First linux I tried was Fedora. Second was Slackware. I never went back.
Slackware is for two kinds of people: those allergic to rebooting, and those who like to play with their operating system. I learned more about Slackware in the first two days than I knew about computers from the previous 17 years of my life at the time.
As it has always been said: If you use Red Hat, you learn Red Hat. If you use Ubuntu, you learn Ubuntu. If you use Slackware, you learn linux.
It wasn't implied--I've never voted for a Republican in my life, so it seems unlikely that I would ever implicitly advocate such a thing. Unless you are one of those who think the author's opinion of what he meant is irrelevant.
Your straw man is just that because no, I was not advocating voting for republicans.
Where the hell did I suggest voting republican? I know the average/. denizen failed that argumentative writing class in college (or only passed because they were banging the hot female TA), but I never suggested voting for Republicans. I never mentioned them. This makes your post the DEFINITION of a straw man argument. Logical fallacies are so you.
Now to be fair, I'm slightly guilty of the same, as the GP never said he was voting for Democrats, just that he wouldn't vote for Republicans.
All that means is YouTube didn't want to pay the lawyers to win the case.
That being said, I'm not saying rightsexploiters (the traditional publishers) will be happy, but it seems clear they don't INTEND to let people upload other people's work for sale. As I said though, trying to police it themselves is a losing battle (short of restrictions on who can upload that will likely have chilling effects), and leaving it to rights holders to police will end in lawsuits.
However--book piracy (I mean actual piracy where, say, I sell stephen king books for money without paying mr king) doesn't make sense. Anything that sells enough to make money will be too obvious--bestsellers in the US sell only 5,000 copies a month normally. Everyone else--that much total if they're lucky. Pirating a bestseller in this fashion would be obvious, and anything small enough to not get caught wouldn't make enough money to be worthwhile. So I don't think it will be a real problem.
I really don't get the twitter hate. It seems like "blogs are just for internet attention whores" all over again. We've seen how that turned out already (I should know, I was firmly in the "what petulant crap, nothing of value will ever come of that" school of thought when I first heard about blogs--and I was wrong).
There isn't any NEED for a hell of a lot of shit we do--depending on how you define need. But twitter lands on Maslow's hierarchy as easily as fancy cars or painting. Far easier in fact.
I first started using twitter just to follow a few authors I like. But the turning point in its usefulness for me came during O'Reilly's Tools of Change publishing conference--I was sitting on my couch in Los Angeles and able to listen in on, and take part in, the discussion as it was happening. Everyone there was twittering from the panels--giving those of us who weren't the play by plays.
No other service could have done that.
Similar--and arguably more important--things took place during the San Diego wildfires in 2007, and the Australian wildfires in 2008. Residents were able to keep each other updated about the progress of the fires, and whether their homes were threatened in real time far more effectively than ever before. Having been a refugee from wildfires before, I wish I had been able to take advantage of that then.
The flipside is of course that there is a LOT of shit on twitter--but the same is true of blogs. Arguably there is more shit than quality content in the collective "blogosphere." That doesn't mean we should get rid of blogs. And it doesn't mean we should get rid of twitter. It has its uses--and they are largely things unimagined by its creators (which they themselves acknowledge).
Given that for everyone except the far end of the power-law tail, openness is more profitable than control...
And given that 80% of people are morons...fuck.
Did you miss the part about bouncing copyrighted uploads from sources other than the rights holders? Obviously, any such system will be playing catch up permanently, but there's not much more they can do without chilling effects. You however, can do much more by working on your reading comprehension.
Going to?
Buddy, we're already at the moral imperative. If you're (the rhetorical, not referring to YOU necessarily) are on an RIAA label, you can go get fucked for all I care. I consider it the moral equivalent of kicking babies to contribute to those fascist bastards.
When 90% of the cost of an item has nothing to do with the so-called 'artist,' piracy barely impacts the artist at all. Especially when, in the case of movies, they are all paid upfront and thanks to Hollywood accounting (read: Sony CEO ripping them off further) never see a share in profits even if their contracts say they should, in the case of music, typically lose money recording those records anyway because the studio bills them for the privilege of selling their record to the company, and in the case of books, most books never earn out their advances anyway.
I defend piracy because the MAFIAA deserve to starve. If 'artists' (most of this so-called group are anything but, consisting more of Uwe Boll types) want a fair deal from me, they need to offer me one. See also NIN.
I beg to differ: the reason the roads are so bad here in LA is BECAUSE all the drivers are daydreaming. I know I am--what else am I going to do for those 4 hours a day?
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First linux I tried was Fedora. Second was Slackware. I never went back.
Slackware is for two kinds of people: those allergic to rebooting, and those who like to play with their operating system. I learned more about Slackware in the first two days than I knew about computers from the previous 17 years of my life at the time.
As it has always been said: If you use Red Hat, you learn Red Hat. If you use Ubuntu, you learn Ubuntu. If you use Slackware, you learn linux.
Drug user really, which given the last three presidents explains a lot.
It wasn't implied--I've never voted for a Republican in my life, so it seems unlikely that I would ever implicitly advocate such a thing. Unless you are one of those who think the author's opinion of what he meant is irrelevant.
