And we've seen what happens to governments that aren't designed for the common people...
When are we going to see this stuff get modded to Troll -1?
The grotesque myth that society can't foster both the common good and individual liberty should die, and btw, there are plenty (like almost all in history) of societies that have denied the freedom of the individual and still thrived. Conservatives love to encourage this kind of thought, mostly 'cause it reinforces existing authority.
I thought this kind of rhetoric became nonsense in the late 80's, and considering the current political climate in the industrialized world, well, it's near moronic.
Uh, unless you're just planning on having it on -one- server for the fun of it, you're going to have to buy client licenses for each workstation also. That's why, if you'll look at the navigation bar in the link included in the article, they list SSH for server and for workstations.
Or I suppose you imagine that you can use it to connect as many workstations as possible to one server?
Unless there's a couple thousand client machines, then it gets pricey.
And oh, btw, $565 per day isn't cheap, it's like $135,000 a year in raw salary and, from what I'd guestimate, -far- beyond the average slashdot reader's daily take. Now your company may bill you out at $70 an hour, but that's a different story.
When you talk about -average- Indian you need to consider the Indian population. While -hundreds of millions- will be left out in this undertaking, -millions- won't.
Instead of imagining a computer that costs $40k, imagine a computer that costs $10,000 in the U.S. Most wouldn't be able to afford it, but a good many people could, and would. It's not about making them a commodity, as they're becoming here, just making them within the realm of the upper middle class.
If you can save 10% on the cost of a PC, well, that's significant, but not nearly enough. U.S $200 for an operating system is beyond the frame of reference for most 3rd world economies. "Free" however, translates nicely into any language.
I'm ever surprised by the "duh" factor of some slashdot articles. Not to smack my favorite sacred cow, but come one, is this news? I guess, maybe, but not for the reasons thing were traditionally newsworthy.
"World Ends!" - Newsworthy, but kinda late.
"Piazza Gay!" - ditto
"Sun Rises in East!" - Duh.
"ICANN Corporate Whore!" - Duh.
Sadly, this isn't news, especially in this forum. Report on what happens. That's news. This, unfortunately, is common knowledge.
No, they're not amazing, just much more valuable to a company, in that they can't be replaced as easily (nearly anyone can dig a ditch). The day IT departments have names sewed onto their shirts is the day I start looking for different work.
Not ditch digging.
You're just masturbating when you say people "sitting in a cube" are lucky...
If you don't think so, I've got an opening for you. And you can listen to all the mp3s you want...
Many, many employees are allowed to bring cds and tapes to work to listen to during the day. Hell, back in the day, I used to bring a walkman to work when I was writing software manuals. Believe me, it can be hell without it.
At my company we don't allow p2p file sharing (hello proxy!), or using company time to burn cds, but we can't and shouldn't prohibit individuals from playing mp3s on their workstations, especially if they're not disturbing others.
Now swapping mp3's might be a little different. The only way we could stop that would be to prohibit them from sending binary attachments to one another (Ohhhh.... and with the Klez virus and the like it's sorely temping...) so why bother. It would be a minimal inconvenience for them to email the files to each other by broadcasting playlists.
Bottom line is, I've not seen this to be a problem. Employees don't tend to waste time doing this, and if they do, and can still make quotas, get their reports out on time, and maintain a productive work level, then why bother?
Hell, if you think about it, most jokes heard at the water fountain were written by someone, somewhere. Does it become the company's job to police these "copyright violations"?
If they're sending these jokes digitally (as has happen since the telegraph, in a lot of ways the old telegraph system was like the first p2p network) does this mean that they're violating the DMCA?
Are we (as system admins) supposed to police this? And for whom? I mean, really, what makes your (xxAA) copyright any more important than a comedians?
BTW, I heard a good one the other day...
Seems the Pope was drunk on a streetcorner in Santa Monica, and three Mormons stagger out of a local bar...
The portion, "under God" clearly violates the separation between church and state. The states that have enacted laws requiring students to recite the pledge are effectively forcing children to swear an oath and in the process subscribe to an unspecified but clearly religious figure (God). The calls for amending the words to include "your God" or "my God" miss the point. It's unconstitutional for a federally funded institution (public schools) to require students to ascribe, or even claim to ascribe, to any one specific religous belief system, or any at all for that matter.
I know some children are excluded from having to recite the pledge (Jehovah's Witnesses for example), but the act of exclusion only highlights these children as being different. Making laws to force kids to say the pledge lends the authority and approval of the state and federal government to the words it contains. "Alliegence", "flag", "nation", and "republic" all seem fine. But what's "God" got to do with it?
