publicly funded projects should be able to be GPL'ed. But they must also be PD. IOW, you can release in ANY license you want, as long as it is also available PD.
Not sure if the case was settled, but for a time, there was litigation to determine if there was one more movie due, or two. Something to do with Toy Story 2 being a sequel, and not counting for the quota.
I was grocery shopping today. I noticed that the elephant is no longer on the peanut butter cap'n crunch. And that 'thing' is no longer on the crunch berry box. I figured the first link in this story would go here. Nope. Just some boring hacker crap.
(and for those keeping score, I am in fact blocking timothy's articles from the front page. I came here after seeing the headline on another site.)
Read my journal entries on how the charges are tallied (and updates are at another site). And look at this comment where I take the editors to task. As a paying customer.
I'd plonk CT, but then I'd lose half of the articles here.
Good job. Despite the deficiencies of so many editors on slashdot, you are the first I will plonk. I only read half of what JK writes, CT can't spell his way out of a paper bag, and the less said about jamie and michael, the better.
But you let this slip through:
Of course, we must wonder if these people truly clicked no thanks...they are using AOL after all
I've got no problem slagging AOL. Or Linux. But the people who use AOL are using AOL because of bullshit arrogant types who won't teach them any better (I know, being a bs arrogant type).
You are an editor. That means you should be fixing things. Typos, bad links, abusive comments in submissions. It's one thing in a comment or journal entry. But this is front page 'news' for crying out loud.
Maybe I am just venting my spleen on you from lots of pent up garbage. Maybe you slipped. I don't know. I don't see you post. I don't know you from Adam.
And... As a paying subscriber to/., I expect more integrity. There. I said it. I feel giddy now.
No, the 'people' who run this are corporate drones of VA. Just because Larry and Rob at one time pretended to support open source, Open Source, free and Free software, doesn't mean that they aren't greedy, evil, and stupid. (Of course, accepting ads doesn't mean they ARE greedy, evil, and stupid).
My biggest problem with this is that everyone sucks Rob's dick about what he has done and how much he has given. First, Rob already got paid for the work he did when he sold out. Second, he does not seem to have done as much since then. Certainly his editing skills have not improved. And there are more duplicate stories lately than I ever remember.
But most important is that the people who *truly* make/. what it is have been ignored and sidelined, yet again. Those people are the readers. Even if JK, CT, michael, and everyone else posted and wrote each and every single front page article, that in no way compares to the number of comments written by people like you and I. WE are the content providers on/., and we get nothing for that. I'm not asking for money. Or ad-free viewings. I'm not even asking for myself.
I'm asking for Rob and the gang to once, just once, say "you readers are a great bunch of people. You've made/. what it is today. Without it, we'd be no better than any of the portal sites."
But we won't get it. Because they still think and act as if they are the ones who made/. what it is.
Making our communities smaller and more accessible. It can be a good thing. For example, I would rather talk to the guy two houses down than the guy a half mile away, even though we are technically in the same neighborhood (meatspace).
And there is a phpnuke site where I am spending more time. People are/. malcontents, but someone had the resources to setup a site, and is willing to bounce out trollers and crapflooders and etc. I won't post it here, but the guy who runs it posts more than I (as michael pointed out, he posts a fair bit) so if you are interested, you've already been there.
The danger is homogenization and balkanization. If we separate too much, we lose sight of the whole. There is also the danger of not enough dissent to make discussions interesting.
Forget junkbuster. Get yourself a good hosts file. Check out TechnoLust's recent journal entry for a discussion on hosts files. Not only are they available for free, they don't add another system resource/daemon.
Have you paid for/. yet? Time to put money where mouth is.
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Good idea, but one of the dipshits on my foes list (maybe no longer. I update it monthly or so) couldn't understand that all that marketing stuff is bullshit.
