To the Redmond Moderators who pushed this to +4. "Syphilis of software licenses"? "A new hammer out of clay"? No mention of viruses, worms, late patches or licensing costs? Please cite examples where "competent" Linux administrators put 2.2 or 2.4 into production use the moment they were released. Ahhh, the power of a qualifier.
Better yet, Usenet is organized by category of interest. Like garage? alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.garage. Punk? alt.binaries.punk. Usenet is a great resource for discovering new music from others who share your interests and tastes. I can't recall the last CD purchase I made that wasn't the result of a newsgroup download.
For me the big deal was that after years of development on such a critical network component by the 'best' software group in the world MS dumped it all for community code. They couldn't create anything of comparable quality. MS Winsock anyone?
A side note, I browse at a two threshold and at this point I see two posts. How does such a pro-MS, relatively content-less post such as yours make it to +4 Insightful so quickly?
There is a middle ground between web sales and N'Sync. Plenty of artists make a very good living and have international renown without ever scoring a hit, eg. Captain Beefheart. Maybe that's their aim.
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I've always found the online intructions confusing, and I run Gentoo on my two machines so count out any fear of dirty hands.
If you can't think watching tv, you probably can't think without one, either. Get a grip.
Watching TV regularly makes you accustomed to its cliches and idioms. You learn to take them for granted and they disappear. Buffy may be good TV, it doesn't approach good writing. Neither does the suffocating majority of what passes for entertainment - or information - being broadcast. I stopped watching about five years ago and start swearing at the tube after twenty minutes now. It's not violence or sexuality or anything like that, it's the unbelievably insipid and disingenuous mindset of almost every show and commercial. I'm no longer accustomed to its 'badness'.
If you grew up in abject poverty and part of every day, from earliest memory, was spent rummaging through the dump for food, you'd naturally learn to differentiate between bad trash, acceptable trash and excellent trash, but it's still TV.
If I shake a bag of magnets, is the the Force of the Divine Creator that breaks the odd by attaching north poles to south? No, the physics of magnets pre-disposes them to attach in this manner, as the physics of molecules pre-disposes them to attached in certain defined and limited manners (see crystals for example.) Coin flipping and complete randomness have nothing to do with it.
I don't find find the differences between Linux apps any wider than those between different Microsoft OS releases. Most users seem capable of overcoming the latter just fine.
If by that you mean destroyer of reasoned discourse, I'd agree. All the highly rated posts prior to yours are from 'technocrats' explaining how difficult and expensive is font creation. The reason for the lack of free fonts is that Linux and open source software is about, if it's not already obvious, software, not graphic design. It's a programmer's movement and they don't typically design fonts. And to propound that open source software's success hinges on acceptance in the graphics community is idiocy.
If there's anything here myopic and elitist here, it's your superior attitude about everything Linux.
China using Linux isn't about software - it's about politics.
The US government using Linux is about politcs too, the politics of an institution created for the public good not being reliant on a proven monopoly and having an open document structure. (Did China really say "Oh, look..."?)
Right. Without the innovation to break the last proprietary document format with an incompatible, upgrade-forcing new one, how can government possibly continue to operate? XML is "the lowest common denominator" compared to.doc? How, that the unwashed (ie. any citizen) can read it with paying the MS tax?
Think deeper. The fact that 'zilla' was popularized in a 60's Japanese movie does not lock it's usage in all commercial and non-commercial contexts in perpetuity.
Here's the question: Would a typical user, confronted with a large dinosaur-like thing that walks on its back legs and has things down its back, and breathes fire, and has a name ending in "zilla", be likely to infer an association between that product and Godzilla?
Would they confuse a web browser with a product of the Toho movie company? No, they wouldn't.
You're dreaming. THEY don't consider YOU one of THEM. The leaders of the most evil political parties of the last century all arose from the general population. A shared background is irrelevant.
Back in the early eighties a co-worker was scrambling to register as many random trade names as he and his associates could think of. Their hope was that some unwary entrepenuer who actually created value would unwittingly step on their trademark and be forced to pay up. Slimy then, slimy now.
Sometimes the good of society outweighs the financial interests of corporations.
It still doesn't make sense to go after the ISP, no more so than it does to sue telcos for the actions of telemarketters. Making the ISP responsible will have a chilling effect on Ohio's internet services, and that could only hurt the state's technology sector. Go after the spammers yes, the ISP no. Nice "save the children" hot-button press though.
....you would be suprised to see a visual representation of how much of the spectrum is eaten by analong tv and radio.
They would be. The entire FM bandwidth resides somewhere in the neighbourhood of channel 6. The entire AM bandwidth is just a fraction of the FM. In terms of occuppied bandwidth, radio simple isn't a factor. If you want to see where that spectrum really goes.
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Support for your opinion is borne out in practice: Enron, Worldcom, S&L scandals....
