In fact, there's a whole school of thought that suggests that freedom is not possible without property. Somehow, this is counter-intuitive to some.
I think freedom is good, and property is good. However, the two are not synonymous, in fact they're in opposition! Ownership is the legal right to restrict the actions of others (namely the freedom to walk off with things). Again, not that ownership is a bad idea, I just think it's funny how people who think they hate government actually love certain legal contrivances, such as ownership, and call anything they like "freedom" even when referring to restrictive laws which they support.
What gives you the right to decide who can and can't have a car?
I don't know who you're responding to, since nobody suggested forcibly taking away cars. But I do find it very interesting how people respond to deaths from various sources. 40K per year is a pretty staggering number. Terrorism, for instance, is insignificant in comparison. Even the number of Americans killed in World War II is only 1 decade of auto deaths!
Exactly. I would absolutely prefer a capacitor over a battery for power tools such as a drill. Currently I still use a corded tools because I don't use them every day, so I need them to last for a couple decades, and batteries don't do that. More important, if you're in the middle of a job and the battery dies, it's over. With a capacitor, pop it in while you go get a drink and you're ready to go again. Another example is a cordless shaver, I use it a little each day, so extreme battery life is unnecessary, but the battery dying after a couple years is very annoying.
I'll go a step further, I don't think whether CentOS hurts RedHat matters. If RedHat wants to have a go at writing and selling proprietary software, fine, and good luck. But so long as they sell others' software, they can't demand exclusivity.
Well, at least with the 4 breakins, nobody has died, and the attackers did not use firearms. Are you so sure escalation is the way to go? The bad guys can just as easily get guns too you know...
Napster far overestimated the value of its "brand"...
Other companies with tighter relationships with the record companies have since come up with far more successful ways to market music online (such as tying the store to a hugely popular MP3 player, for example)
Why do you think Napster overestimated the value of its brand? In other words, what should Napster have done differently once their original business model was shut down? If the only answer is, "they should have entered the consumer electronics business and made an iPod killer," that's quite a stretch. Even Sony, with the closest possible ties to "big music" and the longest track record of portable music hardware, has failed to do that.
If you could save thousands of lives by curing a disease, but curing the disease required potentially deadly experiments on a few people, wouldn't it be unethical NOT to proceed with the research?
Is it just me, or is that a quote from about 50% of all sci-fi films?
Y'know... I think you just invented perpetual motion!
Bull. You almost have to wonder if people should even be taught the laws of thermodynamics, they're so eager to run off and leap to unsupported conclusions. Every single story in any way related to power, somebody refers to the laws of thermodynamics to "prove" it's not a good idea because "the power still has to come from somewhere." I got news for you kids, that doesn't mean all power sources are equally useful, economic, reliable, efficient, or anything else.
Are you sure it's not fine for playing movies? I have a 1.6 GHz laptop (IBM T40). When playing movies, the CPU slows down to only 600 MHz (which is the minimum it can go) because that's all it needs.
It is not a terrible deal given that it's a mini-ATX motherboard, but using that big a case for it is just wasting space.
It provides more room for expandability. I can certainly see wanting to at least add a second hard drive for backups.
has nothing to do with being enviromentally conscious.
From the Via website:
" Developed from the ground up for low power operation, the VIA C7 processor is based on the advanced VIA CoolStream(TM) Architecture and manufactured using IBM's state-of-the-art 90nm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) process, and delivers the greatest performance per watt in the business.
Capable of running up to 2.0GHz with ultra low power consumption of around 20 watts peak power and operating at an average power of less than 1 watt, the VIA C7 processor is the embodiment of cool processing and sets the standards for next generation of desktop, mobile and personal electronics systems."
More seriously, this falls under the "computers as appliances" paradigm. This "home computing appliance" cost less than many "home gaming" appliances, about as much as a cheap all-in-one sound system. It delivers basic internet functionality.
Actually it has a lot of capabilities missing in any version of Windows short of Server, such as unrestricted number of clients for fileserving. And it comes preinstalled with a lot more than just the OS, including a full-featured office suite.
there can be a potential snag: users trying to install Microsoft-targeted software off the web
Then again that's one of the biggest advantages, since the other word for "Microsoft-targeted software off the web" is "malware." Granted, they'll be annoyed when certain things don't run, but having your computer taken over is annoying too.
The enemy could set up a trap for these machines, capture them and then have some high-tech stuff at their disposal.
