This is nasty. You can always tell when there are no reasons that would fly with the public when they have to invoke the paedophiles. US government has War on Terror, the UK has paedophiles.
E-mail was a god-send for the intelligence services. Automated scanning and copies of everything to look back on if they ever chose. Encryption means the free party is coming to an end. GPG is turning off the stereo and saying "GO HOME!"
They managed without it before. They can manage without it again. And if that means the Government can't achieve omniscience over the population... good!
No, I mean allowed by the fans. Typically, if its 2+ years old, its viewed as, well, old.
You speak with great authority. I can only speak for myself and those I know with certainty, but I like older music as well as newly released music. Given our respective musical tastes, I think I'd have a better handle on the scene that you do. You seem to be implying that those who like hip-hop are only doing so because when it is new. I'd like a little more credit here, please.
I'll say one thing though. If people who enjoy hip-hop do listen to a lot more modern music than they do the older stuff (and consistant high sales of Tupak et al suggest otherwise), then you should also consider that a lot more high-quality hip-hop is coming out than there is high-quality rock, classical or gregorian chanting. We're spoilt for choice, is all.
Now as you like classical, may I point you in the direction of this gentleman, who I consider to be highly talented and I am going through a phase of listening to his work a lot. Alas, he is new and therefore unlikely to achieve lasting popularity. Classical music is fixed in the minds of many as Mozart, Beethoven and the rest of the club. By your criteria therefore, he'd not be considered "quality music." I think you'll agree this is not the case, however.
And if you like his work despite it being new, I'd like you to get hold of this which I hope you will like despite it being old. Also available on iTunes. I particularly recommend Favourite Things from Nu Flow, but it's all good.
Hip-hop is not really music. Its bubblegum or wallpaper for the ears, and its spit out and pealed off of the wall when done.
Well congratulations on being able to define exactly what is and isn't music. Rock music (your preference) was once condemned as nothing but noise. Jazz was derided before that. I like a lot of rock music. I also like hip-hop and other genres. I think you have proved my point with this. I said that if you limit your definition of music to a particular style then you will inevitably think that standards are declining. That is because there is only so much you can do in a particular ruleset (genre) before it becomes derivative and self-referential. Music grows and changes and will continue to do so.
Besides "Baby's got back", name me one hip-hop song that is allowed to be played after 2-5 years.
Allowed to be played? As in by the same stations that are frantically trying to sell whatever latest artist the big labels have signed? I often listen to music older than a couple of years, its quality has nothing to do with the radio play-list.
I do not see there ever being any parallel to classical, baroque, or classic rock kind of rap channels in the future.
But then you detest the music, so you wouldn't see it as likely. But as I and others get older and begin to fossilize, I dare say there will be a radio station that I can seek solace in with some classic Eminem and remind myself of "real music".
Quality is dropping... To me, rock music peaked in the 70s
Well you might be right there. But hip-hop was still on its way. Just observing that if you have a unvarying definition of "quality" then inevitably you would view standards as falling. I'm going to hazard a guess and peg your age as in your mid- to late- forties. How did I do ?
I wouldn't describe it as a difficult read at all. It certainly doesn't worry about excluding those with limited english skills or fifteen second attention spans, but difficult makes it sound as if you have to make an effort to read it. The opposite is true. Goes down like chocolate!
As to word games, the book is absolutely poetic! In the hands of someone else, the plot could still be compelling, but the atmosphere and the writing are pleasure in and of themself. If you don't appreciate a well-drawn atmosphere or descriptive passage, then no, you wont find the book 'easy'. But don't knock it until you've tried it. Three chapters in (the Canterbury scene) you'll know if it's good or not.
Thirded! Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a brilliant piece of work. The writing is great and surprisingly sinister. Felt a bit sorry for his wife, though.
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Typing with two fingers is simpler than trying to remember which of the "correct" fingers go on which keys. But take the time to learn it properly and you can type far faster than you ever did before, even if there's a temporary drop in speed while you learn.
