Checking for uselesslib... Not found konqueror http://www.google.com & /*search for uselesslib*/ tar xzf useslesslib-0.0.3a.tar.gz cd uselesslib ./configure Checking for stupidlib.... Not found rinse lather repeat
That's a really stupid argument. At least be rational with irrational arguments. I mean sure, I really need 5 different Word clones, none of which successfully open a complete word document...
If anything, Windows users are spoiled because they can click the install button and the program works.
Freedom should also include getting Osama Bin Laden. Or not. He was secondary anyway. We're moving on in our tour... Afghanistan -> Iraq -> (Iran/N. Korea/China). Who's it going to be? Hopefully the next election will get here before the next "conflict."
That's interesting that the UN would pick up LINUX support. It's good, but still surprising. LINUX is a great way to start people on the right track to success, free of restrictions from the likes of Microsoft. Instead, they're only limited (freed?) by the GPL.
At any rate, it's definitely beneficial to provide them with a low cost solution to get up-to-date in the tech world.
Actual quote from linked article: I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue lies there.
Feh, most great minds are. His waning years sound rather like the trials of Kurt Vonnegut. Disillusioned with the fact that his recent literature has not been well recieved, he blames it on the population rather than himself. It's a shame though: Kurt Vonnegut's earlier work was revolutionary, just like Philip K. Dick's writings.
I'm surprised it didn't get "funny." Of all the categories, "Insightful" and "Interesting" describe it least. Some people just don't get high-brow humor these days.:)
At any rate, I'm glad to see those valuable moderator points going to good use...
All DRM is inherently unbeneficial. Systems such as Pallidum only collude the issue by pertorting to offer benefits to the end user. Want to protect your files? Run PGP. Want to prevent other people from reading them? Don't give them to people you don't trust. It's simple.
As for the RIAA, I strongly disagree with their methods and their tactics. But, in the end, they are protecting the companies who fund them. And quests such as not buying CDs in order to protest the RIAA only result in more justification for the RIAA to encourage cracking down.
In my opinion, the only legitimate option that the RIAA is pursuing is litigation. Litigation is where the Copywrite battle is fought, and it should have remained in the first place.
Keep your original goals and objectives in mind.
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Funding Open Source?
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I might let my lack of knowledge show through here, but what exactly are these "annoying little costs that creep up along the way?" It seems to me that coding requires 2 things:
(1) Hard Work
(2) Free Time
I have a slight issue with funding Open Source because it's kind of like Why don't I just buy a license instead? How is donating any different?
As for getting your name out there, make sure your product fulfils a needed gap. If it's a "free" alternative to an expensive product, make sure people who need to use the product are aware of it.
But most of all, if your project was originally merely because you need it, don't let it get out of hand in size and scope. Keep that goal in your mind, and remember that that is your purpose.
As an example, I'm working with a group right now that started out fulfiling a needed gap in the education at my college. But now they're trying to move to being a non-profit company, and raising "investment capital." Don't ask about the how some people on the project think those entities can co-exist. The truth is, it's tough for them to. And the project is starting to grow exponentially before it's ready, and the original goal of fulfilling the gap in the education is now second priority to making money.
20% isn't so easy to do. It's a nice ideal, but the Mac has been "supposed to take over" for almost 20 years now. True, it is less open (but in my open a nice balance of openess and closedness) than LINUX, and LINUX has that going for it. But the a large issue with LINUX is that it's hard to get away selling non-open source software on LINUX. Developers won't be able to afford to ignore 20% of the users IF LINUX gets there, but they also won't be able to afford to give their software away for free, and donations are just perplexing in logic. --
In other news, I'm on a search for moderators that are good. The only worthwile moderation on my parent post above is "overrated." It is not insightful. It is a classic vapid, Karma Whore comment. I commend you moderators who rated it as such. (Replying is, in my opinion, a much better measure of a useful comment than moderation).
Just as long as my internet works, I don't care. Where I work, we use LINUX, Windows, and Mac OS X (the latter being used only on my machine). There is no liberation of the masses for the masses. They don't care. Two of us are LINUX fans, and the other 10 use windows because they just want to check their email. They don't want to ever touch anything in the command line, and I can't wholly blame them.
LINUX makes sense for the corporate IT infrastructure. The UNIX of old is expensive, and Windows is buggy and (also) expensive. As long as people can get sub-$600 PCs running Windows ME, they will buy them because they simply don't care. And their job and their life has nothing to do with computers other than that everything happens to need computers today. The end all is "If ain't broke, don't fix it." My computer checks my email. And lets me read slashdot.
