I'm pretty sure his point is that 0.1% is far far less than may be occurring outside of FOSS but nobody is looking for that figure. They are fixating on this issue which for all intents could be so minor that it's not worth the time arguing. (ie: There are bigger issues behind this and attacking the flees to get rid of the dog infestation is probably the wrong way about it.)
Why are you not arguing about sexist toys at the store? I mean, why are Barbie Dolls marketed only to young girls? I'd imagine there's a bit more sexism involved in every day television than there is going on in FOSS development.
Personally, this sounds to me like a fabricated argument. It feels to me as though someone seemed extra vigilant to point it out as a FOSS exclusive flaw. (but according to the story, that makes me a naysayer... so I can't win, eh?)
Yes, it's a bad thing to make death threats toward people... but you have to ask yourself, do you really feel threatened by a computer screen? Think about the alternative. zero free speech where everyone is censored, monitored and arrested for making such claims. If you use your real name on a forum, you may want to think twice next time you register. I'm not entirely backing someone who "made a threat" (because I read it mainly as a snarky comment as opposed to a threat per say) but you have to understand that there are limits to an online interaction. If you find that someone is stalking you in real life. Grab a phone and call 911. Personal defense classes and/or exercising your right to personal defense (in the US: carrying a gun) is also an option if you truly feel threatened. Otherwise, move on and don't give the troll more free advertisement.
I think people are reaching into the woodwork and pulling out every major flaw of humanity and putting it on a wall for everyone to see. Of course, they are placing it on whatever wall they feel like and blaming every other piece of furniture in the room.
I've said it before. People like (crave) drama. Check out what's popular on TV and you can see that. You'll find "reality TV" that's so overblown that it's not even like reality. Before that was Springer and all the other talk shows. Celebrity goofs, overdoses, Police and Professors reactions, etc. People want something to talk about the next day and drama seems to fill that void easily. In fact, I have a friend that texts me every time he sees an accident or is in a crazy driver situation. Then wants to make a big deal about it when we meet up for game weekends.
Sometimes I wish people would just mind their own business and move on.
I'd count that as oversensitivity. I read that as nobody knows your a dog or a girl. He could have said teapot (or a girl!) and it would mean the exact same thing... nothing.
The government plans on taxing insurance companies who will raise prices to cover taxes. Shifting the blame from the government as proprietor of high health care costs (regulations, etc.) to point to the insurance company as the "bad man" in the public eye.
Nuclear Disarmament, he's working with the Russians to mothball more nukes
Not like that matters anyway. We still hold more than any other country and still restrict other countries from building their own. And last I checked, these are globally reaching weapons and besides WWII, none of them have ever been used in aggression. It's like taking candy out of a jar on the fridge that no kids can reach and throwing it away.
Climate Change, he's stated his goals for it
Wow. I bought a smaller car. Does that make me prize worthy that I've actually done something about it instead of stating my goals?
Human Rights, he's begining the closure of Guantanamo Bay
We'll see if it actually ends. Last I heard, they are seeking out a prison somewhere in the states where they can continue whatever treatments were imposed. I'm sure it will be a top secret facility with no access.
Iraq, begun pulling out troops and no comment has been made on Afghanistan, where the pull is for *more* not less troops.
Iraq was basically over with when Bush left office. This is the natural order of things. All B.O. is doing is shifting the troops somewhere else and continuing what was already happening. The same can be said about the economy, but even with unemployment high people still think the administration turned things around!
I don't know about the idea of a multi-touch mouse though. I'd rather have a screen to interact with. A mouse design would denote having a cursor and resting your fingers somewhere that is not detected as a press. If there's nowhere to rest your fingers, you spend a large portion of your time using said mouse with your fingers in the air with no tactile response. It would also seem to me to be a "looser" grip on the mouse making it less "natural" as a pointing device.
You could get many answers for that. Are you saying the taskbar isn't obvious? How many people do you ask? What education will they all have? (An interface designer will come up with a different solution than an programmer...)
I still say, no patents, only copyright. Software is like an instruction manual. You can describe many ways to get the same objective and they all look like books. Also, look and feel should be trademarks, not patents.
The cables don't make the bits warmer. It aligns the bits so they travel faster through the copper medium. The lacing of the wire also helps to catch any stray electrons flying off the bits and pushes them back into the proper location so the destination gets more of them than that cheap cable. This is why only 5 of the colors are available. The rest of the bits were lost because of the cheap cables.
That's just what I was thinking. Maybe if we can get these companies to start patenting things that make life hard, other companies will be less inclined to implement said feature... The consumer wins!
