The one fundamental problem that I've always had with SuSE is their non-Free installer. I wholeheartedly sympathize with their desire to make money, but what's the point in using Linux if you go out and choose the one distribution that's not GPLed?
Red Hat always takes a lot of crap for being "sell outs," but SuSE is the only distro company that has ever restricted redistribution. I don't understand why they don't take more crap for that. I, for one, will not be sad if SuSE goes under.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes. "Sometimes, I think the best evidence that there's intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Still, a couple other important points: Britain made it known to Germany that if France were not invaded, they would stay out of the war. Obviously, France was not going to stand against Germany and A-H with only Russia as support.
Unfortunately, the Germans had their attack so precisely planned against France in the event of a European war that by the time Kaiser Wilhelm was made aware of this, and attempted to call off the preemptive invasion of France, his generals were fully in control and would allow no interference.
This fact, combined with Kaiser Wilhelm's intentional arms race with Britain, does place a fair amount of responsibility on Germany's shoulders. Russia's government probably would have fallen almost instantly in the force of a combined Austria-Hungary and German assault.
Oh, and the Ottoman Empire, my understanding is, never wanted to be in the war in the first place, but were persuaded by German economic pressure. I don't blame them for not wanting in, they ended up being something of a testbed for risky, experimental military strategies (Lawrence of Arabia doing nationalist guerilla warfare, and the Australia/New Zealand amphibious assault at Galipoli coming immediately to mind), and what was left of their country was dismantled after the war, as with Austria-Hungary.
In some ways, Germany got off pretty easy, at least they got to keep their country, no one tried to split them back up into Holy Roman Empire states!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'm probably totally talking out my ass, but does the DMCA apply to protection measures like these? I just always had this image in my mind of it only applying to encryption-based protection methods. Again, I'm probably wrong, but can anyone confirm or deny?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This is perfectly fair, because these are the WEBby awards. The World Wide Web is the part of the Internet distributed via http. If they were going to give awards to non-http sites, it'd be called the Netty Awards, or something.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It doesn't have to be a derivative work. All that matters is that they use GPL'ed works. The license says "if it is linked in thus-and-such a way, you must do these things." This is no different than a MS license saying "you may not publish benchmarks of this software without consent."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
IANAL, but I have read a littSee the part that says "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private?" Basically, that often overlooked statement means that the dollar is almighty. There is almost nothing, aside from criminal violations and bankrupcy, which will result in any obligations that cannot be repaid in cash. A contract may specify "you must give me one pound of gold" at some specified point in time. However, at the other person's option, they may give you the market value of a pound of gold instead.
So, to apply this to the current situation, I would tend to agree with the earlier (parent of the parent) poster that the courts would not force the company to release their source code. Their greatest liability would probably be the revenues from the sale of the software, or possibly their development costs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
We obviously do not speak the same language, so this will be my last reply on the subject. I would highly recommend reading a few economics texts, however. Anything by Milton Friedman would also work quite well.
Look at the boom economy the US went through from 1946 to 1963 - the US was a Juggernaut.
Right, because we were still recovering from the Great Depression. The DJIA did not regain its 1929 high until sometime in the 60's (I've got a chart at home, but not with me). Then, through the 70's we had stagflation, the worst possible combination in an economy, where the only options are even higher inflation, or an even worse economy.
A little bit more tax money, a few more elite, and a drastically lowered charity level
Isn't more tax money the whole point of taxes? And aren't more elite a good thing? I'm confused about what you're objecting to here.
the difference between the distribution between the rich and the poor has been widening drastically
Maybe so, but the poor have, on an inflation adjusted basis, been getting steadily richer. So, I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not the top 1% is getting richer FASTER. Why begrudge another man his success if you are still better off than you were?
We should look to Europe as a model - where they manage to be, relative to their population, modern economic powerhouses, with a much better distribution of wealth, amongst other factors.
This is a lie. America is richer (yes, on a per capita basis), has higher employment, and a more economically mobile society (which is to say, those below the poverty line stay below the poverty line for a shorter period of time). If you like Europe so much, then move there and leave those of us who enjoy keeping the fruits of our labors alone.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Actually, yes it is. Otherwise, we would be as bad as that German law firm that demanded money even though Killustrator changed its name. If someone fixes the violation, then they should not be held responsible for their earlier violation.
