GNOME/Firefox/OpenOffice makes as much sense as saying KDE/Firefox/OpenOffice
Why not compare GNOME/Epiphany/Abiword/Gnumeric
You could still have made the same case, but it wouldn't have been as ridiculous a comparison.
I use GNOME/Konq/K3B/Amarok and many other KDE applications. I just like the Ubuntu GNOME setup a lot more than KDE. I also like Nautilus's stretch icon ability, it is useful to leave myself notes.
I don't know if that is standard GNOME at all, but it is quite a nice desktop (decent theme, nice layout). I find most GNOME applications to be lacking though (except Abiword and Gnumeric).
You're one of those people at restaurants that uses a PDA to calculate tis, aren't you?
I do simple math all the time, ad usually it would be a real PITA to grab a calculator. You probably simply undervalue the ability to do simple multiplication because you can do t simply and effectively. Though it is perhaps possible that you are special and were in a slow class, which is why it took so long. We did it in 12 weeks, with actual lessons involving critical thinking (basic word problems, dividing cheerios into equal groups and eating them, probably some analog clock stuff (I guess we should stop teaching that too though?). On Monday we would get something to take home and study, it would be every thing up to 12xN where N was that weeks number. On Wednesday we would review it, and Friday a test.
It was constantly re-enforced well throughout high-school and as an adult, by the humiliation in needing a calculator for basic math.
The thread links to an article whose tone I took as negative towards Microsoft. And what was the heinous crime Microsoft was accused of? Selling their software! *gasp*
I won't speak to the article (refusing to RTFA myself), but one of MS's most heinous crimes in the eyes of many was not charging money for software, but giving it away for free to crush the competition that may have posed a future threat (IE vs NS). It is not the charging of money that people are rabidly against (there was anti-MS well before open alternatives, just look at the popularity of OS/2). It is the fact that they use the money they have for underhanded tactics. Open source just happens to be one of the most effective ways to combat the tactics (law suits forcing them to carry you out of your troubled times worked for Apple too).
Bread is a truly open platform with a low cost for entry, as such it is not hoardable. By making the Wii a closed platform Nintendo is allowing the hoarding to happen and should perhaps themselves be taking the blame. Also, are the resellers really hoarding a significant number of the 1.8 million manufactured each month?
If someone with a lot of money bought all the food in the world and then sold it for too much it would be bad, but I highly doubt the Wii resellers are anything but a very small percentage of the market, as such it is no comparable,
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What good has capitalism brought to the world ? Show me! I don't see it, so please open my eyes to the truth you speak of.
I imagine you are joking, but the first thing that comes to my mind is a way to get someone to do something that doesn't rely on pure domination.
I mean slavery worked out really well for the masters during the first 7900 years of civilization, but after a few hundred years of capitalism it is becoming quite rare. Could you imagine telling someone from the classical world that less than 50% of the population would be slaves? They would laugh so hard.
When work was no longer done by slaves technology began to work for the people instead of simply as a novelty. Look at all the great research the Greeks had done, laying down the foundation of modern science, but it was simply a rich mans hobby, and very little was done with it. After all, why automate things when you can simply get more slaves to do it for you.
if by paying twice as much for their phones you mean always ahead, it is because they value regulation in Europe.
I know that when you take in the shaft Europe pricing it is probably only half again as much, but that is money I will happily save. I could buy an unlocked phone online and not get a contract if I pleased, but paying $55.00/month for 1500 minutes, 300 messages, and unlimited GPRS feels like a pretty good deal to me.
My contract expired 9 months ago, and I had my phone unlocked for less that the price difference, and yet I keep on the same service. I don't see how the fact that I chose to be in a contract shafted me at all. And could have paid and extra 20/month and not had one (10/month for the plan without a contract, and $100 extra for the phone, spread over the 12 month contract). In America we have the choice to take money or provider choice.
Are we 100% sure they are breaking even on every unit sold?
Wouldn't it cost more to ship out an empty box with shipping label, pay for return shipping, process the return, ship out a new unit individually to a residence?
For retail there are economies of scale on the shipping, Xboxs getting delivered by the truckload to distributers then delivering truckloads of things to retail. I bet the price difference per a piece for return vs new is $50.00+, and if there is a loss being generated on each console with bets being hedged (wouldn't it be great for MS if this summer (in a slow sales month) MS could add in a 250 Million profit?) the failure rate could be a somewhat less terrible 10-15 percent.
