How much would have I liked to see in your list of "Dutch freedoms" the right to expose Muslim fanaticism in comic strips. But, ok, frequent hookers are not that bad.
If the rules of our democracy make our ability to protect our rights proportional to our court litigation budget, ordinary people are going to be 3rd millennium's slaves. Class action is our life jacket.
Obviously, after paying that I demand the right to pirate all what I want.
Obviously, after paying that you aren't pirating.
More specifically, anyone defining you "pirate" would be guilty of calumny. And should be punished for that.
they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
That's not quite the problem. Instead, to name some:
a) hardware support, with reasonably deterministic installation and management procedures (still playing with ndiswrapper and the likes...);
b) default fonts which don't suck (Google's financial strength might help here);
c) the power to drive major companies (including some of the banks I work with) to build websites which fully support Linux;
d) one file browser not below Vista's Windows Explorer, not 20 "meetoo" file managers useful only in the CV's of their own developers
Google should start from the frustration one feels when trying to run Google Earth under, say, Ubuntu. If not even Google itself devotes enough energy to development under Linux yet, how can one expect to have a truly usable alternative to Win&Mac in 1 year from now?
P.S. All the people which volunteer their time and skill to make all Linuxes (too many of them) possible do a hell of a good job; unfortunately, not good enough to make Windows unworthy of its couple hundred bucks.
No one should honestly consider this issue scientifically decided once for all. If a Nobel prize laureate with specific (immense) knowledge on human DNA like James Watson thinks race may actually be correlated to one's intellectual potential, we should consider all this still debatable, to say the least. (No, he didn't withdraw his statement, he confirmed it adding he was sorry his words offended so many people).
Moreover, there's an actual, very understandable stigma on this opinion. It's well known that taboos are formidable weapons in the human quest for knowledge. Weapons to destroy knowledge, of course. In no other subject will you see so many insults flourish in comments. Many people here react like scared dogs. The issue is hot, but usually those who resort to abuse are barely confident in their own opinions.
Unfortunately, being horrible, unfair, outrageous and unacceptable doesn't necessarily make a theory also false.
I'm sorry for not being able to make clear my own position here. I still don't know whether the Sun truly orbits the Earth. On the other hand, the abundance of people untouched by doubt cheers me up a little.
What I myself know for sure is I don't like a debate where only one position is represented, or where one is ridiculed, even in a clumsy, childish way. Not even the devil is denied an advocate.
If you carefully analyze the traffic there's no problem in identifying P2P traffic and what that traffic contains.
The point is, it's unacceptable to use in this case investigation techniques which should be reserved to extremely serious crimes. The police don't break into every small time crook's home to recover stolen apples. There must be a careful balance between social benefit and privacy violation. Duplicating a file, as well as copying a piece of poetry by hand, shouldn't be considered a major offense.
Awarding damages amounting to thousands of times the market value of the item duplicated and sentencing to time in prison is outrageous. Like hanging a guy for stealing the king's deer. What is so special with this offense to make it the only one for which punishment must be made unreasonably harsh until it's fully eradicated?
Some theoretically less civilized countries use this draconian method for serious crimes. I wonder where is civilization, actually?
Is polygamy evidence of the "destructiveness" of Mormons' way of life? Sounds more like a proof of their being morally and legally discriminated against. They are singled out because of a perfectly natural and healthy behavior (when happening among willing adults), while Western moral structure tends to condone definitely more questionable adult-child and same-sex relationships (the former where local so called cultures allow).
Clean energy is just PR bullbyproduct for oil companies. As long as going clean isn't enforced, they are willing to spend a tiny % of their budget to look nicer to the public. But the USA will change their attitude towards the Kyoto protocol, this is going to cost money, so the PR party is over.
My current electric bill is around $65/mo. which means that in 153 months this would be paying for itself, or about 12 years. Of course, figuring in things like maintenance, repairs, and so forth makes this harder to gauge, but that's pretty good.
