Clearly you're not new here, because you didn't RTFA, didja? Nowhere in the article does it mention a propeller or anything else to recharge the batteries. I was looking for such a mention, because that was the only thing that motivated me to even read the article myself. The means of locomotion was certainly explained well enough, but that wasn't news to me. I was askin' because it wasn't described at all, not because I'm new here.
There seems little doubt, based on this interview with the biographer, that he is indeed firmly entrenched somewhere on the higher end of the autistic Spectrum.
I feel a stronger connection with people like Perelman than the vast majority of my alleged peers, though still not an emotional one. People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types. Another rather well-known person who I would consider very similar (if just a bit more social) is Craig Newmark, of Craigslist.org fame. Wired Magazine had what I thought was a very telling article about Newmark and his Aspie "eccentricities".
Eccentricities or not, if the rest of the world were to (voluntarily) take lessons from the ethics of those two men, the Earth would be a dramatically different place, indeed.
The WP article says very little about the batteries. Did they pack sufficient juice for the entire trans-Atlantic trip, or was there some hydrodynamic principle used to recharge the batteries?
This cannot be allowed to happen, since as we all know AIG is both a national treasure *and* a national secret. Can't give away our secrets to just anybody!
In case YOU hadn't noticed, some of the worst capitalists in evidence are also self-proclaimed Christians. However, the primary reason I "took it there" is because BOTH assertions are delusional B.S. not supported by the facts.
It's all a pointless tangent, regardless whether your delusion has any hint of reality or not. Regardless whether capitalism "made" this country or not, the truth of the here and now is that it's on the verge of UN-making it. Ethically vacant capitalism might have been a fine way of running an economy a millennium ago, but it's no longer beneficial in a world of six and a half billion people; the more people, and the more densely they must coexist, the greater the need for ethics... which capitalism does not provide. Capitalism, by its very nature, encourages anti-social behavior. Capitalism is an Anachronism, and our best attempts to keep it relevant by increasingly constraining it with ethics have failed.
If you don't think capitalism is anachronistic, consider this: it's the exact same economic system used by primates and other species, as much as those species have economies. We're still using the same type of economic system as the apes from which we evolved. You have to be pretty stupid to be proud of that absence of progress.
I suppose you're also brainwashed into believing that the United States was founded as a "Christian" nation, and that the Founders intended that? You're accepting unsupported delusional arguments from the wrong people. You seriously need to read the personal writings of Jefferson, at the very least; those few paragraphs you got in high school and college were distorted and incomplete.
... my big quaking ass. So-called "tying" is very much anti-competitive, because the MOTIVE behind it is anti-competitive. Just because all the other kids are doing it and getting away with it doesn't mean it's not anti-competitive. All it means is that the DoJ only has limited resources to go after every trivial anti-competitive abuse.
Frankly, the real problem is capitalism itself, because the motives that drive capitalism are in fact the desire to thwart competition and create monopolies. If Capitalism were an NPC in a D&D campaign, it would be "chaotic neutral", because there are no inherent ethics in Capitalism at all; they have to be artificially tacked-on, with threats of force attached to make them work at all.
What? I love the smell of grease in the morning! It's not quite as heavenly as living next door to a KFC or Long John Silver's, but gotta take what piece of Heaven you can get, right?
How would you like to be the guy who has to keep all that clean and dust-free? Oh, and what about trying to manage drinks and food from drive-thrus without frying a few things beside the fries?
I wonder how often the new bride and groom will be inclined to turn the mattress? This will tell us something about their housekeeping skills, too. Will the bedbugs find the Twitterbox before they do?
I know about about birth rates being an inverse proportion to standard of living; that applies to EVERY creature, not just H. sapiens. I was trying to be sarcastic and funny in response to the GGP, however.
Ah, see, there's the problem right there: we shouldn't be trying to do that. We're lousy at it. We should be focusing all of our limited PHB managerial skills on managing ourselves and our own six-fold overpopulation, not trying to manage everything else.
Well, that should be obvious: QUANTitative focus instead of a QUALitative one.
But what the hell do I know? I'm a perfectionist who had a high school teacher sign a yearbook with "Mark, remember deadlines", because in true Charles Babbage style I was always ignoring them! (I still am.)
