Completely off-topic, but what the deuce is going on with tags lately? To the adjectives absurdly long, meaningless, and obscure, now we can add obscene.
I for one find it kind of surprising. Both my wife and I are avid gamers, and our kids are too. I play games with my kids all the time. We always have a roaring good time with co-op games like Lego Star Wars or Harry Potter Goblet of Fire or -- the old stand-bys -- Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Smash Bros. Heck, even Project Gotham Racing gets in there. I mean, why wouldn't you game with your kids?
I detect -- and feel -- a tremendous amount of political outrage lately. Where is the tip-over point where this bubbles up into a political candidate who stands against these atrocities? Failing that, where is the tip-over point where we hold mass protests? Failing that, where is the tip-over point where we shoot these fuckers in the head? (That is in fact our final solution as outlined in the Constitution.)
"Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays"
You mean so good that when I was shopping for a new phone last month, the sales rep told me to stay as far away from the Windows phones as possible. Or how about this: on a separate occasion, my wife (who was also shopping for a phone recently) had a sales rep tell her that he would refuse to sell her a Windows phone because 100% of them got returned within 2 weeks, and he was sick of having unhappy customers. So yeah, if that's your definition of "quite good" then I guess you're right.
I'm also unsure how they are getting a "great share" of the market when retailers don't want to sell the product. Oh wait, I suppose they count every unit shipped from the factory with Windows Mobile installed as a sale.
Robot Judge: "Thank you, prosecutor. I will now consider the evidence."
[The Robot Judge looks like a Mac SE/30. A 'judging' progress bar appears on the Robot Judge's screen.] Fry: "Hey, wait a minute! Isn't anyone gonna defend us?" Leela: "Yeah! I mean, he may not have a case...but I'm genuinely not human!" Robot: "Quiet, human!"
[The Robot Judge gets a 'bomb' failure message.] Robot #2: "Uh oh, he froze up again." Robot #3: "Try Control-Alt-Delete!" Robot #4: "Jiggle the cord!" Robot #5: "Turn him off and on!" Robot #6: "Clean the gunk out of the mouse!" Fry: "Call technical support!" Robot #2: "OK, OK. He's back online."
ISPs can provide you service under any terms they see fit, and you certainly don't have a constitutional right to broadband internet access.
BZZZT. Once again this fallacy rears its head.
The U.S. Constitution is NOT a positive enumeration of citizens' rights. You have a right to do everything except what is specifically forbidden (by laws that we consent to live under). In addition, the Constitution isn't even about you, Mr. Citizen. The Constitution is about what We the People will permit government to do and not do. In other words, we (the people) already have all the rights in the universe*. A few of those we will consent to give for the purpose of living more-or-less harmoniously, and a few of those we will permit to the government. All else we reserve for ourselves and for the individual States in which we consent to live.
* So yes, I do have a Constitutional right to broadband Internet access.
Its value comes form supporting our customers at an OS level alleviating us from supporting the OS.
That's definitely a plus. But I think more important is that Red Hat moves units for you. With any kind of enterprise-level pricing system, even though something may have a natural price of $500, you sell it for $10000 instead because it makes PHBs think they're getting a better quality product. You simply cannot sell PHBs on free. They just won't go for it. If you put CentOS on a unit, PHBs don't want it. If you put Red Hat on the same unit, the PHBs buy.
What I believe _is_ hurting redhat is how their sales department insists that making copies of Redhat is illegal.
Of course I don't know what they told you, but they could be trying to give a simple answer to a thorny question. It's better to tell PHBs "It works like Windows licensing," even if that's not quite true, because then they have clear expectations, which helps sales. The alternative -- the truth -- is really something like: (1) the support contract forbids you from making more than X copies; (2) the GPL says that placing restrictions on what end-users can do with the software nullifies the right to distribute, so technically we would allow you to go ahead and make extra copies (i.e., break the contract), but then we'd have to terminate your support. This hurts the PHB's brain, which in turn hurts sales.
So I think it might be a net gain for them to pretend there's only one license (when really there are 2).
Of course there is no logical way you can claim mining the Moon is environmentally unsound. But he's not using "environmental" in that way. He is talking about the kind of "environmental" where you are against human beings and against technology, period. The advent of an economical way to exploit the Moon would be a huge boon to humans and to technological advancement. So if humans and tech = bad, and mining the Moon benefits humans and tech, then mining the Moon = bad.
And you are precisely echoing all of the lies that Brendan discredited in his post. There is absolutely nothing about ES4 that will break ES3. Nothing. Yet you (probably quite knowingly) propagate the falsehood that it will.
