You realize, of course, that you all you've done is express snark without addressing what you quoted.
What you probably don't realize is that the propensity to work hard and the ability to make good decisions also pretty much come down to luck. So what? Some people are winners. Getting pissy about that fact just makes you bitter.
I would like to introduce you to the concept of "idioms." Apparently while you were mastering the English language through your courses on spelling and grammar, you missed the part where we can have phrases that don't mean what the literal definition says.
That's not the point at all, and I suspect you know that. Arguing about the details of a metaphorical example is a good sign you don't actually have an argument.
The real point was: you can ignore people on the phone just as easily as you can ignore anybody else talking. The fact that you'd rather bitch about it like a baby doesn't make you a righteous martyr. It just makes you a bitch.
So they can learn to ignore it. It's not hard. It's like ignoring the street preacher screaming about how we're all going to hell. You only notice it if you pay attention to it.
Even though I'm completely used to the flow of Microsoft hatred around here, you guys are really topping yourselves with the pointless bashing on this non-story.
Congrats! Very entertaining, although in a somewhat ironic way.
The case hasn't generated as many headlines as it should.
Yeah, people in general don't care. This is a trivial detail to the world at large. The freedom to use and modify software is simply meaningless to all but a vanishingly small percentage of humans. Thus the reason that Open Source, Free Software, whatever, while indeed meritorious for its ideals, will never gain widespread acceptance based on them.
I've been laughing the whole time. This is basically the free entertainment crowd getting pissed that someone is going to slow them down at their buffet. Boo fucking hoo.
Guess what - that is the market. No one is promising that you're going to get everything you want at the price you want to pay. No one ever did promise that. I know this is a shock to you, but the main reason people bother making the investments to make all these services work for you is the hope for profit. Trying to take away that incentive in favor of some imaginary right to free technology isn't actually going to make anything happen.
Does your non-native speaking friend natively speak every language except English? If not, then logically speaking, their pronouncements on the all non-native speakers of English are utterly meaningless.
You might be good at putting together a useless rant on a simple grammar mistake, but you fail at logic.
It's not good PR, but it only really reinforces the opinions of people who were railing against the iPhone development program in the first place. I predict the effect will be minimal. I also predict that things will change because *gasp* the market is competitive. Yay capitalism.
but by playing ball, the president probably got something in which he was interested in the bargain
Yeah, he got the DCMA into the lawbooks, which made his major contributors happy. It doesn't take too much looking to understand.
Although I guess it would make the Slashdotocrat types more comfortable to believe good ol' Bill supported the law under duress, there's just no reason to believe that at all.
Slashdot Mirror
You realize, of course, that you all you've done is express snark without addressing what you quoted.
What you probably don't realize is that the propensity to work hard and the ability to make good decisions also pretty much come down to luck. So what? Some people are winners. Getting pissy about that fact just makes you bitter.
I would like to introduce you to the concept of "idioms." Apparently while you were mastering the English language through your courses on spelling and grammar, you missed the part where we can have phrases that don't mean what the literal definition says.
I love your attitude. Can we have sex?
It's the socialist society that can't survive without eliminating choice.
You don't need to eliminate choice, you just need to eliminate people who would choose differently. Then socialism works beautifully.
That's not the point at all, and I suspect you know that. Arguing about the details of a metaphorical example is a good sign you don't actually have an argument.
The real point was: you can ignore people on the phone just as easily as you can ignore anybody else talking. The fact that you'd rather bitch about it like a baby doesn't make you a righteous martyr. It just makes you a bitch.
So they can learn to ignore it. It's not hard. It's like ignoring the street preacher screaming about how we're all going to hell. You only notice it if you pay attention to it.
Yeah, that's the 10%
Even though I'm completely used to the flow of Microsoft hatred around here, you guys are really topping yourselves with the pointless bashing on this non-story.
Congrats! Very entertaining, although in a somewhat ironic way.
Stick a wiki up on a webserver. That's pretty much 90% of Basecamp anyway. Hell, that's pretty much 90% of all 37signals apps.
But what about the feature of the NT kernel where game companies actually produce software for it? When is the Linux kernel going to get that one?
I agree with the decision, I welcome it entirely.
However...
Yeah, people in general don't care. This is a trivial detail to the world at large. The freedom to use and modify software is simply meaningless to all but a vanishingly small percentage of humans. Thus the reason that Open Source, Free Software, whatever, while indeed meritorious for its ideals, will never gain widespread acceptance based on them.
Your stupid reason is somewhat worse than his insane one. RMS defeats you again.
Did you stop reading the comment when you saw that and miss where your point is already addressed in your haste to learn someone a lesson?
I've been laughing the whole time. This is basically the free entertainment crowd getting pissed that someone is going to slow them down at their buffet. Boo fucking hoo.
Your bad feelings have no effect on reality. The likely course is that the caps will increase as the infrastructure improves.
Guess what - that is the market. No one is promising that you're going to get everything you want at the price you want to pay. No one ever did promise that. I know this is a shock to you, but the main reason people bother making the investments to make all these services work for you is the hope for profit. Trying to take away that incentive in favor of some imaginary right to free technology isn't actually going to make anything happen.
Does your non-native speaking friend natively speak every language except English? If not, then logically speaking, their pronouncements on the all non-native speakers of English are utterly meaningless.
You might be good at putting together a useless rant on a simple grammar mistake, but you fail at logic.
It's not good PR, but it only really reinforces the opinions of people who were railing against the iPhone development program in the first place. I predict the effect will be minimal. I also predict that things will change because *gasp* the market is competitive. Yay capitalism.
I'm not entirely certain how your legal opinion has any validity at all, no matter how "obvious" it seems to you.
No, it must all be stupid because I don't understand it. Stop defending Haskell and accept that C is the one true way to write anything.
By way of explanation I shall make the following observation:
Vista sucks.
+5 Insightful, please.
Don't you mean the Vista joke? I've only seen one so far, over and over.
Of course it will! Don't you know that everyone is secretly dying to give away all of their work?
Yeah, he got the DCMA into the lawbooks, which made his major contributors happy. It doesn't take too much looking to understand.
Although I guess it would make the Slashdotocrat types more comfortable to believe good ol' Bill supported the law under duress, there's just no reason to believe that at all.
You're just outright lying, which stupidly enough isn't even necessary in this situation.