How is teaching ID unconstitutional? Isn't silencing people and not allowing them to teach about something (whether it is right or wrong) unconstitutional?
I suppose we've banned teaching of any ideas that might be arbitrarily classified as "hate material" (critisizing corporations is banned - after all they're "people" too), "pornography" (even so much as a nipple under any context), and "terrorist" (i.e. anarchist or anti-establishment). So under this pretext there's no reason not to ban ID theory/philosophy/whatever...we've already banned free thought and free speech which are more important and the what prevent anything else from being banned anyways.
This article is such typical "forbes" crap. Who is this magazine for anywyays? It reads like a mix of Harvard Business Review and your local supermarket Inquirer...geez!
After pondering the whole copyright problem for many years this comment really caught my attention at first...and after a day of thought it REALLY makes sense!
This not only aligns itself with the analogy that was drawn in the first place (between real property and "intellectual property"). It also has the benefits of providing a revenue stream for enforcing copyright, prevent needless "hoarding" of IP, lessen the damage caused to the public domain by IP hoarding, and remove the need for a defined "period" of copyright. The eventual result would be a freeing of copyrighted works (least profitable going first) into the public domain as companies would have to evaluate the TCO/cost-benefit of their Intellectual Property holdings. This would free works into the public domain where others can create their derivative works that may (possibly) be profitable again - and dropped when THEY become unprofitable! This is a perfect balance between allowing the public use of culture (for example keeping personal archives of "stuff") and allowing holders of works to make a profit.
In order to achieve this the tax would have to be uniform (not pro-rated based on profit from IP but based on the amount of IP being held by the owner - just like real-estate). This of course leaves the question of how IP will be quantified (even though volume in bytes actually works quite well if you really think about it).
Additionally, copyright would have to revert to being an opt-in "service" (as it was before the late 1980's) rather than being the automatic for-profit assumption that it is now (see http://www.creativecommons.org/ for details).
I think this never occurred to me because I've never thought that 2 wrongs can make a right...but apparently I was wrong:- )
I'm not really willing to admit that I "Push Open-Source" on anybody. I do however make the odd recommendation.
Why? How can anybody ever know what's best for them if they haven't tried anything? It's kind of like telling your kids to try a new dish before kicking-and-screaming about how they don't want it...15 years later you've spared them an eating disorder all because they tried other foods.
Old habits die hard - bad habits die harder and it's like that with software. Do you think people would just "accept" that their computer crashes twice a day or gets infected every 10 minutes if they'd been anything other than bad software?
This is truly interesting [b]each and every one of your points is incorrect[/b]!
1) The cost of "reinstalling" will occur either way. With OpenOffice a quick and easy network installation rom a share will reduce that time to a minimum. Can't say that for MS Office as every other admin out there will know what I'm talking about when I say it's a waste to be paid to enter serial numbers and/or wait for progress meters all day.
2) OO more resource hungry than MS-Office?!? What planet are you from. Listen, until you've installed MS Office on a Windows 95/Pentium 133MHZ/8MB RAM machine then don't even open your mouth (or use your keyboard) to participate in this part of the discussion again...
3) What grief? OpenOffice works just fine and doesn't require much retraining for basic users...your power (i.e. VB/Macro and AutoCorrect) users will need to either told to adjust and given "play time" to learn the new product or be given MS Office
4) Okay...once again - What file format incompatiblities?!? OpenOffice works OK with MS Office files and works with files such as PDF (exporting) even better than MS Office does.
Hopefully this helps clarify things so you can achieve your record of most ignorant post on slashdot!
"...the bill's vague wording which makes it unclear what exactly is being banned"
Not if you read between the lines...apparently competing with AccuWeather!
It's not the OS that matters - more so the desktop environment. It just so happens that MS Windows and Apple MacOSX have only one DM to choose from, so typically it becomes synonymous with "the OS". I personally am most productive on KDE and will present the following reasons for it (from least to most important, and contrasted with the other environment I use):
1) Time which you can set for any timezone - a real hassle-saver on laptops.
2) KNotes - Notes that can actually STAY ON TOP while you work The closest thing on Windows XP is Outlook's horrendous notes which don't - and that's if you HAVE Outlook.
