Those who insist on using proprietary operating systems get to pay for them. Yes, even when that means they pay with their time.
Yes, great point. We all know about how quickly Gentoo compiles. We've also heard about how easy it is to find the correct wireless drivers for a laptop.
* If you think commercial software is so great, follow the commercial model of paying someone for support.
Isn't that the OSS model: have the software out there for free but charge for the technical support and/or custom implementation (*cough* Red Hat, Novell, and IBM *cough*)? For either model (OSS or commercial), the developer is withholding something, technical support and ease of use in the OSS case versus source code and control over architecture and options in the commercial, that requires the customer to pay the developer money.
I'll admit that I'm partial to OSS, but it's quite far from an end-user-friendly system. It's great for us geeks who love to be able to control the ins and outs of our system, but for the average user, in terms of usability and unresolvable licensing/hardware headaches, Mac kicks both Microsoft's and OSS's asses.
You can be the smartest person in the world but you will not be able to keep a job if you smell like 2 week old dead fish, and people feel you will at any one time snap.
Though he might not smell, Woz's partner Steve Jobs seems to be able to hold a job in spite of his legendarily short and unpredictable temper...
In the end we need our investigators and prosecutors to have a high degree of technical knowledge, so they can seperate out the victims from the perpatrators. Is that too much to ask?
Yes, I would say so. Does every criminal prosecutor have their MD? No. Then how could they ever use medical evidence (DNA, etc.) in a trial? Medical consultants as witnesses.
I hope you see where I'm going with this. Just the same, lawyers don't need "computer hacking skills," they just need some technical consultants in these cases to help them understand what is going on in these cases. This would be an excellent job for most in the/. crowd.
I've seen this before, is the problem. I was raised in the US, and was taught about global warming, global hunger, acid rain, pesticide use, the evils of nuclear power, the good that is solar power, the silliness that is "gaia", species evolving to block dams, and other things that I forget at this moment. At this point, you can color me jaded and skeptical, and rightfully so.
As for global warming specifically, the rhetoric I see is generally very nasty and one-sided. The US is evil, its citizens need to endure a recession/depression to save the world, etc. When the rhetoric becomes serious, rational, and includes everyone, give me a call. When you do, please stop sounding like con-artists and try to sound like rational human beings.
Are you fucking stupid? All those things you learned about *ARE* real. It's just that the economic benefit of ignoring them made them seem ignorable.
If there is no livable earth what good is economic prosperity? Further, how do expect to keep up economic prosperity in the conditions that will be the result of climate change (flooding, drought, monster storms, etc.)? The consumer culture that drives the modern world economy will absolutely fall apart. No one's gonna be buying luxury cars, computers, iPhones, etc. when he/she is up to his/her neck in a flood.
What's right is not always profitable, and what's profitable is not always right. Grow up and think outside your own piggy bank.
P.S. Though reductions of CO2 emissions could very well hurt developed nations, it will have a similar, though less obvious, effect on developing ones. Instead of bringing quality of life down, it will keep them where they are: without the cheap energy they need to develop. If this is bad, it's going to hurt everyone.
I know Armenijad might want some kind of final battle and the end of the world (at least he hints he does)
Let's not be the pot that called the kettle black. We're (sorry, I'm an arrogant American who thinks everyone else is or should be one too:)) the country that sold 65 million books (and now a video game) about the Apocalypse. Has it occurred to you that the US' religious right might use the correlation between the current Middle East situation and the Book of Revelation as a reassurance that "we're on the right side?"
Regarding the grandparent, he's exactly right. We inch closer to world war every day, though I think we could easily add to the Axis the rest of the Middle East (at least Hezbollah/Lebanon, Syriah, and Hamas/Palestine as active players and the rest for their passivity) and all of Europe (UK as active the rest as passive). WWII started because of pacification of a couple crazy leaders... I think the current situation is just about every major/minor power's fault.
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Yes, great point. We all know about how quickly Gentoo compiles. We've also heard about how easy it is to find the correct wireless drivers for a laptop.
* If you think commercial software is so great, follow the commercial model of paying someone for support.Isn't that the OSS model: have the software out there for free but charge for the technical support and/or custom implementation (*cough* Red Hat, Novell, and IBM *cough*)? For either model (OSS or commercial), the developer is withholding something, technical support and ease of use in the OSS case versus source code and control over architecture and options in the commercial, that requires the customer to pay the developer money.
I'll admit that I'm partial to OSS, but it's quite far from an end-user-friendly system. It's great for us geeks who love to be able to control the ins and outs of our system, but for the average user, in terms of usability and unresolvable licensing/hardware headaches, Mac kicks both Microsoft's and OSS's asses.
Though he might not smell, Woz's partner Steve Jobs seems to be able to hold a job in spite of his legendarily short and unpredictable temper...
Yes, I would say so. Does every criminal prosecutor have their MD? No. Then how could they ever use medical evidence (DNA, etc.) in a trial? Medical consultants as witnesses.
I hope you see where I'm going with this. Just the same, lawyers don't need "computer hacking skills," they just need some technical consultants in these cases to help them understand what is going on in these cases. This would be an excellent job for most in the /. crowd.
Are you fucking stupid? All those things you learned about *ARE* real. It's just that the economic benefit of ignoring them made them seem ignorable.
If there is no livable earth what good is economic prosperity? Further, how do expect to keep up economic prosperity in the conditions that will be the result of climate change (flooding, drought, monster storms, etc.)? The consumer culture that drives the modern world economy will absolutely fall apart. No one's gonna be buying luxury cars, computers, iPhones, etc. when he/she is up to his/her neck in a flood.
What's right is not always profitable, and what's profitable is not always right. Grow up and think outside your own piggy bank.
P.S. Though reductions of CO2 emissions could very well hurt developed nations, it will have a similar, though less obvious, effect on developing ones. Instead of bringing quality of life down, it will keep them where they are: without the cheap energy they need to develop. If this is bad, it's going to hurt everyone.
Looks like all jolt, halo, and porn got to me.
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I, for one, welcome our new jolt-drinking, halo-playing, pornography-downloading, whacked out overlords...erm...fellow ./ers.
Let's not be the pot that called the kettle black. We're (sorry, I'm an arrogant American who thinks everyone else is or should be one too :)) the country that sold 65 million books (and now a video game) about the Apocalypse. Has it occurred to you that the US' religious right might use the correlation between the current Middle East situation and the Book of Revelation as a reassurance that "we're on the right side?"
Regarding the grandparent, he's exactly right. We inch closer to world war every day, though I think we could easily add to the Axis the rest of the Middle East (at least Hezbollah/Lebanon, Syriah, and Hamas/Palestine as active players and the rest for their passivity) and all of Europe (UK as active the rest as passive). WWII started because of pacification of a couple crazy leaders... I think the current situation is just about every major/minor power's fault.