1) There's nothing that forces a distributor not to include documentation. The only thing that would happen is that the FSF wouldn't recommend that distro. One major point here is that the FSF has absolutely no power whatsoever, so they are in no power to censor anything. There's no more chilling effect to this than there is to any other guideline that you may disagree with. Don't follow them if you don't like them. Pretending it's an attack on freedom of speech is stupid, dumb, imbecilic, moronic, fuckbrained, but it's not in any way correct.
2) You're confusing the user and the distributor. The FSF doesn't care whether you fill up your particular installation of some distro with documentation on how to install proprietary software. No user's data is held hostage, you're just being dumb.
AFAIK, the specific driver in question of the article you quote, the Prism54, now has an open soft-mac firmware, but others are, of course, worse off. The issue I have is with your claim that Debian has asked for permission to distribute firmware (which in turn doesn't give users the permission to redistribute, which I would find very strange). They have packages like firmware-ralink in the non-free section, but even there, redistribution is explicitly permitted.
I can't believe a totally illogical comment like yours is "+5, insightful". There's no censorship to not recommending a distro as "free" software when said distro itself recommends non-free software. It's only a matter of policy for whom and what the FSF wants to recommend. That's no more censorship than if Amnesty stated they would not recommend a political party that recommends torture. OH BUT THAT'S AN ATTACK ON FREEDUM OF SPEACH! No, it's not, idiot.
Fuck, this site is so full of morons that it makes me sick.
If you had studied music only briefly in college, you would know that the tradition working with "randomness" (i.e. the unintended) comes from John Cage and contemporary classical music, not from jazz. And it does sound totally different. That's one point of supporting evidence for you, re ignorance.
Of course there is a lot of jazz that just isn't any good, played by poor musicians who don't know what they're doing, but it's no more an aspect of the genre than it is for pop or rock: most people aren't good musicians or composers. Claiming a lack of musicality is an aspect of a genre is arrogant. That's another point of supporting evidence.
Claiming a bunch of random notes sounds like jazz is, in most cases, simply wrong. Try it and see if it's jazz. No? Ignorant and arrogant. I'm talking about you.
AFAIK, something similar (but probably repeating, at one point) is possible to do with fractals. I heard a modernist composer talk about a fractal producing a Romantic orchestral work but for two notes.
Come to think of it, I've heard actual computer generated compositions that sounded exactly as if they were composed by Mozart.
Linux works perfectly on my desktop. OS X, on the other hand, has given me loads and loads of problems (on an Apple Powerbook, not a hackintosh), and whenever I googled for answers I'd find loads and loads of others with the same problems, and always the same answer: run disk utility and repair permissions; a universal solution to all OS X problems, which never actually works. Never. Yet it's the first thing these idiots come up with. Always.
What I'm trying to say is that OS X's 'it just works' myth is just a myth, but it's true to the extent that most users never bother learning the ins and outs of the system. The same goes for Windows, where most people consider themselves 'experts' when they know how to pirate video games. This is what makes Linux easier to use (for me): problems are often solvable, since it's relatively easy to get competent help. With Windows and OS X, you're stuck with a bunch of loudmouthed idiots with nothing to say.
Oh, come on. Apple has gone into the fashion business with the iPods and iBooks and whatnot. Maybe, just maybe, MARKETING is a bit more successful at getting a following from the average consumer than a bunch of arrogant nerds?
You do realise someone else posted a reply like that and I replied to that 3 hours before you posted yours, right? That's 3 hours old now. Try reading the discussion you take part in and you'll find a whole bunch of useful info in it.
The most annoying non-unixy thing with OS X is the NetInfo garbage and the incredibly buggy implementations of some standard unix commands like chsh. I remember when after having upgraded to OS X 10.3.9, I found I still used tcsh or whatever and wanted to switch to bash, typed in chsh, edited the file so/bin/bash would be default shell, saved, and... BANG, OS X decided/bin/ was now my standard shell. Naturally, I could no longer use Terminal.app with that user.
That's 10.3.9, with a bug that would have prevented any unix with even the most basic bug testing from releasing a new 'stable' version.
