But you can most certainly not compel them to license a damn thing under your conditions. What if this were extended so that other 'industry representing' groups held similar privileges?
Imagine for a moment that a Book Industry Association of America spontaneously acquired control of ALL ebook licensing conditions AND made themselves a middleman AND also by the way would just keep the money unless you knew to requisition it from them. Also, why shouldn't the BSA hold compulsory licenses to all open source software and act collect royalties on behalf of 'the programmers'? And comments! Why should the Writer's Guild hold compulsory licenses to all comments and collect royalties on behalf of starving commentators?
We could invade a sovereign nation for phony reasons, wait 25 years and then do it again... We could give the president the power to secretly arrest, try and imprison a citizen for the rest of his natural life... We could send agents in balaclavas to snatch foreigners from their homes, transport them to gulags and detain and torture them indefinitely... We could invade the privacy of every citizen with a telephone...
We could and we did we're still doing it! Yay!
Next up: infesting the government with halfwit aparachiks!
Shit, did that too! What's left? Oh, why, YOU are.
We'll have to get started on that. First off, are you an athiest? Pro-baby-murder? Gay? If so, we'll be in touch soon! Yay!
At what point did I say you had? What I did imply is that, while Republicans saw Clenis as a major, super important mondo attention grabber worthy of endless hearings, they don't care about being lied into wars.
But please, do continue advocating for Iranian invasion. I'm sure that you're not doing it to distract us from Cheney's impeachable offenses.
The guy who said we'd be greeted as liberators? The guy who still says that Saddam and Al Queda were very very very intimate, on a daily basis (and in bed)? And by political stunt, you are probably talking about Mission Accomplished, right? Right??? ????? No?
What would you have the Democrats do? By your rationale, they shouldn't hold the executive branch accountable for anything, since they don't have the power to override the president's veto.
If Nader were speaker of the house, your loser logic would be just as applicable.
While everything you say is true, I have to wonder if the universities are going about this the wrong way.
Why should students spend limited resources to subsidize administrative overhead? Wouldn't it be easier to live off campus? Considering the rash of rapes, murders, DMCA notices and Napster kickbacks, I for one moved off campus long ago...
I wonder whether they implemented their WM apps in Java. If so, this probably wont catch on any faster than it will be able to send an email with a 50k jpeg attached... Also, it would be fun installing another VM (in addition to the mandatory.net 1.0 VM, which nothing in the universe uses) on a device with a maximum of 64mB of flash.
It would make me smile to run java on a segmented memory architecture, however. *wince*
(I am so incredibly unlucky that my job is to play in the guts of WM daily. I have never seen a more slipshod, written-by-isolated-teams-in-Bangalore OS... Oh God, and the design decisions made by MS US take the cake. No close button? Segmented memory? Useless, expensive binary signing? Fragile aygshell? Broken wait for multiple mutex / event functionality? Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs? Intentionally obfuscated POOM fields? Broken POOM data change notifications? Total divergence between behavior and documentation? Yup. WM surely has it all.)
DirectX is meant to be not as slow as GDI and also not OpenGL for not being OpenGL's sake, while still providing all the abstract APIs that a game dev needs.
It most CERTAINLY does not provide any sort of direct hardware access, any more than OpenGL or OpenAL do.
Try thinking beyond the fucking name of the product, genius.
You have to remember that sometimes an older version of an operating system isn't worth supporting anymore, since the differences necessitated by the evolution of the OS would make back-porting costly.
In a related sense, the differences inherent to the de-evolution (ie the retrogression) of an operating system can make back-and-up-porting tricky and definitely just too hard for rapidly degenerating Microsoft programmers to possibly even consider thinking about achieving. Fortunately, basement dwelling clever people clearly outclass all of Microsoft put together, at this point.
Why in heaven's name did Microsoft think it would be a good idea to install lead plumbing at their Redmond HQ?
Ummm... wtf? What intoxicant ISN'T a date rape drug?
