Saying you can just "fling your mouse" when the target is actually several feet away is really dubious.
No it's not. Have you ever used a good mouse [or trackball, or whatever, not the point] with decent resolution, like the logitech mx1000 [I'm not making an ad here, just it's the one under my hand right now] ? You don't need to push and pull a good enough mouse several feet away, not even in the 1.6k-2k resolution range.
Well, first thing I thought was the initial test probably was wrong. Second thing I though was is this is true he can have sex the rest of his life without being afraid of aids. Well, this is/. and I'm here,what did you expect ?:D
The point is not hiding the network's existence, but hiding the traffic and the data itself. No use in you yelling "something's going on here" if you have no clue what it is.
the damage all those corrupt diplomats would do to the internet if put in charge is unthinkable... there's no evidence that letting other nations have more control over the internet would do anything but ruin it
Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish. First you say US is the one who does things right, others could only do worse, also saying other diplomats are corrupt, implying yours are not. Secondly you say sharing control over an infrastructure that spans the entire planet can do no good, only bad. Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish. Ame...["Target destroyed."].
I tell you what happened, but you have it all there in your text:
What the hell happened to compromising?[when you dictate the rules, compromise is just a facade]... Benevolent Superpower?[do you believe in such a thing ? I don't]... can you imagine the impact of an internet embargo against a nation[not that I can, I even can imagine it happening someday]... crap over something like this when it comes to sharing[yup, since the US only "shares" until it sees the gain in it].
may be misplaced and unwelcome, but consider the alternatives
As long as I live, as long as I am part of this human life on this planet in this universe, I am _not_ willing to accept anything with influence on my or my fellow humans' lives because "it could be worse". No fraggin' way. BTW, I don't consider it being a good sign either if at any point in time some individual, government, group of people, etc. starts thinking and believeing that their way or the highway.
Quite a narrow minded ignorant thinking. As one of my pals used to say, you're simple [i.e. in thinking] as a shoelace. This kind of behaviour will most probably raise some really big barriers between the rest of the world and the US. I hope I won't live to see it happen.
doing that great a job at persuading the world that they're not idiots, and that's what's making people nervous
Exactly what I wanted to say. If we could just trust enough that the US [i.e. the actual US government] doesn't want to retain full control over an international association that controls the DNS space for the reason that they may want to use this control against the rest of the world whenever they see fit, we probably wouldn't have much against it. But recent couple of years have proved the world that the US isn't anything near a friend who you could trust.
release of Gorm 1.0, the Interface Builder for the GNUstep project, and with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects
First, please educate yourself on kdevelop3. Then, you can come around and talk about superiority of something else, but then again, talk won't be enough, prove.
This is not how it works, thankfully. NTFS in itself is not a bad FS, agreed. Still, if some magic fairy came and made MS droids add native support for some real filesystems, I'd rather use Windows on xfs than ntfs [or anything else for that matter].
yet it seems MS is not allowed to add a feature unless they thought of it themselves
This is what we (the others, you know) call being mindless jerk. Thing is, normally wouldn't matter what or when they add to their software. But their usual routine is to add some feature and raise hell over to prove they did it first and everybody else is just a bunch of loosers. On top of that, the "innovation" word is not something we just use for fun. If you look around you'll see MS is probably the company who uses that word most frequently. No wonder, they get you symlinks in 2005. Call me when the Windows installer will finally be able to mount local/remote volumes, read additional drivers from other sources than A: and when they'll allow me to use any filesystem I want [to install Windows on], when explorer will support scp/sftp, when plugging in a new hard disk won't require reboot.
Ok, so you're one of those guys who'd rather use non-free closed software, so you don't have to worry about such things. That's your problem, leave us others having fun in peace.
I don't think you not being able to configure a cdrom under 2.6.x is really the fault of the 2.6 kernel branch. You either have some cdrom no living human on this planet supports, or you're in the need of some linux-knowing friend living nearby.
there's not a single thing on that list of features that I understand
Just because you lack the level of knowledge enough to understand what the list consists of, doesn't mean those loads of fixes and features are all useless. In fact I'm really happy new features are not only shopwindow-additions like some big companies do: list for hours what they "added" so 6packs feel they really gave out their money for something.
