"I mean it's not like your playing football where you win a T-Shirt and the university takes home 100's of millions in TV revenue!"
Unless of course you also get a free ride amounting to about $30K a year, or if you go to one of the thousands of schools that don't make a dime on televised athletic events. But I suppose all the people who actually get athletic scholarships or go to schools that aren't D1 AAA don't actually count.
I don't suppose that new, exponentially faster, hardware could have run some sort of emulation for those DOS programs so that what they thought was output to serial was in fact output to RAM (and from there, to just about anywhere)?
Sure it might have been ugly, and possibly a bit sloppy, but if you're already using DOS it's pretty damned hard to get much uglier or sloppier.
"How much could I get a political party to pay me for working their candidate into at least one of my problems on every problem set/quiz/test? "George Bush is snowboarding down a mountain at velocity v, etc.""
PLEASE tell me that this problem involves rapid negative acceleration...
Alternatively, developers could write "native" WINE ports. I'm still baffled that more games, at least the ones which are never intended as bleeding edge in the first place, aren't coded with the intent that they'll be able to run in WINE. It would be considerably cheaper to aim for Windows and WINE compatibility than aiming for entirely separate Windows and Linux ports.
What difference does it really make if the APIs are originally from Windows once they're running under Linux, anyway?
If he's not distributing the book or otherwise spreading around these copies, he is allowed under current fair use law to format shift his book in order to better suit his needs.
This is why the *AA types can't actually sue anyone who rips their music/dvd/whatever collection to a digital format, so long as there is no distribution (or intent to do so later) there is no legal recourse against someone who alters a work for their own personal convenience.
Last I heard the only things actually broadcast in HD are the World series and the Super Bowl, so yeah, I'd say that if you're watching a lot of broadcast TV but not much sports, you're just as well off getting a 720p anyway.
Incidentally, I spend a lot of time answering questions about TVs, selling them is part of my job. Funny thing though, all of our display model HDTVs are playing a looped DVD over split coax that isn't even terminated on the unused outlets... people will stand there oohing and ahhing over how great the picture is despite the fact that it is absolutely not HD in any way shape or form. Makes it pretty hard to convince people Sony sets are worth more than Olevia ones, too.
This headline comes as so little a surprise to me that I have trouble believing anyone even doubts it.
Yep, and they regularly appear in Massachusetts courts on tech issues.
I've honestly seen more news stories involving RH doing things in Boston than I have in NC by about 3;1, so wherever it is they claim to have their vase of operations, I'm inclined to say their political alignment is with Boston.
Of course, that could be in part because things that happen in Massachusetts tend to get reported here in Massachusetts disproportionately more than things that happen in North Carolina. Certainly a likely source of bias.
Wait, you mean that they saw the desktop was a market full of people who didn't want to pay for an OS, and didn't need to pay for support contracts, and realized that if nobody was paying them it was a useless market to chase?
Holy shit, it's almost like Red Hat aren't completely inept. Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business (not to mention I've heard their legal department isn't too shabby either...)
"but also noted is that over 88% of users will never change default settings"
Don't forget that Google is running at least 80% of the search market, and was before Firefox came onto the scene.
Google is paying them for something that, when looked at from a "what default settings make the most sense for the end-user" point of view, is already the most obvious option. I mean sure, they could set it to Ask.com or Yahoo!, but then they'd just have people asking if they can change it to Google anyway.
Hey, no fair actually knowing how physics work! Here we are, all sci-FI about things, and you barge in with just sci... you must think you're sooooooo much better than the rest of us don't you?
"Lol.. I pay for public roads and all the infrastructure I use I have no problem with that. That wasn't the question but it does bring up another, why is it I should have to pay for someone else to do nothing? And why is it that when someone brings up the question of keeping the money they earned that asshats like you want to distort the situation to exclude public services. You see, I'm not like you and others thinking they will get a free ride if we could only take from the rich and give to the poor, I don't mind paying my way. What I do mind is working harder just so you don't have to."
And if, hypothetically speaking, you make more money than others by use of this infrastructure, would it be fair to insist you pay a greater portion of the cost for building and maintaining it? What if you having more money means you have more assets to protect and therefore a greater interest in law enforcement, as well as costing more for them to protect, wouldn't it themn be fair for you to pay a greater portion of that cost? What if you make more money by hiring people who have been educated in public schools than those employees do (and if you're not, then you can not bother replying since you are clearly incompetent), should you not pay a greater portion of the cost of this service which is enriching you more than it is enriching others?
