They day Brittanica goes the way of the dodo we may lose all the content (the new owners/creditors may not be inclined to continue in the encyclopedia business).
With Wikipedia that is far more difficult since the contents is free and distributable (and even modifyable).
And how do you beat having many experts debating an article compared to one or two in traditional encyclopedias?
Those "everyone" do not seem to have any problem to move from Windows3.11 to Windows95 and from ther to WindowsNT or Windows2000, and from there to WindowsXP.
All those migrations are not smooth, many things change (as we can attest by the great side business that teaching MS software is, a whole industry in helping people use the "user friendly" products of MS reaps the benefits).
It is completely disingineous to see people migrating all the time to very different software platforms whose only similarity is the name of the manufacturer and then deny that that same peoplsomehow would become stupid if they would need to migrate to OSS solutions.
Pure and adultereted FUD and patronizing of users covered by the sheepskin of concern for loss of productivity.
I just don't want to be part of that cossy word in which choice is completely taken away from the consumer.
If your freedom of choice as a costumer is valued in as much as a little inconveninece to run an installation program, then your freedom has no value at all.
Mine does have value, and I will go through some additional hope to configure my computer if that ensures I have freedom of choice when using softwware, no matter on which platform.
It is thanks to organizations like AI that rogue goverments get criticism that otherwise would not exist due to commercial or political niceties and expediency.
When the US and the UK were busy helping a certain Hussein against Iran, AI was all around the place denouncing his attrocities.
People that wanted to listen, learned and listend.
One of the main reasons I left was exactly the drastic reductions on freedoms.
In Singapore if you are an oposition politician the goverment will sue you for libel everytime you dare to advance a criticism. Until today all the judgments have gone, surprise, surpirse, in the favour of the goverment.
Newspapers, books and magazines are heavily censored, the Internet was proxied which is quite effective there given the small size of the country.
In Malaysia it was similar with the slants proper of an Islamic country.
I have to say in favour of Malaysia tha they are by far the most open Muslim country, but that may be constrained to Kuala Lumpur and some other places with heavy Chinese influence. In most conservative provinces you have your traditionall mullah trying to impose Sharia law and banning such evil endeavours as computer games and beauty pageants.
The help of the US was of course important to divert German troops, but the amount of USSR people dead (20 million) says where the war was won.
And also Germany was not unoppossed, they simply were vastly superior. The US are not unopossed in Iraq for example, but they steamrolled their way to Baghdad all the same.
The middle classes in both rich and poor countries have this unshakable belief tha they have the right to cruise on ther inneficient polluting cars around the country, or to take cheap hollidays in spite of the environmental damage they cause, or to replace their electronic gadgets every 2 years.
If all this means that the "middle class" will have less money and thus will become more judicious about ther spending patterns I am all for it.
People in rich civilized countries today rarely have to worry about eating, a roof or healthcare and their health problems are due to overconsumption issues (hearth attack, obesity, smoking).
So cry me a river for the middle class, I think it is high time some of that wealth is redistributed elsewhere.
There are composers that write a single thing worth hearing on their whole lives.
As an extreme example take Ruggiero Leoncavallo. He wrote only one opera that remains widely popular, "Paggliaci". All the rest was rubish.
I don't understand how somebody could be lacking musical taste for not accepting all the output of a given artist.
As in many other fields, 90% of the musci produced is normaly crap, and this applies very often to musci produced by the same musician, even in the same album.
You should have a secure repository that can be accessed through an encrypted connection using a browser (the web server should be in an unusual TCP port so it is easy to create firewall rules).
email should be not a means to share executables, the age of innocence is over and things should be done in a professional way to avoid problems.
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They day Brittanica goes the way of the dodo we may lose all the content (the new owners/creditors may not be inclined to continue in the encyclopedia business).
With Wikipedia that is far more difficult since the contents is free and distributable (and even modifyable).
And how do you beat having many experts debating an article compared to one or two in traditional encyclopedias?
You can do things on your side to save bandwith and resources.
If you don;t want something to be visisted you have all the power o close it, make it read only or throttl;e the number of requests it answers.
I get in excess of 50 spams per day in Yahoo.
Those "everyone" do not seem to have any problem to move from Windows3.11 to Windows95 and from ther to WindowsNT or Windows2000, and from there to WindowsXP.
All those migrations are not smooth, many things change (as we can attest by the great side business that teaching MS software is, a whole industry in helping people use the "user friendly" products of MS reaps the benefits).
It is completely disingineous to see people migrating all the time to very different software platforms whose only similarity is the name of the manufacturer and then deny that that same peoplsomehow would become stupid if they would need to migrate to OSS solutions.
