"Being arrogant and prideful" was Lucifer's downfall and earned him a future in a lake of fire. So, it is a 'Big Deal' to The Main Man.
you do realise that none of that is actually in the bible, don't you? That all that pride and arrogance stuff was added by medieval theologians? that even the name Lucifer - or anything like it - didn't exist until a poetic phrase was translated from Latin at around that time.
or that satan wasn't even an individual in his own right until the New Testament - before that, several individuals at different times held the role of 'satan' or 'adversary' or 'prosecutor'. the zorastrian influence was strong by this time, and pretty much required a good vs evil duality.
You go amiss in that you believe in graduated punishments and not there is binary choice of repentance to God or Him rejecting you to everlasting punishment. God is "Just and Merciful", just that you don't want it.
were you never taught to stand up to bullies?
your god is a fucking psychopath.
if such a creature existed and gave me that ultimatum the only good response is "kiss my shitty arse".
if you think that's what they are saying then either you are a fuckwit, your friends are fuckwits, or both.
they are probably so aggressively hostile to christianity being mentioned in their presence because they're embedded in an aggressively christian culture, they're fucking surrounded by it, and sick and fucking tired of hearing it, and having nearly everyone around them accept obvious fucking nonsense as the literal truth.
that doesn't excuse them from being fuckwits, but it does explain their hostility.
science is not a religion. atheism is not a religion.
> When ads started appears on t'Net there were complaint from > people saying they were seeing products they didn't want, and it > would make sense if the ads were tsargetted.
only the advertising wankers were saying that. everybody else just wanted the ads to go away.
co-incidentally, the wankers were about as semi-literate then as you are today.
no problem. i don't use them now when they're free.
well, i have accounts on facebook (some of my friends are/were on it) and gmail (convenient when i was travelling in 2000) but i log in to them about once every six months or so.
i never bothered with twitter at all...couldn't see the point when it started, and still can't see any value in it now.
SO and the other Stack Exchange sites have ads? wow, i never realised...i've never seen them.
thank the FSM for AdBlock Plus.
ps: experts exchange was in my block list long before I discovered SO etc. too many search requests ended up on their useless pages demanding joining or subscription before showing any answers, so i filter them out. funnily enough, though, with NoScript, you used to be able to scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the answers anyway...and realise that they were generally shit answers, certainly now worth subscribing for.
it really doesn't matter whether clang/llvm catches up to gcc or not in terms of speed or any other feature.
the crucial issue is what's strategically best for the long term interests of free software, and there is no way in hell that a compiler developed by the Lords of the Walled Garden at Apple is ever going to be a good thing for free software.
Apple's agenda is to sabotage copyleft and the GPL, because they want the benefits they can get from free code from tens of thousands of developers but without having to pay the entirely reasonable price of distributing and freely licensing the source along with any modified binaries.
The fact that Apple has been - and still is - smarter than Microsoft in their anti-free-software campaign just highlights how dangerous they are. Microsoft took the stupid head-on approach to attacking free software. Apple's method has been stealthy subversion and erosion of principles. smart, competent evil is far worse than stupid, incompetent evil.
the problem is caused by the commercial battles between redhat and canonical, they both want to dominate the linux market and both are more than willing to cause severe pain and fragmentation to users - and to the linux environment - if it means that they'll end up on top.
RH owns and controls Gnome and systemd. Canonical owns and controls Unity and upstart.
A lot of the really stupid stuff coming from both of them is deliberate incompatibility to cause problems to the other side, with everyone else (and standards, and interoperability, and compatibility) being collateral damage.
actually, "codes" is common usage amongst researchers and has been since at least the 1970s.
most of them are not programmers or geeks or computer scientists, they're researchers or academics or post-grad students who happen to do a little programming or simply use someone else's "codes".
it used to make me cringe every time i heard it when working with academics and researchers and on HPC clusters, but then i got used to it and stopped caring.
and, really, they're not interested in a lecture or why it's a dumb usage of the word. they've got stuff they want to get done ("codes to run") and don't give a damn.
