Yes, that's exactly what it is. A way of getting around the law until it is changed. This is not a permanent solution, it's a way of saying "fuck you!" to delay whatever will happen.
Except that if you check out a book non-anonymously, you have no right to privacy beyond the transaction. The government can see that you're checking out perfectly legal books from a public library and use it to build a case* to arrest or further invade you. The government has so far not said "The library must keep track of this information", it has only said "The library must turn over what information it keeps track of". So, yes, in this case anonymity is the only way to preserve your privacy.
*"OMFG NOBODY IS BEING ARRESTED FOR CHECKING OUT A BOOK U MORON" == irrelevent, not actually related to what I said. Beware of magic qualifying words: they need to be read for the sentence to work.
No better than someone stealing a candy-bar out of the 7-11. However: am I worse? Do I deserve hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollar fines and fifteen years in jail?
well, I hardly ever touch the other two keyboards/mice anymore, so the wires dont tangle on anything. That's how I meant it will solve the problem. (one of the keyboards I actually keep under the desk, I use it so infrequently)
It helps that if they ever go out-of-sync (like if one of them crashes or something), I can just use ssh to restart the client/server/whichever, without switching keyboards
I understand that perfectly. God fucking damnit why can't anyone just read my post and take it for what the words actually say? I said "the complaint of real-time vs pre-rendered is meaningless", not "The PS3 videos are all reasonable representations of the machine's true power and what you can expect to see in actual gameplay" In most cases what they really meant was "in-game engine vs fmv". I'm disagreeing with the fucking terminology, not saying PS3 is going to be better than PS2 with wireless controllers.
No, actually, I don't. Not as in "I am being sarcastic" or "I dont think there was all that much hype", but as in: I do not actually have any memory about the hype around the Emotion Engine. I wasnt at all interested in consoles or hardware or playstation or anything related to any of those things at the time, so I actually never did experience any of this hype everyone keeps talking about. I have tried to search for it, in order to compare that hype to the reality of the PS2(I do own a PS2, I got one for christmas last year- as in 2004)
So I've been looking for any of the hype- Penny Arcade mentioned a tech demo video that was shown and complained that they certainly never saw anything like that coming out of their playstations. I have not been able to find that video. I have not been able to find the original "ducks" video or the "feathers" video mentioned in the recent tech demos. I havent been able to find ANY PS2 hype at all. I have only found lots of people bitching about Sony and saying "Remember all the hype about the emotion engine? The PS3 is going to suck!"
Well I don't remember. Show me. (I have seen maybe one or two articles which just list a couple of numbers- numbers dont do anything for me. I'm looking for videos or screenshots or detailed rants about how PS2 is going to change the way people use computers worldwide- stuff like that.)
P.S.: I've seen a couple of people complain that the E3 videos were pre-rendered. While this may not be entirely what you were expecting, "pre-rendered" and "real-time" are in no way mutually exclusive terms. They refer to different operations on the same variable, and are otherwise entirely unrelated to eachother. One means "this was done before now" the other means "this was done at the same rate that you are seeing it played back". Rendering something in advance in real-time is something you do before a big demonstration so that people arent put off when the system crashes because it's still a year away from being released.
PPS: CAPTCHAS SUCK. (and I will continue to type that until something about them is de-sucked)
What about a software-based keyboard/mouse switch? I swear by this thing. It's not for text-mode... but other than that I have the same setup as you- multiple computers (one just for chatting, one for work, one for everything else), Three keyboards, three mice, and only needing to use one set of them.
The only problem I have ever had with it involve clipboard syncronization (read: it rarely works). But if you're currently using two sets of keyboards, you probably wont miss that.
Of course, if you are dead-set against a GUI (I personally love using windows, just to display lots of shells at once), and want to use text-mode, I would recommend using "screen", which you can use with ssh to attach both computers to the same screen session. Keep your ssh session somewhere unobtrustive and click on it when you want to change keyboard focus. That's what I used to do when I was running one text-mode and one windowed computer. (though I dont know if swapping which screen you're looking at can be set to happen on both session instances at once, I've just never had reason to try, as at that time I just had a couple log monitors going on the text-only screen)
Because when I bought a computer [number] years ago, it came with a perfectly good mouse and I havent have any need for a new one since, even though I've gone through three complete systems since then. I'd love a 128-button 37-wheel 184-axis mouse which is fully programmable to perform any function using an embedded linux, but those dont exist. So I'll settle for two buttons, one wheel, optical, with a fucking cord because a fucking cord is a good thing (you fucking anti-cord nazis)
And yes, I really would love a full-fledged Linux system embedded into my keyboard and mouse. Think of it as a word proccessor with really great macro capabilities that can also be used as a keyboard for your computer. We have the technology to make 50,000,000 calculations between the time I press the "n" key and the time the keyboard sends its signal to the PC with no noticeable delay, why are we not using this technology to create intelligent keyboards which can bind absolutely any key sequence or function in general for that matter to a single key?
