Because ghod forbid a company could actually make money out of its gpl'd contributions to free/os software (yes, all the software mandriva develops into the distro is GPL'd). And, as everyone else has pointed out, you were flat out wrong on the free availability of mandriva.
As for support, I use and always have used mandrivausers.org (was mandrakeusers.org). It has perhaps even better support than the "official" forums, and it's even linked from the mandrivalinux.com website. Mandriva acknowledges it as a free support website.
What's next? Complaining about where to get the docs?
Well, you're one of the few who doesn't like the Crystal theme. I'm not hot for it, but I don't find it "a piece of shit". Actually, if I wasn't able to do my own icon themes (and I am not) I'd watch what I say about them. Who knows, maybe you wouldn't like your own work to be called "What a piece of shit".
So you find Exquisite, Edge and d3a beautiful. Have you thought of filing bug reports on their inclusion into mandriva (or your distro of choice)? Perhaps they have some problems that void their use.
Like, what do I know, Exquisite is just the apple icons, and any commercial distro would be sued to bits if they included them?
Like, d3a has serious usability problems: it's too gray and silver, it's not very readable by people who don't see that well.
Edge is a bit too black n' white for my taste, apart from the fact that it imitates the apple icons too.
So, basically, you want a Mac and OS X. This is Mandriva Linux.
You mean I've been using something else for four years? I mean, my partitions have been reiserfs since I can remember, all the way from at least 'drake 9.2. And it hasn't changed with the latest release: you can choose between ext2, ext3, reiserfs, at the very least. Maybe you were thinking of Fedora?
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Well, if it's intolerable for them, I guess it's definitely intolerable for everyone else. Imagine doing it the other way round: testing it on Seattle citizens. What value would the test have?
Sorry, didn't make all the sense I'd liked there. If we are talking about a court of law, what's the difference between being accused of using a rubber bullet gun or teargas, and this? I mean, they do leave scars, but the justification is the same: "I was trying to control a riot, this person here was out of control, this is standard op. procedure". Ok, the policeman filled him with 20 bullets in a rage, good. But this would be the equivalent of using this new gun excessively to fry his skin, with lasting effects visible.
As for the "tapes and pictures", I mean that in a riot there's usually some kind of media coverage as well... About the "bad guys": a jury can also think that the poor rioters were savaging private property, it depends on how the lawyers speak, I suppose. Bad things can and will be said about both the police and the rioters.
Well, since we _are_ talking about riot handling, I suppose some tapes or pictures of the incidents could be a very good proof. I mean, these weapons won't be invisible themselves, will they? If we are talking about _mis_uses of the weapon, then it's another thing entirely. But then, almost everything can be misused as a weapon, especially a wet towel (no lasting effects, no marks, great pain, etc.).
And as far as I can figure, police are _always_ the bad guys in the eye of the rioters, so I don't think this will make things different.
Actually, I think when at war, the armies prefer to leave enemies wounded rather than killing them. A wounded enemy is both an expense and a cause of low morale for his own side. You have to cure him, he screams, cries, etc. It has a very bad effect on people. Whereas dead is dead, and you don't have to worry about propping him up, bandaging, etc. when under fire.
This raygun is going to get abused even worse than batons and tear gas, because its effects are mostly invisible. So the person leaning on the trigger, farther away from the action, won't be as inhibited by feeling personal responsibility.
Invisible effect? People screaming their guts off, crying and falling to the ground? Excuse me? What would be "invisible" about all that? Or am I taking the words "heating and intolerable pain" the wrong way?
Aha. What's next, complaining that Slack has no graphical configuration tools and a complex installer? Puh-leeze, use a desktop distro or don't complain about it. And no, Debian is not an easy to use desktop distro.
What about the times when you install a stupid program (Warcraft III comes to mind) that saves games in a dir that only an admin can access (if installed as admin)? You're screwed.
A problem here is that since the kernel is not a static entity (growing each day and all) other idiots in the future could argue that modifications had been added after this trial. It's harder, but hey, it's all in a lawyer's day.
As I said, I come from a south-american country. I don't think anybody from the US has any right to speak about "tinpot dictators" after all the military dictatorships the US have supported "in their back garden". Should I forget that the US were nearly the only country (nearly because I don't even remember if anyone else jumped to follow) that acknowledged as valid the coup against Chavez in Venezuela? I prefer an entity where other countries might have a saying.
And as for the US not changing what I can do on the net... I'm not sure, seeing how your president and government behave. The fact that the US people reelected him gives me even less certainty.
"overreaction"? I didn't call anyone names, I didn't tell anyone to "Fsck off!"... I just stated my opinion, of course. What else should I do?
