I must say I'm impressed with trying to play the victim here. They're not forcing anything on you. There are plenty of websites out there that serve ads, but have never forced anything on me, because I chose not to visit them. Visiting a website is your choice, and unless there are ads on a website that you're for some reason required to visit then you're not the victim.
If Slashdot didn't have ads, I'd probably have to subscribe to be able to see it at all. Now, if I'd have to pay a subscription fee to every website that I use regularly, I wouldn't be able to use the internet as a information source the way I do now.
First off, I agree that the word 'occupation' doesn't describe the situation at all. I haven't read the whole list, but I haven't seen any there that are actually occupied by the U.S.
But, I can't see why you would think "the world would probably be a significantly safer place if the U.S. did have significant controll over several of the countries on that list"? Safer for who? I doubt anybody in Europe feels safer because the U.S. wants to build a missile shield in Europe, which in it self is supposedly very ineffective, but has also made Russia react.
While this is wildly off topic i feel i just feel the urge to answer. I'm not questioning the legitimacy of Adobes possible lawsuit, but I'm saying that while Adobe is considering suing MS for having PDF support in Office 2007, they have a reason for not wanting to use Adobes PDF format and rather use their own, so basicly you misunderstood the post completely. Well done. As a respons to your post however, I fail to see how MS allowing support for their own format in their software package is a violation of the law. By following your logic and interpritation of the law, basicly anybody could make a calculator for Windows, try to sell it and then file a lawsuit against MS for incorporating a calculator in Windows by default as a part of the price for the OS and thereby pushing their own software. While I'm no expert in US law, i seriously doubt that would be a legitimate claim.
True, in Norway Apple allready violates the warranty law which holds the manufacturer responsible for 2 years after purchase, while Apple only gives you 1 year, after that it's up to the consumer to prove that this was a manufacturing error, not a problem caused by the consumer. Ofcourse it's impossible for any consumer to provide this information without doing something to the iPod that would make the warranty void anyways. This leaves the store that sells Apple products to provide a replacement or fix the problem, so basicly none (or extremely few) Norwegian stores can sell iPods and make money from it if they provide the warranty that is requiered by law. Since they don't seem to be doing anything about the warranty issue, i don't see why they would do anything about this even if it violates the law.
After Adobe threatened MS with a lawsuit for wanting to allow PDF writing for free in Office 2007 i can see why they'd rather use their own format. Essentially, they weren't pushing their own format, they were going to provide PDF support as well as the XPS format, but Adobe it seems will be suing because they're not charging for the ability to convert to PDF format.
Hopefully the OS would have some controll over this enitiy apart from the HD itself, so you could disable the use of it if nessecary.. This would help avoid the shorter lifetime of such a harddrive, so if the flash-dive fails it would go back to be a "normal" harddrive. If it was controlled by the OS it could be a possibilty to say, tell it to only increase boot performance, which would increase the lifetime of the flash-drive by alot.
The point is that you should be able to access this information.. If you do not want to read what the "little guy" has to say, you're simply not interested, that's your buissness and you shouldn't be forced to. As long as the information is out there and easily accessed you have a choice to read it, but if the hardware you buy will stop you from accessing this information even if you want to it becomes a freedom of speech problem.
after seeing the picture on the front page.. Given that i probably will be dead within the next 100 years i doubt i'll have time to finish it anyways, it's just to many dimensions..
Well, the retail stores want to stay in the DVD buisness, and obviously, if they present a much worse product than the alternative of downloading it legally from the internet, they wont for long. So basicly it will be up to them to make a deal with Hollywood and present you with a better option if they really want to sell these DVDs.
The cost could essentially become lower, if they actually want to lower the price, because you eliminate the need of transporting the fully packed DVDs, you remove them from the shelves which gives them extra space for other products and they wont make more DVDs than they actually sell. However, standing around for the kiosk to download and burn the DVD would probably strain most peoples patience..
Note that it says illegal to sell or rent this to kids. You could perfectly well give it to your kids without it being illegal if it stays that way, so if you want your children to play these games, the only obstacle you would have to overcome is that of purchasing the game yourself.
