Kind of Fitting really wouldn't you say, considering many peoples views on the new star wars films as a "bunch of uncreative money grubbers". Perhaps alien-ware were making a statment .
In this day and age there is a fairly good argument that , tele-Communications are a nessecity to function properly in modern society. many things rely on the functions of tele-communication networks in one form or another to function. Be it , Standard telephone , VOIP(soon enough) , internet , Mobile/cellular or otherwise.
I strongly belive that these should be gouvernmentaly controlled and classed as a municiple service.
Why.. well , you try to function without a telephone.Be it bussiness , emergncy or even keeping in touch with freinds or family.For many of us the internet is a nessicity , however as yet i wouldnt class it as a nessecity(YET).
The lines and airwaves should always be owned by the gouvernment , I belive though that difrent providers could offer you services and such , but the core should be state maintained.
As i see it now , We have little choice as to who we pay for our telephone line anyway , the line provider has a monopoly and its a near unshakable one , it is far more free for cellular network but still very limited (reception of one company may be poor whereas another may have perfect in one area).
Giving this power to the gouvernments , will in my eyes not prevent competition but increase it.
Unpopular view here perhaps.But its how i see it working. (the same hapens in the UK , germany and the states as far as i can tell) You can choose who you pay your bill to but the line rental is a monopoly.
Three letters for you G.P.L.. of which java is not under. Alot of folks like to stick to using pure GPL code only on their systems (or witha mix of a few other Open source licenses) IE: Debian for example. Fair enough there are things like Blackdown , but incompatibilitys arise.
that and as a previous poster already stated the overheads of running just one java-app
Bad potential copyright infringers Whatcha want, watcha want Whatcha gonna do When the cartel known as RIAA come for you Tell me Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna dooo Yeaheah
CHORUS: potential copyright infringers,potential copyright infringers Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do When the potential infringment lawsuit signed by the RIAA come for you(if you cant afford to defend) (Repeat)
When you were twenty And you to save money You go to College And learn the golden rule you got screwed with a student loan and couldt afford much food If you get hot torrents you dont need to either starve or have fun
Steriods are not always dangerous though , only if abused. It is quite possible to take steriod treatments to improve your health and boost your fittness,safely.
Multiple diffrent steroid treatments are used to aid many many phyisical injuries or diseases. So they are not always dangerous even if someone at the peak of their physical prowess takes them in safe doses they could improve abilitys slightly without negative effects on the health.
But i see your point , as most people taking anabolic steriods are doing so without competent medical care and are probably OD'ing and at severe risk.
Wrong analogy , i prefer this one.Guns Are designed to kill, which can be used to kill prey for food or murder. So there is still a fairly just debate over the fact that guns are by nature evil. Bittornet is designed to take the load off of server , and by its nature is good. However there is an argument that it can be used to help people download infringing materials.
So Guns are designed to kill , Torrent are designed to aid.
many people use guns for legitimate reasons such as Hunting for food or to cull an animal population. Guns are also used by murderers to murder people.
Many people use bittorent for legitimate reasons such as downloading files that are not copyright infringments in their country! Torrents can be used for a slightly negative reasons, IE Infringment by those scurvy Infringers of the High seas.
So to sum it up, at best , guns kill for food at worst guns kill. At best torrents help the internet , at worst they potentialy infringe some copyright.;) So explain to me again why torrents should be illegal and guns not
Seems to me to be a fairly odd thing , I mean they dissallow steroid and other treatments , So why should a lense that allows you to more easily compete be allowed.
I Wouldn't count on spelling as a good mesure of education or intelligence. I speak 3 languages , and can spell Perfeclty in the other two.It Just so happens I screw up constantly in English , Perhaps due to some other factor besides education.. Did that ever occur to you , probably not..
If your post is a messure of your inteligence , then i would class you somewhere around the level of a hooligan , or Skinhead.
Your a troll plain and simple but i shall bite as im hungry.
Sad that so many people belive that , Joining the EU more strongly now gives you more say in its activitys . If the UK gouvernment Stay at a side any longer , when it does eventualy join the EU it will have no power atall. Me well , i want an independant Scotland as an EU state/nation. If England/Wales/ Northan Ireland wants to stay out then more power to you. But I know in my land that a strong Pro European sentiment is growing ever stronger.I am so very much pro European union , Hell;) i married a German.
