This is an evil goal and yours is an evil task. You use free software to entice people to surrender their software freedom. Steve Ballmer put it this way:
I would love to see all Open Source innovation happen on top of Windows. So we've done a lot to encourage, for example, the team building, PHP, the team building, many of the other Open Source components, I'd love to see those sorts of innovations proceed very successfully on top of Windows.
Because our battle is not sort of business model to business model. Our battle is product to product, Windows versus Linux, Office versus OpenOffice.
You might not think of this like calling GNU/Linux a "cancer" and people who like to share "pirates" but the spirit is the same. It is not good to help people like that.
Everyone get's one last bonus check before the economy really tanks. Steve Ballmer is happy about it as are most fat cats. Surprisingly, the thing was mostly passed by democrats. Only the fattest of cats will be able to weather the next ten years of melt down, so they need a really big bonus check. M$ is going to fail for sure.
No, I use Debian, so a team of people have done that for me. This might not be a complete check but it's more than you can say for non free software. I trust my MD5 checksum correct Debian CD far more than a crapware loaded Dell.
After install, all the usual things you do to check non free software are done. There's no WGA type daily encrypted communications leaving my network. How about yours?
Non free software opens you up to abuse and bugs. Non free software can have backdoors, spyware and other malicious features. Non free software does not get the love and attention it deserves, so it's almost always buggier an and more bloated than free alternatives. Hardware that requires binary blob firmware loading is never as good as hardware that just works.
That said, there are still a few places non free software is useful. Games, accelerated video cards, Skype and so on. If you have to have those things, you might have to put up with some non free software. I've been happier without any of that. If I want to play games, I can get a console.
The point is smear and to keep people from sharing genuine feelings so that they will better accept broadcast opinion. People like me, don't want another war of aggression are going to have their email mysteriously vanish but very few will be able to put that together with the "spam news" that only tech people will hear about. Everyone else is just going to associate the risks of such an invasion with crackpot spam and penis pills. Messages passed here, on BBS, Usenet and elsewhere will have been dealt with in advance.
The silence and humiliated objectors will be easy to arrest. With just a little more smear, there will be popular support for it. Welcome to the police state. It will lead to WW3.
Overlays and composting issues are why reasonable media players have a screenshot feature. VLC has excellent transcoding that is independent of the display and ffmpeg can grab whatever chunk of any video or audio you want from the command line. It's easy enough to mix the stuff you capture in programs like Kino and Cinelerra, which should work just fine on any laptop made in the last five years. If VLC or the like does not work right under Windows, you can blame Windows itself and fix the problem with free software. If free software does not work with your hardware, I'm sorry but you bought a piece of junk from people who hate you.
So all the ISP filters are ready to tune out the real thing. That will keep people from talking about the invasion of Iran when it really does happen. Then all those Haliburton jails for "illegal aliens" will be put to use.
We should expect Russia, China, France and others to declare war on the US under such circumstances, but it will be a phony war like the UK and French declaration of war after the German invasion of Poland. Fake only for short time. Mass arrests will follow in the US because the Bush administration will finally get the big war it wants.
That only makes the quoted prices worse. People in the UK and EU are looking for a 100 Euro or Pound notebook. If you figure in the lower value of the same processors, the $350 700 models should be available for less than $300 by now but essentially the same components are being sold for twice that. Finally, as the dollar fails, they should be looking to cut costs not raise them if they want to increase their share of huge US market.
If this is part of the M$ deal to put a stop to the growth of Linux on netbooks, it's going to work. Asus is not going to sell as much as they want, it's like they cut their throat to keep M$ happy.
They have to show revenue growth but it is impossible. What do they have without their monopoly? A lot of third rate code that no one wants. Between Vista and Open Office, they are showing revenue problems. Buying Yahoo makes it look like they can extend their monopoly to the web but it's Hotamail all over again. They are proving that they can spend even more money to be an also ran. At best they can crush and rob Yahoo, but that won't do anything to Google or anyone else who wants to run services with free software. The harder M$ tries, the more obvious it is that their game is over.
Are you really saying there's no risk to Google's innovation? They have invested big money in software and data centers.
Microsoft's counter to it is their usual take no prisoners and loot the assets of attack on an established competitor. It's not going to work because they can't really lock out Google or any other portion of the internet where drop in replacements of their product line have taken shape. All they can do is give the world another example of their business ethics. If you look at Microsoft's stock price, you can see that bad things have already happened.
They could be sued again. Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to innovate like that.
Seriously, they had better do something. The $40 billion they have spent over the last few years has given the world Zune, Vista, Xbox, lots of worthless patents, a few other failures as well as a few billion lost in lawsuits. This is why their stock price has been flat for five years and never did recover pre dot-bomb pricing. You would have been better off with Tbills and a lot of institutional investors are going to have to answer for that.
Your example, if true, only points out the futility of super secret search without a warrant. Do you think the CIA and FBI will magically start sharing information if they are both allowed to operate like the Gestapo? Given more power, there will be more not less secrets. New laws and offices don't solve problems when people are violating laws and offices to start with.
