This is the typical argument of conservative MPs and US Congressmen & Congresswomen who are in the pocket of the very corporations afraid of losing a few cents to free information and free speech. 'Piracy' is only a concern for the super-rich and power-hungry. The people just trying to make it in music and film most often encourage people to freely copy their work to get it in the TVs, phones, and MP3 players of more people. People should be glad that copyright is dying.
This seems to be a thread in which the OP included better suggestions than any of the commenters. Most people seem to be criticising the OP over something purely pedantic.
Having submitted that, I will admit that I can't find any better open-source CRMs other than what the OP posted.
It's not about bandwidth costing money in some cases. It's about unethical conduct on the part of an ISP. It's not unheard of for cable internet providers to cap bandwidth speeds on Netflix, Hulu, even YouTube. I wonder - could you use a proxy (it'd have to be a really fast one to be worth it) to hide your Netflix use from Comcast?
There will always be people who work. Ask the man who wins the lottery, but continues to work at his job. Ask a soldier, a cop, a musician, an artist. Even farmers and cooks, the good ones at least, work because it makes the world better.
Even when robotic alternatives are available: People will always want to eat food produced by people. People will always prefer learning from a real master. People will always want to hear real, human musicians playing real instruments. People will always want to drive a car/boat/plane themselves without autopilot engaged. Weavers will always weave, artists will always make art, writers will always write (even now, some still prefer writing novels long-hand). I think the big difference will be that a person who possesses great idea as well as talent, but lacks in funds, won't be at such a disadvantage.
The truly great thing would not be that we won't have to work. It's that people who only work for money will no longer be in the way of people who want to work for work's sake. It would be GREAT to not have to have a job in order to work.
Most minimum wage workers are not teenagers. The majority of minwage earners are adults who, for a host of reasons, can't find a better gig, and some even have to support a family with it. This means working a minimum of 60 hours/week just to pay rent. I think some, if not all, states allow for this demographics to qualify for welfare income assistance. It has to be a living wage because a person's value is not their job description. That's why the prospect of burger flipper getting the same pay as a paramedic or a rookie cop (around $15/hr) is 100% O.K. with me.
We're going to need a different kind of economy anyway. It's true that there isn't enough automation for universal welfare, there may be one day and not so far off. In that day maybe people will finally realise that their "fiat" currency is nothing more than arbitrary numbers arrived at by the arbitrary application of arbitrary formulae.
If a rumour can cause something to loose $200 thousand-million in value, it wasn't really worth that much in the first place. When are people going to get that stock values are IMAGINARY? Beer - there's something of real, intrinsic value!
... yet it has also been shown that there is a correlation of lower rates of colon cancer as well as lower occurrences of Alzheimer's in people who drink around 6 cups/day. I think they need more data including a quantitative analyses of the results of the 6-cup study as backdrop for this (4-cup study). My guess: it evens out and doesn't matter.
If you're going to go so far as disabling js, just use lynx on a *nix account like sdf.org or something.
I agree that people should trust Windows with any private information. However, hardly a web site in existence functions at all without javascript. TOR will make itself irrelevant if it doesn't function with javascript. And anyway, js is client-side. There ought to be plugins that cause the browser to ask for explicit permission to allow asynchronous communications on a case-by-case basis. Disabling js is overkill.
The value of software is better measured by how many people use it, what kinds of people use it, and what it's used for.
The stock market is for people who like to play with money; has little to do with real-world values. They don't care what they are trading, so long as it has an arbitrarily assumed monetary value - a value that is meaningless to the operation of the software. When one sheep starts bleating and runs away all the other sheep follow. That's what the stock market is: people behaving like sheep.
I can't speak for all, but this Linux user is 100% satisfied with the offerings of OpenOffice and Libre Office. I've had no need for Microsoft Office in the last ten years. Don't own it, don't plan to.
One is a professional, high-powered, flexible, IDE for developers of high-quality code in almost any platform and language. The other is a Microsoft product.:P
It isn't just in the dev community. Some of Torvalds's public statements have hurt the reputation of his OS. Be better, Linus. I love Linux, but you're a jerk.
I'm pro marriage equality, but I really don't care what Card's politics are except that I don't agree with him. Most of my heroes in the creative arts had something I disagreed with/just didn't like. A lot of composers were total loons, but I love their music. He's an author and it's a good story. I'll probably go see the movie, and I'll probably like it.
Using privacy software is beyond the abilities (foremost of required abilities being patience) of the average American. Those of us working in technology will probably take a few basic measures. It would be great if PGP were to become more viable and https were more prevalent.
To most people, looking out for their privacy means editing their Facebook profile settings and deleting contact and location information. They'll do that, and be comforted by their cosy, false sense of security.
