A better question is: if you're a home desktop user what benefit does a journaling file system give you? If the only benefit is the elimination of file system checks after an abrupt shutdown, then who the fsck [sic] cares which one you use?
The metadata searching stuff sounds interesting, but I still fail to see the necessity of putting that functionality in the file system. Do we really need to dumb everything down to the Windows-idiot level?
Which is a very good point. I'm an equal opportunity capitalist. Subsidies are just as harmful to business as taxes. As a businesses owner I would be very hard pressed not to accept the subsidy, especially if all my competitors were. But I would still think about it, because the price of "free" government money is very steep.
I'm not talking about the uneducated rural redneck, I'm talking about the educated urban elitist. I'm talking about the enlightened professor who cries "racist!" in a lecture to his class, and then goes home and cheats his hispanic maid out of fifty cents an hour because she doesn't speak English. I'm talking about the Hollywood producer who cries "racist!" to the press, and then goes on to produce yet another movie full of black stereotypes. I'm talking about the congressman who cries "racist!" yet persists in introducing bills that categorize people into groups based on race.
These people may not be rabid hatemongers but they are still racist. They would have fit right in with the enlightened and well meaning eugenicists of the 1920s.
Would you do business in France if you knew that you would never be able to lay off an employee without Michel Destot's permission? I sure wouldn't! I would be stupid to hostage my company like that.
Then try opening your eyes. Those crying "racist" may not be hatemongers, but they certainly do categorize, stereotype and otherwise pre-judge people according to their skin color.
Would they treat someone differently if they were a different race or ethnicity? If yes, they are racist. Most of us are racist (or ethnist) to some degree or another. Those who yell "racist!" the loudest are merely trying to deflect attention away from their own racism.
They're just modding you down to compensate for their own racism. Fried chicken is racist? Since when? I don't think my grandma knew how to cook anything else, and she was white as Wonder Bread! Only someone steeped in race-think would classify the mention of fried chicken as racist.
Greens may be for decentralized government (which is itself a good thing), but that does not mean they are for small government. Almost every one of their policies involves an increase in the scope and power of one government entity or another. Whether I'm being screwed by the feds and states, or being screwed by a local county or city commission, I'm still being screwed.
Before you start boiling people, make sure you aren't a racist yourself. In my experience the people who yell "racist!" the loudest are often the most racist.
Does this action signal the start of a disturbing trend of the restriction of First Amendment rights?
No, because this action has nothing whatsoever to do with your First Amendment rights.
How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?
A) Figure out what the First Amendment actually is. And all the otehr amendments. While you're at it, go ahead and read the preceeding articles as well.
B) Stop voting for big government politicians. That means stop voting for Democrats AND Republicans AND Greens. For every one of you wanting a big government to control some other guy there's always someone else wanting a big government to control *you*!
You're not making another copy of the book when you lend it. It's perfectly okay to lend your MP3 to your friend 1000km away, if it doesn't involve making a new copy. If it's stored on your Rio, just mail you Rio to your friend. Dont' mistake redistribution for lending.
But your are lying when you say you want to lend your friend the MP3. What you really mean is that you want to give your friend an illegal copy while you still keep yours. Don't let your FSF ideology get in the way of what's really happening. If you think you should be able to freely redistribute music that is not yours, then at least be honest and admit that's what you want. Don't hide behind inapplicable analogies.
Not necessarily. The business model you describe is not universal. It may apply to you, but it doesn't apply to everyone.
There are currently four successful business models for Free Software. They are: 1) sell hardware instead; 2) sell service and support instead; 3) sell labor instead; and 4) sell a proprietary version/extension as a value-add. That's it. Three of them aren't even selling software, and the fourth only works with copyright-enforced copyleft-licensed libraries for commercial development.
From your description, your actual product is not software, it's "small consulting contracts". That's number 3 above. The company I work for doesn't distribute free software, but if it did, it would be number 1 above, because our software is totally useless without our highly specialized and expensive hardware. But we aren't everybody!
