I respect your opinion on the matter, and for many people it does make a great deal of sense, but I see it differently.
I use OSS/Free Software when it's the best tool for the job. Right now I'm using Opera on Windows XP, but my servers run Linux.
OSS being cheaper($$$) than propriatary software is just one aspect of it being better in certain situations. As much as is possible, I leave my religion and politics out of my professional life.
For RMS and the like Free Software could be called a religion, the belief that Free Software is always better can be argued for convincingly. But ideology isn't a good way to convert new users.
People don't like being preached at. Standing on a soapbox browbeating people will get you fewer converts.
To me, this is never a battle driven by competition leading to lower prices. Rather, it has always been the ideologies involved.
I think that people like you, and people like me can and should work together on this. Lower prices is what prompted me to get my feet wet, so to speak, and that lead me to learn more about the OSS/Free Software philosophy. Use the lower price advantage to get people interested. Once they begin to listen to what you have to say, you can share the ideology without seeming like you're preaching or browbeating them.
About a decade ago I learned that lesson. I bought a couple of Amps from Radio Shack because their peak wattage was so much higher than similarly priced amps from a car audio shop.
After about two monthe of fuxoring around with them, having them overheat and shutdown I finally broke down and bought a Pyramid Gold amp for about $300. I am still using this amp today.
Always buy with quality in mind. In the long run you'll save money because 1 good product will last longer than 4 cheap ones.
I don't want a freaking CPU that knows it's running WindowsXP SP2, or linux, or anything else, I only want a processor that does processing. Let the software do the security stuff
You dumb ass, the processors have features that HELP the software "do the decurity stuff".
A padlock doesn't care if it's keeping out a robber or you when you've forgotten your key. It's the same thing here.
NX will help to prevent buffer overflow exploits. These processors neither know nor care what OS they're running. NX will help provide security for Windows, Linux, *BSD or whatever OS is developed next.
I've read account of neural networks displaying the symptoms of a near death experience. As a trained neural network is disassembled eventually it will begin to output previously learned information.
AI will show us some amazing things one day, but we're probably still 40 or so years away from that.
I think that studies like this must be tempered with caution. What is a potential problem for the future is this. If we gain enough understanding about how humans interact with human-like machines what is to stop someone for using that knowledge for nefarious purposes.
One could make a machine of war appear to be a friendly robot until it gets close enough to eviscerate people.
One time I was out with one of my friends (who was white) and we were at a really white bread bar, and someone actually thought that it was a compliment to tell me how much she liked the fact that my pants fit me and weren't sagging.
Mc Chris is probably the best rapper I've ever heard in my life.
Then I'll submit to you that you haven't heard nearly enough rappers.
He's more interesting because he's not talking about his dick, his bitches, his benjamins, or his bentleys.
I'll agree that it is annoying when these things are all that a rapper talks about but to never mention them probably means that he doesn't have any of them.
He's not all trying to be some serious badass, like the posers taking the corporate payoff want you to believe they are.
Um...DMX was incarcerated for like 7 years. 50 Cent was for like 5. I could go on for pages about rappers who had private lives that mirror their public personas.:) Can't hate that.
I don't hate the man. I just think his music sucks.
thats why I listen to mc chris. I prefer my rappers to be short, white, chunky, and more nerdy than myself.
It's painful to listen to that guy. He sucks, no really Mc Chris sucks.
Please don't take it personally, I don't think any less of your or anyone else who can get into his music, but I'd rather have a urinary tract infection than listen to his music.
There is also a good reason to register firearms; the same reasons states across the country already do register firearms. If you break the law with a registered gun, it can more easily be traced back to you.
Through minimal work, the legal owner of a firearm can be found in a couple of days. Because time and effort are involved it prevents abuse. A federal database would make it so quick and easy, abuse would be easy as well.
as a citizen who didn't intend to break the law should have no reason to not register their gun, aside from paranoia about future acts of the government. And it is paranoia, as half the country owns firearms and only an extremely small fringe support confiscation.
It is not paranoia, every country that has confiscated guns began with registration. History teaches us this.
Now, as for assault weapons, you?re getting into a murky area. When I talk about gun confiscation I mean rifles and handguns, not military scale weaponry.
The guns that were banned 10 years ago by the Clinton Administration's "assault weapons" ban were not military weapons. They were guns that LOOKED LIKE military weapons.
Gun banners are constantly trying to exploit the population's lack of knowledge in that department.
I?m sure she does support a ban on that, as the vast majority of Americans do, although for the record I don?t.