3) Calendar that ALSO STAYS ON TOP while you work, which is great if you're reviewing financial transactions on your bank's website (for example). The best Windows XP (explorer) does is tell you that you "don't have permission to set the time";- )
4) Flexible panel - you can have whatever you want wherever you want on your desktop (i.e. Kasbar up top for running programs gives you lot's of room to put tons of applets on the panel below). Explorer: Slightly flexible, but I'll have to give it a point because you can "lock the panel" like in the Gnome environment.
5) Session management - How did I even work before this? Just logout...log back in and *poof* all the work you were doing is open in front of you again. This rivals the XP approach of just not logging off - preventing anyone else from using it as XP's fast-user switching doesn't work in a network environment! (Of course there's also praying that a patch requiring a reboot isn't rolled out...)
6) Multiple desktops! There is nothing better thought out than this concept because it reflects how people work, naturally. When you start a new task (such as "Making travel plans for Trip X") you pick a desktop to do it on while another task (such as "researching Item X and emailing a document on it") goes on another desktop. Voila - your work is LOGICALLY separated and (if setup correctly) the taskbar cleanly shows only what's running on the current desktop. Contrast this with XP's taskbar "cluttering" which rolls all of any particular application into a single menu: - It takes 2 (slow) clicks to get the program you want (every time) - Taskbar still gets cluttered, but this time with unresponsive and confusing menus - Work is separated by apps, not logic. In the real world tasks are not tied to particular apps - I might need IE+Word+Excel to plan a trip, but might need IE+Outlook+Word to research, type up, and send a document. (Does XP assumes you need IE+IE+IE for one task and Word+Word+Word for another?)
Now if only I could get familiar with GNUStep or Enlightenment;- )
There was probably a reason for the exercises in "setting up a network" and "creating a webpage".
I can bet you the network wasn't a diverse one and the webpage designs weren't things the W3C validator application would say "0 errors" to...
Why was this "reported", better yet echoed by slashdot? This has been in the EULA's longer (15+ years) than the existence of slashdot and (online) CNET...?
This is a novelty...not really revolutionary...it's a controller overloaded with buttons.
To be truly a generation ahead will require something that cuts down on the number of buttons (one way to do this is have combinations of buttons) and uses tilting (like a set of gyroscope sensors) for a mouse.
The big key is that it's going to have to cater to those who want to learn something new...not somebody who'd "just rather stick with what they're used to" (a.k.a keyboard and mouse).
The amount of attention this thing is now gathering makes me suspect that the whole copyright-infringement threat was a veiled PR attempt...and so far success...
Gee it wouldn't be because (like StarGate and 90% of Nintendo titles on the N64 and up) some marketing jackass thought that stamping the Star Trek "brand" on what would be otherwise called "Generic Spaceship Show" (think Andromeda or one of those) would be successful because nobody would notice...right?!?
So that's not really Gentoo for OSX...just portage.
As for Sun open-sourcing their OS...I just happen to think it will be a lot like the open-sourcing of Java - very confused.
BTW -> Subjective as this may be: Most Java devs would welcome Java being opened!
With Sun's record on "opening" products I would have to say that it may be a waste of the Gentoo community's time since it is a source-based distro and requires that it's platform be open...
Oh this is great - I've been looking for somebody who has their own alternate "nonhierarchical" world which proves that a hierarchical social structure works best!
Note to goombah (how appropriate):
Just because all you know is ignorance is no reason to spread it around like disease!
I found it a little funny...but would probably more so 10 YEARS AGO.
I think a parody of this going the other way would be MUCH funnier...time to start brainstorming...
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How is teaching ID unconstitutional? Isn't silencing people and not allowing them to teach about something (whether it is right or wrong) unconstitutional?
I suppose we've banned teaching of any ideas that might be arbitrarily classified as "hate material" (critisizing corporations is banned - after all they're "people" too), "pornography" (even so much as a nipple under any context), and "terrorist" (i.e. anarchist or anti-establishment). So under this pretext there's no reason not to ban ID theory/philosophy/whatever...we've already banned free thought and free speech which are more important and the what prevent anything else from being banned anyways.
