Why do you think they call us that? It is an appeal to moral equivalence, and it is flawed. The term "terrorism" has been serially abused by all sides in the last couple decades. To clarify: The US attacks a target primarily for its military value. Sometimes civilians get killed. War is ugly. The US military spends billions of dollars on weapons designed to strike and as precisely as possible destroy their intended target. The benefit is twofold: a) more effective warfare, and b) less collateral damage in terms of people and infrastructure.
Terrorists do the opposite. Terrorists design weapons to maximize collateral damage. They attack civilian targets because of the terror it causes (hence the label), regardless of the particular target's strategic or tactical value.
As far as talking to terrorists, or rogue states, or sovereign nations, or whatever label is in vogue, I think that issue has been blown way out of proportion. The crux of it is not about direct meetings, but under what conditions meetings should happen. It's about chess moves. A lack of preconditions is a little naive in the diplomacy department. Preconditions are kind of like fine print on a contract, and it is generally advisable to slant that in our direction as much as possible.
Trolling is posting false, misleading or otherwise controversial messages to generate attention and controversy. I think it's clear the poster who submitted the summary accomplishes that, by making use of Codeweavers' sarcasm and hyperbole:
"How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."
I acknowledge that I screwed up a little, by accidentally referring to the "article" rather than "summary" in the latter part of my post. I'm not accusing Codeweavers of trolling slashdot. I am saying that a blatantly slanted story such as this seems designed to agitate partisans on both sides of the political divide. Rather than raise debate about technology, it is raising debate about politics with a technological tie-in. The beauty of it is that the troll is not in a post, but in the summary itself, making all responses to the summary part of the troll. Including this one.
That makes for wonderful theory, but the reality of many school systems today is that there is minimal use of intelligence and good judgment by school officials, especially at the high school level. Instead, I have often seen good kids knocked down by bad rules instead of the other way around.
Trolling slashdot has long been an amusing, if somewhat frowned-upon passtime here, but this summary (sorry, can't RTFA even if I wanted to) raises the humble "troll" from amusement to art form by combining a) a FOSS-friendly entity, b) a free software giveaway, and c) gratuitously sarcastic, if somewhat tired, political rhetoric. The result is an article that is causing people from both the left and right to froth at the mouth in an almost Pavlovian fashion. However, by placing the troll in the article itself rather than in a response, they have essentially created an uber-troll.
My hat is off to you. I shall raise a toast to you as soon as I start drinking today.
The countries of the world seem to be catching a bad case of censorphilia. I can't think of a single reason important enough to warrant censorship in peacetime. Where the hell does this all stop?
Yeah, I knew that keeping that old hardware around was a good idea. I'll sell NASA a couple old 486s (DX! With the math coprocessor!) for cheap... say, $10,000 each?
In this sense, when they say "car" they mean "we're trying very hard to make sure that when it moves under its own power, it only does so on the ground".
Although the lexiconography of the word car is interesting, it also brings to mind another comparison: a 1000mph jet car compares to regular an internal combustion car a lot like an internal combustion car compared to a horse-drawn carriage in the 19th century.
Also, child porn is no more a drug for pedophiles than legal porn is a drug for normal folks.
And yet there is a link between legal porn and addiction. From the always-trusted-and-reliable Wikipedia:
"Pornography addiction can be defined as a psychological addiction to, or dependence upon, pornography, theoretically characterized by obsessive viewing, reading, and thinking about pornography and sexual themes to the detriment of other areas of one's own life."
Oh for crying out loud... have the mods finally completely lost their tiny, walnut-sized minds? I can overlook a slashdot drone choosing to drop a troll like this, but do you have to go and mod it +4 Interesting? This whole fucking thread is waaayyy offtopic, yet if you comment from the left, chances are good you get modded +1 Hive-Mind Approved. Comment from the right, and you are -1, Flamebait. All of you, get the hell off slashdot and go suck up to the Huffington Post, or Daily Kos or something. Seriously. This article is about Australian internet censorship. Did you guys forget about that?