It's just a boat with a machine gun. There's not a fighting force on earth that couldn't already field a boat with a machine gun. The robotic aspect is just a labor-saver to cut costs. It doesn't add capability, in fact it's almost certainly less capable in most respects than a boat with a few armed guys onboard. The infrastructure and maintenance required for these kinds of toys only makes sense for countries with expensive labor and high political costs for casualties.
Learning in a low-stress environment isn't necessarily a bad thing, it allows you to experiment and learn from repetition without dying or going out of business the first time you fail. Granted, that in itself will not prepare you to be President, but we're talking about kids here aren't we? It's a first step.
Or were you already a leader type?
Even if leaders are born, not trained, giving everybody access to organizations where even *they* have a shot at leadership (if they earn it) would be a big step forward. People can't discover and develop their talents without opportunities. This alone would increase the quality of leadership in the future simply by discovering more natural-born leaders who otherwise would never have known.
I do think the paperless office is arriving. I work at a normal big company and none of our processes are paper any more. They've even decreased the frequency of internal mail deliveries because it was underutilized.
Looking around the web, I see a lot of stuff from around the year 2000 about how the paperless office is a myth and paper use increased for the previous 20 years, but more recently we seem to have turned a corner. Not that we'll be truly paperless, but the growth in demand for paper is less than GDP growth and usage per worker is actually falling. There's even a quote from a paper company in there.
Knowledge of Apple's fat profit margin is useful to customers in a few ways. First, if you believe in market economics, it means competitors should be offering similarly useful products for less money soon, so you can probably save a lot of money by waiting a short while. Second, would-be unlockers considering buying an iPhone for use with another carrier can use this information to judge how likely Apple is to look the other way.
Market economics are fundamentally adversarial. The idea that pricing/profit information is a "so what"? issue is just wrong.
I interpret your remark as: "all you people condemning censorship in Russia better line up behind US foreign policy in the middle east, or I'll call you hypocrites for opposing dictatorship in one case and supporting it in the other." Is that about right?
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Exactly. I would absolutely prefer a capacitor over a battery for power tools such as a drill. Currently I still use a corded tools because I don't use them every day, so I need them to last for a couple decades, and batteries don't do that. More important, if you're in the middle of a job and the battery dies, it's over. With a capacitor, pop it in while you go get a drink and you're ready to go again. Another example is a cordless shaver, I use it a little each day, so extreme battery life is unnecessary, but the battery dying after a couple years is very annoying.
I'll go a step further, I don't think whether CentOS hurts RedHat matters. If RedHat wants to have a go at writing and selling proprietary software, fine, and good luck. But so long as they sell others' software, they can't demand exclusivity.
Well, at least with the 4 breakins, nobody has died, and the attackers did not use firearms. Are you so sure escalation is the way to go? The bad guys can just as easily get guns too you know...
Is it any 5 DVDs?
At that price point who cares about the player, it's the media. Which is why I wouldn't use a high-def player if I got it for free.
Are you sure it's not fine for playing movies? I have a 1.6 GHz laptop (IBM T40). When playing movies, the CPU slows down to only 600 MHz (which is the minimum it can go) because that's all it needs.
Capable of running up to 2.0GHz with ultra low power consumption of around 20 watts peak power and operating at an average power of less than 1 watt, the VIA C7 processor is the embodiment of cool processing and sets the standards for next generation of desktop, mobile and personal electronics systems."
At least read the summary. You can present from a copy stored on your computer.
Learning in a low-stress environment isn't necessarily a bad thing, it allows you to experiment and learn from repetition without dying or going out of business the first time you fail. Granted, that in itself will not prepare you to be President, but we're talking about kids here aren't we? It's a first step.
DRM? Adware? I don't see why it needs to be closed unless it's stuff people don't want.
Actually that sounds quite a bit like where I work. Paperless doesn't necessarily mean efficient :)
Looking around the web, I see a lot of stuff from around the year 2000 about how the paperless office is a myth and paper use increased for the previous 20 years, but more recently we seem to have turned a corner. Not that we'll be truly paperless, but the growth in demand for paper is less than GDP growth and usage per worker is actually falling. There's even a quote from a paper company in there.
I don't think the Netbeans license ever made any claim on software developed within NetBeans, did it?
Market economics are fundamentally adversarial. The idea that pricing/profit information is a "so what"? issue is just wrong.
I interpret your remark as: "all you people condemning censorship in Russia better line up behind US foreign policy in the middle east, or I'll call you hypocrites for opposing dictatorship in one case and supporting it in the other." Is that about right?