The problem is that sometimes the dialup is the only connection you have. And even if you have a T1 connection, there is no guarantee that it will be available 24/7. And according to Murphy, it will fail just when you most need that key document you left in the cloud.
I suspect that you have little experience working with the government. At the time when many government/business applications have been created, OpenOffice and its variants do not exist (or existed, but in too much beta state to safe use in a production environment). The best way at the time to generate a DOC-like document was automation of MS Office. And these applications are large, expensive, complex and can not be changed from day to night for free software (when possible) only because some FOSS fanatic demands.
"I don't care what lawyers and politicians want. What do the people want? I expect they want a legal system that's consistent and verifiable without spending your lifes savings on an attorney."
Me too. But remember that are lawyers and politicians who make the laws, and their idea is to make you have to spend your savings in lawyers.
Sorry dude. The laws of my country that I could use as example would not make sense to you, much less written in English rather than Portuguese (I'm terrible to write in English and the Google translation sucks to anything more complex). But would be enough to you stop a little to think and analyze the laws of your country, you inevitably would find many examples by yourself.
"...Gema claimed that its members were losing money every time their music was being displayed on YouTube"
I'm lost here... For example, assuming that youtube was the only way to watch videos and all GEMA video was blocked, how GEMA would gain anything if nobody would know that her videos even exist? What these GEMA executives have in their heads?
Laws systems usually ignore logic and reason. Generally, trials are theaters where you have two actors - the prosecution and defense - where those who interpret and best lies wins. Who is really telling the truth is a detail skipped.
Observation my friend, observation... I spent a long time simply observing the behavior of people who declare themselves as religious to reach this conclusion.
Nop, most of then simply need to be able to run Windows programs (WINE helps, but not much), play games (hit and miss, more miss) and see films (only now my Linux box can play MKVs, and without hardware assist). I know you can do this in Linux, but only with hacks or adjustments that are beyond the knowledge of the average user.
You can have more than one RTG. Or if you need more power, why not a small, self-contained full fleged nuclear reactor? Solar panels are nice but Mars have a lot of problems with dust, remember the Phoenix mission and the rovers
For a Pu-238 powered RTG? None. The RTG chassi is already enough to block the alpha radiation emitted by plutonium-238 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium). And anyway, you could simply mount them outside the ship, where you need to have thicker shells because of the normal radiation of space.
And because Windows just "works well enough" to the average user. If you want to be the market leader, you need to be better than the current leader in all aspects.
Change yours solar panels to some RTGs. No problems with dust, energy day and night and very reliable. And the plus of "free" heah to heating the habitat
FOSS projects already have a "shadow", I do not "need" to add another one. Okay, examples? My most recent is the iText (Java, for creating PDFs). I uses the version 2.0.8 and can't upgrade to, for example, 2.1 or maybe the most recent. Why? Because then changes a lot the way to make a PDF, breaking my actual code in a extensive way, I will need to rewrite a somewhat big report generator to be able to upgrade. And rewrites costs money and time.
And some days ago, I tried to upgrade my Pidgin IM. To discover that I will need to, more or less, upgrade the entire Gnome library base. A difficult thing on Slackware, many because the use of beta libraries by Pidgin itself or library dependences, or the "lib Hell" (analogous to the Windows "DLL Hell"). The problems grows like a rolling snow ball.
Well, I can simply upgrade the Slackware distro, right? No so right... I will break the OTHERS systems (yep, I tried). Is like try to push one card from a castle of cards.
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The problem is that sometimes the dialup is the only connection you have. And even if you have a T1 connection, there is no guarantee that it will be available 24/7. And according to Murphy, it will fail just when you most need that key document you left in the cloud.
I suspect that you have little experience working with the government. At the time when many government/business applications have been created, OpenOffice and its variants do not exist (or existed, but in too much beta state to safe use in a production environment). The best way at the time to generate a DOC-like document was automation of MS Office. And these applications are large, expensive, complex and can not be changed from day to night for free software (when possible) only because some FOSS fanatic demands.
