Create the TLD (preferrably.xxx to indicate an "adult" nature, as opposed to.sex which indicates, well, sex. Not all "adult" material is sex). Encourage the porn community to use this new TLD. Let them keep their.coms,.org(ie)s, and.nets. But encourage them to have those domains forward to the.xxx domain. There are responsible site owners in the community. If a.xxx domain suggesst to the potential customer that the site is more legitimate with its business that will create a competitive edge for.xxx domain businesses.
If it doesn't take, maybe then we can discuss this mandate.
Essentially, give them the freagging tool and see if they take to it before forcing them to use it. What ever happened to the "graded-approach?"
Precisely, ObviousGuy. He's using license agreements registered with "a qualified third party" (creativecommons.org) so that the "broad concepts of [the artist's] creativity spur others on to additional creativity."
Getting developers to develop for Gnu/Linux isn't hard. They'll do it automatically when gamers want Gnu/Linux support. What we need to do is figure out a way to get gamers to desire Gnu/Linux support.
It's not going to be a one-step process either, we're really going to have to work at it.
One way is resources. Suppose the major distros could have a "mode" dedicated to fullscreen OpenGL games. With generally more effecient use of resources in Gnu/Linux as opposed to windows the guys that just have to have that extra 3 frames per second will find it in Gnu/Linux. There's always a small percentage of players that are competing for maximum FPS no matter how useless a pissing contest it is. If all the people winning that contest are running Gnu/Linux, more of those types will turn towards Gnu/Linux since it becomes a necessary tool to compete.
Often games are released on Gnu/Linux as a server only version, no playable client. A lot of server maintainers choose the Gnu/Linux server over the windows server because of stability and features. Gnu/Linux servers often end up with more features.
That's the thing. If we already have this fantastic environment for developers, then why are we worrying about the developers? Get the gamers over here. Let's not forget that one of the massive drivers behind the gaming industry's profit is the fact that games are competitive. If we really want Gnu/Linux to be a viable gaming platform, by attracting developers, which are attracted by gamers, then what do we have to do?
The answer is so simple I shouldn't even have to write this length of a post.
The answer is we must use Gnu/Linux to give gamers a competetive edge on the games we _DO_ have.
If we can do that, they'll come. And they'll bring their friends.
Then we just keep doing that, for every game we get, until we have all of them.
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The political maneuvering that happens at academic institutions is far more vicious than most anything that happens in Washington."
Now I don't mean to offend, but, isn't it possible you merely think this because you have more experience in academics?
I mean, from my own perspective, I would rate the politics at my place of business as worse than politicians politics. However, stepping outside my personal experience, I tend to think Washington would really be worse.
Is this conversation serious? Are we really arguing about whether or not a particular group might be more politically motivated than a group of politicians?
Go ahead little slashdotters and mock this platform. Before you know it you'll have the Tablet PC worth so little I'll be paying the half-price for a non-convertable system with equivalent specs.
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What I've been wondering is if anyone has read any of the literature regarding OpenBSD's methodology. I recally it being expressly mentioned that they would rather have the machine crash than have it rooted.
Which is a good idea if you cannot risk a break-in. They try to break-in, you crash, and now you're in a more secure state (off) than you were when they attacked you.
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You got us. It was fixed about two and a half hours after you heard about it...
I know it's nitpicking, but if God can be referred to by so many names, why can't the soul? Many different Native American beliefs include a spirit within us that fits the description of a soul rather well. Many pagans, as well, believe there to be something within us which exceeds physical boundries, and moves elsewhere after death.
Nonetheless, your inquery is still just as valid. Supported, even, by some/most Native American beliefs. Your spirit is definately on lease from the planet.
And I believe it's very logical to believe as such. It's so easy to believe that there's a little piece of infinity in all of us. Easier still to believe that it does not belong to us.
So they give this "loan" to the artists for recording, buying equipment, eating, etc. And, presumably, when this finite amount of money which IS compounding interest is finally paid off the artists will begin to recieve a significant cut right?
Do you understand the nature of this "loan?" Do you know what else this money covers? Let me tell you, it also covers advertising. Do the artists have control over this advertising, how much of it is done, who it's advertised to, where it's advertised at? No, of course not. So, as the band gets more popular the label takes more money to get their faces plastered everywhere and the band loses that cash too...
