Well, the smarter move would be to address the MPAA members one at a time. Make it clear to Universal, that they, and only they will be removed from the internet if they don't leave the MPAA and start making public statements condemning it. Then as they break each member, they move on to the next. Pick off the weakest of the heard one at a time.
No doubt that is closer to what happened with MS. Once it started becoming clear that MS had maxed out, Gates started talking about leaving. When things started getting worse, Gates distanced himself from MS more. I don't think Gates had any better idea on how to transition to a mature company than Ballamer. I think he was just aware enough that he could bail before things got really ugly.
The biggest mistake concerning XBox was that they didn't PC it enough. They started out right by making it an x86 system running basically NT. If MS had sold a $30 wireless keyboard/mouse combo, made sure there was at least 1 or 2 must have games required it, and got a few targeted PC applications ported, they could have turned the huge consumer desktop market into an even bigger money machine. What do most people use their PC for. Web browsing, word processing, Quicken, Turbo Tax, maybe a spreadsheet here and there, photo editing, desktop publishing, and maybe a spreadsheet or two. Not much more. MS makes half of these in house already. If MS had ported their key apps, and gotten Quicken and Turbo Tax on the XBox with a keyboard and mouse, they would have converted most home PC systems to consoles. This would allow them to collect fees on every piece of software sold for the home computer market. They would never be able to make that transition with traditional windows. If MS tried to charge software makers for every copy of their software that was sold for the desktop, they would have a revolt on their hands. Then the whole monopoly issue would resurface. The console market on the other hand, has a long history of monopoly lock in, and it is staunchly defended by the very people it abuses.
No, there is not a wide gulf between them. Parents are being told by the government, and health care industry that they will be murdering their children if they don't get a medical procedure that INCREASES their chance of dying. How you consider that better than one man faking a study over a decade ago is astounding. Tens of thousands of kids every year are being subjected to an unnecessary medical procedure that increases their chances of dying of the disease the medical procedure is claiming to protect them from. How you can not call that criminal fraud, is beyond me.
I'm not going to defend Wakefield, but the only fraud I have seen from concerning him was concerning a faked study to discredit a single vaccine. This loses much of it's "evil" points due to the fact that there are other vaccine formulations to vaccinate against the same diseases that were not part of the discrediting attempt.
Whereas the chicken pox vaccine is being is being widely injected into most of the US's children. For the subset of the population that is leery of vaccines in general, the chicken pox vaccine being universally recommended is at least as damaging as the Wakefield 'study'.
Your argument implies that fraud by an individual is worse than fraud by an entire industry.
Amazing is right. They can even do voice. Voice that can connect to telephones in other areas. Switching this to broadband makes complete sense, as doing it will not even slow down the previous efforts. Anywhere they get broadband access, they inherently get telephone access.
Yes, it is still a cage, but contrary to what literature would have you believe, an awful large percentage of people would be perfectly happy living in a cage as long as it is comfortable. It is also very difficult to convince people that you have been mistreated, and that they should be willing to lay down their lives for your cause, when you have been living that last 5 years at a quality of life that they could only dream of.
Fair enough, but that won't work on Windows and I want to do it without having to go in and edit config files. Modern OSes already have mechanisms to set the default behavior of inserted media. Having that simple UI that already exists also handle authorizing specific media shouldn't be asking too much.
Well, it would take weeks to log all of the people who think all vaccines are inherently good, so I just scrolled up a bit, and found some idiot suggesting that they are so good, the should be required by law.
The reason I put the word "study" in quotes is because that is what it was called when it was presented, yet it was not properly done. Useing quotes around words that have described something, when the discription isn't really valid is common in the English language, and I believe you are well aware of this. Fraud in "studies" is common fare, as is committing the fraud for lots of money.
The pro-vaccine groups are causing as much damage, if not more than the anti-vaccine groups. They are also as confused. You say in your very own post that Wakefield did not say that "Vaccines are bad". In fact, you claim that Wakefield was pro-vaccine. Yet you somehow come to the conclusion that his is to blame for the whole mess.
Clearly his position was misrepresented, as he clearly wanted kids to get vaccinations. He just wanted them to get HIS vaccination. So, while the anti-vaccine folks have misrepresented what he said, causing a great deal of harm, you too are guilty of misrepresenting what he said, and contributing to that harm.
