Given that most of the 'professional' opinions here equate to "the Gimp sux", "PS roolz", "the Gimp is shite", and, from one "the developers should have their teeth kicked out", I highly doubt the men and women who spent uncounted hours contributing code will weigh the opinion of these 'professionals' carefully. The stridency, partiality and invictive displayed here today would make a 'Linux zealot' cringe.
Thanks for providing an excellent example of where this sort of 'education' leads. "Piracy" was never a term for individual use or sharing until the MPAA and their ilk began distorting the language through such indoctrinational campaigns. In the past it meant exactly the selling of unauthorized reproductions for profit. Now it means what they want. Dictionaries are bound to add new usages, that doesn't however validate the principal.
Foreign stations are banned here? Well that finally explains the mile-high Gauss screen along the border from Pacific to Atlantic. And here I thought it had something to do with bird migration.
As was pointed out above, Clear CHannel does not own the spectrum they use, they're granted a license to manage a public asset for for the public good and turn a fair profit doing so. There is absolutely no correlation here to printing presses or mail servers, even on Slashdot.
My irony meters are spinning like propellors. These same Enlightenment-esque desktops were for years the reason Linux couldn't succeed.
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Not sure why you say that, it is exactly a giant subwoofer, but thanks for the very interesting link. A clever use of attic space that I've never seen before.
The encoding market, the companies providing encoded content. They pay licensing. If all end users listen via MS codecs, all content producers pay MS. The desktop world doesn't end at your desktop.
Here's where being a computer geek starts showing its limits.;)
That's not the reason, not at all. Discounting potential damage and erroneous warranty claims, car makers must also adhere by federal law to an enourmous body of regulation involving emmissions and performance standards. These computers are an integral component of meeting those goals. Letting third parties alter algorithms and parameters conceivably puts them at risk.
The lack of structured branding is part of Linux's character and charm and in my eyes, paradoxically, almost an anti-branding form of branding. Going back to "MS" or "i" always makes me feel like I'm sitting in front of 'product', something Linux never does, save for the more corporately focused distros like RedHat's BlueCurve effort.
"... can we leave the editorials out of the submissions?"
Errrr, there'd be no point in the submission without the 'abuse of database' angle, agree with it or not. That's why it's Your Rights Online, the 'right' to patient care (quotation marks not required in all countries.)
"IN real life, there ARE patients who wind up sueing every doctor in town."
They leave a trail and represent an extreme case. Are these doctors differentiating, databasing only the extreme cases? Little chance.
"There are patients who try to scam painkillers off of doctors, there are patients who try to forge perscriptions for Morphine at pharmacies."
Irrelevant and ad hominem, associating medical malpractice claimants with scammers and crooks. Cheap shot and statistically meaningless.
"Yes, some patients do have real legitimate cases, but if they wind up sueing more than 2 doctors, do you want to take them in as your patient?"
Ah well, now we come to the crux of it, don't we? Apparently it doesn't matter if these people were multiple victims or sued multiple practioners in a single incident, screw the Hypocratic Oath and them again by denying care.
"Why don't you pay thousands a month in malpractice insurance, and let me know what you will do."
Chaulk it up to the cost of doing business, continue earning my six figures and try to remember the reasons for entering medicine instead of auto repair. See Hypocratic Oath above. BTW, where does the money for that insurance premium comes from if not increased patient billings? They're the ones really paying for the scammers, and now the legitimate victims get to pay again by being denied care.
Nice twist of the facts. If the memo is accurate, Microsoft funded a lawsuit under the cover of buying SCO licenses. That is their claim. If it's so 'valid', why not fund the lawsuit openly, as you're suggesting in the RedHat/IBM case?
Conniving liars are contemptible no matter which 'side' they support, and I'd wager the majority here wouldn't agree with your second paragraph
The XFree86 team is completely free to change their license as they see fit and distro packagers have the same freedom to reject software based on a license they don't like. Both sides are right.
Before everybody starts claiming otherwise, you don't have devote an entire desktop to the Gimp 2. All functions are available in pull downs, and the tabbed or individual floating pallettes are optional. User choice.
The FBI could have backed up the required data on site without shutting down the business, unless they reason to believe the host was in collusion and trying to hide data. This was purely a message to the next hosting company: comply or we'll destroy your means of making a living. Poor FBI agent indeed.
Agreed on the Reno thing though, Bush/Ashcroft are continuing the work Clinton/Reno began with the War on Drugs.
You could change Raptor to 'our elastic bands and paper clips' given the current domestic stance on the issue and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to Taiwan's fate in an attack.
Whenever the Police get new tools or new powers some nut always comes along and worries about what would happen if the tools fell into the wrong hands.
True, there is an unfortunate history of that in America, starting with the Framers of your Constitution. Good thing you've outgrown such primitive attitudes.
" Most companies using Linux (not including embedded Linux-based appliance makers, which could have more significant risk) could easily bury the cost of protection in their IT budget without anyone batting so much as an eyelash. But, you can't bury the damages in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, or the pink slip that goes with them.
Basically, you have one question to ask yourself: How much peace of mind do you have now and how much more are you willing to spend for a little extra?
