It's still required reading in most high schools. It's also fairly short and well-written, in addition to being somewhat anti-establishment, so there's a good chance that most teens will know of the book.
Besides, it's not like they're actually doing anything against PyMusique, which makes them money off of a market to which they're not actually catering.
Granted, being able to use the same program to rip, burn, play, and export to my iPod would be nice, but I'm a Linux user. I can deal.
I'm about to take a final on the subject in 15 minutes. Therefore, instead of writing a long, drawn out reply to the topic, I'll reference everyone to my LiveJournal, where I wrote something on the topic.
The religious fundies scare me, and should just shut up when it comes to science.
Nothing's wrong with more people testing code. It's something I'd like to do more of, honestly. I like fixing the problems and flying by the seat of my pants. My friends called me crazy when I changed my/etc/apt/sources.list file to read for Breezy the day they opened it.
Of course, numquam negavi me insanum esse, but at the same time, it's the kind of thing that makes me cackle with glee.
Exactly what I was thinking. Only...y'know, more fun (in the sarcastic sense).
Finally, a truly unstable Debian package repository that really is on the bleeding edge. Tried Debian Experimental, wasn't too impressed by the lameness.
Indeed, they do. Most of the Debian-based distros use a Debian build hosted by either the Debian Foundation or the distro's supporting company (for example, Ubuntu's version of the.deb and the Ubuntu Backports project's.deb for Firefox are both hosted on their own respective servers).
Also, if you want an RPM build, you've got to get that yourself, unless things have changed since the last time I ran an RPM-based distro. I'm not sure about Autopackage's hosting, but it's probably on Mozilla's servers.
Gentoo is the only distribution that I can think of off the top of my head with its own independent (not tar.gz/tar.bz/tar.bz2) package management system that takes from the project's servers.
Well, yeah, Gentoo is a crystal meth fueled penguin used primarily by people who themselves have had a bit too much crystal meth themselves.
Ubuntu and Kubuntu are both actual words from languages in the Bantu language family that mean basically the same thing. Of course, the weird feeling doesn't go away if you have the alternate GDM theme and Ubuntu Calendar desktop activated...because that's just about threesomes.
Mandriva, again, was a bad name. Mandrake should have kept the name.
Everybody was passed out drunk. I've already drawn silly stuff on their faces with the magic marker. Yes, I'm that immature. I'm just here because I'm bored and have a higher alcohol tolerance than the rest of the gang.
You do know that MS doesn't make most games for the Xbox, right?
Excel I'll give you, if you're refering to 97--other versions are bloated crap. I've had far better experiences with even OOo's spreadsheet. As for Publisher, don't make me laugh. I wouldn't touch that piece of shit for any amount of money. Of course, I'm used to far higher quality desktop publishing software, so perhaps I'm biased, though perhaps I might recommend trying Scribus.
Visio I haven't had any contact with, but it's not something that I have any concievable use for in the first place. I prefer to draw things out by hand and scan them in. Of course, I'm old-school like that. Besides, there are free drop-in replacements for that, too.
Again, 7 years. Office 97 was the last good thing I saw from them.
It appears you're missing "are belong" in the Latin. Might I suggest either "sum", which would give the same "MY LANGUAGE IZ PASTEDE ON YAY!" feel as the really bad English translation of the same sentence?
Of course, if you really want to be proper, you could just use "sunt".
I'm not in great need of money, despite being broke. However, my karma sucks ass, and therefore needs massive improvment if I expect to get anything good out of this life or the next.
Of course, this isn't true for a large number (dare I say majority?) of people, but I never presumed to speak for them.
Omit Microsoft from your statment. It's been over 7 years since they produced anything that could be termed good, even under the loosest definitions of the word.
Seriously, I've had more headaches and frustration from attempts to use Microsoft software in the past 12 months than I have from taking organic chemistry--and I've been using Linux on my own computers almost exclusively during that time.
I don't care so much about Open Source advocacy among my non-programming friends. They generally don't care how something is developed. As for my developer friends, it's only because the Open Source model is more productive.
Among my average user friends, I advocate free software for liability's sake. Most of my friends are broke college students like myself. 99% of the proprietary applications they're running are pirated. Now, I live in a country where the government is corrupt and has declared open season on media producers, users, and consumers on behalf of the media distributors who don't want to change their business model. (You ask what kind of f*cked up country I live in? It's a corperate welfare state known as the Corperation's Republic of the United States of America.) The fact is that if my friends cannot afford the proprietary licenses, they most certainly cannot afford the lawsuits that the distributors, who are generally the ones who get the copyrights due to their arrangements they force upon the media producers.
