To quote Gin Rummy (As voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), "just because you put a two-way pager in the middle of your desk don't mean its a computer. its a two-way pager." A "smart phone" in a similar configuration is still the same deal. Nothing anyone has typed with their thumbs has ever been important.
Well, I'm not naive, and that leaves my only option as just not using the product/service, and then I don't have to worry about it anymore. That's the path I have chosen to pursue. At some later date, I may re-evaluate the position, but its not particularly likely.
Most people end up with Windows by virtue of buying a computer. Unless they don't want "home premium" or whatever, it gets marked as "included in the price." Since most people don't know what the OEM actually paid for that license (I know I sure as hell don't, and don't particularly care), it doesn't matter to them. It's as good as free. The price difference only becomes an issue if you're building your own system, and if you're able to do that successfully, chances are you have a reasonable chance of not being a total "fail whale" on trying to use Linux.
I would say that in at least a plurality of cases, the cost comparison argument isn't really going to carry any water.
I know, we should go back to marketing Linux as a replacement for Solaris instead. Isn't that what Sun ended up doing, anyway? And why they're irrelevant and dead now.
It's a fundamental aspect of human culture and psychology... for normal people, at least. Its just there used to be places you could go that everyone in the world couldn't follow you and find out everything you were doing.
No, if it had been Facebook or MySpace, it wouldn't be a surprise. Dumb-ass kids willfully give up information which could be used to harm them in some way, including "cyber stalking" (its new cause its on the innernets!), and you don't even have to be an employee of the company to perform it. Chances are there are enough holes in the Facebook API that someone could find a way to force an unblock action for themselves.
Of course, no, this doesn't really surprise me either. But, I deleted my Google account a couple of months ago and stopped using them for anything other than search. I have my own mail servers (no gmail), am capable of setting up my own blog (no blogger), find that honestly, I think that Bing maps are a little bit better, and don't really have much use for any of their other services/products. I block all the ads, too.
That doesn't mean I'm really that much safer. I no longer work for the hosting company that houses my VPS, so its at the mercy of the admin staff there. Luckily, I still have my hooks in and don't need to worry about malice, so much as the occasional incompetence with regards to mismanagement of infrastructure. But, no one gets to search index my email on my end of the conversation, so that's something, at least.
My family was here since the 1650s on both sides, with a bit of Irish mixed in the 1840s, so what do I know about it? Apparently just what I've heard, which is wrong.
I think he's referring to the practice at mass-immigration checkpoints like Ellis Island, where, when the processor couldn't spell particularly complicated names (for instance, those of Polish or Eastern European origin), that they'd just write down something Anglo-sounding and tell them to get used to it. He may have been afraid that he'd end up Linus Van Pelt rather than Linus Torvalds.
No, there are rules about what you can do on the public highways. He's more than welcome to sleep in the back seat of his car and drinking Mad Dog 20/20 out of a brown paper sack, but if he tried that on a city bus, that's a no-no. If he tried driving while drinking said Mad Dog 20/20, then that's putting other people's lives in danger, and again, a no-no.
Maybe its a neighborhood kid who doesn't know he should be charging at least minimum wage? But then again, the neighborhood kid probably hasn't ever seen his own birth certificate, let alone have an ID card of any kind.
No, he left to go to the United States, land of companies willing to pay him for working on things related to his hobby, because large segments of the economy have become dependent on him. Last I heard, wasn't he living in Oregon? You sounds like your judging the entire country based on Kansas.
Well, to be fair, the Soviet Union had constant and gratuitous government spending, an erosion of citizens rights, and a constant war-state mentality. Socialism with the Big S is generally not the same thing as Social Democracy. The "Socialism" of Western Europe was Social Democracy, not the Socialism of the red flags; the Marxist "Scientific Socialism" of the Internationale that most people call Communism today. Except the people who think they're being cleaver and claim that "pure communism" was supposed to be Libertarian Socialism, aka "Anarchism." it wasn't. Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx were arch-rivals in the First Internationale over this issue, and Marxism, slightly refined by Lenin and Trotsky, and established by the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union was the real McCoy.
