the whole thing crashes and the windshield goes black.. turns out it wasn't a HUD displayed on clear safety glass but a monitor that used video cameras to show the road outside on a layer below the HUD
Yeah and that's a stupid argument anyway because artists in the east and west copied great masters and it is completely unrelated to product cloning which is done by shady companies with shady engineers and a team of toddlers to actually assemble the crap for the sole purpose of profit and not to make an artistic statement.
In China there is a long tradition for copying great masters, certainly in arts, but also in other matters. After all, if something is good, why not? I am not saying that this excuses making illegal copies, but that's the way it is. 2000+ years of habits don't die overnight. That is completely inapplicable to the discussion. Artists and craftsmen in the west copy great masters as well. But you can't compare white collar theft and patent infringement in the west to artists in China being inspired by the master's of a craft and imitating their style. Artists in China and the west do this. Likewise, companies in China and the west rip off of other companies products. Stop using some stupid asianphile argument to defend Chinese sweatshops turning out crappy ripoffs of "western" products as though the 5 year olds assembling the damn things are doing it in the name of art and respecting the great artistic master Steve Jobs.
I hate PHP as much as the next guy, but Perl? Come on. ...he said while utilizing Slashdot's "comments.pl" file to announce his message of dislike to the world.
Well I honestly have no idea, and I wouldn't suggest doing it again but as long you aren't blind now, I doubt you will become blind. Just be more careful next time. From what I understand, laser blindness is immediate.
Haha oh my gosh the Glaucoma test.. I went in to get contacts for the first time ever yesterday and got the checkup done. However my maternal grandparents have had glaucoma so they tried to do the test where the blew air into my eye. I was so scared I couldn't keep my head still and I would blink when the air came out. They finally said I could go into the eye doctor's office anyway but they would get me sometime before I left. They didn't. I think that maybe they had had enough of trying to assist me in getting contacts in and out of my eye for 30 minutes upward.
Lol no:) I'm installing it with Parallels on my new Macbook I'm getting soon in the mail. Along with Ubuntu. Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu 7.04 all running side by side. I've dreamed of running every mainstream OS multiboot since 9th grade. Now I'm gonna be a Freshmen in college and I can run every mainstream OS at the same time! When I was in 9th grade, you wouldn't have been even able to install OSX on a PC. Now everything is moving together:) I am so happy Mac's are now Intel based.
I am not sure if you can change the language but regardless, my new Vista Ultimate OEM DVD says clearly on the front of the box (in red, under the basic TOS for opening the package): "LICENSED FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA".
Knowing Microsoft, I'd assume that they're pretty strict about this. Now keep in mine this is the OEM, I am not sure what rules govern retail but I'd assume they regionalize all of their products to prevent people from importing them for less. I'm not 100% sure though.
Yeah my point is that it may not cost MS virtually anything to actually make a Vista disc/box/manual and the whole deal, but it does cost them to develop it and they make it back in sales. Some people actually like Microsoft software and want to pay for it instead of stealing it. Yes, I think that some of their prices are high, but that's not for you to decide really. They charge their amount of money for their product.
I think that my point is almost like your point except that you think that the nature of economics is a bad thing. Like somehow because you see Microsoft in a bad light, all the money they make through capitalism is the result of a monopoly.
Anyway, people selling or distributing Windows illegally aren't real competitors in the sense that technically, they should be shut down. Yes, in the real world, they are competitors but what Microsoft really would like is to have them all eradicated. If you disagree with my opinion of the people reselling Microsoft's warez products for their own gain, then you shouldn't care if Microsoft has a monopoly. The same laws that outlawed monopolies (which, for better or for worse, are legitimate in a purely capitalist society) are the laws that help said businesses prevent against an anarchistic market run by thieves. Laws protect companies from theft and prevent them from being thieves and it helps take the violent edge off of capitalism without turning us into socialists. Needless to say, we can see what communism has done to China; it resulted in a violent dictatorship, which even now when it's cooled down has resulted in a poor population who can barely afford Windows when it's half the price of what it is in America and yet the American middle class has no problem paying for Windows, besides the usual gripes that go along with paying a lot of money for something which is somewhat of a necessity.
