I've always though [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] to be a solid but completely useless application because for whatever reason, the developers created the most heinous god aweful UI known to man. It's a freakin eyebleeding headache that leaves one happily shelling out the hundreds or thousands of Dollars for an [image editing/Video Editing/Sound Editing] software with a usable GUI.
It's a shame. Because [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] could be a contender, but since the developers live in their own little world with the attitidude that their app is made for a "certain group of people and not everyone", the application is basically a sick joke. If you're looking for a free [image editing/Video Editing/Sound Editing] package and don't care how painful it is to use it, [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] might be for you. Otherwise, go with [Photoshop/Premier/Soundforge]. --
Haven't you seen his name? he is Anonymous Coward... this guys has been spamming the otherwise clever discussion threads since the inception of Slashdot...
Why do you assume that something is difficult on Ubuntu? And what is difficult about editing configuration files? Because Ubuntu is Linux after all, and for example, I have just tried to install truecrypt and, while in windows is just a matter of double click an exe ant then load a nice interface, there is no such thing as a nice interface and you need to do all kinds of su a+x truecrypt bash things (I know how to do it... after all I work with bash/awk/R/Java/C++/JNI/Latex every day).
But the main difference between these two approaches (the nice GUI and the command line) is that with the command line you have to *figure out* what to do while the GUI indicates you what to do (as an example, to make a shapiro-wilk test in R you need to know the exact command while in SPSS you just click on a intuitive "statistical analysis" menu...)
I could think of hundreds of apps in Linux with the same problem... but hey, this is slashdot and If I bash Linux too much I could get bad reputation here:)
Yeah, I have known about this stepping options back when I used WinXP in my laptop, the program CPUZ shows quite interesting information and the current running frequency is one of them. What I did not know is how to manually change this profiles... [un]fortunately I am now running Ubuntu and I guess there is no easy way (not requiring a kernel patch or some magical.conf file mangling) way to set my computer to a low speed as in Windows.
Ah but it is the same case for Europe... or at least for the UK where I am doing my PhD... because it is quite difficult to get a proper job in your area after you finish a postgraduate, as, if you want to get a job, companies ask you for a work permit... but the only way to provide a work permit is if the same company sponsors you, thus is a catch-22. Mainly because if companies want to hire a foreigner (non EU citizen) they must prove that the position you are to get can not be fulfilled by anyone in a) the UK and b) the rest of EU. Therefore they have to advertise such position along the EU and if there is no one available THEN you get the job. But again as I said, none of the companies wants to get in all those problems, so they will get anyone from inside the EU even if he is not as good as you.
I saw that first hand, as my girlfriend finished her masters and tried to apply for a job (she had 1 year of work permission available) but as she would need to get a work permit after that year, she was rejected by all of the companies where she applied and could only find a job as a telephonist... she has master in Advanced Manufacturing... of course, after a year working answering telephones the company did not processed her a work permit (and she did not want too as it is not her area). She is now working in Mexico as a warehouse manager for an American company (Hanes brnds).
I think it is possible to see several problems from this approach, as the government makes more and more difficult to hire people from outside the country, all those brains will return to their homeland and thus companies will opt to outsource their operations to those places because a) They can pay less and b) They will have similar (if not better sometimes) professionals.
I consider myself a standard music consuming guy. Nothing out of the ordinary. The reason I download some albums or songs from the Internet (the way it is illegal in the USA) is because either
a) I want to listen to one specific song (for example, just yesterday I remembered a pop song I wanted to play in the guitar, but I do not have it... so I go to emule). To handle this problem, artists must provide a way to get "immediate availability" and cheap. I used to get all those kind of songs via allfomp3 (and I would do it but I think it is not possible to pay by CC). But threre is no way I will pay £1 for a song which I will listen two times and then delete it. And the other issue is that as this song is not very popular... I will have to hunt in several music stores... open an account in *each* of them. And there are some stores which you can only access with specific software (iTues for example) which is not compatible with my operating system...
Or instead I just fire my Edonkey client and search for the song and download it... easy!
b) I want to buy a complete album in CD (because I am a fan of the group, or I liked some songs... personally I enjoy having old school CDs with cases and all that), but they are really expensive... from £8 to £20 (more over £20 for the groups I like). The cost is prhoibite. Back in Mexico there is a music shop which has CDs at $99 MXN (about £4.5 ), I completed my collection of Joe Satriani CD's buying at that price... but those are not new albums.
