If he did that now he would probably be arrested for something or the other: shooting the hard drive could be interpreted as a threat to shoot a person.
KDE and Gnome have built in equivalents as well. Windows just never seems to have basic functionality without installing lots of extra stuff (PDF writing, easy software installation, decent security) - that's why I regard it as a hackers operating system that not ready for the naive user's desktop.
The same problem applies to any license? Suppose MS accuses someone of using their code, how can that be determined? If an author or musician accuses someone of copying them how can that be determined? It is an intrinsic problem of copyright, not a problem with the GPL.
Bombers are not sheltered by communities, they may be sheltered by one or two people very close to them.
It is like claiming that fascist bombers are being sheltered by the white community (there has been one who actually platned bomds, and other who were planning to until caught in Britain).
People did not want to listen. People never listen to warnings during the good times. It happens during every single economics boom or asset price bubble.
Can you produce some evidence. Software manage to progress very rapidly for a few decades before it became patentable. There is no correlation between strong patent law and development at a national scale. Academic studies have generally concluded that something other than patents was the main driver of R & D (e.g. the need to get new products out before the competition).
ON the other hand, we know that patents impose costs on both producers and consumers.
Uncertain, unquantified, probably slight benefits, against known very large costs. Sounds like a great idea.
Firstly, it was not Jesus mission to set wrong every social injustice. YOu may as well fault him for not advocating democracy.
Secondly, slavery as it was then, was a very different institution to, for example, slavery in early modern America: the Roman empire granted slaves rights, when increased as Christian influence increased. In the context of a society where no-one was free by late 20th century standards (I say that as freedom sems to be generally being reduced again).
Finally, you might think of the reasons why the abolitionist movement in the British Empire was lead by Christians.
Where I live, the state uses compulsion to try and extract behaviour in line with Buddhism. I doubt the Buddha would have approved either.
Back on topic: there are good reasons for almost all the searches: e.g. people want to know the first signs of going into labour, there is research into producing children who have two female biological parents, and hydrogen peroxide can be put in your ear to soften ear wax.
rural communities are indeed better, more space, less snitching, you get to know people rather than just assuming everyone is a paedophile
Assuming that everyone is a paedophile is not a fundamental part of British culture, ou insensitive clod!
The government plans to regularly interview kids without parents present, put cameras in some people's homes, and to require people to register before you can give a friend's children a lift to school.
That makes a lot more sense. Google does not make money from Chrome. It does make money, and plans to make more, from web apps that benefit from fast javascript.
Incidentally, is MS improve Javscript performance? I know Mozilla are.
Your average desktop user does not want to go, 'Oh, well, I'm running on Processor X, with distribution Y, patch Z. I guess that means I need/this/ tarball (or this subdirectory of the big tarball).
The average desktop user does not download tarballs and they do not apply patches manually.
They might occasionally download a package, but average users all use x86 so they just need to know their distro.
I forgot to say: we actually use two types of round pin plug, because the smaller type cannot carry enough current for many devices (oven, microwave ovens, air-conditioners...), so there is a bigger type for them.
Having lived with all of the above I agree with the conclusion that the British square pin plugs are the best.
8 fast loading pages with an extremely funny and often quite lengthy paragraph or two on each, plus a picture of what each page is talking about. Not eprfect, but well worth the clicks.
I live in a country in which sockets may either be the current British square pin type, or the old British round pin type. Appliances may come with almost any type of plug: things that do not need an earth usually come with a two pin round pin plug, but you may find almost anything: I have the French German hybrid type, Australian and others.
You get the same variety on UPS sockets. Getting everything to plug in can be fun, if you are not careful what you buy.
Obviously people use adaptors a lot, and routinely put pens (I find chopsticks better, though) into three pin sockets to get two pin plugs in. Unfortunately the brand of adaptor most commonly available, although very cheap, has a tendency to short out and melt.
Mandriva has a free as in beer one CD (like Ubuntu) version: you pay for the version that comes as a multi CD set (so you can install more on installation without downloading) and support.
In any case, the cost of an OS is trivial compared to its importance to most users: if 60 Euros gives you something better, spend it.
If you think you should adopt the most widely used desktop, you should logically use Windows.
Mandriva is a very good distro, and much more newbie friendly. It has better hardware detection, and is very easy to use. The only real shortcoming is that the software installer is not quite as good as Synaptic.
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I would gladly give up 6% of the performance of my machine if I could be safe from rootkits.
Worthwhile: yes.
Lightweight: no
If he did that now he would probably be arrested for something or the other: shooting the hard drive could be interpreted as a threat to shoot a person.
KDE and Gnome have built in equivalents as well. Windows just never seems to have basic functionality without installing lots of extra stuff (PDF writing, easy software installation, decent security) - that's why I regard it as a hackers operating system that not ready for the naive user's desktop.
The same problem applies to any license? Suppose MS accuses someone of using their code, how can that be determined? If an author or musician accuses someone of copying them how can that be determined? It is an intrinsic problem of copyright, not a problem with the GPL.
Encrypted traffic does not hide who you are communicating with.
Bombers are not sheltered by communities, they may be sheltered by one or two people very close to them.
