I'd usually agree but not this time. See taxes are supposed to pay for public services like military and police protection, health care, welfare, etc, etc. (YMMV according to country).
If you set up offices offshore you stop benefiting from those public services (at least the off-shore subsidiaries do) so it seems only fare that you don't pay such taxes.
In fact that could be an argument to declare tax free zones en the US provided they don't benefit from public services.
Are you the nutcrack that insists on calling KParts OLE a while ago? Please don't, OLE is a Microsoft centric term.
While you are right that the divide between KDE and GTK makes everybody a little less comfortable your suggestion to kill thousands of projects based on their GUI toolkit, is sure to generate enough heat to melt to boil the oceans.
It's overkill.
And I laugh at your suggestion that K3B made desktop linux usable for the first time (that merit goes to either firefox or openoffice), and for your information, not everybody loves KDE apps.
I've never needed more from a media burner than what Brasero or GnomeBaker have to offer. Amarok is a bloated cow, etc, etc.
Different desktops for different people.
Honestly I also hope for desktop unification one day, but that can't be accomplished with such negative attitude.
the ice caps is problematic, it is only a problem for freedesktop.org and the likes.
It is not a problem of KDE or Gnome respectively, since your suggestion to bite the dust will only you don't need to wait for all apps in a platform to die, you just hace to wait until
1. Replace your personal info with that of some friend. 2. Share a metric ton of these mp3 on pirate bay. 3. Enjoy as your friend burns in flames and their life is ruined. 4. There isn't a step number 4.
Talking about not caring about the name of a browser, I'm still offended that they went for a name directly from Mozilla's codebase, chrome. They read a page from Microsoft it seems.
Do you really want your bank run by the government?
Hell no! I want it to be run by greedy bastards that over lend sink the nation in debt and then crawl to the government crying for bailout money then attempt to pocket has much of that money into their accounts as possible.
What we need is a small government that just ensures taxes are properly conducted to nice millionaires.
Which we are going to sell at premium prices, or at least we should, odds are the US will just to invade us regardless, you know, bringing democracy to our *republic* and all...
No wait!, Obama is president now, gah! its really game-changing (Queen's English be damned).
Part of me wishes Obama is found evil so I don't have to change my political prejudices. The rest of me are busy gagging, tying and throwing into river the aforementioned part.
It matters what "we" think because donors are influenced by public consensus, if pundits convince everybody that WP should put ads in then the number and amount of donations will decrease.
What bothers me is that this pundits come every year with the same claims. I just hope Britannica or the like aren't behind this.
And very wrong too. It's simply in the nature of failure that the task is not considered done, in real life if you screw up and the only consequence is getting another chance that can't be called punishment of any kind, punishment is not receiving another chance or far worse things.
The problem is not death but instant death. Death should not be the consequence of a single mistake but the result of a chain of accumulated failures, by the time the player dies he should have a very good idea of why he died, he should feel he "earned" his death.
But there's more, different kinds of failure should result in different kinds of "punishment" for instance failure to aim results in reduced ammo in your guns, failure to grab healers results in reduced health, failure to kill some enemies results in those enemies coming after you.
The first reason is of course realism, the second and most important one is that it adds to the gameplay, the kind of tactics you use when you've got a full health bar and fully loaded plasma cannons of are different than the ones you use when you are injured and using a kitchen knife.
The idea is that the player should follow a long curve into his deathbed.
It also gives the him another incentive to play well besides reaching the credits screen faster, overcoming his limitations don't just allow him to die less, but allow him to play more gracefully and enable him to attempt harder stuff, not just because he is alive, but because he is fully armed and more skilled.
And it goes without saying but, don't surprise-kill the player, its cheap.
Constant autosaving or simply making immposible for your character to die is not the solution, it only makes the game boring, it reduces the game into a movie, you may say that movies are still great but consider we're talking about a *video game movie*, since when any of those are good?
Immortality is only the solution when the game fails to proportionately "punish" the player, when all your blows are death blows and cheap kills then you may turn on god mode, but it will be boring.
And your son is an ass, Halo has co-op campaign, its a great trainer and builds team-ship.
Damn I wish I had mod points for you, this IS THE WAY to advertise Linux/Open source. We should also use all the eco-anarcho-hippie angle, people think people don't like these ideas sharing and helping each other, we actually do, we just have become pretty cynic and skeptical about it, but I think people actually love it when they see it working.
We already have seem some ads like this for stuff like youtube and the zune. Show people collaborating in a mural, the kids playing games, the young adults working in an open area meeting room then show *programmers* playing along and actually enabling these activities, thats about the clearest image of what the open culture is about.
Personally I think the year of Linux was two years ago when dapper came out, that release was perfect. It surpassed XP in ease of use, had GUIs for everything windows had as far as I'm concerned, it even had more hardware support that XP! Granted a new installation might to be tweaked but so might fresh installs of windows,
It has come to the point where the more exiting things about new releases are not something new in the desktop but consolidation and standardization in the backends.