The rest of the world can, and probably will eventually take the matter into its hands, either by using the UN, or by leaving to each country its own administration. I prefer the UN. Some don't.
And the justification is what I stated in the first post: It's not a US business anymore. Things aren't important because of who invented them, but by who is using them. Good for your scientists and engineers, who invented the internet and manage it. You USians profited from the ARPA/Internet first and foremost. But saying "The US is the only state allowed to have a say in a world business" is ridiculous.
The Internet has transcended the US. Now, if you want to have your "USNET", all fine and dandy by me. But don't try to say that the rest of the world doesn't exist. If this was still only a US problem, good. But it isn't. I'm an Argentinian typing this from Italy. I don't want your government telling me what I can or cannot do on the net. I see the UN as a more apt body of governance for these matters, if there is any.
And by the way, those inventions were and are freely available to all. Not just to the US people. You shouldn't think with your gut.
You assume that kids have to be great at their subjects to pass. That's absolutely not true. The idea is to give everyone a solid foundation (at least up to college). That not even that is attained or even tried is sad. And I speak about the Argentinian education system, not about the US one, though I might have fooled you before I said so.
You didn't even read the comments to that article? Many of us thought someone (possibly more than one) in the chain of editing was stoned or dead drunk for letting in that summary and title. So much bs in so little space... The distribution deals Scholastic signs with bookstores have NO RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER with DRM.
Dunno, Hanlon's razor and all, I seriously think someone here must have been stoned to let that shit through. Are/. employing people from the USPTO now?
Well, I'd have to think first about a book for my new gf, her being with me now. As for doing it explicitly "for my ex"... I don't know, I don't think I'd have enough motivation. Plus, I don't know how they'd take it, both current gf and ex.
I'd like to mod you down just for the self-defensive remark about it. But, since I have no mod points...
Tell me, where does bittorrent "promote" piracy? Where are the posters, ads, popup ads promoting bt as a piracy tool? Bittorrent _allows_ one to behave as a digital pirate. Just as a gun _allows_ one to kill people.
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Because ghod forbid a company could actually make money out of its gpl'd contributions to free/os software (yes, all the software mandriva develops into the distro is GPL'd). And, as everyone else has pointed out, you were flat out wrong on the free availability of mandriva.
As for support, I use and always have used mandrivausers.org (was mandrakeusers.org). It has perhaps even better support than the "official" forums, and it's even linked from the mandrivalinux.com website. Mandriva acknowledges it as a free support website.
What's next? Complaining about where to get the docs?
Well, here in Italy you grab your package to ward off bad luck and evil spirits. Dunno why, though.
Well, you're one of the few who doesn't like the Crystal theme. I'm not hot for it, but I don't find it "a piece of shit". Actually, if I wasn't able to do my own icon themes (and I am not) I'd watch what I say about them. Who knows, maybe you wouldn't like your own work to be called "What a piece of shit".
So you find Exquisite, Edge and d3a beautiful. Have you thought of filing bug reports on their inclusion into mandriva (or your distro of choice)? Perhaps they have some problems that void their use.
Like, what do I know, Exquisite is just the apple icons, and any commercial distro would be sued to bits if they included them?
Like, d3a has serious usability problems: it's too gray and silver, it's not very readable by people who don't see that well.
Edge is a bit too black n' white for my taste, apart from the fact that it imitates the apple icons too.
So, basically, you want a Mac and OS X. This is Mandriva Linux.
You mean I've been using something else for four years? I mean, my partitions have been reiserfs since I can remember, all the way from at least 'drake 9.2. And it hasn't changed with the latest release: you can choose between ext2, ext3, reiserfs, at the very least. Maybe you were thinking of Fedora?
Well, yes, but "Windows eight pipe sure sounds like a winner, doesn't it?
In another chapter of the "trumping hi tech with ingenuity", we bring you the Wet Towel (TM). Extremely painful, leaves no marks, costs a penny. Order your Wet Towel (TM) NOW!
Well, if it's intolerable for them, I guess it's definitely intolerable for everyone else. Imagine doing it the other way round: testing it on Seattle citizens. What value would the test have?
Sorry, didn't make all the sense I'd liked there. If we are talking about a court of law, what's the difference between being accused of using a rubber bullet gun or teargas, and this? I mean, they do leave scars, but the justification is the same: "I was trying to control a riot, this person here was out of control, this is standard op. procedure". Ok, the policeman filled him with 20 bullets in a rage, good. But this would be the equivalent of using this new gun excessively to fry his skin, with lasting effects visible.
As for the "tapes and pictures", I mean that in a riot there's usually some kind of media coverage as well...
