Not quite. Germany's government was in a deadlock, so he was elected (or appointed by someone who was elected -- I can't remember) to restructure the government. A long-term totalitarian government was not what the German people had in mind. ------
The problem is the website. It looks like the average free software website, and if I didn't know better, I'd think it was the official MySQL site. I think a footer of "not affiliated with MySQL AB, the creators of MySQL" would have been fine. ------
... Canada, a nation that hadn't rebelled against the rule of the king...
That's what YOU think. We just waited for you guys to spend tons of resources fighting the British, then when they were defeated and weak, we said "Oh yes, we want sovereignty too, may we have it?"
Given that the Brits had already had enough of "those crazy Americans", they said, "Yes, yes. Get out of our faces!"
We let you poor suckers fight our war for us! I call that tactical genius!;-)
Actually, it's probably the best option, under the circumstances. I would suggest trying to get it into the SMTP standard, however, so everyone can know about it. ------
Except on Win9x, "virtual memory" is what Microsoft calls swap space, which is interesting, because they have an option to "disable virtual memory". ------
Enthusiast sites can exist without funding...until they grow large enough to demand high-speed links, load-balancers, etc etc etc. This stuff is
extremely NOT CHEAP.
Once IPv6 gets adopted, this won't be a problem, since multicast is a mandatory part of the standard.
Has that ever been taken to court recently? I highly doubt that a sane judge would award damages from someone who gave you software, and the source code to check if you wanted to, for free. ------
I don't know about the previous poster, but I get symmetric 1Mbps on my cable modem with "unlimited" traffic (no exact limit, but they can kick you off the consumer pricing if you get carried away) from Access Communications.
It's so nice to live in a small enough city that doing a complete rebuild of the cable system is actually feasible. ------
Most people who develop free software (GPL type) do it for fame, and they get a lot of it. Money really has nothing to do with it. I've heard phrases such as "Don't want money; got money. Want fame." which demonstrate that mindset.
Personally, I don't see OSS being much of a business model for most people. I think it can make money, but nobody is going to get rich from selling OSS like Gates did selling BASIC and Office.
Almost nobody these days can make any money selling a web browser these days, so trying to sell a web browser is probably a waste of time and effort. However, being a key developer in the Mozilla project would take the same amount of effort (or maybe even less effort), but can gain you a great deal of fame that can actually benefit you financially (think about your résumé). People are realizing this, and as a result, people are also realizing that what they used to have to pay $60 per copy for can now be had for free with very few/minor restrictions.
Basically, any form of mandatory fee, per-copy or otherwise, is contrary to the idea of OSS, and nobody will accept it as OSS.
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What I'd like to see more proprietary software that comes with source code. I would buy the Opera browser if I could get source code with it, but I can't, and Opera segfaults, so I won't. People must stop believing that their source code is a secret, and realize that anyone else could produce it with some effort.
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That's a nice idea, but it's been thought of before. You've presented a known problem without a solution. Do you have any ideas? I'm sure everyone else here is stumped. ------
If a person doesn't know what a vector is, they probably shouldn't be using a vector based drawing program.
That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. That's like saying Tim Willits shouldn't be allowed to design Quake maps until he knows how to implement a BSP tree, or that an accountant should know what a doping agent is to use his calculator.
The whole point of living in a society is so that every member doesn't have to do everything.
We've finally done it. We've been directly targeted for extermination by Microsoft!
Remember four years ago, when boxed software says "requires Windows 3.1 or better"? Windows 95 is cool, but it's broken and needs to be reinstalled again -- how frustrating!
I try this "Lie-nux" thing, just as a toy operating system. It's so cool! It doesn't do much, but it has fvwm95 and Doom and xbill!
The first kernel recompile. Neato! I can make Linux as thin or as fat as I want to. Now, my sound card works, and Doom is even more fun. x11amp works pretty well, and so would Netscape, if it weren't for that damn winmodem...
I replace the modem, and now things are pretty cool. I download a new version of x11amp, with skin support! I'm going to take over the world! I try to sniff packets by running ifconfig ppp0 promisc. Thus ends my "hacking" career.
