While I don't agree with the asshat who responded to your original post, I will tell you this. My son displayed the signs of autism far before his two year shots (typically the ones autism is blamed on). Your assessment that it has to be "caused" rather than genetic is flawed.
It took me quite a while to come to grips with the fact that my son has this condition. I've also done a lot of thinking on why so many kids today are being diagnosed with it as opposed to twenty years ago and the answer came from my Mother of all people. She saw nothing wrong with my son. "He's just a little behind" she said. "Your brother didn't start speaking until he was almost three" she said.
Explaining away the condition as some medical conspiracy is ignorance at its finest. Perhaps in the future you should study a little more and get a little more experience with topics you feel you need to comment so strongly on before you make such absurd statements (and no, the internet, while fun, is not the best place to learn if you're looking for facts).
While I appreciate the fact that you took five minutes out of your day to give the matter some thought and you decided that in your limited experience you've never heard of or seen anything that would lead you to believe autism was anything more than mercury poisoning, I'll have to side with the researchers and the doctors and the therapists I've spoken with who have actual years of experience dealing with children afflicted by this condition.
Just because you'd never heard of it in such numbers before doesn't mean they weren't there. They were simply explained away, ignored, or treated quietly while the rest of society went about its business. Not understanding a disease is not the same as it not existing.
Or perhaps this is Microsoft's way of getting their hands on a fairly mature, well-known, linux distribution. MS is not known for what they invent, they're known for what they usurp and rebrand.
What better way to defeat the competition than to (legally) steal their product (support) right out from under them?
If they can't stop linux from spreading they may as well get their hands on a distro, offer it as a supported option, and offer deals if companies agree to purchase windows solutions as well. Make linux work and work well, make their version more interoperable with their windows platforms, and advertise advertise advertise until to Joe Public, Linux = Microsoft.
IT Directors, managers, and VPs like recognizable brand names and support contracts that allow them to shift blame when servers blow up.
And that is why you don't make movies and Peter Jackson does.
Listen, simply because you've read and reread the stories written by Tolkien until you've memorized every line doesn't mean 90% of the audience has.
Trying to convey a story of such magnitude in such a fast medium as film is challenging and as another poster pointed out, in a book you get insight into the character's thoughts, but on film it's all visual.
I suppose we could just go back and remake the films but instead of changing anything at all we'll just add some voice-over dialogue so we can hear the characters thoughts as outlined in the books. Maybe we can get Harrison Ford to do it...
A polite email from the company webmonkey in the first place asking if they could use the content would have been preferable.
IF the "company webmonkey" even acknowledged his email how long do you think it would have taken them to change the site. In my experience corporate entities (I work in IT for a fairly large one) take quite a bit of time to do much of anything that doesn't affect their bottom line.
Perhaps you might want to take a look at his site. Something tells me he isn't really looking for marketing revenue. If you look closely you'll see he has no advertising on what appears to be a personal website.
His way, while possibly juvenile, was also a much quicker way of resolving the issue.
I'm sure he's falling all over himself in a panic that you're unwilling to hire him as a software guy, though.
Perhaps I'm at a loss for all of this because I've never looked to an IRC channel for answers to anything I've done in Linux (I use Slackware by the way).
I realize those freenode channels happen to be where supposedly knowledgable people hang out and discuss the distros they use but where does it say they're there to answer questions, especially the basic questions that can generally be answered using google or linuxquestions.org (where 99% of mine were answered)?
Perhaps it may sound elitist to tell someone to go RTFM before asking silly questions but most people, myself included, have become tired of helping those who refuse to help themselves. As a general rule you should exhaust all other avenues before asking an expert, not just in computers but in everything you do. The more you learn on your own through study, the better you'll understand the subject.
Remember that what you're seeking is basically free technical support. If you can't meet them halfway don't bother coming.
I'm 31 and I was listening to old radio shows as far back as 20 years ago.
Awesome comedy shows like Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, The Life of Riley, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, The Aldrich Family, etc...
What no one here seems to have taken into account is when the Bible was written.
The beginning books were written well after the lives of the central figures (i.e. Adam and Eve and their direct descendents). Also, they weren't immediately set to paper (papyrus, stone, whatever they used to write on) as soon as they were first related. Word of mouth was the most likely way in which these early tales were related.
