Derek Burney: We don't have a date set for it, but [we plan on porting] many of our major applications. Ideally we would like to have all of our applications running on Linux. We'll take that as it comes depending on what the business model looks like.
Looks like he also said that he has no idea of where he's going next and (later on in the intervies) that if he did, the legal department would make him keep his mouth shut. Mostly, he was self contradicting and vauge. That's what happens when you get Borg implants.
Eliminating Corel's MS dependency was a good idea poorly deployed.
OK, here is the idea you have outlined in such mindless terms in order to miss the point:
A library is a public resource! People get together to buy books so that they will be available to everyone at a reduced cost. Why should everyone buy an encyclopedia set every year? Well to keep current, of course, so they do, but only one copy! Duh! A great indirect benefit of this is that people of ability but without means can further their educations and enjoyment.
This group of publishers has just declared war on libraries and the whole idea of public resources. They would prefer you pay for each read of their book, forever. This violates the whole purpose of copyright, which is to encourage widespread duplication of work that will eventually belong to the public!
That, my friendly little child and goat eating friend that must live under a bridge, is the big deal here. The only way someone as dumb as you could get a job working in a public library is on community service or inside inside the big house! Next time you go to work, I suggest you check out Thomas Jefferson.
There is an important point to be made here. If something is technically possible and profitable, someone is going to want to do it. It is profitable to use the legislation to restrict other people's freedom in ways that allow you to sell more.
Slavery is technically possible and profitable, too. Hopefully, people will see this new effort as equally repulsive.
The problem publishers face is not with libraries but with obsolecence. The primary focus of the articles was not books, but Journals. These existed to disiminate information with some editing and quality assurance. Now that this can be done without them, and they are so much dead weight.
Quality books will always be valuable in their paper form, and those publishers that continue to make them will continue to do well. They are still easiest to read and most permanant record form available. This is one economic function that society welcomes.
I wish that former congress woman all the luck she had with ERA, in fact I wish her all the luck in the world. Bad luck that is.
Ahh, the answers are all around. Six years ago he could install an old version of OS/2 and run win 3.1 software, or today he can use a Mac with WinCrap or, gasp, Mozzilla and KDE and http://createpdf.adobe.com under Linux RIGHT NOW. No one is dead in the water without MS even if they are surrounded by folks that ARE dead in the water with MS.
He should help GNOME, Mozzilla, and Star Office if he has the time. The more people who do this, the sooner no one has to put up with this junk again. Propriatary formats are dumb. Take two doses of Free Software and call me in the morning.
The dot com scam I'm refering to has nothing to do with running cables. Lines are being run because it's profitable on it's own, not because some buzz word marketroid has convinced people to fund his money loosing scheme. More choice is comming, and I'll be happier when the greed heads loose interest.
Heck, I feel like that in my office. I feel beter when I go home and don't have to speak MS anymore.
Here are two pieces of solace for you. 1. Help is comming, and you can be part of it. I can't imagine no one else has thought of this and is working on it. 2. Your English looks good.
It would be nice of MS to offer new products, but we all know how it's gonna happen. They are going to buy a few nice pacages and ruin them by making sure they don't work with anything other than MS junk. MS creates nothing. They will make sure that you can not use your new toys to create your own media or "Pirate" anything without paying for it each time. Microsoft would love to embrace Holywood.
MS is not up to the task. They've not been able to make a their simple X86 stuff work in 20 years of trying. What makes you think they can do any better with 15 or so processors? Their greed headed prcactices insure that they will never be able to do this. Toasters do not need a GUI, but VCR's and TV's and other devices would benifit from some kind of common programable interface. MS's greedy inability to share a common stable interface makes them incapable of providing anything like this. They can't even keep a text spec stable.
Here in Louisiana the video poker machines get extra use as voting booths! Talk about rigged, whew! Florida borrowed some, but sent them back because Edwin Edwards kept winning.
It will be great if these things run NT. This way more people will be able to get in on the action. CRACK! and all the nicles fall out. Wooo - hooo! I'm rich, I'm rich!
