why should the overwhelming majority suffer because of a few perpetrators?
When I park in a restricted area and I'm 5 minutes late and get a ticket, I'm suffering because of the few perpetrators who would abuse the parking spot and stay there all day.
And yet I don't think parking tickets are a bad thing. Just as I don't think having my internet access slowed a bit to try to stop illegal content is a bad thing.
You mean people in America don't vote out of ignorance? I feel compulsory voting forces ignorant people (such as myself) to take more of an interest in politics, especially third parties. I know I would VERY easily become jaded and stop voting if I had that option.
I don't know that this is THAT bad. Sure it'll suck to have a slower internet, but perhaps that will simply encourage the government to lay down better fibre.
Define we. I heard quite a few companies friendly with the Bush administration profited quite well.
People seem to forget that polls showed that US citizens, as well as many of the world supported going into Iraq immediately after 9/11 on a false premise that Saddam had ties to 9/11.
Which Bush didn't do. Unless your definition of immediately means waiting 2 years.
Clinton while in office bombed 4 different countries without pursuing diplomacy in any of those cases.
The nice features of IE are: * Awesomebar * Can select text and use a variety of scripts, most notably search for things direct from the right-click menu (or by clicking on an icon that appears). Having multiple search engines appear within the right-click menu is a sorely needed feature of Firefox. * Web Slices - "Bookmark" a webslice and you'll be able to see the part of the page that was captured by that webslice by simply hovering your mouse over the bookmark (rather then needing to reload the page). * A blank tab will have a list of tabs you've recently closed so you can reopen them.
The bad features though are: * Awesomebar is buggy as hell when trying to find a page by typing in the page's title. * Favourite management is the same as it was in 1998! * Web Slices has only minimal adoption among websites. * Slow as snails, despite its laughable claim to have increased speed performance.
If they manage to fix those cons (Awesomebar bugginess is expected in a beta product and web slice adoption should explode once IE8 is released. HOWEVER there's no excuse for the slow speed (if you haven't fixed the speed issues in your beta product, don't claim you have) and the antiquated favourites management is a big turn off), I expect I should switch to IE8.
That's assuming, of course, Firefox doesn't produce equally good features and/or doesn't incorporate IE8's features itself.
I installed IE8 to see what it was like, and while it has some nice features (although others like its bookmarks organisation are stuck in the 90s, as is its cookie handling it appears), they require code that has yet to gain widespread adoption and so as such isn't overly useful.
The main sticking point though, is the thing is slow as snails. Here are my benchmarks: * IE 8 - 7.125 seconds * Opera 0.60 - 2.812 seconds * Firefox 3.0.3 - 2.795
So despite the lack of evidence in the article, the summary is indeed correct. (While I haven't used Firefox 3.1 in this test by all accounts its even faster then Firefox 3.0.3).
I can play a CD or DVD without breaking the law. Then again I don't buy stuff that won't work on my system. Just as I won't buy a PS3 game if all I have is an Xbox, nor will I buy a Windows movie if I don't have a Windows-compatible device.
Having said that, the DMCA is the work of the devil and I don't consider anyone a criminal who does break that law.
If Qantas cuts the costs of maintenance to such a degree that fatalities are not only likely, but inevitable, can anyone actually be charged with murder?
You saying that as a kiwi? Because know matter how terrible an American-Australian accent is, it doesn't come close to a kiwi accent (they actually manage to say fish and chips, a feat no kiwi has ever managed;)).
I don't get this. The program has an interface that is almost identical to Photoshop. How can it be hated so badly while Photoshop is pirated by everyone?
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It must be an absolute....You don't however have the right to harm them, or incite others to do so.
Hardly absolute then.
why should the overwhelming majority suffer because of a few perpetrators?
When I park in a restricted area and I'm 5 minutes late and get a ticket, I'm suffering because of the few perpetrators who would abuse the parking spot and stay there all day.
And yet I don't think parking tickets are a bad thing. Just as I don't think having my internet access slowed a bit to try to stop illegal content is a bad thing.
You mean people in America don't vote out of ignorance? I feel compulsory voting forces ignorant people (such as myself) to take more of an interest in politics, especially third parties. I know I would VERY easily become jaded and stop voting if I had that option.
I actually don't have too much of a problem with this. Its entirely optional. I can opt-out of this filter. And I will.
