Pointing people in the direction of things they might be interested in is clearly exercising freedom of speech.
However, if you're prepared to obfuscate and charge the issue by calling copying "stealing" you clearly have no interest in the accurate representation of things in this matter.
You have overlooked the fact that my disagreement was purely with one of your 5 original points. You seem to think that I have asserted everything you say about your requirements is false, which is itself a falsity. On that single point, you are demonstrably incorrect - these things are *possible*, as people do them. It may not fit in with the way you or your friends like to do things, but that does not make the task *impossible* in any way.
And *of course* I have no experience of facebook. All the communication I need I do through channels I've been using for two decades, in particular IRC and mail, and to a lesser extent web fora and even usenet. Even if it wasn't of zero value to me, the fact that it's populated by idiots is more than enough reason to keep well away.
The GSM standards body has never charged anyone for an SMS.
You're conflating use of a standard with service providers who sell use of that standard.
To be honest, I can't believe the US providers who even charge for receipt of SMSs still get away with such absurd pricing. No carrier in any european country I've heard of has ever even thought of such a stupid and dangerous charging scheme. Nor could they now, as nobody would be stupid enough to chose them as a provider.
In most countries in europe, it seems that you get about 200 free per month even on the cheapest network packages. PAYG is a different market clearly, but even then the last PAYG I used was either 2p or 3p per SMS, about 5 years ago.
Oh, dear. Your facebook-addled brain apparently fails to notice that at no point do I say "only use IRC". E-mail's perfectly functional if you prefer to handle things at your own pace. Then again, there's nothing to stop me reading my IRC sessions only once a week if I so prefer. There's nothing about the fact that lines may be added at the bottom arbitrarily frequently that means your cursor needs to move at any speed down the page apart from that which you yourself desire. You apparently haven't mastered the concept of a "queue" yet. Such a short attention spam does seem to be associated with facebook users.
Apparently you also seem to think that in order to send or receive emails to/from multiple people you need to run a listserv.
You're not putting the case for intelligent people using facebook very well.
> It could be that. Or it could be that you're too stupid to use Facebook.
This demonstrates your inability to look at anything with even a modicum of intelligence and logic. There is no way your whining something's not possible, and my indicating that it is indeed possible, can be because of stupidity on my part.
Keep using facebook, by all means, I've been told your kind is perfectly at home there.
> The present 16 bit 44k samples are "good enough", better than cassette, having no noise (unlike vinyl)and was the best they could do back when CDs were developed. They should take it to the next level.
What bollocks. 16bit @44kHz is demonstrably (i.e. provably) as good as the human ear will ever need. Anything more than that per channel is either a waste of bandwidth, or snake-oil, depending on your perspective.
> Capitalism requires a fully informed and equal-opportunity market.
In order to squeeze it into their simplistic macroeconomic models, economists must assume capitalism requires a fully informed and equal-opportunity market. However, back in the real world...
Sure. I'm always on 9 different channels with mostly different but occasionally overlapping (e.g. ex-workmates and current workmates overlap) groups of friends, half of which exist almost entirely for organising face-2-face things at very short notice.
If you or your friends are lacking the ability to use IRC to do networking, then it's not because it's not possible, which was your claim.
> 3) I manage to keep in touch with many more friends than I could possibly do before.
Bullshit. If you and they have an IP connection then you both could have connected to an IRC network, and kept in real-time contact with them all ever since the early 90s. If you or they do not have an IP connection, then you're pretty screwed on the Farcebook front too.
And you also presume they don't have mobile phones. Or email. Or membership of a forum dedicated to whatever common interest you share. Or...
Since when has "never interacted back" been a way of detecting link spammers? Such a rule will never detect the most troublesome spammers. In my experience cross-refering is very common. It was massively exploited in earlier versions of google's page rank by spammers.
Nope, it's an "I told you so". Perhaps with a tap on the skull to see if there's an echo.
If they can make the leap from "someone annoyed us whilst not violating the licence we chose" to "we chose the wrong licence", then this is a good thing.
If you chose a licence that invites people to say "fuck you", then you really do need to readdress how you are chosing your licence, and why you came to select the one you did.