Generally, goods don't cost as much as their sold for. That's a give in. They mark up the prices because that's what every business does. No one sells products for the $2 that it costs them to make it. The reason is that people want to make money.
The difference in OEM and retail price is also pretty cool. I got Ultimate for $180 from Newegg because it was OEM. Retail would have cost be $400. I saved $210 because I didn't want a box (and because of the OEM licensing which really didn't change any of my plans about how I was gonna use Vista)
I'm pretty sure that would be illegal because I think Microsoft ships products by region. My Vista Ultimate OEM said something about only for sale in US and Canada. Anyway importing Vista from China would give users a Chinese version of Vista in Chinese.
Yeah it isn't as though it mattered whether he understood the issues he was debating. I mean it's not like he has some sort of responsibility for having a basic understanding of the internet when the entire debate revolved around understanding it's principles.
The lingo part was jokable, but the implications that he had no idea what he was talking about and still debating it in a political arena as a politician was the part that was disturbing and not defendable.
Yeah ignoring the fact that Java is actually a fairly good language and that all the negative conceptions of it are based on older versions from 10 years ago. Java isn't the slow, annoying language it may have once been to some extent. It is a very good cross-platform language and it is also object orientated and well structured, and it runs a million times faster than it used to; it runs fast enough to the point that it is pretty much indistinguishable from a regular system code OS-specific compiled program for most things. The only hangup I have with Java is the installation which seems to be very nice for developers but not so nice for end-users who don't care about version numbers, SDKs and the like.
Anyway the point is that dissing Java shows that your knowledge of current tech affairs dates back to 2001 and before. Also, C# while more of a VB sort of language is not necessarily bad (in fact VB these days is getting better and supports OO and a bunch of other things and even if C# and VB are more non-programmer languages to some extent, they are underestimated a lot).
I just saw this quote on Wikipedia and looked it up.. it's interesting because it relates to the Bible and Harry Potter:
''Yes, I am,'' she says. ''Which seems to offend the religious right far worse than if I said I thought there was no God. Every time I've been asked if I believe in God, I've said yes, because I do, but no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too freely about that I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books.'' -J.K. Rowling
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1000-vanc ouversun-wyman.htm
This was back in 2000 mind you.
SPOILERS
Oh shut up I wasn't trying to make a religious argument. I wasn't saying anything about the Bible being real or fake and I'm not going to because that's not what this discussion is about. I'm saying that the Bible is not a fantasy novel, like Narnia and even if the Bible consists of fantasy it isn't going to be found at your bookstore under that genre. That was the only point I was making. Anyway, yeah JK Rowling could have borrowed from the Bible but I was just pointing out that when there was another fantasy novel which did something similar, it was easier to make comparisons between those two. Anyway, even more than Harry just dying but coming back to life and thus protecting his friends/followers from harm because of his sacrifice, there's even all the talk from Dumbledore about love being stronger than magic and how love is older than old magic and Voldemort doesn't realize that, even though he uses very old and very evil magic. In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Aslan sacrifices himself without resisting so that Edmund can be saved, and says that the Witch doesn't realize that while she uses old, evil magic, there is magic even older than hers which she remains ignorant of in her quest for power and that magic is love. The comparisons are way too similar and thats why I was thinking Narnia more than the Bible.
I still liked HP though but by the end I kept thinking "Narnia"
No actually that's not the theory. If something becomes popular then more people become interested, making it more popular. This isn't selling out or being lowbrow, this is just how things work. Popularity breeds more popularity and it's not necessarily a bad thing. In Harry Potter's case, the books just kept growing more and more popular for two reasons: more and more people kept reading and suggesting them to friends and these said people continued to enjoy Harry Potter. They continued to enjoy it because the stories were fun to read, not because they are lowbrow or the lowest common denominator and aren't aware of other literature.
Seriously, what gives you the right to group millions of readers of a certain book into a category of lowbrow idiots who force themselves to read "stupid" books they don't enjoy in order to keep up with the Jones'? What do you think you are then? One of the many intellectual idiots who forces their self to read "smart" books they don't enjoy in order to keep up with Jones'?
Anyway, you need to stop judging the quality of Harry Potter when you've most likely never even read it because me and tons of the people I know who read Harry Potter have been exposed to quality literature and enjoy quality literature but don't need to go flaunting that on/. in order to make our dicks hard. Congratulations on making sweeping generalizations about a population consisting of millions.
