Because the developing world does not have any emissions to cut. It's unfair to demand that people should starve just because you yourself has to cut down on the burgers.
Yeah, Slashdot is essentially a spamhost working for Apple these days. "News for nerds"? "Stuff that matters"? This story is neither. Not even the worst offenders among the fanboys can find it interesting at all. I can't imagine Apple doesn't pay Slashdot a significant amount for keeping their hype going.
We're getting better at measuring it? With that kind of test? It's basically asking "are you a good/bad person?" in a number of different ways. Maybe people are more (or less) honest about how they answer that kind of questionaires now, maybe they have a less idealised views of themselves, maybe they just don't give a fuck about what an anonymous questionaire says about them. Then there are questions like "Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place" -- which, if you can't help but doing that anyway, makes you come across as a callous motherfucker if you correctly answer "Does not describe me well". It's a shit test, and measures nothing.
When it comes to recipes, I'd say the GPL is probably the most draconian "license" you could come up with (as some other guy points out, you can't actually copyright a recipe, so fuck you). You can't serve the finished product without making the recipe available? You can't serve derivative products without making the recipe changes available under a similar license? What if someone uses your recipe as the base for an improvisation, and fail to take notes? S/he wouldn't be able to make the changes to the recipe available, and thus lose the license to distribute her product. Luckily, there are millions of free recipes available on the web, with no license attached to them, many of them well tested and discussed on appropriate fora. There are millions of recipes that you can buy in books, that also have no license attached to them. I'd suggest that attaching a GPL license to your recipe is a symptom of narcissism and a sure sign that you don't actually know what you're doing.
Right. Because a game is just a game; it's something you buy to enjoy for a short while, and although you may want to experience it again later, for nostalgia's sake, it's no big deal if you can't. It's not like buying a piece of productivity software only to notice that you can't read your documents -- your own work -- when you need to move to a new computer platform. Either you accept that, or you insist on playing FreeCIV instead of Sid Meier's games.
How would you feel if a 10 years old game stopped working because your current OS is incompatible? In that situation, the lack of access to source code is just as restrictive as DRM, and a DRM system such as Steam, with its automatic updates, might be less restrictive. Fact is, when you buy close-source software, you don't get to own it.
You really think so? I don't think you do. I think most Slashdotters know perfectly well that Apple looks out for Apple's best interest, and screwing the customer is something they do for profits, not for its own sake. Of course, with no rational defence for Apple, the fanboy resorts to strawman bullshit instead.
It was a memory hog like nothing seen before it, exceptionally slow, and full of bugs. It was certainly a lot less usable than OS 9 at the time (or any other major desktop OS, including Linux and BeOS), and Apple got the same complaints that KDE got: this should have been marked 'beta'. The response was that they needed testing and feedback, just like KDE. Apple: good guys taking your money. KDE: bad guys giving you things for free.
Evidently that doesn't hold true, as you just held Windows 7 as a shining example of doing something right, Vista all but forgotten. People are still harping on about KDE 4.0 whereas OS X 10.0 was forgotten with 10.2, Windows Vista with Windows 7, Gnome 2.0 (oh boy was that a disappointment!) sometime around 2.6 or so (and they still haven't fixed the file selector). There are more examples of poor.0 releases than good ones, but KDE 4.0 still gets more complaints than any other release, even though KDE evidently has evolved just as fast as all the examples I mentioned.
Windows 7 wouldn't be the quality release it is without the beta testing done through the full release of Windows Vista. Without Vista, Windows 7 wouldn't be. Or it would be... Windows Vista.
What? Windows 7 (Windows NT 6.1) is very good, but it followed up on Vista (Windows NT 6.0), which was received with ridicule and loud complaints after years of hype and abandoned technologies (WinFS, etc). Vista was released early 2007, Windows 7 was released October 2009. KDE 4.0 was released January 2008. If KDE 4 were to have its "Windows 7 moment", it would be right about now. Well, if the KDE project had Microsoft's resources, that is.
