Um if you think the FCC is not going to change the rules to allow BPL to emit interference then you are mistaken. There's too much money involved to prevent BPL from proceeding.
We're going to have to head to socialized medicine eventually if we want to be able to compete with nations who already have it. You see, companies don't want to pay for it so they'll just relocate to nations that don't force them to.
Of course its a Linux problem. Its not the hardware manufacturers duty to support Linux, its the Linux developer's duty to support all the hardware out there. Sound unreasonable? Of course it is. But no more unreasonable than expecting a movement to spring up around the GPL which it has.
You know what would be nice? Out of the box WPA support for my Belkin Cardbus 802.11g card. That would really be awesome. Not ndiswrapper or wpa-supplicant, just detection and compatability during and after the initial install.
The thing is I can't tell if the lack of WPA support on Linux is because of genuine difficulty or a lack of care. There seems to be a high amount of self-defensiveness about the issue. "Use wpa-supplicant and shaddup!" and such.
I've tried many distros but if anyone out there knows of one that has this feature then I'd be happy to hear of it.
Guess what, games are a consumer product. If it doesn't sell then it won't be made. In order for more games of the type you like to be made, there needs to be a large enough buying audience for them.
Ok BitGeek. Time to take your medicine now. There there its going to be alright. Just let me get this white jacket with the really long sleeves onto you. There we go...easy...easy.....ok now just let me get this funny looking hat with the ballgag on you ok there we go. All better now.
You are presenting a very logical suggestion to a very emotional situation. People don't take kindly to suggestions of surrendering their homes to anyone or anything. The natural instinct is to stay and fight it out. I'd do the same thing even though I am thousands of miles away from those folks.
I'm not trying to trigger a speeding up of the warming process. I'm just trying to point out that we really don't have any really effective means of energy production other than the ones we already have which are mostly based on fossil fuels. You're not going to get much down relying on wind/solar power.
Um no. Lets spend the money on ways that create greenhouse gasses and restore New Orleans exactly where it is, but just stronger than before.
Can you even realize the insanity of your statement? Try telling the residents of NO that you want to move their city just to prevent fossil fuels from being used. You are a mad man.
I actually like Ubuntu. I gave it a try a few months ago on an old laptop of mine. Whats holding me back is a lack of Wifi WPA support out of the box.
As for a good Windows ripper, try BurnAtOnce. Its free and as simple as chicken pot pie.
Still as far as Ubuntu has come from the distros I tried 3 years ago, its still not on par with Windows IMO. So I'm going to give Linux another 5 years and see how far its come by then. Hopefully it will finally be ready for me by then.
The Fair Use "rights" aren't really rights at all. They were permissions granted by Congress. They aren't on par with the right to vote, right to life, right to property....etc rights.
The media companies operating within the framework of our legal system have constructed a way in which consumers may license yet not totally own their products. For the overwhelming majority of the public this is good enough. There is no reason why we need to "fight the good fight" on this one.
The GPL has yet to be tested in court and it is my opinion that a court would not validate the license method.
It becomes a way in which OSS will fail because it defeats the original purpose of the GPL license which was to be different from BSD and other types of open source licenses in that this was supposed to be the one that does NOT get taken advantage of. By simply lying and decieving however, it is quite possible to take advantage of GPL software.
The number of people who need to setup a DNS server is really small. Those who really need to, will know which Microsoft product to purchase. If they decide on a Microsoft product that is, there are many other proprietary DNS products out there.
Wonderful way to make assumptions. I am not a republican and I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
I stand by what I said. It is possible for an American to telecommut for a company in a foreign nation. You are correct that capital encounters less friction but there is some friction there and labor is not entirely blocked from moving. Naturally its more difficult for a person to either move to another country or even find a job in another country while remaining here but it is not impossible.
So you can encourage out of work Americans to feel sorry for themselves and continue to blame capitalism for their woes, the same capitalism that provides for them a very high standard of living compared to people in a lot of countries, or you can encourage them to empower themselves by making their labor avaiable for hire by any company and country on the planet.
What you propose is a software version of utopia. Socialists always advocate for such things yet never learn from the lessons of the past.
There are two ways in which OSS will ultimately fail.
1. Sufficient numbers of SKILLED programmers will fail to see the wisdom of giving away their valuable labor just for some nebulous "social good".
and/or
2. Intelligent businesses will exploit the naieve beliefs of OSS developers. This one is more likely and has already happened. Witness the wholesale exploitation of BSD licensed software. Also products that are sold built around GPL software yet never disclose that GPL software is at the core nor do they provide source code for download. We really don't know and can never know how many hardware products are sold today or will be sold in the future using free software at their core. Since not that many people will have access to the proprietary source it is very possible and convienent for a company to build a business off the backs of open source developers while simultaneously disrespecting the license of the software.
