Why must some one elses change precipitate a change everywhere?
The wheel is still pretty damn good. Some people might have added rubber, or made is swivel, but the wheel is unchanged.
If the argument is that it is lacking, then I might understand. And when I say lacking, I mean, if I look at the FS by itself, not looking at its neighbors, and am wanting more.
When I say lacking, I do not mean that when compared to some other FS, it doesn't have as many bells and whistles.
Both sides accuse the other of playing catch up. Well don't play catch up, and no one can make that complaint. If an option is truly lacking, then the option will become an obvious solution to the problem space.
There are two boys selling lemonade, one charges $.25 per glass, the other gives it away for free. Wonder who gets my vists?
The one that gives it away for free won't be there for long.
"But information isn't a real item, they aren't losing anything." (I can't inflect enough whine while typing that).
No, information isn't free. Data might be, but then you'd have to go out and collect all that data, and comile it, then draw conclusions on it.
If you want the information for free, do do the research yourself, go interview the storm survivors yourself. Why should I give away my work, or work that I have paid for, for free?
"But the papers could sell service to the consumers of their news...."
You see, one company charges another to carry their call, and the first company, in turn, charges you.
With all this money floating around, coming out of your pocket, these companies are more than glad to route each other's calls. It all happens for a price.
If you don't want to have to worry about 4 different clients, there is always email, with its highly standardized protocols that anyone can route anywhere.
What we really need is a ubiquitous standard like SMTP, for IM. That way, any person can start up their own service, and everyone else could still get the messages. And then a whole new spam threat would emerge, the main downside.
The fact that we need centralized servers to be logged into is part of the core problem. If anyone could set up a server, it wouldn't matter what messages Yahoo would forward to where, someone else won't be such a prick.
Anyone that falls for these scams deserves what they get (ok, not all the scams, but most of them).
The basic premise of these scams is that someone wants you to participate in a scam. Why doesn't anyone focus on this fact. These people are asked to help move money, merchandise, or something else, for larges sums of money, and none of them could even for a moment appear to be legitimate.
No matter who gets taken for what, if they were trying to help somone spirit money away from the countrymen that it was stolen from, they deserve to lose it all.
What about an 80 year old woman on a fixed income? Sure, she should lose it all, she should no better, but in her greed, she was blinded. If you get blinded to basic ethical living by a couple of dollar signs, you deserve to suffer.
Whatever happened to ESR saying he wasn't going to let his new found wealth go to his head. What a pompous ass. Reminds me of a fortune I got the other day (maybe even at the bottom of a/. page)
You seem to have lost sight of the fact that being a communist was, is, and should always be legal in this country.
As it wasn't a crime, people should never have been subjected to the threats, investigations, and persecution the government was promoting.
I do not agree with communism. I would not go to a rally. I don't care if the person next to me has or not. The "communists" in Hollywood were just disenfranchised. They weren't Soviet spies.
I would never turn in my neighbor because of something that wasn't, isn't, and shouldn't be a crime.
So they take the "435 lines" out, or better yet, make them their own library making it no longer entertwined, and no longer have to worry about it.
Once they do that, they can still sell SuSE, with all its GPL'd and proprietrary packages legally. Then they start sueing other distributors, who can't do the same thing.
If the IP is integral to Linux, Novell can create a library that is not GPL'd, and take everyone elses GPL contributions and link it against them. No one else will be able to do this since they don't own the IP, and can't just rewrite it presumably, otherwise that would have been done already.
All they have to do is seperate out their IP into a package, and they are off and running to the courts.
Now the truly paranoid just killed himself as he realizes that they can track his waste in the ladnfill. If you have upset someone sufficiently, they can peer through your entire life with ease.
This totally eliminates having to have a warrant to look through garbage. Just wait until it gets to the dump, and find the bag that has his gillete packaging in it, and find out who has been sending him emails.
I think this is seriously paranoid thinking, but it is definitely a possibility.
The whole problem with them is they stay on your clothing, your shoes, your car tires, etc.
If someone could associate your purchase of a jacket to you, maybe because you used a credit card to make the purchase, then that person or organization could track your movements across the world. The technology used to read the tags is relatively passive. You walk through a doorway with a tag on, and it could be scanned.
This is the fear. It is unclear to me how unique the ID's are, and if they could be used this way.
And as all RMS followers know, as soon as the information is collected, whether it is illegal or not, it will find a way to get into someones hands that you don't want to know it.
Does that mean you can copy all the music you want.
I was wondering that about the tax in Canada for CDR's. If they are charging the tax to pay off the recording industry, does that mean you have just paid your royalties?
