SCO: "IBM, I am your father!"
IBM: "Nooo! That's impossible!"
SCO: "Search your feelings you know it is true.
IBM: "No, I mean that's stupid. I mean, look at you. Heh, you're shorter than I am. I could kick you right off this platform and you'd hit the wall before you even began to descend. I mean, come on, the force isn't exactly strong with you..."
I'm one of those Americans. You know, the same kind that was trying to defend our freedoms before 9-11. The same kind that was labeled unpatriotic afterwards. Yeah...
I agree with you on the Metal bit. While pop-punk managed to kill the local metal scene (got popular and metal bands didn't want to play along with them so they were no longer booked, an isolated series of events in a small town), nu-metal would have a lot of difficulty. There's just too many metal heads.
If society considers me nostalgia ten years from now, I can live with that. If the RIAA wishes to disrupt my lifestyle, at my expense, so they can make a bigger buck, don't expect me to sit back and take it.
Underground subcultures are very much aware of this situation. It's generally regarded as a hostile act meant to destroy our culture.
Allow me to explain. Sometimes a government body's political boundries encompass two very different cultures. In a case where a smaller culture is regarded as a potential threat, problem, or nuisance the government may attempt to breed them out of existance. Sort of a peaceful genocide, it's quite simple. Noone gets killed, noone's locked up, or harmed in any way. However the government creates incentives for businesses to set up in this particular area of the country. Thus the mainstream population moves to this area in pursuit of jobs. Over the years the two cultures interbreed until the differences that once seperated the two cultures are spread so thin that, for all intensive purposes, that culture no longer exists. This is a very real problem that anthropologists are constantly attempting to combat.
The recording industry, or at least the RIAA, is attempting to do the same thing. They're taking mainstream music, tweaked to sound more punk, metal, gothic, hip-hop or what have you. In the mainstreams pursuit to be an "inDUHvidual" they cling to this facade and claim to be what we are. Over time start-up bands attempt to imitate these fake bands, the media begins to depict this coincidentally (hah) more media-friendly subculture as the true subculture, and over time what we really are and what we're really about is lost in the stream of time.
For the most part, we've lost punk to this crap already. Oh don't get me wrong I'm sure there's still a few bands and a few isolated groups which fit the original ( and political ) description of punk. However most of the punks I knew became disheartened. Their clothes, music, literature, EVERYTHING, became very difficult to find amidst this mainstream regurgitation.
Metal's suffering from the same onslaught as we speak. Nu-Metal threatens to destroy another subculture very near and dear to me in time.
My subculture sees the beginnings of the same thing for us. On the gothic front, the media appears to have chosen a multi-faceted attack with television and the popularization (helped along with a little advertising) of dark television series. Buffy was a very good example. Fashion's a little less hard to pick apart amidst the season's change of fashion obsessions so I won't speak of any direct threat there. Honestly I doubt I could pick those things out if I tried. And, though it seems to have taken them a while, I've heard the RIAA finally has a band calling themselves "gothic" that they're parading around MTV.
Some might be happy to be rid of us. Indeed there's a great many selfish people who can't see beyond their own form of living. To these people I would express my regret that they could not understand what we are. We're nothing more than a culture which holds valuable its traditions and similarities. By departing from mainstream into the gothic subculture I've learned a lot about society. And despite what mainstream sources will tell you, goths, punks, metal-heads, rivet-heads, etc., are NOT anti-cultures. That is to say, we're don't join the groups we do because we oppose mainstream in its entirety. Rather, we join these groups as they better fit our lifestyle. It was easier for me to make friends amongst goths than it was at random.
In any event, here's how it relates to you, the reader, if you're not part of a subculture. I mean, if you're totally mainstream this isn't going to hurt you. Are you christian though? Do you like christian music? Yeah, that won't survive if the RIAA gets its way. Actually anything that mainstream, pop/rock advertising doesn't cover will eventually be destroyed if things continue as they have been.
If you've ever liked something besides pop/rock, I reccomend you invest a bit more in ANY alternative source of music. Be it web distribution, independant labels, classic radio stations, whatever. Support everything that isn't mainstream.