yes, those are all legitimate reasons. I was saying that you were wrong about what sorts of things would be cutting into what costs. Printing costs, no; staff costs, yes.
yeah, a huge load Google is putting on their servers by scanning single copies of their books and hosting them on Google servers. Don't they have any concern for the companies producing these things?
Their are legitimate expenses in producing books which google could cut into. I'm not saying Google is Right, I'm saying You are Wrong.
yeah, all that digital ink and cyber-paper must get expensive. I've stopped accepting PDFs because they're divided into pages. That would cost a fortune!
back in reality where the term "history" is applicable.
Dear slashdot: this confirmation thing sucks. I've been posting for years, I drift from positive to excellent karma, I'm not a script. Fuck Off. If someone wants to go through the trouble of getting "Excellent" karma before making a script to flood slashdot, I say they're still posting good comments in the mean time and that should be encouraged.
You need to use the Tabbrowser extension in order to get firefox to perform decently with tabs. Unfortunately, Tabbrowser extension reveals several crashing bugs and has several popup bugs (allows some popups which get blocked when using FF without), and any bugs submitted to the tracker get ignored since the firefox developers have decided not to support anyone who has tabbrowser installed.
Personally, I love Opera's "Next" button. (far superior to any firefox extension I have seen). But it was simple enough to make an extension for firefox to emulate it.
Linus doesnt actually sit there writing the entire kernel. It is impossible to have a "dictator" in an open source program. If Linus doesnt get it, someone else who gets it can fix it and it will be fixed.
it seems everyone who has replied so far hasnt used opera and wonders what's so great about it. (And one person who says he prefers firefox because it has a feature... which opera also has)
Firefox's tabbed browsing is a set of buttons with a tabbed look which swap the active URL (*I know it's not as simple as just that, no use pointing that out). Opera on the other hand is a full MDI- something which OSS programs seem to all be against for some reason (usually saying "the window manager should handle that"). The MDI allows you to resize individual windows (call the websites which pop-up small windows for logins poorly-designed, but they still exist, and it's helpful to support them), view multiple pages simultaneously under a single window, view pages at multiple resolutions (good for editing), basically it's multiple browser windows contained within another browser window. It really is much better done than Firefox's method (whether or not you prefer one or the other, Opera's you can do more with and you can still use it the way firefox works if you want to).
And just to get this out there: I dont use Opera. I used to, but switched to firefox when Opera starting crashing every five seconds (this is not a problem I've heard anyone else complain of) I think Opera looks better (well, looked better, they tend to revamp the entire UI every release, it probably looks like a small nobbed ball covered in pulsating yellow fibers by now), and has a much better focus on usability. That's to be expected: It's a product for sale, it's going to have a better UI.
While I do absolutely love the PS2 controller and ravenously attack anyone who tries to sell me something which does not match its design exactly (wireless controllers tend to be huge round masses of suck, for example), my one complaint would be that it can at times be too small, and my hands can get cramped after holding it for a while. This new controller appears to be the same basic design, but with larger grips. I guess we'll see if it turns out to be crap, but I'm not going to dismiss it immediately. (The lack of ports for non-wireless controllers is off-putting, though. I would like to have the option of using my old controller, since there dont appear to be any differences) But hey, everything can change.
The way Opera handles tabbed browsing and the way Firefox handles tabbed browsing are so different, grouping them both under the header "tabbed browsing" make little sense. But which of these methods will IE7 use? Or perhaps something completely different? (Personally, I think Opera's is great and Firefox's is half-assed and hacked-on. I can't imagine Microsoft following the Firefox way.)
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. A way of getting around the law until it is changed. This is not a permanent solution, it's a way of saying "fuck you!" to delay whatever will happen.
the difference here seems to be one of us is grouping "Library" and "The Government" into one entity, while the other is not.
