That is the most well reasoned and thoughtful response I've ever seen to that argument. I know that argument has serious flaws, but I previously wasn't sure how to point out those flaws in such a careful and precise manner. Thanks.
I was wondering what on earth you were talking about, especially since a few people had seen fit to moderate you up. Your reply had nothing to do with the parent. Because of that, it seemed like incoherent babbling to me. How amusing that it was moderated up.:-)
Ahh, that may be the difference. I purposely don't go out of my way to make plugins work because I don't like them. If it can't be said in HTML and possibly some Javascript, I don't need to hear it.
Yes, many of the few times my browser has crashed have been when I had Flash working and I was looking at a Flash page.
I'm not sure, but I think plugins run in the same adress space as the browser, so it becomes difficult to tell which one did the evil thing that caused your browser to crash.
That's just bizarre. I've used Mozilla for a long time, and for the last year or so have had it only crash 4 or 5 times. And I tend to leave it running for days on end. *puzzled confusion*
Also, all the features have generally worked. I Have many windows open right now.
How do you generally install it? What platform are you using?
When I've seen similar articles in which Linux is claimed to have a lower TCO, the article always provided a detailed explanation of where they get their numbers from. This article is all fluff. No numbers at all. It's just the words of some survey company. If someone can find a link that has hard numbers, it'd be much easier to have a reasoned discussion about the results.
This has been my experience too. Good managers in IT know that having a degree isn't a requirement, or even particularly correlated to someone being a good IT person.
While this is quite true, one of the really annoying things about us humans is that we alter and base our behavior according to the various models of understanding available to us.
So, the creation of a new worldview in physics affects and shapes how we see the world in human terms as well, even though the metaphors really have no hard link. I would argue also that the availability of concepts in culture also affects what metaphors physicists use to describe the elegant mathematics of their theories.
In this light, the way she describes her theory, and the interpretation we take away from it are very important, even though her theory really has no obvious direct applicability to understanding ourselves.
Copyright, as it currently exists, is largely a form of corporate welfare, and not the incentive to create that it was intended to be. Sadly, all people can seem to do is cling to the past, and use the yardstick of what is and isn't legal to judge behavior. I wish people would let go of the past and think about how to make sure creators are compensated when hijacking the distribution system for this purpose is no longer efficient.
So, would you say the same thing if the law said that you weren't allowed to talk about firearms? Would all those horrible nasty people who insisted on talking about firearms when the law very explicitly said they couldn't deserve as much jail time as they got?
How about people who comb their hair wrong? If there was a law against that, would you be so bully about its enforcement. After all, the nice government has this wonderful law that says you aren't supposed to comb your hair wrong, and these awful criminals are violating it. They deserve a life sentence.
The point is, that copyright, in its current form, is dead, broken, obsolete, pointless. It was largely an incentive to distribute anyway, and for many works, that incentive is no longer needed. Distribution is incredibly cheap. Less than a penny usually.
Copyright is largely a subsidy to an industry that no longer needs to exist.
Now, creators being compensated for their efforts is good. But, copyright, in its current form, is no longer the most efficient way for a society to do that. It deserves to be ignored. It is a useless relic of a bygone era.
Your attempt to use the legality of an action is an intellectually bankrupt attempt to avoid having a conversation about the actual issue, which is whether copyright, in its current form, is worth having around at all. If you really are upset about the illegality of it, then why aren't you also complaining about all the people illegally committing sodomy, adultery and fornication. After all, those laws are on the books too.
Normal human behavior is to be social and share information with your neighbor. Copyright is a totally broken system when the cost of distribution is very low. Copyright is an incentive to distribute, not to create.
If you want a way encourage people to create, find some model that doesn't rely on copyright. Copyright is broken, and it will require putting millions of people in jail to enforce, and even then people will ignore it. It'll make the drug war look like a benevolent government.
My first thought on reading it was guessing that the amount of heavy computation required to turn raw imaging data into one of these pictures is much less than the amount required to transform the data to be fit to render in other ways. I'm betting the dots are much closer to what they actually get from their device.
