In addition to learning about modern computer technology and becoming net-savvy, as an added bonus these kids will learn Stallman and Torvalds political opinions - unedited and unchallenged. Just the way power-hungry commies like it.
We can look forward to a younger generation whose highest ambition is to recode existing software to get around copyright because they don't think other people should get paid.
Your comment was valid political satire, not a troll. Slashdotters only moderated you down because you mentioned Bush without criticising him. Slashdot moderators are showing their bias again. If you want to help do something about this, check out the CPMO at http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=display
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It is Certainly lame that they couldn't agree on a single Proprietary format. But Microsoft won't be the deciding factor here: it will be the Ordinary domestic players that will decide who wins the battle. In fact I suspect both formats will exist in parallel until some completely new technology supercedes them.
I wholeheartedly agree. In another thread, I read a comment by some idiot who had a similar view to the grandparent. He said:
"If you own something you have the right to gift it to whoever you want whenever you want. If the government takes it at gunpoint then you never really owned it. And if you can't own the fruits of your own labour, there's no incentive to produce. Easier to wait for someone who did produce to die and then pick through the remains of their estate with all the other vultures. And doin't believe what you read about the gap between rich and poor: capitalism, based on ownership, makes the poor richer than any other system. Fact.".
The internet is a scary place sometimes. I read a comment on another site by some idiot who said
"How will Stallman and Torvalds like it when the copyright protection that underpins the GPL runs out after 50 years - it will be a different story then. Typical socialist attitude to intellectual property: what's yours is mine but what's mine is my own."
LinuxBox is still trying to get the package installer - you know, the one that "just works" - to just work.
No wait...
LinuxBox is actually still figuring out which version of CentaurLegs (supposedly a mature project) doesn't crash when you run on a particular type of grass which just happens to be the type the race is to be run on, according to some unconverted comment on a Linux board you had to translate from Chinese.
The parent article has been incorrectly moderated as insightful. There is no basis in reality to claim that a person who wears jeans and puts his hands in his pockets cannot be elitist. Indeed, there are many counter-examples roaming the earth today.
Further, the comment about people who wear ties always being elitist is unsubstantiatable. You can't even know that a person is wearing a tie as part of a uniform: maybe the person just thinks they look good in a tie.
There are in fact social groupings that insist on the wearing of jeans as a kind-of uniform. I was once a part of such a group and was encouraged to wear jeans as opposed to the more comfortable chinos that I would normally wear. I told them to kiss my ass. Does that make me elitist too?
STOP. AMERICA. NOW.
Let me guess... Americans are elitist right? Especially those who wear ties and dont own jeans and don't walk around with their hands in their pockets all the time. Those people must be double-triple-quadruple elitist in your rather superficial opinion, I'll bet.
It's exactly the other way around. The dude who thinks the problem is uninteresting thinks his first idea is right because he never thinks beyond that first idea. When things screw up later (imagine the system growing to 100+ sensors, each with their own different binary protocol) the excuse is that noone knew any better at the time.
The dude who finds the stuff interesting figured out all these problems long before the project even started because he enjoys figuring out that sort of thing. But he can *never* point that out otherwise he will be labelled teh smug.
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We can look forward to a younger generation whose highest ambition is to recode existing software to get around copyright because they don't think other people should get paid.
Actually that's happened already.
All too often, the quest for 'karma' is just another grab for power and intimidation.
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It is Certainly lame that they couldn't agree on a single Proprietary format. But Microsoft won't be the deciding factor here: it will be the Ordinary domestic players that will decide who wins the battle. In fact I suspect both formats will exist in parallel until some completely new technology supercedes them.
"If you own something you have the right to gift it to whoever you want whenever you want. If the government takes it at gunpoint then you never really owned it. And if you can't own the fruits of your own labour, there's no incentive to produce. Easier to wait for someone who did produce to die and then pick through the remains of their estate with all the other vultures. And doin't believe what you read about the gap between rich and poor: capitalism, based on ownership, makes the poor richer than any other system. Fact.".
What a n00b!
The internet is a scary place sometimes. I read a comment on another site by some idiot who said "How will Stallman and Torvalds like it when the copyright protection that underpins the GPL runs out after 50 years - it will be a different story then. Typical socialist attitude to intellectual property: what's yours is mine but what's mine is my own."
No wait...
LinuxBox is still trying to get the package installer - you know, the one that "just works" - to just work.
No wait...
LinuxBox is actually still figuring out which version of CentaurLegs (supposedly a mature project) doesn't crash when you run on a particular type of grass which just happens to be the type the race is to be run on, according to some unconverted comment on a Linux board you had to translate from Chinese.
The parent article has been incorrectly moderated as insightful. There is no basis in reality to claim that a person who wears jeans and puts his hands in his pockets cannot be elitist. Indeed, there are many counter-examples roaming the earth today. Further, the comment about people who wear ties always being elitist is unsubstantiatable. You can't even know that a person is wearing a tie as part of a uniform: maybe the person just thinks they look good in a tie. There are in fact social groupings that insist on the wearing of jeans as a kind-of uniform. I was once a part of such a group and was encouraged to wear jeans as opposed to the more comfortable chinos that I would normally wear. I told them to kiss my ass. Does that make me elitist too? STOP. AMERICA. NOW. Let me guess... Americans are elitist right? Especially those who wear ties and dont own jeans and don't walk around with their hands in their pockets all the time. Those people must be double-triple-quadruple elitist in your rather superficial opinion, I'll bet.
...but its in the same ballpark
Mod parent -1(grumpy-old-man)
It's exactly the other way around. The dude who thinks the problem is uninteresting thinks his first idea is right because he never thinks beyond that first idea. When things screw up later (imagine the system growing to 100+ sensors, each with their own different binary protocol) the excuse is that noone knew any better at the time. The dude who finds the stuff interesting figured out all these problems long before the project even started because he enjoys figuring out that sort of thing. But he can *never* point that out otherwise he will be labelled teh smug.