Unfortunately I think you're right. We are a very reactive culture, generally. We don't seem to believe in using foresight to ease predictable and inevitable suffering of any kind. I suspect that's because there is a great deal of political power and quick money to be had in crises when people are desperate and afraid, but not so much in preparedness and prevention.
I heard of a case in which a store was selling "Y2K compatible" flashlights. The person who saw this couldn't tell if it was "stupid marketing or clever marketing aimed at stupid people".
In order to do this, you have to get people to self-identify their religious thoughts (or what you would consider their religious thoughts) as "religious thoughts". Likewise with "political thought".
The United States market is large enough that "it doesn't just work in the United States" means "it doesn't just work" because the install disc would require onboard GPS so that it won't install on a machine on U.S. soil.
Actually, the Canonical way of dealing with that is to pass the buck on to the user (i.e. pop up a dialog box saying "don't install this software if you're not sure it's legal to do so. We won't help you figure out what is(n't) legal in your country.").
Hint:Miseducation as a result of marketing != astroturfing. They're talking about people who have been deceived into thinking that H.264 is absolutely superior to Theora/Vorbis in every way, which isn't the case when you consider patents.
It is a bit odd to see a modern, relatively intelligent scene, where the login screen has dancing lightning beams and lasers firing, and a voice that yells "Access Granted" - no computer actually does that.
I'm not sure if GP was making some correlation between ET stories and SF, or more likely just pointing out the flaws in the Drake Equation, that essentially the equation only makes any kind of sense if you don't fill in all the parameters with complete guesswork.
Debt owed to citizens, measured in U.S. dollars, is much less of a big deal than debt owed to non-citizens/other countries, measured in something else. Remember, in an absolute worst-case scenario (and realistically this won't happen, but keep reading), if you have no other choice at all, you can always mint money and pay off your citizens. That doesn't work with foreign debt unless it's in dollars.
There's a big difference between entities -- individuals or corporations -- using their own resources to address their own need and sharing the results with a community who is free to use, and modify, the resulting work and closed source software.
Hear hear. Note that said community is also free to reject such results as it sees fit.
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Unfortunately I think you're right. We are a very reactive culture, generally. We don't seem to believe in using foresight to ease predictable and inevitable suffering of any kind. I suspect that's because there is a great deal of political power and quick money to be had in crises when people are desperate and afraid, but not so much in preparedness and prevention.
I heard of a case in which a store was selling "Y2K compatible" flashlights. The person who saw this couldn't tell if it was "stupid marketing or clever marketing aimed at stupid people".
See this for more.
Easy to see why Scientologists want to restrict access to THEIR doctrine...
Quite unsuccessfully.
In order to do this, you have to get people to self-identify their religious thoughts (or what you would consider their religious thoughts) as "religious thoughts". Likewise with "political thought".
Good luck doing that.
This is worse than the proposed .sex TLD.
Software patents aren't just bad ideologically, they are going to bring the US IT industry to its knees. Perhaps not now, but give it 10 years...
It doesn't have 10 years.
The United States market is large enough that "it doesn't just work in the United States" means "it doesn't just work" because the install disc would require onboard GPS so that it won't install on a machine on U.S. soil.
Actually, the Canonical way of dealing with that is to pass the buck on to the user (i.e. pop up a dialog box saying "don't install this software if you're not sure it's legal to do so. We won't help you figure out what is(n't) legal in your country.").
Hint:Miseducation as a result of marketing != astroturfing.
They're talking about people who have been deceived into thinking that H.264 is absolutely superior to Theora/Vorbis in every way, which isn't the case when you consider patents.
Are you seriously suggesting we "parent" the old?
Then why are there all those characters who smoke cigarettes and drink Coca Cola?
Actually, that helps to fund the movie. Coke probably pays good money to keep the characters from drinking Pepsi instead.
It is a bit odd to see a modern, relatively intelligent scene, where the login screen has dancing lightning beams and lasers firing, and a voice that yells "Access Granted" - no computer actually does that.
FTFY -- that's even more unreasonable.
compositing
IIRC compiz is older than Aero (i.e. Vista etc.).
90% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I'm not sure if GP was making some correlation between ET stories and SF, or more likely just pointing out the flaws in the Drake Equation, that essentially the equation only makes any kind of sense if you don't fill in all the parameters with complete guesswork.
It was the latter.
Does he have a nameplate thingy on his desk?
Parent was obviously talking about this.
Debt owed to citizens, measured in U.S. dollars, is much less of a big deal than debt owed to non-citizens/other countries, measured in something else. Remember, in an absolute worst-case scenario (and realistically this won't happen, but keep reading), if you have no other choice at all, you can always mint money and pay off your citizens. That doesn't work with foreign debt unless it's in dollars.
That involves letting "friends" know that you don't want them to use the computer, which could get ugly.
This is essentially an unremovable addon like that MS .NET addon that MS shoved down our throats.
MS didn't write the browser in the first place.
From most of the Linux advocates I hear commenting on slashdot, there AREN'T bugs or missing features in Linux.
That is patently a lie.
Phillip.
I can't tell what level of indirection applies to the word "that" so:
Semi-whoosh!
There's a big difference between entities -- individuals or corporations -- using their own resources to address their own need and sharing the results with a community who is free to use, and modify, the resulting work and closed source software.
Hear hear. Note that said community is also free to reject such results as it sees fit.
1) Pump millions of dollars into time travel research
2) Freeze yourself (cryogenics)
3) ???
4) Profit!
Most "end users" are companies that own servers.
Well that won't do!
You're a troll so I won't go into details.
Well, it is.
Maybe OP was comparing the default-PD that the US has to the "crown copyright" they have in the UK.