Consumers get usage rights as granted by the copyright holder, DRM makes it easier to restrict these usage rights which takes us further away from what they would call "ownership".
Smells like fud to me.
That's an extremely inappropriate use of this expression.
In America, you do have to go to college to get a degree in teaching. And you do have to get continuing education in those months when you are not teaching.
Same thing for my country. The problem is that getting a degree is not that hard, and the "improvement system" is much more of a bureocratic process than a real improvement. In my country (Brazil) the "improvement system" was something unions asked so they could rebuff any attempt to criticize the quality of education. If you complain about their job, they'll point you their brand new diploma.
The teachers don't always repeat the script because they want to. They repeat the script because their students have to do well on standardized tests that school boards and the government force on them. Originally, they had to score well because schools with better scores got a better class of student, one with parents who could pay the taxes to improve the schools. These days, I believe that every school in America is federally required to be above average.
Did you not have any teachers, at all, when you were growing up?
When I searched to post that, I find that yup- you are correct, they make about 8% more than the average worker.
However, they have been losing ground ever since 1996.
Sure they are. The have the only profession where people are mostly uneducated and never seek any kind of post-graduation knowledge. Most teachers are ignorant dumbasses who spend their whole life repeating the same script for the same set of subjects.
Yet we leave our kids with these folks: the worst kind of human beings in the planet.
We call out the REAL culprits and hurt their image (and perhaps profits) with an expose.
The real culprit is the guy that did something against the law while living in a country with a long record of brutallity against criminals and "subversive" people. The real culprit is that culture of "who cares about the law, nothing will happen anyway".
Contribute some dollars for development if you want things improved.
Companies want software that works now. If they pay US$ 1000 for a software, they'll have a working software in their hands. If they donate US$ 1000 (= too little) for an OSS project, all they'll have is hope that in a few years they might get what they want.
Asking for donations is like asking people to make a bet. And that makeabet-ware method will never be sucessful.
Have you ever wondered why AOL sent so many CDs instead of telling people that the program is on the internet?
Actually yes. And the conclusion was obvious: they are selling internet access. Asking customers to download the software AFTER connecting to the internet, when what they want, after all, is internet access, would be pretty dumb.
Imagine that you wanted to go from NY to LA, and the air company told you that they will only issue tickets at the final destination, in your case, LA. That means you would need to go to LA to have a ticket for a flight to... LA. Sure, you can ask a friend to help you and send the ticket thru USPS, like you can ask a friend to download the app to you, but that would still be a dumb business decision.
...the Open Source invented the standardization process. At least that what is seems to me when I read "but it demonstrates that open standards and open source strategies are really becoming a mainstream concept in the software industry" at an Open-Source-directed site like Slashdot.
Sorry to break your heart, folks, but that's like saying Open Source invented ISO / ANSI / IEEE / etc. A.k.a.: nonsense. The process of open industry standards predates the open source community.
I know that the Open Source community is important and all, but pretending that it invented the whole process of openness is plain silly. Stop this nonsense.
Good teachers that teach to these classes of kids actually stand in the way of these objectives, as their aim is to have their pupils to achieve the best they can and get the best follow-up education, essentially raising their social status. So what needs to be done is to frustrate those teachers so much that they give up.
Yeah, the good ones, right. The ones that use school's computers to watch porn while the kids have not arrived yet.
This kind of CEO example does not affect violence because it's not related to the people who are on the top, but to those that who are on the bottom. Violence is related to the income inequality between the poorest and the middle class. When everyone was dying because of simple diseases, both poor and middle man, healthcare was not as important as it is today. When all kids used to play at the same streets, playing the same games, going to the same schools, househould income was just a measure of things not really connected to the children's future.
Today things are different. Poverty affects life with more intensity than in the past. It's not just about going to "the city" to "work hard" anymore, as education and culture plays a big role in the modern world. If you read the history of ancient rich people like Andrew Carnegie and others, you'll find that all they needed at their time was entrepreneurship and perseverance. Good luck finding a good job at NY City today being nothing but "smart" and "hard working".
What the heck, if you even have a "poor people"-like name these days, your life will be affected by it. The problem is that violence is not really about buying food or elements needed to improve life (education and others), but to buy luxury and/or drugs. That is also why poor people today have less opportunities, because they're seen as greedy and useless people with no desire to improve life status. Unfortunately, part of that perception is true, as most poor people are really greedy underachievers with an inferior culture that praises stupid stuff like gangs and crime instead of education and hard work.
If you were poor at 1902, you were still "one of them": you had the same kinds of names (instead of "Shaquilla" and others), the same race, the same origin and, the most important, the same culture. At the current time, poor people are perceived as bad people, not just people with less resources. That's the difference between country-building immigrants, and job-seeking illegals.
You can mod me down, but the fact of the matter is that youtube was not blocked in Brazil, even for a minute.