Overall the problem with the RIAA is that they refuse to acknowledge that their current manufacturing/production/distribution/advertising chain is not working... you see car manufacturers, computer manufacturers and almost all other industry companies (even software companies!) struggling to reduce costs of their products but these guys refuse to modify their 30 year old process...
... because I believe that people in there have lost the fate in the "rehabilitation centre" which prisons are supposed to be. So what, this guy did such a bad thing with his knowledge. But if he pays his "debt" to society (be in jail and pay whatever millions he must) and he can be rehabilitated then society wins...
Of course I do not expect people from the USA to understand... I mean, what can you expect from a country where murder is a "fair" punishment.
In all seriousness, from the article: It's interesting to me that the liberal arm of the Linux community is trying to play it off like it's not trying to turn Linux mainstream to make money. Sure, some of them say it's to take Linux away from the enterprise and towards the consumer market, but let's be honest with ourselves--it's about the money.
This guys asks about the Linux community "identity". Well, let me tell ya, he is completely wrong in the previous snippet, because of his assumption. There is no such thing as a general identity in Linux, Linux is just a program, and due to its nature, there are lots of groups interested in it with different identities. For example, I, and others want Linux to succeed in the mainstream but it is NOT because of money (I could care less... I am an AI researcher) but because we *know* Linux is better than current alternatives in some aspects, and because monopolies are bad.
But I am sure there are others who want Linux to succeed in the mainstream to make money... and there are others who wants it to succeed because they like the penguin or whatever.
I read all the article, and it is, as the tags say a non article. This guy is drowning in a glass of water. If the lkml is indeed being spamed with flames related to this, I would suggest Linus and the others to ignore the flamers and just continue to work. If they (we) want to fork the Linux kernel, go ahead, that is the nature of Open Source.
GM = Car manufacturer = PC Manufacturer = Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. Microsoft = Operating System Manufacturer =?= Ignition System.
Therefore, according to your flawed analogy, there is no PC manufacturer making 90% of all computers... it is the Operating System the one which is holding a monopoly.
Divorce dogmatic ideology from free culture pragmatism. We all know that we want a system that's as free as possible, but to get there, we'll have to deal with the reality as it is today. Having a system that is entirely and perpetually "free as in beer" is a great first step before we can have one that's entirely "free as in speech".
You might want to try Linspire. It has been included in cheap computers in Mexico in the Elektra stores (the BestBuy equivalent for Mexico).
Linsipire gives you, in my opinion the best of both worlds. You get a full blown Linux distro (Linspire is based in Ubuntu) but you also get all the propietary codecs and out of the box functionallity. Oh, and if you buy it, you are spending money in a "good cause" because people at Linspire contribute a lot to the open source community.
I am by no way affiliated to this guys, in fact, I do not even use it (however, I bought one for my father! and he loves it), it might be because I am a cheap bastard, and I stayed with the free Ubuntu and am very happy with it =o)
In the United States. You are making an assumption that I am in the USA. I am not.
Ah!, and that is the key that the RIAA and other people (even here in slashdot!) from the USA find hard to understand.
To reinforce this point, I want to continue with the drugs example. In the UK (where I am living now) it is legal for the doctors to prescribe heroin in certain conditions (I think for serious pain). I know that there are some parliament members who are looking to provide drug addicts with some form of prescribed drugs to ease their anxiety or whatever issues they have when de-intoxicating.
I am sure that as this, there are different laws in Sweden for sharing and indexing of files. But of course, for people that do not have a notion an independent "world" it is a concept hard to grasp.
Cause linux obviously doesn't care about ANYTHING, let alone big iron.
Of course he doesn't! we still haven't got to such technology advances to make an operating system care... Of course when we can make an OS care about something I would appreciate to make it care about its underlying hardware... can you imagine??
It seems you are trying to change the graphics card... could you please repleace it with an ATI one? I feel more confy wearing those
I can not see why is it a stupid idea. Forking the Kernel in desktop and server forks will mean that each specific kernel is optimized for such tasks and that the distribution makers have just a subset of the huge kernel to care about when creating their distributions.
A server is a relly different beast than a desktop and having this "all-in-one" kernel means that the operating system gets bloated with a) desktop specific features when using a server and b) Server specific features when installing a desktop.
I think that a controlled fork in the linux version control tree might be beneficial.
