I'd want neither bans nor taxes. Rather, leadership by example. Here's what I don't get: the State of California itself purchases a huge number of light bulbs of every sort. Why don't they just pass new procurement rules? If the government itself uses only Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (or whatever's trendy), the rest of us Californians will be exposed to them. If the new bulbs really are better, we'll all follow in time.
Ha, I lov ethis argument, I don't want anything to change, I will trust people to follow the good people. Please. The only way you will change peoples habits, even Californians who probably care about the environment more than most, is to hit them where it hurts.
So you trusy every single company to do nothing but right. Because of course, companies are made up of Angels.
Maybe because most slashdotters are realists. We now companies ONLY cause is to make money for their shareholders. I it is illegal for them not to. So we try to look for reasons on why a company does something, not just listen to there PR and read their press releases. Companies have this strange habit of dressing up everything they do, under the guise of being good for people, good for the environment, when it always is about helping them. Maybe you haven't noticed this before?
Sure, you are right. But so would the Linux install, to a greater degree. Since you would have the source code, and source code for all the hardware drivers. This is an extra degree of control, that Microsoft probably doesn't even have over windows (since they have to include DRM)
Like many people have already said, this artical is a puff piece, put out to persuade us that all is ok, and things are better.
The UK has a history of making incorrect IT choices, wasting millions, even billions on these stupid projects, because the people in charge DO NOT KNOW IT. They are incompetent, and will not listen to anybody. (Part of the problem with being incompetent is not knowing intelligent people when you meet them.)
This was more an argument on why soccer sucks, IMHO, rather than why it should be called soccer. Most of the English speaking countries of the world call it soccer, even in the UK they will refer to it as association football. This was my argument on why it should be called soccer.
It is perfectly feasable for there to be ways in which Win32 threads are better than Pthreads (as hard as that is to believe), and also vice versa. Hence the two articles.
Often you will find reasons to choose one thing, and other reasons to choose something else, life it tricky that way. When I was looking for a house, one was huge with lots of rooms, but out of town, and one was smaller, but so close to work.
Microsoft got bigger, Windows got more complicated with already so many features, one customer became less important as they got bigger, and no doubt that more than one customer asked for something stupid or impossible.
No, until then it is an idea, a good idea. If there are problems with it, we have the chance to point them out, before we start convincing the big browsers to adopt this?
I can't see how this is a bad idea, it seems like great to me. Sure bittorrent has its place, but so does this.
And what is wrong with you? Why can't we talk about this idea? Maybe you are on the wrong site, fox news is maybe more what you want.
"That's a stupid thing to say, and you're stupid for saying it."
Why is that? If you have ever seen a real game played of (American football, Rugby, or Aussie rules), you can not seriously compare it to soccer. I am not saying that there isn't a great level of skill displayed by soccer players, but it is a girls game. You can't tackle, you can't trip, you get in trouble for even touching another player half the time. The reason it has gained any sort of traction in the US, is because of mums not wanting their kids to get hurt (hence the term, soccer moms)!
I wouldn't go so far as to say Britain "sucks at it." If you want to judge the Premiership against MLS and say that Britain sucks at it, then the Americans truly swallow. Oh, and congratulations for making your overly generous contribution to the Beckham Memorial Plastic Surgery Fund, Los Angeles MLS team. Old Spice is going to need it.
Hey, I am an aussie who lives in UK, so you are way off. And holding up the premiership, where some teams have NO british players at all, is a bit of a joke. The Premiership might be the best competition, but that has everything to do with money, and nothing to do with Britian.
Hey, I am with you. In Australia they play a real game as well, and call it football. I don't think football should refer to a girls game, do you?
Back to the article, I really don't think these campaigns make much of a difference. I hope that changes, and they start to make more of a difference, and stopping Tesco is a great start, but the fact is consumers have to choose from the lesser evil. When talking about energy companies, or banks, or supermarkets, there isn't any difference between them all. I wish there was.
You now, that fact that you don't buy CDs has very little effect on the RIAA. Now, if you convince your friends to not buy CDs as well, (with a reasoned arguments, threats can so often get taken the wrong way), then you start to get something.