Microsoft is saying, wait, the web doesn't need to be extended at all! Well, except with Silverlight and WPF
Those are actually Brendan Eich's words. The extended commentary from which that comes is over here.
MS do indeed want to close the internet, and the name of the game is "patent encumberance." It's going to be too hard to lock up JavaScript, so they don't want to play with that anymore. They need to have everyone investing in a new MS-proprietary, patent-encumbered language.
Geez... you're asking for our Congresscritters and others to do the jobs they were elected to do. That would take time away from their ability to acquire money from lobbyists, special interest groups, corporations, and other well-to-do donors.
Not to mention how it detracts from their available time for soliciting gay sex.
The important questions, which get glossed over by things like the above declarative talking point, are "What is the likelihood of an attack within the next N, N+1, N+2... years?" and "What is the expected severity/method of such an attack, should it occur?" and "What is the likelihood that any given person will be affected?"
These are most excellent questions, and illustrate how bad people are at assessing risk. The number of automobile fatalities in the U.S. from 2002-2005 was 172168 (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx). The number of fatalities from the 9/11 attack was 2974, which is 58 times fewer people than autos claimed since then. So, I guess that means there's something like a 0.0002586% chance of dying to a terrorist attack. You stand a much better chance of being murdered by your own countrymen (20 times more likely), dying of influenza (27 times more likely), or even dying of AIDS (19 times more likely).
There is no measurable risk dying to a terrorist attack. Worry about catching the flu or your trigger-happy neighbor instead.
What is f'd up is that I got a 20% Overrated moderation. Let me lay out a few facts for you.
One it is RESTRICTED to traffic in model rocketry on the basis that these rockets could be used to shoot down commercial airliners. I launched model rockets when I was 10. If you took a direct hit from a model rocket, you might suffer a minor flesh wound. There is no way in hell that a model rocket could be used to shoot down an airplane of any size, let alone a commercial jet.
Two, a standard guide for K-12 teachers urges them to warn students against experimentation, urging teachers to tell kids such craziness as "oxygen is poisonous if inhaled at a concentration a bit greater than its natural concentration in the air." Fear chemistry! It's dangerous! Yes, oxygen can be a poison, as can pretty much any other substance ingested in excess. This is not new or interesting. It's normal existence. Cautioning kids against learning about their environment does not help.
Three kids are constantly ingrained with the message that science is strictly for certified professionals, and that "amateur" experimentation is hazardous and unwanted. Nevermind how any of these professionals got where they are now! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!
Why the hell would somebody embed a flash animation in a fricking word document?
Well, I don't know if I have a logical answer for you, but I will add this: it's amazingly common for people to do things like paste a bunch of graphics into a Word file and send you the Word file, rather than just sending the graphics themselves. I see people doing this with PowerPoint as well -- their first instinct is to paste data into PowerPoint deck and send you that.
The only thing I can think of is that they think they're helping you by giving you a way to see the graphics (or see the SWF, or whatever), under the assumption that everyone has Word but not everyone has a stand-alone program that can display TIFF files. I find it annoying.
Another point that sibling posts haven't made in response to your idiotic remarks is that the U.S. federal government has given billions of dollars and special anti-competitive protections to these companies. At no point were the telcos operating in a marketplace free of government influence. So to suggest the market be allowed to sort out service issues is complete nonsense. There is no "market" at work here.
You may simply be too young to remember it, but there is a reason we used to joke: "We don't have to care! We're the phone company!"
I can't quite tell how the children posts are arranged, but it has been said in several follow-ups that:
This can be prosecuted to the Supreme Court, which is perhaps the best forum for this kind of Constitutional discussion
Congress can choose to impeach the President for failure to uphold the oath he swore
We can all vote Demo and hope that a change of administration will bring a new attitude to the White House
I suspect all 3 of these measures to fail, and for domestic surveillance to continue. It has succeeded in Britain already. A change of administration is highly unlikely to reverse domestic surveillance by the Executive, because Mr. Clinton was as much a part of establishing this as anyone. The SCOTUS might declare it illegal, but the Executive will simply ignore it, as they have with admonishments from Congress so far. And Congress has shown itself unwilling to impeach this President for any abuse whatsoever.
Therefore, the most likely vector for getting this checked is to remember that Congress funds everything. Vote to eject any members of Congress who will not hold the purse in hostage against these abuses. The Executive will fold when it runs out of money.
In other comments, Mr. Ballmer was heard to say he was going to "fucking kill" Mrs. Genovese, and all the chairs in Mr. Ballmer's dressing room were found smashed to pieces.