Anyone who has ever participated in the grade school experiment of whispering a story around a classroom only to hear a completely different version of the story come out at the end will understand what word of mouth does to tales related in such a fashion.
Also you must remember that once the Bible's tales were written down they weren't yet "canonized" and conflicting versions were bandied about. Gaining the favor of the nobility whose money paid for the first written copies of the Bible was a huge factor in determining how the Bible would be interpreted and what would be included as canon.
No information can possibly be taken as truth that has such a dubious history.
It seems to me that an expensive lawsuit is exactly what these doctors are trying to avoid. Rather than try to help and misdiagnose him they'd rather not try to diagnose him at all until what he has becomes completely apparent.
My wife's father smoked for 30+ years, lived in L.A., and was a smog technician for 7 years when he started pissing and coughing up blood. He went to his doctor who quickly prescribed some antibiotics. Despite his getting weaker and his symptoms progressing the doctor did little to nothing more to help him.
It was a year later, when he was finally convinced to consult another doctor, that he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor the size of a grapefruit on both of his lungs. He lasted about 7 months.
Actually, though it may seem difficult, Pilot Linux is actually quite easy to customize.
I was looking for a quick and easy solution to getting more use out of aging PCs at my former job last Spring. We had a Microsoft RDP environment (switched from Cisco) and a bunch of old PIIs still running Windows 95.
I found Pilot Linux, which boots straight to RDesktop in effect turning your PC into a thin client.
Customizing it is really only a matter of changing a couple of scripts. The challenging part is mounting the.iso (mount -o loop -t iso9660 tiger.iso/mnt/iso).
After that you simply copy all of the files to another directory, dip into one of the config files (can't remember which off-hand) to change the settings (I even added a.png of my company's logo at boot) and then use mkisofs to create a new.iso with your customized files. Burn to a disk and you're done.
I want to stress that it took me about 3 hours to learn all of this prior to which I had zero experience with any form of CD distro. I didn't even know you could mount an.iso before I did it but Google is a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately, though it worked wonderfully well, my IT Director didn't know anything about Linux and therefore didn't like it. Instead he stuck with Microsoft products and so he ordered 50 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed just for the Remote Desktop feature (everything else was locked down), in the process using up much of the department's leftover budget for the whole year within the first six months (the majority was spent on new XP servers).
On the flip side, if through hard work and determination, I create something useful to others and attempt to make money from it in order to feed my family should you, who did nothing to bring about its creation, be allowed to simply take it from me without compensating me for my time and effort to do with as you please?
Copyrights and patents are not inherently evil things. Abuse of those institutions is evil, whether by the holder to form a monopoly, or by the infringer who steals from the holder.
Even if the holder of a copyright or patent is abusing said rights, you still do not have the right to infringe. Two wrongs don't make a right, they just make a mess.
Actually I think they would gain a lot more credibility if they would just admit that yes, linux does have a lower TCO, and then stick to touting the features and ease-of-use of Windows platforms which give the customer more value.
Simple honest marketing. "We have this, this, this, and this and we think all of that would be a great fit for your company."
Instead you get, "We have everything you need. You wouldn't really want to trust them with your business would you? This is what we know about them and it isn't good so you should just stay with us. Here. Here's something shiny..."
Unfortunately Microsoft isn't in the business of making software. They're in the business of making money. Software just happens to be the medium they use to further that end which is why their "Marketing Campaign" seems more like a mud-slinging political engine.
Okay, but remember, they will then come up with the argument that the only reason that these things are not on Linux is because the people that write the trojans, worms, viruses, and spyware target the largest audience.
Nope. If you read the letter you might notice they came up with an even better one.
Ballmer - And as Yankee Group noted in its Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison study, "Linux-specific worms and viruses are every bit as pernicious as their UNIX and Windows counterparts - and in many cases they are much more stealthy."
So you see, Linux has all the same problems as Windows. They're just hidden better! Fear the unknown!
I'm pretty sure Kerry will be bad, different bad, and the calculus of badness is pretty hard so I'm not sure I'd be so bold as to say Kerry will be a "marginal improvement", I'd just stick with they are both going to be inevitably bad.
