Also, what is the 'Graphically intense' interface the NASDAQ has? Compared to MMO's it's nothing.
Hell no! Think about what a NASDAQ MMO would be like! I'd buy a bunch of shares in a company with foreign holdings, and then order the third-world factories not to use the regular safety precautions, monitor them, and then sell all my shares when there's an accident before the news hits the market! That would be both graphic *and* intense. I don't think the interface would take much from that experience.
Of course, someone's probably already done that...
MS claims to have paved the way for Google, yet their initial goal was to make the Internet irrelevant with "The Microsoft Network".
=-O
Is that why, when you play Hearts, it says, "Welcome to the Microsoft Hearts Network." ? I always assumed that was because of some shared basis in the source code for the Hearts software on Zone.com (MS-run game site).
And MS needed Xerox to be successful, which needed IBM, which needed Bell Labs, which needed A.G. Bell, whose work was really derivative of Morse's work on the telegraph, which ultimately relied on Volterra/Faraday/[insert nationalism-based claim that electrical theorist so-and-so was the most important], which of course relied on scientific philosophies of Bacon and Decartes, who actually relied on the work of ancient Greek philosophers, who were ultimately funded by slave labor because of the economic system at the time.
Microsoft: if we have seen so far, it's because we stood on the backs of slaves. (tm)
I don't, but it's not relevant to my point, which was that if they had any doubts, they could have looked at the spot and broadcast it to the world, and they had every reason to do so if they thought the landings were fake.
The Soviet Union was able to view the landing site with *their* satellites in 1969. If he's not going to be persuaded by the SU's golden chance to embarass the USA if the landings were faked, I don't think this would make a difference.
Because once they have the design for the rover, it's easy to mod to include a dye for moon dust, and then Google will send the modded one up to draw Google's logo on the moon. *please mod informative*
Not to defend an environmentalist talking point, but...
I think the above claim *really* means to say that the exhaust contains one ton of CO2 per person. But its exhaust doesn't merely come from what's on the airplane. In its combustion process, it takes O2 from the atmosphere, and combines it with the C in the fuel. (C + O2 -> CO2) So that figure includes not just stuff in the fuel tank, but also O2 that was taken from the atmosphere and then returned in the form of CO2. The fact that the fuel tank can't carry that mass, doesn't mean it can't emit that much CO2.
Yes, people *should* pay the taxes they are required to (or *publicly* withhold their taxes as a protest, so as to show they're not merely trying to stiff other taxpayers), but as long as the tax structure encourages that, all the wishing in the world isn't going to change the creative use of accountants.
That's part of why I've come to the conclusion that a land tax would be the best tax of all. Basically, you can't avoid it because a) you can't hide land, and b) any "accountant trickery" would be publicly visible (hey -- why is Globocorp's HQ appraised at $0? Then I'll buy it!). It also means you don't have to monitor each and every (easily concealable) economic transaction for tax purposes.
Of course, people like making corporations work through hundreds of thousands of pages of tax law instead...
Actually, it doesn't matter how much CO2 you emit, as long as you sink out a sufficient amount that your *net* CO2 emissions are sufficiently low. So really, instead of trying to come up with a laundry list of things people can't do because it's (in your opinion) wasteful, all that's really needed is a carbon tax sufficient to pay for the costs of sinking the emitted CO2.
Wait -- that's under the assumption that you're actually interested in protecting the earth, and not merely coming up with the most plausible pretense for banning behaviors you don't like.
To add to what cching said, Free Software proponents are definitely *not* against using Windows. They completely respect your right to use a Windows operating system. They're cool like that.
Need proof? Take one look at the Ubuntu home page and see how passionately they advocate the idea that you should be able to use your PC unencumbered by proprietary restrictions. And yet -- even in that case -- when I near-bricked my PC from installing Ubuntu, what did they advise? "Go get your Windows CD." So CLEARLY, Free Software advocates in no way "disallow Windows".
And not just that: where any sign arose that I may not have legitimately installed Windows ("I don't know where the CD is") they harshly condemned this alleged piracy of Microsoft's rightful intellectual property.
They've done EVERYTHING Windows-friendly short of adding "Have your Windows CD handy when you try to install Ubuntu", which, obviously they can't do, because that would make the install instructions complete.
So the claim that F/OSS advocates say "no windows allowed" is viciously unfair.
Some people (not me, I'm just speaking generally) take a broader conception of "redundant" and apply it to any overdone, overcliched kind of post about an issue. For example, saying, "Gee, not so final, is it?" on a story about the lastest installment in the Final Fantasy, would be considered "redundant" by some, even if it's the very first post. Why? Because it doesn't offer anything new that you haven't heard already.