The big dirty secret of Free Software that no one is willing to admit, is that Free Software eliminates software itself as a product. There's not anything wrong with that, but I've never once seen anyone argue in favor of it. Instead you get a lot of mumbling that you really can sell it. Anyone who appears to be doing otherwise is either losing money fast, or merely collecting charitable contributions. That's a fifth business model, by the way: begging for charitable contributions. Nothing wrong with it, but please be honest and open about it if that's your chosen model. But is software-as-a-product dead? Hardly! It's pretty much dead for the infrastucture market, but it's thriving in the specialty markets.
p.s. You keep talking about your business in the future tense. Interesting.
No, it's not news. What is news is this snippet from the blurbette: "it seems that the Chinese are not pleased with the number of jobs being moved to China...
WTF! Who the hell cares about how pleased they are? You do want native people in China, but you don't *move* jobs there, you create jobs there! Expanding into a market doesn't mean you fire people in your old markets. Sheesh!
Actually, people talk all the time about "voting with your wallet" and all that but that rarely works unless you can create a groundswell of public support...
"Voting with your wallet" works EVERY time. I hate Britney Spears. I've decided to "vote with my wallet" and not buy any of her albums. Hey it works! I don't have any of her albums! Let's try this again. I don't like Microsoft. I've decided to "vote with my wallet" and not buy any Microsoft products. It still works!
Doing a quick check, it turns out that everytime I've decided to vote with my wallet, I've won! One time was difficult, though. That was when I decided to permanently boycott cigarettes. I sweated those first few weeks, but I haven't bought a cigarette for over a year!
If you think you're losing by "voting your wallet", it's because you don't understand what the voting is about. You win everytime you vote with your wallet. It might not put a company out of business, but at least it will keep their ink cartridges out of your home.
I learned to type in High School typing class. It was horrible. She yelled and waved around a ruler (it was a public school, so she couldn't actually use it nun-style). After an hour of "h, h, h, g, h, h, g, g, h, g, etc" we were numb with repetition. But I learned to type. I can still do about 40 WPM today.
The trick to learning typing is repetition. You don't need someone yelling at you, you just need an hour a day for about three months running through incredibly rote typing tasks. It will sink in. Don't look at the keyboard, it will only slow you down. Get a *good* keyboard, one with large keys with a firm feel. If you can, find an old Royal manual typewriter and learn with that.
I didn't spend enough time on the numberals and never touched the symbols while learning, so I slow down quite a bit when programming. Put those keys in your curriculum as well (they're harder because they're the furthest away from the homerow).
Your votes are being scammed to keep the neocon scum in power.
Just remember that it was the liberal Democrats who were in power at the time of the election, both nationally and in the Florida legislature. It was the liberal Democrats who demanded that pregnant and hanging chads, double punches, and votes for Buchanan, all be counted as votes for Gore. It was the liberal Democrats who argued that absentee ballots from oversea military personnel shouldn't be counted.
The "chad" system has been used in California for decades. While the media machine was showing us pictures of the "horribly difficult ballots" Florida had to endure, we were all wondering what the big deal was. I mean, we had uncounted ballot boxes floating in San Fransisco bay, but all the media could talk about was how Jeb Bush deliberately forced people to use Nazi-inspired punched ballots just so his brother could win.
Pregnant chads?!?! Give me a frickin break! Will someone please take that crack pipe away from the media!
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A better question is: if you're a home desktop user what benefit does a journaling file system give you? If the only benefit is the elimination of file system checks after an abrupt shutdown, then who the fsck [sic] cares which one you use?
The metadata searching stuff sounds interesting, but I still fail to see the necessity of putting that functionality in the file system. Do we really need to dumb everything down to the Windows-idiot level?
Realtime operating systems generally suck on the desktop and on server. There's a reason why RTLinux isn't the mainstream kernel.
Which is a very good point. I'm an equal opportunity capitalist. Subsidies are just as harmful to business as taxes. As a businesses owner I would be very hard pressed not to accept the subsidy, especially if all my competitors were. But I would still think about it, because the price of "free" government money is very steep.
