Or better by enough to put up with what is a very tiny add in the top corner. When you get rid of the ads you end up with dead space where they were - so its not like they are taking up valuable real estate. The adblock at the top of this slashdot space is about 5 times more intrusive than the Opera ads ever were.
Or other Unix-like operating systems that aren't Linux or Solaris? Nice of them to cut us out of the loop, even though we run flash on the same desktops as Linux and Solaris.
That kind of commie talk could get you sent off to terrorist jail! Although with those big fat Government subsidies they could afford it and it would cut unemployment in rural areas. Are you sure you're not a socialist?
Yeh, after all, what do we need people for? We should just do away with people completely and have robot consumers buying the things made by robot creators. Its the ultimate economic model - a perfect capitalist loop with no wastage and infinite efficiency.
You are missing the point. Linux is a kernel and each distro is a Linux based OS. FreeBSD is _not_ a kernel - it is a full operating system. DesktopBSD is not just the FreeBSD 'kernel', with a 'graphical installer' and a 'gui'. It is the full FreeBSD OS with a few extra desktop-friendly tools added (I'm not judging it, just stating what it is).
The goal of government is... Not to form society according to the vision of master planners.
I'm sorry, but I think you missed the last 80 years. Forming society and swaying the masses has been the specific goal of Government since Edward Bernays created the field of Public Relations back in the 20's.
True, I can't say I liked those sites. It was always just so you had to click their pay-per-click link to the porn site. It wasn't too hard though to find a good FTP site on the end of a fat pipe and grab all the albums you wanted.
It might have taken a bit of effort to find the sites, but I find it more of a pain in the arse today, what with bad files, slow speeds, queues, etc. Back in the day, when you found a good site you could search their whole collection. And you could browse, so you didn't even have to start knowing what you were looking for.
The FTP days (before Napster) were the best. Sometimes there were upload/download ratios but it was worth the price if the ratio was low, because the signal/noise ratio was very good. The files were guaranteed good quality (Ops usually kept their servers clean) and mostly full albums in their own folders.
Like everything on the Internet, the usefullness of file sharing was indirectly proportional to the number of people using it.
Internet (n'tr-nt') - n. - An interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol.
Although the gp posters metaphor is still flawed, What would actually happen is that we would simply have more than one Internet. Probably called the internet, le internet, los internet, etc - and The Cisco(tm)Internet (Powered by General Electric(R) - We've got the power(tm)). And a whole new industry in transnational network integration.
I thought the third level was essentially handled at the web server, is that not true?
Basically, no. All levels are handled by DNS. You can use a wildcard, but you could also send, eg, foo.bar.pro to one IP and bar.bar.pro to another. You can also delegate subdomains to different nameservers - so you could delegate foo.bar.pro to your friends nameserver and they would handle all requests for *.foo.bar.pro. That, in effect is how registrars handle second-level domain requests - you query the registrars nameserver for foo.bar and it delegates the request to your nameservers.
Not to mention that a lot of 'BBC' DVDs and vidoes are actually put out for sale by the independant production companies that made them, and not the BBC itself.
I feel sorry for immigrants. In a recent study it was found that one of the major factors leading to immigration into the UK was the belief that the UK is a safe, tolerant and democratic country - more so than many of our European neigbours even (another factor was our past Commonwealth or Empire links with many of these poorer countries).
Intead they turn up full off hope to find out we're just another nation of small-minded bigots living in the sway of tabloids and lowest-common denominator Government.
Last I checked despite your opposition to a law you can't simply "ignore it" when it doesn't suit you. Otherwise I totally call dibs on everything in your home.
Of course you can. That's what freedom is all about. That's what Mel Gibson died to tell you. "You can take our lives, but you'll never take our freedom" - get it?
Naturally you have to accept the consequences of your choices; which might inlude a court date with the RIAA, having your entrails cut out or my fist in your face if you come round my house. On the other hand I might let you take some stuff I don't need anymore, you never know unless you try.
And you're surprised? Capitalism isn't a step up from feudalism, its just feudalism in another form. Control of capital is just an extension of control of the land. Instead of a heirarchy of peasants, lords and kings we have a heirarchy of workers, managers and bankers (and don't forget their armies of lawyers, like you said).
I'm not sure why this is flamebait? It makes perfect sense to me.
Being driven in my own car sounds like the pefect solution since most gridlock is actually caused by bad driving. Driving too close has been proven to cause traffic jams due to the wave effect (can't remember what its called in this situation) as people have to break to a stop rather than simply slowing down gradually. And the other big factor is the idiots who have to cut in too late or avoid moving out of closed lanes until the last minute.
Stick everyone in self driving cars which follow logical rules, drive the right distance apart can be updated of problems ahead and mostly aren't operated by the average selfish driver, and everything will flow much smoother. And then, like the parent said, we can all get drunk, smoke pot and still drive home.
