His problem was the Sony Vaio, not Linux. But I guess it's all a matter of perspective. If he'd bought a laptop with Linux pre-installed (I mean, he bought one with Windows pre-installed, didn't he?) I'm sure his review would have been much better.
Imagine how much fun they would have trying to determine the copyright status of all these movies.
I'm trying to imagine that, but I just can't. Instead, I keep imagining that they will waste my time and money right along with their own by filing a lawsuit against me. Even a groundless lawsuit can be expensive to the defendant, and the MPAA has more than enough money and lawyers to just sue everybody in sight, and see what pans out. You know... the RIAA business model!
OMG! That's freaky! My house is sitting directly over the center of the Earth too! And so is some other dude's house on the other side of the world! And if you draw a straight line between the two, and extend that line into a plane, it bisects the Earth into two (roughly) equal hemispheres! WTF?!?
RMS is a nutcase, but an admirable one. He's absurd about certain things. I use Quicktime and RealPlayer all the time, and I am not any less free as a result of it. Yes, I know what he's getting at, but I think he's taking the saying about "all progress depends upon the unreasonable man" a bit too far.
Our current system of laws leads to some ridiculous outcomes (take naked pictures of yourself when you're underage, grow older, be arrested for exploiting... yourself?)
Or how about this: 18 year old boy has sex with 16 year old girl, and that's fine (it's legal in many states). Same boy takes picture of same girl naked, and gets sent to the federal pennitentiary for kiddie porn and is on the "sex offender" list for life.
The FSF is filled with pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way.
But of course, I forgot, it's certailny you who must be right. Who ever would believe that other people not only disagree with you, but actualy voice their opinions and *gasp* have desulsions of beeing right themselves.
From disagreeing to ridiculous in 3 short posts... Let me repeat what you already quoted me as saying, and explain it in little words that you might be able to understand. "Pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way. As you have just demonstrated in your reply, you think that one of us must be right, and the other must be wrong, and you apply your way of thinking to my argument. I have never said that my belief is the only correct belief. I have, in fact, stated that you are free to do as you please. It was you, in your very first post, who asked me to go away because you disliked my opinion. Your intolerance is exactly the "talibanesque" attitude I first described in my first post, and I thank you for proving my point so eloquently.
Are you living in some sort of fantasy world where proprietary software users hide from evil free software opresors.
Am I delusional, or did you not in your very first reply to me tell me to "go use Windows and leave you alone"? Get thee away, Fascist Software Foundation!
No, I do understand why Linux is better. Your attitude that I "do not understand why Linux is better", simply because my reasons differ from yours, is exactly what is wrong with the FSF. The FSF is filled with pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way. That's just as bad as Microsoft believing they know what's best for me. Linux is about freedom. Freedom to choose. Proprietary software, or not, is one of those choices. But if the FSF had their way, that choice would be taken away from me. I would lose my freedom. So go take your holier-than-thou attitude elsewhere, please. Nobody is trying to force you to use proprietary software, so don't try to force me not to.
Why don't you use Windows, and leave us alone? I use Linux because it's a much better system than Windows, and I resent the FSF's attempts to cripple Linux.
The FSF comes off sounding very Talibanesque at times. Their religious fervor does Linux more harm than good. The oppposite of proprietary drivers, which do much good and virtually no harm.
This person is apparantly unfamiliar with the concept of an entire Linux system on a single CD. Or USB key. I just grabbed SimplyMEPIS this weekend, and it is the epitome of lean. Click the "install me" icon, and away you go. If you *want* fatter, you can apt-get anything else you want, but everything the typical user needs is there already. Can't say that with Windows.
Pirate Bay. Online gambling. More pr0n than you can shake a stick at. Perl Monks. Gentoo Forums. Slashdot. Newsvine. Lugradio. Digg. Google.
Just about every site I go. If it isn't hosted outside the U.S., it has value-added content created by people who are outside the U.S.
