Where are the people who normaly say that there should be no governement control and that the market will decide what to do?
Hope you understand why governement involvement is needed.
I am not one of the people to whom you refer, but your statement is kind of stupid, and so I object merely on anti-stupid grounds. These corporations have their power because government gave it to them: both copyright and corporate existence itself are legal fabrications imposed on the free market by the government. If we take away both of these things, the government would have little reason to step in and "rescue" the public from price fixing, because the problem wouldn't exist in the first place.
the French Parliament voted yesterday into law...This decision goes against the French government
Eh, isn't Parliament part of government? Anyway, it's the National Assembly we're talking about here. And it wasn't "voted into law," it was simply passed by the Assembly. The chance of this becoming a real law is zero, this is just political gaming in French government.
I was hoping Firefly would be the perfect test-case for the iTunes episode-selling model.
Jesus Hairy Christ, a thousand times yes! I will pay $10 per episode no problem for Firefly. Is there anyone at Fox listening?!?!?! I will wager there are perhaps 50,000 others exactly like me, and 100,000 more who will pay $2 per episode. If they can find a way to cut their production budgets a tad (and why not? they've already shot a bunch of footage they can use for stock; they've already made the CGI models and textures) that should be enough to make it go. What's more, episodes sold on iTunes don't have to follow the made-for-TV formula. Make 30 minute episodes. Who cares! I'll still pay $10 for them.
Despite the belly-jiggling humor that's been done here, this is a most fascinating question. We tend to "interpret" animal responses as if they were human beings -- anthropomorphizing the subject. What of such research when the anthro qualities are removed?
a team of researchers found evidence in India that dinosaurs ate grass
Excuse me, I think you meant to say our Intelligent Designer made it look like there were dinosaurs who ate grass. Sheesh. Didn't any of you attend science class?
I am not entirely sure, but I think DWL-G510 is also Atheros. It works 100% out of the box on Ubuntu. (Well, OK, I had to go to the networking control panel and click "enable.")
Ah, you see, that's what this is about. Microsoft is desperate to cut off Google air supply. One way they can do that is by gobbling up all the ad dollars. In other words, advertisers have x dollars to spend. Every dollar they spend advertising directly to Windows is a dollar less that goes to Google.
Don't be fooled, Linux has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop.
Astroturfing bullshit. I am a business professional and I have been running Ubuntu on my desktop for about 15 months. I have never told anyone I run Linux instead of Windows, and as far as I can tell no one knows the difference. I get everything done that I need to get done, including letters and presentations (OO.o), artwork (GIMP and Inkscape), email and calendar (Evolution), chat (gaim), and PDF creation (ps2pdf and Adobe Reader 7) for document distribution and for press.
Now, it must be said that I do not hook into Exchange, and I know that's a breakage point for a lot of people. But to issue blanket statements like "Linux has a lot of catching up to do!" is disingenuous. Why in the world should you judge Linux by whether it can interoperate with software that does everything in its power to prevent interoperability? Linux may not be a suitable option for you, because you need to use Exchange. Fine! It doesn't reflect on Linux at all, though.
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For that to change, and for games to be taken more seriously by people who don't play them, games need to become cheaper to make, they need to be made by more- diverse groups of people, and they need to be more accessible to nongamers. You could argue about the accessibility point, but the other two factors aren't improving, and they probably won't improve anytime soon.
All three of these problems are being specifically addressed by Nintendo with the Revolution.
This drives me insane. What are they teaching kids in school these days anyway? Natural rights are not granted. They are naturally yours because you are human being. They can neither be granted nor taken away. That's why you cannot sign a contract (at least, you can't in the U.S.) that says "I agree to sell myself into slavery in exchange for $100." It's not enforceable, because you cannot sign away a natural right.
Small rant: This complete lack of understanding of natural rights leads to a lot of rotten decision-making. As soon as you start thinking the state "grants rights" (it doesn't), you start thinking it's OK for the state to take them away (it's not). In fact, it's exactly the reverse. You grant powers to the state, and you can take them away. The government has powers only at your whim.
So if they want to break the existing system in the hopes of getting more money, then screw them. I have an entire back catalog of games I haven't gotten around to playing. I can wait a few years.
