It clearly demonstrates that there is a demand for space flight. If someone developed an affordable means to get there, there are plenty of people who would be booking flights to the moon, or to Mars. Given an assurance of supplies to make the stay survivable, plenty of people would be making their flights one way. All the BS about exploring space for science if just fine - but PEOPLE WANT TO GO! Call us kooks, or whatever. There is a drive to explore, in person.
Screw reality shows, let's get out there and meet reality, eyeball to - whatever reality looks back at us with.
The article doesn't say that the book was required reading. TFA states that he was using at least one paragraph for reference in his thesis. There is little to suggest how much of the book he was using, nor how many other books he was using for background material.
The question has little to do with "required reading", but with a customer's rights. This student apparently paid for a legal copy of a book, and was using it in his studies. He has a valid complaint, IMHO - although his complaint is no more, and no less valid than that of a more casual user of Amazon's services. Breaking a contract, on the end user's part, is punishable by law, and often accompanied by punitive fees, penalties, and charges. Amazon has obviously broken a contract, so they should be looking at the same sort of penalties, scaled to fit.
It's California, after all. The land of milk and honey. Only rich people live there, as proven by the ready availability of free health care and free education for illegal immigrants and illegal migrant workers. Not to mention free legal services for those illegals who are to stupid to stay underground, and obey other laws. Nothing to worry about.
If stuff like this really bothers you, get involved with the idiots who run your government, and hold them accountable. Tell them that you want the old fashioned meters back, that took quarters and dimes to operate. There never was any widespread abuse of them, because they WORK. There was no need to spend however many zillion dollars to upgrade to insecure networked card reading meters.
As already has been said, don't buy DRM. That hurts the idiots more than anything. Write your senator, congressman, state representative, hell, write your mayor and the city dogcatcher too. Tell everyone that you're sick of DRM, that you're sick of copyright abuse, and that RIAA is violating your rights. Don't forget to write to RIAA and the rest of the alphabet idiots.
In the meantime, rip whatever you own, and put it on the most durable media you own, without the DRM.
Mostly, I let other fine folk do the ripping, and I just download it.
The tests confirm what many of us have been saying all along. Using XP as a baseline, Vista sucks gangrenous donkey balls through a garden hose. Win7, on the other hand, runs about as well as XP. Depending on configuration, of course. It wouldn't be terribly inaccurate to say that Win7 is XP with a better security model, and missing some of the bogus legacy shit that should have been dropped almost a decade ago.
Thank you, for informing me that I have a blind spot. Somehow, I supposed that food products might be different. Probably because I already know that "store brand" foods are often processed and packaged on the very same lines that name brands are. Same product, same process, different label. Oftentimes, in the supermarket, the can of veggies that is 20 cents cheaper than the name brand is PRECISELY the same product.
But, I didn't think that through, did I? Not all name brands are equal, nor do all processing plants necessarily produce their cheap label products on the same line that their name brand runs on.
You should consider "Wal-Mart is able to demand pretty much whatever it wants of suppliers" a little more. Wal-Mart demands what IT wants of suppliers, not what the consumer may need or want.
Specifically, Wal-Mart writes the specs on items, such as computers, lawnmowers, etc, that they want to buy. Often times, the specs are lower quality than the supplier might wish to offer. Briggs & Stratton suffers from this. Briggs builds some very high quality engines, but Wal-Mart doesn't want to pay for that quality. Wal-Mart wants an engine that can be reasonably expected to last one season, under moderate use. And, that is exactly what Wal-Mart gets. Wal-Mart puts a price tag on these lawn mowers, allowing you to compare them to lawn mowers that APPEAR to be similar, and allowing you to believe that you are getting the same product at 1/2 or 2/3 of the price.
It just ain't so.
If you want a good quality lawnmower that is going to last as many as 5 years, with a minimum of maintenance, you will purchase your mower from a reputable lawn care equipment dealer. Yes, it will likely have a Briggs engine that looks almost like the one Wal-Mart offers - but if you strip it down, you WILL find differences. A lot of differences.
Ditto with computers, and any other high dollar items.
Linux has traffic shaping software that is far superior to your ISP's "Web Accelerator" software. I would be willing to bet that Mac has the same features.
