Nope. Anything owned by the government here in America, is by proxy, owned by companies. One has lots of over head for a little bit of fake consumer protection. Neither is truly a "free market" solution because even if the companies involved have very little lee-way, in bureaucracy money talks. Loudly.
Almost any company that is government contracted but still talks about being in a "free market" is spewing bullshit. Any politician that does the same is spewing money laden bullshit. Anyone who can't see through the lies is a gullible idiot.
Funny, I was listening to a podcast the other day that was claiming that (without saying the magic words) communism was biblical. Its a funny old world.
Microsoft made SCO their tool/third-wheel/etc., and now AMD is doing the same with Transmeta however Transmeta and to a lesser degree AMD are the underdogs. In the case of SCO and Microsoft, they were the proverbial bullies fighting against Linux. Albeit IBM was no underdog, but it's almost an unfair comparison.
I was abou to mention something about "Comments like that one are what the 'Post Anonymously' checkbox is for." But then I realized you were modded 'insightful.'
I was under the impression that most spherical, homo-sapien anatomy, did indeed, come in pairs. Two, not twelve. Unless you're jiggling down multiple sets into a single lump sum, which is interesting because I was also under the impression that when referring to one's "pears" most people only have a single set, and the type of "pears" we're referring to, and their respective locations differ between the male and female anatomies. I think maybe however my take on your writing style is bulging out of proportion.
Yet another prefect example of how easy it is for government to be payed off in the creation stage of regulatory legislation. This is exactly how non-market monopolies are being instituted: through state for even federal legislation and regulation that was supposed to help the little guy.
Giant corporations are putting the screws on the market every day, via more means than many know or want to acknowledge. A well educated, informed and vigilant consumer is a very good thing. A well educated, informed and vigilant group of consumers stands as market regulation in and of itself, and this is the only truly effective brand of regulation.
Only we're not allowed to have that, since regulation often times is written and maintained poorly--either intentionally (greedy maliciousness) or accidentally (gross incompetence)--and this will in the end hinder consumer choice. Because of this the state effectively grants large corporations the monopolies that not even the market could give them.
Forget about my shit product. I'm going to lobby $LEVEL government for a state granted monopoly. Yee-freaking-haw.
Regulation works in two ways. It's either written directly into law that assumes technology and market will never change or it's written in such a way that a bureaucracy is created with a broad charter and allowed to deal with the technical side of things in the way the body sees fit. The former works great until the market wants to go in its own direction or innovation occurs and the latter usually is given too much power, in that case we see things go ill very quickly when large amounts of industry money starts floating around. Just look at the way local governments give telcos and cable companies absolute local monopolies or duopolies. Federal level regulatory bodies also do a terrible job.
What I think is more important is a truely free market. One that is free of government intrusion and corporate bullshit. This is why I believe very limited intellectual property laws are extremely important. No software patents, short patent lifetimes, much stricter patentability guidelines, shorter copyrights, and laws that in anyway hinder creativity, invention and finally innovation (the process of bringing a good technical invention to market) --like the DMCA-- should be put into the trash heap of history.
Nothing however is black and white, and although this sounds very idealistic I think public education and knowledge are key to a free market's true success. The caveat is that we do not nor will we ever have this to a truly great degree. Of course it works the same for a democracy or a democratic republic. Just look at the way America is currently run and you can see the public did not and parts of it currently do not have a clue exactly what's going on. Yet again our choice of leadership has screwed us. To that end, we just have to find what works best.
Just because someone is democratically elected, it doesn't mean they aren't Rude. There's plenty of "democratically elected" official throughout the world that have turned there governments into unholy tools of the political devil. To the extreme we have Hitler, the shallower end we have Bush and somewhere in the middle we have Chavez.
He was democratically elected, it doesn't mean what he does is A-OK. A lot of people bitch and moan about Bush and how he's just like Hitler and that he and the Republicans are taking over America and taking our rights. They are and very much dislike Bush and most everything that he does and stands for, but they're not nearly as bad as Chavez and his ilk. And yet so many people who hate bush for doing what he does love Chavez who's doing what Bush doing, except in fifth gear.
