Nothing is stopping you from doing just that. The law actually prohibits distributing, selling, and/or giving away such software. You are perfectly within your rights to write your own software to bypass what is on a DVD, etc. That is, as long as you are engaging in fair usage. (archival purposes, educational, etc.)
This law is still killing your freedom of speech. Unless I sign an EULA when I buy a DVD, I shouldn't be under these conditions.
"Two things here. First, you don't seem to understand the Kelo decision; it's really nothing new, and not a big deal."
Gee, thanks for enlightening me with that convincing argument. Yes, that Eminent Domain for Public Benefit, as put down by the Constition, gets reworded to whatever (or whoever) promises to pay the most property tax dollars is no big deal - none at all.
"Hell, Jefferson specifically left them out of the Declaration -- "
First, the bill of right specifically states that because some rights aren't enumerated doesn't mean they exist.
Plus why then does the constitution address search and seizure, right to bear arms, disallowing troops from being quartered in your own home, as well as the eminent domain restriction if Property Rights weren't recognized? It's implicit in the entire constitution, without ownership, you cannot exercise any of your other rights because the goverment can indiscriminately take away whatever they like to oppress your rights (government doesn't like the New York Times print? Don't suppress their freedom of speech, just forcibly buy them out in the guise of public benefit! They don't want you to own a gun? Don't break the second amendment, just "convince" the guy to sell his gun at the government's declare fair price, etcetera)
"Second, I disagree that other rights are founded on property rights."
See above. Without property right, you don't even own yourself.
"Arguably because this also is part of the utilitarian scheme of copyright."
And this isn't big brother how?
Q:Why can't I read it?
A:Because you can't!
Q:What if theres something potentially damaging in there, shouldn't I have the right to my own property? How do I know you're not packaging something malicious if I can't take a look at it? And yet you want me to buy it and take it home?
How is the DMCA even constitutional? It should take more than a act of congress because this rips apart all common sense property rights on which all other rights are based on (oh wait, the Supreme Court just shit on that back in June). If you don't have property rights, like dominos, everything else falls.
Why shouldn't I be able to read or "bypass" what I own like the 1 and 0s on DVD/CDs/etc? Laws like the DMCA chill me because manufactures can put whatever in their variety of products and if someone tries to look into them they wave the DMCA and say "Ah, ah, don't go their bad boy!" How is the customer even supposed to protect themselves from bad products (faulty engineering, back_doors, worms, etc.) If feels Big_Brotherish. Or like Britain. (I think they had a restriction on reading frequencies not "meant" for you since WW2.)
If the secrets within products shouldn't be known (or bypassed), don't sell it.
It's not ALL thanks to the kernel but the kernel helped get everything else gel. It's was the right piece of software at the right time.
Back in the early 90's the GNU had all these cool tools but still no functional kernel (up to 2004, IIRC???) - enter Linux. And the rest would be history.
Without Linux, a lot of other opensource projects might not have gotten started or would be residing largely on Windows or BSD. On Windows, open source would be okay until MS decides it's time to get into that market........ so that's unstable ground to say the least. BSD - well, I have nothing against it - but I wonder if it would have achieved Linux's sucess (if Linux were missing from the picture) due to differences in licenses and the seemingly more closed organization around developing the kernel.
Since English is my 3rd language, it really isn't that FUCKING hard but at the same point it's not that important as long as I get the point across.
BTW, I haven't played games in 8 years - but recognize other people actually do on these "obsolete" machines. Come up with a real counterargument or shut your trap.
The fact is that their are reasons why the PC will not become "obsolete" in the near future - games, the rise of the SoHo network with the various servers that the computers must operate (file server, print server, etcetera), processing power needed for the graphics/movies manipulation ad infinity.
When I do get more bandwidth, I don't want to waste it passing this type of data around - especially for net-servers that likely wouldn't have much more power/person ratio as my home PC.
No, it's playing the game and it recognizes the need that you're not in an ideal world and have to protect yourself from those who don't believe in a free exchange of ideas but in software patents, etcetera.