You could argue that, provided you do nothing to hinder the user from accessing it, that providing a URL to somebody who hosts the code IS distribution. Well, the MPAA will defiantly argue that, it would be completely consistent with their stance on linking as a mater of fact.
Funny how you put together one of the more coherent, better spelled, and most readable/. posts ever.
If you had the defeatest attitude that you could never get better, that those with good grammar just had it and others don't, I suspect that would not be the case. Your efforts may have been greater than others, and you may not be an Oscar Wilde, but at the same time you are probably well above average (for the nation, keep in mind that average is really stupid).
I left this post completly un-edited, even for spelling that auto spellcheck is flagging, I do that so you can see true bad spelling and grammar, and yet there was only a couple words wrong.
It found that: 1) soft core (nudy pictures)mildly reduced violence 2) Hard core (sex) mildly increased it 3) "degrading' (money shots, spanking, hair pulling, etc.) increased it significantly more
In the end the results were fairly temporary (for a single exposure).
At the same time I don't feel I can impose my belief on others and the damage is minimal. I don't advocate abortion except for in some very specific instances, but at the same time even an early abortion imposes medical risks on the host.
I do not know about Rabbi Lionel Blue, but it is a concept I am familiar with and has been around for a very long time. The first place I heard it articulated was in Justine, when a Dr. used it as justification to do fatal experiments on his daughter. Wikipedia is no help in discovery Blue's opinions in the area either.
It is a very hard line to draw when complete dependence is not enough to justify the removal of cellular reproduction (lets not call it life, or the pro-choicers may be offended). Which is why I draw my line based on bonding with other humans and having experienced life as a completely separate individual.
Also, the ability to receive oxygen from its own source is an arguable place to draw the line also, but leaves the option open to kill the crippled with impunity (which I think most people would find more ambiguous).
I want to make it clear that if I was personally involved (parent or not) I would do my best to prevent the abortion and encourage adoption or anonymous baby drop (which is permitted in my area), but I would not punish those whom disagree, and would hope the state I live in would also offer them the same ability to make a moral decision I dis-agree with.
What's your scientific definition for human life, and when does it start?
I am pro choice and believe choice should extend into the early 4th trimester.
At the same time I don't believe it is a constitutional issue and can think of justifications for calling it the taking of a life too. I hear viability outside of the womb a lot, but that is a dangerous divider to use because soon enough that will mean conception.
At what point does replication human DNA become a human?
Also, keep in mind that you want to use a definition that allows people whom are likley to recover from a coma to have some rights (not Terri Schivo).
I think that whatever your beliefs are it is closed minded to pretend the only moral ambiguity is religious.
Maybe they will become extinct. If they cannot come up with a product people are willing to pay enough for. The player piano role manufacturers were put out of business by the record industry after all, why would one expect them to survive forever themselves.
This does not justify illegal downloading, I only mean to point out that there is no inherent reason to assume they last forever.
With the aging equipment and copious amounts of private labor the cost is about $700,000/year for each soldier and support.
(based on spending requests), (200,000,000 total/year). The cost of the war in Iraq and Afganistan combined is 3,000,000,000/week (triple your estimate), with 80% of that being for Iraq.
It probably has to do with the fact that cell-phones were primarily business for a while, and like 800 numbers billed the receiver.
Also the non-portability of early phones (attached to cars) probably meant they were not convenient to receive calls on in general and were used mainly for outgoing calls, this meant that weird billing for incoming calls may have been a on-issue.
Lastly, I don't know how it works in other countries, but paying for incoming calls is a small price to not worry about getting telemarketers calling.
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LSD can have some serious long term effects though.
If I were to rank the safty of doing each of those drugs regularly (weekly - monthly) I would say:
Alcohol, Tobacco (if you truly only did it weekly it would probably be safer than alcohol in the same usage pattern), LSD, Crack.
The GC made Nintendo a lot of money.
They were breaking even on sales and sold a lot of their own games, many of which were cheap to develop (Mario Party).
I somehow doubt Sega made tons of money on the Saturn.
It may simply be that I have the wrong friends, but I never in my life have even seen a Saturn at someones house.
