The issue isn't the right to copy other people's work. What do you think the music industry does with every CD run? Making millions of copies! It's when and how making the copy is legal or not.
The issue is exactly the right to copy other people's work. The music industry can print CDs becuase the artists assign their rights to various record companies. They do not give them to Joe Smoe on the street. How are is that to understand for people?
But then, in order to protect innocent sleeping children from stray bullets, Big Brother will require manditory housing searches to find any illegal guns (which at that time would be all of them).
They're also charging alot more than, IMO, the music is worth.
You know, according to economic theory, if you pay for something you by definition, think it is worth at least what you payed for it, otherwise you wouldn't have paid for it.
Hey, all I'm saying is that resources which can be dedicated to helping Open Source software are limited. Do you want to spend you valuable time helping a company which is responsible for putting millions of dumb newbies on the net, shutting down the gnuella site; a company that could easily hire people to do some QA work, or someone who actually deserves your support who is resource constrained.
Me, I don't care either way, just some food for thought.
Even better....go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. There's a whole tracking system for reporting bugs on the browser, built with Open Source tools!
Yes, please, spend your valuable time doing free QA work for one of the largest companies in the world. After all, heaven knows they can't afford to hire their own QA people.
Last I checked you can get all of your "Civil War", "Frontline" and "Nova"-esque programs on the History Channel, A&E, TLC, etc.. all of which are for profit enterprises and don't need govt. money.
Maybe I'm just pissed about having my Dr. Who re-runs cancelled...
Unfortunately, the Iridium project will be looked at by future venture capitalists as evidence of failed non-governmental space ventures. It would be spectacular to get a small craft back to the moon. If we found the suspected ore-deposits there, rest assured, everyone and their mother would line up to get there.
Um, didn't you just contradict yourself in two sentences?
If there is money to be made, they'll get the birds up there. Iridium took a risk (or rather, their shareholders and creditors took a risk).. it didn't work out. Big deal, lots of stuff doesn't work out. Tons of software companies have come and gone, but that doesn't stop VCs from investing in them.
In fact, this Celeron will probably start life as the larger-cached version, and have half it's cache disabled (intentionally destroyed) to offer the customer an ILLUSION of having more choices.
What do you mean ILLUSION? They will have different amounts of working cache... sound different to me...
Does anyone think that Intel bean-counters really care about the OPTIMALITY of the product? No, they care about it's PROFITABILITY
Its hard to make a PROFIT if you are making bad PRODUCTS.
Intel just wants to produce a variety of chips to hit a lot of different price points... what's so wrong with that?
Give up your freedom to use Napster, Gnutella, DivX, which you seem to think is unimportant. Next thing you know certain books will disappear that aren't important, teachers won't be allowed to teach certain subjects because they're unimportant.
Bullshit. One doesn't follow the other in any local sense.
Typical whine #8... you may not like what I'm doing, but if you don't support it they will take away your freedom to! Right.
The only reason why they are doing this is to harness a phsycological principal that people don't like to waste things that they have. Therefore, some of them will use the AOL keys even if it means switching to AOL.
Man, I have to give everyone my new email address, resubscribe to all my mailing lists, and get a new ISP.. but thankfully I can now press that big shinny AOL button on my keyboard....
Hmm... I don't really think its going to work that way.
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The issue isn't the right to copy other people's work. What do you think the music industry does with every CD run? Making millions of copies! It's when and how making the copy is legal or not.
The issue is exactly the right to copy other people's work. The music industry can print CDs becuase the artists assign their rights to various record companies. They do not give them to Joe Smoe on the street. How are is that to understand for people?
Are you saying that we should protect the "right"
of a company to try an make money to the exclusion
of the rights of individuals
Sure.... if you show me where you have the "right" to copy other people's work.
Silly me, I thought the big idea was the theft is wrong.
. Just that there's more to life than computers, business, and pornography.
Yeah, like Guinness!
But then, in order to protect innocent sleeping children from stray bullets, Big Brother will require manditory housing searches to find any illegal guns (which at that time would be all of them).
Good, about fucking time.
It's got the BSD core that's been discussed before, along with Mach 3.0
Thanks to Mach 3.0's inovative microkerel design, I've gotten the closest shave ever!
