What you are doing is using Exxon as the basis of your argument. That's what's making your arguments ad hominem. Argue against what they say and not what they are.
...while such trades may be legal under the first-sale doctrine of U.S. Copyright Act...
That's just because it isn't software. On more than one occasion I have been told by software companies that selling your used copy was illegal, even if the sale included all packing material and an affidavit that you wiped your harddrive of the product. They argue that the First Sale Doctrine does not apply to them because the software was never sold, only licensed. They have shut down eBay sales of software and sent cease and desist notices to yard sales.
All the DVD manufacturers need to do to stop Peerflix, is to slap a license on every DVD. It won't be legal, but that hasn't stopped the software industry or its lapdogs in the judiciary.
Not in the least. This is something you can tell. If it was choreography it was the best damned choreography ever, because they managed to sync up the mistakes to the sound track. This was a *LIVE* concert, not a studio-perfect recording played back. What were the live violinist, trumpetist and saxophonists for, if everything was a recording? How did they manage to sync up Joe Walsh's reaction to the audience so well if it was Memorex?
If you think that the Eagles lip synced to a recording, you obviously don't know the Eagles. Sheesh.
While the Wikipedia "definition" is technically correct, it's obtuse enough that you think it means the opposite of what it really does. Here's the dictionary.dom meaning, maybe it will help: "Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason."
When you say "I do not believe arguments from Exxon, General Motors, and conservative think tanks when it comes to global warming" you are in effect making an ad hominem argument.
Ad hominem arguments suggest to me that the arguer is unable to formulate any rational and cogent case that is distinct from the hominem. Attack the idea, not the man. In this entire thread you have not once presented an argument that did not rest on an ad hominem attack.
Here's your core argument distilled:
1) TCS says hurricane magnitude not related to global warming 2) TCS funded by Exxon 3) Exxon is evil 4) Global warming thus causes larger hurricanes
I know, I know, it's still not current enough. I bet if you look hard enough you'll find some pretentious band out of Prague with a recent album that consists of one hour of colon gurgling, with reviews proclaiming it "edgy" and "provoking."
How dare you inject actual information into this discussion! Don't you know that you're not supposed to READ science magazines, you're only supposed to refer to them as a tribal signal to the rest of the left that you're not one of those anti-science Bushies.
Have you recently changed your address? Is this why you're no longer receiving your talking points?
This was a force 5 hurricane. It's on the scale. They've happened in the past. They are not unheard of. They are merely rare.
It's like magnitude 9 earthquakes. They're very rare, but they do happen, and they WILL eventually happen to a major populated city. When it does, it won't be a sign of God's displeasure anymore than Katrina is a sign of Gaia's displeasure.
The topic is design. When designing a web application will you choose to eliminate the city field from view? Of course not! The customer wants to see the city, so you display the city, even if it is redundant.
Ever address an envelope? Notice you put down both city and zip?
People used to go to concerts, too, but my last concert was $95/ticket for an fairly-unknown electronica band -- the crowd was thin.
My last concert was only $10 higher, and it was the Eagles doing a three hour set! The band was in great form. Freaking awesome! The enclosed stadium in a mid-sized city was completely filled.
Of course, it's "old fart" music, so it probably doesn't even register in your tiny little world. We "old farts" are the ones still listening to radio. We "old farts" are the ones still buying music. We "old farts" are still packing stadiums.
It's database monkey terminology. Why the grandparent expected a graphic designer to recognize a 3NF when biting her on the ass is beyond my comprehension.
Let's compare Open Source versus closed software. For our comparison we'll pick a random sample of 100 Open Source projects from Sourceforge, and pick a random sample of 100 proprietary shareware from Download.com.
The US needs a financial planner or at least a debt councilor.
We've needed a debt councilor every year for the past fifty years! Some congresses/administrations have been better than others, but none have ever approached budgetary sanity.
Do you get mad at Microsoft for this IE broken-ness? Or do you get mad that the braindead web "developers" who insist on using px for their font sizes?
