Which will hopefully reduce the incentive to include the advertising.
Pissing your customers off + License fees >(hopefully) The advertising revenue.
Or make it prone to even more advertising to cover up the licensing costs, just like licensing/patenting has always been. A punch in the face of the consumer.
Application market not dictated by a single entity?
This is pretty much what I'm talking about.
No sir, the iPhone is ignored by the geeks for the same reason that Fiat is ignored by the car enthusiasts. It is simply a poor product.
I doubt it is "ignored." Last I looked, Kevin Rose had an iPhone, but that was a while back.
Which only proves that Kevin Rose is subject to the vanity of fashion. The iPhone is a severely crippled device, and if I had money shooting out of my ass, like Kevin does, I too would have bought whatever shit that crossed my mind. Just because I could. But my ass doesn't shoot money, so I'm bound to be a smart consumer. Still, even with all it's crippling shit, the biggest reason why buying an iPhone would never cross my mind is due to the same reason that I would never attend to a school which could dictate in what companies I could use their education upon graduation, the same reason I wouldn't purchase a toothbrush from a producer which can forbid me to use certain brand of toothpaste, and last but not least the car analogy: the same reason why I would never purchase a car from a manufacturer that is allowed to ban me from driving in some countries. So why is this line of thinking so accepted within software? I'll tell you why, because people, as the idiots they are, for some reason accepted it. Don't you think car manufacturers would love it if they could ban certain cars of theirs from countries, so that you'd have to rent or purchase another of their brand when inside that specific country. But this is impossible, at least today -- because people would simply go: "fuck that shit", just like I do with the iPhone. This artificial scarcity takes control away from the consumer -- and frankly if you try to pull that shit on me I'll merely introduce you to sir middlefinger.
The iphone is ignored by geeks? You seriously need to leave the basement.
Every "geek" and IT person I know has an iphone.
Well this will end in a war of semantics, but I'll explain why you misunderstand me. My definition of geek in this sense is a person with good technological understanding. Your definition of geek is somebody who "uses computers 'n' stuff". Just because you touch technology it doesn't mean you understand it. The only arguments I have heard for purchasing an iPhone which are based on truth are: "I like it", "I think it's nice", "I want to have one, stop trying to fucking tell me what to do". There is not one single technical advantage in that phone, not even one. And no, the touchscreen is poorly executed and I understand that multitouch is a "young" technology, but if it's poor -- it's poor -- no matter if it's the best version around. I'd pick keys over the iPhone touchscreen any day.
Deleting data is really really hard. If one is storing large amounts of data it is difficult to put a system in place which can prove that every copy in your posession has been deleted. Think about the work of sifting through thousands of write-once offline backups, be it tapes or CDs or whatever, locating the data, copying the original minus the data and destroying the originals. If that's not hard enough, what about data that's not in discrete files. Say there's a PostgreSQL database that's zipped and spans a thousand peices of physical media. The only way to delete a record is to load the whole database then redump it. And don't forget about regenerating all the index files. And dealing with obsolete file formats.
This sounds like a stupid problem, but in reality it is really tough to delete something and be certain that you've got it all.
Which makes them look even more dumb for not asking how difficult/expensive the task is in the first place.
That is the problem with geeks. They see the iPhone, they step back, and they compare it's features to that of a netbook, notebook, or a full-blown desktop computer and start bitching about what they can't do with the device.
Oh fuck off. We saw the iPhone and said, ok so will it support MMS? No? 3G? No? Application market not dictated by a single entity? No? What about battery, can I change my own battery at least? No? I have a shitty symbian phone that is worth about as much as the lint in my pocket, which supports multitask, what about the iPhone? No??? Then what the fuck am I paying for? Touchscreen? No sir, the iPhone is ignored by the geeks for the same reason that Fiat is ignored by the car enthusiasts. It is simply a poor product.
Namedropping will not make them corporate standard. The companies that I've worked within and their affiliates almost always use MySQL or Oracle, except a few Access and SQLite exceptions.
And there is no chance in hell Sun/Oracle is using this as an excuse to lay off some unprofitable workforce!
