Using OSS and having transparent government have NOTHING to do with each other, unless you are counting on everyone's ability to hack into the OSS and see every detail of how all government agencies are working.
At which point, the entire state would collapse into a coma from the sheer boredom of it all.
Second point - whether or not the state saves money is not really a function of what the software costs. Ongoing maintenance and staff support time will dwarf that figure.
Yes, because the first thing I did when I got on the internet was run right over to Slashdot and sign up.
Or maybe I read slashdot for years before I bothered creating an account.
Dude, slashdot didn't exist the first time I got on the internet. But if eyeing my UID is your bag, you go right ahead. I charge $50 an hour, more if you want a horse.
Indeed...the truth is this:
I don't care if I write a great novel and no-one buys a single copy of it, and everyone downloads it for free, provided I'm paid a reasonable amount to write it up front. When you build a yacht, SOMEONE pays the big bucks to get that yacht. If you want to pay me $100K to write the next great American novel, I'll happily do it and make it freely available. But this concept that because it's easy to copy something means you should get the benefit of years of someone else's labor with no compensation is wrong.
Oh yes, because the core OS of a tiny device should be at least as bloated as Windows.
Oh, and everything should be free because magic pixies come along in the night and write the code for the developers, thus costing them nothing!
Wow...I don't have the money to buy a yacht. I guess going out and stealing one is a necessity?
Please, the number of excuses the internet generation uses to justify its thieving ways is just mind-boggling.
That's the reason there are so many platforms you can store, and read, the books on.
I have a Kindle. My books are on it. They're also on my iPod Touch, my PC using the Kindle for PC software, and if I had a smartphone, they could be there as well. You know what *I* don't want? A library of books that takes up seventeen book cases - and yes, that's what I'm up to at home. The majority of them are now boxed in the basement because I simply don't have room for them. But my Kindle? Doesn't seem to matter how many books I put on it; it's still under a pound.
Hell, you don't even have to OWN a Kindle to buy and read a Kindle book. They're available to read on the Mac, PC, smartphone, iPod, iPad...
ebook readers like the Kindle or Nook are nothing like a computer screen. They use a reflective ink technology...very similar to a book, in fact. No backlighting = no eyestrain.
That's the primary reason they aren't considered by most serious readers as "competing" with things like the iPad, which is a computing device you can read a book on.
I agree, to an extend.
The real thing the publishers fear is the loss of control. On Amazon's ebook store, there are many self-publishing authors there. Publishers get zero for their books. If this were to catch on, the major publishing houses would die. So, they do everything they can to marginalize the ebooks.
Now, it's true that many self-published authors aren't worth reading...but there are several that are, and who I enjoy. But ultimately? The candle-makers guilds did not stop the lightbulb, and the buggy-whip makers did not stop the automobile. Both these industries still exist, but in very different, and much smaller, forms than they did before.
I rather expect the real effect will be that a transparent fuselage will allow the passengers an hours-long view of their luggage sitting in the cargo hold below their feet.
Wow...that's like advertising a ride on the Concorde, only to discover that 20 minutes after takeoff, all passengers are moved off onto Piper Cub aircraft for the remainder of their flights.
I'm not entirely sure where the hate and anger is coming from. It's not like Intel is telling you they're giving you a CPU that does one thing, but doesn't. They're telling you, up front, that your CPU delivers the following characteristics, and at a given price. Then, if you want the CPU to do more later, rather than spending over $100 to replace it, you can turn on the features you weren't willing to pay for in the first place, for a much lower fee.
How is this bad? Today, you get different performance at different price points. Tomorrow, you continue to get different performance at different price points. I mean, you're not paying to get some random hunk of silicon - you're paying for what it can do for you. I don't see where the bad in this is.
The problem isn't so much that he tried to "sneak" them onto his private jet. The problem is that, once through security, he cannot be segregated from the general passenger population at the airport. Those throwing stars could have gone anywhere, to anyone, on any plane.
