Put Simply... there is repeatably and independently measurable evidence for God, Heaven, Hell, Devil, reincarnation, and magic...
There are large amounts of evidence for natural selection and evolution (Personally, I find the genetic information most compelling and amazing).
While the evidence doesn't "prove" evolution occured, there is enough evidence to say it is the best theory to fit observed facts unless you are irrational.
I hear what you are saying. My point is-- they have lied to me so often in the past that now they no longer get the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't matter how many MS studies you can find that are well done. That is why people should avoid lying- once they do it enough people do not listen any more when they tell the truth.
Linux is now Microsoft's Wolf. It literally does not matter to me what Microsoft or anyone associated with them (including indirect funding of astroturf groups) say any more.
Over the course of the last 25 years I went from being neutral to basically assuming microsoft is lying and cheating. I'm already way past the "probably lying and cheating". Now microsoft is so deeply associated to me with lying and dishonesty that anyone who produces papers for them is automatically distrusted.
With regard to this latest particular paper it looks like Microsoft very carefully framed a particular question that they could answer well and then paid someone to verify that that very carefully framed question's answer was.
At some point, it's not worth spending effort to check that maybe this time they really aren't going to lie to me again. I long ago passed that point.
I don't hate them. I use their products. But they have no credibility with me.
The basic problem is that microsoft has no credibility any more.
Based on 20 years of lying and being caught (and convicted in multiple cases), it is not worth the time to disprove the lastest survey any more.
Let me put it this way..
If you get 100 pieces of news a day. And you only have time to read 60 of them, you have to dump 40 of them.
At first, you are going to dump things randomly. But if news from one news creator turns out to be consistently worthless/false, then it is going to be shifted into the 40 that get dropped automatically.
Once that happens- EVEN IF that news person starts being honest/valuable, it's unlikely to get a look again unless you get spare bandwidth enough to give it a look to see, "hey this isn't crap any more."
In most cases, our bandwidth is decreasing, not increasing.
It's simpler for me to say: 1) I need windows for a game platform (for now) since I play EQ (on Rodcet Nife). 2) Microsoft wants to lock me into a subscription model where I pay them monthly dues. 3) Microsoft is actually fairly evil and lies a lot- way above average for corporations. 4) Any study paid for by a company that lies that much and is that evil probably is junk. 5) Even if the study -isn't junk= some things are worth putting extra effort into to avoid supporting lying evil bastards. So if there -is- extra effort involved with linux, I'm STILL going to put it out anyway because once that effort is expended, it will save me hundreds if not thousands of dollars and will save any company I work for even more.
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Your post basically says, "Okay... fooled me for the 863rd time, shame on me-- but I'm STILL going to give you the benefit of the doubt."
Oh-- and I think it was shitty to mod you down like that. At a minimum, any post that prompts reasonable argument should be flagged "interesting" since clearly it is. Slashdot's modding system sucks in that regard.
As a consumer of another of Sony's game (the only sony product I use, and I'm not paying for it- part of my general Sony boycott due to an incredibly rude CS experience)...
1) Smedley has been like this since he appeared as a giant gnome. He always talks straight but nothing happens as fast as you think it will and somethings never happen.
2) Anything that is "awesome" is going to get nerfed.
3) They rarely ban anyone.
4) GM's have no real authority.
5) What do you expect for $13 a month...
6) Someday the servers -will- shut down (It sucked in Earth & Beyond (EA game- first mmorg I know of shut down- I won't buy an EA game again since we had about 8k players ($80k a month) and they wouldn't even leave a frozen copy up and running.
7) EQ -never ever- did things until it started losing players- then it mimiced like crazy. I argued with Brad on the old petition board for things that never happened- including the current trade interface. Then when DAoC came out with it and EQ numbers dropped, they moved on it fast.
Bottom line... They think the players are delusional, self-centered and/or idiots. They will quickly mimic proven success.
If they do with SW what they did with EQ1, it will eventually be fun to play again with most of the rough edges worn off so quit paying but don't delete your characters.
But it is an ENTERTAINMENT not a life. Don't give up your job, spouse, children, etc. just because it's fun because it is 100% certain to abandon you (by being shut down) within the next 5-10 years max- probably sooner.
There are already other DNS services which you can add to your stack to resolve addresses that ICANN doesn't know about.
Only those who use those services can successfully use pages that use those DNS text addresses. If you try to follow the pages with ICANN DNS it won't work.
