I'm paying the phone company $15/mo for unlimited local calling. I'm paying for unlimited access, and if they want more money they can up the price of unlimited accounts. Or, they could just get rid of the problem by adding more hardware.
We don't need to solve a non-problem by more unconstitutional regulations from a regulatory body that has no right to exist.
Linux can be set up to be *significantly* easier to use than Windows. I'm constantly hearing "Do I click once or twice?" "When do I have to right click?" etc.
With KDE, this problem goes away, you left click to activate something, right click to get a context menu --- always.
With FVWM and a little bit of creativity, this can be made even simpler. (ie. See, there are the buttons on the back, for all four apps you're using, click them and it'll happen)
With Windows, or even a Mac, you just don't have enough configuration power to configure the complexities away.
True, but nobody can ever revoke your current licence on egcs x.xx or Linux 2.2.xx, and you are free to adopt the software yourself and add to it under the GPL.
With the SCSL, sun can, at any time, come up and say "Licence Revoked, no more StarOffice/Solaris/Whatever for you", and you would then loose all legal right to use that software.
I would suggest that there are other relevent datums, besides which product is the "best tool for the job".
If you don't agree with something, you should not support that thing. This includes companies. If hammer X is 7% more effective than hammer Y, but the makers of hammer X use child slave labor to produce their hammers... I'll use the slightly less effective hammer Y, thank you verry much.
Also, the USA (as well as Australia, NZ, Japan, and most of the countries in Europe) are capitolist republics. This means that the government doesn't enforce a rule of "the group is more important than the individual". Therefore, if you have a choice between two actions, one of which benifiets you a little bit, and the other of which benifiets society a lot... please choose to benfiet society... the other choice would be extremely selfish.
Can you say that supporting Microsoft helps society?
So, if the existance and inforcement of contract law breaks the utility of free market capitolism --- i say ditch contract law, all it does is makes jobs for lawyers anyway.
To allow the USA to have a truely 'free market' economy, the antitrust laws would have to be repealed.
The problem is, there are a whole bunch of laws/government policies that tend to support whatever company is doing the best in a market. (ie. Are there any schools in the country that have classes teaching Applixware on Linux?)
Until *all* government interfearance in a true free market is removed, we won't have free market capitolism here in the USA.
The "POS" app being referred to could verry well be, oh, Microsoft FTP Server Deluxe Expensive Edition, a theorietical app that requires Administraitor privs to install.
The point is, DLLs under Windows are a nasty kludge.
I believe that there was a case that specifically decided that elecronic communications over the 'net were just as protected by the first ammendment as dead tree communications.
therefore, I would think, renaming your.c source files to.txt is just as legal as printing it out and mailing it.
If you're just using it as a RTF replacement, I guess you can get away with not actually writing the HTML... just don't expect it to be a WYSIWYG format like most people who use netscape composer to write it do.
If you do web design that much, it's a good investment to actually learn HTML.
HTML was origionally designed to be written in a text editor, and it's really easy to learn.
One major problem with using an editor (other than producing dirty code) is that it tends to make you want to get the layout "exactly right", which frequently means that it comes out exactly that way in one browser, and completely screwed up in other browsers. This hit me really bad once when I was trying to get text to line up (to the pixel) with the background image... it worked great in IE but was 5-6 pixels off in Netscape...
You're assuming that I can't wright now. I'll admit that I'm not the world's *best* wrighter, but I can wright well enough to be posting on Slashdot.
What's being taught in my current "english" classes is basically spelling, grammar, and vocab. My spelling isn't all that bad, my grammar is understandable, and my vocabulary is probably greater than most highschool graduates in the USA. After my current year of "we don't if it's Lit or Comp", all the avalible English classes are things like "Advanced Lit: Russian Poetry translated by Italians of Aztech decent". School isn't going to help me learn to express myself better, it's just going to waste 3500+ hours of my time over the next three years, time that could be better spent on other, usefull endevours.
There was a point in time when you actually expected to learn something in high school? I gave up on that idea back in 6th grade. (I'm a HS Sophmore now, and I still think that highschool is a complete waste of my time.)
One thing that'd have to get fixed before the problem gets any better is the objective of schools to, specifically "get all the kids though X years of school with the appropriate number of passing grades", instead of the more appropriate, "make sure all the kids have X knowledge and understanding".
For example, if someone doesn't understand the usage of variables in equations, they should be taught it, not just "well, you got a >65% grade so you go on to the next class". On the other hand, students should *never* be required to "be taught" that which they already know.
Schools don't exist to make kids do work, schools exist to teach students new things. Schools should therefore be optimized for efficient operation, and not for anything else (simplicity, ease of teaching, minimal cash expenditure, sports programs, whatever).
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It's just a difference in magnitude.
Any censorship, no matter how minor, harms a free society. In addition to freedom of speach, freedom to *listen* is just as important. If I want to view a website about any subject, I have the right to do that. It doesn't matter if the site's about planting flowers or screwing pigs, it's not up to someone other than me to decide what I can/should/am allowed to see.
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I'm paying the phone company $15/mo for unlimited local calling. I'm paying for unlimited access, and if they want more money they can up the price of unlimited accounts. Or, they could just get rid of the problem by adding more hardware.
We don't need to solve a non-problem by more unconstitutional regulations from a regulatory body that has no right to exist.
law these days is so complex that there will always be unforseen consequences.
So lets ditch the surpurfolus laws, yes?
How 'bout we start by preventing anyone but congress from making laws/rules/regulations with the power of law.
Linux can be set up to be *significantly* easier to use than Windows. I'm constantly hearing "Do I click once or twice?" "When do I have to right click?" etc.
