That blogpost you link to is only about corporate contributions to Free Software, which certainly doesn't constitute ALL contributions. I'd also be interested in knowing which projects they contributed to.
I don't just TELL friends and family about the crap that Microsoft pulls, I SHOW them, usually with their own Windows machines. That is usually enough to stop the flow of money from them to Microsoft.
What exactly do you show them that convinces them?
It doesn't matter what Monty knows. All that matters is what is behind the door he opens. If it is a goat you need to switch to get a 2/3 odds for a car. It wasn't specified what happens if he opens the door with the car.
>>I am currently starting a business and really despise the fact that I will have to spend $2-$5k on a proprietary solution. I would like to create an application where you could take a midrange PC, connect inexpensive touchscreens, barcode readers, thermal printers, credit card readers, etc; scan/input inventory; and begin selling.
>You say you don't want to spend as little as $2,000 on your POS terminal?
Learn to read. He says he doesn't want to throw away $2-$5k on an unfree solution. And rightly so. Getting a free version off the ground will be more expensive, but once it's there it stays there. Investing this money into improving an already existing free solution would be the most efficient of course.
Wow, your IQ may be 140, but your lacking knowledge and... nah, no way your IQ is even close to 140. The author is no genius, but clearly he defines being twice as smart as knowing the answers to twice as many questions. This is very reasonable, unlike your own suggestion that IQ is a linear scale. You might want to look up standard deviation and how it relates to IQ. Finally your weights for 4-way multiple choice questions are wrong, unless you want to punish guessing; -1/5 would be the correct value for a wrong answer to a 4-way question. My guess is that the IQ test you possibly took is much like the tests derided in the article.
Anybody got a link to download the video file?
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I would like to watch the video, but it seems impossible without flash. Anybody got a link to download the video file?
Erh... this is physics, or rather a new mathematical foundation for future physics. All we have been doing so far has been reverse engineering nature. Once we have the full documentation things will really start happening. Things like this are what make the world of today look nothing like the world of a hundred years from now.
Dimensionality is a property of topological spaces and doesn't depend on notions of coordinates or directions. Spaces of different dimension are not homeomorphic (topologically equivalent). For topological vector spaces, dimension is just the same as number of independent directions. So even if there is no a prioiri difference between up/down, left/right, and forward/backward, if you need all three to move around, that means that there are at least three dimensions.
1) Because you don't want your computer to be compromised so it can be used to spy on you and send spam or be used to do distributed denial of service attacks. 2) Because you don't want your computer to be infected by a virus or worm which will delete your data, open annoying popups or makes your computer slow as a snail in wintersleep running in virtualized emulation coming off a steroid addiction. 3a) Because you don't want your computer rebooting when you didn't ask it to. 3b) Because you don't want your computer rebooting when you are running two resource-hungry applications at the same time. 3c) Because you don't want to always have to worry about your computer rebooting whenever you ask it to do something. 4) Because you don't want to have to be asked to reboot your computer after you install some piece of software 5) Because you don't want your data lost in secret undocumented proprietary formats, such as Word "langle" some version "rangle" Document.
How is that for starters? When that has sunken in try:
6) Easy access to thousands of programs which you can install with a few clicks or keystrokes for all your computing needs and more ten times over.
> If you want something more secure and you use a particular set of apps, you use OS X.
What if your printer doesn't work like you want in some non-free app?
> There honestly isn't a clear reason to switch to Linux. Even open source zealotry no longer applies, because you can run The GIMP under both Windows and OS X. Ditto for Firefox, Inkscape, Wings 3D, and numerous other popular open source applications.
Yeah, like GNU is all about running free apps on a non-free kernel or whatever. How could I forget.
That sentence you quote certainly is open to the interpretation of "having a total of more than 100,000 new articles a day", but that interpretation would be wrong.
I was trying to give nvidia a piece of my mind, but their webform doesn't seem to work. So here are the email addresses I found:
info@nvidia.com
websupport@nvidia.com
for anyone lazy (like me), you might like to peruse this message:
Dear people of nVidia,
Since I care about my freedom and being in control of my own computer and its SECURITY, I choose to run free software only, but you make this very difficult. http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 mentions a vulnerabillity in your driver which you have known about for about TWO YEARS. Things like this need to be fixed in ONE DAY. You have managed to completely lose my trust and respect. I will not be suckered any more into buying any product which is not properly supported, because it has superior performance. And properly supported means that the specifications of the hardware and a free software driver are available. I will not surrender my freedom to you or to anyone else anymore, ever.
I hope you will reconsider your actions and release your drivers as free software and make your hardware specifications available, such that current free software drivers can more fully support the features of your offerings, such as 3d acceleration(!) and dual outputs.
I understand that Marvell apparently cannot free their firmware, since it's not really theirs, but I don't see why they cannot provide the hardware specifications.
