Vietnam has a population of over 90 million, making it the 13th most populous country in the world. While I agree India is the most important factor here after China, I don't think it makes sense to call Vietnam a small country.
Incompetent people use tech support far more than other people. The sample is so biased it tells you virtually nothing about the computer skills of the population at large.
I'm not American, and I like toilet humour as much as anyone, but that shit-flinging trailer was painfully unfunny. And that what the put in a trailer. I hate to think how bad the rest of it is.
A: It gives Apple more control over your media than they do already. You give up more freedom and thank Apple for taking it from you because they make life easier once you agree to their control. In short, iCloud takes your freedom and makes you like it.
Closed, walled-gardens are the wave of the future. DRM is trendy and cool. Freedom and openess are for losers. You want to be cool don't you?
They are plugging obvious gaps in their vertically integrated user experience. They do this because 1) they like making stuff they like, and 2) because they make shitloads of money doing it. Yes, they like control of the user experience -- this is a result of motive number 1. Like most people that feel they have a creative stake in something. It's not any more mysterious or nefarious than that.
You may disagree with them, or think that their actions are harmful, but for the love of jesus christ on a pogo stick, try to understand what is actually going on.
While I agree in this instance (JPEG will remain dominant), I'm not sure about your other examples. The vast majority of my music is now in AAC, and while this certainly isn't true of everyone, ~70% of digital sales being in ACC is going to make a dent! MPEG2 is effectively dead as a web format, nearly all video is in h.264 now (including Flash video).
Problem of induction aside, all the current evidence suggests such events are physically impossible, so I would say all the evidence suggests that tomorrow isn't the rapture.
Same with GIMP, how you can name a free 'clone' of photoshop after what Wikipedia calls "a type of sexual submissive in BDSM who may wear a bondage suit" and expect to be taken seriously I don't know (although I used the early versions and it did feel like I was being treated like one). But it's big enough now that people don't care.
No, I think GIMP is still one of the stupidest of these naming blunders. Maybe you're used to it, but I don't think it's so ubiquitous no one notices.
Business class, which is almost as comfortable but typically doesn't have the fully horizontal sleeping position, can be as little as £200 more than economy for a transatlantic flight. For a company, their employee being able to work on that 7 hour flight is easily worth £200. For a holiday traveller, it probably isn't.
Of course, business class tickets are generally closer to 2.5-3 times the price of economy. I just checked, and I can get a return from London to New York for £370 economy, but the cheapest business class ticket is £1007. I'm not sure I could ever justify the price difference.
Yeah, you need to find a different example, because the healthcare one is political dynamite (in America anyway), and doesn't speak to the issue of basic rights very well in any case.
Yes the fundamentals are different--that's what I'm saying. You can't take away a basic right just because you think it might be better for everyone. To counter your example, it simply isn't a basic right to dig your room in the bottom of a ship. I see no reason why it should be.
You have to convince me that your fundamentals are better than mine, not just say "this is a cultural difference". I won't accept that, because I see it as immoral to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses in the Middle East (and elsewhere, including the west, don't get me wrong on this).
I don't know what gave you idea that I think healthcare is a right. I think it's a good thing to provide to everyone, so I support it politically, but it's not a human right like basic freedoms are.
You are making a fundamental mistake in your assumptions about the arguments of liberalism here. It doesn't matter if 99% of people support something, that doesn't trump the rights of the 1%. This stems from the insight that individuals are the entities that possess rights, not groups. This is a fundamental part of enlightenment thinking, and one of the cornerstones of liberal democracies.
The cultural difference is an argument from group rights, which shouldn't be accepted by any liberal thinker (I will admit that this point isn't grasped by a lot of people). Therefore, you have to establish that groups have rights before we'll take any sort of majority trumping of individual rights.
This is why cultural difference arguments will not be heeded by liberal thinkers. We will continue to stand up for individual rights of people in counties that oppress them, no matter how big the majority is against them.
Because SLCs survive for two orders of magnitude more writes than MLCs.
I don't work with this sort of stuff, but does that matter? If MLCs have other advantages, then what the problem with chucking them out and replacing them when they wear out?
Err, this nuclear plant was built in an area where a 9.0 earthquake was a strong possibility. Failing to withstand a disaster everyone knew was coming amounts to poor design in my opinion.
Dude, acting effeminate, loving musicals, having a house with incredible interior design and going antiquing are not being gay. Loving the cock and not the vagina is. So why should the guy change his personality just because he managed to change his sexual preferences? (And just to be clear, I don't think for a second that he did manage that.) You're being bigoted.
I dunno, I suck at maths, but I can write functional programs, the level of abstract thought required for basic programming doesn't seem to me to be out of most people's grasp (although it get rapidly harder the more complex the task, and OO programming is quite abstract). I agree most people don't have the patience to learn the basics, but then, why should they? The probability of them being able to apply that to anything they care about is approximately 0.
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No, it is gamed. Different things.
Vietnam has a population of over 90 million, making it the 13th most populous country in the world. While I agree India is the most important factor here after China, I don't think it makes sense to call Vietnam a small country.
Incompetent people use tech support far more than other people. The sample is so biased it tells you virtually nothing about the computer skills of the population at large.
Without respect, that is indeed horse-shit. Have you ever travelled outside the US?
