true... but there are x patent violations in 'Linux' if you believe Microsoft... and yet nobody has found any of them and Microsoft is staying hush, is this not the same thing?
I'm not sure why... but I think Sony wants to be in the position Apple was 15 years ago.
Apple computers, apple connectors... apple printers.. apple scanners... apple standards... apple formats... Apple prices
Now dont get me wrong, I do like my mac gear.. Sony I believe would like to lay claim to every standard, propriatize (sp???) it, charge a fortune for it and charge a license at a fortune for it. Sadly (for sony) the world has opened its eyes to the advantage of open standards, Apple has opened up.. IBM has embraced the new world and EVEN shock, horror the massive monolithic Microsoft is starting to stir.
But look at Sonys Vaio as a good example... they are aiming for the same people and market as Apple are.
I guess simply, minus the operating system there is far more similarities between Apple and Sony than Apple and Microsoft.. BUT
Apple is going forward, Sony is going backwards.
Throw in Sonys media arm and you have a company hungry for power and control of what the customer consumes... Maybe Apple having a record label is an extremely bad idea considering what it has done to Sony.
because padlocks and glass never prevented people from pressing buttons or pulling levers... catching on yet?
same trick, different environment.
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you actually tried it yet?
from my own toying it really does seem to be quite feature incomplete... no disrespect to KDE, they said it was incomplete and it IS incomplete... looks like an interesting option but in its current state I'd have to say gnome had more 'options' and that's saying something!
BTW just to emphasize, I've never been a KDE fan, I'm not really a huge fan of gnome either these days... but feature wise KDE3.x IS much more complete, they have made some great advances but I'm not sure I'd have called this a.0 release
Talking about my "extraordinary rants" and "incoherent sentences".. I must ask, paragraph much?
Give me a brief moment to parse your screed back into English.. ah fuck it, I cant be bothered...
The only thing I apologize for is not knowing it was mandatory to vote in Australia.. I guess that could be why there seems to be a little more common sense in Oz than in this countries electorate. But as for commenting on my unslept sentence structure... I have to ask what kind of 'English' you m'lord learn at school?
I dont however agree that the last Australian election had such a high *valid* vote. You would be lucky to get a high 80s percentage outside of wartime.
You however have a very sought after skill.. your text makes the same sense read from left to right as it does from right to left.... I guess that's why they let you into politics.
An opt-out system eh? pretty much sets the foundations in place.
haha did I ever say it was? OR have you forgotten the fact Australia has more respect for the 'United Kingdom' than the Scottish and Irish do? Is that not why the British Queen is still your figurehead? naw surely not... I bet all the world leaders drew straws and the dear Liz pulled the short one.
Here, I'll pull something straight out my ass just for you MR A.C.. bait me on that one too while you're at it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/09/22/dl2202.xml
*yawn* you're either an uninformed yank, or an ignorant Aussie... either case check your facts before trying to bait someone with bullshit.
"If Kevin Rudd becomes Australia's next prime minister - and that is what the opinion polls suggest - then the new Labour government will push very hard for a republic. There is a strong possibility that, following a proposed referendum in 2010, Australia will no longer have a Queen. And that would be a terrible shame. We realise that it is not our business to tell Australians who should be their head of state: unsolicited advice from Poms is rarely welcome. But there is a very good reason for keeping our ties to Australia, quite apart from the exemplary way in which the Queen discharges her constitutional duties. It is that - contrary to expectations - our two countries have recently grown closer together, not further apart."
I'm kinda glad you gave up... that half proves my point. I actually once thought voting should be mandatory... then I realised that once long ago when it was, people that didnt want to vote either invalidated their papers in spite - or - voted for the first person on the list.
So with the above information in mind... what is the point making a vote mandatory if people that are that way inclined will actively work to fvck it up?
Well I don't really care either way... so regardless of what *I* think I'll try my vewy hardest to respownd to you at a lewvel you might or might knot understand.
Look, I'm totally with you on this one. It's ALL voluntary, you opt in, you opt out... etc etc et fvcking cetera.
