I actually don't like him much myself. But he does what he does well -- he says things to people who hear words like "linux" and get colossal chubbies, and he gets paid for it. Like I said -- words not ideas. His ideas are mostly shite. And he's an arrogant elitist.
Talk about _hard_. I mean really. He has a job/occupation much like the president's. He's a public speaker, writer, programmer, etc., He's like a college professor in that respect as well, except his listeners don't always have the background to understand what he's got to say. Should have prerequisites for reading anything by ESR. 1) You have to have used this _miracle linux_ 2) You have to have used some real OS 3) You have to know at least a little programming or know what it's like to work in that field. Many people take him at his words and not the ideas he addresses.
It's about the role Open Source Software should be given in Public Policy. I.e. should the government be for it, against it, or ignore it? The worry is that the government will be against it due to the DMCA. Because if you distribute Open Source Software it hardly falls in with what the DMCA wants and if there is "Good Software" which doesn't _need_ that protection, and all the CRAP does, then the gov't looks dumb for making it law.
It goes like this. Metallica's lawyers sit at home on their asses watching CNN. CNN does a story about Napster or Gnutella or something. Metallica's lawyers think "hrm... Metallica music free, Metallica lose money. Metallica lose money, me no get pay, me no have cigar, me no have 400 servants. hrrrm..." and then the private firm is hired to look into it, and the rest is history. That's how it'd HAVE TO go IMHO. Through all this I respect ARTISTS like Ani DiFranco who understand their music is art and art is about freedom and free people should have open access to art. This CD may be copied freely. Things like that I like to see. You _know_ the lawyers are behind it and that the bands just don't care about their fans.
Then let's take the people who copied that one book that so many people find important, what was it called? The Bible. I don't find it a book I am interested in but a lot of people do. Let's say you couldn't freely copy it right. One person controlled it. You know how many people would be deprived of something they hold very important to their lives? Well see this is where mp3s come in. A lot of people find religion important to them, I don't. But I do hold music very dear to my heart. I mean if I go to jail for wanting to listen to mp3s, can I at least take my Rio?
hehe yeah a lot of people drive by 'ere:) Actually Hopson && Davis so lotsa accidents too. That's another problem of like growing cities from the tech industry. Road safety. I mean first you have more ppl than the roads were made to handle. Then you have these tech people on their palm pilots and cell phones and so on and it just leads to trouble. Hell EVERY accident I have seen in the past few months someone involved has gotten out their cell phone and called for help. This is an advantage of cell phones yes, but it shows how far and wide technology has spread itself and when you concentrate people on it they focus far too deeply at times when maybe they shouldn't. But you're right too -- things are not nearly as bad here as they could be and that's thanks to communities which were drawn far apart like Fuquay Varina and Apex which can hold a lot of growth. Then again at one point, Cary could, too.
It's like that in all the major high-tech industry areas, at least in the united states, prolly the world eh? It only comes to reason that if a lot of people are being moved to an area, and that area is not one big slum, that housing prices will go up. Look at areas of Durham and Raliegh and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. The Research Triangle Park (in which I sit right now) has caused housing prices to go up 3x (so our older neighbours tell us). Actually the businesess have spread to residential areas right now. *waves to the ericsson build across the street* and I'm at home!
I mean really... This is just a great looking idea. Anyone get in BEFORE they decided ppl couldn't try it out? *sigh* one of the side-affects of hearing it on slashdot. Oh well. Oh and umm since it's mentioned after all... Gnutella rocks! Okay enough gnutella advocacy... It's mostly porn and people searching for kiddie porn. does that mean that is all this search engine will find? Oh great. If it could eliminate the 10000 popups, then maybe...
I hope this creates a broader future for Python. I'd really like to see it go somewhere faster than it has been in the past. I like to hear things like this going on.
Or maybe *gasp* the in-addr.arpa for that ip address shows the delegation for the IP address and they just have an IN A record under helixcode.com which points to that IP address. Nah. Couldn't be. I mean that's just not possible. But then again do an nslookup on: newgold.net rawr.org jmallett.org then do an nslookup on 4.3.4.236 and 4.3.0.75 *gasp* not the same name? Well wait we host our own site but the in-addr.arpa is different. For whatever reason -- in our case that our ISP won't change the in-addr.arpa for us. Oh and anyways -- apt-get has nothing on the FreeBSD/OpenBSD ports tree:)
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I actually don't like him much myself. But he does what he does well -- he says things to people who hear words like "linux" and get colossal chubbies, and he gets paid for it. Like I said -- words not ideas. His ideas are mostly shite. And he's an arrogant elitist.
