This attitude is somewhat ironic. In Germany, content with nudity and some sex are not banned but violence is, while in the United States you're not allowed to see an exposed breast as a kid but you can buy a game in which you blow people's heads off and have their blood splatter everywhere. It's not really about the degree of regulation, but about the values of the society.
Linux is the name for both the kernel and the OS. Richard Stallman tried to get people to call it "GNU/Linux", because he felt his contribution was more than that of everyone else that's contributed to the Linux OS. But in the end, almost everyone calls it by the name it was originally given by its creator: Linux.
Linux's UI is based on MIT's X-Windows (why not "MIT/Linux"?) and either FSF's Gnome or KDE, though, so yes, it's not Linus' purview to worry about Linux's UI, so his geekiness on that matter is not why Linux's UI is considered inadequate for desktop use by many.
"Anti-Catholicism: The last acceptable prejudice."
Is saying something negative about the Pope really being anti-Catholic? Is saying that Jewish laws are probably based more in practical guides to avoiding ancient diseases rather than commandments from God anti-Semitic? If criticizing any belief system of someone's religion is being "anti" that religion, we start going down a path of extremist dogma where all rational thought is lost.
This is exactly the question answered by virtualization. Mixing lots of server processes on one OS instance makes it difficult to maintain status, monitoring, fault tolerance, etc. And before virtualization, a different OS instance required a different piece of hardware. When you hear about companies using VMware to save thousands on server power and air conditioning bills, this is where that savings is being realized.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Intel beats AMD at every price point, product offering, and purpose. But by and large the Core 2 Duo tends to beat AMD across many areas of the curve for many tasks. Congrats for finding an area where your obvious support of AMD didn't mean you had to compromise your performance-- and you only had to void the warranty and reduce the lifetime by artificially boosting your system's clock by over 20% to match Intel!
FSF did some stuff. MIT did some stuff. The KDE guys did some stuff. BSD even did some stuff.
They all did it for Linus' system-- that's why he's the spiritual leader. Richard Stallman is hardly a "leader" in the Linux world-- he's done a lot of great stuff, but if it were up to him we wouldn't have anything like Linux.
If Richard Stallman wanted to be the spiritual leader of an OS, he should have finished Hurd back in '90 before Linux got popular.
1. Fast-forwarding through ads is NOT the same thing as filtering them out before they reach your television. I've got a TiVo and I fast-forward through many ads, but there are still many that catch my eye and I watch (those Apple ads are especially eye-catching). In any case, I'm sure 100 company logos pass before my eyes each hour I watch (and fast-forward through) TiVo. In fact, I probably see more company brand names with TiVo than I did before, when I'd typically leave the room for ads. And yes, the old "skip 30 seconds ahead" has been removed from most commercial DVRs because *it would undermine television's business model*, exactly like I said. I hate it when people so vehemently agree with me.
2. "you're publicly agreeing on/. with media pigopolists"... in this case... yes. Which is why despite my post being actually true, it's been marked flamebait. If you filter out the ads on websites automatically, you're undermining the websites' existence-- period. Try to justify that to yourself however you like, but it's inescapable economics.
No one's arguing with your right not to look at or click web ads. But if it became popular to install an ad filter on the cable line before it reached your television, it would undermine television's business model.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft, regardless of how stupid blocking Firefox as a solution is. If you don't like a site's ads, don't visit the site.
The parent poster didn't make any such accusation. They simply stated that they guessed MS partners would be the ones most likely to actually do something like this, which is an opinion. One I think is hard to argue with.
This happened to a friend of mine. He sent them a check for $0.00 and it seemed to make the problem go away.
I got a bill once for $0.22 in college, so I taped a quarter I found on the floor to the bill and sent it in. Since that was the last bill of the year, they sent me mail at home over the summer that I'd over-paid my last phone bill and would receive a check for the difference in a few days. Sure enough, a few days later came a check for $0.03.
That's not nearly as bad as my credit card company with whom I canceled an account, though. They had a final balance which was an annual fee (the existence of which was why I'd canceled.) So I sent in a check for the balance and canceled the account. Well, some nice lady had apparently removed the annual fee charge, so when the check arrived there, I had a positive balance and they couldn't close the account until it was corrected. So at the beginning of the next billing cycle, their computer automatically cut me a check for the difference, then noted that I hadn't paid the annual fee and added that to my account again... so I was back to my original state with the balance on my card but a check for that amount in my hand. It took me months to get that darn card canceled, and in the meantime when I hadn't paid attention to the fact that it was still open they called me delinquent and the APR went up on all my cards. Sigh.
