I'm sorry, you must've stopped reading. I think I remember writing after that "Unless it was trying to be an indictement of such behaviors..."
And there is nothing clever nor ironic about that movie. It's the cinema equivilant of Godwin's Law. And that is lost in that that is the sort of behavior that is celebrated throughout the movie.
What message? "Xenophobia is cool if you try to colonize an alien planet and the native inhabitants retaliate by killing your people." Or "Flashing tits and explosions at every opportunity make for good cinema."
Unless it was trying to be an indictment of such behavior/attitudes, in which it fails completely by pandering to wrong demographic.
Heinlen is shit for a writer. So much that I won't bother to see if I spelled his name correctly.
Might as well hate the original publisher as well, breaking the single novel into three. Because LOTR was meant to be one solid work, published in full as one novel, subdivided into 6 books or sections.
But I understand, you are more interested in spouting off your "knowledge" than contributing anything useful.
Fact: DVD is near the end of its life for a high quality movie format.
End of its life? Since when did distribution formats have a shelf life? Not to mention that DVD has been on the market for just over a decade. DVD only surpassed VHS in in sales in 1993. Closer to two decades of existence for VHS.
And look at CDs. 20+ years on the market and still hasn't been replaced. Why haven't you moved on over to SACD or DVD-Audio? They both offer higher quality and storage capacity for music.
I think the CD market is a prime example of what will happen to the DVD market. CDs and CD players have only recently begun to see serious competition in digital music players like the iPod and distribution systems like iTunes. Why?
Because they offer higher convenience at a quality level that people can live with. Something BD and HD-DVD don't.
At first I thought "Great, another FUD piece overblowing what are probably trivial issues." The I RTFA and saw that it was an honest report of errors given in a straightforward and clear manner. And like other posters have mention, none of them sound that life-threatening.
I'm sure some Microsofties are going to be spinning this wicked for the next couple of months however.
I was just alluding to the fact that Firefly may have been "too Western" (in multiple ways) for some people. Plus, I find people to be a lot more forgiving of "anime" in general. Especially the retards who equate anything Japan with quality. (Not saying anything against Cowboy Bebop, it is an excellent series with a very solid story laced throughout.)
To be fair, Cowboy Bebop was more of a Western/Sci Fi/Kung Fu. If Mal had learned some Shaolin style, Firefly would probably still be on the air.
In all seriousness though, I think that Cowboy Bebop wasn't as Western as Firefly. When I first started watching Firefly, my mind always drew comparisons with Trigun.
I said could be. Not everyone falls within a conveinient age bracket. At 19, you are not guaranteed to be a college sophomore. People begin later, get held back, etc. It is entirely plausible for someone to be 19 and still in high school. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut. I was only presenting a scenario that is likely, although illegal by the hard and fast rule of the law.
Gross Sexual Imposition against a minor could be nothing more than a 19 year old guy/girl trying to make it with a 15 year old guy/girl. And for those of you keeping score at home, that could be a high school senior trying to score with a sophmore. However, since one of these kids is above the age of consent, it is now in the realm of child molestation technically. Regardless if the 15 year old is willing or not. Just letting you know.
He doesn't need to because it's a well-known fact. When someone tells you it's a well-known fact it doesn't need to be checked, because everyone knows it. Duh.
Rape is illegal. So we don't even need sexual harassment laws about it. For the rest of them, the woman needs to make it clear that the behaviour is unwelcome and will not be tolerated. She may even mention it to management, who then reprimands the employee(s) and reminds them of the sexual harassment policy.
There's the core of the problem: both men and women think that men and women are different.
Here's a clue: They're not.
Honest. The minute I stopped caring about the difference between how men and women function was the minute I started having real friendships with women. We all know "tomboy" women and "effemite" men. Or people who skew in those general directions to different degrees. All told, if you took the whole and looked at it, you would probably find that you have a decent spread over all different archtypes for both genders.
Stop pretending like gender matters in a plutonic relationship.
I'm not sure how well Kate would work with cygwin. Kate is a text editor (with syntax highlighting) built using the KDE libs and distributed as part of KDE. But my exposure to Cygwin has been limited.
