People who respect excellence don't deride others as elitist. Conceited or self-righteous maybe, but you didn't say that, did you. Whenever I hear someone use the term "elitist" negatively, I hear them shouting: "I am terrified of excellence."
You then further prove my point by engaging in ad-hominem attacks, rather than providing any kind of useful analysis. Who cares if he got beat up a lot as a kid? How does that make his description of the slashdot community any less accurate?
But no, the internet needs government regulation because you say so.
Haven't you been paying attention? The internet needs government regulation because the game theorists say so.
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And if you read a millions lines of Perl, you would come to the conclusion that it has no syntax, then you would scratch your eyes out with a ball point pen.;)
Who needs a million? That happens to me every time I read a single line of perl code.
In all seriousness though, I couldn't care less whether or not Skype is hypocritical about this, they're the lesser of two evils on this issue. This crap where my cell phone provide charges me $15 a month for a data connection and then wants to charge me an extra $5 a month to send pictures from my phone by email has to end immediately and by any means necessary. We can worry about forcing Skype to open up later.
I was all ready to mod you up solely for the fact that you used the phrase "couldn't care less" correctly, but sadly, you were already at +5 insightful.
Some symmetric ciphers (i.e. public key systems) are broken by quantum computing (for example RSA and discrete logarithm)
Now I don't know anything about quantum computing, but I do know RSA, so I'm gonna assume you meant to say "asymmetric ciphers" instead of "symmetric ciphers" from that point downward.
Not sure how much veto power Carmack had, but I'm pretty sure that the game designer responsible for putting id into its repetitive rut is John Romero. The lead designer of Doom, Doom II, and Quake.
Correct, you can't simply sue someone because they deprive you of potential revenue. But that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about malicious interference that causes lost revenue. To extend your analogy further, it would be more like if sbc tapped in to comcast's cable lines and started broadcasting static over top of the video, degrading all of comcast's users experiences slightly. You'd better believe that comcast would have a right to sue sbc in that case.
I was gonna prefix this by saying, "Not to be pedantic", but then I realized we were talking about FSF terminology here, so f**k it.
really he should have said:
While most fsf pedantry is a little over the top, this one I happen to agree with, "Intellectual property" is not a useful term. In general when I hear someone use the term "IP", it means that they don't believe that their "IP" is protected under patent, copyright, or trademark law, but they wish that it was protected under some other fictitious law, and the are trying to BS other people into believing them.
While, I'm sure you were talking about some kind of floating point binary representation, you are correct that you can represent it in binary in much less space, for example you can compress it down to at least 541 bytes.
hehe, I just pictured this image of some server admin at google sitting there scratching his head and wondering what the hell could cause such a huge surge in queries for "Garden of Earthly Delights".
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People who respect excellence don't deride others as elitist. Conceited or self-righteous maybe, but you didn't say that, did you. Whenever I hear someone use the term "elitist" negatively, I hear them shouting: "I am terrified of excellence."
You then further prove my point by engaging in ad-hominem attacks, rather than providing any kind of useful analysis. Who cares if he got beat up a lot as a kid? How does that make his description of the slashdot community any less accurate?
Who needs a million? That happens to me every time I read a single line of perl code.
WHOOSH!!!
Exactly. He says 'The former is just perception' as if the latter wasn't also just perception.
I mean, I guess so... Why you gotta make such a big deal about it man?
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Yeah, you'd better run!
do what now?
In all seriousness though, I couldn't care less whether or not Skype is hypocritical about this, they're the lesser of two evils on this issue. This crap where my cell phone provide charges me $15 a month for a data connection and then wants to charge me an extra $5 a month to send pictures from my phone by email has to end immediately and by any means necessary. We can worry about forcing Skype to open up later.
I was all ready to mod you up solely for the fact that you used the phrase "couldn't care less" correctly, but sadly, you were already at +5 insightful.
tetris works pretty well in my opinion.
you must be new here.
Not sure how much veto power Carmack had, but I'm pretty sure that the game designer responsible for putting id into its repetitive rut is John Romero. The lead designer of Doom, Doom II, and Quake.
Just so we're clear on this, you did just imply that the wii controller is made out of ground up orphans, right?
I feel like we may have just discovered a new corollary to Godwin's law.
Correct, you can't simply sue someone because they deprive you of potential revenue. But that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about malicious interference that causes lost revenue. To extend your analogy further, it would be more like if sbc tapped in to comcast's cable lines and started broadcasting static over top of the video, degrading all of comcast's users experiences slightly. You'd better believe that comcast would have a right to sue sbc in that case.
I was gonna prefix this by saying, "Not to be pedantic", but then I realized we were talking about FSF terminology here, so f**k it.
really he should have said:
GNU/Linux infringes on our patents.
While most fsf pedantry is a little over the top, this one I happen to agree with, "Intellectual property" is not a useful term. In general when I hear someone use the term "IP", it means that they don't believe that their "IP" is protected under patent, copyright, or trademark law, but they wish that it was protected under some other fictitious law, and the are trying to BS other people into believing them.
Why wait?
perhaps they spent more money convincing Republicans because the Republicans had majorities.
While, I'm sure you were talking about some kind of floating point binary representation, you are correct that you can represent it in binary in much less space, for example you can compress it down to at least 541 bytes.
hehe, I just pictured this image of some server admin at google sitting there scratching his head and wondering what the hell could cause such a huge surge in queries for "Garden of Earthly Delights".
I'm pretty sure that he thinks it means what it means. I'm also pretty sure that he didn't use it to mean what he thought it meant.
Not by a long shot. Am I the only one who opened this and immediately hit '/1337' in hopes of finding this thread?