Why? Does Microsoft bring some inherent value to the software development field?
Yeah. They make kickass keyboards and mice for us programmers to use;)
Also Visual Studio is incredible, but Eclipse and the rest ain't bad either while Logitech sucks with the strength of a thousand suns, so in the event of Microsoft's demise I'd be more worried about their keyboards.
All companies are evil to a degree, although IMHO MS is higher on the scale than Facebook and definitely Google.
Again my opinion.
But I don't see MS as intrinsically evil, just their leadership. I'm waiting for the day MS turns over a new leaf, but it looks like that day is a long way off as it seems the likes of Balmer aren't going anywhere.
Well, even if the engineers know it's a terrible idea, if Ballmer and co decide today to screw up with HTML5 just to piss off the competition that's what the IE9 team will end up doing and what end-users will receive, so in that respect their leadership is Microsoft moreso than their engineers, developers and other employees doing the actual 'grunt work'.
Every once in a while the engineers do get to have their way, though, as shown by the not-too-important-but-still-valuable contributions they've made to Free Software in the past. But I have a hard time thinking of anything positive IE has ever done, and even its inception was tainted by one of Microsoft's most deplorable actions so I, for one, won't be sorry if/when Chrome and Firefox ever make it kick the bucket.
Just personally, I've never seen a truly convincing mechanic for explaining just how the last one would work.
The question is, the reason you're unconvinced is due to a flaw in the proposed mechanic, or is it your own lack of understanding for the science itself?
Honestly, the more I learn about Physics, the more I understand that, once you go past Newton (and this is *way* beyond that) an explanation can be two of either short, easy to understand or accurate, but never all three. And by "short" I mean "explainable in less than a hundred pages of text".
Call it intellectual laziness if you will, or even an appeal to authority fallacy, but if Physicists say it is so, then I'll believe it is so until I've enough time to learn all the screwy math behind all this, and I'd recommend you did likewise.
You'd be surprised at how much it takes to break you out of inmersion. Try reading a short story online sometime, 99% of them have ads left and right but one is easily able to follow the narrative without ever taking a second look at them.
They don't solve the problem they are supposed to solve, they make new problems, don't bother with them.
Yes, they do. You may notice "cluster" is a much shorter description than "weird new not quite galaxy thing I found", and *that* is the very purpose of language.
Otherwise, we may as well call galaxies "bunch of bunches of fissioning hydrogen" instead. And God help you if you ever want to talk about sociology...
True, but if they fail to get anybody in jail, all it's gonna do is provide definite proof that Anonymous is untouchable by the world's governments, helping them attract more people into their ranks.
I'd say I'd hope the government planned this well beforehand, but I'd rather they lose and Anonymous get even larger. Which is what'll likely happen, given how effective these "public displays" tend to be.
Actually, business models based on people paying you for your work are the ideal right now. Business models based on people paying you for a copy of your product on the other hand is what's obsolete, and people paying your grandchildren for a copy of your product is what's downright evil.
As they say, an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Not an honest day's work for lifetime+70 years' worth of pay.
No, we're talking about an AC's accussations stating Assange had committed rape. He didn't, end of argument.
If you or the AC want to discuss sexual impropiety, *then* we'd look at the weird Swedish laws and the even weirder accussations leveled against Assange, but that's another subject altogether.
But just because you don't discriminate doesn't mean you have to give them a tangible advantage. It's alright to walk inside the restaurant and order food like everyone else, it's another to demand the owner feed you in the mouth just because you lost both arms.
I'd say most people assume the first was as result of being flagged as a cheater by an autonomous program, and the second by an actual human manually checking due to the controversy. It's natural, then, that in an human vs computer conflict we'd be on the side of the human, but when it becomes human vs human + computer we'd switch to the other side.
Yeah, people do go to those websites, at least on the anime community. The reason is quite simple, actually: once you find a translator you like, ideally you'll want to watch the entire series done by them, and subscribing to their RSS feed brings a lot less pollution with stuff that you don't care about than doing the same for a general torrent tracker.