Web accelerators are for dialup connections, primarily. You only get ~48k on that connection, no matter what. The pages can't be fed to you any faster than 56k, period, and quality and length of wire between you and the ISP will decrease that. Wondershaper or Firestarter can ensure that QOS rules are followed, and that interactive web apps (such as your browser) take priority over downloads, FTP transactions, updates, etc. A good hosts file can block advertisements and flash content that you don't want to see, which is generally 80% of the total page content.
About the only tool left that might help to speed browsing is compression - but if you have already done traffic shaping, and prevented ads and other undesirable content, compression isn't going to help very much with the remainder.
Also, with compression, your ISP isn't stripping the undesirable content. They have no incentive to do so, they will just compress EVERYTHING, and push it at you.
Put a Windows machine with accelerator side by side with a Debian or Ubuntu machine that I've optimized for QOS, there would be precious little difference. I suspect that the Debian box might be a little faster, because it pulls less total content from the ISP.
One of the most dangerous creatures on the road, is the driver who mindlessly adheres to the law, as he understands it.
Want a for instance? Every idiot out there believes that if a cop turns his lights on behind you, you MUST PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY. Worse, far to many cops encourage that belief. What the LAW says, in almost every state, is that you must pull over as quickly as possible IN A SAFE LOCATION. Meaning - if it isn't safe to pull over, you may lead the cop a mile or six to someplace where it IS SAFE, and he is obligated to follow you.
How about running a red light? I happen to use my rear view mirror for it's intended purpose, even glancing at it while waiting for a light. If I see an idiot flying up behind me, and I don't think he can stop in time, I'm getting the hell out of his way!
Mindless morons (especially mindless morons with distracting toys in their vehicles) kill people every single day. We need more defensive driving courses, similar to what the NHTSA put into the schools in the early 70's. Somehow, "defensive driving" has become synonymous with punishment for driving drunk.
I read this story already. George Bush played by the very same story line. "Cause enough fear, and everyone will follow along like good little sheep." Wonderful, that Apple is joining the "War on Terra". There's no longer any question whether they are for us or against us.
For the first time, I type a heartfelt "FUCK APPLE!"
TFA is shite. He talks about the industry being under fire - but instead uses half his post describing problems caused by CUSTOMERS.
If half a million people in my home state decide to commit suicide by sticking their fingers into live electrical sockets, this suddenly becomes an electrical industry problem? Maybe if most of the suicides are children, then yeah, we'll hear "think of the chidren", and see more safety regulations passed.
People texting and running at the mouth while driving isn't an industry problem, at all. It's a genetic problem. A problem solved by applying some of Darwin's reasoning.
BTW - I hope to never hear any subhuman crying about their sister, brother, uncle, or best freind dying in an auto accident because they were talking/texting instead of paying attention. I will be forced to explain that said relative or freind wasn't fit to live because he was genetically inferior.
Obviously, very few people give a damn, or they would be jailbreaking their phones, and putting whatever app they want on their phone. Allow me to stress, THEIR phone. Just like my computer, when it is bought and paid for, no one can say how it can be used. Apple's control over the damned thing ends when it comes into my possession - unless I'm idiot enough to allow them to control it.
Do like my father does. Drive the extra mile, and get what you want, not what the grocer makes the most profit from.
Isn't spam patented? The patent trolls should go after the spammers. Or, is there some sort of agreement that those in the shallow end of the gene pool won't attack each other?
Linux kernel driver team leader Greg Kroah-Hartman, who had been tipped off by Linux contributor Stephen Hemminger, informed Microsoft about the violation in March, according to Ramji.
Hemminger, a principal engineer with the open-source networking software maker Vyatta, wrote in his blog that he contacted Kroah-Hartman with the expectation that Kroah-Hartman could "could prod the right people to get the issue resolved."
But Ramji said Microsoft was going to release the code under the GPL anyway. "Hank Janssen [a Microsoft engineer] came up with the idea of submitting the code to the kernel months before Greg [Kroah-Hartman] contacted us," he said. "We built a plan based on the value of supporting as many Linux distros as possible. Hank proposed the GPLv2 as the vehicle."
Microsoft did not make its decision based on any perceived obligation, he said. "We considered a range of options, and GPLv2 was the best because it is the license the community used."
"It seems to me that Sam [Ramji] is likely correct when he says that talk inside Microsoft about releasing the source was under way before the Linux developers began their enforcement effort," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy analyst and tech director at the SFLC.
