No, the point is the Aberdeen group has already demonstrated some very questionable results in the past.
Would there be cries if the situation were reversed? On Slashdot? Surely you jest... I think almost anybody here who reads Slashdot regularly knows its pro-linux.
... I'm glad to see the university can afford to spend its money on licensing music instead of providing a quality education.
Is that enough sarcasm for you? Is music piracy an issue on campus? Absolutely. Will group licensing music solve that problem? Not a chance. Why? One reason is the university has very diverse tastes and it would never be able to appeal to them all.
For example, the university has a concert every year called Moving On. There is almost always flack surrounding it as the university can't appeal to everyone's tastes. I don't think licensed university music will do any better when people who have grown up with Kazaa and Napster are used to clicking away to whatever they want.
Personally I think the university should continue to do what it is doing and continue measures to curb piracy as it wishes. But licensing music will not curb the piracy problem.
Didn't anyone here play Simcity 2000? The microwave power plants were solar satelites that gathered solar energy and transmitted it down to the power stations. Of course one of the disasters of the game was when the beam missed the ground station and half your city burst into flames. Fortunatly we can just disable disasters... ert, wait...
I'm currently looking into using GNUcash and so far its pretty impressive. I used to work for a company maintaining data in Quickbooks and eventually in MS Money. GNUCash is very capable against both of these programs for your average home user. Their webpage does list the goal of adding business features in the future.
What I think GNUCash is missing most of all, however, is cross platform compatblity. I know it handles QIF files but the program itself has not been ported to Windows or MacOS yet. Many people these days have multiple OSes and I don't want have to reboot my machine in order to balance my checkbook (this arguement applies to both MS Money and Quicken as well).
GNUCash has alot of potential and I might just start using it with the hope that cross-compatablity comes later.:)
I don't think I've ever seen so many responses ...
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In all my time here I don't think I've ever seen a story get to a second page of comments (and this is the first story up at the moment).
War tends to bring out comments from everyone. Given the nature of war, comments and analysis of why it is being pursued is extremely important so here is my $.02 as someone who studies International Relations for a living.
The US has been committed for some time now to removing the threat of Iraqi weapons by forcing "regime change" in the region. It is both important for those that oppose the war and those that support their friends and family in the military to have the ability to do so. Personally I have reservations on whether this was the right course to go down but we have reached a point now where the road back is as steep as the road ahead. Pushing this far ahead and then backing down would likely have its costs in terrorism. Continuing onward will likely have its costs in terrorism and the cost of occupation of Iraq. When friends and family ask me what I think of the current situation I tell them "its a mess no matter how you slice it." And honestly, I've never had anyone argue with that point of view.
That said I hope this ends quickly and that friends and love ones can be back with their families as soon as possible.
And here all this time I was thinking CmdrTaco's UID was 0.
Actually you know I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe slashdot should have an Ask Slashdot on Slashdot (how's that for repetative). I know there's the faq and I've read it but I'd like to read answers to questions posted directly by the community.
Now while I'm no fan of MS, do we really need to have stories everytime someone accueses Microsoft of having poor security? Might as well dedicate an entire section of Slashdot to their exploits. At least then I could turn it off in my preferences.
And while there are plenty of problems for Microsoft to fix in their code - IE has plenty of unresolved issues - this issue was in large part due to System's Administrators. Let's let is slide that they were "just waiting for the next service pack to come along" so they could update and patch everything. I don't buy that as a good policy for maintaining system - if a patch is out and can be applied, use it. And why leave SQL systems on the internet without some sort of firewall or some sort of protection. If it has to be on the Net, why does it not have every possible security patch applied to it?
I'm sure there are some valid reasons for having your system protected from this bug but in large part Admins dropped the ball.
I kept hearing that you were changing the name from Phoenix to something else. What happened?
That was just a giant publicity stunt. We've observed that in the past, the open-source community has instinctively favored David when big corporations complain of trademark infringement. We wanted to cash in on this sympathy by asking the community to send us money to fight the legal battle (obviously we'd really spend it on cool stuff), but with all the taxing issues and whatnot we decided to can the idea.
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Uhhhh...really?
No, not really. This isn't like an action flick where the evil madman reveals the intricacies of his plans to hostages and then leaves them alone with a bomb set to detonate in like 10 hours. When we're ripping you off, we won't explain how in the FAQ. The truth is that we'd already had this 0.5 released planned for awhile, so it was okay to release under the Phoenix name. But under no circumstances will any future release be called Phoenix.
So it would appear that they will be changing the name for.6
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No, the point is the Aberdeen group has already demonstrated some very questionable results in the past.
:)
Would there be cries if the situation were reversed? On Slashdot? Surely you jest...