To the Redmond Moderators who pushed this to +4. "Syphilis of software licenses"? "A new hammer out of clay"? No mention of viruses, worms, late patches or licensing costs? Please cite examples where "competent" Linux administrators put 2.2 or 2.4 into production use the moment they were released. Ahhh, the power of a qualifier.
Better yet, Usenet is organized by category of interest. Like garage? alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.garage. Punk? alt.binaries.punk. Usenet is a great resource for discovering new music from others who share your interests and tastes. I can't recall the last CD purchase I made that wasn't the result of a newsgroup download.
Digital copyright is being legislated, there won't be any alternative product to buy.
A side note, I browse at a two threshold and at this point I see two posts. How does such a pro-MS, relatively content-less post such as yours make it to +4 Insightful so quickly?
There is a middle ground between web sales and N'Sync. Plenty of artists make a very good living and have international renown without ever scoring a hit, eg. Captain Beefheart. Maybe that's their aim.
I've always found the online intructions confusing, and I run Gentoo on my two machines so count out any fear of dirty hands.
Better phrased: not valid but legal.
Watching TV regularly makes you accustomed to its cliches and idioms. You learn to take them for granted and they disappear. Buffy may be good TV, it doesn't approach good writing. Neither does the suffocating majority of what passes for entertainment - or information - being broadcast. I stopped watching about five years ago and start swearing at the tube after twenty minutes now. It's not violence or sexuality or anything like that, it's the unbelievably insipid and disingenuous mindset of almost every show and commercial. I'm no longer accustomed to its 'badness'.
If you grew up in abject poverty and part of every day, from earliest memory, was spent rummaging through the dump for food, you'd naturally learn to differentiate between bad trash, acceptable trash and excellent trash, but it's still TV.
If I shake a bag of magnets, is the the Force of the Divine Creator that breaks the odd by attaching north poles to south? No, the physics of magnets pre-disposes them to attach in this manner, as the physics of molecules pre-disposes them to attached in certain defined and limited manners (see crystals for example.) Coin flipping and complete randomness have nothing to do with it.
Just another broad swipe at this forum without bothering to read the prior posts. Yours is the first mention of multi-button mice I saw.
I don't find find the differences between Linux apps any wider than those between different Microsoft OS releases. Most users seem capable of overcoming the latter just fine.
If by that you mean destroyer of reasoned discourse, I'd agree. All the highly rated posts prior to yours are from 'technocrats' explaining how difficult and expensive is font creation. The reason for the lack of free fonts is that Linux and open source software is about, if it's not already obvious, software, not graphic design. It's a programmer's movement and they don't typically design fonts. And to propound that open source software's success hinges on acceptance in the graphics community is idiocy.
If there's anything here myopic and elitist here, it's your superior attitude about everything Linux.
The US government using Linux is about politcs too, the politics of an institution created for the public good not being reliant on a proven monopoly and having an open document structure. (Did China really say "Oh, look..."?)
Right. Without the innovation to break the last proprietary document format with an incompatible, upgrade-forcing new one, how can government possibly continue to operate? XML is "the lowest common denominator" compared to .doc? How, that the unwashed (ie. any citizen) can read it with paying the MS tax?
Think deeper. The fact that 'zilla' was popularized in a 60's Japanese movie does not lock it's usage in all commercial and non-commercial contexts in perpetuity.
Here's the question: Would a typical user, confronted with a large dinosaur-like thing that walks on its back legs and has things down its back, and breathes fire, and has a name ending in "zilla", be likely to infer an association between that product and Godzilla?
Would they confuse a web browser with a product of the Toho movie company? No, they wouldn't.
You're dreaming. THEY don't consider YOU one of THEM. The leaders of the most evil political parties of the last century all arose from the general population. A shared background is irrelevant.
Open Source Journalism?
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As usual the raving paranoids run rampant here and people's opinions are like assholes, numerous, rife and stinky.
in the same post? Practice what you preach.
No pun intended I presume.
Back in the early eighties a co-worker was scrambling to register as many random trade names as he and his associates could think of. Their hope was that some unwary entrepenuer who actually created value would unwittingly step on their trademark and be forced to pay up. Slimy then, slimy now.
Then you're for legislation against unsolicited phone calls?
It still doesn't make sense to go after the ISP, no more so than it does to sue telcos for the actions of telemarketters. Making the ISP responsible will have a chilling effect on Ohio's internet services, and that could only hurt the state's technology sector. Go after the spammers yes, the ISP no. Nice "save the children" hot-button press though.
The entire broadcast band, TV and radio, occupies about 500 MHz of a 300 GHz spectrum allotment.
They would be. The entire FM bandwidth resides somewhere in the neighbourhood of channel 6. The entire AM bandwidth is just a fraction of the FM. In terms of occuppied bandwidth, radio simple isn't a factor. If you want to see where that spectrum really goes.