Does this place morph into a Republican haven on the weekends, or what? I'm seeing "no, cut taxes instead!" and "everything is pork!" modded up to the sky, while the sensical posts are ignored. Sheesh...
I am fucking sick and tired of this moronic "Obama supporters are brainwashed Obama cult worshipers" crap you and others of your ilk love to insinuate (in an annoying display of projection, I might add).
What you have seen has been enthusiasm. What you have seen has been hope that maybe, just maybe, we'll finally have someone with some semblance of adulthood and a brain in the most powerful office in the world. That if we're lucky, we might not continue hurtling off the cliff. I know that compared to what we've had to put up with in the shape of Republican Rule, the visions of actual largely beneficial government workings must seem like fucking heaven.
But let's not forget that we progressives have had problems with some of Obama's moves from even before the inauguration (remember Rick Warren?). We will no doubt continue having problems from time to time with some moves, like this one. Nobody's perfect, but we'll keep pushing for it.
But we do imagine that the complaints might actually have some effect (unlike the Republican Wall Of Deaf Ears).
Uh-huh. Here, I have a great new product called Just A Rock(tm). There's a few versions, and here's our pricing structure:
Just A Rock(tm) Ultimate ($1,000,000)
Just A Rock(tm) Enhanced ($100,000)
Just A Rock(tm) Basic ($10,000)
So if you don't need the Racing Stripe Ornamentation Pack and the Pebble Expansion Pack, you can buy Just A Rock(tm) Basic and, boom, you're saving $990,000! Buy two and you save $1,980,000! How could you pass up a bargain like that?! BUY NOW!!
Actually, I must say, the Start menu is one of the few things I like better in Vista than in XP. That, and the alt-tab panel (mouse-clickability, in particular).
They are quite amazing. The company I work for moved its production database servers over to these exact devices several months ago, and now we never have DB performance issues or timeouts.
The bad part, of course, is that slow-DB issues are only discoverable on test or staging servers, and you have to remember to do it. Come to think of it, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
They make you download and install their special downloader first. This installs a service and a tray icon that run at startup, and provides no easy way to disable this (short of uninstall). (That is, easier than disabling them with RegEdit and Services console.) The downloader also makes you "name" your machine for its own purposes, and you pick which machine you're downloading to on the download page. I'm guessing this must lock that copy in to that machine (else why ask?).
This has been true up till recently. The massive and continuing losses by the Republicans means people have finally figured out that the Reagan ideology ("Trickle down", or whatever you want to call it) has never worked. The citizens are way ahead of the politicians on this.
As Churchhill said: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.".
I love how, no matter the subject matter, someone on Slashdot inevitably manages to see the blindingly obvious hole in the theory that makes the whole thing fall down and which all the experts somehow managed to miss all these years.
Looks like you were advocating copyright infringement.
How so? All the question said was "Give your friend a copy of your anti-virus software.". It didn't say how you made this happen. Pointing him to the download URL would be simplest way, I imagine, and fully in line with the license agreement. Or, if the guy couldn't handle that, you'd probably go to his computer and download and install it for him -- also "giving him a copy", also legal.
At this point in our history, corporate America has grown so large and corrupt that I believe that it is in a feedback-loop that will only be halted when the whole country collapses from the weight of the "executive class" and devolves into chaos.
Or, we could start enforcing anti-trust law again.
Programmers generally have a personality that is characterized by their belief that because they can write code and others can't (e.g. a securities lawyer) they can do any other job function as well or better than that person.
I'd be genuinely surprised at any actual programmer who thought this way. I'd expect the exact opposite, in fact. Even the dumbest programmer knows you don't call a Sort() routine to accomplish a Copy(). Why would you call a programmer to accomplish a legal maneuver?
1. This ridiculous concept of "political capital" has to stop. If by "political capital", you mean the ability to do what he wants and have Republicans accept it, he has none. No one can ever have any, except Republicans. And they have an infinite amount. The simple fact is that Republicans, as they stand now (and for the past, oh, say, 20 years, at least), are completely implacable and will accept nothing contrary to their stated ideology. If he wants to do something they like, they'll go along, muttering the whole time that he's not going far enough. If he wants to do something they don't like, they'll tell him to go fuck himself. Simple as that.
2. Going after the criminal syndicate known as the Bush Administration cannot be a "witch-hunt". Witch-hunts are where you go looking for random people to screw over to distract the masses. The Bush Administration is far from random people; it's the (most recent) source of our pain and trouble. It's called serving justice, and there's been far too little of that in the world of late. If we let the bastards get away with it (AGAIN...), then we'll only deserve it the next time someone comes along and does it to us more, but harder.
3. All this whining about "we must take small steps" and "oh, but be cautious" never stopped the Bush Crime Family(tm) from ramming through every egregious violation of civil decency we've been subjected to lo these 8 years. I'm sick of being told that the good ideas must be timid in the face of the big ugly ideas.
As someone once famously said: Elections have consequences. So bring the consequences on.
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The hell you do! Evidence: I have yet to receive a single million-dollar check from you. For shame.
Trust me, it's nothing compared to the pain and suffering your work caused us.
-- The testing staff
Don't you be talkin' 'bout mah Galaga.
