* Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA * The only way to fix it is to flush it all away. * Any fucking time, any fucking day. * >>Learn to swim<<, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
Uh... You don't need someone's DNA to "reincarnate" them.
1. If you did cloned a human from that DNA, his body will attract a new soul from the available pool, and most probably it will *not* be the soul that was previously inhabiting the "original" body. Also, the clone will have very little to no chances of recovering past memories of the human whose soul inhabited the original body.
2. BTW, the soul of the "original" had probably already incarnated as someone else. Maybe even as you.
This is a really strange property of the/. community... A joke that is years old still gets modded up:) The web might have got a little older, but it's still as little understood as ever.
2. I handle this issue by having ":$HOME/bin" added to my PATH and having symlinks to all the apps I use frequently put there. Then I have Win+X bound to a launch box, and I have to type only one or two first letters of a program name to launch it (KWin's launch box is smart enough to remember which programs I use most often). Or do you just look at the program names and repeat them in your head so frequently that you can't stand the K letter anymore? Then you have a different sort of problem...
Icons are not going away. Fact, in 4.1 you will have them only as in a Plasma applet, but with 4.2 they'll be coming back in their full glory, but as a part of a more modularized and flexible desktop. RTFA before you rant.
I get your point, I also prefer to use my PC for whatever I'd like to use it for. But see, the whole Linux thing is mostly community-driven. You wouldn't like to work for someone else for free as much as I wouldn't, but the fact is that you get the OS not only for free, but also with a promise that it will always be free (as in beer and speech). Of course it's your choice to not give anything back for what you've taken, as is your choice to not actually take anything. Without that choice, I think free software wouldn't be free:P
As of the "yeah it all works for me, umm, maybe not rly" crowd... I personally prefer Linux over anything else that I've tried (and I've been trying literally everything), and I am well aware that most of the stuff likes to fail from time to time. This is something that many people forget to mention when praising their product, and it applies not only to Linux advocates. Will MS tell you that Vista really needs 2GB of memory to feel as snappy and responsive as XP with 256MB? It's marketing. The only way to tell whether Linux is as good as they tell you is to check it out. And will you check it out if they tell you that it often fails to recognize some hardware? But again, it's getting better, and only because of the user feedback. So you're not working for free... You're essentially getting back a better product.
But some Linux fanboys are really pissing me off, "Linux this, Linux that" - sure, it's cool, it does infinite loops in 5 seconds, but users want a desktop - something that Linux only recently started to finally deliver, and even then it's not the right thing for everyone (either because it doesn't work or "the feel" is not what the users want). What should be done is not writing endless rants on random forums all over the net... That doesn't help anyone. That energy would be much better spent on doing something creative. Sometimes I just feel ashamed of people who seem to spend their days only on ranting on $THE_OTHER_OS and praising $THEIR_OS.
If they could just put the link to project's web page in project's summary... Each time I find an interesting project I have to manually type someproject.sourceforge.net in the address bar. Fixing only this will actually improve searching for stuff by 200%.
It's not the idea of communism that was so bad, it was the implementation.
I like to think of Free Software as "communism done right", with real sharing, with real community, with people that are actually willing to help each other, without repressing the outstanding ones, and such. And on the long run FS seems to have less in common with communism that one might think it has in the first place. It has many of its advantages, but less of disadvantages...
And I think I know why it succeeded. The people who started the whole movement were not only speaking, but acting. And they weren't acting through any deeds of violence, they didn't lead an armed revolution, they just wrote code. All these "let's do $X, let's change the world, there should be $Y, why on earth $Z is so fucked up" people should do the same: shut up and start actually trying to improve the reality they're facing.
And since one's efforts to improve the world should always begin with improving oneself...
I think signing binaries isn't a bad idea, at least if you can choose the "authorities" from which you will accept programs and/or source. Just like Debian's apt repositories use GPG to sign the packages... Just the same thing, only realized at the kernel level and for binaries, not for whole packages.
And, for example if you know you won't be compiling any software in a while, you can unregister your GCC's cert and thus make sure nobody would be able to compile or drop a spl0it on your machine.
And oh, btw - that's exactly the reason why I'd love to see Plan9-like every-process-has-its-own-fs-namespace kind of thing in Linux. And no, chroot isn't an answer.
Ego. That thing that tells you to fight that other man, as if he can do any harm to you by merely passing through the land that you consider yours.