I watched the full video before it was on slashdot too, I really could not believe what happened, as a non native english speaker I did not know what taser meant after the guy started to scream in the video and people starting shouting that they were tasering him.
Personally I found his questions interesting, and I think that there was no right for police to arrest him, I believe that Kerry should have answered his questions and defend himself in political way. This only shows me that in the USA if the government does not like your question, they will use whatever means necessary to silent you. From the video, the guy was talking nicely, using a bit of high voice to emphazise his beliefs before the police started using force. It was after that when he started shouting and resisting. But as he said, why was he arrested? he was just asking! he was arrested just because police and/or Kerry was not confortable with his questions, way to go!
And another thing that amused me was how people were just sitting there watching and it seems no one tried to help him. Howly shit, that seems quite similar to what happens in other matters in the USA when people is fucked by their government. The most anyone do is say "suck to be you" and watch.
Yet another reason to reafirm the sentiment in my signature...
My planned approach? Start with pretty locked down access (I've got a router and the skills to more or less pull that off), open it up over time as they learn and mature, and I'm going to monitor what they do. You're freakin' right I am. That doesn't mean I'm going to pour over every mail, and I'm certainly not going to do it secretly. They're going to know I'm watching from the time they start using the internet; I'm going to tell them, and I'm going to tell them it's gonna happen at school and work, and throughout the rest of their accessing lives.
About 12 years ago, I was 14 years old when my parents bought a new computer from a friend who assembled them. This friend (about 30 at that time I think) made me the favor of filling the hard disk with porn (lots of porn). But I didn't knew it. We took the computer home and I connected and installed it (I've been using computers since I was 7). After that, I went out of the house to do something else whiel my father sat down to try the computer.
When I returned home, my father was sitting in front of the PC, and when I arrived to ask him how did he find the new PC, he told me about the huge amount of porn (I later learnt it was a complete CD, which for 1995 was quite a bit) and told me he had browsed through it (poor of my father uh? what a sacrifice) and removed the pictures that were indecent (which later I learnt were those of the Zintuple-penetration kind) and he left all the ones with naked girls.
He did not made the issue any bigger, he just told me that the indecent pictures were just too much for me (at the age of 14) and they would give me a wrong perception of sex (paraprhasing a lot).
I think my father made a really good thing, it is my personal opinion that trying to block all the "bad" (which you consider bad) stuff from your kids can only be more damaging, because they will get it from other sources (where did I got my first cigar in the secondary school? from a friend whose father somked).
In my opinion, the best thing to do is a combination of what other poster said before such as monitoring the places your children visit via a proxy and then, if you find something you think it is not adequate, you should confront him but not to punish him but to EXPLAIN why is it that such thing is wrong.
And also, (IMHO of course) you should let your boys[even girls!] (at an age of your discretion) to see porn and let them jerk off, for the love of god it is something natural and good. The less tabu you make feel their sexuality and other issues are, the more confidence they will have in you!
Of course, to do all that you need to spend time EDUCATING your kids, something people do not like to do nowadays.
I found funny that one tag is bugmenotwins... unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your POV), I am sure the NYT will be a bit disappointing by the differences in the stream revenue after doing this. I believe that the people that would pay for reading the new york times is the same that is going to read it without ad blocking and maybe click on the ads, whereas people that used bugmenot or other means to bypass payment are the ones that will use AdBlock or any other advertisement blocking mechanism.
No, open source is different of free software in that the "Free Software" guys are the hardcore Stallman followers who look to free everyone's soul^H^H^H^Hrights to use and modify software and whatnot.
Whereas the Open Source guys are the more practical guys who do not care too much in the "ethereal" issues of software and just want to develop software and provide it for free with some kind of permissive license (like MIT, BSD or GPL.. being the last one the less permisive [bring on the flames]).
Slashdot Mirror
- Will that involve a Halo3 multiplayer setup?
... and I suppose that by real dolls you mean real *plastic* dolls dont you ?
- Real Doll giveaways
- Coke, Beer, Pizza, and cookies?
Halo? Coke? what world are you living in uh?
Mountain dew, D&D
please hand your geek card at exit...
I've always though [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] to be a solid but completely useless application because for whatever reason, the developers created the most heinous god aweful UI known to man. It's a freakin eyebleeding headache that leaves one happily shelling out the hundreds or thousands of Dollars for an [image editing/Video Editing/Sound Editing] software with a usable GUI.