Except that if you check out a book non-anonymously, you have no right to privacy beyond the transaction. The government can see that you're checking out perfectly legal books from a public library and use it to build a case* to arrest or further invade you. The government has so far not said "The library must keep track of this information", it has only said "The library must turn over what information it keeps track of". So, yes, in this case anonymity is the only way to preserve your privacy.
*"OMFG NOBODY IS BEING ARRESTED FOR CHECKING OUT A BOOK U MORON" == irrelevent, not actually related to what I said. Beware of magic qualifying words: they need to be read for the sentence to work.
No better than someone stealing a candy-bar out of the 7-11. However: am I worse? Do I deserve hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollar fines and fifteen years in jail?
is too much homework bad for you if it can cure cancer?
well he did...
you spelled frist psot wrong.
well, I hardly ever touch the other two keyboards/mice anymore, so the wires dont tangle on anything. That's how I meant it will solve the problem. (one of the keyboards I actually keep under the desk, I use it so infrequently)
It helps that if they ever go out-of-sync (like if one of them crashes or something), I can just use ssh to restart the client/server/whichever, without switching keyboards
I'll admit that my counter-example is flawed, but real-time and pre-rendered certainly arent exclusive.
I understand that perfectly. God fucking damnit why can't anyone just read my post and take it for what the words actually say? I said "the complaint of real-time vs pre-rendered is meaningless", not "The PS3 videos are all reasonable representations of the machine's true power and what you can expect to see in actual gameplay"
In most cases what they really meant was "in-game engine vs fmv". I'm disagreeing with the fucking terminology, not saying PS3 is going to be better than PS2 with wireless controllers.
No, actually, I don't. Not as in "I am being sarcastic" or "I dont think there was all that much hype", but as in: I do not actually have any memory about the hype around the Emotion Engine. I wasnt at all interested in consoles or hardware or playstation or anything related to any of those things at the time, so I actually never did experience any of this hype everyone keeps talking about. I have tried to search for it, in order to compare that hype to the reality of the PS2(I do own a PS2, I got one for christmas last year- as in 2004)
So I've been looking for any of the hype- Penny Arcade mentioned a tech demo video that was shown and complained that they certainly never saw anything like that coming out of their playstations. I have not been able to find that video. I have not been able to find the original "ducks" video or the "feathers" video mentioned in the recent tech demos. I havent been able to find ANY PS2 hype at all. I have only found lots of people bitching about Sony and saying "Remember all the hype about the emotion engine? The PS3 is going to suck!"
Well I don't remember. Show me. (I have seen maybe one or two articles which just list a couple of numbers- numbers dont do anything for me. I'm looking for videos or screenshots or detailed rants about how PS2 is going to change the way people use computers worldwide- stuff like that.)
P.S.: I've seen a couple of people complain that the E3 videos were pre-rendered. While this may not be entirely what you were expecting, "pre-rendered" and "real-time" are in no way mutually exclusive terms. They refer to different operations on the same variable, and are otherwise entirely unrelated to eachother. One means "this was done before now" the other means "this was done at the same rate that you are seeing it played back". Rendering something in advance in real-time is something you do before a big demonstration so that people arent put off when the system crashes because it's still a year away from being released.
PPS: CAPTCHAS SUCK. (and I will continue to type that until something about them is de-sucked)
What about a software-based keyboard/mouse switch? I swear by this thing. It's not for text-mode... but other than that I have the same setup as you- multiple computers (one just for chatting, one for work, one for everything else), Three keyboards, three mice, and only needing to use one set of them.
Have fun.
The only problem I have ever had with it involve clipboard syncronization (read: it rarely works). But if you're currently using two sets of keyboards, you probably wont miss that.
Of course, if you are dead-set against a GUI (I personally love using windows, just to display lots of shells at once), and want to use text-mode, I would recommend using "screen", which you can use with ssh to attach both computers to the same screen session. Keep your ssh session somewhere unobtrustive and click on it when you want to change keyboard focus. That's what I used to do when I was running one text-mode and one windowed computer. (though I dont know if swapping which screen you're looking at can be set to happen on both session instances at once, I've just never had reason to try, as at that time I just had a couple log monitors going on the text-only screen)
Special Bonus: Screen rules!
How is that trolling? It is a legitimate comment, followed by an unrelated but still legitimate comment.
who says it's a windows key? It's an asterisk on my anykey, though it can be macro'd to ctrl+esc if you really want it to be.
