The recession has changed attitudes. They are now using criminal, rather than civil charges, and the apologists for insider trading have disappeared: people were arguing that it is not really harmful and that it should be decriminalised. While it remained a crime, that attitude probably permeated to the authorities to some extent.
I know Raj slightly: nice enough a person socially.
So law enforcement helps you, if you are someone "with clout", but if you lack influence you have to sue yourself. Not exactly the way things should be, is it?
Acer users Linux to have an OS on machines for the Asian market where people will install pirated Windows. They sell Linux laptops without a GUI, and some other manufacturers sell laptops with FreeDos, for the same reason.
The big difference is that Registry editing is extremely uncommon in Windows. Trawling through textfiles in Linux (or BSD) is - ironically - something you're almost certainly going to have to do as soon as you step off the narrow path of basic setup and usage
What do you mean by a "narrow path"? Most things that a non-geek user is expected to do for themselves is doable though a GUI in most versions of Linux meant for that market - e.g. Ubuntu or Mandriva, not Arch or Gentoo.
For example, a Linux desktop (especially, but not only) KDE is more customisable through the GUI than Windows is by any means. Software installation is easier than on Windows. What exaclty do you have in mind?
It is weird how Windows advocates are quite happy to mess about the the Windows registry but claim that copying and pasting a fwe lines into a terminal window is dfficult.
You could dual boot and use Windows just for games. I have come across a few Linux users who do that - after all, when you are playing a game you are unlikely to be doing anything else.
This is something the FOSS supporters and hackers of the world don't get, the 'writing the first draft of the software' part is the easy part, and its also puts you at about the 5 to 10% complete stage. Documentation, Quality Assurance and other bits of the presentation are actually far more important to the customer 9 times out of 10.
The rest of what you say is reasonable, but why pick on FOSS? I have known proprietary software companies to release stuff with inadequate testing, documentation, etc. often enough.
Do you really think that Apache is worse tested than IIS? Or that its documentation i is seriously lacking? Documentation for Linux desktops is somewhat scattered around the net (although some distros like Ubuntu have plenty in one place), but that is what search engines are for. Most major GUI FOSS apps have perfectly good documentation and anything popular gets well tested while in beta. Some server apps have superb documentation (e.g. Django).
Perhaps part of the problem is that Star Trek fans are taking it too seriously?
Also the vast majority of such situations with regard to Christianity are not taken as a hostile attack. The new atheism is taken as a hostile attack, but then again it usually deliberately hostile (e,g, Christopher Hitchens wanting all beleivers in any religion daed).
So, apparently, Star Trek fans get more riled about reasoned attacks on than Christians do about their religion. They need to get out more.
It would help a lot if more women said that, louder.
We also need to do something about discrimination against men in traditionally female roles, whether work (nurses, for example) or in private life (childcare - see this article:
If anyone who finds any but the first offensive needs to get things in perspective.
The last is in somewhat bad taste, but not really offensive.
The second makes a valid point in a way that probably accurately reflects his own experience and that of the majority of his audience.
The Drupal Paris thing hardly seems worth bothering over. Some people do "sample" the opposite sex, and you need to pick one sex to make the concept work.
If those are the best examples you can find, I think you just proved a lack of sexism.
The point is that there are plenty of developers of various ethnicities, as well as gays, despite trolls making offensive comments about them. If the gays can tolerate it why not the women?
We could also do with some more real data. For example, what proportion of paid FOSS developers are women, and what proportion of volunteer FOSS developers are women?
Its worse than that. The Observer, a supposedly left wing British news paper, refused to report good evidence that Iraw did not have weapons of mas destruction, because the editor had already decided to support the war.
Murdoch's News Corp, otoh, is on all fronts doing what everyone else in the "actually do research and write something" industry is doing -- losing money.
Do you not mean the "rewrite stuff from press releases and news wires, distorting it to suit a political or business agenda" industry. People will pay for good content: It works for the FT and the New Scientist.
professional journalists and bloggers, than by having bloggers alone
Most of the blogs I read are better than anything the journalists produce. For example, I get news on the economy by reading blogs by economists, rather than a journalists summary of what he or she half understood after interviewing economists.
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The recession has changed attitudes. They are now using criminal, rather than civil charges, and the apologists for insider trading have disappeared: people were arguing that it is not really harmful and that it should be decriminalised. While it remained a crime, that attitude probably permeated to the authorities to some extent.
I know Raj slightly: nice enough a person socially.
So law enforcement helps you, if you are someone "with clout", but if you lack influence you have to sue yourself. Not exactly the way things should be, is it?
Acer users Linux to have an OS on machines for the Asian market where people will install pirated Windows. They sell Linux laptops without a GUI, and some other manufacturers sell laptops with FreeDos, for the same reason.