Yeah, I work both within and without Windows. And whenever I'm not programming for Windows, I favor Kate for my editor and a console window in Linux. It takes a while to learn where all the options are in VS, so little things like adding the sockets library becomes maddening to a beginner.
I tried to find your project on sourceforge, but searching didn't turn up anything. I did however manage to go over to your live space and read about the concept which seems interesting.
New Empty Project, FTW.
I've tried using the Project Types, and they all seem to add a bunch of crap that I don't need. I much rather start from scratch, building the foundation myself.
I call bullshit.
If it weren't for copyright, the GPL would be ineffectual. Microsoft would take all of the best bits without contributing back.
The GPL is not about "teh free stuff", it is about the ability to modify what is yours. Making all software free (as in beer) does not achieve the goal, because the goal is not to commodotize software.
When Windows goes open source, then the GPL's objective will be achieved (for Windows at least).
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Are you honestly trying to compare a Netflix queue to honest programming?
That merely proves the GP's point. I will again point to the study that basically says "the clueless have no idea" (http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.p df).
No, what the ESRB does (if anyone bothered to look at their rating process) is compile a tape of the absolute worst bits of the game for review. True, the panel that decides the rating does not actually play them, but they get to see the absolute worst the game has to offer without having to trudge through an hour of dicking around before you are finally allowed into a gun shop.
And you can see that it did work. losergeek.com is not violating anything. He downloaded it for personal use and then turned around and redistributed unaltered.
That is within his right, and looking at some of the other posts below, this scenario seems to be addressed on DanGuardian's site as well.
I think (at least some of) this is within allowance by the GPL. Basically he is saying, if you are a single user, you can use this free (as in beer) binary and I will provide you the source, however, you are not a single user or are planning on reselling, you may not use this free binary.
The GPL says (in a nutshell) that you must provide the source to those you provide the binary to, it does not say you cannot restrict who you provide the binary to. That is the right the GPL actually grants. The freedom to modify and redistribute.
He is explicitly denying distribution of the binary to commercial sources from his site. Of course, he is using the honor system to enforce his policy. Now if these home users distribute to corporations, that is within their right...
However...
Linking to the source at DansGuardian's site may not qualify for "providing the source", because technically that may no longer be the source used to compile the binary. The user would have to provide the source to the coporation. DansGuardian would in no way be responsible for it. If the user didn't provide it and DansGuardian packs up his site, the corporation has no call to demand the source from them (DansGuardian). Because DansGuardian didn't provide the binary and the binary was explicitly denied to them from the website, therefore DansGuardian has no obligation to provide the source to the company.
And if DansGuardian notices that a lot of "users" are actually corporations, he can remove the binary and source from his site entirely and distribute on a case by case basis.
This is within his right under the GPL. The GPL makes no provision on having to provide the binary to anyone, only that if you do, you must provide the source to recreate the work under the GPL.
I believe this is called "dual licensing" and if he is the sole creator of Dansguardian, then it is perfectly acceptable under the terms of GPL.
The GPL was never meant to prevent software developers from earning money, it was meant to prevent the concealment of knowledge. That's why the FSF (and notably RMS) promotes "Free as in free speech, not as in free beer".
Actually in terms of video games, that $10 is still $10 no matter when he spends it. The game is $50 now, it is $50 then. That is 0% inflation. Inflation is only relative to cost of goods. This is the first generation in a while where we have seen inflation in the costs of goods. Usually, the video game market deflates, making purchasing video games during the early part of the life cycle retarded since the price will go down eventually.
But that is the definition of a luxury item: retarded purchase.
And nothing can make money you didn't spend worth more. Holding on to $10 for a year, doesn't allow you to buy $12 worth of stuff later. No, you can buy $10 worth of stuff. Now if that stuff costs more now than before, then your purchasing power has just decreased. It would've been wiser to buy that stuff then, when $10 would've gotten you more. But if that stuff costs less now, then waiting was a wise move, because his $10 can be used to buy more.
Inflation isn't an overall thing, you can calculate the aggregrate to note the trend, but it still comes down to relativity.
