1. Go for jury service 2. Nullify law 3. ? 4. PROFIT!
Ok, this was a really bad "profit!" intance, but what's with the recent jury nullification histeria? Everytime I read a YRO story in the last few months there's always someone cheering for jury nullification. Please, let's just go back to GNAA, at least it was funnier.
Well, on the scale of hideousness he's closer to the Lewinksy affair than to Bush's war crimes, which, funnily enough, makes him more likely to face impeachment.
(Not that I think it will happen, or even want it to).
You people in the US tend to use hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly wages. Over here, when we refer to salaries, it's pretty much implicit that we're talking about monthly salaries, as it's very rare to use any other timeframe (except maybe for your hourly example, but, given the context, that's obvious anyway). I don't think I ever had the need to attach the interval when refering to salaries.
I'm definitely not an authority on either Linux or Windows audio, but I see something wrong with this statement:
Graphs like these are very misleading. OpenAL, SDL, libao, GStreamer, NAS, Allegro, and more all exist on Windows too. I don't see anyone complaining there.
Looking at both graphs, there's a striking difference: I don't see any loops in the Windows one (though, not being complete, there could be some). I don't see any major problems with library diversity, but the fact that there is no apparent hierarchy does confuse me.
I've been trying to understand it too, for years. We have ID cards, we're not enslaved or monitored through them, or at least not anymore than we can be through a birth certificate or a driver's license or whatever.
I've never been asked by any authority for neither my ID not my DL. I've obviously been asked for them countless timer for other reasons (e.g. DL for car rentals, ID to access the voting stations, whatever), but I suppose in the US you have to produce some kind of identification too.
And, of course, we have very tight restrictions on the use of information. For instance, our ID, National Health Service (yeah, evil too), IRS and something else cards were recently replaced for a single electronic card, that also allows digital authentication and signing (if you opt-in to it, some people are not so sure about trusting their signature to a smartcard, but the design & specs are public - but it allows you to enroll in an university or even create a company, in front of your PC, in 20 minutes or so).The national data protected comission imposed a lot of contraints, prevent any kind of information sharing between the several institutions (i.e. the IRS has access to my fiscal data, but not to my health info).
Do I feel my freedom/privacy threatened? Not at all. On the other hand, I've been avoiding trips to the US for several years (since 9/11 actually, I wan in NY a couple of days before) - can you guess the reason?
And if you read a little more, you'll see that GPS devices won't protect children against their own parents... Really, I didn't know there were still people who believed the McCanns' story.
I don't know about Japan, but in pretty much every European country your degree is paid mostly by the government - the student fees are mostly symbolic and meant to prevent abuse.
I don't know about the US, but in Portugal there was at least one. About 10 years ago, when digging the foundations for the Lisbon El Corte Ingles store, an unmarked NATO underground cable was cut, and work had to be suspended.
Of course there were no SUVs, no gag orders, no misteries - it was publicly discussed actually. Now, I don't recall the complete details, so it's entirely possible that it was a legacy from the cold war, and that all cables nowadays are mapped.
Where I'm living, we have more problems with corruption at the local level than at the central government. Of course they're more distributed, but they also tend to be cheaper.
Ought we hold them accountable for harboring terrorism due to lack of rapid response?
That's a really stupid analogy! The answer is no, it's not like you're the arbiter of terrorism, or like your notions or laws on terrorism apply to another sovereign state.
Well, I believe most residential Portuguese ISPs use some form of throttling, but nothing that really bothers me (and I'm a P2P using networks engineer, so I'm more easily bothered than most people).
Most price plans have (clearly stated) traffic limits too, and the ones who don't are usually subject to an AUP traffic clause, though I've never met anyone who had problems with it - and I've come close to downloading 1TB in a month.
We have 100Mb/s consumer fiber (e.g. one isp charges 65 euro/month for 100Mbps download, 10Mbps upload, 100 tv channels, unlimited phone service to the EU, Canada and US), 30Mb/s cable (44 euro/month), 24Mb/s ADSL(25 euro/month, with TV and unlimited phone) and 7.2Mb/s mobile HSUPA (44 euro/month). These are the top plans, so you can get a decent connection for a lot less.
So, it's not that they don't trottle, it's just that they (in my limited experience) do it well, instead of critically overloading the network and then throttling like hell.
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Of course it's socialism's fault! Are you crazy, what else could it be!? And universal healthcare breeds terrorists!
I believe a pwned is called for.
1. Go for jury service
2. Nullify law
3. ?
4. PROFIT!
Ok, this was a really bad "profit!" intance, but what's with the recent jury nullification histeria? Everytime I read a YRO story in the last few months there's always someone cheering for jury nullification. Please, let's just go back to GNAA, at least it was funnier.
Well, on the scale of hideousness he's closer to the Lewinksy affair than to Bush's war crimes, which, funnily enough, makes him more likely to face impeachment.
(Not that I think it will happen, or even want it to).
