Why on earth would I subject myself to countless hours of ads, just to get Windows or Microsoft Office for free? I don't need any more crap on my desktop that I have already. As for the "this would be great for the developing world" argument, they can just use Linux, like the rest of who (sometimes) hate commercial software.
Still a bad example. Even if they walked across your lawn, as a trespasser, and stepped on your rake, that punctured their foot, they could sue for it. And even more so if that trespasser was a child. I am not sure that there is any country around that would permit you to allow a dangerous condition on your land that could cause injury to a child to escape some sort of liability. This is true in most of the United States...but since I don't know what country your from...feel free to prove me wrong by citing a statute or a case:-). My example comes from the Restatement of Torts 2nd:-)
Irregardless of the existence of government, the natural rights of an individual cannot be given away.
I call bullshit. Of course they can. Your right to life and liberty can be taken away after a fair trial.
One such right is the right to private property...
I call bullshit again. Your right to own property can be taken away after a hearing and being provided just compensation. Or do you believe the framers of the constitution were wrong? (Thats rhetorical...I know u think they were wrong).
Also, I do not believe that natural law and rights theorists (at least in its convential and well understood varients) believes that owning property is a natural right. There have always been classes of people who couldn't hold property. In fact, originally, non-land holders couldn't vote in some states. Besides, owning property isn't one right. It is a bundle of quite a few rights. The right to sell, the right to buy, the right to lease, the right to alienate, the right to inheret, etc.
One great force behind this right is that past acts bear no allowances for future acts.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and WRONG.
If I stay on a piece of property, or use a path on your property, for 15-21 years, that belongs to you, as long as certain conditions of met, guess what buddy, it is mine. This law of adverse possession has been around for a very very long time. So, bullshit on your natural rights theory as u see it.
My solution? Go after Sony through the shareholders directly.
First of all...shareholders are immune from suit by virtue of the corporate shield. I know you don't think this should be the case, but it is. It encourages investment. However, in this case, where there is fraud and misrepresentation, a court could allow you to pierce the corporate shield and go after the shareholders. So, I agree with you here.
Don't think you can come in my home because you did once before. Don't think you can rape me because a note in your pocket says you're allowed to, and I let you in without checking your pockets.
I think I can agree with you on that. You can't concent to something that you don't know about. Which is why I find the Sony DRM rootkit and shrink-wrapped licenses so offensive.
...how this arrangement would protect me as a Linux home user using a non-RedHat or commercial distribution. And would these licenses and patents or what have you be free as in beer or meet the criteria for the GNU scheme? GPL? Something else?
...and didn't like it. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu version of KDE did not "just work" right out of the box. Certain programs were broken...some internet interactivity was lost...and it screwed up my gnome based ubuntu sessions!
That being said, I think the real reason I didn't like Kubuntu is that it wasn't "ubuntu"-like. It wasn't brown...and it didn't feel as homey, so to speak, as gnome does on Ubuntu. And it didn't feel as user friendly as gnome.
Why isn't there an Xfce version of Ubuntu? There are tons of lightweight shells out there that work perfectly well ontop of Ubuntu...without breaking it like KDE does.
All that being said...Gnome is like an older Mac interface...KDE is sorta like windows...and it seems to me that Shuttlesworth is trying to capture Windows users...so using a KDE interface seems like a good idea. But, honestly, KDE is too complicated for most windows users, IMHO.
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Libraries and Archives have a very broad right to archive one copy of a work, so long as certain conditions are met. See http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108 . Google is merely helping these libraries electronically archive their materials in a searchable format that anybody can access. The libraries aren't allowing multiple people to borrow more than one copy at a time. They are allowing mulitiple people to browse a very advanced card catalog system that contains small excerpts. At least, that is my take on it.
