People who deny the moon landing, evolution, or the Nazi generated holocaust are asserting an opinion in an effort to save a personal belief, and are not engaging in meaningful dialog.
A small nitpick, thought the latter are the cranks you describe their criticisms generated in response a great deal of meaningful research into the mechanism and history of the Holocaust. They inadvertently helped to assure that the Holocaust can never be denied again. If similarly the Moon units get us off our asses and back into space, I'm all for their delusions.
Seems to me, beyond confusing multiple uses of the word 'public' (publicly owned vs. open to view) that you have this exactly backwards. As libraries are publicly owned, the public should have finally say regarding library surveillance. I'll guess that most library users wouldn't approve.
They achieved that sucess without internal surveillance. This has nothing to do with concrete, nationwide threat and everything to do with a goverment grow too large, powerful and militaristic after 50 years of cold war suddenly loosing the main enemy justifying the buildup.
Because, y'know, the best product should always get the support of the market. That's why Excel is so popular.
By that logic McDonalds makes the world's best food, the Chevy Vega was once the world's best car and Happy Days the world's best television. In what sense are you using the word 'best'?
Except that, so far, 'boom' in Windows means the OS and possibly the system goes down, in Linux the marketing dude's home directory takes the damage unless the entire deprtment is running root. So no, not exactly the same thing.
And a notification that the service in unavailable to people trying to access it is pretty damn easy to do.
Telus, my ISP, found this the best way to notify me when the credit card I was using to pay for the service expired and they needed the new end date. First they disabled my account, then they sent an e-mail to the Telus address notifying me it was disabled.
It's called short term gain for long term pain. The consequences of totally dominant and unrestrained monopoly will be catastrophic for both the free movement of information and for innovation. But in the short term it lines the right pockets.
Right, the proprietor of an insignificant used clothing store - Malcom McClaren - was the exact '70's equivalent of the Spice Girl's record company. And both bands started off with the same promotional push, corporate backing, public acceptance and target audience.
Arrow keys wouldn't be too difficult (hell, I played Descent for years keyboard only and it had a far greater degree of movement than any vehicle still rubber side down), and certainly no worse than steering with a mouse. Bad analogy.
Open the pdf in XPDF, left click to highlite text, centre click to drop into text editor. It's that easy on my system. Ironically, the MITRE report is a pdf of a Word doc.
Don't read this as personal, but I find it difficult to unravel the multiple ironies of your post and its current moderation.
- Though I agree blanket MS bashing is counter-productive and infantile, by phrasing it as a blanket bash against Slashdot and its readers you risk the same. - Your post takes to task Slashdot moderators as anti-MS goons, yet those same moderators are modding up your mildly anti-Slashdot, pro-MS post. - The things you say about MS are at best highly debatable, yet again those same moderators currently have your AC post at +3 'Insightful' (I would love to hear how MS has made the Internet so much better, or how much smaller the computing world would be today had the standards been Apple and Netscape or real competition.)
I agree, the moderation on Slashdot could be a whole lot better and simplistic MS bashing without substantive argument to back it up is a waste of bandwidth, but the way to fix it isn't simply doing the same from the opposite side of the fence.
Were there recent upgrades to MOHAA's network performance? Georgeous maps weren't enough to make up for the crippling lag. It didn't approach the performance of the HL engine online. (RTCW played very well.)
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A small nitpick, thought the latter are the cranks you describe their criticisms generated in response a great deal of meaningful research into the mechanism and history of the Holocaust. They inadvertently helped to assure that the Holocaust can never be denied again. If similarly the Moon units get us off our asses and back into space, I'm all for their delusions.
Seems to me, beyond confusing multiple uses of the word 'public' (publicly owned vs. open to view) that you have this exactly backwards. As libraries are publicly owned, the public should have finally say regarding library surveillance. I'll guess that most library users wouldn't approve.
They achieved that sucess without internal surveillance. This has nothing to do with concrete, nationwide threat and everything to do with a goverment grow too large, powerful and militaristic after 50 years of cold war suddenly loosing the main enemy justifying the buildup.
By that logic McDonalds makes the world's best food, the Chevy Vega was once the world's best car and Happy Days the world's best television. In what sense are you using the word 'best'?
Except that, so far, 'boom' in Windows means the OS and possibly the system goes down, in Linux the marketing dude's home directory takes the damage unless the entire deprtment is running root. So no, not exactly the same thing.
Two and a half of those days are probably KDE and Gnome. :)
Telus, my ISP, found this the best way to notify me when the credit card I was using to pay for the service expired and they needed the new end date. First they disabled my account, then they sent an e-mail to the Telus address notifying me it was disabled.
Judging from the outcome of this case, I don't think "willy-nilly" means what you think it means.
It's called short term gain for long term pain. The consequences of totally dominant and unrestrained monopoly will be catastrophic for both the free movement of information and for innovation. But in the short term it lines the right pockets.
I would just love to hear an explanation of that one.
And that it will result in a ton of Slashdot posts claiming IE had it first.
Right, the proprietor of an insignificant used clothing store - Malcom McClaren - was the exact '70's equivalent of the Spice Girl's record company. And both bands started off with the same promotional push, corporate backing, public acceptance and target audience.
Arrow keys wouldn't be too difficult (hell, I played Descent for years keyboard only and it had a far greater degree of movement than any vehicle still rubber side down), and certainly no worse than steering with a mouse. Bad analogy.
Open the pdf in XPDF, left click to highlite text, centre click to drop into text editor. It's that easy on my system. Ironically, the MITRE report is a pdf of a Word doc.
Thanks for the Donnas info. I downloaded it from Usenet and, as often happens, was going to buy it after sampling. Won't happen now.
Well it'll make them damn hard to listen to then unless the RIAA can push through DRM skull implants.
Because you know the alternative - a society in which information is regulated by the entertainment industry - is a happy society. :) :) :)
- Though I agree blanket MS bashing is counter-productive and infantile, by phrasing it as a blanket bash against Slashdot and its readers you risk the same.
- Your post takes to task Slashdot moderators as anti-MS goons, yet those same moderators are modding up your mildly anti-Slashdot, pro-MS post.
- The things you say about MS are at best highly debatable, yet again those same moderators currently have your AC post at +3 'Insightful' (I would love to hear how MS has made the Internet so much better, or how much smaller the computing world would be today had the standards been Apple and Netscape or real competition.)
I agree, the moderation on Slashdot could be a whole lot better and simplistic MS bashing without substantive argument to back it up is a waste of bandwidth, but the way to fix it isn't simply doing the same from the opposite side of the fence.
Any examples of the "ridiclous" (sic) functionality to be lost by adhering to standards? Or what customers are demanding of banks?
use pure alcohol. The rubbing version contains lanolin: good if you want to keep the motherboard baby smooth, bad if you want to keep it running.
Is there a version of Godwin's Law applicable to the first post invoking Godwin's Law?
What a great idea, let's create a body of legislation around Microsoft as extensive as the one regulating banks and then we can all trust them too!
You need mass and surface area to carry heat away from the processor die.
Gigantic, yes. Massive, no. Those large, very thin copper sheets appear to lack the mass required to move much heat.
Were there recent upgrades to MOHAA's network performance? Georgeous maps weren't enough to make up for the crippling lag. It didn't approach the performance of the HL engine online. (RTCW played very well.)