But it is: The mouse cursor is on top of the container with the hover pseudo-class (start the test yourself to see that it triggers the hover effect on the whole "box" not just the nose).
A completely free market inevitably leads to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, because as people become successful they erect barriers to prevent other people from following in their footsteps.... thereby making the market non-free.
Capitalism is the antithesis of a free market. Capitalists love amassing of wealth, monopolies and writing the rules. Capitalists are not free traders.
1) IBM no longer make PCs. Lenovo took over that part of the business. 2) Even when they did, Microsoft and IBM parted ways so that IBM no longer made the industry standard; Microsoft plus the clone makers (read: Compaq) did. Remember the PS/2 fiasco? 3) The IBM PC was a 16-bit Intel platform with little RAM, a command-line interface to a crippled CP/M knockoff of a boot loader, and has very little in common with what you buy today. The old definition of a PC is pointless.
What "dynamic typing" lets you do is postpone errors to runtime. How fun is that?
I love writing Java code and catch errors at compile time. I hate using a reflection-oriented macro extension to Java where I need to wait until I try to run stuff before I discover any errors.
If you want "dynamic type", write all your code using java.util.Map. Have fun.
Just because the victim does not lose his intellectual property does not mean it isnt stolen.
Yes, it does. That is why there are SEPARATE terms, laws and punishments for theft and intellectual property violations. If they were the same you would not need a separate law, separate agreements (the "other" Berne Convention) and an international organization (WIPO) to manage it. Nor would you have industry lobbyists fighting to redefine it to suit their purposes.
Also, if you have a car, and you die, and ten years after your death I find your (abandoned) car and take it, have I stolen it from you? If it was an "artwork" I apparently have.
In less than the past month, we've had 7 stories dedicated to Opera,
By your reasoning, Microsoft bought Slashdot years ago.
even less market penetration than Firefox and a smaller chance of long-term survival?
Can you run Firefox on a mobile phone? Thought so. And are you arware that Opera have been around for many years and have a healthy economy? What do you put into "long-term survival", then?
Do you also complain when car sites write about Ferraris instead of "market penetration studs" like Toyota or Volvo?
What is not open about something you can freely download? It's easier for someone to become a member of the JCP than whatever organization does C#/CLR development. Because that's not ECMA - they just rubber-stamp whatever Microsoft and co-sponsor HP sends them.
Right, so you can't actually call it Java, you have to come up with some other name for it, which is stupid. Even if it's backwards compatible with Java, you can't call it "Java compliant," which is stupid. Strangely, Microsoft doesn't place this restriction on.NET. Looks like Microsoft is more leanient.
Do not use "Microsoft.NET" or ".NET" in the name of your products, services, or devices.
Sun has the ultimate and final say and they have so many purists working for them that they refuse to listen to anything that's not in line with their personal views.
Sun has already had to give in to other members of the JCP over technology. Again you show yourself to be uninformed.
Sun has released ZERO open standards
Unless you count RFCs like 1014 (XDR), 1057 (RPC), 1094/1813 (NFS), UltraSparc... If by "open standards" you mean submitted to one of those bureaucracies of a standard organization, not much good comes of that: Witness Microsoft's non-compliance to the C++ specification when it comes to writing Windows apps in Visual Studio for instance.
If you wrote for.NET 1.0, it will work on any other.NET 1.0 system.
But that's the point, isn't it? What does consistute a.Net 1.0 system? The standards cover only a part of it, the rest you have to skim off Microsoft's API documentation.
Why don't you addres the fact that Java has ZERO open standards?
What is less open about the JCP than ECMA? ECMA is just a rubber-stamp organization, there is no spec development going on there - that all happens at Microsoft and it's associates like HP.
Given the massive API documentation available for free on the MSDN website, it's hard to argue that it's not standardized.
So now suddenly vendor-provided API documentation is enough to make something standardized? What happened to the requirements you leveled at Sun and the JCP?
Then you proceeded to ignore the fact that Sun has sued, and Microsoft hasn't.
Of course they sued! Microsoft broke a CONTRACT! They had SIGNED a CONTRACT saying they should NOT make incompatible changes to their implementation and they DID! What does that have to do with Java vs. C#?
as i explained i have a health paranoia, not from the government but from corporations (spamming, calling, and mailing me).
