Also, Japanese companies are so ridiculously diversified that even if you never see their other products you can't use them as examples of pure focus. I mean, I can buy a Honda AC generator, a Honda car, a Honda motorcycle.. I can buy a Yamaha guitar, stereo reciever, or motorcycle.. I can buy a Mitsubishi TV, or car.. the list goes on and on.
absolutely. The *IX CLI is very powerful, but the vast majority of users don't need infinite flexibility, and there's nothing wrong with that. You strike me as someone that doesn't think that way, but most FOSS types do.
Open source is full of people that are completely out of touch with reality.
The people who are involved in OSS have outright contempt for those who 'merely' use the software and think that everyone should want to type things like
ls -la |grep foo > foo.txt
to do their job - and that if they don't they're mindless idiots that aren't worth considering the opinion of.
Whether I leave my cellphone at home, or prioritize my current activities higher than the interruption of the vibrating electronics What if your current activities involve vibrating electronics that aren't communications devices?
the business owners are stockholders who are 100 levels removed from actual customers. You expect them to care about anything but money?
The problem is not with the companies themselves, but with not holding at least the majority shareholders accountable for the actions of the company even if they're not Enron-level evil.
Microsoft engineers users' perception such that they are led to believe that IE is the only web browser.
It's not a matter of being too lazy to download Firefox, it's a matter of not knowing it exists because Microsoft's marketing has conditioned them to think IE = The Internet.
Not everyone is as brilliant as the open source community thinks it is.
that story's been going around with different people for years.
I heard it about Kenny Wayne Shepherd and BB, Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB, SRV and Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and Albert Collins, whatever. It's apocryphal and it's a good point but not true.
Rutan should be on every engineer's list of professional heroes. He's one of the few people on earth that actually deserves to have an ego. Whether he does or not, I don't know.
Ex: Life is unfair, does that mean that life is also then illegal? Could be. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and it is often spread intentionally.
In the meantime, your wife will be open-sourcing her vagina because your penis doesn't meet her system requirements. Hey buddy, at least MINE is a valid input device.
Before anyone makes the arguement about buying a tangible like a CD or DVD, please remember that it was only recently (i.e. in the last 3 - 5 years) that companies began insisting that they held absolute control over a work, regardless of whether or not someone paid for the disk it resides on. Sure they did the same in the past, but to a much lesser degree.
It's only been in the past 3-5 years that it's been possible to obtain the work at a comparable quality to original distribution media (i.e. mp3 vs. CD) without purchasing the media. Back in the days of cassettes you could 'tape someone's cd' but that was usually a 1:1 exchange with people you knew personally, and the quality was lacking. If you really wanted a good copy of a CD, you bought it, period. Now, if you get high-rate MP3s, you can download it and burn it for nothing at 99% of the quality.
Maybe, but then again, same could be said of a gift. Using your arguements, if I bought you a CD for your birthday, and gave said CD to you as a gift, YOU would not have the right to listen to it, since the rights all belong to the company that made the disk, and therefore are not my rights to give to you.
The rights to the content still belong to the publishing party, but the right to listen has been passed from you, the original purchaser, to me, as a gift.
But again, the difference between the CD/DVD model and the satellite model is that I HAVE TO GO AND PHYSICALLY OBTAIN A CD/DVD. I do NOT have to go anywhere to recieve an RF signal. All I need is an antenna, and some parts to convert the signal.
That doesn't mean you don't have to pay for the right to convert it. If nothing else, there's the contractual obligation with DirecTV. When you buy a DTV system, you sign a usage agreement before you leave the store that says that you'll pay for the service and not modify the hardware to circumvent that. This means that anyone who gets busted with a hacked card is a bald-faced liar on top of being a thief.
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Also, Japanese companies are so ridiculously diversified that even if you never see their other products you can't use them as examples of pure focus. I mean, I can buy a Honda AC generator, a Honda car, a Honda motorcycle.. I can buy a Yamaha guitar, stereo reciever, or motorcycle.. I can buy a Mitsubishi TV, or car.. the list goes on and on.
Oh, sure, if you or I buy a book it at least implies the intent (although still not the actual reading), but you and I are not the general case.
Get over yourself, you stuck up bitch. People read. They may not all read Neal Stephenson or P.K. Dick, but they read.
absolutely. The *IX CLI is very powerful, but the vast majority of users don't need infinite flexibility, and there's nothing wrong with that. You strike me as someone that doesn't think that way, but most FOSS types do.