His ideas don't jive with the slashdot crowd. Sort of funny, in a way, how the people he attracted have taken his creation in an entirely different direction. Not totally different, but definitely more zealous than the creator.
That comment about what will be cloned next year, if in a comment, would be labeled as flamebait or a troll. I find it refreshing that at least the editors realize certain realities.
One of the main ones is that, yes the linux desktop borrows heavily from MS, and not the other way around, which a lot of people like to proclaim.
The whole deal with the internet and slashdot is anonymity and the right to privacy.
Why would we want to feel more accountable, or care about feeling that way.
Especially when you are talking about the free speach aspect of the internet. Then less accountability is better. I don't want people to know that I just posted that my neighbor is a drug dealer to help get him run out of the complex, especially my well armed neighbor. Granted that is a little contrived, but you get the picture.
Free speach is all about anonymity, or the ability to be anonymous if one wants to be. Without it, most discourse, political discourse especially, would be dead.
Just because an idea or knowledge I have affects you, doesn't immediately give you the right to that information or idea.
Yes, it affects you. Yes, you'd like to know they were dumping into your ground water. And, yes, it is an illegal act. That doesn't mean you have the right to know what I know about that illegal act.
I am not forced to tell you, or anyone else, that I broke the law. Whether that information is in my head, or on paper, you don't have an implicit right to access it.
Sorry, that was to say my diary et al does NOT want to be free.
You may want it to be free, but it doesn't want to be free, and you have no right or expectation to see that type of information that is produced in Office.
And with the example given, you have an expectation that 3M might do somthing about the dumping, but you have no expectation to see such communication.
This is pretty neat development, anyway you look at it.
My question is how many/.'ers will see DRM and Microsoft in the same sentence and immediately start crying foul?
My notes, my diary, my internal memos, or anything else produced in Office wants to be free. You may want to see the memo that says that 3M knows they are causing giant, man eating three eyed frogs because of the waste they are dumping, but it isn't you right to see it.
On another note, if this works properly (big if) you will know that the next Halloween document is a fake.
There were some scenes in attack of the clones that were almost unwatchable because of the digital tricks that were being played.
And we won't even talk about Jar-jar in the first one, since that was so long ago.
I know that most people disagree with me, but I would much rather see a good puppeteer than the digital animations.
And to get back on point, since I don't particularly care to watch digitally enhanced movies, I think it is a good idea to not allow special consideration for this type of situation.
I guess my real opinion lies more with the question: "What do they do with normal animations?" Would the the guy that did the voice of Roger Rabbit been able to be nominated. Digital Animation is still just animation.
My great grandparents were Germans, living in a part of Poland that was heavily populated with other Germans. The Polish government came in, and took their land, unless they changed their names to something more Polish, renounced the Luthern Church, and join the Catholic Church.
They refused, got their land stripped from them, and were loaded on box cars to the soviet union (russia, whatever it was then). Then they had the same thing happen to them in Russia. This was just before the revolution, if I remember correctly.
Other people in our family did change their name, and still live in Poland.
But this is a natural consequence of RMS's philosophy.
Who decides what is private, what should remain private, and what is public information that wants to be free.
Knowing your banking records might make my job as a prosecutor easier. That should be public informations. Knowing that you are courting someone else would allow me not to make a fool out of myself by asking you out, so that should be public information.
this isn't funny, as much as it points to the failure of RMS's thinking. Is he going to be the one that draws the definitive lines?
Can I use the XP chips in my MP motherboard or not?
They had claimed that you shouldn't/couldn't when they first released the XP chips, and charged a little more for the MP chip, but is there a difference?
I have before. It came in useful when X kept locking up, and taking all my VC's with it.
I have also used it to get FreeBSD on my Multia.
I have also used it to access my desktop with my palm and ptelnet. This was a total work of mental masturbation, but I thought the ability would com in handy to access my headless server. I decided I wasn't using the monitor or keyboard for anything anyway, so that idea was scrapped.
I have, and may in the future.
Is there a reason that you can't use USB for a serial terminal? Probably not a dumb terminal, and KVM's are probably cheaper and less of a hassle than using a PC as a terminal for a server, but you never know. I wonder what are the length limitations of a video cable versus a USB cable?
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Why must some one elses change precipitate a change everywhere?
The wheel is still pretty damn good. Some people might have added rubber, or made is swivel, but the wheel is unchanged.
If the argument is that it is lacking, then I might understand. And when I say lacking, I mean, if I look at the FS by itself, not looking at its neighbors, and am wanting more.
