What really sickens me is Opera gets almost half the settlement that Be, Inc. got (about $25 million).
Now compare the two offenses. Screwing up a few Microsoft webpages for Opera users, vs. destroying a company with anti-trust tactics, such as squashing deals between Be and other OEM's (see: Hitachi)... Christ I could go on, but it's too depressing. Long live MacOS and PalmOS NG.
Secondly, there is far more Windows-compatible hardware out there, far more manufacturers trying to sell Windows PC's, etc. Most crashing issues nowadays are related to hardware problems. And most of the time these do not lead to BSOD, but are caught within Windows and you can keep going.
Third, you're comparing your anecdotes of Linux users to anecdotes of Windows users. Windows has 95% of the market, of course there will be more people crashing than with Linux. But show me the percentage of people running Linux that have crashing issues, and compare that to the percentage of modern Windows users that have crashing problems.
I think Linux advocates need to drop the "Windows crashes way more than Linux" point and move on, because it doesn't.
Look at how people react to invasions of privacy by the government ("It's for our protection!")
Who is 'they'? I know no one that would react to an honest-to-god "invasion of privacy by the government" in the manner you describe. So either you made up this reaction, or what you consider an invasion of privacy differs from most.
and by companies ("Hey, if I use this card who cares if they track my purchases, I saved $2!"). They just don't give a damn!
OK, I see it was the latter... you just have a different definition of "invasion of privacy."
If a company wants to offer someone discounts in exchange for tracking what groceries they buy, that is not an invasion of privacy, that is a business arrangement. Therefore I am not going to dismiss those people as "not giving a damn." They do give a damn -- they value discounts over the privacy of their grocery purchases.
Perhaps they, like I, don't give a shit if the local grocer knows that someone at my address buys cereal and milk twice a month.
If the tinfoil crowd would save their privacy rage for things that actually matter (such as financial institutions sharing your information), then maybe some of the boneheaded companies would Do The Right Thing.
As it is, there are plenty of American companies out there that are good citizens. However, the tinfoil crowd, and the Candians, are not going to focus on them because it doesn't sell papers.
Most the article is discussing issues not even raised on the page I linked. He only addresses two issues from that page, near the end of the article.
The first is regarding the Heston/NRA speech in Colorado after columbine. I have tried to see it from his perspective has described here, but I just can't. He claims "Far from deliberately editing the film to make Heston look worse, I chose to leave most of this out and not make Heston look as evil as he actually was."
How can he think anyone that can think critically will buy this explanation?
View the speech as presented by Moore in the movie, and then read the actual speech. He's as creative as a plastic surgeon, nipping and tucking, here and there, until all meaning is replaced with Moore's agenda.
He left out the opening of his speech which explains that the NRA meeting was shortened, festivities cancelled, out of respect. Heston said, "As you know, we've canceled the festivities and fellowship we normally enjoy at our annual gatherings. This decision has perplexed a few and inconvenienced thousands. I apologize for that. But it's fitting and proper that we should do this... because NRA members are, above all, Americans. That means whatever our differences, we are respectful of one another and we stand united, especially in adversity."
FYI, the NRA is required to hold an annual meeting, and it was decided it would be held in that location long before Columbine happened. Moore cut out this part of the speech, did not bother informing anyone of the logistics ore requirements of the NRA annual meeting, presented it almost as if the NRA decided to come there and have this fire-breathing meeting in order to piss off Columbine mourners. Moore also started out this section of film with a snippet from a speech that happened long ago, far away. The "cold, dead hands" outtake. Incidentally, that was not a fire-breathing speech about gun rights, but was Heston saying thanks for the antique, collectable gun that was just presented to him.
Anyway, the extend of this colorful editing job by Moore is covered very well in the link I provided above, and you can verify everything for yourself.
He then goes on to address the statistics game, but I don't hold much stock in the statistics presented by anyone, including Moore and the guy that wrote the page on hardylaw.net.
