Your very article exactly makes the point I was making.
No, it makes the opposite of what you were claiming which is that NO ONE was fired. I admitted that article said that the layoffs were far less than the private sector. It's not as if I was trying to hide that fact:
Yes, as the story says that is less than private sector but is much more than the "NO ONE" you claimed.
Yes, I did say it was less than the private sector as that was what the article said. The point was that the person claimed that NO ONE was fired. I was never at all claiming that the federal workers were laid off in a higher percentage just that the claim was total bunkus.
If people are using C++ for these types of apps either they have specialized needs or they just don't know what they're doing and like to spend 2X the time developing shit.
Which defeats the whole point of it being "open" wireless. Yes, if you make the hotspot private it can't be accessed by the public. Wow, you're sooo smart! Except that the point if this is to make it open and public.
Low-end and low-income users will happily use them.
No, they would more likely rather having some recent that actually works well rather than some 12 year old dumpster dived computer that runs as slow as molasses.
Yes, so he claims. Where's the actual proof? If his case was such open and shut as you seem to think it is why would he be asking on Slashdot what to do and creating some blog to spread his drama rather than just getting the issue resolved through hiring a lawyer, going to the EFF, etc? There is no actual evidence to show that this guy is nothing more than a disgruntled ex-employee trying to smear the reputation of his former employer.
Over what? That Blizzard will not be trying to use copyright laws in ways it wasn't imagined to stop people from selling in game D3 items? That they are finally reversing a poor decision thus people no longer have to go to shady 3rd party sites to buy in game items and instead have a regulated and safer way since people are going to do it anyway? Yeah, I'm totally pissed!
Yes, let's blast Blizzard for making a sensible decision about selling in game items for once and reversing one of their stupidest policies of the past many years. Clearly they should continue to get people shut down for copyright infringement over the sale of in game items and gold.
Let a real money secondary economy evolve, but for the love of Pete don't enshrine it in the game.
Why? This means that you are less likely to get ripped off since Blizzard will be running it versus the third party sites where you are most likely getting scammed from. Why would you think the second choice is better?
Yes, but when he purchased these items they were not considered works of art. They were bought as industrial props and nothing more. The UK court didn't care that after the fact it was realized these could be sold as works of art because at the time they were bought they were nothing but props and as such only get 15 years of copyright protection. Unlike the US court, the UK court didn't fall for Lucas' revisionist history.
My point was simply that saying the film sucked adds nothing to the discussion.
Good for you?
Of course some people didn't enjoy it. This doesn't mean that George Lucas wasn't "considered an incredible up-and-coming young director", which is what i infer from your statement that Lucas was "always a total fail".
I didn't say that Lucas wasn't considered that. I said I thought he was always a shitty directory. Once again, I have a differing opinion. You need to get over yourself.
So uhm... you didn't like it. Erm... okay... thanks for sharing. I like rocky road ice cream.
And thanks for sharing that you get all whiny and bitchy over someone making a post you dislike. That truly added so much to this discussion as well.
And all you say may very well be true but these helmets were purchased and constructed as nothing more than industrial props and as such their copyright has expired. Lucas can try to respin history all he wants with respect to this but apparently some people aren't stupid enough to fall for it which is a good thing.
The decision basically said that the helmets were not works of art or sculpture, but instead 'industrial props',
Yes, because at the time that was all they were viewed as by Lucas when purchasing them. It was not until after the success of Star Wars and the merchandising rights started to become lucrative were all these props considered "works of art". It's historical revisionism to claim otherwise.
Lucas has been rewriting history of Star Wars for quite some time. What's especially funny are the people who still believe the BS about the "nine stories" that he supposedly wrote. Yet in one of the documentaries for Episode 1 he said he didn't even start writing the story for Phantom Menace until the mid to late 90s. He's got a good scam going, though. There are very few groups of people that are more easily milked out of cash than Star Wars fanbois. The sad part is that in most cases Lucas barely has to spend any money to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in return on his investment.
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Why would you have to live in Massachusetts to go to Stanford?
Your very article exactly makes the point I was making.
No, it makes the opposite of what you were claiming which is that NO ONE was fired. I admitted that article said that the layoffs were far less than the private sector. It's not as if I was trying to hide that fact:
Yes, as the story says that is less than private sector but is much more than the "NO ONE" you claimed.
Yes, I did say it was less than the private sector as that was what the article said. The point was that the person claimed that NO ONE was fired. I was never at all claiming that the federal workers were laid off in a higher percentage just that the claim was total bunkus.
http://www.gizmag.com/heat-regulating-building-material/19413/
Apparently samzenpus is too stupid to be able to do an href correctly.