I'm not arguing against that AT ALL.
I'm asking you WHAT IF a power above which you already have got into government within the next 10 - 15 years and takes advantage of your own security... it's all for your own good, sure... thats exactly what Hitler said when he rebuilt the German economy. That's what Hitler said when he said 'do it for the fatherland'.
I am quite confident in our governments (e.g the UKs) responsibility with our privacy (lol), our security (haha) and our well-being... I'm also quite confident in your own... What I'm NOT confident in however is our children or childrens, childrens future and freedom of speech and rights and/or lack of.
Don't you realise? The MAJORITY of the German people voted Hitler into power... NOT the majority of the people, the majority of those that VOTED put Hitler into power.
Oh wait... only 53% of the UK population voted in the last general election..... What if that drops down further and 25% of the population vote? What if those fundamentalists (religious or otherwise fanatics continue to vote like they'll do so till their death?) vote?
People forget history far faster than they learn from it, they also lose rights FAR faster than they gain them...
Here is a thought for you... 4% of the FRENCH voted fascism at their last election... What if a further 10% (making that 14%) voted 'nazi' in the next, and the remainder of the 25% of the population voted otherwise? That would mean that the fascists got into power. What would they do with your 'rights' that you have gladly given away the last so many years? What would THEY do with the 3000 CCTV cameras around London?
The sad truth today is that nobody cares.... they are too busy 'voting' for their favourite video games or rockstars or movie actors.... the youth today doesn't care about politics, and THAT is very said because THAT was the freedoms that you and MY grand fathers fought for...
Have a think about that, our democracies are too far ahead to be brought down in one government... but the more OUR rights are eroded, the less we have to pass on to our children.. The great books with all that information that we flicked through of our fathers and indulged in that information as children - might not be passed on to our kin.. oh wait ? nevermind... DRM already has that one in the bag.
Open your mind and stop thinking of the selfish now... think of your childrens future in a place its illegal to share information... illegal to express opinion out-width the government.. illegal to go out after dark... illegal to be outside the POV of the CCTV camera... illegal to think...
I'd mod you to hell if I hadn't already posted:P... well actually I wouldnt because just because I dont believe what you say doesnt make it a valid argument BUT...
What happens when they come for you? they aren't? how long before they do?
Or is your definition of pain that of the UK queen having a great big TAX on beers locally brewed or otherwise up your arse so far every time you take a dump you brick a impression of the good queen Elizabeth?
Do you really believe there is a difference between them? My point is nothing against Ebay as such but more against the reputation that Christies has, taking their very long legal get out clauses as evidence that they care almost as much about the 'customer' as the online auction houses.
All of them suck All of them have get out clauses that say you are buying what the description says on the good faith of the seller. All of them would sell sand to an arab or ice to an eskimo if they thought they'd get away with it.
Does Christie's Claim to write all the descriptions? NO Does Christie's sell the item themselves? NO it's sold on behalf of the owner Does Christie's claim their research to be 100% accurate? NO
Ebay DO claim they are 100% secure until you read the small print, Christies DO claim they are 100% secure until you read the small print. At the end of the day there is legally sweet F all between them.
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enough that they had to change the name -- apparently
surely that's still double the chance though ? >:)
then leave... they broke your contract so move to another network provider... right? right?
true... but there are x patent violations in 'Linux' if you believe Microsoft... and yet nobody has found any of them and Microsoft is staying hush, is this not the same thing?
I think you're missing the point...
What if this article concerned 'VLC' and 'daresay others' ?
Ahhh for some reason it wasn't showing his post... nvm. I was right the first time :P
ahhh shit, how did this comment get here?
whoever thought this was aimed at you.. it wasn't... *rolls his eyes*.. now I need to hunt him down again.
What?
Let me guess. You are 12, American and like lol cats?
"You has add nothing to discussion" I can haz cheezburger?
"come back when you have proof for writing what works like English, illiterate Mac fanboi"
Proof for writing that works like English? try "Come back when you have proof that you can write in English"
pot, kettle, black, idiot!
