Sure you can arrest the drug dealer, put him in prison for a few years and then release him without changing anything or you can go after the head of the operation and solve the problem permanently. The only party that benefits from this is Microsoft, no fucking bullshit-FUD-internet-forum-made-up word doubt about it.
Am I the only one who finds this funny? They've managed to keep archives older than, oh my god brace yourselves, 10 years!!!
Seriously though, don't give them standing ovations simply because everybody else fail. Tell me this in 50 years and I'll honestly clap my hands.
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even mass storage devices can be a pain these days in windows (u3 tools anyone?) and xp doesn't like multiple partitions on a usb stick (had to hack the drivers to make windows think it was a hard drive to be able to access the second partition, even though both partitions were fat32).
Hahahaha sorry, but what!? The things you stop hearing about when you leave the reich of MS.
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All your points touch the same subject: incentives. Thus there's only one problem: money. Not the loss of it, but the absence of profit. Truth is business is about relations, and hugging papa Microsoft tightly tends to help vendors getting their products out on the market. Microsoft has no interest in helping vendors that explicitly support their rivals. Call it FUD or whatever bullshit-internet-forum-made-up word you want but the bottom line is that MS, and its affiliates, have great impact on the IT world and if papa says no, then no it is.
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Say what? I think I made myself pretty clear when I took history into regards and concluded that the methods were very different from today. With such assumptions I suspect, my friend, that your life is going to be one bumpy ride.
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What you don't know won't hurt you. 100% secure, let me know how that turns out for you.
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The Achilles heel of this? Your example is from the 70's. How is it even remotely related to this? Whatever method you used back then is long gone and the problems you faced should be very different today. Flash disc technology alone changes your situation immensely. Nice anecdote though, but not related enough.
Quantum mechanics is the very catalyst of my theory. To be able to quantify everything means that you can separate everything. If you can separate everything you can very simply calculate the particles interactions if put together. There are many effects in the world of physics, in particular quantum mechanics, that we don't quite understand. However my argument is only valid when we've fully understood them. That's why I say "if the grand unification theory is unveiled...", until then it's just speculation.
You don't get the point. If I know the exact state of you and your surroundings, and the gran unification theory I would be able to calculate every output from any input. Thus I would be able to control you. Some things are still impossible. Perhaps your particles aren't alligned to allow the possibility of suicide. I might not be able to do everything, but I will surely have a smÃrgÃ¥sbord of options for you. The bottom line is that I know your reaction to whatever action commit, thus you have no choice but to follow my predictions. Free will dies.
That principle is merely bound to human observance. The fact that it can be done in theory renders free will impossible. Free will would only reside inside us as an illusion.
What do you expect? Look at its user base. Bottom line is there are no internet quizzes, there are only internet surveys. Keep this in mind and you have one less thing to worry about.
Exactly, I mean come on. This is not exactly news, this is the same bullshit solution that has been around for decades. The problem is not the solution, and it's not bullshit by default. It becomes bullshit because the major corporates don't give a rats ass about you profiting or not. They seek to grab anything and everything. If possible they would even have you pay twice (Spore) for the same product. It's not about ideologies (CC, GPL, MPL), so don't try to shape it that way. It's about looking to grab every penny possible. The corporates are simply not looking for a solution, they are looking to nail everybody that ever copied anything. Thus it's a bullshit solution.
Silly man. Free will and omnipotency don't mix. If omnipotency exists thus the power to control time also exists. If you can control time you can manipulate, but even more importantly, observe the future and past. If you can observe the future it creates a milestone of that exact moment, thus any action will automatically lead to this exact milestone. This shatters the very existance of free will. So you have to choose, either you're free or your god is weak.
From another point of view, the sane scientifical point of view, free will cannot coexist with physical laws either. Any physical law binds events together forcing an outcome. If the grand unification theory is unveiled it will bind all events occurring in the universe together. Thus any action has an expected reaction. This of course means that everything we humans do would be mere reactions to ourselves and our surroundings. Thus with enough information I would be able to "force" any human into doing whatever I please. And the fact that I "chose" to do so would be a mere reaction to another input forged by someone/something else. The controversy of this is of course that if proven it means that no human is liable for any action and that destiny does infact exist. The cool part is that this would render timetraveling into the future no longer impossible due to the uncertainty of the future, however other laws might still kill the theory.
Sure, very elaborate theory. Don't forget the simple more obvious resons. It's a test. Why would an omnipotent being need to perform a test? It's kind of supposed to already know everything.
Interesting point. My concern isn't really if AMD gets this or that, it's what I get. I'm the consumer, I decide what corporates live and what corporates die. People seem to have forgotten this. Still you make an excellent point. Given that their anti competative behaviour was directly aimed towards AMDs business I wonder if AMD has any legal right to file a law suit. I mean this drama has a victim beyond any doubt, so why shouldn't the victim be able to claim compensation? If anybody knows how this works I'd be very interested to hear about it.
