The patent owner may hold that opinion right now... they might not hold that opinion in the future, and until they put it into some sort of legally binding statement (which I seriously doubt they have) it doesn't mean a damned thing.
I know some burners, and I can honestly say you're full of shit. If I really want to, I could probably go for approximately free (I'd have to chip in for gas and food, but I pay for that normally, so it hardly counts) with the connections I have simply because of the tangentially related activities I do. I don't because, well, it doesn't really strike my fancy. They're absolutely a subculture (or maybe a sub-subculture), just like otakus, gamers, hackers, furries, rennies, martial artists, wannabe martial artists, sports fanatics, people into BDSM, theater buffs, film buffs, music buffs, independent theater buffs, independent film buffs, independent music buffs, hashers,/b/tards, the Rainbow Family, club kids, right-wing paramilitary gun nuts, and any number of other groups who all hold many events of all sizes, scopes, prices of admission and mainstream appeal. Hell, I'm pretty sure that there are burners who haven't ever made it to BM for whatever reason (finances, work, kids, court orders not to leave their state of residence), they just attend local and regional events put up for and by the community so that they can have more than one event per year.
Anyway, your assertion that a subculture can't have events you need to pay to get into, or that such events have to be somehow "underground" is bullshit. Anthrocon advertises, and they sell tickets through reputable channels, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to show up and pay to get in because it's somehow not just for furries anymore.
"The whole *point* of the GPL is to impose the GPL on everybody."
Yes, that's what a public use copyright license does, it enforces the rules of your license on everybody who would use your work.
"Some people seem to think that this is exactly what being "open" is all about."
And you seem to disagree. Good for you. No, really, you get a genuine golf clap for that. "Open" doesn't mean "without rules".
"Rather sad, isn't it."
The only thing sadder would be trolling Slashdot pretending that anyone else should give a fuck about your anti-GPL opinions, and inserting aggreement with your asinine definitions into other peoples' mouths. Don't like the GPL? Then don't use it. Problem solved. Or is somebody actually holding a gun to your head forcing you to incorporate GPLed code into your projects?
Then I guess Glenn Beck is at least smarter than his boss, who was a big enough idiot to hire a self-proclaimed non-journalist to work on a FUCKING NEWS CHANNEL. Who is it that signs his paychecks, again?
I think it will vary wildly depending on the video's quality and the size of your TV. Small screens look sharper than big ones, especially with lower resolutions. Quite simply, a 50" Samsung playing Youtube videos will look like shit, where a 26" generic will probably look reasonable.
And he apparently likes Glenn Beck... a "journalist" who likes to just make shit up... like that video. You promised it would be in Obama's words... turns out that it's really in Glenn's words, he managed to cut and paste Obama quotes to fit. Somehow, Beck actually forgot to include the clips of Obama saying he intended to institute widespread socialism.
I especially liked his chosen quote on the Warren Court, he picked out a factual statement about SCOTUS decisions, and tried to make it seem like it was anything other than mainstream Constitutional Law history. Even better, it ended in a *criticism* of the civil rights movement, that they focused too much on litigation. The quote is cut before it is revealed what Obama feels they should have focused more on, Beck implies that it was influencing the other branches of government, but you'll have to forgive me for doubting it, as certainly he would have quoted that part directly as well.
Lack? that thing pisses me off. I honestly couldn't care any less about the.Net plugin, I'm a teensy bit miffed that installed without so much as asking, but at least it didn't FUBAR my media settings and force all.mpg and.avi files to attempt to play in-browser through their shitty plugin that doesn't even work and throws a thousand error messages every time, rather than do what I actually want (open and play in VLC). Maybe I'd be pissed about Microsoft's stealth plugin if I had some other awesome way of running.Net web-apps, but I honestly can't think of any that I have even seen, let alone actually use or would care how they open.
Oh yeah, I call bullshit on Ubuntu. They shouldn't have stealthed that in, and because they didn't I will uninstall it ASAP (once I reboot into Ubuntu, that is). If they had announced it, even put a little window on the screen asking if it would be ok to install it, pretty pretty please with sugar on top, we promise it won't hurt and it will help us generate some revenue so that we can keep working on the project... I honestly would have said yes. I wouldn't really mind if they collect some data and make money off of it so long as it doesn't noticeably degrade performance and so long as they told me about it first, but that doesn't mean I take kindly to anyone presuming it's ok for them to do so without my knowledge and permission.