You're being sarcastic, aren't you? Or is this the beginning of a new era in ROI analysis?
If a powerful proof to get conviction doesn't hold back a criminal from committing crimes, this means the punishment itself is not a discouraging element. Let's get rid of the judicial and prison system altogether then.
Or, we could make prisons less pleasant to live in to the point which they start being effective as means of dissuasion.
The last possibility I envision would be to provide enough money to criminals in exchange for not committing crimes.
Instead of a host of smart analogies, wouldn't it be more interesting to give a pointer to a true case? C'm on this is/. we like facts more than opinions. Oh, I see, "Insightful" was the goal.
To clarify: I'm not advocating the opposite position, I'm just reading the whole thing and not getting more info on the subject than I had before.
I guess my added value is far below zero point. Let's see some negative points
If current Explorer's view doesn't include the columns I need, I'll have to scroll through dozens of column names; MS didn't neglect the funny part: some columns have the same name! (Italian version-awful)
One of the reasons why I have Vista on my laptop instead of Linux is Vista's supposedly superior hardware management. Then one day the touchpad on my Acer 5520 lost its peculiar features, evolving into a clumsy mouse. I tried to reinstall the drivers, then to contact Acer support. Yes, I know you know what they suggested, I knew it too but I had to ask. Problem not solved
Network Management applets, both Vista's and Acer developed, repeatedly freeze.
Copying files is a nightmare. Sometimes the copy takes forever or gets stuck to the point I have to kill explorer process. I'm sure Vista is doing lots of cool things behind the curtains with my filesystem. And this is the point. Microsoft keeps forcing me to buy new functionalities I'm not asking for, removing and devastating the previous fundamental ones. For me this is not just inconvenient, it's horrifying.
Sometimes all the interactions with the system are knocked out. Keyboard, mouse, video display, loudspeakers. The drive and network activity LEDs keep happily dancing. Exactly the kind of problems I hoped Windows evolution would eliminate, or at least a clear, guided solution path should be offered.
Bottom line: I don't give a damn about Aero and fancy stuff. I want a system which does not let me down in the middle of a banking transaction. I want hardware, not software failures. I want to be able to (re)install peripherals with a deterministic procedure. I want diagnostic/troubleshooting to be the most advanced piece of SW on the system, not the video candies. If there are too many functionalities to be able to support them all, stop adding them for Christ's sake!
All this is what I wanted 15 years ago, and still is not delivered by MS. And before telling me to move to Linux or Mac, please, call my bank (IE required) and my customers who are happily upgrading their documents to non-OpenOffice-compatible Office 2007 document formats. Yes, users are to blame, too.
These issued will be properly addressed by Windows 7? I doubt that. The best I can say about it is it's fast (sure, it's just been installed!)
Steve: "So, bestalexguy, what happens when you upgrade your PC in six months' time? will you buy my new cool OS?"
bestalexguy: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
Demonstrates how capitalism is not that far removed from slavery
It's not capitalism, it's overpopulation which makes slavery inevitable.
And overpopulation is mainly caused by the slaves themselves, who enforce by law the transfer of wealth from responsible productive citizens to sociopath low quality serial birth-givers.
The only way out of this hell is balancing population size and local resources. This at least partially happens just in some north-European areas.
Conversely, a model based on ever-growing immigration and production delocalization to keep wages low and profit high is doomed to fail.
And indeed, it is failing right now.
being a douchebag or a sociopath is hardly a virtue [...] only a really incompetent manager would deliberately seek out employees with such qualities
This assuming there's no sociopath in management. One who is would probably appreciate this kind of ruthlessness and creativity.
If you supervise a killer your assumption is that you'll be able to use his (or her) qualities to your advantage.
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How much would have I liked to see in your list of "Dutch freedoms" the right to expose Muslim fanaticism in comic strips. But, ok, frequent hookers are not that bad.
et dona ferentes.
