Uh as pointed out kidneys have a rather important, crucial, and well-known use. The reason you can lose one is because the function the kidneys provide is so important that you evolved two so you have a backup.
so, kinda like klingon's redundant organs?
Nature sure is wise...
like many also said, I can write only my signature in cursive. At school, I had to use it, and it was slow, painful and the result was illegible. But at some point I had to learn the "stick" way, for technical drawing class, and since then I use it for everything.
Of course, after a while it became slightly different(without all those strict proportions), and interestingly enough, sometimes when I write quickly and forget to take the pen of the paper, the result is a beautifully done cursive letter:) (happens a lot with lowercase "s")
Stallman has made it abundantly clear that his view isn't that you must use only free software, but that you should use free software when there is an actual free alternative. In the case you mentioned about sound chips, there are no free sound chips (or if there are, they aren't reasonably available on motherboards). In that case, while he would wish it didn't have to be the case, Stallman would state that it's OK (in his view) to use the non-free sound chip.
While I don't follow the same ideals, they do seem much more reasonable than people seem to believe.
Actually, I've heard Stallman himself, at my college, saying that if you are going to make non-free code, it is better that you just don't make it at all.
He went on and on about how proprietary software is "evil", and even complained about how the Linux distros include proprietary software(he mentioned Ubuntu's "multiverse", that makes it sound good). And, of course, complained about the binary blobs, which may include the non-free sound drivers mentioned.
The FSF is the Free Software Foundation for a reason.
That's true. Later, one guy asked what he thinks about free hardware. He said that "it's not that important", because software you can easily share a modified version, while it is not possible with hardware, and also not everybody is able to make chips.
Why do you get to complain about Stallman, or free software advocates in general, but they don't get to complain about non-free software?
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Actually the source was available, so this previous source release is still FOSS
Just look at paint-mono to see what I am talking about.
Uh as pointed out kidneys have a rather important, crucial, and well-known use. The reason you can lose one is because the function the kidneys provide is so important that you evolved two so you have a backup.
so, kinda like klingon's redundant organs?
Nature sure is wise...
If they make a bad font choice, it's easy to read as "The Snack"
Of course, after a while it became slightly different(without all those strict proportions), and interestingly enough, sometimes when I write quickly and forget to take the pen of the paper, the result is a beautifully done cursive letter :) (happens a lot with lowercase "s")
Stallman has made it abundantly clear that his view isn't that you must use only free software, but that you should use free software when there is an actual free alternative. In the case you mentioned about sound chips, there are no free sound chips (or if there are, they aren't reasonably available on motherboards). In that case, while he would wish it didn't have to be the case, Stallman would state that it's OK (in his view) to use the non-free sound chip.
While I don't follow the same ideals, they do seem much more reasonable than people seem to believe.
Actually, I've heard Stallman himself, at my college, saying that if you are going to make non-free code, it is better that you just don't make it at all.
He went on and on about how proprietary software is "evil", and even complained about how the Linux distros include proprietary software(he mentioned Ubuntu's "multiverse", that makes it sound good). And, of course, complained about the binary blobs, which may include the non-free sound drivers mentioned.
The FSF is the Free Software Foundation for a reason.
That's true. Later, one guy asked what he thinks about free hardware. He said that "it's not that important", because software you can easily share a modified version, while it is not possible with hardware, and also not everybody is able to make chips.
Why do you get to complain about Stallman, or free software advocates in general, but they don't get to complain about non-free software?
I think it's very clear that he complains. A lot.
Am I the only one that after seeing "Laser", automatically read "shark" instead of "spark"?
"It's a trap!"
So... instead of grey, green goo?
Actually, all you need to do is install the Homebrew Channel and start coding with DevkitPro
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page
The problem is that Nintendo doesn't really appreciate that, and they do everything they can to stop it.
Microsoft, however, encourages indie games on the Xbox (till now, anyway), because with XNA they can limit what indie developers can do.