Re:Yes there is cuz the federation isn't the unive
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Further, just because the Federation doesn't use CASH doesn't mean they don't use money. DS9 implied heavily that the Federation uses a very fluid credit/debit system. The Ferengi and others just don't buy into this wacky sort of thing and want "real" MONEY in their hot little hands, even if the Federation has enough economic standing to let its citizens convert their credits into latinum (otherwise Chief O'Brien couldn't have paid his bar bill).
This AC verbalized the same thoughts I had after reading this "brief". Except I rather expected slashdotters to PICK UP on this. Instead, a lot of people seemed to have jumped on the bandwagon, even supplying their own little fantasies (Amiga's gonna use Transmeta's super-duper magical mystical does-anything so-cool-they-don't-NEED-to-show-a-prototype-to-any one chip!) to bolster this pap.
Be real - even if this was on the up-and-up, which I really am inclined to doubt, all we could expect out of it would be (since they'll probably soon announce dropping any hardware plans, mark my words) a pretty-but-slow window manager with some buggy Java integration.
If you think a movie seems interesting, look into it. If people you know (and whose judgment you trust) and/or reviewers who seem to have a clue like it, see it. Or just go see it. Or wait to catch it on video or cable.
Before I caught THE MUMMY recently, I hadn't seen a movie in the theatres since INDEPENDENCE DAY (which was only itself worth seeing in the theatres). That didn't mean I missed any movies; I just waited a little longer to see them.
And that's one place (of many) where Marx was utterly wrong. There IS no such thing as "objective worth". Worth is a value measurement that people make, and varies from person to person, and even from one time to another.
I have no need for, oh, an air compressor. Therefore, it's not worth anything to me. You couldn't unload one on me unless you *paid* me. But, if you have a need for one (say you run a mechanic's shop that uses compressed-air-powered tools), you're probably willing to pay some amount for it. And that amount is what *you* consider it to be worth.
To explain the time variability: a 50 MHz intel-compatible processor. When that was the fastest speed available, people were willing to pay handsomely. When that's less than one tenth the bare clockspeed of the newest processors, people *aren't* willing to pay much for it - because it isn't worth much anymore.
If you still buy the "objective worth" concept, answer this - how would you go about determining the objective worth of a product or of labor? And *who* would do the determining?
And so? What obligation does Opera Software have towards Linux?
Absolutely none.
Open Source is a wonderful thing, but *man*, some people treat it like a religion, like some Ultimate Good that all must serve.
Re:This could be the future..
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Naughty geek, no biscuit.
Yes, learning an OS in and out and making the best possible use of it is a great thing. And there's nothing wrong with thumping your chest a little because of having that expertise. However, acting like a fan of an indie band who screams "Sellouts!" because that band managed to get a major-label record contract is laughable.
Some Linux-lovers seem to forget that Linux is a tool, not a secret society. Tools are made for people to use. It is not somehow *bad* for those "horrible, clueless users" to be able to use Linux. And it is not *good* for potential new users of a computer OS to be snarled at by self-important elitists who feel proprietary about that OS.
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Further, just because the Federation doesn't use CASH doesn't mean they don't use money. DS9 implied heavily that the Federation uses a very fluid credit/debit system. The Ferengi and others just don't buy into this wacky sort of thing and want "real" MONEY in their hot little hands, even if the Federation has enough economic standing to let its citizens convert their credits into latinum (otherwise Chief O'Brien couldn't have paid his bar bill).
This AC verbalized the same thoughts I had after reading this "brief". Except I rather expected slashdotters to PICK UP on this. Instead, a lot of people seemed to have jumped on the bandwagon, even supplying their own little fantasies (Amiga's gonna use Transmeta's super-duper magical mystical does-anything so-cool-they-don't-NEED-to-show-a-prototype-to-any one chip!) to bolster this pap.
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Be real - even if this was on the up-and-up, which I really am inclined to doubt, all we could expect out of it would be (since they'll probably soon announce dropping any hardware plans, mark my words) a pretty-but-slow window manager with some buggy Java integration.
Eric the
Simple idea:
If you think a movie seems interesting, look into it. If people you know (and whose judgment you trust) and/or reviewers who seem to have a clue like it, see it. Or just go see it. Or wait to catch it on video or cable.
Before I caught THE MUMMY recently, I hadn't seen a movie in the theatres since INDEPENDENCE DAY (which was only itself worth seeing in the theatres). That didn't mean I missed any movies; I just waited a little longer to see them.
In any case, it's no big deal.
And that's one place (of many) where Marx was utterly wrong. There IS no such thing as "objective worth". Worth is a value measurement that people make, and varies from person to person, and even from one time to another.
I have no need for, oh, an air compressor. Therefore, it's not worth anything to me. You couldn't unload one on me unless you *paid* me. But, if you have a need for one (say you run a mechanic's shop that uses compressed-air-powered tools), you're probably willing to pay some amount for it. And that amount is what *you* consider it to be worth.
To explain the time variability: a 50 MHz intel-compatible processor. When that was the fastest speed available, people were willing to pay handsomely. When that's less than one tenth the bare clockspeed of the newest processors, people *aren't* willing to pay much for it - because it isn't worth much anymore.
If you still buy the "objective worth" concept, answer this - how would you go about determining the objective worth of a product or of labor? And *who* would do the determining?
And so? What obligation does Opera Software have towards Linux?
Absolutely none.
Open Source is a wonderful thing, but *man*, some people treat it like a religion, like some Ultimate Good that all must serve.
Naughty geek, no biscuit.
.5b
Yes, learning an OS in and out and making the best possible use of it is a great thing. And there's nothing wrong with thumping your chest a little because of having that expertise. However, acting like a fan of an indie band who screams "Sellouts!" because that band managed to get a major-label record contract is laughable.
Some Linux-lovers seem to forget that Linux is a tool, not a secret society. Tools are made for people to use. It is not somehow *bad* for those "horrible, clueless users" to be able to use Linux. And it is not *good* for potential new users of a computer OS to be snarled at by self-important elitists who feel proprietary about that OS.
Eric the