What's the matter with everybody nowadays? The Radeon xPress launch is just a regular product launch, not a friggin "missing link". Pray explain which "paradigm" has "shifted" or which gestalt has been redefined.
I can look the other way when marketing suits come up with this kind of hyperbolic garbage, but/.? No way, man.
Yes, you're right!
There is no way for us to point at a clear demarcation between the free world and the orwellian world of the future/present. The most we can do is have certain tenets as our reference points. Individual liberty, human rights, effectiveness of our judicial system, etc. would be some of the metrics by which we can measure this.
The internet, being the one medium that allows free and uncontrolled 2-way communication, is IMHO, the last guardian of our liberty.
I'm frightened. The way things are regressing, we'll have an Orwellian world with a handful of companies controlling everything; simply because they've locked down everybody with their proprietary technologies. What these greed-stricken politicians and clueless judges don't realize is that they're destroying the very premise of capitalism in the name of protecting a few corporations. What's worrying me even more is that technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that i don't see judges even coming close to keeping abreast with it. we shall definitely see more clueless rulings like this one.
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What's the matter with everybody nowadays? The Radeon xPress launch is just a regular product launch, not a friggin "missing link". Pray explain which "paradigm" has "shifted" or which gestalt has been redefined. I can look the other way when marketing suits come up with this kind of hyperbolic garbage, but /.? No way, man.
Yes, you're right! There is no way for us to point at a clear demarcation between the free world and the orwellian world of the future/present. The most we can do is have certain tenets as our reference points. Individual liberty, human rights, effectiveness of our judicial system, etc. would be some of the metrics by which we can measure this. The internet, being the one medium that allows free and uncontrolled 2-way communication, is IMHO, the last guardian of our liberty.
I'm frightened. The way things are regressing, we'll have an Orwellian world with a handful of companies controlling everything; simply because they've locked down everybody with their proprietary technologies. What these greed-stricken politicians and clueless judges don't realize is that they're destroying the very premise of capitalism in the name of protecting a few corporations. What's worrying me even more is that technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that i don't see judges even coming close to keeping abreast with it. we shall definitely see more clueless rulings like this one.
Does backward compatible translate to back-orifice compatible?
I'm glad to see we're having an animeated discussion.