and again in the minority in that I can separate out the purpose of copyrights and the evil actions of the legal arms of **AA companies.
Let's make one thing clear: the RIAA/MPAA lawsuits are not, in any way, shape, or form, an abuse, negative side of, misapplication or malicious use of Copyrights. They fulfill the role of Copyrights in the first place; they are the logical end result of a system that says citizens are allowed to distribute ideas (or expressions of ideas), then stop any further distribution of them.
The **AA lawsuits are ridiculous, yes. But the ridiculous part is not the litigation itself, it's the laws on which the lawsuits are brought under.
If that's the case, why has paedophilia been on a statistical rise for the past decade or so? What changed in society?
The fall of the Soviet Union. A significant decrease in mortality in Africa. The change from tapes to CDs and VHS to DVD.
A general decrease in the quality of Disney movies. Better laptops. A European Union.
Say, lets roll back all those things and see if the problems go away!... or could it be that you have a pre-determined answer to your question that you were aiming for?
It may be unused CPU time, but it's not unused power. Try running something like that on a laptop and notice how things heat up rather quickly... the same thing happens on a desktop, you just don't notice it (until the power bill comes).
Lol. Ok, so even with the theory that you can wank at work, that doesn't solve the issue for students like myself, who have to power down multiple times (I don't count, but probably around 4 is average) per day as we switch classes, go from/to home, etc. Luckily for me, my suspend works perfectly (with Ubuntu) but the submitter has a point: low-level stuff like acpi should be extremely, totally, absolutely reliable. The fact that suspend does not work universally is ridiculous.
You apparently don't quite grasp the difference between experimentation and discovery science. Let me guess - you think the Earth is 6k years old because we can't run an experiment 13.6 billion years ago? What a troll.
You can't say the same about atmospheric CO2. Global temperatures are correlated with CO2, although which way the causality flows isn't known. What is known is that atmospheric CO2 is at 350 ppm. That hasn't happened in (at least) half a million years, and it happened in 200 years - that's one 1/500th of a million years- once the industrial revolution got going. That isn't natural. The earth's warming may be natural, but if the CO2 causes the warming, rather than the warming causing the rise in CO2, then what's going on now was caused by us humans, and it will get worse.
Personally, though, I'm of the "bring-it-on" opinion. I would rather progress and face the consequences, than not progress for fear of the consequences. The rest of humanity may not agree with that, and they should be free to decide it without FUD, which is why I don't like articles like the one that this story is a response to anyway.
The difference is, you still have 2.0.23, and you can keep it forever. With restrictive-licensed software, that isn't the case. With MS moving to yearly licenses- especially for companies- F/OSS is going to look more attractive to companies who can't afford to rewrite their software at a whim- they will love the option of sticking with the earlier library.
Notice that even though it would be convenient for you to be able to upgrade GD- it's not required. You have an eternal license to it (Assuming it's under an OSS license, which I don't know for sure as I have no idea what GD is:D but it wouldn't make sense in the context if it were proprietary... but whatever. )
If the pressure was significant on the side of his neck his carotid would have been closed, starving his brain of blood and he would have blacked out within seconds.
That's not true at all. It doesn't even resemble anything remotely true. Are you making this up?
If an office wants to handcuff you, you oblige him and then settle things in court. You do not fight with the officers.
I'm sure you wouldn't, because you're a rational, successful human being (heck, having access to the internet and/. we're both already in the top tier socioeconomically) who wouldn't be committing a crime in the first place. But someone who grew up seeing family and friends who get arrested being screwed by cops, the law, and lawyers might not be so willing to submit and give their fate to a judge. (And yes, people do get screwed in court- why do you think people who can afford it hire the most expensive lawyer they can? Because it works. What a shame, and a national disgrace.)
There is, of course, a great way to keep people from distrusting police. In cases of police brutality, you don't rationalize away the action, even if the criminal was Bin Laden himself. You go after the cop, and you make an example of him, because it's situations like that - where we rationalize away anything from a single unnecessary strike to a permanent disfigurements- that gives people a reason to fight arrest in the first place.
No doubt there would still be nuts who fight arrest, but if we routinely brush off brutality as mere "resisting arrest," then we can't separate those who are nuts from those who have had their rights violated. Defending cops who break the oath they make to the public doesn't help real cops- ones who would never commit crimes in the course of their jobs.
So has anyone sued their potential customers (or a competitors customers) and made good?
Yes.
What you don't consider is that Linux adoption is incredibly low- much lower than it should be. This is largely due, directly and indirectly, to the SCO case. Directly, businesses were pushed away from Linux out of fear of a lawsuit by SCO. Indirectly, because greater adoption of Linux would have spurred greater effort on Desktop Linux, thereby increasing adoption again, and so on- the so-called "critical mass" effect.