The fact that you made this statement, bolsters my previous point. Military grade battle rifles have been strictly controlled since the gun control act of 1934. Since before my grandfather was born it has been expensive, and difficult to legally purchase a machine gun. Seems like that should be common knowledge, but for whatever reason it isn't.
Well... I'm not sure if you'd believe me if I said it and if you did, I'm not sure you'd understand.
I see the same thug and metrosexual posers
I'm takling about one guy. Someone who wants to adapt the thug persona so badly that he puts a metrosexual's effort into it.
Me? I'll continue to commit social suicide by wearing years old no-logo clothing, listening to my "nobody" indie music, and remaining (*gasp*) humble and (*gasp*) anti-materialist.
Indy music has never really been my thing, but I get lots of odd looks when I pull up outside of the club listening to music that is often 12 years old and occasionally older than the average person there.
I didn't know his Muslimness mattered. He rarely mentions it in his songs.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
Have you ever listended to R.A.K.I.M.? Let me give you a little quote "Allah, whom I praise to the fullest"
Not only is being a muslim important to Rakim, but the fact that he is an upright muslim means a lot to him. Have you ever heard him give an interview? He speaks(sometimes at length) of Allah and his "knowledge of self".
Is this classified data something that could be embarrasing?
What I'm getting at is this, the secret on nuclear weapons is out. Everyone in the world knows HOW to make them, the problem is that it isn't easy to get fissionable materials. Biological and Chemical weapons are even easier to make. Anyone here could mix up lethal chemical or biological weapons in their garage.
The genie is out of the bottle, so what kind of information has been lost?
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Also, to be 'sniped' and gunned-down are pretty much the same thing there guys....
Sniped implies getting hit with a bullet. If you get bludgeoned to death with a gun, that technically could be "gunned-down".
LK
Sorry, I meant "war".
Begun this TCO was has.
The bigger the breasts of her character, the more money she will make on game sales.
Do you think that any of the DOA games would have sold a fraction of the copies they have if all of the dimensions were accurate to real life women?
LK
I respect your opinion on the matter, and for many people it does make a great deal of sense, but I see it differently.
I use OSS/Free Software when it's the best tool for the job. Right now I'm using Opera on Windows XP, but my servers run Linux.
OSS being cheaper($$$) than propriatary software is just one aspect of it being better in certain situations. As much as is possible, I leave my religion and politics out of my professional life.
For RMS and the like Free Software could be called a religion, the belief that Free Software is always better can be argued for convincingly. But ideology isn't a good way to convert new users.
People don't like being preached at. Standing on a soapbox browbeating people will get you fewer converts.
To me, this is never a battle driven by competition leading to lower prices. Rather, it has always been the ideologies involved.
I think that people like you, and people like me can and should work together on this. Lower prices is what prompted me to get my feet wet, so to speak, and that lead me to learn more about the OSS/Free Software philosophy. Use the lower price advantage to get people interested. Once they begin to listen to what you have to say, you can share the ideology without seeming like you're preaching or browbeating them.
LK
About a decade ago I learned that lesson. I bought a couple of Amps from Radio Shack because their peak wattage was so much higher than similarly priced amps from a car audio shop.
After about two monthe of fuxoring around with them, having them overheat and shutdown I finally broke down and bought a Pyramid Gold amp for about $300. I am still using this amp today.
Always buy with quality in mind. In the long run you'll save money because 1 good product will last longer than 4 cheap ones.
LK
That is subsantially less than the $210 I currently pay for my 3Mbps/1Mbps small business connection.
Dude, you are getting molested. Seriously, I'd suggest pricing out some alternatives.
LK
Because the pr0n will be FLOWING LIKE MAD!
LK
You know you've been IMing too long when you almost say 'lol' out loud to a non-geeky friend...
You n00b!
IMs indeed. lol
LK
I don't want a freaking CPU that knows it's running WindowsXP SP2, or linux, or anything else, I only want a processor that does processing. Let the software do the security stuff
You dumb ass, the processors have features that HELP the software "do the decurity stuff".
A padlock doesn't care if it's keeping out a robber or you when you've forgotten your key. It's the same thing here.
NX will help to prevent buffer overflow exploits. These processors neither know nor care what OS they're running. NX will help provide security for Windows, Linux, *BSD or whatever OS is developed next.
LK
You apparently need to look up the word "Luddite".
LK
I've read account of neural networks displaying the symptoms of a near death experience. As a trained neural network is disassembled eventually it will begin to output previously learned information.
AI will show us some amazing things one day, but we're probably still 40 or so years away from that.
LK
I think that studies like this must be tempered with caution. What is a potential problem for the future is this. If we gain enough understanding about how humans interact with human-like machines what is to stop someone for using that knowledge for nefarious purposes.
