can you give some sources to evidence backing up your statement? I don't think it's impossible that "the church" destroyed some records but I've never heard that they destroyed historical records en-masse. If anything I think that the clergy were amongst the few literates during the dark ages. From books I've read I've seen a lot of records coming from clerical sources.
But that probably means that they weren't "interesting times".
The reason there's not much information is because not a lot could be recorded due to illiteracy etc., not because the times weren't interesting. I admit that what you may find interesting or not is a personal question but I think it's safe to say that the "dark ages" were not uninteresting from a historians point of view.
History is a difficult business without contemporary written records.
I think that one of his points is that lack of information about a "dark age" is by the lack of written records, which were caused partially by illiteracy.
Kinda like a car manufacturer realizing there's something wrong with the seatbelts in a certain model and only offering replacements to those who agree to never buy another brand car.(I know the analogy is a bit flawed in the sense that it is too extreme, but still there's some validity in it)
Except that no-one is going to open your box on-site
Not true, at my university there burglars have taken components like RAM from pcs. One thing about burglars is that they don't like to lug around heavy stuff, they go for the most value/weight ratio.
Call me what you will (a troll, probably), but am I the only one here noticing how people are equating the legitimacy of AudioGalaxy with the end of its usefulness?
This has nothing to do with legitimacy, it was never determined in a court of law that AG was illegal. It has everything to do with RIAA throwing money around to get it's way. Don't make the mistake of thinking that RIAA's view are the view of the law (although you could argue that money is the law etc. etc.).
There may be people that do that but there's some additional downsides to doing so; the quality sucks if you would convert from 128kb or lower mp3's, it's alright if it's for some party mix but if it's meant to really listen to you're gonna want the higher quality, secondly I think that a lot of people actually want to support the artists they like.
No matter what happens over the next 20+ years we will require industry to produce and transport the consumer goods we can no longer live without.
Subsequently, we will need factories and low labor cost countries to produce our 'necessities'. Germany cut emissions? Guess what? It moved to China/Malaysia/Eastern European States, etc.
Sad but true. Actually this is one of the reasons I don't think subsidy for farmers is such a bad thing (for the time being, in the long run a better solution has to be found). In Europe farmers have to obey very strict environmental laws but thanks to the "free market" their products have to compete against products from countries where there aren't any strict environmental laws.
Richard might want to consider the fact that developing new software is extremely expensive. He's very proud of the collection of free software, but that's a collection of reimplementations, but no profoundly new ideas or products. Free software is very cool, it's useful, I use it, and I'm grateful, but it has one big problem. What if the free software model simply can't support the costs of developing new ideas? Realize that for every good new idea that you hear about, there are at least a 100 that were funded, developed, and failed before you ever saw them. The naive reaction is "well, they were stupid". That's nonsense, history has shown over and over that we find new ideas amongst the insight we gain by building the bad ideas. Without doing that, we don't learn what was bad and we don't recognize what is good. So the problem is that all those bad development projects cost a lot of money. Does free software generate that kind of money? Not a chance. Go look at the software R&D budgets for Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc. You can take all the free software revenue in the world and it doesn't begin to make a dent in what those guys spend, let alone what they earn.
Well, Linus may be the role-model or not, as a role model he is under no moral obligation from anyone to use software that is licensed under some specific license. Furthermore, real role-models might have some moral obligation from society to set the right example for what is right etc. etc. However RMS' views on what is right aren't neccesarily part of common societal views of right/wrong per se. It is not like Linus is peddling drugs to children or anything like that. He is making a choice about the software he wants to use.
weird thing is that in mozilla it says something like "connecting to wwww.kartoo.com...." (notice the four w's) in the status bar when it's searching. After that it fails. Never seen four w's before in an address like that.
the essence of carpal tunnel syndrome is that the nerves in the carpal tunnel become irritated. Repetitive motion should be alright as long as the carpal tunnel isn't too tight around the nerves. However when the nerves are jammed (by awkward hand-positions etc.) then the nerves are prone to irritation. So it's not only repetitive motion alone that causes cts.
