Well the old X copy and paste shouldn't really be considered as the official copy and paste, just as something that's useful from time to time. Like say someone posts a url without linkifying it. I just select it, hit ctrl-t to open a new tab and middle click the URL bar and press enter. Or if there is a variable name I want to copy to a bunch of different places, I can just select it and middle click all the places I want the name to go.
If you don't like the quirkiness of the X style copy and paste, just don't use it. You can just use ctrl-c and ctrl-v and you'll always get the expected behaviour. You can consider the X style copy and paste either as deprecated behaviour or as a shortcut.
I think its just frustration you're seeing. Every argument I've had with global warming deniers boils down to "I want to drive my gas guzzler whenever I feel like it so I'll rationalise things out so that I can continue doing so." Now usually I have a live and let live philosophy but global warming is going to fuck up my life. So my future wellbeing depends on my ability to convince people to make some changes. And when you get people who refuse to listen to reason because it might affect their lifestyle in the short term... well it gets annoying.
Its like you're living in a small village with one shared well and you have a village idiot that uses the well as his toilet. You try to explain how if he continues to shit in the well its going to be bad for everyone in the village including him. But he willfully denies that shitting in the well will have any negative effects. You show him some sick people and he just claims that their sickness might have had nothing to do with him shitting in the well. So no matter what you tell him the village idiot continues to use the well as a toilet simply because it's more convenient for him and he likes the sound of his shit splashing in the water.
Of course it wouldn't take the villagers very long to run that idiot out of town. The problem with global warming is that we can't just run the idiots out of town. If the idiots aren't going to voluntarily cut back on energy use we're going to have to pass laws forcing them to. I hate having more laws telling me how to live. I'd much rather be a good citizen out of choice and not be forced to be one. But because of idiots that aren't willing to just do the right thing I'm gonna have to choose between global warming or supporting some restrictive laws. All because some people don't want to be careful about where they shit.
Actually a major point many people miss about the oil exporting countries is that most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of very few people. These people are the Saudi royal family, some sheiks, sultans, etc. And what do these people spend their money on? Luxuries like expensive cars, palaces all over the world and whatever is left over gets invested. And what do they invest in? Western corporations.
So really our dependence on oil isn't really transferring much overseas. It's just concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer people. Renewable energy sources would disperse wealth to many people across the country since you'd have to farm stuff for biodiesel and the construction of windmills would require a lot of labour. This means you're going to have to pay working class people instead of sending money off to rich sheiks who will invest it in our companies and build expensive resorts for our elite to stay at. You don't want to give people jobs at the expense of the wealthy elite do you? What are you a communist?
I agree that windows update shouldn't send an info they don't need but given your steps they could simply check the list of software they offered you and compare it with the software you actually downloaded, and that would tell them all the software you don't want.
Yeah... and this makes me wonder why MS doesn't sign their updates too so it doesn't matter where its downloaded from. Oh, right they like to do things half-assed.
Yup and you can also set it so that it only gets software or updates from the CD. So you can keep your system up to date without any kind of network at all.
Yeah, we should abandon the phrase "jump the shark" and replace it with "atmospheric viper launch". It's simply amazing to witness a series go from such a spectacular highpoint to pure shit in so short of a time.
My point is that no one is forcing anything on anyone. This is no different from any other feature samsung offers on their screens. I have a smasung screen in front of me now and it has image lock (I don't even know what that does), color adjustment, halftone menu, and the ability to change the menu to other languages and some other stuff that I don't need. So is Samsung forcing these things onto me? No. Samsung just determined that there was a portion of their market that wanted these things and so they added them. With economies of scale its easier to mass produce stuff with some features that people don't need than to custom build monitors with different features for everyone.