DEAR SLASHDOT: CAPTCHAS SUCK. KTHXBI
Because when I bought a computer [number] years ago, it came with a perfectly good mouse and I havent have any need for a new one since, even though I've gone through three complete systems since then. I'd love a 128-button 37-wheel 184-axis mouse which is fully programmable to perform any function using an embedded linux, but those dont exist. So I'll settle for two buttons, one wheel, optical, with a fucking cord because a fucking cord is a good thing (you fucking anti-cord nazis)
And yes, I really would love a full-fledged Linux system embedded into my keyboard and mouse. Think of it as a word proccessor with really great macro capabilities that can also be used as a keyboard for your computer. We have the technology to make 50,000,000 calculations between the time I press the "n" key and the time the keyboard sends its signal to the PC with no noticeable delay, why are we not using this technology to create intelligent keyboards which can bind absolutely any key sequence or function in general for that matter to a single key?
HEY SLASHDOT: CAPTCHAS SUCK.
yes, those are all legitimate reasons. I was saying that you were wrong about what sorts of things would be cutting into what costs. Printing costs, no; staff costs, yes.
yeah, a huge load Google is putting on their servers by scanning single copies of their books and hosting them on Google servers. Don't they have any concern for the companies producing these things?
Their are legitimate expenses in producing books which google could cut into. I'm not saying Google is Right, I'm saying You are Wrong.
yeah, all that digital ink and cyber-paper must get expensive. I've stopped accepting PDFs because they're divided into pages. That would cost a fortune!
Where did I leave my tinfoil hat?
back in reality where the term "history" is applicable.
Dear slashdot: this confirmation thing sucks. I've been posting for years, I drift from positive to excellent karma, I'm not a script. Fuck Off. If someone wants to go through the trouble of getting "Excellent" karma before making a script to flood slashdot, I say they're still posting good comments in the mean time and that should be encouraged.
Does this mean the 90's style .coms really are coming back?
You need to use the Tabbrowser extension in order to get firefox to perform decently with tabs. Unfortunately, Tabbrowser extension reveals several crashing bugs and has several popup bugs (allows some popups which get blocked when using FF without), and any bugs submitted to the tracker get ignored since the firefox developers have decided not to support anyone who has tabbrowser installed.
Personally, I love Opera's "Next" button. (far superior to any firefox extension I have seen). But it was simple enough to make an extension for firefox to emulate it.
Linus doesnt actually sit there writing the entire kernel. It is impossible to have a "dictator" in an open source program. If Linus doesnt get it, someone else who gets it can fix it and it will be fixed.
it seems everyone who has replied so far hasnt used opera and wonders what's so great about it. (And one person who says he prefers firefox because it has a feature... which opera also has)
Firefox's tabbed browsing is a set of buttons with a tabbed look which swap the active URL (*I know it's not as simple as just that, no use pointing that out). Opera on the other hand is a full MDI- something which OSS programs seem to all be against for some reason (usually saying "the window manager should handle that"). The MDI allows you to resize individual windows (call the websites which pop-up small windows for logins poorly-designed, but they still exist, and it's helpful to support them), view multiple pages simultaneously under a single window, view pages at multiple resolutions (good for editing), basically it's multiple browser windows contained within another browser window. It really is much better done than Firefox's method (whether or not you prefer one or the other, Opera's you can do more with and you can still use it the way firefox works if you want to).
And just to get this out there: I dont use Opera. I used to, but switched to firefox when Opera starting crashing every five seconds (this is not a problem I've heard anyone else complain of)
I think Opera looks better (well, looked better, they tend to revamp the entire UI every release, it probably looks like a small nobbed ball covered in pulsating yellow fibers by now), and has a much better focus on usability. That's to be expected: It's a product for sale, it's going to have a better UI.
While I do absolutely love the PS2 controller and ravenously attack anyone who tries to sell me something which does not match its design exactly (wireless controllers tend to be huge round masses of suck, for example), my one complaint would be that it can at times be too small, and my hands can get cramped after holding it for a while. This new controller appears to be the same basic design, but with larger grips. I guess we'll see if it turns out to be crap, but I'm not going to dismiss it immediately. (The lack of ports for non-wireless controllers is off-putting, though. I would like to have the option of using my old controller, since there dont appear to be any differences)
But hey, everything can change.
The way Opera handles tabbed browsing and the way Firefox handles tabbed browsing are so different, grouping them both under the header "tabbed browsing" make little sense. But which of these methods will IE7 use? Or perhaps something completely different? (Personally, I think Opera's is great and Firefox's is half-assed and hacked-on. I can't imagine Microsoft following the Firefox way.)