OMG! What if the cookies they served had gluten?! Or nuts? Then some people would not have eaten them!
It's not their duty to make sure everyone is satisfied. If they like strippers then watching strippers is something you have to do to work at Yahoo. But working at Yahoo, like eating free cookies, is a privilege not a right.
What if working at Yahoo required you to pretend to give a shit about tech? That's not very fair is it? How will jocks be programmers?
They get the marketshare from comparing an ideal use of their product with exaggerated examples of the competition from years ago.
As in, how easy it is to setup a mac.
"Just plug it in and you're online!*" (*If your router is configured, if you don't need to do anything non-standard, etc)
As compared to a PC where you must do all the hard work. Such a plugging it in and letting it auto-connect... The horror!
In other words, they combined the monitor and CPU, left out two cables, and claimed to have simplified computing. People who had last bought a PC in the early 90s and fought to get it online (winsock!) assume it must still be like that and figure Apple really did simplify things. (As if they invented DHCP, etc)
All Apple sells is a pretty box and the perception of ease. Really, it's the desktop equivalent of COBOL. Nice-looking, and because of all the syntactic sugar, non-scary. But in the end it's just more verbose and less powerful.
So? Is it wrong to write software to interface with other software and devices?
By this logic all MS has to do to keep evil hackers (Open Office users) from reading MS-Office documents is stick a 'Software ID' byte in the file and cry that everyone is cheating by using the only value that works (ooops, the MS company ID value, I mean.)
No, it's bullshit. You make it, I buy it, it's legal to rip apart and build something to interface with it.
Yes. This is a perfect example of Apple's asshattery.
The ideal response to someone using undocumented APIs is to let the next change of the API break their software. That would have been fine. That's just part of writing APIs - deciding not to grandfather broken use.
But Apple has to break everything now. Apparently all the time Microsoft pulled this shit really rankled and Steve Jobs has been itching to be the big dog himself.
I don't want to read driver source for fun. I want the source to exist so that people who need to integrate with it and fix it can.
As ms-vista showed, changing operating systems breaks hardware support. With open source you can get together and fix them if you need, with closed source you can't.
I really don't see how this is always painted as a weird stance when it's business-101 to buy products that can be repaired at 3rd-party facilities instead of by the manufacturer only, etc. Common sense.
Pft. MS slaps EULAs on everything even where copyright specifically states no further permission is required to use the work.
That they do something is actually closer to proof that it isn't required.
And yeah, if you buy me a copy of Windows I'll install it without regard for the EULA and proceed to violate the EULA publicly and provably. IF you can GUARANTEE that MS will sue me.
Not worth using Windows otherwise.
But they never will because their EULAs are without force. They won't risk a court case because it would be clear to everyone.
You are responsible for your army. Who else would be?
If they're out of control should we petition you to change their behavior (something you'd have been doing if you cared) or just bomb you to remove their tax base?
Google made a cool search engine, Amazon made an e-store. With Google's free products I can do neat things. With Amazon's free... well, they don't have any.
So yeah, all their profit goes to the owners and as I'm not one there's no motivation to use them or hope for their success.
No, profits aren't evil, but an excessive focus on money will blind you to supporting the community and providing products people like. And that's not evil, just stupid. What's Amazon ever done for me?
I'll be checking out Google's offering while they think of something.
powerless to stop them (sound like any country you can think of these days?)
Nope. Not at all.
You mean, powerless to stop it without any risk to themselves, without taking time out of their day, without having to learn about the issues involved.
So yeah, if saying "I didn't want this" while paying your taxes is the best you can do, maybe you should suck nuke... If you want to avoid it, control your military - use a gun locally to avoid sending a soldier overseas needlessly.
People keep talking about free(hah) drinks like it's a good thing. Not only do they bring you drinks to make you stupid, but the drinks cost them very little and they only give them to people who are wasting a lot of money.
But I understand that other people do, and they'e not necessarily stupid for thinking what they do.
No, just for acting on it.
It's like saying that because alcoholics do honestly enjoy much of their drinking that it becomes a valid social activity and shouldn't be questioned.
Yes, pretty girls are still pretty in a casino, and drinks taste good, but that's not a good reason to throw money away hoping for a big win, nor does some enjoyment during the process make it an efficient use of resources.
It's the difference between saying "I went gambling and had fun" and "For fun, I go gambling". People who say the latter are stupid(/addicted), even if they truthfully can say the former.
There's a lot wrong with gambling for fun. The biggest is that it trains you to be passive and accept what you're given. The fastest way to get anything is sit here and pull on the lever until it drops from the sky.
It's also bad because it keeps you from developing any ways to have fun that don't involve gambling. A gambler is pretty much the last person to be able to entertain themselves.
That said, go ahead and gamble. Not only are there exceptions, but you should be free to use heroin if you want.
