The issue is that controlling other people is evil (copyright is control). GPL is fighting fire with fire, and that is reasonable... but still just as evil as what it is fighting. Perhaps most people just do not want to participate in the fight and show it by using a BSD style license?
The GPL is genius thinking: Turn Copyright against itself... but it is still copyright. Ultimately, we do not have to play with the powermongers. BSD for the win.
Sure. I bet you'll have no problem pumping out enough pixels for a 7680x1600 display (or even 2560x1600, with a single monitor) to play games on or create and render video content on.
And my current PC can do this? It has a rough time with 2560x1600 on modern games with 4x Anti-aliasing. The video card is a 460GTX.
Seriously, I would be pretty happy if I could just dock my phone. Most of the stuff I do does not require much horsepower. I was pretty happy with my 486 and my only complaint at the time was that I only had 12 megabytes of RAM rather than 16.
Granted, software has bloated up, even Linux, but the 700+ megabytes of RAM and its CPU is enough for a fun desktop experience with Linux.
Paragraphs are a unique modern invention designed to break huge walls of text into easily parsed chunks edible to the modern human brain. Learn them, use them, love them.;)
You seem to be implying that there are things we should be doing that would prevent future such acts. So what should we be doing?
Hm. How about stopping the destruction of the American middle class? How about having the police actually acting like they are there to serve the public rather than to be the servants of the political elite? How about not pushing so many tens of thousands into grinding poverty every month?
I dunno. How about just not acting like assholes so there are fewer people motivated to act like assholes to us?
Hm. I was never asked to vote on whether or not EA is the "Worst Company in America". That would indicate that the crossover between the group that was asked to vote and the group that buys games is not representative of the whole. There is no cognitive dissonance here.
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
Even worse. Many of the ones who are informed don't care enough to do something. They want their Lower Prices Everyday and their "you-can-only-get-it-from-here" name products and so they collude to feed the beasts.
You are looking at it backwards. It is the beasts colluding to herd their food. What you have named is their methods of herding.
Are the sheep going where they want to go or are they going where the shepherd encourages them? The informed consumer is more like a cat but ultimately a cat will eat whatever is available. The shepherd provides the food that it wants the sheep to eat.
I bought a device once (about a decade ago) that had the username as admin and the default password was some generic word combined with the serial number of the device.
There is no excuse for across-the-board default passwords.
The speeding behavior stops, and the roads become safer, at least while your car is parked at the side of the road, and hopefully remain safer when you proceed, suitably chastised.
I routinely drive at speeds in excess of 140mph. I have had exactly one speeding ticket over the past two decades and that was in a speed trap. If you think lower speeds keep you safe, you are either naive or lying to yourself. The single most important thing that will keep you safe is PAYING ATTENTION. After that, it is good judgement that will keep you safe. Speeding is only a problem after the collision (transfer of momentum) has already started.
One of these days, I may get a huge fine, but even that will not slow me down. Arbitrary speed limits suck.
We can make a horrible world, if we want; however, we might prefer not to.
Since you are posting to Slashdot, it is clear that you are not one of the people who will decide what kind of society "we" want to live in. What will happen is that the laws will get tighter and tighter because it "just seems like the right thing to do"; however, the ruling class who gets to decide these rules will never be subjected to their full force unless they upset the status quo.
Ultimately, within a hundred years, this world is going to be absolutely miserable to live on and some really pissed off person is going to create a biological weapon and bring it all down... all because people are desperate for power over others but refuse to live by the rules they themselves create. I guess it is good that I will be dead before then. I wonder how much suffering I will see before I die. The suffering from World War 2 was apparently not enough.
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers...
Yes, but really, even the experts do not really know what is going on with their computers except possibly a few paranoid freaks who build their own Linux/OpenBSD based systems from scratch.
Let's talk about Windows or OS X for a moment: There are tons of things that you have no insight into what is happening at any given time. Some of that is by design (they want to control you/your experience) and some of that is because there is no reasonable way to even show you wtf is going on.
Honestly, I have lost count of how many different way there are to launch programs behind the users back on Windows. I recall it used to only be about 10 but god only knows how many there are now. I seriously doubt that even Microsoft knows. They may list 42 ways and then some engineer somewhere will poke out and say, "Yeah, but you forgot about this way."
Seriously, we do not control the software that we use on a daily basis, only the developer does. The will-to-control is so strong that even many Open Source projects (Gnome) try to take it away from you. It really shows a lack of respect to the person who ends up using the software to say something like, "I will deign to allow you to use the software that *I* created but *I* will retain control of how you use it."