Then the patent is useless. What is the point of patenting an algorithm, when someone can just go and implement it for free? No point.
THe fact is that patents are a complicated issue. When everyone had an equal playing field, they were ok. Now, you have companies with bank accounts of Billions, versus ordinary people.
While you are correct to a certain extent, you have to admit that the PS3 is going to have a greater effect on movie-playing that the PSP, simply because you plug the PS3 into a TV, where most people are going to watch movies. The PSP movies were nothing more than a gimic, no matter how much Sony wanted it to become a serious format.
The PS3 at the very least, gives Sony bragging rights of selling more Blu-Ray players and movies. Marketing will probably decide this format war.
Where does it say they wouldn't pay for it? What they want is fair access to a resource that consists of parts owned by companies (cell towers), and parts that are owned by us all (the radio frequencies). You are clearly a shill for the mobile networks, so please leave.
Not quite sure what your point was? Yes, it sucks having to pay a TV license, but the other option is to do what they do in Australia for the ABC, where everyone pays for the Government sponsored National Broadcaster. You have just shown why TV license is the better option, since those who don't watch TV, don't have to pay.
Would it make you feel better if they just added £140 onto your taxes? Because then you wouldn't notice it so much?
but the product was crap, or already obsolete, or simply a non-starter
Yes, but this is more an opinion of your, than anything else. Somebody who has a business head, that can be told by asking a few questions. But the value of the product, that can me debated endlessly. I am sure you expert vision of the future would have turned down such products as google (we already have search engines), myspace (we already have geocities), 8086 (nobody will want a computer of their own).
I'm flac'ing some CDs as I type this, and would rather that not take longer than necessary.
You seem to know what you are talking about, and then you make this statement. Believe me, the slow point in compressing your cds will never be your ram, even if you had the slowest ram in the world, and the fastest cd drive in the world. We are talking orders of magnitude here.
Really, I don't think 1gb is enough for XP. I keep on running out of memory every couple of days, and that is with only using about 7 applications, although admittedly pretty heavily. When it runs out of memory, it starts to do strange things, like some right-click windows won't display all their items, then they won't display at all. I have to reboot to get things back as they were. No warning (this could be a good or bad idea).
BTW, do you really think the cameras are archived or looked at in any depth.
That might make you feel safe for now, but what about the future. What about when image recognition if to the point that the computer can recognise you, and thus record everywhere you have been. Does that worry you? Is that really that far away? How much did the ministry of defence spend on Image Recognition last year? Any idea? A scary amount, whatever it is.
To the GP: FAILING TO HAVE/CARRY A TESCO STORE CARD ISN"T AGAINST THE LAW.
Sure, but the point I was trying to make, is that most people wouldn't care about carrying such a card. You would, I would, and at least 28,000 other people would, but how much is that out of 50 million?
You do realise that there is no amorphous blob called the police? You realise that the police are made up of a bunch of people, some of whom are very competent, some of whom are less so. This is why the police can do one job well, and one job badly, because there were different police in handling the issue.
So many people on slashdot seem to have difficulty in dealing with groups of people. I guess it makes it easier to argue.
I do agree with what you are trying to say, except for the last bit, nobody cares about George except his own staff. But nothing they have said is logically incorrect.
But should we really base government policy on what 28,000 people say? Personally, I think we should ignore the 1.6 million who appose the road tax bill. I would be happy if the doubled the price of petrol, and I think all cars should be tracked. Cars kill more people than anything else we do, and way more than terrorists.
But to be fair, the government shouldn't base its policy on my wild ideas, and 28,000 isn't enough to change policy. People obviously don't care that much about it. It is no different to a Tesco card to the majority. It is just the people who do care about it, care about it a lot (as I do).
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I'd want neither bans nor taxes. Rather, leadership by example. Here's what I don't get: the State of California itself purchases a huge number of light bulbs of every sort. Why don't they just pass new procurement rules? If the government itself uses only Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (or whatever's trendy), the rest of us Californians will be exposed to them. If the new bulbs really are better, we'll all follow in time.
