How about MS-Linux? Microsoft could TAKE Linux and turn it into a proprietary product. Most people would assume that Microsoft originated the PRODUCT and buy their version.
Most of the articles about free software and Linux talk about the danger of fragmentation. Fragmentation is not a big problem with GPL. But with a proprietary product it would be.
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He's a cool guy too!
Find out why Neal Stephenson Loves Linux. Check out the interview on amazon.com.
They already can monitor any cell phone conversation and triangulate position in less than five minutes anyway.
You mean it is possible to do this, but of course it is not legal to do this. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen and it doesn't mean you should blindly accept it!
most people are unbelievably boring. How do you know? Have you been listening? I think maybe you have.
It is simply not practical... for the government to monitor over 270,000 people. Really? Sounds simple to me. Do you know this is not possible? Most of the system is almost there now. If it was all automated then why not. How do you think all those people get their bill and should we accept it?
Don't give them a reason to watch you, and they won't. That is really funny! I guess your one of those people who think that if you are truly innocent you wont be convicted. Have fun with your rude awakening. Why don't you go to the EFFs web page a look around at what has been happening for the last few decades. www.eff.org
Remember he is probably the most responsible for you having that PC in front of you. Ha You freakish lazy-eyed bastard. Only a suck up Microsofty would believe that crap. I guess Bill also is responsible for the internet and spell checking. Did IBM build a PC and try to get CP/M on it? Yes they did! Look at what Steve Jobs did with 128k of memory in 1984 and then talk to me about Billy. Bill Gate deserves to be known as the person who sold crap as face-cream. He lost any redeeming quality day two of Microsoft.
Remember that astronaut in 2001 that HAL kills with the pod? Frank Poole. Well they find him a thousand years later. He is just about to pass beyond Pluto and the solar system when they grab him. With 31st century technology... they revive him.
Great Book 3001 the Final Odyssey
Arthur C Clarke as always sticks a lot of new science into it. He comes up with a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society in june 1994 called: Machine Intelligence, The Cost of Interstellar Travel and Fermi's Paradox. They estimate that the total mental state of a one-hundred year old human with a perfect memory could be represented by ten to the fifteenth bits (one petabit).
Could it be that Librarians want there to always be local discretion, rather than an anything-goes free-for-all?
Does the article say anything about local discretion? Isn't this whole thing about a law that has to be enforced? This didn't start with someone suing because they couldn't find Hustler! It started because Librarians have a problem with censorship!
As with anything... Who Decides? What about a graphic on doing a breast exam? ban or not? An article on STD's? Ban or not? How about a book? Any book? They don't come with raitings ya know! Librarians are pissed about this. They have a long history of fighting censorship. I have seen a lot of library displays on banned books. They consider it a badge of honor that they fought for years to overcome.
You know the Republicans are still pissed over the book "Origin of Species". Should we let them ban that?
Didn't you see the product placement scenes in Waynes World? It's part of the gag. At least Mike Myers makes them funny! Damm you are sooooooo uptight!
I remember the day I heard about something called a CD that would have 650 Megabytes on it! Ha Ha I thought you could never use that much. Never thought you would be able to write to one. Now I'm pissed because it takes so many to back my drive up to.
It is up to each one of us to make the decision on what software to use and what software to avoid. Back just a few months ago as Red Hat dropped Metro-X and all non-free software, they had to decide what to do with KDE. Since at the time KDE was GPL but the Qt toolkit wasn't Red Hat decided that this invalidated KDEs GPL.
They were right. It did!
A lot of people say "Who cares!", and "We need a fancy desktop like KDE if we are going to compete with Windows." So they stayed with KDE and the rest of us, including Red Hat, went to Gnome. They went with Gnome knowing that it would take longer to make it stable. So now every KDE supporter compares KDE 1.2 to Gnome 1.0. They talk about Gnome being a waste of time. They even bring racism into it. I think that building the GUI and toolkit from the ground up is a better idea for the Free Software culture in the long run. Red Hat made the decision to support Gnome at a time when KDE looked like the way to go. They did it because only FREE would do.
I have tried posting stories about BeOS( I feel that it is a wonderful technology that many nerds would love if they get exposed to it) However none of the stories I have submitted have been posted, hence my assertion that this is Linux news site, not a "News for Nerds" site.
We do not have a bias against BeOS because it is not Linux, but because it its a closed source product. I get mail from Mac sites all the time talking about a new "product" they have comming out. This is not news it is advertizing. Microsoft has a whole department that does nothing but produce "news"!
In the meantime, I'll wait around for Mozilla. Netscape suits me just fine at the moment. ditto!
Bullsh*t tell Netscape that Microsoft didn't dump software just to kill their stock prices.
If a good company goes out of business because everyone used their software but didn't pay, can you say nothing was taken? (and Netscape didn't even charge for private use just corporate)
Your using the fact that copying software is not bound by normal supply and demand to steal.