Well, except maybe child custody - our justice system almost invariably chooses the mother in the case of a separation, which is unfortunate. But I'd say that's not a case of misandry but on the contrary: the outdated view that the woman is who should take care of the children.
You explicitly describe a very serious case of misandy. Perhaps the absolute worst that can be commited against a man, and then say, "But I'd say that's not a case of misandry" and make an excuse for it.
Putting a kid in a machine known to kill thousands every year is not an accident. When you put your kid in your car and pull out into the road, you are fully aware that someone is going to die that day in a car 'accident'. You just make a judgement that the reward of going to the park, or getting your fancy drink at Starbucks, outweighs the risk of it being your kid that gets smeared across the road. The same applies to vaccines. Approximatly 100 people died each year from chicken pox prior to the vaccine. Approximately 40,000 people die each year from auto accidents. 99.9% of all auto related deaths are preventable. No one tries to die in a car crash, but they know that if they drive/ride in a car, that it very well may happen. The same goes for getting the chicken pox. No one plans to die from it, but they know it could happen. The difference is that taking that trip to the movie theater is 400 TIMES more likely to kill your child than skipping the chicken pox vaccine.
Claiming that choosing to put your kid in a car and them dying from that action is and 'Accident', but choosing to skip the chicken pox vaccine and them dying from it is 'abuse' is ridiculous.
Every time I read a story about technological advancement in some [non friendly to the US] nation it's always portrayed in the light of "Oh crap, dirty brown people are getting their hands on technology OMFG THEY'RE GONNA NUKE US"
If you didn't start your post declaring that you are a total racist, you could be taken a lot more seriously. I know it is hip to claim that the only reason we have a problem with anyone in the middle east is because "they are brown", but that doesn't cut it. The only way you could possibly think that it has anything to do with race is if you forget that the USSR was the big bad boogie man throughout the cold war. You would also have to forget that China is quickly growing to be considered a serious threat as well.
Open your eyes, and see that not everyone is as much of a racist as you are. Sometimes people hate other people for reasons other than the color of their skin.
The choice I want is to be able to authorize that specific USB device to autorun from now on. I don't want all USB devices to be able to execute files, but I do want to be able to have specific one do it.
I hate to say it, and I haven't thought it out well, so pick apart at will, but one way out may be to make it as absolutly pleasent as is humanly possible. Don't let them go, but make it as posh as possible with people waiting on the prisoners hand and foot. After a short time, let them have visitors, and treat the visitors like honored guests. It will still be a cage, but it would be a lot harder for them to gain support for their mistreatment when that mistreatment ended with many years of finely decorated appartments, fine food from private chefs, nice comfortable clothing, access to the best media of their choice, hot tubs and massages.
In my household we have had myTouch 3G, Nexus One, G2, gTablet, iPhone3G (for development at work), and a iPod Touch. The myTouch 3G's were a little underpowered for the OS. This made them feel a little kludgy. Not a lot, but it was there. The iPhone3G ran a little smoother. I still prefered the myTouch, as it was more configurable. Between that, and my dislike of iPhone's closed ecosystem, I stuck with lived with the device being a little underpowered for the OS. Once I got my Nexus One, the iPhone no longer even registered as a viable option. The Nexus One was superior in every way. The only complaint I had with it was the lack of physical keyboard, but that wasn't going to be solved with an iPhone. (actually, there are now third party add ons for that). My wife had a myTouch also, and she insisted on using the iPod for playing music, but was not interested at all in getting an iPhone instead of her myTouch. The reason she used the iPod for music, was because it was a reasonably good interface, and it was not running on the same battery as her phone. She liked knowing that she could run her music player's battery all the way down, and not have to worry about missing calls. Last week she got a HTC G2, and she has been telling me that every one of her complaints with her previous phone have been resolved, and the G2 is better than she could have hoped for. The fact that she can wirelessly sync her music from her PC to her phone is a particularly big deal to her. At this point, her phone is no longer an accessory to her computer. It is a full fledged peer on the network.
I have to say, I am a little jealous. I definitly have keyboard envy. I think I might upgrade to the G2, and pass my Nexus One on to my son.
