That only the government and the largest enterprises are buying software, all the rest is pirated. So "Free/Open Source" software is at exactly the same price as "Closed Source" software.
And there is a sick fascination with "the rich people" although they became rich by ripping you off. And the main supperiority of "Closed Source software" is that it gives more opportunity for "back door handlings"...
And of course the "donor organisations" are much better at recommending "nice donor nation originated products" than local "service"...
And thus the blood of africa is still flowing out to the occidental world...
Try for a research masters degree on some topic you find interesting, and try to find a way to monetize it. Create a small company that you own if necessary (take care of not being carried away bankrupcy is no fun:-)) And either do some consulting,or try to monetize whatever you have developped. So on your CV you'll have the Master AND the Experience...
At any rate, having the master's degree will make your life much easier, particularly when you'll be a "senior"... (it might seem counter intuitive that a diploma that you've done or not 25 or 30 years ago has any impact on your career, but in reality not having it means needing twice the "support" from insiders...) unless you're absolutely sure that you'll be running your own company when you're 45..50.. (and actually no you cannot be sure....)
Actually calling them incompetent buyer would be more accurate, but the parent article is still quite right. Most people are impulse buyer and will pay anything if the "first byte" is not too painful. You will see things like: 59$ down payment 19.9 for the three first month (and in small 29.9 for the super premium student value subscription or 59.9 for the standard and 99.9 for the business (the only one that is actually of any use to you) subscription...
Well they felt cheated, and hope to add another continent to their list, when they'll be convicted in Africa they'll do Australia. It's an office game.
This is an illusion, actually patents really gives you the list of technologies that you do not want to use because the cost of negociating some sort of agreements is more costly than building around it.
Trade secrets with what ammounts to proof of concepts would be less damageable than the current system.
And guilds did actually share secrets within the guild (much like the open source people do among themselves)
Patents where useful when a typical end product had one or two patents involved, now it has hundreds or thousands of patents involved it is just unmanageable.
Actually 8hours is just long enough to pretend that you care, they can play tic tac toe for the 8hours, it absolutelly does not matter. The only goal is to scam off money from people that like to have the permission to make other peoples live miserable.
Patents should be forbidden in all field, they are not useful anymore.
Actually with a cluster of Webcam you can do some quite cool stuff, like a high resolution telescope for (of course you also need a cluster of computer to do all the computation magic around interpolating all the images to transform X mega pixel cameras into one X' (smaller than X but large enough) mega pixel camera.
As an aside note I think that it is interesting that any news about a french anything immediatly covers France/US instead of whatever topic was at hand...
And finally to go back to the topic what is still needed is:
How to do auto natting magic with your webcam when your kid is using Linux but unfortunatelly HAS to go chat with loosing user of the MSN message logging system.
If your university is a private university, this is a good moment to change it. If it is a public university you should start to lobby your local government against this abuse.
Obviously it might not be easy, maybe this university is the only one where you can learn what you want that is convenient or even possible for you.
But concider that if you are learning anything related to IT you are learning it at a University that is completelly out of bound on this subject. Even if the service would be perfect, not managing your own infrastructure if you are supposed to teach this to your student is just plain ridiculous.
If you are learing anything related with politics, communication, philosophy the same reasoning applies albeit for different reason, but obviously if you outsource your community to "big brother" you are not an intellectual, and you should not try to teach anything intellectually challenging to your students.
Even if your are majoring in Business this would be a very bad example. The "Community" is the core of any business, and not being able to manage your own "users" is incredibly stupid.
On the other hand you will most probably not be spammed by requests for funds by your university when you graduate, on the other hand you will get even more "viagra/hoodia/loan extension/etc..." offer than before.
You are probably right, I guess I'll wait for the next generation:-), hopefully it will be something like Sex, Creativity and G*x (and hopefully the sex will not jus be a tad to creative activities between Gnu's and Pinguins:-))
The reason is that the Distro are (maybe they need to) adapting to what MIT-AI types would call Luser's. Or lets say people that do not make the mastering of their own computer a main priority./mnt is short for/mount and is "the place where you should mount stuff that will not allways be mounted"/media is the place where the system will automagically put your removable media stuff, just before openning Konqueror or Nautilus on them so that they will feel that it works just like the "redmond stuff".
