Most of them I would believe are either status symbol for elegant and rich people, or are presents which no one wears actually. iWatch don't fall in either of these categories.
iWatch? 6 billions a year? I mean, seriously? Or is it some crazy Apple shareholder wanting to jump a ship and spamming like crazy all channels to get price up "back where it belongs"?
Apple is history as supergrowth company. Niche products. No amount of hype will save it from fall. And this show screwed logic of public companies in US - it's all about "supergrowth", not profit.
" The steel industry was in trouble here, in the states. Companies were telling the unions, "We're going bankrupt, we need to renegotiate, we need to cut costs. If you'll take a small pay cut, let us get on our feet, we'll make it up to you. We need help, or we're out of business!""
And you take their word for it? You know when company goes bankrupt, no one actually tells you about it. It just happens. I really smell fish here. I would really like to see numbers of that company on that year. It feels more like "we wanted to increase profit for shareholders".
I can agree that unions sometimes can be very stubborn, because of previous workers experience, which is usually not so pretty. However, there are lot of smart people usually, so "they just were greedy" is oversimplification at best.
Minority Report interface which Anderson (aka Tom Cruise) uses to overview results of investigation is essentially meant as evolution of *evidence board*, NOT desktop computer. It is meant for short term interaction, not to write essay. If you maybe seen, there's lot of other computers in that room, and some of them are desktop with *grasp* keyboards.
Some other shows and movies also show such board, but with touch interface and as surface of the desk. Essentially it is meant for again, short term interaction, brainstorming, etc.
Interesting info bit - I just got yesterday that other countries (including mine) have special dedicated constitutional court, where you can just go and say - this *potentially* violates my rights (High court usually is just very last instance of legal cases. It can, however, turn to constitutional court for clarification). You don't have to prove that you have suffered from bad law already. In US, however, SCOTUS is embedded in rest of juridical system. In result you can have law which is absurdly wrong and anti-constitutional - but you can get struck down only if you have suffered consequences of injustice caused by the law.
While Linus outbursts could make few pople nervous, I really start to hate such comments which are really aimed to get some mod points without saying anything true. But of course, everyone loves look for blame, so it works.
"He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself. And every time it looks like Linux might achieve even a modicum of success, his overinflated ego is always there to ruin it."
I really hope that he loves himself, because that would mean he is healthy thinking person. That's actually requirement to survive this harsh world. If you loath yourself, then I really pitty you.
About rest of this paragraph - his outburst ruins any success, really? Either you are not fully informed or ignorant. You know what GPL means? That means that Ubuntu and Fedora can do as they want, as they release patches in public. They are not obliged to have it in mainline kernel - and neither Linus is obliged to support them. He maybe splits hair at first, but then he justifies his POV quite clearly. It's technical decision.
"Someone needs to tell him that it's hard enough to get people to adopt your OS with 3 million competing distros, much less with the leadership of an egotistical ass who takes every opportunity to scream like bipolar child at anyone who tries to actually help."
Wow, do you read lkml every day? I have done in recent past and Linus uses harsh language only in rarest cases. Also he has always been openly honest about what he thinks. It helps, because it cuts confusion down to minimum. If he doesn't like something, he says it openly. Trust me, it works. It's one of reasons why he still call the shots.
Also please cut it those cries about "3 million competing distros". First, there are maximum 4 major distros, supported by majority of open source and commercial software. There are fully standartised two packaging formats. Last I checked Windows has hundreds of different installers and packaging formats.
People don't use Linux not because of these things. They don't use it because it's not available in OEM form and they are afraid to use something different than their friends do.
I fear that it needs more than that. Actually it was Luther who stood first against Pope and dogmas. However, at that time Church was already over it's fever to kill everyone who disagreed. Let's remember, it took centuries for them to get there. They thought that excluding from Church was enough.
When I look to Middle East Islam, I fear they will have huge problems to get over that phase. Everyone who disagrees are sooner or later silenced. Some would say that economical development is only answer, but I fear that it won't be enough.
Actually even word "conservative" here would mean very different things. I would go out and call Islam very radical at it's core - which makes problems for normal people who has Islamic legacy. There never has been "sanitation" of Bible, because it never needed one - all what changed was rules of Church and people's attitude towards belief system. However I don't see how Islam can continue it's existence without rewriting or throwing out some parts - or at least changing core interpretations. Last such try created violent split within Islam, which feeds it's violent cycle still today.