Simplicity and size. The less components we need, and the smaller they can be, the better. Ultimately, if programmers didn't NEED to split up their code to run on different processors, they wouldn't, because it just makes life harder. Having one chip that handles everything makes that so, and having an API that brings us closer to a place where that makes intuitive sense is a logical progression toward that end.
"Although I have one that took a quick swim and yet works fine other than rebooting any time I type the word "economist" into a text message with auto spell on."
Seriously? This has happened more than once? That has to be the absolute weirdest glitch I have ever heard of, simply for being so obscure and esoteric. Especially since that's hardly a word I would expect somebody whose watch might ever have occasion to stop a rifle bullet to be texting more than never. Congratulations, you win.
"Let's think about this - is Amazon the kind of company that would intentionally incite a class-action lawsuit for the purpose of setting legal precedent against the type of actions it performed?"
This question pretty much boils down to "is Amazon run by criminally insane morons?" Given that I haven't heard about any of their executives rampaging through the streets leaving trails of bodies, and given the tremendous success of Amazon in a very competitive market chock full of very big fish, I'm going to say "probably not".
"Call me a conspiracy theorist, but having this whole mess center around "1984" is a pretty big coincidence."
Ok, you're a conspiracy theorist. It's a coincidence, and a somewhat ironic one, but a coincidence nonetheless.
"make carriers unlock your phone when you've finished paying for it'
Fuck that, they should unlock it before it's even handed to me. If I feel like paying two different carriers to get service on a single phone, there's absolutely no valid reason for them to stop me (although there may be plenty of valid reasons for me not to do so, it should still be MY decision, not theirs). I also think that cell phone financing should be billed as a separate line item from actual service, and that each component should be available individually... and if it required passing a law I'd support it. Other loans have to follow rules like that (and nobody really has a problem with it, since they basically just serve to keep everybody honest), and cell carriers can follow some too.
Given that the rules are explicitly designed to minimize the risk of accidents, it would be reasonable to expect that a person following them is less likely to cause an accident, although they might be more likely to be involved in an accident ultimately caused by a rule breaker.
I also call bullshit on part of their premise... they assume the rude drivers help because they break up clumps of traffic, but they ignore that the real problem is actually those clumps, and polite drivers don't necessarily cause clumps (they simply fail to actively break them). Most clumps I see are actually caused by people tailgating or traveling the same speed as other vehicles in slower lanes of traffic 9especially in other vehicles' blind spots), both of which are actually against the rules.
I would posit that the people actually making the most effect on traffic speed are anti-social drivers, rather than rude ones... if everybody on the road endeavored to stay away from other vehicles and simply travel at their own preferred speed, passing others quickly and seeking to stay between groups, that traffic jams would be diminished whether the drivers were rude or not.
"If you RTFA you'll discover that the governor of Kansas is indeed a Democrat, but the two Senators pushing the thing are REPUBLICANS, which only goes to show that the answer is not having the "right" party in power. The only solution is to have -less- government, with less money to create dangerous situations like this."
Flaw: the whole thing is about a research facility designed to mitigate the risks of dangerous and extremely damaging diseases, something that's actually a good idea to have. this isn't an issue of government having too much money with which to do stupid things, or even an issue of having too much government, it;s an issue of government doing things for stupid, greedy reasons. In this case, the reason is almost certainly that Kansas wants more Federal research money to infuse the local economy (researchers need food, water, homes, clothes, cars, and all manner of other goods, plus they have to pay taxes), and given the topic at hand that is a stupid, greedy (who wants to bet me that either Senator has no ties to local construction contractors capable of taking on the government contracts this would immediately lead to? I'll just take your money now) reason.
It's not a matter of more government or less, it's a matter of better. For all that they claim to intend otherwise, the last 3 Republican presidents and have acted to increase the size and scope of government more than almost any other administrations in American history, and at least in my opinion they've done a tremendously shitty job of it. The Republicans believe that government is flawed, ineffective, intrusive and harmful to all aspects of our nation, and if you elect them, by God they will prove it. The Democrats may not do much better, but at least they don't bullshit you about trying to decrease the reach of government.
