yeees. and why is that ? because microsoft bought laws to push its software forcibly with each pc purchase. that is, after their monopoly started to shake.
reaaaaaaalllyy.... what ARE those ? show me one popular/common program each, which has been produced by using those that a lot of people use.
A fair proportion of all programmers probably deal with those closed source libraries every day.
maybe a few libraries that they HAVE to. but really, 10-20 people who are probably using obscure libraries ? like the above ?
Most people are still fine with undocumented file formats.
quite. that is of course if you had been following the news about open document format requirements of countries, organizations here and on other tech sites with your ass instead of your eyes.
Citation needed.
where are your citations ? who are the 'most people' fine with closed document formats, and who are those 10-15 people using the closed source libraries you mentioned ?
And yet people still buy Kindles and iPods.
fucking moron. really. fucking moron. why ? because THERE IS NO RELEVANCE in between a vendor pushing/forcing a software with a device onto users, and those users choosing that software by themselves. i wont explain this. use your brain and think yourself.
and yet, despite those sales, android surpassed all other phones in north america by a large margin in just a year.
But for the most part they are not getting any traction.
citation needed. moron.
It was claimed that Stallman is instigating societal change, not a change merely within the software industry. Most people I know have never even heard of him. Most people I know don't give a flying fuck about being able to read and modify the source code. Most of them aren't computer programmers. They just want their computers and phones and tablets to work.
'most people' moron. citation needed. most people do not know about tim berners lee either, yet they use www every day.
With no exception, ALL of the major groundbreakers in the history of societal freedoms and liberties, were considered fringe and even prosecuted in their time.
Today, thankfully, we dont have much prosecution. but labeling, despising, outcasting pioneers continue.
Stallman is no different. what he is bringing forth will underlie the basis of the society tomorrow.
What you should ask is 'Show me something you have done before'. period. prior work, shows the guy. even if s/he is someone fresh out of school, s/he will have done things out of his/her school projects.
no. im saying that, they had had started saving locations of people long ago, and had attempted to prepare the public to that.those press releases and slip in statements were for that. now, faced with backlash, they are whoring themselves out as in 'accidental'.
they said location data was very important. and it turns out, it was !!!! they were collecting that data through all means. so, the 'accidental' excuse doesnt fly.
it has everything to do with the issue. it doesnt matter whether it was said 5 years ago. it means that, the company is INTENT on collecting location data of people. period. it means, in between july and now, they were already implementing what they were speaking. only thing commendable is, they put their mouth where their word is.
i dont know how hard it is to understand - THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO COLLECT CUSTOMER LOCATION DATA, AND THEY COLLECTED IT. that means, there was no 'accident'.
it is impossible to separate economy and politics. see, in capitalist america, can you stand ANY chance, if you dont have the funds to mount a campaign ? no, you dont. you dont have a chance, even if you have the funds, if the more powerful power centers in economy dont want you - they will spend more than you to advertise against you, and for their candidate, and you will lose.
average person has NO chance.
really. it was the enlightenment age's pioneers morondom to think that a society unequal in wealth in individuals, could be equal in politics. the one with the gold makes the rule.
Actually, I did use the incorrect terms. I meant a "representative republic" (as outlined in the US Constitution) rather than "democratic republic".
such definitions are definitions you americans made out of your asses. there is nothing like 'representative republic'. in ANY given republic, you HAVE to elect representatives. so ALL kind of democratic forms of government, are representative. this is why they are dubbed 'representative'. representation is not something that comes out of your ass.
the only other form is direct democracy. which is not possible (or was) before these times due to the problems of communication and voting. it could only be applied in small communities.
ALL KINDS OF DEMOCRACIES ARE REPRESENTATIVE. there is no distinction like 'republic'.