Put it this way - Linus will not go out and start suing people for infringing his software patents (please don't bring up the trademark issue which was a different matter entirely) - but if someone ever decides to attack the Linux - Linus can hold up his patent portfolio and say "Buddy, are you are sure you wanna do this? Your company has nothing that infringes on mine?"
Reminds me of Mutual Assured Destruction^_^
I wonder if RMS has something similiar to Linus in this regards (of a patent portfolio), but the GPL is similiar and a smart strategy. GPL software has to protect itself.
The point isn't just imitating humans but that someday they'll take over our monotonous work for us.
Yes, we have the dishwasher, oven, stove, refrigerator, blenders, etcetera. But do we really spend less time cooking (okay, I'm not a TV dinner man) or on housework?
No, we go out to make more elaborate or varied dishes in terms of cooking. Or in housework, we make conditions more sanitary (kitchen, dishes, bathroom, etc) than existed for the average Joe in the 1850s before all these gadgets.
In the end, all the gadgets don't really save time - but they let us do things better or more elaborate than before.
And dishwashers can't clean hardened gunk nor load themselves. Nor unload themselves and stack plates away. Vacuum cleaners don't push themselves (don't even bring up that roomba toy).
Our enviroments and gadgets conform to us. The natural next step are humanoid robots that can take over us driving these appliances.
The thing is, it's not the hardware keeping us back. It's a sufficient AI. (Assuming of course, we can make one work on a Turing-type machine).
DRM could easily circumvent that because it only has to look for a bright strip (line), not the entire screen. Hardly anyone will read in full sunlight where the light is segmented because of focusing problems (contrast and all that).
I mean you could always take a picture - but those hardly come out too well.
about this issue of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) a lot lately and coupled with Stallman's famous library/closed_information society essay.
Does anybody else forsee a time when everything "printed" will be on e-ink paper-thin paperless electronic displays that sense when you try to photocopy them (from the light?) and the only thing coming out of the Xerox machine will be static-filled pages?
Has always been that your fans pay with extra inconvenience and the pirates-that-be will get around it with ease.
Companies should learn that all it takes is one copy cracked for it to be out there.
But then I see the upcoming standard for Blu-ray, etcetera - and I suppose making the paying customers pay is the point. I mean, it's wonderful for the bottom line when you can sell the same person a movie on VHS, and then on region hobbled DVD, and then entice them with a HD version on Blu-ray. And the incentive is even greater for Joe Consumer once they can't back up their stuff or transfer it to other formats.
I'm glad for corporate thinking - because of this whereas I used to buy 25 CDs a year from mainstream RIAA companies, I buy 1-2 now. I don't download music but I simply don't care anymore. My money has moved onto other interests......
If something is announced as stable, I want *it* to be stable.
I do use a lot of beta software (writing this in Firefox 1.5b now) but at home where I choose to. When I'm at my office computer, I expect no crashes, especially from my Office Software.
I use Open Office and am very happy with it and as I'm happy to get the updates whenever they come out - partly because it's free (much more to pay that than $500), partly because I've been disillusioned by the MS upgrade glitz with the greatest latest new features I can't live without yet never use (normal users call this bloat) but mostly because I'm happy with the current package.
People who want the greatest/latest will use beta anyway - and they are the ones who can/will make bug reports if anyone. The rest of us will grumble quietly and move onto something else - so I don't see why this will result in quicker bug fixes.
What you are suggesting is essentially false advertising (misleading labelling) and OO.org doesn't need that hit to its reputation. That's the sort of thing that will drive people back to MS complaining while that "buggy office package."
Linux or FreeBSD didn't get their good reputations this way. This is their most valuable asset now because Linux is spread by the most valuable advertising medium - word of mouth - regardless of essentially meaningless version numbers.
together with the issue of ownership of OSS developed under the current Intellectual Property laws.
What is the issue of ownership? OSS is not necessarily Free Software. AFAIK, under international rules (Berne Convention) anything published automatically gets copyright protection whether OSS or Free Software or whatnot.
