Words are just words. Only actions matter. But people are lazy and zealous fighting of expletives is a way good way for a lazy manager to look productive. Everyone will still swear when they feel the need and manager will discipline selectively to achieve his political goals.
But who decides what is toxic and what is merely communication pointing out people's mistakes? It's subjective and differs from person to person. Most people call any sort of criticism toxic, and it's impossible to do any productive work if you can't tell that a person did a mistake.
On the other hand Pokemon Company didn't and couldn't lose any money or suffer any other kind of harm due to that event so this lawsuit is abuse of law. For sure this party couldn't erode brand image or lead to consumer confusion, which the company admitted by not filing a trademark suit and abusing copyright instead.
Yes it was logical to brand the kid a possible terrorist. A lot cheaper and easier than actually maintain appropriate classes for technically minded students. If they didn't bust him for terrorism he could possibly make them look stupid and incompetent and there's no way they could allow that. It could affect their bottom line.
If it doesn't need updates then there's no point for company to exist in the first place. What's wrong with people being paid only as long as they actually do useful work? I don't think you showed that rent seeking is in any way needed here let alone that there's no alternative for it.
Copyright basically enables them to create near infinite streams of free money without any effort required to maintain them. Don't expect them to give this up without a fight. Even something as innocent as public domain or fair use is treated primarily as possible threat to their pocket.
Nothing unique about Germany's history.Holocaust-like things happened in many other places too, and Lebensraum doctrine was part of German culture long before Hitler and still will be long time after. They just pretend it isn't, so that possible victims won't bug them too much before they're ready to make their move, and childish ultra-nationalists give them away. That's why they outlaw their speech.
The consequence of "publish and perish" model is that most of scientific papers just aren't very useful. Proper science is still being done, though it's drowned out by scientists who have nothing more useful to add at the moment but have to publish in order to get grants. And there's not much difference here between psychology and "hard" sciences.
By uniform. But any criminal can acquire a uniform and unlike a human driver an automated system can't resist orders given by a criminal that would jeopardize driver's safety.
Anyway I have no idea what's up with this obsession with increasing the number of api calls. You don't need to do a lot of those if you design your rendering pipeline right. One glDrawElements would accomplish a lot of work, especially if you're using vertex and pixel shaders.
What a stupid strawman argument. It's irrelevant in this context what is legal and what isn't. It's the fact that people of different religion shun or kill each other depending on how close they think their religion is close to "winning". This makes religion definitely a negative social force. I don't advocate ban of religion though because it's not needed. Just prevent shunning and killing via dialogue and diplomacy and eventually humanity will become entirely irreligious. Nobody will join a religion unless some kook like Ron Hubbard tricks them. They won't stay in religion unless peer pressure and threat of loss of property would keep them in.
Doesn't quite read like the call for the worldwide caliphate you imply.
It's still in line with the stupid idea of religious pluralism. Mahatma Gandhi adopted this stance too, but it was his mistake. In the end he was assassinated by Hindu religious fanatic for looking for compromise with Islam faithful. Learn from mistakes of world's great thinkers! Gandhi should have opposed religions as much as he opposed British colonialism. There is inherently no compromise between religions because existence of other religions will be always a source of butthurt for a particular religion. And they'll always try to weaken and suppress other religions. Thus religious pluralism isn't a path to lasting peace.
If you want it for windows only software better use win7. There are even more compatibility woes between different windows versions than between linux and windows:P
Indeed such initiatives seem very one sided. While fighting one kind of stereotypes(men being sex obsessed assholes) they reinforce other stereotypes (women being pathologically nice and insecure). But human character isn't defined by configuration of their genitalia, rather than by sum of their past experiences. Yet stereotypes are part of one's experience and sometimes make one implicitly believe things that are not true.
Game streaming isn't steam machine's killer feature but a temporary workaround for games that don't have native linux port yet. So anything else matching it wouldn't make it any more or less useful than it already is.
I think that disallowing forks is a bad idea. True multiple forks might be confusing for users but only one will win in the end. And chance of fork discourages original authors from doing really stupid and selfish stuff. I think chance of fork should always exist, no exceptions.
Calling advocation of equal rights "feminism" is absolutely unacceptable to me. Either you end up looking advocating woman supremacy instead which is equally bad since 50% of humanity is still shafted. Or you're using chauvinist terminology which assumes that equal rights benefit women because they're inherently inferior.
Mind you it IS more than possible for a woman to be chauvinist, because lack of rights is always complemented by lack of responsibilities and some of them would prefer it to stay so.
It's better without site so at least they aren't giving away their personal data. They're lucky those activists decided to perform this stunt rather than sell the data on black market or something..
Actually I have a deeper issue with the way current copyright works. If people pay merely for right to make a copy of particular work and peruse it then it serves basically as money printing machine since it doesn't require any effort for copyright holder to grant such a permission. The fact that making original work requires effort is irrelevant in this case because copyright license and creative efforts are unrelated and there's no economic mechanism to ensure that copyright holder will stop taking money for it once his investment in its creation has paid off. Thus there's no place for actual creative people in this "industry" now. It's only for rentier who want to establish another aristocratic class.
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Words are just words. Only actions matter. But people are lazy and zealous fighting of expletives is a way good way for a lazy manager to look productive. Everyone will still swear when they feel the need and manager will discipline selectively to achieve his political goals.
