Eben Moglen has stated that there is a Waterloo to be fought some where in this current attack from Microsoft. I think this situation is more analogous to the American Revolutionary War because this is more about freedom. I believe Mark Shuttleworth has accomplished the equivalent of the Boston Tea party with his statements. In effect he's saying that he won't pay the Microsoft tax on his freedom, regardless of how insignificant or silly the medium of that tax. We all (should?) know what happened 2 years after the Tea Party:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard 'round the world.
I'm a case of parrot learning? Can you justify that with anything?
I articulated my opinion clearly and plainly. Your comment was a little
ambiguous and maybe I should have tired to guess at your meaning.
But ohh well. Here's one for your ego: I'm sorry for being an parrot....sir.
So you are saying you want your kids to be worker drones?
How about we give the kids a chance to actually learn and not tell them what they should be...
If they don't want to learn then you can teach that bunch to memorize by rote, but don't push
this "no child left behind, no child running ahead" crap on us.
Also when you buy an apple computer you buy the whole package of hardware and software.
I think the fundamental issue is if you buy a PC it should be able to do whatever you want.
An OS that limits you to force lock-in or product tie in by a monopoly software vendor
should be challenged. I'm not making a judgment as to wither or not MS is forcing its
monopoly on this one, I'm just saying that maybe it should be looked into.
The palm will probably run on a x-scale processor that is no faster than 600Mhz as opposed to
the 1.2 Ghz Thinkpad I linked to. They should be fairly comparable. And are you going to be working
with large images on that Palm... I really don't think so... And were you using MS Word with OO.o? I'm
not saying your point couldn't be valid but we are talking about Linux devices here...
I think you are missing my point that you are paying for overpriced hype of the Palm when even an old
laptop would serve you about the same. The palm is just to much middle of the road. Not worth the price/performance
ratio in my regards... but if you think it's awesome you can pay for it and I won't stop you =P.
Artificial limitations don't make a lick of sense to me... but I guess if you are trying to charge everyone as much as you can get away with... yea makes perfect sense when you put it that way.
Just how much horse power do you think that Palm toy has? how much ram?
If you think those thinkpads are obsolete, then there isn't much sense in
getting this new Palm chupa-thingy. And I bet those 'no longer supported'
Thinkpads will still out last the Palm. It's the difference between a '75
Ford pickup and a brand new Nissan pickup. The Ford may not get the gas mileage,
but you can keep fixing it yourself, it costs less to buy, doesn't feel 'cheap'
and can do everything the new Nissan can.
Unintentionally? It's not hard to to figure out that if you make any kind of patent deal with Microsoft over Linux that the vast majority of community is going to be pissed off. I think Novell saw the $$$ and didn't care at that point.
Programmers that are accustomed to non-parallel programming environments forget to think about the synchronization issues that come up in parallel programming. Several conventional programs do not take into account synchronization of the shared memory or message passing requirements that come up for these programs to work correctly in a parallel environment.
Speaking of which, I think Flash Player on Linux has a synchronization problem. I keep getting locked up every now an then on my new Core 2 Duo, where as on my old Celeron-M didn't.
Go figure... I guess it could be any number of things but I'm running almost identical setup on both of them...
Weather conditions in space are very different than on earth. So we have agreed that our robot to space will be a four-legged device for better navigation and convenience.
A miscommunication on both our parts. You can see where our differences in meanings clashed then...
I was talking 'commercially minded' in terms of the BullShit business stunts that Enron, Haliburton,
Microsoft, and the RIAA try to pull on the US public. Which generally translates to 'profit now, at any cost'
Commercially minded governments start wars for commercially minded reasons... It's pretty easy to see the history there.
But if you are cool with starting a war because you don't think you are making enough money, I guess that's cool, right?
Personally I'd rather see wars fought for legitimate reasons such as human rights or countering aggressive maneuvers. But I guess those reasons aren't as important as money to some people. Good thing I already know that's the way the most of world works. But that doesn't mean I have to accept it though. Here is the real kicker... neither do you.
I'm not faceless and but I'd like some proof.
And I would like to see a non-backwater "jack thompson special news brief" kind of thing because I tried looking for something credible and I didn't find much.
He's got some things going for him.
1. He's anti-big government. We all know the mess that commercially minded government leads to.
2. He's pro-citizen rights. That can't be bad.
3. He's wants the US to think harder about it's foreign politics and how it affects us at home. yea that sounds fucking insane
I went to dice.com and started a blank search.
The number of jobs(posted in the last 30 days) that was listed if I picked C as a skill?