To actually make a fair amount of cash in an RIAA label you have to be so freaggin popular that the rate at which you acquire money must be faster than a multi-million dollar conglomerate can spend it.
Let's not fool ourselves into believing the artists deserve this punishment incurred by their "debt."
You know, seeing someone hold a conversation on a cellphone in public, like at a restaurant somewhere, doesn't bother me so much. What bothers me is seeing their friend/date sitting there alone, with noone to talk to...
By making it known, on a high profile website, what software is currently being used in violation of the GPL, the open-source community must now see to it that these violations desist.
If we do not, this will set a social precedent that will let underhanded companies know they are free to violate the Gnu General Public License with your program at the very least, if not most programs where the copyright isn't owned by FSF.
Now I just wait for all the businesses to evaluate their web designers and figure out that they don't have anyone that can write good, clean, cross-platform compatible, markup that doesn't rely on senseless bullshit.
Only a matter of time before the job offers start pouring in for real web designers...
I had the same problem my first time through. Want to know what I, a Windows user that had never touched Linux previous to this did? I skipped that step.
It IS tricky because when you exit that stage of the setup it will bring you back to a point in the install where it wants you to configure the network card (because you haven't yet). However, there are alternate steps listed below the default that you can take...
But then this was Debian Woody, maybe you were on an older distro with a crappier installer...
I dunno, the installer isn't difficult, just very very different from what people are used to.
Someone buy Darl a copy of the Linux 2.4 Poster with a little sticky note describing how microscopic sixty pages is compared to the rest of the kernel before he embarrases himself!
Awe... too late.
Well, guess it's time to start tracing the commits back to SCO employees... or dispute the contract between SCO and Novell... or let IBM spank them with patent infringement... Or... well... yeah I really wish I'd have shorted their stock at $20 right now...
No... no... I think the terrorists killing a few thousand people was punishment enough to the American public. I don't see any reason the government should jump in and fuck the rest of us still alive.
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Which is why it's so popular for a sizable percentage of people.
Create the TLD (preferrably .xxx to indicate an "adult" nature, as opposed to .sex which indicates, well, sex. Not all "adult" material is sex). Encourage the porn community to use this new TLD. Let them keep their .coms, .org(ie)s, and .nets. But encourage them to have those domains forward to the .xxx domain. There are responsible site owners in the community. If a .xxx domain suggesst to the potential customer that the site is more legitimate with its business that will create a competitive edge for .xxx domain businesses.
If it doesn't take, maybe then we can discuss this mandate.
Essentially, give them the freagging tool and see if they take to it before forcing them to use it. What ever happened to the "graded-approach?"
Precisely, ObviousGuy. He's using license agreements registered with "a qualified third party" (creativecommons.org) so that the "broad concepts of [the artist's] creativity spur others on to additional creativity."
Getting developers to develop for Gnu/Linux isn't hard. They'll do it automatically when gamers want Gnu/Linux support. What we need to do is figure out a way to get gamers to desire Gnu/Linux support.
It's not going to be a one-step process either, we're really going to have to work at it.
One way is resources. Suppose the major distros could have a "mode" dedicated to fullscreen OpenGL games. With generally more effecient use of resources in Gnu/Linux as opposed to windows the guys that just have to have that extra 3 frames per second will find it in Gnu/Linux. There's always a small percentage of players that are competing for maximum FPS no matter how useless a pissing contest it is. If all the people winning that contest are running Gnu/Linux, more of those types will turn towards Gnu/Linux since it becomes a necessary tool to compete.
Often games are released on Gnu/Linux as a server only version, no playable client. A lot of server maintainers choose the Gnu/Linux server over the windows server because of stability and features. Gnu/Linux servers often end up with more features.
That's the thing. If we already have this fantastic environment for developers, then why are we worrying about the developers? Get the gamers over here. Let's not forget that one of the massive drivers behind the gaming industry's profit is the fact that games are competitive. If we really want Gnu/Linux to be a viable gaming platform, by attracting developers, which are attracted by gamers, then what do we have to do?
The answer is so simple I shouldn't even have to write this length of a post.
The answer is we must use Gnu/Linux to give gamers a competetive edge on the games we _DO_ have.
If we can do that, they'll come. And they'll bring their friends.
Then we just keep doing that, for every game we get, until we have all of them.
