Comment Re:The true burden (Score 1) 385
And again, an invalid metric. Having more money than someone else does not make you "better" than them.
And again, an invalid metric. Having more money than someone else does not make you "better" than them.
That's what happens when you rely on a vendor instead of a ratified standard. Can you imagine the uproar if older HDTV tuners suddenly stopped working with new broadcasts? People were upset enough that the old analogue signals were obsolesced!
I want OSS drivers, but what I pay for is hardware that works. I try AMD every few cards, and they still fail every time I try them, and so I gave up.
nVidia got into bed with Microsoft back in the original Xbox days and now the geforce line is inextricably encumbered by Microsoft. Allegedly their mobile (Tegra) line is freer.
I bet any company that was thinking of FOSSing their drivers took one look at AMDs sales (that went exact fuck nowhere) and said "lets not waste our time"...
If they based the whole decision on AMD then they deserve to make bad decisions. There's lots of OSS drivers in the kernel already, let alone supplied separately. AMD is just shit at drivers. Their windows drivers are also shit.
That being said, a world where taking things like adderall to compete in the employment world is not only accepted but possibly even expected scares the shit out of me.
Think Johnny Mnemnonic, if you can keep the image of the movie out of your head. The theme crops up again and again, it was mentioned in Hardwired for example.
This drug is two amphetamine salts mixed together.
Yeah, and table salt (NaCl) and cyanide (NaCN) are just two kinds of sodium salts. That doesn't mean they affect the body the same way, though!
Besides, dosage matters (a lot!), and the dosage of Adderall used medicinally is way, way lower than the typical recreational dosage of meth, according to Wikipedia.
1. Why have vaccines and autism rates both grown exponentially in the last 25 years? (no, detection does not come close to answering)
Changes to the definition and protocols for diagnosing it account for the rate changes just fine.
Bitcoin has no inherent worth. At least fiat currency, in physical form, can be burned for heat or used to clean-up after using the bathroom, or melted down and used for weights for fishing.
... and that's precisely why people turn to physical cash -- they never know when they will run out of toilet paper or kindling. No currency will ever be truly accepted unless/until it can also provide those vital services!
My main issue is he's too anti-government, and wants to cut into the Department of Education, and is way too "pro-life".
I find myself wondering how much of his "pro-life" schtick is genuine, and how much is pandering in hopes of winning the primary. This is one instance where I hope it's pandering.
he was offered a 6 month sentence if he would plead guilty.
Oh yes, that's how it works today in Amerika! "We don't give a shit what you did, but YOU MUST BE GUILTY." All you fascists get a sexual thrill from that all-important admission of guilt. You just love how, once somebody gets in your clutches, you can fuck up their entire life by disenfranchising them, disarming them, and eliminating the possibility of them ever getting a decent job. And it's "only a six month sentence." Six months, my ass!
Six months is just as unjust as a goddamn death sentence when you've DONE NOTHING WRONG!
He was charged with 35 years, so you don't know what he would have received. That's what the prosecutor wanted. A system which threatens minor crimes with draconian punishment needs to be reformed. As for you, I hope some cop shoots you.
You're a fucking moron. How does "access without authorization" warrant a 35 year sentence? Rapists and murderers get less than that. That's the whole problem here. Fuck you.
I'm sure you had the same level of skepticism towards an article published in Rolling Stone last fall.
Wrong, there's lots of sites where there's feature degradation for mobile users. Just because you think good design wouldn't have this problem doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, or that all mobile sites exhibit good design.
That's not what I call "release". That's move from one cage to another. Maybe a bigger cage, but it's still a cage. Not freedom.
They wouldn't survive in the wild, so leaving them in the wild wouldn't be freedom either, it would be a death sentence.
That doesn't mean that putting them in a humane environment isn't the right thing to do. Keeping an animal in a 4x4 wire cage for its entire life is cruel. The distinction you're trying to make (an abstract idea of "complete freedom") isn't relevant and would be meaningless to the chimp; what's relevant is the chimpanzee's quality of life.
As the other responder pointed out, there's still 50% of your users using PCs to view your site. In addition, a large fraction of those mobile users are using larger-screen devices like tablets, and might not want to see your crappy feature-limited mobile site, and want to see the normal one instead. Do you have an easy way for them to see the desktop site, or do you make it impossible?
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