Exactly, and when you come to think of it things were going great for AMD. I remember the K6/K6-2 generation that was half the price of Intels chips. While they weren't "as powerful" they damn sure weren't far from it. And for about half the price of Intels chips their prices beat the living shit out of Intel. Then came the Athlon/Duron generation followed by 64 bit architecture. By this time AMD was in the lead, still sticking to their fair pricings. Intel on the other hand of course sought to expand/maintain its business to business activities. Nobody really knew why businesses seemed to always pick Intel, and thus their market share was by far larger than AMD.
I'm no AMD fan, at all. They're a business and I'm a consumer. We're both constantly fighting for gain. I want lower prices and higher quality, they want more revenue. It would be, to put it simply, fucking stupid for me to stand on their side. However when Intel began conducting this type of behaviour it naturally hurts AMDs business, but as I said I couldn't care less about AMD. What I do care about is that I was getting good quality for a low price and due to Intel I'm no longer getting this. So from a consumers point of view: fuck Intel for meddling in my business, not AMDs.
It's exactly this kind of mentality that creates the problem. Somewhere along the axis of time US corporations felt it was ok to behave in this way. Of course the US haven't done much to prevent this, no trolling, the article speaks for itself not to mention the MS fine also dealt by the EU. If the US wouldn't look the other way just because it's a big corporation we wouldn't have this problem to begin with.
I hope they do. Apparently the US is doing a shit job to prevent anti competative behaviour like this. It's nice to know the consumer in EU is still worth more than shit. I for one welcome AMD back into the game that Intel stole.
The whole reason Gnome exists is because KDE was attached to a non-free toolkit. Gnome was the heavy fire you speak of. It wasn't until Gnome caught up to KDE that QT finally decided to become GPL (or risk irrelevance as GTK fully matured).
It's strange how people seem to ignore this. Where do they think GNOME came from?
Exactly, I can't believe that so many people don't know their history! GNOME was created because of the GPL strife between KDE and Qt. Thus it became a catalyst for KDE to talk Trolltech into GPL licensing Qt.
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The strange duality of slashdot. One gets -1 troll, the other one +5 Insightful.
Was the article not clear in any fucking way? Linux needs Microsoft to stop manipulating parliaments to reach the masses. Period.
Sure you can arrest the drug dealer, put him in prison for a few years and then release him without changing anything or you can go after the head of the operation and solve the problem permanently. The only party that benefits from this is Microsoft, no fucking bullshit-FUD-internet-forum-made-up word doubt about it.
Am I the only one who finds this funny? They've managed to keep archives older than, oh my god brace yourselves, 10 years!!!
Seriously though, don't give them standing ovations simply because everybody else fail. Tell me this in 50 years and I'll honestly clap my hands.
even mass storage devices can be a pain these days in windows (u3 tools anyone?) and xp doesn't like multiple partitions on a usb stick (had to hack the drivers to make windows think it was a hard drive to be able to access the second partition, even though both partitions were fat32).
Hahahaha sorry, but what!? The things you stop hearing about when you leave the reich of MS.
All your points touch the same subject: incentives. Thus there's only one problem: money. Not the loss of it, but the absence of profit. Truth is business is about relations, and hugging papa Microsoft tightly tends to help vendors getting their products out on the market. Microsoft has no interest in helping vendors that explicitly support their rivals. Call it FUD or whatever bullshit-internet-forum-made-up word you want but the bottom line is that MS, and its affiliates, have great impact on the IT world and if papa says no, then no it is.
Say what? I think I made myself pretty clear when I took history into regards and concluded that the methods were very different from today. With such assumptions I suspect, my friend, that your life is going to be one bumpy ride.
What you don't know won't hurt you. 100% secure, let me know how that turns out for you.
The Achilles heel of this? Your example is from the 70's. How is it even remotely related to this? Whatever method you used back then is long gone and the problems you faced should be very different today. Flash disc technology alone changes your situation immensely. Nice anecdote though, but not related enough.
Quantum mechanics is the very catalyst of my theory. To be able to quantify everything means that you can separate everything. If you can separate everything you can very simply calculate the particles interactions if put together. There are many effects in the world of physics, in particular quantum mechanics, that we don't quite understand. However my argument is only valid when we've fully understood them. That's why I say "if the grand unification theory is unveiled...", until then it's just speculation.
You don't get the point. If I know the exact state of you and your surroundings, and the gran unification theory I would be able to calculate every output from any input. Thus I would be able to control you. Some things are still impossible. Perhaps your particles aren't alligned to allow the possibility of suicide. I might not be able to do everything, but I will surely have a smÃrgÃ¥sbord of options for you. The bottom line is that I know your reaction to whatever action commit, thus you have no choice but to follow my predictions. Free will dies.
