You 'got nothing to live for but ideals, got nothing to live with but this little rice bowl' political zealots are the closest thing America has to a Taliban force.
I can think of a whole bunch of people I would never, ever, want to be dubbed 'leader of the OSS movement.'
And likely they are the people who certain more flamish branches of 'the movement' would put at the top of the list.
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Personally, I don't ever play to configure mplayer, xine or xmms --with-drm.
Then the system will work fine. You simply won't be able to play back content protected with DRM. That's exactly what the DRM design is meant to do, and it's all it is meant to do. In spite of the conspiracy theories people fantasize up in order to have something to be angry (very angry!) at to make their life complete.
The whole 'everything is political' creed very rapidly degenerates into the kind of self-eviscerating Political Correctness that many people on the Right find outrageously funny to mock.
Stop trying to cram everything under the sun into your ideological framework.
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And the irony is that the kind of people who quote that line are usually so deeply embedded in their armchair that 'defend to the death' would simply mean a heart attack during their struggle to get out of their 'armchair of rhetoric.'
Plus, many people who make claims like that shout down people they disagree with when they come to campus to give speeches.
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Back in the day, my girlfriend had the only copy of 'Never mind the bollocks....' I had ever seen on 8-Track tape.
But I grew out of it.
My condolances to those who are incapable of doing so.
It's funny how everbody liked Noorda when he was pulling this kind of crap on Microsoft. He specifically bought DR-DOS in order to extort Microsoft, and not for the money. He's an angry man and his agenda is to fuck things up for people who he doesn't like.
This optimizes the hell out of KDE, and it reduces the memory footprint as well. It's such a simple script that I include it right in my ~/.cshrc file:
alias kde twm
You can substitute fvwm2 or some other window manager if you're not a tab enthusiast.
The law plainly intends for copyrights to eventually expire, why can't you (and the RIAA) accept that rather than trying to sue everybody into submission?
I would bet that if you examined the sheer volume of music that was pirated around on Napster, you would find that the majority of it was less than 17 years past it's initial release.
Your whole arguement is spurious with regard to this case if you're going to base it on that sort of reasoning.
I've often fantasized about some sort of cut-in transmitting apparatus. It would beam a subsonic signal at those f*ckers at the resonant frequency of an automobile chassis and shake the frame of their car into spare parts.
It would obviously have to be a powerful signal, but very directional and short range.
Venture Capitalists have significantly more involvement in their investments than someone who has an array of stocks in a portfolio.
I can see where all kinds of people are worried about the VCs getting taken on like this: it does sour the market for investors to step in and fund wholesale piracy operations like Napster in the future.
Guns were not necessarily created to main and kill people. There are Olympic Sporting Events that involve rifles. Further, there are legitimate hunting and varmit-control purposes for guns. The silencer, for instance, was developed to make a gun quiet enough to shoot rats in the barn without scaring the livestock. Sure, there turn out to be other uses for it.... ummm, just like people here claim there are other uses for P2P than stealing I.P.
What fair use rights have you been deprived of? Fair Use guarantees you the right to make personal copies. It doesn't guarantee you will have the capability to make said copies. And near as I can tell, the music industry hasn't started going after people who have made personal copies, but rather people who have widely distributed copies that clearly aren't covered by fair use rights.
And they're commodity software that just about any server platform, anywhere, can deliver.
I am not claiming that Windows is better at that stuff, not at all. In fact old-line proprietary UNIX is still king in the EDA market. But it's certainly no 'killer app' to get Linux boxes into the server room.
We haven't considered malnourished children in Mississippi, or the plight of the coal miners in West Virginia. I bet you never even THOUGHT about those people before making your comment. How offensive.
Umm, there are many, many things that Linux desktops can't do at all yet.
For example, the amount of Engineering Workstation software ported to Linux is miniscule. Sure, your Linux box makes a nice Xterm in the engineering lab as long as there's a big Unix box somewhere on the network running the licensed EDA apps, but any PC with Exceed can do that.
The amount of multimedia editing and creation software for Linux is pitiful, and doesn't seem to be growing much at all.
'Each machine does more' only works for niche server tasks like web serving and communciations apps, and only there because all the legacy UNIX stuff has been ported over.
Unfortunately, if Open Source gets enough of a 'renegade' reputation, it'll be banned from more shops than it's in already. I like running OSS on my machines at home. I like experimenting around with it and learning from it. That doesn't automatically translate into a 'big scheme.'
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You 'got nothing to live for but ideals, got nothing to live with but this little rice bowl' political zealots are the closest thing America has to a Taliban force.
Goodness gracious, don't be such damned fools.
I can think of a whole bunch of people I would never, ever, want to be dubbed 'leader of the OSS movement.'
And likely they are the people who certain more flamish branches of 'the movement' would put at the top of the list.
Personally, I don't ever play to configure mplayer, xine or xmms --with-drm.
Then the system will work fine. You simply won't be able to play back content protected with DRM. That's exactly what the DRM design is meant to do, and it's all it is meant to do. In spite of the conspiracy theories people fantasize up in order to have something to be angry (very angry!) at to make their life complete.
