Re:He Might Be Passe, But What He Is Doing Isn't
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Wired on McBride
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How is linux not well documented?
There are a zillion books in the book stores, there are a zillion howto's on the web, there is documentation on all the download pages.
Compare that with the documentation of say, windows. Does windows document how there stuff works? No, it is a trade secret. There are a zillion how to operate and configure and fix, just like linux.
The only difference appears to be that linux ALSO provides documentation on its internals. So that qualifies as poorly documented?
junk mail *does* clog the snail mail system. And last I checked, the snail mail system was not profitable. We are subsidizing those snail spammers with our tax dollars, not the other way around.
This scheme and every scheme that tries to make email cost money or cpu cycles, which is the same thing, is just a way to push the little guy out of the market and replace him with the big guy.
Lets take a free system and make it a paid system or lets intentionally slow it down, or make it so it only works on newer faster hardware. Yeah, and lets get the people that will end up paying for the system to fight for it. Gee, I cant imagine who would benefit from a solution like that.
ps - junk mail is called "junk" for a reason - because it is *NOT* targeted advertising. Just like spam.
This is microsoft's dream come true, but it does not work.
Look at your mail box. All that junk mail was paid with postage. It does nothing to deter them from continually bombarding you with the junk mail.
The only think it does is hurt the little guy. Big advertisers will always pay the price to spam you with junk mail and junk email.
This will just mean the little spammers will be replaced with big spammers. And the company controlling the postage meter will get quite rich. And your email will still contain just as much spam. Only it will be called targeted marketing material that you are interested.
Why should anyone let it go?
You should let go the case you mentioned because:
1. It was over a decade ago.
2. The people making the claim settled the case for many many many millions of dollars.
3. The act was unique.
Unfortunately, the "solution" did not solve the problem. Microsoft was proven to use illegal monopolistic practices to destroy their competition. So we slap them with a fine, which they promptly pass on to the end user. Since they are still a monopoly they can still do as they please. The act was not unique. They still use the same techniques.
A better solution to illegal monopoly actions is to bar the corporation from that business space. That is the only *fair* solution. They illegally took the space, so they must give it back. Let the competitors that were stolen from get back into that space.
Right now, corporations have similar rights to people, but not similar punishments. A fine does nothing, a scapegoat in jail does nothing. How about holding the corporation accountable for what they do? How about taking away their license when they break the law? Drunk drivers lose their license, why doesnt a corporation?
If the corporations want to be treated the same as people, I say let them, but they get the whole meal, not just the dessert.
We have all learned these principles in our college classes. They all sound good and resonate with us as what we *should* do. But the real question is, do they result in good software delivered on time, with good quality?
In order to create a list of rules to deliver good quality software on time, someone would need to have experience with or interview someone that has achieved those results.
Microsoft does not release quality products on schedule. They habitually slip their products by years and release their products way before they have been quality verified.
They do indeed have some quality products, but they are a long time coming and they usually are preceded by many versions of inferior quality first.
This list is similar to the business guru books full of the latest buzz rules. And then there is Peter Drucker, who actually studies the REAL successes and writes what THEY do. Those are the REAL rules.
Re:This isnt a credible news source
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Open Source Life?
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Its just ruminations on someones blog and should be treated as such.
No, this is a real issue with companies like monsanto patenting life. The article mentions a real life case where a farmer lost rights to his own harvest because it was infected by monsanto pollen.
Also practiced now: Farmers must agree not to germinate plants from seeds grown from their own harvest or they wont be able to buy the seeds. Basically you plant an apple tree and dont have a right to plant the apple seeds from that tree anymore. Not a big deal if there are seeds to buy that dont have this restriction. But what happens when the only seeds available or when your entire crop has been poluted unbeknownst to you (like in the monsanto canola case) are protected with this clause?
This is the start of monopolization of the food industry. It is not a good thing for small farmers and it is not a good thing for consumers, but as with all monopolies, it is very beneficial to the monopoly itself.
There were arrests of the demonstrators, in fact arresting demonstrators is becoming more and more common in america.
