They really think the judge is an idiot and a fool. As if the first attempt wasn't enough to try and humiliate the judge, the new "compliance" to show on the front page has it automatically resize the page to hide it off the bottom. As it's effectively hidden from the user it again does not comply to display the announcement on the front page. It literally resizes real time to hide the judgement.
I think it looks pretty, and the inside stunning. Certainly nicer than the Porsche. Probably handles better too. It looks like a toned down version of a Maserati. Not sure why I'm debating with anybody that likes something as ugly as the GT500.
I don't think a 240W outlet will even power a hairdryer, which is typically around 1kW. Maybe you mean 240V, like the entire of Europe? Just get a step-up convertor. The tiny amount of electricity used is dwarfed by your average petrol bill.
My friend waited over a year for his custom Lotus. Several months for a car transported back from the future will be a breeze. Your average Joe doesn't get a Porsche or a Mercedes, so that's hardly an argument.
The engine kicks in almost straight away. No real chance you will drive to work on electric. The only real advantage is the engine is off when sitting in traffic. Fuel efficiency is ok, nothing amazing. Nowhere near what is advertised. The worst is that you cannot plug it in to recharge, you MUST charge via the motor. Any attempt to charge directly voids your warranty.
Microsoft have a long and sordid history of corrupting standards and getting into bed with politicians to ensure their monopoly. In the UK, Microsoft and the Labour party were in bed together ensuring a long and profitable relationship for Microsoft at the expense of the British tax payer. As the government is one of the largest suppliers, all other companies are then obliged to run Microsoft products.
If Microsoft can sell products because they are acceptable quality then good for them, but at least they will start to have to compete on an even playing field.
Indeed, there are more details here about it. Apparently Google passes on 4 billion click-throughs per month... methinks traffic would drop for those papers quite significantly if they got de-indexed. Under the new law, if any of those click-throughs fail to compensate the owner then there is up to €300,000 fine for each.
Just put out a cheap version, eg $5. Go for volume. Those that want a free version will go to a torrent site. A percentage of those that pirate it will end up buying it if they find it useful. Sell ad space in the last 2 pages. Offer a printed version with audio commentary on CD for $20.
I won't repeat all the ways they didn't comply, it's in enough other posts, but it's pretty clear they spat in the face of the judge. They consider the legal system theirs to abuse as they wish, and believe themselves to be above the law. Not surprising Apple has become one of the most hated companies of the decade, and it's no longer just the geeks regarding Apple as pestilent.
Except all that is wrong. I've never had LibreOffice crash ever. I find it pretty zippy, unlike the first Unity release. The toolbar no longer auto-hides by default. You can drag and drop the icons on the toolbar to rearrange them. It doesn't automatically put you in a chat room, the envelope is just for notifications (email, rss, skype, etc). When you click to adjust the volume a widget to adjust the volume pops up, along with a rythmbox pause/play widget (but not rythmbox itself as you imply).
In fact I don't believe you really tried using it.
There is a little more in this blog post that gives a bit more info. Google doesn't summarise the article, it prints an except of the original. The government and the newspapers are "shocked" that Google could object to the new law, despite the fact it would probably put them out of business.
As sad as I am to say that, each Ubuntu release looks more and more broken, in fact it even reminds me of Windows.
Really? Your computer suddenly shuts down for no apparent reason whilst you are playing a game, only to find it reboots and completes some random update? You can't work because of the constant stream of Java/Flash/Antivirus that keep blinking at you to update them? All the utilities you regularly use keep flashing up nag screens at you or are crippled requiring you to upgrade to the "pro" version?
YMMV, for me Ubuntu gets more and more stable with each release. I have zero problems with PP (only a few apps like Simplescan and a couple of others). The only reason I won't upgrade for the forseeable future is the advertising spam in the Dashboard.
In related news, the UK government chastened by the bad publicity following the needless prosecution of people exercising their free speech or even making jokes on Twitter, stated "There have been many cases in Australia where these people have not been hunted down and charged and jailed. We need to do that in UK".