I'm not talking about the uneducated rural redneck, I'm talking about the educated urban elitist. I'm talking about the enlightened professor who cries "racist!" in a lecture to his class, and then goes home and cheats his hispanic maid out of fifty cents an hour because she doesn't speak English. I'm talking about the Hollywood producer who cries "racist!" to the press, and then goes on to produce yet another movie full of black stereotypes. I'm talking about the congressman who cries "racist!" yet persists in introducing bills that categorize people into groups based on race.
These people may not be rabid hatemongers but they are still racist. They would have fit right in with the enlightened and well meaning eugenicists of the 1920s.
Would you do business in France if you knew that you would never be able to lay off an employee without Michel Destot's permission? I sure wouldn't! I would be stupid to hostage my company like that.
How do you get the required amount of pressure without moving parts?
Then try opening your eyes. Those crying "racist" may not be hatemongers, but they certainly do categorize, stereotype and otherwise pre-judge people according to their skin color.
Would they treat someone differently if they were a different race or ethnicity? If yes, they are racist. Most of us are racist (or ethnist) to some degree or another. Those who yell "racist!" the loudest are merely trying to deflect attention away from their own racism.
They're just modding you down to compensate for their own racism. Fried chicken is racist? Since when? I don't think my grandma knew how to cook anything else, and she was white as Wonder Bread! Only someone steeped in race-think would classify the mention of fried chicken as racist.
Greens may be for decentralized government (which is itself a good thing), but that does not mean they are for small government. Almost every one of their policies involves an increase in the scope and power of one government entity or another. Whether I'm being screwed by the feds and states, or being screwed by a local county or city commission, I'm still being screwed.
Before you start boiling people, make sure you aren't a racist yourself. In my experience the people who yell "racist!" the loudest are often the most racist.
Does this action signal the start of a disturbing trend of the restriction of First Amendment rights?
No, because this action has nothing whatsoever to do with your First Amendment rights.
How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?
A) Figure out what the First Amendment actually is. And all the otehr amendments. While you're at it, go ahead and read the preceeding articles as well.
B) Stop voting for big government politicians. That means stop voting for Democrats AND Republicans AND Greens. For every one of you wanting a big government to control some other guy there's always someone else wanting a big government to control *you*!
How can you tell that the sender is indeed keeping a copy?
All you need to do is affirm that you've done so. Of course, I truly doubt that's what file sharers are doing.
Marked down as a troll?!?! How, some of you guys are overly sensitive about your vacations!
You're not making another copy of the book when you lend it. It's perfectly okay to lend your MP3 to your friend 1000km away, if it doesn't involve making a new copy. If it's stored on your Rio, just mail you Rio to your friend. Dont' mistake redistribution for lending.
But your are lying when you say you want to lend your friend the MP3. What you really mean is that you want to give your friend an illegal copy while you still keep yours. Don't let your FSF ideology get in the way of what's really happening. If you think you should be able to freely redistribute music that is not yours, then at least be honest and admit that's what you want. Don't hide behind inapplicable analogies.
Sorry, but the world has changed.
Not necessarily. The business model you describe is not universal. It may apply to you, but it doesn't apply to everyone.
There are currently four successful business models for Free Software. They are: 1) sell hardware instead; 2) sell service and support instead; 3) sell labor instead; and 4) sell a proprietary version/extension as a value-add. That's it. Three of them aren't even selling software, and the fourth only works with copyright-enforced copyleft-licensed libraries for commercial development.
From your description, your actual product is not software, it's "small consulting contracts". That's number 3 above. The company I work for doesn't distribute free software, but if it did, it would be number 1 above, because our software is totally useless without our highly specialized and expensive hardware. But we aren't everybody!
