Well, since you seem to know what you're talking about, how about providing links to all these viruses and malware? The iPad alone has sold 3,000,000 units in three months - surely, with all these vulnerabilities, something must be out there for such a popular item, right?
The iPhone and iPod have been "ubiquitous" (not quite, but very popular) for ages. Nothing has happened. I wonder why.
Any proper music shop will let you listen to the music before you buy it, as will any online shop. Or you can just go to the artist's web page/Myspace page/etc. So your entire argument is ridiculous, which isn't a surprise considering you apparently shop at Wal-Mart.
Yeah, I know that. Let me rephrase: why is it so important to force the proprietary version to be released? It makes no difference. The original code is still sitting there.
Not true. There are private clinics in Canada. But you must pay for them out of pocket, not with private insurance (where those services are covered by Canada's public system).
This is incorrect. For example, private insurance will cover everything from home care to ambulances to travel insurance, all of which are provided under the public system to some degree. In those areas where the private plans have an interest, they are essentially a superset of the public plan. Note that insurance, both public and private, varies from province to province.
For example, here in BC ambulance fees are covered by the plan with a deductible of $80. If you buy supplemental insurance, that deductible disappears.
You could make that same argument for privatizing EVERY industry. It's not a good one.
Untrue. Canadians long ago decided that health-care in particular is special. You may not agree, but such is life.
That said, I agree that the Canadian system is fundamentally inefficient, although we only pay around the OECD average for health care (the US tops the list in percentage of GDP dedicated to health care).
Canada's citizens decided long ago that gov't inefficiencies were acceptable given the possible risks of putting health care in the hands of private companies. I know you don't you don't agree with this perspective, and that's fine. In truth, it fits well with the essentially conservative and non-risk-taking nature of Canadians. When it comes to health-care, avoiding risk is more important than absolute efficiency.
It's interesting to see the US having a similar health-care conversation with itself these days.
My ex worked for the CCPA. To put it mildly, they are agenda-driven nutbars and their stats are not to be trusted - basically the opposite side of the coin to the Fraser Institute. Just saying.
Agreed, which is why I typically only buy shooters with cool stories. The game mechanic of shooting/first-person perspective becomes secondary to unraveling what's going on.
Good examples of this: Bioshock, CoD 4, Resistance 1 and 2
Bad example: Killzone 2, which had a very lame story in the single-player mode. Cool looking game, though.
That is a stupidly naive position. Many small and independent movies won't be made thanks to piracy, as no studio will fund anything that doesn't have a chance at being a mega-hit. Even moderate hits like Zombieland are at risk: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15074641#post15074641
You aren't hitting a bunch of Hollywood fat cats by downloading movies. You aren't Robin Hood, and you aren't doing what's "right". You are simply killing off adult drama. We won't see another era where absolute classics like Raging Bull, The Passenger, The Conversation, etc. are released in close succession, because no one will take a chance on such films. Instead, look forward to a cinema landscape that consists of Transformers and Twilight. Thanks.
It's pretty interesting that a guy with a resume like yours (tour guide, a bit of web art here and there) feels qualified to imply that Dan Kaminsky, a respected security expert, doesn't have a clue and is a "moron".
They "show how it is possible to create situations", according to the summary. I think the experiment they outline in Appendix D of the paper satisfies that sentence.
It's not just the US - it seems there are people in every modern western society who hate their country/the west in general. They think that "we" owe the rest of the world for all eternity, even if it means our own destruction. Stupid and unproductive, like you said. I experience it on a regular basis from hand-wringing self-loathers.
And how many patches has Microsoft submitted to BSD? None you say? So MS took all the BSD code, modified it and tied it to Windows and never gave back any of the code?
No memory protection is one reason why Amiga OS is fast. Unfortunately, it's also a big reason why it's obsolete, regardless of the chronology of its latest updates.
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Yeah, of course that's absolutely correct. That's when a port becomes absolutely necessary. Then they realise the source code for this crucial app is missing, and the true saga begins.
True story: I knew of a car rental place here that was running some crucial part of their business process on a Commodore 64. The source was lost long ago, of course.
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Haha, reminds me of companies who go for "platform independence" by writing apps in.Net. It amazes me how some people even manage to get through life.
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Well, since you seem to know what you're talking about, how about providing links to all these viruses and malware? The iPad alone has sold 3,000,000 units in three months - surely, with all these vulnerabilities, something must be out there for such a popular item, right?
The iPhone and iPod have been "ubiquitous" (not quite, but very popular) for ages. Nothing has happened. I wonder why.