He has been a personal hero of mine , my political views and his may not have been on par , but god-damm that man had conviction and he had my respect for it. The world needs more politicans like him.
I didnt mean joke as in HAHA , I ment joke as in cheapening the argument. Saying something like that , in that manner , no matter how much truth is held in the statment, is just going to bring animostiy from both sides. And where does that bring us.. Absoloutly nowhere. Those people died for no reason , and i can assure you that more than one person here has lost someone to such terrorist actions and your just going to upset people. All i was really saying is , Please lay off that area as it bring us nowhere butto inflame the issue
VR was ahead of its time , it was trying to skip a few steps in the eveloutionry chain.It really was a step beyond its ability , VR is still used for treatment of those suffering mental traumas(physical and pyschological) so it was not an entier dead end. Its jsut the entertainment industry was at the time not ready for it , and in pushing it has set it back a while as its seen as a joke. With the advances in 3d Graphics and so forth,the Reality of Virtualy reality may soon come around . Right now though , its still a joke.
I understand what your trying to say , but that is a really insensitive way of saying it. 5000 or so people -innocent people,lost their lives. The upshot of it is that several thousand more people have lost their lives on both sides, violence never solves anything...
I too have very strong feeling against the american Gouvernment right now , though non atall against the american people. If you feel Strongly About the abuses the American Gouvernment has commited then you only cheapen your argument by trivialising those peoples lives.
I understand you were joking , but dude , this is not the right time or place for that(in that manner).
Stand tall in your belives,yes , but never at the expense of a life or at the trivialisation of one lost in such a tragic manner.
you know i like tony blair for one reason , he is the greatest thing to hapen to the scottish independance movment since Thatcher.
I am sick fed up of his Brown(Pun not a false capital) nosing to Bush. John Smith would have been a Truely great leader had he not sufferd the heart attack(Blair got in ridding off of Smiths past achivments) and had he been alive today i am sure he would have told Bush where to shove it(perhaps i over-esteem him , but i really admired the man, an honest politican is a rare thing)...I digress.
The Blair-Bush alliance would suffer some serious problems if it occurs that a political problem hapens with canada and the US, The commenwealth is still a major source of trade and the rest of europe would quickly side with Canada forcing the Labservitives hand.
Ive um , looked at it and drooled about all the posibilitys ... god im lazy. Ive been busy playing around with automater to see how much of a replacment it can be for my perl and shell scripting.. so far im fairly impresed with it.It can't replace scripting for me but it can replace a few of the smaller scripting tasks i have.. i digress. I too would love to hear of any Quartz composer posibilitys as i really look forward to trying a few things with it (too much to play with , too little time).
They can reject it all they want , but i don't really see what they can actualy do about it. What are they going to suggest , Trade sanctions against Canada.. HAH. I would love to see that,Trade sanctions against one of the largest commenwelth nations , well You think anti-American(Gouvernment not people) sentiment is strong now just wait , if they tried something like that then i can near assure you that the rest of the world would be in up-roar.You thought the UN was pissed off about the Cuba sanctions just wait to see how angry they would be if you tried that with Canada.
So what else can the US do , very little bar tough talk and going "Tch tch naughty Canada".
I think thats all we will hear about it , Lets hope Canada Gouvernment has the Strength of resolve to stay strong on this issue and stand up to this , Well lets just hope they realise there is nothing the US can do about it.
For a politican there is normaly two criteras, #1: Fiscal(who bribed/lobied(same word really) me the most) #2: Ethical(If I do this , will i get voted out next term and be unable to recive #1)
politicans generaly have all the ethics of 51% of the votes and the largest cash pay off.
For me the artaction(Bar the lovely GUI ) is the fact that its another system to tinker with , and it has some new ideas on how to do things(Well i never got a chance to use NeXTstep). Making it exactly the same as FreeBSD , NetBSD, OpenBSD or regular old BSD etc is quite imposible as well, they really have alot of difrences to begin with not to mention how difrent the BSDs are from linux.
So be it , if i have to alter a few scripts , fair enough im used to having to do that anyway. The gains the new system apple has devised to me seem worth it.
So long as the end result is the same , and i am able to use the system in the same way as i would any other Unix-like then Fair play to them for trying to do it in a slightly difrent way(So long as it is as good or better).
