I dare anyone, especially after mr. Snowden's revelations, to contradict mr. Stallman's points.
An old Roman already did: "Who is free? The thinking man, who frees himself." These two might have infinite hood credits but they certainly aren't polymaths.
Despite a reference to Radical Castle being amazing in itself, I'm pretty sure the game was created with World Builder--which was a step or two up from HyperCard.
nice pseudo-thinking. why bother fighting waldenstrom's when the real culprit is death, right?
it should be obvious that what i'm trying to say is that less spam is better; it's not a worthless endeavor merely because it doesn't solve all of mankind's problems.
your last sentence is correct; however, your notion that spam filtering will never be effective enough to stop spam from being profitable because it hasn't so far happened in 5 years (???) is silly. you mention taking away economic incentive. how, with laws? rather than hold my breath for 20 years and disregard "wrong answers" i'll give mr. kirsch my blessing, whether or not it is as effective as he claims it is, regardless of its longevity.
aac is not apple's "own proprietary format", and it never was. wikipedia will tell you that it is the true successor to mp3. the way in which aac is proprietary is not relevant to this conversation. an mpeg-4 license is required for a developer of end-user encoder/decoder software; it could never be tied to the end-user, himself. here is a list of companies that currently possess that license: http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/MPEG4_licensees.html .
aac and ogg are the most sophisticated lossy compressed-audio formats; however, for a fringe for-profit company like apple, aac is the clear choice--so far, anyway.
wma survives for the same reason nearly every microsoft product does: not by its own merits but rather due to the windows monopoly.
mp3 is a decent format but it is in our best interests, overall, to move forward from it.
(fyi, microsoft does support aac to varying degrees, depending on the product.)
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I dare anyone, especially after mr. Snowden's revelations, to contradict mr. Stallman's points.
An old Roman already did: "Who is free? The thinking man, who frees himself." These two might have infinite hood credits but they certainly aren't polymaths.
Traduttori traditori; "translators are traitors".
Despite a reference to Radical Castle being amazing in itself, I'm pretty sure the game was created with World Builder--which was a step or two up from HyperCard.
indeed, there was a slashdot article on this a year ago: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/26/1329230
nice pseudo-thinking. why bother fighting waldenstrom's when the real culprit is death, right?
it should be obvious that what i'm trying to say is that less spam is better; it's not a worthless endeavor merely because it doesn't solve all of mankind's problems.
your last sentence is correct; however, your notion that spam filtering will never be effective enough to stop spam from being profitable because it hasn't so far happened in 5 years (???) is silly. you mention taking away economic incentive. how, with laws? rather than hold my breath for 20 years and disregard "wrong answers" i'll give mr. kirsch my blessing, whether or not it is as effective as he claims it is, regardless of its longevity.
aac is not apple's "own proprietary format", and it never was. wikipedia will tell you that it is the true successor to mp3. the way in which aac is proprietary is not relevant to this conversation. an mpeg-4 license is required for a developer of end-user encoder/decoder software; it could never be tied to the end-user, himself. here is a list of companies that currently possess that license: http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/MPEG4_licensees.html .
aac and ogg are the most sophisticated lossy compressed-audio formats; however, for a fringe for-profit company like apple, aac is the clear choice--so far, anyway.
wma survives for the same reason nearly every microsoft product does: not by its own merits but rather due to the windows monopoly.
mp3 is a decent format but it is in our best interests, overall, to move forward from it.
(fyi, microsoft does support aac to varying degrees, depending on the product.)