Is there a "Mavis Beacon teaches reading comprehension" course on the web?
I suppose after each lesson Mavis would say "Now, that was hard. How about a game, huh? All you have to do is tell me what these EULAs mean to increase the car's speed! Don't take more than five seconds though, or your car will crash!"
And can someone explain what is bad with a naked body? Typical religious bullshit. Nudity is not bad, we are all naked. Violence is bad, nudity is good.
IMO this shows how the Bible and other religious texts are being misquoted. It never says ONCE in the Bible that nudity, immigration or socialism are bad. But Conservatives (note the capital C) seem to have hijacked it and this has given religious people a bad name.
The Bible very rarely tells us to take it literally. Jesus used analogies, but didn't say that the rule of forgiveness should only ever apply when someone takes their share of your inheritance and runs off and squanders it all. Likewise, the story of creation's 'days' might not be days by a modern clock, but an analogy for time periods throughout which the Universe was created.
Another perfectly rational idea is that evolution, big bang etc might be how your average Joe would emulate a Universe if he had the facility. But as God is supernatural, he could do it in any way he wanted.
Again I will raise the fact that Galileo was a Catholic, but also a genius scientist. See? We can all play together nicely.
Even though I am a UK BBC license fee payer, I won't be able to use this service I have paid for, because I don't use Windows and in and case I'm mot prepared to accept DRM.
Not necessarily - it could probably be easily ported to OSX or Linux using a mini-virtual machine engine. If you scrapped the current DRM engine and replaced it with a new one which would work on an open-source microkernel, and then open-source the VM, you can have as close to DRM-free as the BBC will be prepared to go at the moment.
The problem is simply that people are greedy and want to wheedle as much money out of people as possible.
*fantasises* Maybe if the BBC heeded Terry Wogan's advice, and didn't pay extortionate amounts to celebrities, there would be higher pay for BBC staff, more money to spend on digital switchover, and enough to stop using DRM.
I know people who really will benefit from GMail Paper. For example, Farmer Files has always been uncomfortable with normal Email and prefers paper mail. This will really help him.
From memory, he farms spaghetti on a farm in Switzerland that was featured on Panorama in the 1950s...:-)
in theory something that could revolutionise WebOSes. Instead of using a fixed OS system, users could install whatever OS they want, customise it to their heart's content, and be able to access it anywhere.
In the UK, it's ten, but the sentences are greatly reduced except for the most serious of crimes (eg murder etc). You probably wouldn't get prosecuted for copyright infringement if you were under 16. Your parents might if you're a persistent offender, but the child rarely is.
Windows's ZIP utility is user-friendly but also painfully slow. And the rest of the Explorer windows locking up while the zip utility freezes seems like a massive pain in the gluteus maximus to me.
Exactly. There's no denying that MS writes good software. However, it all started to go downhill when Bill Gates suggested that people sold software instead of swapping it. Capitalism has ruined the software industry, and it's all Mr Gate$$$'s fault. That's the difference between Microsoft, the software company, and Micro$oft, the monopolising rival-bashing not-at-all-transparent and penny-pinching multi-national corporation.
Could 1984 be about to happen again? Let the revolt against M$ begin...
Precisely. The service is primarily geared towards computing beginners who would know about nothing but IE. Mainly because M$ is being monopolising and people will never have heard of Macs or Linux.
There was that campaign to get an ad for OpenOffice in the papers, why can't someone do something similar for Linux?
Could you house a poor, rejected help agent?
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Every year, dozens of help agents are abandoned heartlessly by their owners. Meet Clippy. He loved his company, and he thought his company loved him. But he was cruelly excluded. He's still waiting for a home. If you could house a help agent like Clippy, call the Society for Lost User assisTantS (S.L.U.T.S.) on 0800 BULL#*@?
Yes, that'd be an utter nightmare. Imagine the amount of SPAM you'd get!! BUY WIZZO WASHING MACHINES !!
And I can't imagine trying to get to any of the meta pages ON WHEELS!!!...
And the bias you'd get from Microsoft executives placing advertising on the thing, twisting messages into propaganda OOPS telling you more about the amazing benefits of Windows Vista that'll just make you go "wow".
I remember encountering this some time ago - if you were logged in as a "restricted user" who could not, of course, get at the product key, Windows would take the installation to be a fake.
Rubbish. Microsoft paying someone to 'correct' Wikipedia is obviously suspicious and anti-competitive. And a "technical evangelist" is a posh name for a "salesman".
But you forget that eMusic can only sell unrestricted music from those labels that consent to it (very few). If Apple tried to sell things without DRM, then many (the vast majority of record labels) would tell Steve Jobs to stick it up his... erm... posterior and stop allowing iTunes to sell their music.
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IMO this shows how the Bible and other religious texts are being misquoted. It never says ONCE in the Bible that nudity, immigration or socialism are bad. But Conservatives (note the capital C) seem to have hijacked it and this has given religious people a bad name.