I cant speak for all the unix Geeks out there , but the atraction to testing new systems for me is as much about the simmilaritys as it is the difrences and how they intertwin . Being able to feel at home with an entierly diffrent OS That perhaps has new fittings, a nice fireplace and a completly alter heating and water pipe system,but is still simmilar enough that i can kick off my shoes and start to relax into my bright shiny new OS.
A squirrel-esque animal with attitude.. The ubuntu team do alot of good work , they managed to pull off release scheduals which Debian proper hasn't beeen able to achive and have it stable out of the door(not that debian unstable is that unstable).So i would expect it to be on par with Debian unstable Stability wise(Debian really needs to change the names for a few things ) (though i love the release names , i suggested Ahstmatic Aardvark but it was rejected)
Um i was actualy meaning that the best eppisode of enterprise was only as good as voyager and i really didnt like that a whole lot;) Though seven of nine was fairly snazzy
In your opinion , and fair enough maybe altot of people agree. To me though , It still is the worst star trek show ever. Though i respect the die-hard fans and their love for it , i just couldnt get into it and i did try oh so hard. I whatched every eppisode and yes true enough it did improve. Though to me it improved to the level of Season 1 voyager.. That is saying something.
I totaly respect the decision,they are giving it a rest for another few years, Gives them a chance to produce a star trek on par with ST:TNG.
Though hopefully they dont take as long as long a break as lucas had and end up forgetting how to make good sci-fi.
Had Enterprise not been a star trek , i mnay have enjoyed it more. The proble was mostly that it had so much to live up to and so little to live up to it with.
Your constantly trying to find yourself comparing it to the star-trek greats , yet not being able to. Fair play to those who could seperate it from the others and view it as an entity in and of itself , i just couldnt and as such the show fell so very short for me.
Heres hopping for a new Star trek that can carry on the flame for all the trek fans by 2009
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Kind of Fitting really wouldn't you say, considering many peoples views on the new star wars films as a "bunch of uncreative money grubbers".
Perhaps alien-ware were making a statment .
In this day and age there is a fairly good argument that , tele-Communications are a nessecity to function properly in modern society. .
.
.Be it bussiness , emergncy or even keeping in touch with freinds or family.For many of us the internet is a nessicity , however as yet i wouldnt class it as a nessecity(YET).
.
.But its how i see it working.
many things rely on the functions of tele-communication networks in one form or another to function.
Be it , Standard telephone , VOIP(soon enough) , internet , Mobile/cellular or otherwise
I strongly belive that these should be gouvernmentaly controlled and classed as a municiple service
Why.. well , you try to function without a telephone
The lines and airwaves should always be owned by the gouvernment , I belive though that difrent providers could offer you services and such , but the core should be state maintained.
As i see it now , We have little choice as to who we pay for our telephone line anyway , the line provider has a monopoly and its a near unshakable one , it is far more free for cellular network but still very limited (reception of one company may be poor whereas another may have perfect in one area).
Giving this power to the gouvernments , will in my eyes not prevent competition but increase it
Unpopular view here perhaps
(the same hapens in the UK , germany and the states as far as i can tell)
You can choose who you pay your bill to but the line rental is a monopoly.
Three letters for you .. of which java is not under . .
G.P.L
Alot of folks like to stick to using pure GPL code only on their systems (or witha mix of a few other Open source licenses) IE: Debian for example.
Fair enough there are things like Blackdown , but incompatibilitys arise
that and as a previous poster already stated the overheads of running just one java-app
or to parody a parody using more Realistic terms
,potential copyright infringers
Bad potential copyright infringers
Whatcha want, watcha want
Whatcha gonna do
When the cartel known as RIAA come for you
Tell me
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna dooo
Yeaheah
CHORUS:
potential copyright infringers
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
When the potential infringment lawsuit signed by the RIAA come for you(if you cant afford to defend)
(Repeat)
When you were twenty
And you to save money
You go to College
And learn the golden rule
you got screwed with a student loan
and couldt afford much food
If you get hot torrents
you dont need to either starve or have fun
Steriods are not always dangerous though , only if abused . ,safely .
.
It is quite possible to take steriod treatments to improve your health and boost your fittness
Multiple diffrent steroid treatments are used to aid many many phyisical injuries or diseases. So they are not always dangerous even if someone at the peak of their physical prowess takes them in safe doses they could improve abilitys slightly without negative effects on the health
But i see your point , as most people taking anabolic steriods are doing so without competent medical care and are probably OD'ing and at severe risk.