The two are becoming one and the same. Does the word "lobbyist" mean anything to you? How do you know that Government agencies aren't selling information to corporations?
You would have loved Eastern Germany: No corporations, just a benign Government...
Is that your standard answer to anyone questioning the status quo? That instead of trying to fix it, whoever complaining should leave? Should Americans who wanted to make those new-fangled cars back when have gone to Germany instead of trying to overturn the horse-and-carriage standard?
And saying that there are WORSE governments than the current American one doesn't make the current one GOOD.
Your ending tirade about how non-regulation leads to utter chaos is utterly flawed, as well.
No, it isn't about that at all. It's about what makes species evolve over time. It says nothing about how it started - those are other theories. But religious opponents generally mix them up because it suits their argument.
Also, in science, a theory is a hypothesis that overwhelming evidence says is correct. Not at all what you seem to think it means. Evolution has been observed in nature - much like gravity has been. Do you trust the THEORY of gravity, or do you always grip something solid, afraid to be tossed into the ether?
If the millions of shallow mostly unmarked graves left behind aren't enough to convince you of the utter depraved wickedness of Stalin, Mao and Hitler then I really doubt there is little I can say to change what passes for your mind.
So you are saying the acts of the despots are equivalent to reading those books? Are you being an asshole just to go on some crusade? Should we restrict the Bible based on what the Conquistadors did in South America and the settlers did in North America? Those victims weren't even buried!
Hitler was a vegetarian, will you ban vegetarians too? Forced meat-eating unless authorized by the State?
Please get in touch with reality: books are not inherenty evil.
haven't done much research Well, it's hard to do any research when Sony locks and removes every thread criticizing their consolification/total conversion of the game, now isn't it?
People are leaving in droves. The game system has been vastly dumbed down (a multi-path skill-based system ejoyed by quite a few, replaced with distinct classes with levels, like WoW but with less content), the interface reworked into some third-person shooter - again well-suited for a conversion to console, and the SimBeru gameplay of resource extraction and crafting has been messed up. Oh, and making Jedi available from the start, thus nullifying the "hard work" of players who had endured the grinds previously needed to unlock Jedi powers? Brilliant.
Then there is the release of the new expansion just days before the changes, which had been in the making for months, came live and essentially made much of the expansion's content null and void. That made a lot of people angry, for very good reason, as they felt they were being lied to when they were sold the expansion's features.
Now, can you actually come up with ANYTHING good about the current SW:G instead of just criticizing a statement with no real counterargument?
Millions of atheists murder and rape people, but do you see me using that to blanket all atheists as evil?
Didn't you just do that?
I better not find out that a single slashdotting atheist celebrates Christmas in any way (giving gifts, taking time off from work, etc.)
Screw you, too. Gift-giving derives from Romas celebration of Saturnalia, getting days off work (like on weekends) derives from Sumerian culture (pre-Christian, that too) - if "etc." includes the Christmas tree, that's a fertility symbol (like the Easter Bunny) celebrating the Winter Solistice, and the white-bearded Santa Claus is a creation of an ad agency working for the Coca Cola combany back in the 1930s.
Maybe Americans Christians should not celebrate the 4th of July since that is a celebration of a colony breaking with a Christian British empire?
How come you keep reffering to God in the masculine? God could just as easily be a "she" or an "it".
Pre-Assembly of Nicea Bible:
'And God created Adam in its image. Then she looked in the mirror, said "Oopsie" and created Eve.'
The really funny bit is that Creationists are attacking the wrong theory (theory of evoilution). What they really oppose is the simian origin theory, which depends on the former, but not the other way around. And evolutionary adaptation has been observed as fact.
Slashdot Mirror
But it is: The mouse cursor is on top of the container with the hover pseudo-class (start the test yourself to see that it triggers the hover effect on the whole "box" not just the nose).
A completely free market inevitably leads to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, because as people become successful they erect barriers to prevent other people from following in their footsteps. ... thereby making the market non-free.
Capitalism is the antithesis of a free market. Capitalists love amassing of wealth, monopolies and writing the rules. Capitalists are not free traders.
there lot of companies making employees slog 10 hrs a day on meager pay.
Sounds like U.S. Mexican-border farms to me.
You can easily cover up, by bribes, if there is some industrial accident or something.