Others here have argued that the appearance of such warnings in the popular press - making Linux a risk - was part of SCO's intent all along. Don't know if they're right but the warnings are here.
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Given that most of the 'professional' opinions here equate to "the Gimp sux", "PS roolz", "the Gimp is shite", and, from one "the developers should have their teeth kicked out", I highly doubt the men and women who spent uncounted hours contributing code will weigh the opinion of these 'professionals' carefully. The stridency, partiality and invictive displayed here today would make a 'Linux zealot' cringe.
Most importantly, I think, the GIMP community needs once again to have its teeth kicked in for its idiocy in choosing the name 'GIMP.'
What a pretentious asshole.
Where does Jack think his highly technology-dependant industry would be without those engineers and tinkerers?
Thanks for providing an excellent example of where this sort of 'education' leads. "Piracy" was never a term for individual use or sharing until the MPAA and their ilk began distorting the language through such indoctrinational campaigns. In the past it meant exactly the selling of unauthorized reproductions for profit. Now it means what they want. Dictionaries are bound to add new usages, that doesn't however validate the principal.
Foreign stations are banned here? Well that finally explains the mile-high Gauss screen along the border from Pacific to Atlantic. And here I thought it had something to do with bird migration.
As was pointed out above, Clear CHannel does not own the spectrum they use, they're granted a license to manage a public asset for for the public good and turn a fair profit doing so. There is absolutely no correlation here to printing presses or mail servers, even on Slashdot.
My irony meters are spinning like propellors. These same Enlightenment-esque desktops were for years the reason Linux couldn't succeed.
Not sure why you say that, it is exactly a giant subwoofer, but thanks for the very interesting link. A clever use of attic space that I've never seen before.
The hundreds of thousands of children under Saddam who died because of US manipulation of the UN embargo.
The encoding market, the companies providing encoded content. They pay licensing. If all end users listen via MS codecs, all content producers pay MS. The desktop world doesn't end at your desktop.
They buy it pre-installed with new hardware.
"...the operating system is installed not more than once."
Ooops, my mistake. I thought you were describing Windows.
That's not the reason, not at all. Discounting potential damage and erroneous warranty claims, car makers must also adhere by federal law to an enourmous body of regulation involving emmissions and performance standards. These computers are an integral component of meeting those goals. Letting third parties alter algorithms and parameters conceivably puts them at risk.
The lack of structured branding is part of Linux's character and charm and in my eyes, paradoxically, almost an anti-branding form of branding. Going back to "MS" or "i" always makes me feel like I'm sitting in front of 'product', something Linux never does, save for the more corporately focused distros like RedHat's BlueCurve effort.
The post was downloaded and copied to your computer long before it reached your mind. Just like listening to an mp3. I'll take that 2 cents. :)
My least favourite reasoning.
"... can we leave the editorials out of the submissions?"
Errrr, there'd be no point in the submission without the 'abuse of database' angle, agree with it or not. That's why it's Your Rights Online, the 'right' to patient care (quotation marks not required in all countries.)
"IN real life, there ARE patients who wind up sueing every doctor in town."
They leave a trail and represent an extreme case. Are these doctors differentiating, databasing only the extreme cases? Little chance.
"There are patients who try to scam painkillers off of doctors, there are patients who try to forge perscriptions for Morphine at pharmacies."
Irrelevant and ad hominem, associating medical malpractice claimants with scammers and crooks. Cheap shot and statistically meaningless.
"Yes, some patients do have real legitimate cases, but if they wind up sueing more than 2 doctors, do you want to take them in as your patient?"
Ah well, now we come to the crux of it, don't we? Apparently it doesn't matter if these people were multiple victims or sued multiple practioners in a single incident, screw the Hypocratic Oath and them again by denying care.
"Why don't you pay thousands a month in malpractice insurance, and let me know what you will do."
Chaulk it up to the cost of doing business, continue earning my six figures and try to remember the reasons for entering medicine instead of auto repair. See Hypocratic Oath above. BTW, where does the money for that insurance premium comes from if not increased patient billings? They're the ones really paying for the scammers, and now the legitimate victims get to pay again by being denied care.
Conniving liars are contemptible no matter which 'side' they support, and I'd wager the majority here wouldn't agree with your second paragraph
86 million buys lunch at Microsoft. it's a very, very wealthy company.
The XFree86 team is completely free to change their license as they see fit and distro packagers have the same freedom to reject software based on a license they don't like. Both sides are right.
MSPaint? You had me going there for a while. :)
Oops, too late.
Ironic that two decades ago the right wing flag wavers made a career of berating the Soviet Union for these same acts.
Agreed on the Reno thing though, Bush/Ashcroft are continuing the work Clinton/Reno began with the War on Drugs.
You could change Raptor to 'our elastic bands and paper clips' given the current domestic stance on the issue and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to Taiwan's fate in an attack.
True, there is an unfortunate history of that in America, starting with the Framers of your Constitution. Good thing you've outgrown such primitive attitudes.
Basically, you have one question to ask yourself: How much peace of mind do you have now and how much more are you willing to spend for a little extra?
Others here have argued that the appearance of such warnings in the popular press - making Linux a risk - was part of SCO's intent all along. Don't know if they're right but the warnings are here.