What we really need is some basic R&D into why conservatives hold on to the mantra that the free market cures all ills when it's been shown time and again to fail completely in so many areas.
And believe it or not there are people in Russian who pine for good old communism. Ideologues of all stripes not only put their brains on hold, they wear a blindfold, stick their fingers in their ears and shout "la la la la la la" (or the equivalent in their particular ideological verbiage).
Hong "created the Tomato Garden version of the Windows XP," which crippled the program's authentication and certification barriers, said Xinhua, allowing users unrestricted access to the popular Microsoft software.
Huh? Isn't crippling crippling like a double negative? In effect they uncrippled it allowing unrestricted access to the software, something that paying customers don't even get. I think they're on to something. Microsoft should take note.
If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed,"
So its like books 4 and 5 then. I thought book 4 was the best in the series, though I think I'm in the minority since lots of people didn't like it because it didn't have a laugh a sentence.
I disliked the 5th book so much I seem to have successfully suppressed it in my memory to the point where I don't even remember what it was about. Perhaps there wasn't even a 5th book and I'm just confused.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. Because the BSA attacks businesses, not disabled single mothers, children, and the dead, fewer people even know about them. They haven't gone as far across the line into cartoon super villainy.
Your body is dirty, *dirty* do you hear ? It's the work of the devil !
One might hope that this is a generational thing which will fade when the younger generation grows up and takes control of things, but it is based on a kind of 19th century demonization of sex which persisted through the 20th century, surviving even the sexual liberation of the sixties and still seems to be going strong into the 21st century.
Personally, I think it's about time to scrap the laws of the land and replace them with a document of law no longer than 20 pages. Have one law against assault with penalties that vary proportionately with severity. Ideally people who commit assault with a sexual component would be regarded as criminals, not scary monsters that evoke the sort of irrational response that should never, ever be allowed to influence actual law.
EMI is one of the big four RIAA member labels, along with Sony, Universal, and Warner. I stopped buying their shite ages ago, and I don't really care if I'm not buying it from a little store or a big one.
When driving on the highway I like those jerks in trucks who try to intimidate other drivers into pulling over into the right lane by riding on their rear bumpers. I do as they wish, then pull back out and follow them, taking advantage of their lane clearing behavior. They may be rude, possibly dangerous, but they do help keep the 'fast' lane fast.
Bonnen's Twitter page has been shuttered, though a cached version of the page shows the last tweet was logged at 10:11 a.m. July 22, a day before the lawsuit was filed. The page indicates Bonnen had 17 followers.
17 followers would have heard about this, but thanks to their action I wonder what the multiple is. A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? There ought to be an award for that kind of monumental stupidity.
Yep. Most of the most zealously zealous microsoft haters are ones who jumped ship to linux. People like Linus didn't suffer enough to catch the "disease" because they weren't sufficiently exposed. They're probably bemused at times by the haters -- "If you don't like it just don't use it, why all the negative vibes, man?"
Sugar is written in Python. It wasn't designed to be fast, at it isn't terribly, but rather discoverable and very tweakable.
I've had the XO running with ubuntu and KDE 3. Ok, perhaps with KDE 'running' isn't such a good term, but with XFCE instead it can function as a little netbook. The biggest drawback for me was actually physical, namely its little keyboard. You can extend its functionality loads with USB devices, including keyboard, but it winds up being an octopus that takes twenty minutes to set up and get going.
I'm not a Negroponte fan, but I partly agree with him. Not that Sugar was a total bust, but that overall utility would have been increased if Sugar had been an application running on a standard Linux distro, rather than a whole desktop environment. There might have been less griping from the G1G1 people who thought they were getting a "laptop" rather than an educational appliance which is what the XO is with Sugar as its desktop environment. Could have been an easier sell to governments as well for satisfying similar expectations. Then Sugar could have been allowed to do its thing in the classroom context it was designed for, while leaving open the option to use it more as a regular laptop outside of that context.
