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I am a huge Metallica fan. I appreciate your musical talent, and I'll be there July 4th to see you at Baltimore, MD. I can understand your anger at the fact that your life's worth efforts that were put into your records are now being stolen.
However, I do not think that the actions that you've taken against the theft of your music is practical, nor do I think they are directed to the right people. MP3s have exploded into being something bigger than anyone predicted. MP3s are used everywhere -- kids take advantage of their school's high-speed internet connections to install Napster and download music, Rio and other electronic makers have released portable MP3 players, Lycos.com and Altavista.com have both opened their own sub-search engines exclusively for free music, and Sony is planning on actually selling MP3s. The bottom line is, MP3s are everywhere. Regardless of the fact that I think you can not stop the MP3 revolution, even with a thousand law firms and guys in suits, I most importantly think that directing your anger and efforts at chasing people who use Napster, the same kids who pay to go to your concerts, is absurd and childish. Yes, they are violating the law, but haven't you ever made a copy of your records onto tapes and given it to your friends? This is exactly the same, only the form is different. Technology made it easier and faster to copy music for friends, which might be a downside because it's abused, but technology has also brought with it some great things such as the ability to cure diseases, and conduct research in other important areas. Areas I'm afraid that are more crucial than your music, or anyone's. I think that you need to face those facts, and not just blindly fire at those who take advantage of current technology and are not the source of the problem. Try to use your resources and power to find an alternative, or a solution instead.
``Crime is like a disease, like any other malady, and is a product of the prevalent social system.''
On your web site, you chose to have the translation of your book to Hebrew, out of all languages, in this picture: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/works.jpg I'm curious why? All the other books shown in that image are not translations, and seem to be all in English. -- ``Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.'' -- Henry David Thoreau
First, I'd like to say that I admire your work. I'm a big emacs fan (helping build emacs.org), and I appreciate all of the wonderful tools GNU has provided us with. However, I was very suprised when I heard about your call to boycott Amazon. Don't you think that approach was a bit childish? Tim Oreilly for example, sent Jeff Bezos a letter, explaining his take on Amazon's patents and why they should change. Oreilly's letter made progress, and things turned out well at the end. Calling a boycott did not achieve anything.
`Usenet' is not really correct terminology nowdays. There are many newsgroups which are not part of Usenet. Newsgroups are the *only* reliable, and *interactive* source of information available on the net right now. Where else can you get advice from world-class experts on virtually any topic? comp.lang.c, comp.unix.programmer, comp.os.linux.misc, sci.math.. and the list goes on. All of these are filled with regulars who know more about their topics than everyone else. Usenet == Knowledge. Have you ever tried asking a question on IRC? You're not going to get a real answer from a bunch of script kiddies who are idle 99 percent of the time. The only other real information source other than newsgroups is mailing lists, even though the two are usually closely related. The conclusion is, newsgroups (or Usenet) is the only place where you can ask a question and almost guarantee a reliable answer. Too many people rely on Newsgroups Let IRC die, leave me my News.
It's off-topic. Just because you think it's a funny show doesn't mean you should post it. That post, like every other post on slashdot lately, is clearly *OFF-TOPIC*. Grow up. - dev_fuze ``Don't spoil my news source!''
Stop right there, please. I'm willing to somehow take movie reviews, and that type of idiotic crap, because I like slashdot's technology news, but Boris Yeltsin resigning?! That has *nothing* to do with technology or science. Nor does a lot of the stuff that's been posted lately on slashdot. Don't turn my *geek* newssource into some lame news site..
Stop right there, please. I'm willing to somehow take movie reviews, and that type of idiotic crap, because I like slashdot's technology news, but Boris Yeltsin resigning?! That has *nothing* to do with technology or science. Nor does a lot of the stuff that's been posted lately on slashdot. Don't my *geek* newssource into some lame news site..
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Oh, you mean a calendaring app. Do you even read what you post?
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People who apply the term evangelist to Linux developers should be shot.
