as usual you miss the point that, no one is saying capitalism is perfect, it's merely th best system you have right now. standards of living for most people have risen significantly under captialism. just look at china and india, the sole reason they are rising is because of the free trade and money making that's part of capitalism.
if you dislike it i suggest you go live in north korea.
on your home version yes. a customer as big as the uk government? they have bulk licensing terms that ensure security fixes (provided they stay on the upgrade tread mill of course).
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project. that's the whole point i'm trying to get through to people, start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
like the OSS crowd, i'm sure they merely sourced their data to fit their own agenda.
to suggest there aren't security concerns around oss is dangerous and misleading. if your objective about it and remove the emotion so common in these arguments you will see the following.
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
OSS takes control away from the customer as to who supplies their patches - who's making those patches? would any OSS project be willing to stand up and say "yes i accept the risk of jail time/legal action if this patch turns out to bite my government customer in the ass"
these are merely the security concerns. yes there is the usual stupid argument of being able to see the source code - but here is a clue for you - that's hellish expensive and blows the OSS is cheap myth out of the water.
this sounds like government playing you guys like a fiddle, and your singing their tune like blind mice.
"And hence they slam on the brakes when it isn't in fact safe to do so, and the guy behind rear ends them."
that's the fault of the guy behind them tail gating. i hate this idea that running up a persons arse is their fault - keep your braking distance while driving and you can stop to avoid anything.
"Any time"? you make it sound like they do it all the time, when i can't even think of a single instance. my god you fail so hard you deserve one of those amusing posters.
i think the purpose of the test is to see if situation 1 and 2 happen, and to see if the extra t-cells help maintain the patients t-cell count since hiv can't kill them. obviously the next step is to see if they can get the new host to produce resistant cells and cure them of aids via a bone marrow transplant.
i don't see it, the GPL doesn't demand you contribute anything back to the project, merely that you provide source code to everyone you distribute your changes to.
you can take a GPL product, modify the hell out of it and if you only distribute it internally amongst your company the community will never see it. granted BSD doesn't improve on this situation, but atleast you don't waste energy worrying about licensing issues.
what kind of fucking retarded maths is that, wine has a fraction of the apps xp had so if a fraction of the apps don't work on vista is greater than the piddling amount supported by wine than wine is better?
a quick google of the situation shows these issues are all down to these apps requiring XP/98's poorly thought out security model, requiring access to system components and registry settings. If these software companies refuse to update software to a more secure model than by all means they should be nuked. this is exactly what happens in the linux world, only at a faster pace.
yes i'm really impressed, 16 apps i've never heard of with the exception of utorrent. As for wine being more compatible with windows apps than vista, really such stupidity only hurts the OSS movement, why keep making them?
instead of behaving like spoilt brats, i'd be trying my hardest to find a way to get official support from MS. beg, grovel, change licenses (within reason). if wine really did open your products to new markets it shouldn't be too hard to convince MS to support you, after all new markets mean $.
i suspect wine is nothing more than a toy though, i'd be very interested in seeing a setup which uses it commercially.
i think it's funny that they don't respect adobes right to protect their data, such as the internal workings of their pdf reader. if you really are about freedom, you won't begrudge others choices like FOSS do.
err, how about they put in advertisements, exactly like they do now. if they really are a decent paper they will attract the same prices they do now in their paper version. if they can't then they deserve to die out.
allow a premium subscription service which means you get access a day early, everyone else has to wait a day. no big deal.
people if that's not a big big warning sign i don't know what is. you know what this guy has discovered? if you login as administrator, attackers can do the same things you can.
This is no different to me browsing the web as root in linux and running any shit that pops up
the problem is minimum wage isn't enough to live on already. if your not interested in living conditions and just want to drop the already meaningless jobless figure, yeah sure.
minimum wage is a saftey net which i think needs to be there, too many employers already screw their employees we don't need to go making it even easier for them.
errm "high quality"??? are you fucking kidding me. i'm not knocking all workers here, but it seems the ones desperate to move in under these kinds of visa's are fucking useless. i've had 4 of them cycle through my work place under similar schemes here and only 1 of them was any good, and i wouldn't call him high quality, merely competent.
industry is full of crap when they claim there is a people shortage, what they really mean is there is a shortage of industry willing to train people inhouse.
it can be determined by regular shaping and chipping of the rock that doesn't naturally happen with that type of mineral. the other give away is finding more than one in the same area. even if by some random chance the rock ended up looking like an axe naturally, it won't happen 2 or 3 times more in the same immediate area.
this is why using tax payers money to solve private businesses problems is never right. at most issue low interest short term loans to ease cash flow issues. never just wholesale billion dollar give aways because it'll slide right into the CEO's and exec's pockets.
religous or political differences are the main drivers for wars. we generally have all the resources we need, and those that don't are too poor to fight a war anyway
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if you dislike it i suggest you go live in north korea.
