Yes, as the Republicans have shown us so well, why resort to "facts", "information" and "logic" to debate the merits of a proposal when all you need is hyperbole, appeals to emotion, and ad-hominem attacks
"Providing copyrighted material for upload without explicit permission by the publisher is illegal." - no, actually, copyright infringment is a civil tort (notwithstanding the ludicrious new laws congress has been considering lately)
This is sick. I'm sorry, but it is. There is *NOTHING* on the web that can compare, in both depth and breadth, to a well stocked research library. Use the internet to get quick, on-point information - a particular stat or an overview of something; you go to a library if you want to spend a lot of time doing some in depth study with materials that far outclass what you are going to find on the web.
As the parent poster so eloquently points out, format wars are inherently bad. One technology analyst on NPR said he estimates that format wars can reduce a potential market by "as much as 90%" - that is, the two formats combined sell up to 9 times fewer DVDs than if you only had one format.
Um, no, you're flat out wrong, and the ignorance of your statement is scary.
The grandparent post wasn't joking when he said the Vietcong was demolished. The war went on for 7 years after Tet, but the VC never again played a significant role. Nor, for the record, were they given teh support to. The NVA simply did not trust the Vietcong and did not encourage them to rebuild.
Thus, after Tet, the conflict went from being a guerilla insurgency in the south back by an organized military in the north to an almost classical organized military conflict.
I suggest you read Vietnam At War, by Phillip Davidson (the Chief of US intelligence during the war).
" The "copyright infringement isn't theft" is my favorite, as it in no way justifies breaking of the law."
LARCENY - Illegal taking and carrying away of personal property belonging to another with the purpose of depriving the owner of its possession. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to the taker's use and make them his property without the consent of the owner.-Lectlaw
Copying copyright music does not "deprive the owner of its possession", and therefore it is not theft. Do your homoework next time.
Wel, erm, you know there's this thing called innovation? That's where you create something that no one has done before. Most companies do have an original idea now and then.
But point (which you have so clearly missed) is that the only way microsoft knows how to innovate is to copy, clone, or outright steal other people's innovations. Not just in the browser arena, but with pretty much every application they make. If Firefox never got off the ground, would IE 7 include tabbed browsing? Hell, would it include anything besides (tons and tons of) security fixes?
Phil (a Wikipedian whom I whole in high esteem) basically hit the nail on the head. This article is likely taking what Jimbo said *very far* out of context.
The submitter is describing a well known psychological pheomenon known as Cognitive dissonance, which occurs when someone believs in two contradictory ideas. Wikipedia has a good article on teh subject .
"Make wikipedia entries searcheable by proximity to global coordinates. " - this would (speaking as a wikipedia admin) require a tremendous amount of metadata which mediawiki does not support (they were considering adding some *very basic* relational metadata tags and scrapped the project because it was particularly difficult) and a flexible search algorithm, similiar to something you might find on Google maps.
There are two kinds of graphics - raster and vector. Raster is what you see when you use photoshop/gimp/paint, where you see a 2-dimensional grid of pixels, and each pixel is shaded a certain color. In vector graphics, everything on the page is a shape with certain properties (size, rotation, transparenecy, 'etc), and those vectors are overlayed on top of each other. As someone who creates a lot of diagrams (I'm doing a PhD in engineering and I contribute to Wikipedia a lot), I can tell you that doing it is a lot quicker using vector graphics programs than raster graphics programs.
Stability. Inkscape is good a good program, but it crashes all the time. In fact, someone noticed that when installing it on windows, the *very first* file it copied was gdb.exe.
During one of his visits, I asked Monty about cooling it. (Monty Denneau is the guy who designed the architecture and leads the project). The meeting was months and months ago, so I honestly cannot remember what the response was apart from the fact that they've contracted the cooling design job out to some 3rd party company (whose name I cannot remember).
I swear I had to stare at my comment for a solid 10 seconds to figure out why I got modded as funny before it dawned on me. It honestly never occured to me before that C64 could refer to something else.
There are 5 BlueGene projects (the last of which, Q, is on hold until IBM can tell whether BlueGene/L or BlueGene/C is better). Beyond that, I know very little of the other projects.
To paraphrase my boss - "BlueGene/L was evolutionary; Blue/GeneC is revolutionary." That is, Blue/Gene L was an attempt to build the world's fastest computer using a more-or-less tried and trusted design. Blue/GeneC is going to be radically different. Each BlueGene/C chip contains almost 100 processors (each running at 500 mhz), and there are going to be tons and tons of those chips in the final machine. They are keeping the final number a secret, but it's going to be gigantic.
BlueGene/L is the fastest super computer at the moment; however, BlueGene/C (which, for the record, I'm working on as part of my PhD) will be finished very soon (it was supposed to be out of the foundry by the end of August, but the project is running slightly behind schedule). I'm told there are, as yet, no plans to publish any performance benchmarks.
The average joe in Iran *hates* the mullahs. Unlike most other Arab governments (which encourage people to blame and hate the US for all of their home-brewed problems) the Iranian government has no easy scapegoat. (And 36 years of economic deprivation is a lot to answer for) That's why the people in power are so afraid of revolution.
