Mauling is in the eye of the beholder. You call it "mauling their face off". I call it "love nipping". Don't let your opinions colour your judgment, cat person.
The difference is that rich fat cats are members of a neo-noble government clique and you are not. I.e., they can call on lawmakers, police and if need be, the military, and you can't.
Ach! This upstart little camel fart Mr. Sycodon (UID 149926) thinks he's safe! I have news for him! I'm going to kill his family, friends and anyone walking outside his house at the time! Muahahahahahaha!.
Actually, it specifically states in his post's dictionary quote that while the word exists, it is widely scorned due to its obviously erroneous construction, and urges the reader to use "regardless" instead. Given this, I think it can be concluded that anyone using the word should expect to be treated like the partially literate fool that they sound like.
That's because nobody is arguing that there should be no such this as intellectual property, just that the conception of it today is totally broken.
People and organisations should have the fruit of their efforts, artists should be paid and their work attributed to them, electronics manufacturers should not have to compete with clones that don't need to recoup substantial development costs, web designers should be able to publish without their work being ripped off by rival designers, software writers should be able to (if they wish) sell their software without fear of their customers giving it away for free to other potential customers or worse, undercutting the original developer.
It's when IP is formulated to allow any trivial or incremental development to be patented and then patent-trolled, which destroys the incentive in society to innovate that people become mad. I don't have a problem with, for example, Nokia phones being protected from cloning, as Nokia spend a large amount of money making good products, ditto for the iPod. I do, however, have a problem with Amazon trying to patent SLAs, or Google patenting commercial breaks. These are the things that patent trolls will use to smack small, unsuspecting companies that just manage to catch a development break, are about to take it to market, have a bright future, and then *bang*. Some patent troll cuts them off at the knees.
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The initial 4:40 is to give you time to find your bottle of Ritalin.
Not so. Were the GPL to be invalidated, because the source is free and the terms it was offered under are invalid, then the code would automatically revert to the public domain.
Sir, your naivety is truly staggering. If I were as good at anything as you are at being utterly misled, I'd have won a Nobel Prize, twice. I simply cannot compete with your level of skill in this regard, so I hereby, for the first time ever, throw in the towel. Yes, I completely concede the point to you. Congratulations.
Then you couldn't possibly be talking about the absurdly overblown threat from terrorism or the fabricated monsters in Beijing, as neither of those threats are really a threat to the US that couldn't be solved by a little less aggression and exploitation in US foreign policy.
"Difference is the US is setting the state so Iraq has political and economic self-determination."
The US is ensuring that the economic output of Iraq benefits primarily the US. Iraq was economically, politically and even socially better off under Saddam than it is now, unless you measure welfare in a method that doesn't include death rates, disease proliferation, violent political instability and economic trauma.
As for South Korea, South Korean industry benefits the US, which is why the US allows SK self-determination. That would change in a heartbeat were SK to decide to align themselves more closely with, say Europe. Also, it's a single isolated example. Lets look at US intervention in Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Chile, Haiti, and El-Salvador. Now ask yourself what is the most likely outcome for Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you think the US is attempting to provide a better life for the populations of foreign nations rather than ensure that its own commercial interests are made incumbent in those nations, then you're living in a Fox News televised fantasy world.
The Iraq occupation is about ensuring that when the dust settles, the Iraqi industry is dominated by US contractors and businesses so that the lions share of the profits from that economy are under US control. Not to mention that the businesses in charge of Iraqi oil will be beholden to US corporate assets.
Is that like an evil, thinly veiled fascist state using its hegemony to invade even tinier Iraq (economically orders of magnitude smaller and about the same population wise) and using its military power to deter anyone else from intervening? Frankly, I have no problem with bullies challenging other bullies. When bullies fight, they both get what they deserve.
Lose out on paranoia? Dude, are you insane? I know the don't exist, but the idea of a 20ft tall spider wielding a laser cannon of death that kicks ass and takes names keeps me up at night.
You don't think that even MS knows that MSPaint is a totally invisible app that nobody but the most idiotic user would use? There are piles of free alternatives. Also, were MS to add anything else to MSPaint we'd get Adobe and the open source community calling antitrust and unfair competition due to bundling. MS won't without good reason include anything other than a trivially functional app in Windows, and graphics tools is something MS will gladly stay out of.
No, it's threatening anticipated and oft-used canned responses that are either deliberately misleading or plain stupid. It's not censorship, they can still make the point if they like, I'm just pre-emptively pointing out how stupid the reply I know some people will give is.
Get off your knee0jerk horse. I love FLOSS, however if you think that it has up until now a good track record with user friendliness then you're fooling yourself. It's getting better, mainly because FLOSS devs are realising that they have sucked in this area up until now and have endeavoured to improve. Head in sand attitudes are not helping.