Wrong analogy , i prefer this one .Guns Are designed to kill, which can be used to kill prey for food or murder. . .
.
, ;) So explain to me again why torrents should be illegal and guns not
So there is still a fairly just debate over the fact that guns are by nature evil
Bittornet is designed to take the load off of server , and by its nature is good
However there is an argument that it can be used to help people download infringing materials.
So Guns are designed to kill , Torrent are designed to aid.
many people use guns for legitimate reasons such as Hunting for food or to cull an animal population.
Guns are also used by murderers to murder people
Many people use bittorent for legitimate reasons such as downloading files that are not copyright infringments in their country!
Torrents can be used for a slightly negative reasons, IE Infringment by those scurvy Infringers of the High seas.
So to sum it up
at best , guns kill for food at worst guns kill.
At best torrents help the internet , at worst they potentialy infringe some copyright.
Seems to me to be a fairly odd thing , I mean they dissallow steroid and other treatments , So why should a lense that allows you to more easily compete be allowed.
I dont like Juice with Bits in it !
I Wouldn't count on spelling as a good mesure of education or intelligence . .It Just so happens I screw up constantly in English , Perhaps due to some other factor besides education.. Did that ever occur to you , probably not ..
.
I speak 3 languages , and can spell Perfeclty in the other two
If your post is a messure of your inteligence , then i would class you somewhere around the level of a hooligan , or Skinhead.
Your a troll plain and simple but i shall bite as im hungry
The US is also a major source of trade , It just so hapend its a major source of trade that is acting like in a way unbefitting of a freindly nation.
Sad that so many people belive that , Joining the EU more strongly now gives you more say in its activitys . If the UK gouvernment Stay at a side any longer , when it does eventualy join the EU it will have no power atall . /Wales/ Northan Ireland wants to stay out then more power to you. .I am so very much pro European union , Hell ;) i married a German.
Me well , i want an independant Scotland as an EU state/nation.
If England
But I know in my land that a strong Pro European sentiment is growing ever stronger
He has been a personal hero of mine , my political views and his may not have been on par , but god-damm that man had conviction and he had my respect for it.
The world needs more politicans like him.
I didnt mean joke as in HAHA , I ment joke as in cheapening the argument. . .. Absoloutly nowhere .
Saying something like that , in that manner , no matter how much truth is held in the statment, is just going to bring animostiy from both sides
And where does that bring us
Those people died for no reason , and i can assure you that more than one person here has lost someone to such terrorist actions and your just going to upset people.
All i was really saying is , Please lay off that area as it bring us nowhere butto inflame the issue
;) well you could look at it like this , America is unable to handle the girth of Canadian Wood..
*Awaits down moderation for tastelessness*
VR was ahead of its time , it was trying to skip a few steps in the eveloutionry chain.It really was a step beyond its ability , VR is still used for treatment of those suffering mental traumas(physical and pyschological) so it was not an entier dead end. Its jsut the entertainment industry was at the time not ready for it , and in pushing it has set it back a while as its seen as a joke. ,the Reality of Virtualy reality may soon come around . Right now though , its still a joke .
With the advances in 3d Graphics and so forth
I understand what your trying to say , but that is a really insensitive way of saying it . ,lost their lives . ...
.
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,yes , but never at the expense of a life or at the trivialisation of one lost in such a tragic manner.
5000 or so people -innocent people
The upshot of it is that several thousand more people have lost their lives on both sides, violence never solves anything
I too have very strong feeling against the american Gouvernment right now , though non atall against the american people
If you feel Strongly About the abuses the American Gouvernment has commited then you only cheapen your argument by trivialising those peoples lives.
I understand you were joking , but dude , this is not the right time or place for that(in that manner)
Stand tall in your belives
you know i like tony blair for one reason , he is the greatest thing to hapen to the scottish independance movment since Thatcher .
.
I am sick fed up of his Brown(Pun not a false capital) nosing to Bush.
John Smith would have been a Truely great leader had he not sufferd the heart attack(Blair got in ridding off of Smiths past achivments) and had he been alive today i am sure he would have told Bush where to shove it(perhaps i over-esteem him , but i really admired the man, an honest politican is a rare thing)...I digress.
