I do a bit of both. I predominantly install items from packages, when available, for testing and review of something new that I am interested in. Once I establish whether what I have been playing with may be useful for some particular purpose I will research the source build options. If there are specific optimizations that can be made for my system's hardware or pre-installed software I will then look at installing from source in order to leverage those optimizations, but if there is no advantage to compiling the source due to lack of any worthy optimizations then I will install from packages any time I want that software.
That is my way of handling things, do what fits your needs best, that's why we have this option.
Are you prepared to take up arms and fight the police the lawyers bring along with them? If not then you can't quite call this a revolution if you aren't willing to really fight for it.
of whether P2P hurts CD sales, the issue that still needs to be dealt with is the legallity and morality/ethics of the issue. Perhaps in light of this laws or business practices need to be modified but until such time people should not be encouraged by this to behave in an illegal and unethical/immoral manner.
I am not watching less TV, but I am doing more things at the same time, I usually will work on my powerbook while watching the History channel, the only time I am not watching TV it seems is when I fire up the PS2, but if I am home the TV is most certainly on and I am at least watching it at a least some level. But since statistics tend to be driven by the extremes rather than the medians that get reported I would doubt this study or any statistical study is very accurate.
What about recently though, I saw three iPod/iTMS commercials just yesterday, and I usually catch one about every other day during the week depending on what channels I am watching, did they run out of marketting money after the first few weeks?
or did anyone else never see a single advertisement about this alternative to iTMS? I have seen hundreds of commercials and other advertisements for the iPod and iTMS but never a single one for BuyMusic. The only thing I remember hearing was on TechTV when some billboard was shown off somewhere when the site opened, that's it for my exposure to their marketing campaign.
Am I alone on this or can we equate market failure with marketting failure on this one?
What is the core mission in the GTA series. Steal cars, be violent in various ways...GTA's 'updates' may not be quite as lame as the Sims but the core of the game really isn't changing much.
originality and creativity when repackaging the same game and slapping a subtitle on it will rake in millions? The Sims comes to my mind...GTA is in a similar boat in my mind...
Would dual licensing as done by MySQL alleviate this to some degree though? The model of paying for a licensed version of a system that then inlcudes support and accountability on the part of the licensor. Of course the FOSS licensed one is available as well for those not desiring the support or special provisions, such as commercial integration, of the software.
Many enterprises are overwhelmed with patches and handling vulnerabilities, as well as the consequences associated with introducing new software into an infrastructure. The fact that the open source community is constantly tweaking its software is a reasonable concern for IT executives. Open source software introduces more complexities in software maintenance, but also promotes more secure and reliable code through rapid bug and vulnerability fixes. Microsoft took 200 days, for instance, to deliver a patch for a particular vulnerability.
Given that enterprises don't want constant upgrades and optional fixes, the major Linux distributors offer scheduled, rather than just continuous, releases via subscriptions as well certification of the software to alleviate this problem. Red Hat claims to have a database of over one million dependencies to check against as part of its delivery of new patches or functionality.
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The IT staff I work for like open source because vulnerabilities for the software we would like to use are found seldomly and when they are found they are fixed quickly, not to mention one program doesn't interfere with the others too much. But management listens to slick salespeople from crappy vendors and we end up with products that won't work with the latest security patches to Windows, and now we are left vulnerable on so many fronts because our proprietary software won't work with the updated and 'secure' versions of Windows. My coworkers could care less about how often the products need updating, as long as staying secure doesn't break our systems, Windows is failing for us in that arena.
Open source at my workplace is stifled by management who don't know the latest tech stuff and listen to vendors more than the folks in the trenches doing the work. Non-tech people are the key roadblock to FOSS adoption, the ever popular 'stupids'.
I read slashdot obsessively because my job can be rather boring...
But you've probably never been to a SBC National Convention, Evangelical Theological Society meeting, SBC Church business meeting, read Baptist Press articles on Sole Proprietorship or attended some of my christian doctrine and theology classes.
I appreciate your personal attacks against my education level, very open minded of you.
Sola Scriptura is far from heresy, unless you're Catholic, without identifying the Bible as the inspired, inerrant word of God and thus the sole basis for determining proper conduct and belief, what would thus be your proposal for authoritative in these matters, personal opinion, mob rule? Not terribly objective alternatives.
I as a Southern Baptist don't hold to the KJV only idea, in fact I know few southern baptists that do, I know a good number of Independent Baptists that hold to that, so your characterization is fundamentally flawed. I personally favor the NASB or my JPS Hebrew for OT and Greek Interlinear for NT if I want to examine original grammar or word usage. Also the belief that the Catholic church was 'founded' by Jesus is a bit misleading, since it is tied to one verse that Catholics claim established the papacy through Peter.