1.Because, I'm interested in Diversity (not just Linux, but BSD, BeOs, etcetera) which will give me a choice and also hopefully lead to developers making their applicitions more platform agnostic by using Cross Platform tools.
2. I'm interested in the long term viability of Linux/GNU and Free software. I believe MS is a threat to that and small business in general in many ways, not just in marketshare but in that their push for software patents/etcetera.
3. I'm love to see a total reduction in malware/spyware. MS is the culprit again. First by providing homogenous environment with their popularity and second in making that environment unsafe by default.
4. I believe MS is too big for its own good. If you read any Bill Gate's interview, 1 thing strikes me. Well, besides the overuse of the word 'innovation.' It's that they want to get into any and every fad business that happens to make money at the moment is considered "the new hotness." They pull in all these directions, for better or worse (usually worse and losing money). Yet their two core businesses still have mediocre or (worse than mediocre) products (inside, the glitz and glamor is grade A) and to subsidize all these directions, these two products are either involuntary (Windows) or overpriced (office). They do have some decent products (Visual Studio).
6. In keeping for the last one, I want to stop paying the MS tax (paying for a Windows License on a new computer.)
7. Device Drivers. Manufactures will be forced to release specs or drivers if MS has less than majority markey share. Until that day comes, to this end, when I buy something, I also purchase products that tend to support Linux.
(I could purchase stuff not supporting Linux but which the community has their own driver out by now, but then that's sending the wrong message to the companies that took the time out and made a good effort.)
From the article. " A 1979 audit of government-held patents showed that fewer than 5% of some 28,000 discoveries--all of them made with the help of taxpayer money--had been developed, because no company was willing to risk the capital to commercialize them without owning title"
Word of advice - don't just read the opening paragraph of an article and then claim it argues against itself BECAUSE IT THEN GOES INTO DETAIL WHY THINGS AREN'T SO CUT AND DRY.
The author already said it seemed counterintuitive that the Bayne-Dole law didn't improve things and explored that issue.
Also at issue in this article that you have missed:
Why should publicly funded research end up as patents in the private domain?
This article had nothing to do with patents that companies got by researching things on their own time and money.
You might as well quote that section of the article and come up with the conclusion - Well schucks, if publicly-funded research isn't being further developed and isn't helping anyone, let's complety cut public funding everywhere!
My path might take multiple months or longer - depending how much time you attach to it. But it will save you headaches down the road.
1)Don't do a thing. I mean a thing on converting anything till you KNOW linux.
2)Get into hardcore distros like Slackware (at first) or Gentoo.
3)Install Linux From Scratch yourself. (LFS is a distro and you will learn from that experience).
4)Set up a complete working environment from LFS with all the tools you need. Work on it and don't flirt with MS unnecessarily while you are on it (unless you need to for work, not recreation - meaning if you need to play MP3/DVDs do it in linux).
5)Start setting up servers for the hell of it and with LFS/Slackware/Gentoo or other distro.
6)Test. Play. Experiment. Read a few books like Linux Administrator Handbooks.
By now, you should be competent with linux.
7. Pick a nice user friendly distro for the office workers. Include openoffice/ftpclient/emailclient and whatever else they need.
Then you must have a paid annual subscription to a mailbox - before GMail my biggest free account was only 100MB (had many yahoo accounts, they seemed to increase some mailboxes' size with age or something for loyal 'customers').
Switched back in June. Right now, I still like GMail just for the "conversation" feature which keeps my mailbox from being cluttered with "re:re:re:adinfinity" crap. I'm probably gonna stick with it unless Yahoo really comes out with something killer.
I like quiet, so sometimes I use noise cancelling headphones. Good ones can be expensive but worth it to keep my sanity - plus I have a reason not to hear the phone:)
Anyway, on the few times I use it to play music versus regular pairs of headphone, I notice that I don't have to set the volume up nearly as much.
Even when a TV is blaring in the next room.
Note: I don't know if those things fit an iPod or portable music player in general as I don't have one..... but mine uses a battery in of itself, so I see no problem.
