I'm not claiming that. Don't get me wrong. In the end the choice really is yours, after all you DO elect the legislative body of your country right? Unless there has been a very silent coup nobody knows about:). If you don't like the way the government is run you vote for someone who knows how to make it run better, if you don't know of anyone who knows how to do that you run for office yourself. If people like your way of running things chances are they'll vote for you, if not, then that's democracy for ya. It often seems to me when I read discussion forums such as slashdot that Americans tend to think of the government as a big old monster that eats everything in its presence, when in fact it's composed of a bunch of political parties representing the general populace. Or in layman's terms, they much prefer sitting in the darkness bitching and moaning about a dead lightbulb instead of getting their asses of the chair and changing it.
Well, you allow the government to declare that screaming "FIRE" in a crowded theatre is forbidden. Does that mean that you really don't have any freedom of speech at all?
Let's not forget that any form of freedom demands responsability. The more freedom you have, the more responsability you have as well.
Responsability for what/whom you may ask? Yourself, your family and basically your own society as a whole.
I think it's even the same argument for plain old film as for the vinil records. They sound softer and, as far as I have read in this discussion, the film looks softer too.
Ah, so I'm all of a sudden less "free" if I pay more taxes?
You mention Finland and Norway for their progressive traffic ticket rates. Tell me, HOW is that trampling on my CIVIL RIGHTS that I pay higher fines if I make more money? The purpose of fines was, last time I checked, to serve as a deterrant from commiting an offense again. If you earn, say 20K USD per month, how much of a deterrant is it from speeding to pay a 100 USD fine? Same question, only now you earn 2K USD per month.
As for the restraint on the press you mention, I live in a country with the only restraint on the press that it DOESN'T print slander or any form of racist text. This is all according to the UN Human Rights declaration.
Screaming out racist remarks or slander IS NOT FREE SPEECH.
Sue them. That's what you guys do in the US, right?;-).
After all they are performing a sort of a DoS by checking everything you have, it's even borderline trespassing, so unless they have a searchwarrant (which I doubt) anything they discover is not permissable as evidence in court. Also if you are "clean" you could perhaps squeeze in a slander charge seeing as they wrongfully accuse you (by searching) of stealing software/other copyrighted material.
How can one NOT be dependent on fossil fuel when the tool responsible for generating more than half of a countries export income is powered by fossil fuel. (I'm talking about the trawlers here).
Cockroaches have been around for millions of years, does that make them God's chosen creature? Also, the chinese have been around for even longer than the jews so (by your logic) they are God's chosen people.
Let me get this straight, you actually prefer the teacher teaching wrong facts than for someone (who seems to know better) to actually have the courage to correct him?
Hell I'm running KDE 2.2 from a Suse 7,3 live CD at home (kinda hard to run it from the hard drive when the hard drive is dead) and I'm barely using more than 1/3 of my 256 megs o'ram
My favourite from that movie was when the not-so-nice scientist (you know, the same guy who was Newman in Seinfeld) was cought on a live camera, which in the movie of course was nothing more than a quicktime file running. Hell they didn't even bother hiding the progress bar.
The GPL does NOT force you to give your software to everybody. Repeat after me, the GPL does NOT force you to to run around throwing CDs with your software like you're AOL. It does NOT force you to upload your software to every public ftp site known to man.
The GPL ONLY forces you to hand over the source code to those you sell your software to, should they want it of course. And following that allowing them to modify it for their needs, which in turn forces them to give you the source to the modifications if you want it.
I do believe you can use the new email client EntourageX for connecting to Exchange (if you can be without the scheduling and group calendar stuff, i.e. just for mail).
If by "NTFS drives" you mean your network drives/shares then according to the OSX website you can connect seamlessly to windows shares on the network, same goes for Samba.
Also as some have pointed out in replies to this article you can run a rootless X server to run your remote X apps.
But like I said, take this with a grain of salt and try whatever suits you best, do a little of your own research, this is after all _your_ computer/environment.
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I'm not claiming that. Don't get me wrong. In the end the choice really is yours, after all you DO elect the legislative body of your country right? Unless there has been a very silent coup nobody knows about :). If you don't like the way the government is run you vote for someone who knows how to make it run better, if you don't know of anyone who knows how to do that you run for office yourself. If people like your way of running things chances are they'll vote for you, if not, then that's democracy for ya.
It often seems to me when I read discussion forums such as slashdot that Americans tend to think of the government as a big old monster that eats everything in its presence, when in fact it's composed of a bunch of political parties representing the general populace.
Or in layman's terms, they much prefer sitting in the darkness bitching and moaning about a dead lightbulb instead of getting their asses of the chair and changing it.
