FFS, give it a rest guys: "Gutsy Gibbon is the code name for Ubuntu 7.10, the current Ubuntu release. It was released on 18 October 2007." What bearing a 10 day old distro release has on the role of NTFS write capability on the past decade's plus adoption of Linux is beyond me, but I'll leave you all to sort that out while I go shopping.
Hey thanks for that. However the same page shows it's part of the still rare FUSE framework and wasn't released until last Feb in stable form, so in the context being part of Linux's acceptance it was still an irrelevent troll. Very interesting development though, thx again.
Maybe, but the PShop bitching about the Gimp interface has been going on much, much longer than that. So PShop finally surpassed it's Win 3.1 paradigm. Golf clap.
"If it is forbidden on "privacy" grounds, then the privacy grounds can be addressed, resolved, objection removed and then can become a requirement for work/access-to-services etc." Someone gets it. A big danger is viewing situations like this from the perspective of 'free market forces', an economic concept with no application to rights. In a decent society rights are aren't viewed as transferable commodities, your country's founders enshrined them as 'Inalienable' for very good reasons. The way market concepts are superimposed on everything has all the hallmarks of a cult.
In a commentary about some forgotten 19th century Czarist-era Russian novel I read years ago the writer described how the government censors forced the author to remove a reference to a picture or painting of the czar (IIRC) hanging on a character's wall as being 'disrespectful'. It amazed me at the time how far we'ld advanced. Obiously there's no shortage of people who want old times returned.
".. it was more due to the fact that BeOS had very little capabilities that were tying up its resources. "
Oh bullshit. Perfect timing as well. Not five minutes ago my work desktop locked up for 45-60 seconds opening a simple HTML e-mail in Outlook and XP. As has been depressingly common with Windows for ages, having difficulties finding a remote source it simply ignored user inputs to concentrate on a network task presumably requiring well under 1% of the hardware's capabilities. Every Outlook window became unresponsive, as did server-hosted toolbars, etc.. These are architectural design decisions, not 'features' cutting off the use, unless 32-bit colour is now an extreme Windows desktop feature.
I'm impressed but the subset of cheaters who would go to so much effort is much, much smaller than those willing to install a software hack. If the latter herd can be thinned than those who will go to the effort will stand out that much more in gameplay too.
Stop talking sense. Reality's shades of grey are confusing and blur the crystal clarity of black/white dualism. Subtle distinctions are not the path to karma.
Correct. I download unfamiliar music to expand my library, then track down what I like for purchase. The 'big hole' there is it's typically small label stuff and near unobtanium so I'm stuck with the download. Exactly as a major label would want BTW, limited distribution for competitors, they define popular taste via radio and video payola, and use the clout of federal criminal law to protect their market. All 'for the artists' of course, the same ones who despise them and launch suit to prevent industry adoption of 'work for hire' contracts, lose all the early earnings from success to the record company, etc.
If a performer considers playing live for an audience a 'marketing scheme', nothing more than a duty to make more money, I'ld be happy to find that person appearing next in front of the local drugstore playing behind an upturned hat.
The entire article hinges on a twisted notion of freedom as the 'freedom' to close code designed to be open. It strikes at the core tenants of the GPL which I have always understood to be social, to maximize openess and sharing. Though I'm not a developer and refer to those more in the know, the entire notion of that the GPL is popular not because it permits leveraging massive prior art but in the same sense the Spice Girls were makes absolutely no sense to me. whurley's article reeks of base self-interest and is difficult to accept as disinterested examination of a license issue.
"But, they used to buy MORE than they do now. And the form in which you usually buy it (say, on a CD) remains available. What's changed is that people are no longer willing to pay what the artists ask for their recordings because they've found an easy way to rip it off, instead. "
If you really want to tie cause and correlation without proof I recall unit sales peaked when Naspter was at the height of its popularity. File sharing increases sales, DRM causes them to plummet. As QED as anything you wrote.
"Illegal is another way to say your society has determined it is wrong."
