Your stance that common users--"fanbois"--are employed as legitimate agents of the Open Source community does not hold water. Unless, of course, you also hold that the screamingly offensive children on XBox Live are also working as official agents of Microsoft. In which case, I want to complain about their "f*** you, you f***** you s*** c**** and eat s***" policy.
All modern consumer companies live or die on the backs of their fans. This is absolutely the exact same thing that rules the popularity of open source software. You just might be able to name one for-profit consumer company that has publicly rebuked any fan for being exuberant about some product, but it is most certainly not nearly as common as your position would indicate.
Well, that's the "problem" with OSS. Anybody can get up and talk about it. The "Community" is not a managed, corporate-speak entity. So what you'll get is people talking, and saying what they mean. "Hypocrisy" is a completely to be expected tactic, given that nobody--quite--looks at their own rhetoric in a completely objective way. When you throw in the natural impulse of humans to "tribe up" and then defend that tribe to their own death, it would be complete bollocks not to expect hypocrisy to appear.
That aside, I would not be totally certain that there is even one single person who both feels that an IE blocker is good, and a Fx blocker is bad. There's a vast range of opinion and disagreement on the Internet. You can find a fringe community devoted to absolutely any topic or viewpoint. The fact that different people have expressed differing and conflicting viewpoints does not in any way mean that the Open Source community is chock full of hypocrisy.
Stupid = sue hackers, "super-fans" and anyone else who does something you don't like with hardware or media you sell. Closed = Just try writing software for the PSP without being a large gaming company. Rental = BluRay, constant anti-homebrew PSP updates
Almost since the first hack came out opening up the PSP to hobbyists, it's been known that overclocking the PSP's chip will break the wifi. There's been a lot of speculation about it, with a lot of people thinking it was intentional on Sony's part. Well, I guess now we know. It's UNintentional, but still Sony's fault.
Heh, stupid closed rental-hardware company. They too will fall into obscurity.
Every Java app in use at the shop where I work is crappy slow. It's not really Java's fault, the business under-spec'ed their database server. But sitting and looking at it blocking while it talks to the server only serves to make me think Java is a toy.
"Studying" "Computer" "Science" and complaining that the command line is difficult makes you a moron. Go back to your liberal arts degree, windows kid.
Techniques used to increase the density of transistors on a chip can also be used to more cheaply or easily make a low-powered chip for your ultra-portable laptop. It also improves the life of whatever battery technology is embedded in your electronic thing.
Moore's law doesn't only mean good things for megahertz-obsessed gamers.
Yeah, just past the venomous bug-blatter beast of Tral. It's supposed to keep the digg children on their side of the internet, but somebody "Up-Dugg" a post about keeping your eyes closed and, well, there went the Internet.
Groovy. Maybe we'll get some more reliable drives based on this discovery. Sadly, every drive I've ever had fail was due to heat. When I was 12, I learned why most people use properly ventilated cases and refrain from leaving a server running in an attic closet. According to the logs, those drives hit upwards of 85C before failing. Fairly impressive, I guess.
Well, actually it is an option. Not, of course, a good option. But, if you just HAVE to download a movie from WalMart.com, you actually can. The IEs 4 Linux project will install IE 5.0,5.5,6.0 on a Linux box, and I believe they have a beta working with IE7.
Now if only Wine had proper access to the SANE driver, I wouldn't need windows for anything.
If it's electrically only x8, then there's no way to legitimately call it a "full-length x16 slot". That would be false advertising, especially to the person wanting to run 3 high-powered nvidia cards at the same time. Even if it looks exactly like an x16, and you can plug an x16 card into it, if it doesn't do what an x16 does (i.e. faster than x8) then it's not an x16.
I'm one of those "office hackers". One of the reports used in my shop is a fairly byzantine format that's at least 30 years old. Most of the reports would be sent out with at least one big error. But for those 30 years, nobody's bothered to do anything about it. I created a Tcl/Tk app that builds and validates the report based on a dialog with each user. Since then, I've been asked to add more features to it. The first version was only about 230 lines, and it was entirely one single script. No procedures. It now is about 320kB of code, and if I hadn't rewritten it to make heavy use of namespaces and packages(Tcl's closest equivalent to OOP), it'd be utterly impossible to work on or with.
