Just because your math skills are too weak to convert between different base system measurements doesn't mean we should cater to your mathematical ineptitude.
Yet now, after our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they want to hold rallies against the war.
See, this is the kind of stupidity that you just can't reason with; our nation is attacked on its own soil, so halfwits think an appropriate response is to attack another country that wasn't actually the attacker. How can you even negotiate with this kind of vacuous mindlessness?
Another acquaintance is a big fan of raising taxes to fund mass transit, but has never stepped on a bus or train herself, because of that thing about rubbing shoulders with stinky people.
So they're willing to pay more in taxes for a service they will never use? Seems somewhat laudable.
The correct Latin plural would probably be virera.
Not in any legitimate form or number; closest to that would be the genitive plural, "virorum," meaning "of the viruses"; like: "amici vrrum" - "the viruses' friends." I don't know where you made up your crazy Latin.
You're making the mistake of thinking their goal is to provide online versions free, and whoever can help that is helping further their goals. Their goal is to make money, mostly through advertising revenue. That goal is better achieved when you go to their website, because then they not only show you the ads in the show, they also can advertise their other shows to you and get you to watch those.
Apple isn't in the business of selling computers, they are in the business of selling a "user experience." That necessarily demands that His Jobsness controls as much of the platform as possible. This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.
Who said it's a surprise? Why does everyone on slashdot think you can only criticize things you're surprised at? I just don't get it.
Yeah, you;d think the underlying principals would be intuitive but lets remember how long it took Man to come to realize Newton's & Kepler's laws.
At an intuitive level, since the dawn of humanity. Newton and Kepler just wrote it down in the philosophical language of the time. There weren't ancient Roman engineers throwing things in the air screaming "WHY WON'T IT STAY UP IN THE AIR?"
The Roman Church kept poor Galileo in prison for demonstrating basic gravity and that was less than 400 years ago.
Well, I wouldn't characterize geocentrism as being derived from "basic" gravity.
No, that's my point; the physical principles ARE intuitive. You could go through your life without anything more than elementary school math and know what to do. Like I said, what this guy did is amazing; it's incredibly brave, and it required quick thinking and intelligence, and should not be interpreted as anything less based on what I'm saying here. It did not, however, require engineering training. And there are plenty of professions that place equal priority on problem-solving skills.
Intuitively, a tugboat captain would have a much better grasp of what to do than an engineer...
Guy IS a hero, though the slashdot article comes off as a little weird... "engineer mode"? I mean, (a) this isn't a special brand of engineer-only heroism; and (b) the physical principles aren't exactly so esoteric that you need an engineering background to have figured it out. Can't we just salute his bravery and quick-thinking? Or was the submitter an engineer looking for reflected glory?
I would bet you that if my wife and I tried to do something similar, we would almost certainly be "caught". I don't know if loopholes are due to the complexity of the system, or because the big guys can afford to pay folks who know how to exploit them...but regardless of the reason, it's fucked up.
Actually small businesses are big tax dodgers as well; look at what the typical small businessperson deducts as a business expense and you'd be shocked and offended.
Live music used to be all around; families and friends would gather in the living room and listen; saloons and restaurants would have pianists in the corner. After the player piano, hardly anyplace has that.
And the only way you can make money from diamonds is by selling diamonds. Ergo, diamonds are valueless
And diamonds (like gold) are also lousy investment vehicles, because they don't generate any revenue on their own. It all comes down to relying on someone down the road believing that it has some intrinsic value. The one advantage non-dividend-paying stocks have is that the stock gives you, in theory, the ability to control the behavior of the company. In practice you need a lot more than anyone here can buy. Except Woz maybe, if he's reading this, I know he's supposed to post on slashdot.
This is great! If this madness continues, companies will spend 90% of their revenue filing or defending dozens of lawsuits, get nothing done anymore, and will clamor at the doors of congress to save them from the patent madness they once thought to be such a great idea.
Actually, as someone who has been involved in large-scale litigation, while legal fees for these sorts of things seem huge, when measured against the operating costs of the corporation as a whole they're not especially large. I mean a single 30-second national TV ad costs a few hundred thousand dollars. For that you could get a month or two of steady work out of a top law firm.
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Didn't read the article, did you...
So wait, AMERICA'S to blame for YOUR mistake? You have gotta be a European with that attitude.
Just because your math skills are too weak to convert between different base system measurements doesn't mean we should cater to your mathematical ineptitude.
I think the graphics are better than Nethack's.
Yet now, after our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans were killed, by freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their routine lives, they want to hold rallies against the war.
See, this is the kind of stupidity that you just can't reason with; our nation is attacked on its own soil, so halfwits think an appropriate response is to attack another country that wasn't actually the attacker. How can you even negotiate with this kind of vacuous mindlessness?