Obviously you are free to configure your Gnu/Linux box so that it doesn't automagically try to find the best action for your USB key and/or CD, DVD, usb disk, etc...
And use the mount command (and mount to/mnt or even with the right mkdir first/I_Prefer_To_Put_It_Here_ZackleTZement:-|)=
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So do I,;-), I remember very well my first contact with Unix in the summer of 81 at UCB. "Ok, you create files in your home directory, you will find the commands in bin or usr bin,.... and if you're curious you can look at the/etcetra directory, that is the place where all the rest of "usefull stuff" goes, mostly initialisation files and some shared configuration".
Well now of course I know the people there lied to me it really means "extraterrestrial creative tormentators", and proves that the aliens are dislexics.
Cheers: and don't worry there is still some blood left in us old *IX farts. Did you notice that even the "coolest youngsters" do not dare to have something like the '85 Usenix "Sex, Drugs and Unix" Badge ?
--> "Speaking at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, Dudas said that characterizing the patent system as hurting innovation is a 'fundamentally wrong' way to frame the debate. Well of course, anything that tells Dudas that he should start looking for a real job is wrong for him. State executionners are also for the death penalty, and bordello owners or pimps certainly approuve prostitution.
--> 'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,' Bull! Mr Dudas visited areoports all over the world coached by the state department, and met people that knew what he wanted to hear, and told him that. Mr Bin Laden has also traveled around the world, and in every nation all the people he met told him what a super duper guy he was, ain't that nice. --> Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old. The Supreme Court, Congress and policy makers are involved [in cases and legal reforms] not because the system is broken. It's not perfect, and we should be having the debate on how to improve.'" Some things are beyond repair.. The situation is similar to the pre first world war german, austrian and russian empire: How to change everything so that nothing really change.
Not only are you allowed to comment on Linux's flaws, you can even potentially do something about it. Whereas in the case of Microsoft Software you are just allowed to get used to it.
In the off line world the Parent point of view is:
And I do not care who our leaders are and what are their policies, and if they do not like "degenerate art", neither do I.
I just want the trains to run on time ! and Work for everybody !
The result is of course that:
Trains do not run on time, but you go to jail if you mention it.
And work for everybody that does survive, of course being paid is optional.
What puzzles me, is that this proposed law is supposed to be a reaction to the rape plot. But this rape plot was not interupted by feasless defender, but obviously one of the protagonist actually found that the initial fantasy got out of hand and called the police. The three plotter also swapped photos, it would certainly be interesting to understand exactly how they got them. As there is a difference between forcing, coercing or luring a minor to submit to any kind of pornographic action, and retransmitting photos. Even if both are illegal and wrong.
Actually it would be very interesting to follow up on this case, there is a distinct possibility that the "ringleader" is actually "rather" inocent, it could be that he started with a perverted fantasy, and suddenly found out that "real bad guy" are out there, and maybe he really actually helped the police to put away one or two "real baddies". In wich case the proposed legislation would actually be a case of making sure that sex offenders do not use the internet to communicate, and stay under the radar for years. That is scary.
In a separate case we could also suggest that all farmers should register as "potential sex offender" and need a special "on line identity" and have restricted travel rights (remember the Canadian Serial Killer they got recently with 30+ bodies on his hands ?, it MUST have something to do with the internet!)
Well the french use two different terms anti-mondialiste and alter-mondialiste
And if about 10 years ago many where "anti" now most (who do care about this sort of thing, and not only about "what's on tv tonight") use alter.
Free software is not "anti" globalization but for an alternative globalisation.
The current trend is toward: cash and capital can travel around the world at the speed of light, but the unwashed masses are requested to stay put in their current cesspol. And if the capital they need to clean up a little bit their environment can be used more efficiently somewhere else, tought luck, better times are comming (somewhere, sometime, don't hold your breath, or do we don't care).