The point is that free software does not go away while people think it's useful. People who are happy with 3.5 can keep using it until the 4 branch is obviously superior.
Upgrades in the non free world are far more painful and wasteful. Good luck getting your new hardware to work with XP and your old devices to work with Vista.
Astroturf is repetitive, so it will get listed in one place. You won't be able to eliminate the talking points but you won't have to read them 50 times to find one genuine opinion. Both will be weighted as original content. You will then have to use your brain as you do now. At the same time, you can eliminate distractions like "hot grits". It took me a while to realize this but now I see that it is true.
The only kind of opinion influencing the military properly should do is, "put down your weapons and do as I say." Opinion influence should go on before the military is called in. Then they should not "engage" non combatants and certainly not US citizens. Do you really want your tax money to be spent telling you how and what to think? Do you really want it to be used "engaging" you like a heat seeking missile?
you and I are engaged in a cyber-electronic engagement right now
What he says is true, but that truth does not make it right.
When Evan F. Kohlmann, an expert on al-Qaeda's online operations who serves as a consultant to the FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies, equates publication with terror I think it's safe to assume that others in the US Government have made the same association and acted on it.
Foxattacks has video you can watch for yourself about Barack, but this is only one example. There are many others as you say. It is strange that you would attack the truth of such things by saying they are true.
Are you seriously claiming the west censors the muslims more than the muslims censor the west ?
I don't know what you mean by "the west" or by "muslims." The concepts are distractions used to justify things which are wrong. If we look down on censorship we must not practice it ourselves.
When agents of the US government censor, torture and otherwise violate the US Constitution, enemies of the US can claim hypocrisy. The US must act better to be perceived as better. Principles are more important than "proportion". Conquest, censorship, torture and other lawless behavior is immoral and a losing strategy. Anyone can can point to it and say, "See here what US democracy, free trade, tolerance and liberty are all about."
Why does a country that could cripple the US economy or vaporize Washington DC need to be able to zap things in space? The sensible thing for them to do is wait for provocation and then use trade disruption as a weapon. If push comes to shove, they have the same "game over" card all the other nuclear powers have. Demonstrating star wars capability instead of peacefully developing space is a propaganda error.
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I'd rather you just moved to a reputable company.
This is an evil goal and yours is an evil task. You use free software to entice people to surrender their software freedom. Steve Ballmer put it this way:
I would love to see all Open Source innovation happen on top of Windows. So we've done a lot to encourage, for example, the team building, PHP, the team building, many of the other Open Source components, I'd love to see those sorts of innovations proceed very successfully on top of Windows.
Because our battle is not sort of business model to business model. Our battle is product to product, Windows versus Linux, Office versus OpenOffice.
You might not think of this like calling GNU/Linux a "cancer" and people who like to share "pirates" but the spirit is the same. It is not good to help people like that.
Everyone get's one last bonus check before the economy really tanks. Steve Ballmer is happy about it as are most fat cats. Surprisingly, the thing was mostly passed by democrats. Only the fattest of cats will be able to weather the next ten years of melt down, so they need a really big bonus check. M$ is going to fail for sure.
Oh, the first post not yours. Enjoy.
Sounds about right. It seems so obvious.
With prejudice. Everyone is sick of this twitter bullshit, especially when he's nowhere near the thread.
In Soviet Amerika, the news mods you.
No, I use Debian, so a team of people have done that for me. This might not be a complete check but it's more than you can say for non free software. I trust my MD5 checksum correct Debian CD far more than a crapware loaded Dell.
After install, all the usual things you do to check non free software are done. There's no WGA type daily encrypted communications leaving my network. How about yours?
Non free software opens you up to abuse and bugs. Non free software can have backdoors, spyware and other malicious features. Non free software does not get the love and attention it deserves, so it's almost always buggier an and more bloated than free alternatives. Hardware that requires binary blob firmware loading is never as good as hardware that just works.
That said, there are still a few places non free software is useful. Games, accelerated video cards, Skype and so on. If you have to have those things, you might have to put up with some non free software. I've been happier without any of that. If I want to play games, I can get a console.
The point is smear and to keep people from sharing genuine feelings so that they will better accept broadcast opinion. People like me, don't want another war of aggression are going to have their email mysteriously vanish but very few will be able to put that together with the "spam news" that only tech people will hear about. Everyone else is just going to associate the risks of such an invasion with crackpot spam and penis pills. Messages passed here, on BBS, Usenet and elsewhere will have been dealt with in advance.
The silence and humiliated objectors will be easy to arrest. With just a little more smear, there will be popular support for it. Welcome to the police state. It will lead to WW3.
Overlays and composting issues are why reasonable media players have a screenshot feature. VLC has excellent transcoding that is independent of the display and ffmpeg can grab whatever chunk of any video or audio you want from the command line. It's easy enough to mix the stuff you capture in programs like Kino and Cinelerra, which should work just fine on any laptop made in the last five years. If VLC or the like does not work right under Windows, you can blame Windows itself and fix the problem with free software. If free software does not work with your hardware, I'm sorry but you bought a piece of junk from people who hate you.
