For me its a matter of I want to do what I want to do and not have to be wary of disturbing smoebody else while I'm in my home. Backyard jerking it time is for me and a single lonely bee hovering above a flower. I can't do that in a park in the city. And if I could, I'm sure other people would be there too, destroying the whole mood.
You know, or maybe I like to play drums or something. People seem to think that we should be merciless efficiency machines. I've got news for you, we're all going to die sometime and our sun is going to burn out. Why not enjoy the ride instead of forcing everybody to try to eek out a few more years of existence for our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren?
When I said "redistribute" I meant it as in "we take taxes from people who live in a state to give the money to states they don't live in". I agree it is a dumb policy. The Federal Government does a lot of things poorly, some things alright, but it shouldn't even be up to them what the priorities of the individual states are from my point of view (and the constitution).
However, since the majority don't feel this way they should work to try to get an amendment to the constitution passed. They won't, however, because doing it anyway lets them skirt around the requirements of ratification by 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of states. So instead, they just let the divide grow where a minority with the law on their side feel they are in the right and can prove it, and the majority without the law on their side have decided we are a pure democracy and popular sentiment rules the day. The worst part of it isn't the policies that are implemented under this "system", its the fact that when we have conflicting laws it erodes the entire system to the point where none of the law matters, and its just up to the people in power at the time as to what to do.
Federally managed because the federal government is what people want. Largely, the United States seems to want a large, powerful, federal government and not respect the different cultures of different states. This is why the popular vote fiasco with President Bush was so easy for people to harp on. They no longer recognize or respect the separation of states. Further, the Federal Government uses taxes it levies on people to redistribute to state governments specifically for that kind of infrastructure. In a way, even state roads are paid for with Federal money.
Wtf, asshole. Do you really need to be a knee-jerk dick-lips all the time? It is a phone that Microsoft developers like. Not to use so much as play with. My post isn't even kind to Microsoft really. Let me break my post down for you.
Windows Phone 7 is definitely a Microsoft developers phone and will never reach the heights of Android or iOS. - In what way does this come off as me promoting Microsoft? By saying WP7 will never be a competitor to the top two guys in the market? You're an asshole.
I wouldn't be surprised if their next generation was a little more competitive, moving it from dead last to above RIM - Ok, this seems a little bit like I might be saying good things about WP7.
That may have more to do with RIM declining [than] WP7 getting better. - Oops, nope, I took it away. You're an asshole.
The only thing in there that you seemed to read was "developers' phone", and you ignored the rest of everything I said. Pretty much every Microsoft developer I know is interested in playing with WP7, because we're developers and already have the tools and knowledge to develop for it, and yes, it is easy. And yes, people like Visual Studio. If you're going to throw out everybody's opinion when they point out a single possible perk that isn't even something for the masses, then you're an asshole. The Slashdot anti-microsoft crowd just can't even acknowledge another opinion might be based on experience instead of getting paid, even when the person isn't being that kind. Again, you're an asshole.
Software delivered by hardware manufacturers is almost always a buggy, laggy, bloated piece of stuff that is usually deactivated, deinstalled, thrown away as soon as possible, unless it's a driver or other absolute neccessity.
Like every single wireless network manager that everybody everywhere disables in favor of Windows because it almost never does its sole function: connect to networks. Yet, they all seem to come with one. What is the motivation to even do that kind of thing? I can never figure it out.
This generation of Windows Phone 7 is definitely a Microsoft developers phone and will never reach the heights of Android or iOS. However, I wouldn't be surprised if their next generation was a little more competitive, moving it from dead last to above RIM in terms of market share. That may have more to do with RIM declining the WP7 getting better, and relies on them making it a phone for less-casual games and tie-ins with the 360 and XBox Live.
Dude, I haven't driven in years as I am not legally allowed to. And when I did drive I was too young to drink. So shut your mouth. You said nothing to refute my point and you would never talk to your friend who drove home after an all night study session or something that way. That's my whole point. People like you want to make it out to be some sort of mystical effect alcohol has that deteriorates your driving ability, when tons of things people do all the time have the same or worse effects at the legal limit and they don't have to put up with the holier than thou bullshit from everybody. DUI comes with some serious punishment that is way out of line for what the legal limit is, especially compared to speeding which is pretty much nothing, but diminishes your time to react.
Somebody should do a calculation on how much faster you would have to be driving to make up the gap for reaction time at the legal limit in every state. Then we can shame the people going 5mph over the speed limit (just guessing) for being just as bad as drunk drivers.
