What were we/are we paying for when we buy software? I mean a binary is, for all intents and purposes, an infinite good. It can be copied a billion^billion times and never decay. And if you get all software through downloads, then you are, in essence, paying the company almost nothing but profit. It costs nearly nothing to send a file out over the internet. I like what somebody said, it costs billions of dollars to make that first pill and only 2 cents to make each one after. Basically it is consensual highway robbery.
It just doesn't make much sense to someone like me who doesn't pay for software (FLOSS, not piracy)
For me it wasn't so much the stunt (isn't there a saying that goes "you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck full of harddrives"?), but the sheer humor of it. Everyone knows that a well trained pigeon can fly to a destination without much problem, and everyone also knows that this kind of transfer is only good for in house stuff, it wouldn't help with internet or anything. It is just funny that someone actually did it. I have heard about this kind of thing since I started in IT and I just find it funny in the Dilbert kind of way. Not really useful, but funny. Hell, I use a sneakernet all the time at work. Cloning machines is much faster if you have the harddrive physically hooked up instead of an image on a server.
Linux: the next patent troll.
Doubtful. Which Linux is going to do it? The kernel devs? Debian? Red Hat? I mean come on. Their isn't a "Linux" that can pull this stuff, and most of just want to mind our own business and screw the bureaucrats. Patents are for idiots.
Yea. spending money on helping Linux would be cool. Buying useless patents from Microsoft seems pointless. Now if they give the FSF control over the patents, maybe it would be okay.
After the Ars Technica article from yesterday, I don't really trust anything that is claimed to be "anonymous." Greedy corporations have no morals, so this kind of thing should surprise no one. My question is, how does this help the parents in anyway? This kind of thing is solely for the money, nothing else.
Of course, this is slightly the parents fault. Teaching your children and being a part of their lives (to echo Chronno from above) is worth a lot more than the "protection" these "services" provide.
Of course people making these licenses are going to dumber than the people taking the tests. There would never be a mention of Linux in the class because they just wouldn't know (see: care) about what they are teaching.
I do think there should be a compulsory basic computer knowledge class before they buy one. At least have a quick tutorial they must at least go through (the XP one was useless and easy to skip). I can't tell you how many times I have users that have been using computer since 95 and I have just know taught them to move files from window to desktop or window to window (that would be directory to directory using a WIMP GUI in non-layman's terms). There is a lot I know about computers that I don't expect my users to know, just like there is a lot of GI medicine I don't know either (work in IT in a GI(gastrointestinal) clinic). I know the basics of how the GI tract works though and I know basics of how to stay healthy. I learned that from required classes in high school and college.
Now, I will joke and say there should be a license all day long, but all I want is training. I want my users to be able to come to work and do their job without me having to hold their hand (user support is my least important job). Is that too much to ask?
As a college football fan, an a semi-serious one, I can say that there is one critical piece missing from the TV experience.
70,000+ other screaming fans who love this game too.
I would never say that it is easier to watch and follow a game live (pretty graphics and useless stats are nice) but the sheer emotion of a live game can't be beat. I think that soccer (err, "football") on the other side of the pond has much the same reaction as we have to our football.
I love The Game. Not just the game.
What I find funny is that violent crimes doesn't mean you are going to stay in longer than the dude with the pot or the white collar idiot who embezzled.
Yay! America! Making our world safer! by releasing all the psychopaths back into the wild. Nothing like having a justice system that works!
Isn't it great?
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Soo...
It just doesn't make much sense to someone like me who doesn't pay for software (FLOSS, not piracy)
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IPoAC
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Re: Patents
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I pledge Allegiance to...
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Re: hmm
Doubtful. Which Linux is going to do it? The kernel devs? Debian? Red Hat? I mean come on. Their isn't a "Linux" that can pull this stuff, and most of just want to mind our own business and screw the bureaucrats. Patents are for idiots.
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patent this!
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Evil is as evil does
Of course, this is slightly the parents fault. Teaching your children and being a part of their lives (to echo Chronno from above) is worth a lot more than the "protection" these "services" provide.
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do you have a permit for that thing?
Now, I will joke and say there should be a license all day long, but all I want is training. I want my users to be able to come to work and do their job without me having to hold their hand (user support is my least important job). Is that too much to ask?
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Poor them
We don't need middlemen.
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breakin the law.
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Re: A little clarification:
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(im betting on the rich. Comedians couldn't be with someone that well gifted: there is nothing funny about it)
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Wall-O-Text!
Wall-O-Text 1, me 0
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Yay! America! Making our world safer! by releasing all the psychopaths back into the wild. Nothing like having a justice system that works!
Isn't it great?
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Re: Re: Thanks for buying Razorfish, WPP. Now, suck it.
Some of us use Linux, ya know!
Of course, if you read anything on RMS, he is like the broke Bill Gates in the bully department.
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