Granted, at least there's a Chrome now to compete with IE, but I think it's still hard to argue that Firefox isn't helping push the browser state of the art ahead.
Not really, "great works" could be done in the same way much modern art is created (and all forms of art pre-copyright) - through patronage. I'm not saying this is the way to go, or it's the right way - just saying it's not hard to envision because the world has already been there.
Does anyone besides me think that did not work out for us, relative to the modern model?
Also, Apple people wear white turtlenecks and fight for freedom, whereas Windows people are black-hearted and make babies battle rhinos.
Seriously, the Pope doesn't give God the kind of unsubstantiated free pass or blind praise you give Apple in this post. You're a dirty raincoat away from being arrested for public indecency.
I hate to break it to you, but more people care about achievements react negatively to Blizzard trying to stop people from cheating (as they would see it.)
That's not you, that's not me, and that's probably not even a majority of/., but Blizzard didn't to be a company that sleeps on haybales made of money by alienating a significant percentage of their actual customers.
Then why don't they fire the other employees who do the same (and much, much worse), only their bigoted remarks are about conservatives?
Citation?
Unless you find something like, "I'm afraid of Republicans because I think they're going to rape my dog," I'm going to laugh at you. And, frankly, that statement wouldn't even be "much, much worse".
You are! And anyone who's read NPR's fairly straightforward employee policies and understands why they were violated is free to call you a dumbass for thinking they're politically biased.
(And none of us is free from the consequences of any of that speech, such as down-moderation.)
Smart money, by the way, says that your new Congress will be too busy racking up more debt to do anything about it, like all Congresses in my lifetime. Just in case you were thinking about betting on the matter.
Its not as if he said we should be afraid when Muslims get on a plane we us, he said he is. Its a statement that is not against Muslims or anyone.
I'm not sure how you're able to reconcile those two statements as rationally consistent.
If he'd said, "I'm not saying how anyone else should feel, but when I see black people I'm afraid they're going to mug me.", that's not a statement against black people? No one should feel offended by that?
How about, "I'm not saying how you should feel, but I get scared that gypsies will try to steal my babies?"
Or, "When I see rednecks, I'm afraid I might see them making out with their sister-mom, but I don't act on that fear?"
Or even, "When I see Asian people, I'm afraid they're better at math and karate than I am?"
Sorry, you can't say something that's completely bigoted or racist but expect people to not be taken aback when you stress that it's just your own feeling.
You think those people are here against their will?
Not exactly, but I bet you could get an awful lot of them to move to San Jose if you could offer them a similar standard of living. Midwestern winters suck if you prefer non-winter sports, and they extra suck if you have to commute more than a few miles, plows and salt nonwithstanding. If you prefer water sports, let's be honest, the beach on a Great Lake is not like the Pacific Ocean.
I know some people who are engineers in the automotive industry and have a passion for cars. They live in the Detroit area because that's where a lot of those jobs are now. I assure you they don't live in Detroit for any other reason and would much prefer to live elsewhere. Elsewhere in the Midwest, even. It's very possible that these people are not representative of everyone who lives in the region, but short of taking my next vacation to Detroit and doing some interviews they're what I have to base my opinions on.
You're welcome to justify your bigotry, but it's still bigotry.
Alternately, a rational person might ask themselves what percentage of the 9/11 hijackers were wearing traditional Muslim garb. Even suicide mission terrorists are only so stupid.
One of the big advantages Silicon Valley has enjoyed is it's proximity to Asia. And likely it's one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is where it is.
I've never heard that theory before.
Usually it's attributed to the proximity of Berkeley and Stanford and/or year-round moderate weather conditions that avoid both snow and "you really need air conditioning" heat.
Although it makes some concessions to the idea, the article ultimately struggles around the idea that where things are prototyped/engineered isn't necessarily where they will be built.
And I agree, Silicon Valley is a terrible place to build a manufacturing plant. Cost of living is too expensive and you can't reasonably expect to pay factory workers wages that will allow them to compete for housing with programmers and engineers.
However, the article makes an awful case that engineering around green cars can't/won't happen in Silicon Valley. They point out that Tesla has to work to attract the kind of specialized engineers they need to move out there. But you know what? The point is, you can convince them to move out there. It might cost you, but you can do it if it's important enough. Good luck convincing the best and the brightest that they want to live in Detroit instead, despite a much cheaper cost of living.
For the moment, I'm going to grant you that it worked in the 1980s without a fight, even though I don't honestly think that it did.
Now, find an example where it worked and the country doing it didn't triple their debt.
Citing the 1980s is like saying things worked great for a family that didn't work and lived on credit cards, until they hit their spending limit, except the credit card family is sadly the more fiscally responsible/conservative of the two.
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I think someone has missed Windows Phone 7 and the tablets Microsoft will be releasing shortly.
If WP7 doesn't run Lotus Notes, it might be dead to Ray Ozzie. . .
Next there will be a $5 Bear Patrol tax...
Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax.
Because most of the people who buy their games don't care about any of that.
Sorry, but there it is.
Exactly this.
Granted, at least there's a Chrome now to compete with IE, but I think it's still hard to argue that Firefox isn't helping push the browser state of the art ahead.
Jeff Bezos needs to read Thomas Jefferson!
He did! Why do you think Jeff Bezos owns slaves?
Not really, "great works" could be done in the same way much modern art is created (and all forms of art pre-copyright) - through patronage. I'm not saying this is the way to go, or it's the right way - just saying it's not hard to envision because the world has already been there.
Does anyone besides me think that did not work out for us, relative to the modern model?
Also, Apple people wear white turtlenecks and fight for freedom, whereas Windows people are black-hearted and make babies battle rhinos.