That's it though, while it's your choice and there are voluntary heroin users out there, the vast majority are not having fun. Casinos, like pushers, use the 1% of non-sufferers to pretend they aren't destroying the lives of the other 99%.
But they're lying. If they really considered pushing a button and watching flashing lights to be fun they'd buy infant toys - they also make annoying sounds!
About the only thing left is gambling addiction...
Because that's bullshit. If the game in question was a fun one then perhaps betting some money on it might not suck. But if the game is pulling a lever and watching it multiply(/divide) your money it's obviously not being played for the sake of the game itself.
And in a real game, big winners make out big. In a casino if you show skill and luck they'll show you the door.
So no. Nobody without a gambling addiction will believe you.
It's not just working in the gambling industry that's a black mark...
That's precisely what I mean... An article full of words like Zionist, Enemy, etc. Yeah, that's helpful and unbiased.
How was I mistaken about water issues in the area? Or are you mentioned in it as a prominent spokesman for peace? Why don't you tell me what I should look for in the article instead of playing the "You're misinformed, here, read these unrelated links!" card? Perhaps because there's nothing I'm missing? Huh?
I'm trying to make a simple point - that it's reasonable for the young people in these struggles to not care about the past.
If the jews of tomorrow hate the muslims of tomorrow it's not going to be because of some shit that happened years ago, it's going to be because of the ongoing intolerance right now and the games people like you play to avoid having to acknowledge it.
The USA is using treaties to demand more Canadian water (as if rivers belong only to the people at the headwater...) and similar fears are had. "The Zionist(American) individual who occupies our land(drinks our water) consumes 15 times more water than the Arab(Canadian) individual."
I love the comments on "our land" though, as if their forefathers didn't kill/displace someone else to get it. Like you, they're absolutely blind to all but select pieces of the past.
That's news to all the well-meaning people on both sides working for peace.
But that's not your goal is it? You seem far more interested in a chance to blame jews for the entire situation than actually examining the current events which keep it going.
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OMG! What if the cookies they served had gluten?! Or nuts? Then some people would not have eaten them!
It's not their duty to make sure everyone is satisfied. If they like strippers then watching strippers is something you have to do to work at Yahoo. But working at Yahoo, like eating free cookies, is a privilege not a right.
What if working at Yahoo required you to pretend to give a shit about tech? That's not very fair is it? How will jocks be programmers?
They get the marketshare from comparing an ideal use of their product with exaggerated examples of the competition from years ago.
As in, how easy it is to setup a mac.
"Just plug it in and you're online!*"
(*If your router is configured, if you don't need to do anything non-standard, etc)
As compared to a PC where you must do all the hard work. Such a plugging it in and letting it auto-connect... The horror!
In other words, they combined the monitor and CPU, left out two cables, and claimed to have simplified computing. People who had last bought a PC in the early 90s and fought to get it online (winsock!) assume it must still be like that and figure Apple really did simplify things. (As if they invented DHCP, etc)
All Apple sells is a pretty box and the perception of ease. Really, it's the desktop equivalent of COBOL. Nice-looking, and because of all the syntactic sugar, non-scary. But in the end it's just more verbose and less powerful.
So? Is it wrong to write software to interface with other software and devices?
By this logic all MS has to do to keep evil hackers (Open Office users) from reading MS-Office documents is stick a 'Software ID' byte in the file and cry that everyone is cheating by using the only value that works (ooops, the MS company ID value, I mean.)
No, it's bullshit. You make it, I buy it, it's legal to rip apart and build something to interface with it.
Yes. This is a perfect example of Apple's asshattery.
The ideal response to someone using undocumented APIs is to let the next change of the API break their software. That would have been fine. That's just part of writing APIs - deciding not to grandfather broken use.
But Apple has to break everything now. Apparently all the time Microsoft pulled this shit really rankled and Steve Jobs has been itching to be the big dog himself.
Stallman just wanted his printer to work.
I don't want to read driver source for fun. I want the source to exist so that people who need to integrate with it and fix it can.
As ms-vista showed, changing operating systems breaks hardware support. With open source you can get together and fix them if you need, with closed source you can't.
I really don't see how this is always painted as a weird stance when it's business-101 to buy products that can be repaired at 3rd-party facilities instead of by the manufacturer only, etc. Common sense.
I you vote to restrict your neighbors doing something harmless, I'm not sure they shouldn't get to burn your house down...
Why is telling people who they can "marry" your right? Should I tell you that you can't watch TV simply because I find it mind-numbing?
Vote *only* on things that directly impact you.
No more than the other corner dairy. But if there was one that had I'd be their customer...
You'd do better at pretending to be stupid if it was really an act.
I'll explain your mistakes in full, but I'll do them to someone who isn't such an ass about it. You can die ignorant for all I care.
Are you dense? Because the GPL is used counter to the aims of traditional proprietary copyright users.
Pft. MS slaps EULAs on everything even where copyright specifically states no further permission is required to use the work.
That they do something is actually closer to proof that it isn't required.