If I understand the GPL correctly, you have to provide source if you distribute the software.
The big difference is that Registry editing is extremely uncommon in Windows. Trawling through textfiles in Linux (or BSD) is - ironically - something you're almost certainly going to have to do as soon as you step off the narrow path of basic setup and usage
What do you mean by a "narrow path"? Most things that a non-geek user is expected to do for themselves is doable though a GUI in most versions of Linux meant for that market - e.g. Ubuntu or Mandriva, not Arch or Gentoo.
For example, a Linux desktop (especially, but not only) KDE is more customisable through the GUI than Windows is by any means. Software installation is easier than on Windows. What exaclty do you have in mind?
What idiot modded that insightful?
It is weird how Windows advocates are quite happy to mess about the the Windows registry but claim that copying and pasting a fwe lines into a terminal window is dfficult.
You could dual boot and use Windows just for games. I have come across a few Linux users who do that - after all, when you are playing a game you are unlikely to be doing anything else.
Having a mother who could introduce him to people in senior positions at IBM: Luck
Day trading is entirely different from private equity.
Different type of efficiency.
This is something the FOSS supporters and hackers of the world don't get, the 'writing the first draft of the software' part is the easy part, and its also puts you at about the 5 to 10% complete stage. Documentation, Quality Assurance and other bits of the presentation are actually far more important to the customer 9 times out of 10.
The rest of what you say is reasonable, but why pick on FOSS? I have known proprietary software companies to release stuff with inadequate testing, documentation, etc. often enough.
Do you really think that Apache is worse tested than IIS? Or that its documentation i is seriously lacking? Documentation for Linux desktops is somewhat scattered around the net (although some distros like Ubuntu have plenty in one place), but that is what search engines are for. Most major GUI FOSS apps have perfectly good documentation and anything popular gets well tested while in beta. Some server apps have superb documentation (e.g. Django).
Perhaps part of the problem is that Star Trek fans are taking it too seriously?
Also the vast majority of such situations with regard to Christianity are not taken as a hostile attack. The new atheism is taken as a hostile attack, but then again it usually deliberately hostile (e,g, Christopher Hitchens wanting all beleivers in any religion daed).
So, apparently, Star Trek fans get more riled about reasoned attacks on than Christians do about their religion. They need to get out more.
It would help a lot if more women said that, louder.
We also need to do something about discrimination against men in traditionally female roles, whether work (nurses, for example) or in private life (childcare - see this article:
If anyone who finds any but the first offensive needs to get things in perspective.
The last is in somewhat bad taste, but not really offensive.
The second makes a valid point in a way that probably accurately reflects his own experience and that of the majority of his audience.
The Drupal Paris thing hardly seems worth bothering over. Some people do "sample" the opposite sex, and you need to pick one sex to make the concept work.
If those are the best examples you can find, I think you just proved a lack of sexism.
The point is that there are plenty of developers of various ethnicities, as well as gays, despite trolls making offensive comments about them. If the gays can tolerate it why not the women?
We could also do with some more real data. For example, what proportion of paid FOSS developers are women, and what proportion of volunteer FOSS developers are women?
Be fair: his newspapers do carry some unique, expensive to produce content:
http://www.page3.com/
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Its worse than that. The Observer, a supposedly left wing British news paper, refused to report good evidence that Iraw did not have weapons of mas destruction, because the editor had already decided to support the war.
Murdoch's News Corp, otoh, is on all fronts doing what everyone else in the "actually do research and write something" industry is doing -- losing money.
Do you not mean the "rewrite stuff from press releases and news wires, distorting it to suit a political or business agenda" industry. People will pay for good content: It works for the FT and the New Scientist.
professional journalists and bloggers, than by having bloggers alone
Most of the blogs I read are better than anything the journalists produce. For example, I get news on the economy by reading blogs by economists, rather than a journalists summary of what he or she half understood after interviewing economists.
You are missing the point that a proven open source solution already existed. It was already in use.
What if you are a shareholder?
In my experience most people barely notice the difference.
You own the copyright and they are representing themselves as your agent under penalty of perjury?
It sounds like they should be in trouble. The question is who it is up to to sue them.
My wife once got an email from the bank about a credit card fraud, with a number to phone them on.
I told her to phone the number we had and ask to be transfered to the fraud department.
Neville Chamberlain, having avoided an immediate war that Britain was not prepared for, then started preparing the country to fight the war in Europe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a6655197.shtml
If you really still want to use the analogy, the EU is likely to be prepared for war is MS does not implement the agreement adequately
Install a lightweight Linux on them (I use PCLinuxOS LXDE) and use them for guests/kids/anyone else who just needs a basic machine.