The problem is that most censorware packages that I know of block access to proxy sites for that exact reason.
What you need to do is find a freeware or Open Source CGI proxy server. Run that from a machine sitting on a cable modem or DSL line at your house and there would be no way that the Censorware would catch it. I wonder if there is something up on Freshmeat that will do the trick.
What is it with today's amazing variety of so-called "disorders" which provide the vast number of shrinks in the US with enough money to live like kings?
It's called progress. It's sorry-ass dumbfucks like you that oppose every advance society makes. If you were alive way back when, I'll bet you would have opposed heliocentrism, germ theory, and God only knows what else.
As for the high salaries that some doctors can make, I have no opinion on that. But psychology isn't the path to easy money. While there are some who do quite well, there are many more who struggle through a Ph.D. program only to find that there are very few teaching and counseling positions open at any one time.
I mean first it was things like "dyslexia" which is just an excuse for children who are lazy or stupid to get away without learning anything...
I'm sorry, asshole, but I'm afraid that dyslexia is quite real. The lawyer hired by DOJ to prosecute Microsoft is very dyslexic and to this day has difficulty reading. But he certainly isn't lazy or stupid.
There's something wrong about a country where so many people are brainwashed into thinking that they need therapy to lead a normal life...
I don't think that Americans are brainwashed into believing that they need therapy. If anything, we are so provincial that we ignore medical science when it conflicts with our age-old prejudices, even though medecine science is the among most sensible and rational institutions in modern society.
I personally think that we need to impose far stricter regulations on these snake-oil salesmen, because they seem to be working to create a society where anyone can do anything and excuse it on "Weekend Psycho Disorder" or some such nonsense.
Doctors are already heavily regulated! I think it is good that they are, too, since they have so much responsibility. Further regulation, in the manner which you suggest, will accomplish nothing, because there is such overwhelming scientific support for the existance of mental illnesses that doctors will get the clearance they need to treat their patients.
And as for depressed people, well, they need to get over it. It's not as bad as they think it is, and once they realise that they'll be alright.
This proves that you don't have a damn clue about what you're talking about. Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself is not the same thing as clinical depression. When people are clinically depressed, they cannot eat or sleep normally, they lose lots of weight, and suffer from numerous other, very real, physical symptoms.
Maybe they should look to the love of God's eternal presence for support in their darker hours.
Talk about snake-oil salesmen!! I personally think that if there is anything wrong with the USA, it's that there are way too many ignorant, stupid-ass ultra-religious folks running around, claiming that God's love is the answer to everything. Well, try telling that to someone who just broke his arm -- God's love is pretty worthless when you have a spintered bone poking out of your skin. Likewise, when the chemicals in your brain don't work, you need medecine that can correct the problem.
My suggestion to you and the others out there like you, is to move out of the trailer park, go to school, read some books, and learn to think for yourself. Just because Uncle Bubba said it, doesn't mean it's true.
I was investigating at the Library today -- someone dropped a teal and purple flower pot from a window and almost hit me on the head. Everyone knows that, when that happens, the villian is hiding out in town somewhere.
I still have to investigate the tourist center and sports arena, but I've already used the crime computer to generate an arrest warrant.
After this, I'm only two cases away from my next promotion!
Take care,
Steve
======== Stephen C. VanDahm
and Spartanburg, South Carolina
on
Homebrew S/ADSL
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I am not a minor and will not be affected by this program, but it still pisses me off to no end.
I'm surprised that the Pinkertons even pretend to be interested in what people have to say.
I'm from South Carolina, and I know firsthand what the public school system's top priority is in the South: self-preservation.
That's right folks. They don't give a FLYING FUCK about education or about the welfare of their students or about their responsibility to the taxpayers who pay their salaries. All they care about is (1) Not getting sued (2) Not losing their funding (3) Not getting investigated.
Likewise, the Pinkertons -- whose history of sleazy, illegal, and brutal deeds speaks for itself -- only care about making money.
That's why these programs exist. The people in the education system honestly don't care if the this stuff works or not -- all they care about is making their own lives easier. Likewise, the Pinkertons sure as hell don't care if the program works or not -- their sole interest is defrauding citizens of their tax money. (Note: No one -- and I mean no one -- does pork-barrel like a Southern politician. They make Congress look like a bunch of sissies and nuns.)
So, as long as this program convinces a bunch of lazy housewives that their kids are safe, the schools make progress towards the three goals listed above. It doesn't matter if the kids really are safe, or if they were even in any danger to begin with. It's all about covering their own asses.