The major reason that the economy of the US grew to become the largest and fastest-growing, far outstripping the more socialist-leaning governments is due in main to the ability to engage in a relatively free market capitalist economy. The more capitalism was allowed to flourish, the better off the economies and people were and are. Until recently, the US under a representative republic was the most capitalistic nation, and thus reaped the rewards of a huge, vital, and growing economy with the highest standard of living and best conditions for it's workers.
the major reason economy of u.s. grew to become the largest and fastest growing economy on the planet, was because u.s. was plundering and ransacking the entire available north american continent, and at the point the land rush ended, they built the 'white fleet' and started doing imperialism and colonialism starting end of 19th century. bar the isolation of monroe. but even by then, u.s. already declared americas to be its backyard in practice, and had had already dominionated cuba. after monroe's brief isolationism, after ww 2, u.s. took on a totally colonial nature and attempted to dominate every country except china, russia and india, and oftimes used installed dictators for that.
yes, you have far outstripped any other country, because they were not so rash in colonizing like you.
ah - it is as such for ALL other successful capitalist economies - economy of britain from mid 18th century to early 20th century, is a story of plundering americas, and then, more importantly india. had they had not the slave market, they would not be able to base their wealth on close to a billion indians.
there is no country which did not engage in direct or indirect colonialism and imperialism, and has not grabbed any other country as markets, and became successful with capitalism. period.
socialist countries, despite having less resources, less population, and almost NO markets, had had maintained much better values than the successful capitalist countries afforded to their poor citizens.
actually, social democrat countries of northern europe, FAR SURPASSED anyone, anything. despite their nonexistent population, resources, and hostile climate, they are on top of human development index on the planet. that includes the shithole that you call america and think to be on top of the world. you arent. you are in 10th place.
The reason the US is in the trouble it's in is almost entirely due to those in power ignoring this fact for over 60 years and implementing ever-more socialist/statist policies along with an ever-growing government that removes wealth from the economy to the detriment of the ability of capitalism to function.
you right winger moron. are the socialist policies the reason for the 72% of wealth/income concentrating on 5% of the population ? you fucking idiot.
i stop right here. you are not worth the effort. you dont know shit. no, really, you dont know shit. i had responded to 3 titles of right-wing propaganda that you had accepted to your inner world in the above excerpts, and had conveyed a good deal of important histo
it doesnt matter whether it was from 6 months ago. it says that they were going after locations of people. and it wasnt 'repackaged'. it was in the news just a few days before the flop.
wasnt there an apple spokesman saying that apple NEEDED to know locations of its customers to provide them 'better service' ? just 1-2 days ago in a story we read here ?
i wonder if sony can sink lower. default, problem-free blaming - screwed up ? blame anonymous. nuclear accident ? blame anonymous. martian invasion ? blame anonymous. i can see unlimited use for this 'blame anonymous' thing.
I cant see why it is too hard to realize that, if you end up tying everything into one major big structure, put everything in it, regardless of how much redundancy you designed, it will eventually flop grandly.
if not downtime, it will be security. if not, its something else. the idea is, you are creating one HUGE environment which contains everything. its inevitable that some issue affects all the participants in that environment eventually. those being the clients.
lets admit it - huge monolithic clouds, are a bad idea. there should be a certain size limit for clouds' sizes, and after that the customers should be placed to another discrete cloud unit.
No wondering whether they were bullied like spanish government to that end by the whores in u.s.. i wonder if that will came out in wikileaks cables too, like it happened for spain.
dont carry over your shitty political experience in united states, to entire world.
really. i dont know whether i should respond to your typical american ignorance or not. it reeks of self-induced morondom.
there is NO relevance in between a 'democratic republic' and a 'social democracy'. moron. a democratic republic can have BOTH social democrat, or, capitalist parties in power. the GOVERNANCE method has no relevance to ECONOMIC policy. moreover, there is NO relevance in between a republic and socialist/capitalist mechanisms. a republic can house both. and moreover, let me clear a common ignorance/morondom you americans have in america - a republic does NOT mean FEDERAL. a republic can be both centralized like france, or, extremely federal like switzerland. BOTH ARE REPUBLICS.
the very fact that you have uttered 3 ignorant misconceptions the american far right uses in america to brainwash idiots, shows that you are of right wing of view. regardless of what you call yourself in the form of republican, libertarian or other bullshit :
i dont know where you pulled the "It's just that the citizens of the "social democrat" government have even less influence upon, or even knowledge of, those who are running their lives than the citizens of the democratic republic" bullshit.
