"If you don't like the idea of tax payer funded wireless internet service then vote in people who share your views."
Democracy is like 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. I have a right to the money I earn. The majority of people don't have the right to take it from me for their pet projects just because they're in the majority.
"Public wireless is like roads and street lights."
No it's not. The argument for cities controlling roads is that it's a large resource that should be controlled by one entity for efficiency. Similar arguments are made for power and phone line. Wireless, on the other hand, lends itself well to competition. New technologies, such as WiMAX, lend themselves well to low cost competitve wireless market.
Muni wireless will kill that, and you'll be left with whatever underfunded half-assed, system your local govt decides is best for you.
" It looks more like a plutocracy with the wealth and power being concentrated in the top few percent of the population. The only direction now is down into despotism."
If this is true, why do the wealthy pay most of the taxes? Because they are a minority. We are headed for socialism, because the average person wants the wealth of this minority, and democracy gives them that power.
"So, if patents are a "good thing" that encourages innovation, why is nokia allowing open source (ie: anyone) to use them for free? As far as I can see, they're contradicting"
Maybe Nokia get something back for free, like software?
"You are entirely wrong. The language of business is strongly based on terms of war: conquest, crush the opposition, gain territory...
Patents are most definitely weapons, using the same language. Patents are used for offense and for defense and are expensive. The patent industry are arms dealers (again, using the same metaphorical language) and the sale of patents, just like the sale of arms, will enable war and violence between those who want and those who have."
At my company we talk about developing and selling products in the free market to make money. Only on/. do people think the above is what business is about. Not surprise the above drivel got modded up here.
I try to install a simple demo on my machine, run it, and get the following: Error: Could not open/dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to correct. Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault] Aborting.
The author complains about some install problems with hardware that sounds like the only hardware on the planet not supported by Windows, and I can't even get Linux software to run under Linux without hassles. I guess Linux is too "resticitive".
"I'm still trying to explain to some of the people I have to support "LOGOFF" and "TURN OFF COMPUTER" are accessed by clicking the START button. It's hard to explain to them why when even I don't get it."
Is it really that hard to understand that you're STARTing the shutdown or logout procedures?
"and most importantly (in my opinion), it's rock solid in its logic... Setting aside for a moment its humorous side, the article makes a honest, clear, and I think compelling case for linux! Right on and congratulations!"
If by rock solid, you mean completely full of spin. You must be easily manipulated.
Although the ex was pretending to be someone else, it was still his account. Yahoo shouldn't just shut down someone's account based on the word of another person. She should have gotten a court order to shut down the account.
"IMO 3mil seems like a reasonable level of compensation for an organization that willfully allowed such level of harassment to continue for months."
So he makes $0 from his act of fraud, but she deserves $3M? He would get a lot more sympathy here, BTW, if he were sharing Star Wars III, instead of her pictures, at which point the consensus would be, he didn't make any money, anyone who really wanted to see the movie would have paid for it, $3000 would be too large of a fine.
Anyway, Yahoo just shutting down someone's account because another person said so without a court order sounds wrong. I thought that was the/. opinion anyway.
"NewsForge (a Slashdot sister site) is carrying a 2-year OpenOffice case-study on a Detroit high school who switched from Windows NT and MS Office 97 to Linux and OpenOffice."
How is going from Office 97 to a knock-off of Office 97 an upgrade?
* how much more postage is going to cost them because secretarial staff can now write more letters per day? Things like this add up and can cost big money that isn't represented in this report.
* Not having to retype old documents means that staff can afford to take more breaks -- That's Lost productive time that I don't see taken into account.
There's lots more, but I have to go to the beach (to get my hair cut -- honest!)."
For something to be funny it should have some basis in truth. You live in a fantasy world if you think OO is better software than MS Office that will magically make people more productive.
"Market forces of the sheer user base would dictate that if this were not so, more spyware would have been ported to Firefox by now. 25 million downloads, right? That's a sizable chunk for any malware vendor, or aspiring intruder, to infiltrate."
If 1 hack hits 90% of the market, spending more money to get a hack for the rest may not be worth the effort even if Firefox has as many holes as IE. Simple economics.
"So, basically, she's suing because Yahoo left the images up for three months after being contacted and asked to take them down. Considering her personal information went along the photos, not acting on the information in a timely fashion is pretty serious, because it helped prolong her harassment.
As for the boyfriend, he should probably be brought up on criminal charges."
But what did Yahoo do that was illegal? Her exboyfriend posted the info. It was his account, even if he used her name. Can Yahoo simply delete accounts because they contain personal info of yours? What's the legal precedent?
" (Proud to be French, country of Freedom and not militarized peace)
Personnal use in the French Law means in the family circle or friends. Typically, it means a presentation in a private room, without paying fees.
It also means that i have the right to copy my cds on my personnal computer, on my hard-disc music player, on my professionnal computers and burn a cd for the player in my car. We also pay charges."
So then you agree with MPAA/RIAA prosecution of file sharers. They don't fit any of your criteria.