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the whole thing crashes and the windshield goes black.. turns out it wasn't a HUD displayed on clear safety glass but a monitor that used video cameras to show the road outside on a layer below the HUD
And a button that says "click for spoilers" and when you click it, your back window displays a 3d plastic spoiler stapled to your trunk
insightful? the mods must be on crack today
Yeah and that's a stupid argument anyway because artists in the east and west copied great masters and it is completely unrelated to product cloning which is done by shady companies with shady engineers and a team of toddlers to actually assemble the crap for the sole purpose of profit and not to make an artistic statement.
Someone posts an opinion that differs from that of a mod and are thus marked as a troll. Yay.
Wow you list all those Slashdot memes and are still the first person in this whole thread who didn't mention sharks with laser beams
Well I honestly have no idea, and I wouldn't suggest doing it again but as long you aren't blind now, I doubt you will become blind. Just be more careful next time. From what I understand, laser blindness is immediate.
Haha this is the funniest Slashdot article/thread I have read in a long time. This Informative mod just topped it off.
Haha oh my gosh the Glaucoma test.. I went in to get contacts for the first time ever yesterday and got the checkup done. However my maternal grandparents have had glaucoma so they tried to do the test where the blew air into my eye. I was so scared I couldn't keep my head still and I would blink when the air came out. They finally said I could go into the eye doctor's office anyway but they would get me sometime before I left. They didn't. I think that maybe they had had enough of trying to assist me in getting contacts in and out of my eye for 30 minutes upward.
Lol no :) I'm installing it with Parallels on my new Macbook I'm getting soon in the mail. Along with Ubuntu. Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu 7.04 all running side by side. I've dreamed of running every mainstream OS multiboot since 9th grade. Now I'm gonna be a Freshmen in college and I can run every mainstream OS at the same time! When I was in 9th grade, you wouldn't have been even able to install OSX on a PC. Now everything is moving together :) I am so happy Mac's are now Intel based.
I am not sure if you can change the language but regardless, my new Vista Ultimate OEM DVD says clearly on the front of the box (in red, under the basic TOS for opening the package): "LICENSED FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA".
Knowing Microsoft, I'd assume that they're pretty strict about this. Now keep in mine this is the OEM, I am not sure what rules govern retail but I'd assume they regionalize all of their products to prevent people from importing them for less. I'm not 100% sure though.
Yeah my point is that it may not cost MS virtually anything to actually make a Vista disc/box/manual and the whole deal, but it does cost them to develop it and they make it back in sales. Some people actually like Microsoft software and want to pay for it instead of stealing it. Yes, I think that some of their prices are high, but that's not for you to decide really. They charge their amount of money for their product.
I think that my point is almost like your point except that you think that the nature of economics is a bad thing. Like somehow because you see Microsoft in a bad light, all the money they make through capitalism is the result of a monopoly.
Anyway, people selling or distributing Windows illegally aren't real competitors in the sense that technically, they should be shut down. Yes, in the real world, they are competitors but what Microsoft really would like is to have them all eradicated. If you disagree with my opinion of the people reselling Microsoft's warez products for their own gain, then you shouldn't care if Microsoft has a monopoly. The same laws that outlawed monopolies (which, for better or for worse, are legitimate in a purely capitalist society) are the laws that help said businesses prevent against an anarchistic market run by thieves. Laws protect companies from theft and prevent them from being thieves and it helps take the violent edge off of capitalism without turning us into socialists. Needless to say, we can see what communism has done to China; it resulted in a violent dictatorship, which even now when it's cooled down has resulted in a poor population who can barely afford Windows when it's half the price of what it is in America and yet the American middle class has no problem paying for Windows, besides the usual gripes that go along with paying a lot of money for something which is somewhat of a necessity.
then get rid of windows and read a book..
Generally, goods don't cost as much as their sold for. That's a give in. They mark up the prices because that's what every business does. No one sells products for the $2 that it costs them to make it. The reason is that people want to make money.
