One major difference is Steve Jobs (the main subject) has passed away whereas Julian Assange isn't only very well alive, his story (pun intended) isn't over yet. With a story based heavily on (controversial) history, the story is too fresh. The dust should settle in first.
I'm curious how this would apply to the Zodiac case. Oh wait, it doesn't:
* He used symbols in communication. * Voice recognition didn't solve the case. * DNA evidence didn't solve the case. * Copycats functioned as noise, might've even given him credit.
The idea that research into human behavior will result in using that research to promote "better" behavior feels pretty optimistic. Perhaps I gravitate toward the negative, but in my experience, that's often enough not what happens with information.
Have a look toward the effects of Edward Bernays (a nephew of Freud) influence on American society...
Oh yes, and it used to be "live and let live". This was The Netherlands (minus some villages) in the 80s. Having been in and around San Francisco for half a year I can tell there are some similarities between Frisco and The Netherlands but... things are changing, and I can state many changes in The Netherlands which make the aspects about the culture we discuss more bleak. For one, there is this European Union, demanding conformity between its States. Also, very right wing (tm) parties are on the rise, and even the Labour Party and Christian Democrats are proposing (and succeeding) with oppressive laws. And cannabis? Its only legal to sell it, not to mass produce it (except if you're the government...) so anyone caught with mass producing is fined and jailed. The catch? Well, it has become much easier to catch mass producers. Also, the number of coffeeshops are in decline, and psilo shrooms are becoming illegal. For one Great Reich called the European Union...
You make some very good points but most people here won't know the details about European programming (I can verify your claims as far as my knowledge goes on these subjects).
However I'm afraid you misunderstand what the general publics opinion of ads is: a necessary evil. A minority, if not small minority of people, are not (or almost not) influenced by ads and are able to close themselves from ads (consciously, because subconsciously its much harder). Those people tend to prefer not to watch ads, and some of those people hate ads. However most people do not mind ads. They like targetted advertising, and are susceptible/suggestable. Another option is to do something inbetween ads, like a toilet visit, make coffee, doing laundry, taking a shower, going back to kitchen for dinner, and so on. The same is true for advertising on WWW: a small minority blocks ads. Most people do not block ads.
As for F1: on Dutch TV they now make you able to watch F1 in a smaller part of the TV. My father, a huge F1 fan, is almost blind. He is unable to follow the race during commercials. Heck, he can barely see what is happening if its full screen. He really needs the commentary.
Everything in snacks is either high fat, and saturated fat at that (chocolate, chips, fries, etc.)
The biggest problem is transfats; Then comes saturated fats from animal origin; Then come unsaturated fats.
Good are the unsaturated fats high in omega-3 (if this is in balance with omega-6 and omega-9; IOW extreme high omega-6 with `high omega-3' is actually bad), and saturated fats from plant origin.
Chocolate often contains saturated fats from animal origin (milk). Fries are nowadays baked in rapeseed oil, an unsaturated fat (very bad omega-3-6-9 balance). W/snacks baked, the fats are also contineously re(ab)used.
Example of good snack containing healthy oils: raw macadamia nuts, raw walnuts. Example of good saturated fats of plant origin: palm oil, coconut oil.
The low-carb propaganda just leads to
* depression (you need sugars for seratonin)
* kindey failure - switching your diet to high protein puts a heavy load on kidneys, and thus problems
* low energy (no carbs! guess what?!)
1) Its serotonin. To easily remember: from 0 to 9 (zerotonine). 2) Low carb does not mean high protein. Ever heard of fat? 3) Proteins (and amino acids), and fats can also be used for energy. This happens, for example, when the proteins aren't used. Besides, specific amino acids, assuming they pass the blood brain barrier, are metabolized into neurotransmitters. 4) Water is very important to make your body able to leave toxins (the skin does this too though) and waste, in other words: to pee. I personally found out chewing well + oils are also good for easy pooing. Doughnuts are not. I once ate a doughnut in the US. I couldn't poo, and the sugar coming down was horrible. They're absolute shit, not even worth the defintion of food, and perhaps quite the icon of the American cuisine. Typical. (Although there are also many conscious recipes, foods, people, communities, and so on in the USA.)
