I can see using Gentoo init or *BSD init which do not offend poor SCO. Purging all things SCO such as emulation wouldn't make anyone lose sleep. System 5 init is needlessly complex anyway. It would be a good thing to see that go away.
Personally, I think we should wait this out. My prediction is that the result will be another nail in the coffin of software patents. Not that software patents weren't DOA anyway. Accepting the validity of software patents is akin to accepting the patenting of things like say, "object oriented" programming is ok. That's patently absurd!
I know Europe isn't a nation. But you're so married to your definition that you fail to recognize that Europe might behave in a unified manner that emulates a single nation. Probably it would be a result of the European Union.
Anyways, I will agree that many of my ideas haven't been developed (yet). Mod it down. It's not like I give a rat's ass.
Anyways, Eldred vs. Ashcroft is about much more than free music. It's about the future of public domain itself. I'm working on developing my ideas more in my journal. I've already started. I've deleted some of the things I said in my post because I agree with you to a certain degree. Some of my statements came from pure emotional cynicism that is not completely unjustified.
We are so friggin cocky as Americans! But how sure are we that we're really right? Our country is guided on economic theories and social policies that are mostly dogmatic ideologies founded on fluff. And what I mean by fluff is that there's nothing that has any sort of significant predictive power. Meaning, we take for granted that our thinking is correct and our actions will eventually have the desired effect. For example, we embargo countries regularly. Does it ever work? Has it ever toppled a regime? No. There's evidence to the contrary, howeve i.e N.Korea, Cuba.
I assert embargoes demonstrate the validity of some sort of social theory of punctuated equilibria. We isolate these countries and they evolve into some sort of perverted monster of a society with ideals that seem unfathomable. The same thing would happen if you raised a kid in the basement and raised him on rats. The kid would be a freak that is likely to be dangerous to the world. So in a way, we're either creating monsters or keeping them in power by embargoing them.
Embargoes are only one kind of thinking that demonstrates US lack of scientific thinking in its policies with the world. Yes, I'll say it. Our ignorance is reflected in our foreign policies that are coming back to haunt us and our deviation from the constitution. WE are becoming the freaks of the world. Only we have a lot of fire power to assert our unjustified views on the world. It hurts, but it's true.
We set up puppet governments. They grow tired of being controlled and use our weapons against us (See Iraq using our chemical weapons). We do this over and over. See definition of insanity. We intervene continually. Why? Don't they have the right to kill themselves off? As the morons they are, don't they have an obligation to the world to do so? Why do we intervene? We want oil. We want resources. We want regimes to serve our special interests. It's simple and pretty obvious. Otherwise, we'd be more concerned with North Korea that has wwII type concentration camps and makes Saddam look like teacher's pet.
The constitution has become used toilet paper due to its treatment. I'd rather see it gone than the blatent perversity of the constitution that currently exists. One must only read the constitution to directly measure the intellectual and/or ethical decline of the United States political system.
The assumption is that the "rights" given by the constitution would go away if the constitution went away. There's no rational justification for that assumption. Europe has no constitution, yet traditional "rights(freedoms)" exist. They evolved. An empirical fact is that human behaviour evolves as we collectively define ourselves. That's not to say the United States wouldn't go through some turmoil if the constitution disappeared. Most Americans live under the delusion that the constitution protects our rights. It's simply not true. People do. The constitution doesn't even define the rights we have. Reality does.
As it stands, the US is devolving nicely into a warfare and incarceration driven economy that is actually diametrically opposed to the constitution. Having undefined enemies such as "terror" really works for such an economy.
Unfortunately it makes us the most dangerous rogue terrorist super power nation on the planet. We also live under the delusion that we're protecting the world. Yet amazingly it's always "our" weapons that the enemy uses against us. It's our business to create enemies that we can later fight. Peace is not our game. War is.
