So? A hero is *never* just the man who rings the changes, it's those shoulders he stands upon, the help & support he receives and many other factors - it doesn't stop him being a hero.
Winston Churchill is a hero, but he directed an army in the defence of Great Britain - is he any less of a hero because the army did the dirty work?
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It's not just that it's pure speculation, but that the article is fervent paranoia - If someone says something like 'I think a new ipod is on the horizon' obviously they are just using guerilla tactics against apple. Paranoia can go too far.
putting cameras in squad cars for the purpose of reducing police brutality admits the potential for it - this is not a statement any police force would want to make.
and ps, i doubt the the police would be willing to give up these videos unless they really had no choice - kinda similar to the recent story about a person asking for a complaint form in a florida police station and being intimidated and told to get the fuck out by the cop on duty.
Apple took a brave stance when they opened the movie store for business, and if good intentions == $$ they would be doin' just fine; However I haven't seen a scrap of news about the movie store since it's been launched. That's either good news or bad news.
So what would slashdotian's prefer to see? Apple make compromises and let in the companies that are twisting it's arm, or Apple to stand it's ground and watch the movie store sink?
Is that supposed to funny? Could I direct you here to the BBC's policy on advertising. to quote:
The BBC is not permitted to carry advertising or sponsorship on its public services. This keeps them independent of commercial interests and ensures they can be run instead to serve the general public interest.
*The reasons why DVR solutions are not popular in the UK is of course more complex then the point I am making here, but I would argue one of the reasons is that we have two terrestrial channels that have no adverts (bbc1 and bbc2) and three (ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5) which we grumble about, but honestly aren't that invasive - compared to American television.
added to note an error in what I previously wrote. Damn I wish slashdot had a 2 minute edit feature like digg, it's about the only place they get one over on here
The roll out of Tivo solutions in the UK have not been nearly as popular as in America. I have noticed since the launch of Tivo in the US it has got to the point where it is culturally referenced in films, tv, media, everywhere - in other words it's practically reached Hoover standard.
The reasons why DVR solutions are of course more complex then the point I am making here, but I would argue one of the reasons is that we have two terrestrial channels that have no adverts (bbc1 and bbc2) and three (ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5) which we grumble about, but honestly aren't that invasive - compared to American television.
With the advent of digital tv we actually have access to a great many more channels, but for the most part all the bbc channels are ad free - it's what we pay a tv license for.
Ok, let's compromise, I'll be more imaginative about the potential abuse of this technology if you will be a little less dramatic.
I find OSS idolization on slashdot tedious, not because I don't think OSS is a good idea but because I don't think it unreasonable to place a modicum of trust in companies we buy products in, even if (shock horror) part of their product isn't based on OSS.
Your second to last sentence has something of the ring of creationism to it. If it ain't OSS it's the work of the Devil son - and nowt you say can proves otherwise. I do remember what all the geeks say, but I also remember that geeks aa a bunch can be extremely blinkered and sycophantic when it comes to certain subjects - e.g. topics that smell of Big Brother-esque situations.... and honestly can you say that I, calling for reason among hundreds of posts going "OMGZOMGZ! BIG BROTHER!!11" am writing it's only a frelling phone people to 'make myself feel good'? To me it's patently obvious that the people trying to make themselves feel good are the tin foil donning chaps who believe Men in Black are hiding behind dumpsters, ready to spring and vanish you away.
No, I'm pretty sure taxing the companies is taxing the companies. Arguably the companies would increase the price of their product to compensate, but then again they might not - However companies need clear incentives to think green, and taking the green in their pocket away seems like a good place to start, if they don't meet a given set of standards.
ok before this gets out of hand it's a phone with GPS that allows you to send your location to other people, if you so decide.
Please cram it with the Big Brother bullshit, the Nanny State clap trap and please remove your tin foil hats - unless you're after some free karma which you surely will, while saying nothing.
The slashdot article headline is misleading, it suggests the phone is in control of your private details, rather than you. One quick glance at the article and you can see this paragraph which states:
The Twig alert service lets you send your location to someone in an emergency at the touch of a button. Finally, you can log on to Twig's finder service online and search for friends who also own a Twig. If you're thinking about privacy, the service will only work if the other person consents -- in other words, you can control who has the opportunity to stalk you.
It's a sodding phone with GPS and the ability to tell others where you are, that's all.
I find having a great deal of windows (or tabs) open counterproductive - I get lost, confused about what I was doing and can't concentrate.
I'm always shocked by how many people do have open, like seeing someones FF with 20-30+ tabs up. Are there really ever 30 essential pages that need to be up right now?
I will second that recommendation and state that in my personal experience there has never been any spyware or viri in CCCP.
