This AC is right, your choice in music says nothing about your intellect (or morals, or political affiliations, or favorite text editor...) is just your taste in music.
I don't delude myself, many of the songs I listen to have stupid lyrics but I like the melody and that's what matters to me.
I usually can't pay attention to lyrics while coding (or reading, browsing, writting emails...) anyway.
Mhmm I have the sudden need to link http://www.ocremix.org/
Ok, so If I invite 100,000 of my friends to sit in front of a restaurant, am I a felon? No, its called non violent protesting.
Of course, the restaurant could argue that not being able to attend customers is a "damange", but if my friends don't start braking windows you can't jail me for instilling violent actions.
Now there is another half of this story we aren't being told, and that is, why are students so willing to DDOS the school's site? This is the behavior of an unhappy alumnae.
Now the funny thing is that physicaly invading the school's servers room is punished less harshly than doing so virtually. Welcome to the land of free shutting down public speech.
The next step is getting the students to protest in front of the jail. Oops now I am a felon too...
I can explain that, see, Joe 6P and G.S. aren't -normal- people. I mean, they are, but they are no more normal than us, yes, we are normal people too, but these are normal people who love to be stupid/ignorant. We could start calling them "Intentional Idiots" but we like being subtle don't we?
Why do you think it is closed minded? Competitors allways think their rivals have no place. Microsoft thinks Apple has no place, Adobe thinks Corel is unnecesary, Oracle would never recomend MySQL and so on...
In the same way, every OSS project aims to best competitors into oblivion, oh but suddenly, because you are not a corporation, this is wrong...
Camille Paglia, in her book Sexual Personae, maintains that at the core, women represent nature, and man strives to control nature, thus he strives to control woman. "The primary image [of women in media] is the femme fatal, the woman fatal to man," she explains. "Woman's beauty is a compromise with her dangerous archetypal nature. It gives the eye the comforting illusion of the intellectual control over nature" (13-17). With this assertion, it is apparent that men's domination of female body image is intertwined with his need to control the feminine.
Camille Paglia is either missinformed, ignorant or simply trying to get easy money without doing any research. For a simple example, look at japan.
The primary image of women? The cute sweet teenager. They don't represent the dangerous nature, but warm and confort. In japan women are compared to 'saya' or scabbards, that protects swords by preventing them from decaying. It's the common opinion that a man can't live long without a woman because he simply can't care for himself like a woman can.
Are these women sexualized in japan? Hell yeah! Because guys want to dream about perfect women, perfect both in body as in mind.
Yes, there are BDSM fetiches in japan, what I mean is that sexualization doesn't have to involve any power fantasies, its all in her mind.
Feminists are so narrow minded...
Of course not, all they do is clean your house and your office, build your cars and your computers (OK at least some parts). Pretty much every artifact you have ever touched would not have come into being if not for an slave worker. I respect them for that.
Only on slashdot working hard and being exploited is considered doing nothing.
Damn workers, stop slowing the growth of the economy already!
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Excuseme but being a factory worker IS BEING PRODUCTIVE.
Factory workers are not well paid because they aren't productive. It's because they can be easily replaced. This is true even if you have a high degree, as long as you can be easily replaced you are going to get the bad wages.
So the trick is NOT to make yourself useful, you have to make yourself indispensable.
Bullshit, any communist plan provide a way to force slackers into work, either by use of force, reduction of provisions and/or reduction of respect by peers.
Communism is against hoarding of wealth. No matter what you say, being born in a rich family is not "equal oportunity" compared with someone born from a poor family.
So if you are really greedy, I mean... productive, and you work your ass minning all day to get enough gold that's fine, but you can't inherit it as it would produce unequality (you have to see this from the POV of the decendants: "My father wanted to spend more time with the family so automaticaly I'm worth less?").
Another idea is that you either can not sell certain classes of things or can't sell stuff at all.
You will probably think this is horribly wrong but U.S. law already prohibits you from selling your children, body parts and civil rights. Why? several reasons, partially because, as soon as you can sell something someone will device a way to make you sell it. The less comodity value you have, the less incentive there is to extort, terrorize, blackmail or decive you.
And simply because there are some things that should not be sold, but thats a personal opinion.
Another thing you seem to forget is how we measure value. Let's say you are very productive so you can generate the double amout of wealth than two persons, futher more there are two unemployed persons that perform half as well as you. Who should we employ, you or the other two guys? If the guys get the job the wealth will be split between them. If you get the job the full pay will be given to you.
From the capitalist POV it doesn't matter. Same investment, same return. But if you value human life the two guys will get the job.
