you know about who's on the team, their past performance, and how they're likely to perform. but with a video game, a lot of times all the information you have is on the box...how do you tell if the game you're buying is the equivalent of, say, the bengals? (ok so maybe that's not so good, you do hear about the bad ones, like daikatana, maybe a better team would be the seahawks)
But that's not really why I posted this. I just wanted to badmouth cincinatti.
But it's like 4th grade crushes, so hesitant and unsure...
"Hey, Taco, I just read about Rendezvous being released open source."
"Wow, Jeff, I, uh, think I kind of like Apple."
"Woah, you *like* Apple?"
"Wait, hold on! I don't *like Apple* like apple!"
So pretty much, they're using this website and posting all these stories to get the trolls out of the woodwork to start flaming apple, as well as the people flaming for apple, and when the number of people who think Apple is cool is large enough in comparison to the number of people who hate it, they can go get the TiBook they wanted and not have to worry about not being seen as Cool.
#1 How much memory do you have? If you don't have at least 512MB you really should get it. If you're swapping virtual memory all the time it's going to run slow.
#2 What font are you using for the terminal? When I got jaguar I noticed a pretty big slowdown in the terminal's responsiveness. I had Monaco 12. installed, with anti-aliasing on. After I changed the font to VT100, anti-aliasing off, the terminal is much faster.
No, I did pay attention, but, as I said, it has been a while.
The flaws that you're talking about are only flaws because the heros don't realize how best to follow objectivism, because Rand isn't there to show it to them. However, they are perfectly ethical, and the only way they try to advance their businesses is by improving their product, or coming up with scientific advances to be able to spend less money making it, or by working really hard to get things done. And they're übermenschen (not that they're aryans or anything, but they only get tired to show that they've been working really hard, and they can do everything really well.)
In the real world, however, there are many people and businesses who will use unethical methods or other means to gain profits. Would an Ayn Rand hero pollute? Or cook financial books? Or use submarine patents? Or cut corners to save money and put out an inferior product? Or pawn off an inferior product as something more than it is? Or sue people criticizing their business practices? Or open three or four stores in the same area as a smaller competitor, (knowing full well that the market cannot suppport so many stores and that they will have close at least two of their own stores), for the sole purpose of driving their smaller competitor out of business?
She didn't write about these types of businesspeople, and that's one of the main flaws in Rand's philosophy. It is *not* an accurate representation of the real world. And these types of people are likely to use objectivism/extreme-laissez-faire economics as an excuse for doing what they're doing: "Hey, you can't regulate us! That goes against the free market! Never mind that we're fraudulent and we're just in business so that we can make a lot of money really quickly and retire to the bahamas. Never mind that we're abusing people's trust to try to rob them of as much money as we can." An Ayn Rand hero wouldn't do that, but Ayn Rand heros are rare. And even an Ayn Rand hero might lose their ethics if they have to do due diligence for the shareholders.
The villains in Atlas Shrugged were just whiners who couldn't compete with the übermenschen on the strengths of their product, so they lobbied to the government to pass laws that kept them in business (like the RIAA). I don't deny that people like this exist, but again, I don't think she accurately represents the real world.
I would not deny that Rand is anti-libertarian. I think in general, you should be able to do what you would like to do, as long as your actions do not harm anyone. However, I think that the rights of people should be greater than the rights of corporations. Large businesses, because of their size and resources, have the potential to great good, but they also have the potential to do great harm, and as such they should bear a greater responsibility. I doubt you'll find anyone on the Cato institute who agrees with that. Libertarians like to complain about government interference with business, but as businesses grow as large as governments (at least as measured by budgets and GNPs), their power to influence many people's lives grows accordingly. Who would you rather have influencing your life? A government elected by the people (as flawed as that may be) and accountable to the people? Or an edifice of a company answerable only to the shareholders and board of directors? I would choose government, because you can at least vote the bastards out. Government interference is not always good, but it is not always bad, either, and sometimes everyone wins. Balance is good, but nobody likes to admit that.
Anyway, and this post has gone on longer than I intended, but I still feel like I can't let the "Anybody who doesn't want you to read this book wants to oppress you" remark pass by. Maybe IHBT, but I doubt that--but I don't want to oppress anyone, just save people from having to spend a lot of time reading a bad book about a flawed philosophy, by telling them to read the cliffs notes instead.
11. Get mentally, financially, and anally violated by the company lawyers and the legal system for hiding major breakthrough (that you came up with on company time) from your former employers and not giving them their cut. 12. Start drinking, drive away your friends and family, live on street, grow long beard, start smelling really bad, die of pneumonia. 13. Get Jethro Tull to write a song about you.
