At least Microsoft and Sony have moved to avoid regional locks by default in their new consoles, while Nintendo, as usual, keeps a firm region lock on their machines.
So what would you suggest? Nationalism and religion aren't bad per se (unlike what the Slashdot crowd thinks), but like everything, they can be exploited by ill wills towards the weakly minded.
Good examples of effects of non-fanatical application of the above: a good and respectful behavior towards others, and civic sense (when you feel you too belong to a country as a citizen, rather than a "consumer" or a "taxpayer").
Of course there are also other ways (that don't base themselves over religion or anything else). In any case, I wouldn't dismiss as education as a way to control people. That's how the 1968 crowd thought it was... and I believe the ill effects of the "student revolution" are quite visible (and I'm not implying the situation "before" was any better).
That's at the basis of education: enabling you to think with your own mind. Of course if there's no education, how can people think for themselves when they grow up?
The internet was supposed to free everyone and allow them to think for themselves.
You are making a fundamental assumption - that these children are able to think for themselves. Face it, they are not. They can be *influenced* by things, rather than influence them, either passively, or actively. This is (also obviously) because they aren't adults yet. Parents' education, school, etc. influences you in a way when you are little, as well.
And for the other posts that mention that filters are "censorship"... you're misguided. If these computers are meant for schooling, they are meant for schooling, not for porn. Kind of like not using a cell phone in a class at school: it is a matter of education. But I forgot, education as a concept died in 1968 in favor of unrestricted (as in not thinking things out, doing stuff just because you're able to) "freedom"...
Apple has gotten burned in the past from being to open in the past, you know the whole Microsoft stealing its GUI thing. So Apple now patents all their innovation to protect themselves,
In other words, they want to be better at lock-in than Microsoft.
Get rid of that annoying character (though other expletives are better suited) and perhaps I'll be interested in playing. I really didn't like how Brood War ended.
So it is under Italian law. I haven't RTFA, but if it refers to the Telecom Italia wiretapping scandal, I have to point out that the guys doing the wiretapping were doing it illegally, without any support from political bodies. Most of them have been already arrested.
I'm not questioning the fact if the embargo is there or not. Just that people think "Cuba is good, it's all the USA's fault" when Castro is far from being a saint.
USA is free enough for you to be able to *write* what you wrote, instead of getting tracked by the government and arrested like in China or Cuba. Most people don't even *know* what a real regime is. Also you talk about the embargo but NOT about the torture, the useless arrests etc that take place in Cuba. The embargo may be bad, but a regime is even worse.
RMS thinks that if someone embraces FOSS, he/she is a saint. Which is clearly not the case. I would have understood that if he had made this song on democratic grounds, but in Cuba it is and will remain hypocritical.
No, because simply put *everyone* is ready to criticize Guantanamo and its abuses, but *no one* bothers to criticize China or Cuba for theirs (because of a fundamentally broken ideology, that means enemies of USA == friends - notice that I'm not an USA citizen, nor that I like their foreign policy that much). Cuba *is not* a democracy, period. It's hypocritical to act like that, to attack such things when you're on a ground that's much worse.
I am a FOSS supporter, but by no means I support such ideology.
But oh, I forgot. They use Free Software. They must be great by default.
First the visit to Cuba (bitch and moan about the embargo how much you want, folks, but it's NOT a democratic and free country), now this? Why hasn't Stallman said anything about other non democratic countries that treat people even worse? Like Cuba, or China, for example. Because they use free software so they're "friends"? What a lame hypocrite. I'm glad the whole Free Software movement is not like him.
I openly despise such a raving fanatic, that I thought had sunk already low with his babbling mention of "liberating everyone in the cyberspace" (don't have the link at hand, but it's on Groklaw).
rt2500 doesn't support (yet) the Linux Wireless Extensions, needed by Network Manager to work properly. The solution is to uninstall it (or disable roaming) and use other tools to configure the network.
Except you can't run OSX on non Apple hardware, and you're forced to buy HW that's much more expensive than current market prices. Sorry, that will always keep me away from Macs.
So much for ranting, but "there isn't enough documentation" is FUD. There are at least two resources, the official documentation page (help.ubuntu.com) and the community wiki (wiki.ubuntu.com).