The government has launched a three year inquiry into whether the use of common sense could be a viable tool to be used by the prosecution services in deciding whether to jail people for telling bad taste jokes on social media, diverting funds from less important crimes like rape and murder.
It's like those people that waste their time on documentation. How much code could they write instead of describing the APIs or providing tutorials? And don't get me started on those profligate programmers that use multi-character variable names...
The last two world wars? Where exactly was America in WW1? In the last one, life expectancy was such that smoking a cigarette wasn't an issue. In a modern army, where people now care about body count, means that it would be better to reduce the stats on losses. If eliminating smoking, making the soldier fitter and more likely to be able to get out of harms way, means less deaths then it's not a bad idea. In Vietnam soldiers were hooked on opium, but this doesn't make it a good thing.
Oh one of the "hydrogen is just a battery" trolls. It's not that it's just one of the most abundant substances in the universe, it's that you can burn it without releasing poisonous fumes. And it's far safer than gasoline. Don't worry about generating it, once it becomes a popular fuel innovation will take care of the rest.
Sure most private vehicles will become electric, where 400km is enough on a single charge then you plug it in over-night. However for long-range vehicles hydrogen is a perfectly good solution. If you can't see any advantage to the "hydrogen economy" try going on holiday to LA, Bejing, Mexico City, etc.
You are both wrong in theory and state arguments that apply to pretty much anything you might want to use as an exchange medium. The method is hardly dubious, it's laid out in black and white and is completely transparent, and it's not particularly complicated or incomprehensible (if you can be bothered). At the moment it's thinly traded and difficult to exchange, it suffers from the chicken and egg situation every currency suffers from. Look what happened to Beanz and Flooze and all the other micropayment systems people poured millions into before they failed.
As value of any item is determined by supply and demand, the smaller the supply the easier it is for one player to manipulate. Once it gains momentum it will stabalise, and it's already remarkably stable considering. Whether a futures market will help, or make things worse, I've no idea. It's an interesting experiment and let's see what happens. At worst the ability to explore the effects on a currency not manipulated by government will give plenty of raw data for a few Phd thesis.
Your allegations about illegal uses are irrelevant. Commercial interests that I am sure offend your delicate morals first saw the potential of the Internet, pushing it outside the boundaries of the academic world, and most of us are now glad it is as ubiquitous as it is today.
You remind me of one of those trolls that every time somebody posts about hydrogen powered cars has to talk about it being not a fuel but a transport medium, and it's all generated from fossil fuels anyway. Simply unable to see the bigger picture, no hope for a better future only understanding the status quo. If you don't want to use Bitcoin then don't use it. The economics will follow the normal laws with or without you.
It's not gambling on weather, you KNOW there will be good years and bad years. A corn producer investing in futures, getting a secure income at at the expense of potential extra profit, is not gambling. A whiskey producer that has to produce a certain amount of bottles next year and knows how much grain they will be getting at what price is not gambling. A strategic investment vehicle that purchases futures in corn without a buyer, expects the price to go up, with the plan to sell the contract of the supplier to a buyer looking for corn at a good price (with a healthy margin in which to cream a commission), is gambling. JaneQ is caught up in Wall Street world and is talking about the latter, all those contradicting the former.
Is netbuzz some religious nut? Somebody "uses profanity" is a headline? Why does the word fucking have stars on it? Is this Fox news? Some guy using swear words relects badly on an operating system? How did samzenpus even post this? Most pathetic Slashdot story for a long time.
Yes that is what everybody but yourself is saying. Algorithms, mathematical formulae, are not patentable for a very good reason. If we are not able to sell phones with rounded corners because a certain fruit has a monopoly then that sucks for consumers but the world goes on. If somebody is able to block research that will further the scientific developments of mankind then this is a bad thing.
Software patents are recognised as wrong in every single country in the world except for the US. Algorithms as wrong the whole world over.
