The only "right" place for a male fanboy to seek love is at a "Twilight" or "True Blood" fan event. And that would mean swallowing your pride long enough to pretend to like a bunch of emo vampires. Even then, you're probably going to get stuck with some goth chick who sincerely believes that cutting herself shows she has depth.
The government and society are no more intrusive today in the lives of people than they were in decades past. The only difference is that it's generally more centralized. A hundred years ago, your state, your county, your neighborhood, and local social groups were filling all the same roles as the feds do today. The U.S. feds (since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution) have asserted more and more authority over state/local/community laws and institutions, and as a consequence have taken on a larger role. Some may decry this as a loss, but you probably wouldn't think it was a loss if you were a black guy whose state and county once blocked him from voting and testifying in a court of law.
It's a matter of perspective. Whether you subject yourself to the will of the nation or the will or your neighborhood--either way you're submitting yourself to someone. Personally, I would rather have a more reasonable central authority than a fractured system where every group of local hillbillies gets to make all the laws. A centralized government is also a lot better able to defend itself--just ask a fractured and disorganized Confederate States of America.
Yeah, but think about how much money our psychologists and Pfizer will make off all those false positives! All those falsely-diagnosed ADHD kids can't last forever, you know. Eventually we'll need new boogeymen to provide excuses to drug our kids into not bugging us with their noisy shit.
They're even bigger control freaks than Apple (this is the studio that gave us the rootkit fiasco, after all). I suspect this will set off an arms race, with Sony going to some pretty crazy limits to stop hacks. Of course, they did start this arms race themselves by removing the "Other OS" option (and even earlier by using the hypervisor to gimp the PS3). They may come to really regret that decision.
I know this is going to piss on the HTML5 love-fest, but for those of us who *do* need web video (especially interactive video), Flash is still the most efficient and well-deployed way to go. Fanaticism can't change reality.
Second Life has put a *lot* of of effort and resources into PR over the years (many developers could learn a thing or two from them in this regard). As a result, their place in pop culture and the media is massively exaggerated. Too many developers neglect promotion in the same way that they neglect good documentation, good design/UI, etc. And that's why Second Life is on "The Office" and no one in the mainstream media has even heard of Linux.
It'll be our problem if one of those Russian whack-jobs takes over the country and decides to restart the Cold War (or, worse yet, a hot one). Whack-jobs everywhere are a problem for everyone, especially in the modern age of nuclear weapons, world wars, terrorism, etc.
And it makes about as much sense. Exactly what would the U.S. have to gain from destabilizing yet another potential enemy government? We can't even handle the wars we're already in and unstable governments are the biggest threat to the U.S. in the world right now (let's see--Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea, Yemen, Somalia, should I continue?). You think we're going to risk creating yet another pissed-off unstable country in the world--one with nukes to hand out like candy, no less? There isn't enough short-term gain to even begin to offset all those long-term headaches.
Tried it and it sucked. Real amateur hour stuff (should have been a tip off when it required a manual edit or one of its own installation files to work properly). I wish the real NoScript people would make an Chrome version.
Sorry, but I periodically try out different browsers, and unless something has changed in the last few months, I can say that Opera's script blocking capabilities do not even BEGIN to compare with NoScript. Opera's built-on functions are more akin to the built-in script blocking functions of Firefox and a lot of browsers. Everything has to be set by hand, there is no easy UI to control individual blocked elements, blocking by default is all-or-nothing. To paraphrase the great Samuel Jackson, Opera's built in features are not only not playing in the same league as NoScript, they're not even playing the same sport. NoScript is still one of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox. I've yet to see an add-on or set of built-in features to compare. And I've tried a lot of them (tried "NotScript" for Chrome just today, which also fell way short, though not as short as Opera's built-in blocking).
If it's not supported by IE, there is no "most." End of story. You can pretend that all browsers are created equal if you like. But most of the rest of us have to live in the real world, where 70%+ of the eyes on a given website are going to be using IE.
That Noscripts knockoff sucks. I tried it out and it barely blocked anything and didn't have a UI that was even built into the page. Not even close to the real NoScripts. I'll stick with Firefox and its add-ons, thanks. Maybe someone Chrome will get a real NoScripts add-on and I'll consider it.
But it's not really a competition. As I pointed out in my post, Google basically owns Mozilla. After all, if someone provided 85% of your income, wouldn't you be inclined to do what they told you?
For example, the driver of a getaway car can be charged with felony murder if his partner accidently shoots someone while attempting to rob a bank.
That always has struck me as unfair, and even downright bizarre. I'm all for deterring crime and punishing criminals. But punishing someone for a crime they didn't commit themselves (or, for that matter, that they might not even be AWARE was committed) is just outlandish. IMHO, only the trigger person(s) should be charged with actual murder. In a robbery type situation, his fellow robbers could be charged with "accessory to murder," "armed robbery," etc. But the idea of charging someone with murder who might have never laid a finger on anyone in his life, who walked into a bank thinking his partner was just going to rob it, or who might have been sitting in the getaway car outside unaware that anyone had even been killed...that's just bizarre.
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Because I've kind of gotten used to it.
The only "right" place for a male fanboy to seek love is at a "Twilight" or "True Blood" fan event. And that would mean swallowing your pride long enough to pretend to like a bunch of emo vampires. Even then, you're probably going to get stuck with some goth chick who sincerely believes that cutting herself shows she has depth.
A few of us are actually aliens. We come here for your ethanol and end up staying to watch Adult Swim.