Americans shouldn't cry about rights. We have a president who hasn't read five books in his entire life, yet we expect HIM to protect rights that he cannot possibly value. I'm firmly convinced that the US has reached a critical mass of ignorance that only self destruction will repair. Time to feel the consequences of our blissful ignorance.
He is correct that publications are reviewed and that they go through a "filtering" system that he compares to filtering sewage. However, the Creative Commons licensing is analoguous to the General Public License software license. Creative Commons licensing simply shifts the filtering out of the hands of a few dozen oblivious corporate lackeys to the public at large.
>mplayer? This is _exactly_ the application which I >am excited about on FreeBSD! I can watch DVDs at >1600x1200x32 full-speed using a P3-500MHz. What do >I need more? Oh, I forgot... it was also possible >with the standard (nv) drivers.
It's a philosophy issue. Fuck, it's not even that. Closed source hardware drivers/software make it difficult for alternative operating systems. How is someone using Hurd or Beos supposed to fully take advantage of Nvidia technology? You laugh, but forget that Linux was once the little guy that came into existence in spite of hardware manufacturers that didn't want to provide specs.
Nvidia releases binary drivers. ATI releases specs. If you think about it, which is better?
Don't be suckered just because Nvidia has thrown you a bone. If you read some of the developer mailing lists for say, Mplayer, the Nvidia binary drivers leave a lot to be desired.
We should already have a colony on the moon, but we don't. The real problem is that They didn't take the knowledge learned from going to the moon to higher levels. They gave up on the moon, so all that effort was essentially wasted. How about a real space race? I suggest a race to colonize the moon because I'm not impressed with the pathetic efforts that have taken place so far. As far as I'm concerned those achievements were isolated incidents that might as well not have happened at all.
Colonizing the moon means that we'll be forced to learn to live indefinitely in space, which has collosal implications far beyond a few visits to a lifeless rock in space.
The whole situation reeks of washed up football players spending life trying to ride the wave of successes past. It just doesn't fly! Whoever colonizes the moon will be the lucky ones that don't go extinct within the next few millenia (and I'm being hopeful). Now that's a prize!
-1 overgeneralizing. Not everyone burns a copy of CDs they like and foregoes buying the CDs. I speculate that most buy the CDs they really like. At least that was true before all the wining about CD burning.
I wish slashdot had codes for logical fallacies. People might learn something and know when they're saying dumb stuff.
I risk being modded down, but I just thought I'd let you know: Your sig makes you seem either stupid and/or dishonest. How can you honestly justify making such a specific claim out of such vague doctrine? I own a bible and read that passage about the mark on the forehead or the hand. Even if one bought into that belief system, you're doing a piss poor job at analysis. It's far more likely that the microchip being implanted in humans would be the mark of the Beast:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50187,00. ht ml
Regardless, your interpretation of Revelations 13 is quite obviously intellectually corrupt in that it does not recognize the vast possibilities of candidates that could pass as the mark of the beast.
Ick! Why do I feel like I just confronted someone with their crackpot idea of how Darth Maul tracked the princess's ship to Tatooine?
Yes, they have found a loophole, but it doesn't matter. Why would one choose a more restrictive license over a less restrictive one? If they're going to do that, they might as well buy MS Windows.
This is good news for Joe Normal who hopes to get in space sometime before death. More than that, it's good news for going into space altogether for ANY reason. Space resorts -> Space estates -> colonies -> spreading out across the galaxy. Overpopulation is going to make space look inviting as well.
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I can see using Gentoo init or *BSD init which do not offend poor SCO. Purging all things SCO such as emulation wouldn't make anyone lose sleep. System 5 init is needlessly complex anyway. It would be a good thing to see that go away.
Personally, I think we should wait this out. My prediction is that the result will be another nail in the coffin of software patents. Not that software patents weren't DOA anyway. Accepting the validity of software patents is akin to accepting the patenting of things like say, "object oriented" programming is ok. That's patently absurd!
