...it's either the very young, indealistic crowd (college kids without bills to pay and families to support) or the very wealthy (the creator or Ubuntu is a great example).
This is both seldom-realised truth and a huge advantage OSS has over proprietary software. The wealthy don't care about the direction that 'their' software is going as long as it's 'theirs' and they are fulfilling their vision of a world-wide humanitarian need. Young people aren't likely to be discouraged by seemingly-insurmountable problems, and are full of great little ideas that nobody cares about but that everyone loves to take advantage of.
We get some great innovation from this equation.
Apple (Steve Jobs) knew in the 1980s that wealth + youth = innovation
I have a hard time feeling disgust for people beneath me. What I don't have issues with at times is feeling digust for those I percieve to be wrongfully above me.
If he was a softie he wouldn't have had the nads to do what he did.
I've said it once, I'll say it again; How Hard Is It To Search Past Stories For The Destination Of A Link In The Current Story? This would stop the majority of dupes dead.
Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion.
Disgusting, isn't it? Microsoft has basically said that he can't do what they just did.
ODx is a zipfile containing the xml data in OD format. If there are images included, they are linked precisely how html links images, and are included in the zipfile. They could have used HTML instead of inventing a new format.
I'm just nitpicking, however, as I do not believe HTML would make a great general format. The reason why is not because of images.
Apparently not to the Slashcode authors, who can't even be bothered to do a background check on new story submissions. How hard is it to automate a dupe-checker to verify that the title keywords and the submission links are not found in the submissions database before the story goes live?
Apparently very very difficult. Google must be worth its market cap.
This is exactly the point. Limewire expects that everyone that does this will be performing copyright infringement, and the heat is off of them for providing tools widely used to break the law.
If an informed person has to willfully violate a license in order to share, the heat is on them, not the technology and the 'enablers' of such technology.
This is fairly simple. You see, now that Communists are weak, your government has no reason to keep military spending high. Thus, terrorists were invented in order to keep your nation from looming and long overdue economic recession. I believe that both fall into the category of "people we hate but really don't understand why, so they obviously stand for everything we don't stand for."
Thus, it's not a far step from Communists to Terrorists, to responsible drug users, to black people, to Canadians, and so on and so forth in that fashion.
As to how the dolphins know the difference, I really do not know. They obviously have been able to create a method to train them, perhaps the same method terrorist masterminds use to recruit and retain their tools? Social animals can be easily coerced by diabolical types. Offer them friendships (or in this case refuse social contact until a set of objectives is met) and they will do anything you ask, and believe it is right.
If this is the case, who is more evil; the U.S. doing this to protect innocent lives, or the 'terrorists' to protect innocent lives? Remember, innocent lives are always spared when the war is fought away from home soil; everyone in the opposing faction, civilian or not, is always considered grey.
Of course, everyone already knows this, and it's a waste of time to mod up a reality that everyone here is already aware of, so we get the "commercial software is baaaaad, m'kay? MS is baaaaad, m'kay?" bullshit moderated above the threshold for most users instead.
And I refuse to tell the herd to not bother modding me up.
What people don't seem to realise is that this is no longer Microsoft vs. open source, the battlefield has become a lot larger and the war is now between commercial interests and open source. We know how it will turn out in the end, but that doesn't stop big companies trying to clusterfuck us all anyway.
There would be a lot of angry shareholders and out-of-work executives (Darl, anyone?) if these companies did not attempt the exercise of self-survival.
Did anybody else get flashbacks to reading the marketspeak splashed all over the Windows 98 - XP install processes? Now this, now that, 50% faster, you can even do this, and so on and so forth...it was disgusting.
Wrap KDE in a paper bag that says Gnome and everyone will be happy. Sheesh. At least then we can cut the bullshit marketing. It seems that Gnome forgot that the best marketing is in creating the best product and letting the results speak for themselves. More like MS every release...
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...it's either the very young, indealistic crowd (college kids without bills to pay and families to support) or the very wealthy (the creator or Ubuntu is a great example).
This is both seldom-realised truth and a huge advantage OSS has over proprietary software. The wealthy don't care about the direction that 'their' software is going as long as it's 'theirs' and they are fulfilling their vision of a world-wide humanitarian need. Young people aren't likely to be discouraged by seemingly-insurmountable problems, and are full of great little ideas that nobody cares about but that everyone loves to take advantage of.
We get some great innovation from this equation.
