"I guess the RIAA never saw the study that says that file sharers spent more money buying music online than those who don't share music at all."
They don't appear to be very fond of the business model.
But they did for years. Only recently has such changes come about. In the area of browsers, we're still not quite there. Web developers still cater to IE by and large and frankly, Firefox has mysterious issues on Windows occassionally (not an accident, I suspect). Had they succeded in suppressing Linux growth WMA/WMV would likely be the standard. The competition that exists now has been due to vigorously battling Microsoft. The fact that they'd prefer to extinguish than compete is a philosophical difference that many find repugnant.
Your premise is invalid. OSX doesn't tout itself as a PC OS. It will, eventually, it appears. However, I think the fact that Windows is borrowing and mimicking OSX puts it squarely in the realm of competing. So this comparison is completely valid. Besides, they perform many of the same basic tasks, are purchased for the same type of use, and in many cases use the same type of peripherals. Just because they run on separate hardware platforms doesn't negate them as valid comparisons.
"Total of 3 potential choices. I don't have a degree in advanced mathematics, but it appears that the # of choices has actually increased after Microsoft's announcment."
He said, "in the end" dumbass. Along with no degree in advanced mathematics you also by-passed Reasoning and Logic 101. We're at, say it with me, the B-E-G-I-N-N-I-N-G of Microsoft's foray into VoIP. Class over. Go rest your brain.
Okay, since you're an idiot, this is to everyone who ELSE who is thinking Katrina is directly related to global warming. It's not. There is absolutely no correlation at all. The supposed theory is that warmer than normal gulf waters are to blame but water temperature accounts for only about 10% of a storms intensity. There are a myriad of factors that come together to built a hurrican. Furthermore, the gulf is always warm this time of year. Maybe you've heard of it, it's called SUMMER! Finally, global warming would tend to elevate the El Nino effect which would cause more westerly winds that would have stalled and diluted this hurricane. So calm TF down, your moron is showing! We're in an up cycle right now on the number or hurricanes but over the long term we're about average. This is the word from the experts.
Damn good thing truth is constantly changing. Now we can bask in the comfort that those who we've setup as gods are wrong about half the time. So there's a 50% chance Creationism is right? And since they reach each others writings to get ideas instead of facts, perhaps all those people suffering in the wake of Katrina simply had differing ideas about where it was landing. Hey, they had a 50% chance of being right.
WTF do people expect? Millions of people displaced and each having at least one relative and likely several in other parts of the world trying to reach them. This is to be expected. Why should a network outage and phone difficulties be news in such a catastrophy?
I'm not claiming that climate change isn't "an issue." I'm simply debating that it's our fault, that's all. As for the U.S. cutting emissions, it's true. Airborne polutants have been cut by over half since the mid '70's. Talk to some airline pilots, they'll tell the skies are dramatically clearer over the past 30 years. You don't have to believe the truth, but you do have to understand that the truth exists whether you believe it or not. Understand, if "global warming" is not human-induced then it's natural. If natural, then are you not tampering with nature in your effort to reverse it? I'm not saying you shouldn't or should I just find it interesting. It would seem that dubbing it "humanity's fault" is more a justification for all of the leftist activism then for true understanding of the problem. Like so many hypthesis, people seem to want it to go unchallenged. Before we go imposing huge restrictions on our ability to use resources we had better know for sure that a) use of them is the problem and b) we can even put a dent in the problem if we do something. Should we do anything? I don't know. The more I hear about it, the more I'm convinced it's a cycle we're in. It will eventually turn the other way.
But there is NO consensus that it's human-caused. That's the point. Everyone seems to want to jump on the bandwagon that is not only human-caused, but that it's Bush's fault or the U.S. fault. We've cut polutants dramatically in this country and probably do more than almost any country but get no credit for it. Couple that with a huge disparity between scientific belief on the cause of this warming trend and you can understand why it's not taken as seriously as it should.
Actually, he's being a bit deceitful. He wants GNU in the name to give himself credit and perhaps those who worked on GNU before the kernel. Me thinks it's more self-serving, though.
I'd disagree with the notion most PC's on in poor countries too. This is counter to logic let alone statistics. I'd also disagree with the above that there's a finite amount of cash and soon only the rich will have it. That's a fundamental mistake in economics. Cash is being generated all the time. You can't look at money as in "all the cash that is printed" because it doesn't work that way. Stocks, for instance, aren't generating value at the expense of someone else. Statics show that the poor are not getting poorer and the rich are not getting richer, despite what you hear. The numbers stay pretty close to the same, depending on the scale used. In the mid 90's there was a push to raise the amount of iincome that would be considered "poverty" so there was a jump because of that. The most interesting thing that census data bore out was that the poor don't generally stay poor. The majority more up the scale over time. This is exactly how the system is supposed to work. If you put time and effort in, it's generally rewarded. At least in the U.S.
