Seriously? Why do you have 3 on your phone? I'm betting you spend more time screwing with apps than your time is worth if you just paid for SMS.
I have ONE chat app on my PC, none on my phone, yet everyone seems to 'chat' just fine, if you think phones are meant for 'chatting'. A Jabber client is all you need, if you want to talk to someone who doesn't use a proper XMPP system, make them get on Google talk.
The problem is that you're trying too hard to talk to people that don't seem to be willing to do the same.
Don't 'chat' with people who don't use a proper 'chat' system. Sorry if that cuts out Facebook, but not playing Facebook's game is the only way you end their bullying chat on our system only bullshit. Meet the new boss, same as the old.
I personally don't think that Bitcoin is a scam. I think it has great potential. But the myriad of other "digital currencies" popping up,
Considering that all these 'new digital currencies' are just literal copies of bitcoin... what you've done is shown that you think bitcoin is good for no logical reason, and that its copies are bad, again for no logical reason.
You've illustratued that your reason for liking BitCoin is you're just ignorant of any actual information about it.
So what you're saying is false, by your own words. It only is after you add existing stupilations. You are assuming that because I choose number #2, that I'm also going to pay them less than they deserve, which is an assumption that may not be true in many cases, so its impossible for it to be a fact.
If you are selling your labor, someone has to buy it. If it is ethical for you to sell it, it must be ethical for someone else to buy it. That does not preclude non-ethical behavior, but it certainly allows for the action to happen in an ethical matter.
You seem to think that you're personal worth is priceless there for its okay for you to offer it to people but not for them to accept it because they couldn't possibly pay your fairly.
In my experience, people who think like you do aren't worth wasting the atmosphere they consume. I suspect this applies to you as well.
In my experience, the only people who make those sort of statements were either paid a metric fuckton to do such a project by a tablet maker so they can get some news... and people that are so bad at 'creating content' that the tablet being a shitty way to do it is going to have no measurable effect on their output.
You do realize that 99.999% of the people in the universe will have no idea what you're talking about... right? That of course would completely defeat the purpose of the naming scheme, don't you think?
Don't try so hard to be clever and maybe you will actually be clever.
Kids don't want the cheap iPhone knock off you get for free that runs Android. They want something that is cool and conveys status. Your free barely bootable android phone that accounts for the majority of androids market share is not what they are interested in.
Kids generally don't share the silly android heard mentality of slashdot.
Drugs aren't the problem, your weak willed family is. You'll find yourself a whole lot happier when you stop blamining inanimate objects for issues caused be people. Even if there were no coke, heroin, pot or alcohol, your family would still have been just as fucked up.
People drink to feel it as well, some try to pretend they 'like the taste' and various other forms of bullshit, but saying you don't drink for effect just makes you a liar.
All this particular post tells us is that you're a douche and think you're clever because you can be obnoxiously difficult as a means to show your ass.
What you've done is effectively illustrated why you need many more sessions with those soft voices.
But its cute to try and blame it on one particular... protocol? I'm not sure what 'deal with bittorrent' means. I mean, I get the 'first 7 minutes to bittorrent users' but who is that exactly? People that use software from bittorrent inc? Anyone with a bittorrent client? Who are they actually talking about? Well thought out statement you have there.
Anyway, my point is that the big studios fear anything they don't completely control. They are afraid of people sharing things without them making a cut. They don't give damn about bittorrent, they care about sharing without them profiting.
You just sound stupid when you propagate the stereotype, anyone with a clue knows they are just as afraid of you downloading something from HTTP as they are with bit torrent. Its not like they let you get buy with it via HTTP but not BitTorrent.
From what I can tell from the actual article is that:
The studios repeated their default statements anytime anyone shares anything online when they aren't getting a cut of the profits. Some indie movie is going to be put shared via bittorrent... which isn't anything new, there are thousands of shitty indie movies on bittorrent already, thats like saying some indie movie is going to be uploaded to youtube. Contrary to what you may think: Indie does not imply that its worth watching. No one has heard of or cares about this indie movie either.
This sort of contract dispute is something I deal with daily. Not in that I deal with disputes, but I'm continually trying to teach my management how to write a contract that is actually enforcable.
IF (big if) the contract is worded as "tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement" then both sides failed.
