Everyone except you. I'm barely keeping my head above water financially, and my gf and I (both part-time students with part-time jobs) have a total of 5 desktops...you can find beige boxes in full working order on the footpath, dude.
I work for a data processing company in Australia, where I oversee a team of FIVE full-time operators who each spend eight hours a day, five days a week scanning "Working With Children" license applications on behalf of the Department of Justice...every volunteer for sporting, religious, educational etc organisations, schools, daycare centres, you name it! The state I cover has only got a population of 5 million, and these guys can scan in 400 applications an hour EACH...and the backlog grows every...damn...day. The hysteria is everywhere.
I have to reply to this because I accidentally modded you 'funny' instead of 'overrated', so now I need to post to undo that. "Allow" people to procreate...give me a fucking break.
Maybe now, christians don't behave that way, but Islam's relatively young. Christianity has a 600-odd year head-start on maturity. Now, think about how christians behaved 600 years ago, and how many of the world's peoples are still recovering. I guess this is just how 1400-year-old religions behave. Just wait until Islam's balls drop and it gets laid. Maybe by the time it gets to college it'll be calmer and more thoughtful. Until then, why don't we stop looking down our noses and accept that our own religious heritage is full to the brim with ignorance and atrocities barely matched in human history.
If you live in the US, you're still missing out...the films you watch in HD at home aren't the same movies that you can see at the cinema, they're last year's box office stories. Now, here in Australia, a great many films end up on my big screen via an.mkv file on the hard drive well before they hit the local cinema:D
Average people are also moving away from LANs because wireless everything is so much cooler, regardless of performance. I've been amazed at how often I see people being thrilled with their pathetically slow wireless connections between non-portable machines in the same room.
TV is the issue with good science. Like a lot of other really, really important stuff, a lot of the time the science we wish was reported on just doesn't have enough stabbings, explosions or nipples to make commercially viable viewing material. Good science often involves people sitting at desks working stuff out, or those diagrams of what just happened in a particle accelerator that make me feel really ignorant and confused (oh, that's what a meson looks like, a whole bunch of lines and dots in a circle). Bad science, on the other hand, makes great viewing...even Mythbusters is pretty horrible when it comes to showing how good science works. I will never forget seeing a British "science" show test the relative buoyancy of fat tissue and silicon with two D-cup bikini-clad bimbos and a swimming pool. Science, eh?
Australia's bandwidth is sold wholesale to ISPs at a rate that makes it hard to turn a profit unless the bulk of customers don't use anything like their monthly quota. The first people tot have their access suspended will be the ones who use every last byte, which generally means the ISPs are currently losing money on those customers. The ISPs have different business models, and different demographics to their customer bases...so I imagine the quality providers with good deals and speeds will hate this sort of legislation, as their users are in the know, often nerds, and won't stand for it. But the major guys, Optus, Telstra, etc, with all the families who didn't bother shopping around in the first place and don't give two figs about copyright law, or any other tech/political issue - they'll love the opportunity to cut off all their heavy users.
I've been a Windows user for years, as much as it pains me. I've experimented with linux distros before, but the learning curve combined with my need for efficiently running all sorts of apps all day have stopped me making a real effort - inevitably I'd come across the need for software that I couldn't find, or just didn't have the time to learn again on a new system, so my desktop always ends up rebooting to Windows and staying there. With devices like the XO laptop and the eeePC, I have the low-cost option for a second machine to run linux. Now I feel like I can outlay a relatively small amount, keep using my mission-critical windows apps, and learn to use linux properly without a down side. The option of adding an OS to my routine, rather than switching completely, makes linux a lot more inviting.
How is this informative? Using US law to argue against someone who's telling us the law in the APPLICABLE country? This is a Swedish case, moderators, the correct mod here is "off-topic".
I've never posted to correct spelling, grammar, etc before...but percepted? Perceived. Perception is a noun that already has a verb form, no need for another.
Have you never encountered a single sex school, either? They're restricted on traditional, but silly grounds. Educational institutes exist that bar my entry based on gender, I fail to see how this is different, except that it comes from a culture that you aren't totally immersed in, so you can see the seemingly silly restrictions. I promise you that when it's boiling hot, and you're going to work in a suit and tie, your cultural norms look fucking ridiculous to any Aboriginal still living a traditional life.
