You tend to be far more forgiving when something is both free (beer) and, feels like it belongs to you instead of some distant oligarchy.
Linux doesn't belong to you any more than Windows does. The code is clearly copyrighted to the authors and all of this illusion of public ownership is merely that. You have a EULA with Linux just as much as you do with Windows.
I like Linux because I like the cheap C++ tools and its a great platform for running a web server, but I'm under no illusions that its better than Windows across the board. Windows 7 wins that contest hands down for the desktop client department, just by mere virtue of having DirectWrite,Direct2D, analogues and a low latency audio, all of which Linux lacks. And following up the stack from that, there's nothing like WPF.
So its like, if you want to host a web site, use Linux, but if you want slick client side graphics and sound, then you gotta go Windows. And its -always- been this way, DOS/Windows whatever staying perpetually one step ahead of Linux - because most people in the Linux world really don't care about what they consider to be gaming features in an OS.
They can't force you to pay taxes either, so I suggest you stop. Teabaggers unite! (somewhere far far away)
No, actually, they can. There is a Constitutional Amendment that grants the Congress the power to tax, it allows for income or anything else to be taxed.
My brother in law, while on patrol, found that the universal constant of Islam is that every devout terrorist has a giant porn collection, and then will stand there and deny that it is his.
On the other hand, if FLOSS developers really want to steal users from their proprietary counterparts, then they may want to listen to the jerks' requests, too.
See, I don't think you can make blanket statements like that for either FLOSS or Closed developers. Some FLOSS folks are very good at listening to and understanding their audiences. Apache, FireFox, come to mind, and there's success with that. A tier down, you have folks that essentially use the FLOSS as a way to build a consultancy, indeed, FLOSS is essentially consultants sharing common work product to save everyone money.
Unlike "RTFM" and "Fork it if you don't like it", which are synonyms for "F--- Off".
Remember that 99% of the time, this is better than what closed source gives you.
Have a look at accounting systems - what do they do? No one knows. Want to program them? Have to pay for licensing. Want to switch? Costly complex, and more difficult because of baked in rules.
Like, look at how much DOS based stuff there is out there, that people STILL use to run businesses with, in a command window, because, well, the vendor is locked in, and they know they don't have to spend a dime to change.
A bomb is a sound generator too, and maybe we should this thing for what it is, a bomb. It is very loud when it explodes, and is world renowned for its ability to stun people at safe distances and kill them at closer distances.
If the music industry had people who could write like that speaking for them, they would be a lot better off. I mean, the whole thing with the music business isn't even the idea of copyrighted content. It's that, they are such jerks. How well you interact with the plug is indescribably valuable in an age where everyone can know how you really act. If they were making the soft sell, if they were leading out with "we gave Madonna millions of dollars and she's been a total bust since she got old", rather that suing college kids or octomoms, then, people would be more receptive to their arguments. I mean, Google's "Don't be evil", is nice and all, but for a lot of businesses, its really, "don't be such a dick".
Is that ultimately Avatar and films like it side in critique against colonialism. In other words, the Chinese people would be the good guys, not the marauding dudes [read European powers], and they could use Avatar to discuss for their people some of their own colonial history. They could say, "Avatar is about... just like how the Mongols took us over, how the British got us all high on Opium, the Americans sailed their gunboats on the Yellow River, the Japanese performed biological experiments on us...", and so forth.
I for one am very glad to be getting rid of HDMI/DVI/VGA cables and have just one cable to rule them all! Display port is a step in that direction! Yeah for supercable!
It is worth noting that under the Constitution, there is no federal power to search or seize, at all. Thus people who say that the 4th amendment doesn't list something as protected, like a computer file, miss that point. The 4th amendment is that the government is allowed to search mail, with a warrant, and nothing else.
. Historically, countries like Europe and America (and others) have strengthened their economies by violating free market principles, and enforcing them on others.
People don't think it is actually worth it. Besides, HTTPS alone doesn't halt man in the middle attacks, when user's browsers can accept bogus certificates.
CDC, Peace Corp - cures smallpox worldwide. I don't know -any- government that can make that claim, but our US government.
Social Security, Medicare - unless you really want your grandma to move in and then die.
Food and Drug administration, Small Business Administration, Student Loans. Safe food, help for small businesses, put kids in college.
