Unfortunately we've seen over and over again, as Johnnie Cochran pointed out, it doesn't matter who has the best facts on his side, what matters most is who has a compelling and interesting story.
Are you an idiot? Do you know why people post NOSPAM-munged email addresses, and do you know why other people post un-mangled versions of those in the comments? The latter do it solely to be dicks. Is this something you deny?
Autodesk's Maya, for instance. You can load in larger sets and more complex objects, and it'll be faster to manipulate (or the same speed at more complexity) because program won't have to swap data between video ram and system ram as much.
The Foundry's Mari for high-detail texture mapping and shader creation, and Katana for scene lighting.
Visualization, particularly computer graphics and CG effects are a big market here.
Actually I'd really rather that the hospital were trying to like treat her injuries, not wasting time trying to phone me.
It's not usually the surgeon trying to call you before starting the surgery. They have coordinators and receptionists, you know, people who wouldn't be that much use in the operating room.
What about if Warner Brothers makes millions of dollars of revenue from copying your work without giving any compensation back? Why should someone want to spend any amount of time trying to be a novelist if someone can just steal it immediately and make copies? You might not even get any sales if a competing publishing house steals the text, adds some illustrations, then sells it at a cheaper price than the original publisher you chose. The purpose of copyright law and patents are to provide incentive to create art and inventions, so that one can actually make a living in such fields.
I think you missed his point -- he's saying that making a living by being an author or movie maker or singer is just something you shouldn't do. He's very dismissive of popular culture.
Ah, the good old "lesser of two evils" argument! There's no surer way to ensure the process doesn't change than to just go along with the lesser of two evils.
The Trump campaign is using the movie "Idiocracy" as a how-to manual rather than a warning...
I get uncomfortable every time time Idiocracy comes up because of the implied embracing of the Eugenics movement of the 1920s and '30s. Buck v. Bell, perhaps the worst Supreme Court decision ever written, comes to mind. That the decision saying the compulsory sterilization of someone considered "feeble-minded" is allowed in the interests of the state is actually still on the books and was never overturned hurts my heart a bit.
When China demands Windows source code isn't it universally acclaimed as a good thing because of the Big Bad US and how nationalism (as long as it's not the U.S.) is a wonderful thing?
No, it's not. You're factually incorrect with that whole "universally acclaimed" thing.
So more people are being given access to source code, and more eyeballs make all bugs shallow. I call it a win.
If the additional people given access to the source code are using it to find holes to use for their own purposes, and those bugs are not returned to the company, then it's a net decrease in security.
Yes, I know, you're just here to knock down strawmen, but someone might have actually taken this seriously.
"The Militia" meant every man capable of firing a gun. Given the modern world, that would be every adult capable of firing a gun.
Actually... this brings up a point I hadn't considered before.
The usual reason given for why "militia" doesn't refer to an organization is that at the time it was written, Militia referred to every man capable of firing a gun, and we needed to use the original definition (or specifically, we should hew by the original intent when it was written).
However, wouldn't that mean that women are still excluded? There's nothing in the 2nd to specify women, and militia referred to men only. Would this be something covered by later equal-protection amendments?
Or maybe it's because the first clause is a reason, but not a limitation. It's unusual, however, for the Constitution to give reasons for structure and law, usually it just states it. However, it's not unheard of, as the section which gives copyright power to Congress is also prefaced by a reason why Congress should have that power.
Wow, somebody needs to put the cool aid down. Objective measures show that the U.S. has by far the most expensive healthcare in the world but only manages to rank 16th in quality of care.
I can't imagine how many times a day you have to perform a mind wipe to remove ideologically inconvenient objective data.
I think you're both right. The US has the best super-advanced care that a very, very, very small number of people can afford (and if you're incredibly lucky, insurance might spread the costs). Maybe not so great care for those not as fortunate.
3 hrs commute [this can be shorter, I admit, but not all are lucky]
"Can be shorter?" Holy shit, that is a fucking horrible commute, and very very few people are willing to put up with something like that. I would absolutely sell my house and completely pull up stakes and set up closer if I had to spend that much time in the car or on transit each day. Not all are lucky, true, but not many are THAT unlucky as well.