I think almost anybody here who reads Slashdot regularly knows its pro-linux.
I thought that was in the FAQ
... I'm glad to see the university can afford to spend its money on licensing music instead of providing a quality education.
Is that enough sarcasm for you? Is music piracy an issue on campus? Absolutely. Will group licensing music solve that problem? Not a chance. Why? One reason is the university has very diverse tastes and it would never be able to appeal to them all.
For example, the university has a concert every year called Moving On. There is almost always flack surrounding it as the university can't appeal to everyone's tastes. I don't think licensed university music will do any better when people who have grown up with Kazaa and Napster are used to clicking away to whatever they want.
Personally I think the university should continue to do what it is doing and continue measures to curb piracy as it wishes. But licensing music will not curb the piracy problem.
That's my $.02.
Didn't anyone here play Simcity 2000? The microwave power plants were solar satelites that gathered solar energy and transmitted it down to the power stations. Of course one of the disasters of the game was when the beam missed the ground station and half your city burst into flames. Fortunatly we can just disable disasters ... ert, wait ...
I'm currently looking into using GNUcash and so far its pretty impressive. I used to work for a company maintaining data in Quickbooks and eventually in MS Money. GNUCash is very capable against both of these programs for your average home user. Their webpage does list the goal of adding business features in the future.
:)
What I think GNUCash is missing most of all, however, is cross platform compatblity. I know it handles QIF files but the program itself has not been ported to Windows or MacOS yet. Many people these days have multiple OSes and I don't want have to reboot my machine in order to balance my checkbook (this arguement applies to both MS Money and Quicken as well).
GNUCash has alot of potential and I might just start using it with the hope that cross-compatablity comes later.
In all my time here I don't think I've ever seen a story get to a second page of comments (and this is the first story up at the moment).
War tends to bring out comments from everyone. Given the nature of war, comments and analysis of why it is being pursued is extremely important so here is my $.02 as someone who studies International Relations for a living.
The US has been committed for some time now to removing the threat of Iraqi weapons by forcing "regime change" in the region. It is both important for those that oppose the war and those that support their friends and family in the military to have the ability to do so. Personally I have reservations on whether this was the right course to go down but we have reached a point now where the road back is as steep as the road ahead. Pushing this far ahead and then backing down would likely have its costs in terrorism. Continuing onward will likely have its costs in terrorism and the cost of occupation of Iraq. When friends and family ask me what I think of the current situation I tell them "its a mess no matter how you slice it." And honestly, I've never had anyone argue with that point of view.
That said I hope this ends quickly and that friends and love ones can be back with their families as soon as possible.
That's my two cents.
And here all this time I was thinking CmdrTaco's UID was 0.
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Actually you know I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe slashdot should have an Ask Slashdot on Slashdot (how's that for repetative). I know there's the faq and I've read it but I'd like to read answers to questions posted directly by the community.
It's just a thought anyway
You forgot the 10 IN SOVIET RUSSIA posts ...
Now while I'm no fan of MS, do we really need to have stories everytime someone accueses Microsoft of having poor security? Might as well dedicate an entire section of Slashdot to their exploits. At least then I could turn it off in my preferences.
And while there are plenty of problems for Microsoft to fix in their code - IE has plenty of unresolved issues - this issue was in large part due to System's Administrators. Let's let is slide that they were "just waiting for the next service pack to come along" so they could update and patch everything. I don't buy that as a good policy for maintaining system - if a patch is out and can be applied, use it. And why leave SQL systems on the internet without some sort of firewall or some sort of protection. If it has to be on the Net, why does it not have every possible security patch applied to it?
I'm sure there are some valid reasons for having your system protected from this bug but in large part Admins dropped the ball.
But thats my $.02
From phoenix's FAQ:
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I kept hearing that you were changing the name from Phoenix to something else. What happened?
That was just a giant publicity stunt. We've observed that in the past, the open-source community has instinctively favored David when big corporations complain of trademark infringement. We wanted to cash in on this sympathy by asking the community to send us money to fight the legal battle (obviously we'd really spend it on cool stuff), but with all the taxing issues and whatnot we decided to can the idea.
15)
Uhhhh...really?
No, not really. This isn't like an action flick where the evil madman reveals the intricacies of his plans to hostages and then leaves them alone with a bomb set to detonate in like 10 hours. When we're ripping you off, we won't explain how in the FAQ. The truth is that we'd already had this 0.5 released planned for awhile, so it was okay to release under the Phoenix name. But under no circumstances will any future release be called Phoenix.
So it would appear that they will be changing the name for
Now everybody go and scrub up for dinner. This is a horrible thing for a company to do but I'm sure they'll do anything they can to make a buck.
I can't believe someone posted they can't believe before I could ... sheesh. So everybody really does read /.