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I'm sorry, you must've stopped reading. I think I remember writing after that "Unless it was trying to be an indictement of such behaviors..."
And there is nothing clever nor ironic about that movie. It's the cinema equivilant of Godwin's Law. And that is lost in that that is the sort of behavior that is celebrated throughout the movie.
Why? To ensure his birth.
What message? "Xenophobia is cool if you try to colonize an alien planet and the native inhabitants retaliate by killing your people." Or "Flashing tits and explosions at every opportunity make for good cinema."
Unless it was trying to be an indictment of such behavior/attitudes, in which it fails completely by pandering to wrong demographic.
Heinlen is shit for a writer. So much that I won't bother to see if I spelled his name correctly.
Might as well hate the original publisher as well, breaking the single novel into three.
Because LOTR was meant to be one solid work, published in full as one novel, subdivided into 6 books or sections.
But I understand, you are more interested in spouting off your "knowledge" than contributing anything useful.
End of its life? Since when did distribution formats have a shelf life? Not to mention that DVD has been on the market for just over a decade. DVD only surpassed VHS in in sales in 1993. Closer to two decades of existence for VHS.
And look at CDs. 20+ years on the market and still hasn't been replaced. Why haven't you moved on over to SACD or DVD-Audio? They both offer higher quality and storage capacity for music.
I think the CD market is a prime example of what will happen to the DVD market. CDs and CD players have only recently begun to see serious competition in digital music players like the iPod and distribution systems like iTunes. Why?
Because they offer higher convenience at a quality level that people can live with. Something BD and HD-DVD don't.
At first I thought "Great, another FUD piece overblowing what are probably trivial issues."
The I RTFA and saw that it was an honest report of errors given in a straightforward and clear manner.
And like other posters have mention, none of them sound that life-threatening.
I'm sure some Microsofties are going to be spinning this wicked for the next couple of months however.
I was just alluding to the fact that Firefly may have been "too Western" (in multiple ways) for some people. Plus, I find people to be a lot more forgiving of "anime" in general. Especially the retards who equate anything Japan with quality. (Not saying anything against Cowboy Bebop, it is an excellent series with a very solid story laced throughout.)
To be fair, Cowboy Bebop was more of a Western/Sci Fi/Kung Fu. If Mal had learned some Shaolin style, Firefly would probably still be on the air.
In all seriousness though, I think that Cowboy Bebop wasn't as Western as Firefly. When I first started watching Firefly, my mind always drew comparisons with Trigun.
I said could be.
Not everyone falls within a conveinient age bracket. At 19, you are not guaranteed to be a college sophomore. People begin later, get held back, etc. It is entirely plausible for someone to be 19 and still in high school. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut.
I was only presenting a scenario that is likely, although illegal by the hard and fast rule of the law.
Gross Sexual Imposition against a minor could be nothing more than a 19 year old guy/girl trying to make it with a 15 year old guy/girl.
And for those of you keeping score at home, that could be a high school senior trying to score with a sophmore. However, since one of these kids is above the age of consent, it is now in the realm of child molestation technically. Regardless if the 15 year old is willing or not.
Just letting you know.
He doesn't need to because it's a well-known fact.
When someone tells you it's a well-known fact it doesn't need to be checked, because everyone knows it. Duh.
Rape is illegal. So we don't even need sexual harassment laws about it.
For the rest of them, the woman needs to make it clear that the behaviour is unwelcome and will not be tolerated. She may even mention it to management, who then reprimands the employee(s) and reminds them of the sexual harassment policy.
There's the core of the problem: both men and women think that men and women are different.
Here's a clue: They're not.
Honest. The minute I stopped caring about the difference between how men and women function was the minute I started having real friendships with women. We all know "tomboy" women and "effemite" men. Or people who skew in those general directions to different degrees. All told, if you took the whole and looked at it, you would probably find that you have a decent spread over all different archtypes for both genders.
Stop pretending like gender matters in a plutonic relationship.
I have no problem with friends. :D
I'm not sure how well Kate would work with cygwin. Kate is a text editor (with syntax highlighting) built using the KDE libs and distributed as part of KDE. But my exposure to Cygwin has been limited.
