I was hoping to read that if you promised to publish only FOSS on the app store you wouldn't have to pay for the yearly developer's account fee. Too bad, that's not there. To develop for windows phone 8 / windows 8 and be able to test on real phones and publish on the app store, you need:
- a yearly 99$ developer's account fee
- a windows 8 pro 64 bits installation to run visual studio 2012
- to test on the emulator, a computer with a CPU supporting SLAT; therefore either a pretty new PC or a virtualization software that supports it, like the latest Parallels Desktop, which is not free either
Once you pay for all that making your software not free anymore is almost natural.
And I thought people on slashdot knew about logic. No one said the only wai to kill people is with guns. Your counter argument doesn't counter the argument.
The problem I see is that not being a criminal, you can buy a gun in the US. Then, for whatever reason, you commit a crime - with that gun.
In a country where guns are prohibited, as a non-criminal, you didn't buy a gun. If you go disturbed enough to be in a state where you might come to commit a crime, you still don't have a gun. People who buy guns in countries where guns are prohibited have been criminal for much longer to have that kind of access.
The problem with non-criminals being allowed to buy guns is that when they finally snap, they have a gun.
When I read the summary (I didn't read TFA, ha!) i thought by "lost" they meant lost, not dead. Meaning, genetically modified mice are now free to breed with the normal mice in the wild. What would be the consequences of that, I have no idea. It depends how modified were the mice. Will they bring us new diseases? Make mice stronger, leading to overbreeding? I can't see anything good coming out of that anyway.
Francois Hollande's government has been pulling new creative taxes out of their asses for a little while now. That one's completely silly but it's not the only one. Another one is a new tax on beer. I guess that's how he figures he will raise France problems: raising even more taxes, yey! That's new and usually very popular, right? The fact that it's very sneaky could have worked... if people didn't notice. Some taxes are too silly to get unnoticed. Some others are surfacing up, like a new 15% tax on rents. People are getting pissed. He'd better put these taxes to EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT use or else he's out at next election.
Oh please... I will probably only cause anger in you but i can't help correct you, even if do it clumsily.
"We have air conditioning everywhere. We have freely available water. Everyone can have a phone, but not just a phone, a cellphone. We have freely available internet." - these obviously cost money... what are you talking about?
"At what point are these people choosing poverty, and if that is the case why should we care?" - at no point does anyone chose poverty; you don't have to care. Choosing or not to do is what separates one from being selfish or selfless, that's it. If you're rich enough that there is absolutely no possibility for you to ever become poor because of a drama in your life you definetly don't have to, but if you're not that rich, you could think of how you'd need people to care if you did become poor yourself.
"However the vast majority of these are people with mental problems who are high-enough functioning to not be compelled into assistance, who then go out and choose this lifestyle." - Yes, right. All these homeless living in constant fear and hunger just chose that confortable life style. Tonight i'll go rest in my sofa in front of the TV but really, deep inside me, what I want is to sleep in the cold and filth of an underbridge, constantly waking up at any noise, scared of being aggressed. That's the life. Seriously, if people have mental issues they need to be taken care of by psychiatrists and possibly mental institutions, not just left to rot in the streets.
If you're rich and don't want to care about the poor, fine. Other less selfish people will do it. But don't invent such lame excuses to not care about them and accept the fact that you're selfish.
I don't see your point, maybe you'd like to explain more. Your comment can give the impression that if people are poor it's because they are dumb enough to buy an iThingy and an expensive car that they can't afford, but hopefully there is more to it. A family of four living with 22k a year are poor, regardless of how many iThingies they own (and btw, in many places in the US you can't live without a car if you want a job).
Yes, i biaised the ironic part of my answer, on purpose. Doesn't change my point: this summary is a flame bait with no citation to back up its affirmations.
"many farmers still depend on them.... Internet service spread much more slowly in France than it did elsewhere in Europe or in the United States, largely because of the popularity of the Minitel, historians say. Only around the turn of the century did the Internet come to much of this soggy western region"
Seriously? Farmers depend on Minitel? I never saw that in my "soggy wester region", Normandy. Also, care to give citations for what I bolded out? Hell in the US there are still vast portions of the country very, very badly covered by high speed internet access or not at all which isn't true in France. Who are these "historians"?
Was this article written by a Texan rancher who still strikes out "French fries" on restaurant menus to write "Liberty fries"?
Amen to that. I don't care whether or not my smartphone has Angry Birds, but I care that I can quickly browse my inbox and answer a few emails, reply to meeting invites and proof read documents without having to wonder when the heck will I have one hour near a power socket to charge it.
Yes, I know. Everyone here does. Still, it doesn't say "it doesn't get viruses"; there ought to be a reason for that. And in most people's mind, a Mac is still not a PC.
Well in all "honesty" apple's own webpage says "it doesn't get PC viruses". Technically, it doesn't; it gets Mac malware. But I know, it isn't honest, hence my first quotes, and to most people that does mean that "it doesn't get anything bad, unlike that stupid windows thingy".