The difference in OEM and retail price is also pretty cool. I got Ultimate for $180 from Newegg because it was OEM. Retail would have cost be $400. I saved $210 because I didn't want a box (and because of the OEM licensing which really didn't change any of my plans about how I was gonna use Vista)
I'm pretty sure that would be illegal because I think Microsoft ships products by region. My Vista Ultimate OEM said something about only for sale in US and Canada. Anyway importing Vista from China would give users a Chinese version of Vista in Chinese.
Yeah it isn't as though it mattered whether he understood the issues he was debating. I mean it's not like he has some sort of responsibility for having a basic understanding of the internet when the entire debate revolved around understanding it's principles.
The lingo part was jokable, but the implications that he had no idea what he was talking about and still debating it in a political arena as a politician was the part that was disturbing and not defendable.
I would assume that if Solaris began to use a Linux kernel, it would cease to be a UNIX based OS and became a Linux distro.
Yeah ignoring the fact that Java is actually a fairly good language and that all the negative conceptions of it are based on older versions from 10 years ago. Java isn't the slow, annoying language it may have once been to some extent. It is a very good cross-platform language and it is also object orientated and well structured, and it runs a million times faster than it used to; it runs fast enough to the point that it is pretty much indistinguishable from a regular system code OS-specific compiled program for most things. The only hangup I have with Java is the installation which seems to be very nice for developers but not so nice for end-users who don't care about version numbers, SDKs and the like.
Anyway the point is that dissing Java shows that your knowledge of current tech affairs dates back to 2001 and before. Also, C# while more of a VB sort of language is not necessarily bad (in fact VB these days is getting better and supports OO and a bunch of other things and even if C# and VB are more non-programmer languages to some extent, they are underestimated a lot).
''Yes, I am,'' she says. ''Which seems to offend the religious right far worse than if I said I thought there was no God. Every time I've been asked if I believe in God, I've said yes, because I do, but no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too freely about that I think the intelligent reader, whether 10 or 60, will be able to guess what's coming in the books.'' -J.K. Rowling http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1000-van
So you're admitting that her writing got better in Book 5 but that she probably didn't write it by that logic so she still fails.
SPOILERS Oh shut up I wasn't trying to make a religious argument. I wasn't saying anything about the Bible being real or fake and I'm not going to because that's not what this discussion is about. I'm saying that the Bible is not a fantasy novel, like Narnia and even if the Bible consists of fantasy it isn't going to be found at your bookstore under that genre. That was the only point I was making. Anyway, yeah JK Rowling could have borrowed from the Bible but I was just pointing out that when there was another fantasy novel which did something similar, it was easier to make comparisons between those two. Anyway, even more than Harry just dying but coming back to life and thus protecting his friends/followers from harm because of his sacrifice, there's even all the talk from Dumbledore about love being stronger than magic and how love is older than old magic and Voldemort doesn't realize that, even though he uses very old and very evil magic. In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Aslan sacrifices himself without resisting so that Edmund can be saved, and says that the Witch doesn't realize that while she uses old, evil magic, there is magic even older than hers which she remains ignorant of in her quest for power and that magic is love. The comparisons are way too similar and thats why I was thinking Narnia more than the Bible.
I still liked HP though but by the end I kept thinking "Narnia"
No actually that's not the theory. If something becomes popular then more people become interested, making it more popular. This isn't selling out or being lowbrow, this is just how things work. Popularity breeds more popularity and it's not necessarily a bad thing. In Harry Potter's case, the books just kept growing more and more popular for two reasons: more and more people kept reading and suggesting them to friends and these said people continued to enjoy Harry Potter. They continued to enjoy it because the stories were fun to read, not because they are lowbrow or the lowest common denominator and aren't aware of other literature.
/. in order to make our dicks hard. Congratulations on making sweeping generalizations about a population consisting of millions.
Seriously, what gives you the right to group millions of readers of a certain book into a category of lowbrow idiots who force themselves to read "stupid" books they don't enjoy in order to keep up with the Jones'? What do you think you are then? One of the many intellectual idiots who forces their self to read "smart" books they don't enjoy in order to keep up with Jones'?
Anyway, you need to stop judging the quality of Harry Potter when you've most likely never even read it because me and tons of the people I know who read Harry Potter have been exposed to quality literature and enjoy quality literature but don't need to go flaunting that on