Disagree with you there. I tried out Mint as an Ubuntu replacement and I hate it. Ubuntu's theme and default setup is much better. Mint's trying to be a window's alternative which if you've been using Ubuntu for a few years you'll hate.
Why do you bring up The Silmarillion? It wasn't published therefore why should it be taxed for inheritance as per my suggestion above? Also you said it yourself,
Additionally, if you didn't have a progressive inheritance tax, that would be one less thing standing in the way of a permanent owning class of dynasties that accumulated and accumulated until everything was owned.
What with your double standards? It's not ok to accumulate money until it's all owned but copyrights that never expire (it's been 40 years now) is ok with you? Having a bit of trouble understanding you..
You realise that Apple uses the exact same software (CUPS) to print that Linux does, right? In fact it's Apple's software. So if you've ever had a problem printing on Linux then you'd also have that problem on Apple, and it'd also be their fault.
someone leaves you copyright on a load of old manuscripts, well we don't know whether they'll sell for tens of thousands or if they'll earn you nothing
Nonsense. If a piece of copyright has been making x amount of income for the last x years you can tell very well.
Henning Tillmann, a colleague of Oliver Kaczmarek, the SPD MP who raised the question, and a member of the SPD executive committee's web policy discussion group, told our associates at heise Open that the government's response was not satisfactory. "The reasons given for the return to Windows are implausible," says Tillmann, "We need the figures." The costs of licensing Windows and MS Office throughout the department would cover the costs of programming a hell of a lot of drivers, notes Tillmann. Oliver Kaczmarek has already announced his intention to take the matter further and demand a clear statement from the government.
We have scanners and printers running no problem in our office on Ubuntu. Why exactly does he mention having to program printer and scanner drivers?
They might have a legitimate problem but from the information presented it sounds like poor excuses when someone asks for the exact figures and he responds with the need to write drivers. It sounds like something Microsoft would say from their "get the facts" campaign.
So if your father spends his whole life working his ass off in a coal mine to put food in his children's mouths, then dies of black lung disease when you're fourteen, his savings should all go to the state and your mom should have to go door-to-door looking for a job, huh?
In the UK this pretty much happens already.. You have death tax (haha even in death there is no escape) and then any inheritance has a huge tax on it too.
This is why you give all your assets to your offspring before you die.
I think inherited copyrights should be taxed the same way money is in my opinion.
That's the thing, Microsoft helped setup the original LSE. It was well publised in their own get the facts campaign on why Microsoft's solutions are better then open source.
Perhaps you'd like to compare it to the old system which shutdown trading for a whole day if not longer? I don't remember the specifics.
A 42 second delay at the end of trading is nothing. I really don't understand why people hold this Linux platform to a much higher standard and overlook the poor performance of the previous system which was terrible.
No one is talking about relying only on sudo. It's just another tool you can use to protect yourself. Your response is as dumb as saying seat belts make drivers take more risks.
Yeah, I can see the problem with that unless the goods are constantly being revalued but then the price just keeps getting more and more expensive.
I wonder if Bit Coin can be turned on it's head to make more sense then. For example generated coins become less valuable the longer they exist and the generation doesn't stop at 21 Million coins.
Yeah... but surely if you don't spend the money you're losing it right? So it makes sense not to keep large sums of longer periods of time otherwise its value decreases.
How many bitcoins do you have in your wallets? (Rounded up) 0 13 (8.8%) 1-10 19 (12.8%) 11-50 9 (6.1%) 51-100 13 (8.8%) 101-500 21 (14.2%) 501-2000 23 (15.5%) 2001-9999 18 (12.2%) 10000+ 13 (8.8%)
Just because you don't want it, doesn't mean someone else doesn't value it.
Unfortunately that's not how currencies work. Both parties and everyone else they trade with must value the currency for it to be worth exchanging for other labor or goods.
Problem with Bit Coin is the community that has hoarded a huge amount of bit coins. They've essentially made the thing into a pyramid scheme because everyone is trying to raise the price and cash out. The community is trying it's hardest to make it popular and you can even read where they've tried to game slashdot to get their stories posted. Even the main author of the software is anonymous and uses a fake name in the community.
When it comes to technology judges are the worse and they really are that stupid. Why do you think that the SCO case took ten years over the "infringement" of a header file?
Most of linksys' products are GPL compliant they have an email address where you can request the code if you can't find the link. I've used it before and they actually packaged up the source code for me.