What if you are so productive that you can produce as much as 4 people? 12, 50, 500, 1,000 people? Every time, as long as you can be replaced by a larger amount of people they will be preffered.
Indeed you would end up unemployed, you would need people to share the workload to you! And of course that means you will only get a share of the wealth as well, less workload less pay.
By the way unemployment also happens in capitalism. Remember that i said that capitalism wouldn't care whether employing you or the other two guys? Well in practice employing the two guys makes more sense, ever heard of a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Employes (RAIE)?
If you want to get the job you would have to ask for less money, you will be underselling you, so you will be reciving LESS than what you say you are worth. Yay for capitalism.
Also, saying that communism fails in practice implies that it has been tested in practice, but there has still not been any coutry that has implemented the second often omitted part of communism, distribution of political power...
I was given an old computer, a virus driven Win98 box, an OS reinstal was due.
Windows Installation:
Insert Windows XP installation Disk Some questions about partitions , takes some loads of time. Makes more questions about locale, keyboard layout, and local time.
Installation is ready but XP didn't detect my sound device, doesn't come preloaded with video codecs or decent movie and music players for that matter. Nor an office suit, not even a decent image viewer, or chat clients for something other than MSN.
Worst thing, it did not recognoize the internal winmodem.
Most of this was solved by a couple of CDs full of essetial windows software that I have collected over the years. Twenty-something installers later XP was ready except for sound and modem support.
This was easy but is cheating when you realize I have over 10 years of windows experience. This isn't something a noob could do.
Sound was a lucky shot. I was completelly in the dark, but i had a realtek driver installer around and decided to give it a shot. Lucky me. Modem was another issue, i had to open the box and scratch a label to see I was dealing with an Intel winmodem. It seems Intel only makes 2 winmodems 536ep and 537ep, i went to the intel site and downloaded both of them, tried and some how managed to install them, expect they still don't work. I googled for hours, XP still doesn't connect to Internet.
Ubuntu Installation:
Ubuntu gives you normal and expert options for installation. Since I couldn't just delete the fresh windows install I had to go for the 'expert' making this a -harder-than-averange- Ubuntu intallation.
'expert' installation was self documenting, everything went fine except that I forgot my root password. I wish i could just run a partial installation like with Slackware, instead I had to reinstall everything again.
It definitively made some questions that could be better asked later (network configuration, screen resolution, local time, keyboard layout) but it was smooth, it took a lot more time than XP but I just went for a pizza.
Hours later I had a complete desktop with every thing I could ask except modem support, java, mp3 or DVD, quick time, mpg or any other video for that matter. I think it also lacked flash but i haven't tried. It did had a PDF reader and sound WAS THERE!
The first thing i did was to google for mp3 support. Immediatly I found "sudo apt-get gstreamer-mad0.8" but I knew Modem had to be fixed first. Googling for "winmodems for linux" took me to linmodems, there to scanmodem. Usage of scanmodem was rather technical but strictly following the -very-visible-but-ofuscated- manual that took me to IntelFiveThirtySixEP in the Ubuntu wiki. Following the instruction there was easy but I must confess scary if not because I had compiled *a couple* (that means 2) apps before.
Voila! Internet is ready but I sadly found out that the repos for the most controversial packages are not included by default. So i have been repo-hunting for the last week. I got mp3 support fairly easy but I haven't got video support yet.
I'd said Linux and Windows are equally hard to install.
Linux requires you to know what packages you need to install and what repostories you need to setup, you also need know how to set up repostories in the first place. Modem support is incomplete although you can't really expect the OS to autodetect obscure hardware. But i think this is a issue of not distributing propietary drivers with the installer disk.
Windows requires you to know what apps you are going to use and while installing a single app is easier in windows installing a lot of them is easier in Synaptic. And I had to rely in a collection of software that took me years to collect. Without this CDs it would be much more painfull.
Both installations are incomplete. In Ubuntu i need to find better repos and download some more. In XP i have ran out of ideas to enable the modem.
But Ubuntu is free as in "free of iTunes upgrades that intentionally brake my extensions". That by the way is for the "You should have got a Mac!" guys.
Lawrence Lessing once said that we live in a bumper sticker society. Well I've got a sticker for you "Why free Shakespeare?"
Why is Shakespeare free for anyone who wants to copy, modify or perform it on stage?
Du'h, Because its copyright has expired!
That's begging the question, why should its copyright expire anyway?
Because it is old.
So what? It still sells! No matter how old it is, the characters don't grow old and the places don't get reduced to ruins.
But it has become part of our cultural heritage!!
