He is a KING. A KING. He should be able to deal with (oh horror) FEET!. I am aware of the cultural implications (I am friends with a few people from Thailand), but I expect people to be able to get over jackasses giving them the finger. I expect more of a guy who is a king.
It's the other people in government who are using it for their own advantage. He's pretty liberal about that sort of thing apparently. He's also a jazz musician, a naval architect and sailor, and an inventor. That's pretty damn cool.
Any halfway honest lawyer should have told their client "You will pay us thousands of hours, You will not acheive your goal, and this will backfire causing yet another in a bad series of negative press about your company".
A cease and desist letter takes about 20 minutes to write. Threatening to file a lawsuit sometimes works, and even if it doesn't there's no law that says you have to file that suit you threatened someone with.
It's just silly and another anti-discrimination agenda that makes people across both party lines and ideologies "feel good" about themselves when really, they're just making the economy less efficient.
So? "Economic efficiency" isn't the highest good in the world. And they're not "just" making the economy less efficient, they're potentially giving people access to lifesaving treatment that they might otherwise not be able to afford. If we save a few lives at the expense of a little efficiency, I'm all for it.
I'm sorry if this comes across as flamebait or a troll, it's not. I've always admired Apple products but never could afford them. Now an Apple fan says they have lousy QA. So the question, which I'm sure if I'd post from my own account would get me modded to hell, is this:
If they have lousy QA, their products suck. Period. If thir products suck then why do you buy them? Again, I ask this question out of honest curiosity.
You raise a good point, but I think it's just one aspect that you have to look at. First of all my favorite part is the OS; if they actually had OS X on PCs I would just stick with PCs, but you have to get the whole package.
My G3 ibook did the exact same thing, and it was also a logic board failure. Apple has had lousy QA for several years now, and as someone who actually LIKES Apple products it's extremely frustrating.
Greenpeace learnt a valuable lesson today: If you make unsubstantiated claims that nobody believed in the first place, eventually you will annoy someone and you will be made to look like a fool and lose the last bit of credibility.
What unsubstantiated claims? Manufacturing computers and related electronics devices causes a lot of pollution. Apple ADMITS they need to improve.
You've embarrassed yourself well enough that I'm just going to deconstruct your last sentence.
Ahh, Victory through Declaration of Victory. Nicely played.
You have to say 'weird libertarian racist dogma' because libertarians are neither weird, nor racist, nor dogmatic.
Uhhhh...yes? Libertarianism isn't inherently racist, in fact most brands of libertarianism are quite admirable in their views on race. Libertarians are not typically weird, though a lot of them are. Many are dogmatic, but not all.
If I associated all these traits with libertarianism, I would just say "libertarianism". But because ESR represents a rather repulsive, yet still recognizably libertarian, strain of thought, I had to be more specific.
Thanks for admitting it. So you really don't have a clue about Eric's mad skilz as a developer, do you?
Oh please. If his coding "skilz" are so superior, how come the stuff he's written is either shoddy or non-useful? Why is fetchmail
He was all happy because he was south of the equator, and could finally test (in person) some code in gpsd related to negative latitudes. He's at a conference and... he's coding.
Non sequitur. You're saying he a) he enjoyed coding something, so b) he's a good coder. How does this follow? Maybe that code he wrote sucked.
So, yeah, the people who diss Eric's coding say more about their ignorance than they do about Eric's coding.
Riiiiiight, because fetchmail is SUCH a fine piece of software engineering.
Oooh, how about CML2? There's an unstoppable force in the OS development world.
Let's look at the ol' ESR website and see what other treasures we can find. Hexdump. SO COOL.
Oooh, Showkey! The NCSA must be breaking down his door to get access to that kind of skill.
he has a goal to promote freedom.
No, he has a goal to promote himself and his weird brand of fringe libertarian racist dogma.
Of course since ESR is such a crappy coder compared to you, UNDOUBTEDLY you understand the code at first glance.
See above.
Oh, and by the way, RMS has borrowed a few things for the GNU project. That's one of the reasons why Linus doesn't cooperate with the FSF.
But RMS a) has a huge body of his own code that ESR just doesn't have, b) RMS, he can be obnoxious, is not nearly as pompous and self-important as ESR, and c) RMS doesn't plaster his name over everything he does borrow.
I won't cheat by looking it up, but I have seen a younger ESR as a contributor to both Emacs and nethack. He is no RMS (Emacs, gcc, and gdb), but his developer credibility is still way higher than all the ESR detractors on/. combined. (I know, damnation with faint praise).
