Yeah popup ads arn't spam in the strictest sense maybe but they're an unacceptable rude and intrusive form of advertising, so there's no ethical difference, as for that first point, my boss never uses any of those illigit forms of advertising, if I ever caught him doing something like that, I'd give him the biggest tounge lashing you ever heard and then resign straight away.
Hmmm your I'd cut my arm off, sooner than buy from anyone who every contacted me illegit, stuff the practicle, stuff cost, principle comes first, besides that I woudn't even deal with a bozo who started off a legit contact and then got pushy. let them all go bankrupt and starve I say!!!
Yeah maybe they won't; there are still to many sissy out there, who carn't see long term benifits because of small short term ones, the only way to teach these rude scum manners is to destroy enough of their scum vermin bussinesses to force them to take notice.
you get carpal tunnel because you have to have a genetic predisposition to it (I should know I have had it an the opperations both hand 11 years ago), as for ergonomics, when I last sure the hand specialists I was referred to for a latter mystery condition, they told me that no-one can define ergonomic, it's differrent from one person to the next, you just have to adjust thing till you don't have strain, i.e. find the mouse for you etc....
One things for sure past experience with what sets my hands off, tells me that there board would kill my hands, which is par for the course, so far every ergonomic thing I've ever heard of, ended up in court over RSI etc....
why not have anything goes games as well, i.e. cheating is allowed maybe that would keep some of them happy, of course the really nasty wouldn't go for it (as they want to annoy, upset etc), but it might get rid of some of the pests.
We'll I've read his article, and he's right, I don't know if United linux is doing what he say's, but I assume so (sure sounds like it), and yes the GPL and the LGPL are superior, I long ago decided that when I finally get around to releasing some of my code to the free/open source software world that, I'd GPL it. none of the others cut for me, if I'm going to give my work away free, I'm sure as hell not going to let someone else put out derivative's which are not free; that doesn't serve the free/open cause. On Ya RMS your spot on on this ---- Francis G. J. Smit
Hmmm when I first heard of Rms and this campaign to rename Linux, I thought he was a nut to. I thought why is this guy trying to steal linux, for one thing the kernel is the core, for another if the GNU stuff hadn't been there Linus and the Linux guy's would just have used some thing else, or rolled our own, which I guess when still could do if root mean squared (ooops Rms:-)# ), doesn't wake up to him self. I'd hate to see that.
The thing is he's part right freedom is more important than function, I'd probably not use this bitstream thing, but Linus is not wrong to differ on this, unless the terms of the licence under which, that software use used in some way seeks to impinge on his freedom or that of the kernel hackers, or we the Linux users/community. The trouble with Rms is he has got so caught up in the beautiful Idea, that he can not see the edges properly, or as the old saying goes he cannot see the wood for the tree's!
I can relate to this when I was some years younger and madder:-)#, I was convinced that we should replace our system of mesuring time, with a meteric one, after all the one we've got is ugly as, talk about messy, but in the end I realised there was no help for it, our humans cycles and rythms are all locked in to days and years, to change that we need a planet who's day fits metrically into it's year, etc... so why bother..., and then in a way the present system has a beauty after all it's just a wilder beauty like that of a forest, as oposed to the the ordered beauty of precise pristine architecture.
I just wish RMS would relax, take a chill pill etc..., the fact is I respect him I think he's a great leader in the free software world, but like most great leaders, he's prone to lose perpective to slang of other great leaders who he should be backing up against the common foe.
But we have to understand ourselves in this to we are Linus followers (well not just Linus), and we get mad when one of our leaders gets critised, thats only natural, but lets forgive a bit to, the truth is both sides of this are part right.
Yeah Broad Band in oz???
when will we really get real broad band in oz, I read enough of that article to see the that optus claim that they needed to make the thing more comercially viable, lying toads, I wish we had some real competition in this area in oz, pustus and Tel-lie's are two of the same stripe, we need a compeditor like the cheap international phone call bussiness.
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Yeah popup ads arn't spam in the strictest sense maybe but they're an unacceptable rude and intrusive form of advertising, so there's no ethical difference, as for that first point, my boss never uses any of those illigit forms of advertising, if I ever caught him doing something like that, I'd give him the biggest tounge lashing you ever heard and then resign straight away.
Well there's always the future just forgive youself and help give 'em a blood nose at least next time.
Yeah maybe they won't; there are still to many sissy out there, who carn't see long term benifits because of small short term ones, the only way to teach these rude scum manners is to destroy enough of their scum vermin bussinesses to force them to take notice.
you get carpal tunnel because you have to have a genetic predisposition to it (I should know I have had it an the opperations both hand 11 years ago), as for ergonomics, when I last sure the hand specialists I was referred to for a latter mystery condition, they told me that no-one can define ergonomic, it's differrent from one person to the next, you just have to adjust thing till you don't have strain, i.e. find the mouse for you etc.... One things for sure past experience with what sets my hands off, tells me that there board would kill my hands, which is par for the course, so far every ergonomic thing I've ever heard of, ended up in court over RSI etc....
why not have anything goes games as well, i.e. cheating is allowed maybe that would keep some of them happy, of course the really nasty wouldn't go for it (as they want to annoy, upset etc), but it might get rid of some of the pests.
We'll I've read his article, and he's right, I don't know if United linux is doing what he say's, but I assume so (sure sounds like it), and yes the GPL and the LGPL are superior, I long ago decided that when I finally get around to releasing some of my code to the free/open source software world that, I'd GPL it. none of the others cut for me, if I'm going to give my work away free, I'm sure as hell not going to let someone else put out derivative's which are not free; that doesn't serve the free/open cause. On Ya RMS your spot on on this ---- Francis G. J. Smit
Hmmm when I first heard of Rms and this campaign to rename Linux, I thought he was a nut to. I thought why is this guy trying to steal linux, for one thing the kernel is the core, for another if the GNU stuff hadn't been there Linus and the Linux guy's would just have used some thing else, or rolled our own, which I guess when still could do if root mean squared (ooops Rms :-)# ), doesn't wake up to him self. I'd hate to see that.
The thing is he's part right freedom is more important than function, I'd probably not use this bitstream thing, but Linus is not wrong to differ on this, unless the terms of the licence under which, that software use used in some way seeks to impinge on his freedom or that of the kernel hackers, or we the Linux users/community. The trouble with Rms is he has got so caught up in the beautiful Idea, that he can not see the edges properly, or as the old saying goes he cannot see the wood for the tree's!
I can relate to this when I was some years younger and madder :-)#, I was convinced that we should replace our system of mesuring time, with a meteric one, after all the one we've got is ugly as, talk about messy, but in the end I realised there was no help for it, our humans cycles and rythms are all locked in to days and years, to change that we need a planet who's day fits metrically into it's year, etc ... so why bother ..., and then in a way the present system has a beauty after all it's just a wilder beauty like that of a forest, as oposed to the the ordered beauty of precise pristine architecture.
I just wish RMS would relax, take a chill pill etc ..., the fact is I respect him I think he's a great leader in the free software world, but like most great leaders, he's prone to lose perpective to slang of other great leaders who he should be backing up against the common foe.
But we have to understand ourselves in this to we are Linus followers (well not just Linus), and we get mad when one of our leaders gets critised, thats only natural, but lets forgive a bit to, the truth is both sides of this are part right.
Yeah Broad Band in oz??? when will we really get real broad band in oz, I read enough of that article to see the that optus claim that they needed to make the thing more comercially viable, lying toads, I wish we had some real competition in this area in oz, pustus and Tel-lie's are two of the same stripe, we need a compeditor like the cheap international phone call bussiness.