Like you, I sympathize with both artists and fans, but lean more towards the fan. The solution is obvious to me... fans and artists need to unite against DRM restrictions and the media cartels that promote them, since ultimately DRM hurts both more than it helps.
Don't just get rid of it. Realign time altogether. The day starts at the crack of dawn; 00:00 and 00 seconds. Start counting from there.
The daily reseting of clocks would be done via NTP over the internet. Each morning, a computerized weather station would note the sunrise and reset everyones clocks for them. Problem solved!
Now you'll have to please excuse me, I have to go buy stock in a company that makes internet-connected NTP-based alarm clocks.
You have an excellent point, but I think that artists and studios will lose out. Most consumers faced with repopulating their music portfolio will not buy all the music they once had. Each time there is a technological threshold to cross, less gets brought forward. That happened a lot with 8-tracks, cassettes, VHS, vinyl, etc. In entertainment, out of sight == out of mind == out of business,
OTOH, the old analog media was still playable on any compatible player existed after its original owner abandoned it. Lots of old vinyl records were available at flea markets and yard sales long after CDs became the norm. That easy availability of older music in an old but usable format helped ensure that those songs lived on after their 15 minutes of fame in the top 40.
DRM prevents that recycling of music, either to a new consumer at a yard sale, or in a new form altogether. Look at hip-hop and rap, and the central role mixing and scratching play in producing a new piece of music while giving new life to the older piece on which it was based. Example: "Under Pressure" by David Bowie and Queen had a resurgence on rock radio after the artistic abomination known as Vanilla Ice sampled it in "Ice, Ice, Baby".
Any DRM makes comsumers' use of lawfully acquired media subject to external control, which means that sooner or later the consumer is going to get ripped off. Notoriously frangible EULAs, market conditions, corporate acquisitions and mergers, etc., mean that someday the external entity that supports the continued use of the media will likely go away. This also ensures that the lifespan of media is temporary, rather than enduring. In a weird way, artists seeking to use DRM cash in on their work today are ensuring their relative anonymity tomorrow, when no one can find a playable copy of that old song they used to love so much as a kid back in '08.
Because wine doesn't go with sports nearly as well as beer.
Seriously though, in the mentioned in the article that you need somewhere around half a bottle of wine to get the health effects of the resveratrol. If a bottle is about 6 * 4oz glasses of wine, that means 3 glasses per day, and other researchers have found that more than 2 drinks of alcohol per day can have adverse health effects. So, my guess is they are looking for a way to give you 2 * 12oz beers with all the benefits of 3 * 4oz wine.
BTW, I've noticed that Euro beers (don't ask me which; I wasn't paying close attention) tend to come in bottles that are 11 or 11.5 ounces now. WTF? Is this some evil side effect of going metric? Quit ripping us off, dammit!
Agreed. If anything, the troubled economy might serve to accelerate the evolution of the software industry by causing trouble for the non-FOSS software outfits. You know, the ones who have to convince someone to cut a PO for actual money, when companies are holding the purse strings ever tighter?
To expand on your evolution comment:
Microsoft, et al == dinosaurs
FOSS == small, primitive mammals
Economic downturn == asteroid
You must be near a city. When I visit my parents out in the hill country, drivers are very courteous and aware. Slower traffic pulls to the shoulder to let faster traffic by, most people signal a "thanks" for getting a break, etc. Yeah, there are a few bozos, but not like here in the northeast.
Honestly, how the hell can you compare the two? Four people died at Kent State. Estimates of the dead at Tiananmen ranged into the thousands, but we'll never know due to a Chinese government coverup.
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Why do you think they call us that? It is an appeal to moral equivalence, and it is flawed. The term "terrorism" has been serially abused by all sides in the last couple decades. To clarify: The US attacks a target primarily for its military value. Sometimes civilians get killed. War is ugly. The US military spends billions of dollars on weapons designed to strike and as precisely as possible destroy their intended target. The benefit is twofold: a) more effective warfare, and b) less collateral damage in terms of people and infrastructure.
