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He's not a dumbass for making money. I support the OpenBSD project, and over the past two years alone have bought three CD sets, two t-shirts, and a poster. I simply disagree with his methods.
Theo's copyright does nothing to increase CD sales. The bandwidth-poor will buy the CDs anyway, and it's likely that the bandwidth-rich OpenBSD user is providing cashflow somehow, just because they want to support the project. The only effect the copyright has is pissing off potential users who have heard rumours of Theo's bitchiness, only to have these rumours confirmed by the stupid CD policy. The ISOs are available if you want them, believe me. But knowing Theo's attitude problem, he'd likly say, "you don't want to buy our CDs? Fine, then we don't want you using our OS anyway!" and the potential user decides to start or keep running GNU/Linux instead, which offers more choice, a supportive userbase, SMP (which is the reason I stopped using OpenBSD regularly), more supported architectures, et cetera. OpenBSD's security and development model suddenly means nothing. Not that it meant much in the first place. "Secure by default" is great, but any GNU/Linux system can be made "almost" as secure. OpenBSD's extensive use of crytography is interesting, but completely unnecessary for most. Regarding the few applications where a feature such as encrypted swap would actually matter, OpenBSD isn't an option anyway because of it's lack of SMP, lack of commercial support, and piss-poor scalability.
Theo's attitude (which is percerceived as OpenBSD's attitude) needs to change if they ever want any real success. They could have the coolest OS ever, (well, okay, the coolest uni-processor copy of an obselete UNIX model ever), but it doesn't fucking matter if only three people run it. There was a time when Linux was even shittier than OpenBSD is, but the open, supportive community and Linus' laid-back attitude enabled it to accomplish many great things. Linus has just as much control over the Linux kernel as Theo the Rat does over OpenBSD's, yet only Theo is perceived as an asshole. Which, sadly, he is. A giant, gaping, stinking raw asshole which puts even goatse.cx to shame. There are some great people involved with OpenBSD... it's a shame their "leader" is such a fuckwad. I mean, I'm sure he's a smart guy... but as any IT manager will tell you, even the smartest engineer is worthless is he's an asshole. Which Theo is. He's offensive to all senses and highly sought after by gay men. An asshole.
Now mod me into oblivion because I tell the truth.
Okay, even though the Saturn was a failure, I can understand how you would suggest it would have been a good platform for Square. In fact, many of the games published for Saturn were RPGs. But N64? I couldn't think of a worse platform for Square's games. I'm fan of Final Fantasy 1, 2, and 4, Nintedo games all three... but 7 kicked some serious ass, and I really don't think that game could have been developed for a non-CD based system.
Conversely, the two N64 Zelda titles couldn't have been done on PSX. Each platform has its own game style, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Square and Sony have been very good for each other, and I don't see that that partnership disintegrating any time soon. I don't expect to see Final Fantasy XIV released on a Nintendo platform.
Recognition from whom? Those running large-scale IBM shops (RS/6000, et al) and in graphic design (Mac-heads) have known its power for quite a bit now. Do you mean recognition from the average clueless "Pentium 3 with cheese, please" consumer? I'm not sure Motorola needs such business.
Actually, you can't (legally) make copies of official OpenBSD CD-ROMs, AFAIK. Theo de Raadt copyrighted the CD's layout in a feeble attempt to bring in more CD revenue. Of course, you're welcome to make your own source and binary CD-ROM distributions... Theo's bitchy little mindset doesn't work too well with the liberal BSD license.
For the disbelievers, here's an excerpt from the FAQ:
3.1.2 - Does OpenBSD provide an ISO image available for download?
You can't. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt, as an incentive for people to buy the CD set. Note that only the layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else to just grab OpenBSD and make their own CD.
And people wonder why Theo has a reputation for being a dumbass!
I think Virtual Boy was perhaps the most complete platform failure ever. Even TG16, Jaguar, Saturn, and that one weird Phillips system did better than Virtual Boy.
Anyway, why is the seller selling? It seems a pity to have bought the systems and preserved everything only to sell them a mere 13 years later. Why not wait another 13 and sell them to a museum? Are loan sharks after him and he needs the cash? Or did he get RSI from playing too many of those games?:-) In any case, this exposure on Slashdot will get him plenty of new bidders, I'm sure.
Wow, Turbo Duo! There's a name I haven't heard in a while. We should mirror this list for historical purposes, as eBay action pages become inaccessible a few weeks afer the auctions end.
No, silly! I'm reffering to regexp search-and-replace capable text editors such as GNU Emacs and vi clones which 99% of Windows users don't have installed. While they are available for Windows, GNU/Linux users are guaranteed to have at least the latter.
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That guy kicks ass. I bought the source to DR-DOS from him, back when he was working out of his van.
