We're rare but we do exist. Look at Richard Stallman for a good example, he can do things in front of a public audience that would make other people rather gauge out their eyes.
As for the iPod *meh* it's ok I guess but I wouldn't buy one. I wasn't into the whole Walkman craze, nor the rather smaller PCDP period. So why should I be interested in an iPod? all they seem to do is control the minutie of yet another portable deivce just like every other portable device that people are getting sick of using because the features are locked and it hardly feels like you own the damn thing. At least with a PCDP you could hack the hardware and set up a data line but from what I've seen you can't even get into the iPod chases; my guess is there just applying the same logic to the software now.
Lets see If I were Dell I would get a key from the CSS forum with the idea of distributing, stick it in libdvdcss and release. the only thing that makes libdvdcss a problem currently is that it uses non licensed keys (there for technically breaking encryption) get some licensed keys and your legit. how did you think linspire did it?
Privacy in this case must be squared with the detachment of a single person and the top echelons of the control on the society. And unfortunate as this is the natural right is for the responsibility for everything you do in social context to be publicly available. but only so far as it effects the public action that you've taken.
So knowing _who_ posted a comment is required because everyone should take responsibility for what they say, after all it is in the public.
On the one hand knowing that a person is gay when they are owner of a razor company or talking about vegetables has nothing to do with their public relations and is private to them.
Ah a balance, but it's not difficult in hindsight to know what is private and what is not.
On the other hand you have the problem that any member of the public or government will misuse the information in a way to hurt the person or their privacies but that really should be a problem with the miss-use not the authorship being known; prevention of misuse though is difficult the large the society get.
Not a bad idea, but rails are the real future. systematic transport instead of running around like a 10Base2 Network.
to be honest as humans become more centralised they're going to need to ditch the idea that everyone has a right to a car like device. sure it's extremely convenient but it's also immensely selfish. no surprise that the USA will moan the most then.
I give 5% of my earnings to varous charities, I refuse to praise someone because they have more money than me for doing less with it.
Not to say all the other rich bastards don't need half their fortunes taken away in 'enforced charitable donations' either, I'll always say that the biggest damage to the world econemy is hording, thank god I don't live in the USA where most of the money is in the hands of these few people.
I did somthing similar to Ajax, using frames and javascript to enable upload/download progress bars that work with any browser (unlike the ActiveX or Java versions which are clunky), it's rather neat. the nice part is the way it looks like it was apart of the page, no horrible refreshing or popup window just pulling the width of a div with some repeating image (like the nice mac progress bar image) and some stats and timer estimations.
I made that in perl using the apache request modules, nothing hard/horrible or microsofty about it.
Perhaps what you want to use is his File Type Manager with a few tags for your projects, so you could both tag a file as coming from a certain person, apart of a certain project and when It was created/saved.
No this guy who wrote this article is not stupid or talking about old news, he's setting down exactly what everyone knows but placing it all under an 'idea' this is a very powerful brain tool that allows developers to move their projects towards such goals because they can quickly adapt the projects aims to incorporate the ideas without having to do the leg work of converting a music projects functionality into a photo projects functionality.
Once again slashdoters miss the boat on why this article is usefull.
My problem is not only that I can never get the latest version in en-gb (come on! what the foobar needs translating, just recompile it and release it! and stop being stingy)
There is also the fact that they refuse to fix the 'securty' hole they 'fixed' in 0.8, there is no form of secure user selected file information so in firefox I can't show an image the user has selected before they upload it. which is just silly, fine it can be abused but think of a solution, the whole 'We don't care' attitude got on my nerves. It seemed like they would just go in for the quickist and dirtest fix posible which dosn't bode well for security updates.
I'm having a hard time propigating Debian/Gentoo or anything other than windows on my familys computers, my uncle has always been a big shot computer guru (hardware and windows) and thinks that Linux is a company that won't make any money because of Microsoft. (yes I know I've told him, he dosn't understand it's not a company)
So I'll continue to presure, someone will try it and like and and then it'll start getting easyer to convince.
Even though I don't like Apples or Microsofts actions there will be a day when they will fight it out and that will be the day open source and other companies will have room to grow into the market.
Alot of companies misplace the true value of open source, Apple is one of them. open source means you can look at how it works and change it for the better. MacOSX as good as it is isn't changable like that (apart from the low level)
Ah you've been misinformed my friend,
what we have now is not Capitalism but Exploitative Capitalism, like Exploitative socialism it gives it's idealistic foundation a bad name.
Socialism and Capitalism can co exist, Explotism must not be allowed to.
Note: the solution is in the people not the resources.
There is a bigger scope to 'personal gain' then alot of people belive.
When I help someone in the street I feel good about myself, I've personaly gained. when I give my girlfriend flowers it makes her happy and thus me happy and I have gained. no money has changed hands but damn am I happy.
