> They're just a bunch of spoiled SF kids thinking they're activists. Real activists wouldn't let something like not having internet access during the protest get in their way.
I didn't understand what you meant by that?
It is an uttermost essential thing to have internet access, if anyone would try to take away that right, I would defend it with my own life.
Run your XP within e.g. virtualbox, then you can have it handy available whenever you may need it.
Don't allow the Linux system be kept as a system for the elite only.
Actually, I think it is better to say Gnome system , KDE system etc as most people think about the GUI anyway, and there are alternatives to GNU/Linux as the GNU/BSD and GNU/Hurd. And, you can even run KDE in the Windows environment. I'm running Gnome myself, most people I know run KDE though, and KDE is implemented with QT which I consider a better basis for GUI programming than GTK.
I don't think it necessarily need to be seen with such philosophical depth.
Most likely the universe from some aspect is a determinstic system, however this doesn't imply that anyone/anything can actually determine the outcome.
When I speak about free will I refer to a system which is capable of "sin" so to say, that is a system which is not prewired to follow certain rules. Consider that you build an expert system, and for every resolution being made you have to care for certain axioms not to be broken. A system with free will, from my perspective, just lacks these fundamental axioms.
The mere fact that I have my conscious experiences proves that they are real.
My will is free, at least how far I can tell from my own experience. This means that the algoritms implementing my mind either: 1) implement free will 2) make me believe that I have free will
The rest of you discussion is bullshit because it deals with potential properties of a deity, properties which are irrelevant for the discussion.
I was in a somewhat similar situation a few years ago, and I said no. In my case it was not as bad deal as for darkeye. I would have felt totally miserable if I would agree upon something like this.
I would say, convince the company that there is no way you can accept this contract. Probably you are also essential for the project. That is without you, no project.
As I consider the deal evil, darkeye can of course be evil back, to compensate, but I don't recommend it, as it could imply being sued later. Better to find another investor or simply get another job.
I agree that it's useful... Almost exactly the functionality they try to patent was a sub project in an EU-application we applied for 2007, which unfortunately wasn't accepted though.
It overlaps with a patent we applied for 2004, but we don't do the clustering in the same space. This method is anyway part of our business model. If we can not invalidate their patent it implies we have to cooperate...
"I have sold off most of my DVD collection on half.com, too. I don't know why I bought all those DVDs in the first place."
If I were you I would keep them, in the future they may be the only thing you can play. Blu-Ray is unsafe, it is full of DRM shit, which makes it an unsafe investement.
An investment in Blu-Ray is unsafe, as you can never know if you would safely be able to play your movies in the future.
All the DRM in Blu-Ray makes Blu-Ray an unsafe format. I want to be able to my disks on any player, any computer system, any time. With Blu-Ray I'm not even sure I would be able to play on the certfied players.
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You have completely forgotten to mention the ultimate reason for us Blu-Ray haters to hate Blu-Ray, it's named DRM, Digital Restrictions Management!
As long as there is DRM, Blu-Ray haters won't care about Blu-Ray.
I guess your point is by decreasing the price average Joe, who doesn't know about the DRM shit, will be fooled to buy Blu-Ray, and we Blu-Ray haters loose.
By the way, I think there is a correlation between Blu-Ray haters and Microsoft haters and quite likely also to what OS we prefer.
Most average Joe doesn't care about neither DRM (don't know what it is) or the increased resolution (DVDs good enough).
The people who care about the increased resolution is mainly us geeks, but as we don't buy that DRM shit it implies that no-one buys Blu-Ray.
I have several hundred (around 600) DVDs in my collection. I didn't bother with DVDs at all from the beginning due to the stupid region coding, bought my first player when I saw an ad for region free player 1998, but still didn't bother much due to the DRM, but later DeCSS arrived and I felt like DVDs would be a safe buy.
Blu-Ray contains a shitload of DRM garbage so there is quite unlikely that I could make a safe purchase. There are several systems which all need to be cracked before I would get the slightest interest in Blu-Ray.
If HD-DVD had been the elected format, then I would have invested, because that had mostly been made safe already (that is cracked) so it was useful, but those shitty Blu-Rays contains several layers of DRM shit more.
To save the Blu-Ray format, please remove the DRM, (and the stupid stupid region coding) otherwise put it up yours...
For an engineer, who was originally trained on a slide rule, 666 x 10^7 is as special as 666 x 10^-2 or whatever 666 x 10^n.
However, any measurement also has a certain accuracy, you can almost never measure anything exactly. Regarding people, even if in theory you could count each person when they are being borned or when they die, you would not know for sure how many they were at a precise moment. Regarding the population clock I just wonder how large this uncertainty is.
