Buy a gateway computer and get 12 MP3 albums for a penny, cancel your subscription anytime you want. Free streaming broadcasts live from Tokyo, Bucharest, and Melboune to benefit the FSF.
The Odyssey is crap, and just about worthy of that NBC miniseries with Martin Short and Whoopie Goldberg. Try reading the Iliad and you'll never believe the same guy wrote both.
I thought it was Joseph Conrad. You know, Typee, Heart of Darkness, etc. Something about a meat grinder and Major Elliot. That's the banker who started this "cross cultural" fad. Or maybe it was Edith Wharton-Frazer and the Golden Bough
people buy Sun hardware specifically because the want to run java apps. It's their biggest and best advertizement. No one thinks "I'm going to build my Enterprise B2B P2P nTier XML J2EE system on AIX."
The Compaq-Digital merger was just the purchasing of a corpse at a discount, so Compaq could hold up Alpha/VMS/True64/etc. as a trophy of "serious" computing. DEC was cheap so Compaq bought a pedigree.
You risk as much or more as your boss. What would he lose if the company went under? Nothing. You? Potentially everything. Your boss may be different, but in most cases those with the money (they already had money -- before they took any risk.) are fairly well insulated from catastrope. And that is specifically why corporations were invented.
Your boss (again, speaking generally) was born in $BIGHOUSE with $BIGNUM in a trustfund. And the way the trend is going, increasingly only thouse born into that group are allowed to benefit. Are you suggesting that only the hereditary elite are able to take risks or manage businesses?
The fact is, that whoever invented the transistor (who was it again?) didn't get rich off of it. The corporation he worked for did.
I don't think we disagree that much, I'm just portraying one extreme, and it sounds like your boss (specifically) is a pretty cool guy.
and yet last year GE's revenue($125B) and earnings ($14B) were about 5 times Microsoft's ($25B and $3.5B).
Market capitalization is not everything, its just a temporary stock valuation based on number of shares and asking price -- and is unrealistic. If Microsoft stock had anywhere near the fluidity of GE's, their valuation would go way down. Instead, most of it is being sat on by Bill Gates and Co., making a scarcity that drives up the prices.
Not to mention that GE has tons of subsidiary companies that aren't listed on the main company stock ticker.
And while a 90% market share on computer desktops is becoming increasingly strategic, it's nothing compared to the (ballpark estimate) 50% of all TV viewers that NBC commands, similar numbers for electricity generation, and maybe a quarter of all government contracts. Oh yeah, and being one of the biggest financial trading groups in the world. Not to mention a hegemony of the light bulb market at least as powerful as Microsoft's over desktop computers:)
I think it means the DNC is letting them use the building. The only inkling of an ally free software had in congress was Orin Hatch, a Republican senator from Utah. I doubt the perl mongers really influence politics.
I don't live in a third world country, but because of free software I learned to program, which got me my job, am able to host my own website, can do my accounting, desktop publishing, and play nethack and read slashdot for leisure.
The problem is that it's not necessarily the people who make things possible that get rich. That's the rub alot of people have, but its misdirected, thanks in no small part to mega-corporate media.*
And that's where OSS/FS exposes the problem more clearly. Software patents, copyright hording, monopolization, etc. are devices used by those who didn't make things possible (or who used to make things possible, but don't anymore) to maintain or increase their own wealth and power at the expense of new innovation.
* Think Microsoft is big? GE could buy them outright and not even notice -- instead they've partnered with them
the buzzword you are familiar with is "straw man", which itself really only means, "I reject your arguement and will soon label you a racist"
A bugaboo is a mythical creature (ie. something that doesn't exist) invoked to scare people. It has the same root as bogeyman.
In JonKatz's context it may not be used exactly correct, but in the sense that he argues sweatshops are not directly related to globalism, it makes sense.
from the rocky mountain news article linked above:
"We didn't pay enough attention to the fact that our computer inventory systems were capturing information that could compromise our customers' privacy,"
This from the head of an organization represting the big chain media outlets. They are saying that they didn't realize their extensive customer profiling databases could be used to...well, profile their customers.
