Oh, I don't mind dying. When the time will come, I'll welcome death with smile on my face, like this:) It's a natural process, people get born and die all the time. Death is a part of life.
And BTW I said there are things that are worse than death because death may not be the end. It's neither proven or disproven that there's no such thing as afterlife or reincarnation.
What use will you have from keeping the source only for yourself when you cannot "sell" or "license" the software anymore? E.g. it's not mine, not yours, nor anybody's? If the company is not stupid, it'll release the source for their own (and community's) benefit. Most stupid things die quick.
Patenting IM would be even more retarded. No Jabber, no ICQ, no MSNM, just because AIM was first? Heck, I thought nothing could be more stupid than USA's current patent system. I was wrong.
That's true, and sad. But at least nothing would hold you back from using a piece of software in whatever way you see fit. The Windows source has leaked years ago, once the OSS community would have it compile cleanly and got it working, I don't believe MS will stay in OS market too long (or they'll join us, having their only weapon against us destroyed).
I have three wishes. 1. that I had mod points 2. that there was a "Stupid Idea" moderation option 3. that I won't need to wish that #1 and #2 come true. How do you see it? Patenting a word processor? Even more stupid than patenting a blinking cursor. Patenting Word 2007? Hell, why anybody would want to? >,<
2. abolishing COPYRIGHT, not PATENTS, would eventually mean that ALL the software will fall under a BSD-style license, which not only means free (but without copyleft;/) but also means you can do whatever the fuck you want to to ANY piece of program in the world, including reverse engineering the hell out of anything, installing OS X on a non-Apple toaster, freely mixing Linux and leaked windows code, and so on. I would see it as a benefit. The OSS community and the open source / free software model is too powerful for any closed-source corporation (but maybe one) to stop, so simply forking a project and closing the source will mean the fork will die soon.
3. Abolishing copyright won't happen any time soon. *Maybe* if Stallman becomes the president.
Meanwhile I run Linux on my wristwatch with 8kb ram, 8x2 text display and two buttons (one for displaying an ascii-art penguin logo and the other for posting this post I am posting at the moment) and I can even run compiz on it (and it runs pretty damn OK), do most of my development (I research operating systems, artificial intelligence and new ways of man-machine comm), heck, I even play minesweeper on it, and- ha! It runs more smoothly than Vista's minesweeper on a Core 2 Quad with 32 GB of ram and SEVEN monitors (but I guess monitor count doesn't add or subtract too much to/from overall system performance, but I might be wrong).
I think this is the way we should go. I'd even dare to say that any single human brain has much, much, much more power than all of the computers on the earth combined.
Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration... that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
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Oh, I don't mind dying. When the time will come, I'll welcome death with smile on my face, like this :) It's a natural process, people get born and die all the time. Death is a part of life.
And BTW I said there are things that are worse than death because death may not be the end. It's neither proven or disproven that there's no such thing as afterlife or reincarnation.
Believe me or not, but there /are/ things that are worse than death...
Office is so tightly bound to Windows that there's no much work left, just strip most of the crap out
I'm living in a dungeon
What use will you have from keeping the source only for yourself when you cannot "sell" or "license" the software anymore? E.g. it's not mine, not yours, nor anybody's? If the company is not stupid, it'll release the source for their own (and community's) benefit. Most stupid things die quick.
Patenting IM would be even more retarded. No Jabber, no ICQ, no MSNM, just because AIM was first? Heck, I thought nothing could be more stupid than USA's current patent system. I was wrong.
That's true, and sad. But at least nothing would hold you back from using a piece of software in whatever way you see fit. The Windows source has leaked years ago, once the OSS community would have it compile cleanly and got it working, I don't believe MS will stay in OS market too long (or they'll join us, having their only weapon against us destroyed).
I have three wishes. 1. that I had mod points 2. that there was a "Stupid Idea" moderation option 3. that I won't need to wish that #1 and #2 come true. How do you see it? Patenting a word processor? Even more stupid than patenting a blinking cursor. Patenting Word 2007? Hell, why anybody would want to? >,<
1. software patents != copyright
;/) but also means you can do whatever the fuck you want to to ANY piece of program in the world, including reverse engineering the hell out of anything, installing OS X on a non-Apple toaster, freely mixing Linux and leaked windows code, and so on. I would see it as a benefit. The OSS community and the open source / free software model is too powerful for any closed-source corporation (but maybe one) to stop, so simply forking a project and closing the source will mean the fork will die soon.
2. abolishing COPYRIGHT, not PATENTS, would eventually mean that ALL the software will fall under a BSD-style license, which not only means free (but without copyleft
3. Abolishing copyright won't happen any time soon. *Maybe* if Stallman becomes the president.
This is sick. A cover is a tribute. By performing someone else's creation you show respect for the original artist. I never play songs I don't like.
Meanwhile I run Linux on my wristwatch with 8kb ram, 8x2 text display and two buttons (one for displaying an ascii-art penguin logo and the other for posting this post I am posting at the moment) and I can even run compiz on it (and it runs pretty damn OK), do most of my development (I research operating systems, artificial intelligence and new ways of man-machine comm), heck, I even play minesweeper on it, and- ha! It runs more smoothly than Vista's minesweeper on a Core 2 Quad with 32 GB of ram and SEVEN monitors (but I guess monitor count doesn't add or subtract too much to/from overall system performance, but I might be wrong).
> your equipment becomes worthless.
...but dunno how to get a HD-shark...
Hey, you can always turn these HD-DVD readers into lasers!...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/0412215
These could as well be errors in our brains. What if this whole simulation happens in our own minds? The greatest illusion ever?
Because it's a polish word for gypsum.
...slow news day.
Zen Buddhists "knew", or rather *experienced* such things twenty five centuries ago, and they weren't first either.
But such experience is not considered a valid scientific method, so...
Touch typing
But does it work with Linux?
I think this is the way we should go. I'd even dare to say that any single human brain has much, much, much more power than all of the computers on the earth combined.
> The author of TFA ought to read slashdot a bit more often
But he's already being considered a no-life for getting his story posted.
I live in an attic, you insensitive clod!
I can already control your brain (to some extend).
If you do not understand how, read this comment until you do.
You just executed my code.
cat is superior. it has a command for emacs.
try running
$(cat <<< "emacs")
at your bash prompt!
You must be new here.
real programmers use cat!