Great, not only does every point release of the Linux kernels makes front page news on slashdot, now it makes it even before it's released. Meanwhile news about Hurd gets clubbed together with other news items and even that gets responses like "is this news? why is this reported?". Slashdot is just like one of those hollywood celebrity magazines (whatever they're called).
AFAIK, Apple (and also Steve Jobs) is the biggest IP terrorist there is. They just don't want anyone else earning anything through something that even remotely relates to them or don't want anyone to have it for free. So when Wiley, a big computer related books publisher, publishes a book about Jobs, Apple see a few dollars going to someone else and they want it for themselves instead so they ban *all* books of that publisher from their stores. It surprises me how noone else gets this point. What doesn't surprise me, though, is the fact that Apple zealots are now going to mod me down as troll.
OK, thanks for telling me that there is an exception to a general rule. You see, when people say "all", they really, honestly do mean all without any exception whatsoever. But you knew that, since you swallow less bullshit than me.
I'm saying something negative about the majority of MBAs. You're an MBA too. But I'm not saying that you have a small penis. Get over it.
Please RTA (no "fucking"). After reading the summary, at least read these two paragraphs:
My gratitude is limited, since it was McVoy that created the problem in the first place. But I still appreciate his decision to clear it up.
There are thousands of non-free programs, and most merit no special attention, other than developing a free replacement. What made this program, BitKeeper, infamous and dangerous was its marketing approach: inviting high-profile free software projects to use it, so as to attract other paying users.
What I'm trying to say is, RMS is not saying "Thanks for killing the governer, now you'll wake up the authorities and make them take some action about the crime rate" which is what some slashdotters would say in their comments. I mean, RMS not being sarcastic. He's actually thanking McVoy for stopping BK ("free" version) and thus making Linus look for some free tool etc etc (read the paragraphs). The summary almost makes him look like a hardass (almost).
Yeah, economy depends on proprietary software "products". After all, there is no such thing as a "software services" industry which forms the majority of the software industry. And people who do work in such a non-existent services industry don't have free time to write something they want to release as free. And universities don't have students (bright students, the ones who'll go on to become big people in the industry) who'd write free software out of their own free will. Or professors or research staff. Governments don't fund anything either. And there is no such thing as hardware/services companies supporting free software development which, in a direct or indirect way, helps the company back. We all know that IBM or OSDL (funded by many companies) or the many other companies which produce Open Source software and yet stay in business do not exist. And now that bastard RMS is using the shit load of money he has and the market monopoly he commands to force people to fulfill his selfish needs of maintaining his home computers and cleaning his toilets. What a bully.
BTW, if you mark me as a foe, no need to give me a reason. I don't give a shit about "enemies" I make on slashdot.
It's a matter of admiration. Programmers/Open Source supporters admire people like James Gosling or Linus Torvalds. MBAs admire people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates (and probably have neutral opinions of Gosling/Torvalds) because they have "achieved" things that MBAs strive for. And therefore progammers admire/respect programming/design/Open Source etc. MBAs admire Microsoft, Apple etc. Thus, programmers/Open Source supporters give more regard to technical facts and Open Source personalities. MBAs give more regard to "research" funded or supported by companies like Microsoft or Apple (Apple supporters wait, don't stone me to death yet. I'm not necessarily saying that Apple does such things. I'm just saying that if it did, then MBAs would swallow it.)
I'm not an American, but I'm guessing that SSNs are only useful when combined with the Names (and maybe addresses) of the people. And that SSNs are not created serially, but randomly. Am I correct?
Are US politicians (or whoever was supposed to look at that document) so dumb that they can't grasp critical information if it's not provided in big shiny colours like in hollywood movies? I'm guessing not. I remember seeing something like this about NASA, the Columbia shuttle disaster and powerpoint presentations. People (especially people who make it to NASA) aren't that dumb. I hope.
Actually your post only supports my point. Your post says that in Capitalism, businesses and services are not government owned or controlled (most of them) and are privately held. It's more or less the opposite in Communism. The issue at hand is that the government is making people pay (through tax money) and providing a service for them. The government is controlling a business (or service). The supporters of the new law want this service of the government to be stopped, so that private companies, in the true spirit of capitalism, can do business without the government competing with them. (Although I'm not sure whether that's one of the points the supporters are using). Really. These are some of the basic principles of capitalism and communism from which stem all the other ideas, like free market.
Communism is usually where the government owns and controls everything. A government providing a service to the people does not fall under the catagory of communism.
Your two sentences contradict each other. Both the issue at hand, and things like state owned telecom are just government provided "services".
How intelligent. People will start downloading to make him swim and the marketing department will get very nice figures to use in Ads. "1 million downloads in 4 days! Better than firefox (ed: I think). Don't YOU want to download it too?" "1 million think it's great. What do YOU think?". Heck, even a large number of people who downloaded themselves are going to try out Opera and many of them will even switch to and maybe even buy the commercial version. Shit loads of cash for Opera. And everything will be even more better for Opera if the figures reach 9,80,000 in four days. Or if they have an "internal" memo which says something along this lines of this will only apply for the Windows version of Opera. (Wait, isn't the Windows version the only version available for download now?) Personally, I try not to use anything from companies which do publicity stunts like this. I didn't download it. I ask you not to do so too.