That sort of statement is why this situations happen. MyPillow.com told salesforce.com thats what they wanted. Salesforce says 'okay' because they can do that. MyPillow.com sees the final results and then only at the moment do both of them start to realize that they have TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ideas about what that statement actually means.
Then you end up in court while a judge sits there and thinks 'both of you are fucking idiots for being so vague' then eventually figures out which one of them is the bigger douche and makes a decision.
Theoretical Example:
MyPillow.com was expecting to know exactly how many sales came from each advertisement right down to which ad made which person (by name) buy a pillow from them. This is certainly doable from a technical stand point.
Salesforce.com was thinking that an average based on industry standard formula that they've been using for years based on Neilson ratings was what MyPillow.com was expecting, as it is technically correct as well.
When salesforce gives mypillow some aggregate averaged/projected data, and not a break down of customer names related to commercial airings... then shit starts to hit the fan and both sides start talking about not paying. Neither side was technically 'wrong', but both of them clearly didn't do their due diligence did they? In this particular scenario, Salesforce would likely win as well because it DOES meet that CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS to the letter, unless the judge decides that salesforce, having done this many times before, should have known better and in their roles as consultants they were legally obligated to inform them of the potential confusion, so maybe not!
You can rest assured that the contract's specifications are so vague that this cause is not going to be an overnight thing.
Thats like slashdot posting an article about dell releasing a new model. Nothing special about the model, just a new model.
Its not that its not the first one... its that its been done HUNDREDS OF TIMES BEFORE and has NOTHING NEW TO ADD to the existing plethora of ways to do this already.
Do we want to read stories about how Dell just release a new laptop that is exactly like every other laptop?
Show me this $10 ELM327 that is more than just the chip.
Show me the one thats connector, chip, some sort of transmission medium to actually be useful, has a reasonable chance of not browning out during start because has power supply capacitors and such.
Stop pretending that your $10 COMPONENT is an actual product.
Yes, ELM327 chips are dirt as cheap. No, they are not useful in any way by themselves.
And you've just illustrated the common problem... you think that the TCO of an electric car is less from an environmental perspective than it is for a good old gas guzzler.
If you do the same thing with gas guzzlers... they produce 0 emissions too at runtime, and far far less during production!
If you're going to ignore where the energy comes from in an electric car, why not ignore it in a hydrocarbon powered one? Why ignore production costs? Do you have any idea what is required to make the electronics and batteries in these cars? Trading gasoline burning for coal is really fucking stupid from an environmental perspective.
There have been ODB-II apps for longer than there has been an app store. Before the app store, you had to hack your own adapter together and jailbreak. Since the app store we've gotten WiFi and Bluetooth ODB-II adapters with deep sleep modes and god knows how many apps that do a shitload more than this crap you are slashvertising.
You're only about 4-5 years late to noticing this app category. Without scrolling up to look, I bet timothy posted this story.
Answer to any news item headline posted as a question is always no.
Anser to 'do like amazon' is also always no. Whats good for Amazon is has never been good for the rest of us. The company has absolute no redeeming quality that justifies the evil they carry with them. The difference between Amazon and Oracle is that Oracle doesn't hide the fact that you're getting raped. Amazon likes to pretend their your friend and do it without you noticing if they can.
In that article... at that time... I would have been unaware that those games even existed on PC. 2 years later, I own World of Goo on every device 'mobile' device in the house... I still was unaware of World of Goo on the PC.
Perhaps the reason those games got 90% piracy has a little something to do with how they are released and marketed.
If The Pirate Bay is the most marketing you do, than yes, 90% of the market is going to be pirated.
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pidgin is the GUI on top of libpurple.
libpurple is already available on all of those (except maybe RT/phone due to silly runtime restrictions).
You wouldn't run a desktop app on your phone or tablet if you had a clue either.
Speed.
Gmail for instance takes a little bit of time for a message to get from the SMTP inbound connection to someone's inbox.
Depending on the day, I've seen yahoo take hours to get things into the inbox AFTER their servers have got the message.
Good mail systems do it instantly, others, not so much.
That doesn't happen on iPhones, perhaps its your end thats the problem.
Seriously? Why do you have 3 on your phone? I'm betting you spend more time screwing with apps than your time is worth if you just paid for SMS.
