It would be nice if we had started off that way, but to switch measurement terms 20-30 years in is a little ridiculous. You can't just say "Oh, you know all those measurements you've been using since you were a kid? Yeah, they're not valid anymore. Sorry about the fact that a bunch of your programs and hardware don't work anymore, but we needed to arbitrarily switch those on you."
I would prefer if they had been 1000 instead of 1024 to start with, but it's a few decades too late for that.
Except that those Government emails are supposed to be releasable upon demand to the public, whether by a court order or other means. If there actually were any sensitive documents in there, well, that's why you don't use Yahoo mail for your government business.
This probably is a different set of people than the Scientology protesters. Sure, they're part of the same loose collection, but it's not like Anonymous is some exclusive club or anything. In fact, I think the whole point is that just anybody can call themselves Anonymous.
I guess a lot of people really don't grasp that they didn't even initially start out as a group with a name, it's a moniker slapped on them by some idiot at Fox News. All these activists, miscreants, hackers, and anarchists are only linked by a few humor websites they go to, and many of these "shenanigans" are pulled off by one or two people rather than a large group anyway.
Think of it like this. If somebody blows up a market in the Gaza Strip, we're going to hear that it was a terrorist attack, which of course it was. But what sort of terrorist? Al Qaeda? The PLO? Maybe just some guy fed up with the struggle? It's not really accurate to lump them all together.
One of the people who sent her one of the leaked letters has already confirmed that she did in fact send the email in question, so it's not really a stretch for me to believe that they're all legit.
I said the same thing in response to a different comment on here, but it's not antitrust to not sell a competitor's products. To use the same analogy, why should a Ford dealership have to sell Chevy cars? Why should Apple have to sell this guy's program? I hope that if his program offers improvements over the mobile iTunes that they'll pay him for the right to implement those improvements, but it's perfectly within their rights to keep it out of the App Store.
The situation's different: Apple is the distributor of these apps, and simply choosing not to sell a product doesn't exactly a monopoly make. Just because your local Ford dealership doesn't sell Chevys doesn't open it up for a lawsuit, and voiding your warranty if you put a competitor's part on your Ford doesn't either.
We're not all "good Libertarians" and I resent the insinuation. I agree that if this student wins his case it'll set a dangerous precedent, but that's about as far as I'll cooperate there.
I have a program on there that'll reformat the hard drive and zero everything else out, as well as disabling the SIM card, if I text it a certain phrase. Of course, it isn't all that helpful if whoever gets ahold of my phone just turns the radio off or removes the antenna so it can't receive that message, but I guess I have to count on criminals not knowing much about PalmOS since it's apparently a dying platform or something.
Maybe just program it the best you can and stop relying on dishonest gimmicks? If it's a good operating system, people will use it, and they'll try to get their friends and family to use it. If it's not a good operating system, it will either improve or die. Linux is just a loosely-associated group of OS's (or technically the kernel they all have in common), and putting it on one device isn't going to make it an overnight success. Go ahead and port it to whatever devices you feel like, but it's going to be a different experience than any other distribution they're using, and it's not going to win accolades and praise from all around. People have ported Linux to far more interesting devices before and it really hasn't changed a thing.
They don't claim to have some sort of moral superiority or anything like that, we know for certain they're just in it for the money. If Linux is supposed to be free as in both speech and beer, then why should we be pushing it on people? That's not freedom.
You could easily just write a mouse driver for any distribution there is. That, and the author of this article is absolutely insane and thinks Linus Torvalds is the second coming of Christ or something. It's not a lifestyle, really. It's just an operating system, and porting it to one device or another isn't going to change the world.
Why do people have to treat devices like this as being nothing more than a stepping stone for the all-powerful Linux? Propagandizing like that is just the thing that keeps people from taking people like you seriously.
Because there's no way in hell they'll win or even get over 15% (generously) of the vote, so covering them just takes away time from the candidates who are viable.
I hate to be so bleak, and I like some of the third-party candidates, but let's be realistic. I don't think there's a situation where someone other than a Republican or Democrat will be president for years to come.