Outlawing outsourcing would be a restraint of trade. Thats not very capitalistic. You see, what people who understand economics can see is that globalization is not going to bring about the end of the Western world. There will be some uncomfortable shocks to be sure but we'll be alright. In the process the rest of the world will be brought up and everyone will be better for it. Its a good thing people like you are being ignored.
Of course you have a global pool of employers to choose from. You just have to accept whatever wages they'll offer you. If it can be done on a computer, it can be done by Americans for foreign companies.
Writing a complaint about your government is something everyone knows how to do and thus would miss if that right were taken away. Being able to fix a program if only you had access to the source code is something a very thin minority of people know how to do and thus most won't care when that becomes extremely difficult to do.
You can hire someone to program a utility that augments the original programs function or you could hire someone to code up an alternative program from the ground up to get around whatever problem you were having in the original program.
Also for any large software category there's usually more than one choice. You could just pick an existing program to switch to.
I am aware of the philosophy of the GNU Project. I live in Boston. The FSF is downtown. I've met and spoken with RMS. Its not like the philosophy is new to me. I just don't buy into it.
When it comes to software there aren't hard ethics as you claim. Denying someone freedom from slavery or housing/employment rights is unethical. Denying someone software unless they pay for it is not. Its perfectly ethical. Its unethical to those who wany everything for free, but then again most people think those who want something for nothing aren't very responsible or mature to begin with.
You also overstate things. Most people don't want a high level of control over their devices and communications because they wouldn't know what to do with that control if they had it. How many VCRs around the world still blink "12:00". They have the power and freedom to set the time, why don't they? It is also not impossible for problems to be fixed. If you have a bad enough problem you can hire someone to fix it. If you won't hire them, then it must not have been a big enough problem to begin with.
The cost of proprietary desktop software is negligable. Its not worth the effort to make free versions. You may think you're creating a liberating society or working for a cause but you're not, cause most people don't even know what OSS is.
You seriously don't think Linux is rabidly tendriously mind boggling complex compared to Windows or Mac OS X?
FYI I have tried many Linux distros over the years but each time I do I have to ask myself why am I expending effort to get to the same level of ease of use already provided by Microsoft? There's never a good enough answer.
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1. What does his being Indian have to do with anything?
2. Why would you want to nationalize healthcare and thus discourage people from entering the field due to the loss of money making ability?
Um if you think the FCC is not going to change the rules to allow BPL to emit interference then you are mistaken. There's too much money involved to prevent BPL from proceeding.
We're going to have to head to socialized medicine eventually if we want to be able to compete with nations who already have it. You see, companies don't want to pay for it so they'll just relocate to nations that don't force them to.
Of course its a Linux problem. Its not the hardware manufacturers duty to support Linux, its the Linux developer's duty to support all the hardware out there. Sound unreasonable? Of course it is. But no more unreasonable than expecting a movement to spring up around the GPL which it has.
You know what would be nice? Out of the box WPA support for my Belkin Cardbus 802.11g card. That would really be awesome. Not ndiswrapper or wpa-supplicant, just detection and compatability during and after the initial install.
The thing is I can't tell if the lack of WPA support on Linux is because of genuine difficulty or a lack of care. There seems to be a high amount of self-defensiveness about the issue. "Use wpa-supplicant and shaddup!" and such.
I've tried many distros but if anyone out there knows of one that has this feature then I'd be happy to hear of it.
Guess what, games are a consumer product. If it doesn't sell then it won't be made. In order for more games of the type you like to be made, there needs to be a large enough buying audience for them.
Kinda sucks being so principled over so trivial a thing as software and video games doesn't it?
Ok BitGeek. Time to take your medicine now. There there its going to be alright. Just let me get this white jacket with the really long sleeves onto you. There we go...easy...easy.....ok now just let me get this funny looking hat with the ballgag on you ok there we go. All better now.
You are presenting a very logical suggestion to a very emotional situation. People don't take kindly to suggestions of surrendering their homes to anyone or anything. The natural instinct is to stay and fight it out. I'd do the same thing even though I am thousands of miles away from those folks.
I'm not trying to trigger a speeding up of the warming process. I'm just trying to point out that we really don't have any really effective means of energy production other than the ones we already have which are mostly based on fossil fuels. You're not going to get much down relying on wind/solar power.
Um no. Lets spend the money on ways that create greenhouse gasses and restore New Orleans exactly where it is, but just stronger than before.
Can you even realize the insanity of your statement? Try telling the residents of NO that you want to move their city just to prevent fossil fuels from being used. You are a mad man.
I actually like Ubuntu. I gave it a try a few months ago on an old laptop of mine. Whats holding me back is a lack of Wifi WPA support out of the box.
As for a good Windows ripper, try BurnAtOnce. Its free and as simple as chicken pot pie.