Now is when you quickly reverse your statement, tell me that the sarcasm you posted went over my head and that I'm an Apple sympathizer.
So much so that you had to say that AC? surprise me sir, with insight rather than insults.
Didn't think so, lazy bastard.
I'm not sure why... but I think Sony wants to be in the position Apple was 15 years ago.
Apple computers, apple connectors... apple printers.. apple scanners... apple standards... apple formats... Apple prices
Now dont get me wrong, I do like my mac gear.. Sony I believe would like to lay claim to every standard, propriatize (sp???) it, charge a fortune for it and charge a license at a fortune for it. Sadly (for sony) the world has opened its eyes to the advantage of open standards, Apple has opened up.. IBM has embraced the new world and EVEN shock, horror the massive monolithic Microsoft is starting to stir.
But look at Sonys Vaio as a good example... they are aiming for the same people and market as Apple are.
I guess simply, minus the operating system there is far more similarities between Apple and Sony than Apple and Microsoft.. BUT
Apple is going forward, Sony is going backwards.
Throw in Sonys media arm and you have a company hungry for power and control of what the customer consumes... Maybe Apple having a record label is an extremely bad idea considering what it has done to Sony.
The way things are going in the UK we wont need the equivalent of the RIAA to do the music industries dirty work... we'll have the government.
So is this really that big a story? or are they just reallocating their resources?
because padlocks and glass never prevented people from pressing buttons or pulling levers ... catching on yet?
same trick, different environment.
you actually tried it yet?
... no disrespect to KDE, they said it was incomplete and it IS incomplete ... looks like an interesting option but in its current state I'd have to say gnome had more 'options' and that's saying something!
... but feature wise KDE3.x IS much more complete, they have made some great advances but I'm not sure I'd have called this a .0 release
from my own toying it really does seem to be quite feature incomplete
BTW just to emphasize, I've never been a KDE fan, I'm not really a huge fan of gnome either these days
They could avoid earthquakes by staying far out of shore.. but that would give them other more frequent issues. hmmmm
This idea aint gonna float.
how big are these ships? would solar arrays on the sides/roofs of the containers be enough to power any of it?
Talking about my "extraordinary rants" and "incoherent sentences" .. I must ask, paragraph much?
Give me a brief moment to parse your screed back into English.. ah fuck it, I cant be bothered...
The only thing I apologize for is not knowing it was mandatory to vote in Australia.. I guess that could be why there seems to be a little more common sense in Oz than in this countries electorate. But as for commenting on my unslept sentence structure... I have to ask what kind of 'English' you m'lord learn at school?
I dont however agree that the last Australian election had such a high *valid* vote. You would be lucky to get a high 80s percentage outside of wartime.
You however have a very sought after skill.. your text makes the same sense read from left to right as it does from right to left.... I guess that's why they let you into politics.
An opt-out system eh? pretty much sets the foundations in place.
haha I was joking... but I have to admit my trigger fingers were itchy :-$ hehe all in jest however.
haha did I ever say it was? OR have you forgotten the fact Australia has more respect for the 'United Kingdom' than the Scottish and Irish do? Is that not why the British Queen is still your figurehead? naw surely not... I bet all the world leaders drew straws and the dear Liz pulled the short one.
Here, I'll pull something straight out my ass just for you MR A.C
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/09/22/dl2202.xml
*yawn* you're either an uninformed yank, or an ignorant Aussie... either case check your facts before trying to bait someone with bullshit.
"If Kevin Rudd becomes Australia's next prime minister - and that is what the opinion polls suggest - then the new Labour government will push very hard for a republic. There is a strong possibility that, following a proposed referendum in 2010, Australia will no longer have a Queen. And that would be a terrible shame. We realise that it is not our business to tell Australians who should be their head of state: unsolicited advice from Poms is rarely welcome. But there is a very good reason for keeping our ties to Australia, quite apart from the exemplary way in which the Queen discharges her constitutional duties. It is that - contrary to expectations - our two countries have recently grown closer together, not further apart."
