Of course plenty of people are doing it, but it's still a problem. I recall somebody from China (possibly on Slashdot) saying that censorship was a inconvience for them at most. However, the average person does not know how to get around censors, doesn't know that you can get around censors, and in some extreme cases, may not know that there even are censors. Of course, you can bypass the firewall, and I'm sure as soon as China finds a proxy they block in and send the police to have a nice little chat with the users. So yes, you can get around it with a little knowledge, though it may or may not be worth the risk.
The only problems with Ep 3 were that it took all of three seconds for him to turn to the dark side and the fact that none of the Jedi (save Yoda) seem to have sense a galatic conspiracy against them. Aside from that I found the movie to be entertaining enough, though it still lacked the epic feel of the first three.
Ep 2 was okay, not great but watchable. I still can't bring myself to watch Ep. 1 anymore, and not just because of Jar-Jar (enough shows and movies have dumb characters that I'm used to it) or the half hour pod race (FF FTW). Something about little kids being heroes in an adult world like that annoys me. Seems too Home Alone-ish to me.
People in Europe (or at least Germany and England) are generally pretty good about recycling, since it is the law afterall. If they are given a means to recycle and are obligated to do so, they will.
Netflix is loaning me Babylon 5. That is all that matters. All inconviences are trivial. They could require me to punch 12 Blockbuster users in the face before shipping me a disc and I would still use their services.
Well, most of us don't bother reading their article on their sits/in their magazines, so we wouldn't ever see them, much less have an opinion on them. Here's a better question for discussion: Would we find these authors so trollish if everything they wrote wasn't completely pulled out of their asses and wrong 99% of the time? I'm I glance over Dvorak's articles every once in a while, and so far the only thing intelligent he has said was on Web 2.0.
So it is "worth" what people are willing to pay, no more no less. Buyers are willing to pay $1 for a song, so songs are worth $1. Besides, if the music industry had it's way songs would be selling for a whole lot more. Besides Australia, and Europe for that matter, get screwed over why it comes to buying computer hardware and videogames compared to US prices. So in the end we (Americans) get the better deal when it comes to entertainment.
People here don't like TigerDirect? I love it. The rebates are annoying and Newegg is usually cheaper, but occationally TD is has the better deal. Since they have a different method of calculating shipping costs, it's cheaper to buy in bulk from TD than from NE.
A lot of Americans wonder the same thing. I mean we have driver's licenses which is basically a state issues ID card, and can be used for identification purposes in any state. Some of them (in PA for example) have a strip similar to ones on credit cards than can be scanned and checked against a government database. So basically we have 50 different national ID cards. Even though we don't have a national ID card, we do need to carry identification around all of the time.
Then again maybe my perspective is different because I grew up on military bases all of my life. We always had to carry an ID card issues by the federal government at all times and had to show it just to enter a store on bases.
JBL makes a nice system called On Tour, which retails for $100. I found it at Sam's Club for $50 a while ago. Great sound for the price, so if you're looking for something better than headphones, but don't want to spend several hundred dollars it is a very good buy. Takes batteries or AC, so you can use it wherever you want.
Getting things done at work is hard enough when the email or internet connection goes down, but there is still a lot we can do because we can use Office. However, if we did not have Office, but were relying on ThinkFree instead, whenever we (or ThinkFree) had network problems, we would be completely crippled. Now, it may seem like a good thing not to have any work to do, but sitting around for 8 hours doing busy work is mind-numbingly boring. ThinkFree was down for several days, and I'm sure with it being posted here it's going to go down very soon, if it hasn't already.
We had this exact same thing happen when we moved from static HTML pages to a CMS. Before we could use Dreamweaver (or another program) to work on the pages and then upload them later. Now we are using a CMS with a web interface, so if the network goes down, we can't work on the site.
It's great when it's up, but if you need something free, just stick with OpenOffice. Web-based applications seem like a great thing, and in many ways they are. However network connections are too unreliable to, well, rely on them.
Nope, but my girlfriend has the entire human spectrum of emotions, and does not post on myspace.
I wonder if there is a connection between those two things...
