At least it is clearly bullshit. The "open source" tag was not important decades ago. "Open source" is a decade old (as it was introduced to replace "free software" by OSI), and in the 80s and 90s nobody (in business) paid any notice to open source.
And oddly enough, it seems like the guy is pro-open source from his blog. I guess it is the FP "journalist" misquoted him to satisify his own prejudices.
A back-up is all OK, but the people behind TPB (well I suppose it's them, because they use the same servers as TPB) is working on a decentralized replacement for TPB called openbittorrent.com and torrage.com. This decentralized version will be almost impossible to take out both legally and technically, and according to the ideology behind TPB it will be more democratic.
I thought everybody here knew by now. The guys behind the Pirate Bay sold their domain name and software because it was outdated. The money they received is going to pay for new initatives. Currently they are working on openbittorrent.com and torrage.com as a combined decentralized model. Read more about it here.
AFAIK you can replace "thepiratebay.com" with "openbittorrent.com" in all torrents currently available on thepiratebay.
>I believe if the regular bike was introduced today, reactions would be much the same.
Actually, when the bike was introduced, the reactions was much the same. And, the penny-farthing looked maybe even more silly/gay.
Yeah, it won't go well in European markets without a camera. Even business customers expect a camera on their phone these days. No EDGE or 3G is also serious flaw.
Like somebody else said: it's a PDA with some phone features.
I recommended people interested in an open source phone to ask Nokia when they will have one ready. Linux isn't made for mobile phones, Symbian is, and Symbian will be released as open source soon. If(when) I can hack the Symbian software on my E65 I'll have a top notch smartphone. Without camera, EDGE and 3G, the Neo Freerunner will never be a top notch smartphone.
Please pay attention in your English literature classes. There's a difference between "Modern English has a common root with the German language" and "Modern German is the the root language of Modern English".
I can understand their motivation for attempting to give an impression that they don't make a profit. It certainly makes for good PR among a certain segment of the fans. But, it's naive to blindly believe them. A bit of common sense is all it takes.
You're wrong, simple and easy. TBP is run as a pro-piracy project, nothing else. They are not in it for the money. They are students or IT workers and run TPB in their spare time. Noone in the project has a salary (from TBP). Research beats common sense any time, so you're welcome to go on and do your own.
But you're right about having a bad ad partner. Check the ads on the page on you get a sense of what kind of ad partner they have. The reasoning from TBP is that most companies shy away from doing business with them, so they have to stick with the lousy partner they got.
Yeah, go on, report it to the OO.o developers:
1. Ask in the forums, get slammed by smartasses and then be asked to file a bug.
2. Learn the whole process of filing bugs in Open Office.
3. Search to see if someone filed a similar bug, read trough 25 different bug reports with similiar, but not exactly the same problems.
4. File the bug.
5. Get slammed in the comments to the bug for filing the bug improperly.
6. Get the bug marked as a duplicate. Then spend some time arguing whether or not it is a duplicate.
7. Wait five years, maybe they'll fix the bug in the 4.3 release.
Creationism is pure stupidity. If we are to take the Bible's story of creation literally, which if the TWO should we use. Pick up any Bible, read the two first stories. Both describe God's creation of the world and man, but they contradict each other at several points.
I'm sure the creationists could counter the argument with some theological hand waving, but any reasonable person would understand that you aren't supposed to take these stories literally. They are myths, and myths are meant to be interpreted.
Sounds like you want to Play-by-Forum. Stop by rpg.net some day and there's thousands of people like you who want to play RPGs but can't get a group organized. There's some software out there who do what you want (text-based MMORPG), but I don't have link right now.
Except that the foreign languages we speak are other European languages, not that of immigrants. Usually it's mother tongue + English and for those with more education one or two additional languages (French, German or Spanish).
Your theory has no hold in reality.
Secondly, many immigrants in US speaks only Spanish, even in 2nd and 3rd generation.
No _useful_ sites use Flash. There's alot of funny ones that do though. Flash movies and games are quite common, even more so with Shockwave. Of course they could have done much the same thing with other kinds of software, but flash and shockwave is easy to use.
A fundementalist, one who knows his scripture, could easily defeat your arguments without much mental effort or any really bizarre logic.
Possibly, but what I don't get about creationism is which creation myth is correct. There are two, one in which God creates the world in seven days, and one in which he creates Eden and man. They contradict each other. In the first he creates plants and trees, then the animals and lastly man and woman. In the second he creates man (Adam), then the plants and trees, then the animals and lastly the woman (Eve). So which one is that the creationists say is a fact?