Free software avoids this problem, as its producers have stated that anyone can help produce, study, or redistribute their media (essentially turning everyone into a media producer) with a guarntee that those rights will not be revoked. Furthermore, under free licenses, my friends can use the programs that they can aquire for free for any purpose: they can continue to use the programs when they leave the academic world. Compare this to the proprietary software world, where my country's law and academic licenses demand that students stop using the software that they have aquired legitimately upon completion of their academic careers, regardless of whether the program itself has changed.
It's all about looking out for my friends. They are good people who don't deserve to be blackmailed out of their money by greedy and lazy media distributors just so that they can get their work done. They don't deserve to have to suffer through the indignity of the lawsuits that the predatory media distributors would inflict upon them just so that they can write their papers and whatnot.
Free software means never having to be raped by the government and the media distributors that control it.
You ask why we don't try to ouster them? Simply put, every politician in our country that runs for office is a sockpuppet for the media producers. If we were to take arms against the producers, the government will use its army against us. If you've seen our army in action, they can overrun entire countries in the course of two weeks, leaving naught but bodies and rubble in their wake. Furthermore, a vast majority of the citizenry would stand against such a revolt, as they're people of sub-par intelligence. Civil disobedience is our only option, and the only way that can work is if we can fight with our pocketbooks. They cannot sue us under my country's law if we go to the producers directly, an action that only free software allows.
That, my friends, is why I advocate for free software. I can't afford not to do so.
FYI, that's the repository for such laws, covering all sorts of online discussion. It's also the corpus of law from which we Internet Lawyers prosecute.
Slashdot Mirror
It's still required reading in most high schools. It's also fairly short and well-written, in addition to being somewhat anti-establishment, so there's a good chance that most teens will know of the book.
You're fooling yourselves! We're living in a dictatorship! A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
(gets cut off by female companion)
Besides, it's not like they're actually doing anything against PyMusique, which makes them money off of a market to which they're not actually catering.
Granted, being able to use the same program to rip, burn, play, and export to my iPod would be nice, but I'm a Linux user. I can deal.
PyMusique works just fine. Purchased a bit of Spinal Tap off of them just now through PyMusique.
What I think that the grandparent is saying is that there should be philosophy classes in your public schools.
It'd probably be a good thing, as it would expose the kids to more variety in thought early on, and would get them ready for life.
Of course, the school system has nothing to do with life.
I'm about to take a final on the subject in 15 minutes. Therefore, instead of writing a long, drawn out reply to the topic, I'll reference everyone to my LiveJournal, where I wrote something on the topic.
The religious fundies scare me, and should just shut up when it comes to science.
I think I earned that one a long time ago.
Of course, that might have been after I turned 18, so it might not count.
Perhaps nobody's told you of Lesbian GNU/Linux. Same idea as Debian, but uses the command "porn-get" to install programs/pr0n.
Of course, there's also LinuXXX, which, oddly enough, is Ubuntu-based.
Nothing's wrong with more people testing code. It's something I'd like to do more of, honestly. I like fixing the problems and flying by the seat of my pants. My friends called me crazy when I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to read for Breezy the day they opened it.
Of course, numquam negavi me insanum esse, but at the same time, it's the kind of thing that makes me cackle with glee.
Exactly what I was thinking. Only...y'know, more fun (in the sarcastic sense).
Finally, a truly unstable Debian package repository that really is on the bleeding edge. Tried Debian Experimental, wasn't too impressed by the lameness.
Indeed, they do. Most of the Debian-based distros use a Debian build hosted by either the Debian Foundation or the distro's supporting company (for example, Ubuntu's version of the .deb and the Ubuntu Backports project's .deb for Firefox are both hosted on their own respective servers).
Also, if you want an RPM build, you've got to get that yourself, unless things have changed since the last time I ran an RPM-based distro. I'm not sure about Autopackage's hosting, but it's probably on Mozilla's servers.
Gentoo is the only distribution that I can think of off the top of my head with its own independent (not tar.gz/tar.bz/tar.bz2) package management system that takes from the project's servers.
Well, yeah, Gentoo is a crystal meth fueled penguin used primarily by people who themselves have had a bit too much crystal meth themselves.
Ubuntu and Kubuntu are both actual words from languages in the Bantu language family that mean basically the same thing. Of course, the weird feeling doesn't go away if you have the alternate GDM theme and Ubuntu Calendar desktop activated...because that's just about threesomes.
Mandriva, again, was a bad name. Mandrake should have kept the name.
Everybody was passed out drunk. I've already drawn silly stuff on their faces with the magic marker. Yes, I'm that immature. I'm just here because I'm bored and have a higher alcohol tolerance than the rest of the gang.