The Bible very rarely tells us to take it literally. Jesus used analogies, but didn't say that the rule of forgiveness should only ever apply when someone takes their share of your inheritance and runs off and squanders it all. Likewise, the story of creation's 'days' might not be days by a modern clock, but an analogy for time periods throughout which the Universe was created.
Another perfectly rational idea is that evolution, big bang etc might be how your average Joe would emulate a Universe if he had the facility. But as God is supernatural, he could do it in any way he wanted.
Again I will raise the fact that Galileo was a Catholic, but also a genius scientist. See? We can all play together nicely.
Not necessarily - it could probably be easily ported to OSX or Linux using a mini-virtual machine engine. If you scrapped the current DRM engine and replaced it with a new one which would work on an open-source microkernel, and then open-source the VM, you can have as close to DRM-free as the BBC will be prepared to go at the moment.
The problem is simply that people are greedy and want to wheedle as much money out of people as possible.
*fantasises* Maybe if the BBC heeded Terry Wogan's advice, and didn't pay extortionate amounts to celebrities, there would be higher pay for BBC staff, more money to spend on digital switchover, and enough to stop using DRM.
Maths is easy. You add up, subtract, multiply and divide. Could it get any simpler?
someone on the screen sneezes? You'd have to change your shirt.
There still hasn't been a pi reference in the Slashrating box yet!
Hold on... I just need to go and feed my pig, and perhaps trim the feathers on his wings.
I know people who really will benefit from GMail Paper. For example, Farmer Files has always been uncomfortable with normal Email and prefers paper mail. This will really help him.
:-)
From memory, he farms spaghetti on a farm in Switzerland that was featured on Panorama in the 1950s...
in theory something that could revolutionise WebOSes. Instead of using a fixed OS system, users could install whatever OS they want, customise it to their heart's content, and be able to access it anywhere.
In the UK, it's ten, but the sentences are greatly reduced except for the most serious of crimes (eg murder etc). You probably wouldn't get prosecuted for copyright infringement if you were under 16. Your parents might if you're a persistent offender, but the child rarely is.
...that's not the Michael Howard who Paxman asked 12 times whether he threatened to overrule Derek Lewis... Thank goodness it's not the same person.
What makes Macs special, and has always made them special, is the software - way ahead of its time and miles better than Windows.
It'd probably appear under the headline "Evil Ballamer giggles as children die clinging on to their Macs".
technically it's a Blu-ray disk, not a DVD.
...Alabalma have redefined the value of pi to 3, and French scientists have succeeded in getting to the centre of the earth with a lawnmower!
Yep, and America used to be a colony of Britain. But these days it's the other way round... have you been reading too many conspiracy theories?
The ICESAT website is terrible! Someone needs to call in a web designer on that...
Windows's ZIP utility is user-friendly but also painfully slow. And the rest of the Explorer windows locking up while the zip utility freezes seems like a massive pain in the gluteus maximus to me.
Exactly. There's no denying that MS writes good software. However, it all started to go downhill when Bill Gates suggested that people sold software instead of swapping it. Capitalism has ruined the software industry, and it's all Mr Gate$$$'s fault. That's the difference between Microsoft, the software company, and Micro$oft, the monopolising rival-bashing not-at-all-transparent and penny-pinching multi-national corporation.
Could 1984 be about to happen again? Let the revolt against M$ begin...
Precisely. The service is primarily geared towards computing beginners who would know about nothing but IE. Mainly because M$ is being monopolising and people will never have heard of Macs or Linux.
There was that campaign to get an ad for OpenOffice in the papers, why can't someone do something similar for Linux?
Every year, dozens of help agents are abandoned heartlessly by their owners. Meet Clippy. He loved his company, and he thought his company loved him. But he was cruelly excluded. He's still waiting for a home. If you could house a help agent like Clippy, call the Society for Lost User assisTantS (S.L.U.T.S.) on 0800 BULL#*@?
Yes, that'd be an utter nightmare. Imagine the amount of SPAM you'd get!! BUY WIZZO WASHING MACHINES !! And I can't imagine trying to get to any of the meta pages ON WHEELS!!!... And the bias you'd get from Microsoft executives placing advertising on the thing, twisting messages into propaganda OOPS telling you more about the amazing benefits of Windows Vista that'll just make you go "wow".
It wasn't Andrei Litvinenko who was killed, it was Alexander Litvinenko. So someone along the line of reporting it to /. has c**ked up.
I remember encountering this some time ago - if you were logged in as a "restricted user" who could not, of course, get at the product key, Windows would take the installation to be a fake.
Rubbish. Microsoft paying someone to 'correct' Wikipedia is obviously suspicious and anti-competitive. And a "technical evangelist" is a posh name for a "salesman".
But you forget that eMusic can only sell unrestricted music from those labels that consent to it (very few). If Apple tried to sell things without DRM, then many (the vast majority of record labels) would tell Steve Jobs to stick it up his... erm... posterior and stop allowing iTunes to sell their music.