The whole 'everything is political' creed very rapidly degenerates into the kind of self-eviscerating Political Correctness that many people on the Right find outrageously funny to mock.
Stop trying to cram everything under the sun into your ideological framework.
And the irony is that the kind of people who quote that line are usually so deeply embedded in their armchair that 'defend to the death' would simply mean a heart attack during their struggle to get out of their 'armchair of rhetoric.'
Plus, many people who make claims like that shout down people they disagree with when they come to campus to give speeches.
Back in the day, my girlfriend had the only copy of 'Never mind the bollocks....' I had ever seen on 8-Track tape.
But I grew out of it.
My condolances to those who are incapable of doing so.
Political??
The only political class most MP3 sharers belong to is the lumpen-proletariat. There are very few exceptions.
It's funny how everbody liked Noorda when he was pulling this kind of crap on Microsoft. He specifically bought DR-DOS in order to extort Microsoft, and not for the money. He's an angry man and his agenda is to fuck things up for people who he doesn't like.
Why sign it Cycloneous?
Why not BilboBaggins or Dragon Lord III or some other silly 'handle'?
This optimizes the hell out of KDE, and it reduces the memory footprint as well. It's such a simple script that I include it right in my ~/.cshrc file:
alias kde twm
You can substitute fvwm2 or some other window manager if you're not a tab enthusiast.
The corporate track:
"Touch this with a ten foot pole and you're likely to never see another grant from the government come your way."
The foreign goverment track:
"Watch out for YOUR local OpenBSD enthusiasts, too, and you'll have an easily compiled list of malcontents worth keeping an eye on."
The geek track:
"Sweet sweet honeypot hyar, doodz!"
You forgot to mention that they probably kick their dogs. And drink milk right out of the carton.
Really?
If I abuse my laptop it becomes non fuctional. That takes away use.
Thought I'd say that since if you're gonna post little snippets out of context, I'll use it in *my* context too.
Microsoft's main business plan is not directly related to specific infractions of laws.
The law plainly intends for copyrights to eventually expire, why can't you (and the RIAA) accept that rather than trying to sue everybody into submission?
I would bet that if you examined the sheer volume of music that was pirated around on Napster, you would find that the majority of it was less than 17 years past it's initial release.
Your whole arguement is spurious with regard to this case if you're going to base it on that sort of reasoning.
Umm, you're saying the whole problem is the music companies aren't hiring enough musicians like Eddie Van Halen or David Lee Roth???
How's the mullet project going, dude?
I've often fantasized about some sort of cut-in transmitting apparatus. It would beam a subsonic signal at those f*ckers at the resonant frequency of an automobile chassis and shake the frame of their car into spare parts.
It would obviously have to be a powerful signal, but very directional and short range.
Venture Capitalists have significantly more involvement in their investments than someone who has an array of stocks in a portfolio.
I can see where all kinds of people are worried about the VCs getting taken on like this: it does sour the market for investors to step in and fund wholesale piracy operations like Napster in the future.
Guns were not necessarily created to main and kill people. There are Olympic Sporting Events that involve rifles. Further, there are legitimate hunting and varmit-control purposes for guns. The silencer, for instance, was developed to make a gun quiet enough to shoot rats in the barn without scaring the livestock. Sure, there turn out to be other uses for it.... ummm, just like people here claim there are other uses for P2P than stealing I.P.
What fair use rights have you been deprived of? Fair Use guarantees you the right to make personal copies. It doesn't guarantee you will have the capability to make said copies. And near as I can tell, the music industry hasn't started going after people who have made personal copies, but rather people who have widely distributed copies that clearly aren't covered by fair use rights.
And they're commodity software that just about any server platform, anywhere, can deliver.
I am not claiming that Windows is better at that stuff, not at all. In fact old-line proprietary UNIX is still king in the EDA market. But it's certainly no 'killer app' to get Linux boxes into the server room.
Well, gee. We were talking about the topic of IT.
We haven't considered malnourished children in Mississippi, or the plight of the coal miners in West Virginia. I bet you never even THOUGHT about those people before making your comment. How offensive.
Ooooh, IT managers just LOVE to adopt platforms where the only admins they can find are shakedown artists.
Umm, there are many, many things that Linux desktops can't do at all yet.
For example, the amount of Engineering Workstation software ported to Linux is miniscule. Sure, your Linux box makes a nice Xterm in the engineering lab as long as there's a big Unix box somewhere on the network running the licensed EDA apps, but any PC with Exceed can do that.
The amount of multimedia editing and creation software for Linux is pitiful, and doesn't seem to be growing much at all.
'Each machine does more' only works for niche server tasks like web serving and communciations apps, and only there because all the legacy UNIX stuff has been ported over.
Unfortunately, if Open Source gets enough of a 'renegade' reputation, it'll be banned from more shops than it's in already. I like running OSS on my machines at home. I like experimenting around with it and learning from it. That doesn't automatically translate into a 'big scheme.'