To me, there really isn't much worth in a game system. I'm too busy actually having a social life to care.
And since what I stated was an opinion, there's no right or wrong. Ha!
You do know that MS doesn't make most games for the Xbox, right?
Excel I'll give you, if you're refering to 97--other versions are bloated crap. I've had far better experiences with even OOo's spreadsheet. As for Publisher, don't make me laugh. I wouldn't touch that piece of shit for any amount of money. Of course, I'm used to far higher quality desktop publishing software, so perhaps I'm biased, though perhaps I might recommend trying Scribus.
Visio I haven't had any contact with, but it's not something that I have any concievable use for in the first place. I prefer to draw things out by hand and scan them in. Of course, I'm old-school like that. Besides, there are free drop-in replacements for that, too.
Again, 7 years. Office 97 was the last good thing I saw from them.
I probably should have been more specific: the software they've produced has been crap.
Their mice/keyboards are usable.
Your sig slightly bothers me.
It appears you're missing "are belong" in the Latin. Might I suggest either "sum", which would give the same "MY LANGUAGE IZ PASTEDE ON YAY!" feel as the really bad English translation of the same sentence?
Of course, if you really want to be proper, you could just use "sunt".
That, mei amice, is why everyone here does it, I think.
Have you ever spent 6 hours or more removing spyware from a Windows computer?
Ever done it multiple times in one week?
I call that a few quick bucks, mi amice.
I'm not in great need of money, despite being broke. However, my karma sucks ass, and therefore needs massive improvment if I expect to get anything good out of this life or the next.
Of course, this isn't true for a large number (dare I say majority?) of people, but I never presumed to speak for them.
Omit Microsoft from your statment. It's been over 7 years since they produced anything that could be termed good, even under the loosest definitions of the word.
Seriously, I've had more headaches and frustration from attempts to use Microsoft software in the past 12 months than I have from taking organic chemistry--and I've been using Linux on my own computers almost exclusively during that time.
Yeah, I find that it does improve the viability of my fantasies about getting laid.
Or not. But it does mean that I can make really bad puns like that.
I don't care so much about Open Source advocacy among my non-programming friends. They generally don't care how something is developed. As for my developer friends, it's only because the Open Source model is more productive.
Among my average user friends, I advocate free software for liability's sake. Most of my friends are broke college students like myself. 99% of the proprietary applications they're running are pirated. Now, I live in a country where the government is corrupt and has declared open season on media producers, users, and consumers on behalf of the media distributors who don't want to change their business model. (You ask what kind of f*cked up country I live in? It's a corperate welfare state known as the Corperation's Republic of the United States of America.) The fact is that if my friends cannot afford the proprietary licenses, they most certainly cannot afford the lawsuits that the distributors, who are generally the ones who get the copyrights due to their arrangements they force upon the media producers.
Free software avoids this problem, as its producers have stated that anyone can help produce, study, or redistribute their media (essentially turning everyone into a media producer) with a guarntee that those rights will not be revoked. Furthermore, under free licenses, my friends can use the programs that they can aquire for free for any purpose: they can continue to use the programs when they leave the academic world. Compare this to the proprietary software world, where my country's law and academic licenses demand that students stop using the software that they have aquired legitimately upon completion of their academic careers, regardless of whether the program itself has changed.
It's all about looking out for my friends. They are good people who don't deserve to be blackmailed out of their money by greedy and lazy media distributors just so that they can get their work done. They don't deserve to have to suffer through the indignity of the lawsuits that the predatory media distributors would inflict upon them just so that they can write their papers and whatnot.
Free software means never having to be raped by the government and the media distributors that control it.
You ask why we don't try to ouster them? Simply put, every politician in our country that runs for office is a sockpuppet for the media producers. If we were to take arms against the producers, the government will use its army against us. If you've seen our army in action, they can overrun entire countries in the course of two weeks, leaving naught but bodies and rubble in their wake. Furthermore, a vast majority of the citizenry would stand against such a revolt, as they're people of sub-par intelligence. Civil disobedience is our only option, and the only way that can work is if we can fight with our pocketbooks. They cannot sue us under my country's law if we go to the producers directly, an action that only free software allows.
That, my friends, is why I advocate for free software. I can't afford not to do so.
Done, and attributed to you.
FYI, that's the repository for such laws, covering all sorts of online discussion. It's also the corpus of law from which we Internet Lawyers prosecute.
Alas, BitTorrent man isn't able to come to my rescue. University firewall and all that jazz.
However, I did see the ad via a mirror. Thank you, cashing services!