Richard Stallman has absolutely no problem with people making money with software, provided their business model doesn't involve keeping the source to themselves. You'd think that Slashdot posters would have a better understanding of the man than this ignorant caricature.
No. But I don't recall him saying that feeding the poor should be the responsibility of Caesar (the government) either
The undivided Church indeed believed that feeding the poor is the responsibility of Caesar. That is, under the Byzantine symphonia, Caesar gave a large portion of tax revenue to the Church so that it could run charitable enterprises. When it came to food at least, the Roman Empire managed to run a welfare state of the kind not seen again until the modern era. The idea that Christian charity is entirely the purview of private organizations choosing where to spend their money, and not a matter of public policy, is something that only arose in the West fairly recently as far as Christian doctrine goes.
Most major publishers want to format it themselves. They've got professionals for that, and software designed for page layout. (NOT Microsoft Word.)
What do you mean by "major publishers"? If you mean popular fiction and non-fiction, then sure, the publishers still have it typeset by their team (although quality has gone down since typesetting is often outsourced to Asia). But when it comes to academic publishers like Brill, Harrassowitz or Springer, they increasingly want you to provide a print-ready PDF and they just slap their own title and copyright pages on the front of it.
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Because aside from Facebook, there is no other way to be notified of upcoming parties, right?
You can choose not to use Facebook if you'd like, but you can't force your entire social circle to switch back to Cc:ing everyone e-mail invitations. With younger generations, it may be that they've never used e-mail for that purpose to begin with. Facebook and SMS are pretty much the only means one can hear what is going on.
I've taken steps to delete my Facebook account, but when I asked friends to keep in touch with me through e-mail instead, they didn't really understand my choice and they clearly consider such a request a hassle. (Yeah, yeah, cue standard Slashdot misanthrope response about how no one needs friends that refuse to use platform X anyway).
The EU needs to fine itself for being idiots and then disband.
Even were this done, it would have nothing to do with the events here. The ruling is by the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution (Slashdot''s mistake in putting "EU court" in the headline notwithstanding).
Besides the other poster's point about the Space Race being more about beating the Russkies than love of science, retreating from human spaceflight is a prudent decision anyway. Let's focus on research here on Earth to boost computing power and innovate new materials. Then, after the Singularity, we can send our machine descendents to explore the cosmos instead of human beings that require a whole biosphere to be sent with them.
The target audience is people who don't have a smartphone yet, most probably because they can't afford to pay for a $500 phone. Which is most people in the world, so far.
Low-spec Android phones are available for less than $100 now in the developing world, so again, it's not clear what niche Firefox OS is filling here.
English does not use pronunciation marks. This is why jalapeno does not have the ~ over the N for example.
Preserving diacritics in borrowed words or not varies from country to country and publisher to publisher. The use of a diaeresis in naïve is very well-established in the UK -- even the American dictionary Merriam-Webster lists it as a variant -- surely you've seen it somewhere in print.
I don't think that the OP was trying to correct you, but rather was writing the word according to his own way while quoting you.
Your battle is already lost, my friend. It's OK to be a grammar purist when a mistake is limited to one person's writing, but the confusion of "comprise" and "compose" has so thoroughly permeated the English-speaking world that one has to accept that usage has changed. I wouldn't be surprised if the latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary reflects this.
Industrial espionage is a big concern. It has been known since at least 2001 (when Echelon was widely covered in the press and the European Parliament opened an investigation) that the NSA has intercepted communications among European companies and then handed over business secrets to their American competitors. Even if it wouldn't protect individuals' privacy, the idea is that a European cloud would protect European businesses.
We've already seen quite a few big names on our side tacitly admit that the NSA has pushed on them - Phil Zimmerman, PJ of Groklaw, even Linux Torvalds.
Where has PJ of Groklaw said that the NSA has pushed on him? The Groklaw farewell message underscored the fact that, based on Lavabit's experience, NSA pressure on Groklaw could happen in future, undermining the anonymity that sources need to communicate with the site. Nowhere did I get the message that such pressure had already happened in the past.
Ad hominem attacks are only fallacious when all parties to the conversation have the same prerequesite background. The OP is suggesting that many on this site do not have a background that renders them capable of participating in the debate.