The people who are involved in OSS have outright contempt for those who 'merely' use the software and think that everyone should want to type things like to do their job - and that if they don't they're mindless idiots that aren't worth considering the opinion of.
Whether I leave my cellphone at home, or prioritize my current activities higher than the interruption of the vibrating electronics
What if your current activities involve vibrating electronics that aren't communications devices?
I used to have to talk rednecks through ftp'ing netscape 2 on Windows 3.1 with Trumpet Winsock. don't remind me :(
the business owners are stockholders who are 100 levels removed from actual customers. You expect them to care about anything but money?
The problem is not with the companies themselves, but with not holding at least the majority shareholders accountable for the actions of the company even if they're not Enron-level evil.
Microsoft engineers users' perception such that they are led to believe that IE is the only web browser.
It's not a matter of being too lazy to download Firefox, it's a matter of not knowing it exists because Microsoft's marketing has conditioned them to think IE = The Internet.
Not everyone is as brilliant as the open source community thinks it is.
But... but... but... who makes the coffee?
Bikini-clad Burt groupies.
yes, and him and his wife were so fortunate to have been raised among catalogs.
George Carlin called, he wants his style back.
I'm opposed to the looting of my country's economy by ANY country, third world or not.
I'm more concerned by her droopy.. other things. she's rich and in her 20's, for the love of, um, pete.
that story's been going around with different people for years.
I heard it about Kenny Wayne Shepherd and BB, Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB, SRV and Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and Albert Collins, whatever. It's apocryphal and it's a good point but not true.
Overzealous is ok, if the zealot comes back later and says, "wait, we went too far, let's repeal these regulations".
The problem is that the ATF will not admit that they made a mistake, this won't get repealed, and the regulations will just keep piling up.
a sort of tapioca pudding, served up at baptist church youth meetings.
"Spotted Dick? Dick of what??!?"
I am now damned to hell for making a King Ralph reference.
Rutan should be on every engineer's list of professional heroes. He's one of the few people on earth that actually deserves to have an ego. Whether he does or not, I don't know.
"Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."
Especially when your descent was from 62.5 miles.. or 330,000 feet. For reference, airliners typically fly between 30 and 35,000 feet.
I must remind you that:
unfair != illegal
Ex: Life is unfair, does that mean that life is also then illegal?
Could be. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and it is often spread intentionally.
This is common in the legal profession. WordPerfect somehow became the standard there, while Word took over everywhere else.
When Keanu catches you with pirated MP3s:
"I AM AN F..B..I.. AGENT!"
In the meantime, your wife will be open-sourcing her vagina because your penis doesn't meet her system requirements.
Hey buddy, at least MINE is a valid input device.
Before anyone makes the arguement about buying a tangible like a CD or DVD, please remember that it was only recently (i.e. in the last 3 - 5 years) that companies began insisting that they held absolute control over a work, regardless of whether or not someone paid for the disk it resides on. Sure they did the same in the past, but to a much lesser degree.
It's only been in the past 3-5 years that it's been possible to obtain the work at a comparable quality to original distribution media (i.e. mp3 vs. CD) without purchasing the media. Back in the days of cassettes you could 'tape someone's cd' but that was usually a 1:1 exchange with people you knew personally, and the quality was lacking. If you really wanted a good copy of a CD, you bought it, period. Now, if you get high-rate MP3s, you can download it and burn it for nothing at 99% of the quality.
Maybe, but then again, same could be said of a gift. Using your arguements, if I bought you a CD for your birthday, and gave said CD to you as a gift, YOU would not have the right to listen to it, since the rights all belong to the company that made the disk, and therefore are not my rights to give to you.
The rights to the content still belong to the publishing party, but the right to listen has been passed from you, the original purchaser, to me, as a gift.
But again, the difference between the CD/DVD model and the satellite model is that I HAVE TO GO AND PHYSICALLY OBTAIN A CD/DVD. I do NOT have to go anywhere to recieve an RF signal. All I need is an antenna, and some parts to convert the signal.
That doesn't mean you don't have to pay for the right to convert it. If nothing else, there's the contractual obligation with DirecTV. When you buy a DTV system, you sign a usage agreement before you leave the store that says that you'll pay for the service and not modify the hardware to circumvent that. This means that anyone who gets busted with a hacked card is a bald-faced liar on top of being a thief.
How about that directv card not being hacked?