What I find amusing is that often, within the entitlement community, software patents are derided as "something obvious, on a computer," but it seems to be that the converse case is much more prevalent, which is to say that the entitlement community thinks anything that was done on a computer is somehow obvious regardless of effort. Are you really laboring under the delusion that the H.264 spec didn't require serious inventive work? Or maybe it's just your contention that since it is done on a computer, they should be forced to give it away for free, regardless of that effort...
It isn't a universal truth, it's a truth for a small class of people, and it is being heard only in an echo chamber. Even in the echo chamber, not everyone agrees. The general public has no particular use for software freedom and will never understand what it means enough to care. The closest you can get is showing them that certain types of software become no-cost as a value proposition. This hasn't worked for Linux in all these years, so I suspect it really won't go anywhere.
Of course, since the people who care about this are a tiny, tiny minority, all you are really doing is whining loudly to yourselves, repeatedly, ineffectually, and annoyingly.
Don't take that little nugget of truth as a sign I think what you are doing is wrong. I'm just pointing out reality.
I find a certain amount of humor in the concept that one should obey the theoretical privacy-seeking wishes of people who are attempting to hide their lawbreaking activities.
That's OK, the Republican party thrives on mindless opposition to anything the Democrats propose. Congrats on being part of that machine instead, I guess.
Socialism obviously isn't the pure evil that the populist right party tries to paint it as, just as corporations are not the pure evil that the populist left party tries to paint them as. This is just the result of playing the false dichotomy version of politics, where every problem must be boiled down to two raging sides.
That's true of the world in general, but here's the trick people seem to forget, or perhaps never learn: the very nature of people trying expands the top to fit more.
Sure, you might not make it. There is no guarantee you're good enough. But the one guarantee I can make to you is if you never try, you'll never get there.
Sorry, society really does work on the basis that you're only as good as your last envelope, and the envelopes from the unions have been light for 40 years now.
It's funny, the song I was thinking about when I said the best music comes from enjoying life was The Ocean by Led Zeppelin, which just happened to be playing on my iPod at the moment. Still calling it wannabe?
One is that good music can be inspired by anything, not just pain. The other is a little more subtle - I am making the point that declaring an opinion as fact is ridiculous.
Eclipse has Visual Studio beaten six ways from Sunday for anyone who isn't a click-and-drag programming monkey. C# has a lot more sugar in its syntax, which is the real win. The downside is that.NET, in general, is behind Java in freely available third party library support.
Obviously you are a sheep being led by your corporate masters if you think a huge federal government with no effective limits on its power is a problem. True progressives know that government always knows best.
Of course, the fact that a proper shuffle can be implemented with the same effort as this nasty hack works against your point, but I can reformulate your point without that error: management often chooses to do things in the most failure prone way possible because they don't understand what they're managing and so make all decisions with naive assumptions instead. Any techie knows that.
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I don't know why Malda doesn't just rename this section "Ridicule Me" since that's what a large number of you folks seem to think it means.
What I find amusing is that often, within the entitlement community, software patents are derided as "something obvious, on a computer," but it seems to be that the converse case is much more prevalent, which is to say that the entitlement community thinks anything that was done on a computer is somehow obvious regardless of effort. Are you really laboring under the delusion that the H.264 spec didn't require serious inventive work? Or maybe it's just your contention that since it is done on a computer, they should be forced to give it away for free, regardless of that effort...
It isn't a universal truth, it's a truth for a small class of people, and it is being heard only in an echo chamber. Even in the echo chamber, not everyone agrees. The general public has no particular use for software freedom and will never understand what it means enough to care. The closest you can get is showing them that certain types of software become no-cost as a value proposition. This hasn't worked for Linux in all these years, so I suspect it really won't go anywhere.
But the hammer isn't the only tool, we also have you.
Fingerworks.
Of course, since the people who care about this are a tiny, tiny minority, all you are really doing is whining loudly to yourselves, repeatedly, ineffectually, and annoyingly.
Don't take that little nugget of truth as a sign I think what you are doing is wrong. I'm just pointing out reality.
I find a certain amount of humor in the concept that one should obey the theoretical privacy-seeking wishes of people who are attempting to hide their lawbreaking activities.
Oh kdawson, you are a genius rabble rouser.
That's OK, the Republican party thrives on mindless opposition to anything the Democrats propose. Congrats on being part of that machine instead, I guess.
Socialism obviously isn't the pure evil that the populist right party tries to paint it as, just as corporations are not the pure evil that the populist left party tries to paint them as. This is just the result of playing the false dichotomy version of politics, where every problem must be boiled down to two raging sides.
You have obviously never worked for them, or if you do, you have a position that is very disconnected from the day-to-day operations.
A few hundred years of raping the world for resources through colonization and subjugation might have helped there, as well.
If they win their lawsuit they have all the money they need anyway. It's as solid a business plan as I can imagine.
That's true of the world in general, but here's the trick people seem to forget, or perhaps never learn: the very nature of people trying expands the top to fit more.
Sure, you might not make it. There is no guarantee you're good enough. But the one guarantee I can make to you is if you never try, you'll never get there.
Sorry, society really does work on the basis that you're only as good as your last envelope, and the envelopes from the unions have been light for 40 years now.
Well there was that update last month that broke that rootkit...
It's funny, the song I was thinking about when I said the best music comes from enjoying life was The Ocean by Led Zeppelin, which just happened to be playing on my iPod at the moment. Still calling it wannabe?
Actually there are two parts to my post.
One is that good music can be inspired by anything, not just pain. The other is a little more subtle - I am making the point that declaring an opinion as fact is ridiculous.
The best music comes from enjoying life. Whiny emo comes from pain.
A true artist doesn't give a fuck what restrictions you think you get to put on his motivations. In other words, I think you're full of it.
I can only assume you hate the human race to think that what you describe is somehow an improvement.
Eclipse has Visual Studio beaten six ways from Sunday for anyone who isn't a click-and-drag programming monkey. C# has a lot more sugar in its syntax, which is the real win. The downside is that .NET, in general, is behind Java in freely available third party library support.
You've proven nothing but your own inability to write good Java.
Obviously you are a sheep being led by your corporate masters if you think a huge federal government with no effective limits on its power is a problem. True progressives know that government always knows best.
I don't get the rules, but I sure do like pot. I'm in.
Of course, the fact that a proper shuffle can be implemented with the same effort as this nasty hack works against your point, but I can reformulate your point without that error: management often chooses to do things in the most failure prone way possible because they don't understand what they're managing and so make all decisions with naive assumptions instead. Any techie knows that.