I do agree with your assessment that body movement (e.g. a workout) is vital for a healthy lifestyle. As is good posture. It is important to realize your daily body movements and postures, and to have most if not all of your muscles in a condition where they can be readily used for a normal human task such as e.g. lifting your CRT monitor and taking it to the other side of your house (one of the many examples).
Or people started eating high carb snacks like apples, oranges, bananas, pineapples?
As juice, except for banana, a great breakfast in the morning. It won't wear you out or tire you because its easy to metabolize whereas the fructose in these fruits will give you a small sugar shot. Better than coffee. (And if you think not, quit coffee for 2 weeks, and then try this. No, skipping coffee one morning and whining about your lack of energy, lethargy, and headache does not count whereas you made your own breakfast juicr doesn't fly.) If you got a family, its easy to make: one person just makes it for the rest of you.
Most users don't care about freedom, they want something that (a) works suitable for their purposes, and (b) doesn't require them to change their use habits, and last but not least (c) requires a minimum of extra work to get running.
How long did you work to pay your software licenses, and how long did you have to work extra to get it working, and change your habit of not paying for software?;)
Most non-free software provides this functionality as easily as free software.
Do you vote? Because if everyone who bitched about the shit that's going on right now actually took the time to vote the people responsible there would be no problem. But you'd rather complain, right?
Fascist Warning Sign #14: Fraudulent elections.
Who can tell. Maybe not directly, but supporters running local campaigns have passed out false information pamphlets in attempts to keep.
Ironic, with all the stories about fraud concerning this wouldn't you agree?
Besides, voting never changed anything as far as I'm concerned. You have to do it yourself. Campaigning, NGO, for-profit, non-profit, or even in the government.
Duh. The Italian government has jurisdiction over... you guessed it... Italy! Perhaps if it'd say the US government would like to implement such law world-wide that'd be more common sense, but it'd be common sense to not automagically think of that and instead think of the jurisdiction the government has. E.g. a county rules over its county, a nation over its nation, and a union (like US or EU) over its union/states/countries. So maybe it is you who
ESA is an initialism standing for European Space Agency. If you write NASA with capital letters (in proper English one should do this) you should do the same with ESA.
But seriously, what alternatives do people have instead of Vista for a pre-installed system. Seriously?
Depends on the person, the purpose of the machine. You make it seem as if Windows Vista is the creme de la creme running on all our computers in the world, including those computers running Linux, Solaris, TRON, and what not. What do you think people ran before Windows Vista? Usually? Well most folks think that OS is fine, or good enough. No, it isn't perfect. But Vista isn't either and then people opt for XP until Microsoft gets their act together. Face it, they blew it (for now).
As for a direct answer to your question, I'd assume you mean desktops and laptops and I'd say: Windows 2000, Windows XP, MacOSX, Solaris, RedHat Linux, Novell Linux, and many other Linux-based OSes. Especially in corporate environments because they're more fine-grained and for specific tasks. One could adapt the OS to the purpose (as would be done w/any OS). No, you can't run Half-Life 2 on the computer. But, no employee cares cause they don't have to nor shouldn't be allowed to.
Everybody already knows that Vista is not good, but why would MS care? Again, people want pre-installed systems. They want to run the software that they already know, preinstalled.
So the OEM cuts loose their shackles from the terrorizing (heh!) Microsoft OEM agreement, opting for an other OS instead. That could be Windows XP, it could be something else as I outlined above. Later it may be Windows Vista, but not now.
Seriously in which market would a corporation force their distributors a new version, making it illegal to sell the former version? This is ridiculous.
Because of the price, this mobo will be a total flop. Unless you're an overclocker, most PC builders want a simple board that still provides the latest in North/South bridge technologies. No WiFi, no super mega 7.1 audio, no dual nics, no on-board video. None of that crap matters in our market. If we really wanted all of those features, we would purchase a thin client PC from Dell which includes a nice warranty should any of those on-board features fail.
I disagree. WiFi could be very useful onboard, in certain situations. Onboard NICs (10/100/1000 mbit) could also be very useful. It all depends on what you wish to do with the board. If you're trying to make a cheap router with a SSD BSD or Linux OS on it, you'd love the higher I/O and throughput of onboard NICs (provided the drivers are well they can achieve higher bandwidth than other busses). Else you'd have to sacrifice one of your PCI-E slots for this. Onboard graphics card (IGP) is also useful because they use less. Unfortunately, you can't put 'em off, so you're using a lil bit overkill W. As for a desktop, many desktops do need sound and networking and onboard video is "good enough". I'd say a desktop wouldn't need 2 NICs but if you look around you'll see most boards do NOT have 2 NICs. Roughly only those meant for firewall or embedded applications do.