Watched Erin Brokowich lately? That shit happens in the West as well.
Well, I guess the solution is to nationalize the industry, the communists taught us that was a brilliant idea...
Fact of life: Joe Consumer doesn't care that his jeans aren't made in America, he just cares for the $10 savings he got because they aren't.
1) IBM no longer make PCs. Lenovo took over that part of the business.
2) Even when they did, Microsoft and IBM parted ways so that IBM no longer made the industry standard; Microsoft plus the clone makers (read: Compaq) did. Remember the PS/2 fiasco?
3) The IBM PC was a 16-bit Intel platform with little RAM, a command-line interface to a crippled CP/M knockoff of a boot loader, and has very little in common with what you buy today. The old definition of a PC is pointless.
That just lets Moses off the hook - Joshua got to order the actual massacring.
What "dynamic typing" lets you do is postpone errors to runtime. How fun is that?
I love writing Java code and catch errors at compile time. I hate using a reflection-oriented macro extension to Java where I need to wait until I try to run stuff before I discover any errors.
If you want "dynamic type", write all your code using java.util.Map. Have fun.
Rejoice! The NGE made it much easier to play a Jedi - you just pick "Jedi" as your profession at the start... :/
You mean like a revolver?
Thanks to the lobbyiong of the industry, that won't help: Copyright persists for many years after the slav... er, creator dies.
Just because the victim does not lose his intellectual property does not mean it isnt stolen.
Yes, it does. That is why there are SEPARATE terms, laws and punishments for theft and intellectual property violations. If they were the same you would not need a separate law, separate agreements (the "other" Berne Convention) and an international organization (WIPO) to manage it. Nor would you have industry lobbyists fighting to redefine it to suit their purposes.
Also, if you have a car, and you die, and ten years after your death I find your (abandoned) car and take it, have I stolen it from you? If it was an "artwork" I apparently have.
In less than the past month, we've had 7 stories dedicated to Opera,
By your reasoning, Microsoft bought Slashdot years ago.
even less market penetration than Firefox and a smaller chance of long-term survival?
Can you run Firefox on a mobile phone? Thought so. And are you arware that Opera have been around for many years and have a healthy economy? What do you put into "long-term survival", then?
Do you also complain when car sites write about Ferraris instead of "market penetration studs" like Toyota or Volvo?
No parts of Java are part of an open standard.
What is not open about something you can freely download? It's easier for someone to become a member of the JCP than whatever organization does C#/CLR development. Because that's not ECMA - they just rubber-stamp whatever Microsoft and co-sponsor HP sends them.
What contract did they sign?
This one. It was settled out of court though - like practically all of Microsoft's cases.
It should be noted that Netscape also violated their license, and were duly beaten around the ears for it.
Are you against trademarks and their protection? And unlike your uninformed guess, Microsoft do not let you call things
Sun has the ultimate and final say and they have so many purists working for them that they refuse to listen to anything that's not in line with their personal views.
Sun has already had to give in to other members of the JCP over technology. Again you show yourself to be uninformed.
Sun has released ZERO open standards
Unless you count RFCs like 1014 (XDR), 1057 (RPC), 1094/1813 (NFS), UltraSparc... If by "open standards" you mean submitted to one of those bureaucracies of a standard organization, not much good comes of that: Witness Microsoft's non-compliance to the C++ specification when it comes to writing Windows apps in Visual Studio for instance.
If you wrote for
But that's the point, isn't it? What does consistute a
Why don't you addres the fact that Java has ZERO open standards?
What is less open about the JCP than ECMA? ECMA is just a rubber-stamp organization, there is no spec development going on there - that all happens at Microsoft and it's associates like HP.
Given the massive API documentation available for free on the MSDN website, it's hard to argue that it's not standardized.
So now suddenly vendor-provided API documentation is enough to make something standardized? What happened to the requirements you leveled at Sun and the JCP?
Then you proceeded to ignore the fact that Sun has sued, and Microsoft hasn't.
Of course they sued! Microsoft broke a CONTRACT! They had SIGNED a CONTRACT saying they should NOT make incompatible changes to their implementation and they DID! What does that have to do with Java vs. C#?
do we REALLY need that quote EVERY time dubya removes some of your liberties?
Seeing how you feel the need to complain, doesn't that mean liberties are being removed at some rate? Is that good?
