The problem, and ultimately the reason most people are up in arms, is that this new "solution" (to a largely non-existent problem for most sysadmins) takes away something fundamental and core to Linux (and UNIX in general): freedom. As in the ability to freely choose what software to use and how to use it on your own systems.
In this particular case, a unilateral decision was made by the major distros at the cost of that freedom. That kind of decision making was not something people, who have lived and breathed the free (as in liberty) software movement most of their careers, ever expected to see in their own community - in Microsoft/Apple's manicured gardens sure, but not here. It's easy for most people to forget that the Linux community came to be largely what it is/because/ of the freedom to choose - not in spite of it.
Apparently Apple knew that I was/planning/ to get the current season of Breaking Bad (I hadn't yet purchased the season pass) and so gave me a credit for the season anyway. Did anyone else get a preemptive credit ?
Who actually cares about the "good" ratings?
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Gaming the App Store
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Personally, I find the 0 - 3 star ratings more telling about an app than the 4 or 5 star (fanboy) ratings. In general, when I want to find out about a product, I like to read the negative to moderate reviews because they seem to be more honest about potential problems. What do you guys think/do?
heh - Read a bit deeper next time as I actually did attack the content;-)
Moral: If the person can't be trusted to give unbiased information, than the information can't be trusted to be unbiased;-)
Cheers!,:-)
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Games in general seem to be a really good way to help kids with learning differences - and it's something that educators and others 'in the know' are coming to find in more recent years. A really good site (more geared to children between the ages of like 7 and 13) that has already done a lot to help kids with LD is www.sparktop.org. It's "sister" site (www.schwablearning.org) is also a really great resource for educators, and parents alike.
Just curious but, how is that any different than comcast giving the riaa the 'wrong name' in the case of Mr. Brenot? I think the point here was that it *is* in fact possible for this to happen. Sure, maybe Comcast and MIT should do a little more research beforehand - but then, maybe the riaa should rethink the way it does business as well;-)
"Among the RIAA's recent targets is retiree Ernest Brenot, 79, of Ridgefield, Wash., who wrote in a handwritten note to a federal judge that he does not own a computer nor can he operate one."
"MIT answered a subpoena from the record industry last night, naming Claudiu A. Prisnel '06 in response to the industry association's request for the name of a network user who, on June 27 from a computer at Theta Delta Chi, allegedly offered hundreds of music recordings over the KaZaA file-trading system, according to Prisnel and James D. Bruce, the vice president for information systems."
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"Between the dates of May 25, 2003 and August 25, 2003 I have been travelling in Europe," he wrote to MIT attorney Mark DiVincenzo in an Aug. 30 letter to protest the release of his name, according to a copy of the letter he provided The Tech. "In particular, on June 27, at the time of the alleged infringement, I was in Romania."
As far as whether or not they won or lost, I'll leave that bit of research for you:-)
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center in 1963. The patent on it was granted to the Stanford Research Institute in 1970 and (unfortunately from Mr. Engelbart) expired in 1987, just prior to the PC revolution.
Cheers.
I appologize - it was rather bad form of me to use OS when I meant OSS. I guess I just felt the context left it rather obvious that I was usign OS == Open Source. Obviously I was wrong or you wouldn't have been so far off-base from what I was talking about. Next time I'll preface OS with something like Open Source (OS) or just use OSS to make it more clear. Maybe then, you'll have a clearer idea of what I'm talking about so you can particpate in the conversation. Who knows, maybe you'll feel less inclined to use the 'Anonymous Coward' feature next time too:-)
Actually, considering that my argument was that -most- UI's for OS apps are created by developers and look exactly like they were, I believe you actually failed to blow it to pieces. Yes, -some- OS apps actually benefit from having a really good UI team (especially when they actually have a business model that provides funding for such things) but, the vast majority of OS apps out there read like engineering docs. For the laymen out there that won't work and will continue to be a major stumbling block in the widespread acceptance / usage of OS apps. Documentation is part and parcel with this problem. Again, an example of something that is improving but, has been (and will continue to be I'm sure) a stumbling block to widespread usage.
As I mentioned previously, there are definitely strides being made towards improving the UI in OS apps - Gnome, for example, has made some good headway due to their GNOME Usability Project. Other projects are progressing as well. However, for the most part, OSS is still very developer (/engineer) centric.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the author here. Most applications in the OS world are obvious in the sense that they are written by Developers (apps that I work on included). That is probably one of the biggest things missing in the OS world - UI people. People who understand how to ogranize all the options / bells&whisttles / etc into something meaningful and intuitive to the average 'joe' user. While there are definitely great strides towards creating more UI friendly apps, it is still one of the gravest detriments to our community as a whole.
Just wanted to clear something up as it seems you don't really understand it. Copyright != License (of which the GPL is). Another misconception that you seem to have is that GPL != profit. That must mean that RedHat is on it's way out and that, I must have been seeing things when it's stock went up consistently pretty much every year since it's inception. Granted, it might seem harder to you, having never touched GPL, to actually turn a buck or two off of GPL'd software however, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen (on a fairly frequent basis I might add).
Just to ensure that you fully understand, I'll repeat myself (hopefully in simpler terms so that you might understand): GPL is a LICENSE. Copyright is your right under the law to do with your creation as you see fit. GPL is a -distribution- license. It's only connection to Copyright is by virtue of you, the copyright holder, -distributing- your creation using it as the -license- by which others must abide to -protect- your IP. Do you get it now?
Oh, one last thing. Your comment about 'free trade' breaking down if there were no copyright: Do you even know what free trade is? To quote dict.org, "commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations." How would not having copyrights do away with free trade? How does it help it? I'm interested - please explain.
