I installed Mandrake 10 for my father, worked out well and he does not like the idea of switching baclkto Windows.
I ahve used Mnadrake for the last two years and my wife also does not like Windows.
Both like KDE.
What makes you think that?
That was the original purpose, however the whole idea of "intellectual property" is that these theings are a form of property that should exist on principal - not for the pragmatic reasons you give.
Once the pragmatic argument is accepted the evidence supports a huge loosening of patent and copyright laws.
The other problem is that most people passing laws do not understand the effects on technology or creativity (whether IT, pharmaceuticals or music) so they ask the advice of the people who they think understand the indsutries best (i.e, the people who run them) who unsurpringly are in favour of stronger "IP". If they instead got some systematic studies done by economists the result might be different.
Answer 1) Beucase weakening the RIAA and MPAA memebers fianncially would weaken their marketing machines which keep pushing their content.
If demand for their content was lower, it would mostly likely mean demand shifts elsewhere - i.e. without the heavy marketing people would listen different music, not less music.
Furthermore the structure of the music industry at the moment makes it very difficult for someone selling their own stuff, or a small label, to get exposure (e.g. airtime on the radio).
Answer 2) Their is nothing contradictory about wanting people to share privately wihtout facing harsh penalties and also watning people to distribute their own stuff P2P.
Answer 3) Getting people to share music in breach of copyrigth will get them into the habbit and make establish P2P as s distribution mechanism that can then be used by whatever is licensed to allow P2P distribution.
Answer 4) This is a nice PR move that will get them lots of expposure - like on slashdot.
Personally I don't value consultancy firms all that high. Basically they sell hours, and you can sell an hour only once, so your income is limited by the numer of consultants you have
Thats true, but there is still a lot of money to be made from consultancy - look at the revenues of IBM's consultancy business or Cap Gemini.
I think a good analogy is the computerisation of manual processes. Automating what used to be done manualy, for example cheque handling in banks, is cheaper than doing it the other way - but there are still fortunes to be made from doing it.
Not all that well, MIPS Technolgoies was loss making for a while, it revenues for the last quarter were only $14.6m, whereas ARM's revenues were $70m, and ARM has a higher operating margin despite exchange rate movements going against it. Further more it looks as though they are going to lose share in the games console market, and possibly some others. My point is that they are a player but they are not doing very well given the size of the market.
I don't see any difference between christian fundamentalists and muslim fundamentalists
Agreed
If these conservatives take away abortion right for their women, it is moral high ground and if muslims ask their women to wear Burkas, it is oppress
There is a fundamental difference: being scantilly clad does not harm anone, having an abortion harms the baby concerned.
I am largely politically what most Americans would consider liberal (if I was back in Britain I would vote Green or Liberal Democrat), but in fact I am more radial than those parties - take a look one of my old (no longer maintained for lack of time website for some of my views. However I regard abortion as murder, although I regard the critical point as being the development of brain funtion reacing a point where the baby becomes able to be consious of sensations such as pain (the time of which I do not believe is exactly known) rather than conception.
What I find very odd about American politics is the association between Chrisitans and conservatives: while there are Christian conservatives elsewhere, in my experince (Britain and Sri Lanka) Christians tend to be a lot more liberal than average (and can be quite radical if they are influenced by ideas such as liberation theology). The followers of the the American influenced evangelical churches tend to be right wing of course. Why?
Oh, you can't cut and paste between X and Y because X is a ___ app, but Y is a ___ app.
Can somoeone please tell me how to reproduce this.
I can cut annd paste between Gnome and KDE apps without any problem, except that highlight and middle click does not work if the source is Gnumeric - but that has nothing to do with different toolkits as it does not work with a Gnome app either.
On the other hand, if you want support from some piece of proprietary software, you can only get support from the original vendor.
In addition free software implies open standards which prevents lock in to a single vendor, thus protecting the functioning of a free market from network effects.
Yes, I know I'm only some 5 Karma Star Armchair General in front of a PC
and in a democracy citizens are supposed to judge how how well run the country is (which includes how well run its military actions are) and vote accordingly.
I suspect that like MS's security holes, IE's crashes are worse than thsoe of rivals: try using OBJECT to embed a webpage in itself for example.
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If I lost my job to outsourcing or some other business fad and an economist came along and said, "your pain doesn't matter because things will smooth out in a decade or two," I'd probably end up doing something that would put me in jail.
