The only problem I have with the jury box is that someone has to violate the "law" to try the law in court and the way people go out of their way to not break the law, (ie: go over the posted speed limits when cops are around) nobody is willing to put themselves in the defendant's box so the jury box can be used. Also, most cases in said example are tried without having a jury box option... so there's really no effective way for the populace to petition said laws while the general public is scared of the police/government who enforce and create them.
But how would the other librarians know that some stupid librarian put him on the ban list because of gum? They just have a big red "Do not loan books to this kid" warning on their screen.
What if (me being devil's advocate) all the local libraries down the road decide to combine hash databases, that get's combined into a state database, etc. Now a student is banned from checking out books from one library because he stuck some gum in a girl's hair. All libraries tied to the system now ban this student who now has no access to any books in any library in the state because of a minor infraction. Now you have someone in "control" of the information that is contained within the books.
Did you know that in Linux an administrator can setup a software repository and post all updates for software upon this repository and have it automatically distributed to all clients for an update? There are also several packages for hardware inventory (including Windows machines), and the folks at Google are no slackers when it comes to having applications designed to run on tens of thousands of machines cooperatively.
But that's my gripe. I can customize what icons show up and where they are positioned to my heart's delight and Microsoft went and made it more convoluted/impossible.
It's not really a point of moving it down, but I like to put my menu to the left with the address to the right. You could do this in IE6/Windows Explorer: http://imgur.com/elKJo.png
Since I have a widescreen monitor, I utilize all the space I can while the IE7+/WinVista+ address bar wastes a ton of space taking up the entire top row.
But it doesn't have all the features of XP. Off the top of my head: 1. Non-customizable start menu like XP (yeah, you can type what you want, but there are advantages to having dynamic menus) 2. Tree Views don't have line options anymore (removed in 7, were still available in Vista) In fact, the whole operation of the Tree View of folders is totally fucked up now. It tries too hard to estimate what you want to do. 3. Movable address "toolbars" so you could customize the layout and look of your Explorer Window, (IE6 as well as XP) 4. Totally customizable toolbars so if you wanted to remove the favorites bar from IE you could and it wouldn't push it into the tab bar for some unknown reason... maybe this falls into or replaces #3?) 5. Absolutely retarded Control panel, additional wizards all over the place (extra clicks to change options) 6. Status "bar" at the bottom of windows shows too much information, no options to reduce this. 7. Ribbons. Say what you will, I'd rather have toolbars... at least make it an option! 8. Creating new folders on the desktop. They are there, but they do not show up all the time. 9. The taskbar buttons size kind of funny if you have more than one row. I still haven't figured out the rhyme or reason behind this. 10. I can't seem to be able to "right click" on a taskbar item and select move to bring it back on screen if it happens to be off. 11. Searching a specific folder... ugh. Maybe I want to search through a collection of files for specific words without searching my whole drive! 12. Aero snap when you don't want it to snap. 13. Excess padding on everything!
Those are my biggest gripes. The inability to customize your install. I'm sure I missed some as well.
Yep. The only thing we get from the Windows operating systems is a dictate where on the position of our interface components will be. (Navigation bar stuck to the top of a window, un-hidable "command bar", missing treeview lines, forced double wide start menus, clock forced to one side of the task bar, un-removable Favorites button on IE8...)
One could argue that it works because companies make money off of IP alone in the software industry and that it HAS to have a copyright protection to keep said companies from profiting off it.
If companies could only make profit off the cumulation of software code into a package and the underlying code was free to use by anyone I think the software industry wouldn't need the GPL.
IE: If Microsoft made it's money selling a software package, like an operating system composed of packages of freely available code that everyone likes, and they continued to improve upon it giving their customers the leading edge without forcing them to debug and stabilize it... then you see a software industry that doesn't need such protections and operates on pure competition of service and support.
One could argue that clothing can be iteration-al... Take pants for example. You know those cell phone pockets some of them have now? It's still a pretty standard design with pockets in the same locations but someone came along and added a pocket to suit a specific need. Otherwise, pants look and operate pretty much the same as every other pair of pants.
Nerds (and/or geeks) all around the world play games like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering to obtain all sorts of social contact... Just because said social interaction occurs in places with names like "Guard Tower" or within one's basement doesn't make it any less social.;)
I'm actually quite surprised with the more recent movement of Wine though. I remember assuming nothing was going to work. Now I can assume that it might work, which is a serious improvement, IMHO. Previously I never attempted to run something unless I looked it up in the App DB and now I just run the apps and see what happens.