No, the issue is that fine-grained setups would have exactly 0 RS232, and exactly 0 USB, and so on including 0 (or 1) of the above. But thats where the free market jumps in, and the issue is not one only limited to this board. The assumption is else you'd buy all kind of PCI cards which all adds up too, ofcourse. So these are included in the "the package", and usually you'll see these boards are adapting to the casual home user / business user, not e.g. a thin client or a router.
What leaves us is the high price. I don't understand that. I can get a good enough mobo for 80 EUR. A fast (flash-based) SSD for PATA I can get cheap too although it'd depend on e.g. the size say 50 EUR.
Online identity in a game is an online identity. It doesn't have (fully) to mimick how you are IRL.
Right now the irony is that women can still impersonate men because men don't have to "authenticate" (as earlier pointed out its a flawed authentication, its privacy-related too, and some men look like women). This is discrimination, and illegal in some countries/states.
Google deletes links when forced to by law. The Pirate Bay did so to in the past (regarding child pornography). Why would The Pirate Bay not do this regarding material other than child pornography? Hey, I may be the Devil's Advocate, but soon you'll see prosecutors argue this because this is why things happened as they did...
Hmmm if I was into this, and I could prove this, I would have either posted as AC and put all the facts out, or I'd have shut up. Its just my theory, and I doubt anyone can be sued over this (its quite childish anyway but typically American/British). The point was that if they assumed it was truelly someone with a bomb the situation would have gone different. Thats what I base my theory on.
Why does nobody seem to understand that the TSA do know this kind of story achieves the news? The way you act then is to educate (or 'educate') the people. It is now quite clear to anyone reading the newspapers that wearing electronics like this is a big no-no. For one, you get arrested. For second, chances are high you get shot. Nobody in their right mind now does this anymore although the numbers of those who would are minor.
"Pardon me, Miss? Would you mind if we borrowed that device strapped to your chest so we can test it for explosives? Oh, and if we could borrow that plastique looking stuff too, that would be great."
Guess why they didn't shoot her? Because they knew damn well it was NOT a bomb. Thats why. If they thought it was a bomb she'd have been shot on sight, and the airport would have been evacuated. This clearly did not happen (and you can bet a lot of other things behind the screens at the TSA DID happen like background check etc). But, she might have caused fears among other visitors, or confusion to TSA folks, or both. TSA doesn't want this on their airpot, so they used this situation to their advantage knowing full well it'd get in the news.
Everything is staged these days, but not always for 'bad reason'.
Years ago, in 'skater ages' I used a 6-pin keyboard cord around my trousers as belt, because it was functional to hang my wallet on (not losing it), and because it looked funny. Also an 'art'. I wanted to wear it the other day, going on airport to see my girlfriend, but I chose not to (nor did I chose to bring it w/me as I was going on the airplane to her). Why? well, because I didn't want a situation like this woman got herself into. You simply need to think about how other people would perceive you w/their paranoia. Ironically, a smart terrorist would do the same. And, guess what? A smart terrorist wouldn't walk with bomb wires on his back (the girl in this subject would not be a 'smart terrorist' if she actually had a bomb).
Let's just hope that Microsoft doesn't decide to get a little medieval (or litigious) and throw up a bunch of lawsuits to stop Samba's blatant infringement (assuming you think software patents are worth the paper they're printed on). Not that they would win -- they wouldn't have to. But it would sure make all those corp customers uneasy for the several years that the courts deal with it.
Microsoft is welcome to try this at the EU court, US court, or Alien court. Of those 3 however only the US court recognizes software patents. It'd look also kinda clumsy. Microsoft, in the eyes of the EU (EC), that is. If Microsoft would like to pull this trick in the EU or Alien court nobody would take the claims seriously, and if they'd pull a SCO it'd make them look like a monopoly once again. No my friends, Neelie Kroes is pretty clear: from here on Microsoft's power will decline. But yes, competitors like Apple and Samba need to stand up. Judges, legislators and many other functions of society too.
