There are certain criteria that have to be looked at. One of them is that no suitable alternatives exist.
There's nothing wrong with legitimately-achieved and maintained market dominance. With the kind of dominance Apple has even minor overreaches can crush upstarts, so they get looked at very hard. "Monopolization" means trying to hurt or smother competitors by gaming the system rather than competing on fashion or value.
Pointing out the problems with the GPL - or worse, pointing out that the GPL doesn't even respect the 4 freedoms listed on the home page of the FSF
Personal dishonesty like that is still being mod-squadded high on slashdot, I see. I'm sorry I visited again. Free software does not mean you are free of restrictions. Free software means the software itself is free of restrictions. You are prohibited only from distributing restricted-license versions of other people's work.
Please, before repeating Microsoft's lies for them again, get the facts.
Among other things, besides making contracts with the intent of breaking them, they withheld millions of dollars worth of incentives unless one victim broke a working product's compatibility and severed all marketing relationships with one of their partners.
Too many of the people who conceived, directed and executed Microsoft's felony are still there, still running things.
The ones already paying lower tax rates than the people who actually do the work will have money to spend on nice things no matter what.
After World War II the U.S. economy _roared_ for decades. It became the eighth wonder of the world, and it did so at a time when the top marginal tax rate was above 90%. It was above 90%.. All during that time, the top marginal tax rates were above 90%. Americans then knew that if it doesn't float all boats, it isn't a rising tide.
Ronald Reagan's tax cuts pushed this nation's economy off a four trillion dollar cliff, and his adoring beneficiaries worship him because it accelerated.
The _real_ job creators are the same as the real productive people. They're the ones who actually do the work. When they can't afford the wealth of this nation, when the only real hope of affording it is skimming the cream if not gouging the flesh off others' work and calling it "capital gains", the economy will really and truly tank, not only because the productive people can't afford it but because they'll know the fruits of their labor are going to someone else, and the American Dream is at long last truly dead.
doing so stops people from sitting on vast piles of it and keeps them spending it which keeps the economy going, which generates jobs
Shhhhhh. Do you want people to figure out who the real job creators are? Let them, just once, count up how many jobs it costs if a million fewer people have the money to spend on nice things and they'll never vote for us.
Harpoon! Now _there_ was a skill game. Plus anticipation, vigilance, knowledge, patience _and_ fast thinking, panic and triumph, caution and boldness and flat-out daring with devastation the reward for crossing over to foolhardiness, the briefings always enough to deduce a good initial plan but never enough to get you there without scouting or spot-on anticipation, always the feeling you _could_ have won and the urge to do it all again.
Hey! They're still selling it! And they added a beefed-up-realism-version! Top hit for Harpoon game. Oh, god, there goes another sixty bucks, at least I'll probably wait til summer.
... uh, wow. They also sell an ultimate, "H3 Milsim". "... It is sold on a case-by-case basis to friendly governments and their supporting vendors...."
Bungie pulled it off repeatedly. The original devs were asked how they came up with e.g. PID and Marathon and Myth and Halo and that was their answer: they wrote the games they wanted to play.
One thing I've heard repeatedly has been that the best developers are usually very good but never even close to the most skilled players -- because they design for a game they could never find the limits of.
It is, however, a fully-functional 3D Lego set the approximate size of the planet Neptune. Snipe around the edges all you want, take what I'll call cheap shots, that's what it is and I'm glad to have it. It gets my kid off the kill-everything games and he and we build stuff that has him wanting to show it off. There was nothing like it before, its value already exceeds the price I paid, and it keeps getting better. This game's in the same category as Warband and AI War, I got what I paid for and I keep coming back.
I personally want to live in a world where if someone becomes my political enemy my evil intent can simply be declared, and myself imprisoned. A world populated by Richelieu's, "Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something in them to hang him."
That FQA betrays vast ignorance about not just C++ but actual computers. His very first complaint presumes you'll just naturally not know anything at all about the language, and just naturally not bother to learn anything about it either. Seriously, I am not making this up: even in C what he's complaining about isn't a problem for anyone who cares. Spot-checking says the pattern continues. I checked half a dozen pages, and every one was well larded with ignorance and cheap shots.
Where oh where is the DA with enough integrity and gumption to charge these, uhhh, persons, with criminal fraud and perjury?
Because that's what they're committing.
The question is whether the GG bridge would have been built eventually, even without the WPA.
Sure, right. Problem then is the problem now: the rich have a large majority of the money locked up tight and aren't spending it. Poor people don't have money to spend, the middle class is shrinking, the economy stagnates because not enough people are spending enough money. Congress's mandate is not to preserve rich people's bank accounts, it's to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.
Or, as Lincoln famously said, "If General McClellan isn't going to use his army, I'd like to borrow it for a time. " There's no question the people with all that money now will get their money back, hanging on to a buck is how they got it in the first place.
I mean, really, is anyone actually so stupid as to not see the end result of everyone refusing to spend money unless they wind up with more than they started with?
It's as difficult to imagine what was going on in panel members' minds as for all the equivalent people in corporations, who at least can exasperate and demoralize and humiliate far fewer people -- and those can at least generally get their pay or their goods&services somewhere else.
