I buy a lot of LG products and I respect their quality of brand. However I think I shall join you. Linux means more to me than a shiny brand logo on my widescreen.
To some extent it will happen though alliances that seriously want to be part of this audit so they feel safe to put away their tin foil hats will stand behind some one they trust to go there and look in person. Depending on the power and sway that alliance has their man will end up in the group. It'll be a terrible council if it is given any real power but just being able to talk directly to CCP and voice concerns will solve a lot of problems. Right now they are just not approachable and with such a serious political system in the game this leads to issues like we are seeing.
Without a word of a troll I believe my brain stem fell to pieces when I read that.
As a web developer for the last ten years I wonder who they honestly believe they are kidding? No matter what your bias you can clearly see in their current policy that they have no interest in standards and less so in web standards.
I find it interesting that you believe a server OS can be compared to a desktop OS on par. I guess you don't since you are trying to mask your comparison of apples to oranges with rude insults. When it comes down to it 62 bugs is nothing in a desktop environment that demands free and open usage; more so now that they are all fixed. Servers are a completely different story and no matter how much FUD or insults you throw you cannot change that.
Does it really? I'm not mac fanboy (in fact I'm a Linux fanboy) but I do like my mac laptop and I don't really have an opinion on Apple so my point of view on the topic really sees this as a none issue.
Both parties handled the wireless 'hack' (3rd party driver doesn't really count on built in/OS supported by default hardware) badly and had their own motives for their actions. Though the Month of Apple Bugs, as a mac user, just appeared to be either a stunt by Apple or a stunt by some one else no one cares about to show off mac security compared to windows. And really the end result was that Apple had to fix a ton of bugs; as a mac user this made me happy and happier when Apple sent several patches to my mac with these fixes in short order.
So really I see this as a null event and its effect on my opinion of Apple has only changed in two regards as a result: they will fix bugs quickly and well (regardless if this is accurate or not, remember I'm a user who really doesn't care - eg average mac user) and that with a huge security community pushing to crush 'smug' mac users outlooks on osx they only found 62 critical bugs. Seriously, 62, that's it, what a joke.
Again as a mac user this just improves my view of Apples commitment to security. Plus I think it would prove to be a comical point if there were to be such a serious Month of Windows Bugs! "Oh see my mac only had 62 bugs, your windows pc has what? 12,085,387? Have fun with that virus scanner, firewall, and content filter you need to run just to reduce your risk of your windows box getting infected!"
At the end of the day all OS have bugs and companies have to deal with them they way they see fit; and the users have to accept that or switch operating systems. It's not like you don't have a choice; heck I'm a linux user who bought a mac for a spare computer that would 'just work' when debian sid decided that my computer wasn't some thing it wanted to play with.
Agreed. There is only one way to stop large protests and that is with bullets and tanks. Maybe the US would say 'they were just slaughtering terrorists' though no other western country on the planet would take it lightly. The eastern countries would be chomping at the bit to jump on the double standards bandwagon. So in reality there is simply nothing the British government can do about protests out side of parliament. Personally I think you (the GP) should get 10,000 people together and go sit outside the place next week - no banners, no placards, nothing, just sit.
The Australian government brought in 'tough new laws' on sedition late last year and in response thousands of Australians (right and left wing) including members of parliament and the head of one of our major political parties publicly and loudly suggested that they would kill the PM. Among other comments that were all said without malice or intent, though still illegal under the sedition laws, the population basically proved to the government that if it wanted to enforce this law there would be public out cry on a country wide scale. So far I have seen no Australians respect or take any notice of the law.
What really disgusts me is that all of you British in this thread see the current state of affairs and basically off load it as some one else's problem. And I say this as a generalisation based on the ~100 comments here and not one suggested starting a new political party to challenge what has been happening or the lack of a new political party doing just that. Plenty suggested the use of arms - What is that? Did you turn into brutes between the last episode of The Office and now? Aren't you civilised? Don't you understand that until you are under a dictatorship or the opposition is going missing just because they exist YOU HAVE THE POWER TO BECOME THE ONE IN CHARGE AND STOP WHAT IS HAPPENING without major risks of personal loss.
