It's not really their choice though, is it.. not if by "they", you mean the population in general.
Don't get me wrong - there's a lot of nationalism in China. Mainly because half of the population haven't got a clue what's going on, and tend to get arrested when they find out.
Yeah, you could apply the "needs of the many outweighs" argument to it, but then again, does that one trump "tell us the fucking truth about Tiannenmen Square"?
I'm not going to take the "go to hell" route - what you do is up to you, but consider the practical implications of what you are doing to the consumer - the fact is that I am averse to buying hardware that I cannot get an open-source driver for. The driver won't be installed by default with my distro, it may involve the use of a kernel patch to work, and I can't guarantee that you will always keep your driver up to date with future releases of linux or the GNU utils. If you drop dead, then there may be a kernel release in the future which your hardware won't work with, and I'll be left holding a piece of junk.
In other words, if you choose the closed source driver route, you are choosing something which is going to be a complete pain in the arse that nobody is going to want to buy. If you really need to hide trade secrets, there's nothing stopping you putting closed source into a chip on the hardware itself, and just use an open source driver in linux to talk to it. Problem solved.
I lost interest with Battlestar Galactica after realising none of the people on the show had a sense of humour - or a personality, in fact. A mental disorder, yes, but no personality. Can you really imagine having to spend the rest of your life on a starship with those miserable fuckers?
I read an article in Private Eye about the "curse" of American shows. Whenever a big blockbusting show comes out, there's already a contract in place to make 3 seasons, regardless of whether the authors have a plot, or even any idea of how to continue it. So after a great first season, the second season is a license to print money, no matter how bad it is. The BBC (yadda yadda) doesn't have these constraints. (here comes the license-vs-subscription-vs-advertisements flamewar..)
Christianity is theory, not fact. It is based on evidence passed down through generations of people who had no reason to disbelieve it. Please approach it with an open mind.
You're not looking hard enough:-) Some great steaks in London (that you won't have to book weeks in advance) are:
* Gaucho grill, Swallow Street (off Regent street) * Mon Plaisir, Seven Dials * L'Estaminet, Garrick Street * Belgo, Neals Yard * The Italian on Brewer Street (can't remember the damn name, but there's only one, and it's between two sex shops:-)) * Le Deuxieme, Long Acre
Hear hear, London has awesome food. Meanwhile, my experience of food in California (I cycled from SF to SD) were:
* The restaurants only serve "sizzling", "super", "bonus", or "mega" meals
* There's a plethora of novelty shaped crap corn snacks with stupid names, which I will collectively describe as "cheese cunties"
* If you don't fancy chili or pizza or breaded mushrooms one night, you're pretty screwed
* All the best places to eat were run by foreigners - the best was an Indian restaurant in Santa Barbara run by an Anglo-Indian man from Peckham, London
* I got foot poisoning from a "ham sandwich" - a one dollar combination of two slices of bread, some cheese, some ham, and something resembling butter substitute. It was frozen when I got it.
* Everything has far too much butter on it
* All the restaurants have flyers and other stuff advertising special deals, in spite of the fact that you're already there paying the god damn money.
* There was an exceptionally good French restaurant in Ventura, which was deserted, while there was a 200 yard long queue to get in the standard formulaic american everything-deep-fried-in-breadcrumbs bar/diner place over the road.
Basically, Americans should take a good hard look at the shit they eat and the attitude they have towards food before making baseless claims about the UK, who are obsessed with food, have back-to-back cookery programs on all day on Saturday, and have reputedly the best restaurant in the world (The Fat Duck, Bray, Buckinghamshire).
There's a reason why Americans are all fat and have bowel cancer, and it sure as hell isn't anything to do with foreign food.
Excellent open-source drivers for an utterly shit chip. Morals aside, I'd rather use nvidia closed source on a card that actually had some performance than an open source driver for something that can barely support the features in vista, let alone play doom.
This is a great post, but I can see one point at flaw. The umbrella argument (tm!)
I don't carry an umbrella. If it's raining, I'll get a coat with a hood on it. why?
1) An umbrella occupies your arm
2) If it stops raining, you've got a useless object occupying your arm, which could be more useful doing things like fishing keys out of your pocket
3) Umbrellas have pointy things at eye-level, and tend to become lethal in a crowded street
4) I'm yet to find the most optimum height/angle to hold an umbrella to stay dry. It doesn't work. A hood on the other hand covers your entire head.
