Dropline includes PAM if you're interested in having GNOME. That's one of the main reasons that it didn't get an official recommendation when Slackware dropped GNOME.
Seamonkey's Browser is very speedy and stable, even with dozens of tabs. I've never had any performance issues with it. My main computer is about the same as your home PC, but I've run it on machines as low-end as a PowerBook 3400c with decent performance.
I haven't actually shut Seamonkey down for weeks, mind you. No memory leaks. No weird bugs.
Firefox barely even starts up on machines that old.
Every time you eat you're destroying life. We cut down trees and dig up plants as a regular part of our business. Raising crop plants involves killing other plants.
Is there really any reason that a developing individual of Homo sapiens should be given more consideration than the millions of lives snuffed every day?
It's not exactly the operating system's fault that it takes time to prepare the system for shutdown.
It only takes about ten seconds from hitting the power switch for my system to suspend, and about twenty for it to start up again. Frankly, that's good enough for me.
If you want to profit from the information you provide, charge for it. The Web is designed to give the individual freedom to view content in a way that fits their personal preferences.
Is it wrong to browse websites with Lynx? I do that a lot. I also turn off images and javascript occasionally. If I visit your website and happen to be doing that, am I unethically depriving you of income?
What if I want to go to the coffee shop and keep downing espressos in a nice environment while also using my laptop occasionally? Should I have to be herded into some wifi squatter's ghetto?
(Economic note: if you're in an urban area, broadband is probably around, what, $50/mo? If you use the Internet a little bit every day, it's more economical to buy a cup of drip every day than pay for broadband.
On the other hand, if you want to use the Internet for longer periods or, like me, enjoy drinking triple espressos, it quickly becomes very expensive to use a coffee shop as a source of 'free' Internet.
Anyone who comes into a coffee shop and doesn't pay for something should be kicked out much faster than a few hours, unless they're with someone.)
"Fundamentally, any open source project started with the purpose of duplicating existing functionality elsewhere would, to me, seem like it would slow innovation."
When you're climbing a mountain, you have to start from the bottom. If existing functionality is necessary, then it needs to be duplicated. It may not be innovative now, but innovation will be the ultimate result.
You're assuming that innovation is the most effective way of earning a profit. If there is a way to make a profit through software without innovation, the aforementioned 'selfishness' would naturally take that as the path of least resistance.
Um, there was no evidence presented that any files involved in the alleged crime were encrypted.
Only that the person involved had an encryption utility on his computer. You might as well enter into evidence that he had knives in his kitchen, with the obvious intent to kill the victim before she could testify.
There are legitimate uses for encryption, even for criminals. Unless the prosecution could present evidence that the encryption utility was used to conceal a crime, it is entirely irrelevant to the case.
Free Republic is so much better than the New York Times.
For instance, I've never had my copy of the NYT enhanced with little slips of paper referring to Islam as a Satanic, murderous cult or to the Koran as toilet paper and a how-to book for killing.
cfdisk is provided and has been for quite some time, and X.org has been included since 10.0. A simple X -configure generates a good config for many machines. Your claims are more or less baseless.
Seems to me that thousands of years of human history disagree. Numerous societies have existed without any concept of private property whatsoever, and in reality, history shows very clearly that land belongs to whoever has the most weapons.
Private property rights are a very lovely and very modern invention. Disagreeing with that particular tenet of libertarian philosophy doesn't make me an idiot.
In any case, you shouldn't confuse physical property with "intellectual property." The latter is most definitely a modern invention, and it is a product of law. Again, history shows a bias towards copying documents freely; those documents that weren't copied freely tend not to exist anymore.
"Intellectual property" isn't property. Hell, it's not even a possession; copying a book or a CD doesn't deprive you of the physical object. I'm not trying to invoke the "not theft" argument here, however.
The philosophers who more or less invented the modern concept of property (Locke, etc.) envisioned the inviolability of one's property as necessary to protect one's well-being and independence. Comparing intellectual "property" to that is demeaning the entire concept.
Yes, and Hitler was a sensitive man who went to art school. If you were able to cite an example of gangster-like enforcement of the GPL, that would actually lend some weight to your statement.
This points out the flaw in your reasoning -- many children cannot be adequately educated by their parents. Their parents may be absent, uninterested, or abusive. They may not be able to teach their children due to working excessive hours.
The relative failure of the current educational system is not a reason to destroy it entirely. We need better-educated children, not worse.
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Dropline includes PAM if you're interested in having GNOME. That's one of the main reasons that it didn't get an official recommendation when Slackware dropped GNOME.
It's not Gecko that's slow, it's Firefox.
Seamonkey's Browser is very speedy and stable, even with dozens of tabs. I've never had any performance issues with it. My main computer is about the same as your home PC, but I've run it on machines as low-end as a PowerBook 3400c with decent performance.
I haven't actually shut Seamonkey down for weeks, mind you. No memory leaks. No weird bugs.