This article is such typical "forbes" crap. Who is this magazine for anywyays? It reads like a mix of Harvard Business Review and your local supermarket Inquirer...geez!
After pondering the whole copyright problem for many years this comment really caught my attention at first...and after a day of thought it REALLY makes sense!
/cost-benefit of their Intellectual Property holdings. This would free works into the public domain where others can create their derivative works that may (possibly) be profitable again - and dropped when THEY become unprofitable! This is a perfect balance between allowing the public use of culture (for example keeping personal archives of "stuff") and allowing holders of works to make a profit.
:- )
This not only aligns itself with the analogy that was drawn in the first place (between real property and "intellectual property"). It also has the benefits of providing a revenue stream for enforcing copyright, prevent needless "hoarding" of IP, lessen the damage caused to the public domain by IP hoarding, and remove the need for a defined "period" of copyright. The eventual result would be a freeing of copyrighted works (least profitable going first) into the public domain as companies would have to evaluate the TCO
In order to achieve this the tax would have to be uniform (not pro-rated based on profit from IP but based on the amount of IP being held by the owner - just like real-estate). This of course leaves the question of how IP will be quantified (even though volume in bytes actually works quite well if you really think about it).
Additionally, copyright would have to revert to being an opt-in "service" (as it was before the late 1980's) rather than being the automatic for-profit assumption that it is now (see http://www.creativecommons.org/ for details).
I think this never occurred to me because I've never thought that 2 wrongs can make a right...but apparently I was wrong
Nope...the answer is a Boot-from-CD OS like Knoppix which is guaranteed to be clean.
I've already recommended this to family members for online banking!
I wonder if someone can start programming some bacteria and release them under the GPL?
Hmmm...reminds me of how Office 97 used to handle Office 95 documents...but perhaps I'm just ignorant...
I don't remember H.323 needing a 911 number...err..."911" IP address?
Would it be unicast, broadcast, or multicast?
I'm not really willing to admit that I "Push Open-Source" on anybody. I do however make the odd recommendation.
Why? How can anybody ever know what's best for them if they haven't tried anything? It's kind of like telling your kids to try a new dish before kicking-and-screaming about how they don't want it...15 years later you've spared them an eating disorder all because they tried other foods.
Old habits die hard - bad habits die harder and it's like that with software. Do you think people would just "accept" that their computer crashes twice a day or gets infected every 10 minutes if they'd been anything other than bad software?
This is truly interesting [b]each and every one of your points is incorrect[/b]! 1) The cost of "reinstalling" will occur either way. With OpenOffice a quick and easy network installation rom a share will reduce that time to a minimum. Can't say that for MS Office as every other admin out there will know what I'm talking about when I say it's a waste to be paid to enter serial numbers and/or wait for progress meters all day. 2) OO more resource hungry than MS-Office?!? What planet are you from. Listen, until you've installed MS Office on a Windows 95/Pentium 133MHZ/8MB RAM machine then don't even open your mouth (or use your keyboard) to participate in this part of the discussion again... 3) What grief? OpenOffice works just fine and doesn't require much retraining for basic users...your power (i.e. VB/Macro and AutoCorrect) users will need to either told to adjust and given "play time" to learn the new product or be given MS Office 4) Okay...once again - What file format incompatiblities?!? OpenOffice works OK with MS Office files and works with files such as PDF (exporting) even better than MS Office does. Hopefully this helps clarify things so you can achieve your record of most ignorant post on slashdot!
"...the bill's vague wording which makes it unclear what exactly is being banned" Not if you read between the lines...apparently competing with AccuWeather!
It's not the OS that matters - more so the desktop environment. It just so happens that MS Windows and Apple MacOSX have only one DM to choose from, so typically it becomes synonymous with "the OS".
;- )
;- )
I personally am most productive on KDE and will present the following reasons for it (from least to most important, and contrasted with the other environment I use):
1) Time which you can set for any timezone - a real hassle-saver on laptops.
2) KNotes - Notes that can actually STAY ON TOP while you work
The closest thing on Windows XP is Outlook's horrendous notes which don't - and that's if you HAVE Outlook.