Really? Nowaday more children recognize Darth Vader than Hamlet, more people nowaday have seen the complete Star Wars saga than the complete work of Shakespeare, by that standards it should be free now, just like Shakespeare.
But Star Wars belongs to George Lucas. There is no one to receive payment for the works of Shakespeare.
Not true. The London publishers are still around. Shakespeare sold them the copyrights so it morally belongs to them. They have every right to claim their money back.
But Lucas needs the money to produce new pictures!
And the London Publishers need their money to further publishing more wonderful books. Anyway, its their money, they want it back.
They don't need money! Shakespeare is old stuff!
Are you are implying that every popular work that is old; that means -not new- should belong to the public domain? That includes every pop song not to mention virtually every copyrighted work.
No, these are new, ask anyone!
The works of Shakespeare are new for many people today, and will be new for every generation to come.
But we need the work of Shakespeare to build upon it, to make new versions and interpretations.
Then why is it legal to collect and distribute the unadulterated original works? Or performing them in theaters? And why do you need them anyway?
Because many independent young actors, not to mention million dollars selling blockbuster productions depend on Shakespeare being free!
At the expense of Shakespeare? Pirates! If you need a cultural heritage you have The Bible, I heard it is still free, Shakespeare isn't, it is copyrighted stuff.
But copyright should not be forever!
What about forever minus a day? Just kidding, copyright is forever. Shakespeare is the original author, it belongs to him. He sold the copyrights to the London Publishers, the rights belong to them, forever. Or are you saying that Shakespeare somehow cased to be the original author?
No, all I'm saying is that the works of Shakespeare belong to the world.
You have failed to provide any good reason for your case.
But our fathers made it free for us. They wanted free Shakespeare!
So all I need to do is wanting free movies for them to be free? You should have said it before! I will go download one right away, then I'll show it to all my neighbors!
No! that is theft! You must acquire a licensed copy from a licensed provider for licensed uses only. Because it is copyrighted, that's why.
Could you give me a good reason for it to be copyrighted?
I can give you plenty!
One that doesn't apply to the works of Shakespeare too?
I've got it! Copyrighting Star Wars serves the "public good", not copyrighting Shakespeare serves the "public Good" too! You totally don't get it! It's all about balance!
And by "public good" you mean American Publishing Corporations that pressed strongly for it? I totally get it now! It's all about BS! If any, people should be buying from the London Publis
Paying to play gotcha then having every body arrested for virtually murdering you. The game allows you to be shoot at and be virtualy killed. So you have a right to take them to court for murdering your in-game character doncha?
"Information wants to be free" and "Privacy is gold" are two side of the same coin. Not only are they not contradictory but they both follow from the same idea that "The personal information process is a personal desition"
"information wants to be free" should be read "people should be allowed to broadcast any information they want to broadcast".
While "privacy is gold" is "people should be allowed to conceal any information they want to conceal"
Information wants to be free + Privacy is gold = Talk when you want + shut up when you want = Free speach.
# 9=Home town destroyed. Cliché allright but, since it is just the begining of the game you really can't complain that it spoils the fun, specially since it usually happens during the non-playable intro anyway...
# 8=Unneccesary stealth. Zelda games are known for their varied gameplay and the fact that playing it is like playing a movie. We, Zelda fans in fact DEMAND this kinds of surprises. It is actually you fault for purchasing the wrong game.
# 7=Predictable Boss fights. Are you complaing that the boss fight is predictable or that the boss's weakpoint is predictable?
Having a boss attack you by surprise sounds very exiting but knowing beforehand where and when the boss lies is exiting too.
It's like the feeling you get when you see someone is going to tickle you. They don't even have to touch you, just the thrill is enough. Some people like this feeling in games too.
Now if you are complaining that the boss's weak point is usually highlithed then I agree with you. As of late bosses are getting really easy to beat. Oldschool bosses were better IMHO.
# 6=Out-of-place puzzles. Like with #8, don't play these games. I find puzzles very realxing. Do your self a favor and ask you frineds before buying games.
# 5=Collecting. Is it okay if it is only optional? What's with this obssession with optionality as of late?
Collecting should be optional, stealth should be optional, killing should be optional, bosses should be optional, actually trying should be optional...
If you just want to see the FMVs buy a cheating device there is no shame about liking FMVs...
# 4=Ridiculous portrayals of females. Men like it, get over with it.
# 3=Cliché allright.
# 2=Pushing crates. This is related to #6. You don't like wooden crates? would you preffer generic cubic poligons instead? If this is going to be a puzzle game at least the blocks should look like something more exiting..