"However, that talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem. As soon as one distributes the binaries of a GPL'd work, one must provide the source for those binaries, so Microsoft's delay in this regard was a GPL violation. ______________________
So, you see, MS didn't approach Linux first. Instead, Linux approached MS to inform MS that there was a problem. Everyone gets to spin the story as they see fit, and MS is highly experienced with spinning stories. But, bottom line was, Linux community had to make the first move to protect GPL'd code. That cannot be disguised with anyone's spin. Note, especially, the first paragraph, near the end: "In March".
What the hell is someone from Yahoo doing here at slashdot? You got lost or something? I would have thought that even MS fanbois could find something better than Yahoo. About the only thing worse is AOhell.
Sometimes, after making a reply to someone's post, I realize that I should have looked at that person's profile, and maybe some past posts. It's rather silly to make an ASSumption about someone of whom you know absolutely nothing. Take this, for instance:
"I think you're just uncomfortable with anything which implicitly critiques Apple."
I've never owned a Mac, never run an Apple OS, don't have an iTune or an iPhone, and only infrequently test an Apple application, such as Safari. Me? Uncomfortable with critiques of Apple? Sorry, I'm more akin to the people who got trapped in the glass house of Windows, then escaped to the world of open source. While that description isn't quite accurate, any assumptions that you made based on it would be more accurate than the assumption you made above.
My grocer won't carry the particular brand of chewing tobacco that my father prefers, so father has to drive a couple extra miles to get his tobacco. Father shows disapproval of the grocer's decision by taking his business elsewhere. He even bitches to his freinds about it.
I know!! I'll start a slashdot article, asking people what they think of the grocer!!
Now, slashdotters who still live in their Mama's basements, and are afraid to come out during daylight hours can have jobs too!! They can take their work to the video arcade, and to Chucky Cheese's. They can even work from inside a '60's style VW van!!
Slashdot Mirror
I'd rather have a computer that is designed to work securely.
It clearly demonstrates that there is a demand for space flight. If someone developed an affordable means to get there, there are plenty of people who would be booking flights to the moon, or to Mars. Given an assurance of supplies to make the stay survivable, plenty of people would be making their flights one way. All the BS about exploring space for science if just fine - but PEOPLE WANT TO GO! Call us kooks, or whatever. There is a drive to explore, in person.
Screw reality shows, let's get out there and meet reality, eyeball to - whatever reality looks back at us with.
The article doesn't say that the book was required reading. TFA states that he was using at least one paragraph for reference in his thesis. There is little to suggest how much of the book he was using, nor how many other books he was using for background material.
The question has little to do with "required reading", but with a customer's rights. This student apparently paid for a legal copy of a book, and was using it in his studies. He has a valid complaint, IMHO - although his complaint is no more, and no less valid than that of a more casual user of Amazon's services. Breaking a contract, on the end user's part, is punishable by law, and often accompanied by punitive fees, penalties, and charges. Amazon has obviously broken a contract, so they should be looking at the same sort of penalties, scaled to fit.
It's California, after all. The land of milk and honey. Only rich people live there, as proven by the ready availability of free health care and free education for illegal immigrants and illegal migrant workers. Not to mention free legal services for those illegals who are to stupid to stay underground, and obey other laws. Nothing to worry about.
If stuff like this really bothers you, get involved with the idiots who run your government, and hold them accountable. Tell them that you want the old fashioned meters back, that took quarters and dimes to operate. There never was any widespread abuse of them, because they WORK. There was no need to spend however many zillion dollars to upgrade to insecure networked card reading meters.
As already has been said, don't buy DRM. That hurts the idiots more than anything. Write your senator, congressman, state representative, hell, write your mayor and the city dogcatcher too. Tell everyone that you're sick of DRM, that you're sick of copyright abuse, and that RIAA is violating your rights. Don't forget to write to RIAA and the rest of the alphabet idiots.
In the meantime, rip whatever you own, and put it on the most durable media you own, without the DRM.
Mostly, I let other fine folk do the ripping, and I just download it.
The tests confirm what many of us have been saying all along. Using XP as a baseline, Vista sucks gangrenous donkey balls through a garden hose. Win7, on the other hand, runs about as well as XP. Depending on configuration, of course. It wouldn't be terribly inaccurate to say that Win7 is XP with a better security model, and missing some of the bogus legacy shit that should have been dropped almost a decade ago.