The difference is that the site cannot determine if you have your speakers muted/off. They can determine if the ads images/files have been downloaded to your computer. As long as you are downloading the files the server cannot determine what your browser is doing - or not doing - with them. Unless the site quizes you on the ads before serving the page, but that will just annoy customers into leaving.
The difference is that fallwell.com is not cyber-squating, it is a critizism of Falwell. Squatters take a site and fill it with ads and/or attempt to sell it to the person they are squatting for rediculous amounts of money. The owner of fallwell.com maintains his site, has actual content, and is not trying to sell it to Falwell.
I agree. Regardless of popularity, they are different products, so news regarding one is does not mean people interested in the other will care about the article.
It made no sense to me at first either, then I saw that it was related to Ubuntu. At which time it still made no sense to me, but I was less surprised that I was confused.
That's nice. What's your point? It's a typo caused by me starting a sentence then changing what I was going to say, but missing one word that needed to be changed. If you're pointing this out to imply something about facebook users then I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it failed. I use neither of those sites so my grammar, whatever quality it may be, does not reflect the userbase of either site. Even if I did use it, it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference since I am but one user. Simply browse either site and you'll notice which one is the higher quality in about a minute.
But, since grammar matters so much on message boards...
Yeah, it is in some ways. Since it is limited to college students you don't get the pre-teens and young teenagers, so the quality of the pages are better. Plus, Facebook uses templates for user pages so you don't have the fucked up and illegible pink text on fuscia background, the background music, the scrolling text, etc that you get on myspace. It's not perfect as there is a lot of stupidity and too many people trying to get 100,000+ people listed as thier friends.
Yeah, it is in some ways. Since it is limited to college students you don't get the pre-teen and young teenagers, so the quality of the pages is better. Plus Facebook uses templates for user pages so you don't have the fucked up and illegible pink text on fuscia background that you get on myspace, the background music, the scrolling text, etc. It's not perfect and there is a lot of stupidity and too many people trying to get 100,000+ people listed as thier friends.
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Well, they didn't have as many things back then. They were happy with their six pieces of technology.
Of course plenty of people are doing it, but it's still a problem. I recall somebody from China (possibly on Slashdot) saying that censorship was a inconvience for them at most. However, the average person does not know how to get around censors, doesn't know that you can get around censors, and in some extreme cases, may not know that there even are censors. Of course, you can bypass the firewall, and I'm sure as soon as China finds a proxy they block in and send the police to have a nice little chat with the users. So yes, you can get around it with a little knowledge, though it may or may not be worth the risk.
The only problems with Ep 3 were that it took all of three seconds for him to turn to the dark side and the fact that none of the Jedi (save Yoda) seem to have sense a galatic conspiracy against them. Aside from that I found the movie to be entertaining enough, though it still lacked the epic feel of the first three.
Ep 2 was okay, not great but watchable. I still can't bring myself to watch Ep. 1 anymore, and not just because of Jar-Jar (enough shows and movies have dumb characters that I'm used to it) or the half hour pod race (FF FTW). Something about little kids being heroes in an adult world like that annoys me. Seems too Home Alone-ish to me.
Or perhaps, he still thinks the original iPod was lame, but likes the newer ones. It's not like it isn't a bit different now that it was 5 years ago.
People in Europe (or at least Germany and England) are generally pretty good about recycling, since it is the law afterall. If they are given a means to recycle and are obligated to do so, they will.
Netflix is loaning me Babylon 5. That is all that matters. All inconviences are trivial. They could require me to punch 12 Blockbuster users in the face before shipping me a disc and I would still use their services.
We should care because even biased people with an obvious agenda can be right sometimes.
Ignore that "I'm". Not sure where it came from.
Well, most of us don't bother reading their article on their sits/in their magazines, so we wouldn't ever see them, much less have an opinion on them. Here's a better question for discussion: Would we find these authors so trollish if everything they wrote wasn't completely pulled out of their asses and wrong 99% of the time? I'm I glance over Dvorak's articles every once in a while, and so far the only thing intelligent he has said was on Web 2.0.
