Who said I'm a manager to begin with? I say this from a client perspective, of someone forced to stretch his money to meet needs. Some one playing angry birds in a $500 device wouldn't understand it.
I think you are overseeing the problem that "HP, Motorola, Samsung, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, HTC..." do beat the crap out of Apple *in market share* across all different markets --including music players and phones-- in the US alone, and completely overshadow them overseas.
Not that they care of course, I admit so, with their huge profit margins. But when I see a company getting more money out of less customers, I can't help but snicker condescendingly at them.
Gotta be nice uh? Being born in a rich country, into a wealthy family...
That's kinda like saying women who don't know martial arts are to blame for rape. And we all know that wouldn't fly in the court.
Nor it should. And while it's true that training people to resolve this issue would help (how much is debatable) the truth is that there are a million issues like this and people can't be informed and in *all* of those topics and care about them simultaneously.
So I think it is fair to accuse those directly involved in the matter as they can understand and care about the subject, and still chose the one which is detrimental to society in the long run.
Indeed, bring back Sortition! Let's get rid of political parties and electoral drama and just appoint an executive jury that actually represents the people it represents, because it *is* a sample of the people it represents.
Being represented by someone who makes in a month what you make in a year is a sham.
Sure, juries aren't experts in economy, industry or environment or urban development topics, but neither are politicians! We have consultants for that!
This isn't really just about ethics. It's about user self determination vs user antagonism.
Free freedom is essentially a declaration of self determination where will of the code is the will of the user. Proprietary software enables and in fact encourages an antagonistic relation ship with users, where the user is considered the enemy until they have been tracked and authenticated to the developers satisfaction (and whims). Why would anyone pay to get into such situation?
Personally, I consider a Mac to be pretty much the ultimate web dev platform, because it gives you easy access to all browsers on all major platforms, and gives you some of the best tools (yes, better than emacs, and even better than vi) to develop with. There are many imperfections, but it's better than all the other options.
This is pretty much retarded.
First up let's sort this out. Use VMs for development and initial testing, use a test *server* for integration tests. Pretty much all browsers are available for Windows, OS X and Linux. The glaring exception is IE which is only available for until version 6 and verion 5 for OS X.
But get this, IE for Mac is not even the same program. So if you want to test on IE 8 and 9 you are going to use another VM anyway.
So it really only boils down to what IDE are you going to use. For.net development nothing beats Visual Studio, that alone makes Windows the most recommendable OS for web development.
For other languages I recommend open source solutions, Aptana, Komodo, Zend, or plain Eclipse. All of which are cross platform of course. There is no reason to use plain OS X. Specially not Coda. Coda is cute but it looks really limited. doesn't seem to support server scripts and the CSS gimmick is a crutch.
So exactly what makes OS X superior to Linux for web development again? And no your hard on for Steve Jobs doesn't count.
I also liked the ST movie better in part because it sort of mock the book itself. Never got around Babylon 5 but do like LotR.
But every thing I read about Dr Who suggest me to avoid it like hell. I have a hard time accepting a species that renamed themselves "Time Lords". Even if they invented the technology, it's like renaming ourselves TV Lords then Internet Lords every time we invent something. I have a hard time accepting that a race of "Time Lords" can experience conflict of any kind. How many times does time machinery fail per episode? Even 0.5 times per episode would be too much to take. I have a hell of a time accepting that these "Time Lords" look so damn human like. And yes I know that quote, it doesn't make it any less ludicrous.
Even with parallel, convergent evolution, the odds against two species being so identical are so great that you would need multiple universes, which I hope is their final official explanation for our similarity. That is, if there is any such thing as official any. As far as I know the doctor has gone over several iterations and I'm sure there's at least a couple of retcons.
Since I'm too lazy to research it myself. It seems steam is a drm service? a phoning home one? So if I buy portal 2 from steam that means its only mine for as long as I have a net connection, steam is online and my windows installation is not touched? Do I risk losing hundreds of dollars if I reinstall Windows or something?
Are you trying to imply the ludicrous claim that retwitting HEADLINES of ARTICLES amounts to some sort of piracy? That's like saying the IMDB is distributing movies since they list them.
The retwitter is simply merging the tweets of several NYT accounts into a single feed, it is the fucking Google of NYT tweets, or do you also think Google has no right to be a search engine?
No, but you have to understand that the problems extends beyond government policy and government-endorsed policy.
