"That's impossible, Ed. You see, the chlorination levels are controlled by several scripts running under Linux. It's Open Source, so it's stable and it can't help but work."
"For the love of all that's holy, someone help me!"
"You see, with open source any bugs that would have cropped up would have been immediately been fixed by the many independent programmers around the world who check the source code."
"Oh the pain! My skin is being flayed from my body!"
"See the neighbor's kid over there? The one in the Limp Bizkit t-shirt with the baseball cap? He's one of the many open source coders around the world who maintain the system I use to automate my pool. Don't let his age, lack of education, or immaturity fool you; because he's an open source coder he's far superior to any corporate drone with a masters in CS. Now don't you feel better?"
"Oh, the pain! It's like acid!"
"Ed, the chlorine level is precisely monitored, as I've been telling you. Whatever you're feeling is most definitely not the result of chlorine."
Ed finally manages to crawl out of the pool. His skin is an angry red, and his hair has turned white.
"Ohhh...someone...help..."
"Ok, I see how it is, Ed. You're one of those Microsoft supporters, just trying to spread FUD about the open source movement. I think you should leave."
Hmm, here in the states the bag would just have a dollar sign on it.
Is the swag bag-wielding, striped shirt-wearing thief an old stereotype over there, or were you making an obscure reference to the old Guild of Thieves text adventure game?
If you guys could somehow create a tropical climate, I'd move up there in a second.
I don't have any ideas on how to, but maybe it could involve a giant bubble over the state, and a few million heaters...
Here in NYC we don't have a major billboard problem, but they do exist, and they are annoying. Worst one I've seen is when you're driving into Manhattan from Queens, and a giant billboard says "Welcome to the City of Heroes". Thank you, Perry Ellis. Not only are you using a national tragedy to try and hawk your label, but you're implying that Brooklyn and Queens aren't part of the city; though of course, that's where most of the rescue workers live. Wow, that's off-topic. But I have to vent somewhere.
First off, I just wonder how they're going to make this all enviro-safe, considering that they're talking about a disposable commodity. With all the films and coatings, you have to hope these things can be recycled.
You must be one of those liberal nuts who believes in such crazy ideas as "pollution" or "landfills that don't have infinite volume".
If I was in the Justice department, one of my required remedies would be that Bill Gates would have to dress up as Mr. Monopoly whenever he appears in public. This would last as long as Microsoft had the majority of the OS market.
The first step in raising someone out of poverty is making sure they realize that they are the ones that hold themselves in it
Oh give me a break. So the people who work full-time jobs, but are still homeless because that won't cover their rent, that's their fault. The factory worker who loses his job because the factory that's been in his town for 40 years suddenly decided it would be slightly cheaper to operate out of Mexico, that's his fault. The woman who is thrown out on the street with her children, because her landlord found out he could charge some cappucino-swilling yuppie web designer twice as much rent, that's her fault.
Uhhh, his overwhelming dominance in the operating system market? His billions and billions of dollars? I don't like it much either, but I'm not going to pretend he's not winning.
No, all you RMS-haters out there characterize anything he says as having been screamed in a rage. He said, to quote directly from the article,
"I didn't know he was doing that, I find that very hard to believe," he said. "We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it."
Then why did you put the word "wrong!!" in the subject line? Just because other countries had systems of apartheid doesn't invalidate what the first poster said.
The difference between South Africa and the rest of the countries is they made a concentrated effort to remove it years ago, while up until recently South Africa still followed this barbaric practice. South Africa's system was also was a lot more pervasive than in either the US or Australia.
Interesting theory. It's not actually backed by anything in history, as far as I've ever seen, but interesting... I find it odd to assert that a conscript army would be more reliable, or more friendly to democratic institutions, than a volunteer one. The move toward volunteer armies has, in general, made armies more professional and less easily swayed to seize power for themselves.
Conscript armies tend to be more representative of the general population than all-volunteer.
The vast majority of US military officers are Republican; they tend to vote en masse for Republican presidential candidates, primarily because Republicans tend to lavish money on them, but also because Republican presidents tend to let them operate with little oversight.
There is an extremely interesting article on the ideological makeup of the modern military here.
There have been some unfortunate frictions between the military and the civilian government, the worst probably being Truman's recall of MacArthur, who severely overstepped his authority, and attempted to influence policy rather than just carrying it out.
Another was the election of Bill Clinton, who was not well-regarded in military circles. I can't find an account of this, but if I remember correctly, a group of West Point cadets publicly proclaimed that Clinton would have to prove himself worthy of being their commander-in-chief (this occurred shortly after the 92 election I believe). During the overseas operations in Bosnia and Somalia, US military commanders dragged their feet in carrying out their orders, undermining the mission as a whole.
-- but truth be told, the American army has proven remarkably resistent to the temptation of king-making.
