To the extent that access to the free interchange of ideas is impeded, our very freedom as a people are impeded. When it becomes a little more difficult to gain access to a library, or it costs a little more upfront, or additional personal information is required as a condition of such access, we become less of a free society.
Maybe it's only a little bit of info, or maybe the request comes with a "trust me", but still each little bit soon adds up to a lot.
To the extent that we agree to each little restriction, we give in to the demands of those who don't agree with our freedom.
"Use Word to prepare a document in a two column format, add some text, a couple of JPG images, figure captions and a couple of equations. A typical report. "
A typical report -- at H.S. level?? Not.
Most teachers do not want to see a bunch of fancy formatted reports that are completely different from student to student. They usually want a non-proportional font, 1.5 line spacing, 1 inch margins all the way around, properly and consistently marked for references and footnotes. That way, no one student is going to be tempted to baffle-with-b******* by throwing a bunch of fancy formatting and zero content. OO.o is an excellent product for reading and writing across most Word formats. Print a Word document and print an OO.o document using the same SIMPLE formatting parameters and there is no difference in form, function, or appearance.
This is correct. It's not a tax made on the sale of the article, but rather on its use/consumption. Several years ago, I bought a car in Illinois, but paid no sales tax there because I was in the U.S. military and was on my way to my next duty station in Florida (yeah, I know, real rough duty!!). So when I went to get a Florida license plate, I was required to pay Florida's "use tax" in order to title the car and get the plate. The "use tax" was at the same percentage rate as the sales tax for Florida on a new car, but was not a tax on the sale of the item, only a tax on its use in the state of Florida. Anyhow, it worked out O.K. in this case personally as the tax amount turned out to be less than any sales tax that would have accrued in Illinois. The point is, that for better or worse, it's necessary to understand the sometimes subtle differences when discussing a subject.
To this I can say "Nope". The U.S. Constitution is the basis of all law in the U.S., not simply a guideline. All U.S. law is measurable against the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. Some laws are, in fact, declared un-constitutional from time to time.
Actually, Congress has in fact chosen to exercise its constitutional right to effect patent laws in the U.S. These patent (and copyright) laws do, in fact, secure works for a limited time to those individuals who create and invent. What is debatable is the meaning of "limited time" and "individuals".
The purpose of the book is to provide an understanding of "networks", not to provide what you need to know about "networking". Networking involves many topics such as purpose, components, processes, uses, etc.
Security is important to networking, just as an understanding of networks is important to networking. The simple fact is that good networking involves a lot of different processes, topics, and procedures each of which could fill their own 515 page book, and all of which together would make for a decent small library.
Agree. When reading a book, the interaction is between the story-teller's words and the readers own mind and experience. If you were to read a piece of good fiction by Hemingway, or Steinbeck, or other good storyteller, there's a certain "movie-like" stream that plays within your own mind that comes from the interaction of your imagination, your own understanding of the author's story, and your own life experience. A compelling story absorbs you within that interaction.
A game, while possibly as compelling as a good book, absorbs you within the game writer's stream of action and imagination and is therefore limited by that author's ability to present that story's stream.
If you were to compare what was in your mind's eye to someone else's when you both read "The Big Two Hearted River", there would very likely be differences in the details based on your own life's experiences. If you were to compare your game play with another person's game play for the same game, the only differences would be in what choices you each made at certain moments. The game would be the same in terms of terrain and characters, goals and possible results.
But that's just me and I'd rather read a good book than play any game, any day!!
The purpose of a filing process is to expedite the finding process. That is either done by a group consensus of what needs to be filed where, or by an individual deciding what needs to be filed where. Either way the rules, if any, are determined by the user(s) and not by some arbitrary mechanism.
I downloaded FreeBSD about 6 weeks ago, burned a CD and attempted to load it on my laptop. It's not a great laptop (P120/3.2GB/72MB), but it works with Mandrake 9.2 just fine - and it's paid for;>).
After a couple of false starts (my bad), I got it up and actually running, but it never would detect my PCMCIA NIC. Not only would it not detect, but there was no place that I could find to actually configure the NIC or the network connection to my router. So I gave up and went back to MDK. At least that was something I could use and also something that has useful documentation.
My point is, that I was very disappointed in what has been touted as a great OS. Maybe someday, but not for a while.
Understanding command line inputs and the resultant outputs don't actually give any insight into HOW the computer works. All they give is an understanding of WHAT happens with the typed in commands. An analogy might be that if you don't set the jumper on a drive correctly, it probably won't show up as a usable drive. That doesn't give you any more insight into HOW the circuitry of the controller works, only WHAT happens when you set the jumper to one position or another.
When I click on kfree in the KDE menu, I get a graphical representation of the free space. When I enter a df command, it gives me a non-graphical representation of free space. Neither actually tells me HOW the respective inputs gave me the respective outputs, only that each did something.
Neither the graphical interface, nor the command line interface is conceptually superior. The results may be quicker on the command line, but the inputs are not as obvious (unless you have committed a lot to memory) and those same results are also a little more esoteric.
Personally, I use both the command line and KDE, and Windows when I have to (such as earning a living!). I have a computer science degree and over my 56+ years have learned a lot, so I do understand some of the HOW of the Linux OS, but the understanding really did not come from a study of man or help or apropos.
Agree wholeheartedly. The distinction between "free" as in speech and "free" as in beer is a comparison of apples and oranges. Both are useful, both have value, but both don't have to be in every fruit salad;).