It is also effective in oligarchies, guilds or any environment of high level of cooperation and coordination among any industry leader considered to large to fail.
It is in fact not an on/off toggle, there is a progressive curve of ever increasing barriers of entry that start with commodities and end up in monopolies.
So very often it is wise to apply controls to corporations beyond simple market rules, or do you want me to post a list of catastrophes caused by lack of government regulation?
Of course the regulation process can get corrupted, in the end there are no silver bullets.
A shame, I'd really love twitter to simply start censoring any links pointing to nyt controlled sites. somebody needs to teach them a lesson and twitter has the weight to pull it off. Of course they'll never imagine such a thing because of some bizarre sort of corporate brotherhood.
Oh tablets will have a future. Once they become really cheep which is bound to happen eventually. Right now I feel sorry for people* who buy tablets thinking they are computers**. Specially iPads.
* Of course i don't mean people with more money than sense, they can be happy with their overpriced gadgets. ** Yes they are computers, but they can't replace a laptop/desktop.
[OFFTOPIC] One of your licensing requirements "That you will respect the rights of others in their sexual orientation." Reminded me of a conversation with my mother many solar cycles ago.
She opposes gay marriage; when I point it out for her that she's forcing her beliefs on others she says that she isn't forcing them to believe what she wants.
But you are still forbidding them to marry? Of course not, they can marry whatever woman they want. She replies... I've tried this many times. She seriously thinks she is respecting their rights while tramping them. So I don't thionk it is going to work, bigots would simply auto-approve themselves anyway.
Why do video games have to reach some mythical, arbitrary level of artistic worth?
They don't have to, they already do. Art is about emotion and games cause plenty of it. From the exhilaration of an absurdist comedies like Katamari Damacy, to the thrill of a stealth game like MGS that surpasses any detective novel and let's not even take into account games that are more literature than gameplay, meaning all american and japanese RPGs or specially the million Japanese visual novels that rely elusively on the narrative to entertain you.
All these games have aroused deep emotions in players, so much that we get offended when it is suggested it is not art and THAT is why games ARE art.
Because we say so. It's one of those things that are tautological.
Indeed I find many of the old classics to be fairly unremarkable. The Mona Lisa for instance. Is just a woman. Not a remarkably nice drawing of a woman, I wouldn't buy anything *like* the Mona Lisa. The only reason the Mona Lisa is remarkable is because hundred of years ago it impressed some people and that's it
Zuck has a bigger userbase, but I think moot serves his userbase better.
Channers get exactly what they want from 4chan. Sheep get *almost* what they want from facebook, except facebook keeps messing with their privacy settings, pulling the rug under their feet, taking away rights users used to have etc. --but still-- serves them mostly what they want.
Both are right, they create different things. moot participated in the inception of an global culture that has taken a life of its own and is ready to try and change the world for better or worse, Zuck helped people reconnect with old friends, connect tighter with relatives, inflate egos and generate enough grief and collateral damage to make Anonymous seem rather nice and positive in comparison.
They are different men with different goals. Zuck measure of success won't necessarily be the same. Zuck is a billionare and will be forever remembered as a brilliant and ruthless businessman that got million by creating one of the most evil[1] interfaces ever that most people use because everybody else is using it.
moot is simply the guy who popularized image boards in the west. Maybe that's enough for him.
1. Evil interfaces as described by the EFF, quoting: "[...] a good interface is meant to help users achieve their goals as easily as possible. But an "evil" interface is meant to trick users into doing things they don't want to."
The existence and use of non-free software [which] is a social problem. It's an evil. And our aim is a world without that problem.'
This problem will only be solved or approached once
(1) citizens can program, and once there is a language intuitive, useful and easy enough to pick up for non-programmers.
(2) programs can be changed on-the-fly -- like in OLPC/XO where you can switch to the source mode and edit the python code for each activity
As long as programming is not understood by users, the source might as well be not open, because they can not read and make sense of it anyway.
Whose ass did you pull these requirements from? Maybe I program, maybe my brother does, maybe my friend, maybe a peer that has my best interests in mind.
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Who said I'm a manager to begin with? I say this from a client perspective, of someone forced to stretch his money to meet needs. Some one playing angry birds in a $500 device wouldn't understand it.
Bullshit. Never have I seen a government more moral than its people.
I'm going to require a source on those numbers. Do they cover anything outside the US or even anything outside NY?