One of the reasons the American military has not engaged in "kingmaking" is because through most of our country's history, the professional Army was extremely small. It's only since WWII and the Cold War that you see the kind of massive buildup of troops that could conceivably translate to political power.
I don't want to sound rabidly anti-military; I do have a great deal of respect for what they do. I am, however, concerned over how our society feels that our military should be beyond the reach of criticism or oversight.
It's also somewhat flawed; I don't know how representative Sourceforge members are of open-source programmers in general.
Plus I'm a little suspicious of some of these answers. Most polling groups have discovered that people tend to a) give answers that make them look good, and b) give answers that they think the poll-takers want to hear. "I do it for the intellectual challenge" sounds a lot better than "I do it because I have self-esteem problems and really need to see my name in the credits of a program".
The posts here just tell me one thing; most of you despise RMS so much that you'll take any opportunity to criticize him.
If ANYONE else criticized Miguel's intention to integrate.NET into GNOME, you'd immediately rally to his side. But since it's RMS you just can't help trying to find some sort of way to justify how trusting Microsoft to keep.NET open is a good idea.
Yes, as much as I enjoy having unlimited bandwidth, I think they're not out of line here. I mean, if they were really raking in the cash, fine, but most of these outfits seem to really be struggling to survive.
Good point. Look at slashdot; most people here tend to consider themselves relatively scientifically savvy. But bring up something like global warming, and ideology shoves through.
Do a search on here for prior stories about global warming, or recycling, or alternative fuels, and you'll find plenty of people here who are convinced any environmental problems are simply some vast liberal plot against their beloved laissez-faire philosophy.
And to everyone complaining about how Carmack himself would rather focus on game engines, please note that I didn't name him in my post; I criticized Id.
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"Thanks for inviting me to the pool party!"
"No problem, Ed."
Ed enters the water.
"Ahhh! It burns!"
"That's impossible, Ed. You see, the chlorination levels are controlled by several scripts running under Linux. It's Open Source, so it's stable and it can't help but work."
"For the love of all that's holy, someone help me!"
"You see, with open source any bugs that would have cropped up would have been immediately been fixed by the many independent programmers around the world who check the source code."
"Oh the pain! My skin is being flayed from my body!"
"See the neighbor's kid over there? The one in the Limp Bizkit t-shirt with the baseball cap? He's one of the many open source coders around the world who maintain the system I use to automate my pool. Don't let his age, lack of education, or immaturity fool you; because he's an open source coder he's far superior to any corporate drone with a masters in CS. Now don't you feel better?"
"Oh, the pain! It's like acid!"
"Ed, the chlorine level is precisely monitored, as I've been telling you. Whatever you're feeling is most definitely not the result of chlorine."
Ed finally manages to crawl out of the pool. His skin is an angry red, and his hair has turned white.
"Ohhh...someone...help..."
"Ok, I see how it is, Ed. You're one of those Microsoft supporters, just trying to spread FUD about the open source movement. I think you should leave."
I think it's time we wrote our local congresspeople to get this remedied.
All that said, people, please go and support your local arcades.
Too many teenage punks.
Hmm, here in the states the bag would just have a dollar sign on it.
Is the swag bag-wielding, striped shirt-wearing thief an old stereotype over there, or were you making an obscure reference to the old Guild of Thieves text adventure game?
So all those businesses that ceaselessly try to peddle their unnecessary junk to anyone with a mailbox will leave the state? Where's the downside?
He probably was referring to neoliberal in the European sense, which is actually the opposite of what we in the US mean by the term "liberal".
If you guys could somehow create a tropical climate, I'd move up there in a second.
I don't have any ideas on how to, but maybe it could involve a giant bubble over the state, and a few million heaters...
Here in NYC we don't have a major billboard problem, but they do exist, and they are annoying. Worst one I've seen is when you're driving into Manhattan from Queens, and a giant billboard says "Welcome to the City of Heroes". Thank you, Perry Ellis. Not only are you using a national tragedy to try and hawk your label, but you're implying that Brooklyn and Queens aren't part of the city; though of course, that's where most of the rescue workers live. Wow, that's off-topic. But I have to vent somewhere.
First off, I just wonder how they're going to make this all enviro-safe, considering that they're talking about a disposable commodity. With all the films and coatings, you have to hope these things can be recycled.
You must be one of those liberal nuts who believes in such crazy ideas as "pollution" or "landfills that don't have infinite volume".
No, it's not saying this at all; it's merely saying you can't link to the picture alone, you've got to link to the web site itself.
That get's modded down as a troll, but if he had complained about not getting Windows to do something for a week, it would be "funny" or "insightful".
If I was in the Justice department, one of my required remedies would be that Bill Gates would have to dress up as Mr. Monopoly whenever he appears in public. This would last as long as Microsoft had the majority of the OS market.