Good catch, I knew I was hesitant to jump on this bandwagon for a reason...
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*sniffle*
Now I don't mean to offend, but, isn't it possible you merely think this because you have more experience in academics?
I mean, from my own perspective, I would rate the politics at my place of business as worse than politicians politics. However, stepping outside my personal experience, I tend to think Washington would really be worse.
Is this conversation serious? Are we really arguing about whether or not a particular group might be more politically motivated than a group of politicians?
But I think "+1 Bitter" would be more appropriate in this case.
I simply suggest more torpedos in general.
Yes...
Go ahead little slashdotters and mock this platform. Before you know it you'll have the Tablet PC worth so little I'll be paying the half-price for a non-convertable system with equivalent specs.
What I've been wondering is if anyone has read any of the literature regarding OpenBSD's methodology. I recally it being expressly mentioned that they would rather have the machine crash than have it rooted. Which is a good idea if you cannot risk a break-in. They try to break-in, you crash, and now you're in a more secure state (off) than you were when they attacked you.
You got us. It was fixed about two and a half hours after you heard about it...
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http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=95689&o
*takes a sip of his mountain dew*
We mod you down because we're hippies and your capitalist rants about money offend us.
I know it's nitpicking, but if God can be referred to by so many names, why can't the soul? Many different Native American beliefs include a spirit within us that fits the description of a soul rather well. Many pagans, as well, believe there to be something within us which exceeds physical boundries, and moves elsewhere after death.
Nonetheless, your inquery is still just as valid. Supported, even, by some/most Native American beliefs. Your spirit is definately on lease from the planet.
And I believe it's very logical to believe as such. It's so easy to believe that there's a little piece of infinity in all of us. Easier still to believe that it does not belong to us.
Ri-ight...
So they give this "loan" to the artists for recording, buying equipment, eating, etc. And, presumably, when this finite amount of money which IS compounding interest is finally paid off the artists will begin to recieve a significant cut right?
Do you understand the nature of this "loan?" Do you know what else this money covers? Let me tell you, it also covers advertising. Do the artists have control over this advertising, how much of it is done, who it's advertised to, where it's advertised at? No, of course not. So, as the band gets more popular the label takes more money to get their faces plastered everywhere and the band loses that cash too...
To actually make a fair amount of cash in an RIAA label you have to be so freaggin popular that the rate at which you acquire money must be faster than a multi-million dollar conglomerate can spend it.
Let's not fool ourselves into believing the artists deserve this punishment incurred by their "debt."
You know, seeing someone hold a conversation on a cellphone in public, like at a restaurant somewhere, doesn't bother me so much. What bothers me is seeing their friend/date sitting there alone, with noone to talk to...
I mean... that's just cruel.
By making it known, on a high profile website, what software is currently being used in violation of the GPL, the open-source community must now see to it that these violations desist.
If we do not, this will set a social precedent that will let underhanded companies know they are free to violate the Gnu General Public License with your program at the very least, if not most programs where the copyright isn't owned by FSF.
Now I just wait for all the businesses to evaluate their web designers and figure out that they don't have anyone that can write good, clean, cross-platform compatible, markup that doesn't rely on senseless bullshit.
Only a matter of time before the job offers start pouring in for real web designers...
(yeah, right...)
I had the same problem my first time through. Want to know what I, a Windows user that had never touched Linux previous to this did? I skipped that step.
It IS tricky because when you exit that stage of the setup it will bring you back to a point in the install where it wants you to configure the network card (because you haven't yet). However, there are alternate steps listed below the default that you can take...
But then this was Debian Woody, maybe you were on an older distro with a crappier installer...
I dunno, the installer isn't difficult, just very very different from what people are used to.
Someone buy Darl a copy of the Linux 2.4 Poster with a little sticky note describing how microscopic sixty pages is compared to the rest of the kernel before he embarrases himself! Awe... too late. Well, guess it's time to start tracing the commits back to SCO employees... or dispute the contract between SCO and Novell... or let IBM spank them with patent infringement... Or... well... yeah I really wish I'd have shorted their stock at $20 right now...
Better: what were they smoking, and where can us real rabid-zealots get some?
No... no... I think the terrorists killing a few thousand people was punishment enough to the American public. I don't see any reason the government should jump in and fuck the rest of us still alive.
Journalism? Where?!