You know that U2 have never paid any tax off their music income in Ireland? They were taking advantage of an old policy meant to encourage a music industry in Ireland that gave huge breaks for tax on royalties. Come 2005, Ireland decides to sharply cut the breaks, so U2 took all their assets and fucked off to the Netherlands, where they can pay 5% on their hundreds of millions a year in royalties. Bono may ponce about a lot holding benefits and caring at everybody, but U2 are a bunch of greedy pricks. This attitude doesn't surprise me a bit.
It's a perfectly reasonable comment to make...most windows users have *never* had to install anything that complicated. And no, I'm being marked funny for my witty comment about motorcycle sidecars and for the deft hand which which the analogy was penned.
I remember reading once what a brilliant idea the sidecar is, as attaching one lets you combine the motorcycle's lack of safety with a car's clunky steering. Here we have the software equivalent. Check this nastiness from the installation instructions for KDE for Windows:
# Add your lib directory, e.g. C:\KDE4\lib to your Windows %PATH%. (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, double-click the Path System Variable and add this to your path separated by semicolon.)
# Add a KDEDIRS environment variable (Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables, click [New] User variable and create Variable name KDEDIRS with Variable value the directory where you installed KDE4, e.g. C:\KDE4).
Wow, just what I've always wanted, the complexity of linux with the instability of Windows.
I was just saying to my partner that sionce I've moved from Sydney to Melbourne, despite all of the contact options (email, facespace, phone, irc, etc) I'm slowly dropping off the map as far as Sydney friends are concerned...there is simply NO replacement for face-to-face contact with a person you've physically met before; the friendship has a qualitative difference to an online/distance relationship, and it's very hard to go from the former to the latter successfully.
To be more accurate, Stalin wasn't completely uninterested in foreign territory after WWII, but those interests were limited to the desire for a solid buffer zone of Soviet hegemony around their borders - eastern Europe, Korea, etc.
I'm not trolling you, but I must say, you seem to have shelled out a lot of money over the years (the price of every high-end laptop since the G3 Wall Street certainly adds up) for a brand that malfunctions to the point of uselessness every year - at least in your case. It seems strange that after all those dollars out the window for machines that don't last, it was the smug advertising that made you switch.
I'm not being a picky ass, perhaps the term 'principal' is technically correct, but it isn't used...as for the vice-chancellor, the chancellor is a figurewhead, generally an honorary role for making speeches & greeting dignitaries, etc. Couldn't tell you why.
In Australia, the head of a university is never called a principal, generally they are 'Vice-Chancellor'. I'm Australian, and - 'principals' and 'lockers' - yep, that's a high schooler talking.
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Everyone except you. I'm barely keeping my head above water financially, and my gf and I (both part-time students with part-time jobs) have a total of 5 desktops...you can find beige boxes in full working order on the footpath, dude.
I work for a data processing company in Australia, where I oversee a team of FIVE full-time operators who each spend eight hours a day, five days a week scanning "Working With Children" license applications on behalf of the Department of Justice...every volunteer for sporting, religious, educational etc organisations, schools, daycare centres, you name it! The state I cover has only got a population of 5 million, and these guys can scan in 400 applications an hour EACH...and the backlog grows every...damn...day. The hysteria is everywhere.
Stop using me as a cliche, dammit
Ron Paul would NEVER have allowed this sort of travesty...oh wait, he would've let the market sort it out.
I have to reply to this because I accidentally modded you 'funny' instead of 'overrated', so now I need to post to undo that. "Allow" people to procreate...give me a fucking break.
Maybe now, christians don't behave that way, but Islam's relatively young. Christianity has a 600-odd year head-start on maturity. Now, think about how christians behaved 600 years ago, and how many of the world's peoples are still recovering. I guess this is just how 1400-year-old religions behave.
Just wait until Islam's balls drop and it gets laid. Maybe by the time it gets to college it'll be calmer and more thoughtful. Until then, why don't we stop looking down our noses and accept that our own religious heritage is full to the brim with ignorance and atrocities barely matched in human history.
If you live in the US, you're still missing out...the films you watch in HD at home aren't the same movies that you can see at the cinema, they're last year's box office stories. Now, here in Australia, a great many films end up on my big screen via an .mkv file on the hard drive well before they hit the local cinema :D
Average people are also moving away from LANs because wireless everything is so much cooler, regardless of performance. I've been amazed at how often I see people being thrilled with their pathetically slow wireless connections between non-portable machines in the same room.