The obvious alternative is of course VLC - however a lot of people will be turned off by VLCs apparent lack of spit and polish compared to other video players for windows, mainly because it is not always simple to use & it's seek bar sucks ass; devs flatly refuse to do anything about that (although it's my understanding that the way it's currently written it is actually impossible to fix the seekbar).
undoubtedly, but it also has a lot to do with the average age of a WOW player - i mean, what percentage of WoW players actually use the wow forums? An extremely small percentage, a great deal 'hardcore' and extremely vocal, even if it was 10% of the wow population that would be another 90% that just doesn't care.
I've heard nothing bad about Kerio and as far as I'm concerned it's fine. Personally I recently switched to Outpost Firewall and am very impressed, plus it's got an active user community which i always look for when deciding whether to take up a product.
doubtful. More likely is that as with most things in WoW the most heard voices will be from a loud few, who get distracted a few days later by a perceived nurf to their fav class or weapon.
I think no community can bark louder than than the WoW one, but seeing as the majority are a bunch of kids it just doesn't fucking matter.
In my eyes the Government - for good or bad - represents the will of the people. So if we are talking about the amendment of certain laws then I do expect the Government to decide what is correct, but form the basis for what it does on what we, the people recommend.
That's the most amusing comment I've seen on slashdot in a long time - someone please mod this guy up +1 funny. I think you are the only person who has ever said Apple should stop writing software not making hardware. Needless to say I wholeheartedly support Apple making more versions of Mac OS X which is a wonderful operating system.
That's a slightly romantic interpretation of Google. They're a clever company who knows which side their bread is buttered on, they have to move with the times. As is said by others buying youtube is in part a move to keep it out of the greasy mitts of the competition.
Also google has a whole host of web acquisitions in its pocket like Writely and Picasa.
It's kind of understandable that people still see google as an indexing service, not a content service, but this is changing.
The only thing I am not looking forward to is the great youtube clear up of '06. All the content that we have come to know and love (like my quick n' easy south park episodes) will vanish.
It sounds great, but let's be realistic. What this means for web devs is having support IE 5.5,6 & now 7 too. People won't automatically migrate to 7 because they can. Even worse than that I've read far too much stuff about IE7 having very little extra support for CSS standards.
Most products are designed with a certain lifespan in mind. Companies realized that while people will moan and grumble they will still go and fork out for that new washing machine because they need it. That's why TVs and microwaves from the 80's still work, but more recent ones will only have lifespans of 3-4 years.
The moment companies start to design products without a limited lifespan the sky will *actually* fall.
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So? A hero is *never* just the man who rings the changes, it's those shoulders he stands upon, the help & support he receives and many other factors - it doesn't stop him being a hero.
Winston Churchill is a hero, but he directed an army in the defence of Great Britain - is he any less of a hero because the army did the dirty work?
It's not just that it's pure speculation, but that the article is fervent paranoia - If someone says something like 'I think a new ipod is on the horizon' obviously they are just using guerilla tactics against apple. Paranoia can go too far.
putting cameras in squad cars for the purpose of reducing police brutality admits the potential for it - this is not a statement any police force would want to make.
and ps, i doubt the the police would be willing to give up these videos unless they really had no choice - kinda similar to the recent story about a person asking for a complaint form in a florida police station and being intimidated and told to get the fuck out by the cop on duty.
it's pissing me off as well. it just goes to show how useless that slashdot tagging system is though. in other words itscrap.
Apple took a brave stance when they opened the movie store for business, and if good intentions == $$ they would be doin' just fine; However I haven't seen a scrap of news about the movie store since it's been launched. That's either good news or bad news.
So what would slashdotian's prefer to see? Apple make compromises and let in the companies that are twisting it's arm, or Apple to stand it's ground and watch the movie store sink?
*The reasons why DVR solutions are not popular in the UK is of course more complex then the point I am making here, but I would argue one of the reasons is that we have two terrestrial channels that have no adverts (bbc1 and bbc2) and three (ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5) which we grumble about, but honestly aren't that invasive - compared to American television.
added to note an error in what I previously wrote. Damn I wish slashdot had a 2 minute edit feature like digg, it's about the only place they get one over on here
The roll out of Tivo solutions in the UK have not been nearly as popular as in America. I have noticed since the launch of Tivo in the US it has got to the point where it is culturally referenced in films, tv, media, everywhere - in other words it's practically reached Hoover standard.
The reasons why DVR solutions are of course more complex then the point I am making here, but I would argue one of the reasons is that we have two terrestrial channels that have no adverts (bbc1 and bbc2) and three (ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5) which we grumble about, but honestly aren't that invasive - compared to American television.
With the advent of digital tv we actually have access to a great many more channels, but for the most part all the bbc channels are ad free - it's what we pay a tv license for.
Ok, let's compromise, I'll be more imaginative about the potential abuse of this technology if you will be a little less dramatic.