But who decides what is toxic and what is merely communication pointing out people's mistakes? It's subjective and differs from person to person. Most people call any sort of criticism toxic, and it's impossible to do any productive work if you can't tell that a person did a mistake.
On the other hand Pokemon Company didn't and couldn't lose any money or suffer any other kind of harm due to that event so this lawsuit is abuse of law. For sure this party couldn't erode brand image or lead to consumer confusion, which the company admitted by not filing a trademark suit and abusing copyright instead.
That is a complete contradiction of the headline and the opening of the summary.
Yes this contradiction is too complete, it sounds like suspiciously specific denial, that's why it made it to headline :P
Because he hates freedom obviously.
Yes it was logical to brand the kid a possible terrorist. A lot cheaper and easier than actually maintain appropriate classes for technically minded students. If they didn't bust him for terrorism he could possibly make them look stupid and incompetent and there's no way they could allow that. It could affect their bottom line.
If it doesn't need updates then there's no point for company to exist in the first place. What's wrong with people being paid only as long as they actually do useful work? I don't think you showed that rent seeking is in any way needed here let alone that there's no alternative for it.
Copyright basically enables them to create near infinite streams of free money without any effort required to maintain them. Don't expect them to give this up without a fight. Even something as innocent as public domain or fair use is treated primarily as possible threat to their pocket.
Nothing unique about Germany's history.Holocaust-like things happened in many other places too, and Lebensraum doctrine was part of German culture long before Hitler and still will be long time after. They just pretend it isn't, so that possible victims won't bug them too much before they're ready to make their move, and childish ultra-nationalists give them away. That's why they outlaw their speech.
The consequence of "publish and perish" model is that most of scientific papers just aren't very useful. Proper science is still being done, though it's drowned out by scientists who have nothing more useful to add at the moment but have to publish in order to get grants. And there's not much difference here between psychology and "hard" sciences.
I mean if you're deep in some remote locale and the cop who tells you to pull over is in middle of armed to the teeth biker gang would you?
By uniform. But any criminal can acquire a uniform and unlike a human driver an automated system can't resist orders given by a criminal that would jeopardize driver's safety.
Anyway I have no idea what's up with this obsession with increasing the number of api calls. You don't need to do a lot of those if you design your rendering pipeline right. One glDrawElements would accomplish a lot of work, especially if you're using vertex and pixel shaders.
What a stupid strawman argument. It's irrelevant in this context what is legal and what isn't. It's the fact that people of different religion shun or kill each other depending on how close they think their religion is close to "winning". This makes religion definitely a negative social force. I don't advocate ban of religion though because it's not needed. Just prevent shunning and killing via dialogue and diplomacy and eventually humanity will become entirely irreligious. Nobody will join a religion unless some kook like Ron Hubbard tricks them. They won't stay in religion unless peer pressure and threat of loss of property would keep them in.
Doesn't quite read like the call for the worldwide caliphate you imply.
It's still in line with the stupid idea of religious pluralism. Mahatma Gandhi adopted this stance too, but it was his mistake. In the end he was assassinated by Hindu religious fanatic for looking for compromise with Islam faithful. Learn from mistakes of world's great thinkers! Gandhi should have opposed religions as much as he opposed British colonialism. There is inherently no compromise between religions because existence of other religions will be always a source of butthurt for a particular religion. And they'll always try to weaken and suppress other religions. Thus religious pluralism isn't a path to lasting peace.
If you want it for windows only software better use win7. There are even more compatibility woes between different windows versions than between linux and windows :P
Thank you.
I didn't read the link because it requires a facebook account which I don't have and never will have. Maybe it's mirrored in free access somewhere?
Indeed such initiatives seem very one sided. While fighting one kind of stereotypes(men being sex obsessed assholes) they reinforce other stereotypes (women being pathologically nice and insecure). But human character isn't defined by configuration of their genitalia, rather than by sum of their past experiences. Yet stereotypes are part of one's experience and sometimes make one implicitly believe things that are not true.
stop using Linux and learn FreeBSD.
Maybe after it switches to launchd..
Game streaming isn't steam machine's killer feature but a temporary workaround for games that don't have native linux port yet. So anything else matching it wouldn't make it any more or less useful than it already is.
I think that disallowing forks is a bad idea. True multiple forks might be confusing for users but only one will win in the end. And chance of fork discourages original authors from doing really stupid and selfish stuff. I think chance of fork should always exist, no exceptions.
Calling advocation of equal rights "feminism" is absolutely unacceptable to me. Either you end up looking advocating woman supremacy instead which is equally bad since 50% of humanity is still shafted. Or you're using chauvinist terminology which assumes that equal rights benefit women because they're inherently inferior.
Mind you it IS more than possible for a woman to be chauvinist, because lack of rights is always complemented by lack of responsibilities and some of them would prefer it to stay so.
It's better without site so at least they aren't giving away their personal data. They're lucky those activists decided to perform this stunt rather than sell the data on black market or something..
Actually I have a deeper issue with the way current copyright works. If people pay merely for right to make a copy of particular work and peruse it then it serves basically as money printing machine since it doesn't require any effort for copyright holder to grant such a permission. The fact that making original work requires effort is irrelevant in this case because copyright license and creative efforts are unrelated and there's no economic mechanism to ensure that copyright holder will stop taking money for it once his investment in its creation has paid off. Thus there's no place for actual creative people in this "industry" now. It's only for rentier who want to establish another aristocratic class.