"Anybody who says otherwise is deluding themselves."
So sez the Anonymous Coward. I take it you have never read 1984.
Take a look around this thread for people who were in the community a decade ago and heard the "patchy" explanation when Apache came out. I guess, according to you, they are both liars AND deluded.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Merkins think of themselves the only people in the Americas, considering their average knowledge of world geography.
No reason to get insulting.
It's not an insult. It is my considered opinion, and backed up by test scores of students in the U.S. when compared to other industrialized countries. If you are actually offended, I can only assume that this is a case of "the truth hurts". Otherwise, you would have provided counter evidence.
I consider myself a small-a anarchist, and my attitude is that everyone is responsible for everything. If people don't realize they actually have power to oppose policies and institutions that require "the Will of the People" as their basis for authority, then we are forever doomed to anti-democratic government.
Basically, you agree to let your government govern you. If it does something wrong in your name, you don't get to claim innocence. You are responsible for holding authority to account, and making public institutions prove that they deserve the right act in your name.
To me, the essence of Anarchism is creativity, not "everyone for himself". Creativity leads to diversity: it may be messy, but it is the essence of humanity. Which is why authoritarians can't stand art that doesn't serve as propaganda.
Obvious bias is *not* wrong, as long as it is declared. It is the undeclared biases that are the real problem in journalism. My feeling is that editors should be more visible and accountable for the choices they make in directing and revising the product of journalists. Declaring editorial bias would be a good start.
Last time I checked, the United States of America was part of North America. There is also a South and Central America, or so I am told.
Hence, I must ask: what gives USians the exclusive right to the label "American"?
When I was traveling abroad (especially Britian) I often found myself saying "No, I am not an American, I am a Canadian". But I would often get a puzzled look, because people don't always differentiate between the two. It's not intended as an insult, they genuinely don't see why someone from the US and someone from Canada shouldn't both be called "American".
It's like the word "European": there's a European Union which many of the Euro countries belong to, but would you say that citizens of a non-member country (say, Switzerland) are somehow less European?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Merkins think of themselves the only people in the Americas, considering their average knowledge of world geography.
I agree. How the hell are you going to "Test it on humans"? Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
And I don't know how they can say there was "no brain damage" in these dogs. How do they know? Based on MRIs? Behaviour? Wishful thinking?
I watched a really good show on how the ship disposal industry is just as disgusting as PCs. Unscrupulous guys buy these old hulks from their owners for cheap, then turn around and dump them on the shore of India for workers to cut up and sold for big money. No attempt at avoiding environmental contamination or protecting workers is made.
In most cases, when the topic is not some chemical substance (nicotine, caffeine, crack, etc.), the proper term is "obsession". Obsessive behaviour and addiction are certainly linked, but I think the distinction is important.
What about when games let you use more than one monitor? Either a side-by-side configuration, or a left-center-right config would be awesome, giving you peripheral vision. I think the 3-monitor setup would be a great way to use a big/expensive center monitor and a couple of smaller/cheaper ones on the sides.
2) If you want to make money, don't invent something. Rip it off from the person who stole invented it, or even better, buy it for $50k from the person who ripped it off from the inventor.
3) The leaders of the business world are sheep who are deathly afraid of risk. Use FUD and your connection to a symbol of stagnant corporate reactionism as a key to grabbing the market by the nuts.
So because something is a tradition, that means it is True? Give your head a shake! Just because there is a tendency for on-line (and off-line, in my experience) discussion to gravitate towards name-calling does not make every occurance of Nazi references a symbolic defeat for intellectual rigor.
Whether or not the MS poster/campaign is *provably* similar to the techniques used by Nazi German propagandists is really beside the point when considering the validity of this so-called "Law". What is important it to have the ability to discern for yourself when a comparison to Nazis/-ism is accurate.
That is, unless, you feel that no comparisons to Nazis can or should ever be made in a discussion. I for one am not so timid or blind as to find modern parallels to Nazi ideology and practice are impossible to find. In fact, I think they are becoming more common as time goes by.
Simply because an observation is correct 90% of the time does not magically make it a Law. I would hope Slashdot readers would be a little more strict in their use of language.
