...Except for the fact that I consider it a right to use what you payed for so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. This "boot camp" takes away those rights (anyone else find it just a bit suspicious that its located on an army base?).
By that analogy we shouldn't be treating heroin addicts either.
There simply isn't a better mouse in the world. All the fancy X11/Compiz shortcuts you actually need can go on it, rechargable batteries, easy to move and most of all, incredibly ergonomic.
Plus that endless scroll feature is perfect for grokking long walls of code.
It always takes a while to educate the whole population with regards to technical stuff, after a while, it becomes public knowledge although;-)))
The tough part isn't making it public knowledge, the difficulty is in making it common knowledge.
To compare this to more sinister things: Notice of your house being demolished on Tuesday can be put up in a dark cellar with no stairs at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory of the planning office guarded by a Leopard. This is public knowledge.
Making a news cast on the fact a new road is being run through your neighbourhood and personally notifying everyone whose house will be demolished is much more difficult. This is common knowlege.
No they aren't, if they're the same length then they are usually thicker and if they just so happen to be of exactly the same size, they cost thrice as much as a normal bulb.
The displeasing spectrum IS, after all, what prevents most people from buying fluorescent lights. Also, the whole fact that they DON'T FIT in many ceiling lights because they are bloody too long and weird.
In all reality, how is this all that different from a student buying a textbook at the start of a semester and selling it back at the end? I also think that the endless cycle of "new" editions of the book can put a crimp in the plans for this service, since schools will require the latest edition of a book, which will be impossible for this company to find cheaply online, meaning that they'll need to price to rental to pay for the full cost of the book in just a few semesters (before the new one comes out).
Interesting idea, but I'm skeptical as to how well they can keep costs low enough to be a truly economical alternative to buying.</quote>
Schools do this by changing the curriculum, or by shuffling it around. So what is now being thought in the first semester, will be taught in the second semester in a few years, or even in a different school year depending on how the textbooks change. I've seen it happen a million times. Sure you could still technically use the old edition, but you won't be able to follow the curriculum, the examples will be different, the ordering will be confusing etc. Essentially they become useful for only practice at home.
At universities, however, it's different. There such things are much more difficult to do since classes usually have a semester of time to teach everything they want to teach, so even a ten year old textbook will be sufficient. Classes and curriculum in general is also much less tied to the textbook and much more to the actual content. In fact, most professors at the beginning of a semester will give you a list of books where the stuff is explained in more or less detail. You have a choice of studying from them or not, nobody cares because there is no Official Textbooks, there are just books on the subject.
Except it's far more likely they'll charge you $15 for the improved experience of an ad-infested book and earn another $15 through advertising. Why on earth would they decrease the price now that they're providing a new feature?
Clearly you need to impair yourself physically to allow your brain to develop. See, blindness develops your ears, deafnes develops your eyes, and physical disability develops your brain.
Why do you think all the best graders in primary school suck at sports and get picked on? This is why.
Every social scientist in the world, and, well, pretty much EVERYONE in the world has heard the phrase "The evolution of society" at one point or another. Hawking is... I don't know what he wanted to do. Humans as organisms aren't evolving (much), people are. So what exactly is new about his words?
When she goes out with her friends, she leaves the Blackberry at home and puts her SIM into a cheap LG phone. If the phone gets lost or damaged it isn't as big of a deal.
She does it so you don't see her calling history and can't track her via GPS to see what she's actually doing. Don't be naive man! Her tinfoil hat is even thicker than the average slashdotter's
Your story makes me glad I've made it absolutely clear to my girlfriend that I am NOT having children and will deny any she has are mine. Yep. Very glad.
But there is a cheaper option. I started wearing a hat and it gets me more attention than I could ever want.
Another good way of getting too much female attention is by getting a girlfriend. I don't know what it is exactly, but it's like they can smell you're taken and don't want them.
Keep the slaves comfortable, busy and distracted, and they won't put up a fight.
