I think you're confusing MMOGs with role-playing. My in-game character is a tool I use to accomplish objectives, whatever they may be. At least, this is the attitude of the entire group of people I play with.
I am not pretending to be anyone, or anything. First, I choose class - my role, in the game. This is far and away the most important choice I make, calculated based on what my friends are doing, and what skills we are lacking. Then I choose race - based on which starting stats are better if it's important in that game, failing that, starting location, as that has the most significant bearing on my ability to level. (In EQ, I always favored Misty Thicket...it was just nice, and race barely mattered in the end). Somewhere at the end, usually, but not always before choosing a ridiculous name, I choose gender. The decision process here is easy: what looks the best, for that class/race combo (what do I want to stare at for hours). Typically men look best as warriors, women...almost anything else where bulging biceps and exaggerated muscles aren't built into the armor. Women warriors often look too sissy to be tanks...but generally when the armor comes off in favor of lighter gear...women models are nicer to look at.
But modifying, even forking GCC is practical and rational, whereas making your own, new, compiler and supporting it for all eternity is not. I can understand much of the BSD bent on licenses, but in this case...I don't see it. Compilers are never "done", and writing one with a license that does not ensure other people's updates make it in is just ensuring that the author is perpetually supporting this himself.
I can understand some applications having closed source licenses...but a compiler is a means, not an end...it really just seems painful.
That link might have saved you a -1, Troll...at least if I were the moderator. That changes your post from inane ranting to something based on fact. Like a lot of people, I don't read Slate. Slashdot posters seem to assume we all read the same trash as each other and we're on the same page.
On the other hand, what they were discussing was not Howard Dean, but this complaint: http://eqs.nictusa.com/eqsdocs/000061C1.pdf I tend to agree with their decision, in absence of the information you provided in that link. With it taken together, I suspect they really ARE overstepping their bounds. Why not write your own complaint? Assuming you would do the same if it were a right-wing website taking money for activism. (i.e. because you believe in the rules, not because you want to smackdown the lefty)
I'm not really sure how I feel about those rules. Wealthy people have wealthy friends, all who act together to scratch each others backs in ways that don't cause money to change hands in regulated ways. The little guy still gets screwed.
You're right, but I can understand the confusion. He's claiming that the DailyKos is receiving compensation for their advertising, although TFA suggests the FEC is ruling only against "free media coverage".
I suspect if the DailyKos is receiving actual money from it's candidates, it's no longer exempt.
What would have clearly moved this out of the troll category is some substantiation to the claim that this is a paid advertiser, not a volunteer. Plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum believe (or have benefit in believing) the nonsense that they're more than willing to do this sort of thing for free.
Worse he seems to blame it on auto-makers. Even though they're doing the right thing by making the cars available where they can, at a reasonable price. Almost irresponsible journalism, except he does in fact mention it's idiotic laws, somewhere in there, that are ultimately the root cause.
Yet what kind of global economy are we creating when by doing business with countries like this, we are allowing possibly overpaid jobs in a possibly overpriced free country (relatively speaking), go to a cheap location with an unsuitable government?
Isn't this just highlighting the fact that we should not be doing business with our enemies? Isn't letting them hide behind the laws of an oppressive nation creating a global economy at the expense of freedoms the western world fought long and hard for?
China is addicted to the crack, now is the time to take it away from them, and get them into the "paying for it" model.
yes, but does anyone care about that? Gamers? They want 100% of their hardware going to their games, and pay out the ear for it. Non-gamers? They don't know better, and I'm really not sure how much the driver model really benefits their use of their machine.
Smart people don't need help at school, it's what they're good at. Beyond not saddling them in remedial and risk them getting killed by the gangstas...truly smart people will keep themselves entertained.
