--- You cannot GPL Java, if you do, then ***ALL*** the business applications that are created using Java will have to ***PAY*** a license fee to use it. PERIOD. ---
Put the crack pipe down and go back and read the fucking license. You're full of shit and there's a danger that some of the more gullible slashdotters might believe you.
The people who whine about the US being a police state quite explicitly don't know what they're talking about, and are doing the political equivalent of whining that you can't take your pleasure boat out on the harbour this weekend because you have to mow the lawn at the beach house. No idea what they have.
THe big problem with libertarianism is that it's all tied up with individualism. Strange, but true, a large majority of people want to be part of a group, to have the support of others and not to be utterly self-reliant.
I have theories about why computer geeks are much more strongly libertarian than the general public which I think are fairly obvious, but I'll not go into them here for fear of a bunch of individualists saying 'that's not me, therefore your theory is 100% wrong!!!1'.
These are examples of what a bad government can achieve if it is strong enough. Unilateralism is not dictatorship, just ask Margaret Thatcher.
To demonstrate dictatorship you'd need to substantiate to a much greater degree than anyone has so far a few things: * Electoral falsification. Florida was cleared by a legitimate(ly stacked) supreme court. End of story. * Perpetuity. At the very fucking least you'd need to wait until *after* the legal two presidential terms had expired. * Military backing. Dictators don't hold power without this. Anywhere. Ever. You your self have just admitted you can't demonstrate this.
You're a crackpot, and not only do you insult the people who live in *real* dictatorships, such as North Korea and Burma, and those who have survived real dictatorships, but you make the political left look like a bunch of raving moonbats, thereby helping to keep the rabid right in power.
I'm doing an MA in PoliSci next year on eejits who compare democratically elected leaders to dictators. If you'd actually *lived* in a dictatorship, or perhaps ever visited one, or maybe if you'd even read Archipelag Gulag or histories of Cambodia or China, to name only two, you might not be whining quite so much.
And yes, Bush *was* democratically elected. There may have been corruption, but it was investigated with due process by the competent body to do so. That competent body may have been stacked, but it was stacked *legitimately*. You can whine all you like, but that don't change the facts.
--- Finally, there is the name "Gimp". It means "lame" or "handicapped", which was a totally stupid thing to call a program. Yes, I know it is an acronym, but ut was a stupid idea none-the-less. ---
Because Krita is a better name. At least gimp has one clear and universally known pronunciation and doesn't look like a word cobbled together from Czech and Klingon.
"Through the desolate summits swept ranging, intermittent gusts of the terrible antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half-sentient musical piping... and which for some subconscious mnemonic reason seemed to me disquieting and even dimly terrible." -- H.P. Lovecraft, 'At The Mountains of Madness'
I have 100 megabit full-duplex, unmetered, no-ports-barred internet at home, for KRW31,000 - a shade under US$30 - per month. They try to poison my dns to make me proxy through them, but that's trivial to workaround.
I've clocked 7.3 megabytes/sec inbound (from a server located about 20km away), and about 3.8 megabytes/sec outbound, so I suspect it actually IS what it says. I also run 50-100G outbound traffic per day, so I can say with some certainty that it really is unmetered.
That would be you being useless, not the codec. VLC supports it just fine, unsurprisingly, since they're involved in its development; as should any other decent media player, once you install codecs from http://x264.nl/ or one of dozens of other repositories on the web. I still haven't seen a single person fail to get it working on windows, osx or any distribution of gnu/linux.
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Irony: Not one major grammatical, spelling or punctuation error in the parent.
The GPL doesn't protect your freedom. It's a mechanism by which the original author protects the Software's freedom from people who would try to prevent the software, or derivatives of it, from remaining free. You, as a downstream user, have a choice: accept the license, or don't. You have no rights if you don't. YOUR freedom is not an issue.
> In the larger world of banks, magazines, health insurance companies, credit card companies, employers, etc. information about you is being reported without your consent every day.
The fact that there are already many breaches of privacy does not provide excuse or reason against criticising the adoption of a new and unnecessary one.
It's free. It's cross-platform. It's under active development and maintenance. It's technically sound - seeking, metadata, sane encoder/decoder applications. It's supported by at least one player manufacturer (rio). It's much smaller than uncompressed audio.
My wife got a grad-level essay back with B on it, knowing that she'd gone against the opinion of the HOD and course convener, who'd marked it. No surprise. She submitted it for remarking (where it gets sent to another faculty member at a sister university) and it just came back with an A on it - overall gain about 15 percentage points.
You CAN disagree with the prof, but you'd better be prepared to go into bat.
Slashdot Mirror
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You cannot GPL Java, if you do, then ***ALL*** the business applications
that are created using Java will have to ***PAY*** a license fee to use it.
PERIOD.
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Put the crack pipe down and go back and read the fucking license. You're full of shit and there's a danger that some of the more gullible slashdotters might believe you.
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Congrats to Deutschland also.
Never thought we'd rank so high on the list.
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Yeah, you guys are über alles.
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You're absolutely right, of course.
The people who whine about the US being a police state quite explicitly don't know what they're talking about, and are doing the political equivalent of whining that you can't take your pleasure boat out on the harbour this weekend because you have to mow the lawn at the beach house. No idea what they have.
Bourgeois motherfuckers.
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THe big problem with libertarianism is that it's all tied up with individualism. Strange, but true, a large majority of people want to be part of a group, to have the support of others and not to be utterly self-reliant.
