I will never understand the liberal mind. Half of them are driving around in SUVs with "somewhere in Texas..." bumper stickers, but one instance of "somewhere in Massachussets..." and they think it's bigotry.
Goose, meet Gander.
p.s. Besides, my old sig is poking fun at a single solitary individual, not an entire state.
Go take an airplane flight in a modern airliner. Get a window seat next to the wing. Now watch the wing during takeoff and landing...
Tada! Morphing wings! Due to the magic of hydraulics, both the leading and trailing edges of the wing change shape. The trailing edge changes dramatically.
Why is it okay to make jokes about stupid Texans, but it's not okay to make jokes about stupid Mexicans? The former is politically correct (and even encouraged) but the latter is racist and intolerable. Yet the difference between the two is ONLY a river's width.
If by "good conditions" you mean working your ass off on long hours, then maybe so. I work down the street from them, and I've heard some strange rumours coming out of there. It's no longer a place of employment, but your sole life. Which is way they serve breakfast, lunch AND dinner in their marvelous cafeteria. All your home is for is to sleep at.
Except that OpenSSH isn't a filesystem. KDE (and GNOME) may present it to you as a filesystem, but it isn't. It's great for securely transfering stuff back and forth (sftp), but it doesn't hold a candle to NFS.
What is it with WotC/Hasbro's monopoly? It's like every product they have is infused with mind altering chemicals. What else can explain the clone mentality of their customers?
I remember the old days when TSR merely had a large market share. Most people played AD&D, but would still try out different games. Walk into a convention with Runequest and your game was instantly filled with AD&D players wanting to try it out. A couple of years ago my Runequest game was cancelled by the RPGA(tm) because they decided to add another Living Greyhawk(tm) session at the last minute. I was told, "don't feel so bad, you only had four people sign up."
It seems like every freaking game these days has to have Hasbro's "d20" logo on it. It's easier to find software without the "Made for Windows" logo than it is to find a game without the d20 logo. But the gamers don't care, because they're not interested in playing anything else. They'll spend weeks and months making "feats" for a new campaign, but say it's too much bother to learn the rules for a non-d20 game.
Remember the days when TSR/WotC used to sue their fan base for publishing adventures? Adventures and NPCs are not derivative works, but that didn't stop them from strongarming fans and threatening them with financial ruin. But nowadays they have the insulting OGL license, which magnanimously grants rights the fans ALREADY had. The hubris is amazing.
My company makes ultrasound machines. We charge around $15 for an MO disk, which is quite reasonable if you've ever priced one. While it may seem that some of our products are grossly overpriced, our profit margin is only 8% or so, which is ridiculously low in comparison to other industries. The reason our prices are high isn't because we're gouging the customer, but because it takes a long time, lots of people, and tons of money to make an ultrasound machine.
Frankly, it sounds like that x-ray machine is being sold to some naive customers.
These specifications are light enough, that not including support for both is misguided. Why piss off all your Atom users when they're so cheap to support? I think this attempt to make RSS vs. Atom into the next religious war is silly.
I use OpenOffice at home for all my "office" work, and it's more than adequate for the task. At work though, it still had trouble with native MSOffice docs. But so what? This isn't OpenOffice's fault, but Microsoft's for not using a standard!
You will NEVER get 100% compatibility with Microsoft's closed proprietary applications, so if that's your goal you might as well stick with Windows, because you won't ever get that anywhere else.
Just because some group of people come along and start trying to redefine things...
Nothing has been redefined. "Open Source Software" was the coined in 1998 by the founders of the OSI. It happened in the offices of then-named VA Research, on Pear Street in Mountain View. Before that time, "open source" was not applied to software.
Words have meanings for a reason. Making stuff up as you go along serves only to increase ignorance, miscommunication and confusion. "Open Source" has a specific meaning when applied to software, whether you like it or not.
It's people like you that support creationism as a science in schools
1. Opponent provides evidence to support his argument. 2. Resort to puerile off-topic name calling 3. ??? 4. Profit!
If you would stop to notice, you will see that the title of the topic is "Free WiFi Trend Continues". If "taxation != free beer" is obvious and redundant, then why do so many people keep making this elementary mistake?
There are free internet connections in the public libraries that dot San Fransisco. Just in case you didn't know. While not a perfect substitute , it at least decreases the utility benefit of tax funded wifi. Don't forget to use it in your calculations.
At least I hope you're using a utility calculus. God forbid you're spending my money just to get a warm fuzzy feeling.
