Cars are more dangerous than guns, in my opinion. The chances of surviving a gunshot to the body are much higher than surviving a car slamming into you center mass. By that logic, planes are more dangerous than cars. The chances of surviving a car slamming into you center mass are much higher than surviving a plane slamming into you center mass.
Whether it is right or not is debatable, but I know from personal experience that Apple makes better products than Microsoft, and I'm sure many on/. agree. That might explain some of the moderations.
Except that transferring songs to a portable media player takes almost no effort, does not require your presence during the operation, requires no supporting resources, and takes virtually none of your time.
I envision a similar model, where security updates to the fundamental windows software were free, but feature upgrades would be for a small fee. Subscriptions would entitle you to all upgrades.
I'm not sure I heard you correctly, but I take it you believe it would be easier to write an operating system from the ground up than to fix the short list of problems you gave for XP. If their code base were that difficult to work with, how is it possible for them to still be a profitable business?
Care to site your source on that one? I'm intrigued and I've never heard that the computer company got its name from the record company. I find it to be a rather ridiculous trademark battle considering that its a {common dictionary word} {industry} VS {common dictionary word} {different industry}.
Other people addressed many of the issues/solutions you brought up, but I felt that these 2 were not addressed properly:
How do I go to full screen with the ability to drag the canvas anywhere on screen that I want?
Uh, View -> Fullscreen? Middle-click drags the canvas. This is not the same functionality I get in Photoshop. In Photoshop, if I open a new document and hit the 'f' key 2 or 3 times, I get a full screen document with the ability to drag at will. That means that if I want to work on the corner of my document, I can bring it to the very center of my screen. Why is this important to me? If you are familiar with drawing tablets, you would know how aggravating it can be to have to work on the corner of one. If I am able to move the corners and sides of my document to the center of the screen, I avoid this problem. Also, as already mentioned, your solution hides all the tools, which may not be the desired effect.
Where is the ability to dock my tool windows?
Drag the dialog to a dock window. You get two by default: the main toolbox and Layers/Channels/Paths.
You can have one or many. Predefined sets are available under Dialogs -> Create New Dock The docs in Gimp are very static and difficult to manipulate. In Photoshop, I can minimize docs, maximize docs, snap them to different sides of the screen, resize them, move them around the screen, put docs on a dock bar with pop-outs, minimize the dock bar, maximize the dock bar, show and hide them all simply by using the 'Tab' key. You don't realize how much time you spend working around the tools that clutter up your screen until you can rearrange them and size them exactly as you want to make your space useful and optimize your workflow.
For those who care to know, the term Islamist, when used in such a context, is generally accepted to refer to religious activists. Most of these activists claim to be Muslims yet do not act according to the laws of Islam. Now you people out there could either help educate misguided Muslims and misinformed non-Muslims in this regard, or you could go on talking stuff about Islam that has nothing to do with the religion and cannot be found anywhere in its authenticated texts.
-Yousuf I don't know what exactly you mean by the term "you people", but if you are referring to us non-Muslims, I'm quite confused. Are you saying we should be telling "misguided Muslims" about their own religion and what it does and does not teach? How is that even possible when I don't know Arabic and therefore am not worthy to even know what is in its "authenticated texts"? I'm not trying to inflame, but I would also genuinely like to know why such a peaceful and non-contentious religion, such as can be found in the laws of Islam of which you speak so highly, seems to breed the violence that can be found in nearly every country of the world where large groups of Muslims interact with Western culture? I'm not really interested in the words of a book, but rather in the actions of the people who claim to follow it. Maybe I'm horribly blind and misdirected, but every time I see a situation where a Muslim person/community could become offended, I see a violent reaction. What do you propose we do to redirect an entire culture? How are we supposed to "educate" them?
I was just checking out GIMP. Maybe I'm just retarded, but I can't seem to find the ability to create layer filters that change based on the content of the layer. I also can't find the slice or save for web tool. Where are the file optimization settings? How do you export as a PDF? Where is the ability to record actions and execute them on folders/files? How do I go to full screen with the ability to drag the canvas anywhere on screen that I want? Where is the ability to dock my tool windows? You actually send RGB files to print?
