Maybe those other people should learn when I'm trying to be funny and when I'm trying to be serious? Do you think that I'm trying to make a logical argument by comparing Python and love? It's just supposed to be a tongue in cheek assessment of a language that I really do like, but not quite that much. You, on the other hand, are free to not like Python and, moreover, not use it, so I don't see the reason you should be complaining.
All laws force someone's sense of right and wrong onto other people. It's pointless to talk about trying not to do that -- that is inherently what a law is.
You are. That's the deal with the API for the 360, but the original XBox API doesn't really have that much to do with the Windows platform (At least, that's what the guy who came to my school to give a talk about it said.).
There's a lot of wisdom here that I wish I could learn. The only wisdom that I don't think you've mastered is knowledge of when to give up on someone. Anyway, good job.
Wow, you really don't get it, do you? He's not trying to say that homosexuality isn't a choice, he's trying to say that your argument is insufficient, and he's right.
No, that was actually just you putting words in his mouth. It can be hard to tell the difference between what you think other people say and what they actually do say. To combat this, I recommend listening rather than just waiting for your turn to talk.
Just making sure . . . you realize that that website is a satire, right? I think the polemicized Slashdot population might not realize that. It's not a real church. Not that there aren't Christians who really think like that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they are a minority.
On top of everything Surt said, there's another problem. I don't know if this is the same experience everyone has had, but for me, I have never been able to usefully convince anyone of anything by arguing with them. One of two things happen instead:
1. The person is remains unconvinced. This can come from stubbornness, blindness to facts, or weak arguments on my part. 2. If my logic is powerful enough or I have enough of an intellectual advantage over the other person, I can eventually force them to acknowledge my correctness, but they will hate me for it and still nothing will change.
When it comes right down to it, I have realized that there is nothing I can do to affect the opinions of others through arguments. This is true in politics too. The only way to win someone from the opposite side is not to convince them that you are right, but to convince them that you genuinely put their interests first and that, on top of that, you have the power to defend their interests from others. THAT is what wins in politics, more than anything else. Too bad that no one seems to be able to do that any more. =/
As money, a penny is always worth one cent, even if it is made of gold. However, if the metal has a higher value, then yes, a penny can be worth more than one cent. After all, it's only a medium of exchange.
It doesn't matter. Here is why: this kind of action would probably cost such content providers too much in the long run, assuming BellSouth's charges are not simply outrageous. Since "rebellion" is not worth it, this will probably go through, as long as there is not some kind of competitive pressure against this kind of behavior.
Just dropping by . . . I'm really impressed by how well you argued this, and also how you managed to maintain cool in the face of some pretty ridiculous "What is justice anyway . . . maaaan?" kinds of comments.
I am studying to be a computer scientist. I'm a senior (after two and a half years of school) at Washington University in Saint Louis and one of the top students in my class. I'm going to pick up my master's degree in CS in four years, and I've worked one internship already, with another at Microsoft coming up next summer. I write or have written significant amounts of code in C++, Java, and Python. Although I would be reluctant to say that I am a software engineer considering I have not worked a full time job in the industry yet, I am better at dealing with computers than most people ever get. So I don't really know what you are looking for here . . .
By the way, is that 4% number true? I would have never guessed that the percentage was so high. Even in the department at school, I would say it's barely 4%, and much lower in the other departments.
2006 does have the potential to be a great year for the linux desktop, assuming that a big hardware company gives it a chance.
Corrected by inlining a constant: 2006 does have the potential to be a great year for the linux desktop, assuming FALSE.
Corrected even further by logical equivalence: 2006 does not have the potential to be a great year for the linux desktop.
I love Linux, but it's not going on to anyone's desktop any time soon. There are many reasons (No one profits from putting it on the computers sold at computer companies, it's still not ready for a lot of the hardware that's out there, it doesn't always "Just work"). Eventually, it will get to the point where unfortunate things happen rarely, but I am a power user and I still sometimes have to wrestle with it, so I would be reluctant to think of what others might do if they were like my parents.