The NSAKEY story in Windows 2000 was a BS/FUD story. Bruce Schneier made a good analysis on this one. I'm sure you can find it on his blog, or via Google. There are worse offenses Microsoft made regarding privacy. This simply wasn't one.
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One major difference is Steve Jobs (the main subject) has passed away whereas Julian Assange isn't only very well alive, his story (pun intended) isn't over yet. With a story based heavily on (controversial) history, the story is too fresh. The dust should settle in first.
I'm curious how this would apply to the Zodiac case. Oh wait, it doesn't:
* He used symbols in communication.
* Voice recognition didn't solve the case.
* DNA evidence didn't solve the case.
* Copycats functioned as noise, might've even given him credit.
Oh yes, and it used to be "live and let live". This was The Netherlands (minus some villages) in the 80s. Having been in and around San Francisco for half a year I can tell there are some similarities between Frisco and The Netherlands but... things are changing, and I can state many changes in The Netherlands which make the aspects about the culture we discuss more bleak. For one, there is this European Union, demanding conformity between its States. Also, very right wing (tm) parties are on the rise, and even the Labour Party and Christian Democrats are proposing (and succeeding) with oppressive laws. And cannabis? Its only legal to sell it, not to mass produce it (except if you're the government...) so anyone caught with mass producing is fined and jailed. The catch? Well, it has become much easier to catch mass producers. Also, the number of coffeeshops are in decline, and psilo shrooms are becoming illegal. For one Great Reich called the European Union...
You make some very good points but most people here won't know the details about European programming (I can verify your claims as far as my knowledge goes on these subjects).
However I'm afraid you misunderstand what the general publics opinion of ads is: a necessary evil. A minority, if not small minority of people, are not (or almost not) influenced by ads and are able to close themselves from ads (consciously, because subconsciously its much harder). Those people tend to prefer not to watch ads, and some of those people hate ads. However most people do not mind ads. They like targetted advertising, and are susceptible/suggestable. Another option is to do something inbetween ads, like a toilet visit, make coffee, doing laundry, taking a shower, going back to kitchen for dinner, and so on. The same is true for advertising on WWW: a small minority blocks ads. Most people do not block ads.
As for F1: on Dutch TV they now make you able to watch F1 in a smaller part of the TV. My father, a huge F1 fan, is almost blind. He is unable to follow the race during commercials. Heck, he can barely see what is happening if its full screen. He really needs the commentary.
Then comes saturated fats from animal origin;
Then come unsaturated fats.
Good are the unsaturated fats high in omega-3 (if this is in balance with omega-6 and omega-9; IOW extreme high omega-6 with `high omega-3' is actually bad), and saturated fats from plant origin.
Chocolate often contains saturated fats from animal origin (milk). Fries are nowadays baked in rapeseed oil, an unsaturated fat (very bad omega-3-6-9 balance). W/snacks baked, the fats are also contineously re(ab)used.
Example of good snack containing healthy oils: raw macadamia nuts, raw walnuts.
Example of good saturated fats of plant origin: palm oil, coconut oil.1) Its serotonin. To easily remember: from 0 to 9 (zerotonine).
2) Low carb does not mean high protein. Ever heard of fat?
3) Proteins (and amino acids), and fats can also be used for energy. This happens, for example, when the proteins aren't used. Besides, specific amino acids, assuming they pass the blood brain barrier, are metabolized into neurotransmitters.
4) Water is very important to make your body able to leave toxins (the skin does this too though) and waste, in other words: to pee. I personally found out chewing well + oils are also good for easy pooing. Doughnuts are not. I once ate a doughnut in the US. I couldn't poo, and the sugar coming down was horrible. They're absolute shit, not even worth the defintion of food, and perhaps quite the icon of the American cuisine. Typical. (Although there are also many conscious recipes, foods, people, communities, and so on in the USA.)
I do agree with your assessment that body movement (e.g. a workout) is vital for a healthy lifestyle. As is good posture. It is important to realize your daily body movements and postures, and to have most if not all of your muscles in a condition where they can be readily used for a normal human task such as e.g. lifting your CRT monitor and taking it to the other side of your house (one of the many examples).As juice, except for banana, a great breakfast in the morning. It won't wear you out or tire you because its easy to metabolize whereas the fructose in these fruits will give you a small sugar shot. Better than coffee. (And if you think not, quit coffee for 2 weeks, and then try this. No, skipping coffee one morning and whining about your lack of energy, lethargy, and headache does not count whereas you made your own breakfast juicr doesn't fly.) If you got a family, its easy to make: one person just makes it for the rest of you.
