and move to Australia, to get placed under house arrest for sedition...
or move to the UK, where the government has decided they have to track every car on the road at all times.
This is a worldwide problem of encroaching tyrannies, it's not as simple as packing a bag and going to a less insane place.
I've only got Macs, and there's no Mac version... I can't justify spending all the money on a computer just for a game, but the Xbox360 might have other worthwhile titles.
There's only one game I'm interested in seeing for the 360, and that's TES IV. If that's not a world-beater of a game, I'm waiting for my PS3 (getting the Rev at launch is a matter of course)
Nintendo is part owner of the Pokemon company, but it is not a true subsidiary, it's a joint venture owned by Nintendo and several other companies who had ownership interest in some facet of the franchise.
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Since they weren't really keeping up with current versions of IE this isn't a huge deal... it's not like your copy of IE5 is going to stop working.
I'm a web developer, and by and large I just try to do things in a reasonable way and avoid confusing tricks that might get wonky on poor implementations. I've only ever run into one issue with IE doing this, and that was specific to the Mac 9.x verison.
LA's Napoleanic Code-based legal system is completely insane anyhow. The city could just as easily seize the building in question, claim right to use without right to ownership, and not have to pay a dime for it. That's actually how NO plans to quarter a lot of their police (in individual homes).
Bellsouth made two mistakes: making such an offer in the first place and then picking a bad time to go back on it .
The correct time to angrily rescind the offer was the day when that video broke of the New Orleans police beating that old man and threatening bystanders.
I'm white and male and I've gone through all sorts of discrimination. In college I was turned down for a research opportunity because the institute in question "was only accepting women and minorities at this time". After college I twice had my resume rejected by companies because they were "seeking to add diversity to the workplace". Hell, just a couple of weeks ago I asked a white girl out, and she told me she "doesn't date white guys".
I see all the doors closing, and I've heard time and again that it's more than off-set by some of the other stuff. Seems like you've had a similar experience so I was wondering:
When does all this other stuff come in that gives me a net advantage? I'm pushing 30, and I still see no sign of it. Frankly I'm beginning to wonder if I'm not just one of the people destined to be screwed over so some bureaucrat can decide that things are now statistically balanced out. Has our society really given up on the goal of being color blind to the point where the best we can hope for is to screw everybody to a comparable degree?
Actually when you consider how hard the constitution is to amend (and the total lack of provision for a total rewrite) it's significantly easier to just ignore whichever constitutionally-protected freedoms get in the way at any given time. Remember, it's largely the same people violating these rules that are placed in charge of enforcing them.
When did virtually tied begin to mean way, way behind? The video game industry as a whole (which is what we're talking about here by the dollar figures bandied about) has Nintendo far ahead of Microsoft, and indeed right in the same ballpark as Sony. Why does everyone conveniently forget about the 40% of the market called "handhelds" which Nintendo is nearly a monopoly in?
Make no mistake about it: Microsoft is worldwide a distant third, and if we're counting things like pachinko machines and arcade games, they might struggle to compete with the like of Sega-Sammy for that. And they only got that far by subsidizing their hardware costs to the tune of billions of dollars.
That's complete bullshit. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to play video games in class. Admittedly, we didn't have the luxury of wifi when I was a student: back then it was all about Tetris and Frotzing text-based games on my Cassiopeia A-11.
Not every college course is some glorious learning experience that leads to some greater sense of personal worth. Most public universities have some required general education credits where they force students to take classes that are ridiculously easy and not particularly interesting. I never had a blow off class that I didn't blow off... and I never failed to ace the course.
I paid for every last one of my classes myself, and when as a fifth year senior working on my thesis the university thought it'd be fun to stick me in some throw away 100-level communications course with a bunch of incoming freshmen... well, I never got higher scores on Tetris before or since.
OTOH, it's not as though corporations are corrupting an otherwise noble and virtuous government. The politicians sell themselves to the highest bidder, and the corporations contribute to get the politicians off their backs. It's a vicious circle.
