why is paying 130 bucks every 12-18 months not the same as "pay up, pay often"?
if you want freedom, go with GNU, if you want shiny widgets n'stuff go with apple or ms.
there is overlap but clearly, paying money for the os is not going to disappear when you go to appleland. unless you want to keep using the same os you got when you bought the machine... it could get outdated very quickly.
and no, the GPL is copyleft not right. it gives you, the user more rights than you started with. even if copyright were to be abolished tomorrow, it wouldn't hurt the GPL any. it just uses copyright to work within the corrupt system we have now.
apple users are just as ignorant as ms users (of which i am one). ms and apple are holding its users hostage... you don't negotiate piecemeal for every privilege... they hold you in the palm of their hands. they are in control, not you. make no mistake about it.
if you truly want to have freedom, the only choice is a libre os, like linux, preferably one that is completely free, not the commercial versions like suse and redhat.
Free software is and always will be superior for those who care about freedom. if you like the shenanigans that commercial software vendors perform, then by all means, stick with it and tell us how it turns out.
unfortunetly it's not always easy to switch. so it'll take time for those who have that baggage.
it's only going to get worse in the future. DRM/insidious computing is basically a certainty at this point, with the help of all those misinformed computer users.
for the exact same machine. most p-m systems come with half the ram, less hd space, lower quality screens and cost 400-600 dollars more.
gee i wonder why...
it couldn't be the massive amount of cache on the chip? or the fact that intel is a piece of shit company that can only strongarm vendors to use only intel chips?
that those greedy portable music manufacturers don't include an expandable memory slot, then one could seriously consider buying a flash-based player.
i'm not going to buy a player that is locked in the amount of storage it has. that's as silly as someone buying a digital camera that ONLY has internal memory.
anyone know if there are any good players with expandable flash storage?
widgets isn't a new phenomenon. and frankly, just about everything in modern personal computers isn't either.
we as a people have been copying things from each other since the begining. it is only natural and in fact recommended.
give up those old robber baron notions of "intellectual property" before we get into a really bad situation, like software patents or using holding companies solely to bring lawsuits as a business model. oh wai....t.
they are virtually going by the seat of their pants in regards to funding now that the war criminals have started a war based on lies and forged documents in order to invade on behalf of a small foreign nation, which is overly represented by lobbying groups and spies in america and britain?
imagine what NASA could do with an extra 5-10 billion dollars.
i'm holding that it is a choice. what works for you doesn't for someone else. so far, belief and non-belief of god are equal because there is no way to prove and no way to disprove. it's a stalemate.
yeah, in sensible britain, they shoot people to death in the back with 5 shots after they were found not to be carrying a gun, weapon or explosives and guilty of running away when several heavily-armed men came towards him in a hurry.
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why is paying 130 bucks every 12-18 months not the same as "pay up, pay often"?
if you want freedom, go with GNU, if you want shiny widgets n'stuff go with apple or ms.
there is overlap but clearly, paying money for the os is not going to disappear when you go to appleland. unless you want to keep using the same os you got when you bought the machine... it could get outdated very quickly.
and no, the GPL is copyleft not right. it gives you, the user more rights than you started with. even if copyright were to be abolished tomorrow, it wouldn't hurt the GPL any. it just uses copyright to work within the corrupt system we have now.
apple users are just as ignorant as ms users (of which i am one). ms and apple are holding its users hostage... you don't negotiate piecemeal for every privilege... they hold you in the palm of their hands. they are in control, not you. make no mistake about it.
moving to os x is not an upgrade.
if you truly want to have freedom, the only choice is a libre os, like linux, preferably one that is completely free, not the commercial versions like suse and redhat.
