we live in a world where roughly 9 out of 10 people are completely ignorant and fearful of change. People are murdered, wars are fought, logical morality is bent all in the name of religion, or ignorance, or oftentimes merely due to it being passed down in a family. For the longest times people have and always will be violently opposed to change in all forms.
Openness is just like the antithesis of such a concept. It takes a lot for people to be willing to change and the only way it can be done is time, and with the help of others. Thus, it's more a philosophical thing than it appears , Mike.
Take away groupthink, the kind of brainwashing that scientology and other hate groups bring, and you would break that reluctance to openness. However, even modern psychology doesn't have a way to break cult-think. It just takes time for people to use the logic and question what they are doing...many people never occur/bother to ask.
Hmm, I find it incredibly stupid when they make a point to show the whole "your opinions are yours, not of so and so company" but then again, we have the legal issues if people don't do such. I seem to recall it's taken as official advice or something if it's not said right? However, making a guest post on a blog about it I do find pretty stupid overall. My workplace will not ever be posting an entry on my blog as guest or otherwise saying that my opinions are my own, and that includes if I post about my own workplace.
On the flip side, my workplace asks that we do the same when we post. I just don't do it because I don't make reference to things at my work. (nobody knows where I work based off this post, for example). If I do reference my work for advice or something, then I do disclaimer it similar to how the "guest poster" did as well. Not that I want to, but maybe Mike can dig up where that liability comes from again?
However, it doesn't seem like a reprimand, just stupidly stating the obvious. Boo on american progress all the same.
note that there are ways to make your facebook profile essentially invisible to anyone not a friend to your account, too.
Thus, this could be a huge stretch when you can't even confirm the right person.
Example: there are 3 people with my exact same first and last name on facebook, and we all live within ~50-60 miles from eachother. No, it's not smith. None of us use our middle names, and all of us are not related in any fashion. How would someone ensure that the proper one of us is served?
I hear ya Mike. The answer to the title question though is this:
People are lazy and don't like to have to work hard, and are afraid of change. They want to make just enough to make a cushy lifestyle and tell the world to go f themselves. Combine these and you make luddites, which are also usually known as Management.
Then, we have the people on the other end, who work hard but aren't recognized for their effort or are in jobs that totally don't match their skills.
Combine the two and you have: companies that can't handle competition and would rather litigate. since they have a luddite lawyer on the corporate salary for cheap. Oh, and what's between all of these? Your run of the mill sheep employee who has no idea.
It's not about speed, you dolt.
It's about realistic performance. This is why the smart folks don't use intel, the smart folks don't use vista, etc. However, some do get frauded by a fraud ad like apple's.
Lets use your example. If they said its way faster than an HTC, nobody would have said squat. In fact, it'd probably have been a more effective advertisement.
If you claim your car can go up to 200 miles per hour when the real max speed is around 120 and don't mention that the "max" is on a downhill, well gee, maybe it can only go as fast as it will go (which might be, say considerably less).
Essentially even if your Iphone was on a LAN your performance would not match what they did in a commercial. For this occurrence, someone managed to make the complaints about fraudulent advertising known. It's not unlike those McDonalds commercials that use plastic glazed sandwiches to look "amazing" are the same as the real ones, just nobody has been as successful at putting them to the same standard of honesty.
Axxo just happens to do a good job. Specifically his stuff is verified on piratebay and other sites. There are others in that same category, just look for the people with skulls on TPB (I think Loder is one too). They put in effort to have good cracks/rips/shares/whatever, so yes, we all recognize that. Also, people put in more effort to seed those shares, as well. I support and seed AXXO rips whenever I can.
As an interesting counterpoint could someone claim that if the government does take this trademark that it would required for the trademark to then become public domain as all government property technically is?
so if you have nothing to hide from the gov't, what are you hiding from us? How about you identify exactly who you are, maybe give us all your forms of identification. You can trust us, right Shilly McShill?
I've had the fortune of beta testing for them and can assure you that they were a great company but have let the lawyers get in charge....the NDA was so obtrusive it was nuts.
have you seen multichannel? they're out of touch with reality too
The site linked in the techdirt article has some kind of dinosaur-era antispam. try to post a comment that is 100% pc and you'll get a message saying "We're sorry, but we do not allow comments that contain HTML code, expletives, and certain terms common in spam. Please try editing your comment."
Really, comments that contain terms common in spam? Does that mean the entire english vocabulary? I'd send them a message but who knows, I'm sure the people at multichannel don't listen to their viewers anyway.
interesting; I am in the reverse scenario: I want ATI for desktop, Nvidia for mobile. This makes it sound like your point is valid, however, it is not.
