I don't think it's cynicism. Launching a space shuttle is an enormously complicated operation affected by many factors outside of the control of current human expertise. The shuttle personnel go into this knowing full well about the dangers, which is why they are so rightfully considered heroic. How a launch went is news material. It's unfortunate, but it's how it is today. Hopefully there is funding for researching safer methods of going into space (and, not to forget, of going further).
How would stenography, "an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language", help?
Not only are there online music stores who sell unprotected MP3s; in fact, the second largest of them, eMusic.com, does. Yet I hear your quote repeated everywhere, from all kinds of people. Ignorance.
If you buy a PC with no operating system, why would it be a problem that it came with "no drivers no restore disks"? Drivers for what OS? Restore disks that restored what?
Organising vigilantes into systematically taking the lives of people who have been entered into public sex offender registries is not a workable solution. You are coming off as slightly psychopathic, I'm sorry.
It is probably illegal to kill people on the sex offender registries. Also, committing murder is not a good way to prove your moral high ground. Please consider this before you act.
And how else would you open source a programming language? You're saying that they haven't open sourced the language specifications, but these are not composed out of source code, and there is thus no source to be opened. Do you want the specification process to become more open? In which manners?
Excellent point. Not to mention that Linux is so hard to use. Who will want a phone that requires you to type in "ls", "mkfs.ext3", and write SMS messages with "ed" while you're trying to get XFree86 running with the right drivers after upgrading from Slackware 3? This is dead-on-arrival, sorry.
The connection of popularity to license is vacuous. I'm sure MySQL was more popular than PostgreSQL even back when it was a proprietary, non-free, non-GPL, binary-only product. There are countless aspects which explain its popularity better than its licensing.
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I don't think it's cynicism. Launching a space shuttle is an enormously complicated operation affected by many factors outside of the control of current human expertise. The shuttle personnel go into this knowing full well about the dangers, which is why they are so rightfully considered heroic. How a launch went is news material. It's unfortunate, but it's how it is today. Hopefully there is funding for researching safer methods of going into space (and, not to forget, of going further).
How would stenography, "an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language", help?
It is quite patently obvious.
Yes you are, you just have to disclose it on the cover so customers can see the defect before they buy.
:-)
People have some strange utopian impressions of Norwegian law
We shall become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
Not only are there online music stores who sell unprotected MP3s; in fact, the second largest of them , eMusic.com, does. Yet I hear your quote repeated everywhere, from all kinds of people. Ignorance.
Sorry, I always have problems spelling "dozen". English is not my mother tongue. I'm sure you'd have problems spelling it in Norwegian ;-)
Children of Men was a Hollywood-style blockbuster, a dime a dousin. And it was only recently released. How is it a "cult hit"?
BTW - Let me ask this. How can I get a copy of all the Wikipedia data? How can I get updates?
Download a complete database dump here.
The whole aversion to anything proprietary shows where the community's concern is
You seem surprised to discover that the free software community concerns itself with free software?
I agree with him on the level that they should be doing more to catch the predators and less to incovenience the victims
The children. "Victims" and "children" are not synonymous.
If you buy a PC with no operating system, why would it be a problem that it came with "no drivers no restore disks"? Drivers for what OS? Restore disks that restored what?
Organising vigilantes into systematically taking the lives of people who have been entered into public sex offender registries is not a workable solution. You are coming off as slightly psychopathic, I'm sorry.
It is probably illegal to kill people on the sex offender registries. Also, committing murder is not a good way to prove your moral high ground. Please consider this before you act.
Save it for the crossburning, Adolf.
Slashdot is news for nerds. Nerds generally like LOTR.
Or that he describes the boot process as "... and now it's compiling the kernel ..."
Yes, 1200 new every day. That would perhaps be a significant part of the Lichtensteinian populace. What country are we talking about again?
And how else would you open source a programming language? You're saying that they haven't open sourced the language specifications, but these are not composed out of source code, and there is thus no source to be opened. Do you want the specification process to become more open? In which manners?
Recruiting is an activity, yes. How would one passively recruit hackers? You keep using that word ...
Excellent point. Not to mention that Linux is so hard to use. Who will want a phone that requires you to type in "ls", "mkfs.ext3", and write SMS messages with "ed" while you're trying to get XFree86 running with the right drivers after upgrading from Slackware 3? This is dead-on-arrival, sorry.
No, you don't automatically break laws if you have certain attractions.
I'd like to add a an item to your list of suggestions:
4) It's free software. Set up your own damn LJ (with blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the LJ!).
The connection of popularity to license is vacuous. I'm sure MySQL was more popular than PostgreSQL even back when it was a proprietary, non-free, non-GPL, binary-only product. There are countless aspects which explain its popularity better than its licensing.
Eclipse has emacs keys support too, you insensitive clod.