Answer your question and you might keep on doing it. If the answer is for money, oh well, see you later!
Let's not get confused ala RIAA. Creativity is not dependent on ability to earn money. I love to skate board and it's too bad that I can't earn enough money doing it to quit my engineering job. I could really develop it into the performance art it deserves to be. BZZZT, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Oh yeah, soon I'll be putting more time into my own server on the DSL line I'm getting (No Freaking cable style TOS off! Yes! Good bye ATT@home, you suck, suck, suck.). What will I put on it? Some of my thesis work, other projects, and who knows. I don't care if anyone pays me one cent.
We should be concerned about access to publishing and the web becoming some kind of neutered corporate lap dog. Somehow I think that's less likely when this dot com scam dies off. No money here, boss, move on.
If these extra senses were added in the future, would you change your answer?
The sticking point for them is that connections are formed in the viewers' minds which make them more likely to commit violence in the future.
Good question.
No, it would not change my mind.
I don't buy their central argument. Normal people would be repulsed, but even then they would know it's not real. Those who want to do things like this would not still not be sated. I don't think you can train people to be so anti-social. In anycase, it's the action that is illegal, not game playing. We all played Cops and Robbers and Army man as children. How can you outlaw that?
I wouldn't trust my life to Windows, but I sure as hell wouldn't trust it to Linux either. Anyone who says that they would is either suicidal or a damn fool.
Don't act like the two are the same. I can test my Linux system and fix it because I have the source. My Windoze desktop is designed to fail by registry crap out and I can never be sure when or why it will blue screen. Any test performed today is valid only today and is not an indicator of future performance. A linux box can be striped down tested and quality assured. What it does today is what it will do until the hardware fails.
Do you think the Wright brothers just lofted themselves into the air on an untried and unknown device? No they did not. They had a very good research, design and model program with wind tunnels, mock ups and the rest. Their fliers got off the ground because their behavior was as well known as possible at the time. They were not fools, they were brave men.
I do not have to give up to give. My house (I don't really have one, I rent) does not keep you from building one. My car does not keep you from owning a car. The resources my society consumes are the resources it creates. Others can and do as we do, and we are all better off when they do. Things can always be better and no one has to be oppressed.
The things given to me are given freely as all trades here are free. The value of the things I produce exceed the value of the things I consume. The difference is taxed by my employer, my government and my community. In a free economy, those things that do not make more than they consume die off and people are forced to find some other way to serve.
No, this does not provide any new ammunition to those folks. Normal people know the difference between play and real actions. This does not change that.
It's just your perception of the event that is repeated. Take your stabbing example. You can see faces flinch, arms move and maybe even feel a mass against your own body. That is the perception. It's different from really doing soemthing. You can't feel the pain, smell the blood or feel the exhaustion of death. Rationally, we all know the difference.
Normal people, dogs, cats, even rats know how to play without harming themselves.
His crime was referring in an offhand way to OS X as a "throwback" during a recent interview, saying "Look at OS X, that Apple's coming out with: everybody who works on it says it's a throwback to the 1970s in terms of structure. It's UNIX, it's backwards."
Then he proves that he has lost his mind:
Raskin goes on to illustrate that a computer should be as easy to use as to start typing on a keyboard to open a word processor -- with no lost keystrokes, or to put a stylus to a tablet and start drawing in a graphics app.
I just have to laugh. Not even my wife can read my mind like that. Don't you just hate that paperclip? If I were stable and precictable it might work, but I'm not.
Things are moving. Computers have gotten out much faster than other individual productivity tools. Consider how long it took for automobiles, washing machines and even, yuck, TV. While the usefulness of a PC may be greater than that of a TV, it is much less than that of an automobile, clothing, shelter. Moore's law applies to ownership.
Will everyone really need a PC? PCs are mostly useful for clerical and technical work and entertainment. A large percentage of people in the US who don't have a PC, don't want one either. Sometimes, as I sit here all day staring at this box I wonder if they have a point.
