I guess you unchecked the default "Add AOL Icon to Desktop" on your install. Who the hell wants an AOL icon when you're installing a music player? I certainly don't. Of course, usually people just click on through the defaults, as I did the first time.
And of course, the fact that it's also default "yes" to allow stats to be sent to AOL isn't a cause for concern - just like Real Player. Also, let's not worry about the commisions they get when you use the browser on amazon. It used to say "Don't nag me again" - but now it says "don't ask until next install" - so even when you tell it now to get lost, it will now keep nagging you on every upgrade. And why the hell do Nullsoft need to know about my usage anyhow? That sounds like spyware to me anonymous or not.
If you still think it's just great, then tell me how much faster that it's gotten since version 2 - it's slower every release, and much more unstable. I've had to reinstall it four times on one machine. Compare to XMMS or amaroK, it's sheer bloatware.
If they're so disabled that they can't shoot a wild pig or a deer themselves, maybe they need to get themselves in front of the cross hairs too. Either that, or just forget it.
Fucking pathetic.
oooh you've insulted my manhood by suggesting i don't know many women! that was the whole point. yes CLEARY people care which is why there is a thread about this and why you typed a message, right? the point was why should people care? no physical harm or violation happens from a picture of someone's leg or tight t-shirt. modesty is not a reason in itself. it's completely arbitrary.
No, there's no insult intended, it's just clear that you don't really know much about women and how they like to be treated and the way they wish to be respected. If you were around women more, you'd know about all this sort of thing. As for modesty being an arbitary thing, put briefly, Ethical Relativism is a very old argument, that says regardless of whether ethical dilemmas are infact culturally contextual ideas, they are decided by majorities, and these rules are what is deemed right and wrong. You can argue against them all you like, but I happen to agree with the mainstream on this topic. Most philosophers agreed a long time ago, that most if not all things are not arbitary (or relative). Of course, if things are arbitary, you've invalidated your own argument, hence the reason why most people stay well clear of what you're claiming, after all, your idea is just as good as anyone's by your own arguement.
did i ever suggest that i was a proponent of exposing myself in public? there's a difference between not giving a @#$$% if someone takes candids photos, and getting off on it. notice that if everyone wasn't so uptight about this, the problem would solve itself. the only reason "upskirt" photos are popular is because this society is so utterly repressed.
Well, unless you're prepared to walk around bare arse naked, I think it's safe to assume that you're not prepared to practice what you advocate yourself. The fact is that whether you think people are "uptight" or not, that most people, particularily women don't want people invading their privacy and harming their sense of modesty. You may think people are uptight, but I'd say that most people would see a disregard for a woman's modesty as showing an ill mannered lout who has no charm or respect.
I don't know where you come from, and your background, but it really isn't okay to violate people's privacy and modesty, and it's not something that they need to not be uptight about.
I certainly hope AOL gives Firefox something for their trouble. Personally, I think AOL should hand the Netscape brand ownership over to Mozila. It does seeem a bit much that they're rebranding Firefox after they managed to ruin a perfectly good Netscape brand.
As it is, AOL don't seem to be looking after Winamp very much. Winamp is getting slower and less stable, and it was once a really good piece of software. I never that it could get so bad.
I always suspected that AOL were sabotaging their own products. Perhaps their plans of rebranding of Firefox shows that they're just plain dumb instead.
You might not mind, but many people would mind having their privacy violated. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the majority of people want some degree of privacy even when they are in a public place such as a toilet, a breast feeding room, a public pool, a change room etc.
Woman are especially concerned for their privacy, as most women are modest more so than men, and like to be afforded some sort of respect. After all, most women are ladies, and not street hookers.
Perhaps you don't know many women, which may be why you can't sympathise, but the majority don't want to feel violated with some pervert's camera in a toilet etc.
Additionally, a great deal of people don't want to see you yourself going to the toilet or waving your genitals or arse around for all to see. Perhaps it would be better in that hypotetical case, if you instead stayed at home.
