Apart from perhaps the w3c members themselves, there are no 'independent' members of any kind. No-one, for example, from the EFF or Commercial Linux/BSD vendors (are there commercial BSD vendors?)
How, pray tell, would the slashdotter@home read the introduction on slashdot.org telling them how to resolve slashdot.org if they can't resolve slashdot.org?
Basically I've loved computers and technology since I was old enough to crawl. Before I used a real computer, I was fascinated by any number of nasty beepy plastic gadgety things.
I worked out how to plug in my first computer (to the TV:-) and started programming on it from a reference manual (in basic, I admit, but I was 5 - I'm allowed).
Since then I've just been hooked. When I heard I could get a free OS I did so (SuSE at first off a cover disc) and since then I've been even *more* hooked.
As for getting a job, I have no formal education in computing yet (I'm 19), and I suppose I just knew the right people. It would be possible for me to get a job by 'sending in my CV', but they have been through word of mouth.
So, basically, develop a fondness for computers for computers sake, and it should be plain sailing. Despite the fact that you're a dinosaur:P
I have to agree here. Even in the case of guns (I am British and I agree with our gun laws). Guns themselves are not evil. The person behind the trigger is. (Why I agree with the laws is a seperate issue. If you really must know why, email me)
I do not want to be associated in even the most indirect way the the bombings simply because I use GPG. There is nothing wrong with using encryption, and I want nothing to do with a government that outlaws it (which mine is in grave danger of doing).
I don't normally have (much of) a problem with the articles and replies here on/., however this one just takes the biscuit.
Does *anyone* who replied understand how the X server/client system works? Did you even read the article (you must have at least looked at it as it was/.ed a while ago)
Kudos to those of us who do/did, but this article has provided an excellent example of the kind of idiocy which is rife on/.
Please sort it out, people. *DON'T* reply if you don't know what the article is talking about (except perhaps to say 'Where can I find out more?'), and do *READ* the article! This is a news site, soak up the news - headlines do not carry information and skimming an article is like licking an ice cream once and chucking it.
I agree entirely with you said (and can sum it up much more succinctly - 'Society is fucked':-), but how many times per 'your-rights-online' story is this going to be said?
I wish I could post something more insightful than 'me too', but: Me too.
I agree with you entirely - It probably *won't* happen in our lifetimes, but we have to work as hard as we can because it *will* happen eventually.
The US broke away from us British because we were being pretty evil back then and made up the Constitution because of it. I hope it doesn't turn out to have been in vain.
the only way that this is going to change is if there's a mass voting out of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and frankly the public are sheep so that's never going to happen.
I am quite disgusted when I see the public supporting a political party, both in the US and the UK, as they do. They support not what the party stands for, but the party itself.
While this goes on, we are going to have one hell of a time overturning laws like this. Please everyone on/. (who is old enough), do your bit and don't vote for the easy choice, don't 'vote strategically', but vote for the party that is Right. The party which will look at corporations trying to implement draconian controls and tell them to go to hell.
Of course you can't sell GPL'ed code without including the source!
Yes you can. You just can't stop the customer from being able to obtain it, and have to be able to at least give a net location from them to get it from.
Also I note you refer to drink cans later, which you did in a previous post. You do have other things on your mind, right?
You made some good points in your post. However I can only laugh at the method used to put them across.
If you were a nicer human being (I use the term in its loosest sense), you may have got some appropraite replies, though actually I doubt this was your intention.
I had a copy of California Dreaming, the last few seconds were chopped off from the other party disconnecting, but I'd had it for months before I realised (only by looking at the ID3 tag) that it had been ripped of a humble tape, not a CD.
Of course, then, I could hear the difference if I wanted to, but still I barely noticed.
It would take years to introduce a new medium - CD's have been out for over 15 years, but cassettes still have market.
Not just that, LPs are still on the market (new as well as old). Hell, even those big tape-thingies-I-don't-know-the-name-of(TM) are still used, at least in recording studios.
Also, Considering the quality of CDs and even MP3s (the well-ripped ones at least), I think it would take longer than that (despite `that' not being fixed). Minidiscs are not the most popular of mediums.
(Incidentally, Sony recently ran a series of ads here targetting how easy it was to create perfect copies of music on MDs. <Homer>Something's wrong...</Homer>)
Sorry, you're mixing Latin and Greek. The successor to the "Pentium" would logically be the "Hexium"--which admittedly isn't as funny but does have its own possiblities.
Like the possibility to be sued, if Pterry's in that kind of mood, for nicking the name. Hell if PETA can do it, anyone can
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Or maybe, like me, they'll collapse on the floor in uncontrollable fits of hysterical laughter.
You poor, poor fool.
Apart from perhaps the w3c members themselves, there are no 'independent' members of any kind. No-one, for example, from the EFF or Commercial Linux/BSD vendors (are there commercial BSD vendors?)
How many times, 200 years ago, did someone decide they *REALLY* need to make an appointment *right* now?