Still as far as Ubuntu has come from the distros I tried 3 years ago, its still not on par with Windows IMO. So I'm going to give Linux another 5 years and see how far its come by then. Hopefully it will finally be ready for me by then.
The Fair Use "rights" aren't really rights at all. They were permissions granted by Congress. They aren't on par with the right to vote, right to life, right to property....etc rights.
The media companies operating within the framework of our legal system have constructed a way in which consumers may license yet not totally own their products. For the overwhelming majority of the public this is good enough. There is no reason why we need to "fight the good fight" on this one.
The GPL has yet to be tested in court and it is my opinion that a court would not validate the license method.
It becomes a way in which OSS will fail because it defeats the original purpose of the GPL license which was to be different from BSD and other types of open source licenses in that this was supposed to be the one that does NOT get taken advantage of. By simply lying and decieving however, it is quite possible to take advantage of GPL software.
The number of people who need to setup a DNS server is really small. Those who really need to, will know which Microsoft product to purchase. If they decide on a Microsoft product that is, there are many other proprietary DNS products out there.
Wonderful way to make assumptions. I am not a republican and I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
I stand by what I said. It is possible for an American to telecommut for a company in a foreign nation. You are correct that capital encounters less friction but there is some friction there and labor is not entirely blocked from moving. Naturally its more difficult for a person to either move to another country or even find a job in another country while remaining here but it is not impossible.
So you can encourage out of work Americans to feel sorry for themselves and continue to blame capitalism for their woes, the same capitalism that provides for them a very high standard of living compared to people in a lot of countries, or you can encourage them to empower themselves by making their labor avaiable for hire by any company and country on the planet.
The choice is up to you and to them.
What you propose is a software version of utopia. Socialists always advocate for such things yet never learn from the lessons of the past.
There are two ways in which OSS will ultimately fail.
1. Sufficient numbers of SKILLED programmers will fail to see the wisdom of giving away their valuable labor just for some nebulous "social good".
and/or
2. Intelligent businesses will exploit the naieve beliefs of OSS developers. This one is more likely and has already happened. Witness the wholesale exploitation of BSD licensed software. Also products that are sold built around GPL software yet never disclose that GPL software is at the core nor do they provide source code for download. We really don't know and can never know how many hardware products are sold today or will be sold in the future using free software at their core. Since not that many people will have access to the proprietary source it is very possible and convienent for a company to build a business off the backs of open source developers while simultaneously disrespecting the license of the software.
Its kind of ironic actually.
Outlawing outsourcing would be a restraint of trade. Thats not very capitalistic. You see, what people who understand economics can see is that globalization is not going to bring about the end of the Western world. There will be some uncomfortable shocks to be sure but we'll be alright. In the process the rest of the world will be brought up and everyone will be better for it. Its a good thing people like you are being ignored.
Of course you have a global pool of employers to choose from. You just have to accept whatever wages they'll offer you. If it can be done on a computer, it can be done by Americans for foreign companies.
As Microsoft's DNS software has a GUI, yes it is in comparison to BIND.
Well now you know and knowing is half the battle.
Writing a complaint about your government is something everyone knows how to do and thus would miss if that right were taken away. Being able to fix a program if only you had access to the source code is something a very thin minority of people know how to do and thus most won't care when that becomes extremely difficult to do.
You can hire someone to program a utility that augments the original programs function or you could hire someone to code up an alternative program from the ground up to get around whatever problem you were having in the original program.
Also for any large software category there's usually more than one choice. You could just pick an existing program to switch to.
I am aware of the philosophy of the GNU Project. I live in Boston. The FSF is downtown. I've met and spoken with RMS. Its not like the philosophy is new to me. I just don't buy into it.
When it comes to software there aren't hard ethics as you claim. Denying someone freedom from slavery or housing/employment rights is unethical. Denying someone software unless they pay for it is not. Its perfectly ethical. Its unethical to those who wany everything for free, but then again most people think those who want something for nothing aren't very responsible or mature to begin with.
You also overstate things. Most people don't want a high level of control over their devices and communications because they wouldn't know what to do with that control if they had it. How many VCRs around the world still blink "12:00". They have the power and freedom to set the time, why don't they? It is also not impossible for problems to be fixed. If you have a bad enough problem you can hire someone to fix it. If you won't hire them, then it must not have been a big enough problem to begin with.
The darkness of hard to use software, you know like Linux, Gimp, Bind...etc.
The cost of proprietary desktop software is negligable. Its not worth the effort to make free versions. You may think you're creating a liberating society or working for a cause but you're not, cause most people don't even know what OSS is.
What exactly is ridiculous about my sig?
You seriously don't think Linux is rabidly tendriously mind boggling complex compared to Windows or Mac OS X?
FYI I have tried many Linux distros over the years but each time I do I have to ask myself why am I expending effort to get to the same level of ease of use already provided by Microsoft? There's never a good enough answer.