He wrote a guide to nethack and a few emacs macros. He has almost no developer credibility. Oh, he took over popclient and put his name on it. And he took over the jargon file and put his name on it. He's very good at putting his name on things he didn't do, if that counts as "developing".
Is it really losing out that badly to the DS? I don't have either, and I don't know the sales numbers, but I see people out on the streets with PSPs far more often than I see them with DSes.
Well you don't hear of many schoolkids being arrested here for writing an essay. There are occasional acts of police, prosecutor, and school administrator stupidity, but You get that everywhere.
In US it's racism, in Europe it's mostly ethnical discrimation of genocide. In China their worries are different due to their history. There's no such a country which would let people to do some action to broke nations unity.
I'm going to do something that I haven't been able to do much lately, and that's defend the U.S. While the current administration is cheerfully chipping away at the Constitution, we still do have pretty broad protections regarding speech. In the US you can't discriminate because of race, but racist speech isn't against the law. Compare this to most of western Europe which is a lot harsher on free speech.
Uhhh..huh? Since when? Blizzard is notorious for making very few games. Their success mostly comes from the fact that they'd rather spend the time getting a game right than pumping out as many as they can.
Sure it's broken. He's a vexatious litigant and a disgrace to the profession; he should be disallowed from filing lawsuits without explicit permission of the courts. That's it. Problem solved.
Courts do that sometimes, but it takes a LOT to push them to that point. Believe it or not Jackie probably hasn't reached that level yet.
Those kinds of injunctions are aimed at people who will file dozens and dozens of lawsuits alleging insane conspiracies. Stuff that makes Thompsons rants look reasonable by comparison.
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Is there anyone here that would actually claim "improved cinematics" can make a game more fun?
Ico.
Unpleasant?? That show kicked ass! The game was good too.
He is a KING. A KING. He should be able to deal with (oh horror) FEET!. I am aware of the cultural implications (I am friends with a few people from Thailand), but I expect people to be able to get over jackasses giving them the finger. I expect more of a guy who is a king.
It's the other people in government who are using it for their own advantage. He's pretty liberal about that sort of thing apparently. He's also a jazz musician, a naval architect and sailor, and an inventor. That's pretty damn cool.
Voyage of the Mimi! You'll need an Apple II on that island though...
Hunt the Wumpus.
What? Are you telling me your US coins aren't created out of thin air by God Himself? "In God We Trust", I thought that was His signature...
All my coins are made by leprechauns.
Any halfway honest lawyer should have told their client "You will pay us thousands of hours, You will not acheive your goal, and this will backfire causing yet another in a bad series of negative press about your company".
A cease and desist letter takes about 20 minutes to write. Threatening to file a lawsuit sometimes works, and even if it doesn't there's no law that says you have to file that suit you threatened someone with.
It's just silly and another anti-discrimination agenda that makes people across both party lines and ideologies "feel good" about themselves when really, they're just making the economy less efficient.
So? "Economic efficiency" isn't the highest good in the world. And they're not "just" making the economy less efficient, they're potentially giving people access to lifesaving treatment that they might otherwise not be able to afford. If we save a few lives at the expense of a little efficiency, I'm all for it.
I'm sorry if this comes across as flamebait or a troll, it's not. I've always admired Apple products but never could afford them. Now an Apple fan says they have lousy QA. So the question, which I'm sure if I'd post from my own account would get me modded to hell, is this:
If they have lousy QA, their products suck. Period. If thir products suck then why do you buy them? Again, I ask this question out of honest curiosity.
You raise a good point, but I think it's just one aspect that you have to look at. First of all my favorite part is the OS; if they actually had OS X on PCs I would just stick with PCs, but you have to get the whole package.
My G3 ibook did the exact same thing, and it was also a logic board failure. Apple has had lousy QA for several years now, and as someone who actually LIKES Apple products it's extremely frustrating.
Greenpeace learnt a valuable lesson today: If you make unsubstantiated claims that nobody believed in the first place, eventually you will annoy someone and you will be made to look like a fool and lose the last bit of credibility.
What unsubstantiated claims? Manufacturing computers and related electronics devices causes a lot of pollution. Apple ADMITS they need to improve.
Speaking as a lawyer, I would LOVE to cross-examine some of these people. Especially over the hammer thing. It would just be fun as hell.
You've embarrassed yourself well enough that I'm just going to deconstruct your last sentence.
Ahh, Victory through Declaration of Victory. Nicely played.