You make a good point, but the timelines don't really match up. There are 600 years between the Magna Carta and the Industrial Revolution. It's possible that cause and effect can't really be established here-- that rule of law and the decline of the power of the church in government created a feedback loop that fed the rise of industry and economy. I still think it's important to point out, though, that "rule of law" and "separation of church and state" are synonyms. There seem to be some people who see the first as positive and the second as negative for some reason.
I agree with you, but the question is the cause. Why did the rule of law suddenly hold sway? Well, what held sway before it? The King and the Church... and the King derived his power from Divine Mandate. So what it really boils down to is that a weakened church and the beginning of separation of church and state is what allowed the rule of law to flourish. If someone's interpretation of a vague religious platitude can trump a law, then there is no law. On the other hand if decisions are made based on a published set of rules and standards that were written by man and can be revised by man, you've got the basis for law.
In any case, Martin Luther in the 1400's, the Church of England vs Catholicism in the 1500's, the Puritans and other nonconformist churches in the 1600's, and finally the religious tolerances that slowly came into being around 1700 all served to divide and undermine the church's grip on political power. And when you take religion out of government like this, law takes its place.
Even before Photoshop, inappropriate use of stock footage or using visual scenes of the wrong event was pretty common and made for more exciting news. I remember in the late 80's reports of a student riot in South Korea... my father was there at the time. There may have been a few disgruntled students there at the time, but his pictures are completely different (no violence or anything.) Turns out the news companies heard about a student protest and just looked for random footage of asian students rioting and put it on the air when talking about the situation.
Of course, Final Cut Studio and Photoshop make it even easier, but the news has always been more about entertainment than information.
Hasn't Second Life has open sourced everything, so you could set up your own third life, couldn't you? Those dang "open source" terrorist technology-supplying anti-American pinkos!
I think it was probably more important for Apple to get the Mac certified than it is for Linux or *BSD. People already think of Linux and *BSD as UNIX, even though they're not. A lot of people think of the Mac as a "toy" or a system for the artists and graphic designers, and not something that's got real underpinnings on an enterprise platform.
Now that MacOS X is certified UNIX, it might change some people's perception of the OS.
If they do win at trial, destruction of every infringing device is within their rights.
It's within their rights to request, but court precedent tends to favor a more rational approach to damages. They would have to prove that the continued existence of these devices poses some sort of additional potential damage over and above a merely monetary judgment, I think, in order for anything like that to be decided.
In the unlikely event this company wins and their patent remains valid, the most likely outcome is an injunction against the Cell for the remaining 2 years the patent is valid... assuming the case is resolved within 2 years.
I was impressed with GTA:San Andreas' world. You could drive (or fly) for a long time without running out of world. It boggles my mind what they're going to be able to do with Blu-Ray capacity at their disposal.
Fine, let's use the phrase "triggered" instead of "caused". The cause-effect chain can be very long... noise causes frustration causes blood pressure rise causes throbbing causes anxiety causes fight-or-flight causes seratonin imbalance causes migraine. Did the noise cause the migraine? That's a philosophical question, I guess. The noise certainly "triggered" it, though.
Noises, by themselves, do not cause headaches. The headache could be caused by the clenching of the jaw in response to the noise however.
Headaches can certainly be caused by non-physical means. A common example is the migraine, which is caused by a seratonin trigger that improperly dilates the blood vessels and causes intense pressure in the head. Nothing to do with clenched jaws, but closely related to anxiety and depression, which are also tightly coupled with seratonin issues.
There is no such thing as symptoms that are "entirely psychological". The cause may not be triggered by the physical interaction of the radio waves with the body, but so-called "psychosomatic" symptoms are still very real. Blood pressure changes, headaches, nausea, nervous system abnormalities, heart palpitations, muscle weakness, dizziness, "cloudy" thinking, sinus pressure, rashes, abdominal pain, diarrhea, insomnia, and many other physical issues can be triggered by stress and non-physical causes. That doesn't make them any less real. The body releases a cocktail of internal signals in response to all sorts of combined internal and external stimulae that cause all sorts of real, scary, and completely physical symptoms.
These people probably need a little counseling and perhaps a month or so of Lexapro to prove to themselves that the cause of their symptoms are not radio waves. Anxiety, depression, and other seratonin-related issues (along with all their physical symptoms) are very curable these days once they are properly diagnosed and the patient is willing to be treated for the root cause.
I believe the problems with all the titles you mention have been fixed by version 1.81 of the PS3's system software. The "backwards compatibility" meme is mostly just FUD. I'm not sure why people love to hate the PS3 so much anymore.
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This attitude is somewhat ironic. In Germany, content with nudity and some sex are not banned but violence is, while in the United States you're not allowed to see an exposed breast as a kid but you can buy a game in which you blow people's heads off and have their blood splatter everywhere. It's not really about the degree of regulation, but about the values of the society.
