I don't think that it just about Linux vs. Windows, or any purely computer ideology. My experience is that it has more to do with a personal frame of mind.
When I first thought about trying Linux, I asked a Comp Sci professor about what distro to try. (Being a MATH major and not CS,) He told me that it would be too difficult for me to do and not to bother. Needless to say, I ignored his advice, and went ahead anyway with a dual boot.
But in today's world, a person HAS to be able to do certain things for themselves. I learned more about Linux in the couple of months that it took for me to get my system running the way I like it. (with Apache, PHP, etc...) Its like a trial by fire to make sure that only people who are truly interested in it pursue it. I think it is probably a "good thing" that there is no easy path. I even have a mug with "RTFM" to remind me to find the answers myself, rather than always looking for the local guru. When you want something done "right" (read : the way you want it), you will probably end up having to do it yourself.
Although it would also be nice to have more universal driver support for scanners and such, but sometimes that's the way things go.
I have had my computer go from being inconspicuous to sounding like a twin prop airplane a couple of times, and the problem was always dust that settled in the fan motor and causing distortion in the rotation.
Try taking them out and giving them a good cleaing . That should take care of the problem most of the time.
What about derivatives?
Have to submit my answers anonymously or I might have to pay royalties on derivative works.
That and avoiding using numbers that are already patented.
Then after all is said and done with the finals, go to the bar and drink my worries away.
But remember, "Friends don't let friends drink and derive..."
(I know it's a bad pun, but are there really and GOOD math jokes?)
So I've been breaking the law whenever I recorded songs off the radio on tape?
What if I then copy from the tape to the computer, for my own person use?
I want to hear the songs that I like, not all the crap that the industry, or the radio stations tell me to listen to. I hate hearing the same 15-20 songs again and again all day long.
Besides, if you look at their business model, they really make the money, not on the CD's, tapes, or *cough* LP's, but rather from the concerts and other paraphanelia (?) that is sold surrounding the song.
If you could get a trusted third party to verify that the voter is who they say they are, then clear them to go to the online voting booth, that might work. It jsut seems to me you need a couple of different groups working together on this. I would have thought a system like this would have been created by now.
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Really, I can go earn some more money. What I can't do is go get some new rights and freedoms after market forces take them away from me.
But then again, people keep telling me that I have to get a life.
I don't think that it just about Linux vs. Windows, or any purely computer ideology. My experience is that it has more to do with a personal frame of mind.
When I first thought about trying Linux, I asked a Comp Sci professor about what distro to try. (Being a MATH major and not CS,) He told me that it would be too difficult for me to do and not to bother. Needless to say, I ignored his advice, and went ahead anyway with a dual boot.
But in today's world, a person HAS to be able to do certain things for themselves. I learned more about Linux in the couple of months that it took for me to get my system running the way I like it. (with Apache, PHP, etc...) Its like a trial by fire to make sure that only people who are truly interested in it pursue it. I think it is probably a "good thing" that there is no easy path. I even have a mug with "RTFM" to remind me to find the answers myself, rather than always looking for the local guru. When you want something done "right" (read : the way you want it), you will probably end up having to do it yourself.
Although it would also be nice to have more universal driver support for scanners and such, but sometimes that's the way things go.
But I think I know what one of the next stories is going to be.
"The Register Goes Down"
Hey, had to be Happy Hour SOMEWHERE... %-P
I have had my computer go from being inconspicuous to sounding like a twin prop airplane a couple of times, and the problem was always dust that settled in the fan motor and causing distortion in the rotation.
Try taking them out and giving them a good cleaing . That should take care of the problem most of the time.
What about derivatives?
Have to submit my answers anonymously or I might have to pay royalties on derivative works.
That and avoiding using numbers that are already patented.
Then after all is said and done with the finals, go to the bar and drink my worries away.
But remember, "Friends don't let friends drink and derive..."
(I know it's a bad pun, but are there really and GOOD math jokes?)
So I've been breaking the law whenever I recorded songs off the radio on tape? What if I then copy from the tape to the computer, for my own person use? I want to hear the songs that I like, not all the crap that the industry, or the radio stations tell me to listen to. I hate hearing the same 15-20 songs again and again all day long. Besides, if you look at their business model, they really make the money, not on the CD's, tapes, or *cough* LP's, but rather from the concerts and other paraphanelia (?) that is sold surrounding the song.
If you could get a trusted third party to verify that the voter is who they say they are, then clear them to go to the online voting booth, that might work. It jsut seems to me you need a couple of different groups working together on this. I would have thought a system like this would have been created by now.