They've already profited from it. Many people have already paid for the game once, on an older console, and would like to play it again without pulling the console out of a closet (or it may not even work anymore) and are entirely justified in their refusal to pay for it again.
Your troll-fu is weak.
If this technology is proprietary (which it likely will be), the lock-in could be rather vicious, especially for the businesses that would likely be the first ones impacted, and when it does get around to the average citizen, they could give horrible service, drop people, restrict their bandwidth, etc- and they'd be able to get away with it because of the monopoly they'd get over the high speed.
The FSF was never about an 'open market environment'. It was always a political cause. I support it here- quality Free Software games are something that the world sorely needs, and I'd definitely support Ryzom (ingame, grassrooting, etc) if this happened- I can't say I would pay for it, as I'm a poor college student, but I can easily see how this could get people into Free Software. If it's opensourced I'd expect it to run on Linux within the end of 2007 anyway.
Ubuntu is not a company. Canonical is what you want here, but I don't really think Canonical is much of a powerhouse financially. Oracle has no desire to kill Microsoft. Sun, Google, and IBM would be the trio I'd pick to take down Microsoft.
This actually seems like an interesting idea and potentially a real benefit that could come of the bullshit draconian copyright laws in existence right now. Any lawyers know what's up with this?
That said I can see the downside, it "legitimizes" even more draconian copyright legislation- instead of relying on "Think of the artists!" they could rely on "Think of the identity thieves!"
I note from your W3C validator link that several bits of what look like code are commented out, notably items 16 and 18 on the W3C page. It seems possible that the problem lies there.
I've come to basically the same conclusion, and it's sad that you're right, and it's sad that the government, rather than making it difficult to fuck the consumer, actually encourages them to do so.
I'm confused as to what the *point* of HURD is. I understand the historic legacy of it- it was originally supposed to be the free kernel and all that- but once Torvalds made Linux and GNU latched on to that, why not simply abandon HURD and unify under one free OS (ignoring BSD for a moment here) instead of wasting effort on HURD?
Is it simply the need to not leave the project unfinished, or is there an actual advantage that could be gained by using HURD over Linux?
Why is the parent modded insightful? Opera isn't Free Software, so saying this Opera user is representative of the "free software community" is, to put it simply, a load of bullshit.
Oddly enough, Ubuntu Edgy Eft (and I'd guess Debian Etch as well) use dash instead of bash.
The Solaris servers I can ssh into at my school (Georgia Tech) use ksh.
It's funny- looking back, people always said Stallman was crazy and the stuff he talked about wouldn't happen- and time and again, it did. History continually repeats - only the proprietary people are getting more and more extreme in their demands. Stallman's been asking for the same thing for the past 20 years, the proprietary makers have been demanding more and more. I refuse to accept their bullshit- I'll use Free Software as much as possible- the only proprietary stuff I have on my computer is stuff that is absolutely necessary to run my hardware- and my next one will have no such need.
Uh... OO.org has the ability to save as.doc circa Word 2003. That should be able to get the job done, provided you're not doing anything too fancy (and for term papers, I wouldn't expect you to).
This guy's site is not "creationalist" stuff. It's actually a site discussing evolution, and from what I read on the page, is rather even in tone- not "whaco".
You, sir, are a troll.
I find this rather hilarious. I commented on the irony of a moderation about a post discussing the moderation of another post, and it gets modded to 5.
How... ironic.
Iowa smashing Microsoft to become a hero would be the best thing to happen to Iowa since... uh... whatever the most recent "revolution" on farming was. Probably wouldn't have any real economic benefit- I can't imagine anyone would move to Iowa because they smashed Microsoft.
Sure, Fox News is controlled. The difference is, here (in US) at least you can make your own website. You can oppose the spoon-feeders. (at least until some massive corporation or corrupt president manages to take our freedoms away- then things get truly interesting.)
There, you cannot. Jail time, or worse, death, is promised.
That could be said of ANYTHING.
The average Wikipedian?
The average Firefox user?
The average Wal-Mart shopper?
The average Christian?
None of them understand the principles of what they're doing.
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They've already profited from it. Many people have already paid for the game once, on an older console, and would like to play it again without pulling the console out of a closet (or it may not even work anymore) and are entirely justified in their refusal to pay for it again.
Your troll-fu is weak.