Does this place morph into a Republican haven on the weekends, or what? I'm seeing "no, cut taxes instead!" and "everything is pork!" modded up to the sky, while the sensical posts are ignored. Sheesh...
I'm looking, but I'm not seeing any "-1, Straw Man" mods.
Now just one goddamned minute.
I am fucking sick and tired of this moronic "Obama supporters are brainwashed Obama cult worshipers" crap you and others of your ilk love to insinuate (in an annoying display of projection, I might add).
What you have seen has been enthusiasm. What you have seen has been hope that maybe, just maybe, we'll finally have someone with some semblance of adulthood and a brain in the most powerful office in the world. That if we're lucky, we might not continue hurtling off the cliff. I know that compared to what we've had to put up with in the shape of Republican Rule, the visions of actual largely beneficial government workings must seem like fucking heaven.
But let's not forget that we progressives have had problems with some of Obama's moves from even before the inauguration (remember Rick Warren?). We will no doubt continue having problems from time to time with some moves, like this one. Nobody's perfect, but we'll keep pushing for it.
But we do imagine that the complaints might actually have some effect (unlike the Republican Wall Of Deaf Ears).
Biden was head of the RIAA? You learn something new every day, I guess.
And thank you for proving my point: I just got you to think of $10,000 as a reasonable price for a rock.
Uh-huh. Here, I have a great new product called Just A Rock(tm). There's a few versions, and here's our pricing structure:
So if you don't need the Racing Stripe Ornamentation Pack and the Pebble Expansion Pack, you can buy Just A Rock(tm) Basic and, boom, you're saving $990,000! Buy two and you save $1,980,000! How could you pass up a bargain like that?! BUY NOW!!
Actually, I must say, the Start menu is one of the few things I like better in Vista than in XP. That, and the alt-tab panel (mouse-clickability, in particular).
Yeah, too bad they hold a gun to your head and make you use this, huh?
Um...? I thought 1984 advocated not tracking us.
Perhaps you mean "depicted"?
They are quite amazing. The company I work for moved its production database servers over to these exact devices several months ago, and now we never have DB performance issues or timeouts.
The bad part, of course, is that slow-DB issues are only discoverable on test or staging servers, and you have to remember to do it. Come to think of it, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Just tried this.
They make you download and install their special downloader first. This installs a service and a tray icon that run at startup, and provides no easy way to disable this (short of uninstall). (That is, easier than disabling them with RegEdit and Services console.) The downloader also makes you "name" your machine for its own purposes, and you pick which machine you're downloading to on the download page. I'm guessing this must lock that copy in to that machine (else why ask?).
Yuck.
For certain values of "Americans". Not all of us are screwed up beyond reason.
Shouldn't it be misspelled appropriately?
"Khatch and rhelease"?
This has been true up till recently. The massive and continuing losses by the Republicans means people have finally figured out that the Reagan ideology ("Trickle down", or whatever you want to call it) has never worked. The citizens are way ahead of the politicians on this.
As Churchhill said: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.".
I love how, no matter the subject matter, someone on Slashdot inevitably manages to see the blindingly obvious hole in the theory that makes the whole thing fall down and which all the experts somehow managed to miss all these years.
It's positively...stunning.
How so? All the question said was "Give your friend a copy of your anti-virus software.". It didn't say how you made this happen. Pointing him to the download URL would be simplest way, I imagine, and fully in line with the license agreement. Or, if the guy couldn't handle that, you'd probably go to his computer and download and install it for him -- also "giving him a copy", also legal.
Or, we could start enforcing anti-trust law again.
I'd be genuinely surprised at any actual programmer who thought this way. I'd expect the exact opposite, in fact. Even the dumbest programmer knows you don't call a Sort() routine to accomplish a Copy(). Why would you call a programmer to accomplish a legal maneuver?
I hate to break it to you, but the traditional media is also filled to the brim with repetitions of news written by others.
I don't suppose you attempted to opt-out?
To be fair, hardly any of us have cell phones with Saudi numbers.
*SIGH*
1. This ridiculous concept of "political capital" has to stop. If by "political capital", you mean the ability to do what he wants and have Republicans accept it, he has none. No one can ever have any, except Republicans. And they have an infinite amount. The simple fact is that Republicans, as they stand now (and for the past, oh, say, 20 years, at least), are completely implacable and will accept nothing contrary to their stated ideology. If he wants to do something they like, they'll go along, muttering the whole time that he's not going far enough. If he wants to do something they don't like, they'll tell him to go fuck himself. Simple as that.
2. Going after the criminal syndicate known as the Bush Administration cannot be a "witch-hunt". Witch-hunts are where you go looking for random people to screw over to distract the masses. The Bush Administration is far from random people; it's the (most recent) source of our pain and trouble. It's called serving justice, and there's been far too little of that in the world of late. If we let the bastards get away with it (AGAIN...), then we'll only deserve it the next time someone comes along and does it to us more, but harder.
3. All this whining about "we must take small steps" and "oh, but be cautious" never stopped the Bush Crime Family(tm) from ramming through every egregious violation of civil decency we've been subjected to lo these 8 years. I'm sick of being told that the good ideas must be timid in the face of the big ugly ideas.
As someone once famously said: Elections have consequences. So bring the consequences on.