True. But it's the user-contributed data behind sites that worries me, far more than the webapp code, just like it was the hardware access behind drivers that worried me, and the ability to access data in office documents, or the network protocols behind samba.
I'm absolutely NOT saying that code isn't important. Nor am I trying to belittle Stallman's point here. Still, I'm surprised more uproar hasn't occurred over huge sites like $socialsite storing data on most of the online world, without providing users with open access to their own information.
Except by people who know anything about him, of course.
Although, we may have to exclude people who've known him AND have tried to have a civilised conversation with him, I'll grant you. Nonetheless, he's still a hero of the modern age, and deserves some respect.
1. Less talk and more subtlety. This means very little or no explicit dialog, no in-your-face pictures of dancing robots (but maybe Baltar and Six in front of an electronics store),
Serious question: what the hell for? What do you gain from subtlety? A bit of smugness that you "worked out" the oh-so-subtle meaning? The right to ignore the show's message, and still claim to enjoy the show because you "didn't see it that way"?
It's popular lately for all messages in media to be subtle, but that's just a cop-out so it can be mass-sold to everyone, and the many will buy it. It doesn't actually add value. If anything, it dilutes it.
What if you make your choice based on circumstances beyond your control?
I think you mean, "what does it matter if your choice is based on circumstances beyond your control?" It's not like you'll be able to do anything about it.
No. The headline is wrong. Fighting death is not the same as wanting to live, and many religious people love life, probably more than a lot of athiests who see no meaning in life (which is ABSOLUTELY NOT to say that all athiests have no love of life). The statistics from this study should be no surprise, to anyone who's really bothered to study religion, instead of just developing a bad taste for the religious misunderstandings which their parents or the local fundamentalists may have had.
The format you're using is now recognised, and considered correct when punctuation matters (such as in technical docs). It's called "logical quoting", I believe.
Ah, I think I see what you're getting at now. If I was trying to say that firevox is not firefox, then yes, "as different from" makes sense. And that WAS part of my reasoning for mentioning firefox. However, I also find it strange that firefox doesn't support these standards, since it's pretty much famed as the more standard browser choice (over IE at least), so another thing I was trying to get across is that firefox is not an option.
Granted, "as different from" might be technically better. Personally I quite like the visual image that "as opposed to" creates, and I don't see why you can't set up one browser in opposition to another for comparison. Are you SURE your version is the only correct one of the two? If so, why?
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I think you may be more confused than most slashdotters about this.
True. But it's the user-contributed data behind sites that worries me, far more than the webapp code, just like it was the hardware access behind drivers that worried me, and the ability to access data in office documents, or the network protocols behind samba.
I'm absolutely NOT saying that code isn't important. Nor am I trying to belittle Stallman's point here. Still, I'm surprised more uproar hasn't occurred over huge sites like $socialsite storing data on most of the online world, without providing users with open access to their own information.
Except by people who know anything about him, of course.
Although, we may have to exclude people who've known him AND have tried to have a civilised conversation with him, I'll grant you. Nonetheless, he's still a hero of the modern age, and deserves some respect.
Go ahead: "borrow" the javascript from some big website like google maps or one of the new online office suits, and see how far you get.
So many humans choose to be vegans, and yet veganism is not part of human nature? Great logic there, Sherlock.
Actually many people's immune systems are "designed" to kill them (autoimmune disorders).
Still, I agree with the general points in this thread, that life is for living, not for obsessing over.
Serious question: what the hell for? What do you gain from subtlety? A bit of smugness that you "worked out" the oh-so-subtle meaning? The right to ignore the show's message, and still claim to enjoy the show because you "didn't see it that way"?
It's popular lately for all messages in media to be subtle, but that's just a cop-out so it can be mass-sold to everyone, and the many will buy it. It doesn't actually add value. If anything, it dilutes it.
1. Fork the project
2. Change the name
Never mind; neither have I :) Correct name is Infinite Improbability Drive. Look it up anyway; it's fun :)
I think the GP is hinting that, without progress on copyright and politics, technological progress will be held back anyway.
I'm guessing you've never heard of the probability drive.
This just in: lawyers eating children for lunch.
Indeed. Every dry forest should have a point-to-point-lightning device for signalling.
Yep, very helpful. I wonder if it actually means anything, or if X,Y,psi,phi could just as easily have been Z,A,alpha,beta.
I think you mean, "what does it matter if your choice is based on circumstances beyond your control?" It's not like you'll be able to do anything about it.
Yep, it's called divide and conquer. Of course, the governments and big media are quite globally united, with things like copyright treaties, sadly.
Actually, that was the sticky bit. But after porn developed, the sticky bit got reassigned to mean evil.
No. The headline is wrong. Fighting death is not the same as wanting to live, and many religious people love life, probably more than a lot of athiests who see no meaning in life (which is ABSOLUTELY NOT to say that all athiests have no love of life). The statistics from this study should be no surprise, to anyone who's really bothered to study religion, instead of just developing a bad taste for the religious misunderstandings which their parents or the local fundamentalists may have had.
No, Gentoo is the future incarnation, which is yet to finish creating itself.
Thanks, you saved me from having to say it :)
The format you're using is now recognised, and considered correct when punctuation matters (such as in technical docs). It's called "logical quoting", I believe.
Actually, they're just scorch marks from Ancient drones.
Ah, I think I see what you're getting at now. If I was trying to say that firevox is not firefox, then yes, "as different from" makes sense. And that WAS part of my reasoning for mentioning firefox. However, I also find it strange that firefox doesn't support these standards, since it's pretty much famed as the more standard browser choice (over IE at least), so another thing I was trying to get across is that firefox is not an option.
Granted, "as different from" might be technically better. Personally I quite like the visual image that "as opposed to" creates, and I don't see why you can't set up one browser in opposition to another for comparison. Are you SURE your version is the only correct one of the two? If so, why?
I believe the tag names, respectively, are going to be <enron> and <balmer>