So yeah, the guy has taken a lot of private parts from people who don't have his best interest at heart. This is something Debian Developers don't think you should do, even if you call your laptop the Black Tower.
For all of that, I did not see him add decss, which is actually free software, and his desktop looks like shit when he's finished. He's probably so afraid of a DMCA action that he skips mentioning decss. It is sad that laws can keep US citizens from free software and shove some into the hands of people who say, "suck my dick." The ugliness of his desktop is a matter of personal taste. Free desktops look better than an ugly Win 2000 knock off. I can't stand icons on my desktop.
That is all you need to do. Run XP, if you must have some awefull Winblows app, in a VM Most applications work with Wine. Vista is not needed and never will be.
If it was banned back in the 1960's you would have an interesting point. If it was banned in the last 5 years it's just another data point supporting recent changes.
When the officer says, "This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation," he's implying a zoning violation. It can be answered with, "This is not what we consider to be a customary neighborhood nuisance." Zoning laws should protect people from things like junk yards, car dealerships and noisy manufacturing. Going after this man is a stretch of those intentions.
Who shall decide the winners and losers? The Soviet Union had tests to segregate people based on ability. They were abused for politics and who do you know kind of stuff. The National Socialist wanted to segregate people based on their idea of racial purity. When you build two systems, one for "smart" people and one for "dumb" people what you ultimately create is a class division and give someone the power to decide what kind of education people get.
There is no longer a need to be stingy with education, so your main motives no longer apply. Electronic publication makes it possible to share knowledge with everyone and no one interested should ever be denied. Wealth comes from the freedom to exploit resources. Artificial restrictions and scarcity create poverty and resentment. Hoarding knowledge is a crime.
Getting rich of government and regulated industry spending, and never learning a new trick? Sounds like M$ to me. I wonder if this genetic defect is linked to rocking back and forth in a witness chair.
Be nice to Iowa, they had a great anti-trust trial.
China 1, Environment 0. Really, they kept it from raining in one spot for all of one day. The cost was 10 cm of rain somewhere else and 1,000+ rockets worth of crap dispersed all around them. It's demonstrations like that that show the wisdom of sustainable living. The alternatives are clearly insane.
Your offer might be better than Novell's, but I think I'll skip both. Red Hat has skipped the M$ deal and fostered Fedora. Suse will live on after Novel has gone, if they don't mono it up too badly. Last year enterprise users tended to agree. So sorry, no one needs you or your private parts.
Those people have spoken for themselves. I have simply researched and presented their opinions. You are free to disagree, but you are fighting yourself not me.
Slashdot is used to ignoring trolls. Publishers hire PR people to harass others, it is annoying but not a good reason to quit. If you quit, all that's left to influence the public will be the crazies.
It would be easier and more polite to say that M$ must earn it's continued existence with products and services people want. Vendor manipulation has gone stale for them and better products and services are clearly available, so there is not much hope for their recovery.
We should hope for justice rather than revenge, but the time has past. The billions of dollars in settlements other companies have won from them in court only scratch the surface of the economic harm done to their competitors and the general population. The perpetrators were not kidding when they bragged about boozing it up on Australian beaches while they laugh at the world.
Either way, you are some kind of troll. If I did call you a shill, I was probably right. If I did not, you probably are because no one else would make something like that up.
Now that I've noticed, I'll go ahead and look you up some more. Chances are, I'll find all the hallmarks of a M$ shill. In the last ten minutes, I've already found you defending Vista's security, which we all know will be no better than any other version of Windoze. If I look back into your posting, I'm sure there will be more M$ advocacy, hatred of free software, and general idiocy.
The last time I looked at one of their reports, Research was lumped in with Marketing so you really could not tell how much money they spent on "innovation". They may now list their real costs, but it does not matter because nothing original is evident in their software.
The company has long existed as a parasite. They used to brag about never entering anything but "mature markets" and doing so by purchasing "loss leaders". When it comes to original coding, they prefer to steal from other companies, BSD and other free software that has not been copyleft.
M$ is on the rocks and won't recover. People got tired of being ripped off and gave up on making money the M$ way. There's no one left to rob and M$ is incapable of doing the entire world's work. The future is free.
Don't think that people are not furious at the big dumb companies and government officials who have violated them. Your cube mate is just less able to defend himself from your anger and is an easy scape goat for hypocritical government that wants to look like it is doing something right.