Before anyone bothers to carefully craft a response to the poster above, have a look at his comment history: this is one of the clearest examples of a Microsoft shill that I've ever seen on Slashdot.
People will still find music they like, and performers will find ways to make money in local clubs until they build up a larger audience.
The problem with that model is that local clubs may be fewer and fewer. When many prefer to do all their art consumption in the privacy of their own home with an internet connection (and it's free), it's hard for live venues to compete. It is well-documented how the jazz club scene has been decimated in the last few years, and the same may apply for a significant slice of the popular music world. Of course the biggest acts will still fill large venues, but we'll lose a lot of the smaller venues for those musicians just starting out.
I don't see them as great musicians, with a tight band that can play and improve ON stage.....they're too worried about messing up the dance choreography and timed out light show I guess to actually be able to just jam with each other and let the audience in to enjoy it.
Your problem is that you posit the idea of an objectively "great" musician and then assume that one of his/her attributes would be a capability to improvise.
I'd encourage you to read some ethnomusicology: whether improvisation is desirable or not varies widely across cultures and historical eras. For example, in Simha Arom's studies of the Aka Pygmies, he notes their virtuosity (their music is of a complexity that Western music arguably didn't reach until the 20th century), but he also notes that once they have learned a part, they do not vary it during performances. Westerners who have tried to play along with natives and try to add flaw by improvisation a little on their part, draw serious disapproval from the natives.
So the US is perhaps simply evolving into a culture that doesn't care for improvising but instead focuses on other aspects of the performance. Things change, and once you have a good look at musical diversity across the world and through time, it's hard to argue that the current state is any better or worse than your memories of the Stones.
the problem rests in the TSA's basic operational principle which is both invasive and arguably a violation of the 4th Amendment. The Israelis have a much greater problem with terrorists than we do and yet their airport screening procedures are far less intrusive.
Far less intrusive? Flying out of Ben Gurion, you have to stop and be questioned by airport employees at some three or four checkpoints, and when your bags are being swabbed down and tested for chemical agents, they might decide to question you yet again. Yes, they are efficient and they move you through the airport somewhat faster than you might expect, but they get up in your face much more than TSA staff.
In any event, while the Israeli method does involve scrutinizing everyone's responses to the security agents' questions, it also allows profiling of passengers according to national origin, race or religion. Barring major changes to law, the USA is not able to adopt their methods entirely.
Sorry, gramps, but you're really out of the loop. There is loads of music from the 1980s and 1990s that shows longevity (surprising to me, as I don't care for these particular acts). Michael Jackson continues to get lots of radio play and he sold out that comeback concert he planned before his death. Nirvana not only gets remembered by older columnists in mainstream news, but I've witnessed teenagers today expressing their admiration for Cobain. For younger listeners who prefer rock of a "progressive" sort, Tool's 1990s releases are stil a rite of passage. Rush, who are along with the Stones continue to be one of the most successful touring bands, put out their most widely remembered album in 1981. The list could go on and on.
If Google wanted to impress me, they'd include a spot to paste a GPG public key in gmail and auto-encrypt all mails with it on the client side for gmail users or at the entry point of their network for all other mail users.
Auto-encrypting it on the client side would be extremely insecure, because Google or an adversary could inject Javascript code to capture the message while it is still plaintext. The only way to securely use GPG with webmail is to type the message in a text editor, encrypt and only then paste the cipertext into your webbrowser. Ideally people would stop using webmail and go back to dedicated e-mail applications, but the cat's already out of the bag (and even e-mail has been superseded in many people's lives by Facebook messages).
A library simply buys a book and can lend it out until it is completely falling apart for no additional cost.
True in some countries, but not in others. In Finland, libraries must pay the authors of the books they loan out an annual fee to compensate for lost sales.
He also produced Pixiesâ(TM) Come On Pilgrim (which in fact inspired Kurt Cobain to have him produce Nirvana's Nevermind). But yes, he does know how to keep himself in the public eye.
Ubuntu Phone will run on ARM. ARM Holdings is based in the UK, and therefore it is likely comprised by GCHQ just as Intel is likely compromised by NSA.