About the "bad guys": a jury can also think that the poor rioters were savaging private property, it depends on how the lawyers speak, I suppose. Bad things can and will be said about both the police and the rioters.
Well, since we _are_ talking about riot handling, I suppose some tapes or pictures of the incidents could be a very good proof. I mean, these weapons won't be invisible themselves, will they? If we are talking about _mis_uses of the weapon, then it's another thing entirely. But then, almost everything can be misused as a weapon, especially a wet towel (no lasting effects, no marks, great pain, etc.).
And as far as I can figure, police are _always_ the bad guys in the eye of the rioters, so I don't think this will make things different.
Actually, I think when at war, the armies prefer to leave enemies wounded rather than killing them. A wounded enemy is both an expense and a cause of low morale for his own side. You have to cure him, he screams, cries, etc. It has a very bad effect on people. Whereas dead is dead, and you don't have to worry about propping him up, bandaging, etc. when under fire.
Invisible effect? People screaming their guts off, crying and falling to the ground? Excuse me? What would be "invisible" about all that? Or am I taking the words "heating and intolerable pain" the wrong way?
Aha. What's next, complaining that Slack has no graphical configuration tools and a complex installer? Puh-leeze, use a desktop distro or don't complain about it. And no, Debian is not an easy to use desktop distro.
What about the times when you install a stupid program (Warcraft III comes to mind) that saves games in a dir that only an admin can access (if installed as admin)? You're screwed.
A problem here is that since the kernel is not a static entity (growing each day and all) other idiots in the future could argue that modifications had been added after this trial. It's harder, but hey, it's all in a lawyer's day.
As I said, I come from a south-american country. I don't think anybody from the US has any right to speak about "tinpot dictators" after all the military dictatorships the US have supported "in their back garden". Should I forget that the US were nearly the only country (nearly because I don't even remember if anyone else jumped to follow) that acknowledged as valid the coup against Chavez in Venezuela? I prefer an entity where other countries might have a saying.
And as for the US not changing what I can do on the net... I'm not sure, seeing how your president and government behave. The fact that the US people reelected him gives me even less certainty.
"overreaction"? I didn't call anyone names, I didn't tell anyone to "Fsck off!"... I just stated my opinion, of course. What else should I do?
The rest of the world can, and probably will eventually take the matter into its hands, either by using the UN, or by leaving to each country its own administration. I prefer the UN. Some don't.
And the justification is what I stated in the first post: It's not a US business anymore. Things aren't important because of who invented them, but by who is using them. Good for your scientists and engineers, who invented the internet and manage it. You USians profited from the ARPA/Internet first and foremost. But saying "The US is the only state allowed to have a say in a world business" is ridiculous.
The Internet has transcended the US. Now, if you want to have your "USNET", all fine and dandy by me. But don't try to say that the rest of the world doesn't exist. If this was still only a US problem, good. But it isn't. I'm an Argentinian typing this from Italy. I don't want your government telling me what I can or cannot do on the net. I see the UN as a more apt body of governance for these matters, if there is any.
And by the way, those inventions were and are freely available to all. Not just to the US people. You shouldn't think with your gut.
You assume that kids have to be great at their subjects to pass. That's absolutely not true. The idea is to give everyone a solid foundation (at least up to college). That not even that is attained or even tried is sad. And I speak about the Argentinian education system, not about the US one, though I might have fooled you before I said so.
Double jokes are too much for me early in the morning, I guess. Oh well, nothing that can't be cured by throwing more caffeine on the problem.
You didn't even read the comments to that article? Many of us thought someone (possibly more than one) in the chain of editing was stoned or dead drunk for letting in that summary and title. So much bs in so little space... The distribution deals Scholastic signs with bookstores have NO RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER with DRM.
[...]is it worth reinventing the wheel on purely idealogical principle ("America shouldn't control the root DNS servers")?
Purely ideological? Allow me to laugh: ha ha ha ha haha haha ahhahahaha and then HA!
Press the first six keys after "TAB" in the top letter row, in order. Hard and confusing, isn't it?
Dunno, Hanlon's razor and all, I seriously think someone here must have been stoned to let that shit through. Are /. employing people from the USPTO now?
Well, I'd have to think first about a book for my new gf, her being with me now. As for doing it explicitly "for my ex"... I don't know, I don't think I'd have enough motivation. Plus, I don't know how they'd take it, both current gf and ex.
I'd like to mod you down just for the self-defensive remark about it. But, since I have no mod points...
Tell me, where does bittorrent "promote" piracy? Where are the posters, ads, popup ads promoting bt as a piracy tool? Bittorrent _allows_ one to behave as a digital pirate. Just as a gun _allows_ one to kill people.