Dopamine makes you want. Anything that potentiates dopamine, barring more complex interactions, DIRECTLY increases a person's sexual desire. Note: ritalin is a dopaminergic reuptake inhibitor. Adderall is that, and more, causing the brain to release more dopamine into the synaptic gap.
Alcohol reduces inhibitions... I think we're all familiar with how this one works.
Do we classify these as date rape drugs? For fuck's sake, of course not.
But would you want to argue against such egregious, destructive and obvious error? Not if you wanted to be elected - it's too easy to rip on the poor fools naive enough to think of public utility. Which brings me to my point - one that, unfortunately, someone far more sinister than I stated succinctly:
"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
Question: if you are an underdog in a hypercompetitive industry, when a little success comes your way and you are finally climbing out of debt, do you:
(a) Stop what you are doing and deeply indebt yourself in order to enter another cutthroat industry largely outside of your expertise? (b) Freaking invest in your core competencies while you have the chance?
AMD did a lot of the former and a little of the latter. How long will it be until they spin off ATI at a multi-billion dollar loss?
To be fair, Intel got their act together in short order. However, I have to wonder if AMD could have maintained their lead if they weren't gathering wool. For at least 25 years, the market has continually payed through the nose for leading edge general purpose computing power, and AMD was finally beginning to grab a share of that high-margin turf - from a competitor an order of magnitude larger!
And they gave it all up for socket compatible GPUs, which, unlike the core2, are nowhere to be seen.
*sigh*
Time to add 0.50 SGI advantage-squandering units to AMD's tally... I hope that their accelerator gambit pays off. I hope even though I know better.
Seriously, how did you guys plan to put 512mb of multilinked DDR3 on a die + an entire video accelerator? Did you plan on doing UMA? Please tell me this isn't the unmitigated disaster it appears to be...
There's really no getting around the fundamental problem: women are our only source of new people. Until all humans come from vats and are raised by robots, we will NEVER really resolve this issue.
This issue produces conflict when the demands of creating and raising children require people to decide between maximum job performance and maximum child rearing performance.
However, there is a sort of solution to this problem: hysterectomies. Women can get them in their 20's, when they still believe that it is not their concern that our genetic heritage dies with them. The government could issue these women special certificates of eligibility for involved, technical jobs in which they could then be counted on to reliably attend. Of course, this would force women to make the choice between motherhood and employability in high end jobs where cutthroat competition necessitates male-normalized culture, which is clearly unacceptable.
Alternately, we could recognize that women just tend to fucking disappear - and for very good reasons, and pay them accordingly.
Perhaps we could all chip in and help to pay the difference in these employee's salaries so that they could feel affirmatively equal if it's so fucking important to us. Or, all women could get hysterectomies and we could have one generation of equality.
*sigh*. After writing all this schlock, I realize that I also want kids, job be damned. God damn you, empathy, emotions and DNA!
I kept waiting for the "next DirectX version will be XP-only" shoe to drop. And it never did. Allow me to break the suspense. The shoe, it has dropped: DirectX 10.0: Windows Vista exclusive.
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Hey, don't let us stop you.
From the article: "SoundExchange will collect Internet radio royalties for your song even if you don't want them to do so"
Are you saying that this isn't that case?
But you can most certainly not compel them to license a damn thing under your conditions. What if this were extended so that other 'industry representing' groups held similar privileges?
Imagine for a moment that a Book Industry Association of America spontaneously acquired control of ALL ebook licensing conditions AND made themselves a middleman AND also by the way would just keep the money unless you knew to requisition it from them. Also, why shouldn't the BSA hold compulsory licenses to all open source software and act collect royalties on behalf of 'the programmers'? And comments! Why should the Writer's Guild hold compulsory licenses to all comments and collect royalties on behalf of starving commentators?
It's political.
... We're calling this one a draw."