This entire program makes me so angry that I can't even type.
CNN is owned by Time Warner, which is a member of the MPAA. Is it possible, then, that CNN is deliberately biased in order to promote Time Warner's interests? or is this too far-fetched?
At the very least, when CNN reports on matters involving Time Warner, the RIAA or the MPAA, they should post a disclaimer stating that there is a conflict of interest involved.
I know it sounds dumb, but these huge conglomerates kind of scare me.
OK, so they are important, but there are a lot of musical groups that have built a degree of freedom into their business models.
Phish, for example, allows people to bring DAT recorders to their concerts, record the show, and give it away to anyone who wants it. The only catch is that no one may take money for them. You have to either give them away, or trade for another concert. They do not collect copyright royalties on this stuff, but they've more than made up for it, because tape trading is probably what gave them such a rabid fan base.
There are many other bands that allow trading. The coolest place to go to get hooked up is http://www.etree.org.
This sounds bad, but maybe recorded music just won't be marketable in the future. The recording industry has tried for years to build copy protection into digital recording and playback gizmos, but people just don't buy them. I think the idea of being told what they can and can't do with the stuff they buy turns them off. That's why I've been afraid of investing in a DVD deck. The industry cannot control piracy without replacing the current technology (compact discs, MP3, etc) with copy protected technology. However, people won't buy something unless they can do all of the things they are accustomed to doing with their current systems.
Back in the 1950's and earlier, when recording quality sucked ass, musical groups made their money from touring, and recordings were viewed simply as a way to maintain boost ticket sales. I would like to see the industry swing that way again. There is nothing better, in my view, than going to hear a great live show in a club or small theater. And God knows how hard it is to find a good live show these days.
I think the overall quality of music will improve this way. If they can't build a loyal fanbase on the touring circuit, they will either evolve to the point where they can, or they will have to grow up and get day jobs.
Just think -- no more Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears.
These are just my thoughts, and I haven't thought too much about them. Let me know what you think.
You actually saw this coming? You must have insider information about mp3.com's management smoking crack during lunch breaks.
I was referring to the RIAA lawsuit, not Beam-It, or whatever it's called. I think most slashdot readers expected the RIAA to sue MP3.com over this. You are right, however, that sending MP3's of music to people that already have the music seems pretty dumb. It seems like they're sticking their necks out for nothing. Oh well.
Question -- do MP3's really cut into record sales? To me, DLing an MP3 seems more like listening to the radio than buying a CD -- I like the cool booklets and case art and will gladly pay $15 a pop for them. You can only play an MP3 on your computer or Rio, and though you can put one on a CDR and play it on a stereo, CDR's are ugly, unreliable, and don't always work in every CD player (at least in my experience).
Here's a case for MP3's though. I like certain kinds of foreign music, but I can't find that stuff for sale ANYWHERE. So the only thing I can do is DL the MP3's from Napster. I think it's fair to do this because I am not depriving anyone of income.
Since people sometimes can't find the CD they're looking for, they should set up something on the Internet where you can order an MP3 license or something. For a US dollar, you should be able to buy the right to have an MP3 of a certain song. Of course, you wouldn't have the right to post it on FTP, but you'd be able to have the MP3 and put it on CDR so you can play it in your car. There's LOTS of stuff I'd pay money for if I just could.
Of course no one in the recording industry would EVER do that.
On another note, anyone remember how SGi has their patented method of doing random number generation, using a lava lamp and a digital camera? I believe it was for some e-commerce server they were selling at one time.
In SC, no non-republican can ever get an electoral vote, and the republican nominee is always decided before the primary, so my vote is a throwaway too.
Next we'll be hearing about "Why isn't there a way to just 'get a domain name' by changing your machine's name under windows?"
I've had to deal with that already! Every now and then I get e-mail from someone I know saying "Hey check out my new website at http://jimbo" or something. They set up Microsoft Personal Web Server or whatever it's called, and have no idea what host names, domain names, and IP addresses are. They just name their computer something cool in Network Neighborhood, thinking that will work. Oh well.
I'm from South Carolina, where McCain is on his anti-porn mission.
First of all, I don't believe that there are miracle cures for computer porn. If you're a parent, the only way to keep your children from downloading porn is to keep a close eye on them while they're surfing. But that means parents have to actually be responisble for a change. Oh horror!!
However, most South Carolinians don't see it that way. They want a miracle cure, and if you can promise one, you'd probably get the Conservative Southern Baptist vote.