Yet the only outrage appears to come in support of issues like the freedom to sell nazi paraphenalia on ebay or the freedom to put up websites with nazi propaganda.
So I say again, why all the outrage in support of racism, which is clearly NOT speech and was never intended to be protected speech and NO outrage over arrests for REAL political speech and political protest?
Funny how everyone claims racist speech falls under the protection of free speech and defend it from their rooftops, but the same people are completely silent when it comes to politically unpopular speech. (which is what the law was made to protect.)
Where were all these "free speech" advocates when the anti-war demonstrators were labeled terrorists in america? Where was the "slippery slope" when Howard Stearn was fired for political speech under the guise of cleaning up the airwaves?
that is just total propaganda. Someone may sell their vote and a paper trail could be used as a receipt - oh gosh.
Much better to have a system that anyone that has ever used microsoft access can change every vote instantly to whatever they please with zero accountability - to prevent against the chance that someone might sell their vote. Much better for 30% of the populace to be at the mercy of a company like diebold that breaks the law by putting completely untested software in voting precincts and whose ceo guarantees to deliver votes to GW come election day. Yeah that sounds much better.
PS - turn your brain on and rush off. Think about what you say before you pass it on as real thought.
everyone uses google as proof of success. But has anyone tried searching with it recently (since they stopped using the algorithm they stole from stanford)? The results are totally irrelevant and usually bring back single pages from 1998 or link farms. The only relevant pages are ads - as every serious page now needs to pay to be included.
Yeah that's your phd hard at work, breaking "fixing" something that wasnt broke.
Anyone use those cartridge refill kits? Does it affect the print quality in any way? Does it end up saving you money?
I have an hp deskjet 842c that has held up about 3 years now, no complaints, other than everyone elses - the ink runs out quickly and is expensive to replace.
fyi - In the same time period i have gone through 3 HP pcs (wet climate) and now steer clear of hp completely.
Just shows how low the media whores in this country. No objection to printing that in Time magazine. An African country can see the absurdity of these ads and force retractions, but not here.
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How is linux not well documented?
There are a zillion books in the book stores, there are a zillion howto's on the web, there is documentation on all the download pages.
Compare that with the documentation of say, windows. Does windows document how there stuff works? No, it is a trade secret. There are a zillion how to operate and configure and fix, just like linux.
The only difference appears to be that linux ALSO provides documentation on its internals. So that qualifies as poorly documented?
junk mail *does* clog the snail mail system. And last I checked, the snail mail system was not profitable. We are subsidizing those snail spammers with our tax dollars, not the other way around.
This scheme and every scheme that tries to make email cost money or cpu cycles, which is the same thing, is just a way to push the little guy out of the market and replace him with the big guy.
Lets take a free system and make it a paid system or lets intentionally slow it down, or make it so it only works on newer faster hardware. Yeah, and lets get the people that will end up paying for the system to fight for it. Gee, I cant imagine who would benefit from a solution like that.
ps - junk mail is called "junk" for a reason - because it is *NOT* targeted advertising. Just like spam.
This is microsoft's dream come true, but it does not work.
Look at your mail box. All that junk mail was paid with postage. It does nothing to deter them from continually bombarding you with the junk mail.
The only think it does is hurt the little guy. Big advertisers will always pay the price to spam you with junk mail and junk email.
This will just mean the little spammers will be replaced with big spammers. And the company controlling the postage meter will get quite rich. And your email will still contain just as much spam. Only it will be called targeted marketing material that you are interested.
Why should anyone let it go?
You should let go the case you mentioned because:
1. It was over a decade ago.
2. The people making the claim settled the case for many many many millions of dollars.
3. The act was unique.
Unfortunately, the "solution" did not solve the problem. Microsoft was proven to use illegal monopolistic practices to destroy their competition. So we slap them with a fine, which they promptly pass on to the end user. Since they are still a monopoly they can still do as they please. The act was not unique. They still use the same techniques.
A better solution to illegal monopoly actions is to bar the corporation from that business space. That is the only *fair* solution. They illegally took the space, so they must give it back. Let the competitors that were stolen from get back into that space.
