Comparing patents to the bail-out is not a legal argument it is some circus performance. MS' lawyer are trying to get a emotional decision -- after all bailout are at least currently bad, right? -- not a rational decision based on facts from the jury. The judge thinks that this is inappropriate behavior for an officer of the court. So he punishes them.
If they were lucky they'd just be Shanghai'd, if they were unlucky they would be lynched and if they really pissed a community off they'd be tarred and feathered.
That's a great idea. Let's burn them a the stake. Worked great last time.
authority, should never, ever, be given the benefit of the doubt
Actually it should get the "benefit of a doubt" most of the time. A simple car analogy can prove that: When I'm, driving in my car i usually trust the maps I have, I also trust the the sign that says that the road ahead is blocked and I should take a detour. The only reason for this trust is the fallacy "proof by authority". But it works far better than never ever trusting my map.
You usually should have a reason for not trusting authority. Otherwise you are not able to function in today's society
He very likely has a low self esteem and needs those pranks to feel superior to at least some people. It's the only way for him to deal with his situation -- apart from getting a job and starting his own life which apparently isn't an option for him.
DCF has been a SGML-based general purpose wordprocessor format for at least 30 years. Multiple general purpose wordprocessors that use DCF exist on the mainframe.
No. "China's human rights record" and how it compares to US' was what you were talking about, remember? I just provided some more data points.
Twitter is used by anti-government protesters and yet the government does not attempt to close it, not even during the spikes of protests.
Maybe the difference is that the Chinese government is still afraid of their people. Or that swiftboating when done well can be just as effective and is the preferred method in the "free" world.
And just for the record: I of course do not think that America is in anyway as bad as China. I just have the feeling that the situation is constantly getting worse. Same goes for Europe.
I can not connect to my offline storage from anywhere at any time. If I ever step outside my home I have no way to access my offline storage at all let alone at a decent speed. I could of course start carrying my offline storage around; the only problem here is that i have more data than fits on a iPhone or even a laptop harddisk. So I have to pick and choose which costs time and is error prone.
Storage company going bust? Well, i guess it pays to have backups at another company (or even offline), just like it pays to have backup today. Online storage beats offline storage in all theses areas.
For me privacy is the only major concern left. The online storage companies like gmail, flickr, youtube, et al. lack a business model that is compatible with privacy.
Some might argue that the real atrocity is the beating and killing of peaceful, unarmed students. Or the raping, beating and killing of some random prisoners in some foreign country that one has no business to be in in the first place.
But you're right. When it comes to the important stuff like using Twitter and watching Britney's twat then the good old U.S.A. is still way ahead of the communist bastards from China.
Whether we agree or not, the people/groups who own the 'rights' to the content are acting out of a sense of ownership and the protection thereof.
I agree.
I have no problem with people protecting what is theirs
... what they believe is theirs ("a sense of ownership"). I do not believe that anybody can own a number and -- at least for me -- it is clear that whoever thinks he "owns" a number is an idiot. And I have a problem with people that try to make it possible to own a number.
You don't have to fire a gun to do massive damage and function as kind of "weapon". We have proven in the past couple of years that you can kill plenty of people by e.g. telling them to privatize their water supply. You do not need a movable actuator for this. Or you could use the AI to disrupt international cash flows and cause all kinds of serious trouble, again this is doable without a movable actuator.
Maybe they would have more money to buy these awesome products from all these ads if we stop stealing their diamonds, and copper, and nickel, and all their other natural resources. But we can't do that! We need all the loot we can get to fuel our superior economy because we've stopped producing anything but "IP" over 10 years ago.
The effect of all this is that Africa (and India and China and...) can't participate as a consumer in the global market. But the market needs them because our financial system requires exponential growth to function. We need to grow x% every year.
So, we can not produce growth ourselves because we have outsourced all the jobs that actually produce anything, the third world can't generate growth because we steal all their resources, and India et al can't buy anything either because we only pay them fractions of a percent of the value they generate for us.
But fear not citizen! We, your brave leaders have all the solutions. We just invent money buy doubling the "value" of our houses every five years and everything will be fine.
What I am trying to say is: You are right. Services cost money and consumers have to pay the price if they want to use them. From a macro-economic standpoint everything is fine. But TFA might describe a symptom of a pretty difficult macro-economic problem.
Every web site is a "software as a service". RMS says: You must not open the article at broadcast.oreilly.com and read his article.
Oh... and every time you post on/. RMS will kill a kitten. You have to trust me on that. Do not google for "kitten RMS" or you will forever lose your freedom.
