1) a gun is a weapon.
2) a weapon is a tool.
3) such tools can be used to directly influence life.
4) any tool that can directly influence life also effects the socio/political balance of power.
5) both the government and the people want/maintain power, usually for the same reasons.
6) almost anything can be used as a weapon.
Limiting how a tool is used is the right of any society. But forbidding access to such a tool is a sort-sighted attempt to effect the balance of power.
Short-sighted because
6) almost anything can be used as a weapon.
Guns are powerful tools, but certainly not the only tools which can be used to threaten the balance of power.
The kind of corny phrase 'guns don't kill people' is still as true as ever. People can and do use almost anything at their disposal to do it.
Sure, and with Valve the trade-off is accuracy. Anyone who plays frequently knows when a player is lagging and those that don't simply assume the player is cheating with the behind-the-wall shots and what not.
The results provide smoother but less accurate gameplay and pushes a portion of the penalty of low ping players onto the higher ping player.
As the eldest some of a single mother keen on distributing housework to the idle I find myself as an adult sometimes longing to be bored. What some people might take for granted is how exceptionally motivating boredom can be. When your mind becomes your playground there's less to propel you to do things or make changes.
Personally, I think the story here is that Apple has done a 180 with this app & hope that this is a sign of things to come.
Don't hold your breath. Spotify is currently in a position where they have the means and motivation to aggressively fight a negative outcome. Apple might controlling but a fight that could take them into the European courts with possible trust issues does not seem like the kind of fight Apple would pick.
Agreed. If this news was simply about Spotify's [device specific] release it would have been nothing more then a slashvertisement. The service isn't particularly unique (although people do like it) and the project hasn't released interesting or relevant code (ala audioscrobbler/last.fm).
From a geek perspective the only story here is Apple or licensing issues, and Pandora seems to be a more popular medium for the latter since it's somewhat more interesting technology.
'Dumber' people sublimate their needs. Smarter people analyze them. It seems like we often have problems prioritizing when or what we analyze, which itself is actually kind of 'dumb'. Balancing analysis and sublimation is difficult. I certainly don't do it very well, but the few times I have or do I'd describe as peaceful, similar to happiness but with a underlying and searching self-awareness.
Wait, you're suggesting using the medical establishment to dispense narcotics? The very establishment which is equipped to provide care or treatment for said users?
Why are we still calling the long (and painful) Windows 7 public beta Vista?
If Microsoft had any sense of decency they'd offer Vista users credits or vouchers for free upgrades. Windows 7 is about as unexciting as XP was, but as least it feels like an upgrade.
The need to believe that your aren't a spec of dust on a tiny insignificant rock in a meaningless sea of matter made out of the dying energy of some ancient Big Bag.
Or the need the believe the love you feel carries weight similar to the emotional turmoil you might feel inside at a loved ones passing.
Because we really live for such a short time and we'll probably never get to experience a single thing again.
You, like every other sane person either shut it out or sublimate it and if you do the latter you've probably found some form of religion.
To date I fail to see any average good done by any religion in the world.
Then what do you believe in if you don't believe in yourself?
I'm not religious myself but I fail to see a belief system that really addresses the underlying philosophic and moral dilemmas and some people need comfort or answers, for those people faith might work.
We need a philosophy renaissance to specifically address the needs we've so far only successfully addressed with religion.
Don't know why you got moderated flame bait. I think Microsoft has got more right then just the pre-install with vendors, but it's the mostly complete vision of their GUI that makes using the product tolerable. A Linux based distro aimed at the desktop should begin by using the Windows experience as their base-line. Once the gui is able to match ui functionality feature to feature we can focus on improving things.
But instead what happens is each distro first chooses either Gnome or KDE, adds some custom graphic elements (without dramatically really changing anything) and ends up producing another patchwork desktop that feels (and behaves) like it was made from a lot of disparate pieces of open source software (which it is, but with full access to code it isn't necessary).
As long as I've used Linux distros (8 or 9 years now) there's been a kind of conservative approach to building distributions, where the developers end up taking one of the biggest advantages of open source software (total control of the software) and ignore it. It's like our community has a MASSIVE blind-spot and keeps churning out only very slightly different versions of the same thing, maybe a slightly updated package management system occasionally. But OSS provides the opportunity to make much more dramatic changes. To create a vision where you can control every single piece to provide the experience you want and tailor it to do EXACTLY that.
