Oh come on. You're not buying the movie, it's a "value add". It's a stupid gimmick, but the usual soulful bemoaning of DRM is more than a little silly in this case. If it gets damaged, you've lost it, just like any other product. If I buy a keyboard or a hard drive or a glass crack pipe and it breaks, I've lost the product. I find DRM whining to be nonsensical.
Read the replies, you can see they aren't. It's really kind of odd. It's a fascinating example of self delusion. Some come up with ridiculous excuses and say "well, uhh, ok maybe he did it but the proof wasn't enough!". Bullshit. The odds of anything having happened other than his murdering his wife were vanishingly small when the evidence was taken in its whole. That's what a trial is about, reducing the chances that the defendant didn't do it to an unreasonably small chance.
I think most of them know that, but they pretend not to and instead think there has to be semen all over the place, finger prints, a body, a murder weapon, and a witness before you can convict. Give me a break.
Then they go on to deny any kind of prejudice. I mean, if this were some construction worker or petty criminal I'm sure they would have just as outraged over the "lack of evidence", right? It's really kind of sad. Makes me reevaluate my definition of intelligence. You can know all kinds of technical shit, be good at formal reasoning, and know the scientific method and still be quite a self-deluding moron.
Oh cry me a fucking river. The fact is that people in this country brutalize each other and know that they will be going to a relatively nice place to live. Tales of brutality in prison are greatly exaggerated and in fact the majority of prisoners just lead relatively comfortable (if confined) lives.
Their victims, however, aren't so lucky. Child rapists, people who rape and murder a 16 year old and dump her in the woods, people who torture somebody to death over the course of a few weeks, people who shoot a mother of 3 for a few hundred dollars, etc... are the ones who get off easy. Their victims don't.
So you go on weeping for murderous scum, meanwhile they'd have no compunction about murdering you and everyone you love. Reiser does deserve to be raped in prison and brutalized in general for what he's done to his children, not even considering what he did to his wife.
If someone who rapes and murders a 4 year old child can be incontrovertibly proved guilty, beyond any kind of rational doubt then personally I'd be cool with flaying him alive in public, old school. Would certainly tend to discourage others from doing the same.
Considering that McCain has almost no chance of winning this election
I'm seeing a lot of this laughable technique. Excuse me, but are you 6? Do you still think if you state something as fact, close your eyes, and wish really, really hard that it will come true? Methinks it doesn't bode well for Democratic chances if you're getting this delusional already.
Oh my God. Thank the heavens that you are so much smarter than the scientists at NASA. What would they do without you! I highly recommend they bring you on staff, and you can be in the much vaunted position of "Minister of Keepin' it Real".
Total bullshit. Nobody must buy Apple. There are plenty of alternatives including Windows and a multitude of Linux flavors, and all kinds of more obscure OS's. It's completely fucking stupid to take early 19th century monopoly and trust laws which were created for monopolies over physical and limited resources and then suddenly apply them to intellectual property. How the _fuck_ can you have a monopoly on a piece of IP? It makes no sense.
By this..."thought"... McDonald's has a horrible monopoly on the Big Mac! And Joe's Flowers has a monopoly on..Joe's Flowers.
Which is to say it's fun to make up market segments willy nilly, but it's stupid to do it in anything but fun. The market is desktop operating systems. Neither Apple _nor_ Microsoft has a monopoly, and this is easily proved.
Intelligence isn't what dictates survivability. They may have been smarter in every way. That doesn't mean they get to win. It's about adaptability, robustness, breeding rate, "luck", and a whole lot of other factors amount which Intelligence is probably not even primary when comparing within the same order of magnitude IQ.
OK. I'll do that. Then you go out and try a quad core showdown between Phenom and C2Q on a smattering of real life applications and tell me who wins. Just kidding - I already know who wins.
Oh come on. "Oooh, gee, I bet those poor suckers managing Windo$e from Micro$haft are way worse!" (cue geeky dweeb laugh..'dur hee schnee snort snort tee hee').
