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Comment Re:How soon? (Score 1) 153

And now on a serious note, what's all that about comparing stealing a car and shoplifting to piracy at the beginning of pretty much every movie you buy on DVD/Blu-Ray? Clearly they're not the same thing so why are copyright holders trying to obfuscate the issue and guilt the public into doing what they want?

Comment Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... (Score 1) 268

If the copyright terms enforced the copyrights for a reasonable period of time (for instance 5-10 years maximum) and it was a level playing field, a lot of the objections would go away. As it is, copyright terms are not granted for reasonable periods of time (for all intents and purposes, we have perpetual copyrights) and the behemoths making the most noise about copyright infringement don't care about smaller parties' copyrights (violating copyrights, issuing blanket DMCA takedowns). It is not surprising that most people don't care about what the behemoths have to say and what their position on copyright related issues happens to be.

Comment Re:Joyent unfit to lead them? (Score 1) 254

The use of 'them' and 'they' as ungendered singular pronouns goes back centuries and using gendered pronouns when you are addressing a cross-gender audience is just plain wrong. Also, instead of 'he', 'you' could've been used and to top it off, the sentence could've easily been structured to not contain any pronouns.

Try reading some books some time, English has many nuances that your kindergarten teacher never taught you and thinking of what you were taught as unbreakable rules is, imho, naive.

Comment Re:Joyent unfit to lead them? (Score 1) 254

their logic is that if you use any gender specific pronouns you are, by default, misogynistic?

It's one thing to accidentally use gendered pronouns in documentation but resisting when someone else tries to fix the documentation (Alex) and trying to roll back the change when someone else (Isaac) accepts it, makes the person throwing a tantrum (Ben) either a dumb prat or a sexist, take your pick. Either way, the person in question is not an asset I'd want on my project team.

Also, if you think this was an issue where Joyent were in the wrong and going against community wishes, have a look at the comments on the github merge request, the overwhelming majority of people want the merge request to be accepted, so who exactly wasn't listening to the community? Hint: it wasn't Joyent...

Comment Re: "Ultimately, our users will decide" (Score 2) 239

The categories are automatically created, you don't have to create them manually and the emails are supposed to get sorted into their respective categories automatically without the need for creating a filter. Maybe a bit like what Google did with tabbed inbox but with a different interface that some people might like better

Comment Re:"Ultimately, our users will decide" (Score 5, Informative) 239

Inbox works with your Gmail address (along with whatever other addresses you've added on using imap or pop). It is basically a different way of consuming the same content (ie the email that ends up in your standard Gmail Inbox) and tries to automatically sort the email into categories such as Misc., Forums, Purchases, Bills etc while not assigning a different label to them. Inbox adds the ability to snooze emails (so you get a notification to do something about them at a later time) along with the ability to create sticky emails which show up in a separate folder (for a lack of a better term) that is easily accessible. I haven't had a chance to play with it properly as I only finally got the invite a couple hours ago but I kinda like the premise and if the categorizing algorithms are any good, it might actually be fairly useful (obviously that's my take on it, other people have their own preferences/needs).

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