I'm a technical linux people. All I need on a netbook are a browser and a shell. If it's cool and runs on cool hardware it could very well be an option. What you describe is what I want on my desktop which is a different beast and one I don't think Google is targeting with this.
Clearly, what's required is some form of child sized burka which all children would be required to wear. School yards would be filled with hundreds of cute little jawas.
Republicans weren't so bad way back when they believed in small gov't and fiscal responsibility. Even if one believed that gov't had a role to play in society beyond simply maintaining the courts and providing for defense, one could still get along with, and even appreciate the perspective of, the old Republicans. A lot of old folk who call themselves Republicans may not be whatever the fuck today's Republicans are.
Canada just keeps getting more and more impressive. Again, ahead of the curve on social justice. They put the US to shame.
Not really. This is the opposition the article is about. And its not even a very good opposition. Harper, the PM, got passed minimum sentences for marijuana possession with the Liberals help. His mandate is to make Canada more like the US, and bit by bit perhaps he'll succeed. The left is split and he only needs about a third of the popular vote to form the gov't. If Canadians don't learn to vote strategically, he'll get in again and again.
Child pornography is abhorred because of the harm done to children in its creation.
Actually, I think it's simpler than that. It's abhorred because it's abhorrent. The question is, is that enough to make any depiction, including fiction, illegal.
The answer has to be no, otherwise freedom of expression is threatened. Freedom of expression includes expression of things that aren't very nice and which could make a lot of people, even the majority of people, uncomfortable.
Open source is a random barbarian horde of software developers.
Okay, there's your brand, "Barbarian Horde". Someone else suggested "Hippyware". For some reason, I find myself thinking of gypsies. All of which suggests not that the thing is unbrandable, but that it's really challenging to come up with a brand that would appeal to business and normals. It would be nice if it also appealed to counter-culture types, but that just makes the problem even harder.
Yep. I use kde-desktop, but don't really consider myself a kubuntu user. That's because I install ubuntu, then kde-desktop. When I tried a straight kubuntu install, it was a disaster. No big deal, since I want both kde and gnome anyway. They're largely compatible and it gives you access to apps for both families. It seems kind of stupid to limit yourself to one or the other when you can have both.
I have a 14" Radiation King that refuses to die. It's from about 1990, just before radiation levels became a marketing thing. Now I guess we just assume low radiation, as I haven't seen that touted as a selling point for quite some time.
I wasn't aware CBS owned last.fm . I don't trust corporations in general, but I like the way last.fm organizes stats on my listening via an amarok plugin. Are there any other sites that do something similar and have amarok plugins? If not, there should be. Perhaps amarok should consider doing something like that.
I suspect such an idea would be doomed to fail based on the vast amount of work involved, and getting people interested in doing that work. The people in the Windows camp seem content with their lot for the most part aside for the occasional grumbles, they certainly don't seem sufficient pissed to move away from Windows in droves. People in the Linux camp are happy with their favourite distro, in many cases fanatically so.
Even snagging a pre-existing Linux distro and writing a new graphical environment from the ground up would be a huge amount of work. It might be more useful to create video intros to K/Ubuntu which start with a disclaimer stating that this OS is not for people who play commercial computer games, and that other Windows programs the user requires may have to run using virtualization. Brief definition of how that works. Still with us? Then introduce package management using a user friendly graphical app like synaptic. Don't even mention the command line, there's enough out there on the web for googling about that, so much so that I think some people are confused into believing that the only way to install applications on Linux is via the command line.
Basically, rather than reinvent the wheel and paint it a different shade of gray, provide a useful introduction to the wheel, perhaps a half hour long, ending with sources of more information. With a few exceptions like commercial games, IMHO with K/Ubuntu Linux has pretty much arrived. But it isn't a Windows clone and some sort of bright and shiney intro that makes that point in a non-threatening way could be worthwhile.
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What we really need is some basic R&D into why conservatives hold on to the mantra that the free market cures all ills when it's been shown time and again to fail completely in so many areas.