Honestly, GIMP is a great program, but if you really can't see what Photoshop has to offer from a productivity standpoint I wouldn't want you in my design shop.
I'm am most definitely not refuting what you are saying about the unfairness of the whole ticketing system, but I think one should keep in mind the experiences cops have to deal with, they see accidents due to excessive speeding and drink/hazardous/reckless driving and I am certain that changes their perspective on driving. While many come off as being righteous overlords many are simply tired of seeing people behave irresponsibly on the road. Unfortunately we have to suffer for the indiscretions of others.
I'm sorry, the fact that someone was going to town hall meetings and talking nonsense and that same person went in and shot people don't seem to have any particular connection to me. Did free speech allow and/or encourage the person to shoot people? Would have shutting him up/barring him from the meetings somehow pacified this individual? Is there a direct correlation between people who are boisterous and loud and people that irrationally shoot others?
Certainly I would agree with your statement that free speech is a double-edged sword in that you can be publicly criticized in the same way that you critique others, but I don't see the connection with the violent acts that followed.
But broadly speaking, a "server" is anything that accepts incoming TCP/IP connections. A Bittorrent client is just as much a "server" as Postfix is. Thats why we use the term peer. It replaces the client and server terminology when referring to a program that functions just as much as a client as a server.
As far as I know email is a server-based network. P2P got its name from the ability of clients to connect with each other directly without the use of a server. There are server-like services that assist the clients in finding each other and function as proxies for data, but often-times these also function as clients.
By your definition, anything transfered on the Net is peer to peer.
Well, the numbers may be inaccurate, but this is what I came up with from searching the net:
US corn production (2003/2004): 259.273m metric tons here
US sugarcane production (forecast FY 08): 3.388m metric tons here
US sugar beet production (forecast FY 08): 4.549m metric tons here
I don't profess to know anything about economics and how supply and demand affect how much of each crop is produced/available for use in fuel, so draw your own conclusions, or provide an explanation if you are so inclined.
and why the fuck are they using CORN? it's a terrible source of ethanol Maybe because the US actually produces corn, as opposed to good candidates like sugar cane, which would require importation.
Well, in my mind, the easiest way to do this is to change the user agent enough that the pages that render based on the quirks of old IE versions will not do so for IE8. Every serious web developer designs their pages to render both the IE way and the standard way. Maybe thats too complicated for Microsoft?
I noticed you said 'stolen tabs from firefox'. I use firefox as well, but you should be aware that opera had tabbed browsing long before firefox came into existence.
Slashdot Mirror
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200611/three_reasons_sites_break_in_internet_explorer_7/
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/why_internet_ex.html
You know this because you have the source code. Right?
Not to mention, earn their living while they are there...
Except the fact that IIS must be deployed on Windows, which is ripe for the picking when it comes to vulnerabilities.
Whether it is right or not is debatable, but I know from personal experience that Apple makes better products than Microsoft, and I'm sure many on /. agree. That might explain some of the moderations.
Except that transferring songs to a portable media player takes almost no effort, does not require your presence during the operation, requires no supporting resources, and takes virtually none of your time.
Al Gore says so? C'mon now, the media is hyping it. It must be true.
I envision a similar model, where security updates to the fundamental windows software were free, but feature upgrades would be for a small fee. Subscriptions would entitle you to all upgrades.
I'm not sure I heard you correctly, but I take it you believe it would be easier to write an operating system from the ground up than to fix the short list of problems you gave for XP. If their code base were that difficult to work with, how is it possible for them to still be a profitable business?
Care to site your source on that one? I'm intrigued and I've never heard that the computer company got its name from the record company. I find it to be a rather ridiculous trademark battle considering that its a {common dictionary word} {industry} VS {common dictionary word} {different industry}.
