At the risk of going way OT, my wife and I dig Hornblower as well. This was before we had the kid -- but we bought the entire series over the course of a few weeks. A great addition to our library.:-)
A&E has new Hornblower movies out this week, too. I have to watch the tape sometime.
XFree86 is certainly not the most recent. However, X Strike Force is working on 4.3.0 and you can get it out of experimental. Add
# Debian experimental deb http://apt-proxy:9999/debian/../project/experimental main contrib non-free deb-src http://apt-proxy:9999/debian/../project/experimental main contrib non-free
to your sources.list and you can select the newer version manually inside aptitude (which I highly recommend for package management anyway, if you're not using it.)
Sharman's been playing the "us vs. the recording industry" game way too long to try to create any impression of legitimacy now. Maybe if they'd made a concerted effort (and not just a hide behind enough legalese to cover their asses) from day one to discourage copyright infringement, they might have a shot at it.
But they didn't, and they don't. And if they had, they certainly wouldn't be in the position they were today as the household name in file "sharing".
I have yet to find the file "sharer" who has downloaded 12 songs and stopped.
As for the price of the market research? If I ran any kind of publishing house, I would be out of business in a flash if I paid $12,000,000 to find out whether 1,000,000 people would download my offerings if they were free or not.
Assuming you did the usual thing the free music crowd does and infringed copyright on those songs, I think any bill you could send would pale in comparison to the money you owe the rights holders.
You're really quite effectively proven the point here. Since software companies won't indemnify you, what is the advantage to buying the black box from them?
I know why you said "mainstream" -- you didn't want anyone mentioning eMusic on you. But seriously, why? I've been brainzing my collection lately; I have probably 14 gig of stuff from eMusic. And 80% of it is quite good.
Incidentally, I seem to be sticking with eMusic, despite my earlier protests of their new plans. I'm downloading far less, but it's still worth the $10/month.
No, it's a difficult concept for a stupid person to comprehend. Capitalists like myself have no trouble with it. It's both a craft done for pleasure and a way to build solutions to common problems more cheaply and more on-target.
I'm sorry, that's bullshit. Free speech does not mean you can speak with impunity and be immune from the consequences of your actions. How about taking responsibility for what you say? If you're not willing to back up your speech, your speech is worthless anyway.
American troops used illegal weapons in Iraq war.. So many others dude!
Such as...?
I think the grandparent is referring to the Hippie Convention, where it was declared illegal for combatants to attack each other with anything other than daisies and hugs. That same convention also mandated enemies congregate every night on the battlefield and share some primo weed.
Which makes me wonder why ESS picked that particular direction/orientation. Surely the choice was not politically motivated, since the arrow points to the right (lower-right, yes, but definitely not left as one might expect). Then again, you might say the vertical element sort of leans left, so that would be appropriate.:)
Look more closely. It's wearing a little tinfoil hat.:-)
This is a just plain silly argument. If your job is to make a document and a PDF, OpenOffice.org is going to win out. Seriously, several hundred dollars per seat for Word+Acrobat or $0 per seat for OpenOffice.org? No contest.
Now if you have an investment in heavily Word-macroed.doc files or some of the more obscure Word features, I can see the scales tipping. That's not to say the scales can't be tipped back by considering a one-time investment in converting away from Word...
With the Microsoft (or, say Oracle) 'cookie cutter' product, there is a whole education system churning out trained people who can maintain the product.
In my never-to-be-humble opinion, backed by experience, these people can't act without their umbilicus to the respective company (Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) Most blindly follow advice without understanding the respective ramifications, having had their trust built up because it often works, at least temporarily.
On the flip, an open solution means that any intelligent independent observer can be brought in to look at every single bit of what's been done. I consider this a stronger mitigation of risk than being able to throw a marketing indoctrination program graduate in the mix. And at the end of the day, there's nothing to say the "trained" admin isn't going to try his hand at BOFHing anyway...
Whoa, hold on a minute here. There's good reason to end government funding of PBS. If people think it's worthwhile, they can fund it themselves. Which is, essentially, what the other kid-aimed networks are doing.
Maybe, instead of launching into the namecalling, you could provide some compelling case for Congress supporting the bread and circuses?
Trying to portray companies that have not done their due diligence towards licensing of software they want to use as some kind of victim is just plain irresponsible.
