Not a single home user of Photoshop that I know has paid for it, ever. They either got Photoshop LE free with their scanner or printer, or they downloaded it or copied it from a friend that downloaded it.
People who aren't Debian developers (or fanatical users) are the ones who'd hand over their soul for the next cool gimmick ("yes, I'll accept the condition of only running the software you let me, if you'll let me pay $200 for Halo 4! That game's so cool I don't need freedom!").
I'm not a Debian user. I have no plans on becoming a Debian user. I am fanatical about freedom, but not about free software.
I recognize that the OSS model is the best model for software development, I also recognize that having the best model doesn't always make up for weight of numbers of a LONG head start. Take the example of the GIMP versus Photoshop. The GIMP is what, half the age of Photoshop and has (in my opinion) about 80% of the funtionality.
That 20% difference in functionality and the $700 premium that Adobe charges for it is what separates GIMPers from Photoshoppers.
If Adobe hadn't given me a free copy of Photoshop, I would most likely be using the GIMP.
I don't see this as selling out. I see it as using the best tool for the job that I need to do.
OSS zealots who insist on using such imagery are only hurting themselves. You can't convert people to your religion by waving an AK-47 in their faces and you can't win over OSS converts by calling them names.
I'm going to resist the urge to plug my favorite Distro here.
then the laws of physics will be rewritten to accomodate a literal reading of the bible?
Not necessarily. Some people theorize that in the time of Noah (whether he existed or not isn't really the point) "the world" meant the part of the world that they knew about.
It's not beyond the realm of possibility that a heavy rain, COULD have happened. It's also possible that this rainfall COULD have flooded the land in that small part of the world. Lastly it's also possible that some crazy old man was so afraid of rain that he had a big ass boat handy just in case.
Of course, if you were A Time Lord, you'd understand that fiddling with the past (and sometimes the future) will often lead to Paradoxes (paradoxi??) and generally bugger up causality No End.
Not only that, but Skynet sent back Arnold to kill John's mother. WHen Arnold was destroyed, his parts were used to build skynet... So skynet HAD to send back Arnold to see it's on creation.
At the time, that was a problem for me as well, but with Terminator 3 we learn that Skynet WILL be built no matter what we do.
When I was a kid I had nightmares about the paradox in the Terminator.
John Connor grew up in hiding before the big nuclear war. He lived in hiding because his mother knew that Skynet would try to kill him. Skynet wanted to kill John because he would be the leader of the human resistance in the future. John gained the skills to lead the human resistance because of the time he spent in hiding with his mother before the war. If Skynet never tried to kill John, he wouldn't have been concieved in the first place. If by some chance his mother had hooked up with someone other than Kyle Reese and he was fathered by a different man, he wouldn't have had to grow up in hiding learning how to blow things up and wage war.
So, more likely than not in order to prevent John from becoming the leader of the human resistance, all Skynet would have had to do is leave his mother alone. But, if John had never been concieved or had not grown up to lead the human resistance, Skynet would have never known of him or the fact that it would be better served by ignoring him.
Its realy very easy, all it takes is a desire to hate somthing. Just like the Linux & Mac haters that have never used the platforms or the
I am what most people would call a Mac hater, and I have extensive experience with the platform.
I was a Mac user for 10 years. I know the platform inside and out. I just have become disenchanted.
My dislike comes from not a position of ignorance, but one of knowledge based dislike.
LK
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So, playing a holy warrior was forbidden, but playing a cursed vampire was cool?
Perhaps you missed the point. I didn't play either game until the mid 1990s. I then started playing both.
LK
I never played until I was almost 20 years old.
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My mother was a Jesus Freak and when the anti D&D hysteria hit in the early 80s I was forbidden to play. I lost interest until the mid 90s when I also discovered Vampire The Masquerade. Vampire and D&D helped me to pass many a night.
According to BBC News researchers have discovered that people have loyalty to specific computers
Anyone who has spent serious time as or 30 seconds in the company of a Mac user could have told you that...
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I am in PA. I can't wait to vote for Toomey on Tuesday.
Specter's legacy as a good Republican is "Not Proven under Scottish Law" in my book.
I believe that so many people are endorsing Specter because he is seen as having a better chance to beat whomever the Dems put up in November than Toomey does. IMHO, having Specter in the Senate is no better than having a democrat there. So I'll take my chances on a real Republican.
And portraying a cracker-program as an "open-source effort" is a bit like calling the NRA a grass-roots civil rights campaign.
