No users are being excluded except from one site, and that's a decision that should be made by the site administrators. As they're using government money, I would argue that whichever solution they could use that was the cheapest for them to implement (and I include training/hiring in that) should be used. Of course, that's not something we're really privy to.
What I'm trying to say is - people who would use those devices in the way you're positing are a vanishingly small percentage of computer users. Is it really worth the extra cost when other sites are willing to bear the brunt of that support for you?
It's anticompetitive because it doesn't run on Mac PPC, Linux and FreeBSD? RFTS.
Firstly, Apple don't support Mac PPC anymore, why the fuck should anybody else?
Secondly, Linux and FreeBSD account for less than a single percentage point of the desktop market. Even so, you have people working on it.
Thirdly and finally, you don't have to watch at the official site. There's probably a hundred places online you could watch it. If you don't want to use Silverlight - don't.
Sorry, still don't work for Microsoft. I know that really damages the perception of reality that a lot of people have going in their heads, but it's your own fault for being completely delusional.
When are you going to give up the 'Microsoft sockpuppets' bullshit? You've yet to provide a shred of evidence to support what is essentially paranoia.
Good work on missing the entire Linux 2.6.28 article on Slashdot and then claiming that it's some kind of Microsoft conspiracy to stop you from talking about it.
I'm not gay, I'm not black, I don't belong to any persecuted religious groups... I guess I just don't have the moral turpitude to just shut up and keep my mouth closed when I see some sort of injustice done in the world.
So you do care, then. Why say you don't? As for injustice, I find that a hilariously overblown perspective on the whole shebang. As a gay person it's actually pretty offensive to compare the struggle for equal rights for us to having an unelected Head of State that, according to you, does nothing but leech off the public anyway and has no real effectual power. Thanks for comparing your fight to get rid of something you consider useless to our fight for basic human rights.
Since "diplomatic relationships" is rather silly as the real dealings are done by people like the prime minister (wait, I thought the queen was only a ceremonial figurehead? What gives? Can't have your cake and eat it...)
You don't understand how diplomacy actually works, do you? It's not like Civilization - you don't just go up to a world leader, say "I want to be your friend, here's 5 gold per turn", then everything is signed and sealed. It's not all about 2 guys sitting in a room talking about whether to swap sheep for cows. Building international relations takes a lot of work, way beyond governments all the way to the every day man in the street.
If you're confused as to what the Royal Family do, I suggest you do some research, starting with this excerpt from Wiki:
"Members of the Royal Family engage in hundreds of public engagements yearly, throughout the United Kingdom, as formally recorded in the Court Circular, to honour, encourage and learn about the achievements or endeavors of individuals, institutions and enterprises in a variety of areas of life. As representatives of the Queen, they often also join the nation in commemorating historical events, holidays, celebratory and tragic occurrences, and may also sponsor or participate in numerous charitable, cultural and social activities. Their travels abroad on behalf of the UK (called State Visits when the sovereign officially meets with other heads of state) draw public attention to amicable relations within and between the Commonwealth and other nations, to British goods and trade, and to Britain as a historical, vacation, and tourist destination."
Apparently this is worthless to you, however. There's no pleasing some people.
Is that what the British spirit is all about? Treating families as if they're special because they bring in tourists to snap pictures and think they're special because the specialness of this magical family somehow rubbed off on them like fairy dust?
You were the one saying that the Royal Family leech off the British taxpayer, I merely demonstrated that they bring in far more wealth than is expended on them, both financially and in terms of foreign relations. Your sarcasm is palpable but completely misplaced.
That's always the most pathetic excuse anyone can give, "because might makes right" or "democracy says so".
What is 'right'? Is 'right' what you consider to be right or my interpretation? What I am trying to cram into your skull is that you live in a society where the majority of people think that having a Royal Family and treating them as you would a king or queen is morally right (or at least not morally wrong), and you have to live with that. If you don't want to live with that, your choices are convince people to change their minds or get the fuck out. The same goes for Prop 8 and California. I completely agree that it's not right, but that's the way that we feel, not how everyone does. Feel free to have your principles, but don't expect anything to change just because you and a smattering of others don't feel the same way as everyone else.
What you are doing is neither of those things. You're just bitching to everyone that'll listen about how unfair the whole thing is and how you think it's not right without giving people any reason whatsoever to change their minds. If you're lucky, that'll get you 2 minutes of someone's time and then a kick up the arse.
Well, why should I care about what the government thinks, or the queen, for that matter?
Well, why do you care? You seem to be getting very angry over something that apparently doesn't matter to you at all. Nobody is forcing to care.
To answer your other points - firstly, if you're so concerned with the monarchy 'leeching off the state', conveniently ignoring the benefits they bring to the country in terms of tourism, diplomatic relationships and the income from their holdings (which is fully taxable, you may note), please send me your address and I will send you the sixty-six pence it costs per citizen per year to keep the monarchy going. I am glad of it, even if you are not.