You won't get proper bass response from any headphones, and the reason for this is a) deep bass is picked up not so much by the ears as by other parts of the body, and b) bass demands a lot of air to be shoved around, meaning you need huge drivers. I know I'd prefer listening to $200,000 speakers set up correctly in a well suited listening room to $200 headphones any time.
No, he's right, and you're wrong. The "correlation" of sea pirates with greenhouse gases is there only because the statistical sample is too small to be significant, and because you choose to ignore previous periods with higher concentrations of CO2 that are not linked with sea pirates. In other words, there is no correlation between pirates and greenhouse gases: the statement is fraudulent, put forth only by people with no understanding whatsoever of science or logic.
This is the case: there is a 1:1 correlation of yapping about "correlation is not causation" as if it were a profound insight and being an idiot, and while the correlation is extremely strong, only a different idiot would claim the yapping is what causes idiocy. And vice versa: idiocy takes many forms, and not every kind is correlated with the "correlation is not causation" meme, so idiocy alone doesn't cause this intellectual failure.
You do understand that every person harping on the "correlation is not causation" meme on Slashdot is a fucking idiot, right? Also, "irregardless" is not a word. You're looking for "irrespective" or "regardless".
Oblivon is a fine game. It's only the hardcore RPG fanatics that don't like it, and almost all the criticism of the game comes from them. I say fuck the RPGers. If you consider it more like an adventure game with some FPS and roleplaying elements then it's not bad at all.
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The PC version of GTA 4 sold very well the first few days.
Wow. A reply that quotes a different comment from what it replies to, and plagiarises the comment its parent was a reply to. "Interesting". Yes, very.
And so what? Did you think Microsoft wrote DirectX for note taking?
As a modern geek, you should realise that CPU architecture doesn't matter a lot when coding in modern languages.
It's as likely to be fixed as the problem of stupid comments on Slashdot.
No, that's bullshit. All of it.
1) There's nothing that forces a distributor not to include documentation. The only thing that would happen is that the FSF wouldn't recommend that distro. One major point here is that the FSF has absolutely no power whatsoever, so they are in no power to censor anything. There's no more chilling effect to this than there is to any other guideline that you may disagree with. Don't follow them if you don't like them. Pretending it's an attack on freedom of speech is stupid, dumb, imbecilic, moronic, fuckbrained, but it's not in any way correct.
2) You're confusing the user and the distributor. The FSF doesn't care whether you fill up your particular installation of some distro with documentation on how to install proprietary software. No user's data is held hostage, you're just being dumb.
AFAIK, the specific driver in question of the article you quote, the Prism54, now has an open soft-mac firmware, but others are, of course, worse off. The issue I have is with your claim that Debian has asked for permission to distribute firmware (which in turn doesn't give users the permission to redistribute, which I would find very strange). They have packages like firmware-ralink in the non-free section, but even there, redistribution is explicitly permitted.
I can't believe a totally illogical comment like yours is "+5, insightful". There's no censorship to not recommending a distro as "free" software when said distro itself recommends non-free software. It's only a matter of policy for whom and what the FSF wants to recommend. That's no more censorship than if Amnesty stated they would not recommend a political party that recommends torture. OH BUT THAT'S AN ATTACK ON FREEDUM OF SPEACH! No, it's not, idiot.
Fuck, this site is so full of morons that it makes me sick.
To quote Wikipedia: [Citation needed]
What you're saying would go directly against Debian's free software guidelines.
If you had studied music only briefly in college, you would know that the tradition working with "randomness" (i.e. the unintended) comes from John Cage and contemporary classical music, not from jazz. And it does sound totally different. That's one point of supporting evidence for you, re ignorance.
Of course there is a lot of jazz that just isn't any good, played by poor musicians who don't know what they're doing, but it's no more an aspect of the genre than it is for pop or rock: most people aren't good musicians or composers. Claiming a lack of musicality is an aspect of a genre is arrogant. That's another point of supporting evidence.
Claiming a bunch of random notes sounds like jazz is, in most cases, simply wrong. Try it and see if it's jazz. No? Ignorant and arrogant. I'm talking about you.