Fuck Bush. He's a traitor against the constitution. He should be tried in a court of law for crimes against the United States and crimes against humanity. And then he should be lawfully executed, and his entire family to the 10th generation forbidden to hold any public office of any kind.
Tear gas is not really a gas, it's a solid at room temperature. Those canisters aerosolize the agent much like a perfume spritzer. Normal delivery methods for nitrous are either entire lungsfull of pure gas, or a 50%-50% mix with O2. It's not possible to build a nitrous delivery method that can displace 50% of the normal air for any serious volume of air, and also have the gas remain long enough to intoxicate an entire crowd. As well, what with the short length of time the 'high' from nitrous lasts(ca. 60 seconds), it's hard to believe the government seriously considered something so improbable.
Then again, "They" also spend billions daily on a threat that (statistically) ranks below peanut allergies in terms of severity.
Not a troll, that was exaggeration for effect. The population of the U.S., according to the CIA world Factbook, is over 301 million people. ~301 million > 2.37 million. Even as broken as the U.S. election system is, we get slightly better than 0.7% participation.
Right, so all 13 people who actually own a Wii would be able to vote. Waitaminute...you're saying you'd pull yourself away from Paper Mario long enough to vote for some idiot to run the US? Nonsense.
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That means nothing. It's an outreach site to the community to hype up support. Guess what, sluggo? EVERYBODY DOES THAT.
Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx
Sony: http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=746
Nintendo: http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/
Adobe: http://www.acrobatusers.com/
Your stance that common users--"fanbois"--are employed as legitimate agents of the Open Source community does not hold water. Unless, of course, you also hold that the screamingly offensive children on XBox Live are also working as official agents of Microsoft. In which case, I want to complain about their "f*** you, you f***** you s*** c**** and eat s***" policy.
All modern consumer companies live or die on the backs of their fans. This is absolutely the exact same thing that rules the popularity of open source software. You just might be able to name one for-profit consumer company that has publicly rebuked any fan for being exuberant about some product, but it is most certainly not nearly as common as your position would indicate.
Well, that's the "problem" with OSS.
Anybody can get up and talk about it.
The "Community" is not a managed, corporate-speak entity. So what you'll get is people talking, and saying what they mean. "Hypocrisy" is a completely to be expected tactic, given that nobody--quite--looks at their own rhetoric in a completely objective way. When you throw in the natural impulse of humans to "tribe up" and then defend that tribe to their own death, it would be complete bollocks not to expect hypocrisy to appear.
That aside, I would not be totally certain that there is even one single person who both feels that an IE blocker is good, and a Fx blocker is bad. There's a vast range of opinion and disagreement on the Internet. You can find a fringe community devoted to absolutely any topic or viewpoint. The fact that different people have expressed differing and conflicting viewpoints does not in any way mean that the Open Source community is chock full of hypocrisy.
I'm one of those guys who has nothing good to do with mod points. I've got five of 'em right now, just staring at me, begging for use.
Stupid = sue hackers, "super-fans" and anyone else who does something you don't like with hardware or media you sell.
Closed = Just try writing software for the PSP without being a large gaming company.
Rental = BluRay, constant anti-homebrew PSP updates
Almost since the first hack came out opening up the PSP to hobbyists, it's been known that overclocking the PSP's chip will break the wifi. There's been a lot of speculation about it, with a lot of people thinking it was intentional on Sony's part. Well, I guess now we know. It's UNintentional, but still Sony's fault.
Heh, stupid closed rental-hardware company. They too will fall into obscurity.
HomelessInLaJolla said
"...go back live under your rock."
I find that immensely amusing.
I would mod you up, given as I have mod points at the moment right now...but you're an AC, not a bolivian freedom fighter.