Anyway I'm sure there are hardware vendors who can deliver the needed hardware and do it without holding back information, for such a big order as OLPC will make. Missed chances and such...
So you've got this bank which holds a large sum of money for you/lots of different entities. But instead of renting a building and doing their business there they figure it is cheaper to just conduct business on the street and save some money on rent, but to protect their security they set up in a deserted part of town, where normally no-one goes. Then some day this guy decides to take a look. So he takes the day off and buys a bus ticket and off he goes. Imagine his horror at the bank's security measures. So this guys thinks to himself: "I should do this for a living. I'm good at it and somebody had better make these banks understand. 't Might as well be me.", and sends the bank a bill for his security check.
Morale: you can't break in through an open door. Banks should keep their doors closed. Keep your money in a sock and let no bank near it.
It is common knowledge that Microsoft knows what's best better than you do for both your computer and for you. That's why you put down that cold hard cash to get a license on their superb product in the first place. So if that product is now calling home you shouldn't break your tiny head on why it does that, but trust that there is a very good reason for it. Of course it is not in the EULA. It would be impossible to include the exact operation of the product in the EULA as that would require the complete source code and I shouldn't need to tell you what happens when incompetents like yourself read it, let alone (dare I say it) alter the divine perfection that it is. The ignorami running such crippled beasts as is Linux are criminally deprived of the protection and care that the product provides. They don't even have a home to call to. Poor sods. So if the product determines that your copy of the product is nothing other than a crudely pirated substandard abomination than you had better run to the store swiftly for the pleasure of putting down some more cash to get your grimy hands on the real thing and do a little back for all the good that Microsoft has selflessly done for you continues to do and will continue to do for ever and eternity. Amen. And you'd better do it quickly too, before your abomination connects to some funky server in Soviet Russia and your box is lost forever and all your.docs.ppts and who knows what become utterly indecipherable because only Microsoft engineers are smart enough to program a product capable of doing so.
The new cooperation with SuperCard will feature the following slogan and also allow you to more easily make your daily donation to Microsoft. The product: $299 (daily). Freedom from Linux: priceless.
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That blogpost you link to is only about corporate contributions to Free Software, which certainly doesn't constitute ALL contributions. I'd also be interested in knowing which projects they contributed to.
I don't just TELL friends and family about the crap that Microsoft pulls, I SHOW them, usually with their own Windows machines. That is usually enough to stop the flow of money from them to Microsoft.
What exactly do you show them that convinces them?
It doesn't matter what Monty knows. All that matters is what is behind the door he opens. If it is a goat you need to switch to get a 2/3 odds for a car. It wasn't specified what happens if he opens the door with the car.
> 2. Give away the original C&C
I don't see any source code anywhere. Without source code what good is it?
I guess you've never been to any of the IRC support channels that all self-respecting distros have.
>>I am currently starting a business and really despise the fact that I will have to spend $2-$5k on a proprietary solution. I would like to create an application where you could take a midrange PC, connect inexpensive touchscreens, barcode readers, thermal printers, credit card readers, etc; scan/input inventory; and begin selling.
>You say you don't want to spend as little as $2,000 on your POS terminal?
Learn to read. He says he doesn't want to throw away $2-$5k on an unfree solution. And rightly so. Getting a free version off the ground will be more expensive, but once it's there it stays there. Investing this money into improving an already existing free solution would be the most efficient of course.
Wow, your IQ may be 140, but your lacking knowledge and... nah, no way your IQ is even close to 140. The author is no genius, but clearly he defines being twice as smart as knowing the answers to twice as many questions. This is very reasonable, unlike your own suggestion that IQ is a linear scale. You might want to look up standard deviation and how it relates to IQ. Finally your weights for 4-way multiple choice questions are wrong, unless you want to punish guessing; -1/5 would be the correct value for a wrong answer to a 4-way question. My guess is that the IQ test you possibly took is much like the tests derided in the article.
I would like to watch the video, but it seems impossible without flash. Anybody got a link to download the video file?
Erh... this is physics, or rather a new mathematical foundation for future physics. All we have been doing so far has been reverse engineering nature. Once we have the full documentation things will really start happening. Things like this are what make the world of today look nothing like the world of a hundred years from now.
Dimensionality is a property of topological spaces and doesn't depend on notions of coordinates or directions. Spaces of different dimension are not homeomorphic (topologically equivalent). For topological vector spaces, dimension is just the same as number of independent directions. So even if there is no a prioiri difference between up/down, left/right, and forward/backward, if you need all three to move around, that means that there are at least three dimensions.
> WHY would I adopt linux ?
1) Because you don't want your computer to be compromised so it can be used to spy on you and send spam or be used to do distributed denial of service attacks.
2) Because you don't want your computer to be infected by a virus or worm which will delete your data, open annoying popups or makes your computer slow as a snail in wintersleep running in virtualized emulation coming off a steroid addiction.
