in most jobs people are somehow controlled. I guess the company has some right to it, after all, if paying you some money for that time you spend working for them...
wow,
so many in the slashdot community are but a bunch of redneck hill billies bible belt catholic haters...
How can someone who probably fucks his own sister, mother, daughter, milk providing goat accuse of paedophilia to Catholics and homosexuals alike?
I don't agree to what the Catholic Church preaches, but how can you accuse a whole organization of such nasty crimes because of a few rotten apples? If we follow that line of thought then all American policemen are black-haters, immigrant-bashing hoddlums...
The RIIA has lost the battle. Even if they succesfully outlawed mp3, cd-burners and p2p services they will lose simply because their model is wrong.
The labels no longer invest in new artists as they used to... record companies are no longer run by people who know music, but by coorporate moguls that thinks in terms of short term benefits and market share and share prices. So we are sold a product not a piece of art.
The same way McDonalds sales are going down in many First Worl dcountries because many people no longer want to be fed overpriced third class meat and frozen potatoes and prefer instead to go out to dine just once a month to a good rest, music lovers will stopp buying assembly line music, that is all you can get unless you live in a big, specially culturally city, and prefer to go to live acts and buy mail order from the artists themselves, or small independent labels.
I know the preceeding sentence is a little bit too long... anyway I hope everyone gets to know what I mean.
...the USA stopped spending big money on military and founding dictatorships in South America and elsewhere and started to devote herself to rightful goals, for example:
* space exploration * providing health care to all her citizens * getting something done about that 20% of American children who live under the poverty line * paying the UNO debt...
then comes Thatcherism and privatisation of key services and make such a mess of the British railway... costs are cut, people are sacked and every now and then an accident happens. British railways used to be an example of good competent service... ask any Briton about it nowadays?
In Spain, this Bush's boots licking administration is planning to do the same. After sinking the health care, educational and justice systems underwater we only need trains to be crashing every now and then so some relatives and chummies of the party in Govt may rip some benefits.
We are coming back to Victorian to times, crappy jobs and health care and good education only to those who can pay it... if this is the future I want out.
I should've thought of it. I guessed that having grown up in the Canary Islands, a European site a mere 90 miles from Africa, and having seen the effects of non-democratic govt combined with hunger and repression, as it's the case of most African states, so near clouds my reasoning a little bit.
I used to think that access to info, such as the internet, would soon translate into more aware people that would afterwards bring some sort of change in their societies. The experiences in China and most radical moslims countries teach otherwise... or perhaps we have not had time yet to perceive the changes that are taking place among the most enlightened and thriving minorities...
Well, it seems that Indian powers that be have focused on making India a tech savvy country, providing programming education to her inhabitants... that's a good thing... the problem is that when you deal in selling cheap sooner or later some other will sell even cheaper.
What will happen to all these people when some African, East Asian, or emerging former Soviet republic offer the same services with the same quality at a lower cost.
ON the other hand, India should definitely do something to feed most of her population, tear down the caste system (yeah, India may be the most populous democracy in the world, but a very unjust, quite corrupt one), and stop spending so much money on the more than morally unsound purpose of eventually blowing Pakistan to pieces and try to challenge China as the local superpower. This could also be applied to Pakistan and other countries in the area.
Many will call me a troll, but the truth is that is sad to see such a wonderful people suffer so much under the hands of such corrupt, incompetent leadership.
As many Non-gov agencies will tell you in order to help someone you have to feed him and provide him with clothing and shelter first. Then you can start thinking about an education.
It saddens me that nothing will be done until some poor fella pays very dear when someone finds the motivation to sue, gets a good lawyer and wins big.
It seems that in most things related to security, and not only virtual security, people don't start taking measures until something bad happens and they are made to pay for it...
What do we expect anyway, common sense is the less common of senses..
It's simply a matter of certain segments in society not liking the way the world is today.
The PMRC it's still alive and kicking it seems.
I wonder how long these born-agains will be given the right to censure and to decide instead of parents and educators. There's no place for them in a Republic where each individual is given the holy right to believe whatever he chooses. How it is these retarded "censors" are allowed to even try to impose their beliefs on the rest of society?
...if I can get a linux distro that recognizes the bloody luscent driver that came with my a20m thinkpad.