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project. that's the whole point i'm trying to get through to people, start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
to suggest there aren't security concerns around oss is dangerous and misleading. if your objective about it and remove the emotion so common in these arguments you will see the following.
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
OSS takes control away from the customer as to who supplies their patches - who's making those patches? would any OSS project be willing to stand up and say "yes i accept the risk of jail time/legal action if this patch turns out to bite my government customer in the ass"
these are merely the security concerns. yes there is the usual stupid argument of being able to see the source code - but here is a clue for you - that's hellish expensive and blows the OSS is cheap myth out of the water.
this sounds like government playing you guys like a fiddle, and your singing their tune like blind mice.
there is nothing wrong with the backwoods, you insensitive clod.
that's the fault of the guy behind them tail gating. i hate this idea that running up a persons arse is their fault - keep your braking distance while driving and you can stop to avoid anything.
"Any time"? you make it sound like they do it all the time, when i can't even think of a single instance. my god you fail so hard you deserve one of those amusing posters.
the bastards, how dare they deprive us of the oppertunity to pay for things twice!
i think the purpose of the test is to see if situation 1 and 2 happen, and to see if the extra t-cells help maintain the patients t-cell count since hiv can't kill them. obviously the next step is to see if they can get the new host to produce resistant cells and cure them of aids via a bone marrow transplant.
maybe /. needs to get a fucking grip on it's anti MS FUD.
you can take a GPL product, modify the hell out of it and if you only distribute it internally amongst your company the community will never see it. granted BSD doesn't improve on this situation, but atleast you don't waste energy worrying about licensing issues.
forget it dude, you are arguing against a mind set that has attempted to redefine free. but it's very nature it can't understand free.
i also agree this is admitted winCE is crap. we have ruggised hardware at work that uses it and i fucking hate it. activesync is the worse idea evar.
a quick google of the situation shows these issues are all down to these apps requiring XP/98's poorly thought out security model, requiring access to system components and registry settings. If these software companies refuse to update software to a more secure model than by all means they should be nuked. this is exactly what happens in the linux world, only at a faster pace.
instead of behaving like spoilt brats, i'd be trying my hardest to find a way to get official support from MS. beg, grovel, change licenses (within reason). if wine really did open your products to new markets it shouldn't be too hard to convince MS to support you, after all new markets mean $.
i suspect wine is nothing more than a toy though, i'd be very interested in seeing a setup which uses it commercially.
i think it's funny that they don't respect adobes right to protect their data, such as the internal workings of their pdf reader. if you really are about freedom, you won't begrudge others choices like FOSS do.
allow a premium subscription service which means you get access a day early, everyone else has to wait a day. no big deal.
This is no different to me browsing the web as root in linux and running any shit that pops up
it's call ram you spastic. buy some more, 2 gig is entry level these days.
vista is more secure. remeber how you all bitched and moaned non stop about the lack of security in the windows platform?
minimum wage is a saftey net which i think needs to be there, too many employers already screw their employees we don't need to go making it even easier for them.
industry is full of crap when they claim there is a people shortage, what they really mean is there is a shortage of industry willing to train people inhouse.
it can be determined by regular shaping and chipping of the rock that doesn't naturally happen with that type of mineral. the other give away is finding more than one in the same area. even if by some random chance the rock ended up looking like an axe naturally, it won't happen 2 or 3 times more in the same immediate area.
as long as the police must pay damages and make public apologies when ANYONE elses communications are disrupted
this is why using tax payers money to solve private businesses problems is never right. at most issue low interest short term loans to ease cash flow issues. never just wholesale billion dollar give aways because it'll slide right into the CEO's and exec's pockets.
religous or political differences are the main drivers for wars. we generally have all the resources we need, and those that don't are too poor to fight a war anyway