Let me get the groupthink straight: - We MIGHT be hurting the environment permanently, so we should spend billions of dollars and take personal steps to curb our lifestyle as it impacts the environment. Taking measures that are factually less effective (i.e. less than a perfect solution) and, in my opinion, less pleasant than a lost night of passion, just to reduce our impacts. (Don't get me wrong, I'm in general OK with this)
but
- But casual sex is ok - even though we know indisputably it leads to unwanted children and the spread of STDs based on thousands of years of evidence - because it happens only 2% of the time (assuming the condom is used correctly by the usually inebriated youths involved), and anyone who argues with you is clearly unqualified to breed.
I'm trying to distinguish intellectualism versus kneejerk "I hate religious pricks" emotionalism.
Living in fear of space aliens and asteroids and other things beyond our ability to control or effectually mitigate is senseless. Having sex only when prepared for the consequences, is guaranteed to solve a problem.
Actually, if they were successful at generating an order for PS3s to be impounded and destroyed, it might create a pretty high demand for people to go buy them, just for the purpose of resisting whatever authority might try to do so. I sure would, it'd be fun.
Or, coming off the marketing nonsense: OS X remains unavailable for the hardware we wish to buy. This says quite clearly people aren't willing to pay $$$ for Apple's HW, even if the OS is good.
I find that (from experience working in large companies that make consumer electronics) marketing tends to use this data not to target a product feature/function, but to target advertising. My experience is that they can be quite in touch with our inner geek insofar as convincing us to buy a hunk of junk. When it comes time to where engineering time/$ is spent, it's always with the masses, which we will never be almost by definition. This is how mediocre large companies work.
All I would be doing by installing alexa would be enabling marketing to more effectively bamboozle me. Why would I do that?
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I think you're confusing MMOGs with role-playing. My in-game character is a tool I use to accomplish objectives, whatever they may be. At least, this is the attitude of the entire group of people I play with.
I am not pretending to be anyone, or anything. First, I choose class - my role, in the game. This is far and away the most important choice I make, calculated based on what my friends are doing, and what skills we are lacking. Then I choose race - based on which starting stats are better if it's important in that game, failing that, starting location, as that has the most significant bearing on my ability to level. (In EQ, I always favored Misty Thicket...it was just nice, and race barely mattered in the end). Somewhere at the end, usually, but not always before choosing a ridiculous name, I choose gender. The decision process here is easy: what looks the best, for that class/race combo (what do I want to stare at for hours). Typically men look best as warriors, women...almost anything else where bulging biceps and exaggerated muscles aren't built into the armor. Women warriors often look too sissy to be tanks...but generally when the armor comes off in favor of lighter gear...women models are nicer to look at.
But modifying, even forking GCC is practical and rational, whereas making your own, new, compiler and supporting it for all eternity is not. I can understand much of the BSD bent on licenses, but in this case...I don't see it. Compilers are never "done", and writing one with a license that does not ensure other people's updates make it in is just ensuring that the author is perpetually supporting this himself.
I can understand some applications having closed source licenses...but a compiler is a means, not an end...it really just seems painful.
That link might have saved you a -1, Troll...at least if I were the moderator. That changes your post from inane ranting to something based on fact. Like a lot of people, I don't read Slate. Slashdot posters seem to assume we all read the same trash as each other and we're on the same page.
On the other hand, what they were discussing was not Howard Dean, but this complaint: http://eqs.nictusa.com/eqsdocs/000061C1.pdf
I tend to agree with their decision, in absence of the information you provided in that link. With it taken together, I suspect they really ARE overstepping their bounds. Why not write your own complaint? Assuming you would do the same if it were a right-wing website taking money for activism. (i.e. because you believe in the rules, not because you want to smackdown the lefty)
I'm not really sure how I feel about those rules. Wealthy people have wealthy friends, all who act together to scratch each others backs in ways that don't cause money to change hands in regulated ways. The little guy still gets screwed.
You're right, but I can understand the confusion. He's claiming that the DailyKos is receiving compensation for their advertising, although TFA suggests the FEC is ruling only against "free media coverage".
I suspect if the DailyKos is receiving actual money from it's candidates, it's no longer exempt.
What would have clearly moved this out of the troll category is some substantiation to the claim that this is a paid advertiser, not a volunteer. Plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum believe (or have benefit in believing) the nonsense that they're more than willing to do this sort of thing for free.