Err, I'm going to get modded down for saying this but... Doesn't the government providing such a service to the people using tax money make it communistic? In capitalism the government doesn't provide services like this (and doesn't make people pay for this) and lets private companies/people take care of this. Isn't that the idea of capitalism?
Nice troll. Tell the full fucking story. The Supreme Court of India actually sent a notice to the Central government and the Delhi state government questioning the constitutionality of a law that punishes homosexuality. It's almost the opposite of what you say. Here's a source.
At the risk of getting modded as redundant I'll say it... for those who don't find this obvious -- Tridgell "reverse-engineering" BK was just an excuse for McVoy to pull back the free version. And this article only makes it more obvious. McVoy just needed to point his finger at someone. And Torvalds just followed McVoy's leads (or vice-versa).
OK, please stop comparing reverse-engineering BK to making a UNIX clone. And don't compare make a BK clone to making a UNIX clone. First of all, what Tridgell was doing to BK was reverse-engineering, while there's no need to reverse-engineer (for the most part) UNIX to make clone. The entire specifications of a UNIX system are completely documented, and it's actually encouraged to make a standard-compliant 'clone'. And this is the same reason why making a BK clone is not similar to making a UNIX clone. Too many differences, like BK doesn't support people making clones and points I've already said etc etc.
[But I'm on Tridgell's side in this issue though.]
Whenever there is an article about software patents in USA or EU, everyone on slashdot (or rather, the Americans) start condemning patents and say that the very concept of software patents are bad. They even said the same thing on the article about introduction of software patents in India. But on this article about the stopping of software patents in India, it is suddenly about "protecting" US "property" and how Indians and people of other developing countries steal it. If software patents are wrong, they are wrong everywhere and so no one is stealing anything from anyone by "defying" software patents. I'm starting to get a picture of how Americans look at "freedom", economy and developing countries. And it's pretty bad.
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Great, not only does every point release of the Linux kernels makes front page news on slashdot, now it makes it even before it's released. Meanwhile news about Hurd gets clubbed together with other news items and even that gets responses like "is this news? why is this reported?". Slashdot is just like one of those hollywood celebrity magazines (whatever they're called).
AFAIK, Apple (and also Steve Jobs) is the biggest IP terrorist there is. They just don't want anyone else earning anything through something that even remotely relates to them or don't want anyone to have it for free. So when Wiley, a big computer related books publisher, publishes a book about Jobs, Apple see a few dollars going to someone else and they want it for themselves instead so they ban *all* books of that publisher from their stores. It surprises me how noone else gets this point. What doesn't surprise me, though, is the fact that Apple zealots are now going to mod me down as troll.
OK, thanks for telling me that there is an exception to a general rule. You see, when people say "all", they really, honestly do mean all without any exception whatsoever. But you knew that, since you swallow less bullshit than me.
I'm saying something negative about the majority of MBAs. You're an MBA too. But I'm not saying that you have a small penis. Get over it.
Please RTA (no "fucking"). After reading the summary, at least read these two paragraphs:
My gratitude is limited, since it was McVoy that created the problem in the first place. But I still appreciate his decision to clear it up.
There are thousands of non-free programs, and most merit no special attention, other than developing a free replacement. What made this program, BitKeeper, infamous and dangerous was its marketing approach: inviting high-profile free software projects to use it, so as to attract other paying users.
What I'm trying to say is, RMS is not saying "Thanks for killing the governer, now you'll wake up the authorities and make them take some action about the crime rate" which is what some slashdotters would say in their comments. I mean, RMS not being sarcastic. He's actually thanking McVoy for stopping BK ("free" version) and thus making Linus look for some free tool etc etc (read the paragraphs). The summary almost makes him look like a hardass (almost).
Yeah, economy depends on proprietary software "products". After all, there is no such thing as a "software services" industry which forms the majority of the software industry. And people who do work in such a non-existent services industry don't have free time to write something they want to release as free. And universities don't have students (bright students, the ones who'll go on to become big people in the industry) who'd write free software out of their own free will. Or professors or research staff. Governments don't fund anything either. And there is no such thing as hardware/services companies supporting free software development which, in a direct or indirect way, helps the company back. We all know that IBM or OSDL (funded by many companies) or the many other companies which produce Open Source software and yet stay in business do not exist. And now that bastard RMS is using the shit load of money he has and the market monopoly he commands to force people to fulfill his selfish needs of maintaining his home computers and cleaning his toilets. What a bully.
BTW, if you mark me as a foe, no need to give me a reason. I don't give a shit about "enemies" I make on slashdot.
