They ask permission to search your car now? Because the one time they actually wanted to search my car they just pulled me out and did it. Never mind that they didn't find a god damn thing, used the word FUCK a whole lot, yelled at me, contemplated making up bogus charges then let me go.
I guess that's just how you're treated when you're young?
Are you frieking kidding me?
You never cook the whole frog. You usually just cook the legs, cos that's where the good stuff is at.
On top of which the frog should be dead and the legs sure as hell won't be alive since they're not attached to the frog.
Also, who boils frogs? that's so extremely common, only the homeless plebs do that. Everybody knows, fried frog legs are the best.
Pshh.
Sounds like someone is bitter that they cannot use free code in a non-free way.
Cry more. QQ.
Can I take the source to your photoshop plugins and use them as I please?
Taking away rights to protect freedom.
Define "freedom"
I think your sig says it all. The difference is what a reasonable person considers 'a right' vs. what you consider one. All 'rights' are created equal, it's just that you're looking for the one that only benefits you. I would call this a desire, not a right; a pretty selfish one too.
It is pretty bad. I've known a few Rank 14 pvp guys, who get the good rewards. Every single one of them without exception had to spend all waking hours playing and usually have multiple other people also play their characters in order to gain that Rank. In the end they're burned out and hate playing.
1. He wrote a program that helped people cheat in a game (Oh noes, what a evil black hatter) -3 brownie points
2. He helped uncover a commercial company's SPYING program to catch you cheating at said game which can also spy on you in all sorts of law-breaking ways (let's see blizzard try to pull this shit in england where they have REAL privacy laws) +300 points
Giving him a total of 297 brownie points. This actually makes him the equivalent of a girl scout.
So basically you don't trust them because you don't agree with them.
Regardless, they made their position clear before you came around, they're still transparent and their position hasn't changed.
Yes, that's pretty much what 'uber' means in this case. Having all of the highest lvl epic gear and knowing how to use it.
Tier 2 epics and above, like legendary items. None of that tier 1 purple stuff.
Don't be silly. The wild is the environment, not the users. I guess the users would be the animals:)
Seriously the headline said it would be released into the wild.
If you were the wild like you say, then I'd be worried about them coming to release something into you. You only got a few holes and only one is for input of solids.
No one is saying that every company needs to use GPL works when they are available.
If you're only going to use a small widget (as in your example) then there is no reason not to just pay someone to write it. Hell, they could just buy a proprietary widget that's already made, or even get in touch with the copyright holder of the GPL'd one and work out a special license.
But when the company has a different choice, like it needs a whole OS to go on it's router, then the smart decision might be to use GPL code for most of it and just throw the source in with the bundle.
That's the rules of the GPL, it's a very straightfowrard license when compared to most proprietary licenses.
What I'm saying: "the GPL is great in a lot of cases!"
what you are saying: 'the GPL sucks because it doesn't work in this one case!'
In my experience, people who argue that the GPL sucks because of one case like this are doing it because this happens to be their case.
It's really annoying to have what you need right in front of you but not be able to use it. It's like a chocolate cake that you walk past at a fair. You can see it's delicious, the smell is making your mouth water but you don't want to pay for it or you have dinner ready when you get home anyway. It can piss you off:)
Make character death permanent. Give experienced players a good chance of survival, but make it so that if you're not experienced, you come in on your first day off ebay, do something stupid and uh-oh spaghetti-oh. Let characters be ABLE to do really stupid things like attack their own faction and become outlaws. Just exploit that difference between the experienced players and the bought ones.
I think all of the associations they managed to come up with that word have been mighty homosexual.
To me, it sounds like Mangina. What a vagina would be doing on a man is an exercise best left for the reader.. But it does sound gay.
1) I AM A LIBERAL. First, I don't know what that means. Because nobody does. There is no popular or agreed upon classification for someone to be a 'liberal'.