If I wanted simple access to things, I'd by a server rack case with hot swap bays and a convenient door on the top of the case then mount it under my desk like a drawer. Come to think of it. That's what I want... Where are the computer desks with built in rails?
I have to wonder what the group dynamic is... If you have a mass of people who can't get away from the sound because they are in the center of a large group of people, what do they do? Duck and cover their ears while staying in the sound? If so, that could be detrimental. It's fine if you are the sole target because "getting away" from the sound is easy.
But seriously. I hate to guess what they are referring to when the OP refers to "more pressing problems" when dealing with computing power? I mean... computers will soon be our masters. We may as well make them the best damn masters we possibly can, right? If you were created by a bunch of self righteous peons who didn't give you the best of the best, you'd be pissed.
All Software patents are obvious on some level. I still think software shouldn't be patentable, only copyrightable.
I'm a developer, and I still feel as though writing a program is similar to writing a book in that regard. If you allowed publishers to patent ideas for books and methods for main characters to traverse through the story, you'd basically hit the same point we are in software patents. Dragons would be patented to someone, Mystery Novels would be patented to someone else...
That's partially my point. How do you define what he's talking about? At what point is the coder Chinese? When they work for China? How are the people working for him supposed to understand what is meant?
(And how was my original post trollish? It's an honest question.)
Be fair... this type of thing happens on both sides of the political divide. The far right might blame immigration, but the far left blames CEOs in their own country. I definitely wouldn't call the far right Fascist either. The Left is doing it's fair share of that by taking over companies and setting policy.
From Wikipedia: "Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement. [flag@whitehouse.gov] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation [Those damn corporations and their liberal capitalist spending causing all that economic turbulence! We must get this under control!] and communists for exploiting the concept."
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I always love when someone tries to explain a game to me as an "over the shoulder" FPS.
My computer connects to my HD Television, but I don't have 4 controllers. I could get some though.
I'm pretty sure his point is that 0.1% is far far less than may be occurring outside of FOSS but nobody is looking for that figure. They are fixating on this issue which for all intents could be so minor that it's not worth the time arguing. (ie: There are bigger issues behind this and attacking the flees to get rid of the dog infestation is probably the wrong way about it.)
Why are you not arguing about sexist toys at the store? I mean, why are Barbie Dolls marketed only to young girls? I'd imagine there's a bit more sexism involved in every day television than there is going on in FOSS development.
Personally, this sounds to me like a fabricated argument. It feels to me as though someone seemed extra vigilant to point it out as a FOSS exclusive flaw. (but according to the story, that makes me a naysayer... so I can't win, eh?)
Yes, it's a bad thing to make death threats toward people... but you have to ask yourself, do you really feel threatened by a computer screen? Think about the alternative. zero free speech where everyone is censored, monitored and arrested for making such claims. If you use your real name on a forum, you may want to think twice next time you register. I'm not entirely backing someone who "made a threat" (because I read it mainly as a snarky comment as opposed to a threat per say) but you have to understand that there are limits to an online interaction. If you find that someone is stalking you in real life. Grab a phone and call 911. Personal defense classes and/or exercising your right to personal defense (in the US: carrying a gun) is also an option if you truly feel threatened. Otherwise, move on and don't give the troll more free advertisement.
I think people are reaching into the woodwork and pulling out every major flaw of humanity and putting it on a wall for everyone to see. Of course, they are placing it on whatever wall they feel like and blaming every other piece of furniture in the room.
I've said it before. People like (crave) drama. Check out what's popular on TV and you can see that. You'll find "reality TV" that's so overblown that it's not even like reality. Before that was Springer and all the other talk shows. Celebrity goofs, overdoses, Police and Professors reactions, etc. People want something to talk about the next day and drama seems to fill that void easily. In fact, I have a friend that texts me every time he sees an accident or is in a crazy driver situation. Then wants to make a big deal about it when we meet up for game weekends.
Sometimes I wish people would just mind their own business and move on.
I'd count that as oversensitivity. I read that as nobody knows your a dog or a girl. He could have said teapot (or a girl!) and it would mean the exact same thing... nothing.
I'm beginning to think we need to wall off Illinois (drop Gary, Indiana in there too...) and call it even.
The government plans on taxing insurance companies who will raise prices to cover taxes. Shifting the blame from the government as proprietor of high health care costs (regulations, etc.) to point to the insurance company as the "bad man" in the public eye.
Well then. If that wasn't the same absolutely ignorant thing coming out of the press, I'd think you actually knew what you were talking about.