I did enjoy, near the end of this article, where Moore states, "I can guarantee to you, without equivocation, that every fact in my movie is true."
A mere three paragraphs later, he then states:
Actually, I have found one typo in the theatrical release of the film. It was a caption that read, "Willie Horton released by Dukakis and kills again." In fact, Willie Horton was a convicted murderer who, after escaping from furlough, raped a woman and stabbed her fiancé, but didn't kill him. The caption has been permanently corrected on the DVD and home video version of the film and replaced with, "Willie Horton released. Then rapes a woman." My apologies to Willie Horton and the Horton family for implying he is a double-murderer when he is only a single-murderer/rapist. And my apologies to the late Lee Atwater who, on his deathbed, apologized for having engineered the smear campaign against Dukakis (but correctly identified Mr. Horton as a single-murderer!).
Well, at least he can admit when he's wrong... uhh.
Traces of sarin were found but it was in such small amounts that it is likely that the bombers themselves didn't even know sarin was present.
Actually, the bomb was filled with almost ONE GALLON of Sarin chemicals. The only reason it didn't kill people was because it was not exploded properly, as you said, the bombers likely did not know they had a shell of Sarin.
To me that makes it MORE of a story, not less of one. Think about it -- these guys are grabbing shells laying around somewhere to use as improvised explosive devices (IEDs). One of the shells is filled with a gallon of Sarin chemicals.
Do you think that is the only Sarin shell in Iraq?
And CNN did not feel this story was newsworthy? They also found mustard gas in Iraq 10 days earlier. Also not mentioned on CNN.
You hear people complaining: What about sitting down watching Fox News (and tape it), then suppliment your news coverage with other sources. Then go back to your tape of Fox News and see how biased they are.
I've read all the news sites, including Fox News. I haven't seen bias in fox's articles that I've read, but I have seen bias in what CNN decides to cover.
The people complaining about Fox News are the kind of people that reads newspapers, follows the news on multiple channels and have a genrally good political overview.
No, the people that complain about fox news are liberals, plain and simple. If the news doesn't lean to the left, they see it as being biased. Central is not biased.
Not that Fox News are bad, but they are entertainment
Perhaps you are confusing fox news with the commentators that appear on the channel, like Bill O'Reilly. No one considers those people "news" people. Just like turning on CNN and watching their liberal commentators.
Even though I feel CNN is slanted to the left, I normally read CNN.com. However, with all the jokes pouring in about FOX News, I decided to start reading their news articles. I have yet to find a news article or see a news cast from them that appears biased. Can you please locate a biased news article and point it out to me?
They have biased commentary shows on FOX, no question. The no-spin-zone my ass. But all the NEWS I have seen and read from them has been spot on.
Now let's talk about bias. When the story broke about the bomb going off that was hooked up to a sarin gas shell (Sarin is a nerve agent, a weapon of mass destruction), for that day and the next, you could find no news story on CNN.com about it. Not one. It was covered on FOX News and MSNBC's websites. Nothing on cnn.com. On the third day, I did manage to find an article that was discussing something else about the war, and at the bottom it mentioned the sarin bomb found.
Are you kidding me? Re-read his speech to the academy given when he was presented with the Oscar in the DOCUMENTARY category. He attempts to blister the president over "fiction," when the movie he's accepting the award for is filled with the same, presented as fact.
I agree. I don't think we'll see much more (successful) convergence until there is a paradigm shift in user interfaces.
I'm thinking along the lines of having a 'convergent device' in my pocket (no, I'm not just happy to see you), with wireless technology feeding images to me through glasses or similar technology, with voice recognition, hand gesture recognition, etc (perhaps built into the glasses).
"Search engine. How do I get to Target from here?"
[Device looks up mapquest directions, map displays on HUD w/directions]
"Phone. Call Dave Jones."
[Phone dials, microphone and earphones are built into your glasses.]
"Calendar. Remind me. December 7, 1941 12PM. A date that will live in something something..."
