One can't forget what one doesn't know. It seems even among western authors, the ones to the *east* of the occidental world are somehow better. Many comic authors I'm being recommended are British, although when I think British science fiction, I think the Doctor, and that's so many shades of awful. [braces for Karma hit]
The anti-Firefox FUD is probably caused by rampant Google/Chrome fanboyism/shilling/astroturfing.
But sadly I may soon have to jump in. I mean, faster javascript and plugins in separate process are nice, but, did they had to rip off of every chrome --sorry I meant-- Chrome UI detail they could?
It makes Firefox an nonstandard application in every OS and just reeks of plagiarism. And do you know why they removed the status bar? Because Asa hates it.
No it's not because they were pressured to make it an extension. No, making it an extension will not work. Now that the status bar is an extension, status bar related extensions have no standard base where to adhere essentially making sure extension developers move their UI options on top by default. It's all about *nudging* the developer base to where you want it to go.
Similar to how the volume applet was mysteriously vanished from Gnome Panel and integrated in the "indicator Applet" a.k.a. exactly where it doesn't belong, but Mark wants to drop the Notification Area a.k.a. system tray in favor of his Indicator Applet, but I digress.
The point is that Linus was right, this removing of features IS A DAMN FUCKING DISEASE! I don't like this breed of cooler than thou developers who fancy themselves you saviors from the evils of choice.
Don't worry, I learned from this H.264 guy that this is totally ok, OOXML is free because we are free to pay for it, and it's open because every can see Microsoft implementing it!
You may be allowed to use portions of a copyrighted work to comment or report on that work, but it isn't your right.
Wait, "you are allowed but you have no right", are you trolling?
You have natural rights to copy and modify anything you see, copyright law takes away those rights, fair use doesn't just give you rights, fair use is a right they are not taking away from you.
Like I said, there's plenty of honest people who make very little here. Inequality is a problem, and sometimes, like the guerrilla in Chiapas, it IS the main issue.
But when it comes to places like Nuevo Leon we are aproaching the law of diminished returns. Social programs may reduce small crime but what we have currently are loosely organized gangs of very well armed and remorseless sociopaths.
And you will always have sociopaths, it's nature.
The thing is that they are fighting a sort of guerrilla war against our police departments which weren't prepared for it. So that's what is in order right now.
About 1), I didn't make it clear. The reason these fucks have nothing to lose is not because they are poor, because poor people exist and they aren't criminals. What they want above all is "respect" if not just a little of sadistic fun.
I know I'll invariably get tagged as racist but, Americans can easily see the similarities with back gangs in New Jersey for reference.
Would a more prosperous life move some of these people from organized crime? A few yes, but not nearly enough to make a difference.
Thanks for the tweaking, but like I said, what does it boil down to? What's the bottom line? Just drop the rhetoric.
Question, does anyone have to take into account complex billing formulas and necessarily run as a for-profit to pay for VP8 encoding, decoding or streaming royalties? If not then VP8 safe for Wikipedia, Sourceforge, Ubuntu, etc. In other words free and open source software.
Which ultimately is the question at hand.
If absolutely everybody ran exclusively closed, non-free software this discussion wouldn't even happen.
Only if you have a very unusual definition of "proprietary." In this context, proprietary means "owned or controlled by one company." H.264 is an open standard.
Nothing unusual. H.264 is proprietary simply because someone owns it, specifically MPEG LA and it's members
"Proprietary" has nothing to do with how much something costs in monetary terms.
Alas, ownership has everything to do with cost and pricing. Essentially the owners get to set a price for it and collect royalties, which is what the MPEG LA does.
It's absolutely possibly[sic] to have an open standard that costs money. Just as it is possible to have a proprietary format that doesn't cost any money.
And it's absolutely possible to have the source code of your tivo or android device and being unable to hack it because of the DMCA, What's your point? It boils down to what you can and can't do with it, and you can't have a h.264 codec without buying it from MPEG LA or having some buy it for you at their own expense. Nor can you distribute videos encoded in h.264 without paying royalties to the MPEG LA.