If you wish to use a markup language that uses LaTeX-like syntax, try Latte. Latte is a real programming language, like TeX; it has looping, functions, and so on, and its very similar to Scheme. It makes markup a breeze. Give it a try.
However, I do not think that the actions that you've taken against the theft of your music is practical, nor do I think they are directed to the right people. MP3s have exploded into being something bigger than anyone predicted. MP3s are used everywhere -- kids take advantage of their school's high-speed internet connections to install Napster and download music, Rio and other electronic makers have released portable MP3 players, Lycos.com and Altavista.com have both opened their own sub-search engines exclusively for free music, and Sony is planning on actually selling MP3s. The bottom line is, MP3s are everywhere. Regardless of the fact that I think you can not stop the MP3 revolution, even with a thousand law firms and guys in suits, I most importantly think that directing your anger and efforts at chasing people who use Napster, the same kids who pay to go to your concerts, is absurd and childish. Yes, they are violating the law, but haven't you ever made a copy of your records onto tapes and given it to your friends? This is exactly the same, only the form is different. Technology made it easier and faster to copy music for friends, which might be a downside because it's abused, but technology has also brought with it some great things such as the ability to cure diseases, and conduct research in other important areas. Areas I'm afraid that are more crucial than your music, or anyone's. I think that you need to face those facts, and not just blindly fire at those who take advantage of current technology and are not the source of the problem. Try to use your resources and power to find an alternative, or a solution instead.
``Crime is like a disease, like any other malady, and is a product of the prevalent social system.''
On your web site, you chose to have the translation of your book to Hebrew, out of all languages, in this picture: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/works.jpg I'm curious why? All the other books shown in that image are not translations, and seem to be all in English. -- ``Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.'' -- Henry David Thoreau
First, I'd like to say that I admire your work. I'm a big emacs fan (helping build emacs.org), and I appreciate all of the wonderful tools GNU has provided us with. However, I was very suprised when I heard about your call to boycott Amazon. Don't you think that approach was a bit childish? Tim Oreilly for example, sent Jeff Bezos a letter, explaining his take on Amazon's patents and why they should change. Oreilly's letter made progress, and things turned out well at the end. Calling a boycott did not achieve anything.
Your claims are utterly stupid. Go use AOL. Usenet will never day as long as serious computer users are around.
`Usenet' is not really correct terminology nowdays. There are many newsgroups which are not part of Usenet. Newsgroups are the *only* reliable, and *interactive* source of information available on the net right now. Where else can you get advice from world-class experts on virtually any topic? comp.lang.c, comp.unix.programmer, comp.os.linux.misc, sci.math.. and the list goes on. All of these are filled with regulars who know more about their topics than everyone else. Usenet == Knowledge. Have you ever tried asking a question on IRC? You're not going to get a real answer from a bunch of script kiddies who are idle 99 percent of the time. The only other real information source other than newsgroups is mailing lists, even though the two are usually closely related. The conclusion is, newsgroups (or Usenet) is the only place where you can ask a question and almost guarantee a reliable answer. Too many people rely on Newsgroups Let IRC die, leave me my News.
It's off-topic. Just because you think it's a funny show doesn't mean you should post it. That post, like every other post on slashdot lately, is clearly *OFF-TOPIC*. Grow up. - dev_fuze ``Don't spoil my news source!''
Stop right there, please. I'm willing to somehow take movie reviews, and that type of idiotic crap, because I like slashdot's technology news, but Boris Yeltsin resigning?! That has *nothing* to do with technology or science. Nor does a lot of the stuff that's been posted lately on slashdot. Don't turn my *geek* newssource into some lame news site..
Stop right there, please. I'm willing to somehow take movie reviews, and that type of idiotic crap, because I like slashdot's technology news, but Boris Yeltsin resigning?! That has *nothing* to do with technology or science. Nor does a lot of the stuff that's been posted lately on slashdot. Don't my *geek* newssource into some lame news site..