KDE and Gnome have not been ahead of Windows despite having quite a few neat tricks up their sleeves. If you take a brutally honest look, the fundamentals are still easier on Windows than in any Linux desktop. Adding cool extras is good, but the main game is in the average users's day to day use case, which is an area Windows still leads in. In fact most of this thread is about whining that KDE/Gnome copy Windows too much. Aside from perhaps the barest of bare minimum use cases, Windows use is still far easier for the average luser than any Linux flavour or remix. I'm not talking about clicking to launch OpenOffice or Firefox. The average user also needs to install apps that they want, add new hardware when they get it and other things like that. FLOSS is not quite there yet.
Saying all this does not mean I am saying FLOSS is inferior or that I don't support FLOSS. It's not a one or the other question. Get off that binary high horse of yours.
Constantly trying to reinvent a perfectly round wheel results in a) New problems that need to be worked out from scratch b) Totally different use patterns which may or may not work in the real world c) Reluctant users
Personally, I don't see a problem with following patterns that were created for Windows. There's no reason that the existing desktop format can't be extended and have features added to it if need be. This "lets go a totally different direction just coz we don't want to follow MS" is stupid. MS spent huge amounts of R&D finding out what regular users will be able to use, and freeriding on that seems like a good idea to me.
Also, open source software doesn't have a good track record when it comes to ground up usability designs. Compare GIMP, Pidgin and Blender with their commercial counterparts. Then look at how long Linux has taken to get to a point where it's considered barely usable by the every day user.
Oh, and anyone who throws in a "but my grandma has been using Linux since 1965 for $fooTinyUseCase" gets a kick in the backside.
The anger toward the RIAA is not because we (the Slashdot community) would prefer to get the product of artistic expression for free, but rather because they are attempting to collect huge sums of money on art that they had zero input in creating. We hate the fact that we are being persecuted by a bunch of people who have usurped the art work of others, and are using artificial mechanisms to monopolise others' enjoyment of that art. They are illegitimately standing between creators and admirers of art and acting as self-appointed thuglike toll collectors.
Furthermore, they are actively derailing developments that will remove their ability to monopolise the creation and distribution of that art (these lawsuits are a part of that policy of derailment) in order to artificially preserve their own bloated and thoroughly unnecessary existence to the detriment of both artists and art consumers.
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Mauling is in the eye of the beholder. You call it "mauling their face off". I call it "love nipping". Don't let your opinions colour your judgment, cat person.
The difference is that rich fat cats are members of a neo-noble government clique and you are not. I.e., they can call on lawmakers, police and if need be, the military, and you can't.
Ach! This upstart little camel fart Mr. Sycodon (UID 149926) thinks he's safe! I have news for him! I'm going to kill his family, friends and anyone walking outside his house at the time! Muahahahahahaha!.
Oh, ~.
In a feverish but vain bout of hopefulness, I just scoured eBay and Craigslist looking for a battery for you for under $50. I didn't find one :(
I hate people who kill conversations by invoking Godwin all the time. They're such communication Nazis!
Actually, it specifically states in his post's dictionary quote that while the word exists, it is widely scorned due to its obviously erroneous construction, and urges the reader to use "regardless" instead. Given this, I think it can be concluded that anyone using the word should expect to be treated like the partially literate fool that they sound like.
He doesn't drink Gatorade. He drinks Brawndo, because it's what plants crave.
That's because nobody is arguing that there should be no such this as intellectual property, just that the conception of it today is totally broken.
People and organisations should have the fruit of their efforts, artists should be paid and their work attributed to them, electronics manufacturers should not have to compete with clones that don't need to recoup substantial development costs, web designers should be able to publish without their work being ripped off by rival designers, software writers should be able to (if they wish) sell their software without fear of their customers giving it away for free to other potential customers or worse, undercutting the original developer.
It's when IP is formulated to allow any trivial or incremental development to be patented and then patent-trolled, which destroys the incentive in society to innovate that people become mad. I don't have a problem with, for example, Nokia phones being protected from cloning, as Nokia spend a large amount of money making good products, ditto for the iPod. I do, however, have a problem with Amazon trying to patent SLAs, or Google patenting commercial breaks. These are the things that patent trolls will use to smack small, unsuspecting companies that just manage to catch a development break, are about to take it to market, have a bright future, and then *bang*. Some patent troll cuts them off at the knees.
Dear Morgan Greywolf,
If you think we care about individual customers, then you're grossly mistakien. It's the masses of sheep-customers that allow us to fuck individuals like you in the ass.
Regards,
- Big Media
P.S., We get your money anyway, your tax dollars fund our forays in the courts. Please come to our offices, and we will have an intern kiss your ass on our behalf.
The initial 4:40 is to give you time to find your bottle of Ritalin.
Not so. Were the GPL to be invalidated, because the source is free and the terms it was offered under are invalid, then the code would automatically revert to the public domain.
No. If, hypothetically, the GPL became invalidated for some reason, all GPL code would revert to the public domain.
Please point me to the spot in the post you are replying to where MS is mentioned or even implied.
"Pay the price of liberty."
Sir, your naivety is truly staggering. If I were as good at anything as you are at being utterly misled, I'd have won a Nobel Prize, twice. I simply cannot compete with your level of skill in this regard, so I hereby, for the first time ever, throw in the towel. Yes, I completely concede the point to you. Congratulations.
