I'm not really responding to the parent post, but yeah...
Why the hell would anybody attack the Amish? The major reasons for attacking somebody are that they pissed you off or you disagree with them. I'm pretty sure the Amish don't piss anybody off. There may be disagreements with their way of society, but I don't think anybody would send million-dollar bombs to their farm just to show who's boss.
BitTorrent should be used for large files, like those over 100 MB. Drivers and software updates rarely exceed 100 MB in size.
BitTorrent is not meant to have super fast delivery. It's meant to take the strain from seeders and distribute it among the leechers. In my experiences, though, it is fast.
I really hate the new UI. It's cluttered as hell. If I ever get Longhorn, which I doubt I will, I'll disable all of the shitty features that I don't need.
In order to understand English spelling, you first need to understand English I understand English. I said that English takes words from other languages without adapting them. A language should not be a mish-mash of confusing spellings and pronunciation that don't match each other. When you take a word from another language, it makes sense to adapt it to the rules of your own, while still conveying the same meaning. I might as well take 20,000 words from Spanish, 20,000 from German, 100,000 from other languages, and put random prefixes and suffixes to change the meanings. It'd be the same as English.
Nothing is perfect except God. Don't bring religion into it.
It's bullshit when companies say they lost revenue or whatever. They still make like $40 million per movie. They should stop hiring actors for millions of dollars. Acting is not worth millions.
To me the English language really does not make sense. Almost every word is irregular, we have words taken from other languages without adapting them to our own, and pronunciation is different from word to word. Why is the preterite of run ran, yet the preterite of shun is shunned? Why is knight pronounced as it is today? I'm not even sure where to put the quotes around the words and puncuation in the previous sentences.
English has annoyed me so much that I've been reading about languages that actually make sense, such as Esperanto and Lojban (not as good as Esperanto in my opinion). While it may seem kind of nerdy to learn languages like those, I seriously think they are much more logical and easier to understand than most languages. They have none of the ambiguity of the English language. Words are formed how they should be formed.
First of all, I'm sure the NSA has some sort of policy where its employees must be single and/or pass a test that ensures their commitment to the country and not their family. Second, I highly doubt that they keep their passwords on little sticky notes.
No, we have had computers smarter than Slashdotters since about a decade ago. You're implying that Slashdotters are intelligent, which is, as we all know, untrue.
But the average person wouldn't know how to dig underground, and that's probably what the industry wants. They know they can't stop the real pirates, they just want normal people to buy their stuff rather than easily downloading it for free.
I'm glad you realized this. Software is made up of bits. You aren't removing the bits from the owner, you are copying them. While it's still illegal, it's not stealing.
Copying a book letter for letter is not stealing. Taking the book from a store is.
If you listened to an online radio station and recorded it from there, I think it would be legal. They have the right to distribute music like that. You don't.
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I always thought of Intel as blue and Microsoft as grey. o_0
I'm not really responding to the parent post, but yeah...
Why the hell would anybody attack the Amish? The major reasons for attacking somebody are that they pissed you off or you disagree with them. I'm pretty sure the Amish don't piss anybody off. There may be disagreements with their way of society, but I don't think anybody would send million-dollar bombs to their farm just to show who's boss.
Why would you want to use an inferior product that's full of holes? There are many better alternatives.
Porn life. Relationship second.
BitTorrent should be used for large files, like those over 100 MB. Drivers and software updates rarely exceed 100 MB in size.
BitTorrent is not meant to have super fast delivery. It's meant to take the strain from seeders and distribute it among the leechers. In my experiences, though, it is fast.
It's safe to check personal email on an unknown network?
I really hate the new UI. It's cluttered as hell. If I ever get Longhorn, which I doubt I will, I'll disable all of the shitty features that I don't need.
I saw this article in akaimbatman's (I think that was his name) sig a while ago. Yep that's all I wanted to say.
at a microscopic level the world is not deterministic
Can you provide an article? I was always interested in determinism.
In order to understand English spelling, you first need to understand English
I understand English. I said that English takes words from other languages without adapting them. A language should not be a mish-mash of confusing spellings and pronunciation that don't match each other. When you take a word from another language, it makes sense to adapt it to the rules of your own, while still conveying the same meaning. I might as well take 20,000 words from Spanish, 20,000 from German, 100,000 from other languages, and put random prefixes and suffixes to change the meanings. It'd be the same as English.
Nothing is perfect except God.
Don't bring religion into it.
It's bullshit when companies say they lost revenue or whatever. They still make like $40 million per movie. They should stop hiring actors for millions of dollars. Acting is not worth millions.
To me the English language really does not make sense. Almost every word is irregular, we have words taken from other languages without adapting them to our own, and pronunciation is different from word to word. Why is the preterite of run ran, yet the preterite of shun is shunned? Why is knight pronounced as it is today? I'm not even sure where to put the quotes around the words and puncuation in the previous sentences.
English has annoyed me so much that I've been reading about languages that actually make sense, such as Esperanto and Lojban (not as good as Esperanto in my opinion). While it may seem kind of nerdy to learn languages like those, I seriously think they are much more logical and easier to understand than most languages. They have none of the ambiguity of the English language. Words are formed how they should be formed.
First of all, I'm sure the NSA has some sort of policy where its employees must be single and/or pass a test that ensures their commitment to the country and not their family. Second, I highly doubt that they keep their passwords on little sticky notes.
No, we have had computers smarter than Slashdotters since about a decade ago. You're implying that Slashdotters are intelligent, which is, as we all know, untrue.
Yes! It makes it easier to append a line to the end also.
It's "chock full," not "chocked full." Call me a Grammar Nazi if you wish.
But the average person wouldn't know how to dig underground, and that's probably what the industry wants. They know they can't stop the real pirates, they just want normal people to buy their stuff rather than easily downloading it for free.
I've read that it's Dick Cheney's house, but really I have no idea.
Thank Allah I don't believe in God!
I'm glad you realized this. Software is made up of bits. You aren't removing the bits from the owner, you are copying them. While it's still illegal, it's not stealing.
Copying a book letter for letter is not stealing. Taking the book from a store is.
WPS actually stands for What a Piece of Shit, which would explain the inaccuracy.
If you listened to an online radio station and recorded it from there, I think it would be legal. They have the right to distribute music like that. You don't.
Well since the majority of Asia's websites are Chinese, that wouldn't really matter with all the censorship.
Another reason would be to make 99%+ transparent glass and have people run into it. :D
I'm wondering that myself.