Really, if you are doing a minimum wage desk job and supposed to be filling out forms (I'm sure most companies will see why programmers/engineers could accomplish more with access) - why do you need to be surfing the web if the boss deems that's not within your job parameters or needs to complete a job? You can do that from home.
You are not only cutting into paid time that someone else paid you to work, you are cutting into the company's bandwidth.
And if you need to surf: a)Tell the boss why you need that capability and how it relates to your job.
"the system that the fascist pigs forced on us."
I'll think I'll use this as a linux motto as my company.
And if the PHB doesn't happen to see reason and declines your god-given right to surf the internet and troll slashdot, quit and call in the swat team for crimes against humanity.
The judge enjoined Lee and his new employer from working on any product or service that relies on confidential information tied to search, natural language processing and speech recognition he obtained while working for Microsoft.
Wasn't the noncompetive clause only good for a year?
Contrast this with yearly application updates for Photoshop, Quickbooks, anti-virus, anti-spyware, et al. which can run thousands of dollars. Microsoft isn't the only cost center on a typical PC; in fact, I'd say they're one of the smallest costs involved with a typical office PC.
Antivirus/antispyware apps.
Hmm. True. It's a pity I don't have to run those on my Linux PC. I miss doing that.
The real problem is (still) lack of applications and games. My home PC can't switch until Dreamweaver and Photoshop run on Linux.
To be anal, not a lack of applications (gnu/unix has a ridiculous amount of apps available for various applications in virtually every area) - just lacking the two apps you deem you need.
Not quite the same thing and put that way, makes the problem more surmountable.
From TFA: Messman argued that Linux, having somewhat less desktop functionality, is a bonus for businesses as it discourages staff from wasting time engaging in non-productive activities, such as web browsing.
What is exactly less functional? I agree that removing the browser can increase productivity, but the fact that it can be removed doesn't mean linux has inherent less functional, but quite the opposite.
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Hi, thanks for making that clearer but one thing:
Nothing is stopping you from doing just that. The law actually prohibits distributing, selling, and/or giving away such software. You are perfectly within your rights to write your own software to bypass what is on a DVD, etc. That is, as long as you are engaging in fair usage. (archival purposes, educational, etc.)
This law is still killing your freedom of speech. Unless I sign an EULA when I buy a DVD, I shouldn't be under these conditions.
"Two things here. First, you don't seem to understand the Kelo decision; it's really nothing new, and not a big deal."
Gee, thanks for enlightening me with that convincing argument. Yes, that Eminent Domain for Public Benefit, as put down by the Constition, gets reworded to whatever (or whoever) promises to pay the most property tax dollars is no big deal - none at all.
"Hell, Jefferson specifically left them out of the Declaration -- "
First, the bill of right specifically states that because some rights aren't enumerated doesn't mean they exist.
Plus why then does the constitution address search and seizure, right to bear arms, disallowing troops from being quartered in your own home, as well as the eminent domain restriction if Property Rights weren't recognized? It's implicit in the entire constitution, without ownership, you cannot exercise any of your other rights because the goverment can indiscriminately take away whatever they like to oppress your rights (government doesn't like the New York Times print? Don't suppress their freedom of speech, just forcibly buy them out in the guise of public benefit! They don't want you to own a gun? Don't break the second amendment, just "convince" the guy to sell his gun at the government's declare fair price, etcetera)
"Second, I disagree that other rights are founded on property rights."
See above. Without property right, you don't even own yourself.
"Arguably because this also is part of the utilitarian scheme of copyright."
And this isn't big brother how?
Q:Why can't I read it?
A:Because you can't!
Q:What if theres something potentially damaging in there, shouldn't I have the right to my own property? How do I know you're not packaging something malicious if I can't take a look at it? And yet you want me to buy it and take it home?
A:..........
How is the DMCA even constitutional? It should take more than a act of congress because this rips apart all common sense property rights on which all other rights are based on (oh wait, the Supreme Court just shit on that back in June). If you don't have property rights, like dominos, everything else falls.
