> Information wants to be free. Let it. Okay, I agree that copyrights and the like need work, but this comparison has always irked me. Information doesn't want to be free. It doesn't want anything. It has no sentience. It sits there and looks pretty for the camera. Some* people want information to be free, but information itself doesn't give a damned.
* I use 'some' to refer to an unknown number, not to imply any particular amount.
I've got to second this one. FTE is my favorite editor for lots of things. And, since there's a Win32 version, I can use it on both of my OSes ^.^ My only problem right now is trying to figure out how to code it to handle MUSHcode with proper highlighting and checking and the like. It's getting to be rather tedious:)
Oddly, that's one of the reasons I run Windows a lot:) I don't want a standard GUI for everyone to use. I just want one toolkit that ALL of my programs will use. I don't want some programs using Motif, some using GTK, some using Qt, and some using God-only-knows. I want everything using Qt. Or everything using GTK. That's my choice. Homogenity among my programs. I understand that Windows doesn't give me this, either, but it's a lot closer:/
About a year ago, when I was still in school, the topic of my psychology class shifted to 'does TV make people violent?' (The class was Motivation). The exact details are lost to the airs of time, but apparently there was a huge study about it, tracking kids for 10 years or something like that. The results of the study were: Violent children watch a lot of violent TV. Non-violent children don't watch a lot of violent TV. However, the researchers could not determine whether exposure to violent TV caused someone to be violent, or whether being violent just meant you liked violent TV more. I'll have to dig around in my psych books for more information.
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> Information wants to be free. Let it.
Okay, I agree that copyrights and the like need work, but this comparison has always irked me. Information doesn't want to be free. It doesn't want anything. It has no sentience. It sits there and looks pretty for the camera. Some* people want information to be free, but information itself doesn't give a damned.
* I use 'some' to refer to an unknown number, not to imply any particular amount.
Eric
I've got to second this one. FTE is my favorite editor for lots of things. And, since there's a Win32 version, I can use it on both of my OSes ^.^ My only problem right now is trying to figure out how to code it to handle MUSHcode with proper highlighting and checking and the like. It's getting to be rather tedious :)
Oddly, that's one of the reasons I run Windows a lot :) I don't want a standard GUI for everyone to use. I just want one toolkit that ALL of my programs will use. :/
I don't want some programs using Motif, some using GTK, some using Qt, and some using God-only-knows. I want everything using Qt. Or everything using GTK. That's my choice. Homogenity among my programs.
I understand that Windows doesn't give me this, either, but it's a lot closer
About a year ago, when I was still in school, the topic of my psychology class shifted to 'does TV make people violent?' (The class was Motivation).
The exact details are lost to the airs of time, but apparently there was a huge study about it, tracking kids for 10 years or something like that.
The results of the study were:
Violent children watch a lot of violent TV.
Non-violent children don't watch a lot of violent TV.
However, the researchers could not determine whether exposure to violent TV caused someone to be violent, or whether being violent just meant you liked violent TV more.
I'll have to dig around in my psych books for more information.