As far as your car analogy goes:
My grandfather had a car built in late 70's. Had a buzzer attached to the speedo. Every time you hit 56, it would go off. Driving with him was a constant excercise in hearing first the buzzer, then him cursing:)
(And I think I wouldn't miss Indy or F1 that much:)
Ditto. Need to work from home. What I should do is wireless (only 2 miles between home and work) but the county has something against cutting down all of those trees...
Not bad, not bad, but it commits the sin of forcing side scrolling. Open that puppy up at full page on a 640x480 machine, and you have to use the bottom scroll bar. True, I know of almost no computers that are set that small, but it does happen.
I would also argue it is a slippery slope type of thing. Today, it is people running at 640x480; tomorrow, anything less than 1280x960 has you using two scroll bars.
Whatever. You used a quote to buttress an argument. The quote was used and applied improperly. While this is an argument based on semantics, a misunderstanding of the terms used in the quote undermine the remainder of your comment.
As a matter of fact, I don't entirely disagree with most of what you said. Collusion and dumping, followed by other techniques are ways to fix prices and garner marketshare. However, you use the quoted phrase:
"In perfect competition, all products are sold at cost, and there is no profit."
If this is the case in your understanding of the phrase, please name one corporation that has ever sold at cost. Not one.
Basically, my argument (original, not necessarily this one) neither supports nor contradicts your original remark. What it did is to point out a logical problem stemming from incorrect use of a phrase 'heard somewhere'. Rather than add depth to your statement, for me, anyway, it detracted from what you were trying to say.
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Problem is, most of the Fortune 500 (M$ included) pay almost no taxes of any sort.
publicly funded projects should be able to be GPL'ed. But they must also be PD. IOW, you can release in ANY license you want, as long as it is also available PD.
Not sure if the case was settled, but for a time, there was litigation to determine if there was one more movie due, or two. Something to do with Toy Story 2 being a sequel, and not counting for the quota.
Lawsuits are currently pending against firearms manufacturers along similar grounds.
It's not that big a stretch.
Not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if porno is like hard liquor: sales up when economy is down (to drown away sorrows).
I was grocery shopping today. I noticed that the elephant is no longer on the peanut butter cap'n crunch. And that 'thing' is no longer on the crunch berry box. I figured the first link in this story would go here. Nope. Just some boring hacker crap.
(and for those keeping score, I am in fact blocking timothy's articles from the front page. I came here after seeing the headline on another site.)
All complaints about my speling should be forwarded here.
Read my journal entries on how the charges are tallied (and updates are at another site). And look at this comment where I take the editors to task. As a paying customer.
I'd plonk CT, but then I'd lose half of the articles here.
A: the grammer in that note was better than many of the front page submissions.
B: I'm an unpaid contributor to Slashdot. You can't expect the same as you do from the paid editorial staff.
C: Like I said, I'm a customer. It's my right to bitch about things.
But you let this slip through:
I've got no problem slagging AOL. Or Linux. But the people who use AOL are using AOL because of bullshit arrogant types who won't teach them any better (I know, being a bs arrogant type).
You are an editor. That means you should be fixing things. Typos, bad links, abusive comments in submissions. It's one thing in a comment or journal entry. But this is front page 'news' for crying out loud.
Maybe I am just venting my spleen on you from lots of pent up garbage. Maybe you slipped. I don't know. I don't see you post. I don't know you from Adam.
And... As a paying subscriber to
*plonk*
/. doesn't pay my mortgage, so why should I do their (or my) editing?
just a test of the new subscription program. Replied to the first comment I could see in the first story I could see.
Fair enough. A lotta people on /. talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.
No, the 'people' who run this are corporate drones of VA. Just because Larry and Rob at one time pretended to support open source, Open Source, free and Free software, doesn't mean that they aren't greedy, evil, and stupid. (Of course, accepting ads doesn't mean they ARE greedy, evil, and stupid).
/. what it is have been ignored and sidelined, yet again. Those people are the readers. Even if JK, CT, michael, and everyone else posted and wrote each and every single front page article, that in no way compares to the number of comments written by people like you and I. WE are the content providers on /., and we get nothing for that. I'm not asking for money. Or ad-free viewings. I'm not even asking for myself.
