>Linux is made with efficiency and innovation in mind, by lots of people around the world that believe in the idea of freedom.
Ummm IBM, SGI and lots of other profit-oriented companies have contributed code to Linux. Do they actually believe in "freedom"? Why not opensource all of their products?
How can you carry a rifle or shotgun in a "non-threating manner"?
Only if it was disassembled in a locked case and the case in a locker at the bottom of a river would I consider something that could make my guts into a fine pate "non-threating".
>But unfortunately with many apps that run on Windows, you don't have the source code for those apps for a recompile if they do get broken.
You don't, but someone does. MS is offering courses in how to upgrade. The patch is not going to be out there until mid-2004. If you are using Windows in the first place, then reliance on a third party software company is not you main issue.
>They are going to cause a lot of grief by doing this, and a lot of companies will not upgrade to SP2 to avoid that grief.
Places that barely will look to make sure your signature matches will almost 80% ask you to pull out a photo ID and spend the time going over matching signature to signature and photo to face. And these people aren't trained to quickly match a photo to face.
And there is also the factor that if someone can steal a credit card, they generally are not above creating a fake photo ID with their own signature.
How many people comment on legal, economics, politics or cultural issues yet don't have a law, economics, political science degrees or even have an idea except what they watch on TV.
Troll? I think his comment is pretty typical of slashdot.
>there are still blue collar jobs that are still in the USA
Then you move to the issue of if a person is unemployeed or underemployeed. Like a medical doctor driving a taxi. Just like unemployement, being underemployeed has its mental and financial problems.
> the lower tier of the work that gets "outsourced"
For now. How are we suppose to get new "higher level" people if they don't have the "lower level" experience? Say hello to our future Indian project managers!
>outsourcing is not that cheap.
Cheap enough that people who live in third world countries are happy as clams. If you were making 5x to make a confortable living, wouldn't you be happy making just 2x?
>Your create a problem by taking a trend to the extremes - but if history teaches us anything, it is that trends DO change.
Agreed, but I don't think you've made a good case that this is the way the future is headed.
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>Linux is made with efficiency and innovation in mind, by lots of people around the world that believe in the idea of freedom.
Ummm IBM, SGI and lots of other profit-oriented companies have contributed code to Linux. Do they actually believe in "freedom"? Why not opensource all of their products?
>What benifit does society ... get from funding endless social programs?
Ask people who are in need of social help.
>At least with science, there's a possibility of a return.
Spend money for a possibilty of return? Are you saying that space exploration is a lottery?
> every dollar spent on the space program comes back into the economy 100 fold.
I would love to see where you got this number.
Its not as if the space shuttle ever came down with a cargo full of money.
Even indirectly, what have we learned in space that was economically worth 100x the cost of finding it?
>Texas is a different culture.
Regardless of what I joke around about, I do understand this.
I just don't want this thing to a pro/anti-gun thingy.
How can you carry a rifle or shotgun in a "non-threating manner"?
Only if it was disassembled in a locked case and the case in a locker at the bottom of a river would I consider something that could make my guts into a fine pate "non-threating".
I would feel less threatened if it was in the hands of the DHS rather than the IRS.
>The job of government in a democracy is to protect the minority from the will of the majority.
What? Hardly.
The majority selects the government. The government enforces the will of them.
The point was that Daikatana wasn't a "bad" game, it just didn't live up to the hype. And yes there was a lot of hype.
Developers should stick with what they need to do, make good games. If they want to be celebraties, they should switch jobs.
>But unfortunately with many apps that run on Windows, you don't have the source code for those apps for a recompile if they do get broken.
You don't, but someone does. MS is offering courses in how to upgrade. The patch is not going to be out there until mid-2004. If you are using Windows in the first place, then reliance on a third party software company is not you main issue.
>They are going to cause a lot of grief by doing this, and a lot of companies will not upgrade to SP2 to avoid that grief.
So did Linus when he released kernal version 1.0.
I've had a friend who did this. Now he doesn't.
Places that barely will look to make sure your signature matches will almost 80% ask you to pull out a photo ID and spend the time going over matching signature to signature and photo to face. And these people aren't trained to quickly match a photo to face.
And there is also the factor that if someone can steal a credit card, they generally are not above creating a fake photo ID with their own signature.
>I'd say they the two are almost comletely unrelated.
My mistake, I wanted to imply that they have very little to influence each other. You can be both intelligent and popular at the same time.
If they are so intelligent, shouldn't they realize the advantages of being both popular AND inteligent?
They are not mutually exclusive.
>there are very few original thoughts or ideas
According to the US patent office, brand new ideas are created every hour by just appending "... on the Internet" to the end of existing ideas.
For a second I thought that your post was mine. ;)
Its the level /. has stooped to insult SCO, just like yelling "so-and-so has coodies!" in the playground during recess.
There is a cost in moving to Linux.
Can't play alot of games.
Have to spend time in setting plug-ins with Firebird/Mozilla.
Can't play latest encoded Windows Media/Quick Time.
And is moving really an answer? Dont' you think that virus writers will move too?
Encrypt it and use the DMCA (DCMA? DMAC? Run-DMC?)
Good grief, you are correct;
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
Insane.
>Why am I replying to a troll???
How many people comment on legal, economics, politics or cultural issues yet don't have a law, economics, political science degrees or even have an idea except what they watch on TV.
Troll? I think his comment is pretty typical of slashdot.
Previous message = False.
( Short + accurate ) + communiction = good.
Computer != typewriter.
End of message.
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Play a nethack/moria/angband as much as I did and you won't need a template.
I wouldn't even need a mouse if there were "diagonal" movement keys.
Read the article and do what that student did.
Get your PhD in something else than Computer Science.
>there are still blue collar jobs that are still in the USA
Then you move to the issue of if a person is unemployeed or underemployeed. Like a medical doctor driving a taxi. Just like unemployement, being underemployeed has its mental and financial problems.
> the lower tier of the work that gets "outsourced"
For now. How are we suppose to get new "higher level" people if they don't have the "lower level" experience? Say hello to our future Indian project managers!
>outsourcing is not that cheap.
Cheap enough that people who live in third world countries are happy as clams. If you were making 5x to make a confortable living, wouldn't you be happy making just 2x?
>Your create a problem by taking a trend to the extremes - but if history teaches us anything, it is that trends DO change.
Agreed, but I don't think you've made a good case that this is the way the future is headed.
>Are you going to bellyache about it and hope
Whoa, slow down there.
I'm still in the denial stage.