And what exactly do you think money is? Money is a representation of power, wanting money is the same thing as wating power. But money is not the only type of power, the goverment has many way of distributing power besides money, regulations that permits only a few people releasing and distribute something is an example.
The whole point of the entretainment industry is keeping the amateur out of the way, easier for movies since big produtions are simply out of reach of the casual home user. But when you talk about music, if internet becomes the rule of distributing music, who can predict if the next biug hit isn't a garage band from Austria or a single musitian that hacks music toghether with his computer in a village in a small village in japan?
Those guys did not signed their souls to big record companies, they can distribute their music themselves, and where is the big power, the big money of the RIAA? They have no power over those musitians, and that is what they are afraid of.
XXX has given back to the open source community more then any other company.
How many times I have heard this? And you know what, since it is quite hard to measure, quantitatively, what the fuck "given back back to the community", I will discard such statements as a marketing stunt.
Apple has DRM dirt all over, it's quicktime movies are a pain in the *** to make it work well in linux, I don't even know if the music you rent from their store can be played in linux, but I am not getting anywhere near that. And now is the OS that should not be ran in beige boxes, god forbid if apple software should be able to run on ugly hardware.
Apple is good in one thing, creating hype and selling overpriced hardware to fan-boys that fall for that hype. Don't get me wrong, I used like apple but lately they have done nothing that I can say good words about it.
There are several things that would convince me that creationism is true and not evolution. The most obvious would be if God came and spoke to me in a burning bush.
How god would convince you that he is indeed god the creator of all things? Would he have to performing tricks, like splitting bodies of water or multiplying fish (I would prefer the turn water into wine)? Let's suppose that someone has shown to you and speaked, "I am god, the creator of all things, behold my power" at that time the nearby river splits in two. He then continue, "I must ask you to spread my word, that I and I alone created all things as they are now and you must have faith that this is the only truth there is". Would you turn into a believer?
If this experience have convinced you, to stop your questioning on the natures of things, then you must excuse the other for simply having lower levels of demands to believe in a god. Let me explain, other would be happy with the multiplying of the fish, others like the cure the sick person trick and some simply look out to flower or whatever and think as them as a miracle that proves the existence of god.
You see, different people, different demands. You, for instance, could be fooled by a very advanced technological alien race or maybe some well funded Cristian organization with clever engineers.
I must say that I have the same opinion, I aways believed that if there are such thing as copy rights they should be untransferable to the creator. I even think that they should not be transferable to the heirs of the creator. And there is no such thing as created by a corporation (work for hire).
You want to distribute my work, ok you deserve some share of the money, but if I want to distribute with company 'B' I have the right to, if I produce another work I can even distribute it with who ever I want.
Exclusivity, unbreakable contracts killed a lot of people that do good work that cannot produce anymore due to contract restrictions and that the original distributor is not interested in anymore.
Read it carefully, I said to some men almost all womem should be considered "porn" by the definition of the grandparent. This means that some men loose the interest in almost all womem after they come, and only that. I am not sure that this kind of men, that thinks with the little head are so rare as you state, unfortunaly I may add they give a bad name to the gender.:-P
There must be 100s of uninteresting gorgeous people arround the world that would classify as porn by your definition then and for some men almost all womem do fit the definition.
I believe that a future fedora core will have optional CDs, this means that one cd will have development tools other will have KDE, other will have server software so you could only download what you need. I think I read this at fedora-planet, but I don't remember when it is suposed to be available, is it FC6 or is it later?
"fedor" is a substantive in Portuguese, it means bad odor. If you want to call someone a stinky you say the he is "fedorento", witch means has a bad odor or more plainly stinky. A woman with a bad case of lack of deodorant would be called "fedorenta".