I probably shouldn't follow AC batings but for clarity sake I decided to take this one, and the ignorance of this particular AC is expressed most vividly when he links back-water pentecostal worship with snakes to the much more subdued and tradionally rather dry worship of Souther Baptists.
And Calvin was only heretical if you completely discount the sovereignty of God.
This post has highlighted better than I could have ever done the reasons why Christianity is divided because there are very important issues that can not be agreed on. Of course the venomous comments leveled by this AC are more hateful that most discussions I get into.
You touch on some interesting issues, first is the role of the 10 commandments and 'God's Rules'. This is a hottly debated issue, commandments in courthouses and such, and it is rather silly. The 'Law' is a mirror. When perusing the 10 commandments we tend to check off the list of the things we haven't done and miss the intent. Who among us has never coveted, or wanted what someone else had? Who among us has never lied, or stolen (especially in the age of P2P). Fast forward to the sermon on the mount, who among us has never lusted and thus committed adultery in our hearts, or been angry and thus committed murder? The law is something that we can't live up to, the law shows us how sinful we are and that we can't live up to it. This is a fundamental difference between how many denominations at higher levels view things, high churches such as Catholics tend to focus on rules and obeying them rather than recognizing that only God can bring us up to His standard, which He did through His son Christ.
The issues are much more fundamental, prayer to Mary is inappropriate and unbiblical. The Holy Spirit assists us in prayer through the ONLY mediator between God and man, the person Jesus Christ (ref. 1 Tim 2:5). Also Catholics, at least at the official not congregation level, regard tradition as importantly as scripture, completely inappropriate since traditions are man made and thus fallable if not in line with scripture (sola scriptura). There are some very important issues that must be agreed upon before true fellowship can be had. Now the debates over Armenianism vs. Calvinism and Eschatalogical arguments are among the more accessory discussions that need not divide us, but issues over the role of individuals in the churh and qualifications, the view of scripture and other such issues are important and should not be discounted or ignored for the sake of 'unity'.
Also the issue regarding women is not whether they are capable, but whether certain types of ministry is appropriate. As a southern baptist I do not believe women can be authentically called to be Pastors and serve as leaders over men. I do believe women are capable of it, but it is not part of God's design as laid out in the Bible. Likewise I do not believe a man who has been divorced, after conversion, for any reason other than marital infidelity on the part of his spouse should be permitted to serve as Pastor or deacon either. Likewise a man who can not deal in a Godly way with his own family should also not aspire to certain offices of the church.
I think you and the other people who echo your sentiments are dead on to what 'Life of Brian' is really mocking. I would disagree on one issue:
... rather than presenting a common front based on the 95% of their beliefs that co-incide.
As a southern baptist, and I include that mostly as a disclaimer, I would say there is a vast bit more difference than you imply. The issue of whether homosexuals, women and divorcees should be allowed and to what extent and in what roles they should be allowed to serve in ministry is a big deal, because the Bible makes it an issue. Also, the inerrancy of scripture and the greater doctrine of 'sola scriptura' is a big deal. Many denominations however are wavering on these issues and many others. I would agree though that some issues shouldn't divide us as much as they do, Armenianism vs. Calvinism produces flamewars beyond the comprehension of/.ers as does the debates over eschatology and church polity issues. I would agree with you that we are probably more divided as a faith than necessary, but some issues are worth fighting for and as a Christian should be fought for, otherwise we risk losing something very important, the truth in favor of opinions and feelings.
I inserted a real religious post, may the flamewar begin and my karma plummit...
As a christian I like the passion because it opens doors for evangelism and sharing my faith.
I am not sure if the release of this movie on good friday is poor taste or not, but I would lean to it is simply Pythonian irreverant humor driving it. The idea that this is a response to 'The Passion' is not very encouraging since it implies this movie is unable to stand on its own merits, which is of course absurd because the movie is very funny all by itself. I doubt many people who saw 'The Passion' will be as interested to see 'Life of Brian' because Monty Python's work is not as appealing to everybody, then again I didn't expect 'The Passion' to be quite as successful but it is amazing what a controversy will do for a film; but who knows, maybe this movie will rake in big bucks by riding the coat tails of Gibson's film.
There will be lots of criticism from the likes of Pat Robertson and Falwell and the sort, but I, even as a southern baptist, appreciate this movie, considering it doesn't mock Christ as much as some might think...