Those damned slashtotters!! They've taken the frigging site down!! Oh - wait. . . .
Thank you, for informing me that I have a blind spot. Somehow, I supposed that food products might be different. Probably because I already know that "store brand" foods are often processed and packaged on the very same lines that name brands are. Same product, same process, different label. Oftentimes, in the supermarket, the can of veggies that is 20 cents cheaper than the name brand is PRECISELY the same product.
But, I didn't think that through, did I? Not all name brands are equal, nor do all processing plants necessarily produce their cheap label products on the same line that their name brand runs on.
You should consider "Wal-Mart is able to demand pretty much whatever it wants of suppliers" a little more. Wal-Mart demands what IT wants of suppliers, not what the consumer may need or want.
Specifically, Wal-Mart writes the specs on items, such as computers, lawnmowers, etc, that they want to buy. Often times, the specs are lower quality than the supplier might wish to offer. Briggs & Stratton suffers from this. Briggs builds some very high quality engines, but Wal-Mart doesn't want to pay for that quality. Wal-Mart wants an engine that can be reasonably expected to last one season, under moderate use. And, that is exactly what Wal-Mart gets. Wal-Mart puts a price tag on these lawn mowers, allowing you to compare them to lawn mowers that APPEAR to be similar, and allowing you to believe that you are getting the same product at 1/2 or 2/3 of the price.
It just ain't so.
If you want a good quality lawnmower that is going to last as many as 5 years, with a minimum of maintenance, you will purchase your mower from a reputable lawn care equipment dealer. Yes, it will likely have a Briggs engine that looks almost like the one Wal-Mart offers - but if you strip it down, you WILL find differences. A lot of differences.
Ditto with computers, and any other high dollar items.
Linux has traffic shaping software that is far superior to your ISP's "Web Accelerator" software. I would be willing to bet that Mac has the same features.
Web accelerators are for dialup connections, primarily. You only get ~48k on that connection, no matter what. The pages can't be fed to you any faster than 56k, period, and quality and length of wire between you and the ISP will decrease that. Wondershaper or Firestarter can ensure that QOS rules are followed, and that interactive web apps (such as your browser) take priority over downloads, FTP transactions, updates, etc. A good hosts file can block advertisements and flash content that you don't want to see, which is generally 80% of the total page content.
About the only tool left that might help to speed browsing is compression - but if you have already done traffic shaping, and prevented ads and other undesirable content, compression isn't going to help very much with the remainder.
Also, with compression, your ISP isn't stripping the undesirable content. They have no incentive to do so, they will just compress EVERYTHING, and push it at you.
Put a Windows machine with accelerator side by side with a Debian or Ubuntu machine that I've optimized for QOS, there would be precious little difference. I suspect that the Debian box might be a little faster, because it pulls less total content from the ISP.
rude != illegal != stupid != aggressive
One of the most dangerous creatures on the road, is the driver who mindlessly adheres to the law, as he understands it.
Want a for instance? Every idiot out there believes that if a cop turns his lights on behind you, you MUST PULL OVER IMMEDIATELY. Worse, far to many cops encourage that belief. What the LAW says, in almost every state, is that you must pull over as quickly as possible IN A SAFE LOCATION. Meaning - if it isn't safe to pull over, you may lead the cop a mile or six to someplace where it IS SAFE, and he is obligated to follow you.
How about running a red light? I happen to use my rear view mirror for it's intended purpose, even glancing at it while waiting for a light. If I see an idiot flying up behind me, and I don't think he can stop in time, I'm getting the hell out of his way!
Mindless morons (especially mindless morons with distracting toys in their vehicles) kill people every single day. We need more defensive driving courses, similar to what the NHTSA put into the schools in the early 70's. Somehow, "defensive driving" has become synonymous with punishment for driving drunk.
I read this story already. George Bush played by the very same story line. "Cause enough fear, and everyone will follow along like good little sheep." Wonderful, that Apple is joining the "War on Terra". There's no longer any question whether they are for us or against us.
For the first time, I type a heartfelt "FUCK APPLE!"
TFA is shite. He talks about the industry being under fire - but instead uses half his post describing problems caused by CUSTOMERS.
If half a million people in my home state decide to commit suicide by sticking their fingers into live electrical sockets, this suddenly becomes an electrical industry problem? Maybe if most of the suicides are children, then yeah, we'll hear "think of the chidren", and see more safety regulations passed.