"It really is not that difficult to find balance with copyright and fair use. 1. The golden rule should be that you cannot profit off of a copyright with out the copyrights holders permission. This would make it illegal for me to download a music CD and burn my own copies for people at $2 each. 2. Large-scale distribution should be illegal. That can be a little bit of a grey area, however it would not be hard to put in the laws that large-scale distribution is defined as thus "...". Maybe you cannot share a copyrighted work with more than 10 people or something. Or maybe you cannot share a copyrighted work with more than 5 people outside of your immediate family (for those with big families like my brother-in-law who has 15 people in his family, 2 parents, 13 children)."
So then you agree with the MPAA/RIAA in the prosecution of file sharers.
"The trouble is that the Euopean Union has a lot of power held by unelected bureaucrats - in the US corporations had to effectively merge with the GOP and still had to get elected to secure power - they had to take over the entire government system."
Why is it any time a politician agrees with the position of corporate executives, people just assume they've been bribed. I think MS is getting shafted, and no one pays me to think that way. Freedom includes free trade, and this freedom is slipping away with the election of every socialist leader.
"The EU Parliament has 729 members, 201 (Socialist Group) + 42 (Group of the Greens) + 41 (Confederal Group of the European United left) = 284 members = 39% can be considered 'Left'. That's not a majority. Check Members of the European Parliament it yourself.
39% ; in the US of A they call a group that large a 'moral majority' "
All you've shown is that 39% are far left. I doubt the rest of the members are like Republicans.
" Situations like dumping jobs and moving them to the next country only work because unions still act on a local base of country per country... The corporations dont, what we need are global unions which could make a strike on a global or at least on a wider scale. IBM is not hurt by the current strike, but it would be if IBM employess in the US, all over Europe Australia and parts of Asia would go on a strike."
If I live in India, do you think I'm going on strike to protect the wages of someone making ten times the amount I am? Yeah, that sounds like it will work.
I just saw Roger and Me, a Michael Moore film where he criticizes GM for laying off workers in Flint Michigan. He starts the movie showing the place where the UAW had a major victory in the 30s, but didn't seem to see the connection between the union activity and the fact that the plant were being closed in Flint because Mexican workers will do the same job for much less. American and Eurpoean workers have been priced themselves out of the market. To continue receiving these exorbitant salaries, they need to be more productive than people who are willing to work for less.
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"If you don't like the idea of tax payer funded wireless internet service then vote in people who share your views."
Democracy is like 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. I have a right to the money I earn. The majority of people don't have the right to take it from me for their pet projects just because they're in the majority.
"Public wireless is like roads and street lights."
No it's not. The argument for cities controlling roads is that it's a large resource that should be controlled by one entity for efficiency. Similar arguments are made for power and phone line. Wireless, on the other hand, lends itself well to competition. New technologies, such as WiMAX, lend themselves well to low cost competitve wireless market.
Muni wireless will kill that, and you'll be left with whatever underfunded half-assed, system your local govt decides is best for you.
"After the judgement, they dump a ton of cash on both parties and they lobby every bill that may have an impact on their business operations.
They're paying their fine: one congressman at a time."
Sad fact in America, you must pay for economic freedom.
" It looks more like a plutocracy with the wealth and power being concentrated in the top few percent of the population. The only direction now is down into despotism."
If this is true, why do the wealthy pay most of the taxes? Because they are a minority. We are headed for socialism, because the average person wants the wealth of this minority, and democracy gives them that power.
Given that the gate length of 1 transistor for VLSI production technologies is currently greater than 800nm.
"So, if patents are a "good thing" that encourages innovation, why is nokia allowing open source (ie: anyone) to use them for free? As far as I can see, they're contradicting"
Maybe Nokia get something back for free, like software?
"You are entirely wrong. The language of business is strongly based on terms of war: conquest, crush the opposition, gain territory...
/. do people think the above is what business is about. Not surprise the above drivel got modded up here.
Patents are most definitely weapons, using the same language. Patents are used for offense and for defense and are expensive. The patent industry are arms dealers (again, using the same metaphorical language) and the sale of patents, just like the sale of arms, will enable war and violence between those who want and those who have."
At my company we talk about developing and selling products in the free market to make money. Only on
I try to install a simple demo on my machine, run it, and get the following: /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps
Error: Could not open
are too resticitive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
section of
to correct.
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.
The author complains about some install problems with hardware that sounds like the only hardware on the planet not supported by Windows, and I can't even get Linux software to run under Linux without hassles. I guess Linux is too "resticitive".
"I'm still trying to explain to some of the people I have to support "LOGOFF" and "TURN OFF COMPUTER" are accessed by clicking the START button. It's hard to explain to them why when even I don't get it."
Is it really that hard to understand that you're STARTing the shutdown or logout procedures?
"and most importantly (in my opinion), it's rock solid in its logic... Setting aside for a moment its humorous side, the article makes a honest, clear, and I think compelling case for linux! Right on and congratulations!"
If by rock solid, you mean completely full of spin. You must be easily manipulated.
Although the ex was pretending to be someone else, it was still his account. Yahoo shouldn't just shut down someone's account based on the word of another person. She should have gotten a court order to shut down the account.
