I said "smaller" not "small." I'm not assuming 3 inch iphone/ipod screens.
A netbook is just fine for on-the-go word processing. You've got a keyboard and screen. It's light, it has long battery life. A tablet with a bluetooth keyboard would be fine too.
I have a laptop with a 17 inch screen. It's a detriment when I want to travel with it. It's heavy. It burns through batteries, because it's power hungry since it has a "real" video card with it's own RAM and multiple cores in the CPU. It's a nice machine, but I don't like lugging it around.
I've been around and I've seen interfaces come and go. Ribbon is not "just one more thing to whine about." You are only partly right. It's the people who have seen other interfaces than Microsoft's that get riled up when they have to use something as broken as Ribbon. Because they know that better is out there. Novices just don't know any better.
People want lighter and smaller devices. Lugging a 7Kg desktop replacement Dell XPS gets a little long in the tooth.
Microsoft seems to be pooh-poohing the trend. They seem extremely hostile to mobile computing despite giving it a lot of lip service. They dismiss this to their peril.
>Besides, M$ has been losing their evil edge. Ballmer hasn't thrown a chair in a while
You haven't looked at the Microsoft vs Barnes&Noble lawsuit.
Basically they're saying all of Linux infringes. The B&N response is available on PACER - filed yesterday. But since someone was generous, here it is on ompldr.
With wide screen displays and netbook sizes, yes, yes they are. This is why Microsoft is getting all the deserved hate for the Ribbon interface.
Wasting 128 vertical pixels for nothing in Explorer is maddening.
Want to make me and a lot of other experienced users happy? Context driven menus, accessible by right click, and key combinations. System-wide. Make them tear-off like in the old NeXT desktop, too.
But that requires actual re-engineering of the desktop instead of re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic.
Protip: Clippy and the Spot the dog are the same thing.
They are descendants of Bob. Praise be.
People hated Bob and its help agents, and help agents still keep being "reinvented" each time there is a new Microsoft OS release. Microsoft is the only OS vendor that has tools that actually talk down to the user. Frankly, it's insulting. For all the yelling that people do at Apple for "dumbing down the interface," Microsoft does a pretty good job of doing that all by itself.
Ribbons in Explorer. Good lawd, I saw a screenshot. "Hey, everybody! Let's uselessly take up 128 vertical pixels in already vertically challenged widescreen displays!"
I was addressing the parent's question about what happens to the data that may still be on the drives after bankruptcy - whether it gets sold or destroyed or what.
Not the overall problem of whose responsibility it is to maintain backup, which is ultimately your own when you get down to it.
Store the data as encrypted on the remote site. If the remote provider goes belly up, you know that data is useless to third parties without the key so you just smile, go to your backups and re-host.
But you knew that and ignored what I said anyway just to make a non-sequitur.
It's an academic presentation. Background must be given to those not familiar with the material. Arguments need to be supported.
Again, your ADHD is not Lessig's problem. It's yours.
If you get to the second half, he gets into remix culture, which is interesting. But you missed out on it, because you can't sit still for more than 10 minutes and pay attention.
>He even claims the author can require require distribution of the source even if you merely run the software, as in the AGPL
BULLSHIT.
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies. You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.
What part of that do you not understand?
It's amazing how idiots like you read a license and then state with a straight face shit you know is wrong.
Restrictions? What about the restrictions on commercial software? Where is your freedom to make a clone of Word by reverse engineering the software, which the Microsoft EULA specifically forbids?
Go fuck yourself. I'm tired of hearing the unfounded GPL hate. You don't like the GPL? Fine. Don't use someone else's software published under the GPL. Don't download it. Don't modify it. And most of all don't distribute it if you are unwilling to follow the terms of the GPL
Sure is Softie shill FUD in here. Go astroturf somewhere else, asshole.
