1) Find the maximum and minimum latitude and longitude of your city 2) Randomly generate some points within that box 3) Go to those points and ask the nearest 10 people what Linux is 4) Come back and tell me how many are making an informed decision when they buy a Windows box.
It doesn't matter that you think they would prefer Windows given all the facts, they're still not making an informed decision. It's not the merits of the two, it's not the Hypnotoad (I doubt many would know what "total cost of ownership" means or what "drivers" are), it's just a self-sustaining monopoly.
And 5 people are going to reply with stories of how Windows XP couldn't get wireless, sound or the trackpad working while Linux got done in 20 minutes. And 5 people will reply back with their pro-Windows stories. The plural of anecdote is not data.
You're painting it as some martyr-like form of protest. It isn't. It's recognizing that you're harming others and stopping your behavior. The fact that you have a family to support doesn't change the fact that you're harming other people.
By continuing to do work for an evil company, you're favoring your children over everyone else, something that is human nature but immoral regardless.
Saying this as a fairly experienced python/pygame programmer, be sure to throw in Psyco once you get to doing complex games with dozens of units. It magically makes all of your "140 ms per frame isn't fast enough" woes go away in 2 lines of code (and that is not, in any way, an understatement, their boasts of 2-100x speedups are accurate).
The problem is that without phones that just make calls, if you already have your all-in-one entertainment and productivity center (eg. a netbook) and don't need a duplicate you would still have to spend $500 on all those features.
Conscription refers ONLY to the forced variety. See COnscription
Conscription (also known as "The Draft", the "Call-up" or "National service") is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority. It is most often used in the specific sense of requiring citizens to serve in the armed forces.
The term "conscription" refers only to the mandatory service;
If Wikipedia is too unreliable, try this and Section 9 of this
Also, kidnapping does not become more acceptable just because a few million people want it to be. That's the point of human rights, which override democracy.
I wouldn't put my private data up even onto a cloud of a company I trust completely. It could still get PATRIOT Acted into the hands of pretty much everyone who I don't want to see it.
I agree that killing a few thousand people is morally acceptable when they're running at you with machine guns, but not when they're minding their own peaceful business in an office building. But we aren't talking about how acceptable it is to kill, we're talking about how acceptable it is for people to die. Big difference there.
Many of the combatants in the battles that killed "only 5000" people were conscripted. Knowing that, please explain why their right to life is weaker than that of civilians.
Sacrificing your quality of life for morality can be difficult. But sacrificing morality for quality of life is EVIL. It doesn't matter that these people are doing it on a small scale, they should be looked down on just like corrupt politicians.
And the lives of cancer victims, who are losing out on funding that instead goes to the war on terror, are just as important. Giving them medical treatment happens to save vastly more lives per dollar than antiterrorism.
Can we have an example of an open format that Microsoft can't implement? And no, the GPL does not prevent a proprietary software maker from making a compatible application.
I AM A COMPUTER HACKER IN NIGERIA. I HAVE PROGRAMMED A BOTNET WITCH WILL MAKE PRO-MICROSOFT POSTS ON SLASHDOT AND GENERATE MONEY UP TO $9.5 MILLION DOLLARS. IF YOU GIVE ME AN ADVANCE FE OF $5000 DOLLAR I WILL SET UP THE BOTNET AND GIVE U 15% OF THE MONEY.
Good old Streisand effect. I just downloaded a copy of the evangelism presentation (oh noes, did I infringe MS's copyright?) and read through it. For some reason, learning that something is censored makes me take a lot of effort to find it and read through it carefully, much more than if nothing happened to it. It's probably partly "if it gets censored, it must be interesting" and partly sticking it to the man. Doesn't matter, whatever gets uploaded is out there and will be forever out there and there's nothing anyone can do to stop that.
Also, if the cameras connect wirelessly the signals will be easily detectable. If there are wires, the wires will have to run for dozens of kilometers, and they will get found and cut by illegal immigrants (or natural events like some tree deciding to grow a root somewhere).
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and a lack of security via the obscurity of the source code
Did you just literally advocate security through obscurity?
And they'll reply (the ones who even know what a Mac is) that Macs are more expensive than Windows boxes. Linux, however, is cheaper.
Well do it quickly! vi is already taking over myc9hg over mc8hc8hdy taking over :!rm -rf :!echo NO CARRIER
But what if the powers themselves go along a geometric progression? 2^3, 2^4, 2^5.33...
Why don't you try this experiment?
