So it's the 'right' thing to do because it agrees with your views? Self-centered to say the least. Rackspace is required to uphold your values even when it conflicts with their own?
So he's self-centered, just because he doesn't believe your view of in moral relativism? That seems self-centred to say the least.
No, I just happen to know a couple wealthy people that still chose to mod their game systems to play pirated games. They'll buy a new sports car every every 6 months, but can't be bothered to buy their video games.
Intended purpose. If both systems had no restrictions on software that was run, what would most people install that is not currently allowed. I'd argue that iphone would get more freeware/ custom software not allowed in the store. For the playstation, one can not honestly argue that most people would use the new openness for home brewed games and alternative operating systems.
However, I do agree that in principle it is the same thing: allowing the owner of a piece of hardware run the software of his choosing. And I am in favor of that, regardless of the consequences of those who do not respect copyrights.
Absolutely, I'm often the target of such advice, however the alternative solution to mine usually involves excessive code copying of non trivial business logic. I thik you should design something the most obvious way, then step back and figure out the simplest way to do it.
Wow, I never seen a post unintentionally support its opening statement so incredibly well, even on slashdot. That's impressive. I think we should name an award after you.
was it really updating id3 tags? Like, you could open it in winamp and read the info you had input in itunes, or could it have been storing the info in some kind of itunes specific database?
We've never paid based on the actual value of services. In a free economy, prices should be set by the supply and demand. Even if the demand for a service is great, the price may stil be incredibly low due to high supply. Like water. Can't quite live with out it. What kind of value does that bring to you? More or less than a huge flat screen tv. Less?? But isn't water more valuable to you??!!!
Explaining the economics of game shows, is a bit too much for me at this hour. Safe to say, they contestants aren't paid a bunch because they are rare. Its not a free market.
And I'll just end by pointing out you presenting a false choice. Most people would decide to pay many regular workers significantly more, rather than pay a few game show contestants more. Its not their choice, and its not anyone's choice.
Now you're just being pedantic. Every mobile phone company has released a phone that is better than the n900 hardware wise. Including some which have never released phones. I just stopped listing them, because I thought the point had been made. The resistive vs capacitive argument has been settled: the market has spoken and it prefers capacitive. Apparently most people prefer the responsivity of a capacitive phone versus the ability to compose still art ( FYI, that is not a masterpiece. Its folk art at best.)
I would say that there are many newer android phones with better specs: galaxy s, Moto Droid X/2, Nexus 1 ( old already), Sony Erickson x10, Htc desire, htc incredible, htc evo. On top of that n900 has a resistive non mulituch screen. So hardware wise, I'd say its rather far behind. Its nice that the phone runs a full linux stack, but it would also be great if that stack matured a bit more. the Maemo to Meego switch is counter productive, IMHO. Its much more of a transition than android 1.5 to 2.2.
Yeah, you try suing a company with as large of a patent portfolio as Microsoft over a language. See how well that goes. Google on the other hand, has much less of a history in Programming languages. So any lawsuit is less likely to end up biting them back.
1) Good point this was on a state level. I do think the chances of it working increases with a smaller population of citizens. I don't think it would work on the state level either ( maybe medium sized ~ 100,000 city level ).
2) A government does more than just pass new laws and regulations for us to follow. They are constantly determining budgets and tax levels for the coming years. That needs to be done. I don't think that would be a unanimous decision. I'm also not a libertarian. I like my governments to do things that governments do best, periodically.
3).Not really. But just because the current system sucks, doesn't mean there isn't a worse idea out there. One idea I would like to see implemented in the US, is a modification to the US constitution that would add a fourth branch of the government: the people. Basically ( details to be determined), a non unanimous supreme court decision would then be turned into legislation. that piece of legislation could be Sent back to the people by a simple majority of the house as a national referendum. What would this achieve? Well, it has the potential to remove a lot of the controversy generated by supreme court decisions. I think by simply defusing a lot of those hot button issues, we could see less polarization in politics.
But they didn't sue Sun, now did they? What was sun doing during the SCO craziness that might have caused SCO to overlook this? Well the massive payment to SCO to allow Sun to release and distribute Open Solaris couldn't have hurt.
Again you are making the mistake of conflating your opinions on her spiritual beliefs with the good that her charity provides. You disagree with her thoughts on God, leading you to believe those thoughts are causing her to intentionally inflict suffering on people already suffering. Do they have enough doctors? No, they don't. Do they have enough medicine? No, they don't. OD they have any of the advanced diagnostic equipment that modern western medicine has? Again No. They do their best with what they have. They would do better if they had more.
If they had a reputation for mistreating or inflicting further pain on the patients, they wouldn't come any more. Parents wouldn't be lined up outside at 5 am to seek help for their sick children.
