No, that's RMS goal. I personally like the gpl and have nothing against proprietary software, if it delivers enough value, it will always be there. Integration, vertical markets, efficient algorithms, and so on.
Proprietary stuff must have alternatives or we get back to the best win/office days. Bloated stuff, incompatibilities, forced obsolescence... that's what free software saved you from, even if you don't use it.
Police raids involving data are like eviction from physical buildings and should be done with some guarantee, but I can't say if they were right or too harsh from here. OTOH a database with such data ought to be encrypted and put offline short after it is not needed.
How clients do banking is irrelevant, in so I agree that the completely electronic way is more practical. But, fractional reserve, international loans between banks, money being issued by central banks and bailouts are turning money into numbers on a bank's server, under control of the bank. That means that in the long run private wealth will succumb, because you cannot compete with guys that can throw more money at everything and whose mission is to have people ask them loans.
Capitalism is dead, free market is dead, we are gonna get the same freedom of communism with the same social guarantees as capitalism. FML
> Companies go to great pains to prevent their trademarked names from being diluted to the point that they become generic terms for a product category.
Yes, but it happens after they name their windowing system "windows", their word processor "word", their crude packaging system "app store". It's a way to bully the potential competitor on a different ground that product merits.
> You couldn't get 128kps ISDN? And pass the opportunity of keeping the phone line occupied by the modem all the time? Geez was I productive back them. Sorry, phone, BRB.
Free software (open source means nothing in the age of software patents) can be useful to startups if: - it gives them a solid infrastructure they can add to - it gives them free beta testers bug/feature submissions and (rarely) bug fixes. - IMHO very variable and uncertain advertisement and street cred. Unless you are first in a market where many geeks await the FOSS alternative.
I dunno how this applies in this particular case, there are algorithms, patents, and competition involved. I suggest to think it through with somebody who knows about laws, and the EFF.
If it works, for most people it's the end of it. For me, getting a tablet as powerful as a desktop pc of a few years ago and being unable to perform many of the tasks such desktop could do, is sad.
We can indeed look at whom stuxnet benefited and bet on a country. Unless it's a deception to hurt that same country, all right.
What the US Government CAN'T do is saying it was LIKELY the russians. Either you know name and surname of the hackers, or you don't know anything because russia is a few network hops from anywhere in the world. And even if you had every single packet traced, you dunno if the guy posting from a hacked wifi spot is a russian a chinese, the chief of the secret service of your own country.
Flags are sacred for us little people. And it's Right they are, people died for them. But above a certain threshold flags are things to use to own advantage. Above that threshold, people decide to make wars and point you to Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Arab little people so we can kill each other. Let no one profit from wars, those who do are the enemy.
You are going to LIVE with pcs for the rest of your life, you prefer to switch every three years because the hardware makers and the os maker needs to sell stuff?
Every time you have to change hardware or OS version, not FOSS systems are a royal pain. My scanners are gifts from people with driver issues. I use linux to SAVE time, and when I lose time to learn how to do things, what I learn stays valuable for longer time. Config files and docs can more easily migrate across architectures.
Look at the last netbook in my house. Win 7 something preinstalled (always booting into linux, now), old powerpoints screwed up because some script fonts (which have been there since win98 i think) are not shipped anymore. Bah.
on the apple 2, the//c at least, you could simply switch the pc off and on immediately, and find the screenshot in the hgr2 area. It was sometimes corrupted so you needed to do it twice andpick the clean lines.
> Thats a kind-of where you're wrong, as much as I hate to admit Sony has a point. If you want to connect the hardware to their networks, they should be allowed to stop you running custom code.
No, they should prevent illegal operations by securing their network. Securing a host by messing with clients is like leaving your car with the keys inside and handcuff all the neighbourhood so they don't steal it. THEIR network, YOUR hardware.
I guess the orwellian slavery is freedom is making inroads.
