MS is doing business with the ultimate socialists right now, and then allowed to come back and pander to us as if somehow it's a good thing for China. Saying that I think corporations that do business with fascists shouldn't be able to conduct business in the US as well is far from socialism, it should be in the basic set of ground rules. Hell, look what we do with Cuba, but oh wait, they don't have massive cheap slave labor and manufacturing to offer.
How is democratic control over corporations socialism?
It's just not laissez-faire solve everything libertarianism.
I don't like the government that much, but at least I have some measure of control over their asses. I'm certainly not going to give up all my rights to a swindler in a suit because I think the government is bloated.
I don't know why people think Wikipedia is the devil because it's publically editable. It seems to me that this is how it gets information so quickly. Every time I hear a story in the news about Wikipedia, the damn Wikipedia article itself already mentions the controversy surrounding its own presence. Now _that_ is efficiency. I'm tired of hearing how it's simply a grafitti paradise with people going around making falsehood more vastly dispersed, it's simply not true. Reading any wikipedia entry top to bottom usually gives a pretty good sense of reality. The fact that there is so much public attention when an article is wrong or misleading is a case _for_ Wikipedia and not against it. Because standard encyclopedias have no controversy at all, they just have biased or false information in them.
When you get paid 2,000 dollars a year, a 1 dollar DVD is about all you can afford.
MS should go to hell for dealing with such a fascist POS nation. Google, don't think I don't feel the same way about you. We really need to start regulating the means by which multi-national corporations do business with fascist regimes. Their ability to pump money into the government gives Communism the life support that it died without in the USSR.
I agree, and it has made me hate both the NFL (for allowing exclusive licensing) and EA (for accepting it). Probably moreso at the NFL.
You are dealing with an organization that uses public funding to construct its venues, then proceeds to up ticket prices year after year while cracking down on things like outside food for the sake of "terrorism."
Then what do you get after the tax payers paid for the stadium and the fans paid for the tickets? The doritos half time show... The wachovia first down...
The NFL is such a money grubbing piece of shit that I don't even know if I can bother watching it anymore. Thanks to the exclusive EA license, and the piss poor quality of the Madden franchise, they eliminated the one reason for me to enjoy watching the games and learning the players.
when corrupt private companies control all access to information, and private companies have own all land that would otherwise be usable for protest, the idea of a "private" company being able to slow and speed things up according to their own wishes becomes a great deal more important...What does it matter if the government censors us, or the private companies censor us on all their networks, if there are no alternatives?
...business is that in just a few short years, a user calling their ISP because Google doesn't work correctly or comes up too slowly will be the correct course of action....because it will be the ISP slowing it down.
That's another bonus besides completely eliminating privacy, killing those pesky non-working homeless people off by eliminating the change they subsist on.
Yep. Then you use it, the alternatives start to fall by the wayside cuz everyone once again gives into MS, and then the bugs start emerging again without patches cuz MS doesn't care to enough to patch when it's not feeling the pressure... Then the cycle starts all over again.
We've already seen what they do as the dominant player in a market, they get there and then they shut down the competitors and stagnate, leaving their users screwed by a new bug everyday.
...that Microsoft is playing catch up these days. It's well aware of the fact that it's lost the confidence of the true "tech-oriented" people and now it hopes to win them back.
What they don't understand is that their business model needs changing. No longer is software that's outdated the moment you release it that has security holes in it left and right that don't have patches going to be tolerated.
We have an open source browser with wide spread web support. I don't care if you have the tabs or not, I'm not going back to find out that you had invested not enough time yet again into security and watching as my box fills with adware.
Let's not forget who is really to blame in this adware thing, and it's MS... Ceasing use of IE has kept my PC free of adware for going on two years now. Don't think I'm going back cuz you made it prettier or add features we already had elsewhere.
What I find the best thing to do is to make the password the first letters in the sentence of some phrase, lyric, etc and try to include numbers in this.
For instance, I'm kind of a NIN fan, so you could use a lyric like: "I will take my place in the great below" iwtmpitgb
then add numbers
that way if you forget the password, you just have to remember the phrase you used to came up with it, and the numbers
I don't wanna start a typical rap vs. rock thing here, but rap is only as good as the rapper writing the lyrics.