I've suffered from cts but am doing alright now. I use split keyboards and have learnt to type with all ten fingers. I think that the thing that most helped me is to relax every now and then and above all, good sleep. I find that when I am tense in my sleep I get pain in my hands a lot quicker because my muscles are more tense from the night.
However, does that mean that every unnoticed miscarrage of a 4-week old embryo is as tragic as an adult death?
If you die and no-one would notice would it matter? That's the question you're asking. I think it would matter but it probably wouldn't affect my life in any way.
I know that there's some common ground between windows explorer end internet explorer. But it seems to me that all the html rendering stuff belongs to ie and that that could at least be removed/disabled.
man, gnutella seriously sucks comopared to kazaa. The searches aren't as good because of scale problems. The downloading is also not as good in Kazaa because you can't have multiple sources. On top of that Gnutella is a terrible bandwidth hog, I read that for a simple search of one word or something and a couple of peers around 5MB of data is sent around. Now how efficient is that?
This is not about copyright laws, this is about injustice. However you might feel about Kazaa doesn't change the fact that they claim not to violate any copyright law, so they must be presumed innocent until found guilty by court of law. The reason they are folding is not because they admit they are guilty, but because they cannot afford to pay for al the legal costs of lawsuits. It is really sad that in this case someone with a lot of money can prssure someone poorer in not having an honest court of law. It's really the law of the jungle, nothing new of course but still sad to see.
So how much money did it cost to research the concept of a pop-under ad? Did they spend years in developing and perfecting the concept? What a load of crap. Someone should patent reasonable thinking in patent offices, there sure doesn't seem to be much prior art.
Why is it that restarting a Mac to solve a problem is alright whilst everyone starts deriding MS because windows has got to be restarted every once in a while?
Apple invented Plug & Play and NO ONE has yet to match it.
Yeah well, that's not too hard on a closed hardware/software platform.
I'm not a big fan of MS although I think that windows 2000 is a reasonable OS, (far from perfect but quite usable nevertheless) I just don't like Macs. IMO the day where Mac users could ridicule MS users are long-gone. OSX doesn't change anything either IMO.
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can you give some sources to evidence backing up your statement? I don't think it's impossible that "the church" destroyed some records but I've never heard that they destroyed historical records en-masse. If anything I think that the clergy were amongst the few literates during the dark ages. From books I've read I've seen a lot of records coming from clerical sources.
Kinda like a car manufacturer realizing there's something wrong with the seatbelts in a certain model and only offering replacements to those who agree to never buy another brand car.(I know the analogy is a bit flawed in the sense that it is too extreme, but still there's some validity in it)
You honestly think they didn't know about that?
Don't give spammers any ideas dude.
Not true, at my university there burglars have taken components like RAM from pcs. One thing about burglars is that they don't like to lug around heavy stuff, they go for the most value/weight ratio.
This has nothing to do with legitimacy, it was never determined in a court of law that AG was illegal. It has everything to do with RIAA throwing money around to get it's way. Don't make the mistake of thinking that RIAA's view are the view of the law (although you could argue that money is the law etc. etc.).
There may be people that do that but there's some additional downsides to doing so; the quality sucks if you would convert from 128kb or lower mp3's, it's alright if it's for some party mix but if it's meant to really listen to you're gonna want the higher quality, secondly I think that a lot of people actually want to support the artists they like.
free market == good servant & bad master
Uhhh,
The paper to which you link is about rail-road crossing incidents, not about de-railing trains.
I figure that they may be concerned about the spread of anti-semitism via internet.
Sad but true. Actually this is one of the reasons I don't think subsidy for farmers is such a bad thing (for the time being, in the long run a better solution has to be found). In Europe farmers have to obey very strict environmental laws but thanks to the "free market" their products have to compete against products from countries where there aren't any strict environmental laws.
