Nowadays you can shut down nearly every device via ACPI. It's what "disabling" them in the windows device manager does. (But of course in a windows-typical manner, you can't find out what actually happened [eg. if something was turned off])
How about stopping to make wars? Oh no, then those poor bankers could not sell credits and drive us to slavery and our government into obedience anymore... And there could actually be money spent on education and science (like, above 10% of the budget). This of course can't be! Because then people would start to think, and kill those power-greedy bastards in an instant.
Then maybe your problem is that your CPU has a fan.;)
More seriously: I cool my PC passively trough convection. Sure the convectors are huge, but in a place where i don't see them anyway. And I don't need to turn on the radiator of the room.
This is digital work. You do not lose a cent by them creating another copy of it. It's imaginary property. If you do not get the difference between physical work and digital work, tehn you can right fuck off and learn them first. One of those differences is, that digital works are available to everyone, as soon as they are available to one other person. The physical work is you, creating that digital work. And of course you can ask money for that work. But only once. Not for every copy of the *result* of your work.
Besides: What does BugMeNot have to do with your digital material? You don't think that web logins provide some light version of DRM, do you?
Try to change your business model, so you earn (*earn*, not get or take!) money for your performance. It's the only reasonable way it can work. Else you will live a not very happy life.
I'm a game creator, and I'm right now developing a business model based on that assumption. It looks much healthier than that "I lose money when someone gets a copy for free" bullshit.
Yes. You're exactly right of course. Somehow I did not know how to put this in my post.
Oh, and I am not Islamic, or religious. I think everyone can do what the wants, if he does not hurt anyone, and that most religions were created with good intentions, just like most forms of government. So I'm not sure who to blame. Can I really blame people for being uneducated, in a bad situation, and then coming up with some "enemy" to fight their problems? I do not know... maybe someone stole someone else's goat (or cow), and married his sister, and the guy did not know what to do, so he cursed his tribe... What do I know?
I'm just trying to live a decent life, and make the world a better place.
Mind you, that I always expect could be wrong too. Even if I do not sound that way.
And I always expect crazy things from religious idiots (which I consider a tautology), so this sounds reasonable to me.:) I guess - as usual - it's more than one factor.
Yeah sure. Seriously?...those who die because they can't survive without fossil fuel... don't they deserve it, for being that stupid? We (as in "humanity") survived worse things. Nobody will die without fossil fuel. Get over it.
Or in short: Why am I answering an AC again?;)
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What laws are there in these waters? And who defines them? I don't think that anybody has those rights.
of course if you put some gunships there, you define the laws. But else? What if I want to create my own friendly country, where it's illegal to wear clothes, and populating trough reproduction is the highest of our values, to be practiced in big fuckfests 9-monthly? Oh and if you don't keep your body and mindin shape, you will be expelled from the country. (Which will be our only legal punishment.)
There will be no blackjack. And no need for hookers. But it will be our own island.:D
One more idea: You're entitled to a fuckathon for nationalizing and obeying our laws for at least 10 years.
I bet it will be a huge success!:D
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There are only 484,000 of us. And only 70% of them speak Luxemburgish. Aaand... 42.6% are aliens (from earth! I don't mean the bankers there.;) Interestingly, there is even a native Luxemburgish community in the USA.:)
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Ohh... nach e Letzeburger! E wonner!:D An ech haat geduert ech wier eleng hei! Ech sin vu Mutfert (bei Sandweiler), mee ech wunnen elo an DÃitschland. Wou kenns du hier?
What the fuck do you know about Pakistan and India? A whooping(sic) can of shit!
India and Pakistan (and in fact Bangladesh too) are the same people! They got divided by the British empire over the ambiguous decision of calling the zone with mostly Muslims "Pakistan". Now in fact, there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan, and India always was a multi-religious country.
It's the whole bullshit of external empires separating areas into "countries", that originally was the land of intertwined tribes. Those tribes lived side-by-side. And nowadays it's expected that they beat each other up over some made-up bullshit!