I'm genuinely curious. One of the main things that has kept me from both Fedora and Mandriva is the package management/repositories of Debian-based systems. I just cannot live without that anymore. I mean, software might be available in RPM format, but then you have to hunt dependencies yourself. No thank you. And last time I tried, it was possible to get repository-like functionality via tools like yum, but you still had to track down a thousand different repositories (the safety of which was typically unknown).
Is this any better now? Do you still have to hunt for 3 hours on the interwebs to figure out how to install anything that didn't come with the distro?
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Completely off-topic, but what the deuce is going on with tags lately? To the adjectives absurdly long, meaningless, and obscure, now we can add obscene.
I for one find it kind of surprising. Both my wife and I are avid gamers, and our kids are too. I play games with my kids all the time. We always have a roaring good time with co-op games like Lego Star Wars or Harry Potter Goblet of Fire or -- the old stand-bys -- Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Smash Bros. Heck, even Project Gotham Racing gets in there. I mean, why wouldn't you game with your kids?
I detect -- and feel -- a tremendous amount of political outrage lately. Where is the tip-over point where this bubbles up into a political candidate who stands against these atrocities? Failing that, where is the tip-over point where we hold mass protests? Failing that, where is the tip-over point where we shoot these fuckers in the head? (That is in fact our final solution as outlined in the Constitution.)
"Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays"
You mean so good that when I was shopping for a new phone last month, the sales rep told me to stay as far away from the Windows phones as possible. Or how about this: on a separate occasion, my wife (who was also shopping for a phone recently) had a sales rep tell her that he would refuse to sell her a Windows phone because 100% of them got returned within 2 weeks, and he was sick of having unhappy customers. So yeah, if that's your definition of "quite good" then I guess you're right.
I'm also unsure how they are getting a "great share" of the market when retailers don't want to sell the product. Oh wait, I suppose they count every unit shipped from the factory with Windows Mobile installed as a sale.
Robot Judge: "Thank you, prosecutor. I will now consider the evidence."
[The Robot Judge looks like a Mac SE/30. A 'judging' progress bar appears on the Robot Judge's screen.]
Fry: "Hey, wait a minute! Isn't anyone gonna defend us?"
Leela: "Yeah! I mean, he may not have a case...but I'm genuinely not human!"
Robot: "Quiet, human!"
[The Robot Judge gets a 'bomb' failure message.]
Robot #2: "Uh oh, he froze up again."
Robot #3: "Try Control-Alt-Delete!"
Robot #4: "Jiggle the cord!"
Robot #5: "Turn him off and on!"
Robot #6: "Clean the gunk out of the mouse!"
Fry: "Call technical support!"
Robot #2: "OK, OK. He's back online."
BZZZT. Once again this fallacy rears its head.
The U.S. Constitution is NOT a positive enumeration of citizens' rights. You have a right to do everything except what is specifically forbidden (by laws that we consent to live under). In addition, the Constitution isn't even about you, Mr. Citizen. The Constitution is about what We the People will permit government to do and not do. In other words, we (the people) already have all the rights in the universe*. A few of those we will consent to give for the purpose of living more-or-less harmoniously, and a few of those we will permit to the government. All else we reserve for ourselves and for the individual States in which we consent to live.
* So yes, I do have a Constitutional right to broadband Internet access.
Everyone knows Tinker Town is the #1 gnome hotspot!
That's definitely a plus. But I think more important is that Red Hat moves units for you. With any kind of enterprise-level pricing system, even though something may have a natural price of $500, you sell it for $10000 instead because it makes PHBs think they're getting a better quality product. You simply cannot sell PHBs on free. They just won't go for it. If you put CentOS on a unit, PHBs don't want it. If you put Red Hat on the same unit, the PHBs buy.
Of course I don't know what they told you, but they could be trying to give a simple answer to a thorny question. It's better to tell PHBs "It works like Windows licensing," even if that's not quite true, because then they have clear expectations, which helps sales. The alternative -- the truth -- is really something like: (1) the support contract forbids you from making more than X copies; (2) the GPL says that placing restrictions on what end-users can do with the software nullifies the right to distribute, so technically we would allow you to go ahead and make extra copies (i.e., break the contract), but then we'd have to terminate your support. This hurts the PHB's brain, which in turn hurts sales.
So I think it might be a net gain for them to pretend there's only one license (when really there are 2).
Of course there is no logical way you can claim mining the Moon is environmentally unsound. But he's not using "environmental" in that way. He is talking about the kind of "environmental" where you are against human beings and against technology, period. The advent of an economical way to exploit the Moon would be a huge boon to humans and to technological advancement. So if humans and tech = bad, and mining the Moon benefits humans and tech, then mining the Moon = bad.