...the assumption that money is the prime motivator for creative endeavors
It's a fundamental problem with the Free Software community: the assumption that since money is not the prime motivator for creative endeavors, that money as a motivator must be eliminated. Have you ever thought that the lack of money is an extremely huge demotivator?
How would they know it's a blog? They might be able to filter out stuff from their own blogger, but that's about it. What distinguishes a blog from a news site? A blog from a recipe/review site? A blog from a software project homepage? A blog from a mailing list archive?
Not all blogs are amateur. Not all blogs are posting frequently. Not all blogs are hosted at blogging portals. Not all blogs have syndication. Not all blogs have comments.
How do you distinguish a blog from a non-blog? You can't because "blog" is a fuzzy concept that encompasses everything from Slashdot to Vodkapundit to Freshmeat to Richard Stallman's homepage.
It's not about stability, it's about not fitting into current kernel paradigms. Stability (as in not crashing) is only one of a dozen things to consider.
Considering the average size of harddrives for desktop systems, your argument is almost pointless. Older systems with smaller drives aren't going to like reiserfs because of its overhead in other areas....and the access of the data is also faster
How much faster? Is it noticable enough to bother switching filesystems? Has anyone switched from jfs, xfs, etc, to reiserfs and seen a difference on the *desktop*? Can they quantify their experience objectively, or is it just another subjective fuzzy feeling?
Now, we all know the stereotypical kernel dev - technically conservative, concerned about maintenaince, not really keen on making big compromises, and annoyed by ego
You make that sound like a bad thing!
I'm not a kernel developer, but as a professional software engineer I do know that conservative development is the best policy. Users tend to want the opposite unfortunately. They don't care how rotten and worm-ridden the inside of the apple is, so long as the outside is bright and shiny.
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What you are doing is using Exxon as the basis of your argument. That's what's making your arguments ad hominem. Argue against what they say and not what they are.
...while such trades may be legal under the first-sale doctrine of U.S. Copyright Act...
That's just because it isn't software. On more than one occasion I have been told by software companies that selling your used copy was illegal, even if the sale included all packing material and an affidavit that you wiped your harddrive of the product. They argue that the First Sale Doctrine does not apply to them because the software was never sold, only licensed. They have shut down eBay sales of software and sent cease and desist notices to yard sales.
All the DVD manufacturers need to do to stop Peerflix, is to slap a license on every DVD. It won't be legal, but that hasn't stopped the software industry or its lapdogs in the judiciary.
Not in the least. This is something you can tell. If it was choreography it was the best damned choreography ever, because they managed to sync up the mistakes to the sound track. This was a *LIVE* concert, not a studio-perfect recording played back. What were the live violinist, trumpetist and saxophonists for, if everything was a recording? How did they manage to sync up Joe Walsh's reaction to the audience so well if it was Memorex?
If you think that the Eagles lip synced to a recording, you obviously don't know the Eagles. Sheesh.
While the Wikipedia "definition" is technically correct, it's obtuse enough that you think it means the opposite of what it really does. Here's the dictionary.dom meaning, maybe it will help: "Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason."
When you say "I do not believe arguments from Exxon, General Motors, and conservative think tanks when it comes to global warming" you are in effect making an ad hominem argument.
Ad hominem arguments suggest to me that the arguer is unable to formulate any rational and cogent case that is distinct from the hominem. Attack the idea, not the man. In this entire thread you have not once presented an argument that did not rest on an ad hominem attack.
Here's your core argument distilled:
1) TCS says hurricane magnitude not related to global warming
2) TCS funded by Exxon
3) Exxon is evil
4) Global warming thus causes larger hurricanes
Please look up "ad hominem."
They did throw in some Joe Walsh tunes.
I know, I know, it's still not current enough. I bet if you look hard enough you'll find some pretentious band out of Prague with a recent album that consists of one hour of colon gurgling, with reviews proclaiming it "edgy" and "provoking."
Just outlaw motion pictures! When there are no motion pictures to pirate, no one will be able to pirate motion pictures.
Do you have any critical thinking skills?
Do you? I ask this because I can't help but notice at all of your arguments are ad hominem.