At issue right now is whether schools and public libraries should provide Internet access. If a library offers a public terminal to the web, then little Johnny can go download porn, and Mommy doesn't like that. Since there is no way to provide porn-free Internet access, the solution is to remove Internet terminals from libraries. Personally, I think that sucks worse than filtered Internet content. If you don't have a computer for whatever reason you should be able to go to the library to check your hotmail account and read CNN.com.
The privacy Chernobyl that the Slate article mentions has sort of happened in SC. Our Department of Motor Vehicles sold every drivers license photo in the state to some company for a whopping total of $5000. They're going to build a huge database of names and photos and sell it. I sent in a form barring them from using my picture, but most people don't know how to do that.
The interesting thing is that politicians here don't give a rat's ass about privacy. There was a federal law barring the sale of DL photos, but South Carolina took it to the Supreme Court, arguing that Americans have no constitutional right to privacy, and the law should be shot down. The court agreed, and a little bit later the DMV sold our pictures. Smells pretty crooked to me.
Free Software as a whole owes a lot to IBM and Microsoft. It's apparently hard to develop linux for the Mac because Apple doesn't open their hardware specs. I hear that LinuxPPC doesn't run on the newest Apples because of this.
The IBM-Microsoft relationship of the 80's has created a good environment for free software folks to work by decentralizing things. The IBM-compatible platform has given us an open standard to use. Lots of people make cheap IBM compatible hardware, and anyone with the expertise to do so can write software to run on that hardware. If either IBM or Microsoft made both PC hardware and PC operating systems, things would be much more difficult.
If I've been unfair to Apple, let me know. It would be interesting to see how Apple and LinuxPPC get along.
Seriously...I know that showing "prior art" will defeat an American patent, but will it stop a European patent? I hear that in Europe the patent goes to the first party to file, period. Who understands all this? Not me.
I think that VA Linux, Red Hat, Corel, and all the other companies getting rich off Free Software should pool together and sponser a Free Software Defense Fund or something. It would help give individual developers, university students, etc a chance against big evil corporations.
Of course, none of those companies will touch that idea with a ten foot pole without LOTS of pressure. But since they depend on a community of developers for their product, they have to listen to what the community says eventually. Someone should get organized.
I got that game in the 9th grade when we got a 486 in our house. My friend was lucky enough to have a soundcard in his machine, so we mostly played at his house. I had only played Nintendo and cheesy 286 games, so the realism of Wolf3D used to freak me out -- I just knew there was a German around every corner....
musicians are hardly averse to reusing and reinterpreting each others' work.
You have a good point -- jazz musicians have a huge repertoire of "standards" that they reinterpret every time they perform one of them. In fact, it's considered an honor if a song you write is accepted into the canon of standards.
I'm not opposed to the reuse and reinterpretation of a musicians work -- I was thinking of blatent plagerism when I wrote what I wrote. It is one thing to offer your own interpretation of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," but it is another to claim that you wrote "Stardust" yourself from scratch. It's also wrong to slap together some crap and claim that Hoagy Carmicheal wrote it (I don't know why you'd want to do that, but it's still wrong). Ideally musicians should be free from as much legal crap as possible, but still be assured that their own work and reputations are safe from plagerism and other abuses of the sort.
It's pretty obvious that Red Hat heavily favors GNOME over KDE, but I've never understood why. KDE is used by SuSE, Caldera Systems, and Mandrake -- what's the business advantage of being different? I'm not arguing that there isn't a good reason, I'm just asking what y'all think it is.
My view is that the GNOME vs. KDE thing is hurting Linux deeply. Solaris developers know that almost everyone running Solaris 7 has CDE installed. As a result, it's practical for them to include drag-and-drop stuff in their applications. Don't Linux distributors want to provide this same type of consistancy?
I'm really interested in hearing Red Hat's reasoning.
Slashdot Mirror
I hear that http://Proxymate does something similar.
The problem is that most censorware packages that I know of block access to proxy sites for that exact reason.
What you need to do is find a freeware or Open Source CGI proxy server. Run that from a machine sitting on a cable modem or DSL line at your house and there would be no way that the Censorware would catch it. I wonder if there is something up on Freshmeat that will do the trick.
Good luck,
Steve
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Stephen C. VanDahm
I know it's flamebait, but I'll bite.
What is it with today's amazing variety of so-called "disorders" which provide the vast number of shrinks in the US with enough money to live like kings?