And yeah, if you buy me a copy of Windows I'll install it without regard for the EULA and proceed to violate the EULA publicly and provably. IF you can GUARANTEE that MS will sue me.
Not worth using Windows otherwise.
But they never will because their EULAs are without force. They won't risk a court case because it would be clear to everyone.
Threats to rape someone are illegal, as is planning it, regardless of the medium. If that had happened they'd have used existing laws...
And that would already be illegal. So the new law, what currently acceptable behavior does it limit?
What you said makes no sense.
You are responsible for your army. Who else would be?
If they're out of control should we petition you to change their behavior (something you'd have been doing if you cared) or just bomb you to remove their tax base?
What in that recommends them to me?
Google made a cool search engine, Amazon made an e-store. With Google's free products I can do neat things. With Amazon's free... well, they don't have any.
So yeah, all their profit goes to the owners and as I'm not one there's no motivation to use them or hope for their success.
No, profits aren't evil, but an excessive focus on money will blind you to supporting the community and providing products people like. And that's not evil, just stupid. What's Amazon ever done for me?
I'll be checking out Google's offering while they think of something.
powerless to stop them (sound like any country you can think of these days?)
Nope. Not at all.
You mean, powerless to stop it without any risk to themselves, without taking time out of their day, without having to learn about the issues involved.
So yeah, if saying "I didn't want this" while paying your taxes is the best you can do, maybe you should suck nuke... If you want to avoid it, control your military - use a gun locally to avoid sending a soldier overseas needlessly.
Idiot. Civilians are the financial branch of the armed forces. If you want to avoid dying in place of your soldiers perhaps you should control them...
People keep talking about free(hah) drinks like it's a good thing. Not only do they bring you drinks to make you stupid, but the drinks cost them very little and they only give them to people who are wasting a lot of money.
But I understand that other people do, and they'e not necessarily stupid for thinking what they do.
No, just for acting on it.
It's like saying that because alcoholics do honestly enjoy much of their drinking that it becomes a valid social activity and shouldn't be questioned.
Yes, pretty girls are still pretty in a casino, and drinks taste good, but that's not a good reason to throw money away hoping for a big win, nor does some enjoyment during the process make it an efficient use of resources.
It's the difference between saying "I went gambling and had fun" and "For fun, I go gambling". People who say the latter are stupid(/addicted), even if they truthfully can say the former.
There's a lot wrong with gambling for fun. The biggest is that it trains you to be passive and accept what you're given. The fastest way to get anything is sit here and pull on the lever until it drops from the sky.
It's also bad because it keeps you from developing any ways to have fun that don't involve gambling. A gambler is pretty much the last person to be able to entertain themselves.
That said, go ahead and gamble. Not only are there exceptions, but you should be free to use heroin if you want.
That's it though, while it's your choice and there are voluntary heroin users out there, the vast majority are not having fun. Casinos, like pushers, use the 1% of non-sufferers to pretend they aren't destroying the lives of the other 99%.
Upset? Well I wasn't crying about it...
But they're lying. If they really considered pushing a button and watching flashing lights to be fun they'd buy infant toys - they also make annoying sounds!
About the only thing left is gambling addiction...
Because that's bullshit. If the game in question was a fun one then perhaps betting some money on it might not suck. But if the game is pulling a lever and watching it multiply(/divide) your money it's obviously not being played for the sake of the game itself.
And in a real game, big winners make out big. In a casino if you show skill and luck they'll show you the door.
So no. Nobody without a gambling addiction will believe you.
It's not just working in the gambling industry that's a black mark...
True prophets
Idiot.
Eyebrows? Ear hair?
Report her to her ISP. That's one. Two more and we'll be rid of her!
That's precisely what I mean... An article full of words like Zionist, Enemy, etc. Yeah, that's helpful and unbiased.
How was I mistaken about water issues in the area? Or are you mentioned in it as a prominent spokesman for peace? Why don't you tell me what I should look for in the article instead of playing the "You're misinformed, here, read these unrelated links!" card? Perhaps because there's nothing I'm missing? Huh?
I'm trying to make a simple point - that it's reasonable for the young people in these struggles to not care about the past.
If the jews of tomorrow hate the muslims of tomorrow it's not going to be because of some shit that happened years ago, it's going to be because of the ongoing intolerance right now and the games people like you play to avoid having to acknowledge it.
The USA is using treaties to demand more Canadian water (as if rivers belong only to the people at the headwater...) and similar fears are had. "The Zionist(American) individual who occupies our land(drinks our water) consumes 15 times more water than the Arab(Canadian) individual."
I love the comments on "our land" though, as if their forefathers didn't kill/displace someone else to get it. Like you, they're absolutely blind to all but select pieces of the past.
That's news to all the well-meaning people on both sides working for peace.
But that's not your goal is it? You seem far more interested in a chance to blame jews for the entire situation than actually examining the current events which keep it going.