It appears you are far too quick to make assumptions about other people's energy use.
My heating is 100% electricity.
I do not have a TV, but I do leave 3 of my 4 computers on 24/7, and the only reason we suspend (but not turn off) the 4th is due to its too audible fan noise. 2 of the machines have only been turned off 2 times in the last 7 years (both when moving property).
Currently my heating is active, therefore my computers are not generating enough heat. Maybe turning my light on will help.
Whilst I have a heater running off a thermostat, incandescant light-bulbs help reduce my heating bill. I shall continue to use these glowing heat-balls until they prize them from my warm dead hands.
Increased number of lives requires tweaking that initial value, yes, but for infinite lives, you'd want to find the bit of code that loaded that value's address, and then loaded that initial value, and then stored it somewhere else. Then you'd want the bit of code that loaded that stored value's address, then loaded the stored value, then decremented it, and jumped if it had reached zero. Then NOP the decrement, the test or the jump.
The submitter should be modded down for his redundancy because he posted a link to a story that's from *LAST YEAR* (this is *NEWS* for nerds, not *OLDS*), and on top of that was debunked last time it appeared on/. as being the output of an anti-MS shill.
Bollocks. It's exactly what the BSD-licenced-projects' authors explicitly wanted to be done with their code. Otherwise they'd have chosen a more sensible licence.
In what way is a comment about what people *want* supposed to counter a statement about what people *deserve*? It's almost as if you've failed to understand the post I was replying to. Which is bizarre given that you penned it yourself.
Is meaningless, or at least misleading. A coal power station produces more energy than it consumes. If that's intrinsically green, then we should be building more coal power stations.
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Pointing people in the direction of things they might be interested in is clearly exercising freedom of speech.
However, if you're prepared to obfuscate and charge the issue by calling copying "stealing" you clearly have no interest in the accurate representation of things in this matter.
You have overlooked the fact that my disagreement was purely with one of your 5 original points. You seem to think that I have asserted everything you say about your requirements is false, which is itself a falsity. On that single point, you are demonstrably incorrect - these things are *possible*, as people do them. It may not fit in with the way you or your friends like to do things, but that does not make the task *impossible* in any way.
And *of course* I have no experience of facebook. All the communication I need I do through channels I've been using for two decades, in particular IRC and mail, and to a lesser extent web fora and even usenet. Even if it wasn't of zero value to me, the fact that it's populated by idiots is more than enough reason to keep well away.
The GSM standards body has never charged anyone for an SMS.
You're conflating use of a standard with service providers who sell use of that standard.
To be honest, I can't believe the US providers who even charge for receipt of SMSs still get away with such absurd pricing. No carrier in any european country I've heard of has ever even thought of such a stupid and dangerous charging scheme. Nor could they now, as nobody would be stupid enough to chose them as a provider.
In most countries in europe, it seems that you get about 200 free per month even on the cheapest network packages. PAYG is a different market clearly, but even then the last PAYG I used was either 2p or 3p per SMS, about 5 years ago.
Oh, dear. Your facebook-addled brain apparently fails to notice that at no point do I say "only use IRC". E-mail's perfectly functional if you prefer to handle things at your own pace. Then again, there's nothing to stop me reading my IRC sessions only once a week if I so prefer. There's nothing about the fact that lines may be added at the bottom arbitrarily frequently that means your cursor needs to move at any speed down the page apart from that which you yourself desire. You apparently haven't mastered the concept of a "queue" yet. Such a short attention spam does seem to be associated with facebook users.
Apparently you also seem to think that in order to send or receive emails to/from multiple people you need to run a listserv.
You're not putting the case for intelligent people using facebook very well.
> It could be that. Or it could be that you're too stupid to use Facebook.
This demonstrates your inability to look at anything with even a modicum of intelligence and logic. There is no way your whining something's not possible, and my indicating that it is indeed possible, can be because of stupidity on my part.
Keep using facebook, by all means, I've been told your kind is perfectly at home there.
> The present 16 bit 44k samples are "good enough", better than cassette, having no noise (unlike vinyl)and was the best they could do back when CDs were developed. They should take it to the next level.
