What would happen if a biologist came here complaining the command "Vi/Etc/X11/Xorg.Conf" didn't work on his Linux box? Yeah, thats right. Biological nomenclature is case sensitive as well.
Two nitpicks. The species name is always the entire binomial, not just the second word. The second word is referred to as the specific epithet. Also the specific epithet is always lowercase. Come on people, we are nerds. We know case matters.
Shh! He is making a long-winded nonsensical rant that appears to be taken straight out of a Dan Brown book. He never intended for it to be a valid argument.
I would think that it would be adjustible. If it is too low, you could probably raise it higher, though then it would be more likely to obstruct your vision. I would thus suspect these would work best for people with perfect vision or who wear contact lenses.
I can tell you right now there is no way I would be able to use this thing. I'm farsighted and in order for me to comfortably read something it has to be at least a foot away from my eyes, even when wearing glasses. Now that I think about it, don't optometrists generally recommend that you don't read things at that close of a range anyways?
"I'm waiting for somebody to publish the private data..."
Uhh, exactly how much of this information is private? Usually these systems are merely pulling together public data in an accessible database. Lets keep the strawmen in cornfields.
Also if you were to RTFA (I know, too much to expect from/. story submitters), you would find that there are legitimate reasons for the company to move offshores other than to escape US laws.
" Last time I checked you can't write to a CD-ROM, so you'd need a USB key anyway to store your settings."
Fine, get a mini CD-R and a USB key. Still going to work better than having everything together. That way you don't have to buy a whole new MP3 player each time the software from the operating system becomes obsolete. Or you don't have to buy a whole new Flash drive when you decide you need a better MP3 player. That is the problem with grouping everything together. Instead of having three independent toys, you have your three unrelated devices each dependent on the others. If one needs to be replaced the whole thing needs to be replaced.
"Don't like it? Don't buy it. Hurray, capitalistic freedom of choice. I'll never understand why it is that when people don't see a need for something in their personal life, they consistently take the attitude that the object or technology in question is pointless and shouldn't even exist."
I didn't say that it shouldn't exist, merely that if you are suckered into buying one you are a gullible idiot. Something I have a full right to say.
Failures, not complete fuckups. Failures are when some new technology doesn't work as expected during testing. Complete fuckups are when some drunken idiot designs it wrong and it crashes during the actual mission, costing millions of dollars and years of research. There is a difference between the two.
" It was designed so a government-mandated militia could be quickly called up. "
Actually it was designed so that the government would not have the sole authority to call up the militia. Remember the historical context, the Brits had made owning guns illegal in order to keep the colonists from rebelling. At that point in time, the framers of the government were for obvious reasons more sympathetic to the idea that violent revolutions were a legitimate method of achieving political change than our leaders are today.
"Who's left? White, male property owners."
Yes, because at the time they were the only ones considered people. That means many of them were bigots, not that they were not trying to protect the rights of individuals.
I've never been in the situation where I've had to boot up a machine into Linux using nothing more than a MP3 player and a USB connection. In fact, barring some really geeky reality game show, I can't think of how such a situation could come up.
I think having combined devices can be cool, but there is a limit people. Whats wrong with having one device used to listen to music and another (like a credit card CD-Rom with a live Linux distro installed) to be used as a rescue disk?
People who are mobility-impaired, too proud to use a wheel chair, not too proud to use a Segway, rich enough to purchase the overpriced gadget, and who won't need to go anywhere that a Segway cannot get to (I don't know for sure, but while they are laws requiring places to be wheelchair accessible, I doubt most store owners would be happy having people driving those things in their stores).
I see no support for ogg vorbis (and yes that is important, I'm not re-ripping my entire CD collection because virgin doesn't know what.ogg is) or gapless playback (my Pink Floyd albums sound crappy when there are millisecond long gaps in between each song when there should be smooth transitions). Unless this player really does support both of these, I'm still shopping for a Karma.
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ. Did you RTFWS? It is not misleading in any way. At no point does he try to convince people that this really is his opponent's site. Show me someone who was actually confused and thought they were visiting Van Hollen's real campaign website when they went there and I'll show you someone who should be ashamed of ever being born. It is a mock campaign site making fun of the guy's opponent. It is what we intelligent people call "satire".
As for whether or not it serves the public in any meaningful way, I can show you millions of websites that do not serve the public. Should they all be taken down as well?
Except thats not at all what is happening with the VanHollen2004.com sites. Nowhere do they even attempt to appear claim to be Van Hollen's official site (in fact they make it clear that it is very "unofficial").
