I have nothing to say about Apple, only Linux, don't need to bring them into this.
But as far as Linux goes, you can't point to a single example of a distribution using their position to push their own browser (or media player) onto you. You won't find any distribution that attempts to lock-in the user by pushing a proprietary browser with non-standard behavior (and don't even get me started on ActiveX) that is only usable on the one platform. Sure, Ubuntu's installing Firefox by default, but it's not using that installation maliciously at all.
Ummm... what sort of maths are you taking in university that still allow for multiple choice, just out of curiosity? I just finished my second year in a US college, had about three years worth of maths in there, and I'm failing to see how any of those classes could have been done in multiple choice....
I was talking about primaries, too. Good people still have to run in those, too.
Further, I feel it is morally worse to vote randomly for something I didn't believe in in the first place or to register for a party that I don't agree with to vote in primaries than it is to not vote and complain about how things are. I'm an independent for a reason.
It's not so much that MS is saying "ZOMG Linux is doing this therefore we must do it with Windows" as it is "Some vendor wanted to make this and, in order to make it as cheap as possible, they used Linux. Now that this has proven successful, we believe we can find a way to use Windows in this context and be successful, too." So, it's not so much responding to Linux as it is doing something that Linux proved possible.
Did you even read into that ruling at all? Microsoft got fined for using their monopoly position to push their non-OS product with their OS. Now, tell me how this is done in Linux when, for example, my distro came with multiple window managers, GUI shells, web browsers, etc, most of which weren't even written by the distro devs?
Would we? I don't know about you, but my Linux distro came with several alternatives (KDE and Gnome, Firefox^W Iceweasel and Epiphany, etc) available, making it easy to install and uninstall all of them, and not all of them are products of the distro's devs. If MS did this for Windows, how could you possibly cry monopoly?
And if no one runs that I feel I can vote for? I'm not allowed to complain that all of the candidates suck equally? Where was the vote that I missed to get a candidate who doesn't suck? Your logic makes no sense at all.
Now maybe if you choose a random URL out of all possible URLs, something with a.ru TLD is more likely to cause troubles. Good to know. But if you're going to some URL, you *know* the TLD. If you see that the TLD is.hk and 19% of.hk sites are hostile, you have a higher probability of trouble being caused than if you see the TLD is.ru and 6.8% of.ru sites are hostile.
(Disclaimer so one can understand any biases I may or may not have on the issue: I dual-boot WinXP 64-bit & 64-bit lenny, usually sticking with lenny except when gaming)
I find it interesting that you believe computer idiocy to be the norm. While I agree that an average person is no where near the average/.er's level of computer literacy, my personal experience finds that most people aren't computer idiots. I know very few people who just click "go away" or who click on pop-ups. And those who do are either computer idiots or are set straight after being told once.
Also anecdotal, sure, but choosing one set of computer idiots does not represent the general population.=
It in no way implies that IT has been around for 2000 years. You are correct in that, grammatically speaking, removing "and" and one of the joined clauses should be correct. I repeat, grammatically speaking. It doesn't have to retain its meaning or truth value, however. The sentence "The human race is composed entirely of men and women" is true (okay, there are a few percent, but ignore that for sake of a simple example). However, neither "The human race is composed entirely of men" nor "The human race is composed entirely of women" is true.
The sentence's meaning can change when you remove "and" and one of the joined clauses. This happened in the post you were criticizing. By having "technical fields and IT" instead of just "IT", it's saying that technical fields in general have been around for at least 2000 years and that women's disinterest in that implies disinterest in IT, a subset of technical fields.
While I agree with you about everything after and including the words "Also nevermind" and before and not including the words "I can't help...", you fail at reading comprehension. Your selective quoting so cunningly removed the very important words "technical fields", which have been around for at least 2000 years, and of which IT is a subset.
