It's very misleading to look at raw quantity of emissions. A more sensible measurement is per-capita emissions. I took the raw CO2 emissions figures and the state population figures for the same year, and did the relevant calculation. Turns out many states are worse than Texas for greenhouse gas emissions. By my calculations, New York is by far the worst.
QuickTime Player was always ugly on the Mac too. There was much howling around when QT 6 came out, because it completely ignored the Mac UI conventions. It has actually gotten better with OS X.
Well, sure, if you think there's nothing wrong with companies taking away the 4 freedoms from end users of GPL software, then there's no reason to use GPL v3.
But if that's what you think, why use GPL v2 either? Why not just use BSD?
Right now I have GPL code running on hardware I own, which I am prevented from modifying.
That's the scenario GPL 3 is trying to prevent. PD does nothing to prevent it, contrary to your assertion.
On the other hand, I have no desire to take open source software and turn it into restricted software, give or sell it to other people, but stop them from modifying it. So that's not a freedom that matters, as far as I'm concerned.
Hence for me, GPL is better at protecting the freedoms I care about; i.e., the ones outlined by the FSF. Hence, it is more free than PD software.
The key point here is that unprotected freedom is not a stable situation. Freedoms need to be protected from those who would infringe upon them. The founders of the US understood that one, why do so many PD/BSD advocates not?
The Church of England is an established church ruled by the head of state. The archbishop is appointed by the government. The church is managed via legislation which is drafted by the General Synod, but passed by Parliament.
It's therefore laughable to claim that the C of E is separate from government.
The church is owned by the Church of England, which is ruled by Her Majesty the Queen, who is the head of the UK government. Therefore, the church is owned by the government. Therefore it's public, in much the same way as Buckingham Palace (which is paid for by taxpayers).
Then explain how PD does less for freedom than the GPL.
PD doesn't make sure that when I get a copy of program X that was released as PD by its author, I can (if I choose) modify program X and run the modified version. Nor does it ensure that I can redistribute my modified version.
This is all explained in the FSF's FAQs. Look up the four freedoms.
You're assuming that people talking about "Linux" are talking purely about the kernel.
This is almost certainly not the case. Very few companies are interested in using the bare kernel without the rest of the OS. And most of the rest of the OS is going to go GPL3.
I could buy a PS3 tomorrow without going into debt. I have an HDTV and a Denon AV system. However, $600 is more than the PS3 is worth to me, given the range of games available. I don't have any use for a Blu-ray player until it's region free. Therefore I support the claim that the PS3 is overpriced for its target market. I've got a PS2 and a Wii though.
For me, the best bit is that they ditched ATI for nVidia. I was planning on getting a regular MacBook in order to avoid ATI, but now I can go with the Pro.
(ATI's drivers are teh suck, on OS X as well as Linux.)
The fact that a Mac comes with everything you need to edit movies and photos and turn the result into DVDs distinguishes it from every other computer, and hence is noteworthy.
I've got Google Talk and Gizmo on my Nokia N800, which can be picked up for about half the price of an iPhone. It has a much better screen for web browsing, and pairs with any Bluetooth mobile phone if you want to do wireless data.
I have a ThinkPad T42p with a FireGL T2 in it. With the slow open source drivers, everything's fine. With the closed ATI drivers, textures don't load properly, and eventually the machine locks up.
ATI's drivers suck. Their OS X drivers suck too, the OpenGL rendering of antialiased lines and polygons is utterly broken on my Mac with ATI card.
I'm planning to buy a new Mac soon, and I'm currently planning on getting a MacBook rather than a MacBook Pro specifically to avoid the ATI hardware in the Pro. I'd rather have Intel integrated graphics that work, than fast ATI graphics that don't.
(Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
Where is the it-just-works email encrytion for dummies?
S/MIME, which is built in to Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, and every other major e-mail client. You just need to get yourself a certificate and install it.
You may ask, what about your right to hack your Tivo? I'd respond, what about their right to attempt to prevent their product from being hacked? They are equivalent freedoms.
Their "right" to control what I do with my TiVo ended when they sold it to me.
The real, underlying problem with life in Britain today - the problem which is a major cause not only of this sort of crime, but of the creeping totalitarianism that this documentary is about - is that the majority of the populace care about absolutely nothing besides the value of their fucking houses.
Yeah, I think of it as the legacy of Thatcherism. I can't help noticing that the ASBO kids are exactly the generation that grew up knowing only Tory rule.
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If it's just a telephone, it's about $500 too expensive.
It's very misleading to look at raw quantity of emissions. A more sensible measurement is per-capita emissions. I took the raw CO2 emissions figures and the state population figures for the same year, and did the relevant calculation. Turns out many states are worse than Texas for greenhouse gas emissions. By my calculations, New York is by far the worst.