The idea is actually very different. Under most state laws, if you work in the state, you are subject to its income tax. Also, as a general rule, you can only be taxed by one state at a time. So, lets say you are a baseball player. You physically go to a ball park in a different park. And you ply your trade there. Thus, you owe income tax in that state, on the portion of income you earned there. Over a year, you might play in 30 different states. That means one 1040 + 30 state returns. Pain in the ass. But your income shouldn't be taxed more than once. So you might owe 1% of the $100,000 for 5 games in State A and 3% of the $200,000 you earned at your home stadium in State B.
That doesn't mean that you should worry. Truck drivers don't pay income tax to every single state they drive in...that would be silly. They have a home base that they work from. In fact, I think they are exempted from the baseball player rule. Same thing with airline stewards...I think. Ask your accountant or lawyer. *ducks*
It is my understanding the the GPU of a graphics card runs at 300Mhz to 500Mhz. Why hasn't this processing power been harnessed for non-graphical applications?
Unfortunately, computer geeks like us forget how imtimidating computers are for the average user. I work in a non-tech field with other professionals who have at least 7 years of university under their belt. They are all intelligent but not that saavy with computers. Many of my co-workers can not install simple windows software on their own. Many of them have difficulty using Excell. The concept of a command prompt or a script is completely foreign to them. The mere thought of using software other than Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet explorer is not only terrifing...but repugnant. (See my journal for more details on my OpenSource advocacy experience) Switching to an entirely new Operating System? Out of the question. It is asking too much for the average user.
What is the solution? Advertising and Branding. People have to be made comfortable with linux. Everyone loves the Mac because it is easy to use and because it has great advertising. I can't go an hour watching the TV without seeing some sort of Apple commercial. I think a company like Sun could be in a great position to get linux's popularity to rise. (Think of how many people know what Java is!) Free = Crap to a lot of people. FOSS needs to be rebranded, perhaps? Who knows.
Another solution: target the intermediate users. Those who read PC World, Maximum PC, etc.
...something new. A bittorrent approach to chat, that is opensource and independent of corporate and government influence, but not so open that individuals can't control chat rooms, or control them too closely, or get taken over by botnets. It needs a nice easy to use interface without having to type/join #irc or/msg sweetnjguy29 to talk to someone.
...because people don't read them as much. Companies pay for ads based on exposure...and newspapers don't have as much anymore.
Most people, on some level, have figured out that most news and feature stories are written by the big wire services, such as the AP, Reuters, etc. The news stories sound the same where ever you go...on the TV, the radio, and the paper, the actual *content* is remarkably similar. People have also realized that they can get this generic content, for free, on the internet, on TV, or in free newspapers, such as the Metro.
I disagree that the quality of the reporting has gone down. In fact, I believe it to be remarkably consistant, if not outstanding, in the vast majority of cases. However, there are some notable exceptions...which tarnish the industry.
One pet peeve of mine is that reporters and news commentators often get important "periphiral" facts wrong. For example, I was listening to Michael Savage the other day, and during one of his tirades and he went off on a tangent and said that "Prince Charles never served in the military". This was simply not true...he served in the Royal Navy. I also enjoyed how most of the media failed to mention that Scooter Libby was not only the V-P's Cheif of Staff...but also the President's Assistant!
That is completely untrue. A fair wage is a wage that your average worker can survive on and not be in poverty. There is no way that a single mother with 3 kids can provide food and shelter for a family in the USA for $6/hr without some sort of governmental assistance. Especially on the coasts. However, $6 a day can be a living wage in Iraq.
>Do you buy at newegg over your local store? Why?
I will buy from local stores provided they have the best price and best products. Unfortately, many local computer stores, at least around where I live, don't survive more than a year or so. It is sad.
This is less a free-market and competition problem, as you insinuate, but a "how to run a successful business" problem. For example, there are approx. 300 farms in the U.S. that raise old breeds of "heritage turkeys" like the Red Bourbon and the Nargassett. They are sold for about $40 to $120 a bird. Unfortunately, there are no farms in driving distance from where I live to buy from a local farm. So I went onto the internet, and found 5 farms that sell frozen turkeys on the internet. I found 3 that would delilver. It was a larger family farm. (www.marysturkeys.com if you are curious) I would have bought from a smaller farm, if more of these 300 farms got on the internet.