I need no authority and I have no will to be someone else's authority. Take a look at our history: no system that has been based on authority has ever succeeded to bring us peace and happiness. Moreover: authorities can only keep controlling us by (metaphorically) polluting the air we all breathe... And they breathe the same air that we do.
I'd love to live in a world where people would stop trying to govern each other and start to base their relationships on friendship and love, or at least respect each other's personal freedom. And simply... Not get in the way of others.
But we have that damn ego that keeps forcing us to kill and conquer and enslave. In the name of *WHAT*?
No, but you can buy from magnatune.com. Disclaimer: I haven't, I prefer thepiratebay.org and isohunt.com.
> Not yet anyway.
Oh, Kaspersky and others, they keep repeating that bullshit like "we'll be seeing that 40% of future viruses will run on windows, 40% will run on linux, and 20% will run on both"*. I already saw some versions of Mandriva coming with a proprietary AV. I'm just curious whether this software has ever found anything (maybe except something along "OMGWTF you haven't chown'd root:root && chmod'd 751 your/etc!!!111oneoneonesex"). It's simply FUD.
* if it ever comes true, I'll be just switching to OpenSolaris or *BSD right away. Or writing my own kernel.
> This I don't even know what you are talking about. > Hell, Ubuntu comes with a shitload of preinstalled stuff.
Synaptic.
And oh, btw. This preinstalled stuff is mostly actually useful.
There's already a word for "free as in free speech", I mean "libre":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
(There's no polish counterpart for "libre", but do we really need one so badly? "WIOO" seems to be liked, although it again introduces another level of confusion:P)
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No, it is a swimming pool.
* Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
* The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
* Any fucking time, any fucking day.
* >>Learn to swim<<, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
Tool - AEnema.
Uh... You don't need someone's DNA to "reincarnate" them.
1. If you did cloned a human from that DNA, his body will attract a new soul from the available pool, and most probably it will *not* be the soul that was previously inhabiting the "original" body. Also, the clone will have very little to no chances of recovering past memories of the human whose soul inhabited the original body.
2. BTW, the soul of the "original" had probably already incarnated as someone else. Maybe even as you.
This is a really strange property of the /. community... A joke that is years old still gets modded up :) The web might have got a little older, but it's still as little understood as ever.
2. I handle this issue by having ":$HOME/bin" added to my PATH and having symlinks to all the apps I use frequently put there. Then I have Win+X bound to a launch box, and I have to type only one or two first letters of a program name to launch it (KWin's launch box is smart enough to remember which programs I use most often). Or do you just look at the program names and repeat them in your head so frequently that you can't stand the K letter anymore? Then you have a different sort of problem...
Icons are not going away. Fact, in 4.1 you will have them only as in a Plasma applet, but with 4.2 they'll be coming back in their full glory, but as a part of a more modularized and flexible desktop. RTFA before you rant.
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Oh, wait, this is
Nevermind
Sure. And on Mac OS X and on Windows too. And even on BSD (although I heard that it is dying).
I get your point, I also prefer to use my PC for whatever I'd like to use it for. But see, the whole Linux thing is mostly community-driven. You wouldn't like to work for someone else for free as much as I wouldn't, but the fact is that you get the OS not only for free, but also with a promise that it will always be free (as in beer and speech). Of course it's your choice to not give anything back for what you've taken, as is your choice to not actually take anything. Without that choice, I think free software wouldn't be free :P
As of the "yeah it all works for me, umm, maybe not rly" crowd... I personally prefer Linux over anything else that I've tried (and I've been trying literally everything), and I am well aware that most of the stuff likes to fail from time to time. This is something that many people forget to mention when praising their product, and it applies not only to Linux advocates. Will MS tell you that Vista really needs 2GB of memory to feel as snappy and responsive as XP with 256MB? It's marketing. The only way to tell whether Linux is as good as they tell you is to check it out. And will you check it out if they tell you that it often fails to recognize some hardware? But again, it's getting better, and only because of the user feedback. So you're not working for free... You're essentially getting back a better product.
But some Linux fanboys are really pissing me off, "Linux this, Linux that" - sure, it's cool, it does infinite loops in 5 seconds, but users want a desktop - something that Linux only recently started to finally deliver, and even then it's not the right thing for everyone (either because it doesn't work or "the feel" is not what the users want). What should be done is not writing endless rants on random forums all over the net... That doesn't help anyone. That energy would be much better spent on doing something creative. Sometimes I just feel ashamed of people who seem to spend their days only on ranting on $THE_OTHER_OS and praising $THEIR_OS.
