You are attaching an emotional connotation to censorship. Look at it without that.
Censorship isn't always bad. There are people who like Wal Mart's censorship - they know they can get safe music there, and it usually isn't hard to get around for those who don't. An action to force people to carry media is just as bad as one to force them not to. I do think they have crossed the line though. Separate edited/non-edited sections would achieve a similar goal, while allowing more customers to be happy, without censorship.
It's censorship by the dictionary definition, and by their choise. I don't agree with it or like it myself (why I shop elsewhere for music), but it is still censorship.
You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ex: A telecom company stops a signal from being sent over the wires or air waves, but it is still recorded and distributed elsewise - is it censored?
Ex: A country blocks the distribution of a book within its borders, but it is still published and distributed in other contries - by your definition, it is not censorhip.
But there is certainly a market for non-censored music - it's probably what keeps the FYE in business across the street from the walmart in a small city/large town that my family visits occasionally.
Just because they don't block the content outside of their stores, does not mean they aren't censoring. It's not as bad as a governmental censorship for example, but it is still a censorship - they could sell the unedited music if they wanted to, and could probably increase sales significantly.
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: 2censor Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring/'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/ : to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable
Thus, although there are other options, this is still censorship, because there are no other options at the area they control.
While all your points are valid, they don't counter the fact that it is censorship.
You can go elsewhere and get your music (I certainly do), but if you want to buy your music from Wal Mart, or have no choice in the matter (a small town where Wal Mart has run out the competition, and you don't trust online, for example), then you haven't a choice.
It's censorship only at Wal Mart, but it is still censorship.
Well, while I've been an AMD fan for a long time, except for a few points in the Athlon/P4, and early Athlon/P4 era (when it was better to have a P3 than a P4, and maybe a year beyond that), AMD has probably never outperformed Intel at the top end to the extent Intel is outperforming AMD right now.
Conversely, AMD has held the performance crown for low and low-mid cost PCs in the time frame you mentioned. You want something inexpensive and fast, go AMD. want something expensive and faster, it varies which you want.
installing two patches, two dozen patches or even two thousand patches...
You still typically need to reboot when done. In this case, I don't think the load should have been a big issue - other than what was mentioned by another reply, namely that it would increase the variance of time for when the reboots occured (differing connection speeds). This would actually be to the advantage of Skype I'd think.
Maybe they should deal with the soruce rather than the symptom.
In my case, I don't block ads unless they hit one of four criteria:
1) The play sound 2) They show images that I consider NSFW - i.e. naked people, etc. 3) The drain the resource of my system, with 1GB of memory and over 2Ghz of CPU 4) They have offensive text (suggesting I'm an idiot for not using/buying from them, etc)
So, if I'm blocking your advertisers, you need to find competant advertisers, rather than block me.
they are just a fad, like color tvs, cars, and refrigerators
damn refrigerators.
On a serious note, it would have been nice to have an actual functional major in high school, (i.e. general science, foreign languages, humanities, general studies, art), but I think that students either shouldn't have to choose a major, or if they do, make one major akin to normal high school - a general range of subjects and topics.
-> Silverlight That's a very visual name so to speak, inspiring thoughts of majesty and beuty, isn't silverlight a visually oriented tech?./sarcasm --on -> Oracle Hmm, getting information. Nope, don't see what that has to do with oracles...
-> Access Data accession, and access... Nope, don't see a pater there either
SAP was founded in 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther).[1] The acronym was later changed to stand for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing").
System analysis and programming, later Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing
Yeah, those don't make sense either..../sarcasm --off
The rest you mentioned, I'll agree with (Vista might be a touch of a strech, since vista=view, and the main changes in that particular OS that they were talking about were visual...)
Actually, they seem to usually use those, however it's not uncommon to use OpenGL instead of Direct3D, Direct Sound and Input probably account for most of the DirectX requirements oddly enough.
DirectX is simply "the Windows graphics API". Microsoft has stopped trying to make it more than that. Once upon a time, they wanted to go up against OpenGL, but when they realized they'd have to play nice on other platforms and give up some "superiority" in the gaming market (read: the only thing people "need" Windows for), they dropped the idea and moved on.
DirectX is high performance graphics, sound, input (keyboard/mouse/joystic), and I think a couple other things API for Windows. The main Windows graphics API is something else (GDI I think?)
OpenGL is the graphics only one. Were it cross platform, I doubt OpenGL would compete with DirectX, since DirectX bundles everything. Though with LibSDL, you can get the same effect with only two libraries, rather than one for each thing...
FreeBSD gives much more useful error information in my experience, and often tells me what command to type to most likely fix the problem. Add the handbook and general mailing list to that (Gentoo and Ubuntu web forums seem to be compareable in quality in my experience to the mailing list), and it's just a whole lot easier to fix than Linux if something goes wrong, in my experience.