For more than ten years, I've used desktop linux for everything professional. For a handful of games I can count on one hand, I've had to boot up Windows. I was happy with Windows 7, then strangely, I started getting blue screens roughly coinciding with the release of Windows 8 -- I'm jovially suspicious of that. Then Steam for Linux was released this year, and my Windows OS hasn't seen the light of day.
For me, the year of Desktop Linux started sometime around 2002/2003, came into its own in 2005, and completely blew Windows away in 2012/2013.
For actual work and play I use Linux. Everything works best on it.
Every now and then I boot into the whatever Windows distro that I have installed or is on a friend/relative's pc and give it a spin. And I've always ended up disappointed.
I think the world governments have reason to be terrified about this; it could eventually supplant certain people's need for currency, given the right circumstances. That would be bad for our greedy corporately-owned governments.
I would hope that the advent of the 3d printer ushers in an era in which useful building supplies supplant useless fiat currency. Then it doesn't matter if you know how to mnufacture your own building supplies - they're still useful. There would be no such thing as 'counterfeit' currency except for imitation building materials that are of poorer quality than they may have claimed. Eh - it probably wouldn't work, but it would make a helluvalot more sense than the USD/GBP/Euro/Yen/etc which derive value from a load of useless-to-people-in-the-real-world fomulae and artificial currency manipulation.
This could be a good thing. By acknowledging the impotence of current copyright law and the futility of current ideas about intellectual property, this could represent a much-needed shift in the way we deal with public domain and copyright. One day, everybody will realise that their most precious commodity is an idea, and that it's an ethical dilemma to make a profit from an idea that could bring happiness to people or even save someone's life.
Could some of this software run on a Linux system using CrossOver or Wine? If so, that seems the perfect long temporary solution (temporary until they find and implement a native Linux solution).
Silverlight was an horrific attempt to imitate an already dying technology: Flash. I'm sorry, but anyone who invested time & money into Silverlight did not do one's homework. It was only ever a transitional technology, destined to be replaced by HTML5. Overall, it was basically flash, but slower, less cross-platform compatible, and generally less reliable. Flash for.net addicts. Thank god they're both on their way out.
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Seriously disappointing. If anybody needs me, I'll be using Gopher.
This is the typical argument of conservative MPs and US Congressmen & Congresswomen who are in the pocket of the very corporations afraid of losing a few cents to free information and free speech. 'Piracy' is only a concern for the super-rich and power-hungry. The people just trying to make it in music and film most often encourage people to freely copy their work to get it in the TVs, phones, and MP3 players of more people. People should be glad that copyright is dying.
This seems to be a thread in which the OP included better suggestions than any of the commenters. Most people seem to be criticising the OP over something purely pedantic. Having submitted that, I will admit that I can't find any better open-source CRMs other than what the OP posted.
Because the Motion Picture Association of America are totally unbiased when it comes to interpretation of intellectual property law.
It's not about bandwidth costing money in some cases. It's about unethical conduct on the part of an ISP. It's not unheard of for cable internet providers to cap bandwidth speeds on Netflix, Hulu, even YouTube. I wonder - could you use a proxy (it'd have to be a really fast one to be worth it) to hide your Netflix use from Comcast?
There will always be people who work. Ask the man who wins the lottery, but continues to work at his job. Ask a soldier, a cop, a musician, an artist. Even farmers and cooks, the good ones at least, work because it makes the world better. Even when robotic alternatives are available: People will always want to eat food produced by people. People will always prefer learning from a real master. People will always want to hear real, human musicians playing real instruments. People will always want to drive a car/boat/plane themselves without autopilot engaged. Weavers will always weave, artists will always make art, writers will always write (even now, some still prefer writing novels long-hand). I think the big difference will be that a person who possesses great idea as well as talent, but lacks in funds, won't be at such a disadvantage. The truly great thing would not be that we won't have to work. It's that people who only work for money will no longer be in the way of people who want to work for work's sake. It would be GREAT to not have to have a job in order to work.
Most minimum wage workers are not teenagers. The majority of minwage earners are adults who, for a host of reasons, can't find a better gig, and some even have to support a family with it. This means working a minimum of 60 hours/week just to pay rent. I think some, if not all, states allow for this demographics to qualify for welfare income assistance. It has to be a living wage because a person's value is not their job description. That's why the prospect of burger flipper getting the same pay as a paramedic or a rookie cop (around $15/hr) is 100% O.K. with me. We're going to need a different kind of economy anyway. It's true that there isn't enough automation for universal welfare, there may be one day and not so far off. In that day maybe people will finally realise that their "fiat" currency is nothing more than arbitrary numbers arrived at by the arbitrary application of arbitrary formulae.