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Yes, as the Republicans have shown us so well, why resort to "facts", "information" and "logic" to debate the merits of a proposal when all you need is hyperbole, appeals to emotion, and ad-hominem attacks
"Providing copyrighted material for upload without explicit permission by the publisher is illegal." - no, actually, copyright infringment is a civil tort (notwithstanding the ludicrious new laws congress has been considering lately)
This is sick. I'm sorry, but it is. There is *NOTHING* on the web that can compare, in both depth and breadth, to a well stocked research library. Use the internet to get quick, on-point information - a particular stat or an overview of something; you go to a library if you want to spend a lot of time doing some in depth study with materials that far outclass what you are going to find on the web.
As the parent poster so eloquently points out, format wars are inherently bad. One technology analyst on NPR said he estimates that format wars can reduce a potential market by "as much as 90%" - that is, the two formats combined sell up to 9 times fewer DVDs than if you only had one format.
"It's a trap!" - Admiral Ackbar
Um, no, you're flat out wrong, and the ignorance of your statement is scary.
The grandparent post wasn't joking when he said the Vietcong was demolished. The war went on for 7 years after Tet, but the VC never again played a significant role. Nor, for the record, were they given teh support to. The NVA simply did not trust the Vietcong and did not encourage them to rebuild.
Thus, after Tet, the conflict went from being a guerilla insurgency in the south back by an organized military in the north to an almost classical organized military conflict.
I suggest you read Vietnam At War, by Phillip Davidson (the Chief of US intelligence during the war).
...or causality is violated and we have (dead virgins/future grandfathers) all over the place
"And so the Trekkies were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins - thrown into volcanoes" - Futurama
I never realized there might be a corollation!
" The "copyright infringement isn't theft" is my favorite, as it in no way justifies breaking of the law."
LARCENY - Illegal taking and carrying away of personal property belonging to another with the purpose of depriving the owner of its possession. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to the taker's use and make them his property without the consent of the owner.-Lectlaw
Copying copyright music does not "deprive the owner of its possession", and therefore it is not theft. Do your homoework next time.
You seem to be missing the obligatory ?????
Wel, erm, you know there's this thing called innovation? That's where you create something that no one has done before. Most companies do have an original idea now and then.
But point (which you have so clearly missed) is that the only way microsoft knows how to innovate is to copy, clone, or outright steal other people's innovations. Not just in the browser arena, but with pretty much every application they make. If Firefox never got off the ground, would IE 7 include tabbed browsing? Hell, would it include anything besides (tons and tons of) security fixes?
Phil (a Wikipedian whom I whole in high esteem) basically hit the nail on the head. This article is likely taking what Jimbo said *very far* out of context.
The submitter is describing a well known psychological pheomenon known as Cognitive dissonance, which occurs when someone believs in two contradictory ideas. Wikipedia has a good article on teh subject .
Dear Mr. Hilf - Surely by now you have to have been accused of helping Microsoft try to exterminate Linux. How do you respond to such accusations?
"Make wikipedia entries searcheable by proximity to global coordinates. " - this would (speaking as a wikipedia admin) require a tremendous amount of metadata which mediawiki does not support (they were considering adding some *very basic* relational metadata tags and scrapped the project because it was particularly difficult) and a flexible search algorithm, similiar to something you might find on Google maps.
There are two kinds of graphics - raster and vector. Raster is what you see when you use photoshop/gimp/paint, where you see a 2-dimensional grid of pixels, and each pixel is shaded a certain color. In vector graphics, everything on the page is a shape with certain properties (size, rotation, transparenecy, 'etc), and those vectors are overlayed on top of each other. As someone who creates a lot of diagrams (I'm doing a PhD in engineering and I contribute to Wikipedia a lot), I can tell you that doing it is a lot quicker using vector graphics programs than raster graphics programs.
Stability. Inkscape is good a good program, but it crashes all the time. In fact, someone noticed that when installing it on windows, the *very first* file it copied was gdb.exe.
Probably because it's exactly what the Brain would say (see Pinky and the Brain)
During one of his visits, I asked Monty about cooling it. (Monty Denneau is the guy who designed the architecture and leads the project). The meeting was months and months ago, so I honestly cannot remember what the response was apart from the fact that they've contracted the cooling design job out to some 3rd party company (whose name I cannot remember).
I swear I had to stare at my comment for a solid 10 seconds to figure out why I got modded as funny before it dawned on me. It honestly never occured to me before that C64 could refer to something else.
Linux (w/ a custom made compiler that my group has already written)
There are 5 BlueGene projects (the last of which, Q, is on hold until IBM can tell whether BlueGene/L or BlueGene/C is better). Beyond that, I know very little of the other projects.
To paraphrase my boss - "BlueGene/L was evolutionary; Blue/GeneC is revolutionary." That is, Blue/Gene L was an attempt to build the world's fastest computer using a more-or-less tried and trusted design. Blue/GeneC is going to be radically different. Each BlueGene/C chip contains almost 100 processors (each running at 500 mhz), and there are going to be tons and tons of those chips in the final machine. They are keeping the final number a secret, but it's going to be gigantic.
The C in BlueGene/C stands for "Cyclops64", which is the name of the architecture. (It's usually shortened to C64)
BlueGene/L is the fastest super computer at the moment; however, BlueGene/C (which, for the record, I'm working on as part of my PhD) will be finished very soon (it was supposed to be out of the foundry by the end of August, but the project is running slightly behind schedule). I'm told there are, as yet, no plans to publish any performance benchmarks.
The average joe in Iran *hates* the mullahs. Unlike most other Arab governments (which encourage people to blame and hate the US for all of their home-brewed problems) the Iranian government has no easy scapegoat. (And 36 years of economic deprivation is a lot to answer for) That's why the people in power are so afraid of revolution.