And you are precisely echoing all of the lies that Brendan discredited in his post. There is absolutely nothing about ES4 that will break ES3. Nothing. Yet you (probably quite knowingly) propagate the falsehood that it will.
Those are actually Brendan Eich's words. The extended commentary from which that comes is over here.
MS do indeed want to close the internet, and the name of the game is "patent encumberance." It's going to be too hard to lock up JavaScript, so they don't want to play with that anymore. They need to have everyone investing in a new MS-proprietary, patent-encumbered language.
Not to mention how it detracts from their available time for soliciting gay sex.
These are most excellent questions, and illustrate how bad people are at assessing risk. The number of automobile fatalities in the U.S. from 2002-2005 was 172168 (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx). The number of fatalities from the 9/11 attack was 2974, which is 58 times fewer people than autos claimed since then. So, I guess that means there's something like a 0.0002586% chance of dying to a terrorist attack. You stand a much better chance of being murdered by your own countrymen (20 times more likely), dying of influenza (27 times more likely), or even dying of AIDS (19 times more likely).
There is no measurable risk dying to a terrorist attack. Worry about catching the flu or your trigger-happy neighbor instead.
Er, no, but it does constitute dumping.
What is f'd up is that I got a 20% Overrated moderation. Let me lay out a few facts for you.
One it is RESTRICTED to traffic in model rocketry on the basis that these rockets could be used to shoot down commercial airliners. I launched model rockets when I was 10. If you took a direct hit from a model rocket, you might suffer a minor flesh wound. There is no way in hell that a model rocket could be used to shoot down an airplane of any size, let alone a commercial jet.
Two, a standard guide for K-12 teachers urges them to warn students against experimentation, urging teachers to tell kids such craziness as "oxygen is poisonous if inhaled at a concentration a bit greater than its natural concentration in the air." Fear chemistry! It's dangerous! Yes, oxygen can be a poison, as can pretty much any other substance ingested in excess. This is not new or interesting. It's normal existence. Cautioning kids against learning about their environment does not help.
Three kids are constantly ingrained with the message that science is strictly for certified professionals, and that "amateur" experimentation is hazardous and unwanted. Nevermind how any of these professionals got where they are now! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!
I'm in.
All knowledge shall follow. Knowledge is terrorism. An informed public is a dangerous public.
I blockquoth:
Well, I don't know if I have a logical answer for you, but I will add this: it's amazingly common for people to do things like paste a bunch of graphics into a Word file and send you the Word file, rather than just sending the graphics themselves. I see people doing this with PowerPoint as well -- their first instinct is to paste data into PowerPoint deck and send you that.
The only thing I can think of is that they think they're helping you by giving you a way to see the graphics (or see the SWF, or whatever), under the assumption that everyone has Word but not everyone has a stand-alone program that can display TIFF files. I find it annoying.
Another point that sibling posts haven't made in response to your idiotic remarks is that the U.S. federal government has given billions of dollars and special anti-competitive protections to these companies. At no point were the telcos operating in a marketplace free of government influence. So to suggest the market be allowed to sort out service issues is complete nonsense. There is no "market" at work here.
You may simply be too young to remember it, but there is a reason we used to joke: "We don't have to care! We're the phone company!"
With the related P-A post
It's going to have a database file system! It's going to be secure! No more rebooting! It will have a really good command line!
I can't quite tell how the children posts are arranged, but it has been said in several follow-ups that:
I suspect all 3 of these measures to fail, and for domestic surveillance to continue. It has succeeded in Britain already. A change of administration is highly unlikely to reverse domestic surveillance by the Executive, because Mr. Clinton was as much a part of establishing this as anyone. The SCOTUS might declare it illegal, but the Executive will simply ignore it, as they have with admonishments from Congress so far. And Congress has shown itself unwilling to impeach this President for any abuse whatsoever.
Therefore, the most likely vector for getting this checked is to remember that Congress funds everything. Vote to eject any members of Congress who will not hold the purse in hostage against these abuses. The Executive will fold when it runs out of money.
You forgot a few.
In other comments, Mr. Ballmer was heard to say he was going to "fucking kill" Mrs. Genovese, and all the chairs in Mr. Ballmer's dressing room were found smashed to pieces.
I'm genuinely curious. One of the main things that has kept me from both Fedora and Mandriva is the package management/repositories of Debian-based systems. I just cannot live without that anymore. I mean, software might be available in RPM format, but then you have to hunt dependencies yourself. No thank you. And last time I tried, it was possible to get repository-like functionality via tools like yum, but you still had to track down a thousand different repositories (the safety of which was typically unknown).
Is this any better now? Do you still have to hunt for 3 hours on the interwebs to figure out how to install anything that didn't come with the distro?