How dare you inject actual information into this discussion! Don't you know that you're not supposed to READ science magazines, you're only supposed to refer to them as a tribal signal to the rest of the left that you're not one of those anti-science Bushies.
Have you recently changed your address? Is this why you're no longer receiving your talking points?
This was a force 5 hurricane. It's on the scale. They've happened in the past. They are not unheard of. They are merely rare.
It's like magnitude 9 earthquakes. They're very rare, but they do happen, and they WILL eventually happen to a major populated city. When it does, it won't be a sign of God's displeasure anymore than Katrina is a sign of Gaia's displeasure.
The topic is design. When designing a web application will you choose to eliminate the city field from view? Of course not! The customer wants to see the city, so you display the city, even if it is redundant.
Ever address an envelope? Notice you put down both city and zip?
People used to go to concerts, too, but my last concert was $95/ticket for an fairly-unknown electronica band -- the crowd was thin.
My last concert was only $10 higher, and it was the Eagles doing a three hour set! The band was in great form. Freaking awesome! The enclosed stadium in a mid-sized city was completely filled.
Of course, it's "old fart" music, so it probably doesn't even register in your tiny little world. We "old farts" are the ones still listening to radio. We "old farts" are the ones still buying music. We "old farts" are still packing stadiums.
It's database monkey terminology. Why the grandparent expected a graphic designer to recognize a 3NF when biting her on the ass is beyond my comprehension.
d ef_3nf.htm
I've read up on 3NF and I STILL don't know what the heck it is! http://databases.about.com/od/administration/l/bl
Or Kontact. http://www.kontact.org/
I had a landlord once who was a self-confirmed marx-quoting communist. Living there was like piloting a submarine through a sea of irony...
There are plenty of legitimate cases where a designer builds to pixels.
For a *font* size?
The US needs a financial planner or at least a debt councilor.
We've needed a debt councilor every year for the past fifty years! Some congresses/administrations have been better than others, but none have ever approached budgetary sanity.
Do you get mad at Microsoft for this IE broken-ness? Or do you get mad that the braindead web "developers" who insist on using px for their font sizes?
...the assumption that money is the prime motivator for creative endeavors
It's a fundamental problem with the Free Software community: the assumption that since money is not the prime motivator for creative endeavors, that money as a motivator must be eliminated. Have you ever thought that the lack of money is an extremely huge demotivator?
But political articels in blogs tend to be partisan, full of spin and distorted of facts.
True, but unlike the Mainstream Media(tm), at least they don't pretend that they're objective journalists while doing it.
How would they know it's a blog? They might be able to filter out stuff from their own blogger, but that's about it. What distinguishes a blog from a news site? A blog from a recipe/review site? A blog from a software project homepage? A blog from a mailing list archive?
Not all blogs are amateur. Not all blogs are posting frequently. Not all blogs are hosted at blogging portals. Not all blogs have syndication. Not all blogs have comments.
How do you distinguish a blog from a non-blog? You can't because "blog" is a fuzzy concept that encompasses everything from Slashdot to Vodkapundit to Freshmeat to Richard Stallman's homepage.
It's not about stability, it's about not fitting into current kernel paradigms. Stability (as in not crashing) is only one of a dozen things to consider.
Therefore you don't waste harddisk space...
...and the access of the data is also faster
Considering the average size of harddrives for desktop systems, your argument is almost pointless. Older systems with smaller drives aren't going to like reiserfs because of its overhead in other areas.
How much faster? Is it noticable enough to bother switching filesystems? Has anyone switched from jfs, xfs, etc, to reiserfs and seen a difference on the *desktop*? Can they quantify their experience objectively, or is it just another subjective fuzzy feeling?
Now, we all know the stereotypical kernel dev - technically conservative, concerned about maintenaince, not really keen on making big compromises, and annoyed by ego
You make that sound like a bad thing!
I'm not a kernel developer, but as a professional software engineer I do know that conservative development is the best policy. Users tend to want the opposite unfortunately. They don't care how rotten and worm-ridden the inside of the apple is, so long as the outside is bright and shiny.