If this law was passed and really enforced so it would be harder for children to access these games, my guess is it would only increase the amount of illegaly downloaded versions of these games.
That it's taken from birth to perform tests is a whole other issue than actually storing the information to keep it avalible for whatever government abuse they'll preffer.
If you actually try to sit right and relax you won't go back to the hunched possition (apart from when you've been awake for 30+ hours and your muscles simply wont support sitting upright anymore).. It's such a relief for the whole body to feel the muscles in the neck and shoulders relax properly.
Teaming up with AOL probably wouldn't be a bad idea if Microsoft was only trying to reach the american market... I doubt Microsoft will join any of them though, just try to get people to use MSN instead..
> Everyday I see in the news how many romanians were arrested for mugging and scams.
Because when they do anything criminal it's emphatized that they're from Romania, while if they're not foreign there's nothing said about it so you won't think so much about it.
On-topic:
Blaiming Sony for making piracy illegal is one thing, but they have the ability to do this because of the consumers. As a member of society, you can't choose what laws to follow and not as it pleases you, because you think some laws are unfair. With this logic to back up piracy you can't prosecute anybody because they can claim the law they have violated is unfair.
Some argue that arresting people for piracy is not a good way to use the limited resources the police have, because there are still people out there with guns killing people. While i agree with the argument that there are more important things to focus on, it doesn't mean that they can stop prosecuting peolpe for violating laws that doesn't physicly harm other people. This way you shouldn't prosecute people for theft before every heavy criminal is "off the streets".
Comparing piracy to setting free slaves isn't fair. Where slavery endangered lives and health, piracy does not and cannot be justified in the same way.
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Sounds like Opera. Trying to do everything, but falling short in most areas, at least compared to stand alone email and IRC applications.
GVIM is not an IDE however. It's an editor, and one that can be integrated in various IDEs.
Or you could integrate the IDE functionality into vim instead. Ars had a nice writeup on how to fairly effortlessly get IDE functionality in vim ( http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-easy-how-to-get-your-favorite-ide-features-in-vim.ars )
I must say I'm impressed with trying to play the victim here. They're not forcing anything on you. There are plenty of websites out there that serve ads, but have never forced anything on me, because I chose not to visit them. Visiting a website is your choice, and unless there are ads on a website that you're for some reason required to visit then you're not the victim.
If Slashdot didn't have ads, I'd probably have to subscribe to be able to see it at all. Now, if I'd have to pay a subscription fee to every website that I use regularly, I wouldn't be able to use the internet as a information source the way I do now.
Now, that should be marked as Flamebait :)
First off, I agree that the word 'occupation' doesn't describe the situation at all. I haven't read the whole list, but I haven't seen any there that are actually occupied by the U.S.
But, I can't see why you would think "the world would probably be a significantly safer place if the U.S. did have significant controll over several of the countries on that list"? Safer for who? I doubt anybody in Europe feels safer because the U.S. wants to build a missile shield in Europe, which in it self is supposedly very ineffective, but has also made Russia react.
While this is wildly off topic i feel i just feel the urge to answer.
I'm not questioning the legitimacy of Adobes possible lawsuit, but I'm saying that while Adobe is considering suing MS for having PDF support in Office 2007, they have a reason for not wanting to use Adobes PDF format and rather use their own, so basicly you misunderstood the post completely. Well done.
As a respons to your post however, I fail to see how MS allowing support for their own format in their software package is a violation of the law. By following your logic and interpritation of the law, basicly anybody could make a calculator for Windows, try to sell it and then file a lawsuit against MS for incorporating a calculator in Windows by default as a part of the price for the OS and thereby pushing their own software. While I'm no expert in US law, i seriously doubt that would be a legitimate claim.
I think this might be what you're reffering to.