Budgets are outlined more than one year ahead of time, so that people can actually plan for the future. They aren't usually set in stone, because as circumstances change it may be necessary to adjust them, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, or that changing them won't cause issues for the department. Giving a smaller than expected increase in budget IS a budget cut, because until that moment plans have been made with the higher number in mind: a change to that number will require cuts to payroll, purchasing, operational costs, or any of the other expenses that the program must pay. If you can imagine attempting to operate a business on a budget that you cannot predict more than 12 months in advance, you might just get an idea why it's necessary to make those kinds of assumptions.
Get it?
Oh, and inflation makes each dollar worth a little bit less than it was before. If you have a budget that doesn't go up from one year to the next, it is effectively going down whether the numbers actually say so or not.
They're trying to build a manufacturing plant and hire a staff to operate it, those things cost a lot of money, money that needs to be spent between now and when they actually are able to make money selling stuff.
Of all the possible things to point as as being suspicious, that one probably sucks the hardest.
"A tax incentive or tax credit isn't government funding. The government may call it funding... But they also call reducing the amount a department's funding is scheduled to increase a budget cut, which is also not true except by their broken definition.
Thanks for demonstrating your inability to understand what a budget is, how inflation works, or the time frame on which things actually need to happen here in the real world. Makes it much easier to justify ignoring whatever other idiocy you have to say.
Less nutrition and more food, actually. Oh, and now that giving steroids and hormone treatments to cattle is standard practice and anyone not doing so is a hippie wingnut, we can also be assured that our children are receiving extra dosages of the same hormones given to cows to increase milk production. I'm sure that couldn't have any side-effects though.
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The patent owner may hold that opinion right now... they might not hold that opinion in the future, and until they put it into some sort of legally binding statement (which I seriously doubt they have) it doesn't mean a damned thing.
I know some burners, and I can honestly say you're full of shit. If I really want to, I could probably go for approximately free (I'd have to chip in for gas and food, but I pay for that normally, so it hardly counts) with the connections I have simply because of the tangentially related activities I do. I don't because, well, it doesn't really strike my fancy. They're absolutely a subculture (or maybe a sub-subculture), just like otakus, gamers, hackers, furries, rennies, martial artists, wannabe martial artists, sports fanatics, people into BDSM, theater buffs, film buffs, music buffs, independent theater buffs, independent film buffs, independent music buffs, hashers, /b/tards, the Rainbow Family, club kids, right-wing paramilitary gun nuts, and any number of other groups who all hold many events of all sizes, scopes, prices of admission and mainstream appeal. Hell, I'm pretty sure that there are burners who haven't ever made it to BM for whatever reason (finances, work, kids, court orders not to leave their state of residence), they just attend local and regional events put up for and by the community so that they can have more than one event per year.
Anyway, your assertion that a subculture can't have events you need to pay to get into, or that such events have to be somehow "underground" is bullshit. Anthrocon advertises, and they sell tickets through reputable channels, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to show up and pay to get in because it's somehow not just for furries anymore.
"The whole *point* of the GPL is to impose the GPL on everybody."
Yes, that's what a public use copyright license does, it enforces the rules of your license on everybody who would use your work.
"Some people seem to think that this is exactly what being "open" is all about."
And you seem to disagree. Good for you. No, really, you get a genuine golf clap for that. "Open" doesn't mean "without rules".
"Rather sad, isn't it."
The only thing sadder would be trolling Slashdot pretending that anyone else should give a fuck about your anti-GPL opinions, and inserting aggreement with your asinine definitions into other peoples' mouths. Don't like the GPL? Then don't use it. Problem solved. Or is somebody actually holding a gun to your head forcing you to incorporate GPLed code into your projects?
Then I guess Glenn Beck is at least smarter than his boss, who was a big enough idiot to hire a self-proclaimed non-journalist to work on a FUCKING NEWS CHANNEL. Who is it that signs his paychecks, again?
I think it will vary wildly depending on the video's quality and the size of your TV. Small screens look sharper than big ones, especially with lower resolutions. Quite simply, a 50" Samsung playing Youtube videos will look like shit, where a 26" generic will probably look reasonable.
