Well, I see it as the math supporting *every* one of those theories, instead of none. An internally-inconsistent theory can't be true since it contradicts itself, so having consistent math is already a step-up for me.
Slashdot's guide to get modded up to +5 in a Linux discussion:
#1: Call anyone who disagrees with you a "zealot". #2: State that a certain undetermined group of people are having their rights undermined by #1. #3: State or otherwise imply how #2 is unacceptable, such as calling #1 "unreasonable" or #2 "a dick move". #4: You win.
My thoughts on the matter? if you wanted an EULA, you shouldn't have released the software under the GPL.
And the reason that the mathematics is not evidence of the string hypothesis is that other hypotheses mathematically explain the same observations that the string hypothesis was created to explain almost as well, or even as well, as the string hypothesis does.
So, you follow Occam's Razor and for anything that doesn't specifically require String Theory, you assume as true the theory that requires the least assumptions to explain the phenomena (ie, not String Theory).
Because they lack the market-share needed to survive the PR bomb that comes with an anti-trust trial? Because the last time they tried to prohibit others from competing against them, they almost went bankrupt? Because it scares away developers from the iPhone, and third-party developers are the lifeblood of *every* platform? Because if they don't, Google's Android will simply rape them the second it's released?
I'm sure you could think of a few more, given enough time, but I believe those are good enough for the time being.
Well then, if they don't care about me, why should I care about them?
Well, I *do* care about them, just not in the sense they'd like me to. Since Blizzard is *such* a nice company, I shall be donating my bandwidth to TPB's Diablo 3 torrent the day it comes out[1];) no harm done, right? after all, I'm only one guy, that's like, 0.00001% of their market share? stastically insignificant.
[1]: Hosting a game's torrent != playing the game. My legit, brand-new-in-sparkling-box copy of Guild Wars satissfies all my RPG needs, it's just that helping people screw Blizzard over is too attractive to pass up.
The cost of which should fall on *you* since it was *your* job to configure the network to prevent such attacks, and *you* failed at it.
Yeah, it'd make the sysadmins' jobs a lot more hellish, but hey, as long as we're in this wanking hate session... plus it's only logical that if you're going to penalize somebody for the sysadmin's incompetence, that it should be the sysadmin himself.
No, because at the start of the first 8 days, *everyone* had 3 installs left. Today, 1% has zero, but it's fair to assume that a non-trivial segment of customers has only one, and that the overwhelming majority has only two (read: anyone who's played the damn game they bought).
It may not grow as fast as the GP claimed, and it's hard to do a proper analysis without more data, but the number of pissed-off customers is certainly going to be higher than 1% in a few months.
All in all, there might be reasons not to like Blizzard, but I really don't think any of the reasons you mentioned are valid, unless you want to cheat, want to use an illegal copy of their games, or think that Blizzard should to defend its trademarks.
Or care more about setting dangerous precedent in copyright laws than whether a 15-years-old kid cheats in an online game or tries to play online with a "hacked" version of a game.
Why did you assume the person who wrote the summary and the GP are part of the Open Source community? they've only criticized Microsoft, not pushed Linux, so they may still be Mac fanboys or just random MS-hating BeOS users, as far as I can see.
The way I see it, in the political spectrum communism is to the left, capitalism is to the right, and Linux/FOSS goes *up*, taking the best parts of both in a single 'model', but neither truly 'leftie' nor truly 'rightie'.
And if you're interested, under my new, patented 2D political diagram, Bush would be a 'downie', reasons left as an excercise for the reader;)
Also, to see the fallacy in the current line of thinking with inbreeding, just extend it to its obvious ridiculous conclusion.
If the White race is being damaged by not breeding outside their race, then the human species is being damaged by not breeding outside their species. We need more interspecies matings with aliens and animals, or we are going to devolve.
Except that breeding inter-species produces either infertile offspring, or none at all. Hence being considered a different species.
But why don't you take *your* line of thinking to it's obvious ridiculous conclusion? if mating with a genetically-closer individual is better for you and your species, go fuck your mother.