It's the same with Vi. Even if you don't learn everything that it can do, the simple fact that I can do all the major operations without having to use a bloody mouse is a plus for a touch-typist like myself. Vi is very small, very quick and very powerful. The learning curve is worth it.
No they can't but when nearly everyone is guilty of something, then they can selectively enforce the laws on those they dislike. Cause enough trouble and the law will be enforced, just for you.
Best fight the new laws every which way you can. That said though, you do have a good point. A law is what certain people think. It isn't something you have to obey.
Have you ever seen Bulworth? It's a great old film I saw recently and the bad guys are not terrorists or gangsters etc. It's the insurers. Worth watching.
Amen to that. I tell people that all the time since coming back. There's something very wrong about bread you can leave out that long and it's still soft. Tastes wrong too - sort of sweet. And the cheese! When I found somewhere that imported actual cheddar cheese from Britain, I almost cried. And fat! Americans are obsessed with fat. The milk section in the supermarket was wall to wall skimmed milk, with a smaller section for the more daring americans that wanted to risk semi-skimmed and finally, buried down in a little corner, was the "full-fat" milk, though I don't think it was called that in the shop. I had several people look surprised when I drank that, as if I'd committed some moral sin.
A society of people that care for each other will be a better society than one with the attitude you profess. Better meaning a stronger society, a far more bearable society and a society in which intelligent people wish to remain, rather than go next door. You might wish to remain in a society in which your daughter was left to die in agony, but I would happily take my life and ability elsewhere. On the specifics of cancer, the burden of treating or looking after a sufferer is minimal when shared by society. The benefits to every individual in a society behaving in such a way outweigh the costs to such an individual.
Then drop your boss in it, if you're so inclined. They can be in a lot of trouble for this. If it's the sort of place where they ignore this law, then it's probably the sort of place where you can find another job that pays the same or better. And you'd be doing a favour for everyone you work with too.
It certainly beats the others that I've seen (and I've looked at all the winners plus more). It's friendly to the non-technical, points you in the right direction, and relatively non-irritating. It's also the most professionally done of the ones that I've seen. Fox Fever was kind of amusing and covered more technical details though. It also, if you think about it, drives home the name of the browser a lot more than the others. Have to give it to Smells Terrific though.
Good on them? Do I want free software building a corporate structure based on donations from private industries? Long term, I don't like the sound of that. You never get something for nothing.
You may not volunteer to be a martyr for a cause of justice, and then chicken out when you realize the consequences are real
You can run away from anything you like. Do you think Ghandi wanted to be locked up away from his wife and children? Do you think Martin Luther King wanted to be shot? I doubt very much that this person has blown the whistle out a desire to sacrifice his life for a noble cause - how perverse would that be? I suspect he's done this for the sole puprpose of preventing something very wrong.
In which case, why should he be punished for this?
Ah, thank-you very much! I'd never guessed that it was in Firefox itself. It seems that Mozilla builds default to pre-fetching whatever a website tells them to, and that Google tells it to pre-fetch the top link.
Seeing as I don't like my browser silently downloading websites that I may not have visited (let alone setting cookies), I've disabled this. For anyone who is interested, enter about:config in the address bar, and set network.prefetch-next to false.
Can someone explain to me what's happening with Google, then? I google for a term XYZ, and immediately Firefox informs me that XYZ.com wishes to set a cookie. I haven't gone to their site, yet, but Google is ready to set a cookie on their behalf? Or else Google is referring my browser somehow to that site.
This is new(ish). Anyone aware of it / explain, please?
Hmmm, interesting. That does seem a very close match. I've never used my Foe option before (preferring to do battle with those that try to criticise), but I think I've just found a use for it.
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They can have my keys when they pry them from my hot, fried hard-drive platters.
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This is nasty. You can always tell when there are no reasons that would fly with the public when they have to invoke the paedophiles. US government has War on Terror, the UK has paedophiles.
E-mail was a god-send for the intelligence services. Automated scanning and copies of everything to look back on if they ever chose. Encryption means the free party is coming to an end. GPG is turning off the stereo and saying "GO HOME!"
