In a world free of copyright, the only value in information is secrecy, which would lead to much less information sharing.
That might be true if secrecy weren't so hard to maintain. Secrecy would still be important to some industries, but the freedom of even the binaries would completely change how markets look and make source code protection obsolete for many companies.
Seconded - I've read "Vurt" and "Pixel Juice", so far. If you haven't read Vurt or any other Jeff Noon stuff, do your self a favor and give it a try. Definitely some wacky shit. Not for everyone, naturally.
It's not about the anonymity. Your observations are all correct, of course, but irrelevant. It's about the 'C', not the 'A'. You can't have a conversation with an AC. You can't tell which AC is repsonding to you. You can't look at an AC's posting history to see what kind of jerk he is (unlike with my history which clearly shows I'm a jerk). You can't assign karma modifiers to individual AC authors so that you don't have to be bother with particular jerks or so that you can pay attention to others. You can't have any hope that if you reply to an AC, they'll read you're reply. You know that often, an AC post is made by someone with a real account, but who withes not to sully that account or have some fit of nastiness tied to himself.
The slashdot nick may not be traceable to an actual person, but it's still adequate for having some reaonable hope of a real conversation on an online forum. Having a conversation with an AC is like saying one sentence to every person you pass by as you walk down tht street.
Imagine having nick-less usenet or email or chat or im conversations. Completetly pointless. Yet in those cases, the existence of a nick is usually no more tiable to a real person than the slashdot account.
To bad about the relapse, but I know how it goes. You gotta keep trying to quit. There's no easy answer, but for me, quitting everyday seems better even if you fail. I'm in an enlongated quitting phase, over a month. I've done multiple years. Though I feel great about it and don't want to start again, I'm under no illusion that I won't start again someday. The key for me is a replacement activity. Running or cycling does it for me usually. Train for a marathon.
Let's make the analogy more explicit. The flat earth theory was offered because it fit the evidence:
the ground is flat
the earth doesn't look like a ball from here
if the earth were not flat, wouldn't people fall off?
So after the flat earth theory, we have the new theories: the earth is a sphere (appx). The important thing is that the new theory fits the existing evidence:
the ground is flat because the sphere is large and locally it looks flat
from close up to a large shape, you can't tell what shape it is
gravity holds us to the earth, the sphere-ish shape is a direct consequence of gravity, as well
In the same way, any theory that replaces QM will need to explain the myriad and complicated evidences that QM explains.
I think that is a valid point. Sometime I miss some bits of configurability, but gnome for the most part just makes more sense than KDE. Everytime I sit in down in front of KDE, I'm amazed at the complexity of the widgets, menus, etc. Not only is there an overwhelming amount of stuff, but it just doesn't look that good. That's entirely subjective, of course. It's a bit like the difference between simple web sites like google and complicated masses of links like amazon or other 'portal' search engines.
Caffeine has benefites for endurance athletes - runners, cyclists, etc. That's besides the obvious benefit of keeping you awake and alert. Not driving into a tree is good for your health. QED you fucking prude.
You don't get it. Log in, and we can have a discussion about divorce rates, property values, and a million other things. Otherwise, it's not a conversation, it's a series of drive-by soliloquies.
I was going to respond that point about divorces being is demonstratably wrong, but I'm not sure who I'm talking to, so why bother? At least you have your free anonymous speech though [scotch starts humming the national anthem] - jesus, I think I'm going to cry.
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Anarchy favors those with the best weapons.
That might be true if secrecy weren't so hard to maintain. Secrecy would still be important to some industries, but the freedom of even the binaries would completely change how markets look and make source code protection obsolete for many companies.
Seconded - I've read "Vurt" and "Pixel Juice", so far. If you haven't read Vurt or any other Jeff Noon stuff, do your self a favor and give it a try. Definitely some wacky shit. Not for everyone, naturally.
The slashdot nick may not be traceable to an actual person, but it's still adequate for having some reaonable hope of a real conversation on an online forum. Having a conversation with an AC is like saying one sentence to every person you pass by as you walk down tht street.
Imagine having nick-less usenet or email or chat or im conversations. Completetly pointless. Yet in those cases, the existence of a nick is usually no more tiable to a real person than the slashdot account.
The GP may have different ideas, of course.
The Rita Hayworth Redemption, IIRC.
How is RPM fundamentally more flawed than deb, pkg, or other common package formats? Please keep it technical, thank you.
What about emacs?
To bad about the relapse, but I know how it goes. You gotta keep trying to quit. There's no easy answer, but for me, quitting everyday seems better even if you fail. I'm in an enlongated quitting phase, over a month. I've done multiple years. Though I feel great about it and don't want to start again, I'm under no illusion that I won't start again someday. The key for me is a replacement activity. Running or cycling does it for me usually. Train for a marathon.
This is of course untrue.
So after the flat earth theory, we have the new theories: the earth is a sphere (appx). The important thing is that the new theory fits the existing evidence:
In the same way, any theory that replaces QM will need to explain the myriad and complicated evidences that QM explains.
QED
Distrowatch is a pretty lousy place to go for meaninful statistics about Linux.
YMMV, etc.
Caffeine has benefites for endurance athletes - runners, cyclists, etc. That's besides the obvious benefit of keeping you awake and alert. Not driving into a tree is good for your health. QED you fucking prude.
It's not their fault that all the good nicks like "Aceticon" are taken.
You, sir, are a dork.
HTH, HAND.
I'll just pretend you compile with a c++ compiler instead. Has the implicit 'return 0;' at the end of main been adopted into C99 from C++?
Note to mods: pointing out your own puns is grounds for down-modding.
Right you are, my friend.
We get it. You like MS word.
You don't get it. Log in, and we can have a discussion about divorce rates, property values, and a million other things. Otherwise, it's not a conversation, it's a series of drive-by soliloquies.
Get a room, you two.
The US Air Force started GPS and runs it for the benefit of all branches of service as well as civilian use as deemed acceptible.
I was going to respond that point about divorces being is demonstratably wrong, but I'm not sure who I'm talking to, so why bother? At least you have your free anonymous speech though [scotch starts humming the national anthem] - jesus, I think I'm going to cry.