He also denies human induced global warming.
Great scientists are, of course, always great scientists... But, I think it is time for Freeman to go back to church.
You're both joking, but you're absolutely right.
Christopher Hitchens once said in an interview:
"Yes, and the Seventh-Day Adventists, who descended from the Millerites. I can see that Scientology now enjoys charitable status as a religion, which I think is a real triumph. I can't get over that. You can set some idea of what it would have been like to live in third-century Nicea when Christianity was being hammered together - an experience I am very glad I did not have. Religious diversity is confused with pluralism. Because of multi-culturalism and what is called "political correctness," religion has a certain protection that it couldn't expect to have if it was a state-sponsored racket like the Church of England."
Not that it's cool to be an apologist for oil wars or anything, but the guy *really* likes the Kurds...
Nice. Bill Hicks was absolutely brilliant, relentless and utterly unrestrained. He would surely squeeze a brutal joke out of this new, "wonderful" museum, if he were still around...
RIP
I always wondered why God had to rest... Maybe I need to go down to Kentucky and find out!
Also, I never understood why "sea creatures and birds" required their own separate day... But hell, once you start asking these questions, it's just endless so I'll stop now and go watch some Finches evolve while the Kreationist Kentuckians struggle to maintain consciousness....
Thanks, all good points and duly noted. But still, one of the reasons for bad hardware support is because of the proprietary closed source model for drivers, etc. Everyone emulates the monopoly in town (which we all know is microsoft, regardless of the DOJ). Also, while hardware support is still languishing in linux, it has come a long long long way from redhat 3.0, obviously. And there is a ways to go. Your ipod point is a strong one, I actually wiped out my ipod while using amarok the first time (thankfully I had backups). I understand all your comments, and it certainly is true that people are not wholly content with the current FOSS packages--I'm of the school of thought that I think people need to work together more on big projects as opposed to releasing 40 semi-working versions of similiar programs on freshmeat... but, again, when it's free (for now!) beggars can't be choosers!
Yeah, I entirely agree... I'll be the first to admit linux has not yet come close to achieving the perfection needed to allow complete and utter computer dolts to run it. But moderately smart people that are slightly savvy are now jumping on board because of ease of use. And it certainly gets better year on year. I really like your take on the patents, and hope your comment is modded up all the way so people get to see your rational take on things... Honestly, when I saw this news item pop up the first second my blood started boiling and it drove me to re-signup to/. (I have an old account which is now defunct since I forgot the password to it and my old email is now gone) and post some angry comments to get it out of my system--but I now realize because of rational posts like yours and others that this ain't so bad since it amounts to only FUD and empty threats, and in any case, like you said, if they can indeed make an absurd legal case--GNU/Linux will adapt and make any necessary changes. Sorry for the run on sentences but I have to run right now just wanted to get this last comment in =]
I'm not saying they're doing this 100% because of linux desktop, and I hope you aren't saying that it play 0% in their tactics either...
Point is whether or not it is server, or desktop--FOSS already plays a huge and growing role in a server capacity--but they must also be concerned of the strides GNU/Linux is making on the desktop, not to mention the popularity that is consistently growing (albeit, not at a massive pace--but still enough to concern MS.) I remember using Red Hat 3.0 and it being an immense pain in the ass to get it working right with my crappy desktop at the time, this is mid to late 90s, if memory serves me right. Today, linux on the desktop is so brainless I can get my friend--who is not a computer nerd, to install linux himself (ubuntu, or Suse--he decided on suse). I've been successful in various other cases this year. I've been trying too actively evangelically convert =] since the millenium and have only been moderately successful this year. I think it is mostly because compiz is a good "feature" that non-geeks can really feel "drawn" to. I find that after they actually use linux, eye-candy is not that high on the what-makes-the-system-good agenda.... The unlimited amounts of software, the opportunity to learn things, etc etc all make FOSS stand against MS closed-sourced, closed-minded profit driven philosophy... So will all due respect I humbly disagree with your assessment.
Um, I don't know who the fuck that is and I don't really care... However, the statement that Iraq war is catastrophic for the US (not to mention the people in *IRAQ*) is hardly an understatement.