> There is also the fact that a micro-USB charging port is > mandatory in the EU on mobile phones, just so that people > do not have to buy the expensive ones from the phone vendor.
and so that they don't have to buy a new charger when they get a new phone; and so that they don't need multiple different and separate chargers (home,work,car,etc) for each device (phone, tablet,etc); and, most importantly, so that they don't have to throw away the old chargers. a big part of the reason for the law was to reduce electronic waste.
most phone/tablet/gadget manufacturers responded by making mini-usb or micro-usb charging ports standard in every country. not apple. they met the requirement in europe with an adaptor while keeping their high-priced proprietary (and disposable) charger everywhere else.
it's also clear that apple's designs deliberately encourage waste and disposal rather than re-use and repair. iphones and ipads are cheaper / more convenient to replace than repair if the screen or glass is cracked.
more obviously, their all-in-one imacs with a beautiful high-resolution 27" or 30" screen built-in are intended to be disposed of rather than upgraded. the screen is probably the single most expensive component in the unit, and the one that has the most potential longevity (i.e. it's less likely to need replacing/upgrading as technology improves). but you can't upgrade the CPU in the imac. you're supposed to discard the entire thing in a year or two and buy a new one. a huge amount of unneccessary waste.
no, and no it would not solve any of my "worries".
it would lock me in to a proprietary system that i had no control over and where corporate spyware was guaranteed - even to the point of an always-on microphone in xbox one.
let me ask you a question in return - are you a troll, a corporate shill, or just stupid?
I worry that licensing issues may result in me being fucked over because of my own ignorance and laziness so my solution is to pre-emptively fuck myself over.
that's because those terrible things just don't happen to morally superior individuals. they only happen to those who deserve it through their own moral failings.
I used to game a lot on linux using wine - most games ran flawlessly with wine, some ran OK, and some wouldn't run at all.
BTW, valve probably had data showing I had hundreds of different computers, because I used to run each game in its own wine prefix so I could tweak the settings for each game - each of which was effectively a completely new "windows machine"
Almost all of the games that didn't work or had problems were due to third-party DRM like G4WL and Securom and others, and spyware shit like punkbuster. In principle, I object to even Steam's DRM. In practice, it's mostly inoccuous and doesn't cause me any serious problems - the biggest issue is what it does to my "ownership" or lack thereof of the the games that I have paid for - e.g. I can't lend a game I've finished playing to my partner while I play a new one.
But that's not what I want to write about today.
After a major upgrade of my main linux machine about two years ago, I had a lot of parts left over, almost enough to build a complete system. So i bought a few more parts, Windows 7, another good video card, and a KVM to share my keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers. For the first time ever, I installed Windows on a computer I owned for myself. Just to play games. Specifically the games I'd bought and paid for in Steam that wouldn't run on Linux with Wine.
(The machine is actually set up to dual-boot with Linux - debian sid - but I rarely boot linux on it, maybe once every six months or so to run an apt-get dist-upgrade on it to keep it relatively up-to-date.)
I don't use the windows box for anything else. just playing games, and some quick games-related web browsing - but mostly I use the KVM to switch back to my main, linux, machine if i want to look up a game FAQ or something.
I don't even buy games on the windows box. I do the purchasing on the Steam website from my linux box. There's no way in hell I'd trust a Windows box with my internet banking, my paypal account or entering my credit card into a web form. The risk of malware and keystroke-loggers is too great.
i've gotten over my distaste and repugnance for having a windows machine at home, and have it safely firewalled away from most direct access to the internet so I'm mostly happy with this setup.