If people are using C++ for these types of apps either they have specialized needs or they just don't know what they're doing and like to spend 2X the time developing shit.
Or they could fit in neither of your choices.
You CAN'T take your "functioning, blossoming eco-system" and share it with anyone that isn't running the same version of Windows as you.
Since when? .NET 1.0 - 3.5 works fine on XP through Win7. And if you really need .NET 4.0 its runs on XP SP3 through Win7.
Which defeats the whole point of it being "open" wireless. Yes, if you make the hotspot private it can't be accessed by the public. Wow, you're sooo smart! Except that the point if this is to make it open and public.
Low-end and low-income users will happily use them.
No, they would more likely rather having some recent that actually works well rather than some 12 year old dumpster dived computer that runs as slow as molasses.
Send it to the local PC recycler.
That may not be the good idea you think it is.
You do realize that a lot of supercomputing clusters use GPUs for their number crunching, right? So how exactly is it a non sequitur?
and a Han Solo
"A" Han Solo? Since when were there multiples?
Yes, so he claims. Where's the actual proof? If his case was such open and shut as you seem to think it is why would he be asking on Slashdot what to do and creating some blog to spread his drama rather than just getting the issue resolved through hiring a lawyer, going to the EFF, etc? There is no actual evidence to show that this guy is nothing more than a disgruntled ex-employee trying to smear the reputation of his former employer.
Unless he's at the level of a senior executive or the CEO he most likely has no power to make proclamations for the entire company.
And how would reading the article change the fact that the answer is still "consult a lawyer".
Over what? That Blizzard will not be trying to use copyright laws in ways it wasn't imagined to stop people from selling in game D3 items? That they are finally reversing a poor decision thus people no longer have to go to shady 3rd party sites to buy in game items and instead have a regulated and safer way since people are going to do it anyway? Yeah, I'm totally pissed!
Yes, let's blast Blizzard for making a sensible decision about selling in game items for once and reversing one of their stupidest policies of the past many years. Clearly they should continue to get people shut down for copyright infringement over the sale of in game items and gold.
Let a real money secondary economy evolve, but for the love of Pete don't enshrine it in the game.
Why? This means that you are less likely to get ripped off since Blizzard will be running it versus the third party sites where you are most likely getting scammed from. Why would you think the second choice is better?
Why? At least with Blizzard on board finally you don't have to go to some shady 3rd party chinese site to buy items like vast amounts of people did in D2. Or would you rather them go back to their policy of shutting down people for copyright infringement for selling in game items or Wow gold?
Cue the spam of...looking 4 2 soc 2 skill 20 fcr barb circlet
Which falls over when one is listening music through something like Last.fm or Pandora....in their browser.
Yes, but when he purchased these items they were not considered works of art. They were bought as industrial props and nothing more. The UK court didn't care that after the fact it was realized these could be sold as works of art because at the time they were bought they were nothing but props and as such only get 15 years of copyright protection. Unlike the US court, the UK court didn't fall for Lucas' revisionist history.
My point was simply that saying the film sucked adds nothing to the discussion.
Good for you?
Of course some people didn't enjoy it. This doesn't mean that George Lucas wasn't "considered an incredible up-and-coming young director", which is what i infer from your statement that Lucas was "always a total fail".
I didn't say that Lucas wasn't considered that. I said I thought he was always a shitty directory. Once again, I have a differing opinion. You need to get over yourself.
So uhm... you didn't like it. Erm... okay... thanks for sharing. I like rocky road ice cream.
And thanks for sharing that you get all whiny and bitchy over someone making a post you dislike. That truly added so much to this discussion as well.
And all you say may very well be true but these helmets were purchased and constructed as nothing more than industrial props and as such their copyright has expired. Lucas can try to respin history all he wants with respect to this but apparently some people aren't stupid enough to fall for it which is a good thing.
The decision basically said that the helmets were not works of art or sculpture, but instead 'industrial props',
Yes, because at the time that was all they were viewed as by Lucas when purchasing them. It was not until after the success of Star Wars and the merchandising rights started to become lucrative were all these props considered "works of art". It's historical revisionism to claim otherwise.
Lucas has been rewriting history of Star Wars for quite some time. What's especially funny are the people who still believe the BS about the "nine stories" that he supposedly wrote. Yet in one of the documentaries for Episode 1 he said he didn't even start writing the story for Phantom Menace until the mid to late 90s. He's got a good scam going, though. There are very few groups of people that are more easily milked out of cash than Star Wars fanbois. The sad part is that in most cases Lucas barely has to spend any money to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in return on his investment.