Application installation in Window and BSD have always been much more painless than apt/ubuntu/rpm/up2date/yum. In both cases things tend to work a bit more. Actuall, they work a bit more in Windows (maybe 1 in 100 fail), in FreeBSD using ports, I have similar failure rates as in Linux, but the system just seems a lot easier to fix. Within a week of starting to use it, I could fix most build errors fairly quickly (almost always updating the ports tree to a different date, or a dependancy change command), and a bad dependancy or broken port would fix. I didn't have that ease when I was in Linux, even though the amount of time I've spent aministrating/using FreeBSD has only just recently caught up with Linux.
Windows Updates has never broken my system, Ubuntu's update system has twice. The second time I was actually able to fix it with the help from the message board, but the error message wasn't terribly useful for solving the problem, until I ran into people with the same trouble.
Finally, Red Hat and Ubuntu performance doesn't seem any better than Windows in single taks, and Ubuntu somehow managed to be worse in multitasking than Windows on my notebook (Core Solo 1.63 Ghz, 512MB memory, 60GB 5400RPM hard drive). This is with KUbuntu, which was a bit more responsive than Ubuntu (Gnome) on my notebook for some reason. For performance, FreeBSD lives them in the dust across the board.
As long as it isn't mine. Tried it several times since 2001 (as recently as June/July), still would rather use FreeBSD or Windows, but Linux does make many users happy, so as long as it keeps them happy, that's a good thing.
Personally I'm more worried about what various companies will do with the info, than the government.
Also, think about the false positives on matches - artificially inflating prcies for places using those advertisers.
I just hope capitalism "works" as it is supposed to, and this marketing idea flops, when it ends up costing more than other methods, for a similar amount of return.
I buy online from newegg all the time, and buy.com frequently. I got these from recommendations from friends and associates, not advertisements. In fact, I didn't see an ad for either for over a year after I started using them.
I go to the local microcenter also - not because of adds, but because I'm in a hurry, and it's where my dad went and I knew about it.
The list could be very long, but the vast majority of where I go, and what services I use are from recommendations by people. I think this method is much worse than what is already out there - a simple question when you purchase saying "where did you hear about us?"
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You are attaching an emotional connotation to censorship. Look at it without that.
Censorship isn't always bad. There are people who like Wal Mart's censorship - they know they can get safe music there, and it usually isn't hard to get around for those who don't. An action to force people to carry media is just as bad as one to force them not to. I do think they have crossed the line though. Separate edited/non-edited sections would achieve a similar goal, while allowing more customers to be happy, without censorship.
It's censorship by the dictionary definition, and by their choise. I don't agree with it or like it myself (why I shop elsewhere for music), but it is still censorship.
You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Ex: A telecom company stops a signal from being sent over the wires or air waves, but it is still recorded and distributed elsewise - is it censored?
Ex: A country blocks the distribution of a book within its borders, but it is still published and distributed in other contries - by your definition, it is not censorhip.
The airplanes are a market force example.
/'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
But there is certainly a market for non-censored music - it's probably what keeps the FYE in business across the street from the walmart in a small city/large town that my family visits occasionally.
Just because they don't block the content outside of their stores, does not mean they aren't censoring. It's not as bad as a governmental censorship for example, but it is still a censorship - they could sell the unedited music if they wanted to, and could probably increase sales significantly.
From www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: 2censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable ; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable
Thus, although there are other options, this is still censorship, because there are no other options at the area they control.
So, walmart doesn't control what they sell?
Good to know!
The do censor the music they sell in their stores, because they do control it, and choose not to sell it, when there is an audience for it.
While all your points are valid, they don't counter the fact that it is censorship.
You can go elsewhere and get your music (I certainly do), but if you want to buy your music from Wal Mart, or have no choice in the matter (a small town where Wal Mart has run out the competition, and you don't trust online, for example), then you haven't a choice.
It's censorship only at Wal Mart, but it is still censorship.
if its anything like this one, we wouldn't be left in the dark...
We'd glow in it.
same as any other level 3 I'd wager.
Go find your frickin DMG.
1,000,000 bottles of beer on the wall? It'll take a while to sing *THAT* song...
So that happens in Linux too? I thought it was just a bug in the Linux compatibility layer in FreeBSD.
Well, while I've been an AMD fan for a long time, except for a few points in the Athlon/P4, and early Athlon/P4 era (when it was better to have a P3 than a P4, and maybe a year beyond that), AMD has probably never outperformed Intel at the top end to the extent Intel is outperforming AMD right now.
Conversely, AMD has held the performance crown for low and low-mid cost PCs in the time frame you mentioned. You want something inexpensive and fast, go AMD. want something expensive and faster, it varies which you want.
installing two patches, two dozen patches or even two thousand patches...
You still typically need to reboot when done. In this case, I don't think the load should have been a big issue - other than what was mentioned by another reply, namely that it would increase the variance of time for when the reboots occured (differing connection speeds). This would actually be to the advantage of Skype I'd think.
This firefox user does a lot of online shopping.
Maybe they should deal with the soruce rather than the symptom.
