It's really sad that after all that effort to make an educational documentary, and all of the hype the education documentary got, that when it is all done, people are being told that what it says in the movie isn't REALLY what they meant. That they meant something else.
Al Gore did not say that you need to reduce your energy use to zero. He suggested that you reduce your carbon output to zero. Since this means no breathing or decaying, it calls for you to take a trip to a permanently frozen location with a plastic bag to suffocate yourself with. Clearly anyone unwilling to take Al Gores suggestion of zero carbon output either doesn't believe him, or doesn't care.
Which is why I say that all companies and CEOs whos companies use DRM should start being called 'child molestors' for molesting our internal child. Once that has been done for a little while, then it will be entirely legitimate to call the heads of most software companies child molesters.
Usually an Electrical Engineer CAN wire his house. Since he owns it, and can make repairs to it in most places. He just cannot rewire YOUR house (and then generally this only applies to 'for pay' work). Honestly, finding an Electrical Engineer that was not qualified to rewire a house would be an argument against what you are tying to convince us of.
Well, since the radio waves would not be getting to the power companies receivers anyways, who cars. If I dig an irrigation ditch for my garden so that the water that the water company next door keeps spilling into my yard, I am doing a good thing. Same with electricity.
The difficult part is finding a large enough group that 1) doesn't undestand what the internet is, 2) doesn't understand what a computer is, and 3) cares about playing video games.
In the past this was difficult to find. Apparently it is easier now.
I just bought an EEE pc yesterday. My choice was BOTH. Some of the numbers are skewed because every person that buys a netbook for dual boot gets counted as a Window machine. I expect to use the machine primarily with Linux, but since I might want to occasionally run Windows, I might as well get the discounted copy.
I bought an EEE pc 1000 with XP with the intent of erasing Windows and putting on Linux. The reason I bought it with XP is because I might want XP on it at some times in the the future. If I don't get XP on it now, it will be much more expensive in the future if it is available at all. Linux on the other hand is guaranteed to be available for free both now and in the future.
1) Saying that running fiber is not offering data services is a little like saying, that flashing light across that fiber isn't running data services either. It is pretty well established that running data grade fiber optics is part of a data service. Perticularly since they will need to be testing the data capabilities of that fiber since they own it and are going to be renting it's use for data services.
2) A single fiber optic line, or even 2 or 3, is going to lead to more monopolies. Unless the municipality sets up and maintains their own routers so that multiple companies can link in, they are only going to be able to lease the line to one company. If they do set up routers to allow multiple companies to connect, then even the thin claim that they are not providing data services goes out the window.
Or better yet, run conduit to each and every home and just run out the space to any and all comers. Cities are already well versed in how to run conduit to homes. The current sewer lines are more than big enough to easily handle 20 or 30 lines per household. This is FAR more than necessary to ensure real competition.
This removes the monopolies suing problem as there is no data services being supplied by the cities, and at the same time it brings in revenue.
I say that the solution is a Linux solution since the Author supports the application running on Wine. If the Author supports it, then to me it is as much a Linux solution as any other app that uses external libraries.
No, you are missing the point. YouTube is selling our services. That is how advertising funded businesses work. We are not their customers. We are their laborers. Their advertisers are their customers. When you do work for someone, and you don't like their behavior, one option is to quit. Another option is to complain and try to get their other laborers to quit helping them behave socially irresponsible.
I would go so far as to say that it is the corporate sense of entitlement that is the problem here. They are allowed to exist for the benefit of the citizens, but the sense of entitlement has gotten so bad that the idea that they owe anything to the people who make their existence possible is incomprehensible to them.
You are absolutely correct. It isn't even always 'bad' that the contractor produces more short term code. I have been a full time contractor to a single company for 10 years now. There is plenty of long term code that I write now for them that I would never have considered writing in the first year I was working for them. Why? Because they had gone through a dozen contractors before me, and much of the long term code I write doesn't get implemented for a couple of years. I have learned the company culture, and can tell what directions the applications will evolve, and thus, I can spend a few extra days writing the parts of the application to be configurable so that when the business requirements (or a person with clout's whim changes) we can just go in and flip a switch to get the new required functionality.
Burning hours/money to make those options configurable would be irresponsible for someone that doesn't know the company culture, or if it is unlikely that they will be used because the next contractor isn't even going to be aware that it is there. This becomes even more so when you implement half of a feature because you are already making a change to that part of an application suite, and you know that a year or two down the line the functionality will be needed for work you will be doing on another piece of the suite.
There is nothing 'sad' about it. Many movements are pushed by a minority of people who understand the issue. For the same reason that YouTube can choose not to stand up for fair use, people who understand how important it is can criticize them for not doing it. They can also make as big of a stink as they can to try to bring awareness to the issue. Heck, they can even work to get the average Joe to get riled up and pissed at YouTube to make fighting for fair use the thing that best protects their profit margins.
