True, but a K-horn will play at lease breaking levels with a single watt. Think of all the space and electricity you'll save on electronics. Tell the neighbours it's saving the enviromnent.
1/2 is wild exaggeration, or I must be very lucky. My home machines have run non-privledged accounts for years and the only applications requiring Admin are Mathcad 8 Explorer and the 'cdburn' iso utility from from the 2k administrator kit. That's it, none of two dozen plus games or any of the third party CAD and design software has issues.
I also run ~70 machines at work across a wide variaety of applications as User, here it's a little different. One or two very obscure single developer packages - industry specific audio loggers for example - need the ACLs tweaked in the registry. Oh, and RealOne complains about admin rights, but that's a feature, not a bug.
"But enough about language nitpicks. The point of the article was not that many people think that the definition of "stealing", as laid down in dictionary, does not exactly fit the crime of copyright infringement". The point was that many people do not see copyright infringement as immoral, or at most as a minor misdemeanor."
It's almost a certainty that asked if 'stealing' is immoral the same respondants would answer yes, making a strong argument they don't equate downloading with stealing in common usage. It's content provider propaganda, and I have never heard sneaking into a movie theatre called stealing.
"...artists should be able to reap the fruits of their work, and retain full rights to them. I think that copyright is a basic moral right that in principle belongs with the artist, and is not something to be lightly toyed with in order to maximise the benefit to society, as if we're communists...."
From where comes this right to make use the communal language and society's common history to express a twist on an idea and demand none of the other hundreds of millions of members of that society will repeat or make use of it (using the common language) until that single individual decides when and how, and to further enforce that demand under threat of government force? You are aware it's the government which imprisons content transgressors? Sounds like Corporatism to me, price fixing the cost of grain to yield maximum profit.
By the time-tested academic method of writing down possible percentages on 3x6 cards, putting them all in a hat and kicking it down the stairs. Top two stairs win. Also explains why it doesn't add up to 100% and ignores overlapping results, i.e. those who use both purchased and free downloads.
"....people are actively stealing significant quantities of music/movies..."
Stealing is bad because it causes incontravertable harm, the reason laws against it have been on the books for as long as books have existed. That's why it's called a crime.
The RIAA members have yet to prove incontravertable harm in a manner a disinterested third party can accept. Until then calling downloads 'stealing' is propaganda. The societal costs for enacting laws based on propaganda will be immense, far far far outweighing the potential loss of revenue to what, in the grand scope of things, is a tiny sub-industry.
"The best people of my generation, 'gen Y' aren't empowered yet."
Explaining why you know so little about the Boomer Generation. They were active in civil movements, feminist reform, striking out against the 'military-industrial-complex' with violence, blah blah blah with an intensity that would mortify any of the Y-Gen's I know. They shut down entire cities. If you 're serious about making a difference study the actions and philosophies that lit a fire under youth in the fifties and sixties and discover how so many of my generation became such monumental dickheads. I see nothing in youth, in fact quite the opposite with their complete and then-unknown rampant degree of brand consumerism, to suggest you're not on the same course. You'll just be better dressed.
Most home users I know - normal family types - have expensive software they didn't buy, save for subscription stuff like anti-virus. I think it's more accurate to say OSX becomes a viable option when replacement software they "don't have to buy" is readily available. Pretty much Chris Seibold's contention.
"Just a thought, but if you wanted to not get moderated as a troll, it might help if you didn't have "troll" in your name. Walks like a duck and all..."
But you'ld expect it to work in my favour when I compliment MS product!;)
The topic at hand is the Linux desktop's readiness to compete with OSX. I presumed that your post (often a mistake on Slashdot for sure), being the first moderated one, was on topic. You focused criticism on package management, incorrectly ascribing to all of them a fault commonly leveled at one: RPM, and associations (to which I can't disagree), followed by suggestions for a system in which programs keep all the files necessary for them to run in individual directories save for a single, common library provided by the OS. I responded that by this standard Windows XP isn't ready either. It seems to do quite well against OSX, BTW. (Is DLL Hell even a valid criticism of Windows anymore? The only time I see it is updating ported GTK apps.)
"Thirdly, *what* Windows XP package manager? "
Note my quotes around 'package management'. In the context of Linux desktop readiness, any reasonable person should have taken that to mean the OS's mechanism for installing and removing software, the purpose of package managers. The abysmal state of Slashdot moderation notwithstanding.
No kidding. If this, what looks like bits of the Rox desktop combined with Karumba and some icons locked into corners, represents Linux's only hope the OS is well and truly screwed. Or, as you say, it's an ad.
By the standard applied above Win XP's 'package manager' isn't ready for the desktop, which has been proven untrue hundreds of millions of times. Draw your own conclusions about the standard being applied.
It's not fair. Had these rules been in place for the full lifetimes of all involved there is a sense in which the term 'fair' can be applied, though it's still wrong, stupid and damaging to society. This mid-stream change to existing copyright is anything but fair.
Doesn't work. Look at what this administration has done to the concept of oversight when it comes to environmental protection, use people from affected industries to 'guard the henhouse'. The most important thing is to make sure they don't get their way.
