Or maybe your information is BUNK. 'Several respected Meteorologists' have also expressed their concern about this issue. Facts are these:
There IS a anomaly in the temperature curve that seem to coincidence nicely with our usage of fossil fuel. There was a cyclical "uptrend" before, but the way it's rising now does not have any match in historical data. You are welcome to look this up as I can't quite my source. Maybe I should go for "respected scientists".
We do NOT know whether this is a natural or a man-caused phenomena. If it is natural, good for us, if it's not, we probably won't know for certain until it's more or less too late. Bad for us.
One could conclude the gamble and stakes are just too big. We simply can't afford to take this risk. We certainly don't KNOW, but hell, I'd like for the earth to stay habitable.
Heh, I'm from the 'rest of the world' (Europe specifically). Trust me, the book eats the soccer team alive. Now if you were talking Manchester United... =) Nah, the book eats ANY team, in ANY sport, ANYWHERE. I'd say.
Tell your teacher that his copy of Word reads.rtf files as well? Or explain to him that Word is not free software and as such can not be accepted as the only acceptable standard to turn in papers in. I don't think he will have any problem understanding that you might not have $500 laying around and don't want to resort to stealing the software to be able to finish the course. I've never met a lecturer thick headed enough for that yet.
Stealing, promoting the continuation of MS domination through proprierty standards, and not buying the cheaper alternative, is not the solution.
Licences and copyrights and patents are a hack to make information products look like limited goods. Too bad its becoming increasingly obvious this is a bad thing.
But until someone has come up with a good alternative solution (and nobody has yet) we better pay for software or a whole lot of good software is never going to be written.
I agree with you on the problems involved, even though I don't agree that this problem has anything to do with the fact that the author in any way doesn't have the right to demand money for his/hers hard work. They do. The fact that information in this time and age can be copied and spread virtually for free does not make the time invested in the information any less valuable.
It's all about trading manhours really, and time spent creating a physical object in no way has more inherent value than time spent creating information.
Well, while you might not pay $500 for Photoshop, you most likely don't need Photoshop either if you can't see why it's worth $500. And maybe then you would go and pay for the excellent and CHEAP Paint Shop Pro instead. While it's not PS, PsPis plenty good enough for most users most of the time. But who is going to buy it when they can as well warez the more advanced PS? Piracy invalidates software business for the "cheaper alternatives". Who can sell a cheap shareware wordprocessor these days? Their potential consumers just get an illegit copy of Word instead. Software piracy don't hurt the big companies as much as it hurts smaller companies trying to sell lesser alternatives without the options that most people don't use all that much anyways. It is killing the market for budget software. Pay for what you use, and if you can't pay for what you use, make do with a cheaper alternative, there are cheaper alternatives for almost everything. And there would be way more cheap alternatives if software piracy was less abudant.
I'm sorry but you're still not getting it. Up until about 10(?) years ago speedos was the only thing most guys would wear at the pool. There are plenty of middle aged and older males in Euope that has likely never even considered wearing anything but at the pool. You have simply missed something if you really believe that speedos in any way imply anything amoral. It _might_ hold true for a younger generation, but it certainly doesn't apply to this guy's generation. This guy is wearing speedos because it's what he has always been going swimming in, never even considering using anything else, that's for the younger generation. Been here you might have, but understand everything you do not. I can tell you I don't understand everything after a year in the US. Far from. It's so easy to miss the nuances of peoples values.
It takes all kinds, but while he might be more productive and a more typical Linux user, he does not represent the majority of web users. That kind of attitude, "the web is a tool, if you are using it for entertainment you are using it the wrong way", is everywhere in the Linux community on a lot of issues. And frankly, while it might make some sense from a purely technical perspective, it's not the kind of attitude that will make Linux mainstream. If we really want that (do we?) the "holier than thou" attitude needs to be dropped. Flash makes for neat visuals and could actually be useful if the designer went fro something but the "glitz factor". Neat looks ARE important, whatever anyone else might think.
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There IS a anomaly in the temperature curve that seem to coincidence nicely with our usage of fossil fuel. There was a cyclical "uptrend" before, but the way it's rising now does not have any match in historical data. You are welcome to look this up as I can't quite my source. Maybe I should go for "respected scientists".
We do NOT know whether this is a natural or a man-caused phenomena. If it is natural, good for us, if it's not, we probably won't know for certain until it's more or less too late. Bad for us.
One could conclude the gamble and stakes are just too big. We simply can't afford to take this risk. We certainly don't KNOW, but hell, I'd like for the earth to stay habitable.
Heh, I'm from the 'rest of the world' (Europe specifically). Trust me, the book eats the soccer team alive. Now if you were talking Manchester United... =) Nah, the book eats ANY team, in ANY sport, ANYWHERE. I'd say.
Stealing, promoting the continuation of MS domination through proprierty standards, and not buying the cheaper alternative, is not the solution.
But until someone has come up with a good alternative solution (and nobody has yet) we better pay for software or a whole lot of good software is never going to be written.
I agree with you on the problems involved, even though I don't agree that this problem has anything to do with the fact that the author in any way doesn't have the right to demand money for his/hers hard work. They do. The fact that information in this time and age can be copied and spread virtually for free does not make the time invested in the information any less valuable.
It's all about trading manhours really, and time spent creating a physical object in no way has more inherent value than time spent creating information.
Well, while you might not pay $500 for Photoshop, you most likely don't need Photoshop either if you can't see why it's worth $500. And maybe then you would go and pay for the excellent and CHEAP Paint Shop Pro instead. While it's not PS, PsPis plenty good enough for most users most of the time. But who is going to buy it when they can as well warez the more advanced PS? Piracy invalidates software business for the "cheaper alternatives". Who can sell a cheap shareware wordprocessor these days? Their potential consumers just get an illegit copy of Word instead. Software piracy don't hurt the big companies as much as it hurts smaller companies trying to sell lesser alternatives without the options that most people don't use all that much anyways. It is killing the market for budget software. Pay for what you use, and if you can't pay for what you use, make do with a cheaper alternative, there are cheaper alternatives for almost everything. And there would be way more cheap alternatives if software piracy was less abudant.
I'm sorry but you're still not getting it. Up until about 10(?) years ago speedos was the only thing most guys would wear at the pool. There are plenty of middle aged and older males in Euope that has likely never even considered wearing anything but at the pool. You have simply missed something if you really believe that speedos in any way imply anything amoral. It _might_ hold true for a younger generation, but it certainly doesn't apply to this guy's generation. This guy is wearing speedos because it's what he has always been going swimming in, never even considering using anything else, that's for the younger generation. Been here you might have, but understand everything you do not. I can tell you I don't understand everything after a year in the US. Far from. It's so easy to miss the nuances of peoples values.
It takes all kinds, but while he might be more productive and a more typical Linux user, he does not represent the majority of web users. That kind of attitude, "the web is a tool, if you are using it for entertainment you are using it the wrong way", is everywhere in the Linux community on a lot of issues. And frankly, while it might make some sense from a purely technical perspective, it's not the kind of attitude that will make Linux mainstream. If we really want that (do we?) the "holier than thou" attitude needs to be dropped. Flash makes for neat visuals and could actually be useful if the designer went fro something but the "glitz factor". Neat looks ARE important, whatever anyone else might think.