I've yet to hear a valid reason WHY the GPL is invalid. Is Microsoft saying "this software cannot be run on a server, but on a desktop" invalid? No, of course not. So, why is the GPL? It's a license to use copyrighted material with conditions, none of which are non-constitutional.
One other thing is that it might have helped if security on US internal flights had been stronger. IIRC the US airline industry lobbied govt. not to have this as it would increase flight times.
The problem is, if I didn't fix my family's PCs, they'd go and see a cowboy operator somewhere.
My limit is family and friends. NOT friends of friends. If I don't know you, you're paying.
I also don't help a family member when stuck in a work situation. One member of my family works for some lawyers. I'm not going to subsidise a company that don't do their own tech support.
A day of action would be great. Everyone pick one band, clear the shelves of their CD single on a Friday and then return them all the next week.
The story could make big news because if enough people did it, you could push that band up the charts and create a distortion. Particularly, do it in a week when there's a big chart battle like Victoria Beckham, but pick someone completely different.
That's right. That's why they're really scared. Unlike say old bootleg videos of ET or Return of the Jedi, generation 99 is the same as generation 1.
And let's face it, someone can always take an audio output to another PC, using a top flight sound card, clean it up a little, and it's unprotected media.
It's not loaned, it's bought. It's just that the producers have certain rights under copyright and other laws.
If I decide to take a CD and use it for clay pigeon shooting, no-one can come after me for damaging it.
If I'm loaned it for the purpose of listening to the music, then I guess it would be reasonable for the lender to provide me with a new copy of the medium at a reduced price as I've already paid the non-physical costs once.
I disagree with a whole lot of Bush's policies, BUT I understand why he's popular. Recalling the days of the Falklands War, people in Britain would have actively supported someone doing the same thing to Britain as Bush is doing to the USA (and Blair is having a good go at trying to create a fascist nanny state here).
The McCarthy witch hunts I imagine had support for a while, eventually the USA will realise the excess of Bush's actions, reject them and be the better for it.
As for us British, when I hear people talking about Bush not being properly elected, I do chuckle. I wouldn't mind having ANY election for our head of state.
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The big problem IMO is getting a better travelling method.
On current estimates, Mars is something like a 6 month trip for men. That's 6 months of running a community to support feeding, watering, dealing with health issues etc.
What is probably the most important thing is to up the level of research into alternative travelling methods. Bottom line - someone's gotta work out the theoretical basis for wormholes, black holes, folding space, whatever. Until then, we're stuck right here.
I have a friend who has a Cyberhome and couldn't recommend it highly enough. I don't believe they have an 80% return rate (and would like to see something more to back that up), or shops like Richer Sounds in the UK wouldn't stock them - they don't have time for that level of return.
You say "we shouldn't have to compete with that". Spare a thought for the central American farmers driven out of business by subsidised US agriculture.
However, in the economic sphere there is not so much that really holds people back from attaining absolute economic power except perhaps anti-trust.
There's always competition.
Microsoft are a little exceptional in that they not only control the cars, but the roads too. Successive US governments have failed to address this properly. And knowing how to technically write a word file is much more dangerous than say knowing the formula for Coca-Cola.
I can't actually think of that many monopolies with considerable power left in the world. De Beers? Well, do you really *need* cosmetic diamonds?
In most cases, a big company who sits on its laurels will get slaughtered by the competition.
As for people controlling their own lives, we'd do much better if people stopped frittering their money away on the latest garbage, and instead bought from small, local producers and bought ethically. The extra cost of buying fairtrade bananas and coffee that guarantee a good living to the producer is more important to me than being able to buy a phone with polyphonic ringtones.
Unfortunately, a significant share of most record labels profits come from very few artists.
Which is partly down to how major record companies behave.
In the late 90s, something happened which I'd never heard of before - artists were not getting options renewed, even quite big ones. Record companies were ditching known commodities to concentrate on megastars. Probably to do with getting maximum ROI rather than dealing with a lot of small bands.
Firstly, Veuve Clicquot are an excellent producer. Secondly, you got one of the finest years in a very long time. If memory serves me well, there hasn't been a better year since.
I personally had a 1990 Lanson and it was brilliant.
Don't expect the non-vintage stuff to be a patch on what you had, btw. Personally, I drink cheap fizz from Spain or regional France instead of NV champagne.
1. Driver support for Linux will grow considerably as manufacturers will see more geeks heading that way.
2. Open Office will grow, but will not make serious inroads. Back office techs will start using it, and I predict a more geeky mate or two will send me a.SXW in the next 12 months.