In the mean time, I do what I can. I DO give extra equipment to friends who ask for it AND can use it. I have a hard enough time helping my wife, brother, mother, sister and brother in law. Talk about a nightmare heterogenious network to adminster, sheesh. I did point out to an old proffesor of mine that most Linux distros come with a working FORTRAN compiler as his department has none. I am a member of the local LUG, and do work to help those who show some ability and desire to help themselves. Dumping old computers on people who don't have the time to administer them is useless, even harmful. Small things can help do help, but charity begins in the home.
You would be amazed at what people do with opertunity. My gradfater took the time to teach one of his dirt poor Mississippi patients to read and write. That man whent on to become very rich selling hardwood to automobile companies, and his company provided many people with good jobs. Oh yeah, my grandfather got through school on scholarships.
This PC initiative will create some more opertunities for Brazilians. Every piece of procuctivity added to a society makes that society that much richer. People who get these machines will train themselves on how to use it, sparing many company hours of time. Because these boxes will run Linux, their understaning and ability to manipulate will be much better. Everyone will benifit as they fashion new tools for themselves that they will share. The extra time and wealth these machines create will make other things possible, like teaching someone to read and write. No one is going to loose out.
Destruction is singular. Production is multiplicative. I help you, you help someone else, and the chain goes on, up and down. If ever you doubt the close contact of all classes of people in the world, just look at the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and rest assured that the small world paradox is true.
The more you have, the more you make. If they adopt reasonable ISP rules that alow hard IP and self publication, Brazil could see a real ground swell of creativity. All efforts are good.
The Animal Farm's comitee to reform wild animals was a dismal failure.
Govenments always try to seperate the upper, middle and lower classes from their money. When governments fail, the church takes over.
On a differnt note, there once was a planet that tried to seperate their bright and creative people from their hair dressers, telephone sanitation people and types like that....
What with over 6 billion people in the world, and roughly 30% of them below poverty level (if I remember UN stats right), making people live longer will only make more people starve to death. That warrants some thought, at least.
My existence does not cause others to starve. In fact, because I'm gainfully employed, I make things that help others to eat. If one person can create a surplus, two people can create twice the surplus. A productive person that lives twice as long will contribute twice as much.
Destructive and lawless behavior makes people starve.
OK, I violated your stinking EULA contract. No need to make a federal case of it or search my house. Here's the stupid DVD, now give me my money back. Contract over, piss off.
The Wall Street Journal had a reasonable article on the whole Faith Based Charity thing. Like you, I was very concerned about violations of the establishment clause. My fears were driven by the usual Associated Press oversimplification, and amplification. The Journal's article was more detailed and soothing.
There is no really big change comming. What is being proposed is alowing "Faith Bassed" organizations to bid on "charitable" contracts. They can already do that by creating a seperated organization with a supposedly independent administration. Essentially, the "faith bassed" groups would no longer be hobbled with extra administration costs in order to compete to do good works. They will have to meet all the qualifications of non faith bassed organizations. That's a far cry from establishing an official religion.
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Looks like he also said that he has no idea of where he's going next and (later on in the intervies) that if he did, the legal department would make him keep his mouth shut. Mostly, he was self contradicting and vauge. That's what happens when you get Borg implants.
Eliminating Corel's MS dependency was a good idea poorly deployed.
Look here (http://www.duhaime.org/dict-b.htm) man, and get that chip away from me!
I can't believe he mentioned hair in the same sentence. Ewwww!
OK, here is the idea you have outlined in such mindless terms in order to miss the point:
A library is a public resource! People get together to buy books so that they will be available to everyone at a reduced cost. Why should everyone buy an encyclopedia set every year? Well to keep current, of course, so they do, but only one copy! Duh! A great indirect benefit of this is that people of ability but without means can further their educations and enjoyment.
This group of publishers has just declared war on libraries and the whole idea of public resources. They would prefer you pay for each read of their book, forever. This violates the whole purpose of copyright, which is to encourage widespread duplication of work that will eventually belong to the public!
That, my friendly little child and goat eating friend that must live under a bridge, is the big deal here. The only way someone as dumb as you could get a job working in a public library is on community service or inside inside the big house! Next time you go to work, I suggest you check out Thomas Jefferson.