You people in the US tend to use hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly wages. Over here, when we refer to salaries, it's pretty much implicit that we're talking about monthly salaries, as it's very rare to use any other timeframe (except maybe for your hourly example, but, given the context, that's obvious anyway). I don't think I ever had the need to attach the interval when refering to salaries.
The point is you should be able to sue any phone on any system.
I'm not so sure you can sue a phone, but it's worth a try - crazier things have happened.
I'm definitely not an authority on either Linux or Windows audio, but I see something wrong with this statement:
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/linuxaudio.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vLES3KKBdaM/Sjsptq1kkCI/AAAAAAAAAGU/yITp1qKuHOU/s1600-h/windowsaudio.png
Looking at both graphs, there's a striking difference: I don't see any loops in the Windows one (though, not being complete, there could be some). I don't see any major problems with library diversity, but the fact that there is no apparent hierarchy does confuse me.
While your numbers are right, your conclusion is wrong. Gold has a density of 19.3g/cm^3 while lead has a density of 11.34g/cm^3.
There isn't a universal ID card, but there is a universal driving licence .
I've been trying to understand it too, for years. We have ID cards, we're not enslaved or monitored through them, or at least not anymore than we can be through a birth certificate or a driver's license or whatever.
I've never been asked by any authority for neither my ID not my DL. I've obviously been asked for them countless timer for other reasons (e.g. DL for car rentals, ID to access the voting stations, whatever), but I suppose in the US you have to produce some kind of identification too.
And, of course, we have very tight restrictions on the use of information. For instance, our ID, National Health Service (yeah, evil too), IRS and something else cards were recently replaced for a single electronic card, that also allows digital authentication and signing (if you opt-in to it, some people are not so sure about trusting their signature to a smartcard, but the design & specs are public - but it allows you to enroll in an university or even create a company, in front of your PC, in 20 minutes or so).The national data protected comission imposed a lot of contraints, prevent any kind of information sharing between the several institutions (i.e. the IRS has access to my fiscal data, but not to my health info).
Do I feel my freedom/privacy threatened? Not at all. On the other hand, I've been avoiding trips to the US for several years (since 9/11 actually, I wan in NY a couple of days before) - can you guess the reason?
Compared to other countries, for instance. Mine has the highest average cost for mobile calls in the EU, but I still get unlimited (*) free SMSs.
(*) It's actually limited to a few thousand per month, but that's irrelevant for most people.
But then again I've not played (or heard of) Demigod before this
You must be new around here.
And if you read a little more, you'll see that GPS devices won't protect children against their own parents... Really, I didn't know there were still people who believed the McCanns' story.
I don't know about Japan, but in pretty much every European country your degree is paid mostly by the government - the student fees are mostly symbolic and meant to prevent abuse.
I don't know about the US, but in Portugal there was at least one. About 10 years ago, when digging the foundations for the Lisbon El Corte Ingles store, an unmarked NATO underground cable was cut, and work had to be suspended.
Of course there were no SUVs, no gag orders, no misteries - it was publicly discussed actually. Now, I don't recall the complete details, so it's entirely possible that it was a legacy from the cold war, and that all cables nowadays are mapped.
Where I'm living, we have more problems with corruption at the local level than at the central government. Of course they're more distributed, but they also tend to be cheaper.
You probably didn't get the memo, but it's not a series of cables but a series of tubes. It's a slight difference, but a critical one too.
Great summary, too bad I have no mod points left.
As for the original one:
After reading his piece, I have a hard time arguing that it should be handed over to some international body.
Either the submitter can't read, or he's completely devoid of critical sense.
Just ask Apple, it's been working for them. Or GNOME.
Unfortunately, they always seem to be right if the critics are from the US...
I suppose it can't hurt.
No.
Every time you quote this, somewhere in the world a mac zealot's head explodes. I just did my part :P
Ought we hold them accountable for harboring terrorism due to lack of rapid response?
That's a really stupid analogy! The answer is no, it's not like you're the arbiter of terrorism, or like your notions or laws on terrorism apply to another sovereign state.
Other than that, yes, his arrest was stupid.
Well, I believe most residential Portuguese ISPs use some form of throttling, but nothing that really bothers me (and I'm a P2P using networks engineer, so I'm more easily bothered than most people).
Most price plans have (clearly stated) traffic limits too, and the ones who don't are usually subject to an AUP traffic clause, though I've never met anyone who had problems with it - and I've come close to downloading 1TB in a month.
We have 100Mb/s consumer fiber (e.g. one isp charges 65 euro/month for 100Mbps download, 10Mbps upload, 100 tv channels, unlimited phone service to the EU, Canada and US), 30Mb/s cable (44 euro/month), 24Mb/s ADSL(25 euro/month, with TV and unlimited phone) and 7.2Mb/s mobile HSUPA (44 euro/month). These are the top plans, so you can get a decent connection for a lot less.
So, it's not that they don't trottle, it's just that they (in my limited experience) do it well, instead of critically overloading the network and then throttling like hell.