It doesn't require lots of money to make a good TV show. You have been brainwashed into thinking a good show has to have famous people and a huge budget.
It does require a lot of money to make a good sci-fi TV show. I understand Firefly was a million dollars an episode, whereas your game shows and your reality TV shows don't even have to pay for actors or many sets. Hence the popularity of the later among TV networks.
i don't aglee with you. this is veli veli wrong. lere is no future for engilsh. the future of english is Hinglish and Chinglish.:-)
Possibly, but there's no reason the spelling is going to be significantly different from the spellings based largely on late Middle English/early Modern English pronounciations we still use.
Yeah, you have to rely on quantum computing to do that. Alternatively, you have to prove that lots of "possible" chess positions don't actually appear, no matter how the other player plays, on the way to the optimal win.
Not necessarily either. Connect-4, for example, was solved not by brute force, but by finding simple rules to find a quick path to victory in certain situations. Chess would be a lot more complex, but it is concievable that we could discover "simple" rules that could tell the computer how to win a particular position without searching the complete game tree.
The Debian folks have come out against the GFDL on the grounds that it's non-free (if you have invariant sections), and it can be incompatible with the GPL (if you have invariant sections, I guess), which means you may not be able to embed your GFDL's docs inside your GPL'd program. Their preferred license seems to be CC-by-sa.
No; the documentation license generally preferred by Debian people is the license used on the code, usually GPL or BSD, since that makes it trivial to move stuff between code and documentation and is the simplest way of handing things.
there will be BSD because its the only FAIR license that allows ANYONE to use the code?
How is it unfair not to let people take your code proprietary? Less generous, but I hardly see how fairness requires that I give anything away to anyone.
Using your logic, many things -- such as the Coca-Cola bottle shape, or the distinctive sound of a Harley motorcycle -- would have been public domain a long, long time ago. But they're not.
The sound of a Harley is in the public domain; it has always been in the public domain. Their attempt to register it as a trademark fell through on being unable to clearly define it.
God also gave freedom of choice as He didn't stop Adam or Eve from eating the famous apple, they were fairly warned about eating the apple. At worst you may condemn the snake=devil who tempted Eve,
So God created a tree and pointed it out to Adam and Eve, so they would eat it, but since they were going to do that on their own, he created the snake, and had the snake do the dirty work, so he could escape the blame.
To wit: RPG players had a lower rate of suicide than the teenage population as a whole. D&D lowers the suicide rate, by that metric.
It's a nice plausible statistic, but the sites I've read with any sort of details on this hae been complete statistically bogus. I don't think anyone has done a proper survey on it.
His back healed, but he has limited use of his shoulder (keeps pain, movement somewhat limited), and this will not heal. There was a civil suit, but it was eventually settled, at about 11,000 euro.
So they just threw furniture over a balcony, near where there were people below, without appropriately securing the area, and injured someone for life, and got to walk off with a 11,000 euro fine? Is that really going to teach them to do it right, or are they going to add "permanately maiming innocent bystanders" to buisness expenses?
Given enough time, nearly every email becomes irrelevant.
Given enough time, nearly everything becomes irrelevant. That job resume you're writing up now is going to be pretty irrelevant in 3 years; but that doesn't mean you can ignore it now.
Why should congress stop the IRS? The IRS is very effective at getting them money. I mean, of they money they are supposed to get, they get easily 1000 times more. The government does not want to stop people from making donations to the federal governement.
Precisely. The laws are doing exactly what they are intended to do, and even if you could get a court to agree otherwise, all it would result in is in a change in the laws. It doesn't matter how the laws are phrased; that is a minor detail that Congress could fix in a heartbeat.
They made every man whose life was worthless worth well over half of a life. This was a *huge* issue. But 3/5ths established slaves as having some value, where they had never been worth anything before.
I think you need to read up on your history. It was a huge issue--for the South. The South wanted every slave to count as a full person, as that gave them more political power. The North didn't want the slaves to count at all, since they weren't voting and the North had more free men.
I think it is short sighted of you that you accuse the brightest minds our government ever had of being hypocrites because they were constrained by a situation that they did not work to create.
Jefferson could have freed his slaves, sold his plantation, and lived a happy if austere life off the proceeds. At the very least, he could have freed the slaves at his death, like Washington did. He didn't.
Someone decrying others for taking from him what he rightfully stole from others is hypocritical. Let's not whitewash history.
The problem arises that the IRS is making people believe that the statutes are written one way, when they are actually written as another.
