This is a good thing because it provides incentive for the wealthy to work and reduces wealth condensation creating instability.
Actually, at a certain point, there is no incentive to work hard. With the current tax system, I'd almost say that there is a disincentive to work hard. Why build up something great if the government just takes most of it now, and all of it when you die?
Hey, fanboys! Before you get too far into yet another "OSS is the best!" argument, you have to realize that there are many, many, MANY other things that software does that OSS doesn't do yet.
Case in point... the main software that I need is point-of-sale. There is NO OSS point-of-sale software that is anywhere near as good as any of the closed source products.
Hell, there isn't even a good equivalent for Quickbooks/Peachtree that's OSS. It's absolutely mind-boggling that any small businesses could ever go completely open source WITH NO FINANCIAL SOFTWARE (Yes, I know about GNUCash: it's a joke).
Hell, we don't even use any office software at my business (text documents are done with Textpad).
So, while Open Office and Linux is nice and all, it only meets a fraction of common, every day business needs. (Unless you're a multi-billion dollar internation corporation, then you can just pay a team of people to write something OS, and not care if your competition uses it or not).
Oh, so my point is that these studies are ridiculous. The custom OSS software we would have to have written would have to be amortized over ~20 years in order to save us money. OSS is grossly more expensive for me than shirnk-wrapped products.
1. When you grow up, hopefully you'll learn that very few things in life and black and white. That's a fact of life. All we can all do is the best that we can.
2. You don't spend billions on "public relations". You spend billions on advertising. You've got to be an absolute idiot to give away billions of dollars for PR.
3. He IS doing it for altruistic reasons. Get over yourself.
You know, until I read this post, I had no idea what this thread was about. I haven't had cable/satellite/rabbit ear TV since the time when the "analog" cable boxes started dying out, and being replaced by "cable ready" TV's, when you plugged the coax straight into the TV (SO much better than those ugly boxes). I had no idea that this new "digital" cable went back to requiring those boxes. The idea that people would tolerate that was so absurd, that I didn't even think that it was a possiblity.
What are TV consumers thinking? Is what you're getting *really* worth putting up with that shit, never mind the monthly fee, and all of the advertisements?
Even if they DID have that... so what? I'm using an Broadcom chipset in a Dell computer. There. If they get legal power to kick in doors of everybody in town to check MAC addresses, then we've all got much bigger problems to worry about.
I'm still waiting for somebody to show up with some real evidence.
Ask anybody who works for a major backbone provider (Level 3 and such). There's really no question that porn is a HUGE driving force, at least online. Porn was the main driving force for ubiquitous broadband.
Well, who else is there to go with? You can spend twice as much (at least) and get hardware AND software lock-in by going with Apple. You can spend $0 on the software, and hire twice as many admins/trainers and go with Linux. What else is there? MS is still the cheapest, and the most open.
Well, if the rest of your iLife is made up of iApple iProducts, then you're used to opening your iWallet and paying out your iAss for everything they make anyway. This isn't going to be sticker shock for people used to buying their stuff, anyway.
Yeah, a "query" makes more sense. Or, you could say "data mining", "running some big, natsy joins", or "subselects" or whatever. Software people who don't know the difference between flat files and databases who do things like "SELECT * FROM TABLENAME" make me ill. I've seen database ignorance kill several software projects before (ie: People not familiar with how to properly use a database do things like SELECT * and don't use stored procedures, then wonder why their performance is so bad).
Actually, I have a BS in Biology with an emphasis in genetics. I did gel electrophoresis for 3 years. I know exactly what it means. I'm just making a point I can't really believe that there would be people stupid enough to do this.
What I find strange with this as news is that I thought this sort of thing was already routinely done in civilized nations.
Personally, I've never heard of any law enforcement agency that was smart enough to use email, never mind search through credit card databases. Think about this... how much Internet traffic is some kind of fraud... spam, or stock pumping or account stealing, etc? 50%? Think about how many arrests you see in the news. All I ever hear about are some 15 kids caught with Kazaa running, and *very* rarely, the occasional bot network controller.
Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.
Another person who thinks that databases are the same as flat files... Really, that just makes me want to stab you in the eyeball with a rusty spoon. "Grep" is to an RDBMS as orange juice is to an M-1 Abrahams tank. Completely and utterly unrelated.
Well, I gotta say that somebody using a credit card to buy kiddie porn is a fine example of natural selection. Honestly, I had no idea that there were people that stupid out there. I mean really, if you're going to do something that is universally both illegal and reviled, why in the hell would you use a credit card?!?! Hell, I don't even use a credit card to buy incense at my local head shop!
Except that IE7 is not being emulated it is the original binary.
And will Gnome or KDE render it correctly to the screen, with all of the correct sizing, too?