The first step in raising someone out of poverty is making sure they realize that they are the ones that hold themselves in it
Oh give me a break. So the people who work full-time jobs, but are still homeless because that won't cover their rent, that's their fault. The factory worker who loses his job because the factory that's been in his town for 40 years suddenly decided it would be slightly cheaper to operate out of Mexico, that's his fault. The woman who is thrown out on the street with her children, because her landlord found out he could charge some cappucino-swilling yuppie web designer twice as much rent, that's her fault.
Uhhh, his overwhelming dominance in the operating system market? His billions and billions of dollars? I don't like it much either, but I'm not going to pretend he's not winning.
He is loosing the war on software. As the years go.
Actually, he's winning.
No, all you RMS-haters out there characterize anything he says as having been screamed in a rage. He said, to quote directly from the article,
"I didn't know he was doing that, I find that very hard to believe," he said. "We would like him to come to the free software community and explain himself to us about it."
How is this "flying off the handle"?
Understand this is a module that can be plugged into other devices, such as a LCD screen
A computer that can be attached to a monitor? I'll believe it when I see it!
Then why did you put the word "wrong!!" in the subject line? Just because other countries had systems of apartheid doesn't invalidate what the first poster said.
The difference between South Africa and the rest of the countries is they made a concentrated effort to remove it years ago, while up until recently South Africa still followed this barbaric practice. South Africa's system was also was a lot more pervasive than in either the US or Australia.
Interesting theory. It's not actually backed by anything in history, as far as I've ever seen, but interesting... I find it odd to assert that a conscript army would be more reliable, or more friendly to democratic institutions, than a volunteer one. The move toward volunteer armies has, in general, made armies more professional and less easily swayed to seize power for themselves.
Conscript armies tend to be more representative of the general population than all-volunteer.
The vast majority of US military officers are Republican; they tend to vote en masse for Republican presidential candidates, primarily because Republicans tend to lavish money on them, but also because Republican presidents tend to let them operate with little oversight.
There is an extremely interesting article on the ideological makeup of the modern military here.
There have been some unfortunate frictions between the military and the civilian government, the worst probably being Truman's recall of MacArthur, who severely overstepped his authority, and attempted to influence policy rather than just carrying it out.
Another was the election of Bill Clinton, who was not well-regarded in military circles. I can't find an account of this, but if I remember correctly, a group of West Point cadets publicly proclaimed that Clinton would have to prove himself worthy of being their commander-in-chief (this occurred shortly after the 92 election I believe). During the overseas operations in Bosnia and Somalia, US military commanders dragged their feet in carrying out their orders, undermining the mission as a whole.
-- but truth be told, the American army has proven remarkably resistent to the temptation of king-making.
One of the reasons the American military has not engaged in "kingmaking" is because through most of our country's history, the professional Army was extremely small. It's only since WWII and the Cold War that you see the kind of massive buildup of troops that could conceivably translate to political power.
I don't want to sound rabidly anti-military; I do have a great deal of respect for what they do. I am, however, concerned over how our society feels that our military should be beyond the reach of criticism or oversight.
It's also somewhat flawed; I don't know how representative Sourceforge members are of open-source programmers in general.
Plus I'm a little suspicious of some of these answers. Most polling groups have discovered that people tend to a) give answers that make them look good, and b) give answers that they think the poll-takers want to hear. "I do it for the intellectual challenge" sounds a lot better than "I do it because I have self-esteem problems and really need to see my name in the credits of a program".
There's no spelling mistakes. Something's wrong here...
Give me a break.
.NET into GNOME, you'd immediately rally to his side. But since it's RMS you just can't help trying to find some sort of way to justify how trusting Microsoft to keep .NET open is a good idea.
The posts here just tell me one thing; most of you despise RMS so much that you'll take any opportunity to criticize him.
If ANYONE else criticized Miguel's intention to integrate
Yes, as much as I enjoy having unlimited bandwidth, I think they're not out of line here. I mean, if they were really raking in the cash, fine, but most of these outfits seem to really be struggling to survive.
Good point. Look at slashdot; most people here tend to consider themselves relatively scientifically savvy. But bring up something like global warming, and ideology shoves through.
Do a search on here for prior stories about global warming, or recycling, or alternative fuels, and you'll find plenty of people here who are convinced any environmental problems are simply some vast liberal plot against their beloved laissez-faire philosophy.
I'd agree with you, but I'm from the US, so I have no basis to feel any sort of superiority on this issue.
Alright, all these replies telling me he concentrates on game engines. Fine. I know.
If Id's actually going to sell games to end users, though, then they should expect to face criticism for them. The engine's nice, no argument about that. But the game themselves are extremely repetitive, which is why so many people have left Id after getting bored with the Same Old FPS With Better Graphics©.
And to everyone complaining about how Carmack himself would rather focus on game engines, please note that I didn't name him in my post; I criticized Id.