I know Europe isn't a nation. But you're so married to your definition that you fail to recognize that Europe might behave in a unified manner that emulates a single nation. Probably it would be a result of the European Union.
Anyways, I will agree that many of my ideas haven't been developed (yet). Mod it down. It's not like I give a rat's ass.
Anyways, Eldred vs. Ashcroft is about much more than free music. It's about the future of public domain itself. I'm working on developing my ideas more in my journal. I've already started. I've deleted some of the things I said in my post because I agree with you to a certain degree. Some of my statements came from pure emotional cynicism that is not completely unjustified.
We are so friggin cocky as Americans! But how sure are we that we're really right? Our country is guided on economic theories and social policies that are mostly dogmatic ideologies founded on fluff. And what I mean by fluff is that there's nothing that has any sort of significant predictive power. Meaning, we take for granted that our thinking is correct and our actions will eventually have the desired effect. For example, we embargo countries regularly. Does it ever work? Has it ever toppled a regime? No. There's evidence to the contrary, howeve i.e N.Korea, Cuba.
I assert embargoes demonstrate the validity of some sort of social theory of punctuated equilibria. We isolate these countries and they evolve into some sort of perverted monster of a society with ideals that seem unfathomable. The same thing would happen if you raised a kid in the basement and raised him on rats. The kid would be a freak that is likely to be dangerous to the world. So in a way, we're either creating monsters or keeping them in power by embargoing them.
Embargoes are only one kind of thinking that demonstrates US lack of scientific thinking in its policies with the world. Yes, I'll say it. Our ignorance is reflected in our foreign policies that are coming back to haunt us and our deviation from the constitution. WE are becoming the freaks of the world. Only we have a lot of fire power to assert our unjustified views on the world. It hurts, but it's true.
We set up puppet governments. They grow tired of being controlled and use our weapons against us (See Iraq using our chemical weapons). We do this over and over. See definition of insanity. We intervene continually. Why? Don't they have the right to kill themselves off? As the morons they are, don't they have an obligation to the world to do so? Why do we intervene? We want oil. We want resources. We want regimes to serve our special interests. It's simple and pretty obvious. Otherwise, we'd be more concerned with North Korea that has wwII type concentration camps and makes Saddam look like teacher's pet.
The constitution has become used toilet paper due to its treatment. I'd rather see it gone than the blatent perversity of the constitution that currently exists. One must only read the constitution to directly measure the intellectual and/or ethical decline of the United States political system.
The assumption is that the "rights" given by the constitution would go away if the constitution went away. There's no rational justification for that assumption. Europe has no constitution, yet traditional "rights(freedoms)" exist. They evolved. An empirical fact is that human behaviour evolves as we collectively define ourselves. That's not to say the United States wouldn't go through some turmoil if the constitution disappeared. Most Americans live under the delusion that the constitution protects our rights. It's simply not true. People do. The constitution doesn't even define the rights we have. Reality does.
As it stands, the US is devolving nicely into a warfare and incarceration driven economy that is actually diametrically opposed to the constitution. Having undefined enemies such as "terror" really works for such an economy.
Unfortunately it makes us the most dangerous rogue terrorist super power nation on the planet. We also live under the delusion that we're protecting the world. Yet amazingly it's always "our" weapons that the enemy uses against us. It's our business to create enemies that we can later fight. Peace is not our game. War is.
Americans shouldn't cry about rights. We have a president who hasn't read five books in his entire life, yet we expect HIM to protect rights that he cannot possibly value. I'm firmly convinced that the US has reached a critical mass of ignorance that only self destruction will repair. Time to feel the consequences of our blissful ignorance.
Enjoy.
The lifetimes of corporations are all that matter now. Apparently corporations have become the masters of humanity.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/announce.html
Christian and RPG player seems a natural combination.
He is correct that publications are reviewed and that they go through a "filtering" system that he compares to filtering sewage. However, the Creative Commons licensing is analoguous to the General Public License software license. Creative Commons licensing simply shifts the filtering out of the hands of a few dozen oblivious corporate lackeys to the public at large.
