MS and Oracle are sort of the extremes. More sanely run corporations look for a balance. Just look at Apple. They've diversified, but not put themselves in the position of being spread thin, which means that they can be a serious force in whatever space they enter, but not tied down if something changes significantly in one of their markets.
Likewise, many liberals claim to be about individual freedom, but the policies they support (non-discrimination laws, speech codes, gun control, high taxes) when applied to individuals are extremely illiberal.
Wow, this blows my mind. Speech codes and gun control you've got somewhat of a point there. But non-discrimination laws are there in order to ensure that liberty is available to everybody on a more or less equal basis. Society involves making sacrifices in non-essential liberty in order to have a better life.
And high taxes is just what conservatives say when the liberals propose actually taxing to cover the cost of government. It might be tax and spend liberal, but the status quo since Regan was borrow and spend conservatives.
One thing I've noticed is that the best trolling is earnestly advocating for reality using well reasoned arguments. Of all the times I've been accused of trolling and had the most folks angry at me, invariably, I was doing just that.
And it's not just me, I've noticed it being done to others as well. People seem to hate that "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take any more than can reasonably be expected" stance.
That's my concern. These folks already filter out reality without help. If they can just hit a button and have the engine do it for them then they don't have to worry about accidentally coming into contact with some inconvenient facts.
Considering the people who declared the rally for a return to sanity as a liberal get together I doubt we get something else. Especially considering that the satellite rally I attended seem to have just as many people on the conservative side of things as the liberal side.
Is that even legal? I mean MS can put anything it likes in the EULA, but actually getting it enforced is another matter. They've chosen to be bound by the laws of WA state for these things, and they'd have a really tough time getting any money in court for that sort of infringement as state law requires them to prove damages.
That's my plan. Few of the programs I use really require Windows and most of them are available for OSX for the price I've already paid. Or run under Crossover Office. Having been screwed one too many times by MS, I'm not going to be buying anything more from them. It'll be a challenge and I may have to tolerate giving them a small amount of money through G4WL and such, but I'm not buying anything that they sell, especially not Windows or Office.
But what's likely to hurt them more is that I'm not going to fix their problems. Meaning that it's going to take more and more to get me to fix problems that are caused by MS' incompetence. I've lost way too much time troubleshooting what turned out to be their mistake trying to use their incompetently written documentation. Thankfully Google makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot than in the past, but still I shouldn't have to do that.
And interestingly enough, the devs that handle Firefox are still putting in new features to head off future exploits. It's not that they're immune from vulnerabilities, it's that they sit on them for less time before fixing them.
Indeed. Movies already have a lot of depth to them, the human brain is able to do an amazing job of making images on the screen look like their really 3D. Unless the 3D effects are being abused to throw things at the audience or are really garish there just isn't that much of a difference at present.
On top of which nobody has really figured out how to work with the medium yet, and until that happens it's just not worth the expense of watching. Kind of a chicken and egg problem.
That's what I'm wondering about, are there any languages which use unicode for any of the actual language stuff? Because without languages needing the extra unicode characters for actual programming this stuff doesn't appear to really make a difference beyond comments.
New fangled? Weren't those there since way before/opt was added? Besides, it's not appropriate to add add on userland stuff to/bin. That belongs somewhere like/usr/local/bin. Why Linux opted to go that/opt way at all is beyond me.
Indeed. I'd personally say that highschool algebra, statistics and basic finance math is probably all most people are ever going to need. And the ones that need more will get it in college when they get their degrees.
Generally, I like to think I know where my dick is. Somehow I don't think that the question of whether or not it's in a box applies until I've had at least a fifth, and probably more.
Could be worse. I found the exit polling during the 2000 Presidential race to be unacceptable meddling. They were making estimates and declaring things before the last polls had closed out west. I'm not really sure who it really favored, but it was obnoxious.
Do you have a better solution? Democracy isn't perfect, the reason why we ended up with the solution we did was because nobody could think of a better one. It's the best solution anybody has come up with for handling that problem. If anything we ought to go and rescind the 19th amendment and go back to having our legislators appoint our senators. Makes it a lot harder to buy senators than under the current system.
One step better would be to allow the states to decide individually whether to make it appointments or direct elections. For states like TX, CA, NY and even WA it would likely be harder to buy a senator than it would in less populous states.
That's mostly a matter of scale. We're the 3rd most populous nation behind India and China. We're also the 3rd or 4th in terms of area depending upon how exactly you measure it.
But it also has to do with the fact that we have states rather than provinces like pretty much all the other nations. They were originally completely autonomous being under a single confederation from becoming independent to about the time that George Washington took office, and a considerable number of issues are still handled at the state level. In fact most of the things that I do are likely to be handled in state law rather than federal law.
