For me they are. I have a protien intolerance to them that turns peanuts into a powerful depressant. Likewise, garlic gets me stoned. I'm very careful not to drive after eating Italian food.
So if you intend to ban all mind-altering substances (albiet ones that only affect a small percentage of the population), you must ban peanuts and garlic (and probably others too). You'll have to ban sugar somewhere along the line (lest the druggie diabetics continue to abuse it). Fortunatly, you probably won't have to ban water.
I just use a PFU Industries Happy Hacker with the layout remapped to Dvorak in software. It sure cured me of the sin of looking at my hands while I type! To type in qwerty, I just need to look at the keys:-)
Yeah, RHN is slashdotted beyond belief. Fortunatly, you only need the first 3 disks to install. The others are all source code and similar useful but noncritical stuff.
Corruption in any of these files can be easily remedied by following well documented procedures. The short form is
1: boot from rescue disk,
2: fsck the root (or/boot) partition,
3: mount the root (or/boot) partition read-write,
4: restore damaged file,
5: unmount the partition,
6: sync;sync;sync
7: reboot. Done!
Oh, and there are a few more critical files and directories, like/sbin/init,/bin/sh,/etc/rc.d/, etc. They can all be recovered by following the procedure describe above.
No. Back when I used to work for the FSF we sold tapes of GNU software for significantly more than S+H. The "profit" on them was used to pay our salaries and all the other costs we couldn't get donations for. These tapes contained the same software I put on on prep for anonymous ftp. (I made the master tape images, too, so I'm sure of this.)
If you sell binaries, you must sell the corresponding source code for "for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution". But you can charge as much as you like for the binaries. And if you only sell source code, you can charge as much as you like for it.
However, since you can't prevent your customers from reselling the software at any price they like, anyone who likes can easily go into competition with you.
So how do you make money? Sell warranties and support! And training. And pretty bound manuals. And consulting services. Cygnus was profitable for years with this model (It used to be "Cygnus Suport", after all.) and if they hadn't foolishly sold out to Red Hat, they'd still be profitable.
Is it kidnapping when the police bring a convicted criminal to prison and lock him up for the duration of his sentence? Is it theft when the state takes money or property (in the form of fines) from a convicted criminal? Microsoft has been found guilty of breaking the law. Personally, I think Microsoft's officers should be sent to prison, the company should be disincorporated, and its assets should be siezed by the government as punishment for its illegal behavior. It's probably a good thing nobody elected me god.:-)
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Some clever software company (Black Helmet Software) with good lawyers needs to write a software package called "Vote Getter 2000" (or something like that). The marketing blurbs need to say that this is the best software since pork barrels for ensuring the electability of politicians.
The EULA must say the following: 1: The user agrees to pay $5000 a month forever. Once the user accepts the license, this maintenance fee cannot be terminated, reduced, or renegotiated. If the end user dies, his estate will continue to pay. Forever. 2: The end user must not say anything negative about this software to anyone. In fact, the end user must hype the software to everyone he knows. 3: The end user has no recourse if the software fails to function as advertised. (this means that the "software" can actually be a copy of Spacewar for the PDP-1.) 4: The end user agrees to vote according to the the software owner's instructions. 5: etc. etc. with every over-the-top licensing clause they can get away with.
Then they need to get at least one person to buy the software and click on the EULA (Which Black Helmet conveniently displays in yellow-on-white extra-tiny text). Then whenever that person fails to comply with one of the EULA clauses, Black Helmet needs to sue them under the UCITA. The resulting publicity and court case will effectively torpedo the UCITA in short order.
Remember, for this to work, the politicians need to be *personally* targetted to the fullest extent of the UCITA. As long as it's only their subjects^Wconstituents being targetted, they'll just listen to the software companies that are lining their pockets.
Typing in Dvorak, I more often enter letter pairs backwards, because I have more fingers moving at a time.
Typing in Dvorak significantly reduced the pain in my wrists. Maybe Dvorak is better. Maybe learning to type all over again helps you avoid the bad habbits you got into the first time you learned to type.
A Dvorak keyboard is almost as good as a locking screensaver for keeping other people away from your computer.
To type in Dvorak I look at the screen. To type QWERTY, I look at the keyboard. I cannot type in QWERTY on a keyboard labelled in Dvorak. I could type in Dvorak on a completely blank keyboard.
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For me they are. I have a protien intolerance to them that turns peanuts into a powerful depressant. Likewise, garlic gets me stoned. I'm very careful not to drive after eating Italian food.