Taking the big two, cantonese and mandarin, there are actually different characters in cantonese because certain concepts are viewed differently, there is even different word order and final accents.
Yes, but that slight difference in morphosyntax does not mean that the character-based writing system in use across the Han languages is somehow a burden for speakers of one Han language learning another, as the OP misunderstands.
Mandarin is actually complex in concepts and combinations because it is simplified in speech, imposing a restriction on all the low tones, it is 'haughty' in nature
Could you please cite this from a peer-reviewed linguistics journal? I'd like to read a formal study backing up your claim.
If you bothered reading the articles on this latest revelation, you would see that the issue is e.g. using targeted attacks to pull data off a phone onto a computer (and then over the network to NSA) when the phone is plugged into the computer. This isn't a story about the NSA vacuuming up data between mobile phones as it passes over the network.
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Richard Stallman has absolutely no problem with people making money with software, provided their business model doesn't involve keeping the source to themselves. You'd think that Slashdot posters would have a better understanding of the man than this ignorant caricature.
The undivided Church indeed believed that feeding the poor is the responsibility of Caesar. That is, under the Byzantine symphonia, Caesar gave a large portion of tax revenue to the Church so that it could run charitable enterprises. When it came to food at least, the Roman Empire managed to run a welfare state of the kind not seen again until the modern era. The idea that Christian charity is entirely the purview of private organizations choosing where to spend their money, and not a matter of public policy, is something that only arose in the West fairly recently as far as Christian doctrine goes.
What do you mean by "major publishers"? If you mean popular fiction and non-fiction, then sure, the publishers still have it typeset by their team (although quality has gone down since typesetting is often outsourced to Asia). But when it comes to academic publishers like Brill, Harrassowitz or Springer, they increasingly want you to provide a print-ready PDF and they just slap their own title and copyright pages on the front of it.
You can choose not to use Facebook if you'd like, but you can't force your entire social circle to switch back to Cc:ing everyone e-mail invitations. With younger generations, it may be that they've never used e-mail for that purpose to begin with. Facebook and SMS are pretty much the only means one can hear what is going on.
I've taken steps to delete my Facebook account, but when I asked friends to keep in touch with me through e-mail instead, they didn't really understand my choice and they clearly consider such a request a hassle. (Yeah, yeah, cue standard Slashdot misanthrope response about how no one needs friends that refuse to use platform X anyway).
Even were this done, it would have nothing to do with the events here. The ruling is by the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution (Slashdot''s mistake in putting "EU court" in the headline notwithstanding).
Besides the other poster's point about the Space Race being more about beating the Russkies than love of science, retreating from human spaceflight is a prudent decision anyway. Let's focus on research here on Earth to boost computing power and innovate new materials. Then, after the Singularity, we can send our machine descendents to explore the cosmos instead of human beings that require a whole biosphere to be sent with them.
Low-spec Android phones are available for less than $100 now in the developing world, so again, it's not clear what niche Firefox OS is filling here.
Preserving diacritics in borrowed words or not varies from country to country and publisher to publisher. The use of a diaeresis in naïve is very well-established in the UK -- even the American dictionary Merriam-Webster lists it as a variant -- surely you've seen it somewhere in print.
I don't think that the OP was trying to correct you, but rather was writing the word according to his own way while quoting you.
Your battle is already lost, my friend. It's OK to be a grammar purist when a mistake is limited to one person's writing, but the confusion of "comprise" and "compose" has so thoroughly permeated the English-speaking world that one has to accept that usage has changed. I wouldn't be surprised if the latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary reflects this.
Industrial espionage is a big concern. It has been known since at least 2001 (when Echelon was widely covered in the press and the European Parliament opened an investigation) that the NSA has intercepted communications among European companies and then handed over business secrets to their American competitors. Even if it wouldn't protect individuals' privacy, the idea is that a European cloud would protect European businesses.
Where has PJ of Groklaw said that the NSA has pushed on him? The Groklaw farewell message underscored the fact that, based on Lavabit's experience, NSA pressure on Groklaw could happen in future, undermining the anonymity that sources need to communicate with the site. Nowhere did I get the message that such pressure had already happened in the past.
Wow, I didn't expect someone to validate the OP's point so fast.
