PS. To would be Walmart-Sympathizing-Moderators: I think most would agree the *type* of entity WalMart is COMPLETELY relevant to this discussion
Walmart and its misdeeds is a favourite topic of mine, and I believe most/. geeks (with conscience) will find shopping there morally reprehensible -- in-spite of its "support" of GNU/Linux here.
Also, ive got maxed karma, anyone modding me down will waste their points -- ill repost at 2 again. Just because you cannot compute morallity with regards to $$$ dosnt mean everyone else is incapable of complete analysis.
Yes, this is a very big problem. You have your Plutocrats making (virtual) non-competion arrangments with one another (all these consortiums, RIAA, MPAA, WorkingGroupThisAndThat) that define the marketplace, then they go about dividing it up.
Its a method to raise the barrier to entry. It is exactly what AntiTrust laws are supposed to prevent - but in America(and everywhere out of necessity) it seems like the big fish will just eat the smaller ones and then sit back and rub-there-tummies with oneanother..
pay no attention to this gaj. Obviously he belives only Native Born Americans(TM) have equal rights to other Native Born Americans(TM).
all you smelly immigrants should be HAPPY to come to America(TM) and enjoy living the high-life -- again, even if you dont deserve it, but Gaj is giving enough to share a little with you -- just dont get to 'up-pidy'.
a bully (again), and make their purchase from SGI worthless.
Im sure the $65 mil meant allot more to SGI than it did M$.
Buying this "IP"* was for its legal schtick, for *EXACTLY* what we see M$ wanting to begin to do here - Fuck up OpenGL with a little FUD. Stop its momentum, kill OpenGL (1.x & 2.x) dead.
Big surprise.
*Intellectual property is to property as Fools Gold is to Gold.
They constantly cited Apple in the antitrust trial (and Linux as well) as proof that competition is alive and well in the OS market.
Real head-to-head MS-Apple competition is vapourous. I believe Apple has been given a little more rope at the moment to raise the appearance of competition.
Gates and Jobs would quickly resolve themselves into a nice, pleasant non-competion arrangment if the DoJ would just buzz off.
founding fathers (businessmen) that continues to make this the freest, and therefore greatest, nation in the world.
This is simply not true. Your not the "freest" nor the "greatest". Really - do you not see your jingoism????
We are continuing to meet demand both domesticaly and overseas,
YOU ARE THE DEMAND - READ THE ARTICLE!
until there's a fair treaty
I suppose that would be one where you were allowed to run willy-nilly without any concern for the planet..
one where the US isn't punished for its ability to create wealth,
That would be for the definition of wealth of living in a shallow, consumer driven, toxic wasteland.
we will have to rely on consumer education to "save" the planet.
"CONSUMERS" do not exist. Citizens are the ones with issue - Citizens are the people who are your neighbours who would have issue with polluting the river, seas, air so you Yankees can whoop-it-up in your SUVs on the way to the mall..
Christ, what planet do you live on? Read a book. Read some news from outside your country. Thi k critically. For fuck's sake - you all cant be that stupid.
we're too comfortable in our lifestyles to make big changes
If your leadership had any interest outside of serving your corporate masters (the ones who profit from American consumption) than maybe just MAYBE you Yankees could realize "Hey, we are driving the plant to shit -- lets put on the breaks, think use some sense, and chart a different course. The alternatives are massive war, famine,...., etc"
I mean really, what is it with Americans failing to accept responsibilty and make responsible decisions? Is your country run by children?
Maybe someone should tell the US Military that 'offense' is *not* defense...
Its funny how the US calls its armed forces 'defence forces' and such - when in reality, the US Army is the most offensive force in the world. There is virtually no chance of armed conflict in North America (oceans as natural barriers), but American military is not meant to 'defend' themselves - its meant to goto war around the world. Just look at any of the 70 armed conflicts USofA has been involved in since WWII.
Defence my ass. Warmongers -- and this "Video Game" is patent jinogism (inspite of the editors non sequitor).
American and Canadian performance in a comparative context...that Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250 per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person insuring only 84 percent of our citizens
Next time you get this NIMBY (not in my back yard) feeling -- think back to last time you were at the mall? mcblondalds? car dealership? did you buy ANOTHER pair of shoes? ANOTHER mchpally meal toy for your kid? ANOTHER SUV?
When you goto the market, do you buy LOCAL organic produce? do you buy ORGANIC clothing? Shoes made from Non-profit CoOps?
These things are inter-related, you WILL have to have a power station in your backyard unless you make good decisions -- Do You?
Ever stop to wonder about why EVERY proposed source of power is opposed by the hard Greens?
Yes, because when you look at what we use our present energy to do it becomes an argument of increased pollution vs. %some-trivial-waste% (mcblondalds-happymeal toys? 75 pairs of plastic flipflops per person?).
If we used our present resources WISELY, ie no frivilous waste (goto The Mall) then we *might* need to begin to consider an increase in pollution.