The pill pushing comes after the malware infestation. The choice of topic is one that stirs people up, but this one can has worse effects than the average urban legend or Paris Hilton XXX stuff. Filtering messages by subject text strings is not best practice.
Be sure you filter out any email about Iran to help out Uncle Sam. Oh yeah, buy war bonds and get back to wark.
So all the ISP filters are ready to tune out the real thing. That will keep people from talking about the invasion of Iran when it really does happen. Then all those Haliburton jails for "illegal aliens" will be put to use.
We should expect Russia, China, France and others to declare war on the US under such circumstances, but it will be a phony war like the UK and French declaration of war after the German invasion of Poland. Fake only for short time. Mass arrests will follow in the US because the Bush administration will finally get the big war it wants.
That only makes the quoted prices worse. People in the UK and EU are looking for a 100 Euro or Pound notebook. If you figure in the lower value of the same processors, the $350 700 models should be available for less than $300 by now but essentially the same components are being sold for twice that. Finally, as the dollar fails, they should be looking to cut costs not raise them if they want to increase their share of huge US market.
If this is part of the M$ deal to put a stop to the growth of Linux on netbooks, it's going to work. Asus is not going to sell as much as they want, it's like they cut their throat to keep M$ happy.
They have to show revenue growth but it is impossible. What do they have without their monopoly? A lot of third rate code that no one wants. Between Vista and Open Office, they are showing revenue problems. Buying Yahoo makes it look like they can extend their monopoly to the web but it's Hotamail all over again. They are proving that they can spend even more money to be an also ran. At best they can crush and rob Yahoo, but that won't do anything to Google or anyone else who wants to run services with free software. The harder M$ tries, the more obvious it is that their game is over.
Are you really saying there's no risk to Google's innovation? They have invested big money in software and data centers.
Microsoft's counter to it is their usual take no prisoners and loot the assets of attack on an established competitor. It's not going to work because they can't really lock out Google or any other portion of the internet where drop in replacements of their product line have taken shape. All they can do is give the world another example of their business ethics. If you look at Microsoft's stock price, you can see that bad things have already happened.
They could be sued again. Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to innovate like that.
Seriously, they had better do something. The $40 billion they have spent over the last few years has given the world Zune, Vista, Xbox, lots of worthless patents, a few other failures as well as a few billion lost in lawsuits. This is why their stock price has been flat for five years and never did recover pre dot-bomb pricing. You would have been better off with Tbills and a lot of institutional investors are going to have to answer for that.
Your example, if true, only points out the futility of super secret search without a warrant. Do you think the CIA and FBI will magically start sharing information if they are both allowed to operate like the Gestapo? Given more power, there will be more not less secrets. New laws and offices don't solve problems when people are violating laws and offices to start with.
The point is that free software does not go away while people think it's useful. People who are happy with 3.5 can keep using it until the 4 branch is obviously superior.
Upgrades in the non free world are far more painful and wasteful. Good luck getting your new hardware to work with XP and your old devices to work with Vista.
Astroturf is repetitive, so it will get listed in one place. You won't be able to eliminate the talking points but you won't have to read them 50 times to find one genuine opinion. Both will be weighted as original content. You will then have to use your brain as you do now. At the same time, you can eliminate distractions like "hot grits". It took me a while to realize this but now I see that it is true.
The only kind of opinion influencing the military properly should do is, "put down your weapons and do as I say." Opinion influence should go on before the military is called in. Then they should not "engage" non combatants and certainly not US citizens. Do you really want your tax money to be spent telling you how and what to think? Do you really want it to be used "engaging" you like a heat seeking missile?
What he says is true, but that truth does not make it right.
that people who read Forbes don't like the violation. We know it's wrong and the public is catching up. That's good news.
When Evan F. Kohlmann, an expert on al-Qaeda's online operations who serves as a consultant to the FBI, Scotland Yard and other agencies, equates publication with terror I think it's safe to assume that others in the US Government have made the same association and acted on it.
Foxattacks has video you can watch for yourself about Barack, but this is only one example. There are many others as you say. It is strange that you would attack the truth of such things by saying they are true.
I don't know what you mean by "the west" or by "muslims." The concepts are distractions used to justify things which are wrong. If we look down on censorship we must not practice it ourselves.
When agents of the US government censor, torture and otherwise violate the US Constitution, enemies of the US can claim hypocrisy. The US must act better to be perceived as better. Principles are more important than "proportion". Conquest, censorship, torture and other lawless behavior is immoral and a losing strategy. Anyone can can point to it and say, "See here what US democracy, free trade, tolerance and liberty are all about."
Why does a country that could cripple the US economy or vaporize Washington DC need to be able to zap things in space? The sensible thing for them to do is wait for provocation and then use trade disruption as a weapon. If push comes to shove, they have the same "game over" card all the other nuclear powers have. Demonstrating star wars capability instead of peacefully developing space is a propaganda error.