You'll know when your people are ready for statistics. . . don't even bother trying until state-run lotteries go broke for lack of players.
A statistics professor was being interviewed by a local radio station on probabilities of winning the lottery. He came up with a bunch of statistics on how unlikely it was for anyone to win, and was very convincing that it was a waste of time.
At the end of the interview, the host asked him if he ever bought a ticket. His response: "every week."
Not everyone who plays the lottery is ignorant of statistics and mathematics. Some people gamble because it's fun.
In your Toyota example, you are forgetting that in order to support Toyota, you have increased development costs and time in order to support a very, very small percentage of users
Sorry, but what!??!!?!
Are you seriously trying to tell me that when I go shopping for groceries, that the business owner has any extra work to do to "support" the brand of vehicle I drive up in?
What color is the sky in your world?
If I'm working on a project with a limited budget and you were going to tell me that enabling support for Opera was going to add even 5% to my total costs, I'd cut it in a heartbea
Then you are the exact type of person that should not be building websites. See, the whole thing is code to fucking standards, and then you don't have "enable support" for anything.
since they are insignificant in the browser market I'd probably do the same thing.
Then you're a fucking moron.
If you were running a store with a physical presence, would you also ban customers who drove Toyotas, telling them "Toyota is insignificant, and therefore you are not allowed to shop at my store. Come back when you have a Ford or GM"?
Free speech for absolutely everything would mean free speech for planning and advocating genocide and murder.
Theres nothing wrong with that though. Now, if you actually -do- any of those things, yes it is wrong.
And what about if you talk about it and someone else does it? Do you get a free pass because you can say "hey, I didn't do anything, I helped plan it, but I wasn't there when it happened, so I'm clear"?
M$ can claim that their windeuce servers can virtualize Red Hat very effectively, so that if a buyer were considering a Linux server, M$ can claim it works well on their systems.
Only if RedHat ships this driver with their kernel, which isn't guaranteed. There are a lot of in-tree kernel modules that RH doesn't ship or support (various FS drivers, for example.)
Just because it's in the kernel mainline tree is no guarantee of RedHat (or any other distro) shipping with it.
I'm not sure what this has to do with the website.
Umm - because that's where it starts from?
I know they read it on a forum, but if it was a weekly flyer or local bar the cops were getting their material from and bringing that to work in the form of racist jokes and comments wouldn't they still be suing work because co-workers had created a hostile work environment?
And they are suing work. You know, because management is aware of it, and is allowing it to perpetuate.
I don't see how they can enforce the website being taken down
Private ownership is private and government ownership is government. Sounds like a simple case of plantiffs going after the deepest pockets and those most easily controlled through political and media manipulation.
And what happens when government employees bring "private ownership" to work in a racist attitude?
Oh yeah, you don't want to address the actual issue here, just quote one small piece and dismiss it entirely.
Early 2000 I did a bit of research on the topic and found somewhere a document [...] that showed the RIAA's claim of loss of income to be fewer records released, not because people were downloading music for free
Well, being as only a couple of backwater countries still use Fahrenheit, and Belgium isn't one of them, that must mean that temperatures discussed are in Celsius.
The man is dead. He's been dead since 1973. You know... 36 years. The last book was published in 1955. 54 years.
Copyrights are not going to incent him to write any more books.
But how can we know if we don't try? I say it's quite obvious that the only reason current copyright doesn't incent him is that the term isn't long enough. We need to extend the copyright term to 1000 years!
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It was re-discovered in the 70s by a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp
Soo.. you're trying to tell us that this is just some sort of Popp-physiology?
The GPL isn't getting tested because nobody's dumb enough to do so.
Paging Daniel Wallace. Daniel Wallace to the courtroom please.
who cares what scientists didn't know centuries ago? We know a great deal right now!
Who cares how many people lived in my city centuries ago? There are a great deal of people there right now!
Now, what's the population of the planet, and what percentage of that is in my city?
You'll know when your people are ready for statistics. . . don't even bother trying until state-run lotteries go broke for lack of players.
A statistics professor was being interviewed by a local radio station on probabilities of winning the lottery. He came up with a bunch of statistics on how unlikely it was for anyone to win, and was very convincing that it was a waste of time.
At the end of the interview, the host asked him if he ever bought a ticket. His response: "every week."
Not everyone who plays the lottery is ignorant of statistics and mathematics. Some people gamble because it's fun.
If [...] a Toyota needs special parking provisions, such a policy might appear reasonable at first glance.
That's pretty much the point - they don't. Care to respond with something that's actually useful here?
In your Toyota example, you are forgetting that in order to support Toyota, you have increased development costs and time in order to support a very, very small percentage of users
Sorry, but what!??!!?!