Christianity has never called out for mass murder. Bible, especially Old Testament, is very conflicting with this, but that's priest's problem who insists that Bible or Church can't be wrong. But still, Christianity defines "no harm" attitude to non-believers and sinners, looking out for forgiveness, not "making them right". Yes, these core concepts has been violated seriously by lot of people. Still it is what was written there.
Quran stigmatizes those who doesn't believe in Alah and holds very extreme radicalism POV on basic human rights. It's been war religion for too many centuries, never mind it's roots being very close to Christianity.
First of all, I don't know almost nothing about Islam (just tons of facts found on Wikipedia), but I have met descent people with that religion. While it's middle age mentality plays some background in all this, my pick is it's popularity within uneducated, poor masses are adding more to these outbursts of violence.
Second part is - while we all love to trash religions in the name of the free speech, and enjoying anonymity given by Internet (at least from dumb ass religious nuts), blogging about how backwards Islam goes in a country with lot of uneducated people with Islamic heritage is not very smart. Islam in many places is actual strange parallel political system. Yeah, yeah, it shouldn't be, but it is so. So if you really about to challenge that mob, you must be ready to deal with brunt of anger and violence. How Tea Baggers in US would react if someone would call a ban for their party?
Third and final part - it's getting tiresome for geeks to being more and more disconnected from real life. Yes, religion is that strange thing you don't dig. Yes, all these religious nuts and populists - it would be very nice to live without them. But not everyone with that religion is nut or manipulative screwball. And even if people are not smart as you are, acting very reactionary to all stuff religion won't make them your friends. But if you want your ideas actually work, you need to convince them.
Said all that, nothing justifies shouting for murder. Those people must get arrested for trying to incite violent unrest.
I read because he has that rare geek skill to actually explain how he gets there with his result - and he does it masterfully, entertaining me. Right or wrong, his prediction for Oscars made sense and almost all fell in place, except he did not see Christoph Waltz coming. Also he agrees that this is not similar to predicting politics or sports, because lot of unknown data involved.
On unrelated note still lot of good cinema comes out every year, even in Hollywood - and not giving any movie clear victory this year is evidence of that. While I hate it for what I see as control obsession over their produce, I still loud artistic victory where I (subjectivelly of course) see one. And I celebrate all kind of good cinema.
Top 40? Marketing money (altough thanks to web this has started to change). Box office? Marketing money (but not only). And let's not start with "special introducions" or playing song three times in one hour. Why it should be any different with books? People waste incredibly huge money for so called marketing and exposure.
I'm pacifist, and I'm telling you that's quite naive POV. Breaking it down: "Yes! We must bomb them! shoot them! Drop nukes! At a cost of many trillions of dollars!"
Of course you shouldn't do that. Both wars were costly mistakes both in reasoning and strategy. Sans that having good and able military would repel fanatics or making think twice anyone to support them.
"Because they don't want money! They don't want to be rich!" That's over generalization of Islamic and Middle East people. Most of them want to live in relative prosperity (as anyone), and Middle East has been hub of trade and business for years. They want money, they want to be capable to live their lives like they like to. Of course there's faction of "true believers" or deniers of Capitalism, etc. etc. (as in Western) Difference is this has religious hatred overtones for hundreds of years. Difference is they aren't afraid to die for their cause, or take other people if they/world doesn't agree with them.
"They're poor, living in mud huts in the desert, and don't wanna change! Not ever! Not one single one!" That's clear BS. They maybe not want full American way, but they clearly want peace, change for better, etc.
I know you want to take clear political stand in this. Unfortunately for you, there isn't one. Wars were bad. US overstepping it's own oversight boundaries when policing world - outrageous. But dangers for peaceful people are out there. How to react to them, how to deal with them - that's another question of strategy. They could be different.
Problem is that I don't hear offers of these different strategies. We already figured out that wars are very very bad. What's next? For example, how to solve Syria?
Disclaimer: I'm left centrist, however I fully dig classic conservative reasoning. I understand them even though mostly I disagree.
However after last year elections and this one I can fully say that I don't understand moneybags behind Tea Party and friends (let's be honest, this one is fakest party we have seen for years, it's essentially a business project). Conservatives in the past weren't so keen on denying something as questioning does this and this change will solve this, won't it destroy something of good old...it made sense, even if you didn't agree. But this?