Well, you allow the government to declare that screaming "FIRE" in a crowded theatre is forbidden. Does that mean that you really don't have any freedom of speech at all?
Let's not forget that any form of freedom demands responsability. The more freedom you have, the more responsability you have as well.
Responsability for what/whom you may ask?
Yourself, your family and basically your own society as a whole.
So, by your analogy, the richest man in the world is the free-est man in the world, the second-richest man, the second free-est etc...?
I think it's even the same argument for plain old film as for the vinil records. They sound softer and, as far as I have read in this discussion, the film looks softer too.
Ah, so I'm all of a sudden less "free" if I pay more taxes?
You mention Finland and Norway for their progressive traffic ticket rates. Tell me, HOW is that trampling on my CIVIL RIGHTS that I pay higher fines if I make more money? The purpose of fines was, last time I checked, to serve as a deterrant from commiting an offense again. If you earn, say 20K USD per month, how much of a deterrant is it from speeding to pay a 100 USD fine? Same question, only now you earn 2K USD per month.
As for the restraint on the press you mention, I live in a country with the only restraint on the press that it DOESN'T print slander or any form of racist text. This is all according to the UN Human Rights declaration.
Screaming out racist remarks or slander IS NOT FREE SPEECH.
The Universe is not the Universe's largest calculator. That title belongs to Earth. Everybody knows that who has read the Hitchhiker's Guide.
Sue them. That's what you guys do in the US, right? ;-).
After all they are performing a sort of a DoS by checking everything you have, it's even borderline trespassing, so unless they have a searchwarrant (which I doubt) anything they discover is not permissable as evidence in court. Also if you are "clean" you could perhaps squeeze in a slander charge seeing as they wrongfully accuse you (by searching) of stealing software/other copyrighted material.
How can one NOT be dependent on fossil fuel when the tool responsible for generating more than half of a countries export income is powered by fossil fuel. (I'm talking about the trawlers here).
If I steal a car from the dealership, the dealership is MORALLY OBLIGATED to give me warranty on the stolen car?
/. ... but this is ridiculous.
I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy on
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now, as for void Universe::doStuff() however, that can NOT be represented in 4 lines of code.
And make the callER pay for the telephonecall.
/. has been over this a dozen times, but I STILL don't understand the logic behind making the recipient of a telephonecall foot the bill.
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It would seem unfair to take the person representing the victim of plain land-theft to court now wouldn't it?
Cockroaches have been around for millions of years, does that make them God's chosen creature? Also, the chinese have been around for even longer than the jews so (by your logic) they are God's chosen people.
I believe your parent post said 400 meters _out of range_, which by your suggestion would make about 9,4km...
A patent for a patent office.
Have the patent office approve it and then sue the patent office into oblivion for infringement.
Let me get this straight, you actually prefer the teacher teaching wrong facts than for someone (who seems to know better) to actually have the courage to correct him?
*sigh*shakes-head-in-disbelief*
Or is that _still_ at a meager 2GB limit?
Hell I'm running KDE 2.2 from a Suse 7,3 live CD at home (kinda hard to run it from the hard drive when the hard drive is dead) and I'm barely using more than 1/3 of my 256 megs o'ram
Well, IIRC there was this guy a few years ago who proved that it CAN be done, and he proved it by actually doing it.
My favourite from that movie was when the not-so-nice scientist (you know, the same guy who was Newman in Seinfeld) was cought on a live camera, which in the movie of course was nothing more than a quicktime file running.
Hell they didn't even bother hiding the progress bar.
Can't wait for some kid to walk with one of those into CompUSA and rip Office X without even plugging into the computer:)
Nah, it's not dead, it just smells funny :-)
The GPL is a much misunderstood license.
The GPL does NOT force you to give your software to everybody.
Repeat after me, the GPL does NOT force you to to run around throwing CDs with your software like you're AOL. It does NOT force you to upload your software to every public ftp site known to man.
The GPL ONLY forces you to hand over the source code to those you sell your software to, should they want it of course. And following that allowing them to modify it for their needs, which in turn forces them to give you the source to the modifications if you want it.
Well, take this with a pinch of salt, but...
I do believe you can use the new email client EntourageX for connecting to Exchange (if you can be without the scheduling and group calendar stuff, i.e. just for mail).
If by "NTFS drives" you mean your network drives/shares then according to the OSX website you can connect seamlessly to windows shares on the network, same goes for Samba.
Also as some have pointed out in replies to this article you can run a rootless X server to run your remote X apps.
But like I said, take this with a grain of salt and try whatever suits you best, do a little of your own research, this is after all _your_ computer/environment.