As somebody who worked at Chernobyl, I'm highly upset by the text in the above post, but the smilies make it all better.
Actually...
Every Java app in use at the shop where I work is crappy slow. It's not really Java's fault, the business under-spec'ed their database server. But sitting and looking at it blocking while it talks to the server only serves to make me think Java is a toy.
"Studying" "Computer" "Science" and complaining that the command line is difficult makes you a moron. Go back to your liberal arts degree, windows kid.
Techniques used to increase the density of transistors on a chip can also be used to more cheaply or easily make a low-powered chip for your ultra-portable laptop. It also improves the life of whatever battery technology is embedded in your electronic thing.
Moore's law doesn't only mean good things for megahertz-obsessed gamers.
Romney and his dog?
Yeah, just past the venomous bug-blatter beast of Tral. It's supposed to keep the digg children on their side of the internet, but somebody "Up-Dugg" a post about keeping your eyes closed and, well, there went the Internet.
Best. /me wipes tears from eyes.
Comment.
Ever.
Groovy. Maybe we'll get some more reliable drives based on this discovery. Sadly, every drive I've ever had fail was due to heat. When I was 12, I learned why most people use properly ventilated cases and refrain from leaving a server running in an attic closet. According to the logs, those drives hit upwards of 85C before failing. Fairly impressive, I guess.
Well, actually it is an option. Not, of course, a good option. But, if you just HAVE to download a movie from WalMart.com, you actually can. The IEs 4 Linux project will install IE 5.0,5.5,6.0 on a Linux box, and I believe they have a beta working with IE7.
Now if only Wine had proper access to the SANE driver, I wouldn't need windows for anything.
If it's electrically only x8, then there's no way to legitimately call it a "full-length x16 slot". That would be false advertising, especially to the person wanting to run 3 high-powered nvidia cards at the same time. Even if it looks exactly like an x16, and you can plug an x16 card into it, if it doesn't do what an x16 does (i.e. faster than x8) then it's not an x16.
Let me agree to this with an anecdote.
I'm one of those "office hackers". One of the reports used in my shop is a fairly byzantine format that's at least 30 years old. Most of the reports would be sent out with at least one big error. But for those 30 years, nobody's bothered to do anything about it. I created a Tcl/Tk app that builds and validates the report based on a dialog with each user. Since then, I've been asked to add more features to it. The first version was only about 230 lines, and it was entirely one single script. No procedures.
It now is about 320kB of code, and if I hadn't rewritten it to make heavy use of namespaces and packages(Tcl's closest equivalent to OOP), it'd be utterly impossible to work on or with.
Fuck Bush.
He's a traitor against the constitution. He should be tried in a court of law for crimes against the United States and crimes against humanity. And then he should be lawfully executed, and his entire family to the 10th generation forbidden to hold any public office of any kind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_gas
Tear gas is not really a gas, it's a solid at room temperature. Those canisters aerosolize the agent much like a perfume spritzer. Normal delivery methods for nitrous are either entire lungsfull of pure gas, or a 50%-50% mix with O2. It's not possible to build a nitrous delivery method that can displace 50% of the normal air for any serious volume of air, and also have the gas remain long enough to intoxicate an entire crowd. As well, what with the short length of time the 'high' from nitrous lasts(ca. 60 seconds), it's hard to believe the government seriously considered something so improbable.
Then again, "They" also spend billions daily on a threat that (statistically) ranks below peanut allergies in terms of severity.
I will.
Crack all of your games. Backup your CDs. Install the no-cd patch. In short, do absolutely anything with your property that you want to.
First hit's always free, right?
Not a troll, that was exaggeration for effect.
The population of the U.S., according to the CIA world Factbook, is over 301 million people. ~301 million > 2.37 million. Even as broken as the U.S. election system is, we get slightly better than 0.7% participation.
Right, so all 13 people who actually own a Wii would be able to vote. Waitaminute...you're saying you'd pull yourself away from Paper Mario long enough to vote for some idiot to run the US? Nonsense.