You have to say 'weird libertarian racist dogma' because libertarians are neither weird, nor racist, nor dogmatic.
Uhhhh...yes? Libertarianism isn't inherently racist, in fact most brands of libertarianism are quite admirable in their views on race. Libertarians are not typically weird, though a lot of them are. Many are dogmatic, but not all.
If I associated all these traits with libertarianism, I would just say "libertarianism". But because ESR represents a rather repulsive, yet still recognizably libertarian, strain of thought, I had to be more specific.
Thanks for admitting it. So you really don't have a clue about Eric's mad skilz as a developer, do you?
... he's coding.
Oh please. If his coding "skilz" are so superior, how come the stuff he's written is either shoddy or non-useful? Why is fetchmail He was all happy because he was south of the equator, and could finally test (in person) some code in gpsd related to negative latitudes. He's at a conference and
Non sequitur. You're saying he a) he enjoyed coding something, so b) he's a good coder. How does this follow? Maybe that code he wrote sucked. So, yeah, the people who diss Eric's coding say more about their ignorance than they do about Eric's coding.
Riiiiiight, because fetchmail is SUCH a fine piece of software engineering.
Oooh, how about CML2? There's an unstoppable force in the OS development world.
Let's look at the ol' ESR website and see what other treasures we can find. Hexdump. SO COOL.
Oooh, Showkey! The NCSA must be breaking down his door to get access to that kind of skill. he has a goal to promote freedom.
No, he has a goal to promote himself and his weird brand of fringe libertarian racist dogma.
Would you explain copy_instance() to me? I have a little bit of developer credibility, and *I* can't figure it out: http://www.python.org/about/success/esr/
I have no idea, I'm not a developer.
Of course since ESR is such a crappy coder compared to you, UNDOUBTEDLY you understand the code at first glance.
See above.
Oh, and by the way, RMS has borrowed a few things for the GNU project. That's one of the reasons why Linus doesn't cooperate with the FSF.
But RMS a) has a huge body of his own code that ESR just doesn't have, b) RMS, he can be obnoxious, is not nearly as pompous and self-important as ESR, and c) RMS doesn't plaster his name over everything he does borrow.
I won't cheat by looking it up, but I have seen a younger ESR as a contributor to both Emacs and nethack. He is no RMS (Emacs, gcc, and gdb), but his developer credibility is still way higher than all the ESR detractors on /. combined. (I know, damnation with faint praise).
He wrote a guide to nethack and a few emacs macros. He has almost no developer credibility. Oh, he took over popclient and put his name on it. And he took over the jargon file and put his name on it. He's very good at putting his name on things he didn't do, if that counts as "developing".
He should have been encouraging Raymond to speak at length about his views on the subject.
He is, kind of. Nothing gets ESR to talk more than pretending you care about what he's saying.
Is it really losing out that badly to the DS? I don't have either, and I don't know the sales numbers, but I see people out on the streets with PSPs far more often than I see them with DSes.
Now Japan is copying Korean technology? Talk about turnabout...
Singapore Airlines/SilkAir is rated 78th in the world. Very few flights, and multiple crashes don't make for a good safety record.
But oh those stewardesses...sometimes danger is worth it.
Well you don't hear of many schoolkids being arrested here for writing an essay. There are occasional acts of police, prosecutor, and school administrator stupidity, but You get that everywhere.
In US it's racism, in Europe it's mostly ethnical discrimation of genocide. In China their worries are different due to their history. There's no such a country which would let people to do some action to broke nations unity.
I'm going to do something that I haven't been able to do much lately, and that's defend the U.S. While the current administration is cheerfully chipping away at the Constitution, we still do have pretty broad protections regarding speech. In the US you can't discriminate because of race, but racist speech isn't against the law. Compare this to most of western Europe which is a lot harsher on free speech.
Especially since Blizzard makes a lot of games
Uhhh..huh? Since when? Blizzard is notorious for making very few games. Their success mostly comes from the fact that they'd rather spend the time getting a game right than pumping out as many as they can.
Sure it's broken. He's a vexatious litigant and a disgrace to the profession; he should be disallowed from filing lawsuits without explicit permission of the courts. That's it. Problem solved.
Courts do that sometimes, but it takes a LOT to push them to that point. Believe it or not Jackie probably hasn't reached that level yet.
Those kinds of injunctions are aimed at people who will file dozens and dozens of lawsuits alleging insane conspiracies. Stuff that makes Thompsons rants look reasonable by comparison.
Just listening to him made me want to start law school (at Columbia, of course).
Resist the impulse!