Well I have only to a small degree worked with US software companies. Maybe you have more experience? I, and many with me, still do belive it is a serious problem. And that it is hard to run a successful software company in the US without a serious legal back up. And many central standards, applications and formats that I work with have been affected by US software patents.
Maybe you have statistics to show otherwise? As a Non-US citizen I don't know what databases I should access to get that sort of statistics. But I would be very interested in stats that back ups your opinion.
It seems like the world is getting more and more "locked down".
I don't mean to be an "I hate the US"-troll, but I think it's important to notice that this to a big degree is a problem not in the world but in the US. Here in the EU the large multinational corporations are trying to lobby through software patents, but so far we have said no to that.
Also important to notice that the software companies works fine here without the patents. And it's easier to start a small new software company without wasting money on expensive lawyers.
Oh come on. Like there aren't enough big real problems in the nature so the groups need to make up ones? As a general rule I believe the nonprofits on these kind of questions a lot more then the Navy. I think it's just as simple that the Navy doesn't want to look bad, or have to change anything, so they say what they are doing is all honkey dorey and act all surprised.
hahaha. the page was slashdotted so first I didn't see the images and thought you were being a bit tough. but you are absolutly right, he re-invented the shelf. jesus what a crappy hack. he even made a bad shelf since it can only be used for a limitied number of things since it's only based on three pieces of wood so things can fall through it. a normal shelf for $15 would be better.
This is pure flamebait. You cannot make a statement like this without backing it up with examples. I dare you to name one single American journalist who has been imprisoned merely for what he/she has said or written.
Like most countries that try to oppress the free press other laws are used as an excuse to attack journalists. Otherwise would people and other countries probably make a bigger fuss.
One of the best known cases in the US is Mumia Abu Jamal which you can read more about at http://www.mumia.org./ A newer discussed case in the US is the one against Sherman Austin from Raise the fist.
Even CIA-sponsored (!) Reporters without borders have been critical to the US, especially how they handled the press in Iraq.
AFAIK, and IANAL, the UK does not have the same protections for free speech and a free press that the U.S. has.
OMG. The US is probably the western country that puts most journalists in jail and repeatedly oppress free speech and free press and you try to say it's better than the UK?
Seriously, you need to understand that your press freedom basically sucks. And of course the patriot act made it even worse.
Sorry to nag but I'm very tired of americans that belive they have such a great unique press freedom when it's getting more orwellish every day and most european countries have better rights.
That, frankly, is rubbish. Someone who doesn't know about the commands and what they do will have to learn their names anyway; it doesn't matter, for example, whether you have to remember "get-process" or "ps". In fact, it might be easier to remember "ps", as it is shorter and more concise.
no, no it's not. atleast not for me. I always keep forgetting the name of commands with unlogic names like ps, df, etc. I can't see why there not is a long full name and a short name avaliable for all basic commands.
anyone think of anything PRACTICAL this is good for, rather than his fairly optimistic view?
As he writes; GAMES. Two player games no longer needs small annoying split screens. I don't play a lot, but that most be great.
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It is pathetic that even poor people in South Korea have lines for 20 bucks a month at 25 mbps.
No, it's great that poor people in south korea have cheap connections you egocentric ass.
But yes it sucks for americans to have a bad infrastructure. Maybe if you payed a little more in taxes so the state could build it, like we do in sweden. But I guess I shouldn't go there. Yucky socialism and all;)
For me it's a world of difference between abusing peoples non-profit work (because I guess PearPC wasn't developed by some big corp) on a gpl project to make a profit and copying an application for yourself from a large corporation that makes tons of money (like if you would copy windows or photoshop).
In sweden we have similar systems too. The one my bank uses is you get a number that is valid for 5 minutes when you attempt to login. You type that number into a little piece of hardware, press enter and you get a new number that you type into the web browser. You have to do repeat the same thing everytime you want to make a transcation too. Seems pretty safe...
Do you just need a regular password to login and make transactions on american banks? That sounds really weird in that case.
In the US, obstruction of justice is a whole different situation. Similarly, a phychiatrist has doctor/patient priviledge, but has an obligation to report any situation where they know a crime is going to be committed.