Shortly after Edwards was named John Kerry's running mate, it was noticed that a man named Kerry Edwards had already purchased the domain name "www.kerryedwards.com". Offers were quickly made to purchase the domain from him because of the Democratic ticket. In the end he ended up putting it up for sale, but had he been more attached to his website should he have been forced to give it up to the Democratic party? What if he was a Republican and wanted to make a site that supported George W Bush for president? Do Kerry and Edwards have any less of a right to kerryedwards.com than Van Hollen had to VanHollen2004.com?
I hope you never visit the Onion, which is billed as "America's Finest News Source". People could be lured there under a false pretense, thinking they are recieving actual news.
" The point here is more that even if the guy does eventually lose the domain, the damage is already done."
What damage? Are people really going to go to these sites and think they were really put up there by the real candidate? How dumb do you think the people in Maryland's 8th district are? These are clearly parody sites, making fun of the Congressman.
Now if he tried to make them look like Van Hollen's real campaign site with more, lets say subtle statements on his record that appear could have actually come out of the candidates mouth, you may have an argument. Then people could actually be fooled into thinking what it said accurately represented the Congressman's true political beliefs.
"There are two explanations for such a severe drop in music purchases: either their consumption of music is being replaced with their consumption of the other sophisticated gadgets, or (as I think was implied) the piracy* rates are extrordinarily high."
Or the purchase of CDs could be replaced with purchasing legal music online from services such as iTunes. I don't know what the status is of such services in Korea, but if (and I know, that is a big if) they can grow to the point where they are the primary source of music for consumers, that would likely kill off retailers without killing off the labels (and thus the musicians as well).
"The problem is, if that level of piracy becomes common everywhere, it will stop being profitable for the record companies to make music. I realize that they are lining their pockets and fleecing the artists, but at a certain point (and 95% shutting down seems like that kind of point) it stops making sense to continue business."
The big record companies are not what I'm worried about. They have broad enough appeal (read: put out cheap pop groups that get played on FM radio all day) to allow them to continue their business for some time, though they have may have to cut some corners (read: sacrifice the few bands they have with actual talent) to survive. Its the little indie labels that I worry about the most. Their music often only caters to a small group, and if that group stops buying CDs because they are getting the music for free, they will fold much quicker than Time Warner's music division.
Well first of all, you don't need to have sex to spread the disease, that is only the most common mode of transmission in our modern world. In other areas where health care is not as advanced (like in many parts of China), dirty needles can do a lot to spread the disease.
Also, what is your experience with Asian culture? Asian Americans who have immigrated here in the past couple of decades? They will not provide a representative sample of the Chinese (note Asian != Chinese, there a number of other nations on the world's largest continent) population as a whole.
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What would happen if a biologist came here complaining the command "Vi /Etc/X11/Xorg.Conf" didn't work on his Linux box? Yeah, thats right. Biological nomenclature is case sensitive as well.
Two nitpicks. The species name is always the entire binomial, not just the second word. The second word is referred to as the specific epithet. Also the specific epithet is always lowercase. Come on people, we are nerds. We know case matters.
Shh! He is making a long-winded nonsensical rant that appears to be taken straight out of a Dan Brown book. He never intended for it to be a valid argument.
I can tell you right now there is no way I would be able to use this thing. I'm farsighted and in order for me to comfortably read something it has to be at least a foot away from my eyes, even when wearing glasses. Now that I think about it, don't optometrists generally recommend that you don't read things at that close of a range anyways?
Uhh, exactly how much of this information is private? Usually these systems are merely pulling together public data in an accessible database. Lets keep the strawmen in cornfields.
Also if you were to RTFA (I know, too much to expect from /. story submitters), you would find that there are legitimate reasons for the company to move offshores other than to escape US laws.
And keep in mind, he didn't even direct the only one of them that is a halfway decent movie on its own.
Fine, get a mini CD-R and a USB key. Still going to work better than having everything together. That way you don't have to buy a whole new MP3 player each time the software from the operating system becomes obsolete. Or you don't have to buy a whole new Flash drive when you decide you need a better MP3 player. That is the problem with grouping everything together. Instead of having three independent toys, you have your three unrelated devices each dependent on the others. If one needs to be replaced the whole thing needs to be replaced.
"Don't like it? Don't buy it. Hurray, capitalistic freedom of choice. I'll never understand why it is that when people don't see a need for something in their personal life, they consistently take the attitude that the object or technology in question is pointless and shouldn't even exist."
