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And thus, the difference between data and synthesis was illustrated.

And thus, the difference between data and synthesis was illustrated.

No, it is clearly a better distribution system in terms of efficiency, cost, and convenience. (For example, see Eban Moglen's discussion of the topic.)

If the market is willing to pay what the seller's asking, then that's the price.

1. Have you never heard of a monopoly?
2. If a company (or group of companies) jacks up the price because people will pay it, that is by definition over-inflated.
3. The price would be a lot cheaper if they fixed the business model and using modern technology. Right now, the recording industry benefits most by overspending. It makes money on both ends: performing recording services, and selling the recordings. Because of their monopoly on the sales, they benefit most by being inefficient in the recording services.

No, it is clearly a better distribution system in terms of efficiency, cost, and convenience. (For example, see Eban Moglen's discussion of the topic.)

If the market is willing to pay what the seller's asking, then that's the price.

1. Have you never heard of a monopoly?
2. If a company (or group of companies) jacks up the price because people will pay it, that is by definition over-inflated.
3. The price would be a lot cheaper if they fixed the business model and using modern technology. Right now, the recording industry benefits most by overspending. It makes money on both ends: performing recording services, and selling the recordings. Because of their monopoly on the sales, they benefit most by being inefficient in the recording services.

um, inpspirator? i think you meant to inspiration.

Also, we (the US) were NEVER a democracy. There has never been a stable democracy on the face of the earth that was able to sustain growth and self-regulate (at least of any meaningful size (country-sized, that is)).

I am so glad that's not true otherwise the world would have more of this this and finally the ultimate hypocrisy the death penalty what's the point in saying to a murder killing is wrong so were going to kill you, all that happens there is some psycho get idea that killing someone is OK because the state does it.

We're the post-9/11 United States and, unlike every other government in history, we are infinitely good and infinitely righteous: every country, every nation, can trust us to treat those of its citizens who have offended our lobbyists sponsors wonderfully.

Oop's I should have re-read your posting before I typed the above stuff oh well I've done it now. That was an excellent and subtle piece of satire well done it got me going at first.

catheter, n. a hollow flexible tube for insertion into a body cavity, duct, or vessel to allow the passage of fluids or distend a passageway. Uses include the drainage of urine from the bladder through the urethra or insertion through a blood vessel into the heart for diagnostic purposes.

For further meanings, see here.

Australia stopped being fair years ago. Now, thanks to John Howard, we are America's bitch. Huzzah!

It would be more correct to say that Australia and the USA are bitches for the same people.

Consider the frequently-resurrected drive to "become a republic". Repeatedly, the Ausralian public has said "No!" Yet the question still gets raised again and again. Why?

Now look closer at that whole "become a republic" idea:

A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

By that definition, we are a republic (and thanks to Paul "get a job"/"pig farmer" Keating and a thousand other nest-lining empire builders, pretty much a banana republic). The only practical delta from a pure republic is a safety valve called "the Governer General". So what's the fuss all about? Somebody wants to take a safety valve out of our government, and it sure ain't the Australian people.

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google is a modification of the word googol

but pronounced virtually identically, so really its the other way round and it was already in use (since at least 1938) before google discovered its branding potential

but I'm sure some GPL zealots might.

What is wrong with being fanatically committed to the GPL and its principles? Seriously, it is all too easy to suggest that somebody who makes a stand is an extremist, when you yourself declare no standards and bend with the wind.

Maximum applicability is pretty vague. I'm guessing you mean that individuals, groups or for-profit organisations ought to use whatever licensing terms are most applicable... but to what end? Do you value the quantity of software, the technical quality, the economic/technical/social accessibility of software, the freedom of the user in relation to software, or perhaps something else?

You see, I'm what you might call a GPL zealot, and I'm of the opinion that as a technical tool with important social and political dimensions, the applicability of software stands in relation to its benefits to society. The GPL is a matter of pragmatism in that sense, but you're sticking to the narrow conception of value that I'm guessing is native to your culture, and labelling anyone who disagrees as a zealot. Isn't that just being irrationally and fanatically committed to a set of values without justification?

I think you mean "mute". Moot isn't a word.

Went to a california public school, did you? Do you sometimes bang on the wrong side of the keyboard? I suspect your alleged intelligence is somewhat moot.