Terrorists do the opposite. Terrorists design weapons to maximize collateral damage. They attack civilian targets because of the terror it causes (hence the label), regardless of the particular target's strategic or tactical value.
As far as talking to terrorists, or rogue states, or sovereign nations, or whatever label is in vogue, I think that issue has been blown way out of proportion. The crux of it is not about direct meetings, but under what conditions meetings should happen. It's about chess moves. A lack of preconditions is a little naive in the diplomacy department. Preconditions are kind of like fine print on a contract, and it is generally advisable to slant that in our direction as much as possible.
"How was I to know that President Bush would take my challenge so seriously? And, give the man credit, I didn't think there was *any* way he could pull it off. But engineering a total market meltdown - wow - that was pure genius. I clearly underestimated the man. I'm ashamed that I goaded him into this and take full responsibility for the collapse of any savings you might have. Please accept our free software as my way of apologizing for the global calamity we now find ourselves embroiled in."
I acknowledge that I screwed up a little, by accidentally referring to the "article" rather than "summary" in the latter part of my post. I'm not accusing Codeweavers of trolling slashdot. I am saying that a blatantly slanted story such as this seems designed to agitate partisans on both sides of the political divide. Rather than raise debate about technology, it is raising debate about politics with a technological tie-in. The beauty of it is that the troll is not in a post, but in the summary itself, making all responses to the summary part of the troll. Including this one.
PETA* would have been all over them for running an experiment like that.
*People for the Ethical Treatment of Academics
"But teach the kid, don't throw him away...."
That makes for wonderful theory, but the reality of many school systems today is that there is minimal use of intelligence and good judgment by school officials, especially at the high school level. Instead, I have often seen good kids knocked down by bad rules instead of the other way around.
Trolling slashdot has long been an amusing, if somewhat frowned-upon passtime here, but this summary (sorry, can't RTFA even if I wanted to) raises the humble "troll" from amusement to art form by combining a) a FOSS-friendly entity, b) a free software giveaway, and c) gratuitously sarcastic, if somewhat tired, political rhetoric. The result is an article that is causing people from both the left and right to froth at the mouth in an almost Pavlovian fashion. However, by placing the troll in the article itself rather than in a response, they have essentially created an uber-troll.
My hat is off to you. I shall raise a toast to you as soon as I start drinking today.
Forget that. Fap out loud. None of the other astronauts will touch your stuff after that.
The countries of the world seem to be catching a bad case of censorphilia. I can't think of a single reason important enough to warrant censorship in peacetime. Where the hell does this all stop?
Yeah, I knew that keeping that old hardware around was a good idea. I'll sell NASA a couple old 486s (DX! With the math coprocessor!) for cheap ... say, $10,000 each?
Excellent reference. Touche.
In this sense, when they say "car" they mean "we're trying very hard to make sure that when it moves under its own power, it only does so on the ground".
Although the lexiconography of the word car is interesting, it also brings to mind another comparison: a 1000mph jet car compares to regular an internal combustion car a lot like an internal combustion car compared to a horse-drawn carriage in the 19th century.
Also, child porn is no more a drug for pedophiles than legal porn is a drug for normal folks.
And yet there is a link between legal porn and addiction. From the always-trusted-and-reliable Wikipedia:
"Pornography addiction can be defined as a psychological addiction to, or dependence upon, pornography, theoretically characterized by obsessive viewing, reading, and thinking about pornography and sexual themes to the detriment of other areas of one's own life."
Oh for crying out loud ... have the mods finally completely lost their tiny, walnut-sized minds? I can overlook a slashdot drone choosing to drop a troll like this, but do you have to go and mod it +4 Interesting? This whole fucking thread is waaayyy offtopic, yet if you comment from the left, chances are good you get modded +1 Hive-Mind Approved. Comment from the right, and you are -1, Flamebait. All of you, get the hell off slashdot and go suck up to the Huffington Post, or Daily Kos or something. Seriously. This article is about Australian internet censorship. Did you guys forget about that?