You avoid this problem by flying your private plane from a small airport that does not service the big jets, thus neatly avoiding the security hassles of those airports. Private airstrips and airways are best if you want to carry stuff that isn't normally allowed onto the planes.
Me? I'd have shipped the blasted things.
You proceed from the false assumption that religious people who are scientific believe that "underlying ALL things is a universal set of rules..." [Emphasis mine].
Do you believe in quantum mechanics? How can you believe that and still think that there is a universal set of rules underlying all things? The core of quantum mechanics is non-determinism, which is to say - we can't really be exactly sure. Hardly the result of a universal rule set...
Rather than modding up the normal tripe, this post deserves a good modding. The problem is ALWAYS that there is a group of people happy when THEIR values are the ones being supported.
My problem with all this is that it's another example of manufacturing leaving this country. It is no coincidence that the US rose to global prominence on manufacturing, and that China is rising to global prominence...on manufacturing stuff the US used to, but no longer does.
Yes, because this is a system that has worked so well everywhere it's been tried so far.:eyeroll:
Doesn't anyone teach history to our budding little communists any more?
If you mean that in the US (as opposed to, say, France) we maintain the right to fire workers who don't produce, to NOT have the entire work force take one and a half months' vacation every year paid, and that the companies, not the labor unions, are in charge of their own premesies?
Yes, that's largely true.
Aren't there TV sets that can do this? I occasionally stream media from my PC over to my Pioneer TV set. Haven't tried it with Ubuntu, but that's on the list of experiments I have lined up - in fact, got a distribution for it just last night so I can do that this weekend.
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Using OSS and having transparent government have NOTHING to do with each other, unless you are counting on everyone's ability to hack into the OSS and see every detail of how all government agencies are working. At which point, the entire state would collapse into a coma from the sheer boredom of it all. Second point - whether or not the state saves money is not really a function of what the software costs. Ongoing maintenance and staff support time will dwarf that figure.
Yes, because the first thing I did when I got on the internet was run right over to Slashdot and sign up. Or maybe I read slashdot for years before I bothered creating an account. Dude, slashdot didn't exist the first time I got on the internet. But if eyeing my UID is your bag, you go right ahead. I charge $50 an hour, more if you want a horse.
Indeed...the truth is this: I don't care if I write a great novel and no-one buys a single copy of it, and everyone downloads it for free, provided I'm paid a reasonable amount to write it up front. When you build a yacht, SOMEONE pays the big bucks to get that yacht. If you want to pay me $100K to write the next great American novel, I'll happily do it and make it freely available. But this concept that because it's easy to copy something means you should get the benefit of years of someone else's labor with no compensation is wrong.
Oh yes, because the core OS of a tiny device should be at least as bloated as Windows. Oh, and everything should be free because magic pixies come along in the night and write the code for the developers, thus costing them nothing!
Wow...I don't have the money to buy a yacht. I guess going out and stealing one is a necessity? Please, the number of excuses the internet generation uses to justify its thieving ways is just mind-boggling.
Nah...it would start out as a stand-alone, then get re-titled as Episode IV when the sequel came out.
Yes, the newer models have vastly improved contrast, and turn times have been accellerated again.
That's the reason there are so many platforms you can store, and read, the books on. I have a Kindle. My books are on it. They're also on my iPod Touch, my PC using the Kindle for PC software, and if I had a smartphone, they could be there as well. You know what *I* don't want? A library of books that takes up seventeen book cases - and yes, that's what I'm up to at home. The majority of them are now boxed in the basement because I simply don't have room for them. But my Kindle? Doesn't seem to matter how many books I put on it; it's still under a pound. Hell, you don't even have to OWN a Kindle to buy and read a Kindle book. They're available to read on the Mac, PC, smartphone, iPod, iPad...
ebook readers like the Kindle or Nook are nothing like a computer screen. They use a reflective ink technology...very similar to a book, in fact. No backlighting = no eyestrain. That's the primary reason they aren't considered by most serious readers as "competing" with things like the iPad, which is a computing device you can read a book on.