First off, I believe that most people, having had enough intelligence, and not having the aim to simply nit pick with anecdotal evidence, easily understood what I said to mean that "everyone has the inherent *instinct* to prefer".
Here's where we agree...
Of course there are exceptions. There is probably one in a million who are defective due to random mutation, and thus do not have this instinct intact, and then there are those who are brainwashed to override said instinct using their mind. Just as one can resist the instinct to eat long enough to starve to death, one can override the instinct to preserve one's own race. People could also be overriding the instinct due to mental damage caused by life experiences other than brainwashing. For example, people who's same sex parents were abusive to them have a much higher chance of dating and liking people from a different race.
And here's where I laugh at you for being such a moron. Next time, fella, try to cover up your bigotry a bit more, with clever methods such as "not insulting anyone who thinks differently than you do". And if you can, take a course in logic, the amount of logical fallacies you used in that post is too big to count.
From the phrasing of your post, you seem to believe that it's acceptable for someone to force someone else to dye their hair a specific color if they want a job. Is that correct? and if so, why?
Probably not, but is Real marketing this product to retards? no, they're catering to a large segment of the population that consists of perfectly normal people who just happen to be ignorant about technology. And if his wife fits that profile (as implied in his post), then it *is* relevant.
Yes. Because I want to see how knowing that dinosaurs evolved from fish in any way *proves* that our world wasn't designed by intelligent beings, which is the core belief of ID. Not, as some people around here think, that everything in the Bible is true, that's Catholic fundamentalism, a completely different brand of stupidity.
private schools should be audited to ensure that their curriculum at least resembles reality
Here's where we agree...
Not only should school attendance be required
...but here's where we don't. As someone who dropped out of school at 15 and is now studying math at his country's top university, I say: FUCK YOU. Mandatory school attendance is to democracy what conscription is to freedom: only considered a "necessity" by those that won't suffer their direct effects, and don't understand the dangers they bring to the principle they supposedly protect.
Good thing you at least recognize the need for private schools, though, otherwise you'd go straight to my "dangerous nutjob" category.
How? and please don't say "carbon dating", that only proves that numbfucks who take everything in their particular traduction of the Bible literally are, in fact, numbfucks. Which has been known by the world since the Crusades at least.
The cynics may say that they only backed down from their powergrab due to the media attention, the optimists may say that they did it because Google always listen to their customers, and the rest of us may not care *why* they did it, either way we finally get a cool new browser to play with, without risking our privacy in the process, and there's one less stupid EULA in this world.
Now, if only Apple would let me use iTunes to develop biological WMDs...
Well, games of old did the same thing, and too many of them sucked as a result. Of the NES, there are *very* few games that I'd consider worth playing today, most of it's library deserving nothing less than a one-way ticket to ET's residential landfill in New Mexico. Yes, even some of the "famous" ones, like Zelda or Castlevania 2.
The SNES obviously had many more "legendary" games, but only because it had more games, period. Which also meant it had a much higher number of turds. And no, contrary to popular belief, the Mortal Kombat series hasn't gone "downhill", it always sucked the same.
And then we have the PC, back when everyone and their dog was trying to create a better DooM than DooM, and failing miserably at it ("Heretic", for example, is how I'd call someone who claims to like videogames and liked that PoS).
But don't worry, in a few years you'll only remember the Baldur's Gates and Unreal Tournaments of this era while our Daikatanas and Mysts are forgotten, their place taken by newer heavily-marketed pieces of shit with dull gameplay and idiotic plots. Just as it has always been, and always shall be.
Why does it have to be the US or China? I'd much rather have, dunno, Brazil or Spain if we must have a centralized internet, not to mention the scandinavian countries of course.
At least we know Spain wouldn't use a single terrorist attack as excuse to pass idiotic PATRIOT ACT-style legislation, unlike the US.
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Well, I see it as the math supporting *every* one of those theories, instead of none. An internally-inconsistent theory can't be true since it contradicts itself, so having consistent math is already a step-up for me.
Slashdot's guide to get modded up to +5 in a Linux discussion:
#1: Call anyone who disagrees with you a "zealot".
#2: State that a certain undetermined group of people are having their rights undermined by #1.
