Look, the bottom line is this: a gun can help the oppressors and the oppressed alike. The gun is really an equalizer. Same thing the internet. And as for the Twitter argument I saw below; I wouldn't think of Twitter as a toy in the oppression game. Its more like another tool in the fight. Twitter has been amazingly effective in doing what's its been designed to do for the protesters.
In a related story Ingrid Newkirk, the diabetic president of PETA who requires insulin produced by slaughtering sheep, has pledged that all PETA members (except her of course) will shove corks up their asses in an effort contain their collective human-emitted greenhouse gases.
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Give a hoot, don't toot!" is submitted as the slogan and will be featured in their new television campaign.
"We hope this will serve as a model of human behavior for the entire world. A cork in every ass," smiled Newkirk.
Has anyone in your fair city raised privacy issues (I assume so) and the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of association (I actually don't hear about this being very much) and if so, what has been the response from the city on those questions. A well placed lawsuit could force the city to knock this shit off right quick.
I agree, its hard to see how anyone can fall asleep while getting zapped with a tattoo gun. The process is not painless. Even giving 1 minute per star that's 55 minutes she sat there asleep with a tattoo gun punching stars in her face. I don't buy it.
How about we start by defining what "digital rights" are exactly? I'm still not sure what those really are. If the definition is something like "As a consumer I have the right to do what I want with goods/services I have legally purchased, whether digital or otherwise" then I'm all on board.
On the other hand, if digital rights are all about a publisher telling me that the product I have spent my money on isn't really mine, that I can't reproduce the contents of digital media in my garage with the door open, or that I can only install the digital instructions for a game I have purchased three times or on certain computers, well, I believe I have the right to tell those producers to stuff it, either digitally or mechanically, or through some other analog means (like with my middle finger.)
C is built around the concept of Input/Output and hardware access, and for building operating systems. You're comparing apples and oranges. But since its been so successful at that job, newer features have been put into it to make it capable of helping solve almost any programming job out there.
I don't know that C would be my first choice for every task (Web CGI comes to mind, although its certainly seen its share of those jobs as well) it certainly can do the job of array and matrix manipulation as well, perhaps faster, but maybe not as easily as fortran. I don't know. But its sheer ubiquity make it my first choice for the bulk of what I need to get done with a computer.
This is not the case with Fortran, where I may need to install additional compiler tools were I to choose to use it, and depending on the os platform I was on.
Unlikely though since I know C and with the addition of a good arbitrary-precision library like bignum I doubt there's much I couldn't do that I could do with fortran.
Ultimately you need to pick the poison that will get the job done for You.
No I don't. I told all my family and friends, geek and non-geek alike, to opt-out of bundleware, especially Symantec and MacAfee. There are a number of free offerings out there that are less annoying, just as or more effective, and by that are less likely to steal from you.
@SatanicPuppy: "We're not going to try and base our business model on WINE."
Your business model is not the tools you use. Its a "business" model. If you're tied to a certain set of tools you're doomed to a slow death. Much better to be flexible and use the tools that are right for the job. Frankly, unless your some kind of Microsoft partner making some kind of Microsoft-only widget I've seen very few businesses that truly require Microsoft solutions. Get ready for the cloud; Microsoft will be irrelevant in a few years.
@vux984: "It wasn't for me..." (with regard to installing openoffice)
Odd, open office usually just comes with most distributions. If that's not the case, then stick to distros that have it. So that introduces one little bit of work, the research necessary to determine which distro is right for you. Not all that hard, really. Certainly easier than doing the work to determine why a driver isn't working with your shiny, new vista rig.
I just can't see how upgrading or installing anything in Windows is easier than "apt-get install X...", and I've done my share of app installs on Windows.
@lukas84: "There is no reason for a home user to not use Vista on a new machine."
Is that what you say to people who complain that they can't use hardware X becuase of non-existent or other sundry driver problems? I and people I know are a bit soured on post XP releases due to hardware driver problems. Reason enough.
Huh? What the hell does that statement have to do with anything important???? If the facts presented here on/. are correct, this move by the Phoenix PD is CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Why aren't you in as much shock as I am?
Clearly, the nation is slowly moving towards a state fear-based govmt. It should be the opposite. WHY ISN'T ANYONE ALARMED AT THIS CRAP?
By the way, I have yet to see any other mp3 player work in a more complex fashion as the ipud. They're all about the same, the ipud just has a slicker physical skin. You really have to be something of an idiot to not be able to figure out any other mp3 player out today.
But that's my point, it does just work. It works reliably and some flavors (Ubuntu) work as simply as Windows. It simply doesn't work the same as Windows, and that's the problem.
Sure it is. Its plenty ready. Its just different from Windows. Period. That's the only technical reason for its slow adoption. And marketing would change that. (See my post regarding marketing.)
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Time to dust off the old bike.
UDP? I thought the idea was "guaranteed" data transmission.
Look, the bottom line is this: a gun can help the oppressors and the oppressed alike. The gun is really an equalizer. Same thing the internet. And as for the Twitter argument I saw below; I wouldn't think of Twitter as a toy in the oppression game. Its more like another tool in the fight. Twitter has been amazingly effective in doing what's its been designed to do for the protesters.
