vegetablespork sez... . . . that *BSD is dying. BTW, f-ir-st! I heard sporks and anonymous cowards were dying, something to do with bsd users who finally couldn't take the idiocy...
from the article: As we reported last month, Celine's latest offering - A New Day Has Come - features copy-protection to prevent it being played and duplicated in a PC, and that same copy-protection was believed to be capable of damaging the PC's firmware. I value a positive claim over a negative claim in this case. If New Scientist had some proof from Apple (their source) that there was no damage to firmware, that would be another thing.
You are taking the incentives of the current system for granted. To have a monopoly on one's creative work is not a natural right. The incentive of commercial monopoly is not the only possible incentive for the creation of something new.
Why should I give a shit about market confusion? Isn't that the argument that gets parody sites taken down? I say go market confusion, the more the better! If I even knew what the fuck "enabling market confusion" was, I would sure be doing it right now.
And don't even get me started on Magazines, which TOTALLY could be printed without ads for those people who choose to pay. Heck, it'd be almost as easy to have as many or as few ads as you liked.
I despise ads and commercial culture, but I must say, magazine subscriptions make money for magazines mainly by the magazine having a guaranteed exposure for ad buyers. The subscription money is small potatoes compared to the ad money which goes up with your subscription base.
Parsa - what does a kernel have to do with usability? Questions about usability are for Xfree86, GNOME, KDE, GNU, even those AOL people doing Mozilla, but usability issues have nothing to do with Linux (unless you maybe want a more user friendly recomile maybe).
try putting a bunch of them in the blender and spraying the juice on the plants they would otherwise infest - it's bio-warfare breeding diseases that feed on them. This is what worked for my mom with her rose bushes
I, for one, would like a flash plugin for links (that is not a typo, lynx is not the only text mode browser). Often, I feel like I am compromising by accepting a curses based interface, not to mention X11. Now ed for the web, that would be nice for those days I have absolutely no time for bullshit.
I don't know if I can think of twenty off the top of my head, but...
nestle baby formula (over third world tactics)
mcdonalds hamburgers (styrofoam containers)... that one may be stretching it a little - more of a response to protest I think
ever hear of the boycott company? they went down in history - more than fifty years ago though while I'm at it the stamp act boycott and the boston tea party.
shell oil was boycotted over their Nigerian actions
as was Mobil
Pepsi bottling in Nigeria (part of what caused Pepsico to let go of their Taco Bell etc. from the parent corp.)
how about the boycott of the country of South Africa, that seemed to accomplish something.
well that's what I could think of off the top of my head...
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>1. Who would ever know? It's closed-source. >valid point but some poor low-level code monkey >might blow the whistle on you.
If you had read more carefully, you would know that making sure HP participates as a good citizen in the Debian and larger Open Source communities is part of his current job description at HP, and was listed as one of his qualifications.
what are you talking about? vim is the biggest and slowest vi out there. hell, microemacs is smaller, loads faster and is easier to use. ($VISUAL is nvi on my machine, though).
By the way, begging the question is 'answering'
a question without adressing it, ie.
Q: What evidence do you have for your claim?
A: I know of know evidence against it.
'Begging the question' is one of the most commonly
misused pretentious phrases out there.
I spent a couple of hours reading the article
and the sources cited. It was very even handed
in my opinion, most of his sources talked about
the shortcomings of open source OS as they
currently exist as much as benefits. The article
even refered to these qualifications when citing
them (the quotes weren't out of context, a rare
thing in my experience...)
Well, to get a little more technical, a
functions as a gateway, and the amount of
electricity that is let through is controled by
a potentially much smaller signal. In digital
curcuitry the states are only useful as on/off,
but even in analog it is a question of how much /
if a signal is sent through. Because of entropy,
the only way to amplfy a signal is to use it to
control a much larger one.
I use lynx all the time, loading images takes
longer anyway, and if I really want to look
at a picture, I download it and look at it with
electric eyes. I hate frames, by the way.
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vegetablespork sez...
. . . that *BSD is dying. BTW, f-ir-st!
I heard sporks and anonymous cowards were dying, something to do with bsd users who finally couldn't take the idiocy...
from the article:
As we reported last month, Celine's latest offering - A New Day Has Come - features copy-protection to prevent it being played and duplicated in a PC, and that same copy-protection was believed to be capable of damaging the PC's firmware.