Then again, maybe that time you just referenced, it was just a vindictive mod.
Yes, I should have said "whoever one deems excessively paid", i.e., he's do the job for less if it came to that and it's better than his current job. I thought that was clear but I guess not. It's not being "foolish"; it's how markets work, dude. Competition for labor drives down the wages of those paid above what is required to get someone to do it, and pushes up the wages where there are labor shortages. If this is a novel concept for you, you really need to get out. Tell all merchants to stop trying to underbid others when getting their products to market. (Then again, I'm guess you're not above advocating the cartelization of the entire economy.)
As for the rest: get over yourself. Your work is what someone will pay for it. You are not entitled to special protection because you call yourself a "professional". When you advocate licensure, yeah, that "increases the market value of the skill set" in the same sense that banning competition with you will gain you monopoly rents. It's still a blight on consumers.
It would also weed out anyone who has an idea the guild doesn't want to see implemented, or who wants to enter to field to compete with whoever's excessively paid.
Wasn't there a/. story about how businesses are "wrongly" calling their software "open source", when it doesn't count as "open source", because even though the source is open, it doesn't grant you the Four Freedoms, and "open source" and "free" are supposed to be the same thing?
But what do I know? I've committed crimes against humanity in the past (i.e. releasing proprietary software).
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I have long advocated such an addition. (So long ago, I'm not going to dig up my Dec '06 posts...) It would be pretty simple to have a calibration process so that the cursor location more closely tracks where you're really pointing. Otherwise, shooter games have to show your cursor on the screen -- which takes out a lot of the challenge and realism. Heck, the Wiimote by itself is enough to port House of the Dead 4 to the Wii (it requires you to reload by shaking the gun) without any accessories, but you couldn't have the full experience unless you could take out the on-screen cursor.
Instead, all we get is, "Sensor: above of below the screen?"
Eavesdropping helps stop terror plots? WOW! What a surprise!
You know what also helps stop terror plots? Turning a country into a giant maximum security prison. Maybe we could have a study that tests that out.
Yes, violating privacy can help law enforcement. No ****. People oppose any given measure because they don't consider that tradeoff justifiable, NOT because they are unsure if it's useful. (Though in fairness, I guess a lot of people feel compelled to go all the way and think they have to consider a method *ineffective* before they'll oppose it, even where they can't rationally justify that...)
I would probably be a regular Windows Safari user, but I didn't like the "always crash on startup" feature. I know I'm a little particular about what I want in a browser, but that was kind of a deal-breaker for me.
(Oddly enough, that's also why I don't use Ubuntu...)
-Describing the specific error statement I got and asking what to do about that? -Believing that doing the above is a better idea before finding a CD burner with a high-speed internet connection to get a CD I couldn't have known that I neeeded, now that my own is disabled? -Following the install instructions exactly? -Agreeing to do what was HIGHLY RECOMMENDED even though that disabled the precautions I took against critical failure? -Installing to a secondardy hard drive, thinking I wouldn't be HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to do something that defeats this hedge? -Not downloading the Live CD, which wasn't recommended, oops, I mean the install CD *is* the Live CD, so obivously I couldn't have had a problem, oops I mean they're separate and I should have downloaded it, oops I mean the install CD *is* the Live CD... sorry, you guys haven't gotten your story straight on that one yet... -Believing people would read my initial post? -Believing people would follow up after I followed their instructions?
Before you mod me off-topic, remember why I keep bringing this up. Everytime a failure because of poor design pops up,/.ers are virtually unanimous in how, duh, that violated such a basic design principle. Remembering my experience with Ubuntu, I always have to think, "Gee, a little selective with these principles?"
So again, I say: it seems these principles don't apply to products I use.
Assuming "Karen" is a female, she just claimed that:
a) she's a lesbian b) who reads slashdot c) and watches Firefly d) and a parrot that understands verbal semantics e) and which can poop on command f) and knows someone who carefully raised a bird family and then accidentally killed it by feeding it avacados
and the part you found hardest to believe was that she isn't exterminating biodiversity in East Africa?
Well, just a "heads up" -- Ubuntu at the time (Jan '06) was so poorly designed that not even installing it to a secondary hard drive could keep it from locking you out entirely.
I know I'm being unfair because it hadn't been out for very long but...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, um, could you come up with a solution that maybe will be available in less than 500 years, and uh, isn't from the made-up Halo universe?
Also, what is the 'Graphically intense' interface the NASDAQ has? Compared to MMO's it's nothing.
Hell no! Think about what a NASDAQ MMO would be like! I'd buy a bunch of shares in a company with foreign holdings, and then order the third-world factories not to use the regular safety precautions, monitor them, and then sell all my shares when there's an accident before the news hits the market! That would be both graphic *and* intense. I don't think the interface would take much from that experience.
