With a purposeful grimace and a Mongo-like flair
He throws the spinning disk drives in the air!
And he picks up a Vax and he throws it back down
As he wades through the lab making terrible sounds!
Helpless users with projects due
Scream "My God!" as he stomps on the tape drives, too!
Oh, no! He says Unix runs too slow! Go, go, DECzilla!
Oh, yes! He's gonna bring up VMS! Go, go, DECzilla!"
* VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
* DECzilla is a trademark of Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death, Inc. -- Curtis Jackson
Be careful when you say that increasing quality costs more because that's not entirely accurate. Remember in the 80's, Toyota and many other Japanese car manufacturers took a huge chunk of the automotive market from the Big Three because they could produce QUALITY vehicles for LESS COST than could the American companies. There have been many books written about the cost of quality. It's definitely not as simple as MONEY=QUALITY.
If all you want is a browser without all the extra crap, use MOZILLA and not NETSCAPE.
Mozilla has no Java by default (for the time being).
It has no IM.
You can choose not to install the Mail/News client.
Mozilla does not require you to register.
Sooo...that leaves slow (which is to be expected since it isn't even to beta--and it's actually pretty fast on my machine, though it does take a few seconds to load initially) and rendering stuff incorrectly which I can't believe is as bad as you say: 'a whole lot'? There are some major web sites which do not render properly, but they are by far a minority. Some of those are because of bad HTML coding. If you find some that should render correctly, check Bugzilla and submit the site as a problem if it hasn't been already!
15% used at the switch to IPv6? That's a lot empty space being given out!
I figure the total number of IPv4 address is only.00000000000000000000000000005% of the total number of IPv6 addresses (Yes, it's right. Do the math yourself!) I guess that's all we'll need for a while.
IPv6 is cool. Once the implants + wireless 'net comes along, every person in the world can have their own personal IP address--so we wouldn't need names anymore I guess.
Scary or funny? I dunno.
"My brain is being portscanned"
What are you talking about?
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Hello? The GNU organization is about promoting certain freedoms. The GNU GPL is the tool used to protect those freedoms. Copyright can be used to take these freedoms away--cleverly, the GPL uses copyright to protect those freedoms. Remember, these people support free software--the GPL is used to keep it so. I really don't think this to be hypocritical. You are certainly free to disagree with this idealism, but please don't call it hypocritical. Remember, this is about freedom, not licenses.
We can also see why the abstractness of intellectual property is not the crucial factor. Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else...By contrast, copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
N.B. I don't want to sound like I want artists to just be screwed--they do need to be compensated for their work, but (ab)using the current copyright laws to do that doesn't fit anymore.
At least we can narrow down who did it
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A study released by record industry retail tracker SoundScan shows declining CD sales at stores near universities, and some are pointing fingers at the Recording Industry Association of America.
As reported earlier, SoundScan division VNU Marketing tested the theory by looking specifically at sales in stores near universities. In those stores, SoundScan data shows that record sales have actually dropped 4 percent in the past two years. According to the RIAA, full-length CD dollar value grew 12.3 percent last year alone. "It looks like the RIAA clearly has an impact on sales in the U.S.," said Joe Blow, CEO of a now rich digital rights management firm.
Jack Kirk, who manages independent CD store Dr. Wax near Northwestern University, says the labels are reaping the rewards of their own pricing policies. Cash-strapped students have turned to online music swapping because the record companies have priced the CDs of many popular artists out of students' reach, he said.
"It costs major labels less than $1 to make a Pearl Jam album, but the list prices are nearly $20," Kirk said. "They've precipitated this themselves--it's ridiculous. The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
Slashdot Mirror
Soooo...
Rats shouldn't use cell phones?
Here's an old quote:
With a purposeful grimace and a Mongo-like flair
He throws the spinning disk drives in the air!
And he picks up a Vax and he throws it back down
As he wades through the lab making terrible sounds!
Helpless users with projects due
Scream "My God!" as he stomps on the tape drives, too!
Oh, no! He says Unix runs too slow! Go, go, DECzilla!
Oh, yes! He's gonna bring up VMS! Go, go, DECzilla!"
* VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation
* DECzilla is a trademark of Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death, Inc. -- Curtis Jackson
I'm afraid UNC is not the original...That would be The University of Georgia, chartered in 1785 as opposed to UNC's 1789.
;-)
And UGA is, of course, the best.
The more money you pay, the more quality you get.
Be careful when you say that increasing quality costs more because that's not entirely accurate. Remember in the 80's, Toyota and many other Japanese car manufacturers took a huge chunk of the automotive market from the Big Three because they could produce QUALITY vehicles for LESS COST than could the American companies. There have been many books written about the cost of quality. It's definitely not as simple as MONEY=QUALITY.
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
Mozilla has no Java by default (for the time being).
It has no IM.
You can choose not to install the Mail/News client.
Mozilla does not require you to register.
Sooo...that leaves slow (which is to be expected since it isn't even to beta--and it's actually pretty fast on my machine, though it does take a few seconds to load initially) and rendering stuff incorrectly which I can't believe is as bad as you say: 'a whole lot'? There are some major web sites which do not render properly, but they are by far a minority. Some of those are because of bad HTML coding. If you find some that should render correctly, check Bugzilla and submit the site as a problem if it hasn't been already!
15% used at the switch to IPv6? That's a lot empty space being given out!
.00000000000000000000000000005% of the total number of IPv6 addresses (Yes, it's right. Do the math yourself!) I guess that's all we'll need for a while.
I figure the total number of IPv4 address is only
IPv6 is cool. Once the implants + wireless 'net comes along, every person in the world can have their own personal IP address--so we wouldn't need names anymore I guess.
Scary or funny? I dunno.
"My brain is being portscanned"
This quote is from one of the texts on the GNU webpage:
We can also see why the abstractness of intellectual property is not the crucial factor. Other forms of abstract property represent shares of something. Copying any kind of share is intrinsically a zero-sum activity; the person who copies benefits only by taking wealth away from everyone else...By contrast, copying useful, enlightening or entertaining information for a friend makes the world happier and better off; it benefits the friend, and inherently hurts no one. It is a constructive activity that strengthens social bonds.
N.B. I don't want to sound like I want artists to just be screwed--they do need to be compensated for their work, but (ab)using the current copyright laws to do that doesn't fit anymore.
to those people with bad grammar. :-)
As reported earlier, SoundScan division VNU Marketing tested the theory by looking specifically at sales in stores near universities. In those stores, SoundScan data shows that record sales have actually dropped 4 percent in the past two years. According to the RIAA, full-length CD dollar value grew 12.3 percent last year alone. "It looks like the RIAA clearly has an impact on sales in the U.S.," said Joe Blow, CEO of a now rich digital rights management firm.
Jack Kirk, who manages independent CD store Dr. Wax near Northwestern University, says the labels are reaping the rewards of their own pricing policies. Cash-strapped students have turned to online music swapping because the record companies have priced the CDs of many popular artists out of students' reach, he said.
"It costs major labels less than $1 to make a Pearl Jam album, but the list prices are nearly $20," Kirk said. "They've precipitated this themselves--it's ridiculous. The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
The RIAA had no comment.