Creating sparsity is a well known way to push a product. Hold it back now and people will try to do anything to get on it. Then open the gates a bit more and suddenly allow everybody in. People will be drumming at the door to get access.
Bit like people waiting weeks in line for a movie that you could see a week later or a product you could buy a month later.
Isn't it sad that we need companies to fight our fights? No matter what side of companies will win, it won't be in the interest of the general public as long as they are not an involved party.
The way it should be (but never was) is that politicians are the representatives of the people and would be deciding what would be in the best interest of those people. Not if Amazon and Google are less evil then Sony and friends.
Laws requiring photo ID to vote only exist to keep poor people from voting.
Then all Belgians must be rich. Voting is not an option in Belgium, it is a must. Also people must identify themselves with their ID that they must have with them at all times, not just for voting.
OK, appearing to vote is a must, not the voting itself as they could select nobody.
That said, there is e-voting here as well and it STILL is a stoopid idea. What should happen, at least in Belgium, is people show up, get their ID checked and then get 1 paper wich they take into the voting boot and then drop in the box.
The electronic part of the card is open source and can be read by anybody with a reader that can work with Windows, Mac and Linux or any other OS if you write the software. http://eid.belgium.be/nl/ in Dutch and French. Some code at http://code.google.com/p/eid-mw/
I do believe that the majority of Americans also support free speech. If you don't like people having another opinion move to another nation(as that's what you seem to be against). Good luck. Also you'll have to check all your own opinions at the gate.
This would just move the procedure from the TSA to the airlines who wile hire even less qualified people to grope you, while the TSA will set even stupider rules. And if you fly some companies, you will need to pay for being groped as well.
You could even ask if you need a cell phone. I live in a student city and as always, students will get X amount of money. X has not changed (except for inflation).
Where students would spend part on housing, part on food (ok, spaghetti every day) and the rest on beer. Now part of that beer money goes to mobile service and the ISP.
Don't forget people usually have only X amount to spend. So if you spend it on one thing, you can't spend it on something else. (No matter what the banks tell you.)
And bring back the classic google pics. Sure you can add &sout=1 or scroll 3 minutes down to click on 'Switch to basic version'.
Also nice to see how they try their hardest to break workarounds.
But then when we see how they raped DejaNews, it is clear that they are just another company looking out only for them selves and in second place for their customers (we are the product they sell)
Get your high horse out of the ivory tower. Or as Linus says: "what have they been smoking?"
Blame the users is never a great idea. Many people who are corporate are ALSO home users. You know, those who you want to please.
And sorry to burst your bubble. You do not develop for the Web. You develop for the users. Get your head out of your ass and get your priorities straight.
users will do with the web not thanks to you, but despite of you.
Who are these people that do not love to live in a Police State? The last few I have seen where in Libia and Egypt. Perhaps you think of a few individual Americans. The majority I see are people waving the flag and singing the the national anthem just like they learned at school.
The beginning of indoctrination not to doubt government. Best way to do that is when they are young.
At work I want something secure. More then anything. At home I want stability. Yet I care less, because it is not me who needs to do the IT part.
At home I want stability. The majority of users does not WANT change. They want to surf the web, chat with their children and perhaps see how much money they have on their account.
And just clicking OK is what is giving the most problems. I try to tell them NOT to do that. The majority uses IT, it does not understand IT.
Perhaps we should. Or better we must. Terrorists are indeed not stupid. They see that many people enter the country illegally, so if they really want, they can get in.
They already have experience in other types of bombing. Public transport or a market are often great places. Take any place where people are together and they could easily form a stampede as described here and that was 63 people, just because somebody yelled 'Bomb'. Put somebody there with a REAL bomb and Fox News will spread the panic better then anybody could do.
Well, we know all where poo comes from. We also know how many drugs are still smuggled by airplane. What would stop a terrorist of putting some C4 or something else there and then take it on the plane?
Not sure how to let this stuff explode, but I am sure there would be solutions for that.
They make it sound as if it is the users fault. The users are not there so you can code. You should not code despite of the users.
I now need to run firefox with the -P option, because they do not allow me to run two instances at the same time (No, I do not mean a second window). Running it over ssh needs an extra parameter.
It does a lot of other things against logic, like updating itself instead of letting my distro do that.
With everything they do I get a feeling that the developers think they are holier then thou. They do things because they can and/or because it is fun to do for them.
At this moment the only thing that keeps me with Firefox is the add-ons, but I will making a list of the importance of all plugins and see if there is an alternative elsewhere.
They, of all browsers, should know how fast people can switch and loose everything again.
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Creating sparsity is a well known way to push a product. Hold it back now and people will try to do anything to get on it. Then open the gates a bit more and suddenly allow everybody in.
People will be drumming at the door to get access.
Bit like people waiting weeks in line for a movie that you could see a week later or a product you could buy a month later.
Isn't it sad that we need companies to fight our fights? No matter what side of companies will win, it won't be in the interest of the general public as long as they are not an involved party.
The way it should be (but never was) is that politicians are the representatives of the people and would be deciding what would be in the best interest of those people. Not if Amazon and Google are less evil then Sony and friends.