Neither side is fundamentally disinterested, and therefore is given to hyperbole. Whatever the greatest evil they can muster (for the right, socailism/communism, for the left, fascism/trotskyism (neo-cons are basically just disgused trotskyists -- it's all about the perpetual revolution/spreading democracy)), that's the label they slap on their opponents without any hesitation in order to stop and think whether or not its really warranted.
Its not that both sides are right or wrong, its that both sides are pretty much just kind of dumb.
Linus is an educated and skilled worker who is responsible for the underpinnings of large section of the digital economy. He's not exactly the type of person who's likely to need to sneak across the boarder. Chances are high that the only lawn he's mowed since arriving is his own.
Depends on the circumstances. Here in Virginia, and likely in other East Coast states as well, there are still a few families with free-hold claims on their land. The requirement for this is having documentary evidence of a Royal land grant, or similar. Basically, you need to be able to prove your family owned the land before the US was a country. There is no tax levied on these properties, although this is increasingly rare, especially as younger generations see more value in subdividing a 300 acre plot and selling it off to developers than in having land that they can't be evicted from and don't have to pay for.
I was raised Episcopal, but figured out a young age that it was kind of bullshit. I mean, the church was basically started so a fat guy could divorce his foreign wife, even though divorce counts as adultery, which violates one of the 10 commandments. Being able to get away with violating a commandment doesn't seem like a good basis for starting a large protestant sect, if you ask me.
That lead me to eventually get to doing a study of Buddhism, particularly Zen. The books I read, largely from people in the Soto sect, just make it seem infinitely practical. I think a lot of people in the West get a sort of Beatles-in-India image of Eastern religions, but what I got out of Zen was that its the quest to be able to see things how they really are.
There is a Zen proverb I remember that goes something like, "Before you study Zen, you see the mountain. While you study Zen, you see the rocks and dirt. When you have mastered Zen, you'll see the mountain again."
I bring this up because it just seems to me that a lot of people get stuck on the "there is no spoon" and think that enlightenment is supposed to bring them to someplace special that looks like Rainbow Unicorn Attack. Really, its about cutting through the bullshit.
A lot of philosophy majors I knew in college were indistinguishable from the kids who would just get high and watch the Matrix. Sometimes they were one in the same. I don't claim to be an enlightened being or a Zen master, but I do think I'm pretty good at cutting through the bullshit and seeing the reality of situations. The world could use a little more of that.
Some one had made a similarly named account with regards to BP during the height of the oil spill issue and used it to basically be a dick about various things, or so I heard on NPR. I quit using twitter months ago. I would expect its a fake account name. That doesn't sound like the sort of name that the "official" Intel twitter account would use.
My thinking on this was, unless you know for sure that you are covered by this, what's to stop MS from deciding that for, whatever reason, they agree with the FSB or whomever raiding your office and allowing trumped-up piracy issues to be used as the pretense.
The only reason MS is doing this now is because they got called out in the New York Times and some other major papers for basically being an active participant in providing a rational for squashing dissent. This whole idea that these same organizations can now just assume that they're covered, without really knowing for sure, just seems like a potential trap to me.
If I were them, I'd want it in writing. Of course, if I were them, I'd probably just not pirate MS software in the first place, but that's besides the point.
And the qualifier is, of course, "qualifying." The article doesn't say who qualifies, and says that journalists and NGOs don't have to do anything to get the license, which means they don't find out that they don't qualify until they're in the same situation they're already facing, I guess.
Spain sent troops to the Eastern Front who took part in the siege of Satalingrad. Calling Spain a nonbelligerent in WWII is about as valid calling Germany a nonbelligerent in the Spanish Civil War.
Well, its a fairly well known fact that the US supplied petrol and credit to Franco and the Nationalists in Spain, who were allied with Hitler and Mussolini, who used the opportunity to try out various techniques and new weapons systems, as well as to feel out the state of Soviet technology -- Soviet tanks and armored cars with light artillery having been supplied to the Republic. The Spanish Civil War was basically the dress rehearsal for WWII.
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To quote Gin Rummy (As voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), "just because you put a two-way pager in the middle of your desk don't mean its a computer. its a two-way pager." A "smart phone" in a similar configuration is still the same deal. Nothing anyone has typed with their thumbs has ever been important.
