I wasn't trying to be funny. I was trying to be insightful and prove your points - I thunk outside the square. I also made up a word - "thunk":-)
Anyway, that was before ctrl-c and ctrl-v. To cut it, I would have had to to mark the begining and end (with ctrl k-b and ctrl k-k iirc) and then paste with some other multi-key command. hehe - wordstar. not a bad wee text editor.
We're all kidding ourselves if we think that a small business, where the CEO, IT, Marketing and Maintenance are all the same humanoid, is going to save money with Linux instead of the standard Windowz/Office/QuickBooks kit
*ahem* I am most of the above for my Dad's and my organic market garden. All of the farm accounts are done in OpenOffice. Internet banking works fine in Netscape 7 (I haven't got round to installing Mozilla yet, but I have replaced StarOffice with OpenOffice - so I'm nearly 100% open & free.)
I've never used anything like quickbooks, myob or ms-money - I learnt how to be a spreadsheet wiz from my mother.
I don't know if we're saving money by not using windows. When I bought my computer in early 1995 it came with OS/2 warp (my choice, they charged the same as dos+win3.1 and it ran dos+win3.1, win95 was still a few months away.)
Would I have upgraded to 95/98/Me/2k/XP? I dunno. I have bought a boxed set of suse 6.3 and 7.0. I paid a cybercafe NZ$5 to d/l openoffice and burn onto CDR. I have upgraded the mobo/cpu/HD/vidcard once since 1995 - I would have done so regardless of OS. I upgraded to learn how to build a PC.
I guess I'm not Bob from Bob's hardware, but if Bob goes into partnership with his geeky son, then Bob's hardware will become another Linux/OpenOffice success story.
Secondly, phone systems just don't go down any more.
Bzzzt - wrong! I work in a call centre with multiple call queues. i.e. the person working beside me may be handling a different type of enquiry from what I handle. She has been trained on different product knowledge, and customers call a different number depending on the nature of their enquiry.
Sometimes the "queue goes down" and everyone answers all types of calls. It's chaotic and stuffs the customers around. Fortunately it happens once in a blue moon.
This has happened in every multi-queue call centre I've ever worked in, for different companies, with the call centre telephony equipment supplied by different telcos even.
I would've thought MS would want CDs with IE and OE to be spread around. I'm sure they'd prefer that to bluelight sending out Mozilla CDs.
If I bought bluelight from kmart and MS stoped me from sending out CDs with IE and OE I wouldn't mind at all. No OE among my subscribers means less helpdesk calls caused by worms and viruses.
When you call tech support, you find out none of the tech support staff has even heard of Linux and refuse to even talk to you.
I work for a telco in New Zealand. Tech support has two levels - those who answer the 0800 number in the call centre, who deal with the common problems (windows only), and those who deal with the technical problems. When you get put thru to the technical people you may strike a linux savy tech, or if unlucky you'll strike an MCSE moron.
I would encourage my government (New Zealand) to try to benefit New Zealanders first. If some other countries benefit on the side, that's okay as long as it's not at the expense of our own people. I wouldn't think any less of the US government using a license that favours its own people for research founded by its own people (tax payers). I would however, consider the US government hypocritical if it made any pretence of altruism while doing this.
If you happen to use Outlook. Back up address list to floppy. Remove floppy. Completely delete (with overwite utility) your Outlook address book. Install e-card viewer and read e-card. Remove the spy ware and restore address book from floppy.
This would comply with EULA completely - the EULA doesn't say the address book has to have entries.
If there was some magic technology that would allow me fair-use to my digital media yet not allow me to illegally distribute it, I would be all for it.
AFAIK that is what DRM tries to be, or claims to be, or claims to try to be.
In any case, the pushers of DRM will use your stated desire, which I have quoted above, to justify DRM.
When I really mean rm, I right-click in konq and choose shred. It only overwrites 35 times, I'd prefer 35,000 times to make sure the authorities can't recover the files.
Actually, it's a great idea. Assuming credit card companies want to play along. Credit card companies get hurt by the fraud aspect. OTOH credit card companies benefit from companies that make a lot of credit card transactions. As long as the sales are legit, Visa and co wouldn't care if spam was the means by which a company gets its sales.
Then again, maybe credit card companies are already using honeypot credit card numbers to catch fraudsters.
My gaw-juss wife and I got married on 13 April 2002, and our photographer was brilliant. I had already thought through all the issues raised in the article, so I shopped around. Some photographers were really anal retentave, so I voted with my chequebook. We found a photographer with the philosophy that he made all his profit on the day, and then handed over the goods, lock, stock and barrell. And they were good shots too.