With KDE, this problem goes away, you left click to activate something, right click to get a context menu --- always.
With FVWM and a little bit of creativity, this can be made even simpler. (ie. See, there are the buttons on the back, for all four apps you're using, click them and it'll happen)
With Windows, or even a Mac, you just don't have enough configuration power to configure the complexities away.
Point-by-point rebuttals work better and are easier to understand than any of the more difficult to wright alternitives.
True, but nobody can ever revoke your current licence on egcs x.xx or Linux 2.2.xx, and you are free to adopt the software yourself and add to it under the GPL.
With the SCSL, sun can, at any time, come up and say "Licence Revoked, no more StarOffice/Solaris/Whatever for you", and you would then loose all legal right to use that software.
Do not confuse "legal" with "ethical", they are quite different.
I would suggest that there are other relevent datums, besides which product is the "best tool for the job".
If you don't agree with something, you should not support that thing. This includes companies. If hammer X is 7% more effective than hammer Y, but the makers of hammer X use child slave labor to produce their hammers... I'll use the slightly less effective hammer Y, thank you verry much.
Also, the USA (as well as Australia, NZ, Japan, and most of the countries in Europe) are capitolist republics. This means that the government doesn't enforce a rule of "the group is more important than the individual". Therefore, if you have a choice between two actions, one of which benifiets you a little bit, and the other of which benifiets society a lot... please choose to benfiet society... the other choice would be extremely selfish.
Can you say that supporting Microsoft helps society?
The current partitioning scheme doesn't allow for more than 16 partitions, and with Windows, that's reduced to 13.
(Up to 4 primary partitions, and you can have 4 extended partitions per primary partition, but Windows needs to be on a primary to boot...)
Debian is clearly superior
Except for two things:
So, if the existance and inforcement of contract law breaks the utility of free market capitolism --- i say ditch contract law, all it does is makes jobs for lawyers anyway.
To allow the USA to have a truely 'free market' economy, the antitrust laws would have to be repealed.
The problem is, there are a whole bunch of laws/government policies that tend to support whatever company is doing the best in a market. (ie. Are there any schools in the country that have classes teaching Applixware on Linux?)
Until *all* government interfearance in a true free market is removed, we won't have free market capitolism here in the USA.
The "POS" app being referred to could verry well be, oh, Microsoft FTP Server Deluxe Expensive Edition, a theorietical app that requires Administraitor privs to install.
The point is, DLLs under Windows are a nasty kludge.
The Cracker can only screw up your data,
The government can screw up your life.
Ok, here in the USA, we have a Republic.
The way a republic works is that the people elect representitives to make decisions for them.
The problem with this is that the elected officials make stupid decisions.
When the elected officials make stupid decisions, the people have to complain about it -- otherwise the stupid decisions stay.
Democracy, even in the limited form of a Republic, just doesn't work if people don't participate and express their opinions about any relevent issue.
Then would "compiling perl to C" and distributing that be allowed?
I believe that there was a case that specifically decided that elecronic communications over the 'net were just as protected by the first ammendment as dead tree communications.
therefore, I would think, renaming your .c source files to .txt is just as legal as printing it out and mailing it.
If you're just using it as a RTF replacement, I guess you can get away with not actually writing the HTML... just don't expect it to be a WYSIWYG format like most people who use netscape composer to write it do.
If you do web design that much, it's a good investment to actually learn HTML.
HTML was origionally designed to be written in a text editor, and it's really easy to learn.
One major problem with using an editor (other than producing dirty code) is that it tends to make you want to get the layout "exactly right", which frequently means that it comes out exactly that way in one browser, and completely screwed up in other browsers. This hit me really bad once when I was trying to get text to line up (to the pixel) with the background image... it worked great in IE but was 5-6 pixels off in Netscape...
You're assuming that I can't wright now. I'll admit that I'm not the world's *best* wrighter, but I can wright well enough to be posting on Slashdot.
What's being taught in my current "english" classes is basically spelling, grammar, and vocab. My spelling isn't all that bad, my grammar is understandable, and my vocabulary is probably greater than most highschool graduates in the USA. After my current year of "we don't if it's Lit or Comp", all the avalible English classes are things like "Advanced Lit: Russian Poetry translated by Italians of Aztech decent". School isn't going to help me learn to express myself better, it's just going to waste 3500+ hours of my time over the next three years, time that could be better spent on other, usefull endevours.
There was a point in time when you actually expected to learn something in high school? I gave up on that idea back in 6th grade. (I'm a HS Sophmore now, and I still think that highschool is a complete waste of my time.)
One thing that'd have to get fixed before the problem gets any better is the objective of schools to, specifically "get all the kids though X years of school with the appropriate number of passing grades", instead of the more appropriate, "make sure all the kids have X knowledge and understanding".
For example, if someone doesn't understand the usage of variables in equations, they should be taught it, not just "well, you got a >65% grade so you go on to the next class". On the other hand, students should *never* be required to "be taught" that which they already know.
Schools don't exist to make kids do work, schools exist to teach students new things. Schools should therefore be optimized for efficient operation, and not for anything else (simplicity, ease of teaching, minimal cash expenditure, sports programs, whatever).
It's just a difference in magnitude.
Any censorship, no matter how minor, harms a free society. In addition to freedom of speach, freedom to *listen* is just as important. If I want to view a website about any subject, I have the right to do that. It doesn't matter if the site's about planting flowers or screwing pigs, it's not up to someone other than me to decide what I can/should/am allowed to see.
Unfortunately, the whole point of real player is to *prevent* you from saving it. I wish there was a MPEG or such avalible.
Yes, but can you be sure that people are using their *real* real names?
Yes it is. Have you ever really played with such remote administration software as BO2k?