Nope. But then again, not one of my ebooks has failed to come back to me because the bastard I lent it to moved out of state.
I agree, to an extend. The real thing the publishers fear is the loss of control. On Amazon's ebook store, there are many self-publishing authors there. Publishers get zero for their books. If this were to catch on, the major publishing houses would die. So, they do everything they can to marginalize the ebooks. Now, it's true that many self-published authors aren't worth reading...but there are several that are, and who I enjoy. But ultimately? The candle-makers guilds did not stop the lightbulb, and the buggy-whip makers did not stop the automobile. Both these industries still exist, but in very different, and much smaller, forms than they did before.
45% of gross? Not even net? Wow. With taxes like that, no wonder so many Canadians cross the border to purchase a variety of goods. Ugh!
I rather expect the real effect will be that a transparent fuselage will allow the passengers an hours-long view of their luggage sitting in the cargo hold below their feet.
Wow...that's like advertising a ride on the Concorde, only to discover that 20 minutes after takeoff, all passengers are moved off onto Piper Cub aircraft for the remainder of their flights.
I'm not entirely sure where the hate and anger is coming from. It's not like Intel is telling you they're giving you a CPU that does one thing, but doesn't. They're telling you, up front, that your CPU delivers the following characteristics, and at a given price. Then, if you want the CPU to do more later, rather than spending over $100 to replace it, you can turn on the features you weren't willing to pay for in the first place, for a much lower fee. How is this bad? Today, you get different performance at different price points. Tomorrow, you continue to get different performance at different price points. I mean, you're not paying to get some random hunk of silicon - you're paying for what it can do for you. I don't see where the bad in this is.
What do they sell?
The problem isn't so much that he tried to "sneak" them onto his private jet. The problem is that, once through security, he cannot be segregated from the general passenger population at the airport. Those throwing stars could have gone anywhere, to anyone, on any plane. You avoid this problem by flying your private plane from a small airport that does not service the big jets, thus neatly avoiding the security hassles of those airports. Private airstrips and airways are best if you want to carry stuff that isn't normally allowed onto the planes. Me? I'd have shipped the blasted things.
You proceed from the false assumption that religious people who are scientific believe that "underlying ALL things is a universal set of rules..." [Emphasis mine]. Do you believe in quantum mechanics? How can you believe that and still think that there is a universal set of rules underlying all things? The core of quantum mechanics is non-determinism, which is to say - we can't really be exactly sure. Hardly the result of a universal rule set...
Rather than modding up the normal tripe, this post deserves a good modding. The problem is ALWAYS that there is a group of people happy when THEIR values are the ones being supported. My problem with all this is that it's another example of manufacturing leaving this country. It is no coincidence that the US rose to global prominence on manufacturing, and that China is rising to global prominence...on manufacturing stuff the US used to, but no longer does.
Yes, because this is a system that has worked so well everywhere it's been tried so far. :eyeroll:
Doesn't anyone teach history to our budding little communists any more?
Worker: (n) One who performs work, most generally in return for financial compensation.
If you mean that in the US (as opposed to, say, France) we maintain the right to fire workers who don't produce, to NOT have the entire work force take one and a half months' vacation every year paid, and that the companies, not the labor unions, are in charge of their own premesies? Yes, that's largely true.
Cool idea. Then his excuse for not being here will be "Americans tax me too much."
Just to make sure I read this correctly...in Australia, the government gives people DEMERITS? What is this, summer camp? Boot camp? What foolishness.
Aren't there TV sets that can do this? I occasionally stream media from my PC over to my Pioneer TV set. Haven't tried it with Ubuntu, but that's on the list of experiments I have lined up - in fact, got a distribution for it just last night so I can do that this weekend.