Linux is a copy of Unix. Even Frozen Bubble is a copy of Puzzle Bobble! They couldn't come up with their own puzzle game??
Most commercial products are clones, too, even the successful ones. Every Unix-based operating system around is a "copy of Unix". Linux and BSD are more scalable than any other Unix that I know of; they can run on a huge number of architectures, they can be embedded, and they're the best OSes for webservers that I know of (Solaris is great too, but hey, it's now open source as well). Complaining about Frozen Bubble being a clone is ridiculous, considering it's just a timewaster included for entertainment; that's like complaining that Microsoft didn't make up their own card game instead of using Solitaire.
COM, Java, Civilization -- those were innovative..NET, Emacs, Populous -- those I'd call incrementally innovative, not big paradigm shifts but definitely 'new content'. The OSS clone that currently seems to have to exist behind (usually about 2-3 versions behind) every successful piece of large scale commercial software -- not innovative. Useful, sure. Worth working on, sure. But innovation is where you do something _new_.
I see you managed not to mention Apache and Firefox, which doesn't surprise me. Apache was the first webserver that I really consider "usable", and still holds the majority of that market. Firefox innovated after MS declared IE "mature" and stopped updating it, finally forcing them to work on it again.
Yeah, blah blah blah, linux has more innovation in its little finger that Microsoft has in its whole bloated body, I'm a troll, etc etc.
I don't think you're a troll, but you seem to be ignoring whatever doesn't fit your view.
Considering what most guest speakers want, that's incredibly light.
"If I am asked for a credit card at checkin time, you have screwed up. Don't screw up, or I won't come back."
Prima donna.
Someone "screwed up" like this with me once and caused me one hell of a lot of hassle. I certainly don't blame him for this policy.
"I don't have a secretary, I don't have a staff. There's just me, and seemingly half the population of the planet wants a piece of my time."
I've heard this at some point from half the people I know. It hardly makes someone "arrogant" to be frustrated when a lot of people want their attention at once.
Isn't that the tactic that the Church of Scientology uses to shut up its critics? Using copyright law to prevent critical discussion of their materials?
I don't think that copyright is the issue here, though; court records and submitted evidence wouldn't be covered by that, if I understand correctly.
The company in this case isn't being asked to physically fix every installation. People just want them to make a patch available. The guys at the dealership would be more like a tech who's paid to go around and apply the patch.
Rules should be enforced to prevent wrong doing rather than punishing for it. MS throwing a huge amount of money into a settlement does very little to help anyone and does no more to rectify a wrong (prehaps less) than jailing a murderer.
How on earth are you going to "enforce rules to prevent wrong" without using punishment methods? You don't execute or jail a murderer in order to resurrect the people he killed; you execute/imprison him so that 1. he's unable to kill any more and 2. others are less likely to murder because they don't want to be imprisoned/executed.
The problem here is that the criminal can shrug off the penalty. If they fined MS, say, ten billion dollars that had to be paid in cash (not worthless coupons), it WOULD have an effect on the company's future behavior because they would have to straighten up or die (which would leave them unable to commit further crimes).
Racism is inevitable. The only why to achieve peace in the world is if everybody looked/thought/acting all in the same manner.
If that happens, I won't really care who lives or dies, since there won't be any humans left. Even biologically speaking, there won't be, because you'd have to literally rewire their brains to work the same way. What the hell would the point of peace be?
Culture or race has nothing to do with which game I buy. If its fun then I like it. Its fucking stupid to even mention race as being a determining factor in playing a game. Anybody that only plays games that meet their culture should all be lined up and "shot".
*Racism and religion keep us in the dark age*
I always thought it was blind totalitarianism and insistence that everyone else be like one's self.
This reminds of me of Kratos, from God of War. I know that he's "spartan", and all, but from the way they designed the character, both in appearance and voice, I always thought he seemed more like a black guy than a white guy. And since his skin was covered in ash to make him perma-pale, it made it even harder to be sure, for lots of the game. At least, in my opinion. Maybe others dont agree.
I'm not sure where you get that; he didn't sound or act "black" to me at all. If anything, Kratos' stereotype was "primal badass" (think Conan the Barbarian). Black primal badasses in movies, games, and books tend to have African accents and talk about "the land" and "their people" (most likely because authors tend to use them to make a different point); Kratos was more egocentric.