/. what it is today. Without it, we'd be no better than any of the portal sites."
/. what it is.
My biggest problem with this is that everyone sucks Rob's dick about what he has done and how much he has given. First, Rob already got paid for the work he did when he sold out. Second, he does not seem to have done as much since then. Certainly his editing skills have not improved. And there are more duplicate stories lately than I ever remember.
But most important is that the people who *truly* make
I'm asking for Rob and the gang to once, just once, say "you readers are a great bunch of people. You've made
But we won't get it. Because they still think and act as if they are the ones who made
Making our communities smaller and more accessible. It can be a good thing. For example, I would rather talk to the guy two houses down than the guy a half mile away, even though we are technically in the same neighborhood (meatspace).
/. malcontents, but someone had the resources to setup a site, and is willing to bounce out trollers and crapflooders and etc. I won't post it here, but the guy who runs it posts more than I (as michael pointed out, he posts a fair bit) so if you are interested, you've already been there.
And there is a phpnuke site where I am spending more time. People are
The danger is homogenization and balkanization. If we separate too much, we lose sight of the whole. There is also the danger of not enough dissent to make discussions interesting.
VA is a big company. Didn't they used to take CC orders for machines? Why not hook that e-commerce box up to the slash boxen?
Duh!
Forget junkbuster. Get yourself a good hosts file. Check out TechnoLust's recent journal entry for a discussion on hosts files. Not only are they available for free, they don't add another system resource/daemon.
Checked out your earlier post regarding K5.
/. yet? Time to put money where mouth is.
Have you paid for
Good idea, but one of the dipshits on my foes list (maybe no longer. I update it monthly or so) couldn't understand that all that marketing stuff is bullshit.
As far as your car analogy goes:
My grandfather had a car built in late 70's. Had a buzzer attached to the speedo. Every time you hit 56, it would go off. Driving with him was a constant excercise in hearing first the buzzer, then him cursing:)
(And I think I wouldn't miss Indy or F1 that much:)
Sorry. I think I screwed that one up. I know it used to be available...
Just checked. I can't find it. Maybe they no longer have it. I must apologize. I used to have it on my page, but dropped it when 2.3 went to 2.4.
It was really nifty. Maybe someone else can find it?
Ditto. Need to work from home. What I should do is wireless (only 2 miles between home and work) but the county has something against cutting down all of those trees...
Not bad, not bad, but it commits the sin of forcing side scrolling. Open that puppy up at full page on a 640x480 machine, and you have to use the bottom scroll bar. True, I know of almost no computers that are set that small, but it does happen.
I would also argue it is a slippery slope type of thing. Today, it is people running at 640x480; tomorrow, anything less than 1280x960 has you using two scroll bars.
Let the CmderTaco's of the world unite!
Looks like he got more hits than he was counting on. Why bother paying for a stress test when you can get your page listed on the front of /. for free?
/. stories:)
(Okay, that's unfair. I'm sure that VA charges for front page
I knew I heard a quote like that somewhere. Which book is this from, as I'd quite like to read it.
Whatever. You used a quote to buttress an argument. The quote was used and applied improperly. While this is an argument based on semantics, a misunderstanding of the terms used in the quote undermine the remainder of your comment.
As a matter of fact, I don't entirely disagree with most of what you said. Collusion and dumping, followed by other techniques are ways to fix prices and garner marketshare. However, you use the quoted phrase:
"In perfect competition, all products are sold at cost, and there is no profit."
If this is the case in your understanding of the phrase, please name one corporation that has ever sold at cost. Not one.
Basically, my argument (original, not necessarily this one) neither supports nor contradicts your original remark. What it did is to point out a logical problem stemming from incorrect use of a phrase 'heard somewhere'. Rather than add depth to your statement, for me, anyway, it detracted from what you were trying to say.