Actually, yeah, more or less, at some level or another. Wouldn't it be better for the planet if you and all of your potential offspring just laid down and died?
PS But think about it, if we started communicating with chinese citizens via infrared SMS text messaging, we could send them things bypassing the "great firewall." Maybe things about the Falun Gong, or Chinese torture practices, or some nonsense about "freeing Tibet?" My hypothesis is that the gov't wants to make sure that no new "smartphone" like devices have messaging capabilities on new transmission mediums. Controlling the flow of information in and out of the country has always been a staple of communist governments.
Yeah, but it's rambling nonsense from a different angle than the OP's rambling nonsense, and I think he needed a wake-up call. You can't call an entire messageboard hypocritical like it's some fucking hive mind.
You've committed the common fallacy of supposing that there is some kind of "average" slashdot user, who represents every user, and believes every opinion that has ever been expressed on this message board. Obviously that can't be the case. Anybody like that would have to contradict every one of their own opinions.
On the actual issue, it's not a "good move" because they are probably doing this to control the populace; if they know the source code for the hardware on all consumer electronics, there's no way that people could find some way to communicate with the outside world on "unmonitored" channels, probably on a proprietary hardware network separate from the standard internet.
Keeping that source code out of chinese hands is imperative in empowering the chinese people to determine their own destiny. This isn't a software patents issue.
You should make it "an habit" not to confuse the issues. And stop assuming everybody here is a cookie-cutter version of everyone else.
I've always viewed software like a book and most people I know do the same. You don't patent a book - you publish it. And get rights that way. The software industry screwed the pooch big time trying to get its products treated like "inventions".
This is a stupid analogy. Yeah, you don't patent books, you copyright them. However you do patent a printing press.
Similarly, if you write something in Microsoft word, and you so desire, you copyright it. However MS Word itself ought to be patented, as it amounts to an electronic printing press.
Second, the law does not determine right and wrong. Just because some action is against the law doesn't make it wrong. This is especially true when the laws are so out of whack (as is copyright law) that a large part of the population breaks it on a regular basis (see Prohibition).
So "right" is defined by "whatever the majority does?"
You can try to call copyright law unjust, and draw weak analogies to totally different issues like drug prohibition, but what you're really doing is just putting lipstick on a pig.
There isn't a video card on the market today that can't play high-res movies. "Movies" are very, very basic tasks for a video output device.
In summary, tell us something about your video card that means something.
P.S. Now, if you said that your monitor had a native resolution of 1920x1080 or higher, I'd be impressed. Mine's native res is 1680x1050, and it's big. Real big.
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I had the pleasure of recording a graduate-level CS class taught by Chris Gilmore at Portland State University on agile methodologies. A lot of what he said actually made a lot of sense. You should give agile an honest chance.
I learned the lesson. Management loves screwing employees. They get off on it the same we techies get off on learning and making things work. The techies have the real power and the managers know it. They love the fact that we won't use our power. If you want to be treated well by management you have to organize and be willing to shut the company down.
Stop making such sweeping generalizations. Didn't you learn something when the mean kids at school outgrouped you and called you nerd 'cause you were different from them?
Saying "managers do this" and "techies do that" is just gross stereotyping, and it's the sort of oversimplified outlooks that lead to things like bullying.
Yeah, but any college admissions official worth his mustard knows that we should stick it to the man, and fuck the police.
On a more serious note, screw those who can't respect somebody breaking an oppressive "morality law" that they disagree with. I don't want to go to their school and/or work for their company anyway.
Nobody was trying to call it military wisdom or anything. War is one of the best funded "industries" around the world, and it's organizers are dedicated strategists. There's nothing unintelligent about them, regardless of your opinions on whether or not they're misguided.
So? Adobe runs on Macs and PCs, and I have personally loaded.mov's into Premiere on a work PC, which were ripped from a Mac in Final Cut. Sometimes because of some nitwit manager's decision, the preferred equipment isn't in place so people have to get by with what's available.
PCs are about being open, open & open, Macs are about being proprietary, proprietary & proprietary. If you want to pay for convenience, buy a Mac, but you will pay more for what you get and be less compatible with everything.
I second that. Not every idea that the Libertarian party has is on the up-and-up (abolishing the central bank, for example), but they also have many logical ones, like putting an end to the war on consensual acts between adults (drug sales, prostitution, etc.)
I'm not sure why you're laughing. Nothing you say is funny. It isn't even remotely clever. It's just a bunch of random "naughty" words strung together, punctuated by laughter.
You have the communication patterns of a 12-year-old.
Whoever wrote the article summary is a fucking idiot. That quote is entirely out of context, and without the context it makes absolutely NO fucking sense.
For the benefit of Warhammer's PR campaign, here is the question from the interview that the quote was taken from:
Eurogamer: How are the Games Workshop fans responding to the game?
Paul Barnett: Pretty good actually. Warhammer's a bit like Batman. As long as you stay true to the spirit of Batman, then Batman fans don't mind if it's Lego or if it's a cartoon or if it's a film. If you go off-canon, if you show disrespect to the idea, they get a bit funny. We actually went out of our way to try and capture Warhammer as it should be in an MMO.
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Actually, yeah, more or less, at some level or another. Wouldn't it be better for the planet if you and all of your potential offspring just laid down and died?
No. You said "good luck buying" those things, in response to the OP's suggestion of a boycott.
If there was a successful boycott of chinese-made or foreign-made products, the issue would eventually correct itself.
Are astronauts really bold? Or are they meticulous, training for years for a single flight?
The point is that it's not good to rush, you might overlook details.
You obviously flunked statistics.
Firms will move to supply the increased demand for those things once the source is cut off. We have unemployment issues over here anyway.