Hey, that works too, but most newbie trolls will be using Windows 98, and won't have access to an editor where a simple s//\ /g will do. The alternative, copying and pasting for every single space, or (gasp!) typing each escape sequence, is so lame in itself that it makes the attempt moot.
The "empty link" method allows users with low-powered text editors to get in a bunch of lowercase letters all at once without appearing quite so lame.
GNU Emacs and either nvi or Vim come standard with most distributions. What's the problem?
Oh, wait, you didn't want to have to learn HTML... well, doesn't Netscape Communicator come with a "WYSMBWYGBINTTBWNJLH" editor? (What-you-see-may-be-what-you-get-but-if-not-that' s-too-bad...-why-not-just-learn-HTML?) Communicator is available for GNU/Linux.
My personal belief is that if someone doesn't "have time" to learn the baseline HTML needed to create a viewable document, they have no business publishing on the WWW. Even "Geocities" HTML (the type of code seen on amateur pages that would make a W3 standards document start laughing and then kill itself), generally produced by novices with Notepad, is better than most Frontpage-generated code.
I understand that some of us just aren't "computer people", and have difficulty understanding that computers are fast but dumb, and only understand things told in certain ways. A person in a foreign country can get by without knowing the language because people, while not fast, are smart. They "know what you mean" if you rub your belly and mimic eating... computers, much to the chagrin of business people, aren't yet smart enough to figure out "what you mean" by context, and that is why markup and programming languages have strict, well-defined syntax.
BUT... it's not as if current browsers don't give you plenty of leeway. I mean, it's not as if we're asking webmasters to use a real markup langauge like SGML or XML, or God forbid, a compiled programming language. If you aren't willing to learn the baseline needed to create basic HTML documents... (essentially text layout, images, links, tables, and frames... remember, this is just the baseline)... then you shouldn't be publishing on the Internet.
Yes, I realize I'm being unfair. As the WWW's community expands, we're going to see more such shite, not less. A person or small business unable to learn HTML can't afford to outsource the work, yet need a "web presence". The Yopy page in question was likely thrown together by their marketing person, and most of them are non-technical. The engineers surely can't be blamed. So I admit that such tools have a place...
...but Frontpage?...
I hate Frontpage code. I'll stop bitching the day I see one non-trivial Frontpage-generated site that isn't a complete mess of non-compliant, piss-poor goat shit littered with proprietary tags and whatnot. If you really can't get by with just a text editor, then buy a copy of O'Reilly's Definitive HTML and Allaire Homesite.
I'm not saying Microsoft should FOAD, I just think they should stop trying to give the impression that Frontpage produces HTML. It's not HTML unless it validates. They tried the same fucking thing with Java and Sun beat their ass to the floor. It's a pity that the W3C doesn't have a faceless corporate entity to enfore its standards.
I don't know what to think anymore. I know that most people have no business writing HTML, but when the "standard tool" alternative is a half-assed Microsoft product... well, it's a sad state of affairs, that's all. For what Frontpage costs, there are much better tools available.
I'm considering buying one of the new Palms for exactly those reasons... being able to jot down prose, code, et cetera, while not having to lug around my Thinkpad and three batteries. The Palm is small, light, and can be used while standing up, or on a bumpy train that might damage my laptop.
But... I'm not sure if I could get used to the stylus-based input.
This is a possible solution (hey, cool, the HHKB now comes in black...), but if I'm going to carry around the keyboard (which is my preferred input method anyway) and cradle, I may as well just bring the laptop.
Do you think I'll be able to adapt? Otherwise, I agree with Flavio -- it's either a laptop or pad o' paper for me.
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Theo's copyright does nothing to increase CD sales. The bandwidth-poor will buy the CDs anyway, and it's likely that the bandwidth-rich OpenBSD user is providing cashflow somehow, just because they want to support the project. The only effect the copyright has is pissing off potential users who have heard rumours of Theo's bitchiness, only to have these rumours confirmed by the stupid CD policy. The ISOs are available if you want them, believe me. But knowing Theo's attitude problem, he'd likly say, "you don't want to buy our CDs? Fine, then we don't want you using our OS anyway!" and the potential user decides to start or keep running GNU/Linux instead, which offers more choice, a supportive userbase, SMP (which is the reason I stopped using OpenBSD regularly), more supported architectures, et cetera. OpenBSD's security and development model suddenly means nothing. Not that it meant much in the first place. "Secure by default" is great, but any GNU/Linux system can be made "almost" as secure. OpenBSD's extensive use of crytography is interesting, but completely unnecessary for most. Regarding the few applications where a feature such as encrypted swap would actually matter, OpenBSD isn't an option anyway because of it's lack of SMP, lack of commercial support, and piss-poor scalability.