"Fedora" has no meaning in Portuguese, but it does seam like the feminine for the word "fedor" and may sound like that to the more ignorant people. Usually switching a "o" for an "a" in the end of a word does turn it into a feminine word, for instance "enfermeiro" is a male nurse, while a "enfermeira" is a female nurse or "empregado" e "empregada" for employee. So you see at a first glance "fedor" e "fedora" may seem a male/female variation.
Everything is 3d, but when one or more dimensions are too small in comparison to the others it is easier to assume that the object has less dimensions. A piece of paper has two large dimensions but one of those is simply too small to account. A DNA, rope, string, and even a heavy chain that holds a ship in place have two dimensions that are much smaller then the other so it is aesier to model them as having only one dimension.
Those 'drawings' folds the dna in a similar, but not the same, way that you can weave a shirt out of a very large single dimension string. By binding several times a small dimension side by side you gain a new large dimension, making the construct 2d. But depending on how you tie your nots the structure of this 2d object can only exist embeded in a 3d space (to picture this imagine that you roll a string arroung a globe, starting at the equator and clibing it up, every 10 you tye it together with the string in the previous round, this will create half of a ball with two dimensions that can't be folded without wrinkles).
Maybe there should be some kind of restriction in the server while in this passwordless state. If the server refused to create a new database while the password is not setted, there would be no problem for instance.
And you're not counting that the "re-engenier" step in the "PITA" bugs can sometimes render some of the bugs you spent time fixing earlier a waste, since you may have to rework entire portions of the code.
How hard is to fake a state license? How hard is to obtain one with false pretenses? How hard is to steal or borrow one from a legit business that holds them? Remember security is as strong as the weakest link.
The sad thing is that the most used something is the easier it will be to get to it. The state can throw one thowsand one one requirements and paper works into the matter, but people have to get work done in the end of the day. And if one hundred people have access to use explosive this is one hundred links in your security chain that have a variable strength.
I always think that is easier to undermine terrorism by eliminating the need for it. Of course that this would mean for the US and Europe to actualy spend money to help the other nations instead of taxing them with politic and economic power. I think that is easier to convince every chineese to jump at the same time...:-P
Nasa, with those damn satelites controling how the wheater is on the globe predicted that there will be warmth and that the enterprises and cars should controll their emissions. Advising that combustible fuels should not be used anymore. All those things are bad, in the point of view of the Bush Administration, why would he give money to those satelites?
Brag about using someone else's BIOS? WTF would I do that?
Yes that is exactly what the grand parent is refering, but instead of using a "bios" that comes with every computer they brag about using lesser known tools that to normal, non techinical users makes them seem more powerfull then the rest. And so they brag.
I could actually see someone braging about how he activated a password in someone's else computer. 'See how my credible knowledge of the BIOS locked the poor schumuk out of his own computer, he even had to pay a technitian to unlock his computer.'. And yes, there are probably many lowlifes that would do that to someone, just for a twisted kind of "fun".
Then why use a generic email? Buy a domain and configure a forward, your email will sound more professional and it will be able to send whatever you want using it, and who knows, you can even make a little web page on top of that domain.:P
Wow, a rational response to this google in china subject? It can't be true. I agree 100% with you, and already tried to talk about it, but people don't understand.:P Too bad I don't have any mod points, I would use them.:-D
Wow, you got me there, the US laws do cripple a lot of linux distributions in their default configuration. But it's good to remember that you add those functionalities latter, the ubuntu faq has a step by step to installing it, and I think fedora has a similar one too.
Very insightfull, I would mod you up if I could.:-)
Anyways, those specialized distros are less likely to have a problem with installing third party software, since all the software to achieve the specialized function they should perform is probably bundled or package by the distributor.
I, personaly, don't like this autopackage. It follows the executable installer model from windows. So it is subject to the same problems of that model of distribution, nothing stops a site with "1000's of downloads" to add a spyware to the autopackage installer.
I prefer a package that would hold the software, it could even have pre/pos-install scripts, but the package should be handled by a trusted binary on your computer first. The trusted application would check the signature of the package, veryfy if it is who he is stating he is, before any of the code is executed or installed.