Yes it was. Your lie will not travel that far, as Google News is filled with articles about 5,5 million blocked internet users at Telefonica and Brasil Telecom.
Previously you have military dictatorships that exploited football for political gains or neolibelral technocrats that pretty much ignored the whole of the Brazilian poor in favour of the rich and powerful.
Now we have a leftish corrupt person that obviously does not ignore the poor: he is always using them to steal the country. I'd rather have them ignored than abused.
You may think your network card firmware is worth $100,000, but it's not. Hardware people think their software is valuable because they see other people selling three man-years of software for huge amounts. Here's what they miss: those other people are good at writing software, while hardware people and poorly supervised contractors are horrible at it. In those three man-years, they'll produce code that's bad in every way you can imagine - filled with magic numbers, race conditions, deadlocks, spaghetti code, massive duplication, inefficiencies, and bizarre workarounds for bugs both in the hardware and the firmware. It's entirely free of comments or documentation. It's not even indented right. It's a miracle it ever works. Be thankful this software does not require sophisticated algorithms, or it would be entirely hopeless. It's nearly worthless - it certainly isn't well-written enough to be useful on a competitor's chipset. But for some reason, hardware people think their software is the secret sauce, so they're afraid to let anyone even distribute the binary, much less see their awful code.
You're wrong, sorry. You're just being arrogant, nothing more. You don't have any proof or whatsoever that firmware development is "spaghetti code with bad identation". That's B/S.
Hardware development teams are not "cursed" with a "bad coding virus". In fact, a lot of hardware people are much better programmers than basement-living nerds. If you really think that Open Source programming is the heaven of code quality, I guess you never looked at OSS source code.
While you're probably going to "prove" your dumb generalisation using some lame-ass anecdote, I also have mine: I worked with a lot of embedded development people (I'm also one of them) and most people I met are extremely good programmers, that can not only code well but they can hand-optimize their software without making a mess out of it. After all, we work with 30-200 MIPS processors that sometimes need to execute data-processing tasks that would bring a multitasked P4 to its knees. We know A LOT about optimization and we're far better coders than any basement rat you can find.
If there's a market where you're going to find good programming skills and culture, it's the embedded development market.
but if the EU would suddenly only 'support' 95% of religions, there would be a heck of an outrage.
Sorry to break your heart, but a lot of EU countries have christian state churches, and peacefully ignore every other religion. A country is about the people that built it, the ones that lived there first. They have the right to mandate that their country is the home for their culture. Immigrants can't force their culture and religion onto everybody else.
Minorities must receive obligatory support just if part of the country's land is based on the invasion of this minority homeland or if those people were brought by the government, because of slavery or other state-approved population absorption, like mass asylum grants. Immigrants that travelled to the country just "to find better life" will have to face the fact that the country is not theirs and that they don't hold any rights to force their culture and religion onto the state machine. No one has the right to move to other countries and force them to accept you. In fact, if you're an immigrant, it's considered to be bad manners if you don't convert to the local culture and don't mix with other people.
The popularity of open source has spurred a lot of free software for Windows. Windows users actually have something to thank OSS and Linux for, if you think about it.
The market of free Windows utilities wasn't created by the Open Source community. It seems that you guys think that Open Source invented programming.
There's no reason why we can't have an industrial economy that operates efficiently, fairly, and responsibly.
Sure, but that's not what the parent poster and his group are proposing. All they want is sick revenge against executives and companies. It's pretty hard to run an efficient economy if executives from all over the planet are being arrested because one of the 80k employees of his company broke the law.
It's pretty easy to get pissed off at executives and their big salaries after being ripped-off by a company. But it's hard to understand that there is no such thing as a viable economy without special rules for companies. That does not stop us from voting sane laws that protect the society from abuse. But we still need special rules, and we can't assume that a manager is responsible for every single action of his employees.
If my company kills someone because the manager told his group to ignore laws, well, then he is a criminal. If my company killed someone because an employee made a valid mistake, while following international safety standards, I guess it's time to discuss those standards and pay compensation, using company money, for the family. See? It's pretty different.
But what most people want is just to see "The Man" suffer and "get what he deserves".
Autodesk has also 3D products that are not only comparable to SolidWorks, but better at some aspects. One of them is the AutoDesk Inventor line.
So stop BS-ing about 2D, the evolution of CAD, and how AutoDesk is late on "obvious changes" in the market, while talking crap (and trying to look smart while doing it) about SolidWorks and other offers.
Just because you heard about SolidWorks while trying to build an open-source MMORPG, that does not make you a CAD expert.
This is a new millenium and 2D is not gone, but it is dying fast. Somehow they, Autodesk, missed the point that we live and think in a 3D world.
SolidWorks.com has about 500,000 users of their mid-range software and has trounced AutoDesk's various offerings, so AD is just trying to protect what little it has left in 2D. What a pity.