Another acquaintance is a big fan of raising taxes to fund mass transit, but has never stepped on a bus or train herself, because of that thing about rubbing shoulders with stinky people.
So they're willing to pay more in taxes for a service they will never use? Seems somewhat laudable.
The correct Latin plural would probably be virera.
Not in any legitimate form or number; closest to that would be the genitive plural, "virorum," meaning "of the viruses"; like: "amici vrrum" - "the viruses' friends." I don't know where you made up your crazy Latin.
I just recommend people just not watch TV and read a book or go outside instead. You're that concerned with getting TV to people? Why?
You're making the mistake of thinking their goal is to provide online versions free, and whoever can help that is helping further their goals. Their goal is to make money, mostly through advertising revenue. That goal is better achieved when you go to their website, because then they not only show you the ads in the show, they also can advertise their other shows to you and get you to watch those.
So....if they hadn't done this, you wouldn't boycott the really bad shows and watch them instead?
Apple isn't in the business of selling computers, they are in the business of selling a "user experience." That necessarily demands that His Jobsness controls as much of the platform as possible. This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.
Who said it's a surprise? Why does everyone on slashdot think you can only criticize things you're surprised at? I just don't get it.
Yeah, you;d think the underlying principals would be intuitive but lets remember how long it took Man to come to realize Newton's & Kepler's laws.
At an intuitive level, since the dawn of humanity. Newton and Kepler just wrote it down in the philosophical language of the time. There weren't ancient Roman engineers throwing things in the air screaming "WHY WON'T IT STAY UP IN THE AIR?"
The Roman Church kept poor Galileo in prison for demonstrating basic gravity and that was less than 400 years ago.
Well, I wouldn't characterize geocentrism as being derived from "basic" gravity.
means he was thinking like an engineer.
No, that's my point; the physical principles ARE intuitive. You could go through your life without anything more than elementary school math and know what to do. Like I said, what this guy did is amazing; it's incredibly brave, and it required quick thinking and intelligence, and should not be interpreted as anything less based on what I'm saying here. It did not, however, require engineering training. And there are plenty of professions that place equal priority on problem-solving skills.
Intuitively, a tugboat captain would have a much better grasp of what to do than an engineer...
Guy IS a hero, though the slashdot article comes off as a little weird... "engineer mode"? I mean, (a) this isn't a special brand of engineer-only heroism; and (b) the physical principles aren't exactly so esoteric that you need an engineering background to have figured it out. Can't we just salute his bravery and quick-thinking? Or was the submitter an engineer looking for reflected glory?
The valley is a very attractive proposition to someone living in India, or in England as was the case for me.
Or, maybe, Detroit. The lie that America doesn't have qualified engineers is corporate propaganda.
I would bet you that if my wife and I tried to do something similar, we would almost certainly be "caught". I don't know if loopholes are due to the complexity of the system, or because the big guys can afford to pay folks who know how to exploit them...but regardless of the reason, it's fucked up.
Actually small businesses are big tax dodgers as well; look at what the typical small businessperson deducts as a business expense and you'd be shocked and offended.
Exactly. Limiting free trade does absolutely nothing to help a country but harms both countries.
China has had phenomenal success by limiting free trade.
The player piano was supposed to kill live music
Live music used to be all around; families and friends would gather in the living room and listen; saloons and restaurants would have pianists in the corner. After the player piano, hardly anyplace has that.
They just just give it some high-tech sounding name. Maybe dealing with astronomy. How about "StarOffice"?
If you think dogs are not sentient, then you know nothing about dogs or the proper definition of sentience.
And the only way you can make money from diamonds is by selling diamonds. Ergo, diamonds are valueless
And diamonds (like gold) are also lousy investment vehicles, because they don't generate any revenue on their own. It all comes down to relying on someone down the road believing that it has some intrinsic value. The one advantage non-dividend-paying stocks have is that the stock gives you, in theory, the ability to control the behavior of the company. In practice you need a lot more than anyone here can buy. Except Woz maybe, if he's reading this, I know he's supposed to post on slashdot.
Ugh, remember those awful Radio Shack comic books featuring the Tandy? And who came up with the effeminate name, anyway?
True, but that's not the case here. Large businesses, like the ones listed in the article, can absorb a 100+ million judgment.
Actually you are conforming to local regulation. Try not having a lawn there.
Homeowner Association rules (and the corresponding covenants and easements) are NOT local regulations.
This is great! If this madness continues, companies will spend 90% of their revenue filing or defending dozens of lawsuits, get nothing done anymore, and will clamor at the doors of congress to save them from the patent madness they once thought to be such a great idea.
Actually, as someone who has been involved in large-scale litigation, while legal fees for these sorts of things seem huge, when measured against the operating costs of the corporation as a whole they're not especially large. I mean a single 30-second national TV ad costs a few hundred thousand dollars. For that you could get a month or two of steady work out of a top law firm.