Millions of your country men gave their lives for you to have your freedom in its current form and if you do not want to exert the effort required to stop the slippery slope then you deserve what you end up with. If you try your best and no one else exerts effort flee while you can.
I don't have a lot of respect for American writers or thinkers though I believe this quote is one of the greatest to come from the country when dealing with democratic politics and the current excuses being used to subvert it: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Franklin (most likely)
I really don't care how validation dies I just care that it does and doesn't destroy our rights in some other way. The same goes for DRM. I refuse to be treated like a criminal which is why I don't buy DVDs any more (MPAA asking me if I'd steal a movie when I've just paid for the damn thing!) and I avoid everything with DRM or activation (which is a lot easier to do than you'd think). Unfortunately as much as I use Mac and Linux at home I'm still forced to use Windows at work and I have to deal with the activation issues all the time (we are only a medium sized enterprise and system builder packs or preloaded pc's still need to be activated) even though we have a strict license requirement for all non FOSS software in use.
I'm sick of watching consumer and general rights go out of the window - I don't have a use for them personally though others seemed to fight hard for them in the past so it must suck without them - and I'll be damned if I don't support some thing that tries to restore some thing we've lost.
Indeed I am from Australia where we think using 'z' in that fashion is just weird. Either way I see your point and I didn't realise he was a contractor. If you are a contractor you do specifically what you are being paid to do and get out - I had assumed he was an employee.
Also, as MishgoDog pointed out, 's' is normal to me and strangely enough that makes your post out right confusing and I find it hard to see your logic. Odd how language works isn't it.
I didn't realise this was blowing the whistle; I thought it was part of any good IT department employees job. That is to ensure all passwords, more so management passwords, are as secure as possible.
Getting in trouble for improving corporate security is absolutely insane.
Because we aren't limited by walls and we are free to do everything available to us. Not sit around in an area smaller than the average city. Sure many of us do anyway though a good percentage do like to get out and about when life gets boring and rarely does any one do this there whole life. Plus we are nicely duped into the belief that we can do anything which makes this post null as it suggests an easy way to convince those on the ark that they are in fact meaningful. I think I should stop writing now...
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Not really sure why you posted as AC as you have a good point. Though as some one who's been rather interested in history (Greek through to now) I've noticed a very strong trend in over coming goals. Lets assume that since boats were 'invented', lets say x years ago where x is when the native Australians might have done it - 30,000 years - or the more common understood starting point - 15,000-8,000 years - as our time frame, we will call that the start of non-normal travel (normal being by foot) - I would like to avoid over land travel as I doubt we can even guess when the first person rode a horse.
Anyway under that assumption lets really view the time frame. The last 30000 years have been boring on the sea if you were in a boat with only limited jumps forward until 4000 years ago when the jumps really started to pile on top of each other and suddenly boats really started moving forward. Overland travel saw this event over the last 300 years from horse back to maglev trains. Powered planes didn't even exist at the start of last century and within a century of existing they have already reached scramjet abilities (some thing books I've read from the sixties joked about as never happening in their life time or even ever). Which leaves us with space flight...From the Germans flinging rocks around in WW2 to landing rovers on Mars and exploring it in well under a century. The advances have been insane so really as long as there are advantages to the general population and adventures like this don't detract from needing issues I believe the question becomes why not?
As for the time scape between now and when black holes wipe out everything it isn't worth thinking about. Many generations will have hopefully had a bit more fun while living as a result of exploring everything...Heck there may even be life out there that gives the question to the great answer.
Even if Linux dies tomorrow the livecd will be its single greatest legacy to date. They are just so handy. Still for converting people they aren't the best unless the person is willing to sit in one for several hours and play - you usually have to sell Linux to them first to get this to happen.