The Atlantic article mentioned the elaborate lie that "unfettered" access to the Olympic Village really is:
The first thing theyâ(TM)ll probably notice is that Chinaâ(TM)s Internet seems slow.... partly it is because of the delaying cycles imposed by Chinaâ(TM)s system that monitors what people are looking for on the Internet, especially when theyâ(TM)re looking overseas....
Theyâ(TM)ll likely be surprised, then, to notice that Chinaâ(TM)s Internet seems surprisingly free and uncontrolled.....
In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of Chinaâ(TM)s electronic control but its new refinementâ"and a special Potemkin-style unfettered access that will be set up just for them, and just for the length of their stay.... the very existence of Internet controls is almost never discussed in public here, apart from vague statements about the importance of keeping online information "wholesome."
The bottom line is that traffic is monitored and people are punished if they get out of line. The goal is to smear people who would look outside of the state for information as unpatriotic and criminal. It's a lot like how people in the US who want internet privacy are labled "pirates" or pedophiles. If it can work here, imagine how well it works in a place like China.
That is one of four things Perens was trying to say. It their usual way, M$ is stabbing free software by pretending to be friendly. It's all cheap PR so they can get what they really want - ownership of everything through software patents. Their plan will work but only on people have the memory and IQ of garden slugs.
Putting the obvious Microsoft fears aside, can we not give credit where credit is due?
Of course we can! If we forget everything, we can think anything. It would be better to keep a sense of perspective.
$100,000 is trivial to a company that's about to spend another $500,000,000 on advertising for its failed OS and, as Bruce pointed out, M$ can make.NET interoperable any time they want. They could, for that matter, port and distribute any free software they want so long as they follow the license. They won't do that because it will end the margins they used to enjoy with their intentionally incompatible formats and operating system.
I'm sure he'd be happy to replace his expensive backbone with Open Spectrum and then think that P2P was the best thing since sliced bread. There's no reason his upstream bandwith should be so expensive while there's still dark fiber. In the short term, he's probably right about P2P driving him out of business. That's a shame but it's not because P2P is less efficient, it's because of a bad regulatory framework. I'd like to hear his opinion about the big picture before I call him a shill.
His homepage points to text that explains his opinion and position better than his condensed "Principles". For all of that, his Principles has very nice language about the anti-competitive behavior mentioned above.
Likewise, a telephone company or other "first tier" provider should not be allowed to price wholesale services (e.g. Internet backbone bandwidth delivered via leased lines, or the price of leased lines to a third party backbone provider) so as to drive a second tier provider's wholesale costs above retail, nor should it be allowed to refuse to deal with providers which wish to buy wholesale services from it.
I'd go further than him and say that owners of backbones should only be allowed to charge rates that make for a reasonable rate of return and this should be the same for everyone. It costs a known amount to lay cable. The costs to maintain it are known and the life time is known. People who wish to use the public servitude should be forced to bid against each other and then be limited in the amount they are allowed to charge. Conditions such as these eliminate his need to restrict his users. Because conditions like that don't exist, his company faces extermination by rate increases regardless of how oppressive his TOS become.
Yes, Kile makes things easier. Pictures still kind of go where they want, but they are always the right size and perfect if you use eps. Hint: "convert image.png image.eps" does not make a vector graphic but it does make things easy on LaTex. For graphs, use gnuplot which has eps as a format choice.
Don't forget about kbibtex for your references. If you use it as you research, you will have a good database of everything you uncover about a particular subject. Reference tracking and style management is a LaTex strong point.
Finally, always look for a LaTex template when submitting work. Every good journal has one and it typically tells you exactly what you need to do to make it work. There's no need for Jedi Skills when you have the Source!
Laying cable and fiber in other people's back yards and public property is a privilege. Those granted that privilege must accept public regulation in return for the public servitude. Think about that for a while and you realize that the Internet is already highly regulated but the regulations do not always serve the public interest. Common carrier and net neutrality is the least the public can ask in return for exclusive use of public property. The public can and should also demand competition in wired service. Someone who believes in free markets would lower barriers to entry and use of wired networks.
I have this collection of tech and mainstream press opinion of Vista as well as the more comprehensive the Vista Failure Log which details industry rejection. PC Magazine, PC World, the Atlantic Monthly, the Independent, EWeek, ITWeek, Dvorak, CNet and Network World all agreed with 90% of IT managers in thinking that Vista should be avoided. ExtremeTech wrote Vista's obituary in 2008. This was followed by USA Today and Time, which called Microsoft an "empire in rapid decline". I collected all the links, just for you.