Now centering ourselves on the topic. I love Linux, but it's still mainly for the computer geek or the Soho user that has time enough to experiment and discover things for him/herself.
Distros has to center themselves. The fact is that many of them offer too many options and most people are a little bewildered: "Geez I liked it better when it was only Windows, Office and IE."
On the other hand, the way LINUX has implemented new solutions over the years (USB, Firewire, all sort of mass storing devices, and so on..) it's simply amazing.
I love the current policy of offering things free for download or very cheap in a package and charging for the know how. When more and more people say to his boss Geez, I like Linux plus OpenOffice better, and the boss adds some figures in his head we'll start seeing things change
What does it matter in a democracy where near a 60% of the population with a right to vote simply does not bother to vote?
And the problem here is that most of the apathic percentage is the one that most could mean a change, the better educated, the most liberal...
No wonder that no Republican Gov ever bothers with campaigns in favor of participation among youth!!! Thus we see a great country going down the drain led by lobbies, armament interests and the most conservative branches of the different Christian sects...
probes sent to mars should've been run by linux. Instead of worrying us to no end, now we would be discussing the data obtained and ways of improving the performance of futere missions.
Not only that, I'm sure that the code for those probes beeing opensource would've meant people contributing and finding solutions and apps no one would've thought of...
Wouldn't it be lovely that the routines of a mission to space would've been a truly world project, with programmers from all over the world taking part in it?
How it is YOU call me an idiot? What have I done to deserve such treatment? If you don't like my reflections on the subject either ignore them or refute them in a proper way. I don't remember insulting anyone in SLASHDOT.COM
that such a concept as LINUX and free-software in all its spectrum of variants is becoming the choice of many dictatorial regimes that have no access to the microsoft and apple cadre of products....
is LINUX gonna be a troyan horse that brings freedom through software or a tool that will make tech savvy to many non-democratic states...
Spanish fishing boats made their captures well off area assigned to each country in continental waters, but in order to shut down some corruption charges against the Canadian gov. you started a war against Spanish and Portuguese fisher boats in the middle of the Atlantic...
You even sent a warship...(hmm those European nets and fishing rods are sooooo dangerous looking) You even took some war prisoners and actually lock'em up in your military jails...
Canada is simply a case of good PR engieneering... nobody loves you, simply don't care to even hate you for long... as it is the case in Spain, Portugal and France...
...but how many games have been released for apple?
Don't get me wrong. I do believe that most items released by apple are STATE OF THE ART. If I had the money I would buy one of these without thinking about it twice...
But, it's a pitty that many good games that would peform nicely on these computers won't ever see a mac version...
OTH, people that buy machines like this don't have video games in mind....
and make as many jokes as your feeble minds are capable of inventing...
the thing remains that a good as expensive as a console should be something of a well thought over purchase.. or has the Micro$oft spirit taken such a hold in some slahdotters that they will throw their current goods and buy new "upgraded" items without considering that the stuff they alredy posses does the job nicely?
PS2 is sth like 4 years old. It was a good, sensible decision to buy it. It will probably remain current (that is, it will be able to cope with new releases) for at least 2 other years, until PS3 is released. PSX will be a worhtless expenditure of almost a grand in less that the two years aforementioned...
What's the point in buying this when in a couple of years at the most, PS3 will hit the stands. Sure the addons give it an egde over the competence for someone who has not a console yet... but for the rest who already own a ps2 and more or less current personal computer with DVD-R it doesn't look so hot.
Besides, the expected price tag is not that attractive either.
so big coorp can mess with justice and get away with it... soon they'll be a justice on their own. It seems that the world as we know it now it is decaying fast.
Hmmm, my 80's cyberpunk novels are no longer sci-fi but a blue of the future.
Slashdot Mirror
A fool and his money are never together for long... or sth. like that...
in most jobs people are somehow controlled. I guess the company has some right to it, after all, if paying you some money for that time you spend working for them...
but this systems seem so invasive to me...
how is it that EVERY post has scored 5...
has the whole community IQ level raised to such astoundishing levels overnight?
or is it that for ONCE everyone agree on the subject?
wow, so many in the slashdot community are but a bunch of redneck hill billies bible belt catholic haters... How can someone who probably fucks his own sister, mother, daughter, milk providing goat accuse of paedophilia to Catholics and homosexuals alike? I don't agree to what the Catholic Church preaches, but how can you accuse a whole organization of such nasty crimes because of a few rotten apples? If we follow that line of thought then all American policemen are black-haters, immigrant-bashing hoddlums...
