And they just cannot understand how anyone would not want to watch/listen to the movies/music produced by their members. The same as the UK TV Licensing cannot understand how any household could live without a TV set, so assume that anyone who does not have a TV licence is watching TV illegally.
If you don't have a TV you don't have to pay for a TV licence. Similarly, if you don't want to pay to watch a movie or listen to a piece of music, don't.
The movie/music industries exist because people want to consume their products. You always have the option not to consume them.
LOL, I was being just a touch facetious. But to be fair to the ISPs, they have said they wont do anything without a court order, which does become a little closer to "police-state".
Although I agree that blocking TPB et al is pointless, I still don't think you can call obeying a court order being in a police state.
Yeah but a triangular wheel would just look evil. Three is most certainly not the magic number, it is a harbinger of the end times, the mark of Satan and probably the number of the beast (if you muliply it by 222). Once triangular wheels appear, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, the triple-breasted whore of Babylon will rule us all and Formula 1 and NASCAR will become even more boring than they are now.
But ceefax, which is essentially news in text format accessed from a distance, isn't obsolete at all. I would happily read teletext on my TV instead of via the internet on my phone/computer (especially if I lived somewhere with slow or no internet). I don't see any reason to get rid of it at all
Can an expert on modern English comment on the summary's use of the word "moxie" as presumably meaning "capable". I have always thought "moxie" to be something only a person could have and mean "strength of character" or similar. Is there a difference in American versus British English?
Moxie is purely an American word. I've never heard or read it in the UK, and had to google it to find out what it meant. The drink from which the word derives is not one that I'vve ever seen or heard of here in the UK either.
Although the subject matter of the story is British, the submitter is presumably American.
I find it hard to believe that highly scratch-resistant glass didn't find any other uses between 1960 and 2006. Presumably it was very expensive or something?
And the next ad in the series would show a similar scene but with Apple equipment, and the guy in the chair would be masturbating furiously to 3 different pictures of some guy in a black turtleneck.
Really? Which of MS's dirty tricks can you now fail to recall? He's mugged entire industries, and he's a liar and a cheat.
Gates was a typically ruthless businessman who was in the right place at the right time to exploit the sheer stupidity of most of the rest of tech industry (IBM in particular), but personally he's nowhere near the arsehole that Jobs by all accounts was.
Steve Jobs seems to have been personally much more of a swine than Bill Gates. Anyone who deliberately parks in handicapped spaces because they think they're too fucking important to obey the plebs' rules is pretty much the definition of a douchebag.
Gone are the days of desktops, and apps specifically developed for the desktops. These days,most apps can be run off a browser. The Android ecosystem has captured the low and medium ends of the tablet spectrum, and there are gazillion apps for Android, and Windows apps are miniscule in comparison. It will take a while yet, but highly likely that Windows and Microsoft will continue to slide into irrelevance sooner than later.
You are reinforcing the poster's point above about your lack of experience in the real world. There are not many companies out there who will be switching their office staff to tablets any time soon. You may think that work is like an iPad advert where you sit around facebooking amusingly ironic home videos to your best pals, but the simple fact is that most people spend a lot of time sat in front of computers entering text and numbers.
Screens laid down are horrible when using a keyboard. There's just no easy way to do it. For serious data entry, even a mouse is an irritation, something that we specifically design our software to avoid so that data entry can happen at maximum speed.
Touch would make the irritation of mouse use ten times worse.
The sort of person who thinks that a monitor based on a drawing board is a good idea isn't doing a lot of data/text entry. They're probably graphic artists, which is to say Apple-using wankstains with ironic facial hair and thick-rimmed glasses with no lenses in..
A lot of people were going, my Next PC will be a Mac.
Yes, that's why apple now dominates the laptop and desktop markets. Oh, wait...
Apple make relatively expensive niche computers (cue the Apple fanboys saying that they're actually cheaper than an equivalent PC from Dell) and wildly successful consumer electronic gadgets. Their success means nothing in itself, after all no one here ever liked Microsoft just because they were the most profitable tech company for a long time.
Well the first problem is that there is no such thing as intellectual property. It simply does not exist and never will.
Nor does real property, in any sense apart from the trivial. You see that piece of land there? Why does it belong to you? That's right, because you paid for it, and in our legal system that means you own it. No other reason. There is not some magical "propertyness" about physical things. Without a legal system, I could just squat on your land or beat you up and take away your car. Similarly, if we agree that there are intangible things like goodwill, trade names, trademarks and so on that can be bought, they are property.
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And they just cannot understand how anyone would not want to watch/listen to the movies/music produced by their members. The same as the UK TV Licensing cannot understand how any household could live without a TV set, so assume that anyone who does not have a TV licence is watching TV illegally.
If you don't have a TV you don't have to pay for a TV licence. Similarly, if you don't want to pay to watch a movie or listen to a piece of music, don't.
The movie/music industries exist because people want to consume their products. You always have the option not to consume them.
Here is a precedent for censorship...boycott the fuckers, no more DVDs, CDs and cinema for me.
How is stopping someone from reading/viewing/listening to your own stuff censorship?
If I write a poem and lock it away in a drawer, how am I censoring you by not letting you read it unless you pay me?
Yes, I know you said "a precedent for censorship" but they are just weasel words.
the most prolific downloaders tend to be the most frequent purchasers of media as well
Thanks to the solid scientific basis of your claim, I'm now convinced.