Whether IQ tests are valid or not is beside the point. erm, wtf are you smoking? that is the entire point of those studies you mentioned and you then go on to try to prove they are valid in the same paragraph..
a) you can't read oh yes, I am in actual fact the first person on this planet who can write without reading
b) you didn't bother to read my post yah, of course! because I can't reeeeeaaaad
There are tests that have been formulated specifically to measure it, regardless of language/culture/upbringing influences. ding dong! they are called 'bogus'. I have also formulated a perpetual motion machine in my basement, would you like to buy it? I've even patented it! Oh and I also have some supplements to help you BULK UP like hulk, it's scientifically proven can lengthen your penis, make you longer lasting and improve your masculinity too! AS SEEN ON TV!!
- street kid: could score well on a "g" test as easily as a Harvard graduate. A good test won't ask anything that education could influence. Erm Please describe the tests used to measure IQ in the "BELL CURVE" and explain how never having had any formal education whatsoever would have no effect on them. You obviously haven't met a street kid and know nothing about the subject so I'll just leave it at that
skip the part where you further prove you have no idea about IQ tests
Now, is "g" a valid concept? Like I said, most of the scientific community agrees that there is a generalizable intelligence. Go read the literature. g as you state it is a valid concept, unfortunately it's meaningless in terms of measuring what we call intelligence, btw please point me towards any references you have where current accepted scientific papers say there is a generalizable intelligence which is measureable by tests I would like to see it! Unfortunately for you, intelligence cannot be measured on a scale, much less a single number.
4) No matter who your parents are or what they do, you have to learn these things for yourself. My dad has a PhD. in electrical engineering, and a MA in CS, but anything I know about those subjects is largely a result of what I learned on my own. You haven't got any advantage in judging "The Bell Curve" or anything else, because YOU are not an expert in shit. I can't believe you even tried to pull a logical fallacy like that--it's just silly actually it's very informative to cohabit with people who are interested and well-informed in a certain subject. Furthermore it directly applies to the bell curve study because you can learn a lot while eating your cornflakes if you ask the right questions. And yes they have previously talked about that specific study over meals. It's a headline-grabbing, emotional study for some people. It's gossip, oh and btw, it is junk science. And btw, if you consult some of the better logic sites on the internet (and I'm sorry if they are wrong, then I am wrong), they state that it is a perfectly valid logical argument to appeal to authority where there is a concensus by authority figures in a certain domain. Fallacy? not as far as I know.
What a great example of this global warming is! The entire respected scientific community says "it exists". The current administration says "nobody knows if it exists! and further changes their commissioned studies to say so!
5) You took a discussion that is otherwise insightful, respectful, and intelligent
wow, those are the antonyms of the words I would have picked.
I'm sorry that you are so stuck in your ways that you cannot change your point of view or listen to dissenters, even when you are wrong. That being the case this will be my last reply and I hope to leave you to ed
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well if you look at it that way, then BSD code is *so* free, that people are free to take it and essencially drive the freedom away from others using the code.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the fact that you've run into people who disagreed with these studies in a poorly-spoken manner, and then labeled them 'liberals':
Has nothing to do with the validity of these studies
Does not in fact prove anything about any group of people to whom you have attributed political affiliation
Your post is in fact, so terribly bad and misinformed that I have no recourse other than to respond.
First I feel the need to address your use of stereotypical terms. I point out, that the/. story uses much better terminology: 'The Bush administration'. While you use abstract steryotypes in your post 'Liberals' the 'Left'.
The term 'The Bush Administration' is not perfect. People can disagree on who exactly is included in under this umbrella, however you can narrow this down in a discussion to refer to specific people so it's not so bad. Your terms 'Liberals' and 'The left' are terrible and should not be part of any competent discussion because:
They carry derrogative connitations intended to flame (especially since the birth of staged argumentative news shows as pointed out by john stewart).
It's not clear who they apply to. You may think I am a liberal, I may not, a third party may not etc.