Let's give monarchy another shot.
You're already living in "The Madness of Geroge II"...
as i explained i have a health paranoia, not from the government but from corporations (spamming, calling, and mailing me).
The two are becoming one and the same. Does the word "lobbyist" mean anything to you? How do you know that Government agencies aren't selling information to corporations?
You would have loved Eastern Germany: No corporations, just a benign Government...
So leave.
Is that your standard answer to anyone questioning the status quo? That instead of trying to fix it, whoever complaining should leave? Should Americans who wanted to make those new-fangled cars back when have gone to Germany instead of trying to overturn the horse-and-carriage standard?
And saying that there are WORSE governments than the current American one doesn't make the current one GOOD.
Your ending tirade about how non-regulation leads to utter chaos is utterly flawed, as well.
Fascist pig.
Just a theory about how life started.
No, it isn't about that at all. It's about what makes species evolve over time. It says nothing about how it started - those are other theories. But religious opponents generally mix them up because it suits their argument.
Also, in science, a theory is a hypothesis that overwhelming evidence says is correct. Not at all what you seem to think it means. Evolution has been observed in nature - much like gravity has been. Do you trust the THEORY of gravity, or do you always grip something solid, afraid to be tossed into the ether?
So in 20 years are we going to be looking back on the good ol days when all the information was free and on one Internet?
No, because all such information would be blocked by the Ministry of Home Truth. Only Goodfacts for you, citizen!
If the millions of shallow mostly unmarked graves left behind aren't enough to convince you of the utter depraved wickedness of Stalin, Mao and Hitler then I really doubt there is little I can say to change what passes for your mind.
So you are saying the acts of the despots are equivalent to reading those books? Are you being an asshole just to go on some crusade? Should we restrict the Bible based on what the Conquistadors did in South America and the settlers did in North America? Those victims weren't even buried!
Hitler was a vegetarian, will you ban vegetarians too? Forced meat-eating unless authorized by the State?
Please get in touch with reality: books are not inherenty evil.
When you're handicapped, you can't do the same things "normal" people can do.
:P
"Normal" people don't play Star Wars: Galaxies in the first place.
haven't done much research
Well, it's hard to do any research when Sony locks and removes every thread criticizing their consolification/total conversion of the game, now isn't it?
People are leaving in droves. The game system has been vastly dumbed down (a multi-path skill-based system ejoyed by quite a few, replaced with distinct classes with levels, like WoW but with less content), the interface reworked into some third-person shooter - again well-suited for a conversion to console, and the SimBeru gameplay of resource extraction and crafting has been messed up. Oh, and making Jedi available from the start, thus nullifying the "hard work" of players who had endured the grinds previously needed to unlock Jedi powers? Brilliant.
Then there is the release of the new expansion just days before the changes, which had been in the making for months, came live and essentially made much of the expansion's content null and void. That made a lot of people angry, for very good reason, as they felt they were being lied to when they were sold the expansion's features.
Now, can you actually come up with ANYTHING good about the current SW:G instead of just criticizing a statement with no real counterargument?
RMS must be spinning in his chair.
Millions of atheists murder and rape people, but do you see me using that to blanket all atheists as evil?
Didn't you just do that?
I better not find out that a single slashdotting atheist celebrates Christmas in any way (giving gifts, taking time off from work, etc.)
Screw you, too. Gift-giving derives from Romas celebration of Saturnalia, getting days off work (like on weekends) derives from Sumerian culture (pre-Christian, that too) - if "etc." includes the Christmas tree, that's a fertility symbol (like the Easter Bunny) celebrating the Winter Solistice, and the white-bearded Santa Claus is a creation of an ad agency working for the Coca Cola combany back in the 1930s.
Maybe Americans Christians should not celebrate the 4th of July since that is a celebration of a colony breaking with a Christian British empire?
How come you keep reffering to God in the masculine? God could just as easily be a "she" or an "it".
Pre-Assembly of Nicea Bible:
'And God created Adam in its image. Then she looked in the mirror, said "Oopsie" and created Eve.'
The really funny bit is that Creationists are attacking the wrong theory (theory of evoilution). What they really oppose is the simian origin theory, which depends on the former, but not the other way around. And evolutionary adaptation has been observed as fact.