I see what you're driving at, and all, it's just that it's stupid. The fact is that it comes down to the quality of the admin more than it does the platform. A crappy Linux admin is going to spend a lot of time managing 50 systems the same way a crappy Windows admin is. Either system provides the tools to effectively manage a large environment if you know how to use them.
Oh, clearly. I mean it's not as if I can pick from one of a hundred alternate operating systems ranging from mainstream (Apple, several Linux distros) to obscure. Definitely a monopoly, because I literally have no choices but to buy Microsoft products. Apple doesn't exist. There aren't dozens of Linux distros for various purposes. It's just crazy how much of a monopoly Microsoft has.
Unfortunately, AMD's "advanced technology" in HT doesn't help them win anywhere but in multi-socket servers. Intel's FSB is plenty sufficient for single socket desktops. So..what's your point again?
OK. We get it. They aren't cross platform. How many "gee, I tried this on my PC and it didn't work, oh wait I'm not running Wi$D0ze$!" posts do we need? Crikey.
Uhh, huh? You do understand that the reason nobody uses C++ anymore for a large number of applications is precisely because it's not more like Java and C#? Don't get me wrong, C++ has its place and is still obviously used heavily. But look in the enterprise development domain, for example. Largely.NET and Java dominated. In fact, barring footprint or specific and _rare_ performance issues, C++ is almost never the right choice nowadays unless you have to use it for e.g. drivers, kernel code, high performance scientific computing, etc... OK, that's actually a lot of things;) I guess what I mean is that as a language, C++ is pretty lame and 1990's-ish but as a platform is is useful and required at times.
This is an attemt to bring people back into the fold. I wonder how many professional C++ developers don't use something like Boost already anyway. This just standardizes it. If you don't want all that crap, don't use it in your apps.
Lol. They tried that. It's called "socialism/communism". It's been proved not to work. You can't develop a system of government/civilization that completely ignores human nature.
Individual instances of specific "sharing" mean nothing. If I spend $1 billion developing a new vaccine and some asshole can just come along and copy it, then scream in his best Chong-hippy voice "Information wants to be free, man!" it's probably going to make me not want to spend another billion for the next breakthrough. I'm not really sure what your point was linking all those companies, they don't share everything. Can you give me a link to Google's search algorithm code? Can you show me where IBM publishes all the details on their latest litho processes?
In some cases, sharing is fine. Lots of companies do that and since the goal isn't generally profit open source does it well to. So what. One model does not fit all. I'm not saying the patent system is working correctly, but we do need some sort of protection. It's just that the pendulam has swung too far in one direction with ridiculous "software patents" and "patenting something obvious and adding..'on the interwebs' or 'on the iphone!'" patents.
Right. They were teleworkers. They are no longer. Ergo when they told the (at the time) teleworkers to come to the office 4 days a week, their status as teleworkers ceased.
Lol, right. I mean, companies would just love spending billions of dollars to develop something and then having a rival just pick it up and copy it. That would _totally_ spur innovation, dude!
Thanks for the link - interesting reading when I read more on it. But really that's my point, I think GM is potentially crazy valuable, we're just moving too quickly and we don't understand all the ramifications enough yet.
I partially agree. The thing is without some kind of incentive there's no reason for companies like Monsanto to spend billions on this stuff. If a farmer can just buy a few seeds, grow the plant, then use the seeds there isn't going to be much profit in it. The problem is twofold. First, they're moving too quickly on this stuff. I usually laugh at the people who are afraid of all things GM, but to some degree on further reflection they have a point. Nobody knows yet all the ramifications of GM food. They should have to go through a _whole_ lot more rigor, FDA level rigor to get approval for feeding this to people.
Second are issues like this. The win-win situation is to make seeds that product plants which are sterile and don't cross polinate. Then again, I'm not sure I want a bunch of hyper-roundup'd food, either. So I'm not all ra-ra Monsanto, but I think GMd food can be a boon to civilization if done right. I don't think it's being done right, however.
