You have fewer rights with iTunes than with buying CDs
Not of you burn them onto a CD and rip them again. And that is the major difference between Apple and Microsoft: Apple provides a legal way to "circumvent" DRM when the user is willing to spend some time to burn a CD and rip it again. That is real fair use, IMHO.
No, it doesn't. You obviously never tried out OpenOffice. At my company, we completely switched from MS Office to OpenOffice, and we had no interoperability problems so far.
No, e-voting can make things much simpler. But for reasons of security, these machines must also print a audit trail on paper, so that the votes counted eletronically can be checked against the audit trail, and it must be written in a way that the voter can check whether it was written correctly. The Diebold machines do not meet these criteria, writing an audit trail only into an Access database.
Indymedia is a very important platform in the current world where most people are influenced by mass media. So, support them by giving them webspace outside of the USA, so that they will be able to continue exercising their right to free speech!
Not exactly. An inherent property of an ID is that it's unique. This is not the case with email addresses. Take role accounts (postmaster@, usenet@, abuse@): they aren't associated with a single person, and in fact might be read by a number of people.
The dynebolic-guys produce a lot of great software for special-purpose use. I, for example, got their bootable CD including MuSE for network audio streaming once, and it just works great. The last time I saw this software used was at an Indymedia station during the demonstrations in Geneve and Evian.
IMHO, web-based applications suck. Usually, they fuck up all standards of good user interface design, and they are slow - applications that take more than one second to do something after clicking a button generally feel slow for the user.
Why web-based applications suck is also shown with webmailers. The proper formatting of emails is only as good as the editor it was written, and if there's one kind of editors that suck galaxies through nanotubes, then it's the text areas in a browser window (like the "Post Comment" text area here on/.).
Evolution is just like Outlook. In our office, we have a number of former Outlook users, who could us from the first second on. Evolution is definitely one of the killer applications that make Linux on the desktop more widespread.
The system of French units looks great on paper, but it's dumb in practise. Our system looks strange on paper, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense, and it's a joy to actually use.
Yeah, right. BTW, it's not "French units", but "SI units", which are standardized. Do you know what your obscure units led to? Kids in school and students on university doing physics have to use obscure constants in most calculations to get the right result. These constants aren't needed anymore when using the SI units, making it much easier for the pupils and students to concentrate on the actual calculation. Also, calculations without some obscure constants are less error-prone than with some obscure constants or factors: when there aren't any, you can't miss them. So, Americans: switch to metric system and SI units, where all other units are derived from 8 units plus a number of prefixes (micro-, milli-, femto-, kilo-, tera-, peta-, whatever) can be be used optionally.
Even more creative than "Dollar", because this name was ripped off from the Austrian currency "Taler" that was first established in the 15th century. But Euro on the other side symbolizes unity, a unity of countries with a currency stronger than the dollar (it is way stronger, even OPEC thinks about switching from Dollar to Euro as standard currency).
Actually, the colors make sense. When a color marks a certain value, it's easier to distinguish them. With bills all in this greenish color you have to look closely to know which value it has. In fact, this led to a number of tricks to make people believe that they get a US-$ 20 bill, but instead they only got a US-$ 5 bill. So colors do have their advantages. And the Euro proves that colorful bills can look elegant, too.
You know that not even noise diodes are secure to attacks? Even a simple lighted match (i.e. heat) near such a diode can severely influence the quality of the generated random numbers.
Thanks, no, I never want to try this one. XML as communication protocol is a nice generalization on the paper, but in practice, it sucks. GUIs should be optimized for speed, and thus, the protocols should be specialized, too.
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Pretty impressive technology, but the purpose is still a bit unclear.
That's art! It doesn't have to serve a purpose, but still may be useful for somebody.
For those interested, this company sells this technology for home use for over 15 years already.
You have fewer rights with iTunes than with buying CDs
Not of you burn them onto a CD and rip them again. And that is the major difference between Apple and Microsoft: Apple provides a legal way to "circumvent" DRM when the user is willing to spend some time to burn a CD and rip it again. That is real fair use, IMHO.
Hey, you left out the actual numbers 2 and 3 from the "1, 2, 3, 4 profit!" formula!