I am significantly less concerned about the future of Low Power FM than I am about the fact that Clear Channel owns some 70% of the market. I haven't heard decent music on the radio in years, and (coincidentally) I hear the same music in Arizona as I did in Minnesota. Not only do I hear the same music, but I hear the same station names with the same cheesy slogans but with different numbers.
Low Power FM isn't really all that useful because one is almost never in range to hear it. Minneapolis had a LPFM station for a while called The Beat. I lived 5 miles from the station and couldn't hear it. They were unliscensed and subsequently got shut down by the FCC in a well documented media event. The Beat now does a nice internet radio stream. And I think that internet radio has much more potential than LPFM ever will.
The summary is Low Power FM just isn't all that. Internet radio can be all it could have been and more, and allows the user greater control and allows more distrubuters into the fold. This effort would be much better spent protecting internet radio and fighting back against companies such as Clear Channel.
Yahoo is buying Overture to start sandbagging for the oncoming search engine wars. The browser war may have been lost years ago, but the search engine war is just heating up.
The camps are aligning... Who are you going to side with?
The Internet Archive, which I just used minutes ago to find a handy page removed years ago, is an interesting corollary to the Google cache. I often wonder how it has survived thus long without a major lawsuit. It also reminds how crappy the web looked 5 years ago.
At any rate, cache-ing is an important force on the internet, and isn't one that should be limited in any legal way, including litigation.
This may indeed be an attempt to patent "fast user switching" on Panther, but the patent talks about switching personalities on a pen based system. I, for one, would like to be able to tell my PDA to switch between my work persona and my persona persona, and to keep the calendars separate. The mention of that in the application is a new idea that I haven't seen done before, and it's much more intriguing than Apple supposedly trying to hoodwink Microsoft. Here's the relevant line in the application:
[0082] In the example presented in FIGS. 4a and 4b, the hand-held machine is shown to have two personas. In the case of FIG. 4a, the persona is Stephen Capps, professional engineer, while the persona illustrated in FIG. 4b is provided in for Stephen Capps, private citizen. As shown in FIG. 4a, some information associated with Stephen Capps, professional engineer, includes his company affiliation, title in the company, company address, and company phone number. In contrast, his private citizen persona is shown to include his home phone number, and may include such other information as a home address, etc.
I definitely haven't seen either Mac OS X switching or Windows switching do something _that_ useful.
The patent application talks a lot about pen based systems. In fact, it says:
Therefore, it would be desirable to provide some method for quickly and easily changing an entire collection of parameters of relevance to the pen-based computer system when its owner adopts different personas.
I don't know of many pen based systems that Apple still markets...
If you read the actual study, you'll find that there's a whole lot more interpretation than the story linked lets on. One of the main problems I see with the actual study is that it reads like a summary of a study, and repeatedly uses phrases such as "I believe," "all men," and makes vast normative judgments without any scientific data to back it up (the most glaring of which is the assumption that "great" is a universally defined term). Perhaps the best thing to do is compile a list of other classic, non-reference quotes from the study (taken completely out of context, but then again, it's written without context).
Criminal behavior doesn't require any special talent (Or "Genius" in the equation: Productivity = Genius + Effort). This is why I believe.... He then continues to assert that Crime = Effort, when Genius = 0.
In the ancestral environment, most (if not all) competition between men was physical and its potential costs included death an physical injury. Apparantly, he was there.
The same psychological mechanism that compels men to commit crimes also compels them to make great scientific contributions and express their genius in other forms. This also explains why men far outnumber women both in crime and in various expressions of genius. He also contends that the mechanism is the drive to find a mate. Women, therefore, must not be searching for mates. They're waiting to them to come?
There is evidence to show that criminals, whose productivity peaks early, also marry earlier than noncriminals. He earlier asserted that criminals were less intelligent than non criminals. I would say that the earlier marriage could have more to do with the intelligence issue than the criminal issue.
Men who can win the Nobel prize or the Grammy are obviously more capable than those who cannot. These men will, therefore, make better fathers and providers for their offspring, even though their competitive urge will soon decline after marriage and parenthood, and their productivity will fade. Ummm... no comment.
In short, it's a classic example of "correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation." As others here have mentioned, an equally logical explanation is that men marry because they want to settle down, not vice versa as Mr. Kanazawa asserts.