They are very poorly defined and open to wiiiiide interpretation
Secondly, I would like to point out that your personal experience does not a theorem make. The fact that you have (only?) come across people who judge these studies you mention based on irrelevant bases does not prove as you state, that these are the only people out there. Ok, so you don't have the funding or time to carry out such a study and would like to include personal experience in your opinion, that's fine. However at no point did you say that you even tried to seek out those who see these studies as flawed *and also* do this based on sensible arguments. Since you have not even attempted to find counter examples to your personal experience I feel it is in poor form to use it as any kind of evidence. Please, at least google up some valid counter arguments which denote these studies as false, it's not hard.
Now on to the studies themselves ("The Bell Curve" and company). I have to admit that I have somewhat of an advantage over most people in judging their validity and I have to include this as a disclaimer. Both of my parents and step parents are developmental psychologists at prestigious universities IE 'study how people learn things'.
Among people in this field, the authoritative experts, there is very strong concensus that these studies are absolute junk. Because of this I can appeal to authority and make the logical argument stick.
If I can explain it in simple terms, these studies are flawed because there is no way to measure intelligence in human beings. I hope I don't get flamed for saying this but it's true. IQ tests are a load of bollocks. You can measure people's aptitude and practice at taking IQ tests or solving similar problems, but in no way can that be related to 'intelligence' as it is normally thought of. Think of idiot-savants. Think of street kids who are really good at doing math in their heads, but using their own methods, think great creative minds, think of dislexia, think of numerous other forms of intelligence or reasons why tests do not measure intelligence.
Furthermore, the question of nature vs. nurture is not settled, although the concensus is that both have great influence on organisms nowhere near precise models exist. So, any conclusions drawn from those studies, which are already flawed, will likely be flawed in and of themselves.
This is why these studies are so utterly flawed they are laughed at in their respective fields just as medieval medicine is laughed at by modern day physicians. They are mistakes, however mistakes can sometimes be beneficial because they can teach us new things. Eg. We can learn why they are junk science and how to av
Spoken as someone who has no idea how the real world works. Every company I've worked at is the same: The CEO and chairs sit in a circle jerking each other off (there are a few women don't know what they do) and giving each other pay raises. No, really. They hire each other, give each other raises and cover each other's backs. The majority of the stuff they do is for personal reasons, not because they're affraid of shareholder lawsuits. IE. Bragging rights to other corporate heads, massage their ego, publish research with their name, inflate the stock price in the short term so they can make a killing unloading their options and bailing out.
Now, I realize that even though this has been my experience so far it doesn't mean it's like this everywhere. Sometimes they keep the company going well, sometimes they run it into the ground. Even when they run it into the ground they make out like bandits with millions of dollars while pensions go unpaid (you think the term 'golden parachute' was invented for no reason?). They also tend to get other jobs real easy since they've been at the masturbating table with people who are now at other companies.
Even the *idea* that companies are beholden to 'the shareholders' is retarded in and of itself. For one: it's flawed for the same reason as the grandfather post I wrote points out. There is no such thing as 'the shareholders'. To say 'the shareholders' is far oversimplifying the real situation. Who owns the shares? how are they traded? how many? for how long? do they care? do they have lawyers? what kind of people are they and what are they likely to do in this particular situation? etc etc etc ad infinitum.
If you oversimplify your model it ain't going to work. I don't care if the real world is too complicated and you're lazy.
Then there's also the fact that shareholder lawsuits are now much harder to pursue (the laws were recently changed).
Don't forget about the further problem that a lot of this is subjective. Take a simple matter for example: golden parachutes. If a CEO makes shitty decisions drives a company into the ground over the course of a year, then leaves with his full year's salary plus a $1M departure gift I would call that a golden parachute. Would you? would someone else? Shit, there are people in this country who would say 'what the fuck? I can't live on less than $2M a year.' Would they call this a golden parachute?
I know people like to put things in simple terms of black and white, right and wrong or simple relationships: CEO's do what they do because they are accountable to the shareholders (and the more these simplified statements are repeated, the better it makes people feel eg. fox new is built on this). But the difference is while you hold on to you simplified, yet incorrect, busted-ass model that doesn't work; I say it's too complicated, I don't have a model for exactly how it works because these are complicated subjective topics but here is what I see that irks me.
