utilitarianists and kant
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Well, utilitarianism can be interpreted in many ways, for example John Stuart Mill kind of broke out of the hedonist tradition started by Bentham. He thought that it is the greatest good of the greatest number that counts. And he was a vigorous defender of freedom of opinion.
These are all pretty complex issues. And did you know Kant wasn't too "good" either (depending of course what you mean by the word), being a racist and all?
You kinda mentioned why this product is still in some ways better: the size really is incredible. Then there is also the power consumption, which I guess is much smaller with StrongARM than x86. (Although Celerons need less than Durons, for example.)
However, to make things fair, you have to get rid of all extra stuff in a PC, like sound cards and the like. The Amiga had (and has) builtin audio, and PC still hasn't. (Some PC motherboards have integrated audio, though.) There have been many graphics cards for the Amiga too.
But you have to take into account the fact that there is already a serious shortage of programmers worldwide. Sometimes even a bad programmer is better than no programmer at all.
The other thing is that this would not only drive away undedicated people, it would also drive away those potential future computer scientists, who are more interested in other areas like software design, instead of programming.
But there's another side to this. If people indeed were more cynical, you wouldn't have to sit back and watch some crazy people try to design free, state of the art operating systems with no corporate backing. And succeeding!:-)
Hmm, maybe my wording was a bit inaccurate. I meant to say that Open Source methodology is a logical continuation of the Free Software philosophy. In Open Source, efficiency is fundamental - in Free Software, freedom.
This is not so easy, especially in larger projects. And if something is interesting enough, it is bound to be large.
It will not work on large projects, because you have to ask every author for permission. If e.g. Linus tried to release Linux under a different licence for someone, he would have to contact every contributor and ask them if it's okay with them. Possible in theory, but not in practice.
I understand this. But this is still not the point. The point is that there is a new human right made possible by technical development, a right to free software. If a company does not want to respect that right, they will not have too many years to go anyway. Even MS could go down pretty fast, when major PC vendors switch to free software.
Not a bad idea. It will be hellish though, to cooperate with something like Enlightenment or GTK. They both have horrible theme mechanisms. But E is about to switch to a new one, maybe it will be better.
It's not about competition, it's about fragmentation. I don't want to see the same thing happening between Eazel and Ximian that's already happened between GNOME and KDE.
Oh, that one rocked! It was pretty funny to see how all sports were basically the same old pong with different colors, and more paddles.:-) It did in fact include the regular pong; I guess it was labeled "tennis".:-)
Even if there is lots of innovative stuff, the innovations made are hardly of any use to anyone. Like that bash assembler we just saw here on Slashdot.:-)
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Check out the Segfault story about this too.
Well, utilitarianism can be interpreted in many ways, for example John Stuart Mill kind of broke out of the hedonist tradition started by Bentham. He thought that it is the greatest good of the greatest number that counts. And he was a vigorous defender of freedom of opinion.
These are all pretty complex issues. And did you know Kant wasn't too "good" either (depending of course what you mean by the word), being a racist and all?
Hard drive noise when something's happening? Sounds like you don't have enough RAM or you are using Windows. :-)
You kinda mentioned why this product is still in some ways better: the size really is incredible. Then there is also the power consumption, which I guess is much smaller with StrongARM than x86. (Although Celerons need less than Durons, for example.)
Well, I don't live in the States, but I am still very sceptical. I didn't even know Eddie Murphy has recorded albums. :-)
And I don't personally like Abba, but I'd think more people want to buy music by an actual band rather than a comedian.
Hmm. If these stats are correct, apparently Eddie Murphy has had a bigger career in the music business than Abba.
WHAT?
You are correct.
However, to make things fair, you have to get rid of all extra stuff in a PC, like sound cards and the like. The Amiga had (and has) builtin audio, and PC still hasn't. (Some PC motherboards have integrated audio, though.) There have been many graphics cards for the Amiga too.
But you have to take into account the fact that there is already a serious shortage of programmers worldwide. Sometimes even a bad programmer is better than no programmer at all.
The other thing is that this would not only drive away undedicated people, it would also drive away those potential future computer scientists, who are more interested in other areas like software design, instead of programming.
But there's another side to this. If people indeed were more cynical, you wouldn't have to sit back and watch some crazy people try to design free, state of the art operating systems with no corporate backing. And succeeding! :-)
If you mean sms messaging, it's hopelessly outdated. Only 160 characters per message.
But on the other hand, this smells like preparing for 3G, and always-on cellphone data.
Hmm, maybe my wording was a bit inaccurate. I meant to say that Open Source methodology is a logical continuation of the Free Software philosophy. In Open Source, efficiency is fundamental - in Free Software, freedom.
The difference lies in the fact that Stallman has a complete philosophy, while Linus is concerned with just the methodological matters.
This is not so easy, especially in larger projects. And if something is interesting enough, it is bound to be large.
It will not work on large projects, because you have to ask every author for permission. If e.g. Linus tried to release Linux under a different licence for someone, he would have to contact every contributor and ask them if it's okay with them. Possible in theory, but not in practice.
I understand this. But this is still not the point. The point is that there is a new human right made possible by technical development, a right to free software. If a company does not want to respect that right, they will not have too many years to go anyway. Even MS could go down pretty fast, when major PC vendors switch to free software.
It's not about them getting the source, it's about everyone having the same freedom. Nobody's asking anyone to give their stuff to public domain here.
Not a bad idea. It will be hellish though, to cooperate with something like Enlightenment or GTK. They both have horrible theme mechanisms. But E is about to switch to a new one, maybe it will be better.
It's just a small change, really: from McDonald's to MC Donald's. :-)
No Ogg Vorbis support?
At least your post is Score: 3, Informative. :-)
But what in this world isn't worthless in the end?
It's not about competition, it's about fragmentation. I don't want to see the same thing happening between Eazel and Ximian that's already happened between GNOME and KDE.
Oh, that one rocked! It was pretty funny to see how all sports were basically the same old pong with different colors, and more paddles. :-) It did in fact include the regular pong; I guess it was labeled "tennis". :-)
Even if there is lots of innovative stuff, the innovations made are hardly of any use to anyone. Like that bash assembler we just saw here on Slashdot. :-)
Even more strange, when you consider that their web server is apparently Apache running on OpenBSD.
Was this megatron thing the one that kept saying "excellent, excellent" in a really evil, dark tone? Oh man, it was cool.
In many countries, eg. Sweden, Iceland and Finland, Europe does have GPRS and at least Motorola has a handset available.