So you end up with a monitor with HDCP, even though you don't need that feature. No one is forcing it on you anymore than they are forcing spanish menus onto you. If you don't need the feature then don't use it. The movie studios can't force anything on anyone either. People have the choice of buying their products or not buying their products. The movie studios can choose to sell a product you want or choose to try to sell a product you don't want (DRM'd content). But they can't force you to buy a product you don't want. Maybe it sucks that they are capable of producing a product you want (DRM free content), but choosing not to produce that product does in no way force you to buy the product they want to sell you.
HDMI and HDCP are features. They allow you to view DRM'd HD content at full resolution. Sceens that lack HDCP can't do this.
The movie industry right now isn't willing to sell HD content without DRM. You can choose to buy or not buy this DRM'd content. I choose to not buy it myself because it seems like the HD isn't worth the hassle of DRM. But other people may value HD content more than I do. and given the choice between no HD content and DRM'd HD content, they choose to put up with the DRM. And if they want to watch HD content on their computer they're going to have to buy hardware that supports DRM.
I know the popular opinion here is "OMG clueless noobs are getting suckered by DRM! MS is taking away people's rights without them knowing it!" but really the situation isn't like that at all. Whenever you buy a product you make an assessment of value of the product vs. its price. Part of the price of HD content from the major movie studios is the hassle of dealing with DRM. For me, DRM pushes the price of HD too high. But then HD content isn't really all that important to me, DVDs are good enough. But other people value HD more than I do.
Fair use is a defence you can use if someone accuses you of copyright infringement. Fair use is a feature that is available on some products but not on others. Fair use is *not* a constitutional right. If the movie studios don't want to offer fair use as a feature than thats their decision. If someone wants HD content and thinks its worth the hassle of having to buy all the DRM hardware neccessary for it then that's their decision. If you don't want DRM'd HD content then don't buy it.
Ok I'm sure to get modded troll for this, but its all true. DRM doesn't take away anyone's rights. It may be a pain in the ass, and a bad decision by the movie companies since it lowers the value of their products, but it has nothing to do with rights.
As you say you're never going to get a completely secure system given the possiblity of unsavvy user. But you can make it much more unlikely given that the user is unsavvy. Make it dead simple to install approved apps and make it somewhat complicated to install apps that aren't on the unapproved list. So if the package isn't in the repository and it isn't signed by an approved organisation then require the user to go to the command line to install it. An experienced user won't have a problem doing this, and in fact might prefer the command line. But a novice user would just click the icon and get an error about "Cool_new_gaim_smileys.deb" being unapporved. Yes the website he downloaded it from could include instructions about how to go into the command line and running "dpkg -i" to install it. But hopefully the user will just think its too much work and not bother, not be able to find where they downloaded the file, or maybe become suspicious of the file and ask someone else why they type all these commands when "usually I click the icon and it just works!"
Of course the downside of this scheme is that smaller companies and organisations might get screwed. But since I see no shortage of smaller projects in the debian repositories, it's obviously not a problem to vet a lot of little programmes for security issues. It would be more difficult for MS to do it given there's a lot more people targetting MS than debian. But MS has a lot more resources than debian.
I have a little icon (Gmail notify) that sits in the system tray that is red when I have no unread messages and blue when there are unread messages. When a message comes in it pops up on the screen the subject who its from and the first few words of the email. I set up filters so that non-urgent stuff gets labelled and archived without bugging me.
Is constantly checking my email a problem when checking email is just glancing an inch to the right of the clock at the top of my screen? Usually when I actually go to my inbox I already know whats there because I saw the popup when it came in.
And if you don't like GMail there's similar solutions available. Its really not hard to get the best of both worlds, keeping on top of your emails without having to spend a lot of time constantly checking it.
I think he meant that with LOTR there is that there are maps for middle earth right therr in the book. The developers have choose between ignoring these maps or using them. If they ignore the original maps and make their own LOTR fans will bitch that the shire is too close to mordor. If they use the maps then it can make it difficult to design quests that are fun if there are vast stretches of land between one town and the next.
