If both Sun and Microsoft say that hardware will be free. Isn't this more reason to give away software and resort to a new form of communism as an economy, using our technology to automate all the work people don't like doing? Rather than force people to find jobs when this capitalist economy of ours no longer has enough of them available for everyone?
No?
Then please explain how hardware could ever be free when it will always cost money for the resources, time and energy to build it!
Lets be realistic. My reasons for wanting a communist society are not based in economics, but instead come purely from my belief in psychology. That people behave how their environment tells them how to behave. And that environment could include things like a replacement for commercials that, instead of trying to manipulate people into purchasing things they otherwise would not, would encourage people to be interested in sciences, arts and other productive things that they otherwise would not. And if you could always find a job doing exactly what you would choose to do, anyday you want to work, or do several jobs throughout the year, such as walking around picking up trash, for your own health and mental well-being, wouldn't that be a much more pleasant form of society for all of us to live in? Why can't work be play? It only takes a little more creativity and effort to make things difficult and tedious tasks we do enjoyable. Remove stress from the workplace and take care of eachother, or deal with the daily stress of capitalism for the rest of your life. It is your choice afterall, not mine.
I believe the changelog is written in English. However, I'm sure any day now CNN will report any new functionality in the kernel people like you might find interesting.
I think all us Americans forfeited our right to comment on hypocrisy the day we voted Bush into office. Ashcroft has done an excellent job of enforcing these new anti-hypo laws. Soon we will be victorious in this War on Hypocrisy.
The real social solution is to vote for either of the bipartisan parties. Status quo will remain the same and we'll all find jobs one day. Because we have faith.
The alternatives are too radical to consider. Because what incentive would you have to work if we gave the same benefits to your grandma and that lazy pothead on your block that never wants to work. Since you don't love your grandma or that lazy pothead we'll happily let you look for a well paying job in this economy. Good luck. And if you don't find one guess what, we don't care. Die in the streets. Capitalist.
The difference is Microsoft systems are being compromized by programs not users. I think TRON explains it best. Users are like magical beings that don't have to conform to poorly written rules and protocols. They are far more dynamic and intelligent than a vb script, making them harder to protect against.
Well the whole excuse for having capitalism is based on our understanding of human nature. Our understanding of human nature in the last 200 years has improved considerably. They were attempting to show you the symptoms of placing human beings in these environments. Did you know your environment makes up about half of your personality?
How can a person have the will power to take care of themselves when their environment destroys that part of their personality? How has the media system affected the average American's mental health and perception of reality over the last 4 years? How has it affected them over the span of their lives. These things are accumulative.
those people that contracted brain cancer by working at one of IBMs plants. Not just any type of cancer, but a very rare form was found in at least 2 employees on one location. Something that is not statisticly possible unless the chemicals they worked with were the cause. But I didn't read the article.
This reminds me of the Gates and Balmer Matrix parody. I think Bill Gates should come out and admit that he really is Neo, then beat up a bunch of reporters with a pole like that kid did in school, pretending they were all copies of Agent Smith.
That's all dependant on their license. If Sun releases Java under the GPL, for example, Microsoft would be forced to give away their modifications which would keep the playing field level.
But even if they don't release anything under the GPL eventually they will find competition from the Free Software Movement if it doesn't already exist.
This Intellectual Property dispute should be actioned very carefully. Because Intellect is not a limited resource.
Well, normally I wouldn't want to support yet another broadband monopoly. However if I can make the rest of you suffer through these "inconveniences" it might be worth it.:)
Aren't there contracts or something? Couldn't we sue these companies for not following through? This just seems so irresponsible unless its our government wasting the money. But in the hands of a private company there are no excuses, IMO.
Yeah! You lazy tax payers should just shut up and work harder if you know what's good for you!
The choice to shut down the project as opposed to trying to re-invent it midstream is a money saver, not a money loser.
Hows about not starting any more of these projects until we get our bearings straight? We're still all confused over this whole 9/11 Iraq thing. I think we need a timeout.
Why does our army do R&D? Why not just purchase this stuff from a free market and let capitalism solve all our problems for us? At least we'll save on the R&D costs..
Personally I want to trade in my vote for my taxes. I've finally recognized my vote wasn't worth what I'm paying for it.
Let's let the asteroid hit. Then we'll get to make $TRILLION$ cleaning up the destruction.
Look at it this way, we're consumers, right? We consume. So when things die off or get destroyed there will be plenty of new jobs for the rest of us to live blissful happy lives consuming away without a care in the world.
I think this is like Star Wars II or something. They're not really going to be sending rods up into space. They're just going to spend a lot of money and pretend they did, to make us all feel safer.
I agree, not just the Linux kernel, but all OSS libraries and APIs.
Libraries should be backwards compatible as much as possible. I understand that sometimes this is not possible, but if we could cut down on the number of incompatibilities between releases maybe we could solve the dependency problem a little easier.
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If both Sun and Microsoft say that hardware will be free. Isn't this more reason to give away software and resort to a new form of communism as an economy, using our technology to automate all the work people don't like doing? Rather than force people to find jobs when this capitalist economy of ours no longer has enough of them available for everyone?
No?
Then please explain how hardware could ever be free when it will always cost money for the resources, time and energy to build it!
