Pardon me, but some of us code in Assembler without an OS under it to hold hands with. Plus we write assembly code for chips that don't do fancy out-of-order execution.
Granted, I'm drifting significantly off the topic of 'business apps.'
One effect of this idiotic law is the wholesale destruction of nearly all of the popular books from the first half of the 20th century.
It's not being destroyed. There are book collectors and bibliophiles all over the world collecting and saving these books.
However, the 'salvation' you speak of, scanning the works in, is well-documented as a means used by zealous librarians (who want to keep the 'bulk' of their 'collection' constant) to destroy books. They slice them out of their bindings, scan (poorly, wiping out illustrations) and pulp the pages. The myth that the pages are all crumbling is obscene, and here you are promoting it.
The only way to play them is on an emulator, which is illegal, I think.
No, that's just the only way for lazy couch potatoes to play them. The original consoles are available, and when not working can often be restored to full operation by anybody with the technical knack for it.
I'm not sure many businesses are ready to implement 'recompiled all the time' code that optimizes and retunes itself while running. How does code like that get verified and validated for critical applications? It sounds like a series of disasters in production waiting to happen.
Naw. I had good luck getting a pirated copy of Mandrake 10 (*not* the downloadable version) CD Set from someone at eBay already. He was NARUd (kicked off eBay) a few days later but not before I paid and the CD arrived. I regret I couldn't give him positive feedback.
The InfoMagic CD set was cool. It let unwired people like myself back then get relatively fresh updates of Linux at a low cost. It had Slackware and even 'Red Hat Mothers Day release' on one of the sets. The first version of what became the Infomagic set was their 'UNIX CD' which had NetBSD, 386BSD and an early SLS Linux distribution on it. Probably eventually to be a collectors item as the first commercial CD release of Linux (slightly earlier than the first Yggdrasil LGX which I also have).
It was really liberating for people like me to get the full Slackware set plus all those extras on a CD set. I never again loaded a Yggdrasil distro after discovering the Slack.
You're being a crummy Marxist. You guys are supposed to be anti-Nationalist, i.e. Proletarian Nationalism and all that nonsense. And here you are ranting about national boundaries, and clinging to your rights as a resident of Oregon.
You need to immediately read Josef Stalin's 'Marxism and the National Question' before your cadre status is revoked.
I would like to commend you and encourage you to speak widely with your concerns. If I knew you personally I'd pay good money to keep you writing letters to the editor of newspapers.
You're a nut, and the kind of nut who is destroying the Democratic Party. Keep it up. You're destroying credibility just by blathering away like you do.
Plans to build PC like computers from parts of other Consumer electronic devices are needed.
Wow! You just gave the folks sitting there staring at the bash# prompt on their PalmPilots, Playstations, Dreamcasts, wristwatches, and other plastic toys purpose and meaning for their lives!
That must explain the astronomical prices for vintage tinfoil on eBay, and the fact that the seller's accounts are always NARU within a few days of the listing.
How do you identify a computer that has an illegal copy of Windows 3.1 on it?
Do you mean any machine that doesn't have installation media sitting beside it on the desk, and a MS-DOS manual from Microsoft with the hologram on the spine?
That pretty much covers about every Windows 3.1 machine ever deployed.
If they know what they're doing, Microsoft will deploy some sort of an exploit of the bugs that SP2 would fix.
Said exploit can be some form of a 'phone home' service, that reports the illegal copies of Windows to the SPA and appropriate agencies for license enforcement.
I'm not saying it would be a good thing, but it's very feasible and it would shake things up a bit in the Warez world.
Information was actively suppressed in the US. You really had to be motivated to find anything at all, past the surface.
Actually, what happened during the Cold War era was that information about Russia was 'polarized.' There were people who went out of their way to contradict anti-Communists with 'workers paradise' propaganda, and there were extreme rightists who presented the truth about the Gulags and Stalin, but who were so extreme-right in every way that they lost all appearances of being objective.
The truth has been coming out in the last decade, however. There is a lot of bloody history being revealed. While 'Orwellian' tendencies have always existed in the West, an almost complete real version of Orwell's vision happened in real time in the USSR.
Sad thing to say is that similar 'labor camps' to the ones of Stalinist Russia exist to this day, and the output of said camps is sold in WalMart, Target, etc. Granted, the authoritarians running the camps today are south and east of Russia, in China.
If you don't think the people you are advocating to are already exposed to the advertising material from Microsoft, you're kidding yourself.
Ad copy from Microsoft validates the website to regular folks, more than anything else. It makes the site look open minded (yes, I know, we don't put up with that in these parts....).
It's pretty discouraging that so many people in this discussion seem to feel that the people who need to be reached by Linux advocacy are dull, stupid fools who need a hard-core full-on propaganda assault to help them make up their minds.
It's patronizing. You're blowing your credibility by carrying on so.
If I were your professor, I would ask you to rewrite your comment. Break down the term 'FUD' into it's components: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
There are good examples of all three that you could point out.
Just tossing around the acronym 'FUD' makes your arguement weaker than it should be. It makes it sound like you might not even know what the F, U, and D stand for.
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Pardon me, but some of us code in Assembler without an OS under it to hold hands with. Plus we write assembly code for chips that don't do fancy out-of-order execution.
Granted, I'm drifting significantly off the topic of 'business apps.'
One effect of this idiotic law is the wholesale destruction of nearly all of the popular books from the first half of the 20th century.
It's not being destroyed. There are book collectors and bibliophiles all over the world collecting and saving these books.
However, the 'salvation' you speak of, scanning the works in, is well-documented as a means used by zealous librarians (who want to keep the 'bulk' of their 'collection' constant) to destroy books. They slice them out of their bindings, scan (poorly, wiping out illustrations) and pulp the pages. The myth that the pages are all crumbling is obscene, and here you are promoting it.
