It's not made up, ass hat. That is the shit they teach in schools, and that the shit that they teach the teachers while they're getting their "education" degrees. Some of the most ignorant people I know are the ones who are going into the education field. They don't know anything about math, science, history, etc...but they somehow know how to teach. It's all bullshit. I had a friend of mine, who's working on a education degree at the University of Oregon, tell me that you can't teach kids facts, because facts are boring. That's the kind of mentality that teachers have these days. Heck, I only graduated 7 years ago, and even then half of my teachers were utter morons...they didn't know a damn thing about what it was they were teaching. The writing teacher couldn't spell and had terrible grammar. The history teacher got his historical figures messed up all the time. The only decent instructors were the ones who had been there for decades and had real degrees in math, physics, etc.
Your issue is that you, like most people, like freedom as long as it's freedom done your way. As soon as someone does something you don't like, they're douche bags. I'm sure you wouldn't give two shits if they had switched from Yahoo to Google.
I don't know if you realized this, but Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is a corporation. So really, your problem here is that Microsoft is involved. Let's not pretend that you have some sort of problem with corporate sponsorship.
One IS a cardiologist (or at least there's a guy with that name who is a cardiologist in Milwaukee), and the other IS a neurobiologist. And what they're saying DOES match up with some papers I've looking at in my school's journal database on the topic. They seem legit to me.
It's entirely more likely that they'll do like what I did the first time I got a DMCA notice from my ISP: I stopped downloading stuff. I have bigger problems in my life than worrying about my "right" to download music and movies for free.
>There is no technical or security reason for WGA's existence.
I can think of one. Someone unwittingly buys a pirated copy of Windows (it does happen), and that copy has malware hidden all throughout. As soon as the person in question installs WGA, it will alert them to the fact that Windows is pirated, at which point they will hopefully stop using the infected copy of Windows, report whoever sold them the disk, and get a free copy from Microsoft.
Have you actually used it recently? Seems pretty clean and quick to me. But then again, I use Gmail mostly, and even then, I use the Windows Live Mail desktop client to access all my email accounts...so I don't pay much attention to the web front-ends.
>That little series of links across the top of the page.
Bing has those.
>lets me manage documents, my email, and my searching all with a single interface
If you log into Bing, you also log into Windows Live, which gives you access to Email, Calendars, your 25GB SkyDrive, and (coming soon) online office apps. As far as being able to do those from the iPhone...I would expect to see that soon, if not already. There is a Bing app, but I don't know exactly what it does.
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That's right, because everyone should know that they belong to the state. Opposing views are treason, and traitors are shot.
They also are not property of the state to brainwash under the guise of "protecting their rights".
"Supreme Court judge in Australia ruled that cartoons in which child characters engage in sexual acts is child pornography"
Legislating from the bench at its finest.
It's not made up, ass hat. That is the shit they teach in schools, and that the shit that they teach the teachers while they're getting their "education" degrees. Some of the most ignorant people I know are the ones who are going into the education field. They don't know anything about math, science, history, etc...but they somehow know how to teach. It's all bullshit. I had a friend of mine, who's working on a education degree at the University of Oregon, tell me that you can't teach kids facts, because facts are boring. That's the kind of mentality that teachers have these days. Heck, I only graduated 7 years ago, and even then half of my teachers were utter morons...they didn't know a damn thing about what it was they were teaching. The writing teacher couldn't spell and had terrible grammar. The history teacher got his historical figures messed up all the time. The only decent instructors were the ones who had been there for decades and had real degrees in math, physics, etc.
Education, like medical care or any other service, is not a right.
Before you call me a hypocrite, realize that you were the one talking about "the true spirit of OSS", not me.
I don't know that anything you just said applies to this case at all.
Dramatic much? But then again, a lot of the OSS zealots tend to be like that. One little thing changes and their panties get all bunched up.
Your issue is that you, like most people, like freedom as long as it's freedom done your way. As soon as someone does something you don't like, they're douche bags. I'm sure you wouldn't give two shits if they had switched from Yahoo to Google.
I don't know if you realized this, but Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is a corporation. So really, your problem here is that Microsoft is involved. Let's not pretend that you have some sort of problem with corporate sponsorship.
"So $499 for 16GB of iPad," Jobs explained. "That's our base model. 32GB is $599, 64GB is $799"
The fucking price goes from mediocre $499 to an insane $799 for an extra 48GB of space?
Not everyone has access to journals (they cost money, you know?) so sometimes you just link to what someone who's credible.
One IS a cardiologist (or at least there's a guy with that name who is a cardiologist in Milwaukee), and the other IS a neurobiologist. And what they're saying DOES match up with some papers I've looking at in my school's journal database on the topic. They seem legit to me.
My wife has one sibling from a different mother and another sibling from a different father. Maybe it's a situation like that, you insensitive clod!
It's entirely more likely that they'll do like what I did the first time I got a DMCA notice from my ISP: I stopped downloading stuff. I have bigger problems in my life than worrying about my "right" to download music and movies for free.
>$2M damages for 2 CDs worth of songs is outrageous enough to get the attention of even the most complacent.
And then what? What are "even the most complacent" going to do? Stop listening to music? Demand change? Fat chance.
>I have to say that WGA was really the final straw for me with Microsoft.
What did it do to you that was so terrible?
>There is no technical or security reason for WGA's existence.
I can think of one. Someone unwittingly buys a pirated copy of Windows (it does happen), and that copy has malware hidden all throughout. As soon as the person in question installs WGA, it will alert them to the fact that Windows is pirated, at which point they will hopefully stop using the infected copy of Windows, report whoever sold them the disk, and get a free copy from Microsoft.
You went here: http://mail.live.com/?
It's not slow at all...but maybe that's because I'm using Chrome. It's also a really clean UI. But yeah, their spam filtering sucks.
I was comparing to Google's services, such as email and calendars, troll. Obviously you don't have to log into Bing or Google to just do a search.
No, it's not exactly the same, but it does have images, videos, news, etc that you can click to see without retyping your search.
Have you actually used it recently? Seems pretty clean and quick to me. But then again, I use Gmail mostly, and even then, I use the Windows Live Mail desktop client to access all my email accounts...so I don't pay much attention to the web front-ends.
Because everyone would be querying the database 5-10 times per second for each search.
>a Jobs search engine.
It would be like Google, but the only button would be the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
>That little series of links across the top of the page.
Bing has those.
>lets me manage documents, my email, and my searching all with a single interface
If you log into Bing, you also log into Windows Live, which gives you access to Email, Calendars, your 25GB SkyDrive, and (coming soon) online office apps. As far as being able to do those from the iPhone...I would expect to see that soon, if not already. There is a Bing app, but I don't know exactly what it does.