Software distributed over the Internet (for example, the latest version of your favorite Linux distribution) can easily run close to a gigabyte per instance. sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade ... 624 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3194880/3194880kB of archives. After unpacking 7667712kB will be used.
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This is modded +5 Funny, but I actually had to look him up on Wikipedia and I still don't know who he is. Amazingly enough, I've not seen any movies that feature any of his songs (except Vanilla Sky, but that was a long time ago and I wouldn't consider watching it again, even for the Penelope Cruz sex scene).
Obviously someone cares about what CvD has to say. (S)he is currently modded +4, Insightful.
Education and awareness are the solution? If that's the case, then why are people still transmitting STDs in first-world countries?
Most people simply don't care about their computers enough to take precautionary measures to protect them. Confronted with the fact that their machine has been pwned, the typical computer user would probably say something along the lines of, "Oh well, it's only a computer. Why should I care? Leave me alone."
Governments should mandate that all the software that is used in the government must be Open Source. You're definitely not alone there. My tax money shouldn't be going to support proprietary software, formats, patents, and trade secrets. That is not the spirit of a democratic government.
Apparently, many people in Massachusetts agree.
This is precisely why we need a citizen-backed voting platform. The Open Voting Consortium provides this. They're our votes. We should do everything in our power to protect them.
Even better, the rating for this experience on the page is "GOOD". Also note that it doesn't matter what you have for storage space under the "BEST" column, as long as the hard drive spins at 7200 RPM.
4. I received value from other open source apps, and I want to return back to the community. That isn't philanthropic? An action doesn't have to save the world or even a life in order to be philanthropic. The first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Philanthropy says it all:
Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. I guess, in order to understand that definition, you need to understand what a "charitable cause" is. In this case, developing free software and donating it to the community is charitable on two fronts:
Advancement of education
Advancement of software for the purpose of benefiting the global community of software developers and users
Sure, much free software is written with selfish, personal goals in mind, but the net effect is all the same. If the software is free, then people can learn by studying the source code. While commercially-distributed free software is still beneficial to the community because of the freedoms that accompany the software, donation of this free software highlights an immediate intention of giving to the community. (I could develop free software and decide to not distribute source code gratis unless it is with the program that I sell to you.)
I filed my taxes through TurboTax for the Web using Firefox 2 on Ubuntu Gutsy without any problems. You get the warning, stating your browser isn't supported, and then you just continue anyway. It's just a disclaimer that, if you have issues with the site, they may not be able to provide technical support, as you're using an untested configuration.
You mean 500,000 GB, or ~488 TB of storage. "Hilarious" doesn't begin to describe that amount of storage space on something such as a PDA, smartphone, or portable music player. I would expect the music from a 500,000 GB iPod to leave plaid residue on your ears.
If I'm not depriving you of anything, it is not remotely stealing. Not even sketchy RIAA math of depriving potential sales being 'stealing', as frankly if you wanted to use your internet connection while someone else was connected through it, you'd hardly notice.
If you want to get technical, you're depriving the ISP of a potential sale. Instead of paying for your own connection, you use someone else's. Now, instead of getting paid for two connections (yours and your neighbor's), the ISP is only getting paid for one (your neighbor's).
For the record, I, too, run an open wireless network. I never said I cared about depriving my greedy ISP of a sale.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6#Description:
There is an AltiVec unit to POWER6, and the processor is fully compliant with the new Power ISA v.2.03 specification. POWER6 also takes advantage of ViVA-2, Virtual Vector Architecture, which enables the combination of several POWER6 nodes to act as a single Vector processor.
I had to look it up. They're characters from a show called "Arrested Development". It airs on Fox here in the States, so that explains why I've never heard of it.
rateyourmusic.com has ads that can be turned off in user preferences. I've chosen to keep them turned on to show my support for their (IMO) useful services.
What do you suggest an American could do that wouldn't land her/him in Guantanamo Bay? There's only so much an American citizen can do to dismantle the Orwellian aspects of the government and still remain within the confines of the law.
I don't obey the laws because I'm a coward. I obey the law because I have a family and I don't want to be taken away from them by people who think they have the right to do so. There's a fine line between the labels of "patriot" and "terrorist" in this country. Sometimes, there is no line. I don't want my son to grow up having a "terrorist dad". On top of that, I can't provide for my family if I'm put away. An American who did something like this to a top US government official would disappear, fast.