#3: State or otherwise imply how #2 is unacceptable, such as calling #1 "unreasonable" or #2 "a dick move".
#4: You win.
My thoughts on the matter? if you wanted an EULA, you shouldn't have released the software under the GPL.
And the reason that the mathematics is not evidence of the string hypothesis is that other hypotheses mathematically explain the same observations that the string hypothesis was created to explain almost as well, or even as well, as the string hypothesis does.
So, you follow Occam's Razor and for anything that doesn't specifically require String Theory, you assume as true the theory that requires the least assumptions to explain the phenomena (ie, not String Theory).
I simply don't see the problem here.
Because they lack the market-share needed to survive the PR bomb that comes with an anti-trust trial?
Because the last time they tried to prohibit others from competing against them, they almost went bankrupt?
Because it scares away developers from the iPhone, and third-party developers are the lifeblood of *every* platform?
Because if they don't, Google's Android will simply rape them the second it's released?
I'm sure you could think of a few more, given enough time, but I believe those are good enough for the time being.
Well then, if they don't care about me, why should I care about them?
Well, I *do* care about them, just not in the sense they'd like me to. Since Blizzard is *such* a nice company, I shall be donating my bandwidth to TPB's Diablo 3 torrent the day it comes out[1] ;) no harm done, right? after all, I'm only one guy, that's like, 0.00001% of their market share? stastically insignificant.
[1]: Hosting a game's torrent != playing the game. My legit, brand-new-in-sparkling-box copy of Guild Wars satissfies all my RPG needs, it's just that helping people screw Blizzard over is too attractive to pass up.
The cost of which should fall on *you* since it was *your* job to configure the network to prevent such attacks, and *you* failed at it.
Yeah, it'd make the sysadmins' jobs a lot more hellish, but hey, as long as we're in this wanking hate session... plus it's only logical that if you're going to penalize somebody for the sysadmin's incompetence, that it should be the sysadmin himself.
No, because at the start of the first 8 days, *everyone* had 3 installs left. Today, 1% has zero, but it's fair to assume that a non-trivial segment of customers has only one, and that the overwhelming majority has only two (read: anyone who's played the damn game they bought).
It may not grow as fast as the GP claimed, and it's hard to do a proper analysis without more data, but the number of pissed-off customers is certainly going to be higher than 1% in a few months.
All in all, there might be reasons not to like Blizzard, but I really don't think any of the reasons you mentioned are valid, unless you want to cheat, want to use an illegal copy of their games, or think that Blizzard should to defend its trademarks.
Or care more about setting dangerous precedent in copyright laws than whether a 15-years-old kid cheats in an online game or tries to play online with a "hacked" version of a game.
Why did you assume the person who wrote the summary and the GP are part of the Open Source community? they've only criticized Microsoft, not pushed Linux, so they may still be Mac fanboys or just random MS-hating BeOS users, as far as I can see.
Not that I think I'll change anyone's mind but really think about what makes a product, ANY product useful nowadays.
Features. No use for a product that can't do what I need it to do, even if it fails in a very flashy and stylish way at them.
The way I see it, in the political spectrum communism is to the left, capitalism is to the right, and Linux/FOSS goes *up*, taking the best parts of both in a single 'model', but neither truly 'leftie' nor truly 'rightie'.
And if you're interested, under my new, patented 2D political diagram, Bush would be a 'downie', reasons left as an excercise for the reader ;)
Also, to see the fallacy in the current line of thinking with inbreeding, just extend it to its obvious ridiculous conclusion.
If the White race is being damaged by not breeding outside their race, then the human species is being damaged by not breeding outside their species. We need more interspecies matings with aliens and animals, or we are going to devolve.
Except that breeding inter-species produces either infertile offspring, or none at all. Hence being considered a different species.
But why don't you take *your* line of thinking to it's obvious ridiculous conclusion? if mating with a genetically-closer individual is better for you and your species, go fuck your mother.
First off, I believe that most people, having had enough intelligence, and not having the aim to simply nit pick with anecdotal evidence, easily understood what I said to mean that "everyone has the inherent *instinct* to prefer".