I've taken a more long term approach to switching people away from Windows to any Unix (inc OSX). Firstly I point out there are options usually when they are swearing about the latest Not Working(tm) flaw in Windows; If they bite I follow up with what they are and their specific advantages _over_ Windows; When they finally want to try it I usually give them as much attention and information as possible to hide a lot of the learning curve.
This can be compacted into a five minute sell but works better over a longer period. Some notes: The learning curve for Linux or Mac is easier than the one for Windows (any one who has worked with older people who've never touched a pc will know this). If they take the 'oh but Windows does everything I need' side just drop the sell and don't play the game with them - it just wastes time - simply say 'mmm shame, you would have liked Linux, well have fun with your BSOD' and walk away - funnily enough I've switched four or five who've done this! It is important to always be comparing with Windows...They don't care how good BSD is compared to Solaris or Linux. And take stock of what applications they use often and build a list of compatible apps - if it isn't almost all of them then don't switch them as they wont be able to do their work.
The above has allowed me to switch well over 50 people in the last two years with almost no effort on my part...One thing I've found strange is that females switch a lot easier - us males fail at converting to Linux?:P
I am a _huge_ fan of XFCE though it just isn't there yet in regards of being robust and usable in many different applications. For example I usually have to run a bunch of GNOME apps just to make it a usable desktop...Or an even better example; At work I've been trying very hard to implement a Linux/XFCE environment onto our older PCs to 'upgrade' them from Windows 2000 - due to their memory/cpu power XFCE is the only usable desktop environment. I have managed to account for every feature the users of these PCs require including all of our propriety apps yet my failure to roll out this implementation came down to XFCEs file manager and it's complete lack of any features required to exist on a network - let a lone a business network - and bringing nautilus into the setup just wasn't practical. From my point of view this was a huge shame as it would have been nice to see a bunch of Linux PCs out side the server room and in production and XFCE fit the bill nicely.
As some one currently doing a Comp Sci course at a Uni in Australia I welcome this sort of thing. Any information that you can trust is good information; structured information is so much better. I'll be taking full advantage of this sort of thing to supplement my current learning and for extra things I find interesting.
Due to the choice of words of the parent post to this it will get modded troll though I think it is an important question. What is the point of these pits of content? I play my favorite mmo (eve online) and I chat with the guys on that often, I idle on irc and chat with people I know there, and I've got the odd forum around the place. Though at the end of the day though I leave the house and socialise with my friends at our local net cafe or hang out at different places. These social networking sites seem to grab the non geeks around and draw them onto the net even though they already have the real life social aspect. And I'm the geek! It basically leaves me thinking it is a fad or nothing at all.
Seriously am I the only one that just doesn't get social networking sites?
I'm a rather busy uni student who works part time and I already play EVE Online...
I skipped the last generation as it just wasn't 'fun' though I see this opening line up lasting me the year. To be honest most of my time is already taken up with other things so when I get my Wii it'll be used for parties (and Wii Sports takes care of that) and the odd few hours of solo (which Zelda will do nicely). I really wont be buying any new release games for almost a year after I get it as I'll be spending my spare money on Wiimotes and the odd party game. Nintendo has a winner here for me and the few times I've played it I've been more impressed than I ever was with my N64 which I loved.
In Australia the drinking age is 18. Note how ever that it is perfectly legal to drink at home with a responsible adult (some one over 18 who isn't drunk) which has the effect that most people under 18 are drinking in the presence of an adult. Many parents are happy enough to do a deal with their children like the following: I will buy your drinks _if_ you only drink those. So by the time you are 18 and start going to the really wild parties and clubbing you already have a good understanding of what you can drink and what you like.
From what I have seen this is the best way to introduce teens to alcohol and 21 is just an insane age to let them start drinking. Teenagers really can't wait past 15 to start and at least 18 falls under the 'oh but in a year or two I can' so they don't go crazy.