Its not a personal experience at all. What generation of card you and I used, and driver support for that generation and what games came out and what processor you used with the graphics card all come into play whether one card or the other was a better experience. There are sites that do performance testing and they will show you which card does better in what scenarios, etc. Personal opinion is when I say something like "I think ATI cards are better in the long run", not "we had a better experience" because most people don't even know what constitutes a better experience when it comes to graphics cards and how they impact your system.
How the cards truly tend to differ is like this: Nvidia's cards do better under low performance strain, ATI's perform about the same across all performance strain; thus allowing ATI to do better at high resolution and Nvidia to do better at low resolution. That is, of course, until recently with the 4800 series where ATI crushes both ends.
I'd love to see the situation go to 5 years for copyright. Watch as all the old musicians squirm that they can't come up with new stuff, and all the new ones who are creative do just fine/improve/change their act!
I don't check my email a ton either. I run firefox/noscript/adblock for normal browsing, and don't check my gmail accounts often. However, I get notifications on the important accounts when they actually get email so of course I have no reason to check them at all other than notifications.
Some people at my work check their mail religiously even at the slightest notification for mail. Eh, I say.
If they totally blocked 100%, everyone would know and the cat would be out the bag.
Instead, they blocked certain things at the behest of music industries and other "bigtime whiners" (large corps, etc)
They wouldn't block bittorrent download, they'd block upload. You'd not be able to share with anyone, which is the premise behind bitorrent. Also they'd block VOIP for everyone except their own, which raises anticompetitive issues.
This isn't a legitimate anything, but they had said that it was to "make their networks better" but studies have shown that P2P hardly takes up much of the bandwidth, so it was an excuse.
Put all this together, and think of how this would sound.
I don't even give it 48 hours before the entertainment industry takes advantage of this. Stating that he is shocked,appalled etc that this could be taken the wrong way (per the register). Really, "interested in the protection and promotion of lawful content". Since when is disabled or emergency services ever placed into the question of "lawful" or not? Suddenly disabled access has to be lawful? This is if the register's quote here is taken as verbatim. I wouldn't even believe that phrase relating to disabled or emergency under any circumstance. If it does, that would also mean it applies to military as military is usually deemed "lawful".
The man referenced, Malcolm Harbour, has some semi-questionable ties to MS at least per the wikipedia and his extreme software patent support (again supposedly wikipedia). I don't know what I think of the guy who tried to call it off as trying to help disabled, but I don't see that wording at all.
as a Dem, I'm embarassed with Pelosi. She has to be one of the worst dems we have in office right now. Where are the dems who don't give in to "lobbying for the children!!!" and such?
Not that republicans have done any better, but Pelosi is a fine example of the kind of politician we don't want.
Honestly, anyone who calls it stealing clearly either
a: never researched the issue
or b: has ties to a music or movie industry
or c: ignorant and unfamiliar with fact
I got this (obviously canned message) as a "correspondence" from my senator Dick Durbin, but this part here does sum up his stance on it:
"I oppose retroactive immunity for these companies and supported an amendment to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (S. 2248) that would have prevented them from obtaining retroactive immunity. This amendment, however, was unsuccessful. After the amendment failed, I voted against the bill, but it passed by a vote of 68-29."
I'm salaried and even when I was hourly (temp) at the same location I still occasionally posted to techdirt. So what?
It's been proven before that people's minds wander sometimes and you need to step out for a minute to regain full productivity. If a company is nitpicking this far then they have way more problems than nickle and dime-ing their employees.
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the world
Openness is just like the antithesis of such a concept. It takes a lot for people to be willing to change and the only way it can be done is time, and with the help of others. Thus, it's more a philosophical thing than it appears , Mike.
Take away groupthink, the kind of brainwashing that scientology and other hate groups bring, and you would break that reluctance to openness. However, even modern psychology doesn't have a way to break cult-think. It just takes time for people to use the logic and question what they are doing...many people never occur/bother to ask.
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not quite reprimand...
On the flip side, my workplace asks that we do the same when we post. I just don't do it because I don't make reference to things at my work. (nobody knows where I work based off this post, for example). If I do reference my work for advice or something, then I do disclaimer it similar to how the "guest poster" did as well. Not that I want to, but maybe Mike can dig up where that liability comes from again?
However, it doesn't seem like a reprimand, just stupidly stating the obvious. Boo on american progress all the same.
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smart vs stupid
Thus, this could be a huge stretch when you can't even confirm the right person.
Example: there are 3 people with my exact same first and last name on facebook, and we all live within ~50-60 miles from eachother. No, it's not smith. None of us use our middle names, and all of us are not related in any fashion. How would someone ensure that the proper one of us is served?