It's called progress. It's sorry-ass dumbfucks like you that oppose every advance society makes. If you were alive way back when, I'll bet you would have opposed heliocentrism, germ theory, and God only knows what else.
As for the high salaries that some doctors can make, I have no opinion on that. But psychology isn't the path to easy money. While there are some who do quite well, there are many more who struggle through a Ph.D. program only to find that there are very few teaching and counseling positions open at any one time.
I mean first it was things like "dyslexia" which is just an excuse for children who are lazy or stupid to get away without learning anything...
I'm sorry, asshole, but I'm afraid that dyslexia is quite real. The lawyer hired by DOJ to prosecute Microsoft is very dyslexic and to this day has difficulty reading. But he certainly isn't lazy or stupid.
There's something wrong about a country where so many people are brainwashed into thinking that they need therapy to lead a normal life...
I don't think that Americans are brainwashed into believing that they need therapy. If anything, we are so provincial that we ignore medical science when it conflicts with our age-old prejudices, even though medecine science is the among most sensible and rational institutions in modern society.
I personally think that we need to impose far stricter regulations on these snake-oil salesmen, because they seem to be working to create a society where anyone can do anything and excuse it on "Weekend Psycho Disorder" or some such nonsense.
Doctors are already heavily regulated! I think it is good that they are, too, since they have so much responsibility. Further regulation, in the manner which you suggest, will accomplish nothing, because there is such overwhelming scientific support for the existance of mental illnesses that doctors will get the clearance they need to treat their patients.
And as for depressed people, well, they need to get over it. It's not as bad as they think it is, and once they realise that they'll be alright.
This proves that you don't have a damn clue about what you're talking about. Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself is not the same thing as clinical depression. When people are clinically depressed, they cannot eat or sleep normally, they lose lots of weight, and suffer from numerous other, very real, physical symptoms.
Maybe they should look to the love of God's eternal presence for support in their darker hours.
Talk about snake-oil salesmen!! I personally think that if there is anything wrong with the USA, it's that there are way too many ignorant, stupid-ass ultra-religious folks running around, claiming that God's love is the answer to everything. Well, try telling that to someone who just broke his arm -- God's love is pretty worthless when you have a spintered bone poking out of your skin. Likewise, when the chemicals in your brain don't work, you need medecine that can correct the problem.
My suggestion to you and the others out there like you, is to move out of the trailer park, go to school, read some books, and learn to think for yourself. Just because Uncle Bubba said it, doesn't mean it's true.
Take care,
Steve
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
I was investigating at the Library today -- someone dropped a teal and purple flower pot from a window and almost hit me on the head. Everyone knows that, when that happens, the villian is hiding out in town somewhere.
I still have to investigate the tourist center and sports arena, but I've already used the crime computer to generate an arrest warrant.
After this, I'm only two cases away from my next promotion!
Take care,
Steve
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
because @Home sucks!!
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
I am not a minor and will not be affected by this program, but it still pisses me off to no end.
I'm surprised that the Pinkertons even pretend to be interested in what people have to say.
I'm from South Carolina, and I know firsthand what the public school system's top priority is in the South: self-preservation.
That's right folks. They don't give a FLYING FUCK about education or about the welfare of their students or about their responsibility to the taxpayers who pay their salaries. All they care about is (1) Not getting sued (2) Not losing their funding (3) Not getting investigated.
Likewise, the Pinkertons -- whose history of sleazy, illegal, and brutal deeds speaks for itself -- only care about making money.
That's why these programs exist. The people in the education system honestly don't care if the this stuff works or not -- all they care about is making their own lives easier. Likewise, the Pinkertons sure as hell don't care if the program works or not -- their sole interest is defrauding citizens of their tax money. (Note: No one -- and I mean no one -- does pork-barrel like a Southern politician. They make Congress look like a bunch of sissies and nuns.)
So, as long as this program convinces a bunch of lazy housewives that their kids are safe, the schools make progress towards the three goals listed above. It doesn't matter if the kids really are safe, or if they were even in any danger to begin with. It's all about covering their own asses.
This entire program makes me so angry that I can't even type.
Take care,
Steve
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
I ask this as an honest question. Here's why:
CNN is owned by Time Warner, which is a member of the MPAA. Is it possible, then, that CNN is deliberately biased in order to promote Time Warner's interests? or is this too far-fetched?
At the very least, when CNN reports on matters involving Time Warner, the RIAA or the MPAA, they should post a disclaimer stating that there is a conflict of interest involved.
