I'm usually an extreme free speech advocate. I've even been known to argue for the right to yell fire in a crowded theater. That said, free speech gives you the right to speak, not the right to force someone to hear you, and certainly not the right to force someone else to bear the cost of publication. The newspaper editor doesn't have to pay to publish your letter, Rob Malda and andover.net don't have to pay to let you post your comment, and I don't have to pay to download your spam. And free speech also means the other guy has a right to say, "Don't listen to this guy; he's a knucklehead." (or "don't accept IP traffic from this host, it's a spammer")
Notice also that one of the listed components is Acrobat Reader. These folks are not interested in freedom. I say, "Move along." RedHat went 100% free with the removal of Netscape Navigator. Debian's already 100% free (if you set it up that way). A partially free distribution cannot offer me anything that would get me away from these two. They will probably load it down with enough non-free packages redistributable only for "non-commercial" use that you will have to buy it from them if you are a business.
I think another poster mentioned yesterday that three of these four companies have non-free add-ons in their distributions, like installers, etc. Caldera is the absolute worst on this and always has been, I think. I'll never touch it with a ten-foot pole.
IMO, the free software model is so superior that non-free alternatives like this are a temporary fluke that will eventually wither and die from free competition.
Luke finds out about his sister in Jedi, not Empire. (Although it is hinted at in Obi-Wan and Yoda's private conversation in Empire after Luke takes off from Dagobah.)
The lines referring to the mother are in the conversation between Luke and Leia in Jedi. Lucas always said he added this scene in because he intended to make their mother a significant character in the prequels. I'm speculating added footage would involve a flashback on Leia's part.
RedHat 7.1 is the OS that convinced me to give up Macintosh. I loved it as a desktop machine.
That said, I'm currently running Debian on my work machine and one of my home machines because I enjoy the ease of upgrades. My absolute preference is to compile everything from scratch.
This whole "editorial" smacks of the inability to distinguish fact and opinion. "AOTC took in $100 million" is a fact. "AOTC sucks" is an opinion.
Learning to tell the difference can greatly help your writing. Maybe I'll want to read it again some day (like when you come off as suggesting new thoughts to me rather than telling me what to think).
Do we really care precisely how Anakin Skywalker got pissed off and turned to the Dark Side?
Yes. I've cared for years. And that's my choice to make, not yours.
In the brief, the DVD CCA argued that, "neither DeCSS nor Bunner's posting of it on the Internet is pure speech." Instead, the group said, courts have treated computer code as "nonspeech" or "mixed speech and content."
All you l33t h4x0rz out there think you're entitled to free speech. That's just fine and dandy with the MPAA. Just remember that you're not allowed to put content into your speech without a license.
Please visit censorware.org and consider whether this post ought not to be marked "off-topic." The above post appears to be nothing more than a personal vendetta. "Slashdot editors abusing their privileges" may strike a chord with some, but it is definitely not the case here. Notice how concerned he is about "personal smears." Does that have anything to do with this article?
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A: None of your business. I'm not doing your marketing research for you; commission a study if you want that.
Q: What am I supposed to write down on the form?
A: Anything you want. I'm not receiving the form. My next call will be to my credit card company to tell them not to authorize auto-billing from you anymore. At that point, I won't care what's on the form.
In Episode IV, we didn't see from the start why the rebels were fighting, although we began to understand when Alderaan was destroyed. In Episodes I and II, Palpatine is manipulating things behind the scenes so we don't really see everything. I figure Episode III will reveal the Palpatine regime to be unquestionably evil and murderous, not just to Jedi knights and political opposition, but to the general populace.
Battlefield Earth actually used music from the Matrix for its trailer. (The music from when Neo awakens and looks up and down, seeing human-pods in all directions.)
I use Linux for the freedom. I've had a taste of what the free software world offers, and am slowly migrating away from the proprietary world. I know that as time goes on, more people will follow, and the software will only get better. Ironically, I use Linux on non-Intel hardware, too: I use Debian-macppc.
My ethernet cards no longer have the original MAC addresses because when I was installing them I did a very bad thing with the configuration utilities. After completely wiping the EEPROMs on the cards, I finally pulled a dump of someone else's EEPROM and installed it on both my cards, with a tweak to one of them so they wouldn't have the same MAC address.:)
Haven't you ever seen the phrase, "In no case shall [provider]'s liability be construed to extend further than the price paid for the product." If I buy RedHat from LinuxCentral.com for $10, I don't think I can reasonably expect to sue them for a million dollars. Can't they explicitly state that I can't?
I can't get any distro of Linux to fully load under VPC.
In Spring of 2000 I did my compilers class project on RedHat 5.x under an older (out of date even then) VirtualPC. I was learning CVS at the time and used it to merge in all the changes my partner sent me so we could work simultaneously.
I ran into some frequent race conditions. I had to add a sleep 1 to one of the startup files before the fsck or it would fail. Also, makes frequently failed with inexplicable errors, but you could just keep retyping make until it finished.
More recently, RedHat 7.1 seemed to work just fine, but I haven't used it for much.
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I'm usually an extreme free speech advocate. I've even been known to argue for the right to yell fire in a crowded theater. That said, free speech gives you the right to speak, not the right to force someone to hear you, and certainly not the right to force someone else to bear the cost of publication. The newspaper editor doesn't have to pay to publish your letter, Rob Malda and andover.net don't have to pay to let you post your comment, and I don't have to pay to download your spam. And free speech also means the other guy has a right to say, "Don't listen to this guy; he's a knucklehead." (or "don't accept IP traffic from this host, it's a spammer")
Note use of word "similar." Marketing confusion.
