Piracy may very well increase as you describe, but piracy also happens regardless of cost escalation. Piracy happens become the product/work/whatever isn't free in the first place, and some people would rather thieve it than buy it.
Gentoo is very close to slack except that I am up an running in 20 minutes after inserting the CD for install, Gentoo REQUIRES a broadband connection to install it, slackware can be installed without a connection to the internet.
That is incorrect. As of Gentoo 1.4, GRP allows you to install a complete Gentoo install with only the ISOs, just like any other distro with an ISO-based install:
Note: A complete Gentoo Linux 2-CD set contains the Gentoo Reference Platform, which is a complete pre-built Gentoo Linux system including GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice. The Gentoo Reference Platform ("GRP") was created to allow rapid Gentoo Linux package installations for those who need this capability. The "compile from source" functionality, which is the cornerstone of Gentoo Linux, will always be a fully-supported installation option as well. The purpose of the GRP is to make Gentoo Linux more convenient for some users, without impacting Gentoo's powerful "compile from source" installation process in any way.
I think the Segway recall is awesome, the idea was idiotic in the first place. Now turbocharge those rediculous things, add missles and laser blasters, and you've got an elite gun platform for the army.
Of course, the army will really only be going in once the Airforce has already done the fighting, so the people who are laughing will be the "liberated" citizens of country X.
How about a distributed tool to send a single packet with a payload expressing a desire to opt-out of mailings? It might, unfortunately of course, DDoS spammers out of existence...;)
Why change out your hard drive? Just make sure each sector is zeroed out in its entirety so that the empty space in allocation units is wiped, then reinstall.
I'll live where I'm free to code without fear of the DMCA and where I'm free to read without the government looking up my library records and where my children will get education and we'll all get health care and where my neighbor can smoke a J and it's no big deal because it really isn't a big deal and all that drug war money is instead spent to make life better. Imagine a land where you're free to tinker, and where we're brave enough to allow personal choices.
You just described Canada... except you missed the part about the bears, coyotes, and other assorted wildlife roaming freely in our cities;)
We're not so big on the personal choice thing (our government likes to take away choice so that we don't hurt ourselves), but otherwise its pretty accurate.
Bah. I remember when friggin Network Solutions (no owned by Verisign) did own the web. I remember when there wasn't all this gull durn "choice" to confuse people registering domains. I never used to get asked "hey, who do you register domains with?". It was always "hey, can you help me fill out the text form and email it to the InterNIC?"
All these changes to the good ol' Internet. Back in my day there was one registrar, and we liked it. And none of this "broadband" hooey. We had real modems that made squeely noises, and it was good enough then, its good enough now.
What do you expect from one of SCO's puppet masters? Its no coindence that SCO, Microsoft and Sun all parrot the same anti-Linux FUD. They have to most to fear, because their businesses are being eroded where it matters: the server space. Sun is thinking wishfully with the "Linux doesn't belong on servers" mantra.
Just because it is crap and has a lousy distribution model doesn't make the operating environment any less free in terms of license to use. Sure, its useless and can't touch the performance and value of Linux, but it is still free.
As far as the comment about regarding withholding criticism for any UNIX vendor: SCO. 'nuff said.
Unfortunately, I doubt that Atlas is going to shrug any time soon, and the "good people" are going to be stuck with the "horribly stupid people" until we all blow ourselves up and the cats take over the planet.
I'm doing all I can to make sure our cats appreciate me so that I can (continue to) be a favored slave when it all goes down.
Sun wants to undermine Linux as well, despite some of the recent signs that the company sees value in Linux, there are plenty of other signs that they see it as a threat. Individual Sun reps might laugh in your face if you mention plans to deploy Linux in a way they might have gotten you to buy their gear for, but don't let that myopia fool you.
Microsoft and Sun are the big bankrolls behind the fiaSCO. Windows and Solaris sucks, vivat Linux.
No, but thats because humans actually read partially by the shape of the word. Anybody who has studied ergonomics should know that. It is for this reason that the usage of all uppercase letters is actually something that runs counter to optimum reading rate. Uppercase breaks the shape of the word, thus requiring more focus.
