that is what is so disturbing about this. They aren't really thinking about just the next election, which is usually all the parties really think about. They want partisan politics to become institutionalised in the corporate world. This move won't gain them any votes next election, but could make the republican party entrenched, and impossible to remove in a decade.
Yeah, I was going to mention that, but I figured it was too much flamebait. From what I know of the soviet union is that if you wanted to get ahead you would have to join the communist party. Seems like the republican party is to the US what the communist party was to the USSR. Or at least thats the goal of the republican party.
That's always been a question of mine about the GPL. If someone makes a contribution, do they share copyright with the person who originated the project? If I say fix a typo in some comment somewhere would I have to give permission for any change in the copyright status?
Yeah partisan politics is nothing new. But this is a little different. These people are being sent to discuss standards not their views on the administration. So why remove the democrat supporters? There's no real immediate gain. In fact this move makes the administration look pretty bad.
This indicates two things: 1) That the republicans can do whatever they want, no matter how immoral or how illegal, and they can get away with it. 2) Partisan politics is being institutionalised. They are willing to take a short term loss (bad press about this story) to put long term pressure on supporters of their opponents. Their goal is to create a work environment where, to get anywhere you will have to be a member of the republican party.
Usually political parties only think forward to the next election. This shows tha the republicans have the goal of making it so they are the only party in america.
Well if it doesn't show "Written and Driected by George Lucas" at the end of the show it could be good. ie Lucas lets other people write and direct.
You know how many people love the star wars movies when they were kids and are now experienced Actors/Directors/Writers? Lucas had Speilberg and Samuel L Jackson begging to be a part of star wars. Imagine handing over starwars to the best creative teams out there and just letting them go.
It could be very awesome if Lucas can just put his ego aside and let someone else give it a shot. Nothing against Lucas the man's a genious at coming up with ideas, and doing special effects, but he can't write dialog or direct actors worth shit.
If Lucas comes up with the general ideas, and does the special effects, and gets the best and the brightest to take over writing and directing, it could work very well.
I'm talking about most of the people here and not the author of TFA.
Using adblock does violate a social contract. See you are browsing someone else's site. The poepl pay for bandwidth costs through advertising. You visit the site, you are entering into a social contract with the site owner to look at the ads. Don't want to look at the ads? Dont visit the site.
I'm not saying that ads are good. I hate a lot of ads, especially the animated ones. But I do not have to visit sites with animated ads.
Let me spell it out for the slow witted: when you visit a site with ads you are entering into a social contract which states: I hereby aggree to allow this website to show me ads in exchange for the content it is providing me. By browsing this site you aggree to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms then stop browsing this site.
See there is no fine print that says that if you don't like ads you can block them and leech content off the site requiring the site operator to pay for the bandwidth you use. Therefore your choices are: 1) display the page with ads or 2) don't display the page at all.
The website operator is saying look, I have bandwidth costs, could you please look at these ads to help me pay for my bandwidth costs please? The trade is bandwidth for ad views.
If you display the page without the adds you are breaking this agreement between you and the website owner. You are using bandwidth but not giving the adviews in exchange. You are Breaking the Social Contract.
I'm not saying you should stop using adblock or anything, I could care less. Personally I just use the flash click to view plugin and disable animated gifs (this allows ads to show but keeps the page readable). But admit that you are indeed breaking the social contract between you and the wesite owner. Leeching bandwidth from big corporations isn't the biggest sin you could commit, but you are still doing something that is somewhat dishonest.
Maybe next week you will bring yourself to admit that copyright infringement isn't moral just because the RIAA and the MPAA are a bunch of assholes. But we'll take this one step at a time.
Or the sheer wonderment and joy on their faces as they experience something new to them, that you take for granted everyday. (Think elevators for a minute, or escalators until security shows up:-)
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent--I don't care which one--but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!
/Brodie
Yeah and you could design some crazy tracks as well. Of course you couldn't allow spectators at the track, too many are killed by tyres flying off the vehicles as it is.
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Exactly, The attraction to sports is the "look what a man can do" factor. Also there is the identifying with the athlete part of it. Nobody can indentify with a robot very easily.
