The difference is when bad policy is on a local level you call people on it, raise a ruckus and you have a pretty good chance of embarrassing people in their own communities over it and getting the momentum to fix the issue. On a national level it's much harder to fight what's wrong.
Thanks for completely ignoring enumerated rights and going down a path flaunting the flaws in democracy when those rights aren't respected or don't exist. Yes this is what happened with the civil war to some degree, only it's a flawed way of repeating it.
Not really. He says the words "libertarian" enough to draw attention to the Libertarian party. He's our #1 advertiser. He joined the Republican party to get votes so he could actually get elected. It's not secret most Republicans don't care for him being there.
Ron Paul is to Republicans what that one know it all kid nobody wanted to be around was to a youth trip. He's part of the organization rather you like it or not and yes, yes he's right even if you don't want to be told your wrong, he's going to ride in one of the vans on the trip, and it might just be yours.
Where does the money come from? The states. The states that are being rewarded, which are often the states with the biggest budgets. A funding incentive amounts to having your pocket picked but having the money handed back to you, minus a couple of bucks.
What if it's plus a couple of bucks? Those states that are lax on adopting standards have to make the plus. They may have been lax since they couldn't afford it? Rewarding the guy for implementing by punishing the one that hasn't doesn't make it easier to afford implementation, it makes it harder.
So you start up a program to help them to implement it. The program is staffed by cronies, is expensive and the state you rewarded and the one you punished it paying for it, but it cost more than it should since it's a federal program.
If we just left the feds out of the process all together and forgot all about incentives we would be much better off.
As someone with a light does of the spectrum myself I went to public school from the early 80's to 1996 with absolutely no appropriate education for my learning differences. The department of education was founded well before I was born. I don't see where removing the federal aspect would do any more to hurt.
By leaving North Carolina and take their money they "voted" against a crappy educational system by moving to a state with a better one.
Granted moving takes money if you take all of your possessions with you, but as someone who has moved while broke I know for a fact you can move anywhere in the union with little to no money to your name, it's just a question of motivation and willingness to make sacrifices.
With a national system the person you're saying "good for you" towards no longer has an option to just pick up and move. Maybe they didn't have a lot of money to begin with, I say it's likely, if they had a lot of money they probably would have opted for a private school instead of moving. With a national system instead of "leaving North Carolina" the entire country becomes North Carolina so moving does no good.
How much funding does an IRC channel or private message board take?
I ran both on a PC well below what's considered a low spec but acceptable spec machine by today's standards, on my workstation that I actually used, as a background process, without noticing any detriment to performance, on a DSL connection.
Told yah so! I got a point knocked off for drawing attention to their game, I knew all I had to do was sit back and watch.
Now the real question: Does this one get modded down in an attempt to draw attention away from the facts, or does it get ignored to prove I'm wrong and I don't know what I'm talking about thereby discrediting my whole line of reasoning?
I've been to court and I've had many political arguments, I know how these games work. It's the goal of the other side of this argument to discredit me and make my thought processes appear to be asinine by presenting no-win scenarios. However I have called you out, any action you take from this point backs up my argument including no action, as no action would make it appear as though I have an unfounded conspiracy theory. Any defense has already been ripped to shreds and will be ripped to shreds further.
Apple fan boys are so obsessive with promoting the image of a giant corporation, of they type they say they hate, they have off-site coordination so that mod points may be spent accordingly.
I'm pretty sure there's an organized group of Apple fan boys also that have a link list off-site somewhere so they can flag anything even slightly critical of Apple for a mod-down. (IRC channel maybe? )
Mine actually has a web browser under "experimental". The browser isn't the best, but it isn't bad, I was working on servers on a vertical rack in a server closet and someone emailed info I needed to my Gmail account, if you do this select the "basic HTML" option on GMail for the device or it keeps reloading the page and it really sucks. I never tried pulling up a local HTML file with it.
Can't wait for color e-ink. Even if it's crappy color like the 1980's it would be good enough for most technical / graph type info, boost it up to 256 it would be great for cartoonish graphics. I admit I only want color for a very limited number of reasons and I'm perfectly happy with gray scale for books and even most of the user manuals I mentioned, but yes, magazine subscriptions on color e-ink would be nice. I don't really want to go the LCD route, I've got enough LCD devices as it is, the reason I got a kindle was the not-LCD aspect, if I wanted LCD to e-read I could have used my hacked PSP, my Android phone, and my Netbook that gets awesome battery life, not to mention my dust-gathering iPhone, my bigger notebook, my desktop or why not my 36" CRT TV?