Ah, 'informative'. Because when it comes to art, Slashdotters are as arrogant as they are ignorant.
AFAIK, something similar (but probably repeating, at one point) is possible to do with fractals. I heard a modernist composer talk about a fractal producing a Romantic orchestral work but for two notes.
Come to think of it, I've heard actual computer generated compositions that sounded exactly as if they were composed by Mozart.
Linux works perfectly on my desktop. OS X, on the other hand, has given me loads and loads of problems (on an Apple Powerbook, not a hackintosh), and whenever I googled for answers I'd find loads and loads of others with the same problems, and always the same answer: run disk utility and repair permissions; a universal solution to all OS X problems, which never actually works. Never. Yet it's the first thing these idiots come up with. Always.
What I'm trying to say is that OS X's 'it just works' myth is just a myth, but it's true to the extent that most users never bother learning the ins and outs of the system. The same goes for Windows, where most people consider themselves 'experts' when they know how to pirate video games. This is what makes Linux easier to use (for me): problems are often solvable, since it's relatively easy to get competent help. With Windows and OS X, you're stuck with a bunch of loudmouthed idiots with nothing to say.
Oh, come on. Apple has gone into the fashion business with the iPods and iBooks and whatnot. Maybe, just maybe, MARKETING is a bit more successful at getting a following from the average consumer than a bunch of arrogant nerds?
Id and Epic haven't made any games quite similar to Half-Life, unless you also think bumper cars are similar to roller coasters.
You do realise someone else posted a reply like that and I replied to that 3 hours before you posted yours, right? That's 3 hours old now. Try reading the discussion you take part in and you'll find a whole bunch of useful info in it.
No, I haven't used OS X since Panther, but that's definitely a good thing!
The most annoying non-unixy thing with OS X is the NetInfo garbage and the incredibly buggy implementations of some standard unix commands like chsh. I remember when after having upgraded to OS X 10.3.9, I found I still used tcsh or whatever and wanted to switch to bash, typed in chsh, edited the file so /bin/bash would be default shell, saved, and ... BANG, OS X decided /bin/ was now my standard shell. Naturally, I could no longer use Terminal.app with that user.
That's 10.3.9, with a bug that would have prevented any unix with even the most basic bug testing from releasing a new 'stable' version.
According to Anandtech's review, it's highly competitive for database servers. http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3456
Not that I think there's a huge chance that things will go wrong with, but think of how awesomely cool it would go wrong if it did.
You won't get proper bass response from any headphones, and the reason for this is a) deep bass is picked up not so much by the ears as by other parts of the body, and b) bass demands a lot of air to be shoved around, meaning you need huge drivers. I know I'd prefer listening to $200,000 speakers set up correctly in a well suited listening room to $200 headphones any time.
No, he's right, and you're wrong. The "correlation" of sea pirates with greenhouse gases is there only because the statistical sample is too small to be significant, and because you choose to ignore previous periods with higher concentrations of CO2 that are not linked with sea pirates. In other words, there is no correlation between pirates and greenhouse gases: the statement is fraudulent, put forth only by people with no understanding whatsoever of science or logic.
This is the case: there is a 1:1 correlation of yapping about "correlation is not causation" as if it were a profound insight and being an idiot, and while the correlation is extremely strong, only a different idiot would claim the yapping is what causes idiocy. And vice versa: idiocy takes many forms, and not every kind is correlated with the "correlation is not causation" meme, so idiocy alone doesn't cause this intellectual failure.
I saw a raging giant supermutant, at least 20ft tall. My first thought was: "Damn, Dick Cheney seems pissed off!"
You do understand that every person harping on the "correlation is not causation" meme on Slashdot is a fucking idiot, right? Also, "irregardless" is not a word. You're looking for "irrespective" or "regardless".
Oblivon is a fine game. It's only the hardcore RPG fanatics that don't like it, and almost all the criticism of the game comes from them. I say fuck the RPGers. If you consider it more like an adventure game with some FPS and roleplaying elements then it's not bad at all.
If only the voice acting wasn't shit.