And yes, the US will experience hurt when it eventually pulls out with its tail between its leg back to the western hemisphere (remember the monroe doctrine from elementary school, little one?)
As for your idiotic take on MS... Yeah, they're still "making billions". But for how long? And at what point does there stock stop coasting along and begin a descent much like GM's share price? Just take a look at GM, genius.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GM&t=my
You can bet your bottom dollar MS is afraid there stock will begin the same type of decline--most likely, yes, because of the threat of free software.
Now scuttle off, I'm done with you.
This is a really good point... there is no one to sue, right? Even if they did sue, how the hell do they expect to shutdown GNU/Linux? I mean, they can't stop massive illegal pirating of their own shitty software, let alone shutdown an invigorated, highly motivated, and passionate group of computer users, aka the GNU/Linux *COMMUNITY*.
This is why I really do think RMS is right. GNU/Linux should be stressed, *along* with "free software" (as in freedom, as we all know by now--but not many others outside the computing world do...)
It is imperative that people understand that it's not simply about open source, but about philosophical principles which microsoft obviously lacks being a corporate behemoth that cares little about "philosophy" or "community" but only about the next quarters stock price.
Let me reiterate an earlier statement:
Fuck you Microsoft... and as george carlin once said, I believe while invoking mickey mouse--Fuck you with a big rubber cock and then break it off and beat you bloody with the rest of it! Agh, microsoft is EVIL.
This shows how fearful Microsoft is really starting to get paranoid about the linux desktop revolution. 2007 is *the* year, I don't care what anyone else thinks--I know this to be true because this is the first year I've actually got friends to honestly convert over to free software/OSS software. And they're even talking shit about MS now that they've seen the light!
With all the linux populatization going on these days--microsoft is shaking in its boots...
The days are quickly approaching when microsoft is bound to become an even more dreary version of GM.
A question for those more knowledgeable than me on this subject--was microsoft not behind the whole SCO debacle? Perhaps they've now taken their proxy war public.
They're pathetic.
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He also denies human induced global warming. Great scientists are, of course, always great scientists... But, I think it is time for Freeman to go back to church.
You're both joking, but you're absolutely right. Christopher Hitchens once said in an interview: "Yes, and the Seventh-Day Adventists, who descended from the Millerites. I can see that Scientology now enjoys charitable status as a religion, which I think is a real triumph. I can't get over that. You can set some idea of what it would have been like to live in third-century Nicea when Christianity was being hammered together - an experience I am very glad I did not have. Religious diversity is confused with pluralism. Because of multi-culturalism and what is called "political correctness," religion has a certain protection that it couldn't expect to have if it was a state-sponsored racket like the Church of England." Not that it's cool to be an apologist for oil wars or anything, but the guy *really* likes the Kurds...
Pfft, Raquel Welch? Try some Dino Adventure Land on for size! http://www.dinosauradventureland.com/
Nice. Bill Hicks was absolutely brilliant, relentless and utterly unrestrained. He would surely squeeze a brutal joke out of this new, "wonderful" museum, if he were still around... RIP
I always wondered why God had to rest... Maybe I need to go down to Kentucky and find out! Also, I never understood why "sea creatures and birds" required their own separate day... But hell, once you start asking these questions, it's just endless so I'll stop now and go watch some Finches evolve while the Kreationist Kentuckians struggle to maintain consciousness....
ah yes, I know who that is--I just wasn't thinking... This guardian article (which I found through wikipedia, I'll admit) actually makes the anti-point to poster alpahger... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2 020424,00.html
Thanks, all good points and duly noted. But still, one of the reasons for bad hardware support is because of the proprietary closed source model for drivers, etc. Everyone emulates the monopoly in town (which we all know is microsoft, regardless of the DOJ). Also, while hardware support is still languishing in linux, it has come a long long long way from redhat 3.0, obviously. And there is a ways to go. Your ipod point is a strong one, I actually wiped out my ipod while using amarok the first time (thankfully I had backups). I understand all your comments, and it certainly is true that people are not wholly content with the current FOSS packages--I'm of the school of thought that I think people need to work together more on big projects as opposed to releasing 40 semi-working versions of similiar programs on freshmeat... but, again, when it's free (for now!) beggars can't be choosers!