In my case, I don't block ads unless they hit one of four criteria:
1) The play sound
2) They show images that I consider NSFW - i.e. naked people, etc.
3) The drain the resource of my system, with 1GB of memory and over 2Ghz of CPU
4) They have offensive text (suggesting I'm an idiot for not using/buying from them, etc)
So, if I'm blocking your advertisers, you need to find competant advertisers, rather than block me.
pfft,
they are just a fad, like color tvs, cars, and refrigerators
damn refrigerators.
On a serious note, it would have been nice to have an actual functional major in high school, (i.e. general science, foreign languages, humanities, general studies, art), but I think that students either shouldn't have to choose a major, or if they do, make one major akin to normal high school - a general range of subjects and topics.
pardon, I never claimed they weren't geeky, I just claimed they weren't nonsensical, and did in fact imply what the product was about.
-> Silverlight
That's a very visual name so to speak, inspiring thoughts of majesty and beuty, isn't silverlight a visually oriented tech?
-> Oracle
Hmm, getting information. Nope, don't see what that has to do with oracles...
-> Access
Data accession, and access... Nope, don't see a pater there either
-> SAP
That's an acronym:
SAP
System analysis and programming, later Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing
Yeah, those don't make sense either...
The rest you mentioned, I'll agree with (Vista might be a touch of a strech, since vista=view, and the main changes in that particular OS that they were talking about were visual...)
ppft, screw holo-chess, I want an authentic looking light saber!
Actually, it probably *WILL* burn whatever it hits too!
Actually, they seem to usually use those, however it's not uncommon to use OpenGL instead of Direct3D, Direct Sound and Input probably account for most of the DirectX requirements oddly enough.
Ahh, sorry for nitpicking, but I must
"Direct3D is simplty the Windows-only 3D graphics API"
DirectX is high performance graphics, sound, input (keyboard/mouse/joystic), and I think a couple other things API for Windows. The main Windows graphics API is something else (GDI I think?)
OpenGL is the graphics only one. Were it cross platform, I doubt OpenGL would compete with DirectX, since DirectX bundles everything. Though with LibSDL, you can get the same effect with only two libraries, rather than one for each thing...
FreeBSD gives much more useful error information in my experience, and often tells me what command to type to most likely fix the problem. Add the handbook and general mailing list to that (Gentoo and Ubuntu web forums seem to be compareable in quality in my experience to the mailing list), and it's just a whole lot easier to fix than Linux if something goes wrong, in my experience.
Application installation in Window and BSD have always been much more painless than apt/ubuntu/rpm/up2date/yum. In both cases things tend to work a bit more. Actuall, they work a bit more in Windows (maybe 1 in 100 fail), in FreeBSD using ports, I have similar failure rates as in Linux, but the system just seems a lot easier to fix. Within a week of starting to use it, I could fix most build errors fairly quickly (almost always updating the ports tree to a different date, or a dependancy change command), and a bad dependancy or broken port would fix. I didn't have that ease when I was in Linux, even though the amount of time I've spent aministrating/using FreeBSD has only just recently caught up with Linux.
Windows Updates has never broken my system, Ubuntu's update system has twice. The second time I was actually able to fix it with the help from the message board, but the error message wasn't terribly useful for solving the problem, until I ran into people with the same trouble.
Finally, Red Hat and Ubuntu performance doesn't seem any better than Windows in single taks, and Ubuntu somehow managed to be worse in multitasking than Windows on my notebook (Core Solo 1.63 Ghz, 512MB memory, 60GB 5400RPM hard drive). This is with KUbuntu, which was a bit more responsive than Ubuntu (Gnome) on my notebook for some reason. For performance, FreeBSD lives them in the dust across the board.
As long as it isn't mine. Tried it several times since 2001 (as recently as June/July), still would rather use FreeBSD or Windows, but Linux does make many users happy, so as long as it keeps them happy, that's a good thing.
That logic only works if they advertised with only one agency, ever.
Otherwise there's a lot of false positives for any given agency.
Personally I'm more worried about what various companies will do with the info, than the government.
Also, think about the false positives on matches - artificially inflating prcies for places using those advertisers.
I just hope capitalism "works" as it is supposed to, and this marketing idea flops, when it ends up costing more than other methods, for a similar amount of return.
Too many false positives is the problem:
I buy online from newegg all the time, and buy.com frequently. I got these from recommendations from friends and associates, not advertisements. In fact, I didn't see an ad for either for over a year after I started using them.
I go to the local microcenter also - not because of adds, but because I'm in a hurry, and it's where my dad went and I knew about it.
The list could be very long, but the vast majority of where I go, and what services I use are from recommendations by people. I think this method is much worse than what is already out there - a simple question when you purchase saying "where did you hear about us?"
They have to protect it, true, but they can do something trivial, for example:
Wouldn't one of these work?
* Charge $10 for unlimited use by the red cross
Or better yet,
* donate $10,000, as "payment" for the free advertisement.
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