Not legally and straightforward anyway. There are complex formulas determining certain bitrates and distribution models that are free for personal use, but I wouldn't recommend you to touch H.264 without a tech lawyer.
It's the old "it is free because you are free to buy it" argument. *MASSIVE YAWN*
The yearly rates for streaming are about $5,000,000 or so, that's a show stopper for non-profits like Wikipedia and even commercial services like Youtube would need to either start charging for content or push even more aggressive advertisement into the interface.
Get you facts strait.
You might want to look into doing that yourself, as well as straightening up your spelling.
The only fact that needs to get set straight is why are you shilling for the MPEG LA? What do you stand to gain anyway?
The average salary of a sicario -- Mexican paid assassins-- is about 660USD/mo.
That's peanuts. Yes, it's above the average salary for untrained personal in Mexico, but it's on pair with salaries for technical and low tier professional jobs.
Money is not the main driving force behind sicarios, the leaders of course are in for the money, but most grunt workers just have power issues. They want to feel feared, to get what in their minds is the respect they have always deserved, they just want a gun to scare the shit out of, kill or even outright torture anyone who has ever crossed them.
So this isn't a problem solved by fixing the social inequality problems in Mexico, as much as they need fixing. Here in Mexico there are millions of dirt poor people who nevertheless do what they can to live honest lives, but there are always going to be rotten eggs. Social inequality may worsen the problem, but is not a deciding factor.
The problem is simply that they are way too heavily armed and our Police force is simply too wimpy to fight back. In particular, our Police forces are too few in number. This is an effect of a cleansing campaign of the federal government to eradicate police corruption. This brought unexpected consequences, as grave consequences tend to be.
The first problem is a debilitating reduction of numbers,then our prison system got overloaded, recruitment of course slowed down and then is the well know and old problem of lack of firepower among police departments.
Then the gangs started harassing our public institutions, both government and public security branches. This of course further weakens public security, both because of a halt in recruitment and plain old lose of members. Is a positive feedback cycle that is killing us. And of course the more success they have capturing criminals, the more strain it puts on our prison system.
One interesting thing is that when I compare crime in the US with crime in Mexico I don't really see a difference in scale or viciousness of crime but on effectiveness of the police and self defense. After all, for all the reputation that Mexico has got for being a "hell hole" I never saw a convenience store clerk working from behind a bullet proof screen until I visited a friend in the US.
Let me reinstate this:
The problem of Mexico is that we've got US-like wartime criminals but only peacetime wimpy Mexican police.
The three solutions I see are: 1) Establish the death penalty. I used to be against the death penalty for practical reasons, basically that I didn't trust our corrupt authorities with such power. But for equally practical reasons I have to support it now.
Not only will it relive our prison system, but I hope it will work as deterrent for what is essentially a bunch of egoist power tripping kids who've got nothing to lose. (Many sicarios aren't even over 18).
2) Stronger police force. However there is always the problem with police corruption itself, it might as well be a better idea to make the army the navy serve as pace keepers on the streets.
3) A culture of self defense. This is already happening but without much success. Since the police is unreliable the population is starting to resist directly. This always ends in bloodshed of course, but many young people are fighting back rather than let themselves be kidnapped, there is the already legendary event of the ranch owner that rather than surrender his property peacefully fought back and shot 3 sicarios before getting shot himself.
Again, this is a reflection of US culture, where it's normal for a shop owner to have a shotgun at hand. We don't really have a gun culture here, nobody owns a gun unless you are looking for trouble.
I've always took issue with this attitude of "GAH STOP GIVING ME DETAILS YOUR DESTROYING MY IMAGINATION!!!!!ELEVEN"
Serisouly, if you like to imagine your own backstory for the xenomorphs do it. There being an official backstory shouldn't prevent you from imagining you own one.