I don't think you can compare a journalist and a doctor. The journalists job is to critize the people in power. They need a whole other type of protection than a doctor does.
Honestly, if a journalist nabs an interview with someone who has plans to bomb a building, or assasinate someone, I don't want him to be able to scream "free press" and protect the source's identity.
Why one earth would the bomber talk to the journalist if he/she knew that the journalist was free to give the information to the police?
I think your missing the whole point of having a free press instead of a state controlled one. What the press should do is monitor and critize the people in power, which at some times mean letting people that breaks current laws speak. Most obvious rights now was at some point illegal.
I don't think giving up basic parts of your democracy will help the fight against terrorists (short term maybe, long term no way). Americans should take a look at why the UN, Reporters without borders, etc. critize the press situation in the US. Killing and putting people in jail until there are no one less to threaten you will not work, it will just spawn new terrorists.
Journalists sources are most definitely NOT protected.
If that is true. Oh my god. That's really horrible. Here in Sweden journalists sources ARE protected by law, since we still consider free press as something worth protecting.
I'm not saying you'll do this, but I can't think of a single, self-aware human being that hasn't done some morally or ethically reprehensible thing at one point in his or her history. Can you?
Still I find it interesting that non-profit organizations seems to do behave much more ethically than for-profit corporations.
There are more positive examples of differences. For example, consider Free Speech. America tolerates a level of free speech (including even speech that is offensive or subversive) that goes far beyond that tolerated in many other countries.
You most be kidding me? Last time I heard US Patriot Act was used to stop union demonstrations. IMC and RaiseTheFist has been seriously attacked, etc. etc.
When so many people get their news from Fox something most be wrong. The freedom in the US looks more and more like a 1984 kind of freedom to me.
The appearance is only skin deep. Creating a theme that looks "good"? That's easy, get some graphic designers together with a usability safety inspector.
If creating a nice appearance is so easy how come most OS:es (imho all OS:es but the ones from Apple) look so horrible?
It's not "illegal" in the United States either. I was saying they would be sued not charged. Huge difference. Anybody can sue you for anything. Unless they are grossly abusing the system (and the Judge orders them to pay defense costs) it is going to cost you money to mount your legal defense.
His point still stands. Nowhere else in the world (that I know of) have the extreme problems the US have today with lawyers. I live in Sweden and unless I do something illegal I don't have much to worry about. I don't think the same thing can be said about the US unfortunally.
The entire system was designed really well, why? Because these guys built it to make a profit. Not to take a shot at Linux, but dinner is a much better incentive to make something that runs well (and thus sells well) than [kernel] hacker pride.
Of course! That's why Windows is such a well designed and stable OS.
Or wait...
On a personal level (even though I've never programmed operating systems or kernels) the software I make in my free time is almost always more well-designed and higher quality than the software I do because I have to pay the rent. Because it's more fun, and I have all the time I want to design it very well.
Even though some software I've made for profit has been very good too, but it has always been projects I've been interested in for other reasons then money.
I don't understand the opinion "why use Linux when one can run most of the linux apps in Mac OS X". Sure it's night and day from Pre-OSX but my experience is that most FLOSS applications (especially those with a GUI) work a lot worse on Mac OS X than on Linux (and to me that's logical, of course more development time goes into the linux versions than the mac ports).
Mainstream FLOSS applications like Firefox, dcgui and X-Chat performs a lot worse (slower, less stable, etc.) on Mac OS X than Linux. Atleast that is my experience.
And if one wants to run Photoshop and other commercial applications; use Mac-on-Linux.
On the other hand I understand that lots of people like Mac OS X, it's a well designed OS.
No your missunderstanding the use of picture phones. It's not meant to replace regular digital cameras, if anything it's a development of SMS. You can send a picture of something that happens to you, it's cool! (but still I can't imagine how pissed I would be if I took a really neat picture with the camera phone, and than of course not be able to use it on the web/print it out/as a desktop pattern/whatever because the quality sucks).
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Well I have only to a small degree worked with US software companies. Maybe you have more experience? I, and many with me, still do belive it is a serious problem. And that it is hard to run a successful software company in the US without a serious legal back up. And many central standards, applications and formats that I work with have been affected by US software patents.