You could apply the same argument to a massive gun, whereas a pistol fits conveniently into your pocket.
Then again, if you need a gun with you while you're "on the go", you don't need a gun, you need psychological and socialogical help.
Hey.. I was enjoying that cartoon strip about the tramp! I'm looking to next week's installment: tramp man does a wee in the park.
I wonder where I pay for my subscription.
The BBC most certainly don't spout what they're told. Remember the "sexed up" incident? Remember when they used to dub Gerry Adams with that ridiculous voice to get around Thatcher's ban on IRA propaganda? The BBC has a legal mandate to be unbiased and informative, and have an entire department who's job it is to make this as realistic as possible. You could still argue from both the left and the right that they are biased, and every time they are seen to sway in either direction they get a beating. Except when employing pundits (who's job it is to be biased), the BBC does pretty well in simply reporting what happened without pandering to either side of a political debate, and all while being attacked by both the government and the opposition for being biased in favour of the other. Where is the centre anyway?
Nothing wrong with being arrested for brawling. If my quiet pint in a local pub is spoilt by two idiots throwing eachother around the room, I don't care who started it, I want them both out. They can argue about that in court. The person who didn't start it would most likely get away without charge. In fact, if my trip to a football match is ruined by 200 crazed hooligans without tickets smashing up the neighbourhood with eachother's heads, I'd appreciate it if something was done (in the case of football hooliganism, it's usually a lengthly ban from being in the vicinity of a football match, and in the most part, it's worked).
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From an initial search engine userbase of 5. That's trebled it!
Their country, their choice
It's not really their choice though, is it.. not if by "they", you mean the population in general.
Don't get me wrong - there's a lot of nationalism in China. Mainly because half of the population haven't got a clue what's going on, and tend to get arrested when they find out.
Yeah, you could apply the "needs of the many outweighs" argument to it, but then again, does that one trump "tell us the fucking truth about Tiannenmen Square"?
you've just listed about 8 reasons why china is evil.
I'm not going to take the "go to hell" route - what you do is up to you, but consider the practical implications of what you are doing to the consumer - the fact is that I am averse to buying hardware that I cannot get an open-source driver for. The driver won't be installed by default with my distro, it may involve the use of a kernel patch to work, and I can't guarantee that you will always keep your driver up to date with future releases of linux or the GNU utils. If you drop dead, then there may be a kernel release in the future which your hardware won't work with, and I'll be left holding a piece of junk.
In other words, if you choose the closed source driver route, you are choosing something which is going to be a complete pain in the arse that nobody is going to want to buy. If you really need to hide trade secrets, there's nothing stopping you putting closed source into a chip on the hardware itself, and just use an open source driver in linux to talk to it. Problem solved.
He could try "just for men", and possibly have surgery to get both his eyes to point in the same direction.
Loop of black paper through their fax machine.. A man who cannot fax, cannot recruit!
I lost interest with Battlestar Galactica after realising none of the people on the show had a sense of humour - or a personality, in fact. A mental disorder, yes, but no personality. Can you really imagine having to spend the rest of your life on a starship with those miserable fuckers?
I'm supporting the cylons.
I read an article in Private Eye about the "curse" of American shows. Whenever a big blockbusting show comes out, there's already a contract in place to make 3 seasons, regardless of whether the authors have a plot, or even any idea of how to continue it. So after a great first season, the second season is a license to print money, no matter how bad it is. The BBC (yadda yadda) doesn't have these constraints. (here comes the license-vs-subscription-vs-advertisements flamewar..)
Christianity is theory, not fact. It is based on evidence passed down through generations of people who had no reason to disbelieve it. Please approach it with an open mind.
I'll start taking articles like this seriously when I start seeing articles about computer programming in women's magazines.
You'll turn my ultra un-cool alienware bulimic. All this "size zero" is unrealistic and degrading to more average sized laptops.
The spelling happened at a troubled time, but was it REALLY such a pain to use the word "or" instead of a comma?
The title sounds like "copper ore" is a celebratory slogan. Basically, the author of the article sounds like an idiot.
People give this argument when saying that the British museum should give back much of what it houses. You can't have it both ways.