I would assert, with just as much justification as he employs, that the reason why men outnumber women is societally influenced, not evolutionary influenced. Women, throughout history and especially in the time period he studied (1700s, 1800s and 1900s), have very much been forced out of the euro-idealistic scientific field. It's a library study only: the 280 people are based off of a paragraph description of each from The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, and half of his references come from previous publications by himself. The study has no actual research other than reading of literature, and makes far to many assumptions that have multiple possible readings to be of any value, other then to highlight how misogyny and shoddy research still makes its way to serious discussion.
Would it be considered legal to download a translation if they had already purchased the english version?
We use that reasoning all the time when we 'translate' from our CD's to MP3 or OGG?
In my opinion, I'd say no, you don't have a license to a book you didn't buy. You own the English version, but the English version is not the Czech version. See above.
As for the CD to MP3/OGG (I'll assume it was a question from the question mark at the end:-), I'll write up this comparison:
Human Hours invested in "translating" CD to MP3: 0 Human Hours invested in translating Harry Potter to German: >1000
I think that about sums up the answer to that question. You might have a right to read the Google translation.
It's no wonder why Apple didn't reply, look at the subject of the email sent to Apple: "forgot your screensaver
password ?? Hackit anyway." Must have been Jeff K reporting the bug.
In other news, a similar bug has been an issue on the Mac OS X version of Folding@Home. The screen saver crashes when lock screen is activated, and it's been months since I first noticed it, and I've seen it mentioned on the Folding boards, and it still hasn't been fixed. I agree with some of the people on the Macslash forum: Don't rely on screen savers if you have truly sensitive data within in reach of scrupulous characters.
Ever see a 1/10th of a cent? no? then why for the love of Pete price something in terms of a 1/10th of a cent?
I calculated it up once, and they do charge you in 9/10s of a cent per gallon. So, if you buy ten gallons, it'll be a penny less than if it wasn't in 9/10s of a cent. They'll round up, of course, on all the ones in between, but it's essentially a "buy 10, get a penny off." A penny saved is a penny earned, my friend.
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You forgot:
That's a really stupid argument. At least be rational with irrational arguments. I mean sure, I really need 5 different Word clones, none of which successfully open a complete word document...
If anything, Windows users are spoiled because they can click the install button and the program works.
Yes, it's fantastic that LINUX is gaining such widespread adoption. The conference attendance increased huge time. Yippie!
Freedom should also include getting Osama Bin Laden. Or not. He was secondary anyway. We're moving on in our tour... Afghanistan -> Iraq -> (Iran/N. Korea/China). Who's it going to be? Hopefully the next election will get here before the next "conflict."
That's interesting that the UN would pick up LINUX support. It's good, but still surprising. LINUX is a great way to start people on the right track to success, free of restrictions from the likes of Microsoft. Instead, they're only limited (freed?) by the GPL.
At any rate, it's definitely beneficial to provide them with a low cost solution to get up-to-date in the tech world.
blasphemy! thats not what the KV interview is about at all.
Ahh, yes, an unfortunate error. The correct, pertinent interview can be found at Salon.
I've begun to notice that ACs seem to do better at moderating than most moderators do. God bless the AC.
Actual quote from linked article:
I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue lies there.
Feh, most great minds are. His waning years sound rather like the trials of Kurt Vonnegut. Disillusioned with the fact that his recent literature has not been well recieved, he blames it on the population rather than himself. It's a shame though: Kurt Vonnegut's earlier work was revolutionary, just like Philip K. Dick's writings.
I'm surprised it didn't get "funny." Of all the categories, "Insightful" and "Interesting" describe it least. Some people just don't get high-brow humor these days. :)
At any rate, I'm glad to see those valuable moderator points going to good use...
Does anyone care? If someone wants to spend $250 on a virtual light dildo (err, I mean saber), let them. It's their money.
All DRM is inherently unbeneficial. Systems such as Pallidum only collude the issue by pertorting to offer benefits to the end user. Want to protect your files? Run PGP. Want to prevent other people from reading them? Don't give them to people you don't trust. It's simple.
As for the RIAA, I strongly disagree with their methods and their tactics. But, in the end, they are protecting the companies who fund them. And quests such as not buying CDs in order to protest the RIAA only result in more justification for the RIAA to encourage cracking down.
In my opinion, the only legitimate option that the RIAA is pursuing is litigation. Litigation is where the Copywrite battle is fought, and it should have remained in the first place.
I might let my lack of knowledge show through here, but what exactly are these "annoying little costs that creep up along the way?" It seems to me that coding requires 2 things:
(1) Hard Work
(2) Free Time
I have a slight issue with funding Open Source because it's kind of like Why don't I just buy a license instead? How is donating any different?