I'll be honest, I read no further because your opening premise begs the question. Well, to be blunt it was bullshit. The current copyright regime is the product of centuries of influence peddling and lobbying by immortal corporations extending back to well before music was electronically recorded. Do your homework, look into the debates that raged when people sang at home and printed scores 'threatened the arts'. Society didn't decide, select special interests bought this legislation and with DRM finally becoming effective 'society' is just beginning to understand the degree to which they've been sold out by their politicians.
"So yeah, sucks to be dragged into it, but when IBM says they don't give you money either directly or through a third party and they clearly do, well, hell, way to drop the ball guys."
Unless IBM specifically instructs OSDL to forward the donation to Groklaw, they are not 'clearly' donating money through a third party. OSDL independently chooses to use the money in that way, OSDL makes that choice. Big difference.
Unfortunately it matters to society. Unfounded beliefs of all sorts - religious, economic, racial, and nationalist - have caused incalculable harm and the deaths of uncounted millions throughout history. It may have no effect on physical processes but it has a very real effect on people.
Cause? Or symptom? Perhaps the reason you weren't taught evolution is the same forces comprising the 48% also had a hand in designing your school curriculum. BTW, not just overseas. Canadians are, or at least were when I attended, taught evolution well before post-secondary education.
"Many of the bands we still listen to (such as the Beatles) weren't label stooges, but I'm sure they were the exception."
Dead wrong, a viewpoint that could only be entertained by someone too young to remember music before videos. It would be entertaining to see your contention proven. Peter, Paul and Mary were one act of thousands hitting the charts during their heyday.
I was talking music two days ago with the music director of a major market Jack-type station and he confided they're desperate for recent releases which don't absolutely pale in relation to the previous 25 years the format covers. The best they could do were Nelly and Gwen. Even those in the industry realize today's releases are almost universally cynical, synthetic crap. It seems as 'IP rights' tighten, culture worsens. It's an invalid concept in need of repeal.
"The researchers then studied 68 men and found those who played even one racing game took more risks afterward in traffic situations on a computer simulator than those who played another type of game."
Sorry, I know you wanted to feel like you were smarter than those who actually did read the article. No driving tests - as understood in regular English - were involved. People who played sims based on aggressive driving then carried some of that aggression into other driving sims and reported more thoughts and feelings associated with risk-taking than the others. . No real driving was involved in this stunt. Feel free to try it at home.
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FFS, give it a rest guys: "Gutsy Gibbon is the code name for Ubuntu 7.10, the current Ubuntu release. It was released on 18 October 2007." What bearing a 10 day old distro release has on the role of NTFS write capability on the past decade's plus adoption of Linux is beyond me, but I'll leave you all to sort that out while I go shopping.
Hey thanks for that. However the same page shows it's part of the still rare FUSE framework and wasn't released until last Feb in stable form, so in the context being part of Linux's acceptance it was still an irrelevent troll. Very interesting development though, thx again.
Masterful, but you worked the bait just a little too hard at that point.
Maybe, but the PShop bitching about the Gimp interface has been going on much, much longer than that. So PShop finally surpassed it's Win 3.1 paradigm. Golf clap.
In a commentary about some forgotten 19th century Czarist-era Russian novel I read years ago the writer described how the government censors forced the author to remove a reference to a picture or painting of the czar (IIRC) hanging on a character's wall as being 'disrespectful'. It amazed me at the time how far we'ld advanced. Obiously there's no shortage of people who want old times returned.
Oh bullshit. Perfect timing as well. Not five minutes ago my work desktop locked up for 45-60 seconds opening a simple HTML e-mail in Outlook and XP. As has been depressingly common with Windows for ages, having difficulties finding a remote source it simply ignored user inputs to concentrate on a network task presumably requiring well under 1% of the hardware's capabilities. Every Outlook window became unresponsive, as did server-hosted toolbars, etc.. These are architectural design decisions, not 'features' cutting off the use, unless 32-bit colour is now an extreme Windows desktop feature.
I'm impressed but the subset of cheaters who would go to so much effort is much, much smaller than those willing to install a software hack. If the latter herd can be thinned than those who will go to the effort will stand out that much more in gameplay too.
