So, you basically just turned someone else's analogy into a springboard for a self-important socio-political tirade, which was carefully disguised as a pointless nitpick about one of the least important aspects of the analogy. In fact, if there existed such a thing as a "Most Irrelevant Aspect of the Analogy," your comment about fuel economy was it. I mean, you didn't demonstrate any correlation betewen the comment you made and the original analogy you were apparently dissatisfied enough with to warrant a nitpick.
I was referring to your assumption that the previous poster was obviously a 'religious nutcase' because of that confusion. But you're right, I think we've all seen this fallacy many times before.
Dude, if he wants to go fishing for alternatives, let him. Nowhere did he imply that ID should be taught in schools; he merely pointed out that evolution should still be looked at with a healthy bit of skepticism, rather than dogmatic following.
From your link: One can sum up all this by saying that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability."--end quote
Theories are supposed to be treated with skepticism, and the "religious nutcase" you responded to displayed more of it than you have.
Sometimes I think you slashbots have a religion unto yourselves.
This could set precedent to undermine copyright as a whole. In which case, I predict we'll start seeing things like proprietary derivatives of GPL software emerge and not get challenged.
Unless a new paradigm for duplication and distribution of digital works is created, we need copyright to be enforced in all cases in order to protect free software.
Well, he could have been going another direction with the sentense, by using a different meaning for "since." I think the natural way the sentence flows suggests he's using "since" as a synonym for "because." This is a likely case; however, I also find it likely that he actually means "since" as in "after," e.g.:
"Not yet, but after the release hit slashdot,...
Of course, the second clause doesn't exactly parse correctly in that case, but...well..just a thought:P
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how do you "design" a file format to be open or interoperable?
That's what usually happens when you design any file format. Any "design" on Microsoft's part has gone to make the file format less open and interoperable.
Lego has dumbed down their sets too much. When I played legos as a kid, we'd only buy "sets" so that we had more pieces to make our own creations. Nowadays, the sets they sell have all these wierd specialized pieces which make constructing whatever model they have prepared for you easier.
The thing that made legos great was how much they used to enable creativity. Now they've gone the other way, and all the sets prevent you from making your own creation because of wierd specialized pieces.
Go back to the basics. Hell, just go back to Space Police, Blacktron, Castle, and Forest legos. That'd be cool.
The end result of both is the same: a world ruled by corporations. Only the path taken there varies.
As long as we're going to define ideologies by taking them to the extreme, I'd like to point out that Socialists would like the government to take over corporations, and merge them into one single entity. The end result is the same even then.
I think the best solution is to forget about ideologies and labels themselves and focus on solving problems as they come.
But I think we all know that MS will be able to spend some of its cash reserves to produce a more scalable and industry-accepted solution than Linux with li[tt]le effort. Just like every other market Linux and Windows have competed in.
You have a different situation in your example. Here, we have 'if A is true OR if B is true, then C.' In that case, if A and B are true, it only makes sense for C to hold, even in English, not mathematics. In order to avoid ambiguity, an 'either' would likely reinforce that the OR is inclusive, and if an exclusive OR were intended, than an 'either, but not both' would definitely avoid ambiguity.
The "or" seems to imply that either one of those cases could be true, and the revokation would take place.
So, if you no longer possess the CD (house burns down), then you lose the right to use the original "content," and if you lose the right under such license, you also lose the right (very redundant).
I think what they are doing is covering the "well my CD got stolen, so I just downloaded it off of edonkey and burned it onto a blank CD" excuse.
but would you rather have a bad video card with open-source drivers or a much better one with closed-source drivers?
I have a g400 at home. You might call it a bad card, but the OSS drivers are great. I'm happy I haven't blown money on a better one with closed source drivers.
My next purchase will likely be a radeon 9250. I hear the OSS drivers for it are good.
Ah, but if you produce the software yourself and keep it closed AND provide service to your customers, you now realize both benefits whereas the OSS strategy fairly limits you to just the service aspect of the business.
Good point. However, in the commercial sector, you might stand to make $100 per seat for your software, and then $50 per month per seat for support.
Support is ongoing revenue...so the initial cost of software is only relevant when you need cash on hand. Which is irrelevant to companies like IBM.
On top of all this, how lucrative is "Service" anyway? In general, a product-driven strategy has a better margin than a service-driven strategy.
Service is not worth much money in the home sector, but worth many times more in the commercial sector. So, you give away the software for free to the home consumers, and they provide your market validation for support at the commercial sector.
This witty retort just restored my faith that here on Slashdot, somewhere, there are actual intelligent people left, and not just basement-dwelling wannabes who need to hied behind their snooty online identity to compensate for their inevitably miserable lives.