I can't agree more. Though I'm not against people being paid as long as it was without strings attached; For example a mate of mine is paid a weekly amount to do 'work' (undefined) on an opensource project and as long as he is coding they don't take notice.
Also, I'm not a hippy, yet I still help maintain packages and hunt down bugs.
Not sure though I believe these guys know. I nearly went insane trying to work out where the Exchange 2003 patches section was yesterday; and when I got there I was told it was only accessible via a password that you get from a phone tech...
Yes. I'm Australian and one of my favourite sports is rifle shooting.
I don't feel any need to own my own rifle (if I got more serious I'd get my own and stop using club rifles) as it is rather expensive to buy a good one and the odd Sunday of shooting doesn't warrent it when I have uni costs. Australians simply don't need guns or rifles in every day life. The criminals don't have them, insane people don't have them, and the police have to do so much paper work every time they fire a round that they would rather run 5km through muddy fields to crash tackle you than take a shot. I do how ever know where my cricket bat is at all times in my house.
You say that no one stands to benefit. I disagree - all publicity is good publicity.
Without any of this hype I would never have seen this/. article, and have never known about this package, and therefore not seen any of the applications in the bundle. Now while I'm not going to get the bundle I did have a good look at the programs available in it and I really liked two of them - the one I consider to be a fair price (disco) I will be buying and the other (the themeing one) which I think is a bit to over priced for the one or two features I want I will be considering.
I'm a Linux user mainly so I rarely even think about paying for software as everything is a simple aptitude install away. So as far as I'm concerned at least one of these shareware makers who I wouldn't have considered an hour ago to solve a lacking area on my Mac will be winning as a result of all this yelling and screaming. I'm an end user and I don't care about the politics involved; I just want visible solutions.
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I buy a lot of LG products and I respect their quality of brand. However I think I shall join you. Linux means more to me than a shiny brand logo on my widescreen.
To some extent it will happen though alliances that seriously want to be part of this audit so they feel safe to put away their tin foil hats will stand behind some one they trust to go there and look in person. Depending on the power and sway that alliance has their man will end up in the group. It'll be a terrible council if it is given any real power but just being able to talk directly to CCP and voice concerns will solve a lot of problems. Right now they are just not approachable and with such a serious political system in the game this leads to issues like we are seeing.
I wonder who is going to go all in first?
Motive for Gods interaction with his creation?
Without a word of a troll I believe my brain stem fell to pieces when I read that.
As a web developer for the last ten years I wonder who they honestly believe they are kidding? No matter what your bias you can clearly see in their current policy that they have no interest in standards and less so in web standards.
I find it interesting that you believe a server OS can be compared to a desktop OS on par. I guess you don't since you are trying to mask your comparison of apples to oranges with rude insults. When it comes down to it 62 bugs is nothing in a desktop environment that demands free and open usage; more so now that they are all fixed. Servers are a completely different story and no matter how much FUD or insults you throw you cannot change that.
Does it really?
I'm not mac fanboy (in fact I'm a Linux fanboy) but I do like my mac laptop and I don't really have an opinion on Apple so my point of view on the topic really sees this as a none issue.
Both parties handled the wireless 'hack' (3rd party driver doesn't really count on built in/OS supported by default hardware) badly and had their own motives for their actions.
Though the Month of Apple Bugs, as a mac user, just appeared to be either a stunt by Apple or a stunt by some one else no one cares about to show off mac security compared to windows. And really the end result was that Apple had to fix a ton of bugs; as a mac user this made me happy and happier when Apple sent several patches to my mac with these fixes in short order.
So really I see this as a null event and its effect on my opinion of Apple has only changed in two regards as a result: they will fix bugs quickly and well (regardless if this is accurate or not, remember I'm a user who really doesn't care - eg average mac user) and that with a huge security community pushing to crush 'smug' mac users outlooks on osx they only found 62 critical bugs. Seriously, 62, that's it, what a joke.