It's easy to blame the IRS. Congress has the right and obligation to pull in the IRS if it's doing wrong, so apparently the IRS is doing what's right by Congress and the people who support Congress. Again, if someone forces the IRS to match what you think the statues mean, Congress will have to change the statues to mean what IRS believes they mean.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
So sayth a man who could publish his opinions because he had slaves that kept him from having to work; slaves that were kept in slavery by his force and the force of government.
Many groups of humans have some genes that are particular to their genetic heritage.
Many groups of humans have certain genes that are more probable in their population group. There is no gene you can target that will kill all Koreans and not take out a fair share of Caucasians. Jews are even harder; given the number of converts both ways, and the relative rarity of Jews in the population, you'd probably kill more Caucasians than Jews. Arabs probably wouldn't be very safe, either.
Ibrought up a legitimate wuestion of Jusrisduction.
The jurisdiction of these courts is defacto not nearly as limited as you claim. The only possible result of a successful court case against their jurisdiction would be Congress to quickly pass new laws making the defacto jurisdiction solidly dejuro.
There are two kids of taxpayers in this world. Those that don't want to be a tax payer,
So you are a tax protester.
Did you know that 85% of the federal budget is spent on socialst (welfare) programs?
So it's socialist, so it must be evil. In any case, this is wrong; 18% of the national budget is military, and 12% is interest.
You can thank FDR for all that.
You can also thank FDR for keeping the country a float during the Great Depression, a country put there by Presidents who believed like you do.
If it's been around that long and I've never heard of it, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that it hasn't exactly taken off like wildfire.
I think it's pretty stupid to assume that. I think it shows that you're actively being ignorant.
Looks like it's inferior to MPEG-4, and not widely supported.
That's funny, because MPEG-4 is a video standard and Ogg Vorbis is an audio standard. Again, a completely uninformed, ignorant answer.
Of course, the complaint that it's not widely supported can be slapped on Mac OS X, too. If the only thing that should be supported is the most common one, then we should be using Windows.
I think comments that include nothing other than a hyperlink ought to be disallowed. Aren't Internet message boards for sharing our own opinions, not just for parroting the other voices in our echo chambers?
Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. A person who doesn't listen to other people can't have informed opinions.
instead of buying cheap commodity PC hardware, pay the extra money for integrated Apple hardware only to put Linux on it which could have easily run on the cheaper PC?
Why is it so surprising that I want something small, quiet and well-put-together with good hardware? I want something that works without me messing with it, which I haven't been able to get with PC hardware.
I find it very sad that people are willing to pay (or even contemplate paying) this much money in order to experience one mediocre hour of TV a week, rather than dontate their money to good causes like cancer research or some other deserving charity.
How much of your money do you give to charity? If you're going to judge someone for paying for Star Trek, next time you're about to spend some money on something you enjoy (which someone else will think is mediocre), give it to charity. If all the Harry Potter fans had given to charity instead of buying the books and watching the movies, that would be hundreds of millions of dollars; are you saying that because someone thinks that's mediocre, all those fans should have donated to charity instead?
What is bloat though is the shitty code behind these. Nice bloaty STl C++ class implmentation that does, in 200 line, 5kbytes and 5000 cycles what a tight bit oc C can do in 20 lines, 100 bytes and 200 cycles.
You remember C Programmer's Disease from the Jargon file? There's thousands of tight bits of C out there that have arbitrary limits (often undocumented and unchecked) and random bugs, because it was more important to eek out that last millisecond and last byte than use well-tested library code. Not that anyone actually bothered testing the code; the well-tested library code might actually be faster (again, well-tested).
Sure, they have cut 1.5 billion of R&D costs, which is impressive, but only revenue can keep a company alive.
That's impressive? To me, cutting R&D means you have just that much of a harder time creating the next product that will keep your company afloat when your current one becomes outdated. Cutting R&D is what many companies have done before they got ran over by their (innovating) opponents and headed to bankrupcy court.
I think this has to do with more of a lack of user education then it does by putting the burden on a single software company. Even anti virus and firewall products have to constantly be updated because of new exploits.
And other operating systems make the executables unchangable by common users and don't require antivirus programs. Other word-processing systems don't come with virus support systems preinstalled; the first Word virus came out in 1997, but later versions of Word still supported running viruses.
We don't sell microwaves and mock people because they didn't buy the microwave protection screen and got hurt. The company has the responsibility for making sure their products are at least reasonably safe.
While were at it, let's ban Apple from preinstalling OS X on Macs too.
It's absurd to prevent a company from install its OS on the computers it sells. We have no problem letting Microsoft put Windows on the hardware it sells.
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After all - most windows and mac users wouldn't know what to do with an ogg file
Assuming WinAmp is installed, they'll get the nice music icon and in theory, it will automagically work without them ever knowing it was an OGG file.