I'm glad you got a well-deserved +5 Insightful. This describes a host of gamers out there. There are probably 15 games (or more) for current-generation consoles that I would like to play and haven't yet. For me, that translates into a good solid 4 years of busy gaming, and perhaps 100% of them will be purchased secondhand. I have no interest in "upgrading" to a crippled game ecosystem when the current system is working just fine for me.
Having a stable binary driver interface would make it easier for hardware manufacturers to embrace Linux, give things like wireless chipsets more usability on Linux and drive further adoption of Linux as a viable competitor to more proprietary solutions
Yay! So then we can have a widely-adopted non-free OS that dictates to you how you will use it!
And what you say is "sort of" true as well. Suppose a critically ill fellow says, "Please sell me the cure. I will pay $10,000 for just one dose." And the patent-owning company replies, "No, we demand $1 million dollars. That's what will provide us with adequate ROI. If you want it bad enough, you'll pay."
It may be possible for someone to come up with that kind of money, but not likely. So this fellow will just go away and die so that the holy patent can be preserved. The wrongness of that should be evident.
I understand it now: Jack is a plant. He's on the payroll of Rockstar Games. His job is to make the anti-games people look so extreme and flaky that no one will come out against games for fear of seeming in league with this fellow. "Oh, you're just like that Thompson guy.." "No no nooo! Forget what I said."
Take look at Jack's fax. It tries to create a relationship between Penny Arcade and things like "cop killer" by putting them near each other in the text and using vague referents. For example, he writes "This is what the criminal harassment of me by Penny Arcade is all about." That statement seems to imply that cop killing is what it's about, when of course it's not.
The whole fax is a clever troll to try and get the Seattle PD thinking Penny Arcade is somehow a direct danger to them.
the needs to come where the cost of defending your rights in court isn't trumpted by the fact you can't afford it. you can bet your ass if the RIAA found a multi millionare on limewire swapping music the won't proceed, since he won't just fold.
This has ever been the case with justice, I'm afraid.
Okay, this isn't a Microsoft bashing outright, but why the fsck does MS want to "kill" Google?
Microsoft is not in the business of making products, it's in the business of protecting its monopoly position. Anything that even remotely appears to be a way for customers to exit the MS monopoly needs to be crushed. Google is potentially a way for operating systems to become irrelevant, as the human-computer interface layer moves to a different territory (i.e., Windows Explorer gives way to Google Desktop).
I noticed that most of his "complaints" about Firefox UI weren't really complaints at all, they were additional reasons why Firefox beats IE. For example, he starts off sort-of-almost complaining about the Find bar but ends up saying how much better an implementation it is than using find in IE.
Sure, [font resizing is] possible in IE too, but not for every site.
I'm not quite over 40 yet, but I do use Linux, where font sizes are not rendered at 150%+ their correct size. Windows-designed web pages often have teeny tiny fonts that strain my eyes. Mac users know what I'm talking about too. So font resizing is a must-have feature for me.
Anyway, from my own testing, it seems that whenever a stylesheet specifies a font size, IE will always render the font at that size, no matter what you tell it to do. Want bigger fonts? Too bad, the stylesheet says 11px, so 11px is what you're going to get. Meh.
Funny, yes, but also a little insightful in a backhanded way. (Is that even a compliment anymore?) As someone who has been near to various charity/nonprofit organizations, it always saddens me to see them squander their donors' money on Windows and Office licenses.
I'll get on a slight rant: I've said as much to nonprofits as well as my city government. Why do you need to buy Windows and Office? Oh, they say, we need to remain compatible with everyone else. OK, I reply, what kinds of document exchange do you do? Well, they say, looking at each other, we print things out on letterhead.
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Hope you understand why governement involvement is needed.
I am not one of the people to whom you refer, but your statement is kind of stupid, and so I object merely on anti-stupid grounds. These corporations have their power because government gave it to them: both copyright and corporate existence itself are legal fabrications imposed on the free market by the government. If we take away both of these things, the government would have little reason to step in and "rescue" the public from price fixing, because the problem wouldn't exist in the first place.
Eh, isn't Parliament part of government? Anyway, it's the National Assembly we're talking about here. And it wasn't "voted into law," it was simply passed by the Assembly. The chance of this becoming a real law is zero, this is just political gaming in French government.