It doesn't always seem to count. Think of left handed, minority religions, homosexuals, handicapped, elderly, children, the tall, the short, the blond:] you get the point. It's always impossible to do in everybody's favor. That means, if you're not stubborn enough, or have enough power, you'll never ever do anything.
...for Word for Windows ? I just couldn't care less. OpenDocument is great with or without Microsoft. Always remember, Microsoft is big only until we [users, customers, money spenders] make them big. I will never ever petition for anything for Microsoft to make - if their dozens of market analyzing droids don't realize what they have to do to keep up, let the whole pack rot altogether.
As always, you can't make a one-type-fits-all mouse (or keyboard). For you, that mouse didn't work. Probably nobody said it would. Sell it, find another. For me, the mx500, and now the mx1000 (almost the same shape) proved to be the most comfortable mice I ever had.
Yet another ignorance modded intresting. First, as other have stated, left handed people hardly make up about 1/10th of this planet's population. Second, whining won't help. Companies make devices which they can sell with considerable profit. I'd guess it isn't really profitable to spend on creating a huge variety of devices which can be sold in such low quantities. It's simple math. But, as others also can tell, it's not impossible to find good devices for left handed people, e.g. some companies have omnihanded (what a word:} mice, meaning it having a simmetrical shape, and other also have. I never thought (and I have quite a lot of left handed friends) that being left handed is such a big handicap (and neither did they).
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Saying you can just "fling your mouse" when the target is actually several feet away is really dubious.
No it's not. Have you ever used a good mouse [or trackball, or whatever, not the point] with decent resolution, like the logitech mx1000 [I'm not making an ad here, just it's the one under my hand right now] ? You don't need to push and pull a good enough mouse several feet away, not even in the 1.6k-2k resolution range.
Well, first thing I thought was the initial test probably was wrong. Second thing I though was is this is true he can have sex the rest of his life without being afraid of aids. Well, this is /. and I'm here ,what did you expect ? :D
The point is not hiding the network's existence, but hiding the traffic and the data itself. No use in you yelling "something's going on here" if you have no clue what it is.
I'm waiting politely for the best 'In Soviet Russia' comment
Ok, I'll give you a polite one: socialism has never existed in Soviet Russia.
and it creates for you an executable that has Apache and Firebird embedded in it
Good god.
And with that, I'm speechless for the rest of the day.
the damage all those corrupt diplomats would do to the internet if put in charge is unthinkable ... there's no evidence that letting other nations have more control over the internet would do anything but ruin it
Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish. First you say US is the one who does things right, others could only do worse, also saying other diplomats are corrupt, implying yours are not. Secondly you say sharing control over an infrastructure that spans the entire planet can do no good, only bad. Stupid. Ignorant. Selfish. Ame...["Target destroyed."].
control of US organizations
The ICANN is not a US organization.
I tell you what happened, but you have it all there in your text:
... Benevolent Superpower?[do you believe in such a thing ? I don't] ... can you imagine the impact of an internet embargo against a nation[not that I can, I even can imagine it happening someday] ... crap over something like this when it comes to sharing[yup, since the US only "shares" until it sees the gain in it].
What the hell happened to compromising?[when you dictate the rules, compromise is just a facade]
may be misplaced and unwelcome, but consider the alternatives
As long as I live, as long as I am part of this human life on this planet in this universe, I am _not_ willing to accept anything with influence on my or my fellow humans' lives because "it could be worse". No fraggin' way. BTW, I don't consider it being a good sign either if at any point in time some individual, government, group of people, etc. starts thinking and believeing that their way or the highway.
There is not shame in passing the Internet over to a multi-national body.
Well, on paper, the ICANN is already a multinational body. The problem is with practice here.
Europe needs to trust the US a little more
And _you_'re the one talking about growing up ? This isn't even funny,
We invented, we govern it. Simple.