Oh you mean like we've done here in Europe since the times of ancient Rome when they invented the bread-and-games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses) doctrine? Well sometimes even that can only go so far, as shown by countless revolutions in the past. You can keep them fed and you can keep them entertained, but at some point, they will get bored of you and throw a revolution. Then said revolution counts as entertainment until the new (or old) government is well settled and finds some new sand to throw in the people's eyes.
The more compliant your web browser is, the less likely your web browser will break.
I love webstandards, and wish greatly that all browsers supported them well. But I just don't think that quote is factually true. If your browser adheres to webstandards that IE doesn't then it's quite possible/plausible that your browser will fail to deliver websites that look and function like you and the designer expected it to.
People "should" code to standards, but I just don't think that it's (yet) true that they DO.
However Opera is known to also be subject to many IE bugs at will. Ever since the latest browser wars began with firefox 1.3 and early webkit Opera was best out there since it both adhered to standards and didn't break badly made websites. I don't know how they manage doing this, but they do.
We were talking about unimportant useless things like jailbait inspirational posters and I merely mentioned that no sensible internet user would take those out of the internet.
Stop being a pain in the arse and trying to make a point when you didn't even understand the point you're trying to fight.
The latency comes from having to move out of my browser. Open something to browse the hard drive. Find something on the hard drive and so on.
Or I could just leave everything rather useless on the internet. Ctrl+T to a new tab and google it within less than a second. Furthermore, I also get other fun and useless stuff related to whatever useless stuff I was looking for. win-win
Yeah, the real message is that you just don't hand you collection of illegal images over to anyone if you don't want them found.
You're assuming that "illegal images" is a cut and dry term. Not anymore. Have some myspace photos of your young looking friend in just her underwear? A "jailbait" inspirational photo in your picture folder as a joke? Manga which might be considered obscene?
No matter how innocuous you may think your hard drive is, if you are a heavy internet user there's a chance there's something on there that someone might consider child porn.
Heavy internet users store their images on the internets. Why on earth would you store something that is more easily and quicker accessible online?
It's a flawed model then. They _sold_ me their music so I should be allowed to do anything I want with my copy. Otherwise they should man up and admit all they're doing is leasing copies out to people...
... but I wonder how many costumers they'll lose by admiting to that.
I'm all for copyright, but there are things that are draconian and there are things that are not.
How about considering that by sharing a song with my friend (btw you're not even allowed to share a headphone since you didn't pay for public broadcasting) I may have gotten the band another fan. Or exposed them to a larger audience, which in turn breeds hte selling of concert tickets and merchandise sales.
Now, if you put us both away in prison for a few years... guess how many concerts we're going to and how much merchandise we're buying that time?
How about my right to fucking run a game on a new computer when I purchase it? Or my right to fucking play a movie on a computer as well as on a Playstation? Or my fucking right to not be put in jail for 8 years like I'd murdered someone when I share a song with a friend? Or my fucking right to lend someone a music CD I'd bought? Or my fucking right to not have every action on the internet monitored like I was molesting little children for lunch?
Yes it's hard to stop copying, but it's not that difficult to seriously clamp down on P2P.
To me it's easy to spot P2P, the characteristics are:
1) Lots of connections to multiple other IPs
2) High upload AND download
So if you see that, you can just leave the first 4 "conversations" that are downloading alone, and the first 2 "conversations" that are uploading, and squish down the rest till the first bunch are done.
By conversation I mean IP to IP. Doesn't matter how many TCP/UDP connections between two IPs, it's still one "conversation".
1) What if I open 20 different websites in a few seconds because I happened upon a cool wikipedia article?
2)What if I'm chatting, uploading a video, opening websites and running a dev server? Many many connections.
3) How do you define "high" transfer? Firstly I can tell my torrent client to curb how fast it's going to just a few kilo per second. Secondly, I could be doing something funky, like, I dunno, running an ftp server to share photos and video between people in a design shop.
Personally I use VLC as my main movie watching player. 1080p HD videos work flawlessly on the linux desktop and I've jsut never ever had any problems with it in any way. It just works and it just works well.
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...Except for the fact that I consider it a right to use what you payed for so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. This "boot camp" takes away those rights (anyone else find it just a bit suspicious that its located on an army base?).