It doesn't require lots of money to make a good TV show. You have been brainwashed into thinking a good show has to have famous people and a huge budget.
It does require a lot of money to make a good sci-fi TV show. I understand Firefly was a million dollars an episode, whereas your game shows and your reality TV shows don't even have to pay for actors or many sets. Hence the popularity of the later among TV networks.
i don't aglee with you. this is veli veli wrong. lere is no future for engilsh. the future of english is Hinglish and Chinglish. :-)
Possibly, but there's no reason the spelling is going to be significantly different from the spellings based largely on late Middle English/early Modern English pronounciations we still use.
Yeah, you have to rely on quantum computing to do that. Alternatively, you have to prove that lots of "possible" chess positions don't actually appear, no matter how the other player plays, on the way to the optimal win.
Not necessarily either. Connect-4, for example, was solved not by brute force, but by finding simple rules to find a quick path to victory in certain situations. Chess would be a lot more complex, but it is concievable that we could discover "simple" rules that could tell the computer how to win a particular position without searching the complete game tree.
The Debian folks have come out against the GFDL on the grounds that it's non-free (if you have invariant sections), and it can be incompatible with the GPL (if you have invariant sections, I guess), which means you may not be able to embed your GFDL's docs inside your GPL'd program. Their preferred license seems to be CC-by-sa.
No; the documentation license generally preferred by Debian people is the license used on the code, usually GPL or BSD, since that makes it trivial to move stuff between code and documentation and is the simplest way of handing things.
there will be BSD because its the only FAIR license that allows ANYONE to use the code?
How is it unfair not to let people take your code proprietary? Less generous, but I hardly see how fairness requires that I give anything away to anyone.
Using your logic, many things -- such as the Coca-Cola bottle shape, or the distinctive sound of a Harley motorcycle -- would have been public domain a long, long time ago. But they're not.
The sound of a Harley is in the public domain; it has always been in the public domain. Their attempt to register it as a trademark fell through on being unable to clearly define it.
God also gave freedom of choice as He didn't stop Adam or Eve from eating the famous apple, they were fairly warned about eating the apple. At worst you may condemn the snake=devil who tempted Eve,
So God created a tree and pointed it out to Adam and Eve, so they would eat it, but since they were going to do that on their own, he created the snake, and had the snake do the dirty work, so he could escape the blame.
To wit: RPG players had a lower rate of suicide than the teenage population as a whole. D&D lowers the suicide rate, by that metric.
It's a nice plausible statistic, but the sites I've read with any sort of details on this hae been complete statistically bogus. I don't think anyone has done a proper survey on it.
His back healed, but he has limited use of his shoulder (keeps pain, movement somewhat limited), and this will not heal. There was a civil suit, but it was eventually settled, at about 11,000 euro.
So they just threw furniture over a balcony, near where there were people below, without appropriately securing the area, and injured someone for life, and got to walk off with a 11,000 euro fine? Is that really going to teach them to do it right, or are they going to add "permanately maiming innocent bystanders" to buisness expenses?
the bigger problem with you is the attitude
This is the fallacy of the ad hominem.
Not really; that would imply that you are human, and not a flame-generating program, or more likely, a pot.
Given enough time, nearly every email becomes irrelevant.
Given enough time, nearly everything becomes irrelevant. That job resume you're writing up now is going to be pretty irrelevant in 3 years; but that doesn't mean you can ignore it now.
Why should congress stop the IRS? The IRS is very effective at getting them money. I mean, of they money they are supposed to get, they get easily 1000 times more. The government does not want to stop people from making donations to the federal governement.
Precisely. The laws are doing exactly what they are intended to do, and even if you could get a court to agree otherwise, all it would result in is in a change in the laws. It doesn't matter how the laws are phrased; that is a minor detail that Congress could fix in a heartbeat.
They made every man whose life was worthless worth well over half of a life. This was a *huge* issue. But 3/5ths established slaves as having some value, where they had never been worth anything before.
I think you need to read up on your history. It was a huge issue--for the South. The South wanted every slave to count as a full person, as that gave them more political power. The North didn't want the slaves to count at all, since they weren't voting and the North had more free men.
I think it is short sighted of you that you accuse the brightest minds our government ever had of being hypocrites because they were constrained by a situation that they did not work to create.
Jefferson could have freed his slaves, sold his plantation, and lived a happy if austere life off the proceeds. At the very least, he could have freed the slaves at his death, like Washington did. He didn't.
Someone decrying others for taking from him what he rightfully stole from others is hypocritical. Let's not whitewash history.
The problem arises that the IRS is making people believe that the statutes are written one way, when they are actually written as another.