Uh, yeah, the U.S. was the first of all colonial states to fight and win independence from a european monarchy?
Ummm... Yeah, this insurrection caused an explosive reaction through Eurpope and directly predicated the fall of Monarchy (see Meier, Sid) or at the very least "divine right".
And, Ummm...
European colonialism enveloped most of the globe, de fact subjecting a majority of the world's population to European hegemony...
And, ah...
Independence movements eventually freed most of them....
Thus, to be a cynic, those who were "allowed" to survive owe a great deal to the American revolution.
While I have no great affinity to America's recent history (say, since the fall of the USSR), it's early history is truely significant, and,
I've seen people try to make 3d out of a 2d source before, and what ends up happing is a scene is divided into a series of flat layers that are of set depending on the supposed depth of the scene. This, while interesting to look at, isn't very exciting.
If it's not shot from a 3d camera, well, it's just not real 3d. There are a couple of companies out there pimping technology that relies on the difference in time it takes for lighter and darker shaded images to be interpreted by the brain, but these methods only work well on video with a good deal of horizontal movement. You can demonstrate this effect when you wear sunglasses and try to climb stairs. If you divide your field of vision between the lighter and darker areas and try to descend a set of stairs, the difference between when the and darker parts of the signal are interpreted can cause subtle but noticable vertigo.
I can't wait for 3d tv, but I've got to doubt any technology that works from an existing 2d source.
-dameron
I know this is off topic and a tangent, but the Irish potato famine had far more to do with the English land/rents system than with the potato fungus.
The Irish were living off an incredibly small margin, and the Irish potato was a very efficient way for many farmers to feed their families and still make the rents (usually in the form of grains for consumption by the English minority). Unfortunately it allowed the population to grow significantly from 1800-1840 so when the potato famine hit it was all the more destructive.
The fact is that the Irish had a diversified agricultural production but the fruits of this production were turned over to the English for export. The English continued to export food from Ireland for the duration of the potato famine. The Irish dependence on the potato was artificial, and had they been allowed to grow and consume the crops of their choice without the burden of "rents" for export there wouldn't have been a famine at all.
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This is like suing -trees- for someone printing copyrighted materials...
This is like suing General Electric for providing the light by which one can read copyrighted materials...
This is like suing God for providing the sight that allows someone to read copyrighted materials..
"Can you think? Pay us money!"
When does all thought become "derivative work"?
-dameron
Isn't editing the film without the creator's permission the same as creating a derivative work?
-dameron
And we've seen what happens to governments that aren't designed for the common people...
When are we going to see this stuff get modded to Troll -1?
The grotesque myth that society can't foster both the common good and individual liberty should die, and btw, there are plenty (like almost all in history) of societies that have denied the freedom of the individual and still thrived. Conservatives love to encourage this kind of thought, mostly 'cause it reinforces existing authority.
I thought this kind of rhetoric became nonsense in the late 80's, and considering the current political climate in the industrialized world, well, it's near moronic.
-dameron
Uh, unless you're just planning on having it on -one- server for the fun of it, you're going to have to buy client licenses for each workstation also. That's why, if you'll look at the navigation bar in the link included in the article, they list SSH for server and for workstations.
Or I suppose you imagine that you can use it to connect as many workstations as possible to one server?
-dameron
Unless there's a couple thousand client machines, then it gets pricey.
And oh, btw, $565 per day isn't cheap, it's like $135,000 a year in raw salary and, from what I'd guestimate, -far- beyond the average slashdot reader's daily take. Now your company may bill you out at $70 an hour, but that's a different story.
-dameron
we'd have a lot fewer "Phantom Menaces"
Oh, wait! My bad! On reflection, all directors should have their access to crack monitored...
-dameron
When you talk about -average- Indian you need to consider the Indian population. While -hundreds of millions- will be left out in this undertaking, -millions- won't.
Instead of imagining a computer that costs $40k, imagine a computer that costs $10,000 in the U.S. Most wouldn't be able to afford it, but a good many people could, and would. It's not about making them a commodity, as they're becoming here, just making them within the realm of the upper middle class.
If you can save 10% on the cost of a PC, well, that's significant, but not nearly enough. U.S $200 for an operating system is beyond the frame of reference for most 3rd world economies. "Free" however, translates nicely into any language.
-dameron
I'm ever surprised by the "duh" factor of some slashdot articles. Not to smack my favorite sacred cow, but come one, is this news? I guess, maybe, but not for the reasons thing were traditionally newsworthy.
"World Ends!" - Newsworthy, but kinda late.
"Piazza Gay!" - ditto
"Sun Rises in East!" - Duh.