I value a positive claim over a negative claim in this case. If New Scientist had some proof from Apple (their source) that there was no damage to firmware, that would be another thing.
just wait till Ken Chin gets hired
You are taking the incentives of the current system for granted. To have a monopoly on one's creative work is not a natural right. The incentive of commercial monopoly is not the only possible incentive for the creation of something new.
and the sound track album
Why should I give a shit about market confusion? Isn't that the argument that gets parody sites taken down? I say go market confusion, the more the better! If I even knew what the fuck "enabling market confusion" was, I would sure be doing it right now.
everythings always about windows,
WINDOWS, WINDOWS, WINDOWS!</jan brady>
And don't even get me started on Magazines, which TOTALLY could be printed without ads for those people who choose to pay. Heck, it'd be almost as easy to have as many or as few ads as you liked.
I despise ads and commercial culture, but I must say, magazine subscriptions make money for magazines mainly by the magazine having a guaranteed exposure for ad buyers. The subscription money is small potatoes compared to the ad money which goes up with your subscription base.
Parsa - what does a kernel have to do with usability? Questions about usability are for Xfree86, GNOME, KDE, GNU, even those AOL people doing Mozilla, but usability issues have nothing to do with Linux (unless you maybe want a more user friendly recomile maybe).
try putting a bunch of them in the blender and spraying the juice on the plants they would otherwise infest - it's bio-warfare breeding diseases that feed on them. This is what worked for my mom with her rose bushes
I, for one, would like a flash plugin for links (that is not a typo, lynx is not the only text mode browser). Often, I feel like I am compromising by accepting a curses based interface, not to mention X11. Now ed for the web, that would be nice for those days I have absolutely no time for bullshit.
Will this be the "ugly fat girl" of the world of science?
"Sorry to hear it didn't pan out, there's always that null hypothesis journal"
I don't know if I can think of twenty off the top of my head, but...
nestle baby formula (over third world tactics)
mcdonalds hamburgers (styrofoam containers)... that one may be stretching it a little - more of a response to protest I think
ever hear of the boycott company? they went down in history - more than fifty years ago though
while I'm at it the stamp act boycott and the boston tea party.
shell oil was boycotted over their Nigerian actions
as was Mobil
Pepsi bottling in Nigeria (part of what caused Pepsico to let go of their Taco Bell etc. from the parent corp.)
how about the boycott of the country of South Africa, that seemed to accomplish something.
well that's what I could think of off the top of my head...
>1. Who would ever know? It's closed-source.
>valid point but some poor low-level code monkey >might blow the whistle on you.
or you could find out it has the same bug(s)
If you had read more carefully, you would know that making sure HP participates as a good citizen in the Debian and larger Open Source communities is part of his current job description at HP, and was listed as one of his qualifications.
Mr Coward sir, I never thought we would be in such agreement as at this moment.
$ echo $VISUAL
/usr/bin/nvi
what are you talking about? vim is the biggest and slowest vi out there. hell, microemacs is smaller, loads faster and is easier to use. ($VISUAL is nvi on my machine, though).
I'd be overjoyed if it was a complicated and
expensive endeavor to listen to hollywood music
and watch hollywood movies. I would love it if
I was never subjected to one of those wastes of
my time again.
I am opposed to the CBDTPA because
there is no way they are going to put drm in
Debian and I want to continue to legally use
Debian.
By the way, begging the question is 'answering' a question without adressing it, ie. Q: What evidence do you have for your claim? A: I know of know evidence against it. 'Begging the question' is one of the most commonly misused pretentious phrases out there.
Anything you write has your implied copyright, things can be done to make it more enforcable, though.
Yeah, it's got Kaffe, as well as Python, perl, GCC, nasm, emacs and vim.
I spent a couple of hours reading the article and the sources cited. It was very even handed in my opinion, most of his sources talked about the shortcomings of open source OS as they currently exist as much as benefits. The article even refered to these qualifications when citing them (the quotes weren't out of context, a rare thing in my experience...)
Well, to get a little more technical, a functions as a gateway, and the amount of electricity that is let through is controled by a potentially much smaller signal. In digital curcuitry the states are only useful as on/off, but even in analog it is a question of how much / if a signal is sent through. Because of entropy, the only way to amplfy a signal is to use it to control a much larger one.
I use lynx all the time, loading images takes longer anyway, and if I really want to look at a picture, I download it and look at it with electric eyes. I hate frames, by the way.