Slavery is technically possible and profitable, too. Hopefully, people will see this new effort as equally repulsive.
The problem publishers face is not with libraries but with obsolecence. The primary focus of the articles was not books, but Journals. These existed to disiminate information with some editing and quality assurance. Now that this can be done without them, and they are so much dead weight.
Quality books will always be valuable in their paper form, and those publishers that continue to make them will continue to do well. They are still easiest to read and most permanant record form available. This is one economic function that society welcomes.
I wish that former congress woman all the luck she had with ERA, in fact I wish her all the luck in the world. Bad luck that is.
Everything can be better. No one catches all of their mistakes. The more peer review, the better the code.
He should help GNOME, Mozzilla, and Star Office if he has the time. The more people who do this, the sooner no one has to put up with this junk again. Propriatary formats are dumb. Take two doses of Free Software and call me in the morning.
The dot com scam I'm refering to has nothing to do with running cables. Lines are being run because it's profitable on it's own, not because some buzz word marketroid has convinced people to fund his money loosing scheme. More choice is comming, and I'll be happier when the greed heads loose interest.
Sanity is not statistical.
Here are two pieces of solace for you. 1. Help is comming, and you can be part of it. I can't imagine no one else has thought of this and is working on it. 2. Your English looks good.
It would be nice of MS to offer new products, but we all know how it's gonna happen. They are going to buy a few nice pacages and ruin them by making sure they don't work with anything other than MS junk. MS creates nothing. They will make sure that you can not use your new toys to create your own media or "Pirate" anything without paying for it each time. Microsoft would love to embrace Holywood.
MS is not up to the task. They've not been able to make a their simple X86 stuff work in 20 years of trying. What makes you think they can do any better with 15 or so processors? Their greed headed prcactices insure that they will never be able to do this. Toasters do not need a GUI, but VCR's and TV's and other devices would benifit from some kind of common programable interface. MS's greedy inability to share a common stable interface makes them incapable of providing anything like this. They can't even keep a text spec stable.
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Here in Louisiana the video poker machines get extra use as voting booths! Talk about rigged, whew! Florida borrowed some, but sent them back because Edwin Edwards kept winning.
It will be great if these things run NT. This way more people will be able to get in on the action. CRACK! and all the nicles fall out. Wooo - hooo! I'm rich, I'm rich!
Answer your question and you might keep on doing it. If the answer is for money, oh well, see you later!
Let's not get confused ala RIAA. Creativity is not dependent on ability to earn money. I love to skate board and it's too bad that I can't earn enough money doing it to quit my engineering job. I could really develop it into the performance art it deserves to be. BZZZT, I'm gonna do it anyway.
Oh yeah, soon I'll be putting more time into my own server on the DSL line I'm getting (No Freaking cable style TOS off! Yes! Good bye ATT@home, you suck, suck, suck.). What will I put on it? Some of my thesis work, other projects, and who knows. I don't care if anyone pays me one cent.
We should be concerned about access to publishing and the web becoming some kind of neutered corporate lap dog. Somehow I think that's less likely when this dot com scam dies off. No money here, boss, move on.
We all deserve to be protected from prying. Email should have the same protections as US mail. A free market can not exist without trust.
The sticking point for them is that connections are formed in the viewers' minds which make them more likely to commit violence in the future.
Good question.
No, it would not change my mind.
I don't buy their central argument. Normal people would be repulsed, but even then they would know it's not real. Those who want to do things like this would not still not be sated. I don't think you can train people to be so anti-social. In anycase, it's the action that is illegal, not game playing. We all played Cops and Robbers and Army man as children. How can you outlaw that?
Your right, but I forgot why.
Don't act like the two are the same. I can test my Linux system and fix it because I have the source. My Windoze desktop is designed to fail by registry crap out and I can never be sure when or why it will blue screen. Any test performed today is valid only today and is not an indicator of future performance. A linux box can be striped down tested and quality assured. What it does today is what it will do until the hardware fails.