It's easy to blame the IRS. Congress has the right and obligation to pull in the IRS if it's doing wrong, so apparently the IRS is doing what's right by Congress and the people who support Congress. Again, if someone forces the IRS to match what you think the statues mean, Congress will have to change the statues to mean what IRS believes they mean.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
-Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson
So sayth a man who could publish his opinions because he had slaves that kept him from having to work; slaves that were kept in slavery by his force and the force of government.
Many groups of humans have some genes that are particular to their genetic heritage.
Many groups of humans have certain genes that are more probable in their population group. There is no gene you can target that will kill all Koreans and not take out a fair share of Caucasians. Jews are even harder; given the number of converts both ways, and the relative rarity of Jews in the population, you'd probably kill more Caucasians than Jews. Arabs probably wouldn't be very safe, either.
Ibrought up a legitimate wuestion of Jusrisduction.
The jurisdiction of these courts is defacto not nearly as limited as you claim. The only possible result of a successful court case against their jurisdiction would be Congress to quickly pass new laws making the defacto jurisdiction solidly dejuro.
There are two kids of taxpayers in this world. Those that don't want to be a tax payer,
So you are a tax protester.
Did you know that 85% of the federal budget is spent on socialst (welfare) programs?
So it's socialist, so it must be evil. In any case, this is wrong; 18% of the national budget is military, and 12% is interest.
You can thank FDR for all that.
You can also thank FDR for keeping the country a float during the Great Depression, a country put there by Presidents who believed like you do.
If it's been around that long and I've never heard of it, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that it hasn't exactly taken off like wildfire.
I think it's pretty stupid to assume that. I think it shows that you're actively being ignorant.
Looks like it's inferior to MPEG-4, and not widely supported.
That's funny, because MPEG-4 is a video standard and Ogg Vorbis is an audio standard. Again, a completely uninformed, ignorant answer.
Of course, the complaint that it's not widely supported can be slapped on Mac OS X, too. If the only thing that should be supported is the most common one, then we should be using Windows.
I think comments that include nothing other than a hyperlink ought to be disallowed. Aren't Internet message boards for sharing our own opinions, not just for parroting the other voices in our echo chambers?
Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. A person who doesn't listen to other people can't have informed opinions.
instead of buying cheap commodity PC hardware, pay the extra money for integrated Apple hardware only to put Linux on it which could have easily run on the cheaper PC?
Why is it so surprising that I want something small, quiet and well-put-together with good hardware? I want something that works without me messing with it, which I haven't been able to get with PC hardware.
They sold to Iraq in the 1980s.
I find it very sad that people are willing to pay (or even contemplate paying) this much money in order to experience one mediocre hour of TV a week, rather than dontate their money to good causes like cancer research or some other deserving charity.
How much of your money do you give to charity? If you're going to judge someone for paying for Star Trek, next time you're about to spend some money on something you enjoy (which someone else will think is mediocre), give it to charity. If all the Harry Potter fans had given to charity instead of buying the books and watching the movies, that would be hundreds of millions of dollars; are you saying that because someone thinks that's mediocre, all those fans should have donated to charity instead?
What is bloat though is the shitty code behind these. Nice bloaty STl C++ class implmentation that does, in 200 line, 5kbytes and 5000 cycles what a tight bit oc C can do in 20 lines, 100 bytes and 200 cycles.
You remember C Programmer's Disease from the Jargon file? There's thousands of tight bits of C out there that have arbitrary limits (often undocumented and unchecked) and random bugs, because it was more important to eek out that last millisecond and last byte than use well-tested library code. Not that anyone actually bothered testing the code; the well-tested library code might actually be faster (again, well-tested).
Sure, they have cut 1.5 billion of R&D costs, which is impressive, but only revenue can keep a company alive.
That's impressive? To me, cutting R&D means you have just that much of a harder time creating the next product that will keep your company afloat when your current one becomes outdated. Cutting R&D is what many companies have done before they got ran over by their (innovating) opponents and headed to bankrupcy court.
I think this has to do with more of a lack of user education then it does by putting the burden on a single software company. Even anti virus and firewall products have to constantly be updated because of new exploits.
And other operating systems make the executables unchangable by common users and don't require antivirus programs. Other word-processing systems don't come with virus support systems preinstalled; the first Word virus came out in 1997, but later versions of Word still supported running viruses.
We don't sell microwaves and mock people because they didn't buy the microwave protection screen and got hurt. The company has the responsibility for making sure their products are at least reasonably safe.
While were at it, let's ban Apple from preinstalling OS X on Macs too.
It's absurd to prevent a company from install its OS on the computers it sells. We have no problem letting Microsoft put Windows on the hardware it sells.