How about I give you the perfect piece of software, exactly waht you need, but it will cost you all your natural freedoms -- speech, thought, the right to the fruits of your own labour, fair trials, everyting.
Stallman has said, categorically and repeatedly, that selling software is OK. He himself used to subsist on selling mail-order tapes of GNU software before the Internet was as pervasive as it is today.
He has also written about the GNU/Linux thing. In essence he doesn't want recognition for himself -- He wants GNU/Linux systems to promote Free Software in general. He wants more people to read the stuff at gnu.org, so they aren't as ignorant as your post shows you are.
Personally, when talking amongst friends, I abbreviate GNU/Linux to ``Linux'', but in writing I generally write ``GNU/Linux'', after all, if we cared about our keystrokes, we wouldn't be writing on Slashdot, now would we?
just because these became essential it doesnt automatically follow that mobile phones should be.
That's true, but it does defeat the posters technophobic attitude. Just because we are comfortable today, it doesn't mean the new technology won't make our lives better in the future.
People do, however, need to learn some basic phonettiquette.
Why on earth should they suddenly become essential?
The other day my friend called me on my mobile phone, from his mobile phone, because he'd just had an accident on his bike. I was able to call another friend (on their mobile phone) to arrange a car to go and get him.
Yeah, I really wish I had a camera with me on those occasions -- it's not the sort of thing you take with you to the cash machine, though;-)
The ones that stick in my mind are:
A windows NT log on prompt at a NatWest cash machine at the University of Kent at Canterbury;
The Nationwide cash machine on the walkway at Imperial College London displaying a BSOD for two weeks;
The event described above (which happened near Earl's Court, London; and
The train time-table boards at London Waterloo BSOD regularly. Ironic when they still have the old ``flipping-bits-of-plastic'' boards hanging up which I have never seen break.
It just annoys me that everyone knows just how unreliable, insecure and expensive Microsoft software is, but they still go and hand over the cash for it. *sigh*
Well National Westminster and Nationwide use them here. And the number of blue-screens I've seen on cash machines in the last year or so (since they switched) is huge.
It's really annoying.
I saw one machine the other week; a guy put his card in, entered his pin and the machine crashed. It then rebooted, complete with bios printout and everything (they are Pentiums with 64MB of ram, for those that are interested). Needless to say the guy was annoyed, though I couldn't stop laughing.
well, according to RFC 1591,.ORG was intended for "organizations that didn't fit anywhere else."
So take the set of all organisations, remove commercial organisations (.COM), educational institutions (.EDU), government organisations (.GOV), military organisations (.MIL) and network providers (.NET) and you pretty much have only non-profits and special interest groups left -- people who are unlikely to have thousand of dollars up their sleeves.
One Ritz cracker is no different from another, and many things are available in "Snack-Pack" variety for the consumer who only wants a few.
However, if I wanted 14 identical cheezy-pop songs, I would buy 14 copies of the same song -- I don't so there's no need to multipack them with something that I do want.
Anyway, I haven't bought a single music CD in over a year now -- I just listen to the radio:)
The dreamcast development scene is quite good. I suggest some of the standard places like Marcus Comstedt's Page and Dan Potter's DC Dev Page. I've just bought myself the serial slave cable from Lik Sang and I plan to start coding soon.
Or you could use someone that you already trust, like say, your bank.
To be honest I think this is a good idea. I wanted to post a comment to a story on another news site, but I needed to log in, and I just could not be bothered. If I could enter in my bank id and password safe in the knowledge that unless I indicate otherwise (on the HSBC web site) the company whose site I am visiting will only get my name and a ticket that says I am who I say I am.
I just don't want Microsoft, or any one company, have exclusive rights over this. Choice is good. Open standards are good.
The internet is doing fine. It's the news websites that are going down. My surfing of other sites is giving me no problems, and my traceroutes are getting to the news sites' front doors in normal time (2.5 ms from here to bbc.co.uk).
As opposed to the Star Trek world, where the writers invent the 'particle-of-the-week' to pose/solve the episode's problem?
As I see it, Science Fiction is stories about fictional science, i.e. science that does not exist, either because it does not exist yet (for example, futuristic stories), or will never exist (psychic abilities, time travel, or magic).
Besides, the Harry Potter books are really well written; props to Joanne.
"... consider the great artists and artisans of medieval times, who didn't even sign their names to their work. To them, the name of the artist was not important. What mattered was that the work was done--and the purpose it would serve."
Technically all it did was tack on a version of the QuickBasic interpreter to your code. That's why it was still slow and the EXE's were HUGE no matter what your program did.
If you search the copyright law for the word 'theft', it's not there (UK copyright law at least).
You will find lots of instances of 'copyright infringement'. Calling it theft was a technique of the media industry for adding hysteria and sensationalism to the whole thing ("if we call 'em thieves, people will hate them, if we call 'em infringers, people will say 'eh what?'").
Copying something you aren't allowed to != Taking something you aren't allowed to.
Interestingly enough, owning an infringing copy for domestic use is not illegal in the UK (making the copy, or owning it in the course of a business, or selling that copy, is illegal).
I thought that if someone stole something of yours, then you take it back, then that's stealing too. I thought it was dumb too, but apparently, it's true.
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How about I give you the perfect piece of software, exactly waht you need, but it will cost you all your natural freedoms -- speech, thought, the right to the fruits of your own labour, fair trials, everyting.
Still interested?
Idiot.