Oh, shut up, or start complaining about OS X 10.0 every time there's something new about Apple. You know that OS X was only half-way to beta quality on release as well?
I've done plenty of real work in KDE 4.x, efficiently, which is hard proof that you're wrong. It's fairly easy to use by default, on all distros I've tried it on (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu), so I can only assume you're severely mentally challenged.
Well, you are wrong. But perhaps KDE just isn't for you. You're free to use something else. Or you can spend some time and set up KDE4 to work exactly the way you want. It's very flexible, compared to all the others, even if you don't use the analog clock (I don't).
The OP: "Android market can get segmented quickly in terms of display resolutions and hardware capabilities." Look up the word "segment". The OP is right in that the Android market can segment apps so that if they don't work on small screens (240 x 320, for instance), they won't be available to install. And so, since understanding the OP correctly according to the dictionary, and the OP then being consistent with how the Android market works, and you being inconsistent with both the OP and the Android market, I suggest you FOAD.
Oh my. And pray tell, where has history taught us that avoiding an arms race guarantees that one is conquered by ones enemies? Let's see what history would have to prove:
1) Few participants of arms races are conquered, compared to non-participants. (Germany wouldn't lose WWII, or the Soviet Union the Cold war, for instance.) 2) For every arms race that does occur, and one country declines to or is unable to participate in it, that country will be conquered. (Iran being conquered by Iraq, for instance) 3) If an arms race is avoided, all potential parties to that arms race will be conquered.
No, he was writing about fragmentation of the market. He does not say a word about being forced to dick around -- which you correctly point out is what the "analogy" is about -- and neither does that have anything to do with the problems of the android platform. So basically, he plain forgot what his complaint was, and veered into the stale cliché of Macs "just working", and you support him because you're an idiot fanboy just like him.
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Because the developing world does not have any emissions to cut. It's unfair to demand that people should starve just because you yourself has to cut down on the burgers.
Yeah, Slashdot is essentially a spamhost working for Apple these days. "News for nerds"? "Stuff that matters"? This story is neither. Not even the worst offenders among the fanboys can find it interesting at all. I can't imagine Apple doesn't pay Slashdot a significant amount for keeping their hype going.
We're getting better at measuring it? With that kind of test? It's basically asking "are you a good/bad person?" in a number of different ways. Maybe people are more (or less) honest about how they answer that kind of questionaires now, maybe they have a less idealised views of themselves, maybe they just don't give a fuck about what an anonymous questionaire says about them. Then there are questions like "Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place" -- which, if you can't help but doing that anyway, makes you come across as a callous motherfucker if you correctly answer "Does not describe me well". It's a shit test, and measures nothing.
At 9% ABV, your constitution will be your biggest problem after a litre or so.
When it comes to recipes, I'd say the GPL is probably the most draconian "license" you could come up with (as some other guy points out, you can't actually copyright a recipe, so fuck you). You can't serve the finished product without making the recipe available? You can't serve derivative products without making the recipe changes available under a similar license? What if someone uses your recipe as the base for an improvisation, and fail to take notes? S/he wouldn't be able to make the changes to the recipe available, and thus lose the license to distribute her product. Luckily, there are millions of free recipes available on the web, with no license attached to them, many of them well tested and discussed on appropriate fora. There are millions of recipes that you can buy in books, that also have no license attached to them. I'd suggest that attaching a GPL license to your recipe is a symptom of narcissism and a sure sign that you don't actually know what you're doing.
Right. Because a game is just a game; it's something you buy to enjoy for a short while, and although you may want to experience it again later, for nostalgia's sake, it's no big deal if you can't. It's not like buying a piece of productivity software only to notice that you can't read your documents -- your own work -- when you need to move to a new computer platform. Either you accept that, or you insist on playing FreeCIV instead of Sid Meier's games.
How would you feel if a 10 years old game stopped working because your current OS is incompatible? In that situation, the lack of access to source code is just as restrictive as DRM, and a DRM system such as Steam, with its automatic updates, might be less restrictive. Fact is, when you buy close-source software, you don't get to own it.