I remember starting out and heading to one of the way points where I found some NPC ships flying around. I remember getting a replacement ship from one of them (some half shell looking ship with spikes all over it) after literally hundreds of kills, but that was pretty much it and I never really got to fly it. I got some other things I had no clue what to do with so I sold them of, but it was hardly enough to keep interest going. If memory serves me, there was something I had to do before I could claim this ship that I "looted" as well. I don't remember if it was equipping it with weapons or having enough resources to "create" the ship I just captured, but there was something. I decided, if I can't learn skills faster, then I must have to earn money faster so I headed for the station where all I saw were cargo missions for some corporation. Not wanting to fight PVP (that's not my game) I decided to keep to the safe areas and started hauling cargo back and forth. I did this a few times and figured I have better things to do with my time than wait for some skill to finish and ferry junk around... so I quit. I gave it a full month and a half before I couldn't "get it."
You're throwing lingo around. "reprisal in Empire" I assume is space controlled by the server (aka. NPCs)?
What I'm getting at is that in Eve, when I played it, you are just a peon trading goods for corporations and it carries the same politics and statures that real life carries. I didn't see the fun in it. I went out looking for some NPC Pirates to kill to get weapon drops or rewards for keeping the asteroids safe and found none of it. I found that the only way to advance in the game was to join a corporation and ferry goods around space while dodging pirates or keeping to safe space. There was no "solo" track to making it.
Now you're going to complain that it's an MMO and: "Why would someone play an MMO if they want to solo?" Because Eve struck me as an interesting economy where other people determine the price of goods and I could just chase enemies and loot the rewards to sell on the market. I wouldn't have to set prices on my goods, only chase the rewards for taking out something that is in demand... but finding the enemies that needed taken out were minimal.
I'm not sure how that makes someone a legend... but I'm a little confused here.
Person A was escorting Person B who was new. Person B was shot by someone, and CONCORD (the NPC police? Who's CONCORD?) showed up to kill Person C, but killed Person A because he was escorting Person B? How does that make any of them heroes? Where did they save any ship? Where did they prevail?
And maybe I'm off here, but how is piloting a carrier or dreadnought heroic? Why is it limited to certain space? How is the location of your capital heroic? Are you talking capital as a ship or a base of operation?
Do you consider CEOs heroic for controlling a huge company? (That's why I'm confused on how you define a hero...)
The thing that bothers me about Eve is that there are no "heroes." Everyone is just another cog in the corporations... it's real life without the retirement "reward."
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The only problem I have with the jury box is that someone has to violate the "law" to try the law in court and the way people go out of their way to not break the law, (ie: go over the posted speed limits when cops are around) nobody is willing to put themselves in the defendant's box so the jury box can be used. Also, most cases in said example are tried without having a jury box option... so there's really no effective way for the populace to petition said laws while the general public is scared of the police/government who enforce and create them.
But how would the other librarians know that some stupid librarian put him on the ban list because of gum? They just have a big red "Do not loan books to this kid" warning on their screen.
What if (me being devil's advocate) all the local libraries down the road decide to combine hash databases, that get's combined into a state database, etc. Now a student is banned from checking out books from one library because he stuck some gum in a girl's hair. All libraries tied to the system now ban this student who now has no access to any books in any library in the state because of a minor infraction. Now you have someone in "control" of the information that is contained within the books.
Where did you hide the cameras and why did you put them in my house!?
Did you know that in Linux an administrator can setup a software repository and post all updates for software upon this repository and have it automatically distributed to all clients for an update? There are also several packages for hardware inventory (including Windows machines), and the folks at Google are no slackers when it comes to having applications designed to run on tens of thousands of machines cooperatively.
GTalk is pretty much just a fancy jabber client. I connect to my Gtalk account on my Debian laptop and communicate daily.
Actually, I normally strip it down to this:
http://imgur.com/97o1W.png
But that's my gripe. I can customize what icons show up and where they are positioned to my heart's delight and Microsoft went and made it more convoluted/impossible.
It's not really a point of moving it down, but I like to put my menu to the left with the address to the right. You could do this in IE6/Windows Explorer:
http://imgur.com/elKJo.png
Since I have a widescreen monitor, I utilize all the space I can while the IE7+/WinVista+ address bar wastes a ton of space taking up the entire top row.
I use Linux at home, but work mandates Windows.
But it doesn't have all the features of XP. Off the top of my head:
1. Non-customizable start menu like XP (yeah, you can type what you want, but there are advantages to having dynamic menus)
2. Tree Views don't have line options anymore (removed in 7, were still available in Vista) In fact, the whole operation of the Tree View of folders is totally fucked up now. It tries too hard to estimate what you want to do.
3. Movable address "toolbars" so you could customize the layout and look of your Explorer Window, (IE6 as well as XP)
4. Totally customizable toolbars so if you wanted to remove the favorites bar from IE you could and it wouldn't push it into the tab bar for some unknown reason... maybe this falls into or replaces #3?)
5. Absolutely retarded Control panel, additional wizards all over the place (extra clicks to change options)
6. Status "bar" at the bottom of windows shows too much information, no options to reduce this.
7. Ribbons. Say what you will, I'd rather have toolbars... at least make it an option!
8. Creating new folders on the desktop. They are there, but they do not show up all the time.
9. The taskbar buttons size kind of funny if you have more than one row. I still haven't figured out the rhyme or reason behind this.