Please, stop just stop. Stop talking about companies as if they were an individual. They are not, and it makes no sense to talk about them this way. They are a buisness collaboration of a group of people. It's analogous to when people pretend slashdot only has one point of view and it just 'is' without belonging to any particular indiviudal. Fuck the politicians for giving companies the rights of the individual and fuck you for trying to confuse people into thinking that way, because when you do you create an iron curtain which isolates corporate lords from responsability.
Saying 'a company' decides it's more cost-efficient to throw toxic waste into a river and give 1000 people leukemia is misleading and incorrect. An evil, twisted, bastard of a person/s made this decision and should be held responsible.
So next time, don't say:
'M$ decided it was in it's best interest to fuck us in the ass because it has no morals'
Say instead:
(assuming bill gates makes the decision)
'Bill-fucking-gates decided it was in his best interest to fuck us in the ass because he apparently has no morals.'
'A company' doesn't make the decisions and 'A company' can't fucking go to jail. It can be interfered with until it goes out of buisness but the corporate lords jump out and open their golden parachutes then go find another place where they can shit on us from.
The teeth seem to be big enough since every company that I know regulated by this law is changing it's practices. (that's pretty much every responsible buisness)
Since your job usually entails describing the advantages that your license model and windows operating system have over other license models and OS's, you should be quite familiar with these topics. Therefore I would like to turn the tables on you in the hope of some honest answers:
What are the advantages that gnu/linux has over Windows for the typical user / software developer / corporation?
Why is gnu/linux better suited for open standards than a proprietary operating system?
Why would you recommend using gnu/linux for publicly funded government projects?
What are the best advantages of using Free Software (read: GPL) in third world countries?
What aspects of Free Software licenses do you feel are particularly well suited to speed up scientific discovery, program development, teaching etc. in an academic environment?
How do you feel that Free Software can benefit mankind as a whole?
Finally, please list any advantages proprietary licenses have over Free Software licenses.
Feel free to keep the answers short as some of them are quite obvious to someone well versed in how Free Software works. Thanks!
Just wanted to say that you can run it on linux using the latest cedega.
However there are a couple of bugs, they're not that bad:
Mouse cursor not visible in direct x mode, must use -opengl flag
crashes when under roofs with minimap open in opengl mode: just close it when going under a roof.
crashes when you die and leave your body in opengl mode: Don't die : )
If you get stuck inside a building with map open or in a cemetary after death you have to start it in normal mode (direct X, not opengl) move outside/reclaim body, then restart in open gl mode.
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They ask permission to search your car now? Because the one time they actually wanted to search my car they just pulled me out and did it. Never mind that they didn't find a god damn thing, used the word FUCK a whole lot, yelled at me, contemplated making up bogus charges then let me go.
I guess that's just how you're treated when you're young?
Are you frieking kidding me?
You never cook the whole frog. You usually just cook the legs, cos that's where the good stuff is at.
On top of which the frog should be dead and the legs sure as hell won't be alive since they're not attached to the frog.
Also, who boils frogs? that's so extremely common, only the homeless plebs do that. Everybody knows, fried frog legs are the best.
Pshh.
Cry more. QQ.
Can I take the source to your photoshop plugins and use them as I please?
Taking away rights to protect freedom.
Define "freedom"
I think your sig says it all. The difference is what a reasonable person considers 'a right' vs. what you consider one. All 'rights' are created equal, it's just that you're looking for the one that only benefits you. I would call this a desire, not a right; a pretty selfish one too.
It is pretty bad. I've known a few Rank 14 pvp guys, who get the good rewards. Every single one of them without exception had to spend all waking hours playing and usually have multiple other people also play their characters in order to gain that Rank. In the end they're burned out and hate playing.
Yes but... It's still a possibility that humans mixed with neanderthals.
1. He wrote a program that helped people cheat in a game (Oh noes, what a evil black hatter) -3 brownie points
2. He helped uncover a commercial company's SPYING program to catch you cheating at said game which can also spy on you in all sorts of law-breaking ways (let's see blizzard try to pull this shit in england where they have REAL privacy laws) +300 points
Giving him a total of 297 brownie points. This actually makes him the equivalent of a girl scout.