I think you are overseeing the problem that "HP, Motorola, Samsung, RIM, Microsoft, Nokia, HTC..." do beat the crap out of Apple *in market share* across all different markets --including music players and phones-- in the US alone, and completely overshadow them overseas.
Not that they care of course, I admit so, with their huge profit margins. But when I see a company getting more money out of less customers, I can't help but snicker condescendingly at them.
Gotta be nice uh? Being born in a rich country, into a wealthy family...
"There is no way in hell that most people are going to buy a 3G Xoom for more than a 3G iPad."
The iPad is a fashion statement, if it was cheaper it would sell *less*. Apple products are the Giffen goods of the computer world.
That's kinda like saying women who don't know martial arts are to blame for rape. And we all know that wouldn't fly in the court.
Nor it should. And while it's true that training people to resolve this issue would help (how much is debatable) the truth is that there are a million issues like this and people can't be informed and in *all* of those topics and care about them simultaneously.
So I think it is fair to accuse those directly involved in the matter as they can understand and care about the subject, and still chose the one which is detrimental to society in the long run.
Indeed, bring back Sortition! Let's get rid of political parties and electoral drama and just appoint an executive jury that actually represents the people it represents, because it *is* a sample of the people it represents.
Being represented by someone who makes in a month what you make in a year is a sham.
Sure, juries aren't experts in economy, industry or environment or urban development topics, but neither are politicians! We have consultants for that!
This isn't really just about ethics. It's about user self determination vs user antagonism.
Free freedom is essentially a declaration of self determination where will of the code is the will of the user. Proprietary software enables and in fact encourages an antagonistic relation ship with users, where the user is considered the enemy until they have been tracked and authenticated to the developers satisfaction (and whims). Why would anyone pay to get into such situation?
When are we going to hit the butterflies?
Personally, I consider a Mac to be pretty much the ultimate web dev platform, because it gives you easy access to all browsers on all major platforms, and gives you some of the best tools (yes, better than emacs, and even better than vi) to develop with. There are many imperfections, but it's better than all the other options.
This is pretty much retarded.
First up let's sort this out. Use VMs for development and initial testing, use a test *server* for integration tests.
Pretty much all browsers are available for Windows, OS X and Linux. The glaring exception is IE which is only available for until version 6 and verion 5 for OS X.
But get this, IE for Mac is not even the same program. So if you want to test on IE 8 and 9 you are going to use another VM anyway.
So it really only boils down to what IDE are you going to use. For .net development nothing beats Visual Studio, that alone makes Windows the most recommendable OS for web development.
For other languages I recommend open source solutions, Aptana, Komodo, Zend, or plain Eclipse. All of which are cross platform of course. There is no reason to use plain OS X. Specially not Coda. Coda is cute but it looks really limited. doesn't seem to support server scripts and the CSS gimmick is a crutch.
So exactly what makes OS X superior to Linux for web development again? And no your hard on for Steve Jobs doesn't count.
[[citation needed | Can they?]]
I also liked the ST movie better in part because it sort of mock the book itself. Never got around Babylon 5 but do like LotR.
But every thing I read about Dr Who suggest me to avoid it like hell. I have a hard time accepting a species that renamed themselves "Time Lords". Even if they invented the technology, it's like renaming ourselves TV Lords then Internet Lords every time we invent something. I have a hard time accepting that a race of "Time Lords" can experience conflict of any kind. How many times does time machinery fail per episode? Even 0.5 times per episode would be too much to take. I have a hell of a time accepting that these "Time Lords" look so damn human like. And yes I know that quote, it doesn't make it any less ludicrous.
Even with parallel, convergent evolution, the odds against two species being so identical are so great that you would need multiple universes, which I hope is their final official explanation for our similarity. That is, if there is any such thing as official any. As far as I know the doctor has gone over several iterations and I'm sure there's at least a couple of retcons.
What? Steams gets to hold my save files? Am I even allowed access to my own save files? Next you are going to tell me they get to datamine them too.
I think I'm just going to rent it. Any presumption of acquisition is just and insulting pretension.
Since I'm too lazy to research it myself. It seems steam is a drm service? a phoning home one?
So if I buy portal 2 from steam that means its only mine for as long as I have a net connection, steam is online and my windows installation is not touched? Do I risk losing hundreds of dollars if I reinstall Windows or something?
I see what you did thar
Are you trying to imply the ludicrous claim that retwitting HEADLINES of ARTICLES amounts to some sort of piracy?
That's like saying the IMDB is distributing movies since they list them.