To end this comment, I would like to quote the founder of Fascism:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
...is a gift. A gift has zero value in the economy. Therefore there is no cost associated with developing software in which all the time and effort is donated. You could argue that the value of electricity, depreciation on computer gear, etc. has value, but if that is a gift, you are back in the same place.
Seriously, though. How the hell is anyone going to win a lawsuit based on the premise that it isn't fair to share when it denies a merchant a sale?
This is the fundamental concept underlying Socialism. Which is why so many Americans don't agree. They would rather have Corporatism... which is what Mussolini said was a more accurate name for Fascism.
I agree. Overhaulin is a much better show than Pimp My Ride. Even better, though is American Chopper, where they fabricate lots of the stuff by hand.
The problem I have with Overhaulin is that is on the far extreme from Pimp: whereas PMR does nothing but superficial cahnges, Overhaulin leaves almost nothing of the original car... it is often only the chassis that makes it through the process into the new vehicle.
Why can't they have a show where they combine the Monster Garage budget concept with the Chip Foose design awesomeness?
Hell, it would actually be nice to have a show where they take badly "overhauled" cars and bring them back to stock condition. They could do a lot of background about the original design choices, the history of the model, even bring in some of the original people who worked on or designed it in the first place.
The ruling you are thinking of stated that it was legal to DOWNLOAD files; it was likened by the ruling judged to making a photocopy of some pages in a library book. I am not sure the term "fair use" was actually applied, but it seems that is the way it was being looked at.
Sharing/Uploading is still illegal in Canada, since it is a clear violation of copyright.
Actually, it's socialism via democracy, aka "tyranny of the majority." It's something the founding fathers of the USA were concerned about and tried to avoid by spelling out the limited powers of government in the constitutions of the nation and individual states.
You are correct. The American Founding Fathers were trying to protect the rich land-owners of the time from such horrors as the Debtors Rebellion, also called Shays' Rebellion.
The constitution was a direct response to this threat: that people who fought for "democracy" might actually want to have some say over how the law and economy would function:
From the Wiki article:
Calling themselves Regulators, men from all over the western and central parts of [Massachusetts] began to agitate for change. Initial disturbances were mostly peaceful and centered primarily on freeing incarcerated farmers from debtor's prisons. In the late summer of 1786 the conflict escalated when armed Regulators shut down debtor courts in Northampton, Worcester, Concord, and elsewhere. After the passage of the Riot Act, the Regulators seized arms from the Springfield Armory. Militia groups called out to fight the Regulators often switched sides.
The rebellion eventually gelled into an organized army, led by one Daniel Shays, a farmer from East Pelham and a former captain in the Revolutionary Army. Another leader, Luke Day, was the son of a wealthy family in West Springfield. While the Regulators are usually thought of as a rabble of poor farmers, many of them were members of prominent local families, including the Dickensons of Amherst. In addition, many of the rebels were former soldiers who fought in the American Revolution.
In short, the term "tyranny of the majority" in context really means keeping democracy in check. I believe the origin of the phrase comes from from James Madison:
(From a Noam Chomsky article)
In the debates on the Federal Constitution, [Madison] pointed out that "in England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place," undermining the right to property. To ward off such injustice, "our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation," arranging voting patterns and checks and balances so as "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
So really, if you are for this bill, you are one of those people who doesn't like "too much democracy".
As much as I am happy to see that scientists are still questioning the nature of black holes, somehow I think this guy is just guessing. After Hawking recently revised his model of Black Holes to allow for information to be released (the "BHs have hair" model).
About the only interesting idea for me in Chapline's model is that of the "phase transition" of space-time.
So, let me get this straight: the problem was settled out of court for $350,000, but not before it had cost over $10 Million in over-runs and "damages".
Once again, a triumph for dumbasses in Project Management everywhere. I guarantee you nobody lost their job over this. Not having the foresight to either keep the code Open, or secure the rights to the code when the contracts were signed, they should be though.
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Alanis Morissette.
You know, if the guys leading Xerox in the 60s and 70s hadn't been morons, Xerox today would be equal to Xerox + IBM + Microsoft.
Yay for totally not getting it.
For some reason I had always thought the Lisa had 3.5 inch floppy drives. Weird.