probably out of your ignorant american ass, since it seems to have become a hallmark of your right wing brainwashed culture to invent such bullshit without even sparing a modicum amount of effort to actually LEARN things. but, i will reply and clear your ignorance, for the sake of those others who are reading this :
social democracy means policies are made by CITIZENS through DEMOCRATIC voting process, than the PRIVATE industry owners.
so, a citizen in a social democracy has MUCH MORE power over EVERYthing in the country, than a citizen under a capitalist/right wing party, because the ruling of economy, manufacturing, distribution of wealth and income is not left to the decision of PRIVATE individuals and interests.
whereas, in a government with a capitalist/right wing party, the citizen loses all the control it has over economy, because EVERything is left for the private interests to decide, in economy.
again, moron, there is NO relevance in between the FORM OF government, and the PARTY ruling it. if you are talking about democracy, capitalism is much less democratic than a socialist governance, because in capitalism, citizens allow decision making for economy based on how much an individual owns in wealth. the wealthier the individual/private interests, the more clout it has over economy. so in basics, capitalism is a NON DEMOCRATIC system of allocating resources - everyone's vote is NOT equal in economics, in capitalism. they are only equal in politics, but, the economic part of life in a capitalist governance eventually affects the political.
in a DEMOCRACY, there can be both social democrat, or capitalist/right wing parties. DEMOCRACY has nothing to do with socialism/capitalism. it can house both.
before attempting to carry over your shitty experience in your twisted right/far-right polarized nation, unlike the rest of the world which is left/right polarized, clear out your glaring ignorance first.
i dont know whether you are moron or not, but ill take the more positive perspective.
you assume 'offer to help' comes without 'pushing for it'. you paint it as if n zealanders have come up with the law themselves, and in all their charity, u.s. govt 'offered' to help them.
it is never the case, as seen in the case of spanish three strikes law. wikileaks cables show that u.s. govt BULLIED spanish government into putting out the law. which, was unanimously rejected in parliament because the cable went out to public.
my scenario is not necessarily true. it is the case. in all cases of these laws, there either has been bullying, or, funding for them to happen.
oh yes - you just rationalized and justified it - a government interfering with DEMOCRATIC PROCESS and the right of self determination of people, in another country, because private interests ask it.
socialist governments, are not by private interests, if you say it in 'americanese'. for the rest of the world that actually knows what terms are, and uses them properly, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT governments, are not run by private interests.
this is the reason why private interests, be it corporations or powerful people owning them or other things, are so hostile to social democrat parties and try to provoke hate and instill fear in people against them.
then, i dont need a tablet, until they start to provide the same amenities like a netbook. fyi, asus had already got one step closer to that with its new tablet. now all that's needed is to change architecture from arm to x86
Smart Phones of this level actually are a new phenomenon - they enable me to do things i couldnt before.
tablets, currently, however, are just a 'cooler', 'lighter' netbook-wannabee, that cannot do what the netbooks can do. as you can remember, the latest generation of netbooks already had become fully capable small laptops, with their normal hard disks, usual oses (linux, or windows), and 10 inch screens, 1-3 gb rams, and are capable of running any program their memory and cpu allows.
all they bring me, is a lighter device, 'cooler' in appearance, that can NOT do what i need to do with netbooks.
it doesnt enable me for anything. it is much limited compared to netbook. i cant use what i use in my netbook, small laptop etc, in a tablet. and just for the little cool factor and lightness it would bring, i am in no way inclined to shell out 500 bucks minimum.
ipads sold, yes, because, there was already present apple customer base that valued these limited devices. it fills their needs. it doesnt fit the needs of the majority of people that actually need to do more than simple tasks limited to watching video, listening to music, updating facebook etc.
basically, what we need is a netbook that is lighter, and optional keyboard.
Indeed, i dont give a fuck about arm. i have endless supply of software, games and other shit i may need to run on a tablet. until tablets can provide backwards compatibility to provide for that, gtfo. im not paying $400 for something that only presents a 10 inch screen to watch videos on youtube and make facebook updates or use half assed simple widgets. my phone can do these.
firstly, there is nothing romantic about it. its as rebellious, chaotic and dirty as it can be. second, what i have described in regard to convention, has happened. its your ignorance if you dont know it. you arent following events around the world enough.
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yeees. and why is that ? because microsoft bought laws to push its software forcibly with each pc purchase. that is, after their monopoly started to shake.