There's another group. The (non crackhead) homeless person who refuses to move away. The price of housing in San Fransisco is so high, that being homeless and NOT leaving is stupid. If I were homeless in San Fransisco, the first thing I would do after begging enough money for a bus ticket would be to get the hell out of San Fransisco.
Illegal immigrants can come to California's agricultural heartland and get a job that pays enough for them to have a roof over their head. It's not a great roof, and sometimes it's a crappy roof, but it's a roof. Not a grate in the Tenderloin. Why the homeless in San Fransisco aren't flocking eastward to take jobs away from illegal aliens is something I'll never understand. I've worked in the fields alongside illegal immigrants. It's not great work, but it's a damned sight more dignified than begging.
Mentioning that taxation isn't free makes one a "right-wing nutjob?" Holy shit!
I don't car if you're left wing, right wing, or buffalo chicken wing with extra sauce, TAXATION IS NOT FREE! Taxation is a *monetary* payment! This isn't saying that taxation is good or evil, it's merely stating a fact. If you feel that funding a city wifi network with tax funds is good policy, then say so. But don't call it "free" because it is not. And don't go calling names just because someone mentions the lack of gratis and libre.
Open Source Software has a precise definition. It is remarkably similar to the Free Software definition, to the point that there is no real difference in practice. Open Source means that the user has the permission to copy the source, modify the source, redistribute the source, and redistribute any modifications to the source. You cannot do this with ipf, therefore ipf is not Open Source.
Open source means only that people have access to the source
Get yourself educated. The definition of Open Source (capitalized or not) is at http://www.opensource.org./ Read it. Be amazed at the similarity of it to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Darren Reed's ipf in no way meets the Open Source definition. It is CLOSED software. It is PROPRIETARY software. Claiming it to be Open Source is outright FUD.
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Pot, meet kettle.
I will never understand the liberal mind. Half of them are driving around in SUVs with "somewhere in Texas..." bumper stickers, but one instance of "somewhere in Massachussets..." and they think it's bigotry.
Goose, meet Gander.
p.s. Besides, my old sig is poking fun at a single solitary individual, not an entire state.
Imagine you were not a Windows user, and you didn't feel their metaphor is the natural metaphor for a GUI system.
Well, you could always use Mac OSX. Wait! It uses the same metaphor! So how come no one ever bitches that KDE and GNOME are OSX ripoffs?
MOD -1 : off topic
MOD +1 : insightful characterization of Slashdot groupthink
Go take an airplane flight in a modern airliner. Get a window seat next to the wing. Now watch the wing during takeoff and landing...
Tada! Morphing wings! Due to the magic of hydraulics, both the leading and trailing edges of the wing change shape. The trailing edge changes dramatically.
Why is it okay to make jokes about stupid Texans, but it's not okay to make jokes about stupid Mexicans? The former is politically correct (and even encouraged) but the latter is racist and intolerable. Yet the difference between the two is ONLY a river's width.
If by "good conditions" you mean working your ass off on long hours, then maybe so. I work down the street from them, and I've heard some strange rumours coming out of there. It's no longer a place of employment, but your sole life. Which is way they serve breakfast, lunch AND dinner in their marvelous cafeteria. All your home is for is to sleep at.
And it's starting in Texas, how poetic.
Thank you for that daily dose of bigotry. Nothing like some good old fashioned stereotyping to perpepuate the hatred you know and love.
Except that OpenSSH isn't a filesystem. KDE (and GNOME) may present it to you as a filesystem, but it isn't. It's great for securely transfering stuff back and forth (sftp), but it doesn't hold a candle to NFS.
What is it with WotC/Hasbro's monopoly? It's like every product they have is infused with mind altering chemicals. What else can explain the clone mentality of their customers?
I remember the old days when TSR merely had a large market share. Most people played AD&D, but would still try out different games. Walk into a convention with Runequest and your game was instantly filled with AD&D players wanting to try it out. A couple of years ago my Runequest game was cancelled by the RPGA(tm) because they decided to add another Living Greyhawk(tm) session at the last minute. I was told, "don't feel so bad, you only had four people sign up."
It seems like every freaking game these days has to have Hasbro's "d20" logo on it. It's easier to find software without the "Made for Windows" logo than it is to find a game without the d20 logo. But the gamers don't care, because they're not interested in playing anything else. They'll spend weeks and months making "feats" for a new campaign, but say it's too much bother to learn the rules for a non-d20 game.
Remember the days when TSR/WotC used to sue their fan base for publishing adventures? Adventures and NPCs are not derivative works, but that didn't stop them from strongarming fans and threatening them with financial ruin. But nowadays they have the insulting OGL license, which magnanimously grants rights the fans ALREADY had. The hubris is amazing.