Prop 19 is a dumb one because pot is primarily criminal under federal law, and so this isn't going to make much difference. We in Seattle passed a similar ordinance some years back declaring pot to be the lowest priority for the police department. Funny thing is that it already was the lowest priority for them and it didn't change any of the other bits either.
Starting? It's been that way for quite a while now. Ever notice how apart from 9/11 there hasn't been a single plane taken down due to terrorism in the US in the last decade? And the only other attempts have either failed on their own or by use of less sophisticated counter measures.
You're always going to have terrorism as long as folks are willing to do that sort of thing, but when the likelihood of a plane going down due to terrorism is less likely than it going down due to either mechanical failure or pilot error, you have to wonder why we're putting up with the extra security measures.
That sounds more like Iran. I haven't been there myself, but from what I gather when you come in as an American they go out of their way to humiliate you the way we treat their citizens. After that there isn't much trouble and apparently the Iranians are just as nice as the ones you run into here, but they do even things in the airports.
H.264 isn't free. Never has been and never will be. It's only free to end users, not to the people that actually produce the software. Meaning that after you paying via the copy of the software you use, they're magnanimously choosing not to charge you again for the streaming.H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Patent licensing
Doubtful. H.264 is still subject to patent trolling and royalties later on. And as long as that's the case it shouldn't be the standard we use. The only made it free in one respect which is streaming. As far as I can tell they didn't make any guarantees about the ways that matter.
Under the current formulation patents in this space are a definite loss. As long as patents are allowed to be used in this fashion you're going to see stifled innovation. Certain categories of patents ought to be discarded completely, such as patents there solely to reserve areas of research and ones based upon vague ideas which may or may not mean anything.
I'd mod you up if I could. Wages tend to mirror the cost of living to some extent. And while not all expenses are equivalent, some things are difficult or impossible to avoid. You're going to pay for food and some sort of shelter in virtually any case, same goes for health care and other basic necessities. It really doesn't matter whether you pay for them individually or via taxation per se, just the total amount you're paying for cost of living.
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MS and Oracle are sort of the extremes. More sanely run corporations look for a balance. Just look at Apple. They've diversified, but not put themselves in the position of being spread thin, which means that they can be a serious force in whatever space they enter, but not tied down if something changes significantly in one of their markets.
Likewise, many liberals claim to be about individual freedom, but the policies they support (non-discrimination laws, speech codes, gun control, high taxes) when applied to individuals are extremely illiberal.
Wow, this blows my mind. Speech codes and gun control you've got somewhat of a point there. But non-discrimination laws are there in order to ensure that liberty is available to everybody on a more or less equal basis. Society involves making sacrifices in non-essential liberty in order to have a better life.
And high taxes is just what conservatives say when the liberals propose actually taxing to cover the cost of government. It might be tax and spend liberal, but the status quo since Regan was borrow and spend conservatives.
One thing I've noticed is that the best trolling is earnestly advocating for reality using well reasoned arguments. Of all the times I've been accused of trolling and had the most folks angry at me, invariably, I was doing just that.
And it's not just me, I've noticed it being done to others as well. People seem to hate that "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take any more than can reasonably be expected" stance.
That's my concern. These folks already filter out reality without help. If they can just hit a button and have the engine do it for them then they don't have to worry about accidentally coming into contact with some inconvenient facts.
Considering the people who declared the rally for a return to sanity as a liberal get together I doubt we get something else. Especially considering that the satellite rally I attended seem to have just as many people on the conservative side of things as the liberal side.
Is that even legal? I mean MS can put anything it likes in the EULA, but actually getting it enforced is another matter. They've chosen to be bound by the laws of WA state for these things, and they'd have a really tough time getting any money in court for that sort of infringement as state law requires them to prove damages.
That's my plan. Few of the programs I use really require Windows and most of them are available for OSX for the price I've already paid. Or run under Crossover Office. Having been screwed one too many times by MS, I'm not going to be buying anything more from them. It'll be a challenge and I may have to tolerate giving them a small amount of money through G4WL and such, but I'm not buying anything that they sell, especially not Windows or Office.
But what's likely to hurt them more is that I'm not going to fix their problems. Meaning that it's going to take more and more to get me to fix problems that are caused by MS' incompetence. I've lost way too much time troubleshooting what turned out to be their mistake trying to use their incompetently written documentation. Thankfully Google makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot than in the past, but still I shouldn't have to do that.
True, but there isn't much advantage once you get above 30% or so. And really if you've got 20% of the web share, competent devs can't ignore that.
