I still don't get it... why do you think we're "going down" economically?
Recessions happen all the time, there have been a couple worse than the current one since I was born and I'm not that old. Or do you have other reasons for thinking so?
Thanks praedor, nice coverage of reasons for regulation of industry, if a little sarcastic.
I would like to note that moderation is the key to good regulation as it is the key to being successful at most things. There is a delicate balance between overregulation and do-as-thou-wilt, right-wing and left-wing, nationalism and treason, etc, etc, that must be struck to gain the maximum benefit for all involved. I always take the views of extremists on either side of a debate with a grain of salt.
Have you ever read 1984 by George Orwell? Do you know how recently the last 2 definitions came into use and who coined the usage?
My point being that "piracy" is a propagandist's term that is used to subconciously influence a person's thinking about copyrights and fair use. Likening the sharing of copyrighted information to murder, rape, and armed robbery is just a little over the top, IMHO. I'm trying to undo some of that damage. With the short absurdist rant I hope to awaken readers into questioning the usage of the term piracy in the context of sharing information. It probably doesn't work but it serves to amuse me (I'm easily amused).
You mean gangs of armed thugs would cruise around raping, murdering and pillaging? "Walk the plank, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, pass the ketchup" and all that?
Be cautious if you dual-boot with Windows, though. Both Open and Net BSD trash your partition table with their "disklabels", making your system unbootable if you later uninstall them and try to boot into Windows. fdisk/mbr doesn't work, I had to delete all partitions and start over.
If there is a way to prevent this please let me know, I'd like to try OpenBSD again.
Well, I noticed that current FreeBSD does seem to be a bit more responsive than Linux 2.2.x (haven't tried 2.4.x yet), but 14 times as fast? No way, not even close.
but it beats anything that Linux has to offer by a long shot.
I don't think so, it's a matter of personal preference isn't it? There are lot of things I like about X (once I get the True-Type font server installed, of course:), especially the way I can integrate my own scripts easily with the UI and not have to use abominations like DOS "batch files" or VBScript. Yeah, I know I can get shell or perl for Windows but it's just not the same, the architecture of Windows distorts my normal scripting flow. I can't live without virtual desktops anymore (and every virtual desktop program for Windows is awful). The network transparency is also nice.
And I think the Start menu sucks ass, by the way. Nothing worse than multiple nested menus.
Windows has good points too, like consistent (for the most part) look and keyboard bindings. But there's just something about Windows that has always turned my stomach... to quote Steve Jobs, "They just have no taste." If I ever really need a state-of-the-art GUI I'll get a Mac (with OS X, of course:).
Gee, that's nice. Gnome and Window Maker both can save session as well, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about leaving your processes running when you log out, not just remembering what was running and starting it up again.
You idiot, it is no secret that Western and Caucasian-majority countries have higher standards of living and personal incomes than most other parts of the world. He didn't place any value judgments on their race or culture. He merely picked appropriate names to contrast third-world and first-world countries.
Take your knee-jerk political correctness to some forum where people can't think for themselves and you'll get a much more positive reaction. Or, you could grow up and stop seeing the world in black and white.
That's an acceptable amount of information leakage for me. After all, in Linux I can use 'ps aux' to see everyone's (including root's) processes... with the arguments they were launched with, how much CPU they are using, etc.
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Think about it for a second... would Ford Motor Co. going out of business harm the U.S. economy? Probably. Are they a monopoly? No.
Your question doesn't really make sense.
Actually, you'd probably need to modify the firmware on the CD-ROM drive itself. But yeah, it can be done.
If the audio tracks will play on a PC CD-ROM drive...
They won't, read the article.
Oh right, like the Germans and Finns would put up with that... if nothing else I'll end up moving to Europe ;^)
European release CDs? Small market? Man, I wish I had 0.5% of that small market...
I still don't get it... why do you think we're "going down" economically?
Recessions happen all the time, there have been a couple worse than the current one since I was born and I'm not that old. Or do you have other reasons for thinking so?
Down with us? Why do you think the U.S.A. and the E.U. are "going down"?
Just curious.