Most of the cool things now happen in the user application space (which is good).
By that metric objective-c would be scientology, you have to pay large sums for the special equipment as well as the information about how to use it and it's followers worship their leader even though they admit he is only human.
I love Python and Humanism but calling Python Humanism sounds very biased.
Just a wild thought but if the purpose of a bail out is to prevent the economic shock of an unemployment wave, shouldn't the government simply let the company go broke and sustain the fired employees on welfare? It would seem more efficient that way since you are eliminating the intermediary the industry.
In simplistic terms if a business came to me begging for money I'd assume they can't make it themselves. They are unprofitable, returning less than what they produce, in other words a resource sink.
Why do we want to sustain an unjustified industrial production? Why should we invest money in an unprofitable business? If the purpose is saving the hordes of unemployed workers, we can do that directly, can't we?
What's up with this indirect crap? Yes if we do that their jobs would be lost forever. but didn't this all begin because their jobs were unjustified? It seems to me everybody is planning for an economic up lift "if we got there once we will again" seems the common idea, "some day the economy is going to go up and when that happens *I* wont' be left behind".
Guess what? the future is not coming until we learn to deal with the present.
I rather the workers find new jobs and create new jobs with the money from the government. Meanwhile they'll be considered state workers, they could be used for all sorts of public work, paying back directly to the tax payers a.k.a. the people who ultimately payed for their bail out.
But don't you agree that times have changed? The nature of libel what that some pertinent person talked ill and false about something in a prominent channel of media, example:
Fox News interviews the ex-wife of some rock star saying that his husband was abusive and violent.
Compare that to, some anonymous user in some obscure BBS says superman sucks.
Precisely because it is an anonymous source and because its hidden in some forum the damage caused by it is negligible. In fact he is causing himself more harm due Streisand's.
You may say the law is the law and technological progress doesn't affect it but consider the relation between SPAM and the first amendment.
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I'd usually agree but not this time. See taxes are supposed to pay for public services like military and police protection, health care, welfare, etc, etc. (YMMV according to country).
If you set up offices offshore you stop benefiting from those public services (at least the off-shore subsidiaries do) so it seems only fare that you don't pay such taxes.
In fact that could be an argument to declare tax free zones en the US provided they don't benefit from public services.
Are you the nutcrack that insists on calling KParts OLE a while ago? Please don't, OLE is a Microsoft centric term.
While you are right that the divide between KDE and GTK makes everybody a little less comfortable your suggestion to kill thousands of projects based on their GUI toolkit, is sure to generate enough heat to melt to boil the oceans.
It's overkill.
And I laugh at your suggestion that K3B made desktop linux usable for the first time (that merit goes to either firefox or openoffice), and for your information, not everybody loves KDE apps.
I've never needed more from a media burner than what Brasero or GnomeBaker have to offer. Amarok is a bloated cow, etc, etc.
Different desktops for different people.
Honestly I also hope for desktop unification one day, but that can't be accomplished with such negative attitude.
the ice caps is problematic, it is only a problem for freedesktop.org and the likes.
It is not a problem of KDE or Gnome respectively, since your suggestion to bite the dust will only you don't need to wait for all apps in a platform to die, you just hace to wait until
1. Replace your personal info with that of some friend.
2. Share a metric ton of these mp3 on pirate bay.
3. Enjoy as your friend burns in flames and their life is ruined.
4. There isn't a step number 4.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that we have just ddns a Chinese server?
[citation needed]
please
Mhh, I thought money was the ultimate aphrodisiac, then which aphrodisiac do you think is the ultimate?
Talking about not caring about the name of a browser, I'm still offended that they went for a name directly from Mozilla's codebase, chrome. They read a page from Microsoft it seems.
So what shall we name the comet that killed the Clovis? I vote for "Lelouch".
Do you really want your bank run by the government?
Hell no! I want it to be run by greedy bastards that over lend sink the nation in debt and then crawl to the government crying for bailout money then attempt to pocket has much of that money into their accounts as possible.
What we need is a small government that just ensures taxes are properly conducted to nice millionaires.
Which we are going to sell at premium prices, or at least we should, odds are the US will just to invade us regardless, you know, bringing democracy to our *republic* and all...
No wait!, Obama is president now, gah! its really game-changing (Queen's English be damned).
Part of me wishes Obama is found evil so I don't have to change my political prejudices. The rest of me are busy gagging, tying and throwing into river the aforementioned part.
Mmm nerdgasms I lesser than three them!
You need looser standards.
Indeed, shame I'm lacking in mod points.
If you buy two $50 Zunes and one breaks you are left off with one player and $100 less in the bank.
If you buy a $300 iPod you are left with one player and $300 less in the bank.
Without taking into account the subjective benefits of owning anything with an apple logo on it, the two Zunes are the best option.