Answer: 17139 jobs
The difference being that an education is not directed toward a specific purpose, while training is all about learning a particular set of skills.
I don't know what your major was, but as a CS major for me, it was training all the way.
But I guess I see your point...Maybe we can agree there is a rather large gray area between
training and education?
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So who will it be?
And Mac users owe BSD everything they have...
...eat a dick
so...
I'm a case of parrot learning? Can you justify that with anything?
I articulated my opinion clearly and plainly. Your comment was a little
ambiguous and maybe I should have tired to guess at your meaning.
But ohh well. Here's one for your ego: I'm sorry for being an parrot....sir.
So you are saying you want your kids to be worker drones?
How about we give the kids a chance to actually learn and not tell them what they should be... If they don't want to learn then you can teach that bunch to memorize by rote, but don't push this "no child left behind, no child running ahead" crap on us.
I don't think the AC is Falmebait... It's actually a pretty good point.
Sounds like a security flaw to me... Is the Flashed memory CRC'd and stored on the HD for verification?
Also when you buy an apple computer you buy the whole package of hardware and software. I think the fundamental issue is if you buy a PC it should be able to do whatever you want. An OS that limits you to force lock-in or product tie in by a monopoly software vendor should be challenged. I'm not making a judgment as to wither or not MS is forcing its monopoly on this one, I'm just saying that maybe it should be looked into.
So what you are saying is Ron Paul for President?
"I could go on and on. None of this is really mindblowing"
But at least we have prior art on it now...
The palm will probably run on a x-scale processor that is no faster than 600Mhz as opposed to
the 1.2 Ghz Thinkpad I linked to. They should be fairly comparable. And are you going to be working
with large images on that Palm... I really don't think so... And were you using MS Word with OO.o? I'm
not saying your point couldn't be valid but we are talking about Linux devices here...
I think you are missing my point that you are paying for overpriced hype of the Palm when even an old
laptop would serve you about the same. The palm is just to much middle of the road. Not worth the
price/performance ratio in my regards... but if you think it's awesome you can pay for it and I won't stop you =P.
Artificial limitations don't make a lick of sense to me... but I guess if you are trying to charge everyone as much as you can get away with... yea makes perfect sense when you put it that way.
Just how much horse power do you think that Palm toy has? how much ram?
If you think those thinkpads are obsolete, then there isn't much sense in
getting this new Palm chupa-thingy. And I bet those 'no longer supported'
Thinkpads will still out last the Palm. It's the difference between a '75 Ford
pickup and a brand new Nissan pickup. The Ford may not get the gas mileage,
but you can keep fixing it yourself, it costs less to buy, doesn't feel 'cheap'
and can do everything the new Nissan can.
Unintentionally? It's not hard to to figure out that if you make any kind of patent deal with Microsoft over Linux that
the vast majority of community is going to be pissed off. I think Novell saw the $$$ and didn't care at that point.
I heard somehwere that these can run Linux.
A miscommunication on both our parts. You can see where our differences in meanings clashed then...
I was talking 'commercially minded' in terms of the BullShit business stunts that Enron, Haliburton,
Microsoft, and the RIAA try to pull on the US public. Which generally translates to 'profit now, at any cost'
Commercially minded governments start wars for commercially minded reasons... It's pretty easy to see the history there. But if you are cool with starting a war because you don't think you are making enough money, I guess that's cool, right?
Personally I'd rather see wars fought for legitimate reasons such as human rights or countering aggressive maneuvers. But I guess those reasons aren't as important as money to some people. Good thing I already know that's the way the most of world works. But that doesn't mean I have to accept it though. Here is the real kicker... neither do you.
It's more about supporting the goal than it is about the payout (hey, isn't that what FOSS is generally about?) ;)
Had to fix that one
http://www.mekwars.org/ ...although I quit playing along time ago I often want to go back...it was fun...
I'm not faceless and but I'd like some proof.
And I would like to see a non-backwater "jack thompson special news brief" kind of thing because I tried looking for something credible and I didn't find much.
He's got some things going for him.
1. He's anti-big government. We all know the mess that commercially minded government leads to.
2. He's pro-citizen rights. That can't be bad.
3. He's wants the US to think harder about it's foreign politics and how it affects us at home. yea that sounds fucking insane
You might be a redneck if you won't vote for some one because he's a redneck...
I went to dice.com and started a blank search.
The number of jobs(posted in the last 30 days) that was listed if I picked C as a skill?
Answer: 17139 jobs
Java?
Answer: 15760 jobs
So.....Myth-busted?
But I guess I see your point...Maybe we can agree there is a rather large gray area between
training and education?
Everything else is just monkey see monkey do.