You're not looking hard enough :-) Some great steaks in London (that you won't have to book weeks in advance) are:
:-))
* Gaucho grill, Swallow Street (off Regent street)
* Mon Plaisir, Seven Dials
* L'Estaminet, Garrick Street
* Belgo, Neals Yard
* The Italian on Brewer Street (can't remember the damn name, but there's only one, and it's between two sex shops
* Le Deuxieme, Long Acre
Hear hear, London has awesome food. Meanwhile, my experience of food in California (I cycled from SF to SD) were: * The restaurants only serve "sizzling", "super", "bonus", or "mega" meals * There's a plethora of novelty shaped crap corn snacks with stupid names, which I will collectively describe as "cheese cunties" * If you don't fancy chili or pizza or breaded mushrooms one night, you're pretty screwed * All the best places to eat were run by foreigners - the best was an Indian restaurant in Santa Barbara run by an Anglo-Indian man from Peckham, London * I got foot poisoning from a "ham sandwich" - a one dollar combination of two slices of bread, some cheese, some ham, and something resembling butter substitute. It was frozen when I got it. * Everything has far too much butter on it * All the restaurants have flyers and other stuff advertising special deals, in spite of the fact that you're already there paying the god damn money. * There was an exceptionally good French restaurant in Ventura, which was deserted, while there was a 200 yard long queue to get in the standard formulaic american everything-deep-fried-in-breadcrumbs bar/diner place over the road. Basically, Americans should take a good hard look at the shit they eat and the attitude they have towards food before making baseless claims about the UK, who are obsessed with food, have back-to-back cookery programs on all day on Saturday, and have reputedly the best restaurant in the world (The Fat Duck, Bray, Buckinghamshire). There's a reason why Americans are all fat and have bowel cancer, and it sure as hell isn't anything to do with foreign food.
Quake THREE? At 40fps? My monitor runs at 60hz.. I get fussy about non-vsync'd animation, sorry. Quake 3 came out in 2000.
Excellent open-source drivers for an utterly shit chip. Morals aside, I'd rather use nvidia closed source on a card that actually had some performance than an open source driver for something that can barely support the features in vista, let alone play doom.
pre-emptive multitasking guaranteed sound driver latency 3D support on a modern graphics card All of which I can't see coming to solaris.
Now the french have a webcam for every day of the year! (except public holidays)
This is a great post, but I can see one point at flaw. The umbrella argument (tm!) I don't carry an umbrella. If it's raining, I'll get a coat with a hood on it. why? 1) An umbrella occupies your arm 2) If it stops raining, you've got a useless object occupying your arm, which could be more useful doing things like fishing keys out of your pocket 3) Umbrellas have pointy things at eye-level, and tend to become lethal in a crowded street 4) I'm yet to find the most optimum height/angle to hold an umbrella to stay dry. It doesn't work. A hood on the other hand covers your entire head. You could apply the same argument to a massive gun, whereas a pistol fits conveniently into your pocket. Then again, if you need a gun with you while you're "on the go", you don't need a gun, you need psychological and socialogical help.
Legalise sniper rifles to anyone who pays their council tax bill.
Hey.. I was enjoying that cartoon strip about the tramp! I'm looking to next week's installment: tramp man does a wee in the park. I wonder where I pay for my subscription.
Where can I get a weekly subscription to this comic book about tramps? It looks ace! http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42764000/jpg /_42764725_cctv_montage_203.jpg/
The BBC most certainly don't spout what they're told. Remember the "sexed up" incident? Remember when they used to dub Gerry Adams with that ridiculous voice to get around Thatcher's ban on IRA propaganda? The BBC has a legal mandate to be unbiased and informative, and have an entire department who's job it is to make this as realistic as possible. You could still argue from both the left and the right that they are biased, and every time they are seen to sway in either direction they get a beating. Except when employing pundits (who's job it is to be biased), the BBC does pretty well in simply reporting what happened without pandering to either side of a political debate, and all while being attacked by both the government and the opposition for being biased in favour of the other. Where is the centre anyway?
Nothing wrong with being arrested for brawling. If my quiet pint in a local pub is spoilt by two idiots throwing eachother around the room, I don't care who started it, I want them both out. They can argue about that in court. The person who didn't start it would most likely get away without charge. In fact, if my trip to a football match is ruined by 200 crazed hooligans without tickets smashing up the neighbourhood with eachother's heads, I'd appreciate it if something was done (in the case of football hooliganism, it's usually a lengthly ban from being in the vicinity of a football match, and in the most part, it's worked).