RB is getting a lot of active contributions. I think you'll see some very interesting changes coming. We're hoping that RB will be a part of GNOME 2.6.
Yes, he has. I remember back in 98, he was as thin as a real. Man, that paunch has grown as linux as grown. Maybe we should meter his paunch on how popular linux is. If he can't see his feet, we've won!
We can even meter it, by having a holiday like ground hog day. If Linus can see his feet, we hav another year of microsoft.
Arch is pretty cool. There are several versions of it floating around.
You should just try it out. It's a bit hard to understand but I really love the concept. Feel free to send Tom some money as he's really a pauper last time I checked. (or better someone give the man a job!)
I'd suggest we create our own damn party. Only problem is that it would take us away from all our coding.;) But seriously, creating a party would be very interesting. We did it for software, why can't we do it for the political process? It's been awhile since we had a grass-roots political party. It takes a couple of dedicated people who believe in the system.
He's teaching it to people who don't know how to program I would imagine. Can you imagine trying to explain C for the first time to non-cs people? Gads...he must have done it for his sanity!
a) Munich switching to Linux because of value is a statistic on how mature the linux platform is. It also is excellent counter against the FUD coming from the SCO lawsuit. I've heard from people that the suit HAS affected sales. This kind of news is a shot in the arm for Linux companies. Remember linux companies fund open source.
b) This encourages software companies to start porting their games to GNU/Linux operating system. I mean, shit maybe we can finally get good software.
c) Creates momentum. We want momentum. We need to look like an unstoppable juggernaut that nobody can touch. Remember just about 3 years ago people thought Microsoft was an unstoppable juggernaut. It's funny how the market changes.;)
Hey, I don't mind if Microsoft wastes it's money on me for lunch. It's not going to change my mind or my position on Microsoft.
It's kind of like getting drinks from gay guys at bars, let them buy you drinks all night, but at the end of the day, you ain't going home with them.:-)
Strangely, it was the same thing when they had prohibition in India. Women didn't want men to drink because of all the other social ills it caused like abuse. Seems to me more social problems were in order than anything else. Can't say that the outcome was any better in India than it was in the States.
I shudder to think that anybody would consider Hilary Rosen a "maiden". It's like saying a succubus is an angel.
But I jest. I'm sure Hillary has plenty of redeeming characteristics. Just think what our power would be if she turned to the Light side. (well the grey side..I'm cynical about the light side)
I suspect that this will actually accelerate the death of the Music Industry. If such a bill has been passed, and the first couple of arrests are made. I suspect that the main demographic these people look towards for their money will instead gravitate to other alternatives. It would be harder to hold the attention of the younger generations.
Or maybe the first time parents of kids get dragged into court and music industry starts getting bad publicity because of it. This is a bill they don't want if they bother to think it through. I can't wait to see this pass.
And it's going to bite them in the ass. That means that taxes paid by other memory chip makers are going to their competitors. I'm sure thats not going to go down well with them either.
My complaint goes equally towards South Korea as well. SK has no business interfering with the market. It's corporate welfare and we don't need it. SK tax dollars are going to a company that is neither efficient or profitable. If I was an SK citizen I would be angry to have my hard earned tax dollars mishandled this way. This is a very poor investment because as soon as SK removes it's money that company will fall over.
Again, government shouldn't be doing corporate welfare which is clearly whats happening in SK as well. They are not serving their own people by propping up an inefficient company. SK people should decry such behavior as it's their money thats being wasted.
Also, if they subsidize these guys they are going to have subsidize all the other SK memory makers and I believe there are more than one. I'm sure those other companies will be very upset to have their tax dollars going to their competitors.
My point is that you don't want the government involved. If a company is dumping then one could try increasing the quality of your merchandise or create incentives. Or perhaps, appeal to the WTO and have them intercede. Thats why we have such a body. But doing this only creates conflict and ill will.
If you have a good product the consumers will come. If not then the market will find a way around the whole thing. There is always a cause and effect. Have faith in the greed of the market. Even other South Korean companies are not going to like it if one of their competitors edge them out.;)
I see that the U.S. government is continuing it's slide into the corporate welfare government. Corporations don't need welfare and protection. If they can't compete, get the fuck out or find a new business plan.
Maybe that means that Micron needs put a plant in Korea or something. I don't know. But as a consumer I want the lower prices, it makes me want to go and buy more memory. I don't see my government acting in my favor here.
You know we can absolutely destroy the content industry, hold them hostage IF and this is one hell of a big IF, if we all band together and as one refuse to buy any music, movies, and see any videos.
