I'm confused by this.
I agree that the way they're enforcing, and the extent that they're enforcing IP claims in horrible.
I don't agree, and strongly so, that the price of a CD has anything to do with my rights to steal it. It doesn't matter if they asked $1M USD per disc - that doesn't legitimize your theft.
Sadly, I don't expect this will end anywhere good. I expect RIAA enforcement to suddenly extend to 'all computer equipment on the premise' and more draconian identifying methods by ISPs.
Even as a part-time windows user, installing a plug-in that's only going to work while I'm booted into this partition to view a single map doesn't seem appealing to me.
It's hard to tell if this piece has any real content due to the barrage of [uncited] opinions; Otellini's blame of American market decline squarely on how many people graduate in a certain field, Wadhwa's push that it's a shortage of applied engineers rather than engineers period, and McGruber's notion that Wadhwa failed in making a valid comparison between the US and China. Wonderful.
(Personally, I think that pushing for too many Engi's will make the team weak to a Demo / Uber-Push and won't be sustainable. Better to have a heavy/medic team hold over the dispenser and have more modular support. )
It was actually all the the Unity Menu's settings; so it wasn't a client issue, but some crap work that Canonical did. Obviously non-GUI system won't have GUI errors, but that's not saying anything - is it?
iPad jokes just fall flat when you're trying to wing it. Comedy doesn't just fall out of the sky you know. It takes planning, timing, and skill to land a good joke.
There are quirks to all systems that are not necessarily 'garbage.' The \ vs / argument is just that. Yes, the jargon is non-standard. It's not objectively better or worse, and you dislike it - one assumes - only because you're not used to it.
One could point to annoying *nix quirks and make the same arguments. For example, mounting external USB drives as executable and the inherent headaches that come from that. I don't blame *nix for that because it's a meta-flaw in the executable bit architecture and the variance in External USB drives.
If the same argument can be made against all operating systems, it's more PEBKAC than anything else. Point-in-case: GNOME and the Unity Menu.
A bit old to reply to this, I hope it's not in terribly bad taste. Does the recently revelation that Apple forged it's evidence against Samsung in the German courts change your stance at all here?
Thinking back to OS tests from this specific HP touchpad, iirc, the constraining factor was the hardware. While I'm glad that people will have a developer community in conjunction with this sell-off, porting Android to something with an arguably bad hardware configuration isn't going to solve it.
I think you're coming at this from a very Western Lens. (Well, I assume.)
Israel's approach to security isn't as generalized as to find taking pictures [as an isolated action] suspicious, and with the healthy tourism it wouldn't really be effective anyway. They employ more direct security strategies (profiling, fast-reaction, military presence, road-blocks in hot areas, etc) as a deterrent and response. The Hamas MO also doesn't seem to attack landmarks/buildings either; Rocket barrages, directly attacking bus-lines, and kidnapping soldiers on patrol don't require much in the way of intel pictures.
There's a huge difference between calling an OS dead, and calling it successful. I wouldn't jump between such boolean values. I was just saying, this is a smart move, and it seems to have some traction with the dev community.
I could have phrased my reply better, let me try: Judging the future of an OS based on market share [alone] is only looking at one variable, and doesn't give you very good data to work with. I think we should wait an see how this move to draw more developers turns out, because I don't think we can call it just yet. I hope that makes more sense.
If you consider marketshare to be a measure of success for a platform then I have some bad news for you about Apple's standing.
There is clearly more to a standing than marketshare, and this is a decently timed move by M$ to grab developers. They're receiving replies, so some developers seem to be listening. I think that contradicts your blanket statement there.
I'm somewhat torn between two viewpoints; help me out here.
Side 1: The immunity provided in precedent by this ruling applies to all teachers, all subjects, and all opinions. This implies that Texas schools, where classes are taught both the popular scientific opinion and the popular Judeo-Christian origin myth, are protected - and to revel in this court ruling while speaking out against the inclusion of religious mythos would be contradictory. (i.e. "It's good when courts protect my opinion, but screw other opinions.")
Side 2: The scientific method doesn't provide things 'as is' in any case. It is a method of observation, and the data can be - and is - used to argue differing opinions. (Not to mention arguments about observational accuracy, testing method bias, differing results, etc.) This separates the origin myths from the current scientific opinion categorically, and the same protections don't apply to both. (i.e. "I observed/tested/proved this, it doesn't go in the same box as your faith.")
The argument just keeps going back and forth in my head. I could use some input.
Reading the 'context' for Ms. Sherrod hardly changed the content; it just added spin. Referring to her as 'innocent' is a mistake in my book - the racial bias shows itself even in her explaining of the context of the original comments. Attention to racist comments when they don't originate from the white/male demographic are largely ignored.
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I'm confused by this. I agree that the way they're enforcing, and the extent that they're enforcing IP claims in horrible. I don't agree, and strongly so, that the price of a CD has anything to do with my rights to steal it. It doesn't matter if they asked $1M USD per disc - that doesn't legitimize your theft.
Sadly, I don't expect this will end anywhere good. I expect RIAA enforcement to suddenly extend to 'all computer equipment on the premise' and more draconian identifying methods by ISPs.
