Heh, and here you could have put a link to your app and gotten some free publicity while at the same time giving readers a chance to verify that the quality of your game is as good as you're saying. Since you didn't, I guess poor marketing was just as much to blame for your lack of success as Apples fees.:)
Blood diamonds are completely legal, yet they have also caused enormous problems in the third world. Not to mention what the perfectly legal tobacco industry have done and is doing. You are deluded if you think legalizing a ruthless business will make that business less ruthless. It doesn't work that way.
It is, and the rest of the specification points in that direction too although it is very eloquently written. I'd be more surprised if rms wasn't atleast somewhat autistic than if he weren't.
If all they wanted was to go into a miserable situation and help people, they could have just spent their time working in a homeless shelter in any of the ghettos in america's largest cities. Nope, these guys and gals went to Iraq because they felt good about holding a gun in their hands and shooting "bad guys." There is nothing honorable about that.
Um no, you're wrong about DRM. Most porn studios never embraced DRM and almost none of the uses it today. It never was worth their time as it just took a single technical minded customer seeding torrents of their stuff to break it, so why bother? If it was true that content providers could rake in the dough simply by not using DRM, "embracing digital media" by making streaming and payment processing effortlessly and convenient, they would be swimming in billions.
Studies have shown a negative correlation between the availability of porn and rape cases. IIRC this is also the case specifically with CP and child rape. If anything, this will make it worse for the children.
You need to provide more specific sources than "studies have shown" for that statement. It is true that the availability of porn has exploded since the 90's when internet became widely available to the public. The number of sex abuse cases has not increased anywhere near as much as it would have if there was a positive correlation between porn and sex abuse. On the other hand, and using the same logic, the amount of sex crimes has not decreased sufficiently (it has actually increased) that the explosion of porn would availability would predict if there was a negative correlation between them.
I would think that somebody that has pornographic pictures of children nude or engaged in sexual acts is a reasonable indicator that they are sexually aroused by such images and situations, and at some point, will attempt to bring their own fantasies to life.
There is no data supporting that theory at all. When it comes to other genres of porn, there are millions of viewers getting turned on by something they never would nor will act out in real life.
I think the retirement age is too low, but not because "old people have it too easy" or anything. The retirement ages were set a very long time ago, when life expectancy was, frankly, a lot shorter. People seem to be living longer and staying healthier longer.
This is correct, but understand that in the same time span worker productivity has doubled many times over. We should all have been gotten much richer and we should all have been able to retire many years earlier instead of raising the retirement age. Unless the distribution of wealth have become unfairer that is.
You may have heard the quote "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" which is from T.S Eliot in 1921. That plagiarism is a form of "stealing" is well established in the English language and you are the one who want to redefine the word so that you have to call it "copyright infringement" instead, not Big Content.
Of course it is not news - it's buzz. The marketeers are pre-emptively engineering a situation in which the device can be said to have been "sold out" for example by channel stuffing. The flock mentality ensures that if everyone thinks everyone else wants something, then they will want that thing too. It's a very simple marketing trick.
No I don't believe in rational markets, because the argument is based upon circular reasoning; The item is worth whatever the market price is because the market price is what determines what the right price is. The market price just doubled for the item. Was there any discernable cause for the price hike? Nope, but since the item costs twice as much now it must be worth twice as much! Here's the rub, the quarterly profit is also worthless as a measurement of how well a company is doing because it is a variable that can be tampered with in hundreds of ways and does not tell you much about the long-term future prospects of the company.
Apple is the largest tech company followed by IBM and Microsoft, if measured by how much the stock market thinks each company is valued at. It is a completely meaningless metric that does not say anything about either company. The stock market is detached from the real world and how well a company's stock is doing is not proportional to how well that company is doing.
The reason is C. The free software world is stuck with writing stuff in C, which is a low-level language not at all suitable to writing a complicated system that a smartphone needs. Both Java and Objective C, that iOS uses, brings huge productivity boosts over writing stuff in C which is why those platforms have been able to evolve so rapidly.
Bitcoin is a distributed system that allows individuals to transfer currency without the involvement of a central server. As such there is absolutely no need for any middle men to take a slice of each transaction in fees. Since there is no profit to be made, the idea is dead in the water.
Not really. They have many more traits in common with their Arab neighbours, even if they have a very hard time accepting it. Hebrew is closely related to Arabic, they eat similar foodstuff and have similar rules about what they can and can't eat and drink, similar religious rituals (circumcision for example), similar genetic makeup, music and so on.
When the fuck did it become a bad thing to be working politically? He's trying to do something he believes in, which I guess, rubs some people whose only contribution to the world is to sit and complain all day the wrong way.
But if the government suddenly turned off my porn and tv shows plus slashdot and various other sites I habitually use I'd be up in arms pounding on my congressman's door maybe even joining a riot if the mood was right.