Your straw man is just that because no, I was not advocating voting for republicans.
And the straw man argument comes out.
Where the hell did I suggest voting republican? I know the average /. denizen failed that argumentative writing class in college (or only passed because they were banging the hot female TA), but I never suggested voting for Republicans. I never mentioned them. This makes your post the DEFINITION of a straw man argument. Logical fallacies are so you.
Now to be fair, I'm slightly guilty of the same, as the GP never said he was voting for Democrats, just that he wouldn't vote for Republicans.
Right...because the Democrats aren't sold out to the telcos.
A patent on unintended features would have to contend with such venerable prior art as cat.
What you don't seem to understand is that LaTeX is FASTER to write up than any other system.
Your inability to distinguish between "easy to use" and "easy to learn" marks you as a fool.
All that means is YouTube didn't want to pay the lawyers to win the case.
That being said, I'm not saying rightsexploiters (the traditional publishers) will be happy, but it seems clear they don't INTEND to let people upload other people's work for sale. As I said though, trying to police it themselves is a losing battle (short of restrictions on who can upload that will likely have chilling effects), and leaving it to rights holders to police will end in lawsuits.
However--book piracy (I mean actual piracy where, say, I sell stephen king books for money without paying mr king) doesn't make sense. Anything that sells enough to make money will be too obvious--bestsellers in the US sell only 5,000 copies a month normally. Everyone else--that much total if they're lucky. Pirating a bestseller in this fashion would be obvious, and anything small enough to not get caught wouldn't make enough money to be worthwhile. So I don't think it will be a real problem.
You might have hit on to something--maybe their plan is to go DRM free without anyone noticing because no one wants to use their site anyway.
I really don't get the twitter hate. It seems like "blogs are just for internet attention whores" all over again. We've seen how that turned out already (I should know, I was firmly in the "what petulant crap, nothing of value will ever come of that" school of thought when I first heard about blogs--and I was wrong).
There isn't any NEED for a hell of a lot of shit we do--depending on how you define need. But twitter lands on Maslow's hierarchy as easily as fancy cars or painting. Far easier in fact.
I first started using twitter just to follow a few authors I like. But the turning point in its usefulness for me came during O'Reilly's Tools of Change publishing conference--I was sitting on my couch in Los Angeles and able to listen in on, and take part in, the discussion as it was happening. Everyone there was twittering from the panels--giving those of us who weren't the play by plays.
No other service could have done that.
Similar--and arguably more important--things took place during the San Diego wildfires in 2007, and the Australian wildfires in 2008. Residents were able to keep each other updated about the progress of the fires, and whether their homes were threatened in real time far more effectively than ever before. Having been a refugee from wildfires before, I wish I had been able to take advantage of that then.
The flipside is of course that there is a LOT of shit on twitter--but the same is true of blogs. Arguably there is more shit than quality content in the collective "blogosphere." That doesn't mean we should get rid of blogs. And it doesn't mean we should get rid of twitter. It has its uses--and they are largely things unimagined by its creators (which they themselves acknowledge).
Given that for everyone except the far end of the power-law tail, openness is more profitable than control... And given that 80% of people are morons...fuck.
Did you miss the part about bouncing copyrighted uploads from sources other than the rights holders? Obviously, any such system will be playing catch up permanently, but there's not much more they can do without chilling effects. You however, can do much more by working on your reading comprehension.
Going to? Buddy, we're already at the moral imperative. If you're (the rhetorical, not referring to YOU necessarily) are on an RIAA label, you can go get fucked for all I care. I consider it the moral equivalent of kicking babies to contribute to those fascist bastards.
When they want to make it a law that you lose your internet connection in this fashion then it is very relevant.
And then they are billed more for studio time than the advance, making the advance effectively ZERO.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hollywood+accounting
When 90% of the cost of an item has nothing to do with the so-called 'artist,' piracy barely impacts the artist at all. Especially when, in the case of movies, they are all paid upfront and thanks to Hollywood accounting (read: Sony CEO ripping them off further) never see a share in profits even if their contracts say they should, in the case of music, typically lose money recording those records anyway because the studio bills them for the privilege of selling their record to the company, and in the case of books, most books never earn out their advances anyway. I defend piracy because the MAFIAA deserve to starve. If 'artists' (most of this so-called group are anything but, consisting more of Uwe Boll types) want a fair deal from me, they need to offer me one. See also NIN.
Tell that to the legislatures rushing to prop them up with unconstitutional expansions of copyright law.
Will be used for the former. ARE used for the former.
I beg to differ: the reason the roads are so bad here in LA is BECAUSE all the drivers are daydreaming. I know I am--what else am I going to do for those 4 hours a day?
Scotch or Irish Whisky will do. Something 16 years old on ice with club soda. As for the cigar, H.P. Upmann Churchill please.
Congratulations, you're the proud (you should be if you aren't) winner of this year's: MOST PEDANTIC SHIT AWARD! Your prize? A lifetime of -1 Pedantic moderation on all your /. posts.
Permanent marker on your monitor. Just be careful not to scroll before clicking 'I agree,' lest you change which part you've crossed out.
My kingdom for a mod point!
Laissez-faire capitalism wouldn't have corporations, patents, or copyrights.