I'm pretty sure that in most countries. You can discriminate against anyone you like if you have a reason, as long as It's not against sex, race etc. And potential law suits sound like a good enough reason to refuse bussiness to me.
I don't support what this company is doing, or the SCO case (I feel I need to point this fact out on slashdot), but I think your comment is a bit overrated.
...there must be a dozen or more businesses in very easy distance which do CD mass duplication.
I'm sorry, but there just isn't here in NZ. When we want to burn a CD, it's either them, or we have to pull out a magnifying glass and burn it by hand under the sun. Hell, be barely have power down here you know. And those Aussies don't help matters.
Anyone who judges something by an old tag line is being silly.
If you have a look, you will see that they have quite a few Mac articals that are not putting Apple down. Perhaps you mistake constructive critisim as a flame?
E.G. Take all the OS X articals. All of them long and detailed. Probably not because whoever wrote the artical didn't like macs. But because they want to make sure what's best for something they like, or because they think it's more realistic to expect change from them. After all, what would be the point in doing the same thing for Windows or Linux? It would seem like a lost cause, IMHO.
Ha, that's what I was thinking. I'm not usally a fan of windows and neon lights in the side of a case, but the insides of the G5 looks so nice, it would probably look really good, compared to your average illuminated rat's nest box.
Tell that to the protester who have been arrested and sentenced to 25 years for speaking out against the govt.
As I said, they are far from perfect. But they are much better than when they were a banana republic, being controled and expoited by a capitalist country, just like some communist countries exploit people.
Capitalism is a system where individuals intereact freely using trade.
Tell that to the people who were under a dictatorship what was worse than Castro....Controled by a capitalisn nation.
I hope you get my point. Capitalsm is no freeier than communism. As the old saying goes, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it the other way around".
Communists simply believe that each participant should get the same reward and recognition for the product of the group as a whole regardless of the work they, as an individual, dedicated to the said product.
Sounds like OSS to me. People contribute, some more than others, others not at all. But in the end they can all share the product.
Also, you cannot take a subset of an economic system (OSS is a subset of the software industry, which, itself, is a subset of the larger economy) and proclaim it to be communistic.
Yes you can because not all people in the OSS community are contributing for commercial reasons.
If you did, one could argue, for example, that slave laborers are communistic, as they all get the same reward for the product.
Not sure how you come to that coclution. But the point is moot because slavery happens under capitalism as well.
OSS will be communistic on the same day that the community regards a kernel beta tester as being equal to Linus--and rewards him/her appropriately.
Bollocks. OSS would considered not to be communistic when people are rewared given how much they contribute.
I should point out that the only reason that the OSS community shows ideas of communism sucessfuly is because software is infomation, so of course, has an infinite supply.
What has you living near China got to do with communism? Cuba is a communist country, and although they are far from perfect, they were much better then when they were a banana republic, run by capitalist USA.
You don't seem to get my point. The ideas in communism, capitalism, or socialism, are not "evil". The whole idea of evil is just silly when talking about economic and social systems. I think the word you're looking for is corrupt. Anyway. Both those 3 systems have some good ideas in them (while you think each one may fail, is another thing).
If communism has a lot in common with nazis, then the same can be said about capitalism. The implimentaion of someone's take on an idea is not a good example of what those ideas represent.
I'm not sure how you got the idea that I said Mozilla was not communism.
What about if your driving around in the country. Not to sure where you are. And what to find out what the mountain is that to your left? Sure you could pull out the GPS, look at where you are on a map, and then try and figure out where the mountain is, relative to you etc. But it would be much easier just to point and click. I think that's the idea here....It's easy.
It could still be usefull in a city to find you way around. If you're looking at a hill, you quite oftern can't see the road. If you see some place on hill that you want to go, it not easy just to look at a map and see were you're looking relative to it.
That's why I said communistic, not that it's a model of communism. Partly because of the fact that companies are also involved in OSS. But there are still people out there who contribute to the OSS community for free.
Thank you for you ignorance on socialism and communism. The Nazi party were dictators. Starlin was also a dictator. Just because they say they are socialists or communists, It doesn't mean they really stand for what communists or socialists stand for.
Anyone who believes that communism is about the things you mentioned, is just as bad as the communists and socialists who cry out and say that the capitalist system is the sole blame for all it's problems.
I'm not a communists or a socialist BTW. But this FUD has to stop.
Ironicly, you post could easly be about the current state of the US government.
Whether you like it or not. The OSS movment is communistic. Now, you can bitch and moan about how it isn't, because communist ideas are evil. Or you can wake up and see that perhaps communist ideas can work in certain places.