But instead we trundle out version after version with point releases and version updates, backporting patches on essentially generic Linux distributions we attempt to market using desktop backgrounds and color schemes to differentiate.
If you think about it for a second, if Microsoft was forced to concede and really focus on competing against Linux they could actually drop windows and port their desktop environment to run on on top of Linux. There's value in having a completely integration DE essentially vanilla versions of KDE or Gnome don't currently provide and even if they did, distributions should create and provide their own vision instead of relying on a hodge-podge of other developers to do that for them.
Of course it must be daunting to go against long standing community traditions and complex to provide a fully realized vision but that's a risk we as a community of innovators should be willing to take. Conservative desktops which strive to provides posix-compatible server environments with fairly standard DE's aren't going to go away because their useful to developers but they aren't necessary for desktop users and they do seem to divide our focus on the users experience.
Sorry, I don't shill for Microsoft or hope to continue to use its products but if we ever hope to talk intelligently about Linux as a desktop operating system we have to be able to step back and look at what the #1 desktop operating system gets right.
It's pure ignorance to pretend Windows hasn't reached the level of popularity it has without doing some things right and like it or not its got one thing distribution after distribution fails to get right: cohesiveness.
There's nothing wrong with supporting Linux or even championing it but 'Linux' doesn't care and ignoring the reality of the market will do just ZERO good for anyone, including penguins and men with beards (and certainly not Linus who seems to be genuinely pleased so many people like and are using it).
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It's an attempt to limit intellectual wealth. Bravo.
It might be easier to just outlaw people and other living things.
Just out of curiosity, was there a point to that story?
this:
1) a gun is a weapon.
2) a weapon is a tool.
3) such tools can be used to directly influence life.
4) any tool that can directly influence life also effects the socio/political balance of power.
5) both the government and the people want/maintain power, usually for the same reasons.
6) almost anything can be used as a weapon.
Limiting how a tool is used is the right of any society. But forbidding access to such a tool is a sort-sighted attempt to effect the balance of power.
Short-sighted because
6) almost anything can be used as a weapon.
Guns are powerful tools, but certainly not the only tools which can be used to threaten the balance of power.
The kind of corny phrase 'guns don't kill people' is still as true as ever. People can and do use almost anything at their disposal to do it.
An exciting way to settle arguments! I invite my friends over just to watch safely behind our re-inforced glass. Bottoms up!
Sure, and with Valve the trade-off is accuracy. Anyone who plays frequently knows when a player is lagging and those that don't simply assume the player is cheating with the behind-the-wall shots and what not.
The results provide smoother but less accurate gameplay and pushes a portion of the penalty of low ping players onto the higher ping player.
As the eldest some of a single mother keen on distributing housework to the idle I find myself as an adult sometimes longing to be bored. What some people might take for granted is how exceptionally motivating boredom can be. When your mind becomes your playground there's less to propel you to do things or make changes.
Funny isn't it, if a console is just a small computer wrapped in a larger DRM layer.
Go watch District 9.
Personally, I think the story here is that Apple has done a 180 with this app & hope that this is a sign of things to come.
Don't hold your breath. Spotify is currently in a position where they have the means and motivation to aggressively fight a negative outcome. Apple might controlling but a fight that could take them into the European courts with possible trust issues does not seem like the kind of fight Apple would pick.
Agreed. If this news was simply about Spotify's [device specific] release it would have been nothing more then a slashvertisement. The service isn't particularly unique (although people do like it) and the project hasn't released interesting or relevant code (ala audioscrobbler/last.fm).
From a geek perspective the only story here is Apple or licensing issues, and Pandora seems to be a more popular medium for the latter since it's somewhat more interesting technology.
Calls from political campaigns are considered protected speech
But who knew we'd already granted computers rights?!!
'Dumber' people sublimate their needs. Smarter people analyze them. It seems like we often have problems prioritizing when or what we analyze, which itself is actually kind of 'dumb'. Balancing analysis and sublimation is difficult. I certainly don't do it very well, but the few times I have or do I'd describe as peaceful, similar to happiness but with a underlying and searching self-awareness.
