The school I work at has been in the clutches of MS for a while. I find that it generally promotes mediocre computer users. Some of the people who teach a computer literacy class (which is a MS Office literacy class) know a fraction of what I know about computers. Many think they know a lot when they really don't. I have a network administrator asking me questions all of the time about stuff and I've had hardley any formal training besides a couple of basic programming classes.
Actually, I think it would be cool if he tried out the choking thing using the force out on Jar Jar. Maybe they can make him the "guinea pig" for the choking routine.
The biggest confusion is of course the meaning of free. We've all probably heard the "free as in..." statements, but we've got to admit we mostly like the "free as in beer" part. It's hard for people to shell out the clams for "closed" source software (I wanted Mathematica until i learned it was $1600), that's why "piracy" is a big thing. The question really is can we sell the "free as in speech" part to the average Joe?
I agree! And on the other hand, are any of you Linux kernel hackers mad about what SCO is doing? It seems like there's double standards here. Is music/movies somehow immune?
I hope I live long enough to see the day when all advertising is banned. All commercial speech. Banned.
Then after that comes banning of all speech. Let's just give up all rights just because of some annoying companies. Well I hope most people realize that to them we are nothing more than consumers. We live in a consumer society and they want to shove their junk down our throats so they can get rich. The real question is when will we as citizens and people realize how this consumerism is destroying or society and cultures and stop putting up with it. Believe me it will be better if people did it instead of "big brother"
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The school I work at has been in the clutches of MS for a while. I find that it generally promotes mediocre computer users. Some of the people who teach a computer literacy class (which is a MS Office literacy class) know a fraction of what I know about computers. Many think they know a lot when they really don't. I have a network administrator asking me questions all of the time about stuff and I've had hardley any formal training besides a couple of basic programming classes.
Actually, I think it would be cool if he tried out the choking thing using the force out on Jar Jar. Maybe they can make him the "guinea pig" for the choking routine.
The biggest confusion is of course the meaning of free. We've all probably heard the "free as in ..." statements, but we've got to admit we mostly like the "free as in beer" part. It's hard for people to shell out the clams for "closed" source software (I wanted Mathematica until i learned it was $1600), that's why "piracy" is a big thing. The question really is can we sell the "free as in speech" part to the average Joe?
I agree! And on the other hand, are any of you Linux kernel hackers mad about what SCO is doing? It seems like there's double standards here. Is music/movies somehow immune?
Well maybe he means that there business was in an epsilon-neighborhood of 0.
What? Do you have 16 fingers or something?
I hope I live long enough to see the day when all advertising is banned. All commercial speech. Banned. Then after that comes banning of all speech. Let's just give up all rights just because of some annoying companies. Well I hope most people realize that to them we are nothing more than consumers. We live in a consumer society and they want to shove their junk down our throats so they can get rich. The real question is when will we as citizens and people realize how this consumerism is destroying or society and cultures and stop putting up with it. Believe me it will be better if people did it instead of "big brother"
How do you think the computer you are writing your comment on came into existence?
What would be really important is to prove the Reimann Hypothesis. That would tell us a lot about the distribution of primes.