Warcraft doesn't have to worry about that since the world was only vaguely defined in the strategy games and even then no one is a fanatic enough to worry about towns being moved closer together or whatever. The developers are free to design the game to be fun without worrying about it being realistic or true to some piece of literature.
maybe rush the tanks with zerglings? They may take out the first wave with the tanks but after that the lings will chew up the tanks. Once that's done they are left with just rines. You could also use lurks to slow them down. It won't stop them since they can get you with comsat + tanks but if you can delay long enough to get air you're gold baby.
A trade war would also effect the US negatively. Given that Ford and GM's operations stradle the border and given their current financial status, a trade war between the US and Canada would guarantee their bankruptcy. Now which American politician would want to be resposible for doing that over a few movies? Bush is stupid enough but its the Dems that are running congress and are on hollywoods payroll. And they definitely don't want to screw things up just after they've finally gotten a little power back.
There is a reason that its this IIAA group thats bitching over this and not politicians. The politicians aren't willing to get involved in this so their threats don't have any teeth.
I suppose its tfor situations where someone downloads boobies.jpg.exe and opens it thinking its an image. The popup will tell the user the file is an application and the user will realise there's something wrong and click "no".
Of course most users will think that windows is asking permission to open up the image view app and click yes. Those that are smart enough to notce a problem would probably be smart enough not to double-click on boobies.jpg.exe.
You don't have to drop into a commandline to use sudo in linux. Just go to add/remove programs, update manager (an icon pops up when there are updates available), or change the system time, a little gksu popup window will ask for your admin (root) password. These are things non-expert users will do.
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I'm using (-1)life. iLife is root on my system.
Well the old X copy and paste shouldn't really be considered as the official copy and paste, just as something that's useful from time to time. Like say someone posts a url without linkifying it. I just select it, hit ctrl-t to open a new tab and middle click the URL bar and press enter. Or if there is a variable name I want to copy to a bunch of different places, I can just select it and middle click all the places I want the name to go.
If you don't like the quirkiness of the X style copy and paste, just don't use it. You can just use ctrl-c and ctrl-v and you'll always get the expected behaviour. You can consider the X style copy and paste either as deprecated behaviour or as a shortcut.
It is a scientific fact that we've incresed CO2 levels more than 50%. That's a significant change in the atmosphere don't you think?
I think its just frustration you're seeing. Every argument I've had with global warming deniers boils down to "I want to drive my gas guzzler whenever I feel like it so I'll rationalise things out so that I can continue doing so." Now usually I have a live and let live philosophy but global warming is going to fuck up my life. So my future wellbeing depends on my ability to convince people to make some changes. And when you get people who refuse to listen to reason because it might affect their lifestyle in the short term... well it gets annoying.
Its like you're living in a small village with one shared well and you have a village idiot that uses the well as his toilet. You try to explain how if he continues to shit in the well its going to be bad for everyone in the village including him. But he willfully denies that shitting in the well will have any negative effects. You show him some sick people and he just claims that their sickness might have had nothing to do with him shitting in the well. So no matter what you tell him the village idiot continues to use the well as a toilet simply because it's more convenient for him and he likes the sound of his shit splashing in the water.
Of course it wouldn't take the villagers very long to run that idiot out of town. The problem with global warming is that we can't just run the idiots out of town. If the idiots aren't going to voluntarily cut back on energy use we're going to have to pass laws forcing them to. I hate having more laws telling me how to live. I'd much rather be a good citizen out of choice and not be forced to be one. But because of idiots that aren't willing to just do the right thing I'm gonna have to choose between global warming or supporting some restrictive laws. All because some people don't want to be careful about where they shit.
Gas costs twice as much now as it did 10 years ago. The economic apocalypse that you've described should have already occurred.
Actually a major point many people miss about the oil exporting countries is that most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of very few people. These people are the Saudi royal family, some sheiks, sultans, etc. And what do these people spend their money on? Luxuries like expensive cars, palaces all over the world and whatever is left over gets invested. And what do they invest in? Western corporations.
