Then perhaps my definition of capitalism is wrong - I can accept that.
Probably not. Capitalism is about, and is only about, the private ownership of property. Any definition beyond that is a projection of someone's radical ideology.
By what right does money have to move more freely than people?
Any libertarian who supports outsourcing is a mealy-mouthed hypocrite who refuses to recognize that it is an exploitation of borders created by governments, and as an artificial condition, a failure of the free market.
It is a violation of "artistic moral rights" to select specific posts and re-present them according to an agenda that was not part of the original posters' vision.
As your attorney in this matter, I recommend that you all sue.
We need is a catastrophic nuclear war to cull the weak and overpopulated nations, and leave those left at a bronze age level of technological sophistication.
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Redefining the meanings of words? These are meanings of "witch" in America -
broom-riding hag with magical powers who eats children ordinary women murdered by Christians hundreds of years ago fat chicks who aren't slutty enough for goth
The irony is that a cop is a bigger threat to our safety than any self-ascribed "witch".
Your management team bought houses they couldn't immediately afford (in a small town where the median income is less than $40k!) by borrowing money from the company while operating at a loss and you blame Sarbanes-Oxley for your failure?
Which is exactly why government secrecy is so dangerous. The lack of oversight breeds corruption. There is no difference in the bureaucrat and the petty criminal in this regard, because human nature is universal.
Of course, you won't hear those big brother loving law-n-order types say that.
Mod points and a contrarian karma whore... *sigh* I hate giving the benefit of doubt.
Your appeal is misdirection. The entire point of the article is that the company is engaging in a pattern that should invite scrutiny. Microsoft and Apple's primary focus is to create products which they sell. They invest in research to give them a competitive advange, to increase the value of their products, and to acquire patents which would lock out smaller competitors. An idea farm such is this exists solely to exploit the patent system, for good or ill, but with the system rigged the way it is now, which would not have happend if powerful interests didn't want it that way, the propensity for ill is far greater than that of good.
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Yes, because OpenGL is a standard API. What made it work with 3DFX was actually something of a hack, since it used an implementation of only the functions used by Quake, written specifically for the Voodoo cards. The first releases of glquake may have only worked with the so called "miniport", but I had no problem running it with the original GeForce card when that came out.
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DM3. Best. Map. EVAR!
Re:I can still remember Quake 1 being released
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Been there, done that. Hey, I was a poor college student!
Coincidently, I still have the soundtrack on my mp3 player. Which, interestingly enough, has more horsepower than the machine I bought to play Quake (with a student loan, I might add).
I was playing qtest1 for weeks before the official release. My first real-world program was a utility that queried servers for the people playing on them. God, I miss that game.
Congratulations, you read Guns, Germs, and Steel. And it has very little to do with what I said.
Did I state anywhere that science asserts the non-existence of God? I said science contradicts the claims made by religion, descriptions of the natural world which have been demonstrated to be false. I mention the Warcraft mythology is to illustrate that religion is as equally incapable of making any claim about the existence of anything outside the observable universe. Get off your little high-horse, you are the one projecting assumptions on other people.
The entire point is that Occam's Razor never, ever reduces to "God did it". To establish that something has been changed by forces outside the universe, you must demonstrate that it violates the rules that govern the universe. So the greater your ignorance about those rules, the more untenable your "supernatural" explanation is. It would require mathematical rigor, because if you are to find "God in the gaps", you'd need a theory of everything that encompases everything up to life, and everything after life, with a well-defined discontinuity in between.
Actually, morality can be measured my measuring the success of the cultures with the moral precepts you are interested in. Morality is after all nothing more than game theory.
It is the Christians asserting things that are unprovable, not the other way around. Science can and does contradict their claims. And as far is Blizzard is concerned, who made the Titans? How do we know the Christian God isn't a fiction invented by the *real* creator?
I don't understand why the religious nuts aren't the most ardent aderhents of the scientific method. It's like I told a fundie repeating what he read out of Behe's book - if you can explain and demonstrate the entire process of cell division, embryonic development, and microevolution, and point out and establish proof for the discontinutity preventing macroevolution which can only be explained by "magic goes here", then yes, I will believe it's impossible for a random process. Otherwise you're calling your own ignorance a form of knowledge.