Plus you get new releases faster, and some of the members in the anime community can be pretty... obsessive, to put it mildly, about watching their series Right Fucking Now(tm).
I'd imagine the same happens with other translated material, like subbed western TV series and movies for non-English speaking countries, but even though my first language is Spanish my English is good enough I can skip the subs.
It's a cultural thing. If he had been either US-born or simply idolized the country, he'd have brought an automatic weapon and shot as many people as he could until a cop put a bullet in his brain instead.
I mean, if they're trying to infiltrate an organization (and accompanying social milieu) where there's a lot of sex, why wouldn't having sex be a legitimate part of their task?
For the same reasons that, when they're trying to infiltrate an organization that deals in drugs, trafficking drugs isn't considered a legitimate part of their task. It's a legal nightmare waiting to happen.
Grey's Anatomy is, like its spiritual predecessor ER, all about rich doctors humping each other in between fits of jealousy, the actual practice of medicine is driven *far* into the background. Bones is an embarrassment, their use of Liberal Arts Science makes CSI look like a well-researched documentary by comparison, and Fringe is... look, the show has multiple instances of characters running around, coming from separate alternate universes. It's *that* kind of show.
So, sex, science-as-magic, and science-as-magic-as-visualized-by-the-nuttier-elements-of-society. Not good. Medium is, as you say, all about mysticism (yet still manages to make more sense than Fringe), leaving us with Criminal Minds, which in spite of reminding me a bit of Law & Order, where you could easily tell the writers' political leanings from episode to episode, manages to be actually watchable and its mere existence not a complete embarrassment to society.
If any other company was the victim of a GPL violation, for whatever reason and whereever the code was distributed, Slashdot would cry foul.
Not really. Look for any of the stories detailing the FSF's approach to accidental infringement, other than the odd "the GPL is a virus!" moron, it's all pretty civil and usually in favor of the "guilty party". Even from the FSF itself.
Hell, if anything if you compare it's Google who's being conspicuously mistreated here, most likely because they're a large corporation and as we all know, everything large corporations do is due to their innate capacity for evil. Or something like that.
It doesn't matter if you distribute the code as part of a product that makes money or if you use it internally. If you slap an Apache license header on GPL code, you're violating the GPL.
Legally, sure. From an ethical standpoint however it does matter, very much so, which is why Slashdot is for the most part on Google's side.
A sensible move would've been to trash the whole VM concept in favor of a language that can be directly compiled to binary. Preferably one that's easily mapped to an universal construct all programmers should be familiar with, such as a Turing Machine, that produces fast and efficient programs, and one whose syntax could be easily matched to the limited input methods available on most cellphones.
Clearly, the most sensible option would've been to write Android in Brainfuck.
That's only because the FSF is particularly lenient when correcting GPL violations, there's no legal reason for Oracle not to go all RIAA on Google's ass other than, of course, the enormous loss of goodwill such a gesture would attract.
First off Microsoft submitted the specifications for the Word format for standardization, in full and with none of that "implement this like Word 97" crap they pulled with OOXML or any patent over it whatsoever, I guarantee you half the posts would be "crap, Microsoft is actually doing something nice for a change?" with the other half being "how long until it's included in OOo?".
And secondly, there's no viable standard for online video yet so the comparison isn't apropos, the MPEG lovefest on Slashdot notwithstanding.
Well, a plugin would only be required for IE users, and only until the sheer momentum of Chrome, Mozilla and Opera force them to implement it anyways. They don't have much to gain from h.264, so it's unlikely they'd continue the holy war to the end, unlike Apple.
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Why? Does Microsoft bring some inherent value to the software development field?
Yeah. They make kickass keyboards and mice for us programmers to use ;)
Also Visual Studio is incredible, but Eclipse and the rest ain't bad either while Logitech sucks with the strength of a thousand suns, so in the event of Microsoft's demise I'd be more worried about their keyboards.
All companies are evil to a degree, although IMHO MS is higher on the scale than Facebook and definitely Google.