I know it sounds dumb, but these huge conglomerates kind of scare me.
Take care,
Steve
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
Back when I joined, [over two years ago] I got ID #4213.
I signed up a year ago and got 88206!
Take care,
Steve
========
Stephen C. VanDahm
OK, so they are important, but there are a lot of musical groups that have built a degree of freedom into their business models.
Phish, for example, allows people to bring DAT recorders to their concerts, record the show, and give it away to anyone who wants it. The only catch is that no one may take money for them. You have to either give them away, or trade for another concert. They do not collect copyright royalties on this stuff, but they've more than made up for it, because tape trading is probably what gave them such a rabid fan base.
There are many other bands that allow trading. The coolest place to go to get hooked up is http://www.etree.org.
This sounds bad, but maybe recorded music just won't be marketable in the future. The recording industry has tried for years to build copy protection into digital recording and playback gizmos, but people just don't buy them. I think the idea of being told what they can and can't do with the stuff they buy turns them off. That's why I've been afraid of investing in a DVD deck. The industry cannot control piracy without replacing the current technology (compact discs, MP3, etc) with copy protected technology. However, people won't buy something unless they can do all of the things they are accustomed to doing with their current systems.
Back in the 1950's and earlier, when recording quality sucked ass, musical groups made their money from touring, and recordings were viewed simply as a way to maintain boost ticket sales. I would like to see the industry swing that way again. There is nothing better, in my view, than going to hear a great live show in a club or small theater. And God knows how hard it is to find a good live show these days.
I think the overall quality of music will improve this way. If they can't build a loyal fanbase on the touring circuit, they will either evolve to the point where they can, or they will have to grow up and get day jobs.
Just think -- no more Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears.
These are just my thoughts, and I haven't thought too much about them. Let me know what you think.
Take care,
Steve
========
Sorry for the WOB, but I was reminded of the above After Y2K comic when I read this:
Take care,
Steve
True and funny.
In my opinion, there should be regulations to
restrict interstellar subspace communications to a few designatede bandwidth.
Dude, don't get the government involved. I can see it now:
Your Rights Online: Senator McCain Proposes Ban on Interplanetary Space Porn.
You know what they say about those censorship folks. Once the camel gets his nose in the tent...
You actually saw this coming? You must have insider information about mp3.com's management smoking crack during lunch breaks.
I was referring to the RIAA lawsuit, not Beam-It, or whatever it's called. I think most slashdot readers expected the RIAA to sue MP3.com over this. You are right, however, that sending MP3's of music to people that already have the music seems pretty dumb. It seems like they're sticking their necks out for nothing. Oh well.
Take care,
Steve
We all knew this was coming.
Question -- do MP3's really cut into record sales? To me, DLing an MP3 seems more like listening to the radio than buying a CD -- I like the cool booklets and case art and will gladly pay $15 a pop for them. You can only play an MP3 on your computer or Rio, and though you can put one on a CDR and play it on a stereo, CDR's are ugly, unreliable, and don't always work in every CD player (at least in my experience).
Here's a case for MP3's though. I like certain kinds of foreign music, but I can't find that stuff for sale ANYWHERE. So the only thing I can do is DL the MP3's from Napster. I think it's fair to do this because I am not depriving anyone of income.
Since people sometimes can't find the CD they're looking for, they should set up something on the Internet where you can order an MP3 license or something. For a US dollar, you should be able to buy the right to have an MP3 of a certain song. Of course, you wouldn't have the right to post it on FTP, but you'd be able to have the MP3 and put it on CDR so you can play it in your car. There's LOTS of stuff I'd pay money for if I just could.
Of course no one in the recording industry would EVER do that.
Take care,
Steve
Are you serious?
Take care,
Steve
I would have imagined Darth Vader to be a fifth of 151 proof Rum or something. Imagine this scene, from Episode I.
Young Obi-Wan: The boy's ethynol count is off the scale. Not even Master Yoda has a count that high.
Qui-Gon: sagely No liquor has.
In SC, no non-republican can ever get an electoral vote, and the republican nominee is always decided before the primary, so my vote is a throwaway too.
I've had to deal with that already! Every now and then I get e-mail from someone I know saying "Hey check out my new website at http://jimbo" or something. They set up Microsoft Personal Web Server or whatever it's called, and have no idea what host names, domain names, and IP addresses are. They just name their computer something cool in Network Neighborhood, thinking that will work. Oh well.
Take care,
Steve
My black keyboard is a KeyTronic Lifetime Series. I got mine at Best Buy.