We are not really even close to considering it -- because N.America has a *INCREDIBLY* wastefull consumer society means that NO NEW POLLUTION should be tolerated until we get our proverbial "Act Together".
None. Zilch. Nadda. Zip. If you *want* more energy for something -- take it from what is presently available. Pollution remans the same. You get what you want -- and we are all better off for having made WISE decisions instead of simple-minded-pleasure-demanding-kid-without-conse quences-in-a-candy-store-with-a-belly-ache type decisions.
To be more particular, the GNU/Linux loving, computer game playing, male 15-35, politically aware/. reader, who would spend $300 to own a piece of irony?
Let me break it to you gently -- go down to the local Mall, or maybe WalMart -- THESE are the people MS wants to buy Xbox -- too stupid to know better...
Geeks(very loosly defined as a type or 'group') does not a target market make...
I am tired (oh so very tired) of all this authority being used when discussing price/profit/cost of game consoles.
its all mostly conjecture - these slashdrones (nor I (or yourself)) have ANY idea what the reality is..
here is a past article on/. talking 'bout Xbox economics (and the other consoles) that deflates (i believe) the "consoles are always sold at a loss" -- i would guess this is not true... but thats just a GUESS...
Slashdot Mirror
Has everyone seen this?
/. geeks (with conscience) will find shopping there morally reprehensible -- in-spite of its "support" of GNU/Linux here.
PS. To would be Walmart-Sympathizing-Moderators: I think most would agree the *type* of entity WalMart is COMPLETELY relevant to this discussion
Walmart and its misdeeds is a favourite topic of mine, and I believe most
Also, ive got maxed karma, anyone modding me down will waste their points -- ill repost at 2 again. Just because you cannot compute morallity with regards to $$$ dosnt mean everyone else is incapable of complete analysis.
..it is their Class.
The most important* factor.
*not that i condone it, but as someone once said " The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
bullshit -- its, at bets, harrassment or some such. Telling lies, and basically making an ass of someone isnt *ILLEGAL*.
Yes, this is a very big problem. You have your Plutocrats making (virtual) non-competion arrangments with one another (all these consortiums, RIAA, MPAA, WorkingGroupThisAndThat) that define the marketplace, then they go about dividing it up.
Its a method to raise the barrier to entry. It is exactly what AntiTrust laws are supposed to prevent - but in America(and everywhere out of necessity) it seems like the big fish will just eat the smaller ones and then sit back and rub-there-tummies with oneanother..
pay no attention to this gaj. Obviously he belives only Native Born Americans(TM) have equal rights to other Native Born Americans(TM).
all you smelly immigrants should be HAPPY to come to America(TM) and enjoy living the high-life -- again, even if you dont deserve it, but Gaj is giving enough to share a little with you -- just dont get to 'up-pidy'.
Jingoism, xenophobia, ethnocetnrism.
..you know you can join (start!) a union dont you? you people (together) dont have to put up with this.
your H1 visa dosnt mean you dont enjoy labour rights..
a bully (again), and make their purchase from SGI worthless.
Im sure the $65 mil meant allot more to SGI than it did M$.
Buying this "IP"* was for its legal schtick, for *EXACTLY* what we see M$ wanting to begin to do here - Fuck up OpenGL with a little FUD. Stop its momentum, kill OpenGL (1.x & 2.x) dead.
Big surprise.
*Intellectual property is to property as Fools Gold is to Gold.
They constantly cited Apple in the antitrust trial (and Linux as well) as proof that competition is alive and well in the OS market.
Real head-to-head MS-Apple competition is vapourous. I believe Apple has been given a little more rope at the moment to raise the appearance of competition.
Gates and Jobs would quickly resolve themselves into a nice, pleasant non-competion arrangment if the DoJ would just buzz off.
You might like to have a look at this Parade here
Specs include:
Range : 60miles(EV60)/150miles(EV150)
Acceleration : 8 seconds for 0-60 km/h
Top Speed : 110km/h
Made in Korea.
founding fathers (businessmen) that continues to make this the freest, and therefore greatest, nation in the world.
This is simply not true. Your not the "freest" nor the "greatest". Really - do you not see your jingoism????
We are continuing to meet demand both domesticaly and overseas,
YOU ARE THE DEMAND - READ THE ARTICLE!
until there's a fair treaty
I suppose that would be one where you were allowed to run willy-nilly without any concern for the planet..
one where the US isn't punished for its ability to create wealth,
That would be for the definition of wealth of living in a shallow, consumer driven, toxic wasteland.
we will have to rely on consumer education to "save" the planet.
"CONSUMERS" do not exist. Citizens are the ones with issue - Citizens are the people who are your neighbours who would have issue with polluting the river, seas, air so you Yankees can whoop-it-up in your SUVs on the way to the mall..
Christ, what planet do you live on? Read a book. Read some news from outside your country. Thi k critically. For fuck's sake - you all cant be that stupid.
we're too comfortable in our lifestyles to make big changes
If your leadership had any interest outside of serving your corporate masters (the ones who profit from American consumption) than maybe just MAYBE you Yankees could realize "Hey, we are driving the plant to shit -- lets put on the breaks, think use some sense, and chart a different course. The alternatives are massive war, famine,...., etc"
I mean really, what is it with Americans failing to accept responsibilty and make responsible decisions? Is your country run by children?