I didn't say that it shouldn't exist, merely that if you are suckered into buying one you are a gullible idiot. Something I have a full right to say.
Average is around 3.25, with one outlier equal to 100.
An average is not merely the result of an equation. It is a property of a set of data points for which we have equations designed to approximate.
Failures, not complete fuckups. Failures are when some new technology doesn't work as expected during testing. Complete fuckups are when some drunken idiot designs it wrong and it crashes during the actual mission, costing millions of dollars and years of research. There is a difference between the two.
" It was designed so a government-mandated militia could be quickly called up. "
Actually it was designed so that the government would not have the sole authority to call up the militia. Remember the historical context, the Brits had made owning guns illegal in order to keep the colonists from rebelling. At that point in time, the framers of the government were for obvious reasons more sympathetic to the idea that violent revolutions were a legitimate method of achieving political change than our leaders are today.
"Who's left? White, male property owners."
Yes, because at the time they were the only ones considered people. That means many of them were bigots, not that they were not trying to protect the rights of individuals.
I think having combined devices can be cool, but there is a limit people. Whats wrong with having one device used to listen to music and another (like a credit card CD-Rom with a live Linux distro installed) to be used as a rescue disk?
What, the post that was modded up by the moderators? Seems you are about the only one complaining about it. No news there.
"Ball's in your court, Nick."
What ball? I'm not playing any game with you. Your life must be really sad if you think otherwise.
Thats probably not that big of a niche.
I was beginning to think you had decided there were better things to do with your life than be a troll and that I could change my sig. Oh well...
I see no support for ogg vorbis (and yes that is important, I'm not re-ripping my entire CD collection because virgin doesn't know what .ogg is) or gapless playback (my Pink Floyd albums sound crappy when there are millisecond long gaps in between each song when there should be smooth transitions). Unless this player really does support both of these, I'm still shopping for a Karma.
I prefer the term South Park Republican.
As for whether or not it serves the public in any meaningful way, I can show you millions of websites that do not serve the public. Should they all be taken down as well?
Except thats not at all what is happening with the VanHollen2004.com sites. Nowhere do they even attempt to appear claim to be Van Hollen's official site (in fact they make it clear that it is very "unofficial").
Shortly after Edwards was named John Kerry's running mate, it was noticed that a man named Kerry Edwards had already purchased the domain name "www.kerryedwards.com". Offers were quickly made to purchase the domain from him because of the Democratic ticket. In the end he ended up putting it up for sale, but had he been more attached to his website should he have been forced to give it up to the Democratic party? What if he was a Republican and wanted to make a site that supported George W Bush for president? Do Kerry and Edwards have any less of a right to kerryedwards.com than Van Hollen had to VanHollen2004.com?
I hope you never visit the Onion, which is billed as "America's Finest News Source". People could be lured there under a false pretense, thinking they are recieving actual news.
What damage? Are people really going to go to these sites and think they were really put up there by the real candidate? How dumb do you think the people in Maryland's 8th district are? These are clearly parody sites, making fun of the Congressman.
Now if he tried to make them look like Van Hollen's real campaign site with more, lets say subtle statements on his record that appear could have actually come out of the candidates mouth, you may have an argument. Then people could actually be fooled into thinking what it said accurately represented the Congressman's true political beliefs.
Or the purchase of CDs could be replaced with purchasing legal music online from services such as iTunes. I don't know what the status is of such services in Korea, but if (and I know, that is a big if) they can grow to the point where they are the primary source of music for consumers, that would likely kill off retailers without killing off the labels (and thus the musicians as well).
"The problem is, if that level of piracy becomes common everywhere, it will stop being profitable for the record companies to make music. I realize that they are lining their pockets and fleecing the artists, but at a certain point (and 95% shutting down seems like that kind of point) it stops making sense to continue business."
The big record companies are not what I'm worried about. They have broad enough appeal (read: put out cheap pop groups that get played on FM radio all day) to allow them to continue their business for some time, though they have may have to cut some corners (read: sacrifice the few bands they have with actual talent) to survive. Its the little indie labels that I worry about the most. Their music often only caters to a small group, and if that group stops buying CDs because they are getting the music for free, they will fold much quicker than Time Warner's music division.
Yes, I will second the notion that a digital copy of a music recording is a thing.
But burning the extra CD is.
Also, what is your experience with Asian culture? Asian Americans who have immigrated here in the past couple of decades? They will not provide a representative sample of the Chinese (note Asian != Chinese, there a number of other nations on the world's largest continent) population as a whole.