Aluminum foil plus Clorox equals the salvation of the world's problems. What used to be a silly homemade "hydrogen bomb" can be our key to oil independence from filthy terror sponsoring states like Saudi Arabia.
I am more inclined to believe that serious violence would ensue in controlling replication devices before everything became egalitarian like Star Dreck.
Control of the knowledge of creating the devices and the distribution of the devices would be grounds for some serious bullets flying. Ditto for the transporter--makes terrorism today look like a funny joke. Transport that nuke from 40,000 kilometers away with a one minute timer.
Nice.
I'd rather see stuff like self-driving cars so I can read the paper while stuck in traffic... there are people that are unaware of the fact that this isn't safe and do it anyway--just thought I'd preempt that response.
Agreed. This makes no sense. The people that get any distribution of Linux are a lost cause for Microsoft. Those people aren't going back. The people that don't know much about computers and are buying Linux are being advised by someone they trust that is likely competent in using and teaching Linux.
Ordinary clones are listening to their guru, not any corporation. If the guru/consultant population is moving away from Microsoft, Microsoft is in trouble no matter how much they try to recapture Linux users.
How many people would take advantage of this with honorable intentions of returning to the mother ship? I'd use it for an easy and legal stopgap for the day where 100 percent Linux usage becomes possible.
Note to zealots: it's not there yet.
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Since you have nothing to say, do everybody a favor and shut the hell up. Really, why would a man with no feet have shoes? It might have been funny if you got it right but you didn't. You are, as many/.ers are fond of writing, a fscking pretard.
That's because you can spend it on hospitals.
While 15% of the US GDP goes to the military, only three percent of the EU GDP goes to the military.
The result is that, right or wrong, defense is something that trumps social programs. Europe has social programs as a higher *spending* priority than defense.
Spending is the key word because European governments know that US bases are all over the place to protect them. While you may be delighted if the US leaves Europe (and I would be delighted also), it would cause massive budget priority changes across the continent.
You might have to ask the private sector for that hospital or that upgraded public transit system.
Basically, saying that Europe is better because they build hospitals instead of tanks is a demonstration of ignorance and a troll at best.
Ask Slashdot: A few months ago, we discussed how to buy an aircraft carrier. After a hectic fundraising bid, me and all my "friends" were able to purchase the Brazilian sea whore through PayPal. I thought "Brazilian Sea Whore" was such a rad name that we rechristened it with the name. Unfortunately, now there's a problem. We ran out of food and the situation makes Lord of the Flies look like a comedy. A portion of the crew has broken off into a Klingon language faction and is proposing mutiny. We've descended into cannibalism but we're not sure how to decide who dies first in a fair way for everybody. So my question is this: what do you think about using/. ID numbers in descending order as a valid way of choosing who gets cooked next? While some of the lower ID numbers are pretty fat and would last for weeks, it's probably not a good idea as they would make ideal emergency rations. Not like we don't have an emergency already...
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Settle down, brother. I'm not serious. The parent was making a joke and so was I.
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As if games aren't desensitizing enough... let's train society to be completely calm and at peace while fragging for real. Make today's school shootings look like today's softcore porn--a joke.
Despite your high moderation, you are still a troll. The Chinese have never tried to conquer the world because it is a fundamental aspect of their culture that China is the center of the universe. They have no useful navy. Exactly how do they plan to conquer the world without one? They had a navy only once, in the 1500s, and it dwarfed anything in Europe at the time. The sole purpose of this navy was to sail the world and tell everyone to stay the fuck out of their way. After they felt the mission was accomplished, the navy was dismantled.
Get away from your science fiction books and your fake Seven of Nine porn and try to understand something instead of perpetuating the "ignorant American" stereotype.
Exactly. That's how the system should operate. That's, hopefully, the legacy of Munich. Linux should be about preventing power from concentrating in any one company and fostering competition between and within commercial and free software. I keep arms length from the extreme end of free software because their philosophy doesn't guarantee the future of Linux. Only starting from the viewpoint that Linux creates competition and knocks down barriers to entry is what will convert governments and corporations.
Of course we will have a better industry if it defines itself through its employees but only major league sports have been able to pull that off.
The competitive environment must be reason number one for a free operating system. On the desktop, there is no genuine competitive market. Does anyone honestly believe that Microsoft Office is worth $300 or more?
My view is more along the lines of print publishing. Nothing prevents you from using it or seeing how it's done. There's nothing proprietary about it but if I write something, you aren't allowed to rearrange the ideas or the words if I don't grant that right. There is nothing harsh about that concept. The harsh part comes from the Linux community alienating the people with the power to speed things along.
You might not like it and I might not like it but money makes things happen. You cannot tell companies that OSS is a good idea but they will have to abandon everything they understand in order to benefit from it.
Companies need assurances that they can write software without giving it away. That doesn't remove your right to give software away. That doesn't remove your rights in any capacity. The idea simply allows companies to keep their rights intact as well.