I think you're right. The problem is, that the only mathematically sound game-theoretic model for multiple (i.e. > 2) players in non-zero-sum-games that we know, the Jordan-Neuman-Model, requires that the players try to maximize the overall payout to all players. I think GP is arguing that a war doesn't meet this criteria. So there is no rational -- i.e. scientific -- explanation for war because our models aren't fit for that situation.
As someone who has been writing Java since '99, I have to say if even Threads is not supported, it is a big issue.
Thread support is also "missing" in Sun's JEE Specification. Concurrency is done by the application server, not by the application. As a developer you just configure the relevant parameters you do not code the the actual threading. I do not know Google's AppEngine (and of course I haven't read TFA) but I guess it will be similar.
Consider the random experiment "picking any natural number". What is the probability that the number 17 gets picked? The probability for every natural number to get picked is the same, the sum over all probabilities is 1, and there is an infinite number of natural numbers.
In probabilistic theory nothing is certain or impossible (except for trivial cases with a finite set of outcomes).
Is anyone else worried that the Chief of Police makes conclusions like this?
Chief of Police is not the same as Police Union Chief.
How can you investigate and solve crimes if you don't understand the difference between correlation and causation?
How can one make "insightful" comments on a summary he isn't able to understand?
The guy is just using something (the school killing) that happened to further his agenda. You use something that happened (the stupid statement from a more or less random person) to further your agenda. Where is the difference between you and him? Oh right! You are fighting for a good cause and are hence allowed to do that, right?
How exactly are they not letting developers publish software for the [...] Yes, there have been some hard-to-explain decisions re acceptance to the App store. Vs 15,000 apps, most of them trivial junk, in less than a year...
MobileTerminal and a fully fledged unix shell
Copy 'n Paste
OpenSSH client and server
MobileFinder
SBSettings (to quickly turn WiFi, 3G, etc. on and off)
AdBlock for Safari
Cycorder to record videos
Backgrounder for multitasking
NES, SNES, GBA, etc. Emulators
Doom, Quake, etc.
Flashlight (with full brightness so it's actually usable as opposed to the flashlights in the AppStore)
IntelliScreen (or Lock Calendar) to show upcoming calendar events, missed calls, unread emails, etc on the lock-screen
iMobileCinema to play any Flash movie
are all only available via Cydia on jailbroken iPhones, none of them is allowed by Apple. I find all of those quite handy, some of them not really trivial and none of them junk. In fact I use most of them on a daily basis.
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Comparing patents to the bail-out is not a legal argument it is some circus performance. MS' lawyer are trying to get a emotional decision -- after all bailout are at least currently bad, right? -- not a rational decision based on facts from the jury. The judge thinks that this is inappropriate behavior for an officer of the court. So he punishes them.
If they were lucky they'd just be Shanghai'd, if they were unlucky they would be lynched and if they really pissed a community off they'd be tarred and feathered.
That's a great idea. Let's burn them a the stake. Worked great last time.
authority, should never, ever, be given the benefit of the doubt
Actually it should get the "benefit of a doubt" most of the time. A simple car analogy can prove that: When I'm, driving in my car i usually trust the maps I have, I also trust the the sign that says that the road ahead is blocked and I should take a detour. The only reason for this trust is the fallacy "proof by authority". But it works far better than never ever trusting my map.
You usually should have a reason for not trusting authority. Otherwise you are not able to function in today's society
He very likely has a low self esteem and needs those pranks to feel superior to at least some people. It's the only way for him to deal with his situation -- apart from getting a job and starting his own life which apparently isn't an option for him.
DCF has been a SGML-based general purpose wordprocessor format for at least 30 years. Multiple general purpose wordprocessors that use DCF exist on the mainframe.
Amazon's terms state that they are selling you are permanent license.
I would have them boiled in oil.
For having a party and being loud? You sir a a true role model for a quiet and peaceful society.
The state controls commerce and corporations.
You don't understand what communism is. What you describe is socialism.
Actually no. I mean it can be socialism but it can also be communism or mercantilism or fascism or something completely different.
Changing the topic, eh?
No. "China's human rights record" and how it compares to US' was what you were talking about, remember? I just provided some more data points.
Twitter is used by anti-government protesters and yet the government does not attempt to close it, not even during the spikes of protests.
Maybe the difference is that the Chinese government is still afraid of their people. Or that swiftboating when done well can be just as effective and is the preferred method in the "free" world.