But put on a T-shirt saying "Osama rules !", go stand next to where the World Trade Center used to be, and start giving Al-Qaida recruitment leaflets to everyone passing by. Let's see how long you'll walk free.
You will walk free. The government won't do a damn thing. Especially the police who won't do a damn thing while a crowd of new yorkers beats the snot out of you.
Music CD's have historically been thought to be "read only" and so there was no need for security to prevent them from installing software. In that light, I find it unlikely that PC's are locked down to the level you think.
Since you can buy them used and sony can't withdraw those, this issue will literally never go away- I bet these CD's will be screwing up a few computers a year a decade from now.
There is a war in this country between those who support abortion and those who want to see it become illegal. Roe v. Wade is an icon in that war. Those who oppose Roe v. Wade on principle, but not abortion per se, are simply find themselves on the wrong side of a debate that only has two sides.
And I am beginning to think the only way to defeat them is to let them win. Once they win they will lose the diamond like focus that this issue provides them. Once they win, a lot of young idiots will finally get what it means, lose their complacency, and become galvanized for abortion. It may take women (esp daughters) dying in droves again to make people understand the cost of this policy. They are currently deluded to thinking that if only it was illegal young girls are going to stop getting pregnant or they are evil enough to believe those girls deserve to die.
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Some good points.
Your most likely point of death might be from looters or other breakdowns in society when 20% of the police abandon their posts and people stop delivering gasoline and food and hunker down.
We are incredibly interconnected these days and it makes us pretty fragile.
This was true about the 1918 flu. People with strong immune systems died because they could react so strongly to the flu. It's in that book released last year about the 1918 flu. It's non-intuitive but the parent poster is correct. People with strong immune systems basically died from massive cell hemorage.
It can also be selectively very fatal and still do well. I read the 1918 was very hard on younger folks because their immune systems reacted so strongly that it killed them. Meanwhile some older people got very sick but lived.
Likewise a variant of the flu might not affect asians (who already had varieties of it in the past like europeans had bubonic plague) or men or women or folks under 40. If it has a variant like that, it could be ferocious on the rest of society.
2) It didn't apply to any artist before today. Already dead artists got nothing extra when the walt disney protection act was passed and extended copyright. And most if not all living artists got nothing extra- it was just gravy for the corporations.
3) If we extend the copyright forward over all time, the amount of money would be infinite, so clearly there is some copyright time limit for which the original artists would not be compensated.
And finally,as others have said, there are millions of artists producing materials- does there appear to be much correlation between extending the copyright law an extra 50 years and an increase in materials (and as some have said, if you are really set for life on the basis of one book or song, you are likely to produce less new work because you are not hungry any more).
No but pretty sure it was talked about it here on slashdot in the past 4 weeks.
It's a combination of writers and publishers and it mentioned Amazon (because amazon had created such an efficient used market that it was affecting new sales). You might find it by searching along those lines.
A little water is good for you. A lot of water will kill you.
A few cards using hydrogen are probably good for us. All cars using hydrogen needs to be investigated to see if it puts out significantly more water vapor than our current gasoline cars (which also put out water as a part of burning the fuel).
I think we SHOULD still be paying john lennon and many other dead artists royalties despite the fact that when they recorded the songs the copyright limits were much shorter. Because I agree that all artists need to know that they will be compensated 20 or more years -after they are dead- in order to encourage them to write a song, paint a movie, or write a book.
--- Heard the latest? they are now going after royalties on resales of USED books.
There are tens of thousands of musicians talented enough to produce professional music.
Only the lock on distribution channels prevents them from becoming popular.
And that is what this is really all about.
Support alternate music by going to places like "Magnatune.com" where the music is worth what you decide to pay for it and the artists get 50% of the what you pay... not 10% (itune) or 0% (most music contracts actually leave many musicians deeper in debt after a successful album due to funny accounting practices.)
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I would change your statement thusly.
Put Simply... there is repeatably and independently measurable evidence for God, Heaven, Hell, Devil, reincarnation, and magic...
There are large amounts of evidence for natural selection and evolution (Personally, I find the genetic information most compelling and amazing).
While the evidence doesn't "prove" evolution occured, there is enough evidence to say it is the best theory to fit observed facts unless you are irrational.
Very clever.
What amazes me is how people die and kill over something that has as much validity as the AD&D Gods, Dieties & Demigods handbook.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
I hear what you are saying. My point is-- they have lied to me so often in the past that now they no longer get the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't matter how many MS studies you can find that are well done. That is why people should avoid lying- once they do it enough people do not listen any more when they tell the truth.