True, in Norway Apple allready violates the warranty law which holds the manufacturer responsible for 2 years after purchase, while Apple only gives you 1 year, after that it's up to the consumer to prove that this was a manufacturing error, not a problem caused by the consumer. Ofcourse it's impossible for any consumer to provide this information without doing something to the iPod that would make the warranty void anyways. This leaves the store that sells Apple products to provide a replacement or fix the problem, so basicly none (or extremely few) Norwegian stores can sell iPods and make money from it if they provide the warranty that is requiered by law. Since they don't seem to be doing anything about the warranty issue, i don't see why they would do anything about this even if it violates the law.
After Adobe threatened MS with a lawsuit for wanting to allow PDF writing for free in Office 2007 i can see why they'd rather use their own format. Essentially, they weren't pushing their own format, they were going to provide PDF support as well as the XPS format, but Adobe it seems will be suing because they're not charging for the ability to convert to PDF format.
Hopefully the OS would have some controll over this enitiy apart from the HD itself, so you could disable the use of it if nessecary.. This would help avoid the shorter lifetime of such a harddrive, so if the flash-dive fails it would go back to be a "normal" harddrive. If it was controlled by the OS it could be a possibilty to say, tell it to only increase boot performance, which would increase the lifetime of the flash-drive by alot.
The point is that you should be able to access this information.. If you do not want to read what the "little guy" has to say, you're simply not interested, that's your buissness and you shouldn't be forced to. As long as the information is out there and easily accessed you have a choice to read it, but if the hardware you buy will stop you from accessing this information even if you want to it becomes a freedom of speech problem.
after seeing the picture on the front page.. Given that i probably will be dead within the next 100 years i doubt i'll have time to finish it anyways, it's just to many dimensions..
Well, the retail stores want to stay in the DVD buisness, and obviously, if they present a much worse product than the alternative of downloading it legally from the internet, they wont for long. So basicly it will be up to them to make a deal with Hollywood and present you with a better option if they really want to sell these DVDs.
The cost could essentially become lower, if they actually want to lower the price, because you eliminate the need of transporting the fully packed DVDs, you remove them from the shelves which gives them extra space for other products and they wont make more DVDs than they actually sell. However, standing around for the kiosk to download and burn the DVD would probably strain most peoples patience..
Note that it says illegal to sell or rent this to kids. You could perfectly well give it to your kids without it being illegal if it stays that way, so if you want your children to play these games, the only obstacle you would have to overcome is that of purchasing the game yourself.
If this law was passed and really enforced so it would be harder for children to access these games, my guess is it would only increase the amount of illegaly downloaded versions of these games.
That it's taken from birth to perform tests is a whole other issue than actually storing the information to keep it avalible for whatever government abuse they'll preffer.
If you actually try to sit right and relax you won't go back to the hunched possition (apart from when you've been awake for 30+ hours and your muscles simply wont support sitting upright anymore).. It's such a relief for the whole body to feel the muscles in the neck and shoulders relax properly.
you can get a ask.com firefox toolbar! At least they're innovative..
Teaming up with AOL probably wouldn't be a bad idea if Microsoft was only trying to reach the american market... I doubt Microsoft will join any of them though, just try to get people to use MSN instead..
> Everyday I see in the news how many romanians were arrested for mugging and scams.
Because when they do anything criminal it's emphatized that they're from Romania, while if they're not foreign there's nothing said about it so you won't think so much about it.
On-topic:
Blaiming Sony for making piracy illegal is one thing, but they have the ability to do this because of the consumers. As a member of society, you can't choose what laws to follow and not as it pleases you, because you think some laws are unfair. With this logic to back up piracy you can't prosecute anybody because they can claim the law they have violated is unfair.
Some argue that arresting people for piracy is not a good way to use the limited resources the police have, because there are still people out there with guns killing people. While i agree with the argument that there are more important things to focus on, it doesn't mean that they can stop prosecuting peolpe for violating laws that doesn't physicly harm other people. This way you shouldn't prosecute people for theft before every heavy criminal is "off the streets".
Comparing piracy to setting free slaves isn't fair. Where slavery endangered lives and health, piracy does not and cannot be justified in the same way.