3. Porting of software to Linux will grow from major business vendors.
4. More companies running Oracle/SQL server will start using MySQL as a database for static data like archive viewing and MIS reporting.
5. A whole lot of Linux distros will fade away. Maybe this is a hope, and people can concentrate on making 4 or 5 excellent.
6. One of my non-geeky relatives will phone me about getting Linux.
7. SCO will lose big in their case against IBM.
8. A major computer player (maybe IBM or HP) will either partner or buy a distro and release it as a consumer Linux on a PC where the hardware and software have been tested to work together.
9. (More of a hope) There will be an Open Source video format (maybe theora) that will kill off the piece of shit that is Real Player.
The big thing for me with using FOSS (Windows or otherwise) is the more open file formats. I once had a file corruption in Word, and it didn't matter what I did, I couldn't stop it corrupting when an embedded image was displayed. I went to the backups which had saved fine, but they had the same corruption. I had to resave it.
In today's terms if such a thing happened in OOo, I'd take the OOo document, unzip and play around with the XML. There's a good chance I could at least keep the rest of the document without the image (this assumes such a thing could happen with OOo).
I used to hate that I couldn't write word files from a server. With OOo, I could either install it on a server, or write the XML and Zip it. It's all, well, OPEN.
I'm a high level applications/database analyst/programmer with a strong business concentration, not a software installer, and certainly not a Linux specialist.
Installing Fedora Core 1 was a total piece of cake. Detected hardware (admittedly quite old), selected applications (Open Office, Mozilla and a few games) and off I went. 1 reboot IIRC.
This thing about installers is becoming a myth. The only thing that really needs to be dealt with from what I can see is driver support.
Already happened. In fact, MS already sent out letters dumping the tablet PC within the last week.
I must have missed that. It was one I thought was going to fail. People have moved on to keyboards. Pen computing is useful where space is limited (like a Palm 3) or would have made sense in the 80s before people had evolved onto keyboards).
Well, the Independent is a pretty major broadsheet newspaper in the UK and well respected, and I imagine read by a younger more technically interested audience than say The Daily Telegraph.
So, someone prints something like "Get Linux" in there, and more people take Linux seriously.
There is no need for everything in the world to be cold and logical. If a country wants to hold onto a 'silly' institution as a symbol of their nation, so be it.
Actually, when it comes to collecting taxes from me to pay for something, or when it comes to who has extraordinary powers in government and the courts, cold and logical suits me fine.
As an American, your head of state is George Bush, a man who I have little respect for. Nevertheless, he was elected (or at least had 40 something percent support). We don't get this choice. When the current Head of State dies, we get Charles Windsor, an utter numbskull who can barely dress himself in the morning. He'll be attending various official functions and acting as representative for our country.
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Is someone out there assuming that Microsoft still has some room to grow?
I wonder what the figures would be if market analysts saw Linux hitting Microsoft's server market?
Well, you've certainly got security now!
My limit is family and friends. NOT friends of friends. If I don't know you, you're paying.
I also don't help a family member when stuck in a work situation. One member of my family works for some lawyers. I'm not going to subsidise a company that don't do their own tech support.
The story could make big news because if enough people did it, you could push that band up the charts and create a distortion. Particularly, do it in a week when there's a big chart battle like Victoria Beckham, but pick someone completely different.
And let's face it, someone can always take an audio output to another PC, using a top flight sound card, clean it up a little, and it's unprotected media.
If I decide to take a CD and use it for clay pigeon shooting, no-one can come after me for damaging it.
If I'm loaned it for the purpose of listening to the music, then I guess it would be reasonable for the lender to provide me with a new copy of the medium at a reduced price as I've already paid the non-physical costs once.
I disagree with a whole lot of Bush's policies, BUT I understand why he's popular. Recalling the days of the Falklands War, people in Britain would have actively supported someone doing the same thing to Britain as Bush is doing to the USA (and Blair is having a good go at trying to create a fascist nanny state here).
The McCarthy witch hunts I imagine had support for a while, eventually the USA will realise the excess of Bush's actions, reject them and be the better for it.
As for us British, when I hear people talking about Bush not being properly elected, I do chuckle. I wouldn't mind having ANY election for our head of state.
On current estimates, Mars is something like a 6 month trip for men. That's 6 months of running a community to support feeding, watering, dealing with health issues etc.
What is probably the most important thing is to up the level of research into alternative travelling methods. Bottom line - someone's gotta work out the theoretical basis for wormholes, black holes, folding space, whatever. Until then, we're stuck right here.