And just for the record: I of course do not think that America is in anyway as bad as China. I just have the feeling that the situation is constantly getting worse. Same goes for Europe.
I can not connect to my offline storage from anywhere at any time. If I ever step outside my home I have no way to access my offline storage at all let alone at a decent speed. I could of course start carrying my offline storage around; the only problem here is that i have more data than fits on a iPhone or even a laptop harddisk. So I have to pick and choose which costs time and is error prone.
Storage company going bust? Well, i guess it pays to have backups at another company (or even offline), just like it pays to have backup today. Online storage beats offline storage in all theses areas.
For me privacy is the only major concern left. The online storage companies like gmail, flickr, youtube, et al. lack a business model that is compatible with privacy.
Some might argue that the real atrocity is the beating and killing of peaceful, unarmed students. Or the raping, beating and killing of some random prisoners in some foreign country that one has no business to be in in the first place.
But you're right. When it comes to the important stuff like using Twitter and watching Britney's twat then the good old U.S.A. is still way ahead of the communist bastards from China.
Yeah but what doesn't?
Whether we agree or not, the people/groups who own the 'rights' to the content are acting out of a sense of ownership and the protection thereof.
I agree.
I have no problem with people protecting what is theirs
... what they believe is theirs ("a sense of ownership"). I do not believe that anybody can own a number and -- at least for me -- it is clear that whoever thinks he "owns" a number is an idiot. And I have a problem with people that try to make it possible to own a number.
You don't have to fire a gun to do massive damage and function as kind of "weapon". We have proven in the past couple of years that you can kill plenty of people by e.g. telling them to privatize their water supply. You do not need a movable actuator for this. Or you could use the AI to disrupt international cash flows and cause all kinds of serious trouble, again this is doable without a movable actuator.
Maybe they would have more money to buy these awesome products from all these ads if we stop stealing their diamonds, and copper, and nickel, and all their other natural resources. But we can't do that! We need all the loot we can get to fuel our superior economy because we've stopped producing anything but "IP" over 10 years ago.
The effect of all this is that Africa (and India and China and ...) can't participate as a consumer in the global market. But the market needs them because our financial system requires exponential growth to function. We need to grow x% every year.
So, we can not produce growth ourselves because we have outsourced all the jobs that actually produce anything, the third world can't generate growth because we steal all their resources, and India et al can't buy anything either because we only pay them fractions of a percent of the value they generate for us.
But fear not citizen! We, your brave leaders have all the solutions. We just invent money buy doubling the "value" of our houses every five years and everything will be fine.
What I am trying to say is: You are right. Services cost money and consumers have to pay the price if they want to use them. From a macro-economic standpoint everything is fine. But TFA might describe a symptom of a pretty difficult macro-economic problem.
Oh ... and every time you post on /. RMS will kill a kitten. You have to trust me on that. Do not google for "kitten RMS" or you will forever lose your freedom.
Hold Still, I don't have good depth perception!
I think you're right. The problem is, that the only mathematically sound game-theoretic model for multiple (i.e. > 2) players in non-zero-sum-games that we know, the Jordan-Neuman-Model, requires that the players try to maximize the overall payout to all players. I think GP is arguing that a war doesn't meet this criteria. So there is no rational -- i.e. scientific -- explanation for war because our models aren't fit for that situation.
As someone who has been writing Java since '99, I have to say if even Threads is not supported, it is a big issue.
Thread support is also "missing" in Sun's JEE Specification. Concurrency is done by the application server, not by the application. As a developer you just configure the relevant parameters you do not code the the actual threading. I do not know Google's AppEngine (and of course I haven't read TFA) but I guess it will be similar.
In probabilistic theory nothing is certain or impossible (except for trivial cases with a finite set of outcomes).
Or even more interesting: which sex and what age would make the search intrusive?
Is anyone else worried that the Chief of Police makes conclusions like this?
Chief of Police is not the same as Police Union Chief.
How can you investigate and solve crimes if you don't understand the difference between correlation and causation?
How can one make "insightful" comments on a summary he isn't able to understand?
The guy is just using something (the school killing) that happened to further his agenda. You use something that happened (the stupid statement from a more or less random person) to further your agenda. Where is the difference between you and him? Oh right! You are fighting for a good cause and are hence allowed to do that, right?
Greasmonkey proves that there is a demand for this.
Just because something is legal, doesn't make it right.
But the law should be binding for the government.
are all only available via Cydia on jailbroken iPhones, none of them is allowed by Apple. I find all of those quite handy, some of them not really trivial and none of them junk. In fact I use most of them on a daily basis.