QuickTime Player was always ugly on the Mac too. There was much howling around when QT 6 came out, because it completely ignored the Mac UI conventions. It has actually gotten better with OS X.
Well, sure, if you think there's nothing wrong with companies taking away the 4 freedoms from end users of GPL software, then there's no reason to use GPL v3.
But if that's what you think, why use GPL v2 either? Why not just use BSD?
Right now I have GPL code running on hardware I own, which I am prevented from modifying.
That's the scenario GPL 3 is trying to prevent. PD does nothing to prevent it, contrary to your assertion.
On the other hand, I have no desire to take open source software and turn it into restricted software, give or sell it to other people, but stop them from modifying it. So that's not a freedom that matters, as far as I'm concerned.
Hence for me, GPL is better at protecting the freedoms I care about; i.e., the ones outlined by the FSF. Hence, it is more free than PD software.
The key point here is that unprotected freedom is not a stable situation. Freedoms need to be protected from those who would infringe upon them. The founders of the US understood that one, why do so many PD/BSD advocates not?
The Church of England is an established church ruled by the head of state. The archbishop is appointed by the government. The church is managed via legislation which is drafted by the General Synod, but passed by Parliament.
It's therefore laughable to claim that the C of E is separate from government.
Right premise, wrong conclusion. The head of the Church of England is the monarch. She owns it, like she owns Buckingham Palace.
If the church wants private rights over buildings it owns, it needs to become disestablished from the government.
The church is owned by the Church of England, which is ruled by Her Majesty the Queen, who is the head of the UK government. Therefore, the church is owned by the government. Therefore it's public, in much the same way as Buckingham Palace (which is paid for by taxpayers).
The standard for low voltage power is pretty much USB. You can get USB cellphone chargers, battery chargers, etc etc.
PD doesn't make sure that when I get a copy of program X that was released as PD by its author, I can (if I choose) modify program X and run the modified version. Nor does it ensure that I can redistribute my modified version.
This is all explained in the FSF's FAQs. Look up the four freedoms.
You're assuming that people talking about "Linux" are talking purely about the kernel.
This is almost certainly not the case. Very few companies are interested in using the bare kernel without the rest of the OS. And most of the rest of the OS is going to go GPL3.
I could buy a PS3 tomorrow without going into debt. I have an HDTV and a Denon AV system. However, $600 is more than the PS3 is worth to me, given the range of games available. I don't have any use for a Blu-ray player until it's region free. Therefore I support the claim that the PS3 is overpriced for its target market. I've got a PS2 and a Wii though.
Actually, IBM makes billions of dollars a year on software, and has done for years. It even makes money from open source and free software.
(Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
No, it's about my freedom, as a user of GPL software. As a user, I am utterly free--I don't even have to agree to the GPL to use the software!
However, preserving my freedoms requires restricting your freedom to take my freedoms away from me.
Yes, but since he didn't use Express, why on earth would he be bound by its EULA?
Surely we haven't reached the point where people are considered bound by EULAs for products they haven't even used...
Right, but he didn't use Express, and hence didn't hack around its limitations.
For me, the best bit is that they ditched ATI for nVidia. I was planning on getting a regular MacBook in order to avoid ATI, but now I can go with the Pro.
(ATI's drivers are teh suck, on OS X as well as Linux.)
((Opinions mine, not IBM's.))
There's this revolutionary invention called a keyboard. You may want to investigate it.
(I use ctrl-click for right click when running Linux. If you get used to it, you might find you prefer it, as I do.)
The fact that a Mac comes with everything you need to edit movies and photos and turn the result into DVDs distinguishes it from every other computer, and hence is noteworthy.
The fact that it can run Windows does not.
I've got Google Talk and Gizmo on my Nokia N800, which can be picked up for about half the price of an iPhone. It has a much better screen for web browsing, and pairs with any Bluetooth mobile phone if you want to do wireless data.
I have a ThinkPad T42p with a FireGL T2 in it. With the slow open source drivers, everything's fine. With the closed ATI drivers, textures don't load properly, and eventually the machine locks up. ATI's drivers suck. Their OS X drivers suck too, the OpenGL rendering of antialiased lines and polygons is utterly broken on my Mac with ATI card. I'm planning to buy a new Mac soon, and I'm currently planning on getting a MacBook rather than a MacBook Pro specifically to avoid the ATI hardware in the Pro. I'd rather have Intel integrated graphics that work, than fast ATI graphics that don't. (Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
S/MIME, which is built in to Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, and every other major e-mail client. You just need to get yourself a certificate and install it.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/pages/Using_SMIMApple contributed the self-defragmenting filesystem code to BSD. They've made other improvements to BSD as well.
Their "right" to control what I do with my TiVo ended when they sold it to me.
Yeah, I think of it as the legacy of Thatcherism. I can't help noticing that the ASBO kids are exactly the generation that grew up knowing only Tory rule.