Assuming I haven't done anything boneheaded (far from a pro at this), if people choose easy xkcd-style sequences like "profit higher stock price" and "oh well mother gone" it's very roughly 1.2 bits/char of entropy, 24 bits for four five-letter words. I think that's a rock-bottom estimate, but getting off that floor isn't as easy as having a better vocabulary or sprinkling a few subs.
The best compression ratio achieved on enwik8 for the Hutter prize, 100MB of wikipedia dump html tags and all, is currently 84%, 16MB, ~1.3 bits/character. zip gets to 35MB, 65% compression, 2.8b/ch. Skipping the really high-frequency words and selecting the most frequent 3000 of the rest got a payload that zip got 69% compression on, but between markup and just being an encyclopedia the payload didn't look like phrases anyone would use for a password, so I pulled the Open American National Corpus and did the same thing. The payload on that looks like things I'd expect from people resentful of having to have passwords at all, "high school also different" and "mental institution rest life" and "much attention french canada". zip gets 67% on that. Assuming the heavyweight statistical compressors can beat zip by the same margin says 1.22 bits/char. Extending the dictionary to 150_000 words only got to 1.3 bits/char. Randomizing the sequence (but keeping word frequencies), zip gets 63%, 2.64 bits, and I don't expect the high-grade ones could beat that by nearly so much.
For the oanc, I combined all the [A-Z]*.txt files (they all start w/uppercase). Anybody wants to play with it, I used this script:
What does an NYSE admin have in common with a kid getting all excited about the compiz cube? Does everyone follow a fad? As Allison said, "we won, and we didn't even notice". This article belongs in People magazine, or EW.
They have the force of law right now. If you are an ISP you must do what they say, when they say it. Congress must take them off the books the same way they take their own laws off the books. They did that here. Every FCC commissioner has, in every real sense, far greater power within his mandate than any Congressman or Senator. To get a unanimous vote in the FCC, to make or revoke a rule, a commissioner need only persuade four people. Count them: four.
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There are certain criteria that have to be looked at. One of them is that no suitable alternatives exist.
There's nothing wrong with legitimately-achieved and maintained market dominance. With the kind of dominance Apple has even minor overreaches can crush upstarts, so they get looked at very hard. "Monopolization" means trying to hurt or smother competitors by gaming the system rather than competing on fashion or value.
This may be implemented by simply providing the option to clear all Secure Boot databases
The only requirement is that the choices marked "secure" be Microsoft or nothing.
Yeah, well, this never happened to him before!
I mean, I get you, but I think when you have to start asking "what produced _this_ guy?!??" all bets are off.
Fucking awesome.
Pointing out the problems with the GPL - or worse, pointing out that the GPL doesn't even respect the 4 freedoms listed on the home page of the FSF
Personal dishonesty like that is still being mod-squadded high on slashdot, I see. I'm sorry I visited again. Free software does not mean you are free of restrictions. Free software means the software itself is free of restrictions. You are prohibited only from distributing restricted-license versions of other people's work.
The monopoly part was for pushing their browser
Please, before repeating Microsoft's lies for them again, get the facts.
Among other things, besides making contracts with the intent of breaking them, they withheld millions of dollars worth of incentives unless one victim broke a working product's compatibility and severed all marketing relationships with one of their partners.
Too many of the people who conceived, directed and executed Microsoft's felony are still there, still running things.
The ones already paying lower tax rates than the people who actually do the work will have money to spend on nice things no matter what.
After World War II the U.S. economy _roared_ for decades. It became the eighth wonder of the world, and it did so at a time when the top marginal tax rate was above 90%. It was above 90%.. All during that time, the top marginal tax rates were above 90%. Americans then knew that if it doesn't float all boats, it isn't a rising tide.
Ronald Reagan's tax cuts pushed this nation's economy off a four trillion dollar cliff, and his adoring beneficiaries worship him because it accelerated.
The _real_ job creators are the same as the real productive people. They're the ones who actually do the work. When they can't afford the wealth of this nation, when the only real hope of affording it is skimming the cream if not gouging the flesh off others' work and calling it "capital gains", the economy will really and truly tank, not only because the productive people can't afford it but because they'll know the fruits of their labor are going to someone else, and the American Dream is at long last truly dead.
doing so stops people from sitting on vast piles of it and keeps them spending it which keeps the economy going, which generates jobs
Shhhhhh. Do you want people to figure out who the real job creators are? Let them, just once, count up how many jobs it costs if a million fewer people have the money to spend on nice things and they'll never vote for us.
Get used to it. Everybody does it
Though you may not know it, what you really mean is "everybody who willingly associates with you".
Harpoon! Now _there_ was a skill game. Plus anticipation, vigilance, knowledge, patience _and_ fast thinking, panic and triumph, caution and boldness and flat-out daring with devastation the reward for crossing over to foolhardiness, the briefings always enough to deduce a good initial plan but never enough to get you there without scouting or spot-on anticipation, always the feeling you _could_ have won and the urge to do it all again.