This is pure BS and fear. They have created self-feeding system, which spirals more and more downwards. Fine, you don't agree that we should use carb tax to increase interest in investing in less polluting technologies - how about being direct and invest all this money and showing, hey, capitalism works, investors and moneybags can be reasonable about handling this world, not only their wallets. It's not that they don't know the way. Hey, high tech companies with good profit do this all the time - yeah, they know that if science is solid, stuff works.
It's essentially a fundamentalism and kinda not very pretty one. It feels like they actually want end to come sooner than later. It's like "if world doesn't turn our way, the hell with it!". If that's so, then we are in for serious trouble.
When it become justified to kill anybody just because you got fired? Sorry, I see this concrete case. There's no sistematical abuse to this guy, he just snapped because he thought he is right. Sorry, but he is enemy #1 right now and that's what matters.
Has lot of PD has problems with violence, internal audits, etc. etc? You bet it does. As any authorative structure it has people who wants to abuse power, who wants to user power for their goals, etc. Guess what - that's life.
This Slashdot libertarian thinking is getting to my nerves. You people don't have a clue about real life, do you. It sucks. So get over it.
Sorry, but I know schools and I know computers for long enough time. Every time I hear "iPads bought for kids" or "Android tablets bought for classes", I sarcastically laugh a bit. Can't help it. Really? I love Android, but sorry, this is very far fetched.
Usually discovering underneath it's just a PR sale with heavy discount, or some politicians trying to buy votes before elections.
It's nothing to do with using computers properly in educational programs.
They can. But there will be consequences. Unfortunately US is one of biggest consumers and no politician in it's right mind would want to piss off it and face problems with exports to US. But exports gives you jobs and allows you to repay debt you took to finance roads, schools, etc.
And there comes in that phrase "it's not that simple", because, frankly, it isn't. Usually agreement with these IP treaties are binded with other trade treaties. For example, US say - "hey, you have nice steel export to us. That would be a shame if tariffs went up suddenly, wouldn't it". Because exports are practically only way how countries can repay their debts and imports. So US uses it's "biggest consumer" card now and then to force IP regime around the world.
Surprisingly while I don't see it as good thing, I must agree that part of this is possible because politicians doesn't have a clue what exactly IP is, how it works, and how drastic agreements practically destroy any chance of having normal copyright/inovation industry at home. US does what they think is right for them - and I can't really blame them, because it's all down to hard money out there. Essentially such free wheeling has been posibble because there's was active anti-IP lobby. However things are changing - slowly, but still - and lot of IT professional organizations chimes in. Because stakes are high.
International treaties is the key. Why do you think all copyright legislation has started as treaties? Because no voter in sane mind would force such law upon it's country. But voter doesn't understand, doesn't bother him - at least it's regular thinking of politicians these days. So they agree to treaty, then just come home and say "we done anything we could, but this must be a law now".
While it is very simplistic comparing to what "Elite: Dangerous" plans to look like, it works (in current state of course) and I paid sub for it for a year (then I ran out of time to play it). On Linux it works on good Intel cards, not mentioning Nvidia and AMD/ATI - and it looks really nice, all things considered. They sure can deliver as coders - look of the amount of porting they have done in the past. And their back story for the game is very well written.
So this is worth to check out and decide is it's worth to support them.
Interestingly, most of comments are about how to blame someone for his death, not how to help people in depression. It is clear that if he had lived to the day of court he wouldn't get 35 years, I don't think he would get any prison sentence at all. It seems like that despite all cheering from the crowd he was very very lonely in his life (and in this fight). And believe, almost only thing which can push man to the edge is loneliness. So I while there's discussion about inhumanity of prosecution in general (because humans can forgive, but not artificial entity as state, I get it), but this discussion is going on like forever, and all I see is most people using this as platform to express their opinion (these arguments - I have heard them all). Come on, do you really think he just did it because pressure was too big? Actually depression can act very strangely - sometimes it crumbles under such weight, especially if you have close personal and emotional support. It can make you fight instead of fleeing.
So my pick is - he must be feeling very lonely to do this. Which is not a cause of prosecution.
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Most of them I would believe are either status symbol for elegant and rich people, or are presents which no one wears actually. iWatch don't fall in either of these categories.
General public have really abandoned watches.
iWatch? 6 billions a year? I mean, seriously? Or is it some crazy Apple shareholder wanting to jump a ship and spamming like crazy all channels to get price up "back where it belongs"?