Stallman has said, categorically and repeatedly, that selling software is OK . He himself used to subsist on selling mail-order tapes of GNU software before the Internet was as pervasive as it is today.
He has also written about the GNU/Linux thing. In essence he doesn't want recognition for himself -- He wants GNU/Linux systems to promote Free Software in general. He wants more people to read the stuff at gnu.org, so they aren't as ignorant as your post shows you are.
Personally, when talking amongst friends, I abbreviate GNU/Linux to ``Linux'', but in writing I generally write ``GNU/Linux'', after all, if we cared about our keystrokes, we wouldn't be writing on Slashdot, now would we?
just because these became essential it doesnt automatically follow that mobile phones should be.
That's true, but it does defeat the posters technophobic attitude. Just because we are comfortable today, it doesn't mean the new technology won't make our lives better in the future.
People do, however, need to learn some basic phonettiquette.
We lived for thousands of years without:
Why on earth should they suddenly become essential?
The other day my friend called me on my mobile phone, from his mobile phone, because he'd just had an accident on his bike. I was able to call another friend (on their mobile phone) to arrange a car to go and get him.
Er, I think you are neglecting pscp, which comes as part of the PuTTY package.
Yeah, I really wish I had a camera with me on those occasions -- it's not the sort of thing you take with you to the cash machine, though ;-)
The ones that stick in my mind are:
It just annoys me that everyone knows just how unreliable, insecure and expensive Microsoft software is, but they still go and hand over the cash for it. *sigh*
Well National Westminster and Nationwide use them here. And the number of blue-screens I've seen on cash machines in the last year or so (since they switched) is huge.
It's really annoying.
I saw one machine the other week; a guy put his card in, entered his pin and the machine crashed. It then rebooted, complete with bios printout and everything (they are Pentiums with 64MB of ram, for those that are interested). Needless to say the guy was annoyed, though I couldn't stop laughing.
well, according to RFC 1591, .ORG was intended for "organizations that didn't fit anywhere else."
So take the set of all organisations, remove commercial organisations (.COM), educational institutions (.EDU), government organisations (.GOV), military organisations (.MIL) and network providers (.NET) and you pretty much have only non-profits and special interest groups left -- people who are unlikely to have thousand of dollars up their sleeves.
So is the Great Firewall of China visible from CyberSpace?
Sorry.
I thought about this:
Every morning, on my way into college, I pop into a large music store (not a little one) and buy a copyprotected CD.
On my way home, I go and get a refund.
Lather, rinse, repeat daily.
Not particularly accurate:
:)
One Ritz cracker is no different from another, and many things are available in "Snack-Pack" variety for the consumer who only wants a few.
However, if I wanted 14 identical cheezy-pop songs, I would buy 14 copies of the same song -- I don't so there's no need to multipack them with something that I do want.
Anyway, I haven't bought a single music CD in over a year now -- I just listen to the radio
Ummm.. surely if they're routinely physically abused then the first thing they want if freedom.
:)
Perhaps it might be better to use the small time couriers.
I had a box shipped to be by a small courier company -- it arrived completely intact and on time! The delivery guy was even polite.
Compare that to Parcel Farce, where every package I have received from them has had at least one tear in it.
Just reply saying:
"You put copy protection on the disc, so there can't be any copies."
;-)
I don't know what the PS2 situation is like.
Or you could use someone that you already trust, like say, your bank.
To be honest I think this is a good idea. I wanted to post a comment to a story on another news site, but I needed to log in, and I just could not be bothered. If I could enter in my bank id and password safe in the knowledge that unless I indicate otherwise (on the HSBC web site) the company whose site I am visiting will only get my name and a ticket that says I am who I say I am.
I just don't want Microsoft, or any one company, have exclusive rights over this. Choice is good. Open standards are good.
The internet is doing fine. It's the news websites that are going down. My surfing of other sites is giving me no problems, and my traceroutes are getting to the news sites' front doors in normal time (2.5 ms from here to bbc.co.uk).
a syntax error.
Sys.Process("myprogram").Form1.Button1.Click
Not that I like M$ or anything, but I do think X sucks.
Well, They do have lessons on magic -- one could infer from that that there is at least some scientific or artistic method involved. ;)
As opposed to the Star Trek world, where the writers invent the 'particle-of-the-week' to pose/solve the episode's problem?
As I see it, Science Fiction is stories about fictional science, i.e. science that does not exist, either because it does not exist yet (for example, futuristic stories), or will never exist (psychic abilities, time travel, or magic).
Besides, the Harry Potter books are really well written; props to Joanne.
-- Richard Stallman (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html)
Technically all it did was tack on a version of the QuickBasic interpreter to your code. That's why it was still slow and the EXE's were HUGE no matter what your program did.
If you search the copyright law for the word 'theft', it's not there (UK copyright law at least).
You will find lots of instances of 'copyright infringement'. Calling it theft was a technique of the media industry for adding hysteria and sensationalism to the whole thing ("if we call 'em thieves, people will hate them, if we call 'em infringers, people will say 'eh what?'").
Copying something you aren't allowed to != Taking something you aren't allowed to.
Interestingly enough, owning an infringing copy for domestic use is not illegal in the UK (making the copy, or owning it in the course of a business, or selling that copy, is illegal).
#include <IANAL.h>
I thought that if someone stole something of yours, then you take it back, then that's stealing too. I thought it was dumb too, but apparently, it's true.