In retrospect the semantic hairsplitting and tying of legal precedent in knots that enabled the Nuremberg Military Tribunals to sentence high-ranking Nazis to death and imprisonment for doing things that weren't illegal when and where they were done seems indefensible. To retroactively pardon Turing because the case seems crazy in hindsight is to open the door for pardoning those Nazi fuckers because we can now look back and see that the deck was stacked against them in court.
Why so touchy? It's not as if your your armed forces turned tail after getting assraped by a bunch of third-world peasants with AK's and pointy sticks.
Oh. I guess that's pretty much what did happen.
Yeah, I apologise for going on about Grenada, I'm sorry. I should have mentioned Panama as well.
USA, the world salutes you! You are certainly more than capable of victory when the opposition is a tiny Central American banana republic and/or island, or maybe a civilian population center of women, old men, and schoolchildren that you can drop nuclear weapons on from 20,000 feet.
So you agree that the USA has been buttfucked by amateurs from Saigon to Kandahar then? I knew acknowledging the US victory against overwhelming odds and enemy technological superiority in Grenada would help establish common ground.
Someone in the India Ministry of Defense probably googled "American military victories". Turned up late to two World Wars after everyone else had already done all the work, dropped nuclear weapons on two civilian targets (that's some real bravery right thur Cletus), then proceeded to get buttfucked by amateurs from Saigon to Kandahar.
Just kidding America, we know you showed Grenada who's boss! USA! USA!
The US is willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics while keeping the source for all the software. Would you buy a piece of military hardware knowing that the aging paranoid warcrazy manufacturer may have retained the ability to disable all those planes with the flip of a switch?
I have a $125,000 education that I PAID FOR. No mommy payment plane. I then BUSTED MY ASS to get to the level I am at doing my job.
Don't care.
To which I make just more then the median salary in LA. I work more hours then a chinese factory worker this stuff and you think its a victim less crime.
Don't care.
Im sorry that you think everyone that works on this stuff makes millions of dollars. They don't.
Don't care.
I love this robin hood bullshit. Rob from the middle class worker to give to the spoiled kids plan. NICE. Probably why I had to spend the past 2 years of my life living in hotels in foreign countries to do my job in VFX. One of those being China.
Don't care.
So you go ahead keep thinking its ok to Pirate movies and put a lot of people out of work because it will all go to china and india accept for the talent who do make millions of dollars.
Don't care.
Sucks to have put all that time and effort into a career that has no future. You just sound like some privileged whiny-ass horse-and-cart worker bitching about these newfangled automobiles. HTFU.
if everyone pirated everything, creators would not be in a position to create entertainment for you. It's just not financially viable.
Boo fucking hoo. The desire of an artist/musician/chef/filmmaker/photographer/mime/sculptor to Make Stuff does not place upon me an obligation to pay him for it.
Sometime around when IT workers realise they work in an industry with no barrier to entry and that the job they think is so important can just as competently be done by someone in India at 10% of the cost.
Software development has many things in common with other engineering disciplines but it's not as mature... hence not as reliable.
I call bullshit on this. Given the population of the world and the explosion in information technology, I'd wager that more man-hours got spent on "software engineering" worldwide in the past year than have been devoted to the study of real engineering since the beginning of human civilisation.
"World War II, if you watch enough of the History Channel, boiled down to the USA winning and doing everything and being awesome because it was awesome."
Germany wasn't able to build fast enough to keep up with the Soviet Union's production of the T-34. That's the story of tanks in WWII, you're welcome.
yes, but the important point here is that those Euro-socialist school systems have produced societies where people can read. Thus there is a market for products that involve reading.
When I take a photo on on of my iPhones that photo is immediately copied to the photo albums of all the other iPhones. You mean I could do this thirty years ago and didn't know about it? Shit, ripped off.
The mono part isn't necessary. You're not going to get anything but a single oxygen atom to bond with two hydrogen atoms. Take a fucking chemistry class.
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In retrospect the semantic hairsplitting and tying of legal precedent in knots that enabled the Nuremberg Military Tribunals to sentence high-ranking Nazis to death and imprisonment for doing things that weren't illegal when and where they were done seems indefensible. To retroactively pardon Turing because the case seems crazy in hindsight is to open the door for pardoning those Nazi fuckers because we can now look back and see that the deck was stacked against them in court.
Why so touchy? It's not as if your your armed forces turned tail after getting assraped by a bunch of third-world peasants with AK's and pointy sticks.
Oh. I guess that's pretty much what did happen.
Yeah, I apologise for going on about Grenada, I'm sorry. I should have mentioned Panama as well.
USA, the world salutes you! You are certainly more than capable of victory when the opposition is a tiny Central American banana republic and/or island, or maybe a civilian population center of women, old men, and schoolchildren that you can drop nuclear weapons on from 20,000 feet.