Apple is history as supergrowth company. Niche products. No amount of hype will save it from fall. And this show screwed logic of public companies in US - it's all about "supergrowth", not profit.
" The steel industry was in trouble here, in the states. Companies were telling the unions, "We're going bankrupt, we need to renegotiate, we need to cut costs. If you'll take a small pay cut, let us get on our feet, we'll make it up to you. We need help, or we're out of business!""
And you take their word for it? You know when company goes bankrupt, no one actually tells you about it. It just happens. I really smell fish here. I would really like to see numbers of that company on that year. It feels more like "we wanted to increase profit for shareholders".
I can agree that unions sometimes can be very stubborn, because of previous workers experience, which is usually not so pretty. However, there are lot of smart people usually, so "they just were greedy" is oversimplification at best.
Minority Report interface which Anderson (aka Tom Cruise) uses to overview results of investigation is essentially meant as evolution of *evidence board*, NOT desktop computer. It is meant for short term interaction, not to write essay. If you maybe seen, there's lot of other computers in that room, and some of them are desktop with *grasp* keyboards.
Some other shows and movies also show such board, but with touch interface and as surface of the desk. Essentially it is meant for again, short term interaction, brainstorming, etc.
Interesting info bit - I just got yesterday that other countries (including mine) have special dedicated constitutional court, where you can just go and say - this *potentially* violates my rights (High court usually is just very last instance of legal cases. It can, however, turn to constitutional court for clarification). You don't have to prove that you have suffered from bad law already. In US, however, SCOTUS is embedded in rest of juridical system. In result you can have law which is absurdly wrong and anti-constitutional - but you can get struck down only if you have suffered consequences of injustice caused by the law.
Hijacked - no, but blown up - sure.
No one of them directly competes with Microsoft in it's primary and only profitable market.
While Linus outbursts could make few pople nervous, I really start to hate such comments which are really aimed to get some mod points without saying anything true. But of course, everyone loves look for blame, so it works.
"He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself. And every time it looks like Linux might achieve even a modicum of success, his overinflated ego is always there to ruin it."
I really hope that he loves himself, because that would mean he is healthy thinking person. That's actually requirement to survive this harsh world. If you loath yourself, then I really pitty you.
About rest of this paragraph - his outburst ruins any success, really? Either you are not fully informed or ignorant. You know what GPL means? That means that Ubuntu and Fedora can do as they want, as they release patches in public. They are not obliged to have it in mainline kernel - and neither Linus is obliged to support them. He maybe splits hair at first, but then he justifies his POV quite clearly. It's technical decision.
"Someone needs to tell him that it's hard enough to get people to adopt your OS with 3 million competing distros, much less with the leadership of an egotistical ass who takes every opportunity to scream like bipolar child at anyone who tries to actually help."
Wow, do you read lkml every day? I have done in recent past and Linus uses harsh language only in rarest cases. Also he has always been openly honest about what he thinks. It helps, because it cuts confusion down to minimum. If he doesn't like something, he says it openly. Trust me, it works. It's one of reasons why he still call the shots.
Also please cut it those cries about "3 million competing distros". First, there are maximum 4 major distros, supported by majority of open source and commercial software. There are fully standartised two packaging formats. Last I checked Windows has hundreds of different installers and packaging formats.
People don't use Linux not because of these things. They don't use it because it's not available in OEM form and they are afraid to use something different than their friends do.
I fear that it needs more than that. Actually it was Luther who stood first against Pope and dogmas. However, at that time Church was already over it's fever to kill everyone who disagreed. Let's remember, it took centuries for them to get there. They thought that excluding from Church was enough.
When I look to Middle East Islam, I fear they will have huge problems to get over that phase. Everyone who disagrees are sooner or later silenced. Some would say that economical development is only answer, but I fear that it won't be enough.
Actually even word "conservative" here would mean very different things. I would go out and call Islam very radical at it's core - which makes problems for normal people who has Islamic legacy. There never has been "sanitation" of Bible, because it never needed one - all what changed was rules of Church and people's attitude towards belief system. However I don't see how Islam can continue it's existence without rewriting or throwing out some parts - or at least changing core interpretations. Last such try created violent split within Islam, which feeds it's violent cycle still today.