From the article:
Richard might want to consider the fact that developing new software is extremely expensive. He's very proud of the collection of free software, but that's a collection of reimplementations, but no profoundly new ideas or products. Free software is very cool, it's useful, I use it, and I'm grateful, but it has one big problem. What if the free software model simply can't support the costs of developing new ideas? Realize that for every good new idea that you hear about, there are at least a 100 that were funded, developed, and failed before you ever saw them. The naive reaction is "well, they were stupid". That's nonsense, history has shown over and over that we find new ideas amongst the insight we gain by building the bad ideas. Without doing that, we don't learn what was bad and we don't recognize what is good. So the problem is that all those bad development projects cost a lot of money. Does free software generate that kind of money? Not a chance. Go look at the software R&D budgets for Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc. You can take all the free software revenue in the world and it doesn't begin to make a dent in what those guys spend, let alone what they earn.
These kind of things worry me a bit. Since when is there a moral obligation to never, ever use any software that's not free?
Well, Linus may be the role-model or not, as a role model he is under no moral obligation from anyone to use software that is licensed under some specific license. Furthermore, real role-models might have some moral obligation from society to set the right example for what is right etc. etc. However RMS' views on what is right aren't neccesarily part of common societal views of right/wrong per se. It is not like Linus is peddling drugs to children or anything like that. He is making a choice about the software he wants to use.
weird thing is that in mozilla it says something like "connecting to wwww.kartoo.com...." (notice the four w's) in the status bar when it's searching. After that it fails. Never seen four w's before in an address like that.
the essence of carpal tunnel syndrome is that the nerves in the carpal tunnel become irritated. Repetitive motion should be alright as long as the carpal tunnel isn't too tight around the nerves. However when the nerves are jammed (by awkward hand-positions etc.) then the nerves are prone to irritation. So it's not only repetitive motion alone that causes cts.
I've suffered from cts but am doing alright now. I use split keyboards and have learnt to type with all ten fingers. I think that the thing that most helped me is to relax every now and then and above all, good sleep. I find that when I am tense in my sleep I get pain in my hands a lot quicker because my muscles are more tense from the night.
If you die and no-one would notice would it matter? That's the question you're asking. I think it would matter but it probably wouldn't affect my life in any way.
I know that there's some common ground between windows explorer end internet explorer. But it seems to me that all the html rendering stuff belongs to ie and that that could at least be removed/disabled.
man, gnutella seriously sucks comopared to kazaa. The searches aren't as good because of scale problems. The downloading is also not as good in Kazaa because you can't have multiple sources. On top of that Gnutella is a terrible bandwidth hog, I read that for a simple search of one word or something and a couple of peers around 5MB of data is sent around. Now how efficient is that?
I can add to this that Kazaa was found *not guilty* of violating copyright law in a Dutch court of law.
This is not about copyright laws, this is about injustice. However you might feel about Kazaa doesn't change the fact that they claim not to violate any copyright law, so they must be presumed innocent until found guilty by court of law. The reason they are folding is not because they admit they are guilty, but because they cannot afford to pay for al the legal costs of lawsuits. It is really sad that in this case someone with a lot of money can prssure someone poorer in not having an honest court of law. It's really the law of the jungle, nothing new of course but still sad to see.
So how much money did it cost to research the concept of a pop-under ad? Did they spend years in developing and perfecting the concept? What a load of crap. Someone should patent reasonable thinking in patent offices, there sure doesn't seem to be much prior art.
Why is it that restarting a Mac to solve a problem is alright whilst everyone starts deriding MS because windows has got to be restarted every once in a while?
Yeah well, that's not too hard on a closed hardware/software platform.
I'm not a big fan of MS although I think that windows 2000 is a reasonable OS, (far from perfect but quite usable nevertheless) I just don't like Macs. IMO the day where Mac users could ridicule MS users are long-gone. OSX doesn't change anything either IMO.