If we simply allow the poor and "lazy" (because clearly the only way to be poor in a capitalism is to be lazy, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with various other factors outside of anyone's control, or with the fact that industrial capitalism actually requires poverty in order to function properly, that might refute your entire fairy tale economic model) to simply die of easily treatable illnesses and injuries because they lack the ability to pay grossly inflated medical expenses while not working for extended periods, I'm sure that will do wonders for your bottom line, right? I can't imagine any real downside to that for anyone who isn't poor, because losing 2/3 of the population can only ever help us make more money.
What if the only thing keeping your pompous ass from being shoved against a wall and shot is the fact that there is some sort of publicly funded safeguard from total poverty? Who is really helped most by the tiny fraction of our government spending that actually is given as handouts? Have you ever seen one of those checks, do you have any idea what a paltry sum it really is? The funny part is that I don't normally bother trying to defend welfare benefits, because I don't really believe in them anyway (at least not the way they are done, there need to be more strings attached), but invariably you people bring it up as if there is anything even remotely similar between public education, transit and road services, law enforcement, medical care and emergency response and welfare programs, so I figured I'd let you in on the big secret of why they even exist.
"Now you know damn well I wasn't talking about not paying taxes, I was talking about the concept that socialism isn't promoted by guns and violence like Captain Splendid attempted to make."
No, I don't know that. In fact, you gave every indication you WERE talking about not paying taxes, and for you to say otherwise now is more than a little silly. And no Socialism isn't promoted by guns and violence any more than anything else is, and I would daresay that there are a lot of socialist governments out there that are far less abusive and violent to their citizens than ours. What gives you the idea that Socialism requires an authoritarian government? I know that it can't be that every Socialist country has gone that way, because that isn't actually true (FYI, the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba etc. are not the only socialist countries around or in history).
"Actually, I am the only person who counts. Well, me, then my family when it comes to my money. But if you knew how to follow a thread, you would know I wasn't complaining about paying taxes, I was making a statement about how taxes ar
Oh woe is you, unable to make infinite amounts of money and not give anything back. How about this, you do that without any public roads, any public education 9including for anyone in your employ, directly or otherwise, without publicly funded police and fire fighters protecting you, without a national military keeping your economic interests safe from interference, and without the benefit of any sort of regulations or laws to protect you while you sit on your enomous pile of money you have out in the woods with nobody else around, and you can stop paying taxes.
In the mean time, quit pretending like not having any taxes at all would work, or that you are so oppressed by having to contribute a portion of what you earn to the community in order to retain the benefits of being a part of it. You aren't the only person who counts, and if you're too much of a greedy shithead to accept the idea that, say, everyone deserves medical care when they are sick or injured, even if you don't get to keep every last cent you make, then I don't see why the impetus should be on the rest of us to explain why you're a total douchebag.
"Apples success so far came from delivering better product placement..."
Fixed that for you.
Sorry, but buying commodity parts, then slapping them together with some proprietary dongle bits does not a better product make. They've been wildly successful at cultivating an army of zombies who simply lap up whatever crap they squeeze out this quarter (2nd gen iPod touch, it's just like the 1st gen, but better... promise... YOU MUST BUY IT OR YOU ARE A LOSER AND A VIRGIN) though, and that counts for something. I guess...
That's the idea of having multiple potential Dragons: as each gets closer to actually meeting all the criteria, larger and larger PvP events become necessary to determine which one is real (ie. the winner of the ensuing PvP wars) and which ones are false (ie. all of the ones who lost said wars).
Of course, having some characters give every appearance of being the dragon while not actually having the potential could also make it interesting; especially if they did something silly like eliminate all of the possible true Dragons and tried to fight in Tarmon Gaidon...
Um, no, I know we're all desperate for this to be some terrible mistake on MSFT's part, it just isn't.
This is more like the car company saying: We have found 10 ways that we think our cars can be sabotaged, and we have released free snap-on repair kits that are intended to counter those possibilities, and will distribute them to all customers who request them. As it turns out, only 4 of them have actually been used by saboteurs, but we nonetheless recommend installing all 10 kits just to be safe.