Since when does campaign finance reform==freedom of speech?
I think it was about the time when they started considering public speech supporting a candidate a form of "campaign contribution". Why do you think the bloggers needed an exemption in the first place?
Performance is a tangible thing one can measure. You might not like it, but the fact of the matter is Aqua performs better than xfree86. Calling it a troll is assinine. Is it trolling to say that an Athlon 3200+ outperforms a P2 350?
I'm not saying OSX is better than Red Hat as a whole (either is a fine choice), but why shouldn't it be a choice?
The more I hear about this, the less it sounds like an effort to get an affordable, usable computer into the hands of the masses and the more it sounds like a crusade to lock everybody into the platform approved of by the designers.
99.9999% of the people using these computers are never ever going to touch the source code for x, so why lock all of them into that platform if someone else is willing to offer another platform that's well documented, performs well, and is almost universally regarded as one of the best money can buy, at no cost.
How much are you willing to nerf this platform just to keep it religiously pure? As I said before, if you're going to refuse Apple's offer, why not go the extra mile and put a lock-out chip in the system to make sure things like Sun's JDK won't run on it either?
You're right about the performance issues. I'm not sure if OSX would perform acceptably on such a low end system. The RAM might not be the limiting factor though so much as the graphics chip. I'm not entirely up on the specs, but I take it a $100 laptop doesn't have a high-end Radeon in it.
I'm still not convinced open source everything is as big an issue as a lot of you are making though. I mean, these are meant to be computers for schoolchildren after all. They're not meant to be first-and-foremost a developer's system. With OSX or Linux or even OpenBSD, I would think the important thing is that they can use them for school work, and that there's a good collection of development tools.
Whether there's the occasional closed-source device driver, or if the default mail app doesn't come with source code seems like a pretty minor detail.
So is this laptop going to include some sort of lockout chip whereby it will refuse to run any code that doesn't include source? I have to admit I haven't used red hat in a couple of years, but don't they still include, for example, closed source device drivers and a closed source JDK?
Assuming the offer of OSX was going to include a free copy of xcode (which seems reasonable), I don't see where the major difference is. Was the well-documented but closed source nature of Aqua really the deal-breaker? And more importantly, is it really fair to assume that all of the impoverished masses of the world are willing to trade Aqua for an inferior performing, but open source alternative?
Why not offer both, and let the end users decide which they'd rather have? Unless, of course, this isn't really about freedom.
Because a lot of people make their livings censoring speech and keeping "dangerous" information out of the hands of the general public, and the internet makes them sad.
OK, its not like the population was zero 400 years ago. For that matter it's not as if the population was internally created for the most part, people immigrated to the US from all over the world (including China).
Anyhow, I'm not sure population growth in the US was markedly different from anywhere else in the world. China didn't have a billion people thousands of years ago or anything its grown as technology has allowed for it and declined as tyrannies have demanded.
Not to interrupt your entertaining little pissing contest, but what's this "the US is only ~200 years old" business? Its not like 200 years ago the population was zero, or that the population was wholly internally created. The government is only about 200 years old, but if that's the criteria then China is far behind: their government is more like 60 years old.
I agree, this whole telecommuting thing is bullshit. I work from home, I pay taxes accordingly.
I'm not going to pay income tax to every state/nation where some trivial piece of hardware sits that might in some way be affiliated with my job.
Actually that's not at all what the BSD license means by "without restriction". He's not putting registration as a condition on using the software, its a condition on using the service of downloading the files. Anyone is free to mirror the BSD software without the registration, or with a registration of their own, or however they want.
In fact, if the BSD license worked the way you suggest it would be internally inconsistant, because if registration is a restriction, charging for it (something which is explicitly mentioned in the license itself) would be at least as onerous a restruction.
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Odds were good that if you lived in Stalinist Russia you wouldn't wind up in a gulag either... that doesn't mean either was a good idea.
and move to Australia, to get placed under house arrest for sedition... or move to the UK, where the government has decided they have to track every car on the road at all times. This is a worldwide problem of encroaching tyrannies, it's not as simple as packing a bag and going to a less insane place.