I don't dislike.debs or.rpms. But the main problem is not the package in it self, but the packaging that has to take into account all the libraries to witch it depend, so each distribution, with it's unique collection of.so in/usr/lib needs a special attention.
It's true, but none of those thousands of versions of linux are intentionaly crippled. Ops. No you cannot run a 'server' with this version or no you can not setup this or that without the premium version.
Sure, Linux is still strugling with the packaging since there is no standard. But it is getting better and better, everyday.:-D
Mao was a facist, there were thousands of political dissidents tortured or killed here in Brasil and it was a capitalism, Chile had it's own terrible capitalist dictator and suffered also. Saddam killed also many of his own, when the US was supporting him against Iran in the 80's, also a capitalist country. Even germany in the second world war could be added to this list.
Capitalist/comunist it don't matter, if someone gains too much power it will abuse it in some way or another. Disctators will what they can to maintain their position, and this has nothing to do with economic systems. This could even happen in a democracy when the majority of people don't care about minorities or simply believe that the goverment is doing a good deed in getting ridding of those insatisfied that make too much noise and don't want to listen to Celine Dion.
When you have only eyes to the "evil" or "bad" part of something, sure there is no "plausible deniability" for it. I can see that comunism wasn't that good, but I can also see that capitalism it isn't that good, and it shows even in the home of the coutry that champions it. Both systems have their problems, neither is "good" and both have their "evil" way.
Now that we live in a capitalist world, with a few exceptions, we can have our weak goverments that are consistently bougth by the large corporations so they can export the jobs to countries where they can install "sweatshops", export the goods produced there to a richer country. Meanwhile in other fronts there other companies that are trying to kidnap all kind of culture for a hansom by buying legislation and polices with deep pockets. Well I guess you're correct that is a very fine example of "good", never mind the people dieing of hunger, they are probably lazy.
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Like calling the bank?
And what exactly do you think money is? Money is a representation of power, wanting money is the same thing as wating power. But money is not the only type of power, the goverment has many way of distributing power besides money, regulations that permits only a few people releasing and distribute something is an example.
The whole point of the entretainment industry is keeping the amateur out of the way, easier for movies since big produtions are simply out of reach of the casual home user. But when you talk about music, if internet becomes the rule of distributing music, who can predict if the next biug hit isn't a garage band from Austria or a single musitian that hacks music toghether with his computer in a village in a small village in japan?
Those guys did not signed their souls to big record companies, they can distribute their music themselves, and where is the big power, the big money of the RIAA? They have no power over those musitians, and that is what they are afraid of.
Well they do get out of a job, in theory at least. Thats why you have those things called ellections every few years.
How many times I have heard this? And you know what, since it is quite hard to measure, quantitatively, what the fuck "given back back to the community", I will discard such statements as a marketing stunt.
Apple has DRM dirt all over, it's quicktime movies are a pain in the *** to make it work well in linux, I don't even know if the music you rent from their store can be played in linux, but I am not getting anywhere near that. And now is the OS that should not be ran in beige boxes, god forbid if apple software should be able to run on ugly hardware.
Apple is good in one thing, creating hype and selling overpriced hardware to fan-boys that fall for that hype. Don't get me wrong, I used like apple but lately they have done nothing that I can say good words about it.
How god would convince you that he is indeed god the creator of all things? Would he have to performing tricks, like splitting bodies of water or multiplying fish (I would prefer the turn water into wine)? Let's suppose that someone has shown to you and speaked, "I am god, the creator of all things, behold my power" at that time the nearby river splits in two. He then continue, "I must ask you to spread my word, that I and I alone created all things as they are now and you must have faith that this is the only truth there is". Would you turn into a believer?