Hell, you can even rewrite the obviously ripped parts and create another similar species, how many xenoclones are there?
The Zergs, the 'Nids, the Flood, the 'Roids even the Crabies qualify . Plenty of room for variation. And of course it has a huge overlap with the T-Virus and family.
How does the fact that the Xenomorph backstory is expanded ruins your imagination? You might as well never watch another movie or read another book then.
I mean, YouTube has users far in excess to Apple, let alone iPhones. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if there are YouTube *channels* with more subscribers than there are Apple users.
What's your point? Do you think we don't deserve to know how the people that represent us do represent us?
As the article shows, we don't need wikileaks to breach the privacy of defenseless individuals, the government, already does so with impunity. But your point of view seems to be that if we want the government to respect the privacy of what people do in their homes we should in exchange forgo any semblance of accountability and government transparency?
You may claim to just be joking, but you are simply trolling.
I have already discussed it so I'm rewording my old post:
The cry of tyrany of the mayority, is BULLSHIT.
Why? Because the rights of the minority often turn out to be more tyrannic.
Prima nocte. Divine right. Manifest Destiny. Slavery, this one ironically one used to exemplify the tyranny of the majority forgetting that slaves have been majorities in many societies.
Now, the majority is sometimes wrong no doubt about it. But who's to decide when it is right or wrong? The minority? Ok but what minority? Historically the ruling minority has always been tyrannical. No despot ruler has ever dictated an unpopular law that offered more freedom to an oppressed class.
Lincoln is the closest one ever that I know, but even so his abolition was the result of a popular ideology that already dominated the north of the country.
Even the civil rights movement that could be used as an example of a minority defeating the tyrannical majority is very misunderstood.
The minority didn't force the majority to change, rather, they nagged, educated and ashamed the majority into returning them their just rights.
To reiterate, the white majority didn't began respecting the rights of the black minority because some abstract power descended from heaven or some benevolent dictator forced it to, but because of its own collective will, as persuaded by the black minority.
I'm trying to lay down this as simple as possible for you. When a party has power to unilaterally dictate policy against the wishes of the majority, they can dictate laws that are evil and unpopular, evil AND popular and of course, evil and unpopular, but there is not much history of rulers imposing good and unpopular laws.
Democracy is not perfect but it is the best thing we have, don't go around crying for the tyranny of the majority.
It's not *THAT* hard to guess what rights they should have. They'd probably deserve the right to seat wherever they want in the bus, but the situation won't arise.
Or interactions with dolphins are so limited we really just have to take a few decisions. Is it ok to kill them? Torture them? Imprison them? Trash their environment?
There are already news against those acts, it's just a matter of rising the penalties. Murder of a dolphin deserves a few years of jail time, so is torture.
The most controversial issues are, should it be illegal to imprison dolphins? And what about the dolphins that are already in captivity? What should we do to punish those that kept them imprisoned? What should we do to punish those that still keep them imprisoned?
My guesses are: Yes, find a way to reintegrate them to their environment, no, don't punish the keepers, they didn't know the severity of their actions, do punish those that still keep them in jails.
Another simple idea, have two cities.Building the same or similar buildings in two cities is going to be far far more cheap than moving the same building over the years. Heck it might even be cheaper the first time. You could rent the spare city to less wealthy people. to recoup costs.
Welll but isn't it great that the FBI is prioritizing the investigation of the people who DDoSed Wikileaks? They are freedom fighters aren't they? They surely will protect the freedom of speech of an important outlet for corruption and abuses of power aren't they? Oops I was day dreaming that law enforcement actually cared about people and justice again.
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One can't forget what one doesn't know. It seems even among western authors, the ones to the *east* of the occidental world are somehow better. Many comic authors I'm being recommended are British, although when I think British science fiction, I think the Doctor, and that's so many shades of awful.
[braces for Karma hit]
So there *was* a reason American comics are inferior to manga!? And I tough it was only a matter of personal taste.
