As much as I don't like Apple, your comment seems a little off. First of all, you're admonishing developers for actually wanting to get paid? I hope you realize things like food and housing aren't free. Second of all, Apple's environment never really had a significant open source community of its own. Most of it is just spill over from the regular open source community.
Even if that was true, so what? Should there be a law to prevent me from smoking, drinking, eating junk food, watching too much TV... The government or you have no business to make decisions regarding what I choose to put into my body or mind.
No there should be no law against those things. What there should be is a law that would allow physicians to not be obligated to treat you (and government not obligated to pay) if you develop emphysema/lung cancer from your smoking, liver failure/brain damage from your drinking, becoming an obese diabetic from eating too much, etc.
I used to think that way too and thought dualism and epiphenomenalism was bunk, but now I'm not so sure. Granted all those things you say are true. However, there are certain things that monism can't adequately explain (and will not likely to ever be able to explain) such as whether or not the color I see as red is someone else's green, why I am me and not someone else, why I feel as if my consciousness is in my head rather than my liver, or whether my liver actually is conscious at all.
I don't want Flash on my iPhone. There's no content that I'm missing out on and I use iOS way more than my desktop for general browsing.
Except it should be you making the decision, not Steve! I have an Android phone (HTC Aria) and I can use or not use Flash as I please since there's a browser setting for that (javascript too).
Please explain where these so-called mandates to issue no-document subprime loans were enacted in law. The fact is that these mandates didn't exist.
There is no law saying exactly that. But there were certain mandates set forth in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, with amendments throughout the decades, that gave rise to what we have today. There's quite a bit of blame to spread around, but it all starts back in 1977.
A lot of the problems we've had since 2008 could have been avoided with better risk analysis.
No, the problems go much deeper than that. One was mandating that banks make loans to people who aren't qualified and then having the government, more or less, guarantee these loans (this goes back to the Carter administration, but every president since then was also guilty of endorsing this). The second was having the wrong incentives for loan companies: they made money processing these loans and then selling them to someone else. It's the ultimate legal get rich-quick scheme at the time.
We've had very good risk analysis for a long time. However, we've just had insane incentives that make it more profitable in the short term to ignore those analyses.
Would it hurt to add the Chinese characters or accent marks on the pinyin? "tibiwangzi" means nothing without the accent marks. BTW I think is correct, which would make it "kick pen, forget words"
And as I've said before, I don't think PC gaming will ever have a chance to die. The line between consoles + TVs and PCs + monitors is very fuzzy even today (the XBOX and XBOX360 are already basically x86 PCs running Windows 2000), and in five or ten years it will disappear completely.
Well, other than the fact the XBox 360 is PowerPC and not x86, I agree with you.
hating his politics should not be about forgetting your humanity. then perhaps you are worse than whatever you ridicule about ted stevens
I disagree. Do you show the same regard for people like Hitler? Mussolini? Stalin? No? Where's YOUR humanity? Granted Ted Stevens isn't as close to evil as those people, but he certainly did his part to increase the idiocy of congress as a whole.
I don't know where these people are going to school. I went to a public school in the USA, went to a decent university, grad school, and now job that actually utilizes critical thinking skills. I, and my high school friends, didn't turn out to be the fools that you would assume that we would be by going through public schools at each step. It's more likely that being ignorant is the easy way out and that's what people would rather choose instead.
Do you really want a blu-ray player, AND an HTPC, AND an Xbox 360, etc. cluttering up your living room (or in the case of some slashdotters, mom's basement;))? I for one, do not.
Then why don't you put your Blu-ray drive in your HTPC? And if you already have a PS3, then it doesn't really matter then does it? Shit, I have a PS2, PS3, XBox360, HTPC, Dreamcast, satellite receiver, and router in my TV stand.
Wait a minute. That's not necessarily the Chinese approach. That's just the approach of foreign companies trying to save a few cents. Chinese manufacturers can and do make quality and long lasting products. The problem is that their foreign customers (with a handful of exceptions) generally don't want to pay for the testing necessary to do that.
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Too bad it's only for physical trauma. Emotional trauma is yours to keep!
That's why we have alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!
Apple was as high as +20% of the computer market back in the 1980s.
As much as I don't like Apple, your comment seems a little off. First of all, you're admonishing developers for actually wanting to get paid? I hope you realize things like food and housing aren't free. Second of all, Apple's environment never really had a significant open source community of its own. Most of it is just spill over from the regular open source community.
Even if that was true, so what? Should there be a law to prevent me from smoking, drinking, eating junk food, watching too much TV... The government or you have no business to make decisions regarding what I choose to put into my body or mind.