So if you intend to ban all mind-altering substances (albiet ones that only affect a small percentage of the population), you must ban peanuts and garlic (and probably others too). You'll have to ban sugar somewhere along the line (lest the druggie diabetics continue to abuse it). Fortunatly, you probably won't have to ban water.
I just use a PFU Industries Happy Hacker with the layout remapped to Dvorak in software. It sure cured me of the sin of looking at my hands while I type! To type in qwerty, I just need to look at the keys :-)
Guilty of what? He hasn't been so much as charged with anything.
Even if he his guilty of a crime, he deserves a fair and speedy trial, with evidence and a jury and all, as set out in the constitution.
Yeah, RHN is slashdotted beyond belief. Fortunatly, you only need the first 3 disks to install. The others are all source code and similar useful but noncritical stuff.
The first time I heard that, I was with the (then) current maintainer for GNU Emacs. Who muttered "But it's only six". . .
Corruption in any of these files can be easily remedied by following well documented procedures. The short form is /boot) partition, /boot) partition read-write,
/sbin/init, /bin/sh, /etc/rc.d/, etc. They can all be recovered by following the procedure describe above.
1: boot from rescue disk,
2: fsck the root (or
3: mount the root (or
4: restore damaged file,
5: unmount the partition,
6: sync;sync;sync
7: reboot. Done!
Oh, and there are a few more critical files and directories, like
Err, it's currently implemented using NNTP. It used to be implemented with UUCP and analog modems. Remember the Telebit Trailblazer?
No. Back when I used to work for the FSF we sold tapes of GNU software for significantly more than S+H. The "profit" on them was used to pay our salaries and all the other costs we couldn't get donations for. These tapes contained the same software I put on on prep for anonymous ftp. (I made the master tape images, too, so I'm sure of this.)
If you sell binaries, you must sell the corresponding source code for "for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution". But you can charge as much as you like for the binaries. And if you only sell source code, you can charge as much as you like for it.
However, since you can't prevent your customers from reselling the software at any price they like, anyone who likes can easily go into competition with you.
So how do you make money? Sell warranties and support! And training. And pretty bound manuals. And consulting services. Cygnus was profitable for years with this model (It used to be "Cygnus Suport", after all.) and if they hadn't foolishly sold out to Red Hat, they'd still be profitable.
Buying Shiva Corp, then mismanaging it until all the top talent left. Then again, they probably didn't lose too much money on the deal.
Is it kidnapping when the police bring a convicted criminal to prison and lock him up for the duration of his sentence? Is it theft when the state takes money or property (in the form of fines) from a convicted criminal? Microsoft has been found guilty of breaking the law. Personally, I think Microsoft's officers should be sent to prison, the company should be disincorporated, and its assets should be siezed by the government as punishment for its illegal behavior. It's probably a good thing nobody elected me god. :-)
Some clever software company (Black Helmet Software) with good lawyers needs to write a software package called "Vote Getter 2000" (or something like that). The marketing blurbs need to say that this is the best software since pork barrels for ensuring the electability of politicians.
The EULA must say the following:
1: The user agrees to pay $5000 a month forever. Once the user accepts the license, this maintenance fee cannot be terminated, reduced, or renegotiated. If the end user dies, his estate will continue to pay. Forever.
2: The end user must not say anything negative about this software to anyone. In fact, the end user must hype the software to everyone he knows.
3: The end user has no recourse if the software fails to function as advertised. (this means that the "software" can actually be a copy of Spacewar for the PDP-1.)
4: The end user agrees to vote according to the the software owner's instructions.
5: etc. etc. with every over-the-top licensing clause they can get away with.
Then they need to get at least one person to buy the software and click on the EULA (Which Black Helmet conveniently displays in yellow-on-white extra-tiny text). Then whenever that person fails to comply with one of the EULA clauses, Black Helmet needs to sue them under the UCITA. The resulting publicity and court case will effectively torpedo the UCITA in short order.
Remember, for this to work, the politicians need to be *personally* targetted to the fullest extent of the UCITA. As long as it's only their subjects^Wconstituents being targetted, they'll just listen to the software companies that are lining their pockets.
Typing in Dvorak, I more often enter letter pairs backwards, because I have more fingers moving at a time.
Typing in Dvorak significantly reduced the pain in my wrists. Maybe Dvorak is better. Maybe learning to type all over again helps you avoid the bad habbits you got into the first time you learned to type.
A Dvorak keyboard is almost as good as a locking screensaver for keeping other people away from your computer.
To type in Dvorak I look at the screen. To type QWERTY, I look at the keyboard. I cannot type in QWERTY on a keyboard labelled in Dvorak. I could type in Dvorak on a completely blank keyboard.