By your logic, its just a bit of bad luck. Music isnt property, he's not somehow magically stealing it. I am entitled to payment for my labour only, and therefore him copying me is fine, because now he is doing the labour. Problem is, every time i write a new song this other guy performs it, and i eventually go broke and give up. Do my ideas have no value at all? Is it only the performance of those ideas that have value? You say that music isn't something you can steal, and yet i've had my means of survival taken from me. I would indeed be in a miserable state.
You're a little confused. What you describe is perfectly legal within the current system. No one has to pay an artist just to sing his/her song. Payment is only required for distribution, such as CDs. Have you ever heard of a cover band? They only perform other musician's songs and they don't have to compensate anyone to do that.
If you are a really talented song writer that cannot perform the music well enough to attract listeners then maybe you shouldn't be a musician. Maybe you should be a song writer. Musicians should only be paid for their performances and for the most part that is all they get paid for. Most of the money from the sales of CD's go directly into the record company's pockets. A lot of small time bands actually go broke putting together an album even after it gets popular and they sell a lot of records. Record companies are leaches that make money off a one time exhibition of other people's talents.
I'm glad somebody has some common sense. Testing is such a waste of time if you can just swap in a good part, especially with PC's. There are so many different configurations that there is no utility that could check for everything. I've had a lot of issues with PC's in the past year and I've run test after test only to find out that the test didn't find anything. It's hit or miss with the tests as much as it is hit or miss with swapping parts, if not more so. I can usually localize the problem depending on behaviour anyway so why not just take the 5 minutes to swap a part instead of running tests for hours only to find out that it was what I guessed it was all along. If that doesn't work then I will resort to testing.
I also installed Windows XP and Suse on a SATA drive last month. It was pretty lame that I had to dig out an old floppy drive just to install drivers and that wasn't even the worst problem. The real problem was that XP wouldn't boot off the CD with my GeForce 5700 Ultra. It would tell me it was booting then the screen would go blank. I had to install a different Graphcics card just to get it to work. Suse had a hard time getting the right configuration (I ended up having to edit XF86Config by hand) but at least I could boot into a console and fix it from there. Without that alternate graphics card I would have been screwed with XP.
You missed the point entirely. The author is a Linux advocate who originally wrote an editorial (4 years ago) explaining that he believes Linux will never take off if everyone else is using IE because Microsoft will use it to creep into the webserver market. Now, years later, Moz is really outshining IE. This is good for Linux because it will force people to start coding standards compliant pages if they want their audience to be able to view them. This will give Linux a chance to take hold of the desktop. Even Windows users who use Moz are helping by leveling the playing field.
This article was about Linux, and how the use of Moz will help it. It was not about Moz specifically, so get over it.
The name FireFox may be new but the technology has been developed for many years now. On a personal note, everyone who I've introduced Firebird to has dumped IE almost altogether except for those pesky IE only sites. One of my friends even refuses to go to IE only sites anymore and she's only been using Moz for about a month.
This is a little OT but it reminds me of when I went to college. We used to sign up for classes using Hummingbird HostExplorer to connect to the main server. The program was terminal based and was very fast and easy to use. Then my last year there they switched to PeopleSoft which is web-based and it was terrible. IF you could actually connect, it took forever to find what you wanted and to actually sign up for anything. Every transaction took minutes as opposed to seconds using the old system. Needless to say, many angry students lined up in person to sign up for classes instead of dealing with the hell of PeopleSoft.
They've invested as much as we did, so it's a trade-off. Suffice it to say that some bad decisions have been made before my time, but now we're kinda stuck with it.
I'm not trying to be a dick but the money is already spent and the solution is not complete so trying to fix it is going to cause more trouble, cost more money, and create more headaches in the long run. It's probably not your decision but the smart thing to do, economically, would be to start over with a complete solution that just works.