One person or another might disagree with the format altogether cuz they don't like how it sounds, and that's fine, but to pretend that at its best rap is somehow inferior artistically is being misleading. I wouldn't call most mainstream rock very artistic either or good for that matter.
Blink 182 and the Ying Yang Twins are about on the same level from different angles, but one isn't inherently worse than the other because one is "rock" and one is "rap." The same can be argued for video games versus other entertainment, neither one is inherently better off than the other, it's up to the artist to determine how well made and artistic the work is. When you look at movies vs. modern video games, I might even argue that the average game has more artistic merit than the average movie. But neither format is inherently more artistic.
...that you can't have everything fit a movie G, PG, PG-13, R, etc. fucking model.
The Internet is, plain and simply, not a place for small children to venture unsupervised.
How about instead of fucking with the nature of the beast, we limit exposure instead?
Oh, no, that would require parenting, and who wants to do that?
I don't need a rating system on the Internet, I'll decide what I want to see. Porn sites are usually willing to present themselves to filter companies anyway, they aren't trying to show your children porno any more than you are, they can't make money off a 5 year old...
Just another way of trying to make the Internet like everything else, and I hope it fails miserably.
...because we all know Madonna needs the money. People need to stop taking it firmly in the rear with "piracy" as the excuse. I wouldn't pay $250 to see anyone for a regular ticket, she's not God, she's not even worth a $5 door charge IMO.
I'm sick of hearing about the poor starving multi-millionaire artist having to do this and that because someone realized their latest CD was junk before they even made the purchase. In the end it's really just about jacking ticket prices as well as selling the CDs and crippled DRM version, Madonna makes out six ways to Sunday and nobody calls her bluff because, "file sharing is bad, mmm k, because it's bad."
Sixty dollars is more than enough, and this is an average ticketmaster price, to turn quite a profit and make touring into quite a lucrative venture for an artist. This is a clear cut case of an artist being greedy and her fans, rich, stupid or a combination, being dumb enough to accept it.
I still say there's something creepy about a 50 year old woman still making songs talking about "boys." I don't care if she's had 8 facelifts and does yoga every day of the week she's still a creepy old lady singing songs that should be way below her maturity level.
Meh, I don't think I'd pay 250 dollars to see Jesus resurrected, so you take this route on a large scale and you won't find me at your concert, or buying your overpriced CD, and then you'll really have a reason to bitch.
This is just creating another position in the government and appointing someone (qualified for once) to sit in it. It doesn't mean that they care any more than they did yesterday about civil liberties, and it doesn't change anything. This guy will protect my civil liberties in about the same capacity that "Homeland Security" secures the homeland...in title alone.
If Bush were really concerned about civil liberties he wouldn't have the stance he does on snooping on citizens...
You want to make this position really seem like it's doing something, have them actually start action against Bush for spying on citizens or conspiring to wiretap the Internet. But nothing truly groundbreaking like that will ever happen.
This is a good way for the Bush administration to pander to the public and have a press conference pretending like they care about your freedom, and I bet every news organization will lick it up like the true lapdogs they are.
...Plato's original use of the term democracy was to describe mob rule.
That's essentially what you get at digg. People don't digg stories because they disagree with the viewpoint, they mod down people because of their viewpoints being unpopular. There's no accounting for intelligence there. One important user with a fan base might digg a story and cause everyone else to digg it as well. It's basically mob rule.
That being said, it isn't without merit. A lot of news arrives faster on digg than slashdot, even if the moderation system does need work.
The thing people forget about bleeding-edge style computer saavy, technocrats is that they have market spill-over value. While it's true that not everyon will be like the most informed geeks in the world, and most will likely think Intels are great, that's what everyone has, let's face it: people who know nothing about computers ask for advice from others.
I've been personally responsible for many system purchases that didn't involve the Intel tax. In all of these cases the computer I recommended worked just as well for the person as it would've with an Intel (if not better), and they saved money. So while there might be only a few geeks that know which processor is more worth your buck, they are the ones making the buying decisions for others in a lot of cases. Dell never accounts for this factor. And in short, it's performance/price ratio stupid... At least offer your customers a choice.
...you yourselves benefit from the experience, correct?
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to question Google's reasoning here. I understand if you talk about markets, and how it's important for profits or this or that, but to act like it's in China's best interest to have Google there, come on.