Free software is and always will be superior for those who care about freedom. if you like the shenanigans that commercial software vendors perform, then by all means, stick with it and tell us how it turns out.
unfortunetly it's not always easy to switch. so it'll take time for those who have that baggage.
it's only going to get worse in the future. DRM/insidious computing is basically a certainty at this point, with the help of all those misinformed computer users.
and is vastly more expensive (400-600+).
for the exact same machine. most p-m systems come with half the ram, less hd space, lower quality screens and cost 400-600 dollars more.
gee i wonder why...
it couldn't be the massive amount of cache on the chip? or the fact that intel is a piece of shit company that can only strongarm vendors to use only intel chips?
fwiw, intel will never see a penny from me ever.
not only would i play the free ad-supported games, i would block their ads while doing it.
fu** them.
no more ads, ever. this bs has to stop.
i don't even want a single pixel to be a party to an ad, anywhere in the game.
put ads in your game = people will think it's for free since tv is that way too.
you are TOLD they would be $40.
so maybe you ought to stop being so naive and not believe everything you're told.
that those greedy portable music manufacturers don't include an expandable memory slot, then one could seriously consider buying a flash-based player.
i'm not going to buy a player that is locked in the amount of storage it has. that's as silly as someone buying a digital camera that ONLY has internal memory.
anyone know if there are any good players with expandable flash storage?
hehe.
never mind.
widgets isn't a new phenomenon. and frankly, just about everything in modern personal computers isn't either.
we as a people have been copying things from each other since the begining. it is only natural and in fact recommended.
give up those old robber baron notions of "intellectual property" before we get into a really bad situation, like software patents or using holding companies solely to bring lawsuits as a business model. oh wai....t.
the right to have rights. i hear something...
is that you louis armstrong?
it doesn't require proof to make a choice.
choosing anything, doesn't require anything, except to say "i choose this".
why people choose what they choose is beyond this discussion.
the god argument is special because it cannot be falsified.
and since that cannot happen, it isn't in the realm of science.
that NASA has very little money left now.
they are virtually going by the seat of their pants in regards to funding now that the war criminals have started a war based on lies and forged documents in order to invade on behalf of a small foreign nation, which is overly represented by lobbying groups and spies in america and britain?
imagine what NASA could do with an extra 5-10 billion dollars.
your "peer review journal" is NOT their "peer review journal"
you keep missing the important details.
apparently you didn't understand.
i'm holding that it is a choice. what works for you doesn't for someone else. so far, belief and non-belief of god are equal because there is no way to prove and no way to disprove. it's a stalemate.
what you choose, is just another choice.
you didn't try hard enough.
"established by observation"
"accepted as accounting for the known facts"
etc.
but that definition would also fit intelligent design.
hmmm...
similarly, there is a LOT of evidence for god all around us.
since god cannot be "proved" or dis-"proved", it is a moot point to "argue" about it.
what you are doing is choosing one side over another. neither one is inherintely better than the other.
science does not deal with philosophy and vice versa.
that you haven't figured it out yet.. just means you're young and have a long way to go.
i find it even more amusing that some people know for a fact that god doesn't exist, yet can't produce any proof of it.
please sir, show your work.
yeah, in sensible britain, they shoot people to death in the back with 5 shots after they were found not to be carrying a gun, weapon or explosives and guilty of running away when several heavily-armed men came towards him in a hurry.
it's like looking for the proverbial honeypot in a haystack.
as long as their is even a single person who says otherwise, the fight is far from over.
so suck it up and face the truth.
as for me, you'll have to pry the real mega, giga, tera etc from my cold dead hands.
and those fraudulent HD manufacturers can go to hell.
if you can hear your hard drive(s), you don't have enough fans in your system.
i haven't heard the sweet sweet sound of a hard drive in 5 years.
woe is me.
we ignore this.
sounds like a bad idea.
switching to a universal standard, like GMT or something similiar seems to be the way to go.
time is time, get over this crazy concept of time zones and the even more bizzare "DST".
no, that is one of the core reasons why open source err "free" software is better than secret/proprietary software.
reinventing the wheel, while occasionally helpful, usually isn't.
or the food ration-like land mines that the US leaves behind in countries populated with brown people.
attacks are NEVER cool.
one person's problem will eventually come back to bite you in the ass too.
no one lives in a vacuum.
kids nowadays...
it's a problem with the usb arch.
and since even apple is switching, that must mean x86 is even more crappy than usual.
amd64 cpus outperform equivalent g5's by 25% or more but that's because x86 is crappy.
economies of scale take care of the crappiness by a large margin.
the early 90's desire your attempt at poor humor not-front.