Hmm. I live in a town with municipal utilities. It's very reliable and much cheaper than utilities in surrounding communities. It also has very good customer service. So, you can just keep thinking that it would be like the Soviet Union and I can keep enjoying my savings.
There will still be other service providers in Burlington though. If people don't like their single provider, they can switch to another one, or split up their services among multiple providers.
Let's see. You can pay the company so that they can pay their CEO $20 million or you can get it from your city for half the price. I think every frugal person would agree that the latter is a much better idea. I have municipal utilities and I couldn't be happier. It's much cheaper than what people in surrounding communities pay to PG&E.
On a related note, I also switched from a for-profit bank to a credit union. Much lower fees and much more helpful service. I recommend it to everyone. So, I'm still trying to figure out what's so great about getting services from for-profit companies. I guess there's always ideology to fall back on.
This will all sort itself out when every cafe has free WIFI. Then you won't end up with some being busy while others aren't. I frequent a place that has WIFI and that is very laptop-friendly and I can say for sure that they do a lot of business because of it. Even the lingerers spend money because they want coffee and they get hungry and want donuts and bagels.
I know that the flag says "California Republic", but there was less than one month between Fremont's declaration of an independent California and Commodore Sloat's capture of Monterey, the capital of Alta California, and his claim of the territory for the US. It's very difficult to say that there was any independent California government in that intervening month or that it was a "California" military base in that intervening month.
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That's somewhat true, although GGC 3.* became a "standard" that people wrote the code too. Nobody is really to blame for anything. The source code wasn't any more"broken" than the compiler. It was just written to conform to GCC 3.*
Breaking backwards compatibility can be a good thing, but it requires time for people to adjust. So don't expect your distribution to use 4.0 for a little while.
Totally disanalogous. Diplomatic work? This is a industry trade meeting. This doesn't have anything to do with partisan politics. What the Bush administration is really saying is that they care more about campaign contributions than they care about the American workers at Qualcomm and Nokia.
There is still a lot of innovation in the distibution arena. And just because a distribution disappears doesn't mean that its innovations are lost. This is open-source. I would hope that distributions would not take a not-by-us attitude.
This story was obviously put through the Slashdot Telephone Game. Someone proposes a City Ordinance. Someone misunderstands what is proposed and posts an inflammatory article. Someone sees this article and posts it to Slashdot without bothering to read the original proposed City Ordinance. Then a lot of people who also didn't read the proposed City Ordinance have a fight about the merits of proposals which have never been proposed. Par for the course for this place. Thank you, learn fast, I'm glad that there are some people who actually read the relevant stuff before posting. Has the internet made people so lazy that they can't click on a link and read the freakin' proposal?
I think this is one case where a marketplace of ideas really does work. Distributions which don't deliver for users fade away. Others take their place. And if one distribution really suits the needs of a small number of users, then they can work on that project. It's one of the things about linux that has been most beneficial. The decision that Linux is a just a kernel and that many different groups could build many different operating environments around it was brilliant.
I thought after I posted that "advisor" would be a better term. I settled on "prosecutor" at the time because it was someone who works for the government but isn't a judge. There's no easy way to map an adversarial to a non-adversarial legal system. The term "attorney-general" must come from French originally, but I'm not familiar with the French legal system.
"Attorney-General" is a inaccurate translation of the Dutch term "Advocaat Generaal". An American Attorney-General is more like the Dutch Minister of Justice. An Advocaat-Generaal is more like a American federal prosecutor. The Advocaaten-Generaal are specifically the prosecutors who appear before the Hoge Raad (Supreme Court).
But the product is End-of-Life. They won't get any continued development, i.e., there isn't going to be any new version of Classic VB. If you wanted to keep developing an F/OSS project that your company depended on, you could do that. Just hire some programmers and do it yourself. That's the real issue here.
You might need to find new developers or pay someone to continue to support the F/OSS project, but there is no question in this case that the Classic VB users would gladly pay Microsoft for continued support of Classic VB. Microsoft just doesn't care. It's not in their master plan to continue to support Classic VB so they don't want to.
I just feel bad for people who would want to equate research on thinking, feeling, breathing people with research on cell lines from 10-cell blastulae. It's almost as if you don't understand what was wrong with the Nazi experiments on holocaust victims.
If blastulae were morally equivalent to infants, then we would consider the deaths of millions of blastulae to be a greater medical emergency than the 30,000 natural infant deaths that occur every year in the US.
But we don't. We consider the natural infant deaths to be a medical emergency and exert a lot of effort to prevent infant deaths. We don't exert any effort to prevent the deaths of blastulae.
So, we don't consider blastulae to be morally equivalent to infants.
It's not apples and oranges. You just need to think for a second before you post.
That's an idiotic argument. It ignores the difference between a 10-cell blastula and a thinking, breathing, feeling person. It's a failure to appreciate what is significant about a person's life that leads people like you to think that somehow a 10-cell blastula which is indistinguishable from a sea urchin blastula is somehow morally significant. I'll be convinced that you aren't just putting the blinders on when you are as concerned about the sea unchin blastulae as you are about human blastulae.
Not everything is right or wrong. If I eat potatoes for dinner, that isn't either right or wrong. It's just morally neutral. What I am claiming is that blastulae are morally insignificant in that if we let them die or use them to start stem cell lines, that act isn't right or wrong; it's morally neutral.