Any proper music shop will let you listen to the music before you buy it, as will any online shop. Or you can just go to the artist's web page/Myspace page/etc. So your entire argument is ridiculous, which isn't a surprise considering you apparently shop at Wal-Mart.
You are an idiot. Please tell me you aren't Canadian.
Isn't ClearType implemented in assembler? I seem to recall some part of it was.
Yeah, I know that. Let me rephrase: why is it so important to force the proprietary version to be released? It makes no difference. The original code is still sitting there.
So what?
Not true. There are private clinics in Canada. But you must pay for them out of pocket, not with private insurance (where those services are covered by Canada's public system).
This is incorrect. For example, private insurance will cover everything from home care to ambulances to travel insurance, all of which are provided under the public system to some degree. In those areas where the private plans have an interest, they are essentially a superset of the public plan. Note that insurance, both public and private, varies from province to province.
For example, here in BC ambulance fees are covered by the plan with a deductible of $80. If you buy supplemental insurance, that deductible disappears.
You could make that same argument for privatizing EVERY industry. It's not a good one.
Untrue. Canadians long ago decided that health-care in particular is special. You may not agree, but such is life.
That said, I agree that the Canadian system is fundamentally inefficient, although we only pay around the OECD average for health care (the US tops the list in percentage of GDP dedicated to health care).
Canada's citizens decided long ago that gov't inefficiencies were acceptable given the possible risks of putting health care in the hands of private companies. I know you don't you don't agree with this perspective, and that's fine. In truth, it fits well with the essentially conservative and non-risk-taking nature of Canadians. When it comes to health-care, avoiding risk is more important than absolute efficiency.
It's interesting to see the US having a similar health-care conversation with itself these days.
My ex worked for the CCPA. To put it mildly, they are agenda-driven nutbars and their stats are not to be trusted - basically the opposite side of the coin to the Fraser Institute. Just saying.
Agreed, which is why I typically only buy shooters with cool stories. The game mechanic of shooting/first-person perspective becomes secondary to unraveling what's going on.
Good examples of this: Bioshock, CoD 4, Resistance 1 and 2
Bad example: Killzone 2, which had a very lame story in the single-player mode. Cool looking game, though.
They took it out because some party-pooper shithead used it to try and hack the console. Blame him, not Sony.
I've implemented an app store S which contains a list of all available apps, including S.
Hey, this guy Betrand just showed up waving this big book and wants to talk to me about something.
That is a stupidly naive position. Many small and independent movies won't be made thanks to piracy, as no studio will fund anything that doesn't have a chance at being a mega-hit. Even moderate hits like Zombieland are at risk: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15074641#post15074641
You aren't hitting a bunch of Hollywood fat cats by downloading movies. You aren't Robin Hood, and you aren't doing what's "right". You are simply killing off adult drama. We won't see another era where absolute classics like Raging Bull, The Passenger, The Conversation, etc. are released in close succession, because no one will take a chance on such films. Instead, look forward to a cinema landscape that consists of Transformers and Twilight. Thanks.
It's pretty interesting that a guy with a resume like yours (tour guide, a bit of web art here and there) feels qualified to imply that Dan Kaminsky, a respected security expert, doesn't have a clue and is a "moron".
They "show how it is possible to create situations", according to the summary. I think the experiment they outline in Appendix D of the paper satisfies that sentence.
He was a really, really good programmer at one time.
Signal to noise is very low here. There are other places with equally informed people and far fewer dummies (though most are well-meaning).
You obviously only speak English. If you spoke French, you'd know that "le weekend" is here.
All languages borrow words, and to think English is some special degenerate case is just self-loathing nonsense.
It's not just the US - it seems there are people in every modern western society who hate their country/the west in general. They think that "we" owe the rest of the world for all eternity, even if it means our own destruction. Stupid and unproductive, like you said. I experience it on a regular basis from hand-wringing self-loathers.
And how many patches has Microsoft submitted to BSD? None you say? So MS took all the BSD code, modified it and tied it to Windows and never gave back any of the code?
Huh?
Thirded.
No memory protection is one reason why Amiga OS is fast. Unfortunately, it's also a big reason why it's obsolete, regardless of the chronology of its latest updates.
Lawyers don't create legislation, you dolt.
Yeah, of course that's absolutely correct. That's when a port becomes absolutely necessary. Then they realise the source code for this crucial app is missing, and the true saga begins.
True story: I knew of a car rental place here that was running some crucial part of their business process on a Commodore 64. The source was lost long ago, of course.
Haha, reminds me of companies who go for "platform independence" by writing apps in .Net. It amazes me how some people even manage to get through life.