Linux is now Microsoft's Wolf. It literally does not matter to me what Microsoft or anyone associated with them (including indirect funding of astroturf groups) say any more.
Over the course of the last 25 years I went from being neutral to basically assuming microsoft is lying and cheating. I'm already way past the "probably lying and cheating". Now microsoft is so deeply associated to me with lying and dishonesty that anyone who produces papers for them is automatically distrusted.
With regard to this latest particular paper it looks like Microsoft very carefully framed a particular question that they could answer well and then paid someone to verify that that very carefully framed question's answer was.
At some point, it's not worth spending effort to check that maybe this time they really aren't going to lie to me again. I long ago passed that point.
I don't hate them. I use their products. But they have no credibility with me.
The basic problem is that microsoft has no credibility any more.
Based on 20 years of lying and being caught (and convicted in multiple cases), it is not worth the time to disprove the lastest survey any more.
Let me put it this way..
If you get 100 pieces of news a day.
And you only have time to read 60 of them, you have to dump 40 of them.
At first, you are going to dump things randomly. But if news from one news creator turns out to be consistently worthless/false, then it is going to be shifted into the 40 that get dropped automatically.
Once that happens- EVEN IF that news person starts being honest/valuable, it's unlikely to get a look again unless you get spare bandwidth enough to give it a look to see, "hey this isn't crap any more."
In most cases, our bandwidth is decreasing, not increasing.
It's simpler for me to say:
1) I need windows for a game platform (for now) since I play EQ (on Rodcet Nife).
2) Microsoft wants to lock me into a subscription model where I pay them monthly dues.
3) Microsoft is actually fairly evil and lies a lot- way above average for corporations.
4) Any study paid for by a company that lies that much and is that evil probably is junk.
5) Even if the study -isn't junk= some things are worth putting extra effort into to avoid supporting lying evil bastards. So if there -is- extra effort involved with linux, I'm STILL going to put it out anyway because once that effort is expended, it will save me hundreds if not thousands of dollars and will save any company I work for even more.
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Your post basically says, "Okay... fooled me for the 863rd time, shame on me-- but I'm STILL going to give you the benefit of the doubt."
Oh-- and I think it was shitty to mod you down like that. At a minimum, any post that prompts reasonable argument should be flagged "interesting" since clearly it is. Slashdot's modding system sucks in that regard.
Standing joke* that french surrender.
i.e. "For sale: French rifles, great condition, only dropped once."
I like the double play on "runs" faster in the sense that the french run away faster and the software runs faster.
Because it may be ripping off copyrighted source.
And it is getting easier every day to mine compiled closed source for suspicious blocks of binary.
I'm sure that you never break the law by 1 mile per hour- much less several times per day over particular quarter miles.
But you can get a ticket for it. Last time I was in defensive driving, one of the people had a ticket for doing 56 in a 55.
Personally, I think when I'm old and about to kick off anyway, I'll go take out as many of these kind of devices as possible.
As a consumer of another of Sony's game (the only sony product I use, and I'm not paying for it- part of my general Sony boycott due to an incredibly rude CS experience)...
1) Smedley has been like this since he appeared as a giant gnome. He always talks straight but nothing happens as fast as you think it will and somethings never happen.
2) Anything that is "awesome" is going to get nerfed.
3) They rarely ban anyone.
4) GM's have no real authority.
5) What do you expect for $13 a month...
6) Someday the servers -will- shut down (It sucked in Earth & Beyond (EA game- first mmorg I know of shut down- I won't buy an EA game again since we had about 8k players ($80k a month) and they wouldn't even leave a frozen copy up and running.
7) EQ -never ever- did things until it started losing players- then it mimiced like crazy. I argued with Brad on the old petition board for things that never happened- including the current trade interface. Then when DAoC came out with it and EQ numbers dropped, they moved on it fast.
Bottom line...
They think the players are delusional, self-centered and/or idiots. They will quickly mimic proven success.
If they do with SW what they did with EQ1, it will eventually be fun to play again with most of the rough edges worn off so quit paying but don't delete your characters.
But it is an ENTERTAINMENT not a life. Don't give up your job, spouse, children, etc. just because it's fun because it is 100% certain to abandon you (by being shut down) within the next 5-10 years max- probably sooner.
There are already other DNS services which you can add to your stack to resolve addresses that ICANN doesn't know about.
Only those who use those services can successfully use pages that use those DNS text addresses. If you try to follow the pages with ICANN DNS it won't work.