The point is, ask around. Tell the prospective photographers that you want to hire their services for the day day and then get "the source". Some will tell you that it's just not done, and that no photographer in their right mind would agree. Then down the road you'll find one that says "no problem".
If you don't sort it out before the day - tough luck!
Actually, it is the inherent nature of information to not be constrained. eg if I tell you something, I can't make you forget. "Want" in this context does not refer to concious desire (that would be an anthropomorphism).
And yes, most people want information to be free (speech/beer/birds of the air).
OS/2 Warp has the best x86 optimisations of any OS. IIRC I read somewhere that the way system calls are implemented uses some x86 feature not used by cross-platform OSes. Has anyone heard or read something similar?
Personally, I see it as if you don't like digital copyright, don't buy products that use it.
I'd gladly buy a computer that doesn't have DRM crippleware built-in. I hope I'll still be able to. I guess my next computer hardware purchase won't be imported from the USA then.
About time that git retired. I live in Christchurch and after hearing the same rant everytime I walk thru the square over several years the novelty wears off.
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BTW - my parents were actually so proud of my ingenuity they forgot I'd been naughty at school.
I wasn't trying to be funny. :-)
I was trying to be insightful and prove your points - I thunk outside the square.
I also made up a word - "thunk"
Anyway, that was before ctrl-c and ctrl-v.
To cut it, I would have had to to mark the begining and end (with ctrl k-b and ctrl k-k iirc)
and then paste with some other multi-key command.
hehe - wordstar. not a bad wee text editor.
The for-next loop was easier.
My first useful program was:
10 for i=1 to 500
20 lprint "I will not whatever naughty thing I did - can't remember what"
30 next
I had been told to write 500 lines as a punishment homework and I asked if I could type it.
The teacher said I could.
Bring your kids up with what you believe in. When they're young, they'll follow along and soak it up.
:-)
Absolutely correct. This is the only way religion can survive.
I soaked up my mother's atheism until I was 16, looked at the universe and realised there might be a God after all. Then I met Him.
The slashtrolls will probably ridicule my belief.
That's okay, my sig ridicules yours
We're all kidding ourselves if we think that a small business, where the CEO, IT, Marketing and Maintenance are all the same humanoid, is going to save money with Linux instead of the standard Windowz/Office/QuickBooks kit
*ahem* I am most of the above for my Dad's and my organic market garden.
All of the farm accounts are done in OpenOffice.
Internet banking works fine in Netscape 7 (I haven't got round to installing Mozilla yet, but I have replaced StarOffice with OpenOffice - so I'm nearly 100% open & free.)
I've never used anything like quickbooks, myob or ms-money - I learnt how to be a spreadsheet wiz from my mother.
I don't know if we're saving money by not using windows. When I bought my computer in early 1995 it came with OS/2 warp (my choice, they charged the same as dos+win3.1 and it ran dos+win3.1, win95 was still a few months away.)
Would I have upgraded to 95/98/Me/2k/XP? I dunno.
I have bought a boxed set of suse 6.3 and 7.0.
I paid a cybercafe NZ$5 to d/l openoffice and burn onto CDR.
I have upgraded the mobo/cpu/HD/vidcard once since 1995 - I would have done so regardless of OS. I upgraded to learn how to build a PC.
I guess I'm not Bob from Bob's hardware, but if Bob goes into partnership with his geeky son, then Bob's hardware will become another Linux/OpenOffice success story.
My wife required virtually nil training to adjust from Word on win98 to OpenOffice on kde.
I showed her the icon for OpenOffice, left the room and when I came back her document was already halfway out of the printer.
She had worked out how to do bold, underline centred text, different fonts and all that based on previous experience with Word.
The original question involves games and stuff, but for anyone wanting to do this with wordprocessing, email and web surfing, linux is ready.
My wife is not a techie and had no complaints about kde + OpenOffice.
Secondly, phone systems just don't go down any more.
Bzzzt - wrong! I work in a call centre with multiple call queues.
i.e. the person working beside me may be handling a different type of enquiry from what I handle.
She has been trained on different product knowledge, and customers call a different number depending on the nature of their enquiry.
Sometimes the "queue goes down" and everyone answers all types of calls. It's chaotic and stuffs the customers around.
Fortunately it happens once in a blue moon.
This has happened in every multi-queue call centre I've ever worked in, for different companies, with the call centre telephony equipment supplied by different telcos even.
The phones do go down.