Yeah, I work both within and without Windows. And whenever I'm not programming for Windows, I favor Kate for my editor and a console window in Linux. It takes a while to learn where all the options are in VS, so little things like adding the sockets library becomes maddening to a beginner.
I tried to find your project on sourceforge, but searching didn't turn up anything. I did however manage to go over to your live space and read about the concept which seems interesting.
New Empty Project, FTW. I've tried using the Project Types, and they all seem to add a bunch of crap that I don't need. I much rather start from scratch, building the foundation myself.
I call bullshit. If it weren't for copyright, the GPL would be ineffectual. Microsoft would take all of the best bits without contributing back. The GPL is not about "teh free stuff", it is about the ability to modify what is yours. Making all software free (as in beer) does not achieve the goal, because the goal is not to commodotize software. When Windows goes open source, then the GPL's objective will be achieved (for Windows at least).
Are you honestly trying to compare a Netflix queue to honest programming? That merely proves the GP's point. I will again point to the study that basically says "the clueless have no idea" (http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.p df).
No, what the ESRB does (if anyone bothered to look at their rating process) is compile a tape of the absolute worst bits of the game for review. True, the panel that decides the rating does not actually play them, but they get to see the absolute worst the game has to offer without having to trudge through an hour of dicking around before you are finally allowed into a gun shop.
And you can see that it did work. losergeek.com is not violating anything. He downloaded it for personal use and then turned around and redistributed unaltered. That is within his right, and looking at some of the other posts below, this scenario seems to be addressed on DanGuardian's site as well.
I think (at least some of) this is within allowance by the GPL. Basically he is saying, if you are a single user, you can use this free (as in beer) binary and I will provide you the source, however, you are not a single user or are planning on reselling, you may not use this free binary. The GPL says (in a nutshell) that you must provide the source to those you provide the binary to, it does not say you cannot restrict who you provide the binary to. That is the right the GPL actually grants. The freedom to modify and redistribute. He is explicitly denying distribution of the binary to commercial sources from his site. Of course, he is using the honor system to enforce his policy. Now if these home users distribute to corporations, that is within their right... However... Linking to the source at DansGuardian's site may not qualify for "providing the source", because technically that may no longer be the source used to compile the binary. The user would have to provide the source to the coporation. DansGuardian would in no way be responsible for it. If the user didn't provide it and DansGuardian packs up his site, the corporation has no call to demand the source from them (DansGuardian). Because DansGuardian didn't provide the binary and the binary was explicitly denied to them from the website, therefore DansGuardian has no obligation to provide the source to the company. And if DansGuardian notices that a lot of "users" are actually corporations, he can remove the binary and source from his site entirely and distribute on a case by case basis. This is within his right under the GPL. The GPL makes no provision on having to provide the binary to anyone, only that if you do, you must provide the source to recreate the work under the GPL.
or "sudo pico /etc/shadow"
And blank out the root account's password, enabling the account.
I believe this is called "dual licensing" and if he is the sole creator of Dansguardian, then it is perfectly acceptable under the terms of GPL. The GPL was never meant to prevent software developers from earning money, it was meant to prevent the concealment of knowledge. That's why the FSF (and notably RMS) promotes "Free as in free speech, not as in free beer".
Actually in terms of video games, that $10 is still $10 no matter when he spends it. The game is $50 now, it is $50 then. That is 0% inflation. Inflation is only relative to cost of goods. This is the first generation in a while where we have seen inflation in the costs of goods. Usually, the video game market deflates, making purchasing video games during the early part of the life cycle retarded since the price will go down eventually. But that is the definition of a luxury item: retarded purchase. And nothing can make money you didn't spend worth more. Holding on to $10 for a year, doesn't allow you to buy $12 worth of stuff later. No, you can buy $10 worth of stuff. Now if that stuff costs more now than before, then your purchasing power has just decreased. It would've been wiser to buy that stuff then, when $10 would've gotten you more. But if that stuff costs less now, then waiting was a wise move, because his $10 can be used to buy more. Inflation isn't an overall thing, you can calculate the aggregrate to note the trend, but it still comes down to relativity.