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I bet he just stays in terminal all day anyway.
Linux on PPC users don't expect a flash player from Macromedia anytime soon, so continued GPLflash development is good for us.
Yeah, you too, Comcast.
Hmm. I live in a town with municipal utilities. It's very reliable and much cheaper than utilities in surrounding communities. It also has very good customer service. So, you can just keep thinking that it would be like the Soviet Union and I can keep enjoying my savings.
There will still be other service providers in Burlington though. If people don't like their single provider, they can switch to another one, or split up their services among multiple providers.
Dude. You already don't have to rewire your house. Just get fiber into one location in your house and then attach a WIFI router to it.
Let's see. You can pay the company so that they can pay their CEO $20 million or you can get it from your city for half the price. I think every frugal person would agree that the latter is a much better idea. I have municipal utilities and I couldn't be happier. It's much cheaper than what people in surrounding communities pay to PG&E. On a related note, I also switched from a for-profit bank to a credit union. Much lower fees and much more helpful service. I recommend it to everyone. So, I'm still trying to figure out what's so great about getting services from for-profit companies. I guess there's always ideology to fall back on.
This will all sort itself out when every cafe has free WIFI. Then you won't end up with some being busy while others aren't. I frequent a place that has WIFI and that is very laptop-friendly and I can say for sure that they do a lot of business because of it. Even the lingerers spend money because they want coffee and they get hungry and want donuts and bagels.
I know that the flag says "California Republic", but there was less than one month between Fremont's declaration of an independent California and Commodore Sloat's capture of Monterey, the capital of Alta California, and his claim of the territory for the US. It's very difficult to say that there was any independent California government in that intervening month or that it was a "California" military base in that intervening month.
Breaking backwards compatibility can be a good thing, but it requires time for people to adjust. So don't expect your distribution to use 4.0 for a little while.
Totally disanalogous. Diplomatic work? This is a industry trade meeting. This doesn't have anything to do with partisan politics. What the Bush administration is really saying is that they care more about campaign contributions than they care about the American workers at Qualcomm and Nokia.
He wouldn't have done the same thing. Period.
There is still a lot of innovation in the distibution arena. And just because a distribution disappears doesn't mean that its innovations are lost. This is open-source. I would hope that distributions would not take a not-by-us attitude.
This story was obviously put through the Slashdot Telephone Game. Someone proposes a City Ordinance. Someone misunderstands what is proposed and posts an inflammatory article. Someone sees this article and posts it to Slashdot without bothering to read the original proposed City Ordinance. Then a lot of people who also didn't read the proposed City Ordinance have a fight about the merits of proposals which have never been proposed. Par for the course for this place. Thank you, learn fast, I'm glad that there are some people who actually read the relevant stuff before posting. Has the internet made people so lazy that they can't click on a link and read the freakin' proposal?
I think this is one case where a marketplace of ideas really does work. Distributions which don't deliver for users fade away. Others take their place. And if one distribution really suits the needs of a small number of users, then they can work on that project. It's one of the things about linux that has been most beneficial. The decision that Linux is a just a kernel and that many different groups could build many different operating environments around it was brilliant.
They had this interview with Theo de Raadt last October.
Theo de Raadt Interview
I thought after I posted that "advisor" would be a better term. I settled on "prosecutor" at the time because it was someone who works for the government but isn't a judge. There's no easy way to map an adversarial to a non-adversarial legal system. The term "attorney-general" must come from French originally, but I'm not familiar with the French legal system.
"Attorney-General" is a inaccurate translation of the Dutch term "Advocaat Generaal". An American Attorney-General is more like the Dutch Minister of Justice. An Advocaat-Generaal is more like a American federal prosecutor. The Advocaaten-Generaal are specifically the prosecutors who appear before the Hoge Raad (Supreme Court).
But the product is End-of-Life. They won't get any continued development, i.e., there isn't going to be any new version of Classic VB. If you wanted to keep developing an F/OSS project that your company depended on, you could do that. Just hire some programmers and do it yourself. That's the real issue here.
You might need to find new developers or pay someone to continue to support the F/OSS project, but there is no question in this case that the Classic VB users would gladly pay Microsoft for continued support of Classic VB. Microsoft just doesn't care. It's not in their master plan to continue to support Classic VB so they don't want to.
That's what happens when your business depends on the whims of a single vendor. If that vendor decides to be a jerk, then you're screwed.
I just feel bad for people who would want to equate research on thinking, feeling, breathing people with research on cell lines from 10-cell blastulae. It's almost as if you don't understand what was wrong with the Nazi experiments on holocaust victims.
It's not apples and oranges. You just need to think for a second before you post.
That's an idiotic argument. It ignores the difference between a 10-cell blastula and a thinking, breathing, feeling person. It's a failure to appreciate what is significant about a person's life that leads people like you to think that somehow a 10-cell blastula which is indistinguishable from a sea urchin blastula is somehow morally significant. I'll be convinced that you aren't just putting the blinders on when you are as concerned about the sea unchin blastulae as you are about human blastulae.
Not everything is right or wrong. If I eat potatoes for dinner, that isn't either right or wrong. It's just morally neutral. What I am claiming is that blastulae are morally insignificant in that if we let them die or use them to start stem cell lines, that act isn't right or wrong; it's morally neutral.