An opinion echoed by many disillusioned voters during every election year.
Though I should qualify there is a big plus in having different parties controlling the White House and Congress because grid lock is a big plus when both major parties have gone insane and are completely corrupt, since it slows them down, they can't make major policy changes and are confined to colluding to hand out the massive pork to their friends. Gridlock is kind of like a straight jacket for the criminally insane.
In which case you'll never find out if either partys' grand ideas for how to make things run smoothly for the benefit of all will ever work. Just once I'd like to see one or the other succeed whether to be discredited as failures or to be hailed as a success. Grid lock only serves to cost a lot of money to run in circles.
The U.S. is in desperate need of a renewal of its Democracy and ping ponging between really bad Republicans and really bad Democrats is precluding that rebirth. America needs a Master Reset and a reboot to clear a corrupted system.
There I would completely agree. Unfortunately it can never happen. Even if you could wipe it all out and start again you'd end up in the same situation only with different pieces.
Unfortunately the ones who seek power are usually the ones least suited to lead.
Business files are covered under different laws (they are trade secrets) and personal files under privacy laws.
I fail to see how an unreleased "copy" of a game is any different. It hasn't been released to the public yet and so for all intents and purposes could be still considered private and/or a trade secret.
Making a copy is not the same as taking.
This argument is pure bullshit. You are making an exact duplicate of someone's product and depriving them of any money they may wish to charge for that product while still enjoying the fruits of their labor. The only reason people feel this is acceptable is that it's so easy to do.
Now, if you were to look at the game in question, say, "Wow, I'd like to have that but I'd rather not pay for it so I'll just take their ideas and make my own game!", then you go right the fuck ahead.
The bottom line is, you're taking someone else's extremely hard work and you're using it without their permission.
No, copying software is OK because there is no reason for it not to be OK, except for the law that you may freely disagree with. There is nothing wrong with copying software, because there never was anything.
Then I can copy your bank account number? How about your social security number, can I copy that too?
I'm baffled by your logic that "there never was anything". By that token I should be allowed to break into your computer and copy anything I want because nothing there exists physically. Once I have my rightful copy I should be allowed to do with that as I please including distributing it to friends. That's fair use right? If you want to argue otherwise you need proof...
That developers are not getting paid? First, they are, and second, they can get another job. That no new games are made? Well, only that a lot of games are made and games improve every year.
Those developers are getting paid for the time they spend developing software. It isn't a one shot deal and that's it. It's a JOB. Certainly they've already been paid for the game you're stealing but when the company that employs those developers loses money on a product they've technically already paid for they either have to start laying people off or possibly even go out of business.
By your logic, all of the clerks at the grocery store have already been paid so I should be able to just take what food I want.
That it is wrong to get something for free? Well, whoever says it, please shove that capitalistic crap back into your ass, because I respectfully disagree.
It's not wrong to get something for free. It's wrong to take something that doesn't belong to you and that wasn't freely given to you.
And something tells me you probably don't do anything "respectfully".
What if I don't recognize your right to privacy or your right to own property?
What tune would you be playing were I to walk into your house, sit down, flip on the TV and make myself at home? Maybe on my way out I'll grab some stuff I find appealing.
Bottom line: Some group of people went to a hell of a lot of trouble to create that game so they could make the money they need to live. If some of them make a little more money so be it. That's the American Dream after all. To make a ton of cash doing something you love to do and raise your standard of living.
I wonder how the thief would like it if (in the case they even have a job) come payday they were told they wouldn't receive a check because we already got the work out of you and we don't feel like paying you for it now.
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While I don't agree with the asshat who responded to your original post, I will tell you this. My son displayed the signs of autism far before his two year shots (typically the ones autism is blamed on). Your assessment that it has to be "caused" rather than genetic is flawed.
It took me quite a while to come to grips with the fact that my son has this condition. I've also done a lot of thinking on why so many kids today are being diagnosed with it as opposed to twenty years ago and the answer came from my Mother of all people. She saw nothing wrong with my son. "He's just a little behind" she said. "Your brother didn't start speaking until he was almost three" she said.
