Like I said this is open to debate. My problem is that whenever I rip a CD with iTunes every artist shows up in my iPod even if I set the compilation flag. Since I prefer to listen to albums and since I select them by artist this really bugs me.
Apart from that they still don't manage to deal with compilations in a proper manner, because they clutter the artist category (if anyone knows a good way to deal with this without renaming the Artist to "Various" please let me know). On the other hand I've never heard about a vendor satisfying the needs of experts and "babies" at the same time (I count myself into the former group, but I'm quite glad how the iPod spares me a lot of work I'd have to do using OSS).
Anyways, I'm really curious what Neuros's approach will lead to.
It really depends on what you need the information for. If I'm looking for some information about a topic that interests me I favor quantity over quality, espacially because wikipedia offers information on topics I would never find in an encyclopedia. However, if I'm looking something up on wikipedia for a presentation or to simply prove my point to a friend I'll double check it with more traditional sources, because I know that I can't really trust the wiki article. IMO people look at this project the wrong way. In it's current form it will never replace the traditional encyclopedia, but on the other hand encyclopedias will never match wiki' in regards to actuality. People should just see it as a valuable enhancement, but it's not a replacement to triple-checked books being published every other year.
yes, it sounds like a good concept, but IMHO there are other issues to deal with beforehand. For example it really bugs me that every device I buy comes with a different charging unit with a different plug. The average non tech-savy person might have 10 of them at home - people like me rather tend to have a freaking pool and they are extremely inconvenient and they waste a lot of power as well.
Does anyone of you really believe that charging by induction will be any different?
Another problem: Those devices waste a lot more than conventional charging units. Is this really the right way to go an era of rising energy prices?
XP comes on one CD, but to make a fair comparison those Office CDs and other Apps you'll need to make the installation actually usable should count too.
Given that we have a straight train connection and that a bullet train would actually drive this route it would be possible. It's even less than 200 km btw.
But since there are no bullet trains fully crossing switzerland and since the swiss train grid is far more complicated in real life there is no chance to make it in 45 minutes right now.
So you are talking about a theoretical option while I just described the current status. I've been "exposed" to the metric system since first grade btw - I'm German...
Sorry to bag your country to make my point that the USA isn't the only democracy on earth.
First of all: You didn't do any harm at all. I was just slightly offensed because your post implied that it's illegal to handle out leaflets in Germany. That just makes us look like a friggin' police state. So I just had to elaborate on the two instances which might get you in trouble if they are performed in public. I might not agree with at least one of them (the holocaust denial law was passed within the last decade and I simply believe that it's overkill), but looking at our history it might be tolerable to have such exceptions to free speech. The other law wasn't created by us btw, we just adopted it from the allies when the BRD was founded.
So let's just assume that I'm standing on the street handing out leaflets claiming that the third reich was a superior system and that Hitler was a good guy (just a hypothesis really). I wouldn't face prosecution because it's free speech!
I don't want to argue about mob rule and democracy (different terms IMO). I just wanted to point out that Germany has a rather liberal approach to freedom of speech and whenever we are criticized for having such laws it really affects just a small percentage of the population and even Nazi people are normally smart enough to formulate their goals without violating one of those laws.
You are right - it's completely legal in the US right now (I already mentioned it above). It really was a bad idea to prove my point this way, but afterall I just wanted to say that handing out leaflets in Germany isn't a problem at all (in reply to grandparent). I did some "research" afterwards and there seems to be no single case of prosecution since '86. Any form of flag desecration seems to be covered by the 1st amendment.
My comparison is actually pretty moot since flag desecration is legal or will be tolerated in most democratic countries. I just did a little search and apart from Ireland I couldn't find any other country where burning their flag would get you into real (legal) trouble.
This is a good place to start if you want to know more about the topic.
How about France or Germany where handing out leaflets in the street will get you arrested. How could this possibly happen in a democracy? After all, it can't happen in the USA
Handing out leaflets in Germany won't get you arrested. There are just a few very specific cases in which free (public) speech is restricted and they are all strongly related to our Nazi legacy. I (being in Germany right now) can't hand out leaflets suggesting that the holocaust didn't happen and I can't display nazi symbols like the Hakenkreuz in public. But that's about it.