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At the risk of going way OT, my wife and I dig Hornblower as well. This was before we had the kid -- but we bought the entire series over the course of a few weeks. A great addition to our library. :-)
A&E has new Hornblower movies out this week, too. I have to watch the tape sometime.
XFree86 is certainly not the most recent. However, X Strike Force is working on 4.3.0 and you can get it out of experimental. Add
to your sources.list and you can select the newer version manually inside aptitude (which I highly recommend for package management anyway, if you're not using it.)
Sharman's been playing the "us vs. the recording industry" game way too long to try to create any impression of legitimacy now. Maybe if they'd made a concerted effort (and not just a hide behind enough legalese to cover their asses) from day one to discourage copyright infringement, they might have a shot at it.
But they didn't, and they don't. And if they had, they certainly wouldn't be in the position they were today as the household name in file "sharing".
I have yet to find the file "sharer" who has downloaded 12 songs and stopped.
As for the price of the market research? If I ran any kind of publishing house, I would be out of business in a flash if I paid $12,000,000 to find out whether 1,000,000 people would download my offerings if they were free or not.
Bzzt. Try again.
Assuming you did the usual thing the free music crowd does and infringed copyright on those songs, I think any bill you could send would pale in comparison to the money you owe the rights holders.
You're really quite effectively proven the point here. Since software companies won't indemnify you, what is the advantage to buying the black box from them?
I know why you said "mainstream" -- you didn't want anyone mentioning eMusic on you. But seriously, why? I've been brainzing my collection lately; I have probably 14 gig of stuff from eMusic. And 80% of it is quite good.
Incidentally, I seem to be sticking with eMusic, despite my earlier protests of their new plans. I'm downloading far less, but it's still worth the $10/month.
Yes, but I confess I don't see the point.
Unfortunately, you won't get a lot in the "small" department while humongous source trees etc. are living on your hard drive.
No, it's a difficult concept for a stupid person to comprehend. Capitalists like myself have no trouble with it. It's both a craft done for pleasure and a way to build solutions to common problems more cheaply and more on-target.
I'm sorry, that's bullshit. Free speech does not mean you can speak with impunity and be immune from the consequences of your actions. How about taking responsibility for what you say? If you're not willing to back up your speech, your speech is worthless anyway.
I think the grandparent is referring to the Hippie Convention, where it was declared illegal for combatants to attack each other with anything other than daisies and hugs. That same convention also mandated enemies congregate every night on the battlefield and share some primo weed.
Like Michael "How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?" Moore?
This picture? From the source page... not what you expected I bet.
Look more closely. It's wearing a little tinfoil hat. :-)
I do not think that means what you think it means.
This is a just plain silly argument. If your job is to make a document and a PDF, OpenOffice.org is going to win out. Seriously, several hundred dollars per seat for Word+Acrobat or $0 per seat for OpenOffice.org? No contest.
Now if you have an investment in heavily Word-macroed .doc files or some of the more obscure Word features, I can see the scales tipping. That's not to say the scales can't be tipped back by considering a one-time investment in converting away from Word...
In my never-to-be-humble opinion, backed by experience, these people can't act without their umbilicus to the respective company (Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) Most blindly follow advice without understanding the respective ramifications, having had their trust built up because it often works, at least temporarily.
On the flip, an open solution means that any intelligent independent observer can be brought in to look at every single bit of what's been done. I consider this a stronger mitigation of risk than being able to throw a marketing indoctrination program graduate in the mix. And at the end of the day, there's nothing to say the "trained" admin isn't going to try his hand at BOFHing anyway...
Compatibility with MP3 hardware?
That's the only reason I'd do it.
Yesss... Velostat...
(selling all my stock in Reynolds Aluminum, buying a round of 3M)
Or, increasing sales of aluminum foil.
Whoa, hold on a minute here. There's good reason to end government funding of PBS. If people think it's worthwhile, they can fund it themselves. Which is, essentially, what the other kid-aimed networks are doing.
Maybe, instead of launching into the namecalling, you could provide some compelling case for Congress supporting the bread and circuses?
I'm screaming "troll" after reading the article.
Trying to portray companies that have not done their due diligence towards licensing of software they want to use as some kind of victim is just plain irresponsible.
No, you missed the point. Or, maybe you didn't, and you're just trying to confuse the issue.
You know, I submitted the Monkey Robot Arm story earlier today, but it got rejected. I guess I was just missing the Stomping Sumo Robot angle :-)