Now that I feel bad for spending $80 for two turkeys, I am going to finish my $20 compensated dinner and get my ass back to work.
The Commmonwealth can accomodate disabled workers by continuing to use Microsoft Office by buying licenses for their computers. The documents can be saved as, lets say, an.rtf file. Then converted to odt. And vice-versa. What about converting the.doc to.pdf? Am I missing something here?
This isn't a spam, but I bought my last computer from them, and it was inexpensive. Cyberpowerpc also has cheap computers too...usually with more popular components and a little cheaper...
Sometimes both sites offer free shipping, which usually costs $200...so wait for that!
-Raidmax 268 ATX Mid-Tower Case w/350W Power Supply -[939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology -Free Game --- Half Life 2 Download Coupon with purchase of any AMD-64 based systems -Foxconn WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS nVidia nForce4-Ultra Chipset Motherboard -512MB DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand -Nvidia 6200 Videocard -80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA-100 Hard Drive -16X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive -600W PMPO 3 PCS Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System -PS/2 104 Key Windows 98 Keyboard - Optical Internet Mouse -MS Windows XP Home Edition w/Service Pack-2 -ViewSonic 17" E70F Perfect Flat CRT.21H DPI Color Monitor
This configuration isn't that great, but it is light years ahead of what tom's hardware recommends. Plus it has a free game, a monitor, and WinXP and 1 year of service support and a DVD writer!
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Internet Explorer?????
Why on earth would I subject myself to countless hours of ads, just to get Windows or Microsoft Office for free? I don't need any more crap on my desktop that I have already. As for the "this would be great for the developing world" argument, they can just use Linux, like the rest of who (sometimes) hate commercial software.
In fact, I was using GAIM, and I got these annoying buddies...bastards!
Just put a tin-foil hat on your car!
...will it run Linux?
Still a bad example. Even if they walked across your lawn, as a trespasser, and stepped on your rake, that punctured their foot, they could sue for it. And even more so if that trespasser was a child. I am not sure that there is any country around that would permit you to allow a dangerous condition on your land that could cause injury to a child to escape some sort of liability. This is true in most of the United States...but since I don't know what country your from...feel free to prove me wrong by citing a statute or a case :-). My example comes from the Restatement of Torts 2nd :-)
I call bullshit. Of course they can. Your right to life and liberty can be taken away after a fair trial.
One such right is the right to private property...
I call bullshit again. Your right to own property can be taken away after a hearing and being provided just compensation. Or do you believe the framers of the constitution were wrong? (Thats rhetorical...I know u think they were wrong).
Also, I do not believe that natural law and rights theorists (at least in its convential and well understood varients) believes that owning property is a natural right. There have always been classes of people who couldn't hold property. In fact, originally, non-land holders couldn't vote in some states. Besides, owning property isn't one right. It is a bundle of quite a few rights. The right to sell, the right to buy, the right to lease, the right to alienate, the right to inheret, etc.
One great force behind this right is that past acts bear no allowances for future acts.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and WRONG.
If I stay on a piece of property, or use a path on your property, for 15-21 years, that belongs to you, as long as certain conditions of met, guess what buddy, it is mine. This law of adverse possession has been around for a very very long time. So, bullshit on your natural rights theory as u see it.
My solution? Go after Sony through the shareholders directly.
First of all...shareholders are immune from suit by virtue of the corporate shield. I know you don't think this should be the case, but it is. It encourages investment. However, in this case, where there is fraud and misrepresentation, a court could allow you to pierce the corporate shield and go after the shareholders. So, I agree with you here.
Don't think you can come in my home because you did once before. Don't think you can rape me because a note in your pocket says you're allowed to, and I let you in without checking your pockets.
I think I can agree with you on that. You can't concent to something that you don't know about. Which is why I find the Sony DRM rootkit and shrink-wrapped licenses so offensive.