By that analogy we shouldn't be treating heroin addicts either.
There simply isn't a better mouse in the world. All the fancy X11/Compiz shortcuts you actually need can go on it, rechargable batteries, easy to move and most of all, incredibly ergonomic.
Plus that endless scroll feature is perfect for grokking long walls of code.
I love a bad economy, it forces people to be less stupid.
But apparently a large portion of your business was relying on the fact people are stupid. Now what?
It always takes a while to educate the whole population with regards to technical stuff, after a while, it becomes public knowledge although ;-)))
The tough part isn't making it public knowledge, the difficulty is in making it common knowledge.
To compare this to more sinister things: Notice of your house being demolished on Tuesday can be put up in a dark cellar with no stairs at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory of the planning office guarded by a Leopard. This is public knowledge.
Making a news cast on the fact a new road is being run through your neighbourhood and personally notifying everyone whose house will be demolished is much more difficult. This is common knowlege.
No they aren't, if they're the same length then they are usually thicker and if they just so happen to be of exactly the same size, they cost thrice as much as a normal bulb.
The displeasing spectrum IS, after all, what prevents most people from buying fluorescent lights. Also, the whole fact that they DON'T FIT in many ceiling lights because they are bloody too long and weird.
In all reality, how is this all that different from a student buying a textbook at the start of a semester and selling it back at the end? I also think that the endless cycle of "new" editions of the book can put a crimp in the plans for this service, since schools will require the latest edition of a book, which will be impossible for this company to find cheaply online, meaning that they'll need to price to rental to pay for the full cost of the book in just a few semesters (before the new one comes out).
Interesting idea, but I'm skeptical as to how well they can keep costs low enough to be a truly economical alternative to buying.</quote>
Schools do this by changing the curriculum, or by shuffling it around. So what is now being thought in the first semester, will be taught in the second semester in a few years, or even in a different school year depending on how the textbooks change. I've seen it happen a million times. Sure you could still technically use the old edition, but you won't be able to follow the curriculum, the examples will be different, the ordering will be confusing etc. Essentially they become useful for only practice at home.
At universities, however, it's different. There such things are much more difficult to do since classes usually have a semester of time to teach everything they want to teach, so even a ten year old textbook will be sufficient. Classes and curriculum in general is also much less tied to the textbook and much more to the actual content. In fact, most professors at the beginning of a semester will give you a list of books where the stuff is explained in more or less detail. You have a choice of studying from them or not, nobody cares because there is no Official Textbooks, there are just books on the subject.
Except it's far more likely they'll charge you $15 for the improved experience of an ad-infested book and earn another $15 through advertising. Why on earth would they decrease the price now that they're providing a new feature?
Clearly you need to impair yourself physically to allow your brain to develop. See, blindness develops your ears, deafnes develops your eyes, and physical disability develops your brain.
Why do you think all the best graders in primary school suck at sports and get picked on? This is why.
Every social scientist in the world, and, well, pretty much EVERYONE in the world has heard the phrase "The evolution of society" at one point or another. Hawking is ... I don't know what he wanted to do. Humans as organisms aren't evolving (much), people are. So what exactly is new about his words?
When she goes out with her friends, she leaves the Blackberry at home and puts her SIM into a cheap LG phone. If the phone gets lost or damaged it isn't as big of a deal.
She does it so you don't see her calling history and can't track her via GPS to see what she's actually doing. Don't be naive man! Her tinfoil hat is even thicker than the average slashdotter's
No, because after you can't pay them back, you've essentially signed a contract that allows them to kill you.
Your story makes me glad I've made it absolutely clear to my girlfriend that I am NOT having children and will deny any she has are mine. Yep. Very glad.
Lucky bastard.
But there is a cheaper option. I started wearing a hat and it gets me more attention than I could ever want.
Another good way of getting too much female attention is by getting a girlfriend. I don't know what it is exactly, but it's like they can smell you're taken and don't want them.
Keep the slaves comfortable, busy and distracted, and they won't put up a fight.
