> in a democratic country, if a very large percentage of the population willingly infringes a law, there is a > very strong case that the law is wrong, not the people.
The most insightful post on Slashdot, ever.
Thanks for this one.
This should be inserted as the preamble of all constitutions.
Superman tells :
- Last week I was flying over New York City, when I saw Wonder Woman, on the roof of a skyscraper, naked, her pussy wet, and groaning. Then of course my dick had a Super erection, and then I flew over her and fucked her Super fast.
> There's no real reason for it, it's strictly a software (or firmware) limitation put in by the manufacturer.
Not sure.
I own an Epson DX6050, and in some circumstances black is printed using the black cartridge, but sometimes using the C, M and Y cartridges. Maybe it depends on the quality or something like that I'm not sure, but this could explain why this printer refuses to print when a single cartridge is empty.
Earlier today I went to purchase a Wii at the local Toys"R"Us and they had I think at least 10/15 of them if I believe the number of boxes on the shelves. It's true that I've seen 3 other people purchase one in half an hour though, but there doesn't seem to be any shortage (I live in France).
So is there a problem only in the USA, or is this shortage announce a way for Nintendo to sell even more consoles ?
> In fact, if an event changes macroscopic state of ANY physical object - it > already counts as observation.
Like when I said "You don't need your fingers to see" to my 2 years old when she said "I just want to look at this" while playing with some fragile stuff...
Incredule at first, I've just looked for five good minutes straight in the Sun without any filter. I can garantee you there are still a lot of dark spots !
I'm currently waiting for an answer to a formal letter I've sent to ACER wrt a similar problem where one of the two machines I purchased on the very same day don't start anymore and beeps at POST time (looks like CPU or memory problem), after ten months of perfect working in dual boot. Their brain dead tech support was only able to read her decisional flowchart instead of being able to just think. It basically went : Her : "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me "the original Windows XP is still installed on this machine, but the machine doesn't even boot, so how do you want me to reinstall Windows XP ?". Her "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me : "Please could you just think a bit about it ?". Her "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me : "Could I speak to your manager please ?". Her "Good bye!". Me "Could you give me your name again please ?". Her "Good bye!". Problem for her : I had her name already... Still waiting (one week and running)...
It would be better for them to directly use robots : this wouldn't change anything for consumers, and would be better for their bottom line.
> I'm sorry, but there are no circumstances in which I'd consider
You said it above : "I" (i.e. "YOU")
Please reread my post. From an individual's own point of view a murder (or any death) IS more important than the suffering caused by proprietary software, I completely agree with this.
Now instead of thinking as an individual you try to think at a higher level trying to think like what "humanity as a whole" thinks is important or not, you'll see that an individual's death doesn't matter, at all, but global knowledge does.
> according to your logic, closed source software is more of a crime > than the murder of one of your family.
From my own point of view or from the point of view of any member of my own family, you're perfectly right : a murder would matter much much more.
From the point of view of humanity as a whole, and considering how many people die or are born each day, I'm not sure a murder matters that much compared to the problems caused to so many people by closed source software...
> it could pull the rug out from modern printing support > (I'm not talking about crusty old lpd) and leave a number > of distros high and dry.
I hope I'm wrong, but I think this is exactly what they'll do as fast as they can.
> Also, am I the only one who finds a July 11, 2007 announcement > about something that happened in February 2007 a little bit > strange?
No, you're not alone.
That being said, I can't blame the developer for taking the cash especially if CUPS/ESPPrintPro was his only source of income. But if he ever gets fired by them (I hope not), he will neither have a job nor his copyrights anymore...
Today's Iraqis and three thousand years ago Babylonians haven't probably very much in common, probably like between you and people who lived 3000 years ago where you're currently living.
If I had wanted to introduce Iraq in this discussion, I would have written just this "Iraq", and not written anything about Babylon in the first place (and yes, I know where it is).
"junk DNA" reminds me of the mysterious "dark matter", or "god" or whatever words we use to name something we know nothing about and don't understand, to give them some sort of magical status. It would probably be better to call it "unknown DNA", or "DNA Incognita", or even why not "Here be Dragons", to better remind us of how ancient maps were conceived (answer : it took ages to "publicly" discover all continents and isles). One thing I'm sure is that Nature doesn't waste resources, only Humans do, so each yet unknown thing has certainely a very good reason to be there.
Slashdot Mirror
six knowledgeable people, Is space exploration is worth the public cost?
No, they should spend money teaching how to speak and write instead.
> in a democratic country, if a very large percentage of the population willingly infringes a law, there is a
> very strong case that the law is wrong, not the people.
The most insightful post on Slashdot, ever.
Thanks for this one.
This should be inserted as the preamble of all constitutions.
Superman is drinking and chatting with Spiderman.
Superman tells :
- Last week I was flying over New York City, when I saw Wonder Woman, on the roof of a skyscraper, naked, her pussy wet, and groaning. Then of course my dick had a Super erection, and then I flew over her and fucked her Super fast.
Spiderman :
- Wasn't she angry after you ?
Superman :
- No, but Invisibleman was !
You forgot :
+d) Profit !
> There's no real reason for it, it's strictly a software (or firmware) limitation put in by the manufacturer.
Not sure.