... and honestly can you say that I, calling for reason among hundreds of posts going "OMGZOMGZ! BIG BROTHER!!11" am writing it's only a frelling phone people to 'make myself feel good'? To me it's patently obvious that the people trying to make themselves feel good are the tin foil donning chaps who believe Men in Black are hiding behind dumpsters, ready to spring and vanish you away.
I find OSS idolization on slashdot tedious, not because I don't think OSS is a good idea but because I don't think it unreasonable to place a modicum of trust in companies we buy products in, even if (shock horror) part of their product isn't based on OSS.
Your second to last sentence has something of the ring of creationism to it. If it ain't OSS it's the work of the Devil son - and nowt you say can proves otherwise. I do remember what all the geeks say, but I also remember that geeks aa a bunch can be extremely blinkered and sycophantic when it comes to certain subjects - e.g. topics that smell of Big Brother-esque situations.
No, I'm pretty sure taxing the companies is taxing the companies. Arguably the companies would increase the price of their product to compensate, but then again they might not - However companies need clear incentives to think green, and taking the green in their pocket away seems like a good place to start, if they don't meet a given set of standards.
Don't tax the consumer, tax the companies.
Please cram it with the Big Brother bullshit, the Nanny State clap trap and please remove your tin foil hats - unless you're after some free karma which you surely will, while saying nothing.
The slashdot article headline is misleading, it suggests the phone is in control of your private details, rather than you. One quick glance at the article and you can see this paragraph which states:
It's a sodding phone with GPS and the ability to tell others where you are, that's all.
perhaps it's 5 days between restarts, and he sets his mac to Sleep at night?
Also, do you mean a virtual desktop program for windows like this?
I find having a great deal of windows (or tabs) open counterproductive - I get lost, confused about what I was doing and can't concentrate.
I'm always shocked by how many people do have open, like seeing someones FF with 20-30+ tabs up. Are there really ever 30 essential pages that need to be up right now?
Technically, if it's China we're talking about it would be a 5 point plan, maybe with red highlights.
I will second that recommendation and state that in my personal experience there has never been any spyware or viri in CCCP.
The obvious alternative is of course VLC - however a lot of people will be turned off by VLCs apparent lack of spit and polish compared to other video players for windows, mainly because it is not always simple to use & it's seek bar sucks ass; devs flatly refuse to do anything about that (although it's my understanding that the way it's currently written it is actually impossible to fix the seekbar).
undoubtedly, but it also has a lot to do with the average age of a WOW player - i mean, what percentage of WoW players actually use the wow forums? An extremely small percentage, a great deal 'hardcore' and extremely vocal, even if it was 10% of the wow population that would be another 90% that just doesn't care.
I've heard nothing bad about Kerio and as far as I'm concerned it's fine. Personally I recently switched to Outpost Firewall and am very impressed, plus it's got an active user community which i always look for when deciding whether to take up a product.
doubtful. More likely is that as with most things in WoW the most heard voices will be from a loud few, who get distracted a few days later by a perceived nurf to their fav class or weapon.
I think no community can bark louder than than the WoW one, but seeing as the majority are a bunch of kids it just doesn't fucking matter.
In my eyes the Government - for good or bad - represents the will of the people. So if we are talking about the amendment of certain laws then I do expect the Government to decide what is correct, but form the basis for what it does on what we, the people recommend.
That's the most amusing comment I've seen on slashdot in a long time - someone please mod this guy up +1 funny. I think you are the only person who has ever said Apple should stop writing software not making hardware. Needless to say I wholeheartedly support Apple making more versions of Mac OS X which is a wonderful operating system.
and yet this is the second time recently it has made it's way on. Is slashdot taking submissions from digg now?
That's a slightly romantic interpretation of Google. They're a clever company who knows which side their bread is buttered on, they have to move with the times. As is said by others buying youtube is in part a move to keep it out of the greasy mitts of the competition.
Also google has a whole host of web acquisitions in its pocket like Writely and Picasa.
It's kind of understandable that people still see google as an indexing service, not a content service, but this is changing.
The only thing I am not looking forward to is the great youtube clear up of '06. All the content that we have come to know and love (like my quick n' easy south park episodes) will vanish.
It sounds great, but let's be realistic. What this means for web devs is having support IE 5.5,6 & now 7 too. People won't automatically migrate to 7 because they can. Even worse than that I've read far too much stuff about IE7 having very little extra support for CSS standards.
Most products are designed with a certain lifespan in mind. Companies realized that while people will moan and grumble they will still go and fork out for that new washing machine because they need it. That's why TVs and microwaves from the 80's still work, but more recent ones will only have lifespans of 3-4 years.
The moment companies start to design products without a limited lifespan the sky will *actually* fall.