So basically you don't trust them because you don't agree with them.
Regardless, they made their position clear before you came around, they're still transparent and their position hasn't changed.
SARS was gone way before world of warcraft even existed. Missleading headline.
Yes, that's pretty much what 'uber' means in this case. Having all of the highest lvl epic gear and knowing how to use it.
Tier 2 epics and above, like legendary items. None of that tier 1 purple stuff.
haha nice
Seriously the headline said it would be released into the wild.
If you were the wild like you say, then I'd be worried about them coming to release something into you. You only got a few holes and only one is for input of solids.
roffleskates.
Look up something called sarchasm.
If you're only going to use a small widget (as in your example) then there is no reason not to just pay someone to write it. Hell, they could just buy a proprietary widget that's already made, or even get in touch with the copyright holder of the GPL'd one and work out a special license.
But when the company has a different choice, like it needs a whole OS to go on it's router, then the smart decision might be to use GPL code for most of it and just throw the source in with the bundle.
That's the rules of the GPL, it's a very straightfowrard license when compared to most proprietary licenses.
What I'm saying: "the GPL is great in a lot of cases!"
what you are saying: 'the GPL sucks because it doesn't work in this one case!'
In my experience, people who argue that the GPL sucks because of one case like this are doing it because this happens to be their case.
It's really annoying to have what you need right in front of you but not be able to use it. It's like a chocolate cake that you walk past at a fair. You can see it's delicious, the smell is making your mouth water but you don't want to pay for it or you have dinner ready when you get home anyway. It can piss you off
Make character death permanent. Give experienced players a good chance of survival, but make it so that if you're not experienced, you come in on your first day off ebay, do something stupid and uh-oh spaghetti-oh. Let characters be ABLE to do really stupid things like attack their own faction and become outlaws. Just exploit that difference between the experienced players and the bought ones.
I think all of the associations they managed to come up with that word have been mighty homosexual.
To me, it sounds like Mangina. What a vagina would be doing on a man is an exercise best left for the reader.. But it does sound gay.
1) I AM A LIBERAL.
First, I don't know what that means. Because nobody does. There is no popular or agreed upon classification for someone to be a 'liberal'.
Whether IQ tests are valid or not is beside the point.
erm, wtf are you smoking? that is the entire point of those studies you mentioned and you then go on to try to prove they are valid in the same paragraph..
a) you can't read
oh yes, I am in actual fact the first person on this planet who can write without reading
b) you didn't bother to read my post
yah, of course! because I can't reeeeeaaaad
There are tests that have been formulated specifically to measure it, regardless of language/culture/upbringing influences.
ding dong! they are called 'bogus'. I have also formulated a perpetual motion machine in my basement, would you like to buy it? I've even patented it! Oh and I also have some supplements to help you BULK UP like hulk, it's scientifically proven can lengthen your penis, make you longer lasting and improve your masculinity too! AS SEEN ON TV!!
- street kid: could score well on a "g" test as easily as a Harvard graduate. A good test won't ask anything that education could influence.
Erm Please describe the tests used to measure IQ in the "BELL CURVE" and explain how never having had any formal education whatsoever would have no effect on them. You obviously haven't met a street kid and know nothing about the subject so I'll just leave it at that
skip the part where you further prove you have no idea about IQ tests
Now, is "g" a valid concept? Like I said, most of the scientific community agrees that there is a generalizable intelligence. Go read the literature.
g as you state it is a valid concept, unfortunately it's meaningless in terms of measuring what we call intelligence, btw please point me towards any references you have where current accepted scientific papers say there is a generalizable intelligence which is measureable by tests I would like to see it! Unfortunately for you, intelligence cannot be measured on a scale, much less a single number.
