Maybe it's balanced properly and made unsinkable & completely waterproof?
A few years ago, when I was more into sailing, I thought of a RC model of a yacht with all the stuff like setting & adjusting sails, balancing, steering, done via small RC engines... Well, it was just a thought, but all seemed reasonable and doable.
I don't really care if someone mods me down. What? I lose my/. karma? Meh, it's just an integer in a database. The "real world" karma is more important to me. And it is excellent.
> Why are the first few comments so negative? > First you criticize all the graphics vendors > becuase they won't open up their code, then > when VIA goes and *does* open up their code, > the first reactions are so critical? > What the hell?
They might be able to do that anyway. Who knows if they hadn't had secret deals with Intel, AMD, or whomever? You probably cannot review the source code of your CPU.
Running _any_ program seems to require kernel hooks (syscalls), not to mention, for example, the nVidia proprietary driver, support for loading Windows binaries with Wine, and so on. I haven't been playing too much with FUSE (python-fuse in my case), but it seems that from the programmer's point of view it has nothing to do with the kernel itself (dunno how the userspace library is licensed, though). Linus has been stating at least a bazillion times that merely running a program on his kernel is not derivative work of any sort... So from the GPL / Linux perspective, everything seems to be doable.
ALTHOUGH I'm certainly not an expert on the topic of the CDDL.
Now tell me, honestly: how can I show you something that could only exist in your own mind? Personal development is just how it reads: it's *personal*.
Hm. But why should I care? Sitting in your basement must be very convenient for you, otherwise you'd start seeking an exit sooner or later. It's safe there, and you know it... Things can be measured, reason does play a role, and you think everyone thinks you're sane... Until you will finally realize (don't worry; you will), that someone (or more precisely: your own mind) is playing a game with you.
Me: the mankind has been sitting in a basement, claiming that the world is the basement. If it's all they've ever seen, that's true. But I'm trying to say that there is a stairway with which you can go outside and see the sky and sun and all the other things, because I've been outside and saw that. (The only flaw is that everything you can have as a proof that there is the "outside world" is my (or someone else's) word; or eventually *your own experience*.)
Some Random Basement Inhabitant: it's BS. There is no stairway there. The sun doesn't exist. The world is the basement. You must've been smoking something.
Me: oh, of course you don't see it. You have never ever saw a stairway before, so even when you see it, how can you recognize it as a stairway? Your own mind is imposing a barrier on you. I can't help it.
SRBI: all right, lead me to the stairway and show me that there is that "suns" and "skies" outside.
Me: I can't. Every human must find their own stairway. My stairway will not work for you. Your stairway will most likely be completely different from mine. Hell, it might even be a ladder. You must search it for yourself, in exactly the same way that you think for yourself. You do think for yourself, don't you?
SRBI: I don't know what you're smoking, but I want some.
Heh, it's kind of weird. Have you watched "The Truman Show", "The Matrix"? It'd be a lot easier if you did, because you'll get my idea easier. How can you tell if there exists ANYTHING beyond what you think there is? Or, in other words: if you can prove the existence of at least one thing, that hasn't been heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted (directly through our organs, or indirectly via some specialized device like a microscope, IR camera, and such), then you have proven me wrong. But I'll save you time and effort and already tell you that this is impossible. Because it's like trying to prove that the contents of some register or memory address are such and such, while being limited by having no way of reading those contents. So, that's true - anything that you can tell that is real, has to go into your brain through one of your senses.
And here comes in the imagination. Some damn wise scientists have attached that thing that can measure the brainwaves and stuff to one guy's head. They've showed him an apple, wrote down whatever the machine spitted out. Then told him to close his eyes and imagine that apple, and compared both measurements. Guess what? Your brain doesn't give a fuck whether you actually see something with your eyes or only imagine that. I don't have any references on that, but hey, am I a Wikipedia of some kind?
What's more, direct brain interfaces are not anything new. We've all saw those little documentaries on the TV about blind people with attached cameras, who were able to "see" again (or maybe even for the first time). So in fact, anything could be fed into someone's mind, and that person would perceive it as "real", that will be the reality they "see". Then we can fiddle & tinker with that poor guy's perception, making him believe that crazy things are actually "reality". Or someone else might be doing that with us.
Well. Then how can WE prove that anything we "see, hear, touch, smell and taste" is really real? There is no single fuckin' way of telling that, because we're in a sandbox, in a virtual machine, in a game of "The Sims", or however you'd like to call it. We can *only* tell if something "happens" if it's inside our heads.
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And about my claim that there is a way out... That's a bit of a longer story. But it is doable, because people were doing it. It's just all about pushing the boundaries... Or maybe: realizing, that any and all boundaries that are limiting our minds are illusionary, "made real" only by our minds themselves. I was able to realize that, Buddha was, Jesus was, a shitload of other people were... And I know that anyone could, if they only wanted.
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"Shared source" IS open source. The source is open. You can open it in a text editor and read it.
But it is NOT free software.
I'm with FSF about this one. The "open source" term made it all less clear what this whole movement is all about.
Maybe it's balanced properly and made unsinkable & completely waterproof?
A few years ago, when I was more into sailing, I thought of a RC model of a yacht with all the stuff like setting & adjusting sails, balancing, steering, done via small RC engines... Well, it was just a thought, but all seemed reasonable and doable.
Then we'd need a live BIOS :)
I'm slowly getting used to it (:
/. karma? Meh, it's just an integer in a database. The "real world" karma is more important to me. And it is excellent.