Which company needs a lesson on competition besides Microsoft? Remove their power from the equation, use capitalism instead of fascism and good things will happen for everybody.
The bottom line is that the industry can't continue with expecting people to pay for the operating system. In economic terms, the operating system has a "neighborhood effect" meaning that everyone needs it and it can't be paid for through a typical contract. An example of this is the road system in the US. We indirectly pay for it because everyone pays for it through gas tax. Because everyone pays for it, nobody really pays for it. The roads are kept very well here and nobody goes knocking on my door to demand payment for the next road upgrade.
Where I disagree with you is on piracy. I think the operating system should be free, programming languages should be free and that's it. The point of a free operating system is to foster a competitive environment. Companies still need assurances that they can write software without giving it away. There's no justification for innovation if they can't benefit from the level playing field of Linux.
Piracy of operating systems will end but not piracy itself.
There's no equivalent at all... give the man a break, it was a joke. You are probably the same kind of idiot that thought Tropico made fun of Hispanics while ignoring the huge mountain of games about the Mafia and their "sketchy" culturally institutionalized references to Italians. Get over yourself and lighten up.
Perhaps. However, OSS still needs to get friendlier with names and documentation. It's still not easy for an ordinary clone to install programs on Linux. Provided that they pass that point, they need to know how to use it.
OpenOffice is disappointing because it does not have a word count feature. The sheer number of writers--paid and unpaid--that putz around on the Internet would easily destroy Microsoft's grip on productivity software if it weren't for that major oversight.
Journalists tend to seek objectivity (even if they don't always succeed.) That means OpenOffice's status as free would bring them closer to that ideal standard. Most writers want to achieve an intellectual detachment from their subjects. Unfortunately, a very real world problem like word count will torpedo the transition until it's corrected.
The inefficient use of land and the liberal use of asphalt has turned America into a sterile hell of one 8 lane road after another. I understand that many Europeans are envious of our road system but the envy is misplaced when you have to drive way out to get anywhere or--even worse--you have to sit in traffic for 30 minutes to move four miles. That is reality in South Florida and southern California. I don't think everyone needs a car but the political structure here doesn't want to entertain the concept of public transportation. It's a dirty word or a social program at best.
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Aluminum foil plus Clorox equals the salvation of the world's problems. What used to be a silly homemade "hydrogen bomb" can be our key to oil independence from filthy terror sponsoring states like Saudi Arabia.
I am more inclined to believe that serious violence would ensue in controlling replication devices before everything became egalitarian like Star Dreck.
Control of the knowledge of creating the devices and the distribution of the devices would be grounds for some serious bullets flying. Ditto for the transporter--makes terrorism today look like a funny joke. Transport that nuke from 40,000 kilometers away with a one minute timer.
Nice.
I'd rather see stuff like self-driving cars so I can read the paper while stuck in traffic... there are people that are unaware of the fact that this isn't safe and do it anyway--just thought I'd preempt that response.
Ordinary clones are listening to their guru, not any corporation. If the guru/consultant population is moving away from Microsoft, Microsoft is in trouble no matter how much they try to recapture Linux users.
How many people would take advantage of this with honorable intentions of returning to the mother ship? I'd use it for an easy and legal stopgap for the day where 100 percent Linux usage becomes possible.
Note to zealots: it's not there yet.
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Since you have nothing to say, do everybody a favor and shut the hell up. Really, why would a man with no feet have shoes? It might have been funny if you got it right but you didn't. You are, as many /.ers are fond of writing, a fscking pretard.
That's because you can spend it on hospitals. While 15% of the US GDP goes to the military, only three percent of the EU GDP goes to the military. The result is that, right or wrong, defense is something that trumps social programs. Europe has social programs as a higher *spending* priority than defense. Spending is the key word because European governments know that US bases are all over the place to protect them. While you may be delighted if the US leaves Europe (and I would be delighted also), it would cause massive budget priority changes across the continent. You might have to ask the private sector for that hospital or that upgraded public transit system. Basically, saying that Europe is better because they build hospitals instead of tanks is a demonstration of ignorance and a troll at best.
Ask Slashdot: A few months ago, we discussed how to buy an aircraft carrier. After a hectic fundraising bid, me and all my "friends" were able to purchase the Brazilian sea whore through PayPal. I thought "Brazilian Sea Whore" was such a rad name that we rechristened it with the name. Unfortunately, now there's a problem. We ran out of food and the situation makes Lord of the Flies look like a comedy. A portion of the crew has broken off into a Klingon language faction and is proposing mutiny. We've descended into cannibalism but we're not sure how to decide who dies first in a fair way for everybody. So my question is this: what do you think about using /. ID numbers in descending order as a valid way of choosing who gets cooked next? While some of the lower ID numbers are pretty fat and would last for weeks, it's probably not a good idea as they would make ideal emergency rations. Not like we don't have an emergency already...