Again my opinion.
But I don't see MS as intrinsically evil, just their leadership.
I'm waiting for the day MS turns over a new leaf, but it looks like that day is a long way off as it seems the likes of Balmer aren't going anywhere.
Well, even if the engineers know it's a terrible idea, if Ballmer and co decide today to screw up with HTML5 just to piss off the competition that's what the IE9 team will end up doing and what end-users will receive, so in that respect their leadership is Microsoft moreso than their engineers, developers and other employees doing the actual 'grunt work'.
Every once in a while the engineers do get to have their way, though, as shown by the not-too-important-but-still-valuable contributions they've made to Free Software in the past. But I have a hard time thinking of anything positive IE has ever done, and even its inception was tainted by one of Microsoft's most deplorable actions so I, for one, won't be sorry if/when Chrome and Firefox ever make it kick the bucket.
Just personally, I've never seen a truly convincing mechanic for explaining just how the last one would work.
The question is, the reason you're unconvinced is due to a flaw in the proposed mechanic, or is it your own lack of understanding for the science itself?
Honestly, the more I learn about Physics, the more I understand that, once you go past Newton (and this is *way* beyond that) an explanation can be two of either short, easy to understand or accurate, but never all three. And by "short" I mean "explainable in less than a hundred pages of text".
Call it intellectual laziness if you will, or even an appeal to authority fallacy, but if Physicists say it is so, then I'll believe it is so until I've enough time to learn all the screwy math behind all this, and I'd recommend you did likewise.
Balanced people certainly don't think MS is any more evil than Google or Facebook.
Actually, those fall under "Microsoft fanboy" due to the significant parts of history they'd have to dismiss in order to maintain that ideology.
You'd be surprised at how much it takes to break you out of inmersion. Try reading a short story online sometime, 99% of them have ads left and right but one is easily able to follow the narrative without ever taking a second look at them.
Kinda like the rest of the web, actually.
They don't solve the problem they are supposed to solve, they make new problems, don't bother with them.
Yes, they do. You may notice "cluster" is a much shorter description than "weird new not quite galaxy thing I found", and *that* is the very purpose of language.
Otherwise, we may as well call galaxies "bunch of bunches of fissioning hydrogen" instead. And God help you if you ever want to talk about sociology...
True, but if they fail to get anybody in jail, all it's gonna do is provide definite proof that Anonymous is untouchable by the world's governments, helping them attract more people into their ranks.
I'd say I'd hope the government planned this well beforehand, but I'd rather they lose and Anonymous get even larger. Which is what'll likely happen, given how effective these "public displays" tend to be.
Ahh screw it, I bend over and grit my teeth. Even prison rape is preferable to dealing with D&D's grapple rules.
Actually, business models based on people paying you for your work are the ideal right now. Business models based on people paying you for a copy of your product on the other hand is what's obsolete, and people paying your grandchildren for a copy of your product is what's downright evil.
As they say, an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Not an honest day's work for lifetime+70 years' worth of pay.
You shouldn't be watching Fox News so early in the morning, you know, it's bad for your health.
No, we're talking about an AC's accussations stating Assange had committed rape. He didn't, end of argument.
If you or the AC want to discuss sexual impropiety, *then* we'd look at the weird Swedish laws and the even weirder accussations leveled against Assange, but that's another subject altogether.
But just because you don't discriminate doesn't mean you have to give them a tangible advantage. It's alright to walk inside the restaurant and order food like everyone else, it's another to demand the owner feed you in the mouth just because you lost both arms.
I'd say most people assume the first was as result of being flagged as a cheater by an autonomous program, and the second by an actual human manually checking due to the controversy. It's natural, then, that in an human vs computer conflict we'd be on the side of the human, but when it becomes human vs human + computer we'd switch to the other side.
Yeah, people do go to those websites, at least on the anime community. The reason is quite simple, actually: once you find a translator you like, ideally you'll want to watch the entire series done by them, and subscribing to their RSS feed brings a lot less pollution with stuff that you don't care about than doing the same for a general torrent tracker.