So stop surfing/. and go back to... make other people work!
Seriously, telling an unsatisfied worker to 'get real, get over themselves and learn to love your job' is like telling a man who is gang-raped dially 'get real and get into gay s+m for crying out loud!'
Lawrence Lessing once said that we live in a bumper sticker society. Well I've got a sticker for you "Why free Shakespeare?"
Why is Shakespeare free for anyone who wants to copy, modify or perform it on stage?
Du'h, Because its copyright has expired!
That's begging the question, why should its copyright expire anyway?
Because it is old.
So what? It still sells! No matter how old it is, the characters don't grow old and the places don't get reduced to ruins.
But it has become part of our cultural heritage!!
Really? Nowaday more children recognize Darth Vader than Hamlet, more people nowaday have seen the complete Star Wars saga than the complete work of Shakespeare, by that standards it should be free now, just like Shakespeare.
But Star Wars belongs to George Lucas. There is no one to receive payment for the works of Shakespeare.
Not true. The London publishers are still around. Shakespeare sold them the copyrights so it morally belongs to them. They have every right to claim their money back.
But Lucas needs the money to produce new pictures!
And the London Publishers need their money to further publishing more wonderful books. Anyway, its their money, they want it back.
They don't need money! Shakespeare is old stuff!
Are you are implying that every popular work that is old; that means -not new- should belong to the public domain? That includes every pop song not to mention virtually every copyrighted work.
No, these are new, ask anyone!
The works of Shakespeare are new for many people today, and will be new for every generation to come.
But we need the work of Shakespeare to build upon it, to make new versions and interpretations.
Then why is it legal to collect and distribute the unadulterated original works? Or performing them in theaters? And why do you need them anyway?
Because many independent young actors, not to mention million dollars selling blockbuster productions depend on Shakespeare being free!
At the expense of Shakespeare? Pirates! If you need a cultural heritage you have The Bible, I heard it is still free, Shakespeare isn't, it is copyrighted stuff.
But copyright should not be forever!
What about forever minus a day? Just kidding, copyright is forever. Shakespeare is the original author, it belongs to him. He sold the copyrights to the London Publishers, the rights belong to them, forever. Or are you saying that Shakespeare somehow cased to be the original author?
No, all I'm saying is that the works of Shakespeare belong to the world.
You have failed to provide any good reason for your case.
But our fathers made it free for us. They wanted free Shakespeare!
So all I need to do is wanting free movies for them to be free? You should have said it before! I will go download one right away, then I'll show it to all my neighbors!
No! that is theft! You must acquire a licensed copy from a licensed provider for licensed uses only. Because it is copyrighted, that's why.
Could you give me a good reason for it to be copyrighted?
I can give you plenty!
One that doesn't apply to the works of Shakespeare too?
I've got it! Copyrighting Star Wars serves the "public good", not copyrighting Shakespeare serves the "public Good" too! You totally don't get it! It's all about balance!
And by "public good" you mean American Publishing Corporations that pressed strongly for it? I totally get it now! It's all about BS! If any, people should be buying from the London Publishers!
But what about people who can't buy them at all? poor people, people downloading stuff from the Internet, teachers and students, and the benevolent Hollywood producers of "Romeo + Juliette"
Poor people can't get it from the net, and it isn' practical to download it anyway; it's way much comfortable to buy i
Saying that the GPL is unnecessary is like saying GPL code developers are unnecessary, but if they are so inherently unnecessary or inferior why do you care wwhat license they use?
Well because they are necessary! ESR and his corporate backers lust for GPLed code, but obviously they want it to be BSD so they can take it away for free.
ESR wants us to think that OSS developers are license-agnostic and that the GPL is like a wolf that preys on naive developers that inoccently choosed the GPL for the code.
It's a lie. ESR is being deceiving intentionally.
And this is the truth, the one that makes ESR shiver: There is an army of OSS devs that would not write their awesome software if not for the GPL
No GTK, no GNOME, no KDE, no Firefox... you can continue the list.
This reminds me of a Mac dev that trying to appear simpathethic to OSS said: "I think OSS should go the way of shareware that would help it to improve".
This we know is an illogical claim because shareware is by definition not free in other words, no OSS. He was saying that he thought OSS should go away and the question is again: Why do you want it to case to exists? Are you afraid of it or what?