Wrong. He collected the plants intentionally and used the GM'd seeds. He didn't pay for them. I'd say there was blame enough to go around. He shouldn't have used the seeds. Monsanto should have paid for cleanup and not sued him. But a story of a valiant fight by a poor farmer this is not. He could have simply harvested the plants and then planted normal seeds the next year.
Bullshit. How did this get modded "Insightful"? The number of viewer*hours racked up by the olympics dwarf the viewer*hours racked up by the superbowl and world series combined. Lots of people are watching.
Oh poor us. My relatively large salary I get for sitting on my ass and doing stuff I (usually) enjoy is just killing me. Poor, poor tech workers. IT workers are really suffering under some Dickensian conditions. Whaa. Whaaa. Seriously, this country's shift towards socialism is appalling. Everybody wants free shit at someone else's expense, and they want the government to help them get it.
I mean, Jesus. Another topic here is about the horrible Cable companies and how they're oppressing people. Now maybe I'm crazy, but how about you not fucking watch the Iron Chef, Oprah, or the Real World if you don't like the cable companies. I guess it's a sign of success when you start whining about things like this. For the record, this is why "they hate us". You go to Darfur or to the Sudan and tell them all your woes. The only question is if they'll shoot you in the face before or after they cramp up from laughter.
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Oh come on. You're not buying the movie, it's a "value add". It's a stupid gimmick, but the usual soulful bemoaning of DRM is more than a little silly in this case. If it gets damaged, you've lost it, just like any other product. If I buy a keyboard or a hard drive or a glass crack pipe and it breaks, I've lost the product. I find DRM whining to be nonsensical.
I think most of them know that, but they pretend not to and instead think there has to be semen all over the place, finger prints, a body, a murder weapon, and a witness before you can convict. Give me a break.
Then they go on to deny any kind of prejudice. I mean, if this were some construction worker or petty criminal I'm sure they would have just as outraged over the "lack of evidence", right? It's really kind of sad. Makes me reevaluate my definition of intelligence. You can know all kinds of technical shit, be good at formal reasoning, and know the scientific method and still be quite a self-deluding moron.
Their victims, however, aren't so lucky. Child rapists, people who rape and murder a 16 year old and dump her in the woods, people who torture somebody to death over the course of a few weeks, people who shoot a mother of 3 for a few hundred dollars, etc... are the ones who get off easy. Their victims don't.
So you go on weeping for murderous scum, meanwhile they'd have no compunction about murdering you and everyone you love. Reiser does deserve to be raped in prison and brutalized in general for what he's done to his children, not even considering what he did to his wife.
If someone who rapes and murders a 4 year old child can be incontrovertibly proved guilty, beyond any kind of rational doubt then personally I'd be cool with flaying him alive in public, old school. Would certainly tend to discourage others from doing the same.
Considering that McCain has almost no chance of winning this election
I'm seeing a lot of this laughable technique. Excuse me, but are you 6? Do you still think if you state something as fact, close your eyes, and wish really, really hard that it will come true? Methinks it doesn't bode well for Democratic chances if you're getting this delusional already.
Oh my God. Thank the heavens that you are so much smarter than the scientists at NASA. What would they do without you! I highly recommend they bring you on staff, and you can be in the much vaunted position of "Minister of Keepin' it Real".
Total bullshit. Nobody must buy Apple. There are plenty of alternatives including Windows and a multitude of Linux flavors, and all kinds of more obscure OS's. It's completely fucking stupid to take early 19th century monopoly and trust laws which were created for monopolies over physical and limited resources and then suddenly apply them to intellectual property. How the _fuck_ can you have a monopoly on a piece of IP? It makes no sense.
Which is to say it's fun to make up market segments willy nilly, but it's stupid to do it in anything but fun. The market is desktop operating systems. Neither Apple _nor_ Microsoft has a monopoly, and this is easily proved.