Plus you get new releases faster, and some of the members in the anime community can be pretty... obsessive, to put it mildly, about watching their series Right Fucking Now(tm).
I'd imagine the same happens with other translated material, like subbed western TV series and movies for non-English speaking countries, but even though my first language is Spanish my English is good enough I can skip the subs.
It's a cultural thing. If he had been either US-born or simply idolized the country, he'd have brought an automatic weapon and shot as many people as he could until a cop put a bullet in his brain instead.
I mean, if they're trying to infiltrate an organization (and accompanying social milieu) where there's a lot of sex, why wouldn't having sex be a legitimate part of their task?
For the same reasons that, when they're trying to infiltrate an organization that deals in drugs, trafficking drugs isn't considered a legitimate part of their task. It's a legal nightmare waiting to happen.
From where I stand, it's all shades of black instead, not too much grey around.
Yeah. Pity that the standards for what passes as an "anti-American comment" are so damn low, though.
Ohh, and in case you didn't know, Britain is part of Europe.
By that rationale, we should just eliminate taxes for the rich altogether.
Try that, and see how quickly your country falls into ruin. I give it a month.
Grey's Anatomy is, like its spiritual predecessor ER, all about rich doctors humping each other in between fits of jealousy, the actual practice of medicine is driven *far* into the background. Bones is an embarrassment, their use of Liberal Arts Science makes CSI look like a well-researched documentary by comparison, and Fringe is... look, the show has multiple instances of characters running around, coming from separate alternate universes. It's *that* kind of show.
So, sex, science-as-magic, and science-as-magic-as-visualized-by-the-nuttier-elements-of-society. Not good. Medium is, as you say, all about mysticism (yet still manages to make more sense than Fringe), leaving us with Criminal Minds, which in spite of reminding me a bit of Law & Order, where you could easily tell the writers' political leanings from episode to episode, manages to be actually watchable and its mere existence not a complete embarrassment to society.
If any other company was the victim of a GPL violation, for whatever reason and whereever the code was distributed, Slashdot would cry foul.
Not really. Look for any of the stories detailing the FSF's approach to accidental infringement, other than the odd "the GPL is a virus!" moron, it's all pretty civil and usually in favor of the "guilty party". Even from the FSF itself.
Hell, if anything if you compare it's Google who's being conspicuously mistreated here, most likely because they're a large corporation and as we all know, everything large corporations do is due to their innate capacity for evil. Or something like that.
It doesn't matter if you distribute the code as part of a product that makes money or if you use it internally. If you slap an Apache license header on GPL code, you're violating the GPL.
Legally, sure. From an ethical standpoint however it does matter, very much so, which is why Slashdot is for the most part on Google's side.
A sensible move would've been to trash the whole VM concept in favor of a language that can be directly compiled to binary. Preferably one that's easily mapped to an universal construct all programmers should be familiar with, such as a Turing Machine, that produces fast and efficient programs, and one whose syntax could be easily matched to the limited input methods available on most cellphones.
Clearly, the most sensible option would've been to write Android in Brainfuck.
That's only because the FSF is particularly lenient when correcting GPL violations, there's no legal reason for Oracle not to go all RIAA on Google's ass other than, of course, the enormous loss of goodwill such a gesture would attract.
First off Microsoft submitted the specifications for the Word format for standardization, in full and with none of that "implement this like Word 97" crap they pulled with OOXML or any patent over it whatsoever, I guarantee you half the posts would be "crap, Microsoft is actually doing something nice for a change?" with the other half being "how long until it's included in OOo?".
And secondly, there's no viable standard for online video yet so the comparison isn't apropos, the MPEG lovefest on Slashdot notwithstanding.
Well, a plugin would only be required for IE users, and only until the sheer momentum of Chrome, Mozilla and Opera force them to implement it anyways. They don't have much to gain from h.264, so it's unlikely they'd continue the holy war to the end, unlike Apple.