Yes, I meant private individuals, of course, and I meant in connection with p2p.
That article (from 2004) is far from conclusive. All we know is that they tried to find out the identity of 28 filesharers. This was well publicized at the time. We don't know if the ISP's actually managed to identify the accounts in question, if they handed over the people's details, and what happened if they did. I would be genuinely interested if you could find proof that anyone was actually ever charged. I have tried to find out and hit a brick wall. It is my assumption that nothing happened, or they would be shouting from the rooftops about it.
There are no details that I've been able to find about people sued by the BPI. Try it; the trail always goes cold. Maybe a few settled out of court, possibly nobody was actually ever threatened; they just announced they had threatened people in order to ride on the backs of the RIAA's climate of fear without risking the backlash.
If I as a private citizen go to a bar, get drunk, get in a fight - I can reasonably expect to be charged with assault and disturbing the peace, and possibly be found guilty. The idea that I can get charged with an ADDITIONAL crime purely on the grounds of the fact that during the day I work for a branch of the government is utterly ludicrous and unjust... and people wonder why I'm a pacifist who thinks soldiers a pitiful weaklings. Nobody with any REAL courage would consent to a life of "following orders with discipline".
I agree with everything here apart from the badly-chosen word "weaklings". It's integrity that soldiers must lack to submit to that erasure of the self. Plus they need the psychopathic belief that might is right.
Progress bars are there to let you know something is happening, and indicate how long you can expect to wait, not to make it be/feel/seem faster/more fun.
Could you elaborate? My Samsumg Omnia is running WinMo 6.1, and while there are some things I really like about the phone, the OS feels cobbled together and most of the buttons are too small. I have heard good things about 6.5 (eg bigger buttons) and though I will probably get an Android phone I would be interested to hear why you think WinMo 7 is a backwards step.
In the UK I am noticing a big swing towards Android (though admittedly among a small sample group - ie my friends and work colleagues, who are mainly but not all techies). Is it just here or is it happening elsewhere too?
I think the crucial factor that you're overlooking is that, all else being equal, the shop/publisher/app store/whoever *would* have made the item available. Walmart declines to stock certain CDs, because of their lyrics, which it otherwise would have stocked. This app was blocked, where similar apps have been approved, because of the creator's opinions. It's not government censorship, but is censorship nonetheless.
We at Microsoft strongly believe in listening to the community and have taken your issue to heart. 50% is indeed way too much CPU for any browser to use, that's why we're offloading it onto the GPU where possible.
I just wish they'd kill off all the pathetic enemies once and for all. Please no more Daleks/Cybermen/Sontarans and all the stuff that got old 40 years ago.
Cybermen and Sontarans - I agree. Very boring. But the Daleks and their successive returns from oblivion never get old.
Nice link. But that stuff about pauses is confusing; it's the kind of thing that will cause people to drop them into sentences wherever they hear a long breath, rather than because they make grammatical sense there.
Actually we're all wrong, this is not a semicolon splice, because
Even though the in-house-designed 1GHz A4 chip got little official comments from Apple.
is not a sentence.
He could have written:
The in-house-designed 1GHz A4 chip got little official comments from Apple; touch screen's instantaneous responses prove that it is outstandingly fast.
Ve-e-e--ry rusty on the use of semicolons, but I seem to remember this construction is only needed (jn place of a simple comma) if the two clauses being spliced contain commas, which here they don't.
In my experience, the average netbook is painfully unresponsive and slow to use, regardless of more GHz and Gigabytes. Only thing that matters to me is that the machine doesn't slow me down. Right now, Apple is the only player in town that understands what I'm on about. But that's only my opinion.
I'd rather decide for myself how many and which apps slow down my device, rather than having it wired in.
Perhaps the iPad should have an 'advanced' mode where the single 3rd party app limit is removed.
I'm not sure the average user sees a massive distinction between a netbook and a small laptop. In fact, I'm not sure that I do. Being lightweight and having a long battery life are probably near the top of most people's wishlists for portable computing. I needed a proper graphics chip so I bought an ultra lightweight laptop, but there are plenty of devices in that class that have crummy Intel graphics. I need to run Photoshop for my work, but my daughter runs it on her eeePC reasonably well.
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I don't agree with this, but some people want to hold pirates responsible for the "economic repercussions" of filesharing.
I think we can all agree that whistleblowers are cowardly people who should be silenced at any cost and do not deserve to have jobs.
#4 is inaccurate - Opera mini has been approved for iPhone.
Yes, I meant private individuals, of course, and I meant in connection with p2p.
