Perhaps we should coin a phrase "The Stallman Trap". In which we see a young developer interested in contributing to the community by distributing the source code to their new whizzo application. But wait, somewhere down the line I link to a binary somewhere - whoops, that means it ain't really "free". Might as well not bother.... Goes off to play Unreal Tournament... (oh wait, that's not free either - what kind of a world is this!) I admire what RMS is doing, but there's a point where it becomes to obsessional to be practically useful. (I can hear the flames approaching...)
Thanks, that's very detailed info. Individual systems, rather than VMWare is certainly the way I want to go, as there will be a lot of CPU intensive processes, also I want to do some physical testing (such as pulling cables to see reactions, etc.) so for me, real sytems will be better.
Duh. I think the point is that the poster was asking the opinion of fellow/.'ers. It's easy enough to go and look for equipment, but try getting an unbiased opinion from a vendor...
(Courtesy of Daily Telegraph) I met him down in Mordor, he gave me the eye - Da do Sauron-ron, da do Sauron, And then he nearly slayed me, what a wicked guy! Da do Sauron-ron, da do Sauron.
I think this should be modded up as "Insightful". Yes, I agree, no more ambiguity! Next time, please identify who 'everybody' is by adding a list of 'everybody' sorted by last, first name. Thanks for your understanding,/a
If your search had been marginally more intelligent than you, then you would find that the vast majority of the posts are fixated on Bill Gates infamous "quote".
That's true. I went over and picked out all the options (WWWWindow shopping...) to look at the end price. If I were a real customer I would have given up by the time I got to the tattoo option./a
I did a similar exercise a year ago. I filled two large boxes with all sorts of crap; cables, low-capacity hard-drives, network PCs, network cards, sound cards, you name it. I am too lazy to walk to the local dump, so I stacked it on a wall near my house and trained my web cam on it. It was gone by the time I got back up to my PC.../a
Bought the C=64. (Well my parents bought it...) Saw the (early) games. Wanted to know how they were written. Tried writing some in BASIC. Hated it. Got into Machine Code instead and started turning out demos and games. Learned even more about the machine by breaking the protection on the games and understanding them. Doubt I would have been in programming now if it wasn't for the c=64./a
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Perhaps we should coin a phrase "The Stallman Trap". In which we see a young developer interested in contributing to the community by distributing the source code to their new whizzo application.
But wait, somewhere down the line I link to a binary somewhere - whoops, that means it ain't really "free". Might as well not bother.... Goes off to play Unreal Tournament... (oh wait, that's not free either - what kind of a world is this!)
I admire what RMS is doing, but there's a point where it becomes to obsessional to be practically useful.
(I can hear the flames approaching...)
Thanks, that's very detailed info. Individual systems, rather than VMWare is certainly the way I want to go, as there will be a lot of CPU intensive processes, also I want to do some physical testing (such as pulling cables to see reactions, etc.) so for me, real sytems will be better.
Duh. I think the point is that the poster was asking the opinion of fellow /.'ers. It's easy enough to go and look for equipment, but try getting an unbiased opinion from a vendor...
(Courtesy of Daily Telegraph)
I met him down in Mordor, he gave me the eye -
Da do Sauron-ron, da do Sauron,
And then he nearly slayed me, what a wicked guy!
Da do Sauron-ron, da do Sauron.
Here they are....
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A new way to be mad...
This could be one reason for calling 911 prior to whacking your least favorite limb off...
I think this should be modded up as "Insightful". Yes, I agree, no more ambiguity! Next time, please identify who 'everybody' is by adding a list of 'everybody' sorted by last, first name. /a
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If your search had been marginally more intelligent than you, then you would find that the vast majority of the posts are fixated on Bill Gates infamous "quote".
My prediction is that 90% of the posts will be smarmy comments about Gates "640k" comment.
That's true. I went over and picked out all the options (WWWWindow shopping...) to look at the end price. If I were a real customer I would have given up by the time I got to the tattoo option. /a
I did a similar exercise a year ago. I filled two large boxes with all sorts of crap; cables, low-capacity hard-drives, network PCs, network cards, sound cards, you name it. /a
I am too lazy to walk to the local dump, so I stacked it on a wall near my house and trained my web cam on it. It was gone by the time I got back up to my PC...
Thanks! Now I have this mental image of geek tupperware parties in my head. Make it go away.... /a
Actually with me:
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Bought the C=64. (Well my parents bought it...)
Saw the (early) games.
Wanted to know how they were written.
Tried writing some in BASIC.
Hated it.
Got into Machine Code instead and started turning out demos and games.
Learned even more about the machine by breaking the protection on the games and understanding them.
Doubt I would have been in programming now if it wasn't for the c=64.
Hey Bill G./Steve B., you forgot to log in.
I think that you should get an automated email each day:
Are you dead yet?
o Yes
o No
[Submit]
How about a service to get a "First Post" after your death?
Unless punctuation suddenly became a word, I only counted 8....