Of course, someone's probably already done that...
MS claims to have paved the way for Google, yet their initial goal was to make the Internet irrelevant with "The Microsoft Network".
=-O
Is that why, when you play Hearts, it says, "Welcome to the Microsoft Hearts Network." ? I always assumed that was because of some shared basis in the source code for the Hearts software on Zone.com (MS-run game site).
You know I was going to do it some time:
And MS needed Xerox to be successful, which needed IBM, which needed Bell Labs, which needed A.G. Bell, whose work was really derivative of Morse's work on the telegraph, which ultimately relied on Volterra/Faraday/[insert nationalism-based claim that electrical theorist so-and-so was the most important], which of course relied on scientific philosophies of Bacon and Decartes, who actually relied on the work of ancient Greek philosophers, who were ultimately funded by slave labor because of the economic system at the time.
Microsoft: if we have seen so far, it's because we stood on the backs of slaves. (tm)
I don't, but it's not relevant to my point, which was that if they had any doubts, they could have looked at the spot and broadcast it to the world, and they had every reason to do so if they thought the landings were fake.
The Soviet Union was able to view the landing site with *their* satellites in 1969. If he's not going to be persuaded by the SU's golden chance to embarass the USA if the landings were faked, I don't think this would make a difference.
Copy of Windows in China: $10
Settlement of legal dispute: $150
Suing Microsoft for collecting your personal info when you live in the People's Republic of China: Priceless.
There are some things you can blame on the government. For everything else, there's Microsoft.
Because once they have the design for the rover, it's easy to mod to include a dye for moon dust, and then Google will send the modded one up to draw Google's logo on the moon. *please mod informative*
Why didn't they ship this with the most up-to-date Ubuntu relase, specifically, Hairy Hardon?
I bet if you ask for help about Gutsy, instantly blame your problem on using an old version...
Not to defend an environmentalist talking point, but...
I think the above claim *really* means to say that the exhaust contains one ton of CO2 per person. But its exhaust doesn't merely come from what's on the airplane. In its combustion process, it takes O2 from the atmosphere, and combines it with the C in the fuel. (C + O2 -> CO2) So that figure includes not just stuff in the fuel tank, but also O2 that was taken from the atmosphere and then returned in the form of CO2. The fact that the fuel tank can't carry that mass, doesn't mean it can't emit that much CO2.
Yes, people *should* pay the taxes they are required to (or *publicly* withhold their taxes as a protest, so as to show they're not merely trying to stiff other taxpayers), but as long as the tax structure encourages that, all the wishing in the world isn't going to change the creative use of accountants.
That's part of why I've come to the conclusion that a land tax would be the best tax of all. Basically, you can't avoid it because a) you can't hide land, and b) any "accountant trickery" would be publicly visible (hey -- why is Globocorp's HQ appraised at $0? Then I'll buy it!). It also means you don't have to monitor each and every (easily concealable) economic transaction for tax purposes.
Of course, people like making corporations work through hundreds of thousands of pages of tax law instead...
Actually, it doesn't matter how much CO2 you emit, as long as you sink out a sufficient amount that your *net* CO2 emissions are sufficiently low. So really, instead of trying to come up with a laundry list of things people can't do because it's (in your opinion) wasteful, all that's really needed is a carbon tax sufficient to pay for the costs of sinking the emitted CO2.
Wait -- that's under the assumption that you're actually interested in protecting the earth, and not merely coming up with the most plausible pretense for banning behaviors you don't like.
To add to what cching said, Free Software proponents are definitely *not* against using Windows. They completely respect your right to use a Windows operating system. They're cool like that.
Need proof? Take one look at the Ubuntu home page and see how passionately they advocate the idea that you should be able to use your PC unencumbered by proprietary restrictions. And yet -- even in that case -- when I near-bricked my PC from installing Ubuntu, what did they advise? "Go get your Windows CD." So CLEARLY, Free Software advocates in no way "disallow Windows".
And not just that: where any sign arose that I may not have legitimately installed Windows ("I don't know where the CD is") they harshly condemned this alleged piracy of Microsoft's rightful intellectual property.
They've done EVERYTHING Windows-friendly short of adding "Have your Windows CD handy when you try to install Ubuntu", which, obviously they can't do, because that would make the install instructions complete.
So the claim that F/OSS advocates say "no windows allowed" is viciously unfair.
Some people (not me, I'm just speaking generally) take a broader conception of "redundant" and apply it to any overdone, overcliched kind of post about an issue. For example, saying, "Gee, not so final, is it?" on a story about the lastest installment in the Final Fantasy, would be considered "redundant" by some, even if it's the very first post. Why? Because it doesn't offer anything new that you haven't heard already.