I think there's very little chance of that. Everyone knows massive layoffs are an inevitable consequence of most large-scale mergers, so no one is going to hammer Oracle too hard if they lay some people off when the merger is complete. Given that, they have little to gain by forcing Sun to lay people off right now. Also, there's no doubt that other companies, especially hardware manufacturers, are doing everything they can to exploit the uncertainty and poach Sun's customers. IBM and HP have both admitted as much. So, while the $100 million a month figure may or may not be exaggerated, Sun is definitely losing customers, and therefore revenue, at a very rapid pace these days because of this delay.
Also, until the Change in Control takes place, the companies are still required to operate as two separate entities. If it was discovered Oracle was exerting enough control over Sun to order them to shed employees, Oracle would be in a heap of trouble with regulators on both sides of the pond.
They are losing money by choice. Oracle is obviously not too keen to provide substantial data regarding the antitrust claims, and meanwhile Sun could have sold off MySQL months ago. Whatever seven years of famine will follow this merger will be caused by none other than Oracle and Sun themselves and the power to end this charade is solely in their hands. Don't listen to the media bullshit, these are proper businessmen we're talking about, they knew the consequences before they played their hand. You don't get to be executive in Sun or Oracle unless you have a good bit of business understanding, although most people would like to fantasize so inside their cubicles.
Does it do the public any good, if the regulatory agency kills the competitor being acquired, by delaying a decision?
By the time the acquisition is approved or rejected, Sun will be basically dead, and barely have any role as the competitor, anyways.
Obviously if you read TFS Oracle is responsible for not providing substantial data. If this was truly a harmless move they would have stopped this fictional $100 million/month charade and sold off MySQL already. But they don't want to. Why? Because they want to own 100% of the OSS database enterprise market. So they get Sun to use the opportunity to fire 3000 people instead and say: "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO!" With or without MySQL the merger will take place, they will fight until the bitter end, but either way those 3000 layoffs were probably planned months ago. You don't suddenly fire 3000 people, and anybody who think this is anything but months of planning and execution is naive and has never worked within management.
Fuck EU. Dragging the deal because of OSS product. Stupid.
Haha, yeah! Fuck EU! Fuck America! Fuck the world! Let's be a bunch of angry teenagers and punch walls! I mean who in their right mind would cast doubt on the merger of the companies owning the two, by far, largest commercial OSS database products! And there is no chance in hell Sun/Oracle is using this as an excuse to lay off some unprofitable workforce! Fuck hormonal inbalance and puberty!
How many children have died in the US from the common cold in the last month and a half? If it's significantly less than 43, then H1N1 is worse than a common cold.
Not to mention that H1N1 has a much more dangerous potential to mutate into something deadlier than the common cold.
It's spreading far faster than the usual influenza, it doesn't pay much attention to whether it's flu season, and it's at least as deadly (at least to children). It isn't the end of the world (barring a really, really nasty mutation), but it's a serious threat and worth dealing with properly.
Sorry David, your assumptions are worthless. Seriously, you don't need to look far to get information these days, how come you make these kinds of assumptions without looking them up first? It's not difficult. More people have still died from the common flu, during even shorter timespans, than of H1N1. And yes, you're right in that H1N1 has a potential to mix with H5N1, upon which it could create a disease with 60%-70% deadliness, which spreads as fast as H1N1. However it could also not. A vaccine for H1N1 won't do you much good if it mutates anyway, and often agents mimicing the flu only trigger the immune system to recognize parts of the actual flu, meaning an immunity which wasn't artifically created will most likely trigger on many more characteristics, making it possible to help you fight off H5N1 as well.
On the contrary - when I get sick, I don't go to work. I call my clients and let them know I'm out, and I stay home until I'm basically well again. As for the very small chance I am somehow allergic to this flu vaccine (no complications in the past), I have insurance and financial reserves which will allow me to not have to work. Yes, that takes a good deal of planning, and financial discipline. It sounds like you don't work, which means you're living off the state, or living off of mommy and daddy's work. In either case, society would view you as highly expendable.
As for your genes, I'm sorry to disappoint you as I'm already out of the gene pool. I'm simply hoping you don't reproduce with anyone and pass on your foolishness to your offspring, which my progeny might have to deal with.