Explaining away the condition as some medical conspiracy is ignorance at its finest. Perhaps in the future you should study a little more and get a little more experience with topics you feel you need to comment so strongly on before you make such absurd statements (and no, the internet, while fun, is not the best place to learn if you're looking for facts).
While I appreciate the fact that you took five minutes out of your day to give the matter some thought and you decided that in your limited experience you've never heard of or seen anything that would lead you to believe autism was anything more than mercury poisoning, I'll have to side with the researchers and the doctors and the therapists I've spoken with who have actual years of experience dealing with children afflicted by this condition.
Just because you'd never heard of it in such numbers before doesn't mean they weren't there. They were simply explained away, ignored, or treated quietly while the rest of society went about its business. Not understanding a disease is not the same as it not existing.
Or perhaps this is Microsoft's way of getting their hands on a fairly mature, well-known, linux distribution. MS is not known for what they invent, they're known for what they usurp and rebrand.
What better way to defeat the competition than to (legally) steal their product (support) right out from under them?
If they can't stop linux from spreading they may as well get their hands on a distro, offer it as a supported option, and offer deals if companies agree to purchase windows solutions as well. Make linux work and work well, make their version more interoperable with their windows platforms, and advertise advertise advertise until to Joe Public, Linux = Microsoft.
IT Directors, managers, and VPs like recognizable brand names and support contracts that allow them to shift blame when servers blow up.
And that is why you don't make movies and Peter Jackson does.
Listen, simply because you've read and reread the stories written by Tolkien until you've memorized every line doesn't mean 90% of the audience has.
Trying to convey a story of such magnitude in such a fast medium as film is challenging and as another poster pointed out, in a book you get insight into the character's thoughts, but on film it's all visual.
I suppose we could just go back and remake the films but instead of changing anything at all we'll just add some voice-over dialogue so we can hear the characters thoughts as outlined in the books. Maybe we can get Harrison Ford to do it...
A polite email from the company webmonkey in the first place asking if they could use the content would have been preferable.
IF the "company webmonkey" even acknowledged his email how long do you think it would have taken them to change the site. In my experience corporate entities (I work in IT for a fairly large one) take quite a bit of time to do much of anything that doesn't affect their bottom line.
Perhaps you might want to take a look at his site. Something tells me he isn't really looking for marketing revenue. If you look closely you'll see he has no advertising on what appears to be a personal website.
His way, while possibly juvenile, was also a much quicker way of resolving the issue.
I'm sure he's falling all over himself in a panic that you're unwilling to hire him as a software guy, though.
what if strip club workers were replaced by these robots? you would be in a room filled with guys getting hard looking at a machine.
So it wouldn't be much different than E3?
Let me get this straight...
You're actually berating a site for not breaking with W3C standards so it can conform to one corporation's attempt to control standards?
Because your horribly insecure, outdated browser doesn't display it properly?
And your attempt to further support your reasoning is to argue that the rest of the herd uses it?
o.O
You get my keyboard when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...
Perhaps I'm at a loss for all of this because I've never looked to an IRC channel for answers to anything I've done in Linux (I use Slackware by the way).
I realize those freenode channels happen to be where supposedly knowledgable people hang out and discuss the distros they use but where does it say they're there to answer questions, especially the basic questions that can generally be answered using google or linuxquestions.org (where 99% of mine were answered)?
Perhaps it may sound elitist to tell someone to go RTFM before asking silly questions but most people, myself included, have become tired of helping those who refuse to help themselves. As a general rule you should exhaust all other avenues before asking an expert, not just in computers but in everything you do. The more you learn on your own through study, the better you'll understand the subject.
Remember that what you're seeking is basically free technical support. If you can't meet them halfway don't bother coming.
Welcome to WRONGville, population: you.
I'm 31 and I was listening to old radio shows as far back as 20 years ago.
Awesome comedy shows like Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, The Life of Riley, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, The Aldrich Family, etc...
What no one here seems to have taken into account is when the Bible was written.
The beginning books were written well after the lives of the central figures (i.e. Adam and Eve and their direct descendents). Also, they weren't immediately set to paper (papyrus, stone, whatever they used to write on) as soon as they were first related. Word of mouth was the most likely way in which these early tales were related.