..Except the Communist recieves the same compensation of Personal Reward, Peer Respect and Enlightenment that your Free Software Hacker does.
There is no lack of 'motivation' if you remove $ compensation and move to a collective, democratic and Communist Economy.
I love the Orwellian double-speak above the pic on the front page of that link:
Operation: DEFEND YOURSELF ?
Maybe someone should tell the US Military that 'offense' is *not* defense...
Its funny how the US calls its armed forces 'defence forces' and such - when in reality, the US Army is the most offensive force in the world. There is virtually no chance of armed conflict in North America (oceans as natural barriers), but American military is not meant to 'defend' themselves - its meant to goto war around the world. Just look at any of the 70 armed conflicts USofA has been involved in since WWII.
Defence my ass. Warmongers -- and this "Video Game" is patent jinogism (inspite of the editors non sequitor).
Jeffrey Simpson wrote a book called "The Friendly Dictator.
I would suggest that you read something more worthwhile instead of falling into this masterbation-cum-individual liberty bullshit.
Yes we should all be able to do as we please, but there is a cost.
Please, take the survey @ Political Compass
personal freedom != unconstrained capitalism.
Canadian Health Care is Better and Cheaper than US of America.
See this article please -- the line I like the most is this:
American and Canadian performance in a comparative context...that Canada insured 100 percent of its citizens for $2,250 per person in l998 while the United States expended $4,270 per person insuring only 84 percent of our citizens
some idiot writes one (terrible) book and everyone screams about term limits.. and dictatorships.
Dont like JC? Vote NDP, or MLPC.
um, not really.
A) most people would advocate a ladder or mass accelerator of some type, generally most would not suggest to do this with rockets..
B) if you have a small enough load -- in a remote enough area -- you would radiate a large area 'just a little'...
There is radiation all around you now, everywhere, if properly concieved a rocket scheme could produce a risk equal to very mildy raise radiation...
someone pls mod the parent up...
Also, there is a train track near my backyard
Next time you get this NIMBY (not in my back yard) feeling -- think back to last time you were at the mall? mcblondalds? car dealership? did you buy ANOTHER pair of shoes? ANOTHER mchpally meal toy for your kid? ANOTHER SUV?
When you goto the market, do you buy LOCAL organic produce? do you buy ORGANIC clothing? Shoes made from Non-profit CoOps?
These things are inter-related, you WILL have to have a power station in your backyard unless you make good decisions -- Do You?
Ever stop to wonder about why EVERY proposed source of power is opposed by the hard Greens?
e quences-in-a-candy-store-with-a-belly-ache type decisions.
Yes, because when you look at what we use our present energy to do it becomes an argument of increased pollution vs. %some-trivial-waste% (mcblondalds-happymeal toys? 75 pairs of plastic flipflops per person?).
If we used our present resources WISELY, ie no frivilous waste (goto The Mall) then we *might* need to begin to consider an increase in pollution.
We are not really even close to considering it -- because N.America has a *INCREDIBLY* wastefull consumer society means that NO NEW POLLUTION should be tolerated until we get our proverbial "Act Together".
None. Zilch. Nadda. Zip. If you *want* more energy for something -- take it from what is presently available. Pollution remans the same. You get what you want -- and we are all better off for having made WISE decisions instead of simple-minded-pleasure-demanding-kid-without-cons
..yes that it is then called BioDiesel
And that is *NOT* what these locomotives will be burning... please dont try and muddy the conversation.
I'll stop pledging "Under God" when they pry it from my cold, dead lips.
Remove "Under God" and I rescind my pledge
So, you are an advocate of oppressive non-secular states?
PLease, I invite you to join the rest of us here in modern reality. Cast away your boogie-men and think for yourself.
Seriously. Would you have been calling the civil rights activists childish when they tried to ride all white buses? Give me a break.
Except that cults (catholics/jews/falung gong) do not have the same indisputable arguments to make as Civil Rights Activists.
Really, to suggest so is a disservice to honest public discourse.
The nerd market is hardly worth targeting.
/. reader, who would spend $300 to own a piece of irony?
To be more particular, the GNU/Linux loving, computer game playing, male 15-35, politically aware
Let me break it to you gently -- go down to the local Mall, or maybe WalMart -- THESE are the people MS wants to buy Xbox -- too stupid to know better...
Geeks(very loosly defined as a type or 'group') does not a target market make...
You are 1000% correct.
/. talking 'bout Xbox economics (and the other consoles) that deflates (i believe) the "consoles are always sold at a loss" -- i would guess this is not true... but thats just a GUESS...
I am tired (oh so very tired) of all this authority being used when discussing price/profit/cost of game consoles.
its all mostly conjecture - these slashdrones (nor I (or yourself)) have ANY idea what the reality is..
here is a past article on