When they say stressing theorems, I think they are refering to the attitude similar to this:
Teacher: "This is the theorem: x+2. Just look for the x and add 2. Ok class?"
Student: "Why do we do that?"
Teacher: "Just follow the theorem"
Murder and abortion are different things as each has a clear cut meaning. You cannot reinvent the defintion of common words in the language of your choice as "evidence". The commonly understood definition of murder, unless you're using it out of context, in which case you're just not very bright, requires a connection to the legality of the killing being done. Abortion is legal. The commonly understood definition of murder requires for the killing to be unlawful. Therefore, abortion is not murder, so no, that's not what the poster meant. Please try not putting words in other people's mouths just because you don't have a basis for your argument.
There is no such thing as a lawful reason to kill anybody other than abortion, that is their argument. There is no reason abortion should be an exception and there are good arguments why it is a bad exception.
Security updates can be tracked easily without upgrading. But if you compare an unupgraded 4.8 to 4.9 yes 4.9 has more security fixes. But it's your responsibility to keep you system patched.
Acutally Panther borrows from the FreeBSD 5.1 release and I think some kernel code in Darwin may be from some FreeBSD 3.x or 4.x release.
So Panther borrows from FreeBSD userland and perhaps kernel. But as far as I know Apple hasn't made any contributions to the FreeBSD kernel and userland.
[Minerva:~] eman% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1435)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
They still loose money if the total cost is $10 as you say. As long as they sell them for less than $10 they won't make a profit and they'll loose money.
That's a total cost of just under $10. If they cut those prices in half, they would sell more than double what they're currently selling right now. Probably quadruple.
It doesn't matter that they sell more.
Now, let's just do this:
$1.00 to the artist, including songwriter fees and pensions
$1.50 to the record label (including salaries, legal expenses, managers)
$1.00 for costs (including shipping, packaging, marketing)
$0.50 for new artist development, recording costs, music videos.
That's $4 per cd. The retail store (best buy, amazon, whatever) can charge a small surcharge over that, say 50 cents. So, $4.50 total cost (less tax) per album. With a $5 bill you could buy a CD, and since sales will skyrocket, not only will the industry not lose money, but they'll actually make more of it.
How do you just cut out the royalties that you mentioned before? Royalties were already agreed on in the contracts that the artists signed. You can't jus get rid of them. And the promotion which is rather important, people need to know that the music being sold.
$.80 Performer royalties
$.65 Songwriter royalties
$.65 Advertising and promotion
$.10 Artist pensions
Just stating that it's a circular argument doesn't do anything.
High prices didn't lead to people downloading music. The pure convenience of being able to download songs en masse online couppled with fairly high prices brought many people to download music. Which in turn lead to higher prices. Which lead to more pirating again because of its ease.
But you forgot to point out that people do it because it's more convenient. It's not just about high prices. It's about how people do what's easier.
You know they might not make a fortune selling at $3.99 a CD. Just because they sell many many CD's at a price that makes them loose money doesn't equate to making money.
They still need to pay off all the expenses of creating the CD. Which include paying lawyers, sound technicians, artists, the money required to make demo's, etc...
Why don't we just use freenet? As far as I understand each person has a segment of the collective on their computer. Sort of like a gigantic RAID 5 array.
Think about it, according to copywrite law it's fair use to only have small segments of copywrited material to use. Examples, you can use something like 30 seconds of a second or so many lines from a book. Because each person would only have that part everyone would get of scot free? Or no?
I doubt Stallman would consider The People's Republic of China a TRUE socialist country. But anyways.
Why does it matter that they use it? Are you saying because something can be used in a "bad" way such as you described we shouldn't do it in the first place?
And about Microsoft being able to shutdown XP remotely. Would that really matter in a war? Would shutting down ALL their computers damage the millitary that much?
Apple is a monopoly. They make their OS and their hardware propreitary. How is Microsoft worse than that? Microsoft makes a great product, and they have done for longer than Apple. Just because most computer users choose the ease-of-use and professional style of Windows, means it's a monopoly? Riiight...
That's not a monopoly, apple control's its own hardware. NOT the whole computer industry. Why don't they port Safari? They have no moral reason to or any reason to whatsoever. Apple isn't in the business of making apps for windows, they make their own OS.
Doesn't matter, there's a billion or so people to fill the need for cheap jobs to produce CHEAPER laptops. Once the companies need to compete they can easily let the people compete for the only jobs availble, the jobs they are giving. If you looked and read you'll see that about 40% of the provinces revune comes from this type of work.
Looking under the hood, it gets worse. While all other *nixes use standard ELF binaries, Darwin (Apple's name for their proprietary "Unix" kernel) does not.
Ummm, Darwin is open sourced, www.opendarwin.org. And almost everything is "standards" compatible. Run Samba or almost any other common unix app and it will go AND work. So quit your griping. Jeez, they just changed the "windowing" environment as you call it. And I think they got that from NextSTEP.