Yes, how irresponsible of them, finding and eliminating ways for dedicated deliberate attackers to gain access faster than those attackers can actually accomplish it.
Or, even better, run each Age for one year. Give a certain number of random players the potential to become the Dragon, but don't tell anyone who they are, ESPECIALLY the people who might be. Players who are in at the beginning of the Age have a better chance of being the Dragon, ta'veren (although I suppose it would also make sense if ALL players were ta'veren), or at least having some special plot role (ie. they could end up like Moirraine, finding the Dragon or other key players by virtue of their awesomeness), but players who join in partway through benefit from a world which is less of a clusterfuck in terms of nobody having any clue what the hell is happening and being able to just drop in on whatever side they like and have at the powers that be.
Obviously, certain things would have to be put into the game to ensure a given Age goes off interestingly, like reliable ways for people to find the Dragon (or at least potential Dragons), compelling incentives to form in-game factions to support Dragons and ta'veren, and ways to ensure that the "randomly" selected players are unlikely to simply fall off of the planet's face.
I'd also be a big fan of a full reset at the beginning of each age, perhaps with perks given to previous high-level characters, but nothing that cannot be overcome by a talented newcomer. of course, I also just get sick of the perpetual suck of not being one of the first hundred people to sign on and always getting stomped by people who will always be bigger and badder just because they've been around longer.
WHAT???? The English language isn't permanent and unchanging? People don't always speak in the terms of formal logic, and instead use popular turns of phrase? No wonder that everyone looks at me funny when I try to speak in Old English, I just thought they were illiterates who had never read Beowulf, but now I realize I was just being a tool.
Seriously though, the my usage of "beg the question" actually fits that definition, I just don't feel like holding people's hands through reasoning it out. Think about it.
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"I mean it's not like your playing football where you win a T-Shirt and the university takes home 100's of millions in TV revenue!"
Unless of course you also get a free ride amounting to about $30K a year, or if you go to one of the thousands of schools that don't make a dime on televised athletic events. But I suppose all the people who actually get athletic scholarships or go to schools that aren't D1 AAA don't actually count.
I don't suppose that new, exponentially faster, hardware could have run some sort of emulation for those DOS programs so that what they thought was output to serial was in fact output to RAM (and from there, to just about anywhere)?
Sure it might have been ugly, and possibly a bit sloppy, but if you're already using DOS it's pretty damned hard to get much uglier or sloppier.
"How much could I get a political party to pay me for working their candidate into at least one of my problems on every problem set/quiz/test? "George Bush is snowboarding down a mountain at velocity v, etc.""
PLEASE tell me that this problem involves rapid negative acceleration...
Alternatively, developers could write "native" WINE ports. I'm still baffled that more games, at least the ones which are never intended as bleeding edge in the first place, aren't coded with the intent that they'll be able to run in WINE. It would be considerably cheaper to aim for Windows and WINE compatibility than aiming for entirely separate Windows and Linux ports.
What difference does it really make if the APIs are originally from Windows once they're running under Linux, anyway?
Step 1: take down Google
Step 2: ???
Step 3: there's a punchline to this, but without Google you'll never know what it is.
You do know that it doesn't, right?
If he's not distributing the book or otherwise spreading around these copies, he is allowed under current fair use law to format shift his book in order to better suit his needs.
This is why the *AA types can't actually sue anyone who rips their music/dvd/whatever collection to a digital format, so long as there is no distribution (or intent to do so later) there is no legal recourse against someone who alters a work for their own personal convenience.
Nice try, though.
Last I heard the only things actually broadcast in HD are the World series and the Super Bowl, so yeah, I'd say that if you're watching a lot of broadcast TV but not much sports, you're just as well off getting a 720p anyway.
Incidentally, I spend a lot of time answering questions about TVs, selling them is part of my job. Funny thing though, all of our display model HDTVs are playing a looped DVD over split coax that isn't even terminated on the unused outlets... people will stand there oohing and ahhing over how great the picture is despite the fact that it is absolutely not HD in any way shape or form. Makes it pretty hard to convince people Sony sets are worth more than Olevia ones, too.
This headline comes as so little a surprise to me that I have trouble believing anyone even doubts it.
What a monumental waste of time? Is it even that fun?
Yep, and they regularly appear in Massachusetts courts on tech issues.
I've honestly seen more news stories involving RH doing things in Boston than I have in NC by about 3;1, so wherever it is they claim to have their vase of operations, I'm inclined to say their political alignment is with Boston.