I have ONE chat app on my PC, none on my phone, yet everyone seems to 'chat' just fine, if you think phones are meant for 'chatting'. A Jabber client is all you need, if you want to talk to someone who doesn't use a proper XMPP system, make them get on Google talk.
The problem is that you're trying too hard to talk to people that don't seem to be willing to do the same.
Don't 'chat' with people who don't use a proper 'chat' system. Sorry if that cuts out Facebook, but not playing Facebook's game is the only way you end their bullying chat on our system only bullshit. Meet the new boss, same as the old.
I personally don't think that Bitcoin is a scam. I think it has great potential. But the myriad of other "digital currencies" popping up,
Considering that all these 'new digital currencies' are just literal copies of bitcoin ... what you've done is shown that you think bitcoin is good for no logical reason, and that its copies are bad, again for no logical reason.
You've illustratued that your reason for liking BitCoin is you're just ignorant of any actual information about it.
So what you're saying is false, by your own words. It only is after you add existing stupilations. You are assuming that because I choose number #2, that I'm also going to pay them less than they deserve, which is an assumption that may not be true in many cases, so its impossible for it to be a fact.
If you are selling your labor, someone has to buy it. If it is ethical for you to sell it, it must be ethical for someone else to buy it. That does not preclude non-ethical behavior, but it certainly allows for the action to happen in an ethical matter.
You seem to think that you're personal worth is priceless there for its okay for you to offer it to people but not for them to accept it because they couldn't possibly pay your fairly.
In my experience, people who think like you do aren't worth wasting the atmosphere they consume. I suspect this applies to you as well.
If you'll take bitcoin from me without a trusted 3rd party to verify it, I have an infinite supply of bitcoins for you.
You clearly don't understand how bitcoin works.
In my experience, the only people who make those sort of statements were either paid a metric fuckton to do such a project by a tablet maker so they can get some news ... and people that are so bad at 'creating content' that the tablet being a shitty way to do it is going to have no measurable effect on their output.
You do realize that 99.999% of the people in the universe will have no idea what you're talking about ... right? That of course would completely defeat the purpose of the naming scheme, don't you think?
Don't try so hard to be clever and maybe you will actually be clever.
Kids don't want the cheap iPhone knock off you get for free that runs Android. They want something that is cool and conveys status. Your free barely bootable android phone that accounts for the majority of androids market share is not what they are interested in.
Kids generally don't share the silly android heard mentality of slashdot.
Drugs aren't the problem, your weak willed family is. You'll find yourself a whole lot happier when you stop blamining inanimate objects for issues caused be people. Even if there were no coke, heroin, pot or alcohol, your family would still have been just as fucked up.
People drink to feel it as well, some try to pretend they 'like the taste' and various other forms of bullshit, but saying you don't drink for effect just makes you a liar.
All this particular post tells us is that you're a douche and think you're clever because you can be obnoxiously difficult as a means to show your ass.
What you've done is effectively illustrated why you need many more sessions with those soft voices.
When you said equivalent you made it clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. Eclipse doesn't compare to VS any more than pico does.
But its cute to try and blame it on one particular ... protocol? I'm not sure what 'deal with bittorrent' means. I mean, I get the 'first 7 minutes to bittorrent users' but who is that exactly? People that use software from bittorrent inc? Anyone with a bittorrent client? Who are they actually talking about? Well thought out statement you have there.
Anyway, my point is that the big studios fear anything they don't completely control. They are afraid of people sharing things without them making a cut. They don't give damn about bittorrent, they care about sharing without them profiting.
You just sound stupid when you propagate the stereotype, anyone with a clue knows they are just as afraid of you downloading something from HTTP as they are with bit torrent. Its not like they let you get buy with it via HTTP but not BitTorrent.
From what I can tell from the actual article is that:
The studios repeated their default statements anytime anyone shares anything online when they aren't getting a cut of the profits. ... which isn't anything new, there are thousands of shitty indie movies on bittorrent already, thats like saying some indie movie is going to be uploaded to youtube. Contrary to what you may think: Indie does not imply that its worth watching.
Some indie movie is going to be put shared via bittorrent
No one has heard of or cares about this indie movie either.
Forget news for nerds, this isn't even news.
This sort of contract dispute is something I deal with daily. Not in that I deal with disputes, but I'm continually trying to teach my management how to write a contract that is actually enforcable.