But put on a T-shirt saying "Osama rules !", go stand next to where the World Trade Center used to be, and start giving Al-Qaida recruitment leaflets to everyone passing by. Let's see how long you'll walk free.
You will walk free. The government won't do a damn thing. Especially the police who won't do a damn thing while a crowd of new yorkers beats the snot out of you.
that's a lot of cameras.
why can't people on foot adjust them if they become a problem?
And yet another poster on this thread says it happens all the time.
Music CD's have historically been thought to be "read only" and so there was no need for security to prevent them from installing software. In that light, I find it unlikely that PC's are locked down to the level you think.
Since you can buy them used and sony can't withdraw those, this issue will literally never go away- I bet these CD's will be screwing up a few computers a year a decade from now.
There is a war in this country between those who support abortion and those who want to see it become illegal. Roe v. Wade is an icon in that war. Those who oppose Roe v. Wade on principle, but not abortion per se, are simply find themselves on the wrong side of a debate that only has two sides.
And I am beginning to think the only way to defeat them is to let them win. Once they win they will lose the diamond like focus that this issue provides them. Once they win, a lot of young idiots will finally get what it means, lose their complacency, and become galvanized for abortion. It may take women (esp daughters) dying in droves again to make people understand the cost of this policy. They are currently deluded to thinking that if only it was illegal young girls are going to stop getting pregnant or they are evil enough to believe those girls deserve to die.
Some good points.
Your most likely point of death might be from looters or other breakdowns in society when 20% of the police abandon their posts and people stop delivering gasoline and food and hunker down.
We are incredibly interconnected these days and it makes us pretty fragile.
This was true about the 1918 flu.
People with strong immune systems died because they could react so strongly to the flu.
It's in that book released last year about the 1918 flu. It's non-intuitive but the parent poster is correct. People with strong immune systems basically died from massive cell hemorage.
It can also be selectively very fatal and still do well.
I read the 1918 was very hard on younger folks because their immune systems reacted so strongly that it killed them. Meanwhile some older people got very sick but lived.
Likewise a variant of the flu might not affect asians (who already had varieties of it in the past like europeans had bubonic plague) or men or women or folks under 40. If it has a variant like that, it could be ferocious on the rest of society.
Three points...
1) You have a valid point.
2) It didn't apply to any artist before today. Already dead artists got nothing extra when the walt disney protection act was passed and extended copyright. And most if not all living artists got nothing extra- it was just gravy for the corporations.
3) If we extend the copyright forward over all time, the amount of money would be infinite, so clearly there is some copyright time limit for which the original artists would not be compensated.
And finally,as others have said, there are millions of artists producing materials- does there appear to be much correlation between extending the copyright law an extra 50 years and an increase in materials (and as some have said, if you are really set for life on the basis of one book or song, you are likely to produce less new work because you are not hungry any more).
No but pretty sure it was talked about it here on slashdot in the past 4 weeks.
It's a combination of writers and publishers and it mentioned Amazon (because amazon had created such an efficient used market that it was affecting new sales). You might find it by searching along those lines.
What happens when we go to a hydrogen economy?
Lots of extra water vapor.
A little water is good for you. A lot of water will kill you.
A few cards using hydrogen are probably good for us. All cars using hydrogen needs to be investigated to see if it puts out significantly more water vapor than our current gasoline cars (which also put out water as a part of burning the fuel).
You're right.
I think we SHOULD still be paying john lennon and many other dead artists royalties despite the fact that when they recorded the songs the copyright limits were much shorter. Because I agree that all artists need to know that they will be compensated 20 or more years -after they are dead- in order to encourage them to write a song, paint a movie, or write a book.
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Heard the latest? they are now going after royalties on resales of USED books.
This is true as long as most people are "sharing" by taking but not giving.
A little socialism is great. A lot of socialism is terrible.
It builds over generations until you have people who do nothing that genuinely feel everyone else should pay their bills.
There are tens of thousands of musicians talented enough to produce professional music.
Only the lock on distribution channels prevents them from becoming popular.
And that is what this is really all about.
Support alternate music by going to places like "Magnatune.com" where the music is worth what you decide to pay for it and the artists get 50% of the what you pay... not 10% (itune) or 0% (most music contracts actually leave many musicians deeper in debt after a successful album due to funny accounting practices.)
Quite a markup.
$54 bucks worth of dvd's.
$10 worth of packaging.
Sell for $2500 - wow- nice markup!