The idea with this is that you don't have to walk over to whatever you want to get into on. If you happen to be 2 blocks away from the movies, and want to know what time film X is on, you could point to it. Instead of having to walk all the way there, in which case you might aswell go right inside and look at their timetable.
I'm guessing that this is based on GPS. But the idea in this and normal GPS devices are a bit different. GPS tells you something about where you are now. This tells you something about where you might want to go.
I'm a bit dissapointed with that. I rather keep the pinstripes on the title bar, the remove them from the window BG. But then again, it's just a preview.
This seems to be a common occurance on/. (and other place to, probably).
Just because you're smart, doesn't mean that no one else is. Does anyone here really think that they know more in this field than the engineers at Honda?
Other other redundant posts here go something like this:
"If every one of the other retards on the road was at skilled at driving as I am, then we wouldn't need these dangerous "safty" aids in the first place."
The biggest problem on the road is probably people who think they are better than they acctually are. Unless you properly race full-size cars* on a regular basis, you are not as good as you think you are. You're a danger to other people.
*I race RC cars, so know a lot about the handling of cars in theory and practice (sort of). Of course, I'm smart enough to know that this still doesn't mean I'm going to be able to correctly handle a car in an accident situation.
1. If he steps on the gas, then you are not approaching his car at a high rate are you? Why would the system go off?
2. I'm sure the system can tell the difference between a cat and a car, even if they are spelt similar. I'm also sure it takes surface conditions into account.
3. One would think that this system can dectect the rate of the object that it thinks could be a problem, else the entire system would be useless. Do you not think they would take this into account when designing it?
4. Unless he is descerating quickly, which means you may hit him (and get rear-ended by the semi, to), then I don't think it would go off. Do you not think they would take this into account?
Honda have been designing cars for a while you know. They didn't just pick up some geek from slashdot who thinks he knows what he's talking about, and assumes too much about something before he even has a full understanding of it;)
The people working at Honda are not stupid. Infact they probably know more about this subject that you, or anyone else in this entire forum. Do you not think they would have taken things like turning, and surface conditions into account when designing this system?
Also, a person probably isn't going to swerve if they are asleep, or other wise don't notice they're about to have a collision. If you're talking about the system not swerving, rather that people relying on this type of system, then Honda probably realise that this is too hard/dangerous, and that while braking isn't nessesarily going to avoid an impact, it can atleast reduce the speed of the impact.
I know this is just flamebait. But I'll reply anyway, since there are still quite a few others out there.
The truth is, without Javacript and DHTML, many complex web apps would be horrible to use. One example where DHTML is used a lot is in forms, for changing menus, dissabling or enabling controls, validation, etc etc. Without these, pages would have to be reloaded each time something had to be done. While this is OK sometimes, other times it can be terribly counter-intuitive and slow.
As for slashdot, it's fairly basic in terms of the user interface, there is no need for DHTML.
But most of the time I do want to carry both. So why shouldn't I get something that's a all-in-one? The only issue with all-in-one devices are if they are not integrated properly.
Next time I upgrade my PDA, a PDA/Phone will by my only choice.
Its possible but anything being projected on people's car windows would just be asking for trouble.
It's deffinitly asking (assuming they don't get owners' permission first). But the same could be said about pop-up windows etc. People can try and sue, but they might have a hard time winning. Annoying people has never put people off trying to make money before if you know what I mean.
If you want it, buy it. Otherwise don't complain when others do.
I don't think the idea was so much about ourselves, but more concern for other people, who may think for some reason (that complex reason)that these things will better their lives, when they probably won't.
That was a joke
I took as a joke, but didn't pick up on the sarcasm. I'd still patent it though! There's bound to be someone out there who want's one. That way you can sit on the patent, and save humanity from killer vacuum cleaners....Or just pay off your mortage.
That was more irony than any real malice.
Ah well. Some of the people here are getting so bad, it's difficult to tell if they're serious or not.
Okay what is this guy smoking? There is no way that advertisements projected onto people's windshields will ever be allowed. The amount of problems that would cause to motorists would be way to high exspecially [sic] as sue happy as the average trial lawyer is today.
There were no specifics in the aritcal, so why on earth would you jump to conclusions? Is it not possable that they would only be used on the passenger side (for people walking down the footpath)? And why do you think that anyone who sues would win, considering the current state of law and justice.
Then don't buy the product. Thats the whole purpose behind capitalism.
Thank you for ignoring all the social aspects of society. If it were a case of doing the obvious, and common sence, then society would be fine. But they don't, and there's a reason for that. So please, no more "Then just don't..." comments. They ingore the fact--that there are complex reasons people "just do"--in the first place.
An automatic vacuum cleaner equipped with a gun to shoot people that break into my house.