I still have karma to burn...
but I approve of anything that burns the karma of Micro$oft
as long as Micro$oft can not prove their not to be evil proposal
Microsoft has to start realizing that they should not be in the software business, they have been delaying the software development for almost two decades now. As you also proposed, killing literary may not be very efficient, and actually I consider Bill Gates himself to not be so bad. He is quite sympathetic compared to e.g. Steve Ballmer. Bill G. is clearly somewhat naive, but without doubt a smart business person. Microsoft need to act when they still have resources, and leave the software business. I intend to give them
an offer, about investing in new technologies, which they shouldn't be able to resist. Software, as we have seen, is not really their cup of tea. I was very pleased with the Lisa (before Mac) and my
Amigas I had in the 80ies. MS has not been able to make anything close to this and I refuse to run MS systems as they are so crappy. The problem is that MS has not realized that they can't make SW.
Not Microsoft, nor any other company nor any one else could cause me to trade my principles for any amount of money.
There is a world to be saved out there. To keep ones principles is the most important we can do. Principles are holy!
Microsoft has signed their own death sentence.
When DVDs were released some years ago I wasn't interrested in buying them at all. It was first when I could buy reliable regional free players I started buying DVDs. After DeCSS was released I became even more tempted to purchase (now I have about 300 DVDs in my library), just because I can trust them, and I will be able to play them for the rest of my life.
I used to buy CDs earlier, but nowadays, when they often use these obscure copy protection schemes I have stopped buying CDs completely. Only exception is when an artist is selling their own CDs, which are guaranteed not to be copy protected.
I simply don't accept that someone else is in control of what I'm buying./Mashiyach
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> They're just a bunch of spoiled SF kids thinking they're activists. Real activists wouldn't let something like not having internet access during the protest get in their way.
I didn't understand what you meant by that?
It is an uttermost essential thing to have internet access, if anyone would try to take away that right, I would defend it with my own life.
It's OK when then other companies compete with each other, but if they start to compete with Microsoft then it's unfair...
Their business model is not built upon competition, it's built upon killing competitors.
Do you consider dual booting not being an effort?
Run your XP within e.g. virtualbox, then you can have it handy available whenever you may need it.
Don't allow the Linux system be kept as a system for the elite only.
Actually, I think it is better to say Gnome system , KDE system etc as most people think about the GUI anyway, and there are alternatives to GNU/Linux as the GNU/BSD and GNU/Hurd. And, you can even run KDE in the Windows environment. I'm running Gnome myself, most people I know run KDE though, and KDE is implemented with QT which I consider a better basis for GUI programming than GTK.
I don't think it necessarily need to be seen with such philosophical depth.
Most likely the universe from some aspect is a determinstic system, however this doesn't imply that anyone/anything can actually determine the outcome.
When I speak about free will I refer to a system which is capable of "sin" so to say, that is a system which is not prewired to follow certain rules. Consider that you build an expert system, and for every resolution being made you have to care for certain axioms not to be broken. A system with free will, from my perspective, just lacks these fundamental axioms.
I have made an example here (an alter ego) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=456866&cid=22452670
The mere fact that I have my conscious experiences proves that they are real.
My will is free, at least how far I can tell from my own experience. This means that the algoritms implementing my mind either:
1) implement free will
2) make me believe that I have free will
The rest of you discussion is bullshit because it deals with potential properties of a deity, properties which are irrelevant for the discussion.
What kind of shit-site is linked to?
"Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on your computer's hardware or operating system. "
When going to that site http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/
it suggests Install Silverlight !
then when coming to http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?mode=sysreq&reason=unsupportedplatform
So those claiming that Silverlight were only needing JavaScript (Ajax) on the client-side were lying!
Kepp your shitty site!
Where are modpoints when you need them?
Consider yourself upmodded to +10 Insightful!
Money can not compensate!
I was in a somewhat similar situation a few years ago, and I said no. In my case it was not as bad deal as for darkeye. I would have felt totally miserable if I would agree upon something like this.
I would say, convince the company that there is no way you can accept this contract. Probably you are also essential for the project. That is without you, no project.
As I consider the deal evil, darkeye can of course be evil back, to compensate, but I don't recommend it, as it could imply being sued later. Better to find another investor or simply get another job.
fork? I would say it's more like making a knot of yourself.
It's useful. It's novel. It's non-obvious
I agree that it's useful...
Almost exactly the functionality they try to patent was a sub project in an EU-application we applied for 2007, which unfortunately wasn't accepted though.
It overlaps with a patent we applied for 2004, but we don't do the clustering in the same space. This method is anyway part of our business model. If we can not invalidate their patent it implies we have to cooperate...
So, you say that you found yourself "not buying anything on DVD and only buying my favorites on Blue"
So, this implies that you consider yourself as the average Joe User who doesn't care about DRM then?