GNOME/Firefox/OpenOffice makes as much sense as saying KDE/Firefox/OpenOffice
Why not compare GNOME/Epiphany/Abiword/Gnumeric
You could still have made the same case, but it wouldn't have been as ridiculous a comparison.
I use GNOME/Konq/K3B/Amarok and many other KDE applications. I just like the Ubuntu GNOME setup a lot more than KDE. I also like Nautilus's stretch icon ability, it is useful to leave myself notes.
I don't know if that is standard GNOME at all, but it is quite a nice desktop (decent theme, nice layout). I find most GNOME applications to be lacking though (except Abiword and Gnumeric).
You're one of those people at restaurants that uses a PDA to calculate tis, aren't you?
I do simple math all the time, ad usually it would be a real PITA to grab a calculator. You probably simply undervalue the ability to do simple multiplication because you can do t simply and effectively. Though it is perhaps possible that you are special and were in a slow class, which is why it took so long. We did it in 12 weeks, with actual lessons involving critical thinking (basic word problems, dividing cheerios into equal groups and eating them, probably some analog clock stuff (I guess we should stop teaching that too though?). On Monday we would get something to take home and study, it would be every thing up to 12xN where N was that weeks number. On Wednesday we would review it, and Friday a test.
It was constantly re-enforced well throughout high-school and as an adult, by the humiliation in needing a calculator for basic math.
I'm going to trademark "Florida". That way Drew will have to cross license with me to get most of his crazy news stories.
You bring up a good point.
A true RIAA boycott would include most TV and Movies.
The thread links to an article whose tone I took as negative towards Microsoft. And what was the heinous crime Microsoft was accused of? Selling their software! *gasp*
I won't speak to the article (refusing to RTFA myself), but one of MS's most heinous crimes in the eyes of many was not charging money for software, but giving it away for free to crush the competition that may have posed a future threat (IE vs NS). It is not the charging of money that people are rabidly against (there was anti-MS well before open alternatives, just look at the popularity of OS/2). It is the fact that they use the money they have for underhanded tactics. Open source just happens to be one of the most effective ways to combat the tactics (law suits forcing them to carry you out of your troubled times worked for Apple too).
Bread is a truly open platform with a low cost for entry, as such it is not hoardable. By making the Wii a closed platform Nintendo is allowing the hoarding to happen and should perhaps themselves be taking the blame. Also, are the resellers really hoarding a significant number of the 1.8 million manufactured each month?
If someone with a lot of money bought all the food in the world and then sold it for too much it would be bad, but I highly doubt the Wii resellers are anything but a very small percentage of the market, as such it is no comparable,
What good has capitalism brought to the world ? Show me! I don't see it, so please open my eyes to the truth you speak of.
I imagine you are joking, but the first thing that comes to my mind is a way to get someone to do something that doesn't rely on pure domination.
I mean slavery worked out really well for the masters during the first 7900 years of civilization, but after a few hundred years of capitalism it is becoming quite rare. Could you imagine telling someone from the classical world that less than 50% of the population would be slaves? They would laugh so hard.
When work was no longer done by slaves technology began to work for the people instead of simply as a novelty. Look at all the great research the Greeks had done, laying down the foundation of modern science, but it was simply a rich mans hobby, and very little was done with it. After all, why automate things when you can simply get more slaves to do it for you.
What does your post have to do with the GP?
Probably a mis-guided grass roots effort.
I see Ron Paul signs by my house that are bedsheets with spray paint hung from overpasses. I doubt the campaign is responsible for them either.
Well,
if by paying twice as much for their phones you mean always ahead, it is because they value regulation in Europe.
I know that when you take in the shaft Europe pricing it is probably only half again as much, but that is money I will happily save. I could buy an unlocked phone online and not get a contract if I pleased, but paying $55.00/month for 1500 minutes, 300 messages, and unlimited GPRS feels like a pretty good deal to me.
My contract expired 9 months ago, and I had my phone unlocked for less that the price difference, and yet I keep on the same service. I don't see how the fact that I chose to be in a contract shafted me at all. And could have paid and extra 20/month and not had one (10/month for the plan without a contract, and $100 extra for the phone, spread over the 12 month contract). In America we have the choice to take money or provider choice.
Are we 100% sure they are breaking even on every unit sold?
Wouldn't it cost more to ship out an empty box with shipping label, pay for return shipping, process the return, ship out a new unit individually to a residence?
