Right, because legalizing the possession of kiddie porn and allow it to be sold isn't going to increase demand, encouraging people to make more kiddie porn because they have a better chance of making money on it.
Wrong. People swap kiddie porn all the time. There have been numerous busts of child abuse rings where people were swapping homemade kiddie porn.
A lot of people, pedo or otherwise, get off knowing that someone is watching them and getting off themselves. People make porn to be watched, and even if it's free, knowing that it's being watched can encourage them to make more. Is that true in every case? No, but why the hell else would someone distribute their homemade kiddie porn? And getting feedback from other sickos only encourages them to make more. It encourages other sickos to make their own. Again, not true in every case, but true enough that I'm glad kiddie porn is illegal.
Most of that is pretty damned funny, but I thought that this was just silly:
We’ll also share all of this information with the government. We’re just suckers for guys with crew cuts carrying subpoenas.
Um, if any company is going to refuse a government subpoena, then they'd better have a very damned good legal reason to do so. Few companies are interested in going to court themselves and spending boatloads to protect a user.
Really? You mean they couldn't make a subscription website, put out an app for Jailbroken devices, or put it on any other device out there that could support it?
This is very analogous to a newsstand. In this case, it may be a large chain newsstand, but this is just slippery slope bullshit.
It's Apple's fucking market, not anyone else's. These guys are welcome to use an alternate delivery system or put their rag out for any other device. This is horseshit.
So you're a recording and performing artist who's trying to keep us all alive? Ever heard of the term "unwarranted self-importance"? And what big decision was this? Sorry, but I'm not finding anything recent that signs us into slavery for Monsanto, which admittedly is indeed made up of shitburgers.
On top of that, a lot of the self-taught people I've seen may be pretty darned good at some things in their discipline, but have little to no knowledge in other important areas that they may not encounter until they hit the workforce. The degree shows that you've at least been exposed to a more comprehensive curriculum and should have a solid base of knowledge and skills upon which to build. No, this does not represent every case. You can have lazy college assholes who muddled their way through the degree and you can have self-taught guys who were quite comprehensive in their studies, but that's the exception, not the norm.
However, most of either negative type are often weeded out in the interview process. The thing is, a degree is easily verifiable. Self-taught isn't unless you've got a lot of accomplishments and professional references under your belt. HR is more likely to pick largely grads and maybe a few self-taught guys with serious credentials, then weed out the bozos in either category with interviews.
Um, you do realize that this was a VERY open-and-shut case, right? SAP made a business out of selling pirated software. They admitted to it. This verdict is absolutely NO surprise, nor is the short deliberation period. Comparing this to racial cases is beyond stupid.
I didn't say it was "just" do to marketing. Point out where I did. Their marketing machine sure as hell is a vital part of their success. All of it? Of course not.
Congratulations on completely missing the point. "Steve told" refers the to media circus and advertising as an extension of Steve's will, not Steve literally saying, "BUY THIS!" I should seek therapy? Maybe you should for taking everything as completely literal.
That's because you vastly underestimate the power of Apple's marketing machine, which is completely unrivaled in the tech industry, perhaps in any industry. I was massively disappointed by the iPad, but even more so by knowing that it would sell like hotcakes because Steve told people to buy it.
I'm saying that the market has been largely defined and has gone much further than a niche. The console market was largely a niche for geeks and pretty hardcore gamers. The XBox had superior hardware, a killer game, and helped push that market further into the mainstream (although not as much as the Wii has). MS really doesn't have anything superior for WP7. They don't have a Halo for it. It's just another unremarkable smartphone in a market that already has some highly recognizable brand names. Yes, there is plenty of room for growth, but not if your product can't stand out among the competition.
Also, there was still plenty of room for growth in the console market and MS actually had a product that was, in many ways, superior to the competition. They also had Halo as the killer game. Consoles still hadn't grown far beyond the geek/heavy gamer niche when MS brought the XBox out. This is more like the Zune. MS gets to the party quite late and finds that the market has already solidified pretty well.
Think about it - even with less than 1% of the desktop, and being distributed for free, it's more of a threat than Apple, who are worth more than Microsoft.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? Linux is a threat to MS in the enterprise/server space while Apple is not. On the desktop, Linux is by far and wide not nearly as much of a threat as Apple.