Outsourcing is not a fad: it may not always be done right - beucase it is new - but it is generally economically efficient.
I am sure all the people whose jobs were automated out of existence by the advance of IT feel exactly the same.
We need a moderation option on the lines of "poster actually knows something about the subject". I am not a quant but I know enough about it to know that someone is talking sense.
That said the poster of the parent has been luckier than me - when I post on something in my field I usually do not get modded up.
I am very curious about what someone who was a quant till recently would be doing now.
Does the Mozilla license allow extensions to be proprietary? All the ones I have seen are OSS but I do not think it is necessary.
Google will clearly not want to share their funftionality (can you imagine them opensouring Googlebar?) so at least some of what they do to tailer a browser will need to be proprietary.
And how do you estimate how many browsers are not sending out the correct user agent string. Opera and and Konqueror both make it very easy to identify as another browser (usually people choose IE 6) and Opera does it by default - so it is likely that you have more people with an IE6 user agent who are using Opera than people with an Opera user agent you are using Opera.
Add people who have changed the default user agent in other browsers and you probably have a significant overstatement of IE6 use, a smaller overstatement of IE5 and Netscape use and large understatement of the use everything other than those two.
IS it really supposed to be a proper accounting package: I always regarded it as more of a fairly sophisticated personal finance app or a small business accounts package - the only person I know using it is an accoutnant (bot currently working as one though) who is using it for a very straightforward small business and he is quite happy.
The protectionist instincts of the US strike again. The arguments for off-shoring IT are EXACTLY the same and exaclty as valid as free trade in any good, what exactly is the study needed for, unless the US is questioning free market economics?
Actually the west is moving away from free markets, just as the rest of the world has been perusaded to move towards them, so this is no surprise (examples patent and copyright laws deisgned to protet existing industry stuctures for fear of job losses, high regulatory burdens which criplle start-ups and small firms, heavy government subsidies for certain industries)
Opera's numbers are unfairly represented because Opera allows you to change what header it sends out
To make it worse Opera's default user agent is IE6. I suspect a lot of users, may be even a majority never change it, which implies that Opera is badly under reported and IE oever reported by a few percentage points.
In a lot of corporate environments users are discouraged from doing low level formatting - they are expected to stick to templates (sometimes fairly elaborate ones including macros). Something like Lyx would be better wuited to that environment.
What I personally like to do is use Lyx where I do not need low level formatting and Open Office when I do.
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I installed Mandrake 10 for my father, worked out well and he does not like the idea of switching baclkto Windows. I ahve used Mnadrake for the last two years and my wife also does not like Windows. Both like KDE.
What makes you think that? That was the original purpose, however the whole idea of "intellectual property" is that these theings are a form of property that should exist on principal - not for the pragmatic reasons you give. Once the pragmatic argument is accepted the evidence supports a huge loosening of patent and copyright laws. The other problem is that most people passing laws do not understand the effects on technology or creativity (whether IT, pharmaceuticals or music) so they ask the advice of the people who they think understand the indsutries best (i.e, the people who run them) who unsurpringly are in favour of stronger "IP". If they instead got some systematic studies done by economists the result might be different.
Answer 1) Beucase weakening the RIAA and MPAA memebers fianncially would weaken their marketing machines which keep pushing their content.
If demand for their content was lower, it would mostly likely mean demand shifts elsewhere - i.e. without the heavy marketing people would listen different music, not less music.
Furthermore the structure of the music industry at the moment makes it very difficult for someone selling their own stuff, or a small label, to get exposure (e.g. airtime on the radio).
Answer 2) Their is nothing contradictory about wanting people to share privately wihtout facing harsh penalties and also watning people to distribute their own stuff P2P.
Answer 3) Getting people to share music in breach of copyrigth will get them into the habbit and make establish P2P as s distribution mechanism that can then be used by whatever is licensed to allow P2P distribution.
Answer 4) This is a nice PR move that will get them lots of expposure - like on slashdot.
Thats true, but there is still a lot of money to be made from consultancy - look at the revenues of IBM's consultancy business or Cap Gemini.
I think a good analogy is the computerisation of manual processes. Automating what used to be done manualy, for example cheque handling in banks, is cheaper than doing it the other way - but there are still fortunes to be made from doing it.