...how this arrangement would protect me as a Linux home user using a non-RedHat or commercial distribution. And would these licenses and patents or what have you be free as in beer or meet the criteria for the GNU scheme? GPL? Something else?
A game that gets through my firewall! Finally...W00t!
...as a new distro sounds catchy, doesn't it?
...and didn't like it. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu version of KDE did not "just work" right out of the box. Certain programs were broken...some internet interactivity was lost...and it screwed up my gnome based ubuntu sessions!
That being said, I think the real reason I didn't like Kubuntu is that it wasn't "ubuntu"-like. It wasn't brown...and it didn't feel as homey, so to speak, as gnome does on Ubuntu. And it didn't feel as user friendly as gnome.
Why isn't there an Xfce version of Ubuntu? There are tons of lightweight shells out there that work perfectly well ontop of Ubuntu...without breaking it like KDE does.
All that being said...Gnome is like an older Mac interface...KDE is sorta like windows...and it seems to me that Shuttlesworth is trying to capture Windows users...so using a KDE interface seems like a good idea. But, honestly, KDE is too complicated for most windows users, IMHO.
Hmmm...it didn't work.
Libraries and Archives have a very broad right to archive one copy of a work, so long as certain conditions are met. See http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108 . Google is merely helping these libraries electronically archive their materials in a searchable format that anybody can access. The libraries aren't allowing multiple people to borrow more than one copy at a time. They are allowing mulitiple people to browse a very advanced card catalog system that contains small excerpts. At least, that is my take on it.
The idea is actually very different. Under most state laws, if you work in the state, you are subject to its income tax. Also, as a general rule, you can only be taxed by one state at a time. So, lets say you are a baseball player. You physically go to a ball park in a different park. And you ply your trade there. Thus, you owe income tax in that state, on the portion of income you earned there. Over a year, you might play in 30 different states. That means one 1040 + 30 state returns. Pain in the ass. But your income shouldn't be taxed more than once. So you might owe 1% of the $100,000 for 5 games in State A and 3% of the $200,000 you earned at your home stadium in State B.
That doesn't mean that you should worry. Truck drivers don't pay income tax to every single state they drive in...that would be silly. They have a home base that they work from. In fact, I think they are exempted from the baseball player rule. Same thing with airline stewards...I think. Ask your accountant or lawyer. *ducks*
It is my understanding the the GPU of a graphics card runs at 300Mhz to 500Mhz. Why hasn't this processing power been harnessed for non-graphical applications?
Unfortunately, computer geeks like us forget how imtimidating computers are for the average user. I work in a non-tech field with other professionals who have at least 7 years of university under their belt. They are all intelligent but not that saavy with computers. Many of my co-workers can not install simple windows software on their own. Many of them have difficulty using Excell. The concept of a command prompt or a script is completely foreign to them. The mere thought of using software other than Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet explorer is not only terrifing...but repugnant. (See my journal for more details on my OpenSource advocacy experience) Switching to an entirely new Operating System? Out of the question. It is asking too much for the average user.
What is the solution? Advertising and Branding. People have to be made comfortable with linux. Everyone loves the Mac because it is easy to use and because it has great advertising. I can't go an hour watching the TV without seeing some sort of Apple commercial. I think a company like Sun could be in a great position to get linux's popularity to rise. (Think of how many people know what Java is!) Free = Crap to a lot of people. FOSS needs to be rebranded, perhaps? Who knows.
Another solution: target the intermediate users. Those who read PC World, Maximum PC, etc.
...just download from the amateur home-made photo and movie newsgroups.
...something new. A bittorrent approach to chat, that is opensource and independent of corporate and government influence, but not so open that individuals can't control chat rooms, or control them too closely, or get taken over by botnets. It needs a nice easy to use interface without having to type /join #irc or /msg sweetnjguy29 to talk to someone.
Are there any opensource projects like this?
Anyone else here think that this was a hardware review of an advanced audio mouse?