Imagine if everyone went around prosecuting everyone without giving them a chance to right their wrongs. That's certainly not how I'd want things to work.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It should be obvious that, if you tax all income above, say $100,000, at 100%, then no one will get paid more than $100,000. After someone has secured a job which pays $100,000, they will cease to seek promotions, and will hence not work as hard. This will be detrimental to the economy. One would collect more tax money by setting the tax rate below 100% on income above $100,000. In fact, Reagan himself had experience with this, because actors in the great depression would only make one movie a year, because after one movie, they'd hit the point where their tax rate was absurdly high, and it just wouldn't be worth making any more.
Now then, it should also be easy to see that the point at which one's marginal tax revenues will become negative is below 100%. A 90% tax rate would probably collect more than a 95% tax rate. This is called the Laffer Curve (after the economist of the same name (Er, Mr. Laffer, not Mr. Curve:) ). Once one has hit the peak of the Laffer Curve, raising the tax rate will decrease, rather than increase, the tax revenues. The theory behind Reagan's policy of cutting taxes while raising spending was that we were on the wrong side of the curve, and cutting taxes would actually move us closer to the peak.
As it turned out, he was right only about the highest income bracket. By cutting taxes, he increased the amount of tax money collected from the highest bracket (in absolute, inflation adjusted dollar terms), but decreased the amount of money collected from lower income brackets. Hence, overall, tax revenues went down. So you're right, his tax policy overall was wrong. But, he was right to cut taxes on the highest income bracket, unless you view taxes as a way to punish the rich, instead of a way to fund government. What he should have done is cut taxes on the top bracket, kept them the same for the rest, and increased spending only slightly, not cut taxes on everyone and dramatically increased spending.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I see nothing on that page related to taxes from the highest income bracket. No, I did not get the data from Rush Limbaugh, I got it from my economics textbook, from a class at Brown University (a notoriously liberal school). Yes, it is true the OVERALL, tax collections went down, while spending went up. However IN THE HIGHEST INCOME BRACKET, tax collections went up.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
When Regan lowered taxes, we actually got MORE tax revenue from the highest income bracket. Look up the Laffer Curve if you want to know why this happened. Of course, we got less revenue from all the lower income brackets, because they were not over the crest of the Laffer Curve, so we ended up deeper in debt, but cutting taxes on the highest bracket was a good move.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, moron, you have to pay tax on everything you recieve. The CORPORATION may not pay taxes, but you still will. This way you just wouldn't get taxed twice. No, you CAN'T get out of it by making them "benefits" instead of direct cash payments, because you still have to pay taxes on all goods you recieve no matter what form they are in. So, your corporation gives you a laptop, and you owe taxes on $3000 in income.
Corporate taxes are stupid, because one way or another, it just comes out of your salery. You just don't realize it because it's not itemized on your paycheck. Likewise, you probably didn't realize that you're actually paying TWICE as much for social security, because "your employer has to match" your SS taxes. Which is exactly the same as if you had to pay it all yourself.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Only Adobe Acrobat can read the Loki Tribes 2 manual, for example. I'm not sure what features are unsupported, but for some reason neither gv nor xpdf work.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Before anyone points it out, yes, obviously this can be recharged by being plugged in too, if it uses Li-ion batteries. I must not have been reading very carefully. Still, carrying around a two pound power adaptor would seem to defeat the point of a palm top.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hell, I may as well just use a laptop, at least that can recharge by plugging in. It looks like the same thing is happening to PDAs that happened to laptops, more and more power is being crammed in at the expense of useful battery life.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
That was a very vague link, but it looks like he's arguing that we will never run out of oil. Am I correct? Without a link to a specific article it's tough to know what he's talking about.
