>serving the oss community
If I recall correctly, there was a google tech talk video about the companies who submit patches to the kernel and Canonical was mentioned a someone who did not contribute back to the community. Contributions are good, and ethically, they are the way to go. Gratis accepistis, gratis date. But it is not a legal obligation, and Canonical has shown that they can't care less.
It is wrong because you say so, but the only source of absolute morality is religion. If you take the reason alone, what's the proof for "killing is wrong"?
Even more difficult is: what does it mean to be "wrong"?. How do you define "evil"?
It's better if the Supreme Court gives a new meaning to "satire" and "parody", because now nobody agrees on their definition. I don't know the exact origin of the word "parody" because I don't know greek, but as far as I know the satura was the only truly roman genre of literature (i.e. theatre was a greek invention, borrowed by the romans). It is really hard to define. The adjective "satur" means "full", while the adverb "satis" means "enough" (-->satisfy). Its contents varied, they where something like very short essays or comments. Lucilius wrote a lot, on every conceivable subject. Also, it was written in verse. So now everyone talks about a "satire" and does not know what it was supposed to mean. I bet these people have never heard of Oratius.
Hmm I don't see a link to the actual speech. Why? Because he quoted a letter from a jew friend, who did the comparison. He later said: "I inserted the letter from [my] Jewish friend only because it seemed to me a witness of solidarity with the Pope so harshly attacked in recent weeks, (..) My intention therefore was a friendly one, not at all hostile." (source. This happened before, in Regensburg. Clearly clerics should not use quotes when they speak.
It is not about the average hours of work. "Copyright violation" is socially accepted in developing countries only because OS + Spreadsheet cost is equal to the average monthly income. And they really don't care about a foreign corporation's profit.
Revolution is not necessary. The revolutionary leaders en up believeng they are demigods and then you have Cuba, CCCP, and North Korea. Democratic Socialism is the way to go.
UNIX was designed with efficiency in mind. User friendliness was not a problem because everyone who used it had studied some applied mathematics. In UNIX you tell the computer the steps that make your algorithm, not "button, onClik bsod".
One of the Tips is KDialogs. What if I use anything else than KDE? Another is about sending messages to windows workstations. That must be really useful for the *nix sysadmin.
On the UNIX Haters' manual, let a quote say everything: "My co-editors took over after I started work at Microsoft. (So no, it's not a Microsoft conspiracy.)".
Zoom in anywhere in the screen, use "pencil" tool to highlight, window transparency, maximumize, shaded or animated windows and menus, multiple workspaces, desktop cube and nice eyecandy. It's all one click away in my linux desktop. And if you want, you can tweak it and make it look like Mac or Windows.
How do you define 'fair'?
I know working 15 hours 6 days a week is unfair. But, Microsoft is a capitalist company. They buy work at market's price.
In China, an "average" 1000 euro salary makes you amazingly rich. In South America, with 1000 euros you can have a big house in the suburbs and a nice car. In Europe, I can pay the rent.
So I would criticize the workload, because salary is too relative.
Williams Disorer is not as good as it seems. Those affected by it are exceptionally brilliant in languages and have no social fear. But they lack social "common sense": they speak to strangers as if they were old friends (in my culture that is not bad, but I guess in other cultures it could be a serious social drawback). Also, they have physical dismorphia: their ears are, lets say, "longer than usual". Wikipedia says they have an "elfin" facial appearance. The only individual I've met with this syndrome is a really good person, but it does not delete the fact that she has to coexist with all the problems (social prejudice, etc).
First, this is no news, I'm sure Wikipedia's article already says this, and more
I have a friend with William's Syndrome. She is really gifted in languages: I am 18, and consider myself above average with 5 languages. She speaks 9, and now she's learning Russian.
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Except that Canonical is not limiting the number of things you can use your system for. It's adding functionalities.
>serving the oss community If I recall correctly, there was a google tech talk video about the companies who submit patches to the kernel and Canonical was mentioned a someone who did not contribute back to the community. Contributions are good, and ethically, they are the way to go. Gratis accepistis, gratis date. But it is not a legal obligation, and Canonical has shown that they can't care less.
It is wrong because you say so, but the only source of absolute morality is religion. If you take the reason alone, what's the proof for "killing is wrong"?