I do work. At a company which pays me when I get sick. And your ability to draw conclusions resemble those of a 5-year-old, which is about where I would place your mental capacity. Anyway if you have insurance your argument about $8000 was irrelevant. So what's the deal here? Are you going to flip stories with every reply? Why don't you stick to one story and it will be much easier to conversate.
Oh and about the genes, you truly are one silly little creature to think that A) intelligence is directly linked to genetics, B) natural selection cares about intelligence more than environmental adaptivity, C) that you're even half as intelligent as I.
Me? I'm getting the vaccine, provided it's available in my area before I actually get the flu. It may not be life threatening to me, but I'm self employed and a typical flu recovery cycle would cost me $8000.
If you catch the flu you lose $8000. Hazards are also environmental, and if you are so naive to think that monetary hazards have no relation to your life expectancy then I wonder who's about to be removed from the gene pool. Better yet, the fact that you depend so highly on your ability to go to work will probably mean you are more likely to compromise when you get infected by a disease. Thus you are more likely to catch additional infections.
Look, sir, what happened here is that the pot called the kettle black, the kettle turned around and said: "Why are you so worried about my genes? I'm not going to fuck you no matter what."
If you're a med student and you need to have someone explain to you how a flu vaccine works - do us all a favor and switch majors.
Nobody except you mentioned the vaccine. It seems to me that your fatal mistake is that you assume he, or even I for that matter, is saying that the vaccine doesn't work. That's not the case. My question is, why get a vaccine for a disease which isn't worse than a common cold? Seriously, get off that high horse of yours. You're making silly assumptions and the way you leave an insult at the end of every post makes you look ridiculous. Especially when I answer them with relevant arguments, and you don't.
That may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot ever. Seriously. Wow. Let's break it down line by line.
You quote someone who has absolutely no clue. "I'd like the flu please! If I get an immunity to swine flu I want to suffer through the illness rather than get a shot. I want to work for it and maybe die! Or at the very least spread it around some so others can share in my joy."
Then, you use Maddox as a reference.
Finally, you wrap up by saying that you need to have a "basic concept of immunology" to comprehend your brilliance! And you top it off with a flourish by preemptively yelling at the mods.
Jesus. Wow.
And your argument is to divide my post and comment segments without any substance? You want to prove to me that swine flu is worse than regular flu? Go ahead. Make my day.
Not that I don't agree with you in principle...but show please point me to 1 building that houses the leader of 1 billion people that isn't extravagant? 1 million?
I went to visit the place a while back and that same thought kept striking me. I'd look up at the gold, the statues the figures with their genitals smashed off and all I could think was "how many lives did this cost". How many people over the years donated to that church thinking they were giving money to help the poor and the sick only for that money to be pissed away on an extra thick layer of gold leaf or yet another wall painting.
I look at the giant monuments and wonder how many people died in their creation and how many more could have lived a longer happier life if the money had been spent on something worthwhile or better yet simply hadn't been tithed away from the people of Europe for centuries.
The best part is, you can say this to these people, the religious that is. You can even show this to these people, and they will still shut their eyes and hold their ears refusing to believe that this is where their money goes. Or even better, they say "this happens to them", while pointing, "but never to me." And you can't save these people from themselves, they will continue this behaviour even if you truly out of the kindness in your heart try to get them to see why this behaviour is harming them, at the very least economically. And really, if you're not the one catching their money as they throw it around thinking they're do-gooders -- then someone else will. I never blame the salesman, but I always blame the consumer.
If Microsoft were to "block" Firefox from running due a security vulnerability it had, the sheer level of rage released from Slashdot would probably be enough to melt monitors on the other side of the world.
If you're going to draw parallels, at least learn to do it properly. If Mozilla would sneak in a plugin inside IE when you're doing something which you assume should not indulge in that behaviour, say e.g. updating Firefox, upon which Microsoft blocks this snuck piece of software, nobody in their right mind would say a thing. But yes, in your example, which is incorrect and irrelevant, people would -- and they would because they would be completely right in doing so, just like people are now with the.NET plugin which doesn't uninstall. Your kindergarden rhetorics won't work here drsmithy, if that is your real name.
most of the time, however, the issue is there only with pulseaudio. my machine works like a charm without it and stutter with - the developer will have an hard time convincing me that the bug is not in his software, as alsa and arts had never had a problem previously.