So, before you further spread your anti-American views, it's time for you to either put up or shut up.
No, you are incorrect. Every one of our remarks harmonizes without exception and nobody here ever opposes one another. What you composed is frankly false.
The obvious question would then be, that if all existence is cyclical, how many times has it been reset? And, what kicked it off to begin with? Who's to say it ever got "kicked off" in the first place? Why does there have to be a beginning?
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624 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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... one week later
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
68 packages upgraded,
Debian DVD images are 4.4 GB: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-dvd/
This is modded +5 Funny, but I actually had to look him up on Wikipedia and I still don't know who he is. Amazingly enough, I've not seen any movies that feature any of his songs (except Vanilla Sky, but that was a long time ago and I wouldn't consider watching it again, even for the Penelope Cruz sex scene).
Public domain software can be made proprietary. The GPL prevents this from happening.
Obviously someone cares about what CvD has to say. (S)he is currently modded +4, Insightful.
Education and awareness are the solution? If that's the case, then why are people still transmitting STDs in first-world countries?
Most people simply don't care about their computers enough to take precautionary measures to protect them. Confronted with the fact that their machine has been pwned, the typical computer user would probably say something along the lines of, "Oh well, it's only a computer. Why should I care? Leave me alone."
This is precisely why we need a citizen-backed voting platform. The Open Voting Consortium provides this. They're our votes. We should do everything in our power to protect them.
I thought this looked familiar.
KDE runs much more smoothly on my laptop than GNOME.
Even better, the rating for this experience on the page is "GOOD". Also note that it doesn't matter what you have for storage space under the "BEST" column, as long as the hard drive spins at 7200 RPM.
What is this freedb you speak of? Some watered-down version of MusicBrainz? I'm sorry, how is this relevant again? ;)
- Advancement of education
- Advancement of software for the purpose of benefiting the global community of software developers and users
Sure, much free software is written with selfish, personal goals in mind, but the net effect is all the same. If the software is free, then people can learn by studying the source code. While commercially-distributed free software is still beneficial to the community because of the freedoms that accompany the software, donation of this free software highlights an immediate intention of giving to the community. (I could develop free software and decide to not distribute source code gratis unless it is with the program that I sell to you.)I filed my taxes through TurboTax for the Web using Firefox 2 on Ubuntu Gutsy without any problems. You get the warning, stating your browser isn't supported, and then you just continue anyway. It's just a disclaimer that, if you have issues with the site, they may not be able to provide technical support, as you're using an untested configuration.
You mean 500,000 GB, or ~488 TB of storage. "Hilarious" doesn't begin to describe that amount of storage space on something such as a PDA, smartphone, or portable music player. I would expect the music from a 500,000 GB iPod to leave plaid residue on your ears.
If you want to get technical, you're depriving the ISP of a potential sale. Instead of paying for your own connection, you use someone else's. Now, instead of getting paid for two connections (yours and your neighbor's), the ISP is only getting paid for one (your neighbor's).
For the record, I, too, run an open wireless network. I never said I cared about depriving my greedy ISP of a sale.
I can vouch for that. My aging laptop supports a maximum of 512MB.
Apparently you've never heard of this one sport called "boxing". Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing
I had to look it up. They're characters from a show called "Arrested Development". It airs on Fox here in the States, so that explains why I've never heard of it.
I think you meant 37.
rateyourmusic.com has ads that can be turned off in user preferences. I've chosen to keep them turned on to show my support for their (IMO) useful services.
What do you suggest an American could do that wouldn't land her/him in Guantanamo Bay? There's only so much an American citizen can do to dismantle the Orwellian aspects of the government and still remain within the confines of the law.
I don't obey the laws because I'm a coward. I obey the law because I have a family and I don't want to be taken away from them by people who think they have the right to do so. There's a fine line between the labels of "patriot" and "terrorist" in this country. Sometimes, there is no line. I don't want my son to grow up having a "terrorist dad". On top of that, I can't provide for my family if I'm put away. An American who did something like this to a top US government official would disappear, fast.
So, before you further spread your anti-American views, it's time for you to either put up or shut up.
No, you are incorrect. Every one of our remarks harmonizes without exception and nobody here ever opposes one another. What you composed is frankly false.