Like you, I sympathize with both artists and fans, but lean more towards the fan. The solution is obvious to me ... fans and artists need to unite against DRM restrictions and the media cartels that promote them, since ultimately DRM hurts both more than it helps.
Don't just get rid of it. Realign time altogether. The day starts at the crack of dawn; 00:00 and 00 seconds. Start counting from there.
The daily reseting of clocks would be done via NTP over the internet. Each morning, a computerized weather station would note the sunrise and reset everyones clocks for them. Problem solved!
Now you'll have to please excuse me, I have to go buy stock in a company that makes internet-connected NTP-based alarm clocks.
You have an excellent point, but I think that artists and studios will lose out. Most consumers faced with repopulating their music portfolio will not buy all the music they once had. Each time there is a technological threshold to cross, less gets brought forward. That happened a lot with 8-tracks, cassettes, VHS, vinyl, etc. In entertainment, out of sight == out of mind == out of business,
OTOH, the old analog media was still playable on any compatible player existed after its original owner abandoned it. Lots of old vinyl records were available at flea markets and yard sales long after CDs became the norm. That easy availability of older music in an old but usable format helped ensure that those songs lived on after their 15 minutes of fame in the top 40.
DRM prevents that recycling of music, either to a new consumer at a yard sale, or in a new form altogether. Look at hip-hop and rap, and the central role mixing and scratching play in producing a new piece of music while giving new life to the older piece on which it was based. Example: "Under Pressure" by David Bowie and Queen had a resurgence on rock radio after the artistic abomination known as Vanilla Ice sampled it in "Ice, Ice, Baby".
Any DRM makes comsumers' use of lawfully acquired media subject to external control, which means that sooner or later the consumer is going to get ripped off. Notoriously frangible EULAs, market conditions, corporate acquisitions and mergers, etc., mean that someday the external entity that supports the continued use of the media will likely go away. This also ensures that the lifespan of media is temporary, rather than enduring. In a weird way, artists seeking to use DRM cash in on their work today are ensuring their relative anonymity tomorrow, when no one can find a playable copy of that old song they used to love so much as a kid back in '08.
... hence why TFA specified intergalactic space.
Because wine doesn't go with sports nearly as well as beer.
Seriously though, in the mentioned in the article that you need somewhere around half a bottle of wine to get the health effects of the resveratrol. If a bottle is about 6 * 4oz glasses of wine, that means 3 glasses per day, and other researchers have found that more than 2 drinks of alcohol per day can have adverse health effects. So, my guess is they are looking for a way to give you 2 * 12oz beers with all the benefits of 3 * 4oz wine.
BTW, I've noticed that Euro beers (don't ask me which; I wasn't paying close attention) tend to come in bottles that are 11 or 11.5 ounces now. WTF? Is this some evil side effect of going metric? Quit ripping us off, dammit!
Agreed. If anything, the troubled economy might serve to accelerate the evolution of the software industry by causing trouble for the non-FOSS software outfits. You know, the ones who have to convince someone to cut a PO for actual money, when companies are holding the purse strings ever tighter?
To expand on your evolution comment:
Microsoft, et al == dinosaurs
FOSS == small, primitive mammals
Economic downturn == asteroid
You must be near a city. When I visit my parents out in the hill country, drivers are very courteous and aware. Slower traffic pulls to the shoulder to let faster traffic by, most people signal a "thanks" for getting a break, etc. Yeah, there are a few bozos, but not like here in the northeast.
No, it means he is a stick figure, you insensitive clod!
You seem to be just as much a zealot as those you attack.
Mainframes customers want ironclad reliability and vertical scalability. Cost effective distributed computing is nice, but it's doesn't satisfy all computing needs.
That also means nude athletes.
Honestly, how the hell can you compare the two? Four people died at Kent State. Estimates of the dead at Tiananmen ranged into the thousands, but we'll never know due to a Chinese government coverup.