Windows is effectively a gaming console for me, but one with decent hardware rather than an ancient xbox 360 or ps3 or a new overpriced and still under-powered xbox or playstation. most importantly, it's upgradable hardware. I can replace the video card, the motherboard, the CPU, the hard disk, or even the entire system at any time and, aside from a few hassles with Windows possibly chucking a fit if it decides I've upgraded too much at once and therefore must be a pirate, it will work just fine.
When steam released their steam client for linux, i installed it on my linux laptop - a little asus x401u with 2GB RAM. Some games run great on it like Left4Dead or HalfLife2, but some have a tendency to crash the X server (FTL, for example) - possibly because I'm using the free radeon driver rather than fglrx. As an experiment I installed wine and FTL works OK on the same laptop with wine.
If what Gabe Newell says is true and Linux becomes the primary platform for gaming in future, that would be a good thing. I'd much prefer to not have a windows box at home. I could use a decent filesystem like zfs or btrfs - even ext4 is better than NTFS, not worry about drive letter idiocy (most games still demand to be installed on C:), I could have proper backups, and I could upgrade the hardware without risk of the OS deciding I'm a pirate. There'd be lots of advantages.
I still wouldn't install steam on my main linux computer.
I'd convert my current windows box to a linux box and use it pretty much the same way as i use the windows box now - i.e. for gaming only. I'd maybe use it a little more for other tasks because I trust the underlying system a lot more. but probably not because I d
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then it can get a fucking job and support itself like everybody else.
next you'll be saying it has a right to free food and free housing and a slave to wipe its arse. free education too, probably.
fucking communist!
you do realise that none of that is actually in the bible, don't you? That all that pride and arrogance stuff was added by medieval theologians? that even the name Lucifer - or anything like it - didn't exist until a poetic phrase was translated from Latin at around that time.
or that satan wasn't even an individual in his own right until the New Testament - before that, several individuals at different times held the role of 'satan' or 'adversary' or 'prosecutor'. the zorastrian influence was strong by this time, and pretty much required a good vs evil duality.
were you never taught to stand up to bullies?
your god is a fucking psychopath.
if such a creature existed and gave me that ultimatum the only good response is "kiss my shitty arse".
if you think that's what they are saying then either you are a fuckwit, your friends are fuckwits, or both.
they are probably so aggressively hostile to christianity being mentioned in their presence because they're embedded in an aggressively christian culture, they're fucking surrounded by it, and sick and fucking tired of hearing it, and having nearly everyone around them accept obvious fucking nonsense as the literal truth.
that doesn't excuse them from being fuckwits, but it does explain their hostility.
science is not a religion.
atheism is not a religion.
> When ads started appears on t'Net there were complaint from
> people saying they were seeing products they didn't want, and it > would make sense if the ads were tsargetted.
only the advertising wankers were saying that. everybody else just wanted the ads to go away.
co-incidentally, the wankers were about as semi-literate then as you are today.
no problem. i don't use them now when they're free.
well, i have accounts on facebook (some of my friends are/were on it) and gmail (convenient when i was travelling in 2000) but i log in to them about once every six months or so.
i never bothered with twitter at all...couldn't see the point when it started, and still can't see any value in it now.
SO and the other Stack Exchange sites have ads? wow, i never realised...i've never seen them.
thank the FSM for AdBlock Plus.
ps: experts exchange was in my block list long before I discovered SO etc. too many search requests ended up on their useless pages demanding joining or subscription before showing any answers, so i filter them out. funnily enough, though, with NoScript, you used to be able to scroll down to the bottom of the page and see the answers anyway...and realise that they were generally shit answers, certainly now worth subscribing for.
Bennett Haselton's conundrums keep getting dumber and dumber every time.
At what point are they stupid enough to be a criminal offence?
yeah, which is why i asked if conspicuous consumption was mandatory.
so conspicuous consumption is mandatory?
if i was stupid enough to be a gambler, and lucky enough to have a big win, i user as hell wouldn't be wasting any of my winnings on a damn limo.
what's the point of even trying to win if you're just going to piss it all up against the wall?
