{and anyway, 30-40 days is well within the 12 month statutory guarantee period}
What 12-month statutory guarantee?
I'm in the UK too as it happens and I believe statutory warranties vary with product type here. But in the States, there can't be a 12-month statutory warranty, for DAPs anyway, because Rio only offer 90 days on their products.
The logic of the free software game, as far as I am concerned, is not an attempt to kill Bill or even kill Bill volume 2, but rather:
* To have freedom (control) over my computers; thus * To have a continuously viable free software alternative available for ME; therefore: * To maintain a level of "popularity" which ensures that I get to benefit from other peoples' input; hence: * To evangelise these benefits to others; and * To contribute to the body of free software and peripheral materials.
I think a slowly growing (or even static) minority market share is adequate for these objectives. In the short term, I get what I want. In the long term, everyone get's what I (and others like me) want!
Microsoft is here to stay for a decade or two anyway, but this is nothing to lose sleep over. They are ephemeral like all empires. Free Software is an esoteric knowledge shared between those who care. It may not take over the world, but it will run like a clear stream through the future of computing.
Stallman hit the nail on the head when he likened the GPL to a club:
Stallman also addressed the propagating nature of the GPL, saying: "Whoever wishes to copy parts of our software into his program must let us use parts of that program in our programs. Nobody is forced to join our club, but those who wish to participate must offer us the same cooperation they receive from us. That makes the system fair."
I believe it was Linus, not Stallman, who prophesied World Domination in the 21st century (wd21), and he had his tongue in his cheek.
Reading that chapter, I can sympathise with your comment, although the wording is highly subjective:
Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance...
Just what do those mean?
Anyway, while I can follow your logic about Ashcroft "upholding the law", I can't follow the logic of your comment about enlightenment. Porn is at the fringes of free speech; if we allow porn to fall outside the fringes then the social cages we live in just got smaller.
Porn may not appeal to you, but it's "morality" is debatable, unlike the morality of murder or rape. Let's have the boundaries of what's legally acceptable just beyond the debatable, but no further. That way you don't alienate a large chunk of the population.
I know not to click on the link in the email, but what about my kids? I can tell them never to do it, but if you have (or know) kids they're going to forget and do it anyway. As a father I do not want my kids exposed to that type of material.
The spam I get doesn't even require clicking on a link to presented me with highly explicit pornography - it's sitting there right in the email, thanks to the wonder of HTML mail. Fortunately my ADSL provider (www.ukfsn.org) tags spam so exim can send it straight into the trash.
In a neat reversal of your situation, as a son I do not want my 78-year old father exposed to that type of material! He uses email a lot, and if he gets the same spam as me then his blood pressure is at risk...
Yes, Protector is a great story, in fact I would relish a Protector movie more than any Ringworld knockoff. Ringworld is impressive but Protector is just more solid.
Where are the good sci-fi films nowadays? I was all excited about Rendezvous with Rama; it was slated for release this year, but now it's just been shelved. Woe! Woe is me! There's always the back catalogue of 2001, Andromeda Strain, THX1138, Zardoz, Logan's Run and so on but it would be nice to see some neglected scifi masterpiece intelligently rendered (i.e. don't let Spielberg touch it!). OK, Gattaca was acceptable, but I want MORE!
APT does not require that you install packages from the Internet or over the network at all; a CD can be an APT source.
If you have your Debian on CD and the application is in the Debian archive you don't need to download anything. That's the point of Debian - to package up Free Software and make it easy to install (plus do it properly).
Also, you say "you can't have everyone adding their apps to apt, since it is an online service.". These facts are not connected. The reason you can't have everyone adding their apps to Debian is that Debian expects a level of competence and trustworthiness from package maintainers. Anyone who exhibits those features can add their app to Debian.
So if what you want is a system where it's very easy to install a vast range of quality Free software, whether online or off, the Debian is the answer. If what you'd prefer is a system where it's quite easy to install all kinds of software including viruses, spyware and non-Free junk, then Windows is the answer.
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{and anyway, 30-40 days is well within the 12 month statutory guarantee period}
What 12-month statutory guarantee?
I'm in the UK too as it happens and I believe statutory warranties vary with product type here. But in the States, there can't be a 12-month statutory warranty, for DAPs anyway, because Rio only offer 90 days on their products.
Don't be scared; if it's in warranty, send it back. If it's not, warm up your soldering iron, open up the player and fix it.
The logic of the free software game, as far as I am concerned, is not an attempt to kill Bill or even kill Bill volume 2, but rather:
* To have freedom (control) over my computers; thus
* To have a continuously viable free software alternative available for ME; therefore:
* To maintain a level of "popularity" which ensures that I get to benefit from other peoples' input; hence:
* To evangelise these benefits to others; and
* To contribute to the body of free software and peripheral materials.
I think a slowly growing (or even static) minority market share is adequate for these objectives. In the short term, I get what I want. In the long term, everyone get's what I (and others like me) want!