People texting and running at the mouth while driving isn't an industry problem, at all. It's a genetic problem. A problem solved by applying some of Darwin's reasoning.
BTW - I hope to never hear any subhuman crying about their sister, brother, uncle, or best freind dying in an auto accident because they were talking/texting instead of paying attention. I will be forced to explain that said relative or freind wasn't fit to live because he was genetically inferior.
Did I hear something about "jail break"?
Obviously, very few people give a damn, or they would be jailbreaking their phones, and putting whatever app they want on their phone. Allow me to stress, THEIR phone. Just like my computer, when it is bought and paid for, no one can say how it can be used. Apple's control over the damned thing ends when it comes into my possession - unless I'm idiot enough to allow them to control it.
Do like my father does. Drive the extra mile, and get what you want, not what the grocer makes the most profit from.
Isn't spam patented? The patent trolls should go after the spammers. Or, is there some sort of agreement that those in the shallow end of the gene pool won't attack each other?
"I can't see any of us (/.) asking for it "
They can have my spam when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
"unless someone was using hydrogen-oxygen rocketry almost a full century before the first shuttle launch"
Werner von Braun's grand daddy?
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33641
Linux kernel driver team leader Greg Kroah-Hartman, who had been tipped off by Linux contributor Stephen Hemminger, informed Microsoft about the violation in March, according to Ramji.
Hemminger, a principal engineer with the open-source networking software maker Vyatta, wrote in his blog that he contacted Kroah-Hartman with the expectation that Kroah-Hartman could "could prod the right people to get the issue resolved."
But Ramji said Microsoft was going to release the code under the GPL anyway. "Hank Janssen [a Microsoft engineer] came up with the idea of submitting the code to the kernel months before Greg [Kroah-Hartman] contacted us," he said. "We built a plan based on the value of supporting as many Linux distros as possible. Hank proposed the GPLv2 as the vehicle."
Microsoft did not make its decision based on any perceived obligation, he said. "We considered a range of options, and GPLv2 was the best because it is the license the community used."
"It seems to me that Sam [Ramji] is likely correct when he says that talk inside Microsoft about releasing the source was under way before the Linux developers began their enforcement effort," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy analyst and tech director at the SFLC.
"However, that talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem. As soon as one distributes the binaries of a GPL'd work, one must provide the source for those binaries, so Microsoft's delay in this regard was a GPL violation.
______________________
So, you see, MS didn't approach Linux first. Instead, Linux approached MS to inform MS that there was a problem. Everyone gets to spin the story as they see fit, and MS is highly experienced with spinning stories. But, bottom line was, Linux community had to make the first move to protect GPL'd code. That cannot be disguised with anyone's spin. Note, especially, the first paragraph, near the end: "In March".
What the hell is someone from Yahoo doing here at slashdot? You got lost or something? I would have thought that even MS fanbois could find something better than Yahoo. About the only thing worse is AOhell.
Sometimes, after making a reply to someone's post, I realize that I should have looked at that person's profile, and maybe some past posts. It's rather silly to make an ASSumption about someone of whom you know absolutely nothing. Take this, for instance:
"I think you're just uncomfortable with anything which implicitly critiques Apple."
I've never owned a Mac, never run an Apple OS, don't have an iTune or an iPhone, and only infrequently test an Apple application, such as Safari. Me? Uncomfortable with critiques of Apple? Sorry, I'm more akin to the people who got trapped in the glass house of Windows, then escaped to the world of open source. While that description isn't quite accurate, any assumptions that you made based on it would be more accurate than the assumption you made above.
Not that it matters one damn, of course.
Parent should be modded up.
My grocer won't carry the particular brand of chewing tobacco that my father prefers, so father has to drive a couple extra miles to get his tobacco. Father shows disapproval of the grocer's decision by taking his business elsewhere. He even bitches to his freinds about it.
I know!! I'll start a slashdot article, asking people what they think of the grocer!!
Phhht.
People do change. I've witnessed several miserable old bastards change into dead bastards. Yes, people really can change for the better.
I stopped reading there. Obviously a slow news day.
Now, slashdotters who still live in their Mama's basements, and are afraid to come out during daylight hours can have jobs too!! They can take their work to the video arcade, and to Chucky Cheese's. They can even work from inside a '60's style VW van!!
I see a win-win situation here.
The female of the species was known as a tramp, right?