Maybe you don't think that stuff's important. A lot of people do think it's important, myself included. Is that the only criterion I base my decisions on? Of course not. I wouldn't buy Fair Trade coffee if it wasn't good coffee.
But that's just the point. FOSS is "good coffee." And people should be aware of the ethical implications of their actions.
Yet you fucktards STILL don't understand why Linux isn't catching on.
No, we just don't care. The goal isn't to "catch on," or to convert all the idiots that download OMGHOTLESBOS-ACTION.exe and wonder why their computer's running so much slower now.
The goal is to make shit that works. And guess what? Shit works.
The "OSS team," whatever that may be, seems to be doing just fine, thanks. Really, I'd say your "_real world_" needs FOSS a hell of a lot more than FOSS needs them.
Agreed. It's not like "Linux" (whatever that bland generalization may mean to you) is making money from new users (in most cases). Hell, we might all be better off without some of them; I think there is such a thing as "critical mass" in a userbase, after which point you're spending more and more time on support and less and less on innovation (see: MSFT).
I don't know how many songs I have, but it's about two solid weeks' worth. I use gmusicbrowser. It's got integrated tagging (no more opening EasyTag to change the artist name on one song), mass tagging (select a whole album and it brings you to a really slick dialogue where you can change the artist/album/genre/etc. en masse, and in a lower pane, the song names individually). It also has autofill for mass tagging (looks at the filename, you can specify it to read as artist, album, track, song or what have you).
The search and filter functions are fantastic, and the ability to delete tracks from the disk without leaving the application is handy.
It can use either gstreamer or MPG321 and OGG123 for playback. In the fords of Ferris Beuller: "I love it. It is so choice."
Look at the town reports for town with new Wal-Mart stores.
Williston VT, is one example, Augusta Maine is another, Greenville Wisconsin is another.
I don't need to look that far, really. I can look down the street of my hometown and see the former clothing store, the former bookstore, and the grocery store that's changed owners five times in ten years and still can't turn a profit (as an aside, they were the biggest retail employer in the town before Wal-Mart arrived). I can look at the people I know who work at Wal-Mart for $7.50/hr, have to live with family because they couldn't pay rent to save their lives, and are on state medical assistance.
For reference www.exxon.com...www.walmart.com
Your bias is showing. You should zip that up.
In closing: I am most definitely a self-rightious prick. But I'm right.
Without WM there, all those people on $8/h would be unemployed.
Nonsense. Without Wal-Mart, someone (or, more likely, several someones) would step in to fill the void. People gotta buy shoes, somebody's gotta sell them. Those $8/hr Wal-Mart wage slaves would likely work for someone who (gasp!) may actually live there and give half a fuck about the community around him.
Besides, if WM was that much of a danger to the community, how come people don't just ignore it until it closes its doors? If people would be off well without WM, they could choose to live without WM -- just like before.
Because the vast majority of people in this great nation are fucking idiots who wouldn't know their own self-interest if it bit them on the ass, reared up on its hind legs, and said "Hi, I'm you self-interest."
The consumer is saving more than the difference in wages between WalMart and non-WalMart employers pay.
You are being purposefully dense and disingenius. Try to say, with a straight face, that consumers save more than, not only the wage difference (which may indeed be true, as far as that goes and for what it's worth), but the money the taxpayers shell out to send all those employees to the doctor when they're sick, the money that (formerly) local manufacturing is losing to overseas competition, and the money we're just throwing at Wal-Marts all over the country in property tax breaks and other municipal incentives.
Unless Wal-Mart's printing money in Arkansas, it's a zero-sum game by definition. And that's the way economics works.
Their wages are too low? Oh, come on! Just pretend Wal-Mart doesn't exist, and work elsewhere, but don't complain about them.
Your ignorance is showing. That's not how economics works. When Wal-Mart moves into an area, especially a small town that is the commercial hub of a surrounding rural area (their favorite, really), they are always the largest employer in that area. Therefore, when Wal-Mart's wages go down, the prevailing wage goes with it. Beyond that, they are a taxpayer burden. Many Wal-Mart employees are on some form of public assistance, be it welfare or medical insurance or what have you, because of Wal-Mart's treatment of their employees. That makes life harder and money tighter for everyone.
Futhermore, Wal-Mart has the annoying tendency to totally throttle small businesses (clothiers, bookstores, electronics stores, grocery stores, any damn kind of store, really). So where would you suggest someone in the retail business go work in that situation?
Install the w32codecs package, in the Universe repositories. Two clicks, done. If that's too much for you, then you are lazy and just like to bitch, and XP is the OS for you.
on the downside, there doesn't seem to be any good way of upgrading packages (Firefox to 1.5 or my NVidia drivers) when the current version isn't in the repository (I'm probably missing something).
You're not missing anything. Part of having a 6 month release cycle means that the developers don't really focus on "non-critical" upgrades (of which your definition may vary). Bummer, certainly, but part of the price you pay for having a stable, yet still almost-cutting-edge distro every six month.
The Wikipeida is NOT something to cite in a scientific journal...it isn't a hard scientific reference, it isn't even an encyclopedia.