If that is indeed what you are referring to, I agree that's entirely possible. If we never run out of oil, this situation will never come to pass. I was merely discussing what would happen if there were an oil shortage.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Maybe any teenager who could afford a car would get one, but if we do start running out of fuel (and alternative energy cars are still non-viable) then they won't be able to afford upkeep. If gasoline cost $30 a gallon, there'll be a lot less driving no matter how dorky public transit seems at first.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, channel doesn't work anymore. "partners" was the original, then "channel," now "archives." It changes every so often. And the problem with logins is not the privacy or spam problems, it's the waste of my time problem. I only visit the site maybe once every couple months, and I never remember what login and password I chose, so I have to make a new one, which is a fuckin' pain in the ass.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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Well, the Slash source is available, nobody's stopping you...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Possibly because it's fairly easy to figure out. Hence, having a post about something that everyone already knows is redundant. Likewise, if there was an article linked to http://www.cnncom, then posting "it should be http://www.cnn.com" would be redundant.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Um, just to let you know, "lawyer" actually is a term meaning "one who has passed the bar exam." My mother is a lawyer, though she has been a housewife for the past 14 years (since my youngest brother was born). Once you pass the bar, you're a lawyer for life, whether or not you're employed. Sort of like the Narnia series... "once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia..."
Oh, and JD (Doctor of Jusiprudence, or something to that effect) is the term for someone who's graduated law school.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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Red Hat always takes a lot of crap for being "sell outs," but SuSE is the only distro company that has ever restricted redistribution. I don't understand why they don't take more crap for that. I, for one, will not be sad if SuSE goes under.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes. "Sometimes, I think the best evidence that there's intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Dunno about the first, but the second was already covered a while back.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Unfortunately, the Germans had their attack so precisely planned against France in the event of a European war that by the time Kaiser Wilhelm was made aware of this, and attempted to call off the preemptive invasion of France, his generals were fully in control and would allow no interference.
This fact, combined with Kaiser Wilhelm's intentional arms race with Britain, does place a fair amount of responsibility on Germany's shoulders. Russia's government probably would have fallen almost instantly in the force of a combined Austria-Hungary and German assault.
Oh, and the Ottoman Empire, my understanding is, never wanted to be in the war in the first place, but were persuaded by German economic pressure. I don't blame them for not wanting in, they ended up being something of a testbed for risky, experimental military strategies (Lawrence of Arabia doing nationalist guerilla warfare, and the Australia/New Zealand amphibious assault at Galipoli coming immediately to mind), and what was left of their country was dismantled after the war, as with Austria-Hungary.
In some ways, Germany got off pretty easy, at least they got to keep their country, no one tried to split them back up into Holy Roman Empire states!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'm probably totally talking out my ass, but does the DMCA apply to protection measures like these? I just always had this image in my mind of it only applying to encryption-based protection methods. Again, I'm probably wrong, but can anyone confirm or deny?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This is perfectly fair, because these are the WEBby awards. The World Wide Web is the part of the Internet distributed via http. If they were going to give awards to non-http sites, it'd be called the Netty Awards, or something.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It doesn't have to be a derivative work. All that matters is that they use GPL'ed works. The license says "if it is linked in thus-and-such a way, you must do these things." This is no different than a MS license saying "you may not publish benchmarks of this software without consent."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Er, that was supposed to be "IANAL, but I have read a little about this." I don't know what's wrong with me.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So, to apply this to the current situation, I would tend to agree with the earlier (parent of the parent) poster that the courts would not force the company to release their source code. Their greatest liability would probably be the revenues from the sale of the software, or possibly their development costs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Look at the boom economy the US went through from 1946 to 1963 - the US was a Juggernaut.
Right, because we were still recovering from the Great Depression. The DJIA did not regain its 1929 high until sometime in the 60's (I've got a chart at home, but not with me). Then, through the 70's we had stagflation, the worst possible combination in an economy, where the only options are even higher inflation, or an even worse economy.
A little bit more tax money, a few more elite, and a drastically lowered charity level
Isn't more tax money the whole point of taxes? And aren't more elite a good thing? I'm confused about what you're objecting to here.
the difference between the distribution between the rich and the poor has been widening drastically
Maybe so, but the poor have, on an inflation adjusted basis, been getting steadily richer. So, I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not the top 1% is getting richer FASTER. Why begrudge another man his success if you are still better off than you were?
We should look to Europe as a model - where they manage to be, relative to their population, modern economic powerhouses, with a much better distribution of wealth, amongst other factors.
