How is this flamebait? I had a hard time getting eclipse 3.0 working on kaffe a while back myself due to the file locking issue (got great help from #kaffe though), I'd like to know if this has changed.
GNOME got more than KDE anyway - 27 to 24 - if you count gaim too, being a fullblood GNOME application. KDE's similar application, Kopete, had projects in the KDE pool.
I'm obviously not saying we can free ourselves from everything physical and exist as a quantum singularity or whatever. But computers nowadays are so ubiquitous, and so affordable, that most places in the world, most people have them (or at least some level of access to them). So the prescence of a file copier can mostly be taken for granted. Given that, files can be copied freely (also remember, freedom isn't only about cost). This is why free software is a continuing success everywhere.
But yes, not all people have computers, and it's a continuing goal to mend this.
That doesn't make any sense. To copy a file you have to have a hard drive, software, processor -- mostly a whole computer.
Yes, you need a file copy device to copy a file. They come very cheap these days, and even developing contries have them.
And what do you need to copy a supermarket, a house, a car? You cannot copy them with any devices known to man today, you have to build new ones. On the other hand, to copy a computer program, you don't have to hire programmers to code it all over again, you simply issue the "copy" command on your computer, and seconds later the job is done. Making it any harder is to enforce artificial scarcity, which is what free software is out to combat.
Why should software be free, there's no open source supermarket, no open source houses, no open source cars etc. why should software be free and open source?
Because software can technically be copied at no cost, and therefore has the potential of empowering all people. While your computer is a file copier, have you ever seen a supermarket copier, a house copier, a car copier? No. Each "copy" of a car takes much costly resources. The day we are able to copy these things as easily as files, I'll be a huge proponent of free (as in freedom) cars and houses.
The other aspect of software freedom, namely that of open specs so you can learn from it and improve it, are mostly already present in cars and houses. You can open the lid of a car or tear open the floor of your house to see how it was built and maybe improve things.
Why must copyright extensions always be retroactive? Are we afrad that The Beatles won't write Love Me Do in 1963 if he didn't expect royalties for a hundred years? Wait, that doesn't even make sense. The copyright deal back then was given, and works were created as intended; the incentive worked. So why would we need to give a guy in 1963 more incentive to create?
What are you saying? Fedora was never meant to be a money maker for Red Hat. On the contrary, Fedora was meant to be a place for Red Hat to pour valuable resources into; research, more or less, in the hope that it might in some indirect way benefit their Enterprise Linuxes. Red Hat has been clear about this intention from day one, so there is no "services model" that has failed or anything else.
that really doesn't matter since 99% of people will still use it for years to come
I don't know. Norway's most popular online newspaper (vg.no) today released fresh log analyses showing that only 86% of their visitors are IE users (compared to 95% one year ago). 8% use Firefox, and 5% use Opera. That may just be crazy Norwegians, though. I'd sure like to see what the numbers are for Slashdot.
The goal isn't to produce a complete software suite. The goal is to produce a complete suite of free software. And with that in mind, you're right that we don't have shockwave, but we don't (in effect) have flash either, which is much more urgent.
Republicans stand for what they've always stood for, but extraordinary times need extraordinary measures. This is why we must support this Enabling Act. It is only temporary. And most people don't have anything to hide, anyway.
The reason for this of course being that Futurama got NO AIR TIME the last couple of years of its existence. Shows would get pre-empted for new reality show experiments or some sport stuff every other week, or they would simply air reruns. The few new shows that did air, would often air at irregular timeslots. So those who hadn't already lost interest, would either forget to watch it or not know that it would air at all. Because of so few new episodes being aired, they had enough holdover episodes from two production seasons back for a whole new "season".
In comparison, these days we get two brand new The Simpsons episodes every week. Sigh.
The problem is that while the operator of Node X can tell that his node has been used to access alqaida.com, there is no way to know who requested that his node access that site. The real culprit has used a chain of TOR servers, where each neighboring server in the chain can't tell if his neighbor is directly connected to the culprit or if his neighbor is just a blind middleman. The only way to be able to tell this, is to control a significant amount of the TOR servers, but since each server is accepted only after a review process, we can assume this is not the case.
Have you considered using one-time passwords? SSH can be set up with this. It's a hassle to carry around a list of passwords, but it's definitely safer than typing your password at any old public system.
'Spyware and adware are more than an annoyance,' Spitzer said. 'These fraudulent programs foul machines, undermine productivity and in many cases frustrate consumers' efforts to remove them from their computers.'
Why do I so often see spyware being framed like this? I've read many articles in the popular press about spyware. They always say that you should remove spyware because such software can make your computer slower.
Hello? It's called spyware. It's sitting there spying on you, for God's sake, and your only worry is supposed to be that your computer is slower than it should be? Are people really that indifferent to their personal privacy these days? Why aren't people outraged that some program has sneaked itself into their system and is now sniffing all of their network traffic?
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How is this flamebait? I had a hard time getting eclipse 3.0 working on kaffe a while back myself due to the file locking issue (got great help from #kaffe though), I'd like to know if this has changed.
GNOME got more than KDE anyway - 27 to 24 - if you count gaim too, being a fullblood GNOME application. KDE's similar application, Kopete, had projects in the KDE pool.