Are you seriously trying to tell me that when I go shopping for groceries, that the business owner has any extra work to do to "support" the brand of vehicle I drive up in?
What color is the sky in your world?
If I'm working on a project with a limited budget and you were going to tell me that enabling support for Opera was going to add even 5% to my total costs, I'd cut it in a heartbea
Then you are the exact type of person that should not be building websites. See, the whole thing is code to fucking standards, and then you don't have "enable support" for anything.
since they are insignificant in the browser market I'd probably do the same thing.
Then you're a fucking moron.
If you were running a store with a physical presence, would you also ban customers who drove Toyotas, telling them "Toyota is insignificant, and therefore you are not allowed to shop at my store. Come back when you have a Ford or GM"?
4K = 4KB = 4096 bytes. Always will be.
I heard some people complain about it, so much that they invented a "new" SI prefix, the "kibo", which I imagine has something to do with James Parry.
There's also the "maybe" - as in "maybe it's a byte, maybe it isn't".
Don't get me started on the "gibby" (which sounds like it should be used to evaluate dismembered body parts in Quake.)
Free speech for absolutely everything would mean free speech for planning and advocating genocide and murder.
Theres nothing wrong with that though. Now, if you actually -do- any of those things, yes it is wrong.
And what about if you talk about it and someone else does it? Do you get a free pass because you can say "hey, I didn't do anything, I helped plan it, but I wasn't there when it happened, so I'm clear"?
"There! Are! Six! Floors!"
Hmm... that's what I count too. Maybe they're using that new math, where the roof counts?
Maybe they're in China? :)
Slashdotters have a better chance at marriage then sex.
I disagree - with the exception of religious conservatives, sex almost always comes first.
M$ can claim that their windeuce servers can virtualize Red Hat very effectively, so that if a buyer were considering a Linux server, M$ can claim it works well on their systems.
Only if RedHat ships this driver with their kernel, which isn't guaranteed. There are a lot of in-tree kernel modules that RH doesn't ship or support (various FS drivers, for example.)
Just because it's in the kernel mainline tree is no guarantee of RedHat (or any other distro) shipping with it.
BIOS and firmware upgrades that only work from Windows ... or from a USB floppy disk!
Ask ASUS (but I'm sure it's not the only manufacturer)!
Bullshit.
I've used tons of ASUS boards, and none require a USB floppy.
I'm not sure what this has to do with the website.
Umm - because that's where it starts from?
I know they read it on a forum, but if it was a weekly flyer or local bar the cops were getting their material from and bringing that to work in the form of racist jokes and comments wouldn't they still be suing work because co-workers had created a hostile work environment?
And they are suing work. You know, because management is aware of it, and is allowing it to perpetuate.
I don't see how they can enforce the website being taken down
Where, exactly did I say it should be?
since when is it wrong to have your own opinion?
Please quote the part of my message where I even implied that, or take your straw man somewhere else.
Private ownership is private and government ownership is government. Sounds like a simple case of plantiffs going after the deepest pockets and those most easily controlled through political and media manipulation.
And what happens when government employees bring "private ownership" to work in a racist attitude?
Oh yeah, you don't want to address the actual issue here, just quote one small piece and dismiss it entirely.
Not in this case .. when used as an expletive, it's defined as "fuck" or "fsck" (depending on the user) to make the sentence grammatically correct. :)
who puts something on Facebook that they _want_ to keep _private_?
People who don't know any better, who are (incidentally) the same people the privacy laws were written to protect.
Having to physically have the door handle open is a last reminder to make sure keys are in hand.
No, it isn't. It's supposed to be, but in reality all it does is train you to hold the door handle open when you close it.
Wow, just wow.
My thoughts exactly.
Perhaps you need to read about what started it all before you make further posts. Your ignorance about the entire matter is showing.
Early 2000 I did a bit of research on the topic and found somewhere a document [...] that showed the RIAA's claim of loss of income to be fewer records released, not because people were downloading music for free
Is this what you're referring to?
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Well, being as only a couple of backwater countries still use Fahrenheit, and Belgium isn't one of them, that must mean that temperatures discussed are in Celsius.
But in this case we're talking Life - X.
No, we're talking X - ie. the "Life" part of the equation is removed.
The man is dead. He's been dead since 1973. You know... 36 years. The last book was published in 1955. 54 years.
Copyrights are not going to incent him to write any more books.
But how can we know if we don't try? I say it's quite obvious that the only reason current copyright doesn't incent him is that the term isn't long enough. We need to extend the copyright term to 1000 years!
Sincerely,
Jack Valenti
Guess they'll be in big trouble when global warming strikes Belgium!
Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Belgium doesn't really exist.