The retwitter is simply merging the tweets of several NYT accounts into a single feed, it is the fucking Google of NYT tweets, or do you also think Google has no right to be a search engine?
No, but you have to understand that the problems extends beyond government policy and government-endorsed policy.
It is also effective in oligarchies, guilds or any environment of high level of cooperation and coordination among any industry leader considered to large to fail.
It is in fact not an on/off toggle, there is a progressive curve of ever increasing barriers of entry that start with commodities and end up in monopolies.
So very often it is wise to apply controls to corporations beyond simple market rules, or do you want me to post a list of catastrophes caused by lack of government regulation?
Of course the regulation process can get corrupted, in the end there are no silver bullets.
A shame, I'd really love twitter to simply start censoring any links pointing to nyt controlled sites. somebody needs to teach them a lesson and twitter has the weight to pull it off. Of course they'll never imagine such a thing because of some bizarre sort of corporate brotherhood.
* Uwe Boll
* Michael Bay
* James Wong
And no more adaptation of Japanese comics or cartoons please.
Oh tablets will have a future. Once they become really cheep which is bound to happen eventually. Right now I feel sorry for people* who buy tablets thinking they are computers**. Specially iPads.
* Of course i don't mean people with more money than sense, they can be happy with their overpriced gadgets.
** Yes they are computers, but they can't replace a laptop/desktop.
[OFFTOPIC]
One of your licensing requirements "That you will respect the rights of others in their sexual orientation." Reminded me of a conversation with my mother many solar cycles ago.
She opposes gay marriage; when I point it out for her that she's forcing her beliefs on others she says that she isn't forcing them to believe what she wants.
But you are still forbidding them to marry? Of course not, they can marry whatever woman they want. She replies... I've tried this many times. She seriously thinks she is respecting their rights while tramping them. So I don't thionk it is going to work, bigots would simply auto-approve themselves anyway.
Why do video games have to reach some mythical, arbitrary level of artistic worth?
They don't have to, they already do. Art is about emotion and games cause plenty of it.
From the exhilaration of an absurdist comedies like Katamari Damacy, to the thrill of a stealth game like MGS that surpasses any detective novel and let's not even take into account games that are more literature than gameplay, meaning all american and japanese RPGs or specially the million Japanese visual novels that rely elusively on the narrative to entertain you.
All these games have aroused deep emotions in players, so much that we get offended when it is suggested it is not art and THAT is why games ARE art.
Because we say so. It's one of those things that are tautological.
Indeed I find many of the old classics to be fairly unremarkable. The Mona Lisa for instance. Is just a woman. Not a remarkably nice drawing of a woman, I wouldn't buy anything *like* the Mona Lisa. The only reason the Mona Lisa is remarkable is because hundred of years ago it impressed some people and that's it
Zuck has a bigger userbase, but I think moot serves his userbase better.
Channers get exactly what they want from 4chan. Sheep get *almost* what they want from facebook, except facebook keeps messing with their privacy settings, pulling the rug under their feet, taking away rights users used to have etc. --but still-- serves them mostly what they want.
Both are right, they create different things. moot participated in the inception of an global culture that has taken a life of its own and is ready to try and change the world for better or worse, Zuck helped people reconnect with old friends, connect tighter with relatives, inflate egos and generate enough grief and collateral damage to make Anonymous seem rather nice and positive in comparison.
They are different men with different goals. Zuck measure of success won't necessarily be the same. Zuck is a billionare and will be forever remembered as a brilliant and ruthless businessman that got million by creating one of the most evil[1] interfaces ever that most people use because everybody else is using it.
moot is simply the guy who popularized image boards in the west. Maybe that's enough for him.
1. Evil interfaces as described by the EFF, quoting: "[...] a good interface is meant to help users achieve their goals as easily as possible. But an "evil" interface is meant to trick users into doing things they don't want to."
This problem will only be solved or approached once
(1) citizens can program, and once there is a language intuitive, useful and easy enough to pick up for non-programmers.
(2) programs can be changed on-the-fly -- like in OLPC/XO where you can switch to the source mode and edit the python code for each activity
As long as programming is not understood by users, the source might as well be not open, because they can not read and make sense of it anyway.
Whose ass did you pull these requirements from? Maybe I program, maybe my brother does, maybe my friend, maybe a peer that has my best interests in mind.
I can assure you as fuck that bussiness types don't understand "MS Access / VBA" they just know that it is what must be used to be enterprisey.