I did set the bootable partition back to Windows... "No operating system found".
Didn't try GRUB, but I'm not exactly hopeful enough to go through reinstalling Windows again :P
Thanks for the non-answer Mr. Smartypants.
BTW, I've done this with Linux and FreeBSD dozens of times with no problems.
Thanks praedor, nice coverage of reasons for regulation of industry, if a little sarcastic.
I would like to note that moderation is the key to good regulation as it is the key to being successful at most things. There is a delicate balance between overregulation and do-as-thou-wilt, right-wing and left-wing, nationalism and treason, etc, etc, that must be struck to gain the maximum benefit for all involved. I always take the views of extremists on either side of a debate with a grain of salt.
Have you ever read 1984 by George Orwell? Do you know how recently the last 2 definitions came into use and who coined the usage?
My point being that "piracy" is a propagandist's term that is used to subconciously influence a person's thinking about copyrights and fair use. Likening the sharing of copyrighted information to murder, rape, and armed robbery is just a little over the top, IMHO. I'm trying to undo some of that damage. With the short absurdist rant I hope to awaken readers into questioning the usage of the term piracy in the context of sharing information. It probably doesn't work but it serves to amuse me (I'm easily amused).
Carry on.
piracy would run rampant
You mean gangs of armed thugs would cruise around raping, murdering and pillaging? "Walk the plank, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, pass the ketchup" and all that?
How do you come to that conclusion?
Be cautious if you dual-boot with Windows, though. Both Open and Net BSD trash your partition table with their "disklabels", making your system unbootable if you later uninstall them and try to boot into Windows. fdisk /mbr doesn't work, I had to delete all partitions and start over.
If there is a way to prevent this please let me know, I'd like to try OpenBSD again.
Well, I noticed that current FreeBSD does seem to be a bit more responsive than Linux 2.2.x (haven't tried 2.4.x yet), but 14 times as fast? No way, not even close.
I agree. Slack and FreeBSD are my personal favorites as well. They are both developed in the classical Unix style... KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).
vim builds in DOS, but I don't think gvim (the GUI version) would run there.
Man, you and the post you replied to must be IT management. One can tell by the way that you just don't get it and probably never will.
Duh, I forgot about the 64-bit linux already running on Alphas.
IIRC there is a 64-bit version of linux running on prototype 64-bit processors at Intel.
SCO Unix is far worse than HP-UX or AIX, IMHO.
but it beats anything that Linux has to offer by a long shot.
I don't think so, it's a matter of personal preference isn't it? There are lot of things I like about X (once I get the True-Type font server installed, of course :), especially the way I can integrate my own scripts easily with the UI and not have to use abominations like DOS "batch files" or VBScript. Yeah, I know I can get shell or perl for Windows but it's just not the same, the architecture of Windows distorts my normal scripting flow. I can't live without virtual desktops anymore (and every virtual desktop program for Windows is awful). The network transparency is also nice.
And I think the Start menu sucks ass, by the way. Nothing worse than multiple nested menus.
Windows has good points too, like consistent (for the most part) look and keyboard bindings. But there's just something about Windows that has always turned my stomach... to quote Steve Jobs, "They just have no taste." If I ever really need a state-of-the-art GUI I'll get a Mac (with OS X, of course :).
Gee, that's nice. Gnome and Window Maker both can save session as well, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about leaving your processes running when you log out, not just remembering what was running and starting it up again.
Still after 64 iterations the total is a hell of a large number.
Yeah, that is a whole lot of rice. :)
You idiot, it is no secret that Western and Caucasian-majority countries have higher standards of living and personal incomes than most other parts of the world. He didn't place any value judgments on their race or culture. He merely picked appropriate names to contrast third-world and first-world countries.
Take your knee-jerk political correctness to some forum where people can't think for themselves and you'll get a much more positive reaction. Or, you could grow up and stop seeing the world in black and white.
Why what are you doing with your other hand? >:^D
That's an acceptable amount of information leakage for me. After all, in Linux I can use 'ps aux' to see everyone's (including root's) processes... with the arguments they were launched with, how much CPU they are using, etc.