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This AC is right, your choice in music says nothing about your intellect (or morals, or political affiliations, or favorite text editor...) is just your taste in music. I don't delude myself, many of the songs I listen to have stupid lyrics but I like the melody and that's what matters to me. I usually can't pay attention to lyrics while coding (or reading, browsing, writting emails...) anyway. Mhmm I have the sudden need to link http://www.ocremix.org/
Ok, so If I invite 100,000 of my friends to sit in front of a restaurant, am I a felon? No, its called non violent protesting. Of course, the restaurant could argue that not being able to attend customers is a "damange", but if my friends don't start braking windows you can't jail me for instilling violent actions. Now there is another half of this story we aren't being told, and that is, why are students so willing to DDOS the school's site? This is the behavior of an unhappy alumnae. Now the funny thing is that physicaly invading the school's servers room is punished less harshly than doing so virtually. Welcome to the land of free shutting down public speech. The next step is getting the students to protest in front of the jail. Oops now I am a felon too...
I can explain that, see, Joe 6P and G.S. aren't -normal- people. I mean, they are, but they are no more normal than us, yes, we are normal people too, but these are normal people who love to be stupid/ignorant. We could start calling them "Intentional Idiots" but we like being subtle don't we?
So what the hell is an Adobe? Or a Corel?
While in macs all programs have naves like iStuff..
I have a patch: Innocent until proven grassroots. Mmh... open source posting...
Why do you think it is closed minded? Competitors allways think their rivals have no place. Microsoft thinks Apple has no place, Adobe thinks Corel is unnecesary, Oracle would never recomend MySQL and so on... In the same way, every OSS project aims to best competitors into oblivion, oh but suddenly, because you are not a corporation, this is wrong...
What I really want is a Rio Karma that unlike ipods supports OGG Vorbis and FLACC and is 20GB for only 200 bucks.
Some people complain about FM in a MP3 player but actually praise the inclusion of video in the ipod... I say bloat...
And about Grok, doesn't it mean 'to drink'? But colloquially it is supoussed to mean 'to have intuitive knowledge about something'.
ough... creator is sooo doublespeek, did't you mean right holding corporation? Oh I remember, the RIAA said "let's say crator instead"
Don't feed the trolls they say... should have listened to them...
Of course not, all they do is clean your house and your office, build your cars and your computers (OK at least some parts). Pretty much every artifact you have ever touched would not have come into being if not for an slave worker. I respect them for that.
Only on slashdot working hard and being exploited is considered doing nothing. Damn workers, stop slowing the growth of the economy already!
Excuseme but being a factory worker IS BEING PRODUCTIVE. Factory workers are not well paid because they aren't productive. It's because they can be easily replaced. This is true even if you have a high degree, as long as you can be easily replaced you are going to get the bad wages. So the trick is NOT to make yourself useful, you have to make yourself indispensable.
Bullshit, any communist plan provide a way to force slackers into work, either by use of force, reduction of provisions and/or reduction of respect by peers.
Communism is against hoarding of wealth. No matter what you say, being born in a rich family is not "equal oportunity" compared with someone born from a poor family.
So if you are really greedy, I mean... productive, and you work your ass minning all day to get enough gold that's fine, but you can't inherit it as it would produce unequality (you have to see this from the POV of the decendants: "My father wanted to spend more time with the family so automaticaly I'm worth less?").
Another idea is that you either can not sell certain classes of things or can't sell stuff at all.
You will probably think this is horribly wrong but U.S. law already prohibits you from selling your children, body parts and civil rights. Why? several reasons, partially because, as soon as you can sell something someone will device a way to make you sell it. The less comodity value you have, the less incentive there is to extort, terrorize, blackmail or decive you.
And simply because there are some things that should not be sold, but thats a personal opinion.
Another thing you seem to forget is how we measure value. Let's say you are very productive so you can generate the double amout of wealth than two persons, futher more there are two unemployed persons that perform half as well as you. Who should we employ, you or the other two guys? If the guys get the job the wealth will be split between them. If you get the job the full pay will be given to you.
From the capitalist POV it doesn't matter. Same investment, same return. But if you value human life the two guys will get the job.
What if you are so productive that you can produce as much as 4 people? 12, 50, 500, 1,000 people? Every time, as long as you can be replaced by a larger amount of people they will be preffered.
Indeed you would end up unemployed, you would need people to share the workload to you! And of course that means you will only get a share of the wealth as well, less workload less pay.
By the way unemployment also happens in capitalism. Remember that i said that capitalism wouldn't care whether employing you or the other two guys? Well in practice employing the two guys makes more sense, ever heard of a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Employes (RAIE)?
If you want to get the job you would have to ask for less money, you will be underselling you, so you will be reciving LESS than what you say you are worth. Yay for capitalism.
