It's easy to buff your rep and experience as a software developer, just join any of a million open source project and contribute code that is awesome. Then you have something real to point to that will impress everybody. Libreoffice could use some more helping hands at the moment, for example.
Games are just about as good as they are going to get without new display technologies.
Hah, you're totally making that up. 3D simulation has barely scratched the surface of what is possible, and AI of today is just a lame joke. How about audio synthesys that doesn't need vactors? How about fully interactive worlds? How about interacting with proper physics? How about hair that looks and acts like hair?
Trust me, the games you are playing today will look just as dated in ten years as that games you played then years ago.
I'll only contribute to BSD or similarly-licensed projects: Absolutely no GPL3
You sound like a pretty sick puppy, I'm not sure I want your angry code in anything I depend on. In any case, I hope it doesn't raise your blood pressure too high to know that code you contribute under a BSD license can be freely incorporated into any GPL project, if there is anything good about it of course.
By the way, all the BSD coders I know, first and foremost, just accept other licenses as being what somebody wanted, and BSD is about complete freedom, right? Including the freedom to choose a copyleft license. And in fact, most of the BSD fans I know make regular contributions to GPL projects. Few of them display such bile as you. I wonder what your contributions really are?
But the freedom for others to tinker does have value to you. Excellent example: the Linux kernel, which chances are, powers more than one device you own.
Sure you can't run exchange, but there are plenty of alternatives many of which are a lot better.
Name one. Just one.
Google Apps, including gmail. To name one cloud service that is getting massive takeup, along with a host of others. Compare to Outlook webmail if you need a good reason to dump MSFT.
Maybe the message is that the EFF probably wouldn't want money raised from the sale of drm encumbered games?
The real message is that Wolfire/Humble Bundle just diluted their brand, which was going gangbusters, and now has controversy. Good for a quick buck, but is it worth it in the long run, to erode the perception that their mission is to take and hold the moral high ground?
I say, they just opened the door to some new group would will come out with the "Honest Bundle" or similar, and make a much better effort to stay on-message.
As for the DRM, it's already in the games - why would a company, that is in dire financial straits, spend $$$ to remove DRM from games just for a short sale?
Because it's worth a try, a roll of the dice to see if they win big? It's not like they have a lot to lose.
Did anyone expect better from Dell? They have a history of doing this with Linux laptops.
Think of it as a convenience fee for not having loads of junkware preinstalled on it, and not needing to be annoyed, humiliated and betrayed by Windows.
It's a piece of software, not your evil ex-girlfriend who ran off with your best friend on your wedding day and cleared out your bank account then posted pictures of your micro-penis on her facebook page.
Microsoft Windows, an evil ex-girlfriend. Thanks much for the image. And btw, that image you mentioned would have had to be photoshopped. But of course we all know Microsoft, just another evil day's work.
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That's what you (are paid to) think. Do you have a TV?
Yah right, you better send that prof some hate mail, and get down to coding your AI on a GPU like everybody else.
It's easy to buff your rep and experience as a software developer, just join any of a million open source project and contribute code that is awesome. Then you have something real to point to that will impress everybody. Libreoffice could use some more helping hands at the moment, for example.
...everything from subversion updates to where we want to go to lunch.
Subversion, yuck, I hope you asked an extra 10K for that indignity.
23% of the baryonic mass of the universe is helium, the vast majority created within three minutes of the big bang. According to Wikipedia.
There is always hydrogen. Sure it has a bad rap, but can't we make hydrogen more safer?
Oh I know, mix it with nitogen!
One tornado and it's gone. Big waste of helium.
Games are just about as good as they are going to get without new display technologies.
Hah, you're totally making that up. 3D simulation has barely scratched the surface of what is possible, and AI of today is just a lame joke. How about audio synthesys that doesn't need vactors? How about fully interactive worlds? How about interacting with proper physics? How about hair that looks and acts like hair?
Trust me, the games you are playing today will look just as dated in ten years as that games you played then years ago.
Microsoft-level quality is expensive. [Yes, that was sarcasm.]
Now that's just being mean. It costs money to write all those bugs.
us "highly libertarian" users are also all about personal accountability...
That would be "pseudo accountability" for those of us posting under pseudonyms.
I'll only contribute to BSD or similarly-licensed projects: Absolutely no GPL3
You sound like a pretty sick puppy, I'm not sure I want your angry code in anything I depend on. In any case, I hope it doesn't raise your blood pressure too high to know that code you contribute under a BSD license can be freely incorporated into any GPL project, if there is anything good about it of course.
By the way, all the BSD coders I know, first and foremost, just accept other licenses as being what somebody wanted, and BSD is about complete freedom, right? Including the freedom to choose a copyleft license. And in fact, most of the BSD fans I know make regular contributions to GPL projects. Few of them display such bile as you. I wonder what your contributions really are?
He is admitting that free software is inconvenient...
I take it that you skipped logic class, or failed it?
The freedom to tinker has no value to me...
But the freedom for others to tinker does have value to you. Excellent example: the Linux kernel, which chances are, powers more than one device you own.
To tell the true, I find you disgusting for dwelling on it.
Most people don't really care about being free. They'd rather be safe and feel secure even if it's only an illusion.
Isn't it nice that their forebears cared about freedom enough to die for it, so that they can sit on their fat asses and not care about it today?
+1. Zimbra completely outclasses Microsoft's webmail offering.
Sure you can't run exchange, but there are plenty of alternatives many of which are a lot better.
Name one. Just one.
Google Apps, including gmail. To name one cloud service that is getting massive takeup, along with a host of others. Compare to Outlook webmail if you need a good reason to dump MSFT.
It's strong-arming if you vendor lock a customer than steeply raise rates.
blah blah free market blah blah still an adversarial dick move.
Not merely a dick move, but illegal under the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts.
These idiots who didn't see it coming from miles away deserve to be squeezed by these assholes.
It eventually fills up the galaxy with ascii chars and the world ends.
Apparently, the target market for the book is anybody who believes that is not a loop.
Well, Linus Torvalds uses a Macbook Air...
With OSX replaced by Linux.
Maybe the message is that the EFF probably wouldn't want money raised from the sale of drm encumbered games?
The real message is that Wolfire/Humble Bundle just diluted their brand, which was going gangbusters, and now has controversy. Good for a quick buck, but is it worth it in the long run, to erode the perception that their mission is to take and hold the moral high ground?
I say, they just opened the door to some new group would will come out with the "Honest Bundle" or similar, and make a much better effort to stay on-message.
As for the DRM, it's already in the games - why would a company, that is in dire financial straits, spend $$$ to remove DRM from games just for a short sale?
Because it's worth a try, a roll of the dice to see if they win big? It's not like they have a lot to lose.
Did anyone expect better from Dell? They have a history of doing this with Linux laptops.
Think of it as a convenience fee for not having loads of junkware preinstalled on it, and not needing to be annoyed, humiliated and betrayed by Windows.
It's a piece of software, not your evil ex-girlfriend who ran off with your best friend on your wedding day and cleared out your bank account then posted pictures of your micro-penis on her facebook page.
Microsoft Windows, an evil ex-girlfriend. Thanks much for the image. And btw, that image you mentioned would have had to be photoshopped. But of course we all know Microsoft, just another evil day's work.