So sez the Anonymous Coward. I take it you have never read 1984. Take a look around this thread for people who were in the community a decade ago and heard the "patchy" explanation when Apache came out. I guess, according to you, they are both liars AND deluded.
No reason to get insulting.
It's not an insult. It is my considered opinion, and backed up by test scores of students in the U.S. when compared to other industrialized countries. If you are actually offended, I can only assume that this is a case of "the truth hurts". Otherwise, you would have provided counter evidence.
I consider myself a small-a anarchist, and my attitude is that everyone is responsible for everything. If people don't realize they actually have power to oppose policies and institutions that require "the Will of the People" as their basis for authority, then we are forever doomed to anti-democratic government.
Basically, you agree to let your government govern you. If it does something wrong in your name, you don't get to claim innocence. You are responsible for holding authority to account, and making public institutions prove that they deserve the right act in your name.
To me, the essence of Anarchism is creativity, not "everyone for himself". Creativity leads to diversity: it may be messy, but it is the essence of humanity. Which is why authoritarians can't stand art that doesn't serve as propaganda.
Obvious bias is *not* wrong, as long as it is declared. It is the undeclared biases that are the real problem in journalism. My feeling is that editors should be more visible and accountable for the choices they make in directing and revising the product of journalists. Declaring editorial bias would be a good start.
Last time I checked, the United States of America was part of North America. There is also a South and Central America, or so I am told.
Hence, I must ask: what gives USians the exclusive right to the label "American"?
When I was traveling abroad (especially Britian) I often found myself saying "No, I am not an American, I am a Canadian". But I would often get a puzzled look, because people don't always differentiate between the two. It's not intended as an insult, they genuinely don't see why someone from the US and someone from Canada shouldn't both be called "American".
It's like the word "European": there's a European Union which many of the Euro countries belong to, but would you say that citizens of a non-member country (say, Switzerland) are somehow less European?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Merkins think of themselves the only people in the Americas, considering their average knowledge of world geography.
I agree. How the hell are you going to "Test it on humans"? Wouldn't you have to kill someone in order to bring them back to life? Last time I checked, that was not just unethical, but also quite illegal.
And I don't know how they can say there was "no brain damage" in these dogs. How do they know? Based on MRIs? Behaviour? Wishful thinking?
I watched a really good show on how the ship disposal industry is just as disgusting as PCs. Unscrupulous guys buy these old hulks from their owners for cheap, then turn around and dump them on the shore of India for workers to cut up and sold for big money. No attempt at avoiding environmental contamination or protecting workers is made.
The word "addiction" gets thrown around a lot.
In most cases, when the topic is not some chemical substance (nicotine, caffeine, crack, etc.), the proper term is "obsession". Obsessive behaviour and addiction are certainly linked, but I think the distinction is important.
What about when games let you use more than one monitor? Either a side-by-side configuration, or a left-center-right config would be awesome, giving you peripheral vision. I think the 3-monitor setup would be a great way to use a big/expensive center monitor and a couple of smaller/cheaper ones on the sides.
Q-DOS, not PC-DOS.
1) Sometimes marketing wins out over design.
2) If you want to make money, don't invent something. Rip it off from the person who stole invented it, or even better, buy it for $50k from the person who ripped it off from the inventor.
3) The leaders of the business world are sheep who are deathly afraid of risk. Use FUD and your connection to a symbol of stagnant corporate reactionism as a key to grabbing the market by the nuts.
"There is a tradition in many groups that..."
So because something is a tradition, that means it is True? Give your head a shake! Just because there is a tendency for on-line (and off-line, in my experience) discussion to gravitate towards name-calling does not make every occurance of Nazi references a symbolic defeat for intellectual rigor.
Whether or not the MS poster/campaign is *provably* similar to the techniques used by Nazi German propagandists is really beside the point when considering the validity of this so-called "Law". What is important it to have the ability to discern for yourself when a comparison to Nazis/-ism is accurate.
That is, unless, you feel that no comparisons to Nazis can or should ever be made in a discussion. I for one am not so timid or blind as to find modern parallels to Nazi ideology and practice are impossible to find. In fact, I think they are becoming more common as time goes by.