They're also charging alot more than, IMO, the music is worth.
You know, according to economic theory, if you pay for something you by definition, think it is worth at least what you payed for it, otherwise you wouldn't have paid for it.
Hey, all I'm saying is that resources which can be dedicated to helping Open Source software are limited. Do you want to spend you valuable time helping a company which is responsible for putting millions of dumb newbies on the net, shutting down the gnuella site; a company that could easily hire people to do some QA work, or someone who actually deserves your support who is resource constrained.
Me, I don't care either way, just some food for thought.
Even better....go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. There's a whole tracking system for reporting bugs on the browser, built with Open Source tools!
Yes, please, spend your valuable time doing free QA work for one of the largest companies in the world. After all, heaven knows they can't afford to hire their own QA people.
I think information wants to be bundled up and sold to the highest bidder.
You left out the bit about them having to give back their analog broadcast licenses, which the FCC is going to turn around and auction off....
Last I checked you can get all of your "Civil War", "Frontline" and "Nova"-esque programs on the History Channel, A&E, TLC, etc.. all of which are for profit enterprises and don't need govt. money.
Maybe I'm just pissed about having my Dr. Who re-runs cancelled...
Good, if taxpayer funding is such a small portion of their budget they shouldn't miss it then.
I mean really, there are at last count, what, 6.02 X 10^23 TV channels out there. Does the government need to subsudize TV?
But I bet Ultima IX still runs like crap on it.
Where did NT start at?
Version 3.1, because it had the same UI as Windows 3.1.
PBS generally does a good job
If you can get past the liberal propaganda and PC nature of their programs, yes they are generally well done.
Still PBS's time has come and gone... what a waste of my tax money, a big freakin' ad for a failed company.
Be has basically NO printer support what-so-ever which knocks it out of the "Operating System Contender Category" let's call it the OSCC ...
Of course, we all know what happened that fateful day when RMS couldn't get a printer driver....
Unfortunately, the Iridium project will be looked at by future venture capitalists as evidence of failed non-governmental space ventures.
It would be spectacular to get a small craft back to the moon. If we found the suspected ore-deposits there, rest assured, everyone and their mother would line up to get there.
Um, didn't you just contradict yourself in two sentences?
If there is money to be made, they'll get the birds up there. Iridium took a risk (or rather, their shareholders and creditors took a risk).. it didn't work out. Big deal, lots of stuff doesn't work out. Tons of software companies have come and gone, but that doesn't stop VCs from investing in them.
In fact, this Celeron will probably start life as the larger-cached version, and have half it's cache disabled (intentionally destroyed) to offer the customer an ILLUSION of having more choices.
What do you mean ILLUSION? They will have different amounts of working cache... sound different to me...
Does anyone think that Intel bean-counters really care about the OPTIMALITY of the product? No, they care about it's PROFITABILITY
Its hard to make a PROFIT if you are making bad PRODUCTS.
Intel just wants to produce a variety of chips to hit a lot of different price points... what's so wrong with that?
I haven't hear much about Linux production environments getting hammered by any of the Big Five during year-end IT audits
Wrong kind of auditing.
Who cares? Can you read it? Then its good enough.
Damn, I bet you are the designated driver at parties too...
Give up your freedom to use Napster, Gnutella, DivX, which you seem to think is unimportant. Next thing you know certain books will disappear that aren't important, teachers won't be allowed to teach certain subjects because they're unimportant.
Bullshit. One doesn't follow the other in any local sense.
Typical whine #8... you may not like what I'm doing, but if you don't support it they will take away your freedom to! Right.
I would much rather have a system where I have some say in the outcome
You do. If you want to know what the public thinks of a movie, look at the box office receipts.
Maybe I should sue Slashdot for every AC that's said something about the quality of my writing.
I was under the impression you can't sue someone for stating the truth.
Does Microsoft scare you?
No.
The only reason why they are doing this is to harness a phsycological principal that people don't like to waste things that they have. Therefore, some of them will use the AOL keys even if it means switching to AOL.
Man, I have to give everyone my new email address, resubscribe to all my mailing lists, and get a new ISP.. but thankfully I can now press that big shinny AOL button on my keyboard....
Hmm... I don't really think its going to work that way.