How about going to a movie for free..... is that stealing? The movie is still there? Just watch George Lucas stop making movies because he's not losing money.
Ok so you don't know anything about spam and the First Amendment. The first Amendment protects unpopular ideas not advertizing. You gonna tell me that ads are speech that need protection? The first amendment doesn't mean all's fair.
I'm bothered when I see websites, (including a certain Linux User Group) have a blue Internet ribbon on one side, and a "fight spam" on the other. To me, that sends a contradictory message. "I'm for free speech as long as I approve of it."
Please!! You mean that the ad for non-surgical lyposuction is an idea that needs protection? Do you see us complaining about an unpopular idea? Do you see us trying to get the microsoft web site closed down? No! We just want an end to advertizing where it prohibited!
The money spam causes is from the terabytes of advertizing floating arround usenet that each news server has to deal with. Why don't you keep that mail on you hard drive. Post I LIKE SPAM on a newsgroup and use your REAL e-mail address. See how long it takes for you to delete that!
Your advocating the use of rot-13 over PGP? Rot-13 is encryption, and so is that other stuff you came up with. If everyone who uses e-mail used PGP on everything, you would overload their machines quickly. That is why it is important to use PGP (or GPG) on all of your mail. Make sure your friends are well-versed in using it.
I don't know where your from but teachers here make 30 grand to start. Only the teachers trying to start out doing part time work get lower. That's pretty good. What school has classes 60 to 70 hrs a week? Do you mean teachers that teach sports? Those teachers get about 6000 for after school stuff. They also get pay raises on the basis of their education. Regardless of what they learn, the more degrees they have, the higher they are paid. BTW Teachers are union.
Does any other job have something as idiotic tenure?? Wow what a great concept, no matter what I do I can't get fired! Cool! That is where all of the money is going! It's going to teachers who have tenure! Don't pity teachers it's their union that keeps this crap going.
You might as well let them collect their info about you, since their giving the office suite away for nothing. Let them count the names of the people that use Linux. If you download the Windows version of SO use that fake data stuff.
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How about MS-Linux? Microsoft could TAKE Linux and turn it into a proprietary product. Most people would assume that Microsoft originated the PRODUCT and buy their version.
Most of the articles about free software and Linux talk about the danger of fragmentation. Fragmentation is not a big problem with GPL. But with a proprietary product it would be.
He's a cool guy too!
Find out why Neal Stephenson Loves Linux. Check out the interview on amazon.com.
They already can monitor any cell phone conversation and triangulate position in less than five minutes anyway.
You mean it is possible to do this, but of course it is not legal to do this. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen and it doesn't mean you should blindly accept it!
most people are unbelievably boring.
How do you know? Have you been listening? I think maybe you have.
It is simply not practical... for the government to monitor over 270,000 people.
Really? Sounds simple to me. Do you know this is not possible? Most of the system is almost there now. If it was all automated then why not. How do you think all those people get their bill and should we accept it?
Don't give them a reason to watch you, and they won't.
That is really funny! I guess your one of those people who think that if you are truly innocent you wont be convicted. Have fun with your rude awakening.
Why don't you go to the EFFs web page a look around at what has been happening for the last few decades.
www.eff.org
Remember he is probably the most responsible for you having that PC in front of you.
Ha You freakish lazy-eyed bastard.
Only a suck up Microsofty would believe that crap. I guess Bill also is responsible for the internet and spell checking. Did IBM build a PC and try to get CP/M on it? Yes they did! Look at what Steve Jobs did with 128k of memory in 1984 and then talk to me about Billy.
Bill Gate deserves to be known as the person who sold crap as face-cream. He lost any redeeming quality day two of Microsoft.
Remember that astronaut in 2001 that HAL kills with the pod? Frank Poole. Well they find him a thousand years later. He is just about to pass beyond Pluto and the solar system when they grab him. With 31st century technology... they revive him.
Great Book
3001 the Final Odyssey
Arthur C Clarke as always sticks a lot of new science into it. He comes up with a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society in june 1994 called: Machine Intelligence, The Cost of Interstellar Travel and Fermi's Paradox. They estimate that the total mental state of a one-hundred year old human with a perfect memory could be represented by ten to the fifteenth bits (one petabit).
Could it be that Librarians want there to always be local discretion, rather than an anything-goes free-for-all?
Does the article say anything about local discretion? Isn't this whole thing about a law that has to be enforced? This didn't start with someone suing because they couldn't find Hustler! It started because Librarians have a problem with censorship!
As with anything... Who Decides? What about a graphic on doing a breast exam? ban or not?
An article on STD's? Ban or not?
How about a book? Any book? They don't come with raitings ya know!
Librarians are pissed about this. They have a long history of fighting censorship. I have seen a lot of library displays on banned books. They consider it a badge of honor that they fought for years to overcome.
You know the Republicans are still pissed over the book "Origin of Species". Should we let them ban that?
I heard it wasn't the size of the brain but specialized cells (Gleel cells?) that produce some type of chemical that helps in concentration.