The only way to play them is on an emulator, which is illegal, I think.
No, that's just the only way for lazy couch potatoes to play them. The original consoles are available, and when not working can often be restored to full operation by anybody with the technical knack for it.
Unless it's anal sex, you're not likely to catch AIDS with anonymous casual sex.
You heard it here first.
I'm not sure many businesses are ready to implement 'recompiled all the time' code that optimizes and retunes itself while running. How does code like that get verified and validated for critical applications? It sounds like a series of disasters in production waiting to happen.
I guess it depends on who your boss is.
Plug along with your 'business applications' by all means.
Naw. I had good luck getting a pirated copy of Mandrake 10 (*not* the downloadable version) CD Set from someone at eBay already. He was NARUd (kicked off eBay) a few days later but not before I paid and the CD arrived. I regret I couldn't give him positive feedback.
The InfoMagic CD set was cool. It let unwired people like myself back then get relatively fresh updates of Linux at a low cost. It had Slackware and even 'Red Hat Mothers Day release' on one of the sets. The first version of what became the Infomagic set was their 'UNIX CD' which had NetBSD, 386BSD and an early SLS Linux distribution on it. Probably eventually to be a collectors item as the first commercial CD release of Linux (slightly earlier than the first Yggdrasil LGX which I also have).
It was really liberating for people like me to get the full Slackware set plus all those extras on a CD set. I never again loaded a Yggdrasil distro after discovering the Slack.
You're being a crummy Marxist. You guys are supposed to be anti-Nationalist, i.e. Proletarian Nationalism and all that nonsense. And here you are ranting about national boundaries, and clinging to your rights as a resident of Oregon.
You need to immediately read Josef Stalin's 'Marxism and the National Question' before your cadre status is revoked.
If Bush wins, the Democratic Party will self destruct.
Perhaps Hillary is enough of a necrophiliac to climb in and reanimate the corpse. We'll see.
Kerry can only win if the election is a mudslide.
Have you ever looked at one of the common election result maps?
Red (the color of most of the maps) is the Republican color.
Blue (the color of a few small infested areas on the map) is the Democratic color.
Maybe you travel in the crowd that avoids those maps like the plague.
I would like to commend you and encourage you to speak widely with your concerns. If I knew you personally I'd pay good money to keep you writing letters to the editor of newspapers.
You're a nut, and the kind of nut who is destroying the Democratic Party. Keep it up. You're destroying credibility just by blathering away like you do.
It's not worth a point-by-point rebuttal.
And there are, of course, security concerns associated with having all your personal info on a wireless-connected device.
Me, I don't mind plopping it in the desktop stand to sync it.
Plans to build PC like computers from parts of other Consumer electronic devices are needed.
Wow! You just gave the folks sitting there staring at the bash# prompt on their PalmPilots, Playstations, Dreamcasts, wristwatches, and other plastic toys purpose and meaning for their lives!
That must explain the astronomical prices for vintage tinfoil on eBay, and the fact that the seller's accounts are always NARU within a few days of the listing.
Pardon me for commenting about your tagline, but V.I. Lenin also had a way of speaking with great force about the spilling of other peoples' blood.
There are far better quotes from Jefferson. You should look into them.
How do you identify a computer that has an illegal copy of Windows 3.1 on it?
Do you mean any machine that doesn't have installation media sitting beside it on the desk, and a MS-DOS manual from Microsoft with the hologram on the spine?
That pretty much covers about every Windows 3.1 machine ever deployed.
And you're proposing that people install cracked, unauthenticated service packs on their machines?
That's gonna fix the problem?
If they know what they're doing, Microsoft will deploy some sort of an exploit of the bugs that SP2 would fix.
Said exploit can be some form of a 'phone home' service, that reports the illegal copies of Windows to the SPA and appropriate agencies for license enforcement.
I'm not saying it would be a good thing, but it's very feasible and it would shake things up a bit in the Warez world.
And you'll perish without hope unless you have a job working for the government?
You should be angry that somehow you became that dependent on such an entity. Somebody set you up.
Information was actively suppressed in the US. You really had to be motivated to find anything at all, past the surface.
Actually, what happened during the Cold War era was that information about Russia was 'polarized.' There were people who went out of their way to contradict anti-Communists with 'workers paradise' propaganda, and there were extreme rightists who presented the truth about the Gulags and Stalin, but who were so extreme-right in every way that they lost all appearances of being objective.
The truth has been coming out in the last decade, however. There is a lot of bloody history being revealed. While 'Orwellian' tendencies have always existed in the West, an almost complete real version of Orwell's vision happened in real time in the USSR.
Sad thing to say is that similar 'labor camps' to the ones of Stalinist Russia exist to this day, and the output of said camps is sold in WalMart, Target, etc. Granted, the authoritarians running the camps today are south and east of Russia, in China.
Fat clueless tourists rolling over regular folks.
That's gonna shine up the image of Segways just great.
If you don't think the people you are advocating to are already exposed to the advertising material from Microsoft, you're kidding yourself.
Ad copy from Microsoft validates the website to regular folks, more than anything else. It makes the site look open minded (yes, I know, we don't put up with that in these parts....).
It's pretty discouraging that so many people in this discussion seem to feel that the people who need to be reached by Linux advocacy are dull, stupid fools who need a hard-core full-on propaganda assault to help them make up their minds.
It's patronizing. You're blowing your credibility by carrying on so.
If I were your professor, I would ask you to rewrite your comment. Break down the term 'FUD' into it's components: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
There are good examples of all three that you could point out.
Just tossing around the acronym 'FUD' makes your arguement weaker than it should be. It makes it sound like you might not even know what the F, U, and D stand for.