Mixing letters around but mostly conserving the "shape" of the word, as the "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy" quote does, highlights this perceptual capability. Our brains allows this paragraph to be read at normal (at least without significant impairment) rate without reading comprehension being broken by the fact that most of those words are no longer spelled correctly.
Human perception fills in a lot of blanks for us in vision, as well. Basically, our brains cut corners in the interests of speed. There are blind spots, such as where the optic nerve leaves the eye, that our vision fills in for us.
As for dyslexia, the paragraph above probably looks like what every written passage looks to a dyslexic. I suspect that dyslexia involves the brain mangling the shape of words by reordering letters at the outset of beginning to learn to read, so they never really learn to read by shape. I could be way off hear, I'm very out of date as far as dyslexia research.
Thats pretty similar to what I chant to myself everyday.
The alternative, of course, is that the courts will continue to make rediculous decisions and corporate lobbying will make it impossible for the bad laws to be repealed. All I can saw is "Go EU!".
While you are at it, make sure the website address, or email address of the annoying company is posted too. A whole crapload of legitimate traffic to their webserver isn't really a DoS, is it?;)
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Please mod parent up, this is the most significant development in the fiaSCO so far.
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Kazaa, a terabyte of storage in a PC that would make most IT staffers drool, and nothing but time to poke around the internet on a private fiber drop... money is irrelevant. The argument that people use Kazaa because of financial considerations rather than a love of music supports the RRIA's position. I don't believe that people with enough storage to host MP3s, money to pay for Internet service, and so forth are particularly put off by the cost of a CD.
People don't download MP3s because they lack money (at least not in all cases). They do it because they like music. They share because they have an excess of available bandwidth (which costs money), storage (which costs money), and actually subscribe to the idea that sharing is good.
The RRIA is alienating music fans because of a misperception that they are losing money due to digital media. They are like SCO, unable to competantly respond to market forces and using legal means to attempt to gain income. These despicable bastards are making me consider a boycott on recordings from their members. I buy (or bought, until the RRIA went evil) a lot of CDs, and don't share MP3s (I don't put Kazaa or other Virus-to-Peer applications on my home computers).
Its time artists took control of their creations before groups like the RRIA eliminate their fans. By the way, I don't include talentless has-been sell-outs like Metallica when I say "artists";)
The favorite game of too many (irresponsible) parents is Passing the Buck. Thanks for not being one of the wastes of flesh who blame entertainment sources for their failed children.
One of the reason that many people are so cynical nowadays is because of the idiots who run rampant. Back in the good ol' days, a cave bear would have eaten them and we'd all be better off for it. Now we have to watch them launch lawsuits. Bring back the bears, I say.
"Who is that old man?"
"He doesn't learn anything new and can hardly accomplish any of the tasks the young kid in the next room can, he's being ignored by the best and brightest around the world."
"Whats his name?"
"His name is SCO OpenServer."
THE FUTURE IS NOT THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR CASH REGISTERS.
Thats right, a very important distincton. Fair use and "private copying" (in Canada) protect personal copies of media even if you don't own them (at least up here in Canada), however distribution of works protected by copyright is risky/dumb. Personally, I 've never really "shared", only made private copies which I do not share back out.
The RIAA is trying to undue all that pre-school programming we got where they taught us it is good to share;)
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What you want is his home address... its worked before ;)
Piracy may very well increase as you describe, but piracy also happens regardless of cost escalation. Piracy happens become the product/work/whatever isn't free in the first place, and some people would rather thieve it than buy it.
I think the Segway recall is awesome, the idea was idiotic in the first place. Now turbocharge those rediculous things, add missles and laser blasters, and you've got an elite gun platform for the army.
Of course, the army will really only be going in once the Airforce has already done the fighting, so the people who are laughing will be the "liberated" citizens of country X.
How about a distributed tool to send a single packet with a payload expressing a desire to opt-out of mailings? It might, unfortunately of course, DDoS spammers out of existence... ;)
I'm going to have to continue to taunt the Solaris fanboys I work with about their dying operating system ;)
Maybe I'll start taunting the Sun consultants too.