I have theories about why computer geeks are much more strongly libertarian than the general public which I think are fairly obvious, but I'll not go into them here for fear of a bunch of individualists saying 'that's not me, therefore your theory is 100% wrong!!!1'.
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These are examples of what a bad government can achieve if it is strong enough. Unilateralism is not dictatorship, just ask Margaret Thatcher.
To demonstrate dictatorship you'd need to substantiate to a much greater degree than anyone has so far a few things:
* Electoral falsification. Florida was cleared by a legitimate(ly stacked) supreme court. End of story.
* Perpetuity. At the very fucking least you'd need to wait until *after* the legal two presidential terms had expired.
* Military backing. Dictators don't hold power without this. Anywhere. Ever. You your self have just admitted you can't demonstrate this.
You're a crackpot, and not only do you insult the people who live in *real* dictatorships, such as North Korea and Burma, and those who have survived real dictatorships, but you make the political left look like a bunch of raving moonbats, thereby helping to keep the rabid right in power.
Steady on.
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I'm doing an MA in PoliSci next year on eejits who compare democratically elected leaders to dictators. If you'd actually *lived* in a dictatorship, or perhaps ever visited one, or maybe if you'd even read Archipelag Gulag or histories of Cambodia or China, to name only two, you might not be whining quite so much.
And yes, Bush *was* democratically elected. There may have been corruption, but it was investigated with due process by the competent body to do so. That competent body may have been stacked, but it was stacked *legitimately*. You can whine all you like, but that don't change the facts.
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Finally, there is the name "Gimp". It means "lame" or "handicapped", which was a totally stupid thing to call a program. Yes, I know it is an acronym, but ut was a stupid idea none-the-less.
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Because Krita is a better name. At least gimp has one clear and universally known pronunciation and doesn't look like a word cobbled together from Czech and Klingon.
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We still have http://cities.totl.net/
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"Through the desolate summits swept ranging, intermittent gusts of the terrible antarctic wind; whose cadences sometimes held vague suggestions of a wild and half-sentient musical piping ... and which for some subconscious mnemonic reason seemed to me disquieting and even dimly terrible." -- H.P. Lovecraft, 'At The Mountains of Madness'
Cthulhu fhtagn! Iä! Iä!
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:::Do they ever plan to build and test a Tesla death ray? Oh please, oh please!!!:::
Then figure out how to tunnel its effect over TCP/IP. Instant quadrizillionaire.
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Ads ARE the content in a fashmag. It's porn for fashionistas.
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He has a name.
His name is Jack Valenti. His name is Jack Valenti. His name is Jack Valenti. His name is Jack Valenti. His na....
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I have 100 megabit full-duplex, unmetered, no-ports-barred internet at home, for KRW31,000 - a shade under US$30 - per month. They try to poison my dns to make me proxy through them, but that's trivial to workaround.
... and I get a static IP too.
I've clocked 7.3 megabytes/sec inbound (from a server located about 20km away), and about 3.8 megabytes/sec outbound, so I suspect it actually IS what it says. I also run 50-100G outbound traffic per day, so I can say with some certainty that it really is unmetered.
Oh
It's a beautiful thing.
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That would be you being useless, not the codec. VLC supports it just fine, unsurprisingly, since they're involved in its development; as should any other decent media player, once you install codecs from http://x264.nl/ or one of dozens of other repositories on the web. I still haven't seen a single person fail to get it working on windows, osx or any distribution of gnu/linux.
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Irony: Not one major grammatical, spelling or punctuation error in the parent.
Someone give this man a job.
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>>>They reimaged my machine shortly thereafter. :(
That's awful. Better set a bios password after the next install.
Because circumventing a bios password is MUCH more work than reimaging a machine.
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The GPL doesn't protect your freedom. It's a mechanism by which the original author protects the Software's freedom from people who would try to prevent the software, or derivatives of it, from remaining free. You, as a downstream user, have a choice: accept the license, or don't. You have no rights if you don't. YOUR freedom is not an issue.
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I'm really glad the parent got modded 'funny'. Must be another geographically-challeneged american.
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Never gonna happen. Korea is a windows monoculture.
Not that it's unique in that respect.
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>>Coffee is a naturally grown product, thus does not have bad influence on your body
... and coca... and various nightshades... and peyote... and psylocybine mushrooms... and fugu... and ... and...
Just like opium
Come off it, you fucking hippie. Just because it grows out of the ground doesn't make it not bad for you.
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If parties or poker are boring, the participants are to blame.
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> In the larger world of banks, magazines, health insurance companies, credit card companies, employers, etc. information about you is being reported without your consent every day.
The fact that there are already many breaches of privacy does not provide excuse or reason against criticising the adoption of a new and unnecessary one.
There's just no alternative.
It's free. It's cross-platform. It's under active development and maintenance. It's technically sound - seeking, metadata, sane encoder/decoder applications. It's supported by at least one player manufacturer (rio). It's much smaller than uncompressed audio.
There really is no alternative; FLAC is the shit.
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My wife got a grad-level essay back with B on it, knowing that she'd gone against the opinion of the HOD and course convener, who'd marked it. No surprise. She submitted it for remarking (where it gets sent to another faculty member at a sister university) and it just came back with an A on it - overall gain about 15 percentage points.
You CAN disagree with the prof, but you'd better be prepared to go into bat.
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"iTMS -> my HD -> CD-R -> EAC -> WAV -> FLAC -> back to my RAID w/tape backup in uncrippled, lossless, dare I say archival, format."
You've bought the hype that 128k AAC is actually good quality. You poor bastard.