RIAA twisting their arms, eh? Why don't they adopt this policy themselves! T Why don't record companies deeply discount their older stuff and truly follow this policy they so zealously want to apply to iTunes? I guess they do to an extent, but I still have to pay $15.99 to replace my old Cracker CD...oh wait, I'm re-licensing it....I should be getting it for free, no?
I believe this system was the subject of a Modern Marvels episode on the Discovery Channel. They talked about early issues but that they had been worked out and the system ran very well. Just when you could believe everything on television! Of course, I'm in effect believing what I'm reading on Slashdot if I think it never worked. Of course I could RTFA and then believe that and....my head hurts!
I see the two writing on a chaulk board:
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I'm convinced this whole "Google is a Microsoft" is coming from Microsoft itself. There's just too much of it appearing since Microsoft started going after similar markets. Hype is hype. I'm seeing no proof of anything remotely as unethical as Microsoft...yet.
I like you, you're silly! Wrong, but silly! Rather than look at it as inequality, you don't see what's in front of you. It's simple: Capitalism works and THAT'S why the U.S. is so successful. Now, back to saying silly stuff that makes me giggle!
"others see the electronic probing as the work of other hackers simply using Chinese networks to disguise the origins of the attacks"
Because we all know the Chinese Government is a tolerant and benevolent, progressive-thinking lot who simply want to be left alone. Buy U.S. Government votes, maybe, but NEVER spy on them!
Let me get this straight: Science and technology interest declines and it's Bush's fault. Yet the bastion of liberalism, the University System, is taking books out of libraries and this is forward thinking? THIS, my friends, is why education in America is fscked up! My contention has always been there's TOO much money in education.
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It's not a dupe! It's an echo, echo, echo, echo...
"I guess the RIAA never saw the study that says that file sharers spent more money buying music online than those who don't share music at all."
They don't appear to be very fond of the business model.
But they did for years. Only recently has such changes come about. In the area of browsers, we're still not quite there. Web developers still cater to IE by and large and frankly, Firefox has mysterious issues on Windows occassionally (not an accident, I suspect). Had they succeded in suppressing Linux growth WMA/WMV would likely be the standard. The competition that exists now has been due to vigorously battling Microsoft. The fact that they'd prefer to extinguish than compete is a philosophical difference that many find repugnant.
Your premise is invalid. OSX doesn't tout itself as a PC OS. It will, eventually, it appears. However, I think the fact that Windows is borrowing and mimicking OSX puts it squarely in the realm of competing. So this comparison is completely valid. Besides, they perform many of the same basic tasks, are purchased for the same type of use, and in many cases use the same type of peripherals. Just because they run on separate hardware platforms doesn't negate them as valid comparisons.
"Total of 3 potential choices. I don't have a degree in advanced mathematics, but it appears that the # of choices has actually increased after Microsoft's announcment."
He said, "in the end" dumbass. Along with no degree in advanced mathematics you also by-passed Reasoning and Logic 101. We're at, say it with me, the B-E-G-I-N-N-I-N-G of Microsoft's foray into VoIP. Class over. Go rest your brain.
Yeah, straight from the old page "Anything you can do I can do better!" Ya gotta hand to M$, they stick to their playbook.
Okay, since you're an idiot, this is to everyone who ELSE who is thinking Katrina is directly related to global warming. It's not. There is absolutely no correlation at all. The supposed theory is that warmer than normal gulf waters are to blame but water temperature accounts for only about 10% of a storms intensity. There are a myriad of factors that come together to built a hurrican. Furthermore, the gulf is always warm this time of year. Maybe you've heard of it, it's called SUMMER! Finally, global warming would tend to elevate the El Nino effect which would cause more westerly winds that would have stalled and diluted this hurricane. So calm TF down, your moron is showing! We're in an up cycle right now on the number or hurricanes but over the long term we're about average. This is the word from the experts.
Uh...riiiiiight. Fsck human rights, eh?
Damn good thing truth is constantly changing. Now we can bask in the comfort that those who we've setup as gods are wrong about half the time. So there's a 50% chance Creationism is right? And since they reach each others writings to get ideas instead of facts, perhaps all those people suffering in the wake of Katrina simply had differing ideas about where it was landing. Hey, they had a 50% chance of being right.