Hurd will be the next big thing. GUI's are just a phase. CLI rules.
>mplayer? This is _exactly_ the application which I >am excited about on FreeBSD! I can watch DVDs at >1600x1200x32 full-speed using a P3-500MHz. What do >I need more? Oh, I forgot... it was also possible >with the standard (nv) drivers.
It's a philosophy issue. Fuck, it's not even that. Closed source hardware drivers/software make it difficult for alternative operating systems. How is someone using Hurd or Beos supposed to fully take advantage of Nvidia technology? You laugh, but forget that Linux was once the little guy that came into existence in spite of hardware manufacturers that didn't want to provide specs.
specs = fishing pole, binary = fish
Nvidia releases binary drivers. ATI releases specs. If you think about it, which is better?
Don't be suckered just because Nvidia has thrown you a bone. If you read some of the developer mailing lists for say, Mplayer, the Nvidia binary drivers leave a lot to be desired.
We should already have a colony on the moon, but we don't. The real problem is that They didn't take the knowledge learned from going to the moon to higher levels. They gave up on the moon, so all that effort was essentially wasted. How about a real space race? I suggest a race to colonize the moon because I'm not impressed with the pathetic efforts that have taken place so far. As far as I'm concerned those achievements were isolated incidents that might as well not have happened at all.
Colonizing the moon means that we'll be forced to learn to live indefinitely in space, which has collosal implications far beyond a few visits to a lifeless rock in space.
The whole situation reeks of washed up football players spending life trying to ride the wave of successes past. It just doesn't fly! Whoever colonizes the moon will be the lucky ones that don't go extinct within the next few millenia (and I'm being hopeful). Now that's a prize!
No, if it was 25 they'd be talking about Debian Hurd ;P
Well they could release it open source and that would mess with peoples' heads.
How long until they sell that intellectual property to Microsoft? I don't trust the bastards anymore.
If it can't be duplicated and it doesn't have a high level of predictive power, it's just plain bad science.
-1 overgeneralizing. Not everyone burns a copy of CDs they like and foregoes buying the CDs. I speculate that most buy the CDs they really like. At least that was true before all the wining about CD burning.
I wish slashdot had codes for logical fallacies. People might learn something and know when they're saying dumb stuff.
A senator in your pocket.
Just enough to take you out if you're a dissenter.
The FreeBSD team has really been outdoing itself lately.
I risk being modded down, but I just thought I'd let you know: Your sig makes you seem either stupid and/or dishonest. How can you honestly justify making such a specific claim out of such vague doctrine? I own a bible and read that passage about the mark on the forehead or the hand. Even if one bought into that belief system, you're doing a piss poor job at analysis. It's far more likely that the microchip being implanted in humans would be the mark of the Beast:
. ht ml
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50187,00
Regardless, your interpretation of Revelations 13 is quite obviously intellectually corrupt in that it does not recognize the vast possibilities of candidates that could pass as the mark of the beast.
Ick! Why do I feel like I just confronted someone with their crackpot idea of how Darth Maul tracked the princess's ship to Tatooine?
"I really wanted to say as a "conservative Christian" your opinion doesn't mean jack, but that would be rude."
And it would be an ad hominem attack as well. If you're going to be a smart non-christian, it would be wise of you to learn about logical fallacies.
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
Yes, they have found a loophole, but it doesn't matter. Why would one choose a more restrictive license over a less restrictive one? If they're going to do that, they might as well buy MS Windows.
No one should make money selling software;they should make money writing it.
We'd already be completely weaned off petro a long time ago. We've had a viable alternative to petro since 1912.
http://www.biodiesel.com
This is good news for Joe Normal who hopes to get in space sometime before death. More than that, it's good news for going into space altogether for ANY reason. Space resorts -> Space estates -> colonies -> spreading out across the galaxy. Overpopulation is going to make space look inviting as well.
Count me in!