Oh.
<shuts up and goes back to writing code>
Is there something that keeps you away from filing a few bug reports?
> > My company switched to useing gmail.
> For your sake, I hope your company doesn't have any trade secrets.
Or spelling nazis.
[morebadpun] "nic" means "nothing" in polish [/morebadpun]
If they could just put the link to project's web page in project's summary... Each time I find an interesting project I have to manually type someproject.sourceforge.net in the address bar. Fixing only this will actually improve searching for stuff by 200%.
It's not the idea of communism that was so bad, it was the implementation.
I like to think of Free Software as "communism done right", with real sharing, with real community, with people that are actually willing to help each other, without repressing the outstanding ones, and such. And on the long run FS seems to have less in common with communism that one might think it has in the first place. It has many of its advantages, but less of disadvantages...
And I think I know why it succeeded. The people who started the whole movement were not only speaking, but acting. And they weren't acting through any deeds of violence, they didn't lead an armed revolution, they just wrote code. All these "let's do $X, let's change the world, there should be $Y, why on earth $Z is so fucked up" people should do the same: shut up and start actually trying to improve the reality they're facing.
And since one's efforts to improve the world should always begin with improving oneself...
<shuts up and goes back to coding>
I actually remember 486s and such, and I really miss it how silent* they were... If you won't count the hard disk of course.
* compared to my 5 year old Celeron beast which's fan is making and impression of producing more noise than a herd of datacenters.
I think signing binaries isn't a bad idea, at least if you can choose the "authorities" from which you will accept programs and/or source. Just like Debian's apt repositories use GPG to sign the packages... Just the same thing, only realized at the kernel level and for binaries, not for whole packages.
And, for example if you know you won't be compiling any software in a while, you can unregister your GCC's cert and thus make sure nobody would be able to compile or drop a spl0it on your machine.
And oh, btw - that's exactly the reason why I'd love to see Plan9-like every-process-has-its-own-fs-namespace kind of thing in Linux. And no, chroot isn't an answer.
By "we" I mean our egos.
Ego. That thing that tells you to fight that other man, as if he can do any harm to you by merely passing through the land that you consider yours.
I need no authority and I have no will to be someone else's authority. Take a look at our history: no system that has been based on authority has ever succeeded to bring us peace and happiness. Moreover: authorities can only keep controlling us by (metaphorically) polluting the air we all breathe... And they breathe the same air that we do.
So, the problem is not whether land should be owned or not. We are the problem.
I'd love to live in a world where people would stop trying to govern each other and start to base their relationships on friendship and love, or at least respect each other's personal freedom. And simply... Not get in the way of others.
But we have that damn ego that keeps forcing us to kill and conquer and enslave. In the name of *WHAT*?
> You can buy stuff from iTunes in Amarok?
/etc!!!111oneoneonesex"). It's simply FUD.
No, but you can buy from magnatune.com. Disclaimer: I haven't, I prefer thepiratebay.org and isohunt.com.
> Not yet anyway.
Oh, Kaspersky and others, they keep repeating that bullshit like "we'll be seeing that 40% of future viruses will run on windows, 40% will run on linux, and 20% will run on both"*. I already saw some versions of Mandriva coming with a proprietary AV. I'm just curious whether this software has ever found anything (maybe except something along "OMGWTF you haven't chown'd root:root && chmod'd 751 your
* if it ever comes true, I'll be just switching to OpenSolaris or *BSD right away. Or writing my own kernel.
> This I don't even know what you are talking about.
> Hell, Ubuntu comes with a shitload of preinstalled stuff.
Synaptic.
And oh, btw. This preinstalled stuff is mostly actually useful.
> They don't work in windows apps about as often as they don't in linux.
:P
Right, Emacs runs on both Linux and Windows
No, you're not having too much Unix. It's the rest of the world that is having too much Windows. Ctrl-C & stuff really sucks.
> 100% Overrated
How can a post be "overrated" when it hasn't been rated yet?
> I'm not using my connection right now, and won't
> be using it again until I hit the submit button.
You underestimate: youtube, p2p, pr0n, online gaming, apt-get dist-upgrade...
But close :P 154 with sig and quote :P
Rzeczesz prawde, bracie :) jednakze...
:P)
There's already a word for "free as in free speech", I mean "libre":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
(There's no polish counterpart for "libre", but do we really need one so badly? "WIOO" seems to be liked, although it again introduces another level of confusion