As for getting your name out there, make sure your product fulfils a needed gap. If it's a "free" alternative to an expensive product, make sure people who need to use the product are aware of it.
But most of all, if your project was originally merely because you need it, don't let it get out of hand in size and scope. Keep that goal in your mind, and remember that that is your purpose.
As an example, I'm working with a group right now that started out fulfiling a needed gap in the education at my college. But now they're trying to move to being a non-profit company, and raising "investment capital." Don't ask about the how some people on the project think those entities can co-exist. The truth is, it's tough for them to. And the project is starting to grow exponentially before it's ready, and the original goal of fulfilling the gap in the education is now second priority to making money.
20% isn't so easy to do. It's a nice ideal, but the Mac has been "supposed to take over" for almost 20 years now. True, it is less open (but in my open a nice balance of openess and closedness) than LINUX, and LINUX has that going for it. But the a large issue with LINUX is that it's hard to get away selling non-open source software on LINUX. Developers won't be able to afford to ignore 20% of the users IF LINUX gets there, but they also won't be able to afford to give their software away for free, and donations are just perplexing in logic.
--
In other news, I'm on a search for moderators that are good. The only worthwile moderation on my parent post above is "overrated." It is not insightful. It is a classic vapid, Karma Whore comment. I commend you moderators who rated it as such. (Replying is, in my opinion, a much better measure of a useful comment than moderation).
Just as long as my internet works, I don't care. Where I work, we use LINUX, Windows, and Mac OS X (the latter being used only on my machine). There is no liberation of the masses for the masses. They don't care. Two of us are LINUX fans, and the other 10 use windows because they just want to check their email. They don't want to ever touch anything in the command line, and I can't wholly blame them.
LINUX makes sense for the corporate IT infrastructure. The UNIX of old is expensive, and Windows is buggy and (also) expensive. As long as people can get sub-$600 PCs running Windows ME, they will buy them because they simply don't care. And their job and their life has nothing to do with computers other than that everything happens to need computers today. The end all is "If ain't broke, don't fix it." My computer checks my email. And lets me read slashdot.
I am significantly less concerned about the future of Low Power FM than I am about the fact that Clear Channel owns some 70% of the market. I haven't heard decent music on the radio in years, and (coincidentally) I hear the same music in Arizona as I did in Minnesota. Not only do I hear the same music, but I hear the same station names with the same cheesy slogans but with different numbers.
Low Power FM isn't really all that useful because one is almost never in range to hear it. Minneapolis had a LPFM station for a while called The Beat. I lived 5 miles from the station and couldn't hear it. They were unliscensed and subsequently got shut down by the FCC in a well documented media event. The Beat now does a nice internet radio stream. And I think that internet radio has much more potential than LPFM ever will.
The summary is Low Power FM just isn't all that. Internet radio can be all it could have been and more, and allows the user greater control and allows more distrubuters into the fold. This effort would be much better spent protecting internet radio and fighting back against companies such as Clear Channel.
Yahoo is buying Overture to start sandbagging for the oncoming search engine wars. The browser war may have been lost years ago, but the search engine war is just heating up. The camps are aligning... Who are you going to side with?
The Internet Archive, which I just used minutes ago to find a handy page removed years ago, is an interesting corollary to the Google cache. I often wonder how it has survived thus long without a major lawsuit. It also reminds how crappy the web looked 5 years ago.
At any rate, cache-ing is an important force on the internet, and isn't one that should be limited in any legal way, including litigation.
Mac OS X method:
Step 1: Select new user from the login menu.
Comment: Grandma and Grandpa can handle that.
LINUX method:
Steps 1-26: Linked in parent. 3 pages long.
Comment: Grandma asks: "What's a gdm.conf file?".
This may indeed be an attempt to patent "fast user switching" on Panther, but the patent talks about switching personalities on a pen based system. I, for one, would like to be able to tell my PDA to switch between my work persona and my persona persona, and to keep the calendars separate. The mention of that in the application is a new idea that I haven't seen done before, and it's much more intriguing than Apple supposedly trying to hoodwink Microsoft. Here's the relevant line in the application:
[0082] In the example presented in FIGS. 4a and 4b, the hand-held machine is shown to have two personas. In the case of FIG. 4a, the persona is Stephen Capps, professional engineer, while the persona illustrated in FIG. 4b is provided in for Stephen Capps, private citizen. As shown in FIG. 4a, some information associated with Stephen Capps, professional engineer, includes his company affiliation, title in the company, company address, and company phone number. In contrast, his private citizen persona is shown to include his home phone number, and may include such other information as a home address, etc.
