Can you spot the bitter Windows Phone developer? Look carefully. They may look like an Android or iPhone developer, but if you approach them slowly and flip them over quickly you can identify them by their long umbilical cord stretching back to MSDN colony mother.
Mars Rover Scientist #1: My god, I think those little blobs in the crater wall are life. We need to get closer.
Mars Rover:
Mars Rover Scientist #2: Oh no, it's died. We've got to send another rover to that location as soon as possible. Make sure we've got the budget!
TV Announcer: And now, in other news, President Obama has announced we're in the midst of another recession, therefore we must go fight more foreign wars and increase the corn ethanol subsidy by 10000%. NASA's budget has been reduced to one guy in a tin can at the bottom of a swimming pool in San Fransisco.
Look, you pack of fucking navel-gazing fucktards. Put down the fucking guns, agree to pool your resources to buy sufficient hookers and Caribbean vacations for Congresscritters to have the existing patent system tossed out the door. We get it that you all sort of started out accruing vast numbers of patents, some good, some bad, some absolutely fucking moronic, in no small part to fend off attacks from each other and from evil little patent trolls, but look at how it's complicating your lives. You couldn't roll out a steaming turd without someone somewhere trying to claim you infringed on a patent they own.
Apple, you're now one of the biggest companies around. If anyone can afford the required number of prostitutes, golf club memberships, or whatever it is those corrupted evil bastards in Congress have an appetite for. Google, come on, you could help out here, same with Samsung. Then you can, you know, compete on the quality of your products, rather than trying to stuff newspaper down each others throats in what can only be described as the bonfire of the idiots.
Why doesn't this ever happen at companies I work at? The places I've worked suck the sex drive out, along with motivation, sense of self-preservation and sometimes even the desire to breathe.
The fact is that vaccination programs have been, by any measure, among the most successful public health initiatives ever. Illnesses like polio, measles and smallpox caused untold misery and death, and were major contributors to infant and child mortality rates (which were huge before the end of the 19th century). People today, living in the comfort provided by over a century of public vaccination programs, simply do not understand this. And this garbage about vaccines causing allergies, or whatever it is you're trying to say, even if it were so, would still not be an argument vaccinations. Vaccines, like all medical procedures, carry inherent risks, but the benefits of wide-scale vaccination programs is so large that it outweighs what ultimately are a few relatively infrequent serious side-effects.
Oh, and your whole post reads like yet another idiot who comes up with a pet theory while drinking beers in the backyard with his friends. "Say, y'know Tom, I bet that MMR causes allergies. Little Billy got the MMR vaccine, and now he sneezes all the time."
There's got to be some one to require that clear evidence be provided. SCO was literally throwing out thousands of pages of code and pointing at the stack and saying "There's the evidence." The judge should have the power to say "Please show clear passages showing infringement by the next hearing or your case will be thrown out."
A judge doesn't have to know anything about programming to know that he's witnessing a snow job. Do you think, for instance, in a plagiarism trial that a judge even during a preliminary hearing would accept the plaintiff pointing to a stack of novels and saying "There's your infringement!" No, he'd want to see specific passages between the plaintiff's work and the defendant's that showed where text had been lifted.
You consider being lead around by a scam artist with exactly one published article that almost from the moment it was published was being attacked by just about every authority on the subject a prudent, sensible choice?
Come on, pal. Everyone knew for years that Wakefield was a liar and his study was garbage. We may not have known the extent of his con-artistry, but there was never any doubt as to his study being pure bullshit.
While I'm against the death penalty in general, I'd quite happily put that on hold to have Andrew Wakefield put in the electric chair. That evil scamster is behind all of this. Why he isn't at least spending his life behind bars is beyond me, considering the damage he has done.
That's a pretty moronic thing to say. Cancer survival rates have been on the rise for decades. But part of that survival is using therapies that can really screw with the immune system, so that group is at far higher risk of contracting serious infections.