Oh you mean like we've done here in Europe since the times of ancient Rome when they invented the bread-and-games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses) doctrine? Well sometimes even that can only go so far, as shown by countless revolutions in the past. You can keep them fed and you can keep them entertained, but at some point, they will get bored of you and throw a revolution. Then said revolution counts as entertainment until the new (or old) government is well settled and finds some new sand to throw in the people's eyes.
The more compliant your web browser is, the less likely your web browser will break.
I love webstandards, and wish greatly that all browsers supported them well. But I just don't think that quote is factually true. If your browser adheres to webstandards that IE doesn't then it's quite possible/plausible that your browser will fail to deliver websites that look and function like you and the designer expected it to.
People "should" code to standards, but I just don't think that it's (yet) true that they DO.
However Opera is known to also be subject to many IE bugs at will. Ever since the latest browser wars began with firefox 1.3 and early webkit Opera was best out there since it both adhered to standards and didn't break badly made websites. I don't know how they manage doing this, but they do.
We were talking about unimportant useless things like jailbait inspirational posters and I merely mentioned that no sensible internet user would take those out of the internet.
Stop being a pain in the arse and trying to make a point when you didn't even understand the point you're trying to fight.
Downloading some jailbait funnies from the internets ... yeah it's not your data to begin with. So what's the point of storing it?
The latency comes from having to move out of my browser. Open something to browse the hard drive. Find something on the hard drive and so on.
Or I could just leave everything rather useless on the internet. Ctrl+T to a new tab and google it within less than a second. Furthermore, I also get other fun and useless stuff related to whatever useless stuff I was looking for. win-win
Yeah, the real message is that you just don't hand you collection of illegal images over to anyone if you don't want them found.
You're assuming that "illegal images" is a cut and dry term. Not anymore. Have some myspace photos of your young looking friend in just her underwear? A "jailbait" inspirational photo in your picture folder as a joke? Manga which might be considered obscene? No matter how innocuous you may think your hard drive is, if you are a heavy internet user there's a chance there's something on there that someone might consider child porn.
Heavy internet users store their images on the internets. Why on earth would you store something that is more easily and quicker accessible online?
It's a flawed model then. They _sold_ me their music so I should be allowed to do anything I want with my copy. Otherwise they should man up and admit all they're doing is leasing copies out to people ...
... but I wonder how many costumers they'll lose by admiting to that.
I'm all for copyright, but there are things that are draconian and there are things that are not.
... guess how many concerts we're going to and how much merchandise we're buying that time?
How about considering that by sharing a song with my friend (btw you're not even allowed to share a headphone since you didn't pay for public broadcasting) I may have gotten the band another fan. Or exposed them to a larger audience, which in turn breeds hte selling of concert tickets and merchandise sales.
Now, if you put us both away in prison for a few years
How about my right to fucking run a game on a new computer when I purchase it? Or my right to fucking play a movie on a computer as well as on a Playstation? Or my fucking right to not be put in jail for 8 years like I'd murdered someone when I share a song with a friend? Or my fucking right to lend someone a music CD I'd bought? Or my fucking right to not have every action on the internet monitored like I was molesting little children for lunch?
Yes it's hard to stop copying, but it's not that difficult to seriously clamp down on P2P. To me it's easy to spot P2P, the characteristics are: 1) Lots of connections to multiple other IPs 2) High upload AND download So if you see that, you can just leave the first 4 "conversations" that are downloading alone, and the first 2 "conversations" that are uploading, and squish down the rest till the first bunch are done. By conversation I mean IP to IP. Doesn't matter how many TCP/UDP connections between two IPs, it's still one "conversation".
1) What if I open 20 different websites in a few seconds because I happened upon a cool wikipedia article?
2)What if I'm chatting, uploading a video, opening websites and running a dev server? Many many connections.
3) How do you define "high" transfer? Firstly I can tell my torrent client to curb how fast it's going to just a few kilo per second. Secondly, I could be doing something funky, like, I dunno, running an ftp server to share photos and video between people in a design shop.
Personally I use VLC as my main movie watching player. 1080p HD videos work flawlessly on the linux desktop and I've jsut never ever had any problems with it in any way. It just works and it just works well.