Bullshit. It says right on the top of their front page: Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. That's the title of their page. Now, you and I know that's bullshit, but that is how they advertise themselves, and that's the problem.
Unfortunately, many of them will fill that their web experience is being compromised
By "many of them," you are surely not referring to millions of starving, mostly illiterate African children who have never seen a computer in their lives, let alone a web browser. Are you, then, referring to the white, well-to-do sponsors of the project and their (apparently) asinine expectations?
Humans made music (some of which...gasp!...you can listen to today on public radio for free (speech and beer)) for thousands of years before DRM, or even copyright. If all that vanished last week, I didn't get the memo.
Ye gods, then you'd have...an out-of-the-box Ubuntu install. Nope, sure can't play music or surf teh intarwub or write a letter or check your email or draw a picture or play a game.
Similarly, if I ask you, "Do open source and open standards have credible value for my business?" and you say "Fuck yeah dude and anybody who tells you different is an asshole who sucks Bill Gates' cock all day!" and you're wearing a Penny Arcade t-shirt, shorts, four facial piercings, and a ponytail..
Reductio ad absurdum: A type of logical argument where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, arrives at an absurd result, and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong, since it led to this absurd result. This is also known as proof by contradiction.
The "short-sighted uniformed asshole" is the same "short-sighted uninformed asshole" who is going to open their pocketbooks when see opportunities arise.
Good, fuck 'em. That selfsame shortsighted, uninformed asshole? His time is fucking short. He's an endangered species and he doesn't even know it.
The game does indeed have rules. And as long as we're on the supply side, the rules are indeed OURS.
A person that dress how they want and doesn't care about how they look may also not care about being on time, meeting deadlines, following guidelines, or security procedures.
I see this argument advanced all the time whenever a topic like this comes up. I've never understood it. How the hell do you correlate those two things? What do they have in common? Inquiring minds want to know.
If someone is black and they dress and behave in a civilized (i.e., "Huxtable") manner, then racism becomes a non-issue. What do you suppose that means?
The wiki actually gives more-complex-than-required instructions (symlinks and whatnot). I just downloaded the new version from Mozilla, unpacked in in/home, and pointed my gnome widgets directly at it (/home/youradhere/firefox/firefox).
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Maybe you don't think that stuff's important. A lot of people do think it's important, myself included. Is that the only criterion I base my decisions on? Of course not. I wouldn't buy Fair Trade coffee if it wasn't good coffee.
But that's just the point. FOSS is "good coffee." And people should be aware of the ethical implications of their actions.
Yet you fucktards STILL don't understand why Linux isn't catching on.
No, we just don't care. The goal isn't to "catch on," or to convert all the idiots that download OMGHOTLESBOS-ACTION.exe and wonder why their computer's running so much slower now.
The goal is to make shit that works. And guess what? Shit works.
The "OSS team," whatever that may be, seems to be doing just fine, thanks. Really, I'd say your "_real world_" needs FOSS a hell of a lot more than FOSS needs them.
I have mp3 and wm* support only for the ability to convert to free formats. But I do see your point.
Agreed. It's not like "Linux" (whatever that bland generalization may mean to you) is making money from new users (in most cases). Hell, we might all be better off without some of them; I think there is such a thing as "critical mass" in a userbase, after which point you're spending more and more time on support and less and less on innovation (see: MSFT).
I don't know how many songs I have, but it's about two solid weeks' worth. I use gmusicbrowser. It's got integrated tagging (no more opening EasyTag to change the artist name on one song), mass tagging (select a whole album and it brings you to a really slick dialogue where you can change the artist/album/genre/etc. en masse, and in a lower pane, the song names individually). It also has autofill for mass tagging (looks at the filename, you can specify it to read as artist, album, track, song or what have you).
The search and filter functions are fantastic, and the ability to delete tracks from the disk without leaving the application is handy.
It can use either gstreamer or MPG321 and OGG123 for playback. In the fords of Ferris Beuller: "I love it. It is so choice."
I tried changing the default search...I didn't like the thinbg anyhow.
I don't know, but if you typed it in by hand, you may want to check the spelling.
Look at the town reports for town with new Wal-Mart stores.
Williston VT, is one example, Augusta Maine is another, Greenville Wisconsin is another.
I don't need to look that far, really. I can look down the street of my hometown and see the former clothing store, the former bookstore, and the grocery store that's changed owners five times in ten years and still can't turn a profit (as an aside, they were the biggest retail employer in the town before Wal-Mart arrived). I can look at the people I know who work at Wal-Mart for $7.50/hr, have to live with family because they couldn't pay rent to save their lives, and are on state medical assistance.
For reference www.exxon.com...www.walmart.com
Your bias is showing. You should zip that up.
In closing: I am most definitely a self-rightious prick. But I'm right.
Without WM there, all those people on $8/h would be unemployed.
Nonsense. Without Wal-Mart, someone (or, more likely, several someones) would step in to fill the void. People gotta buy shoes, somebody's gotta sell them. Those $8/hr Wal-Mart wage slaves would likely work for someone who (gasp!) may actually live there and give half a fuck about the community around him.
