I see you and whoever modded my comment as flamebait have never watched South Park.
So to be as explicit as it can get: those against hemp are idiots; those who believe the "war on drugs" is about drugs are really idiots (or haven't really given much thought to the subject); those who defend it as police are the fucking worst evil scumbags there are, but hey! that's your only option on every election!
You are jumping to the conclusion that it is genetic related, when the anecdote you brought ("adopted baby from trailer trash") is most probably better explained by the consequences of development while in the womb. Or do you think a baby (whatever the genetic code) can develop normally within a system flooded with cortisol, alcohol, nicotine, etc.?
You have a point there, but let's see our options: 1 - software that is free (as in I can improve it if I need to), even if buggy, and usually made with passion; 2 - software that restricts our actions as much as it can get with, usually just for the sake of money.
I've been choosing 1 almost exclusively for more than a decade and I feel happy about it, despite the occasional frustration with bugs.
The second option is a reflection of our greed-oriented society, with all its DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, DRM, WGA, TPM, EUFI-restricted bootloaders, EULAs and ToSs, etc. Was any of these designed to improve your quality of life? No, they were designed to identify any possible advantage they could take from you, and fuck you in the ass big time. It's your decision to keep feeding them.
For the record- I don't see why you'd want Android on a desktop, it would be a bad experience. But nothing is stopping you right now, x86 support is out.
Isn't what Windows 8 is all about? I mean, the bad experience.
Have you tried Cinnamon or MATE? My point was that at least in the free software world we have options. Nobody is gonna take Windows XP and make a fork to keep it up to date, simply because nobody can.
That was exactly what I thought (but not for the CLI). My parents made the transition to Ubuntu in 2005, when they were 62 years old. Some complaints in the first months, smooth sail thereafter.
If people will have to take the time to adapt to something new, better be something they can stick with, like Linux. Otherwise after a while they'll be "forced" either way, like this "abandon the Windows XP sinking ship now!"
Replying to myself: don't let emotions (such as frustration) cloud your judgments, and make over-generalizations. Some countries such as Iceland and Uruguay still have sane people in government.
What could really happen in this fantasy world: one stable distribution with only security fixes and minor improvements would estabilish itself, backed by a foundation. Several local business would trive, offering support and perhaps contributing with fixes and improvements. Money would not be funneled to one single company anymore, and the overall cost for everybody would be way lower.
What you want is Secure Share. I've been toying around with this idea too, I even made some tests with the gnutella protocol (as the AC before me suggested [emule network is really gnutella]). The problem with Secure Share is that things seem to be halted... I emailed the main author, but didn't even receive a reply.
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
Only if you have honor. That doesn't apply to 99% of politicians.
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If you use virtual desktops a lot perhaps you would enjoy the setup I use: a 3x3 grid with keybindings to the numpad (CTRL+KP_7 -> desktop 1... CTRL+KP_3 -> desktop 9 [spatial mapping]). And CTRL+KP_0 focus the windows demanding attention (IM chats, for instance). In 12.04 I was able to set this up again, so I don't complain too much about Unity. But just after 11.04 I had to switch to LXDE + Compiz.
Yep, surprised me too. My case: Slackware (1997, dual boot) -> Debian (2000, linux only from then on) -> Ubuntu (2005 - now, let's see what comes in the next version though...)
And I will start saying: we need a Twitter and Facebook/G+/Orkut/whatever replacement that is distributed, anonymized and cryptographed. The best project so far (to my knowledge) is Secure Share, but it is far away from reaching its goals. If I had more time I would definitely try to help them, or do something along the same lines. One thing that could be a huge head start would be to use the gnutella network as transport, implementing new GGEP extensions. They (secushare) use gnunet as transport, but I think it would be nice to have both available. If anybody knows of another truly decentralized social media project (not Diaspora's case) please let me know.
How many of you work for free? How many of you donate your time in large quantities to do the truly shit work in Linux, like documentation, regression testing, bug fixing, QA and QC? Yeah, thought so.
Do I have to do all of that? Well, I have a lot of code I published under the GPL. I have some addons that were included in Blender, and also a patch to the Cycles renderer recently. Is this enough for you?
