Or it may desensitize children so that they viewed the grotesqueness of death as entertainment to be posted online. Nice America quip at the end, though...instant +5 for that.
I love that Microsoft is essentially saying, "They suck as much as us!" How the mighty have fallen. Too bad the Vista analogy doesn't work though since people are actually buying the iPhone 4.
We'll see how long that lasts when the government has the wonderful power of net neutrality to regulate Internet traffic and censor discussion to help "prevent economic terrorism" or "preserve national security."
It's hard to figure out what's going on in his head. One of his big problems is how he comes off as a passive observer, watching things happen around him. As president, he needs to at least appear to be on top of things, and all the golf trips don't help (even Bush believed that he shouldn't be golfing while troops died in Iraq).
I didn't hire the people who wrote the regulations, and I didn't put the current administration in power. I care very much about corruption in government, which is why I'm opposed to big government. Big government leads to big mistakes, but it's harder to punish a government organization or replace it with a better one.
If the oil industry is the most heavily regulated industry in the U.S., this disaster proves how meaningless regulations actually are.
Maybe you haven't been following, but liberal environmentalists are pissed at Obama too. Accusing someone of being a "conservatard" for bringing up Obama smells of pre-emptive defensiveness on your part, trying to brush off critics by portraying them as being part of some biased group. You maybe an Obama supporter, but it's hard to argue that his response to the disaster was anything but passive and absent-minded, and that's how the public sees it.
Part of the reason America never solves its problems is that people like you are too partisan to see anything objectively.
How is it everyone's fault? By your logic, every automobile driver is at fault when there's a massive pileup on a highway. It's BP's fault as well as the fault of the administration, which essentially did nothing to clean up the spill. That ass Obama said he was looking to kick? It was a whopping 20-minute meeting with the head of BP. This is Obama's Katrina.
And if you're going to go down the "oil addiction" line, that's completely retarded. We're not "addicted" to oil. It's just the best resource we have to get things done at the moment, so that's what we use. If there was a superior resource, and we got rid of our use of oil, it's not like we'd suffer physical symptoms of oil withdrawal. The addiction comparison makes no sense and has more to do with trying to make people feel guilty for existing on the planet and using technology to live their lives. Sorry, but I'll never feel guilty for using technology--especially since oil drilling is always dangerous, there will always be the risk of accidents, and BP has been forced to drill in riskier, deeper waters in the first place because of restrictions that prevent them from drilling in safer areas closer to the shore. Idealistic attempts to fix things often end up making things worse.
I have the opposite opinion, that shipping with a ton of monolithic features like Bittorrent support increases security risk, while being able to choose what features I want to install lets me streamline the browser and reduce its size as a target for exploits.
Gee, I wonder how Slashdotters will respond to this idea? I'm sure it will be full of compassion and understanding toward the plight of these artists trying to get paid for their work. I look forward to an open-minded, emotion-free discussion full of fairness and brevity that represents all sides of the debate equally.
This is all well and good, but how does this justify piracy? Because we all know stories like this are used by pirates to justify their actions. "I'm fighting against the RIAA!" Well, no, you're ripping an artist off. Artists willingly sign their contracts, and nobody forced them to sign their deals which made them famous.
The reason Slashdot loves these types of articles is that pirates try to remove their own sense of guilt by portraying someone else as the bad guy. This way, they're not ripping off artists. Instead, they're good-guy cultural revolutionaries rebelling against a faceless acronym. It's total horseshit ego-coddling that obscures the truth--you're ripping off a musician, filmmaker, software developer, and so on. It's also hypocritical, because people on this site get up in arms when GPL code is "stolen." Apparently, theft of intellectual property is suddenly wrong again in that situation.
Anti-piracy comments on Slashdot have a tendency to get modded down, so it'll be interesting to see how this post ends up. I've got the karma to burn.
This is Slashdot, so it has to be a conspiracy and not normal forum moderation. It's not as though there are competitors who have a vested interest in anonymously submitting stories like this to Slashdot to try to rile up the anti-censorship nerds against Apple. That would never happen!
It's been done, bro. Unfortunately, it turned out no users cared about exploring and improving their programs, and the few developers who were interested didn't care about the users.
Seriously, for an Open Source community it's outstanding how many Apple fanatics here are, when they are obviously the largest abuser of OSS or open technology.
Huh? Apple is the primary source of development behind WebKit, Clang, LLVM, launchd, C blocks, libdispatch, and the rest of Darwin. All of these things are open source, and most of them are being incorporated in other operating systems.
If people are "fanatics" for Apple, it's because they're constantly put on the defensive by Apple-haters like yourself who are taking this opportunity to, once again, bash Apple and their fans. Meanwhile, the huge story here is that Consumer Reports doesn't recommend something. Oh no, they didn't recommend it!
The summary says "Steve Jobs & Co. put the kibosh on easier cellphone development." When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, the original intent was that people make apps using HTML and Javascript using an IDE like Dashcode. Developers didn't want it. So Apple went onto to release a native SDK, and now they've apparently "put the kibosh" on easier development.
Besides that, Cocoa Touch is pretty damn easy, even easier than desktop Cocoa development.
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Or it may desensitize children so that they viewed the grotesqueness of death as entertainment to be posted online. Nice America quip at the end, though...instant +5 for that.
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No, you don't see worse things on TV. You must not have seen the video.
CS5 is at that point. Yuck.
This is why the majority of the public supports the Arizona legislation.
Oh, wait, this is a Windows story. Why'd you post that?