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Postfix is -not- written in perl. Postfix is written in C. Please, in the future, at least -know- what you are talking about before posting.
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The problem, and ultimately the reason most people are up in arms, is that this new "solution" (to a largely non-existent problem for most sysadmins) takes away something fundamental and core to Linux (and UNIX in general): freedom. As in the ability to freely choose what software to use and how to use it on your own systems.
/because/ of the freedom to choose - not in spite of it.
In this particular case, a unilateral decision was made by the major distros at the cost of that freedom. That kind of decision making was not something people, who have lived and breathed the free (as in liberty) software movement most of their careers, ever expected to see in their own community - in Microsoft/Apple's manicured gardens sure, but not here. It's easy for most people to forget that the Linux community came to be largely what it is
funny, I'm remoted into a computer via a remote into another computer (all using teamviewer.. unattended) to respond to you... fuckwit.
Apparently Apple knew that I was /planning/ to get the current season of Breaking Bad (I hadn't yet purchased the season pass) and so gave me a credit for the season anyway. Did anyone else get a preemptive credit ?
Personally, I find the 0 - 3 star ratings more telling about an app than the 4 or 5 star (fanboy) ratings. In general, when I want to find out about a product, I like to read the negative to moderate reviews because they seem to be more honest about potential problems. What do you guys think/do?
heh - Read a bit deeper next time as I actually did attack the content ;-)
Moral: If the person can't be trusted to give unbiased information, than the information can't be trusted to be unbiased ;-)
Cheers!, :-)
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Carl
You judge for yourself: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.p hp?id=1134
Games in general seem to be a really good way to help kids with learning differences - and it's something that educators and others 'in the know' are coming to find in more recent years. A really good site (more geared to children between the ages of like 7 and 13) that has already done a lot to help kids with LD is www.sparktop.org. It's "sister" site (www.schwablearning.org) is also a really great resource for educators, and parents alike.
Cheers,
Just curious but, how is that any different than comcast giving the riaa the 'wrong name' in the case of Mr. Brenot? I think the point here was that it *is* in fact possible for this to happen. Sure, maybe Comcast and MIT should do a little more research beforehand - but then, maybe the riaa should rethink the way it does business as well ;-)
Well, I don't know about *numerous* per se - but, I do know about two offhand:
quoted from: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-03-music -downloading_x.htm
and then there was...
quoted from: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N38/38riaa.38n.html
As far as whether or not they won or lost, I'll leave that bit of research for you :-)
Cheers,
I don't think the recent 'open sourcing' of windows 2000 / et al, was their idea - not that it's one I'm opposed to mind you ;-)
The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center in 1963. The patent on it was granted to the Stanford Research Institute in 1970 and (unfortunately from Mr. Engelbart) expired in 1987, just prior to the PC revolution. Cheers.
I appologize - it was rather bad form of me to use OS when I meant OSS. I guess I just felt the context left it rather obvious that I was usign OS == Open Source. Obviously I was wrong or you wouldn't have been so far off-base from what I was talking about. Next time I'll preface OS with something like Open Source (OS) or just use OSS to make it more clear. Maybe then, you'll have a clearer idea of what I'm talking about so you can particpate in the conversation. Who knows, maybe you'll feel less inclined to use the 'Anonymous Coward' feature next time too :-)
cheers,
Actually, considering that my argument was that -most- UI's for OS apps are created by developers and look exactly like they were, I believe you actually failed to blow it to pieces. Yes, -some- OS apps actually benefit from having a really good UI team (especially when they actually have a business model that provides funding for such things) but, the vast majority of OS apps out there read like engineering docs. For the laymen out there that won't work and will continue to be a major stumbling block in the widespread acceptance / usage of OS apps. Documentation is part and parcel with this problem. Again, an example of something that is improving but, has been (and will continue to be I'm sure) a stumbling block to widespread usage.
As I mentioned previously, there are definitely strides being made towards improving the UI in OS apps - Gnome, for example, has made some good headway due to their GNOME Usability Project. Other projects are progressing as well. However, for the most part, OSS is still very developer (/engineer) centric.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the author here. Most applications in the OS world are obvious in the sense that they are written by Developers (apps that I work on included). That is probably one of the biggest things missing in the OS world - UI people. People who understand how to ogranize all the options / bells&whisttles / etc into something meaningful and intuitive to the average 'joe' user. While there are definitely great strides towards creating more UI friendly apps, it is still one of the gravest detriments to our community as a whole.
Just wanted to clear something up as it seems you don't really understand it. Copyright != License (of which the GPL is). Another misconception that you seem to have is that GPL != profit. That must mean that RedHat is on it's way out and that, I must have been seeing things when it's stock went up consistently pretty much every year since it's inception. Granted, it might seem harder to you, having never touched GPL, to actually turn a buck or two off of GPL'd software however, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen (on a fairly frequent basis I might add).
Just to ensure that you fully understand, I'll repeat myself (hopefully in simpler terms so that you might understand): GPL is a LICENSE. Copyright is your right under the law to do with your creation as you see fit. GPL is a -distribution- license. It's only connection to Copyright is by virtue of you, the copyright holder, -distributing- your creation using it as the -license- by which others must abide to -protect- your IP. Do you get it now?
Oh, one last thing. Your comment about 'free trade' breaking down if there were no copyright: Do you even know what free trade is? To quote dict.org, "commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations." How would not having copyrights do away with free trade? How does it help it? I'm interested - please explain.
Postfix is -not- written in perl. Postfix is written in C. Please, in the future, at least -know- what you are talking about before posting.