Here's where we agree...
Of course there are exceptions. There is probably one in a million who are defective due to random mutation, and thus do not have this instinct intact, and then there are those who are brainwashed to override said instinct using their mind. Just as one can resist the instinct to eat long enough to starve to death, one can override the instinct to preserve one's own race. People could also be overriding the instinct due to mental damage caused by life experiences other than brainwashing. For example, people who's same sex parents were abusive to them have a much higher chance of dating and liking people from a different race.
And here's where I laugh at you for being such a moron. Next time, fella, try to cover up your bigotry a bit more, with clever methods such as "not insulting anyone who thinks differently than you do". And if you can, take a course in logic, the amount of logical fallacies you used in that post is too big to count.
From the phrasing of your post, you seem to believe that it's acceptable for someone to force someone else to dye their hair a specific color if they want a job. Is that correct? and if so, why?
Probably not, but is Real marketing this product to retards? no, they're catering to a large segment of the population that consists of perfectly normal people who just happen to be ignorant about technology. And if his wife fits that profile (as implied in his post), then it *is* relevant.
Yes. Because I want to see how knowing that dinosaurs evolved from fish in any way *proves* that our world wasn't designed by intelligent beings, which is the core belief of ID. Not, as some people around here think, that everything in the Bible is true, that's Catholic fundamentalism, a completely different brand of stupidity.
private schools should be audited to ensure that their curriculum at least resembles reality
Here's where we agree...
Not only should school attendance be required
...but here's where we don't. As someone who dropped out of school at 15 and is now studying math at his country's top university, I say: FUCK YOU. Mandatory school attendance is to democracy what conscription is to freedom: only considered a "necessity" by those that won't suffer their direct effects, and don't understand the dangers they bring to the principle they supposedly protect.
Good thing you at least recognize the need for private schools, though, otherwise you'd go straight to my "dangerous nutjob" category.
And it was discredited, many many times over.
How? and please don't say "carbon dating", that only proves that numbfucks who take everything in their particular traduction of the Bible literally are, in fact, numbfucks. Which has been known by the world since the Crusades at least.
*shudders* stupid sexy Gates!
The cynics may say that they only backed down from their powergrab due to the media attention, the optimists may say that they did it because Google always listen to their customers, and the rest of us may not care *why* they did it, either way we finally get a cool new browser to play with, without risking our privacy in the process, and there's one less stupid EULA in this world.
Now, if only Apple would let me use iTunes to develop biological WMDs...
Gamers should watch more movies in order to understand that few if any video games made to date can compare to them.
Compare in which respects? and how do we objectively measure a given work's proficiency in those respects?
Well, games of old did the same thing, and too many of them sucked as a result. Of the NES, there are *very* few games that I'd consider worth playing today, most of it's library deserving nothing less than a one-way ticket to ET's residential landfill in New Mexico. Yes, even some of the "famous" ones, like Zelda or Castlevania 2.
The SNES obviously had many more "legendary" games, but only because it had more games, period. Which also meant it had a much higher number of turds. And no, contrary to popular belief, the Mortal Kombat series hasn't gone "downhill", it always sucked the same.
And then we have the PC, back when everyone and their dog was trying to create a better DooM than DooM, and failing miserably at it ("Heretic", for example, is how I'd call someone who claims to like videogames and liked that PoS).
But don't worry, in a few years you'll only remember the Baldur's Gates and Unreal Tournaments of this era while our Daikatanas and Mysts are forgotten, their place taken by newer heavily-marketed pieces of shit with dull gameplay and idiotic plots. Just as it has always been, and always shall be.
Why does it have to be the US or China? I'd much rather have, dunno, Brazil or Spain if we must have a centralized internet, not to mention the scandinavian countries of course.
At least we know Spain wouldn't use a single terrorist attack as excuse to pass idiotic PATRIOT ACT-style legislation, unlike the US.
Free Software isn't a religion, but it's not a charity either.
Not to mention jacking off, plus, it's easier to smuggle/buy a porn mag than cannabis.
Just, uhhh, wash your hands before grabbing the controller again, 'kay?