Besides, voting never changed anything as far as I'm concerned. You have to do it yourself. Campaigning, NGO, for-profit, non-profit, or even in the government.
Duh. The Italian government has jurisdiction over... you guessed it... Italy! Perhaps if it'd say the US government would like to implement such law world-wide that'd be more common sense, but it'd be common sense to not automagically think of that and instead think of the jurisdiction the government has. E.g. a county rules over its county, a nation over its nation, and a union (like US or EU) over its union/states/countries. So maybe it is you who
Its all about control, and that goal isn't limited to Europeans. Not at all. Think of Putin. Or Bush..
ESA is an initialism standing for European Space Agency. If you write NASA with capital letters (in proper English one should do this) you should do the same with ESA.
As for a direct answer to your question, I'd assume you mean desktops and laptops and I'd say: Windows 2000, Windows XP, MacOSX, Solaris, RedHat Linux, Novell Linux, and many other Linux-based OSes. Especially in corporate environments because they're more fine-grained and for specific tasks. One could adapt the OS to the purpose (as would be done w/any OS). No, you can't run Half-Life 2 on the computer. But, no employee cares cause they don't have to nor shouldn't be allowed to.So the OEM cuts loose their shackles from the terrorizing (heh!) Microsoft OEM agreement, opting for an other OS instead. That could be Windows XP, it could be something else as I outlined above. Later it may be Windows Vista, but not now.
Seriously in which market would a corporation force their distributors a new version, making it illegal to sell the former version? This is ridiculous.
No, the issue is that fine-grained setups would have exactly 0 RS232, and exactly 0 USB, and so on including 0 (or 1) of the above. But thats where the free market jumps in, and the issue is not one only limited to this board. The assumption is else you'd buy all kind of PCI cards which all adds up too, ofcourse. So these are included in the "the package", and usually you'll see these boards are adapting to the casual home user / business user, not e.g. a thin client or a router.
What leaves us is the high price. I don't understand that. I can get a good enough mobo for 80 EUR. A fast (flash-based) SSD for PATA I can get cheap too although it'd depend on e.g. the size say 50 EUR.
Good solution.
Online identity in a game is an online identity. It doesn't have (fully) to mimick how you are IRL.
Right now the irony is that women can still impersonate men because men don't have to "authenticate" (as earlier pointed out its a flawed authentication, its privacy-related too, and some men look like women). This is discrimination, and illegal in some countries/states.
Google deletes links when forced to by law. The Pirate Bay did so to in the past (regarding child pornography). Why would The Pirate Bay not do this regarding material other than child pornography? Hey, I may be the Devil's Advocate, but soon you'll see prosecutors argue this because this is why things happened as they did...
Hmmm if I was into this, and I could prove this, I would have either posted as AC and put all the facts out, or I'd have shut up. Its just my theory, and I doubt anyone can be sued over this (its quite childish anyway but typically American/British). The point was that if they assumed it was truelly someone with a bomb the situation would have gone different. Thats what I base my theory on.
Everything is staged these days, but not always for 'bad reason'.
Years ago, in 'skater ages' I used a 6-pin keyboard cord around my trousers as belt, because it was functional to hang my wallet on (not losing it), and because it looked funny. Also an 'art'. I wanted to wear it the other day, going on airport to see my girlfriend, but I chose not to (nor did I chose to bring it w/me as I was going on the airplane to her). Why? well, because I didn't want a situation like this woman got herself into. You simply need to think about how other people would perceive you w/their paranoia. Ironically, a smart terrorist would do the same. And, guess what? A smart terrorist wouldn't walk with bomb wires on his back (the girl in this subject would not be a 'smart terrorist' if she actually had a bomb).
The NSAKEY story in Windows 2000 was a BS/FUD story. Bruce Schneier made a good analysis on this one. I'm sure you can find it on his blog, or via Google. There are worse offenses Microsoft made regarding privacy. This simply wasn't one.