It's not like we don't know how to make that stuff. We just built the factories elsewhere.
By my definition "prosperity" is no longer having to lift a finger.
PS But think about it, if we started communicating with chinese citizens via infrared SMS text messaging, we could send them things bypassing the "great firewall." Maybe things about the Falun Gong, or Chinese torture practices, or some nonsense about "freeing Tibet?" My hypothesis is that the gov't wants to make sure that no new "smartphone" like devices have messaging capabilities on new transmission mediums. Controlling the flow of information in and out of the country has always been a staple of communist governments.
Yeah, but it's rambling nonsense from a different angle than the OP's rambling nonsense, and I think he needed a wake-up call. You can't call an entire messageboard hypocritical like it's some fucking hive mind.
You've committed the common fallacy of supposing that there is some kind of "average" slashdot user, who represents every user, and believes every opinion that has ever been expressed on this message board. Obviously that can't be the case. Anybody like that would have to contradict every one of their own opinions.
On the actual issue, it's not a "good move" because they are probably doing this to control the populace; if they know the source code for the hardware on all consumer electronics, there's no way that people could find some way to communicate with the outside world on "unmonitored" channels, probably on a proprietary hardware network separate from the standard internet.
Keeping that source code out of chinese hands is imperative in empowering the chinese people to determine their own destiny. This isn't a software patents issue.
You should make it "an habit" not to confuse the issues. And stop assuming everybody here is a cookie-cutter version of everyone else.
Windows can be kept secure. You just can't be a luser.
And even a luser could fuck up his macintosh or linux box by running a malicious executable. Sometimes there's no cure for stupidity.
But "banning windows" is short-sighted, reactionary, and elitist.
I've always viewed software like a book and most people I know do the same. You don't patent a book - you publish it. And get rights that way. The software industry screwed the pooch big time trying to get its products treated like "inventions".
This is a stupid analogy. Yeah, you don't patent books, you copyright them. However you do patent a printing press.
Similarly, if you write something in Microsoft word, and you so desire, you copyright it. However MS Word itself ought to be patented, as it amounts to an electronic printing press.
Second, the law does not determine right and wrong. Just because some action is against the law doesn't make it wrong. This is especially true when the laws are so out of whack (as is copyright law) that a large part of the population breaks it on a regular basis (see Prohibition).
So "right" is defined by "whatever the majority does?"
You can try to call copyright law unjust, and draw weak analogies to totally different issues like drug prohibition, but what you're really doing is just putting lipstick on a pig.
no trouble playing 1920x1080 movies
There isn't a video card on the market today that can't play high-res movies. "Movies" are very, very basic tasks for a video output device.
In summary, tell us something about your video card that means something.
P.S. Now, if you said that your monitor had a native resolution of 1920x1080 or higher, I'd be impressed. Mine's native res is 1680x1050, and it's big. Real big.
I had the pleasure of recording a graduate-level CS class taught by Chris Gilmore at Portland State University on agile methodologies. A lot of what he said actually made a lot of sense. You should give agile an honest chance.
I learned the lesson. Management loves screwing employees. They get off on it the same we techies get off on learning and making things work. The techies have the real power and the managers know it. They love the fact that we won't use our power. If you want to be treated well by management you have to organize and be willing to shut the company down.
Stop making such sweeping generalizations. Didn't you learn something when the mean kids at school outgrouped you and called you nerd 'cause you were different from them?
Saying "managers do this" and "techies do that" is just gross stereotyping, and it's the sort of oversimplified outlooks that lead to things like bullying.
Yeah, but any college admissions official worth his mustard knows that we should stick it to the man, and fuck the police.
On a more serious note, screw those who can't respect somebody breaking an oppressive "morality law" that they disagree with. I don't want to go to their school and/or work for their company anyway.
And I spit on their shoes.
Perhaps you're just bitter because you're in oversupply.
That's pessimistic. Some managers actually credit their subordinates for their ideas.
It's commonly considered an oxymoron as an oft-repeated joke, but it isn't really accurate, it's rhetoric.
Nobody was trying to call it military wisdom or anything. War is one of the best funded "industries" around the world, and it's organizers are dedicated strategists. There's nothing unintelligent about them, regardless of your opinions on whether or not they're misguided.
So? Adobe runs on Macs and PCs, and I have personally loaded .mov's into Premiere on a work PC, which were ripped from a Mac in Final Cut. Sometimes because of some nitwit manager's decision, the preferred equipment isn't in place so people have to get by with what's available.
PCs are about being open, open & open, Macs are about being proprietary, proprietary & proprietary. If you want to pay for convenience, buy a Mac, but you will pay more for what you get and be less compatible with everything.
I second that. Not every idea that the Libertarian party has is on the up-and-up (abolishing the central bank, for example), but they also have many logical ones, like putting an end to the war on consensual acts between adults (drug sales, prostitution, etc.)
I think the metric for winning isn't who makes the last post; it's who looks like more of an idiot to the casual observer.
I'm not sure why you're laughing. Nothing you say is funny. It isn't even remotely clever. It's just a bunch of random "naughty" words strung together, punctuated by laughter.
You have the communication patterns of a 12-year-old.
Whoever wrote the article summary is a fucking idiot. That quote is entirely out of context, and without the context it makes absolutely NO fucking sense.
For the benefit of Warhammer's PR campaign, here is the question from the interview that the quote was taken from:
Eurogamer: How are the Games Workshop fans responding to the game?
Paul Barnett: Pretty good actually. Warhammer's a bit like Batman. As long as you stay true to the spirit of Batman, then Batman fans don't mind if it's Lego or if it's a cartoon or if it's a film. If you go off-canon, if you show disrespect to the idea, they get a bit funny. We actually went out of our way to try and capture Warhammer as it should be in an MMO.