Yes, I hope every single Danish citizen participates liberally in P2P file sharing networks. It'd be fun to watch the country dissolve into a police state in which normal human behavior is supressed so that a stupid obsolete law can be enforced by the state. It's wonderful to watch, really.
Every time you remember a word you've read, you've violated copyright you know. We must extract those patterns from your brain cells after you've finished that book. Can't have you walking around with an illegal copy in your head.
Using the data from the previous command, record the size of the LVM partition to be moved.
On the destination system: lvcreate --size <appropriate size> -n <destination name> <volume group name>
On the destination system: nc -l -p 53976 | dd of=/dev/<volume group name>/<destination name> bs=$(( 4096 * 1024 ))
On the source system: dd if=/dev/<source vg name>/<source LVM partition> bs=$(( 4096 * 1024 )) | nc <dest system> 53976
There, you're done. You should make source the source filesystem is unmounted first. I haven't done this, but you can use LVM snapshots to sort of unmount the filesystem, make an instant copy, and remount it all in a single small step.
LVM version 1 is already in the kernel, and has been there for some time. LVM version 2, which is much better written, uses a fairly generic kernel driver called 'device mapper' and a new set of userspace utilities. It looks like it's set for Linux 2.6.
I use LVM extensively at home. It's designed for enterprises, but it's extremely helpful at home for compartmentalizing files to particular filesystems to make it easier to move then around. It's so nice to be able to move a particular part of the filesystem by dd'ing it through nc (netcat). I do this to back things up before I make major changes.
It makes no sense to me why people hate RPM so much. A packaging format of some kind seems like an absolute necessity to me. Tarballs are most certainly not a packaging format.
A proper packaging format will keep track of what's installed on your system, where it's installed, and what depends on it, and what it depends on. This is so that addition and removal of packages is easy.
The only advantage people have ever given for.deb is apt-get. But, it seems to me that the same functionality is replicated in RedHat network and Red Carpet. The usefulness of apt-get has more to do with infrastructure support than it has to do with the.deb packaging format.
So, please, tell me why RPMs are bad, other than that RedHat created them.
I'm rather tireless about this. History has shown over and over how people who use patent encumbered data formats are at the greedy whims of the patent owners.
Yes, this is true, but in depth analysis as to whether or not a story is a duplicate is even more difficult than simply determining if it is a simple duplicate or not. So, given that Slashdot often features obvious duplicate stories, them posting a duplicate that's not so obvious is to be expected.
Besides, it's interesting to see the further analysis people here have done a few days after the initial release.
Because Microsoft's very existence is an impediment to creating quality software. If for nothing else than that you're required to implement whatever brain damaged 'standard' Microsoft has foisted off on everybody for interoperability reasons.
The other story "Carthaginian Rose" completely ignores the existence of an immortal soul. You can't transfer a soul into a machine (Tracy Kidder's tome notwithstanding). Sorry, patently absurd.
Well, since I don't think the immortal soul exists, that's just fine by me. Of course, I bet you'd be one of the people who'd be all about turning uploaded people off and wiping their programs because they're not really people since they don't have an immortal soul. They be the newest group of people to suffer horribly under the gentle ministrations of those who don't consider them 'human'.
Sounds like the basis of a good SF story about religious nuts who get their jollies torturing virtual people. Would stand up to be the first in line to stand up to push the buttons to cause these people 'virtual' pain so you could watch them scream? After all, they have no souls, and can't really be in pain. It's just entertainment.
There is actually a long and colorful history of anonymously published pamphlets. Often the original author only became known long after the political change advocated by the pamphlet came to pass, or after the author was dead.
Actually, I characterize them both as being a bunch of well-meaning clueless idiots who would rather fight the laws of nature than try to understand and work with them.
Perhaps that statement is a bit cryptic, but oh, well.:-)
Your characterizations of the 'right' and the 'left' are simplistic and nieve. You see the 'right' as the enemy, and therefor lump them all together and paint them with a broad brush. The 'right' is just as divided as the 'left'.