The point of camle racing is gambling, no one much cares about the jockeys (else they would probably not keep the kids malnourished), so replacing them is not a problem.
Oh don't act so high and mighty. The clothes you wear, the shoes on your feet, etc, were most likely produced by child labour. But you never stop and think about the poor kid when you buy all that crap from walmart. You make a cold decision based on price alone. You want some poor kid to make your sneakers so you can save five bucks. Just because you rationalise it by say that those kids are far away and believe in a different god than you, doesn't make you a better person then the parents who sell their kids so they don't starve (and probably were promised that their child would be well treated). Compare starving to death to spending $5 more for sneakers. Now who's the bad guy?
The pacificist says: "I don't want any of my tax money going to the military". The socialist says: "I don't want any of my tax money going to corporate welfare." The luddite says: "I don't want any of my tax money going into researching new technology.
All of these people are idiots. If you listen to all of the idiots you end up with anarchy. Democracy means choosing to listen to some of the idiots while ignoring the others.
Nobody likes paying taxes. But if you don't you end up with anarchy. If you are really serious about opposing all taxation, go move to Somalia, there is no taxes, and no central government either. It's a Libertarian Utopia! Don't want to move to somalia? Then you're just another jackass that likes to spout off about some crackpot ideology while being to cowardly to actually go through with it. Just like all those professors who claim to be communists but don't want to give up their tenure to move to China.
Its kind of a grey area. It is currently acceptable to wrap a proprietary driver in GPL wrapper and link to the kernel (I think nVidea does this). But as far as I now its only allowed because Linus himself said he wasn't going to make any noise over it. But if MS tried to do something tricky, Linus could take them to court.
The kernel is GPL, so anything that links to it has to be GPL as well. If your driver layer is GPL then any driver that links to it has to be GPL too. And so on.
Basically proprietary drivers for linux can exist at the whim of Linus Torvalds (the owner of the Linux copyright). I'm pretty sure he wouldn't tolerate too much trickery on MS's part.
Well they aren't admitting that they are doing anything wrong, they are admitting that WINE is doing something right. They are admitting that WINE is so compatible with windows that it will soon be feasible to use windows update to keep WINE up to date. They are admitting that WINE is a good peice of software.
It not really a debate its just an article telling you that WINE is good enough that MS sees it as a threat.
How would they get around the GPL? If they gradually fork away from "real" Linux towards MS-Linux like you say, wouldn't they have to give us the source for MS-Linux?
This is why MS hates open source software so much... it effectively blocks the embrace and extend strategy that they've relied on in the past.
The distros would maintain it. Yeah it does sound like a MS stratedgy, but really its the only reliable way to prevent spyware and viruses.
The difference here is that there are many different distros, so if one distro is being dicks about adding software to their list, you can switch to a different distro. Since the list format would most definitely be open (linux users wouldn't except it otherwise) it would be just a matter of pointing the installer software at a different server to get the white list.
The fact is Average Users just don't have the time to research every piece of software for malicious code. But that everypeice of software should be researched before you install it. So why not have the option of letting an organisation with the time and expertise to do it?
And really, people seem to trust ad-aware or spybot or whatever to determine what is spyware and what is not. Wouldn't it be more effective to filter things out before it gets installed rather than later?
If developers took the time to come up with one click installs for their apps then people might not be so dependent on the distro's The distribution should not be responsible for solving the install issues for their apps.
No it should be the distribution's responsiblity to install the programmes. That is their job: to distribute the software. Why?
Well first of all there is consistency. When installing a programme you have the same familiar insterface. If every developer implemented his own ideas about how the installers would work none of them will be the same.
Second of all the distro knows the settings of your system. How many times have you seen the Select Language dialog on windows installers? Debian doesn't ask me that because it knows the language I use.
But the number one reason for leaving it up to the distribution is security. Right now its not reall much of an issue, but eventually, if linux becomes more popular, you will see all kinds of spyware/adware/viruses/etc. written for linux. How do you control it? Well an easy way to prevent this is to have a group that will check the various software packages and the ones they consider safe will be added to a list. anything on that list the user will be able to install with one click. Anything not on that list will not install unless you su to root (which requires a password) type in some command on a terminal (oh no!) and type in yes when it warns you that you may be installing unsafe software.