I'm obviously not saying we can free ourselves from everything physical and exist as a quantum singularity or whatever. But computers nowadays are so ubiquitous, and so affordable, that most places in the world, most people have them (or at least some level of access to them). So the prescence of a file copier can mostly be taken for granted. Given that, files can be copied freely (also remember, freedom isn't only about cost). This is why free software is a continuing success everywhere.
But yes, not all people have computers, and it's a continuing goal to mend this.
That doesn't make any sense. To copy a file you have to have a hard drive, software, processor -- mostly a whole computer.
Yes, you need a file copy device to copy a file. They come very cheap these days, and even developing contries have them.
And what do you need to copy a supermarket, a house, a car? You cannot copy them with any devices known to man today, you have to build new ones. On the other hand, to copy a computer program, you don't have to hire programmers to code it all over again, you simply issue the "copy" command on your computer, and seconds later the job is done. Making it any harder is to enforce artificial scarcity, which is what free software is out to combat.
Why should software be free, there's no open source supermarket, no open source houses, no open source cars etc. why should software be free and open source?
Because software can technically be copied at no cost, and therefore has the potential of empowering all people. While your computer is a file copier, have you ever seen a supermarket copier, a house copier, a car copier? No. Each "copy" of a car takes much costly resources. The day we are able to copy these things as easily as files, I'll be a huge proponent of free (as in freedom) cars and houses.
The other aspect of software freedom, namely that of open specs so you can learn from it and improve it, are mostly already present in cars and houses. You can open the lid of a car or tear open the floor of your house to see how it was built and maybe improve things.
Here is a "good" translation.
Why must copyright extensions always be retroactive? Are we afrad that The Beatles won't write Love Me Do in 1963 if he didn't expect royalties for a hundred years? Wait, that doesn't even make sense. The copyright deal back then was given, and works were created as intended; the incentive worked. So why would we need to give a guy in 1963 more incentive to create?
What are you saying? Fedora was never meant to be a money maker for Red Hat. On the contrary, Fedora was meant to be a place for Red Hat to pour valuable resources into; research, more or less, in the hope that it might in some indirect way benefit their Enterprise Linuxes. Red Hat has been clear about this intention from day one, so there is no "services model" that has failed or anything else.
that really doesn't matter since 99% of people will still use it for years to come
I don't know. Norway's most popular online newspaper (vg.no) today released fresh log analyses showing that only 86% of their visitors are IE users (compared to 95% one year ago). 8% use Firefox, and 5% use Opera. That may just be crazy Norwegians, though. I'd sure like to see what the numbers are for Slashdot.
The goal isn't to produce a complete software suite. The goal is to produce a complete suite of free software. And with that in mind, you're right that we don't have shockwave, but we don't (in effect) have flash either, which is much more urgent.
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Copyrighted.
Republicans stand for what they've always stood for, but extraordinary times need extraordinary measures. This is why we must support this Enabling Act. It is only temporary. And most people don't have anything to hide, anyway.
Be fair, you can't expect today's Counter-Strike kids to know that.
The reason for this of course being that Futurama got NO AIR TIME the last couple of years of its existence. Shows would get pre-empted for new reality show experiments or some sport stuff every other week, or they would simply air reruns. The few new shows that did air, would often air at irregular timeslots. So those who hadn't already lost interest, would either forget to watch it or not know that it would air at all. Because of so few new episodes being aired, they had enough holdover episodes from two production seasons back for a whole new "season".
In comparison, these days we get two brand new The Simpsons episodes every week. Sigh.
The problem is that while the operator of Node X can tell that his node has been used to access alqaida.com, there is no way to know who requested that his node access that site. The real culprit has used a chain of TOR servers, where each neighboring server in the chain can't tell if his neighbor is directly connected to the culprit or if his neighbor is just a blind middleman. The only way to be able to tell this, is to control a significant amount of the TOR servers, but since each server is accepted only after a review process, we can assume this is not the case.
Yahoo only allows DRM'ed WMA's that are illegal to convert to MP3 or to burn to Audio CD's.
Illegal? Sure about that?
Just connect to irc.efnet.org and join the party at #bt.
With three layers, Blu-Ray will be able to handle 75GiB.
Have you considered using one-time passwords? SSH can be set up with this. It's a hassle to carry around a list of passwords, but it's definitely safer than typing your password at any old public system.
You cannot copyright a word. You may be thinking about trademark infringement.
'Spyware and adware are more than an annoyance,' Spitzer said. 'These fraudulent programs foul machines, undermine productivity and in many cases frustrate consumers' efforts to remove them from their computers.'
Why do I so often see spyware being framed like this? I've read many articles in the popular press about spyware. They always say that you should remove spyware because such software can make your computer slower.
Hello? It's called spyware. It's sitting there spying on you, for God's sake, and your only worry is supposed to be that your computer is slower than it should be? Are people really that indifferent to their personal privacy these days? Why aren't people outraged that some program has sneaked itself into their system and is now sniffing all of their network traffic?
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You are maybe not aware of the fact that C# is an ISO standard? So part of your argument breaks.
Blu-Ray has almost double the storage capacity, too (25GiB versus 15GiB). So what technical merits has HD-DVD got going for it?
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."