That article (from 2004) is far from conclusive. All we know is that they tried to find out the identity of 28 filesharers. This was well publicized at the time. We don't know if the ISP's actually managed to identify the accounts in question, if they handed over the people's details, and what happened if they did. I would be genuinely interested if you could find proof that anyone was actually ever charged. I have tried to find out and hit a brick wall. It is my assumption that nothing happened, or they would be shouting from the rooftops about it.
There are no details that I've been able to find about people sued by the BPI. Try it; the trail always goes cold. Maybe a few settled out of court, possibly nobody was actually ever threatened; they just announced they had threatened people in order to ride on the backs of the RIAA's climate of fear without risking the backlash.
Don't mod him down! This guy understands the fundamental problem and even has a solution, albeit a morally suspect one.
If I as a private citizen go to a bar, get drunk, get in a fight - I can reasonably expect to be charged with assault and disturbing the peace, and possibly be found guilty. The idea that I can get charged with an ADDITIONAL crime purely on the grounds of the fact that during the day I work for a branch of the government is utterly ludicrous and unjust... and people wonder why I'm a pacifist who thinks soldiers a pitiful weaklings. Nobody with any REAL courage would consent to a life of "following orders with discipline".
I agree with everything here apart from the badly-chosen word "weaklings". It's integrity that soldiers must lack to submit to that erasure of the self. Plus they need the psychopathic belief that might is right.
You think the police's job is to protect people's freedoms? You must be Swedish
Surely they wouldn't need to physically decamp there, just re-incorporate themselves in that country (wherever you're talking about)?
Progress bars are there to let you know something is happening, and indicate how long you can expect to wait, not to make it be/feel/seem faster/more fun.
"uncrop"!
Sounds dreadful! Thanks for the warning.
Could you elaborate? My Samsumg Omnia is running WinMo 6.1, and while there are some things I really like about the phone, the OS feels cobbled together and most of the buttons are too small. I have heard good things about 6.5 (eg bigger buttons) and though I will probably get an Android phone I would be interested to hear why you think WinMo 7 is a backwards step.
Got no mod points today, but surely this deserves a few "+1 Informative"s?
In the UK I am noticing a big swing towards Android (though admittedly among a small sample group - ie my friends and work colleagues, who are mainly but not all techies). Is it just here or is it happening elsewhere too?
I think the crucial factor that you're overlooking is that, all else being equal, the shop/publisher/app store/whoever *would* have made the item available. Walmart declines to stock certain CDs, because of their lyrics, which it otherwise would have stocked. This app was blocked, where similar apps have been approved, because of the creator's opinions. It's not government censorship, but is censorship nonetheless.
But how, given a piece of compiled code, can they figure out what language it was written in originally?
compile to Objective-C
What a smart idea! How long will it take Adobe to create that tool?
OTOH, I am struggling to understand how Apple will actually enforce this. Surely there must be a way to spoof the output of Apple's compiler?
Dear User,
We at Microsoft strongly believe in listening to the community and have taken your issue to heart. 50% is indeed way too much CPU for any browser to use, that's why we're offloading it onto the GPU where possible.
Best regards,
Microsoft
FTFY
I just wish they'd kill off all the pathetic enemies once and for all. Please no more Daleks/Cybermen/Sontarans
and all the stuff that got old 40 years ago.
Cybermen and Sontarans - I agree. Very boring. But the Daleks and their successive returns from oblivion never get old.
Nice link. But that stuff about pauses is confusing; it's the kind of thing that will cause people to drop them into sentences wherever they hear a long breath, rather than because they make grammatical sense there.
Actually we're all wrong, this is not a semicolon splice, because
Even though the in-house-designed 1GHz A4 chip got little official comments from Apple.
is not a sentence.
He could have written:
The in-house-designed 1GHz A4 chip got little official comments from Apple; touch screen's instantaneous responses prove that it is outstandingly fast.
Source: according to: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/semicolon.htmlhttp://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/semicolon.html
Ve-e-e--ry rusty on the use of semicolons, but I seem to remember this construction is only needed (jn place of a simple comma) if the two clauses being spliced contain commas, which here they don't.
In my experience, the average netbook is painfully unresponsive and slow to use, regardless of more GHz and Gigabytes. Only thing that matters to me is that the machine doesn't slow me down. Right now, Apple is the only player in town that understands what I'm on about. But that's only my opinion.
I'd rather decide for myself how many and which apps slow down my device, rather than having it wired in.
Perhaps the iPad should have an 'advanced' mode where the single 3rd party app limit is removed.
I'm not sure the average user sees a massive distinction between a netbook and a small laptop. In fact, I'm not sure that I do. Being lightweight and having a long battery life are probably near the top of most people's wishlists for portable computing. I needed a proper graphics chip so I bought an ultra lightweight laptop, but there are plenty of devices in that class that have crummy Intel graphics. I need to run Photoshop for my work, but my daughter runs it on her eeePC reasonably well.