"ICANN Corporate Whore!" - Duh.
Sadly, this isn't news, especially in this forum. Report on what happens. That's news. This, unfortunately, is common knowledge.
-dameron
No, they're not amazing, just much more valuable to a company, in that they can't be replaced as easily (nearly anyone can dig a ditch). The day IT departments have names sewed onto their shirts is the day I start looking for different work.
Not ditch digging.
You're just masturbating when you say people "sitting in a cube" are lucky...
If you don't think so, I've got an opening for you. And you can listen to all the mp3s you want...
-dameron
Many, many employees are allowed to bring cds and tapes to work to listen to during the day. Hell, back in the day, I used to bring a walkman to work when I was writing software manuals. Believe me, it can be hell without it.
At my company we don't allow p2p file sharing (hello proxy!), or using company time to burn cds, but we can't and shouldn't prohibit individuals from playing mp3s on their workstations, especially if they're not disturbing others.
Now swapping mp3's might be a little different. The only way we could stop that would be to prohibit them from sending binary attachments to one another (Ohhhh.... and with the Klez virus and the like it's sorely temping...) so why bother. It would be a minimal inconvenience for them to email the files to each other by broadcasting playlists.
Bottom line is, I've not seen this to be a problem. Employees don't tend to waste time doing this, and if they do, and can still make quotas, get their reports out on time, and maintain a productive work level, then why bother?
Hell, if you think about it, most jokes heard at the water fountain were written by someone, somewhere. Does it become the company's job to police these "copyright violations"?
If they're sending these jokes digitally (as has happen since the telegraph, in a lot of ways the old telegraph system was like the first p2p network) does this mean that they're violating the DMCA?
Are we (as system admins) supposed to police this? And for whom? I mean, really, what makes your (xxAA) copyright any more important than a comedians?
BTW, I heard a good one the other day...
Seems the Pope was drunk on a streetcorner in Santa Monica, and three Mormons stagger out of a local bar...
-dameron
The portion, "under God" clearly violates the separation between church and state. The states that have enacted laws requiring students to recite the pledge are effectively forcing children to swear an oath and in the process subscribe to an unspecified but clearly religious figure (God). The calls for amending the words to include "your God" or "my God" miss the point. It's unconstitutional for a federally funded institution (public schools) to require students to ascribe, or even claim to ascribe, to any one specific religous belief system, or any at all for that matter.
I know some children are excluded from having to recite the pledge (Jehovah's Witnesses for example), but the act of exclusion only highlights these children as being different. Making laws to force kids to say the pledge lends the authority and approval of the state and federal government to the words it contains. "Alliegence", "flag", "nation", and "republic" all seem fine. But what's "God" got to do with it?
-dameron
Uhm... 'Cause, uhh....
Maybe...
Uh, yeah, the U.S. was the first of all colonial states to fight and win independence from a european monarchy?
Ummm... Yeah, this insurrection caused an explosive reaction through Eurpope and directly predicated the fall of Monarchy (see Meier, Sid) or at the very least "divine right".
And, Ummm...
European colonialism enveloped most of the globe, de fact subjecting a majority of the world's population to European hegemony...
And, ah...
Independence movements eventually freed most of them....
Thus, to be a cynic, those who were "allowed" to survive owe a great deal to the American revolution.
While I have no great affinity to America's recent history (say, since the fall of the USSR), it's early history is truely significant, and,
Ummm..
revolutionary...?
-damerion
If it's not shot from a 3d camera, well, it's just not real 3d. There are a couple of companies out there pimping technology that relies on the difference in time it takes for lighter and darker shaded images to be interpreted by the brain, but these methods only work well on video with a good deal of horizontal movement. You can demonstrate this effect when you wear sunglasses and try to climb stairs. If you divide your field of vision between the lighter and darker areas and try to descend a set of stairs, the difference between when the and darker parts of the signal are interpreted can cause subtle but noticable vertigo.
I can't wait for 3d tv, but I've got to doubt any technology that works from an existing 2d source. -dameron
The Irish were living off an incredibly small margin, and the Irish potato was a very efficient way for many farmers to feed their families and still make the rents (usually in the form of grains for consumption by the English minority). Unfortunately it allowed the population to grow significantly from 1800-1840 so when the potato famine hit it was all the more destructive.
The fact is that the Irish had a diversified agricultural production but the fruits of this production were turned over to the English for export. The English continued to export food from Ireland for the duration of the potato famine. The Irish dependence on the potato was artificial, and had they been allowed to grow and consume the crops of their choice without the burden of "rents" for export there wouldn't have been a famine at all.
-dameron