Nah, heroin sucks. Pot usage is a better comparison. They are both illegal due to moral panic and entrenched interests (pot and filesharing). But tons of people do it anyways. And were it legal, all the fence sitters would join in.
If free filesharing were fully legalized mind you EVERYONE would do it if they had a computer. Because it is the same product or better than istore but free... and everyone likes music.
Firmware updates SHOULD be made available through cable. Everyone that has a cable box gets updated automatically online. Doesn't sound too complicated though I suppose it would only work on the kinds where the cable goes through the box.
Another obvious and easier solution is to include the updates ON the discs that need them. Seriously, even if they had to give up a half gig on the disc it would be worth it. No one would ever have firmware issues again. And they can patch as often as they like.
Because the poorly advertised possibility of an open source position (it seems that there never was an advisor position, just A report/paper of the OSS position) announced well after he was voted into power (over one year). Then wildly exaggerated by Sun/linux people. Was CLEARLY a ploy get get that huge open source advocate swing vote (the couple 100 per state?).
Are you insane?
Everything else was totally off topic political talk. Dunno how you made it to +5.
"Forget that they all give massive amounts to charity"
Gates does, Google does. Jobs doesn't... unless he is doing it in secret. He has never made public any major donations. And has never used his position or publicity to push any political or philanthropic goals. Hell his company is also the least green in the tech industry.
No, surveys show that most people are pro health care and pro-piracy. The point in general I could see, you just happen to be wrong on this issue. I mean, most people under the age of 35 with an internet connection have pirated themselves. Were it legal, that number would skyrocket.
Microsoft is. Apple is likely the largest proponent of open standards and open source, outside of primarily open source companies and organizations, on the planet.
Sarcasm right?
Interesting. Since all of the music on the iTunes Store is non-DRM, you mean "closed" as in "copyrighted"? Or are you just plain wrong?
Not true a short while ago. Apple was the biggest pusher of DRM on the planet with the iTunes store that propelled us into the crap we have today. (They later realized it was a crappy idea and abandoned it). That doesn't mean they aren't evil, they just want to be profitable. But then you already knew what he meant since it was explained in the next line. So really you are just creating false arguements.
No it doesn't. The term Open Standard does not mean what you seem to think it means.
While technically true there is no such thing as an open standard DRM in the world of today.
Now, you may not agree that Apple has the most superior mobile operating system (after all, it would be uncharacteristic of you to actually be right about something like this)
Shill. And inflamatory.
The egomaniacal, all-controlling, all-censoring explanation suffers from at least two major flaws. First, it isn't terribly consistent. Webkit being open source and html5 being an open standard as well as the many other open source and open standards that Apple supports (many of which Apple created), all contradict this view.
Webkit was GNU based before apple got there. They didn't make html5. And list some open source things apple has created. Even M$ is better.
Anyways, jesus christ. I hope Apple is paying you well.
Apple is legally require to release webkit, as with bash/BIND since they are forks of GNU things. CUPS wasn't made by Apple and was GNU when they bought it.
So the only example you gave where it isn't clear that Apple was legally obligated to be open source was Darwin, which is clearly not mainstream Apple and it isn't clear whether it had legal obligations to leave it open source.
Put your IP in a different country that doesn't like your country. Problem solved. Unless we become one big happy family this will always be an option.
Yes, Jobs owned NeXT (Which became OSX) but I assume GP was referring to all the OS stuff Apple bought/'borrowed' from Xerox PARC (Which became MacOS/NeXT). And Xerox PARC had fuck all to do with Jobs.
No. I'm saying that the ice ages and warmings were CAUSED by various factors. OP stated that correlation is not causation. Hence arguing that temperature caused all of these other things. Which is patently retarded.
True. But the complaints were about stats issues far more subtle than "Correlation does not necessarily imply causation!". I can guarantee the majority of scientists working on IPCC get that one.
So... you are saying that shooting indiscriminately at people in a country you are trying to help is working?
Geneva conventions came out of the aftermath of WWII. The uniform thing is to keep citizen deaths as low as possible in large conventional wars. But contrary to what the T.V. tells you the US isn't in a war; The war on drugs? Also not a war. It is more like a police action.
There is no bad guy to take out. The goal is to calm down and rebuild a very riled up country. And on some level to bring democracy. Think of us more like riot police on a really really big scale. Shooting into the crowd every 15minutes not helpful! I mean, unless you are Napolean and are prepared to kill them all.
"What, pray tell, was the main tactic employed by Iran against Israel in 2006 ?"
Getting shot and losing?
Also, Iran can afford better weapons. And The other countries Israel slaughters on a regular basis can't afford planes... of ANY sort. (Last time Israel invaded Lebanon they had ~5 converted news helicopters in the service and no planes). I doubt they'll be getting any kind of fancy special weapons. And since they aren't WMDs by any stretch of the imagination it hardly would bug us. I know being terrorized is the 'in' thing this decade but you severely overestimate your enemies and this threat.
Also, to be fair human rights groups blame 'the people taking out the missile launch site' too, so it isn't really just media stupidity.
The effect of aerosols alluded to in the article has been known for a loooong time. The late 60s ~ early 70s. To act as if they are changing their mind is a media ploy at best.
Oh and some things have been known to cool the climate for CENTURIES. Volcanoes release ash into the air which shades the planet and lowers temperatures.
It was called global warming because the planet is going to get warmer ON AVERAGE. But it isn't a simple system, some places might get colder. And because stupid people (re fox news) see snow and think omg, global warming is BS. It sorta got renamed global climate change. To reflect that weather changes (the overall average climate being warmer).