That principle is merely bound to human observance. The fact that it can be done in theory renders free will impossible. Free will would only reside inside us as an illusion.
In all fairness nobody in his/her right mind chooses IE. MS just keep on coming up with convenient work arounds.
What do you expect? Look at its user base. Bottom line is there are no internet quizzes, there are only internet surveys. Keep this in mind and you have one less thing to worry about.
Exactly, I mean come on. This is not exactly news, this is the same bullshit solution that has been around for decades. The problem is not the solution, and it's not bullshit by default. It becomes bullshit because the major corporates don't give a rats ass about you profiting or not. They seek to grab anything and everything. If possible they would even have you pay twice (Spore) for the same product. It's not about ideologies (CC, GPL, MPL), so don't try to shape it that way. It's about looking to grab every penny possible. The corporates are simply not looking for a solution, they are looking to nail everybody that ever copied anything. Thus it's a bullshit solution.
Silly man. Free will and omnipotency don't mix. If omnipotency exists thus the power to control time also exists. If you can control time you can manipulate, but even more importantly, observe the future and past. If you can observe the future it creates a milestone of that exact moment, thus any action will automatically lead to this exact milestone. This shatters the very existance of free will. So you have to choose, either you're free or your god is weak.
From another point of view, the sane scientifical point of view, free will cannot coexist with physical laws either. Any physical law binds events together forcing an outcome. If the grand unification theory is unveiled it will bind all events occurring in the universe together. Thus any action has an expected reaction. This of course means that everything we humans do would be mere reactions to ourselves and our surroundings. Thus with enough information I would be able to "force" any human into doing whatever I please. And the fact that I "chose" to do so would be a mere reaction to another input forged by someone/something else. The controversy of this is of course that if proven it means that no human is liable for any action and that destiny does infact exist. The cool part is that this would render timetraveling into the future no longer impossible due to the uncertainty of the future, however other laws might still kill the theory.
Sure, very elaborate theory. Don't forget the simple more obvious resons. It's a test. Why would an omnipotent being need to perform a test? It's kind of supposed to already know everything.
Interesting point. My concern isn't really if AMD gets this or that, it's what I get. I'm the consumer, I decide what corporates live and what corporates die. People seem to have forgotten this. Still you make an excellent point. Given that their anti competative behaviour was directly aimed towards AMDs business I wonder if AMD has any legal right to file a law suit. I mean this drama has a victim beyond any doubt, so why shouldn't the victim be able to claim compensation? If anybody knows how this works I'd be very interested to hear about it.
Exactly, and when you come to think of it things were going great for AMD. I remember the K6/K6-2 generation that was half the price of Intels chips. While they weren't "as powerful" they damn sure weren't far from it. And for about half the price of Intels chips their prices beat the living shit out of Intel. Then came the Athlon/Duron generation followed by 64 bit architecture. By this time AMD was in the lead, still sticking to their fair pricings. Intel on the other hand of course sought to expand/maintain its business to business activities. Nobody really knew why businesses seemed to always pick Intel, and thus their market share was by far larger than AMD.
I'm no AMD fan, at all. They're a business and I'm a consumer. We're both constantly fighting for gain. I want lower prices and higher quality, they want more revenue. It would be, to put it simply, fucking stupid for me to stand on their side. However when Intel began conducting this type of behaviour it naturally hurts AMDs business, but as I said I couldn't care less about AMD. What I do care about is that I was getting good quality for a low price and due to Intel I'm no longer getting this. So from a consumers point of view: fuck Intel for meddling in my business, not AMDs.
It's exactly this kind of mentality that creates the problem. Somewhere along the axis of time US corporations felt it was ok to behave in this way. Of course the US haven't done much to prevent this, no trolling, the article speaks for itself not to mention the MS fine also dealt by the EU. If the US wouldn't look the other way just because it's a big corporation we wouldn't have this problem to begin with.
No, I'm pretty sure you didn't. No wait! Nope false alarm again.
I hope they do. Apparently the US is doing a shit job to prevent anti competative behaviour like this. It's nice to know the consumer in EU is still worth more than shit. I for one welcome AMD back into the game that Intel stole .
How to prevent being fined for anti competative behaviour:
Step 1: Instead of encouraging customers to not buy other vendors products, encourage customers to buy your products.
That wasn't so hard now was it?
The whole reason Gnome exists is because KDE was attached to a non-free toolkit. Gnome was the heavy fire you speak of. It wasn't until Gnome caught up to KDE that QT finally decided to become GPL (or risk irrelevance as GTK fully matured).
It's strange how people seem to ignore this. Where do they think GNOME came from?
Exactly, I can't believe that so many people don't know their history! GNOME was created because of the GPL strife between KDE and Qt. Thus it became a catalyst for KDE to talk Trolltech into GPL licensing Qt.