How the hell did this get modded up? You are talking about doubt in an entirely different context than the GP. The GP talks about someone who believes in $deity, begins to doubt it, and then eventually stops believing in $deity. You are trying to skip the middle step and act as if GP meant doubt for the "no longer believing" state. If you believe something and then gradually start to not believe it, yes, there is a period of doubt. You still think there is some truth that could be believed, but you're not sure about it. Properly viewing the GP, your comment is pretty much unrelated.
Then don't refer to the scale as being more or less free but as offering more or less rights. PD/OS software offer more rights to random person X than free software does, which offers more than visible which offers more than closed. Makes sense.
Next I bet you're going to complain about Adams' etymology for analysis: it comes from "anal" meaning what you think it means and "ysys" meaning "to pull from".
I'd like to see which ones are trimmed as "fair-use violations". I'm a fairly active contributer on-and-off, and I usually see them trimmed as being too cumbersome and more information than needed rather than as fair-use violations....
Considering this is coming from OSI guys, I'm taking it that they don't particularly care in this case. It's the FSF & RMS followers who get pissy about this.
Time to nitpick: Rise of the Cybermen was not the closing of season 2 of the new shows, it was approximately in the middle. Granted, Cybermen did show up in the season finale, (omg spoilarz), but then the bluetooth headset zombie comment is slightly less relevant.
Of course, then there's the part where I insist on calling it season 28 of Doctor Who, but I'll let that one slide;)
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm a college student and, even from the pirates, I'll usually hear "this game is good, you should play it", "this game isn't really worth buying, but it's worth playing", or "this game sucks". Note that the middle one is the only one that (even implicitly) encourages piracy, but it's of the form that, without piracy, would just be "don't buy it", so yeah, I'd say it's free advertising in the general case.
At what point did the gpp even refer to humans at all? It merely stated _intelligent_being_. You must be incredibly arrogant to believe that humans are the only possible intelligent beings.
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Wow. A troll that conflates rights activism and racism. I must admit, that one's probably one of the sillier ones I've seen on slashdot....
I have nothing to say about Apple, only Linux, don't need to bring them into this.
But as far as Linux goes, you can't point to a single example of a distribution using their position to push their own browser (or media player) onto you. You won't find any distribution that attempts to lock-in the user by pushing a proprietary browser with non-standard behavior (and don't even get me started on ActiveX) that is only usable on the one platform. Sure, Ubuntu's installing Firefox by default, but it's not using that installation maliciously at all.
Ummm... what sort of maths are you taking in university that still allow for multiple choice, just out of curiosity? I just finished my second year in a US college, had about three years worth of maths in there, and I'm failing to see how any of those classes could have been done in multiple choice....
Further, I feel it is morally worse to vote randomly for something I didn't believe in in the first place or to register for a party that I don't agree with to vote in primaries than it is to not vote and complain about how things are. I'm an independent for a reason.
It's not so much that MS is saying "ZOMG Linux is doing this therefore we must do it with Windows" as it is "Some vendor wanted to make this and, in order to make it as cheap as possible, they used Linux. Now that this has proven successful, we believe we can find a way to use Windows in this context and be successful, too." So, it's not so much responding to Linux as it is doing something that Linux proved possible.
Did you even read into that ruling at all? Microsoft got fined for using their monopoly position to push their non-OS product with their OS. Now, tell me how this is done in Linux when, for example, my distro came with multiple window managers, GUI shells, web browsers, etc, most of which weren't even written by the distro devs?
Would we? I don't know about you, but my Linux distro came with several alternatives (KDE and Gnome, Firefox^W Iceweasel and Epiphany, etc) available, making it easy to install and uninstall all of them, and not all of them are products of the distro's devs. If MS did this for Windows, how could you possibly cry monopoly?
And if no one runs that I feel I can vote for? I'm not allowed to complain that all of the candidates suck equally? Where was the vote that I missed to get a candidate who doesn't suck? Your logic makes no sense at all.