If this experience have convinced you, to stop your questioning on the natures of things, then you must excuse the other for simply having lower levels of demands to believe in a god. Let me explain, other would be happy with the multiplying of the fish, others like the cure the sick person trick and some simply look out to flower or whatever and think as them as a miracle that proves the existence of god.
You see, different people, different demands. You, for instance, could be fooled by a very advanced technological alien race or maybe some well funded Cristian organization with clever engineers.
I must say that I have the same opinion, I aways believed that if there are such thing as copy rights they should be untransferable to the creator. I even think that they should not be transferable to the heirs of the creator. And there is no such thing as created by a corporation (work for hire).
You want to distribute my work, ok you deserve some share of the money, but if I want to distribute with company 'B' I have the right to, if I produce another work I can even distribute it with who ever I want.
Exclusivity, unbreakable contracts killed a lot of people that do good work that cannot produce anymore due to contract restrictions and that the original distributor is not interested in anymore.
Read it carefully, I said to some men almost all womem should be considered "porn" by the definition of the grandparent. This means that some men loose the interest in almost all womem after they come, and only that. I am not sure that this kind of men, that thinks with the little head are so rare as you state, unfortunaly I may add they give a bad name to the gender. :-P
:-)
By the way I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
There must be 100s of uninteresting gorgeous people arround the world that would classify as porn by your definition then and for some men almost all womem do fit the definition.
I believe that a future fedora core will have optional CDs, this means that one cd will have development tools other will have KDE, other will have server software so you could only download what you need. I think I read this at fedora-planet, but I don't remember when it is suposed to be available, is it FC6 or is it later?
"fedor" is a substantive in Portuguese, it means bad odor. If you want to call someone a stinky you say the he is "fedorento", witch means has a bad odor or more plainly stinky. A woman with a bad case of lack of deodorant would be called "fedorenta".
"Fedora" has no meaning in Portuguese, but it does seam like the feminine for the word "fedor" and may sound like that to the more ignorant people. Usually switching a "o" for an "a" in the end of a word does turn it into a feminine word, for instance "enfermeiro" is a male nurse, while a "enfermeira" is a female nurse or "empregado" e "empregada" for employee. So you see at a first glance "fedor" e "fedora" may seem a male/female variation.
Everything is 3d, but when one or more dimensions are too small in comparison to the others it is easier to assume that the object has less dimensions. A piece of paper has two large dimensions but one of those is simply too small to account. A DNA, rope, string, and even a heavy chain that holds a ship in place have two dimensions that are much smaller then the other so it is aesier to model them as having only one dimension.
Those 'drawings' folds the dna in a similar, but not the same, way that you can weave a shirt out of a very large single dimension string. By binding several times a small dimension side by side you gain a new large dimension, making the construct 2d. But depending on how you tie your nots the structure of this 2d object can only exist embeded in a 3d space (to picture this imagine that you roll a string arroung a globe, starting at the equator and clibing it up, every 10 you tye it together with the string in the previous round, this will create half of a ball with two dimensions that can't be folded without wrinkles).
Maybe there should be some kind of restriction in the server while in this passwordless state. If the server refused to create a new database while the password is not setted, there would be no problem for instance.
And you're not counting that the "re-engenier" step in the "PITA" bugs can sometimes render some of the bugs you spent time fixing earlier a waste, since you may have to rework entire portions of the code.
How hard is to fake a state license? How hard is to obtain one with false pretenses? How hard is to steal or borrow one from a legit business that holds them? Remember security is as strong as the weakest link.
:-P
The sad thing is that the most used something is the easier it will be to get to it. The state can throw one thowsand one one requirements and paper works into the matter, but people have to get work done in the end of the day. And if one hundred people have access to use explosive this is one hundred links in your security chain that have a variable strength.
I always think that is easier to undermine terrorism by eliminating the need for it. Of course that this would mean for the US and Europe to actualy spend money to help the other nations instead of taxing them with politic and economic power. I think that is easier to convince every chineese to jump at the same time...