"Free" as in speech is the basis of freedom, "free" as in beer can be the reward of labor, but is actually a choice. That is the basis of the GPL licensing plan. The Linux kernel is a copyrighted work, but it is licensed freely and openly under the terms of the GPL. If you violate the GPL licensing terms, you are pressing you're luck on not also violating the legal copyrighted work which in turn presents the possibility of punishment under the law.
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Maybe it's only a little bit of info, or maybe the request comes with a "trust me", but still each little bit soon adds up to a lot.
To the extent that we agree to each little restriction, we give in to the demands of those who don't agree with our freedom.
A typical report -- at H.S. level?? Not.
Most teachers do not want to see a bunch of fancy formatted reports that are completely different from student to student. They usually want a non-proportional font, 1.5 line spacing, 1 inch margins all the way around, properly and consistently marked for references and footnotes. That way, no one student is going to be tempted to baffle-with-b******* by throwing a bunch of fancy formatting and zero content. OO.o is an excellent product for reading and writing across most Word formats. Print a Word document and print an OO.o document using the same SIMPLE formatting parameters and there is no difference in form, function, or appearance.
This is correct. It's not a tax made on the sale of the article, but rather on its use/consumption. Several years ago, I bought a car in Illinois, but paid no sales tax there because I was in the U.S. military and was on my way to my next duty station in Florida (yeah, I know, real rough duty!!). So when I went to get a Florida license plate, I was required to pay Florida's "use tax" in order to title the car and get the plate. The "use tax" was at the same percentage rate as the sales tax for Florida on a new car, but was not a tax on the sale of the item, only a tax on its use in the state of Florida. Anyhow, it worked out O.K. in this case personally as the tax amount turned out to be less than any sales tax that would have accrued in Illinois. The point is, that for better or worse, it's necessary to understand the sometimes subtle differences when discussing a subject.
To this I can say "Nope". The U.S. Constitution is the basis of all law in the U.S., not simply a guideline. All U.S. law is measurable against the provisions of the U.S. Constitution. Some laws are, in fact, declared un-constitutional from time to time.
Actually, Congress has in fact chosen to exercise its constitutional right to effect patent laws in the U.S. These patent (and copyright) laws do, in fact, secure works for a limited time to those individuals who create and invent. What is debatable is the meaning of "limited time" and "individuals".
Security is important to networking, just as an understanding of networks is important to networking. The simple fact is that good networking involves a lot of different processes, topics, and procedures each of which could fill their own 515 page book, and all of which together would make for a decent small library.
Lighten up, and press on.
Agree. When reading a book, the interaction is between the story-teller's words and the readers own mind and experience. If you were to read a piece of good fiction by Hemingway, or Steinbeck, or other good storyteller, there's a certain "movie-like" stream that plays within your own mind that comes from the interaction of your imagination, your own understanding of the author's story, and your own life experience. A compelling story absorbs you within that interaction. A game, while possibly as compelling as a good book, absorbs you within the game writer's stream of action and imagination and is therefore limited by that author's ability to present that story's stream. If you were to compare what was in your mind's eye to someone else's when you both read "The Big Two Hearted River", there would very likely be differences in the details based on your own life's experiences. If you were to compare your game play with another person's game play for the same game, the only differences would be in what choices you each made at certain moments. The game would be the same in terms of terrain and characters, goals and possible results. But that's just me and I'd rather read a good book than play any game, any day!!
The purpose of a filing process is to expedite the finding process. That is either done by a group consensus of what needs to be filed where, or by an individual deciding what needs to be filed where. Either way the rules, if any, are determined by the user(s) and not by some arbitrary mechanism.
Tried it. Never worked. Same machine, same setup, other OSes worked out of the box.
After a couple of false starts (my bad), I got it up and actually running, but it never would detect my PCMCIA NIC. Not only would it not detect, but there was no place that I could find to actually configure the NIC or the network connection to my router. So I gave up and went back to MDK. At least that was something I could use and also something that has useful documentation.
My point is, that I was very disappointed in what has been touted as a great OS. Maybe someday, but not for a while.
Understanding command line inputs and the resultant outputs don't actually give any insight into HOW the computer works. All they give is an understanding of WHAT happens with the typed in commands. An analogy might be that if you don't set the jumper on a drive correctly, it probably won't show up as a usable drive. That doesn't give you any more insight into HOW the circuitry of the controller works, only WHAT happens when you set the jumper to one position or another.
When I click on kfree in the KDE menu, I get a graphical representation of the free space. When I enter a df command, it gives me a non-graphical representation of free space. Neither actually tells me HOW the respective inputs gave me the respective outputs, only that each did something.
Neither the graphical interface, nor the command line interface is conceptually superior. The results may be quicker on the command line, but the inputs are not as obvious (unless you have committed a lot to memory) and those same results are also a little more esoteric.
Personally, I use both the command line and KDE, and Windows when I have to (such as earning a living!). I have a computer science degree and over my 56+ years have learned a lot, so I do understand some of the HOW of the Linux OS, but the understanding really did not come from a study of man or help or apropos.
Agree wholeheartedly. The distinction between "free" as in speech and "free" as in beer is a comparison of apples and oranges. Both are useful, both have value, but both don't have to be in every fruit salad ;).
"Free" as in speech is the basis of freedom, "free" as in beer can be the reward of labor, but is actually a choice. That is the basis of the GPL licensing plan. The Linux kernel is a copyrighted work, but it is licensed freely and openly under the terms of the GPL. If you violate the GPL licensing terms, you are pressing you're luck on not also violating the legal copyrighted work which in turn presents the possibility of punishment under the law.