It matters what "we" think because donors are influenced by public consensus, if pundits convince everybody that WP should put ads in then the number and amount of donations will decrease.
What bothers me is that this pundits come every year with the same claims. I just hope Britannica or the like aren't behind this.
And very wrong too. It's simply in the nature of failure that the task is not considered done, in real life if you screw up and the only consequence is getting another chance that can't be called punishment of any kind, punishment is not receiving another chance or far worse things.
The problem is not death but instant death. Death should not be the consequence of a single mistake but the result of a chain of accumulated failures, by the time the player dies he should have a very good idea of why he died, he should feel he "earned" his death.
But there's more, different kinds of failure should result in different kinds of "punishment" for instance failure to aim results in reduced ammo in your guns, failure to grab healers results in reduced health, failure to kill some enemies results in those enemies coming after you.
The first reason is of course realism, the second and most important one is that it adds to the gameplay, the kind of tactics you use when you've got a full health bar and fully loaded plasma cannons of are different than the ones
you use when you are injured and using a kitchen knife.
The idea is that the player should follow a long curve into his deathbed.
It also gives the him another incentive to play well besides reaching the credits screen faster, overcoming his limitations don't just allow him to die less, but allow him to play more gracefully and enable him to attempt harder stuff, not just because he is alive, but because he is fully armed and more skilled.
And it goes without saying but, don't surprise-kill the player, its cheap.
Constant autosaving or simply making immposible for your character to die is not the solution, it only makes the game boring, it reduces the game into a movie, you may say that movies are still great but consider we're talking about a *video game movie*, since when any of those are good?
Immortality is only the solution when the game fails to proportionately "punish" the player, when all your blows are death blows and cheap kills then you may turn on god mode, but it will be boring.
And your son is an ass, Halo has co-op campaign, its a great trainer and builds team-ship.
More to the point, Halo games have an excellent campaign that can be played co-op, there is no reason to play the way that asshole son does.
It's not CP if the judge isn't aroused by it.
Damn I wish I had mod points for you, this IS THE WAY to advertise Linux/Open source. We should also use all the eco-anarcho-hippie angle, people think people don't like these ideas sharing and helping each other, we actually do, we just have become pretty cynic and skeptical about it, but I think people actually love it when they see it working.
We already have seem some ads like this for stuff like youtube and the zune.
Show people collaborating in a mural, the kids playing games, the young adults working in an open area meeting room then show *programmers* playing along and actually enabling these activities, thats about the clearest image of what the open culture is about.
Personally I think the year of Linux was two years ago when dapper came out, that release was perfect. It surpassed XP in ease of use, had GUIs for everything windows had as far as I'm concerned, it even had more hardware support that XP! Granted a new installation might to be tweaked but so might fresh installs of windows,
It has come to the point where the more exiting things about new releases are not something new in the desktop but consolidation and standardization in the backends.
Most of the cool things now happen in the user application space (which is good).
Except?
By that metric objective-c would be scientology, you have to pay large sums for the special equipment as well as the information about how to use it and it's followers worship their leader even though they admit he is only human.
I love Python and Humanism but calling Python Humanism sounds very biased.
Atheist of course The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a real God like Colonel Sanders.
It's blasphemous!
Just a wild thought but if the purpose of a bail out is to prevent the economic shock of an unemployment wave, shouldn't the government simply let the company go broke and sustain the fired employees on welfare? It would seem more efficient that way since you are eliminating the intermediary the industry.
In simplistic terms if a business came to me begging for money I'd assume they can't make it themselves. They are unprofitable, returning less than what they produce, in other words a resource sink.
Why do we want to sustain an unjustified industrial production? Why should we invest money in an unprofitable business? If the purpose is saving the hordes of unemployed workers, we can do that directly, can't we?
What's up with this indirect crap? Yes if we do that their jobs would be lost forever. but didn't this all begin because their jobs were unjustified? It seems to me everybody is planning for an economic up lift "if we got there once we will again" seems the common idea, "some day the economy is going to go up and when that happens *I* wont' be left behind".
Guess what? the future is not coming until we learn to deal with the present.
I rather the workers find new jobs and create new jobs with the money from the government. Meanwhile they'll be considered state workers, they could be used for all sorts of public work, paying back directly to the tax payers a.k.a. the people who ultimately payed for their bail out.
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But don't you agree that times have changed? The nature of libel what that some pertinent person talked ill and false about something in a prominent channel of media, example:
Fox News interviews the ex-wife of some rock star saying that his husband was abusive and violent.
Compare that to, some anonymous user in some obscure BBS says superman sucks.
Precisely because it is an anonymous source and because its hidden in some forum the damage caused by it is negligible. In fact he is causing himself more harm due Streisand's.
You may say the law is the law and technological progress doesn't affect it but consider the relation between SPAM and the first amendment.