Let's take a counter example with a look at an accused "DINO" (Democrat in name only):
I'll note that those labels are often applied when one votes against the grain on whatever the "big issue" that year happens to be. In Lieberman's case, he's an unapologetic war hawk, and that tends to rub most Democrats the wrong way, especially those who feel war/terrorism/whatnot is the most important issue we face.
Also, the year before he left the Democratic Party, he had dropped to voting with the party only 61% of the time, so it seems that either he or his former party have changed their views since he came into office.
Sounds like the usual group of socialists want to shoot down anyone that stands for freedom.
Please don't make ridiculous statements like that. It helps absolutely no one and drags the level of debate to the gutter. I really hope you're just trollin'.
The model they are moving to is one where iCloud contains all your stuff, so local storage needs are negligible. Everything is accessible from everywhere.
Yeah, but "filesystem model" doesn't imply local storage, it can be a networked area available on all devices. "Move away from the filesystem model" sounds more like document data handled by the apps rather available in any other way.
One thing I don't see very often on shirt-pocket computers is a keyboard for entering large amounts of text or a gamepad for controlling a video game character.
One thing you often see on shirt-pocket computers is bluetooth.
By that definition, was Lesstif a Motif emulator or a free implementation of the commercial Motif graphics library?
The games run natively under your regular hardware in wine, just as they would if they were Linux games. You could say "but they have libraries that translate Windows calls to Linux system calls and libc routines" but that's what any library does, whether it is Lesstif or LibXML2 or dsound.dll.so. Wine provides free implementations of windows libraries, enough to get Windows programs running.
Your local municipal judge may or may not uphold that.
They might decide that the UCC actually has some teeth and decide to enforce it despite of what kind of sleazy disclaimers a company might try.
Sure. Anyone could try. But precedent would not be on your side.
You will never know until you try.
It will cost them more money to defend then it will cost you to persue the issue.
That doesn't mean it won't bankrupt you, or be, at a minimum, a colossal time sink. See, no lawyer will take the case unless you happen to throw enough money that them to make it worth the time.
AFAICT from the posts, that was 6 years ago, was an accident, and the users in question were unbanned with an acknowledgement from Blizzard.
It was awhile ago, shortly after Blizzard started using Warden.
Unfortunately, users who used wine (by itself) were permanently banned, and I don't know of any bans from that group that were lifted. But back in those days, it was more popular to use Codeweaver's wine fork called Cedega because it had better support for games, commercial support, and so forth. The situation is exactly reversed now, but back then, Cedega was the popular choice. Cedega contacted Blizzard and they managed to work together and any user who was registered with cedega before the time of the ban got that ban lifted... but people using wine were out of luck! I had a co-worker who was banned and I let him use my cedega account (because I set the game up for him). All the while the Community Liason for Blizzard, Tseric, was loudly, publicly proclaiming that everyone banned was a cheater, the people saying they didn't cheat were lying, and that the cheating detector couldn't possibly have been mistaken.. Tseric didn't last much longer. I think he was suffering serious burnout by that point. Dealing with gamers publicly will do that.
This incident was the first acknowledgment from Blizzard that people use wine to play Wow and doing so is ok.
You DO know they made the decision to go with both DirectX and OpenGL graphics paths, when they could have just done the windows only DirectX, right?
I'm of two minds about it. Maybe if WoW only supported DirectX, wine would support DirectX in WoW far better than it does now (at current time, DirectX support under Wine in WoW is terribad) because you wouldn't have the excuse of OpenGL being "ehh, good enough I suppose." I mentioned elsewhere that every graphics improvement made since the first expansion has been DirectX-only, so while you're able to play World of Warcraft in Wine, it won't look anywhere as good as the Windows version.
But on the other hand, 6 years ago if DirectX was the only option, it's unlikely WoW would have gotten anywhere near the Wine support it has. Double-edged sword, I guess.
Amusingly, WoW was actually more stable for me running under Wine than it has been running natively in Windows.
But that's an accident, not a deliberate thing that Blizzard has done.
I've never worked at Blizzard, but I would bet a lot of money that it is no accident.
It was no accident, but it occurred during a time (2003 or so) when supporting OpenGL was more important than it is now. Now, DirectX has basically "won," and very little OpenGL development is done in the gaming community.
It's telling that all the graphical improvements made to WoW since the Burning Crusade came out (about five and a half years ago) can only be activated if you're using DirectX.
So you're deeply ashamed of who you are and don't have courage or the conviction to own up to your life?
For a second there I thought you were some sort of dissident in a third world nation or corporate whistleblower.