If we do this for one month, we will have the content industry to their knees. And there is NOTHING they can do. No lobbyists, no nothing. You'll probably see a massive media campaign and discounts but it's nothing compared to the pleasure of destroying an industry by doing nothing. Whatever law is on the books will be worthless. You'll probably see some major backpedaling by lawmakers too.
(then we can go after everyone who did that)
But it would take a grass-roots movement that starts at the college and high school levels. It would absolutely panic a lot of people. I'm not sure how that would be possible.
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Screw that. Those two might end up fighting each other and ending up in court instead.;) sri
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SCO apparently seems to be suing everyone and anyone that stands in their way. So lets recap:
SCO sues IBM SCO threatens sue Linus SCO threatens to sue Novell
The whole unix world is in some kind of uproar now thanks to this crappy company over IP thats so old that it should have lost most of it's value anyways. Theoretically, the concepts and whatnot in the unix world can also be in Cisco and everywhere else.
What really blows my mind is that they don't own any of it, they are a sub licensee of Novell. Maybe Novell can revoke the contract with SCO and then they can no longer sue because they no longer can enforce the copyrights? I don't know, IANAL.
Uh no. It's not government that needs fixing. It's the citizens who do. Citizens have pretty much disassociated themselves from any kind of responsibilities, trying to have government do it for them.
Lets see:
* there is a reduction in parenting. Citizens are parenting as well as they used to. There has been several studies on this.
* The rise of special interest because citizens no longer care about issues.
* Citizens have generally become apathetic to anything except their next meal and taxes.
Voter turnout continues to be very low. Why don't anybody care about things? Let me ask you about that? What happened to vigorously participating in our government? I guarantee you, if people participated government would be very watchful of what they do.
If you want people to listen to the EFF, start becoming memebers. Let EFF say that they represent a million people who would be very upset if a law that introduces stronger IP laws that affect fair use.
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RB is getting a lot of active contributions. I think you'll see some very interesting changes coming. We're hoping that RB will be a part of GNOME 2.6.
sri
It's more appropriate to say:
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RIAA Is An Anachronism.
sri
Er no..I believe he said he was a libertarian, you insensitive clod.
sri
Yes, he has. I remember back in 98, he was as thin as a real. Man, that paunch has grown as linux as grown. Maybe we should meter his paunch on how popular linux is. If he can't see his feet, we've won!
We can even meter it, by having a holiday like ground hog day. If Linus can see his feet, we hav another year of microsoft.
sri
Arch is pretty cool. There are several versions of it floating around.
You should just try it out. It's a bit hard to understand but I really love the concept. Feel free to send Tom some money as he's really a pauper last time I checked. (or better someone give the man a job!)
sri
And she's cute, for all you crazy california slashdotters.
:-)
(although she really shouldn't be using Microsoft webserver..hopefully she's reading this and will correct the mistake.
sri
I'd suggest we create our own damn party. Only problem is that it would take us away from all our coding. ;) But seriously, creating a party would be very interesting. We did it for software, why can't we do it for the political process? It's been awhile since we had a grass-roots political party. It takes a couple of dedicated people who believe in the system.
sri
He's teaching it to people who don't know how to program I would imagine. Can you imagine trying to explain C for the first time to non-cs people? Gads...he must have done it for
his sanity!
sri
My point is that it spurs growth in the software industry. I just used games as an example. It could easily be financial software or something else.
sri
The news is:
;)
a) Munich switching to Linux because of value is a statistic on how mature the linux platform is. It also is excellent counter against the FUD coming from the SCO lawsuit. I've heard from people that the suit HAS affected sales. This kind of news is a shot in the arm for Linux companies. Remember linux companies fund open source.
b) This encourages software companies to start porting their games to GNU/Linux operating system. I mean, shit maybe we can finally get good software.
c) Creates momentum. We want momentum. We need to look like an unstoppable juggernaut that nobody can touch. Remember just about 3 years ago people thought Microsoft was an unstoppable juggernaut. It's funny how the market changes.
sri
It's kind of like getting drinks from gay guys at bars, let them buy you drinks all night, but at the end of the day, you ain't going home with them. :-)
sri
Strangely, it was the same thing when they had prohibition in India. Women didn't want men to drink because of all the other social ills it caused like abuse. Seems to me more social problems were in order than anything else. Can't say that the outcome was any better in India than it was in the States.
sri
I shudder to think that anybody would consider Hilary Rosen a "maiden". It's like saying a succubus is an angel.