Also, saying that communism fails in practice implies that it has been tested in practice, but there has still not been any coutry that has implemented the second often omitted part of communism, distribution of political power...
Here is an objective retelling of my millage.
I was given an old computer, a virus driven Win98 box, an OS reinstal was due.
Windows Installation:
Insert Windows XP installation Disk
Some questions about partitions , takes some loads of time. Makes more questions about locale, keyboard layout, and local time.
Installation is ready but XP didn't detect my sound device, doesn't come preloaded with video codecs or decent movie and music players for that matter. Nor an office suit, not even a decent image viewer, or chat clients for something other than MSN.
Worst thing, it did not recognoize the internal winmodem.
Most of this was solved by a couple of CDs full of essetial windows software that I have collected over the years. Twenty-something installers later XP was ready except for sound and modem support.
This was easy but is cheating when you realize I have over 10 years of windows experience. This isn't something a noob could do.
Sound was a lucky shot. I was completelly in the dark, but i had a realtek driver installer around and decided to give it a shot. Lucky me. Modem was another issue, i had to open the box and scratch a label to see I was dealing with an Intel winmodem. It seems Intel only makes 2 winmodems 536ep and 537ep, i went to the intel site and downloaded both of them, tried and some how managed to install them, expect they still don't work. I googled for hours, XP still doesn't connect to Internet.
Ubuntu Installation:
Ubuntu gives you normal and expert options for installation. Since I couldn't just delete the fresh windows install I had to go for the 'expert' making this a -harder-than-averange- Ubuntu intallation.
'expert' installation was self documenting, everything went fine except that I forgot my root password. I wish i could just run a partial installation like with Slackware, instead I had to reinstall everything again.
It definitively made some questions that could be better asked later (network configuration, screen resolution, local time, keyboard layout) but it was smooth, it took a lot more time than XP but I just went for a pizza.
Hours later I had a complete desktop with every thing I could ask except modem support, java, mp3 or DVD, quick time, mpg or any other video for that matter. I think it also lacked flash but i haven't tried. It did had a PDF reader and sound WAS THERE!
The first thing i did was to google for mp3 support. Immediatly I found "sudo apt-get gstreamer-mad0.8" but I knew Modem had to be fixed first. Googling for "winmodems for linux" took me to linmodems, there to scanmodem. Usage of scanmodem was rather technical but strictly following the -very-visible-but-ofuscated- manual that took me to IntelFiveThirtySixEP in the Ubuntu wiki. Following the instruction there was easy but I must confess scary if not because I had compiled *a couple* (that means 2) apps before.
Voila! Internet is ready but I sadly found out that the repos for the most controversial packages are not included by default. So i have been repo-hunting for the last week. I got mp3 support fairly easy but I haven't got video support yet.
I'd said Linux and Windows are equally hard to install.
Linux requires you to know what packages you need to install and what repostories you need to setup, you also need know how to set up repostories in the first place. Modem support is incomplete although you can't really expect the OS to autodetect obscure hardware. But i think this is a issue of not distributing propietary drivers with the installer disk.
Windows requires you to know what apps you are going to use and while installing a single app is easier in windows installing a lot of them is easier in Synaptic. And I had to rely in a collection of software that took me years to collect. Without this CDs it would be much more painfull.
Both installations are incomplete. In Ubuntu i need to find better repos and download some more. In XP i have ran out of ideas to enable the modem.
But Ubuntu is free as in "free of iTunes upgrades that intentionally brake my extensions". That by the way is for the "You should have got a Mac!" guys.
Lawrence Lessing once said that we live in a bumper sticker society. Well I've got a sticker for you "Why free Shakespeare?"
Why is Shakespeare free for anyone who wants to copy, modify or perform it on stage?
Du'h, Because its copyright has expired!
That's begging the question, why should its copyright expire anyway?
Because it is old.
So what? It still sells! No matter how old it is, the characters don't grow old and the places don't get reduced to ruins.
But it has become part of our cultural heritage!!
Really? Nowaday more children recognize Darth Vader than Hamlet, more people nowaday have seen the complete Star Wars saga than the complete work of Shakespeare, by that standards it should be free now, just like Shakespeare.
But Star Wars belongs to George Lucas. There is no one to receive payment for the works of Shakespeare.
Not true. The London publishers are still around. Shakespeare sold them the copyrights so it morally belongs to them. They have every right to claim their money back.
But Lucas needs the money to produce new pictures!
And the London Publishers need their money to further publishing more wonderful books. Anyway, its their money, they want it back.
They don't need money! Shakespeare is old stuff!