That's the same sort of argument David Brin makes in the Transparent Society. I didn't buy it then, I don't buy it now. The truth is, some people have more to hide than others. Until we get to the point where people are non-judgemental about fetishes or kinks or whatever, secrecy is the only protection such people have and allow them to live normal lives.
I'm not talking about things that are illegal or truly immoral either. Just that if you like 'different' things, you don't want everyone to know about it.
Maybe you're gay in a conservative area. You should have the choice as to when to be public with that. No one else should make that choice for you. Maybe you like bondage. The list goes on. Someone's desire for privacy should override a corporation's desire to snoop on and monetize their lives.
And when this information is gathered and kept, it's a weapon to be used selectively, like political blackmail.
The only time I've ever heard "aboriginal" or "aborigine" used in the US is to refer to Australia's population. Many people here have heard the time, but I don't think they know the term can refer to something other than Australian bushmen.
I think you are on to something with all of these. For medicare, I don't think the problem is how much we spend but how much healthcare costs
I think it's both, really. We are living longer and longer, but the 'healthy' area of life is not the part of life being extended. Instead, it's the older "body breaking down, need constant support" phase of life (the one I personally don't find worth living) that is getting longer.
It's extremely expensive to be old and/or sickly. This is the part of medicine that no one wants to talk about because it leads to uncomfortable situations like "should or should we not give grandma everything it takes to get her to live a few years longer?"
The "eternal" refers to when people started getting internet at home. Then it was as if September never ended... a continuous supply of clueless newbies.
Specifically, "endless September" or "It's always September" came about when AOL opened up Internet access (Usenet specifically) to their subscribers.
Weird. I've never had that problem in my HD Tivo, but I can verify from talking to the technicians from Comcast that they don't like Cablecards, they don't like trying to get them to work, getting someone from Comcast who actually knows about them is a real crapshoot, and overall they wish you were using their DVR instead.
It was always a pain getting them to work but once in, they worked great.
no more commercial tv, no more dvd's that have not been ripped and edited, no more unfiltered ad-laden internet. they WILL NOT GET MY EYEBALLS. fuckers!
Just curious, why then do you feel you are entitled to their content if you will not watch their ads? One goes with the other -- they can't produce content without money.
No problems on the ripping and editing part though, as the dvd price fully pays for the content. Not so much with your cable bill.
And last devil's advocate question: would you be willing to pay a much higher cable price if it meant no stations had any commercials?
The networks business model is showing advertisements to customers. The cable companies business model is providing content to customers. We pay them to give us content without commercials, otherwise we could just get an antenna.
As Netflix has found, the middle-men (Netflix, Time Warner, Cox, DirectTV) are not the ones who hold the cards and can dictate terms. It's the content owners.
There is a general "war on advertising" going on now -- no one wants to watch advertising. Everyone hates it. They hate the flashing banner ads on websites. They hate the unskipable commercials on Youtube and Hulu. But they want to watch things for free. But the content requires advertising to pay for it. You think your cable bill pays the costs of shows to be made?
But can you record high-def encrypted cable streams that require a cable-card? I switched to a Tivo because the open-source solutions no longer have any access to the content.
Back when I tried it, over the air recording was a losing proposition (too many errors in the stream) and MythTV had a very poor HD playback interface (it would desync when a stream had even a minor error on one frame) but there's no way it could be as bad now as it was then.
Too bad! I rather liked high-quality movies made by professionals.
- Remove all drug licensing. Legalize everything. Caveat emptor.
I also liked being able to shop through the pharmacy without having to worry if this medicine would kill me. Caveat emptor means: lots of people will die. Same goes for meat inspectors, etc.
- Eliminate the limited liability of and fictional entity of the corporation. Those who engage in harmful actions to others must be held accountable. (Think how fast the faulty products would be recalled if the engineers/designers/project managers/etc. were held legally responsible for their decisions.)
Yeah and no one will be an engineer in our country. Who would want to put themselves in such legal liability? The only engineering work that would be done in the US would be work that has to be physically done here -- buildings, bridges, etc. Even then they would be enormously expensive. Everything else would flee the country.
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Let's take a counter example with a look at an accused "DINO" (Democrat in name only):
I'll note that those labels are often applied when one votes against the grain on whatever the "big issue" that year happens to be.
In Lieberman's case, he's an unapologetic war hawk, and that tends to rub most Democrats the wrong way, especially those who feel war/terrorism/whatnot is the most important issue we face.
Also, the year before he left the Democratic Party, he had dropped to voting with the party only 61% of the time, so it seems that either he or his former party have changed their views since he came into office.