Besides, if WM was that much of a danger to the community, how come people don't just ignore it until it closes its doors? If people would be off well without WM, they could choose to live without WM -- just like before.
Because the vast majority of people in this great nation are fucking idiots who wouldn't know their own self-interest if it bit them on the ass, reared up on its hind legs, and said "Hi, I'm you self-interest."
Thank your that insightful analysis and thoughtful commentary.
The consumer is saving more than the difference in wages between WalMart and non-WalMart employers pay.
You are being purposefully dense and disingenius. Try to say, with a straight face, that consumers save more than, not only the wage difference (which may indeed be true, as far as that goes and for what it's worth), but the money the taxpayers shell out to send all those employees to the doctor when they're sick, the money that (formerly) local manufacturing is losing to overseas competition, and the money we're just throwing at Wal-Marts all over the country in property tax breaks and other municipal incentives.
Unless Wal-Mart's printing money in Arkansas, it's a zero-sum game by definition. And that's the way economics works.
Their wages are too low? Oh, come on! Just pretend Wal-Mart doesn't exist, and work elsewhere, but don't complain about them.
Your ignorance is showing. That's not how economics works. When Wal-Mart moves into an area, especially a small town that is the commercial hub of a surrounding rural area (their favorite, really), they are always the largest employer in that area. Therefore, when Wal-Mart's wages go down, the prevailing wage goes with it. Beyond that, they are a taxpayer burden. Many Wal-Mart employees are on some form of public assistance, be it welfare or medical insurance or what have you, because of Wal-Mart's treatment of their employees. That makes life harder and money tighter for everyone.
Futhermore, Wal-Mart has the annoying tendency to totally throttle small businesses (clothiers, bookstores, electronics stores, grocery stores, any damn kind of store, really). So where would you suggest someone in the retail business go work in that situation?
Before their vendor-lockin tactics, software was designed to be crossplatform.
Give me one example.
Install the w32codecs package, in the Universe repositories. Two clicks, done. If that's too much for you, then you are lazy and just like to bitch, and XP is the OS for you.
on the downside, there doesn't seem to be any good way of upgrading packages (Firefox to 1.5 or my NVidia drivers) when the current version isn't in the repository (I'm probably missing something).
You're not missing anything. Part of having a 6 month release cycle means that the developers don't really focus on "non-critical" upgrades (of which your definition may vary). Bummer, certainly, but part of the price you pay for having a stable, yet still almost-cutting-edge distro every six month.
The Wikipeida is NOT something to cite in a scientific journal...it isn't a hard scientific reference, it isn't even an encyclopedia.
Bullshit. It says right on the top of their front page: Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. That's the title of their page. Now, you and I know that's bullshit, but that is how they advertise themselves, and that's the problem.
Unfortunately, many of them will fill that their web experience is being compromised
By "many of them," you are surely not referring to millions of starving, mostly illiterate African children who have never seen a computer in their lives, let alone a web browser. Are you, then, referring to the white, well-to-do sponsors of the project and their (apparently) asinine expectations?
-1 Retarded.
Humans made music (some of which...gasp!...you can listen to today on public radio for free (speech and beer)) for thousands of years before DRM, or even copyright. If all that vanished last week, I didn't get the memo.
Ye gods, then you'd have...an out-of-the-box Ubuntu install. Nope, sure can't play music or surf teh intarwub or write a letter or check your email or draw a picture or play a game.
Idiot.
Similarly, if I ask you, "Do open source and open standards have credible value for my business?" and you say "Fuck yeah dude and anybody who tells you different is an asshole who sucks Bill Gates' cock all day!" and you're wearing a Penny Arcade t-shirt, shorts, four facial piercings, and a ponytail ..
Reductio ad absurdum: A type of logical argument where one assumes a claim for the sake of argument, arrives at an absurd result, and then concludes that the original assumption must have been wrong, since it led to this absurd result. This is also known as proof by contradiction.
The "short-sighted uniformed asshole" is the same "short-sighted uninformed asshole" who is going to open their pocketbooks when see opportunities arise.
Good, fuck 'em. That selfsame shortsighted, uninformed asshole? His time is fucking short. He's an endangered species and he doesn't even know it.
The game does indeed have rules. And as long as we're on the supply side, the rules are indeed OURS.
A person that dress how they want and doesn't care about how they look may also not care about being on time, meeting deadlines, following guidelines, or security procedures.
I see this argument advanced all the time whenever a topic like this comes up. I've never understood it. How the hell do you correlate those two things? What do they have in common? Inquiring minds want to know.
If someone is black and they dress and behave in a civilized (i.e., "Huxtable") manner, then racism becomes a non-issue. What do you suppose that means?
Dude, it means you're a fucking bigot.
The wiki actually gives more-complex-than-required instructions (symlinks and whatnot). I just downloaded the new version from Mozilla, unpacked in in /home, and pointed my gnome widgets directly at it (/home/youradhere/firefox/firefox).
Fair enough.