Winamp is rapidly gaining the same level of "features" that Netscape did when it died - it's bloated and tries to sneakily add AOL icons to your desktop. Oh and let's not forget the spyware aspect to the commisions they get on sales - nice touch. The fact that the interface hasn't been made any easier to use, and only gets more fiddly and complicated confirms it. Winamp is the great golden flamingo God of bad user/interface design.
All they need to do now is package AOL instant messenger with it, and it will be truly dead for ever more.
Nobody knows how to fuck up a once perfectly good piece of software through bad decisions like AOL. You really know your software sucks with 100% full vacuum when your old version is actually better in every way over the latest release. Even Macromedia would be impressed with the sheer - "I wonder if the whole thing is running in some sort of emulator""-ness of it all.
If I was in Microsoft's shoes, I'd want to get out of the operating system as quickly as possible too.
I can't really blame them, after all, they may as well diversify because they're losing ground left right and center. I imagine that they'll want to stream public executions of software pirates.
They should get into films like Sony - now that's where corporate evil would be appreciated.
Quite right Farble, please post your address, and I'll arrange to take a few spicy shots of you next time you are in the toilet. Oh, the pleasure of catching you whilst urinating - I'm sure you understand.
PS - What are you wearing at the moment?
Well, we could actually educate our Nerd Utopia citizens instead of indoctrinating them - that might work. Maybe set a high rate of educational content mandatory on television, and sponsor programs that encorage literacy and education instead of watching pointless and socially destructive television shows that pointlessly waste people's lives away.
I imagine that a good education system in this utopia would be a good first step - certainly, it wouldn't be hard to teach education compared to the froth currently distributed at universities and schools. We could also allow people to progress in their school levels by ability, and not by merely a yearly progression en masse.
America was a great social experiment, but in this modern age, it needs a revision, and it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
Some distributed computing projects appear benevolent, but the actual results remain the property of commercial organisations/universities and trusts and there's no guarantees that the results won't be used purely from a commercial and non-humanitarian point of view. I haven't looked into this new IBM project, but I'd like to advise people to always read the fine print in who own what when the project is completed.
In the past, I've investigated a couple of projects, that upon closer scrutiny look quite troubling. They often fail to address what the actual project is specifically, and who will profit from the results financially. Instead, their websites are full of feel good graphics, but the bucks stop at a pharmaceutical company's coffers when you look at the fine details, and there's no discussion of what the findings will be specifically used for, and by whom. In some cases, the whole issue of profit and ownership is quite smoothly whitewashed.
Considering that there are other linux distributions that require less time, Gentoo requires a great deal of faith to go about the bother of setting it up.
Thanks for the advice chaps. I'll give it a look as your comments make me think it might be worth investigating even if the initial setup is a bit daunting. I'm presently running Suse 9.2, but I get a bit tired of it not having an easy way of upgrading the entire system. Installing and using apt is a pain with Suse too. You might have a Gentoo convert.
I like the fact that you have so much control over your installation, and the fact that you can compile for your own system easily is also very attractive features, but the trade off is how much time do you want to spend on Linux choosing and customising when there's a real world going on outside? In my case, the real world wins out.
Perhaps it's a bit like people who build cars by hand - not for every driver on the road, but a good hobby for some.
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I guess you unchecked the default "Add AOL Icon to Desktop" on your install. Who the hell wants an AOL icon when you're installing a music player? I certainly don't. Of course, usually people just click on through the defaults, as I did the first time.
And of course, the fact that it's also default "yes" to allow stats to be sent to AOL isn't a cause for concern - just like Real Player. Also, let's not worry about the commisions they get when you use the browser on amazon. It used to say "Don't nag me again" - but now it says "don't ask until next install" - so even when you tell it now to get lost, it will now keep nagging you on every upgrade. And why the hell do Nullsoft need to know about my usage anyhow? That sounds like spyware to me anonymous or not.
If you still think it's just great, then tell me how much faster that it's gotten since version 2 - it's slower every release, and much more unstable. I've had to reinstall it four times on one machine. Compare to XMMS or amaroK, it's sheer bloatware.