10. I can't seem to be able to "right click" on a taskbar item and select move to bring it back on screen if it happens to be off.
11. Searching a specific folder... ugh. Maybe I want to search through a collection of files for specific words without searching my whole drive!
12. Aero snap when you don't want it to snap.
13. Excess padding on everything!
Those are my biggest gripes. The inability to customize your install. I'm sure I missed some as well.
My GPS uses distance, not the number of left or right turns possible.
Yep. The only thing we get from the Windows operating systems is a dictate where on the position of our interface components will be. (Navigation bar stuck to the top of a window, un-hidable "command bar", missing treeview lines, forced double wide start menus, clock forced to one side of the task bar, un-removable Favorites button on IE8...)
If copyright violation was legal a Steam-like system would spring up in 2-3 months
You do know that Steam(Valve Software) makes money and passes some of that along to the creators, right?
One could argue that it works because companies make money off of IP alone in the software industry and that it HAS to have a copyright protection to keep said companies from profiting off it.
If companies could only make profit off the cumulation of software code into a package and the underlying code was free to use by anyone I think the software industry wouldn't need the GPL.
IE: If Microsoft made it's money selling a software package, like an operating system composed of packages of freely available code that everyone likes, and they continued to improve upon it giving their customers the leading edge without forcing them to debug and stabilize it... then you see a software industry that doesn't need such protections and operates on pure competition of service and support.
One could argue that clothing can be iteration-al... Take pants for example. You know those cell phone pockets some of them have now? It's still a pretty standard design with pockets in the same locations but someone came along and added a pocket to suit a specific need. Otherwise, pants look and operate pretty much the same as every other pair of pants.
Just like networking and protocols.
So... like Apple? ;) (Oh come one, you know it's true. How many people bought an iPod instead of another MP3 player that was more capable?)
Nerds (and/or geeks) all around the world play games like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering to obtain all sorts of social contact... Just because said social interaction occurs in places with names like "Guard Tower" or within one's basement doesn't make it any less social. ;)
I'm actually quite surprised with the more recent movement of Wine though. I remember assuming nothing was going to work. Now I can assume that it might work, which is a serious improvement, IMHO. Previously I never attempted to run something unless I looked it up in the App DB and now I just run the apps and see what happens.
It's a chicken and egg scenario.
Ah yes, let's skip number 1 and jump right to number 2.
I remember starting out and heading to one of the way points where I found some NPC ships flying around. I remember getting a replacement ship from one of them (some half shell looking ship with spikes all over it) after literally hundreds of kills, but that was pretty much it and I never really got to fly it. I got some other things I had no clue what to do with so I sold them of, but it was hardly enough to keep interest going. If memory serves me, there was something I had to do before I could claim this ship that I "looted" as well. I don't remember if it was equipping it with weapons or having enough resources to "create" the ship I just captured, but there was something. I decided, if I can't learn skills faster, then I must have to earn money faster so I headed for the station where all I saw were cargo missions for some corporation. Not wanting to fight PVP (that's not my game) I decided to keep to the safe areas and started hauling cargo back and forth. I did this a few times and figured I have better things to do with my time than wait for some skill to finish and ferry junk around... so I quit. I gave it a full month and a half before I couldn't "get it."
You're throwing lingo around. "reprisal in Empire" I assume is space controlled by the server (aka. NPCs)?
What I'm getting at is that in Eve, when I played it, you are just a peon trading goods for corporations and it carries the same politics and statures that real life carries. I didn't see the fun in it. I went out looking for some NPC Pirates to kill to get weapon drops or rewards for keeping the asteroids safe and found none of it. I found that the only way to advance in the game was to join a corporation and ferry goods around space while dodging pirates or keeping to safe space. There was no "solo" track to making it.
Now you're going to complain that it's an MMO and: "Why would someone play an MMO if they want to solo?" Because Eve struck me as an interesting economy where other people determine the price of goods and I could just chase enemies and loot the rewards to sell on the market. I wouldn't have to set prices on my goods, only chase the rewards for taking out something that is in demand... but finding the enemies that needed taken out were minimal.
I'm not sure how that makes someone a legend... but I'm a little confused here.
Person A was escorting Person B who was new. Person B was shot by someone, and CONCORD (the NPC police? Who's CONCORD?) showed up to kill Person C, but killed Person A because he was escorting Person B? How does that make any of them heroes? Where did they save any ship? Where did they prevail?
And maybe I'm off here, but how is piloting a carrier or dreadnought heroic? Why is it limited to certain space? How is the location of your capital heroic? Are you talking capital as a ship or a base of operation?
Do you consider CEOs heroic for controlling a huge company? (That's why I'm confused on how you define a hero...)
They love it when we blow each other up.
Of course they do... that's less money in the market if people keep buying ships to get blown up.
The thing that bothers me about Eve is that there are no "heroes." Everyone is just another cog in the corporations... it's real life without the retirement "reward."