The funniest part about people bring up ye olde crowded-theater-fire in support of limitations on free speech is that they rarely no the issue at hand in Schenk, viz.:
Prohibiting people from expressing opposition to the draft.
That's correct. Holmes et al (unanimous decision) felt that endangering hundreds of people's lives by causing a panic was morally equivalent (or at least morally relevant) to a guy handing out flyers saying that the draft is bad.
I also agree with KGill on this point, but in order to stop the merciless modding/beating he's taking, he's going to need to explain it further, viz.:
Who, if anyone, was proposing that the children of Peru get zero laptops?
As I understand it, the OLPC project as originally envisioned was proposing that X laptops would be distributed. This vision was co-opted by Microsoft so that (X-Y) will now be distributed. Oh, and they will be somewhat less functional.
And KGill is saying, "well, them's the breaks, but X-Y is better than nothing... "
"I presented a clear, easy to comprehend, vision and understanding that took a great deal of thought"
No, you presented the 100-millionth iteration of the same old "look, guys, all us big boys out here in the real world(TM) use windows so just accept it" argument
At starbuck's this morning all the bluehaired ladies were sitting around laughing at the fox while they surfed the web using assorted beta software packages.
I think one of 'em had Dillo v0.9 from an svn repository.
David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.
Because colossal missed opportunities arising from beneficial externalities that are not getting incorporated into the development funding.
Example: almost *everyone who has a website benefits from some part of the LAMP stack, though they pay nothing for it. This isn't a problem, as the marginal cost of the LAMP stack is zero.
But if all those beneficiaries would pool a fair price -- or 5% of a fair price -- for that code, and put it into more development.. well, I can barely imagine how fast the stack would improve.
Having principles is not extreme. It's actually not really possible *not to have them.
Abandoning your principles when they're inconvenient is not "moderate".
If you claim to have principle X, and abandon it when it's inconvenient, your *actual principle is "convenience", and it coincided with principle X for awhile.
X doesn't suddenly become extreme because it's not your principle.
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"How often does the state step in to help bailout any business?"
Um... half a dozen times a week, give or take.
Okay, maybe that's a recent trend. How about farm and energy subsidies?
"As for the recent "bailouts", it's going to be the profitable and well-off being taxed to bailout institutions that gave money away"
Sorry, but when the dollar tanks it tanks for everyone, not just the profitable and well-off
Maybe you meant that as a joke, but you're not far off:
Kolibrios is a full, modern OS with a desktop. Written in Assembly, which as you can imagine makes in unbelievably fast. Can boot from a floppy.
I just tried it out a few days ago
http://www.kolibrios.org/
The funniest part about people bring up ye olde crowded-theater-fire in support of limitations on free speech is that they rarely no the issue at hand in Schenk, viz.:
Prohibiting people from expressing opposition to the draft.
That's correct. Holmes et al (unanimous decision) felt that endangering hundreds of people's lives by causing a panic was morally equivalent (or at least morally relevant) to a guy handing out flyers saying that the draft is bad.
"The US is a capitalist economy"
Oh my god, that's *so *CUTE !!!!
The US, if you hadn't heard, is what we call a "mixed economy" -- with an interesting mix:
Profits are held by private individuals, and losses are distributed among the general public via bailouts, etc.
"Biggest mistake that I think Microsoft made? Not back porting DX10 to XP."
Wow. Ow. Of all the idiotic things MS has done, this is the worst?
"Second biggest mistake. Not making Vista 64 bit only."
What?
I'm thinking about it, but you forgot to include a "target price". That's my favorite part
"Something is better than nothing"
I also agree with KGill on this point, but in order to stop the merciless modding/beating he's taking, he's going to need to explain it further, viz.:
Who, if anyone, was proposing that the children of Peru get zero laptops?
As I understand it, the OLPC project as originally envisioned was proposing that X laptops would be distributed. This vision was co-opted by Microsoft so that (X-Y) will now be distributed. Oh, and they will be somewhat less functional.
And KGill is saying, "well, them's the breaks, but X-Y is better than nothing... "
"I presented a clear, easy to comprehend, vision and understanding that took a great deal of thought"
No, you presented the 100-millionth iteration of the same old "look, guys, all us big boys out here in the real world(TM) use windows so just accept it" argument
This is totally true, after all NO ONE who grew up using Windows in the 80s/90s ever became a programmer...
Careful, your fanboy is showing.
Careful, your strawman is showing
OLPC has gone from an educational endeavor to just another plain old business-hegemony endeavor.
"They will then use that OS to go get the information and, if they want, they'll alter it to suit their needs"
If they do this, they are generally going to be in violation of the EULA, which last I checked frowned upon modification and workarounds.
At starbuck's this morning all the bluehaired ladies were sitting around laughing at the fox while they surfed the web using assorted beta software packages.
I think one of 'em had Dillo v0.9 from an svn repository.
David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.
Looks like these are (relatively) low-energy test runs for the time being
"During winter, the LHC will be shut down, allowing equipment to be fine-tuned for collisions at full energy. "
Can't code it, I'm just sayin'...
sad days...
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Gnash and swfdec aren't super-reliable yet, in my experience, but I highly recommend youtube-dl
http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
Pointing out that there is a comparable alternative available on a one-at-a-time basis is *not a valid criticism of these products.
Pretend that GP, instead of just being a tweakhead who wants to fiddle with a UMPC, is tasked with fitting out 1200 employees with cheap laptops.
I assume you'd suggest that he needs to make 1199 more friends with old laptops?
"some kind of Linux is here..."
New slogan for /.? Or at least new annoying meme?
Um, business owners who wish not to be competed out of existence by other business owners who think
Because colossal missed opportunities arising from beneficial externalities that are not getting incorporated into the development funding.
Example: almost *everyone who has a website benefits from some part of the LAMP stack, though they pay nothing for it. This isn't a problem, as the marginal cost of the LAMP stack is zero.
But if all those beneficiaries would pool a fair price -- or 5% of a fair price -- for that code, and put it into more development .. well, I can barely imagine how fast the stack would improve.
Is it "good" to maintain and expand the upstream rain forest that provides your raw materials?
It's not good for this week's balance sheet, but it's good if you think about it for five minutes.
Having principles is not extreme. It's actually not really possible *not to have them.
Abandoning your principles when they're inconvenient is not "moderate".
If you claim to have principle X, and abandon it when it's inconvenient, your *actual principle is "convenience", and it coincided with principle X for awhile.
X doesn't suddenly become extreme because it's not your principle.
In my not-professional-legal opinion, "with windows vista" doesn't suffice, because such a sticker does not spell out the terms of the license.
"With Vista" implies that you're buying X (the hardware) and Y (the software). But the first thing in the EULA is "licensed, not sold".
A sticker that said "With permission to use Vista in certain preapproved ways" might carry the day, but our sales would plummet.