I worked for both the school newspaper and published my own. I could do anythig I wanted in my own paper, and never was there a hint of reprisal. But the school newspaper was essentially content-controlled. Not in a particularly bad way -- use clean language, op-ed pieces about sex, drugs, etc verboten, etc. Essentially, "don't embarrass the school, or get us sued."
Napster users aren't taking someone else's music and then selling it back to them. Whereas the CDDB is taking the result of other people's labor -- a database rather than music tracks -- and selling it back to them. And now, also using it against the people and the activity that created that database in the first place.
I see a difference, once I look past the superficial similarities.
God, and here was I, in my ignorance, unaware that gun ownership was a 'personal freedom'. I suppose you object to our rights to own plastic explosives / cocaine / child porn / slaves being trampled on too.
Explosives, guns and cocaine, yes. Slaves and kiddie porn, no. People have no right to something someone else must provide (especially if they must provide it against their will) -- ruling out ownership of slaves, and making kids have sex in front of a camera.
But people do have a right to own explosives, guns and cocaine.
Controversial philisophical author of the blockbuster trilogy Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
For conventional books, there is a system in place that will let you try-before-you-buy and check him out. But it isn't online. Basically, you have to go out into the big room with the high blue ceiling, and look for something called "public library."
When dropped from an airplane, yes. After all, the Fuckers only run downhill, there's no bigger hill than straight down, and those Ford fans like for their cars to run fast!:)
markets with "asymetric information" are known to be ineffecient, something laissez-faire Randites never seem to learn
Eh? The correct term is "Randroids." Randroids, like communist pinheads, coffee-shop liberal-arts 'revolutionaries' and James Carville,
have it all figured out.
Then, there's the people who read Rand and think about it, and realize that when she wrote, don't accept things on faith; think about them yourself she was talking about objectivism as well.
There's a great bit in the Illuminatus! trilogy about a painting, showing God looking down and pointing his finger at the viewer, with the legend, "Think for yourself, Schmuck!"
And, if you stop to think for yourself, you'll realize that markets without information are not "free markets" but "captive consumers" and possibly "old-time snake oil fraud."
David Brin has a semi-good book called The Transparent Society, where he discusses why people tend to always think that reducing information flow will fix their problems, when, quite often, increasing information flow is actually what needs to be done. He also discusses the notion of "reciprocal transparency"; meaning, when you must disclose information about yourself to another party, demand a reciprocal disclosure. For instance, you can go to sites like 123nc.com and look up people's criminal records; I think that that could be fine, but whenever someone accesses my records (if I had a criminal record), that I should recieve free written notification on a standard form of who accessed what, when. Same thing for credit agencies -- when someone runs a credit report on me, I get notification of that fact, and maybe even a copy of their credit report to boot. At their expense, of course -- they initiated it!
Yeah, that must be the article, seeing as how it's about NICs and network throughput, which are obviously code words for "SQL Server" and "Windows 2000".
How dare you try and subject us to such Consumer Reports drivel!!!
You've hit the nail on the head. We should all politely ask our friendly neighborhood legislators to enact a law protecting the publication of "consumer reports drivel." Consumer Reports performs a very valuable service -- testing and reporting and products objectively (i.e., without any marketing hype or bias for their own pet products). Many people consult CR when buying a car, dishwasher, etc. So why not for software?
I would like a filter option where I can see all posts that have received positive moderation. This would be better than just reading the 3-or-greater posts, for instance.
And perhaps a secondary free-for-all moderation where every logged in user can vote once on any post, which gets tallied into a score for the post, which can be displayed for just the info, or used as a sort/filter key.
FLAMEBAIT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Apparently we're not allowed to criticise moderators. All hail the infallible moderators! Bastards!
Maybe this will put an end to the FCC's idiotic forced obsolesence of analog TV, saving millions of people the unnecessary expense of buying a new $3,000 TV to watch "Oprah" and "Friends." Granted, the TV manufacturers would have their "subsidy" reduced by this, but that's a good thing!
TROLL?!?!?
Perhaps the moderator who marked this as "troll" would like to explain?
Maybe this will put an end to the FCC's idiotic forced obsolesence of analog TV, saving millions of people the unnecessary expense of buying a new $3,000 TV to watch "Oprah" and "Friends."
Granted, the TV manufacturers would have their "subsidy" reduced by this, but that's a good thing!
Maybe this will put an end to the FCC's idiotic forced obsolesence of analog TV, saving millions of people the unnecessary expense of buying a new $3,000 TV to watch "Oprah" and "Friends."
Granted, the TV manufactureres would have their "subsidy" reduced by this, but that's a good thing!
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> THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHIES!
... for suckers. "Logic not necessary! Give me $150.00 and I'll show you why!"
Conveniently priced at $146.50
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Great, a commercial version of Debian.
Not the first. Remember Corel?
The whole point of Debian is that it's not commercialized.
Er... the whole point is, it's high-quality Free (Libre) software, not that it's not commercialized.
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Okay, okay, so it is. :)
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And this makes Mexico different from other North American countries how?
Well, first and foremost, Mexico isn't a North American country...