Not as sorry as those who will have to live in the nightmarish aftermath.
Doesn't the 360 require a mod chip though? That's a lot more involved than just attaching a dongle.
Yeah, none of those 40 problem apps will run on Linux. Unfortunately, neither will thousands of other apps.
The government and society are no more intrusive today in the lives of people than they were in decades past. The only difference is that it's generally more centralized. A hundred years ago, your state, your county, your neighborhood, and local social groups were filling all the same roles as the feds do today. The U.S. feds (since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution) have asserted more and more authority over state/local/community laws and institutions, and as a consequence have taken on a larger role. Some may decry this as a loss, but you probably wouldn't think it was a loss if you were a black guy whose state and county once blocked him from voting and testifying in a court of law.
It's a matter of perspective. Whether you subject yourself to the will of the nation or the will or your neighborhood--either way you're submitting yourself to someone. Personally, I would rather have a more reasonable central authority than a fractured system where every group of local hillbillies gets to make all the laws. A centralized government is also a lot better able to defend itself--just ask a fractured and disorganized Confederate States of America.
Yeah, but think about how much money our psychologists and Pfizer will make off all those false positives! All those falsely-diagnosed ADHD kids can't last forever, you know. Eventually we'll need new boogeymen to provide excuses to drug our kids into not bugging us with their noisy shit.
They're even bigger control freaks than Apple (this is the studio that gave us the rootkit fiasco, after all). I suspect this will set off an arms race, with Sony going to some pretty crazy limits to stop hacks. Of course, they did start this arms race themselves by removing the "Other OS" option (and even earlier by using the hypervisor to gimp the PS3). They may come to really regret that decision.
I'll tell you what my granddad used to tell me: never waste your time reasoning with a true believer.
I know this is going to piss on the HTML5 love-fest, but for those of us who *do* need web video (especially interactive video), Flash is still the most efficient and well-deployed way to go. Fanaticism can't change reality.
And I, for one, welcome our new l33t haXor Congressmen and Presidents.
No, but it probably wastes at least that much each year in CPU watts.
And deprive millions of corporate IT drones of their false sense of security?!?!? Are you insane, man???
Second Life has put a *lot* of of effort and resources into PR over the years (many developers could learn a thing or two from them in this regard). As a result, their place in pop culture and the media is massively exaggerated. Too many developers neglect promotion in the same way that they neglect good documentation, good design/UI, etc. And that's why Second Life is on "The Office" and no one in the mainstream media has even heard of Linux.
Raising the price of wheat for a little while--yeah, *well* worth the price of starting WWIII. Makes perfect sense.
It'll be our problem if one of those Russian whack-jobs takes over the country and decides to restart the Cold War (or, worse yet, a hot one). Whack-jobs everywhere are a problem for everyone, especially in the modern age of nuclear weapons, world wars, terrorism, etc.
And it makes about as much sense. Exactly what would the U.S. have to gain from destabilizing yet another potential enemy government? We can't even handle the wars we're already in and unstable governments are the biggest threat to the U.S. in the world right now (let's see--Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea, Yemen, Somalia, should I continue?). You think we're going to risk creating yet another pissed-off unstable country in the world--one with nukes to hand out like candy, no less? There isn't enough short-term gain to even begin to offset all those long-term headaches.
Tried it and it sucked. Real amateur hour stuff (should have been a tip off when it required a manual edit or one of its own installation files to work properly). I wish the real NoScript people would make an Chrome version.
Sorry, but I periodically try out different browsers, and unless something has changed in the last few months, I can say that Opera's script blocking capabilities do not even BEGIN to compare with NoScript. Opera's built-on functions are more akin to the built-in script blocking functions of Firefox and a lot of browsers. Everything has to be set by hand, there is no easy UI to control individual blocked elements, blocking by default is all-or-nothing. To paraphrase the great Samuel Jackson, Opera's built in features are not only not playing in the same league as NoScript, they're not even playing the same sport. NoScript is still one of the reasons I keep coming back to Firefox. I've yet to see an add-on or set of built-in features to compare. And I've tried a lot of them (tried "NotScript" for Chrome just today, which also fell way short, though not as short as Opera's built-in blocking).
If it's not supported by IE, there is no "most." End of story. You can pretend that all browsers are created equal if you like. But most of the rest of us have to live in the real world, where 70%+ of the eyes on a given website are going to be using IE.
That Noscripts knockoff sucks. I tried it out and it barely blocked anything and didn't have a UI that was even built into the page. Not even close to the real NoScripts. I'll stick with Firefox and its add-ons, thanks. Maybe someone Chrome will get a real NoScripts add-on and I'll consider it.
But it's not really a competition. As I pointed out in my post, Google basically owns Mozilla. After all, if someone provided 85% of your income, wouldn't you be inclined to do what they told you?
What do you say to someone who thinks that any web technology not supported by IE is even remotely "mainstream"?
That always has struck me as unfair, and even downright bizarre. I'm all for deterring crime and punishing criminals. But punishing someone for a crime they didn't commit themselves (or, for that matter, that they might not even be AWARE was committed) is just outlandish. IMHO, only the trigger person(s) should be charged with actual murder. In a robbery type situation, his fellow robbers could be charged with "accessory to murder," "armed robbery," etc. But the idea of charging someone with murder who might have never laid a finger on anyone in his life, who walked into a bank thinking his partner was just going to rob it, or who might have been sitting in the getaway car outside unaware that anyone had even been killed...that's just bizarre.