TV is the issue with good science. Like a lot of other really, really important stuff, a lot of the time the science we wish was reported on just doesn't have enough stabbings, explosions or nipples to make commercially viable viewing material. Good science often involves people sitting at desks working stuff out, or those diagrams of what just happened in a particle accelerator that make me feel really ignorant and confused (oh, that's what a meson looks like, a whole bunch of lines and dots in a circle). Bad science, on the other hand, makes great viewing...even Mythbusters is pretty horrible when it comes to showing how good science works. I will never forget seeing a British "science" show test the relative buoyancy of fat tissue and silicon with two D-cup bikini-clad bimbos and a swimming pool. Science, eh?
Australia's bandwidth is sold wholesale to ISPs at a rate that makes it hard to turn a profit unless the bulk of customers don't use anything like their monthly quota. The first people tot have their access suspended will be the ones who use every last byte, which generally means the ISPs are currently losing money on those customers. The ISPs have different business models, and different demographics to their customer bases...so I imagine the quality providers with good deals and speeds will hate this sort of legislation, as their users are in the know, often nerds, and won't stand for it. But the major guys, Optus, Telstra, etc, with all the families who didn't bother shopping around in the first place and don't give two figs about copyright law, or any other tech/political issue - they'll love the opportunity to cut off all their heavy users.
But are we Digg now? When did /. start hosting amusing videos? There are plenty of those sites, and one slashdot. Keep it like that.
Oh, I read everything. Personally, I see no value in rehashing an old argument that bears no relevance to the matter at hand. Therefore, off-topic.
I've been a Windows user for years, as much as it pains me. I've experimented with linux distros before, but the learning curve combined with my need for efficiently running all sorts of apps all day have stopped me making a real effort - inevitably I'd come across the need for software that I couldn't find, or just didn't have the time to learn again on a new system, so my desktop always ends up rebooting to Windows and staying there.
With devices like the XO laptop and the eeePC, I have the low-cost option for a second machine to run linux. Now I feel like I can outlay a relatively small amount, keep using my mission-critical windows apps, and learn to use linux properly without a down side. The option of adding an OS to my routine, rather than switching completely, makes linux a lot more inviting.
How is this informative? Using US law to argue against someone who's telling us the law in the APPLICABLE country? This is a Swedish case, moderators, the correct mod here is "off-topic".
I've never posted to correct spelling, grammar, etc before...but percepted? Perceived. Perception is a noun that already has a verb form, no need for another.
Have you never encountered a single sex school, either? They're restricted on traditional, but silly grounds. Educational institutes exist that bar my entry based on gender, I fail to see how this is different, except that it comes from a culture that you aren't totally immersed in, so you can see the seemingly silly restrictions. I promise you that when it's boiling hot, and you're going to work in a suit and tie, your cultural norms look fucking ridiculous to any Aboriginal still living a traditional life.
You know that U2 have never paid any tax off their music income in Ireland? They were taking advantage of an old policy meant to encourage a music industry in Ireland that gave huge breaks for tax on royalties. Come 2005, Ireland decides to sharply cut the breaks, so U2 took all their assets and fucked off to the Netherlands, where they can pay 5% on their hundreds of millions a year in royalties. Bono may ponce about a lot holding benefits and caring at everybody, but U2 are a bunch of greedy pricks. This attitude doesn't surprise me a bit.
It's a perfectly reasonable comment to make...most windows users have *never* had to install anything that complicated. And no, I'm being marked funny for my witty comment about motorcycle sidecars and for the deft hand which which the analogy was penned.
I was just saying to my partner that sionce I've moved from Sydney to Melbourne, despite all of the contact options (email, facespace, phone, irc, etc) I'm slowly dropping off the map as far as Sydney friends are concerned...there is simply NO replacement for face-to-face contact with a person you've physically met before; the friendship has a qualitative difference to an online/distance relationship, and it's very hard to go from the former to the latter successfully.
To be more accurate, Stalin wasn't completely uninterested in foreign territory after WWII, but those interests were limited to the desire for a solid buffer zone of Soviet hegemony around their borders - eastern Europe, Korea, etc.
I'm not trolling you, but I must say, you seem to have shelled out a lot of money over the years (the price of every high-end laptop since the G3 Wall Street certainly adds up) for a brand that malfunctions to the point of uselessness every year - at least in your case. It seems strange that after all those dollars out the window for machines that don't last, it was the smug advertising that made you switch.
I'm not being a picky ass, perhaps the term 'principal' is technically correct, but it isn't used...as for the vice-chancellor, the chancellor is a figurewhead, generally an honorary role for making speeches & greeting dignitaries, etc. Couldn't tell you why.
In Australia, the head of a university is never called a principal, generally they are 'Vice-Chancellor'. I'm Australian, and - 'principals' and 'lockers' - yep, that's a high schooler talking.