I don't really care if someone mods me down. What? I lose my
> Why are the first few comments so negative?
> First you criticize all the graphics vendors
> becuase they won't open up their code, then
> when VIA goes and *does* open up their code,
> the first reactions are so critical?
> What the hell?
DAMN RIGHT
Actually hello world was "invented" in 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world#History
Hm, so I think it's at the same time the oldest and finest example of self-modifying code.
You know that too much paranoia is bad? (: your thoughts make up your reality.
They might be able to do that anyway. Who knows if they hadn't had secret deals with Intel, AMD, or whomever? You probably cannot review the source code of your CPU.
> Everyone who matters has always just called the OS "Linux".
Of course including the Debian people, who made one of the greatest distros so far?
(NOT the greatest, but certainly one of the greatest)
Wow, 140,000,000,000,000 copies is indeed great success. Who they've been selling to? Bacteria?
Well... Dunno. It doesn't sell? People demand XP?
Customers voted with their wallets, that's all.
Short answer: no.
Longer answer: decent operating systems don't even have to reboot.
These days everything runs Linux.
The REAL question is: "Does it run OS X?"
Running _any_ program seems to require kernel hooks (syscalls), not to mention, for example, the nVidia proprietary driver, support for loading Windows binaries with Wine, and so on. I haven't been playing too much with FUSE (python-fuse in my case), but it seems that from the programmer's point of view it has nothing to do with the kernel itself (dunno how the userspace library is licensed, though). Linus has been stating at least a bazillion times that merely running a program on his kernel is not derivative work of any sort... So from the GPL / Linux perspective, everything seems to be doable.
ALTHOUGH I'm certainly not an expert on the topic of the CDDL.
Hm, can I use these images as textures in my new map I'm making for Duke Nukem Forever?
How about FUSE?
...ban Chinese IPs on their routers?
TeX has been written in Web, hasn't it? (:
It's funny, how the guy trolling at the windows users didn't get modded down.
You really made me lmao (: +8, funny :P
Indeed.
Now tell me, honestly: how can I show you something that could only exist in your own mind? Personal development is just how it reads: it's *personal*.
Hm. But why should I care? Sitting in your basement must be very convenient for you, otherwise you'd start seeking an exit sooner or later. It's safe there, and you know it... Things can be measured, reason does play a role, and you think everyone thinks you're sane... Until you will finally realize (don't worry; you will), that someone (or more precisely: your own mind) is playing a game with you.
Me: the mankind has been sitting in a basement, claiming that the world is the basement. If it's all they've ever seen, that's true. But I'm trying to say that there is a stairway with which you can go outside and see the sky and sun and all the other things, because I've been outside and saw that. (The only flaw is that everything you can have as a proof that there is the "outside world" is my (or someone else's) word; or eventually *your own experience*.)
...
Some Random Basement Inhabitant: it's BS. There is no stairway there. The sun doesn't exist. The world is the basement. You must've been smoking something.
Me: oh, of course you don't see it. You have never ever saw a stairway before, so even when you see it, how can you recognize it as a stairway? Your own mind is imposing a barrier on you. I can't help it.
SRBI: all right, lead me to the stairway and show me that there is that "suns" and "skies" outside.
Me: I can't. Every human must find their own stairway. My stairway will not work for you. Your stairway will most likely be completely different from mine. Hell, it might even be a ladder. You must search it for yourself, in exactly the same way that you think for yourself. You do think for yourself, don't you?
SRBI: I don't know what you're smoking, but I want some.
Me:
OK.
Heh, it's kind of weird. Have you watched "The Truman Show", "The Matrix"? It'd be a lot easier if you did, because you'll get my idea easier. How can you tell if there exists ANYTHING beyond what you think there is? Or, in other words: if you can prove the existence of at least one thing, that hasn't been heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted (directly through our organs, or indirectly via some specialized device like a microscope, IR camera, and such), then you have proven me wrong. But I'll save you time and effort and already tell you that this is impossible. Because it's like trying to prove that the contents of some register or memory address are such and such, while being limited by having no way of reading those contents. So, that's true - anything that you can tell that is real, has to go into your brain through one of your senses.
And here comes in the imagination. Some damn wise scientists have attached that thing that can measure the brainwaves and stuff to one guy's head. They've showed him an apple, wrote down whatever the machine spitted out. Then told him to close his eyes and imagine that apple, and compared both measurements. Guess what? Your brain doesn't give a fuck whether you actually see something with your eyes or only imagine that. I don't have any references on that, but hey, am I a Wikipedia of some kind?
What's more, direct brain interfaces are not anything new. We've all saw those little documentaries on the TV about blind people with attached cameras, who were able to "see" again (or maybe even for the first time). So in fact, anything could be fed into someone's mind, and that person would perceive it as "real", that will be the reality they "see". Then we can fiddle & tinker with that poor guy's perception, making him believe that crazy things are actually "reality". Or someone else might be doing that with us.
Well. Then how can WE prove that anything we "see, hear, touch, smell and taste" is really real? There is no single fuckin' way of telling that, because we're in a sandbox, in a virtual machine, in a game of "The Sims", or however you'd like to call it. We can *only* tell if something "happens" if it's inside our heads.
==
And about my claim that there is a way out... That's a bit of a longer story. But it is doable, because people were doing it. It's just all about pushing the boundaries... Or maybe: realizing, that any and all boundaries that are limiting our minds are illusionary, "made real" only by our minds themselves. I was able to realize that, Buddha was, Jesus was, a shitload of other people were... And I know that anyone could, if they only wanted.