We're better off isolating the real world, and leaving the internet alone.
FUD... It's not just for SCO anymore.
Seriously, while your post may be genuinely well-intentioned, it is a rather blatant load of FUD. It is entirely possible that SCO will continue to exist after they lose this lawsuit.
Who has time to read? I vastly prefer to load an audiobook onto my MP3 player and listen during my lengthy commutes. That way I can consume books without consuming more time out of my already-overloaded days.
Audiobooks and e-books both suffer from the same two problems, though:
1) Lack of content I want
2) Stifling DRM that makes it difficult/impossible/illegal for me to listen/read on my own terms
...and also benefit the environment by cutting future fuel emissions.
But what is the environmental impact of changing the ocean's current? Proponents of tidal/wind power never seem to address this. You cannot create energy from nothing. Generators like this are converting one sort of energy to another. Which means that in "creating" electricity, we are robbing kinetic energy from the ocean's current (or air's current, in the case of windmills). That has to have some sort of impact on the environment, but this never seems to be talked about. Does anybody know if any studies of this sort have been done, or are currently in progress?
Saying that time travel is represented by dt/dt only demonstrates a total lack of thought about the process. The time traveller is still moving forward on his personal timeline at the normal pace whilst moving backwards (or forwards more rapidly) through other people's time. So if I enter a time machine and go back 50 years, the actual formula would be dt1/dt2 where dt1 is -50years and dt2 is however long the trip takes me (let's say, for sake of argument, 5 seconds). So I (and my machine) will be 5 seconds older, but everything around me will be 50 years younger. Then we can get into all the other things that make time travel impossible/impractical, such as the fact that 50 years ago, the surface of the Earth was not here where I am sitting, so a travel strictly through time would leave me, at best, in space. So a time machine needs to also travel through space relative to the planet/solar system/galaxy. Then, if I actually get to this relative position 50 years in the past, then I can start worrying about creating a paradox simply by being there, much less actually doing anything.
You'd even (*gasp*) move into a cubicle? Where exactly do you think most of us already are, you insensitive clod? I'm thinking that if you are working in an actual office, you don't need an extra $5,000/year.
You know what I'd really like? A variety of radio stations (like sattelite radio, or comcast music channels; not like local radio stations) which I could tune in to, and with the click of a button, download the song I'm listening to if I like it. I would pay quite a bit for a service like that.
many fingerprint scanners and touchscreens are actually damaged by alcohol, especially older ones. So unless you want to ruin it for everyone...
Ruining it for everyone doesn't sound like a half-bad idea, actually. I mean, how much security can there be if people who can access these areas are letting you in because you can't? Maybe if the readers are an abysmal failure, they will be replaced with something more sensible.
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People eating people, for the sake of the children...
His problem was the Sony Vaio, not Linux. But I guess it's all a matter of perspective. If he'd bought a laptop with Linux pre-installed (I mean, he bought one with Windows pre-installed, didn't he?) I'm sure his review would have been much better.
OMG! That's freaky! My house is sitting directly over the center of the Earth too! And so is some other dude's house on the other side of the world! And if you draw a straight line between the two, and extend that line into a plane, it bisects the Earth into two (roughly) equal hemispheres! WTF?!?
RMS is a nutcase, but an admirable one. He's absurd about certain things. I use Quicktime and RealPlayer all the time, and I am not any less free as a result of it. Yes, I know what he's getting at, but I think he's taking the saying about "all progress depends upon the unreasonable man" a bit too far.
From disagreeing to ridiculous in 3 short posts... Let me repeat what you already quoted me as saying, and explain it in little words that you might be able to understand. "Pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way. As you have just demonstrated in your reply, you think that one of us must be right, and the other must be wrong, and you apply your way of thinking to my argument. I have never said that my belief is the only correct belief. I have, in fact, stated that you are free to do as you please. It was you, in your very first post, who asked me to go away because you disliked my opinion. Your intolerance is exactly the "talibanesque" attitude I first described in my first post, and I thank you for proving my point so eloquently.