Read the Declaration of Independence, it talks about this. If your government is misbehaving you have the right and duty to do something about it: treasons, coups, 'lawful' means or otherwise. Laws about treason don't mean jack. Slashdotters of all people should get this, and yet the wealth of comments actually defending Chavez blows my mind.
He's gaining absolute power in the of humanitarianism. This is the oldest trick in the book! Once he's got full power he will not give it up, it's a slippery slope. Once he has his power he'll use it for nefarious purposes, and in the name of keeping "capitalists" and "imperialists" out of government and keeping "humanitarian" goals alive he'll use un-lawful means to stop opponents. Just like Bush says he defends "freedom" from "terrorists". Fear is there greatest ally. There's truth in both cases of Bush and Chavez, their goals are admirable and not easily maligned. But this allows them to hide their real agendas of power and money. They hide their true intentions in the name of Good Things.
10,000USD for a basic contract, per unit costs vary depending on your production amount, starting at 1000 USD and lowering as your produce more.
We'll then provide some crap documentation and a perverted API. Little or no source will be provided and then we'll make you sign about 10 NDAs, for your protection of course. Binary libraries only run on Windows CE v3.0.
Getting a PO box nowadays, especially at a US post office is next to impossible.
Its going to be even harder if you have faked ID. The processes in place for getting a box are tough because there's so much fraud around the use of PO boxen.
I invite you to write some legislation that makes DRM illegal without making encryption altogether.
Slashdotters of all people should know magical laws don't exist. I hate DRM with a real passion but writing a law like that will prove next to impossible. What happens if an artist is working on a piece and wants to encrypt it for his own use? What about devices that automatically encrypt everything? There's tons of original content being encrypted there to keep people from copying it an using it "without permission."
A law that makes illegal something as abstract as DRM is impossible. All DRM is, is encryption of specific content types. There's a million uses for encrypting multimedia content types, not just that of harming consumers. What of your own content and data? What if you want to encrypt a personal document or recording? Is that illegal?
It's nice to walk around and say "oh, that should be illegal!" It's another thing to actually do it, and do it without putting the screws on something else. Worse off look who we have in congress right now! They're far too stupid to write a law on a highly technical but severely abstract concept.
How many idiots out there are going to install SilverLight when they see... "please install this Microsoft SilverLight plugin to your browser to view all 16 ads on this page?"
Yes because my mom, my dad, my uncle, a dozen or so of my computer illiterate co-workers and my grandma can do it.
Making stupid assumptions that "my users are geeky enough to overcome my development laziness, I'll just make them change a bunch of caching settings once its shipped." is about as stupid. This is why a lot of (FL)OSS doesn't get off the ground: arrogant developers that expect way too much from their users.
I love (FL)OSS just as much as the next slashdotter but if you're going to make your software usable only via arcane knowledge don't whine and complain that 99% of the populace hasn't caught on yet. They won't. I don't mind software that's written for the dummy, as long as software is made to be able to change so that non-dummies can use it too.
But please don't expect your user-base to be 99% non-dummies while you market it to a world full of dummies.
Don't discount Dreamweaver. It's editor is absolutely top-knotch.
Now it's definitely not emacs, eclipse or VI(M) but it's awfully good and has nice auto-complete features. And if used properly it can help you stick to standards better. It also can do direct FTP editing, another big plus for me.
The abuses are isolated. The enlisted men that are honestly "good guys" trying to to good in a bad situation are many and plenty. The crap reasons that we're over there is another story but the everyday soldiers bearing the brunt of it take it really well and do a lot of good. I agree its a fubar situation but the average enlisted guy dealing with it over there is doing a damn fine job.
I love slashdot. Nothing excites me more than a good spelling mistake, not changed for fixed by our Great Editors. What's this "advenced" and how I get one myself?
Slashdot Mirror
Bingo!
Mod parent up, I have no points at the moment.
They had a linux version of CorelDRAW, Word Perfect among other Corel packages using a custom wine-lib to run.
In fact, Adobe had a linux/unix version of Photoshop 5 I believe at one point in time as well.
Nope. Anything owned by the government here in America, is by proxy, owned by companies. One has lots of over head for a little bit of fake consumer protection. Neither is truly a "free market" solution because even if the companies involved have very little lee-way, in bureaucracy money talks. Loudly.