Secondly, last time the electorate was polled, about 80% of the British said keep the monarchy, so unfortunately your views are still very much in the minority. If you want to live in a country without a monarchy, I suggest you go find one.
Vista provides you with an Autoplay menu rather than just playing the thing, even if autorun.inf is present - if you don't want it to pop ever again, you can hit 'Do nothing' and 'Never ask me again'.
City of Heroes is Asian? The MMO inspired by American comic book culture, with a main hero called 'Statesman' who basically wears an American flag, set in a city in Rhode Island, USA? City of Heroes bombed in Korea. They went the whole hog - even added an Asian supergroup called 'W.I.S.D.O.M' (eventually these became zone trainers in rebuilt zones), and they couldn't keep it going.
I'd like to be the first to say - get a sense of humour? For all the fun poked at everything else around here (especially Vista), it makes it really sad to see somebody taking a joke against Linux way too seriously.
2) You appear to have completely ignored IE's Protected Mode and, in fact, everything I said about improved security.
3) You followed up your 10 year old link with an 8 year old book. You haven't given any evidence that what you're effing and blinding about is still the status quo.
I don't know how you can say with a straight face that the software industry hasn't improved - it's like you fell into a coma when Y2K ticked over.
Do you have anything more recent than 10 years ago?
It's not unreasonable, after all the security improvements that have been put into Vista, that the prevailing attitude may have changed somewhat in a decade.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it's Index2. One of these days I'll bother to turn it off.
Did I become a subscriber in my sleep or something?
The OS supporting it in hardware is one thing, actual software support is quite another.
Apple do not support people coding for PPC. 10.5 removed support for older PPC processors as well. You're a lucky G4 user to be able to use Leopard.
No users are being excluded except from one site, and that's a decision that should be made by the site administrators. As they're using government money, I would argue that whichever solution they could use that was the cheapest for them to implement (and I include training/hiring in that) should be used. Of course, that's not something we're really privy to.
What I'm trying to say is - people who would use those devices in the way you're positing are a vanishingly small percentage of computer users. Is it really worth the extra cost when other sites are willing to bear the brunt of that support for you?
"Oh my god, they're making me download a plugin, or watch the inauguration somewhere else! MY PRECIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS"
Can you honestly read over what you just wrote and not burst out laughing at how ridiculous it is?
It's anticompetitive because it doesn't run on Mac PPC, Linux and FreeBSD? RFTS.
Firstly, Apple don't support Mac PPC anymore, why the fuck should anybody else?
Secondly, Linux and FreeBSD account for less than a single percentage point of the desktop market. Even so, you have people working on it.
Thirdly and finally, you don't have to watch at the official site. There's probably a hundred places online you could watch it. If you don't want to use Silverlight - don't.
Hm, that post doesn't make sense, but that's probably because I've only had an hours sleep. Let me try again.
You're wrong, and you're a dickhead.
That'll do.
Sorry, still don't work for Microsoft. I know that really damages the perception of reality that a lot of people have going in their heads, but it's your own fault for being completely delusional.
I'd apologise, but I'm not sorry.
Hello pretender-to-the-throne-of-me,
Rebuilt =/= rewritten.
Please try again later.
When are you going to give up the 'Microsoft sockpuppets' bullshit? You've yet to provide a shred of evidence to support what is essentially paranoia.
Good work on missing the entire Linux 2.6.28 article on Slashdot and then claiming that it's some kind of Microsoft conspiracy to stop you from talking about it.
When did Microsoft promise that Vista was going to be a complete rewrite?
I see this quoted a lot but I've never actually seen a source for it.
Absolutely. Everybody knows that because the Linux kernel is the same in every distribution, every distribution of Linux is exactly the same.
No, he doesn't have a point, and neither do you.
I need citation? The other guy didn't give any.
You're on Slashdot and challenging the groupthink - be thankful you didn't have to write a 10,000 word essay ;)
This is just patently false.
Wii: 24,658,719
Xbox 3: 21,774,542
Playstation 3: 12,769,838
Approximate numbers from nexgenwars.com, methodology is here.
Further to this, the Xbox division is earning $178 million per quarter..
By the way, did you know that the Xbox 360 is a PowerPC box too?
I can see from other comments you've made that you're not British.
As such, I'm not going to bother arguing further because you're not even in the same cultural mindset, let alone the same country.
I'm not gay, I'm not black, I don't belong to any persecuted religious groups... I guess I just don't have the moral turpitude to just shut up and keep my mouth closed when I see some sort of injustice done in the world.
So you do care, then. Why say you don't? As for injustice, I find that a hilariously overblown perspective on the whole shebang. As a gay person it's actually pretty offensive to compare the struggle for equal rights for us to having an unelected Head of State that, according to you, does nothing but leech off the public anyway and has no real effectual power. Thanks for comparing your fight to get rid of something you consider useless to our fight for basic human rights.
Since "diplomatic relationships" is rather silly as the real dealings are done by people like the prime minister (wait, I thought the queen was only a ceremonial figurehead? What gives? Can't have your cake and eat it...)