On the post: What's Wrong With Competition?
yep
People are lazy and don't like to have to work hard, and are afraid of change. They want to make just enough to make a cushy lifestyle and tell the world to go f themselves. Combine these and you make luddites, which are also usually known as Management.
Then, we have the people on the other end, who work hard but aren't recognized for their effort or are in jobs that totally don't match their skills.
Combine the two and you have: companies that can't handle competition and would rather litigate. since they have a luddite lawyer on the corporate salary for cheap. Oh, and what's between all of these? Your run of the mill sheep employee who has no idea.
Repeat ad nauseum.
On the post: Apple Smacked Down For Calling iPhone 3G "Really Fast"
Re: How is a relativistic claim a problem?
It's about realistic performance. This is why the smart folks don't use intel, the smart folks don't use vista, etc. However, some do get frauded by a fraud ad like apple's.
Lets use your example. If they said its way faster than an HTC, nobody would have said squat. In fact, it'd probably have been a more effective advertisement.
If you claim your car can go up to 200 miles per hour when the real max speed is around 120 and don't mention that the "max" is on a downhill, well gee, maybe it can only go as fast as it will go (which might be, say considerably less).
Essentially even if your Iphone was on a LAN your performance would not match what they did in a commercial. For this occurrence, someone managed to make the complaints about fraudulent advertising known. It's not unlike those McDonalds commercials that use plastic glazed sandwiches to look "amazing" are the same as the real ones, just nobody has been as successful at putting them to the same standard of honesty.
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nothing special
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counterpoint?
/just a stretch
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after all
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may they meet the fate of the RIAA
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this isn't the firs ttime bliz has done this
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have you seen multichannel? they're out of touch with reality too
Really, comments that contain terms common in spam? Does that mean the entire english vocabulary? I'd send them a message but who knows, I'm sure the people at multichannel don't listen to their viewers anyway.
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Re: Re: FYI
Its not a personal experience at all. What generation of card you and I used, and driver support for that generation and what games came out and what processor you used with the graphics card all come into play whether one card or the other was a better experience. There are sites that do performance testing and they will show you which card does better in what scenarios, etc. Personal opinion is when I say something like "I think ATI cards are better in the long run", not "we had a better experience" because most people don't even know what constitutes a better experience when it comes to graphics cards and how they impact your system.
How the cards truly tend to differ is like this: Nvidia's cards do better under low performance strain, ATI's perform about the same across all performance strain; thus allowing ATI to do better at high resolution and Nvidia to do better at low resolution. That is, of course, until recently with the 4800 series where ATI crushes both ends.
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I'd love to see the reverse
What an idea!
/facepalm
On the post: Internet Pros Check Email Less Often
agreed
Some people at my work check their mail religiously even at the slightest notification for mail. Eh, I say.
On the post: Kevin Martin Tries To Thread The Needle In Sanctioning Comcast
Re: Get what you pay for - you should
If they totally blocked 100%, everyone would know and the cat would be out the bag.
Instead, they blocked certain things at the behest of music industries and other "bigtime whiners" (large corps, etc)
They wouldn't block bittorrent download, they'd block upload. You'd not be able to share with anyone, which is the premise behind bitorrent. Also they'd block VOIP for everyone except their own, which raises anticompetitive issues.
This isn't a legitimate anything, but they had said that it was to "make their networks better" but studies have shown that P2P hardly takes up much of the bandwidth, so it was an excuse.
Put all this together, and think of how this would sound.
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not the intention= intentional oversight
The man referenced, Malcolm Harbour, has some semi-questionable ties to MS at least per the wikipedia and his extreme software patent support (again supposedly wikipedia). I don't know what I think of the guy who tried to call it off as trying to help disabled, but I don't see that wording at all.
Smells like doublespeak.
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Pelosi
Not that republicans have done any better, but Pelosi is a fine example of the kind of politician we don't want.
On the post: Prince Sues Musicians For Making A Tribute Album For His Birthday
don't burn yourself up on this tofu
a: never researched the issue
or b: has ties to a music or movie industry
or c: ignorant and unfamiliar with fact
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at least some are willing to make a stance
"I oppose retroactive immunity for these companies and supported an amendment to the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (S. 2248) that would have prevented them from obtaining retroactive immunity. This amendment, however, was unsuccessful. After the amendment failed, I voted against the bill, but it passed by a vote of 68-29."
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no point in this argument
It's been proven before that people's minds wander sometimes and you need to step out for a minute to regain full productivity. If a company is nitpicking this far then they have way more problems than nickle and dime-ing their employees.
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