Microsoft is here to stay for a decade or two anyway, but this is nothing to lose sleep over. They are ephemeral like all empires. Free Software is an esoteric knowledge shared between those who care. It may not take over the world, but it will run like a clear stream through the future of computing.
Stallman hit the nail on the head when he likened the GPL to a club:
Stallman also addressed the propagating nature of the GPL, saying: "Whoever wishes to copy parts of our software into his program must let us use parts of that program in our programs. Nobody is forced to join our club, but those who wish to participate must offer us the same cooperation they receive from us. That makes the system fair."
I believe it was Linus, not Stallman, who prophesied World Domination in the 21st century (wd21), and he had his tongue in his cheek.
Here's a better link.
Nothing from this decade or the last comes close in 3D gameplay to Knot in 3D. Now there's a classic, and it ran fast in 48k at 1MHz.
My girfriend's menstrual fluid is blue.
She lasts for hours on a single charge too.
Those are fine examples, but no-one's going to patent "javascript to disable right-click in Internet Explorer"...
Ah; my tacit assertion is that trade is simply mutual exploitation. Sorry if this wasn't clear.
You're right, but that's because they've fscked it up between my posting and you checking it out!
That's Real for you I suppose.
Hey, did you read my whole post, or just those four words?
No, no, you've mistaken illiteracy for pragmatism. Really, very few here can spell (unless it's a reserved word).
What you don't hear about is the less-than-great men who forgot to stop it.
If your woried aobut you're spelling, you must be knew hear!
Reading that chapter, I can sympathise with your comment, although the wording is highly subjective:
Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance...
Just what do those mean?
Anyway, while I can follow your logic about Ashcroft "upholding the law", I can't follow the logic of your comment about enlightenment. Porn is at the fringes of free speech; if we allow porn to fall outside the fringes then the social cages we live in just got smaller.
Porn may not appeal to you, but it's "morality" is debatable, unlike the morality of murder or rape. Let's have the boundaries of what's legally acceptable just beyond the debatable, but no further. That way you don't alienate a large chunk of the population.
That took a moment to sink in but it was worth the wait!
Some feminists, for example, feel that pornography violates women by virtue of it turning them into objects to be gawked at.
Of course, they're right, but they forget that pornography violates men by virtue of exploiting their sexual urges to extract money from them.
This is called "trade", and the financial and sexual needs which drive it are natural.
Such behavior today would get you branded an idiot or a lunatic. How sad.
I'd be interested in the dates delimiting the period of history in which the opposite held.
I know not to click on the link in the email, but what about my kids? I can tell them never to do it, but if you have (or know) kids they're going to forget and do it anyway. As a father I do not want my kids exposed to that type of material.
The spam I get doesn't even require clicking on a link to presented me with highly explicit pornography - it's sitting there right in the email, thanks to the wonder of HTML mail. Fortunately my ADSL provider (www.ukfsn.org) tags spam so exim can send it straight into the trash.
In a neat reversal of your situation, as a son I do not want my 78-year old father exposed to that type of material! He uses email a lot, and if he gets the same spam as me then his blood pressure is at risk...
I spent 10 minutes trying to get the morse-code version of this through the lameness filter. I failed.
Please can I have the mod points anyway?
Thanks!
Go on, tell your girl that thanks to her you don't have to use porn and/or brothels. Let us know when you next get your plum duff.
Bizarrely, it's even eaiser for Linux:
1. Click the big "RealOne for Linux" link at the top right of the home page.
2. There is no 2.
Do non-Linux users see this, or are they doing something with OS detection?
Yes, Protector is a great story, in fact I would relish a Protector movie more than any Ringworld knockoff. Ringworld is impressive but Protector is just more solid.
Where are the good sci-fi films nowadays? I was all excited about Rendezvous with Rama; it was slated for release this year, but now it's just been shelved. Woe! Woe is me! There's always the back catalogue of 2001, Andromeda Strain, THX1138, Zardoz, Logan's Run and so on but it would be nice to see some neglected scifi masterpiece intelligently rendered (i.e. don't let Spielberg touch it!). OK, Gattaca was acceptable, but I want MORE!
APT does not require that you install packages from the Internet or over the network at all; a CD can be an APT source.
If you have your Debian on CD and the application is in the Debian archive you don't need to download anything. That's the point of Debian - to package up Free Software and make it easy to install (plus do it properly).
Also, you say "you can't have everyone adding their apps to apt, since it is an online service.". These facts are not connected. The reason you can't have everyone adding their apps to Debian is that Debian expects a level of competence and trustworthiness from package maintainers. Anyone who exhibits those features can add their app to Debian.
So if what you want is a system where it's very easy to install a vast range of quality Free software, whether online or off, the Debian is the answer. If what you'd prefer is a system where it's quite easy to install all kinds of software including viruses, spyware and non-Free junk, then Windows is the answer.
As long as they keep the whole sex bit out of the series
Why, what's wrong with alien sex?
Not as interesting as rishathra.