There is more to this personal gain buisness than money and the sooner people realise this the sooner they can be a little happier too.
Companies arn't efficient by design, they only work to get money, that it full stop no more. they have _no_ incentive to improve the service only the ways it's billed.
It's anoying having to reeducate you right wing americans about fair play and doing whats right as aposed to 'The market forces will sort it out'
I'd go for the socialist view every time, I pay taxes, which go to schools, hospitals* and police (to name but a few) but I have no children, suffer no ailments or crimes but I pay for them so people without jobs, or people who wouldn't beable to afford those things privatly can use public services, as well as protecting me if I loose my job or retire.
The idea is that we look after each other and the world becomes a better place, idealistic yes, but it's a damn site better than exploitative capatalism which is the current meme.
The lack of openness is mainly due to the way they do buisness, after all they are a hardware computer seller.
But it dosn't matter as much now as it did back in days past since as you say apple has been forced to become more friendly with other standards and has opened up a bit.
But ultimatly if my Powerbook dies (it did) I must get it fixed at an apple certified mac specialist, with mac made parts (even the websites that sell parts get them from referb machines) so in that sense they can charge what ever they like for getting them fixed or upgraded. (I'd have done the fixing myself, but uk isn't very good for shipping from the mac hardware sites)
Your wrong, a mac is alot more than just a fancy box, it's a superor solution in all but one way (Openess), Mac OSX beats any other OS going for desktop productivity, flow and tools (that you don't have to spend days compiling/searching for rpm deps) or configuring.
More secure than windows, better UI than everything and the hardware is equivical to PC specs (don't confuise x86 with the PowerPC they are very diferent beasts), it's not got enough RAM in the Mac Mini but that can be remedied.
I just wish you'd check out the things your slagging off before you posted, but then that is the slashdot way.
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We're rare but we do exist. Look at Richard Stallman for a good example, he can do things in front of a public audience that would make other people rather gauge out their eyes. As for the iPod *meh* it's ok I guess but I wouldn't buy one. I wasn't into the whole Walkman craze, nor the rather smaller PCDP period. So why should I be interested in an iPod? all they seem to do is control the minutie of yet another portable deivce just like every other portable device that people are getting sick of using because the features are locked and it hardly feels like you own the damn thing. At least with a PCDP you could hack the hardware and set up a data line but from what I've seen you can't even get into the iPod chases; my guess is there just applying the same logic to the software now.
Lets see If I were Dell I would get a key from the CSS forum with the idea of distributing, stick it in libdvdcss and release. the only thing that makes libdvdcss a problem currently is that it uses non licensed keys (there for technically breaking encryption) get some licensed keys and your legit. how did you think linspire did it?
Privacy in this case must be squared with the detachment of a single person and the top echelons of the control on the society. And unfortunate as this is the natural right is for the responsibility for everything you do in social context to be publicly available. but only so far as it effects the public action that you've taken.
So knowing _who_ posted a comment is required because everyone should take responsibility for what they say, after all it is in the public.
On the one hand knowing that a person is gay when they are owner of a razor company or talking about vegetables has nothing to do with their public relations and is private to them.
Ah a balance, but it's not difficult in hindsight to know what is private and what is not.
On the other hand you have the problem that any member of the public or government will misuse the information in a way to hurt the person or their privacies but that really should be a problem with the miss-use not the authorship being known; prevention of misuse though is difficult the large the society get.
OSS isn't a business method, it's a way to develop software by taking advantage of your industries combined efforts in technical achievement.
Not a bad idea, but rails are the real future. systematic transport instead of running around like a 10Base2 Network. to be honest as humans become more centralised they're going to need to ditch the idea that everyone has a right to a car like device. sure it's extremely convenient but it's also immensely selfish. no surprise that the USA will moan the most then.
That would require very large magnets, so prepare for a car the size of a city.
I give 5% of my earnings to varous charities, I refuse to praise someone because they have more money than me for doing less with it.
Not to say all the other rich bastards don't need half their fortunes taken away in 'enforced charitable donations' either, I'll always say that the biggest damage to the world econemy is hording, thank god I don't live in the USA where most of the money is in the hands of these few people.
I did somthing similar to Ajax, using frames and javascript to enable upload/download progress bars that work with any browser (unlike the ActiveX or Java versions which are clunky), it's rather neat. the nice part is the way it looks like it was apart of the page, no horrible refreshing or popup window just pulling the width of a div with some repeating image (like the nice mac progress bar image) and some stats and timer estimations.
I made that in perl using the apache request modules, nothing hard/horrible or microsofty about it.
I've only heard of Ajax today.