I won't argue it may be technically safer, but security v. freedom, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, etc. The stigma and punishment for a DUI is way out of line for the effects at the legal limit.
My comment isn't about legislation its about the attitude that people who have had a couple of beers and are over the legal limit are monsters. Don't drive for real drunk, the legal limit is just too low.
We should probably arrest people for driving while they're tired too if you're going to split hairs on millisecond reaction times. If you needed to react that quickly you were a bad driver anyway.
Oooooh.... Well thats dumb. How hard is it to google for an album title then when you find that album just selecting the file name for that song. Incidentally, maybe somebody should fix that problem since most torrents have a list of file names in them it shouldn't be too hard to let people search for file names as well as torrent names. I don't really know how trackers work though.
I see your point but the GPL attempts to make others ensure the end user has full usage rights. Which is fine, its up to you to use whatever license you want to use. I just don't think its so much an "open" license as it is an ideology pushing license. Open is "here is this code, do what you will with it." GPL is "Here is this code. If you use it, you have to conform to my ideas of how software should work." I won't say its a bad license, but it isn't open.
I guess that I don't really have to focus my eyes though when I move from monitor to monitor, as my eyes don't focus at all. This may be a benefit for me in that regard.
You only have two windows up ever? Usually wtih two monitors I use one to have email and alert style stuff (IMs, monitoring pages) that I glance over to when I'm working. Most people can type and not look at the keyboard or the window they are typing in, so while typing this I am looking at my emails to see if anything new came in, as well as waiting for the build to finish and pop up my website.
Money is held by people not because they want that item, but because they want to be able to exchange it later for things they do want. Money can be backed or not backed, thats fine, but to say that silver has real value and paper has no value is ridiculous. I dont' know how to be more clear abuot this but silver's value is not because of its industrial uses, but because of convention. Paper money is not valueable because of its industrial uses, but because of its convention and also it is used to pay taxes to the government. Now, yes people (the Federal Reserve) can print more of it, just like people with large sums of money can make silver prices go up, or people with large amounts of silver can make silver prices go down. A backed currency has certain benefits but you have to get it through your retard mind that silver is not "real value" and neither is gold. Wheat has real value, computers have real value, underwear has real value. Money is a proxy for real value, thats what makes it money and not goods. God damn.
In what way would Apple be taking anybody's freedoms away by using the GPL code and not GPLing their code? The original GPL code is still around. This is the fundamental flaw in most pro-GPL arguments. Face it, its a viral license that is not free. BSD, now there is a license.
What you don't understand and likely never will is that "liberty" means you can do as you please and nobody else is making you do it. The GPL promotes making people GPL their software. Why? I understand people could "freeload" but its not like me making something based on GPL code in any way affects the code I'm using. You say the GPL is about liberty but it has a huge "if you use this you have to do this other thing too." In what way is that liberating? If anything its enslaving. You have no option to use any other license if you use GPL without getting rid of all GPL code. That's pretty fucking restrictive. You just think its liberty because it doesn't make you do anything you personally dislike, probably because you don't write anything worth being proprietary.
What is with people not understanding torrents? Peple can browse the web, they can use limewire, but they can't use links on a website to open a program similar to limewire and start downloading? What's the deal? Somebody please explain this to me. What is it about torrents that is "harder" than anything else?
Yeah I came in here to say the same thing. 16% was the high in 2007, now its down to 9% so it can't be "of what it used to be"... somehow I doubt thats total population in the United States either, I would have expected it to be lower than that with all the old people. Mostly though I feel like any of these statistics have to be bullshit numbers to begin with. They may reflect what they measured, but I don't think anybody could accurately measure all P2P traffic of illegal songs and not snare other kinds of P2P and miss a huge chunk of song sharing as well.
Ok, warning, I'm about to be kind to Microsoft. Further warning, its about the Zune.
iTunes completely blows, which we all know. However Microsoft's Zune gets blasted all the time for the hardware, which I won't argue, though I do own one (and thought it had a slight edge over the iPods that were out when it came out, thickness aside). But has anybody used the Zune software? Its really pretty good, especially when next to iTunes. Now that they've discontinued the hardware, I hope they don't end up scrapping the whole music library altogether. My instinct is that if I ever used Rhapsody or the new Napster that I would probably like their software as well. Does anybody know how they all stack up against each other when running on windows?
I fully anticipate being blind sometime in the next 2 decades, my aunt and uncle are blind. Of course they look like dorks, have you seen blind people? They don't know how to work their face.
Because everything has to go to legalities? Its legal for my friends to shit in the back of my toilet, but I prefer they don't so I ask them not to and if they continue (which they usually do) I stop inviting them over. They don't get all up in arms about how they're martyrs and I'm obstructing their bowel movements.