The problem is that these games are a contest to see whose time is the least valuable. And they will never change because it is more profitable for them to give you phat lootz to chase after, whether it takes months of a grinding a dungeon, or months of farming for faction points, or months of farming for gold, all the while paying a subscription fee, than it is to actually give you a compelling story and play experience that evolves over time.
I mean, why do you think they keep introducing these reputation grinds and world events? It is to provide sinks for the virtual economy, and to keep you from letting your account go inactive between major patches.
We have gold farmers because their time is worth even less than that of the unemployed nerd in his mother's basement.
The US waged a war of conquest and genocide against the indigenous peoples of this continent. It enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans, and left them to fend for themselves after they were freed. It has undermined or destroyed the indepedence movements of dozens of colonial possessions, both our own and those we "liberated" from other powers, and has supported rutheless dictators throughout the world because we prefer their methods to the philosphies of their opposition.
Now, tell me, at what point did we learn better? Exactly when in history did we become the good guys? You haven't refuted that commenter, only illustrated the American supremacy in self-deception.
> People with real world business experience going up against young idealists. Guess what? Business always wins. Always has, always will.
Except when they don't. Don't confuse the aggregate power of the profit motive as evidence for the competence of individuals.
In this case, it is the business people who are living in a fantasy land, and the "idealists" are the ones thwacking them with the cold cruel club of reality.
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Then perhaps my definition of capitalism is wrong - I can accept that.
Probably not. Capitalism is about, and is only about, the private ownership of property. Any definition beyond that is a projection of someone's radical ideology.
Really? Think the average person doesn't understand what bunk roaming charges are?
Scientific discoveries are not technology. For example, penicillin wasn't mass produced until the 1940s.
Name a significant technological advancement that wasn't predicted at least five years before it was actually invented or feasible.
Go ahead. I'm sure there are some, but focusing on absurd cases where "futurists" are wrong doesn't invalidate the endeavour.
You fundamentalists stand for the submission to illegimate authority. America stands for do as I say, not as I do.
Only when they refer to them as the "son of a fleshorist Monrobot".
I certainly hope this doesn't divert resources away from research into giant humanoid robots.
By what right does money have to move more freely than people?
Any libertarian who supports outsourcing is a mealy-mouthed hypocrite who refuses to recognize that it is an exploitation of borders created by governments, and as an artificial condition, a failure of the free market.
It is a violation of "artistic moral rights" to select specific posts and re-present them according to an agenda that was not part of the original posters' vision.
As your attorney in this matter, I recommend that you all sue.
We need is a catastrophic nuclear war to cull the weak and overpopulated nations, and leave those left at a bronze age level of technological sophistication.
Redefining the meanings of words? These are meanings of "witch" in America -
broom-riding hag with magical powers who eats children
ordinary women murdered by Christians hundreds of years ago
fat chicks who aren't slutty enough for goth
The irony is that a cop is a bigger threat to our safety than any self-ascribed "witch".
Your management team bought houses they couldn't immediately afford (in a small town where the median income is less than $40k!) by borrowing money from the company while operating at a loss and you blame Sarbanes-Oxley for your failure?
But.. but... the Democrats took our jarbs!
For a government to get involved in telling a private company what it can sell and what it can not is socialism not free market capitalism.
You misspelled "regulation". The French government is not selling music or music players.
Every Free Stater that moves in has more influence than 10,000 voter-sheep.
Why do I get this "chess club making fun of the homecoming court" kind of vibe from you guys?
Which is exactly why government secrecy is so dangerous. The lack of oversight breeds corruption. There is no difference in the bureaucrat and the petty criminal in this regard, because human nature is universal.
Of course, you won't hear those big brother loving law-n-order types say that.
Mod points and a contrarian karma whore... *sigh* I hate giving the benefit of doubt.
