How am I a leftie? Because I point out some turd's hypocritical statements? I didn't realize that being a right-leaning libertarian made me a leftie. I'll make sure to make a note about that.
did you bother to read the rest of his post or did you jump out of your chair with Keith Olbermann style rage before you even finished that one sentance you quoted?
I read the rest of it. His whole thing about Hong Kong ignores the fact that most people in the country were basically exploited wage slaves.
No, actually it's just amusing to poke idiots who claim to be "a stern opponent to anything communist/socialist in nature" and yet use all sorts of services that are socialist in nature and then make up cop-out answers after the fact.
- as in do I avoid it? Is it possible to avoid it in society that forces it upon you?
Of course it is. How does society force you to use police and fire services or public utilities? It's your choice to use any of them.
Yes, I am against all forms of socialism/communism that is forced upon me, it's not possible to avoid things that exist, especially if it's government mandated.
Nice cop out. Not surprising, though, that you're a hypocrite.
I am a stern opponent to anything communist/socialist in nature,
So you eschew all police and fire services and use no public utilities correct? Wouldn't want you to be a hypocrite and use those "ebil" socialist services.
So then you have no problems with people ignoring the copyrights on all GPLed code, thus negating any enforcement of the software license, no? Those copyrights to GPL code are doing nothing but hiding information and making the rich richer, right?
No, his point is that the company you work for almost always buys the tools you use not the employees themselves. I've yet to come across a company or know someone who worked for a company that required the employee to buy the tools to do their job.
Maybe they are not in a position to pay for the "privilege" of supporting a closed file format.
Why would they need to be? What person in a university setting can't get easy access to a copy of Word? Both the students and teachers could download copies from our IT department's software download page at my school.
SAMBA wasn't developed as a clone or a replacement for anything Microsoft produced. In fact, SAMBA (then known as server, or nbserver) predated Windows NT release.
Actually that's not entirely true and what exactly is the relevance of the NT release (as Microsoft had an SMB implementation before it was ever released)? One of the original purposes of SAMBA was to create an SMB implementation that was compatible with Microsoft's LAN Manager (which was built off of SMB running atop of the NetBIOS Frames protocol) that predated SAMBA by some years.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims the European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues and a weakened revenue stream will impact how many employees Sun gets to keep if and when the acquisition is approved.
Then Monty Wideanus should have bought back the copyrights to MySQL to preserve its fate. Otherwise it was just a bunch of butthurt on his part after cashing in for a billion dollars.
(it shouldn't take THAT fucking long to compile a program with half a dozen modules)
Unless you have some piece of shit computer, I just compiled a solution in VS with 50 projects in 1 minutes. The machine has a rather low spec core2duo and 3 gigs of RAM.
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How am I a leftie? Because I point out some turd's hypocritical statements? I didn't realize that being a right-leaning libertarian made me a leftie. I'll make sure to make a note about that.
did you bother to read the rest of his post or did you jump out of your chair with Keith Olbermann style rage before you even finished that one sentance you quoted?
I read the rest of it. His whole thing about Hong Kong ignores the fact that most people in the country were basically exploited wage slaves.
No, actually it's just amusing to poke idiots who claim to be "a stern opponent to anything communist/socialist in nature" and yet use all sorts of services that are socialist in nature and then make up cop-out answers after the fact.
- as in do I avoid it? Is it possible to avoid it in society that forces it upon you?
Of course it is. How does society force you to use police and fire services or public utilities? It's your choice to use any of them.
Yes, I am against all forms of socialism/communism that is forced upon me, it's not possible to avoid things that exist, especially if it's government mandated.
Nice cop out. Not surprising, though, that you're a hypocrite.
Unfortunately more and more governments are adopting this view of the world...
Because there were oh so many in the world who weren't being heavily influenced by wealthy special interest groups?
Companies as large as Google don't often voluntarily ignore a customer base as large as China over morals.
Who says Google is doing this over morals? They're doing it because they got attacked by a bunch of government-backed hackers.
I am a stern opponent to anything communist/socialist in nature,
So you eschew all police and fire services and use no public utilities correct? Wouldn't want you to be a hypocrite and use those "ebil" socialist services.
You mean except for the simple fact that Comcast didn't actually change their policy despite saying they would?
Gee, it's almost as if the GP was being sarcastic...
Presumably getting the keys and pirating games is not the only thing someone might want to do with a PS3.
But to think that isn't what the majority of people are going to use it for is incredibly naive.
I highly doubt Hulu or anyone else will ever support H264.
You mean except for the fact that Hulu currently does use H.264? Same with youtube?
From Hulu's about page:
Leveraging the H.264 capability of the new Flash Player
Except you can't use the hypervisor to get at the decryption keys even if some exploit is found for it.
So then you have no problems with people ignoring the copyrights on all GPLed code, thus negating any enforcement of the software license, no? Those copyrights to GPL code are doing nothing but hiding information and making the rich richer, right?
Then use what you want and shut the fuck up.
Mechanics generally have to do this. We didn't have to worry about welders and such, but all the "hand tools" I used were bought by me.
But by tools one is usually referring to IDEs and other such software that one uses. A company gets volume licenses for such thing.
No, his point is that the company you work for almost always buys the tools you use not the employees themselves. I've yet to come across a company or know someone who worked for a company that required the employee to buy the tools to do their job.
Maybe they are not in a position to pay for the "privilege" of supporting a closed file format.
Why would they need to be? What person in a university setting can't get easy access to a copy of Word? Both the students and teachers could download copies from our IT department's software download page at my school.
Why would a professor need to buy Word? I'm pretty sure they could easily obtain a free copy from their IT department.
SAMBA wasn't developed as a clone or a replacement for anything Microsoft produced. In fact, SAMBA (then known as server, or nbserver) predated Windows NT release.
Actually that's not entirely true and what exactly is the relevance of the NT release (as Microsoft had an SMB implementation before it was ever released)? One of the original purposes of SAMBA was to create an SMB implementation that was compatible with Microsoft's LAN Manager (which was built off of SMB running atop of the NetBIOS Frames protocol) that predated SAMBA by some years.
How is SAMBA copying anybody here? (if we assume that a Windows NFS client had been made available by Microsoft, SAMBA would never have been popular).
You mean other than cloning Microsoft stuff like Active Directory? And that's not the only thing they've cloned from Microsoft's SMB implementation.
Or when MS's proprietary specifications become world standards at the behest of MS?
Because OOXML is the one and only time that some company's proprietary product becomes an IOS standard, right? Oh wait...
Yeah his butthurt is especially funny in light of the fact that he's most famous for reimplementing Microsoft software.
Okay.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims the European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues and a weakened revenue stream will impact how many employees Sun gets to keep if and when the acquisition is approved.
And this isn't the only citation you can find.
What's odd is the latest GA install of community server on mysql.com doesn't work on win7 64bit.
Nil? Because Oracle wouldn't do something to lose themselves customers and revenue?
Then Monty Wideanus should have bought back the copyrights to MySQL to preserve its fate. Otherwise it was just a bunch of butthurt on his part after cashing in for a billion dollars.
(it shouldn't take THAT fucking long to compile a program with half a dozen modules)
Unless you have some piece of shit computer, I just compiled a solution in VS with 50 projects in 1 minutes. The machine has a rather low spec core2duo and 3 gigs of RAM.