If the rules of our democracy make our ability to protect our rights proportional to our court litigation budget, ordinary people are going to be 3rd millennium's slaves. Class action is our life jacket.
Too bad AutoPager on Google search screws up the Comment/Promote/Remove feature.
Obviously, after paying that I demand the right to pirate all what I want.
Obviously, after paying that you aren't pirating.
More specifically, anyone defining you "pirate" would be guilty of calumny. And should be punished for that.
they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
That's not quite the problem. Instead, to name some: ...);
a) hardware support, with reasonably deterministic installation and management procedures (still playing with ndiswrapper and the likes
b) default fonts which don't suck (Google's financial strength might help here);
c) the power to drive major companies (including some of the banks I work with) to build websites which fully support Linux;
d) one file browser not below Vista's Windows Explorer, not 20 "meetoo" file managers useful only in the CV's of their own developers
Google should start from the frustration one feels when trying to run Google Earth under, say, Ubuntu. If not even Google itself devotes enough energy to development under Linux yet, how can one expect to have a truly usable alternative to Win&Mac in 1 year from now?
P.S. All the people which volunteer their time and skill to make all Linuxes (too many of them) possible do a hell of a good job; unfortunately, not good enough to make Windows unworthy of its couple hundred bucks.
No one should honestly consider this issue scientifically decided once for all. If a Nobel prize laureate with specific (immense) knowledge on human DNA like James Watson thinks race may actually be correlated to one's intellectual potential, we should consider all this still debatable, to say the least. (No, he didn't withdraw his statement, he confirmed it adding he was sorry his words offended so many people).
Moreover, there's an actual, very understandable stigma on this opinion. It's well known that taboos are formidable weapons in the human quest for knowledge. Weapons to destroy knowledge, of course. In no other subject will you see so many insults flourish in comments. Many people here react like scared dogs. The issue is hot, but usually those who resort to abuse are barely confident in their own opinions.
Unfortunately, being horrible, unfair, outrageous and unacceptable doesn't necessarily make a theory also false.
I'm sorry for not being able to make clear my own position here. I still don't know whether the Sun truly orbits the Earth. On the other hand, the abundance of people untouched by doubt cheers me up a little. What I myself know for sure is I don't like a debate where only one position is represented, or where one is ridiculed, even in a clumsy, childish way. Not even the devil is denied an advocate.
Could you please give some first-hand clues about criminality rates and cost of living?
A) Big movies productions
B) Citizens' privacy & offense/punishment balance
Sadly, these two are mutually exclusive. I opt to save B.
If you carefully analyze the traffic there's no problem in identifying P2P traffic and what that traffic contains. The point is, it's unacceptable to use in this case investigation techniques which should be reserved to extremely serious crimes. The police don't break into every small time crook's home to recover stolen apples. There must be a careful balance between social benefit and privacy violation. Duplicating a file, as well as copying a piece of poetry by hand, shouldn't be considered a major offense.
Awarding damages amounting to thousands of times the market value of the item duplicated and sentencing to time in prison is outrageous. Like hanging a guy for stealing the king's deer. What is so special with this offense to make it the only one for which punishment must be made unreasonably harsh until it's fully eradicated?
Some theoretically less civilized countries use this draconian method for serious crimes. I wonder where is civilization, actually?
Is polygamy evidence of the "destructiveness" of Mormons' way of life? Sounds more like a proof of their being morally and legally discriminated against. They are singled out because of a perfectly natural and healthy behavior (when happening among willing adults), while Western moral structure tends to condone definitely more questionable adult-child and same-sex relationships (the former where local so called cultures allow).
Clean energy is just PR bullbyproduct for oil companies. As long as going clean isn't enforced, they are willing to spend a tiny % of their budget to look nicer to the public. But the USA will change their attitude towards the Kyoto protocol, this is going to cost money, so the PR party is over.
You're being sarcastic, aren't you? Or is this the beginning of a new era in ROI analysis?