So I have the right to comment on this. And I have to say that some of Rand's ideas were interesting, and I doubt that I had seen them expressed like that before. So, fine, if you want to tell people what the ideas were, no problem, I don't mind. (never mind that some of her ideas were pretty well flawed and only work perfectly in some fantasy world of fiction, like, for instance, her book. but that is a discussion for another place and time...)
But the book sucked. And this has nothing to do with me wanting to repress anybody's human rights or oppress anybody. In fact, on the political compass (www.politicalcompass.org...good site) I'm on the libertarian left, so don't talk to me about wanting to eliminate human rights or oppress anybody.
Why did the book suck? Admittedly, this is somewhat subjective, but here are a few of the main things that I can remember about it (It's been a while since I've read it.) The characters are pretty much cardboard. The protagonists (the steel guy, the railroad woman, john galt, and the railroad woman's love interest whose name I've forgotten) are all perfect in every way, noble, work tirelessly, have the best food, have the best sex, never get tired, and do unquestionably what is right all the time. Their enemies (the railroad woman's brother, his set of crony friends, and pretty much the entire government, including the board of science), are all unquestionably evil, always mooching off the successes of the protagonists and trying to prevent their progress and hinder them so that their own, weak, businesses can survive. These characters are defined in black and white, where the white is more brilliant than a million suns and the black is darker than the deepest night. And this is one of the problems that I have with her philosophy, that we should let businesses do whatever they want because the businesses will always do what is good, make competitive advances only through their own sweat, science, and determination. But this will only happen in her world of fiction, and as we have seen in real life, businesses do not always do things that are ethical, legal, or right.
Moving on. The book is fucking long. Really long. Tediously long. The impossibly perfect and good characters always seem to be making page after page of passionate speeches about their wonderfulness and determination and how they are trying to succeed in the face of the opposition placed in their tracks by the impossibly evil enemies. And it's in these speeches that Rand is pretty much expounding upon her philosophy and why it's good, etc., but the fact that these speeches are so long and obnoxious just makes the book painful to read, especially if you can already tell that there are problems with the philosophy. She makes her points, and then keeps hitting the reader over the head with them again and again. The book is however many hundreds of pages long and she could have cut half of it out. Succinctness can be more effective than long-windedness.
Also, the plot is really not that exciting. It's an interesting concept, certainly, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired, a lot like MS Word.
So that, my esteemed 5-digit-uid-having slashdot poster, is why I don't like the book, and why I would tell other people not to read it. This is not to say that there is nothing good about it. Let me tell you, and everybody else here, what I think is a good message from it, so that they don't have to waste their time reading it.
Try to do the best at what you do, and hopefully you will succeed. Don't expect anybody to do you any favors or give you any handouts.
Number one, for giving credit (or assigning blame) where credit is due, and number two (and I don't know if this was intentional or not, but it amuses me anyways) this possible wording:
Your computer: put on the Fritz Chip, it goes on the fritz.
well, the user interface is a fairly well-documented standard, and there's a whole hell of a lot of legacy involved--maybe there'll be "lock-in" by use of a propriatary, uh, dongle...
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You know, I know this program doesn't exist. I know that when I try to use this program,.Net is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
sorry, all protein marginal stability and only a 166-MHz Pentium to play games on make Protein_Folder a lame-joke maker MORE STABLE LESS FUNCTION?! AAAAH!!
right here, it says that "Upgradeable firmware enables support for future audio formats." Maybe if you write them and ask them nicely they'll do that for you. But I have no idea.
I was wondering how you would fill it up--
would there be a great big fitting on the side of the phone complete with gas-cap
or would you have to drive around untill you found a gas station with the little teeny-tiny nozzles?
Slashdot Mirror
for instance on my box, I've got /Developer/Applications/Extras/BombApp.app
but don't worry, The system and other applications have not been affected.
you know about who's on the team, their past performance, and how they're likely to perform. but with a video game, a lot of times all the information you have is on the box...how do you tell if the game you're buying is the equivalent of, say, the bengals? (ok so maybe that's not so good, you do hear about the bad ones, like daikatana, maybe a better team would be the seahawks)
But that's not really why I posted this. I just wanted to badmouth cincinatti.
Would they want Soleil Moon Frye doing advertisements for it?
But it's like 4th grade crushes, so hesitant and unsure...
"Hey, Taco, I just read about Rendezvous being released open source."