It's the same as my father had to experience and caused the death and torture of my uncles and my grandpa in Afghanistan. There the Soviet Union and the USA fought for resources... The Soviets did it by invasion. And the USA did it by giving the Afghanis weapons to fight them. But in fact, nobody cared for the people. Nowadays - after the soviets are gone - the USA *had* to invade Afghanistan, because one of *their own people* turned against them and was supposed to hide there. While in fact he's in USA's allied countries until this day, but they can't attack those countries, because they have the oil *and* the cash, and china supporting them by buying the oil. So the USA can't force those countries to sell to the USA anymore. (Hence the now normalized gas prices in the USA.) So now the Afghanis have a nearly complete population of people that have never seen anything else than war, children crippled by mines and hate.
And you expect other countries not to hate you(r government)???
So please: If you haven't got a clue, STFU and stay out of other people's business and countries, and stop lamenting about some bullshit intrigues between those countries that your leaders told you!!!
Just so you don't thing I'm trolling here: I am in fact half Afghani and half Luxemburgish, and I like Americans like the ones here on Slashdot, the ones like Jon Steward, and many more. But seriously: Fix your government issues. Shoot people who admit openly that they want to cut the education budget, people who act based on superstition and criminal crooks fucking your constitution system. It's your country! (In fact most countries would be better off if they followed those rules:)
You see... If anything proves that Twitter has hacked the moderation system, it's this. Something very strange happens to Slashdot... We better fight it before it's too late, and Slashdot becomes a cross breed of 4chan and the Youtube comment section.
Also do not forget that you most likely do not pay a cent of those millions, so my point still stays strong.;)
It being a for-profit company in earlier days has not much to do with it, because now it's a completely different organization. And, I'm sorry, but remaining relevant does not necessarily meant they have to listen to *you* (or me;)
Of course in reality, developers are just people too, and some of them do it for the fun, some do it to make people happy, and some do it because they have no big choice. (I'm in all three groups btw.) So your chance of being heard are - as I said - pretty high, if you're nice and know that behind every Bugzilla, every forum and every e-mail address, there are people with feelings. (Except maybe at *@microsoft.* or *@*aa.com.;)
And I'll grant you that too. I was not exactly writing this for you anymore, but for all those people I see in Bugzilla, expectng stuff from developers that they give nothing back to.
So I'm sorry if it looked that way.:)
P.S.: Hat twitter got mod points *again*? I mean... "o, Redundant"?? What's WRONG with you moderators??
P.S.: But seriously folks. Even Me, the one who he attacks, thinks he's no troll. Come on moderators....
My guess why they're computing offshore: No laws!
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Seriously. I would not want to work 1000 miles from my home on that "ship" and outside of any laws, because if anyone complains about payment or freedom, they could shoot him and dump him in the water. (Look for sharks first, so there's no body floating on the sea... or edit Google earth;)
And only the US navy (thinking the world is theirs anyway, which it probably is...:( ) could stop them. But would they? I mean Google has money... and power... and soon it's own country with its own laws.
I guess first they have to become a new point in the axis of evil. But I fear they will become an ally... one of the axis of doubleminusgood.
Oh well... I'm drifting away...
P.S.: Yeah, my English is that bad. How good is your Luxemburgish?:P
Maybe, If you started to think, instead of demanding from people who give you stuff for free, you'd found out, that "Never" means "Never ask me if I want to update to *this* version.".
Besides: If you don't like it, you can easily fix it. Every noob can change some "if (...)" in some JavaScript C code.
Never forget that all that beautiful open source software only gets created, fixed and updated because we like to do it. And if we listen to you, it's only because we like to make people happy. If you insult us, call as stupid idiots, tell us that we're shit... do not expect us to even talk to you.
It's common sense: Be nice. Most of the time, people will help you. But maybe some people do not get out of their basement too often... (Users and Developers alike)
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Great. The <blink> tag made it to real life!
Why?? Whyyyyyyyy........??? ;)
evian? really?? ;)
You *could* do it. It just would not ...ehem... look that cool. ;)
Here is a shop in Germany: http://www.webshop-innovatek.de/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.webshop-innovatek.de/00000094271139704/000000942713b3501/50142494350d4401b/index.html
These are the radiators.
I don't know where to get them in the USA tough.