It's in Google's best interest to have Google there.
I'm not saying that MS and Yahoo aren't doing the same thing with less press coverage, but let's not call a fart a perfume just because we liked who farted more.
The average Chinese person isn't going to be liberated by the fact that Google has put in place a censored search engine, with or without a message. The only way the Chinese people will liberate themselves is through violent overthrow, most likely, just like all other revolutions in history. Or, and get this, they could fall like other forms of "communism", by the fact that this type of government system leads to poverty and eventually crumbles. But guess what, with Walmart, Google, and every other mulit-national corporation more than happy to do business with a fascist dictatorship, the economy continues to thrive, so there goes that idea.
One word: community. Anything that you can think of you can find a guide for for the most part, just by Googling. The chat has to be one of the only friendly ones I've seen in the linux community and the boards/wiki are impeccable. They didn't attempt to make me feel like a moron just for not knowing something, and they didn't feel I needed to be pressured into using Linux for every application, just supporting the cause and attempting to learn was enough.
I've been waiting for dapper drake to take flight for a while nos so I can get my hands on XGL and get it actually working permanently on a computer. I might have to try out the beta early now that a beta has finally been released.
My point is, it doesn't take learning a new skill with your hands. Your mouse hand can point like it is used to, and your keyboard hand can control other movements. This is very intuitive and natural feeling. Using both thumbs on axis in strange direction coordinations is far from natural feeling, even for someone who has been playing other types of games for years, and it is something that really does need correcting IMO.
A language doesn't have to be updated every 20 seconds to be good. If you started off working in JPython, I don't understand why you would switch it out for a less supported, and less developed language. Python has been kicking around for a while, enough time that they got most of the major kinks out long ago, so I don't think "falling behind in the development cycle" is as crucial as you might think it is. Why not stay with what works unless you specifically REQUIRE the new version's functionality? People are too quick to be trendy with languages...
I'm a developer too. I have a BS in computer science and am currently looking into ways to do cross-platform development so I can be of some use to the open source community on both Windows and Linux. And you have just proved my point.
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MS is doing business with the ultimate socialists right now, and then allowed to come back and pander to us as if somehow it's a good thing for China. Saying that I think corporations that do business with fascists shouldn't be able to conduct business in the US as well is far from socialism, it should be in the basic set of ground rules. Hell, look what we do with Cuba, but oh wait, they don't have massive cheap slave labor and manufacturing to offer.
How is democratic control over corporations socialism?
It's just not laissez-faire solve everything libertarianism.
I don't like the government that much, but at least I have some measure of control over their asses. I'm certainly not going to give up all my rights to a swindler in a suit because I think the government is bloated.
I don't know why people think Wikipedia is the devil because it's publically editable. It seems to me that this is how it gets information so quickly. Every time I hear a story in the news about Wikipedia, the damn Wikipedia article itself already mentions the controversy surrounding its own presence. Now _that_ is efficiency. I'm tired of hearing how it's simply a grafitti paradise with people going around making falsehood more vastly dispersed, it's simply not true. Reading any wikipedia entry top to bottom usually gives a pretty good sense of reality. The fact that there is so much public attention when an article is wrong or misleading is a case _for_ Wikipedia and not against it. Because standard encyclopedias have no controversy at all, they just have biased or false information in them.
When you get paid 2,000 dollars a year, a 1 dollar DVD is about all you can afford.
MS should go to hell for dealing with such a fascist POS nation. Google, don't think I don't feel the same way about you. We really need to start regulating the means by which multi-national corporations do business with fascist regimes. Their ability to pump money into the government gives Communism the life support that it died without in the USSR.
I agree, and it has made me hate both the NFL (for allowing exclusive licensing) and EA (for accepting it). Probably moreso at the NFL. You are dealing with an organization that uses public funding to construct its venues, then proceeds to up ticket prices year after year while cracking down on things like outside food for the sake of "terrorism." Then what do you get after the tax payers paid for the stadium and the fans paid for the tickets? The doritos half time show... The wachovia first down... The NFL is such a money grubbing piece of shit that I don't even know if I can bother watching it anymore. Thanks to the exclusive EA license, and the piss poor quality of the Madden franchise, they eliminated the one reason for me to enjoy watching the games and learning the players.
when corrupt private companies control all access to information, and private companies have own all land that would otherwise be usable for protest, the idea of a "private" company being able to slow and speed things up according to their own wishes becomes a great deal more important...What does it matter if the government censors us, or the private companies censor us on all their networks, if there are no alternatives?