End result, see a peice of software on the web somewhere, click a link and (if its okayed by their distro) it installs, no problem. If the software is malicious it won't be approved, so one click won't do it, so there would have to be a list of instructions. Mr. Average User is going to see where its asking him to type in some command, get nervous and just not do it. No spyware is installed.
This is the mistake Microsoft made... make it easy to install programmes and you end up with systems full of viruses and worms. The Distros are in a unique position to allow easy to install apps, yet still prevent malicious software from being installed easily.
But the point is, coke is everywhere. As the OP suggested, even in the third world, where most people don't have internet, people can buy a coke. Hell I'm living in a third world country, and I've seen beggars on the street go into McDonald's and set down a big pile of change to buy a coke. I'm pretty sure that there are many more people that have heard of Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, Burger King, etc, than have heard of Google. Coke and Pepsi are sold in every store. Many Store's have those Enjoy Coca-cola right above "Joe's Convenence Store". I have yet to see Google Signs up around or see anywhere anyone without money can access any of google's services.
At the end of that series, the Federation/Klingon/Romulan Alliance defaeted the Dominion/Cardassian/Breen Alliance. What happens after that?
Well they could have the reconstruction efforts after the war. The klingons would want to add new colonies to their empire, the Romulans would want to set up a puppet gorvernment, while the Federation would want to honestly rebuild Cardassia, and someday have them join the Federation. Well, except for maybe that secret Section 8 (or whatever number it was) who might have other plans.
Complicating matters further would be the Jem Hadar, who were bred for war, might have a little trouble adjusting to peace. The Breen would still be quite strong, and the Cardassians would of course resist any outside influence.
There would be a huge number of possibilities. And with the parallels with current events, people would be able to relate to the problems of the federation. I'm getting tired of the whole "oh we can't do the because it would violate the prime directive" morality stuff. It would be good to see the Federation be forced to make the tough decisions (What do you do with a defeated army of genetically engineered warriors?). They would have to tackle big problems that won't be solved by reversing the polarity of the phase inducer or some such rubbish.
I would cast a fresh young crew of peacekeepers. Starships would be around to transport them around and providde support on some of the bigger operations, but for the most part these guys would be on their own. You could bring in some of the cast from TNG, DS9, and Voyager from time to time, but I wouldn't want to overdo that. I would make it more grittier, and limit the technology. You establish what tech they have available early on and stick with that.
But more likely they will make a star trek with more time travel, holodecks, and technobabble. Too bad, a great story is right there waiting to be told.
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Americans do love their explosions. Doesn't matter how many billions they cost.
that is what is so disturbing about this. They aren't really thinking about just the next election, which is usually all the parties really think about. They want partisan politics to become institutionalised in the corporate world. This move won't gain them any votes next election, but could make the republican party entrenched, and impossible to remove in a decade.
Yeah, I was going to mention that, but I figured it was too much flamebait. From what I know of the soviet union is that if you wanted to get ahead you would have to join the communist party. Seems like the republican party is to the US what the communist party was to the USSR. Or at least thats the goal of the republican party.
That's always been a question of mine about the GPL. If someone makes a contribution, do they share copyright with the person who originated the project? If I say fix a typo in some comment somewhere would I have to give permission for any change in the copyright status?
This indicates two things: 1) That the republicans can do whatever they want, no matter how immoral or how illegal, and they can get away with it. 2) Partisan politics is being institutionalised. They are willing to take a short term loss (bad press about this story) to put long term pressure on supporters of their opponents. Their goal is to create a work environment where, to get anywhere you will have to be a member of the republican party.
Usually political parties only think forward to the next election. This shows tha the republicans have the goal of making it so they are the only party in america.
You know how many people love the star wars movies when they were kids and are now experienced Actors/Directors/Writers? Lucas had Speilberg and Samuel L Jackson begging to be a part of star wars. Imagine handing over starwars to the best creative teams out there and just letting them go.