This, this right here, is why FOSS as a philosophy yields more half baked incomplete software than anything else,
There are lots of counterexamples, and that is what is important. Otherwise I would not be able to use GNU/Linux as my only desktop for over a decade now.
because while everyone wants the OTHER guy to work for nothing THEY want to get paid. in a way I'd argue its the failure of communism all over again.
Kickstarter, among many other crowdfunding initiatives, proves you wrong.
[...] and as Canonical found out you'll go broke long before you get it ready for the masses.
So Canonical went broke already? Nah, you just need a cup of STFU.
Shuttleworth really should have went BSD, then he could have sold his OS because he could have kept his changes. How many "Ubuntu derived" distros are there? I rest my case.
I see you took a class on FOSS by Steve Ballmer. I hope you get as good a grade on the chair-throwing and coke-snorting-developers^n-shouting classes.
[...] and it just goes to show that ALL the community cares about is "free as in beer".
Not true. I don't mind paying for things I like/want (e.g. I buy all Humble Bundles, I donate every year to Wikipedia) but Canonical took the wrong road. Instead of taking advantage of the community they've built, they just decided to shove their decisions down people's throats. They're a private company, it is in their right to do that, but that was just fucking stupid.
What they could have done: their own 'kickstarter' for improvement/development projects. They already have that brainstorm.ubuntu.com, just make it able to receive financial support from the community.
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I see you and whoever modded my comment as flamebait have never watched South Park.
So to be as explicit as it can get: those against hemp are idiots; those who believe the "war on drugs" is about drugs are really idiots (or haven't really given much thought to the subject); those who defend it as police are the fucking worst evil scumbags there are, but hey! that's your only option on every election!
Is my point clear now? Now to make my previous reference clear: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s02e04-ikes-wee-wee
Drugs are bad, mmmmkay? We are in War on Drugs (tm), so that's really really bad, mmmkay?
You are jumping to the conclusion that it is genetic related, when the anecdote you brought ("adopted baby from trailer trash") is most probably better explained by the consequences of development while in the womb. Or do you think a baby (whatever the genetic code) can develop normally within a system flooded with cortisol, alcohol, nicotine, etc.?
You have a point there, but let's see our options:
1 - software that is free (as in I can improve it if I need to), even if buggy, and usually made with passion;
2 - software that restricts our actions as much as it can get with, usually just for the sake of money.
I've been choosing 1 almost exclusively for more than a decade and I feel happy about it, despite the occasional frustration with bugs.
The second option is a reflection of our greed-oriented society, with all its DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, DRM, WGA, TPM, EUFI-restricted bootloaders, EULAs and ToSs, etc. Was any of these designed to improve your quality of life? No, they were designed to identify any possible advantage they could take from you, and fuck you in the ass big time. It's your decision to keep feeding them.
For the record- I don't see why you'd want Android on a desktop, it would be a bad experience. But nothing is stopping you right now, x86 support is out.
Isn't what Windows 8 is all about? I mean, the bad experience.
Because from a marketing perspective it is better to discuss something, even if in a negative tone, than to be simply ignored.
Have you tried Cinnamon or MATE? My point was that at least in the free software world we have options. Nobody is gonna take Windows XP and make a fork to keep it up to date, simply because nobody can.
That was exactly what I thought (but not for the CLI). My parents made the transition to Ubuntu in 2005, when they were 62 years old. Some complaints in the first months, smooth sail thereafter.
If people will have to take the time to adapt to something new, better be something they can stick with, like Linux. Otherwise after a while they'll be "forced" either way, like this "abandon the Windows XP sinking ship now!"
It's quite clear you're used to inserting in YourAnus.h, but I believe you really meant to #include it.
Replying to myself: don't let emotions (such as frustration) cloud your judgments, and make over-generalizations. Some countries such as Iceland and Uruguay still have sane people in government.
The problem is "they think he might have something to do with whatever", so let's punish him now.
Due process? Nah, that's for civilized countries. Which there is none on Earth right now, and things only seem to get worse.
