Well, I don't. I think you have to look at what most people want. I would bet that most people would rather use something already on their computer rather than something on the web, a medium transient by definition.
Then again, maybe that's just me. Disclaimer: I am a student in high school, and not an IT ubernerd.
I take it you've never read the Patriot Act. You've probably taken all the second- or third-hand information and believed it.
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There is no court system that even approaches what we have in the US. I hear stories of farmers and homeowners having their property taken away without due process and without compensation. I hear stories of people in their homes being carted away by the police when there was no reason for the police to invade the home and the police certainly didn't have a warrant to do so.
So, you berate us for believing third hand information, and then dispense it yourself? Hmm...
Microsoft, a company famous for proprietary, closed-source, monopoly, anti-trust, vendor lock-in software doesn't like FOSS? OMFGWTFBBQQFE!!!!!!111!!!!!1
Am I the only person that is sick and tired of what Addot has become? That "editor" Zonk has been relentlessly plugging for company after corp, and after this latest non-story in the annals of $lashdot, I'm starting to wish there were more folks on Technocrat.
My biggest reason for sharing is that it is sharing. It is not stealing. It is not taking something that will deprive another person of ownership. When I share a CD with a friend, you are not loosing anything. The artists are not loosing anything. The only one with a paranoia of loosing money is the Corporate executives. And the only thing the suits are loosing is sleep, hair, and customers who they disfranchise.
I for one would be extremely paranoid if money, sleep, hair, and customers started coming out every time I had to take a dump...
>>WidowPC was sponsoring a gaming room. It was neat to see rows of PCs with gamers slumped over them focused upon killing aliens, friends, or monsters with hope to earn points, repution, or most honorable of all, that glorious thing known as "XP".
Funny, XP is the last thing I'd want to work for...
I find that, because of the federal funding, NPR consistently turns out high quality, unbiased, insightful work free from advertising and ratings pressure. We can only hope federal funding will spawn the same sort of high-quality work on stem-cells.
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Some Gandhi quotes for you -
"We must be the change we wish to see."
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
Well, I don't. I think you have to look at what most people want. I would bet that most people would rather use something already on their computer rather than something on the web, a medium transient by definition.
Then again, maybe that's just me. Disclaimer: I am a student in high school, and not an IT ubernerd.
I call your Cerf and raise you a Tim Berners-Lee.
Wait, wrong game...
I take it you've never read the Patriot Act. You've probably taken all the second- or third-hand information and believed it.
[...]
There is no court system that even approaches what we have in the US. I hear stories of farmers and homeowners having their property taken away without due process and without compensation. I hear stories of people in their homes being carted away by the police when there was no reason for the police to invade the home and the police certainly didn't have a warrant to do so.
So, you berate us for believing third hand information, and then dispense it yourself? Hmm...
Let's see...
Microsoft, a company famous for proprietary, closed-source, monopoly, anti-trust, vendor lock-in software doesn't like FOSS? OMFGWTFBBQQFE!!!!!!111!!!!!1
Am I the only person that is sick and tired of what Addot has become? That "editor" Zonk has been relentlessly plugging for company after corp, and after this latest non-story in the annals of $lashdot, I'm starting to wish there were more folks on Technocrat.
Great Monty Python, what can I say...
I for one would be extremely paranoid if money, sleep, hair, and customers started coming out every time I had to take a dump...
Oh wait...
At which point several thousand RIAA lawyers sue the FDA to be allowed to advertise as a laxative.
Where's the opening tag? I'm an XML parser, you insensitive clod!
Funny, XP is the last thing I'd want to work for...
Oh wait...
It would be nice if eleknader or similar Slashdot posters would type the name AdAware correctly, but they're not perfect.
I'd have to say I'd prefer to just spit.
I find that, because of the federal funding, NPR consistently turns out high quality, unbiased, insightful work free from advertising and ratings pressure. We can only hope federal funding will spawn the same sort of high-quality work on stem-cells.