It could be very awesome if Lucas can just put his ego aside and let someone else give it a shot. Nothing against Lucas the man's a genious at coming up with ideas, and doing special effects, but he can't write dialog or direct actors worth shit.
If Lucas comes up with the general ideas, and does the special effects, and gets the best and the brightest to take over writing and directing, it could work very well.
I think they already have this in Japan. "They're years ahead of us" in toilet technology as homer simpson once observed.
Using adblock does violate a social contract. See you are browsing someone else's site. The poepl pay for bandwidth costs through advertising. You visit the site, you are entering into a social contract with the site owner to look at the ads. Don't want to look at the ads? Dont visit the site.
I'm not saying that ads are good. I hate a lot of ads, especially the animated ones. But I do not have to visit sites with animated ads.
Let me spell it out for the slow witted: when you visit a site with ads you are entering into a social contract which states: I hereby aggree to allow this website to show me ads in exchange for the content it is providing me. By browsing this site you aggree to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms then stop browsing this site.
See there is no fine print that says that if you don't like ads you can block them and leech content off the site requiring the site operator to pay for the bandwidth you use. Therefore your choices are: 1) display the page with ads or 2) don't display the page at all.
The website operator is saying look, I have bandwidth costs, could you please look at these ads to help me pay for my bandwidth costs please? The trade is bandwidth for ad views.
If you display the page without the adds you are breaking this agreement between you and the website owner. You are using bandwidth but not giving the adviews in exchange. You are Breaking the Social Contract.
I'm not saying you should stop using adblock or anything, I could care less. Personally I just use the flash click to view plugin and disable animated gifs (this allows ads to show but keeps the page readable). But admit that you are indeed breaking the social contract between you and the wesite owner. Leeching bandwidth from big corporations isn't the biggest sin you could commit, but you are still doing something that is somewhat dishonest.
Maybe next week you will bring yourself to admit that copyright infringement isn't moral just because the RIAA and the MPAA are a bunch of assholes. But we'll take this one step at a time.
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent--I don't care which one--but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!
/Brodie
Yeah and you could design some crazy tracks as well. Of course you couldn't allow spectators at the track, too many are killed by tyres flying off the vehicles as it is.
The point of camle racing is gambling, no one much cares about the jockeys (else they would probably not keep the kids malnourished), so replacing them is not a problem.
Oh don't act so high and mighty. The clothes you wear, the shoes on your feet, etc, were most likely produced by child labour. But you never stop and think about the poor kid when you buy all that crap from walmart. You make a cold decision based on price alone. You want some poor kid to make your sneakers so you can save five bucks. Just because you rationalise it by say that those kids are far away and believe in a different god than you, doesn't make you a better person then the parents who sell their kids so they don't starve (and probably were promised that their child would be well treated). Compare starving to death to spending $5 more for sneakers. Now who's the bad guy?
Maybe, just maybe, there are lakes and rivers and oceans all over the world and they all flood from time to time...
Yeah, well I doubt a cell phone would have much use for a packaging system... although with all the features cellphones have maybe...
All of these people are idiots. If you listen to all of the idiots you end up with anarchy. Democracy means choosing to listen to some of the idiots while ignoring the others.
Nobody likes paying taxes. But if you don't you end up with anarchy. If you are really serious about opposing all taxation, go move to Somalia, there is no taxes, and no central government either. It's a Libertarian Utopia! Don't want to move to somalia? Then you're just another jackass that likes to spout off about some crackpot ideology while being to cowardly to actually go through with it. Just like all those professors who claim to be communists but don't want to give up their tenure to move to China.
The kernel is GPL, so anything that links to it has to be GPL as well. If your driver layer is GPL then any driver that links to it has to be GPL too. And so on.
Basically proprietary drivers for linux can exist at the whim of Linus Torvalds (the owner of the Linux copyright). I'm pretty sure he wouldn't tolerate too much trickery on MS's part.
It not really a debate its just an article telling you that WINE is good enough that MS sees it as a threat.
This is why MS hates open source software so much... it effectively blocks the embrace and extend strategy that they've relied on in the past.
