Three times in the past two weeks I've been clicking links and reading NYT artciles, only to suddenly be presented with "please register to read this article, it's Free!".
I haven't found a pattern. Perhaps it's after you've read X pages in Y amount of time or something. The point is, the NYT is back at it to an extent.
That's because the GPL, for all the good it's done, is at the end of the day more of a political statement than a license.
Yes, yes I know I'll get modded as flamebait for this, but the truth hurts. Don't get me wrong, I use tons of GPL software and have contributed to some as well. I'm just sick of the more fanatical among the OSS crowd acting like it's the only license fit to ever use under any circumstances. As others have noted in this discussion it's also held Linux back in a few areas.
I would tend to agree with the caveat that the Demoncrats are every bit as bad as the Repugnantcans. Some of their evil overlaps and some is different, that's all.
That's funny because I made a small fortune on the Google IPO. I sold and put it into safer investments since that time and don't regret it, however. I think it's way overvalued at the present time but I was happy to take my profits and run.
I didn't say people downloaded because it was crap. I said fewer people are buying entire CD's when 90% of said CD is crap and maybe has one or two good songs.
Of course that is subjective. Also, I have never downloaded music 'illegally' so I'm not one for making any apologies for that behavior. I want to see Fair Use and Copyright law changed, but in the meantime I respect the current legal framework. I've been *very* vocal with my local Congresscritter on this subject among others.
RIAA: *Jedi hand wave* Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
What a colassal house of cards the RIAA has built for itself. They are doing everything BUT look at the core reasons why people are buying fewer and fewer CD's. It's got far less to do with having to pay for it than it does with the overall quality of their pap...I mean products.
While that would be great in a perfect world, the sad fact is corporations don't really pay taxes anyways. They design their profit structure so that the actual cost of taxes is passed on to the consumer. While what you describe would be great in said perfect world, in the real world you and I would end up paying their tax bills just as we do now.
"I don't understand the complains about people talking on their phones. What if the other person they were talking to was right there? Still talking about the same things, still as much in your ear space... "
Speaking as someone who loves his mobile devices, I think you're missing the point on this bit. It's very annoying because it's LOUDER. When two people are engaged in conversation in person they tend to speak in lower tones, FAR lower than most cellphone talkers. It's rude and annoying and I'm glad some establishments are cracking down on the practice. There's a time and place to have a nice phone chat; while I am crammed into a seat next to you in a movie, eater, bus, or plane are not those times and places. Unless of course you want me to use your phone on you as a suppository:)
Anyone who didn't see right through what MS was doing this week is really dense. I'll break it down:
1. Make a big splash in the news that they are finally sitting down to talk 2. 'Walk away' very publically saying there will not even be a hostile takeover. 3. Watch Yahoo stock tank and wait for the inevitable shareholder lawsuits against Yahoo 4. Wait for Yahoo to come crawling back 5. ? 6. Profit?
While I always admire when a company admits they were wrong about something, I have to think that this is just massive damage control. Imagine what their inboxes looked like over this fiasco:-)
No I didn't miss the point. Using an undocumented API is another example of bad programming. Yes, even HAVING undocumented API's is bad as well. Like I said, I was not excusing the mess that is Win32, I was just sayin'...
"It passes bad parameters to API calls, uses memory that it has released, assumes that files live in particular hard-coded locations, all sorts of things that it shouldn't do."
Those are basically programming errors, not problems with the API. Don't get me wrong, I find Win32 to be a pain in the ass sometimes, but this article just reeks of flamebait.
Agreed. They are going after the wrong people. I will admit that I tend towards being a conservative libertarian, but I'm leaning towards Impeachment just the same even though I've supported Bush in the past on a few issues (tax cuts mainly).
Nah. First off she'll have access to a bigger PC when she wants it. Second, her boyfriend is 6'2" and already has multiple black belts at age 19. He can't quite take me yet but he's getting close;)
Nice attempt at trolling/flamebait though. I applaud your efforts, even though they were fruitless and only served to make me chuckle and yet pity you at the same time:-)
She already has a desktop for gaming that I plan on letting her take if she decides to live on campus or an apartment. The EEE is so she has something small and portable. If she wants a more modern machine (her desktop is a P4 2.4 ghz with an ATI 9600...getting pretty dated) then like I said, she can save her money.
I'm pretty sure I'll be buying an EEE for my daughter when she starts college in the fall. She 'needs' IM, document editing, and web browsing. Why spend twice as much for a 'full featured' laptop? If she wants a gaming PC she can save her money and buy one!
"I am sure, time a few years, it could become the perfect input device"
That's amazing and impressive. I've been in the IT and technology field for a long long time, long enough to know that I can never be 'sure' what will be coming in a few years or what current nascent technologies will be perefected and which will be busts.
Interesting point, but I was under the impression that the vast majority of molecular hydrogen coaleseced into the Sun, and the remaining fraction around the major gas giants. I am not so sure there was even enough hydrogen around on the newly formed Earth to be worth noting.
As you said, we don't know what happened back then, but it makes for some interesting thought experiments.
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Three times in the past two weeks I've been clicking links and reading NYT artciles, only to suddenly be presented with "please register to read this article, it's Free!".
I haven't found a pattern. Perhaps it's after you've read X pages in Y amount of time or something. The point is, the NYT is back at it to an extent.
That's because the GPL, for all the good it's done, is at the end of the day more of a political statement than a license.