Whatever is good for companies is good for society. The Magic Invisible Hand of the Free market will eventually give everyone what they want. Why are you against free markets? Why are you against freedom? Why are you against the Best Economic System On Earth (TM)? Why *can't* Apple do what it wants with its own phone operating system and phones? You don't own iOS - you only have the temporary right to operate it. It's a license agreement, not a bill of sale. If the phone collects data on you, that's because it was designed that way. Page 25, subsection c, footnote 1 of the iOS license agreement allows this and you consented when you acquired the phone.
This is being used to track terrorists! If you are against this, you are for the terrorists!
Seriously people, THINK.
abj V arrq gb tb gnxr n sevttva' fubjre nsgre glcvat gung. V srry qvegl.
Still useful for multipart forms (yes, they still exist, unfortunately), labels, and envelopes. Laser printers don't do so well on these. Laser printers have the unfortunate habit of heating the page of labels, so after a couple of passes, you throw away the rest of the page if you haven't used it (or you have a fun time digging out random labels from the laser printer).
>Would you trust your government to be your mail provider?
Sure. Why not? Encrypt it. Send it. No worries.
Wait, you're not encrypting your sensitive mail in the first place? When it can be picked up along the way by any Joe Schmoe MTA hop or Echelon type setup? Then you're an idiot. If you do this with a government that might kill you (Malaysia is not one of them) then you deserve to be a Darwin Award winner.
Unencrypted email is the same thing as a post card, and you are a fool if you think any differently.
Oh the days when I could go shopping in Canada when the Canadian dollar was 1/3 less (really, 33 percent - 400 bucks got me 600 CDN) than the US dollar.
Argument by analogy fails against the reality. In particular, the Middle East, where people are being shot at by their governments because the people have decided that the governments no longer serve them. Some are firing back, and the reason why more do not is that they physically lack the guns.
Foretelling doom when governments no longer represent the people is not only logical, but proven. This problem with patents and copyrights is just a symptom of a much larger problem: that a certain class does not give a shit about the rest of society.
Society will take its rights back, some day. If not by the system, then by force. It happens all the time.
1. You missed the point entirely. So much so you've ignored thousands of years of human society and the results of what happens when it breaks down. Courts that do not work for the people in general are a breakdown in society.
2. If there was no way for you to get redress for grievances, you'd shoot 'em. Because this is the way grievances are dealt with when they cannot be dealt wit by peaceful means (courts). This is why shooting wars over the breakdown of society are called revolutions. I didn't mention France of 1788 (just 1 year shy of 1789) for nothing.
This leads me to speculate that you are either willfully ignorant of history, and you should sue your teachers for never impressing basic concepts, or you slept through all of your classes, or you're trolling. You pick.
Is that the only thing that keeps people from shooting each other is the court system.
If you remove the trust that society places in the court system for dispensing significant amounts of justice, then courts are no longer the barrier between people with weapons.
Don't say it doesn't happen, because it happens all over the world.
Go ahead guys, keep abusing the system. First ones against the wall and all that.
I feel like I am living in France in 1788 and we are all arguing over mouldy bread and bad wine.
... It's Greenpeace looking for some way to be relevant after the halt of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
I think the only 4 ecology organizations that are worthwhile are Ducks Unlimited, Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and the Audubon Society. The rest are attention whores.
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I said "smaller" not "small." I'm not assuming 3 inch iphone/ipod screens.
A netbook is just fine for on-the-go word processing. You've got a keyboard and screen. It's light, it has long battery life. A tablet with a bluetooth keyboard would be fine too.
I have a laptop with a 17 inch screen. It's a detriment when I want to travel with it. It's heavy. It burns through batteries, because it's power hungry since it has a "real" video card with it's own RAM and multiple cores in the CPU. It's a nice machine, but I don't like lugging it around.
I've been around and I've seen interfaces come and go. Ribbon is not "just one more thing to whine about." You are only partly right. It's the people who have seen other interfaces than Microsoft's that get riled up when they have to use something as broken as Ribbon. Because they know that better is out there. Novices just don't know any better.
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Portability is not a fad, however.
People want lighter and smaller devices. Lugging a 7Kg desktop replacement Dell XPS gets a little long in the tooth.