(There are good western comics I know, *I guess*, I've read great things about The Sandman)
The anti-Firefox FUD is probably caused by rampant Google/Chrome fanboyism/shilling/astroturfing.
But sadly I may soon have to jump in. I mean, faster javascript and plugins in separate process are nice, but, did they had to rip off of every chrome --sorry I meant-- Chrome UI detail they could?
It makes Firefox an nonstandard application in every OS and just reeks of plagiarism. And do you know why they removed the status bar? Because Asa hates it.
No it's not because they were pressured to make it an extension. No, making it an extension will not work. Now that the status bar is an extension, status bar related extensions have no standard base where to adhere essentially making sure extension developers move their UI options on top by default. It's all about *nudging* the developer base to where you want it to go.
Similar to how the volume applet was mysteriously vanished from Gnome Panel and integrated in the "indicator Applet" a.k.a. exactly where it doesn't belong, but Mark wants to drop the Notification Area a.k.a. system tray in favor of his Indicator Applet, but I digress.
The point is that Linus was right, this removing of features IS A DAMN FUCKING DISEASE! I don't like this breed of cooler than thou developers who fancy themselves you saviors from the evils of choice.
Don't worry, I learned from this H.264 guy that this is totally ok, OOXML is free because we are free to pay for it, and it's open because every can see Microsoft implementing it!
Not a napkin, but Texas Hold-em http://youtu.be/4_G9awnDCmg
Wait, "you are allowed but you have no right", are you trolling?
You have natural rights to copy and modify anything you see, copyright law takes away those rights, fair use doesn't just give you rights, fair use is a right they are not taking away from you.
Like I said, there's plenty of honest people who make very little here. Inequality is a problem, and sometimes, like the guerrilla in Chiapas, it IS the main issue.
But when it comes to places like Nuevo Leon we are aproaching the law of diminished returns. Social programs may reduce small crime but what we have currently are loosely organized gangs of very well armed and remorseless sociopaths.
And you will always have sociopaths, it's nature.
The thing is that they are fighting a sort of guerrilla war against our police departments which weren't prepared for it. So that's what is in order right now.
About 1), I didn't make it clear. The reason these fucks have nothing to lose is not because they are poor, because poor people exist and they aren't criminals. What they want above all is "respect" if not just a little of sadistic fun.
I know I'll invariably get tagged as racist but, Americans can easily see the similarities with back gangs in New Jersey for reference.
Would a more prosperous life move some of these people from organized crime? A few yes, but not nearly enough to make a difference.
Thanks for the tweaking, but like I said, what does it boil down to? What's the bottom line? Just drop the rhetoric.
Question, does anyone have to take into account complex billing formulas and necessarily run as a for-profit to pay for VP8 encoding, decoding or streaming royalties? If not then VP8 safe for Wikipedia, Sourceforge, Ubuntu, etc. In other words free and open source software.
Which ultimately is the question at hand.
If absolutely everybody ran exclusively closed, non-free software this discussion wouldn't even happen.
Only if you have a very unusual definition of "proprietary." In this context, proprietary means "owned or controlled by one company." H.264 is an open standard.
Nothing unusual. H.264 is proprietary simply because someone owns it, specifically MPEG LA and it's members
"Proprietary" has nothing to do with how much something costs in monetary terms.
Alas, ownership has everything to do with cost and pricing. Essentially the owners get to set a price for it and collect royalties, which is what the MPEG LA does.
It's absolutely possibly[sic] to have an open standard that costs money. Just as it is possible to have a proprietary format that doesn't cost any money.
And it's absolutely possible to have the source code of your tivo or android device and being unable to hack it because of the DMCA, What's your point? It boils down to what you can and can't do with it, and you can't have a h.264 codec without buying it from MPEG LA or having some buy it for you at their own expense. Nor can you distribute videos encoded in h.264 without paying royalties to the MPEG LA.