I definitely haven't seen either Mac OS X switching or Windows switching do something _that_ useful.
The patent application talks a lot about pen based systems. In fact, it says:
Therefore, it would be desirable to provide some method for quickly and easily changing an entire collection of parameters of relevance to the pen-based computer system when its owner adopts different personas.
I don't know of many pen based systems that Apple still markets...
If you read the actual study, you'll find that there's a whole lot more interpretation than the story linked lets on. One of the main problems I see with the actual study is that it reads like a summary of a study, and repeatedly uses phrases such as "I believe," "all men," and makes vast normative judgments without any scientific data to back it up (the most glaring of which is the assumption that "great" is a universally defined term). Perhaps the best thing to do is compile a list of other classic, non-reference quotes from the study (taken completely out of context, but then again, it's written without context).
Criminal behavior doesn't require any special talent (Or "Genius" in the equation: Productivity = Genius + Effort). This is why I believe....
He then continues to assert that Crime = Effort, when Genius = 0.
In the ancestral environment, most (if not all) competition between men was physical and its potential costs included death an physical injury.
Apparantly, he was there.
The same psychological mechanism that compels men to commit crimes also compels them to make great scientific contributions and express their genius in other forms. This also explains why men far outnumber women both in crime and in various expressions of genius.
He also contends that the mechanism is the drive to find a mate. Women, therefore, must not be searching for mates. They're waiting to them to come?
There is evidence to show that criminals, whose productivity peaks early, also marry earlier than noncriminals.
He earlier asserted that criminals were less intelligent than non criminals. I would say that the earlier marriage could have more to do with the intelligence issue than the criminal issue.
Men who can win the Nobel prize or the Grammy are obviously more capable than those who cannot. These men will, therefore, make better fathers and providers for their offspring, even though their competitive urge will soon decline after marriage and parenthood, and their productivity will fade.
Ummm... no comment.
In short, it's a classic example of "correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation." As others here have mentioned, an equally logical explanation is that men marry because they want to settle down, not vice versa as Mr. Kanazawa asserts.
I would assert, with just as much justification as he employs, that the reason why men outnumber women is societally influenced, not evolutionary influenced. Women, throughout history and especially in the time period he studied (1700s, 1800s and 1900s), have very much been forced out of the euro-idealistic scientific field. It's a library study only: the 280 people are based off of a paragraph description of each from The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, and half of his references come from previous publications by himself. The study has no actual research other than reading of literature, and makes far to many assumptions that have multiple possible readings to be of any value, other then to highlight how misogyny and shoddy research still makes its way to serious discussion.
Would it be considered legal to download a translation if they had already purchased the english version?
:-), I'll write up this comparison:
We use that reasoning all the time when we 'translate' from our CD's to MP3 or OGG?
In my opinion, I'd say no, you don't have a license to a book you didn't buy. You own the English version, but the English version is not the Czech version. See above.
As for the CD to MP3/OGG (I'll assume it was a question from the question mark at the end
Human Hours invested in "translating" CD to MP3: 0
Human Hours invested in translating Harry Potter to German: >1000
I think that about sums up the answer to that question. You might have a right to read the Google translation.
Ah jeez, that link's completely wrong. That's too bad, because it's the best site ever: Jeff K.
It's no wonder why Apple didn't reply, look at the subject of the email sent to Apple: "forgot your screensaver password ?? Hackit anyway." Must have been Jeff K reporting the bug.
In other news, a similar bug has been an issue on the Mac OS X version of Folding@Home. The screen saver crashes when lock screen is activated, and it's been months since I first noticed it, and I've seen it mentioned on the Folding boards, and it still hasn't been fixed. I agree with some of the people on the Macslash forum: Don't rely on screen savers if you have truly sensitive data within in reach of scrupulous characters.
Discover how to find the square root of a negative and I'll make sure you become the most famous person in human history.
Imaginary numbers? That's the way to solve everything: When in doubt, make it up.
Ever see a 1/10th of a cent? no? then why for the love of Pete price something in terms of a 1/10th of a cent? I calculated it up once, and they do charge you in 9/10s of a cent per gallon. So, if you buy ten gallons, it'll be a penny less than if it wasn't in 9/10s of a cent. They'll round up, of course, on all the ones in between, but it's essentially a "buy 10, get a penny off." A penny saved is a penny earned, my friend.