OTOH, if i was stupid enough to be a gambler, i'd probably be stupid enough to do that too.
> So what is the problem here?
"Apple's agenda is to sabotage copyleft and the GPL"
i used to think of the solaris boxes i installed all the GNU tools on as GNU/Solaris.
It's a pretty good and succinct way of describing solaris with decent versions of the standard utilities (because the standard solaris ones are shit).
these days, it's hard to think of a reason why i'd even want to install solaris rather than linux.
it really doesn't matter whether clang/llvm catches up to gcc or not in terms of speed or any other feature.
the crucial issue is what's strategically best for the long term interests of free software, and there is no way in hell that a compiler developed by the Lords of the Walled Garden at Apple is ever going to be a good thing for free software.
Apple's agenda is to sabotage copyleft and the GPL, because they want the benefits they can get from free code from tens of thousands of developers but without having to pay the entirely reasonable price of distributing and freely licensing the source along with any modified binaries.
The fact that Apple has been - and still is - smarter than Microsoft in their anti-free-software campaign just highlights how dangerous they are. Microsoft took the stupid head-on approach to attacking free software. Apple's method has been stealthy subversion and erosion of principles. smart, competent evil is far worse than stupid, incompetent evil.
the problem is caused by the commercial battles between redhat and canonical, they both want to dominate the linux market and both are more than willing to cause severe pain and fragmentation to users - and to the linux environment - if it means that they'll end up on top.
RH owns and controls Gnome and systemd.
Canonical owns and controls Unity and upstart.
A lot of the really stupid stuff coming from both of them is deliberate incompatibility to cause problems to the other side, with everyone else (and standards, and interoperability, and compatibility) being collateral damage.
they both deserve to be boycotted.
so, what, is this the tenth or the hundredth shark that Gnome has jumped?
hey arsehole, go fuck yourself
actually, "codes" is common usage amongst researchers and has been since at least the 1970s.
most of them are not programmers or geeks or computer scientists, they're researchers or academics or post-grad students who happen to do a little programming or simply use someone else's "codes".
it used to make me cringe every time i heard it when working with academics and researchers and on HPC clusters, but then i got used to it and stopped caring.
and, really, they're not interested in a lecture or why it's a dumb usage of the word. they've got stuff they want to get done ("codes to run") and don't give a damn.
> There is also the fact that a micro-USB charging port is
> mandatory in the EU on mobile phones, just so that people
> do not have to buy the expensive ones from the phone vendor.
and so that they don't have to buy a new charger when they get a new phone; and so that they don't need multiple different and separate chargers (home,work,car,etc) for each device (phone, tablet,etc); and, most importantly, so that they don't have to throw away the old chargers. a big part of the reason for the law was to reduce electronic waste.
most phone/tablet/gadget manufacturers responded by making mini-usb or micro-usb charging ports standard in every country. not apple. they met the requirement in europe with an adaptor while keeping their high-priced proprietary (and disposable) charger everywhere else.
it's also clear that apple's designs deliberately encourage waste and disposal rather than re-use and repair. iphones and ipads are cheaper / more convenient to replace than repair if the screen or glass is cracked.
more obviously, their all-in-one imacs with a beautiful high-resolution 27" or 30" screen built-in are intended to be disposed of rather than upgraded. the screen is probably the single most expensive component in the unit, and the one that has the most potential longevity (i.e. it's less likely to need replacing/upgrading as technology improves). but you can't upgrade the CPU in the imac. you're supposed to discard the entire thing in a year or two and buy a new one. a huge amount of unneccessary waste.
> who puts child production/care next to waste treatement plants?
Libertarians, because regulations are evil.
Outsource the production of Pu-238 to private industry and they can get it made cheaply in pakistan or china or ukraine or somewhere.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
no, and no it would not solve any of my "worries".
it would lock me in to a proprietary system that i had no control over and where corporate spyware was guaranteed - even to the point of an always-on microphone in xbox one.
let me ask you a question in return - are you a troll, a corporate shill, or just stupid?