You should all realize this isn't a battle of the big goverment versus a small bookstore. This is a battle between Bertlesmann AG and other mega-corporations that control over 90 percent of what is printed in America, versus a small town DA trying to prosecute someone with a meth lab.
"compelling" and "interest" are not legal terms by any means, no matter how ofter lawyers use them. And remember, usually when they do, they are trying to deceive.
Not that I don't believe in a right to privacy -- explicitly (at least partially) defined in the 3rh and 4th amendments.
No, supressing publications they don't like would violate the first amendment. Looking for evidence from a criminal's purchases is not.
Say I stole your credit card and went on a killing spree across the country. They think I'm headed for Mexico, so they get a warrant to see your credit card purchases to see if I'm buying gas and big gulps in a trail headed south, or north.
Of course, this should be banned because of two reasons. 1) They could discriminate against me for drinking big gulps (a member of the jury is an evian drinker) and 2) You don't want them to know you subscribed to internet porn.
Now, if the government abuses these privileges, then its time for a revolution (or election, heh). You can't have a government that's not allowed to govern.
Following that reasoning, the constitution also protects our right to free brie on Wednesdays. So if they try to pass some law that says I can't go to Safeway, put some soft cheese in my pocket, and walk right out through the door, they're violating the constitution.
Just because something is not explicitly denied does not make it implicitly granted.
"February is security month" was more of a theme, than a practical application. Kind of like "black history month" -- It's not that blacks only contribute to society during February, really its about making banners and watching slideshows to hopefully remind you about it. All other work doesn't stop for the month, and (hopefully) security conscientiousness continues past the end of the month.
It was the slashdot editors that implied that it may or may not have been dying. The article was just an announcement that there were several new products from various manufacturers coming out at about the same time.
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that's how come all the vegans have bottles of bean-o?
gateway may be pushing to become a record label.
Buy a gateway computer and get 12 MP3 albums for a penny, cancel your subscription anytime you want. Free streaming broadcasts live from Tokyo, Bucharest, and Melboune to benefit the FSF.
I'd sign with them.
Who's your favorite character in star wars?
doesn't david brin write all those really bad star tr^H^Hwars novels?
The Odyssey is crap, and just about worthy of that NBC miniseries with Martin Short and Whoopie Goldberg. Try reading the Iliad and you'll never believe the same guy wrote both.
I thought it was Joseph Conrad. You know, Typee, Heart of Darkness, etc. Something about a meat grinder and Major Elliot. That's the banker who started this "cross cultural" fad. Or maybe it was Edith Wharton-Frazer and the Golden Bough
Thank you for that useful university selection guide.
Star Office hasn't changed since 1998.
people buy Sun hardware specifically because the want to run java apps. It's their biggest and best advertizement. No one thinks "I'm going to build my Enterprise B2B P2P nTier XML J2EE system on AIX."
The Compaq-Digital merger was just the purchasing of a corpse at a discount, so Compaq could hold up Alpha/VMS/True64/etc. as a trophy of "serious" computing. DEC was cheap so Compaq bought a pedigree.
lotus
Looks like the mainstream (well, ZDNet) has found the slashdot story generator
You risk as much or more as your boss. What would he lose if the company went under? Nothing. You? Potentially everything. Your boss may be different, but in most cases those with the money (they already had money -- before they took any risk.) are fairly well insulated from catastrope. And that is specifically why corporations were invented.
Your boss (again, speaking generally) was born in $BIGHOUSE with $BIGNUM in a trustfund. And the way the trend is going, increasingly only thouse born into that group are allowed to benefit. Are you suggesting that only the hereditary elite are able to take risks or manage businesses?
The fact is, that whoever invented the transistor (who was it again?) didn't get rich off of it. The corporation he worked for did.
I don't think we disagree that much, I'm just portraying one extreme, and it sounds like your boss (specifically) is a pretty cool guy.
and yet last year GE's revenue($125B) and earnings ($14B) were about 5 times Microsoft's ($25B and $3.5B).