I love the fact my Kindle Keyboard (that's what they call it now) can display PDF files since most product manuals are shipped as PDF's now. Of course now I want a Kindle DX since it has a screen closer to the size of a piece of letter sized paper. Sure it's close to $400 but i think it would be easier to get one of those than to convince all the tech companies to make their PDF manuals for smaller screens.
I like my brakes reliable. I know as a BMXer when the current trend is to go brakless I sound like a heretic. I'm old. I'm an old-school BMXer, I think the trend is stupider than these brakes, but at least someone who follows the trend knows they're riding without brakes unlike the people with these wireless ones.
I would be worried about other problems. When I ride my dork bike I have a pair of Cy-Fi Bluetooth speakers on my handlebars blaring AC/DC and Beastie Boys at people I pass. Every time I stop at a stoplight something happens. My music get interrupted. I'm not sure exactly what goes on with stoplights, but there's very definitely something going on wirelessly that interferes with my Bluetooth speakers. When I got caught at the train tracks the speakers were out for more than just the little blips stop-lights create. This isn't metal from the train blocking my signal, the phone that the music is getting streamed from is in the leg pocket on my carpenter pants. I would be worried about this phenomenon not only engaging my brakes when I don't want them engaged, but also preventing them from working as well. This isn't just failure after poor maintenance and abuse, this is every single stoplight in the Houston area and I'm sure other places as well.
I'm glad they aren't looking to deploy these yet, and I hope they don't. It's hard to beat the simplicity of a simple wire. It's also the same reason Soviets in MIGs could pull off maneuvers our pilots in F-whatever planes couldn't because the electronics wouldn't allow them to.
You seem to think Nintendo will stay in business if they just sell hardware and don't charge for copies. The gaming industry is all about selling copies, it's software, but it's more like the music or movie industry in it's development/distribution cycle. My daughter is currently playing Kirby's Epic Yarn on the Wii right now, I don't see how Nintendo could possibly make a profit giving it's games away. Sure you could charge for content, but lets face it, I bought her a game, she can play that game in its entirety and if I - or most other parents - had to pay for that furniture she's putting in her in-game apartment or new levels every time she wanted something she would have the default levels and an empty apartment.
I am a Linux user. The fact Apple has a BSD core is why my buddy was able to convince me to jump on board with it for a while, BSD got me there, Apple itself drove me away. I think Mac OS is great from a usability perspective (mostly), and I don't even mind that they closed the source. What chased me off was Apple acting like a bunch of pricks. They broke the drivers intentionally so I can't use Firewire/USB optical drives for multimedia functions, only for reading/writing data disk. They locked down IOS so you can only sync from iTunes. They lock down iTunes to be iProduct only, they lock down iProducts to only pair with one system and that system must run iTunes. They don't have a Linux version of iTunes (and don't talk to me about Virtual Box or Wine for something that should/could be native). My Airport Expresses used to allow me to plug any Ethernet device into them so they would act as a wireless bridge to my Linksys router. They did a firmware upgrade to break that so it would only work with an Airport Extreme (I still have one I haven't "upgraded" to the new firmware).
I think you are the confused one. You see only in your own narrow world where you can be paid to create software but the software can be made free. Sure games can be - and many are - free, but I don't see how something like a video game with a production cost that rivals a Hollywood production can be GPL'ed from day one and make a profit. I personally think the way the Quake Engine is being treated, where old versions are released for free, is the right way to go. It would be nice if they would release the content also, but beggers can't be choosers and the community created content is rather nice.
2) That's a bit gray to me still and warrants further research. I agree philosophically with open standards even more than I do FOSS or even just Open Source, that being said I don't see where those philosophies would benefit Blizzard or EA (both companies run by assholes).
3) The previous being said I think I will download the PDF's to do the further research and read them on my very closed Kindle.
I always picture Stallman as Mosses coming down off the mountain wielding the GPL like the Ten Commandments.
I picture Linus as a Buddhist monk meditating on a mountain top dispensing wisdom that will seek it without judgment.
I think they both have a place. Head the sound advice of Linus and Santa will fill your stocking, don't and Stallman will show up with Krampus. Yes he heavy handedness does detract from the movement in some places, but I give him full credit for several hardware manufacturers opening specs and sources on their chips/drivers because they were tired of Stallman showing up with signs protesting at all of their events.