Meh. We are all fucked until we learn to respect each other.
First, thank you for your response. I greatly appreciate it.
No because for particles to "pile up at a point" they all have to have the same position AND velocity. If they have the same position but different velocities then they just move apart - like two water waves travelling in different directions they would just pass through each other.
Hm. But they attract gravitationally. But if they can not hit each other... Hm. Tough one.
However it is possible that they do carry a weak charge and so will feel the weak force...we just don't yet know.
If they interact through the weak nuclear force, wouldn't there be some sort of evidence such as light or heat? Even if just in very small amounts... Very odd stuff.
Oddly, I always thought that the the insults against the French were just friendly teasing (cheese eating surrender monkeys!) until I read about Freedom Fries. I then became physically ill.
The French have been awesome fighters and a very strong people which is why it was fun to poke at them a bit... but apparently, some people did not get the memo and took it all seriously without viewing all of the historical facts. *sigh* Sometimes I wish I lived on another planet with more highly evolved species.
Let us know how it goes. I would love to buy one but it is not the right time for me. I need a car that handles well in the snow so if I bought one, it would be a "pleasure" car.
Now lets think about Dark Matter. It has no electrical charge and so feels no electromagnetic force. So when a Dark Matter particle is attracted towards a clump of other Dark Matter particles it simply passes right through them without any interaction! It then starts to slow down under their gravitational field until it, eventually, turns around and flies back through the centre. Effectively all a "clump" of Dark Matter is is a group of particles oscillating back and forth in their shared gravitational well. This is why Dark Matter is so diffuse - it can form structures but only on a very large scale.
Another question then: How can Dark Matter be a particle if the particles do not interact except through gravity? Wouldn't all of these particles keep piling up at the same point and eventually become black holes? Wouldn't these "clumps" of Dark Matter suck in regular matter too?
I'm not even saying that the unnaturally high standard of living for the average American at the middle of last century didn't come at some high prices with respect to global competitiveness.
Unnaturally high?! Really? We built stuff for ourselves that gave us electricity, running water, roads, and telephones for our use. If we had not built it, we would not have it. How is it unnatural? Did we raid Mexico, steal their roads, and bring them up to the USA? Did we launch an invasion into India and steal their telephone wires for use back home?
No. We built all that shit. The only unnatural or stolen part is the excessive wealth that very very few people get to enjoy. As far as roads, electricity, medical care, etc. we built it on our own. It is ours. We did not take from anyone else to build it. There is nothing unnatural about our lifestyle. Get that out of your head now.
There's a lot wrong with how the prosecutors handled this, but he was hardly some innocent school boy who got bullied for no reason.
You said:
Yes he was. "Lose half your citizenship and go to jail half a year, OR lose half your lifespan, your choice" is not bullying how?
First poster did not claim there was no bullying. He said there was a reason. Furthermore, he did not claim that the bullying was reasonable (which is where you will go next).
Aaron was a douche and he was wrong. Period.
The prosecutor was criminally aggressive. Period.
The prosecutor would have had NOTHING to latch onto had Aaron not done something clearly wrong and illegal. THAT is what the first poster said.
Hm. I have not watched TV for well over a quarter of a century now (yes, I am THAT guy). Nobody I know talks about this show. I heard something about it somewhere before but I can not tell you what it is about or anything.
In short, it is not that hard to have missed something that you consider to be quite common. I just do not live in the same world you live in. Lots of other people do not either.
Doesn't matter what the illegal activity is, when the person committing it blames the victim it's wrong.
Is there really a victim here? I have never watched Game of Thrones. I have no idea what it is about. If I "pirate" an episode and watch it, I have committed a "crime" but was HBO really victimized? If so, how? I have no interest in buying it currently. I doubt that I ever will. Would me viewing an unauthorized copy hurt HBO in any way?
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At some point we will have to realize that we have unemployable people and must do something with them.
They make great fertilizer if they are mulched. *shrug*
The issue is that controlling other people is evil (copyright is control). GPL is fighting fire with fire, and that is reasonable... but still just as evil as what it is fighting. Perhaps most people just do not want to participate in the fight and show it by using a BSD style license?
The GPL is genius thinking: Turn Copyright against itself... but it is still copyright. Ultimately, we do not have to play with the powermongers. BSD for the win.
Sure. I bet you'll have no problem pumping out enough pixels for a 7680x1600 display (or even 2560x1600, with a single monitor) to play games on or create and render video content on.