It's a shame. Because [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] could be a contender, but since the developers live in their own little world with the attitidude that their app is made for a "certain group of people and not everyone", the application is basically a sick joke. If you're looking for a free [image editing/Video Editing/Sound Editing] package and don't care how painful it is to use it, [THE GIMP/Jashaska/Audacity] might be for you. Otherwise, go with [Photoshop/Premier/Soundforge].
--
Haven't you seen his name? he is Anonymous Coward... this guys has been spamming the otherwise clever discussion threads since the inception of Slashdot...
Why do you assume that something is difficult on Ubuntu? And what is difficult about editing configuration files?
:)
Because Ubuntu is Linux after all, and for example, I have just tried to install truecrypt and, while in windows is just a matter of double click an exe ant then load a nice interface, there is no such thing as a nice interface and you need to do all kinds of su a+x truecrypt bash things (I know how to do it... after all I work with bash/awk/R/Java/C++/JNI/Latex every day).
But the main difference between these two approaches (the nice GUI and the command line) is that with the command line you have to *figure out* what to do while the GUI indicates you what to do (as an example, to make a shapiro-wilk test in R you need to know the exact command while in SPSS you just click on a intuitive "statistical analysis" menu...)
I could think of hundreds of apps in Linux with the same problem... but hey, this is slashdot and If I bash Linux too much I could get bad reputation here
Yeah, I have known about this stepping options back when I used WinXP in my laptop, the program CPUZ shows quite interesting information and the current running frequency is one of them. What I did not know is how to manually change this profiles... [un]fortunately I am now running Ubuntu and I guess there is no easy way (not requiring a kernel patch or some magical .conf file mangling) way to set my computer to a low speed as in Windows.
Ah but it is the same case for Europe... or at least for the UK where I am doing my PhD... because it is quite difficult to get a proper job in your area after you finish a postgraduate, as, if you want to get a job, companies ask you for a work permit... but the only way to provide a work permit is if the same company sponsors you, thus is a catch-22. Mainly because if companies want to hire a foreigner (non EU citizen) they must prove that the position you are to get can not be fulfilled by anyone in a) the UK and b) the rest of EU. Therefore they have to advertise such position along the EU and if there is no one available THEN you get the job. But again as I said, none of the companies wants to get in all those problems, so they will get anyone from inside the EU even if he is not as good as you.
... she has master in Advanced Manufacturing... of course, after a year working answering telephones the company did not processed her a work permit (and she did not want too as it is not her area). She is now working in Mexico as a warehouse manager for an American company (Hanes brnds).
I saw that first hand, as my girlfriend finished her masters and tried to apply for a job (she had 1 year of work permission available) but as she would need to get a work permit after that year, she was rejected by all of the companies where she applied and could only find a job as a telephonist
I think it is possible to see several problems from this approach, as the government makes more and more difficult to hire people from outside the country, all those brains will return to their homeland and thus companies will opt to outsource their operations to those places because a) They can pay less and b) They will have similar (if not better sometimes) professionals.
I consider myself a standard music consuming guy. Nothing out of the ordinary. The reason I download some albums or songs from the Internet (the way it is illegal in the USA) is because either
a) I want to listen to one specific song (for example, just yesterday I remembered a pop song I wanted to play in the guitar, but I do not have it... so I go to emule). To handle this problem, artists must provide a way to get "immediate availability" and cheap. I used to get all those kind of songs via allfomp3 (and I would do it but I think it is not possible to pay by CC). But threre is no way I will pay £1 for a song which I will listen two times and then delete it. And the other issue is that as this song is not very popular... I will have to hunt in several music stores... open an account in *each* of them. And there are some stores which you can only access with specific software (iTues for example) which is not compatible with my operating system...
Or instead I just fire my Edonkey client and search for the song and download it... easy!
b) I want to buy a complete album in CD (because I am a fan of the group, or I liked some songs... personally I enjoy having old school CDs with cases and all that), but they are really expensive... from £8 to £20 (more over £20 for the groups I like). The cost is prhoibite. Back in Mexico there is a music shop which has CDs at $99 MXN (about £4.5 ), I completed my collection of Joe Satriani CD's buying at that price... but those are not new albums.
Overall the problem with the RIAA is that they refuse to acknowledge that their current manufacturing/production/distribution/advertising chain is not working... you see car manufacturers, computer manufacturers and almost all other industry companies (even software companies!) struggling to reduce costs of their products but these guys refuse to modify their 30 year old process...