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If you need an AV you are doing something wrong. Get a real OS and you get rid of most of your problems.
Add âoecontrib non-freeâ at the end of each repository line. Also, add the following two repo lines to the file: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main deb, http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
So yeah, the guy has taken a lot of private parts from people who don't have his best interest at heart. This is something Debian Developers don't think you should do, even if you call your laptop the Black Tower.
For all of that, I did not see him add decss, which is actually free software, and his desktop looks like shit when he's finished. He's probably so afraid of a DMCA action that he skips mentioning decss. It is sad that laws can keep US citizens from free software and shove some into the hands of people who say, "suck my dick." The ugliness of his desktop is a matter of personal taste. Free desktops look better than an ugly Win 2000 knock off. I can't stand icons on my desktop.
That is all you need to do. Run XP, if you must have some awefull Winblows app, in a VM Most applications work with Wine. Vista is not needed and never will be.
If it was banned back in the 1960's you would have an interesting point. If it was banned in the last 5 years it's just another data point supporting recent changes.
When the officer says, "This is not what we would consider to be a customary home occupation," he's implying a zoning violation. It can be answered with, "This is not what we consider to be a customary neighborhood nuisance." Zoning laws should protect people from things like junk yards, car dealerships and noisy manufacturing. Going after this man is a stretch of those intentions.
Who shall decide the winners and losers? The Soviet Union had tests to segregate people based on ability. They were abused for politics and who do you know kind of stuff. The National Socialist wanted to segregate people based on their idea of racial purity. When you build two systems, one for "smart" people and one for "dumb" people what you ultimately create is a class division and give someone the power to decide what kind of education people get.
There is no longer a need to be stingy with education, so your main motives no longer apply. Electronic publication makes it possible to share knowledge with everyone and no one interested should ever be denied. Wealth comes from the freedom to exploit resources. Artificial restrictions and scarcity create poverty and resentment. Hoarding knowledge is a crime.
Getting rich of government and regulated industry spending, and never learning a new trick? Sounds like M$ to me. I wonder if this genetic defect is linked to rocking back and forth in a witness chair.
Be nice to Iowa, they had a great anti-trust trial.
China 1, Environment 0. Really, they kept it from raining in one spot for all of one day. The cost was 10 cm of rain somewhere else and 1,000+ rockets worth of crap dispersed all around them. It's demonstrations like that that show the wisdom of sustainable living. The alternatives are clearly insane.
World's most crowded place is devoid of people without crowd control. It's a miracle.
Your offer might be better than Novell's, but I think I'll skip both. Red Hat has skipped the M$ deal and fostered Fedora. Suse will live on after Novel has gone, if they don't mono it up too badly. Last year enterprise users tended to agree. So sorry, no one needs you or your private parts.
Those people have spoken for themselves. I have simply researched and presented their opinions. You are free to disagree, but you are fighting yourself not me.
RMS expresses his opinion of such things all the time.
Slashdot is used to ignoring trolls. Publishers hire PR people to harass others, it is annoying but not a good reason to quit. If you quit, all that's left to influence the public will be the crazies.
It would be easier and more polite to say that M$ must earn it's continued existence with products and services people want. Vendor manipulation has gone stale for them and better products and services are clearly available, so there is not much hope for their recovery.
We should hope for justice rather than revenge, but the time has past. The billions of dollars in settlements other companies have won from them in court only scratch the surface of the economic harm done to their competitors and the general population. The perpetrators were not kidding when they bragged about boozing it up on Australian beaches while they laugh at the world.
Despite your strange and repeated attacks on me personally, I don't remember calling you a M$ shill.
Either way, you are some kind of troll. If I did call you a shill, I was probably right. If I did not, you probably are because no one else would make something like that up.
Now that I've noticed, I'll go ahead and look you up some more. Chances are, I'll find all the hallmarks of a M$ shill. In the last ten minutes, I've already found you defending Vista's security, which we all know will be no better than any other version of Windoze. If I look back into your posting, I'm sure there will be more M$ advocacy, hatred of free software, and general idiocy.
The last time I looked at one of their reports, Research was lumped in with Marketing so you really could not tell how much money they spent on "innovation". They may now list their real costs, but it does not matter because nothing original is evident in their software.