Except that Autodesk has a lot of 3d products, including the sucessful Autodesk Inventor line, wich is superior than SolidWorks.
hint: I mean, let's take away the corporations' special rights...
Sure, but that will have a price. As another poster mentioned, corporations also have special needs. Sure, I know that your kind of people want executives to be personally liable for every single employee and for every single machine that the companies operate, and that you want companies to start being punished here and there, for being evil capitalists.
But it will have a price.
So I say we should start with your job. And also taking away your computer, as it's the product of a free market that ruined the health of hundreds of clean room workers and it still costs a lot of enviromental damage to China and other countries. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Don't expect to go postal after companies and still enjoy progress. After all, it's very convenient for you to hate companies and "The Man?" and code your open source software using their technological advances.
...for DVD Writers, Monitors, RAM modules, Motherboards, and others? They're all third-party products and they're "forced" on most models. You just can't buy some computer models without an optical storage drive. Or maybe a harddisk.
What if I want the computer just for running a live CD? What if I don't want a RAM module for whatever reason?
The answer is simple: I should buy my stuff somewhere else.
Bundled Operating Systems and Optical Drives are the same thing. They're bundled. They're from third-parties and you can argue that they're not actually necessary for the computer. In fact, if this nonsense "I can install my own" argument is valid, we can also sue to buy computers with no RAM, Motherboard, Processor, and others.
If you don't like someone's product. DON'T FREAKING BUY IT.
The reason Paintbrush is the best application they've ever written is because Microsoft didn't write it.
I've got installation media for Windows 2.03 kicking around somewhere which came with my first Microsoft mouse and it's actually ZSoft PC Paintbrush which was bundled with the mouse.
The mention of ZSoft was dropped in Windows 3.0 and apart from support for things like GIF and JPG now, the application has changed very little since Windows 2 (Well if it ain't broke...)
Windows 2 Paintbrush != Windows 95+ Microsoft Paint. They're not the same piece of software. It was a complete rewrite. For such a small and stupid piece of software, it might have costed a week or two worth of individual work.
The post didn't say that the military is copying GPL code. It said that there is a lot of GPL code in military systems. For example, a military system runs a contractor-developed application on Linux. Hence there is GPL code in the system as a whole, but nothing that violates the GPL or requires any sort of publication of the application source.
That's not "GPL code in military systems", just "GPL applications running on military computers". The wording sounds similar but it's a hell of a difference. You're not using the code, but the final product of it.
And, second: Doubt it. The military is very conservative and will think twice before replacing Solaris and other for "communistware", as they're most paranoid about communism and related stuff than everyone else. They don't need to save a few thousand bucks to change their cars or fix their heating system, so this kind of Linux penny-saving attitude is not compatible with their actions.
If you look at that fact that NSA published SELinux improvements, or the amount of noise/FUD that Green Hills Software (which competes with gcc) has made in the press about the "dangers" of open-source software, I'd say it's fairly certain that GPL software is being used by the military; and in sufficient volume for commercial competitors to be upset about it.
You would say it it's certain, I know. I would not. Having proof before talking is better than doing blind affirmations. I would say it's possible that Green Hils (and just Green Hills) is upset, not the others.
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I did, they were all ignorant suckers. =]
Yet we leave our kids with these folks: the worst kind of human beings in the planet.
Asking for donations is like asking people to make a bet. And that makeabet-ware method will never be sucessful.
Imagine that you wanted to go from NY to LA, and the air company told you that they will only issue tickets at the final destination, in your case, LA. That means you would need to go to LA to have a ticket for a flight to... LA. Sure, you can ask a friend to help you and send the ticket thru USPS, like you can ask a friend to download the app to you, but that would still be a dumb business decision.
...the Open Source invented the standardization process. At least that what is seems to me when I read "but it demonstrates that open standards and open source strategies are really becoming a mainstream concept in the software industry" at an Open-Source-directed site like Slashdot.
Sorry to break your heart, folks, but that's like saying Open Source invented ISO / ANSI / IEEE / etc. A.k.a.: nonsense. The process of open industry standards predates the open source community.
I know that the Open Source community is important and all, but pretending that it invented the whole process of openness is plain silly. Stop this nonsense.
This kind of CEO example does not affect violence because it's not related to the people who are on the top, but to those that who are on the bottom. Violence is related to the income inequality between the poorest and the middle class. When everyone was dying because of simple diseases, both poor and middle man, healthcare was not as important as it is today. When all kids used to play at the same streets, playing the same games, going to the same schools, househould income was just a measure of things not really connected to the children's future.