I have a 500 GB USB HDD plugged to a pogoplug at home, and have put another one pogoplug+hdd at a friend's house. I backup my macbook pro using arsync over aftp, my linux boxes using rsync over ssh, and my wife copies files from her win7 manually (she only has punctually a few stuff she wants to save) using windows shares because i added samba to my pogoplug (it's a linux and they give you root access). Then, the pogoplug software automagically mirrors my home's pogoplug to the one at my friend's. So there you have local daily backups and automatic off-site backups for 300$ (100$ for 2 pogoplugs, 200$ for these HDDs when i bought them; you'd get one TB each now i guess). And I can access my files using a web interface from anywhere, and give web links to any file i want for friends to download stuff.
Cheap, convenient, multiplatform, reliable, you have total control. What else?
"Something this expensive is going to have numerous measures to prevent enemies from gaining physical access"
"Secondly, I would expect military grade equipment to be fail-secure."
"I would really, really hope start of the art military hardware is more secure than a simple PS3"
Lots of assumptions and "hopes" here... Which one you think will get screwed up due to budget costs? Or simple mistakes? You just need one to see enemy "hackers" nuclear bombing US targets.
Remember how the most expensive jet at the time (the Harrier I think?) would become uncontrollable when passing time zones? The more automation you put in something, the more failures become likely and dangerous.
Sounds like all the "that new stuff is new so it's dangerous" crap we always hear. Since i was a child and started spending time on my brother's amstrad i've heard people explain me how I was damaging my health. I then spent the next 20 years or so not giving a damn and spending my days and nights in front of computers; now my eye sight is still of 10/10 both eyes and i have none of these arithric / back / wrist / fingers issues i keep hearing about. Plus it's what got me a job and pays the bills, so i'll continue spending my life in front of computers and not giving a damn.
So now we won't be able to copy-paste a google search to someone to brag "AHAH ! First page, first result!" because everyone's result will be different. Not sure that's a great feature.
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I was hoping to read that if you promised to publish only FOSS on the app store you wouldn't have to pay for the yearly developer's account fee. Too bad, that's not there. To develop for windows phone 8 / windows 8 and be able to test on real phones and publish on the app store, you need:
- a yearly 99$ developer's account fee
- a windows 8 pro 64 bits installation to run visual studio 2012
- to test on the emulator, a computer with a CPU supporting SLAT; therefore either a pretty new PC or a virtualization software that supports it, like the latest Parallels Desktop, which is not free either
Once you pay for all that making your software not free anymore is almost natural.
"setting up receivers"? "wiretapping"? Why do you think you need to make it sound like he was a spy to justify the sentence?
And I thought people on slashdot knew about logic. No one said the only wai to kill people is with guns. Your counter argument doesn't counter the argument.
Fucking nutjobs WITH GUNS are the problem. Fucking nutjobs without guns are still a problem, but less of a dangerous one.
Pfff.. There purpose is killing, period...
The problem I see is that not being a criminal, you can buy a gun in the US. Then, for whatever reason, you commit a crime - with that gun.
In a country where guns are prohibited, as a non-criminal, you didn't buy a gun. If you go disturbed enough to be in a state where you might come to commit a crime, you still don't have a gun. People who buy guns in countries where guns are prohibited have been criminal for much longer to have that kind of access.
The problem with non-criminals being allowed to buy guns is that when they finally snap, they have a gun.
Queue the "Taiwan is in China - No it's not" flame war.
Yes sir. Here it is bent in 2 with the screen and buttons still working (I did that many times):
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag67/tempforsd/WP_000647.jpg
I'm not saying all brands are that good, but that one is.
When I read the summary (I didn't read TFA, ha!) i thought by "lost" they meant lost, not dead. Meaning, genetically modified mice are now free to breed with the normal mice in the wild. What would be the consequences of that, I have no idea. It depends how modified were the mice. Will they bring us new diseases? Make mice stronger, leading to overbreeding? I can't see anything good coming out of that anyway.
Francois Hollande's government has been pulling new creative taxes out of their asses for a little while now. That one's completely silly but it's not the only one. Another one is a new tax on beer. I guess that's how he figures he will raise France problems: raising even more taxes, yey! That's new and usually very popular, right? The fact that it's very sneaky could have worked... if people didn't notice. Some taxes are too silly to get unnoticed. Some others are surfacing up, like a new 15% tax on rents. People are getting pissed. He'd better put these taxes to EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT use or else he's out at next election.
Jet SET Radio. You're still completely right though, the Dreamcast had some really, really great games. Just thinking of Shenmue brings back emotions.
Oh please... I will probably only cause anger in you but i can't help correct you, even if do it clumsily.
"We have air conditioning everywhere. We have freely available water. Everyone can have a phone, but not just a phone, a cellphone. We have freely available internet." - these obviously cost money... what are you talking about?
