This is the invisible hand of the market doing its job. Exploit workers overseas and pervert the spirit of patents, copyrights, and trademarks only to further monopolize your position, going so far as to crate proxy lawsuits against your competitors and creating injunctions on other businesses only for extortion... yes, I'll have to admit I hope the hiPhone team springs of the excellent designs of the iPhones and makes a better, cheaper product. It's called progress.
And I do mean delusional, as in out of touch with reality. Facebook must think the people that create these exploits are either really stupid, they don't understand their audience, or this is a token gesture. $500 is ridiculous.
...and they don't make exceptions to celebrities? I think if Google allowed some people to have fake identities and some not, this same article would be front page Slashdot and the haters will still be hatin'
I am an American - and I would agree with you. Britain was just short of defeat in WW2, Sweden was making deals with the Nazis, and Russia is enormous and enormously cold. France got sacked in WW2 mostly because of bad military strategy - but more importantly, because the Germans had the best tech and strategies in Europe. Making fun of France for getting rocked in WW2 is like laughing at the kid who got his lunch money stolen, despite that he tried to defend himself. And I am proud of my country;however, a lot of my countrymen are so proud it's jingoist.
Oh come on.
http://www.militaryfactory.com/battles/french_military_victories.asp
When you cherry pick from the history of any country, you can come up with a long list of defeats.
I don't remember Japan, Germany or Russia being too successful in the last hundred years.
Even America got it's capital burned to the ground in 1812, and was defeated in Vietnam (in fairness, after France too).
Ok; I can see your point. Perhaps my urge to respond was tainted by the massive amounts of ad-homenim all over the internet. I guess what really provoked my inspiration is that I agreed with with geek completely, except at the end and for me it killed the credibility.
People respond to incentives. You cannot just ask someone to do something.
I'm not sure why it continues to be a surprise when someone does/doesn't do something, when they have no incentive to change their behavior. We've been wired this way since the beginning - shouldn't this be obvious?
Life tip - I completely agree with your retort, the parent doesn't understand well how the immune system works. But the ad hominem at the end is not necessary, mate, and will make any audience side against you.
I don't know how that did it. My cabinet has probably 150 files at best, and it weighs about 70 lbs. They must have used a really big truck and been awfully quick about it. Sounds like a team that specialized in file organization in the past - a rogue librarian thief ring!
Am I the only person delighted that they used PC not exclusively in the Windows context?
I don't think the Microsoft campaign to make PC == Windows is an accident.
Where is the picketing with signs at airports? Where are the demonstrators exercising free speech? In a country where people are willing to picket over anything and everything, why never at airports? The silence is deafening - could it be they are prevented from doing so??
Hey, Monsanto effectively owns the US soy industry by patenting soy DNA; couldn't these bees' get DNA get patented, in turn making their breeding (even unintentional) a licensing violation?
Yeah - it was very disheartening. Maybe I will. I have heard it makes a major difference geographically, too. I live in St. Louis, so I can only speak for here. Once a month would be a lot more tolerable.
I think it says a lot when you get a bunch of anti-cyclist comments posting AC. It's kind of like biking responsibly in real life. You obey traffic signals, ride as far over to the right in the lane as possible allowing cars to safely pass, signaling at turns, etc. Yet still, in a week of commuting, you still get 2-3 anonymous assholes who fly by a foot to your left, screaming at you to get off their road. Strangely, it seems like this happens mostly during traffic when cars are averaging ~20mph anyways and you aren't actually slowing them down at all.
I commuted about 9 miles to work for almost 8 months but gave up on it for these reasons. In the US cycling is social acceptable for children and recreationally for adults. These aren't all rednecks in trucks, either. I remember an instance where a Prius intentionally ran me off the road, cursing at me. In the spur of the moment, I yelled back, "My vehicle is greener!".
Of course. I also realize that MS forces you to upgrade to their next OS regardless if the current one you have work - creating a whole class of problems; manufacturers unwilling to upgrade their drivers to MS' non-backwards compatible new DDK included. I have appliances, my car, all sorts of other things that I am not synthetically required to upgrade. My car is almost as old as XP, my wife' is older - both work fine.
Make a better OS so people want to upgrade. Don't artifically exclude things like DX10, or the next version of your browser, etc. This is called abusing your market position.
I wish I had points to mod parent up. Vista was the Beta we all purchased for Windows 7. It's ok when you know you are buying an unfinished product and it's $8 vis a vis Minecraft, not so cool when it hundreds of dollars, it's from the biggest software company in the world and sold as a finished product, and all your relatives are calling your because their printers don't work and they can't find their way around. Of course, YMMV:)
1.) What exactly does "linked" mean? If it's not causal, who gives a shit?
2.) What was their data set, how did they calculate 25%?
I RTFA - and by the way, it reads a whole lot like and ad. Bonus points, skimming through the citations at the bottom you will find a comprehensive list of insurance companies' shell "safety" organizations (you know, the kind that tell you about Officer McNab on the radio or how about cops are "cracking down")
Every conversation I've had recently about Paypal was
a.) Brought up by the person I was talking with, not me
b.) revolved around how much they hated PayPal, and would rather write transfer/check/trade sheep anything but use them again.
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This is the invisible hand of the market doing its job. Exploit workers overseas and pervert the spirit of patents, copyrights, and trademarks only to further monopolize your position, going so far as to crate proxy lawsuits against your competitors and creating injunctions on other businesses only for extortion... yes, I'll have to admit I hope the hiPhone team springs of the excellent designs of the iPhones and makes a better, cheaper product. It's called progress.