I'm not sure what users you have that cannot use Unity, it's not really harder to use than an Android phone. It is also simple for those abandoning OS X, apparently it's quite similar, whereas KDE is more for Microsoft Windows refugees. There is a difference between not liking the look of Unity or not being able to customise it as much as desired (aesthetics), not being able to use it in in a way that is familiar (productivity), and not being able to use it because it is difficult to work out how to do things (learning curve). I'm not sure the new beta Software Centre is a particularly convincing argument against Unity as how often do you actually ever use it?
Unity is so simple to use I can see it replacing a lot of people's home desktops. KDE is so familiar I can see it replacing office desktops, saving companies a fortune.
I appear to switch too early ahead of the curve. I couldn't stand Gnome2 so switched to KDE 4.0, even though I knew it was a buggy mess. By the time it got to 4.2 it was pleasant to use. I bought a new PC and decided I may as well install the relatively new Unity along side just for fun... and have been using it ever since. I do appreciate KDE but I just find Unity nicer to use. I find KDE a little too much like Windows, but other than than they are both very pleasant and productive. Both have file managers that suck though (Nautilus and Dolphin). Not sure why XFCE went with Thunar instead of taking ROX, come to think of it.
Or you can use Unity for day to day use, then switch to Kubuntu/Xubuntu when you want optimum GPU performance across multiple nvidia cards. KDE could be the alternative to Win32 for gaming.
I also have little sympathy. The GoDaddy boycott was pretty prominent, with anti-SOPA even hitting the front page of Wikipedia. Sure their scummy practices go back many years, but the recent ones were very public. Before when the web was in the hands of the academics, when you didn't get leeches like GoDaddy, life was easy. Any problems and you would cancel the student account of the trouble-maker. Now if you want to be a cheap-skate and give your business to cowboys then that's your fault. Google around for a decent provider and move your account. Just chalk it up to a lesson learned.
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They really think the judge is an idiot and a fool. As if the first attempt wasn't enough to try and humiliate the judge, the new "compliance" to show on the front page has it automatically resize the page to hide it off the bottom. As it's effectively hidden from the user it again does not comply to display the announcement on the front page. It literally resizes real time to hide the judgement.
Phillip.
I think it looks pretty, and the inside stunning. Certainly nicer than the Porsche. Probably handles better too. It looks like a toned down version of a Maserati. Not sure why I'm debating with anybody that likes something as ugly as the GT500.
I don't think a 240W outlet will even power a hairdryer, which is typically around 1kW. Maybe you mean 240V, like the entire of Europe? Just get a step-up convertor. The tiny amount of electricity used is dwarfed by your average petrol bill.
My friend waited over a year for his custom Lotus. Several months for a car transported back from the future will be a breeze. Your average Joe doesn't get a Porsche or a Mercedes, so that's hardly an argument.
Phillip.
The engine kicks in almost straight away. No real chance you will drive to work on electric. The only real advantage is the engine is off when sitting in traffic. Fuel efficiency is ok, nothing amazing. Nowhere near what is advertised. The worst is that you cannot plug it in to recharge, you MUST charge via the motor. Any attempt to charge directly voids your warranty.
Phillip.
Microsoft have a long and sordid history of corrupting standards and getting into bed with politicians to ensure their monopoly. In the UK, Microsoft and the Labour party were in bed together ensuring a long and profitable relationship for Microsoft at the expense of the British tax payer. As the government is one of the largest suppliers, all other companies are then obliged to run Microsoft products.
If Microsoft can sell products because they are acceptable quality then good for them, but at least they will start to have to compete on an even playing field.
Phillip.
Under the new law, if Slashdot didn't pay then they will be liable for up to €300,000 fine for each link. Tout le monde doit payer
Phillip.
Indeed, there are more details here about it. Apparently Google passes on 4 billion click-throughs per month... methinks traffic would drop for those papers quite significantly if they got de-indexed. Under the new law, if any of those click-throughs fail to compensate the owner then there is up to €300,000 fine for each.
Phillip.
Just put out a cheap version, eg $5. Go for volume. Those that want a free version will go to a torrent site. A percentage of those that pirate it will end up buying it if they find it useful. Sell ad space in the last 2 pages. Offer a printed version with audio commentary on CD for $20.