So you agree that the USA has been buttfucked by amateurs from Saigon to Kandahar then? I knew acknowledging the US victory against overwhelming odds and enemy technological superiority in Grenada would help establish common ground.
In terms of ratios, the only hard ones I've seen are in regards to the Tiger.
US estimated that to deal with a Tiger, they'd need 6 Sherman with 75mm guns, and they'd lose 5
Oh please, that's just pointless hyperbole. The figure I heard was only 5 Shermans, with 4 sacrificed so the last one could land a hit.
I would dare say that anyone who can be considered to have even passing knowledge of Western history would know who Bismarck is, and why he is famous.
So no Americans then?
Someone in the India Ministry of Defense probably googled "American military victories". Turned up late to two World Wars after everyone else had already done all the work, dropped nuclear weapons on two civilian targets (that's some real bravery right thur Cletus), then proceeded to get buttfucked by amateurs from Saigon to Kandahar.
Just kidding America, we know you showed Grenada who's boss! USA! USA!
The US is willing to invest heavily in upgrading old avionics while keeping the source for all the software. Would you buy a piece of military hardware knowing that the aging paranoid warcrazy manufacturer may have retained the ability to disable all those planes with the flip of a switch?
I have a $125,000 education that I PAID FOR. No mommy payment plane. I then BUSTED MY ASS to get to the level I am at doing my job.
Don't care.
To which I make just more then the median salary in LA. I work more hours then a chinese factory worker this stuff and you think its a victim less crime.
Don't care.
Im sorry that you think everyone that works on this stuff makes millions of dollars. They don't.
Don't care.
I love this robin hood bullshit. Rob from the middle class worker to give to the spoiled kids plan. NICE. Probably why I had to spend the past 2 years of my life living in hotels in foreign countries to do my job in VFX. One of those being China.
Don't care.
So you go ahead keep thinking its ok to Pirate movies and put a lot of people out of work because it will all go to china and india accept for the talent who do make millions of dollars.
Don't care.
Sucks to have put all that time and effort into a career that has no future. You just sound like some privileged whiny-ass horse-and-cart worker bitching about these newfangled automobiles. HTFU.
if everyone pirated everything, creators would not be in a position to create entertainment for you. It's just not financially viable.
Boo fucking hoo. The desire of an artist/musician/chef/filmmaker/photographer/mime/sculptor to Make Stuff does not place upon me an obligation to pay him for it.
A 44 year round trip if you travel at the speed of light from start to finish.
That's a pretty big if.
Sometime around when IT workers realise they work in an industry with no barrier to entry and that the job they think is so important can just as competently be done by someone in India at 10% of the cost.
Come on Slashdot editors, you can do better than that. I suggest:
"Apple Pirate Apple TV Apple Operation Apple Nabbed Apple In Apple Australia Apple"
or maybe "Apple Apple Pirate Apple Apple Australia Apple Apple"
or possibly even "Apple iPhone iPad iPod iMac Macbook Pro Macbook Air iTunes Steve Jobs Apple"
Keep on spamming those keywords, you're improving the Internet for everyone!
Software development has many things in common with other engineering disciplines but it's not as mature... hence not as reliable.
I call bullshit on this. Given the population of the world and the explosion in information technology, I'd wager that more man-hours got spent on "software engineering" worldwide in the past year than have been devoted to the study of real engineering since the beginning of human civilisation.
So you don't get confused with a real, actual engineer.
Apple is still a niche player.
Yes it is, so long as your definition of "niche player" is "the biggest maker of PCs in the world".
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/apple-becomes-worlds-biggest-maker-of-computers-thanks-to-ipad/
Steve Jobs kick my dog!
OS X 10.5 and later on Intel is official Open-Group-certified UNIX. It's not "built on top of UNIX", it is UNIX.
"World War II, if you watch enough of the History Channel, boiled down to the USA winning and doing everything and being awesome because it was awesome."
Germany wasn't able to build fast enough to keep up with the Soviet Union's production of the T-34. That's the story of tanks in WWII, you're welcome.
And then coming to your house, fucking your wife in the butt
Well, someone's gotta do it.
Nicely said EdIII (1114411) sir.
yes, but the important point here is that those Euro-socialist school systems have produced societies where people can read. Thus there is a market for products that involve reading.
When I take a photo on on of my iPhones that photo is immediately copied to the photo albums of all the other iPhones. You mean I could do this thirty years ago and didn't know about it? Shit, ripped off.
The mono part isn't necessary. You're not going to get anything but a single oxygen atom to bond with two hydrogen atoms. Take a fucking chemistry class.
Your a retard!!1
by all means keep believing that because Android is given away freely by the AOSP that it costs nothing to use.
Hell no, not with the licensing fees they have to pay to Microsoft to use Android.
iPhone4's are top selling model only because competitors like Samsung offer many different models.
And which one of those strategies seems to be working the best?