> It's hard for businesses to give money away because their job, their entire purpose, is to make it for themselves.
Says who? Step one of "creative capitalism" (a term that shares the same level of bs as web2.0) should be the realisation that not everything a company does needs to make money.
Interesting points. Still, I don't see the analogy. Caching proxies are one thing, but their users don't get sued by the RIAA. I don't think that half the people on the internet know that "releasing" their (c) photos/whatever means that the content will be cached and redistributed by proxies. I think most wouldn't really care if they knew.
Bittorrent is (in)famous for copyright infringement. The copyright owner's intention counts for something as well. Technically, you have a good point, and the copyright does not magically end when something gets released onto the net, but when leaking an album to bittorrent, in this day and age, with the probable intention of getting more attention to the performer, I don't think that the bittorrent uploaders could be sued. (It could even be argued that once the copyright owner uploads the work to a bittorrent tracker, he knows that it will be copied to other trackers as well. You need only a little knowledge of the current tracker culture to understand this. Thin ice: when leaking to bittorrent, he implicitly let go of part of the distribution monopoly.)
Re-redistributing is another matter entirely. I can't sell the downloaded and burned CD to anyone.
Please, no biometrics. I can change my password/smart card/whatever else quite easily, but I can never change my iris or fingerprints or what have you.
> With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
Examples? You don't really think the customer cares how there are no developer forums for the iphone sdk?
With Windows, you have a choice which app you want to use for a particular task. Some of these apps are good, some are bad, and they all hate each other. In Apple's app store, there's typically one app that does what you need. No choice.
This is EXACTLY why Apple is so user friendly. For you and me, perhaps not so much, because we need the SSH application that can also do port forwarding, for example. Most people don't know about all that, need a program, see it, buy it, done.
I understand what you mean. I just know that I hardly ever use this command so it gets moved all the way back to the long storage part of the brain. Then, when I need to do an annotate, it's typically because I want to know who did that awful awful thing... so blame is exactly what I want to do (this sounds way more tightly wound than my real-life version, take with salt where needed) so that's what I remember. The alias to praise is being deliberately cute though.
Also, it may be that I miss one of the meanings of the word annotate, but is it even descriptive of the command?
I've not had a chance using Mercurial, so I can't judge its merits.
One of the most important pros for svn is that it has very decent tools and support. Built in in most IDEs, tortoisesvn, stuff like that. I've had a look and Mercurial does have plugins for the IDEs I use.
About blame: svn help blame blame (praise, annotate, ann) [...]
It's just an alias. If you want, you can praise! How is that for positive! Or ann, or annotate, if you're not into the brevity thing.
I've also read that article. It's written by someone who hasn't worked with SVN yet. From that standpoint, CVS will compare favorably.
From any other standpoint, not so much. I have experience (actual, hands on experience, not "I read it on the web" experience) administrating and using both systems. SVN wins hands down. It is more robust, it's more user friendly (no more CVS login), it has functions that CVS lacks (svn move).
SVN's creators wanted to make the next, better CVS. They succeeded. If he's already using SVN, downgrading is a bad move.
They're actually saying that? I wasn't aware that Honda made roads as well. And that there are multiple different roads and different road-vendors to choose from.
I call BS. Hdd is not a replaceable part in the MBP, but both the MBP and the MB have user-replaceable memory, just like any other laptop. The MB has a user replaceable hdd as well. I have first hand experience, both with upgrading the part as with the warranty I got. No questions asked. I have never, not once, heard of a refused warranty repair based on swapped ram.
Bash all you want, some of it is even warranted, but at least get your facts straight. I'm sure you have "witnessed" "numerous" events, though.
People are emotional beings. Let's say we both want to buy an item. You want to spend $200, I want to spend $210 max. In a perfect world, the auction would go to me for $205 (or something like that.)
We both place our bids, you see the $205 amount and think "Hey, I can spend another $10 on that." Bidding war.
Then there are the people who really don't want to lose because only losers lose. It's all very emotional.
Best would be if all the people would just place a secret bid, then afterwards the price is announced, but that will never happen because it keeps prices down.
The proposed 5 minute extension after a bid in the last 5 minutes of an auction is good as well.
You didn't really say that, right? I thought we were clear on the difference between theory and Theory on here.
Look it up on wikipedia. Evolution is a scientific theory, which means it's falsifiable. It is not a theory as in a hunch or a gut feeling, a theory i a specific scientific term. ID/FSM/etc is not a theory in the scientific sense because it cannot be proven false. ("I just KNOW god exists!")
ID has a place in schools. Theology is a valid course. It is not science and shouldn't be taught as science, and that is what this law proposes.
I'm not sure if you meant to say tourists or terrorists there. Fits either way.
Perhaps that's what's going wrong, Bush doesn't get the distinction either! The war on tourists! Terrorists! Osama Bin Laden as a tour operator, Club Med with an edge.
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Enough people voted for him to be considered.
> It's hard for businesses to give money away because their job, their entire purpose, is to make it for themselves.
Says who? Step one of "creative capitalism" (a term that shares the same level of bs as web2.0) should be the realisation that not everything a company does needs to make money.
Interesting points. Still, I don't see the analogy. Caching proxies are one thing, but their users don't get sued by the RIAA. I don't think that half the people on the internet know that "releasing" their (c) photos/whatever means that the content will be cached and redistributed by proxies. I think most wouldn't really care if they knew.
