Did an entire generation of people fail to learn basic words like 'archaic' and 'anachronistic' in high school? Maybe 'mechanical' was also missing from the vocabulary list.
Well, steampunk is easier to write than "An archaic Victorian-era style mechanical device, with obviously modern/post-Victorian elements such as computers/lasers/etc"
Apple's usual litigation-trigger-happy attitude has netted an incalculable amount of free publicity to Anne Summers.
I can't really see how Apple can claim some sort of copyright over silhouettes. I mean - the original iPod adds seemed very.... reminiscent of the James Bond opening credits sequences from the 70s.
Perhaps Apple is jealous that the Anne Summers' logo also contains an Apple.
And if you don't have anything to hide, why object to us installing a camera in your home....
WTF are you talking about?
1) The GP didn't make the 'nothing to hide' argument. 2) These cameras only record what the warden would see in any case. 3) Cameras recording private & public spaces are completely different.
I don't expect you to read the article - but at least read the comment you're replying to.
Prosititution is illegal in many parts of the land of the (hah!) free. Alchohol is illegal in some Middle Eastern countries. Drugs have different laws almost everywhere. Codeine is illegal in Greece (IIRC), Marijuana semi-legal in some countries, etc etc.
What is the difference between not advertising certain pages and not letting Chinese search up certain pages?
Not comparable. One still allows you to find something, the other does not.
Google should never have gone into China, it makes do-no-evil-initiatives like this (where they refuse to accept money from certain companies considered by many to be unethical) look stupid.
I know that wikipedia isn't exactly the world's most reliable source, but why in the heck hasn't that article been deleted yet.
For the same reason that articles on Leprechauns or the Piltdown Man aren't deleted. So someone can go & read about them, find out they're not real things, and the read the story of how the hoax/myth/whatever was perpetutated.
We do find it tedious when dweebs like WMF bitch endlessly about Macs not being designed for linear thinkers like himself.
I don't bitch about macs tho' - I think they (along with os x) are quite nice. It's purely Apple's hypocricy, DRM pushing, legal threats against bloggers, that I have a problem with.
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But that's like comparing a Civic to a Ferrari.
A reliable, economical, easy to drive car compared to something that's beautiful, but too powerful & expensive to buy & maintain for 99.99% of users?
Is that really the sort of analogy you wanted to make?
I'll get flamed to a crisp for this but there's no alternative to photoshop. Gimp is clumsy and underpowered.
/.? I doubt it.
Get flamed for bashing gimp on
Gimp is an alternative for photoshop in much the same way Openoffice is an alternative to MSoffice or linux is an alternative to OS X.
It depends on the job at hand. Sometimes the OSS tool is better for the job, at other times the proprietary tool is better for the job.
Let's think about this for a second. A missile defense system ... defends against missiles. So you're going to fight that by throwing missiles at it?
Yes, you are. Enough missiles going in & you overwhelm the defense system.
It has been statistically shown that helmets increase the risk of head injury.
Incorrect. That study showed that helmets increased the risk of collision.
Once you're in a collision however, you're fucked if you don't have a helmet.
just get a traditional asian toilet, ie a hole in the ground you have to squat over.
I fear that I have to point out that a hole in the ground is the traditional toilet for all cultures.
Did an entire generation of people fail to learn basic words like 'archaic' and 'anachronistic' in high school? Maybe 'mechanical' was also missing from the vocabulary list.
Well, steampunk is easier to write than "An archaic Victorian-era style mechanical device, with obviously modern/post-Victorian elements such as computers/lasers/etc"
specifically designed to cause confusion in the markeplace
Confusion?
If you can't tell the difference between a sex toy & a portable music player, then.... well, let's just say I don't want to borrow your iPod.
You can't copyright a style, but you can trademark it.
No. You can't trademark a style.
Headline should read:
Apple's usual litigation-trigger-happy attitude has netted an incalculable amount of free publicity to Anne Summers.
I can't really see how Apple can claim some sort of copyright over silhouettes. I mean - the original iPod adds seemed very.... reminiscent of the James Bond opening credits sequences from the 70s.
Perhaps Apple is jealous that the Anne Summers' logo also contains an Apple.
Dead right. That'll teach me to post when drunk.... well, probably not :-)
Ad hominem.
I said Public & Private spaces are different. I didn't say anything goes in a public space. Next.
Microsoft pays a heavy subsidy to lock people in
Eh?
It's all the other software vendors apart from MS who pay for their adware/crapware/scareware to be on the Dell Desktop.
And if you don't have anything to hide, why object to us installing a camera in your home....
WTF are you talking about?
1) The GP didn't make the 'nothing to hide' argument.
2) These cameras only record what the warden would see in any case.
3) Cameras recording private & public spaces are completely different.
I don't expect you to read the article - but at least read the comment you're replying to.
If it's legal, they should allow it.
In what jurisdiction?
Prosititution is illegal in many parts of the land of the (hah!) free. Alchohol is illegal in some Middle Eastern countries. Drugs have different laws almost everywhere. Codeine is illegal in Greece (IIRC), Marijuana semi-legal in some countries, etc etc.
What is the difference between not advertising certain pages and not letting Chinese search up certain pages?
Not comparable. One still allows you to find something, the other does not.
Google should never have gone into China, it makes do-no-evil-initiatives like this (where they refuse to accept money from certain companies considered by many to be unethical) look stupid.
which now join other items on the banned list such as tobacco, drugs, weapons, and prostitution."
Depends on the drug
Anyway, who really cares who Google accepts for advertising - its what they index that really matters.
I know that wikipedia isn't exactly the world's most reliable source, but why in the heck hasn't that article been deleted yet.
For the same reason that articles on Leprechauns or the Piltdown Man aren't deleted. So someone can go & read about them, find out they're not real things, and the read the story of how the hoax/myth/whatever was perpetutated.
We do find it tedious when dweebs like WMF bitch endlessly about Macs not being designed for linear thinkers like himself.
I don't bitch about macs tho' - I think they (along with os x) are quite nice. It's purely Apple's hypocricy, DRM pushing, legal threats against bloggers, that I have a problem with.
But Apple didn't have to switch - they could've gone intel for laptops & waited for power6 for high end.
Power6 sounds like it's going to be pretty damn cool - Perhaps Apple made a mistake jumping to intel so soon...
*sighs* I for one yearn for the days of smugly ending any performance argument with some PC user with "Well, we've got Altivec & Altivec is magic."
It just goes on & on doesn't it....
Lars T is quite the troller tho' I gotta say...
One just has to follow this thread. Or your sig.
Oh, indeed. You've really shown how biased and wrong I am with that statement.
Well done - your debating skills are becoming honed a knife-like edge aren't they?
i've traveled europe,
Want to detail where in Eastern Europe you've been? Bulgaria? Romania? Estonia?
Did they study eastern european women to figure this out?
Eastern European women are much better looking then the woman from your home country (presuming you're a native English speaker that is).
You have always been childish. As well as wrong, biased and stupid.
Gosh, I guess I really haven't any comeback to such a well reasoned argument, so thoroughly supported with links, quotes & examples can I?