... because I believe that people in there have lost the fate in the "rehabilitation centre" which prisons are supposed to be. So what, this guy did such a bad thing with his knowledge. But if he pays his "debt" to society (be in jail and pay whatever millions he must) and he can be rehabilitated then society wins...
Of course I do not expect people from the USA to understand... I mean, what can you expect from a country where murder is a "fair" punishment.
You know the answer is 42.
Cancel or Allow man, Cancel OR Allow
or maybe Abort, Retry , Ignore, Fail
In all seriousness, from the article:
It's interesting to me that the liberal arm of the Linux community is trying to play it off like it's not trying to turn Linux mainstream to make money. Sure, some of them say it's to take Linux away from the enterprise and towards the consumer market, but let's be honest with ourselves--it's about the money.
This guys asks about the Linux community "identity". Well, let me tell ya, he is completely wrong in the previous snippet, because of his assumption. There is no such thing as a general identity in Linux, Linux is just a program, and due to its nature, there are lots of groups interested in it with different identities. For example, I, and others want Linux to succeed in the mainstream but it is NOT because of money (I could care less... I am an AI researcher) but because we *know* Linux is better than current alternatives in some aspects, and because monopolies are bad.
But I am sure there are others who want Linux to succeed in the mainstream to make money... and there are others who wants it to succeed because they like the penguin or whatever.
I read all the article, and it is, as the tags say a non article. This guy is drowning in a glass of water. If the lkml is indeed being spamed with flames related to this, I would suggest Linus and the others to ignore the flamers and just continue to work. If they (we) want to fork the Linux kernel, go ahead, that is the nature of Open Source.
Man, you got your analogy completely wrong.
GM = Car manufacturer = PC Manufacturer = Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
Microsoft = Operating System Manufacturer =?= Ignition System.
Therefore, according to your flawed analogy, there is no PC manufacturer making 90% of all computers... it is the Operating System the one which is holding a monopoly.
Divorce dogmatic ideology from free culture pragmatism. We all know that we want a system that's as free as possible, but to get there, we'll have to deal with the reality as it is today. Having a system that is entirely and perpetually "free as in beer" is a great first step before we can have one that's entirely "free as in speech".
You might want to try Linspire. It has been included in cheap computers in Mexico in the Elektra stores (the BestBuy equivalent for Mexico).
Linsipire gives you, in my opinion the best of both worlds. You get a full blown Linux distro (Linspire is based in Ubuntu) but you also get all the propietary codecs and out of the box functionallity. Oh, and if you buy it, you are spending money in a "good cause" because people at Linspire contribute a lot to the open source community.
I am by no way affiliated to this guys, in fact, I do not even use it (however, I bought one for my father! and he loves it), it might be because I am a cheap bastard, and I stayed with the free Ubuntu and am very happy with it =o)
In the United States. You are making an assumption that I am in the USA. I am not.
Ah!, and that is the key that the RIAA and other people (even here in slashdot!) from the USA find hard to understand.
To reinforce this point, I want to continue with the drugs example. In the UK (where I am living now) it is legal for the doctors to prescribe heroin in certain conditions (I think for serious pain). I know that there are some parliament members who are looking to provide drug addicts with some form of prescribed drugs to ease their anxiety or whatever issues they have when de-intoxicating.
I am sure that as this, there are different laws in Sweden for sharing and indexing of files. But of course, for people that do not have a notion an independent "world" it is a concept hard to grasp.
why in hell did they charge this girl with a crime and set bail? Can police no longer find they made a mistake, and just LET YOU GO without penalty??
:)
Well, she should be grateful that she was not tasered as the guy who tried to ask a question...
Yay for freedom
btw, anyone realized yet that the USA dollar exchange rate is equal to the Canadian dollar... that is a record low isn't it?
There is a new leak now! it is the source code of some of the MD applications in Piratebay.
I agree, you just have to change "OpenOfice.org" with "linux" and "Sun" with "Linus" to see how hypocrite the open source community tends to be...
It appears operating systems have arrived at such a technologically advanced state that they at least know what gender they are.
Touché
Of course he doesn't! we still haven't got to such technology advances to make an operating system care... Of course when we can make an OS care about something I would appreciate to make it care about its underlying hardware... can you imagine?? It seems you are trying to change the graphics card... could you please repleace it with an ATI one? I feel more confy wearing those
I can not see why is it a stupid idea. Forking the Kernel in desktop and server forks will mean that each specific kernel is optimized for such tasks and that the distribution makers have just a subset of the huge kernel to care about when creating their distributions.