No single drop of rain believes itself to be responsible for the flood. One idiot on./ is nothing. Thousands upon thousands ranting and raving all over the internet? That's a bit different. If someone is interested in developing a commercial game with Linux, don't you think they'll want to check the waters first? And when they see "OMG CLOSED SOURCE FUCK OFF", they'll probably can the idea. It's no secret that a large portion of the Linux desktop userbase thinks like this.
I have several friends who are pretty hardcore gamers. None of them are very interested in Linux. Why would they be? Everything they want to play runs fine in Windows. Furthermore, I've seen PLENTY of hardcore gamers who are utterly clueless. Why else would people blow money on Alienware? You are completely mistaken in thinking that hardcore gamers are interested in how a computer works. Most don't really care. They just want the computer to run their games.
Nonsense. If people were hardcore gamers then they wouldn't be running only Linux in the first place. There are some that run Linux and use games in Wine, but there aren't as many as you make out. Furthermore, those who do are usually savvy enough to get games running in Wine. Most Mac users have a hard time figuring out how to dual boot, and Crossover in OS X has much crappier performance than Wine in Linux. As such, combined with Apple having, at minimum, five times the marketshare as Linux on the desktop, you have game devs far more likely to port games to OS X than Linux. That's the state of things. I think Linux users can expect devs to try and make sure they don't break Wine compatibility at the very best.
Yes, cry that someone is trying to help Linux development. Get pissed because they're not doing it in a way that YOU want.
Zealots like you are exactly what is wrong with Linux right now. Linux can be free and open all you want, but when you expect software vendors to strictly do the same and badmouth those who don't, you're driving developers away. Less software = less users, plain and simple.
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This. If the partyvan doesn't have a backdoor into 4chan then they aren't doing their jobs.
Every board on 4chan is /b/ with a different topic and possibly less horrifying imagery. There are still endless trolls and weirdos everywhere.
Right, because legalizing the possession of kiddie porn and allow it to be sold isn't going to increase demand, encouraging people to make more kiddie porn because they have a better chance of making money on it.
I don't think you thought that one through.
Wrong. People swap kiddie porn all the time. There have been numerous busts of child abuse rings where people were swapping homemade kiddie porn.
A lot of people, pedo or otherwise, get off knowing that someone is watching them and getting off themselves. People make porn to be watched, and even if it's free, knowing that it's being watched can encourage them to make more. Is that true in every case? No, but why the hell else would someone distribute their homemade kiddie porn? And getting feedback from other sickos only encourages them to make more. It encourages other sickos to make their own. Again, not true in every case, but true enough that I'm glad kiddie porn is illegal.
We’ll also share all of this information with the government. We’re just suckers for guys with crew cuts carrying subpoenas.
Um, if any company is going to refuse a government subpoena, then they'd better have a very damned good legal reason to do so. Few companies are interested in going to court themselves and spending boatloads to protect a user.
Lucas might as well dig Welles up and rape his corpse repeatedly. It would probably be less offensive to his memory than this.
Really? You mean they couldn't make a subscription website, put out an app for Jailbroken devices, or put it on any other device out there that could support it?
This is very analogous to a newsstand. In this case, it may be a large chain newsstand, but this is just slippery slope bullshit.
It's Apple's fucking market, not anyone else's. These guys are welcome to use an alternate delivery system or put their rag out for any other device. This is horseshit.
Because it's doubtful that the tenant will be able to pay anywhere close to the cost of the property and house after all is said and done.
So you're a recording and performing artist who's trying to keep us all alive? Ever heard of the term "unwarranted self-importance"? And what big decision was this? Sorry, but I'm not finding anything recent that signs us into slavery for Monsanto, which admittedly is indeed made up of shitburgers.
On top of that, a lot of the self-taught people I've seen may be pretty darned good at some things in their discipline, but have little to no knowledge in other important areas that they may not encounter until they hit the workforce. The degree shows that you've at least been exposed to a more comprehensive curriculum and should have a solid base of knowledge and skills upon which to build. No, this does not represent every case. You can have lazy college assholes who muddled their way through the degree and you can have self-taught guys who were quite comprehensive in their studies, but that's the exception, not the norm.