"Wow, Jeff, I, uh, think I kind of like Apple."
"Woah, you *like* Apple?"
"Wait, hold on! I don't *like Apple* like apple!"
So pretty much, they're using this website and posting all these stories to get the trolls out of the woodwork to start flaming apple, as well as the people flaming for apple, and when the number of people who think Apple is cool is large enough in comparison to the number of people who hate it, they can go get the TiBook they wanted and not have to worry about not being seen as Cool.
#1 How much memory do you have? If you don't have at least 512MB you really should get it. If you're swapping virtual memory all the time it's going to run slow.
#2 What font are you using for the terminal? When I got jaguar I noticed a pretty big slowdown in the terminal's responsiveness. I had Monaco 12. installed, with anti-aliasing on. After I changed the font to VT100, anti-aliasing off, the terminal is much faster.
Obviously, sg_oneill is a closet DOS user! We're on to you Mr. cd c:\GNU\Linux!
I had no idea George Clinton was from Atlanta!
No, I did pay attention, but, as I said, it has been a while.
The flaws that you're talking about are only flaws because the heros don't realize how best to follow objectivism, because Rand isn't there to show it to them. However, they are perfectly ethical, and the only way they try to advance their businesses is by improving their product, or coming up with scientific advances to be able to spend less money making it, or by working really hard to get things done. And they're übermenschen (not that they're aryans or anything, but they only get tired to show that they've been working really hard, and they can do everything really well.)
In the real world, however, there are many people and businesses who will use unethical methods or other means to gain profits. Would an Ayn Rand hero pollute? Or cook financial books? Or use submarine patents? Or cut corners to save money and put out an inferior product? Or pawn off an inferior product as something more than it is? Or sue people criticizing their business practices? Or open three or four stores in the same area as a smaller competitor, (knowing full well that the market cannot suppport so many stores and that they will have close at least two of their own stores), for the sole purpose of driving their smaller competitor out of business?
She didn't write about these types of businesspeople, and that's one of the main flaws in Rand's philosophy. It is *not* an accurate representation of the real world. And these types of people are likely to use objectivism/extreme-laissez-faire economics as an excuse for doing what they're doing: "Hey, you can't regulate us! That goes against the free market! Never mind that we're fraudulent and we're just in business so that we can make a lot of money really quickly and retire to the bahamas. Never mind that we're abusing people's trust to try to rob them of as much money as we can." An Ayn Rand hero wouldn't do that, but Ayn Rand heros are rare. And even an Ayn Rand hero might lose their ethics if they have to do due diligence for the shareholders.
The villains in Atlas Shrugged were just whiners who couldn't compete with the übermenschen on the strengths of their product, so they lobbied to the government to pass laws that kept them in business (like the RIAA). I don't deny that people like this exist, but again, I don't think she accurately represents the real world.
I would not deny that Rand is anti-libertarian. I think in general, you should be able to do what you would like to do, as long as your actions do not harm anyone. However, I think that the rights of people should be greater than the rights of corporations. Large businesses, because of their size and resources, have the potential to great good, but they also have the potential to do great harm, and as such they should bear a greater responsibility. I doubt you'll find anyone on the Cato institute who agrees with that. Libertarians like to complain about government interference with business, but as businesses grow as large as governments (at least as measured by budgets and GNPs), their power to influence many people's lives grows accordingly. Who would you rather have influencing your life? A government elected by the people (as flawed as that may be) and accountable to the people? Or an edifice of a company answerable only to the shareholders and board of directors? I would choose government, because you can at least vote the bastards out. Government interference is not always good, but it is not always bad, either, and sometimes everyone wins. Balance is good, but nobody likes to admit that.
Anyway, and this post has gone on longer than I intended, but I still feel like I can't let the "Anybody who doesn't want you to read this book wants to oppress you" remark pass by. Maybe IHBT, but I doubt that--but I don't want to oppress anyone, just save people from having to spend a lot of time reading a bad book about a flawed philosophy, by telling them to read the cliffs notes instead.
11. Get mentally, financially, and anally violated by the company lawyers and the legal system for hiding major breakthrough (that you came up with on company time) from your former employers and not giving them their cut.
12. Start drinking, drive away your friends and family, live on street, grow long beard, start smelling really bad, die of pneumonia.
13. Get Jethro Tull to write a song about you.
So I have the right to comment on this. And I have to say that some of Rand's ideas were interesting, and I doubt that I had seen them expressed like that before. So, fine, if you want to tell people what the ideas were, no problem, I don't mind. (never mind that some of her ideas were pretty well flawed and only work perfectly in some fantasy world of fiction, like, for instance, her book. but that is a discussion for another place and time...)