Firefox barely even starts up on machines that old.
Every time you eat you're destroying life. We cut down trees and dig up plants as a regular part of our business. Raising crop plants involves killing other plants.
Is there really any reason that a developing individual of Homo sapiens should be given more consideration than the millions of lives snuffed every day?
Every single member of the Senate. A number of members of the House of Representatives voted against it.
Just a comment: viper-mode sucks.
Make them lunch at home. If kids spend their own money on junk food, so be it. It's not like they couldn't do it outside of school.
It's not exactly the operating system's fault that it takes time to prepare the system for shutdown.
It only takes about ten seconds from hitting the power switch for my system to suspend, and about twenty for it to start up again. Frankly, that's good enough for me.
If you want to profit from the information you provide, charge for it. The Web is designed to give the individual freedom to view content in a way that fits their personal preferences.
Is it wrong to browse websites with Lynx? I do that a lot. I also turn off images and javascript occasionally. If I visit your website and happen to be doing that, am I unethically depriving you of income?
More stable. Faster. More easily customizable. Not developed by snotty elitists.
At least, that's why I prefer the suite.
It's not like it's considered generally immoral for a person's significant other to have naked pictures of them anyway. It's rather common, really.
What's nasty is releasing them after the relationship is over. That's low.
Apple didn't start from scratch. They combined pre-existing work: FreeBSD, NeXTstep, and MacOS.
What if I want to go to the coffee shop and keep downing espressos in a nice environment while also using my laptop occasionally? Should I have to be herded into some wifi squatter's ghetto?
(Economic note: if you're in an urban area, broadband is probably around, what, $50/mo? If you use the Internet a little bit every day, it's more economical to buy a cup of drip every day than pay for broadband.
On the other hand, if you want to use the Internet for longer periods or, like me, enjoy drinking triple espressos, it quickly becomes very expensive to use a coffee shop as a source of 'free' Internet.
Anyone who comes into a coffee shop and doesn't pay for something should be kicked out much faster than a few hours, unless they're with someone.)
The point is that they don't want to boot people out, but they don't want people to squat for wifi either.
http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
"Fundamentally, any open source project started with the purpose of duplicating existing functionality elsewhere would, to me, seem like it would slow innovation."
When you're climbing a mountain, you have to start from the bottom. If existing functionality is necessary, then it needs to be duplicated. It may not be innovative now, but innovation will be the ultimate result.
You're assuming that innovation is the most effective way of earning a profit. If there is a way to make a profit through software without innovation, the aforementioned 'selfishness' would naturally take that as the path of least resistance.
*points at your signature*
Ogg Vorbis. Innovative and implemented as free software.
Um, there was no evidence presented that any files involved in the alleged crime were encrypted.
Only that the person involved had an encryption utility on his computer. You might as well enter into evidence that he had knives in his kitchen, with the obvious intent to kill the victim before she could testify.
There are legitimate uses for encryption, even for criminals. Unless the prosecution could present evidence that the encryption utility was used to conceal a crime, it is entirely irrelevant to the case.
Uh, you mean the way I have to page up and down to read the article due to its absurd print-inspired layout?
No, not particularly.
I know. I'm getting sick of reading David Brooks' communist filth.
Free Republic is so much better than the New York Times.
For instance, I've never had my copy of the NYT enhanced with little slips of paper referring to Islam as a Satanic, murderous cult or to the Koran as toilet paper and a how-to book for killing.
That's absurd.
cfdisk is provided and has been for quite some time, and X.org has been included since 10.0. A simple X -configure generates a good config for many machines. Your claims are more or less baseless.
Seems to me that thousands of years of human history disagree. Numerous societies have existed without any concept of private property whatsoever, and in reality, history shows very clearly that land belongs to whoever has the most weapons.
Private property rights are a very lovely and very modern invention. Disagreeing with that particular tenet of libertarian philosophy doesn't make me an idiot.
In any case, you shouldn't confuse physical property with "intellectual property." The latter is most definitely a modern invention, and it is a product of law. Again, history shows a bias towards copying documents freely; those documents that weren't copied freely tend not to exist anymore.
"Intellectual property" isn't property. Hell, it's not even a possession; copying a book or a CD doesn't deprive you of the physical object. I'm not trying to invoke the "not theft" argument here, however.
The philosophers who more or less invented the modern concept of property (Locke, etc.) envisioned the inviolability of one's property as necessary to protect one's well-being and independence. Comparing intellectual "property" to that is demeaning the entire concept.
Yes, and Hitler was a sensitive man who went to art school. If you were able to cite an example of gangster-like enforcement of the GPL, that would actually lend some weight to your statement.
"drug-addicated (sic) bullies"
This points out the flaw in your reasoning -- many children cannot be adequately educated by their parents. Their parents may be absent, uninterested, or abusive. They may not be able to teach their children due to working excessive hours.
The relative failure of the current educational system is not a reason to destroy it entirely. We need better-educated children, not worse.