When I say lacking, I do not mean that when compared to some other FS, it doesn't have as many bells and whistles.
Both sides accuse the other of playing catch up. Well don't play catch up, and no one can make that complaint. If an option is truly lacking, then the option will become an obvious solution to the problem space.
There are two boys selling lemonade, one charges $.25 per glass, the other gives it away for free. Wonder who gets my vists? The one that gives it away for free won't be there for long. "But information isn't a real item, they aren't losing anything." (I can't inflect enough whine while typing that). No, information isn't free. Data might be, but then you'd have to go out and collect all that data, and comile it, then draw conclusions on it. If you want the information for free, do do the research yourself, go interview the storm survivors yourself. Why should I give away my work, or work that I have paid for, for free? "But the papers could sell service to the consumers of their news...."
You see, one company charges another to carry their call, and the first company, in turn, charges you.
With all this money floating around, coming out of your pocket, these companies are more than glad to route each other's calls. It all happens for a price.
If you don't want to have to worry about 4 different clients, there is always email, with its highly standardized protocols that anyone can route anywhere.
What we really need is a ubiquitous standard like SMTP, for IM. That way, any person can start up their own service, and everyone else could still get the messages. And then a whole new spam threat would emerge, the main downside.
The fact that we need centralized servers to be logged into is part of the core problem. If anyone could set up a server, it wouldn't matter what messages Yahoo would forward to where, someone else won't be such a prick.
Anyone that falls for these scams deserves what they get (ok, not all the scams, but most of them). The basic premise of these scams is that someone wants you to participate in a scam. Why doesn't anyone focus on this fact. These people are asked to help move money, merchandise, or something else, for larges sums of money, and none of them could even for a moment appear to be legitimate. No matter who gets taken for what, if they were trying to help somone spirit money away from the countrymen that it was stolen from, they deserve to lose it all. What about an 80 year old woman on a fixed income? Sure, she should lose it all, she should no better, but in her greed, she was blinded. If you get blinded to basic ethical living by a couple of dollar signs, you deserve to suffer.
If only I had mod points. This is so funny.
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Whatever happened to ESR saying he wasn't going to let his new found wealth go to his head. What a pompous ass. Reminds me of a fortune I got the other day (maybe even at the bottom of a
"Don't be humble... you're not that great."
You seem to have lost sight of the fact that being a communist was, is, and should always be legal in this country.
As it wasn't a crime, people should never have been subjected to the threats, investigations, and persecution the government was promoting.
I do not agree with communism. I would not go to a rally. I don't care if the person next to me has or not. The "communists" in Hollywood were just disenfranchised. They weren't Soviet spies.
I would never turn in my neighbor because of something that wasn't, isn't, and shouldn't be a crime.
There needs to be new moderation categories. Let's start with:
Ignorant, Vague, Paranoid Fear Mongering
and
Legitimate, but ultimately unfounded, concern.
And I think it is obvious what category "these sinister forces" belong in.
"bob, how many joints in a lid."
"Two."
"Two?!?!"
"I roll big joints."
So they take the "435 lines" out, or better yet, make them their own library making it no longer entertwined, and no longer have to worry about it.
Once they do that, they can still sell SuSE, with all its GPL'd and proprietrary packages legally. Then they start sueing other distributors, who can't do the same thing.
If the IP is integral to Linux, Novell can create a library that is not GPL'd, and take everyone elses GPL contributions and link it against them. No one else will be able to do this since they don't own the IP, and can't just rewrite it presumably, otherwise that would have been done already.
All they have to do is seperate out their IP into a package, and they are off and running to the courts.
How did this "Not its not." post written by someone true to their 4 year old roots get an insightful?
Yes it did.
Throw the packaging away, you say?
Now the truly paranoid just killed himself as he realizes that they can track his waste in the ladnfill. If you have upset someone sufficiently, they can peer through your entire life with ease.
This totally eliminates having to have a warrant to look through garbage. Just wait until it gets to the dump, and find the bag that has his gillete packaging in it, and find out who has been sending him emails.
I think this is seriously paranoid thinking, but it is definitely a possibility.
The whole problem with them is they stay on your clothing, your shoes, your car tires, etc.
If someone could associate your purchase of a jacket to you, maybe because you used a credit card to make the purchase, then that person or organization could track your movements across the world. The technology used to read the tags is relatively passive. You walk through a doorway with a tag on, and it could be scanned.
This is the fear. It is unclear to me how unique the ID's are, and if they could be used this way.
And as all RMS followers know, as soon as the information is collected, whether it is illegal or not, it will find a way to get into someones hands that you don't want to know it.