Just a simple question: why tehse events are generally more rare in Europe (where using firearms generally requires a license)?
In my country we've had our fair share of madmen shooting (the worst being a few years ago when a psycho fired blindly from his apartment in the street), but AFAIK, nothing as big as this.
Guns are useless if the mind who controls them is not sane. Actually a lot of family murders happen because people, totally angered, throw away thinking and grab a gun or a rifle.
And don't say "you can do this with a knife as well". A knife has other, legitimate use. A gun's sole purpose is to wound or kill.
Among the computer antics I own (not many actually) there's a "custom" ZX Spectrum +. Why custom? Because my father was fed up of me and my brothers hogging the TV with that thing, so he bought a 10" monitor. Of course it couldn't be attached directly, so he got an I/O interface and by soldering cables directly on the mainboard(!) he got the video signal in a cable that he connected into the I/O interface. As well he did the same for the mic in and ear in inputs. The I/O interface had a DIN-like connector that was compatible with the monitor, but the signal was poor, so he added a power supply to the I/O to reduce the signal decay.
This thing worked perfectly until I stopped using the Spectrum in 1988.
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Can I install OSX on my existing, non-Apple hardware? No. That's why I refuse to even consider it: I don't want to buy Apple's overpriced products, when I can build a custom PC for myself and install Linux on it (I haven't used Windows since two years ago).
Think what you want, but if under copyright law I give you something under a license, you *must* abide by its terms. This "dispute" was and IS necessary to avoid legal problems.
I think it's more than that. It shows how on the Internet people can abuse the lack of personal presence to the extreme and say many disturbing things and get away with them (or so they think). This is an extreme example of this situation. Already it's impossible, on certain forums, to have heated but *polite* debates, and very often one of the two sides will steep low and say slimy things.
Apparently, we have reached a new degree with death threats and such, as this story outlines.
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I can run KDE or GNOME on a normal PC, unlike the over-priced Apple offerings. That is enough for me to avoid considering a Mac.
At least Microsoft and Sony have moved to avoid regional locks by default in their new consoles, while Nintendo, as usual, keeps a firm region lock on their machines.
So what would you suggest? Nationalism and religion aren't bad per se (unlike what the Slashdot crowd thinks), but like everything, they can be exploited by ill wills towards the weakly minded. Good examples of effects of non-fanatical application of the above: a good and respectful behavior towards others, and civic sense (when you feel you too belong to a country as a citizen, rather than a "consumer" or a "taxpayer"). Of course there are also other ways (that don't base themselves over religion or anything else). In any case, I wouldn't dismiss as education as a way to control people. That's how the 1968 crowd thought it was... and I believe the ill effects of the "student revolution" are quite visible (and I'm not implying the situation "before" was any better).
That's at the basis of education: enabling you to think with your own mind. Of course if there's no education, how can people think for themselves when they grow up?
You are making a fundamental assumption - that these children are able to think for themselves. Face it, they are not. They can be *influenced* by things, rather than influence them, either passively, or actively. This is (also obviously) because they aren't adults yet. Parents' education, school, etc. influences you in a way when you are little, as well.
And for the other posts that mention that filters are "censorship"... you're misguided. If these computers are meant for schooling, they are meant for schooling, not for porn. Kind of like not using a cell phone in a class at school: it is a matter of education. But I forgot, education as a concept died in 1968 in favor of unrestricted (as in not thinking things out, doing stuff just because you're able to) "freedom"...
In other words, they want to be better at lock-in than Microsoft.
Except OpenXML is not really open - the specification uses references to previous Word versions that only Microsoft has access to.
Get rid of that annoying character (though other expletives are better suited) and perhaps I'll be interested in playing. I really didn't like how Brood War ended.
But it would be better if it was Zack. And with the "Alien Mindbenders" as well.
(I wonder how many will get this...)
So it is under Italian law. I haven't RTFA, but if it refers to the Telecom Italia wiretapping scandal, I have to point out that the guys doing the wiretapping were doing it illegally, without any support from political bodies. Most of them have been already arrested.