But how does that make life easier? A good lock system and alarm would be a better alternative to your paranoid-american robocop idea.
Oh yes! Brilliant! We're rich so we should just sell everything and just sit around enjoying ourselves. No don't buy anything, that would be bad. After all money isn't supposed to make you happy its only supposed to make you feel bad about those who have less than you...
Now that's exagerating. He's not suggesting you go down the Fight Club path or anything. And he's certinaly not suggest you don't buy anything.
...After all if you bought something then some of that money might spill over to some poor guy who invented a body heat powered personal fan or something, and then he would be rich and bored too.
Holy shit. Calm down boy. The artical was not titled "The Downfall of Capitalism". People would still continue to exchange money for goods and services, and inventors would still continue to invent...usefull inventions.
Please keep in mind that while having lots of money is good, and makes life much easier, it's will not make you instantly happier. There are people in other contries who are healthy and happy, even though they are poor.
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If Bill Gates gave some funding to Redhat for some reason. Should that mean all Linux geeks should now like Microsoft?
Damn straight. Horray for the free market!
Well, You would if you worked at Microsoft, or any other company that sells crap/rip-offs ;)
I don't support what this company is doing, or the SCO case (I feel I need to point this fact out on slashdot), but I think your comment is a bit overrated.
I'm sorry, but there just isn't here in NZ. When we want to burn a CD, it's either them, or we have to pull out a magnifying glass and burn it by hand under the sun. Hell, be barely have power down here you know. And those Aussies don't help matters.
Anyone who judges something by an old tag line is being silly.
If you have a look, you will see that they have quite a few Mac articals that are not putting Apple down. Perhaps you mistake constructive critisim as a flame?
E.G. Take all the OS X articals. All of them long and detailed. Probably not because whoever wrote the artical didn't like macs. But because they want to make sure what's best for something they like, or because they think it's more realistic to expect change from them. After all, what would be the point in doing the same thing for Windows or Linux? It would seem like a lost cause, IMHO.
Ha, that's what I was thinking. I'm not usally a fan of windows and neon lights in the side of a case, but the insides of the G5 looks so nice, it would probably look really good, compared to your average illuminated rat's nest box.
As I said, they are far from perfect. But they are much better than when they were a banana republic, being controled and expoited by a capitalist country, just like some communist countries exploit people.
Capitalism is a system where individuals intereact freely using trade.
Tell that to the people who were under a dictatorship what was worse than Castro....Controled by a capitalisn nation.
I hope you get my point. Capitalsm is no freeier than communism. As the old saying goes, "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it the other way around".
Sounds like OSS to me. People contribute, some more than others, others not at all. But in the end they can all share the product.
Also, you cannot take a subset of an economic system (OSS is a subset of the software industry, which, itself, is a subset of the larger economy) and proclaim it to be communistic.
Yes you can because not all people in the OSS community are contributing for commercial reasons.
If you did, one could argue, for example, that slave laborers are communistic, as they all get the same reward for the product.
Not sure how you come to that coclution. But the point is moot because slavery happens under capitalism as well.
OSS will be communistic on the same day that the community regards a kernel beta tester as being equal to Linus--and rewards him/her appropriately.
Bollocks. OSS would considered not to be communistic when people are rewared given how much they contribute.
I should point out that the only reason that the OSS community shows ideas of communism sucessfuly is because software is infomation, so of course, has an infinite supply.
You don't seem to get my point. The ideas in communism, capitalism, or socialism, are not "evil". The whole idea of evil is just silly when talking about economic and social systems. I think the word you're looking for is corrupt. Anyway. Both those 3 systems have some good ideas in them (while you think each one may fail, is another thing).
If communism has a lot in common with nazis, then the same can be said about capitalism. The implimentaion of someone's take on an idea is not a good example of what those ideas represent.
I'm not sure how you got the idea that I said Mozilla was not communism.
It could still be usefull in a city to find you way around. If you're looking at a hill, you quite oftern can't see the road. If you see some place on hill that you want to go, it not easy just to look at a map and see were you're looking relative to it.
That's why I said communistic, not that it's a model of communism. Partly because of the fact that companies are also involved in OSS. But there are still people out there who contribute to the OSS community for free.
Thank you for confiming my point.
Anyone who believes that communism is about the things you mentioned, is just as bad as the communists and socialists who cry out and say that the capitalist system is the sole blame for all it's problems.
I'm not a communists or a socialist BTW. But this FUD has to stop.
Ironicly, you post could easly be about the current state of the US government.
Whether you like it or not. The OSS movment is communistic. Now, you can bitch and moan about how it isn't, because communist ideas are evil. Or you can wake up and see that perhaps communist ideas can work in certain places.
