That's ridiculous. Do all Christians really want to stone rape victims? Of course not. So how is this different from Muslims? Just because the Quran has an offensive (or many offensive) passages doesn't mean most Muslims use that passage in their daily life.
Here's a newsflash: most people don't read their religious texts and live by them word for word (as if that was possible). In fact most people takes bits and pieces and effectively throw out the stuff they don't like. If you don't believe me, do a study on how many Catholic women have used birth control.
Uh they drove cars. They can have at 4 other members of the staff and they could even use these wild inventions called "cell phones" to teleconference with the rest. So ya that is cheaper than 20K round trip flight.
Oh I'm sure they might go out of business... and then someone else will buy their catalog with the intent of suing their way to profit.
They have literally billions of dollars of "property". It's not like if Warner Music goes out of business this all become public domain. Someone else will buy the catalog and try to make money through a similar combination of business methods, including lawsuits.
I know it's fashionable to be opposed to everything RIAA on Slashdot but what is it that the Slashdot/Techie/Geek community wants? I want a system where people are allowed to listen to the music they choose without being put at risk of severe civil/criminal punishment. It's hard to consider a system that would accomplish this without it being pretty close to this system. (short of eliminating copyright completely)
And yes this is not exactly what EFF proposed but at least we're in the same ballpark now. We can negotiate a solution that is acceptable to all stakeholders because of this. We should be celebrating that we've gotten this far instead of complaining that it's not perfect.
That may be true at certain levels (federal, and some state) at the local level, government spending cannot get much lower without reducing the quality of services. We have this debate every year where I live and every year some area is marked for budget cuts because taxes don't keep up with increased costs (particularly health care).
We've gotten to the point where one city is not plowing the roads until a snow storm is completely done with. In Wisconsin, where storms can last a few days and we almost never cancel school or work not plowing roads is incredibly dangerous. I hope that the citizens of this city will say enough is enough (since I have to drive through it everyday) but I'm not getting my hopes up.
The honest truth is people want services without needing to pay for them. Unfortunately governments don't have the ability to provide services for free as much as people would like it to be the case.
I agree with the siblings; find a better source if you're going to claim the DRM/HD video issue caused the graphics companies problems. I'm not saying it has nothing to do with the problems; I just don't have the evidence necessary to make that conclusion.
I also think the argument is tough to believe. You're claiming Microsoft, in order to help out the RIAA/MPAA, made it nearly impossible to write graphics drivers for their OS? Ya the DRM is fucking stupid but is there any evidence that engineers at Microsoft had any worries about how this would affect the quality of the system as a whole?
I had a card that came out about 6 months before Vista. I think the most likely reason why Nvidia doesn't care that much about the quality of my experience is that Nvidia would prefer for me to just buy a new video card.
I wish I had mod points to use on the parent. The GPU companies (emphasis on Nvidia though) knew the Vista driver model 18 months prior to its release and they still couldn't come up with decent drivers on time or ever two years later. I finally gave up on Nvidia's shitty drivers when a driver update in June caused all AVI files to skip when emule was open. Combine that with Nvidia refusing to implement DVD anti-aliasing on hardware for Vista (something that they have in the XP drivers) I had had enough being a free beta tester for Nvidia. My new ATI card works just fine and I don't have to install additional crapware for its drivers. I don't plan on ever going back to Nvidia.
gays were destroying the family. Oh wait, there must have been gays destroying the family back then too. Hmmm... But how could they? They can't reproduce. Oh I know, they recruited children... But the children here are dead so...
Can you catalogue any bugs in Windows that cause a piece of hardware to malfunction semi-permanently? This is a pretty serious issue even for an alpha. I hope Linus and crew reevaluate testing procedures to make sure this doesn't happen again. I can't say I'm hopeful about that though.
Wow, I guess I didn't know a Lotus was that small. Any idea on how much of a loss in fuel efficiency the Lotus would have with the extra 50-100 pounds?
I don't know what kind of change in fuel efficiency you get from 50-100lbs but I can't imagine it'd be more than a few miles per gallon if even that. It's only like putting an extra 8 year old in your car. (or do 8 year olds way more nowadays?)
Oh I totally agree. I think Apple is violating antitrust laws by using a monopoly in a market (iPods) to influence a separate market (iTunes software and store.