Of course, that could be in part because things that happen in Massachusetts tend to get reported here in Massachusetts disproportionately more than things that happen in North Carolina. Certainly a likely source of bias.
Even less if they're wearing kevlar...
Wait, you mean that they saw the desktop was a market full of people who didn't want to pay for an OS, and didn't need to pay for support contracts, and realized that if nobody was paying them it was a useless market to chase?
Holy shit, it's almost like Red Hat aren't completely inept. Who knew that a company based in the same city as MIT and Harvard might be able to find a few people who are good technologists AND some who are good at business (not to mention I've heard their legal department isn't too shabby either...)
Nope, you're just old.
Congratulations!
Yeah, or "mishap" wow, that one just got funnier every time.
Of course by 7th grade it was pretty easy to just mock people for being idiots and coming up with such obvious and pathetic attempts to insult me.
"but also noted is that over 88% of users will never change default settings"
Don't forget that Google is running at least 80% of the search market, and was before Firefox came onto the scene.
Google is paying them for something that, when looked at from a "what default settings make the most sense for the end-user" point of view, is already the most obvious option. I mean sure, they could set it to Ask.com or Yahoo!, but then they'd just have people asking if they can change it to Google anyway.
"Am I the only one who imagined a very, very large pair of nicely-shaped tubes covering the Earth?"
Sounds hot. Pic or stfu.
Yeah, you dump it in the ocean, everybody knows that's just nature's super-landfill!
Hey, no fair actually knowing how physics work! Here we are, all sci-FI about things, and you barge in with just sci... you must think you're sooooooo much better than the rest of us don't you?
Good day sir, I say good day.
"Lol.. I pay for public roads and all the infrastructure I use I have no problem with that. That wasn't the question but it does bring up another, why is it I should have to pay for someone else to do nothing? And why is it that when someone brings up the question of keeping the money they earned that asshats like you want to distort the situation to exclude public services. You see, I'm not like you and others thinking they will get a free ride if we could only take from the rich and give to the poor, I don't mind paying my way. What I do mind is working harder just so you don't have to."
And if, hypothetically speaking, you make more money than others by use of this infrastructure, would it be fair to insist you pay a greater portion of the cost for building and maintaining it? What if you having more money means you have more assets to protect and therefore a greater interest in law enforcement, as well as costing more for them to protect, wouldn't it themn be fair for you to pay a greater portion of that cost? What if you make more money by hiring people who have been educated in public schools than those employees do (and if you're not, then you can not bother replying since you are clearly incompetent), should you not pay a greater portion of the cost of this service which is enriching you more than it is enriching others?
If we simply allow the poor and "lazy" (because clearly the only way to be poor in a capitalism is to be lazy, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with various other factors outside of anyone's control, or with the fact that industrial capitalism actually requires poverty in order to function properly, that might refute your entire fairy tale economic model) to simply die of easily treatable illnesses and injuries because they lack the ability to pay grossly inflated medical expenses while not working for extended periods, I'm sure that will do wonders for your bottom line, right? I can't imagine any real downside to that for anyone who isn't poor, because losing 2/3 of the population can only ever help us make more money.
What if the only thing keeping your pompous ass from being shoved against a wall and shot is the fact that there is some sort of publicly funded safeguard from total poverty? Who is really helped most by the tiny fraction of our government spending that actually is given as handouts? Have you ever seen one of those checks, do you have any idea what a paltry sum it really is? The funny part is that I don't normally bother trying to defend welfare benefits, because I don't really believe in them anyway (at least not the way they are done, there need to be more strings attached), but invariably you people bring it up as if there is anything even remotely similar between public education, transit and road services, law enforcement, medical care and emergency response and welfare programs, so I figured I'd let you in on the big secret of why they even exist.
"Now you know damn well I wasn't talking about not paying taxes, I was talking about the concept that socialism isn't promoted by guns and violence like Captain Splendid attempted to make."
No, I don't know that. In fact, you gave every indication you WERE talking about not paying taxes, and for you to say otherwise now is more than a little silly. And no Socialism isn't promoted by guns and violence any more than anything else is, and I would daresay that there are a lot of socialist governments out there that are far less abusive and violent to their citizens than ours. What gives you the idea that Socialism requires an authoritarian government? I know that it can't be that every Socialist country has gone that way, because that isn't actually true (FYI, the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba etc. are not the only socialist countries around or in history).
