Well, I'd argue that its pretty well established that women can't compete in raw strength to the same level as men, so in many athletic fields they can't.
I'd say that's inaccurate, too. It would be more accurate to say that the top end of all women can't reach the level of raw strength as that of the top end of all men. There are many women who are stronger and faster than a number of men.
Pretty much. These types of people always have to find fault with the government even if it's a the exact same position they themselves were advocating.
Wow you happened to get two things wrong. First you imply some erroneous xenophobia in my post that didn't exist and secondly you don't even understand what the term irony means. Double fail.
It still always amazes me that people think it is horrific child abuse to leave a child alone in their own home, but it is just fine if they are out in public.
First of all it wasn't in their own home. It was in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country that they were on vacation in without any supervision for the kids at all.
Except in the McCann's case the parents willfully left their children all alone in an unlocked apartment room so they could go out with their friends. Their child was kidnapped out of their own bad parenting and selfishness. That's hardly an analogous situation to the one described in the summary.
Seriously, though I think the submitter just a thoughtless idiot rather than being intentionally racist.
He was being neither. "Human translation" is just saying that the translation that was posted to the MacRumors forum wasn't a machine translation from a site like Babelfish. Sheesh.
It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.
The Guitar Hero and Rock Band developers would like to have a word with you.
You know, I really don't know why you posted this in reply to my post because I never said anywhere in my post that people should get the services of other's for free. In fact I explicitly state the opposite:
I don't believe anyone deserves to get free access to content if the owner doesn't want to.
The snide 'oh those greedy fatcats feel they deserve to make millions' type comment is belittling the fact that people do need money to get by in life.
It's not greed to ask for people to pay for a service.
Again you seem to be arguing against someone else's post and not mine because I never claimed this.
If millions of people are enjoying someone you made you're entitled to get something out of that if you want to.
Well sure you do. But the fact is that many people who produce content that ends up not selling well will end up blaming everyone but themselves for their failures which is my point. I don't know where in my post I ever said I supported piracy or being forced to give away things for free which you seem to be attacking me as if I said.
Sorry, but any computer literate user will have found one of the many frustrations with IE's horrible functionality and looked for a better choice.
So you assert, but many computer literate users have no issues using IE and have for years. Just because you dislike IE, or the way it works, or how it looks doesn't mean that everyone shares your opinion.
I posit that there is no web developer or power user that actually uses IE by personal choice.
Sure if your selection pool is slashdot or people at your LUG, then yes you probably won't.
No, actually it's not. Saying that 2 megs is a trivial overhead is not the same as saying you should accept 500 meg programs that require dual core machines and gigs of memory. They aren't even in the same league.
and forces us to upgrade our hardware so we are able to run your program(s), assuming we want or need to, alongside others uninhibited.
If you have to upgrade your hardware to account for a 2 meg overhead in a program, you should consider upgrading to technology at least from the late 90s.
Oh, but there's a flip side to not having copyright: Nothing stops anyone from taking what you've done, obfuscating it, encrypting it,
One can already do that with GPL code now and make it hard for anyone to spot.
tying it to a platform,
What does copyright have to do with whether something is cross-platform or not?
and releasing it as if it were their own.
A number of people have done that anyway regardless of the existence of copyright or not. I expect many of them probably haven't and won't be noticed for doing so.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'd argue that its pretty well established that women can't compete in raw strength to the same level as men, so in many athletic fields they can't.
I'd say that's inaccurate, too. It would be more accurate to say that the top end of all women can't reach the level of raw strength as that of the top end of all men. There are many women who are stronger and faster than a number of men.
I'm pretty sure if a woman is being awarded a Ph.D in math she is definitely doing more than barely passing.
Why would last.fm, a UK based site
Which was bought by CBS, an American company, 2 years ago.
I hate to break it to you but the judicial system is part of the government.
Don't you mean halving screen real estate?
As someone who sues it
How exactly do you sue a keyboard key?
The underlying question is should the government even be making a "ruling" or providing "support".
Yes, it should. Why shouldn't the government be making a ruling or providing support for the Fair Use doctrine enshrined in the US copyright law?
Pretty much. These types of people always have to find fault with the government even if it's a the exact same position they themselves were advocating.
He hasn't worked for Microsoft in 4 years.
Irony is the use of a word or phrase contrary to it's literal meaning. The only thing ironic in your post was your ironic use of the word irony.
And scare away 50% of potential consumers because of a "broken website" ?
How would you scare away 50% of potential customers when IE6 holds just under 20% marketshare?
There's an incongruity between what i said and what i meant, so it's irony
That's not irony.
Wow you happened to get two things wrong. First you imply some erroneous xenophobia in my post that didn't exist and secondly you don't even understand what the term irony means. Double fail.
It still always amazes me that people think it is horrific child abuse to leave a child alone in their own home, but it is just fine if they are out in public.
First of all it wasn't in their own home. It was in an unlocked apartment in a foreign country that they were on vacation in without any supervision for the kids at all.
You find out your blowup doll is cheating on you?
Except in the McCann's case the parents willfully left their children all alone in an unlocked apartment room so they could go out with their friends. Their child was kidnapped out of their own bad parenting and selfishness. That's hardly an analogous situation to the one described in the summary.
Seriously, though I think the submitter just a thoughtless idiot rather than being intentionally racist.
He was being neither. "Human translation" is just saying that the translation that was posted to the MacRumors forum wasn't a machine translation from a site like Babelfish. Sheesh.
If a parent is dumb enough to give their kid full, unsupervised access to use their credit card then they deserve all the charges that get racked up.
It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.
The Guitar Hero and Rock Band developers would like to have a word with you.
I don't believe anyone deserves to get free access to content if the owner doesn't want to.
The snide 'oh those greedy fatcats feel they deserve to make millions' type comment is belittling the fact that people do need money to get by in life.
It's not greed to ask for people to pay for a service.
Again you seem to be arguing against someone else's post and not mine because I never claimed this.
If millions of people are enjoying someone you made you're entitled to get something out of that if you want to.
Well sure you do. But the fact is that many people who produce content that ends up not selling well will end up blaming everyone but themselves for their failures which is my point. I don't know where in my post I ever said I supported piracy or being forced to give away things for free which you seem to be attacking me as if I said.
Sorry, but any computer literate user will have found one of the many frustrations with IE's horrible functionality and looked for a better choice.
So you assert, but many computer literate users have no issues using IE and have for years. Just because you dislike IE, or the way it works, or how it looks doesn't mean that everyone shares your opinion.
I posit that there is no web developer or power user that actually uses IE by personal choice.
Sure if your selection pool is slashdot or people at your LUG, then yes you probably won't.
It is ideology like that that give us bloatware
No, actually it's not. Saying that 2 megs is a trivial overhead is not the same as saying you should accept 500 meg programs that require dual core machines and gigs of memory. They aren't even in the same league.
and forces us to upgrade our hardware so we are able to run your program(s), assuming we want or need to, alongside others uninhibited.
If you have to upgrade your hardware to account for a 2 meg overhead in a program, you should consider upgrading to technology at least from the late 90s.
Oh, but there's a flip side to not having copyright: Nothing stops anyone from taking what you've done, obfuscating it, encrypting it,
One can already do that with GPL code now and make it hard for anyone to spot.
tying it to a platform,
What does copyright have to do with whether something is cross-platform or not?
and releasing it as if it were their own.
A number of people have done that anyway regardless of the existence of copyright or not. I expect many of them probably haven't and won't be noticed for doing so.
minimal system requirements
2. Flash/SWG, 3. Silverlight/XAML
Does not compute.
Was that the one with Tim Allen?