Bittorrent is (in)famous for copyright infringement. The copyright owner's intention counts for something as well. Technically, you have a good point, and the copyright does not magically end when something gets released onto the net, but when leaking an album to bittorrent, in this day and age, with the probable intention of getting more attention to the performer, I don't think that the bittorrent uploaders could be sued.
(It could even be argued that once the copyright owner uploads the work to a bittorrent tracker, he knows that it will be copied to other trackers as well. You need only a little knowledge of the current tracker culture to understand this. Thin ice: when leaking to bittorrent, he implicitly let go of part of the distribution monopoly.)
Re-redistributing is another matter entirely. I can't sell the downloaded and burned CD to anyone.
How long, and under which rock?
Please, no biometrics. I can change my password/smart card/whatever else quite easily, but I can never change my iris or fingerprints or what have you.
> With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
Examples?
You don't really think the customer cares how there are no developer forums for the iphone sdk?
With Windows, you have a choice which app you want to use for a particular task. Some of these apps are good, some are bad, and they all hate each other.
In Apple's app store, there's typically one app that does what you need. No choice.
This is EXACTLY why Apple is so user friendly. For you and me, perhaps not so much, because we need the SSH application that can also do port forwarding, for example. Most people don't know about all that, need a program, see it, buy it, done.
Oh, right. That does make sense. svn does the same.
I was thinking about how you can't see the commit message with blame/annotate, so that's the annotation you miss... But I get it now.
I understand what you mean. I just know that I hardly ever use this command so it gets moved all the way back to the long storage part of the brain. Then, when I need to do an annotate, it's typically because I want to know who did that awful awful thing... so blame is exactly what I want to do (this sounds way more tightly wound than my real-life version, take with salt where needed) so that's what I remember. The alias to praise is being deliberately cute though.
Also, it may be that I miss one of the meanings of the word annotate, but is it even descriptive of the command?
I've not had a chance using Mercurial, so I can't judge its merits.
One of the most important pros for svn is that it has very decent tools and support. Built in in most IDEs, tortoisesvn, stuff like that. I've had a look and Mercurial does have plugins for the IDEs I use.
About blame:
svn help blame
blame (praise, annotate, ann) [...]
It's just an alias. If you want, you can praise! How is that for positive! Or ann, or annotate, if you're not into the brevity thing.
I've also read that article. It's written by someone who hasn't worked with SVN yet. From that standpoint, CVS will compare favorably.
From any other standpoint, not so much. I have experience (actual, hands on experience, not "I read it on the web" experience) administrating and using both systems. SVN wins hands down. It is more robust, it's more user friendly (no more CVS login), it has functions that CVS lacks (svn move).
SVN's creators wanted to make the next, better CVS. They succeeded. If he's already using SVN, downgrading is a bad move.
Hmmm. The argument still stands though. Only a fleshwound!
They're actually saying that? I wasn't aware that Honda made roads as well. And that there are multiple different roads and different road-vendors to choose from.
Who knew?
(Car analogy gone bad, much?)
I see what you're saying, and all the problems I described in my post are mitigated by placing your max bid at the last moment.
Or am I missing your point?
They're only overpriced until you can afford one.
(KA-CHING)
I call BS. Hdd is not a replaceable part in the MBP, but both the MBP and the MB have user-replaceable memory, just like any other laptop. The MB has a user replaceable hdd as well. I have first hand experience, both with upgrading the part as with the warranty I got. No questions asked. I have never, not once, heard of a refused warranty repair based on swapped ram.
Bash all you want, some of it is even warranted, but at least get your facts straight. I'm sure you have "witnessed" "numerous" events, though.
An argument against that:
People are emotional beings. Let's say we both want to buy an item. You want to spend $200, I want to spend $210 max. In a perfect world, the auction would go to me for $205 (or something like that.)
We both place our bids, you see the $205 amount and think "Hey, I can spend another $10 on that." Bidding war.
Then there are the people who really don't want to lose because only losers lose. It's all very emotional.
Best would be if all the people would just place a secret bid, then afterwards the price is announced, but that will never happen because it keeps prices down.
The proposed 5 minute extension after a bid in the last 5 minutes of an auction is good as well.
> I don't understand why people have the idea that Google is better then competent system administrators
Cost. The almighty dollar. Bottom line. Shareholders.
> it's just plain foolish and naive.
Exactly.
Not only that, he also blames the OS for it.
You didn't really say that, right? I thought we were clear on the difference between theory and Theory on here.
Look it up on wikipedia. Evolution is a scientific theory, which means it's falsifiable. It is not a theory as in a hunch or a gut feeling, a theory i a specific scientific term. ID/FSM/etc is not a theory in the scientific sense because it cannot be proven false. ("I just KNOW god exists!")
ID has a place in schools. Theology is a valid course. It is not science and shouldn't be taught as science, and that is what this law proposes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
After rejecting my password a couple of times three hours ago, it's now working again. Adium as well.
I'm not sure if you meant to say tourists or terrorists there. Fits either way.
Perhaps that's what's going wrong, Bush doesn't get the distinction either! The war on tourists! Terrorists! Osama Bin Laden as a tour operator, Club Med with an edge.
utter failure.
I really hate those made up acronyms that don't even bother to have all their characters accounted for in the actual name of the thing.
SPam over Internet Telephony?
I have a better one
spaM Over iNterneEt telephOny
See, two can play THAT game
> a pinhole of light at the end of the tunnel
That's not the end of the tunnel, that's just oncoming traffic.
That doesn't even begin to make sense. Please rephrase?