The alter-globalization stand on Free Software is that it gives more people control on their own environment, and it makes it somewhat harder to fully control the transmission chain from content provider toward end-user. For instance compare what kind of "permission" you need to develop a game on Linux as compared to a game on an Xbox.
Unfortunatelly the real understanding of the issues at hand is only very partial, and for instance in the current USB tick example, the real "need" is just for a mobile student "work space", this enables the school administrator to freeze the school PC's configuration and removes the need for a shared managed "student storage place". Adding some free software on a memory stick is really a way to NOT put Linux on the PC. The discussion goes like this: - you should not be a slave to a monopoly, nor should you provide a system to students that they cannot really study but only use as a black box. - ho, hem, ha, heuu, well, its very complicated and difficult, but we are allready doing something, we are ta da.... using Firefox !!! - Of course you are, but you use it on Windows, and it really doesn' mean mutch by itself - Well we are also moving toward Open Office (well a little, sometimes, but not for the Accountant he has 20 lines of Excel macro that he doesn't remember how they happen to work, so porting them, you must be kidding..) - This is still ChickenS.... and you know it. - Well we will make a big program with Free Software for All - Ok seems cool - Hello dear provider, we need 50 000 USB sticks - Ta daaa...! - So what ? - We copied the nice demo CD you gave us last year on the stick - With the 2 years old versions ? - Yess isn't it cooool. - MS sales rep to BG (hello, finally no need for EDGI funds)
Actually it is not necessary to have printers accessible from the outside, a clever hacker could craft a postcript page (this of course implies a postscript program) that programs a printer to "do something nasty".
And the send the page as a "postcard", with "printit instruction" (for instance the visible part could be instructions on how to do an origami marylin monroe, or a cute valentin themed cupid/aeroplane) anything sufficiently "cute" would be printed by somebody eventually.
At wich time a whole class of printer is "owned".
Fortunatelly as long as enough "differently smart" people insist to use Windows on their PC, the script kiddies a kept occupied and happy.
So we can still use postscript for our favorite Linux connected network printers:-)
Do not forget that the fundation is the marketing arm of Microsoft. They probably got their inspiration from the e-inclusion scam of HP.
And all thouse "evil" corporations are before all "CLIENTS".
You can tell a client: sorry I didn't invest in your stock because my stock brocker found that schmoll inc. has a better ROI, but not because I do not like your business practice.
Currently the Gates fondation is a bully pushing governments toward "Intelectual Property" US style, ensuring that the countries that do recieve it do not dare to protest, and are indeed using Microsoft software (that they have to pay even if it is at "discounted rate", without competition any discount is a sham), and are using only patented medication, etc.. It also ensure that they will never be able to develop their own "Intelectual property" (they will always have to deal with the advance the US have, and anything they invent will be only a small cog in the current complex systems).
So the fundation is just a way to finance Microsoft marketing with tax exempt money.
If the fundation would just "burn" the cash, since there would be overall "less money" to buy "all the goods that have to be sold", it would imply that your share of the "remaining money" would be actually worth more than before (probably not very much, but then it would still be something).
There is nothing good in this fundation, yes they will save some people and for these people it will be lucky, but overall the world is worse of with than without.
No he is not. Microsoft is a bad corporation, and this has much to do with the caracter of M. Gates, who probably is not very good at empathy, and quite efficient at greed. But there are many obviously "worse" people than M. Gates.
So writing that he is the "worst" brands you as a loony. And by association might give a bad image of other M$ opponents
"tout ce qui est excessif est dérisoire" (no I'm german:-))
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That only the government and the largest enterprises are buying software, all the rest is pirated.
So "Free/Open Source" software is at exactly the same price as "Closed Source" software.
And there is a sick fascination with "the rich people" although they became rich by ripping you off.
And the main supperiority of "Closed Source software" is that it gives more opportunity for "back door handlings"...
And of course the "donor organisations" are much better at recommending "nice donor nation originated products" than local "service"...
And thus the blood of africa is still flowing out to the occidental world...
Try for a research masters degree on some topic you find interesting, and try to find a way to monetize it. :-))
Create a small company that you own if necessary (take care of not being carried away bankrupcy is no fun
And either do some consulting,or try to monetize whatever you have developped.