And believe it or not there are people in Russian who pine for good old communism. Ideologues of all stripes not only put their brains on hold, they wear a blindfold, stick their fingers in their ears and shout "la la la la la la" (or the equivalent in their particular ideological verbiage).
Easier still, they should just pay for thepiratebay.com's hosting in exchange for aggregate data about tv show torrents.
Easier peasier.
Should have read "don't touch that dial!"
Damn, now I want one, and no one on ebay has one for sale. I hope I don't have to buy a whole old tv set. I just want the dial to stick on my monitor.
Hong "created the Tomato Garden version of the Windows XP," which crippled the program's authentication and certification barriers, said Xinhua, allowing users unrestricted access to the popular Microsoft software.
Huh? Isn't crippling crippling like a double negative? In effect they uncrippled it allowing unrestricted access to the software, something that paying customers don't even get. I think they're on to something. Microsoft should take note.
If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed,"
So its like books 4 and 5 then. I thought book 4 was the best in the series, though I think I'm in the minority since lots of people didn't like it because it didn't have a laugh a sentence.
I disliked the 5th book so much I seem to have successfully suppressed it in my memory to the point where I don't even remember what it was about. Perhaps there wasn't even a 5th book and I'm just confused.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. Because the BSA attacks businesses, not disabled single mothers, children, and the dead, fewer people even know about them. They haven't gone as far across the line into cartoon super villainy.
Your body is dirty, *dirty* do you hear ? It's the work of the devil !
One might hope that this is a generational thing which will fade when the younger generation grows up and takes control of things, but it is based on a kind of 19th century demonization of sex which persisted through the 20th century, surviving even the sexual liberation of the sixties and still seems to be going strong into the 21st century.
Personally, I think it's about time to scrap the laws of the land and replace them with a document of law no longer than 20 pages. Have one law against assault with penalties that vary proportionately with severity. Ideally people who commit assault with a sexual component would be regarded as criminals, not scary monsters that evoke the sort of irrational response that should never, ever be allowed to influence actual law.
EMI is one of the big four RIAA member labels, along with Sony, Universal, and Warner. I stopped buying their shite ages ago, and I don't really care if I'm not buying it from a little store or a big one.
When driving on the highway I like those jerks in trucks who try to intimidate other drivers into pulling over into the right lane by riding on their rear bumpers. I do as they wish, then pull back out and follow them, taking advantage of their lane clearing behavior. They may be rude, possibly dangerous, but they do help keep the 'fast' lane fast.
From the article you linked to:
Bonnen's Twitter page has been shuttered, though a cached version of the page shows the last tweet was logged at 10:11 a.m. July 22, a day before the lawsuit was filed. The page indicates Bonnen had 17 followers.
17 followers would have heard about this, but thanks to their action I wonder what the multiple is. A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? There ought to be an award for that kind of monumental stupidity.
Yep. Most of the most zealously zealous microsoft haters are ones who jumped ship to linux. People like Linus didn't suffer enough to catch the "disease" because they weren't sufficiently exposed. They're probably bemused at times by the haters -- "If you don't like it just don't use it, why all the negative vibes, man?"
Sugar is written in Python. It wasn't designed to be fast, at it isn't terribly, but rather discoverable and very tweakable.
I've had the XO running with ubuntu and KDE 3. Ok, perhaps with KDE 'running' isn't such a good term, but with XFCE instead it can function as a little netbook. The biggest drawback for me was actually physical, namely its little keyboard. You can extend its functionality loads with USB devices, including keyboard, but it winds up being an octopus that takes twenty minutes to set up and get going.
I'm not a Negroponte fan, but I partly agree with him. Not that Sugar was a total bust, but that overall utility would have been increased if Sugar had been an application running on a standard Linux distro, rather than a whole desktop environment. There might have been less griping from the G1G1 people who thought they were getting a "laptop" rather than an educational appliance which is what the XO is with Sugar as its desktop environment. Could have been an easier sell to governments as well for satisfying similar expectations. Then Sugar could have been allowed to do its thing in the classroom context it was designed for, while leaving open the option to use it more as a regular laptop outside of that context.