So really our dependence on oil isn't really transferring much overseas. It's just concentrating wealth into the hands of fewer people. Renewable energy sources would disperse wealth to many people across the country since you'd have to farm stuff for biodiesel and the construction of windmills would require a lot of labour. This means you're going to have to pay working class people instead of sending money off to rich sheiks who will invest it in our companies and build expensive resorts for our elite to stay at. You don't want to give people jobs at the expense of the wealthy elite do you? What are you a communist?
Wow data worth $1.63 billion stored on a single hard drive with no backups? and on a laptop? No wonder NASA hasn't left LEO since the 70s.
Yeah Linux will take over all those desktops in Haiti, Algeria and the Congo. This is a market that MS can't afford to lose.
I agree that windows update shouldn't send an info they don't need but given your steps they could simply check the list of software they offered you and compare it with the software you actually downloaded, and that would tell them all the software you don't want.
Yeah... and this makes me wonder why MS doesn't sign their updates too so it doesn't matter where its downloaded from. Oh, right they like to do things half-assed.
Yup and you can also set it so that it only gets software or updates from the CD. So you can keep your system up to date without any kind of network at all.
Yeah, we should abandon the phrase "jump the shark" and replace it with "atmospheric viper launch". It's simply amazing to witness a series go from such a spectacular highpoint to pure shit in so short of a time.
My point is that no one is forcing anything on anyone. This is no different from any other feature samsung offers on their screens. I have a smasung screen in front of me now and it has image lock (I don't even know what that does), color adjustment, halftone menu, and the ability to change the menu to other languages and some other stuff that I don't need. So is Samsung forcing these things onto me? No. Samsung just determined that there was a portion of their market that wanted these things and so they added them. With economies of scale its easier to mass produce stuff with some features that people don't need than to custom build monitors with different features for everyone.
So you end up with a monitor with HDCP, even though you don't need that feature. No one is forcing it on you anymore than they are forcing spanish menus onto you. If you don't need the feature then don't use it. The movie studios can't force anything on anyone either. People have the choice of buying their products or not buying their products. The movie studios can choose to sell a product you want or choose to try to sell a product you don't want (DRM'd content). But they can't force you to buy a product you don't want. Maybe it sucks that they are capable of producing a product you want (DRM free content), but choosing not to produce that product does in no way force you to buy the product they want to sell you.
HDMI and HDCP are features. They allow you to view DRM'd HD content at full resolution. Sceens that lack HDCP can't do this.
The movie industry right now isn't willing to sell HD content without DRM. You can choose to buy or not buy this DRM'd content. I choose to not buy it myself because it seems like the HD isn't worth the hassle of DRM. But other people may value HD content more than I do. and given the choice between no HD content and DRM'd HD content, they choose to put up with the DRM. And if they want to watch HD content on their computer they're going to have to buy hardware that supports DRM.
I know the popular opinion here is "OMG clueless noobs are getting suckered by DRM! MS is taking away people's rights without them knowing it!" but really the situation isn't like that at all. Whenever you buy a product you make an assessment of value of the product vs. its price. Part of the price of HD content from the major movie studios is the hassle of dealing with DRM. For me, DRM pushes the price of HD too high. But then HD content isn't really all that important to me, DVDs are good enough. But other people value HD more than I do.
Fair use is a defence you can use if someone accuses you of copyright infringement. Fair use is a feature that is available on some products but not on others. Fair use is *not* a constitutional right. If the movie studios don't want to offer fair use as a feature than thats their decision. If someone wants HD content and thinks its worth the hassle of having to buy all the DRM hardware neccessary for it then that's their decision. If you don't want DRM'd HD content then don't buy it.
Ok I'm sure to get modded troll for this, but its all true. DRM doesn't take away anyone's rights. It may be a pain in the ass, and a bad decision by the movie companies since it lowers the value of their products, but it has nothing to do with rights.
