Could you please supply a *single* argument along with all that narrow-minded prejudiced trolling?
People prefer consoles because they are way cheaper than PCs (even if you factor in the price of a dozen games) and they don't have nearly as much configuration and compatibility issues. And games like Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Street Fighter II, Soul Calibur, the Final Fantasy series, Shen Mue, Resident Evil, Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, on and on, have brought games to where they are today at least as much as PC games have. Note that I didn't have to include sequels to inflate the list.
With a broadband connection, downloading a CD or two full of stuff is a matter of a couple of days. No, the bandwidth of snail-mail-delivered CDs is not what people might pay for, it's the convenience of not having to spend time finding mods spread all over the net.
Bad analogy. Drug trafficking becomes the more profitable the more it's outlawed because the addicty will pay literally any price. Not so with spam, where the demand is quite limited and will not put up with inflated prices.
Microsoft does not force you to upgrade when upgrades are available. Therefore, you do not need to license new software.
Yes, you do, if you want to stay interoperable with the newer version that other people use and the data format or protocol changes as well (as it does wherever Microsoft has control over it). Or if you need enterprise-level support and Microsoft end-of-lifecycles your version.
I see one fool here, and that is you. You do not "choose" to own property, owning property is the only thing that enables you to have significant choices.
Yeah, it does. Hard to follow at times, but very clever
Indeed. "Hard to follow" is just about the worst attribute a piece of code can have, while "clever" doesn't get you anything except bragging rights among other kamikaze coders.
Yes, I do. Because I want people who answer to my usenet postings in private or comment on my website to actually reach me, gosh! Besides, it's just a matter of time for any email address being actively used to become known to spammers anyway.
OK, only now people who answer to your usenet postings or comment on your website are just as likely to be categorized spammers by your filtering system as the real spammers. And *those* will probably find a way to find out such magic words.
Your libertarian propaganda is even more ridiculous. First, you're mixing up two very different aspects: the goals and the efficiency in reaching them. While democratic governments may not have a perfect track record in the efficiency department, at least they are theoretically bound to ethical standards and the common good in their aims. Not so businesses, which have only one aim: to make money, no matter the damage to everyone else. As for accountability, you call a seven-figure compensation even in the face of total cock-up "accountability" and losing your office with no compensation for relatively small mistakes "absolutely no accountability"?
Nicely said, and total bollocks. The spammer certainly doesn't think of his spam as "noise" and will be at least as good at making it fit any clean, simple standard for "not noise" as 90% of the people you *want* to receive mail from.
Um, sorry, no. Photons do have mass, that's why they are affected by gravity and black holes are black. Some say that this is because gravity bends spacetime. But what's the difference between having mass and having no mass, but all the properties of mass (momentum, i.e. inertia, and being affected by gravity)? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Sure, the temperatur change is necessary for the comet's body to evaporate partially, so that the tail can form. But that doesn't have anything to do with the direction in which the tail points.
You're talking nonsense. What Einstein's equation really says is that mass and energy are basically the same thing, and there's less of it the farther away from the sun you get.
Poor Manufacturing and consumer idiocy do overlap to some degree. Some mistakes are easy to make, and those shouldn't result in fatal (or any) accidents.
f the GPL actually granted a license, that would be true. It does not.
Um, it definitely does. That's why it's called the General Public License.
Instead, it mandates. It does not say, "You have the option of distributing this work." It says, "Under these broadly defined circumstances, you do NOT have the option of NOT distributing this work." That's a completely different thing.
No, those are simply the license terms. "Traditional" licenses mandate as well: payments and profit shares and required end-user licenses are all quite non-optional in a traditional distributor license. Nowhere in the law does it say that a license must put stringent restrictions on redistribution.
Let me get this straight. I'm making cogent, coherent, consistent arguments here,
No you're not. You're asserting competence on legal matters and then proceed to demonstrate your lack thereof.
and you feel that the best way to respond is to be sarcastic about my intelligence?
Not your intelligence as a whole, merely your capacity to understand that not everything must boil down to the desire to make profit. I see this selective blindness quite often in Americans.
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It's not like it can make your PC scream any faster or louder, or can it?
Sure it can. Higher clockrate -> higher power consumption -> more waste heat -> bigger, faster-rotating fan for cooling is necessary -> PC "screams" louder.
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People prefer consoles because they are way cheaper than PCs (even if you factor in the price of a dozen games) and they don't have nearly as much configuration and compatibility issues. And games like Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Street Fighter II, Soul Calibur, the Final Fantasy series, Shen Mue, Resident Evil, Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, on and on, have brought games to where they are today at least as much as PC games have. Note that I didn't have to include sequels to inflate the list.