That is the double edged sword of the more open development environment. For Apple, they would have just not shipped the update to anyone until they could ship it to everyone. With Android, it gets shipped as it gets when it is ready for each device. I can see a complaint if your phone is still on 1.6, but complaining that your phone is not yet on Gingerbread is as more a complaint that someone else got it first than it is a complaint that you don't have it yet.
I do have a Nexus One. Well... I did until I dropped it 5 feet onto a hard tile floor and shattered the screen. Now I am waiting to see if it can be fixed so, maybe I have a Nexus One. Anyway, it doesn't bother me in the slightest that I don't have Gingerbread yet. I am anxious to get it, as I updated my Viewsonic gTablet to Gingerbread, and there are a few enhancements that I am looking forward to, but if Google had just not released it to anyone until I could get it too, it wouldn't help me at all. In fact, it would have just prevented me from updating my tablet that is running Cyanogen.
Number 4 is unfair, as the whole I pad is a specialized piece of hardware. The fact that desktop/laptops are far more modular is a plus, not a minus.
Let me add a replacement though...
New 4) Home automation screen.
Yes, semi-niche, but less so than trying to use it as a musical instrument. A home automation touchscreen interface is basically a glorified web browser. These things tended to cost more than a $1k, but if you wanted a screen mounted on your wall for your system, that is what you had to pay. Even the lowliest of the tablets available have a web browser on them, and are plenty thin enough to mount on a wall.
I don't know where you live, but here in the US, misandry is standard fare. From our criminal justice system, to our family law, to our media, to our job opportunities. Yes, many people that are abused believe thay deserve it. Just look through the threads on this story. There are plenty of posts from men talking about how inferior men are.
Actually, I know that where you live, misandry exists, because you have expressed your misandy view right her on Slashdot, and since you obviously live where you live, it must exist there. And as I predicted, you did rationalize why your misandry is OK.
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Well, the smarter move would be to address the MPAA members one at a time. Make it clear to Universal, that they, and only they will be removed from the internet if they don't leave the MPAA and start making public statements condemning it. Then as they break each member, they move on to the next. Pick off the weakest of the heard one at a time.
So, 15 years after he said something monumentally stupid, he denies saying it.
Heck, if would have been even cooler if they didn't move a single foot.
No doubt that is closer to what happened with MS. Once it started becoming clear that MS had maxed out, Gates started talking about leaving. When things started getting worse, Gates distanced himself from MS more. I don't think Gates had any better idea on how to transition to a mature company than Ballamer. I think he was just aware enough that he could bail before things got really ugly.
The biggest mistake concerning XBox was that they didn't PC it enough. They started out right by making it an x86 system running basically NT. If MS had sold a $30 wireless keyboard/mouse combo, made sure there was at least 1 or 2 must have games required it, and got a few targeted PC applications ported, they could have turned the huge consumer desktop market into an even bigger money machine. What do most people use their PC for. Web browsing, word processing, Quicken, Turbo Tax, maybe a spreadsheet here and there, photo editing, desktop publishing, and maybe a spreadsheet or two. Not much more. MS makes half of these in house already. If MS had ported their key apps, and gotten Quicken and Turbo Tax on the XBox with a keyboard and mouse, they would have converted most home PC systems to consoles. This would allow them to collect fees on every piece of software sold for the home computer market. They would never be able to make that transition with traditional windows. If MS tried to charge software makers for every copy of their software that was sold for the desktop, they would have a revolt on their hands. Then the whole monopoly issue would resurface. The console market on the other hand, has a long history of monopoly lock in, and it is staunchly defended by the very people it abuses.
No, there is not a wide gulf between them. Parents are being told by the government, and health care industry that they will be murdering their children if they don't get a medical procedure that INCREASES their chance of dying. How you consider that better than one man faking a study over a decade ago is astounding. Tens of thousands of kids every year are being subjected to an unnecessary medical procedure that increases their chances of dying of the disease the medical procedure is claiming to protect them from. How you can not call that criminal fraud, is beyond me.
I'm not going to defend Wakefield, but the only fraud I have seen from concerning him was concerning a faked study to discredit a single vaccine. This loses much of it's "evil" points due to the fact that there are other vaccine formulations to vaccinate against the same diseases that were not part of the discrediting attempt.