If you don't chase after people who infringe on your patents, that's your prerogative. Why you would go ahead and let people get rich off your life's work while you get nothing from it, however, is beyond me.
Let people use your work if you want, but the patent process allows you a way to screen who exactly gets to use it, and what they get to use it for. At least this way nobody'll be building a death ray based on your ideas.
Because I don't like paying for things I don't have to.
Of course, it's different than in real life. I still consider piracy to be theft, after all I'm taking and using something without paying for it. I stole it. But it's much different than walking into a store and pocketing something. I don't have to be too sneaky, I don't have to hide what I'm doing, and I definitely don't have to face anybody while I'm doing it. There's no Loss Prevention in my home to escort me out the door and ban me for life, and there's really nothing to "get away" with. I just do it and am successful. Cool, now I have Crysis and $60 I can spend on other things, like hardware.
Just because the area was full of racial tensions in the 60's doesn't mean it is today, maybe it's a well-integrated area specifically because of the tensions that existed there. Maybe people there saw the depths that their hatred took them to, and decided to make a change for the better.
I agree, I don't think I've ever thought of Georgia as being in the "deep South". It's a Southern state, sure, but it's not a backwater dump like some other places in the country.
That's exactly what I meant, except that I've never had an Apple II. I missed out, I guess. Nostalgia aside, even a cell phone is a much more usable computer, and has the added benefit of... being a phone.
The "F" in "FOSS" stands for free, and that's free as in "Here, I'm giving you this thing for free".
Calling someone "money-loving" as an insult is a troll too, by the way, considering 99% or more of society deem money to be crucial to any sort of living.
I'm pretty sure loss of productivity from the mass numbers of people who would start using marijuana if the government was implicitly endorsing it would outweigh any loss of productivity from pot growers and sellers being imprisoned (hint: pot growers and sellers aren't usually productive members of society anyway).
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Haha, I'm sure it'll be hard to find porn actors agreeable to being tied down.
It would be nice if we had started off that way, but to switch measurement terms 20-30 years in is a little ridiculous. You can't just say "Oh, you know all those measurements you've been using since you were a kid? Yeah, they're not valid anymore. Sorry about the fact that a bunch of your programs and hardware don't work anymore, but we needed to arbitrarily switch those on you."
I would prefer if they had been 1000 instead of 1024 to start with, but it's a few decades too late for that.
That, or hard drive company apologists who are trying to make it okay that we buy 200 gigabytes and get sold 200000000 bytes.
Either way, I hate the MiB.
Except that those Government emails are supposed to be releasable upon demand to the public, whether by a court order or other means. If there actually were any sensitive documents in there, well, that's why you don't use Yahoo mail for your government business.
This probably is a different set of people than the Scientology protesters. Sure, they're part of the same loose collection, but it's not like Anonymous is some exclusive club or anything. In fact, I think the whole point is that just anybody can call themselves Anonymous.
I guess a lot of people really don't grasp that they didn't even initially start out as a group with a name, it's a moniker slapped on them by some idiot at Fox News. All these activists, miscreants, hackers, and anarchists are only linked by a few humor websites they go to, and many of these "shenanigans" are pulled off by one or two people rather than a large group anyway.
Think of it like this. If somebody blows up a market in the Gaza Strip, we're going to hear that it was a terrorist attack, which of course it was. But what sort of terrorist? Al Qaeda? The PLO? Maybe just some guy fed up with the struggle? It's not really accurate to lump them all together.
One of the people who sent her one of the leaked letters has already confirmed that she did in fact send the email in question, so it's not really a stretch for me to believe that they're all legit.
I said the same thing in response to a different comment on here, but it's not antitrust to not sell a competitor's products. To use the same analogy, why should a Ford dealership have to sell Chevy cars? Why should Apple have to sell this guy's program? I hope that if his program offers improvements over the mobile iTunes that they'll pay him for the right to implement those improvements, but it's perfectly within their rights to keep it out of the App Store.
The situation's different: Apple is the distributor of these apps, and simply choosing not to sell a product doesn't exactly a monopoly make. Just because your local Ford dealership doesn't sell Chevys doesn't open it up for a lawsuit, and voiding your warranty if you put a competitor's part on your Ford doesn't either.