I'm kinda glad you gave up... that half proves my point. I actually once thought voting should be mandatory... then I realised that once long ago when it was, people that didnt want to vote either invalidated their papers in spite - or - voted for the first person on the list.
So with the above information in mind... what is the point making a vote mandatory if people that are that way inclined will actively work to fvck it up?
"If we get a bad government into power, then the last thing that will be on anyone's mind is whether or not they can download porn."
You are right, and THAT is exactly the point... what is digital porn other than simply 1s and 0s?
Well I don't really care either way... so regardless of what *I* think I'll try my vewy hardest to respownd to you at a lewvel you might or might knot understand.
... it's all for your own good, sure... thats exactly what Hitler said when he rebuilt the German economy. That's what Hitler said when he said 'do it for the fatherland'.
... 4% of the FRENCH voted fascism at their last election... What if a further 10% (making that 14%) voted 'nazi' in the next, and the remainder of the 25% of the population voted otherwise? That would mean that the fascists got into power. What would they do with your 'rights' that you have gladly given away the last so many years? What would THEY do with the 3000 CCTV cameras around London?
Look, I'm totally with you on this one. It's ALL voluntary, you opt in, you opt out... etc etc et fvcking cetera.
I'm not arguing against that AT ALL.
I'm asking you WHAT IF a power above which you already have got into government within the next 10 - 15 years and takes advantage of your own security
I am quite confident in our governments (e.g the UKs) responsibility with our privacy (lol), our security (haha) and our well-being... I'm also quite confident in your own... What I'm NOT confident in however is our children or childrens, childrens future and freedom of speech and rights and/or lack of.
Don't you realise? The MAJORITY of the German people voted Hitler into power... NOT the majority of the people, the majority of those that VOTED put Hitler into power.
Oh wait... only 53% of the UK population voted in the last general election..... What if that drops down further and 25% of the population vote? What if those fundamentalists (religious or otherwise fanatics continue to vote like they'll do so till their death?) vote?
People forget history far faster than they learn from it, they also lose rights FAR faster than they gain them...
Here is a thought for you
The sad truth today is that nobody cares.... they are too busy 'voting' for their favourite video games or rockstars or movie actors.... the youth today doesn't care about politics, and THAT is very said because THAT was the freedoms that you and MY grand fathers fought for...
Have a think about that, our democracies are too far ahead to be brought down in one government... but the more OUR rights are eroded, the less we have to pass on to our children.. The great books with all that information that we flicked through of our fathers and indulged in that information as children - might not be passed on to our kin.. oh wait ? nevermind... DRM already has that one in the bag.
Open your mind and stop thinking of the selfish now... think of your childrens future in a place its illegal to share information... illegal to express opinion out-width the government.. illegal to go out after dark... illegal to be outside the POV of the CCTV camera... illegal to think...
I'd mod you to hell if I hadn't already posted :P ... well actually I wouldnt because just because I dont believe what you say doesnt make it a valid argument BUT...
What happens when they come for you? they aren't? how long before they do?
Or is your definition of pain that of the UK queen having a great big TAX on beers locally brewed or otherwise up your arse so far every time you take a dump you brick a impression of the good queen Elizabeth?
I hope that's sarcasm....
.. The government have only JUST caught on... kinda.
It's called shock value -- the media have done it for years...
And Christie's does?
Do you really believe there is a difference between them? My point is nothing against Ebay as such but more against the reputation that Christies has, taking their very long legal get out clauses as evidence that they care almost as much about the 'customer' as the online auction houses.
All of them suck
All of them have get out clauses that say you are buying what the description says on the good faith of the seller.
All of them would sell sand to an arab or ice to an eskimo if they thought they'd get away with it.
Does Christie's Claim to write all the descriptions? NO
Does Christie's sell the item themselves? NO it's sold on behalf of the owner
Does Christie's claim their research to be 100% accurate? NO
Ebay DO claim they are 100% secure until you read the small print, Christies DO claim they are 100% secure until you read the small print. At the end of the day there is legally sweet F all between them.
Tell that to Ebay :-|