"IMO 3mil seems like a reasonable level of compensation for an organization that willfully allowed such level of harassment to continue for months."
/. opinion anyway.
So he makes $0 from his act of fraud, but she deserves $3M? He would get a lot more sympathy here, BTW, if he were sharing Star Wars III, instead of her pictures, at which point the consensus would be, he didn't make any money, anyone who really wanted to see the movie would have paid for it, $3000 would be too large of a fine.
Anyway, Yahoo just shutting down someone's account because another person said so without a court order sounds wrong. I thought that was the
"NewsForge (a Slashdot sister site) is carrying a 2-year OpenOffice case-study on a Detroit high school who switched from Windows NT and MS Office 97 to Linux and OpenOffice."
How is going from Office 97 to a knock-off of Office 97 an upgrade?
" Like:
* how much more postage is going to cost them because secretarial staff can now write more letters per day? Things like this add up and can cost big money that isn't represented in this report.
* Not having to retype old documents means that staff can afford to take more breaks -- That's Lost productive time that I don't see taken into account.
There's lots more, but I have to go to the beach (to get my hair cut -- honest!)."
For something to be funny it should have some basis in truth. You live in a fantasy world if you think OO is better software than MS Office that will magically make people more productive.
"Also, I am aware that this was sarcastic, however, a lot of people actually think that way."
/. when some company funded by MS to do a study finds x showing MS is better than OSS.
Yes, like almost everyone on
"Market forces of the sheer user base would dictate that if this were not so, more spyware would have been ported to Firefox by now. 25 million downloads, right? That's a sizable chunk for any malware vendor, or aspiring intruder, to infiltrate."
If 1 hack hits 90% of the market, spending more money to get a hack for the rest may not be worth the effort even if Firefox has as many holes as IE. Simple economics.
"So, basically, she's suing because Yahoo left the images up for three months after being contacted and asked to take them down. Considering her personal information went along the photos, not acting on the information in a timely fashion is pretty serious, because it helped prolong her harassment.
As for the boyfriend, he should probably be brought up on criminal charges."
But what did Yahoo do that was illegal? Her exboyfriend posted the info. It was his account, even if he used her name. Can Yahoo simply delete accounts because they contain personal info of yours? What's the legal precedent?
" (Proud to be French, country of Freedom and not militarized peace)
Personnal use in the French Law means in the family circle or friends. Typically, it means a presentation in a private room, without paying fees.
It also means that i have the right to copy my cds on my personnal computer, on my hard-disc music player, on my professionnal computers and burn a cd for the player in my car. We also pay charges."
So then you agree with MPAA/RIAA prosecution of file sharers. They don't fit any of your criteria.
"It really is not that difficult to find balance with copyright and fair use. 1. The golden rule should be that you cannot profit off of a copyright with out the copyrights holders permission. This would make it illegal for me to download a music CD and burn my own copies for people at $2 each. 2. Large-scale distribution should be illegal. That can be a little bit of a grey area, however it would not be hard to put in the laws that large-scale distribution is defined as thus "...". Maybe you cannot share a copyrighted work with more than 10 people or something. Or maybe you cannot share a copyrighted work with more than 5 people outside of your immediate family (for those with big families like my brother-in-law who has 15 people in his family, 2 parents, 13 children)."
So then you agree with the MPAA/RIAA in the prosecution of file sharers.
"The trouble is that the Euopean Union has a lot of power held by unelected bureaucrats - in the US corporations had to effectively merge with the GOP and still had to get elected to secure power - they had to take over the entire government system."
Why is it any time a politician agrees with the position of corporate executives, people just assume they've been bribed. I think MS is getting shafted, and no one pays me to think that way. Freedom includes free trade, and this freedom is slipping away with the election of every socialist leader.
"The EU Parliament has 729 members, 201 (Socialist Group) + 42 (Group of the Greens) + 41 (Confederal Group of the European United left) = 284 members = 39% can be considered 'Left'. That's not a majority. Check Members of the European Parliament it yourself.
39% ; in the US of A they call a group that large a 'moral majority' "
All you've shown is that 39% are far left. I doubt the rest of the members are like Republicans.
I'ver yet to open an office document of any real commplexity in oo and have it render correctly. Even worse, excel charts are just gone.
Here is a better article from news.com
" Situations like dumping jobs and moving them to the next country only work because unions still act on a local base of country per country... The corporations dont, what we need are global unions which could make a strike on a global or at least on a wider scale. IBM is not hurt by the current strike, but it would be if IBM employess in the US, all over Europe Australia and parts of Asia would go on a strike."
If I live in India, do you think I'm going on strike to protect the wages of someone making ten times the amount I am? Yeah, that sounds like it will work.
I just saw Roger and Me, a Michael Moore film where he criticizes GM for laying off workers in Flint Michigan. He starts the movie showing the place where the UAW had a major victory in the 30s, but didn't seem to see the connection between the union activity and the fact that the plant were being closed in Flint because Mexican workers will do the same job for much less. American and Eurpoean workers have been priced themselves out of the market. To continue receiving these exorbitant salaries, they need to be more productive than people who are willing to work for less.