There should be a "+1, Flamebait, but true" ;)
Question of the week: Do you need fossil fuels to fuel a flame-bait?
Nowadays you can shut down nearly every device via ACPI. It's what "disabling" them in the windows device manager does. (But of course in a windows-typical manner, you can't find out what actually happened [eg. if something was turned off])
How about stopping to make wars?
Oh no, then those poor bankers could not sell credits and drive us to slavery and our government into obedience anymore... And there could actually be money spent on education and science (like, above 10% of the budget).
This of course can't be! Because then people would start to think, and kill those power-greedy bastards in an instant.
Then maybe your problem is that your CPU has a fan. ;)
More seriously: I cool my PC passively trough convection. Sure the convectors are huge, but in a place where i don't see them anyway. And I don't need to turn on the radiator of the room.
This is digital work. You do not lose a cent by them creating another copy of it. It's imaginary property.
If you do not get the difference between physical work and digital work, tehn you can right fuck off and learn them first.
One of those differences is, that digital works are available to everyone, as soon as they are available to one other person.
The physical work is you, creating that digital work. And of course you can ask money for that work. But only once. Not for every copy of the *result* of your work.
Besides: What does BugMeNot have to do with your digital material? You don't think that web logins provide some light version of DRM, do you?
Try to change your business model, so you earn (*earn*, not get or take!) money for your performance. It's the only reasonable way it can work. Else you will live a not very happy life.
I'm a game creator, and I'm right now developing a business model based on that assumption. It looks much healthier than that "I lose money when someone gets a copy for free" bullshit.
Yes. You're exactly right of course. Somehow I did not know how to put this in my post.
Oh, and I am not Islamic, or religious. I think everyone can do what the wants, if he does not hurt anyone, and that most religions were created with good intentions, just like most forms of government. So I'm not sure who to blame. Can I really blame people for being uneducated, in a bad situation, and then coming up with some "enemy" to fight their problems? I do not know... maybe someone stole someone else's goat (or cow), and married his sister, and the guy did not know what to do, so he cursed his tribe... What do I know?
I'm just trying to live a decent life, and make the world a better place.
Mind you, that I always expect could be wrong too. Even if I do not sound that way.
And I always expect crazy things from religious idiots (which I consider a tautology), so this sounds reasonable to me. :)
I guess - as usual - it's more than one factor.
Yeah sure. Seriously?...those who die because they can't survive without fossil fuel... don't they deserve it, for being that stupid?
We (as in "humanity") survived worse things. Nobody will die without fossil fuel. Get over it.
Or in short: Why am I answering an AC again? ;)
What laws are there in these waters?
And who defines them?
I don't think that anybody has those rights.
of course if you put some gunships there, you define the laws. But else?
What if I want to create my own friendly country, where it's illegal to wear clothes, and populating trough reproduction is the highest of our values, to be practiced in big fuckfests 9-monthly? Oh and if you don't keep your body and mindin shape, you will be expelled from the country. (Which will be our only legal punishment.)
There will be no blackjack. And no need for hookers. But it will be our own island. :D
One more idea: You're entitled to a fuckathon for nationalizing and obeying our laws for at least 10 years.
I bet it will be a huge success! :D
There are only 484,000 of us. And only 70% of them speak Luxemburgish. Aaand... 42.6% are aliens (from earth! I don't mean the bankers there. ;) :)
Interestingly, there is even a native Luxemburgish community in the USA.
Ohh... nach e Letzeburger! E wonner! :D
An ech haat geduert ech wier eleng hei!
Ech sin vu Mutfert (bei Sandweiler), mee ech wunnen elo an DÃitschland.
Wou kenns du hier?
P.S.: Schued, Slashdot ka keen Unicode. :(
What the fuck do you know about Pakistan and India? A whooping(sic) can of shit!
India and Pakistan (and in fact Bangladesh too) are the same people! They got divided by the British empire over the ambiguous decision of calling the zone with mostly Muslims "Pakistan". Now in fact, there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan, and India always was a multi-religious country.
It's the whole bullshit of external empires separating areas into "countries", that originally was the land of intertwined tribes. Those tribes lived side-by-side. And nowadays it's expected that they beat each other up over some made-up bullshit!