Fair enough, and I won't argue against that. However the GP was making an incorrect assumption. This is what I objected to. It's misleading and should be modded down.
When an application can make the soundsystem stop working for all other applications, than there is a bug in the soundsystem, not just the application that caused the problem.
It could also be a hardware issue or a driver issue. This is not even up for discussion. This is how Linux and Windows work. Period.
Direct loans were cheap, and the consolidation brought them down to ~5% afair. I know the new loans are not as cheap, but thats because some idiot decided having non-direct loans and promising a profit to everyone who serviced them. Doh!
Ahh, I love the smell of capitalism in the morning.
You think that people that want to go to the Vatican Museum and see some of the worlds' greatest works of art are stupid?
Did I say that? Huh, I must have suffered from a stroke or something. Anyway no I don't think the people visiting the Vatican Museum are stupid -- at least not now after my stroke, but you obviously are for drawing that conclusion out of your ass. However the very fundings that have led to this extremely pricy piece of architechture come from those thinking they have donated to help a poor church in need. This obviously isn't the case -- now is it? These people, the priests and reverends, are salesmen just like any other salesman.
Meant as a joke but it will sadly happen like this. It is incredible that we can have this level of clear investigation into evolution. And it is something that people have innately known since early agriculture (replanting grain using the best seeds, genetic engineering). Yet in the US: 51% of people believe god created man as he is. 30% said god created us and we can evolve 15% say humans evolved with out god.
These figures are a terrifying example of humans ability to deny what should be blatantly obvious. If we can do this imagine how many things people must get completely wrong no matter the level of obviousness.
These figures are incredible examples of how much money you can make on peoples stupidity.
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not be able to use it ... without licensing.
Which will hopefully reduce the incentive to include the advertising.
Pissing your customers off + License fees >(hopefully) The advertising revenue.
Or make it prone to even more advertising to cover up the licensing costs, just like licensing/patenting has always been. A punch in the face of the consumer.
This is pretty much what I'm talking about.
I doubt it is "ignored." Last I looked, Kevin Rose had an iPhone, but that was a while back.
Which only proves that Kevin Rose is subject to the vanity of fashion. The iPhone is a severely crippled device, and if I had money shooting out of my ass, like Kevin does, I too would have bought whatever shit that crossed my mind. Just because I could. But my ass doesn't shoot money, so I'm bound to be a smart consumer. Still, even with all it's crippling shit, the biggest reason why buying an iPhone would never cross my mind is due to the same reason that I would never attend to a school which could dictate in what companies I could use their education upon graduation, the same reason I wouldn't purchase a toothbrush from a producer which can forbid me to use certain brand of toothpaste, and last but not least the car analogy: the same reason why I would never purchase a car from a manufacturer that is allowed to ban me from driving in some countries. So why is this line of thinking so accepted within software? I'll tell you why, because people, as the idiots they are, for some reason accepted it. Don't you think car manufacturers would love it if they could ban certain cars of theirs from countries, so that you'd have to rent or purchase another of their brand when inside that specific country. But this is impossible, at least today -- because people would simply go: "fuck that shit", just like I do with the iPhone. This artificial scarcity takes control away from the consumer -- and frankly if you try to pull that shit on me I'll merely introduce you to sir middlefinger.
The iphone is ignored by geeks? You seriously need to leave the basement.
Every "geek" and IT person I know has an iphone.
Well this will end in a war of semantics, but I'll explain why you misunderstand me. My definition of geek in this sense is a person with good technological understanding. Your definition of geek is somebody who "uses computers 'n' stuff". Just because you touch technology it doesn't mean you understand it. The only arguments I have heard for purchasing an iPhone which are based on truth are: "I like it", "I think it's nice", "I want to have one, stop trying to fucking tell me what to do". There is not one single technical advantage in that phone, not even one. And no, the touchscreen is poorly executed and I understand that multitouch is a "young" technology, but if it's poor -- it's poor -- no matter if it's the best version around. I'd pick keys over the iPhone touchscreen any day.