News to Enderandrew: You don't have free speech according to your definition.
I don't know that this is THAT bad. Sure it'll suck to have a slower internet, but perhaps that will simply encourage the government to lay down better fibre.
We haven't financially gained from invading Iraq.
Define we. I heard quite a few companies friendly with the Bush administration profited quite well.
People seem to forget that polls showed that US citizens, as well as many of the world supported going into Iraq immediately after 9/11 on a false premise that Saddam had ties to 9/11.
Which Bush didn't do. Unless your definition of immediately means waiting 2 years.
Clinton while in office bombed 4 different countries without pursuing diplomacy in any of those cases.
Did he do so under false pretences?
The nice features of IE are:
* Awesomebar
* Can select text and use a variety of scripts, most notably search for things direct from the right-click menu (or by clicking on an icon that appears). Having multiple search engines appear within the right-click menu is a sorely needed feature of Firefox.
* Web Slices - "Bookmark" a webslice and you'll be able to see the part of the page that was captured by that webslice by simply hovering your mouse over the bookmark (rather then needing to reload the page).
* A blank tab will have a list of tabs you've recently closed so you can reopen them.
The bad features though are:
* Awesomebar is buggy as hell when trying to find a page by typing in the page's title.
* Favourite management is the same as it was in 1998!
* Web Slices has only minimal adoption among websites.
* Slow as snails, despite its laughable claim to have increased speed performance.
If they manage to fix those cons (Awesomebar bugginess is expected in a beta product and web slice adoption should explode once IE8 is released. HOWEVER there's no excuse for the slow speed (if you haven't fixed the speed issues in your beta product, don't claim you have) and the antiquated favourites management is a big turn off), I expect I should switch to IE8.
That's assuming, of course, Firefox doesn't produce equally good features and/or doesn't incorporate IE8's features itself.
I installed IE8 to see what it was like, and while it has some nice features (although others like its bookmarks organisation are stuck in the 90s, as is its cookie handling it appears), they require code that has yet to gain widespread adoption and so as such isn't overly useful.
The main sticking point though, is the thing is slow as snails. Here are my benchmarks:
* IE 8 - 7.125 seconds
* Opera 0.60 - 2.812 seconds
* Firefox 3.0.3 - 2.795
So despite the lack of evidence in the article, the summary is indeed correct. (While I haven't used Firefox 3.1 in this test by all accounts its even faster then Firefox 3.0.3).
I can play a CD or DVD without breaking the law. Then again I don't buy stuff that won't work on my system. Just as I won't buy a PS3 game if all I have is an Xbox, nor will I buy a Windows movie if I don't have a Windows-compatible device.
Having said that, the DMCA is the work of the devil and I don't consider anyone a criminal who does break that law.
Very few outside of geeks care about the DMCA.
Copyright holders by definition cannot violate their own copyrights.
Tell that to the webhost.
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So sterile people aren't alive?
How about BULLSHOT - Bloody Unintelligent Low-Life Scientists Hitting On Teenagers?
Or how about BULLSHUT - Bloody Unimportant Low-Life Scientists Hacking Up Teenagers?
I got to the H and then got kinda stuck. Sorry.
no-one cares.
Enterprise sucked until the last season. If only they had gotten Manny Coto from the start, we'd be watching the 6th Star Trek series to grace television.
If Qantas cuts the costs of maintenance to such a degree that fatalities are not only likely, but inevitable, can anyone actually be charged with murder?
Does Qantas' aircraft maintenance suck
Considering they've recently shipped it overseas where its cheaper (as opposed to being better), I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.
I never heard about this sort of thing before Qantas moved their maintenance offshore.
You saying that as a kiwi? Because know matter how terrible an American-Australian accent is, it doesn't come close to a kiwi accent (they actually manage to say fish and chips, a feat no kiwi has ever managed ;)).
Aboriginals, like anyone else, are entitled to welfare, free education, etc. They choose not to take it.
I don't get this. The program has an interface that is almost identical to Photoshop. How can it be hated so badly while Photoshop is pirated by everyone?
But you see, Bush implemented a trickle-down economy. See how well that's working?
As an Australian I can only Marvel at America's national debt. You've all given up on the hope of ever paying it off, which is simply astounding.
Just because there's public demand for something doesn't mean the OSS community works meaningfully to solve that demand.
That isn't what all the OSS zealots would have you believe.