1. also from the "scare the newbies" angle someone higher up mentioned.
2. haven't seen this in a long time either.
3. i STILL find computers that have USB booting issues. they seem to be really picky about what they boot off. some work fine with one model of thumbdrive, others require a slightly different one, some refuse to boot off a particular IDE-to-USB bridge used in some USB CD drives.
4. possible, but still the laptop thing, unless you've got a laptop CD-IDE to desktop IDE converter for that brand/model of laptop handy, not possible.
You want liberty and democracy, you have to find a moderate.
define "moderate", please. by some countries' government philosophies, the US government is so far right, that a radical left candidate would be "moderate".
they give the one an award that has what "most people expect" and "a good pedigree"?
well, in a business setting, a program that works damn-near-identically to the one you currently use is certainly a better idea than throwing something completely different out to the masses to learn. training costs and temporary loss of productivity are important things to consider.
there are (almost) always alternatives, which do the same things, and often in the same way. and if there isn't, maybe Linux isn't for you. Windows isn't for everyone either, nor is Mac OS, nor BSD, nor anything else. All OS's suck to varying degrees, so use whatever works for you.
and when I was on my work term at a local ISP (the phone company really, but i just did ISP-side stuff) just a few weeks ago. at least 1/3 of my calls were dial up related, so I'd still consider getting good winmodem support a good idea, as hardware modems are pretty much non-existent.
I've had good success with Ubuntu & variants being easy to setup (barring issues with some wireless chipsets and the usual problem if you need to use a winmodem), though games (copy protection/anti-cheat stuff especially) are still a problem, even with the likes of wine/cedega.
It's ads that slow down your goddamn page loads, because the page waits for the massively overloaded ad server to finish loading its ad before the rest of the content pops up. Screw that. those qualify as "offensive" on my list, along with:
1. pop-up/pop-under
2. distracting/seizure inducing
3. excessively large (either file size or physical size)
4. ones get in the way of what I'm doing (e.g. those stupid sliding ads that cover part of the screen that I'm trying to read and follow you down the page.)
5. obvious bullshit (YOU WON A FREE *SOMETHING*!)
if you want me to see your ads, nice simple text ads (ala adsense) are nice. i keep those whitelisted. a small, simple jpeg is fine too. a small animated gif might be pushing it. and don't even think about using flash.
i guess that depends on which end of the market is free. in my opinion, there seem to be 2 kinds of "free" markets. one where the company(ies) are free (no regulation) and one where the consumer is free (your efficient market), which requires either regulation or *active* competition.
correct that policy here has nothing to do with policy in the US. I'm just stating that regulation is good, competition is good, and regulation + completion is very good (for the consumer), and that having either regulation or competition (real competition. merely having more than 1 company to choose from is not competition. they have to actually be competing.) is very bad for the consumer.
I'm not saying that is what exists in the US (it seems to be slowly sliding back to Ma Bell), I'm just saying that i personally think it would be a good idea for things to work like this, as it works very well here.
well, as someone said in a previous discussion:
The only way to truely protect your data is to grind up your hard drive into powder, magnetize it all, then heat it into a liquid. Cool and grind it up again, scatter it into the wind, and just HOPE entropy does the rest.
Then you are EXACTLY what the justice department is talking about. "Don't regulate, because something is better then nothing."
aside from that there IS regulation here, especially on phone/VOIP services, and to a (much) lesser extent on Internet service.
and yes, i know about the limitation, but my service is fairly regulated as it's provided by the phone company, which is a crown corporation (Sasktel).
hear hear! anyone who argues that the cell industry is a free market is either being paid, has no idea what a free market is, or is certifiably insane.
things are similar in the nearest city (we got the cable guys, 2 DSL providers (phone company and someone else), free municipal wifi downtown, etc. i'm about 15 miles out of said town, so i have the options of dial up (too slow), satellite (too laggy) or microwave broadband (which works very good so far)), but i find a lot of places where there is really the 2-options situation.
And, if your content is actually valuable, then the large provider's customers will leave and use competitors, the large provider will go bankrupt, and the free market will work without requiring any government intervention.
If you really think that there is "competition" among ISPs or a free market in this industry, I've got a bridge to sell you.
And what if the local NSP with a monopoly decides to throttle stuff going to all the local ISPs? What "competitor" are you going to go to?
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i'm not entirely sure if this is a troll or not. it sounds reasonable on the surface though.
They're called water purification plants, and a centralized solution isn't so great for dealing with massive infrastructure failure.
and what makes you think that the government is collectively smart enough to realize that?
1. also from the "scare the newbies" angle someone higher up mentioned.
2. haven't seen this in a long time either.
3. i STILL find computers that have USB booting issues. they seem to be really picky about what they boot off. some work fine with one model of thumbdrive, others require a slightly different one, some refuse to boot off a particular IDE-to-USB bridge used in some USB CD drives.