Fannie Mae - yeah, it blew up, but look at how many people actually have -homes-. The whole banking crisis could have been Bush's finest hour. When the Democrats were railing on about the mortgage meltdown, Bush could have said, "yeah, but we put people into homes. We tried to put people into homes and give them a chance, and for the 95% of people who did NOT default on their mortgages, it totally worked."
War on Terror - With this one, I can't really tell if it's bungling, or actual malice
That's on all of us. Americans overreacted. We voted for the war on terror and the invasion or Iraq. We lost our cool after 9/11, and now we pay the price for our own stupidity.
But, I'll see your war on drugs and raise you one US Military. Brings democracy to Japan and Germany, deters Commies from taking over europe. The military is a government operation, and for the most part, its actually worked pretty well.
PS. Whose saving lives in Haiti right now? Why, its fresh water from American aircraft carriers, US Marines acting as peacekeepers. Our government did that, and we should be proud.
I don't think you actually know what you want and I think people of a similar mind will do much more harm to the US
I think that is a fair statement. I'm putting together a piece for the relaunch of my web site that takes the federal budget, breaks it down to # of days you have to work to support each line item, says, what happens if you don't do that, then, lets you cut to your heart's content, and then tallies the results for everyone to see what the averages are.
I don't think anyone even really gets the government at all, left or right.
I'm a right winger and I like to see smaller, less intrusive government, but, I think it is wrong to say that the US government is competent.
The US Gov't has successfully operated as a going concern for 220+ years, with a proven and reliable management structure. Few, if any corporations, have been able to do that.
I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?
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You tend to be far more forgiving when something is both free (beer) and, feels like it belongs to you instead of some distant oligarchy.
Linux doesn't belong to you any more than Windows does. The code is clearly copyrighted to the authors and all of this illusion of public ownership is merely that. You have a EULA with Linux just as much as you do with Windows.
I like Linux because I like the cheap C++ tools and its a great platform for running a web server, but I'm under no illusions that its better than Windows across the board. Windows 7 wins that contest hands down for the desktop client department, just by mere virtue of having DirectWrite,Direct2D, analogues and a low latency audio, all of which Linux lacks. And following up the stack from that, there's nothing like WPF.
So its like, if you want to host a web site, use Linux, but if you want slick client side graphics and sound, then you gotta go Windows. And its -always- been this way, DOS/Windows whatever staying perpetually one step ahead of Linux - because most people in the Linux world really don't care about what they consider to be gaming features in an OS.
They can't force you to pay taxes either, so I suggest you stop. Teabaggers unite! (somewhere far far away)
No, actually, they can. There is a Constitutional Amendment that grants the Congress the power to tax, it allows for income or anything else to be taxed.
With unlimited spending the sheep who listen without thinking will just keep electing who they're told and never consider the consequences. Yay...
You are just bitter that the sheep will listen to someone besides you.
At issue is that under the Constitution, the Federal Government has no explicit power to regulate even political campaign donations.
My brother in law, while on patrol, found that the universal constant of Islam is that every devout terrorist has a giant porn collection, and then will stand there and deny that it is his.
On the other hand, if FLOSS developers really want to steal users from their proprietary counterparts, then they may want to listen to the jerks' requests, too.
See, I don't think you can make blanket statements like that for either FLOSS or Closed developers. Some FLOSS folks are very good at listening to and understanding their audiences. Apache, FireFox, come to mind, and there's success with that. A tier down, you have folks that essentially use the FLOSS as a way to build a consultancy, indeed, FLOSS is essentially consultants sharing common work product to save everyone money.
Unlike "RTFM" and "Fork it if you don't like it", which are synonyms for "F--- Off".
Remember that 99% of the time, this is better than what closed source gives you.
Have a look at accounting systems - what do they do? No one knows. Want to program them? Have to pay for licensing. Want to switch? Costly complex, and more difficult because of baked in rules.
Like, look at how much DOS based stuff there is out there, that people STILL use to run businesses with, in a command window, because, well, the vendor is locked in, and they know they don't have to spend a dime to change.
A bomb is a sound generator too, and maybe we should this thing for what it is, a bomb. It is very loud when it explodes, and is world renowned for its ability to stun people at safe distances and kill them at closer distances.