Jesus Hairy Christ, a thousand times yes! I will pay $10 per episode no problem for Firefly. Is there anyone at Fox listening?!?!?! I will wager there are perhaps 50,000 others exactly like me, and 100,000 more who will pay $2 per episode. If they can find a way to cut their production budgets a tad (and why not? they've already shot a bunch of footage they can use for stock; they've already made the CGI models and textures) that should be enough to make it go. What's more, episodes sold on iTunes don't have to follow the made-for-TV formula. Make 30 minute episodes. Who cares! I'll still pay $10 for them.
Or, at least, a picture of one.
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Albanians!
Excuse me, I think you meant to say our Intelligent Designer made it look like there were dinosaurs who ate grass. Sheesh. Didn't any of you attend science class?
Astroturfing bullshit. I am a business professional and I have been running Ubuntu on my desktop for about 15 months. I have never told anyone I run Linux instead of Windows, and as far as I can tell no one knows the difference. I get everything done that I need to get done, including letters and presentations (OO.o), artwork (GIMP and Inkscape), email and calendar (Evolution), chat (gaim), and PDF creation (ps2pdf and Adobe Reader 7) for document distribution and for press.
Now, it must be said that I do not hook into Exchange, and I know that's a breakage point for a lot of people. But to issue blanket statements like "Linux has a lot of catching up to do!" is disingenuous. Why in the world should you judge Linux by whether it can interoperate with software that does everything in its power to prevent interoperability? Linux may not be a suitable option for you, because you need to use Exchange. Fine! It doesn't reflect on Linux at all, though.
All three of these problems are being specifically addressed by Nintendo with the Revolution.
This drives me insane. What are they teaching kids in school these days anyway? Natural rights are not granted. They are naturally yours because you are human being. They can neither be granted nor taken away. That's why you cannot sign a contract (at least, you can't in the U.S.) that says "I agree to sell myself into slavery in exchange for $100." It's not enforceable, because you cannot sign away a natural right.
Small rant: This complete lack of understanding of natural rights leads to a lot of rotten decision-making. As soon as you start thinking the state "grants rights" (it doesn't), you start thinking it's OK for the state to take them away (it's not). In fact, it's exactly the reverse. You grant powers to the state, and you can take them away. The government has powers only at your whim.
I'm glad you got a well-deserved +5 Insightful. This describes a host of gamers out there. There are probably 15 games (or more) for current-generation consoles that I would like to play and haven't yet. For me, that translates into a good solid 4 years of busy gaming, and perhaps 100% of them will be purchased secondhand. I have no interest in "upgrading" to a crippled game ecosystem when the current system is working just fine for me.
Yay! So then we can have a widely-adopted non-free OS that dictates to you how you will use it!
It may be possible for someone to come up with that kind of money, but not likely. So this fellow will just go away and die so that the holy patent can be preserved. The wrongness of that should be evident.
That's gotta be it.
The whole fax is a clever troll to try and get the Seattle PD thinking Penny Arcade is somehow a direct danger to them.
This has ever been the case with justice, I'm afraid.
Microsoft is not in the business of making products, it's in the business of protecting its monopoly position. Anything that even remotely appears to be a way for customers to exit the MS monopoly needs to be crushed. Google is potentially a way for operating systems to become irrelevant, as the human-computer interface layer moves to a different territory (i.e., Windows Explorer gives way to Google Desktop).
I'm not quite over 40 yet, but I do use Linux, where font sizes are not rendered at 150%+ their correct size. Windows-designed web pages often have teeny tiny fonts that strain my eyes. Mac users know what I'm talking about too. So font resizing is a must-have feature for me.
Anyway, from my own testing, it seems that whenever a stylesheet specifies a font size, IE will always render the font at that size, no matter what you tell it to do. Want bigger fonts? Too bad, the stylesheet says 11px, so 11px is what you're going to get. Meh.
I'll get on a slight rant: I've said as much to nonprofits as well as my city government. Why do you need to buy Windows and Office? Oh, they say, we need to remain compatible with everyone else. OK, I reply, what kinds of document exchange do you do? Well, they say, looking at each other, we print things out on letterhead.
So yeah, squandering is what you're doing.