Notice also that one of the listed components is Acrobat Reader. These folks are not interested in freedom. I say, "Move along." RedHat went 100% free with the removal of Netscape Navigator. Debian's already 100% free (if you set it up that way). A partially free distribution cannot offer me anything that would get me away from these two. They will probably load it down with enough non-free packages redistributable only for "non-commercial" use that you will have to buy it from them if you are a business.
I think another poster mentioned yesterday that three of these four companies have non-free add-ons in their distributions, like installers, etc. Caldera is the absolute worst on this and always has been, I think. I'll never touch it with a ten-foot pole.
IMO, the free software model is so superior that non-free alternatives like this are a temporary fluke that will eventually wither and die from free competition.
So, count me out of Untied Linux! :)
Untied Linux
Luke finds out about his sister in Jedi, not Empire. (Although it is hinted at in Obi-Wan and Yoda's private conversation in Empire after Luke takes off from Dagobah.)
The lines referring to the mother are in the conversation between Luke and Leia in Jedi. Lucas always said he added this scene in because he intended to make their mother a significant character in the prequels. I'm speculating added footage would involve a flashback on Leia's part.
RedHat 7.1 is the OS that convinced me to give up Macintosh. I loved it as a desktop machine.
That said, I'm currently running Debian on my work machine and one of my home machines because I enjoy the ease of upgrades. My absolute preference is to compile everything from scratch.
This whole "editorial" smacks of the inability to distinguish fact and opinion. "AOTC took in $100 million" is a fact. "AOTC sucks" is an opinion.
Learning to tell the difference can greatly help your writing. Maybe I'll want to read it again some day (like when you come off as suggesting new thoughts to me rather than telling me what to think).
Do we really care precisely how Anakin Skywalker got pissed off and turned to the Dark Side?
Yes. I've cared for years. And that's my choice to make, not yours.
To further obscure the issue of is-code-speech? check out my first article submitted to slashdot.
In the brief, the DVD CCA argued that, "neither DeCSS nor Bunner's posting of it on the Internet is pure speech." Instead, the group said, courts have treated computer code as "nonspeech" or "mixed speech and content."
All you l33t h4x0rz out there think you're entitled to free speech. That's just fine and dandy with the MPAA. Just remember that you're not allowed to put content into your speech without a license.
Also, the FSF filed a "friend of the court" brief, though if, like me, you are not a lawyer, you might rather just read the press release.
That's about as useful as a patent on the CueCat.
I do that too!
and so on. Oh, wait. :)
Please visit censorware.org and consider whether this post ought not to be marked "off-topic." The above post appears to be nothing more than a personal vendetta. "Slashdot editors abusing their privileges" may strike a chord with some, but it is definitely not the case here. Notice how concerned he is about "personal smears." Does that have anything to do with this article?
A: None of your business. I'm not doing your marketing research for you; commission a study if you want that.
Q: What am I supposed to write down on the form?
A: Anything you want. I'm not receiving the form. My next call will be to my credit card company to tell them not to authorize auto-billing from you anymore. At that point, I won't care what's on the form.
Not a single one of those were Bible quotes.
In Episode IV, we didn't see from the start why the rebels were fighting, although we began to understand when Alderaan was destroyed. In Episodes I and II, Palpatine is manipulating things behind the scenes so we don't really see everything. I figure Episode III will reveal the Palpatine regime to be unquestionably evil and murderous, not just to Jedi knights and political opposition, but to the general populace.
Must say I'm looking forward to this far more than I'm looking forward to Episode 3.
Obviously cheinonen hasn't seen Episode II yet. Go see it just for the Matrix trailer; you'll gladly stay for the movie.
Battlefield Earth actually used music from the Matrix for its trailer. (The music from when Neo awakens and looks up and down, seeing human-pods in all directions.)
I use Linux for the freedom. I've had a taste of what the free software world offers, and am slowly migrating away from the proprietary world. I know that as time goes on, more people will follow, and the software will only get better. Ironically, I use Linux on non-Intel hardware, too: I use Debian-macppc.
My ethernet cards no longer have the original MAC addresses because when I was installing them I did a very bad thing with the configuration utilities. After completely wiping the EEPROMs on the cards, I finally pulled a dump of someone else's EEPROM and installed it on both my cards, with a tweak to one of them so they wouldn't have the same MAC address. :)
I thought it was that lady from 20/20.
Haven't you ever seen the phrase, "In no case shall [provider]'s liability be construed to extend further than the price paid for the product." If I buy RedHat from LinuxCentral.com for $10, I don't think I can reasonably expect to sue them for a million dollars. Can't they explicitly state that I can't?
Oh, that's smart: show it early to the one person in the country most likely to give it all away for the rest of us. :)
I can't get any distro of Linux to fully load under VPC.
In Spring of 2000 I did my compilers class project on RedHat 5.x under an older (out of date even then) VirtualPC. I was learning CVS at the time and used it to merge in all the changes my partner sent me so we could work simultaneously.
I ran into some frequent race conditions. I had to add a sleep 1 to one of the startup files before the fsck or it would fail. Also, makes frequently failed with inexplicable errors, but you could just keep retyping make until it finished.
More recently, RedHat 7.1 seemed to work just fine, but I haven't used it for much.
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Or read the FULLY OPEN source code.
James Doohan NOT in a coma and likely to live.