Seriously, the Pope doesn't give God the kind of unsubstantiated free pass or blind praise you give Apple in this post. You're a dirty raincoat away from being arrested for public indecency.
I hate to break it to you, but more people care about achievements react negatively to Blizzard trying to stop people from cheating (as they would see it.)
That's not you, that's not me, and that's probably not even a majority of /., but Blizzard didn't to be a company that sleeps on haybales made of money by alienating a significant percentage of their actual customers.
Then why don't they fire the other employees who do the same (and much, much worse), only their bigoted remarks are about conservatives?
Citation?
Unless you find something like, "I'm afraid of Republicans because I think they're going to rape my dog," I'm going to laugh at you. And, frankly, that statement wouldn't even be "much, much worse".
Btw I doubt there is a clear cut policy that makes what Williams said a terminable offense.
Enjoy:
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ethics/ethics_code.html
You are! And anyone who's read NPR's fairly straightforward employee policies and understands why they were violated is free to call you a dumbass for thinking they're politically biased.
(And none of us is free from the consequences of any of that speech, such as down-moderation.)
Smart money, by the way, says that your new Congress will be too busy racking up more debt to do anything about it, like all Congresses in my lifetime. Just in case you were thinking about betting on the matter.
By the way, agree or disagree with Williams, why is he not allowed to say that?
He's absolutely allowed to say it. He's guaranteed the right by the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
What he's not guaranteed is immunity to the consequences of saying it from an employer that disapproves.
Its not as if he said we should be afraid when Muslims get on a plane we us, he said he is. Its a statement that is not against Muslims or anyone.
I'm not sure how you're able to reconcile those two statements as rationally consistent.
If he'd said, "I'm not saying how anyone else should feel, but when I see black people I'm afraid they're going to mug me.", that's not a statement against black people? No one should feel offended by that?
How about, "I'm not saying how you should feel, but I get scared that gypsies will try to steal my babies?"
Or, "When I see rednecks, I'm afraid I might see them making out with their sister-mom, but I don't act on that fear?"
Or even, "When I see Asian people, I'm afraid they're better at math and karate than I am?"
Sorry, you can't say something that's completely bigoted or racist but expect people to not be taken aback when you stress that it's just your own feeling.
You think those people are here against their will?
Not exactly, but I bet you could get an awful lot of them to move to San Jose if you could offer them a similar standard of living. Midwestern winters suck if you prefer non-winter sports, and they extra suck if you have to commute more than a few miles, plows and salt nonwithstanding. If you prefer water sports, let's be honest, the beach on a Great Lake is not like the Pacific Ocean.
I know some people who are engineers in the automotive industry and have a passion for cars. They live in the Detroit area because that's where a lot of those jobs are now. I assure you they don't live in Detroit for any other reason and would much prefer to live elsewhere. Elsewhere in the Midwest, even. It's very possible that these people are not representative of everyone who lives in the region, but short of taking my next vacation to Detroit and doing some interviews they're what I have to base my opinions on.
Maybe it's different if you grew up there.
I'm aware of all that, and I have to be honest with you: I don't expect that it would stop Oracle's lawyers from trying.
You're welcome to justify your bigotry, but it's still bigotry.
Alternately, a rational person might ask themselves what percentage of the 9/11 hijackers were wearing traditional Muslim garb. Even suicide mission terrorists are only so stupid.
One of the big advantages Silicon Valley has enjoyed is it's proximity to Asia. And likely it's one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is where it is.
I've never heard that theory before.
Usually it's attributed to the proximity of Berkeley and Stanford and/or year-round moderate weather conditions that avoid both snow and "you really need air conditioning" heat.
(Juan Williams fired for fox appearance).
How about we unpack that story a little further to something like:
"Juan Williams fired for saying that when he sees Muslims getting on a plane with him he's afraid they're going to blow it up."
Although it makes some concessions to the idea, the article ultimately struggles around the idea that where things are prototyped/engineered isn't necessarily where they will be built.
And I agree, Silicon Valley is a terrible place to build a manufacturing plant. Cost of living is too expensive and you can't reasonably expect to pay factory workers wages that will allow them to compete for housing with programmers and engineers.
However, the article makes an awful case that engineering around green cars can't/won't happen in Silicon Valley. They point out that Tesla has to work to attract the kind of specialized engineers they need to move out there. But you know what? The point is, you can convince them to move out there. It might cost you, but you can do it if it's important enough. Good luck convincing the best and the brightest that they want to live in Detroit instead, despite a much cheaper cost of living.
For the moment, I'm going to grant you that it worked in the 1980s without a fight, even though I don't honestly think that it did.
Now, find an example where it worked and the country doing it didn't triple their debt.
Citing the 1980s is like saying things worked great for a family that didn't work and lived on credit cards, until they hit their spending limit, except the credit card family is sadly the more fiscally responsible/conservative of the two.
I'm no Economist, but the arguments for trickle-down theory seem pretty good to me.
I thought by this point history had pretty well demonstrated that it's never worked out in practice.
It's a nice-sounding idea that falls apart completely in reality -- just like communism.
I assume Oracle probably will release a Mac version. That being said, if they don't...
And even if not, GPL says someone else will.
I'll bet if someone else tries that, they'll get sued by Oracle.
Note that I'm not claiming that the lawsuit will be justified or that they'll win.
Interesting - Doesn't that mean the system works?
I mean, an 'expert' paid by Apple fixes the problem, and you don't have to.
It does, and I'm glad for it.
You know, now that you mention it, most of the people I'm thinking of are using Parallels.
So in those cases not dual booting per se, but depending on what they're doing they're effectively spending some or all of their workday in Windows.
Your contradicting anecdote doesn't make mine a troll.
For example, the people I know are more commonly Java developers, whereas maybe you know more Objective-C developers.