If this technology is proprietary (which it likely will be), the lock-in could be rather vicious, especially for the businesses that would likely be the first ones impacted, and when it does get around to the average citizen, they could give horrible service, drop people, restrict their bandwidth, etc- and they'd be able to get away with it because of the monopoly they'd get over the high speed.
The FSF was never about an 'open market environment'. It was always a political cause. I support it here- quality Free Software games are something that the world sorely needs, and I'd definitely support Ryzom (ingame, grassrooting, etc) if this happened- I can't say I would pay for it, as I'm a poor college student, but I can easily see how this could get people into Free Software. If it's opensourced I'd expect it to run on Linux within the end of 2007 anyway.
Ubuntu is not a company. Canonical is what you want here, but I don't really think Canonical is much of a powerhouse financially. Oracle has no desire to kill Microsoft. Sun, Google, and IBM would be the trio I'd pick to take down Microsoft.
This actually seems like an interesting idea and potentially a real benefit that could come of the bullshit draconian copyright laws in existence right now. Any lawyers know what's up with this?
That said I can see the downside, it "legitimizes" even more draconian copyright legislation- instead of relying on "Think of the artists!" they could rely on "Think of the identity thieves!"
I note from your W3C validator link that several bits of what look like code are commented out, notably items 16 and 18 on the W3C page. It seems possible that the problem lies there.
I've come to basically the same conclusion, and it's sad that you're right, and it's sad that the government, rather than making it difficult to fuck the consumer, actually encourages them to do so.
I'm confused as to what the *point* of HURD is. I understand the historic legacy of it- it was originally supposed to be the free kernel and all that- but once Torvalds made Linux and GNU latched on to that, why not simply abandon HURD and unify under one free OS (ignoring BSD for a moment here) instead of wasting effort on HURD?
Is it simply the need to not leave the project unfinished, or is there an actual advantage that could be gained by using HURD over Linux?
Why is the parent modded insightful? Opera isn't Free Software, so saying this Opera user is representative of the "free software community" is, to put it simply, a load of bullshit.
Oddly enough, Ubuntu Edgy Eft (and I'd guess Debian Etch as well) use dash instead of bash.
The Solaris servers I can ssh into at my school (Georgia Tech) use ksh.
'I think the malware industry is making more money than the anti-malware industry,' Genes said.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
*salute*
What? You can't just pack up one Congress and replace it with another. It's not like a truck. Congress is a series of tubes.
Anyone else remember the EGM "A Dream's Been Cast!" prank?
It's funny- looking back, people always said Stallman was crazy and the stuff he talked about wouldn't happen- and time and again, it did. History continually repeats - only the proprietary people are getting more and more extreme in their demands. Stallman's been asking for the same thing for the past 20 years, the proprietary makers have been demanding more and more. I refuse to accept their bullshit- I'll use Free Software as much as possible- the only proprietary stuff I have on my computer is stuff that is absolutely necessary to run my hardware- and my next one will have no such need.
Uh... OO.org has the ability to save as .doc circa Word 2003. That should be able to get the job done, provided you're not doing anything too fancy (and for term papers, I wouldn't expect you to).
Congrats- that's the best one-line response I've seen on Slashdot in a long time.
No. The idea of a "Free speech zone" is utter nonsense- the First Amendment to the Constitution makes the entire country a free speech zone.
Krita and Inkscape both exist as well as GIMP, which gives more options and more features.
Flash 9.
It works the same way it works in Windows- run the installer and it installs.
It's worth noting (coincidence or not) that Douglas Adams was an atheist.
This guy's site is not "creationalist" stuff. It's actually a site discussing evolution, and from what I read on the page, is rather even in tone- not "whaco".
You, sir, are a troll.
I find this rather hilarious. I commented on the irony of a moderation about a post discussing the moderation of another post, and it gets modded to 5.
How... ironic.
Iowa smashing Microsoft to become a hero would be the best thing to happen to Iowa since... uh... whatever the most recent "revolution" on farming was. Probably wouldn't have any real economic benefit- I can't imagine anyone would move to Iowa because they smashed Microsoft.
Sure, Fox News is controlled. The difference is, here (in US) at least you can make your own website. You can oppose the spoon-feeders. (at least until some massive corporation or corrupt president manages to take our freedoms away- then things get truly interesting.)
There, you cannot. Jail time, or worse, death, is promised.
That could be said of ANYTHING. The average Wikipedian? The average Firefox user? The average Wal-Mart shopper? The average Christian? None of them understand the principles of what they're doing.