Sounds like the usual group of socialists want to shoot down anyone that stands for freedom.
Please don't make ridiculous statements like that. It helps absolutely no one and drags the level of debate to the gutter.
I really hope you're just trollin'.
The model they are moving to is one where iCloud contains all your stuff, so local storage needs are negligible. Everything is accessible from everywhere.
Yeah, but "filesystem model" doesn't imply local storage, it can be a networked area available on all devices. "Move away from the filesystem model" sounds more like document data handled by the apps rather available in any other way.
"He's still chairman of the board."
I thought that was Frank Sinatra.
Or Carrot Top.
One thing I don't see very often on shirt-pocket computers is a keyboard for entering large amounts of text or a gamepad for controlling a video game character.
One thing you often see on shirt-pocket computers is bluetooth.
Sweet, battery vendors will be making a killing.
Stop being cheap and get a Mac you bums.
Probably better to just dual-boot Windows, the D3 mac client isn't so hot.
That statement makes no claim of any country being called uncivilized. Perhaps you should stop defaming geogob.
That's not defaming, geogob emphasized the word civilized for a reason. Otherwise why even bring it up?
By that definition, was Lesstif a Motif emulator or a free implementation of the commercial Motif graphics library?
The games run natively under your regular hardware in wine, just as they would if they were Linux games. You could say "but they have libraries that translate Windows calls to Linux system calls and libc routines" but that's what any library does, whether it is Lesstif or LibXML2 or dsound.dll.so. Wine provides free implementations of windows libraries, enough to get Windows programs running.
Your local municipal judge may or may not uphold that.
They might decide that the UCC actually has some teeth and decide to enforce it despite of what kind of sleazy disclaimers a company might try.
Sure. Anyone could try. But precedent would not be on your side.
You will never know until you try.
It will cost them more money to defend then it will cost you to persue the issue.
That doesn't mean it won't bankrupt you, or be, at a minimum, a colossal time sink. See, no lawyer will take the case unless you happen to throw enough money that them to make it worth the time.
AFAICT from the posts, that was 6 years ago, was an accident, and the users in question were unbanned with an acknowledgement from Blizzard.
It was awhile ago, shortly after Blizzard started using Warden.
Unfortunately, users who used wine (by itself) were permanently banned, and I don't know of any bans from that group that were lifted. But back in those days, it was more popular to use Codeweaver's wine fork called Cedega because it had better support for games, commercial support, and so forth. The situation is exactly reversed now, but back then, Cedega was the popular choice. Cedega contacted Blizzard and they managed to work together and any user who was registered with cedega before the time of the ban got that ban lifted... but people using wine were out of luck! I had a co-worker who was banned and I let him use my cedega account (because I set the game up for him). All the while the Community Liason for Blizzard, Tseric, was loudly, publicly proclaiming that everyone banned was a cheater, the people saying they didn't cheat were lying, and that the cheating detector couldn't possibly have been mistaken.. Tseric didn't last much longer. I think he was suffering serious burnout by that point. Dealing with gamers publicly will do that.
This incident was the first acknowledgment from Blizzard that people use wine to play Wow and doing so is ok.
You DO know they made the decision to go with both DirectX and OpenGL graphics paths, when they could have just done the windows only DirectX, right?
I'm of two minds about it. Maybe if WoW only supported DirectX, wine would support DirectX in WoW far better than it does now (at current time, DirectX support under Wine in WoW is terribad) because you wouldn't have the excuse of OpenGL being "ehh, good enough I suppose." I mentioned elsewhere that every graphics improvement made since the first expansion has been DirectX-only, so while you're able to play World of Warcraft in Wine, it won't look anywhere as good as the Windows version.
But on the other hand, 6 years ago if DirectX was the only option, it's unlikely WoW would have gotten anywhere near the Wine support it has. Double-edged sword, I guess.
Amusingly, WoW was actually more stable for me running under Wine than it has been running natively in Windows.
But that's an accident, not a deliberate thing that Blizzard has done.
I've never worked at Blizzard, but I would bet a lot of money that it is no accident.
It was no accident, but it occurred during a time (2003 or so) when supporting OpenGL was more important than it is now. Now, DirectX has basically "won," and very little OpenGL development is done in the gaming community.
It's telling that all the graphical improvements made to WoW since the Burning Crusade came out (about five and a half years ago) can only be activated if you're using DirectX.
Mods -- please mod this up to a thousand. kwardroid's fix fixed this for all the affected machines I've found so far.
So you're deeply ashamed of who you are and don't have courage or the conviction to own up to your life?
