Democracy is overstated... the effects of campaign financiers and lobbyists is understated. Lobby groups are formed by those with money to put that kind of pressure on politicians in the first place, and they're paid a lot better than grass roots campaigns.
Not that grass roots campaigns are a waste of time, but they don't work as well as the lobbyists.
Like hardware vendors, I think we'll see a move to software "support contracts". You can buy the hardware and buy replacements when it breaks, or get a contract to cover it. You can download the software and figure it out yourself, or buy a support contract and get questions answered for you.
Hell, MS is already doing this, for things you pay for:)
Many others, such as Mandrake, are doing the same. Though they're usually bundling it with extended stuff as well (voting privileges, more software that isn't necessarily free as in beer, etc.).
It all depends on what you need to do, but the cost of actually writing software has gone down with a glut of people being able to do it. Maybe not as competently as others, but I think the Open Source model has proven that masses have power. If you doubt, compare Linux distros of '97 to '04. Then compare Win 95 OSR 2 and Windows XP.:)
* The GIMP Homepage http://www.gimp.org/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Highly recommended
* the Gimp.org Contest http://contest.gimp.org/ The image MUST be manipulated entirely in the GIMP.
* FTP Directory: ftp://manual.gimp.org/pub/ Get the gimp manual.
* FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ sources, binaries, extras,... for gimp via ftp. Consider using one of the mirror sites. Choose a server next to you.
I doubt you would actually be sued for a fair-use case. The people who are making software that allows them to circumvent copy protection are being cracked down on, but I've yet to see anyone who has actually been using their software being implicated yet.
Take DVD X-Copy for example. Court ruled that they had to stop producing it, but did not go after who bought it.
The fact is, any case that is brought that is actually fair use, the MPAA will lose. It's only by going against the people upstream that they can really win.
Atheism is a misnomer; it really should be called 'anti-theism'. Linguistical the 'a' does not denote a negative. Consider 'moral', 'immoral', and 'amoral'. 'Amoral' is not acting against morality, but with lack of concern towards morality. 'Immoral' is acting against morality.
'Anti-theism' ('imtheism' doesn't sound right...) would be stating that god does not exist. 'Atheism' should be the lack of concern as to whether or not a god exists. Note that this is different from 'agnosticism' which simply states that knowing whether or not god exists is impossible (at least at this time).
And the problem is, trying to convince the average luser that they should actually care.
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Re:Bad for users of alternative browsers?
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IE To Block Pop-Ups
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Not when there still isn't a concept of user-level and system level. DLLs can still be loaded to interfere with system level routines since there is no clear distinction between kernel level access and user level access.
In a corp. environment where users don't have access to install software, that's not much of an issue. On the net where home users run XP with admin access, or install software that loads DLLs, it can still have more power than should be allowed.
Though I wouldn't be surprised to see more *nix attacks looking for people with sudo access, personally.
Don't be an idiot. King got what he deserved, media be damned.
Why? Because when you taser a mothefucker several times and he still comes up swinging, I'd beat him until he stopped moving, too.
Stop the BS about "poor King" and watch the full movie, not the 20sec clip shown on most the news stations. Taken out of context it's damning; in context, it's perfectly reasonable.
The other major problem with the car analogy is that driving a very heavy piece of equipment at high speeds is dangerous not only to the driver but also to any anyone else around. What you do online may be annoying or troublesome, but it is extremely unlikely to kill anyone.
OTOH, like in a minor accident, it does cost them money. Virii can be stopped with a few simple choices, and yet SoBig, Klez, and Bugbear are still hammerring away at my servers trying to crawl in.
Virus authors shold be held responsible to class-action lawsuits for bandwidth theft of service.
How much you want to bet the screensaver is a separate RPM (rpm -e xscreensaver-advertising)? And since when is installing a set of bookmarks "hijacking" a browser? They've been setting default bookmarks for ages, mostly to sites I never bothered to look at anyways.
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Re:So, no more AOL/Netscape support?
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The Mozilla Foundation
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All non profits are... not all not-for-profits are.
I'm pretty sure they'll be a "non-profit" foundation.
This also allows them to write off assets that they would otherwise be depreciating. I'm sure those computers have been mostly depreciated at this point, so they aren't 1M like some wiseass said.