I'm guessing that this is based on GPS. But the idea in this and normal GPS devices are a bit different. GPS tells you something about where you are now. This tells you something about where you might want to go.
Same could be said about all UNIX-like systems.
I'm a bit dissapointed with that. I rather keep the pinstripes on the title bar, the remove them from the window BG. But then again, it's just a preview.
You have obviously never worked in the video (or print) industry.
And don't say that's what FireWire is for. Some people need the speed of an internal drive.
This seems to be a common occurance on /. (and other place to, probably).
Just because you're smart, doesn't mean that no one else is. Does anyone here really think that they know more in this field than the engineers at Honda?
Other other redundant posts here go something like this:
"If every one of the other retards on the road was at skilled at driving as I am, then we wouldn't need these dangerous "safty" aids in the first place."
The biggest problem on the road is probably people who think they are better than they acctually are. Unless you properly race full-size cars* on a regular basis, you are not as good as you think you are. You're a danger to other people.
*I race RC cars, so know a lot about the handling of cars in theory and practice (sort of). Of course, I'm smart enough to know that this still doesn't mean I'm going to be able to correctly handle a car in an accident situation.
2. I'm sure the system can tell the difference between a cat and a car, even if they are spelt similar. I'm also sure it takes surface conditions into account.
3. One would think that this system can dectect the rate of the object that it thinks could be a problem, else the entire system would be useless. Do you not think they would take this into account when designing it?
4. Unless he is descerating quickly, which means you may hit him (and get rear-ended by the semi, to), then I don't think it would go off. Do you not think they would take this into account?
Honda have been designing cars for a while you know. They didn't just pick up some geek from slashdot who thinks he knows what he's talking about, and assumes too much about something before he even has a full understanding of it ;)
Also, a person probably isn't going to swerve if they are asleep, or other wise don't notice they're about to have a collision. If you're talking about the system not swerving, rather that people relying on this type of system, then Honda probably realise that this is too hard/dangerous, and that while braking isn't nessesarily going to avoid an impact, it can atleast reduce the speed of the impact.
The truth is, without Javacript and DHTML, many complex web apps would be horrible to use. One example where DHTML is used a lot is in forms, for changing menus, dissabling or enabling controls, validation, etc etc. Without these, pages would have to be reloaded each time something had to be done. While this is OK sometimes, other times it can be terribly counter-intuitive and slow.
As for slashdot, it's fairly basic in terms of the user interface, there is no need for DHTML.
Next time I upgrade my PDA, a PDA/Phone will by my only choice.
It's deffinitly asking (assuming they don't get owners' permission first). But the same could be said about pop-up windows etc. People can try and sue, but they might have a hard time winning. Annoying people has never put people off trying to make money before if you know what I mean.
If you want it, buy it. Otherwise don't complain when others do.
I don't think the idea was so much about ourselves, but more concern for other people, who may think for some reason (that complex reason)that these things will better their lives, when they probably won't.
That was a joke
I took as a joke, but didn't pick up on the sarcasm. I'd still patent it though! There's bound to be someone out there who want's one. That way you can sit on the patent, and save humanity from killer vacuum cleaners....Or just pay off your mortage.
That was more irony than any real malice.
Ah well. Some of the people here are getting so bad, it's difficult to tell if they're serious or not.
There were no specifics in the aritcal, so why on earth would you jump to conclusions? Is it not possable that they would only be used on the passenger side (for people walking down the footpath)? And why do you think that anyone who sues would win, considering the current state of law and justice.
Then don't buy the product. Thats the whole purpose behind capitalism.
Thank you for ignoring all the social aspects of society. If it were a case of doing the obvious, and common sence, then society would be fine. But they don't, and there's a reason for that. So please, no more "Then just don't..." comments. They ingore the fact--that there are complex reasons people "just do"--in the first place.
An automatic vacuum cleaner equipped with a gun to shoot people that break into my house.
But how does that make life easier? A good lock system and alarm would be a better alternative to your paranoid-american robocop idea.
Oh yes! Brilliant! We're rich so we should just sell everything and just sit around enjoying ourselves. No don't buy anything, that would be bad. After all money isn't supposed to make you happy its only supposed to make you feel bad about those who have less than you...
Now that's exagerating. He's not suggesting you go down the Fight Club path or anything. And he's certinaly not suggest you don't buy anything.
Holy shit. Calm down boy. The artical was not titled "The Downfall of Capitalism". People would still continue to exchange money for goods and services, and inventors would still continue to invent...usefull inventions.
Please keep in mind that while having lots of money is good, and makes life much easier, it's will not make you instantly happier. There are people in other contries who are healthy and happy, even though they are poor.