For retail there are economies of scale on the shipping, Xboxs getting delivered by the truckload to distributers then delivering truckloads of things to retail. I bet the price difference per a piece for return vs new is $50.00+, and if there is a loss being generated on each console with bets being hedged (wouldn't it be great for MS if this summer (in a slow sales month) MS could add in a 250 Million profit?) the failure rate could be a somewhat less terrible 10-15 percent.
Funny how you put together one of the more coherent, better spelled, and most readable /. posts ever.
If you had the defeatest attitude that you could never get better, that those with good grammar just had it and others don't, I suspect that would not be the case. Your efforts may have been greater than others, and you may not be an Oscar Wilde, but at the same time you are probably well above average (for the nation, keep in mind that average is really stupid).
I left this post completly un-edited, even for spelling that auto spellcheck is flagging, I do that so you can see true bad spelling and grammar, and yet there was only a couple words wrong.
I've read such a study.
It found that:
1) soft core (nudy pictures)mildly reduced violence
2) Hard core (sex) mildly increased it
3) "degrading' (money shots, spanking, hair pulling, etc.) increased it significantly more
In the end the results were fairly temporary (for a single exposure).
No, I don't advocate it at all.
At the same time I don't feel I can impose my belief on others and the damage is minimal. I don't advocate abortion except for in some very specific instances, but at the same time even an early abortion imposes medical risks on the host.
I do not know about Rabbi Lionel Blue, but it is a concept I am familiar with and has been around for a very long time. The first place I heard it articulated was in Justine, when a Dr. used it as justification to do fatal experiments on his daughter. Wikipedia is no help in discovery Blue's opinions in the area either.
It is a very hard line to draw when complete dependence is not enough to justify the removal of cellular reproduction (lets not call it life, or the pro-choicers may be offended). Which is why I draw my line based on bonding with other humans and having experienced life as a completely separate individual.
Also, the ability to receive oxygen from its own source is an arguable place to draw the line also, but leaves the option open to kill the crippled with impunity (which I think most people would find more ambiguous).
I want to make it clear that if I was personally involved (parent or not) I would do my best to prevent the abortion and encourage adoption or anonymous baby drop (which is permitted in my area), but I would not punish those whom disagree, and would hope the state I live in would also offer them the same ability to make a moral decision I dis-agree with.
What's your scientific definition for human life, and when does it start?
I am pro choice and believe choice should extend into the early 4th trimester.
At the same time I don't believe it is a constitutional issue and can think of justifications for calling it the taking of a life too. I hear viability outside of the womb a lot, but that is a dangerous divider to use because soon enough that will mean conception.
At what point does replication human DNA become a human?
Also, keep in mind that you want to use a definition that allows people whom are likley to recover from a coma to have some rights (not Terri Schivo).
I think that whatever your beliefs are it is closed minded to pretend the only moral ambiguity is religious.
"The Market" would pay you nothing and charge you a fortune to breathe .... if it could get away with it ...</i>
Then I, as part of the market will out compete you by paying nothing and charging a small fortune to breath.
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That's 200,000,000,000/year.
Arn't all those useless without a reactor capable of powering them?
Maybe they will become extinct. If they cannot come up with a product people are willing to pay enough for. The player piano role manufacturers were put out of business by the record industry after all, why would one expect them to survive forever themselves.
This does not justify illegal downloading, I only mean to point out that there is no inherent reason to assume they last forever.
With the aging equipment and copious amounts of private labor the cost is about $700,000/year for each soldier and support.
(based on spending requests), (200,000,000 total/year). The cost of the war in Iraq and Afganistan combined is 3,000,000,000/week (triple your estimate), with 80% of that being for Iraq.
My source is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082801984.html?hpid=topnews and based on bills the white house wants passed.
It probably has to do with the fact that cell-phones were primarily business for a while, and like 800 numbers billed the receiver.
Also the non-portability of early phones (attached to cars) probably meant they were not convenient to receive calls on in general and were used mainly for outgoing calls, this meant that weird billing for incoming calls may have been a on-issue.
Lastly, I don't know how it works in other countries, but paying for incoming calls is a small price to not worry about getting telemarketers calling.
No, they distributed a lot more software under the GPL than just that module.
The GPL puts the requirement on the distributer to provide the source for all binaries they distribute, not just modified ones.