If it hadn't been for SCO, Linux would likely rule the world already- but SCO was such a spectacular success for MS that they're doing it again, with likely the same results. Businesses are (rightfully) scared of lawsuits. They were scared of them from SCO, and they'll be terrified of lawsuits from MS.
SCO was never meant to succeed as a company- their sole purpose from 2003 on was to hold back Linux while they fell into bankruptcy kicking and screaming. They did a spectacular job. MS is ready to take Linux on head-on now, armed with a patent portfolio, increasing amounts of TPM, and the IP social conflict setting a good stage for them to take down the last Unix.
On a side note- it appears Stallman was right again. Software Idea Patents have turned out to be a huge threat to FOSS, and it's likely to only get worse now that MS is ready to join the lawsuit game.
I'm speaking as a 16-year old currently in community college and seriously considering not continuing on to a four-year.
I know it's insanely arrogant of me to think this way, but my opinion is, if 9 out of 10 places will throw my resume away because it doesn't have a line of text on it, I wouldn't want to work for those 9. I know that the luxury of choosing my employer is not something I can count on, but, again, if I spend the next 6 years learning to code - which I actually consider fun - instead of living in a place I'll hate taking classes I hate and leeching my parent's retirement fund, I think I could get to a point where I can stand on something other than a piece of paper- where I can stand on my body of work and skills.
Everyone says I'm young and foolish... and I figure that, by being idealistic this way, I am. But, in all honesty, the "mature" life of spending year after year getting re-certified in things I already know doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. So why should I work my ass off for the next 6-8 years to get somewhere I don't want to be in the first place?
Everyone I've discussed this with so far has echoed your statements: College is not about the paper, it's about learning about life. If life consists of continually getting pieces of paper that declare "I Know About Life" - I'm not so sure I want to learn about that aspect of life at all.
As a longtime XP user, I definitely felt more at home with Ubuntu than Kubuntu. Yeah, so GNOME puts the menubar at the top, but that's hardly the substance of the desktop environment. For example, Ubuntu does most stuff with the start menu; Kubuntu has app launchers in the panel. (I don't know how much this holds true in other distros)
That GNOME screenie has lots of panel launchers as well, but a plain vanilla Ubuntu does not.
Of course, now I'm using XFce with no panels whatsoever... the expressions of people trying to find my start menu are priceless.
KDE is nice, but I think of it as more of a techie's DE. I switched from Windows so this may be completely off the mark, but I always thought that KDE was more like OSX's interface and GNOME more like XP's. (I use XFce on my laptop, GNOME on my desktop/server).
In a different sense, last time I tried Kubuntu, it wasn't as polished as the GNOME DE, I expect because more effort/time/money was put into integrating GNOME with Ubuntu than KDE with Kubuntu.
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The **AA lawsuits are ridiculous, yes. But the ridiculous part is not the litigation itself, it's the laws on which the lawsuits are brought under.
A general decrease in the quality of Disney movies. Better laptops. A European Union.
Say, lets roll back all those things and see if the problems go away!
It may be unused CPU time, but it's not unused power. Try running something like that on a laptop and notice how things heat up rather quickly... the same thing happens on a desktop, you just don't notice it (until the power bill comes).
Lol. Ok, so even with the theory that you can wank at work, that doesn't solve the issue for students like myself, who have to power down multiple times (I don't count, but probably around 4 is average) per day as we switch classes, go from/to home, etc. Luckily for me, my suspend works perfectly (with Ubuntu) but the submitter has a point: low-level stuff like acpi should be extremely, totally, absolutely reliable. The fact that suspend does not work universally is ridiculous.
So, did that hurt?
"Betcha ten grand I won't get sick this year."
You apparently don't quite grasp the difference between experimentation and discovery science. Let me guess - you think the Earth is 6k years old because we can't run an experiment 13.6 billion years ago? What a troll.
You can't say the same about atmospheric CO2. Global temperatures are correlated with CO2, although which way the causality flows isn't known. What is known is that atmospheric CO2 is at 350 ppm. That hasn't happened in (at least) half a million years, and it happened in 200 years - that's one 1/500th of a million years- once the industrial revolution got going. That isn't natural. The earth's warming may be natural, but if the CO2 causes the warming, rather than the warming causing the rise in CO2, then what's going on now was caused by us humans, and it will get worse.
Personally, though, I'm of the "bring-it-on" opinion. I would rather progress and face the consequences, than not progress for fear of the consequences. The rest of humanity may not agree with that, and they should be free to decide it without FUD, which is why I don't like articles like the one that this story is a response to anyway.