Technical Linux people aren't going to want it.
I'm a technical linux people. All I need on a netbook are a browser and a shell. If it's cool and runs on cool hardware it could very well be an option. What you describe is what I want on my desktop which is a different beast and one I don't think Google is targeting with this.
What, has someone come up with a search engine that's better than altavista? Sorry, just getting up from a nap.
Clearly, what's required is some form of child sized burka which all children would be required to wear. School yards would be filled with hundreds of cute little jawas.
Republicans weren't so bad way back when they believed in small gov't and fiscal responsibility. Even if one believed that gov't had a role to play in society beyond simply maintaining the courts and providing for defense, one could still get along with, and even appreciate the perspective of, the old Republicans. A lot of old folk who call themselves Republicans may not be whatever the fuck today's Republicans are.
Canada just keeps getting more and more impressive. Again, ahead of the curve on social justice. They put the US to shame.
Not really. This is the opposition the article is about. And its not even a very good opposition. Harper, the PM, got passed minimum sentences for marijuana possession with the Liberals help. His mandate is to make Canada more like the US, and bit by bit perhaps he'll succeed. The left is split and he only needs about a third of the popular vote to form the gov't. If Canadians don't learn to vote strategically, he'll get in again and again.
Child pornography is abhorred because of the harm done to children in its creation.
Actually, I think it's simpler than that. It's abhorred because it's abhorrent. The question is, is that enough to make any depiction, including fiction, illegal.
The answer has to be no, otherwise freedom of expression is threatened. Freedom of expression includes expression of things that aren't very nice and which could make a lot of people, even the majority of people, uncomfortable.
Open source is a random barbarian horde of software developers.
Okay, there's your brand, "Barbarian Horde". Someone else suggested "Hippyware". For some reason, I find myself thinking of gypsies. All of which suggests not that the thing is unbrandable, but that it's really challenging to come up with a brand that would appeal to business and normals. It would be nice if it also appealed to counter-culture types, but that just makes the problem even harder.
Yep. I use kde-desktop, but don't really consider myself a kubuntu user. That's because I install ubuntu, then kde-desktop. When I tried a straight kubuntu install, it was a disaster. No big deal, since I want both kde and gnome anyway. They're largely compatible and it gives you access to apps for both families. It seems kind of stupid to limit yourself to one or the other when you can have both.
I have a 14" Radiation King that refuses to die. It's from about 1990, just before radiation levels became a marketing thing. Now I guess we just assume low radiation, as I haven't seen that touted as a selling point for quite some time.
I wasn't aware CBS owned last.fm . I don't trust corporations in general, but I like the way last.fm organizes stats on my listening via an amarok plugin. Are there any other sites that do something similar and have amarok plugins? If not, there should be. Perhaps amarok should consider doing something like that.
I suspect such an idea would be doomed to fail based on the vast amount of work involved, and getting people interested in doing that work. The people in the Windows camp seem content with their lot for the most part aside for the occasional grumbles, they certainly don't seem sufficient pissed to move away from Windows in droves. People in the Linux camp are happy with their favourite distro, in many cases fanatically so.
Even snagging a pre-existing Linux distro and writing a new graphical environment from the ground up would be a huge amount of work. It might be more useful to create video intros to K/Ubuntu which start with a disclaimer stating that this OS is not for people who play commercial computer games, and that other Windows programs the user requires may have to run using virtualization. Brief definition of how that works. Still with us? Then introduce package management using a user friendly graphical app like synaptic. Don't even mention the command line, there's enough out there on the web for googling about that, so much so that I think some people are confused into believing that the only way to install applications on Linux is via the command line.
Basically, rather than reinvent the wheel and paint it a different shade of gray, provide a useful introduction to the wheel, perhaps a half hour long, ending with sources of more information. With a few exceptions like commercial games, IMHO with K/Ubuntu Linux has pretty much arrived. But it isn't a Windows clone and some sort of bright and shiney intro that makes that point in a non-threatening way could be worthwhile.