With a broadband connection, downloading a CD or two full of stuff is a matter of a couple of days. No, the bandwidth of snail-mail-delivered CDs is not what people might pay for, it's the convenience of not having to spend time finding mods spread all over the net.
Bad analogy. Drug trafficking becomes the more profitable the more it's outlawed because the addicty will pay literally any price. Not so with spam, where the demand is quite limited and will not put up with inflated prices.
Yes, you do, if you want to stay interoperable with the newer version that other people use and the data format or protocol changes as well (as it does wherever Microsoft has control over it). Or if you need enterprise-level support and Microsoft end-of-lifecycles your version.
Black? Black???
Surely you jest. Black hair on anime girls is way too untypical to be chosen for the pinnacle of "fan service".
Ha! Everyone knows chips are made from potatoes.
Nope, "US billion" was meant to clarify that it's 10^9; in other countries 1 billion = 10^12.
I see one fool here, and that is you. You do not "choose" to own property, owning property is the only thing that enables you to have significant choices.
Just like any other language has quirks that give it descriptive possibilities that simply aren't present in English.
Most people think English is simple only because they don't speak it fluently.
You apparently don't think about other languages at all because you do not speak them at all.
Why do you think English has been the language of great literature for the past five hundred years?
Well, why do you think German, French and many other languages have been the exact same thing? The words "ignorance" and "narrow-minded" come to mind.
No other language offers the expressive possibilities of English.
Ah, yes. Certainly true if you speak no other language.
Indeed. "Hard to follow" is just about the worst attribute a piece of code can have, while "clever" doesn't get you anything except bragging rights among other kamikaze coders.
Yes, I do. Because I want people who answer to my usenet postings in private or comment on my website to actually reach me, gosh! Besides, it's just a matter of time for any email address being actively used to become known to spammers anyway.
OK, only now people who answer to your usenet postings or comment on your website are just as likely to be categorized spammers by your filtering system as the real spammers. And *those* will probably find a way to find out such magic words.
Your libertarian propaganda is even more ridiculous. First, you're mixing up two very different aspects: the goals and the efficiency in reaching them. While democratic governments may not have a perfect track record in the efficiency department, at least they are theoretically bound to ethical standards and the common good in their aims. Not so businesses, which have only one aim: to make money, no matter the damage to everyone else. As for accountability, you call a seven-figure compensation even in the face of total cock-up "accountability" and losing your office with no compensation for relatively small mistakes "absolutely no accountability"?
Nicely said, and total bollocks. The spammer certainly doesn't think of his spam as "noise" and will be at least as good at making it fit any clean, simple standard for "not noise" as 90% of the people you *want* to receive mail from.
I hope so too, but I'm afraid those guys can afford people to screen their email.
Was that cynicism? The overall amount of spam is increasing explosively: on the order of 100% in the last half year alone.
A photon's energy lies in its frequency, not its velocity (which is constant).
No, I think the light would lose energy (in the form of frequency) at each reflection.
How does your doctor travel to Lancre by unsing his index finger???
Um, sorry, no. Photons do have mass, that's why they are affected by gravity and black holes are black. Some say that this is because gravity bends spacetime. But what's the difference between having mass and having no mass, but all the properties of mass (momentum, i.e. inertia, and being affected by gravity)? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Sure, the temperatur change is necessary for the comet's body to evaporate partially, so that the tail can form. But that doesn't have anything to do with the direction in which the tail points.
You're talking nonsense. What Einstein's equation really says is that mass and energy are basically the same thing, and there's less of it the farther away from the sun you get.
Poor Manufacturing and consumer idiocy do overlap to some degree. Some mistakes are easy to make, and those shouldn't result in fatal (or any) accidents.
f the GPL actually granted a license, that would be true. It does not.
Um, it definitely does. That's why it's called the General Public License.
Instead, it mandates. It does not say, "You have the option of distributing this work." It says, "Under these broadly defined circumstances, you do NOT have the option of NOT distributing this work." That's a completely different thing.
No, those are simply the license terms. "Traditional" licenses mandate as well: payments and profit shares and required end-user licenses are all quite non-optional in a traditional distributor license. Nowhere in the law does it say that a license must put stringent restrictions on redistribution.
Let me get this straight. I'm making cogent, coherent, consistent arguments here,
No you're not. You're asserting competence on legal matters and then proceed to demonstrate your lack thereof.
and you feel that the best way to respond is to be sarcastic about my intelligence?
Not your intelligence as a whole, merely your capacity to understand that not everything must boil down to the desire to make profit. I see this selective blindness quite often in Americans.
Sure it can. Higher clockrate -> higher power consumption -> more waste heat -> bigger, faster-rotating fan for cooling is necessary -> PC "screams" louder.