Gee miserable? Looks like a lowly G3 kepps up with a (super duper) Xeon!
Looks like you just proved their point!
That is something that is long overdue to die! ISA slots!
Ummmmmm DUH
Didn't you see the product placement scenes in Waynes World? It's part of the gag. At least Mike Myers makes them funny! Damm you are sooooooo uptight!
I remember the day I heard about something called a CD that would have 650 Megabytes on it! Ha Ha I thought you could never use that much. Never thought you would be able to write to one. Now I'm pissed because it takes so many to back my drive up to.
Maybe he actually thought he could hit the Microsoft campus. I could see the headline "XYZ virus destroys Windows 2000!".
Why not didn't Mitnick do the same to solaris?
It is up to each one of us to make the decision on what software to use and what software to avoid. Back just a few months ago as Red Hat dropped Metro-X and all non-free software, they had to decide what to do with KDE. Since at the time KDE was GPL but the Qt toolkit wasn't Red Hat decided that this invalidated KDEs GPL.
They were right. It did!
A lot of people say "Who cares!", and "We need a fancy desktop like KDE if we are going to compete with Windows." So they stayed with KDE and the rest of us, including Red Hat, went to Gnome. They went with Gnome knowing that it would take longer to make it stable.
So now every KDE supporter compares KDE 1.2 to Gnome 1.0. They talk about Gnome being a waste of time. They even bring racism into it.
I think that building the GUI and toolkit from the ground up is a better idea for the Free Software culture in the long run. Red Hat made the decision to support Gnome at a time when KDE looked like the way to go. They did it because only FREE would do.
Those guys sure do look cool. Kind of like beatnicks!
Hey dude, pass the jolt!
You know how I feel about it!
and I'll quit and join distributed.net - where they don't blame Linux users for their problems.
and where we are slowly catching up!
I have tried posting stories about BeOS( I feel that it is a wonderful technology that many nerds would love if they get exposed to it) However none of the stories I have submitted have been posted, hence my assertion that this is Linux news site, not a "News for Nerds" site.
We do not have a bias against BeOS because it is not Linux, but because it its a closed source product. I get mail from Mac sites all the time talking about a new "product" they have comming out. This is not news it is advertizing. Microsoft has a whole department that does nothing but produce "news"!
In the meantime, I'll wait around for Mozilla. Netscape suits me just fine at the moment. ditto!
Bullsh*t tell Netscape that Microsoft didn't dump software just to kill their stock prices.
If a good company goes out of business because everyone used their software but didn't pay, can you say nothing was taken? (and Netscape didn't even charge for private use just corporate)
Your using the fact that copying software is not bound by normal supply and demand to steal.
How about going to a movie for free..... is that stealing? The movie is still there? Just watch George Lucas stop making movies because he's not losing money.
Damm!
Even the people at Microsoft get to use Linux. Where I work I'm stuck using Windows NT!
Ok so you don't know anything about spam and the First Amendment. The first Amendment protects unpopular ideas not advertizing. You gonna tell me that ads are speech that need protection? The first amendment doesn't mean all's fair.
I'm bothered when I see websites, (including a certain Linux User Group) have a blue Internet ribbon on one side, and a "fight spam" on the other. To me, that sends a contradictory message. "I'm for free speech as long as I approve of it."
Please!! You mean that the ad for non-surgical lyposuction is an idea that needs protection? Do you see us complaining about an unpopular idea? Do you see us trying to get the microsoft web site closed down? No! We just want an end to advertizing where it prohibited!
The money spam causes is from the terabytes of advertizing floating arround usenet that each news server has to deal with. Why don't you keep that mail on you hard drive. Post I LIKE SPAM on a newsgroup and use your REAL e-mail address. See how long it takes for you to delete that!
Use FreeAmp
www.freeamp.org
Your advocating the use of rot-13 over PGP? Rot-13 is encryption, and so is that other stuff you came up with.
If everyone who uses e-mail used PGP on everything, you would overload their machines quickly. That is why it is important to use PGP (or GPG) on all of your mail. Make sure your friends are well-versed in using it.
I don't know where your from but teachers here make 30 grand to start. Only the teachers trying to start out doing part time work get lower. That's pretty good. What school has classes 60 to 70 hrs a week? Do you mean teachers that teach sports? Those teachers get about 6000 for after school stuff. They also get pay raises on the basis of their education. Regardless of what they learn, the more degrees they have, the higher they are paid. BTW Teachers are union.
Does any other job have something as idiotic tenure?? Wow what a great concept, no matter what I do I can't get fired! Cool! That is where all of the money is going! It's going to teachers who have tenure! Don't pity teachers it's their union that keeps this crap going.
Don't give me that poor teacher crap!
It's at least a valid as the MS EULA.
You might as well let them collect their info about you, since their giving the office suite away for nothing. Let them count the names of the people that use Linux. If you download the Windows version of SO use that fake data stuff.