Hey! They're still selling it! And they added a beefed-up-realism-version! Top hit for Harpoon game. Oh, god, there goes another sixty bucks, at least I'll probably wait til summer.
Bungie pulled it off repeatedly. The original devs were asked how they came up with e.g. PID and Marathon and Myth and Halo and that was their answer: they wrote the games they wanted to play.
One thing I've heard repeatedly has been that the best developers are usually very good but never even close to the most skilled players -- because they design for a game they could never find the limits of.
It is, however, a fully-functional 3D Lego set the approximate size of the planet Neptune. Snipe around the edges all you want, take what I'll call cheap shots, that's what it is and I'm glad to have it. It gets my kid off the kill-everything games and he and we build stuff that has him wanting to show it off. There was nothing like it before, its value already exceeds the price I paid, and it keeps getting better. This game's in the same category as Warband and AI War, I got what I paid for and I keep coming back.
So, it isn't the act, it's the intent?
I personally want to live in a world where if someone becomes my political enemy my evil intent can simply be declared, and myself imprisoned. A world populated by Richelieu's, "Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something in them to hang him."
any of the stuff that would be useful in getting a real job
You mean, "any of the stuff that would teach them to actually think, for themselves, beyond the confines of chosen orthodoxies", right?
NaCl's BSD-licensed . So's Dart. So's SPDY.
That's evil, and PP is *sure* Google will come up with more evil BSD-licensed projects. That argument got modded to 5 on /.
That FQA betrays vast ignorance about not just C++ but actual computers. His very first complaint presumes you'll just naturally not know anything at all about the language, and just naturally not bother to learn anything about it either. Seriously, I am not making this up: even in C what he's complaining about isn't a problem for anyone who cares. Spot-checking says the pattern continues. I checked half a dozen pages, and every one was well larded with ignorance and cheap shots.
Where oh where is the DA with enough integrity and gumption to charge these, uhhh, persons, with criminal fraud and perjury? Because that's what they're committing.
The question is whether the GG bridge would have been built eventually, even without the WPA.
Sure, right. Problem then is the problem now: the rich have a large majority of the money locked up tight and aren't spending it. Poor people don't have money to spend, the middle class is shrinking, the economy stagnates because not enough people are spending enough money. Congress's mandate is not to preserve rich people's bank accounts, it's to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.
Or, as Lincoln famously said, "If General McClellan isn't going to use his army, I'd like to borrow it for a time. " There's no question the people with all that money now will get their money back, hanging on to a buck is how they got it in the first place.
I mean, really, is anyone actually so stupid as to not see the end result of everyone refusing to spend money unless they wind up with more than they started with?
Well, how about that. AC whooshes /. I bet that never happened before.
"We are neither surprised nor delighted."
It's as difficult to imagine what was going on in panel members' minds as for all the equivalent people in corporations, who at least can exasperate and demoralize and humiliate far fewer people -- and those can at least generally get their pay or their goods&services somewhere else.
When pennies per message,
the rate charged for these things [is] beyond all measure of the actual costs,
you've given the living definition of "too cheap to meter".
Assuming I haven't done anything boneheaded (far from a pro at this), if people choose easy xkcd-style sequences like "profit higher stock price" and "oh well mother gone" it's very roughly 1.2 bits/char of entropy, 24 bits for four five-letter words. I think that's a rock-bottom estimate, but getting off that floor isn't as easy as having a better vocabulary or sprinkling a few subs.
The best compression ratio achieved on enwik8 for the Hutter prize, 100MB of wikipedia dump html tags and all, is currently 84%, 16MB, ~1.3 bits/character. zip gets to 35MB, 65% compression, 2.8b/ch. Skipping the really high-frequency words and selecting the most frequent 3000 of the rest got a payload that zip got 69% compression on, but between markup and just being an encyclopedia the payload didn't look like phrases anyone would use for a password, so I pulled the Open American National Corpus and did the same thing. The payload on that looks like things I'd expect from people resentful of having to have passwords at all, "high school also different" and "mental institution rest life" and "much attention french canada". zip gets 67% on that. Assuming the heavyweight statistical compressors can beat zip by the same margin says 1.22 bits/char. Extending the dictionary to 150_000 words only got to 1.3 bits/char. Randomizing the sequence (but keeping word frequencies), zip gets 63%, 2.64 bits, and I don't expect the high-grade ones could beat that by nearly so much.
For the oanc, I combined all the [A-Z]*.txt files (they all start w/uppercase). Anybody wants to play with it, I used this script:
What? You don't need a distro for that. dumpkeys.
What does an NYSE admin have in common with a kid getting all excited about the compiz cube? Does everyone follow a fad? As Allison said, "we won, and we didn't even notice". This article belongs in People magazine, or EW.
All right, let's try this in short words.
They aren't laws right now
They have the force of law right now. If you are an ISP you must do what they say, when they say it. Congress must take them off the books the same way they take their own laws off the books. They did that here. Every FCC commissioner has, in every real sense, far greater power within his mandate than any Congressman or Senator. To get a unanimous vote in the FCC, to make or revoke a rule, a commissioner need only persuade four people. Count them: four.