It's hard to tell whether that site is a joke or not...
The examples they throw out suggest they are. That, and the stupidity of the comments on some of the banned sites.
"As others have pointed out before in this argument, there is nothing whatsoever stopping other countries from setting up their own root servers and forcing their population to use them. It will proabably break things, and no one else will use them, but there's no real reason they can't."
"There's nothing stopping me growing bananas in Antarctica. They won't grow, but there's no real reason I can't grow them there."
Those two seem pretty similar to me... Can you explain why yours isn't?
Very simple reason why Ubuntu doesn't have MP3 support built in: They legally CAN'T. That's it.
Nothing to do with Linux; everything to do with the codec creators.
Agreed. But if the technology can be used effectively in a way that also does not cause harm (or causes less harm) to anything else, what reason is there for NOT using it that way?
(Yes, there can be costs and so forth, but when they're low, as I would think it would be in this case, then they're negligible.)
Which are you more likely to have an effect against? Unnecessary and wasteful killing of marine life by people in your own country, or child prostitution in another country?
Comments like saying "Go protest something more important like..." are exactly the same as saying "We're fighting terrorists overseas, we should completely ignore all human rights at home until we're done" or "We should ignore people stealing things because we're not catching all those who are killing others".
I personally think that it should be designed in a way that makes the GUI and so forth as customisable as people want IF THEY WANT TO CUSTOMISE IT. It should also be designed to be nice and usable for the not-so-fiddly user.
Yes, maybe there should be a standard default GUI for all, which is nice and friendly, but people who want to can instead plug a gui with a different style in and still have everything work perfectly happily, without weirdness. Maybe dialog boxes should be described content-wise in a universal way, and then the GUI system can take that and makes a dialog out of it.
My batbelt for the live gigs I help run balances very nicely with media player (iRiver H320, since it's there for recording) on one hip, and my digital camera on the other. Since I can connect them together in the field anyway, and since I want the higher quality of the full camera, a camera in a media player would be extremely worthless and redundant.
(And if I wanted a smaller, portable camera, I'd get a cameraphone instead. Especially since I carry my phone everywhere and my media player only occasionally.)
I disagree about the reason most of the general public thinks iPods are better than all the others.
They're advertised more. That's the SOLE reason. Not better quality, not ease of use, not because they're larger capacity, not because they're cheapest. Just because they get adverts for the iPod shoved in their faces every few hours.
I do agree, however, that those of us who make our own minds up and don't buy simply what's thrust in our faces are NOT Apple's target customer group. Not as far as iPods go anyway.
The parent said exactly what I was thinking.
I personally, however, bought the hardback copies of #9 and #10, so I bought #11 in hardback too. And I'm re-reading parts of it again now, after finishing it a couple days ago...
Hardbacks ARE expensive, but they sometimes lok nicer on the shelf.
I rarely ever look at my media player. I leave it minimised in the systray and do most of my controlling through keyboard shortcuts, with an on-screen overlay popup to tell me what's playing (which pops up automatically normally, though I have a shortcut to pop it up on command and one to stop it being automatic.)
When I do look at it, it's normally for a few seconds whilst I switch playlists or search for a certain track. Or for masstagging/renaming of newly ripped/acquired/recorded files, or for mass copying/renaming to transfer things to my portable media player with shorter filenames.
Actually, according to my current marketing lecturer (a minor part of my course), marketing is by definition always to the benefit of the consumer/customer. So what M$ does cannot be considered marketing. It's "Sales" or "Advertising", which aren't the same thing.
(She then went on to show us a basic video that mostly contradicted her while explaining it...)
This same lecturer has said a lot of things that would make me laugh if it wasn't that she was supposed to be actually TEACHING us.
VERY fixed. Compatibility has always been considerably better in the 2.0 betas, and almost all MS Word documents load perfectly, apart from a few weird things, the last time I checked.
From my experience of Word XP on my uni's network (I'm not spending any more money on M$ than I have to, and I don't have to spend any in this case even without piracy), it's slow and sluggish. OO.o 2.0 seems faster, mostly.
(Now, to convince the Uni to install OO.o 2.0 on all the network machines - they already use Firefox!)
It works in the UK well enough. Since we use DSL over existing BT phonelines almost exclusively, the lines are already in. So providers can compete on a level playing field.
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Not right, no. But believe it; that's what happens surprisingly often.
Yes, it's more than stupid enough to be a joke. But it's also stupid enough to be a real view of some people.
It's hard to tell whether that site is a joke or not... The examples they throw out suggest they are. That, and the stupidity of the comments on some of the banned sites.
No wonder M$ is so borked, in general, when you think about it that way, is it?
"As others have pointed out before in this argument, there is nothing whatsoever stopping other countries from setting up their own root servers and forcing their population to use them. It will proabably break things, and no one else will use them, but there's no real reason they can't." "There's nothing stopping me growing bananas in Antarctica. They won't grow, but there's no real reason I can't grow them there." Those two seem pretty similar to me... Can you explain why yours isn't?