And he apparently likes Glenn Beck... a "journalist" who likes to just make shit up... like that video. You promised it would be in Obama's words... turns out that it's really in Glenn's words, he managed to cut and paste Obama quotes to fit. Somehow, Beck actually forgot to include the clips of Obama saying he intended to institute widespread socialism.
I especially liked his chosen quote on the Warren Court, he picked out a factual statement about SCOTUS decisions, and tried to make it seem like it was anything other than mainstream Constitutional Law history. Even better, it ended in a *criticism* of the civil rights movement, that they focused too much on litigation. The quote is cut before it is revealed what Obama feels they should have focused more on, Beck implies that it was influencing the other branches of government, but you'll have to forgive me for doubting it, as certainly he would have quoted that part directly as well.
Yawn. Try again.
Lack? that thing pisses me off. I honestly couldn't care any less about the .Net plugin, I'm a teensy bit miffed that installed without so much as asking, but at least it didn't FUBAR my media settings and force all .mpg and .avi files to attempt to play in-browser through their shitty plugin that doesn't even work and throws a thousand error messages every time, rather than do what I actually want (open and play in VLC). Maybe I'd be pissed about Microsoft's stealth plugin if I had some other awesome way of running .Net web-apps, but I honestly can't think of any that I have even seen, let alone actually use or would care how they open.
Oh yeah, I call bullshit on Ubuntu. They shouldn't have stealthed that in, and because they didn't I will uninstall it ASAP (once I reboot into Ubuntu, that is). If they had announced it, even put a little window on the screen asking if it would be ok to install it, pretty pretty please with sugar on top, we promise it won't hurt and it will help us generate some revenue so that we can keep working on the project... I honestly would have said yes. I wouldn't really mind if they collect some data and make money off of it so long as it doesn't noticeably degrade performance and so long as they told me about it first, but that doesn't mean I take kindly to anyone presuming it's ok for them to do so without my knowledge and permission.
Shhh... you're ruining "the moment."
Simplicity and size. The less components we need, and the smaller they can be, the better. Ultimately, if programmers didn't NEED to split up their code to run on different processors, they wouldn't, because it just makes life harder. Having one chip that handles everything makes that so, and having an API that brings us closer to a place where that makes intuitive sense is a logical progression toward that end.
"Although I have one that took a quick swim and yet works fine other than rebooting any time I type the word "economist" into a text message with auto spell on."
Seriously? This has happened more than once? That has to be the absolute weirdest glitch I have ever heard of, simply for being so obscure and esoteric. Especially since that's hardly a word I would expect somebody whose watch might ever have occasion to stop a rifle bullet to be texting more than never. Congratulations, you win.
That's probably the funniest joke of the whole story. And given the genre, a pretty classy one too.
Shame that people are too PC and too Mac fanboyish to mod it the "+5, Funny" like it deserves.
Oh well.
Sure, but I've also never heard of a person buying a Pre or G1 only to decide that, nah, they'd really prefer an iPhone.
Those things are expensive, and very few people are willing, let alone ABLE, to really switch from one to the other on a whim.
"That implies that there are times you should choose not to fight or choose a less confrontational approach."
Only if you're being reasonable.
Can you imagine the havoc in Italy if Fiat were to start building Vaios into their cars to run navigation and the like?
I can't imagine a more perfect catastrophe.
"Let's think about this - is Amazon the kind of company that would intentionally incite a class-action lawsuit for the purpose of setting legal precedent against the type of actions it performed?"
This question pretty much boils down to "is Amazon run by criminally insane morons?" Given that I haven't heard about any of their executives rampaging through the streets leaving trails of bodies, and given the tremendous success of Amazon in a very competitive market chock full of very big fish, I'm going to say "probably not".
"Call me a conspiracy theorist, but having this whole mess center around "1984" is a pretty big coincidence."
Ok, you're a conspiracy theorist. It's a coincidence, and a somewhat ironic one, but a coincidence nonetheless.
"make carriers unlock your phone when you've finished paying for it'
Fuck that, they should unlock it before it's even handed to me. If I feel like paying two different carriers to get service on a single phone, there's absolutely no valid reason for them to stop me (although there may be plenty of valid reasons for me not to do so, it should still be MY decision, not theirs). I also think that cell phone financing should be billed as a separate line item from actual service, and that each component should be available individually... and if it required passing a law I'd support it. Other loans have to follow rules like that (and nobody really has a problem with it, since they basically just serve to keep everybody honest), and cell carriers can follow some too.
