I believe the whole point of the labour theory of value was to say that commodities aren't being exchanged at their true values (and screw all those horribly confusing use value/value distinctions), not that that makes the theory any easier to accept, since it's obvious that something of high utility that takes someone 1sec. to make is worth more than something completely useless that took years to finish. Marx is definitely very weird.
It's very interesting that as a consequence of Microsoft's domination of the market, people give you very weird looks when you tell them you don't use windows. Then they calm down, an idea hits them, and they ask, "Oh, so you use Mac, then?" The weird look, however, wrests itself upward from its grave where the pallbearers were finally resting with (they thought) the satisfaction of a job well done, and climbs back on to the poor user's face when you're forced to disillusion them.
Using something other than windows is almost a stigma in some circles (circles the average slashdotter has little contact with, and avoids as much as possible), and it's the fact that most people only know and (ha!) understand how to use one OS that leads to this sorry state of affairs. A consuming fear of new ideas leads to stagnation, not innovation, and this fear is exactly what the Microsoft monopoly has led us into.
Not a bad idea, actually. If they really insist on inflated seals, though, they might try a chemical reaction failsafe, similar to the way airbags are inflated.
As far as the safety of duct tape, I've heard it said that almost all of the "field procedures" for biocontainment absolutely rely on duct tape and its ilk; in fact, I've heard it said that containment is nearly impossible without some sort of sticky tape. Of course, this was for the purpose of sealing a pressurized suit for work in the field, but when your whole lab starts to die around you, it's probably not a bad thing to try, just a bad thing to have to try.
Well, I was being deliberately tongue-in-cheek and fairly cynical, because I do indeed recognize the flaws inherent to a draft-based army. Also, have you ever thought about the rather deeper flaws in every organized military on the planet? It's the same in every government, and in most forms of social interaction. The problem is this: communication is only possible between equals. When talking to a superior, you naturally tend to tell them what they want to hear, even if you only deviate slightly from reality to "make it more palatable," etc. Those in command, therefore, are never fully informed about the situation they're supposed to be taking care of. The military simply codifies these relationships and makes it even harder to break out of them.
This is, in fact, pretty similar to Richard Stallman's philosophy, and is elaborated on in the su info page, about why su doesn't support the wheel group.
First, Solaris now runs on x86 architectures, so the idea of "expensive hardware" doesn't really add up - at least, not more than for any server. Second, as to insecure software; let he who is without sin cast the first stone - who among us has used a multiuser system without some sort of security flaws? As to "failure of security through obscurity," I really believe that Sun spends a good amount of time working on security fixes, and seems to actually care about these issues, unlike some companies I could mention.
And they aren't even competition (well, ostensibly they are, but Microsoft's a UNIX licensee - does that mean they got all of these threatening letters, too?).
And the irony is that their motto is "more useful everyday." I mean, that's obviously true if one day they're as useful as a stab wound in the kidney, and the next day they're as useful as a heat lamp to a burn victim, but wake up here, people. It's all an obvious attempt to associate porn and other "morally wrong" materials with the open source movement.
And let MSNBC do as they wish, to. Go ahead, mislead the people. After all, they're just doing their civic duty in engaging in the shiftiest of business practices in order to delude the common computer user into thinking that XFree86 is somehow morally wrong (i.e. porn).
You have any idea where I might be able to track down the actual text of that report? It seems really arrogant of all the media to tell me that my government paid for a report that says that civilization as we know it might be on the verge of collapse before I even finish college, and not let me see the actual text for myself.
You're right, of course, and this had occured to me. I've been watching my emerges carefully to see if anything of the sort occurs, but so far, simply having the libraries in the world file doesn't seem to auto-unmerge the older versions when they're upgraded. The emerge system is smart, give it some credit.
As to there being a reason for bleeding-edge libraries, no of course there's no good reason, but I long ago stopped trying to offer any!
First, it's not against the law unless he's trying to defraud someone using the mutilated currency, and second, even if it were, it's completely accidental that the money was destroyed... they just wanted to burn the RFID tag.
What they might need to watch out for, though, is a DMCA suit, as they were attempting to destroy a copy protection device. =)
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I believe the whole point of the labour theory of value was to say that commodities aren't being exchanged at their true values (and screw all those horribly confusing use value/value distinctions), not that that makes the theory any easier to accept, since it's obvious that something of high utility that takes someone 1sec. to make is worth more than something completely useless that took years to finish. Marx is definitely very weird.
Hell, we take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt. At least we're not watching Fox News.
"A fair and balanced look at subjugation of the masses."
It's very interesting that as a consequence of Microsoft's domination of the market, people give you very weird looks when you tell them you don't use windows. Then they calm down, an idea hits them, and they ask, "Oh, so you use Mac, then?" The weird look, however, wrests itself upward from its grave where the pallbearers were finally resting with (they thought) the satisfaction of a job well done, and climbs back on to the poor user's face when you're forced to disillusion them.