With that out of the way, he speaks true. I abandoned everything Apple for exactly the reasons he pointed out and I hope, as Stallman does, that Apple will become less anally retentive in the future.
Stallman is that guy who takes his job way to seriously. He loses touch with reality, he loses friends, his only friends are those with the same goals, but he even dismisses them for not being as committed as he is. In the end Stallman does the real work needed by the FOSS movement, he benefits the movement greatly, however he's like the overnight shift in a 24 hour production facility. Often the very best workers are on the overnight shift, not because you don't want the secrets to their efficiency accidentally leaked to someone passing through, but because the most talented people are often such eccentric weirdo's you only want the results of their work seen, not the workers themselves.
That last article condemning Stallman was just completely out of tune with the man himself. He wasn't hateful towards Job's himself, Stallman has a goal in mind and he wont rest until it's accomplished. He will never accomplish it. His goal of all software being 100% open source, patent free, and free in every way will never happen, and it's one of the places I differ with him. I support someones right to make money off of software, I do agree FOSS is the way to go and I do think even closed source software should eventually become open, but I do support someone closing source for a time to make a profit, and this is where I disagree with Stallman, who I see as an Old Testament Prophet of the Open Code.
Your "in between" filler books, ash-cans, else-world type stuff and teasers are normally the things delegated to "not being printed".
Granted, these things can be awesome, back in my days of comic collecting the else-worlds and obscure stuff was generally some of the best, but they got low distribution and weren't the "meat" of the industry. Sounds to me like they were making an excuse to make a statement. If they're not going to offer them in print they're not going to offer them in print anywhere. These are the comic industry equivalents of the Battlestar Galactica "webisodes".
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The difference is when bad policy is on a local level you call people on it, raise a ruckus and you have a pretty good chance of embarrassing people in their own communities over it and getting the momentum to fix the issue. On a national level it's much harder to fight what's wrong.
Why is making local politics local a horrifying idea?
Thanks for completely ignoring enumerated rights and going down a path flaunting the flaws in democracy when those rights aren't respected or don't exist. Yes this is what happened with the civil war to some degree, only it's a flawed way of repeating it.
Not really. He says the words "libertarian" enough to draw attention to the Libertarian party. He's our #1 advertiser. He joined the Republican party to get votes so he could actually get elected. It's not secret most Republicans don't care for him being there.
Ron Paul is to Republicans what that one know it all kid nobody wanted to be around was to a youth trip. He's part of the organization rather you like it or not and yes, yes he's right even if you don't want to be told your wrong, he's going to ride in one of the vans on the trip, and it might just be yours.
Funding incentives are a major problem.
Where does the money come from? The states. The states that are being rewarded, which are often the states with the biggest budgets. A funding incentive amounts to having your pocket picked but having the money handed back to you, minus a couple of bucks.
What if it's plus a couple of bucks? Those states that are lax on adopting standards have to make the plus. They may have been lax since they couldn't afford it? Rewarding the guy for implementing by punishing the one that hasn't doesn't make it easier to afford implementation, it makes it harder.
So you start up a program to help them to implement it. The program is staffed by cronies, is expensive and the state you rewarded and the one you punished it paying for it, but it cost more than it should since it's a federal program.
If we just left the feds out of the process all together and forgot all about incentives we would be much better off.
The idea is to remove the need for taxes, not expand the tax base. No one is arguing Apple Kool-Aid drinkers aren't religious zealots.
As someone with a light does of the spectrum myself I went to public school from the early 80's to 1996 with absolutely no appropriate education for my learning differences. The department of education was founded well before I was born. I don't see where removing the federal aspect would do any more to hurt.
You're missing the point.
By leaving North Carolina and take their money they "voted" against a crappy educational system by moving to a state with a better one.
Granted moving takes money if you take all of your possessions with you, but as someone who has moved while broke I know for a fact you can move anywhere in the union with little to no money to your name, it's just a question of motivation and willingness to make sacrifices.
With a national system the person you're saying "good for you" towards no longer has an option to just pick up and move. Maybe they didn't have a lot of money to begin with, I say it's likely, if they had a lot of money they probably would have opted for a private school instead of moving. With a national system instead of "leaving North Carolina" the entire country becomes North Carolina so moving does no good.