The RIIA has lost the battle. Even if they succesfully outlawed mp3, cd-burners and p2p services they will lose simply because their model is wrong. The labels no longer invest in new artists as they used to... record companies are no longer run by people who know music, but by coorporate moguls that thinks in terms of short term benefits and market share and share prices. So we are sold a product not a piece of art. The same way McDonalds sales are going down in many First Worl dcountries because many people no longer want to be fed overpriced third class meat and frozen potatoes and prefer instead to go out to dine just once a month to a good rest, music lovers will stopp buying assembly line music, that is all you can get unless you live in a big, specially culturally city, and prefer to go to live acts and buy mail order from the artists themselves, or small independent labels. I know the preceeding sentence is a little bit too long... anyway I hope everyone gets to know what I mean.
...the USA stopped spending big money on military and founding dictatorships in South America and elsewhere and started to devote herself to rightful goals, for example:
* space exploration
* providing health care to all her citizens
* getting something done about that 20% of American children who live under the poverty line
* paying the UNO debt...
Pity,
then comes Thatcherism and privatisation of key services and make such a mess of the British railway... costs are cut, people are sacked and every now and then an accident happens. British railways used to be an example of good competent service... ask any Briton about it nowadays?
In Spain, this Bush's boots licking administration is planning to do the same. After sinking the health care, educational and justice systems underwater we only need trains to be crashing every now and then so some relatives and chummies of the party in Govt may rip some benefits.
We are coming back to Victorian to times, crappy jobs and health care and good education only to those who can pay it... if this is the future I want out.
you got a point there... my kudos to you....
yeah
you're right there!!!
I should've thought of it. I guessed that having grown up in the Canary Islands, a European site a mere 90 miles from Africa, and having seen the effects of non-democratic govt combined with hunger and repression, as it's the case of most African states, so near clouds my reasoning a little bit.
I used to think that access to info, such as the internet, would soon translate into more aware people that would afterwards bring some sort of change in their societies. The experiences in China and most radical moslims countries teach otherwise... or perhaps we have not had time yet to perceive the changes that are taking place among the most enlightened and thriving minorities...
Well, it seems that Indian powers that be have focused on making India a tech savvy country, providing programming education to her inhabitants... that's a good thing... the problem is that when you deal in selling cheap sooner or later some other will sell even cheaper.
What will happen to all these people when some African, East Asian, or emerging former Soviet republic offer the same services with the same quality at a lower cost.
ON the other hand, India should definitely do something to feed most of her population, tear down the caste system (yeah, India may be the most populous democracy in the world, but a very unjust, quite corrupt one), and stop spending so much money on the more than morally unsound purpose of eventually blowing Pakistan to pieces and try to challenge China as the local superpower. This could also be applied to Pakistan and other countries in the area.
Many will call me a troll, but the truth is that is sad to see such a wonderful people suffer so much under the hands of such corrupt, incompetent leadership.
As many Non-gov agencies will tell you in order to help someone you have to feed him and provide him with clothing and shelter first. Then you can start thinking about an education.
It saddens me that nothing will be done until some poor fella pays very dear when someone finds the motivation to sue, gets a good lawyer and wins big.
It seems that in most things related to security, and not only virtual security, people don't start taking measures until something bad happens and they are made to pay for it...
What do we expect anyway, common sense is the less common of senses..
and it's video games in the new century....
It's simply a matter of certain segments in society not liking the way the world is today.
The PMRC it's still alive and kicking it seems.
I wonder how long these born-agains will be given the right to censure and to decide instead of parents and educators. There's no place for them in a Republic where each individual is given the holy right to believe whatever he chooses. How it is these retarded "censors" are allowed to even try to impose their beliefs on the rest of society?
...if I can get a linux distro that recognizes the bloody luscent driver that came with my a20m thinkpad.