Yes, yes I know I'll get modded as flamebait for this, but the truth hurts. Don't get me wrong, I use tons of GPL software and have contributed to some as well. I'm just sick of the more fanatical among the OSS crowd acting like it's the only license fit to ever use under any circumstances. As others have noted in this discussion it's also held Linux back in a few areas.
Your business plan intrigues me, and I'd like to hear more details.
But I don't have a newsletter...
I would tend to agree with the caveat that the Demoncrats are every bit as bad as the Repugnantcans. Some of their evil overlaps and some is different, that's all.
I know you got modded as Funny, but it really should have been Insightful.
That's funny because I made a small fortune on the Google IPO. I sold and put it into safer investments since that time and don't regret it, however. I think it's way overvalued at the present time but I was happy to take my profits and run.
Yes they can do that in the US. They are free to walk away or resume talks or engage in a hostile takeover as they see fit.
No worries; I could have also been a bit more clear, but I am multitasking (i.e. real, paying work) while I browse /. intermittently ;-)
I didn't say people downloaded because it was crap. I said fewer people are buying entire CD's when 90% of said CD is crap and maybe has one or two good songs.
Of course that is subjective. Also, I have never downloaded music 'illegally' so I'm not one for making any apologies for that behavior. I want to see Fair Use and Copyright law changed, but in the meantime I respect the current legal framework. I've been *very* vocal with my local Congresscritter on this subject among others.
RIAA: *Jedi hand wave* Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
What a colassal house of cards the RIAA has built for itself. They are doing everything BUT look at the core reasons why people are buying fewer and fewer CD's. It's got far less to do with having to pay for it than it does with the overall quality of their pap...I mean products.
He should have known what he was looking at just from the summary, but I agree that people should RTFA before they ask silly questions.
It's really quite an impressive difference, the before and after shots.
While that would be great in a perfect world, the sad fact is corporations don't really pay taxes anyways. They design their profit structure so that the actual cost of taxes is passed on to the consumer. While what you describe would be great in said perfect world, in the real world you and I would end up paying their tax bills just as we do now.
"I don't understand the complains about people talking on their phones. What if the other person they were talking to was right there? Still talking about the same things, still as much in your ear space... "
:)
Speaking as someone who loves his mobile devices, I think you're missing the point on this bit. It's very annoying because it's LOUDER. When two people are engaged in conversation in person they tend to speak in lower tones, FAR lower than most cellphone talkers. It's rude and annoying and I'm glad some establishments are cracking down on the practice. There's a time and place to have a nice phone chat; while I am crammed into a seat next to you in a movie, eater, bus, or plane are not those times and places. Unless of course you want me to use your phone on you as a suppository
Anyone who didn't see right through what MS was doing this week is really dense. I'll break it down:
1. Make a big splash in the news that they are finally sitting down to talk
2. 'Walk away' very publically saying there will not even be a hostile takeover.
3. Watch Yahoo stock tank and wait for the inevitable shareholder lawsuits against Yahoo
4. Wait for Yahoo to come crawling back
5. ?
6. Profit?
While I always admire when a company admits they were wrong about something, I have to think that this is just massive damage control. Imagine what their inboxes looked like over this fiasco :-)
No I didn't miss the point. Using an undocumented API is another example of bad programming. Yes, even HAVING undocumented API's is bad as well. Like I said, I was not excusing the mess that is Win32, I was just sayin'...
"It passes bad parameters to API calls, uses memory that it has released, assumes that files live in particular hard-coded locations, all sorts of things that it shouldn't do."
Those are basically programming errors, not problems with the API. Don't get me wrong, I find Win32 to be a pain in the ass sometimes, but this article just reeks of flamebait.
Agreed. They are going after the wrong people. I will admit that I tend towards being a conservative libertarian, but I'm leaning towards Impeachment just the same even though I've supported Bush in the past on a few issues (tax cuts mainly).
Nah. First off she'll have access to a bigger PC when she wants it. Second, her boyfriend is 6'2" and already has multiple black belts at age 19. He can't quite take me yet but he's getting close ;)
:-)
Nice attempt at trolling/flamebait though. I applaud your efforts, even though they were fruitless and only served to make me chuckle and yet pity you at the same time
She already has a desktop for gaming that I plan on letting her take if she decides to live on campus or an apartment. The EEE is so she has something small and portable. If she wants a more modern machine (her desktop is a P4 2.4 ghz with an ATI 9600...getting pretty dated) then like I said, she can save her money.
I'm pretty sure I'll be buying an EEE for my daughter when she starts college in the fall. She 'needs' IM, document editing, and web browsing. Why spend twice as much for a 'full featured' laptop? If she wants a gaming PC she can save her money and buy one!
Because it's cheaper to just saturate everyone with spam than to winnow out the ones who are never interested?
The AI's needed the Anomaly to be bred every several generations so as to reset things. That's why they kept Zion and humans around.
"I am sure, time a few years, it could become the perfect input device"
That's amazing and impressive. I've been in the IT and technology field for a long long time, long enough to know that I can never be 'sure' what will be coming in a few years or what current nascent technologies will be perefected and which will be busts.
Interesting point, but I was under the impression that the vast majority of molecular hydrogen coaleseced into the Sun, and the remaining fraction around the major gas giants. I am not so sure there was even enough hydrogen around on the newly formed Earth to be worth noting.
As you said, we don't know what happened back then, but it makes for some interesting thought experiments.