Settle down, brother. I'm not serious. The parent was making a joke and so was I.
As if games aren't desensitizing enough... let's train society to be completely calm and at peace while fragging for real. Make today's school shootings look like today's softcore porn--a joke.
And only Wesley had the wherewithal to resist...
Got a link? That sounds cool. Interesting meditation-style applications there.
They're suffering from bad karma. :)
I'm not sure who you are talking to but if you are talking to me, here's your response:
Kamikaze is Japanese meaning "divine wind." It refers to a typhoon that destroyed the Mongolian navy in 1281.
Where is China in your point? Do you even have a point?
Despite your high moderation, you are still a troll. The Chinese have never tried to conquer the world because it is a fundamental aspect of their culture that China is the center of the universe. They have no useful navy. Exactly how do they plan to conquer the world without one? They had a navy only once, in the 1500s, and it dwarfed anything in Europe at the time. The sole purpose of this navy was to sail the world and tell everyone to stay the fuck out of their way. After they felt the mission was accomplished, the navy was dismantled.
Get away from your science fiction books and your fake Seven of Nine porn and try to understand something instead of perpetuating the "ignorant American" stereotype.
There's a reason you posted AC.
Exactly. That's how the system should operate. That's, hopefully, the legacy of Munich. Linux should be about preventing power from concentrating in any one company and fostering competition between and within commercial and free software. I keep arms length from the extreme end of free software because their philosophy doesn't guarantee the future of Linux. Only starting from the viewpoint that Linux creates competition and knocks down barriers to entry is what will convert governments and corporations.
Of course we will have a better industry if it defines itself through its employees but only major league sports have been able to pull that off.
The competitive environment must be reason number one for a free operating system. On the desktop, there is no genuine competitive market. Does anyone honestly believe that Microsoft Office is worth $300 or more?
My view is more along the lines of print publishing. Nothing prevents you from using it or seeing how it's done. There's nothing proprietary about it but if I write something, you aren't allowed to rearrange the ideas or the words if I don't grant that right. There is nothing harsh about that concept. The harsh part comes from the Linux community alienating the people with the power to speed things along.
You might not like it and I might not like it but money makes things happen. You cannot tell companies that OSS is a good idea but they will have to abandon everything they understand in order to benefit from it.
Companies need assurances that they can write software without giving it away. That doesn't remove your right to give software away. That doesn't remove your rights in any capacity. The idea simply allows companies to keep their rights intact as well.
Which company needs a lesson on competition besides Microsoft? Remove their power from the equation, use capitalism instead of fascism and good things will happen for everybody.
The bottom line is that the industry can't continue with expecting people to pay for the operating system. In economic terms, the operating system has a "neighborhood effect" meaning that everyone needs it and it can't be paid for through a typical contract. An example of this is the road system in the US. We indirectly pay for it because everyone pays for it through gas tax. Because everyone pays for it, nobody really pays for it. The roads are kept very well here and nobody goes knocking on my door to demand payment for the next road upgrade.
Where I disagree with you is on piracy. I think the operating system should be free, programming languages should be free and that's it. The point of a free operating system is to foster a competitive environment. Companies still need assurances that they can write software without giving it away. There's no justification for innovation if they can't benefit from the level playing field of Linux.
Piracy of operating systems will end but not piracy itself.
There's no equivalent at all... give the man a break, it was a joke. You are probably the same kind of idiot that thought Tropico made fun of Hispanics while ignoring the huge mountain of games about the Mafia and their "sketchy" culturally institutionalized references to Italians. Get over yourself and lighten up.
Perhaps. However, OSS still needs to get friendlier with names and documentation. It's still not easy for an ordinary clone to install programs on Linux. Provided that they pass that point, they need to know how to use it. OpenOffice is disappointing because it does not have a word count feature. The sheer number of writers--paid and unpaid--that putz around on the Internet would easily destroy Microsoft's grip on productivity software if it weren't for that major oversight. Journalists tend to seek objectivity (even if they don't always succeed.) That means OpenOffice's status as free would bring them closer to that ideal standard. Most writers want to achieve an intellectual detachment from their subjects. Unfortunately, a very real world problem like word count will torpedo the transition until it's corrected.
You mean Carter was cool?
It will come out right after they can fuel it with chicken shit.
Perpetrated by the letter H and the number 5!
Up yours, flame boy.
The inefficient use of land and the liberal use of asphalt has turned America into a sterile hell of one 8 lane road after another. I understand that many Europeans are envious of our road system but the envy is misplaced when you have to drive way out to get anywhere or--even worse--you have to sit in traffic for 30 minutes to move four miles. That is reality in South Florida and southern California. I don't think everyone needs a car but the political structure here doesn't want to entertain the concept of public transportation. It's a dirty word or a social program at best.
Yes. I specifically recall Gandalf or whoever the narrator was talk about the "meeting of the nine races." Feel free to comment.