I Pwned a Ferrari, does that count? (Saw it passing me with a not very young couple. I saw the look of the wife and thought "dear husband, that woman there is not gonna let you speed up one bit". Turns out I was right)
But some slashdotter might sidestep the whole issue and reply: BIIIG storage, Small traffic? why not getting a business dsl and host everything on a laptop under linux or a linux vm if you really really can't?
Pro: no upload times. Contra: no remote backups, needs a bit of admin / network skills, possibly less uptime.
Why can I browse with 512gb and an old laptop? 1gb and a cheapo netbook? one crash a month, maybe less. Likely answer, debian and noscript.
Just a thought, maybe windows ain't done till FF runs bad, while chrome runs well? Both competitors having problems would fire up an investigation and chrome is more advertisers friendly than a customizable FF.
It's not a matter of cpu, it's a matter of input devices, i cannot play stuff with a tablet that could be done with a 166mhz mac, simply because i need a keyboard and a mouse or even a wheel more responsive than the accelerometers.
So, the label hardcore is not proper IMHO, as it implies super cards and rigs, while in reality one might simply want to fire up a pc for an old assault cube.
I thought the opposite as I had problems with a partially firewalled LAN, firefox as a local webapp client took 60secs before displaying the page. Disabling the checks made everything work smooth. this was last year so... 5 versions ago:)
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No, that's RMS goal. I personally like the gpl and have nothing against proprietary software, if it delivers enough value, it will always be there. Integration, vertical markets, efficient algorithms, and so on.
Proprietary stuff must have alternatives or we get back to the best win/office days. Bloated stuff, incompatibilities, forced obsolescence... that's what free software saved you from, even if you don't use it.
except that the gpl doesn't prevent you from profiting. it prevents you from restraining others from getting the stuff freely, as you did.
"Freely you have received; freely give" (not that the atheist Stallman will necessarily agree with this synthesis :) )
Police raids involving data are like eviction from physical buildings and should be done with some guarantee, but I can't say if they were right or too harsh from here. OTOH a database with such data ought to be encrypted and put offline short after it is not needed.
How clients do banking is irrelevant, in so I agree that the completely electronic way is more practical.
But, fractional reserve, international loans between banks, money being issued by central banks and bailouts are turning money into numbers on a bank's server, under control of the bank. That means that in the long run private wealth will succumb, because you cannot compete with guys that can throw more money at everything and whose mission is to have people ask them loans.
Capitalism is dead, free market is dead, we are gonna get the same freedom of communism with the same social guarantees as capitalism. FML
> Companies go to great pains to prevent their trademarked names from being diluted to the point that they become generic terms for a product category.
Yes, but it happens after they name their windowing system "windows", their word processor "word", their crude packaging system "app store".
It's a way to bully the potential competitor on a different ground that product merits.
> You couldn't get 128kps ISDN?
And pass the opportunity of keeping the phone line occupied by the modem all the time? Geez was I productive back them. Sorry, phone, BRB.
I had put the quotes because it wasn't 6.28..
Can't tell if troll or never heard about "17 dollars now that's gangsta"
I should have known a comment like that yields an unnecessarily long thread.
PS: the term Cosa nostra, mafia e padrino is part of my native language...
Switching the digits, though, is acceptable in quite less numeric systems:
III TALLERI ET I PLVS XL CENTESIMI
ID EST PRAEDONEM
> Nobody's arguing over the $3.14
you kinda "rounded" the amount.
3,41 dollars: that's gangsta.
I got internet on a 28.8kbit line in 1996.
If somebody told me: look, in 15 years they will still study on books I would have ROTFLMAO.
Free software (open source means nothing in the age of software patents) can be useful to startups if:
- it gives them a solid infrastructure they can add to
- it gives them free beta testers bug/feature submissions and (rarely) bug fixes.
- IMHO very variable and uncertain advertisement and street cred. Unless you are first in a market where many geeks await the FOSS alternative.