4) No matter who your parents are or what they do, you have to learn these things for yourself. My dad has a PhD. in electrical engineering, and a MA in CS, but anything I know about those subjects is largely a result of what I learned on my own. You haven't got any advantage in judging "The Bell Curve" or anything else, because YOU are not an expert in shit. I can't believe you even tried to pull a logical fallacy like that--it's just silly
actually it's very informative to cohabit with people who are interested and well-informed in a certain subject. Furthermore it directly applies to the bell curve study because you can learn a lot while eating your cornflakes if you ask the right questions. And yes they have previously talked about that specific study over meals. It's a headline-grabbing, emotional study for some people. It's gossip, oh and btw, it is junk science. And btw, if you consult some of the better logic sites on the internet (and I'm sorry if they are wrong, then I am wrong), they state that it is a perfectly valid logical argument to appeal to authority where there is a concensus by authority figures in a certain domain. Fallacy? not as far as I know.
What a great example of this global warming is! The entire respected scientific community says "it exists". The current administration says "nobody knows if it exists! and further changes their commissioned studies to say so!
5) You took a discussion that is otherwise insightful, respectful, and intelligent
wow, those are the antonyms of the words I would have picked.
I'm sorry that you are so stuck in your ways that you cannot change your point of view or listen to dissenters, even when you are wrong. That being the case this will be my last reply and I hope to leave you to ed
well if you look at it that way, then BSD code is *so* free, that people are free to take it and essencially drive the freedom away from others using the code.
Your post is in fact, so terribly bad and misinformed that I have no recourse other than to respond.
First I feel the need to address your use of stereotypical terms. I point out, that the /. story uses much better terminology: 'The Bush administration'. While you use abstract steryotypes in your post 'Liberals' the 'Left'.
The term 'The Bush Administration' is not perfect. People can disagree on who exactly is included in under this umbrella, however you can narrow this down in a discussion to refer to specific people so it's not so bad. Your terms 'Liberals' and 'The left' are terrible and should not be part of any competent discussion because:
Secondly, I would like to point out that your personal experience does not a theorem make. The fact that you have (only?) come across people who judge these studies you mention based on irrelevant bases does not prove as you state, that these are the only people out there. Ok, so you don't have the funding or time to carry out such a study and would like to include personal experience in your opinion, that's fine. However at no point did you say that you even tried to seek out those who see these studies as flawed *and also* do this based on sensible arguments. Since you have not even attempted to find counter examples to your personal experience I feel it is in poor form to use it as any kind of evidence. Please, at least google up some valid counter arguments which denote these studies as false, it's not hard.
Now on to the studies themselves ("The Bell Curve" and company). I have to admit that I have somewhat of an advantage over most people in judging their validity and I have to include this as a disclaimer. Both of my parents and step parents are developmental psychologists at prestigious universities IE 'study how people learn things'.
Among people in this field, the authoritative experts, there is very strong concensus that these studies are absolute junk. Because of this I can appeal to authority and make the logical argument stick.
If I can explain it in simple terms, these studies are flawed because there is no way to measure intelligence in human beings. I hope I don't get flamed for saying this but it's true. IQ tests are a load of bollocks. You can measure people's aptitude and practice at taking IQ tests or solving similar problems, but in no way can that be related to 'intelligence' as it is normally thought of. Think of idiot-savants. Think of street kids who are really good at doing math in their heads, but using their own methods, think great creative minds, think of dislexia, think of numerous other forms of intelligence or reasons why tests do not measure intelligence.
Furthermore, the question of nature vs. nurture is not settled, although the concensus is that both have great influence on organisms nowhere near precise models exist. So, any conclusions drawn from those studies, which are already flawed, will likely be flawed in and of themselves.
This is why these studies are so utterly flawed they are laughed at in their respective fields just as medieval medicine is laughed at by modern day physicians. They are mistakes, however mistakes can sometimes be beneficial because they can teach us new things. Eg. We can learn why they are junk science and how to av
Now, I realize that even though this has been my experience so far it doesn't mean it's like this everywhere. Sometimes they keep the company going well, sometimes they run it into the ground. Even when they run it into the ground they make out like bandits with millions of dollars while pensions go unpaid (you think the term 'golden parachute' was invented for no reason?). They also tend to get other jobs real easy since they've been at the masturbating table with people who are now at other companies.