The US government was never intended to be a democracy. The founding fathers abhorred democracy equating it with "mob rule". Of course they didn't like Tyranny ether, obviously, or there would have been no revolution against England.

The US government is a REPUBLIC, meaning that, instead of having authority given directly to the public, authority is given to a select few, who in turn run the government.

In that way the American government is more modeled after Rome than it is Greece. But still, the constitution divides power between three branches of government, and with the separation of powers implied in the constitution, this allows for a sufficient security against one major voice rising up to silence the others.

A little OT I think it is funny how Republicans are crying that the courts are acting out of line, in regards to homosexual marriage when, in reality, the courts are just doing its job.

I also find it hilarious, and also striking that people dismay the courts because they are "un elected". IMO, that is the great strength of the courts and ESSIENTIAL to the balance of powers in the federal government. We need some branch of the government that is separated somewhat from the consent political, partisan bickering that the other two branches engage in daily.

You got that from here right?

Those are symptoms of Choline deficiency !!! In other words, those are the bad things that could happen when you don't get enough Choline

ahem, "voila" comes from French, mademoiselle.

Money and Microsoft is irrelevant to whether the M$ version of HTML is superior - it's relevant only to my abbreviation of "M$". I never claimed any other relevance. Similarly, I have been harping on the superiority of the HTML standard in terms of consensus of implementation, among its other technically superior features. Not claiming that it's better just because it's standard: that's your straw man argument, that I have never promoted. Nor have I attributed "altruism" to any W3C committee: its members reach consensus out of self-interest, which is driven by interoperability in the face of M$ subversion of the platform. The M$ de facto standard is a problem, not a solution. Just note the topic of the story to which this entire thread is attached: how to make IE behave so the Web works, for users and professional content developers.

Your straw man technique is irritating, so there's some emotion involved. But I have not resorted to anything but clear reason in my propositions. While I note that you are the only one sinking to ad hominem attacks, calling me "pedantic", "petty", "blind", "emotional", "frothing with hatred" - all while framing nonsense as if it were my argument. Just to stamp your empty rhetoric for what it is, here's the definition of "pedantic":

Synonyms: pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic
These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects

It's not irony that your clinging to the trivially appropriate definition of "standard" that includes "de facto" has become tiring. Your desire to frame my rational and practical defense of HTML standards in spite of M$ dilution of them as "circular", isn't ironic, either, it's a projection of your own rhetoric's flaws onto my reason, in the absence of any real argument. Good luck with that.

I never said who the quote was from, so how do you know it was fabricated?

Because fabricated means made or created and the quote must have been made or created by somebody.

We have Gnome because Trolltech refused to release QT under a free license in the early years.

The prevalence of KDE at that time showed us that a large proportion of the F/OSS community would cave to non-free software if it was convenient.

Until recently a mutually beneficial relationship existed between Gnome in the community and Ximian as a commercial provider, analogous to the relationship that exists between OpenOffice.org and Sun's Star Office.

Now that Novell owns Ximian (OK Novell are currently our friend, but that may not always be the case) and Miguel is exposing the community to litigation from Micro-Soft down the track through the introduction of non-free technologies (and procedures, methods, etc. which are likely to be covered by upcoming patent laws) the GNOME project needs to distance itself from the disruption that the Ximian guys represent in order to avoid contamination.

Miguel has a solid reputation and has done a lot for the community, but in this case he is either (best case) a fool for thinking that Micro-Soft can be trusted or (worst case) a quisling. Either way, it's barge pole time.

Practise is valid English, if you use British (AKA non-US) English spellings.

He may be right, but CmdrTaco is wrong.

What the fuck is a "Challange"?
Challange

Oh, it's a misspelling in the HEADLINE.

Pathetic.

Yes, you actually do need to say something else. You are making an Ad Hominem argument.

I believe in freedom, I don't particularly like big corporations limiting my choices, but when it comes to making a hardware or a software decision at work, I go for the best tool for the job. I want the best routers? Most likely, I am buying a Cisco. If Microsoft made the most effective server software, I would pay for it and use it.

This hearkens back to the Bitkeeper argument over source control and the linux kernal. In your house, what you play with isn't all that important. In business, you have to make decisions based on the quality of the tool, not necessarily the intentions of the people who created it.