I own an Epson DX6050, and in some circumstances black is printed using the black cartridge, but sometimes using the C, M and Y cartridges. Maybe it depends on the quality or something like that I'm not sure, but this could explain why this printer refuses to print when a single cartridge is empty.
(and YES, this sucks !)
No he won't be fired, if he's all of this he will probably be executed instead.
Earlier today I went to purchase a Wii at the local Toys"R"Us and they had I think at least 10/15 of them if I believe the number of boxes on the shelves. It's true that I've seen 3 other people purchase one in half an hour though, but there doesn't seem to be any shortage (I live in France).
So is there a problem only in the USA, or is this shortage announce a way for Nintendo to sell even more consoles ?
> In fact, if an event changes macroscopic state of ANY physical object - it
> already counts as observation.
Like when I said "You don't need your fingers to see" to my 2 years old when she said "I just want to look at this" while playing with some fragile stuff...
Are they related to spelling checkers ?
Maybe the problem is that not a lot of people visit your website.
You've got 70 downloads. It's bad if your website attracts 1000000 visits a day,
but very good if it's something like 10 visits a day.
Do you have a visits per download (or the other way around) ratio available ?
That would be interesting.
Too bad there's probably some prior art in this matter...
Let's hope prior art is from IBM as well !
Reminds me of another camping joke :
Two guys are out camping... During the night, one of them hears something and asks the other one :
- Are you masturbating ???
- Yes
- Please could you do this with your own cock ?
Incredule at first, I've just looked for five good minutes straight in the Sun without any filter. I can garantee you there are still a lot of dark spots !
I'm currently waiting for an answer to a formal letter I've sent to ACER wrt a similar problem where one of the two machines I purchased on the very same day don't start anymore and beeps at POST time (looks like CPU or memory problem), after ten months of perfect working in dual boot. Their brain dead tech support was only able to read her decisional flowchart instead of being able to just think. It basically went : Her : "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me "the original Windows XP is still installed on this machine, but the machine doesn't even boot, so how do you want me to reinstall Windows XP ?". Her "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me : "Please could you just think a bit about it ?". Her "I can't do anything for you until you reinstall the original Windows XP". Me : "Could I speak to your manager please ?". Her "Good bye!". Me "Could you give me your name again please ?". Her "Good bye!". Problem for her : I had her name already...
Still waiting (one week and running)...
It would be better for them to directly use robots : this wouldn't change anything for consumers, and would be better for their bottom line.
helloworld
One of the fastest applications out there, and it's small !
> I'm sorry, but there are no circumstances in which I'd consider
You said it above : "I" (i.e. "YOU")
Please reread my post. From an individual's own point of view a murder (or any death) IS more important than the suffering caused by proprietary software, I completely agree with this.
Now instead of thinking as an individual you try to think at a higher level trying to think like what "humanity as a whole" thinks is important or not, you'll see that an individual's death doesn't matter, at all, but global knowledge does.
> according to your logic, closed source software is more of a crime
> than the murder of one of your family.
From my own point of view or from the point of view of any member of my own family, you're perfectly right : a murder would matter much much more.
From the point of view of humanity as a whole, and considering how many people die or are born each day, I'm not sure a murder matters that much compared to the problems caused to so many people by closed source software...
> He thought closed source software was a greater imposition on freedom than holding
> wedding memories hostage.
He's right : who cares about your wedding pictures besides your own family ?
Any trivial software can easily have hundreds of users, so it being proprietary or Free Software is more important than your own pictures.
This is because it could benefit to the collectivity (humanity) as a whole instead
of to a few people only.
Indeed !
> it could pull the rug out from modern printing support
> (I'm not talking about crusty old lpd) and leave a number
> of distros high and dry.
I hope I'm wrong, but I think this is exactly what they'll do as fast as they can.
> Also, am I the only one who finds a July 11, 2007 announcement
> about something that happened in February 2007 a little bit
> strange?
No, you're not alone.
That being said, I can't blame the developer for taking the cash especially if CUPS/ESPPrintPro was his only source of income. But if he ever gets fired by them (I hope not), he will neither have a job nor his copyrights anymore...
Today's Iraqis and three thousand years ago Babylonians haven't probably very much in common, probably like between you and people who lived 3000 years ago where you're currently living.
If I had wanted to introduce Iraq in this discussion, I would have written just this "Iraq", and not written anything about Babylon in the first place (and yes, I know where it is).
> I'm afraid that the USA makes an easy target for outrage and will always be an easy target.
Always ? Don't worry, nobody makes the Romans or Babylonians an easy target anymore...
"junk DNA" reminds me of the mysterious "dark matter", or "god" or whatever words we use to name something we know nothing about and don't understand, to give them some sort of magical status. It would probably be better to call it "unknown DNA", or "DNA Incognita", or even why not "Here be Dragons", to better remind us of how ancient maps were conceived (answer : it took ages to "publicly" discover all continents and isles).
One thing I'm sure is that Nature doesn't waste resources, only Humans do, so each yet unknown thing has certainely a very good reason to be there.
Just try this one instead :
/bin/cat)
echo "Hello from the past" | (sleep 300 &&
> Even though I know God exists
How do you know this ?
Did you meet him personally or did you read this story in a book ?