In a related story Ingrid Newkirk, the diabetic president of PETA who requires insulin produced by slaughtering sheep, has pledged that all PETA members (except her of course) will shove corks up their asses in an effort contain their collective human-emitted greenhouse gases.
"
Give a hoot, don't toot!" is submitted as the slogan and will be featured in their new television campaign.
"We hope this will serve as a model of human behavior for the entire world. A cork in every ass," smiled Newkirk.
http://www.fuckfrance.com/
Has anyone in your fair city raised privacy issues (I assume so) and the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of association (I actually don't hear about this being very much) and if so, what has been the response from the city on those questions. A well placed lawsuit could force the city to knock this shit off right quick.
I agree, its hard to see how anyone can fall asleep while getting zapped with a tattoo gun. The process is not painless. Even giving 1 minute per star that's 55 minutes she sat there asleep with a tattoo gun punching stars in her face. I don't buy it.
How about we start by defining what "digital rights" are exactly? I'm still not sure what those really are. If the definition is something like "As a consumer I have the right to do what I want with goods/services I have legally purchased, whether digital or otherwise" then I'm all on board.
On the other hand, if digital rights are all about a publisher telling me that the product I have spent my money on isn't really mine, that I can't reproduce the contents of digital media in my garage with the door open, or that I can only install the digital instructions for a game I have purchased three times or on certain computers, well, I believe I have the right to tell those producers to stuff it, either digitally or mechanically, or through some other analog means (like with my middle finger.)
Hear hear.
After 20+ years of Rap & Hip Hop who else is ready for something with a bit of tune to it?
Yeah, I said it.
C is built around the concept of Input/Output and hardware access, and for building operating systems. You're comparing apples and oranges. But since its been so successful at that job, newer features have been put into it to make it capable of helping solve almost any programming job out there.
I don't know that C would be my first choice for every task (Web CGI comes to mind, although its certainly seen its share of those jobs as well) it certainly can do the job of array and matrix manipulation as well, perhaps faster, but maybe not as easily as fortran. I don't know. But its sheer ubiquity make it my first choice for the bulk of what I need to get done with a computer.
This is not the case with Fortran, where I may need to install additional compiler tools were I to choose to use it, and depending on the os platform I was on.
Unlikely though since I know C and with the addition of a good arbitrary-precision library like bignum I doubt there's much I couldn't do that I could do with fortran.
Ultimately you need to pick the poison that will get the job done for You.
I hate to be an "I told you so..."
No I don't. I told all my family and friends, geek and non-geek alike, to opt-out of bundleware, especially Symantec and MacAfee. There are a number of free offerings out there that are less annoying, just as or more effective, and by that are less likely to steal from you.
Yeah, I was gonna say, if you were a pr0n scarfer what would your checklist of needs look like?
And can one do a web search using that browser for pornographic material? And so on that basis wouldn't that qualify that browser as a restricted app?
What the hell is Apple smoking?
@SatanicPuppy: "We're not going to try and base our business model on WINE."
Your business model is not the tools you use. Its a "business" model. If you're tied to a certain set of tools you're doomed to a slow death. Much better to be flexible and use the tools that are right for the job. Frankly, unless your some kind of Microsoft partner making some kind of Microsoft-only widget I've seen very few businesses that truly require Microsoft solutions. Get ready for the cloud; Microsoft will be irrelevant in a few years.
The saving grace in all this is you know the system will have billions in cost overruns and in the end not work.
@vux984: "It wasn't for me..." (with regard to installing openoffice)
Odd, open office usually just comes with most distributions. If that's not the case, then stick to distros that have it. So that introduces one little bit of work, the research necessary to determine which distro is right for you. Not all that hard, really. Certainly easier than doing the work to determine why a driver isn't working with your shiny, new vista rig.
I just can't see how upgrading or installing anything in Windows is easier than "apt-get install X...", and I've done my share of app installs on Windows.
Now we should start a write-in campaign to name a space station toilet after Bill Marr.
@lukas84: "There is no reason for a home user to not use Vista on a new machine." Is that what you say to people who complain that they can't use hardware X becuase of non-existent or other sundry driver problems? I and people I know are a bit soured on post XP releases due to hardware driver problems. Reason enough.
@ushering05401: "Blah blah blah blah..."
Huh? What the hell does that statement have to do with anything important???? If the facts presented here on /. are correct, this move by the Phoenix PD is CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Why aren't you in as much shock as I am?
Clearly, the nation is slowly moving towards a state fear-based govmt. It should be the opposite. WHY ISN'T ANYONE ALARMED AT THIS CRAP?
@MozeeToby: "I don't have any real problem with this..."
I do. How many more bills that pick away at our civil rights will they introduce to congress before you decide its enough?
I wonder what the effect would be if pirates started holding power generation equipment ransom.
By the way, I have yet to see any other mp3 player work in a more complex fashion as the ipud. They're all about the same, the ipud just has a slicker physical skin. You really have to be something of an idiot to not be able to figure out any other mp3 player out today.
But that's my point, it does just work. It works reliably and some flavors (Ubuntu) work as simply as Windows. It simply doesn't work the same as Windows, and that's the problem.
Wow, Linux, now there's a thought...
Sure it is. Its plenty ready. Its just different from Windows. Period. That's the only technical reason for its slow adoption. And marketing would change that. (See my post regarding marketing.)