Today things are different. Poverty affects life with more intensity than in the past. It's not just about going to "the city" to "work hard" anymore, as education and culture plays a big role in the modern world. If you read the history of ancient rich people like Andrew Carnegie and others, you'll find that all they needed at their time was entrepreneurship and perseverance. Good luck finding a good job at NY City today being nothing but "smart" and "hard working".
What the heck, if you even have a "poor people"-like name these days, your life will be affected by it. The problem is that violence is not really about buying food or elements needed to improve life (education and others), but to buy luxury and/or drugs. That is also why poor people today have less opportunities, because they're seen as greedy and useless people with no desire to improve life status. Unfortunately, part of that perception is true, as most poor people are really greedy underachievers with an inferior culture that praises stupid stuff like gangs and crime instead of education and hard work.
If you were poor at 1902, you were still "one of them": you had the same kinds of names (instead of "Shaquilla" and others), the same race, the same origin and, the most important, the same culture. At the current time, poor people are perceived as bad people, not just people with less resources. That's the difference between country-building immigrants, and job-seeking illegals.
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Hardware development teams are not "cursed" with a "bad coding virus". In fact, a lot of hardware people are much better programmers than basement-living nerds. If you really think that Open Source programming is the heaven of code quality, I guess you never looked at OSS source code.
While you're probably going to "prove" your dumb generalisation using some lame-ass anecdote, I also have mine: I worked with a lot of embedded development people (I'm also one of them) and most people I met are extremely good programmers, that can not only code well but they can hand-optimize their software without making a mess out of it. After all, we work with 30-200 MIPS processors that sometimes need to execute data-processing tasks that would bring a multitasked P4 to its knees. We know A LOT about optimization and we're far better coders than any basement rat you can find.
If there's a market where you're going to find good programming skills and culture, it's the embedded development market.
Minorities must receive obligatory support just if part of the country's land is based on the invasion of this minority homeland or if those people were brought by the government, because of slavery or other state-approved population absorption, like mass asylum grants. Immigrants that travelled to the country just "to find better life" will have to face the fact that the country is not theirs and that they don't hold any rights to force their culture and religion onto the state machine. No one has the right to move to other countries and force them to accept you. In fact, if you're an immigrant, it's considered to be bad manners if you don't convert to the local culture and don't mix with other people.
It's pretty easy to get pissed off at executives and their big salaries after being ripped-off by a company. But it's hard to understand that there is no such thing as a viable economy without special rules for companies. That does not stop us from voting sane laws that protect the society from abuse. But we still need special rules, and we can't assume that a manager is responsible for every single action of his employees.
If my company kills someone because the manager told his group to ignore laws, well, then he is a criminal. If my company killed someone because an employee made a valid mistake, while following international safety standards, I guess it's time to discuss those standards and pay compensation, using company money, for the family. See? It's pretty different.
But what most people want is just to see "The Man" suffer and "get what he deserves".
BTW: AutoDesk Inventor is also parametric. In fact, Inventor's geometric engine is far superior than SolidWorks engine.
Autodesk has also 3D products that are not only comparable to SolidWorks, but better at some aspects. One of them is the AutoDesk Inventor line.
So stop BS-ing about 2D, the evolution of CAD, and how AutoDesk is late on "obvious changes" in the market, while talking crap (and trying to look smart while doing it) about SolidWorks and other offers.
Just because you heard about SolidWorks while trying to build an open-source MMORPG, that does not make you a CAD expert.
But it will have a price.
So I say we should start with your job. And also taking away your computer, as it's the product of a free market that ruined the health of hundreds of clean room workers and it still costs a lot of enviromental damage to China and other countries. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Don't expect to go postal after companies and still enjoy progress. After all, it's very convenient for you to hate companies and "The Man?" and code your open source software using their technological advances.
...for DVD Writers, Monitors, RAM modules, Motherboards, and others? They're all third-party products and they're "forced" on most models. You just can't buy some computer models without an optical storage drive. Or maybe a harddisk.
What if I want the computer just for running a live CD? What if I don't want a RAM module for whatever reason?
The answer is simple: I should buy my stuff somewhere else.
Bundled Operating Systems and Optical Drives are the same thing. They're bundled. They're from third-parties and you can argue that they're not actually necessary for the computer. In fact, if this nonsense "I can install my own" argument is valid, we can also sue to buy computers with no RAM, Motherboard, Processor, and others.
If you don't like someone's product. DON'T FREAKING BUY IT.
Oh no. DVD Writers are not Microsoft products, so I guess you don't care about them.
And, second: Doubt it. The military is very conservative and will think twice before replacing Solaris and other for "communistware", as they're most paranoid about communism and related stuff than everyone else. They don't need to save a few thousand bucks to change their cars or fix their heating system, so this kind of Linux penny-saving attitude is not compatible with their actions.
You would say it it's certain, I know. I would not. Having proof before talking is better than doing blind affirmations. I would say it's possible that Green Hils (and just Green Hills) is upset, not the others.