3a) Because you don't want your computer rebooting when you didn't ask it to.
3b) Because you don't want your computer rebooting when you are running two resource-hungry applications at the same time.
3c) Because you don't want to always have to worry about your computer rebooting whenever you ask it to do something.
4) Because you don't want to have to be asked to reboot your computer after you install some piece of software
5) Because you don't want your data lost in secret undocumented proprietary formats, such as Word "langle" some version "rangle" Document.
How is that for starters? When that has sunken in try:
6) Easy access to thousands of programs which you can install with a few clicks or keystrokes for all your computing needs and more ten times over.
> If you want something more secure and you use a particular set of apps, you use OS X.
What if your printer doesn't work like you want in some non-free app?
> There honestly isn't a clear reason to switch to Linux. Even open source zealotry no longer applies, because you can run The GIMP under both Windows and OS X. Ditto for Firefox, Inkscape, Wings 3D, and numerous other popular open source applications.
Yeah, like GNU is all about running free apps on a non-free kernel or whatever. How could I forget.
> I doubt they actually have even seen Vista or used it to know what exactly it is.
You miss the point completely. They have seen the EULA.
Off course they haven't seen Vista's source code; it is not publically available. Thus no-one can know what exactly Vista is.
It's called the League for Programming Freedom (http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/).
That sentence you quote certainly is open to the interpretation of "having a total of more than 100,000 new articles a day", but that interpretation would be wrong.
yeah, and encryption in general too.
win XP battle-tested. Now that's a good one. ROTFLMAO.
I was trying to give nvidia a piece of my mind, but their webform doesn't seem to work. So here are the email addresses I found:
info@nvidia.com
websupport@nvidia.com
for anyone lazy (like me), you might like to peruse this message:
Dear people of nVidia,
Since I care about my freedom and being in control of my own computer and its SECURITY, I choose to run free software only, but you make this very difficult. http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 mentions a vulnerabillity in your driver which you have known about for about TWO YEARS. Things like this need to be fixed in ONE DAY. You have managed to completely lose my trust and respect. I will not be suckered any more into buying any product which is not properly supported, because it has superior performance. And properly supported means that the specifications of the hardware and a free software driver are available. I will not surrender my freedom to you or to anyone else anymore, ever.
I hope you will reconsider your actions and release your drivers as free software and make your hardware specifications available, such that current free software drivers can more fully support the features of your offerings, such as 3d acceleration(!) and dual outputs.
Sincerely,
[your name]
but does it come with a Sony rootkit?
I understand that Marvell apparently cannot free their firmware, since it's not really theirs, but I don't see why they cannot provide the hardware specifications.
Anyway I'm sure there are hardware vendors who can deliver the needed hardware and do it without holding back information, for such a big order as OLPC will make. Missed chances and such...
lack of evidence is hardly a ``technicality''
So you've got this bank which holds a large sum of money for you/lots of different entities. But instead of renting a building and doing their business there they figure it is cheaper to just conduct business on the street and save some money on rent, but to protect their security they set up in a deserted part of town, where normally no-one goes. Then some day this guy decides to take a look. So he takes the day off and buys a bus ticket and off he goes. Imagine his horror at the bank's security measures. So this guys thinks to himself: "I should do this for a living. I'm good at it and somebody had better make these banks understand. 't Might as well be me.", and sends the bank a bill for his security check.
Morale: you can't break in through an open door. Banks should keep their doors closed. Keep your money in a sock and let no bank near it.
What about the average IQ? When are they going to get that back to 100 where it belongs? I really hate intelligists.
It is common knowledge that Microsoft knows what's best better than you do for both your computer and for you. That's why you put down that cold hard cash to get a license on their superb product in the first place. So if that product is now calling home you shouldn't break your tiny head on why it does that, but trust that there is a very good reason for it. Of course it is not in the EULA. It would be impossible to include the exact operation of the product in the EULA as that would require the complete source code and I shouldn't need to tell you what happens when incompetents like yourself read it, let alone (dare I say it) alter the divine perfection that it is. The ignorami running such crippled beasts as is Linux are criminally deprived of the protection and care that the product provides. They don't even have a home to call to. Poor sods. So if the product determines that your copy of the product is nothing other than a crudely pirated substandard abomination than you had better run to the store swiftly for the pleasure of putting down some more cash to get your grimy hands on the real thing and do a little back for all the good that Microsoft has selflessly done for you continues to do and will continue to do for ever and eternity. Amen. And you'd better do it quickly too, before your abomination connects to some funky server in Soviet Russia and your box is lost forever and all your .docs .ppts and who knows what become utterly indecipherable because only Microsoft engineers are smart enough to program a product capable of doing so.
The new cooperation with SuperCard will feature the following slogan and also allow you to more easily make your daily donation to Microsoft.
The product: $299 (daily). Freedom from Linux: priceless.
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft owns YOU, not that software.