...business is that in just a few short years, a user calling their ISP because Google doesn't work correctly or comes up too slowly will be the correct course of action....because it will be the ISP slowing it down.
edit: I'm a moron.
Great idea, after all we should definitely be more like China.
That's another bonus besides completely eliminating privacy, killing those pesky non-working homeless people off by eliminating the change they subsist on.
All fringe benefits for the hampster wheel posse.
Yep. Then you use it, the alternatives start to fall by the wayside cuz everyone once again gives into MS, and then the bugs start emerging again without patches cuz MS doesn't care to enough to patch when it's not feeling the pressure... Then the cycle starts all over again.
We've already seen what they do as the dominant player in a market, they get there and then they shut down the competitors and stagnate, leaving their users screwed by a new bug everyday.
...that Microsoft is playing catch up these days. It's well aware of the fact that it's lost the confidence of the true "tech-oriented" people and now it hopes to win them back.
What they don't understand is that their business model needs changing. No longer is software that's outdated the moment you release it that has security holes in it left and right that don't have patches going to be tolerated.
We have an open source browser with wide spread web support. I don't care if you have the tabs or not, I'm not going back to find out that you had invested not enough time yet again into security and watching as my box fills with adware.
Let's not forget who is really to blame in this adware thing, and it's MS... Ceasing use of IE has kept my PC free of adware for going on two years now. Don't think I'm going back cuz you made it prettier or add features we already had elsewhere.
What I find the best thing to do is to make the password the first letters in the sentence of some phrase, lyric, etc and try to include numbers in this.
For instance, I'm kind of a NIN fan, so you could use a lyric like:
"I will take my place in the great below"
iwtmpitgb
then add numbers
that way if you forget the password, you just have to remember the phrase you used to came up with it, and the numbers
I don't wanna start a typical rap vs. rock thing here, but rap is only as good as the rapper writing the lyrics.
One person or another might disagree with the format altogether cuz they don't like how it sounds, and that's fine, but to pretend that at its best rap is somehow inferior artistically is being misleading. I wouldn't call most mainstream rock very artistic either or good for that matter.
Blink 182 and the Ying Yang Twins are about on the same level from different angles, but one isn't inherently worse than the other because one is "rock" and one is "rap." The same can be argued for video games versus other entertainment, neither one is inherently better off than the other, it's up to the artist to determine how well made and artistic the work is. When you look at movies vs. modern video games, I might even argue that the average game has more artistic merit than the average movie. But neither format is inherently more artistic.
...that you can't have everything fit a movie G, PG, PG-13, R, etc. fucking model.
The Internet is, plain and simply, not a place for small children to venture unsupervised.
How about instead of fucking with the nature of the beast, we limit exposure instead?
Oh, no, that would require parenting, and who wants to do that?
I don't need a rating system on the Internet, I'll decide what I want to see. Porn sites are usually willing to present themselves to filter companies anyway, they aren't trying to show your children porno any more than you are, they can't make money off a 5 year old...
Just another way of trying to make the Internet like everything else, and I hope it fails miserably.
...because we all know Madonna needs the money. People need to stop taking it firmly in the rear with "piracy" as the excuse. I wouldn't pay $250 to see anyone for a regular ticket, she's not God, she's not even worth a $5 door charge IMO.
I'm sick of hearing about the poor starving multi-millionaire artist having to do this and that because someone realized their latest CD was junk before they even made the purchase. In the end it's really just about jacking ticket prices as well as selling the CDs and crippled DRM version, Madonna makes out six ways to Sunday and nobody calls her bluff because, "file sharing is bad, mmm k, because it's bad."
Sixty dollars is more than enough, and this is an average ticketmaster price, to turn quite a profit and make touring into quite a lucrative venture for an artist. This is a clear cut case of an artist being greedy and her fans, rich, stupid or a combination, being dumb enough to accept it.
I still say there's something creepy about a 50 year old woman still making songs talking about "boys." I don't care if she's had 8 facelifts and does yoga every day of the week she's still a creepy old lady singing songs that should be way below her maturity level.