"Actually, I am the only person who counts. Well, me, then my family when it comes to my money. But if you knew how to follow a thread, you would know I wasn't complaining about paying taxes, I was making a statement about how taxes ar
Oh woe is you, unable to make infinite amounts of money and not give anything back. How about this, you do that without any public roads, any public education 9including for anyone in your employ, directly or otherwise, without publicly funded police and fire fighters protecting you, without a national military keeping your economic interests safe from interference, and without the benefit of any sort of regulations or laws to protect you while you sit on your enomous pile of money you have out in the woods with nobody else around, and you can stop paying taxes.
In the mean time, quit pretending like not having any taxes at all would work, or that you are so oppressed by having to contribute a portion of what you earn to the community in order to retain the benefits of being a part of it. You aren't the only person who counts, and if you're too much of a greedy shithead to accept the idea that, say, everyone deserves medical care when they are sick or injured, even if you don't get to keep every last cent you make, then I don't see why the impetus should be on the rest of us to explain why you're a total douchebag.
Yep, the same place you can put the Word document.
of course, you could just tell your dial up hold out friend/coworker to either deal with it or join us in the current century of broadband access.
"Apples success so far came from delivering better product placement..."
Fixed that for you.
Sorry, but buying commodity parts, then slapping them together with some proprietary dongle bits does not a better product make. They've been wildly successful at cultivating an army of zombies who simply lap up whatever crap they squeeze out this quarter (2nd gen iPod touch, it's just like the 1st gen, but better... promise... YOU MUST BUY IT OR YOU ARE A LOSER AND A VIRGIN) though, and that counts for something. I guess...
That's the idea of having multiple potential Dragons: as each gets closer to actually meeting all the criteria, larger and larger PvP events become necessary to determine which one is real (ie. the winner of the ensuing PvP wars) and which ones are false (ie. all of the ones who lost said wars).
Of course, having some characters give every appearance of being the dragon while not actually having the potential could also make it interesting; especially if they did something silly like eliminate all of the possible true Dragons and tried to fight in Tarmon Gaidon...
Um, no, I know we're all desperate for this to be some terrible mistake on MSFT's part, it just isn't.
This is more like the car company saying: We have found 10 ways that we think our cars can be sabotaged, and we have released free snap-on repair kits that are intended to counter those possibilities, and will distribute them to all customers who request them. As it turns out, only 4 of them have actually been used by saboteurs, but we nonetheless recommend installing all 10 kits just to be safe.
Yes, how irresponsible of them, finding and eliminating ways for dedicated deliberate attackers to gain access faster than those attackers can actually accomplish it.
Or, even better, run each Age for one year. Give a certain number of random players the potential to become the Dragon, but don't tell anyone who they are, ESPECIALLY the people who might be. Players who are in at the beginning of the Age have a better chance of being the Dragon, ta'veren (although I suppose it would also make sense if ALL players were ta'veren), or at least having some special plot role (ie. they could end up like Moirraine, finding the Dragon or other key players by virtue of their awesomeness), but players who join in partway through benefit from a world which is less of a clusterfuck in terms of nobody having any clue what the hell is happening and being able to just drop in on whatever side they like and have at the powers that be.
Obviously, certain things would have to be put into the game to ensure a given Age goes off interestingly, like reliable ways for people to find the Dragon (or at least potential Dragons), compelling incentives to form in-game factions to support Dragons and ta'veren, and ways to ensure that the "randomly" selected players are unlikely to simply fall off of the planet's face.
I'd also be a big fan of a full reset at the beginning of each age, perhaps with perks given to previous high-level characters, but nothing that cannot be overcome by a talented newcomer. of course, I also just get sick of the perpetual suck of not being one of the first hundred people to sign on and always getting stomped by people who will always be bigger and badder just because they've been around longer.
WHAT???? The English language isn't permanent and unchanging? People don't always speak in the terms of formal logic, and instead use popular turns of phrase? No wonder that everyone looks at me funny when I try to speak in Old English, I just thought they were illiterates who had never read Beowulf, but now I realize I was just being a tool.
Seriously though, the my usage of "beg the question" actually fits that definition, I just don't feel like holding people's hands through reasoning it out. Think about it.