Apple (Steve Jobs) knew in the 1980s that wealth + youth = innovation
I have a hard time feeling disgust for people beneath me. What I don't have issues with at times is feeling digust for those I percieve to be wrongfully above me.
If he was a softie he wouldn't have had the nads to do what he did.
That sounds like a lotta work. Can we make it invisible?
Your stylesheets are disabled.
That link for AIX points to IBM's website.
Try here instead.
I hate it when you long-haired smellies pass off false information for truth.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
I've said it once, I'll say it again; How Hard Is It To Search Past Stories For The Destination Of A Link In The Current Story? This would stop the majority of dupes dead.
From TFA:
Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion.
Disgusting, isn't it? Microsoft has basically said that he can't do what they just did.
ROT13 (and derivatives) is still encryption.
Yes, we know the parent was correct. Thank you for your recursive contribution.
Where the hell did you go to school?
Remember that stupid Alexander the Great movie last year?
No.
ODx is a zipfile containing the xml data in OD format. If there are images included, they are linked precisely how html links images, and are included in the zipfile. They could have used HTML instead of inventing a new format.
I'm just nitpicking, however, as I do not believe HTML would make a great general format. The reason why is not because of images.
Why did you feel obliged to add that disclaimer? Your post was factual as it stood.
If you have factual information, why spice it for the rallied Slashdotters? No moderated opinion is going to sway the balance here anyway.
Judging by your ID, you probably don't realise the irony of that statement. =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Yes. We must re-think the design and useage of "floor". The current implementation is much too restrictive.
Apparently not to the Slashcode authors, who can't even be bothered to do a background check on new story submissions. How hard is it to automate a dupe-checker to verify that the title keywords and the submission links are not found in the submissions database before the story goes live?
Apparently very very difficult. Google must be worth its market cap.
Sarcasm or not, do you notice a pattern?
All but the Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks were carried out on American presences on foreign soil.
This is exactly the point. Limewire expects that everyone that does this will be performing copyright infringement, and the heat is off of them for providing tools widely used to break the law.
If an informed person has to willfully violate a license in order to share, the heat is on them, not the technology and the 'enablers' of such technology.
This is fairly simple. You see, now that Communists are weak, your government has no reason to keep military spending high. Thus, terrorists were invented in order to keep your nation from looming and long overdue economic recession. I believe that both fall into the category of "people we hate but really don't understand why, so they obviously stand for everything we don't stand for."
Thus, it's not a far step from Communists to Terrorists, to responsible drug users, to black people, to Canadians, and so on and so forth in that fashion.
As to how the dolphins know the difference, I really do not know. They obviously have been able to create a method to train them, perhaps the same method terrorist masterminds use to recruit and retain their tools? Social animals can be easily coerced by diabolical types. Offer them friendships (or in this case refuse social contact until a set of objectives is met) and they will do anything you ask, and believe it is right.
If this is the case, who is more evil; the U.S. doing this to protect innocent lives, or the 'terrorists' to protect innocent lives? Remember, innocent lives are always spared when the war is fought away from home soil; everyone in the opposing faction, civilian or not, is always considered grey.
Of course, everyone already knows this, and it's a waste of time to mod up a reality that everyone here is already aware of, so we get the "commercial software is baaaaad, m'kay? MS is baaaaad, m'kay?" bullshit moderated above the threshold for most users instead.
And I refuse to tell the herd to not bother modding me up.
Those Bastards!!!
A slightly agitated Tristan Nitot, on suggestion that Microsoft IE is more secure than Mozilla-based browsers:
"Which would you prefer, to have a broken finger, or your head ripped off?"
I think this should have been integrated into the story summary somehow.
What people don't seem to realise is that this is no longer Microsoft vs. open source, the battlefield has become a lot larger and the war is now between commercial interests and open source. We know how it will turn out in the end, but that doesn't stop big companies trying to clusterfuck us all anyway.
There would be a lot of angry shareholders and out-of-work executives (Darl, anyone?) if these companies did not attempt the exercise of self-survival.
So true, so true.
Did anybody else get flashbacks to reading the marketspeak splashed all over the Windows 98 - XP install processes? Now this, now that, 50% faster, you can even do this, and so on and so forth...it was disgusting.
Wrap KDE in a paper bag that says Gnome and everyone will be happy. Sheesh. At least then we can cut the bullshit marketing. It seems that Gnome forgot that the best marketing is in creating the best product and letting the results speak for themselves. More like MS every release...