A server is a relly different beast than a desktop and having this "all-in-one" kernel means that the operating system gets bloated with a) desktop specific features when using a server and b) Server specific features when installing a desktop.
I think that a controlled fork in the linux version control tree might be beneficial.
I watched the full video before it was on slashdot too, I really could not believe what happened, as a non native english speaker I did not know what taser meant after the guy started to scream in the video and people starting shouting that they were tasering him.
Personally I found his questions interesting, and I think that there was no right for police to arrest him, I believe that Kerry should have answered his questions and defend himself in political way. This only shows me that in the USA if the government does not like your question, they will use whatever means necessary to silent you. From the video, the guy was talking nicely, using a bit of high voice to emphazise his beliefs before the police started using force. It was after that when he started shouting and resisting. But as he said, why was he arrested? he was just asking! he was arrested just because police and/or Kerry was not confortable with his questions, way to go!
And another thing that amused me was how people were just sitting there watching and it seems no one tried to help him. Howly shit, that seems quite similar to what happens in other matters in the USA when people is fucked by their government. The most anyone do is say "suck to be you" and watch.
Yet another reason to reafirm the sentiment in my signature...
My planned approach? Start with pretty locked down access (I've got a router and the skills to more or less pull that off), open it up over time as they learn and mature, and I'm going to monitor what they do. You're freakin' right I am. That doesn't mean I'm going to pour over every mail, and I'm certainly not going to do it secretly. They're going to know I'm watching from the time they start using the internet; I'm going to tell them, and I'm going to tell them it's gonna happen at school and work, and throughout the rest of their accessing lives.
About 12 years ago, I was 14 years old when my parents bought a new computer from a friend who assembled them. This friend (about 30 at that time I think) made me the favor of filling the hard disk with porn (lots of porn). But I didn't knew it. We took the computer home and I connected and installed it (I've been using computers since I was 7). After that, I went out of the house to do something else whiel my father sat down to try the computer.
When I returned home, my father was sitting in front of the PC, and when I arrived to ask him how did he find the new PC, he told me about the huge amount of porn (I later learnt it was a complete CD, which for 1995 was quite a bit) and told me he had browsed through it (poor of my father uh? what a sacrifice) and removed the pictures that were indecent (which later I learnt were those of the Zintuple-penetration kind) and he left all the ones with naked girls.
He did not made the issue any bigger, he just told me that the indecent pictures were just too much for me (at the age of 14) and they would give me a wrong perception of sex (paraprhasing a lot).
I think my father made a really good thing, it is my personal opinion that trying to block all the "bad" (which you consider bad) stuff from your kids can only be more damaging, because they will get it from other sources (where did I got my first cigar in the secondary school? from a friend whose father somked).
In my opinion, the best thing to do is a combination of what other poster said before such as monitoring the places your children visit via a proxy and then, if you find something you think it is not adequate, you should confront him but not to punish him but to EXPLAIN why is it that such thing is wrong.
And also, (IMHO of course) you should let your boys[even girls!] (at an age of your discretion) to see porn and let them jerk off, for the love of god it is something natural and good. The less tabu you make feel their sexuality and other issues are, the more confidence they will have in you!
Of course, to do all that you need to spend time EDUCATING your kids, something people do not like to do nowadays.
I found funny that one tag is bugmenotwins... unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your POV), I am sure the NYT will be a bit disappointing by the differences in the stream revenue after doing this. I believe that the people that would pay for reading the new york times is the same that is going to read it without ad blocking and maybe click on the ads, whereas people that used bugmenot or other means to bypass payment are the ones that will use AdBlock or any other advertisement blocking mechanism.
You man should put some heavy google ad banners in that page, I do not mind clicking some of them while browsing such pages ;)
I can not wait to kill the muthafucka Ashtar!
And all shall hail me Ashtar, as their new master!
HA HA HA HA
No, open source is different of free software in that the "Free Software" guys are the hardcore Stallman followers who look to free everyone's soul^H^H^H^Hrights to use and modify software and whatnot.
Whereas the Open Source guys are the more practical guys who do not care too much in the "ethereal" issues of software and just want to develop software and provide it for free with some kind of permissive license (like MIT, BSD or GPL.. being the last one the less permisive [bring on the flames]).