The only potential problem I see is that once you take the boy racing syndrome out of driving, everyone would want gas-heavy RVs so they could lie back and have a snooze on the way home.
I think (or I read it as anyway) the implication from the grandfather post wasn't that it would invalidate their patents, rather that it would raise anti-trust and abuse of monopoly issues.
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Or better by enough to put up with what is a very tiny add in the top corner. When you get rid of the ads you end up with dead space where they were - so its not like they are taking up valuable real estate. The adblock at the top of this slashdot space is about 5 times more intrusive than the Opera ads ever were.
You should teach them a lesson by boycoting their free registration.
Or other Unix-like operating systems that aren't Linux or Solaris? Nice of them to cut us out of the loop, even though we run flash on the same desktops as Linux and Solaris.
That kind of commie talk could get you sent off to terrorist jail! Although with those big fat Government subsidies they could afford it and it would cut unemployment in rural areas. Are you sure you're not a socialist?
Now, where's my patent application robot?
This Bell that was stateside born and bred must be a different one from the famous Alexander Graham Bell that was born and educated in Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell .
Bye.
I'm glad you agree with our European socialist policies now.
You are missing the point. Linux is a kernel and each distro is a Linux based OS. FreeBSD is _not_ a kernel - it is a full operating system. DesktopBSD is not just the FreeBSD 'kernel', with a 'graphical installer' and a 'gui'. It is the full FreeBSD OS with a few extra desktop-friendly tools added (I'm not judging it, just stating what it is).
Is that you Tronguy?
...or the Plutos.
I'm sorry, but I think you missed the last 80 years. Forming society and swaying the masses has been the specific goal of Government since Edward Bernays created the field of Public Relations back in the 20's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays/
It might have taken a bit of effort to find the sites, but I find it more of a pain in the arse today, what with bad files, slow speeds, queues, etc. Back in the day, when you found a good site you could search their whole collection. And you could browse, so you didn't even have to start knowing what you were looking for.
Like everything on the Internet, the usefullness of file sharing was indirectly proportional to the number of people using it.
Although the gp posters metaphor is still flawed, What would actually happen is that we would simply have more than one Internet. Probably called the internet, le internet, los internet, etc - and The Cisco(tm)Internet (Powered by General Electric(R) - We've got the power(tm)). And a whole new industry in transnational network integration.
It sounds very handy.
Basically, no. All levels are handled by DNS. You can use a wildcard, but you could also send, eg, foo.bar.pro to one IP and bar.bar.pro to another. You can also delegate subdomains to different nameservers - so you could delegate foo.bar.pro to your friends nameserver and they would handle all requests for *.foo.bar.pro. That, in effect is how registrars handle second-level domain requests - you query the registrars nameserver for foo.bar and it delegates the request to your nameservers.
Not to mention that a lot of 'BBC' DVDs and vidoes are actually put out for sale by the independant production companies that made them, and not the BBC itself.
Intead they turn up full off hope to find out we're just another nation of small-minded bigots living in the sway of tabloids and lowest-common denominator Government.
Which, funnily enough, simply puts them 100 years behind the USA.
Of course you can. That's what freedom is all about. That's what Mel Gibson died to tell you. "You can take our lives, but you'll never take our freedom" - get it?
Naturally you have to accept the consequences of your choices; which might inlude a court date with the RIAA, having your entrails cut out or my fist in your face if you come round my house. On the other hand I might let you take some stuff I don't need anymore, you never know unless you try.
And you're surprised? Capitalism isn't a step up from feudalism, its just feudalism in another form. Control of capital is just an extension of control of the land. Instead of a heirarchy of peasants, lords and kings we have a heirarchy of workers, managers and bankers (and don't forget their armies of lawyers, like you said).
Being driven in my own car sounds like the pefect solution since most gridlock is actually caused by bad driving. Driving too close has been proven to cause traffic jams due to the wave effect (can't remember what its called in this situation) as people have to break to a stop rather than simply slowing down gradually. And the other big factor is the idiots who have to cut in too late or avoid moving out of closed lanes until the last minute.
Stick everyone in self driving cars which follow logical rules, drive the right distance apart can be updated of problems ahead and mostly aren't operated by the average selfish driver, and everything will flow much smoother. And then, like the parent said, we can all get drunk, smoke pot and still drive home.
The only potential problem I see is that once you take the boy racing syndrome out of driving, everyone would want gas-heavy RVs so they could lie back and have a snooze on the way home.
Do that monkey boy dance for us, go on.
I think (or I read it as anyway) the implication from the grandfather post wasn't that it would invalidate their patents, rather that it would raise anti-trust and abuse of monopoly issues.