"I have sold off most of my DVD collection on half.com, too. I don't know why I bought all those DVDs in the first place."
If I were you I would keep them, in the future they may be the only thing you can play. Blu-Ray is unsafe, it is full of DRM shit, which makes it an unsafe investement.
You seem not to care about the DRM shit.
An investment in Blu-Ray is unsafe, as you can never know if you would safely be able to play your movies in the future.
All the DRM in Blu-Ray makes Blu-Ray an unsafe format. I want to be able to my disks on any player, any computer system, any time. With Blu-Ray I'm not even sure I would be able to play on the certfied players.
You have completely forgotten to mention the ultimate reason for us Blu-Ray haters to hate Blu-Ray, it's named DRM, Digital Restrictions Management!
As long as there is DRM, Blu-Ray haters won't care about Blu-Ray.
I guess your point is by decreasing the price average Joe, who doesn't know about the DRM shit, will be fooled to buy Blu-Ray, and we Blu-Ray haters loose.
By the way, I think there is a correlation between Blu-Ray haters and Microsoft haters and quite likely also to what OS we prefer.
Most average Joe doesn't care about neither DRM (don't know what it is) or the increased resolution (DVDs good enough).
The people who care about the increased resolution is mainly us geeks, but as we don't buy that DRM shit it implies that no-one buys Blu-Ray.
I have several hundred (around 600) DVDs in my collection. I didn't bother with DVDs at all from the beginning due to the stupid region coding, bought my first player when I saw an ad for region free player 1998, but still didn't bother much due to the DRM, but later DeCSS arrived and I felt like DVDs would be a safe buy.
Blu-Ray contains a shitload of DRM garbage so there is quite unlikely that I could make a safe purchase. There are several systems which all need to be cracked before I would get the slightest interest in Blu-Ray.
If HD-DVD had been the elected format, then I would have invested, because that had mostly been made safe already (that is cracked) so it was useful, but those shitty Blu-Rays contains several layers of DRM shit more.
To save the Blu-Ray format, please remove the DRM, (and the stupid stupid region coding) otherwise put it up yours ...
href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone"
I loved that Double negation in the last row. My first thought was: "What, there is something the Iphone can do but the other can not?", but fortunately I was wrong, it was the opposite.
Sale of patents implies that someone without any activity in the area of the patent can become the patent owner.
A patent owner without activity in the area of the patent is often a patent troll.
Against patent trolls we need pesticide!
Sounds like you have never used a slide rule?
For an engineer, who was originally trained on a slide rule, 666 x 10^7 is as special as 666 x 10^-2 or whatever 666 x 10^n.
However, any measurement also has a certain accuracy, you can almost never measure anything exactly. Regarding people, even if in theory you could count each person when they are being borned or when they die, you would not know for sure how many they were at a precise moment. Regarding the population clock I just wonder how large this uncertainty is.
Anyone knows about the actual accuracy of the clock?
Mashiyach
PS: This is about the time people claim that this world, or at least this run, will end or change (parameter change?) significantly.
I still have karma to burn...
but I approve of anything that burns the karma of Micro$oft
as long as Micro$oft can not prove their not to be evil proposal
Microsoft has to start realizing that they should not be in the software business, they have been delaying the software development for almost two decades now. As you also proposed, killing literary may not be very efficient, and actually I consider Bill Gates himself to not be so bad. He is quite sympathetic compared to e.g. Steve Ballmer. Bill G. is clearly somewhat naive, but without doubt a smart business person. Microsoft need to act when they still have resources, and leave the software business. I intend to give them an offer, about investing in new technologies, which they shouldn't be able to resist. Software, as we have seen, is not really their cup of tea. I was very pleased with the Lisa (before Mac) and my Amigas I had in the 80ies. MS has not been able to make anything close to this and I refuse to run MS systems as they are so crappy. The problem is that MS has not realized that they can't make SW.
Not Microsoft, nor any other company nor any one else could cause me to trade my principles for any amount of money. There is a world to be saved out there. To keep ones principles is the most important we can do. Principles are holy! Microsoft has signed their own death sentence.
When DVDs were released some years ago I wasn't interrested in buying them at all. It was first when I could buy reliable regional free players I started buying DVDs. After DeCSS was released I became even more tempted to purchase (now I have about 300 DVDs in my library), just because I can trust them, and I will be able to play them for the rest of my life. I used to buy CDs earlier, but nowadays, when they often use these obscure copy protection schemes I have stopped buying CDs completely. Only exception is when an artist is selling their own CDs, which are guaranteed not to be copy protected. I simply don't accept that someone else is in control of what I'm buying. /Mashiyach