40% of moderators marked this as "informative". Like they really went! (They didn't, did they?)
Can I have the version without Jar Jar Binks?
I have a friend who has a Cyberhome and couldn't recommend it highly enough. I don't believe they have an 80% return rate (and would like to see something more to back that up), or shops like Richer Sounds in the UK wouldn't stock them - they don't have time for that level of return.
You say "we shouldn't have to compete with that". Spare a thought for the central American farmers driven out of business by subsidised US agriculture.
There's always competition.
Microsoft are a little exceptional in that they not only control the cars, but the roads too. Successive US governments have failed to address this properly. And knowing how to technically write a word file is much more dangerous than say knowing the formula for Coca-Cola.
I can't actually think of that many monopolies with considerable power left in the world. De Beers? Well, do you really *need* cosmetic diamonds?
In most cases, a big company who sits on its laurels will get slaughtered by the competition.
As for people controlling their own lives, we'd do much better if people stopped frittering their money away on the latest garbage, and instead bought from small, local producers and bought ethically. The extra cost of buying fairtrade bananas and coffee that guarantee a good living to the producer is more important to me than being able to buy a phone with polyphonic ringtones.
Which is partly down to how major record companies behave.
In the late 90s, something happened which I'd never heard of before - artists were not getting options renewed, even quite big ones. Record companies were ditching known commodities to concentrate on megastars. Probably to do with getting maximum ROI rather than dealing with a lot of small bands.
Firstly, Veuve Clicquot are an excellent producer. Secondly, you got one of the finest years in a very long time. If memory serves me well, there hasn't been a better year since.
I personally had a 1990 Lanson and it was brilliant.
Don't expect the non-vintage stuff to be a patch on what you had, btw. Personally, I drink cheap fizz from Spain or regional France instead of NV champagne.
1. Driver support for Linux will grow considerably as manufacturers will see more geeks heading that way.
2. Open Office will grow, but will not make serious inroads. Back office techs will start using it, and I predict a more geeky mate or two will send me a .SXW in the next 12 months.
3. Porting of software to Linux will grow from major business vendors.
4. More companies running Oracle/SQL server will start using MySQL as a database for static data like archive viewing and MIS reporting.
5. A whole lot of Linux distros will fade away. Maybe this is a hope, and people can concentrate on making 4 or 5 excellent.
6. One of my non-geeky relatives will phone me about getting Linux.
7. SCO will lose big in their case against IBM.
8. A major computer player (maybe IBM or HP) will either partner or buy a distro and release it as a consumer Linux on a PC where the hardware and software have been tested to work together.
9. (More of a hope) There will be an Open Source video format (maybe theora) that will kill off the piece of shit that is Real Player.
The big thing for me with using FOSS (Windows or otherwise) is the more open file formats. I once had a file corruption in Word, and it didn't matter what I did, I couldn't stop it corrupting when an embedded image was displayed. I went to the backups which had saved fine, but they had the same corruption. I had to resave it.
In today's terms if such a thing happened in OOo, I'd take the OOo document, unzip and play around with the XML. There's a good chance I could at least keep the rest of the document without the image (this assumes such a thing could happen with OOo).
I used to hate that I couldn't write word files from a server. With OOo, I could either install it on a server, or write the XML and Zip it. It's all, well, OPEN.
Installing Fedora Core 1 was a total piece of cake. Detected hardware (admittedly quite old), selected applications (Open Office, Mozilla and a few games) and off I went. 1 reboot IIRC.
This thing about installers is becoming a myth. The only thing that really needs to be dealt with from what I can see is driver support.
Most companies you choose one of a number of fixed models - with Dell, you can pick and mix options.
I must have missed that. It was one I thought was going to fail. People have moved on to keyboards. Pen computing is useful where space is limited (like a Palm 3) or would have made sense in the 80s before people had evolved onto keyboards).
So, someone prints something like "Get Linux" in there, and more people take Linux seriously.
Anytime anyone says linux/mozilla are better than windows/ie, a few more people take it seriously. Take any opportunity you can.
Personally, I'm stuck on Windows because of MS work I get in .NET and VB, but I'd like to switch.
Anyone?
Actually, when it comes to collecting taxes from me to pay for something, or when it comes to who has extraordinary powers in government and the courts, cold and logical suits me fine.
As an American, your head of state is George Bush, a man who I have little respect for. Nevertheless, he was elected (or at least had 40 something percent support). We don't get this choice. When the current Head of State dies, we get Charles Windsor, an utter numbskull who can barely dress himself in the morning. He'll be attending various official functions and acting as representative for our country.