Why shouldn't I be able to read or "bypass" what I own like the 1 and 0s on DVD/CDs/etc? Laws like the DMCA chill me because manufactures can put whatever in their variety of products and if someone tries to look into them they wave the DMCA and say "Ah, ah, don't go their bad boy!" How is the customer even supposed to protect themselves from bad products (faulty engineering, back_doors, worms, etc.) If feels Big_Brotherish. Or like Britain. (I think they had a restriction on reading frequencies not "meant" for you since WW2.)
If the secrets within products shouldn't be known (or bypassed), don't sell it.
It's not ALL thanks to the kernel but the kernel helped get everything else gel. It's was the right piece of software at the right time.
Back in the early 90's the GNU had all these cool tools but still no functional kernel (up to 2004, IIRC???) - enter Linux. And the rest would be history.
Without Linux, a lot of other opensource projects might not have gotten started or would be residing largely on Windows or BSD. On Windows, open source would be okay until MS decides it's time to get into that market........ so that's unstable ground to say the least. BSD - well, I have nothing against it - but I wonder if it would have achieved Linux's sucess (if Linux were missing from the picture) due to differences in licenses and the seemingly more closed organization around developing the kernel.
Hello Grammar/Spelling Nazi,
Since English is my 3rd language, it really isn't that FUCKING hard but at the same point it's not that important as long as I get the point across.
BTW, I haven't played games in 8 years - but recognize other people actually do on these "obsolete" machines. Come up with a real counterargument or shut your trap.
It's the same old thinclient/superserver spiel.
The fact is that their are reasons why the PC will not become "obsolete" in the near future - games, the rise of the SoHo network with the various servers that the computers must operate (file server, print server, etcetera), processing power needed for the graphics/movies manipulation ad infinity.
When I do get more bandwidth, I don't want to waste it passing this type of data around - especially for net-servers that likely wouldn't have much more power/person ratio as my home PC.
No, it's playing the game and it recognizes the need that you're not in an ideal world and have to protect yourself from those who don't believe in a free exchange of ideas but in software patents, etcetera.
Put it this way - Linus will not go out and start suing people for infringing his software patents (please don't bring up the trademark issue which was a different matter entirely) - but if someone ever decides to attack the Linux - Linus can hold up his patent portfolio and say "Buddy, are you are sure you wanna do this? Your company has nothing that infringes on mine?"
Reminds me of Mutual Assured Destruction^_^
I wonder if RMS has something similiar to Linus in this regards (of a patent portfolio), but the GPL is similiar and a smart strategy. GPL software has to protect itself.
The point isn't just imitating humans but that someday they'll take over our monotonous work for us.
Yes, we have the dishwasher, oven, stove, refrigerator, blenders, etcetera. But do we really spend less time cooking (okay, I'm not a TV dinner man) or on housework?
No, we go out to make more elaborate or varied dishes in terms of cooking. Or in housework, we make conditions more sanitary (kitchen, dishes, bathroom, etc) than existed for the average Joe in the 1850s before all these gadgets.
In the end, all the gadgets don't really save time - but they let us do things better or more elaborate than before.
And dishwashers can't clean hardened gunk nor load themselves. Nor unload themselves and stack plates away. Vacuum cleaners don't push themselves (don't even bring up that roomba toy).
Our enviroments and gadgets conform to us. The natural next step are humanoid robots that can take over us driving these appliances.
The thing is, it's not the hardware keeping us back. It's a sufficient AI. (Assuming of course, we can make one work on a Turing-type machine).
DRM could easily circumvent that because it only has to look for a bright strip (line), not the entire screen. Hardly anyone will read in full sunlight where the light is segmented because of focusing problems (contrast and all that).
I mean you could always take a picture - but those hardly come out too well.
about this issue of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) a lot lately and coupled with Stallman's famous library/closed_information society essay.
Does anybody else forsee a time when everything "printed" will be on e-ink paper-thin paperless electronic displays that sense when you try to photocopy them (from the light?) and the only thing coming out of the Xerox machine will be static-filled pages?
Has always been that your fans pay with extra inconvenience and the pirates-that-be will get around it with ease.
Companies should learn that all it takes is one copy cracked for it to be out there.