Are you are implying that every popular work that is old; that means -not new- should belong to the public domain? That includes every pop song not to mention virtually every copyrighted work.
No, these are new, ask anyone!
The works of Shakespeare are new for many people today, and will be new for every generation to come.
But we need the work of Shakespeare to build upon it, to make new versions and interpretations.
Then why is it legal to collect and distribute the unadulterated original works? Or performing them in theaters? And why do you need them anyway?
Because many independent young actors, not to mention million dollars selling blockbuster productions depend on Shakespeare being free!
At the expense of Shakespeare? Pirates! If you need a cultural heritage you have The Bible, I heard it is still free, Shakespeare isn't, it is copyrighted stuff.
But copyright should not be forever!
What about forever minus a day? Just kidding, copyright is forever. Shakespeare is the original author, it belongs to him. He sold the copyrights to the London Publishers, the rights belong to them, forever. Or are you saying that Shakespeare somehow cased to be the original author?
No, all I'm saying is that the works of Shakespeare belong to the world.
You have failed to provide any good reason for your case.
But our fathers made it free for us. They wanted free Shakespeare!
So all I need to do is wanting free movies for them to be free? You should have said it before! I will go download one right away, then I'll show it to all my neighbors!
No! that is theft! You must acquire a licensed copy from a licensed provider for licensed uses only. Because it is copyrighted, that's why.
Could you give me a good reason for it to be copyrighted?
I can give you plenty!
One that doesn't apply to the works of Shakespeare too?
I've got it! Copyrighting Star Wars serves the "public good", not copyrighting Shakespeare serves the "public Good" too! You totally don't get it! It's all about balance!
And by "public good" you mean American Publishing Corporations that pressed strongly for it? I totally get it now! It's all about BS! If any, people should be buying from the London Publis
Wrong analogy. Its more like:
Paying to play gotcha then having every body arrested for virtually murdering you. The game allows you to be shoot at and be virtualy killed. So you have a right to take them to court for murdering your in-game character doncha?
"Information wants to be free" and "Privacy is gold" are two side of the same coin. Not only are they not contradictory but they both follow from the same idea that "The personal information process is a personal desition"
"information wants to be free" should be read "people should be allowed to broadcast any information they want to broadcast".
While "privacy is gold" is "people should be allowed to conceal any information they want to conceal"
Information wants to be free + Privacy is gold = Talk when you want + shut up when you want = Free speach.
#10=Big Heads, I agree they aren't usually funny.
# 9=Home town destroyed. Cliché allright but, since it is just the begining of the game you really can't complain that it spoils the fun, specially since it usually happens during the non-playable intro anyway...
# 8=Unneccesary stealth. Zelda games are known for their varied gameplay and the fact that playing it is like playing a movie. We, Zelda fans in fact DEMAND this kinds of surprises. It is actually you fault for purchasing the wrong game.
# 7=Predictable Boss fights. Are you complaing that the boss fight is predictable or that the boss's weakpoint is predictable?
Having a boss attack you by surprise sounds very exiting but knowing beforehand where and when the boss lies is exiting too.
It's like the feeling you get when you see someone is going to tickle you. They don't even have to touch you, just the thrill is enough. Some people like this feeling in games too.
Now if you are complaining that the boss's weak point is usually highlithed then I agree with you. As of late bosses are getting really easy to beat. Oldschool bosses were better IMHO.
# 6=Out-of-place puzzles. Like with #8, don't play these games. I find puzzles very realxing. Do your self a favor and ask you frineds before buying games.
# 5=Collecting. Is it okay if it is only optional? What's with this obssession with optionality as of late?
Collecting should be optional, stealth should be optional, killing should be optional, bosses should be optional, actually trying should be optional...
If you just want to see the FMVs buy a cheating device there is no shame about liking FMVs...
# 4=Ridiculous portrayals of females. Men like it, get over with it.
# 3=Cliché allright.
# 2=Pushing crates. This is related to #6. You don't like wooden crates? would you preffer generic cubic poligons instead? If this is going to be a puzzle game at least the blocks should look like something more exiting..
# 1=Exploding barrels. Cliché but still fun...
So stop surfing /. and go back to... make other people work!
Seriously, telling an unsatisfied worker to 'get real, get over themselves and learn to love your job' is like telling a man who is gang-raped dially 'get real and get into gay s+m for crying out loud!'
If a worker complains, fix the worker.
Lawrence Lessing once said that we live in a bumper sticker society. Well I've got a sticker for you "Why free Shakespeare?"
Why is Shakespeare free for anyone who wants to copy, modify or perform it on stage?
Du'h, Because its copyright has expired!