Deleting data is really really hard. If one is storing large amounts of data it is difficult to put a system in place which can prove that every copy in your posession has been deleted. Think about the work of sifting through thousands of write-once offline backups, be it tapes or CDs or whatever, locating the data, copying the original minus the data and destroying the originals. If that's not hard enough, what about data that's not in discrete files. Say there's a PostgreSQL database that's zipped and spans a thousand peices of physical media. The only way to delete a record is to load the whole database then redump it. And don't forget about regenerating all the index files. And dealing with obsolete file formats.
This sounds like a stupid problem, but in reality it is really tough to delete something and be certain that you've got it all.
Which makes them look even more dumb for not asking how difficult/expensive the task is in the first place.
That is the problem with geeks. They see the iPhone, they step back, and they compare it's features to that of a netbook, notebook, or a full-blown desktop computer and start bitching about what they can't do with the device.
Oh fuck off. We saw the iPhone and said, ok so will it support MMS? No? 3G? No? Application market not dictated by a single entity? No? What about battery, can I change my own battery at least? No? I have a shitty symbian phone that is worth about as much as the lint in my pocket, which supports multitask, what about the iPhone? No??? Then what the fuck am I paying for? Touchscreen? No sir, the iPhone is ignored by the geeks for the same reason that Fiat is ignored by the car enthusiasts. It is simply a poor product.
Namedropping will not make them corporate standard. The companies that I've worked within and their affiliates almost always use MySQL or Oracle, except a few Access and SQLite exceptions.
And there is no chance in hell Sun/Oracle is using this as an excuse to lay off some unprofitable workforce!
I think there's very little chance of that. Everyone knows massive layoffs are an inevitable consequence of most large-scale mergers, so no one is going to hammer Oracle too hard if they lay some people off when the merger is complete. Given that, they have little to gain by forcing Sun to lay people off right now. Also, there's no doubt that other companies, especially hardware manufacturers, are doing everything they can to exploit the uncertainty and poach Sun's customers. IBM and HP have both admitted as much. So, while the $100 million a month figure may or may not be exaggerated, Sun is definitely losing customers, and therefore revenue, at a very rapid pace these days because of this delay.
Also, until the Change in Control takes place, the companies are still required to operate as two separate entities. If it was discovered Oracle was exerting enough control over Sun to order them to shed employees, Oracle would be in a heap of trouble with regulators on both sides of the pond.
They are losing money by choice. Oracle is obviously not too keen to provide substantial data regarding the antitrust claims, and meanwhile Sun could have sold off MySQL months ago. Whatever seven years of famine will follow this merger will be caused by none other than Oracle and Sun themselves and the power to end this charade is solely in their hands. Don't listen to the media bullshit, these are proper businessmen we're talking about, they knew the consequences before they played their hand. You don't get to be executive in Sun or Oracle unless you have a good bit of business understanding, although most people would like to fantasize so inside their cubicles.
Does it do the public any good, if the regulatory agency kills the competitor being acquired, by delaying a decision?
By the time the acquisition is approved or rejected, Sun will be basically dead, and barely have any role as the competitor, anyways.
Obviously if you read TFS Oracle is responsible for not providing substantial data. If this was truly a harmless move they would have stopped this fictional $100 million/month charade and sold off MySQL already. But they don't want to. Why? Because they want to own 100% of the OSS database enterprise market. So they get Sun to use the opportunity to fire 3000 people instead and say: "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO!" With or without MySQL the merger will take place, they will fight until the bitter end, but either way those 3000 layoffs were probably planned months ago. You don't suddenly fire 3000 people, and anybody who think this is anything but months of planning and execution is naive and has never worked within management.
Fuck EU.
Dragging the deal because of OSS product.
Stupid.
Haha, yeah! Fuck EU! Fuck America! Fuck the world! Let's be a bunch of angry teenagers and punch walls! I mean who in their right mind would cast doubt on the merger of the companies owning the two, by far, largest commercial OSS database products! And there is no chance in hell Sun/Oracle is using this as an excuse to lay off some unprofitable workforce! Fuck hormonal inbalance and puberty!
Kids...