That said, I'm voting for Obama come November.
Now maybe if you choose a random URL out of all possible URLs, something with a .ru TLD is more likely to cause troubles. Good to know. But if you're going to some URL, you *know* the TLD. If you see that the TLD is .hk and 19% of .hk sites are hostile, you have a higher probability of trouble being caused than if you see the TLD is .ru and 6.8% of .ru sites are hostile.
His choice isn't between his town and Hawaii, but between the jail and Hawaii. If you still want to pick the jail, I hope you have fun getting in.
(Disclaimer so one can understand any biases I may or may not have on the issue: I dual-boot WinXP 64-bit & 64-bit lenny, usually sticking with lenny except when gaming)
I find it interesting that you believe computer idiocy to be the norm. While I agree that an average person is no where near the average /.er's level of computer literacy, my personal experience finds that most people aren't computer idiots. I know very few people who just click "go away" or who click on pop-ups. And those who do are either computer idiots or are set straight after being told once.
Also anecdotal, sure, but choosing one set of computer idiots does not represent the general population.=
It in no way implies that IT has been around for 2000 years. You are correct in that, grammatically speaking, removing "and" and one of the joined clauses should be correct. I repeat, grammatically speaking. It doesn't have to retain its meaning or truth value, however. The sentence "The human race is composed entirely of men and women" is true (okay, there are a few percent, but ignore that for sake of a simple example). However, neither "The human race is composed entirely of men" nor "The human race is composed entirely of women" is true.
The sentence's meaning can change when you remove "and" and one of the joined clauses. This happened in the post you were criticizing. By having "technical fields and IT" instead of just "IT", it's saying that technical fields in general have been around for at least 2000 years and that women's disinterest in that implies disinterest in IT, a subset of technical fields.
While I agree with you about everything after and including the words "Also nevermind" and before and not including the words "I can't help...", you fail at reading comprehension. Your selective quoting so cunningly removed the very important words "technical fields", which have been around for at least 2000 years, and of which IT is a subset.
Because there's a difference between denotation and connotation.
How the hell did this get modded up? You are talking about doubt in an entirely different context than the GP. The GP talks about someone who believes in $deity, begins to doubt it, and then eventually stops believing in $deity. You are trying to skip the middle step and act as if GP meant doubt for the "no longer believing" state. If you believe something and then gradually start to not believe it, yes, there is a period of doubt. You still think there is some truth that could be believed, but you're not sure about it. Properly viewing the GP, your comment is pretty much unrelated.
Then don't refer to the scale as being more or less free but as offering more or less rights. PD/OS software offer more rights to random person X than free software does, which offers more than visible which offers more than closed. Makes sense.
Next I bet you're going to complain about Adams' etymology for analysis: it comes from "anal" meaning what you think it means and "ysys" meaning "to pull from".
I'd like to see which ones are trimmed as "fair-use violations". I'm a fairly active contributer on-and-off, and I usually see them trimmed as being too cumbersome and more information than needed rather than as fair-use violations....
Considering this is coming from OSI guys, I'm taking it that they don't particularly care in this case. It's the FSF & RMS followers who get pissy about this.
Of course, then there's the part where I insist on calling it season 28 of Doctor Who, but I'll let that one slide ;)
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm a college student and, even from the pirates, I'll usually hear "this game is good, you should play it", "this game isn't really worth buying, but it's worth playing", or "this game sucks". Note that the middle one is the only one that (even implicitly) encourages piracy, but it's of the form that, without piracy, would just be "don't buy it", so yeah, I'd say it's free advertising in the general case.
Fortunately, you can run vi inside emacs, so it does indeed have a good text editor.
At what point did the gpp even refer to humans at all? It merely stated _intelligent_being_. You must be incredibly arrogant to believe that humans are the only possible intelligent beings.
Doesn't the part where "Think of a number, any number" is not a question dissuade you from thinking it's the Ultimate Question?