However, most of either negative type are often weeded out in the interview process. The thing is, a degree is easily verifiable. Self-taught isn't unless you've got a lot of accomplishments and professional references under your belt. HR is more likely to pick largely grads and maybe a few self-taught guys with serious credentials, then weed out the bozos in either category with interviews.
Because the internet is certainly a proper replacement for a classroom environment and professors with PhDs that are available to help.
Um, you do realize that this was a VERY open-and-shut case, right? SAP made a business out of selling pirated software. They admitted to it. This verdict is absolutely NO surprise, nor is the short deliberation period. Comparing this to racial cases is beyond stupid.
I didn't say it was "just" do to marketing. Point out where I did. Their marketing machine sure as hell is a vital part of their success. All of it? Of course not.
Congratulations on completely missing the point. "Steve told" refers the to media circus and advertising as an extension of Steve's will, not Steve literally saying, "BUY THIS!" I should seek therapy? Maybe you should for taking everything as completely literal.
Except that, like any other tech giant, they'll win some and GET billions. Gotta love the hideous, convoluted US patent system!
That's because you vastly underestimate the power of Apple's marketing machine, which is completely unrivaled in the tech industry, perhaps in any industry. I was massively disappointed by the iPad, but even more so by knowing that it would sell like hotcakes because Steve told people to buy it.
I'm saying that the market has been largely defined and has gone much further than a niche. The console market was largely a niche for geeks and pretty hardcore gamers. The XBox had superior hardware, a killer game, and helped push that market further into the mainstream (although not as much as the Wii has). MS really doesn't have anything superior for WP7. They don't have a Halo for it. It's just another unremarkable smartphone in a market that already has some highly recognizable brand names. Yes, there is plenty of room for growth, but not if your product can't stand out among the competition.
Also, there was still plenty of room for growth in the console market and MS actually had a product that was, in many ways, superior to the competition. They also had Halo as the killer game. Consoles still hadn't grown far beyond the geek/heavy gamer niche when MS brought the XBox out. This is more like the Zune. MS gets to the party quite late and finds that the market has already solidified pretty well.
Web browsers were free and bundled with the OS. Wake me up when you get a WinMo phone with every computer or copy of Windows you buy.
Think about it - even with less than 1% of the desktop, and being distributed for free, it's more of a threat than Apple, who are worth more than Microsoft.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? Linux is a threat to MS in the enterprise/server space while Apple is not. On the desktop, Linux is by far and wide not nearly as much of a threat as Apple.
No single drop of rain believes itself to be responsible for the flood. One idiot on ./ is nothing. Thousands upon thousands ranting and raving all over the internet? That's a bit different. If someone is interested in developing a commercial game with Linux, don't you think they'll want to check the waters first? And when they see "OMG CLOSED SOURCE FUCK OFF", they'll probably can the idea. It's no secret that a large portion of the Linux desktop userbase thinks like this.
I have several friends who are pretty hardcore gamers. None of them are very interested in Linux. Why would they be? Everything they want to play runs fine in Windows. Furthermore, I've seen PLENTY of hardcore gamers who are utterly clueless. Why else would people blow money on Alienware? You are completely mistaken in thinking that hardcore gamers are interested in how a computer works. Most don't really care. They just want the computer to run their games.
Nonsense. If people were hardcore gamers then they wouldn't be running only Linux in the first place. There are some that run Linux and use games in Wine, but there aren't as many as you make out. Furthermore, those who do are usually savvy enough to get games running in Wine. Most Mac users have a hard time figuring out how to dual boot, and Crossover in OS X has much crappier performance than Wine in Linux. As such, combined with Apple having, at minimum, five times the marketshare as Linux on the desktop, you have game devs far more likely to port games to OS X than Linux. That's the state of things. I think Linux users can expect devs to try and make sure they don't break Wine compatibility at the very best.
Yes, cry that someone is trying to help Linux development. Get pissed because they're not doing it in a way that YOU want.
Zealots like you are exactly what is wrong with Linux right now. Linux can be free and open all you want, but when you expect software vendors to strictly do the same and badmouth those who don't, you're driving developers away. Less software = less users, plain and simple.