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I worked for both the school newspaper and published my own. I could do anythig I wanted in my own paper, and never was there a hint of reprisal. But the school newspaper was essentially content-controlled. Not in a particularly bad way -- use clean language, op-ed pieces about sex, drugs, etc verboten, etc. Essentially, "don't embarrass the school, or get us sued."
Perfectly fine as far as I can tell.
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So if CDDB allows Napster to use their database for free, you'll no longer have any complaints?
No.
The arguments of the pro-Napster clique on Slashdot are so inconsistent it gives me a headache trying to keep up.
Well, slashdot and the "napster clique" are not one person, so what do you expect?
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Napster users aren't taking someone else's music and then selling it back to them. Whereas the CDDB is taking the result of other people's labor -- a database rather than music tracks -- and selling it back to them. And now, also using it against the people and the activity that created that database in the first place.
I see a difference, once I look past the superficial similarities.
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Internet Evolution, like regular evolution, seems to involve a lot of fucking.
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What Linus wants, he gets. Too bad for the rest of you.
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Others have to provide you with guns/explosives too. Unless you make them yourself.
I can buy those frm someone who has made them. I don't have to force anyone to do it.
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God, and here was I, in my ignorance, unaware that gun ownership was a 'personal freedom'. I suppose you object to our rights to own plastic explosives / cocaine / child porn / slaves being trampled on too.
Explosives, guns and cocaine, yes. Slaves and kiddie porn, no. People have no right to something someone else must provide (especially if they must provide it against their will) -- ruling out ownership of slaves, and making kids have sex in front of a camera.
But people do have a right to own explosives, guns and cocaine.
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Colluphid, Oolon
Controversial philisophical author of the blockbuster trilogy Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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You'll have to check out Oolon Colophid's books for that...
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Is it possible to program for KDE using plain old C?
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For conventional books, there is a system in place that will let you try-before-you-buy and check him out. But it isn't online. Basically, you have to go out into the big room with the high blue ceiling, and look for something called "public library."
... just lending two points!
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Does the Ford accelerate at 9.8m/s^2?
:)
When dropped from an airplane, yes. After all, the Fuckers only run downhill, there's no bigger hill than straight down, and those Ford fans like for their cars to run fast!
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markets with "asymetric information" are known to be ineffecient, something laissez-faire Randites never seem to learn
Eh? The correct term is "Randroids." Randroids, like communist pinheads, coffee-shop liberal-arts 'revolutionaries' and James Carville,
have it all figured out.
Then, there's the people who read Rand and think about it, and realize that when she wrote, don't accept things on faith; think about them yourself she was talking about objectivism as well.
There's a great bit in the Illuminatus! trilogy about a painting, showing God looking down and pointing his finger at the viewer, with the legend, "Think for yourself, Schmuck!"
And, if you stop to think for yourself, you'll realize that markets without information are not "free markets" but "captive consumers" and possibly "old-time snake oil fraud."
David Brin has a semi-good book called The Transparent Society, where he discusses why people tend to always think that reducing information flow will fix their problems, when, quite often, increasing information flow is actually what needs to be done. He also discusses the notion of "reciprocal transparency"; meaning, when you must disclose information about yourself to another party, demand a reciprocal disclosure. For instance, you can go to sites like 123nc.com and look up people's criminal records; I think that that could be fine, but whenever someone accesses my records (if I had a criminal record), that I should recieve free written notification on a standard form of who accessed what, when. Same thing for credit agencies -- when someone runs a credit report on me, I get notification of that fact, and maybe even a copy of their credit report to boot. At their expense, of course -- they initiated it!
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Yeah, that must be the article, seeing as how it's about NICs and network throughput, which are obviously code words for "SQL Server" and "Windows 2000".
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How dare you try and subject us to such Consumer Reports drivel!!!
You've hit the nail on the head. We should all politely ask our friendly neighborhood legislators to enact a law protecting the publication of "consumer reports drivel." Consumer Reports performs a very valuable service -- testing and reporting and products objectively (i.e., without any marketing hype or bias for their own pet products). Many people consult CR when buying a car, dishwasher, etc. So why not for software?
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I would like a filter option where I can see all posts that have received positive moderation. This would be better than just reading the 3-or-greater posts, for instance.
And perhaps a secondary free-for-all moderation where every logged in user can vote once on any post, which gets tallied into a score for the post, which can be displayed for just the info, or used as a sort/filter key.
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For the record, here's the moderation on the original post:
Moderation Totals:Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Funny=1, Underrated=1, Total=4.
... it would be nice if this was shown on all the postsm all the time, rather than just the last moderation.
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Apparently we're not allowed to criticise moderators. All hail the infallible moderators! Bastards!
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Perhaps the moderator who marked this as "troll" would like to explain?
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Maybe this will put an end to the FCC's idiotic forced obsolesence of analog TV, saving millions of people the unnecessary expense of buying a new $3,000 TV to watch "Oprah" and "Friends."
Granted, the TV manufactureres would have their "subsidy" reduced by this, but that's a good thing!
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No, no! He obviously wants to run the postgres setup.exe under wine! ;)
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