It's a matter of admiration. Programmers/Open Source supporters admire people like James Gosling or Linus Torvalds. MBAs admire people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates (and probably have neutral opinions of Gosling/Torvalds) because they have "achieved" things that MBAs strive for. And therefore progammers admire/respect programming/design/Open Source etc. MBAs admire Microsoft, Apple etc. Thus, programmers/Open Source supporters give more regard to technical facts and Open Source personalities. MBAs give more regard to "research" funded or supported by companies like Microsoft or Apple (Apple supporters wait, don't stone me to death yet. I'm not necessarily saying that Apple does such things. I'm just saying that if it did, then MBAs would swallow it.)
He's from the same University! Quick, mod him up!
Is this some sort of record?
Is this prior art? The bottom of the page says " Copyright © 1994-2005 mkp.net....". So it's been up since 1994 or at least from a few years. Although the site says illuminated toilet, not illuminated toilet *water*, it does seem like pretty much what the patent says. (Note: It's not exactly a complete implementation of illuminated toilet/water, but the idea is there on the webpage and that's all that matters.)
(Also note to the webmaster: sorry for slashdotting your site, dude.)
Cp. The 200 features are features like this?
I'm not an American, but I'm guessing that SSNs are only useful when combined with the Names (and maybe addresses) of the people. And that SSNs are not created serially, but randomly. Am I correct?
What can "identity theives" do with another person's SSN? (I'm not an American, I don't know)
Are US politicians (or whoever was supposed to look at that document) so dumb that they can't grasp critical information if it's not provided in big shiny colours like in hollywood movies? I'm guessing not. I remember seeing something like this about NASA, the Columbia shuttle disaster and powerpoint presentations. People (especially people who make it to NASA) aren't that dumb. I hope.
Uh... That's not just blogs, that's the entire internet. And no, blogs/the internet is not just about USA.
Which book/movie/serial is this from and what are the characters?
This is good. While Japanese anti-trust "watchdogs" taking a look at an American company is bad.
Hard links. No wait, that's two words...
Actually your post only supports my point. Your post says that in Capitalism, businesses and services are not government owned or controlled (most of them) and are privately held. It's more or less the opposite in Communism. The issue at hand is that the government is making people pay (through tax money) and providing a service for them. The government is controlling a business (or service). The supporters of the new law want this service of the government to be stopped, so that private companies, in the true spirit of capitalism, can do business without the government competing with them. (Although I'm not sure whether that's one of the points the supporters are using). Really. These are some of the basic principles of capitalism and communism from which stem all the other ideas, like free market.
Communism is usually where the government owns and controls everything. A government providing a service to the people does not fall under the catagory of communism.
Your two sentences contradict each other. Both the issue at hand, and things like state owned telecom are just government provided "services".
How intelligent. People will start downloading to make him swim and the marketing department will get very nice figures to use in Ads. "1 million downloads in 4 days! Better than firefox (ed: I think). Don't YOU want to download it too?" "1 million think it's great. What do YOU think?". Heck, even a large number of people who downloaded themselves are going to try out Opera and many of them will even switch to and maybe even buy the commercial version. Shit loads of cash for Opera. And everything will be even more better for Opera if the figures reach 9,80,000 in four days. Or if they have an "internal" memo which says something along this lines of this will only apply for the Windows version of Opera. (Wait, isn't the Windows version the only version available for download now?) Personally, I try not to use anything from companies which do publicity stunts like this. I didn't download it. I ask you not to do so too.
Err, I'm going to get modded down for saying this but... Doesn't the government providing such a service to the people using tax money make it communistic? In capitalism the government doesn't provide services like this (and doesn't make people pay for this) and lets private companies/people take care of this. Isn't that the idea of capitalism?
Nice troll. Tell the full fucking story. The Supreme Court of India actually sent a notice to the Central government and the Delhi state government questioning the constitutionality of a law that punishes homosexuality. It's almost the opposite of what you say. Here's a source.
At the risk of getting modded as redundant I'll say it... for those who don't find this obvious -- Tridgell "reverse-engineering" BK was just an excuse for McVoy to pull back the free version. And this article only makes it more obvious. McVoy just needed to point his finger at someone. And Torvalds just followed McVoy's leads (or vice-versa).
OK, please stop comparing reverse-engineering BK to making a UNIX clone. And don't compare make a BK clone to making a UNIX clone. First of all, what Tridgell was doing to BK was reverse-engineering, while there's no need to reverse-engineer (for the most part) UNIX to make clone. The entire specifications of a UNIX system are completely documented, and it's actually encouraged to make a standard-compliant 'clone'. And this is the same reason why making a BK clone is not similar to making a UNIX clone. Too many differences, like BK doesn't support people making clones and points I've already said etc etc.
[But I'm on Tridgell's side in this issue though.]
Whenever there is an article about software patents in USA or EU, everyone on slashdot (or rather, the Americans) start condemning patents and say that the very concept of software patents are bad. They even said the same thing on the article about introduction of software patents in India. But on this article about the stopping of software patents in India, it is suddenly about "protecting" US "property" and how Indians and people of other developing countries steal it. If software patents are wrong, they are wrong everywhere and so no one is stealing anything from anyone by "defying" software patents. I'm starting to get a picture of how Americans look at "freedom", economy and developing countries. And it's pretty bad.
Am I the only one who thinks that people who pay real money for "virtual property" are idiots?