But then I see the upcoming standard for Blu-ray, etcetera - and I suppose making the paying customers pay is the point. I mean, it's wonderful for the bottom line when you can sell the same person a movie on VHS, and then on region hobbled DVD, and then entice them with a HD version on Blu-ray. And the incentive is even greater for Joe Consumer once they can't back up their stuff or transfer it to other formats.
I'm glad for corporate thinking - because of this whereas I used to buy 25 CDs a year from mainstream RIAA companies, I buy 1-2 now. I don't download music but I simply don't care anymore. My money has moved onto other interests......
Hi,
I don't like that idea and here's why.
If something is announced as stable, I want *it* to be stable.
I do use a lot of beta software (writing this in Firefox 1.5b now) but at home where I choose to. When I'm at my office computer, I expect no crashes, especially from my Office Software.
I use Open Office and am very happy with it and as I'm happy to get the updates whenever they come out - partly because it's free (much more to pay that than $500), partly because I've been disillusioned by the MS upgrade glitz with the greatest latest new features I can't live without yet never use (normal users call this bloat) but mostly because I'm happy with the current package.
People who want the greatest/latest will use beta anyway - and they are the ones who can/will make bug reports if anyone. The rest of us will grumble quietly and move onto something else - so I don't see why this will result in quicker bug fixes.
What you are suggesting is essentially false advertising (misleading labelling) and OO.org doesn't need that hit to its reputation. That's the sort of thing that will drive people back to MS complaining while that "buggy office package."
Linux or FreeBSD didn't get their good reputations this way. This is their most valuable asset now because Linux is spread by the most valuable advertising medium - word of mouth - regardless of essentially meaningless version numbers.
Please let's not emulate Microsoft.
What is the issue of ownership? OSS is not necessarily Free Software. AFAIK, under international rules (Berne Convention) anything published automatically gets copyright protection whether OSS or Free Software or whatnot.
Is this just a scare tactic?
1.Because, I'm interested in Diversity (not just Linux, but BSD, BeOs, etcetera) which will give me a choice and also hopefully lead to developers making their applicitions more platform agnostic by using Cross Platform tools.
2. I'm interested in the long term viability of Linux/GNU and Free software. I believe MS is a threat to that and small business in general in many ways, not just in marketshare but in that their push for software patents/etcetera.
3. I'm love to see a total reduction in malware/spyware. MS is the culprit again. First by providing homogenous environment with their popularity and second in making that environment unsafe by default.
4. I believe MS is too big for its own good. If you read any Bill Gate's interview, 1 thing strikes me. Well, besides the overuse of the word 'innovation.' It's that they want to get into any and every fad business that happens to make money at the moment is considered "the new hotness." They pull in all these directions, for better or worse (usually worse and losing money). Yet their two core businesses still have mediocre or (worse than mediocre) products (inside, the glitz and glamor is grade A) and to subsidize all these directions, these two products are either involuntary (Windows) or overpriced (office). They do have some decent products (Visual Studio).
6. In keeping for the last one, I want to stop paying the MS tax (paying for a Windows License on a new computer.)
7. Device Drivers. Manufactures will be forced to release specs or drivers if MS has less than majority markey share. Until that day comes, to this end, when I buy something, I also purchase products that tend to support Linux.
(I could purchase stuff not supporting Linux but which the community has their own driver out by now, but then that's sending the wrong message to the companies that took the time out and made a good effort.)
Word of advice - don't just read the opening paragraph of an article and then claim it argues against itself BECAUSE IT THEN GOES INTO DETAIL WHY THINGS AREN'T SO CUT AND DRY.
The author already said it seemed counterintuitive that the Bayne-Dole law didn't improve things and explored that issue.
Also at issue in this article that you have missed:
Why should publicly funded research end up as patents in the private domain?
This article had nothing to do with patents that companies got by researching things on their own time and money.
You might as well quote that section of the article and come up with the conclusion - Well schucks, if publicly-funded research isn't being further developed and isn't helping anyone, let's complety cut public funding everywhere!
My path might take multiple months or longer - depending how much time you attach to it. But it will save you headaches down the road.