What could really happen in this fantasy world: one stable distribution with only security fixes and minor improvements would estabilish itself, backed by a foundation. Several local business would trive, offering support and perhaps contributing with fixes and improvements. Money would not be funneled to one single company anymore, and the overall cost for everybody would be way lower.
My thoughts exactly. Too bad I'm out of mod points.
Ahonen predicted this in February 2011 right after Elop's announcement
He and 90% of the /. crowd, myself included.
What you want is Secure Share. I've been toying around with this idea too, I even made some tests with the gnutella protocol (as the AC before me suggested [emule network is really gnutella]). The problem with Secure Share is that things seem to be halted... I emailed the main author, but didn't even receive a reply.
And Secure Share, the best design of all, in my opinion. Too bad the project is stalled.
He said "healthy"...
Btw, the last episode of South Park was pretty good on the subject.
No, the other thing is responsible for the hairy hand.
Don't do wrong, especially to bad people, since in the latter case you have to apologize to bad people, and it sucks.
Only if you have honor. That doesn't apply to 99% of politicians.
If you use virtual desktops a lot perhaps you would enjoy the setup I use: a 3x3 grid with keybindings to the numpad (CTRL+KP_7 -> desktop 1 ... CTRL+KP_3 -> desktop 9 [spatial mapping]). And CTRL+KP_0 focus the windows demanding attention (IM chats, for instance).
In 12.04 I was able to set this up again, so I don't complain too much about Unity. But just after 11.04 I had to switch to LXDE + Compiz.
Yep, surprised me too. My case: Slackware (1997, dual boot) -> Debian (2000, linux only from then on) -> Ubuntu (2005 - now, let's see what comes in the next version though...)
And I will start saying: we need a Twitter and Facebook/G+/Orkut/whatever replacement that is distributed, anonymized and cryptographed. The best project so far (to my knowledge) is Secure Share, but it is far away from reaching its goals. If I had more time I would definitely try to help them, or do something along the same lines. One thing that could be a huge head start would be to use the gnutella network as transport, implementing new GGEP extensions. They (secushare) use gnunet as transport, but I think it would be nice to have both available.
If anybody knows of another truly decentralized social media project (not Diaspora's case) please let me know.
To you [...]
Ok, so you are talking about me.
I have to call BULLSHIT.
Why so angry? Besides, you are wrong about me.
How many of you work for free? How many of you donate your time in large quantities to do the truly shit work in Linux, like documentation, regression testing, bug fixing, QA and QC? Yeah, thought so.
Do I have to do all of that? Well, I have a lot of code I published under the GPL. I have some addons that were included in Blender, and also a patch to the Cycles renderer recently. Is this enough for you?
This, this right here, is why FOSS as a philosophy yields more half baked incomplete software than anything else,
There are lots of counterexamples, and that is what is important. Otherwise I would not be able to use GNU/Linux as my only desktop for over a decade now.
because while everyone wants the OTHER guy to work for nothing THEY want to get paid. in a way I'd argue its the failure of communism all over again.
Kickstarter, among many other crowdfunding initiatives, proves you wrong.
[...] and as Canonical found out you'll go broke long before you get it ready for the masses.
So Canonical went broke already? Nah, you just need a cup of STFU.
Shuttleworth really should have went BSD, then he could have sold his OS because he could have kept his changes. How many "Ubuntu derived" distros are there? I rest my case.
I see you took a class on FOSS by Steve Ballmer. I hope you get as good a grade on the chair-throwing and coke-snorting-developers^n-shouting classes.
[...] and it just goes to show that ALL the community cares about is "free as in beer".
Not true. I don't mind paying for things I like/want (e.g. I buy all Humble Bundles, I donate every year to Wikipedia) but Canonical took the wrong road. Instead of taking advantage of the community they've built, they just decided to shove their decisions down people's throats. They're a private company, it is in their right to do that, but that was just fucking stupid.
What they could have done: their own 'kickstarter' for improvement/development projects. They already have that brainstorm.ubuntu.com, just make it able to receive financial support from the community.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." -- K (MIB)
The cartels could be stopped, but unfortunately only through collective action. Not going to happen.