Sounds like a very empty and shallow life if porn and tv shows are the most important things you have.
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Heh, and here you could have put a link to your app and gotten some free publicity while at the same time giving readers a chance to verify that the quality of your game is as good as you're saying. Since you didn't, I guess poor marketing was just as much to blame for your lack of success as Apples fees. :)
Don't make shit up. There is no place in the world where actually violent, criminal employees are any hard to get rid of.
Blood diamonds are completely legal, yet they have also caused enormous problems in the third world. Not to mention what the perfectly legal tobacco industry have done and is doing. You are deluded if you think legalizing a ruthless business will make that business less ruthless. It doesn't work that way.
It is, and the rest of the specification points in that direction too although it is very eloquently written. I'd be more surprised if rms wasn't atleast somewhat autistic than if he weren't.
Because the feature that made it possible to filter out Apple stories disappeared in the last Slashdot overhaul and now I can't get it back again. :(
If all they wanted was to go into a miserable situation and help people, they could have just spent their time working in a homeless shelter in any of the ghettos in america's largest cities. Nope, these guys and gals went to Iraq because they felt good about holding a gun in their hands and shooting "bad guys." There is nothing honorable about that.
Um no, you're wrong about DRM. Most porn studios never embraced DRM and almost none of the uses it today. It never was worth their time as it just took a single technical minded customer seeding torrents of their stuff to break it, so why bother? If it was true that content providers could rake in the dough simply by not using DRM, "embracing digital media" by making streaming and payment processing effortlessly and convenient, they would be swimming in billions.
You need to provide more specific sources than "studies have shown" for that statement. It is true that the availability of porn has exploded since the 90's when internet became widely available to the public. The number of sex abuse cases has not increased anywhere near as much as it would have if there was a positive correlation between porn and sex abuse. On the other hand, and using the same logic, the amount of sex crimes has not decreased sufficiently (it has actually increased) that the explosion of porn would availability would predict if there was a negative correlation between them.
There is no data supporting that theory at all. When it comes to other genres of porn, there are millions of viewers getting turned on by something they never would nor will act out in real life.
This is correct, but understand that in the same time span worker productivity has doubled many times over. We should all have been gotten much richer and we should all have been able to retire many years earlier instead of raising the retirement age. Unless the distribution of wealth have become unfairer that is.
NSFW dude!
You may have heard the quote "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" which is from T.S Eliot in 1921. That plagiarism is a form of "stealing" is well established in the English language and you are the one who want to redefine the word so that you have to call it "copyright infringement" instead, not Big Content.
Of course it is not news - it's buzz. The marketeers are pre-emptively engineering a situation in which the device can be said to have been "sold out" for example by channel stuffing. The flock mentality ensures that if everyone thinks everyone else wants something, then they will want that thing too. It's a very simple marketing trick.
Are the Olympic Games important?
No I don't believe in rational markets, because the argument is based upon circular reasoning; The item is worth whatever the market price is because the market price is what determines what the right price is. The market price just doubled for the item. Was there any discernable cause for the price hike? Nope, but since the item costs twice as much now it must be worth twice as much! Here's the rub, the quarterly profit is also worthless as a measurement of how well a company is doing because it is a variable that can be tampered with in hundreds of ways and does not tell you much about the long-term future prospects of the company.
Apple is the largest tech company followed by IBM and Microsoft, if measured by how much the stock market thinks each company is valued at. It is a completely meaningless metric that does not say anything about either company. The stock market is detached from the real world and how well a company's stock is doing is not proportional to how well that company is doing.
The reason is C. The free software world is stuck with writing stuff in C, which is a low-level language not at all suitable to writing a complicated system that a smartphone needs. Both Java and Objective C, that iOS uses, brings huge productivity boosts over writing stuff in C which is why those platforms have been able to evolve so rapidly.
Bitcoin is a distributed system that allows individuals to transfer currency without the involvement of a central server. As such there is absolutely no need for any middle men to take a slice of each transaction in fees. Since there is no profit to be made, the idea is dead in the water.
Not really. They have many more traits in common with their Arab neighbours, even if they have a very hard time accepting it. Hebrew is closely related to Arabic, they eat similar foodstuff and have similar rules about what they can and can't eat and drink, similar religious rituals (circumcision for example), similar genetic makeup, music and so on.
No? Then how come Palestine is not a member of CERN too?
When the fuck did it become a bad thing to be working politically? He's trying to do something he believes in, which I guess, rubs some people whose only contribution to the world is to sit and complain all day the wrong way.
Sounds like a very empty and shallow life if porn and tv shows are the most important things you have.
That's a stupid as saying rain is caused by sunshine since every rainy day is preceeded by a sunny one!
Doubt it, those of us who value digital openess are already avoiding Apple products like the plague.
The heaviest bulldozer in the world weighs about 130 ton, a far cry from your quoted 500.