Even more difficult is: what does it mean to be "wrong"?. How do you define "evil"?
So basically you say that an action is moral or immoral depending on which country it is done. I didn't know geography had anything to do with ethics.
Who wants to pay for emEditor when butterflies are free?
should be enough for anyone?
That's a greek. In latin you can tell them apart because the genre is "satura" and the creature is "satyr". Hence the novel Satyricon.
It's better if the Supreme Court gives a new meaning to "satire" and "parody", because now nobody agrees on their definition. I don't know the exact origin of the word "parody" because I don't know greek, but as far as I know the satura was the only truly roman genre of literature (i.e. theatre was a greek invention, borrowed by the romans). It is really hard to define. The adjective "satur" means "full", while the adverb "satis" means "enough" (-->satisfy). Its contents varied, they where something like very short essays or comments. Lucilius wrote a lot, on every conceivable subject. Also, it was written in verse.
So now everyone talks about a "satire" and does not know what it was supposed to mean. I bet these people have never heard of Oratius.
Hmm I don't see a link to the actual speech. Why? Because he quoted a letter from a jew friend, who did the comparison. He later said: "I inserted the letter from [my] Jewish friend only because it seemed to me a witness of solidarity with the Pope so harshly attacked in recent weeks, (..) My intention therefore was a friendly one, not at all hostile." (source.
This happened before, in Regensburg. Clearly clerics should not use quotes when they speak.
It is not about the average hours of work. "Copyright violation" is socially accepted in developing countries only because OS + Spreadsheet cost is equal to the average monthly income. And they really don't care about a foreign corporation's profit.
If you logged in, it would take a bit less for your comment to reach +5
I's a monopoly when you have no choice. Try to buy a non-Apple computer without windows.
There's a movie about it.
I like it more when it's illegal.
Revolution is not necessary. The revolutionary leaders en up believeng they are demigods and then you have Cuba, CCCP, and North Korea. Democratic Socialism is the way to go.
UNIX was designed with efficiency in mind. User friendliness was not a problem because everyone who used it had studied some applied mathematics. In UNIX you tell the computer the steps that make your algorithm, not "button, onClik bsod".
One of the Tips is KDialogs. What if I use anything else than KDE? Another is about sending messages to windows workstations. That must be really useful for the *nix sysadmin.
On the UNIX Haters' manual, let a quote say everything: "My co-editors took over after I started work at Microsoft. (So no, it's not a Microsoft conspiracy.)".
Zoom in anywhere in the screen, use "pencil" tool to highlight, window transparency, maximumize, shaded or animated windows and menus, multiple workspaces, desktop cube and nice eyecandy. It's all one click away in my linux desktop. And if you want, you can tweak it and make it look like Mac or Windows.
You are right, the "news" here, is that someone made an article explaining KSM, like, slashvertising.
You really read the article??
But this is Slashdot!
Oh, but there's a lot of code between panic() and the end of the block.
if(Slashdot && Vaginas){
if(sleeping){
wakeup();
else
panic();
}
How do you define 'fair'?
I know working 15 hours 6 days a week is unfair. But, Microsoft is a capitalist company. They buy work at market's price.
In China, an "average" 1000 euro salary makes you amazingly rich. In South America, with 1000 euros you can have a big house in the suburbs and a nice car. In Europe, I can pay the rent.
So I would criticize the workload, because salary is too relative.
Williams Disorer is not as good as it seems. Those affected by it are exceptionally brilliant in languages and have no social fear. But they lack social "common sense": they speak to strangers as if they were old friends (in my culture that is not bad, but I guess in other cultures it could be a serious social drawback). Also, they have physical dismorphia: their ears are, lets say, "longer than usual". Wikipedia says they have an "elfin" facial appearance. The only individual I've met with this syndrome is a really good person, but it does not delete the fact that she has to coexist with all the problems (social prejudice, etc).
First, this is no news, I'm sure Wikipedia's article already says this, and more I have a friend with William's Syndrome. She is really gifted in languages: I am 18, and consider myself above average with 5 languages. She speaks 9, and now she's learning Russian.
I was going to say "he must be new here".
But then I saw your user ID is greater than his.