Actually, BSD would be a poor example. The only reasons the BSDs remain free is because there remains free versions out there. There's someone willing to maintain a free version. But by the very nature of the BSD license a company can take BSD close the source, make changes (or not) and sell it to consumers for a very pretty penny (usually embedded in hardware). The BSD license does not force anybody to keep their copy open-source, nor does it force them to distribute the work they put into it for free. This is the difference between Free-source and Open-source.
Which is precisely why I'll begrudgingly buy the new NVIDIA and ATI cards, but secretly wish the Matrox Parhelia had lived up to its promises. I mean, quake across two screens SOUNDS cool, til you realize the crosshair is going to be split in two...
I intend to whole-heartedly support this petition.
However I don't think it will pass. I doubt if those $1.00 bills coming from all the companies and people that retain the copyrights would cover the cost of rechecking every copyright for its applicability every year.
Of course, I don't understand the infrastructure of the copyright office, but I imagine the passing of such an act would require the addition of many new employees and probably more funding in general, which this one dollar scheme will not cover.
Yet, I wouldn't mind seeing my tax money go to fund this positive movement for the regulation of the copyright mess we're in now. So, like I said, I'll still support it. Just doubt it would make it no matter how much support it gets.
You can count me amongst those who feel that television and radio are worthless.
Companies have completely forgotten that there are SOME customers who absolutely do not make impulse buys and will come to them when they are good and ready, and only if they have a superior product.
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*shakes fist*
Stop making me trust you!
Must wait for ogg-vorbis support... contain... geeky... demon...
There was a big gap between the 0.5 release and the 0.6 release, where the nightly builds had most of 0.6's features. My programmer friend and I were working off the nightly builds and found them to be just as stable as most other software's beta tests. So to woo my friends into using phoenix I ignored common sense and focused on features, you could say I pulled a microsoft, and set them up with a nightly build my friend and I had recorded as being mostly stable.
That build still works today in some environments but about 25% of my friends have recieved a newer build that hasn't given them any problems since (The 0.6 nightlies didn't like Win98 SE for a time).
The nature of "nightly builds" was described to them. They understood that there was a 0.001% chance that a nightly build would format their hard drive and noone would be able to do anything to help them. They were willing to take the risk. And they came to appreciate the openness of phoenix in this respect. They tend to take my word on others. =)
Half a year ago I got into phoenix, me being a web designer and having NO experience with Linux. Today all my non-technical friends have been introduced to, and now use phoenix EXCLUSIVELY. If it breaks (which happens, I set them up with nightly builds usually) they demand that I fix it IMMEDIATELY. It's not just a component of an operating system to them anymore, they see the value in a good browser and they value phoenix.
OpenSource really is a grass roots things. And just like grass, you can step on it but it will still grow.
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The reviewers wouldn't have let through an unofficial "discounts on cool open-architecture hardware for all/.ers" article. You really can't blame him if he is the anonymous reader.
As much as this guy makes me want to trust him, I promised myself, my ogg vorbis collection, and xiph that I would buy the first player to support ogg vorbis. While it seems Neuros will be the first, there's still a small chance that iRiver could come out of nowhere with it. Those iRiver people are pretty smart too, afterall.
So on a WASTE system you accept public keys from applicants to your network? Well if that's the case then just a general discerning eye should be acceptable, as long as you trust everyone on the network to scrutinize as you do, which I would. Thanks a lot for the info.
...and just like a light bulb powering itself illuminating the surface of an attached photovoltaic cell, you'll get more processing power with knoppix clustering with knoppix inside of virtual machines......Someone had to say it!
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So that's a "no" to Debian?
Hmph, now I wish Debian had a mascot so that I could claim you made him cry.
But if I've trained my friends in the use of PGP/GPG I could send them my public WASTE key encrypted with their public PGP/GPG key and have a secure exchange right?
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SCO: " IBM, I am your father!"
IBM: " Nooo! That's impossible!"
SCO: "Search your feelings you know it is true.
IBM: "No, I mean that's stupid. I mean, look at you. Heh, you're shorter than I am. I could kick you right off this platform and you'd hit the wall before you even began to descend. I mean, come on, the force isn't exactly strong with you..."