:)
Market capitalization is not everything, its just a temporary stock valuation based on number of shares and asking price -- and is unrealistic. If Microsoft stock had anywhere near the fluidity of GE's, their valuation would go way down. Instead, most of it is being sat on by Bill Gates and Co., making a scarcity that drives up the prices.
Not to mention that GE has tons of subsidiary companies that aren't listed on the main company stock ticker.
And while a 90% market share on computer desktops is becoming increasingly strategic, it's nothing compared to the (ballpark estimate) 50% of all TV viewers that NBC commands, similar numbers for electricity generation, and maybe a quarter of all government contracts. Oh yeah, and being one of the biggest financial trading groups in the world. Not to mention a hegemony of the light bulb market at least as powerful as Microsoft's over desktop computers
I think it means the DNC is letting them use the building. The only inkling of an ally free software had in congress was Orin Hatch, a Republican senator from Utah. I doubt the perl mongers really influence politics.
"Giving work away for free doesn't create welth."
So you think computers have no use?
I don't live in a third world country, but because of free software I learned to program, which got me my job, am able to host my own website, can do my accounting, desktop publishing, and play nethack and read slashdot for leisure.
The problem is that it's not necessarily the people who make things possible that get rich. That's the rub alot of people have, but its misdirected, thanks in no small part to mega-corporate media.*
And that's where OSS/FS exposes the problem more clearly. Software patents, copyright hording, monopolization, etc. are devices used by those who didn't make things possible (or who used to make things possible, but don't anymore) to maintain or increase their own wealth and power at the expense of new innovation.
* Think Microsoft is big? GE could buy them outright and not even notice -- instead they've partnered with them
the buzzword you are familiar with is "straw man", which itself really only means, "I reject your arguement and will soon label you a racist"
A bugaboo is a mythical creature (ie. something that doesn't exist) invoked to scare people. It has the same root as bogeyman.
In JonKatz's context it may not be used exactly correct, but in the sense that he argues sweatshops are not directly related to globalism, it makes sense.
from the rocky mountain news article linked above:
...well, profile their customers.
"We didn't pay enough attention to the fact that our computer inventory systems were capturing information that could compromise our customers' privacy,"
This from the head of an organization represting the big chain media outlets. They are saying that they didn't realize their extensive customer profiling databases could be used to
You should all realize this isn't a battle of the big goverment versus a small bookstore. This is a battle between Bertlesmann AG and other mega-corporations that control over 90 percent of what is printed in America, versus a small town DA trying to prosecute someone with a meth lab.
"compelling" and "interest" are not legal terms by any means, no matter how ofter lawyers use them. And remember, usually when they do, they are trying to deceive.
Not that I don't believe in a right to privacy -- explicitly (at least partially) defined in the 3rh and 4th amendments.
The warrant does not allow the government to see your purchases whenever it wants. Only those of 1 criminal in 1 instance.
No, supressing publications they don't like would violate the first amendment. Looking for evidence from a criminal's purchases is not.
Say I stole your credit card and went on a killing spree across the country. They think I'm headed for Mexico, so they get a warrant to see your credit card purchases to see if I'm buying gas and big gulps in a trail headed south, or north.
Of course, this should be banned because of two reasons. 1) They could discriminate against me for drinking big gulps (a member of the jury is an evian drinker) and 2) You don't want them to know you subscribed to internet porn.
Now, if the government abuses these privileges, then its time for a revolution (or election, heh). You can't have a government that's not allowed to govern.
Following that reasoning, the constitution also protects our right to free brie on Wednesdays. So if they try to pass some law that says I can't go to Safeway, put some soft cheese in my pocket, and walk right out through the door, they're violating the constitution.
Just because something is not explicitly denied does not make it implicitly granted.
"February is security month" was more of a theme, than a practical application. Kind of like "black history month" -- It's not that blacks only contribute to society during February, really its about making banners and watching slideshows to hopefully remind you about it. All other work doesn't stop for the month, and (hopefully) security conscientiousness continues past the end of the month.
It was the slashdot editors that implied that it may or may not have been dying. The article was just an announcement that there were several new products from various manufacturers coming out at about the same time.