No matter how you look at it, SCO was basically reconfigured by McBride and Co. into a scam. At first it was simply trying to extort IBM into paying it off in a now all-too-common form of IP extortion. When it became clear that IBM had no interest in undermining its investment in Linux, it basically evolved into a pump and dump. SCO and its allies took the opportunity to use disgusting little fuckers like Daniel Lyons to give their ludicrous claims weight. Of course, greedy morons gathered from near and far to hand SCO money because it was going to be getting all these licensing fees from every copy of Linux out there. Once that plan flopped spectacularly and SCO's underlying claims finally deep-sixed completely, it then transformed into a lawyer's scam.
The whole thing leaves me very disgusted with the civil law system. That a company who could not even produce any clear evidence of IP theft or infringement was allowed to just keep reinventing its case over and over for years, to make ever more shrill and absurd claims, is beyond me. Why the system isn't built so that if you don't have the goddamned evidence clear as a bell ready to submit when papers are field, you're not even allowed through the door, is beyond me. This is truly a system built simply to make lawyers lots of money.
Um, I have to jailbreak an Apple device that *I* own to do what *I* want with it? This is like saying "To make sure you don't electrocute yourself or burn down the house you bought, the local authority is going to control what you plug in to any given 15 amp socket."
I have no problem with regular users being somewhat walled in, but the idea that I should be forced to play some hardware vendors game for my own good is pretty noxious to me. It is a substantial step backwards.
The only rational I'm sure is that it looks new and different, and thus when people walk into Best Fuck or whatever evil shit store they're about to be swindled by, they can go "Wow! This is a new version, looking at all those cool picture things!"
The number of options available in a file manager are considerably less than those available in an average word processor. I see little enough to be gained here.
But hey, as long as they bring a proper fucking up level button, it will be a huge improvement over the abortion that Windows Explorer has become.
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Can you spot the bitter Windows Phone developer? Look carefully. They may look like an Android or iPhone developer, but if you approach them slowly and flip them over quickly you can identify them by their long umbilical cord stretching back to MSDN colony mother.
Ah yes, politics, where people go to lose their sense of humor.
It was a joke, you idiot.
Mars Rover Scientist #1: My god, I think those little blobs in the crater wall are life. We need to get closer.
Mars Rover:
Mars Rover Scientist #2: Oh no, it's died. We've got to send another rover to that location as soon as possible. Make sure we've got the budget!
TV Announcer: And now, in other news, President Obama has announced we're in the midst of another recession, therefore we must go fight more foreign wars and increase the corn ethanol subsidy by 10000%. NASA's budget has been reduced to one guy in a tin can at the bottom of a swimming pool in San Fransisco.
It's worked for Big Oil, hasn't it?
They need to be able to compete on an even playing field, not on one where the major competitors are heavily subsidized.
So the real solution here is to make hypocrisy a capital offense.
Look, you pack of fucking navel-gazing fucktards. Put down the fucking guns, agree to pool your resources to buy sufficient hookers and Caribbean vacations for Congresscritters to have the existing patent system tossed out the door. We get it that you all sort of started out accruing vast numbers of patents, some good, some bad, some absolutely fucking moronic, in no small part to fend off attacks from each other and from evil little patent trolls, but look at how it's complicating your lives. You couldn't roll out a steaming turd without someone somewhere trying to claim you infringed on a patent they own.
Apple, you're now one of the biggest companies around. If anyone can afford the required number of prostitutes, golf club memberships, or whatever it is those corrupted evil bastards in Congress have an appetite for. Google, come on, you could help out here, same with Samsung. Then you can, you know, compete on the quality of your products, rather than trying to stuff newspaper down each others throats in what can only be described as the bonfire of the idiots.
Why doesn't this ever happen at companies I work at? The places I've worked suck the sex drive out, along with motivation, sense of self-preservation and sometimes even the desire to breathe.
Or a fucking moron.
So you're arguing not to use soap?