Meh, I don't think I'd pay 250 dollars to see Jesus resurrected, so you take this route on a large scale and you won't find me at your concert, or buying your overpriced CD, and then you'll really have a reason to bitch.
This is just creating another position in the government and appointing someone (qualified for once) to sit in it. It doesn't mean that they care any more than they did yesterday about civil liberties, and it doesn't change anything. This guy will protect my civil liberties in about the same capacity that "Homeland Security" secures the homeland...in title alone.
If Bush were really concerned about civil liberties he wouldn't have the stance he does on snooping on citizens...
You want to make this position really seem like it's doing something, have them actually start action against Bush for spying on citizens or conspiring to wiretap the Internet. But nothing truly groundbreaking like that will ever happen.
This is a good way for the Bush administration to pander to the public and have a press conference pretending like they care about your freedom, and I bet every news organization will lick it up like the true lapdogs they are.
...Plato's original use of the term democracy was to describe mob rule.
That's essentially what you get at digg. People don't digg stories because they disagree with the viewpoint, they mod down people because of their viewpoints being unpopular. There's no accounting for intelligence there. One important user with a fan base might digg a story and cause everyone else to digg it as well. It's basically mob rule.
That being said, it isn't without merit. A lot of news arrives faster on digg than slashdot, even if the moderation system does need work.
The thing people forget about bleeding-edge style computer saavy, technocrats is that they have market spill-over value. While it's true that not everyon will be like the most informed geeks in the world, and most will likely think Intels are great, that's what everyone has, let's face it: people who know nothing about computers ask for advice from others.
I've been personally responsible for many system purchases that didn't involve the Intel tax. In all of these cases the computer I recommended worked just as well for the person as it would've with an Intel (if not better), and they saved money. So while there might be only a few geeks that know which processor is more worth your buck, they are the ones making the buying decisions for others in a lot of cases. Dell never accounts for this factor. And in short, it's performance/price ratio stupid... At least offer your customers a choice.
...you yourselves benefit from the experience, correct? I'm sorry but I'm going to have to question Google's reasoning here. I understand if you talk about markets, and how it's important for profits or this or that, but to act like it's in China's best interest to have Google there, come on. It's in Google's best interest to have Google there. I'm not saying that MS and Yahoo aren't doing the same thing with less press coverage, but let's not call a fart a perfume just because we liked who farted more. The average Chinese person isn't going to be liberated by the fact that Google has put in place a censored search engine, with or without a message. The only way the Chinese people will liberate themselves is through violent overthrow, most likely, just like all other revolutions in history. Or, and get this, they could fall like other forms of "communism", by the fact that this type of government system leads to poverty and eventually crumbles. But guess what, with Walmart, Google, and every other mulit-national corporation more than happy to do business with a fascist dictatorship, the economy continues to thrive, so there goes that idea.
One word: community. Anything that you can think of you can find a guide for for the most part, just by Googling. The chat has to be one of the only friendly ones I've seen in the linux community and the boards/wiki are impeccable. They didn't attempt to make me feel like a moron just for not knowing something, and they didn't feel I needed to be pressured into using Linux for every application, just supporting the cause and attempting to learn was enough. I've been waiting for dapper drake to take flight for a while nos so I can get my hands on XGL and get it actually working permanently on a computer. I might have to try out the beta early now that a beta has finally been released.
What is your problem?
My point is, it doesn't take learning a new skill with your hands. Your mouse hand can point like it is used to, and your keyboard hand can control other movements. This is very intuitive and natural feeling. Using both thumbs on axis in strange direction coordinations is far from natural feeling, even for someone who has been playing other types of games for years, and it is something that really does need correcting IMO.
A language doesn't have to be updated every 20 seconds to be good. If you started off working in JPython, I don't understand why you would switch it out for a less supported, and less developed language. Python has been kicking around for a while, enough time that they got most of the major kinks out long ago, so I don't think "falling behind in the development cycle" is as crucial as you might think it is. Why not stay with what works unless you specifically REQUIRE the new version's functionality? People are too quick to be trendy with languages...
I'm a developer too. I have a BS in computer science and am currently looking into ways to do cross-platform development so I can be of some use to the open source community on both Windows and Linux. And you have just proved my point.