Ha, I lov ethis argument, I don't want anything to change, I will trust people to follow the good people. Please. The only way you will change peoples habits, even Californians who probably care about the environment more than most, is to hit them where it hurts.
So you trusy every single company to do nothing but right. Because of course, companies are made up of Angels.
Maybe because most slashdotters are realists. We now companies ONLY cause is to make money for their shareholders. I it is illegal for them not to. So we try to look for reasons on why a company does something, not just listen to there PR and read their press releases. Companies have this strange habit of dressing up everything they do, under the guise of being good for people, good for the environment, when it always is about helping them. Maybe you haven't noticed this before?
Sure, you are right. But so would the Linux install, to a greater degree. Since you would have the source code, and source code for all the hardware drivers. This is an extra degree of control, that Microsoft probably doesn't even have over windows (since they have to include DRM)
Like many people have already said, this artical is a puff piece, put out to persuade us that all is ok, and things are better.
The UK has a history of making incorrect IT choices, wasting millions, even billions on these stupid projects, because the people in charge DO NOT KNOW IT. They are incompetent, and will not listen to anybody. (Part of the problem with being incompetent is not knowing intelligent people when you meet them.)
This was more an argument on why soccer sucks, IMHO, rather than why it should be called soccer. Most of the English speaking countries of the world call it soccer, even in the UK they will refer to it as association football. This was my argument on why it should be called soccer.
It is perfectly feasable for there to be ways in which Win32 threads are better than Pthreads (as hard as that is to believe), and also vice versa. Hence the two articles.
Often you will find reasons to choose one thing, and other reasons to choose something else, life it tricky that way. When I was looking for a house, one was huge with lots of rooms, but out of town, and one was smaller, but so close to work.
Microsoft got bigger, Windows got more complicated with already so many features, one customer became less important as they got bigger, and no doubt that more than one customer asked for something stupid or impossible.
No, until then it is an idea, a good idea. If there are problems with it, we have the chance to point them out, before we start convincing the big browsers to adopt this?
I can't see how this is a bad idea, it seems like great to me. Sure bittorrent has its place, but so does this.
And what is wrong with you? Why can't we talk about this idea? Maybe you are on the wrong site, fox news is maybe more what you want.
"That's a stupid thing to say, and you're stupid for saying it."
Why is that? If you have ever seen a real game played of (American football, Rugby, or Aussie rules), you can not seriously compare it to soccer. I am not saying that there isn't a great level of skill displayed by soccer players, but it is a girls game. You can't tackle, you can't trip, you get in trouble for even touching another player half the time. The reason it has gained any sort of traction in the US, is because of mums not wanting their kids to get hurt (hence the term, soccer moms)!
I wouldn't go so far as to say Britain "sucks at it." If you want to judge the Premiership against MLS and say that Britain sucks at it, then the Americans truly swallow. Oh, and congratulations for making your overly generous contribution to the Beckham Memorial Plastic Surgery Fund, Los Angeles MLS team. Old Spice is going to need it.
Hey, I am an aussie who lives in UK, so you are way off. And holding up the premiership, where some teams have NO british players at all, is a bit of a joke. The Premiership might be the best competition, but that has everything to do with money, and nothing to do with Britian.
Why don't you ask all english speaking nations?
Australia: Soccer
Canada: Soccer
USA: Soccer
New Zealand: Soccer
Britan: who cares, you all suck at it anyway!
Hey, I am with you. In Australia they play a real game as well, and call it football. I don't think football should refer to a girls game, do you?
Back to the article, I really don't think these campaigns make much of a difference. I hope that changes, and they start to make more of a difference, and stopping Tesco is a great start, but the fact is consumers have to choose from the lesser evil. When talking about energy companies, or banks, or supermarkets, there isn't any difference between them all. I wish there was.
You now, that fact that you don't buy CDs has very little effect on the RIAA. Now, if you convince your friends to not buy CDs as well, (with a reasoned arguments, threats can so often get taken the wrong way), then you start to get something.
