You're just as biased as he is. Both KDE ans GNOME have their problems. They both have they're uses as well. KDE is wonderful to give to windows users who are scared of UNIX. GNOME is great for people who want eye candy. KDE is more organized, and working on more productivity apps. GNOME is working more independently and producing more geek oriented stuff. Both have their place, and posts like your's make me sick.
Oh the outrage, Russia is going to monitor net traffic. When the US tries it we're ticked off, but it has a different quality when it's an "oppressive government. Likewise, when the IETF discussed wiretapping people expressed suprise that the government they were getting the most pressure from was not an "oppressive" government, but the US. Governemtns seek more power. All governments seek more power. We have a constitution that protects us somewhat, but don't expect the government to follow the spirit of it any further than it has to. Yes, individuals in government generally believe in limiting the governments power, but as a whole it seeks power.
Condeming Russia for this in hypocrisy until we assure that the same thing isn't and won't be happening here.
This is not something the US governement is going to be at all interested in. This is the same government that is pushing for wiretapping abilities to be built into routers here. They already do the same thing with the phones, and have for years. They can't take a stand or their hypocrisy would come out immeadiately.
So anybody that claims that drugs make you stupid is dead wrong.
The fact that you had a good idea while stoned is not really proof of anything. It's an anecdote, not proof.
We really need some research into the effects of drugs which isn't biased. Most available information is extremely biased, just in different directions. It's either put out by "war on drugs" types, or by groups advocating drug usage.
Unfortunately as long as drugs are illegal I seriously doubt that unbiased information will appear. Even then it's doubtful.
ummmmm. Which posts won't change anything? pro or anti drug usage ones?
I don't think the reasons for using drugs are quite as illogical as you make them out to be. You sound like you're spewing propaganda.
I have never used drugs myself, and have no idea what the experience is like, but to some people it's worth the downsides. That's simply a cost/benefit analysis on their part.
I'd agree with the earlier poster that computer people do less drugs. Maybe because mostly 'cool' kids do drugs and computer geeks don't fit that profile.
I wonder if this is just a perception, or if it's actually true. Is drug usage really mostly among the "cool", or is it more widespread.
Another interesting point is why geeks use drugs, or why they don't.
This article didn't so much link drug usage with technology, as much as talk about one woman's drug usage, and interest in technology. She was interested in authors who used drugs, but offered no particular links between them
Considering why various authors used drugs might make an interesting article. Merely making the point that many have has been done before, and is pointless.
One of Linux's major strenghts is it's ability to work on many architectures. Unfortunately it's difficult to find distributions that run on, say the amiga (not the greatest example, but you get the point). Sometimes there are distros, but they are small and only for that architecture. While those are a good thing, it is even better to have distros that work on many architectures, so that say a university with DEC's, Suns, and intels, can set them all up virtually identically.
Having only a few distros that do that however would begin to eliminate the diversity that is such a winderful thing about Linux.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling. Basically I think this is a great move for Mandrake, and a good thing for the Linux world. It moves us one step closer to the goal of "world domination fast."
note: I think you mean Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King. Copyright law at the time of Martin Luther King would be unlikely to affect the reformation.;)
I like your point, but I think it's only partially right. AFAIK current copyright law protects a work for up to 95 years. The Bible was written well over 1000 years before the time of Martin Luther. I still think it's true that copyright law as it currently exists tends to stifle inovation, but this isn't a great example.
I think that what everyone is so upset about is that "big corporations" are using their financial muscle to do what they want with the copyrights they hold. I don't think people are as much upset about the financial muscle as they are that often the copyrights are not controlled by a works creater(s). Not allowing the transfer of copyright rights might solve this.
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You're just as biased as he is. Both KDE ans GNOME have their problems. They both have they're uses as well. KDE is wonderful to give to windows users who are scared of UNIX. GNOME is great for people who want eye candy. KDE is more organized, and working on more productivity apps. GNOME is working more independently and producing more geek oriented stuff. Both have their place, and posts like your's make me sick.
Oh the outrage, Russia is going to monitor net traffic. When the US tries it we're ticked off, but it has a different quality when it's an "oppressive government.
Likewise, when the IETF discussed wiretapping people expressed suprise that the government they were getting the most pressure from was not an "oppressive" government, but the US.
Governemtns seek more power. All governments seek more power. We have a constitution that protects us somewhat, but don't expect the government to follow the spirit of it any further than it has to. Yes, individuals in government generally believe in limiting the governments power, but as a whole it seeks power.
Condeming Russia for this in hypocrisy until we assure that the same thing isn't and won't be happening here.
This is not something the US governement is going to be at all interested in. This is the same government that is pushing for wiretapping abilities to be built into routers here. They already do the same thing with the phones, and have for years. They can't take a stand or their hypocrisy would come out immeadiately.
So anybody that claims that drugs make you stupid is dead wrong.
The fact that you had a good idea while stoned is not really proof of anything. It's an anecdote, not proof.
We really need some research into the effects of drugs which isn't biased. Most available information is extremely biased, just in different directions. It's either put out by "war on drugs" types, or by groups advocating drug usage.
Unfortunately as long as drugs are illegal I seriously doubt that unbiased information will appear. Even then it's doubtful.
Why? Why is research by women special? Why would it be more important than research by anyone else?
ummmmm. Which posts won't change anything? pro or anti drug usage ones?
I don't think the reasons for using drugs are quite as illogical as you make them out to be. You sound like you're spewing propaganda.
I have never used drugs myself, and have no idea what the experience is like, but to some people it's worth the downsides. That's simply a cost/benefit analysis on their part.
I'd agree with the earlier poster that computer people do less drugs. Maybe because mostly 'cool' kids do drugs and computer geeks don't fit that profile.
I wonder if this is just a perception, or if it's actually true. Is drug usage really mostly among the "cool", or is it more widespread.
Another interesting point is why geeks use drugs, or why they don't.
This article didn't so much link drug usage with technology, as much as talk about one woman's drug usage, and interest in technology. She was interested in authors who used drugs, but offered no particular links between them
Considering why various authors used drugs might make an interesting article. Merely making the point that many have has been done before, and is pointless.
One of Linux's major strenghts is it's ability to work on many architectures. Unfortunately it's difficult to find distributions that run on, say the amiga (not the greatest example, but you get the point). Sometimes there are distros, but they are small and only for that architecture. While those are a good thing, it is even better to have distros that work on many architectures, so that say a university with DEC's, Suns, and intels, can set them all up virtually identically.
Having only a few distros that do that however would begin to eliminate the diversity that is such a winderful thing about Linux.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling. Basically I think this is a great move for Mandrake, and a good thing for the Linux world. It moves us one step closer to the goal of "world domination fast."
note: I think you mean Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King. Copyright law at the time of Martin Luther King would be unlikely to affect the reformation. ;)
I like your point, but I think it's only partially right. AFAIK current copyright law protects a work for up to 95 years. The Bible was written well over 1000 years before the time of Martin Luther. I still think it's true that copyright law as it currently exists tends to stifle inovation, but this isn't a great example.
I think that what everyone is so upset about is that "big corporations" are using their financial muscle to do what they want with the copyrights they hold.
I don't think people are as much upset about the financial muscle as they are that often the copyrights are not controlled by a works creater(s). Not allowing the transfer of copyright rights might solve this.