We live in a world of dwindlig fossil fuels, energy wars and an imminent health care crisis in the first world due to obesity as well as its complications.
The existence of these personal mobility devices is assinine.
By forcing Apple to raise its prices to be compatible with store bought CDs the RIAA plans to kill its competition and piracy.
If downloading music costs the same as a store bought CD ( or more ) most people will let the record companies do the work and give them a nice "store bought" package.
End of legal downloadable music.
Additionally, by temporarily allowing legal downloadable music to flourish ( in combination with their lawsuits for illegal downloading ) they have moved many people away and out of the habit of stealing music over the internet.
If more people start stealing music over the internet again the RIAA can play martyr with an improved public image. "Hey, we let legal downloads happen and these people insist on stealing anyway".
The "immortality" of CD's reminds me of the way immortality is often portrayed in sci-fi stories............with a catch.....usually a physical vulnerablility.
Live forever, but if you get a cut, you will die..etc..etc.
CD's are just way too dainty with the way they can easily be mishandled.
Perhaps something like the mini-cd wrapped in a cartridge would be the answer.
However, we all know how the RIAA is about being innovative so I will quit my bitching now. Steve
IRC is a niche thing, so I don't think it is very silly the NYT "discovers" it now.
It can only have been in the last few years with popularization of the internet that non IT people would be on the net enough to hear the term "IRC"...enough for it to move into a reporter's vocabluary.
Earlier ( and still many present clients ) irc clients had very unfriendly interfaces.
Now there is chatzilla and gaim which make it friendly enough for ordinary people to venture into it.
I still run into many IT people who never heard of IRC or even USENET.
Regarding their other point which people made fun of, usenet is wild if you look at decorum, but its not wild if you think that one time you had to know something to use it and now anyone with a browser can go to Google and read it like a blog.
Supporting Debian by buying sarge for $50 would be great, but the people selling sarge CD's are not Debian.
As far as the bleeding edge goes wouldn't that be SID?
I would be happy to buy a copy of woody, but many of the things I want in a system are seriously old in woody........so I would be right back where I am.....having to download a shitload on a dialup.
Downloading/burning the CD's at a friend's house is not an option as there are a huge number of ISOs for sarge.
Students will not major in fields they read about being outsourced every day.
The US Constitution guarantees the Right to Freedom Of Speach, yet it is illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded theater unless there is a real threat.
However, there is no right in the constitution for coporations to make the maximum amount of profit they can.... irregardless of the consequnces to the nation.
So we have a situation where there *IS* a right given to people which is curtailed for the general welfare.
Yet, there is also the situation where there is *NO* right given to corporations and the idea that this non-right should be curtailed for the welfare of an entrie nation is not accepted.
Some people mentioned problems with the "achievment test" style alternative.
IMHO, that option seems to be orders of magnitude ahead of Diebold.
I and think others should question why this issue exists at all.
Afterall, banks have been using ATMs/computers/high tech to keep track of private information, as well as auditable information for years without the kind of problems we have seen with voting.
There are probably also people working to hack/fix banking systems to their own benefit as well.
If banks can do the US government can do it.....if they are willing, IMHO
Well, I guess if you want a FULL, quality distro with good portage/package managers it looks like you get to choose what will eventually drive you crazy:
PJ purports that making things easy and fun will not distract people from open source.
I've observed that everytime there is a pain in the ass app( or a lacking app ) and an easy/fun one people will dump the pain in the ass app everytime.......even open source fans.
The good news is that SUN wouldn't know user friendly if it bit them on the ass.
Another company might highjack the open source thing by flooding the community with easier, better apps.......maybe......but it will not be SUN.
I say this as someone who has programmed in Java for the last 5 years and who has seen the level of front end quality SUN is in the habit of giving to people.
No offense to anyone.......that company just does not understand "easy" or "friendly".
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I read the originial article and the rebuttal you posted.
The rebuttal split hairs on semantics and did not answer the concrete criticism of Petry's:
That nautilus opens folders in new windows by default and makes users edit settings in GConf to shut this annoying behaviour off.
Steve
Steve
American students are taught the metric system in science classes. Outside of science and medicine it is not used much in the United States. Steve
People made the same argument for it back in the 70s.
The rest of the world using it would force the US into using the metric system also.
Still waiting?
Steve
We live in a world of dwindlig fossil fuels, energy wars and an imminent health care crisis in the first world due to obesity as well as its complications.
The existence of these personal mobility devices is assinine.
Stop eating. Take a walk. Burn a few calories.
Steve
You have to wonder about the brains of those soilders.
You don't need a course on the Geneva Convention to know what they did was a dirty deed, yet they did it AND LET THEMSELVES BE PHOTOGRAPNED DOING IT.
way back in the stoneages before cable bought up every rerun and old movie in site.
It was in black and white. Starred Raymond Burr and was something someone other then a 12 year old could enjoy.
Steve
By forcing Apple to raise its prices to be compatible with store bought CDs the RIAA plans to kill its competition and piracy.
If downloading music costs the same as a store bought CD ( or more ) most people will let the record companies do the work and give them a nice
"store bought" package.
End of legal downloadable music.
Additionally, by temporarily allowing legal downloadable music to flourish ( in combination with their lawsuits for illegal downloading ) they have moved many people away and out of the habit of stealing music over the internet.