I worry that licensing issues may result in me being fucked over because of my own ignorance and laziness so my solution is to pre-emptively fuck myself over.
my face didn't really need that nose anyway.
it's only unattractive to those who want to re-use free code while restricting the freedoms of downstream users.
fuck 'em. parasites don't add any value to anyone.
that's because those terrible things just don't happen to morally superior individuals. they only happen to those who deserve it through their own moral failings.
> The banks hate this.
The banks love this because they own or own shares in predatory scumbag payday loan companies too.
I'm one of them.
I used to game a lot on linux using wine - most games ran flawlessly with wine, some ran OK, and some wouldn't run at all.
BTW, valve probably had data showing I had hundreds of different computers, because I used to run each game in its own wine prefix so I could tweak the settings for each game - each of which was effectively a completely new "windows machine"
Almost all of the games that didn't work or had problems were due to third-party DRM like G4WL and Securom and others, and spyware shit like punkbuster. In principle, I object to even Steam's DRM. In practice, it's mostly inoccuous and doesn't cause me any serious problems - the biggest issue is what it does to my "ownership" or lack thereof of the the games that I have paid for - e.g. I can't lend a game I've finished playing to my partner while I play a new one.
But that's not what I want to write about today.
After a major upgrade of my main linux machine about two years ago, I had a lot of parts left over, almost enough to build a complete system. So i bought a few more parts, Windows 7, another good video card, and a KVM to share my keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers.
For the first time ever, I installed Windows on a computer I owned for myself. Just to play games. Specifically the games I'd bought and paid for in Steam that wouldn't run on Linux with Wine.
(The machine is actually set up to dual-boot with Linux - debian sid - but I rarely boot linux on it, maybe once every six months or so to run an apt-get dist-upgrade on it to keep it relatively up-to-date.)
I don't use the windows box for anything else. just playing games, and some quick games-related web browsing - but mostly I use the KVM to switch back to my main, linux, machine if i want to look up a game FAQ or something.
I don't even buy games on the windows box. I do the purchasing on the Steam website from my linux box. There's no way in hell I'd trust a Windows box with my internet banking, my paypal account or entering my credit card into a web form. The risk of malware and keystroke-loggers is too great.
i've gotten over my distaste and repugnance for having a windows machine at home, and have it safely firewalled away from most direct access to the internet so I'm mostly happy with this setup.
Windows is effectively a gaming console for me, but one with decent hardware rather than an ancient xbox 360 or ps3 or a new overpriced and still under-powered xbox or playstation. most importantly, it's upgradable hardware. I can replace the video card, the motherboard, the CPU, the hard disk, or even the entire system at any time and, aside from a few hassles with Windows possibly chucking a fit if it decides I've upgraded too much at once and therefore must be a pirate, it will work just fine.
When steam released their steam client for linux, i installed it on my linux laptop - a little asus x401u with 2GB RAM. Some games run great on it like Left4Dead or HalfLife2, but some have a tendency to crash the X server (FTL, for example) - possibly because I'm using the free radeon driver rather than fglrx. As an experiment I installed wine and FTL works OK on the same laptop with wine.
If what Gabe Newell says is true and Linux becomes the primary platform for gaming in future, that would be a good thing. I'd much prefer to not have a windows box at home. I could use a decent filesystem like zfs or btrfs - even ext4 is better than NTFS, not worry about drive letter idiocy (most games still demand to be installed on C:), I could have proper backups, and I could upgrade the hardware without risk of the OS deciding I'm a pirate. There'd be lots of advantages.
I still wouldn't install steam on my main linux computer.
I'd convert my current windows box to a linux box and use it pretty much the same way as i use the windows box now - i.e. for gaming only. I'd maybe use it a little more for other tasks because I trust the underlying system a lot more. but probably not because I d