You just can't seem to accept that someone with beliefs you strongly disagree with could be doing any good. That's not a very mature worldview
My time scale was very small, because I was specifically replying to the posters claim that the Untied states foreign policy were directly to blame for turning perfectly good countries into poor, corrupt ones. Yes, Africa as a nation was "fine" before European involvement. That's not at all related to the point I was making. My point is that it wasn't fine before the United States involvement. United States != Europe.
Well, I can tell you my firsthand experience of working with Mother Theresa and her religious order of Nuns in Calcutta and Haiti. They do actually use medicine and do everything possible to help the people they care for. Many of whom would just slowly die on the street. They do run hospices as well, which are basically the same as our hospices in the USA. They are a place where the terminally ill can die with dignity and minimal pain and suffering.
I don't know why you are lashing out against this wonderful amazing person and those that have continued her work. You seem to be very angry towards Catholicism in your reply, heaven knows you may have your reason. Very good people can do very bad things. And very bad people can do very good things.
So with many more people in an organization, how much more good can evil organizations do and more evil good organizations can do. It would be a very simplistic and altogether immature world view to believe a single person, much less a whole organization was 100% either good or evil. Learn to call the bad parts of a thing bad, and the good parts of it good. The world will be much better off for it.
Well, you can blame the US for South & Central America problems sure. Long history of involvement there. But Africa? When were any African Nations "doing just fine" meaning "not suffering from being poor and not having dictators"?
Note: I'm not saying American Forien Policy has always been the best for African nations, but were the countries really ever OK? Go back before we were involved and you run into the Colonial rule. Which ( with the exception of Liberia), was mostly European in nature.
Windows wouldn't have had a network stack for win 3.0. They've re written it a few times since then. They've also said publicly that they much prefer BSD style licences to GPL for fundamental technologies (like a network stack ) which companies can then customize and integrate into their own software without having to release the end result.
On a side note, that's not the best article on the subject. The author doesn't really know what he's taking about, IMHO.
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So he's self-centered, just because he doesn't believe your view of in moral relativism? That seems self-centred to say the least.
No, definite deal breaker for me. Haven't purchased a game system since Game Boy Advance. Actually, that was purchased for me as well as a gift.
No, I just happen to know a couple wealthy people that still chose to mod their game systems to play pirated games. They'll buy a new sports car every every 6 months, but can't be bothered to buy their video games.
Intended purpose. If both systems had no restrictions on software that was run, what would most people install that is not currently allowed. I'd argue that iphone would get more freeware/ custom software not allowed in the store. For the playstation, one can not honestly argue that most people would use the new openness for home brewed games and alternative operating systems. However, I do agree that in principle it is the same thing: allowing the owner of a piece of hardware run the software of his choosing. And I am in favor of that, regardless of the consequences of those who do not respect copyrights.
Absolutely, I'm often the target of such advice, however the alternative solution to mine usually involves excessive code copying of non trivial business logic. I thik you should design something the most obvious way, then step back and figure out the simplest way to do it.
Wow, I never seen a post unintentionally support its opening statement so incredibly well, even on slashdot. That's impressive. I think we should name an award after you.
was it really updating id3 tags? Like, you could open it in winamp and read the info you had input in itunes, or could it have been storing the info in some kind of itunes specific database?
Well, ask him if he did. If he says yes, then he did. If no, then he did not.
We've never paid based on the actual value of services. In a free economy, prices should be set by the supply and demand. Even if the demand for a service is great, the price may stil be incredibly low due to high supply. Like water. Can't quite live with out it. What kind of value does that bring to you? More or less than a huge flat screen tv. Less?? But isn't water more valuable to you??!!!
Explaining the economics of game shows, is a bit too much for me at this hour. Safe to say, they contestants aren't paid a bunch because they are rare. Its not a free market.
And I'll just end by pointing out you presenting a false choice. Most people would decide to pay many regular workers significantly more, rather than pay a few game show contestants more. Its not their choice, and its not anyone's choice.
Now you're just being pedantic. Every mobile phone company has released a phone that is better than the n900 hardware wise. Including some which have never released phones. I just stopped listing them, because I thought the point had been made. The resistive vs capacitive argument has been settled: the market has spoken and it prefers capacitive. Apparently most people prefer the responsivity of a capacitive phone versus the ability to compose still art ( FYI, that is not a masterpiece. Its folk art at best.)
I would say that there are many newer android phones with better specs: galaxy s, Moto Droid X/2, Nexus 1 ( old already), Sony Erickson x10, Htc desire, htc incredible, htc evo. On top of that n900 has a resistive non mulituch screen. So hardware wise, I'd say its rather far behind. Its nice that the phone runs a full linux stack, but it would also be great if that stack matured a bit more. the Maemo to Meego switch is counter productive, IMHO. Its much more of a transition than android 1.5 to 2.2.
