Well, you've mentioned two trademark disputes (which aren't related even remotely to patents) and said "trust me" about everything else. Why do I suspect you're bullshitting here?
Apparently you missed the whole dot com boom, a well as approximately one million comedy routines throughout the years. You don't make money on volume when you're giving your product away.
Since the whole idea of a 'console war' is ridiculous in any case, the discussion of place is useless. If the company makes money, it wins. It doesn't matter if another company also makes money.
Oh for the love of Christ take that bullshit home. Liberals have no ownership of the moral high ground, and conservatives have no monopoly on evil. I know it's easy for you to believe that anyone you agree with must be smart and moral and wonderful and perfect, and the opposite for those you oppose, but it's not like that and your divisive horseshit solves nothing.
So are you asking for Microsoft to stop selling their own office product and promote something that brings them no money? Or did I overshoot the wish, and you just want them to voluntarily stop selling their own product with no replacement? Or maybe you just think they should promote OpenOffice and leave their own product to languish?
I'm not sure where you're going, aside from the general "Microsoft is evil" crap.
I presume that whatever mental incapacity is causing these paranoid delusions would be fixed by proper medication. My sex life doesn't have much to do with it, I'm afraid.
Fortunately, I don't attach a stigma to mental illness. That doesn't mean I like seeing it untreated, however.
If my commute to work weren't 24 miles one way, I'd gladly bike to work. Unfortunately, the state police tend to take a dim view of people attempting to bicycle down the shoulder of the interstate.
If you're looking for sympathy for contributing to sprawl by living in distant suburbs, you may have visited the wrong website.
The point isn't how many people get to play the game. The point is the legal right to control distribution is violated.
The real consequences to piracy are starting to be felt - producers are not producing. Expect this to continue until all that lovely free entertainment dries up, and then we'll see just how smart it was.
I just assumed everything was done in UTC and converted to the local time zone only for certain functions like displaying times to users. Is that not the case?
Jesus, the misplaced vitriol. Are you sure you're the master of transhuman? It seems that maybe you took a little emotional baggage with you to the singularity there chief.
The problem with your entire philosophy, at least as near as I can distill it from your posts, is that it requires people of superhuman justice to administer every detail of life to prevent the unfairness you rail against. Considering that's impossible, I have to wonder what it is you're driving at.
I've noticed that, when I've been involved with a "real enterprise" (I would never work directly for such a beast, but I've contracted) the sheer incompetence of the IT departments makes me wonder which local zoo is missing monkeys. I can't imagine the difference between the tools being half-assed or whole-assed would make much of a difference. Give a monkey a hammer or a saw, it still ain't building a house.
Gun Control is a Liberal Idea. Because they figure because there are so many deaths and injuries from guns that the government should control gun use to make the world better. Conservatives are normally against gun control because our nation was founded without gun controls and Guns have been part of our culture for centuries.
I think you may have overshot the conservative reasoning here. The main thinking behind the 2nd amendment, as I understand it, is that it is the protector of the remaining amendments. It's not a cultural thing, it's a "power to the people" thing in a very visceral and effective way.
I don't personally own any guns, but I wholeheartedly support the right to do so.
Yeah, I guess it would take a lot of courage to speak against the war in Iraq. I never hear anyone say anything like that at all, never read it on the internet or in newspapers, never come across it on TV. It would take real bravery to take such a stand. People are obviously holding back their true opinions and merely toeing the line.
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Well, you've mentioned two trademark disputes (which aren't related even remotely to patents) and said "trust me" about everything else. Why do I suspect you're bullshitting here?
Is entertainment really such an important thing that we need this fight?
Apparently you missed the whole dot com boom, a well as approximately one million comedy routines throughout the years. You don't make money on volume when you're giving your product away.
It's kinda sad that you think the economics of a shared network are the fault of the Republicans.
Your legal knowledge is also suspect. I'm willing to bet if you checked your terms of service you'd find they can terminate you for excessive use.