My company makes ultrasound machines. We charge around $15 for an MO disk, which is quite reasonable if you've ever priced one. While it may seem that some of our products are grossly overpriced, our profit margin is only 8% or so, which is ridiculously low in comparison to other industries. The reason our prices are high isn't because we're gouging the customer, but because it takes a long time, lots of people, and tons of money to make an ultrasound machine.
Frankly, it sounds like that x-ray machine is being sold to some naive customers.
Then why not use a feed parser as the GP suggested?
These specifications are light enough, that not including support for both is misguided. Why piss off all your Atom users when they're so cheap to support? I think this attempt to make RSS vs. Atom into the next religious war is silly.
I use OpenOffice at home for all my "office" work, and it's more than adequate for the task. At work though, it still had trouble with native MSOffice docs. But so what? This isn't OpenOffice's fault, but Microsoft's for not using a standard!
You will NEVER get 100% compatibility with Microsoft's closed proprietary applications, so if that's your goal you might as well stick with Windows, because you won't ever get that anywhere else.
Gee, too bad. Sort of spoils that whole parenthetical political statement, doesn't it?
The site I have the pictures on is down...
Oh Sweet Jesus, miracles still occur!
You may notice, should you choose to indulge, that I have a rather tiny foelist.
I seem to see that you foed me first. I figure if that's the level you want to interact at, I'll indulge you.
As for puerile off-topic name calling, I haven't done that.
Congratulations. You're the first person ever to make my foes list. Daily Kos could take etiquette lessons from you.
Just because some group of people come along and start trying to redefine things...
Nothing has been redefined. "Open Source Software" was the coined in 1998 by the founders of the OSI. It happened in the offices of then-named VA Research, on Pear Street in Mountain View. Before that time, "open source" was not applied to software.
Words have meanings for a reason. Making stuff up as you go along serves only to increase ignorance, miscommunication and confusion. "Open Source" has a specific meaning when applied to software, whether you like it or not.
It's people like you that support creationism as a science in schools
1. Opponent provides evidence to support his argument.
2. Resort to puerile off-topic name calling
3. ???
4. Profit!
If you would stop to notice, you will see that the title of the topic is " Free WiFi Trend Continues". If "taxation != free beer" is obvious and redundant, then why do so many people keep making this elementary mistake?
There are free internet connections in the public libraries that dot San Fransisco. Just in case you didn't know. While not a perfect substitute , it at least decreases the utility benefit of tax funded wifi. Don't forget to use it in your calculations.
At least I hope you're using a utility calculus. God forbid you're spending my money just to get a warm fuzzy feeling.
There's another group. The (non crackhead) homeless person who refuses to move away. The price of housing in San Fransisco is so high, that being homeless and NOT leaving is stupid. If I were homeless in San Fransisco, the first thing I would do after begging enough money for a bus ticket would be to get the hell out of San Fransisco.
Illegal immigrants can come to California's agricultural heartland and get a job that pays enough for them to have a roof over their head. It's not a great roof, and sometimes it's a crappy roof, but it's a roof. Not a grate in the Tenderloin. Why the homeless in San Fransisco aren't flocking eastward to take jobs away from illegal aliens is something I'll never understand. I've worked in the fields alongside illegal immigrants. It's not great work, but it's a damned sight more dignified than begging.
Mentioning that taxation isn't free makes one a "right-wing nutjob?" Holy shit!
I don't car if you're left wing, right wing, or buffalo chicken wing with extra sauce, TAXATION IS NOT FREE! Taxation is a *monetary* payment! This isn't saying that taxation is good or evil, it's merely stating a fact. If you feel that funding a city wifi network with tax funds is good policy, then say so. But don't call it "free" because it is not. And don't go calling names just because someone mentions the lack of gratis and libre.
3. Free as in "pay for it or go to jail"
Well it is San Fransisco after all.
Darren Reed's ipf is open source
Poppycock. Or in other words, balderdash.
Open Source Software has a precise definition. It is remarkably similar to the Free Software definition, to the point that there is no real difference in practice. Open Source means that the user has the permission to copy the source, modify the source, redistribute the source, and redistribute any modifications to the source. You cannot do this with ipf, therefore ipf is not Open Source.
Open source means only that people have access to the source
Get yourself educated. The definition of Open Source (capitalized or not) is at http://www.opensource.org./ Read it. Be amazed at the similarity of it to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Darren Reed's ipf in no way meets the Open Source definition. It is CLOSED software. It is PROPRIETARY software. Claiming it to be Open Source is outright FUD.