My comments were solely in regards to the parent comment.
They did choose to enforce copy protection. They don't have to make a music store with copy protection, the trade off though is that the big record companies might not sell their music on it.
Additionally, if Amazon can sell so much music without copy protection, why can't Apple do so now?
That's a reasonable concern but this is elementary and middle school. There are no class ranking concerns and I don't know if there's a need to do this. In high school though, your proposal makes more sense to me.
CBS News talked about a system in Dallas somewhat similar to what you suggested. The system says K-8 students can retake tests (and redo some homework I think). A bunch of parents went crazy saying they weren't teaching responsibility while the Administrator pointed out that they want kids to leave their system educated. If a child wants to learn and wants to learn enough that they'll take a test over, then I think its in everyone's best interest to teach them.
While I don't think our education system should totally ignore non-academic issues like responsibility, sharing and tolerance for others, I think its very reasonable for a school to focus on their primary goal of educating students.
liberal != Democrat... Not too many Democrats would go to a Republican event but there are liberals who might. I suppose starting wars with lies will get people pissed off at you in ways that negotiating with your enemies won't.
It passes the ACID 2 test on its default settings. I'm using it right now in fact (I like the IE RSS reader) and it actually renders Slashdot correctly. IE7 has been a disaster for the last few months on Slashdot. Not sure what changed but it didn't work at all.
Is it compliant with every single standard Firefox is? No. CSS Selectors I know is an area that still isn't up the standard. It is a lot closer than IE7 is though.
For you the answer to your problem was removing the OS. In the end though, isn't the company that made faulty/poorly updated CAD software the one who should be responsible for the quality of the software? Unless the OS is causing an unanticipated side effect, the responsibility for the quality of closed source software has to belong with the author.
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That's ridiculous. Do all Christians really want to stone rape victims? Of course not. So how is this different from Muslims? Just because the Quran has an offensive (or many offensive) passages doesn't mean most Muslims use that passage in their daily life.
Here's a newsflash: most people don't read their religious texts and live by them word for word (as if that was possible). In fact most people takes bits and pieces and effectively throw out the stuff they don't like. If you don't believe me, do a study on how many Catholic women have used birth control.
Uh they drove cars. They can have at 4 other members of the staff and they could even use these wild inventions called "cell phones" to teleconference with the rest. So ya that is cheaper than 20K round trip flight.
Oh I'm sure they might go out of business... and then someone else will buy their catalog with the intent of suing their way to profit.
They have literally billions of dollars of "property". It's not like if Warner Music goes out of business this all become public domain. Someone else will buy the catalog and try to make money through a similar combination of business methods, including lawsuits.
I know it's fashionable to be opposed to everything RIAA on Slashdot but what is it that the Slashdot/Techie/Geek community wants? I want a system where people are allowed to listen to the music they choose without being put at risk of severe civil/criminal punishment. It's hard to consider a system that would accomplish this without it being pretty close to this system. (short of eliminating copyright completely)
And yes this is not exactly what EFF proposed but at least we're in the same ballpark now. We can negotiate a solution that is acceptable to all stakeholders because of this. We should be celebrating that we've gotten this far instead of complaining that it's not perfect.
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That may be true at certain levels (federal, and some state) at the local level, government spending cannot get much lower without reducing the quality of services. We have this debate every year where I live and every year some area is marked for budget cuts because taxes don't keep up with increased costs (particularly health care).
We've gotten to the point where one city is not plowing the roads until a snow storm is completely done with. In Wisconsin, where storms can last a few days and we almost never cancel school or work not plowing roads is incredibly dangerous. I hope that the citizens of this city will say enough is enough (since I have to drive through it everyday) but I'm not getting my hopes up.
The honest truth is people want services without needing to pay for them. Unfortunately governments don't have the ability to provide services for free as much as people would like it to be the case.
I agree with the siblings; find a better source if you're going to claim the DRM/HD video issue caused the graphics companies problems. I'm not saying it has nothing to do with the problems; I just don't have the evidence necessary to make that conclusion.
I also think the argument is tough to believe. You're claiming Microsoft, in order to help out the RIAA/MPAA, made it nearly impossible to write graphics drivers for their OS? Ya the DRM is fucking stupid but is there any evidence that engineers at Microsoft had any worries about how this would affect the quality of the system as a whole?