Why the day they went public, out of curiosity? Do you have anything backing that up, or is this just a useless anti-corporate rant?
Since the whole idea of a 'console war' is ridiculous in any case, the discussion of place is useless. If the company makes money, it wins. It doesn't matter if another company also makes money.
Oh for the love of Christ take that bullshit home. Liberals have no ownership of the moral high ground, and conservatives have no monopoly on evil. I know it's easy for you to believe that anyone you agree with must be smart and moral and wonderful and perfect, and the opposite for those you oppose, but it's not like that and your divisive horseshit solves nothing.
So are you asking for Microsoft to stop selling their own office product and promote something that brings them no money? Or did I overshoot the wish, and you just want them to voluntarily stop selling their own product with no replacement? Or maybe you just think they should promote OpenOffice and leave their own product to languish?
I'm not sure where you're going, aside from the general "Microsoft is evil" crap.
Without any output it doesn't prove concurrent execution. It could just be a garden variety infinite loop, albeit one with an indirect execution path.
I suppose irrational outdated fear is as good a justification as any.
I presume that whatever mental incapacity is causing these paranoid delusions would be fixed by proper medication. My sex life doesn't have much to do with it, I'm afraid.
Fortunately, I don't attach a stigma to mental illness. That doesn't mean I like seeing it untreated, however.
If my commute to work weren't 24 miles one way, I'd gladly bike to work. Unfortunately, the state police tend to take a dim view of people attempting to bicycle down the shoulder of the interstate.
If you're looking for sympathy for contributing to sprawl by living in distant suburbs, you may have visited the wrong website.
The point isn't how many people get to play the game. The point is the legal right to control distribution is violated.
The real consequences to piracy are starting to be felt - producers are not producing. Expect this to continue until all that lovely free entertainment dries up, and then we'll see just how smart it was.
No no no no no. This is Slashdot. The only stupidity in the world is from the US. Everywhere else is perfect. Get it right.
Back off, man, he might be a scientist.
I think the reasons for your homelessness are starting to become clear, my undermedicated friend.
A thousand a year for insurance? Stop hitting things, man.
It's probably not only you. Slashdot is full of paranoid kneejerk anti-corporate types.
I just assumed everything was done in UTC and converted to the local time zone only for certain functions like displaying times to users. Is that not the case?
Jesus, the misplaced vitriol. Are you sure you're the master of transhuman? It seems that maybe you took a little emotional baggage with you to the singularity there chief.
On the other hand, trying to open Openoffice.org spreadsheets on Excel doesn't take ages: it takes forever.
Yeah, but the three people who have OO.O spreadsheets can afford to wait.
I kid, I kid. Not really, but still.
The problem with your entire philosophy, at least as near as I can distill it from your posts, is that it requires people of superhuman justice to administer every detail of life to prevent the unfairness you rail against. Considering that's impossible, I have to wonder what it is you're driving at.
I've noticed that, when I've been involved with a "real enterprise" (I would never work directly for such a beast, but I've contracted) the sheer incompetence of the IT departments makes me wonder which local zoo is missing monkeys. I can't imagine the difference between the tools being half-assed or whole-assed would make much of a difference. Give a monkey a hammer or a saw, it still ain't building a house.
Gun Control is a Liberal Idea. Because they figure because there are so many deaths and injuries from guns that the government should control gun use to make the world better. Conservatives are normally against gun control because our nation was founded without gun controls and Guns have been part of our culture for centuries.
I think you may have overshot the conservative reasoning here. The main thinking behind the 2nd amendment, as I understand it, is that it is the protector of the remaining amendments. It's not a cultural thing, it's a "power to the people" thing in a very visceral and effective way.
I don't personally own any guns, but I wholeheartedly support the right to do so.
Yeah, I guess it would take a lot of courage to speak against the war in Iraq. I never hear anyone say anything like that at all, never read it on the internet or in newspapers, never come across it on TV. It would take real bravery to take such a stand. People are obviously holding back their true opinions and merely toeing the line.