How many children have died in the US from the common cold in the last month and a half? If it's significantly less than 43, then H1N1 is worse than a common cold.
Not to mention that H1N1 has a much more dangerous potential to mutate into something deadlier than the common cold.
It's spreading far faster than the usual influenza, it doesn't pay much attention to whether it's flu season, and it's at least as deadly (at least to children). It isn't the end of the world (barring a really, really nasty mutation), but it's a serious threat and worth dealing with properly.
Sorry David, your assumptions are worthless. Seriously, you don't need to look far to get information these days, how come you make these kinds of assumptions without looking them up first? It's not difficult. More people have still died from the common flu, during even shorter timespans, than of H1N1. And yes, you're right in that H1N1 has a potential to mix with H5N1, upon which it could create a disease with 60%-70% deadliness, which spreads as fast as H1N1. However it could also not. A vaccine for H1N1 won't do you much good if it mutates anyway, and often agents mimicing the flu only trigger the immune system to recognize parts of the actual flu, meaning an immunity which wasn't artifically created will most likely trigger on many more characteristics, making it possible to help you fight off H5N1 as well.
On the contrary - when I get sick, I don't go to work. I call my clients and let them know I'm out, and I stay home until I'm basically well again. As for the very small chance I am somehow allergic to this flu vaccine (no complications in the past), I have insurance and financial reserves which will allow me to not have to work. Yes, that takes a good deal of planning, and financial discipline. It sounds like you don't work, which means you're living off the state, or living off of mommy and daddy's work. In either case, society would view you as highly expendable.
As for your genes, I'm sorry to disappoint you as I'm already out of the gene pool. I'm simply hoping you don't reproduce with anyone and pass on your foolishness to your offspring, which my progeny might have to deal with.
I do work. At a company which pays me when I get sick. And your ability to draw conclusions resemble those of a 5-year-old, which is about where I would place your mental capacity. Anyway if you have insurance your argument about $8000 was irrelevant. So what's the deal here? Are you going to flip stories with every reply? Why don't you stick to one story and it will be much easier to conversate.
Oh and about the genes, you truly are one silly little creature to think that A) intelligence is directly linked to genetics, B) natural selection cares about intelligence more than environmental adaptivity, C) that you're even half as intelligent as I.
Me? I'm getting the vaccine, provided it's available in my area before I actually get the flu. It may not be life threatening to me, but I'm self employed and a typical flu recovery cycle would cost me $8000.
If you catch the flu you lose $8000. Hazards are also environmental, and if you are so naive to think that monetary hazards have no relation to your life expectancy then I wonder who's about to be removed from the gene pool. Better yet, the fact that you depend so highly on your ability to go to work will probably mean you are more likely to compromise when you get infected by a disease. Thus you are more likely to catch additional infections.
Look, sir, what happened here is that the pot called the kettle black, the kettle turned around and said: "Why are you so worried about my genes? I'm not going to fuck you no matter what."
If you're a med student and you need to have someone explain to you how a flu vaccine works - do us all a favor and switch majors.
Nobody except you mentioned the vaccine. It seems to me that your fatal mistake is that you assume he, or even I for that matter, is saying that the vaccine doesn't work. That's not the case. My question is, why get a vaccine for a disease which isn't worse than a common cold? Seriously, get off that high horse of yours. You're making silly assumptions and the way you leave an insult at the end of every post makes you look ridiculous. Especially when I answer them with relevant arguments, and you don't.
That may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Slashdot ever. Seriously. Wow. Let's break it down line by line.
You quote someone who has absolutely no clue. "I'd like the flu please! If I get an immunity to swine flu I want to suffer through the illness rather than get a shot. I want to work for it and maybe die! Or at the very least spread it around some so others can share in my joy."
Then, you use Maddox as a reference.
Finally, you wrap up by saying that you need to have a "basic concept of immunology" to comprehend your brilliance! And you top it off with a flourish by preemptively yelling at the mods.
Jesus. Wow.
And your argument is to divide my post and comment segments without any substance? You want to prove to me that swine flu is worse than regular flu? Go ahead. Make my day.
Based on what I've heard from people who actually had the swine flu, I'd rather have the disease than the vaccine.