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That is the most well reasoned and thoughtful response I've ever seen to that argument. I know that argument has serious flaws, but I previously wasn't sure how to point out those flaws in such a careful and precise manner. Thanks.
I was wondering what on earth you were talking about, especially since a few people had seen fit to moderate you up. Your reply had nothing to do with the parent. Because of that, it seemed like incoherent babbling to me. How amusing that it was moderated up. :-)
Ahh, that may be the difference. I purposely don't go out of my way to make plugins work because I don't like them. If it can't be said in HTML and possibly some Javascript, I don't need to hear it.
Yes, many of the few times my browser has crashed have been when I had Flash working and I was looking at a Flash page.
I'm not sure, but I think plugins run in the same adress space as the browser, so it becomes difficult to tell which one did the evil thing that caused your browser to crash.
That's just bizarre. I've used Mozilla for a long time, and for the last year or so have had it only crash 4 or 5 times. And I tend to leave it running for days on end. *puzzled confusion*
Also, all the features have generally worked. I Have many windows open right now.
How do you generally install it? What platform are you using?
When I've seen similar articles in which Linux is claimed to have a lower TCO, the article always provided a detailed explanation of where they get their numbers from. This article is all fluff. No numbers at all. It's just the words of some survey company. If someone can find a link that has hard numbers, it'd be much easier to have a reasoned discussion about the results.
This has been my experience too. Good managers in IT know that having a degree isn't a requirement, or even particularly correlated to someone being a good IT person.
While this is quite true, one of the really annoying things about us humans is that we alter and base our behavior according to the various models of understanding available to us.
So, the creation of a new worldview in physics affects and shapes how we see the world in human terms as well, even though the metaphors really have no hard link. I would argue also that the availability of concepts in culture also affects what metaphors physicists use to describe the elegant mathematics of their theories.
In this light, the way she describes her theory, and the interpretation we take away from it are very important, even though her theory really has no obvious direct applicability to understanding ourselves.
I know it's not fun. I was being sarcastic.
Copyright, as it currently exists, is largely a form of corporate welfare, and not the incentive to create that it was intended to be. Sadly, all people can seem to do is cling to the past, and use the yardstick of what is and isn't legal to judge behavior. I wish people would let go of the past and think about how to make sure creators are compensated when hijacking the distribution system for this purpose is no longer efficient.
So, would you say the same thing if the law said that you weren't allowed to talk about firearms? Would all those horrible nasty people who insisted on talking about firearms when the law very explicitly said they couldn't deserve as much jail time as they got?
How about people who comb their hair wrong? If there was a law against that, would you be so bully about its enforcement. After all, the nice government has this wonderful law that says you aren't supposed to comb your hair wrong, and these awful criminals are violating it. They deserve a life sentence.
The point is, that copyright, in its current form, is dead, broken, obsolete, pointless. It was largely an incentive to distribute anyway, and for many works, that incentive is no longer needed. Distribution is incredibly cheap. Less than a penny usually.
Copyright is largely a subsidy to an industry that no longer needs to exist.
Now, creators being compensated for their efforts is good. But, copyright, in its current form, is no longer the most efficient way for a society to do that. It deserves to be ignored. It is a useless relic of a bygone era.
Your attempt to use the legality of an action is an intellectually bankrupt attempt to avoid having a conversation about the actual issue, which is whether copyright, in its current form, is worth having around at all. If you really are upset about the illegality of it, then why aren't you also complaining about all the people illegally committing sodomy, adultery and fornication. After all, those laws are on the books too.
Normal human behavior is to be social and share information with your neighbor. Copyright is a totally broken system when the cost of distribution is very low. Copyright is an incentive to distribute, not to create.
If you want a way encourage people to create, find some model that doesn't rely on copyright. Copyright is broken, and it will require putting millions of people in jail to enforce, and even then people will ignore it. It'll make the drug war look like a benevolent government.