And interestingly enough, the devs that handle Firefox are still putting in new features to head off future exploits. It's not that they're immune from vulnerabilities, it's that they sit on them for less time before fixing them.
Indeed. Movies already have a lot of depth to them, the human brain is able to do an amazing job of making images on the screen look like their really 3D. Unless the 3D effects are being abused to throw things at the audience or are really garish there just isn't that much of a difference at present.
On top of which nobody has really figured out how to work with the medium yet, and until that happens it's just not worth the expense of watching. Kind of a chicken and egg problem.
You mean sort of like binding arbitration? That's one step below the court system as well, that never gets abused.
That's what I'm wondering about, are there any languages which use unicode for any of the actual language stuff? Because without languages needing the extra unicode characters for actual programming this stuff doesn't appear to really make a difference beyond comments.
It does, however the comments aren't. I'm not sure how useful this is since you still need to use ASCII characters for programming.
New fangled? Weren't those there since way before /opt was added? Besides, it's not appropriate to add add on userland stuff to /bin. That belongs somewhere like /usr/local/bin. Why Linux opted to go that /opt way at all is beyond me.
Indeed. I'd personally say that highschool algebra, statistics and basic finance math is probably all most people are ever going to need. And the ones that need more will get it in college when they get their degrees.
Generally, I like to think I know where my dick is. Somehow I don't think that the question of whether or not it's in a box applies until I've had at least a fifth, and probably more.
Could be worse. I found the exit polling during the 2000 Presidential race to be unacceptable meddling. They were making estimates and declaring things before the last polls had closed out west. I'm not really sure who it really favored, but it was obnoxious.
D'oh, that should've been 17th amendment.
Do you have a better solution? Democracy isn't perfect, the reason why we ended up with the solution we did was because nobody could think of a better one. It's the best solution anybody has come up with for handling that problem. If anything we ought to go and rescind the 19th amendment and go back to having our legislators appoint our senators. Makes it a lot harder to buy senators than under the current system.
One step better would be to allow the states to decide individually whether to make it appointments or direct elections. For states like TX, CA, NY and even WA it would likely be harder to buy a senator than it would in less populous states.
That's mostly a matter of scale. We're the 3rd most populous nation behind India and China. We're also the 3rd or 4th in terms of area depending upon how exactly you measure it.
But it also has to do with the fact that we have states rather than provinces like pretty much all the other nations. They were originally completely autonomous being under a single confederation from becoming independent to about the time that George Washington took office, and a considerable number of issues are still handled at the state level. In fact most of the things that I do are likely to be handled in state law rather than federal law.
Prop 19 is a dumb one because pot is primarily criminal under federal law, and so this isn't going to make much difference. We in Seattle passed a similar ordinance some years back declaring pot to be the lowest priority for the police department. Funny thing is that it already was the lowest priority for them and it didn't change any of the other bits either.
Starting? It's been that way for quite a while now. Ever notice how apart from 9/11 there hasn't been a single plane taken down due to terrorism in the US in the last decade? And the only other attempts have either failed on their own or by use of less sophisticated counter measures.
You're always going to have terrorism as long as folks are willing to do that sort of thing, but when the likelihood of a plane going down due to terrorism is less likely than it going down due to either mechanical failure or pilot error, you have to wonder why we're putting up with the extra security measures.
That sounds more like Iran. I haven't been there myself, but from what I gather when you come in as an American they go out of their way to humiliate you the way we treat their citizens. After that there isn't much trouble and apparently the Iranians are just as nice as the ones you run into here, but they do even things in the airports.
H.264 isn't free. Never has been and never will be. It's only free to end users, not to the people that actually produce the software. Meaning that after you paying via the copy of the software you use, they're magnanimously choosing not to charge you again for the streaming.H.264/MPEG-4 AVC - Patent licensing
Doubtful. H.264 is still subject to patent trolling and royalties later on. And as long as that's the case it shouldn't be the standard we use. The only made it free in one respect which is streaming. As far as I can tell they didn't make any guarantees about the ways that matter.
Under the current formulation patents in this space are a definite loss. As long as patents are allowed to be used in this fashion you're going to see stifled innovation. Certain categories of patents ought to be discarded completely, such as patents there solely to reserve areas of research and ones based upon vague ideas which may or may not mean anything.
I'd mod you up if I could. Wages tend to mirror the cost of living to some extent. And while not all expenses are equivalent, some things are difficult or impossible to avoid. You're going to pay for food and some sort of shelter in virtually any case, same goes for health care and other basic necessities. It really doesn't matter whether you pay for them individually or via taxation per se, just the total amount you're paying for cost of living.