The company has long existed as a parasite. They used to brag about never entering anything but "mature markets" and doing so by purchasing "loss leaders". When it comes to original coding, they prefer to steal from other companies, BSD and other free software that has not been copyleft.
M$ is on the rocks and won't recover. People got tired of being ripped off and gave up on making money the M$ way. There's no one left to rob and M$ is incapable of doing the entire world's work. The future is free.
Don't think that people are not furious at the big dumb companies and government officials who have violated them. Your cube mate is just less able to defend himself from your anger and is an easy scape goat for hypocritical government that wants to look like it is doing something right.
The Atlantic article mentioned the elaborate lie that "unfettered" access to the Olympic Village really is:
The bottom line is that traffic is monitored and people are punished if they get out of line. The goal is to smear people who would look outside of the state for information as unpatriotic and criminal. It's a lot like how people in the US who want internet privacy are labled "pirates" or pedophiles. If it can work here, imagine how well it works in a place like China.
That is one of four things Perens was trying to say. It their usual way, M$ is stabbing free software by pretending to be friendly. It's all cheap PR so they can get what they really want - ownership of everything through software patents. Their plan will work but only on people have the memory and IQ of garden slugs.
Putting the obvious Microsoft fears aside, can we not give credit where credit is due?
Of course we can! If we forget everything, we can think anything. It would be better to keep a sense of perspective.
$100,000 is trivial to a company that's about to spend another $500,000,000 on advertising for its failed OS and, as Bruce pointed out, M$ can make .NET interoperable any time they want. They could, for that matter, port and distribute any free software they want so long as they follow the license. They won't do that because it will end the margins they used to enjoy with their intentionally incompatible formats and operating system.
A regretted and badly edited tatoo seen on bayimg's zune tag.
I'm sure he'd be happy to replace his expensive backbone with Open Spectrum and then think that P2P was the best thing since sliced bread. There's no reason his upstream bandwith should be so expensive while there's still dark fiber. In the short term, he's probably right about P2P driving him out of business. That's a shame but it's not because P2P is less efficient, it's because of a bad regulatory framework. I'd like to hear his opinion about the big picture before I call him a shill.
His homepage points to text that explains his opinion and position better than his condensed "Principles". For all of that, his Principles has very nice language about the anti-competitive behavior mentioned above.
I'd go further than him and say that owners of backbones should only be allowed to charge rates that make for a reasonable rate of return and this should be the same for everyone. It costs a known amount to lay cable. The costs to maintain it are known and the life time is known. People who wish to use the public servitude should be forced to bid against each other and then be limited in the amount they are allowed to charge. Conditions such as these eliminate his need to restrict his users. Because conditions like that don't exist, his company faces extermination by rate increases regardless of how oppressive his TOS become.
Yes, Kile makes things easier. Pictures still kind of go where they want, but they are always the right size and perfect if you use eps. Hint: "convert image.png image.eps" does not make a vector graphic but it does make things easy on LaTex. For graphs, use gnuplot which has eps as a format choice.
Don't forget about kbibtex for your references. If you use it as you research, you will have a good database of everything you uncover about a particular subject. Reference tracking and style management is a LaTex strong point.
Finally, always look for a LaTex template when submitting work. Every good journal has one and it typically tells you exactly what you need to do to make it work. There's no need for Jedi Skills when you have the Source!
Because you own the spectrum and there's no longer a valid technical reason to grant it exclusively. Government granted monopolies on spectrum is a primary internet regulation someone that believes in free markets should oppose.
Laying cable and fiber in other people's back yards and public property is a privilege. Those granted that privilege must accept public regulation in return for the public servitude. Think about that for a while and you realize that the Internet is already highly regulated but the regulations do not always serve the public interest. Common carrier and net neutrality is the least the public can ask in return for exclusive use of public property. The public can and should also demand competition in wired service. Someone who believes in free markets would lower barriers to entry and use of wired networks.
I have this collection of tech and mainstream press opinion of Vista as well as the more comprehensive the Vista Failure Log which details industry rejection. PC Magazine, PC World, the Atlantic Monthly, the Independent, EWeek, ITWeek, Dvorak, CNet and Network World all agreed with 90% of IT managers in thinking that Vista should be avoided. ExtremeTech wrote Vista's obituary in 2008. This was followed by USA Today and Time, which called Microsoft an "empire in rapid decline". I collected all the links, just for you.