I don't really know why so many people are offended by our laws while their countries don't even allow their citizens to burn a flag of their nation. (I can burn as many German flags as I want to)
There are systems in which the representatives are directly bound to the decisions made by those they represent. If that doesn't really makes sense to you think about it as some kind of upwards democracy: The lower districts tell their representatives exactly how they have to vote on the higher levels and so on.
That's an early communist concept and it never really took off. Apart from the Bavarian "Räterepublik" after WWI I don't know of any attempts to establish such a system, so it's just a side note in history.
How insightful, but it's not like we didn't see it coming. Europe has faced problems like this for decades (though I must admit that it used to be about dumping in the low salary sector). We are aware about this problem for quite a while and there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. Most of us are quite surprised about the outsourcing discussion in the states btw, because we are simply used to the fact that someone on the globe will perform the same task cheaper. IMO the general development is rather shortsighted. Instead of improving the current structures thousands of people are fired because it might look better at the end of the fiscal year. If those tendencies of shrinking (in the western world) will pay off is a totally different question. Possibly it's more a question of "work culture". There are some states in the EU which are more productive than the US per working person, even though he/she might enjoy ~30 days of vacation a year + various holidays. Most people want to work and they are usually worth their money.
Apart from that most so called doles barely help an unemployed person to stay alive. You might want to call that generous, but for me that's just the minimum of what companies like IBM can do by paying taxes.
There's something very perverse about ruining a perfect triology as well.
I mean it's not about the best movie ever made (TM). Or do you define good movies by the level of special effects involved in the making?
There is not much to develop for a space race (who is really into this race apart from the US btw?).
It has all been planned in the cold war and it wasn't realized back then *for a reason*. And afterall the US doesn't lack technology in current affairs...
Porn? C'mon. Everybody knows that there is no better way to get infected than to google for "Office Serialz" - just try it with a box lacking 3 month of updates ^^
They might be marketing driven, but on the other hand the processing power nowadays really extends computers. Use hardware from '95 and you'll soon realize that you can't listen to mp3s in real time or that you can't encode some video within a week. I guess that we all agree that every modern computer mostly wastes its cycles, but sometimes it's rather handy to have that extra power at your fingertips.
If they need some stupid "law" to follow it's allright to me.
There is just one thing that bugs me since years: That every new gerneration of chips consumes more power in order to fulfill Moore's prophecy. But I guess we can only blame the consumers in this case.
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My evil side somehow tells me to make some joke about the convenience of using OSX and mind altered states.
;)
However, since I'm writing this on a Powerbook I'd rather shut up and leave it to your imagination. Guess it's time to ssh into my linux box
Like I said this is open to debate. My problem is that whenever I rip a CD with iTunes every artist shows up in my iPod even if I set the compilation flag. Since I prefer to listen to albums and since I select them by artist this really bugs me.
Apart from that they still don't manage to deal with compilations in a proper manner, because they clutter the artist category (if anyone knows a good way to deal with this without renaming the Artist to "Various" please let me know).
On the other hand I've never heard about a vendor satisfying the needs of experts and "babies" at the same time (I count myself into the former group, but I'm quite glad how the iPod spares me a lot of work I'd have to do using OSS).
Anyways, I'm really curious what Neuros's approach will lead to.
It really depends on what you need the information for. If I'm looking for some information about a topic that interests me I favor quantity over quality, espacially because wikipedia offers information on topics I would never find in an encyclopedia.
However, if I'm looking something up on wikipedia for a presentation or to simply prove my point to a friend I'll double check it with more traditional sources, because I know that I can't really trust the wiki article.
IMO people look at this project the wrong way. In it's current form it will never replace the traditional encyclopedia, but on the other hand encyclopedias will never match wiki' in regards to actuality. People should just see it as a valuable enhancement, but it's not a replacement to triple-checked books being published every other year.
yes, it sounds like a good concept, but IMHO there are other issues to deal with beforehand. For example it really bugs me that every device I buy comes with a different charging unit with a different plug. The average non tech-savy person might have 10 of them at home - people like me rather tend to have a freaking pool and they are extremely inconvenient and they waste a lot of power as well. Does anyone of you really believe that charging by induction will be any different? Another problem: Those devices waste a lot more than conventional charging units. Is this really the right way to go an era of rising energy prices?
XP comes on one CD, but to make a fair comparison those Office CDs and other Apps you'll need to make the installation actually usable should count too.
Maybe we need a new rating system for scenes displaying corpulent people.