They managed without it before. They can manage without it again. And if that means the Government can't achieve omniscience over the population... good!
No, I mean allowed by the fans. Typically, if its 2+ years old, its viewed as, well, old.
You speak with great authority. I can only speak for myself and those I know with certainty, but I like older music as well as newly released music. Given our respective musical tastes, I think I'd have a better handle on the scene that you do. You seem to be implying that those who like hip-hop are only doing so because when it is new. I'd like a little more credit here, please.
I'll say one thing though. If people who enjoy hip-hop do listen to a lot more modern music than they do the older stuff (and consistant high sales of Tupak et al suggest otherwise), then you should also consider that a lot more high-quality hip-hop is coming out than there is high-quality rock, classical or gregorian chanting. We're spoilt for choice, is all.
Now as you like classical, may I point you in the direction of this gentleman, who I consider to be highly talented and I am going through a phase of listening to his work a lot. Alas, he is new and therefore unlikely to achieve lasting popularity. Classical music is fixed in the minds of many as Mozart, Beethoven and the rest of the club. By your criteria therefore, he'd not be considered "quality music." I think you'll agree this is not the case, however.
And if you like his work despite it being new, I'd like you to get hold of this which I hope you will like despite it being old. Also available on iTunes. I particularly recommend Favourite Things from Nu Flow, but it's all good.
Hip-hop is not really music. Its bubblegum or wallpaper for the ears, and its spit out and pealed off of the wall when done.
Well congratulations on being able to define exactly what is and isn't music. Rock music (your preference) was once condemned as nothing but noise. Jazz was derided before that. I like a lot of rock music. I also like hip-hop and other genres. I think you have proved my point with this. I said that if you limit your definition of music to a particular style then you will inevitably think that standards are declining. That is because there is only so much you can do in a particular ruleset (genre) before it becomes derivative and self-referential. Music grows and changes and will continue to do so.
Besides "Baby's got back", name me one hip-hop song that is allowed to be played after 2-5 years.
Allowed to be played? As in by the same stations that are frantically trying to sell whatever latest artist the big labels have signed? I often listen to music older than a couple of years, its quality has nothing to do with the radio play-list.
I do not see there ever being any parallel to classical, baroque, or classic rock kind of rap channels in the future.
But then you detest the music, so you wouldn't see it as likely. But as I and others get older and begin to fossilize, I dare say there will be a radio station that I can seek solace in with some classic Eminem and remind myself of "real music".
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Quality is dropping
Well you might be right there. But hip-hop was still on its way. Just observing that if you have a unvarying definition of "quality" then inevitably you would view standards as falling. I'm going to hazard a guess and peg your age as in your mid- to late- forties. How did I do ?
Of course complex language can be a pleasure in itself - read Finnegan's Wake or At Swim Two Birds.
But all this is academic where JS&N is concerned as the novel isn't difficult to read at all!
I wouldn't describe it as a difficult read at all. It certainly doesn't worry about excluding those with limited english skills or fifteen second attention spans, but difficult makes it sound as if you have to make an effort to read it. The opposite is true. Goes down like chocolate!
As to word games, the book is absolutely poetic! In the hands of someone else, the plot could still be compelling, but the atmosphere and the writing are pleasure in and of themself. If you don't appreciate a well-drawn atmosphere or descriptive passage, then no, you wont find the book 'easy'. But don't knock it until you've tried it. Three chapters in (the Canterbury scene) you'll know if it's good or not.
Thirded! Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a brilliant piece of work. The writing is great and surprisingly sinister. Felt a bit sorry for his wife, though.
Typing with two fingers is simpler than trying to remember which of the "correct" fingers go on which keys. But take the time to learn it properly and you can type far faster than you ever did before, even if there's a temporary drop in speed while you learn.
It's the same with Vi. Even if you don't learn everything that it can do, the simple fact that I can do all the major operations without having to use a bloody mouse is a plus for a touch-typist like myself. Vi is very small, very quick and very powerful. The learning curve is worth it.
