Are you sure the majority of Britons.... I didn't say a majority of Britons, I said a majority of those getting honoured (perhaps an even more outrageous declaration).
Of course I don't have proof, that would be against the entire spirit of internet-based debate. But I was getting at a wider truth about the UK- There are many reasons to hate every country, the UK included, but one of the things I love is the progressive egalitarianism prevalent in the thinking classes; Announce at any formal social function that you are religious/believe in astrology/are pro-life/etc., and watch as the rest of the room politely get as far away from you as possible. Brilliant.
Most honourees, even those who disagree with the concept of hereditary monarchy (the majority), just go along with the whole deal.
Partly because it's not worth making a fuss over within the context of modern, laser-guided wrongdoings, but mostly for the improved ability to secure last-minute restaurant reservations.
Shut up twitter. Microsoft is a big, nasty corporation for sure.
But objecting to a merger between two rivals is like appealing in cricket- You are asking the 'umpire' to investigate whether the rules mean that your opposition is acting illegally. Big companies are pretty much obliged to pull that shit on behalf of their shareholders.
MSFT will fall one day, but chumps like you forestall this inevitability. Please stop.
General trolling of Microsoft (a la Twitter) is tedious, and only makes the troll's pet causes look worse for sure.
But this story is about a billion-dollar smack on the wrist. The previous ones concerned a delay, at least, to their hard-won (okay, paid for...) OOXML ISO certification, and the EU's competition commissioner putting a thinly veiled smackdown on them.
I realise that mob-style business practice has built MSFT into a giant, but as the public and their representatives catch up with the new paradigms of the digital age, said practices will become increasingly counter-productive. Which is a good thing.
I know/. does like to stick the boot into MSFT whenever possible, but in the last 2 hours there has been 3 front page stories, real stories, about the nasty behaviour of MSFT coming back to bite them in their fugly corporate ass.
I created a 4 hour video on building boats. I sell probably 30 a year. An online video rental site bought a legal copy and now rents my video out at $15 per week.
So why should people buy my video at $80 if they can get it for next to nothing on the web and most likely just burn their own copy? That's First-Sale Doctrine and it can also suck for the little guy. Contact the video rental site. Send them an 'updated', Hi-Def version of your tutorial. Include on this a number of unobtrusive ads for your product, and maybe throw in a few free support calls (then start charging...).
(I know nothing about boat building, but...) If building boats takes more than 5 weeks, or is slightly difficult, you'll have successfully adapted your business model to (cue scary-deep voice over) 'A Business Model For The Digital Age'.
Just prove that most of us europeans aren't retarded enough to fall for their stupid pricing schemes. I bet that we Europeans are retarded enough, but we have a much healthier marketplace for the moment.
Not to be pessimistic, but I can only imagine that O2, T-Mobile and Orange are looking at their excess inventory, looking across at the US market with envious eyes, and are then beginning to try to figure out how they can conspire to handicap the EU market, just like US politicians have been paid to do over there.
Internet only costs $7 a month.
Go get your own account IMHO. I leave my wireless open, and use other people's in exchange, because mine doesn't reach very far beyond my home.
And not to be all picky, but your sig seems to advocate a form of stealing deemed much more serious, in cash terms, than the supposed crime in this instance.
In the UK, I don't think there's anywhere with only 1 (ADSL broadband, cable's a different deal)option, by virtue of the way in which BT is required to open its network. However, you still have to pay BT a line rental charge in addition to your Virgin (or whomever) account.
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks" "The best we can do with p2p is try to slow it down."
...he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... IANAL, so does anybody know if these kinds of deals might have the effect of invalidating an ISP's 'common carrier' protections?
If so, I vote we prosecute him for downloading child porn, as a modern-day equivalent of walking the plank, and a warning to the other ISPs...
>So is evidence of bribery, corruption, and other underhanded tactics considered personal attacks?
ISO don't consider them personal attacks at all. But that's what they'll cry, to anyone who will listen, as part of the spinning process.
Part of the problem is that those who want open, free and workable standards also tend to be nice people. Consequentially, they hold themselves to much higher standards than the bad guys, and refuse to use the underhanded (but winning) tactics of randomly spewing out FUD and shit about the opposition.
How to stop this? 2 options-
1) Some kind of ninjas/super best friends/Judges Dread figures, who will look after us all, and never abuse their position. 2) A highly educated majority of the populous, with the will and persistence to continually pick apart the lies.
That's pure conjecture- But anyhow, not only do we have no understanding of what, exactly, constitutes human intelligence/consciousness etc, but to describe the ongoing attempts to approximate it as 'brute force' tells me you are equating the clock-cycle race with progress in the area (or you have a rather glamorized impression of brutes....).
Obama is too radical and disruptive. (Apologies in advance, because I know how touchy Americans are about people from anywhere else voicing opinions on US politics; the fact is, if the US was less powerful, we'd care less)-
Radical and disruptive is exactly what the US needs right now.
The guy who started all of this, Andrew Wakefield, now practices in the US, having been effectively kicked out of the UK medical scene.
He is clearly addicted to the idea of being a superstar doctor, and doesn't mind how many hopes, dreams and desperate parents he abuses along the way.
As science becomes debased in popular culture, by everything from homeopathy to astrology to religion, tragedies like this one will be the consequence.
We geeks need to get out of the basement and put our collective intelligence to work.
According to this site, Dr. Chen is being quite devious, seemingly in order to discredit a colleague.