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When they say stressing theorems, I think they are refering to the attitude similar to this: Teacher: "This is the theorem: x+2. Just look for the x and add 2. Ok class?" Student: "Why do we do that?" Teacher: "Just follow the theorem"
My university Math classes only allowed non programable calculators. I live in the US.
or maybe there are fewer Chezch children... therefore resulting in fewering total expenditures.
I see, so it's only considered killing someone if they've left the uterus? I can tell you have no respect for life.
There is no such thing as a lawful reason to kill anybody other than abortion, that is their argument. There is no reason abortion should be an exception and there are good arguments why it is a bad exception.
Uhh the Boxer rebellion was over a hundred years ago and countries other than the US were involved...
Great knoweldge according to the masses. Will it be as good as everything else that comes from them?
NetBSD 1.61...
Security updates can be tracked easily without upgrading. But if you compare an unupgraded 4.8 to 4.9 yes 4.9 has more security fixes. But it's your responsibility to keep you system patched.
Acutally Panther borrows from the FreeBSD 5.1 release and I think some kernel code in Darwin may be from some FreeBSD 3.x or 4.x release.
So Panther borrows from FreeBSD userland and perhaps kernel. But as far as I know Apple hasn't made any contributions to the FreeBSD kernel and userland.
Ummmm Windows NT for 64bit Alpha? When was that mid or early 90's? Do your research... there isn't much point to being over zealous...
[Minerva:~] eman% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1435)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Why is the goal of college to prepare students for job? That sounds more like a trade school. College should be for the pursuit of academics.
That's a total cost of just under $10. If they cut those prices in half, they would sell more than double what they're currently selling right now. Probably quadruple.
It doesn't matter that they sell more.
Now, let's just do this: $1.00 to the artist, including songwriter fees and pensions
$1.50 to the record label (including salaries, legal expenses, managers)
$1.00 for costs (including shipping, packaging, marketing)
$0.50 for new artist development, recording costs, music videos.
That's $4 per cd. The retail store (best buy, amazon, whatever) can charge a small surcharge over that, say 50 cents. So, $4.50 total cost (less tax) per album. With a $5 bill you could buy a CD, and since sales will skyrocket, not only will the industry not lose money, but they'll actually make more of it.
How do you just cut out the royalties that you mentioned before? Royalties were already agreed on in the contracts that the artists signed. You can't jus get rid of them. And the promotion which is rather important, people need to know that the music being sold.
$ .80 Performer royalties
$ .65 Songwriter royalties
$ .65 Advertising and promotion
$ .10 Artist pensions
High prices didn't lead to people downloading music. The pure convenience of being able to download songs en masse online couppled with fairly high prices brought many people to download music. Which in turn lead to higher prices. Which lead to more pirating again because of its ease.
But you forgot to point out that people do it because it's more convenient. It's not just about high prices. It's about how people do what's easier.
You know they might not make a fortune selling at $3.99 a CD. Just because they sell many many CD's at a price that makes them loose money doesn't equate to making money. They still need to pay off all the expenses of creating the CD. Which include paying lawyers, sound technicians, artists, the money required to make demo's, etc...
They're only shipping single processor units I thought...
Why don't we just use freenet? As far as I understand each person has a segment of the collective on their computer. Sort of like a gigantic RAID 5 array. Think about it, according to copywrite law it's fair use to only have small segments of copywrited material to use. Examples, you can use something like 30 seconds of a second or so many lines from a book. Because each person would only have that part everyone would get of scot free? Or no?
Every day, they force abortions do they not? Isn't that basically genocide?
FreeBSD: pkg_add gnome2 =)
I doubt Stallman would consider The People's Republic of China a TRUE socialist country. But anyways. Why does it matter that they use it? Are you saying because something can be used in a "bad" way such as you described we shouldn't do it in the first place? And about Microsoft being able to shutdown XP remotely. Would that really matter in a war? Would shutting down ALL their computers damage the millitary that much?
Apple is a monopoly. They make their OS and their hardware propreitary. How is Microsoft worse than that? Microsoft makes a great product, and they have done for longer than Apple. Just because most computer users choose the ease-of-use and professional style of Windows, means it's a monopoly? Riiight... That's not a monopoly, apple control's its own hardware. NOT the whole computer industry. Why don't they port Safari? They have no moral reason to or any reason to whatsoever. Apple isn't in the business of making apps for windows, they make their own OS.
Doesn't matter, there's a billion or so people to fill the need for cheap jobs to produce CHEAPER laptops. Once the companies need to compete they can easily let the people compete for the only jobs availble, the jobs they are giving. If you looked and read you'll see that about 40% of the provinces revune comes from this type of work.
Looking under the hood, it gets worse. While all other *nixes use standard ELF binaries, Darwin (Apple's name for their proprietary "Unix" kernel) does not. Ummm, Darwin is open sourced, www.opendarwin.org. And almost everything is "standards" compatible. Run Samba or almost any other common unix app and it will go AND work. So quit your griping. Jeez, they just changed the "windowing" environment as you call it. And I think they got that from NextSTEP.