Win32, .Net? Cocoa Touch?
reaaaaaaalllyy.... what ARE those ? show me one popular/common program each, which has been produced by using those that a lot of people use.
A fair proportion of all programmers probably deal with those closed source libraries every day.
maybe a few libraries that they HAVE to. but really, 10-20 people who are probably using obscure libraries ? like the above ?
Most people are still fine with undocumented file formats.
quite. that is of course if you had been following the news about open document format requirements of countries, organizations here and on other tech sites with your ass instead of your eyes.
Citation needed.
where are your citations ? who are the 'most people' fine with closed document formats, and who are those 10-15 people using the closed source libraries you mentioned ?
And yet people still buy Kindles and iPods.
fucking moron. really. fucking moron. why ? because THERE IS NO RELEVANCE in between a vendor pushing/forcing a software with a device onto users, and those users choosing that software by themselves. i wont explain this. use your brain and think yourself.
and yet, despite those sales, android surpassed all other phones in north america by a large margin in just a year.
But for the most part they are not getting any traction.
citation needed. moron.
It was claimed that Stallman is instigating societal change, not a change merely within the software industry. Most people I know have never even heard of him. Most people I know don't give a flying fuck about being able to read and modify the source code. Most of them aren't computer programmers. They just want their computers and phones and tablets to work.
'most people' moron. citation needed. most people do not know about tim berners lee either, yet they use www every day.
With no exception, ALL of the major groundbreakers in the history of societal freedoms and liberties, were considered fringe and even prosecuted in their time.
Today, thankfully, we dont have much prosecution. but labeling, despising, outcasting pioneers continue.
Stallman is no different. what he is bringing forth will underlie the basis of the society tomorrow.
What you should ask is 'Show me something you have done before'. period. prior work, shows the guy. even if s/he is someone fresh out of school, s/he will have done things out of his/her school projects.
no. im saying that, they had had started saving locations of people long ago, and had attempted to prepare the public to that.those press releases and slip in statements were for that. now, faced with backlash, they are whoring themselves out as in 'accidental'.
they said location data was very important. and it turns out, it was !!!! they were collecting that data through all means. so, the 'accidental' excuse doesnt fly.
it has everything to do with the issue. it doesnt matter whether it was said 5 years ago. it means that, the company is INTENT on collecting location data of people. period. it means, in between july and now, they were already implementing what they were speaking. only thing commendable is, they put their mouth where their word is.
i dont know how hard it is to understand - THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO COLLECT CUSTOMER LOCATION DATA, AND THEY COLLECTED IT. that means, there was no 'accident'.
it is impossible to separate economy and politics. see, in capitalist america, can you stand ANY chance, if you dont have the funds to mount a campaign ? no, you dont. you dont have a chance, even if you have the funds, if the more powerful power centers in economy dont want you - they will spend more than you to advertise against you, and for their candidate, and you will lose.
average person has NO chance.
really. it was the enlightenment age's pioneers morondom to think that a society unequal in wealth in individuals, could be equal in politics. the one with the gold makes the rule.
Actually, I did use the incorrect terms. I meant a "representative republic" (as outlined in the US Constitution) rather than "democratic republic".
such definitions are definitions you americans made out of your asses. there is nothing like 'representative republic'. in ANY given republic, you HAVE to elect representatives. so ALL kind of democratic forms of government, are representative. this is why they are dubbed 'representative'. representation is not something that comes out of your ass.
the only other form is direct democracy. which is not possible (or was) before these times due to the problems of communication and voting. it could only be applied in small communities.
ALL KINDS OF DEMOCRACIES ARE REPRESENTATIVE. there is no distinction like 'republic'.
