Last, Bhopal killed 17,000 people. This spill will kill no one, unless we've suddenly started counting birds and fish as people. The birds and fish will recover. The victims of Bhopal aren't coming back.
Though the media seems to have forgotten, this spill has in fact killed 11 people so far.
I was very pleased to find that Linksys was offering source drivers for my wireless USB network device, and that NVIDIA offers Linux source drivers as well (I've been out of the Linux loop for a while). I just wish more hardware vendors would follow their example and start supporting non-standard operating systems.
I was hoping the electronic freedom movement could gain some ground by other countries refusing to recognize the DMCA. Leave it to the Australian government to pass anti-digital freedom legislation:/
At least it's not as draconian as its U.S. counterpart.
There was an arcticle about this in the last version of Newsweek as well, and it got me thinking - what's stopping people from bypassing those protection layers? All you would need to burn a CD/make a normal mp3/etc. of *ANY* audio file is a way of making a wav file of its playback, right? I mean, even if you can only use their player, you'd just need to take one of those male-male adapters and plug your speaker port into your mic jack, and POOF, suddenly I've violated the DMCA!
Now that Corel's 'vested interest' (gun to their head) in staying out of Linux has been removed, is there anything stopping them from going back to Linux/open source development? It would seem that all MS did was set Corel back a few months, and themselves back a large chunk of change. In other words, I'm missing something. Hey, it's Microsoft - there has to be something underhanded going on... right?
You'd think a teacher would've read Farenheit 451. The book is an attack on the very same reasoning that seems to have been used to yank this poor girl's project -- the desire to not have to think too hard about anything. It's so easy to form a knee-jerk opinion to use as an anchoring heuristic of sorts, while completely shutting out everything else, whether consciously or through conditioning.
Once again, we are seeing that teachers/administrators do not know how to deal with a student on an exceptional level of operation.
While I think that Mr. Allachin's diatribe was ridicu^H^H^H^H^H^Hstupid, I have to wonder if some Open Source proponents haven't shot the movement in the foot by opposing Microsoft so rabidly. After all, whether we like it or not, they ARE the dominant force in the software industry, and will be for some time to come. I don't see how MS can be unaware of the "us vs. them" attitude that, while perhaps not prevalent in the open source community, is the one being most forcefully voiced.
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BP = Bhopal for the Gulf.
Last, Bhopal killed 17,000 people. This spill will kill no one, unless we've suddenly started counting birds and fish as people. The birds and fish will recover. The victims of Bhopal aren't coming back.
Though the media seems to have forgotten, this spill has in fact killed 11 people so far.
I was about to say... it would be rather ironic of them to put the thing in a heated building.
I was very pleased to find that Linksys was offering source drivers for my wireless USB network device, and that NVIDIA offers Linux source drivers as well (I've been out of the Linux loop for a while). I just wish more hardware vendors would follow their example and start supporting non-standard operating systems.
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You'd think a teacher would've read Farenheit 451. The book is an attack on the very same reasoning that seems to have been used to yank this poor girl's project -- the desire to not have to think too hard about anything. It's so easy to form a knee-jerk opinion to use as an anchoring heuristic of sorts, while completely shutting out everything else, whether consciously or through conditioning.
Once again, we are seeing that teachers/administrators do not know how to deal with a student on an exceptional level of operation.
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While I think that Mr. Allachin's diatribe was ridicu^H^H^H^H^H^Hstupid, I have to wonder if some Open Source proponents haven't shot the movement in the foot by opposing Microsoft so rabidly. After all, whether we like it or not, they ARE the dominant force in the software industry, and will be for some time to come. I don't see how MS can be unaware of the "us vs. them" attitude that, while perhaps not prevalent in the open source community, is the one being most forcefully voiced.
Just a thought.
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