Almost any company that is government contracted but still talks about being in a "free market" is spewing bullshit. Any politician that does the same is spewing money laden bullshit. Anyone who can't see through the lies is a gullible idiot.
Why would you want a relay of squirrels when you could have a round robin? Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk...
Funny, I was listening to a podcast the other day that was claiming that (without saying the magic words) communism was biblical. Its a funny old world.
One ought naught attribute to malice what one can attribute to stupidity...
Microsoft made SCO their tool/third-wheel/etc., and now AMD is doing the same with Transmeta however Transmeta and to a lesser degree AMD are the underdogs. In the case of SCO and Microsoft, they were the proverbial bullies fighting against Linux. Albeit IBM was no underdog, but it's almost an unfair comparison.
I was abou to mention something about "Comments like that one are what the 'Post Anonymously' checkbox is for." But then I realized you were modded 'insightful.'
Twice.
I was under the impression that most spherical, homo-sapien anatomy, did indeed, come in pairs. Two, not twelve. Unless you're jiggling down multiple sets into a single lump sum, which is interesting because I was also under the impression that when referring to one's "pears" most people only have a single set, and the type of "pears" we're referring to, and their respective locations differ between the male and female anatomies. I think maybe however my take on your writing style is bulging out of proportion.
This thread, is officially a lemon.
Whoa...Johnny, go take your meds man...
Cue the 'you-must-be-new-here' jokes in 5...4...3...2...1...
Yet another prefect example of how easy it is for government to be payed off in the creation stage of regulatory legislation. This is exactly how non-market monopolies are being instituted: through state for even federal legislation and regulation that was supposed to help the little guy.
Giant corporations are putting the screws on the market every day, via more means than many know or want to acknowledge. A well educated, informed and vigilant consumer is a very good thing. A well educated, informed and vigilant group of consumers stands as market regulation in and of itself, and this is the only truly effective brand of regulation.
Only we're not allowed to have that, since regulation often times is written and maintained poorly--either intentionally (greedy maliciousness) or accidentally (gross incompetence)--and this will in the end hinder consumer choice. Because of this the state effectively grants large corporations the monopolies that not even the market could give them.
Forget about my shit product. I'm going to lobby $LEVEL government for a state granted monopoly. Yee-freaking-haw.
Regulation works in two ways. It's either written directly into law that assumes technology and market will never change or it's written in such a way that a bureaucracy is created with a broad charter and allowed to deal with the technical side of things in the way the body sees fit. The former works great until the market wants to go in its own direction or innovation occurs and the latter usually is given too much power, in that case we see things go ill very quickly when large amounts of industry money starts floating around. Just look at the way local governments give telcos and cable companies absolute local monopolies or duopolies. Federal level regulatory bodies also do a terrible job.
What I think is more important is a truely free market. One that is free of government intrusion and corporate bullshit. This is why I believe very limited intellectual property laws are extremely important. No software patents, short patent lifetimes, much stricter patentability guidelines, shorter copyrights, and laws that in anyway hinder creativity, invention and finally innovation (the process of bringing a good technical invention to market) --like the DMCA-- should be put into the trash heap of history.
Nothing however is black and white, and although this sounds very idealistic I think public education and knowledge are key to a free market's true success. The caveat is that we do not nor will we ever have this to a truly great degree. Of course it works the same for a democracy or a democratic republic. Just look at the way America is currently run and you can see the public did not and parts of it currently do not have a clue exactly what's going on. Yet again our choice of leadership has screwed us. To that end, we just have to find what works best.
Just because someone is democratically elected, it doesn't mean they aren't Rude. There's plenty of "democratically elected" official throughout the world that have turned there governments into unholy tools of the political devil. To the extreme we have Hitler, the shallower end we have Bush and somewhere in the middle we have Chavez.
He was democratically elected, it doesn't mean what he does is A-OK. A lot of people bitch and moan about Bush and how he's just like Hitler and that he and the Republicans are taking over America and taking our rights. They are and very much dislike Bush and most everything that he does and stands for, but they're not nearly as bad as Chavez and his ilk. And yet so many people who hate bush for doing what he does love Chavez who's doing what Bush doing, except in fifth gear.