...because people don't read them as much. Companies pay for ads based on exposure...and newspapers don't have as much anymore.
Most people, on some level, have figured out that most news and feature stories are written by the big wire services, such as the AP, Reuters, etc. The news stories sound the same where ever you go...on the TV, the radio, and the paper, the actual *content* is remarkably similar. People have also realized that they can get this generic content, for free, on the internet, on TV, or in free newspapers, such as the Metro.
I disagree that the quality of the reporting has gone down. In fact, I believe it to be remarkably consistant, if not outstanding, in the vast majority of cases. However, there are some notable exceptions...which tarnish the industry.
One pet peeve of mine is that reporters and news commentators often get important "periphiral" facts wrong. For example, I was listening to Michael Savage the other day, and during one of his tirades and he went off on a tangent and said that "Prince Charles never served in the military". This was simply not true...he served in the Royal Navy. I also enjoyed how most of the media failed to mention that Scooter Libby was not only the V-P's Cheif of Staff...but also the President's Assistant!
>There is No such thing as a fair wage.
That is completely untrue. A fair wage is a wage that your average worker can survive on and not be in poverty. There is no way that a single mother with 3 kids can provide food and shelter for a family in the USA for $6/hr without some sort of governmental assistance. Especially on the coasts. However, $6 a day can be a living wage in Iraq.
>Do you buy at newegg over your local store? Why?
I will buy from local stores provided they have the best price and best products. Unfortately, many local computer stores, at least around where I live, don't survive more than a year or so. It is sad.
This is less a free-market and competition problem, as you insinuate, but a "how to run a successful business" problem. For example, there are approx. 300 farms in the U.S. that raise old breeds of "heritage turkeys" like the Red Bourbon and the Nargassett. They are sold for about $40 to $120 a bird. Unfortunately, there are no farms in driving distance from where I live to buy from a local farm. So I went onto the internet, and found 5 farms that sell frozen turkeys on the internet. I found 3 that would delilver. It was a larger family farm. (www.marysturkeys.com if you are curious) I would have bought from a smaller farm, if more of these 300 farms got on the internet.
Now that I feel bad for spending $80 for two turkeys, I am going to finish my $20 compensated dinner and get my ass back to work.
...I need a plug-in to access the google cache links here at work! Any suggestions to get around my firewall in the States?
The Commmonwealth can accomodate disabled workers by continuing to use Microsoft Office by buying licenses for their computers. The documents can be saved as, lets say, an .rtf file. Then converted to odt. And vice-versa. What about converting the .doc to .pdf? Am I missing something here?
This isn't a spam, but I bought my last computer from them, and it was inexpensive. Cyberpowerpc also has cheap computers too...usually with more popular components and a little cheaper...
s px?mid=69
.21H DPI Color Monitor
Sometimes both sites offer free shipping, which usually costs $200...so wait for that!
Sometimes, it doesn't make sense to build...
This is ibuypowers weekly special:
http://www.ibuypower.com/ibp/store/configurator.a
-Raidmax 268 ATX Mid-Tower Case w/350W Power Supply
-[939-pin] AMD® Athlon-64 3000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology
-Free Game --- Half Life 2 Download Coupon with purchase of any AMD-64 based systems
-Foxconn WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS nVidia nForce4-Ultra Chipset Motherboard
-512MB DDR-400 PC3200 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand
-Nvidia 6200 Videocard
-80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA-100 Hard Drive
-16X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive
-600W PMPO 3 PCS Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System
-PS/2 104 Key Windows 98 Keyboard
- Optical Internet Mouse
-MS Windows XP Home Edition w/Service Pack-2
-ViewSonic 17" E70F Perfect Flat CRT
This configuration isn't that great, but it is light years ahead of what tom's hardware recommends. Plus it has a free game, a monitor, and WinXP and 1 year of service support and a DVD writer!
I for one, welcome my space robot surgeon overlords!
Yea, the actual title of the article is poorly written: "Robots May Allow Surgery in Space"