A $100 PC multiple boot all the versions of Windows still in use? Preferably with all the possible confiurations of service, and run all the different versions of IE still in use - where can I get that winder machine.
You're right. To be sure that you're doing it correctly, you really do need a Win 95 box, a Win 98 box, a Windows 2000, and a Windows XP box. And of course, all of those need all of the browsers on them. But that's if you're a professional, and you want to do actual testing. If you don't care, then sure, you can do it some half-assed way through WINE and hope that it works ok with say, Windows 95 and IE 6. But yeah, I'd expect a professional web developer to have a whole slew of machines with various configurations to make sure that it's right. Otherwise, you're really just pissing in the wind.
I don't think it's overreacting. 1. It's an emulation. Emulations are *never* the same as the real thing. 2. If a web developer can't spring for a $100 PC to test the most popular platform/software browser combination on the planet, then they've got to be an idiot.
Well, I don't really care either, but I already have a blu-ray player in my PS3 (which I use as my main DVD player). I guess I'll be buying blue-ray disks when they become available.
A web developer running a hacked-in IE7 on Linux is like an auto mechanic using one of those cheap screwdrivers with changeable-heads to fix cars. I'm shopping for web design right now, and I wouldn't hire anybody who told me that this was how they checked IE7 compatiblity.
I'm not complaining. I just didn't know that any were available anywhere. I wasn't even planning on trying to track one down until spring. bUT, If I can't get one locally, I'll just wait. No big deal. I've been waiting for a few years, already, what's a few more months?
I actually don't shop at those big box stores, but thanks for the info, anyway. Very useful. I'm heading down to my local game store today to see if they have any.
As a lawyer, you have no responsibility to take every case. If somebody asks you, as an attorney, to have somebody killed, you have a legal responsiblity to say, "No". If somebody asks to you batter some individual until they shut up (even though that individual has done nothing wrong), then you have the moral responsibility to say "No". I have a buddy who is an attorney who regularly turns down people that he doesn't want to represent for a whole variety of reasons. The Disney lawyers pursuing this are whores. It's as simple as that.
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This is a good thing because it provides incentive for the wealthy to work and reduces wealth condensation creating instability.
Actually, at a certain point, there is no incentive to work hard. With the current tax system, I'd almost say that there is a disincentive to work hard. Why build up something great if the government just takes most of it now, and all of it when you die?
Hey, fanboys! Before you get too far into yet another "OSS is the best!" argument, you have to realize that there are many, many, MANY other things that software does that OSS doesn't do yet.
Case in point... the main software that I need is point-of-sale. There is NO OSS point-of-sale software that is anywhere near as good as any of the closed source products.
Hell, there isn't even a good equivalent for Quickbooks/Peachtree that's OSS. It's absolutely mind-boggling that any small businesses could ever go completely open source WITH NO FINANCIAL SOFTWARE (Yes, I know about GNUCash: it's a joke).
Hell, we don't even use any office software at my business (text documents are done with Textpad).
So, while Open Office and Linux is nice and all, it only meets a fraction of common, every day business needs. (Unless you're a multi-billion dollar internation corporation, then you can just pay a team of people to write something OS, and not care if your competition uses it or not).
Oh, so my point is that these studies are ridiculous. The custom OSS software we would have to have written would have to be amortized over ~20 years in order to save us money. OSS is grossly more expensive for me than shirnk-wrapped products.
1. When you grow up, hopefully you'll learn that very few things in life and black and white. That's a fact of life. All we can all do is the best that we can.
2. You don't spend billions on "public relations". You spend billions on advertising. You've got to be an absolute idiot to give away billions of dollars for PR.
3. He IS doing it for altruistic reasons. Get over yourself.
You know, until I read this post, I had no idea what this thread was about. I haven't had cable/satellite/rabbit ear TV since the time when the "analog" cable boxes started dying out, and being replaced by "cable ready" TV's, when you plugged the coax straight into the TV (SO much better than those ugly boxes). I had no idea that this new "digital" cable went back to requiring those boxes. The idea that people would tolerate that was so absurd, that I didn't even think that it was a possiblity.
What are TV consumers thinking? Is what you're getting *really* worth putting up with that shit, never mind the monthly fee, and all of the advertisements?
Do you spoof your MAC? They have that too.
Even if they DID have that... so what? I'm using an Broadcom chipset in a Dell computer. There. If they get legal power to kick in doors of everybody in town to check MAC addresses, then we've all got much bigger problems to worry about.
They can have my IP. I just use whatever wide-open wireless network is available. Often, that's my town's free wireless program. Have fun, MPAA.
I'm still waiting for somebody to show up with some real evidence.
Ask anybody who works for a major backbone provider (Level 3 and such). There's really no question that porn is a HUGE driving force, at least online. Porn was the main driving force for ubiquitous broadband.