This makes it run twice as fast!
(I bet the Linux guys are kicking themselves that they didn't think of this before)
Then the patent is useless. What is the point of patenting an algorithm, when someone can just go and implement it for free? No point.
THe fact is that patents are a complicated issue. When everyone had an equal playing field, they were ok. Now, you have companies with bank accounts of Billions, versus ordinary people.
While you are correct to a certain extent, you have to admit that the PS3 is going to have a greater effect on movie-playing that the PSP, simply because you plug the PS3 into a TV, where most people are going to watch movies. The PSP movies were nothing more than a gimic, no matter how much Sony wanted it to become a serious format.
The PS3 at the very least, gives Sony bragging rights of selling more Blu-Ray players and movies. Marketing will probably decide this format war.
Where does it say they wouldn't pay for it? What they want is fair access to a resource that consists of parts owned by companies (cell towers), and parts that are owned by us all (the radio frequencies). You are clearly a shill for the mobile networks, so please leave.
Not quite sure what your point was? Yes, it sucks having to pay a TV license, but the other option is to do what they do in Australia for the ABC, where everyone pays for the Government sponsored National Broadcaster. You have just shown why TV license is the better option, since those who don't watch TV, don't have to pay.
Would it make you feel better if they just added £140 onto your taxes? Because then you wouldn't notice it so much?
a decent language for Linux. Now we will see a huge migration of people over the platform. You might as well shut up shop now Microsoft.
But seriously, I thought everyone hated VB?
but the product was crap, or already obsolete, or simply a non-starter
Yes, but this is more an opinion of your, than anything else. Somebody who has a business head, that can be told by asking a few questions. But the value of the product, that can me debated endlessly. I am sure you expert vision of the future would have turned down such products as google (we already have search engines), myspace (we already have geocities), 8086 (nobody will want a computer of their own).
I'm flac'ing some CDs as I type this, and would rather that not take longer than necessary.
You seem to know what you are talking about, and then you make this statement. Believe me, the slow point in compressing your cds will never be your ram, even if you had the slowest ram in the world, and the fastest cd drive in the world. We are talking orders of magnitude here.
Really, I don't think 1gb is enough for XP. I keep on running out of memory every couple of days, and that is with only using about 7 applications, although admittedly pretty heavily. When it runs out of memory, it starts to do strange things, like some right-click windows won't display all their items, then they won't display at all. I have to reboot to get things back as they were. No warning (this could be a good or bad idea).
BTW, do you really think the cameras are archived or looked at in any depth.
That might make you feel safe for now, but what about the future. What about when image recognition if to the point that the computer can recognise you, and thus record everywhere you have been. Does that worry you? Is that really that far away? How much did the ministry of defence spend on Image Recognition last year? Any idea? A scary amount, whatever it is.
To the GP: FAILING TO HAVE/CARRY A TESCO STORE CARD ISN"T AGAINST THE LAW.
Sure, but the point I was trying to make, is that most people wouldn't care about carrying such a card. You would, I would, and at least 28,000 other people would, but how much is that out of 50 million?
I hope I am wrong.
You do realise that there is no amorphous blob called the police? You realise that the police are made up of a bunch of people, some of whom are very competent, some of whom are less so. This is why the police can do one job well, and one job badly, because there were different police in handling the issue.
So many people on slashdot seem to have difficulty in dealing with groups of people. I guess it makes it easier to argue.
I do agree with what you are trying to say, except for the last bit, nobody cares about George except his own staff. But nothing they have said is logically incorrect.
But should we really base government policy on what 28,000 people say? Personally, I think we should ignore the 1.6 million who appose the road tax bill. I would be happy if the doubled the price of petrol, and I think all cars should be tracked. Cars kill more people than anything else we do, and way more than terrorists.
But to be fair, the government shouldn't base its policy on my wild ideas, and 28,000 isn't enough to change policy. People obviously don't care that much about it. It is no different to a Tesco card to the majority. It is just the people who do care about it, care about it a lot (as I do).