And my current PC can do this? It has a rough time with 2560x1600 on modern games with 4x Anti-aliasing. The video card is a 460GTX.
Seriously, I would be pretty happy if I could just dock my phone. Most of the stuff I do does not require much horsepower. I was pretty happy with my 486 and my only complaint at the time was that I only had 12 megabytes of RAM rather than 16.
Granted, software has bloated up, even Linux, but the 700+ megabytes of RAM and its CPU is enough for a fun desktop experience with Linux.
So, when we look at things rationally, and compare the evidence, it seems unless there's a prevailing scientific theory that we came from aquatic apes
I feel so stupid. I can not tell if I am being trolled here. It is a fascinating idea though. :)
Paragraphs are a unique modern invention designed to break huge walls of text into easily parsed chunks edible to the modern human brain. Learn them, use them, love them. ;)
Interesting thoughts nevertheless.
You seem to be implying that there are things we should be doing that would prevent future such acts. So what should we be doing?
Hm. How about stopping the destruction of the American middle class? How about having the police actually acting like they are there to serve the public rather than to be the servants of the political elite? How about not pushing so many tens of thousands into grinding poverty every month?
I dunno. How about just not acting like assholes so there are fewer people motivated to act like assholes to us?
The reverse of brain drain - bring the best and brightest in the world into the U.S. and put them on the path of becoming citizens.
Hm. Where does H1-B fit into the part about becoming citizens? Just curious. AFAIK, there is no path to citizenship from H1-B.
(weirdly, the CAPTCHA was hirers)
Hm. I was never asked to vote on whether or not EA is the "Worst Company in America". That would indicate that the crossover between the group that was asked to vote and the group that buys games is not representative of the whole. There is no cognitive dissonance here.
It should be pointed out that EA did lose a ton of money last year ($45 million quarter 4 2012, $381 the quarter before that). If they keep on track they should go out of business pretty quickly.
This is good news.
Even worse. Many of the ones who are informed don't care enough to do something. They want their Lower Prices Everyday and their "you-can-only-get-it-from-here" name products and so they collude to feed the beasts.
You are looking at it backwards. It is the beasts colluding to herd their food. What you have named is their methods of herding.
Are the sheep going where they want to go or are they going where the shepherd encourages them? The informed consumer is more like a cat but ultimately a cat will eat whatever is available. The shepherd provides the food that it wants the sheep to eat.
I bought a device once (about a decade ago) that had the username as admin and the default password was some generic word combined with the serial number of the device.
There is no excuse for across-the-board default passwords.
Slacker. Do you use Slackware? ;)
Good insight.
The speeding behavior stops, and the roads become safer, at least while your car is parked at the side of the road, and hopefully remain safer when you proceed, suitably chastised.
I routinely drive at speeds in excess of 140mph. I have had exactly one speeding ticket over the past two decades and that was in a speed trap. If you think lower speeds keep you safe, you are either naive or lying to yourself. The single most important thing that will keep you safe is PAYING ATTENTION. After that, it is good judgement that will keep you safe. Speeding is only a problem after the collision (transfer of momentum) has already started.
One of these days, I may get a huge fine, but even that will not slow me down. Arbitrary speed limits suck.
We can make a horrible world, if we want; however, we might prefer not to.
Since you are posting to Slashdot, it is clear that you are not one of the people who will decide what kind of society "we" want to live in. What will happen is that the laws will get tighter and tighter because it "just seems like the right thing to do"; however, the ruling class who gets to decide these rules will never be subjected to their full force unless they upset the status quo.
Ultimately, within a hundred years, this world is going to be absolutely miserable to live on and some really pissed off person is going to create a biological weapon and bring it all down... all because people are desperate for power over others but refuse to live by the rules they themselves create. I guess it is good that I will be dead before then. I wonder how much suffering I will see before I die. The suffering from World War 2 was apparently not enough.
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers...
Yes, but really, even the experts do not really know what is going on with their computers except possibly a few paranoid freaks who build their own Linux/OpenBSD based systems from scratch.
Let's talk about Windows or OS X for a moment: There are tons of things that you have no insight into what is happening at any given time. Some of that is by design (they want to control you/your experience) and some of that is because there is no reasonable way to even show you wtf is going on.
Honestly, I have lost count of how many different way there are to launch programs behind the users back on Windows. I recall it used to only be about 10 but god only knows how many there are now. I seriously doubt that even Microsoft knows. They may list 42 ways and then some engineer somewhere will poke out and say, "Yeah, but you forgot about this way."