Writing them and e-mailing them to gripe isn't the answer. The answer is to get lots of people to write and gripe and boycott. This is accomplished through lots of public complaining.
"Partially true. In fact, we have only ONE workable solution: kill off 90% of the human race and condemn those who remain to a pre-industrial-age existence of poverty, disease and starvation"
Bingo!!! Anyone who does not support population reduction and claims to be 'environmentally conscious' is a hypocrite. I don't know if pre-industrial-age existence is absolutely necessary to clean up the environment, as there does come a point where the effects of human activity are cleared out by non-human environmental factors as fast as humans can create them. Of course, this equilibrium might require reducing the population by 98% or more.
I have to agree with you. People that say the death penalty should always be as painless as possible don't seem to consider the fact that if given the choice, there are huge numbers of people that would happily choose to die a painless death at 69 if that meant that they could commit horrific acts and rule as a king for most of it. Telling someone that they will die a peaceful painless death at 69 just isn't much of a deterrent.
I do always hate hearing the term "Genocide". As far as I know, Hussein did not wipe out an entire Genome. As far as I know, he did not even try. "Genocide" is an exaggeration that gets thrown around when someone is enough of a "bad guy" that no one will step up as say, "No, he was ruthlessly killing people in and around his countries boarders. He was not trying to kill an entire genome.", because they don't want to sound like they are siding with the bad guy.
If they want to move people off of XP, MS needs to include an XP VM in Windows 7. They then need to get their VM to have full pass through to the video card (or some other magic so that 3d games run well in the VM). If they did this, most die hard XP users would generally be ok with installing newer versions of Windows, as all of their old software and games would run.
Comparing US civilian deaths in WWII to countries where the fighting actually took place is disingenious. I would leave that part out the next time you make that argument. It seriously hurts your credibility.
Also, Nazi Germans are not usually considered "Brown People".
It's kind of funny. For all of the complaining about the US that people like to do, I hear US citizens complaining about the huge number of people that come here and insult our leaders.
I might be inclined to agree with you if I had ever seen a single instance of even one original creation. Every single one I have ever seen... Yes, EVERY single one has been derivative from someone's work before them. It is never a question of whether you have copied another persons work. It is only a question of how much you copy before someone starts complaining.
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It's really sad that after all that effort to make an educational documentary, and all of the hype the education documentary got, that when it is all done, people are being told that what it says in the movie isn't REALLY what they meant. That they meant something else.
That is some fine irony you have there...
Al Gore did not say that you need to reduce your energy use to zero. He suggested that you reduce your carbon output to zero. Since this means no breathing or decaying, it calls for you to take a trip to a permanently frozen location with a plastic bag to suffocate yourself with. Clearly anyone unwilling to take Al Gores suggestion of zero carbon output either doesn't believe him, or doesn't care.
Which is why I say that all companies and CEOs whos companies use DRM should start being called 'child molestors' for molesting our internal child. Once that has been done for a little while, then it will be entirely legitimate to call the heads of most software companies child molesters.
Usually an Electrical Engineer CAN wire his house. Since he owns it, and can make repairs to it in most places. He just cannot rewire YOUR house (and then generally this only applies to 'for pay' work). Honestly, finding an Electrical Engineer that was not qualified to rewire a house would be an argument against what you are tying to convince us of.
Well, since the radio waves would not be getting to the power companies receivers anyways, who cars. If I dig an irrigation ditch for my garden so that the water that the water company next door keeps spilling into my yard, I am doing a good thing. Same with electricity.
Not if it is a sales tax. No sale = No sales tax.
The difficult part is finding a large enough group that 1) doesn't undestand what the internet is, 2) doesn't understand what a computer is, and 3) cares about playing video games.
In the past this was difficult to find. Apparently it is easier now.
I just bought an EEE pc yesterday. My choice was BOTH. Some of the numbers are skewed because every person that buys a netbook for dual boot gets counted as a Window machine. I expect to use the machine primarily with Linux, but since I might want to occasionally run Windows, I might as well get the discounted copy.
I bought an EEE pc 1000 with XP with the intent of erasing Windows and putting on Linux. The reason I bought it with XP is because I might want XP on it at some times in the the future. If I don't get XP on it now, it will be much more expensive in the future if it is available at all. Linux on the other hand is guaranteed to be available for free both now and in the future.
1) Saying that running fiber is not offering data services is a little like saying, that flashing light across that fiber isn't running data services either. It is pretty well established that running data grade fiber optics is part of a data service. Perticularly since they will need to be testing the data capabilities of that fiber since they own it and are going to be renting it's use for data services.
2) A single fiber optic line, or even 2 or 3, is going to lead to more monopolies. Unless the municipality sets up and maintains their own routers so that multiple companies can link in, they are only going to be able to lease the line to one company. If they do set up routers to allow multiple companies to connect, then even the thin claim that they are not providing data services goes out the window.