In Soviet Russia, you monitor your peripherals!
Oh.....
Not all that well, MIPS Technolgoies was loss making for a while, it revenues for the last quarter were only $14.6m, whereas ARM's revenues were $70m, and ARM has a higher operating margin despite exchange rate movements going against it. Further more it looks as though they are going to lose share in the games console market, and possibly some others. My point is that they are a player but they are not doing very well given the size of the market.
Agreed
If these conservatives take away abortion right for their women, it is moral high ground and if muslims ask their women to wear Burkas, it is oppress
There is a fundamental difference: being scantilly clad does not harm anone, having an abortion harms the baby concerned.
I am largely politically what most Americans would consider liberal (if I was back in Britain I would vote Green or Liberal Democrat), but in fact I am more radial than those parties - take a look one of my old (no longer maintained for lack of time website for some of my views. However I regard abortion as murder, although I regard the critical point as being the development of brain funtion reacing a point where the baby becomes able to be consious of sensations such as pain (the time of which I do not believe is exactly known) rather than conception.
What I find very odd about American politics is the association between Chrisitans and conservatives: while there are Christian conservatives elsewhere, in my experince (Britain and Sri Lanka) Christians tend to be a lot more liberal than average (and can be quite radical if they are influenced by ideas such as liberation theology). The followers of the the American influenced evangelical churches tend to be right wing of course. Why?
Can somoeone please tell me how to reproduce this.
I can cut annd paste between Gnome and KDE apps without any problem, except that highlight and middle click does not work if the source is Gnumeric - but that has nothing to do with different toolkits as it does not work with a Gnome app either.
As many as did before copyright law perhaps - like Shakespeare, Bach, Homer etc.
How does it reveal its Opera and what is it counted as in all the Browser stats people are quoting here?
In addition free software implies open standards which prevents lock in to a single vendor, thus protecting the functioning of a free market from network effects.
and in a democracy citizens are supposed to judge how how well run the country is (which includes how well run its military actions are) and vote accordingly.
I suspect that like MS's security holes, IE's crashes are worse than thsoe of rivals: try using OBJECT to embed a webpage in itself for example.
Free trade is always good in the long run. What do you prefer to it: protectionism or socialism?
Until the next copyright term extension.
We need a moderation option on the lines of "poster actually knows something about the subject". I am not a quant but I know enough about it to know that someone is talking sense.
That said the poster of the parent has been luckier than me - when I post on something in my field I usually do not get modded up.
I am very curious about what someone who was a quant till recently would be doing now.
Does the Mozilla license allow extensions to be proprietary? All the ones I have seen are OSS but I do not think it is necessary.
Google will clearly not want to share their funftionality (can you imagine them opensouring Googlebar?) so at least some of what they do to tailer a browser will need to be proprietary.
And how do you estimate how many browsers are not sending out the correct user agent string. Opera and and Konqueror both make it very easy to identify as another browser (usually people choose IE 6) and Opera does it by default - so it is likely that you have more people with an IE6 user agent who are using Opera than people with an Opera user agent you are using Opera.
Add people who have changed the default user agent in other browsers and you probably have a significant overstatement of IE6 use, a smaller overstatement of IE5 and Netscape use and large understatement of the use everything other than those two.
IS it really supposed to be a proper accounting package: I always regarded it as more of a fairly sophisticated personal finance app or a small business accounts package - the only person I know using it is an accoutnant (bot currently working as one though) who is using it for a very straightforward small business and he is quite happy.
So why not install the Image Toolbar extension?
Actually the west is moving away from free markets, just as the rest of the world has been perusaded to move towards them, so this is no surprise (examples patent and copyright laws deisgned to protet existing industry stuctures for fear of job losses, high regulatory burdens which criplle start-ups and small firms, heavy government subsidies for certain industries)
To make it worse Opera's default user agent is IE6. I suspect a lot of users, may be even a majority never change it, which implies that Opera is badly under reported and IE oever reported by a few percentage points.
In a lot of corporate environments users are discouraged from doing low level formatting - they are expected to stick to templates (sometimes fairly elaborate ones including macros). Something like Lyx would be better wuited to that environment.
What I personally like to do is use Lyx where I do not need low level formatting and Open Office when I do.
What matters is what they recommend when you pay their services business for advice, not the ads they carry when MS pays then to.