LOL, I was being just a touch facetious. But to be fair to the ISPs, they have said they wont do anything without a court order, which does become a little closer to "police-state".
Although I agree that blocking TPB et al is pointless, I still don't think you can call obeying a court order being in a police state.
Yeah but a triangular wheel would just look evil. Three is most certainly not the magic number, it is a harbinger of the end times, the mark of Satan and probably the number of the beast (if you muliply it by 222). Once triangular wheels appear, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, the triple-breasted whore of Babylon will rule us all and Formula 1 and NASCAR will become even more boring than they are now.
But ceefax, which is essentially news in text format accessed from a distance, isn't obsolete at all. I would happily read teletext on my TV instead of via the internet on my phone/computer (especially if I lived somewhere with slow or no internet). I don't see any reason to get rid of it at all
They don't have flying cars where you live?
Only on slashdot could this be modded as insightful rather than funny.
Now that CEEFAX is dead, modern services like Twitter and Tumblr can help enrich our lives with more up to date, if slightly editorialized, news.
Ceefax news came from the BBC and could be believed. The brainless mind wank that comprises most of twitter is just digital wallpaper.
Can an expert on modern English comment on the summary's use of the word "moxie" as presumably meaning "capable". I have always thought "moxie" to be something only a person could have and mean "strength of character" or similar. Is there a difference in American versus British English?
Moxie is purely an American word. I've never heard or read it in the UK, and had to google it to find out what it meant. The drink from which the word derives is not one that I'vve ever seen or heard of here in the UK either.
Although the subject matter of the story is British, the submitter is presumably American.
If you're working with other people's crappy code you're just a programmer. Get over yourself.
I find it hard to believe that highly scratch-resistant glass didn't find any other uses between 1960 and 2006. Presumably it was very expensive or something?
Duh, what about 10 1/2 * 2 then? Eh?
And the next ad in the series would show a similar scene but with Apple equipment, and the guy in the chair would be masturbating furiously to 3 different pictures of some guy in a black turtleneck.
Really? Which of MS's dirty tricks can you now fail to recall? He's mugged entire industries, and he's a liar and a cheat.
Gates was a typically ruthless businessman who was in the right place at the right time to exploit the sheer stupidity of most of the rest of tech industry (IBM in particular), but personally he's nowhere near the arsehole that Jobs by all accounts was.
Steve Jobs seems to have been personally much more of a swine than Bill Gates. Anyone who deliberately parks in handicapped spaces because they think they're too fucking important to obey the plebs' rules is pretty much the definition of a douchebag.
Just finding the shutdown in windows8 took me a good 20minutes before I by chance stumbled over it.
I can't believe someone with the ability to write can be that stupid.
Also, his track record on predicting the future is lousy - witness Microsoft Bob
Seems to me that was an early prototype for Siri.
Gone are the days of desktops, and apps specifically developed for the desktops. These days,most apps can be run off a browser. The Android ecosystem has captured the low and medium ends of the tablet spectrum, and there are gazillion apps for Android, and Windows apps are miniscule in comparison. It will take a while yet, but highly likely that Windows and Microsoft will continue to slide into irrelevance sooner than later.
You are reinforcing the poster's point above about your lack of experience in the real world. There are not many companies out there who will be switching their office staff to tablets any time soon. You may think that work is like an iPad advert where you sit around facebooking amusingly ironic home videos to your best pals, but the simple fact is that most people spend a lot of time sat in front of computers entering text and numbers.
And to think that some people consider just putting a video card into a server is sacrilege.
Having a non-monochrome monitor is itself sacrilege so a video card is simply an abomination from the pit of hell.
But if you add an external keyboard and mouse, you have basically just rebuilt the laptop.
No, that only happens when you hook up your tablet to a decent sized monitor.
I've used Chrome on iPhone many times to edit Google Docs
My sympathies. I find Google Docs painful on a desktop PC with a broadband connection, Christ knows what it's like on a mobile phone over 3G.
Screens laid down are horrible when using a keyboard. There's just no easy way to do it. For serious data entry, even a mouse is an irritation, something that we specifically design our software to avoid so that data entry can happen at maximum speed.
Touch would make the irritation of mouse use ten times worse.
The sort of person who thinks that a monitor based on a drawing board is a good idea isn't doing a lot of data/text entry. They're probably graphic artists, which is to say Apple-using wankstains with ironic facial hair and thick-rimmed glasses with no lenses in..
A lot of people were going, my Next PC will be a Mac.
Yes, that's why apple now dominates the laptop and desktop markets. Oh, wait...
Apple make relatively expensive niche computers (cue the Apple fanboys saying that they're actually cheaper than an equivalent PC from Dell) and wildly successful consumer electronic gadgets. Their success means nothing in itself, after all no one here ever liked Microsoft just because they were the most profitable tech company for a long time.
I'd be probably be flipping burgers if it weren't for unpresecribed Adderall.
If you're so thick you can't pass exams without cheating, your stupidity will be found at at some point.
This is irrespective of the cheating element.
Well the first problem is that there is no such thing as intellectual property. It simply does not exist and never will.
Nor does real property, in any sense apart from the trivial. You see that piece of land there? Why does it belong to you? That's right, because you paid for it, and in our legal system that means you own it. No other reason. There is not some magical "propertyness" about physical things. Without a legal system, I could just squat on your land or beat you up and take away your car. Similarly, if we agree that there are intangible things like goodwill, trade names, trademarks and so on that can be bought, they are property.