Make sure you invest in training.
Even if you don't end up migrating, in which case get more training in the systems you use now.
I've seen some lousy IT due to lack of training.
My fav comment on the dutch site:
:-)
"Zware Sh#t is dit zeg"
(Zware = heavy, the next word is international
I would've thought MS would want CDs with IE and OE to be spread around. I'm sure they'd prefer that to bluelight sending out Mozilla CDs.
If I bought bluelight from kmart and MS stoped me from sending out CDs with IE and OE I wouldn't mind at all. No OE among my subscribers means less helpdesk calls caused by worms and viruses.
When you call tech support, you find out none of the tech support staff has even heard of Linux and refuse to even talk to you.
I work for a telco in New Zealand.
Tech support has two levels - those who answer the 0800 number in the call centre, who deal with the common problems (windows only), and those who deal with the technical problems.
When you get put thru to the technical people you may strike a linux savy tech, or if unlucky you'll strike an MCSE moron.
I would encourage my government (New Zealand) to try to benefit New Zealanders first.
If some other countries benefit on the side, that's okay as long as it's not at the expense of our own people.
I wouldn't think any less of the US government using a license that favours its own people for research founded by its own people (tax payers).
I would however, consider the US government hypocritical if it made any pretence of altruism while doing this.
If you happen to use Outlook.
Back up address list to floppy.
Remove floppy.
Completely delete (with overwite utility) your Outlook address book.
Install e-card viewer and read e-card.
Remove the spy ware and restore address book from floppy.
This would comply with EULA completely - the EULA doesn't say the address book has to have entries.
So you're saying: The educated population of country A speaks better english than the general population of country B.
Hmmm.
BTW IANAAmerican
If there was some magic technology that would allow me fair-use to my digital media yet not allow me to illegally distribute it, I would be all for it.
AFAIK that is what DRM tries to be, or claims to be, or claims to try to be.
In any case, the pushers of DRM will use your stated desire, which I have quoted above, to justify DRM.
And we all know no one will go to the cinema to see the next LOTR movie, right?
AFAIK Weta Productions is not a member of the MPAA. There may be a MPNZ or something similar.
Weta Productions is Peter Jackson's New Zealand based studio.
There may be some American actors, but LOTR is not an American production.
Because a lot of us _mean_ rm when we type rm.
When I really mean rm, I right-click in konq and choose shred.
It only overwrites 35 times, I'd prefer 35,000 times to make sure the authorities can't recover the files.
Actually, it's a great idea.
Assuming credit card companies want to play along.
Credit card companies get hurt by the fraud aspect.
OTOH credit card companies benefit from companies that make a lot of credit card transactions. As long as the sales are legit, Visa and co wouldn't care if spam was the means by which a company gets its sales.
Then again, maybe credit card companies are already using honeypot credit card numbers to catch fraudsters.
My gaw-juss wife and I got married on 13 April 2002, and our photographer was brilliant.
I had already thought through all the issues raised in the article, so I shopped around.
Some photographers were really anal retentave, so I voted with my chequebook.
We found a photographer with the philosophy that he made all his profit on the day, and then handed over the goods, lock, stock and barrell.
And they were good shots too.
The point is, ask around. Tell the prospective photographers that you want to hire their services for the day day and then get "the source".
Some will tell you that it's just not done, and that no photographer in their right mind would agree.
Then down the road you'll find one that says "no problem".
If you don't sort it out before the day - tough luck!
Additions are welcome.
Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
(Just my personal taste)
"information wants to be free."
Actually, people want information to be free.
Actually, it is the inherent nature of information to not be constrained.
eg if I tell you something, I can't make you forget.
"Want" in this context does not refer to concious desire (that would be an anthropomorphism).
And yes, most people want information to be free (speech/beer/birds of the air).
OS/2 Warp has the best x86 optimisations of any OS. IIRC I read somewhere that the way system calls are implemented uses some x86 feature not used by cross-platform OSes.
Has anyone heard or read something similar?
Personally, I see it as if you don't like digital copyright, don't buy products that use it.
I'd gladly buy a computer that doesn't have DRM crippleware built-in. I hope I'll still be able to. I guess my next computer hardware purchase won't be imported from the USA then.
...is it even technically possible?
Theoretically, yes.
Except you'd need some optical recognition in the order of handwriting recognition.
Still, it's a fun story if you take it with a pinch of salt. I nearly fell for it myself.
About time that git retired. I live in Christchurch and after hearing the same rant everytime I walk thru the square over several years the novelty wears off.