My first thought on reading it was guessing that the amount of heavy computation required to turn raw imaging data into one of these pictures is much less than the amount required to transform the data to be fit to render in other ways. I'm betting the dots are much closer to what they actually get from their device.
Yes, I hope every single Danish citizen participates liberally in P2P file sharing networks. It'd be fun to watch the country dissolve into a police state in which normal human behavior is supressed so that a stupid obsolete law can be enforced by the state. It's wonderful to watch, really.
Every time you remember a word you've read, you've violated copyright you know. We must extract those patterns from your brain cells after you've finished that book. Can't have you walking around with an illegal copy in your head.
It IS empathetic, depending on how you define empathy. :-)
Yes, I copied a filesystem to another computer.
Here are the steps:
There, you're done. You should make source the source filesystem is unmounted first. I haven't done this, but you can use LVM snapshots to sort of unmount the filesystem, make an instant copy, and remount it all in a single small step.
LVM version 1 is already in the kernel, and has been there for some time. LVM version 2, which is much better written, uses a fairly generic kernel driver called 'device mapper' and a new set of userspace utilities. It looks like it's set for Linux 2.6.
I use LVM extensively at home. It's designed for enterprises, but it's extremely helpful at home for compartmentalizing files to particular filesystems to make it easier to move then around. It's so nice to be able to move a particular part of the filesystem by dd'ing it through nc (netcat). I do this to back things up before I make major changes.
It makes no sense to me why people hate RPM so much. A packaging format of some kind seems like an absolute necessity to me. Tarballs are most certainly not a packaging format.
A proper packaging format will keep track of what's installed on your system, where it's installed, and what depends on it, and what it depends on. This is so that addition and removal of packages is easy.
The only advantage people have ever given for .deb is apt-get. But, it seems to me that the same functionality is replicated in RedHat network and Red Carpet. The usefulness of apt-get has more to do with infrastructure support than it has to do with the .deb packaging format.
So, please, tell me why RPMs are bad, other than that RedHat created them.
*laugh*
I'm rather tireless about this. History has shown over and over how people who use patent encumbered data formats are at the greedy whims of the patent owners.
I hope you meant an ogg. :-) Of course, the video bits of ogg aren't there yet. Give it a year or so.
Yes, this is true, but in depth analysis as to whether or not a story is a duplicate is even more difficult than simply determining if it is a simple duplicate or not. So, given that Slashdot often features obvious duplicate stories, them posting a duplicate that's not so obvious is to be expected.
Besides, it's interesting to see the further analysis people here have done a few days after the initial release.
Because Microsoft's very existence is an impediment to creating quality software. If for nothing else than that you're required to implement whatever brain damaged 'standard' Microsoft has foisted off on everybody for interoperability reasons.
Why is the context management code going to be so hairy that you end up with something as complex as a 1:N or M:N scheduler?
Well, since I don't think the immortal soul exists, that's just fine by me. Of course, I bet you'd be one of the people who'd be all about turning uploaded people off and wiping their programs because they're not really people since they don't have an immortal soul. They be the newest group of people to suffer horribly under the gentle ministrations of those who don't consider them 'human'.
Sounds like the basis of a good SF story about religious nuts who get their jollies torturing virtual people. Would stand up to be the first in line to stand up to push the buttons to cause these people 'virtual' pain so you could watch them scream? After all, they have no souls, and can't really be in pain. It's just entertainment.
There is actually a long and colorful history of anonymously published pamphlets. Often the original author only became known long after the political change advocated by the pamphlet came to pass, or after the author was dead.
Actually, I characterize them both as being a bunch of well-meaning clueless idiots who would rather fight the laws of nature than try to understand and work with them.
Perhaps that statement is a bit cryptic, but oh, well. :-)
Your characterizations of the 'right' and the 'left' are simplistic and nieve. You see the 'right' as the enemy, and therefor lump them all together and paint them with a broad brush. The 'right' is just as divided as the 'left'.