Phillip.
I won't repeat all the ways they didn't comply, it's in enough other posts, but it's pretty clear they spat in the face of the judge. They consider the legal system theirs to abuse as they wish, and believe themselves to be above the law. Not surprising Apple has become one of the most hated companies of the decade, and it's no longer just the geeks regarding Apple as pestilent.
Phillip.
Except all that is wrong. I've never had LibreOffice crash ever. I find it pretty zippy, unlike the first Unity release. The toolbar no longer auto-hides by default. You can drag and drop the icons on the toolbar to rearrange them. It doesn't automatically put you in a chat room, the envelope is just for notifications (email, rss, skype, etc). When you click to adjust the volume a widget to adjust the volume pops up, along with a rythmbox pause/play widget (but not rythmbox itself as you imply).
In fact I don't believe you really tried using it.
Phillip.
There is a little more in this blog post that gives a bit more info. Google doesn't summarise the article, it prints an except of the original. The government and the newspapers are "shocked" that Google could object to the new law, despite the fact it would probably put them out of business.
Phillip.
As sad as I am to say that, each Ubuntu release looks more and more broken, in fact it even reminds me of Windows.
Really? Your computer suddenly shuts down for no apparent reason whilst you are playing a game, only to find it reboots and completes some random update? You can't work because of the constant stream of Java/Flash/Antivirus that keep blinking at you to update them? All the utilities you regularly use keep flashing up nag screens at you or are crippled requiring you to upgrade to the "pro" version?
YMMV, for me Ubuntu gets more and more stable with each release. I have zero problems with PP (only a few apps like Simplescan and a couple of others). The only reason I won't upgrade for the forseeable future is the advertising spam in the Dashboard.
Phillip.
In related news, the UK government chastened by the bad publicity following the needless prosecution of people exercising their free speech or even making jokes on Twitter, stated "There have been many cases in Australia where these people have not been hunted down and charged and jailed. We need to do that in UK".
The government has launched a three year inquiry into whether the use of common sense could be a viable tool to be used by the prosecution services in deciding whether to jail people for telling bad taste jokes on social media, diverting funds from less important crimes like rape and murder.
Phillip.
Not only do government officials get their own moats, the taxpayers have to pay to clean it. "Cherchez le vache!"
Phillip.
It's like those people that waste their time on documentation. How much code could they write instead of describing the APIs or providing tutorials? And don't get me started on those profligate programmers that use multi-character variable names...
Phillip.
The last two world wars? Where exactly was America in WW1? In the last one, life expectancy was such that smoking a cigarette wasn't an issue. In a modern army, where people now care about body count, means that it would be better to reduce the stats on losses. If eliminating smoking, making the soldier fitter and more likely to be able to get out of harms way, means less deaths then it's not a bad idea. In Vietnam soldiers were hooked on opium, but this doesn't make it a good thing.
Phillip.
Oh one of the "hydrogen is just a battery" trolls. It's not that it's just one of the most abundant substances in the universe, it's that you can burn it without releasing poisonous fumes. And it's far safer than gasoline. Don't worry about generating it, once it becomes a popular fuel innovation will take care of the rest.
Sure most private vehicles will become electric, where 400km is enough on a single charge then you plug it in over-night. However for long-range vehicles hydrogen is a perfectly good solution. If you can't see any advantage to the "hydrogen economy" try going on holiday to LA, Bejing, Mexico City, etc.
Phillip.
You are both wrong in theory and state arguments that apply to pretty much anything you might want to use as an exchange medium. The method is hardly dubious, it's laid out in black and white and is completely transparent, and it's not particularly complicated or incomprehensible (if you can be bothered). At the moment it's thinly traded and difficult to exchange, it suffers from the chicken and egg situation every currency suffers from. Look what happened to Beanz and Flooze and all the other micropayment systems people poured millions into before they failed.
As value of any item is determined by supply and demand, the smaller the supply the easier it is for one player to manipulate. Once it gains momentum it will stabalise, and it's already remarkably stable considering. Whether a futures market will help, or make things worse, I've no idea. It's an interesting experiment and let's see what happens. At worst the ability to explore the effects on a currency not manipulated by government will give plenty of raw data for a few Phd thesis.