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My understanding is that if it someone were to attempt this, they would have to somehow pay the account of the *receiving* program, not the sending program. So, for a person at Hotmail to receive your email, you must pay ten cents. That would be the only logical way to run this kind of system.
. . . there are so many bad patents that my first assumption . . .
In other words, you are an nonthinking Slashdot drone who doesn't bother looking at the situation and just responds by saying, "To hell with patents?" You should try forming your own opinion. It's good for you.
Region limitation is not a copy protection mechanism. It is a regional lockout mechanism designed to allow companies to charge different prices in different locations, based on what people in that region can pay.
I was going to write a very angry post about what you just said, but I took a minute to go back and read some of the other stuff you wrote and it seems like you have a brain and a heart, so let me just respond to what you said with this:
I am highly insulted by your attitude toward my music. I am not implying that I have high tastes or anything like that, just that I like a lot of music that is out there, both indie and major label -- that there is stuff you can find that is worth listening to. If my music is not good enough for you, I guess I will just have to live with that. However, my advice is that you are not winning yourself any friends by claiming that a certain band is bad music, worth complaining over, when in reality it is just that you do not like them. Vertical Horizon, for instance, has occasionally interesting lyrics and instrumentation that can be called skillful, as well as a good live show. I am fine with it if you do not like the teenage pop diva who does not write her own music and cannot actually sing without electronic modulation, but when you insult a real band whose music does not happen to be popular, I cannot really accept that any more.
I do not intend to continue this conversation beyond this point, so you can say what you want or keep it to yourself, it does not matter to me.
Are you an asshole, or just ignorant? Or perhaps astoundingly elitist? Here's a tip: your attitude is very middle-of-the-road . . . actually, that is probably going too easy on it. Yeah, it's actually down in the sewer. Someone needs to get acquainted with the ideas of "Multiple points of view," and "I am not the center of the universe," stat.
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Maybe those other people should learn when I'm trying to be funny and when I'm trying to be serious? Do you think that I'm trying to make a logical argument by comparing Python and love? It's just supposed to be a tongue in cheek assessment of a language that I really do like, but not quite that much. You, on the other hand, are free to not like Python and, moreover, not use it, so I don't see the reason you should be complaining.
"Act like a grownup?" Yeah that is some good advice right there. It sounds like journalistic BS to me, when it comes right down to it.
Python is the second best thing in the world, right after love.
All laws force someone's sense of right and wrong onto other people. It's pointless to talk about trying not to do that -- that is inherently what a law is.
You are. That's the deal with the API for the 360, but the original XBox API doesn't really have that much to do with the Windows platform (At least, that's what the guy who came to my school to give a talk about it said.).
There's a lot of wisdom here that I wish I could learn. The only wisdom that I don't think you've mastered is knowledge of when to give up on someone. Anyway, good job.
Wow, you really don't get it, do you? He's not trying to say that homosexuality isn't a choice, he's trying to say that your argument is insufficient, and he's right.
No, that was actually just you putting words in his mouth. It can be hard to tell the difference between what you think other people say and what they actually do say. To combat this, I recommend listening rather than just waiting for your turn to talk.
Just making sure . . . you realize that that website is a satire, right? I think the polemicized Slashdot population might not realize that. It's not a real church. Not that there aren't Christians who really think like that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they are a minority.
I don't know of any shows about anyone, male or female, in scientific research or technology. Just throwing that out there.
On top of everything Surt said, there's another problem. I don't know if this is the same experience everyone has had, but for me, I have never been able to usefully convince anyone of anything by arguing with them. One of two things happen instead:
1. The person is remains unconvinced. This can come from stubbornness, blindness to facts, or weak arguments on my part.
2. If my logic is powerful enough or I have enough of an intellectual advantage over the other person, I can eventually force them to acknowledge my correctness, but they will hate me for it and still nothing will change.