Any money they give now on they know is stroight-out deductible. The other business expenses would not be 100% writeoffs, I'm sure.
The government's job is to legislate standards of civilization. Not my morality, and not yours. Though it's done a damn sight more for legistlating your views than mine, judging by your sig.
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Very cool. Thanks for this link, I'll have to check it out tonight.
K3B works great for burns but not being able to do backups kinda sucks.
O ye of too much faith...
Democracy is overstated... the effects of campaign financiers and lobbyists is understated. Lobby groups are formed by those with money to put that kind of pressure on politicians in the first place, and they're paid a lot better than grass roots campaigns.
Not that grass roots campaigns are a waste of time, but they don't work as well as the lobbyists.
Like hardware vendors, I think we'll see a move to software "support contracts". You can buy the hardware and buy replacements when it breaks, or get a contract to cover it. You can download the software and figure it out yourself, or buy a support contract and get questions answered for you.
:)
:)
Hell, MS is already doing this, for things you pay for
Many others, such as Mandrake, are doing the same. Though they're usually bundling it with extended stuff as well (voting privileges, more software that isn't necessarily free as in beer, etc.).
It all depends on what you need to do, but the cost of actually writing software has gone down with a glut of people being able to do it. Maybe not as competently as others, but I think the Open Source model has proven that masses have power. If you doubt, compare Linux distros of '97 to '04. Then compare Win 95 OSR 2 and Windows XP.
I got this from http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/gimp.html (thanks Google... searched for "gimp mirror sites" and this was listed there as the fifth link on the page...):
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Gimp Links
* The GIMP Homepage http://www.gimp.org/ The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Highly recommended
* the Gimp.org Contest http://contest.gimp.org/ The image MUST be manipulated entirely in the GIMP.
* Registry: View Plugins http://registry.gimp.org/ GIMP Plug-In Registry - the one-stop plug-in shop -- always up-to-date.
* gimp.org finger http://finger.gimp.org/ Gimp announcements.
* GIMP News http://xach.dorknet.com/gimp/news/ Latest information about GIMP.
* Gimp Binaries http://www.tecnogi.com/marco/gimp/ compiled gimp plugins for i386.
* Everybody loves The GIMP http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~federico/gimp/el-the-g imp.html Gradients, Plug-ins, Scripts, basic information.
* FTP Directory: ftp://manual.gimp.org/pub/ Get the gimp manual.
* FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ sources, binaries, extras,... for gimp via ftp. Consider using one of the mirror sites. Choose a server next to you.
Gimp FTP mirrors
Choose a server next to you!
Africa:
#1) ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/
Australia:
#2) ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
#3) http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/gimp/
#4) ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp
#5) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp
#6) ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/gimp/gimp/
Austria:
#7) ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/
Belgium:
#8) ftp://gimp.rug.ac.be/
#9) http://gimp.rug.ac.be/ftp/gimp/
Croatia:
#10) ftp://ftp.linux.hr/pub/gnome/gimp/
Finland:
#11) ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/
France:
#12) ftp://stef.u-picardie.fr/mirror/ftp.gimp.org/
#13) ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/gimp/
Germany
#14) ftp://infosoc.uni-koeln.de/pub/ftp.gimp.org/
#15) ftp://ftp.tuts.net/mirror/gimp.org/gimp/
#16) ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/gim p/
Greece
#17) ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/
Japan
#18) ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp
#19) ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
#20) ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#21) ftp://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#22) ftp://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#23) http://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#24) http://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#25) http://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
#26) http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
#27) ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
Korea
#28) ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org
Norway
#29) ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/
Poland
#30) ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
#31) ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/
Romania
#32) ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
Sweden
#33) ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/
#34) ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/
#35) http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/
Taiwan
#36) ftp://linux.cis.nctu.edu.tw/pub/packages/X/gimp/
Turkey
#37) ftp://ftp.hun.edu.tr/pub/linux/gimp/
United Kingdom
#38) ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/X/gimp/
And "truly caring" email sysadmins will disable that feature due to the CPU cycles it uses to crack ZIP encryption.
Personally, I just changed my server to block passworded archives. Problem solved, and I've yet to hear a user complaint.