In truth, the 1956 experiment may have had flaws (though Chen's paper doesn't prove this), but many subsequent ones have upheld the original findings, and are not subject to the alleged problems.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course I don't have proof, that would be against the entire spirit of internet-based debate. But I was getting at a wider truth about the UK- There are many reasons to hate every country, the UK included, but one of the things I love is the progressive egalitarianism prevalent in the thinking classes; Announce at any formal social function that you are religious/believe in astrology/are pro-life/etc., and watch as the rest of the room politely get as far away from you as possible. Brilliant.
Most honourees, even those who disagree with the concept of hereditary monarchy (the majority), just go along with the whole deal.
Partly because it's not worth making a fuss over within the context of modern, laser-guided wrongdoings, but mostly for the improved ability to secure last-minute restaurant reservations.
Shut up twitter. Microsoft is a big, nasty corporation for sure.
But objecting to a merger between two rivals is like appealing in cricket- You are asking the 'umpire' to investigate whether the rules mean that your opposition is acting illegally. Big companies are pretty much obliged to pull that shit on behalf of their shareholders.
MSFT will fall one day, but chumps like you forestall this inevitability. Please stop.
General trolling of Microsoft (a la Twitter) is tedious, and only makes the troll's pet causes look worse for sure.
But this story is about a billion-dollar smack on the wrist. The previous ones concerned a delay, at least, to their hard-won (okay, paid for...) OOXML ISO certification, and the EU's competition commissioner putting a thinly veiled smackdown on them.
I realise that mob-style business practice has built MSFT into a giant, but as the public and their representatives catch up with the new paradigms of the digital age, said practices will become increasingly counter-productive. Which is a good thing.
I know /. does like to stick the boot into MSFT whenever possible, but in the last 2 hours there has been 3 front page stories, real stories, about the nasty behaviour of MSFT coming back to bite them in their fugly corporate ass.
Or is it all just a hoax?
Hope not.
MMOGs?
So why should people buy my video at $80 if they can get it for next to nothing on the web and most likely just burn their own copy? That's First-Sale Doctrine and it can also suck for the little guy. Contact the video rental site. Send them an 'updated', Hi-Def version of your tutorial. Include on this a number of unobtrusive ads for your product, and maybe throw in a few free support calls (then start charging...).
(I know nothing about boat building, but...) If building boats takes more than 5 weeks, or is slightly difficult, you'll have successfully adapted your business model to (cue scary-deep voice over) 'A Business Model For The Digital Age'.
Kerching!
>Who is we?
We are I, for one.
Not to be pessimistic, but I can only imagine that O2, T-Mobile and Orange are looking at their excess inventory, looking across at the US market with envious eyes, and are then beginning to try to figure out how they can conspire to handicap the EU market, just like US politicians have been paid to do over there.
Go get your own account IMHO. I leave my wireless open, and use other people's in exchange, because mine doesn't reach very far beyond my home.
And not to be all picky, but your sig seems to advocate a form of stealing deemed much more serious, in cash terms, than the supposed crime in this instance.
I don't know what it's like where you live, but wherever I need to use wireless, I just use that free and ubiquitous 'Belkin 54g' network.
In the UK, I don't think there's anywhere with only 1 (ADSL broadband, cable's a different deal)option, by virtue of the way in which BT is required to open its network. However, you still have to pay BT a line rental charge in addition to your Virgin (or whomever) account.
...he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... IANAL, so does anybody know if these kinds of deals might have the effect of invalidating an ISP's 'common carrier' protections?If so, I vote we prosecute him for downloading child porn, as a modern-day equivalent of walking the plank, and a warning to the other ISPs...
Yarrrrr!
>So is evidence of bribery, corruption, and other underhanded tactics considered personal attacks?
ISO don't consider them personal attacks at all. But that's what they'll cry, to anyone who will listen, as part of the spinning process.
Part of the problem is that those who want open, free and workable standards also tend to be nice people. Consequentially, they hold themselves to much higher standards than the bad guys, and refuse to use the underhanded (but winning) tactics of randomly spewing out FUD and shit about the opposition.
How to stop this? 2 options-
1) Some kind of ninjas/super best friends/Judges Dread figures, who will look after us all, and never abuse their position.
2) A highly educated majority of the populous, with the will and persistence to continually pick apart the lies.
I know which I think is more likely....
That's pure conjecture- But anyhow, not only do we have no understanding of what, exactly, constitutes human intelligence/consciousness etc, but to describe the ongoing attempts to approximate it as 'brute force' tells me you are equating the clock-cycle race with progress in the area (or you have a rather glamorized impression of brutes....).
Radical and disruptive is exactly what the US needs right now.
You'd be interested to know that rat's brain cells have already (the linked article is from 2004) been harnessed to fly a virtual F-22.
The singularity, as the man said, is near.
The guy who started all of this, Andrew Wakefield, now practices in the US, having been effectively kicked out of the UK medical scene.
He is clearly addicted to the idea of being a superstar doctor, and doesn't mind how many hopes, dreams and desperate parents he abuses along the way.
As science becomes debased in popular culture, by everything from homeopathy to astrology to religion, tragedies like this one will be the consequence.
We geeks need to get out of the basement and put our collective intelligence to work.
>You may not like communism, but it didn't lose to capitalism because it was weak.
It lost because it was strong?
"In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy."
Dude, FPS for video games is not really comparable with FPS in films/TV etc., for one simple reason-
In video games, the frame rate is also the rate at which everything else (physics, etc.) is calculated.
According to this site, Dr. Chen is being quite devious, seemingly in order to discredit a colleague.
In truth, the 1956 experiment may have had flaws (though Chen's paper doesn't prove this), but many subsequent ones have upheld the original findings, and are not subject to the alleged problems.
My guess is 'yes'.