Christianity has never called out for mass murder. Bible, especially Old Testament, is very conflicting with this, but that's priest's problem who insists that Bible or Church can't be wrong. But still, Christianity defines "no harm" attitude to non-believers and sinners, looking out for forgiveness, not "making them right". Yes, these core concepts has been violated seriously by lot of people. Still it is what was written there.
Quran stigmatizes those who doesn't believe in Alah and holds very extreme radicalism POV on basic human rights. It's been war religion for too many centuries, never mind it's roots being very close to Christianity.
First of all, I don't know almost nothing about Islam (just tons of facts found on Wikipedia), but I have met descent people with that religion. While it's middle age mentality plays some background in all this, my pick is it's popularity within uneducated, poor masses are adding more to these outbursts of violence.
Second part is - while we all love to trash religions in the name of the free speech, and enjoying anonymity given by Internet (at least from dumb ass religious nuts), blogging about how backwards Islam goes in a country with lot of uneducated people with Islamic heritage is not very smart. Islam in many places is actual strange parallel political system. Yeah, yeah, it shouldn't be, but it is so. So if you really about to challenge that mob, you must be ready to deal with brunt of anger and violence. How Tea Baggers in US would react if someone would call a ban for their party?
Third and final part - it's getting tiresome for geeks to being more and more disconnected from real life. Yes, religion is that strange thing you don't dig. Yes, all these religious nuts and populists - it would be very nice to live without them. But not everyone with that religion is nut or manipulative screwball. And even if people are not smart as you are, acting very reactionary to all stuff religion won't make them your friends. But if you want your ideas actually work, you need to convince them.
Said all that, nothing justifies shouting for murder. Those people must get arrested for trying to incite violent unrest.
So something like Christianity six centuries ago? :)
I read because he has that rare geek skill to actually explain how he gets there with his result - and he does it masterfully, entertaining me. Right or wrong, his prediction for Oscars made sense and almost all fell in place, except he did not see Christoph Waltz coming. Also he agrees that this is not similar to predicting politics or sports, because lot of unknown data involved.
On unrelated note still lot of good cinema comes out every year, even in Hollywood - and not giving any movie clear victory this year is evidence of that. While I hate it for what I see as control obsession over their produce, I still loud artistic victory where I (subjectivelly of course) see one. And I celebrate all kind of good cinema.
Top 40? Marketing money (altough thanks to web this has started to change). Box office? Marketing money (but not only). And let's not start with "special introducions" or playing song three times in one hour. Why it should be any different with books? People waste incredibly huge money for so called marketing and exposure.
I'm pacifist, and I'm telling you that's quite naive POV. Breaking it down:
"Yes! We must bomb them! shoot them! Drop nukes! At a cost of many trillions of dollars!"
Of course you shouldn't do that. Both wars were costly mistakes both in reasoning and strategy. Sans that having good and able military would repel fanatics or making think twice anyone to support them.
"Because they don't want money! They don't want to be rich!"
That's over generalization of Islamic and Middle East people. Most of them want to live in relative prosperity (as anyone), and Middle East has been hub of trade and business for years. They want money, they want to be capable to live their lives like they like to.
Of course there's faction of "true believers" or deniers of Capitalism, etc. etc. (as in Western) Difference is this has religious hatred overtones for hundreds of years. Difference is they aren't afraid to die for their cause, or take other people if they/world doesn't agree with them.
"They're poor, living in mud huts in the desert, and don't wanna change! Not ever! Not one single one!"
That's clear BS. They maybe not want full American way, but they clearly want peace, change for better, etc.
I know you want to take clear political stand in this. Unfortunately for you, there isn't one. Wars were bad. US overstepping it's own oversight boundaries when policing world - outrageous. But dangers for peaceful people are out there. How to react to them, how to deal with them - that's another question of strategy. They could be different.
Problem is that I don't hear offers of these different strategies. We already figured out that wars are very very bad. What's next? For example, how to solve Syria?
Disclaimer: I'm left centrist, however I fully dig classic conservative reasoning. I understand them even though mostly I disagree.
However after last year elections and this one I can fully say that I don't understand moneybags behind Tea Party and friends (let's be honest, this one is fakest party we have seen for years, it's essentially a business project). Conservatives in the past weren't so keen on denying something as questioning does this and this change will solve this, won't it destroy something of good old...it made sense, even if you didn't agree. But this?