3) Calendar that ALSO STAYS ON TOP while you work, which is great if you're reviewing financial transactions on your bank's website (for example).
The best Windows XP (explorer) does is tell you that you "don't have permission to set the time"
4) Flexible panel - you can have whatever you want wherever you want on your desktop (i.e. Kasbar up top for running programs gives you lot's of room to put tons of applets on the panel below).
Explorer: Slightly flexible, but I'll have to give it a point because you can "lock the panel" like in the Gnome environment.
5) Session management - How did I even work before this? Just logout...log back in and *poof* all the work you were doing is open in front of you again.
This rivals the XP approach of just not logging off - preventing anyone else from using it as XP's fast-user switching doesn't work in a network environment! (Of course there's also praying that a patch requiring a reboot isn't rolled out...)
6) Multiple desktops! There is nothing better thought out than this concept because it reflects how people work, naturally. When you start a new task (such as "Making travel plans for Trip X") you pick a desktop to do it on while another task (such as "researching Item X and emailing a document on it") goes on another desktop. Voila - your work is LOGICALLY separated and (if setup correctly) the taskbar cleanly shows only what's running on the current desktop.
Contrast this with XP's taskbar "cluttering" which rolls all of any particular application into a single menu:
- It takes 2 (slow) clicks to get the program you want (every time)
- Taskbar still gets cluttered, but this time with unresponsive and confusing menus
- Work is separated by apps, not logic. In the real world tasks are not tied to particular apps - I might need IE+Word+Excel to plan a trip, but might need IE+Outlook+Word to research, type up, and send a document. (Does XP assumes you need IE+IE+IE for one task and Word+Word+Word for another?)
Now if only I could get familiar with GNUStep or Enlightenment
There was probably a reason for the exercises in "setting up a network" and "creating a webpage". I can bet you the network wasn't a diverse one and the webpage designs weren't things the W3C validator application would say "0 errors" to...
Why was this "reported", better yet echoed by slashdot? This has been in the EULA's longer (15+ years) than the existence of slashdot and (online) CNET...?
Judging from the time it took to load the page apparently they're using the same server they had in 1992...
This is a novelty...not really revolutionary...it's a controller overloaded with buttons. To be truly a generation ahead will require something that cuts down on the number of buttons (one way to do this is have combinations of buttons) and uses tilting (like a set of gyroscope sensors) for a mouse. The big key is that it's going to have to cater to those who want to learn something new...not somebody who'd "just rather stick with what they're used to" (a.k.a keyboard and mouse).
The amount of attention this thing is now gathering makes me suspect that the whole copyright-infringement threat was a veiled PR attempt...and so far success...
Install any version of "Windows" on it... (what did you expect with an initial post like that)
...maybe now they can afford to fire some of the jackass writers involved so far and actually make it [i][b]UNIQUE and INTERESTING[/b][/i]!
Gee it wouldn't be because (like StarGate and 90% of Nintendo titles on the N64 and up) some marketing jackass thought that stamping the Star Trek "brand" on what would be otherwise called "Generic Spaceship Show" (think Andromeda or one of those) would be successful because nobody would notice...right?!?
Of course if you upgrade it your car explodes...
So that's not really Gentoo for OSX...just portage. As for Sun open-sourcing their OS...I just happen to think it will be a lot like the open-sourcing of Java - very confused.
BTW -> Subjective as this may be: Most Java devs would welcome Java being opened!
With Sun's record on "opening" products I would have to say that it may be a waste of the Gentoo community's time since it is a source-based distro and requires that it's platform be open...
Oh this is great - I've been looking for somebody who has their own alternate "nonhierarchical" world which proves that a hierarchical social structure works best!
Note to goombah (how appropriate):
Just because all you know is ignorance is no reason to spread it around like disease!
I'm not sure if these robots can replace real AMERICAN soldiers...I mean have they been properly programmed to fire at allies as much as at enemies?
I found it a little funny...but would probably more so 10 YEARS AGO. I think a parody of this going the other way would be MUCH funnier...time to start brainstorming...