1)Don't do a thing. I mean a thing on converting anything till you KNOW linux.
2)Get into hardcore distros like Slackware (at first) or Gentoo.
3)Install Linux From Scratch yourself. (LFS is a distro and you will learn from that experience).
4)Set up a complete working environment from LFS with all the tools you need. Work on it and don't flirt with MS unnecessarily while you are on it (unless you need to for work, not recreation - meaning if you need to play MP3/DVDs do it in linux).
5)Start setting up servers for the hell of it and with LFS/Slackware/Gentoo or other distro.
6)Test. Play. Experiment. Read a few books like Linux Administrator Handbooks.
By now, you should be competent with linux.
7. Pick a nice user friendly distro for the office workers. Include openoffice/ftpclient/emailclient and whatever else they need.
Have a sane migration plan.
Then you must have a paid annual subscription to a mailbox - before GMail my biggest free account was only 100MB (had many yahoo accounts, they seemed to increase some mailboxes' size with age or something for loyal 'customers').
Switched back in June. Right now, I still like GMail just for the "conversation" feature which keeps my mailbox from being cluttered with "re:re:re:adinfinity" crap. I'm probably gonna stick with it unless Yahoo really comes out with something killer.
I like quiet, so sometimes I use noise cancelling headphones. Good ones can be expensive but worth it to keep my sanity - plus I have a reason not to hear the phone :)
Anyway, on the few times I use it to play music versus regular pairs of headphone, I notice that I don't have to set the volume up nearly as much.
Even when a TV is blaring in the next room.
Note: I don't know if those things fit an iPod or portable music player in general as I don't have one..... but mine uses a battery in of itself, so I see no problem.
Really, if you are doing a minimum wage desk job and supposed to be filling out forms (I'm sure most companies will see why programmers/engineers could accomplish more with access) - why do you need to be surfing the web if the boss deems that's not within your job parameters or needs to complete a job? You can do that from home.
You are not only cutting into paid time that someone else paid you to work, you are cutting into the company's bandwidth.
And if you need to surf:
a)Tell the boss why you need that capability and how it relates to your job.
"the system that the fascist pigs forced on us."
I'll think I'll use this as a linux motto as my company.
And if the PHB doesn't happen to see reason and declines your god-given right to surf the internet and troll slashdot, quit and call in the swat team for crimes against humanity.
Yup, PA.
But I live 2 1/2 years in Seattle as a student - didn't watch any TV though. These days just the Daily Show.
The judge enjoined Lee and his new employer from working on any product or service that relies on confidential information tied to search, natural language processing and speech recognition he obtained while working for Microsoft.
Wasn't the noncompetive clause only good for a year?
Contrast this with yearly application updates for Photoshop, Quickbooks, anti-virus, anti-spyware, et al. which can run thousands of dollars. Microsoft isn't the only cost center on a typical PC; in fact, I'd say they're one of the smallest costs involved with a typical office PC.
Antivirus/antispyware apps.
Hmm. True. It's a pity I don't have to run those on my Linux PC. I miss doing that.
The real problem is (still) lack of applications and games. My home PC can't switch until Dreamweaver and Photoshop run on Linux.
To be anal, not a lack of applications (gnu/unix has a ridiculous amount of apps available for various applications in virtually every area) - just lacking the two apps you deem you need.
Not quite the same thing and put that way, makes the problem more surmountable.
Sounds like that mindset can go hand in hand with Lisp:)
http://paulgraham.com/lisp.html
Do Xtremers have any particular choice of language?
From TFA:
Messman argued that Linux, having somewhat less desktop functionality, is a bonus for businesses as it discourages staff from wasting time engaging in non-productive activities, such as web browsing.
What is exactly less functional? I agree that removing the browser can increase productivity, but the fact that it can be removed doesn't mean linux has inherent less functional, but quite the opposite.
I brushed against Xtreme programming a couple of years ago - what's the difference between that and bottom-up design, with more customer feedback?
(BTW, I'm asking because I tend to be wary of the latest buzzwords in the industry, because they obscure the legitimate breakthroughs.)