Seriously, we do not control the software that we use on a daily basis, only the developer does. The will-to-control is so strong that even many Open Source projects (Gnome) try to take it away from you. It really shows a lack of respect to the person who ends up using the software to say something like, "I will deign to allow you to use the software that *I* created but *I* will retain control of how you use it."
Meh. We are all fucked until we learn to respect each other.
It sounds pretty sweet. Thank you for your review.
First, thank you for your response. I greatly appreciate it.
No because for particles to "pile up at a point" they all have to have the same position AND velocity. If they have the same position but different velocities then they just move apart - like two water waves travelling in different directions they would just pass through each other.
Hm. But they attract gravitationally. But if they can not hit each other... Hm. Tough one.
However it is possible that they do carry a weak charge and so will feel the weak force...we just don't yet know.
If they interact through the weak nuclear force, wouldn't there be some sort of evidence such as light or heat? Even if just in very small amounts... Very odd stuff.
Again. Thank you.
Oddly, I always thought that the the insults against the French were just friendly teasing (cheese eating surrender monkeys!) until I read about Freedom Fries. I then became physically ill.
The French have been awesome fighters and a very strong people which is why it was fun to poke at them a bit... but apparently, some people did not get the memo and took it all seriously without viewing all of the historical facts. *sigh* Sometimes I wish I lived on another planet with more highly evolved species.
It basically encodes everything on-the-fly for fast encoding on the server and fast decoding on the client.
Hm. Video encoding on the fly? Is it done on the CPU? If so, how much CPU does it take?
Let us know how it goes. I would love to buy one but it is not the right time for me. I need a car that handles well in the snow so if I bought one, it would be a "pleasure" car.
Now lets think about Dark Matter. It has no electrical charge and so feels no electromagnetic force. So when a Dark Matter particle is attracted towards a clump of other Dark Matter particles it simply passes right through them without any interaction! It then starts to slow down under their gravitational field until it, eventually, turns around and flies back through the centre. Effectively all a "clump" of Dark Matter is is a group of particles oscillating back and forth in their shared gravitational well. This is why Dark Matter is so diffuse - it can form structures but only on a very large scale.
Another question then: How can Dark Matter be a particle if the particles do not interact except through gravity? Wouldn't all of these particles keep piling up at the same point and eventually become black holes? Wouldn't these "clumps" of Dark Matter suck in regular matter too?
I'm not even saying that the unnaturally high standard of living for the average American at the middle of last century didn't come at some high prices with respect to global competitiveness.
Unnaturally high?! Really? We built stuff for ourselves that gave us electricity, running water, roads, and telephones for our use. If we had not built it, we would not have it. How is it unnatural? Did we raid Mexico, steal their roads, and bring them up to the USA? Did we launch an invasion into India and steal their telephone wires for use back home?
No. We built all that shit. The only unnatural or stolen part is the excessive wealth that very very few people get to enjoy. As far as roads, electricity, medical care, etc. we built it on our own. It is ours. We did not take from anyone else to build it. There is nothing unnatural about our lifestyle. Get that out of your head now.
He said:
There's a lot wrong with how the prosecutors handled this, but he was hardly some innocent school boy who got bullied for no reason.
You said:
Yes he was. "Lose half your citizenship and go to jail half a year, OR lose half your lifespan, your choice" is not bullying how?
First poster did not claim there was no bullying. He said there was a reason. Furthermore, he did not claim that the bullying was reasonable (which is where you will go next).
Aaron was a douche and he was wrong. Period.
The prosecutor was criminally aggressive. Period.
The prosecutor would have had NOTHING to latch onto had Aaron not done something clearly wrong and illegal. THAT is what the first poster said.
Hm. I have not watched TV for well over a quarter of a century now (yes, I am THAT guy). Nobody I know talks about this show. I heard something about it somewhere before but I can not tell you what it is about or anything.
In short, it is not that hard to have missed something that you consider to be quite common. I just do not live in the same world you live in. Lots of other people do not either.
Doesn't matter what the illegal activity is, when the person committing it blames the victim it's wrong.
Is there really a victim here? I have never watched Game of Thrones. I have no idea what it is about. If I "pirate" an episode and watch it, I have committed a "crime" but was HBO really victimized? If so, how? I have no interest in buying it currently. I doubt that I ever will. Would me viewing an unauthorized copy hurt HBO in any way?