So when you ask why people have such a problem with Windows ME, remember that most people who reply with comments about how unstable it is, are Windows XP users who would probably pay eskimos to spread snow on their lawn in the winter because "those guys know what they're doing", or they are "alternative" OS users who just hate "M$" because it makes them look pensive and "kewl".
No. It really did suck that much. I bought a laptop with WinME preinstalled and it never worked right from day one. In fact, everyone I know that has used it has had serious problems. Eventually it took 4-5 minutes just to boot up and I would be lucky if it actually shut down without having to hold down the power button. I was going to do a reinstall but just threw Win2000 on there instead. That was better but not great. The WinME debacle scarred me though and I eventaully formatted the drive and installed Linux.
Bull. Win2000 crashed on me all the time on my laptop. On top of that My brand spanking new installation of WinXP on a brand new computer BSODed on me twice within the first week that I had it. It crashes pretty much everyday. Suse doesn't have a problem running on that same computer so it's not the hardware. The only thing that has been changed on it is the installation of the drivers and Mozilla Firebird.
Correction. Winodows still useses what they call HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), although it is not the same as the microkernel approach they once tried. HAL is basically what became of the NT microkernel. That makes it easier to port but probably not as easy as a microkernel would be. It all depends on how big HAL actually is.
The last time I checked, NT is built on something called a "Hardware Abstraction Layer" that made it relatively painless to port NT from MIPS to x86 and then to PowerPC
I guess the last time you checked was a long time ago. Originally NT was built on top of a microkernel, and that is what was supposed to make it portable. Unfortunately it was dog slow and it is no longer a real microkernel. The microkernel is what you are referring to when you say "Hardware Abstraction Layer". It's safe to say that Windows was pretty much x86-centric until this release.
And Windows NT ran on Alpha and MIPs a decade ago. NT was written to be platform independant. x86 wasn't even the CPU it was designed for, it was designed for the Intel n-ten prototype which never saw the light of day.
And in that ten years or so Windows has become x86-centric. For most of that time x86 has been the only platform that Microsoft has focused on for Windows.
duh, this is slashdot. i read somewhere on this site:
"water cooling and 802.11 come before food and shelter".
sure, iraquis might be chucking grenades at our good ol' boys, but they use linux, so they must be friendly.
You are an idiot. Despite your FOX NEWS uprbringing, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are not terrorists. Believe it or not they are HUMAN, just like me and you.
By the way, our "good ol' boys" wouldn't be having grenades chucked at them if YOUR good ol' president didn't invade their country.
Which isn't the point. All of them are successes; a President with high approval ratings...
High approval ratings do not make a Bush successful as a President, only as a liar. Overall Bush is a miserable failure as the leader of the free world. His approval ratings only show how uninformed the American public is.
Chuck found that US customers can purchase Dell systems with FreeDOS: Perhaps this is old news but browsing on Dell's Small Business site, I noticed that they are now offering select systems bundled with FreeDOS. From the web site: The n series features select popular models from the DimensionTM , OptiPlexTM and Dell PrecisionTM desktop lines sold without a Microsoft(R) operating system. Offered for IT professionals who want control over operating system development and installation, n series desktops are available with a copy of the FreeDOSTM open-source operating system included in the box, ready to install.
Update: (16 Jan 2004) This may look like a repeat, but it's not. Before, FreeDOS on Dell wasn't available to US customers - it was Canadian customers only.
I think you have that story a little backward. New Coke was released to taste like Pepsi. At the time Pepsi was doing really well and Coke was headed downhill. To compete Coke decided to make New Coke taste more like Pepsi. As we all know, it sucked ass, and eventually Coke released Coca-Cola Classic which is the original forumla.
NT has been a multiuser OS since the day it was conceived.
Thanks brainiac. I guess you've never seen someone use win98 for a server. It's scary. Besides, all that legacy code is in NT too, so it had to be bolted on to that.
If you have to ask, you don't get it.
No, you don't get it. Read, write, and execute are the only priveleges most people really need to worry about.