Oh, with an HD video camera and a pretty girlfriend you definitely can. No need for purchased content.
If a powerful proof to get conviction doesn't hold back a criminal from committing crimes, this means the punishment itself is not a discouraging element. Let's get rid of the judicial and prison system altogether then.
Or, we could make prisons less pleasant to live in to the point which they start being effective as means of dissuasion.
The last possibility I envision would be to provide enough money to criminals in exchange for not committing crimes.
Sure he did, but the uploader was kind enough to strip off that part, for ease of mind of the customer.
Instead of a host of smart analogies, wouldn't it be more interesting to give a pointer to a true case? C'm on this is /. we like facts more than opinions. Oh, I see, "Insightful" was the goal.
To clarify: I'm not advocating the opposite position, I'm just reading the whole thing and not getting more info on the subject than I had before.
With an official Google-made product in place it'll take little time for someone to come up with a convenient encryption/decryption layer.
Sounds like you're lucky.
I guess my added value is far below zero point. Let's see some negative points
If current Explorer's view doesn't include the columns I need, I'll have to scroll through dozens of column names; MS didn't neglect the funny part: some columns have the same name! (Italian version-awful)
One of the reasons why I have Vista on my laptop instead of Linux is Vista's supposedly superior hardware management. Then one day the touchpad on my Acer 5520 lost its peculiar features, evolving into a clumsy mouse. I tried to reinstall the drivers, then to contact Acer support. Yes, I know you know what they suggested, I knew it too but I had to ask. Problem not solved
Network Management applets, both Vista's and Acer developed, repeatedly freeze.
Copying files is a nightmare. Sometimes the copy takes forever or gets stuck to the point I have to kill explorer process. I'm sure Vista is doing lots of cool things behind the curtains with my filesystem. And this is the point. Microsoft keeps forcing me to buy new functionalities I'm not asking for, removing and devastating the previous fundamental ones. For me this is not just inconvenient, it's horrifying.
Sometimes all the interactions with the system are knocked out. Keyboard, mouse, video display, loudspeakers. The drive and network activity LEDs keep happily dancing. Exactly the kind of problems I hoped Windows evolution would eliminate, or at least a clear, guided solution path should be offered.
Bottom line: I don't give a damn about Aero and fancy stuff. I want a system which does not let me down in the middle of a banking transaction. I want hardware, not software failures. I want to be able to (re)install peripherals with a deterministic procedure. I want diagnostic/troubleshooting to be the most advanced piece of SW on the system, not the video candies. If there are too many functionalities to be able to support them all, stop adding them for Christ's sake!
All this is what I wanted 15 years ago, and still is not delivered by MS. And before telling me to move to Linux or Mac, please, call my bank (IE required) and my customers who are happily upgrading their documents to non-OpenOffice-compatible Office 2007 document formats. Yes, users are to blame, too.
These issued will be properly addressed by Windows 7? I doubt that. The best I can say about it is it's fast (sure, it's just been installed!)
Are these newspapers written in English? 'Cause if you survived in a newspaper company even though you misspell "its", things are not so bad ...
Steve: "So, bestalexguy, what happens when you upgrade your PC in six months' time? will you buy my new cool OS?"
bestalexguy: "Well, I think you know the answer to that."
It's not capitalism, it's overpopulation which makes slavery inevitable.
And overpopulation is mainly caused by the slaves themselves, who enforce by law the transfer of wealth from responsible productive citizens to sociopath low quality serial birth-givers.
The only way out of this hell is balancing population size and local resources. This at least partially happens just in some north-European areas.
Conversely, a model based on ever-growing immigration and production delocalization to keep wages low and profit high is doomed to fail.
And indeed, it is failing right now.
This assuming there's no sociopath in management. One who is would probably appreciate this kind of ruthlessness and creativity.
If you supervise a killer your assumption is that you'll be able to use his (or her) qualities to your advantage.
Dildos aren't self powered. You've gotta give 'em the power.