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Disagree with you there. I tried out Mint as an Ubuntu replacement and I hate it. Ubuntu's theme and default setup is much better. Mint's trying to be a window's alternative which if you've been using Ubuntu for a few years you'll hate.
Why do you bring up The Silmarillion? It wasn't published therefore why should it be taxed for inheritance as per my suggestion above?
Also you said it yourself,
What with your double standards? It's not ok to accumulate money until it's all owned but copyrights that never expire (it's been 40 years now) is ok with you? Having a bit of trouble understanding you..
You realise that Apple uses the exact same software (CUPS) to print that Linux does, right? In fact it's Apple's software. So if you've ever had a problem printing on Linux then you'd also have that problem on Apple, and it'd also be their fault.
because you end up with shit like this..
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2006166&cid=35279232
Nonsense. If a piece of copyright has been making x amount of income for the last x years you can tell very well.
As someone who knows nothing about this guy what's the say he doesn't tell the public one thing while acting another way out of sight?
We have scanners and printers running no problem in our office on Ubuntu. Why exactly does he mention having to program printer and scanner drivers?
They might have a legitimate problem but from the information presented it sounds like poor excuses when someone asks for the exact figures and he responds with the need to write drivers. It sounds like something Microsoft would say from their "get the facts" campaign.
Microsoft staff + vendors posting as AC in 3...2...1...
fixed that for you
Thanks for posting the link. So tired of americans obsession with nipples getting in the way of everything..
So some asshole flagged the QT video on youtube and now there is no way to report it as incorrectly flagged. A new low for fanboys..
In the UK this pretty much happens already.. You have death tax (haha even in death there is no escape) and then any inheritance has a huge tax on it too.
This is why you give all your assets to your offspring before you die.
I think inherited copyrights should be taxed the same way money is in my opinion.
That's the thing, Microsoft helped setup the original LSE. It was well publised in their own get the facts campaign on why Microsoft's solutions are better then open source.
Perhaps you'd like to compare it to the old system which shutdown trading for a whole day if not longer? I don't remember the specifics.
A 42 second delay at the end of trading is nothing. I really don't understand why people hold this Linux platform to a much higher standard and overlook the poor performance of the previous system which was terrible.
This is coming from the same site that said Steam was coming to linux too. Don't get too hyped up just yet..
The GGP was just being a douchbag..
It's elitist bullshit simply because sudo is newer then logging into root and the GGP doesn't like change.
Which is better..
su root
apt-get install whatever
exit
or simply typing
sudo apt-get install whatever
No one is talking about relying only on sudo. It's just another tool you can use to protect yourself. Your response is as dumb as saying seat belts make drivers take more risks.
Yeah, I can see the problem with that unless the goods are constantly being revalued but then the price just keeps getting more and more expensive.
I wonder if Bit Coin can be turned on it's head to make more sense then. For example generated coins become less valuable the longer they exist and the generation doesn't stop at 21 Million coins.
I think the GP means government controlled market rather then the government forcing people to pay back scammed people.
Yeah... but surely if you don't spend the money you're losing it right? So it makes sense not to keep large sums of longer periods of time otherwise its value decreases.
No that's irrelevant too because people trading to themselves is counted as a transaction and there is no way to know who owns what accounts.
Spend any time on the forum and it's very clear what people are doing.
This poll suggests that a lot of a community is hoarding.
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3324.20
How many bitcoins do you have in your wallets? (Rounded up)
0 13 (8.8%)
1-10 19 (12.8%)
11-50 9 (6.1%)
51-100 13 (8.8%)
101-500 21 (14.2%)
501-2000 23 (15.5%)
2001-9999 18 (12.2%)
10000+ 13 (8.8%)
Unfortunately that's not how currencies work. Both parties and everyone else they trade with must value the currency for it to be worth exchanging for other labor or goods.
Problem with Bit Coin is the community that has hoarded a huge amount of bit coins. They've essentially made the thing into a pyramid scheme because everyone is trying to raise the price and cash out. The community is trying it's hardest to make it popular and you can even read where they've tried to game slashdot to get their stories posted. Even the main author of the software is anonymous and uses a fake name in the community.
All those things combined hint at a giant scam.
When it comes to technology judges are the worse and they really are that stupid. Why do you think that the SCO case took ten years over the "infringement" of a header file?
Most of linksys' products are GPL compliant they have an email address where you can request the code if you can't find the link. I've used it before and they actually packaged up the source code for me.