Then again, maybe that time you just referenced, it was just a vindictive mod.
Yes, I should have said "whoever one deems excessively paid", i.e., he's do the job for less if it came to that and it's better than his current job. I thought that was clear but I guess not. It's not being "foolish"; it's how markets work, dude. Competition for labor drives down the wages of those paid above what is required to get someone to do it, and pushes up the wages where there are labor shortages. If this is a novel concept for you, you really need to get out. Tell all merchants to stop trying to underbid others when getting their products to market. (Then again, I'm guess you're not above advocating the cartelization of the entire economy.)
As for the rest: get over yourself. Your work is what someone will pay for it. You are not entitled to special protection because you call yourself a "professional". When you advocate licensure, yeah, that "increases the market value of the skill set" in the same sense that banning competition with you will gain you monopoly rents. It's still a blight on consumers.
It would also weed out anyone who has an idea the guild doesn't want to see implemented, or who wants to enter to field to compete with whoever's excessively paid.
Wasn't there a /. story about how businesses are "wrongly" calling their software "open source", when it doesn't count as "open source", because even though the source is open, it doesn't grant you the Four Freedoms, and "open source" and "free" are supposed to be the same thing?
But what do I know? I've committed crimes against humanity in the past (i.e. releasing proprietary software).
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I have long advocated such an addition. (So long ago, I'm not going to dig up my Dec '06 posts...) It would be pretty simple to have a calibration process so that the cursor location more closely tracks where you're really pointing. Otherwise, shooter games have to show your cursor on the screen -- which takes out a lot of the challenge and realism. Heck, the Wiimote by itself is enough to port House of the Dead 4 to the Wii (it requires you to reload by shaking the gun) without any accessories, but you couldn't have the full experience unless you could take out the on-screen cursor.
Instead, all we get is, "Sensor: above of below the screen?"
Eavesdropping helps stop terror plots? WOW! What a surprise!
You know what also helps stop terror plots? Turning a country into a giant maximum security prison. Maybe we could have a study that tests that out.
Yes, violating privacy can help law enforcement. No ****. People oppose any given measure because they don't consider that tradeoff justifiable, NOT because they are unsure if it's useful. (Though in fairness, I guess a lot of people feel compelled to go all the way and think they have to consider a method *ineffective* before they'll oppose it, even where they can't rationally justify that...)
I would probably be a regular Windows Safari user, but I didn't like the "always crash on startup" feature. I know I'm a little particular about what I want in a browser, but that was kind of a deal-breaker for me.
(Oddly enough, that's also why I don't use Ubuntu...)
That's when Chuck Norris tracks fugitives there.
They are the only major oil company to seem to "get" that oil won't last forever.
Yeah, none of the others have checked the energy futures market. (?)
What was ridiculous or retarded?
... sorry, you guys haven't gotten your story straight on that one yet...
/.ers are virtually unanimous in how, duh, that violated such a basic design principle. Remembering my experience with Ubuntu, I always have to think, "Gee, a little selective with these principles?"
-Describing the specific error statement I got and asking what to do about that?
-Believing that doing the above is a better idea before finding a CD burner with a high-speed internet connection to get a CD I couldn't have known that I neeeded, now that my own is disabled?
-Following the install instructions exactly?
-Agreeing to do what was HIGHLY RECOMMENDED even though that disabled the precautions I took against critical failure?
-Installing to a secondardy hard drive, thinking I wouldn't be HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to do something that defeats this hedge?
-Not downloading the Live CD, which wasn't recommended, oops, I mean the install CD *is* the Live CD, so obivously I couldn't have had a problem, oops I mean they're separate and I should have downloaded it, oops I mean the install CD *is* the Live CD
-Believing people would read my initial post?
-Believing people would follow up after I followed their instructions?
Before you mod me off-topic, remember why I keep bringing this up. Everytime a failure because of poor design pops up,
So again, I say: it seems these principles don't apply to products I use.
Timeout.
Assuming "Karen" is a female, she just claimed that:
a) she's a lesbian
b) who reads slashdot
c) and watches Firefly
d) and a parrot that understands verbal semantics
e) and which can poop on command
f) and knows someone who carefully raised a bird family and then accidentally killed it by feeding it avacados
and the part you found hardest to believe was that she isn't exterminating biodiversity in East Africa?
Well, just a "heads up" -- Ubuntu at the time (Jan '06) was so poorly designed that not even installing it to a secondary hard drive could keep it from locking you out entirely.
...
I know I'm being unfair because it hadn't been out for very long but