Anyone who has ever participated in the grade school experiment of whispering a story around a classroom only to hear a completely different version of the story come out at the end will understand what word of mouth does to tales related in such a fashion.
Also you must remember that once the Bible's tales were written down they weren't yet "canonized" and conflicting versions were bandied about. Gaining the favor of the nobility whose money paid for the first written copies of the Bible was a huge factor in determining how the Bible would be interpreted and what would be included as canon.
No information can possibly be taken as truth that has such a dubious history.
It seems to me that an expensive lawsuit is exactly what these doctors are trying to avoid. Rather than try to help and misdiagnose him they'd rather not try to diagnose him at all until what he has becomes completely apparent.
My wife's father smoked for 30+ years, lived in L.A., and was a smog technician for 7 years when he started pissing and coughing up blood. He went to his doctor who quickly prescribed some antibiotics. Despite his getting weaker and his symptoms progressing the doctor did little to nothing more to help him.
It was a year later, when he was finally convinced to consult another doctor, that he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor the size of a grapefruit on both of his lungs. He lasted about 7 months.
If you're really that worried about the EULA why don't you try dropping the company an Email requesting a copy?
If email is too slow, try calling the tech support desk. I doubt they'll give you a hard time.
What if you just print "Goodyear" on the side?
Get your stinkin paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
In a state with 11 million people, 136,000 is close. Franklin County alone has over 1 million people.
Actually, though it may seem difficult, Pilot Linux is actually quite easy to customize.
.iso (mount -o loop -t iso9660 tiger.iso /mnt/iso).
.png of my company's logo at boot) and then use mkisofs to create a new .iso with your customized files. Burn to a disk and you're done.
.iso before I did it but Google is a wonderful thing.
I was looking for a quick and easy solution to getting more use out of aging PCs at my former job last Spring. We had a Microsoft RDP environment (switched from Cisco) and a bunch of old PIIs still running Windows 95.
I found Pilot Linux, which boots straight to RDesktop in effect turning your PC into a thin client.
Customizing it is really only a matter of changing a couple of scripts. The challenging part is mounting the
After that you simply copy all of the files to another directory, dip into one of the config files (can't remember which off-hand) to change the settings (I even added a
I want to stress that it took me about 3 hours to learn all of this prior to which I had zero experience with any form of CD distro. I didn't even know you could mount an
Unfortunately, though it worked wonderfully well, my IT Director didn't know anything about Linux and therefore didn't like it. Instead he stuck with Microsoft products and so he ordered 50 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed just for the Remote Desktop feature (everything else was locked down), in the process using up much of the department's leftover budget for the whole year within the first six months (the majority was spent on new XP servers).
On the flip side, if through hard work and determination, I create something useful to others and attempt to make money from it in order to feed my family should you, who did nothing to bring about its creation, be allowed to simply take it from me without compensating me for my time and effort to do with as you please?
Copyrights and patents are not inherently evil things. Abuse of those institutions is evil, whether by the holder to form a monopoly, or by the infringer who steals from the holder.
Even if the holder of a copyright or patent is abusing said rights, you still do not have the right to infringe. Two wrongs don't make a right, they just make a mess.
I'll play it with you. Alright, you go first...
Actually I think they would gain a lot more credibility if they would just admit that yes, linux does have a lower TCO, and then stick to touting the features and ease-of-use of Windows platforms which give the customer more value.
Simple honest marketing. "We have this, this, this, and this and we think all of that would be a great fit for your company."
Instead you get, "We have everything you need. You wouldn't really want to trust them with your business would you? This is what we know about them and it isn't good so you should just stay with us. Here. Here's something shiny..."
Unfortunately Microsoft isn't in the business of making software. They're in the business of making money. Software just happens to be the medium they use to further that end which is why their "Marketing Campaign" seems more like a mud-slinging political engine.
Okay, but remember, they will then come up with the argument that the only reason that these things are not on Linux is because the people that write the trojans, worms, viruses, and spyware target the largest audience.
Nope. If you read the letter you might notice they came up with an even better one.
Ballmer - And as Yankee Group noted in its Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison study, "Linux-specific worms and viruses are every bit as pernicious as their UNIX and Windows counterparts - and in many cases they are much more stealthy."