Mmmmmm... holy war. Its whats for breakfast (tm).
Why change out your hard drive? Just make sure each sector is zeroed out in its entirety so that the empty space in allocation units is wiped, then reinstall.
We're not so big on the personal choice thing (our government likes to take away choice so that we don't hurt ourselves), but otherwise its pretty accurate.
All these changes to the good ol' Internet. Back in my day there was one registrar, and we liked it. And none of this "broadband" hooey. We had real modems that made squeely noises, and it was good enough then, its good enough now.
Damn kids these days...
Their days are numbered.
As far as the comment about regarding withholding criticism for any UNIX vendor: SCO. 'nuff said.
Unfortunately, I doubt that Atlas is going to shrug any time soon, and the "good people" are going to be stuck with the "horribly stupid people" until we all blow ourselves up and the cats take over the planet.
I'm doing all I can to make sure our cats appreciate me so that I can (continue to) be a favored slave when it all goes down.
Sun wants to undermine Linux as well, despite some of the recent signs that the company sees value in Linux, there are plenty of other signs that they see it as a threat. Individual Sun reps might laugh in your face if you mention plans to deploy Linux in a way they might have gotten you to buy their gear for, but don't let that myopia fool you.
Microsoft and Sun are the big bankrolls behind the fiaSCO. Windows and Solaris sucks, vivat Linux.
Mixing letters around but mostly conserving the "shape" of the word, as the "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy" quote does, highlights this perceptual capability. Our brains allows this paragraph to be read at normal (at least without significant impairment) rate without reading comprehension being broken by the fact that most of those words are no longer spelled correctly.
Human perception fills in a lot of blanks for us in vision, as well. Basically, our brains cut corners in the interests of speed. There are blind spots, such as where the optic nerve leaves the eye, that our vision fills in for us.
As for dyslexia, the paragraph above probably looks like what every written passage looks to a dyslexic. I suspect that dyslexia involves the brain mangling the shape of words by reordering letters at the outset of beginning to learn to read, so they never really learn to read by shape. I could be way off hear, I'm very out of date as far as dyslexia research.
The alternative, of course, is that the courts will continue to make rediculous decisions and corporate lobbying will make it impossible for the bad laws to be repealed. All I can saw is "Go EU!".
While you are at it, make sure the website address, or email address of the annoying company is posted too. A whole crapload of legitimate traffic to their webserver isn't really a DoS, is it? ;)
Please mod parent up, this is the most significant development in the fiaSCO so far.
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That's just a sample of how easy it is to take part in the community. You'll find it quite liberating.
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People don't download MP3s because they lack money (at least not in all cases). They do it because they like music. They share because they have an excess of available bandwidth (which costs money), storage (which costs money), and actually subscribe to the idea that sharing is good.
The RRIA is alienating music fans because of a misperception that they are losing money due to digital media. They are like SCO, unable to competantly respond to market forces and using legal means to attempt to gain income. These despicable bastards are making me consider a boycott on recordings from their members. I buy (or bought, until the RRIA went evil) a lot of CDs, and don't share MP3s (I don't put Kazaa or other Virus-to-Peer applications on my home computers).
Its time artists took control of their creations before groups like the RRIA eliminate their fans. By the way, I don't include talentless has-been sell-outs like Metallica when I say "artists" ;)
Forgive me if I don't shed a tear for the bastards whenever their sites get knocked offline.
One of the reason that many people are so cynical nowadays is because of the idiots who run rampant. Back in the good ol' days, a cave bear would have eaten them and we'd all be better off for it. Now we have to watch them launch lawsuits. Bring back the bears, I say.
UP WITH BEARS, DOWN WITH BAD PARENTS!
"He doesn't learn anything new and can hardly accomplish any of the tasks the young kid in the next room can, he's being ignored by the best and brightest around the world."
"Whats his name?"
"His name is SCO OpenServer."
THE FUTURE IS NOT THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR CASH REGISTERS.
MicroSCO.
The RIAA is trying to undue all that pre-school programming we got where they taught us it is good to share ;)
we're doomed... *sniff*