I'm not questioning the fact if the embargo is there or not. Just that people think "Cuba is good, it's all the USA's fault" when Castro is far from being a saint.
USA is free enough for you to be able to *write* what you wrote, instead of getting tracked by the government and arrested like in China or Cuba. Most people don't even *know* what a real regime is.
Also you talk about the embargo but NOT about the torture, the useless arrests etc that take place in Cuba. The embargo may be bad, but a regime is even worse.
RMS thinks that if someone embraces FOSS, he/she is a saint. Which is clearly not the case. I would have understood that if he had made this song on democratic grounds, but in Cuba it is and will remain hypocritical.
No, because simply put *everyone* is ready to criticize Guantanamo and its abuses, but *no one* bothers to criticize China or Cuba for theirs (because of a fundamentally broken ideology, that means enemies of USA == friends - notice that I'm not an USA citizen, nor that I like their foreign policy that much). Cuba *is not* a democracy, period. It's hypocritical to act like that, to attack such things when you're on a ground that's much worse.
I am a FOSS supporter, but by no means I support such ideology.
But oh, I forgot. They use Free Software. They must be great by default.
First the visit to Cuba (bitch and moan about the embargo how much you want, folks, but it's NOT a democratic and free country), now this?
Why hasn't Stallman said anything about other non democratic countries that treat people even worse? Like Cuba, or China, for example. Because they use free software so they're "friends"? What a lame hypocrite. I'm glad the whole Free Software movement is not like him.
I openly despise such a raving fanatic, that I thought had sunk already low with his babbling mention of "liberating everyone in the cyberspace" (don't have the link at hand, but it's on Groklaw).
rt2500 doesn't support (yet) the Linux Wireless Extensions, needed by Network Manager to work properly. The solution is to uninstall it (or disable roaming) and use other tools to configure the network.
Except you can't run OSX on non Apple hardware, and you're forced to buy HW that's much more expensive than current market prices. Sorry, that will always keep me away from Macs.
So much for ranting, but "there isn't enough documentation" is FUD. There are at least two resources, the official documentation page (help.ubuntu.com) and the community wiki (wiki.ubuntu.com).
Just a simple question: why tehse events are generally more rare in Europe (where using firearms generally requires a license)?
In my country we've had our fair share of madmen shooting (the worst being a few years ago when a psycho fired blindly from his apartment in the street), but AFAIK, nothing as big as this.
Guns are useless if the mind who controls them is not sane. Actually a lot of family murders happen because people, totally angered, throw away thinking and grab a gun or a rifle.
And don't say "you can do this with a knife as well". A knife has other, legitimate use. A gun's sole purpose is to wound or kill.
Among the computer antics I own (not many actually) there's a "custom" ZX Spectrum +. Why custom? Because my father was fed up of me and my brothers hogging the TV with that thing, so he bought a 10" monitor. Of course it couldn't be attached directly, so he got an I/O interface and by soldering cables directly on the mainboard(!) he got the video signal in a cable that he connected into the I/O interface. As well he did the same for the mic in and ear in inputs. The I/O interface had a DIN-like connector that was compatible with the monitor, but the signal was poor, so he added a power supply to the I/O to reduce the signal decay.
This thing worked perfectly until I stopped using the Spectrum in 1988.
Can I install OSX on my existing, non-Apple hardware? No.
That's why I refuse to even consider it: I don't want to buy Apple's overpriced products, when I can build a custom PC for myself and install Linux on it (I haven't used Windows since two years ago).
Think what you want, but if under copyright law I give you something under a license, you *must* abide by its terms. This "dispute" was and IS necessary to avoid legal problems.
Yes, but according to the licenses involved (in this case the GPL).
KWin has a kwin_composite branch where compositing support is being added (for KDE4.0, or beyond).
Point taken, however I think that the Internet extremizes this. And IMO it's getting worse as the time passes.
I think it's more than that. It shows how on the Internet people can abuse the lack of personal presence to the extreme and say many disturbing things and get away with them (or so they think). This is an extreme example of this situation.
Already it's impossible, on certain forums, to have heated but *polite* debates, and very often one of the two sides will steep low and say slimy things.
Apparently, we have reached a new degree with death threats and such, as this story outlines.