The Blair-Bush alliance would suffer some serious problems if it occurs that a political problem hapens with canada and the US, The commenwealth is still a major source of trade and the rest of europe would quickly side with Canada forcing the Labservitives hand
Ive um , looked at it and drooled about all the posibilitys . .. god im lazy . .It can't replace scripting for me but it can replace a few of the smaller scripting tasks i have .. i digress .
Ive been busy playing around with automater to see how much of a replacment it can be for my perl and shell scripting.. so far im fairly impresed with it
I too would love to hear of any Quartz composer posibilitys as i really look forward to trying a few things with it (too much to play with , too little time).
Scaryest bit about it is ,they cant or havnt yet ;)(note that the graphing calculator is one of the decorative bits of OS improvments) and still
They can reject it all they want , but i don't really see what they can actualy do about it . .. HAH. ,Trade sanctions against one of the largest commenwelth nations , well You think anti-American(Gouvernment not people) sentiment is strong now just wait , if they tried something like that then i can near assure you that the rest of the world would be in up-roar.You thought the UN was pissed off about the Cuba sanctions just wait to see how angry they would be if you tried that with Canada .
What are they going to suggest , Trade sanctions against Canada
I would love to see that
So what else can the US do , very little bar tough talk and going "Tch tch naughty Canada".
I think thats all we will hear about it , Lets hope Canada Gouvernment has the Strength of resolve to stay strong on this issue and stand up to this , Well lets just hope they realise there is nothing the US can do about it.
For a politican there is normaly two criteras ,
#1: Fiscal(who bribed/lobied(same word really) me the most)
#2: Ethical(If I do this , will i get voted out next term and be unable to recive #1)
politicans generaly have all the ethics of 51% of the votes and the largest cash pay off.
For me the artaction(Bar the lovely GUI ) is the fact that its another system to tinker with , and it has some new ideas on how to do things(Well i never got a chance to use NeXTstep).
.
,but is still simmilar enough that i can kick off my shoes and start to relax into my bright shiny new OS.
Making it exactly the same as FreeBSD , NetBSD, OpenBSD or regular old BSD etc is quite imposible as well, they really have alot of difrences to begin with not to mention how difrent the BSDs are from linux.
So be it , if i have to alter a few scripts , fair enough im used to having to do that anyway. The gains the new system apple has devised to me seem worth it
So long as the end result is the same , and i am able to use the system in the same way as i would any other Unix-like then Fair play to them for trying to do it in a slightly difrent way(So long as it is as good or better).
I cant speak for all the unix Geeks out there , but the atraction to testing new systems for me is as much about the simmilaritys as it is the difrences and how they intertwin . Being able to feel at home with an entierly diffrent OS That perhaps has new fittings, a nice fireplace and a completly alter heating and water pipe system
A squirrel-esque animal with attitude..
The ubuntu team do alot of good work , they managed to pull off release scheduals which Debian proper hasn't beeen able to achive and have it stable out of the door(not that debian unstable is that unstable).So i would expect it to be on par with Debian unstable Stability wise(Debian really needs to change the names for a few things )
(though i love the release names , i suggested Ahstmatic Aardvark but it was rejected)
Um i was actualy meaning that the best eppisode of enterprise was only as good as voyager and i really didnt like that a whole lot;) Though seven of nine was fairly snazzy
In your opinion , and fair enough maybe altot of people agree.
,they are giving it a rest for another few years, .
.
To me though , It still is the worst star trek show ever.
Though i respect the die-hard fans and their love for it , i just couldnt get into it and i did try oh so hard.
I whatched every eppisode and yes true enough it did improve.
Though to me it improved to the level of Season 1 voyager..
That is saying something.
I totaly respect the decision
Gives them a chance to produce a star trek on par with ST:TNG
Though hopefully they dont take as long as long a break as lucas had and end up forgetting how to make good sci-fi.
Had Enterprise not been a star trek , i mnay have enjoyed it more
The proble was mostly that it had so much to live up to and so little to live up to it with.
Your constantly trying to find yourself comparing it to the star-trek greats , yet not being able to. Fair play to those who could seperate it from the others and view it as an entity in and of itself , i just couldnt and as such the show fell so very short for me.
Heres hopping for a new Star trek that can carry on the flame for all the trek fans by 2009