I dunno how this applies in this particular case, there are algorithms, patents, and competition involved. I suggest to think it through with somebody who knows about laws, and the EFF.
If it works, for most people it's the end of it. For me, getting a tablet as powerful as a desktop pc of a few years ago and being unable to perform many of the tasks such desktop could do, is sad.
We can indeed look at whom stuxnet benefited and bet on a country. Unless it's a deception to hurt that same country, all right.
What the US Government CAN'T do is saying it was LIKELY the russians.
Either you know name and surname of the hackers, or you don't know anything because russia is a few network hops from anywhere in the world. And even if you had every single packet traced, you dunno if the guy posting from a hacked wifi spot is a russian a chinese, the chief of the secret service of your own country.
Flags are sacred for us little people. And it's Right they are, people died for them.
But above a certain threshold flags are things to use to own advantage.
Above that threshold, people decide to make wars and point you to Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Arab little people so we can kill each other. Let no one profit from wars, those who do are the enemy.
You are going to LIVE with pcs for the rest of your life, you prefer to switch every three years because the hardware makers and the os maker needs to sell stuff?
Every time you have to change hardware or OS version, not FOSS systems are a royal pain. My scanners are gifts from people with driver issues.
I use linux to SAVE time, and when I lose time to learn how to do things, what I learn stays valuable for longer time.
Config files and docs can more easily migrate across architectures.
Look at the last netbook in my house. Win 7 something preinstalled (always booting into linux, now), old powerpoints screwed up because some script fonts (which have been there since win98 i think) are not shipped anymore. Bah.
on the apple 2, the //c at least, you could simply switch the pc off and on immediately, and find the screenshot in the hgr2 area. It was sometimes corrupted so you needed to do it twice andpick the clean lines.
> Thats a kind-of where you're wrong, as much as I hate to admit Sony has a point. If you want to connect the hardware to their networks, they should be allowed to stop you running custom code.
No, they should prevent illegal operations by securing their network.
Securing a host by messing with clients is like leaving your car with the keys inside and handcuff all the neighbourhood so they don't steal it.
THEIR network, YOUR hardware.
I guess the orwellian slavery is freedom is making inroads.
I Pwned a Ferrari, does that count?
(Saw it passing me with a not very young couple. I saw the look of the wife and thought "dear husband, that woman there is not gonna let you speed up one bit". Turns out I was right)
But some slashdotter might sidestep the whole issue and reply:
BIIIG storage, Small traffic? why not getting a business dsl and host everything on a laptop under linux or a linux vm if you really really can't?
Pro: no upload times.
Contra: no remote backups, needs a bit of admin / network skills, possibly less uptime.
I could scrape google web results put it into a db and offer the first few ones, then.
The "yo dawg i herd you like search results" engine.
I wonder how google can justify fighting that and then doing exactly the same to books.
Maybe, with chronically insufficient funding, researchers work better. It'll be known as the Paradox Berlusconii.
Why can I browse with 512gb and an old laptop? 1gb and a cheapo netbook? one crash a month, maybe less.
Likely answer, debian and noscript.
Just a thought, maybe windows ain't done till FF runs bad, while chrome runs well? Both competitors having problems would fire up an investigation and chrome is more advertisers friendly than a customizable FF.
s/hardcore gaming/gaming/
It's not a matter of cpu, it's a matter of input devices, i cannot play stuff with a tablet that could be done with a 166mhz mac, simply because i need a keyboard and a mouse or even a wheel more responsive than the accelerometers.
So, the label hardcore is not proper IMHO, as it implies super cards and rigs, while in reality one might simply want to fire up a pc for an old assault cube.
I thought the opposite as I had problems with a partially firewalled LAN, firefox as a local webapp client took 60secs before displaying the page. Disabling the checks made everything work smooth. this was last year so... 5 versions ago :)
> You do understand that the "App Store" is just a variant of Linux repositories?
apple store : walled garden = linux repo : garden