I'm one of those Americans. You know, the same kind that was trying to defend our freedoms before 9-11. The same kind that was labeled unpatriotic afterwards. Yeah...
I'm faulting the U.S. for giving arms and munitions to political radicals.
I agree with you on the Metal bit. While pop-punk managed to kill the local metal scene (got popular and metal bands didn't want to play along with them so they were no longer booked, an isolated series of events in a small town), nu-metal would have a lot of difficulty. There's just too many metal heads.
If society considers me nostalgia ten years from now, I can live with that. If the RIAA wishes to disrupt my lifestyle, at my expense, so they can make a bigger buck, don't expect me to sit back and take it.
"Cultural Genocide" is the term most often employed to describe this process. That's what I recollect, anyway, and wikipedia seems to agree with me.
I tried to post this yesterday. But slash didn't like me.
Proud to live in a country that will supply terrorist networks with dangerous weapons to resist the Sovient Union, which they later turn on us?
Underground subcultures are very much aware of this situation. It's generally regarded as a hostile act meant to destroy our culture.
Allow me to explain. Sometimes a government body's political boundries encompass two very different cultures. In a case where a smaller culture is regarded as a potential threat, problem, or nuisance the government may attempt to breed them out of existance. Sort of a peaceful genocide, it's quite simple. Noone gets killed, noone's locked up, or harmed in any way. However the government creates incentives for businesses to set up in this particular area of the country. Thus the mainstream population moves to this area in pursuit of jobs. Over the years the two cultures interbreed until the differences that once seperated the two cultures are spread so thin that, for all intensive purposes, that culture no longer exists. This is a very real problem that anthropologists are constantly attempting to combat.
The recording industry, or at least the RIAA, is attempting to do the same thing. They're taking mainstream music, tweaked to sound more punk, metal, gothic, hip-hop or what have you. In the mainstreams pursuit to be an "inDUHvidual" they cling to this facade and claim to be what we are. Over time start-up bands attempt to imitate these fake bands, the media begins to depict this coincidentally (hah) more media-friendly subculture as the true subculture, and over time what we really are and what we're really about is lost in the stream of time.
For the most part, we've lost punk to this crap already. Oh don't get me wrong I'm sure there's still a few bands and a few isolated groups which fit the original ( and political ) description of punk. However most of the punks I knew became disheartened. Their clothes, music, literature, EVERYTHING, became very difficult to find amidst this mainstream regurgitation.
Metal's suffering from the same onslaught as we speak. Nu-Metal threatens to destroy another subculture very near and dear to me in time.
My subculture sees the beginnings of the same thing for us. On the gothic front, the media appears to have chosen a multi-faceted attack with television and the popularization (helped along with a little advertising) of dark television series. Buffy was a very good example. Fashion's a little less hard to pick apart amidst the season's change of fashion obsessions so I won't speak of any direct threat there. Honestly I doubt I could pick those things out if I tried. And, though it seems to have taken them a while, I've heard the RIAA finally has a band calling themselves "gothic" that they're parading around MTV.
Some might be happy to be rid of us. Indeed there's a great many selfish people who can't see beyond their own form of living. To these people I would express my regret that they could not understand what we are. We're nothing more than a culture which holds valuable its traditions and similarities. By departing from mainstream into the gothic subculture I've learned a lot about society. And despite what mainstream sources will tell you, goths, punks, metal-heads, rivet-heads, etc., are NOT anti-cultures. That is to say, we're don't join the groups we do because we oppose mainstream in its entirety. Rather, we join these groups as they better fit our lifestyle. It was easier for me to make friends amongst goths than it was at random.
In any event, here's how it relates to you, the reader, if you're not part of a subculture. I mean, if you're totally mainstream this isn't going to hurt you. Are you christian though? Do you like christian music? Yeah, that won't survive if the RIAA gets its way. Actually anything that mainstream, pop/rock advertising doesn't cover will eventually be destroyed if things continue as they have been.
If you've ever liked something besides pop/rock, I reccomend you invest a bit more in ANY alternative source of music. Be it web distribution, independant labels, classic radio stations, whatever. Support everything that isn't mainstream.