They're called pheromones. And yes, we can most definitely sense these.
Anecdotal: I'm not a particularly attractive guy, but chicks dig me. I can't explain it.
an't see how a home server from MS would be any less complicated than setting up a Redhat Linux server
+1 Funny.
Well, who else is there to go with? You can spend twice as much (at least) and get hardware AND software lock-in by going with Apple. You can spend $0 on the software, and hire twice as many admins/trainers and go with Linux. What else is there? MS is still the cheapest, and the most open.
Well said.
Well, if the rest of your iLife is made up of iApple iProducts, then you're used to opening your iWallet and paying out your iAss for everything they make anyway. This isn't going to be sticker shock for people used to buying their stuff, anyway.
Yeah, a "query" makes more sense. Or, you could say "data mining", "running some big, natsy joins", or "subselects" or whatever. Software people who don't know the difference between flat files and databases who do things like "SELECT * FROM TABLENAME" make me ill. I've seen database ignorance kill several software projects before (ie: People not familiar with how to properly use a database do things like SELECT * and don't use stored procedures, then wonder why their performance is so bad).
Actually, I have a BS in Biology with an emphasis in genetics. I did gel electrophoresis for 3 years. I know exactly what it means. I'm just making a point I can't really believe that there would be people stupid enough to do this.
What I find strange with this as news is that I thought this sort of thing was already routinely done in civilized nations.
Personally, I've never heard of any law enforcement agency that was smart enough to use email, never mind search through credit card databases. Think about this... how much Internet traffic is some kind of fraud... spam, or stock pumping or account stealing, etc? 50%? Think about how many arrests you see in the news. All I ever hear about are some 15 kids caught with Kazaa running, and *very* rarely, the occasional bot network controller.
Law enforcement agencies, are, by definition, not made up of smart, tech-saavy people. They're made up of people that were the not-so-smart bullies in grade school.
Another person who thinks that databases are the same as flat files... Really, that just makes me want to stab you in the eyeball with a rusty spoon. "Grep" is to an RDBMS as orange juice is to an M-1 Abrahams tank. Completely and utterly unrelated.
Well, I gotta say that somebody using a credit card to buy kiddie porn is a fine example of natural selection. Honestly, I had no idea that there were people that stupid out there. I mean really, if you're going to do something that is universally both illegal and reviled, why in the hell would you use a credit card?!?! Hell, I don't even use a credit card to buy incense at my local head shop!
Except that IE7 is not being emulated it is the original binary.
And will Gnome or KDE render it correctly to the screen, with all of the correct sizing, too?
A $100 PC multiple boot all the versions of Windows still in use? Preferably with all the possible confiurations of service, and run all the different versions of IE still in use - where can I get that winder machine.
You're right. To be sure that you're doing it correctly, you really do need a Win 95 box, a Win 98 box, a Windows 2000, and a Windows XP box. And of course, all of those need all of the browsers on them. But that's if you're a professional, and you want to do actual testing. If you don't care, then sure, you can do it some half-assed way through WINE and hope that it works ok with say, Windows 95 and IE 6. But yeah, I'd expect a professional web developer to have a whole slew of machines with various configurations to make sure that it's right. Otherwise, you're really just pissing in the wind.
I don't think it's overreacting. 1. It's an emulation. Emulations are *never* the same as the real thing. 2. If a web developer can't spring for a $100 PC to test the most popular platform/software browser combination on the planet, then they've got to be an idiot.
Well, I don't really care either, but I already have a blu-ray player in my PS3 (which I use as my main DVD player). I guess I'll be buying blue-ray disks when they become available.
A web developer running a hacked-in IE7 on Linux is like an auto mechanic using one of those cheap screwdrivers with changeable-heads to fix cars. I'm shopping for web design right now, and I wouldn't hire anybody who told me that this was how they checked IE7 compatiblity.
I'm not complaining. I just didn't know that any were available anywhere. I wasn't even planning on trying to track one down until spring. bUT, If I can't get one locally, I'll just wait. No big deal. I've been waiting for a few years, already, what's a few more months?
I actually don't shop at those big box stores, but thanks for the info, anyway. Very useful. I'm heading down to my local game store today to see if they have any.
I *wish* there were some sitting on the shelves somewhere. I'm still waiting to get my hands on one!
As a lawyer, you have no responsibility to take every case. If somebody asks you, as an attorney, to have somebody killed, you have a legal responsiblity to say, "No". If somebody asks to you batter some individual until they shut up (even though that individual has done nothing wrong), then you have the moral responsibility to say "No". I have a buddy who is an attorney who regularly turns down people that he doesn't want to represent for a whole variety of reasons. The Disney lawyers pursuing this are whores. It's as simple as that.