I've only got Macs, and there's no Mac version... I can't justify spending all the money on a computer just for a game, but the Xbox360 might have other worthwhile titles.
There's only one game I'm interested in seeing for the 360, and that's TES IV. If that's not a world-beater of a game, I'm waiting for my PS3 (getting the Rev at launch is a matter of course)
Nintendo is part owner of the Pokemon company, but it is not a true subsidiary, it's a joint venture owned by Nintendo and several other companies who had ownership interest in some facet of the franchise.
Since they weren't really keeping up with current versions of IE this isn't a huge deal... it's not like your copy of IE5 is going to stop working.
I'm a web developer, and by and large I just try to do things in a reasonable way and avoid confusing tricks that might get wonky on poor implementations. I've only ever run into one issue with IE doing this, and that was specific to the Mac 9.x verison.
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You forgot the recruits who joined because of the Army's PC game: "This is shit, but the framerate roolz"
LA's Napoleanic Code-based legal system is completely insane anyhow. The city could just as easily seize the building in question, claim right to use without right to ownership, and not have to pay a dime for it. That's actually how NO plans to quarter a lot of their police (in individual homes).
Bellsouth made two mistakes: making such an offer in the first place and then picking a bad time to go back on it .
The correct time to angrily rescind the offer was the day when that video broke of the New Orleans police beating that old man and threatening bystanders.
Can you please elaborate?
I'm white and male and I've gone through all sorts of discrimination. In college I was turned down for a research opportunity because the institute in question "was only accepting women and minorities at this time". After college I twice had my resume rejected by companies because they were "seeking to add diversity to the workplace". Hell, just a couple of weeks ago I asked a white girl out, and she told me she "doesn't date white guys".
I see all the doors closing, and I've heard time and again that it's more than off-set by some of the other stuff. Seems like you've had a similar experience so I was wondering:
When does all this other stuff come in that gives me a net advantage? I'm pushing 30, and I still see no sign of it. Frankly I'm beginning to wonder if I'm not just one of the people destined to be screwed over so some bureaucrat can decide that things are now statistically balanced out. Has our society really given up on the goal of being color blind to the point where the best we can hope for is to screw everybody to a comparable degree?
Actually when you consider how hard the constitution is to amend (and the total lack of provision for a total rewrite) it's significantly easier to just ignore whichever constitutionally-protected freedoms get in the way at any given time. Remember, it's largely the same people violating these rules that are placed in charge of enforcing them.
When did virtually tied begin to mean way, way behind? The video game industry as a whole (which is what we're talking about here by the dollar figures bandied about) has Nintendo far ahead of Microsoft, and indeed right in the same ballpark as Sony. Why does everyone conveniently forget about the 40% of the market called "handhelds" which Nintendo is nearly a monopoly in?
Make no mistake about it: Microsoft is worldwide a distant third, and if we're counting things like pachinko machines and arcade games, they might struggle to compete with the like of Sega-Sammy for that. And they only got that far by subsidizing their hardware costs to the tune of billions of dollars.
Anyone who's paying so little attention to the prof that he has time to notice me not paying attention is in the same boat at any rate.
If the teacher doesn't want people to show up who don't pay attention, he/she shouldn't take attendance in the class.
That's complete bullshit. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to play video games in class. Admittedly, we didn't have the luxury of wifi when I was a student: back then it was all about Tetris and Frotzing text-based games on my Cassiopeia A-11.
Not every college course is some glorious learning experience that leads to some greater sense of personal worth. Most public universities have some required general education credits where they force students to take classes that are ridiculously easy and not particularly interesting. I never had a blow off class that I didn't blow off... and I never failed to ace the course.
I paid for every last one of my classes myself, and when as a fifth year senior working on my thesis the university thought it'd be fun to stick me in some throw away 100-level communications course with a bunch of incoming freshmen... well, I never got higher scores on Tetris before or since.
You'll get no arguments from me there.