Yes, it's a car analogy, I apologize.
We're not all "good Libertarians" and I resent the insinuation. I agree that if this student wins his case it'll set a dangerous precedent, but that's about as far as I'll cooperate there.
Uh... Youtube IS Google.
I have a program on there that'll reformat the hard drive and zero everything else out, as well as disabling the SIM card, if I text it a certain phrase. Of course, it isn't all that helpful if whoever gets ahold of my phone just turns the radio off or removes the antenna so it can't receive that message, but I guess I have to count on criminals not knowing much about PalmOS since it's apparently a dying platform or something.
Maybe just program it the best you can and stop relying on dishonest gimmicks? If it's a good operating system, people will use it, and they'll try to get their friends and family to use it. If it's not a good operating system, it will either improve or die. Linux is just a loosely-associated group of OS's (or technically the kernel they all have in common), and putting it on one device isn't going to make it an overnight success. Go ahead and port it to whatever devices you feel like, but it's going to be a different experience than any other distribution they're using, and it's not going to win accolades and praise from all around. People have ported Linux to far more interesting devices before and it really hasn't changed a thing.
They don't claim to have some sort of moral superiority or anything like that, we know for certain they're just in it for the money. If Linux is supposed to be free as in both speech and beer, then why should we be pushing it on people? That's not freedom.
You could easily just write a mouse driver for any distribution there is. That, and the author of this article is absolutely insane and thinks Linus Torvalds is the second coming of Christ or something. It's not a lifestyle, really. It's just an operating system, and porting it to one device or another isn't going to change the world.
Why do people have to treat devices like this as being nothing more than a stepping stone for the all-powerful Linux? Propagandizing like that is just the thing that keeps people from taking people like you seriously.
Because there's no way in hell they'll win or even get over 15% (generously) of the vote, so covering them just takes away time from the candidates who are viable. I hate to be so bleak, and I like some of the third-party candidates, but let's be realistic. I don't think there's a situation where someone other than a Republican or Democrat will be president for years to come.
If you don't chase after people who infringe on your patents, that's your prerogative. Why you would go ahead and let people get rich off your life's work while you get nothing from it, however, is beyond me. Let people use your work if you want, but the patent process allows you a way to screen who exactly gets to use it, and what they get to use it for. At least this way nobody'll be building a death ray based on your ideas.
Because I don't like paying for things I don't have to.
Of course, it's different than in real life. I still consider piracy to be theft, after all I'm taking and using something without paying for it. I stole it. But it's much different than walking into a store and pocketing something. I don't have to be too sneaky, I don't have to hide what I'm doing, and I definitely don't have to face anybody while I'm doing it. There's no Loss Prevention in my home to escort me out the door and ban me for life, and there's really nothing to "get away" with. I just do it and am successful. Cool, now I have Crysis and $60 I can spend on other things, like hardware.
Just because the area was full of racial tensions in the 60's doesn't mean it is today, maybe it's a well-integrated area specifically because of the tensions that existed there. Maybe people there saw the depths that their hatred took them to, and decided to make a change for the better.
I agree, I don't think I've ever thought of Georgia as being in the "deep South". It's a Southern state, sure, but it's not a backwater dump like some other places in the country.
That's exactly what I meant, except that I've never had an Apple II. I missed out, I guess. Nostalgia aside, even a cell phone is a much more usable computer, and has the added benefit of... being a phone.
I've literally played Duke Nukem 3D and Quake on my phone. They should just give all the starving children all the Treos that sadly aren't selling.
The "F" in "FOSS" stands for free, and that's free as in "Here, I'm giving you this thing for free". Calling someone "money-loving" as an insult is a troll too, by the way, considering 99% or more of society deem money to be crucial to any sort of living.
Me too, and I've updated to SP1 on several dual-boot systems. I don't know where they're getting their info, but it's bad.
I'm pretty sure loss of productivity from the mass numbers of people who would start using marijuana if the government was implicitly endorsing it would outweigh any loss of productivity from pot growers and sellers being imprisoned (hint: pot growers and sellers aren't usually productive members of society anyway).