It sounded more like 5% hackers going "Oh yeah?" and 95% script kiddies scratching their heads...
Actually, BSD would be a poor example. The only reasons the BSDs remain free is because there remains free versions out there. There's someone willing to maintain a free version. But by the very nature of the BSD license a company can take BSD close the source, make changes (or not) and sell it to consumers for a very pretty penny (usually embedded in hardware). The BSD license does not force anybody to keep their copy open-source, nor does it force them to distribute the work they put into it for free. This is the difference between Free-source and Open-source.
Which is precisely why I'll begrudgingly buy the new NVIDIA and ATI cards, but secretly wish the Matrox Parhelia had lived up to its promises. I mean, quake across two screens SOUNDS cool, til you realize the crosshair is going to be split in two...
I intend to whole-heartedly support this petition.
However I don't think it will pass. I doubt if those $1.00 bills coming from all the companies and people that retain the copyrights would cover the cost of rechecking every copyright for its applicability every year.
Of course, I don't understand the infrastructure of the copyright office, but I imagine the passing of such an act would require the addition of many new employees and probably more funding in general, which this one dollar scheme will not cover.
Yet, I wouldn't mind seeing my tax money go to fund this positive movement for the regulation of the copyright mess we're in now. So, like I said, I'll still support it. Just doubt it would make it no matter how much support it gets.
Hah! I just scanned 127.0.0.1 and all your ports are open, prepare for the system halt of your life!
Oh and we all make websites about Linux and Mozilla anyway right? ...right?
You can count me amongst those who feel that television and radio are worthless.
Companies have completely forgotten that there are SOME customers who absolutely do not make impulse buys and will come to them when they are good and ready, and only if they have a superior product.
*shakes fist* Stop making me trust you! Must wait for ogg-vorbis support... contain... geeky... demon...
There was a big gap between the 0.5 release and the 0.6 release, where the nightly builds had most of 0.6's features. My programmer friend and I were working off the nightly builds and found them to be just as stable as most other software's beta tests. So to woo my friends into using phoenix I ignored common sense and focused on features, you could say I pulled a microsoft, and set them up with a nightly build my friend and I had recorded as being mostly stable.
That build still works today in some environments but about 25% of my friends have recieved a newer build that hasn't given them any problems since (The 0.6 nightlies didn't like Win98 SE for a time).
The nature of "nightly builds" was described to them. They understood that there was a 0.001% chance that a nightly build would format their hard drive and noone would be able to do anything to help them. They were willing to take the risk. And they came to appreciate the openness of phoenix in this respect. They tend to take my word on others. =)
Half a year ago I got into phoenix, me being a web designer and having NO experience with Linux. Today all my non-technical friends have been introduced to, and now use phoenix EXCLUSIVELY. If it breaks (which happens, I set them up with nightly builds usually) they demand that I fix it IMMEDIATELY. It's not just a component of an operating system to them anymore, they see the value in a good browser and they value phoenix.
OpenSource really is a grass roots things. And just like grass, you can step on it but it will still grow.
Holy crap! I forgot all about that! ...
Ugh you people run me up a fortune in tin foil.
The reviewers wouldn't have let through an unofficial "discounts on cool open-architecture hardware for all /.ers" article. You really can't blame him if he is the anonymous reader.
As much as this guy makes me want to trust him, I promised myself, my ogg vorbis collection, and xiph that I would buy the first player to support ogg vorbis. While it seems Neuros will be the first, there's still a small chance that iRiver could come out of nowhere with it. Those iRiver people are pretty smart too, afterall.
So on a WASTE system you accept public keys from applicants to your network? Well if that's the case then just a general discerning eye should be acceptable, as long as you trust everyone on the network to scrutinize as you do, which I would. Thanks a lot for the info.
...and just like a light bulb powering itself illuminating the surface of an attached photovoltaic cell, you'll get more processing power with knoppix clustering with knoppix inside of virtual machines... ...Someone had to say it!
So that's a "no" to Debian?
Hmph, now I wish Debian had a mascot so that I could claim you made him cry.
But if I've trained my friends in the use of PGP/GPG I could send them my public WASTE key encrypted with their public PGP/GPG key and have a secure exchange right?