1. boxen is not a word idiot

boxen See the second definition.

Ah, but the word spade is sometimes used to reference a sword, which is what one often sticks into tentacle monsters.

Unless, of course, you are in Japanese hentai, in which case the tentacle monster is sticking stuff into you.

Oh, and for those who don't get this or the parent: ..."

Isn't the definition of "Monopoly" the absence of competition? As in "no one provides X but me"?

Oh wait, it is!

You mean, An American Keiretsu

Yeah, I've always wondered about that.

In a sense, it's like double jeopardy, with the exception that masses are presumed guilty from the beginning, therefore taxed accordingly.

I believe in Canada, you can't be busted by CRIA (their own brand of RIAA), since you've already paid levy on blank media. And it only applies to downloaders. Users who serve IP are fair game.

Any Canadians who are willing to shed some light on this?

What you mean is chaos, not anarchy.

The two are not always equal.

Daniel

What you mean is chaos, not anarchy.

The two are not always equal.

Daniel

Dear Grammer Nazi,

The plural of 'spectrum' is either 'spectra' or 'spectrums.'
Also, punctuation is correctly placed inside a quote.
You're welcome.

I beleive that is a play upon this.

I've been defenestrated by XP several times today, and I'm still here ;-)

Hm.

genius, n.
[...]
A person who has an exceptionally high intelligence quotient, typically above 140.

amongst other meanings -- and don't get me started on quoting the OED ;-)

There is no one true way.

I floccinaucinihilipilificate your statement.

post humorously you mean..

not quite

The fugitive is on the loose. Don't lose your keys.

Thank you for towing the line, keeping your site "unmonetized", your tireless work, your insight and frankly wonderful genius!

I just have to cheer- that letter is full of soul-satisfying smackdown. :)

GrokLaw is definitely a zeitgheist (sp?), it embodies the spirit of the Open Source movement and quite frankly is an example to all of us as to what we should be doing if we aren't already.

BIG standing O from the peanut gallery! I know my next charitable contribution is going to Ibiblio, and I know our hero(ine) will be well rewarded!

</soapbox>

Actually, economics can be used as a singular or a plural. So the writer doesn't require remedial grammar as you have suggested. Check the dictionary yourself.

Now, what does Media Player have to do with the core OS? Nothing. It "merely" makes it useful.

It doesn't make the Operating System useful, it increases your interest and personal value in multimedia on your computer. BeOS was a perfect OS in my opinion (sans preposition drivers) but there was a problem with it. Actually several. No media player that would play over 50% of the media types out there. No wmp, wma, real, ogg.. heck, even some mpegs wouldn't play; video or audio. Or, at least, no media player at the time.

The OS would die without most of these installed. I dont' like playing devils advocate, but revoking the "features" (just go along with me here) that most consumers (re: n00bs) use have been built in slowly over time giving people the functionality without the hassle. Want a messenger to talk to your friends? Wow, it's there! Want a media player? WOW! I dont' have to figure this out on my own!!

People are simple and that's why their (MS's) customers like them. They keep it simple and the learning curve down.

Just like the car analogy. You don't have to get your lisence by memorizing the firing order of the distributor cap and what kind of engine it is or define the pressure regulated by X valve for Y purpose. You have to use it properly and securely. Right?

/rant over.

Too bad MS doesn't design different versions of their modern OS's. I'd love an XP lite with nothing in it, where as I know many who would want the XP FULL to minimimize their own 'hassle' time looking for apps and installing them.

Does this make sense?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Here's a word, kid. Buy yourself some brain cells and read that post again...

Well, thanks for pointing out a niche definition of commodity. Let me point you to a niche definition of asshole.

You missed the parent's idea completely. Good job!

Now then, if we use a general English dictionary, the definition is a little more broad:
An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product that can be processed and resold.

Note that it said especially, not exclusively. Next?

According to the definition, any non-violent rivalry could be called a Cold War .

Check a dictionary.

It would be so easy....

Am I the only one who thinks she just _has_ to be bulimic. Most episodes show her stuffing her face from the fridge at the end of the episode. I just assume after the cameras stop she's immediately running for the can to heave it all out. ;)

On the off-chance that you were serious: that's an irregular past participle. See learnt, learned.

On the off-chance that you were serious: that's an irregular past participle. See learnt, learned.