The major reason that the economy of the US grew to become the largest and fastest-growing, far outstripping the more socialist-leaning governments is due in main to the ability to engage in a relatively free market capitalist economy. The more capitalism was allowed to flourish, the better off the economies and people were and are. Until recently, the US under a representative republic was the most capitalistic nation, and thus reaped the rewards of a huge, vital, and growing economy with the highest standard of living and best conditions for it's workers.
the major reason economy of u.s. grew to become the largest and fastest growing economy on the planet, was because u.s. was plundering and ransacking the entire available north american continent, and at the point the land rush ended, they built the 'white fleet' and started doing imperialism and colonialism starting end of 19th century. bar the isolation of monroe. but even by then, u.s. already declared americas to be its backyard in practice, and had had already dominionated cuba. after monroe's brief isolationism, after ww 2, u.s. took on a totally colonial nature and attempted to dominate every country except china, russia and india, and oftimes used installed dictators for that.
yes, you have far outstripped any other country, because they were not so rash in colonizing like you.
ah - it is as such for ALL other successful capitalist economies - economy of britain from mid 18th century to early 20th century, is a story of plundering americas, and then, more importantly india. had they had not the slave market, they would not be able to base their wealth on close to a billion indians.
there is no country which did not engage in direct or indirect colonialism and imperialism, and has not grabbed any other country as markets, and became successful with capitalism. period.
socialist countries, despite having less resources, less population, and almost NO markets, had had maintained much better values than the successful capitalist countries afforded to their poor citizens.
actually, social democrat countries of northern europe, FAR SURPASSED anyone, anything. despite their nonexistent population, resources, and hostile climate, they are on top of human development index on the planet. that includes the shithole that you call america and think to be on top of the world. you arent. you are in 10th place.
The reason the US is in the trouble it's in is almost entirely due to those in power ignoring this fact for over 60 years and implementing ever-more socialist/statist policies along with an ever-growing government that removes wealth from the economy to the detriment of the ability of capitalism to function.
you right winger moron. are the socialist policies the reason for the 72% of wealth/income concentrating on 5% of the population ? you fucking idiot.
i stop right here. you are not worth the effort. you dont know shit. no, really, you dont know shit. i had responded to 3 titles of right-wing propaganda that you had accepted to your inner world in the above excerpts, and had conveyed a good deal of important histo
it doesnt matter whether it was from 6 months ago. it says that they were going after locations of people. and it wasnt 'repackaged'. it was in the news just a few days before the flop.
wasnt there an apple spokesman saying that apple NEEDED to know locations of its customers to provide them 'better service' ? just 1-2 days ago in a story we read here ?
i wonder if sony can sink lower. default, problem-free blaming - screwed up ? blame anonymous. nuclear accident ? blame anonymous. martian invasion ? blame anonymous. i can see unlimited use for this 'blame anonymous' thing.
I cant see why it is too hard to realize that, if you end up tying everything into one major big structure, put everything in it, regardless of how much redundancy you designed, it will eventually flop grandly.
if not downtime, it will be security. if not, its something else. the idea is, you are creating one HUGE environment which contains everything. its inevitable that some issue affects all the participants in that environment eventually. those being the clients.
lets admit it - huge monolithic clouds, are a bad idea. there should be a certain size limit for clouds' sizes, and after that the customers should be placed to another discrete cloud unit.
No wondering whether they were bullied like spanish government to that end by the whores in u.s.. i wonder if that will came out in wikileaks cables too, like it happened for spain.
dont carry over your shitty political experience in united states, to entire world.
really. i dont know whether i should respond to your typical american ignorance or not. it reeks of self-induced morondom.
there is NO relevance in between a 'democratic republic' and a 'social democracy'. moron. a democratic republic can have BOTH social democrat, or, capitalist parties in power. the GOVERNANCE method has no relevance to ECONOMIC policy. moreover, there is NO relevance in between a republic and socialist/capitalist mechanisms. a republic can house both. and moreover, let me clear a common ignorance/morondom you americans have in america - a republic does NOT mean FEDERAL. a republic can be both centralized like france, or, extremely federal like switzerland. BOTH ARE REPUBLICS.
the very fact that you have uttered 3 ignorant misconceptions the american far right uses in america to brainwash idiots, shows that you are of right wing of view. regardless of what you call yourself in the form of republican, libertarian or other bullshit :
i dont know where you pulled the "It's just that the citizens of the "social democrat" government have even less influence upon, or even knowledge of, those who are running their lives than the citizens of the democratic republic" bullshit.
probably out of your ignorant american ass, since it seems to have become a hallmark of your right wing brainwashed culture to invent such bullshit without even sparing a modicum amount of effort to actually LEARN things. but, i will reply and clear your ignorance, for the sake of those others who are reading this :
social democracy means policies are made by CITIZENS through DEMOCRATIC voting process, than the PRIVATE industry owners.