No, it doesn't. You obviously never tried out OpenOffice. At my company, we completely switched from MS Office to OpenOffice, and we had no interoperability problems so far.
No, e-voting can make things much simpler. But for reasons of security, these machines must also print a audit trail on paper, so that the votes counted eletronically can be checked against the audit trail, and it must be written in a way that the voter can check whether it was written correctly. The Diebold machines do not meet these criteria, writing an audit trail only into an Access database.
Indymedia is a very important platform in the current world where most people are influenced by mass media. So, support them by giving them webspace outside of the USA, so that they will be able to continue exercising their right to free speech!
A friend of mine recently said: "the only way to get a security hole fixed in Microsoft software is to write a worm that exploits it".
Not exactly. An inherent property of an ID is that it's unique. This is not the case with email addresses. Take role accounts (postmaster@, usenet@, abuse@): they aren't associated with a single person, and in fact might be read by a number of people.
The dynebolic-guys produce a lot of great software for special-purpose use. I, for example, got their bootable CD including MuSE for network audio streaming once, and it just works great. The last time I saw this software used was at an Indymedia station during the demonstrations in Geneve and Evian.
And must not be older than 25.
IMHO, web-based applications suck. Usually, they fuck up all standards of good user interface design, and they are slow - applications that take more than one second to do something after clicking a button generally feel slow for the user.
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Why web-based applications suck is also shown with webmailers. The proper formatting of emails is only as good as the editor it was written, and if there's one kind of editors that suck galaxies through nanotubes, then it's the text areas in a browser window (like the "Post Comment" text area here on
...is goatse.cx.
Evolution is just like Outlook. In our office, we have a number of former Outlook users, who could us from the first second on. Evolution is definitely one of the killer applications that make Linux on the desktop more widespread.
Physics in the US is uniformly taught in SI units at the high school/university levels, at least to start;
OK, then at least something _has_ changed since I last saw US-american physics books.
The system of French units looks great on paper, but it's dumb in practise. Our system looks strange on paper, but it actually makes quite a bit of sense, and it's a joy to actually use.
Yeah, right. BTW, it's not "French units", but "SI units", which are standardized. Do you know what your obscure units led to? Kids in school and students on university doing physics have to use obscure constants in most calculations to get the right result. These constants aren't needed anymore when using the SI units, making it much easier for the pupils and students to concentrate on the actual calculation. Also, calculations without some obscure constants are less error-prone than with some obscure constants or factors: when there aren't any, you can't miss them. So, Americans: switch to metric system and SI units, where all other units are derived from 8 units plus a number of prefixes (micro-, milli-, femto-, kilo-, tera-, peta-, whatever) can be be used optionally.
Euro - what a shitty name for currency!
Even more creative than "Dollar", because this name was ripped off from the Austrian currency "Taler" that was first established in the 15th century. But Euro on the other side symbolizes unity, a unity of countries with a currency stronger than the dollar (it is way stronger, even OPEC thinks about switching from Dollar to Euro as standard currency).
Actually, the colors make sense. When a color marks a certain value, it's easier to distinguish them. With bills all in this greenish color you have to look closely to know which value it has. In fact, this led to a number of tricks to make people believe that they get a US-$ 20 bill, but instead they only got a US-$ 5 bill. So colors do have their advantages. And the Euro proves that colorful bills can look elegant, too.
So, when will the USA switch to Euro?
Yes, that's a nice movie (saw it in German, since I'm a native German speaker). But the universe exists for longer than 90 minutes. ;-)
OK, the book is exactly the right thing for you.
You know that not even noise diodes are secure to attacks? Even a simple lighted match (i.e. heat) near such a diode can severely influence the quality of the generated random numbers.
Jabber is not designed for transporting low-level graphics information, you idiot.
I suppose a gimp can run faster than Carl Lewis, but it'll take an awful lot to train him...
"Of course KDE can run fast, just take some SuSE CDs, tie it onto a pig, and then kick it."
and uses XML as the communications protocol.
Thanks, no, I never want to try this one. XML as communication protocol is a nice generalization on the paper, but in practice, it sucks. GUIs should be optimized for speed, and thus, the protocols should be specialized, too.