So on your CV you'll have the Master AND the Experience...
At any rate, having the master's degree will make your life much easier, particularly when you'll be a "senior"...
(it might seem counter intuitive that a diploma that you've done or not 25 or 30 years ago has any impact on your career, but in reality not having it means needing twice the "support" from insiders...)
unless you're absolutely sure that you'll be running your own company when you're 45..50..
(and actually no you cannot be sure....)
> b: I can do it myself better.
Ok so you do not need last.fm, you can just sing by yourself...
Personally I'm quite happy to pay 3 euros per month for last.fm if it gives me the garenty that it'll go on working...
Apparently he even wrote in one of his story something like "in the 21st century the easiest way to make a fortune is to create a new religion..."
so we should thank F.A. for giving us access to the warning ;-)
Now instead of speaking to "real users" when we build something for netbooks, we need to convince a couple of "telecom marketoids"...
Watch this space for "ringtones windows skins from outerspace for netbooks" at a low 9.99.
And then when you'll go to you favority watering hole you'll find out who the nerds are because their computers do not go "" when they get a new mail.
Actually calling them incompetent buyer would be more accurate, but the parent article is still quite right.
Most people are impulse buyer and will pay anything if the "first byte" is not too painful.
You will see things like:
59$ down payment 19.9 for the three first month (and in small 29.9 for the super premium student value subscription or 59.9 for the standard and 99.9 for the business (the only one that is actually of any use to you) subscription...
The difference of price is linked to the difference of HW, AND the presence of MSN Live.
Read in the article.
"Holtham made much of the presence of Windows Live applications on the box"
This pretends to be an "asset" for the user, in reallity Microsoft is bribing Asus to put Windows Live into the box.
It is a telco game, and we are loosing...
Well they felt cheated, and hope to add another continent to their list, when they'll be convicted in Africa they'll do Australia.
It's an office game.
This is an illusion, actually patents really gives you the list of technologies that you do not want to use because the cost of negociating some sort of agreements is more costly than building around it.
Trade secrets with what ammounts to proof of concepts would be less damageable than the current system.
And guilds did actually share secrets within the guild (much like the open source people do among themselves)
Patents where useful when a typical end product had one or two patents involved, now it has hundreds or thousands of patents involved it is just unmanageable.
Actually 8hours is just long enough to pretend that you care, they can play tic tac toe for the 8hours, it absolutelly does not matter.
The only goal is to scam off money from people that like to have the permission to make other peoples live miserable.
Patents should be forbidden in all field, they are not useful anymore.
Actually with a cluster of Webcam you can do some quite cool stuff, like a high resolution telescope for
(of course you also need a cluster of computer to do all the computation magic around interpolating all the images to transform X mega pixel cameras into one X' (smaller than X but large enough) mega pixel camera.
As an aside note I think that it is interesting that any news about a french anything immediatly covers France/US instead of whatever topic was at hand...
And finally to go back to the topic
what is still needed is:
How to do auto natting magic with your webcam when your kid is using Linux but unfortunatelly HAS to go chat with loosing user of the MSN message logging system.
If your university is a private university, this is a good moment to change it.
If it is a public university you should start to lobby your local government against this abuse.
Obviously it might not be easy, maybe this university is the only one where you can learn what you want that is convenient or even possible for you.
But concider that if you are learning anything related to IT you are learning it at a University that is completelly out of bound on this subject.
Even if the service would be perfect, not managing your own infrastructure if you are supposed to teach this to your student is just plain ridiculous.
If you are learing anything related with politics, communication, philosophy the same reasoning applies albeit for different reason, but obviously if you outsource your community to "big brother" you are not an intellectual, and you should not try to teach anything intellectually challenging to your students.
Even if your are majoring in Business this would be a very bad example.
The "Community" is the core of any business, and not being able to manage your own "users" is incredibly stupid.
On the other hand you will most probably not be spammed by requests for funds by your university when you graduate, on the other hand you will get even more "viagra/hoodia/loan extension/etc..." offer than before.