No there should be no law against those things. What there should be is a law that would allow physicians to not be obligated to treat you (and government not obligated to pay) if you develop emphysema/lung cancer from your smoking, liver failure/brain damage from your drinking, becoming an obese diabetic from eating too much, etc.
I used to think that way too and thought dualism and epiphenomenalism was bunk, but now I'm not so sure. Granted all those things you say are true. However, there are certain things that monism can't adequately explain (and will not likely to ever be able to explain) such as whether or not the color I see as red is someone else's green, why I am me and not someone else, why I feel as if my consciousness is in my head rather than my liver, or whether my liver actually is conscious at all.
I think the ultimate will be encoding in nucleons or even quarks.
I have an Android phone (HTC Aria), and I can enable or disable Flash as I please.
I don't want Flash on my iPhone. There's no content that I'm missing out on and I use iOS way more than my desktop for general browsing.
Except it should be you making the decision, not Steve! I have an Android phone (HTC Aria) and I can use or not use Flash as I please since there's a browser setting for that (javascript too).
Right up until you've developed a chronic disease or get into an accident and have insane medical bills. Then you'll need quite a bit more.
Who do you think was worse: Fiorina or Hurd?
We should raise gas prices to $10/gallon and then get rid of speed limits. That'll do pretty much the same thing.
Please explain where these so-called mandates to issue no-document subprime loans were enacted in law. The fact is that these mandates didn't exist.
There is no law saying exactly that. But there were certain mandates set forth in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, with amendments throughout the decades, that gave rise to what we have today. There's quite a bit of blame to spread around, but it all starts back in 1977.
A lot of the problems we've had since 2008 could have been avoided with better risk analysis.
No, the problems go much deeper than that. One was mandating that banks make loans to people who aren't qualified and then having the government, more or less, guarantee these loans (this goes back to the Carter administration, but every president since then was also guilty of endorsing this). The second was having the wrong incentives for loan companies: they made money processing these loans and then selling them to someone else. It's the ultimate legal get rich-quick scheme at the time.
We've had very good risk analysis for a long time. However, we've just had insane incentives that make it more profitable in the short term to ignore those analyses.
Would it hurt to add the Chinese characters or accent marks on the pinyin? "tibiwangzi" means nothing without the accent marks. BTW I think is correct, which would make it "kick pen, forget words"
Dammit, the characters don't show up.
And as I've said before, I don't think PC gaming will ever have a chance to die. The line between consoles + TVs and PCs + monitors is very fuzzy even today (the XBOX and XBOX360 are already basically x86 PCs running Windows 2000), and in five or ten years it will disappear completely.
Well, other than the fact the XBox 360 is PowerPC and not x86, I agree with you.
I use Lynx.
No, that actually a coincidence. It would be ironic if they didn't die, because that would be the unexpected outcome of a plane crash.
the guy's dead, show some sensitivity
hating his politics should not be about forgetting your humanity. then perhaps you are worse than whatever you ridicule about ted stevens
I disagree. Do you show the same regard for people like Hitler? Mussolini? Stalin? No? Where's YOUR humanity? Granted Ted Stevens isn't as close to evil as those people, but he certainly did his part to increase the idiocy of congress as a whole.
LOL, what? Go to your VW dealer and pick up a Jetta TDI or BMW dealer and buy your 335d.
I don't know where these people are going to school. I went to a public school in the USA, went to a decent university, grad school, and now job that actually utilizes critical thinking skills. I, and my high school friends, didn't turn out to be the fools that you would assume that we would be by going through public schools at each step. It's more likely that being ignorant is the easy way out and that's what people would rather choose instead.
See, that's what you get for RTFA!
Government is fine. Keep CORPORATIONS out of my bedroom. They have no reason to be there.
I'm sure the users of KY disagree with you there...
Do you really want a blu-ray player, AND an HTPC, AND an Xbox 360, etc. cluttering up your living room (or in the case of some slashdotters, mom's basement ;))? I for one, do not.
Then why don't you put your Blu-ray drive in your HTPC? And if you already have a PS3, then it doesn't really matter then does it? Shit, I have a PS2, PS3, XBox360, HTPC, Dreamcast, satellite receiver, and router in my TV stand.
Wait a minute. That's not necessarily the Chinese approach. That's just the approach of foreign companies trying to save a few cents. Chinese manufacturers can and do make quality and long lasting products. The problem is that their foreign customers (with a handful of exceptions) generally don't want to pay for the testing necessary to do that.
You get 0.00198 miles/gallon? Hopefully you live near that Louisiana oil spill so you can get free oil!