That's begging the question, why should its copyright expire anyway?
Because it is old.
So what? It still sells! No matter how old it is, the characters don't grow old and the places don't get reduced to ruins.
But it has become part of our cultural heritage!!
Really? Nowaday more children recognize Darth Vader than Hamlet, more people nowaday have seen the complete Star Wars saga than the complete work of Shakespeare, by that standards it should be free now, just like Shakespeare.
But Star Wars belongs to George Lucas. There is no one to receive payment for the works of Shakespeare.
Not true. The London publishers are still around. Shakespeare sold them the copyrights so it morally belongs to them. They have every right to claim their money back.
But Lucas needs the money to produce new pictures!
And the London Publishers need their money to further publishing more wonderful books. Anyway, its their money, they want it back.
They don't need money! Shakespeare is old stuff!
Are you are implying that every popular work that is old; that means -not new- should belong to the public domain? That includes every pop song not to mention virtually every copyrighted work.
No, these are new, ask anyone!
The works of Shakespeare are new for many people today, and will be new for every generation to come.
But we need the work of Shakespeare to build upon it, to make new versions and interpretations.
Then why is it legal to collect and distribute the unadulterated original works? Or performing them in theaters? And why do you need them anyway?
Because many independent young actors, not to mention million dollars selling blockbuster productions depend on Shakespeare being free!
At the expense of Shakespeare? Pirates! If you need a cultural heritage you have The Bible, I heard it is still free, Shakespeare isn't, it is copyrighted stuff.
But copyright should not be forever!
What about forever minus a day? Just kidding, copyright is forever. Shakespeare is the original author, it belongs to him. He sold the copyrights to the London Publishers, the rights belong to them, forever. Or are you saying that Shakespeare somehow cased to be the original author?
No, all I'm saying is that the works of Shakespeare belong to the world.
You have failed to provide any good reason for your case.
But our fathers made it free for us. They wanted free Shakespeare!
So all I need to do is wanting free movies for them to be free? You should have said it before! I will go download one right away, then I'll show it to all my neighbors!
No! that is theft! You must acquire a licensed copy from a licensed provider for licensed uses only. Because it is copyrighted, that's why.
Could you give me a good reason for it to be copyrighted?
I can give you plenty!
One that doesn't apply to the works of Shakespeare too?
I've got it! Copyrighting Star Wars serves the "public good", not copyrighting Shakespeare serves the "public Good" too! You totally don't get it! It's all about balance!
And by "public good" you mean American Publishing Corporations that pressed strongly for it? I totally get it now! It's all about BS! If any, people should be buying from the London Publishers!
But what about people who can't buy them at all? poor people, people downloading stuff from the Internet, teachers and students, and the benevolent Hollywood producers of "Romeo + Juliette"
Poor people can't get it from the net, and it isn' practical to download it anyway; it's way much comfortable to buy i
Saying that the GPL is unnecessary is like saying GPL code developers are unnecessary, but if they are so inherently unnecessary or inferior why do you care wwhat license they use?
Well because they are necessary! ESR and his corporate backers lust for GPLed code, but obviously they want it to be BSD so they can take it away for free.
ESR wants us to think that OSS developers are license-agnostic and that the GPL is like a wolf that preys on naive developers that inoccently choosed the GPL for the code.
It's a lie. ESR is being deceiving intentionally.
And this is the truth, the one that makes ESR shiver: There is an army of OSS devs that would not write their awesome software if not for the GPL
No GTK, no GNOME, no KDE, no Firefox... you can continue the list.
This reminds me of a Mac dev that trying to appear simpathethic to OSS said: "I think OSS should go the way of shareware that would help it to improve".
This we know is an illogical claim because shareware is by definition not free in other words, no OSS. He was saying that he thought OSS should go away and the question is again: Why do you want it to case to exists? Are you afraid of it or what?
I'm sorry, but for sake of completeness --
Narrator: In Soviet Amerika, war was beginning.
Slashdot: What happen?
Zonk: Somebody set up us the draft.
Zonk: We get signal.
Slashdot: What !
Zonk: Main screen turn on.
Slashdot: It's you !!
Pentagon: How are you gentlemen !!
Pentagon: All your child are belong to us.
Pentagon: You are on the way to lose all privacy rights.
Slashdot: What you say !
Pentagon: You have no chance to opt-out, make your time.
Pentagon: Ha Ha Ha.
Zonk: Captain !!*
Slashdot: Take off every 'Tor'!!
Slashdot: You know what you doing.
Slashdot: Move 'Tor'.
Slashdot: For great justice.