Works for me! :P
Talk about _hard_. I mean really. He has a job/occupation much like the president's. He's a public speaker, writer, programmer, etc., He's like a college professor in that respect as well, except his listeners don't always have the background to understand what he's got to say. Should have prerequisites for reading anything by ESR. 1) You have to have used this _miracle linux_ 2) You have to have used some real OS 3) You have to know at least a little programming or know what it's like to work in that field. Many people take him at his words and not the ideas he addresses.
Honest to who?
It's about the role Open Source Software should be given in Public Policy. I.e. should the government be for it, against it, or ignore it? The worry is that the government will be against it due to the DMCA. Because if you distribute Open Source Software it hardly falls in with what the DMCA wants and if there is "Good Software" which doesn't _need_ that protection, and all the CRAP does, then the gov't looks dumb for making it law.
ESR has a lot going on these days doesn't he? Anyone wonder when this guy takes a break?
It goes like this. Metallica's lawyers sit at home on their asses watching CNN. CNN does a story about Napster or Gnutella or something. Metallica's lawyers think "hrm... Metallica music free, Metallica lose money. Metallica lose money, me no get pay, me no have cigar, me no have 400 servants. hrrrm..." and then the private firm is hired to look into it, and the rest is history. That's how it'd HAVE TO go IMHO. Through all this I respect ARTISTS like Ani DiFranco who understand their music is art and art is about freedom and free people should have open access to art. This CD may be copied freely. Things like that I like to see. You _know_ the lawyers are behind it and that the bands just don't care about their fans.
Then let's take the people who copied that one book that so many people find important, what was it called? The Bible. I don't find it a book I am interested in but a lot of people do. Let's say you couldn't freely copy it right. One person controlled it. You know how many people would be deprived of something they hold very important to their lives? Well see this is where mp3s come in. A lot of people find religion important to them, I don't. But I do hold music very dear to my heart. I mean if I go to jail for wanting to listen to mp3s, can I at least take my Rio?
I dunno... It just bottlenecks it all. And that tacky new sign they put up... urgh.. its disgusting. =P
hehe yeah a lot of people drive by 'ere :) Actually Hopson && Davis so lotsa accidents too. That's another problem of like growing cities from the tech industry. Road safety. I mean first you have more ppl than the roads were made to handle. Then you have these tech people on their palm pilots and cell phones and so on and it just leads to trouble. Hell EVERY accident I have seen in the past few months someone involved has gotten out their cell phone and called for help. This is an advantage of cell phones yes, but it shows how far and wide technology has spread itself and when you concentrate people on it they focus far too deeply at times when maybe they shouldn't.
But you're right too -- things are not nearly as bad here as they could be and that's thanks to communities which were drawn far apart like Fuquay Varina and Apex which can hold a lot of growth. Then again at one point, Cary could, too.
It's like that in all the major high-tech industry areas, at least in the united states, prolly the world eh? It only comes to reason that if a lot of people are being moved to an area, and that area is not one big slum, that housing prices will go up. Look at areas of Durham and Raliegh and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. The Research Triangle Park (in which I sit right now) has caused housing prices to go up 3x (so our older neighbours tell us). Actually the businesess have spread to residential areas right now. *waves to the ericsson build across the street* and I'm at home!
I mean really... This is just a great looking idea. Anyone get in BEFORE they decided ppl couldn't try it out? *sigh* one of the side-affects of hearing it on slashdot. Oh well. Oh and umm since it's mentioned after all... Gnutella rocks! Okay enough gnutella advocacy... It's mostly porn and people searching for kiddie porn. does that mean that is all this search engine will find? Oh great. If it could eliminate the 10000 popups, then maybe...
I hope this creates a broader future for Python. I'd really like to see it go somewhere faster than it has been in the past. I like to hear things like this going on.
Or maybe *gasp* the in-addr.arpa for that ip address shows the delegation for the IP address and they just have an IN A record under helixcode.com which points to that IP address. Nah. Couldn't be. I mean that's just not possible. But then again do an nslookup on: newgold.net rawr.org jmallett.org then do an nslookup on 4.3.4.236 and 4.3.0.75 *gasp* not the same name? Well wait we host our own site but the in-addr.arpa is different. For whatever reason -- in our case that our ISP won't change the in-addr.arpa for us. Oh and anyways -- apt-get has nothing on the FreeBSD/OpenBSD ports tree :)