Up until Overwatch, as of which they have abandoned the Macintosh, Blizzard was a cross-platform developer supporting Mac and PC as far back as I can remember. But I'm not sure they ever supported Linux.
They supported Linux, but only behind the scenes. A few blue posters have mentioned they filed bug reports against wine. Blizzard worked with Transgaming (cedega) when Blizzard's Warden incorrectly flagged wine users as being cheaters. No Linux clients, but they've sometimes seen Wine as reducing the pressure to need a Linux version.
Blizzard will NEVER release any source code -- remember these are the people who sued the opensource bnetd project even though they used ZERO Blizzard code and got an idiot judge to agree with them.
Idiot judge? I might not like the law, but Bnetd was a circumvention tool -- circumventing the checks that Blizzard's servers run. Whether we think such a law is moral or not, the DMCA makes pretty clear the legality of distributing tools to circumvent in the US.
Ustream's interstitial ads via their Flash player (they still won't offer me an HTML5 player with the current version of Seamonkey, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and is usually the current FF version of Gecko)
These are "evil tricks?" It's called balancing the content with the ads. You watch a bunch of tiny clips, you should see fewer ads per clip. I don't know how this is supposed to be "devious." You don't see an ad every time because you haven't racked up enough viewing time to require another.
Look dude, the FBI specifically said they don't want a backdoor. They just want the tech companies to sell "only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form" rather than the two parties to the communication. TOTALLY different from a backdoor. I'm not sure how, but Comey proposed it, and you don't become FBI Director by being a dullard.
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So, you're a secret Fascist?
The truth fears no investigation.
Unfortunately we've seen over and over again, as Johnnie Cochran pointed out, it doesn't matter who has the best facts on his side, what matters most is who has a compelling and interesting story.
Are you fucking retarded?
Are you an idiot? Do you know why people post NOSPAM-munged email addresses, and do you know why other people post un-mangled versions of those in the comments? The latter do it solely to be dicks. Is this something you deny?
Autodesk's Maya, for instance. You can load in larger sets and more complex objects, and it'll be faster to manipulate (or the same speed at more complexity) because program won't have to swap data between video ram and system ram as much.
The Foundry's Mari for high-detail texture mapping and shader creation, and Katana for scene lighting.
Visualization, particularly computer graphics and CG effects are a big market here.
How low... can we go!
PBR-drinker.
Actually I'd really rather that the hospital were trying to like treat her injuries, not wasting time trying to phone me.
It's not usually the surgeon trying to call you before starting the surgery. They have coordinators and receptionists, you know, people who wouldn't be that much use in the operating room.
Most of the time the comic artist creates a work for hire, so he has zero ownership of it should it be put on a t-shirt or displayed in a museum.
What about if Warner Brothers makes millions of dollars of revenue from copying your work without giving any compensation back? Why should someone want to spend any amount of time trying to be a novelist if someone can just steal it immediately and make copies? You might not even get any sales if a competing publishing house steals the text, adds some illustrations, then sells it at a cheaper price than the original publisher you chose. The purpose of copyright law and patents are to provide incentive to create art and inventions, so that one can actually make a living in such fields.
I think you missed his point -- he's saying that making a living by being an author or movie maker or singer is just something you shouldn't do. He's very dismissive of popular culture.
If a human being creates an invention, he/she owns it, not you, not leeches, not nature and not the government.
A patent is necessarily a government intervention. It's a prevention of someone else doing the same labor, even if he came about it independently.
Like that thing that never happened in New York?
Now now, we only wish Men In Black II hadn't happened.
Ah, the good old "lesser of two evils" argument! There's no surer way to ensure the process doesn't change than to just go along with the lesser of two evils.
The Trump campaign is using the movie "Idiocracy" as a how-to manual rather than a warning...
I get uncomfortable every time time Idiocracy comes up because of the implied embracing of the Eugenics movement of the 1920s and '30s. Buck v. Bell, perhaps the worst Supreme Court decision ever written, comes to mind. That the decision saying the compulsory sterilization of someone considered "feeble-minded" is allowed in the interests of the state is actually still on the books and was never overturned hurts my heart a bit.
When China demands Windows source code isn't it universally acclaimed as a good thing because of the Big Bad US and how nationalism (as long as it's not the U.S.) is a wonderful thing?