WTF do people expect? Millions of people displaced and each having at least one relative and likely several in other parts of the world trying to reach them. This is to be expected. Why should a network outage and phone difficulties be news in such a catastrophy?
I'm not claiming that climate change isn't "an issue." I'm simply debating that it's our fault, that's all. As for the U.S. cutting emissions, it's true. Airborne polutants have been cut by over half since the mid '70's. Talk to some airline pilots, they'll tell the skies are dramatically clearer over the past 30 years. You don't have to believe the truth, but you do have to understand that the truth exists whether you believe it or not. Understand, if "global warming" is not human-induced then it's natural. If natural, then are you not tampering with nature in your effort to reverse it? I'm not saying you shouldn't or should I just find it interesting. It would seem that dubbing it "humanity's fault" is more a justification for all of the leftist activism then for true understanding of the problem. Like so many hypthesis, people seem to want it to go unchallenged. Before we go imposing huge restrictions on our ability to use resources we had better know for sure that a) use of them is the problem and b) we can even put a dent in the problem if we do something. Should we do anything? I don't know. The more I hear about it, the more I'm convinced it's a cycle we're in. It will eventually turn the other way.
GNU is his baby, in his eyes. Damn, you say what everyone else is dancing around and you're called a Troll.
But there is NO consensus that it's human-caused. That's the point. Everyone seems to want to jump on the bandwagon that is not only human-caused, but that it's Bush's fault or the U.S. fault. We've cut polutants dramatically in this country and probably do more than almost any country but get no credit for it. Couple that with a huge disparity between scientific belief on the cause of this warming trend and you can understand why it's not taken as seriously as it should.
Actually, he's being a bit deceitful. He wants GNU in the name to give himself credit and perhaps those who worked on GNU before the kernel. Me thinks it's more self-serving, though.
I'd disagree with the notion most PC's on in poor countries too. This is counter to logic let alone statistics. I'd also disagree with the above that there's a finite amount of cash and soon only the rich will have it. That's a fundamental mistake in economics. Cash is being generated all the time. You can't look at money as in "all the cash that is printed" because it doesn't work that way. Stocks, for instance, aren't generating value at the expense of someone else. Statics show that the poor are not getting poorer and the rich are not getting richer, despite what you hear. The numbers stay pretty close to the same, depending on the scale used. In the mid 90's there was a push to raise the amount of iincome that would be considered "poverty" so there was a jump because of that. The most interesting thing that census data bore out was that the poor don't generally stay poor. The majority more up the scale over time. This is exactly how the system is supposed to work. If you put time and effort in, it's generally rewarded. At least in the U.S.
RIAA twisting their arms, eh? Why don't they adopt this policy themselves! T Why don't record companies deeply discount their older stuff and truly follow this policy they so zealously want to apply to iTunes? I guess they do to an extent, but I still have to pay $15.99 to replace my old Cracker CD...oh wait, I'm re-licensing it....I should be getting it for free, no?
I believe this system was the subject of a Modern Marvels episode on the Discovery Channel. They talked about early issues but that they had been worked out and the system ran very well. Just when you could believe everything on television! Of course, I'm in effect believing what I'm reading on Slashdot if I think it never worked. Of course I could RTFA and then believe that and....my head hurts!
"Dude! As soon as I finish downloading the new Knoppix CD we'll be set to...WTF?!?"
I see the two writing on a chaulk board:
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I will NOT make Microsoft and those who use their products look stupid.
I'm convinced this whole "Google is a Microsoft" is coming from Microsoft itself. There's just too much of it appearing since Microsoft started going after similar markets. Hype is hype. I'm seeing no proof of anything remotely as unethical as Microsoft...yet.
This isn't the best way to do that, though. Foment anger with Taiwan and China and you'd be closer to reaching your goal.
I like you, you're silly! Wrong, but silly! Rather than look at it as inequality, you don't see what's in front of you. It's simple: Capitalism works and THAT'S why the U.S. is so successful. Now, back to saying silly stuff that makes me giggle!
Wow! Too bad our Government doesn't have, I dunno, basic security technology that could...you know...figure it out anyway.
"others see the electronic probing as the work of other hackers simply using Chinese networks to disguise the origins of the attacks"
Because we all know the Chinese Government is a tolerant and benevolent, progressive-thinking lot who simply want to be left alone. Buy U.S. Government votes, maybe, but NEVER spy on them!
Let me get this straight: Science and technology interest declines and it's Bush's fault. Yet the bastion of liberalism, the University System, is taking books out of libraries and this is forward thinking? THIS, my friends, is why education in America is fscked up! My contention has always been there's TOO much money in education.