Although I seriously doubt it will be as widely popular; I am am excited about seeing this on the big screen. Great movie, even if it could be considered sacrilege...
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I do a bit of both. I predominantly install items from packages, when available, for testing and review of something new that I am interested in. Once I establish whether what I have been playing with may be useful for some particular purpose I will research the source build options. If there are specific optimizations that can be made for my system's hardware or pre-installed software I will then look at installing from source in order to leverage those optimizations, but if there is no advantage to compiling the source due to lack of any worthy optimizations then I will install from packages any time I want that software.
That is my way of handling things, do what fits your needs best, that's why we have this option.
Are you prepared to take up arms and fight the police the lawyers bring along with them? If not then you can't quite call this a revolution if you aren't willing to really fight for it.
of whether P2P hurts CD sales, the issue that still needs to be dealt with is the legallity and morality/ethics of the issue. Perhaps in light of this laws or business practices need to be modified but until such time people should not be encouraged by this to behave in an illegal and unethical/immoral manner.
I am not watching less TV, but I am doing more things at the same time, I usually will work on my powerbook while watching the History channel, the only time I am not watching TV it seems is when I fire up the PS2, but if I am home the TV is most certainly on and I am at least watching it at a least some level. But since statistics tend to be driven by the extremes rather than the medians that get reported I would doubt this study or any statistical study is very accurate.
If I max out my credit I will be 3/5900ths of the way to my own launch...woo hoo! Yay for the people who need this stuff though.
What about recently though, I saw three iPod/iTMS commercials just yesterday, and I usually catch one about every other day during the week depending on what channels I am watching, did they run out of marketting money after the first few weeks?
or did anyone else never see a single advertisement about this alternative to iTMS? I have seen hundreds of commercials and other advertisements for the iPod and iTMS but never a single one for BuyMusic. The only thing I remember hearing was on TechTV when some billboard was shown off somewhere when the site opened, that's it for my exposure to their marketing campaign.
Am I alone on this or can we equate market failure with marketting failure on this one?
What is the core mission in the GTA series. Steal cars, be violent in various ways...GTA's 'updates' may not be quite as lame as the Sims but the core of the game really isn't changing much.
I am stupid when it comes to most things related to patents.
What does this mean, does Apple secure exclusive rights to the specific combination of all the features of the iPod or to the individual features?
If this patent is approved what would be the impact on the portable music player market?
originality and creativity when repackaging the same game and slapping a subtitle on it will rake in millions? The Sims comes to my mind...GTA is in a similar boat in my mind...
Would dual licensing as done by MySQL alleviate this to some degree though? The model of paying for a licensed version of a system that then inlcudes support and accountability on the part of the licensor. Of course the FOSS licensed one is available as well for those not desiring the support or special provisions, such as commercial integration, of the software.
I didn't spellcheck my post; no surprise here if it isn't a word. Thanks for the heads up though....
The IT staff I work for like open source because vulnerabilities for the software we would like to use are found seldomly and when they are found they are fixed quickly, not to mention one program doesn't interfere with the others too much. But management listens to slick salespeople from crappy vendors and we end up with products that won't work with the latest security patches to Windows, and now we are left vulnerable on so many fronts because our proprietary software won't work with the updated and 'secure' versions of Windows. My coworkers could care less about how often the products need updating, as long as staying secure doesn't break our systems, Windows is failing for us in that arena.
Open source at my workplace is stifled by management who don't know the latest tech stuff and listen to vendors more than the folks in the trenches doing the work. Non-tech people are the key roadblock to FOSS adoption, the ever popular 'stupids'.
I read slashdot obsessively because my job can be rather boring...
But you've probably never been to a SBC National Convention, Evangelical Theological Society meeting, SBC Church business meeting, read Baptist Press articles on Sole Proprietorship or attended some of my christian doctrine and theology classes.
The Randy Newman song "Political Science" comes to my mind...
They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now...let's drop the big one now...
The Randy Newman song "Political Science" comes to my mind...
I appreciate your personal attacks against my education level, very open minded of you.
Sola Scriptura is far from heresy, unless you're Catholic, without identifying the Bible as the inspired, inerrant word of God and thus the sole basis for determining proper conduct and belief, what would thus be your proposal for authoritative in these matters, personal opinion, mob rule? Not terribly objective alternatives.