Right now, corporations have similar rights to people, but not similar punishments. A fine does nothing, a scapegoat in jail does nothing. How about holding the corporation accountable for what they do? How about taking away their license when they break the law? Drunk drivers lose their license, why doesnt a corporation?
If the corporations want to be treated the same as people, I say let them, but they get the whole meal, not just the dessert.
We have all learned these principles in our college classes. They all sound good and resonate with us as what we *should* do. But the real question is, do they result in good software delivered on time, with good quality?
In order to create a list of rules to deliver good quality software on time, someone would need to have experience with or interview someone that has achieved those results.
Microsoft does not release quality products on schedule. They habitually slip their products by years and release their products way before they have been quality verified.
They do indeed have some quality products, but they are a long time coming and they usually are preceded by many versions of inferior quality first.
This list is similar to the business guru books full of the latest buzz rules. And then there is Peter Drucker, who actually studies the REAL successes and writes what THEY do. Those are the REAL rules.
Its just ruminations on someones blog and should be treated as such.
No, this is a real issue with companies like monsanto patenting life. The article mentions a real life case where a farmer lost rights to his own harvest because it was infected by monsanto pollen.
Also practiced now: Farmers must agree not to germinate plants from seeds grown from their own harvest or they wont be able to buy the seeds. Basically you plant an apple tree and dont have a right to plant the apple seeds from that tree anymore. Not a big deal if there are seeds to buy that dont have this restriction. But what happens when the only seeds available or when your entire crop has been poluted unbeknownst to you (like in the monsanto canola case) are protected with this clause?
This is the start of monopolization of the food industry. It is not a good thing for small farmers and it is not a good thing for consumers, but as with all monopolies, it is very beneficial to the monopoly itself.
argosoft makes a good mail server that is easy to configure and easy to secure.
There were arrests of the demonstrators, in fact arresting demonstrators is becoming more and more common in america.
Yet the only outrage appears to come in support of issues like the freedom to sell nazi paraphenalia on ebay or the freedom to put up websites with nazi propaganda.
So I say again, why all the outrage in support of racism, which is clearly NOT speech and was never intended to be protected speech and NO outrage over arrests for REAL political speech and political protest?
Funny how everyone claims racist speech falls under the protection of free speech and defend it from their rooftops, but the same people are completely silent when it comes to politically unpopular speech. (which is what the law was made to protect.)
Where were all these "free speech" advocates when the anti-war demonstrators were labeled terrorists in america? Where was the "slippery slope" when Howard Stearn was fired for political speech under the guise of cleaning up the airwaves?
that is just total propaganda. Someone may sell their vote and a paper trail could be used as a receipt - oh gosh. Much better to have a system that anyone that has ever used microsoft access can change every vote instantly to whatever they please with zero accountability - to prevent against the chance that someone might sell their vote. Much better for 30% of the populace to be at the mercy of a company like diebold that breaks the law by putting completely untested software in voting precincts and whose ceo guarantees to deliver votes to GW come election day. Yeah that sounds much better. PS - turn your brain on and rush off. Think about what you say before you pass it on as real thought.
everyone uses google as proof of success. But has anyone tried searching with it recently (since they stopped using the algorithm they stole from stanford)? The results are totally irrelevant and usually bring back single pages from 1998 or link farms. The only relevant pages are ads - as every serious page now needs to pay to be included.
Yeah that's your phd hard at work, breaking "fixing" something that wasnt broke.
bullets are a pretty common feature to have consistent problems with.
Anyone use those cartridge refill kits? Does it affect the print quality in any way? Does it end up saving you money?
I have an hp deskjet 842c that has held up about 3 years now, no complaints, other than everyone elses - the ink runs out quickly and is expensive to replace.
fyi - In the same time period i have gone through 3 HP pcs (wet climate) and now steer clear of hp completely.
Just shows how low the media whores in this country. No objection to printing that in Time magazine. An African country can see the absurdity of these ads and force retractions, but not here.