...good site) I'm on the libertarian left, so don't talk to me about wanting to eliminate human rights or oppress anybody.
But the book sucked. And this has nothing to do with me wanting to repress anybody's human rights or oppress anybody. In fact, on the political compass (www.politicalcompass.org
Why did the book suck? Admittedly, this is somewhat subjective, but here are a few of the main things that I can remember about it (It's been a while since I've read it.) The characters are pretty much cardboard. The protagonists (the steel guy, the railroad woman, john galt, and the railroad woman's love interest whose name I've forgotten) are all perfect in every way, noble, work tirelessly, have the best food, have the best sex, never get tired, and do unquestionably what is right all the time. Their enemies (the railroad woman's brother, his set of crony friends, and pretty much the entire government, including the board of science), are all unquestionably evil, always mooching off the successes of the protagonists and trying to prevent their progress and hinder them so that their own, weak, businesses can survive. These characters are defined in black and white, where the white is more brilliant than a million suns and the black is darker than the deepest night. And this is one of the problems that I have with her philosophy, that we should let businesses do whatever they want because the businesses will always do what is good, make competitive advances only through their own sweat, science, and determination. But this will only happen in her world of fiction, and as we have seen in real life, businesses do not always do things that are ethical, legal, or right.
Moving on. The book is fucking long. Really long. Tediously long. The impossibly perfect and good characters always seem to be making page after page of passionate speeches about their wonderfulness and determination and how they are trying to succeed in the face of the opposition placed in their tracks by the impossibly evil enemies. And it's in these speeches that Rand is pretty much expounding upon her philosophy and why it's good, etc., but the fact that these speeches are so long and obnoxious just makes the book painful to read, especially if you can already tell that there are problems with the philosophy. She makes her points, and then keeps hitting the reader over the head with them again and again. The book is however many hundreds of pages long and she could have cut half of it out. Succinctness can be more effective than long-windedness.
Also, the plot is really not that exciting. It's an interesting concept, certainly, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired, a lot like MS Word.
So that, my esteemed 5-digit-uid-having slashdot poster, is why I don't like the book, and why I would tell other people not to read it. This is not to say that there is nothing good about it. Let me tell you, and everybody else here, what I think is a good message from it, so that they don't have to waste their time reading it.
Try to do the best at what you do, and hopefully you will succeed. Don't expect anybody to do you any favors or give you any handouts.
If there's anything besides that, let me know.
if( (day_of_week == monday || day_of_week == wednesday) ||
(day_of_week == friday || day_of_week == saturday) ){
RIAA.setEmotion(hate);
MPAA.setEmotion(love);
telcos.setEmotion(hate);
MicroSoft.setEmotion(hate);
for(int i=0; i<666; i++){
attemptSpoof("www.microsoft.com",
"www.goatse.cx");
}
} else {
RIAA.setEmotion(love);
MPAA.setEmotion(hate);
telcos.setEmotion(love);
MicroSoft.setEmotion(hate);
if(MicroSoft.getTopic() == "input_devices"){
cout << "Oh, yeah, but those are good";
Apple.mice->setEmotion(hate);
}
}
WordPerfect 5.2 forever!
Your computer: put on the Fritz Chip, it goes on the fritz.
And apparently, peter jackson has decided to do a little editorial magic and have gollum making a deal with a spider named boris...
Are they armed with Robert Plant's Ultrasonic Death Wail?
Worked well as what? Euthanasia?! You horrible, horrible person. Won't somebody please think of the elderly!?
but I'm not sure
well, the user interface is a fairly well-documented standard, and there's a whole hell of a lot of legacy involved--maybe there'll be "lock-in" by use of a propriatary, uh, dongle...
You know, I know this program doesn't exist. I know that when I try to use this program, .Net is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
sorry, all protein marginal stability and only a 166-MHz Pentium to play games on make Protein_Folder a lame-joke maker MORE STABLE LESS FUNCTION?! AAAAH!!
a 733 mhz at about 1250$.
right here, it says that "Upgradeable firmware enables support for future audio formats." Maybe if you write them and ask them nicely they'll do that for you. But I have no idea.
I was wondering how you would fill it up--
would there be a great big fitting on the side of the phone complete with gas-cap
or would you have to drive around untill you found a gas station with the little teeny-tiny nozzles?
I'm building a beowulf cluster with an infinite number of nodes for this express purpose.
insert your own lewd reference here.