Whereas the chicken pox vaccine is being is being widely injected into most of the US's children. For the subset of the population that is leery of vaccines in general, the chicken pox vaccine being universally recommended is at least as damaging as the Wakefield 'study'.
Your argument implies that fraud by an individual is worse than fraud by an entire industry.
Amazing is right. They can even do voice. Voice that can connect to telephones in other areas. Switching this to broadband makes complete sense, as doing it will not even slow down the previous efforts. Anywhere they get broadband access, they inherently get telephone access.
I don't think that middle class living conditions would cause free people to mock a prisoner, but living like a king just might.
Yes, it is still a cage, but contrary to what literature would have you believe, an awful large percentage of people would be perfectly happy living in a cage as long as it is comfortable. It is also very difficult to convince people that you have been mistreated, and that they should be willing to lay down their lives for your cause, when you have been living that last 5 years at a quality of life that they could only dream of.
I'm not sure if that is sarcasm or irony.
Fair enough, but that won't work on Windows and I want to do it without having to go in and edit config files. Modern OSes already have mechanisms to set the default behavior of inserted media. Having that simple UI that already exists also handle authorizing specific media shouldn't be asking too much.
Well, it would take weeks to log all of the people who think all vaccines are inherently good, so I just scrolled up a bit, and found some idiot suggesting that they are so good, the should be required by law.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1982308&cid=35118588
The reason I put the word "study" in quotes is because that is what it was called when it was presented, yet it was not properly done. Useing quotes around words that have described something, when the discription isn't really valid is common in the English language, and I believe you are well aware of this. Fraud in "studies" is common fare, as is committing the fraud for lots of money.
The pro-vaccine groups are causing as much damage, if not more than the anti-vaccine groups. They are also as confused. You say in your very own post that Wakefield did not say that "Vaccines are bad". In fact, you claim that Wakefield was pro-vaccine. Yet you somehow come to the conclusion that his is to blame for the whole mess.
Clearly his position was misrepresented, as he clearly wanted kids to get vaccinations. He just wanted them to get HIS vaccination. So, while the anti-vaccine folks have misrepresented what he said, causing a great deal of harm, you too are guilty of misrepresenting what he said, and contributing to that harm.
Well, except maybe child custody - our justice system almost invariably chooses the mother in the case of a separation, which is unfortunate. But I'd say that's not a case of misandry but on the contrary: the outdated view that the woman is who should take care of the children.
You explicitly describe a very serious case of misandy. Perhaps the absolute worst that can be commited against a man, and then say, "But I'd say that's not a case of misandry" and make an excuse for it.
Putting a kid in a machine known to kill thousands every year is not an accident. When you put your kid in your car and pull out into the road, you are fully aware that someone is going to die that day in a car 'accident'. You just make a judgement that the reward of going to the park, or getting your fancy drink at Starbucks, outweighs the risk of it being your kid that gets smeared across the road. The same applies to vaccines. Approximatly 100 people died each year from chicken pox prior to the vaccine. Approximately 40,000 people die each year from auto accidents. 99.9% of all auto related deaths are preventable. No one tries to die in a car crash, but they know that if they drive/ride in a car, that it very well may happen. The same goes for getting the chicken pox. No one plans to die from it, but they know it could happen. The difference is that taking that trip to the movie theater is 400 TIMES more likely to kill your child than skipping the chicken pox vaccine.
Claiming that choosing to put your kid in a car and them dying from that action is and 'Accident', but choosing to skip the chicken pox vaccine and them dying from it is 'abuse' is ridiculous.
Every time I read a story about technological advancement in some [non friendly to the US] nation it's always portrayed in the light of "Oh crap, dirty brown people are getting their hands on technology OMFG THEY'RE GONNA NUKE US"
If you didn't start your post declaring that you are a total racist, you could be taken a lot more seriously. I know it is hip to claim that the only reason we have a problem with anyone in the middle east is because "they are brown", but that doesn't cut it. The only way you could possibly think that it has anything to do with race is if you forget that the USSR was the big bad boogie man throughout the cold war. You would also have to forget that China is quickly growing to be considered a serious threat as well.
Open your eyes, and see that not everyone is as much of a racist as you are. Sometimes people hate other people for reasons other than the color of their skin.
The choice I want is to be able to authorize that specific USB device to autorun from now on. I don't want all USB devices to be able to execute files, but I do want to be able to have specific one do it.