What bollocks. 16bit @44kHz is demonstrably (i.e. provably) as good as the human ear will ever need. Anything more than that per channel is either a waste of bandwidth, or snake-oil, depending on your perspective.
> Capitalism requires a fully informed and equal-opportunity market.
In order to squeeze it into their simplistic macroeconomic models, economists must assume capitalism requires a fully informed and equal-opportunity market. However, back in the real world...
> IRC ... Start multiple rooms[sic]?
Sure. I'm always on 9 different channels with mostly different but occasionally overlapping (e.g. ex-workmates and current workmates overlap) groups of friends, half of which exist almost entirely for organising face-2-face things at very short notice.
If you or your friends are lacking the ability to use IRC to do networking, then it's not because it's not possible, which was your claim.
> 3) I manage to keep in touch with many more friends than I could possibly do before.
Bullshit. If you and they have an IP connection then you both could have connected to an IRC network, and kept in real-time contact with them all ever since the early 90s. If you or they do not have an IP connection, then you're pretty screwed on the Farcebook front too.
And you also presume they don't have mobile phones. Or email. Or membership of a forum dedicated to whatever common interest you share. Or...
Or, in slashdot terms, "a lameness filter".
Since when has "never interacted back" been a way of detecting link spammers? Such a rule will never detect the most troublesome spammers. In my experience cross-refering is very common. It was massively exploited in earlier versions of google's page rank by spammers.
Nope, it's an "I told you so". Perhaps with a tap on the skull to see if there's an echo.
If they can make the leap from "someone annoyed us whilst not violating the licence we chose" to "we chose the wrong licence", then this is a good thing.
If you chose a licence that invites people to say "fuck you", then you really do need to readdress how you are chosing your licence, and why you came to select the one you did.
It appears you are far too quick to make assumptions about other people's energy use.
My heating is 100% electricity.
I do not have a TV, but I do leave 3 of my 4 computers on 24/7, and the only reason we suspend (but not turn off) the 4th is due to its too audible fan noise. 2 of the machines have only been turned off 2 times in the last 7 years (both when moving property).
Currently my heating is active, therefore my computers are not generating enough heat. Maybe turning my light on will help.
Stop encouraging breeding, so that there are fewer humans to support?
At the moment, there's no evidence we'll ever be able to harness fusion as a power source. (Apart from the big round reactor up in the sky.)
Whilst I have a heater running off a thermostat, incandescant light-bulbs help reduce my heating bill. I shall continue to use these glowing heat-balls until they prize them from my warm dead hands.
Increased number of lives requires tweaking that initial value, yes, but for infinite lives, you'd want to find the bit of code that loaded that value's address, and then loaded that initial value, and then stored it somewhere else. Then you'd want the bit of code that loaded that stored value's address, then loaded the stored value, then decremented it, and jumped if it had reached zero.
Then NOP the decrement, the test or the jump.
Wasn't the old soviet union an MSX stronghold?
Hmm, I started with MS-shill (which is true, but irrelevant), and wanted to change it to anti-GPL-shill. Alas, I only half-performed the change.
The submitter should be modded down for his redundancy because he posted a link to a story that's from *LAST YEAR* (this is *NEWS* for nerds, not *OLDS*), and on top of that was debunked last time it appeared on /. as being the output of an anti-MS shill.
Bollocks. It's exactly what the BSD-licenced-projects' authors explicitly wanted to be done with their code. Otherwise they'd have chosen a more sensible licence.
Anywhere on earth with a view of Lyra.
The meteors aren't aimed at a single point on earth's surface, it appears you think they are.
In what way is a comment about what people *want* supposed to counter a statement about what people *deserve*? It's almost as if you've failed to understand the post I was replying to. Which is bizarre given that you penned it yourself.
The government *most of them* deserve.
*Only* for those who travel to the US.
This sharing of private information affects *everyone*.
The few are making the many suffer. That's broken.
Is meaningless, or at least misleading. A coal power station produces more energy than it consumes. If that's intrinsically green, then we should be building more coal power stations.