Does that mean you can copy all the music you want.
I was wondering that about the tax in Canada for CDR's. If they are charging the tax to pay off the recording industry, does that mean you have just paid your royalties?
His ideas don't jive with the slashdot crowd. Sort of funny, in a way, how the people he attracted have taken his creation in an entirely different direction. Not totally different, but definitely more zealous than the creator.
That comment about what will be cloned next year, if in a comment, would be labeled as flamebait or a troll. I find it refreshing that at least the editors realize certain realities.
One of the main ones is that, yes the linux desktop borrows heavily from MS, and not the other way around, which a lot of people like to proclaim.
The whole deal with the internet and slashdot is anonymity and the right to privacy. Why would we want to feel more accountable, or care about feeling that way. Especially when you are talking about the free speach aspect of the internet. Then less accountability is better. I don't want people to know that I just posted that my neighbor is a drug dealer to help get him run out of the complex, especially my well armed neighbor. Granted that is a little contrived, but you get the picture. Free speach is all about anonymity, or the ability to be anonymous if one wants to be. Without it, most discourse, political discourse especially, would be dead.
... people will start to believe it.
Just because an idea or knowledge I have affects you, doesn't immediately give you the right to that information or idea.
Yes, it affects you. Yes, you'd like to know they were dumping into your ground water. And, yes, it is an illegal act. That doesn't mean you have the right to know what I know about that illegal act.
I am not forced to tell you, or anyone else, that I broke the law. Whether that information is in my head, or on paper, you don't have an implicit right to access it.
Sorry, that was to say my diary et al does NOT want to be free.
You may want it to be free, but it doesn't want to be free, and you have no right or expectation to see that type of information that is produced in Office.
And with the example given, you have an expectation that 3M might do somthing about the dumping, but you have no expectation to see such communication.
This is pretty neat development, anyway you look at it.
/.'ers will see DRM and Microsoft in the same sentence and immediately start crying foul?
My question is how many
My notes, my diary, my internal memos, or anything else produced in Office wants to be free. You may want to see the memo that says that 3M knows they are causing giant, man eating three eyed frogs because of the waste they are dumping, but it isn't you right to see it.
On another note, if this works properly (big if) you will know that the next Halloween document is a fake.
Joe was one of my very first text editors on any Unix box.
I love it. why didn't it get reviewed?
There were some scenes in attack of the clones that were almost unwatchable because of the digital tricks that were being played. And we won't even talk about Jar-jar in the first one, since that was so long ago. I know that most people disagree with me, but I would much rather see a good puppeteer than the digital animations. And to get back on point, since I don't particularly care to watch digitally enhanced movies, I think it is a good idea to not allow special consideration for this type of situation. I guess my real opinion lies more with the question: "What do they do with normal animations?" Would the the guy that did the voice of Roger Rabbit been able to be nominated. Digital Animation is still just animation.
My great grandparents were Germans, living in a part of Poland that was heavily populated with other Germans. The Polish government came in, and took their land, unless they changed their names to something more Polish, renounced the Luthern Church, and join the Catholic Church.
They refused, got their land stripped from them, and were loaded on box cars to the soviet union (russia, whatever it was then). Then they had the same thing happen to them in Russia. This was just before the revolution, if I remember correctly.
Other people in our family did change their name, and still live in Poland.
Which was worth more I wonder?
But this is a natural consequence of RMS's philosophy.
Who decides what is private, what should remain private, and what is public information that wants to be free.
Knowing your banking records might make my job as a prosecutor easier. That should be public informations. Knowing that you are courting someone else would allow me not to make a fool out of myself by asking you out, so that should be public information.
this isn't funny, as much as it points to the failure of RMS's thinking. Is he going to be the one that draws the definitive lines?
Can I use the XP chips in my MP motherboard or not?
They had claimed that you shouldn't/couldn't when they first released the XP chips, and charged a little more for the MP chip, but is there a difference?
I have before. It came in useful when X kept locking up, and taking all my VC's with it.
I have also used it to get FreeBSD on my Multia.
I have also used it to access my desktop with my palm and ptelnet. This was a total work of mental masturbation, but I thought the ability would com in handy to access my headless server. I decided I wasn't using the monitor or keyboard for anything anyway, so that idea was scrapped.
I have, and may in the future.
Is there a reason that you can't use USB for a serial terminal? Probably not a dumb terminal, and KVM's are probably cheaper and less of a hassle than using a PC as a terminal for a server, but you never know. I wonder what are the length limitations of a video cable versus a USB cable?