No one is calling Assange a terrorist or a combatant of any form, legal or illegal.
You would be wrong about thatwould be wrong about that. Examples from the horses mouth: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ny03_king/kingsupportsprosecutionofwikileaks.html http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/301603
I hate to say it, and I haven't thought it out well, so pick apart at will, but one way out may be to make it as absolutly pleasent as is humanly possible. Don't let them go, but make it as posh as possible with people waiting on the prisoners hand and foot. After a short time, let them have visitors, and treat the visitors like honored guests. It will still be a cage, but it would be a lot harder for them to gain support for their mistreatment when that mistreatment ended with many years of finely decorated appartments, fine food from private chefs, nice comfortable clothing, access to the best media of their choice, hot tubs and massages.
Crazy? Pointless? Won't work? Discuss...
MUCH better speech-giving skills.
I agree.
In my household we have had myTouch 3G, Nexus One, G2, gTablet, iPhone3G (for development at work), and a iPod Touch. The myTouch 3G's were a little underpowered for the OS. This made them feel a little kludgy. Not a lot, but it was there. The iPhone3G ran a little smoother. I still prefered the myTouch, as it was more configurable. Between that, and my dislike of iPhone's closed ecosystem, I stuck with lived with the device being a little underpowered for the OS. Once I got my Nexus One, the iPhone no longer even registered as a viable option. The Nexus One was superior in every way. The only complaint I had with it was the lack of physical keyboard, but that wasn't going to be solved with an iPhone. (actually, there are now third party add ons for that). My wife had a myTouch also, and she insisted on using the iPod for playing music, but was not interested at all in getting an iPhone instead of her myTouch. The reason she used the iPod for music, was because it was a reasonably good interface, and it was not running on the same battery as her phone. She liked knowing that she could run her music player's battery all the way down, and not have to worry about missing calls. Last week she got a HTC G2, and she has been telling me that every one of her complaints with her previous phone have been resolved, and the G2 is better than she could have hoped for. The fact that she can wirelessly sync her music from her PC to her phone is a particularly big deal to her. At this point, her phone is no longer an accessory to her computer. It is a full fledged peer on the network.
I have to say, I am a little jealous. I definitly have keyboard envy. I think I might upgrade to the G2, and pass my Nexus One on to my son.
It isn't a useless canard. Android should be compared to iOS. That means that iPods should be counted both in market share, and in fragmentation.
That is the double edged sword of the more open development environment. For Apple, they would have just not shipped the update to anyone until they could ship it to everyone. With Android, it gets shipped as it gets when it is ready for each device. I can see a complaint if your phone is still on 1.6, but complaining that your phone is not yet on Gingerbread is as more a complaint that someone else got it first than it is a complaint that you don't have it yet.
I do have a Nexus One. Well... I did until I dropped it 5 feet onto a hard tile floor and shattered the screen. Now I am waiting to see if it can be fixed so, maybe I have a Nexus One. Anyway, it doesn't bother me in the slightest that I don't have Gingerbread yet. I am anxious to get it, as I updated my Viewsonic gTablet to Gingerbread, and there are a few enhancements that I am looking forward to, but if Google had just not released it to anyone until I could get it too, it wouldn't help me at all. In fact, it would have just prevented me from updating my tablet that is running Cyanogen.
Number 4 is unfair, as the whole I pad is a specialized piece of hardware. The fact that desktop/laptops are far more modular is a plus, not a minus.
Let me add a replacement though...
New 4) Home automation screen.
Yes, semi-niche, but less so than trying to use it as a musical instrument. A home automation touchscreen interface is basically a glorified web browser. These things tended to cost more than a $1k, but if you wanted a screen mounted on your wall for your system, that is what you had to pay. Even the lowliest of the tablets available have a web browser on them, and are plenty thin enough to mount on a wall.
I don't know where you live, but here in the US, misandry is standard fare. From our criminal justice system, to our family law, to our media, to our job opportunities. Yes, many people that are abused believe thay deserve it. Just look through the threads on this story. There are plenty of posts from men talking about how inferior men are.
Actually, I know that where you live, misandry exists, because you have expressed your misandy view right her on Slashdot, and since you obviously live where you live, it must exist there. And as I predicted, you did rationalize why your misandry is OK.