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I think the range is somewhere between 30 and 300 GHZ. I don't know how well 30 GHZ signals bend, though.
Lemmegitthisstraight.
So, you basically just turned someone else's analogy into a springboard for a self-important socio-political tirade, which was carefully disguised as a pointless nitpick about one of the least important aspects of the analogy. In fact, if there existed such a thing as a "Most Irrelevant Aspect of the Analogy," your comment about fuel economy was it. I mean, you didn't demonstrate any correlation betewen the comment you made and the original analogy you were apparently dissatisfied enough with to warrant a nitpick.
That sound about right?
In my opinion, the Bush administration has given quite a bit of power to Congress by refusing to veto any bills that make it to the President's desk.
I was referring to your assumption that the previous poster was obviously a 'religious nutcase' because of that confusion. But you're right, I think we've all seen this fallacy many times before.
From your link: One can sum up all this by saying that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability."--end quote
Theories are supposed to be treated with skepticism, and the "religious nutcase" you responded to displayed more of it than you have.
Sometimes I think you slashbots have a religion unto yourselves.
Unless a new paradigm for duplication and distribution of digital works is created, we need copyright to be enforced in all cases in order to protect free software.
It looks like the bulbs alone will last you about 6 times as long as finished projectors, and cost a tiny fraction to replace.
That sticker likely has the unintended side effect of also keeping the "gurls" outside as well.
"Not yet, but after the release hit slashdot, ...
Of course, the second clause doesn't exactly parse correctly in that case, but...well..just a thought :P
But I don't care. You fukn rock, man.
By the way, rpm rules! :P
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how do you "design" a file format to be open or interoperable?
That's what usually happens when you design any file format. Any "design" on Microsoft's part has gone to make the file format less open and interoperable.
The thing that made legos great was how much they used to enable creativity. Now they've gone the other way, and all the sets prevent you from making your own creation because of wierd specialized pieces.
Go back to the basics. Hell, just go back to Space Police, Blacktron, Castle, and Forest legos. That'd be cool.
Could you make my day a little brighter and explain why you chose to use the word 'loose' when 'lose' was actually what you intended?
The end result of both is the same: a world ruled by corporations. Only the path taken there varies.
As long as we're going to define ideologies by taking them to the extreme, I'd like to point out that Socialists would like the government to take over corporations, and merge them into one single entity. The end result is the same even then.
I think the best solution is to forget about ideologies and labels themselves and focus on solving problems as they come.
But I think we all know that MS will be able to spend some of its cash reserves to produce a more scalable and industry-accepted solution than Linux with li[tt]le effort. Just like every other market Linux and Windows have competed in.
He was making a joke.
You have a different situation in your example. Here, we have 'if A is true OR if B is true, then C.' In that case, if A and B are true, it only makes sense for C to hold, even in English, not mathematics. In order to avoid ambiguity, an 'either' would likely reinforce that the OR is inclusive, and if an exclusive OR were intended, than an 'either, but not both' would definitely avoid ambiguity.
So, if you no longer possess the CD (house burns down), then you lose the right to use the original "content," and if you lose the right under such license, you also lose the right (very redundant).
I think what they are doing is covering the "well my CD got stolen, so I just downloaded it off of edonkey and burned it onto a blank CD" excuse.
Very nice...what icon set/theme?
I use a tar.gz based distribution...I'll go through the hoops to make a port and get it on my desktop if you can provide a screenshot...
The quote is from TFSS (slashdot summary). Probably didn't hit the correct 'reply' button.
but would you rather have a bad video card with open-source drivers or a much better one with closed-source drivers?
I have a g400 at home. You might call it a bad card, but the OSS drivers are great. I'm happy I haven't blown money on a better one with closed source drivers.
My next purchase will likely be a radeon 9250. I hear the OSS drivers for it are good.
Ah, but if you produce the software yourself and keep it closed AND provide service to your customers, you now realize both benefits whereas the OSS strategy fairly limits you to just the service aspect of the business.
Good point. However, in the commercial sector, you might stand to make $100 per seat for your software, and then $50 per month per seat for support.
Support is ongoing revenue...so the initial cost of software is only relevant when you need cash on hand. Which is irrelevant to companies like IBM.
On top of all this, how lucrative is "Service" anyway? In general, a product-driven strategy has a better margin than a service-driven strategy.
Service is not worth much money in the home sector, but worth many times more in the commercial sector. So, you give away the software for free to the home consumers, and they provide your market validation for support at the commercial sector.
This witty retort just restored my faith that here on Slashdot, somewhere, there are actual intelligent people left, and not just basement-dwelling wannabes who need to hied behind their snooty online identity to compensate for their inevitably miserable lives.