That comment has been deemed criminally offensive. Please report to the closest police station for your single bullet rehabilitation .
I think, the average unix/linux user is quite a bit different from the average mac user.
That's somewhat Ironic, as the 10 commandments are already backed up in the bible/torah. They exist in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. So at least they followed it, even if they didn't write it down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_commandments#Two_texts_of_the_Ten_Commandments
Yeah, you try suing a company with as large of a patent portfolio as Microsoft over a language. See how well that goes. Google on the other hand, has much less of a history in Programming languages. So any lawsuit is less likely to end up biting them back.
1) Good point this was on a state level. I do think the chances of it working increases with a smaller population of citizens. I don't think it would work on the state level either ( maybe medium sized ~ 100,000 city level ).
2) A government does more than just pass new laws and regulations for us to follow. They are constantly determining budgets and tax levels for the coming years. That needs to be done. I don't think that would be a unanimous decision. I'm also not a libertarian. I like my governments to do things that governments do best, periodically.
3).Not really. But just because the current system sucks, doesn't mean there isn't a worse idea out there. One idea I would like to see implemented in the US, is a modification to the US constitution that would add a fourth branch of the government: the people. Basically ( details to be determined), a non unanimous supreme court decision would then be turned into legislation. that piece of legislation could be Sent back to the people by a simple majority of the house as a national referendum. What would this achieve? Well, it has the potential to remove a lot of the controversy generated by supreme court decisions. I think by simply defusing a lot of those hot button issues, we could see less polarization in politics.
That will never happen on most issues. You'd have permanent grid lock, if applied at the national level.
But they didn't sue Sun, now did they? What was sun doing during the SCO craziness that might have caused SCO to overlook this? Well the massive payment to SCO to allow Sun to release and distribute Open Solaris couldn't have hurt.
Again you are making the mistake of conflating your opinions on her spiritual beliefs with the good that her charity provides. You disagree with her thoughts on God, leading you to believe those thoughts are causing her to intentionally inflict suffering on people already suffering. Do they have enough doctors? No, they don't. Do they have enough medicine? No, they don't. OD they have any of the advanced diagnostic equipment that modern western medicine has? Again No. They do their best with what they have. They would do better if they had more.
If they had a reputation for mistreating or inflicting further pain on the patients, they wouldn't come any more. Parents wouldn't be lined up outside at 5 am to seek help for their sick children.
You just can't seem to accept that someone with beliefs you strongly disagree with could be doing any good. That's not a very mature worldview
My time scale was very small, because I was specifically replying to the posters claim that the Untied states foreign policy were directly to blame for turning perfectly good countries into poor, corrupt ones. Yes, Africa as a nation was "fine" before European involvement. That's not at all related to the point I was making. My point is that it wasn't fine before the United States involvement. United States != Europe.
Well, I can tell you my firsthand experience of working with Mother Theresa and her religious order of Nuns in Calcutta and Haiti. They do actually use medicine and do everything possible to help the people they care for. Many of whom would just slowly die on the street. They do run hospices as well, which are basically the same as our hospices in the USA. They are a place where the terminally ill can die with dignity and minimal pain and suffering. I don't know why you are lashing out against this wonderful amazing person and those that have continued her work. You seem to be very angry towards Catholicism in your reply, heaven knows you may have your reason. Very good people can do very bad things. And very bad people can do very good things. So with many more people in an organization, how much more good can evil organizations do and more evil good organizations can do. It would be a very simplistic and altogether immature world view to believe a single person, much less a whole organization was 100% either good or evil. Learn to call the bad parts of a thing bad, and the good parts of it good. The world will be much better off for it.
Well, you can blame the US for South & Central America problems sure. Long history of involvement there. But Africa? When were any African Nations "doing just fine" meaning "not suffering from being poor and not having dictators"?
Note: I'm not saying American Forien Policy has always been the best for African nations, but were the countries really ever OK? Go back before we were involved and you run into the Colonial rule. Which ( with the exception of Liberia), was mostly European in nature.
Windows wouldn't have had a network stack for win 3.0. They've re written it a few times since then. They've also said publicly that they much prefer BSD style licences to GPL for fundamental technologies (like a network stack ) which companies can then customize and integrate into their own software without having to release the end result.
On a side note, that's not the best article on the subject. The author doesn't really know what he's taking about, IMHO.
Aye, there's the rub. Even when Flash "works fine" it still screws you over. If you don't control the code, the code controls you.
Yes such a blessing Linux is! Years before iphone/ipad didn't have flash. We didn't have it first!