The difference here is that there are many different distros, so if one distro is being dicks about adding software to their list, you can switch to a different distro. Since the list format would most definitely be open (linux users wouldn't except it otherwise) it would be just a matter of pointing the installer software at a different server to get the white list.
The fact is Average Users just don't have the time to research every piece of software for malicious code. But that everypeice of software should be researched before you install it. So why not have the option of letting an organisation with the time and expertise to do it?
And really, people seem to trust ad-aware or spybot or whatever to determine what is spyware and what is not. Wouldn't it be more effective to filter things out before it gets installed rather than later?
No it should be the distribution's responsiblity to install the programmes. That is their job: to distribute the software. Why?
Well first of all there is consistency. When installing a programme you have the same familiar insterface. If every developer implemented his own ideas about how the installers would work none of them will be the same.
Second of all the distro knows the settings of your system. How many times have you seen the Select Language dialog on windows installers? Debian doesn't ask me that because it knows the language I use.
But the number one reason for leaving it up to the distribution is security. Right now its not reall much of an issue, but eventually, if linux becomes more popular, you will see all kinds of spyware/adware/viruses/etc. written for linux. How do you control it? Well an easy way to prevent this is to have a group that will check the various software packages and the ones they consider safe will be added to a list. anything on that list the user will be able to install with one click. Anything not on that list will not install unless you su to root (which requires a password) type in some command on a terminal (oh no!) and type in yes when it warns you that you may be installing unsafe software.
End result, see a peice of software on the web somewhere, click a link and (if its okayed by their distro) it installs, no problem. If the software is malicious it won't be approved, so one click won't do it, so there would have to be a list of instructions. Mr. Average User is going to see where its asking him to type in some command, get nervous and just not do it. No spyware is installed.
This is the mistake Microsoft made... make it easy to install programmes and you end up with systems full of viruses and worms. The Distros are in a unique position to allow easy to install apps, yet still prevent malicious software from being installed easily.
But the point is, coke is everywhere. As the OP suggested, even in the third world, where most people don't have internet, people can buy a coke. Hell I'm living in a third world country, and I've seen beggars on the street go into McDonald's and set down a big pile of change to buy a coke. I'm pretty sure that there are many more people that have heard of Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, Burger King, etc, than have heard of Google. Coke and Pepsi are sold in every store. Many Store's have those Enjoy Coca-cola right above "Joe's Convenence Store". I have yet to see Google Signs up around or see anywhere anyone without money can access any of google's services.
Ummm... The problem is that Enterprise does not respect cannon, and the writing sucks too.
Maybe you should google for "Mosquito Terminator".
At the end of that series, the Federation/Klingon/Romulan Alliance defaeted the Dominion/Cardassian/Breen Alliance. What happens after that?
Well they could have the reconstruction efforts after the war. The klingons would want to add new colonies to their empire, the Romulans would want to set up a puppet gorvernment, while the Federation would want to honestly rebuild Cardassia, and someday have them join the Federation. Well, except for maybe that secret Section 8 (or whatever number it was) who might have other plans.
Complicating matters further would be the Jem Hadar, who were bred for war, might have a little trouble adjusting to peace. The Breen would still be quite strong, and the Cardassians would of course resist any outside influence.
There would be a huge number of possibilities. And with the parallels with current events, people would be able to relate to the problems of the federation. I'm getting tired of the whole "oh we can't do the because it would violate the prime directive" morality stuff. It would be good to see the Federation be forced to make the tough decisions (What do you do with a defeated army of genetically engineered warriors?). They would have to tackle big problems that won't be solved by reversing the polarity of the phase inducer or some such rubbish.
I would cast a fresh young crew of peacekeepers. Starships would be around to transport them around and providde support on some of the bigger operations, but for the most part these guys would be on their own. You could bring in some of the cast from TNG, DS9, and Voyager from time to time, but I wouldn't want to overdo that. I would make it more grittier, and limit the technology. You establish what tech they have available early on and stick with that.
But more likely they will make a star trek with more time travel, holodecks, and technobabble. Too bad, a great story is right there waiting to be told.
Or the editors could actually read their own website. But I guess we can't expect them to take so much time out of their busy schedule to do that.