You are probably right, I guess I'll wait for the next generation :-), hopefully it will be something like Sex, Creativity and G*x :-))
(and hopefully the sex will not jus be a tad to creative activities between Gnu's and Pinguins
The reason is that the Distro are (maybe they need to) adapting to what MIT-AI types would call Luser's. /mnt is short for /mount and is "the place where you should mount stuff that will not allways be mounted" /media is the place where the system will automagically put your removable media stuff, just before openning Konqueror or Nautilus on them so that they will feel that it works just like the "redmond stuff".
...
/mnt or even with the right mkdir first /I_Prefer_To_Put_It_Here_ZackleTZement :-|)=
Or lets say people that do not make the mastering of their own computer a main priority.
Obviously you are free to configure your Gnu/Linux box so that it doesn't automagically try to find the best action for your USB key and/or CD, DVD, usb disk, etc
And use the mount command (and mount to
FBF (False But Funny ;-))
So do I, ;-), I remember very well my first contact with Unix in the summer of 81 at UCB. .... and if you're curious you can look at the /etcetra directory, that is the place where all the rest of "usefull stuff" goes, mostly initialisation files and some shared configuration".
"Ok, you create files in your home directory, you will find the commands in bin or usr bin,
Well now of course I know the people there lied to me it really means "extraterrestrial creative tormentators", and proves that the aliens are dislexics.
Cheers: and don't worry there is still some blood left in us old *IX farts.
Did you notice that even the "coolest youngsters" do not dare to have something like the '85 Usenix "Sex, Drugs and Unix" Badge ?
--> "Speaking at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, Dudas said that characterizing the patent system as hurting innovation is a 'fundamentally wrong' way to frame the debate.
Well of course, anything that tells Dudas that he should start looking for a real job is wrong for him. State executionners are also for the death penalty, and bordello owners or pimps certainly approuve prostitution.
--> 'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,'
Bull! Mr Dudas visited areoports all over the world coached by the state department, and met people that knew what he wanted to hear, and told him that.
Mr Bin Laden has also traveled around the world, and in every nation all the people he met told him what a super duper guy he was, ain't that nice.
--> Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old. The Supreme Court, Congress and policy makers are involved [in cases and legal reforms] not because the system is broken. It's not perfect, and we should be having the debate on how to improve.'"
Some things are beyond repair..
The situation is similar to the pre first world war german, austrian and russian empire: How to change everything so that nothing really change.
Well it didn't quite work as planned....
Not only are you allowed to comment on Linux's flaws, you can even potentially do something about it.
Whereas in the case of Microsoft Software you are just allowed to get used to it.
In the off line world the Parent point of view is:
And I do not care who our leaders are and what are their policies, and if they do not like "degenerate art", neither do I.
I just want the trains to run on time ! and Work for everybody !
The result is of course that:
Trains do not run on time, but you go to jail if you mention it.
And work for everybody that does survive, of course being paid is optional.
What puzzles me, is that this proposed law is supposed to be a reaction to the rape plot.
But this rape plot was not interupted by feasless defender, but obviously one of the protagonist actually found that the initial fantasy got out of hand and called the police.
The three plotter also swapped photos, it would certainly be interesting to understand exactly how they got them.
As there is a difference between forcing, coercing or luring a minor to submit to any kind of pornographic action, and retransmitting photos.
Even if both are illegal and wrong.
Actually it would be very interesting to follow up on this case, there is a distinct possibility that the "ringleader" is actually "rather" inocent,
it could be that he started with a perverted fantasy, and suddenly found out that "real bad guy" are out there, and maybe he really actually helped the
police to put away one or two "real baddies".
In wich case the proposed legislation would actually be a case of making sure that sex offenders do not use the internet to communicate, and stay under the radar for years.
That is scary.
In a separate case we could also suggest that all farmers should register as "potential sex offender" and need a special "on line identity" and have restricted travel rights (remember the Canadian Serial Killer they got recently with 30+ bodies on his hands ?, it MUST have something to do with the internet!)
Well the french use two different terms
anti-mondialiste and alter-mondialiste
And if about 10 years ago many where "anti" now most (who do care about this sort of thing, and not only about "what's on tv tonight") use alter.