/me lights another cigarette
No shit, I really don't see the point you are trying to make.
Just a sidenote: It's Freiburg im Breisgau. But it's pronounced like Frieburg as in "fries" (if English is your first language).
But since there are no bullet trains fully crossing switzerland and since the swiss train grid is far more complicated in real life there is no chance to make it in 45 minutes right now.
So you are talking about a theoretical option while I just described the current status. I've been "exposed" to the metric system since first grade btw - I'm German...
True, but you will never make it in 45 minutes going through Switzerland. At least today that's not possible.
Maybe I'm just not getting the joke but do you actually realize that Italy and Germany don't share a border? Austria is in between.
So let's just assume that I'm standing on the street handing out leaflets claiming that the third reich was a superior system and that Hitler was a good guy (just a hypothesis really). I wouldn't face prosecution because it's free speech!
I don't want to argue about mob rule and democracy (different terms IMO). I just wanted to point out that Germany has a rather liberal approach to freedom of speech and whenever we are criticized for having such laws it really affects just a small percentage of the population and even Nazi people are normally smart enough to formulate their goals without violating one of those laws.
You are right - it's completely legal in the US right now (I already mentioned it above). It really was a bad idea to prove my point this way, but afterall I just wanted to say that handing out leaflets in Germany isn't a problem at all (in reply to grandparent).
I did some "research" afterwards and there seems to be no single case of prosecution since '86. Any form of flag desecration seems to be covered by the 1st amendment.
I use a similar heatsink (6 heatpipes connected to 50 copper fins) for cooling my 2400+
Connected to a 12cm fan rotating at ~1200 rpm it's almost silent and even in case the fan fails the cpu will not overheat (I tried it once).
My comparison is actually pretty moot since flag desecration is legal or will be tolerated in most democratic countries. I just did a little search and apart from Ireland I couldn't find any other country where burning their flag would get you into real (legal) trouble.
This is a good place to start if you want to know more about the topic.
I don't really know why so many people are offended by our laws while their countries don't even allow their citizens to burn a flag of their nation. (I can burn as many German flags as I want to)
There are systems in which the representatives are directly bound to the decisions made by those they represent. If that doesn't really makes sense to you think about it as some kind of upwards democracy: The lower districts tell their representatives exactly how they have to vote on the higher levels and so on.
That's an early communist concept and it never really took off. Apart from the Bavarian "Räterepublik" after WWI I don't know of any attempts to establish such a system, so it's just a side note in history.
How insightful, but it's not like we didn't see it coming. Europe has faced problems like this for decades (though I must admit that it used to be about dumping in the low salary sector). We are aware about this problem for quite a while and there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. Most of us are quite surprised about the outsourcing discussion in the states btw, because we are simply used to the fact that someone on the globe will perform the same task cheaper.
IMO the general development is rather shortsighted. Instead of improving the current structures thousands of people are fired because it might look better at the end of the fiscal year. If those tendencies of shrinking (in the western world) will pay off is a totally different question. Possibly it's more a question of "work culture". There are some states in the EU which are more productive than the US per working person, even though he/she might enjoy ~30 days of vacation a year + various holidays. Most people want to work and they are usually worth their money.
Apart from that most so called doles barely help an unemployed person to stay alive. You might want to call that generous, but for me that's just the minimum of what companies like IBM can do by paying taxes.
There's something very perverse about ruining a perfect triology as well.
I mean it's not about the best movie ever made (TM). Or do you define good movies by the level of special effects involved in the making?
There is not much to develop for a space race (who is really into this race apart from the US btw?).
It has all been planned in the cold war and it wasn't realized back then *for a reason*. And afterall the US doesn't lack technology in current affairs...
Porn? C'mon. Everybody knows that there is no better way to get infected than to google for "Office Serialz" - just try it with a box lacking 3 month of updates ^^
Shouldn't the last line be: Not at the expense of my time?
They might be marketing driven, but on the other hand the processing power nowadays really extends computers. Use hardware from '95 and you'll soon realize that you can't listen to mp3s in real time or that you can't encode some video within a week. I guess that we all agree that every modern computer mostly wastes its cycles, but sometimes it's rather handy to have that extra power at your fingertips.
If they need some stupid "law" to follow it's allright to me.
There is just one thing that bugs me since years: That every new gerneration of chips consumes more power in order to fulfill Moore's prophecy. But I guess we can only blame the consumers in this case.