Just like, "McCain voted for torture and lives in a self-manufactured reality, but Edwards got a haircut
We could invade a sovereign nation for phony reasons, wait 25 years and then do it again...
We could give the president the power to secretly arrest, try and imprison a citizen for the rest of his natural life...
We could send agents in balaclavas to snatch foreigners from their homes, transport them to gulags and detain and torture them indefinitely...
We could invade the privacy of every citizen with a telephone...
We could and we did we're still doing it! Yay!
Next up: infesting the government with halfwit aparachiks!
Shit, did that too! What's left? Oh, why, YOU are.
We'll have to get started on that. First off, are you an athiest? Pro-baby-murder? Gay? If so, we'll be in touch soon! Yay!
Adam Zweimiller, violator of policy, you are a bad man!
University policy exists for a reason and must be followed!
Think about how many viruses would be caught if everyone were like you! None! What would we do then?! Why, we would be unable to justify our salaries!
Adam Zweimiller, we are obligated to bring the hammer down upon you!
Somehow, I doubt that he'd want to work for you anyway.
at NIN's studio... located in a funeral home. Not figuratively.
How's that for a send off?
That's right. Fuck you, Valenti.
and good riddance, you stupid fuck.
Hello, I made that comparison.
At what point did I say you had? What I did imply is that, while Republicans saw Clenis as a major, super important mondo attention grabber worthy of endless hearings, they don't care about being lied into wars.
But please, do continue advocating for Iranian invasion. I'm sure that you're not doing it to distract us from Cheney's impeachable offenses.
Hear Hear, point taken.
Let's get Cheney in front of Congress, testifying, ASAP.
Do you deny that Cheney lied us into a war?
No?
Ok. Do you think that's more impeachable than a blowjob?
No?
Ok. Please go jump off a cliff. Thanks.
Wait, who are you talking about?
The guy who said we'd be greeted as liberators? The guy who still says that Saddam and Al Queda were very very very intimate, on a daily basis (and in bed)? And by political stunt, you are probably talking about Mission Accomplished, right? Right??? ????? No?
Please DO NOT pardon my incredulity...
What would you have the Democrats do? By your rationale, they shouldn't hold the executive branch accountable for anything, since they don't have the power to override the president's veto.
If Nader were speaker of the house, your loser logic would be just as applicable.
While everything you say is true, I have to wonder if the universities are going about this the wrong way.
Why should students spend limited resources to subsidize administrative overhead? Wouldn't it be easier to live off campus? Considering the rash of rapes, murders, DMCA notices and Napster kickbacks, I for one moved off campus long ago...
I agree? Amen? Right on? Weak sauce.
Fuckin' A? That's a spicy meatball!!
On the topic of the RIAA, what Maxo-Texas said.
Right, of course, just like WGA, the users "demand" it. Please.
I wonder whether they implemented their WM apps in Java. If so, this probably wont catch on any faster than it will be able to send an email with a 50k jpeg attached... Also, it would be fun installing another VM (in addition to the mandatory .net 1.0 VM, which nothing in the universe uses) on a device with a maximum of 64mB of flash.
It would make me smile to run java on a segmented memory architecture, however. *wince*
(I am so incredibly unlucky that my job is to play in the guts of WM daily. I have never seen a more slipshod, written-by-isolated-teams-in-Bangalore OS... Oh God, and the design decisions made by MS US take the cake. No close button? Segmented memory? Useless, expensive binary signing? Fragile aygshell? Broken wait for multiple mutex / event functionality? Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs? Intentionally obfuscated POOM fields? Broken POOM data change notifications? Total divergence between behavior and documentation? Yup. WM surely has it all.)
DirectX is meant to be not as slow as GDI and also not OpenGL for not being OpenGL's sake, while still providing all the abstract APIs that a game dev needs.
It most CERTAINLY does not provide any sort of direct hardware access, any more than OpenGL or OpenAL do.
Try thinking beyond the fucking name of the product, genius.