so, a citizen in a social democracy has MUCH MORE power over EVERYthing in the country, than a citizen under a capitalist/right wing party, because the ruling of economy, manufacturing, distribution of wealth and income is not left to the decision of PRIVATE individuals and interests.
whereas, in a government with a capitalist/right wing party, the citizen loses all the control it has over economy, because EVERything is left for the private interests to decide, in economy.
again, moron, there is NO relevance in between the FORM OF government, and the PARTY ruling it. if you are talking about democracy, capitalism is much less democratic than a socialist governance, because in capitalism, citizens allow decision making for economy based on how much an individual owns in wealth. the wealthier the individual/private interests, the more clout it has over economy. so in basics, capitalism is a NON DEMOCRATIC system of allocating resources - everyone's vote is NOT equal in economics, in capitalism. they are only equal in politics, but, the economic part of life in a capitalist governance eventually affects the political.
in a DEMOCRACY, there can be both social democrat, or capitalist/right wing parties. DEMOCRACY has nothing to do with socialism/capitalism. it can house both.
before attempting to carry over your shitty experience in your twisted right/far-right polarized nation, unlike the rest of the world which is left/right polarized, clear out your glaring ignorance first.
i dont know whether you are moron or not, but ill take the more positive perspective.
you assume 'offer to help' comes without 'pushing for it'. you paint it as if n zealanders have come up with the law themselves, and in all their charity, u.s. govt 'offered' to help them.
it is never the case, as seen in the case of spanish three strikes law. wikileaks cables show that u.s. govt BULLIED spanish government into putting out the law. which, was unanimously rejected in parliament because the cable went out to public.
my scenario is not necessarily true. it is the case. in all cases of these laws, there either has been bullying, or, funding for them to happen.
oh yes - you just rationalized and justified it - a government interfering with DEMOCRATIC PROCESS and the right of self determination of people, in another country, because private interests ask it.
socialist governments, are not by private interests, if you say it in 'americanese'. for the rest of the world that actually knows what terms are, and uses them properly, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT governments, are not run by private interests.
this is the reason why private interests, be it corporations or powerful people owning them or other things, are so hostile to social democrat parties and try to provoke hate and instill fear in people against them.
I told before that, if you allow private interests take helm in one country, they spread their filth EVERYwhere. see there's the proof.
then, i dont need a tablet, until they start to provide the same amenities like a netbook. fyi, asus had already got one step closer to that with its new tablet. now all that's needed is to change architecture from arm to x86
Im >.
thank you, people.
Smart Phones of this level actually are a new phenomenon - they enable me to do things i couldnt before.
tablets, currently, however, are just a 'cooler', 'lighter' netbook-wannabee, that cannot do what the netbooks can do. as you can remember, the latest generation of netbooks already had become fully capable small laptops, with their normal hard disks, usual oses (linux, or windows), and 10 inch screens, 1-3 gb rams, and are capable of running any program their memory and cpu allows.
all they bring me, is a lighter device, 'cooler' in appearance, that can NOT do what i need to do with netbooks.
it doesnt enable me for anything. it is much limited compared to netbook. i cant use what i use in my netbook, small laptop etc, in a tablet. and just for the little cool factor and lightness it would bring, i am in no way inclined to shell out 500 bucks minimum.
ipads sold, yes, because, there was already present apple customer base that valued these limited devices. it fills their needs. it doesnt fit the needs of the majority of people that actually need to do more than simple tasks limited to watching video, listening to music, updating facebook etc.
basically, what we need is a netbook that is lighter, and optional keyboard.
Indeed, i dont give a fuck about arm. i have endless supply of software, games and other shit i may need to run on a tablet. until tablets can provide backwards compatibility to provide for that, gtfo. im not paying $400 for something that only presents a 10 inch screen to watch videos on youtube and make facebook updates or use half assed simple widgets. my phone can do these.
firstly, there is nothing romantic about it. its as rebellious, chaotic and dirty as it can be. second, what i have described in regard to convention, has happened. its your ignorance if you dont know it. you arent following events around the world enough.
problem is, the people who decided these policies, are not even aware that they decided those policies.