I am assuming that you said this just to incide a response. I'll bite. The NRA IS a grass-roots group. The vast majority of our 3+ million members are regular everyday people.
Remember Bill Clinton's 1995 State of the Union address? He did all but name us when he gave a reason for the Republican takeover of the House and Senate. We pay taxes and we vote.
If a successful democracy blooms in Iraq, then toppling Iran and Syria will be no problem.
Why do you assume that it is our place to topple such regimes? Saddam was a bad, BAD guy. His sons were bad, BAD guys. No doubt Iraq and the world are better off without them.
It's very dangerous for us to go around trying to destablize countries just because we don't like how they do things internally. By doing that, we legitimize the actions of those who wish to do the same thing to us.
Seems to me that most professional blue-collar workers, like plumbers and carpenters and such, make upwards of six-figure incomes.
Maybe if they were paid in Pesos or Yen. Blue collar work is HARD and usually unskilled so it means you can be replaced by someone willing to do the job for less money.
It's just that if they'd be a bit smarter, they could direct their spam to people who might actually WANT what they're spamming about, and get better results quicker.
They do. Why do you think you get so much penile enhancement spam? Spammers know all of your ex girlfriends.
I'm baffled as to how you were modded up so fast for this comment.
This is Slashdot you fucking n00b! As insightful and informative as your comment was, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was modded down by the same people who modded up Captain Oblivious's post.
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Irregardless of what you call it, it's Linux, and the general consensus from vendors and attendees was, "We're here to stay."
Let's look at the word here.
regardless adj. In spite of everything; anyway: continues to work regardless.
ir pref. variant of in-.
in pref. Not: inarticulate. Before l, in- is usually assimilated to il-; before r to ir-; and before b, m, and p to im-.
Regardless is the correct word in this situation. "Irregardless" is the equivalent of saying "Not regardless".
Obviously not the usage that the submitter had in mind.
LK
Only clueless fanboys would give a damn about under which license their drivers are distributed.
You've obviously never needed to use a driver with the 2.4 kernel that was written for the 2.2 kernel.
LK
Not a single home user of Photoshop that I know has paid for it, ever. They either got Photoshop LE free with their scanner or printer, or they downloaded it or copied it from a friend that downloaded it.
I got mine for free; from Adobe.
LK
People who aren't Debian developers (or fanatical users) are the ones who'd hand over their soul for the next cool gimmick ("yes, I'll accept the condition of only running the software you let me, if you'll let me pay $200 for Halo 4! That game's so cool I don't need freedom!").
I'm not a Debian user. I have no plans on becoming a Debian user. I am fanatical about freedom, but not about free software.
I recognize that the OSS model is the best model for software development, I also recognize that having the best model doesn't always make up for weight of numbers of a LONG head start. Take the example of the GIMP versus Photoshop. The GIMP is what, half the age of Photoshop and has (in my opinion) about 80% of the funtionality.
That 20% difference in functionality and the $700 premium that Adobe charges for it is what separates GIMPers from Photoshoppers.
If Adobe hadn't given me a free copy of Photoshop, I would most likely be using the GIMP.
I don't see this as selling out. I see it as using the best tool for the job that I need to do.
OSS zealots who insist on using such imagery are only hurting themselves. You can't convert people to your religion by waving an AK-47 in their faces and you can't win over OSS converts by calling them names.
I'm going to resist the urge to plug my favorite Distro here.
LK
then the laws of physics will be rewritten to accomodate a literal reading of the bible?
Not necessarily. Some people theorize that in the time of Noah (whether he existed or not isn't really the point) "the world" meant the part of the world that they knew about.
It's not beyond the realm of possibility that a heavy rain, COULD have happened. It's also possible that this rainfall COULD have flooded the land in that small part of the world. Lastly it's also possible that some crazy old man was so afraid of rain that he had a big ass boat handy just in case.
LK
Of course, if you were A Time Lord, you'd understand that fiddling with the past (and sometimes the future) will often lead to Paradoxes (paradoxi??) and generally bugger up causality No End.
I prefer the pseudo geek-chic Paradoxen.
LK
Not only that, but Skynet sent back Arnold to kill John's mother. WHen Arnold was destroyed, his parts were used to build skynet... So skynet HAD to send back Arnold to see it's on creation.
At the time, that was a problem for me as well, but with Terminator 3 we learn that Skynet WILL be built no matter what we do.
LK
When I was a kid I had nightmares about the paradox in the Terminator.