--etrnl--
And that explains why Stargate SG1 is on it's 7th season and has been renewed for an 8th with a spinoff on the way?
Sure, some of the other shows got cancelled (Farscape, Tracker, etc) but most of them sucked.
--etrnl--
I doubt you would actually be sued for a fair-use case. The people who are making software that allows them to circumvent copy protection are being cracked down on, but I've yet to see anyone who has actually been using their software being implicated yet.
Take DVD X-Copy for example. Court ruled that they had to stop producing it, but did not go after who bought it.
The fact is, any case that is brought that is actually fair use, the MPAA will lose. It's only by going against the people upstream that they can really win.
--etrnl--
Copyright hasn't expiring on it... though it's about to soon, if i recall correctly. It was copyrighted by Lennon and Ono.
--etrnl--
Never mind that most common wedding customs actually date from the pagan ceremonies, not Christian ones.
--etrnl--
Atheism is a misnomer; it really should be called 'anti-theism'. Linguistical the 'a' does not denote a negative. Consider 'moral', 'immoral', and 'amoral'. 'Amoral' is not acting against morality, but with lack of concern towards morality. 'Immoral' is acting against morality.
'Anti-theism' ('imtheism' doesn't sound right...) would be stating that god does not exist. 'Atheism' should be the lack of concern as to whether or not a god exists. Note that this is different from 'agnosticism' which simply states that knowing whether or not god exists is impossible (at least at this time).
One of my personal pet peeves.
--etrnl--
On my local writing community, we went the other way as a joke... changing from "Preview" / "Submit" to "Dominate" / "Submit".
Until someone complained that they hated to submit, at which point I changed it to "Preview" and "Post".
--etrnl--
And the problem is, trying to convince the average luser that they should actually care.
--etrnl--
Not when there still isn't a concept of user-level and system level. DLLs can still be loaded to interfere with system level routines since there is no clear distinction between kernel level access and user level access.
In a corp. environment where users don't have access to install software, that's not much of an issue. On the net where home users run XP with admin access, or install software that loads DLLs, it can still have more power than should be allowed.
Though I wouldn't be surprised to see more *nix attacks looking for people with sudo access, personally.
--etrnl--
There's a hack for xp to make it so that you can indeed install SP1 on it.
--etrnl--
Don't be an idiot. King got what he deserved, media be damned.
Why? Because when you taser a mothefucker several times and he still comes up swinging, I'd beat him until he stopped moving, too.
Stop the BS about "poor King" and watch the full movie, not the 20sec clip shown on most the news stations. Taken out of context it's damning; in context, it's perfectly reasonable.
--etrnl--
You've seen too many late-night Ronco infomercials :)
--etrnl--
Except that SCO plans to go after BSD as well.
--etrnl--
The other major problem with the car analogy is that driving a very heavy piece of equipment at high speeds is dangerous not only to the driver but also to any anyone else around. What you do online may be annoying or troublesome, but it is extremely unlikely to kill anyone.
OTOH, like in a minor accident, it does cost them money. Virii can be stopped with a few simple choices, and yet SoBig, Klez, and Bugbear are still hammerring away at my servers trying to crawl in.
Virus authors shold be held responsible to class-action lawsuits for bandwidth theft of service.
--etrnl--
How much you want to bet the screensaver is a separate RPM (rpm -e xscreensaver-advertising)? And since when is installing a set of bookmarks "hijacking" a browser? They've been setting default bookmarks for ages, mostly to sites I never bothered to look at anyways.
--etrnl--
All non profits are... not all not-for-profits are.
I'm pretty sure they'll be a "non-profit" foundation.
This also allows them to write off assets that they would otherwise be depreciating. I'm sure those computers have been mostly depreciated at this point, so they aren't 1M like some wiseass said.
Any money they give now on they know is stroight-out deductible. The other business expenses would not be 100% writeoffs, I'm sure.
--etrnl--
The government's job is to legislate standards of civilization. Not my morality, and not yours. Though it's done a damn sight more for legistlating your views than mine, judging by your sig.
--etrnl
It's supposed to be "swearing in french"...
--etrnl--
We would have been so lucky....
--etrnl--
Interesting... which MMORPG?
;)
Most of the MMORPGs are less stable than the OS they run on
--etrnl--
*points to your sig*