Pure and adultereted FUD and patronizing of users covered by the sheepskin of concern for loss of productivity.
She did not denied it, she just said it was speculation.
Obviously you are not familiar with euro-speak.
I just don't want to be part of that cossy word in which choice is completely taken away from the consumer.
If your freedom of choice as a costumer is valued in as much as a little inconveninece to run an installation program, then your freedom has no value at all.
Mine does have value, and I will go through some additional hope to configure my computer if that ensures I have freedom of choice when using softwware, no matter on which platform.
...LDAP, NIS, NIS+, etc.
Fucking ignorant trolls.
Nice to see capitalism giving us more options to us, lucky consumers.
Profitting from human misery is immoral, no matter how you spin it.
By large the OSS world does not profit from their products, there are companies that do (Sun) and rightly are also mentioned in the report.
Since when?
You have been listening too much to right wing media...
It is thanks to organizations like AI that rogue goverments get criticism that otherwise would not exist due to commercial or political niceties and expediency.
When the US and the UK were busy helping a certain Hussein against Iran, AI was all around the place denouncing his attrocities.
People that wanted to listen, learned and listend.
People like you, ignored them.
We all know the consequences.
They go hiring bricklayers for the development of a multiplataform trading system, an embedded OS or the administration of datacentres.
Be thankful Mexicans ignore lame ass trade barriers and go to work to the US, that keeps vast tracts of the US economy running smoothly.
... then you are completely misinformed.
One of the main reasons I left was exactly the drastic reductions on freedoms.
In Singapore if you are an oposition politician the goverment will sue you for libel everytime you dare to advance a criticism. Until today all the judgments have gone, surprise, surpirse, in the favour of the goverment.
Newspapers, books and magazines are heavily censored, the Internet was proxied which is quite effective there given the small size of the country.
In Malaysia it was similar with the slants proper of an Islamic country.
I have to say in favour of Malaysia tha they are by far the most open Muslim country, but that may be constrained to Kuala Lumpur and some other places with heavy Chinese influence. In most conservative provinces you have your traditionall mullah trying to impose Sharia law and banning such evil endeavours as computer games and beauty pageants.
Germany lost in Europe due mainly to the USSR.
The help of the US was of course important to divert German troops, but the amount of USSR people dead (20 million) says where the war was won.
And also Germany was not unoppossed, they simply were vastly superior. The US are not unopossed in Iraq for example, but they steamrolled their way to Baghdad all the same.
The middle classes in both rich and poor countries have this unshakable belief tha they have the right to cruise on ther inneficient polluting cars around the country, or to take cheap hollidays in spite of the environmental damage they cause, or to replace their electronic gadgets every 2 years.
If all this means that the "middle class" will have less money and thus will become more judicious about ther spending patterns I am all for it.
People in rich civilized countries today rarely have to worry about eating, a roof or healthcare and their health problems are due to overconsumption issues (hearth attack, obesity, smoking).
So cry me a river for the middle class, I think it is high time some of that wealth is redistributed elsewhere.
The parent post is not interesting.
It is completely misinformed.
It has been legally established that MS, for all intents and purposes is a monopoly.
Anything else about this matter is uninformed babbling that deserves only to be rebuked as soon as such nonsense is repeated (yet once again).
.... is different to the on in which this thread lives (in other words your shameless plug is completely off-topic).
Is a bunch of songs, very often loosely connected to each other any way.
I don't see why selling one song only should make any difference, it is not like an "album" is a serious musical form.
If that is a problem, bundle all together in a single file and sell it aa an unique item, but we are not talking sonatas or fugues here...
There are composers that write a single thing worth hearing on their whole lives.
As an extreme example take Ruggiero Leoncavallo. He wrote only one opera that remains widely popular, "Paggliaci". All the rest was rubish.
I don't understand how somebody could be lacking musical taste for not accepting all the output of a given artist.
As in many other fields, 90% of the musci produced is normaly crap, and this applies very often to musci produced by the same musician, even in the same album.
You should have a secure repository that can be accessed through an encrypted connection using a browser (the web server should be in an unusual TCP port so it is easy to create firewall rules).
email should be not a means to share executables, the age of innocence is over and things should be done in a professional way to avoid problems.
.... I was of by only 1/2 hour (only 5:30 hours sleep!).
A periodic brake reminder:
"You lazy bummer, stop salivating about Lara and take a break"
Or something about those paternalistic lines.
How do you know?
Are you keeping statistics or something?
Or may it be your are pulling out this one out of thin air?