Your appeal is misdirection. The entire point of the article is that the company is engaging in a pattern that should invite scrutiny. Microsoft and Apple's primary focus is to create products which they sell. They invest in research to give them a competitive advange, to increase the value of their products, and to acquire patents which would lock out smaller competitors. An idea farm such is this exists solely to exploit the patent system, for good or ill, but with the system rigged the way it is now, which would not have happend if powerful interests didn't want it that way, the propensity for ill is far greater than that of good.
Yes, because OpenGL is a standard API. What made it work with 3DFX was actually something of a hack, since it used an implementation of only the functions used by Quake, written specifically for the Voodoo cards. The first releases of glquake may have only worked with the so called "miniport", but I had no problem running it with the original GeForce card when that came out.
DM3. Best. Map. EVAR!
Been there, done that. Hey, I was a poor college student!
Coincidently, I still have the soundtrack on my mp3 player. Which, interestingly enough, has more horsepower than the machine I bought to play Quake (with a student loan, I might add).
I was playing qtest1 for weeks before the official release. My first real-world program was a utility that queried servers for the people playing on them. God, I miss that game.
Congratulations, you read Guns, Germs, and Steel. And it has very little to do with what I said.
Did I state anywhere that science asserts the non-existence of God? I said science contradicts the claims made by religion, descriptions of the natural world which have been demonstrated to be false. I mention the Warcraft mythology is to illustrate that religion is as equally incapable of making any claim about the existence of anything outside the observable universe. Get off your little high-horse, you are the one projecting assumptions on other people.
The entire point is that Occam's Razor never, ever reduces to "God did it". To establish that something has been changed by forces outside the universe, you must demonstrate that it violates the rules that govern the universe. So the greater your ignorance about those rules, the more untenable your "supernatural" explanation is. It would require mathematical rigor, because if you are to find "God in the gaps", you'd need a theory of everything that encompases everything up to life, and everything after life, with a well-defined discontinuity in between.
Actually, morality can be measured my measuring the success of the cultures with the moral precepts you are interested in. Morality is after all nothing more than game theory.
It is the Christians asserting things that are unprovable, not the other way around. Science can and does contradict their claims. And as far is Blizzard is concerned, who made the Titans? How do we know the Christian God isn't a fiction invented by the *real* creator?
I don't understand why the religious nuts aren't the most ardent aderhents of the scientific method. It's like I told a fundie repeating what he read out of Behe's book - if you can explain and demonstrate the entire process of cell division, embryonic development, and microevolution, and point out and establish proof for the discontinutity preventing macroevolution which can only be explained by "magic goes here", then yes, I will believe it's impossible for a random process. Otherwise you're calling your own ignorance a form of knowledge.
Keynesian monetary policy didn't drown America, turning our backs on God did.
The problem is that these games are a contest to see whose time is the least valuable. And they will never change because it is more profitable for them to give you phat lootz to chase after, whether it takes months of a grinding a dungeon, or months of farming for faction points, or months of farming for gold, all the while paying a subscription fee, than it is to actually give you a compelling story and play experience that evolves over time.
I mean, why do you think they keep introducing these reputation grinds and world events? It is to provide sinks for the virtual economy, and to keep you from letting your account go inactive between major patches.
We have gold farmers because their time is worth even less than that of the unemployed nerd in his mother's basement.
The US waged a war of conquest and genocide against the indigenous peoples of this continent. It enslaved hundreds of thousands of Africans, and left them to fend for themselves after they were freed. It has undermined or destroyed the indepedence movements of dozens of colonial possessions, both our own and those we "liberated" from other powers, and has supported rutheless dictators throughout the world because we prefer their methods to the philosphies of their opposition.
Now, tell me, at what point did we learn better? Exactly when in history did we become the good guys? You haven't refuted that commenter, only illustrated the American supremacy in self-deception.
> People with real world business experience going up against young idealists. Guess what? Business always wins. Always has, always will.
Except when they don't. Don't confuse the aggregate power of the profit motive as evidence for the competence of individuals.
In this case, it is the business people who are living in a fantasy land, and the "idealists" are the ones thwacking them with the cold cruel club of reality.