. A few days later I turned it back on. It looks a lot better than stock. I love the "phone" button at the bottom and the plus button on the right. Some of the widgets are Sense-only like the 4G on/off button. IMHO, the stock android looks cheap. I'd love to see Sense or a Sense-like UI put into the stock Android distribution.
Some countries have laws that specify encryption for wifi too. I'd rather have that then bullshit privacy laws "OH NOES HE READ MY WIRELESS UNENCRYPTED TRANSMISSION!!!" How about people take some fucking responsibility for putting in some basic encryption? It takes like two clicks.
>Some things I've heard have been ridiculous (e.g. comparisons of Australia to China and Iran - even the proposed filter, as abhorrent as it was, was not anywhere near the scale and scope of those countries).
Pardon me, how are these so different? Mandatory censorship on a national level is exactly what countries like Iran and the UAE do. Heck, Australia might be even worse because it doesn't have the "backwaters Islamic nation" excuse. I also read that the blacklisting agencies this filter would use routinely blacklist Wikipedia pages. Again, what is the big difference here? That potentially the children's list is opt-in (or allowed opt-out) but the "illegal/immoral" list isnt?
You guys have some serious problems there. Right now you're making the US look like the most liberal EU state and, honestly, that's difficult to do.
>At the end of the day, we are still a very robust democracy, populated mostly by mostly secular, level-headed people.
Wrong again. 62% of your are begging for the filter:
You're mostly pro-censorship conservatives. Heck, your liberals aren't even against the filter as much as pointing out that its difficult to get right.
>The amount of taxpayer money involved in having a court enter a default judgment is effectively zero.
Are you kidding. Just an hour of the courts time (the court employees, minions, infrastructure, salary, benefits, pensions, etc) and an hour of labor from dozens of people. An hour of one court room is probably a real dollar amount of more than the damn settlement. This is frivolous. This is costly to tax payers. Lets at least accept the real costs here, regardless of the merits or outcomes of the case.
Its job at work is to play Blurays and other videos. So, yes, its perfectly appropriate. Not to mention youre comparing two different chip architectures. While I dont think the AMD is faster per clock, its still pretty darn fast for its job as a media PC.
So according to you capped data is an advantage? The option for flash is a disadvantage? Choice is a disadvantage? Lack of censorship in apps is a disadvantage? Only iphone UI is 'usable?'
I think we got us a real fanboy here.
Look at the Zino HD. We have three of these at work. The model with 4 gigs or RAM and a Bluray player is around the same price as the vanilla Mini. Apple still seems to have a 20% premium on price, not to mention the price of Apple care.
No, you can get the Zino HD, which is Dell's version of the mac mini. For about the same price as the vanilla Mac Mini you get 4gigs of RAM and a BluRay player. They even toss in a mouse and a keyboard.
>not like Android phones are any cheaper. the top of the line Droid and Evo's go for $199 with 8GB storage.
Well, what do you get for you money?
iphone: Capped data. Evo: Unlimited 3g and 4g
iphone: costly tethering Evo: Free USB tethering, again unlimited
iphone: walled garden Evo: open market, install apk files from anywhere
iphone: at&t 3g Evo: 4G
iphone: no flash Evo: HTC mobile flash, Froyo full flash in a couple months
So, are you willing to take all those downside for slightly cheaper flash memory? Your call.
Oh, its great when you have a solid 3G signal, but even in downtown Chicago that can be a problem. Toss in all the dropped calls and its really not as great as those links suggest. Essentially, those tests, if memory serves, are just data speed tests. I don't think they were done in random spots, but where 3G worked and where they had a solid signal.
I'm in a similar boat now with Sprint's 4G service. Spotty reception, but crazy speeds. I just rooted my EVO, enabled wireless tethering, and with one bar of 4G I got 2.3mbps. With 2-3bars I get 3-4mbps.
Right now saying "We're the best 3G" is a little like saying "We're the best horse and buggy company." When is LTE coming out? 2012? If you aren't doing 4G upgrades now then you've already falled behind.
Right, the laws of physics don't apply in Cupertino.
Last time I watched a video on my MBP, I nearly burnt off a layer of skin on my thigh and the fan noise was drowning out the dialogue.
La-dee-da! Aren't you Mr. Millionaire! I fill a mug with my fresh warm urine in the morning and go through Starbucks dumpsters looking for used tea bags and yesterday's lemons!
Look at the "How Natal Works" articles. The tracking is excellent. Its tight enough to have you manipulate desktop items in this fashion. You'd have constant feedback because you would see the cursor move on the screen. You would drag that item into the trash. This is really a non-issue.
>No one likes to be the guy with an out-of-date system not getting the full experience of the game.
The difference between playing a game on medium settings vs high are trivial, yet a system that can handle high costs twice as much. If you shoot for the bang-for-the-buck magic middle, you'll find that PC gaming is affordable. I get the full experience with my $100 video card and frankenputer, thank you very much.
Well put. I pretty excited by the possibilities of this technology. The idea of having a "Minority Report" type interface is pretty cool. I'm not so jazzed about the games but of how this could be a new interface. I'm sick of mice and keyboards. I almost never type on my android phone. I just use speech to text. I hate having to pull out a giant keyboard to type things into my HTPC. I hate having to find a surface for the wireless mouse, replace batteries, etc. I hate playing the occasional console game and having to learn what the 20 or so buttons on the controller do.
A camera-based interface done well could revolutionize how we interface with all sorts of technologies, not just games. Sony tried it in the PS2 days and now MS is trying it. Hopefully, they'll get it right. We shouldn't need input devices for what are essentially trivial inputs.
Again, spoken language and writing are two very different things.
Speaking and reading are two very different things. The GP is right. We are made for fucking and fighting and little else.
>which adapts naturally to written language and symbolic computation.
There's nothing natural about reading and writing. Its a technology. Writing is very much a recent invention. Your generous use of the use "naturally" is far from convincing.
>What literate person today could even dream of carrying out such immense tasks of memorization?
Memorization is just a technology, nothing more. You don't farm your own food anymore, do you? Are you going to lament not doing 16 hours of back breaking labor everyday? Of course not. Then don't do it with mass memorization, which is actually very difficult mentally.
Private ownership of computers and cell phones are of course banned, but the state run business can get these things. Only high level party and military members are allowed things like phones or PCs.