And I do mean delusional, as in out of touch with reality. Facebook must think the people that create these exploits are either really stupid, they don't understand their audience, or this is a token gesture. $500 is ridiculous.
...and they don't make exceptions to celebrities? I think if Google allowed some people to have fake identities and some not, this same article would be front page Slashdot and the haters will still be hatin'
I am an American - and I would agree with you. Britain was just short of defeat in WW2, Sweden was making deals with the Nazis, and Russia is enormous and enormously cold. France got sacked in WW2 mostly because of bad military strategy - but more importantly, because the Germans had the best tech and strategies in Europe. Making fun of France for getting rocked in WW2 is like laughing at the kid who got his lunch money stolen, despite that he tried to defend himself. And I am proud of my country;however, a lot of my countrymen are so proud it's jingoist.
Oh come on. http://www.militaryfactory.com/battles/french_military_victories.asp When you cherry pick from the history of any country, you can come up with a long list of defeats. I don't remember Japan, Germany or Russia being too successful in the last hundred years. Even America got it's capital burned to the ground in 1812, and was defeated in Vietnam (in fairness, after France too).
The first thing that came into my head - "What a douchebag"
Dude needs to buy a really nice batman costume PRONTO and upload videos of ordering at drive thru's.
Ok; I can see your point. Perhaps my urge to respond was tainted by the massive amounts of ad-homenim all over the internet. I guess what really provoked my inspiration is that I agreed with with geek completely, except at the end and for me it killed the credibility.
People respond to incentives. You cannot just ask someone to do something. I'm not sure why it continues to be a surprise when someone does/doesn't do something, when they have no incentive to change their behavior. We've been wired this way since the beginning - shouldn't this be obvious?
Life tip - I completely agree with your retort, the parent doesn't understand well how the immune system works. But the ad hominem at the end is not necessary, mate, and will make any audience side against you.
Yeah, but when you are in a truck it's a lit easier not to die when several thousand pounds flies by :)
I don't know how that did it. My cabinet has probably 150 files at best, and it weighs about 70 lbs. They must have used a really big truck and been awfully quick about it. Sounds like a team that specialized in file organization in the past - a rogue librarian thief ring!
Am I the only person delighted that they used PC not exclusively in the Windows context? I don't think the Microsoft campaign to make PC == Windows is an accident.
Where is the picketing with signs at airports? Where are the demonstrators exercising free speech? In a country where people are willing to picket over anything and everything, why never at airports? The silence is deafening - could it be they are prevented from doing so??
I wish I could mod this up to 6
Hey, Monsanto effectively owns the US soy industry by patenting soy DNA; couldn't these bees' get DNA get patented, in turn making their breeding (even unintentional) a licensing violation?
Yeah - it was very disheartening. Maybe I will. I have heard it makes a major difference geographically, too. I live in St. Louis, so I can only speak for here. Once a month would be a lot more tolerable.
I think it says a lot when you get a bunch of anti-cyclist comments posting AC. It's kind of like biking responsibly in real life. You obey traffic signals, ride as far over to the right in the lane as possible allowing cars to safely pass, signaling at turns, etc. Yet still, in a week of commuting, you still get 2-3 anonymous assholes who fly by a foot to your left, screaming at you to get off their road. Strangely, it seems like this happens mostly during traffic when cars are averaging ~20mph anyways and you aren't actually slowing them down at all.
I commuted about 9 miles to work for almost 8 months but gave up on it for these reasons. In the US cycling is social acceptable for children and recreationally for adults. These aren't all rednecks in trucks, either. I remember an instance where a Prius intentionally ran me off the road, cursing at me. In the spur of the moment, I yelled back, "My vehicle is greener!".
That sounds interesting, but the page 500's on me.
Haha - I see what you did there.
Just so we are clear - there never was an incandescent light bulb ban; this was/is spin.
Of course. I also realize that MS forces you to upgrade to their next OS regardless if the current one you have work - creating a whole class of problems; manufacturers unwilling to upgrade their drivers to MS' non-backwards compatible new DDK included. I have appliances, my car, all sorts of other things that I am not synthetically required to upgrade. My car is almost as old as XP, my wife' is older - both work fine. Make a better OS so people want to upgrade. Don't artifically exclude things like DX10, or the next version of your browser, etc. This is called abusing your market position.
I wish I had points to mod parent up. Vista was the Beta we all purchased for Windows 7. It's ok when you know you are buying an unfinished product and it's $8 vis a vis Minecraft, not so cool when it hundreds of dollars, it's from the biggest software company in the world and sold as a finished product, and all your relatives are calling your because their printers don't work and they can't find their way around. Of course, YMMV :)
1.) What exactly does "linked" mean? If it's not causal, who gives a shit? 2.) What was their data set, how did they calculate 25%? I RTFA - and by the way, it reads a whole lot like and ad. Bonus points, skimming through the citations at the bottom you will find a comprehensive list of insurance companies' shell "safety" organizations (you know, the kind that tell you about Officer McNab on the radio or how about cops are "cracking down")
Every conversation I've had recently about Paypal was a.) Brought up by the person I was talking with, not me b.) revolved around how much they hated PayPal, and would rather write transfer/check/trade sheep anything but use them again.