Yeah, I entirely agree... I'll be the first to admit linux has not yet come close to achieving the perfection needed to allow complete and utter computer dolts to run it. But moderately smart people that are slightly savvy are now jumping on board because of ease of use. And it certainly gets better year on year. I really like your take on the patents, and hope your comment is modded up all the way so people get to see your rational take on things... Honestly, when I saw this news item pop up the first second my blood started boiling and it drove me to re-signup to /. (I have an old account which is now defunct since I forgot the password to it and my old email is now gone) and post some angry comments to get it out of my system--but I now realize because of rational posts like yours and others that this ain't so bad since it amounts to only FUD and empty threats, and in any case, like you said, if they can indeed make an absurd legal case--GNU/Linux will adapt and make any necessary changes. Sorry for the run on sentences but I have to run right now just wanted to get this last comment in =]
I'm not saying they're doing this 100% because of linux desktop, and I hope you aren't saying that it play 0% in their tactics either... Point is whether or not it is server, or desktop--FOSS already plays a huge and growing role in a server capacity--but they must also be concerned of the strides GNU/Linux is making on the desktop, not to mention the popularity that is consistently growing (albeit, not at a massive pace--but still enough to concern MS.) I remember using Red Hat 3.0 and it being an immense pain in the ass to get it working right with my crappy desktop at the time, this is mid to late 90s, if memory serves me right. Today, linux on the desktop is so brainless I can get my friend--who is not a computer nerd, to install linux himself (ubuntu, or Suse--he decided on suse). I've been successful in various other cases this year. I've been trying too actively evangelically convert =] since the millenium and have only been moderately successful this year. I think it is mostly because compiz is a good "feature" that non-geeks can really feel "drawn" to. I find that after they actually use linux, eye-candy is not that high on the what-makes-the-system-good agenda.... The unlimited amounts of software, the opportunity to learn things, etc etc all make FOSS stand against MS closed-sourced, closed-minded profit driven philosophy... So will all due respect I humbly disagree with your assessment.
Um, I don't know who the fuck that is and I don't really care... However, the statement that Iraq war is catastrophic for the US (not to mention the people in *IRAQ*) is hardly an understatement. And yes, the US will experience hurt when it eventually pulls out with its tail between its leg back to the western hemisphere (remember the monroe doctrine from elementary school, little one?) As for your idiotic take on MS... Yeah, they're still "making billions". But for how long? And at what point does there stock stop coasting along and begin a descent much like GM's share price? Just take a look at GM, genius. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GM&t=my You can bet your bottom dollar MS is afraid there stock will begin the same type of decline--most likely, yes, because of the threat of free software. Now scuttle off, I'm done with you.
This is a really good point... there is no one to sue, right? Even if they did sue, how the hell do they expect to shutdown GNU/Linux? I mean, they can't stop massive illegal pirating of their own shitty software, let alone shutdown an invigorated, highly motivated, and passionate group of computer users, aka the GNU/Linux *COMMUNITY*. This is why I really do think RMS is right. GNU/Linux should be stressed, *along* with "free software" (as in freedom, as we all know by now--but not many others outside the computing world do...) It is imperative that people understand that it's not simply about open source, but about philosophical principles which microsoft obviously lacks being a corporate behemoth that cares little about "philosophy" or "community" but only about the next quarters stock price. Let me reiterate an earlier statement: Fuck you Microsoft... and as george carlin once said, I believe while invoking mickey mouse--Fuck you with a big rubber cock and then break it off and beat you bloody with the rest of it! Agh, microsoft is EVIL.
This shows how fearful Microsoft is really starting to get paranoid about the linux desktop revolution. 2007 is *the* year, I don't care what anyone else thinks--I know this to be true because this is the first year I've actually got friends to honestly convert over to free software/OSS software. And they're even talking shit about MS now that they've seen the light! With all the linux populatization going on these days--microsoft is shaking in its boots... The days are quickly approaching when microsoft is bound to become an even more dreary version of GM. A question for those more knowledgeable than me on this subject--was microsoft not behind the whole SCO debacle? Perhaps they've now taken their proxy war public. They're pathetic.