Maybe you have statistics to show otherwise? As a Non-US citizen I don't know what databases I should access to get that sort of statistics. But I would be very interested in stats that back ups your opinion.
It seems like the world is getting more and more "locked down".
I don't mean to be an "I hate the US"-troll, but I think it's important to notice that this to a big degree is a problem not in the world but in the US. Here in the EU the large multinational corporations are trying to lobby through software patents, but so far we have said no to that.
Also important to notice that the software companies works fine here without the patents. And it's easier to start a small new software company without wasting money on expensive lawyers.
Oh come on. Like there aren't enough big real problems in the nature so the groups need to make up ones? As a general rule I believe the nonprofits on these kind of questions a lot more then the Navy. I think it's just as simple that the Navy doesn't want to look bad, or have to change anything, so they say what they are doing is all honkey dorey and act all surprised.
hahaha. the page was slashdotted so first I didn't see the images and thought you were being a bit tough. but you are absolutly right, he re-invented the shelf. jesus what a crappy hack. he even made a bad shelf since it can only be used for a limitied number of things since it's only based on three pieces of wood so things can fall through it. a normal shelf for $15 would be better.
This is pure flamebait. You cannot make a statement like this without backing it up with examples. I dare you to name one single American journalist who has been imprisoned merely for what he/she has said or written.
Like most countries that try to oppress the free press other laws are used as an excuse to attack journalists. Otherwise would people and other countries probably make a bigger fuss.
One of the best known cases in the US is Mumia Abu Jamal which you can read more about at http://www.mumia.org./ A newer discussed case in the US is the one against Sherman Austin from Raise the fist.
Even CIA-sponsored (!) Reporters without borders have been critical to the US, especially how they handled the press in Iraq.
AFAIK, and IANAL, the UK does not have the same protections for free speech and a free press that the U.S. has.
OMG. The US is probably the western country that puts most journalists in jail and repeatedly oppress free speech and free press and you try to say it's better than the UK?
Seriously, you need to understand that your press freedom basically sucks. And of course the patriot act made it even worse.
Sorry to nag but I'm very tired of americans that belive they have such a great unique press freedom when it's getting more orwellish every day and most european countries have better rights.
That, frankly, is rubbish. Someone who doesn't know about the commands and what they do will have to learn their names anyway; it doesn't matter, for example, whether you have to remember "get-process" or "ps". In fact, it might be easier to remember "ps", as it is shorter and more concise.
no, no it's not. atleast not for me. I always keep forgetting the name of commands with unlogic names like ps, df, etc. I can't see why there not is a long full name and a short name avaliable for all basic commands.
anyone think of anything PRACTICAL this is good for, rather than his fairly optimistic view?
As he writes; GAMES. Two player games no longer needs small annoying split screens. I don't play a lot, but that most be great.
It is pathetic that even poor people in South Korea have lines for 20 bucks a month at 25 mbps.
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No, it's great that poor people in south korea have cheap connections you egocentric ass.
But yes it sucks for americans to have a bad infrastructure. Maybe if you payed a little more in taxes so the state could build it, like we do in sweden. But I guess I shouldn't go there. Yucky socialism and all
For me it's a world of difference between abusing peoples non-profit work (because I guess PearPC wasn't developed by some big corp) on a gpl project to make a profit and copying an application for yourself from a large corporation that makes tons of money (like if you would copy windows or photoshop).
In sweden we have similar systems too. The one my bank uses is you get a number that is valid for 5 minutes when you attempt to login. You type that number into a little piece of hardware, press enter and you get a new number that you type into the web browser. You have to do repeat the same thing everytime you want to make a transcation too. Seems pretty safe...
Do you just need a regular password to login and make transactions on american banks? That sounds really weird in that case.
In the US, obstruction of justice is a whole different situation. Similarly, a phychiatrist has doctor/patient priviledge, but has an obligation to report any situation where they know a crime is going to be committed.
I don't think you can compare a journalist and a doctor. The journalists job is to critize the people in power. They need a whole other type of protection than a doctor does.
Honestly, if a journalist nabs an interview with someone who has plans to bomb a building, or assasinate someone, I don't want him to be able to scream "free press" and protect the source's identity.