The difference is, you still have 2.0.23, and you can keep it forever. With restrictive-licensed software, that isn't the case. With MS moving to yearly licenses- especially for companies- F/OSS is going to look more attractive to companies who can't afford to rewrite their software at a whim- they will love the option of sticking with the earlier library.
:D but it wouldn't make sense in the context if it were proprietary... but whatever. )
Notice that even though it would be convenient for you to be able to upgrade GD- it's not required. You have an eternal license to it (Assuming it's under an OSS license, which I don't know for sure as I have no idea what GD is
Ok. Now- how would you explain away your homepage link?
Try running the W3C Validator on that woozy.
Sheesh. Some people have no respect for standards...
There is, of course, a great way to keep people from distrusting police. In cases of police brutality, you don't rationalize away the action, even if the criminal was Bin Laden himself. You go after the cop, and you make an example of him, because it's situations like that - where we rationalize away anything from a single unnecessary strike to a permanent disfigurements- that gives people a reason to fight arrest in the first place.
No doubt there would still be nuts who fight arrest, but if we routinely brush off brutality as mere "resisting arrest," then we can't separate those who are nuts from those who have had their rights violated. Defending cops who break the oath they make to the public doesn't help real cops- ones who would never commit crimes in the course of their jobs.
And to the trolls, go to church and get some morals. You apparently didn't get them in your critical thinking course.
that a GPLv3 is sorely needed?
What you don't consider is that Linux adoption is incredibly low- much lower than it should be. This is largely due, directly and indirectly, to the SCO case. Directly, businesses were pushed away from Linux out of fear of a lawsuit by SCO. Indirectly, because greater adoption of Linux would have spurred greater effort on Desktop Linux, thereby increasing adoption again, and so on- the so-called "critical mass" effect.
If it hadn't been for SCO, Linux would likely rule the world already- but SCO was such a spectacular success for MS that they're doing it again, with likely the same results. Businesses are (rightfully) scared of lawsuits. They were scared of them from SCO, and they'll be terrified of lawsuits from MS.
SCO was never meant to succeed as a company- their sole purpose from 2003 on was to hold back Linux while they fell into bankruptcy kicking and screaming. They did a spectacular job. MS is ready to take Linux on head-on now, armed with a patent portfolio, increasing amounts of TPM, and the IP social conflict setting a good stage for them to take down the last Unix.
On a side note- it appears Stallman was right again. Software Idea Patents have turned out to be a huge threat to FOSS, and it's likely to only get worse now that MS is ready to join the lawsuit game.
But, you know, blood boiling off vs. laughing about the bug over lunch- all the same, right?
Thanks for the reply.
I'm speaking as a 16-year old currently in community college and seriously considering not continuing on to a four-year.
I know it's insanely arrogant of me to think this way, but my opinion is, if 9 out of 10 places will throw my resume away because it doesn't have a line of text on it, I wouldn't want to work for those 9. I know that the luxury of choosing my employer is not something I can count on, but, again, if I spend the next 6 years learning to code - which I actually consider fun - instead of living in a place I'll hate taking classes I hate and leeching my parent's retirement fund, I think I could get to a point where I can stand on something other than a piece of paper- where I can stand on my body of work and skills.
Everyone says I'm young and foolish... and I figure that, by being idealistic this way, I am. But, in all honesty, the "mature" life of spending year after year getting re-certified in things I already know doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. So why should I work my ass off for the next 6-8 years to get somewhere I don't want to be in the first place?
Everyone I've discussed this with so far has echoed your statements: College is not about the paper, it's about learning about life. If life consists of continually getting pieces of paper that declare "I Know About Life" - I'm not so sure I want to learn about that aspect of life at all.
As a longtime XP user, I definitely felt more at home with Ubuntu than Kubuntu. Yeah, so GNOME puts the menubar at the top, but that's hardly the substance of the desktop environment. For example, Ubuntu does most stuff with the start menu; Kubuntu has app launchers in the panel. (I don't know how much this holds true in other distros)
That GNOME screenie has lots of panel launchers as well, but a plain vanilla Ubuntu does not.
Of course, now I'm using XFce with no panels whatsoever... the expressions of people trying to find my start menu are priceless.
KDE is nice, but I think of it as more of a techie's DE. I switched from Windows so this may be completely off the mark, but I always thought that KDE was more like OSX's interface and GNOME more like XP's. (I use XFce on my laptop, GNOME on my desktop/server).
In a different sense, last time I tried Kubuntu, it wasn't as polished as the GNOME DE, I expect because more effort/time/money was put into integrating GNOME with Ubuntu than KDE with Kubuntu.
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