Again as a mac user this just improves my view of Apples commitment to security. Plus I think it would prove to be a comical point if there were to be such a serious Month of Windows Bugs! "Oh see my mac only had 62 bugs, your windows pc has what? 12,085,387? Have fun with that virus scanner, firewall, and content filter you need to run just to reduce your risk of your windows box getting infected!"
At the end of the day all OS have bugs and companies have to deal with them they way they see fit; and the users have to accept that or switch operating systems. It's not like you don't have a choice; heck I'm a linux user who bought a mac for a spare computer that would 'just work' when debian sid decided that my computer wasn't some thing it wanted to play with.
Agreed. There is only one way to stop large protests and that is with bullets and tanks. Maybe the US would say 'they were just slaughtering terrorists' though no other western country on the planet would take it lightly. The eastern countries would be chomping at the bit to jump on the double standards bandwagon. So in reality there is simply nothing the British government can do about protests out side of parliament. Personally I think you (the GP) should get 10,000 people together and go sit outside the place next week - no banners, no placards, nothing, just sit.
The Australian government brought in 'tough new laws' on sedition late last year and in response thousands of Australians (right and left wing) including members of parliament and the head of one of our major political parties publicly and loudly suggested that they would kill the PM. Among other comments that were all said without malice or intent, though still illegal under the sedition laws, the population basically proved to the government that if it wanted to enforce this law there would be public out cry on a country wide scale. So far I have seen no Australians respect or take any notice of the law.
What really disgusts me is that all of you British in this thread see the current state of affairs and basically off load it as some one else's problem. And I say this as a generalisation based on the ~100 comments here and not one suggested starting a new political party to challenge what has been happening or the lack of a new political party doing just that. Plenty suggested the use of arms - What is that? Did you turn into brutes between the last episode of The Office and now? Aren't you civilised? Don't you understand that until you are under a dictatorship or the opposition is going missing just because they exist YOU HAVE THE POWER TO BECOME THE ONE IN CHARGE AND STOP WHAT IS HAPPENING without major risks of personal loss.
Millions of your country men gave their lives for you to have your freedom in its current form and if you do not want to exert the effort required to stop the slippery slope then you deserve what you end up with. If you try your best and no one else exerts effort flee while you can.
I don't have a lot of respect for American writers or thinkers though I believe this quote is one of the greatest to come from the country when dealing with democratic politics and the current excuses being used to subvert it:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Franklin (most likely)
Agreed.
I really don't care how validation dies I just care that it does and doesn't destroy our rights in some other way. The same goes for DRM. I refuse to be treated like a criminal which is why I don't buy DVDs any more (MPAA asking me if I'd steal a movie when I've just paid for the damn thing!) and I avoid everything with DRM or activation (which is a lot easier to do than you'd think). Unfortunately as much as I use Mac and Linux at home I'm still forced to use Windows at work and I have to deal with the activation issues all the time (we are only a medium sized enterprise and system builder packs or preloaded pc's still need to be activated) even though we have a strict license requirement for all non FOSS software in use.
I'm sick of watching consumer and general rights go out of the window - I don't have a use for them personally though others seemed to fight hard for them in the past so it must suck without them - and I'll be damned if I don't support some thing that tries to restore some thing we've lost.
Indeed I am from Australia where we think using 'z' in that fashion is just weird. Either way I see your point and I didn't realise he was a contractor. If you are a contractor you do specifically what you are being paid to do and get out - I had assumed he was an employee.
Also, as MishgoDog pointed out, 's' is normal to me and strangely enough that makes your post out right confusing and I find it hard to see your logic. Odd how language works isn't it.
I didn't realise this was blowing the whistle; I thought it was part of any good IT department employees job. That is to ensure all passwords, more so management passwords, are as secure as possible.
Getting in trouble for improving corporate security is absolutely insane.