[Calendar alarm is added to your schedule.]
"Take a memo. Subject: Convergent devices. Here are some more ideas for convergent device user interfaces..."
[New memo is created.]
"Camera. Pic."
[Camera built into glasses takes a picture.]
"Music. Shuffle. Dave Matthews Band."
[Device starts playing music, channeled to your earphones built into the glasses.]
Only problem with this thing is everyone will be wearing glasses. It's either that or implants.
which is good because starbucks coffee is really gross! burnt to a crisp before brewing, yuck!
My dad (coffee connoisseur) always complains about their "burnt coffee," and I always thought he was just trying to describe the flavor... then I bought a bag of starbucks dark roast whole bean.
No joke, that shit (or rather, those beans) are BURNT. They were also incredibly oily. Perhaps as a side effect of being burnt (fried?:)
(and they make their employees work when sick. super)
I'm afraid they don't make their employees do anything; they choose to work at Starbucks.
However, if they don't encourage their sick employees to stay home from work, that would be rather gross.
Personally I'll stick to my Dunkin' Donuts fresh ground coffee brewed in a french press (freedom press?).
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While reading comments here, just keep in mind Slashdot is owned and paid by OSDN / VA Software (aka VA Linux).
Shit... I'm not in stucco now, but I'm having a home built. Guess what the facade is made of!!! :-(
I have the same exact problem, with Sprint PCS in a medium-sized city in Florida.
I have to walk outside my house to get a decent connection, and anywhere else in the city the phone seems to work great. Bizarre.
What really sickens me is Opera gets almost half the settlement that Be, Inc. got (about $25 million).
Now compare the two offenses. Screwing up a few Microsoft webpages for Opera users, vs. destroying a company with anti-trust tactics, such as squashing deals between Be and other OEM's (see: Hitachi)... Christ I could go on, but it's too depressing. Long live MacOS and PalmOS NG.
First off the plural of anecdote is not 'data'.
Secondly, there is far more Windows-compatible hardware out there, far more manufacturers trying to sell Windows PC's, etc. Most crashing issues nowadays are related to hardware problems. And most of the time these do not lead to BSOD, but are caught within Windows and you can keep going.
Third, you're comparing your anecdotes of Linux users to anecdotes of Windows users. Windows has 95% of the market, of course there will be more people crashing than with Linux. But show me the percentage of people running Linux that have crashing issues, and compare that to the percentage of modern Windows users that have crashing problems.
I think Linux advocates need to drop the "Windows crashes way more than Linux" point and move on, because it doesn't.
Perhaps Microsoft should form a group of people to work on changes necessary to Windows to get it to run on HPC?
Oh, right... that's what this fucking slashdot article is about.
Look at how people react to invasions of privacy by the government ("It's for our protection!")
Who is 'they'? I know no one that would react to an honest-to-god "invasion of privacy by the government" in the manner you describe. So either you made up this reaction, or what you consider an invasion of privacy differs from most.
and by companies ("Hey, if I use this card who cares if they track my purchases, I saved $2!"). They just don't give a damn!
OK, I see it was the latter... you just have a different definition of "invasion of privacy."
If a company wants to offer someone discounts in exchange for tracking what groceries they buy, that is not an invasion of privacy, that is a business arrangement. Therefore I am not going to dismiss those people as "not giving a damn." They do give a damn -- they value discounts over the privacy of their grocery purchases.
Perhaps they, like I, don't give a shit if the local grocer knows that someone at my address buys cereal and milk twice a month.
If the tinfoil crowd would save their privacy rage for things that actually matter (such as financial institutions sharing your information), then maybe some of the boneheaded companies would Do The Right Thing.
As it is, there are plenty of American companies out there that are good citizens. However, the tinfoil crowd, and the Candians, are not going to focus on them because it doesn't sell papers.
you only filled the tank to the "first click."
You should never fill your car past the 'first click.'
