1) I thought this might show up, which is why I put 'own' in quotation in my post. I meant 'own' in the sense that the community has power over it, can improve it or destroy it (depending on interest). Sorry for not specifying.
As far as cooperation for mutual benefit, it is a tenet of any social animal.
2) "[..] equal rights under the law [..] Capitalism, for example, endorses the same principle."
No, it does not. Capitalism is only an economic model, and is not concerned with such issues. You can very well have a capitalist economy that does not respect equal rights under law and has fixed social classes. Industrial era England, and the US before the civil rights movement are two examples of this.
3) Although I have not made huge contributions to OSS, all projects I have started or have been involved with have had leadership (whether self-appointed or not) and are regulated in some way.
You could say the collective will, which requires leadership, is to build quality software;-)
Yeah, that sums it up pretty well. For sure, communism as a social system and economic model can't work in the physical world. It relies on people not behaving like people. This has been shown many times over. And to your point, in societies that have claimed to try, all that resulted was concentration of wealth and power in an elite class.
But, there are definitely elements of OSS that resemble the ideals of communism (and socialism in general).
I'm not saying no hierarchy, one is always needed in any kind of group setting. What I'm saying is no discrimination based on social class. Bill Gates could contribute code to the kernel, just as well as a Bolivian kid hacking away on his OLPC. All that matters is ability, as you pointed out.
Linux is communist in a sense because the community 'owns' it, anyone can contribute to it regardless of social class, and the community governs itself without need of outside interferance.
These are all fundamental ideals of communism - that all property is communally owned, that all people are equal regardless of class, and that the workers (common people) should be in charge of governing themselves.
The way the Chinese run their country is very far from the ideals of communism, in fact no country that I know has ever had a successful communist government. There has been plenty of dictatorships masquerading as communist though.
I agree with most here that Google has not really done anything to make them not trustworthy, especially when compared to MS. And I appreciate the fact that Google re-invests what they make from advertising into some of the best free services online, and that some of these are even open-source.
However, one area that does concern me greatly is the concentration of all the user and advertiser data in one company. Maybe a break up wouldn't be a bad idea from that point of view. Also, having Google control 80% of the market is a little worrisome, with size and power comes corruption.
For example, you could have an advertising company and a services company. The services (search, gmail, maps, etc) could get paid by the advertising company - but would accept ads from other companies as well.
FF 3 has gone some way to addressing the extension finding problem : you can now search for extensions right from the add-ons panel. It also has the most popular extensions showing by default.
Then, if you install some you can restart FF without losing your tabs. Pretty neat.
Just tell people their choice is to get off their ass and fend for themselves or accept the 'free' government (ware)housing. I suspect most would be horrified enough at the concept of being forced to live in such conditions they would find the motivation to get their life into order. Be a great boost to the economy. And ones who did go in, well out of sight out of mind.
I find your attitude to those less fortunate than you rather appaling. But even from a selfish bastard's point of view, massive subsidized housing projects generaly create more problems for society than they solve.
see here
Newer DSLRs do use quite a bit of power. The main reason is that the LCD display has grown every new generation, leading to increased power consumption.
Compare the D30 to the D40 - same line of canon, 1 generation apart.
Also, some of the new models have a 'live view' that shows the image on the LCD just like a point n shoot.
Unfortnutely the good actions of 'the little people' are completely overshadowed by the greed and arrogance of the top decision makers. As with many global companies, and countries for that matter, most of the people that get to the top are, or become, twisted and evil, even if the general population is really quite nice once you get to know them.
Microsoft licensing under apache but especially LGPL is a small miracle.
From what I understand, the apache license and the gpl are compatible now - in the sense that something licensed under Apache2 can be brought into GPLv3.
Nevertheless their past actions will make it very difficult for open source developers to have any kind of trust.
If we create great PHP support and we create excitement among PHP developers then there is opportunity for Windows Servers, Ramji said.
:: shudders::
Just what the world needs, more windows servers...
4. BOOM. (Yeah, I know, in space, nobody can hear you detonate your nuclear weapons. Bear with me here.) Ship is now traveling very fast away from point of detonation.
a. it would be inefficient, as only a small portion of the blast would be used to actually propel the craft, the rest would just go off into space.
b. it could only be used for non-fragile payloads (i.e. water, food) due to the sudden acceleration.
c. how do you control direction ?
Slashdot Mirror
You've been going to the wrong parties, apparently.
1) I thought this might show up, which is why I put 'own' in quotation in my post. I meant 'own' in the sense that the community has power over it, can improve it or destroy it (depending on interest). Sorry for not specifying.
;-)
As far as cooperation for mutual benefit, it is a tenet of any social animal.
2) "[..] equal rights under the law [..] Capitalism, for example, endorses the same principle."