Linux is the name for both the kernel and the OS. Richard Stallman tried to get people to call it "GNU/Linux", because he felt his contribution was more than that of everyone else that's contributed to the Linux OS. But in the end, almost everyone calls it by the name it was originally given by its creator: Linux.
Linux's UI is based on MIT's X-Windows (why not "MIT/Linux"?) and either FSF's Gnome or KDE, though, so yes, it's not Linus' purview to worry about Linux's UI, so his geekiness on that matter is not why Linux's UI is considered inadequate for desktop use by many.
"Anti-Catholicism: The last acceptable prejudice."
Is saying something negative about the Pope really being anti-Catholic? Is saying that Jewish laws are probably based more in practical guides to avoiding ancient diseases rather than commandments from God anti-Semitic? If criticizing any belief system of someone's religion is being "anti" that religion, we start going down a path of extremist dogma where all rational thought is lost.
This is exactly the question answered by virtualization. Mixing lots of server processes on one OS instance makes it difficult to maintain status, monitoring, fault tolerance, etc. And before virtualization, a different OS instance required a different piece of hardware. When you hear about companies using VMware to save thousands on server power and air conditioning bills, this is where that savings is being realized.
Fossie was a famous Broadway musical choreographer, known for jazzy dance numbers.
I don't think anyone is arguing that Intel beats AMD at every price point, product offering, and purpose. But by and large the Core 2 Duo tends to beat AMD across many areas of the curve for many tasks. Congrats for finding an area where your obvious support of AMD didn't mean you had to compromise your performance-- and you only had to void the warranty and reduce the lifetime by artificially boosting your system's clock by over 20% to match Intel!
FSF did some stuff. MIT did some stuff. The KDE guys did some stuff. BSD even did some stuff.
They all did it for Linus' system-- that's why he's the spiritual leader. Richard Stallman is hardly a "leader" in the Linux world-- he's done a lot of great stuff, but if it were up to him we wouldn't have anything like Linux.
If Richard Stallman wanted to be the spiritual leader of an OS, he should have finished Hurd back in '90 before Linux got popular.
1. Fast-forwarding through ads is NOT the same thing as filtering them out before they reach your television. I've got a TiVo and I fast-forward through many ads, but there are still many that catch my eye and I watch (those Apple ads are especially eye-catching). In any case, I'm sure 100 company logos pass before my eyes each hour I watch (and fast-forward through) TiVo. In fact, I probably see more company brand names with TiVo than I did before, when I'd typically leave the room for ads. And yes, the old "skip 30 seconds ahead" has been removed from most commercial DVRs because *it would undermine television's business model*, exactly like I said. I hate it when people so vehemently agree with me.
/. with media pigopolists"... in this case... yes. Which is why despite my post being actually true, it's been marked flamebait. If you filter out the ads on websites automatically, you're undermining the websites' existence-- period. Try to justify that to yourself however you like, but it's inescapable economics.
2. "you're publicly agreeing on
No one's arguing with your right not to look at or click web ads. But if it became popular to install an ad filter on the cable line before it reached your television, it would undermine television's business model.
It's pretty obvious that ad-blocking web sites IS akin to resource theft, regardless of how stupid blocking Firefox as a solution is. If you don't like a site's ads, don't visit the site.
The parent poster didn't make any such accusation. They simply stated that they guessed MS partners would be the ones most likely to actually do something like this, which is an opinion. One I think is hard to argue with.
This happened to a friend of mine. He sent them a check for $0.00 and it seemed to make the problem go away.
I got a bill once for $0.22 in college, so I taped a quarter I found on the floor to the bill and sent it in. Since that was the last bill of the year, they sent me mail at home over the summer that I'd over-paid my last phone bill and would receive a check for the difference in a few days. Sure enough, a few days later came a check for $0.03.
That's not nearly as bad as my credit card company with whom I canceled an account, though. They had a final balance which was an annual fee (the existence of which was why I'd canceled.) So I sent in a check for the balance and canceled the account. Well, some nice lady had apparently removed the annual fee charge, so when the check arrived there, I had a positive balance and they couldn't close the account until it was corrected. So at the beginning of the next billing cycle, their computer automatically cut me a check for the difference, then noted that I hadn't paid the annual fee and added that to my account again... so I was back to my original state with the balance on my card but a check for that amount in my hand. It took me months to get that darn card canceled, and in the meantime when I hadn't paid attention to the fact that it was still open they called me delinquent and the APR went up on all my cards. Sigh.