But I jest. I'm sure Hillary has plenty of redeeming characteristics. Just think what our power would be if she turned to the Light side. (well the grey side..I'm cynical about the light side)
sri
Who the hell woudl have voted for Prohibition anyways? I just can't imagine anybody wanting to do that.
sri
I suspect that this will actually accelerate the death of the Music Industry. If such a bill has been passed, and the first couple of arrests are made. I suspect that the main demographic these people look towards for their money will instead gravitate to other alternatives. It would be harder to hold the attention of the younger generations.
Or maybe the first time parents of kids get dragged into court and music industry starts getting bad publicity because of it. This is a bill they don't want if they bother to think it through. I can't wait to see this pass.
sri
And it's going to bite them in the ass. That means that taxes paid by other memory chip makers are going to their competitors. I'm sure thats not going to go down well with them either.
My complaint goes equally towards South Korea as well. SK has no business interfering with the market. It's corporate welfare and we don't need it. SK tax dollars are going to a company that is neither efficient or profitable. If I was an SK citizen I would be angry to have my hard earned tax dollars mishandled this way. This is a very poor investment because as soon as SK removes it's money that company will fall over.
sri
Again, government shouldn't be doing corporate welfare which is clearly whats happening in SK as well. They are not serving their own people by propping up an inefficient company. SK people should decry such behavior as it's their money thats being wasted.
Also, if they subsidize these guys they are going to have subsidize all the other SK memory makers and I believe there are more than one. I'm sure those other companies will be very upset to have their tax dollars going to their competitors.
sri
My point is that you don't want the government involved. If a company is dumping then one could try increasing the quality of your merchandise or create incentives.
;)
Or perhaps, appeal to the WTO and have them intercede. Thats why we have such a body. But doing this only creates conflict and ill will.
If you have a good product the consumers will come. If not then the market will find a way around the whole thing. There is always a cause and effect. Have faith in the greed of the market. Even other South Korean companies are not going to like it if one of their competitors edge them out.
sri
I see that the U.S. government is continuing it's slide into the corporate welfare government. Corporations don't need welfare and protection. If they can't compete, get the fuck out or find a new business plan.
Maybe that means that Micron needs put a plant in Korea or something. I don't know. But as a consumer I want the lower prices, it makes me want to go and buy more memory. I don't see my government acting in my favor here.
sri
You know we can absolutely destroy the content industry, hold them hostage IF and this is one hell of a big IF, if we all band together and as one refuse to buy any music, movies, and see any videos.
If we do this for one month, we will have the content industry to their knees. And there is NOTHING they can do. No lobbyists, no nothing. You'll probably see a massive media campaign and discounts but it's nothing compared to the pleasure of destroying an industry by doing nothing. Whatever law is on the books will be worthless. You'll probably see some major backpedaling by lawmakers too.
(then we can go after everyone who did that)
But it would take a grass-roots movement that starts at the college and high school levels. It would absolutely panic a lot of people. I'm not sure how that would be possible.
sri
Screw that. Those two might end up fighting each other and ending up in court instead. ;)
sri
SCO apparently seems to be suing everyone and anyone that stands in their way. So lets recap:
SCO sues IBM
SCO threatens sue Linus
SCO threatens to sue Novell
The whole unix world is in some kind of uproar now thanks to this crappy company over IP thats so old that it should have lost most of it's value anyways. Theoretically, the concepts and whatnot in the unix world can also be in Cisco and everywhere else.
What really blows my mind is that they don't own any of it, they are a sub licensee of Novell. Maybe Novell can revoke the contract with SCO and then they can no longer sue because they no longer can enforce the copyrights? I don't know, IANAL.
sri
Uh no. It's not government that needs fixing. It's the citizens who do. Citizens have pretty much disassociated themselves from any kind of responsibilities, trying to have government do it for them.
Lets see:
* there is a reduction in parenting. Citizens are parenting as well as they used to. There has been several studies on this.
* The rise of special interest because citizens no longer care about issues.
* Citizens have generally become apathetic to anything except their next meal and taxes.
Voter turnout continues to be very low. Why don't anybody care about things? Let me ask you about that? What happened to vigorously participating in our government? I guarantee you, if people participated government would be very watchful of what they do.
sri
> As Rush would say, follow the money trail....
I thought it was Vapor Trails.
sri
If you want people to listen to the EFF, start becoming memebers. Let EFF say that they represent a million people who would be very upset if a law that introduces stronger IP laws that affect fair use.
sri