Everyone is downloading Firefox several times. Download Firefox 1.0, update Firefox to 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and 1.0.3. That's four downloads of the whole package. 50 million/4 = 12,5 million. It's nice with 12,5 million users, but it's not 50 millions.
But what's going to happen when software is capable of analysing a writer's style, etc., and can grind out books long after the original author is dead?
We will get a lot of computer generated rip-offs.
Sheeple are Sheeple regardless of which side of the Ocean you are on. Eventually IMO we will have one world government. Shrug...
I find it both sad and amazing that groups like the greens (which I believe have SOME valid points) rail about the corruption and power of corporations, yet their solution is to give more power to government. I thought the Greens (in US) also wanted a less centralized government. Less centralized government and less centralized corporations amount to the same thing. Maybe I'm wrong about the Greens, but at least it seems like a good idea to me.
The end result is those with power will make deals between themselves to keep the power they have or to gain more. Sad, but true.
Most people on slashdot already do #1 and #2 and has done so for years. Even if thousands of activists, futurists and assorted liberals will talk of how consumers have power, boycotts are really nothing more than a PR-stunt. If everyone actually stopped buying a product it will work, but that has never happened and never will.
Political action (lobbying and trying to get some attention in the media), legal action (IPjustice, EFF, etc) and outright civil disobiedence (in this case file-sharing and disregarding patents when publishing software) works way better. Though, it only works if you manage to "sell" your alternative as an viable alternative (look at the peace movement, they usually don't succeed despite beeing good at all of the above).
If we all do this we still have things to discuss on Slashdot in 6 months, but we might have stopped software patents in Europe, and possibly created a momentum for abolishing them in the US too.
Not if the argument is valid without refering to Nazies. This one is. It can be phrased a thousand different ways and still be valid. For instance: If the law said you that supporting civil rights for black people was illegal, I'm sure you would work hard to get it changed. But would you obey it while waiting for that to happen?
I hate to tell you this, but many of the things that George pointed out are core practices of the democrat leaders.
So, since someone is critical of the current Republican government they are suddenly a Democrat? FYI there are other options available.
The things Orwell pointed out in 1984 are extrapolations of what every government and politician do on a regular basis. The name of the government/party is unimportant.
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At least it is clearly bullshit. The "open source" tag was not important decades ago. "Open source" is a decade old (as it was introduced to replace "free software" by OSI), and in the 80s and 90s nobody (in business) paid any notice to open source.
And oddly enough, it seems like the guy is pro-open source from his blog. I guess it is the FP "journalist" misquoted him to satisify his own prejudices.
A back-up is all OK, but the people behind TPB (well I suppose it's them, because they use the same servers as TPB) is working on a decentralized replacement for TPB called openbittorrent.com and torrage.com. This decentralized version will be almost impossible to take out both legally and technically, and according to the ideology behind TPB it will be more democratic.
I thought everybody here knew by now. The guys behind the Pirate Bay sold their domain name and software because it was outdated. The money they received is going to pay for new initatives. Currently they are working on openbittorrent.com and torrage.com as a combined decentralized model. Read more about it here. AFAIK you can replace "thepiratebay.com" with "openbittorrent.com" in all torrents currently available on thepiratebay.
>I believe if the regular bike was introduced today, reactions would be much the same. Actually, when the bike was introduced, the reactions was much the same. And, the penny-farthing looked maybe even more silly/gay.
They've moored it to the sea bottom, that's why it doesn't tip over basically. Lots of videos and explaining at the StatoilHydro Hywind website
Yeah, it won't go well in European markets without a camera. Even business customers expect a camera on their phone these days. No EDGE or 3G is also serious flaw.
Like somebody else said: it's a PDA with some phone features.
I recommended people interested in an open source phone to ask Nokia when they will have one ready. Linux isn't made for mobile phones, Symbian is, and Symbian will be released as open source soon. If(when) I can hack the Symbian software on my E65 I'll have a top notch smartphone. Without camera, EDGE and 3G, the Neo Freerunner will never be a top notch smartphone.
Please pay attention in your English literature classes. There's a difference between "Modern English has a common root with the German language" and "Modern German is the the root language of Modern English".
I can understand their motivation for attempting to give an impression that they don't make a profit. It certainly makes for good PR among a certain segment of the fans. But, it's naive to blindly believe them. A bit of common sense is all it takes. You're wrong, simple and easy. TBP is run as a pro-piracy project, nothing else. They are not in it for the money. They are students or IT workers and run TPB in their spare time. Noone in the project has a salary (from TBP). Research beats common sense any time, so you're welcome to go on and do your own. But you're right about having a bad ad partner. Check the ads on the page on you get a sense of what kind of ad partner they have. The reasoning from TBP is that most companies shy away from doing business with them, so they have to stick with the lousy partner they got.