Well, I'm not naive, and that leaves my only option as just not using the product/service, and then I don't have to worry about it anymore. That's the path I have chosen to pursue. At some later date, I may re-evaluate the position, but its not particularly likely.
Most people end up with Windows by virtue of buying a computer. Unless they don't want "home premium" or whatever, it gets marked as "included in the price." Since most people don't know what the OEM actually paid for that license (I know I sure as hell don't, and don't particularly care), it doesn't matter to them. It's as good as free. The price difference only becomes an issue if you're building your own system, and if you're able to do that successfully, chances are you have a reasonable chance of not being a total "fail whale" on trying to use Linux.
I would say that in at least a plurality of cases, the cost comparison argument isn't really going to carry any water.
I know, we should go back to marketing Linux as a replacement for Solaris instead. Isn't that what Sun ended up doing, anyway? And why they're irrelevant and dead now.
Maybe they're just trying to find out what happens when two bodies with strong attractive properties collide with each other?
It's a fundamental aspect of human culture and psychology... for normal people, at least. Its just there used to be places you could go that everyone in the world couldn't follow you and find out everything you were doing.
No, if it had been Facebook or MySpace, it wouldn't be a surprise. Dumb-ass kids willfully give up information which could be used to harm them in some way, including "cyber stalking" (its new cause its on the innernets!), and you don't even have to be an employee of the company to perform it. Chances are there are enough holes in the Facebook API that someone could find a way to force an unblock action for themselves.
Of course, no, this doesn't really surprise me either. But, I deleted my Google account a couple of months ago and stopped using them for anything other than search. I have my own mail servers (no gmail), am capable of setting up my own blog (no blogger), find that honestly, I think that Bing maps are a little bit better, and don't really have much use for any of their other services/products. I block all the ads, too.
That doesn't mean I'm really that much safer. I no longer work for the hosting company that houses my VPS, so its at the mercy of the admin staff there. Luckily, I still have my hooks in and don't need to worry about malice, so much as the occasional incompetence with regards to mismanagement of infrastructure. But, no one gets to search index my email on my end of the conversation, so that's something, at least.
My family was here since the 1650s on both sides, with a bit of Irish mixed in the 1840s, so what do I know about it? Apparently just what I've heard, which is wrong.
I think he's referring to the practice at mass-immigration checkpoints like Ellis Island, where, when the processor couldn't spell particularly complicated names (for instance, those of Polish or Eastern European origin), that they'd just write down something Anglo-sounding and tell them to get used to it. He may have been afraid that he'd end up Linus Van Pelt rather than Linus Torvalds.
No, there are rules about what you can do on the public highways. He's more than welcome to sleep in the back seat of his car and drinking Mad Dog 20/20 out of a brown paper sack, but if he tried that on a city bus, that's a no-no. If he tried driving while drinking said Mad Dog 20/20, then that's putting other people's lives in danger, and again, a no-no.
Maybe its a neighborhood kid who doesn't know he should be charging at least minimum wage? But then again, the neighborhood kid probably hasn't ever seen his own birth certificate, let alone have an ID card of any kind.
Do I get royalties? :-p
No, he left to go to the United States, land of companies willing to pay him for working on things related to his hobby, because large segments of the economy have become dependent on him. Last I heard, wasn't he living in Oregon? You sounds like your judging the entire country based on Kansas.
Well, to be fair, the Soviet Union had constant and gratuitous government spending, an erosion of citizens rights, and a constant war-state mentality. Socialism with the Big S is generally not the same thing as Social Democracy. The "Socialism" of Western Europe was Social Democracy, not the Socialism of the red flags; the Marxist "Scientific Socialism" of the Internationale that most people call Communism today. Except the people who think they're being cleaver and claim that "pure communism" was supposed to be Libertarian Socialism, aka "Anarchism." it wasn't. Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx were arch-rivals in the First Internationale over this issue, and Marxism, slightly refined by Lenin and Trotsky, and established by the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union was the real McCoy.