No, it won't. Not only that, it *can't*. Unix's file permissions and groups are a *subset* of NT's ACLs. In other words, anything Unix file permissions can do, NT's ACLs can do - but not vice versa.
That's funny because I have an SELinux server with ACLs. If you want to talk about fine-grained control, look no further.
I knew someone was going to say that. The point I was trying to make is that Microsoft took a single user OS and bolted on code to make it multiuser, kind of like what someone was implying about Linux in reverse.
If you think Windows has finer user-based privileges than Linux then you're smoking crack. What else do you need to control other than read, write, and execute? Creating different groups with different priveleges is simple in Linux and will give you much finer grained control than the standard 2 or 3 groups Windows gives you.
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You're a little confused. What you describe is perfectly legal within the current system. No one has to pay an artist just to sing his/her song. Payment is only required for distribution, such as CDs. Have you ever heard of a cover band? They only perform other musician's songs and they don't have to compensate anyone to do that.
If you are a really talented song writer that cannot perform the music well enough to attract listeners then maybe you shouldn't be a musician. Maybe you should be a song writer. Musicians should only be paid for their performances and for the most part that is all they get paid for. Most of the money from the sales of CD's go directly into the record company's pockets. A lot of small time bands actually go broke putting together an album even after it gets popular and they sell a lot of records. Record companies are leaches that make money off a one time exhibition of other people's talents.
I'm glad somebody has some common sense. Testing is such a waste of time if you can just swap in a good part, especially with PC's. There are so many different configurations that there is no utility that could check for everything. I've had a lot of issues with PC's in the past year and I've run test after test only to find out that the test didn't find anything. It's hit or miss with the tests as much as it is hit or miss with swapping parts, if not more so. I can usually localize the problem depending on behaviour anyway so why not just take the 5 minutes to swap a part instead of running tests for hours only to find out that it was what I guessed it was all along. If that doesn't work then I will resort to testing.
I also installed Windows XP and Suse on a SATA drive last month. It was pretty lame that I had to dig out an old floppy drive just to install drivers and that wasn't even the worst problem. The real problem was that XP wouldn't boot off the CD with my GeForce 5700 Ultra. It would tell me it was booting then the screen would go blank. I had to install a different Graphcics card just to get it to work. Suse had a hard time getting the right configuration (I ended up having to edit XF86Config by hand) but at least I could boot into a console and fix it from there. Without that alternate graphics card I would have been screwed with XP.
That's pretty cool. Gentoo's LiveCD has memtest as one of its boot options and I can't tell you how many times that LiveCD has come in handy.
I'm running Firebird with 8 pages open on Window Maker, with Gkrellm2 and Gaim running and I'm only using 66M total.
This article was about Linux, and how the use of Moz will help it. It was not about Moz specifically, so get over it.
Well, since it is a movie and in no way a part of the computer industry, I don't think there is going to be a problem.
The name FireFox may be new but the technology has been developed for many years now. On a personal note, everyone who I've introduced Firebird to has dumped IE almost altogether except for those pesky IE only sites. One of my friends even refuses to go to IE only sites anymore and she's only been using Moz for about a month.
This is a little OT but it reminds me of when I went to college. We used to sign up for classes using Hummingbird HostExplorer to connect to the main server. The program was terminal based and was very fast and easy to use. Then my last year there they switched to PeopleSoft which is web-based and it was terrible. IF you could actually connect, it took forever to find what you wanted and to actually sign up for anything. Every transaction took minutes as opposed to seconds using the old system. Needless to say, many angry students lined up in person to sign up for classes instead of dealing with the hell of PeopleSoft.
I don't think WINE is going to work if Codeweavers doesn't.
I'm not trying to be a dick but the money is already spent and the solution is not complete so trying to fix it is going to cause more trouble, cost more money, and create more headaches in the long run. It's probably not your decision but the smart thing to do, economically, would be to start over with a complete solution that just works.