Using something other than windows is almost a stigma in some circles (circles the average slashdotter has little contact with, and avoids as much as possible), and it's the fact that most people only know and (ha!) understand how to use one OS that leads to this sorry state of affairs. A consuming fear of new ideas leads to stagnation, not innovation, and this fear is exactly what the Microsoft monopoly has led us into.
Does google let you in without registration? NYTimes didn't used to care about that particular market.
Many of them DO... but these variants have been coming out so often lately that they're hard to catch up with.
Not a bad idea, actually. If they really insist on inflated seals, though, they might try a chemical reaction failsafe, similar to the way airbags are inflated.
As far as the safety of duct tape, I've heard it said that almost all of the "field procedures" for biocontainment absolutely rely on duct tape and its ilk; in fact, I've heard it said that containment is nearly impossible without some sort of sticky tape. Of course, this was for the purpose of sealing a pressurized suit for work in the field, but when your whole lab starts to die around you, it's probably not a bad thing to try, just a bad thing to have to try.
The article states that they have three, actually, but for whatever reason, they all failed simultaneously.
Well, I was being deliberately tongue-in-cheek and fairly cynical, because I do indeed recognize the flaws inherent to a draft-based army. Also, have you ever thought about the rather deeper flaws in every organized military on the planet? It's the same in every government, and in most forms of social interaction. The problem is this: communication is only possible between equals. When talking to a superior, you naturally tend to tell them what they want to hear, even if you only deviate slightly from reality to "make it more palatable," etc. Those in command, therefore, are never fully informed about the situation they're supposed to be taking care of. The military simply codifies these relationships and makes it even harder to break out of them.
Well, from a cost/benefit analysis, it makes perfect sense. Why pay more to keep them there when you can just send them to jail if they quit?
How about this: if you can evade the FBI's wiretaps, then you get drafted.
Pretty soon there'll be a gasoline powered chip, or at the very least a laptop fuel cell.
Technology: applied ingenuity in order to keep everything exactly the same.
No, it's collected somewhere, cooled, and reused. It's a closed system; the article compares it to a car radiator.
Well, a Real plugin can be useful... those codecs are nice for inclusion in the win32 codecs package for mplayer.
Yep. Good ol' Ident-I-Eeze. The term universal card also makes me think of Dan Simmons' Hyperion series.
This is, in fact, pretty similar to Richard Stallman's philosophy, and is elaborated on in the su info page, about why su doesn't support the wheel group.
First, Solaris now runs on x86 architectures, so the idea of "expensive hardware" doesn't really add up - at least, not more than for any server. Second, as to insecure software; let he who is without sin cast the first stone - who among us has used a multiuser system without some sort of security flaws? As to "failure of security through obscurity," I really believe that Sun spends a good amount of time working on security fixes, and seems to actually care about these issues, unlike some companies I could mention.
And they aren't even competition (well, ostensibly they are, but Microsoft's a UNIX licensee - does that mean they got all of these threatening letters, too?).
And the irony is that their motto is "more useful everyday." I mean, that's obviously true if one day they're as useful as a stab wound in the kidney, and the next day they're as useful as a heat lamp to a burn victim, but wake up here, people. It's all an obvious attempt to associate porn and other "morally wrong" materials with the open source movement.
And let MSNBC do as they wish, to. Go ahead, mislead the people. After all, they're just doing their civic duty in engaging in the shiftiest of business practices in order to delude the common computer user into thinking that XFree86 is somehow morally wrong (i.e. porn).
You have any idea where I might be able to track down the actual text of that report? It seems really arrogant of all the media to tell me that my government paid for a report that says that civilization as we know it might be on the verge of collapse before I even finish college, and not let me see the actual text for myself.
I really want to listen to a transcript of some kind; it's almost certain to turn violent.
EV1 holds a linux license. Unix licensees are people who pay to use Unix, i.e. AIX, Solaris, etc.
#!/bin/bashp file`p kg -I -nc > $TMP1 /var/cache/edb/world | uniq | sort > $TMP2
TMP1=`/bin/tempfile`
TMP2=`/bin/tem
DEST=/var/cache/edb/world
SOURCE=$DEST
q
sed 's/^#.*//' <
diff -u $TMP2 $TMP1 | egrep "^\+" | fgrep -v "+++" | sed 's/\+//' >> $TMP2
uniq $TMP2 | sort -o $TMP2
install -g root -m 0644 -o root $TMP2 $DEST
rm $TMP1 $TMP2
You're right, of course, and this had occured to me. I've been watching my emerges carefully to see if anything of the sort occurs, but so far, simply having the libraries in the world file doesn't seem to auto-unmerge the older versions when they're upgraded. The emerge system is smart, give it some credit.
As to there being a reason for bleeding-edge libraries, no of course there's no good reason, but I long ago stopped trying to offer any!
First, it's not against the law unless he's trying to defraud someone using the mutilated currency, and second, even if it were, it's completely accidental that the money was destroyed... they just wanted to burn the RFID tag.
What they might need to watch out for, though, is a DMCA suit, as they were attempting to destroy a copy protection device. =)