Neither side is fundamentally disinterested, and therefore is given to hyperbole. Whatever the greatest evil they can muster (for the right, socailism/communism, for the left, fascism/trotskyism (neo-cons are basically just disgused trotskyists -- it's all about the perpetual revolution/spreading democracy)), that's the label they slap on their opponents without any hesitation in order to stop and think whether or not its really warranted.
Its not that both sides are right or wrong, its that both sides are pretty much just kind of dumb.
Linus is an educated and skilled worker who is responsible for the underpinnings of large section of the digital economy. He's not exactly the type of person who's likely to need to sneak across the boarder. Chances are high that the only lawn he's mowed since arriving is his own.
no, no, no... the proper term is GNU/Anchor Baby.
Depends on the circumstances. Here in Virginia, and likely in other East Coast states as well, there are still a few families with free-hold claims on their land. The requirement for this is having documentary evidence of a Royal land grant, or similar. Basically, you need to be able to prove your family owned the land before the US was a country. There is no tax levied on these properties, although this is increasingly rare, especially as younger generations see more value in subdividing a 300 acre plot and selling it off to developers than in having land that they can't be evicted from and don't have to pay for.
I was raised Episcopal, but figured out a young age that it was kind of bullshit. I mean, the church was basically started so a fat guy could divorce his foreign wife, even though divorce counts as adultery, which violates one of the 10 commandments. Being able to get away with violating a commandment doesn't seem like a good basis for starting a large protestant sect, if you ask me.
That lead me to eventually get to doing a study of Buddhism, particularly Zen. The books I read, largely from people in the Soto sect, just make it seem infinitely practical. I think a lot of people in the West get a sort of Beatles-in-India image of Eastern religions, but what I got out of Zen was that its the quest to be able to see things how they really are.
There is a Zen proverb I remember that goes something like, "Before you study Zen, you see the mountain. While you study Zen, you see the rocks and dirt. When you have mastered Zen, you'll see the mountain again."
I bring this up because it just seems to me that a lot of people get stuck on the "there is no spoon" and think that enlightenment is supposed to bring them to someplace special that looks like Rainbow Unicorn Attack. Really, its about cutting through the bullshit.
A lot of philosophy majors I knew in college were indistinguishable from the kids who would just get high and watch the Matrix. Sometimes they were one in the same. I don't claim to be an enlightened being or a Zen master, but I do think I'm pretty good at cutting through the bullshit and seeing the reality of situations. The world could use a little more of that.
Some one had made a similarly named account with regards to BP during the height of the oil spill issue and used it to basically be a dick about various things, or so I heard on NPR. I quit using twitter months ago. I would expect its a fake account name. That doesn't sound like the sort of name that the "official" Intel twitter account would use.
You mean they took a bunch of acid then watched the Matrix and confused that for a philosophy degree?
My thinking on this was, unless you know for sure that you are covered by this, what's to stop MS from deciding that for, whatever reason, they agree with the FSB or whomever raiding your office and allowing trumped-up piracy issues to be used as the pretense.
The only reason MS is doing this now is because they got called out in the New York Times and some other major papers for basically being an active participant in providing a rational for squashing dissent. This whole idea that these same organizations can now just assume that they're covered, without really knowing for sure, just seems like a potential trap to me.
If I were them, I'd want it in writing. Of course, if I were them, I'd probably just not pirate MS software in the first place, but that's besides the point.
And the qualifier is, of course, "qualifying." The article doesn't say who qualifies, and says that journalists and NGOs don't have to do anything to get the license, which means they don't find out that they don't qualify until they're in the same situation they're already facing, I guess.
Spain sent troops to the Eastern Front who took part in the siege of Satalingrad. Calling Spain a nonbelligerent in WWII is about as valid calling Germany a nonbelligerent in the Spanish Civil War.
Well, its a fairly well known fact that the US supplied petrol and credit to Franco and the Nationalists in Spain, who were allied with Hitler and Mussolini, who used the opportunity to try out various techniques and new weapons systems, as well as to feel out the state of Soviet technology -- Soviet tanks and armored cars with light artillery having been supplied to the Republic. The Spanish Civil War was basically the dress rehearsal for WWII.