Or better yet, run conduit to each and every home and just run out the space to any and all comers. Cities are already well versed in how to run conduit to homes. The current sewer lines are more than big enough to easily handle 20 or 30 lines per household. This is FAR more than necessary to ensure real competition.
This removes the monopolies suing problem as there is no data services being supplied by the cities, and at the same time it brings in revenue.
I don't know about where you live, but where I live, an employer can fire you without reason at any time.
I say that the solution is a Linux solution since the Author supports the application running on Wine. If the Author supports it, then to me it is as much a Linux solution as any other app that uses external libraries.
No, you are missing the point. YouTube is selling our services. That is how advertising funded businesses work. We are not their customers. We are their laborers. Their advertisers are their customers. When you do work for someone, and you don't like their behavior, one option is to quit. Another option is to complain and try to get their other laborers to quit helping them behave socially irresponsible.
I would go so far as to say that it is the corporate sense of entitlement that is the problem here. They are allowed to exist for the benefit of the citizens, but the sense of entitlement has gotten so bad that the idea that they owe anything to the people who make their existence possible is incomprehensible to them.
YouTube's very existence that is not a right.
You are absolutely correct. It isn't even always 'bad' that the contractor produces more short term code. I have been a full time contractor to a single company for 10 years now. There is plenty of long term code that I write now for them that I would never have considered writing in the first year I was working for them. Why? Because they had gone through a dozen contractors before me, and much of the long term code I write doesn't get implemented for a couple of years. I have learned the company culture, and can tell what directions the applications will evolve, and thus, I can spend a few extra days writing the parts of the application to be configurable so that when the business requirements (or a person with clout's whim changes) we can just go in and flip a switch to get the new required functionality.
Burning hours/money to make those options configurable would be irresponsible for someone that doesn't know the company culture, or if it is unlikely that they will be used because the next contractor isn't even going to be aware that it is there. This becomes even more so when you implement half of a feature because you are already making a change to that part of an application suite, and you know that a year or two down the line the functionality will be needed for work you will be doing on another piece of the suite.
There is nothing 'sad' about it. Many movements are pushed by a minority of people who understand the issue. For the same reason that YouTube can choose not to stand up for fair use, people who understand how important it is can criticize them for not doing it. They can also make as big of a stink as they can to try to bring awareness to the issue. Heck, they can even work to get the average Joe to get riled up and pissed at YouTube to make fighting for fair use the thing that best protects their profit margins. Writing them and e-mailing them to gripe isn't the answer. The answer is to get lots of people to write and gripe and boycott. This is accomplished through lots of public complaining.
"Partially true. In fact, we have only ONE workable solution: kill off 90% of the human race and condemn those who remain to a pre-industrial-age existence of poverty, disease and starvation"
Bingo!!! Anyone who does not support population reduction and claims to be 'environmentally conscious' is a hypocrite. I don't know if pre-industrial-age existence is absolutely necessary to clean up the environment, as there does come a point where the effects of human activity are cleared out by non-human environmental factors as fast as humans can create them. Of course, this equilibrium might require reducing the population by 98% or more.
I have to agree with you. People that say the death penalty should always be as painless as possible don't seem to consider the fact that if given the choice, there are huge numbers of people that would happily choose to die a painless death at 69 if that meant that they could commit horrific acts and rule as a king for most of it. Telling someone that they will die a peaceful painless death at 69 just isn't much of a deterrent.
I do always hate hearing the term "Genocide". As far as I know, Hussein did not wipe out an entire Genome. As far as I know, he did not even try. "Genocide" is an exaggeration that gets thrown around when someone is enough of a "bad guy" that no one will step up as say, "No, he was ruthlessly killing people in and around his countries boarders. He was not trying to kill an entire genome.", because they don't want to sound like they are siding with the bad guy.
If they want to move people off of XP, MS needs to include an XP VM in Windows 7. They then need to get their VM to have full pass through to the video card (or some other magic so that 3d games run well in the VM). If they did this, most die hard XP users would generally be ok with installing newer versions of Windows, as all of their old software and games would run.
Comparing US civilian deaths in WWII to countries where the fighting actually took place is disingenious. I would leave that part out the next time you make that argument. It seriously hurts your credibility.
Also, Nazi Germans are not usually considered "Brown People".
The problems is that then you would have people confused between Buffy/Jericho and late night Skinamax.
Oops.. I DONT hear US citizens complaining about the huge number of people that come here and insult our leaders.
It's kind of funny. For all of the complaining about the US that people like to do, I hear US citizens complaining about the huge number of people that come here and insult our leaders.
I might be inclined to agree with you if I had ever seen a single instance of even one original creation. Every single one I have ever seen... Yes, EVERY single one has been derivative from someone's work before them. It is never a question of whether you have copied another persons work. It is only a question of how much you copy before someone starts complaining.