The power bill went up and they aren't happy about it. A private company would have almost no recourse in a similar situation.

They changed it to be a logarithmic scale where 10 was infinite velocity. This happened sometime in The Next Generation, as they did go "over warp 10" in one episode.

Don't listen to him. Stick to your ways and keep contributing to F/OSS. If the "old school" tools are used and maintained, then they are still alive. Keep coding, and keep using your computer.

One day when all those iDevices are obsolete, and can't be upgraded or used because of their proprietary lock in mechanisms, you'll be laughing from your throne as you did not allow yourself or your utilities to become useless.

The best advise I can give to you is to not give into proprietary hardware just because it is shiny and new. You'll find yourself replacing everything every two years, and pouring money into the coughers of corporations. You'll become more dependent on the grace of other companies, and at the mercy of others.

Don't try to be hip, and don't run with the crowd just because it's there.

Keywords are carefully and modulate.

This is why I expect vegetarians, or at least the extreme vegans to protest it. A lot of them protest milk/etc as it is created with "animal labor".

Money is transferred by by selling goods for a product unrelated to the product being sold. This is the basis of trade. In the cast of both art and software, time is being made into money for services rendered. In a world of pure trade, the software industry would not be able to exist, as software guys are not seen as valuable by people of labor. The existence of large companies that puts space between the software guys and the bulk of society allow for complex hardware and software to happen. Without money, there would be no value associated with a software person that works for months on end with no tangible result at the end, much less working for perpetuity. Without large corporations to fund Free/Open Source Software, the ecosystem of open source would be completely different, as the bulk of open source developers are paid. There is nothing wrong with an artist purchasing a product like photoshop. If GIMP wanted to be taken seriously, they would find a way to find the open source project to get not only developers on board, but people to find out what makes great software great for artists. They need to hire project managers, artists, and developers. All of which cost money. It is what makes the world go round.

This is the first time that I've seen someone talk about President Obama and Executive Orders in a way that makes sense. It is my understanding that Executive Orders have to do with the internal operations of the government, not as a mechanism of usurping congress when it comes to laws that have an effect on the American public.

Probably not a lot of people signing other people, as the registration is $38.00. 78,000+ applications? Do the math.

This should be exposed for what it is, a quick marketing and money grab.

Slashdot is just a slave to their scheme by publicizing it's lies.

Creative professionals would rather pay Adobe $1,000.00 than have to learn how to write software.

It doesn't make any sense to use your device when your steering wheel and head unit have controls, but there should be a standard for controlling media devices, and MTP is a locked down proprietary Microsoft standard that isn't what we all want in our vehicles.

There is no reason to have all of this junk in a new car. The only thing one needs is a USB charging port and an aux in for the smartphone to play audio through the cars audio system. Anything else the car does will be done poorly and until more standardization ensues, shouldn't be done. Where there is standardization, there is prosperity (USB, 3.5mm audio, Bluetooth, 12V power plugs)

Don't forget that a lot of Mac OS X is open source.

If the military's current network gets 2.4Gb/sec, I wonder how Google Fiber is offering 1Gb/sec to end users for such a low rate? How are they getting all this data to the backbone, and how are they actually getting 1Gb/sec to these people? Are they just touting the interface speed knowing that it won't be utilized to just scare the larger ISPs and manipulate the market?

People are going to do neither of these things. They will just type "Amazon" into their search/address bar hybrid, which is pretty much just a GoogleSpyBar now, where page ranks are what the difference between your bank and a phishing site are.

Maybe Google will start allowing people to purchase their names so that a search for "Amazon" goes to amazon.com versus a search landing page.


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