You make a good point, but the timelines don't really match up. There are 600 years between the Magna Carta and the Industrial Revolution. It's possible that cause and effect can't really be established here-- that rule of law and the decline of the power of the church in government created a feedback loop that fed the rise of industry and economy. I still think it's important to point out, though, that "rule of law" and "separation of church and state" are synonyms. There seem to be some people who see the first as positive and the second as negative for some reason.
I agree with you, but the question is the cause. Why did the rule of law suddenly hold sway? Well, what held sway before it? The King and the Church... and the King derived his power from Divine Mandate. So what it really boils down to is that a weakened church and the beginning of separation of church and state is what allowed the rule of law to flourish. If someone's interpretation of a vague religious platitude can trump a law, then there is no law. On the other hand if decisions are made based on a published set of rules and standards that were written by man and can be revised by man, you've got the basis for law.
In any case, Martin Luther in the 1400's, the Church of England vs Catholicism in the 1500's, the Puritans and other nonconformist churches in the 1600's, and finally the religious tolerances that slowly came into being around 1700 all served to divide and undermine the church's grip on political power. And when you take religion out of government like this, law takes its place.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Show me a $200M government contract award that WASN'T challenged by the folks who didn't get it...
Even before Photoshop, inappropriate use of stock footage or using visual scenes of the wrong event was pretty common and made for more exciting news. I remember in the late 80's reports of a student riot in South Korea... my father was there at the time. There may have been a few disgruntled students there at the time, but his pictures are completely different (no violence or anything.) Turns out the news companies heard about a student protest and just looked for random footage of asian students rioting and put it on the air when talking about the situation.
Of course, Final Cut Studio and Photoshop make it even easier, but the news has always been more about entertainment than information.
they're going to if they haven't already.
Hasn't Second Life has open sourced everything, so you could set up your own third life, couldn't you? Those dang "open source" terrorist technology-supplying anti-American pinkos!
Nerds get less sex? But... but... I saw "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Real Genius"... you're telling me that's not how things really are???
I think it was probably more important for Apple to get the Mac certified than it is for Linux or *BSD. People already think of Linux and *BSD as UNIX, even though they're not. A lot of people think of the Mac as a "toy" or a system for the artists and graphic designers, and not something that's got real underpinnings on an enterprise platform.
Now that MacOS X is certified UNIX, it might change some people's perception of the OS.
If they do win at trial, destruction of every infringing device is within their rights.
It's within their rights to request, but court precedent tends to favor a more rational approach to damages. They would have to prove that the continued existence of these devices poses some sort of additional potential damage over and above a merely monetary judgment, I think, in order for anything like that to be decided.
In the unlikely event this company wins and their patent remains valid, the most likely outcome is an injunction against the Cell for the remaining 2 years the patent is valid... assuming the case is resolved within 2 years.
I was impressed with GTA:San Andreas' world. You could drive (or fly) for a long time without running out of world. It boggles my mind what they're going to be able to do with Blu-Ray capacity at their disposal.
Fine, let's use the phrase "triggered" instead of "caused". The cause-effect chain can be very long... noise causes frustration causes blood pressure rise causes throbbing causes anxiety causes fight-or-flight causes seratonin imbalance causes migraine. Did the noise cause the migraine? That's a philosophical question, I guess. The noise certainly "triggered" it, though.
Noises, by themselves, do not cause headaches. The headache could be caused by the clenching of the jaw in response to the noise however.
Headaches can certainly be caused by non-physical means. A common example is the migraine, which is caused by a seratonin trigger that improperly dilates the blood vessels and causes intense pressure in the head. Nothing to do with clenched jaws, but closely related to anxiety and depression, which are also tightly coupled with seratonin issues.
entirely psychological
There is no such thing as symptoms that are "entirely psychological". The cause may not be triggered by the physical interaction of the radio waves with the body, but so-called "psychosomatic" symptoms are still very real. Blood pressure changes, headaches, nausea, nervous system abnormalities, heart palpitations, muscle weakness, dizziness, "cloudy" thinking, sinus pressure, rashes, abdominal pain, diarrhea, insomnia, and many other physical issues can be triggered by stress and non-physical causes. That doesn't make them any less real. The body releases a cocktail of internal signals in response to all sorts of combined internal and external stimulae that cause all sorts of real, scary, and completely physical symptoms.
These people probably need a little counseling and perhaps a month or so of Lexapro to prove to themselves that the cause of their symptoms are not radio waves. Anxiety, depression, and other seratonin-related issues (along with all their physical symptoms) are very curable these days once they are properly diagnosed and the patient is willing to be treated for the root cause.
I am not a doctor.
I believe the problems with all the titles you mention have been fixed by version 1.81 of the PS3's system software. The "backwards compatibility" meme is mostly just FUD. I'm not sure why people love to hate the PS3 so much anymore.