I thought the Linux community was basically avoiding Novell until all of their Microsoft flag waving was sorted out. I know I have been... :|
Because we aren't limited by walls and we are free to do everything available to us. Not sit around in an area smaller than the average city. Sure many of us do anyway though a good percentage do like to get out and about when life gets boring and rarely does any one do this there whole life. Plus we are nicely duped into the belief that we can do anything which makes this post null as it suggests an easy way to convince those on the ark that they are in fact meaningful. I think I should stop writing now...
Not really sure why you posted as AC as you have a good point. Though as some one who's been rather interested in history (Greek through to now) I've noticed a very strong trend in over coming goals. Lets assume that since boats were 'invented', lets say x years ago where x is when the native Australians might have done it - 30,000 years - or the more common understood starting point - 15,000-8,000 years - as our time frame, we will call that the start of non-normal travel (normal being by foot) - I would like to avoid over land travel as I doubt we can even guess when the first person rode a horse.
Anyway under that assumption lets really view the time frame. The last 30000 years have been boring on the sea if you were in a boat with only limited jumps forward until 4000 years ago when the jumps really started to pile on top of each other and suddenly boats really started moving forward. Overland travel saw this event over the last 300 years from horse back to maglev trains. Powered planes didn't even exist at the start of last century and within a century of existing they have already reached scramjet abilities (some thing books I've read from the sixties joked about as never happening in their life time or even ever). Which leaves us with space flight...From the Germans flinging rocks around in WW2 to landing rovers on Mars and exploring it in well under a century. The advances have been insane so really as long as there are advantages to the general population and adventures like this don't detract from needing issues I believe the question becomes why not?
As for the time scape between now and when black holes wipe out everything it isn't worth thinking about. Many generations will have hopefully had a bit more fun while living as a result of exploring everything...Heck there may even be life out there that gives the question to the great answer.
Even if Linux dies tomorrow the livecd will be its single greatest legacy to date. They are just so handy. Still for converting people they aren't the best unless the person is willing to sit in one for several hours and play - you usually have to sell Linux to them first to get this to happen.
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I've taken a more long term approach to switching people away from Windows to any Unix (inc OSX). Firstly I point out there are options usually when they are swearing about the latest Not Working(tm) flaw in Windows; If they bite I follow up with what they are and their specific advantages _over_ Windows; When they finally want to try it I usually give them as much attention and information as possible to hide a lot of the learning curve.
This can be compacted into a five minute sell but works better over a longer period. Some notes: The learning curve for Linux or Mac is easier than the one for Windows (any one who has worked with older people who've never touched a pc will know this). If they take the 'oh but Windows does everything I need' side just drop the sell and don't play the game with them - it just wastes time - simply say 'mmm shame, you would have liked Linux, well have fun with your BSOD' and walk away - funnily enough I've switched four or five who've done this! It is important to always be comparing with Windows...They don't care how good BSD is compared to Solaris or Linux. And take stock of what applications they use often and build a list of compatible apps - if it isn't almost all of them then don't switch them as they wont be able to do their work.
The above has allowed me to switch well over 50 people in the last two years with almost no effort on my part...One thing I've found strange is that females switch a lot easier - us males fail at converting to Linux?
Please don't confuse 'bloat' with 'functional'.
I am a _huge_ fan of XFCE though it just isn't there yet in regards of being robust and usable in many different applications. For example I usually have to run a bunch of GNOME apps just to make it a usable desktop...Or an even better example; At work I've been trying very hard to implement a Linux/XFCE environment onto our older PCs to 'upgrade' them from Windows 2000 - due to their memory/cpu power XFCE is the only usable desktop environment.
I have managed to account for every feature the users of these PCs require including all of our propriety apps yet my failure to roll out this implementation came down to XFCEs file manager and it's complete lack of any features required to exist on a network - let a lone a business network - and bringing nautilus into the setup just wasn't practical. From my point of view this was a huge shame as it would have been nice to see a bunch of Linux PCs out side the server room and in production and XFCE fit the bill nicely.