I had more fun playing the GLA and China in C&C Generals than I did the US, despite them being stereotypical and "evil", in a fashion. They had units I could devise more "fun" strategies with, instead of just rushing to aircraft and bombing the hell out of everything.
I don't see any point to having different races if they're all going to act the same way. Unless the character is stereotyped in a way that I feel is insulting (which happens more often with whites than anything else), I don't have a problem with it.
And the people who complain about parallels between fantasy races and real-world cultures (oh noes, the trolls have Jamaican accents!) can sod off. You have to get your material from somewhere.
>>I know everyone is going to side with Indonesia...in fact, I think they should do what they need to do in order to secure their own access to medicines derived from the samples they give. However, if it were the U.S holding virus samples hostage for its own benefit, people would be calling for blood.
Another perfect example of hypocrisy. People want everything equal until someone or something they don't like gets to exercise the same equality.
Most of the posters siding with Indonesia seem to be claiming that it's retaliatory, actually (though I don't see anything in the article or the spokeswoman's statements suggesting that). Retaliating against an action with a similar action isn't hypocrisy.
1. They use teeth for that. 2. You could make the decision to keep a DNA sample without the government passing a law that required it. 3. There's a snowball's chance in hell of getting mutilated that badly. 4. Being recognizable after death (or others being recognizable to me) is not important enough to me to get me to hand over DNA samples to the government.
"Incorrect answer: websites Correct answer: Web sites"
That sort of thing happens on any Blackboard "online exam" that isn't purely multiple choice. And then each student has to email the teacher to get it fixed, and hope that he/she is actually paying enough attention to the online class to notice.
"And just how is that different from right now? Well, except that all those guns don't seem to be helping anyone even in the slightest. Moreover, just who do you plan to shoot, anyhow? Unless there's an organized military force at your doorstep, exactly what CAN you do that wouldn't involve murdering innocent people?"
a. If people show up to arrest you now, you have a good shot at taking at least one or two of them down with you.
b. The corrupt politicians and anyone who's protecting them.
c. Shoot the corrupt politicians and anyone who's protecting them.
1. These aren't cops, or law enforcement of any kind. 2. If you put your own car out by the road with a "free car" sign on it, you can't accuse someone who takes it of GTA. 3. If the cops actually plant a "fake car" like you describe, the perpetrator is not guilty of Grand Theft Auto, as no car has been taken.
Offering someone a Bible isn't forcing anything down their throat, and neither is giving them a LiveCD. Do you seriously feel oppressed when a Jehovah's Witness/Mormon/PETA member tries to hand you a pamphlet?
The US army probably loses many more than 4 people a month to accidents in peacetime. The Iraqis aren't defeating the US troops militarily; the US is defeating itself politically.
The smart thing to have done would have been to leave Iraq completely shortly after capturing Hussein, turn him over to be executed, and to let the various Iraqi factions kill each other to their hearts content. Instead, Bush chose to keep troops there "until the nation was stable". Big mistake.
If you're going to forcibly stabilize another country (which I don't recommend), you have to actually be FORCEFUL. That means eliminating whomever opposes you quickly and decisively, shrugging off civilian casualties and international opinion. Right now, the US is trying to do it "nicely", which simply doesn't work. The different factions just laugh at the US soldiers knowing that they aren't authorized to do anything that will really have an effect, or even effectively defend themselves.
Whenever US troops do take a major action, civilians are killed and citizens are horrified. Occasionally a few soldiers get pissed, go crazy, and kill innocents, and citizens are horrified. It's like fighting a small dog. You can easily kill it, but everyone will hate you for doing it. You can try to capture it without hurting it, but you'll get bitten a lot and everyone will laugh their ass off at you.
"You think people who use Debian for web servers would go out and get a different disro just to run mail servers, ftp servers, DNS, firewall, etc.?"
I don't think most Linux users run a web server, though they have the capability. And yes, many people use more than one distro, using stable distros on servers and up-to-date and easy-to-use distros on the desktop. You won't see many Ubuntu webservers, for example, despite it having a large amount of the Linux userbase.
Personally, I've had more questions about how to use Distance Learning software from teachers than students. Most of the students have at least a decent amount of Internet experience and understand how to upload a file or post on a web forum; even someone who spends all day playing Quake or posting on MySpace will pick that up.