Fast-forward a few years. I know what a hacker is, and I now use Linux for pretty much everything; I abstain from the things I can't do in Linux, except games (it takes too long to boot Win95 on my P120, anyway). Linux is rock-solid and I've never been so at ease with my computer in my entire life. Everything just works, unless I break it. fsck still takes a while to scan my 6.4GB hard drive every 20-or-so bootups, but it's better than running Scandisk twice a day. I'm a Linux zealot, and I think Linux is the best for everything. I think BSD is archaic, even though I've never used it. The Linux sticker movement has gained momentum, and people are trying to get Windows refunds. Microsoft claims ignorance of GNU/Linux, and really can't do a damn thing about it, because there's no company to bankrupt.
Then the US Y2K-bug laws (DMCA/UCITA) are drafted. We don't expects them to go anywhere, but the DMCA is passed. The free software community feels threatened, but overly so. Microsoft is keeping an eye on us, but doesn't do anything, because of an anti-trust lawsuit.
Now, I know several programming languages and have used several systems. I know nothing is best for everything. Reiserfs has eliminated the need for fsck, Apache and Tux are kicking IIS around. IBM, Netscape, and Sun are only a few of all the GNU/Linux supporters, and Microsoft is pissing its pants with fear. MS tries to use FUD and the new Draconian laws to kill free software, but it's not working, because so many people are watching Microsoft that every bluff is being called, every deception exposed.
So, we may not have thought we could take over the world, but Microsoft seems to think we can. Maybe this is better than killing them with anti-trust alone. Microsoft certainly deserves a painful, torturous death, and I think free software will bring it.
In a few years, we'll finally be liberated from the cancer of the information age, Microsoft.
And Microsoft knows it.
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Sigh. Anyone who knows anything about debate knows that the "slippery-slope" argument is not a good argument. ------
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Except... the costs for spam don't just get paid by the end user. Spam incurs costs on everyone between the spammer and the end user, especially on the ISP running the mail server, so if an ISP wants to deny SMTP connections from hosts on the ORBS list, that ISP has every right to do so. If you don't like it, run your own mail server (make sure it's an open relay).
I get very tired of people who think their opinions are valuable when they haven't ever researched the damn issues, and want to impose this on others! ------
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Not quite. Germany's government was in a deadlock, so he was elected (or appointed by someone who was elected -- I can't remember) to restructure the government. A long-term totalitarian government was not what the German people had in mind.
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cdparanoia for Windows...
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Quake 3 is basically version 4 of the DOOM engine.
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The problem is the website. It looks like the average free software website, and if I didn't know better, I'd think it was the official MySQL site. I think a footer of "not affiliated with MySQL AB, the creators of MySQL" would have been fine.
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Actually, no. The new airlock recovers most of the air...
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Bah! The only thing you'll get is Ontario and Quebec. The rest of us will beat the living hell out of you! :)
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That's what YOU think. We just waited for you guys to spend tons of resources fighting the British, then when they were defeated and weak, we said "Oh yes, we want sovereignty too, may we have it?"
Given that the Brits had already had enough of "those crazy Americans", they said, "Yes, yes. Get out of our faces!"
We let you poor suckers fight our war for us! I call that tactical genius! ;-)
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Also, maybe that should also be the DNS standard, since it specifies what MX records are for.
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Actually, it's probably the best option, under the circumstances. I would suggest trying to get it into the SMTP standard, however, so everyone can know about it.
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Except on Win9x, "virtual memory" is what Microsoft calls swap space, which is interesting, because they have an option to "disable virtual memory".
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Once IPv6 gets adopted, this won't be a problem, since multicast is a mandatory part of the standard.
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iptables -A OUTPUT -d ads.x10.com -p tcp --dport 80 -j REJECT
You'll need the appropriate netfilter capabilities compiled into your kernel.
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No kidding! There's a reason why the Linux version of Netscape has the middle button bound to `Open Link in New Window'.
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Better: get a virus that swaps the function of the "I Agree" and "I Disagree" buttons.
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Has that ever been taken to court recently? I highly doubt that a sane judge would award damages from someone who gave you software, and the source code to check if you wanted to, for free.
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I heard a theory that time has 3 dimensions. I don't remember the details, though.