You'll note that I never said refunds should be against policy. If software fails to perform adequately, it's still reasonable and fair that you should be able to demand your money back, regardless of abject fears you might be a pirate (unless they can PROVE you are). The ability to demand a refund is a MINIMUM check/balance that should always exist in a capitalist economy.
By my reckoning, you should have been due refunds for those two games, if you had asked for such. Apparently if they'd been Stardock games you'd have gotten them.
Is Windows "doomed" to have buggy releases? Is Ubuntu or any other Linux distro doomed to have buggy releases?
Inasmuch as Windows, at least, has ALWAYS had buggy releases, I guess that means the answer to the question in the title is "Yes, Virginia."
But seriously, since when has any of the above been considered truly mission critical, in the sense that it MUST work exactly as expected from its very first execution in the field? I think somebody has some pretty high expectations for consumer software here, if he's trying to apply the same process requirements that NASA or the DoD would demand.
Oddly enough, dear chap, I can manage to do exactly what you suggest and spout off on Slashdot at the same time.
BTW, how is it not my business when the purchasing habits of others directly affect the prices that vendors choose to demand of me? If you and 10 million other people are pound-foolish enough to be willing to pay $50 for an item that only cost $10 to produce, then guess what price will be demanded of me? It won't matter if I know better; I'll still have to pay the extorted price if I truly need the item.
Collective ignorance or stupidity is very much my business, since it affects my wallet even if I don't share in the ignorance. This is why it's so damned important to have educated consumers, and why we need more efforts like Consumer Reports and people like Ralph Nader (the early Ralph, not the political sellout we have now). As Nader once said, "The consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity." Well, *I* need to be protected from that indiscretion and vanity, too, lest it affect the prices I have to pay.
I'm both jealous of people who are so ridiculously well off that they can afford to throw money down that Rabbit Hole without a second thought, and at the same time sorry for the people who absolutely can't afford to do it but don't have the personal wherewithal or common sense to avoid it.
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Clearly you're not new here, because you didn't RTFA, didja? Nowhere in the article does it mention a propeller or anything else to recharge the batteries. I was looking for such a mention, because that was the only thing that motivated me to even read the article myself. The means of locomotion was certainly explained well enough, but that wasn't news to me. I was askin' because it wasn't described at all, not because I'm new here.
You mean the Borg Queen, right?
You have a lot to learn, then, my young Padawan. It was the context in which he refused it that was significant.
There seems little doubt, based on this interview with the biographer, that he is indeed firmly entrenched somewhere on the higher end of the autistic Spectrum.
I feel a stronger connection with people like Perelman than the vast majority of my alleged peers, though still not an emotional one. People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types. Another rather well-known person who I would consider very similar (if just a bit more social) is Craig Newmark, of Craigslist.org fame. Wired Magazine had what I thought was a very telling article about Newmark and his Aspie "eccentricities".
Eccentricities or not, if the rest of the world were to (voluntarily) take lessons from the ethics of those two men, the Earth would be a dramatically different place, indeed.
The WP article says very little about the batteries. Did they pack sufficient juice for the entire trans-Atlantic trip, or was there some hydrodynamic principle used to recharge the batteries?
This cannot be allowed to happen, since as we all know AIG is both a national treasure *and* a national secret. Can't give away our secrets to just anybody!
Do you still have an old Pentium III in the corner that you play that game on?
In case YOU hadn't noticed, some of the worst capitalists in evidence are also self-proclaimed Christians. However, the primary reason I "took it there" is because BOTH assertions are delusional B.S. not supported by the facts.
It's all a pointless tangent, regardless whether your delusion has any hint of reality or not. Regardless whether capitalism "made" this country or not, the truth of the here and now is that it's on the verge of UN-making it. Ethically vacant capitalism might have been a fine way of running an economy a millennium ago, but it's no longer beneficial in a world of six and a half billion people; the more people, and the more densely they must coexist, the greater the need for ethics... which capitalism does not provide. Capitalism, by its very nature, encourages anti-social behavior. Capitalism is an Anachronism, and our best attempts to keep it relevant by increasingly constraining it with ethics have failed.
If you don't think capitalism is anachronistic, consider this: it's the exact same economic system used by primates and other species, as much as those species have economies. We're still using the same type of economic system as the apes from which we evolved. You have to be pretty stupid to be proud of that absence of progress.