This is pure BS and fear. They have created self-feeding system, which spirals more and more downwards. Fine, you don't agree that we should use carb tax to increase interest in investing in less polluting technologies - how about being direct and invest all this money and showing, hey, capitalism works, investors and moneybags can be reasonable about handling this world, not only their wallets. It's not that they don't know the way. Hey, high tech companies with good profit do this all the time - yeah, they know that if science is solid, stuff works.
It's essentially a fundamentalism and kinda not very pretty one. It feels like they actually want end to come sooner than later. It's like "if world doesn't turn our way, the hell with it!". If that's so, then we are in for serious trouble.
Sorry, but good honey have *never* been cheap. If it's cheap, it's probably not very good (it's good indicator).
Apparently it's have been pulled out of British press ass. Their tabloids really don't waste time with checking facts.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/12/christopher_dorner_manhunt_faa_dhs_say_no_drones_are_being_used.html
Of course this could be false in event that you say that huge amount of people in government are lying about official record.
Not so fast about *what*?
When it become justified to kill anybody just because you got fired? Sorry, I see this concrete case. There's no sistematical abuse to this guy, he just snapped because he thought he is right. Sorry, but he is enemy #1 right now and that's what matters.
Has lot of PD has problems with violence, internal audits, etc. etc? You bet it does. As any authorative structure it has people who wants to abuse power, who wants to user power for their goals, etc. Guess what - that's life.
This Slashdot libertarian thinking is getting to my nerves. You people don't have a clue about real life, do you. It sucks. So get over it.
Sorry, but I know schools and I know computers for long enough time. Every time I hear "iPads bought for kids" or "Android tablets bought for classes", I sarcastically laugh a bit. Can't help it. Really? I love Android, but sorry, this is very far fetched.
Usually discovering underneath it's just a PR sale with heavy discount, or some politicians trying to buy votes before elections.
It's nothing to do with using computers properly in educational programs.
They can. But there will be consequences. Unfortunately US is one of biggest consumers and no politician in it's right mind would want to piss off it and face problems with exports to US. But exports gives you jobs and allows you to repay debt you took to finance roads, schools, etc.
It's not that simple.
And there comes in that phrase "it's not that simple", because, frankly, it isn't. Usually agreement with these IP treaties are binded with other trade treaties. For example, US say - "hey, you have nice steel export to us. That would be a shame if tariffs went up suddenly, wouldn't it". Because exports are practically only way how countries can repay their debts and imports. So US uses it's "biggest consumer" card now and then to force IP regime around the world.
Surprisingly while I don't see it as good thing, I must agree that part of this is possible because politicians doesn't have a clue what exactly IP is, how it works, and how drastic agreements practically destroy any chance of having normal copyright/inovation industry at home. US does what they think is right for them - and I can't really blame them, because it's all down to hard money out there. Essentially such free wheeling has been posibble because there's was active anti-IP lobby. However things are changing - slowly, but still - and lot of IT professional organizations chimes in. Because stakes are high.
International treaties is the key. Why do you think all copyright legislation has started as treaties? Because no voter in sane mind would force such law upon it's country. But voter doesn't understand, doesn't bother him - at least it's regular thinking of politicians these days. So they agree to treaty, then just come home and say "we done anything we could, but this must be a law now".
While it is very simplistic comparing to what "Elite: Dangerous" plans to look like, it works (in current state of course) and I paid sub for it for a year (then I ran out of time to play it). On Linux it works on good Intel cards, not mentioning Nvidia and AMD/ATI - and it looks really nice, all things considered. They sure can deliver as coders - look of the amount of porting they have done in the past. And their back story for the game is very well written.
So this is worth to check out and decide is it's worth to support them.
Interestingly, most of comments are about how to blame someone for his death, not how to help people in depression. It is clear that if he had lived to the day of court he wouldn't get 35 years, I don't think he would get any prison sentence at all. It seems like that despite all cheering from the crowd he was very very lonely in his life (and in this fight). And believe, almost only thing which can push man to the edge is loneliness. So I while there's discussion about inhumanity of prosecution in general (because humans can forgive, but not artificial entity as state, I get it), but this discussion is going on like forever, and all I see is most people using this as platform to express their opinion (these arguments - I have heard them all). Come on, do you really think he just did it because pressure was too big? Actually depression can act very strangely - sometimes it crumbles under such weight, especially if you have close personal and emotional support. It can make you fight instead of fleeing.
So my pick is - he must be feeling very lonely to do this. Which is not a cause of prosecution.