"Is the library of the future going to be open? Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?"
I'd rather see the Library of Congress do something like this instead of having it controlled by the publishers or Google or Yahoo or Microsoft. One would be very foolish to have anyone entity control this, and I'd rather it be free to all and not plastered by Adsense everywhere.
STFU and go home. If Slashdot is only left with arrogant pricks that calls everyone "peasants", I really don't want to be here anymore. I could just as easily make the same argument about you, Slashdot was even better before the six digit noobs got here. Let's cut off all the peasants who have > 4 digits in their UI.
To be quite honest, I don't really think much of your supposed freedoms.
If it wasn't for our "supposed" freedoms, you wouldn't be posting on an American site, on a network developed by the American military criticizing its government.
Apart from that, what use does one have for freedom of religion or speech, when you can hardly feed your family? Ask one of the increasing number of desperately poor in USA whether they would rather have 'freedom' or a decent job, so they don't have to see their children grow up in a squalid slum.
You must read a lot of propaganda. There is really no reason for anyone to starve in the United States, between welfare, school provided meals, food stamps, church groups and soup kitchens even the poorest person can find enough to eat. In fact a more valid curtique is that the poor in America actually have a problem being overweight, because the cheapest and most readily available food is of poor nutrition (Burger King, McDonalds, etc).
Of course you realize that most news organizations just run stories and photos from AP or Reuters with their own spin, right? I'm far more disturbed by this Reuters propaganda than I would be if it was Fox news. Fox news people are already looking for the spin, and it is isolated to one network. With Reuters you are spread all over.
If you are creating your own Linux distribution, I imagine you would have some sort of internal source repository anyway. Tar it up and make a torrent available for anyone that requests it. I fail to see the issue.
I don't know, how frickin' hard would it be to type Los Angeles Store as opposed to letting the default search of "Store" go to the area you are actually geolocated in?
"Now Idon't know exactly what they put in that little USB pod, but it's unlikely it has the expensive dual-conversion superheterodyne signal chain, the interdigital varactor tunable filters, the low-noise Gallium-arsenide preamps, and the other expensive features of a real spectrum analyzer."
As a member of the open source community, I have decided to revive the OMG group. To put focus on our roots, we shall be called the Object Management Freedom Group or OMFG for short. Any takers?
Most of the people writing editorials in the NYTimes have no special qualifications. Yes, it takes more time and more thought to find voices on blogs that you can trust, but ultimately if you are deciding that the editors of the NY Times are better just because they were hired by the NY Times you probably have bigger problems.
Yeah, the NYTimes started losing me when they walled off their editorial section. After awhile I didn't miss it at all, in the age of the blogger who is really going to pay for yet more random pontification from a supposed 'expert'?
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So you don't know what he actually said, but you're going to post an article on a tech oriented site lambasting it.... That's responsible of you.
You do realize that unused code gets paged to swap right?
Like I told a friend, why is Debian "wasting" time patching Firefox when they could be I don't know, releasing a "stable" that isn't 10 years old?
Oh come on, like it would be different in any other country, look at the problems that Yahoo and Ebay have had in France for example.
"Is the library of the future going to be open? Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?"
I'd rather see the Library of Congress do something like this instead of having it controlled by the publishers or Google or Yahoo or Microsoft. One would be very foolish to have anyone entity control this, and I'd rather it be free to all and not plastered by Adsense everywhere.
Oh yeah, back in the good ole days of ultra reliable Packard Bell. Wait WHAT?!
STFU and go home. If Slashdot is only left with arrogant pricks that calls everyone "peasants", I really don't want to be here anymore. I could just as easily make the same argument about you, Slashdot was even better before the six digit noobs got here. Let's cut off all the peasants who have > 4 digits in their UI.
If it wasn't for our "supposed" freedoms, you wouldn't be posting on an American site, on a network developed by the American military criticizing its government.
You must read a lot of propaganda. There is really no reason for anyone to starve in the United States, between welfare, school provided meals, food stamps, church groups and soup kitchens even the poorest person can find enough to eat. In fact a more valid curtique is that the poor in America actually have a problem being overweight, because the cheapest and most readily available food is of poor nutrition (Burger King, McDonalds, etc).
In short, you are clueless.
Useless use of cat
Of course you realize that most news organizations just run stories and photos from AP or Reuters with their own spin, right? I'm far more disturbed by this Reuters propaganda than I would be if it was Fox news. Fox news people are already looking for the spin, and it is isolated to one network. With Reuters you are spread all over.
So that was what Sally Struthers was doing in Africa all that time!
You can't take hundreds of millions of people from a state of impoverishment to the land of overflowing McDonalds (and bellies) overnight.
If you are creating your own Linux distribution, I imagine you would have some sort of internal source repository anyway. Tar it up and make a torrent available for anyone that requests it. I fail to see the issue.
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I don't know, how frickin' hard would it be to type Los Angeles Store as opposed to letting the default search of "Store" go to the area you are actually geolocated in?
I fail to see how this prevents someone from using libc functions in an unsafe way.
<neo>whoah</neo>
As a member of the open source community, I have decided to revive the OMG group. To put focus on our roots, we shall be called the Object Management Freedom Group or OMFG for short. Any takers?
Screw that, I'm waiting for the Moon is a Harsh Mistress ;)
Most of the people writing editorials in the NYTimes have no special qualifications. Yes, it takes more time and more thought to find voices on blogs that you can trust, but ultimately if you are deciding that the editors of the NY Times are better just because they were hired by the NY Times you probably have bigger problems.
A wise man once said as simple as possible and no simpler. I like this solution :)
Yeah, the NYTimes started losing me when they walled off their editorial section. After awhile I didn't miss it at all, in the age of the blogger who is really going to pay for yet more random pontification from a supposed 'expert'?
Yeah, anything hosted on a virtual host is worthless. Where is the rolly-eye emoticon when you need it?
Was there ever a follow up about Pat's health issues? Is he ok now?