1) Find the maximum and minimum latitude and longitude of your city
2) Randomly generate some points within that box
3) Go to those points and ask the nearest 10 people what Linux is
4) Come back and tell me how many are making an informed decision when they buy a Windows box.
It doesn't matter that you think they would prefer Windows given all the facts, they're still not making an informed decision. It's not the merits of the two, it's not the Hypnotoad (I doubt many would know what "total cost of ownership" means or what "drivers" are), it's just a self-sustaining monopoly.
The relative merits of Windows and Linux have nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft did in fact hire the Hypno-Toad.
And 5 people are going to reply with stories of how Windows XP couldn't get wireless, sound or the trackpad working while Linux got done in 20 minutes. And 5 people will reply back with their pro-Windows stories. The plural of anecdote is not data.
You're painting it as some martyr-like form of protest. It isn't. It's recognizing that you're harming others and stopping your behavior. The fact that you have a family to support doesn't change the fact that you're harming other people.
By continuing to do work for an evil company, you're favoring your children over everyone else, something that is human nature but immoral regardless.
Saying this as a fairly experienced python/pygame programmer, be sure to throw in Psyco once you get to doing complex games with dozens of units. It magically makes all of your "140 ms per frame isn't fast enough" woes go away in 2 lines of code (and that is not, in any way, an understatement, their boasts of 2-100x speedups are accurate).
The problem is that without phones that just make calls, if you already have your all-in-one entertainment and productivity center (eg. a netbook) and don't need a duplicate you would still have to spend $500 on all those features.
Given that people already want to delete #1000000, it definitely feels like a barrier to me.
Conscription refers ONLY to the forced variety. See COnscription
Conscription (also known as "The Draft", the "Call-up" or "National service") is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority. It is most often used in the specific sense of requiring citizens to serve in the armed forces.
The term "conscription" refers only to the mandatory service;
If Wikipedia is too unreliable, try this and Section 9 of this
Also, kidnapping does not become more acceptable just because a few million people want it to be. That's the point of human rights, which override democracy.
I wouldn't put my private data up even onto a cloud of a company I trust completely. It could still get PATRIOT Acted into the hands of pretty much everyone who I don't want to see it.
I agree that killing a few thousand people is morally acceptable when they're running at you with machine guns, but not when they're minding their own peaceful business in an office building. But we aren't talking about how acceptable it is to kill, we're talking about how acceptable it is for people to die. Big difference there.
Many of the combatants in the battles that killed "only 5000" people were conscripted. Knowing that, please explain why their right to life is weaker than that of civilians.
In these wars where 500 people dying is minor, the majority of people were conscripted (ie. kidnapped and forced to shoot people).
Sacrificing your quality of life for morality can be difficult. But sacrificing morality for quality of life is EVIL. It doesn't matter that these people are doing it on a small scale, they should be looked down on just like corrupt politicians.
Wait, why is it acceptable for soldiers to die but not terrorism victims?
And the lives of cancer victims, who are losing out on funding that instead goes to the war on terror, are just as important. Giving them medical treatment happens to save vastly more lives per dollar than antiterrorism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
The state has a 91 percent literacy rate,[1] the highest in India.
Kerala has the lowest rate of population growth in India, with a fertility rate of 1.6 per woman
boasts a higher Human Development Index than most other states in India.
Can we have an example of an open format that Microsoft can't implement? And no, the GPL does not prevent a proprietary software maker from making a compatible application.
HELLO, DEAR SIR
I AM A COMPUTER HACKER IN NIGERIA. I HAVE PROGRAMMED A BOTNET WITCH WILL MAKE PRO-MICROSOFT POSTS ON SLASHDOT AND GENERATE MONEY UP TO $9.5 MILLION DOLLARS. IF YOU GIVE ME AN ADVANCE FE OF $5000 DOLLAR I WILL SET UP THE BOTNET AND GIVE U 15% OF THE MONEY.
MAY RMS BE WITH YOU,
OKONWA NIAWA
Good old Streisand effect. I just downloaded a copy of the evangelism presentation (oh noes, did I infringe MS's copyright?) and read through it. For some reason, learning that something is censored makes me take a lot of effort to find it and read through it carefully, much more than if nothing happened to it. It's probably partly "if it gets censored, it must be interesting" and partly sticking it to the man. Doesn't matter, whatever gets uploaded is out there and will be forever out there and there's nothing anyone can do to stop that.
Also, if the cameras connect wirelessly the signals will be easily detectable. If there are wires, the wires will have to run for dozens of kilometers, and they will get found and cut by illegal immigrants (or natural events like some tree deciding to grow a root somewhere).
You don't have the concept of routine annual medical checkups?