No. It really did suck that much. I bought a laptop with WinME preinstalled and it never worked right from day one. In fact, everyone I know that has used it has had serious problems. Eventually it took 4-5 minutes just to boot up and I would be lucky if it actually shut down without having to hold down the power button. I was going to do a reinstall but just threw Win2000 on there instead. That was better but not great. The WinME debacle scarred me though and I eventaully formatted the drive and installed Linux.
Bull. Win2000 crashed on me all the time on my laptop. On top of that My brand spanking new installation of WinXP on a brand new computer BSODed on me twice within the first week that I had it. It crashes pretty much everyday. Suse doesn't have a problem running on that same computer so it's not the hardware. The only thing that has been changed on it is the installation of the drivers and Mozilla Firebird.
Have you? They were released ANONYMOUSLY.
Correction. Winodows still useses what they call HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), although it is not the same as the microkernel approach they once tried. HAL is basically what became of the NT microkernel. That makes it easier to port but probably not as easy as a microkernel would be. It all depends on how big HAL actually is.
I guess the last time you checked was a long time ago. Originally NT was built on top of a microkernel, and that is what was supposed to make it portable. Unfortunately it was dog slow and it is no longer a real microkernel. The microkernel is what you are referring to when you say "Hardware Abstraction Layer". It's safe to say that Windows was pretty much x86-centric until this release.
And in that ten years or so Windows has become x86-centric. For most of that time x86 has been the only platform that Microsoft has focused on for Windows.
I don't see how that was implied ANYWHERE.
"water cooling and 802.11 come before food and shelter".
sure, iraquis might be chucking grenades at our good ol' boys, but they use linux, so they must be friendly.
You are an idiot. Despite your FOX NEWS uprbringing, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are not terrorists. Believe it or not they are HUMAN, just like me and you.
By the way, our "good ol' boys" wouldn't be having grenades chucked at them if YOUR good ol' president didn't invade their country.
High approval ratings do not make a Bush successful as a President, only as a liar. Overall Bush is a miserable failure as the leader of the free world. His approval ratings only show how uninformed the American public is.
Chuck found that US customers can purchase Dell systems with FreeDOS: Perhaps this is old news but browsing on Dell's Small Business site, I noticed that they are now offering select systems bundled with FreeDOS. From the web site: The n series features select popular models from the DimensionTM , OptiPlexTM and Dell PrecisionTM desktop lines sold without a Microsoft(R) operating system. Offered for IT professionals who want control over operating system development and installation, n series desktops are available with a copy of the FreeDOSTM open-source operating system included in the box, ready to install. Update: (16 Jan 2004) This may look like a repeat, but it's not. Before, FreeDOS on Dell wasn't available to US customers - it was Canadian customers only.
I think you have that story a little backward. New Coke was released to taste like Pepsi. At the time Pepsi was doing really well and Coke was headed downhill. To compete Coke decided to make New Coke taste more like Pepsi. As we all know, it sucked ass, and eventually Coke released Coca-Cola Classic which is the original forumla.
"What the fuck is the internet?"
Thanks brainiac. I guess you've never seen someone use win98 for a server. It's scary. Besides, all that legacy code is in NT too, so it had to be bolted on to that.
If you have to ask, you don't get it.
No, you don't get it. Read, write, and execute are the only priveleges most people really need to worry about.
No, it won't. Not only that, it *can't*. Unix's file permissions and groups are a *subset* of NT's ACLs. In other words, anything Unix file permissions can do, NT's ACLs can do - but not vice versa.
That's funny because I have an SELinux server with ACLs. If you want to talk about fine-grained control, look no further.
If you think Windows has finer user-based privileges than Linux then you're smoking crack. What else do you need to control other than read, write, and execute? Creating different groups with different priveleges is simple in Linux and will give you much finer grained control than the standard 2 or 3 groups Windows gives you.