I'm not American, and I like toilet humour as much as anyone, but that shit-flinging trailer was painfully unfunny. And that what the put in a trailer. I hate to think how bad the rest of it is.
Yeah! And congregating in public too! It spreads disease, totally irresponsible. Kissing and handshaking have to go too.
A: It gives Apple more control over your media than they do already. You give up more freedom and thank Apple for taking it from you because they make life easier once you agree to their control. In short, iCloud takes your freedom and makes you like it.
Closed, walled-gardens are the wave of the future. DRM is trendy and cool. Freedom and openess are for losers. You want to be cool don't you?
How can Slashdotters get this so damn wrong all the time? Apple DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MEDIA. Hell, I doubt they care about software profits. I'm sure they they would give it away for free to sell more hardware.
They are plugging obvious gaps in their vertically integrated user experience. They do this because 1) they like making stuff they like, and 2) because they make shitloads of money doing it. Yes, they like control of the user experience -- this is a result of motive number 1. Like most people that feel they have a creative stake in something. It's not any more mysterious or nefarious than that.
You may disagree with them, or think that their actions are harmful, but for the love of jesus christ on a pogo stick, try to understand what is actually going on.
Whoosh! The commas give the cadence of the song "What the World Needs Now".
While I agree in this instance (JPEG will remain dominant), I'm not sure about your other examples. The vast majority of my music is now in AAC, and while this certainly isn't true of everyone, ~70% of digital sales being in ACC is going to make a dent! MPEG2 is effectively dead as a web format, nearly all video is in h.264 now (including Flash video).
Problem of induction aside, all the current evidence suggests such events are physically impossible, so I would say all the evidence suggests that tomorrow isn't the rapture.
Awesome. Nice metaphor, shame I have no mod points.
Same with GIMP, how you can name a free 'clone' of photoshop after what Wikipedia calls "a type of sexual submissive in BDSM who may wear a bondage suit" and expect to be taken seriously I don't know (although I used the early versions and it did feel like I was being treated like one). But it's big enough now that people don't care.
No, I think GIMP is still one of the stupidest of these naming blunders. Maybe you're used to it, but I don't think it's so ubiquitous no one notices.
Of course, you could "communicate around the world in real time" in 1980 as well...
Business class, which is almost as comfortable but typically doesn't have the fully horizontal sleeping position, can be as little as £200 more than economy for a transatlantic flight. For a company, their employee being able to work on that 7 hour flight is easily worth £200. For a holiday traveller, it probably isn't.
Of course, business class tickets are generally closer to 2.5-3 times the price of economy. I just checked, and I can get a return from London to New York for £370 economy, but the cheapest business class ticket is £1007. I'm not sure I could ever justify the price difference.
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Yeah, you need to find a different example, because the healthcare one is political dynamite (in America anyway), and doesn't speak to the issue of basic rights very well in any case.
Yes the fundamentals are different--that's what I'm saying. You can't take away a basic right just because you think it might be better for everyone. To counter your example, it simply isn't a basic right to dig your room in the bottom of a ship. I see no reason why it should be.
You have to convince me that your fundamentals are better than mine, not just say "this is a cultural difference". I won't accept that, because I see it as immoral to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses in the Middle East (and elsewhere, including the west, don't get me wrong on this).
I don't know what gave you idea that I think healthcare is a right. I think it's a good thing to provide to everyone, so I support it politically, but it's not a human right like basic freedoms are.
To be honest, I'm not sure what you're arguing.
You are making a fundamental mistake in your assumptions about the arguments of liberalism here. It doesn't matter if 99% of people support something, that doesn't trump the rights of the 1%. This stems from the insight that individuals are the entities that possess rights, not groups. This is a fundamental part of enlightenment thinking, and one of the cornerstones of liberal democracies.
The cultural difference is an argument from group rights, which shouldn't be accepted by any liberal thinker (I will admit that this point isn't grasped by a lot of people). Therefore, you have to establish that groups have rights before we'll take any sort of majority trumping of individual rights.
This is why cultural difference arguments will not be heeded by liberal thinkers. We will continue to stand up for individual rights of people in counties that oppress them, no matter how big the majority is against them.
Because SLCs survive for two orders of magnitude more writes than MLCs.
I don't work with this sort of stuff, but does that matter? If MLCs have other advantages, then what the problem with chucking them out and replacing them when they wear out?
Err, this nuclear plant was built in an area where a 9.0 earthquake was a strong possibility. Failing to withstand a disaster everyone knew was coming amounts to poor design in my opinion.
You just accused me of saying the exact opposite of what I said. Good job.
Dude, acting effeminate, loving musicals, having a house with incredible interior design and going antiquing are not being gay. Loving the cock and not the vagina is. So why should the guy change his personality just because he managed to change his sexual preferences? (And just to be clear, I don't think for a second that he did manage that.) You're being bigoted.
I dunno, I suck at maths, but I can write functional programs, the level of abstract thought required for basic programming doesn't seem to me to be out of most people's grasp (although it get rapidly harder the more complex the task, and OO programming is quite abstract). I agree most people don't have the patience to learn the basics, but then, why should they? The probability of them being able to apply that to anything they care about is approximately 0.
Big pharma would lose TONS if marihuana were accessible.
Err, dude, big pharma would make an absolute killing if these sorts of recreational drugs were legal. Who do you think would be making them?