So you see, Linux has all the same problems as Windows. They're just hidden better! Fear the unknown!
I'm pretty sure Kerry will be bad, different bad, and the calculus of badness is pretty hard so I'm not sure I'd be so bold as to say Kerry will be a "marginal improvement", I'd just stick with they are both going to be inevitably bad.
An opinion echoed by many disillusioned voters during every election year.
Though I should qualify there is a big plus in having different parties controlling the White House and Congress because grid lock is a big plus when both major parties have gone insane and are completely corrupt, since it slows them down, they can't make major policy changes and are confined to colluding to hand out the massive pork to their friends. Gridlock is kind of like a straight jacket for the criminally insane.
In which case you'll never find out if either partys' grand ideas for how to make things run smoothly for the benefit of all will ever work. Just once I'd like to see one or the other succeed whether to be discredited as failures or to be hailed as a success. Grid lock only serves to cost a lot of money to run in circles.
The U.S. is in desperate need of a renewal of its Democracy and ping ponging between really bad Republicans and really bad Democrats is precluding that rebirth. America needs a Master Reset and a reboot to clear a corrupted system.
There I would completely agree. Unfortunately it can never happen. Even if you could wipe it all out and start again you'd end up in the same situation only with different pieces.
Unfortunately the ones who seek power are usually the ones least suited to lead.
Neither major U.S. party has rejected an incumbent President a nomination for a second term, if he has sought one, in over 100 years.
Perhaps because no incumbent President in over 100 years who has sought nomination for a second term has moved very far from his party's position?
Taken in that light it becomes a meaningless statistic.
Business files are covered under different laws (they are trade secrets) and personal files under privacy laws.
I fail to see how an unreleased "copy" of a game is any different. It hasn't been released to the public yet and so for all intents and purposes could be still considered private and/or a trade secret.
Making a copy is not the same as taking.
This argument is pure bullshit. You are making an exact duplicate of someone's product and depriving them of any money they may wish to charge for that product while still enjoying the fruits of their labor. The only reason people feel this is acceptable is that it's so easy to do.
Now, if you were to look at the game in question, say, "Wow, I'd like to have that but I'd rather not pay for it so I'll just take their ideas and make my own game!", then you go right the fuck ahead.
The bottom line is, you're taking someone else's extremely hard work and you're using it without their permission.
No, copying software is OK because there is no reason for it not to be OK, except for the law that you may freely disagree with. There is nothing wrong with copying software, because there never was anything.
Then I can copy your bank account number? How about your social security number, can I copy that too?
I'm baffled by your logic that "there never was anything". By that token I should be allowed to break into your computer and copy anything I want because nothing there exists physically. Once I have my rightful copy I should be allowed to do with that as I please including distributing it to friends. That's fair use right? If you want to argue otherwise you need proof...
That developers are not getting paid? First, they are, and second, they can get another job. That no new games are made? Well, only that a lot of games are made and games improve every year.
Those developers are getting paid for the time they spend developing software. It isn't a one shot deal and that's it. It's a JOB. Certainly they've already been paid for the game you're stealing but when the company that employs those developers loses money on a product they've technically already paid for they either have to start laying people off or possibly even go out of business. By your logic, all of the clerks at the grocery store have already been paid so I should be able to just take what food I want.
That it is wrong to get something for free? Well, whoever says it, please shove that capitalistic crap back into your ass, because I respectfully disagree.
It's not wrong to get something for free. It's wrong to take something that doesn't belong to you and that wasn't freely given to you.
And something tells me you probably don't do anything "respectfully".
What if I don't recognize your right to privacy or your right to own property?
What tune would you be playing were I to walk into your house, sit down, flip on the TV and make myself at home? Maybe on my way out I'll grab some stuff I find appealing.
Bottom line: Some group of people went to a hell of a lot of trouble to create that game so they could make the money they need to live. If some of them make a little more money so be it. That's the American Dream after all. To make a ton of cash doing something you love to do and raise your standard of living.
I wonder how the thief would like it if (in the case they even have a job) come payday they were told they wouldn't receive a check because we already got the work out of you and we don't feel like paying you for it now.