The fact is that vaccination programs have been, by any measure, among the most successful public health initiatives ever. Illnesses like polio, measles and smallpox caused untold misery and death, and were major contributors to infant and child mortality rates (which were huge before the end of the 19th century). People today, living in the comfort provided by over a century of public vaccination programs, simply do not understand this. And this garbage about vaccines causing allergies, or whatever it is you're trying to say, even if it were so, would still not be an argument vaccinations. Vaccines, like all medical procedures, carry inherent risks, but the benefits of wide-scale vaccination programs is so large that it outweighs what ultimately are a few relatively infrequent serious side-effects.
Oh, and your whole post reads like yet another idiot who comes up with a pet theory while drinking beers in the backyard with his friends. "Say, y'know Tom, I bet that MMR causes allergies. Little Billy got the MMR vaccine, and now he sneezes all the time."
Look up the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
There's got to be some one to require that clear evidence be provided. SCO was literally throwing out thousands of pages of code and pointing at the stack and saying "There's the evidence." The judge should have the power to say "Please show clear passages showing infringement by the next hearing or your case will be thrown out."
A judge doesn't have to know anything about programming to know that he's witnessing a snow job. Do you think, for instance, in a plagiarism trial that a judge even during a preliminary hearing would accept the plaintiff pointing to a stack of novels and saying "There's your infringement!" No, he'd want to see specific passages between the plaintiff's work and the defendant's that showed where text had been lifted.
You consider being lead around by a scam artist with exactly one published article that almost from the moment it was published was being attacked by just about every authority on the subject a prudent, sensible choice?
Come on, pal. Everyone knew for years that Wakefield was a liar and his study was garbage. We may not have known the extent of his con-artistry, but there was never any doubt as to his study being pure bullshit.
While I'm against the death penalty in general, I'd quite happily put that on hold to have Andrew Wakefield put in the electric chair. That evil scamster is behind all of this. Why he isn't at least spending his life behind bars is beyond me, considering the damage he has done.
Just another eugenicist. They were the Libertarians of yesteryear, selfish and wicked.
That's a pretty moronic thing to say. Cancer survival rates have been on the rise for decades. But part of that survival is using therapies that can really screw with the immune system, so that group is at far higher risk of contracting serious infections.
Fuck there are some really stupid twats on /.
No matter how you look at it, SCO was basically reconfigured by McBride and Co. into a scam. At first it was simply trying to extort IBM into paying it off in a now all-too-common form of IP extortion. When it became clear that IBM had no interest in undermining its investment in Linux, it basically evolved into a pump and dump. SCO and its allies took the opportunity to use disgusting little fuckers like Daniel Lyons to give their ludicrous claims weight. Of course, greedy morons gathered from near and far to hand SCO money because it was going to be getting all these licensing fees from every copy of Linux out there. Once that plan flopped spectacularly and SCO's underlying claims finally deep-sixed completely, it then transformed into a lawyer's scam.
The whole thing leaves me very disgusted with the civil law system. That a company who could not even produce any clear evidence of IP theft or infringement was allowed to just keep reinventing its case over and over for years, to make ever more shrill and absurd claims, is beyond me. Why the system isn't built so that if you don't have the goddamned evidence clear as a bell ready to submit when papers are field, you're not even allowed through the door, is beyond me. This is truly a system built simply to make lawyers lots of money.
It's been fifteen years since I saw a NAT router have a problem handling FTP.
Yes, it's good to see that they've thrown in a feature available on pretty much every desktop Linux distro for ten years.
Um, I have to jailbreak an Apple device that *I* own to do what *I* want with it? This is like saying "To make sure you don't electrocute yourself or burn down the house you bought, the local authority is going to control what you plug in to any given 15 amp socket."
I have no problem with regular users being somewhat walled in, but the idea that I should be forced to play some hardware vendors game for my own good is pretty noxious to me. It is a substantial step backwards.
The real question is whether anything HP says or does is going to matter in two or three years.
The only rational I'm sure is that it looks new and different, and thus when people walk into Best Fuck or whatever evil shit store they're about to be swindled by, they can go "Wow! This is a new version, looking at all those cool picture things!"
The number of options available in a file manager are considerably less than those available in an average word processor. I see little enough to be gained here.
But hey, as long as they bring a proper fucking up level button, it will be a huge improvement over the abortion that Windows Explorer has become.
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