Simply because an observation is correct 90% of the time does not magically make it a Law. I would hope Slashdot readers would be a little more strict in their use of language.
To end this comment, I would like to quote the founder of Fascism:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
...is a gift. A gift has zero value in the economy. Therefore there is no cost associated with developing software in which all the time and effort is donated. You could argue that the value of electricity, depreciation on computer gear, etc. has value, but if that is a gift, you are back in the same place.
Seriously, though. How the hell is anyone going to win a lawsuit based on the premise that it isn't fair to share when it denies a merchant a sale?
the economy should serve society
This is the fundamental concept underlying Socialism. Which is why so many Americans don't agree. They would rather have Corporatism... which is what Mussolini said was a more accurate name for Fascism.
I agree. Overhaulin is a much better show than Pimp My Ride. Even better, though is American Chopper, where they fabricate lots of the stuff by hand.
The problem I have with Overhaulin is that is on the far extreme from Pimp: whereas PMR does nothing but superficial cahnges, Overhaulin leaves almost nothing of the original car... it is often only the chassis that makes it through the process into the new vehicle.
Why can't they have a show where they combine the Monster Garage budget concept with the Chip Foose design awesomeness?
Hell, it would actually be nice to have a show where they take badly "overhauled" cars and bring them back to stock condition. They could do a lot of background about the original design choices, the history of the model, even bring in some of the original people who worked on or designed it in the first place.
I was not aware that sharing was ruled non-infringing. I stand corrected.
The ruling you are thinking of stated that it was legal to DOWNLOAD files; it was likened by the ruling judged to making a photocopy of some pages in a library book. I am not sure the term "fair use" was actually applied, but it seems that is the way it was being looked at.
Sharing/Uploading is still illegal in Canada, since it is a clear violation of copyright.
You are correct. The American Founding Fathers were trying to protect the rich land-owners of the time from such horrors as the Debtors Rebellion, also called Shays' Rebellion.
The constitution was a direct response to this threat: that people who fought for "democracy" might actually want to have some say over how the law and economy would function:
From the Wiki article:
Calling themselves Regulators, men from all over the western and central parts of [Massachusetts] began to agitate for change. Initial disturbances were mostly peaceful and centered primarily on freeing incarcerated farmers from debtor's prisons. In the late summer of 1786 the conflict escalated when armed Regulators shut down debtor courts in Northampton, Worcester, Concord, and elsewhere. After the passage of the Riot Act, the Regulators seized arms from the Springfield Armory. Militia groups called out to fight the Regulators often switched sides.
The rebellion eventually gelled into an organized army, led by one Daniel Shays, a farmer from East Pelham and a former captain in the Revolutionary Army. Another leader, Luke Day, was the son of a wealthy family in West Springfield. While the Regulators are usually thought of as a rabble of poor farmers, many of them were members of prominent local families, including the Dickensons of Amherst. In addition, many of the rebels were former soldiers who fought in the American Revolution.
In short, the term "tyranny of the majority" in context really means keeping democracy in check. I believe the origin of the phrase comes from from James Madison:
(From a Noam Chomsky article)
In the debates on the Federal Constitution, [Madison] pointed out that "in England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place," undermining the right to property. To ward off such injustice, "our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation," arranging voting patterns and checks and balances so as "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
So really, if you are for this bill, you are one of those people who doesn't like "too much democracy".
As much as I am happy to see that scientists are still questioning the nature of black holes, somehow I think this guy is just guessing. After Hawking recently revised his model of Black Holes to allow for information to be released (the "BHs have hair" model).
About the only interesting idea for me in Chapline's model is that of the "phase transition" of space-time.
F*ck the DG. F*ck them right up their bureacratic asses. INDIE 4 EVER!!!
What idiot modded this up as "insightful"?
I would like to point out, that until you first sat down at a computer, you were a member of the general public. Dickhead.
So, let me get this straight: the problem was settled out of court for $350,000, but not before it had cost over $10 Million in over-runs and "damages".
Once again, a triumph for dumbasses in Project Management everywhere. I guarantee you nobody lost their job over this. Not having the foresight to either keep the code Open, or secure the rights to the code when the contracts were signed, they should be though.