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It's not theft; It's copyright infringement. Since that's been discusses 800 gazillion times already, I won't discuss it here.
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It's so nice to live in a small enough city that doing a complete rebuild of the cable system is actually feasible.
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Don't go putting Canada down. It's only 40% of our income...
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Personally, I don't see OSS being much of a business model for most people. I think it can make money, but nobody is going to get rich from selling OSS like Gates did selling BASIC and Office.
Almost nobody these days can make any money selling a web browser these days, so trying to sell a web browser is probably a waste of time and effort. However, being a key developer in the Mozilla project would take the same amount of effort (or maybe even less effort), but can gain you a great deal of fame that can actually benefit you financially (think about your résumé). People are realizing this, and as a result, people are also realizing that what they used to have to pay $60 per copy for can now be had for free with very few/minor restrictions.
Basically, any form of mandatory fee, per-copy or otherwise, is contrary to the idea of OSS, and nobody will accept it as OSS.
<rant>
What I'd like to see more proprietary software that comes with source code. I would buy the Opera browser if I could get source code with it, but I can't, and Opera segfaults, so I won't. People must stop believing that their source code is a secret, and realize that anyone else could produce it with some effort.
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That's a nice idea, but it's been thought of before. You've presented a known problem without a solution. Do you have any ideas? I'm sure everyone else here is stumped.
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That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. That's like saying Tim Willits shouldn't be allowed to design Quake maps until he knows how to implement a BSP tree, or that an accountant should know what a doping agent is to use his calculator.
The whole point of living in a society is so that every member doesn't have to do everything.
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Remember four years ago, when boxed software says "requires Windows 3.1 or better"? Windows 95 is cool, but it's broken and needs to be reinstalled again -- how frustrating!
I try this "Lie-nux" thing, just as a toy operating system. It's so cool! It doesn't do much, but it has fvwm95 and Doom and xbill!
The first kernel recompile. Neato! I can make Linux as thin or as fat as I want to. Now, my sound card works, and Doom is even more fun. x11amp works pretty well, and so would Netscape, if it weren't for that damn winmodem...
I replace the modem, and now things are pretty cool. I download a new version of x11amp, with skin support! I'm going to take over the world! I try to sniff packets by running ifconfig ppp0 promisc. Thus ends my "hacking" career.
Fast-forward a few years. I know what a hacker is, and I now use Linux for pretty much everything; I abstain from the things I can't do in Linux, except games (it takes too long to boot Win95 on my P120, anyway). Linux is rock-solid and I've never been so at ease with my computer in my entire life. Everything just works, unless I break it. fsck still takes a while to scan my 6.4GB hard drive every 20-or-so bootups, but it's better than running Scandisk twice a day. I'm a Linux zealot, and I think Linux is the best for everything. I think BSD is archaic, even though I've never used it. The Linux sticker movement has gained momentum, and people are trying to get Windows refunds. Microsoft claims ignorance of GNU/Linux, and really can't do a damn thing about it, because there's no company to bankrupt.
Then the US Y2K-bug laws (DMCA/UCITA) are drafted. We don't expects them to go anywhere, but the DMCA is passed. The free software community feels threatened, but overly so. Microsoft is keeping an eye on us, but doesn't do anything, because of an anti-trust lawsuit.
Now, I know several programming languages and have used several systems. I know nothing is best for everything. Reiserfs has eliminated the need for fsck, Apache and Tux are kicking IIS around. IBM, Netscape, and Sun are only a few of all the GNU/Linux supporters, and Microsoft is pissing its pants with fear. MS tries to use FUD and the new Draconian laws to kill free software, but it's not working, because so many people are watching Microsoft that every bluff is being called, every deception exposed.
So, we may not have thought we could take over the world, but Microsoft seems to think we can. Maybe this is better than killing them with anti-trust alone. Microsoft certainly deserves a painful, torturous death, and I think free software will bring it.
In a few years, we'll finally be liberated from the cancer of the information age, Microsoft.
And Microsoft knows it.
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Sigh. Anyone who knows anything about debate knows that the "slippery-slope" argument is not a good argument.
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I get very tired of people who think their opinions are valuable when they haven't ever researched the damn issues, and want to impose this on others!
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