If they're so disabled that they can't shoot a wild pig or a deer themselves, maybe they need to get themselves in front of the cross hairs too. Either that, or just forget it. Fucking pathetic.
oooh you've insulted my manhood by suggesting i don't know many women! that was the whole point. yes CLEARY people care which is why there is a thread about this and why you typed a message, right? the point was why should people care? no physical harm or violation happens from a picture of someone's leg or tight t-shirt. modesty is not a reason in itself. it's completely arbitrary.
No, there's no insult intended, it's just clear that you don't really know much about women and how they like to be treated and the way they wish to be respected. If you were around women more, you'd know about all this sort of thing. As for modesty being an arbitary thing, put briefly, Ethical Relativism is a very old argument, that says regardless of whether ethical dilemmas are infact culturally contextual ideas, they are decided by majorities, and these rules are what is deemed right and wrong. You can argue against them all you like, but I happen to agree with the mainstream on this topic. Most philosophers agreed a long time ago, that most if not all things are not arbitary (or relative). Of course, if things are arbitary, you've invalidated your own argument, hence the reason why most people stay well clear of what you're claiming, after all, your idea is just as good as anyone's by your own arguement.
did i ever suggest that i was a proponent of exposing myself in public? there's a difference between not giving a @#$$% if someone takes candids photos, and getting off on it. notice that if everyone wasn't so uptight about this, the problem would solve itself. the only reason "upskirt" photos are popular is because this society is so utterly repressed.
Well, unless you're prepared to walk around bare arse naked, I think it's safe to assume that you're not prepared to practice what you advocate yourself. The fact is that whether you think people are "uptight" or not, that most people, particularily women don't want people invading their privacy and harming their sense of modesty. You may think people are uptight, but I'd say that most people would see a disregard for a woman's modesty as showing an ill mannered lout who has no charm or respect.
I don't know where you come from, and your background, but it really isn't okay to violate people's privacy and modesty, and it's not something that they need to not be uptight about.
I certainly hope AOL gives Firefox something for their trouble. Personally, I think AOL should hand the Netscape brand ownership over to Mozila. It does seeem a bit much that they're rebranding Firefox after they managed to ruin a perfectly good Netscape brand.
As it is, AOL don't seem to be looking after Winamp very much. Winamp is getting slower and less stable, and it was once a really good piece of software. I never that it could get so bad.
I always suspected that AOL were sabotaging their own products. Perhaps their plans of rebranding of Firefox shows that they're just plain dumb instead.
You might not mind, but many people would mind having their privacy violated. In fact, I think it's safe to say that the majority of people want some degree of privacy even when they are in a public place such as a toilet, a breast feeding room, a public pool, a change room etc.
Woman are especially concerned for their privacy, as most women are modest more so than men, and like to be afforded some sort of respect. After all, most women are ladies, and not street hookers.
Perhaps you don't know many women, which may be why you can't sympathise, but the majority don't want to feel violated with some pervert's camera in a toilet etc.
Additionally, a great deal of people don't want to see you yourself going to the toilet or waving your genitals or arse around for all to see. Perhaps it would be better in that hypotetical case, if you instead stayed at home.
It is dead, it's just hasn't stopped moving yet.
Winamp is rapidly gaining the same level of "features" that Netscape did when it died - it's bloated and tries to sneakily add AOL icons to your desktop. Oh and let's not forget the spyware aspect to the commisions they get on sales - nice touch. The fact that the interface hasn't been made any easier to use, and only gets more fiddly and complicated confirms it. Winamp is the great golden flamingo God of bad user/interface design.
All they need to do now is package AOL instant messenger with it, and it will be truly dead for ever more.
Nobody knows how to fuck up a once perfectly good piece of software through bad decisions like AOL. You really know your software sucks with 100% full vacuum when your old version is actually better in every way over the latest release. Even Macromedia would be impressed with the sheer - "I wonder if the whole thing is running in some sort of emulator""-ness of it all.