Most the article is discussing issues not even raised on the page I linked. He only addresses two issues from that page, near the end of the article.
The first is regarding the Heston/NRA speech in Colorado after columbine. I have tried to see it from his perspective has described here, but I just can't. He claims "Far from deliberately editing the film to make Heston look worse, I chose to leave most of this out and not make Heston look as evil as he actually was."
How can he think anyone that can think critically will buy this explanation?
View the speech as presented by Moore in the movie, and then read the actual speech. He's as creative as a plastic surgeon, nipping and tucking, here and there, until all meaning is replaced with Moore's agenda.
He left out the opening of his speech which explains that the NRA meeting was shortened, festivities cancelled, out of respect. Heston said, "As you know, we've canceled the festivities and fellowship we normally enjoy at our annual gatherings. This decision has perplexed a few and inconvenienced thousands. I apologize for that. But it's fitting and proper that we should do this
FYI, the NRA is required to hold an annual meeting, and it was decided it would be held in that location long before Columbine happened. Moore cut out this part of the speech, did not bother informing anyone of the logistics ore requirements of the NRA annual meeting, presented it almost as if the NRA decided to come there and have this fire-breathing meeting in order to piss off Columbine mourners. Moore also started out this section of film with a snippet from a speech that happened long ago, far away. The "cold, dead hands" outtake. Incidentally, that was not a fire-breathing speech about gun rights, but was Heston saying thanks for the antique, collectable gun that was just presented to him.
Anyway, the extend of this colorful editing job by Moore is covered very well in the link I provided above, and you can verify everything for yourself.
He then goes on to address the statistics game, but I don't hold much stock in the statistics presented by anyone, including Moore and the guy that wrote the page on hardylaw.net.
I did enjoy, near the end of this article, where Moore states, "I can guarantee to you, without equivocation, that every fact in my movie is true."
A mere three paragraphs later, he then states:
Well, at least he can admit when he's wrong... uhh.
Traces of sarin were found but it was in such small amounts that it is likely that the bombers themselves didn't even know sarin was present.
Actually, the bomb was filled with almost ONE GALLON of Sarin chemicals. The only reason it didn't kill people was because it was not exploded properly, as you said, the bombers likely did not know they had a shell of Sarin.
To me that makes it MORE of a story, not less of one. Think about it -- these guys are grabbing shells laying around somewhere to use as improvised explosive devices (IEDs). One of the shells is filled with a gallon of Sarin chemicals.
Do you think that is the only Sarin shell in Iraq?
And CNN did not feel this story was newsworthy? They also found mustard gas in Iraq 10 days earlier. Also not mentioned on CNN.
You hear people complaining: What about sitting down watching Fox News (and tape it), then suppliment your news coverage with other sources. Then go back to your tape of Fox News and see how biased they are.
I've read all the news sites, including Fox News. I haven't seen bias in fox's articles that I've read, but I have seen bias in what CNN decides to cover.
The people complaining about Fox News are the kind of people that reads newspapers, follows the news on multiple channels and have a genrally good political overview.
No, the people that complain about fox news are liberals, plain and simple. If the news doesn't lean to the left, they see it as being biased. Central is not biased.
Not that Fox News are bad, but they are entertainment
Perhaps you are confusing fox news with the commentators that appear on the channel, like Bill O'Reilly. No one considers those people "news" people. Just like turning on CNN and watching their liberal commentators.
FOX News is a favorite target of liberals.
Even though I feel CNN is slanted to the left, I normally read CNN.com. However, with all the jokes pouring in about FOX News, I decided to start reading their news articles. I have yet to find a news article or see a news cast from them that appears biased. Can you please locate a biased news article and point it out to me?
They have biased commentary shows on FOX, no question. The no-spin-zone my ass. But all the NEWS I have seen and read from them has been spot on.