Why one earth would the bomber talk to the journalist if he/she knew that the journalist was free to give the information to the police?
I think your missing the whole point of having a free press instead of a state controlled one. What the press should do is monitor and critize the people in power, which at some times mean letting people that breaks current laws speak. Most obvious rights now was at some point illegal.
I don't think giving up basic parts of your democracy will help the fight against terrorists (short term maybe, long term no way). Americans should take a look at why the UN, Reporters without borders, etc. critize the press situation in the US. Killing and putting people in jail until there are no one less to threaten you will not work, it will just spawn new terrorists.
Journalists sources are most definitely NOT protected.
If that is true. Oh my god. That's really horrible. Here in Sweden journalists sources ARE protected by law, since we still consider free press as something worth protecting.
I'm not saying you'll do this, but I can't think of a single, self-aware human being that hasn't done some morally or ethically reprehensible thing at one point in his or her history. Can you?
Still I find it interesting that non-profit organizations seems to do behave much more ethically than for-profit corporations.
Well as stated on the site; it should probably not be in wikipedia, it fits better in the wiktionary.
There are more positive examples of differences. For example, consider Free Speech. America tolerates a level of free speech (including even speech that is offensive or subversive) that goes far beyond that tolerated in many other countries.
You most be kidding me? Last time I heard US Patriot Act was used to stop union demonstrations. IMC and RaiseTheFist has been seriously attacked, etc. etc.
When so many people get their news from Fox something most be wrong. The freedom in the US looks more and more like a 1984 kind of freedom to me.
The appearance is only skin deep. Creating a theme that looks "good"? That's easy, get some graphic designers together with a usability safety inspector.
If creating a nice appearance is so easy how come most OS:es (imho all OS:es but the ones from Apple) look so horrible?
Properly cared for, black and white negatives will keep for a very long time. [...] Colour materials are another matter.
:)
I guess the ambitious person could create three b/w negatives one for red, one for green and one for blue to longtime save the color pictures.
It's not "illegal" in the United States either. I was saying they would be sued not charged. Huge difference. Anybody can sue you for anything. Unless they are grossly abusing the system (and the Judge orders them to pay defense costs) it is going to cost you money to mount your legal defense. His point still stands. Nowhere else in the world (that I know of) have the extreme problems the US have today with lawyers. I live in Sweden and unless I do something illegal I don't have much to worry about. I don't think the same thing can be said about the US unfortunally.
What do you mean? Is Apache not a big project? ;)
And microsoft would like to make it easier for you to switch to gmail because...?
The entire system was designed really well, why? Because these guys built it to make a profit. Not to take a shot at Linux, but dinner is a much better incentive to make something that runs well (and thus sells well) than [kernel] hacker pride. Of course! That's why Windows is such a well designed and stable OS. Or wait... On a personal level (even though I've never programmed operating systems or kernels) the software I make in my free time is almost always more well-designed and higher quality than the software I do because I have to pay the rent. Because it's more fun, and I have all the time I want to design it very well. Even though some software I've made for profit has been very good too, but it has always been projects I've been interested in for other reasons then money.
Just a little while ago parent post was modded interesting. Now THAT'S "5, Funny" :)
We obviously need a new way to meta-moderate!
I don't understand the opinion "why use Linux when one can run most of the linux apps in Mac OS X". Sure it's night and day from Pre-OSX but my experience is that most FLOSS applications (especially those with a GUI) work a lot worse on Mac OS X than on Linux (and to me that's logical, of course more development time goes into the linux versions than the mac ports).
Mainstream FLOSS applications like Firefox, dcgui and X-Chat performs a lot worse (slower, less stable, etc.) on Mac OS X than Linux. Atleast that is my experience.
And if one wants to run Photoshop and other commercial applications; use Mac-on-Linux.
On the other hand I understand that lots of people like Mac OS X, it's a well designed OS.
No your missunderstanding the use of picture phones. It's not meant to replace regular digital cameras, if anything it's a development of SMS. You can send a picture of something that happens to you, it's cool! (but still I can't imagine how pissed I would be if I took a really neat picture with the camera phone, and than of course not be able to use it on the web/print it out/as a desktop pattern/whatever because the quality sucks).