Thanks for pointing that out. It doesn't. Please buy a new license for that,
Signed: RIAA
Crashing CGI cars cheap? How much do you think the var crash in Transformers 3 costs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kcqB3thJM
They shut others up. Like that one who said some president was a dick and he was forced to apologize.
Sure, it wasn't the government that made him shut up and that makes it even worse,
The double standard is explicitly acknowledged several times already.
Then all Belgians must be rich.
Voting is not an option in Belgium, it is a must. Also people must identify themselves with their ID that they must have with them at all times, not just for voting.
OK, appearing to vote is a must, not the voting itself as they could select nobody.
That said, there is e-voting here as well and it STILL is a stoopid idea. What should happen, at least in Belgium, is people show up, get their ID checked and then get 1 paper wich they take into the voting boot and then drop in the box.
The electronic part of the card is open source and can be read by anybody with a reader that can work with Windows, Mac and Linux or any other OS if you write the software. http://eid.belgium.be/nl/ in Dutch and French. Some code at http://code.google.com/p/eid-mw/
I do believe that the majority of Americans also support free speech. If you don't like people having another opinion move to another nation(as that's what you seem to be against). Good luck. Also you'll have to check all your own opinions at the gate.
Why not go for the obvious and bid a googol dollars?
Same as they do in most countries, by allowing lobbying to sidestep voters.
Also decibel is logarithmic and size is not. Not sure if they calculated that as well. The blue whale produces 188dB.
The person who designed your car wants to know where the check for his kids is.
This would just move the procedure from the TSA to the airlines who wile hire even less qualified people to grope you, while the TSA will set even stupider rules.
And if you fly some companies, you will need to pay for being groped as well.
You could even ask if you need a cell phone. I live in a student city and as always, students will get X amount of money. X has not changed (except for inflation).
Where students would spend part on housing, part on food (ok, spaghetti every day) and the rest on beer. Now part of that beer money goes to mobile service and the ISP.
Don't forget people usually have only X amount to spend. So if you spend it on one thing, you can't spend it on something else. (No matter what the banks tell you.)
And bring back the classic google pics. Sure you can add &sout=1 or scroll 3 minutes down to click on 'Switch to basic version'.
Also nice to see how they try their hardest to break workarounds.
But then when we see how they raped DejaNews, it is clear that they are just another company looking out only for them selves and in second place for their customers (we are the product they sell)
Because then I can finally download a car.
A second bonus for the Germans who say no to nuclear power, but are willing to buy it.
Get your high horse out of the ivory tower. Or as Linus says: "what have they been smoking?"
Blame the users is never a great idea. Many people who are corporate are ALSO home users. You know, those who you want to please.
And sorry to burst your bubble. You do not develop for the Web. You develop for the users. Get your head out of your ass and get your priorities straight.
users will do with the web not thanks to you, but despite of you.
Who are these people that do not love to live in a Police State? The last few I have seen where in Libia and Egypt. Perhaps you think of a few individual Americans. The majority I see are people waving the flag and singing the the national anthem just like they learned at school.
The beginning of indoctrination not to doubt government. Best way to do that is when they are young.
(I have Karma to burn)
At work I want something secure. More then anything. At home I want stability. Yet I care less, because it is not me who needs to do the IT part.
At home I want stability. The majority of users does not WANT change. They want to surf the web, chat with their children and perhaps see how much money they have on their account.
And just clicking OK is what is giving the most problems. I try to tell them NOT to do that. The majority uses IT, it does not understand IT.
Perhaps we should. Or better we must. Terrorists are indeed not stupid. They see that many people enter the country illegally, so if they really want, they can get in.
They already have experience in other types of bombing. Public transport or a market are often great places. Take any place where people are together and they could easily form a stampede as described here and that was 63 people, just because somebody yelled 'Bomb'. Put somebody there with a REAL bomb and Fox News will spread the panic better then anybody could do.
Well, we know all where poo comes from. We also know how many drugs are still smuggled by airplane. What would stop a terrorist of putting some C4 or something else there and then take it on the plane?
Not sure how to let this stuff explode, but I am sure there would be solutions for that.
To some Protestants, she does. (yeah, I know)
They make it sound as if it is the users fault. The users are not there so you can code. You should not code despite of the users.
I now need to run firefox with the -P option, because they do not allow me to run two instances at the same time (No, I do not mean a second window). Running it over ssh needs an extra parameter.
It does a lot of other things against logic, like updating itself instead of letting my distro do that.
With everything they do I get a feeling that the developers think they are holier then thou. They do things because they can and/or because it is fun to do for them.
At this moment the only thing that keeps me with Firefox is the add-ons, but I will making a list of the importance of all plugins and see if there is an alternative elsewhere.
They, of all browsers, should know how fast people can switch and loose everything again.
No, it doesn't. Even IF the money would go to Al Qaida itself, the act would have nothing to do with terrorism. It is blackmail.
Do not confuse one crime with another. Copyright infringement is not theft. Blackmail is not terrorism.