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People charging for firmware updates would be its own set of issues. But that doesn't seem to be the case with BR
Nah, heroin sucks. Pot usage is a better comparison. They are both illegal due to moral panic and entrenched interests (pot and filesharing). But tons of people do it anyways. And were it legal, all the fence sitters would join in.
If free filesharing were fully legalized mind you EVERYONE would do it if they had a computer. Because it is the same product or better than istore but free... and everyone likes music.
Firmware updates SHOULD be made available through cable. Everyone that has a cable box gets updated automatically online. Doesn't sound too complicated though I suppose it would only work on the kinds where the cable goes through the box.
Another obvious and easier solution is to include the updates ON the discs that need them. Seriously, even if they had to give up a half gig on the disc it would be worth it. No one would ever have firmware issues again. And they can patch as often as they like.
Oh you may have modded him funny mods but secretly you wished it were true. Who WOULDN'T buy a Startrek book titled "Stone Cold Space Pimp"?
Because the poorly advertised possibility of an open source position (it seems that there never was an advisor position, just A report/paper of the OSS position) announced well after he was voted into power (over one year). Then wildly exaggerated by Sun/linux people. Was CLEARLY a ploy get get that huge open source advocate swing vote (the couple 100 per state?).
Are you insane?
Everything else was totally off topic political talk. Dunno how you made it to +5.
No, Bush was a moron not a nazi... And we could probably prove that one fairly well....
"Forget that they all give massive amounts to charity"
Gates does, Google does. Jobs doesn't... unless he is doing it in secret. He has never made public any major donations. And has never used his position or publicity to push any political or philanthropic goals. Hell his company is also the least green in the tech industry.
No, surveys show that most people are pro health care and pro-piracy. The point in general I could see, you just happen to be wrong on this issue. I mean, most people under the age of 35 with an internet connection have pirated themselves. Were it legal, that number would skyrocket.
Like quicktime? OH WAIT!
They could release a shitty cripple version. Entice people off Mac. Maybe just a few non-mac only plugins at first.
Sarcasm right?
Not true a short while ago. Apple was the biggest pusher of DRM on the planet with the iTunes store that propelled us into the crap we have today. (They later realized it was a crappy idea and abandoned it). That doesn't mean they aren't evil, they just want to be profitable. But then you already knew what he meant since it was explained in the next line. So really you are just creating false arguements.
While technically true there is no such thing as an open standard DRM in the world of today.
Shill. And inflamatory.
Webkit was GNU based before apple got there. They didn't make html5. And list some open source things apple has created. Even M$ is better.
Anyways, jesus christ. I hope Apple is paying you well.
Apple is legally require to release webkit, as with bash/BIND since they are forks of GNU things. CUPS wasn't made by Apple and was GNU when they bought it.
So the only example you gave where it isn't clear that Apple was legally obligated to be open source was Darwin, which is clearly not mainstream Apple and it isn't clear whether it had legal obligations to leave it open source.
Put your IP in a different country that doesn't like your country. Problem solved. Unless we become one big happy family this will always be an option.
Maybe... but they had access to the machines... so he wasn't really fucking them over. Even an incompotent IT guy would know that it isn't a big deal.
That is clearly just sounding cool jaw wagging.
Yes, Jobs owned NeXT (Which became OSX) but I assume GP was referring to all the OS stuff Apple bought/'borrowed' from Xerox PARC (Which became MacOS/NeXT). And Xerox PARC had fuck all to do with Jobs.
No. I'm saying that the ice ages and warmings were CAUSED by various factors. OP stated that correlation is not causation. Hence arguing that temperature caused all of these other things. Which is patently retarded.
True. But the complaints were about stats issues far more subtle than "Correlation does not necessarily imply causation!". I can guarantee the majority of scientists working on IPCC get that one.
The company that NASA paid was the one that fucked it up. NASA always uses metric internally so no need to convert.
Technology is anything that didn't exist before you turned 20.
Israel doesn't need to test them. Most everyone belives they have them and that is good enough.
So... you are saying that shooting indiscriminately at people in a country you are trying to help is working?
Geneva conventions came out of the aftermath of WWII. The uniform thing is to keep citizen deaths as low as possible in large conventional wars. But contrary to what the T.V. tells you the US isn't in a war; The war on drugs? Also not a war. It is more like a police action.
There is no bad guy to take out. The goal is to calm down and rebuild a very riled up country. And on some level to bring democracy. Think of us more like riot police on a really really big scale. Shooting into the crowd every 15minutes not helpful! I mean, unless you are Napolean and are prepared to kill them all.
That and going to space...
"What, pray tell, was the main tactic employed by Iran against Israel in 2006 ?"
Getting shot and losing?
Also, Iran can afford better weapons. And The other countries Israel slaughters on a regular basis can't afford planes... of ANY sort. (Last time Israel invaded Lebanon they had ~5 converted news helicopters in the service and no planes). I doubt they'll be getting any kind of fancy special weapons. And since they aren't WMDs by any stretch of the imagination it hardly would bug us. I know being terrorized is the 'in' thing this decade but you severely overestimate your enemies and this threat.
Also, to be fair human rights groups blame 'the people taking out the missile launch site' too, so it isn't really just media stupidity.
The effect of aerosols alluded to in the article has been known for a loooong time. The late 60s ~ early 70s. To act as if they are changing their mind is a media ploy at best.
Oh and some things have been known to cool the climate for CENTURIES. Volcanoes release ash into the air which shades the planet and lowers temperatures.
It was called global warming because the planet is going to get warmer ON AVERAGE. But it isn't a simple system, some places might get colder. And because stupid people (re fox news) see snow and think omg, global warming is BS. It sorta got renamed global climate change. To reflect that weather changes (the overall average climate being warmer).