Theo's attitude (which is percerceived as OpenBSD's attitude) needs to change if they ever want any real success. They could have the coolest OS ever, (well, okay, the coolest uni-processor copy of an obselete UNIX model ever), but it doesn't fucking matter if only three people run it. There was a time when Linux was even shittier than OpenBSD is, but the open, supportive community and Linus' laid-back attitude enabled it to accomplish many great things. Linus has just as much control over the Linux kernel as Theo the Rat does over OpenBSD's, yet only Theo is perceived as an asshole. Which, sadly, he is. A giant, gaping, stinking raw asshole which puts even goatse.cx to shame. There are some great people involved with OpenBSD... it's a shame their "leader" is such a fuckwad. I mean, I'm sure he's a smart guy... but as any IT manager will tell you, even the smartest engineer is worthless is he's an asshole. Which Theo is. He's offensive to all senses and highly sought after by gay men. An asshole.
Now mod me into oblivion because I tell the truth.
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Conversely, the two N64 Zelda titles couldn't have been done on PSX. Each platform has its own game style, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Square and Sony have been very good for each other, and I don't see that that partnership disintegrating any time soon. I don't expect to see Final Fantasy XIV released on a Nintendo platform.
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For the disbelievers, here's an excerpt from the FAQ:
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Anyway, why is the seller selling? It seems a pity to have bought the systems and preserved everything only to sell them a mere 13 years later. Why not wait another 13 and sell them to a museum? Are loan sharks after him and he needs the cash? Or did he get RSI from playing too many of those games? :-) In any case, this exposure on Slashdot will get him plenty of new bidders, I'm sure.
Wow, Turbo Duo! There's a name I haven't heard in a while. We should mirror this list for historical purposes, as eBay action pages become inaccessible a few weeks afer the auctions end.
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The "empty link" method allows users with low-powered text editors to get in a bunch of lowercase letters all at once without appearing quite so lame.
Thanks for writing, fucko!
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Oh, wait, you didn't want to have to learn HTML... well, doesn't Netscape Communicator come with a "WYSMBWYGBINTTBWNJLH" editor? (What-you-see-may-be-what-you-get-but-if-not-that' s-too-bad...-why-not-just-learn-HTML?) Communicator is available for GNU/Linux.
My personal belief is that if someone doesn't "have time" to learn the baseline HTML needed to create a viewable document, they have no business publishing on the WWW. Even "Geocities" HTML (the type of code seen on amateur pages that would make a W3 standards document start laughing and then kill itself), generally produced by novices with Notepad, is better than most Frontpage-generated code.
I understand that some of us just aren't "computer people", and have difficulty understanding that computers are fast but dumb, and only understand things told in certain ways. A person in a foreign country can get by without knowing the language because people, while not fast, are smart. They "know what you mean" if you rub your belly and mimic eating... computers, much to the chagrin of business people, aren't yet smart enough to figure out "what you mean" by context, and that is why markup and programming languages have strict, well-defined syntax.
BUT... it's not as if current browsers don't give you plenty of leeway. I mean, it's not as if we're asking webmasters to use a real markup langauge like SGML or XML, or God forbid, a compiled programming language. If you aren't willing to learn the baseline needed to create basic HTML documents... (essentially text layout, images, links, tables, and frames... remember, this is just the baseline)... then you shouldn't be publishing on the Internet.
Yes, I realize I'm being unfair. As the WWW's community expands, we're going to see more such shite, not less. A person or small business unable to learn HTML can't afford to outsource the work, yet need a "web presence". The Yopy page in question was likely thrown together by their marketing person, and most of them are non-technical. The engineers surely can't be blamed. So I admit that such tools have a place...
...but Frontpage?...
I hate Frontpage code. I'll stop bitching the day I see one non-trivial Frontpage-generated site that isn't a complete mess of non-compliant, piss-poor goat shit littered with proprietary tags and whatnot. If you really can't get by with just a text editor, then buy a copy of O'Reilly's Definitive HTML and Allaire Homesite.
I'm not saying Microsoft should FOAD, I just think they should stop trying to give the impression that Frontpage produces HTML. It's not HTML unless it validates. They tried the same fucking thing with Java and Sun beat their ass to the floor. It's a pity that the W3C doesn't have a faceless corporate entity to enfore its standards.
I don't know what to think anymore. I know that most people have no business writing HTML, but when the "standard tool" alternative is a half-assed Microsoft product... well, it's a sad state of affairs, that's all. For what Frontpage costs, there are much better tools available.
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But... I'm not sure if I could get used to the stylus-based input.
This is a possible solution (hey, cool, the HHKB now comes in black...), but if I'm going to carry around the keyboard (which is my preferred input method anyway) and cradle, I may as well just bring the laptop.
Do you think I'll be able to adapt? Otherwise, I agree with Flavio -- it's either a laptop or pad o' paper for me.
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Make sure to check out the "homosexual scribble" in the "cool graffiti" section.
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