Not legally and straightforward anyway. There are complex formulas determining certain bitrates and distribution models that are free for personal use, but I wouldn't recommend you to touch H.264 without a tech lawyer.
It's the old "it is free because you are free to buy it" argument. *MASSIVE YAWN*
The yearly rates for streaming are about $5,000,000 or so, that's a show stopper for non-profits like Wikipedia and even commercial services like Youtube would need to either start charging for content or push even more aggressive advertisement into the interface.
Get you facts strait.
You might want to look into doing that yourself, as well as straightening up your spelling.
The only fact that needs to get set straight is why are you shilling for the MPEG LA ? What do you stand to gain anyway?
I'm not sure about that.
The average salary of a sicario -- Mexican paid assassins-- is about 660USD/mo.
That's peanuts. Yes, it's above the average salary for untrained personal in Mexico, but it's on pair with salaries for technical and low tier professional jobs.
Money is not the main driving force behind sicarios, the leaders of course are in for the money, but most grunt workers just have power issues. They want to feel feared, to get what in their minds is the respect they have always deserved, they just want a gun to scare the shit out of, kill or even outright torture anyone who has ever crossed them.
So this isn't a problem solved by fixing the social inequality problems in Mexico, as much as they need fixing. Here in Mexico there are millions of dirt poor people who nevertheless do what they can to live honest lives, but there are always going to be rotten eggs. Social inequality may worsen the problem, but is not a deciding factor.
The problem is simply that they are way too heavily armed and our Police force is simply too wimpy to fight back. In particular, our Police forces are too few in number. This is an effect of a cleansing campaign of the federal government to eradicate police corruption. This brought unexpected consequences, as grave consequences tend to be.
The first problem is a debilitating reduction of numbers,then our prison system got overloaded, recruitment of course slowed down and then is the well know and old problem of lack of firepower among police departments.
Then the gangs started harassing our public institutions, both government and public security branches. This of course further weakens public security, both because of a halt in recruitment and plain old lose of members. Is a positive feedback cycle that is killing us. And of course the more success they have capturing criminals, the more strain it puts on our prison system.
One interesting thing is that when I compare crime in the US with crime in Mexico I don't really see a difference in scale or viciousness of crime but on effectiveness of the police and self defense. After all, for all the reputation that Mexico has got for being a "hell hole" I never saw a convenience store clerk working from behind a bullet proof screen until I visited a friend in the US.
Let me reinstate this:
The problem of Mexico is that we've got US-like wartime criminals but only peacetime wimpy Mexican police.
The three solutions I see are:
1) Establish the death penalty. I used to be against the death penalty for practical reasons, basically that I didn't trust our corrupt authorities with such power. But for equally practical reasons I have to support it now.
Not only will it relive our prison system, but I hope it will work as deterrent for what is essentially a bunch of egoist power tripping kids who've got nothing to lose. (Many sicarios aren't even over 18).
2) Stronger police force. However there is always the problem with police corruption itself, it might as well be a better idea to make the army the navy serve as pace keepers on the streets.
3) A culture of self defense. This is already happening but without much success. Since the police is unreliable the population is starting to resist directly. This always ends in bloodshed of course, but many young people are fighting back rather than let themselves be kidnapped, there is the already legendary event of the ranch owner that rather than surrender his property peacefully fought back and shot 3 sicarios before getting shot himself.
Again, this is a reflection of US culture, where it's normal for a shop owner to have a shotgun at hand. We don't really have a gun culture here, nobody owns a gun unless you are looking for trouble.
This will probably have to change. It's so sad.
I heard they were granted an extension for another 5 years, again.
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll come up with a couple dozen different and incompatible solutions.
I've always took issue with this attitude of "GAH STOP GIVING ME DETAILS YOUR DESTROYING MY IMAGINATION!!!!!ELEVEN"
Serisouly, if you like to imagine your own backstory for the xenomorphs do it. There being an official backstory shouldn't prevent you from imagining you own one.