Am I delusional, or did you not in your very first reply to me tell me to "go use Windows and leave you alone"? Get thee away, Fascist Software Foundation!
No, I do understand why Linux is better. Your attitude that I "do not understand why Linux is better", simply because my reasons differ from yours, is exactly what is wrong with the FSF. The FSF is filled with pompous people who fervently believe that their way is the one and only "right" way. That's just as bad as Microsoft believing they know what's best for me. Linux is about freedom. Freedom to choose. Proprietary software, or not, is one of those choices. But if the FSF had their way, that choice would be taken away from me. I would lose my freedom. So go take your holier-than-thou attitude elsewhere, please. Nobody is trying to force you to use proprietary software, so don't try to force me not to.
Why don't you use Windows, and leave us alone? I use Linux because it's a much better system than Windows, and I resent the FSF's attempts to cripple Linux.
The FSF comes off sounding very Talibanesque at times. Their religious fervor does Linux more harm than good. The oppposite of proprietary drivers, which do much good and virtually no harm.
This person is apparantly unfamiliar with the concept of an entire Linux system on a single CD. Or USB key. I just grabbed SimplyMEPIS this weekend, and it is the epitome of lean. Click the "install me" icon, and away you go. If you *want* fatter, you can apt-get anything else you want, but everything the typical user needs is there already. Can't say that with Windows.
Pirate Bay. Online gambling. More pr0n than you can shake a stick at. Perl Monks. Gentoo Forums. Slashdot. Newsvine. Lugradio. Digg. Google. Just about every site I go. If it isn't hosted outside the U.S., it has value-added content created by people who are outside the U.S. We're better off isolating the real world, and leaving the internet alone.
Well alrighty then. Can't argue with facts like those...
FUD... It's not just for SCO anymore. Seriously, while your post may be genuinely well-intentioned, it is a rather blatant load of FUD. It is entirely possible that SCO will continue to exist after they lose this lawsuit.
Who has time to read? I vastly prefer to load an audiobook onto my MP3 player and listen during my lengthy commutes. That way I can consume books without consuming more time out of my already-overloaded days. Audiobooks and e-books both suffer from the same two problems, though: 1) Lack of content I want 2) Stifling DRM that makes it difficult/impossible/illegal for me to listen/read on my own terms
Saying that time travel is represented by dt/dt only demonstrates a total lack of thought about the process. The time traveller is still moving forward on his personal timeline at the normal pace whilst moving backwards (or forwards more rapidly) through other people's time. So if I enter a time machine and go back 50 years, the actual formula would be dt1/dt2 where dt1 is -50years and dt2 is however long the trip takes me (let's say, for sake of argument, 5 seconds). So I (and my machine) will be 5 seconds older, but everything around me will be 50 years younger. Then we can get into all the other things that make time travel impossible/impractical, such as the fact that 50 years ago, the surface of the Earth was not here where I am sitting, so a travel strictly through time would leave me, at best, in space. So a time machine needs to also travel through space relative to the planet/solar system/galaxy. Then, if I actually get to this relative position 50 years in the past, then I can start worrying about creating a paradox simply by being there, much less actually doing anything.
Yeah, well, my reply will get modded -1 troll, because I am blatantly trolling for the mods here.
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You'd even (*gasp*) move into a cubicle? Where exactly do you think most of us already are, you insensitive clod? I'm thinking that if you are working in an actual office, you don't need an extra $5,000/year.
the service must also be platform-independant, and the DRM must either be extremely flexible or (preferably) non-existant.
You know what I'd really like? A variety of radio stations (like sattelite radio, or comcast music channels; not like local radio stations) which I could tune in to, and with the click of a button, download the song I'm listening to if I like it. I would pay quite a bit for a service like that.