When it comes right down to it, I have realized that there is nothing I can do to affect the opinions of others through arguments. This is true in politics too. The only way to win someone from the opposite side is not to convince them that you are right, but to convince them that you genuinely put their interests first and that, on top of that, you have the power to defend their interests from others. THAT is what wins in politics, more than anything else. Too bad that no one seems to be able to do that any more. =/
As money, a penny is always worth one cent, even if it is made of gold. However, if the metal has a higher value, then yes, a penny can be worth more than one cent. After all, it's only a medium of exchange.
It doesn't matter. Here is why: this kind of action would probably cost such content providers too much in the long run, assuming BellSouth's charges are not simply outrageous. Since "rebellion" is not worth it, this will probably go through, as long as there is not some kind of competitive pressure against this kind of behavior.
All depends on what you believe in.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL This is like recursive hypocrisy.
Just dropping by . . . I'm really impressed by how well you argued this, and also how you managed to maintain cool in the face of some pretty ridiculous "What is justice anyway . . . maaaan?" kinds of comments.
I am studying to be a computer scientist. I'm a senior (after two and a half years of school) at Washington University in Saint Louis and one of the top students in my class. I'm going to pick up my master's degree in CS in four years, and I've worked one internship already, with another at Microsoft coming up next summer. I write or have written significant amounts of code in C++, Java, and Python. Although I would be reluctant to say that I am a software engineer considering I have not worked a full time job in the industry yet, I am better at dealing with computers than most people ever get. So I don't really know what you are looking for here . . . By the way, is that 4% number true? I would have never guessed that the percentage was so high. Even in the department at school, I would say it's barely 4%, and much lower in the other departments.
Corrected by inlining a constant: 2006 does have the potential to be a great year for the linux desktop, assuming FALSE.
Corrected even further by logical equivalence: 2006 does not have the potential to be a great year for the linux desktop.
I love Linux, but it's not going on to anyone's desktop any time soon. There are many reasons (No one profits from putting it on the computers sold at computer companies, it's still not ready for a lot of the hardware that's out there, it doesn't always "Just work"). Eventually, it will get to the point where unfortunate things happen rarely, but I am a power user and I still sometimes have to wrestle with it, so I would be reluctant to think of what others might do if they were like my parents.
My understanding is that if it someone were to attempt this, they would have to somehow pay the account of the *receiving* program, not the sending program. So, for a person at Hotmail to receive your email, you must pay ten cents. That would be the only logical way to run this kind of system.
Oh really now? This is really exciting news!
In other words, you are an nonthinking Slashdot drone who doesn't bother looking at the situation and just responds by saying, "To hell with patents?" You should try forming your own opinion. It's good for you.
Actually, only about ninety five percent of the world's population is outside the US.
Region limitation is not a copy protection mechanism. It is a regional lockout mechanism designed to allow companies to charge different prices in different locations, based on what people in that region can pay.
I was going to write a very angry post about what you just said, but I took a minute to go back and read some of the other stuff you wrote and it seems like you have a brain and a heart, so let me just respond to what you said with this:
I am highly insulted by your attitude toward my music. I am not implying that I have high tastes or anything like that, just that I like a lot of music that is out there, both indie and major label -- that there is stuff you can find that is worth listening to. If my music is not good enough for you, I guess I will just have to live with that. However, my advice is that you are not winning yourself any friends by claiming that a certain band is bad music, worth complaining over, when in reality it is just that you do not like them. Vertical Horizon, for instance, has occasionally interesting lyrics and instrumentation that can be called skillful, as well as a good live show. I am fine with it if you do not like the teenage pop diva who does not write her own music and cannot actually sing without electronic modulation, but when you insult a real band whose music does not happen to be popular, I cannot really accept that any more.
I do not intend to continue this conversation beyond this point, so you can say what you want or keep it to yourself, it does not matter to me.
Are you an asshole, or just ignorant? Or perhaps astoundingly elitist? Here's a tip: your attitude is very middle-of-the-road . . . actually, that is probably going too easy on it. Yeah, it's actually down in the sewer. Someone needs to get acquainted with the ideas of "Multiple points of view," and "I am not the center of the universe," stat.