And the novelty factor lasted for ... four hours?
You really think so? I don't think you do. I think most Slashdotters know perfectly well that Apple looks out for Apple's best interest, and screwing the customer is something they do for profits, not for its own sake. Of course, with no rational defence for Apple, the fanboy resorts to strawman bullshit instead.
It was a memory hog like nothing seen before it, exceptionally slow, and full of bugs. It was certainly a lot less usable than OS 9 at the time (or any other major desktop OS, including Linux and BeOS), and Apple got the same complaints that KDE got: this should have been marked 'beta'. The response was that they needed testing and feedback, just like KDE. Apple: good guys taking your money. KDE: bad guys giving you things for free.
Evidently that doesn't hold true, as you just held Windows 7 as a shining example of doing something right, Vista all but forgotten. People are still harping on about KDE 4.0 whereas OS X 10.0 was forgotten with 10.2, Windows Vista with Windows 7, Gnome 2.0 (oh boy was that a disappointment!) sometime around 2.6 or so (and they still haven't fixed the file selector). There are more examples of poor .0 releases than good ones, but KDE 4.0 still gets more complaints than any other release, even though KDE evidently has evolved just as fast as all the examples I mentioned.
Windows 7 wouldn't be the quality release it is without the beta testing done through the full release of Windows Vista. Without Vista, Windows 7 wouldn't be. Or it would be ... Windows Vista.
What? Windows 7 (Windows NT 6.1) is very good, but it followed up on Vista (Windows NT 6.0), which was received with ridicule and loud complaints after years of hype and abandoned technologies (WinFS, etc). Vista was released early 2007, Windows 7 was released October 2009. KDE 4.0 was released January 2008. If KDE 4 were to have its "Windows 7 moment", it would be right about now. Well, if the KDE project had Microsoft's resources, that is.
"We"? Are you a self-centered moron or what?
Oh, shut up, or start complaining about OS X 10.0 every time there's something new about Apple. You know that OS X was only half-way to beta quality on release as well?
I've done plenty of real work in KDE 4.x, efficiently, which is hard proof that you're wrong. It's fairly easy to use by default, on all distros I've tried it on (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu), so I can only assume you're severely mentally challenged.
Well, you are wrong. But perhaps KDE just isn't for you. You're free to use something else. Or you can spend some time and set up KDE4 to work exactly the way you want. It's very flexible, compared to all the others, even if you don't use the analog clock (I don't).
The OP: "Android market can get segmented quickly in terms of display resolutions and hardware capabilities." Look up the word "segment". The OP is right in that the Android market can segment apps so that if they don't work on small screens (240 x 320, for instance), they won't be available to install. And so, since understanding the OP correctly according to the dictionary, and the OP then being consistent with how the Android market works, and you being inconsistent with both the OP and the Android market, I suggest you FOAD.
Oh my. And pray tell, where has history taught us that avoiding an arms race guarantees that one is conquered by ones enemies? Let's see what history would have to prove:
1) Few participants of arms races are conquered, compared to non-participants. (Germany wouldn't lose WWII, or the Soviet Union the Cold war, for instance.)
2) For every arms race that does occur, and one country declines to or is unable to participate in it, that country will be conquered. (Iran being conquered by Iraq, for instance)
3) If an arms race is avoided, all potential parties to that arms race will be conquered.
... why I'm sad Washington DC isn't in Washington. :-(
Does Emacs even have proper multi-tasking?
No, he was writing about fragmentation of the market. He does not say a word about being forced to dick around -- which you correctly point out is what the "analogy" is about -- and neither does that have anything to do with the problems of the android platform. So basically, he plain forgot what his complaint was, and veered into the stale cliché of Macs "just working", and you support him because you're an idiot fanboy just like him.
Your "car analogy" doesn't have anything to do with what you wrote.
No, it would be better to subtly taunt them to make complete fools of themselves and lose whatever credibility they still might have.
No complaint against Slashdot is off-base.