I hope I get the swine flu.
For those of you who don't understand the basic concept of immunology, please -- hands off the mod button.
Not that I don't agree with you in principle...but show please point me to 1 building that houses the leader of 1 billion people that isn't extravagant? 1 million?
I can't, and you just proved my point. :-)
I'd guess it uses a spinning mirror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FiR2rGv7i4
Holy crap, thanks for this. Why hasn't this been spread all over the net already? Anyway, very cool link.
I went to visit the place a while back and that same thought kept striking me. I'd look up at the gold, the statues the figures with their genitals smashed off and all I could think was "how many lives did this cost".
How many people over the years donated to that church thinking they were giving money to help the poor and the sick only for that money to be pissed away on an extra thick layer of gold leaf or yet another wall painting.
I look at the giant monuments and wonder how many people died in their creation and how many more could have lived a longer happier life if the money had been spent on something worthwhile or better yet simply hadn't been tithed away from the people of Europe for centuries.
The best part is, you can say this to these people, the religious that is. You can even show this to these people, and they will still shut their eyes and hold their ears refusing to believe that this is where their money goes. Or even better, they say "this happens to them", while pointing, "but never to me." And you can't save these people from themselves, they will continue this behaviour even if you truly out of the kindness in your heart try to get them to see why this behaviour is harming them, at the very least economically. And really, if you're not the one catching their money as they throw it around thinking they're do-gooders -- then someone else will. I never blame the salesman, but I always blame the consumer.
If Microsoft were to "block" Firefox from running due a security vulnerability it had, the sheer level of rage released from Slashdot would probably be enough to melt monitors on the other side of the world.
If you're going to draw parallels, at least learn to do it properly. If Mozilla would sneak in a plugin inside IE when you're doing something which you assume should not indulge in that behaviour, say e.g. updating Firefox, upon which Microsoft blocks this snuck piece of software, nobody in their right mind would say a thing. But yes, in your example, which is incorrect and irrelevant, people would -- and they would because they would be completely right in doing so, just like people are now with the .NET plugin which doesn't uninstall. Your kindergarden rhetorics won't work here drsmithy, if that is your real name.
most of the time, however, the issue is there only with pulseaudio. my machine works like a charm without it and stutter with - the developer will have an hard time convincing me that the bug is not in his software, as alsa and arts had never had a problem previously.
Fair enough, and I won't argue against that. However the GP was making an incorrect assumption. This is what I objected to. It's misleading and should be modded down.
When an application can make the soundsystem stop working for all other applications, than there is a bug in the soundsystem, not just the application that caused the problem.
It could also be a hardware issue or a driver issue. This is not even up for discussion. This is how Linux and Windows work. Period.
Direct loans were cheap, and the consolidation brought them down to ~5% afair. I know the new loans are not as cheap, but thats because some idiot decided having non-direct loans and promising a profit to everyone who serviced them. Doh!
Ahh, I love the smell of capitalism in the morning.
You think that people that want to go to the Vatican Museum and see some of the worlds' greatest works of art are stupid?
Did I say that? Huh, I must have suffered from a stroke or something. Anyway no I don't think the people visiting the Vatican Museum are stupid -- at least not now after my stroke, but you obviously are for drawing that conclusion out of your ass. However the very fundings that have led to this extremely pricy piece of architechture come from those thinking they have donated to help a poor church in need. This obviously isn't the case -- now is it? These people, the priests and reverends, are salesmen just like any other salesman.
What does he have to do to "prove" that genetic mutations have occurred beyond:
Present it in a way that nobody gets offended. Meaning it should comply with religion so that people can go on living their lies.
Meant as a joke but it will sadly happen like this. It is incredible that we can have this level of clear investigation into evolution. And it is something that people have innately known since early agriculture (replanting grain using the best seeds, genetic engineering). Yet in the US:
51% of people believe god created man as he is.
30% said god created us and we can evolve
15% say humans evolved with out god.
These figures are a terrifying example of humans ability to deny what should be blatantly obvious. If we can do this imagine how many things people must get completely wrong no matter the level of obviousness.
These figures are incredible examples of how much money you can make on peoples stupidity.