You don't understand how diplomacy actually works, do you? It's not like Civilization - you don't just go up to a world leader, say "I want to be your friend, here's 5 gold per turn", then everything is signed and sealed. It's not all about 2 guys sitting in a room talking about whether to swap sheep for cows. Building international relations takes a lot of work, way beyond governments all the way to the every day man in the street.
If you're confused as to what the Royal Family do, I suggest you do some research, starting with this excerpt from Wiki:
"Members of the Royal Family engage in hundreds of public engagements yearly, throughout the United Kingdom, as formally recorded in the Court Circular, to honour, encourage and learn about the achievements or endeavors of individuals, institutions and enterprises in a variety of areas of life. As representatives of the Queen, they often also join the nation in commemorating historical events, holidays, celebratory and tragic occurrences, and may also sponsor or participate in numerous charitable, cultural and social activities. Their travels abroad on behalf of the UK (called State Visits when the sovereign officially meets with other heads of state) draw public attention to amicable relations within and between the Commonwealth and other nations, to British goods and trade, and to Britain as a historical, vacation, and tourist destination."
Apparently this is worthless to you, however. There's no pleasing some people.
Is that what the British spirit is all about? Treating families as if they're special because they bring in tourists to snap pictures and think they're special because the specialness of this magical family somehow rubbed off on them like fairy dust?
You were the one saying that the Royal Family leech off the British taxpayer, I merely demonstrated that they bring in far more wealth than is expended on them, both financially and in terms of foreign relations. Your sarcasm is palpable but completely misplaced.
That's always the most pathetic excuse anyone can give, "because might makes right" or "democracy says so".
What is 'right'? Is 'right' what you consider to be right or my interpretation? What I am trying to cram into your skull is that you live in a society where the majority of people think that having a Royal Family and treating them as you would a king or queen is morally right (or at least not morally wrong), and you have to live with that. If you don't want to live with that, your choices are convince people to change their minds or get the fuck out. The same goes for Prop 8 and California. I completely agree that it's not right, but that's the way that we feel, not how everyone does. Feel free to have your principles, but don't expect anything to change just because you and a smattering of others don't feel the same way as everyone else.
What you are doing is neither of those things. You're just bitching to everyone that'll listen about how unfair the whole thing is and how you think it's not right without giving people any reason whatsoever to change their minds. If you're lucky, that'll get you 2 minutes of someone's time and then a kick up the arse.
Well, why should I care about what the government thinks, or the queen, for that matter?
Well, why do you care? You seem to be getting very angry over something that apparently doesn't matter to you at all. Nobody is forcing to care.
To answer your other points - firstly, if you're so concerned with the monarchy 'leeching off the state', conveniently ignoring the benefits they bring to the country in terms of tourism, diplomatic relationships and the income from their holdings (which is fully taxable, you may note), please send me your address and I will send you the sixty-six pence it costs per citizen per year to keep the monarchy going. I am glad of it, even if you are not.
Secondly, last time the electorate was polled, about 80% of the British said keep the monarchy, so unfortunately your views are still very much in the minority. If you want to live in a country without a monarchy, I suggest you go find one.
Vista provides you with an Autoplay menu rather than just playing the thing, even if autorun.inf is present - if you don't want it to pop ever again, you can hit 'Do nothing' and 'Never ask me again'.
The alternatives are very Asian
City of Heroes is Asian? The MMO inspired by American comic book culture, with a main hero called 'Statesman' who basically wears an American flag, set in a city in Rhode Island, USA? City of Heroes bombed in Korea. They went the whole hog - even added an Asian supergroup called 'W.I.S.D.O.M' (eventually these became zone trainers in rebuilt zones), and they couldn't keep it going.
'Very Asian' indeed.
Nor does Play.com.
I'd like to be the first to say - get a sense of humour? For all the fun poked at everything else around here (especially Vista), it makes it really sad to see somebody taking a joke against Linux way too seriously.
Lighten up.
Until someone comes up and shows me status quo has changed, I shall continue to assume that it has not.
Good to see you freely acknowledge that your opinion is outdated and you haven't bothered to see if anything has changed.
The recent Nasa orbiter issue with metric vs imperial measurements only cost $130M. Is this your example of an improved software industry?
Is one specific error indicative of an improved software industry? Unlike you, I don't happen to think it's indicative of anything at all.
1) Who said I'm using IE?
2) You appear to have completely ignored IE's Protected Mode and, in fact, everything I said about improved security.
3) You followed up your 10 year old link with an 8 year old book. You haven't given any evidence that what you're effing and blinding about is still the status quo.
I don't know how you can say with a straight face that the software industry hasn't improved - it's like you fell into a coma when Y2K ticked over.
Why do they call it xbox 360
cuz when your discs are all scratched up you turn 360 degrees and walk away
That's such an insightful statement. Just to test though - find a cliff, turn 360 degrees and then walk away from it...
Do you have anything more recent than 10 years ago?
It's not unreasonable, after all the security improvements that have been put into Vista, that the prevailing attitude may have changed somewhat in a decade.