Except that Microsoft is already forcing some vendors to eliminate "the damned switch" and will almost certainly make more do so in the future, under the guise of "security".
No need to play word games with what "Darwinism" means, like some lawyer, to force the square peg into a round hole because it means you get your way.
Except that this is exactly what you're doing. Darwinism is about survival of the fittest for the propagation of the species. You are applying your own values on what you want to be selected for (intelligence, strength, focus, whatever). The sad reality is that the people who are breeding the most ARE the ones ensuring the continuation of the species and that fits perfectly with Darwinism, no matter how much you might want to twist it because you don't like the results.
I'm not sure I agree, but still, my main point was that the parent to my post was 100% wrong in saying that it took off because it copied the "walled garden", which it absolutely did not in any way. Looks like you and I at least agree on that point but disagree on what did cause it to take off.
Just look at how quickly Apple's iPhone took off, with its walled-garden app store. And then Android came along, with the exact same concept, and it's been doing great too.
Excuse me? The reason Android took off (and I believe is more popular than iPhone now, though don't quote me on that) is exactly because it provides much more freedom than the iPhone. First, the "walled garden" is much less "walled", with little to no oversight (in fact that's what some of the more fascist-minded pundits complain about with the Android Market... they say it fills it with junk). Second, nothing prevents me from installing apps from somewhere other than the Android Market (unless I happen to have a phone crippled by AT&T, and even they are beginning to uncripple them). In fact, several alternative marketplaces already exist, with different philosophies of what's available. I don't think Amazon's Appstore has really taken off that much. I'd like to believe it's because they do try to go for more of the "walled garden" approach, but I don't know. But the fact that they can even have that shows that Android is in no way a "walled garden". Heck, even some phone manufacturers are now making it easy to install your own custom Android ROM. With an iPhone, the most you can do is root/jailbreak it.
They would lose all the nerdy users though. (It seems around half the students in the CS department at the local university are Mac users... that would all go away)
so why not do a normal rental (or RTO but ignoring the O option) for a few months until you know you have what you want, and then go buy it outright and probably still save money over staying in the RTO?
15:1 LOSSLESS audio compression is a typical reality.
Can you please tell me how to do 15:1 lossless audio compression? Serious question... I get about 2:1 with flac, 15:1 would be great if truly lossless (and not just "can't hear the lost info").
Are you mad? No one said that.What is being argued for is that the people are able to voice an opinion on the legislation and then the government decides.
Umm... while that's what the article was about, the OP of this thread very clearly was advocating a direct vote on legislation.
I was responding to this statement: "Well except none of those were new ideas, just commercial ideas that someone created an open source alternative". But don't let reading the post I was replying to get in the way of your desire to find ways to randomly insult people.
Seems like some people think that when they loose the remote control, there's no way to turn ON or OFF a TV these days. Go figure, the TVs actually come with buttons and they do not require a remote to work!
Good luck changing some settings in the menu though. Or getting to a non-tuner input source (I've had a TV where you couldn't do that without the remote). I think I've even seen modern TVs without any buttons to change the channel.
Did you even read the post you replied to? The station is owned by Fox, not just an affiliate. Monsanto wrote to Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, to stop the report.
That's likely illegal. If that really happened to a friend/coworker, you should have them get a lawyer. (Not commenting on unions, just your specific situation)
I haven't gotten to use my Samsung drives much yet because I'm still waiting for them to put out a firmware update for the HD204UI that increments the revision number in addition to fixing the IDENTIFY bug (so the fix can be confirmed). Was supposed to be out months ago...
And I say "oh God please no" for the opposite reason... horrible luck with WD drives. So I feel "LEAVE SEAGATE ALONE!" Let's just keep them separate and keep everyone happy:-D
Oh, sorry. I've seen people explicitly "correct" a wikipedia link to use secure.wikimedia.org when nothing else was wrong with it (example here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2067194&cid=35708472 ), so I assumed that's what you were doing.
It's also good to hear I'm not the only one with no slashdot links working... that was driving me crazy.
Slashdot Mirror
Except that Microsoft is already forcing some vendors to eliminate "the damned switch" and will almost certainly make more do so in the future, under the guise of "security".
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2898709&cid=40232929
Also, it was necessary that Paypal become separate from eBay.
Huh?
How many people below the age of 30 would have begun with computers that dropped them straight in to BASIC?
Me, but probably because my school had outdated computers
No need to play word games with what "Darwinism" means, like some lawyer, to force the square peg into a round hole because it means you get your way.