Microsoft seems to be pooh-poohing the trend. They seem extremely hostile to mobile computing despite giving it a lot of lip service. They dismiss this to their peril.
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What a ridiculous request.
Go do your own damn googling. I'm done replying to this stupid thread. Y'all are Idiocracy personified.
"You're shit's all fucked up and you talk like a faggot" indeed.
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>Besides, M$ has been losing their evil edge. Ballmer hasn't thrown a chair in a while
You haven't looked at the Microsoft vs Barnes&Noble lawsuit.
Basically they're saying all of Linux infringes. The B&N response is available on PACER - filed yesterday. But since someone was generous, here it is on ompldr.
http://ompldr.org/vOGZ1dA/bnmsft.pdf
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>Pixels are not in short supply anymore
With wide screen displays and netbook sizes, yes, yes they are. This is why Microsoft is getting all the deserved hate for the Ribbon interface.
Wasting 128 vertical pixels for nothing in Explorer is maddening.
Want to make me and a lot of other experienced users happy? Context driven menus, accessible by right click, and key combinations. System-wide. Make them tear-off like in the old NeXT desktop, too.
But that requires actual re-engineering of the desktop instead of re-arranging the chairs on the Titanic.
Am I the only one that misses Workplace Shell?
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Protip: Clippy and the Spot the dog are the same thing.
They are descendants of Bob. Praise be.
People hated Bob and its help agents, and help agents still keep being "reinvented" each time there is a new Microsoft OS release. Microsoft is the only OS vendor that has tools that actually talk down to the user. Frankly, it's insulting. For all the yelling that people do at Apple for "dumbing down the interface," Microsoft does a pretty good job of doing that all by itself.
Ribbons in Explorer. Good lawd, I saw a screenshot. "Hey, everybody! Let's uselessly take up 128 vertical pixels in already vertically challenged widescreen displays!"
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I was addressing the parent's question about what happens to the data that may still be on the drives after bankruptcy - whether it gets sold or destroyed or what.
Not the overall problem of whose responsibility it is to maintain backup, which is ultimately your own when you get down to it.
Store the data as encrypted on the remote site. If the remote provider goes belly up, you know that data is useless to third parties without the key so you just smile, go to your backups and re-host.
But you knew that and ignored what I said anyway just to make a non-sequitur.
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It's an academic presentation. Background must be given to those not familiar with the material. Arguments need to be supported.
Again, your ADHD is not Lessig's problem. It's yours.
If you get to the second half, he gets into remix culture, which is interesting. But you missed out on it, because you can't sit still for more than 10 minutes and pay attention.
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Your ADHD is not Lessig's fault.
Just so you know.
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>He even claims the author can require require distribution of the source even if you merely run the software, as in the AGPL
BULLSHIT.
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program.
What part of that do you not understand?
It's amazing how idiots like you read a license and then state with a straight face shit you know is wrong.
Restrictions? What about the restrictions on commercial software? Where is your freedom to make a clone of Word by reverse engineering the software, which the Microsoft EULA specifically forbids?
Go fuck yourself. I'm tired of hearing the unfounded GPL hate. You don't like the GPL? Fine. Don't use someone else's software published under the GPL. Don't download it. Don't modify it. And most of all don't distribute it if you are unwilling to follow the terms of the GPL
Sure is Softie shill FUD in here. Go astroturf somewhere else, asshole.
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I didn't realize that the word "typewriter" only meant manual.
I guess I hadn't been using a typewriter since 1979, just some weird machine that emulated a typewriter.
Yes, that is a sneer you hear in my text.
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Whatever is good for companies is good for society. The Magic Invisible Hand of the Free market will eventually give everyone what they want. Why are you against free markets? Why are you against freedom? Why are you against the Best Economic System On Earth (TM)? Why *can't* Apple do what it wants with its own phone operating system and phones? You don't own iOS - you only have the temporary right to operate it. It's a license agreement, not a bill of sale. If the phone collects data on you, that's because it was designed that way. Page 25, subsection c, footnote 1 of the iOS license agreement allows this and you consented when you acquired the phone.