So it is "worth" what people are willing to pay, no more no less. Buyers are willing to pay $1 for a song, so songs are worth $1. Besides, if the music industry had it's way songs would be selling for a whole lot more. Besides Australia, and Europe for that matter, get screwed over why it comes to buying computer hardware and videogames compared to US prices. So in the end we (Americans) get the better deal when it comes to entertainment.
People here don't like TigerDirect? I love it. The rebates are annoying and Newegg is usually cheaper, but occationally TD is has the better deal. Since they have a different method of calculating shipping costs, it's cheaper to buy in bulk from TD than from NE.
You can still be stopped by the police and asked to identify your self at any time.
A lot of Americans wonder the same thing. I mean we have driver's licenses which is basically a state issues ID card, and can be used for identification purposes in any state. Some of them (in PA for example) have a strip similar to ones on credit cards than can be scanned and checked against a government database. So basically we have 50 different national ID cards. Even though we don't have a national ID card, we do need to carry identification around all of the time.
Then again maybe my perspective is different because I grew up on military bases all of my life. We always had to carry an ID card issues by the federal government at all times and had to show it just to enter a store on bases.
JBL makes a nice system called On Tour, which retails for $100. I found it at Sam's Club for $50 a while ago. Great sound for the price, so if you're looking for something better than headphones, but don't want to spend several hundred dollars it is a very good buy. Takes batteries or AC, so you can use it wherever you want.
Getting things done at work is hard enough when the email or internet connection goes down, but there is still a lot we can do because we can use Office. However, if we did not have Office, but were relying on ThinkFree instead, whenever we (or ThinkFree) had network problems, we would be completely crippled. Now, it may seem like a good thing not to have any work to do, but sitting around for 8 hours doing busy work is mind-numbingly boring. ThinkFree was down for several days, and I'm sure with it being posted here it's going to go down very soon, if it hasn't already.
We had this exact same thing happen when we moved from static HTML pages to a CMS. Before we could use Dreamweaver (or another program) to work on the pages and then upload them later. Now we are using a CMS with a web interface, so if the network goes down, we can't work on the site.
It's great when it's up, but if you need something free, just stick with OpenOffice. Web-based applications seem like a great thing, and in many ways they are. However network connections are too unreliable to, well, rely on them.
Is it possible that the visual art world is more interested in money than art and expression? I can't believe it.
Nope, but my girlfriend has the entire human spectrum of emotions, and does not post on myspace.
I wonder if there is a connection between those two things...
From whiney to really pissed off?
The difference is that the site cannot determine if you have your speakers muted/off. They can determine if the ads images/files have been downloaded to your computer. As long as you are downloading the files the server cannot determine what your browser is doing - or not doing - with them. Unless the site quizes you on the ads before serving the page, but that will just annoy customers into leaving.
The difference is that fallwell.com is not cyber-squating, it is a critizism of Falwell. Squatters take a site and fill it with ads and/or attempt to sell it to the person they are squatting for rediculous amounts of money. The owner of fallwell.com maintains his site, has actual content, and is not trying to sell it to Falwell.
I agree. Regardless of popularity, they are different products, so news regarding one is does not mean people interested in the other will care about the article.
It made no sense to me at first either, then I saw that it was related to Ubuntu. At which time it still made no sense to me, but I was less surprised that I was confused.
That's nice. What's your point? It's a typo caused by me starting a sentence then changing what I was going to say, but missing one word that needed to be changed. If you're pointing this out to imply something about facebook users then I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it failed. I use neither of those sites so my grammar, whatever quality it may be, does not reflect the userbase of either site. Even if I did use it, it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference since I am but one user. Simply browse either site and you'll notice which one is the higher quality in about a minute.
But, since grammar matters so much on message boards...
Did I miss anything?
Yeah, it is in some ways. Since it is limited to college students you don't get the pre-teen and young teenagers, so the quality of the pages is better. Plus Facebook uses templates for user pages so you don't have the fucked up and illegible pink text on fuscia background that you get on myspace, the background music, the scrolling text, etc. It's not perfect and there is a lot of stupidity and too many people trying to get 100,000+ people listed as thier friends.
Wait, you were surprised to find snobbish behavior among a group of Mac users?