John Connor grew up in hiding before the big nuclear war. He lived in hiding because his mother knew that Skynet would try to kill him. Skynet wanted to kill John because he would be the leader of the human resistance in the future. John gained the skills to lead the human resistance because of the time he spent in hiding with his mother before the war. If Skynet never tried to kill John, he wouldn't have been concieved in the first place. If by some chance his mother had hooked up with someone other than Kyle Reese and he was fathered by a different man, he wouldn't have had to grow up in hiding learning how to blow things up and wage war.
So, more likely than not in order to prevent John from becoming the leader of the human resistance, all Skynet would have had to do is leave his mother alone. But, if John had never been concieved or had not grown up to lead the human resistance, Skynet would have never known of him or the fact that it would be better served by ignoring him.
My head is starting to hurt.
LK
Its realy very easy, all it takes is a desire to hate somthing. Just like the Linux & Mac haters that have never used the platforms or the
I am what most people would call a Mac hater, and I have extensive experience with the platform.
I was a Mac user for 10 years. I know the platform inside and out. I just have become disenchanted.
My dislike comes from not a position of ignorance, but one of knowledge based dislike.
LK
So, playing a holy warrior was forbidden, but playing a cursed vampire was cool?
Perhaps you missed the point. I didn't play either game until the mid 1990s. I then started playing both.
LK
My mother was a Jesus Freak and when the anti D&D hysteria hit in the early 80s I was forbidden to play. I lost interest until the mid 90s when I also discovered Vampire The Masquerade. Vampire and D&D helped me to pass many a night.
LK
I think that he should have said C for portability.
LK
In order to break the laws of a another land, you have to be there at the time.
Under the rules of common sense, this is true. International law doesn't necessarily have anything to do with common sense.
Otherwise, their laws don't apply to you.
That's the purpose of the proposed treaty. Major nations already have extradition treaties, there is no need to restate that which is already law.
LK
According to BBC News researchers have discovered that people have loyalty to specific computers
Anyone who has spent serious time as or 30 seconds in the company of a Mac user could have told you that...
I am in PA. I can't wait to vote for Toomey on Tuesday.
Specter's legacy as a good Republican is "Not Proven under Scottish Law" in my book.
I believe that so many people are endorsing Specter because he is seen as having a better chance to beat whomever the Dems put up in November than Toomey does. IMHO, having Specter in the Senate is no better than having a democrat there. So I'll take my chances on a real Republican.
LK
And portraying a cracker-program as an "open-source effort" is a bit like calling the NRA a grass-roots civil rights campaign.
I am assuming that you said this just to incide a response. I'll bite. The NRA IS a grass-roots group. The vast majority of our 3+ million members are regular everyday people.
Remember Bill Clinton's 1995 State of the Union address? He did all but name us when he gave a reason for the Republican takeover of the House and Senate. We pay taxes and we vote.
LK
If a successful democracy blooms in Iraq, then toppling Iran and Syria will be no problem.
Why do you assume that it is our place to topple such regimes? Saddam was a bad, BAD guy. His sons were bad, BAD guys. No doubt Iraq and the world are better off without them.
It's very dangerous for us to go around trying to destablize countries just because we don't like how they do things internally. By doing that, we legitimize the actions of those who wish to do the same thing to us.
LK
Perhaps it was the lesser of two evils, but it was still damn evil - and everyone should recognise that.
It most definately was the lesser of two evils, it is unfortunate that the Axis powers put the US in a position where it was also a necessary evil.
LK
I know it would be doomed to failure, but I'd like to see something like Blockbuster of even Netflix for audio CDs.
Rent, Rip, Encode, Return, Repeat...
LK
Seems to me that most professional blue-collar workers, like plumbers and carpenters and such, make upwards of six-figure incomes.
Maybe if they were paid in Pesos or Yen. Blue collar work is HARD and usually unskilled so it means you can be replaced by someone willing to do the job for less money.
LK
Palestinians ARE semites.
That could only lead to Excedrin spam :-)
Well done, I hoped that you'd take it in stride.
LK
It's just that if they'd be a bit smarter, they could direct their spam to people who might actually WANT what they're spamming about, and get better results quicker.
They do. Why do you think you get so much penile enhancement spam? Spammers know all of your ex girlfriends.
Although I am sure that the RIAA will be putting a lot of pressure on those who choose not to.
The word for that is "extortion",
LK
I'm baffled as to how you were modded up so fast for this comment.
This is Slashdot you fucking n00b! As insightful and informative as your comment was, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was modded down by the same people who modded up Captain Oblivious's post.
LK