How much funding does an IRC channel or private message board take?
I ran both on a PC well below what's considered a low spec but acceptable spec machine by today's standards, on my workstation that I actually used, as a background process, without noticing any detriment to performance, on a DSL connection.
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Told yah so! I got a point knocked off for drawing attention to their game, I knew all I had to do was sit back and watch.
Now the real question:
Does this one get modded down in an attempt to draw attention away from the facts, or does it get ignored to prove I'm wrong and I don't know what I'm talking about thereby discrediting my whole line of reasoning?
I've been to court and I've had many political arguments, I know how these games work. It's the goal of the other side of this argument to discredit me and make my thought processes appear to be asinine by presenting no-win scenarios. However I have called you out, any action you take from this point backs up my argument including no action, as no action would make it appear as though I have an unfounded conspiracy theory. Any defense has already been ripped to shreds and will be ripped to shreds further.
Apple fan boys are so obsessive with promoting the image of a giant corporation, of they type they say they hate, they have off-site coordination so that mod points may be spent accordingly.
I'm pretty sure there's an organized group of Apple fan boys also that have a link list off-site somewhere so they can flag anything even slightly critical of Apple for a mod-down. (IRC channel maybe? )
Mine actually has a web browser under "experimental". The browser isn't the best, but it isn't bad, I was working on servers on a vertical rack in a server closet and someone emailed info I needed to my Gmail account, if you do this select the "basic HTML" option on GMail for the device or it keeps reloading the page and it really sucks. I never tried pulling up a local HTML file with it.
Can't wait for color e-ink. Even if it's crappy color like the 1980's it would be good enough for most technical / graph type info, boost it up to 256 it would be great for cartoonish graphics. I admit I only want color for a very limited number of reasons and I'm perfectly happy with gray scale for books and even most of the user manuals I mentioned, but yes, magazine subscriptions on color e-ink would be nice. I don't really want to go the LCD route, I've got enough LCD devices as it is, the reason I got a kindle was the not-LCD aspect, if I wanted LCD to e-read I could have used my hacked PSP, my Android phone, and my Netbook that gets awesome battery life, not to mention my dust-gathering iPhone, my bigger notebook, my desktop or why not my 36" CRT TV?
I love the fact my Kindle Keyboard (that's what they call it now) can display PDF files since most product manuals are shipped as PDF's now. Of course now I want a Kindle DX since it has a screen closer to the size of a piece of letter sized paper. Sure it's close to $400 but i think it would be easier to get one of those than to convince all the tech companies to make their PDF manuals for smaller screens.
I like my brakes reliable. I know as a BMXer when the current trend is to go brakless I sound like a heretic. I'm old. I'm an old-school BMXer, I think the trend is stupider than these brakes, but at least someone who follows the trend knows they're riding without brakes unlike the people with these wireless ones.
I would be worried about other problems. When I ride my dork bike I have a pair of Cy-Fi Bluetooth speakers on my handlebars blaring AC/DC and Beastie Boys at people I pass. Every time I stop at a stoplight something happens. My music get interrupted. I'm not sure exactly what goes on with stoplights, but there's very definitely something going on wirelessly that interferes with my Bluetooth speakers. When I got caught at the train tracks the speakers were out for more than just the little blips stop-lights create. This isn't metal from the train blocking my signal, the phone that the music is getting streamed from is in the leg pocket on my carpenter pants. I would be worried about this phenomenon not only engaging my brakes when I don't want them engaged, but also preventing them from working as well. This isn't just failure after poor maintenance and abuse, this is every single stoplight in the Houston area and I'm sure other places as well.
I'm glad they aren't looking to deploy these yet, and I hope they don't. It's hard to beat the simplicity of a simple wire. It's also the same reason Soviets in MIGs could pull off maneuvers our pilots in F-whatever planes couldn't because the electronics wouldn't allow them to.
You seem to think Nintendo will stay in business if they just sell hardware and don't charge for copies. The gaming industry is all about selling copies, it's software, but it's more like the music or movie industry in it's development/distribution cycle. My daughter is currently playing Kirby's Epic Yarn on the Wii right now, I don't see how Nintendo could possibly make a profit giving it's games away. Sure you could charge for content, but lets face it, I bought her a game, she can play that game in its entirety and if I - or most other parents - had to pay for that furniture she's putting in her in-game apartment or new levels every time she wanted something she would have the default levels and an empty apartment.