He's probably tried. And been turned down, likely for not having a permanent address to put on a form or something similar.
1. Make a reasonably, but not overwhelmingly, funny comment.
2. Note that you expect to be modded down.
3. ???
4. +5 Funny!
Honestly, it works every time.
LEDs are low power, true, when compared to filament lamps and so forth.
LCDs are supposed to be even lower, however.
With the right person leading it, a BENEVOLENT dictatorship will be more effective than ANY democracy.
Very simple reason why Ubuntu doesn't have MP3 support built in: They legally CAN'T. That's it. Nothing to do with Linux; everything to do with the codec creators.
Agreed. But if the technology can be used effectively in a way that also does not cause harm (or causes less harm) to anything else, what reason is there for NOT using it that way? (Yes, there can be costs and so forth, but when they're low, as I would think it would be in this case, then they're negligible.)
I don't disagree with that, but I do disagree that we should ignore a problem simply because there's a bigger problem.
Which are you more likely to have an effect against? Unnecessary and wasteful killing of marine life by people in your own country, or child prostitution in another country?
Comments like saying "Go protest something more important like..." are exactly the same as saying "We're fighting terrorists overseas, we should completely ignore all human rights at home until we're done" or "We should ignore people stealing things because we're not catching all those who are killing others".
It's also a very effective way to take down an enemy in close combat, which is more of a historical use than punishment.
It's also very likely to STINK. Remember what's in some of the organs in there...
I personally think that it should be designed in a way that makes the GUI and so forth as customisable as people want IF THEY WANT TO CUSTOMISE IT. It should also be designed to be nice and usable for the not-so-fiddly user.
Yes, maybe there should be a standard default GUI for all, which is nice and friendly, but people who want to can instead plug a gui with a different style in and still have everything work perfectly happily, without weirdness. Maybe dialog boxes should be described content-wise in a universal way, and then the GUI system can take that and makes a dialog out of it.
Nah, I disagree completely.
My batbelt for the live gigs I help run balances very nicely with media player (iRiver H320, since it's there for recording) on one hip, and my digital camera on the other. Since I can connect them together in the field anyway, and since I want the higher quality of the full camera, a camera in a media player would be extremely worthless and redundant.
(And if I wanted a smaller, portable camera, I'd get a cameraphone instead. Especially since I carry my phone everywhere and my media player only occasionally.)
I disagree about the reason most of the general public thinks iPods are better than all the others. They're advertised more. That's the SOLE reason. Not better quality, not ease of use, not because they're larger capacity, not because they're cheapest. Just because they get adverts for the iPod shoved in their faces every few hours. I do agree, however, that those of us who make our own minds up and don't buy simply what's thrust in our faces are NOT Apple's target customer group. Not as far as iPods go anyway.
Not a lot happened in #10. But quite a lot happens in #11.
The parent said exactly what I was thinking. I personally, however, bought the hardback copies of #9 and #10, so I bought #11 in hardback too. And I'm re-reading parts of it again now, after finishing it a couple days ago... Hardbacks ARE expensive, but they sometimes lok nicer on the shelf.
I rarely ever look at my media player. I leave it minimised in the systray and do most of my controlling through keyboard shortcuts, with an on-screen overlay popup to tell me what's playing (which pops up automatically normally, though I have a shortcut to pop it up on command and one to stop it being automatic.)
When I do look at it, it's normally for a few seconds whilst I switch playlists or search for a certain track. Or for masstagging/renaming of newly ripped/acquired/recorded files, or for mass copying/renaming to transfer things to my portable media player with shorter filenames.
Actually, according to my current marketing lecturer (a minor part of my course), marketing is by definition always to the benefit of the consumer/customer. So what M$ does cannot be considered marketing. It's "Sales" or "Advertising", which aren't the same thing. (She then went on to show us a basic video that mostly contradicted her while explaining it...) This same lecturer has said a lot of things that would make me laugh if it wasn't that she was supposed to be actually TEACHING us.
VERY fixed. Compatibility has always been considerably better in the 2.0 betas, and almost all MS Word documents load perfectly, apart from a few weird things, the last time I checked. From my experience of Word XP on my uni's network (I'm not spending any more money on M$ than I have to, and I don't have to spend any in this case even without piracy), it's slow and sluggish. OO.o 2.0 seems faster, mostly. (Now, to convince the Uni to install OO.o 2.0 on all the network machines - they already use Firefox!)
I'd love it, if this damn university didn't entirely block almost everything. I think I'll have to wait for the normal servers to calm down a bit.
"Everyone" voluntarily agreeD. Once it's done, there is little people can do to change it.
It works in the UK well enough. Since we use DSL over existing BT phonelines almost exclusively, the lines are already in. So providers can compete on a level playing field.