4. possible, but still the laptop thing, unless you've got a laptop CD-IDE to desktop IDE converter for that brand/model of laptop handy, not possible.
not quite non-destructively. I've had some problems with such things wreaking large, heavily fragmented files.
You want liberty and democracy, you have to find a moderate.
define "moderate", please. by some countries' government philosophies, the US government is so far right, that a radical left candidate would be "moderate".
they give the one an award that has what "most people expect" and "a good pedigree"?
well, in a business setting, a program that works damn-near-identically to the one you currently use is certainly a better idea than throwing something completely different out to the masses to learn. training costs and temporary loss of productivity are important things to consider.
there are (almost) always alternatives, which do the same things, and often in the same way. and if there isn't, maybe Linux isn't for you. Windows isn't for everyone either, nor is Mac OS, nor BSD, nor anything else. All OS's suck to varying degrees, so use whatever works for you.
You still use a modem?
I did until 4 months ago.
and when I was on my work term at a local ISP (the phone company really, but i just did ISP-side stuff) just a few weeks ago. at least 1/3 of my calls were dial up related, so I'd still consider getting good winmodem support a good idea, as hardware modems are pretty much non-existent.
Xiph.org disagrees.
I've had good success with Ubuntu & variants being easy to setup (barring issues with some wireless chipsets and the usual problem if you need to use a winmodem), though games (copy protection/anti-cheat stuff especially) are still a problem, even with the likes of wine/cedega.
but this is nothing more than speculation based on MS-hate, not facts.
someone remind this guy what happened with WGA about 2 weeks ago.
If you install a legal copy of Vista, one can assume that it will remain legal.
no, one can't.
you seem to be forgetting a little article about 2 weeks ago. something about the WGA servers going down and legit copies being identified as pirated.
not to mention various issues with WGA throwing false positives on legit copies that have been happening since they created that stupid thing.
1. pop-up/pop-under
2. distracting/seizure inducing
3. excessively large (either file size or physical size)
4. ones get in the way of what I'm doing (e.g. those stupid sliding ads that cover part of the screen that I'm trying to read and follow you down the page.)
5. obvious bullshit (YOU WON A FREE *SOMETHING*!)
if you want me to see your ads, nice simple text ads (ala adsense) are nice. i keep those whitelisted. a small, simple jpeg is fine too. a small animated gif might be pushing it. and don't even think about using flash.
Microsoft Can't legally be held liable
only if they don't piss off someone larger with more legal pull. laws can and do change.
you are not a legal, paying customer.
and if you are a legal paying customer with an actual legit copy of windows, and WGA screws up again like it has in the past?
Industrial hemp has no THC, so there is no possibility to get a high from it.
not quite zero. i believe the standard for it to be considered industrial hemp rather than marijuana is below 0.05% THC.
That means fusion....
so let's figure out something that will sustain things until we get that to work. that means renewable hydrocarbons.
i guess that depends on which end of the market is free. in my opinion, there seem to be 2 kinds of "free" markets. one where the company(ies) are free (no regulation) and one where the consumer is free (your efficient market), which requires either regulation or *active* competition.
correct that policy here has nothing to do with policy in the US. I'm just stating that regulation is good, competition is good, and regulation + completion is very good (for the consumer), and that having either regulation or competition (real competition. merely having more than 1 company to choose from is not competition. they have to actually be competing.) is very bad for the consumer.
I'm not saying that is what exists in the US (it seems to be slowly sliding back to Ma Bell), I'm just saying that i personally think it would be a good idea for things to work like this, as it works very well here.
Then you are EXACTLY what the justice department is talking about. "Don't regulate, because something is better then nothing."
aside from that there IS regulation here, especially on phone/VOIP services, and to a (much) lesser extent on Internet service.
and yes, i know about the limitation, but my service is fairly regulated as it's provided by the phone company, which is a crown corporation (Sasktel).
hear hear! anyone who argues that the cell industry is a free market is either being paid, has no idea what a free market is, or is certifiably insane.
yes, where you live.
things are similar in the nearest city (we got the cable guys, 2 DSL providers (phone company and someone else), free municipal wifi downtown, etc. i'm about 15 miles out of said town, so i have the options of dial up (too slow), satellite (too laggy) or microwave broadband (which works very good so far)), but i find a lot of places where there is really the 2-options situation.
If I'm not getting what I'm paying for as a user, I change providers.
and if all (in most cases, the word would be "both") of the providers in the area decide to throttle stuff?
And, if your content is actually valuable, then the large provider's customers will leave and use competitors, the large provider will go bankrupt, and the free market will work without requiring any government intervention.
If you really think that there is "competition" among ISPs or a free market in this industry, I've got a bridge to sell you.
And what if the local NSP with a monopoly decides to throttle stuff going to all the local ISPs? What "competitor" are you going to go to?