...that you would have preferred that 420,000,000 Iraqis were killed, to bring the cost per kill down to a commensurate $350 level? I guess you'd really be complaining if only one Iraqi died in the whole war. After all, we'd have spent $147 Billion to kill that one Iraqi, right?
I did not say that there do not exist licenses which are both "Open Source" and "Free". There are, and you listed examples. I'm simply contesting the assertion that the two terms are equivalent, and I base this on the fact that there exist some licenses which are "Open Source" but not "Free" (and possibly vice versa?). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
[...] free software is software you can use/sell/modify/kludge/hack/whatever without obligation.
No. What you've just described is called "public domain software". "Free Software" is copyrighted software which you can use in certain ways under the condition of certain obligations as specified by the Free Software Foundation. Certain core differences in the usages and obligations exist between "Open Source" software and "Free Software", so I don't understand the claim that the distinction is non-technical. The way I see it, it *is* technical.
If they all colluded and salary capped the stars to say 50,000$ per movie
... then some enterprising individual would corner the market on A-list actors by paying them 10x that amount and still make a bundle in profits..
we wouldn't have "multi-million dollar movies" where most of the money goes to the actors and not the actual crew behind the scenes WHO ACTUALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Uh huh....
Geek #1: Hey dude, gonna go see Matrix Four this weekend?
Geek #2: Dunno. Maybe. Who's dolly-gripping this time?
The ONLY time the system has EVER shot down a missle has been when the target missles have been set to travel and a greatly reduced speed AND have been made to emit a homing signal for the defensive missle to follow in.
Do you really think any 'rogue states' are going to slow their missles down and put nice friendly homing beacons on them? dumbass.
Dumb-ass (n): Someone who doesn't understand the concept of "unit testing", but is willing to criticize it publicly.
It's also important to you too- because without a consistent right to life, there's nothing to prevent somebody from aborting YOU now.
Don't tell *us* (i.e., me and the grandparent poster) what's important to *us*. We believe in the right to life among persons, but don't believe that a mere fertilized egg is a person, any more than we believe all the skin cells we scratch off our arms whenever we scratch an itch constitute living human persons, despite the fact that they are all living human *tissue*.
And there *is* something preventing people from aborting *us*. We've been born. Abortion is the termination of a *fetus*, prior to the point at which it becomes a person. We are already people. If someone kills us, it's murder, not abortion.
Because I believe EVERYBODY should be pro-life- you signed up for it by being born into a social species.
And I believe that EVERYBODY should be pro-choice - you signed up for it by being born into a social species that respects individual freedom.
I want a TiVo/Replay-type device that has no subscription service associated with it. I want to program it the way I program my VCR. No fancy schmancy "Record all occurrences of Seinfeld, and phone home to find out when they occur". Just a simple "Record Wednesdays on Channel 4 at 9:00PM for 1 hour", like a normal VHS VCR. I want recording quality, storage capacity, the ability to pause live TV, and the ability to watch something I recorded earlier while the system is recording something else. And I don't want to build a dedicated PC to do the job. If I can get that, I may even forego the ability to pop out the tape I recorded in the living room VCR and bring it up to the bedroom VCR to watch the rest of the show in bed. Maybe. I'll think about it. Can I get that anywhere? If not, I'm sticking with my VCR.
No, see, the problem with this suggestion is that it fails to take into account differences in fuel economy. The gas tax unfairly favors those who drive energy-efficient cars, and unfairly burdens the folks who exercise their god-given right to drive Hummers and SUVs. We need a mileage tax that levels the playing field.
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...that you would have preferred that 420,000,000 Iraqis were killed, to bring the cost per kill down to a commensurate $350 level? I guess you'd really be complaining if only one Iraqi died in the whole war. After all, we'd have spent $147 Billion to kill that one Iraqi, right?
one would be no better than.... I don't know.... SCO.
Someone was just compared to SCO. Next thread!
I did not say that there do not exist licenses which are both "Open Source" and "Free". There are, and you listed examples. I'm simply contesting the assertion that the two terms are equivalent, and I base this on the fact that there exist some licenses which are "Open Source" but not "Free" (and possibly vice versa?). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Crap. I intended to ditch my karma bonus in the parent post, but I accidentally ditched my user-id instead.