It is like claiming that fascist bombers are being sheltered by the white community (there has been one who actually platned bomds, and other who were planning to until caught in Britain).
No, its dictatorship, not communism. East Germany happened to be a communist dictatorship., but there are plenty of the other kinds
A other people predicted it (or at least pointed out the high risk) as well.
People did not want to listen. People never listen to warnings during the good times. It happens during every single economics boom or asset price bubble.
Yes but it stops the paedophiles because...er.....
Well, there ought to be a law.
Anyway, if legislators did not pass laws about everything people panicked about, we might realise how useless they are.
Can you produce some evidence. Software manage to progress very rapidly for a few decades before it became patentable. There is no correlation between strong patent law and development at a national scale. Academic studies have generally concluded that something other than patents was the main driver of R & D (e.g. the need to get new products out before the competition).
ON the other hand, we know that patents impose costs on both producers and consumers.
Uncertain, unquantified, probably slight benefits, against known very large costs. Sounds like a great idea.
Society produced lots of good art before copyright was thought up.
As far as some forms of art go (music, for example), I think the output was better quality before copyright.
Thank you for your excellent argument in favour of trademarks. That is why we have trademarks.
Now, can you please explain how this is relevant to copyright?
Firstly, it was not Jesus mission to set wrong every social injustice. YOu may as well fault him for not advocating democracy.
Secondly, slavery as it was then, was a very different institution to, for example, slavery in early modern America: the Roman empire granted slaves rights, when increased as Christian influence increased. In the context of a society where no-one was free by late 20th century standards (I say that as freedom sems to be generally being reduced again).
Finally, you might think of the reasons why the abolitionist movement in the British Empire was lead by Christians.
The last sentence is brilliant.
Where I live, the state uses compulsion to try and extract behaviour in line with Buddhism. I doubt the Buddha would have approved either.
Back on topic: there are good reasons for almost all the searches: e.g. people want to know the first signs of going into labour, there is research into producing children who have two female biological parents, and hydrogen peroxide can be put in your ear to soften ear wax.
And killing off No Machine;'s business model while they are about it!
Do Google actually use NX in a big way? It is easy to imagine what they might do with it.
rural communities are indeed better, more space, less snitching, you get to know people rather than just assuming everyone is a paedophile
Assuming that everyone is a paedophile is not a fundamental part of British culture, ou insensitive clod!
The government plans to regularly interview kids without parents present, put cameras in some people's homes, and to require people to register before you can give a friend's children a lift to school.
That makes a lot more sense. Google does not make money from Chrome. It does make money, and plans to make more, from web apps that benefit from fast javascript.
Incidentally, is MS improve Javscript performance? I know Mozilla are.
Your average desktop user does not want to go, 'Oh, well, I'm running on Processor X, with distribution Y, patch Z. I guess that means I need /this/ tarball (or this subdirectory of the big tarball).
The average desktop user does not download tarballs and they do not apply patches manually.
They might occasionally download a package, but average users all use x86 so they just need to know their distro.
That will not happen, because there is no money in it. Tunnelling over ssh has the same problem.
It seems pretty reasonable to me.
There has to be some rationing of upstream bandwidth: the cost your paying is not based on constant high usage - if it did, you would pay a lot more.
This is a fair, network-neutral, way of limiting usage.
Of course, the lack of competition may mean you are paying too much for it, but the basic idea is sound.
The British system seems to be perfectly safe in use, and fuses in each plug is an advantage from the point of view of safety.
The flexibility of being above to plug in any appliance into any socket can be very useful
I forgot to say: we actually use two types of round pin plug, because the smaller type cannot carry enough current for many devices (oven, microwave ovens, air-conditioners...), so there is a bigger type for them.
Having lived with all of the above I agree with the conclusion that the British square pin plugs are the best.
8 fast loading pages with an extremely funny and often quite lengthy paragraph or two on each, plus a picture of what each page is talking about. Not eprfect, but well worth the clicks.
I live in a country in which sockets may either be the current British square pin type, or the old British round pin type. Appliances may come with almost any type of plug: things that do not need an earth usually come with a two pin round pin plug, but you may find almost anything: I have the French German hybrid type, Australian and others.
You get the same variety on UPS sockets. Getting everything to plug in can be fun, if you are not careful what you buy.
Obviously people use adaptors a lot, and routinely put pens (I find chopsticks better, though) into three pin sockets to get two pin plugs in. Unfortunately the brand of adaptor most commonly available, although very cheap, has a tendency to short out and melt.
Mandriva has a free as in beer one CD (like Ubuntu) version: you pay for the version that comes as a multi CD set (so you can install more on installation without downloading) and support.
In any case, the cost of an OS is trivial compared to its importance to most users: if 60 Euros gives you something better, spend it.
If you think you should adopt the most widely used desktop, you should logically use Windows.
Mandriva is a very good distro, and much more newbie friendly. It has better hardware detection, and is very easy to use. The only real shortcoming is that the software installer is not quite as good as Synaptic.
So Konqueror has:
1) Webkit rather than KHTML, .etc.
2) Process per tab,
3) Application shortcuts,
Does it?