15 Years ago, how many of us needed to call people up and tell them they were on the bus?
If people can show others their surroundings, uses for it will spring up. This has been and always will be the way with technology.
How, pray tell, would the slashdotter@home read the introduction on slashdot.org telling them how to resolve slashdot.org if they can't resolve slashdot.org?
I used microsoft OSs as a kid. DOS, Win3, win95/8
I can't say I sweay by M$ products...
Basically I've loved computers and technology since I was old enough to crawl. Before I used a real computer, I was fascinated by any number of nasty beepy plastic gadgety things.
I worked out how to plug in my first computer (to the TV :-) and started programming on it from a reference manual (in basic, I admit, but I was 5 - I'm allowed).
Since then I've just been hooked. When I heard I could get a free OS I did so (SuSE at first off a cover disc) and since then I've been even *more* hooked.
As for getting a job, I have no formal education in computing yet (I'm 19), and I suppose I just knew the right people. It would be possible for me to get a job by 'sending in my CV', but they have been through word of mouth.
So, basically, develop a fondness for computers for computers sake, and it should be plain sailing. Despite the fact that you're a dinosaur :P
I have to agree here. Even in the case of guns (I am British and I agree with our gun laws). Guns themselves are not evil. The person behind the trigger is. (Why I agree with the laws is a seperate issue. If you really must know why, email me)
I do not want to be associated in even the most indirect way the the bombings simply because I use GPG. There is nothing wrong with using encryption, and I want nothing to do with a government that outlaws it (which mine is in grave danger of doing).
Isn't that the whole idea of Linux, GNU, BSD and all other Open Source/Free projects since time began?
Don't I have a sig?
I don't normally have (much of) a problem with the articles and replies here on /., however this one just takes the biscuit.
Does *anyone* who replied understand how the X server/client system works? Did you even read the article (you must have at least looked at it as it was /.ed a while ago)
Kudos to those of us who do/did, but this article has provided an excellent example of the kind of idiocy which is rife on /.
Please sort it out, people. *DON'T* reply if you don't know what the article is talking about (except perhaps to say 'Where can I find out more?'), and do *READ* the article! This is a news site, soak up the news - headlines do not carry information and skimming an article is like licking an ice cream once and chucking it.
I agree entirely with you said (and can sum it up much more succinctly - 'Society is fucked' :-), but how many times per 'your-rights-online' story is this going to be said?
I wish I could post something more insightful than 'me too', but: Me too.
I agree with you entirely - It probably *won't* happen in our lifetimes, but we have to work as hard as we can because it *will* happen eventually.
The US broke away from us British because we were being pretty evil back then and made up the Constitution because of it. I hope it doesn't turn out to have been in vain.
I am quite disgusted when I see the public supporting a political party, both in the US and the UK, as they do. They support not what the party stands for, but the party itself.
While this goes on, we are going to have one hell of a time overturning laws like this. Please everyone on /. (who is old enough), do your bit and don't vote for the easy choice, don't 'vote strategically', but vote for the party that is Right. The party which will look at corporations trying to implement draconian controls and tell them to go to hell.
(Being polite for the little kiddies :-)
Name one, then abandon TCP and use it to do all the things you do on the internet
Yes you can. You just can't stop the customer from being able to obtain it, and have to be able to at least give a net location from them to get it from.
Also I note you refer to drink cans later, which you did in a previous post. You do have other things on your mind, right?
Not to mention the fact that, should your fancies take you that way, you can buy windows seperately.
Eg. When I worked at an HP reseller, HP didn't sell w2k. However, you may want to buy HP hardware and install w2k on it yourself.
You made some good points in your post. However I can only laugh at the method used to put them across.
If you were a nicer human being (I use the term in its loosest sense), you may have got some appropraite replies, though actually I doubt this was your intention.
Because otherwise I'd have had nothing to teach my teachers
I had a copy of California Dreaming, the last few seconds were chopped off from the other party disconnecting, but I'd had it for months before I realised (only by looking at the ID3 tag) that it had been ripped of a humble tape, not a CD.
Of course, then, I could hear the difference if I wanted to, but still I barely noticed.
Not just that, LPs are still on the market (new as well as old). Hell, even those big tape-thingies-I-don't-know-the-name-of(TM) are still used, at least in recording studios.
Also, Considering the quality of CDs and even MP3s (the well-ripped ones at least), I think it would take longer than that (despite `that' not being fixed). Minidiscs are not the most popular of mediums.
(Incidentally, Sony recently ran a series of ads here targetting how easy it was to create perfect copies of music on MDs. <Homer>Something's wrong...</Homer>)
Sorry, you're mixing Latin and Greek. The
successor to the "Pentium" would logically be
the "Hexium"--which admittedly isn't as funny but
does have its own possiblities.
Like the possibility to be sued, if Pterry's in that kind of mood, for nicking the name. Hell if PETA can do it, anyone can
(Pterry == Terry Pratcher, Author of Discworld)