If more people start stealing music over the internet again the RIAA can play martyr with an improved public image. "Hey, we let legal downloads happen and these people insist on stealing anyway".
Steve
The "immortality" of CD's reminds me of the way immortality is often portrayed in sci-fi stories............with a catch.....usually a physical vulnerablility.
Live forever, but if you get a cut, you will die..etc..etc.
CD's are just way too dainty with the way they can easily be mishandled.
Perhaps something like the mini-cd wrapped in a cartridge would be the answer.
However, we all know how the RIAA is about being innovative so I will quit my bitching now.
Steve
Maybe it is a generational thing.
I still don't think of search engines as a serious research tool.
I know some younger people do.
When I use google it is to find " with the genre".......finding answers for web related things and IT stuff.
If I went back to school and got a serious research assignment I would go to a library.
Google's main strength is its simplicity and convenience.
Many people don't know how to use libraries.
You can also use google from your living room.
Steve
IRC is a niche thing, so I don't think it is very silly the NYT "discovers" it now.
It can only have been in the last few years with popularization of the internet that non IT people would be on the net enough to hear the term "IRC"...enough for it to move into a reporter's vocabluary.
Earlier ( and still many present clients ) irc clients had very unfriendly interfaces.
Now there is chatzilla and gaim which make it friendly enough for ordinary people to venture into it.
I still run into many IT people who never heard of IRC or even USENET.
Regarding their other point which people made fun of, usenet is wild if you look at decorum, but its not wild if you think that one time you had to know something to use it and now anyone with a browser can go to Google and read it like a blog.
The streets are paved there.
Steve
What I want to know is why you are in the habit of doing that? :)
With all of the noxious public actions they have taken it turns out the RIAA is the biggest music music theif of them all.
I guess getting electrocuted is worse then getting burned when the gas ignites...or slow death from a polluted atmosphere
Supporting Debian by buying sarge for $50 would be great, but the people selling sarge CD's are not Debian.
As far as the bleeding edge goes wouldn't that be SID?
I would be happy to buy a copy of woody, but many of the things I want in a system are seriously old in woody........so I would be right back where I am.....having to download a shitload on a dialup.
Downloading/burning the CD's at a friend's house is not an option as there are a huge number of ISOs for sarge.
Steve
Students will not major in fields they read about being outsourced every day.
.... irregardless of the consequnces to the nation.
The US Constitution guarantees the Right to Freedom Of Speach, yet it is illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded theater unless there is a real threat.
However, there is no right in the constitution for coporations to make the maximum amount of profit they can
So we have a situation where there *IS* a right given to people which is curtailed for the general welfare.
Yet, there is also the situation where there is *NO* right given to corporations and the idea that this non-right should be curtailed for the welfare of an entrie nation is not accepted.
Hmmmmm.
I understand the new installer only gives you a base install of sarge.......if you want the rest you have to apt-get it.
Not a good option for me as I am on dial-up
Looking around the web I found cd's and dvd's of sarge available, but at $50 a pop. Justified, as they give you EVERYTHING that is in Sarge.
Anyone know of cheaper alternatives?
Steve
I like www.bestbookbuys.com
Some people mentioned problems with the "achievment test" style alternative.
IMHO, that option seems to be orders of magnitude ahead of Diebold.
I and think others should question why this issue exists at all.
Afterall, banks have been using ATMs/computers/high tech to keep track of private information, as well as auditable information for years without the kind of problems we have seen with voting.
There are probably also people working to hack/fix banking systems to their own benefit as well.
If banks can do the US government can do it.....if they are willing, IMHO
Steve
Remember those achievment tests in school?
You get a number two pencil and blacken in the dots for your choice ( no hanging chads)?
Why not use those? You would get the best of both worlds: electronic voting...and an easily verifiable paper trail.
Listening to the radio last night ( Air America ) some congressman introduced a bill offering a similar ( but not the same ) alternative in a bill.
( about time ).
He said out of 400 members, 140 jumped on the bill with him to cosponsor it.
Guys, Gals, if you care about your vote and your country now is the time to write your US Representatives to get them off their ass:
http://www.congress.com/
I haven't used Red Hat in a long time.
What would Fedora lack that Red Hat would have ?
Steve
Well, I guess if you want a FULL, quality distro with good portage/package managers it looks like you get to choose what will eventually drive you crazy:
1. long waits in between releases ( Debian )
or
2. long waits during compilation ( Gentoo )
Love both, got both installed.
Steve
So competition with Gentoo has forced them to speed up?
( no offense, use debian, love debian )
Steve
PJ purports that making things easy and fun will not distract people from open source.
I've observed that everytime there is a pain in the ass app( or a lacking app ) and an easy/fun one people will dump the pain in the ass app everytime.......even open source fans.
The good news is that SUN wouldn't know user friendly if it bit them on the ass.
Another company might highjack the open source thing by flooding the community with easier, better apps.......maybe......but it will not be SUN.
I say this as someone who has programmed in Java for the last 5 years and who has seen the level of front end quality SUN is in the habit of giving to people.
No offense to anyone.......that company just does not understand "easy" or "friendly".
Steve
BTW, I agree with you about the soph-moronic comments not cutting it as wit.
Steve