As you say you're never going to get a completely secure system given the possiblity of unsavvy user. But you can make it much more unlikely given that the user is unsavvy. Make it dead simple to install approved apps and make it somewhat complicated to install apps that aren't on the unapproved list. So if the package isn't in the repository and it isn't signed by an approved organisation then require the user to go to the command line to install it. An experienced user won't have a problem doing this, and in fact might prefer the command line. But a novice user would just click the icon and get an error about "Cool_new_gaim_smileys.deb" being unapporved. Yes the website he downloaded it from could include instructions about how to go into the command line and running "dpkg -i" to install it. But hopefully the user will just think its too much work and not bother, not be able to find where they downloaded the file, or maybe become suspicious of the file and ask someone else why they type all these commands when "usually I click the icon and it just works!"
Of course the downside of this scheme is that smaller companies and organisations might get screwed. But since I see no shortage of smaller projects in the debian repositories, it's obviously not a problem to vet a lot of little programmes for security issues. It would be more difficult for MS to do it given there's a lot more people targetting MS than debian. But MS has a lot more resources than debian.
I have a little icon (Gmail notify) that sits in the system tray that is red when I have no unread messages and blue when there are unread messages. When a message comes in it pops up on the screen the subject who its from and the first few words of the email. I set up filters so that non-urgent stuff gets labelled and archived without bugging me.
Is constantly checking my email a problem when checking email is just glancing an inch to the right of the clock at the top of my screen? Usually when I actually go to my inbox I already know whats there because I saw the popup when it came in.
And if you don't like GMail there's similar solutions available. Its really not hard to get the best of both worlds, keeping on top of your emails without having to spend a lot of time constantly checking it.
uh this is a FPS isn't it? Who the hell wants to play a FPS with a controller when you have a mouse sitting right there in front of you?
haha everytime someone says this.
Person A: US boradband sucks because the US is a big country.
Person B: Canada is bigger and boradband doesn't suck there.
Person A: Oh...
in soviet russia the country settles you.
The scary thing is, its not actually an election year. It seems like it though doesn't it?
I think he meant that with LOTR there is that there are maps for middle earth right therr in the book. The developers have choose between ignoring these maps or using them. If they ignore the original maps and make their own LOTR fans will bitch that the shire is too close to mordor. If they use the maps then it can make it difficult to design quests that are fun if there are vast stretches of land between one town and the next.
Warcraft doesn't have to worry about that since the world was only vaguely defined in the strategy games and even then no one is a fanatic enough to worry about towns being moved closer together or whatever. The developers are free to design the game to be fun without worrying about it being realistic or true to some piece of literature.
maybe rush the tanks with zerglings? They may take out the first wave with the tanks but after that the lings will chew up the tanks. Once that's done they are left with just rines. You could also use lurks to slow them down. It won't stop them since they can get you with comsat + tanks but if you can delay long enough to get air you're gold baby.
A trade war would also effect the US negatively. Given that Ford and GM's operations stradle the border and given their current financial status, a trade war between the US and Canada would guarantee their bankruptcy. Now which American politician would want to be resposible for doing that over a few movies? Bush is stupid enough but its the Dems that are running congress and are on hollywoods payroll. And they definitely don't want to screw things up just after they've finally gotten a little power back.
There is a reason that its this IIAA group thats bitching over this and not politicians. The politicians aren't willing to get involved in this so their threats don't have any teeth.
I suppose its tfor situations where someone downloads boobies.jpg.exe and opens it thinking its an image. The popup will tell the user the file is an application and the user will realise there's something wrong and click "no".
Of course most users will think that windows is asking permission to open up the image view app and click yes. Those that are smart enough to notce a problem would probably be smart enough not to double-click on boobies.jpg.exe.
You don't have to drop into a commandline to use sudo in linux. Just go to add/remove programs, update manager (an icon pops up when there are updates available), or change the system time, a little gksu popup window will ask for your admin (root) password. These are things non-expert users will do.