Except that this is exactly what you're doing. Darwinism is about survival of the fittest for the propagation of the species. You are applying your own values on what you want to be selected for (intelligence, strength, focus, whatever). The sad reality is that the people who are breeding the most ARE the ones ensuring the continuation of the species and that fits perfectly with Darwinism, no matter how much you might want to twist it because you don't like the results.
I'm not sure I agree, but still, my main point was that the parent to my post was 100% wrong in saying that it took off because it copied the "walled garden", which it absolutely did not in any way. Looks like you and I at least agree on that point but disagree on what did cause it to take off.
Just look at how quickly Apple's iPhone took off, with its walled-garden app store. And then Android came along, with the exact same concept, and it's been doing great too.
Excuse me? The reason Android took off (and I believe is more popular than iPhone now, though don't quote me on that) is exactly because it provides much more freedom than the iPhone. First, the "walled garden" is much less "walled", with little to no oversight (in fact that's what some of the more fascist-minded pundits complain about with the Android Market... they say it fills it with junk). Second, nothing prevents me from installing apps from somewhere other than the Android Market (unless I happen to have a phone crippled by AT&T, and even they are beginning to uncripple them). In fact, several alternative marketplaces already exist, with different philosophies of what's available. I don't think Amazon's Appstore has really taken off that much. I'd like to believe it's because they do try to go for more of the "walled garden" approach, but I don't know. But the fact that they can even have that shows that Android is in no way a "walled garden". Heck, even some phone manufacturers are now making it easy to install your own custom Android ROM. With an iPhone, the most you can do is root/jailbreak it.
They would lose all the nerdy users though. (It seems around half the students in the CS department at the local university are Mac users... that would all go away)
The parent was saying the same thing...
so why not do a normal rental (or RTO but ignoring the O option) for a few months until you know you have what you want, and then go buy it outright and probably still save money over staying in the RTO?
I know it's a joke, but you might want to read that page :-D The glyphs/character set we use for the numerals are not the same as the Arabic ones.
Kick out the deletionists. Seriously, Wikipedia had such promise before they took over.
15:1 LOSSLESS audio compression is a typical reality.
Can you please tell me how to do 15:1 lossless audio compression? Serious question... I get about 2:1 with flac, 15:1 would be great if truly lossless (and not just "can't hear the lost info").
Are you mad? No one said that.What is being argued for is that the people are able to voice an opinion on the legislation and then the government decides.
Umm... while that's what the article was about, the OP of this thread very clearly was advocating a direct vote on legislation.
That's not the point. You said all of these projects were rip-offs of commercial ideas. They were "rip-offs" of non-commercial ideas
I was responding to this statement: "Well except none of those were new ideas, just commercial ideas that someone created an open source alternative". But don't let reading the post I was replying to get in the way of your desire to find ways to randomly insult people.
The first web server was a commercial idea? The first web browser? The first GUI web browser? Well gee, I must've learned my history all wrong.
Would you expect to have your work e-mail read by all the stockholders of your employer?
What if it's based on paper that you can make origami with or burn as fuel?
Seems like some people think that when they loose the remote control, there's no way to turn ON or OFF a TV these days. Go figure, the TVs actually come with buttons and they do not require a remote to work!
Good luck changing some settings in the menu though. Or getting to a non-tuner input source (I've had a TV where you couldn't do that without the remote). I think I've even seen modern TVs without any buttons to change the channel.
Did you even read the post you replied to? The station is owned by Fox, not just an affiliate. Monsanto wrote to Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, to stop the report.
That's likely illegal. If that really happened to a friend/coworker, you should have them get a lawyer. (Not commenting on unions, just your specific situation)
Not exactly what you said, but there's a javascript x86 emulator running Linux: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
I haven't gotten to use my Samsung drives much yet because I'm still waiting for them to put out a firmware update for the HD204UI that increments the revision number in addition to fixing the IDENTIFY bug (so the fix can be confirmed). Was supposed to be out months ago...
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
And I say "oh God please no" for the opposite reason... horrible luck with WD drives. So I feel "LEAVE SEAGATE ALONE!" Let's just keep them separate and keep everyone happy :-D
Oh, sorry. I've seen people explicitly "correct" a wikipedia link to use secure.wikimedia.org when nothing else was wrong with it (example here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2067194&cid=35708472 ), so I assumed that's what you were doing.
It's also good to hear I'm not the only one with no slashdot links working... that was driving me crazy.