Quite a narrow minded ignorant thinking. As one of my pals used to say, you're simple [i.e. in thinking] as a shoelace. This kind of behaviour will most probably raise some really big barriers between the rest of the world and the US. I hope I won't live to see it happen.
doing that great a job at persuading the world that they're not idiots, and that's what's making people nervous
Exactly what I wanted to say. If we could just trust enough that the US [i.e. the actual US government] doesn't want to retain full control over an international association that controls the DNS space for the reason that they may want to use this control against the rest of the world whenever they see fit, we probably wouldn't have much against it. But recent couple of years have proved the world that the US isn't anything near a friend who you could trust.
It'll be slow as fuck.
:P
Well, sometimes slow is good
release of Gorm 1.0, the Interface Builder for the GNUstep project, and with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects
First, please educate yourself on kdevelop3. Then, you can come around and talk about superiority of something else, but then again, talk won't be enough, prove.
This is not how it works, thankfully. NTFS in itself is not a bad FS, agreed. Still, if some magic fairy came and made MS droids add native support for some real filesystems, I'd rather use Windows on xfs than ntfs [or anything else for that matter].
yet it seems MS is not allowed to add a feature unless they thought of it themselves
This is what we (the others, you know) call being mindless jerk. Thing is, normally wouldn't matter what or when they add to their software. But their usual routine is to add some feature and raise hell over to prove they did it first and everybody else is just a bunch of loosers. On top of that, the "innovation" word is not something we just use for fun. If you look around you'll see MS is probably the company who uses that word most frequently. No wonder, they get you symlinks in 2005. Call me when the Windows installer will finally be able to mount local/remote volumes, read additional drivers from other sources than A: and when they'll allow me to use any filesystem I want [to install Windows on], when explorer will support scp/sftp, when plugging in a new hard disk won't require reboot.
Ok, so you're one of those guys who'd rather use non-free closed software, so you don't have to worry about such things. That's your problem, leave us others having fun in peace.
I don't think you not being able to configure a cdrom under 2.6.x is really the fault of the 2.6 kernel branch. You either have some cdrom no living human on this planet supports, or you're in the need of some linux-knowing friend living nearby.
there's not a single thing on that list of features that I understand
Just because you lack the level of knowledge enough to understand what the list consists of, doesn't mean those loads of fixes and features are all useless. In fact I'm really happy new features are not only shopwindow-additions like some big companies do: list for hours what they "added" so 6packs feel they really gave out their money for something.
Obligatory "you must be a Gentoo user" response.
Obligatory "you must be a luser" response.
what happens to the great majority
:] you get the point. It's always impossible to do in everybody's favor. That means, if you're not stubborn enough, or have enough power, you'll never ever do anything.
It doesn't always seem to count. Think of left handed, minority religions, homosexuals, handicapped, elderly, children, the tall, the short, the blond
consumer demand for OpenDocument...
...for Word for Windows ? I just couldn't care less. OpenDocument is great with or without Microsoft. Always remember, Microsoft is big only until we [users, customers, money spenders] make them big. I will never ever petition for anything for Microsoft to make - if their dozens of market analyzing droids don't realize what they have to do to keep up, let the whole pack rot altogether.
As always, you can't make a one-type-fits-all mouse (or keyboard). For you, that mouse didn't work. Probably nobody said it would. Sell it, find another. For me, the mx500, and now the mx1000 (almost the same shape) proved to be the most comfortable mice I ever had.
Yet another ignorance modded intresting. First, as other have stated, left handed people hardly make up about 1/10th of this planet's population. Second, whining won't help. Companies make devices which they can sell with considerable profit. I'd guess it isn't really profitable to spend on creating a huge variety of devices which can be sold in such low quantities. It's simple math. But, as others also can tell, it's not impossible to find good devices for left handed people, e.g. some companies have omnihanded (what a word :} mice, meaning it having a simmetrical shape, and other also have. I never thought (and I have quite a lot of left handed friends) that being left handed is such a big handicap (and neither did they).