"I don't care what lawyers and politicians want. What do the people want? I expect they want a legal system that's consistent and verifiable without spending your lifes savings on an attorney."
Me too. But remember that are lawyers and politicians who make the laws, and their idea is to make you have to spend your savings in lawyers.
Ohhhh... I now have a religious "shadow"?
Sorry dude. The laws of my country that I could use as example would not make sense to you, much less written in English rather than Portuguese (I'm terrible to write in English and the Google translation sucks to anything more complex). But would be enough to you stop a little to think and analyze the laws of your country, you inevitably would find many examples by yourself.
Exact. In short, many laws are broken by design.
The moment you plug it in ant flip the switch, you will blow up the power grid of the neighborhood
I know than can be redundant, but... LOL!
Our society is broken not because people are (thankfully) ignoring religious dogmas. Our society is broken because of "U.S. dollar/Money God".
Damn, you posted before me :-)
I agree. Who, at this point of the game, still have trust on banks?
"...Gema claimed that its members were losing money every time their music was being displayed on YouTube"
I'm lost here... For example, assuming that youtube was the only way to watch videos and all GEMA video was blocked, how GEMA would gain anything if nobody would know that her videos even exist? What these GEMA executives have in their heads?
I thought the same thing. We have a new business model here
Laws systems usually ignore logic and reason. Generally, trials are theaters where you have two actors - the prosecution and defense - where those who interpret and best lies wins. Who is really telling the truth is a detail skipped.
Observation my friend, observation... I spent a long time simply observing the behavior of people who declare themselves as religious to reach this conclusion.
I suspect that if it depends from the *AAs (MPAA, RIAA, etc), anything that is not under total and complete control of them will be "illegal".
Why a toaster when you have a blowtorch?
Nop, most of then simply need to be able to run Windows programs (WINE helps, but not much), play games (hit and miss, more miss) and see films (only now my Linux box can play MKVs, and without hardware assist). I know you can do this in Linux, but only with hacks or adjustments that are beyond the knowledge of the average user.
You can have more than one RTG. Or if you need more power, why not a small, self-contained full fleged nuclear reactor? Solar panels are nice but Mars have a lot of problems with dust, remember the Phoenix mission and the rovers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
Sorry, reality says something else. Only unawareness of alternatives can not explain it.
For a Pu-238 powered RTG? None. The RTG chassi is already enough to block the alpha radiation emitted by plutonium-238 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium). And anyway, you could simply mount them outside the ship, where you need to have thicker shells because of the normal radiation of space.
And because Windows just "works well enough" to the average user. If you want to be the market leader, you need to be better than the current leader in all aspects.
Change yours solar panels to some RTGs. No problems with dust, energy day and night and very reliable. And the plus of "free" heah to heating the habitat
FOSS projects already have a "shadow", I do not "need" to add another one. Okay, examples? My most recent is the iText (Java, for creating PDFs). I uses the version 2.0.8 and can't upgrade to, for example, 2.1 or maybe the most recent. Why? Because then changes a lot the way to make a PDF, breaking my actual code in a extensive way, I will need to rewrite a somewhat big report generator to be able to upgrade. And rewrites costs money and time.
And some days ago, I tried to upgrade my Pidgin IM. To discover that I will need to, more or less, upgrade the entire Gnome library base. A difficult thing on Slackware, many because the use of beta libraries by Pidgin itself or library dependences, or the "lib Hell" (analogous to the Windows "DLL Hell"). The problems grows like a rolling snow ball.
Well, I can simply upgrade the Slackware distro, right? No so right... I will break the OTHERS systems (yep, I tried). Is like try to push one card from a castle of cards.
Thanks, big thanks for sharing this info.
My irony-meter already blow up :-(
Very, very well said, sir.