Now let's talk about bias. When the story broke about the bomb going off that was hooked up to a sarin gas shell (Sarin is a nerve agent, a weapon of mass destruction), for that day and the next, you could find no news story on CNN.com about it. Not one. It was covered on FOX News and MSNBC's websites. Nothing on cnn.com. On the third day, I did manage to find an article that was discussing something else about the war, and at the bottom it mentioned the sarin bomb found.
I wonder why that is.
Here you go (again):
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
He does?
Here's a quote from his website:
"Fahrenheit 9/11 is the first documentary to win the Palme since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 1956."
Hmmm... next.
You have never, ever seen an 'objective' documentary that wasn't trying to inform you of some plight, or problem, or point of view. Ever.
Ummm, that's complete bullshit.
A real documentary is supposed to DOCUMENT something. In fact, here's the definition from dictionary.com:
Documentary: "Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter."
I have seen PLENTY of real documentaries. Turn to the discovery channel or PBS and you're likely to find one right now.
Are you kidding me? Re-read his speech to the academy given when he was presented with the Oscar in the DOCUMENTARY category. He attempts to blister the president over "fiction," when the movie he's accepting the award for is filled with the same, presented as fact.
Is it a "documentary" like Bowling for Columbine?
His movies would be more credible if he didn't try to present them as documentaries. They're not documentaries. They're commentaries.
Nothing wrong with that at all, but let's just be clear about it. Up front.
"I know all those words, but that sign still doesn't make any sense."
The problem is with over SpamCOP's public claim that Richter sends e-mails to people who have never opted-in.
Where is this public claim, I would like to read it.
Hmmm, nope, sorry, doesn't apply to me.
However, I am ignorant of common Chinese names, and so used chingchong as I would johnsmith@whatever.com, jose@whatever.es, pierre@whatever.fr, etc.
Turn the P.C. blinders off please.
I agree. I don't think we'll see much more (successful) convergence until there is a paradigm shift in user interfaces.
I'm thinking along the lines of having a 'convergent device' in my pocket (no, I'm not just happy to see you), with wireless technology feeding images to me through glasses or similar technology, with voice recognition, hand gesture recognition, etc (perhaps built into the glasses).
"Search engine. How do I get to Target from here?"
[Device looks up mapquest directions, map displays on HUD w/directions]
"Phone. Call Dave Jones."
[Phone dials, microphone and earphones are built into your glasses.]
"Calendar. Remind me. December 7, 1941 12PM. A date that will live in something something..."
[Calendar alarm is added to your schedule.]
"Take a memo. Subject: Convergent devices. Here are some more ideas for convergent device user interfaces..."
[New memo is created.]
"Camera. Pic."
[Camera built into glasses takes a picture.]
"Music. Shuffle. Dave Matthews Band."
[Device starts playing music, channeled to your earphones built into the glasses.]
Only problem with this thing is everyone will be wearing glasses. It's either that or implants.
Get yourself a spamcop account. Then go into the filters and "block China (the country)."
Some other spam haven countries are listed as well.
They are using cn.rbl.cluecentral.net for this purpose...
I have never seen a single spam email with chinese letters..why?
Because the spam you receive is targetted at countries and people that speak english?
I bet chingchong@whatever.cn gets spam with chinese characters...
yeesh
Allow me to sum up:
"Place yourself under the ball."
which is good because starbucks coffee is really gross! burnt to a crisp before brewing, yuck!
:)
My dad (coffee connoisseur) always complains about their "burnt coffee," and I always thought he was just trying to describe the flavor... then I bought a bag of starbucks dark roast whole bean.
No joke, that shit (or rather, those beans) are BURNT. They were also incredibly oily. Perhaps as a side effect of being burnt (fried?
(and they make their employees work when sick. super)
I'm afraid they don't make their employees do anything; they choose to work at Starbucks.
However, if they don't encourage their sick employees to stay home from work, that would be rather gross.
Personally I'll stick to my Dunkin' Donuts fresh ground coffee brewed in a french press (freedom press?).