The big dirty secret of Free Software that no one is willing to admit, is that Free Software eliminates software itself as a product. There's not anything wrong with that, but I've never once seen anyone argue in favor of it. Instead you get a lot of mumbling that you really can sell it. Anyone who appears to be doing otherwise is either losing money fast, or merely collecting charitable contributions. That's a fifth business model, by the way: begging for charitable contributions. Nothing wrong with it, but please be honest and open about it if that's your chosen model. But is software-as-a-product dead? Hardly! It's pretty much dead for the infrastucture market, but it's thriving in the specialty markets.
p.s. You keep talking about your business in the future tense. Interesting.
By that logic, we should give workers 365 days of vacation. Think of the productivity!
No, it's not news. What is news is this snippet from the blurbette: "it seems that the Chinese are not pleased with the number of jobs being moved to China...
WTF! Who the hell cares about how pleased they are? You do want native people in China, but you don't *move* jobs there, you create jobs there! Expanding into a market doesn't mean you fire people in your old markets. Sheesh!
Actually, people talk all the time about "voting with your wallet" and all that but that rarely works unless you can create a groundswell of public support...
"Voting with your wallet" works EVERY time. I hate Britney Spears. I've decided to "vote with my wallet" and not buy any of her albums. Hey it works! I don't have any of her albums! Let's try this again. I don't like Microsoft. I've decided to "vote with my wallet" and not buy any Microsoft products. It still works!
Doing a quick check, it turns out that everytime I've decided to vote with my wallet, I've won! One time was difficult, though. That was when I decided to permanently boycott cigarettes. I sweated those first few weeks, but I haven't bought a cigarette for over a year!
If you think you're losing by "voting your wallet", it's because you don't understand what the voting is about. You win everytime you vote with your wallet. It might not put a company out of business, but at least it will keep their ink cartridges out of your home.
It's for all those Debian users who can't stand buying a computer with Redhat preloaded...
I learned to type in High School typing class. It was horrible. She yelled and waved around a ruler (it was a public school, so she couldn't actually use it nun-style). After an hour of "h, h, h, g, h, h, g, g, h, g, etc" we were numb with repetition. But I learned to type. I can still do about 40 WPM today.
The trick to learning typing is repetition. You don't need someone yelling at you, you just need an hour a day for about three months running through incredibly rote typing tasks. It will sink in. Don't look at the keyboard, it will only slow you down. Get a *good* keyboard, one with large keys with a firm feel. If you can, find an old Royal manual typewriter and learn with that.
I didn't spend enough time on the numberals and never touched the symbols while learning, so I slow down quite a bit when programming. Put those keys in your curriculum as well (they're harder because they're the furthest away from the homerow).
Hey, if the previous poster can lie, so can I!
Your votes are being scammed to keep the neocon scum in power.
Just remember that it was the liberal Democrats who were in power at the time of the election, both nationally and in the Florida legislature. It was the liberal Democrats who demanded that pregnant and hanging chads, double punches, and votes for Buchanan, all be counted as votes for Gore. It was the liberal Democrats who argued that absentee ballots from oversea military personnel shouldn't be counted.
The "chad" system has been used in California for decades. While the media machine was showing us pictures of the "horribly difficult ballots" Florida had to endure, we were all wondering what the big deal was. I mean, we had uncounted ballot boxes floating in San Fransisco bay, but all the media could talk about was how Jeb Bush deliberately forced people to use Nazi-inspired punched ballots just so his brother could win.
Pregnant chads?!?! Give me a frickin break! Will someone please take that crack pipe away from the media!
Here's what I usually get:
"Hey, I can't connect. Did that tornado hit you guys or something? Just wondering."
"There's nothing wrong with our service you ingrate whiner."
"Well I haven't been able to connect in 72 hours, so I was just wondering."
"Of course we're up! We're UltraMegaColossalISP! If you're unable to connect, it's obviously your problem."
"No, no, you don't understand. I just want to know if there's been an outage in my area."
"Hey Dumbass! If you just go to our site we have a page listing all the outages! Stop wasting my time."
it should be one man one vote, and the person with the most votes wins...
Well, there goes the parliamentary system too!