In support of my theory, I offer evidence that Microsoft has indeed entered the 'insane emperor' phase that invariably signals eminent collapse: the current CEO demonstrates his most placid, meditative and composed mood.
It only gets woooorrr
*ducks flying chair*
worse. Sorry, oh geeze I had no idea there was (oh crap) a developers' conference in town...
*loud noises, cringing*
oh shiiiiiiiii...
You have to remember that sometimes an older version of an operating system isn't worth supporting anymore, since the differences necessitated by the evolution of the OS would make back-porting costly.
In a related sense, the differences inherent to the de-evolution (ie the retrogression) of an operating system can make back-and-up-porting tricky and definitely just too hard for rapidly degenerating Microsoft programmers to possibly even consider thinking about achieving. Fortunately, basement dwelling clever people clearly outclass all of Microsoft put together, at this point.
Why in heaven's name did Microsoft think it would be a good idea to install lead plumbing at their Redmond HQ?
Ummm... wtf? What intoxicant ISN'T a date rape drug?
Dopamine makes you want. Anything that potentiates dopamine, barring more complex interactions, DIRECTLY increases a person's sexual desire. Note: ritalin is a dopaminergic reuptake inhibitor. Adderall is that, and more, causing the brain to release more dopamine into the synaptic gap.
Alcohol reduces inhibitions... I think we're all familiar with how this one works.
Do we classify these as date rape drugs? For fuck's sake, of course not.
But would you want to argue against such egregious, destructive and obvious error? Not if you wanted to be elected - it's too easy to rip on the poor fools naive enough to think of public utility. Which brings me to my point - one that, unfortunately, someone far more sinister than I stated succinctly:
"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
And it's been all downhill since.
Question: if you are an underdog in a hypercompetitive industry, when a little success comes your way and you are finally climbing out of debt, do you:
(a) Stop what you are doing and deeply indebt yourself in order to enter another cutthroat industry largely outside of your expertise?
(b) Freaking invest in your core competencies while you have the chance?
AMD did a lot of the former and a little of the latter. How long will it be until they spin off ATI at a multi-billion dollar loss?
To be fair, Intel got their act together in short order. However, I have to wonder if AMD could have maintained their lead if they weren't gathering wool. For at least 25 years, the market has continually payed through the nose for leading edge general purpose computing power, and AMD was finally beginning to grab a share of that high-margin turf - from a competitor an order of magnitude larger!
And they gave it all up for socket compatible GPUs, which, unlike the core2, are nowhere to be seen.
*sigh*
Time to add 0.50 SGI advantage-squandering units to AMD's tally... I hope that their accelerator gambit pays off. I hope even though I know better.
Seriously, how did you guys plan to put 512mb of multilinked DDR3 on a die + an entire video accelerator? Did you plan on doing UMA? Please tell me this isn't the unmitigated disaster it appears to be...
There's really no getting around the fundamental problem: women are our only source of new people. Until all humans come from vats and are raised by robots, we will NEVER really resolve this issue.
This issue produces conflict when the demands of creating and raising children require people to decide between maximum job performance and maximum child rearing performance.
However, there is a sort of solution to this problem: hysterectomies. Women can get them in their 20's, when they still believe that it is not their concern that our genetic heritage dies with them. The government could issue these women special certificates of eligibility for involved, technical jobs in which they could then be counted on to reliably attend. Of course, this would force women to make the choice between motherhood and employability in high end jobs where cutthroat competition necessitates male-normalized culture, which is clearly unacceptable.
Alternately, we could recognize that women just tend to fucking disappear - and for very good reasons, and pay them accordingly.
Perhaps we could all chip in and help to pay the difference in these employee's salaries so that they could feel affirmatively equal if it's so fucking important to us. Or, all women could get hysterectomies and we could have one generation of equality.
*sigh*. After writing all this schlock, I realize that I also want kids, job be damned. God damn you, empathy, emotions and DNA!
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