If a rumour can cause something to loose $200 thousand-million in value, it wasn't really worth that much in the first place. When are people going to get that stock values are IMAGINARY? Beer - there's something of real, intrinsic value!
I refuse to pay $10/ticket to watch a two-hour-long commercial for Apple.
... yet it has also been shown that there is a correlation of lower rates of colon cancer as well as lower occurrences of Alzheimer's in people who drink around 6 cups/day. I think they need more data including a quantitative analyses of the results of the 6-cup study as backdrop for this (4-cup study). My guess: it evens out and doesn't matter.
If you're going to go so far as disabling js, just use lynx on a *nix account like sdf.org or something. I agree that people should trust Windows with any private information. However, hardly a web site in existence functions at all without javascript. TOR will make itself irrelevant if it doesn't function with javascript. And anyway, js is client-side. There ought to be plugins that cause the browser to ask for explicit permission to allow asynchronous communications on a case-by-case basis. Disabling js is overkill.
The value of software is better measured by how many people use it, what kinds of people use it, and what it's used for. The stock market is for people who like to play with money; has little to do with real-world values. They don't care what they are trading, so long as it has an arbitrarily assumed monetary value - a value that is meaningless to the operation of the software. When one sheep starts bleating and runs away all the other sheep follow. That's what the stock market is: people behaving like sheep.
I can't speak for all, but this Linux user is 100% satisfied with the offerings of OpenOffice and Libre Office. I've had no need for Microsoft Office in the last ten years. Don't own it, don't plan to.
One is a professional, high-powered, flexible, IDE for developers of high-quality code in almost any platform and language. The other is a Microsoft product. :P
It isn't just in the dev community. Some of Torvalds's public statements have hurt the reputation of his OS. Be better, Linus. I love Linux, but you're a jerk.
I'm pro marriage equality, but I really don't care what Card's politics are except that I don't agree with him. Most of my heroes in the creative arts had something I disagreed with/just didn't like. A lot of composers were total loons, but I love their music. He's an author and it's a good story. I'll probably go see the movie, and I'll probably like it.
Using privacy software is beyond the abilities (foremost of required abilities being patience) of the average American. Those of us working in technology will probably take a few basic measures. It would be great if PGP were to become more viable and https were more prevalent. To most people, looking out for their privacy means editing their Facebook profile settings and deleting contact and location information. They'll do that, and be comforted by their cosy, false sense of security.
MetaARPA members of SDF have access to tt-rss, and SDF is worth supporting: http://sdf.org/?join#meta
For more than ten years, I've used desktop linux for everything professional. For a handful of games I can count on one hand, I've had to boot up Windows. I was happy with Windows 7, then strangely, I started getting blue screens roughly coinciding with the release of Windows 8 -- I'm jovially suspicious of that. Then Steam for Linux was released this year, and my Windows OS hasn't seen the light of day. For me, the year of Desktop Linux started sometime around 2002/2003, came into its own in 2005, and completely blew Windows away in 2012/2013.
For actual work and play I use Linux. Everything works best on it. Every now and then I boot into the whatever Windows distro that I have installed or is on a friend/relative's pc and give it a spin. And I've always ended up disappointed.
I think the world governments have reason to be terrified about this; it could eventually supplant certain people's need for currency, given the right circumstances. That would be bad for our greedy corporately-owned governments. I would hope that the advent of the 3d printer ushers in an era in which useful building supplies supplant useless fiat currency. Then it doesn't matter if you know how to mnufacture your own building supplies - they're still useful. There would be no such thing as 'counterfeit' currency except for imitation building materials that are of poorer quality than they may have claimed. Eh - it probably wouldn't work, but it would make a helluvalot more sense than the USD/GBP/Euro/Yen/etc which derive value from a load of useless-to-people-in-the-real-world fomulae and artificial currency manipulation.
This could be a good thing. By acknowledging the impotence of current copyright law and the futility of current ideas about intellectual property, this could represent a much-needed shift in the way we deal with public domain and copyright. One day, everybody will realise that their most precious commodity is an idea, and that it's an ethical dilemma to make a profit from an idea that could bring happiness to people or even save someone's life.
Could some of this software run on a Linux system using CrossOver or Wine? If so, that seems the perfect long temporary solution (temporary until they find and implement a native Linux solution).
Loads of open source jobs out there, one word: LAMP
Silverlight was an horrific attempt to imitate an already dying technology: Flash. I'm sorry, but anyone who invested time & money into Silverlight did not do one's homework. It was only ever a transitional technology, destined to be replaced by HTML5. Overall, it was basically flash, but slower, less cross-platform compatible, and generally less reliable. Flash for .net addicts. Thank god they're both on their way out.