IF (big if) the contract is worded as "tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement" then both sides failed.
That sort of statement is why this situations happen. MyPillow.com told salesforce.com thats what they wanted. Salesforce says 'okay' because they can do that. MyPillow.com sees the final results and then only at the moment do both of them start to realize that they have TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ideas about what that statement actually means.
Then you end up in court while a judge sits there and thinks 'both of you are fucking idiots for being so vague' then eventually figures out which one of them is the bigger douche and makes a decision.
Theoretical Example:
MyPillow.com was expecting to know exactly how many sales came from each advertisement right down to which ad made which person (by name) buy a pillow from them. This is certainly doable from a technical stand point.
Salesforce.com was thinking that an average based on industry standard formula that they've been using for years based on Neilson ratings was what MyPillow.com was expecting, as it is technically correct as well.
When salesforce gives mypillow some aggregate averaged/projected data, and not a break down of customer names related to commercial airings ... then shit starts to hit the fan and both sides start talking about not paying. Neither side was technically 'wrong', but both of them clearly didn't do their due diligence did they? In this particular scenario, Salesforce would likely win as well because it DOES meet that CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS to the letter, unless the judge decides that salesforce, having done this many times before, should have known better and in their roles as consultants they were legally obligated to inform them of the potential confusion, so maybe not!
You can rest assured that the contract's specifications are so vague that this cause is not going to be an overnight thing.
Have you done that before? How long did they laugh at you before they hung up?
Thats like slashdot posting an article about dell releasing a new model. Nothing special about the model, just a new model.
Its not that its not the first one ... its that its been done HUNDREDS OF TIMES BEFORE and has NOTHING NEW TO ADD to the existing plethora of ways to do this already.
Do we want to read stories about how Dell just release a new laptop that is exactly like every other laptop?
You can probably download this type of app from mp3car.com's app store, and its probably been there for years already as well.
Sadly, the carputers are probably still no more advanced than what you built a decade ago.
Carputers are like snails when it comes to progress. WTF can you not buy a reasonably priced sunlight readable capacitive touch display?
Show me this $10 ELM327 that is more than just the chip.
Show me the one thats connector, chip, some sort of transmission medium to actually be useful, has a reasonable chance of not browning out during start because has power supply capacitors and such.
Stop pretending that your $10 COMPONENT is an actual product.
Yes, ELM327 chips are dirt as cheap. No, they are not useful in any way by themselves.
And you've just illustrated the common problem ... you think that the TCO of an electric car is less from an environmental perspective than it is for a good old gas guzzler.
If you do the same thing with gas guzzlers ... they produce 0 emissions too at runtime, and far far less during production!
If you're going to ignore where the energy comes from in an electric car, why not ignore it in a hydrocarbon powered one? Why ignore production costs? Do you have any idea what is required to make the electronics and batteries in these cars? Trading gasoline burning for coal is really fucking stupid from an environmental perspective.
Really ... like this is a new concept?
There have been ODB-II apps for longer than there has been an app store. Before the app store, you had to hack your own adapter together and jailbreak. Since the app store we've gotten WiFi and Bluetooth ODB-II adapters with deep sleep modes and god knows how many apps that do a shitload more than this crap you are slashvertising.
You're only about 4-5 years late to noticing this app category. Without scrolling up to look, I bet timothy posted this story.
Answer to any news item headline posted as a question is always no.
Anser to 'do like amazon' is also always no. Whats good for Amazon is has never been good for the rest of us. The company has absolute no redeeming quality that justifies the evil they carry with them. The difference between Amazon and Oracle is that Oracle doesn't hide the fact that you're getting raped. Amazon likes to pretend their your friend and do it without you noticing if they can.
Right click the game in your Steam Library ...
Backups are hard .. when theres a menu option and freaking wizard to do it for you.
Before you tell us how much steam sucks ...you should use it once or twice.
In that article ... at that time ... I would have been unaware that those games even existed on PC. 2 years later, I own World of Goo on every device 'mobile' device in the house ... I still was unaware of World of Goo on the PC.
Perhaps the reason those games got 90% piracy has a little something to do with how they are released and marketed.
If The Pirate Bay is the most marketing you do, than yes, 90% of the market is going to be pirated.