One could make a machine of war appear to be a friendly robot until it gets close enough to eviscerate people.
LK
One time I was out with one of my friends (who was white) and we were at a really white bread bar, and someone actually thought that it was a compliment to tell me how much she liked the fact that my pants fit me and weren't sagging.
LK
Mc Chris is probably the best rapper I've ever heard in my life.
:) Can't hate that.
Then I'll submit to you that you haven't heard nearly enough rappers.
He's more interesting because he's not talking about his dick, his bitches, his benjamins, or his bentleys.
I'll agree that it is annoying when these things are all that a rapper talks about but to never mention them probably means that he doesn't have any of them.
He's not all trying to be some serious badass, like the posers taking the corporate payoff want you to believe they are.
Um...DMX was incarcerated for like 7 years. 50 Cent was for like 5. I could go on for pages about rappers who had private lives that mirror their public personas.
I don't hate the man. I just think his music sucks.
LK
We will "own" that IP address through the use of our login / password so that we can be tracked just as we are in every other aspect of life.
Encrypted P2P networks like Freenet will just become more common.
LK
thats why I listen to mc chris. I prefer my rappers to be short, white, chunky, and more nerdy than myself.
It's painful to listen to that guy. He sucks, no really Mc Chris sucks.
Please don't take it personally, I don't think any less of your or anyone else who can get into his music, but I'd rather have a urinary tract infection than listen to his music.
LK
There is also a good reason to register firearms; the same reasons states across the country already do register firearms. If you break the law with a registered gun, it can more easily be traced back to you.
Through minimal work, the legal owner of a firearm can be found in a couple of days. Because time and effort are involved it prevents abuse. A federal database would make it so quick and easy, abuse would be easy as well.
as a citizen who didn't intend to break the law should have no reason to not register their gun, aside from paranoia about future acts of the government. And it is paranoia, as half the country owns firearms and only an extremely small fringe support confiscation.
It is not paranoia, every country that has confiscated guns began with registration. History teaches us this.
Now, as for assault weapons, you?re getting into a murky area. When I talk about gun confiscation I mean rifles and handguns, not military scale weaponry.
The guns that were banned 10 years ago by the Clinton Administration's "assault weapons" ban were not military weapons. They were guns that LOOKED LIKE military weapons.
Gun banners are constantly trying to exploit the population's lack of knowledge in that department.
I?m sure she does support a ban on that, as the vast majority of Americans do, although for the record I don?t.
The fact that you made this statement, bolsters my previous point. Military grade battle rifles have been strictly controlled since the gun control act of 1934. Since before my grandfather was born it has been expensive, and difficult to legally purchase a machine gun. Seems like that should be common knowledge, but for whatever reason it isn't.
LK
Why should that be enfuriating?
Well... I'm not sure if you'd believe me if I said it and if you did, I'm not sure you'd understand.
I see the same thug and metrosexual posers
I'm takling about one guy. Someone who wants to adapt the thug persona so badly that he puts a metrosexual's effort into it.
Me? I'll continue to commit social suicide by wearing years old no-logo clothing, listening to my "nobody" indie music, and remaining (*gasp*) humble and (*gasp*) anti-materialist.
Indy music has never really been my thing, but I get lots of odd looks when I pull up outside of the club listening to music that is often 12 years old and occasionally older than the average person there.
LK
Of course math isn't a sport. Just because some people call boxing "The Sweet Science" doesn't mean that sports and science are interchangeable.
Otherwise all of those semiliterate pro footbal and baseball players could claim to be scientists. In short, FUCK THAT.
LK
Read it and weep, bitch.
LK
I wish you were logged in. I would have added you to my friend list for that one.
LK
I would LOVE to see Rakim fall in with Eminem. I just can't get excited about seeing Rakim on Dre's label.
LK
I didn't know his Muslimness mattered. He rarely mentions it in his songs.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
Have you ever listended to R.A.K.I.M.? Let me give you a little quote "Allah, whom I praise to the fullest"
Not only is being a muslim important to Rakim, but the fact that he is an upright muslim means a lot to him. Have you ever heard him give an interview? He speaks(sometimes at length) of Allah and his "knowledge of self".
LK
Is this classified data something that could be embarrasing?
What I'm getting at is this, the secret on nuclear weapons is out. Everyone in the world knows HOW to make them, the problem is that it isn't easy to get fissionable materials. Biological and Chemical weapons are even easier to make. Anyone here could mix up lethal chemical or biological weapons in their garage.
The genie is out of the bottle, so what kind of information has been lost?
LK