I as a Southern Baptist don't hold to the KJV only idea, in fact I know few southern baptists that do, I know a good number of Independent Baptists that hold to that, so your characterization is fundamentally flawed. I personally favor the NASB or my JPS Hebrew for OT and Greek Interlinear for NT if I want to examine original grammar or word usage. Also the belief that the Catholic church was 'founded' by Jesus is a bit misleading, since it is tied to one verse that Catholics claim established the papacy through Peter.
I probably shouldn't follow AC batings but for clarity sake I decided to take this one, and the ignorance of this particular AC is expressed most vividly when he links back-water pentecostal worship with snakes to the much more subdued and tradionally rather dry worship of Souther Baptists.
And Calvin was only heretical if you completely discount the sovereignty of God.
This post has highlighted better than I could have ever done the reasons why Christianity is divided because there are very important issues that can not be agreed on. Of course the venomous comments leveled by this AC are more hateful that most discussions I get into.
You touch on some interesting issues, first is the role of the 10 commandments and 'God's Rules'. This is a hottly debated issue, commandments in courthouses and such, and it is rather silly. The 'Law' is a mirror. When perusing the 10 commandments we tend to check off the list of the things we haven't done and miss the intent. Who among us has never coveted, or wanted what someone else had? Who among us has never lied, or stolen (especially in the age of P2P). Fast forward to the sermon on the mount, who among us has never lusted and thus committed adultery in our hearts, or been angry and thus committed murder? The law is something that we can't live up to, the law shows us how sinful we are and that we can't live up to it. This is a fundamental difference between how many denominations at higher levels view things, high churches such as Catholics tend to focus on rules and obeying them rather than recognizing that only God can bring us up to His standard, which He did through His son Christ.
The issues are much more fundamental, prayer to Mary is inappropriate and unbiblical. The Holy Spirit assists us in prayer through the ONLY mediator between God and man, the person Jesus Christ (ref. 1 Tim 2:5). Also Catholics, at least at the official not congregation level, regard tradition as importantly as scripture, completely inappropriate since traditions are man made and thus fallable if not in line with scripture (sola scriptura). There are some very important issues that must be agreed upon before true fellowship can be had. Now the debates over Armenianism vs. Calvinism and Eschatalogical arguments are among the more accessory discussions that need not divide us, but issues over the role of individuals in the churh and qualifications, the view of scripture and other such issues are important and should not be discounted or ignored for the sake of 'unity'.
Also the issue regarding women is not whether they are capable, but whether certain types of ministry is appropriate. As a southern baptist I do not believe women can be authentically called to be Pastors and serve as leaders over men. I do believe women are capable of it, but it is not part of God's design as laid out in the Bible. Likewise I do not believe a man who has been divorced, after conversion, for any reason other than marital infidelity on the part of his spouse should be permitted to serve as Pastor or deacon either. Likewise a man who can not deal in a Godly way with his own family should also not aspire to certain offices of the church.
And first to be labelled a drunkard...if my memory serves me...
As a southern baptist, and I include that mostly as a disclaimer, I would say there is a vast bit more difference than you imply. The issue of whether homosexuals, women and divorcees should be allowed and to what extent and in what roles they should be allowed to serve in ministry is a big deal, because the Bible makes it an issue. Also, the inerrancy of scripture and the greater doctrine of 'sola scriptura' is a big deal. Many denominations however are wavering on these issues and many others. I would agree though that some issues shouldn't divide us as much as they do, Armenianism vs. Calvinism produces flamewars beyond the comprehension of
I inserted a real religious post, may the flamewar begin and my karma plummit...
Troll is a bad moderation.
As a christian I like the passion because it opens doors for evangelism and sharing my faith.
I am not sure if the release of this movie on good friday is poor taste or not, but I would lean to it is simply Pythonian irreverant humor driving it. The idea that this is a response to 'The Passion' is not very encouraging since it implies this movie is unable to stand on its own merits, which is of course absurd because the movie is very funny all by itself. I doubt many people who saw 'The Passion' will be as interested to see 'Life of Brian' because Monty Python's work is not as appealing to everybody, then again I didn't expect 'The Passion' to be quite as successful but it is amazing what a controversy will do for a film; but who knows, maybe this movie will rake in big bucks by riding the coat tails of Gibson's film.
There will be lots of criticism from the likes of Pat Robertson and Falwell and the sort, but I, even as a southern baptist, appreciate this movie, considering it doesn't mock Christ as much as some might think...
Although I seriously doubt it will be as widely popular; I am am excited about seeing this on the big screen. Great movie, even if it could be considered sacrilege...
Have any references? I'd be interested to research that more.
I doubt there really is anything, so we probably agree more than either of us realize... :-)