Yeah, go on, report it to the OO.o developers:
1. Ask in the forums, get slammed by smartasses and then be asked to file a bug.
2. Learn the whole process of filing bugs in Open Office.
3. Search to see if someone filed a similar bug, read trough 25 different bug reports with similiar, but not exactly the same problems.
4. File the bug.
5. Get slammed in the comments to the bug for filing the bug improperly.
6. Get the bug marked as a duplicate. Then spend some time arguing whether or not it is a duplicate.
7. Wait five years, maybe they'll fix the bug in the 4.3 release.
Creationism is pure stupidity. If we are to take the Bible's story of creation literally, which if the TWO should we use. Pick up any Bible, read the two first stories. Both describe God's creation of the world and man, but they contradict each other at several points.
I'm sure the creationists could counter the argument with some theological hand waving, but any reasonable person would understand that you aren't supposed to take these stories literally. They are myths, and myths are meant to be interpreted.
Sounds like you want to Play-by-Forum. Stop by rpg.net some day and there's thousands of people like you who want to play RPGs but can't get a group organized. There's some software out there who do what you want (text-based MMORPG), but I don't have link right now.
Like what?
By European standards they are all degrees of right...
Except that the foreign languages we speak are other European languages, not that of immigrants. Usually it's mother tongue + English and for those with more education one or two additional languages (French, German or Spanish).
Your theory has no hold in reality.
Secondly, many immigrants in US speaks only Spanish, even in 2nd and 3rd generation.
In the Soviet Union capitalism is regulated. In US capitalism regulates you.
Is your backup plan the mentioned physical demonstration?
No _useful_ sites use Flash. There's alot of funny ones that do though. Flash movies and games are quite common, even more so with Shockwave. Of course they could have done much the same thing with other kinds of software, but flash and shockwave is easy to use.
A fundementalist, one who knows his scripture, could easily defeat your arguments without much mental effort or any really bizarre logic.
Possibly, but what I don't get about creationism is which creation myth is correct. There are two, one in which God creates the world in seven days, and one in which he creates Eden and man. They contradict each other. In the first he creates plants and trees, then the animals and lastly man and woman. In the second he creates man (Adam), then the plants and trees, then the animals and lastly the woman (Eve). So which one is that the creationists say is a fact?
Everyone is downloading Firefox several times.
Download Firefox 1.0, update Firefox to 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and 1.0.3. That's four downloads of the whole package. 50 million/4 = 12,5 million.
It's nice with 12,5 million users, but it's not 50 millions.
But what's going to happen when software is capable of analysing a writer's style, etc., and can grind out books long after the original author is dead? We will get a lot of computer generated rip-offs.
Sheeple are Sheeple regardless of which side of the Ocean you are on. Eventually IMO we will have one world government.
Shrug...
I find it both sad and amazing that groups like the greens (which I believe have SOME valid points) rail about the corruption and power of corporations, yet their solution is to give more power to government.
I thought the Greens (in US) also wanted a less centralized government. Less centralized government and less centralized corporations amount to the same thing. Maybe I'm wrong about the Greens, but at least it seems like a good idea to me.
The end result is those with power will make deals between themselves to keep the power they have or to gain more.
Sad, but true.
Most people on slashdot already do #1 and #2 and has done so for years. Even if thousands of activists, futurists and assorted liberals will talk of how consumers have power, boycotts are really nothing more than a PR-stunt. If everyone actually stopped buying a product it will work, but that has never happened and never will.
Political action (lobbying and trying to get some attention in the media), legal action (IPjustice, EFF, etc) and outright civil disobiedence (in this case file-sharing and disregarding patents when publishing software) works way better. Though, it only works if you manage to "sell" your alternative as an viable alternative (look at the peace movement, they usually don't succeed despite beeing good at all of the above).
If we all do this we still have things to discuss on Slashdot in 6 months, but we might have stopped software patents in Europe, and possibly created a momentum for abolishing them in the US too.
So having their own software industry doesn't make a country wealthier?
Not if the argument is valid without refering to Nazies. This one is. It can be phrased a thousand different ways and still be valid.
For instance: If the law said you that supporting civil rights for black people was illegal, I'm sure you would work hard to get it changed. But would you obey it while waiting for that to happen?
I hate to tell you this, but many of the things that George pointed out are core practices of the democrat leaders.
So, since someone is critical of the current Republican government they are suddenly a Democrat? FYI there are other options available.
The things Orwell pointed out in 1984 are extrapolations of what every government and politician do on a regular basis. The name of the government/party is unimportant.