Even the *idea* that companies are beholden to 'the shareholders' is retarded in and of itself. For one: it's flawed for the same reason as the grandfather post I wrote points out. There is no such thing as 'the shareholders'. To say 'the shareholders' is far oversimplifying the real situation. Who owns the shares? how are they traded? how many? for how long? do they care? do they have lawyers? what kind of people are they and what are they likely to do in this particular situation? etc etc etc ad infinitum.
If you oversimplify your model it ain't going to work. I don't care if the real world is too complicated and you're lazy.
Then there's also the fact that shareholder lawsuits are now much harder to pursue (the laws were recently changed).
Don't forget about the further problem that a lot of this is subjective. Take a simple matter for example: golden parachutes. If a CEO makes shitty decisions drives a company into the ground over the course of a year, then leaves with his full year's salary plus a $1M departure gift I would call that a golden parachute. Would you? would someone else? Shit, there are people in this country who would say 'what the fuck? I can't live on less than $2M a year.' Would they call this a golden parachute?
I know people like to put things in simple terms of black and white, right and wrong or simple relationships: CEO's do what they do because they are accountable to the shareholders (and the more these simplified statements are repeated, the better it makes people feel eg. fox new is built on this). But the difference is while you hold on to you simplified, yet incorrect, busted-ass model that doesn't work; I say it's too complicated, I don't have a model for exactly how it works because these are complicated subjective topics but here is what I see that irks me.
Please, stop just stop. Stop talking about companies as if they were an individual. They are not, and it makes no sense to talk about them this way. They are a buisness collaboration of a group of people. It's analogous to when people pretend slashdot only has one point of view and it just 'is' without belonging to any particular indiviudal. Fuck the politicians for giving companies the rights of the individual and fuck you for trying to confuse people into thinking that way, because when you do you create an iron curtain which isolates corporate lords from responsability.
Saying 'a company' decides it's more cost-efficient to throw toxic waste into a river and give 1000 people leukemia is misleading and incorrect. An evil, twisted, bastard of a person/s made this decision and should be held responsible.
So next time, don't say:
'M$ decided it was in it's best interest to fuck us in the ass because it has no morals'
Say instead:
(assuming bill gates makes the decision)
'Bill-fucking-gates decided it was in his best interest to fuck us in the ass because he apparently has no morals.'
'A company' doesn't make the decisions and 'A company' can't fucking go to jail. It can be interfered with until it goes out of buisness but the corporate lords jump out and open their golden parachutes then go find another place where they can shit on us from.
The teeth seem to be big enough since every company that I know regulated by this law is changing it's practices. (that's pretty much every responsible buisness)
if you're going to get picky, it's actually a fox *in charge* of the team of hens guarding the hen house.
hmm. What picture could possibly cause a program to crash and burn and the computer to be PWNT?
Does goatse strike again? *grin*
- What are the advantages that gnu/linux has over Windows for the typical user / software developer / corporation?
- Why is gnu/linux better suited for open standards than a proprietary operating system?
- Why would you recommend using gnu/linux for publicly funded government projects?
- What are the best advantages of using Free Software (read: GPL) in third world countries?
- What aspects of Free Software licenses do you feel are particularly well suited to speed up scientific discovery, program development, teaching etc. in an academic environment?
- How do you feel that Free Software can benefit mankind as a whole?
- Finally, please list any advantages proprietary licenses have over Free Software licenses.
Feel free to keep the answers short as some of them are quite obvious to someone well versed in how Free Software works. Thanks!However there are a couple of bugs, they're not that bad:
- Mouse cursor not visible in direct x mode, must use -opengl flag
- crashes when under roofs with minimap open in opengl mode: just close it when going under a roof.
- crashes when you die and leave your body in opengl mode: Don't die : )
If you get stuck inside a building with map open or in a cemetary after death you have to start it in normal mode (direct X, not opengl) move outside/reclaim body, then restart in open gl mode.