I'm from South Carolina, where McCain is on his anti-porn mission.
First of all, I don't believe that there are miracle cures for computer porn. If you're a parent, the only way to keep your children from downloading porn is to keep a close eye on them while they're surfing. But that means parents have to actually be responisble for a change. Oh horror!!
However, most South Carolinians don't see it that way. They want a miracle cure, and if you can promise one, you'd probably get the Conservative Southern Baptist vote.
At issue right now is whether schools and public libraries should provide Internet access. If a library offers a public terminal to the web, then little Johnny can go download porn, and Mommy doesn't like that. Since there is no way to provide porn-free Internet access, the solution is to remove Internet terminals from libraries. Personally, I think that sucks worse than filtered Internet content. If you don't have a computer for whatever reason you should be able to go to the library to check your hotmail account and read CNN.com.
The privacy Chernobyl that the Slate article mentions has sort of happened in SC. Our Department of Motor Vehicles sold every drivers license photo in the state to some company for a whopping total of $5000. They're going to build a huge database of names and photos and sell it. I sent in a form barring them from using my picture, but most people don't know how to do that.
The interesting thing is that politicians here don't give a rat's ass about privacy. There was a federal law barring the sale of DL photos, but South Carolina took it to the Supreme Court, arguing that Americans have no constitutional right to privacy, and the law should be shot down. The court agreed, and a little bit later the DMV sold our pictures. Smells pretty crooked to me.
Take care,
Steve
Free Software as a whole owes a lot to IBM and Microsoft. It's apparently hard to develop linux for the Mac because Apple doesn't open their hardware specs. I hear that LinuxPPC doesn't run on the newest Apples because of this.
The IBM-Microsoft relationship of the 80's has created a good environment for free software folks to work by decentralizing things. The IBM-compatible platform has given us an open standard to use. Lots of people make cheap IBM compatible hardware, and anyone with the expertise to do so can write software to run on that hardware. If either IBM or Microsoft made both PC hardware and PC operating systems, things would be much more difficult.
If I've been unfair to Apple, let me know. It would be interesting to see how Apple and LinuxPPC get along.
Tomorrow morning I will file a patent which patents the patent system.
That'll fix em.
That's a good idea. You should patent it. :-)
Seriously...I know that showing "prior art" will defeat an American patent, but will it stop a European patent? I hear that in Europe the patent goes to the first party to file, period. Who understands all this? Not me.
I think that VA Linux, Red Hat, Corel, and all the other companies getting rich off Free Software should pool together and sponser a Free Software Defense Fund or something. It would help give individual developers, university students, etc a chance against big evil corporations.
Of course, none of those companies will touch that idea with a ten foot pole without LOTS of pressure. But since they depend on a community of developers for their product, they have to listen to what the community says eventually. Someone should get organized.
Take care,
Steve
I got that game in the 9th grade when we got a 486 in our house. My friend was lucky enough to have a soundcard in his machine, so we mostly played at his house. I had only played Nintendo and cheesy 286 games, so the realism of Wolf3D used to freak me out -- I just knew there was a German around every corner....
musicians are hardly averse to reusing and reinterpreting each others' work.
You have a good point -- jazz musicians have a huge repertoire of "standards" that they reinterpret every time they perform one of them. In fact, it's considered an honor if a song you write is accepted into the canon of standards.
I'm not opposed to the reuse and reinterpretation of a musicians work -- I was thinking of blatent plagerism when I wrote what I wrote. It is one thing to offer your own interpretation of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," but it is another to claim that you wrote "Stardust" yourself from scratch. It's also wrong to slap together some crap and claim that Hoagy Carmicheal wrote it (I don't know why you'd want to do that, but it's still wrong). Ideally musicians should be free from as much legal crap as possible, but still be assured that their own work and reputations are safe from plagerism and other abuses of the sort.
It's pretty obvious that Red Hat heavily favors GNOME over KDE, but I've never understood why. KDE is used by SuSE, Caldera Systems, and Mandrake -- what's the business advantage of being different? I'm not arguing that there isn't a good reason, I'm just asking what y'all think it is.
My view is that the GNOME vs. KDE thing is hurting Linux deeply. Solaris developers know that almost everyone running Solaris 7 has CDE installed. As a result, it's practical for them to include drag-and-drop stuff in their applications. Don't Linux distributors want to provide this same type of consistancy?
I'm really interested in hearing Red Hat's reasoning.
Take care,
Steve