Perhaps what you want to use is his File Type Manager with a few tags for your projects, so you could both tag a file as coming from a certain person, apart of a certain project and when It was created/saved.
No this guy who wrote this article is not stupid or talking about old news, he's setting down exactly what everyone knows but placing it all under an 'idea' this is a very powerful brain tool that allows developers to move their projects towards such goals because they can quickly adapt the projects aims to incorporate the ideas without having to do the leg work of converting a music projects functionality into a photo projects functionality.
Once again slashdoters miss the boat on why this article is usefull.
My problem is not only that I can never get the latest version in en-gb (come on! what the foobar needs translating, just recompile it and release it! and stop being stingy)
There is also the fact that they refuse to fix the 'securty' hole they 'fixed' in 0.8, there is no form of secure user selected file information so in firefox I can't show an image the user has selected before they upload it. which is just silly, fine it can be abused but think of a solution, the whole 'We don't care' attitude got on my nerves. It seemed like they would just go in for the quickist and dirtest fix posible which dosn't bode well for security updates.
I'm having a hard time propigating Debian/Gentoo or anything other than windows on my familys computers, my uncle has always been a big shot computer guru (hardware and windows) and thinks that Linux is a company that won't make any money because of Microsoft. (yes I know I've told him, he dosn't understand it's not a company)
So I'll continue to presure, someone will try it and like and and then it'll start getting easyer to convince.
Don't be daft, 6 pints is pifling to most of the people I know at work, even my pottering ol' dad drinks 6 pints of stella every night.
the processors in powerbooks are stuck to the main board, aint no way they could shake loose.
Actualy,
a {common formatting}
a.somestyle {specific formatting}
a.otherstyle {specific formatting}
should work too.
Why do people always think of houses as money, you ruin the market for the rest of us!
This sounds very much like Cadburys Schweppes PLC in the UK, is it the same thing or is Europe another country to the UK?
2 Monopolists are better than 1 any day.
Even though I don't like Apples or Microsofts actions there will be a day when they will fight it out and that will be the day open source and other companies will have room to grow into the market.
Alot of companies misplace the true value of open source, Apple is one of them. open source means you can look at how it works and change it for the better. MacOSX as good as it is isn't changable like that (apart from the low level)
Ah you've been misinformed my friend, what we have now is not Capitalism but Exploitative Capitalism, like Exploitative socialism it gives it's idealistic foundation a bad name. Socialism and Capitalism can co exist, Explotism must not be allowed to. Note: the solution is in the people not the resources.
There is a bigger scope to 'personal gain' then alot of people belive.
When I help someone in the street I feel good about myself, I've personaly gained. when I give my girlfriend flowers it makes her happy and thus me happy and I have gained. no money has changed hands but damn am I happy.
There is more to this personal gain buisness than money and the sooner people realise this the sooner they can be a little happier too.
Companies arn't efficient by design, they only work to get money, that it full stop no more. they have _no_ incentive to improve the service only the ways it's billed.
It's anoying having to reeducate you right wing americans about fair play and doing whats right as aposed to 'The market forces will sort it out'
I'd go for the socialist view every time, I pay taxes, which go to schools, hospitals* and police (to name but a few) but I have no children, suffer no ailments or crimes but I pay for them so people without jobs, or people who wouldn't beable to afford those things privatly can use public services, as well as protecting me if I loose my job or retire.
:-P
The idea is that we look after each other and the world becomes a better place, idealistic yes, but it's a damn site better than exploitative capatalism which is the current meme.
* NHS, I'm British
The lack of openness is mainly due to the way they do buisness, after all they are a hardware computer seller.
But it dosn't matter as much now as it did back in days past since as you say apple has been forced to become more friendly with other standards and has opened up a bit.
But ultimatly if my Powerbook dies (it did) I must get it fixed at an apple certified mac specialist, with mac made parts (even the websites that sell parts get them from referb machines) so in that sense they can charge what ever they like for getting them fixed or upgraded. (I'd have done the fixing myself, but uk isn't very good for shipping from the mac hardware sites)
You could do both, have a pricing model that promotes personal non transfarable paitents and corperate paitents that cost wads of cash.
add that to a fine for the patient office every time a patient is thrown out and you'll give them the kick up the arse they need to improve standards.
Your wrong, a mac is alot more than just a fancy box, it's a superor solution in all but one way (Openess), Mac OSX beats any other OS going for desktop productivity, flow and tools (that you don't have to spend days compiling/searching for rpm deps) or configuring.
More secure than windows, better UI than everything and the hardware is equivical to PC specs (don't confuise x86 with the PowerPC they are very diferent beasts), it's not got enough RAM in the Mac Mini but that can be remedied.
I just wish you'd check out the things your slagging off before you posted, but then that is the slashdot way.
Erm did you forget about council tax?