Quit thinking about things based on party lines and open your eyes.
Nuclear Disarmament, he's working with the Russians to mothball more nukes
Not like that matters anyway. We still hold more than any other country and still restrict other countries from building their own. And last I checked, these are globally reaching weapons and besides WWII, none of them have ever been used in aggression. It's like taking candy out of a jar on the fridge that no kids can reach and throwing it away.
Climate Change, he's stated his goals for it
Wow. I bought a smaller car. Does that make me prize worthy that I've actually done something about it instead of stating my goals?
Human Rights, he's begining the closure of Guantanamo Bay
We'll see if it actually ends. Last I heard, they are seeking out a prison somewhere in the states where they can continue whatever treatments were imposed. I'm sure it will be a top secret facility with no access.
Iraq, begun pulling out troops
and no comment has been made on Afghanistan, where the pull is for *more* not less troops.
Iraq was basically over with when Bush left office. This is the natural order of things. All B.O. is doing is shifting the troops somewhere else and continuing what was already happening. The same can be said about the economy, but even with unemployment high people still think the administration turned things around!
I don't know about the idea of a multi-touch mouse though. I'd rather have a screen to interact with. A mouse design would denote having a cursor and resting your fingers somewhere that is not detected as a press. If there's nowhere to rest your fingers, you spend a large portion of your time using said mouse with your fingers in the air with no tactile response. It would also seem to me to be a "looser" grip on the mouse making it less "natural" as a pointing device.
I need a method of organizing my open programs...
You could get many answers for that. Are you saying the taskbar isn't obvious? How many people do you ask? What education will they all have? (An interface designer will come up with a different solution than an programmer...)
I still say, no patents, only copyright. Software is like an instruction manual. You can describe many ways to get the same objective and they all look like books. Also, look and feel should be trademarks, not patents.
The cables don't make the bits warmer. It aligns the bits so they travel faster through the copper medium. The lacing of the wire also helps to catch any stray electrons flying off the bits and pushes them back into the proper location so the destination gets more of them than that cheap cable. This is why only 5 of the colors are available. The rest of the bits were lost because of the cheap cables.
That's just what I was thinking. Maybe if we can get these companies to start patenting things that make life hard, other companies will be less inclined to implement said feature... The consumer wins!
If I wanted simple access to things, I'd by a server rack case with hot swap bays and a convenient door on the top of the case then mount it under my desk like a drawer. Come to think of it. That's what I want... Where are the computer desks with built in rails?
I have to wonder what the group dynamic is... If you have a mass of people who can't get away from the sound because they are in the center of a large group of people, what do they do? Duck and cover their ears while staying in the sound? If so, that could be detrimental. It's fine if you are the sole target because "getting away" from the sound is easy.
Don't forget all the bugs that like to eat paper. (Possibly your virus point?)
Pretty soon, we'll see an outcry from the various societies around the world that we need to protect this dying species of insect! ;)
Not all results would have to be saved... only the good ones. (just guessing)
One post up. ;)
Doesn't matter anymore since you posted...
But seriously. I hate to guess what they are referring to when the OP refers to "more pressing problems" when dealing with computing power? I mean... computers will soon be our masters. We may as well make them the best damn masters we possibly can, right? If you were created by a bunch of self righteous peons who didn't give you the best of the best, you'd be pissed.
All Software patents are obvious on some level. I still think software shouldn't be patentable, only copyrightable.
I'm a developer, and I still feel as though writing a program is similar to writing a book in that regard. If you allowed publishers to patent ideas for books and methods for main characters to traverse through the story, you'd basically hit the same point we are in software patents. Dragons would be patented to someone, Mystery Novels would be patented to someone else...
That's partially my point. How do you define what he's talking about? At what point is the coder Chinese? When they work for China? How are the people working for him supposed to understand what is meant?
(And how was my original post trollish? It's an honest question.)
Be fair... this type of thing happens on both sides of the political divide. The far right might blame immigration, but the far left blames CEOs in their own country. I definitely wouldn't call the far right Fascist either. The Left is doing it's fair share of that by taking over companies and setting policy.
From Wikipedia: "Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement. [flag@whitehouse.gov] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation [Those damn corporations and their liberal capitalist spending causing all that economic turbulence! We must get this under control!] and communists for exploiting the concept."
What if China hired "coders" from Russia to complete their objectives? Their passports wouldn't be Chinese.
How would one know if the coder is working for the Chinese? (Or are they using racial profiling to fit that bill?)