This is a lie. America is richer (yes, on a per capita basis), has higher employment, and a more economically mobile society (which is to say, those below the poverty line stay below the poverty line for a shorter period of time). If you like Europe so much, then move there and leave those of us who enjoy keeping the fruits of our labors alone.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Imagine if everyone went around prosecuting everyone without giving them a chance to right their wrongs. That's certainly not how I'd want things to work.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It should be obvious that, if you tax all income above, say $100,000, at 100%, then no one will get paid more than $100,000. After someone has secured a job which pays $100,000, they will cease to seek promotions, and will hence not work as hard. This will be detrimental to the economy. One would collect more tax money by setting the tax rate below 100% on income above $100,000. In fact, Reagan himself had experience with this, because actors in the great depression would only make one movie a year, because after one movie, they'd hit the point where their tax rate was absurdly high, and it just wouldn't be worth making any more.
Now then, it should also be easy to see that the point at which one's marginal tax revenues will become negative is below 100%. A 90% tax rate would probably collect more than a 95% tax rate. This is called the Laffer Curve (after the economist of the same name (Er, Mr. Laffer, not Mr. Curve :) ). Once one has hit the peak of the Laffer Curve, raising the tax rate will decrease, rather than increase, the tax revenues. The theory behind Reagan's policy of cutting taxes while raising spending was that we were on the wrong side of the curve, and cutting taxes would actually move us closer to the peak.
As it turned out, he was right only about the highest income bracket. By cutting taxes, he increased the amount of tax money collected from the highest bracket (in absolute, inflation adjusted dollar terms), but decreased the amount of money collected from lower income brackets. Hence, overall, tax revenues went down. So you're right, his tax policy overall was wrong. But, he was right to cut taxes on the highest income bracket, unless you view taxes as a way to punish the rich, instead of a way to fund government. What he should have done is cut taxes on the top bracket, kept them the same for the rest, and increased spending only slightly, not cut taxes on everyone and dramatically increased spending.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I see nothing on that page related to taxes from the highest income bracket. No, I did not get the data from Rush Limbaugh, I got it from my economics textbook, from a class at Brown University (a notoriously liberal school). Yes, it is true the OVERALL, tax collections went down, while spending went up. However IN THE HIGHEST INCOME BRACKET, tax collections went up.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
When Regan lowered taxes, we actually got MORE tax revenue from the highest income bracket. Look up the Laffer Curve if you want to know why this happened. Of course, we got less revenue from all the lower income brackets, because they were not over the crest of the Laffer Curve, so we ended up deeper in debt, but cutting taxes on the highest bracket was a good move.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Corporate taxes are stupid, because one way or another, it just comes out of your salery. You just don't realize it because it's not itemized on your paycheck. Likewise, you probably didn't realize that you're actually paying TWICE as much for social security, because "your employer has to match" your SS taxes. Which is exactly the same as if you had to pay it all yourself.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I see no evidence of any such thing on their website. Are you sure?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Only Adobe Acrobat can read the Loki Tribes 2 manual, for example. I'm not sure what features are unsupported, but for some reason neither gv nor xpdf work.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Before anyone points it out, yes, obviously this can be recharged by being plugged in too, if it uses Li-ion batteries. I must not have been reading very carefully. Still, carrying around a two pound power adaptor would seem to defeat the point of a palm top.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hell, I may as well just use a laptop, at least that can recharge by plugging in. It looks like the same thing is happening to PDAs that happened to laptops, more and more power is being crammed in at the expense of useful battery life.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If that is indeed what you are referring to, I agree that's entirely possible. If we never run out of oil, this situation will never come to pass. I was merely discussing what would happen if there were an oil shortage.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Maybe any teenager who could afford a car would get one, but if we do start running out of fuel (and alternative energy cars are still non-viable) then they won't be able to afford upkeep. If gasoline cost $30 a gallon, there'll be a lot less driving no matter how dorky public transit seems at first.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, channel doesn't work anymore. "partners" was the original, then "channel," now "archives." It changes every so often. And the problem with logins is not the privacy or spam problems, it's the waste of my time problem. I only visit the site maybe once every couple months, and I never remember what login and password I chose, so I have to make a new one, which is a fuckin' pain in the ass.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Well, the Slash source is available, nobody's stopping you...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Possibly because it's fairly easy to figure out. Hence, having a post about something that everyone already knows is redundant. Likewise, if there was an article linked to http://www.cnncom, then posting "it should be http://www.cnn.com" would be redundant.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Oh, and JD (Doctor of Jusiprudence, or something to that effect) is the term for someone who's graduated law school.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.