"At what point are these people choosing poverty, and if that is the case why should we care?" - at no point does anyone chose poverty; you don't have to care. Choosing or not to do is what separates one from being selfish or selfless, that's it. If you're rich enough that there is absolutely no possibility for you to ever become poor because of a drama in your life you definetly don't have to, but if you're not that rich, you could think of how you'd need people to care if you did become poor yourself.
"However the vast majority of these are people with mental problems who are high-enough functioning to not be compelled into assistance, who then go out and choose this lifestyle." - Yes, right. All these homeless living in constant fear and hunger just chose that confortable life style. Tonight i'll go rest in my sofa in front of the TV but really, deep inside me, what I want is to sleep in the cold and filth of an underbridge, constantly waking up at any noise, scared of being aggressed. That's the life. Seriously, if people have mental issues they need to be taken care of by psychiatrists and possibly mental institutions, not just left to rot in the streets. If you're rich and don't want to care about the poor, fine. Other less selfish people will do it. But don't invent such lame excuses to not care about them and accept the fact that you're selfish.
I don't see your point, maybe you'd like to explain more. Your comment can give the impression that if people are poor it's because they are dumb enough to buy an iThingy and an expensive car that they can't afford, but hopefully there is more to it. A family of four living with 22k a year are poor, regardless of how many iThingies they own (and btw, in many places in the US you can't live without a car if you want a job).
Yes, i biaised the ironic part of my answer, on purpose. Doesn't change my point: this summary is a flame bait with no citation to back up its affirmations.
"many farmers still depend on them. ... Internet service spread much more slowly in France than it did elsewhere in Europe or in the United States, largely because of the popularity of the Minitel, historians say. Only around the turn of the century did the Internet come to much of this soggy western region"
Seriously? Farmers depend on Minitel? I never saw that in my "soggy wester region", Normandy. Also, care to give citations for what I bolded out? Hell in the US there are still vast portions of the country very, very badly covered by high speed internet access or not at all which isn't true in France. Who are these "historians"?
Was this article written by a Texan rancher who still strikes out "French fries" on restaurant menus to write "Liberty fries"?
Amen to that. I don't care whether or not my smartphone has Angry Birds, but I care that I can quickly browse my inbox and answer a few emails, reply to meeting invites and proof read documents without having to wonder when the heck will I have one hour near a power socket to charge it.
Yes, I know. Everyone here does. Still, it doesn't say "it doesn't get viruses"; there ought to be a reason for that. And in most people's mind, a Mac is still not a PC.
Well in all "honesty" apple's own webpage says "it doesn't get PC viruses". Technically, it doesn't; it gets Mac malware. But I know, it isn't honest, hence my first quotes, and to most people that does mean that "it doesn't get anything bad, unlike that stupid windows thingy".
I have a 500 GB USB HDD plugged to a pogoplug at home, and have put another one pogoplug+hdd at a friend's house. I backup my macbook pro using arsync over aftp, my linux boxes using rsync over ssh, and my wife copies files from her win7 manually (she only has punctually a few stuff she wants to save) using windows shares because i added samba to my pogoplug (it's a linux and they give you root access). Then, the pogoplug software automagically mirrors my home's pogoplug to the one at my friend's. So there you have local daily backups and automatic off-site backups for 300$ (100$ for 2 pogoplugs, 200$ for these HDDs when i bought them; you'd get one TB each now i guess). And I can access my files using a web interface from anywhere, and give web links to any file i want for friends to download stuff. Cheap, convenient, multiplatform, reliable, you have total control. What else?
I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification.
"Something this expensive is going to have numerous measures to prevent enemies from gaining physical access"
"Secondly, I would expect military grade equipment to be fail-secure."
"I would really, really hope start of the art military hardware is more secure than a simple PS3"
Lots of assumptions and "hopes" here... Which one you think will get screwed up due to budget costs? Or simple mistakes? You just need one to see enemy "hackers" nuclear bombing US targets.
Remember how the most expensive jet at the time (the Harrier I think?) would become uncontrollable when passing time zones? The more automation you put in something, the more failures become likely and dangerous.
I can't wait to pay yet another 70$ a month for yet another 3g/4g connection. It's time to invent the one-person, multi-device mobile subscription.
Sounds like all the "that new stuff is new so it's dangerous" crap we always hear. Since i was a child and started spending time on my brother's amstrad i've heard people explain me how I was damaging my health. I then spent the next 20 years or so not giving a damn and spending my days and nights in front of computers; now my eye sight is still of 10/10 both eyes and i have none of these arithric / back / wrist / fingers issues i keep hearing about. Plus it's what got me a job and pays the bills, so i'll continue spending my life in front of computers and not giving a damn.
So now we won't be able to copy-paste a google search to someone to brag "AHAH ! First page, first result!" because everyone's result will be different. Not sure that's a great feature.
Aaaaaand slashdotted.
/. has no limit.
Slashdotted a planet 150 lights years away. The power of