Lets be realistic. My reasons for wanting a communist society are not based in economics, but instead come purely from my belief in psychology. That people behave how their environment tells them how to behave. And that environment could include things like a replacement for commercials that, instead of trying to manipulate people into purchasing things they otherwise would not, would encourage people to be interested in sciences, arts and other productive things that they otherwise would not. And if you could always find a job doing exactly what you would choose to do, anyday you want to work, or do several jobs throughout the year, such as walking around picking up trash, for your own health and mental well-being, wouldn't that be a much more pleasant form of society for all of us to live in? Why can't work be play? It only takes a little more creativity and effort to make things difficult and tedious tasks we do enjoyable. Remove stress from the workplace and take care of eachother, or deal with the daily stress of capitalism for the rest of your life. It is your choice afterall, not mine.
I believe the changelog is written in English. However, I'm sure any day now CNN will report any new functionality in the kernel people like you might find interesting.
Yep, just like that Linux kernel, eh?
When they added IA64 support my x86 just wasn't fun to work on anymore and I fear the whole project is heading the way of the dodo. Oh well. *sigh*
So you're saying there's some sort of economic inflation reguarding educational certification?
What does that tell us about certification?
What does it tell us about economics?
Study harder, you're being graded on a bell curve.
I think all us Americans forfeited our right to comment on hypocrisy the day we voted Bush into office. Ashcroft has done an excellent job of enforcing these new anti-hypo laws. Soon we will be victorious in this War on Hypocrisy.
The real social solution is to vote for either of the bipartisan parties. Status quo will remain the same and we'll all find jobs one day. Because we have faith.
The alternatives are too radical to consider. Because what incentive would you have to work if we gave the same benefits to your grandma and that lazy pothead on your block that never wants to work. Since you don't love your grandma or that lazy pothead we'll happily let you look for a well paying job in this economy. Good luck. And if you don't find one guess what, we don't care. Die in the streets. Capitalist.
P.S. Love you too.
As long as Microsoft keeps spending their money trying to figure out what we're going to do next we have nothing to worry about.
The difference is Microsoft systems are being compromized by programs not users. I think TRON explains it best. Users are like magical beings that don't have to conform to poorly written rules and protocols. They are far more dynamic and intelligent than a vb script, making them harder to protect against.
Well the whole excuse for having capitalism is based on our understanding of human nature. Our understanding of human nature in the last 200 years has improved considerably. They were attempting to show you the symptoms of placing human beings in these environments. Did you know your environment makes up about half of your personality?
How can a person have the will power to take care of themselves when their environment destroys that part of their personality? How has the media system affected the average American's mental health and perception of reality over the last 4 years? How has it affected them over the span of their lives. These things are accumulative.
those people that contracted brain cancer by working at one of IBMs plants. Not just any type of cancer, but a very rare form was found in at least 2 employees on one location. Something that is not statisticly possible unless the chemicals they worked with were the cause. But I didn't read the article.
This reminds me of the Gates and Balmer Matrix parody. I think Bill Gates should come out and admit that he really is Neo, then beat up a bunch of reporters with a pole like that kid did in school, pretending they were all copies of Agent Smith.
That's all dependant on their license. If Sun releases Java under the GPL, for example, Microsoft would be forced to give away their modifications which would keep the playing field level.
But even if they don't release anything under the GPL eventually they will find competition from the Free Software Movement if it doesn't already exist.
This Intellectual Property dispute should be actioned very carefully. Because Intellect is not a limited resource.
a correlation between stress and capitalism?
I bet the sum of the stress caused by capitalism far exceeds the sum of the stress caused by technology for all of society.
Technology can be made almost stress-free. Can capitalism?
Why pay for BPL if it's not cheaper or at least offers more bandwidth for the same price as cable or DSL?
Because I'm hopeful it might interfere with all my neighbors cell phones and RF equipment. And because I don't like the cable or the phone companies.
Well, normally I wouldn't want to support yet another broadband monopoly. However if I can make the rest of you suffer through these "inconveniences" it might be worth it. :)
Aren't there contracts or something? Couldn't we sue these companies for not following through? This just seems so irresponsible unless its our government wasting the money. But in the hands of a private company there are no excuses, IMO.
Yeah! You lazy tax payers should just shut up and work harder if you know what's good for you!
The choice to shut down the project as opposed to trying to re-invent it midstream is a money saver, not a money loser.
Hows about not starting any more of these projects until we get our bearings straight? We're still all confused over this whole 9/11 Iraq thing. I think we need a timeout.
Why does our army do R&D? Why not just purchase this stuff from a free market and let capitalism solve all our problems for us? At least we'll save on the R&D costs..
Personally I want to trade in my vote for my taxes. I've finally recognized my vote wasn't worth what I'm paying for it.
Let's let the asteroid hit. Then we'll get to make $TRILLION$ cleaning up the destruction.
:)
Look at it this way, we're consumers, right? We consume. So when things die off or get destroyed there will be plenty of new jobs for the rest of us to live blissful happy lives consuming away without a care in the world.
Just hope it doesn't land on us.
*bliss*
Why not just print your code out and lock it up in a safe because nobody is going to care about it in 5 years.
Your Intellectual Property is stupid!
I think this is like Star Wars II or something. They're not really going to be sending rods up into space. They're just going to spend a lot of money and pretend they did, to make us all feel safer.
What exactly is the US doing this arms race against? Aliens?
No, commies. They're everywhere.
Cygwin is a nice way to run XFree86 on Windows. Its not too difficult setup and its free, but X has its own quirks.
Anyway here's a user's guide..
I agree, not just the Linux kernel, but all OSS libraries and APIs.
Libraries should be backwards compatible as much as possible. I understand that sometimes this is not possible, but if we could cut down on the number of incompatibilities between releases maybe we could solve the dependency problem a little easier.
I don't know why they marked your comment down but I disagree. That's less of a Troll than my previous ramblings.