Now centering ourselves on the topic. I love Linux, but it's still mainly for the computer geek or the Soho user that has time enough to experiment and discover things for him/herself.
Distros has to center themselves. The fact is that many of them offer too many options and most people are a little bewildered: "Geez I liked it better when it was only Windows, Office and IE."
On the other hand, the way LINUX has implemented new solutions over the years (USB, Firewire, all sort of mass storing devices, and so on..) it's simply amazing.
I love the current policy of offering things free for download or very cheap in a package and charging for the know how. When more and more people say to his boss Geez, I like Linux plus OpenOffice better, and the boss adds some figures in his head we'll start seeing things change
What does it matter in a democracy where near a 60% of the population with a right to vote simply does not bother to vote?
And the problem here is that most of the apathic percentage is the one that most could mean a change, the better educated, the most liberal...
No wonder that no Republican Gov ever bothers with campaigns in favor of participation among youth!!! Thus we see a great country going down the drain led by lobbies, armament interests and the most conservative branches of the different Christian sects...
OK, somebody explain this to me....
what's the fun in the blue screen of death showing up in the middle of your playing?
what's the fun of having to reboot your console every 10 hours because the whole thing freezes?
so NASA uses LINUX after all...
who's the retarded child then?
well I guess you didn't mean it as an insult
what we all agreed before...
probes sent to mars should've been run by linux. Instead of worrying us to no end, now we would be discussing the data obtained and ways of improving the performance of futere missions.
Not only that, I'm sure that the code for those probes beeing opensource would've meant people contributing and finding solutions and apps no one would've thought of...
Wouldn't it be lovely that the routines of a mission to space would've been a truly world project, with programmers from all over the world taking part in it?
Well, I'm dreaming, maybe I'm not...
IDIOT?
How it is YOU call me an idiot? What have I done to deserve such treatment? If you don't like my reflections on the subject either ignore them or refute them in a proper way. I don't remember insulting anyone in SLASHDOT.COM
that such a concept as LINUX and free-software in all its spectrum of variants is becoming the choice of many dictatorial regimes that have no access to the microsoft and apple cadre of products....
is LINUX gonna be a troyan horse that brings freedom through software or a tool that will make tech savvy to many non-democratic states...
actually,
Spaniards hate Canadians.
Spanish fishing boats made their captures well off area assigned to each country in continental waters, but in order to shut down some corruption charges against the Canadian gov. you started a war against Spanish and Portuguese fisher boats in the middle of the Atlantic...
You even sent a warship...(hmm those European nets and fishing rods are sooooo dangerous looking) You even took some war prisoners and actually lock'em up in your military jails...
Canada is simply a case of good PR engieneering... nobody loves you, simply don't care to even hate you for long... as it is the case in Spain, Portugal and France...
for liking stuff like x-japan and pizzicatto five...
How is it this world is looking more and more a dumbass imitation of a Gibson's novel?
...but how many games have been released for apple?
Don't get me wrong. I do believe that most items released by apple are STATE OF THE ART. If I had the money I would buy one of these without thinking about it twice...
But, it's a pitty that many good games that would peform nicely on these computers won't ever see a mac version...
OTH, people that buy machines like this don't have video games in mind....
and make as many jokes as your feeble minds are capable of inventing...
the thing remains that a good as expensive as a console should be something of a well thought over purchase.. or has the Micro$oft spirit taken such a hold in some slahdotters that they will throw their current goods and buy new "upgraded" items without considering that the stuff they alredy posses does the job nicely?
PS2 is sth like 4 years old. It was a good, sensible decision to buy it. It will probably remain current (that is, it will be able to cope with new releases) for at least 2 other years, until PS3 is released. PSX will be a worhtless expenditure of almost a grand in less that the two years aforementioned...
I can't see the joke anywhere.
.
What's the point in buying this when in a couple of years at the most, PS3 will hit the stands. Sure the addons give it an egde over the competence for someone who has not a console yet... but for the rest who already own a ps2 and more or less current personal computer with DVD-R it doesn't look so hot. Besides, the expected price tag is not that attractive either.
so big coorp can mess with justice and get away with it... soon they'll be a justice on their own. It seems that the world as we know it now it is decaying fast. Hmmm, my 80's cyberpunk novels are no longer sci-fi but a blue of the future.