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For me its a matter of I want to do what I want to do and not have to be wary of disturbing smoebody else while I'm in my home. Backyard jerking it time is for me and a single lonely bee hovering above a flower. I can't do that in a park in the city. And if I could, I'm sure other people would be there too, destroying the whole mood.
You know, or maybe I like to play drums or something. People seem to think that we should be merciless efficiency machines. I've got news for you, we're all going to die sometime and our sun is going to burn out. Why not enjoy the ride instead of forcing everybody to try to eek out a few more years of existence for our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren?
When I said "redistribute" I meant it as in "we take taxes from people who live in a state to give the money to states they don't live in". I agree it is a dumb policy. The Federal Government does a lot of things poorly, some things alright, but it shouldn't even be up to them what the priorities of the individual states are from my point of view (and the constitution).
However, since the majority don't feel this way they should work to try to get an amendment to the constitution passed. They won't, however, because doing it anyway lets them skirt around the requirements of ratification by 2/3 of congress and 3/4 of states. So instead, they just let the divide grow where a minority with the law on their side feel they are in the right and can prove it, and the majority without the law on their side have decided we are a pure democracy and popular sentiment rules the day. The worst part of it isn't the policies that are implemented under this "system", its the fact that when we have conflicting laws it erodes the entire system to the point where none of the law matters, and its just up to the people in power at the time as to what to do.
Federally managed because the federal government is what people want. Largely, the United States seems to want a large, powerful, federal government and not respect the different cultures of different states. This is why the popular vote fiasco with President Bush was so easy for people to harp on. They no longer recognize or respect the separation of states. Further, the Federal Government uses taxes it levies on people to redistribute to state governments specifically for that kind of infrastructure. In a way, even state roads are paid for with Federal money.
Wtf, asshole. Do you really need to be a knee-jerk dick-lips all the time? It is a phone that Microsoft developers like. Not to use so much as play with. My post isn't even kind to Microsoft really. Let me break my post down for you.
The only thing in there that you seemed to read was "developers' phone", and you ignored the rest of everything I said. Pretty much every Microsoft developer I know is interested in playing with WP7, because we're developers and already have the tools and knowledge to develop for it, and yes, it is easy. And yes, people like Visual Studio. If you're going to throw out everybody's opinion when they point out a single possible perk that isn't even something for the masses, then you're an asshole. The Slashdot anti-microsoft crowd just can't even acknowledge another opinion might be based on experience instead of getting paid, even when the person isn't being that kind. Again, you're an asshole.
Software delivered by hardware manufacturers is almost always a buggy, laggy, bloated piece of stuff that is usually deactivated, deinstalled, thrown away as soon as possible, unless it's a driver or other absolute neccessity.
Like every single wireless network manager that everybody everywhere disables in favor of Windows because it almost never does its sole function: connect to networks. Yet, they all seem to come with one. What is the motivation to even do that kind of thing? I can never figure it out.
This generation of Windows Phone 7 is definitely a Microsoft developers phone and will never reach the heights of Android or iOS. However, I wouldn't be surprised if their next generation was a little more competitive, moving it from dead last to above RIM in terms of market share. That may have more to do with RIM declining the WP7 getting better, and relies on them making it a phone for less-casual games and tie-ins with the 360 and XBox Live.
And nobody ever drops a baby either. Never.
Dude, I haven't driven in years as I am not legally allowed to. And when I did drive I was too young to drink. So shut your mouth. You said nothing to refute my point and you would never talk to your friend who drove home after an all night study session or something that way. That's my whole point. People like you want to make it out to be some sort of mystical effect alcohol has that deteriorates your driving ability, when tons of things people do all the time have the same or worse effects at the legal limit and they don't have to put up with the holier than thou bullshit from everybody. DUI comes with some serious punishment that is way out of line for what the legal limit is, especially compared to speeding which is pretty much nothing, but diminishes your time to react.
Somebody should do a calculation on how much faster you would have to be driving to make up the gap for reaction time at the legal limit in every state. Then we can shame the people going 5mph over the speed limit (just guessing) for being just as bad as drunk drivers.
I won't argue it may be technically safer, but security v. freedom, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, etc. The stigma and punishment for a DUI is way out of line for the effects at the legal limit.
My comment isn't about legislation its about the attitude that people who have had a couple of beers and are over the legal limit are monsters. Don't drive for real drunk, the legal limit is just too low.