If the music industry had people who could write like that speaking for them, they would be a lot better off. I mean, the whole thing with the music business isn't even the idea of copyrighted content. It's that, they are such jerks. How well you interact with the plug is indescribably valuable in an age where everyone can know how you really act. If they were making the soft sell, if they were leading out with "we gave Madonna millions of dollars and she's been a total bust since she got old", rather that suing college kids or octomoms, then, people would be more receptive to their arguments. I mean, Google's "Don't be evil", is nice and all, but for a lot of businesses, its really, "don't be such a dick".
Is that ultimately Avatar and films like it side in critique against colonialism. In other words, the Chinese people would be the good guys, not the marauding dudes [read European powers], and they could use Avatar to discuss for their people some of their own colonial history. They could say, "Avatar is about... just like how the Mongols took us over, how the British got us all high on Opium, the Americans sailed their gunboats on the Yellow River, the Japanese performed biological experiments on us...", and so forth.
The last bit seems to list a set of preconditions which, if met, do allow it.
Read this, and then you will see.
http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Letters-Correspondence-Between-Jefferson/dp/039303691X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263914845&sr=8-3
I for one am very glad to be getting rid of HDMI/DVI/VGA cables and have just one cable to rule them all! Display port is a step in that direction! Yeah for supercable!
It is worth noting that under the Constitution, there is no federal power to search or seize, at all. Thus people who say that the 4th amendment doesn't list something as protected, like a computer file, miss that point. The 4th amendment is that the government is allowed to search mail, with a warrant, and nothing else.
Do the same as tobacco - high taxes, illegal to advertise
I'm down with that.
. Historically, countries like Europe and America (and others) have strengthened their economies by violating free market principles, and enforcing them on others.
By what? Asking for a middle class?
I would prefer the policy, the USA is blocking all imports, for the hell of it.
Watch where you are going with that thing, Mr, or you are going to find my Nano Fist in your face!
People don't think it is actually worth it. Besides, HTTPS alone doesn't halt man in the middle attacks, when user's browsers can accept bogus certificates.
I'm a right winger and I like to see smaller, less intrusive government, but, I think it is wrong to say that the US government isn't competent.
Fixed that.
Stop it and you'll reduce crime,
No, we'll just legalize it. So now we'll have corporations buying out advertising to convince people to ruin their lives by purchasing smack.
For every failure you list, I can give you three that succeeded.
War on Poverty - yeah, that worked out *real* well, didn't it.
Homestead act, Rural electrification act, Highways
War on Drugs - See any results there?
CDC, Peace Corp - cures smallpox worldwide. I don't know -any- government that can make that claim, but our US government.
Social Security, Medicare - unless you really want your grandma to move in and then die.
Food and Drug administration, Small Business Administration, Student Loans. Safe food, help for small businesses, put kids in college.
Fannie Mae - yeah, it blew up, but look at how many people actually have -homes-. The whole banking crisis could have been Bush's finest hour. When the Democrats were railing on about the mortgage meltdown, Bush could have said, "yeah, but we put people into homes. We tried to put people into homes and give them a chance, and for the 95% of people who did NOT default on their mortgages, it totally worked."
War on Terror - With this one, I can't really tell if it's bungling, or actual malice
That's on all of us. Americans overreacted. We voted for the war on terror and the invasion or Iraq. We lost our cool after 9/11, and now we pay the price for our own stupidity.
But, I'll see your war on drugs and raise you one US Military. Brings democracy to Japan and Germany, deters Commies from taking over europe. The military is a government operation, and for the most part, its actually worked pretty well.
PS. Whose saving lives in Haiti right now? Why, its fresh water from American aircraft carriers, US Marines acting as peacekeepers. Our government did that, and we should be proud.
I don't think you actually know what you want and I think people of a similar mind will do much more harm to the US
I think that is a fair statement. I'm putting together a piece for the relaunch of my web site that takes the federal budget, breaks it down to # of days you have to work to support each line item, says, what happens if you don't do that, then, lets you cut to your heart's content, and then tallies the results for everyone to see what the averages are.
I don't think anyone even really gets the government at all, left or right.
you might want to read that over again
Didn't say I was!
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I'm a right winger and I like to see smaller, less intrusive government, but, I think it is wrong to say that the US government is competent.
The US Gov't has successfully operated as a going concern for 220+ years, with a proven and reliable management structure. Few, if any corporations, have been able to do that.
I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?