Then you couldn't possibly be talking about the absurdly overblown threat from terrorism or the fabricated monsters in Beijing, as neither of those threats are really a threat to the US that couldn't be solved by a little less aggression and exploitation in US foreign policy.
"Difference is the US is setting the state so Iraq has political and economic self-determination."
The US is ensuring that the economic output of Iraq benefits primarily the US. Iraq was economically, politically and even socially better off under Saddam than it is now, unless you measure welfare in a method that doesn't include death rates, disease proliferation, violent political instability and economic trauma.
As for South Korea, South Korean industry benefits the US, which is why the US allows SK self-determination. That would change in a heartbeat were SK to decide to align themselves more closely with, say Europe. Also, it's a single isolated example. Lets look at US intervention in Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Chile, Haiti, and El-Salvador. Now ask yourself what is the most likely outcome for Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you think the US is attempting to provide a better life for the populations of foreign nations rather than ensure that its own commercial interests are made incumbent in those nations, then you're living in a Fox News televised fantasy world.
The Iraq occupation is about ensuring that when the dust settles, the Iraqi industry is dominated by US contractors and businesses so that the lions share of the profits from that economy are under US control. Not to mention that the businesses in charge of Iraqi oil will be beholden to US corporate assets.
Time for a wake up call, my friend.
Is that like an evil, thinly veiled fascist state using its hegemony to invade even tinier Iraq (economically orders of magnitude smaller and about the same population wise) and using its military power to deter anyone else from intervening? Frankly, I have no problem with bullies challenging other bullies. When bullies fight, they both get what they deserve.
Lose out on paranoia? Dude, are you insane? I know the don't exist, but the idea of a 20ft tall spider wielding a laser cannon of death that kicks ass and takes names keeps me up at night.
Keeps me up wishing I had one, anyway.
Because the current scenario, stepping into a crash site's puddle of highly flammable liquid, is just so much more appealing.
You don't think that even MS knows that MSPaint is a totally invisible app that nobody but the most idiotic user would use? There are piles of free alternatives. Also, were MS to add anything else to MSPaint we'd get Adobe and the open source community calling antitrust and unfair competition due to bundling. MS won't without good reason include anything other than a trivially functional app in Windows, and graphics tools is something MS will gladly stay out of.
No, it's threatening anticipated and oft-used canned responses that are either deliberately misleading or plain stupid. It's not censorship, they can still make the point if they like, I'm just pre-emptively pointing out how stupid the reply I know some people will give is.
Get off your knee0jerk horse. I love FLOSS, however if you think that it has up until now a good track record with user friendliness then you're fooling yourself. It's getting better, mainly because FLOSS devs are realising that they have sucked in this area up until now and have endeavoured to improve. Head in sand attitudes are not helping.
KDE and Gnome have not been ahead of Windows despite having quite a few neat tricks up their sleeves. If you take a brutally honest look, the fundamentals are still easier on Windows than in any Linux desktop. Adding cool extras is good, but the main game is in the average users's day to day use case, which is an area Windows still leads in. In fact most of this thread is about whining that KDE/Gnome copy Windows too much. Aside from perhaps the barest of bare minimum use cases, Windows use is still far easier for the average luser than any Linux flavour or remix. I'm not talking about clicking to launch OpenOffice or Firefox. The average user also needs to install apps that they want, add new hardware when they get it and other things like that. FLOSS is not quite there yet.
Saying all this does not mean I am saying FLOSS is inferior or that I don't support FLOSS. It's not a one or the other question. Get off that binary high horse of yours.
She would, but they got lost under the mountain of sarcasm you seem to have missed :P
Constantly trying to reinvent a perfectly round wheel results in
a) New problems that need to be worked out from scratch
b) Totally different use patterns which may or may not work in the real world
c) Reluctant users
Personally, I don't see a problem with following patterns that were created for Windows. There's no reason that the existing desktop format can't be extended and have features added to it if need be. This "lets go a totally different direction just coz we don't want to follow MS" is stupid. MS spent huge amounts of R&D finding out what regular users will be able to use, and freeriding on that seems like a good idea to me.
Also, open source software doesn't have a good track record when it comes to ground up usability designs. Compare GIMP, Pidgin and Blender with their commercial counterparts. Then look at how long Linux has taken to get to a point where it's considered barely usable by the every day user.
Oh, and anyone who throws in a "but my grandma has been using Linux since 1965 for $fooTinyUseCase" gets a kick in the backside.
You've missed the point.
The anger toward the RIAA is not because we (the Slashdot community) would prefer to get the product of artistic expression for free, but rather because they are attempting to collect huge sums of money on art that they had zero input in creating. We hate the fact that we are being persecuted by a bunch of people who have usurped the art work of others, and are using artificial mechanisms to monopolise others' enjoyment of that art. They are illegitimately standing between creators and admirers of art and acting as self-appointed thuglike toll collectors.
Furthermore, they are actively derailing developments that will remove their ability to monopolise the creation and distribution of that art (these lawsuits are a part of that policy of derailment) in order to artificially preserve their own bloated and thoroughly unnecessary existence to the detriment of both artists and art consumers.