No, it's not. You're factually incorrect with that whole "universally acclaimed" thing.
So more people are being given access to source code, and more eyeballs make all bugs shallow. I call it a win.
If the additional people given access to the source code are using it to find holes to use for their own purposes, and those bugs are not returned to the company, then it's a net decrease in security.
Yes, I know, you're just here to knock down strawmen, but someone might have actually taken this seriously.
"The Militia" meant every man capable of firing a gun. Given the modern world, that would be every adult capable of firing a gun.
Actually... this brings up a point I hadn't considered before.
The usual reason given for why "militia" doesn't refer to an organization is that at the time it was written, Militia referred to every man capable of firing a gun, and we needed to use the original definition (or specifically, we should hew by the original intent when it was written).
However, wouldn't that mean that women are still excluded? There's nothing in the 2nd to specify women, and militia referred to men only. Would this be something covered by later equal-protection amendments?
Or maybe it's because the first clause is a reason, but not a limitation. It's unusual, however, for the Constitution to give reasons for structure and law, usually it just states it. However, it's not unheard of, as the section which gives copyright power to Congress is also prefaced by a reason why Congress should have that power.
Wow, somebody needs to put the cool aid down. Objective measures show that the U.S. has by far the most expensive healthcare in the world but only manages to rank 16th in quality of care.
I can't imagine how many times a day you have to perform a mind wipe to remove ideologically inconvenient objective data.
I think you're both right. The US has the best super-advanced care that a very, very, very small number of people can afford (and if you're incredibly lucky, insurance might spread the costs). Maybe not so great care for those not as fortunate.
So, have you ever visited this mentor in his nursing home?
If not, you're part of the problem.
Sorry, but I am contractually forbidden by an out-of-court settlement from responding to your comment.
But not contractually obligated to refrain from writing your original post?
You sound truly screwed up.
I'm really hoping this is just trolling.
3 hrs commute [this can be shorter, I admit, but not all are lucky]
"Can be shorter?" Holy shit, that is a fucking horrible commute, and very very few people are willing to put up with something like that. I would absolutely sell my house and completely pull up stakes and set up closer if I had to spend that much time in the car or on transit each day. Not all are lucky, true, but not many are THAT unlucky as well.
Up until Overwatch, as of which they have abandoned the Macintosh, Blizzard was a cross-platform developer supporting Mac and PC as far back as I can remember. But I'm not sure they ever supported Linux.
They supported Linux, but only behind the scenes.
A few blue posters have mentioned they filed bug reports against wine.
Blizzard worked with Transgaming (cedega) when Blizzard's Warden incorrectly flagged wine users as being cheaters.
No Linux clients, but they've sometimes seen Wine as reducing the pressure to need a Linux version.
Good ol' Diablo 2. The only game to have given me real RSI issues.
Blizzard will NEVER release any source code -- remember these are the people who sued the opensource bnetd project even though they used ZERO Blizzard code and got an idiot judge to agree with them.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Idiot judge? I might not like the law, but Bnetd was a circumvention tool -- circumventing the checks that Blizzard's servers run. Whether we think such a law is moral or not, the DMCA makes pretty clear the legality of distributing tools to circumvent in the US.
Ustream's interstitial ads via their Flash player (they still won't offer me an HTML5 player with the current version of Seamonkey, which uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and is usually the current FF version of Gecko)
HTML5! Standards-based! Only-works-in-a-tiny-handful-of-specifically-preapproved-browsers!
Best of all, MUCH harder to block!
These are "evil tricks?" It's called balancing the content with the ads. You watch a bunch of tiny clips, you should see fewer ads per clip. I don't know how this is supposed to be "devious." You don't see an ad every time because you haven't racked up enough viewing time to require another.
That's not only a backdoor but a serious and irresponsible threat to the lives of apple software engineers caused by the FBI.
I doubt the FBI would go that far. All they need is an informant in Apple.
Look dude, the FBI specifically said they don't want a backdoor. They just want the tech companies to sell "only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form" rather than the two parties to the communication. TOTALLY different from a backdoor. I'm not sure how, but Comey proposed it, and you don't become FBI Director by being a dullard.