Just goes to show that most of the time when management types start talking about "smart" software, it's just as bloody-minded and primitive as ever. Software is software is software, at least until someone invents strong AI.
I'm referring to the "treating the illness with interminable and pricy drugs versus curing it" argument which I find a lot less unlikely than I used to. It's like the oil industry: why the hell would they want consumers to buy more efficient engines?
I'm not a fan of Tim Minchin so much because he's generally sarcastic and smug.
The problem is that every company that does any amount of business and has online feedback will be reamed out by at least a handful of people. And then there's the classic "5 star rating system? So that means 5 if it works and 0 if there's anything wrong with it at all!" bit, too.
Comparative shopping online in terms of quality doesn't work when you have a decent number of big companies. At least, that's my experience; YMMV.
1) Because they sure as hell don't give you a clean copy of Windows to install? Or are we talking about torrenting one and then using the pre-installed key.
Yeah, any CS coursework that requires an IDE is going to get screwed on a Chromebook. Just imagining them designing some quarter-assed Google Docs version of an IDE makes my eye twitch. And the program could run in the cloud!
Hell, in 7 you don't even have to click. Win key, hover over arrow next to "Shut Down" (or whatever you have there...it's actually changeable), then click on your final command when the menu pops up.
So accepting copyright or copyleft is tacit to acceptance of a pan-opticon police state
It sounds like you don't understand some of the reasoning behind the GPL. It was designed to work within the existing system because we can't just hand-wave it away. From the rest of your post, it sounds like you might be okay with a company taking your public domain code, closing the source, selling it, and then suing you for infringement, though. You don't really explain what your preferred solution is.
To accept copyleft is denial of a right to act privately, anonymously and without judgement.
So license it as closed-source. Why don't you want to do that? You're spending all this effort arguing against copyleft...its very existence irritates you? Then just don't use it.
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Just goes to show that most of the time when management types start talking about "smart" software, it's just as bloody-minded and primitive as ever. Software is software is software, at least until someone invents strong AI.
I'm referring to the "treating the illness with interminable and pricy drugs versus curing it" argument which I find a lot less unlikely than I used to. It's like the oil industry: why the hell would they want consumers to buy more efficient engines?
I'm not a fan of Tim Minchin so much because he's generally sarcastic and smug.
4) It works fantastically but the established drug overlords don't want you to have access to it because then you wouldn't buy their drugs.
I'm thinking, the more I hear on the news these days, that I *could* do a better job than a lot of them.
The problem is that every company that does any amount of business and has online feedback will be reamed out by at least a handful of people. And then there's the classic "5 star rating system? So that means 5 if it works and 0 if there's anything wrong with it at all!" bit, too.
Comparative shopping online in terms of quality doesn't work when you have a decent number of big companies. At least, that's my experience; YMMV.
Do any of those sites have actually meaningful names in Chinese, or are they just syllables like Hulu etc.?
Auggh crap please completely disregard my comment. My apologies.
The Chinese new year isn't until the 31st.
but he assumes it was a slip-up the Chinese authorities in charge of censoring content
They accidentally the whole thing?
Oh God.
Bachelor Chow: Now with flavor!!
Nice.
Platinum Collector's Edition!
Having an ideology is an insidious trap?! Are you a nihilist or something? Oh wait...isn't nihilism an ideology too...hmmm...
yeah, when your boss suggests a BJ, it's a bit more of a problem than if some random guy in a bar does the same
Ummmm...especially when your boss is the President of the freakin' United States...
1) Because they sure as hell don't give you a clean copy of Windows to install? Or are we talking about torrenting one and then using the pre-installed key.
Yeah, any CS coursework that requires an IDE is going to get screwed on a Chromebook. Just imagining them designing some quarter-assed Google Docs version of an IDE makes my eye twitch. And the program could run in the cloud!
Hell, in 7 you don't even have to click. Win key, hover over arrow next to "Shut Down" (or whatever you have there...it's actually changeable), then click on your final command when the menu pops up.
I think you meant:
7. Howl like a caveman and just hold in the damn power button until the thing turns off.
:)
I would also settle for it only being accessible via voice interface by saying, "Windows, show me my shit all at once!"
And oh how they danced [...] for fear that daybreak would come too soon...
So accepting copyright or copyleft is tacit to acceptance of a pan-opticon police state
It sounds like you don't understand some of the reasoning behind the GPL. It was designed to work within the existing system because we can't just hand-wave it away. From the rest of your post, it sounds like you might be okay with a company taking your public domain code, closing the source, selling it, and then suing you for infringement, though. You don't really explain what your preferred solution is.
To accept copyleft is denial of a right to act privately, anonymously and without judgement.
So license it as closed-source. Why don't you want to do that? You're spending all this effort arguing against copyleft...its very existence irritates you? Then just don't use it.
What the hell does "jelly hater" mean?
The Red Pill meant that Neo *was* ready.
As long as you don't read the comments sections. That's a sure recipe for bleeding from the eyes. (Yahoo or Youtube)
Good writing? On Slashdot articles?! It's like you think we have editors here!
It doesn't help that it's not even on the Acronym Finder list. AT ALL.