Gaming's hope is a technical solution less draconian than not encoding multimedia while playing online?
Stop talking sense. Reality's shades of grey are confusing and blur the crystal clarity of black/white dualism. Subtle distinctions are not the path to karma.
Correct. I download unfamiliar music to expand my library, then track down what I like for purchase. The 'big hole' there is it's typically small label stuff and near unobtanium so I'm stuck with the download. Exactly as a major label would want BTW, limited distribution for competitors, they define popular taste via radio and video payola, and use the clout of federal criminal law to protect their market. All 'for the artists' of course, the same ones who despise them and launch suit to prevent industry adoption of 'work for hire' contracts, lose all the early earnings from success to the record company, etc.
If a performer considers playing live for an audience a 'marketing scheme', nothing more than a duty to make more money, I'ld be happy to find that person appearing next in front of the local drugstore playing behind an upturned hat.
The entire article hinges on a twisted notion of freedom as the 'freedom' to close code designed to be open. It strikes at the core tenants of the GPL which I have always understood to be social, to maximize openess and sharing. Though I'm not a developer and refer to those more in the know, the entire notion of that the GPL is popular not because it permits leveraging massive prior art but in the same sense the Spice Girls were makes absolutely no sense to me. whurley's article reeks of base self-interest and is difficult to accept as disinterested examination of a license issue.
If you really want to tie cause and correlation without proof I recall unit sales peaked when Naspter was at the height of its popularity. File sharing increases sales, DRM causes them to plummet. As QED as anything you wrote.
Question begging bolded for clarity.
I'll be honest, I read no further because your opening premise begs the question. Well, to be blunt it was bullshit. The current copyright regime is the product of centuries of influence peddling and lobbying by immortal corporations extending back to well before music was electronically recorded. Do your homework, look into the debates that raged when people sang at home and printed scores 'threatened the arts'. Society didn't decide, select special interests bought this legislation and with DRM finally becoming effective 'society' is just beginning to understand the degree to which they've been sold out by their politicians.
"In public, you have no right to privacy."
and
"..governments have every right to put cameras out in public places if they so choose."
though a demonstration would be interesting.
Not quite, SCO engaged in tactics already old hat to Microsoft. The latter mastered FUD. Google Windows and OS2.
SueAnnSueAnn? You certainly proved your geek creds.
Unless IBM specifically instructs OSDL to forward the donation to Groklaw, they are not 'clearly' donating money through a third party. OSDL independently chooses to use the money in that way, OSDL makes that choice. Big difference.
Hook, line and sinker. Nicely done. Unless of course you really are a pedophilic science-teaching Wiccan terrorist, in which case my apologies.
Unfortunately it matters to society. Unfounded beliefs of all sorts - religious, economic, racial, and nationalist - have caused incalculable harm and the deaths of uncounted millions throughout history. It may have no effect on physical processes but it has a very real effect on people.
Cause? Or symptom? Perhaps the reason you weren't taught evolution is the same forces comprising the 48% also had a hand in designing your school curriculum. BTW, not just overseas. Canadians are, or at least were when I attended, taught evolution well before post-secondary education.
Dead wrong, a viewpoint that could only be entertained by someone too young to remember music before videos. It would be entertaining to see your contention proven. Peter, Paul and Mary were one act of thousands hitting the charts during their heyday.
I was talking music two days ago with the music director of a major market Jack-type station and he confided they're desperate for recent releases which don't absolutely pale in relation to the previous 25 years the format covers. The best they could do were Nelly and Gwen. Even those in the industry realize today's releases are almost universally cynical, synthetic crap. It seems as 'IP rights' tighten, culture worsens. It's an invalid concept in need of repeal.
"The researchers then studied 68 men and found those who played even one racing game took more risks afterward in traffic situations on a computer simulator than those who played another type of game."
Sorry, I know you wanted to feel like you were smarter than those who actually did read the article. No driving tests - as understood in regular English - were involved. People who played sims based on aggressive driving then carried some of that aggression into other driving sims and reported more thoughts and feelings associated with risk-taking than the others. . No real driving was involved in this stunt. Feel free to try it at home.