Even as a part-time windows user, installing a plug-in that's only going to work while I'm booted into this partition to view a single map doesn't seem appealing to me.
Replication is actually a side effect of dispenser misuse or neglect. It was part of the human kernel.
It's hard to tell if this piece has any real content due to the barrage of [uncited] opinions; Otellini's blame of American market decline squarely on how many people graduate in a certain field, Wadhwa's push that it's a shortage of applied engineers rather than engineers period, and McGruber's notion that Wadhwa failed in making a valid comparison between the US and China. Wonderful.
(Personally, I think that pushing for too many Engi's will make the team weak to a Demo / Uber-Push and won't be sustainable. Better to have a heavy/medic team hold over the dispenser and have more modular support. )
It was actually all the the Unity Menu's settings; so it wasn't a client issue, but some crap work that Canonical did. Obviously non-GUI system won't have GUI errors, but that's not saying anything - is it?
iPad jokes just fall flat when you're trying to wing it. Comedy doesn't just fall out of the sky you know. It takes planning, timing, and skill to land a good joke.
The same issue persists for settings in any OS during a crash. Had a *buntu box do it to me yesterday.
There are quirks to all systems that are not necessarily 'garbage.' The \ vs / argument is just that. Yes, the jargon is non-standard. It's not objectively better or worse, and you dislike it - one assumes - only because you're not used to it.
One could point to annoying *nix quirks and make the same arguments. For example, mounting external USB drives as executable and the inherent headaches that come from that. I don't blame *nix for that because it's a meta-flaw in the executable bit architecture and the variance in External USB drives.
If the same argument can be made against all operating systems, it's more PEBKAC than anything else. Point-in-case: GNOME and the Unity Menu.
Well... Clearly there's a demand. I hope you enjoy it. I'm still just as puzzled, but thanks for the replies.
You can't break through my Iron-Warr defenses.
What? Why? What am I missing? I don't even... Who would even want this?
Great read! I'll retract based on that article - best luck to the Android port team!
Bravo, sir.
A bit old to reply to this, I hope it's not in terribly bad taste. Does the recently revelation that Apple forged it's evidence against Samsung in the German courts change your stance at all here?
Thinking back to OS tests from this specific HP touchpad, iirc, the constraining factor was the hardware. While I'm glad that people will have a developer community in conjunction with this sell-off, porting Android to something with an arguably bad hardware configuration isn't going to solve it.
Ok? As far as daily life goes, the two countries are very close. Israel feels like a more... rude NYC.
I think you're coming at this from a very Western Lens. (Well, I assume.)
Israel's approach to security isn't as generalized as to find taking pictures [as an isolated action] suspicious, and with the healthy tourism it wouldn't really be effective anyway. They employ more direct security strategies (profiling, fast-reaction, military presence, road-blocks in hot areas, etc) as a deterrent and response. The Hamas MO also doesn't seem to attack landmarks/buildings either; Rocket barrages, directly attacking bus-lines, and kidnapping soldiers on patrol don't require much in the way of intel pictures.
Why is that? I'd assume that without security risk it would get the go-ahead. We're not talking about China/North Korea.
There's a huge difference between calling an OS dead, and calling it successful. I wouldn't jump between such boolean values. I was just saying, this is a smart move, and it seems to have some traction with the dev community.
I could have phrased my reply better, let me try: Judging the future of an OS based on market share [alone] is only looking at one variable, and doesn't give you very good data to work with. I think we should wait an see how this move to draw more developers turns out, because I don't think we can call it just yet. I hope that makes more sense.
There is clearly more to a standing than marketshare, and this is a decently timed move by M$ to grab developers. They're receiving replies, so some developers seem to be listening. I think that contradicts your blanket statement there.
Clearly, all of those google results are school-teachers executed for bad mouthing Jesus. OH WAIT!
How is that not trolling? Obviously they don't shoot people.
I'm somewhat torn between two viewpoints; help me out here. Side 1: The immunity provided in precedent by this ruling applies to all teachers, all subjects, and all opinions. This implies that Texas schools, where classes are taught both the popular scientific opinion and the popular Judeo-Christian origin myth, are protected - and to revel in this court ruling while speaking out against the inclusion of religious mythos would be contradictory. (i.e. "It's good when courts protect my opinion, but screw other opinions.") Side 2: The scientific method doesn't provide things 'as is' in any case. It is a method of observation, and the data can be - and is - used to argue differing opinions. (Not to mention arguments about observational accuracy, testing method bias, differing results, etc.) This separates the origin myths from the current scientific opinion categorically, and the same protections don't apply to both. (i.e. "I observed/tested/proved this, it doesn't go in the same box as your faith.") The argument just keeps going back and forth in my head. I could use some input.
Reading the 'context' for Ms. Sherrod hardly changed the content; it just added spin. Referring to her as 'innocent' is a mistake in my book - the racial bias shows itself even in her explaining of the context of the original comments. Attention to racist comments when they don't originate from the white/male demographic are largely ignored.
(e.g. Al Sharpton [wikipedia.org], Ray Nagin [wikipedia.org], Joseph Lowery [clipsandcomment.com])
This is just another one of those cases. It's not racist because a white man didn't say it.