Read the Declaration of Independence, it talks about this. If your government is misbehaving you have the right and duty to do something about it: treasons, coups, 'lawful' means or otherwise. Laws about treason don't mean jack. Slashdotters of all people should get this, and yet the wealth of comments actually defending Chavez blows my mind.
He's gaining absolute power in the of humanitarianism. This is the oldest trick in the book! Once he's got full power he will not give it up, it's a slippery slope. Once he has his power he'll use it for nefarious purposes, and in the name of keeping "capitalists" and "imperialists" out of government and keeping "humanitarian" goals alive he'll use un-lawful means to stop opponents. Just like Bush says he defends "freedom" from "terrorists". Fear is there greatest ally. There's truth in both cases of Bush and Chavez, their goals are admirable and not easily maligned. But this allows them to hide their real agendas of power and money. They hide their true intentions in the name of Good Things.
10,000USD for a basic contract, per unit costs vary depending on your production amount, starting at 1000 USD and lowering as your produce more.
We'll then provide some crap documentation and a perverted API. Little or no source will be provided and then we'll make you sign about 10 NDAs, for your protection of course. Binary libraries only run on Windows CE v3.0.
OK, how's that?
Getting a PO box nowadays, especially at a US post office is next to impossible.
Its going to be even harder if you have faked ID. The processes in place for getting a box are tough because there's so much fraud around the use of PO boxen.
I invite you to write some legislation that makes DRM illegal without making encryption altogether.
Slashdotters of all people should know magical laws don't exist. I hate DRM with a real passion but writing a law like that will prove next to impossible. What happens if an artist is working on a piece and wants to encrypt it for his own use? What about devices that automatically encrypt everything? There's tons of original content being encrypted there to keep people from copying it an using it "without permission."
A law that makes illegal something as abstract as DRM is impossible. All DRM is, is encryption of specific content types. There's a million uses for encrypting multimedia content types, not just that of harming consumers. What of your own content and data? What if you want to encrypt a personal document or recording? Is that illegal?
It's nice to walk around and say "oh, that should be illegal!" It's another thing to actually do it, and do it without putting the screws on something else. Worse off look who we have in congress right now! They're far too stupid to write a law on a highly technical but severely abstract concept.
How many idiots out there are going to install SilverLight when they see... "please install this Microsoft SilverLight plugin to your browser to view all 16 ads on this page?"
Yes because my mom, my dad, my uncle, a dozen or so of my computer illiterate co-workers and my grandma can do it.
Making stupid assumptions that "my users are geeky enough to overcome my development laziness, I'll just make them change a bunch of caching settings once its shipped." is about as stupid. This is why a lot of (FL)OSS doesn't get off the ground: arrogant developers that expect way too much from their users.
I love (FL)OSS just as much as the next slashdotter but if you're going to make your software usable only via arcane knowledge don't whine and complain that 99% of the populace hasn't caught on yet. They won't. I don't mind software that's written for the dummy, as long as software is made to be able to change so that non-dummies can use it too.
But please don't expect your user-base to be 99% non-dummies while you market it to a world full of dummies.
Don't discount Dreamweaver. It's editor is absolutely top-knotch.
Now it's definitely not emacs, eclipse or VI(M) but it's awfully good and has nice auto-complete features. And if used properly it can help you stick to standards better. It also can do direct FTP editing, another big plus for me.
Thank you for invoking Godwin's Law.
The abuses are isolated. The enlisted men that are honestly "good guys" trying to to good in a bad situation are many and plenty. The crap reasons that we're over there is another story but the everyday soldiers bearing the brunt of it take it really well and do a lot of good. I agree its a fubar situation but the average enlisted guy dealing with it over there is doing a damn fine job.
Not all Creationists try to retrofit their narrow-minded fundie interpretation of things to science, or theories/hypotheses therein.
Yes, I was quite humbled after reading that rather simple mistake.
Takes the wind from one's sails very quickly.
I love slashdot. Nothing excites me more than a good spelling mistake, not changed for fixed by our Great Editors. What's this "advenced" and how I get one myself?