"Liberated Software"
Is this what we call software after we bomb the living crap out of it?
[...] free software is software you can use/sell/modify/kludge/hack/whatever without obligation.
No. What you've just described is called "public domain software". "Free Software" is copyrighted software which you can use in certain ways under the condition of certain obligations as specified by the Free Software Foundation. Certain core differences in the usages and obligations exist between "Open Source" software and "Free Software", so I don't understand the claim that the distinction is non-technical. The way I see it, it *is* technical.
If they all colluded and salary capped the stars to say 50,000$ per movie
... then some enterprising individual would corner the market on A-list actors by paying them 10x that amount and still make a bundle in profits..
we wouldn't have "multi-million dollar movies" where most of the money goes to the actors and not the actual crew behind the scenes WHO ACTUALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Uh huh....
Geek #1: Hey dude, gonna go see Matrix Four this weekend?
Geek #2: Dunno. Maybe. Who's dolly-gripping this time?
Whoever modded the parent "Troll" is going to be "torn a new one" at meta-mod time.
The sig has since changed. Originally, it pointed to something scatological.
Sadly, all it would take is one lawsuit (ore even the threat thereof) to shut her down.
-- Just like it happened to this poor sap [tinyurl.com].
Beware the sig in the parent post. The link is not work-safe, and the context makes it look like it's relevant to the discussion:
I know how you feel. I wore out the Rewind button on my VCR watching the last 10 minutes of "Trading Places".
Dumb-ass (n): Someone who doesn't understand the concept of "unit testing", but is willing to criticize it publicly.
The computer is a Pentium III Celeron running at 733MHz.
I'd be less concerned about what type and speed the CPU is, and more concerned about a hard drive seizing up.
I think this is a quantum level above the Photoshop filters
So, you mean, this is the tiniest possible improvement over Photoshop filters?
what she's gotten herself into.
because (N mod 10) always equals (N^13 mod 10)
I know I'm going to kick myself for asking this, but why is this necessarily true?
And thus spake Deep Thought:
"By how many votes will Dino Rossi win the 2004 Washington State gubernatorial election recount?"
It's also important to you too- because without a consistent right to life, there's nothing to prevent somebody from aborting YOU now.
Don't tell *us* (i.e., me and the grandparent poster) what's important to *us*. We believe in the right to life among persons, but don't believe that a mere fertilized egg is a person, any more than we believe all the skin cells we scratch off our arms whenever we scratch an itch constitute living human persons, despite the fact that they are all living human *tissue*.
And there *is* something preventing people from aborting *us*. We've been born. Abortion is the termination of a *fetus*, prior to the point at which it becomes a person. We are already people. If someone kills us, it's murder, not abortion.
Because I believe EVERYBODY should be pro-life- you signed up for it by being born into a social species.
And I believe that EVERYBODY should be pro-choice - you signed up for it by being born into a social species that respects individual freedom.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I'll look into those. (Except MythTV, which is exactly what I'm *not* looking for, but thanks anyway.)
I want a TiVo/Replay-type device that has no subscription service associated with it. I want to program it the way I program my VCR. No fancy schmancy "Record all occurrences of Seinfeld, and phone home to find out when they occur". Just a simple "Record Wednesdays on Channel 4 at 9:00PM for 1 hour", like a normal VHS VCR. I want recording quality, storage capacity, the ability to pause live TV, and the ability to watch something I recorded earlier while the system is recording something else. And I don't want to build a dedicated PC to do the job. If I can get that, I may even forego the ability to pop out the tape I recorded in the living room VCR and bring it up to the bedroom VCR to watch the rest of the show in bed. Maybe. I'll think about it. Can I get that anywhere? If not, I'm sticking with my VCR.
From parent's sig:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
In theory, there is no difference between Yogi Berra and Albert Einstein. In practice, there is.
Really, even one year's worth of tax would probably be too much for people
Well, that really depends on the tax rate, doesn't it?
No, see, the problem with this suggestion is that it fails to take into account differences in fuel economy. The gas tax unfairly favors those who drive energy-efficient cars, and unfairly burdens the folks who exercise their god-given right to drive Hummers and SUVs. We need a mileage tax that levels the playing field.
Why not just report your odometer reading each year? It could even by done by the service station that performs your annual inspection.
How many Mandelbrots are there in an Ellison?