I suppose you're also brainwashed into believing that the United States was founded as a "Christian" nation, and that the Founders intended that? You're accepting unsupported delusional arguments from the wrong people. You seriously need to read the personal writings of Jefferson, at the very least; those few paragraphs you got in high school and college were distorted and incomplete.
... my big quaking ass. So-called "tying" is very much anti-competitive, because the MOTIVE behind it is anti-competitive. Just because all the other kids are doing it and getting away with it doesn't mean it's not anti-competitive. All it means is that the DoJ only has limited resources to go after every trivial anti-competitive abuse.
Frankly, the real problem is capitalism itself, because the motives that drive capitalism are in fact the desire to thwart competition and create monopolies. If Capitalism were an NPC in a D&D campaign, it would be "chaotic neutral", because there are no inherent ethics in Capitalism at all; they have to be artificially tacked-on, with threats of force attached to make them work at all.
What? I love the smell of grease in the morning! It's not quite as heavenly as living next door to a KFC or Long John Silver's, but gotta take what piece of Heaven you can get, right?
How would you like to be the guy who has to keep all that clean and dust-free? Oh, and what about trying to manage drinks and food from drive-thrus without frying a few things beside the fries?
Now how lucky are folks who live in apartments that but right up next to a McDonald's?
If you have your way, I'm finally gonna have to learn how to surf, dammit!
I want the mineral rights. Please do kindly tell me when it's due to impact, though, so I can be sure to be on vacation at the time.
I wonder how often the new bride and groom will be inclined to turn the mattress? This will tell us something about their housekeeping skills, too. Will the bedbugs find the Twitterbox before they do?
I know about about birth rates being an inverse proportion to standard of living; that applies to EVERY creature, not just H. sapiens. I was trying to be sarcastic and funny in response to the GGP, however.
Probably a good idea. They caused that whole Summer of Love orgy business.
Ah, see, there's the problem right there: we shouldn't be trying to do that. We're lousy at it. We should be focusing all of our limited PHB managerial skills on managing ourselves and our own six-fold overpopulation, not trying to manage everything else.
... and now he's resorting to media tampering. That's a pretty natural progression, I guess....
Well, that should be obvious: QUANTitative focus instead of a QUALitative one.
But what the hell do I know? I'm a perfectionist who had a high school teacher sign a yearbook with "Mark, remember deadlines", because in true Charles Babbage style I was always ignoring them! (I still am.)
You'll note that I never said refunds should be against policy. If software fails to perform adequately, it's still reasonable and fair that you should be able to demand your money back, regardless of abject fears you might be a pirate (unless they can PROVE you are). The ability to demand a refund is a MINIMUM check/balance that should always exist in a capitalist economy.
By my reckoning, you should have been due refunds for those two games, if you had asked for such. Apparently if they'd been Stardock games you'd have gotten them.
Is Windows "doomed" to have buggy releases?
Is Ubuntu or any other Linux distro doomed to have buggy releases?
Inasmuch as Windows, at least, has ALWAYS had buggy releases, I guess that means the answer to the question in the title is "Yes, Virginia."
But seriously, since when has any of the above been considered truly mission critical, in the sense that it MUST work exactly as expected from its very first execution in the field? I think somebody has some pretty high expectations for consumer software here, if he's trying to apply the same process requirements that NASA or the DoD would demand.
They're GAMES. Good grief.
Oddly enough, dear chap, I can manage to do exactly what you suggest and spout off on Slashdot at the same time.
BTW, how is it not my business when the purchasing habits of others directly affect the prices that vendors choose to demand of me? If you and 10 million other people are pound-foolish enough to be willing to pay $50 for an item that only cost $10 to produce, then guess what price will be demanded of me? It won't matter if I know better; I'll still have to pay the extorted price if I truly need the item.
Collective ignorance or stupidity is very much my business, since it affects my wallet even if I don't share in the ignorance. This is why it's so damned important to have educated consumers, and why we need more efforts like Consumer Reports and people like Ralph Nader (the early Ralph, not the political sellout we have now). As Nader once said, "The consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity." Well, *I* need to be protected from that indiscretion and vanity, too, lest it affect the prices I have to pay.
I'm both jealous of people who are so ridiculously well off that they can afford to throw money down that Rabbit Hole without a second thought, and at the same time sorry for the people who absolutely can't afford to do it but don't have the personal wherewithal or common sense to avoid it.