We should probably arrest people for driving while they're tired too if you're going to split hairs on millisecond reaction times. If you needed to react that quickly you were a bad driver anyway.
Driving while drowsy is worse in terms of driving ability than being just over the legal limit. Just so you know.
In no way do I think that is a conservative position to take. I think its a retard position to take.
Oooooh.... Well thats dumb. How hard is it to google for an album title then when you find that album just selecting the file name for that song. Incidentally, maybe somebody should fix that problem since most torrents have a list of file names in them it shouldn't be too hard to let people search for file names as well as torrent names. I don't really know how trackers work though.
I see your point but the GPL attempts to make others ensure the end user has full usage rights. Which is fine, its up to you to use whatever license you want to use. I just don't think its so much an "open" license as it is an ideology pushing license. Open is "here is this code, do what you will with it." GPL is "Here is this code. If you use it, you have to conform to my ideas of how software should work." I won't say its a bad license, but it isn't open.
I guess that I don't really have to focus my eyes though when I move from monitor to monitor, as my eyes don't focus at all. This may be a benefit for me in that regard.
You only have two windows up ever? Usually wtih two monitors I use one to have email and alert style stuff (IMs, monitoring pages) that I glance over to when I'm working. Most people can type and not look at the keyboard or the window they are typing in, so while typing this I am looking at my emails to see if anything new came in, as well as waiting for the build to finish and pop up my website.
Clearly, I'm being super productive.
Money is held by people not because they want that item, but because they want to be able to exchange it later for things they do want. Money can be backed or not backed, thats fine, but to say that silver has real value and paper has no value is ridiculous. I dont' know how to be more clear abuot this but silver's value is not because of its industrial uses, but because of convention. Paper money is not valueable because of its industrial uses, but because of its convention and also it is used to pay taxes to the government. Now, yes people (the Federal Reserve) can print more of it, just like people with large sums of money can make silver prices go up, or people with large amounts of silver can make silver prices go down. A backed currency has certain benefits but you have to get it through your retard mind that silver is not "real value" and neither is gold. Wheat has real value, computers have real value, underwear has real value. Money is a proxy for real value, thats what makes it money and not goods. God damn.
In what way would Apple be taking anybody's freedoms away by using the GPL code and not GPLing their code? The original GPL code is still around. This is the fundamental flaw in most pro-GPL arguments. Face it, its a viral license that is not free. BSD, now there is a license.
What you don't understand and likely never will is that "liberty" means you can do as you please and nobody else is making you do it. The GPL promotes making people GPL their software. Why? I understand people could "freeload" but its not like me making something based on GPL code in any way affects the code I'm using. You say the GPL is about liberty but it has a huge "if you use this you have to do this other thing too." In what way is that liberating? If anything its enslaving. You have no option to use any other license if you use GPL without getting rid of all GPL code. That's pretty fucking restrictive. You just think its liberty because it doesn't make you do anything you personally dislike, probably because you don't write anything worth being proprietary.
What is with people not understanding torrents? Peple can browse the web, they can use limewire, but they can't use links on a website to open a program similar to limewire and start downloading? What's the deal? Somebody please explain this to me. What is it about torrents that is "harder" than anything else?
Yeah I came in here to say the same thing. 16% was the high in 2007, now its down to 9% so it can't be "of what it used to be"... somehow I doubt thats total population in the United States either, I would have expected it to be lower than that with all the old people. Mostly though I feel like any of these statistics have to be bullshit numbers to begin with. They may reflect what they measured, but I don't think anybody could accurately measure all P2P traffic of illegal songs and not snare other kinds of P2P and miss a huge chunk of song sharing as well.
Ok, warning, I'm about to be kind to Microsoft. Further warning, its about the Zune.
iTunes completely blows, which we all know. However Microsoft's Zune gets blasted all the time for the hardware, which I won't argue, though I do own one (and thought it had a slight edge over the iPods that were out when it came out, thickness aside). But has anybody used the Zune software? Its really pretty good, especially when next to iTunes. Now that they've discontinued the hardware, I hope they don't end up scrapping the whole music library altogether. My instinct is that if I ever used Rhapsody or the new Napster that I would probably like their software as well. Does anybody know how they all stack up against each other when running on windows?
I fully anticipate being blind sometime in the next 2 decades, my aunt and uncle are blind. Of course they look like dorks, have you seen blind people? They don't know how to work their face.
Because everything has to go to legalities? Its legal for my friends to shit in the back of my toilet, but I prefer they don't so I ask them not to and if they continue (which they usually do) I stop inviting them over. They don't get all up in arms about how they're martyrs and I'm obstructing their bowel movements.