Intelligence isn't what dictates survivability. They may have been smarter in every way. That doesn't mean they get to win. It's about adaptability, robustness, breeding rate, "luck", and a whole lot of other factors amount which Intelligence is probably not even primary when comparing within the same order of magnitude IQ.
OK. I'll do that. Then you go out and try a quad core showdown between Phenom and C2Q on a smattering of real life applications and tell me who wins. Just kidding - I already know who wins.
I see what you're driving at, and all, it's just that it's stupid. The fact is that it comes down to the quality of the admin more than it does the platform. A crappy Linux admin is going to spend a lot of time managing 50 systems the same way a crappy Windows admin is. Either system provides the tools to effectively manage a large environment if you know how to use them.
MS on the other hand, clearly has a monopoly.
Oh, clearly. I mean it's not as if I can pick from one of a hundred alternate operating systems ranging from mainstream (Apple, several Linux distros) to obscure. Definitely a monopoly, because I literally have no choices but to buy Microsoft products. Apple doesn't exist. There aren't dozens of Linux distros for various purposes. It's just crazy how much of a monopoly Microsoft has.
Unfortunately, AMD's "advanced technology" in HT doesn't help them win anywhere but in multi-socket servers. Intel's FSB is plenty sufficient for single socket desktops. So..what's your point again?
OK. We get it. They aren't cross platform. How many "gee, I tried this on my PC and it didn't work, oh wait I'm not running Wi$D0ze$!" posts do we need? Crikey.
This is an attemt to bring people back into the fold. I wonder how many professional C++ developers don't use something like Boost already anyway. This just standardizes it. If you don't want all that crap, don't use it in your apps.
Lol. They tried that. It's called "socialism/communism". It's been proved not to work. You can't develop a system of government/civilization that completely ignores human nature.
In some cases, sharing is fine. Lots of companies do that and since the goal isn't generally profit open source does it well to. So what. One model does not fit all. I'm not saying the patent system is working correctly, but we do need some sort of protection. It's just that the pendulam has swung too far in one direction with ridiculous "software patents" and "patenting something obvious and adding..'on the interwebs' or 'on the iphone!'" patents.
Right. They were teleworkers. They are no longer. Ergo when they told the (at the time) teleworkers to come to the office 4 days a week, their status as teleworkers ceased.
There is no x86 vs RISC war. RISC both lost and won. The best things of RISC and CISC are combined in modern chips.
Lol, right. I mean, companies would just love spending billions of dollars to develop something and then having a rival just pick it up and copy it. That would _totally_ spur innovation, dude!
Thanks for the link - interesting reading when I read more on it. But really that's my point, I think GM is potentially crazy valuable, we're just moving too quickly and we don't understand all the ramifications enough yet.
Second are issues like this. The win-win situation is to make seeds that product plants which are sterile and don't cross polinate. Then again, I'm not sure I want a bunch of hyper-roundup'd food, either. So I'm not all ra-ra Monsanto, but I think GMd food can be a boon to civilization if done right. I don't think it's being done right, however.
Wrong. He collected the plants intentionally and used the GM'd seeds. He didn't pay for them. I'd say there was blame enough to go around. He shouldn't have used the seeds. Monsanto should have paid for cleanup and not sued him. But a story of a valiant fight by a poor farmer this is not. He could have simply harvested the plants and then planted normal seeds the next year.
Bullshit. How did this get modded "Insightful"? The number of viewer*hours racked up by the olympics dwarf the viewer*hours racked up by the superbowl and world series combined. Lots of people are watching.
I mean, Jesus. Another topic here is about the horrible Cable companies and how they're oppressing people. Now maybe I'm crazy, but how about you not fucking watch the Iron Chef, Oprah, or the Real World if you don't like the cable companies. I guess it's a sign of success when you start whining about things like this. For the record, this is why "they hate us". You go to Darfur or to the Sudan and tell them all your woes. The only question is if they'll shoot you in the face before or after they cramp up from laughter.
Umm, I think that's why they developed these things called "unions".