Ad hominem attacks are only fallacious when all parties to the conversation have the same prerequesite background. The OP is suggesting that many on this site do not have a background that renders them capable of participating in the debate.
Before anyone bothers to carefully craft a response to the poster above, have a look at his comment history: this is one of the clearest examples of a Microsoft shill that I've ever seen on Slashdot.
The problem with that model is that local clubs may be fewer and fewer. When many prefer to do all their art consumption in the privacy of their own home with an internet connection (and it's free), it's hard for live venues to compete. It is well-documented how the jazz club scene has been decimated in the last few years, and the same may apply for a significant slice of the popular music world. Of course the biggest acts will still fill large venues, but we'll lose a lot of the smaller venues for those musicians just starting out.
Sorry, that should have read "try to add flair by improvising a little".
Your problem is that you posit the idea of an objectively "great" musician and then assume that one of his/her attributes would be a capability to improvise.
I'd encourage you to read some ethnomusicology: whether improvisation is desirable or not varies widely across cultures and historical eras. For example, in Simha Arom's studies of the Aka Pygmies, he notes their virtuosity (their music is of a complexity that Western music arguably didn't reach until the 20th century), but he also notes that once they have learned a part, they do not vary it during performances. Westerners who have tried to play along with natives and try to add flaw by improvisation a little on their part, draw serious disapproval from the natives.
So the US is perhaps simply evolving into a culture that doesn't care for improvising but instead focuses on other aspects of the performance. Things change, and once you have a good look at musical diversity across the world and through time, it's hard to argue that the current state is any better or worse than your memories of the Stones.
Far less intrusive? Flying out of Ben Gurion, you have to stop and be questioned by airport employees at some three or four checkpoints, and when your bags are being swabbed down and tested for chemical agents, they might decide to question you yet again. Yes, they are efficient and they move you through the airport somewhat faster than you might expect, but they get up in your face much more than TSA staff.
In any event, while the Israeli method does involve scrutinizing everyone's responses to the security agents' questions, it also allows profiling of passengers according to national origin, race or religion. Barring major changes to law, the USA is not able to adopt their methods entirely.
Sorry, gramps, but you're really out of the loop. There is loads of music from the 1980s and 1990s that shows longevity (surprising to me, as I don't care for these particular acts). Michael Jackson continues to get lots of radio play and he sold out that comeback concert he planned before his death. Nirvana not only gets remembered by older columnists in mainstream news, but I've witnessed teenagers today expressing their admiration for Cobain. For younger listeners who prefer rock of a "progressive" sort, Tool's 1990s releases are stil a rite of passage. Rush, who are along with the Stones continue to be one of the most successful touring bands, put out their most widely remembered album in 1981. The list could go on and on.
Auto-encrypting it on the client side would be extremely insecure, because Google or an adversary could inject Javascript code to capture the message while it is still plaintext. The only way to securely use GPG with webmail is to type the message in a text editor, encrypt and only then paste the cipertext into your webbrowser. Ideally people would stop using webmail and go back to dedicated e-mail applications, but the cat's already out of the bag (and even e-mail has been superseded in many people's lives by Facebook messages).
True in some countries, but not in others. In Finland, libraries must pay the authors of the books they loan out an annual fee to compensate for lost sales.
He also produced Pixiesâ(TM) Come On Pilgrim (which in fact inspired Kurt Cobain to have him produce Nirvana's Nevermind). But yes, he does know how to keep himself in the public eye.
Ubuntu Phone will run on ARM. ARM Holdings is based in the UK, and therefore it is likely comprised by GCHQ just as Intel is likely compromised by NSA.
Yes, but that slight difference in morphosyntax does not mean that the character-based writing system in use across the Han languages is somehow a burden for speakers of one Han language learning another, as the OP misunderstands.
Could you please cite this from a peer-reviewed linguistics journal? I'd like to read a formal study backing up your claim.
If you bothered reading the articles on this latest revelation, you would see that the issue is e.g. using targeted attacks to pull data off a phone onto a computer (and then over the network to NSA) when the phone is plugged into the computer. This isn't a story about the NSA vacuuming up data between mobile phones as it passes over the network.