This is being used to track terrorists! If you are against this, you are for the terrorists!
Seriously people, THINK.
abj V arrq gb tb gnxr n sevttva' fubjre nsgre glcvat gung.
V srry qvegl.
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>impact printers
These are fine as long as you are using your own multipart forms on fanfold and can program the layout ahead of time.
They don't work so well when you're trying to fill out someone /else's/ multipart form, of which they only sent you *just* one. Bastards.
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Brother still makes an array of electric typewriters.
http://www.brother-usa.com/Typewriters/default.aspx?src=productIndex
Still useful for multipart forms (yes, they still exist, unfortunately), labels, and envelopes. Laser printers don't do so well on these. Laser printers have the unfortunate habit of heating the page of labels, so after a couple of passes, you throw away the rest of the page if you haven't used it (or you have a fun time digging out random labels from the laser printer).
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>Would you trust your government to be your mail provider?
Sure. Why not? Encrypt it. Send it. No worries.
Wait, you're not encrypting your sensitive mail in the first place? When it can be picked up along the way by any Joe Schmoe MTA hop or Echelon type setup? Then you're an idiot. If you do this with a government that might kill you (Malaysia is not one of them) then you deserve to be a Darwin Award winner.
Unencrypted email is the same thing as a post card, and you are a fool if you think any differently.
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Here's an obvious fix:
You store it as encrypted. Duh.
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...the book will be priced more by 20 percent.
Even though the US and Canadian dollars achieved parity in December of last year and the US dollar is on the low end.
http://www.x-rates.com/d/CAD/USD/hist2011.html
Oh the days when I could go shopping in Canada when the Canadian dollar was 1/3 less (really, 33 percent - 400 bucks got me 600 CDN) than the US dollar.
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tl;dr
Argument by analogy fails against the reality. In particular, the Middle East, where people are being shot at by their governments because the people have decided that the governments no longer serve them. Some are firing back, and the reason why more do not is that they physically lack the guns.
Foretelling doom when governments no longer represent the people is not only logical, but proven. This problem with patents and copyrights is just a symptom of a much larger problem: that a certain class does not give a shit about the rest of society.
Society will take its rights back, some day. If not by the system, then by force. It happens all the time.
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1. You missed the point entirely. So much so you've ignored thousands of years of human society and the results of what happens when it breaks down. Courts that do not work for the people in general are a breakdown in society.
2. If there was no way for you to get redress for grievances, you'd shoot 'em. Because this is the way grievances are dealt with when they cannot be dealt wit by peaceful means (courts). This is why shooting wars over the breakdown of society are called revolutions. I didn't mention France of 1788 (just 1 year shy of 1789) for nothing.
This leads me to speculate that you are either willfully ignorant of history, and you should sue your teachers for never impressing basic concepts, or you slept through all of your classes, or you're trolling. You pick.
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BMO
Is that the only thing that keeps people from shooting each other is the court system.
If you remove the trust that society places in the court system for dispensing significant amounts of justice, then courts are no longer the barrier between people with weapons.
Don't say it doesn't happen, because it happens all over the world.
Go ahead guys, keep abusing the system. First ones against the wall and all that.
I feel like I am living in France in 1788 and we are all arguing over mouldy bread and bad wine.
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One thing Daft punk left out was "proofread it"
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Around the would?
How about "around the won't" like in "I won't read this article" because subby is an idiot.
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>you think you need a new machine
Either that or open it up and blow out the dust.
Works wonders for overheating, dontchaknow.
Cheap/easy fixes first. Always.
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... It's Greenpeace looking for some way to be relevant after the halt of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
I think the only 4 ecology organizations that are worthwhile are Ducks Unlimited, Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and the Audubon Society. The rest are attention whores.
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BMO.
The CEOs of MSFT "partners" live in their own little bubbles of self-deception.
"We're not as dumb as those other guys that got eaten by Microsoft. No, no, we're different"
Yep. Every single time.
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