Your allegations about illegal uses are irrelevant. Commercial interests that I am sure offend your delicate morals first saw the potential of the Internet, pushing it outside the boundaries of the academic world, and most of us are now glad it is as ubiquitous as it is today.
You remind me of one of those trolls that every time somebody posts about hydrogen powered cars has to talk about it being not a fuel but a transport medium, and it's all generated from fossil fuels anyway. Simply unable to see the bigger picture, no hope for a better future only understanding the status quo. If you don't want to use Bitcoin then don't use it. The economics will follow the normal laws with or without you.
Phillip.
It's not gambling on weather, you KNOW there will be good years and bad years. A corn producer investing in futures, getting a secure income at at the expense of potential extra profit, is not gambling. A whiskey producer that has to produce a certain amount of bottles next year and knows how much grain they will be getting at what price is not gambling. A strategic investment vehicle that purchases futures in corn without a buyer, expects the price to go up, with the plan to sell the contract of the supplier to a buyer looking for corn at a good price (with a healthy margin in which to cream a commission), is gambling. JaneQ is caught up in Wall Street world and is talking about the latter, all those contradicting the former.
Phillip.
Parent really needs to be modded up. Peverse incentives let to the crash, not malice.
Phillip.
Is netbuzz some religious nut? Somebody "uses profanity" is a headline? Why does the word fucking have stars on it? Is this Fox news? Some guy using swear words relects badly on an operating system? How did samzenpus even post this? Most pathetic Slashdot story for a long time.
Whatever,
Phillip.
Yes that is what everybody but yourself is saying. Algorithms, mathematical formulae, are not patentable for a very good reason. If we are not able to sell phones with rounded corners because a certain fruit has a monopoly then that sucks for consumers but the world goes on. If somebody is able to block research that will further the scientific developments of mankind then this is a bad thing.
Software patents are recognised as wrong in every single country in the world except for the US. Algorithms as wrong the whole world over.
Phillip.
I'm not sure what users you have that cannot use Unity, it's not really harder to use than an Android phone. It is also simple for those abandoning OS X, apparently it's quite similar, whereas KDE is more for Microsoft Windows refugees. There is a difference between not liking the look of Unity or not being able to customise it as much as desired (aesthetics), not being able to use it in in a way that is familiar (productivity), and not being able to use it because it is difficult to work out how to do things (learning curve). I'm not sure the new beta Software Centre is a particularly convincing argument against Unity as how often do you actually ever use it?
Unity is so simple to use I can see it replacing a lot of people's home desktops. KDE is so familiar I can see it replacing office desktops, saving companies a fortune.
Phillip.
I appear to switch too early ahead of the curve. I couldn't stand Gnome2 so switched to KDE 4.0, even though I knew it was a buggy mess. By the time it got to 4.2 it was pleasant to use. I bought a new PC and decided I may as well install the relatively new Unity along side just for fun... and have been using it ever since. I do appreciate KDE but I just find Unity nicer to use. I find KDE a little too much like Windows, but other than than they are both very pleasant and productive. Both have file managers that suck though (Nautilus and Dolphin). Not sure why XFCE went with Thunar instead of taking ROX, come to think of it.
Phillip.
Or you can use Unity for day to day use, then switch to Kubuntu/Xubuntu when you want optimum GPU performance across multiple nvidia cards. KDE could be the alternative to Win32 for gaming.
Phillip.
I also have little sympathy. The GoDaddy boycott was pretty prominent, with anti-SOPA even hitting the front page of Wikipedia. Sure their scummy practices go back many years, but the recent ones were very public. Before when the web was in the hands of the academics, when you didn't get leeches like GoDaddy, life was easy. Any problems and you would cancel the student account of the trouble-maker. Now if you want to be a cheap-skate and give your business to cowboys then that's your fault. Google around for a decent provider and move your account. Just chalk it up to a lesson learned.
Phillip.