I had a card that came out about 6 months before Vista. I think the most likely reason why Nvidia doesn't care that much about the quality of my experience is that Nvidia would prefer for me to just buy a new video card.
I wish I had mod points to use on the parent. The GPU companies (emphasis on Nvidia though) knew the Vista driver model 18 months prior to its release and they still couldn't come up with decent drivers on time or ever two years later. I finally gave up on Nvidia's shitty drivers when a driver update in June caused all AVI files to skip when emule was open. Combine that with Nvidia refusing to implement DVD anti-aliasing on hardware for Vista (something that they have in the XP drivers) I had had enough being a free beta tester for Nvidia. My new ATI card works just fine and I don't have to install additional crapware for its drivers. I don't plan on ever going back to Nvidia.
gays were destroying the family. Oh wait, there must have been gays destroying the family back then too. Hmmm... But how could they? They can't reproduce. Oh I know, they recruited children... But the children here are dead so...
Gays are the problem. Yep that's it.
Can you catalogue any bugs in Windows that cause a piece of hardware to malfunction semi-permanently? This is a pretty serious issue even for an alpha. I hope Linus and crew reevaluate testing procedures to make sure this doesn't happen again. I can't say I'm hopeful about that though.
Wow, I guess I didn't know a Lotus was that small. Any idea on how much of a loss in fuel efficiency the Lotus would have with the extra 50-100 pounds?
There is. That's why we have criminal prosecutions. What they were proposing was akin to the government paying for your personal injury lawsuit.
I don't know what kind of change in fuel efficiency you get from 50-100lbs but I can't imagine it'd be more than a few miles per gallon if even that. It's only like putting an extra 8 year old in your car. (or do 8 year olds way more nowadays?)
Oh I totally agree. I think Apple is violating antitrust laws by using a monopoly in a market (iPods) to influence a separate market (iTunes software and store.
My comments were solely in regards to the parent comment.
They did choose to enforce copy protection. They don't have to make a music store with copy protection, the trade off though is that the big record companies might not sell their music on it.
Additionally, if Amazon can sell so much music without copy protection, why can't Apple do so now?
That's a reasonable concern but this is elementary and middle school. There are no class ranking concerns and I don't know if there's a need to do this. In high school though, your proposal makes more sense to me.
CBS News talked about a system in Dallas somewhat similar to what you suggested. The system says K-8 students can retake tests (and redo some homework I think). A bunch of parents went crazy saying they weren't teaching responsibility while the Administrator pointed out that they want kids to leave their system educated. If a child wants to learn and wants to learn enough that they'll take a test over, then I think its in everyone's best interest to teach them.
While I don't think our education system should totally ignore non-academic issues like responsibility, sharing and tolerance for others, I think its very reasonable for a school to focus on their primary goal of educating students.
Didn't Reagan negotiate the IRM treaty with the Soviet Union? Or is that part of the Reagan hagiography ignored when it's politically useful?
liberal != Democrat... Not too many Democrats would go to a Republican event but there are liberals who might. I suppose starting wars with lies will get people pissed off at you in ways that negotiating with your enemies won't.
Ya that's not how EOT works. But you're happy with your assumption so good for you!
It passes the ACID 2 test on its default settings. I'm using it right now in fact (I like the IE RSS reader) and it actually renders Slashdot correctly. IE7 has been a disaster for the last few months on Slashdot. Not sure what changed but it didn't work at all.
Is it compliant with every single standard Firefox is? No. CSS Selectors I know is an area that still isn't up the standard. It is a lot closer than IE7 is though.
At the time Obama bought the property from the "convicted felon" wasn't a felon.
If the CAD program works correctly in XP but doesn't work in Vista because of a documented change then it's the CAD program's fault.
For you the answer to your problem was removing the OS. In the end though, isn't the company that made faulty/poorly updated CAD software the one who should be responsible for the quality of the software? Unless the OS is causing an unanticipated side effect, the responsibility for the quality of closed source software has to belong with the author.
That's a pretty significant difference. These people were looking to engage in legal sexual activity.
That said I think "To Catch a Predator" is a pretty disgusting piece of television trash anyways.