Given that the rules are explicitly designed to minimize the risk of accidents, it would be reasonable to expect that a person following them is less likely to cause an accident, although they might be more likely to be involved in an accident ultimately caused by a rule breaker.
I also call bullshit on part of their premise... they assume the rude drivers help because they break up clumps of traffic, but they ignore that the real problem is actually those clumps, and polite drivers don't necessarily cause clumps (they simply fail to actively break them). Most clumps I see are actually caused by people tailgating or traveling the same speed as other vehicles in slower lanes of traffic 9especially in other vehicles' blind spots), both of which are actually against the rules.
I would posit that the people actually making the most effect on traffic speed are anti-social drivers, rather than rude ones... if everybody on the road endeavored to stay away from other vehicles and simply travel at their own preferred speed, passing others quickly and seeking to stay between groups, that traffic jams would be diminished whether the drivers were rude or not.
"If you RTFA you'll discover that the governor of Kansas is indeed a Democrat, but the two Senators pushing the thing are REPUBLICANS, which only goes to show that the answer is not having the "right" party in power. The only solution is to have -less- government, with less money to create dangerous situations like this."
Flaw: the whole thing is about a research facility designed to mitigate the risks of dangerous and extremely damaging diseases, something that's actually a good idea to have. this isn't an issue of government having too much money with which to do stupid things, or even an issue of having too much government, it;s an issue of government doing things for stupid, greedy reasons. In this case, the reason is almost certainly that Kansas wants more Federal research money to infuse the local economy (researchers need food, water, homes, clothes, cars, and all manner of other goods, plus they have to pay taxes), and given the topic at hand that is a stupid, greedy (who wants to bet me that either Senator has no ties to local construction contractors capable of taking on the government contracts this would immediately lead to? I'll just take your money now) reason.
It's not a matter of more government or less, it's a matter of better. For all that they claim to intend otherwise, the last 3 Republican presidents and have acted to increase the size and scope of government more than almost any other administrations in American history, and at least in my opinion they've done a tremendously shitty job of it. The Republicans believe that government is flawed, ineffective, intrusive and harmful to all aspects of our nation, and if you elect them, by God they will prove it. The Democrats may not do much better, but at least they don't bullshit you about trying to decrease the reach of government.
Budgets are outlined more than one year ahead of time, so that people can actually plan for the future. They aren't usually set in stone, because as circumstances change it may be necessary to adjust them, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, or that changing them won't cause issues for the department. Giving a smaller than expected increase in budget IS a budget cut, because until that moment plans have been made with the higher number in mind: a change to that number will require cuts to payroll, purchasing, operational costs, or any of the other expenses that the program must pay. If you can imagine attempting to operate a business on a budget that you cannot predict more than 12 months in advance, you might just get an idea why it's necessary to make those kinds of assumptions.
Get it?
Oh, and inflation makes each dollar worth a little bit less than it was before. If you have a budget that doesn't go up from one year to the next, it is effectively going down whether the numbers actually say so or not.
Thanks for playing.
Hey now, you can also peruse Verizon's walled garden of cherry picked non-free-as-in-beer content. that's cool too, right? Right?
"its 2008"
Actually, it's not. Sorry to burst your bubble.
They're trying to build a manufacturing plant and hire a staff to operate it, those things cost a lot of money, money that needs to be spent between now and when they actually are able to make money selling stuff.
Of all the possible things to point as as being suspicious, that one probably sucks the hardest.
"A tax incentive or tax credit isn't government funding. The government may call it funding... But they also call reducing the amount a department's funding is scheduled to increase a budget cut, which is also not true except by their broken definition.
Thanks for demonstrating your inability to understand what a budget is, how inflation works, or the time frame on which things actually need to happen here in the real world. Makes it much easier to justify ignoring whatever other idiocy you have to say.
You forgot to put "slashdot" on the list.
Less nutrition and more food, actually. Oh, and now that giving steroids and hormone treatments to cattle is standard practice and anyone not doing so is a hippie wingnut, we can also be assured that our children are receiving extra dosages of the same hormones given to cows to increase milk production. I'm sure that couldn't have any side-effects though.