No, it does not. Capitalism is only an economic model, and is not concerned with such issues. You can very well have a capitalist economy that does not respect equal rights under law and has fixed social classes. Industrial era England, and the US before the civil rights movement are two examples of this.
3) Although I have not made huge contributions to OSS, all projects I have started or have been involved with have had leadership (whether self-appointed or not) and are regulated in some way.
You could say the collective will, which requires leadership, is to build quality software
Yeah, that sums it up pretty well. For sure, communism as a social system and economic model can't work in the physical world. It relies on people not behaving like people. This has been shown many times over. And to your point, in societies that have claimed to try, all that resulted was concentration of wealth and power in an elite class.
But, there are definitely elements of OSS that resemble the ideals of communism (and socialism in general).
I'm not saying no hierarchy, one is always needed in any kind of group setting. What I'm saying is no discrimination based on social class. Bill Gates could contribute code to the kernel, just as well as a Bolivian kid hacking away on his OLPC. All that matters is ability, as you pointed out.
Linux is communist in a sense because the community 'owns' it, anyone can contribute to it regardless of social class, and the community governs itself without need of outside interferance.
These are all fundamental ideals of communism - that all property is communally owned, that all people are equal regardless of class, and that the workers (common people) should be in charge of governing themselves.
The way the Chinese run their country is very far from the ideals of communism, in fact no country that I know has ever had a successful communist government. There has been plenty of dictatorships masquerading as communist though.
I agree with most here that Google has not really done anything to make them not trustworthy, especially when compared to MS. And I appreciate the fact that Google re-invests what they make from advertising into some of the best free services online, and that some of these are even open-source.
However, one area that does concern me greatly is the concentration of all the user and advertiser data in one company. Maybe a break up wouldn't be a bad idea from that point of view. Also, having Google control 80% of the market is a little worrisome, with size and power comes corruption.
For example, you could have an advertising company and a services company. The services (search, gmail, maps, etc) could get paid by the advertising company - but would accept ads from other companies as well.
Web sites are, by their very nature, indexed by IP address. No one is suggesting anonomyzing web sites.
What is being anonymysed are the IP addreses of people that do a google search.
The US and EU will have a much easier time meeting the food needs of their populations than China and India.
Maybe he really did mean standards "de la jure" (Oh, I swear I'll use the standard) as in MS IE ?
FF 3 has gone some way to addressing the extension finding problem : you can now search for extensions right from the add-ons panel. It also has the most popular extensions showing by default.
Then, if you install some you can restart FF without losing your tabs. Pretty neat.
No, but brain size relative to body size is a good indicator.
Neanderthals were about the same size as us.
Just tell people their choice is to get off their ass and fend for themselves or accept the 'free' government (ware)housing. I suspect most would be horrified enough at the concept of being forced to live in such conditions they would find the motivation to get their life into order. Be a great boost to the economy. And ones who did go in, well out of sight out of mind.
I find your attitude to those less fortunate than you rather appaling. But even from a selfish bastard's point of view, massive subsidized housing projects generaly create more problems for society than they solve.
see here
... we get inside intel on the insides of an intel
sure, send piped UNIX commands to a javascript living in a MSSQL server ...
Newer DSLRs do use quite a bit of power. The main reason is that the LCD display has grown every new generation, leading to increased power consumption.
Compare the D30 to the D40 - same line of canon, 1 generation apart.
Also, some of the new models have a 'live view' that shows the image on the LCD just like a point n shoot.
according to ja.wikipedia it is pure green at mid lightness, or RGB (0, 128, 0)
va chier !!
Why was this abortion of an article selected, when there is a better ars one here, and BBC here
Unfortnutely the good actions of 'the little people' are completely overshadowed by the greed and arrogance of the top decision makers. As with many global companies, and countries for that matter, most of the people that get to the top are, or become, twisted and evil, even if the general population is really quite nice once you get to know them.
From what I understand, the apache license and the gpl are compatible now - in the sense that something licensed under Apache2 can be brought into GPLv3.
Nevertheless their past actions will make it very difficult for open source developers to have any kind of trust.
If we create great PHP support and we create excitement among PHP developers then there is opportunity for Windows Servers, Ramji said.
:: shudders :: ...
Just what the world needs, more windows servers
well considering many of us here are at work, we are getting paid for it.
they've got a brazillion windows users
They have users in other countries too, not just Brazil.
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
However, wouldn't it make more sense to have a controlled output rather than a big blast ?
4. BOOM. (Yeah, I know, in space, nobody can hear you detonate your nuclear weapons. Bear with me here.) Ship is now traveling very fast away from point of detonation.
a. it would be inefficient, as only a small portion of the blast would be used to actually propel the craft, the rest would just go off into space.
...
b. it could only be used for non-fragile payloads (i.e. water, food) due to the sudden acceleration.
c. how do you control direction ?
then there's the political issues
more like genetic engineering or stealth ... if they need iron working I doubt they would have rocketry !!