I love that Microsoft is essentially saying, "They suck as much as us!" How the mighty have fallen. Too bad the Vista analogy doesn't work though since people are actually buying the iPhone 4.
Soon they won't even need those reasons. They'll just say "This site has been shut down for purposes of net neutrality."
We'll see how long that lasts when the government has the wonderful power of net neutrality to regulate Internet traffic and censor discussion to help "prevent economic terrorism" or "preserve national security."
It's hard to figure out what's going on in his head. One of his big problems is how he comes off as a passive observer, watching things happen around him. As president, he needs to at least appear to be on top of things, and all the golf trips don't help (even Bush believed that he shouldn't be golfing while troops died in Iraq).
I didn't hire the people who wrote the regulations, and I didn't put the current administration in power. I care very much about corruption in government, which is why I'm opposed to big government. Big government leads to big mistakes, but it's harder to punish a government organization or replace it with a better one.
If the oil industry is the most heavily regulated industry in the U.S., this disaster proves how meaningless regulations actually are.
Going by the pace at which the administration responded to the disaster in the first place, they'll be claiming credit sometime around Christmas.
Maybe you haven't been following, but liberal environmentalists are pissed at Obama too. Accusing someone of being a "conservatard" for bringing up Obama smells of pre-emptive defensiveness on your part, trying to brush off critics by portraying them as being part of some biased group. You maybe an Obama supporter, but it's hard to argue that his response to the disaster was anything but passive and absent-minded, and that's how the public sees it.
Part of the reason America never solves its problems is that people like you are too partisan to see anything objectively.
How is it everyone's fault? By your logic, every automobile driver is at fault when there's a massive pileup on a highway. It's BP's fault as well as the fault of the administration, which essentially did nothing to clean up the spill. That ass Obama said he was looking to kick? It was a whopping 20-minute meeting with the head of BP. This is Obama's Katrina.
And if you're going to go down the "oil addiction" line, that's completely retarded. We're not "addicted" to oil. It's just the best resource we have to get things done at the moment, so that's what we use. If there was a superior resource, and we got rid of our use of oil, it's not like we'd suffer physical symptoms of oil withdrawal. The addiction comparison makes no sense and has more to do with trying to make people feel guilty for existing on the planet and using technology to live their lives. Sorry, but I'll never feel guilty for using technology--especially since oil drilling is always dangerous, there will always be the risk of accidents, and BP has been forced to drill in riskier, deeper waters in the first place because of restrictions that prevent them from drilling in safer areas closer to the shore. Idealistic attempts to fix things often end up making things worse.
I have the opposite opinion, that shipping with a ton of monolithic features like Bittorrent support increases security risk, while being able to choose what features I want to install lets me streamline the browser and reduce its size as a target for exploits.
Gee, I wonder how Slashdotters will respond to this idea? I'm sure it will be full of compassion and understanding toward the plight of these artists trying to get paid for their work. I look forward to an open-minded, emotion-free discussion full of fairness and brevity that represents all sides of the debate equally.
I'm off to feed my flying pig.
No, the ISPs will be paying for it.
You just said in the beginning of your statement that it's open source. Everybody can already see what they're doing, just like with WebKit.
This is all well and good, but how does this justify piracy? Because we all know stories like this are used by pirates to justify their actions. "I'm fighting against the RIAA!" Well, no, you're ripping an artist off. Artists willingly sign their contracts, and nobody forced them to sign their deals which made them famous.
The reason Slashdot loves these types of articles is that pirates try to remove their own sense of guilt by portraying someone else as the bad guy. This way, they're not ripping off artists. Instead, they're good-guy cultural revolutionaries rebelling against a faceless acronym. It's total horseshit ego-coddling that obscures the truth--you're ripping off a musician, filmmaker, software developer, and so on. It's also hypocritical, because people on this site get up in arms when GPL code is "stolen." Apparently, theft of intellectual property is suddenly wrong again in that situation.
Anti-piracy comments on Slashdot have a tendency to get modded down, so it'll be interesting to see how this post ends up. I've got the karma to burn.
Give me a break. By your definition, moderation of Slashdot posts is censorship.
This is Slashdot, so it has to be a conspiracy and not normal forum moderation. It's not as though there are competitors who have a vested interest in anonymously submitting stories like this to Slashdot to try to rile up the anti-censorship nerds against Apple. That would never happen!
It's been done, bro. Unfortunately, it turned out no users cared about exploring and improving their programs, and the few developers who were interested didn't care about the users.
Huh? Apple is the primary source of development behind WebKit, Clang, LLVM, launchd, C blocks, libdispatch, and the rest of Darwin. All of these things are open source, and most of them are being incorporated in other operating systems.
If people are "fanatics" for Apple, it's because they're constantly put on the defensive by Apple-haters like yourself who are taking this opportunity to, once again, bash Apple and their fans. Meanwhile, the huge story here is that Consumer Reports doesn't recommend something. Oh no, they didn't recommend it!
Microsoft and Linux have the same legions of fanboys. Come on.
The summary says "Steve Jobs & Co. put the kibosh on easier cellphone development." When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, the original intent was that people make apps using HTML and Javascript using an IDE like Dashcode. Developers didn't want it. So Apple went onto to release a native SDK, and now they've apparently "put the kibosh" on easier development.
Besides that, Cocoa Touch is pretty damn easy, even easier than desktop Cocoa development.
Microsoft is so hardcore about tablets that they don't have any available! Now that is hardcore! It's too awesome for you to use!