I am a Linux user. The fact Apple has a BSD core is why my buddy was able to convince me to jump on board with it for a while, BSD got me there, Apple itself drove me away. I think Mac OS is great from a usability perspective (mostly), and I don't even mind that they closed the source. What chased me off was Apple acting like a bunch of pricks. They broke the drivers intentionally so I can't use Firewire/USB optical drives for multimedia functions, only for reading/writing data disk. They locked down IOS so you can only sync from iTunes. They lock down iTunes to be iProduct only, they lock down iProducts to only pair with one system and that system must run iTunes. They don't have a Linux version of iTunes (and don't talk to me about Virtual Box or Wine for something that should/could be native). My Airport Expresses used to allow me to plug any Ethernet device into them so they would act as a wireless bridge to my Linksys router. They did a firmware upgrade to break that so it would only work with an Airport Extreme (I still have one I haven't "upgraded" to the new firmware).
I think you are the confused one. You see only in your own narrow world where you can be paid to create software but the software can be made free. Sure games can be - and many are - free, but I don't see how something like a video game with a production cost that rivals a Hollywood production can be GPL'ed from day one and make a profit. I personally think the way the Quake Engine is being treated, where old versions are released for free, is the right way to go. It would be nice if they would release the content also, but beggers can't be choosers and the community created content is rather nice.
Some of my best friends are assholes. Sometimes I think I'm one too.
Apple of today reminds me of the Microsoft of 1999, the big difference is Apple actually churns out a good product.
The level of lock-in Apple is capable of, and the hipsters that lap it up, astound me.
In this statement I equate him to King Leonidas, for similar reasons.
1) I never said otherwise.
2) That's a bit gray to me still and warrants further research. I agree philosophically with open standards even more than I do FOSS or even just Open Source, that being said I don't see where those philosophies would benefit Blizzard or EA (both companies run by assholes).
3) The previous being said I think I will download the PDF's to do the further research and read them on my very closed Kindle.
I always picture Stallman as Mosses coming down off the mountain wielding the GPL like the Ten Commandments.
I picture Linus as a Buddhist monk meditating on a mountain top dispensing wisdom that will seek it without judgment.
I think they both have a place. Head the sound advice of Linus and Santa will fill your stocking, don't and Stallman will show up with Krampus. Yes he heavy handedness does detract from the movement in some places, but I give him full credit for several hardware manufacturers opening specs and sources on their chips/drivers because they were tired of Stallman showing up with signs protesting at all of their events.
Stallman is an asshole.
With that out of the way, he speaks true. I abandoned everything Apple for exactly the reasons he pointed out and I hope, as Stallman does, that Apple will become less anally retentive in the future.
Stallman is that guy who takes his job way to seriously. He loses touch with reality, he loses friends, his only friends are those with the same goals, but he even dismisses them for not being as committed as he is. In the end Stallman does the real work needed by the FOSS movement, he benefits the movement greatly, however he's like the overnight shift in a 24 hour production facility. Often the very best workers are on the overnight shift, not because you don't want the secrets to their efficiency accidentally leaked to someone passing through, but because the most talented people are often such eccentric weirdo's you only want the results of their work seen, not the workers themselves.
That last article condemning Stallman was just completely out of tune with the man himself. He wasn't hateful towards Job's himself, Stallman has a goal in mind and he wont rest until it's accomplished. He will never accomplish it. His goal of all software being 100% open source, patent free, and free in every way will never happen, and it's one of the places I differ with him. I support someones right to make money off of software, I do agree FOSS is the way to go and I do think even closed source software should eventually become open, but I do support someone closing source for a time to make a profit, and this is where I disagree with Stallman, who I see as an Old Testament Prophet of the Open Code.
I do the inverse of that to put Google Books on my Kindle.
best comics around.
Your "in between" filler books, ash-cans, else-world type stuff and teasers are normally the things delegated to "not being printed".
Granted, these things can be awesome, back in my days of comic collecting the else-worlds and obscure stuff was generally some of the best, but they got low distribution and weren't the "meat" of the industry. Sounds to me like they were making an excuse to make a statement. If they're not going to offer them in print they're not going to offer them in print anywhere. These are the comic industry equivalents of the Battlestar Galactica "webisodes".
It's amazing what can be done with a tape vault, bulk eraser, and access to certain PIN numbers.
Looks like your lack of faith in your fellow man exceeds even my own.