Many of the teachers (generally in English or Social Studies), on the other hand, have trouble with even the most basic functions. Worse, they often blame their students (or the software, of course) for their own mistakes.
I tried to view the sample questions on their site, but I couldn't...Despite the fact that I have Flash 9, it kept trying to redirect me to "get flash". I'll have to see at least a few of the examples before I regard this study as authoritative.
A study done by PB Inc has found that 92% of Americans have trouble determining if surveys and studies are trustworthy, a figure that has tripled in the past six months.
I can't read Chinese, so I really can't go check this myself. How accurate is the Chinese version of Wikipedia in respect to events and topics China's government sees as threatening? Do "Party-approved" versions of articles win edit wars over other ones?
TFA doesn't compare UNIX's backwards compatibility to Windows', or even mention UNIX. It was just an explanation of why the author (not the submitter) feels backwards compatibility is important.
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Most commercial products are clones, too, even the successful ones. Every Unix-based operating system around is a "copy of Unix". Linux and BSD are more scalable than any other Unix that I know of; they can run on a huge number of architectures, they can be embedded, and they're the best OSes for webservers that I know of (Solaris is great too, but hey, it's now open source as well). Complaining about Frozen Bubble being a clone is ridiculous, considering it's just a timewaster included for entertainment; that's like complaining that Microsoft didn't make up their own card game instead of using Solitaire.
I see you managed not to mention Apache and Firefox, which doesn't surprise me. Apache was the first webserver that I really consider "usable", and still holds the majority of that market. Firefox innovated after MS declared IE "mature" and stopped updating it, finally forcing them to work on it again.
I don't think you're a troll, but you seem to be ignoring whatever doesn't fit your view.
Someone "screwed up" like this with me once and caused me one hell of a lot of hassle. I certainly don't blame him for this policy.
I've heard this at some point from half the people I know. It hardly makes someone "arrogant" to be frustrated when a lot of people want their attention at once.
Isn't that the tactic that the Church of Scientology uses to shut up its critics? Using copyright law to prevent critical discussion of their materials?
I don't think that copyright is the issue here, though; court records and submitted evidence wouldn't be covered by that, if I understand correctly.
Which is really twisted, considering that guilt is something that (supposedly)has to be proven...
The company in this case isn't being asked to physically fix every installation. People just want them to make a patch available. The guys at the dealership would be more like a tech who's paid to go around and apply the patch.
How on earth are you going to "enforce rules to prevent wrong" without using punishment methods? You don't execute or jail a murderer in order to resurrect the people he killed; you execute/imprison him so that 1. he's unable to kill any more and 2. others are less likely to murder because they don't want to be imprisoned/executed.
The problem here is that the criminal can shrug off the penalty. If they fined MS, say, ten billion dollars that had to be paid in cash (not worthless coupons), it WOULD have an effect on the company's future behavior because they would have to straighten up or die (which would leave them unable to commit further crimes).
Well, "rouge" states do tend to be more obsessed with IP rights.
Lawyers, unfortunately, are pretty much omnipresent.
I'm not sure where you get that; he didn't sound or act "black" to me at all. If anything, Kratos' stereotype was "primal badass" (think Conan the Barbarian). Black primal badasses in movies, games, and books tend to have African accents and talk about "the land" and "their people" (most likely because authors tend to use them to make a different point); Kratos was more egocentric.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
I had more fun playing the GLA and China in C&C Generals than I did the US, despite them being stereotypical and "evil", in a fashion. They had units I could devise more "fun" strategies with, instead of just rushing to aircraft and bombing the hell out of everything.
I don't see any point to having different races if they're all going to act the same way. Unless the character is stereotyped in a way that I feel is insulting (which happens more often with whites than anything else), I don't have a problem with it.
And the people who complain about parallels between fantasy races and real-world cultures (oh noes, the trolls have Jamaican accents!) can sod off. You have to get your material from somewhere.
>>I know everyone is going to side with Indonesia...in fact, I think they should do what they need to do in order to secure their own access to medicines derived from the samples they give. However, if it were the U.S holding virus samples hostage for its own benefit, people would be calling for blood.
Another perfect example of hypocrisy. People want everything equal until someone or something they don't like gets to exercise the same equality.
Most of the posters siding with Indonesia seem to be claiming that it's retaliatory, actually (though I don't see anything in the article or the spokeswoman's statements suggesting that). Retaliating against an action with a similar action isn't hypocrisy.