Free software is not "anti" globalization but for an alternative globalisation.
The current trend is toward: cash and capital can travel around the world at the speed of light, but the unwashed masses are requested to stay put in their current cesspol.
And if the capital they need to clean up a little bit their environment can be used more efficiently somewhere else, tought luck, better times are comming (somewhere, sometime, don't hold your breath, or do we don't care).
The alter-globalization stand on Free Software is that it gives more people control on their own environment, and it makes it somewhat harder to fully control the transmission chain from content provider toward end-user.
For instance compare what kind of "permission" you need to develop a game on Linux as compared to a game on an Xbox.
Unfortunatelly the real understanding of the issues at hand is only very partial, and for instance in the current USB tick example, the real "need" is just for a mobile student "work space", this enables the school administrator to freeze the school PC's configuration and removes the need for a shared managed "student storage place".
Adding some free software on a memory stick is really a way to NOT put Linux on the PC.
The discussion goes like this:
- you should not be a slave to a monopoly, nor should you provide a system to students that they cannot really study but only use as a black box.
- ho, hem, ha, heuu, well, its very complicated and difficult, but we are allready doing something, we are ta da.... using Firefox !!!
- Of course you are, but you use it on Windows, and it really doesn' mean mutch by itself
- Well we are also moving toward Open Office (well a little, sometimes, but not for the Accountant he has 20 lines of Excel macro that he doesn't remember how they happen to work, so porting them, you must be kidding..)
- This is still ChickenS.... and you know it.
- Well we will make a big program with Free Software for All
- Ok seems cool
- Hello dear provider, we need 50 000 USB sticks
- Ta daaa...!
- So what ?
- We copied the nice demo CD you gave us last year on the stick
- With the 2 years old versions ?
- Yess isn't it cooool.
- MS sales rep to BG (hello, finally no need for EDGI funds)
Actually it is not necessary to have printers accessible from the outside, a clever hacker could craft a postcript page (this of course implies a postscript program) that
:-)
.... ;-)
programs a printer to "do something nasty".
And the send the page as a "postcard", with "printit instruction" (for instance the visible part could be instructions on how to do an origami marylin monroe, or a cute valentin themed cupid/aeroplane) anything sufficiently "cute" would be printed by somebody eventually.
At wich time a whole class of printer is "owned".
Fortunatelly as long as enough "differently smart" people insist to use Windows on their PC, the script kiddies a kept occupied and happy.
So we can still use postscript for our favorite Linux connected network printers
By the way I have this cute bunny to print
Cheers
Do not forget that the fundation is the marketing arm of Microsoft.
They probably got their inspiration from the e-inclusion scam of HP.
And all thouse "evil" corporations are before all "CLIENTS".
You can tell a client: sorry I didn't invest in your stock because my stock brocker found that schmoll inc. has a better ROI, but not because I do not like your business practice.
Burn the cash, all of it.
Currently the Gates fondation is a bully pushing governments toward "Intelectual Property" US style, ensuring that the countries that do recieve it do not dare to protest, and are indeed using Microsoft software (that they have to pay even if it is at "discounted rate", without competition any discount is a sham), and are using only patented medication, etc..
It also ensure that they will never be able to develop their own "Intelectual property" (they will always have to deal with the advance the US have, and anything they invent will be only a small cog in the current complex systems).
So the fundation is just a way to finance Microsoft marketing with tax exempt money.
If the fundation would just "burn" the cash, since there would be overall "less money" to buy "all the goods that have to be sold", it would imply that your share of the "remaining money" would be actually worth more than before (probably not very much, but then it would still be something).
There is nothing good in this fundation, yes they will save some people and for these people it will be lucky, but overall the world is worse of with than without.
No he is not.
:-))
Microsoft is a bad corporation, and this has much to do with the caracter of M. Gates, who probably is not very good at empathy, and quite efficient at greed.
But there are many obviously "worse" people than M. Gates.
So writing that he is the "worst" brands you as a loony.
And by association might give a bad image of other M$ opponents
"tout ce qui est excessif est dérisoire" (no I'm german