Does this mean that soon you'll have to monitor the health of your computer, and make sure it's well-fed? Man, I can't even keep plants alive, let alone something like a fish.
I can see it now... "Hey man, you up for a game of Quake 5 tonight?" "Sorry, man, can't do it, I went out of town and my roommate forgot to feed my computer."
You know... I happen to remember something a lot like this happening back in the dark ages... Something about floating or sinking in water being a proof of guilt or innocence, in that if you floated, you were a witch, and burned. If you drowned, you were innocent, and with god.
So, should we now be calling them Grand High Witch Hunter RIAA?
I'll have to disagree with you on this point. While, Japanese does have a large collection of different glyphs (Kanji), that actually makes the language much easier to read.
An analogy would be with English as to using full words, o r j u s t s p e l l i n g e v e r y t h i n g o u t i n a l o n g s e r i e s o f l e t t e r s w h i c h m a y o r m a y n o t g o w i t h t h e l e t t e r b e f o r e o r b e h i n d i t . Not very easy to read, no?
While, learning the characters may be more difficult than learning individual letters and their combinations, it's much easier to read those characters and figure out how they relate to other characters, and, therefor, read the word.
Actually, there is one company that is doing this exact thing.
Emusic has a subscriber site, and for $10 a month, you can get all of the mp3s on their site, and they add new ones each month.
The only problem is their selection is fairly small, and it's mostly indie bands and a few others, but I always check their first to see if any of the music I want can be obtained legally.
I used to work in the Network Operations Center for Earthlink (formerly Mindspring), and they did actually install Carnivore out on their systems in California, however, it had this nasty habit of making their network unstable (Like the people out in CA actually HAD a network that was more than two tin cans with some string between it, but that's a different issue).
When I was last there, the policy from inside was that if the FBI would make the sytem compatable with their network, they'd happily install it, and comply with all FBI rulings, and all of that. So much for the 'Privacy Protection' they've been advertising. And don't even get me started about all of that privacy protection stuff they advertise.
Uhm, I hate to break this to you, but the Traditions aren't the "Good Guy Mages". They're the anchors that are holding humanity back from being able to advance past our current state of psudo-religious hooey (the technical term), to a more advanced form, a form where we can:
Easily enhance our bodies and minds with technology
Where medical technologies are safer, more efficient, and allow us to cure any disease
Where we explore space far beyond our moon, and the deepest depths of our oceans
Where money no longer controls us, but rather that we control money, and it does our bidding
Where there is One World Government, equal rules for all, to stop madmen from controling the world, and killing innocent peoples.
We are the Technocratic Union. We are the desires of all of humanity. If we were not wanted... If we were not needed... then we wouldn't be the Guardians of Humanity.
We're negative because Be is greedy and the OS supports greed, expensive software and doesn't support the OS movement.
Oh, I see. And we should really stop that closed-source restaurant down the road, because they're greedy, and they don't open-source their food!
Look, a business is a business. People work for money. Now, I'm sure you're such a wonderful proponent of the Open-Sourced movement, if your boss came in tomorrow and said that they were going to stop paying you for what you did, open source the business model, and work out of the kindness of your hearts that you would be fine.
>No, we are trying to get away from closed source OSes. > >Fact.
Who is this 'We'? Why did I not get the memo? I personally don't care if an OS is open-sourced or closed-sourced, what I care about is ease-of-use, speed, and that I don't have to fight with my system for 7 days just to get it to boot. So, I don't know who this 'We' to whom you refer to, but it does not include me. Ergo, your so called 'Fact' is proved false.
Please try to not speak for all of humanity. It does nothing but make the sheep nervious.
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Does this mean that soon you'll have to monitor the health of your computer, and make sure it's well-fed? Man, I can't even keep plants alive, let alone something like a fish.
I can see it now... "Hey man, you up for a game of Quake 5 tonight?" "Sorry, man, can't do it, I went out of town and my roommate forgot to feed my computer."
You know... I happen to remember something a lot like this happening back in the dark ages... Something about floating or sinking in water being a proof of guilt or innocence, in that if you floated, you were a witch, and burned. If you drowned, you were innocent, and with god.
So, should we now be calling them Grand High Witch Hunter RIAA?
I'll have to disagree with you on this point. While, Japanese does have a large collection of different glyphs (Kanji), that actually makes the language much easier to read.
An analogy would be with English as to using full words, o r j u s t s p e l l i n g e v e r y t h i n g o u t i n a l o n g s e r i e s o f l e t t e r s w h i c h m a y o r m a y n o t g o w i t h t h e l e t t e r b e f o r e o r b e h i n d i t . Not very easy to read, no?
While, learning the characters may be more difficult than learning individual letters and their combinations, it's much easier to read those characters and figure out how they relate to other characters, and, therefor, read the word.
Actually, there is one company that is doing this exact thing.
Emusic has a subscriber site, and for $10 a month, you can get all of the mp3s on their site, and they add new ones each month.
The only problem is their selection is fairly small, and it's mostly indie bands and a few others, but I always check their first to see if any of the music I want can be obtained legally.
I used to work in the Network Operations Center for Earthlink (formerly Mindspring), and they did actually install Carnivore out on their systems in California, however, it had this nasty habit of making their network unstable (Like the people out in CA actually HAD a network that was more than two tin cans with some string between it, but that's a different issue).
When I was last there, the policy from inside was that if the FBI would make the sytem compatable with their network, they'd happily install it, and comply with all FBI rulings, and all of that. So much for the 'Privacy Protection' they've been advertising. And don't even get me started about all of that privacy protection stuff they advertise.
Uhm, I hate to break this to you, but the Traditions aren't the "Good Guy Mages". They're the anchors that are holding humanity back from being able to advance past our current state of psudo-religious hooey (the technical term), to a more advanced form, a form where we can:
Easily enhance our bodies and minds with technology
Where medical technologies are safer, more efficient, and allow us to cure any disease
Where we explore space far beyond our moon, and the deepest depths of our oceans
Where money no longer controls us, but rather that we control money, and it does our bidding
Where there is One World Government, equal rules for all, to stop madmen from controling the world, and killing innocent peoples.
We are the Technocratic Union. We are the desires of all of humanity. If we were not wanted... If we were not needed... then we wouldn't be the Guardians of Humanity.
The Technocracy -- You Need Us.
We're negative because Be is greedy and the OS supports greed, expensive software and doesn't support the OS movement.
Oh, I see. And we should really stop that closed-source restaurant down the road, because they're greedy, and they don't open-source their food!
Look, a business is a business. People work for money. Now, I'm sure you're such a wonderful proponent of the Open-Sourced movement, if your boss came in tomorrow and said that they were going to stop paying you for what you did, open source the business model, and work out of the kindness of your hearts that you would be fine.
The rest of us, however, would starve.
>No, we are trying to get away from closed source OSes.
>
>Fact.
Who is this 'We'? Why did I not get the memo? I personally don't care if an OS is open-sourced or closed-sourced, what I care about is ease-of-use, speed, and that I don't have to fight with my system for 7 days just to get it to boot. So, I don't know who this 'We' to whom you refer to, but it does not include me. Ergo, your so called 'Fact' is proved false.
Please try to not speak for all of humanity. It does nothing but make the sheep nervious.