Despair is a quality you create. Death and dying is indifferent to you. That is what makes these things interesting to me.
Yes well, they may be happy, but are they smug! Nothing can throw a dark cloud like a condescendingly intelligent person! And that'll learn them!
It's the walking definition of CAPITALISM.
There fixed that for you. Funny though, we like to think we're the capitalists.
Wait, you're suggesting using the medical establishment to dispense narcotics? The very establishment which is equipped to provide care or treatment for said users?
**MBA brain short-circuits***
Linux: No fines, No jail time!
Sorry, but if Man can do more (that's human kind to members of the opposite sex) and it still sounds cheesy maybe the line is just...cheesy!
Why are we still calling the long (and painful) Windows 7 public beta Vista?
If Microsoft had any sense of decency they'd offer Vista users credits or vouchers for free upgrades. Windows 7 is about as unexciting as XP was, but as least it feels like an upgrade.
And what needs would those be?
The need to believe that your aren't a spec of dust on a tiny insignificant rock in a meaningless sea of matter made out of the dying energy of some ancient Big Bag.
Or the need the believe the love you feel carries weight similar to the emotional turmoil you might feel inside at a loved ones passing.
Because we really live for such a short time and we'll probably never get to experience a single thing again.
You, like every other sane person either shut it out or sublimate it and if you do the latter you've probably found some form of religion.
To date I fail to see any average good done by any religion in the world.
Then what do you believe in if you don't believe in yourself?
I'm not religious myself but I fail to see a belief system that really addresses the underlying philosophic and moral dilemmas and some people need comfort or answers, for those people faith might work.
We need a philosophy renaissance to specifically address the needs we've so far only successfully addressed with religion.
Unless they are driving. Or have different opinions then me.
Don't know why you got moderated flame bait. I think Microsoft has got more right then just the pre-install with vendors, but it's the mostly complete vision of their GUI that makes using the product tolerable. A Linux based distro aimed at the desktop should begin by using the Windows experience as their base-line. Once the gui is able to match ui functionality feature to feature we can focus on improving things.
But instead what happens is each distro first chooses either Gnome or KDE, adds some custom graphic elements (without dramatically really changing anything) and ends up producing another patchwork desktop that feels (and behaves) like it was made from a lot of disparate pieces of open source software (which it is, but with full access to code it isn't necessary).
As long as I've used Linux distros (8 or 9 years now) there's been a kind of conservative approach to building distributions, where the developers end up taking one of the biggest advantages of open source software (total control of the software) and ignore it. It's like our community has a MASSIVE blind-spot and keeps churning out only very slightly different versions of the same thing, maybe a slightly updated package management system occasionally. But OSS provides the opportunity to make much more dramatic changes. To create a vision where you can control every single piece to provide the experience you want and tailor it to do EXACTLY that.
But instead we trundle out version after version with point releases and version updates, backporting patches on essentially generic Linux distributions we attempt to market using desktop backgrounds and color schemes to differentiate.
If you think about it for a second, if Microsoft was forced to concede and really focus on competing against Linux they could actually drop windows and port their desktop environment to run on on top of Linux. There's value in having a completely integration DE essentially vanilla versions of KDE or Gnome don't currently provide and even if they did, distributions should create and provide their own vision instead of relying on a hodge-podge of other developers to do that for them.
Of course it must be daunting to go against long standing community traditions and complex to provide a fully realized vision but that's a risk we as a community of innovators should be willing to take. Conservative desktops which strive to provides posix-compatible server environments with fairly standard DE's aren't going to go away because their useful to developers but they aren't necessary for desktop users and they do seem to divide our focus on the users experience.
Sorry, I don't shill for Microsoft or hope to continue to use its products but if we ever hope to talk intelligently about Linux as a desktop operating system we have to be able to step back and look at what the #1 desktop operating system gets right.
It's pure ignorance to pretend Windows hasn't reached the level of popularity it has without doing some things right and like it or not its got one thing distribution after distribution fails to get right: cohesiveness.
There's nothing wrong with supporting Linux or even championing it but 'Linux' doesn't care and ignoring the reality of the market will do just ZERO good for anyone, including penguins and men with beards (and certainly not Linus who seems to be genuinely pleased so many people like and are using it).