Hell, you can even rewrite the obviously ripped parts and create another similar species, how many xenoclones are there?
The Zergs, the 'Nids, the Flood, the 'Roids even the Crabies qualify . Plenty of room for variation. And of course it has a huge overlap with the T-Virus and family.
How does the fact that the Xenomorph backstory is expanded ruins your imagination? You might as well never watch another movie or read another book then.
I mean, YouTube has users far in excess to Apple, let alone iPhones. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if there are YouTube *channels* with more subscribers than there are Apple users.
But it is.
He does care or else he wouldn't have invented a machine to communicate beyond the grave.
One theory is that US government will eventually decide to mend it's reputation by eliminating anyone who has a bad opinion about them.
What's your point? Do you think we don't deserve to know how the people that represent us do represent us?
As the article shows, we don't need wikileaks to breach the privacy of defenseless individuals, the government, already does so with impunity. But your point of view seems to be that if we want the government to respect the privacy of what people do in their homes we should in exchange forgo any semblance of accountability and government transparency?
You may claim to just be joking, but you are simply trolling.
I have already discussed it so I'm rewording my old post:
The cry of tyrany of the mayority, is BULLSHIT.
Why? Because the rights of the minority often turn out to be more tyrannic.
Prima nocte.
Divine right.
Manifest Destiny.
Slavery, this one ironically one used to exemplify the tyranny of the majority forgetting that slaves have been majorities in many societies.
Now, the majority is sometimes wrong no doubt about it. But who's to decide when it is right or wrong? The minority? Ok but what minority? Historically the ruling minority has always been tyrannical. No despot ruler has ever dictated an unpopular law that offered more freedom to an oppressed class.
Lincoln is the closest one ever that I know, but even so his abolition was the result of a popular ideology that already dominated the north of the country.
Even the civil rights movement that could be used as an example of a minority defeating the tyrannical majority is very misunderstood.
The minority didn't force the majority to change, rather, they nagged, educated and ashamed the majority into returning them their just rights.
To reiterate, the white majority didn't began respecting the rights of the black minority because some abstract power descended from heaven or some benevolent dictator forced it to, but because of its own collective will, as persuaded by the black minority.
I'm trying to lay down this as simple as possible for you. When a party has power to unilaterally dictate policy against the wishes of the majority, they can dictate laws that are evil and unpopular, evil AND popular and of course, evil and unpopular, but there is not much history of rulers imposing good and unpopular laws.
Democracy is not perfect but it is the best thing we have, don't go around crying for the tyranny of the majority.
It's not *THAT* hard to guess what rights they should have. They'd probably deserve the right to seat wherever they want in the bus, but the situation won't arise.
Or interactions with dolphins are so limited we really just have to take a few decisions. Is it ok to kill them? Torture them? Imprison them? Trash their environment?
There are already news against those acts, it's just a matter of rising the penalties. Murder of a dolphin deserves a few years of jail time, so is torture.
The most controversial issues are, should it be illegal to imprison dolphins? And what about the dolphins that are already in captivity? What should we do to punish those that kept them imprisoned? What should we do to punish those that still keep them imprisoned?
My guesses are:
Yes, find a way to reintegrate them to their environment, no, don't punish the keepers, they didn't know the severity of their actions, do punish those that still keep them in jails.
Another simple idea, have two cities.Building the same or similar buildings in two cities is going to be far far more cheap than moving the same building over the years. Heck it might even be cheaper the first time. You could rent the spare city to less wealthy people. to recoup costs.
But it run Apps! I dare you run Apps in your conpooter
Welll but isn't it great that the FBI is prioritizing the investigation of the people who DDoSed Wikileaks? They are freedom fighters aren't they? They surely will protect the freedom of speech of an important outlet for corruption and abuses of power aren't they? Oops I was day dreaming that law enforcement actually cared about people and justice again.
Let me investigate your computer, you can expect it back in... you know, I'll call you when they are ready.
Wasn't those sevan proxies?