Worse he seems to blame it on auto-makers. Even though they're doing the right thing by making the cars available where they can, at a reasonable price. Almost irresponsible journalism, except he does in fact mention it's idiotic laws, somewhere in there, that are ultimately the root cause.
Hmm I remember this cuter, cuddlier one:
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow but always kind,
he holds us all within his mind."
Yet what kind of global economy are we creating when by doing business with countries like this, we are allowing possibly overpaid jobs in a possibly overpriced free country (relatively speaking), go to a cheap location with an unsuitable government?
Isn't this just highlighting the fact that we should not be doing business with our enemies? Isn't letting them hide behind the laws of an oppressive nation creating a global economy at the expense of freedoms the western world fought long and hard for?
China is addicted to the crack, now is the time to take it away from them, and get them into the "paying for it" model.
yes, but does anyone care about that? Gamers? They want 100% of their hardware going to their games, and pay out the ear for it. Non-gamers? They don't know better, and I'm really not sure how much the driver model really benefits their use of their machine.
I can use it plenty. I use all my time recompiling the latest packages and keeping up with the latest config file changes ;)
Oh, you mean you don't think administration=using...hmm...what else is there?
1) There's nothing new about girls in social sciences
2) Social isn't really science
Smart people don't need help at school, it's what they're good at. Beyond not saddling them in remedial and risk them getting killed by the gangstas...truly smart people will keep themselves entertained.
What good is someone who has all the right answers if he is incapable of exercising any influence over anyone?
And that is why engineering in this country will always play second fiddle, in salary and glory, to business.
It doesn't matter that they're full of shit. All that matters is that their shit is convincing!
That and a lack of readily available available and ready women.
I don't think you want your employer to do that.
"Exercise smarter, not longer!"
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Let me get the groupthink straight:
- We MIGHT be hurting the environment permanently, so we should spend billions of dollars and take personal steps to curb our lifestyle as it impacts the environment. Taking measures that are factually less effective (i.e. less than a perfect solution) and, in my opinion, less pleasant than a lost night of passion, just to reduce our impacts. (Don't get me wrong, I'm in general OK with this)
but
- But casual sex is ok - even though we know indisputably it leads to unwanted children and the spread of STDs based on thousands of years of evidence - because it happens only 2% of the time (assuming the condom is used correctly by the usually inebriated youths involved), and anyone who argues with you is clearly unqualified to breed.
I'm trying to distinguish intellectualism versus kneejerk "I hate religious pricks" emotionalism.
Living in fear of space aliens and asteroids and other things beyond our ability to control or effectually mitigate is senseless. Having sex only when prepared for the consequences, is guaranteed to solve a problem.
Nothing like social responsibility taking precedence over some base instinct.
No, my priest ressed everyone. Duh.
Actually, if they were successful at generating an order for PS3s to be impounded and destroyed, it might create a pretty high demand for people to go buy them, just for the purpose of resisting whatever authority might try to do so. I sure would, it'd be fun.
Or, coming off the marketing nonsense: OS X remains unavailable for the hardware we wish to buy. This says quite clearly people aren't willing to pay $$$ for Apple's HW, even if the OS is good.
I find that (from experience working in large companies that make consumer electronics) marketing tends to use this data not to target a product feature/function, but to target advertising. My experience is that they can be quite in touch with our inner geek insofar as convincing us to buy a hunk of junk. When it comes time to where engineering time/$ is spent, it's always with the masses, which we will never be almost by definition. This is how mediocre large companies work.
All I would be doing by installing alexa would be enabling marketing to more effectively bamboozle me. Why would I do that?
What's a terrorist?
No, the actual translation was "Gravity sucks."
My dog wants to be a human. He even tries to eat from our table.
Oh I'm pretty sure he's had his last.
Here is my advice: talk to a lawyer who is knowledgeable on licensing and IP matters.
And he too, will expect to be paid for his contribution to your company.