Do you think the Wright brothers just lofted themselves into the air on an untried and unknown device? No they did not. They had a very good research, design and model program with wind tunnels, mock ups and the rest. Their fliers got off the ground because their behavior was as well known as possible at the time. They were not fools, they were brave men.
The things given to me are given freely as all trades here are free. The value of the things I produce exceed the value of the things I consume. The difference is taxed by my employer, my government and my community. In a free economy, those things that do not make more than they consume die off and people are forced to find some other way to serve.
It's just your perception of the event that is repeated. Take your stabbing example. You can see faces flinch, arms move and maybe even feel a mass against your own body. That is the perception. It's different from really doing soemthing. You can't feel the pain, smell the blood or feel the exhaustion of death. Rationally, we all know the difference.
Normal people, dogs, cats, even rats know how to play without harming themselves.
His crime was referring in an offhand way to OS X as a "throwback" during a recent interview, saying "Look at OS X, that Apple's coming out with: everybody who works on it says it's a throwback to the 1970s in terms of structure. It's UNIX, it's backwards."
Then he proves that he has lost his mind: Raskin goes on to illustrate that a computer should be as easy to use as to start typing on a keyboard to open a word processor -- with no lost keystrokes, or to put a stylus to a tablet and start drawing in a graphics app.
I just have to laugh. Not even my wife can read my mind like that. Don't you just hate that paperclip? If I were stable and precictable it might work, but I'm not.
Will everyone really need a PC? PCs are mostly useful for clerical and technical work and entertainment. A large percentage of people in the US who don't have a PC, don't want one either. Sometimes, as I sit here all day staring at this box I wonder if they have a point.
In the mean time, I do what I can. I DO give extra equipment to friends who ask for it AND can use it. I have a hard enough time helping my wife, brother, mother, sister and brother in law. Talk about a nightmare heterogenious network to adminster, sheesh. I did point out to an old proffesor of mine that most Linux distros come with a working FORTRAN compiler as his department has none. I am a member of the local LUG, and do work to help those who show some ability and desire to help themselves. Dumping old computers on people who don't have the time to administer them is useless, even harmful. Small things can help do help, but charity begins in the home.
You would be amazed at what people do with opertunity. My gradfater took the time to teach one of his dirt poor Mississippi patients to read and write. That man whent on to become very rich selling hardwood to automobile companies, and his company provided many people with good jobs. Oh yeah, my grandfather got through school on scholarships.
This PC initiative will create some more opertunities for Brazilians. Every piece of procuctivity added to a society makes that society that much richer. People who get these machines will train themselves on how to use it, sparing many company hours of time. Because these boxes will run Linux, their understaning and ability to manipulate will be much better. Everyone will benifit as they fashion new tools for themselves that they will share. The extra time and wealth these machines create will make other things possible, like teaching someone to read and write. No one is going to loose out.
Destruction is singular. Production is multiplicative. I help you, you help someone else, and the chain goes on, up and down. If ever you doubt the close contact of all classes of people in the world, just look at the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and rest assured that the small world paradox is true.
The more you have, the more you make. If they adopt reasonable ISP rules that alow hard IP and self publication, Brazil could see a real ground swell of creativity. All efforts are good.
The Animal Farm's comitee to reform wild animals was a dismal failure.
On a differnt note, there once was a planet that tried to seperate their bright and creative people from their hair dressers, telephone sanitation people and types like that ....
My existence does not cause others to starve. In fact, because I'm gainfully employed, I make things that help others to eat. If one person can create a surplus, two people can create twice the surplus. A productive person that lives twice as long will contribute twice as much.
Destructive and lawless behavior makes people starve.
OK, I violated your stinking EULA contract. No need to make a federal case of it or search my house. Here's the stupid DVD, now give me my money back. Contract over, piss off.
There is no really big change comming. What is being proposed is alowing "Faith Bassed" organizations to bid on "charitable" contracts. They can already do that by creating a seperated organization with a supposedly independent administration. Essentially, the "faith bassed" groups would no longer be hobbled with extra administration costs in order to compete to do good works. They will have to meet all the qualifications of non faith bassed organizations. That's a far cry from establishing an official religion.