So yes...Don't confuse the terms.
As some one currently doing a Comp Sci course at a Uni in Australia I welcome this sort of thing. Any information that you can trust is good information; structured information is so much better. I'll be taking full advantage of this sort of thing to supplement my current learning and for extra things I find interesting.
Kudos to MIT and others doing similar!
Due to the choice of words of the parent post to this it will get modded troll though I think it is an important question. What is the point of these pits of content? I play my favorite mmo (eve online) and I chat with the guys on that often, I idle on irc and chat with people I know there, and I've got the odd forum around the place. Though at the end of the day though I leave the house and socialise with my friends at our local net cafe or hang out at different places. These social networking sites seem to grab the non geeks around and draw them onto the net even though they already have the real life social aspect. And I'm the geek! It basically leaves me thinking it is a fad or nothing at all.
Seriously am I the only one that just doesn't get social networking sites?
I'm a rather busy uni student who works part time and I already play EVE Online...
I skipped the last generation as it just wasn't 'fun' though I see this opening line up lasting me the year. To be honest most of my time is already taken up with other things so when I get my Wii it'll be used for parties (and Wii Sports takes care of that) and the odd few hours of solo (which Zelda will do nicely). I really wont be buying any new release games for almost a year after I get it as I'll be spending my spare money on Wiimotes and the odd party game. Nintendo has a winner here for me and the few times I've played it I've been more impressed than I ever was with my N64 which I loved.
In Australia the drinking age is 18. Note how ever that it is perfectly legal to drink at home with a responsible adult (some one over 18 who isn't drunk) which has the effect that most people under 18 are drinking in the presence of an adult. Many parents are happy enough to do a deal with their children like the following: I will buy your drinks _if_ you only drink those. So by the time you are 18 and start going to the really wild parties and clubbing you already have a good understanding of what you can drink and what you like.
From what I have seen this is the best way to introduce teens to alcohol and 21 is just an insane age to let them start drinking. Teenagers really can't wait past 15 to start and at least 18 falls under the 'oh but in a year or two I can' so they don't go crazy.
I can't agree more. Though I'm not against people being paid as long as it was without strings attached; For example a mate of mine is paid a weekly amount to do 'work' (undefined) on an opensource project and as long as he is coding they don't take notice.
Also, I'm not a hippy, yet I still help maintain packages and hunt down bugs.
Not sure though I believe these guys know. I nearly went insane trying to work out where the Exchange 2003 patches section was yesterday; and when I got there I was told it was only accessible via a password that you get from a phone tech...
Yes. I'm Australian and one of my favourite sports is rifle shooting.
I don't feel any need to own my own rifle (if I got more serious I'd get my own and stop using club rifles) as it is rather expensive to buy a good one and the odd Sunday of shooting doesn't warrent it when I have uni costs. Australians simply don't need guns or rifles in every day life. The criminals don't have them, insane people don't have them, and the police have to do so much paper work every time they fire a round that they would rather run 5km through muddy fields to crash tackle you than take a shot. I do how ever know where my cricket bat is at all times in my house.
You say that no one stands to benefit. I disagree - all publicity is good publicity.
/. article, and have never known about this package, and therefore not seen any of the applications in the bundle. Now while I'm not going to get the bundle I did have a good look at the programs available in it and I really liked two of them - the one I consider to be a fair price (disco) I will be buying and the other (the themeing one) which I think is a bit to over priced for the one or two features I want I will be considering.
Without any of this hype I would never have seen this
I'm a Linux user mainly so I rarely even think about paying for software as everything is a simple aptitude install away. So as far as I'm concerned at least one of these shareware makers who I wouldn't have considered an hour ago to solve a lacking area on my Mac will be winning as a result of all this yelling and screaming. I'm an end user and I don't care about the politics involved; I just want visible solutions.
We don't have to; His server is already slashdotted!
Maybe he is still running an early 90s NT server?