If I was in Microsoft's shoes, I'd want to get out of the operating system as quickly as possible too.
I can't really blame them, after all, they may as well diversify because they're losing ground left right and center. I imagine that they'll want to stream public executions of software pirates.
They should get into films like Sony - now that's where corporate evil would be appreciated.
Quite right Farble, please post your address, and I'll arrange to take a few spicy shots of you next time you are in the toilet. Oh, the pleasure of catching you whilst urinating - I'm sure you understand. PS - What are you wearing at the moment?
Je dirais que le nom correct de l'organisation est bien suffisant. Sûrement Français n'effraye pas vos susceptibilités d'expression Anglaise.
Well, we could actually educate our Nerd Utopia citizens instead of indoctrinating them - that might work. Maybe set a high rate of educational content mandatory on television, and sponsor programs that encorage literacy and education instead of watching pointless and socially destructive television shows that pointlessly waste people's lives away.
I imagine that a good education system in this utopia would be a good first step - certainly, it wouldn't be hard to teach education compared to the froth currently distributed at universities and schools. We could also allow people to progress in their school levels by ability, and not by merely a yearly progression en masse.
America was a great social experiment, but in this modern age, it needs a revision, and it's unlikely to happen any time soon.
No, this is cyberspace.
I think we nerds need to get ourselves an uninhabited island in the tropics and set up a government with no copyright laws whatsoever.
"Doctors without borders" are correctly called by their French name "Medecins Sans Frontieres".
Their site is here
Some distributed computing projects appear benevolent, but the actual results remain the property of commercial organisations/universities and trusts and there's no guarantees that the results won't be used purely from a commercial and non-humanitarian point of view. I haven't looked into this new IBM project, but I'd like to advise people to always read the fine print in who own what when the project is completed.
In the past, I've investigated a couple of projects, that upon closer scrutiny look quite troubling. They often fail to address what the actual project is specifically, and who will profit from the results financially. Instead, their websites are full of feel good graphics, but the bucks stop at a pharmaceutical company's coffers when you look at the fine details, and there's no discussion of what the findings will be specifically used for, and by whom. In some cases, the whole issue of profit and ownership is quite smoothly whitewashed.
Bah humbug - I'm looking forward to a 21" braile monitor.
Considering that there are other linux distributions that require less time, Gentoo requires a great deal of faith to go about the bother of setting it up.
Thanks for the advice chaps. I'll give it a look as your comments make me think it might be worth investigating even if the initial setup is a bit daunting. I'm presently running Suse 9.2, but I get a bit tired of it not having an easy way of upgrading the entire system. Installing and using apt is a pain with Suse too. You might have a Gentoo convert.
Gentoo's too damn time consuming for my tastes.
I like the fact that you have so much control over your installation, and the fact that you can compile for your own system easily is also very attractive features, but the trade off is how much time do you want to spend on Linux choosing and customising when there's a real world going on outside? In my case, the real world wins out.
Perhaps it's a bit like people who build cars by hand - not for every driver on the road, but a good hobby for some.
I bet he's now praying that none of his fellow inmates have purchased penis enlargement pills.
Maybe it's a public relations stunt to counter Linux. Microsoft are trying to appeal to the 1337 market.
Actually, I'l take the BBC any day of the week moron.
Fox News is aimed at the pitchfork wielding angry mob carrying torches type, so I guess it's only common sense that they have mobisodes.
Unless more basic infrastructure impovements are made in providing decent bandwidth to these technologies, I'm not likely to enjoy VoIP terribly much.
It's good to see Microsoft completely indifferent to their user base. It helps me keep faith that real innovation will beat their marketing hype.
Of course, Microsoft never fights battles in technological and innovative terms, but through marketing and business tactics.
Let the Browser War 2 (BW2) begin.
Ah yes, metric time. I bet we're all just dying to have a ten day week.
I'd suggest they put the metric time display across from the "Duke Nukem Forever" display, and next to the "Perpetual Motion Machine" display.