You can have one or many. Predefined sets are available under Dialogs -> Create New Dock The docs in Gimp are very static and difficult to manipulate. In Photoshop, I can minimize docs, maximize docs, snap them to different sides of the screen, resize them, move them around the screen, put docs on a dock bar with pop-outs, minimize the dock bar, maximize the dock bar, show and hide them all simply by using the 'Tab' key. You don't realize how much time you spend working around the tools that clutter up your screen until you can rearrange them and size them exactly as you want to make your space useful and optimize your workflow.
-Yousuf I don't know what exactly you mean by the term "you people", but if you are referring to us non-Muslims, I'm quite confused. Are you saying we should be telling "misguided Muslims" about their own religion and what it does and does not teach? How is that even possible when I don't know Arabic and therefore am not worthy to even know what is in its "authenticated texts"? I'm not trying to inflame, but I would also genuinely like to know why such a peaceful and non-contentious religion, such as can be found in the laws of Islam of which you speak so highly, seems to breed the violence that can be found in nearly every country of the world where large groups of Muslims interact with Western culture? I'm not really interested in the words of a book, but rather in the actions of the people who claim to follow it. Maybe I'm horribly blind and misdirected, but every time I see a situation where a Muslim person/community could become offended, I see a violent reaction. What do you propose we do to redirect an entire culture? How are we supposed to "educate" them?
I was just checking out GIMP. Maybe I'm just retarded, but I can't seem to find the ability to create layer filters that change based on the content of the layer. I also can't find the slice or save for web tool. Where are the file optimization settings? How do you export as a PDF? Where is the ability to record actions and execute them on folders/files? How do I go to full screen with the ability to drag the canvas anywhere on screen that I want? Where is the ability to dock my tool windows? You actually send RGB files to print? Honestly, GIMP is a great program, but if you really can't see what Photoshop has to offer from a productivity standpoint I wouldn't want you in my design shop.
I'm am most definitely not refuting what you are saying about the unfairness of the whole ticketing system, but I think one should keep in mind the experiences cops have to deal with, they see accidents due to excessive speeding and drink/hazardous/reckless driving and I am certain that changes their perspective on driving. While many come off as being righteous overlords many are simply tired of seeing people behave irresponsibly on the road. Unfortunately we have to suffer for the indiscretions of others.
I'm sorry, the fact that someone was going to town hall meetings and talking nonsense and that same person went in and shot people don't seem to have any particular connection to me. Did free speech allow and/or encourage the person to shoot people? Would have shutting him up/barring him from the meetings somehow pacified this individual? Is there a direct correlation between people who are boisterous and loud and people that irrationally shoot others? Certainly I would agree with your statement that free speech is a double-edged sword in that you can be publicly criticized in the same way that you critique others, but I don't see the connection with the violent acts that followed.
As far as I know email is a server-based network. P2P got its name from the ability of clients to connect with each other directly without the use of a server. There are server-like services that assist the clients in finding each other and function as proxies for data, but often-times these also function as clients. By your definition, anything transfered on the Net is peer to peer.
Well, the numbers may be inaccurate, but this is what I came up with from searching the net:
US corn production (2003/2004): 259.273m metric tons here
US sugarcane production (forecast FY 08): 3.388m metric tons here
US sugar beet production (forecast FY 08): 4.549m metric tons here
I don't profess to know anything about economics and how supply and demand affect how much of each crop is produced/available for use in fuel, so draw your own conclusions, or provide an explanation if you are so inclined.
That is a modest proposal if I may say so myself.
Isn't this the exact same as going after sites that host torrents rather than the servers hosting trackers?
Well, in my mind, the easiest way to do this is to change the user agent enough that the pages that render based on the quirks of old IE versions will not do so for IE8. Every serious web developer designs their pages to render both the IE way and the standard way. Maybe thats too complicated for Microsoft?
I noticed you said 'stolen tabs from firefox'. I use firefox as well, but you should be aware that opera had tabbed browsing long before firefox came into existence.