OTOH, it's not as though corporations are corrupting an otherwise noble and virtuous government. The politicians sell themselves to the highest bidder, and the corporations contribute to get the politicians off their backs. It's a vicious circle.
Since when does campaign finance reform==freedom of speech?
I think it was about the time when they started considering public speech supporting a candidate a form of "campaign contribution". Why do you think the bloggers needed an exemption in the first place?
Performance is a tangible thing one can measure. You might not like it, but the fact of the matter is Aqua performs better than xfree86. Calling it a troll is assinine. Is it trolling to say that an Athlon 3200+ outperforms a P2 350?
I'm not saying OSX is better than Red Hat as a whole (either is a fine choice), but why shouldn't it be a choice?
The more I hear about this, the less it sounds like an effort to get an affordable, usable computer into the hands of the masses and the more it sounds like a crusade to lock everybody into the platform approved of by the designers.
99.9999% of the people using these computers are never ever going to touch the source code for x, so why lock all of them into that platform if someone else is willing to offer another platform that's well documented, performs well, and is almost universally regarded as one of the best money can buy, at no cost.
How much are you willing to nerf this platform just to keep it religiously pure? As I said before, if you're going to refuse Apple's offer, why not go the extra mile and put a lock-out chip in the system to make sure things like Sun's JDK won't run on it either?
You're right about the performance issues. I'm not sure if OSX would perform acceptably on such a low end system. The RAM might not be the limiting factor though so much as the graphics chip. I'm not entirely up on the specs, but I take it a $100 laptop doesn't have a high-end Radeon in it.
I'm still not convinced open source everything is as big an issue as a lot of you are making though. I mean, these are meant to be computers for schoolchildren after all. They're not meant to be first-and-foremost a developer's system. With OSX or Linux or even OpenBSD, I would think the important thing is that they can use them for school work, and that there's a good collection of development tools.
Whether there's the occasional closed-source device driver, or if the default mail app doesn't come with source code seems like a pretty minor detail.
So is this laptop going to include some sort of lockout chip whereby it will refuse to run any code that doesn't include source? I have to admit I haven't used red hat in a couple of years, but don't they still include, for example, closed source device drivers and a closed source JDK?
Assuming the offer of OSX was going to include a free copy of xcode (which seems reasonable), I don't see where the major difference is. Was the well-documented but closed source nature of Aqua really the deal-breaker? And more importantly, is it really fair to assume that all of the impoverished masses of the world are willing to trade Aqua for an inferior performing, but open source alternative?
Why not offer both, and let the end users decide which they'd rather have? Unless, of course, this isn't really about freedom.
Because they're still trying to figure out how to tie it in to some recruitment campaign.
Because a lot of people make their livings censoring speech and keeping "dangerous" information out of the hands of the general public, and the internet makes them sad.
OK, its not like the population was zero 400 years ago. For that matter it's not as if the population was internally created for the most part, people immigrated to the US from all over the world (including China).
Anyhow, I'm not sure population growth in the US was markedly different from anywhere else in the world. China didn't have a billion people thousands of years ago or anything its grown as technology has allowed for it and declined as tyrannies have demanded.
Not to interrupt your entertaining little pissing contest, but what's this "the US is only ~200 years old" business? Its not like 200 years ago the population was zero, or that the population was wholly internally created. The government is only about 200 years old, but if that's the criteria then China is far behind: their government is more like 60 years old.
I agree, this whole telecommuting thing is bullshit. I work from home, I pay taxes accordingly. I'm not going to pay income tax to every state/nation where some trivial piece of hardware sits that might in some way be affiliated with my job.
Actually that's not at all what the BSD license means by "without restriction". He's not putting registration as a condition on using the software, its a condition on using the service of downloading the files. Anyone is free to mirror the BSD software without the registration, or with a registration of their own, or however they want.
In fact, if the BSD license worked the way you suggest it would be internally inconsistant, because if registration is a restriction, charging for it (something which is explicitly mentioned in the license itself) would be at least as onerous a restruction.