Sounds like the bot skill was set to a low level and auto-adjust off. UT2k4's AI has a number of problems. At high skill levels the bots break off fighting each other and attack non-bots simultaneously during a frag, their aim becomes riduculously accurate with the most basic weapons and they detect your presence from a distance and fire headshots faster than any human could. They become a teaming clan of 12 year olds with wall hacks and aimbots.
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True, but a K-horn will play at lease breaking levels with a single watt. Think of all the space and electricity you'll save on electronics. Tell the neighbours it's saving the enviromnent.
I also run ~70 machines at work across a wide variaety of applications as User, here it's a little different. One or two very obscure single developer packages - industry specific audio loggers for example - need the ACLs tweaked in the registry. Oh, and RealOne complains about admin rights, but that's a feature, not a bug.
It's almost a certainty that asked if 'stealing' is immoral the same respondants would answer yes, making a strong argument they don't equate downloading with stealing in common usage. It's content provider propaganda, and I have never heard sneaking into a movie theatre called stealing.
"...artists should be able to reap the fruits of their work, and retain full rights to them. I think that copyright is a basic moral right that in principle belongs with the artist, and is not something to be lightly toyed with in order to maximise the benefit to society, as if we're communists ...."
From where comes this right to make use the communal language and society's common history to express a twist on an idea and demand none of the other hundreds of millions of members of that society will repeat or make use of it (using the common language) until that single individual decides when and how, and to further enforce that demand under threat of government force? You are aware it's the government which imprisons content transgressors? Sounds like Corporatism to me, price fixing the cost of grain to yield maximum profit.
You could have stopped at 'drivers' period.
By the time-tested academic method of writing down possible percentages on 3x6 cards, putting them all in a hat and kicking it down the stairs. Top two stairs win. Also explains why it doesn't add up to 100% and ignores overlapping results, i.e. those who use both purchased and free downloads.
Behold the unstoppable power of the Open Source development model!
America isn't leading, Canada is being coerced.
Stealing is bad because it causes incontravertable harm, the reason laws against it have been on the books for as long as books have existed. That's why it's called a crime.
The RIAA members have yet to prove incontravertable harm in a manner a disinterested third party can accept. Until then calling downloads 'stealing' is propaganda. The societal costs for enacting laws based on propaganda will be immense, far far far outweighing the potential loss of revenue to what, in the grand scope of things, is a tiny sub-industry.
From the trailer Eclipse isn't so much a First Person Shooter as a First Person Stone-thrower so FPS still covers it. Looks interesting.
Explaining why you know so little about the Boomer Generation. They were active in civil movements, feminist reform, striking out against the 'military-industrial-complex' with violence, blah blah blah with an intensity that would mortify any of the Y-Gen's I know. They shut down entire cities. If you 're serious about making a difference study the actions and philosophies that lit a fire under youth in the fifties and sixties and discover how so many of my generation became such monumental dickheads. I see nothing in youth, in fact quite the opposite with their complete and then-unknown rampant degree of brand consumerism, to suggest you're not on the same course. You'll just be better dressed.
Most home users I know - normal family types - have expensive software they didn't buy, save for subscription stuff like anti-virus. I think it's more accurate to say OSX becomes a viable option when replacement software they "don't have to buy" is readily available. Pretty much Chris Seibold's contention.
Unless that site prides in portraying itself as anti-censorship. See: Hypocrisy.
"Is anything really changed by some Chinaman..."
"Some Chinaman"? Enough said.
Now we're talking, a South Park / Simpsons movie along the same lines as Aliens vs. Predators.
Good point, this still ahs to make it through the courts.
But you'ld expect it to work in my favour when I compliment MS product! ;)
"Thirdly, *what* Windows XP package manager? "
Note my quotes around 'package management'. In the context of Linux desktop readiness, any reasonable person should have taken that to mean the OS's mechanism for installing and removing software, the purpose of package managers. The abysmal state of Slashdot moderation notwithstanding.
No kidding. If this, what looks like bits of the Rox desktop combined with Karumba and some icons locked into corners, represents Linux's only hope the OS is well and truly screwed. Or, as you say, it's an ad.
By the standard applied above Win XP's 'package manager' isn't ready for the desktop, which has been proven untrue hundreds of millions of times. Draw your own conclusions about the standard being applied.
It's not fair. Had these rules been in place for the full lifetimes of all involved there is a sense in which the term 'fair' can be applied, though it's still wrong, stupid and damaging to society. This mid-stream change to existing copyright is anything but fair.
Could the fact that IBM is the largest corporate proponent of Linux be a factor? There are big synergies between OSX and Linux.
Except in Ford's case people wouldn't go to jail for activating those extra cylinders.
Certainly does. Let's try it for once and see what happens.
Doesn't work. Look at what this administration has done to the concept of oversight when it comes to environmental protection, use people from affected industries to 'guard the henhouse'. The most important thing is to make sure they don't get their way.
Sounds like the bot skill was set to a low level and auto-adjust off. UT2k4's AI has a number of problems. At high skill levels the bots break off fighting each other and attack non-bots simultaneously during a frag, their aim becomes riduculously accurate with the most basic weapons and they detect your presence from a distance and fire headshots faster than any human could. They become a teaming clan of 12 year olds with wall hacks and aimbots.
In other words proof of citizenship required for interstate travel. Papers please.