1. They use teeth for that.
2. You could make the decision to keep a DNA sample without the government passing a law that required it.
3. There's a snowball's chance in hell of getting mutilated that badly.
4. Being recognizable after death (or others being recognizable to me) is not important enough to me to get me to hand over DNA samples to the government.
My personal (anti)favorite:
"Incorrect answer: websites
Correct answer: Web sites"
That sort of thing happens on any Blackboard "online exam" that isn't purely multiple choice. And then each student has to email the teacher to get it fixed, and hope that he/she is actually paying enough attention to the online class to notice.
"And just how is that different from right now? Well, except that all those guns don't seem to be helping anyone even in the slightest. Moreover, just who do you plan to shoot, anyhow? Unless there's an organized military force at your doorstep, exactly what CAN you do that wouldn't involve murdering innocent people?"
a. If people show up to arrest you now, you have a good shot at taking at least one or two of them down with you.
b. The corrupt politicians and anyone who's protecting them.
c. Shoot the corrupt politicians and anyone who's protecting them.
1. These aren't cops, or law enforcement of any kind.
2. If you put your own car out by the road with a "free car" sign on it, you can't accuse someone who takes it of GTA.
3. If the cops actually plant a "fake car" like you describe, the perpetrator is not guilty of Grand Theft Auto, as no car has been taken.
Offering someone a Bible isn't forcing anything down their throat, and neither is giving them a LiveCD. Do you seriously feel oppressed when a Jehovah's Witness/Mormon/PETA member tries to hand you a pamphlet?
The US army probably loses many more than 4 people a month to accidents in peacetime. The Iraqis aren't defeating the US troops militarily; the US is defeating itself politically.
The smart thing to have done would have been to leave Iraq completely shortly after capturing Hussein, turn him over to be executed, and to let the various Iraqi factions kill each other to their hearts content. Instead, Bush chose to keep troops there "until the nation was stable". Big mistake.
If you're going to forcibly stabilize another country (which I don't recommend), you have to actually be FORCEFUL. That means eliminating whomever opposes you quickly and decisively, shrugging off civilian casualties and international opinion. Right now, the US is trying to do it "nicely", which simply doesn't work. The different factions just laugh at the US soldiers knowing that they aren't authorized to do anything that will really have an effect, or even effectively defend themselves.
Whenever US troops do take a major action, civilians are killed and citizens are horrified. Occasionally a few soldiers get pissed, go crazy, and kill innocents, and citizens are horrified. It's like fighting a small dog. You can easily kill it, but everyone will hate you for doing it. You can try to capture it without hurting it, but you'll get bitten a lot and everyone will laugh their ass off at you.
"You think people who use Debian for web servers would go out and get a different disro just to run mail servers, ftp servers, DNS, firewall, etc.?"
I don't think most Linux users run a web server, though they have the capability. And yes, many people use more than one distro, using stable distros on servers and up-to-date and easy-to-use distros on the desktop. You won't see many Ubuntu webservers, for example, despite it having a large amount of the Linux userbase.
That chart is only for webservers. Debian has nowhere near that much of the Linux market overall, though distros derived from it might.
Personally, I've had more questions about how to use Distance Learning software from teachers than students. Most of the students have at least a decent amount of Internet experience and understand how to upload a file or post on a web forum; even someone who spends all day playing Quake or posting on MySpace will pick that up.
Many of the teachers (generally in English or Social Studies), on the other hand, have trouble with even the most basic functions. Worse, they often blame their students (or the software, of course) for their own mistakes.
I tried to view the sample questions on their site, but I couldn't...Despite the fact that I have Flash 9, it kept trying to redirect me to "get flash". I'll have to see at least a few of the examples before I regard this study as authoritative.
A study done by PB Inc has found that 92% of Americans have trouble determining if surveys and studies are trustworthy, a figure that has tripled in the past six months.
I can't read Chinese, so I really can't go check this myself. How accurate is the Chinese version of Wikipedia in respect to events and topics China's government sees as threatening? Do "Party-approved" versions of articles win edit wars over other ones?
TFA doesn't compare UNIX's backwards compatibility to Windows', or even mention UNIX. It was just an explanation of why the author (not the submitter) feels backwards compatibility is important.