Nasa, with those damn satelites controling how the wheater is on the globe predicted that there will be warmth and that the enterprises and cars should controll their emissions. Advising that combustible fuels should not be used anymore. All those things are bad, in the point of view of the Bush Administration, why would he give money to those satelites?
I am certainly not surprised.
Or maybe you get locked when you're having a heart atack. :-S
Yes that is exactly what the grand parent is refering, but instead of using a "bios" that comes with every computer they brag about using lesser known tools that to normal, non techinical users makes them seem more powerfull then the rest. And so they brag.
I could actually see someone braging about how he activated a password in someone's else computer. 'See how my credible knowledge of the BIOS locked the poor schumuk out of his own computer, he even had to pay a technitian to unlock his computer.'. And yes, there are probably many lowlifes that would do that to someone, just for a twisted kind of "fun".
Then why use a generic email? Buy a domain and configure a forward, your email will sound more professional and it will be able to send whatever you want using it, and who knows, you can even make a little web page on top of that domain. :P
Wow, a rational response to this google in china subject? It can't be true. I agree 100% with you, and already tried to talk about it, but people don't understand. :P Too bad I don't have any mod points, I would use them. :-D
Wow, you got me there, the US laws do cripple a lot of linux distributions in their default configuration. But it's good to remember that you add those functionalities latter, the ubuntu faq has a step by step to installing it, and I think fedora has a similar one too.
:-)
Very insightfull, I would mod you up if I could.
Ok you got me there. :-P hehehe
Anyways, those specialized distros are less likely to have a problem with installing third party software, since all the software to achieve the specialized function they should perform is probably bundled or package by the distributor.
I, personaly, don't like this autopackage. It follows the executable installer model from windows. So it is subject to the same problems of that model of distribution, nothing stops a site with "1000's of downloads" to add a spyware to the autopackage installer.
.debs or .rpms. But the main problem is not the package in it self, but the packaging that has to take into account all the libraries to witch it depend, so each distribution, with it's unique collection of .so in /usr/lib needs a special attention.
I prefer a package that would hold the software, it could even have pre/pos-install scripts, but the package should be handled by a trusted binary on your computer first. The trusted application would check the signature of the package, veryfy if it is who he is stating he is, before any of the code is executed or installed.
I don't dislike
It's true, but none of those thousands of versions of linux are intentionaly crippled. Ops. No you cannot run a 'server' with this version or no you can not setup this or that without the premium version.
:-D
Sure, Linux is still strugling with the packaging since there is no standard. But it is getting better and better, everyday.
Mao was a facist, there were thousands of political dissidents tortured or killed here in Brasil and it was a capitalism, Chile had it's own terrible capitalist dictator and suffered also. Saddam killed also many of his own, when the US was supporting him against Iran in the 80's, also a capitalist country. Even germany in the second world war could be added to this list.
Capitalist/comunist it don't matter, if someone gains too much power it will abuse it in some way or another. Disctators will what they can to maintain their position, and this has nothing to do with economic systems. This could even happen in a democracy when the majority of people don't care about minorities or simply believe that the goverment is doing a good deed in getting ridding of those insatisfied that make too much noise and don't want to listen to Celine Dion.
When you have only eyes to the "evil" or "bad" part of something, sure there is no "plausible deniability" for it. I can see that comunism wasn't that good, but I can also see that capitalism it isn't that good, and it shows even in the home of the coutry that champions it. Both systems have their problems, neither is "good" and both have their "evil" way.
Now that we live in a capitalist world, with a few exceptions, we can have our weak goverments that are consistently bougth by the large corporations so they can export the jobs to countries where they can install "sweatshops", export the goods produced there to a richer country. Meanwhile in other fronts there other companies that are trying to kidnap all kind of culture for a hansom by buying legislation and polices with deep pockets. Well I guess you're correct that is a very fine example of "good", never mind the people dieing of hunger, they are probably lazy.