No they can't but when nearly everyone is guilty of something, then they can selectively enforce the laws on those they dislike. Cause enough trouble and the law will be enforced, just for you.
Best fight the new laws every which way you can. That said though, you do have a good point. A law is what certain people think. It isn't something you have to obey.
Oh I know what that milk is now. In Britain we call it U.H.T. milk, but no-one drinks it because it tastes like shite.
Have you ever seen Bulworth? It's a great old film I saw recently and the bad guys are not terrorists or gangsters etc. It's the insurers. Worth watching.
Amen to that. I tell people that all the time since coming back. There's something very wrong about bread you can leave out that long and it's still soft. Tastes wrong too - sort of sweet. And the cheese! When I found somewhere that imported actual cheddar cheese from Britain, I almost cried. And fat! Americans are obsessed with fat. The milk section in the supermarket was wall to wall skimmed milk, with a smaller section for the more daring americans that wanted to risk semi-skimmed and finally, buried down in a little corner, was the "full-fat" milk, though I don't think it was called that in the shop. I had several people look surprised when I drank that, as if I'd committed some moral sin.
Strange place.
A society of people that care for each other will be a better society than one with the attitude you profess. Better meaning a stronger society, a far more bearable society and a society in which intelligent people wish to remain, rather than go next door. You might wish to remain in a society in which your daughter was left to die in agony, but I would happily take my life and ability elsewhere. On the specifics of cancer, the burden of treating or looking after a sufferer is minimal when shared by society. The benefits to every individual in a society behaving in such a way outweigh the costs to such an individual.
Then drop your boss in it, if you're so inclined. They can be in a lot of trouble for this. If it's the sort of place where they ignore this law, then it's probably the sort of place where you can find another job that pays the same or better. And you'd be doing a favour for everyone you work with too.
Yeah but don't worry - did MSNBC just report that Macs were gaining market share? Whoops.
It certainly beats the others that I've seen (and I've looked at all the winners plus more). It's friendly to the non-technical, points you in the right direction, and relatively non-irritating. It's also the most professionally done of the ones that I've seen. Fox Fever was kind of amusing and covered more technical details though. It also, if you think about it, drives home the name of the browser a lot more than the others. Have to give it to Smells Terrific though.
Well if you were heading East really really fast?
h4rm0ny, these would be more familiar to you as "m00" and "B44", as said by 1337 c0w5 and 5h33p.
Thnx.
What is a "barnyard epithet" ?
Good on them? Do I want free software building a corporate structure based on donations from private industries? Long term, I don't like the sound of that. You never get something for nothing.
You may not volunteer to be a martyr for a cause of justice, and then chicken out when you realize the consequences are real
You can run away from anything you like. Do you think Ghandi wanted to be locked up away from his wife and children? Do you think Martin Luther King wanted to be shot? I doubt very much that this person has blown the whistle out a desire to sacrifice his life for a noble cause - how perverse would that be? I suspect he's done this for the sole puprpose of preventing something very wrong.
In which case, why should he be punished for this?
Ah, thank-you very much! I'd never guessed that it was in Firefox itself. It seems that Mozilla builds default to pre-fetching whatever a website tells them to, and that Google tells it to pre-fetch the top link.
Seeing as I don't like my browser silently downloading websites that I may not have visited (let alone setting cookies), I've disabled this. For anyone who is interested, enter about:config in the address bar, and set network.prefetch-next to false.
Can someone explain to me what's happening with Google, then? I google for a term XYZ, and immediately Firefox informs me that XYZ.com wishes to set a cookie. I haven't gone to their site, yet, but Google is ready to set a cookie on their behalf? Or else Google is referring my browser somehow to that site.
This is new(ish). Anyone aware of it / explain, please?
Hmmm, interesting. That does seem a very close match. I've never used my Foe option before (preferring to do battle with those that try to criticise), but I think I've just found a use for it.
Well caught.