It's the same as my father had to experience and caused the death and torture of my uncles and my grandpa in Afghanistan. There the Soviet Union and the USA fought for resources... The Soviets did it by invasion. And the USA did it by giving the Afghanis weapons to fight them. But in fact, nobody cared for the people. Nowadays - after the soviets are gone - the USA *had* to invade Afghanistan, because one of *their own people* turned against them and was supposed to hide there. While in fact he's in USA's allied countries until this day, but they can't attack those countries, because they have the oil *and* the cash, and china supporting them by buying the oil. So the USA can't force those countries to sell to the USA anymore. (Hence the now normalized gas prices in the USA.)
So now the Afghanis have a nearly complete population of people that have never seen anything else than war, children crippled by mines and hate.
And you expect other countries not to hate you(r government)???
So please: If you haven't got a clue, STFU and stay out of other people's business and countries, and stop lamenting about some bullshit intrigues between those countries that your leaders told you!!!
Just so you don't thing I'm trolling here: I am in fact half Afghani and half Luxemburgish, and I like Americans like the ones here on Slashdot, the ones like Jon Steward, and many more. But seriously: Fix your government issues. Shoot people who admit openly that they want to cut the education budget, people who act based on superstition and criminal crooks fucking your constitution system. It's your country! (In fact most countries would be better off if they followed those rules :)
Hat=Has
You see... If anything proves that Twitter has hacked the moderation system, it's this.
Something very strange happens to Slashdot... We better fight it before it's too late, and Slashdot becomes a cross breed of 4chan and the Youtube comment section.
Also do not forget that you most likely do not pay a cent of those millions, so my point still stays strong. ;)
It being a for-profit company in earlier days has not much to do with it, because now it's a completely different organization. ;)
And, I'm sorry, but remaining relevant does not necessarily meant they have to listen to *you* (or me
Of course in reality, developers are just people too, and some of them do it for the fun, some do it to make people happy, and some do it because they have no big choice. (I'm in all three groups btw.) ;)
So your chance of being heard are - as I said - pretty high, if you're nice and know that behind every Bugzilla, every forum and every e-mail address, there are people with feelings. (Except maybe at *@microsoft.* or *@*aa.com.
And I'll grant you that too. I was not exactly writing this for you anymore, but for all those people I see in Bugzilla, expectng stuff from developers that they give nothing back to.
So I'm sorry if it looked that way. :)
P.S.: Hat twitter got mod points *again*? I mean... "o, Redundant"?? What's WRONG with you moderators??
I quote:
from Google
So unless you're Google...
P.S.: But seriously folks. Even Me, the one who he attacks, thinks he's no troll. Come on moderators....
Seriously. I would not want to work 1000 miles from my home on that "ship" and outside of any laws, because if anyone complains about payment or freedom, they could shoot him and dump him in the water. (Look for sharks first, so there's no body floating on the sea... or edit Google earth ;)
And only the US navy (thinking the world is theirs anyway, which it probably is... :( ) could stop them. But would they? I mean Google has money... and power... and soon it's own country with its own laws.
I guess first they have to become a new point in the axis of evil. But I fear they will become an ally... one of the axis of doubleminusgood.
Oh well... I'm drifting away...
P.S.: Yeah, my English is that bad. How good is your Luxemburgish? :P
On the other hand... if you call us *the* shit... we might accept it. :D
Maybe, If you started to think, instead of demanding from people who give you stuff for free, you'd found out, that "Never" means "Never ask me if I want to update to *this* version.".
Besides: If you don't like it, you can easily fix it. Every noob can change some "if (...)" in some JavaScript C code.
Never forget that all that beautiful open source software only gets created, fixed and updated because we like to do it. And if we listen to you, it's only because we like to make people happy.
If you insult us, call as stupid idiots, tell us that we're shit... do not expect us to even talk to you.
It's common sense: Be nice. Most of the time, people will help you.
But maybe some people do not get out of their basement too often... (Users and Developers alike)
Shoes are so last century. Retro is in! I'm running barefoot since spring.
Guess my OS!
(Hey, that rhymes!)