For a second there I thought you were some sort of dissident in a third world nation or corporate whistleblower.
That's the same sort of argument David Brin makes in the Transparent Society. I didn't buy it then, I don't buy it now.
The truth is, some people have more to hide than others. Until we get to the point where people are non-judgemental about fetishes or kinks or whatever, secrecy is the only protection such people have and allow them to live normal lives.
I'm not talking about things that are illegal or truly immoral either. Just that if you like 'different' things, you don't want everyone to know about it.
Maybe you're gay in a conservative area. You should have the choice as to when to be public with that. No one else should make that choice for you. Maybe you like bondage. The list goes on. Someone's desire for privacy should override a corporation's desire to snoop on and monetize their lives.
And when this information is gathered and kept, it's a weapon to be used selectively, like political blackmail.
Urban Legend. CEOs have a lot more legal freedom than you give them credit for.
The only time I've ever heard "aboriginal" or "aborigine" used in the US is to refer to Australia's population. Many people here have heard the time, but I don't think they know the term can refer to something other than Australian bushmen.
I think you are on to something with all of these. For medicare, I don't think the problem is how much we spend but how much healthcare costs
I think it's both, really. We are living longer and longer, but the 'healthy' area of life is not the part of life being extended. Instead, it's the older "body breaking down, need constant support" phase of life (the one I personally don't find worth living) that is getting longer.
It's extremely expensive to be old and/or sickly. This is the part of medicine that no one wants to talk about because it leads to uncomfortable situations like "should or should we not give grandma everything it takes to get her to live a few years longer?"
The "eternal" refers to when people started getting internet at home. Then it was as if September never ended... a continuous supply of clueless newbies.
Specifically, "endless September" or "It's always September" came about when AOL opened up Internet access (Usenet specifically) to their subscribers.
Weird. I've never had that problem in my HD Tivo, but I can verify from talking to the technicians from Comcast that they don't like Cablecards, they don't like trying to get them to work, getting someone from Comcast who actually knows about them is a real crapshoot, and overall they wish you were using their DVR instead.
It was always a pain getting them to work but once in, they worked great.
All of the AM radio stations I listen to have commercials at the exact same time.
I find myself tuned by default to NPR now, just switching over if I need a quick news fix from the all-news station.
Devil's advocate time!
no more commercial tv, no more dvd's that have not been ripped and edited, no more unfiltered ad-laden internet. they WILL NOT GET MY EYEBALLS. fuckers!
Just curious, why then do you feel you are entitled to their content if you will not watch their ads? One goes with the other -- they can't produce content without money.
No problems on the ripping and editing part though, as the dvd price fully pays for the content. Not so much with your cable bill.
And last devil's advocate question: would you be willing to pay a much higher cable price if it meant no stations had any commercials?
The networks business model is showing advertisements to customers. The cable companies business model is providing content to customers. We pay them to give us content without commercials, otherwise we could just get an antenna.
As Netflix has found, the middle-men (Netflix, Time Warner, Cox, DirectTV) are not the ones who hold the cards and can dictate terms. It's the content owners.
There is a general "war on advertising" going on now -- no one wants to watch advertising. Everyone hates it. They hate the flashing banner ads on websites. They hate the unskipable commercials on Youtube and Hulu. But they want to watch things for free. But the content requires advertising to pay for it. You think your cable bill pays the costs of shows to be made?
But can you record high-def encrypted cable streams that require a cable-card? I switched to a Tivo because the open-source solutions no longer have any access to the content.
Back when I tried it, over the air recording was a losing proposition (too many errors in the stream) and MythTV had a very poor HD playback interface (it would desync when a stream had even a minor error on one frame) but there's no way it could be as bad now as it was then.
And I can't see Tivo going for this at all.
you're wrong and you're way too white and comfortable to understand why.
I may need to reuse this phrase.
- Eliminate all patents and copyrights.
Too bad! I rather liked high-quality movies made by professionals.
- Remove all drug licensing. Legalize everything. Caveat emptor.
I also liked being able to shop through the pharmacy without having to worry if this medicine would kill me. Caveat emptor means: lots of people will die. Same goes for meat inspectors, etc.
- Eliminate the limited liability of and fictional entity of the corporation. Those who engage in harmful actions to others must be held accountable. (Think how fast the faulty products would be recalled if the engineers/designers/project managers/etc. were held legally responsible for their decisions.)
Yeah and no one will be an engineer in our country. Who would want to put themselves in such legal liability? The only engineering work that would be done in the US would be work that has to be physically done here -- buildings, bridges, etc. Even then they would be enormously expensive. Everything else would flee the country.