Wow, there's a non-issue if ever I saw one. As far as I'm concerned, when someone flames me (especially so stupidly) the whole netiquette thing is gone.
Would you think me rude if I said "shut the hell up" to someone who just screamed into my ear?
It's a bit unprofessional of them, and it doesn't reflect well, but it's not an issue of politeness.
So the only thing I miss from the GIMP as it stands now is polygon/ellipse/rectangle drawing tools. Paths are nice, and I'm glad they've been added... but I'd really like to be able to just draw a circle.
It's in use anyway, just not as broad a term as "hacker" (and I didn't mean to imply that it should be.
At any rate, I think this whole debate is highly amusing... People have been trying to force appropriate usage of "hacker" for years. What makes them think they can get everyone to stop using it in its original sense?
These are a couple that I've heard bouncing around, that tend to be more specific than "hacker":
Cowboy - someone who risks a jury-rigged solution for lack of other options, or comes up with a creative solution to a problem that others wouldn't have thought of.
ninja - usually preceded by a skill. For example, "database ninja" or "Perl ninja". Describes a truly hardcore specialist, someone with mad skill in a particular area.
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The mere fact that some of these kids played Quake-like games does not lead, even logically, to a conclusion that Quake-like games lead them to kill.
Of the millions of kids who play these games, how many have killed? Falling back on simple statistics, and not even bothering with common sense, it should be clear that your position doesn't hold water.
Because there hasn't been time to build and thoroughly test a distro based on glibc2.1. Sorry, but if your distro is using a glibc2 prior to that, it's based on a pre-release developmental C library. Which smacks of stupidity, IMHO.
The RIAA can't sue the CDDB for compiling a database of titles, etc.
CDDB does own its database, as per current copyright law... you can own a database without owning the individual data within it. The collection is yours. If someone else is able to assemble a similar database, oh well.
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To the best of my knowledge, it has never been a violation of copyright to publish correspondence that someone sends you.
Similarly, there's nothing illegal about taping your conversation with someone and then broadcasting it.
It's a bit rude under normal circumstances, but not illegal.
Wow, there's a non-issue if ever I saw one. As far as I'm concerned, when someone flames me (especially so stupidly) the whole netiquette thing is gone.
Would you think me rude if I said "shut the hell up" to someone who just screamed into my ear?
It's a bit unprofessional of them, and it doesn't reflect well, but it's not an issue of politeness.
Not true. You send someone a piece of correspondence and it's theirs to use as they wish.
To the best of my knowledge, this has always been true.
If it passes, it'll be shot down in court in a heartbeat. There are plenty of library systems that'll challenge it.
The hell they could. "amp" was around before winamp. And it's still one of my two mp3 players of choice.
You could at least punctuate when you spew their press kit.
Not so strange... it's in the rules.
I'm replying to myself, because I only want one reply here...
...all I wanted to say. :)
I did not know that.. Thanks!
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So the only thing I miss from the GIMP as it stands now is polygon/ellipse/rectangle drawing tools. Paths are nice, and I'm glad they've been added... but I'd really like to be able to just draw a circle.
Wah. The connotations are of mad skill.
It's in use anyway, just not as broad a term as "hacker" (and I didn't mean to imply that it should be.
At any rate, I think this whole debate is highly amusing... People have been trying to force appropriate usage of "hacker" for years. What makes them think they can get everyone to stop using it in its original sense?
These are a couple that I've heard bouncing around, that tend to be more specific than "hacker":
Cowboy - someone who risks a jury-rigged solution for lack of other options, or comes up with a creative solution to a problem that others wouldn't have thought of.
ninja - usually preceded by a skill. For example, "database ninja" or "Perl ninja". Describes a truly hardcore specialist, someone with mad skill in a particular area.
"live, streaming slack!" -- who thought of that?!
:)
I did... Thanks.
So if Slashdot is your source for kernel development news, you've got some problems of your own to deal with.
I would rather have a computer on my desk that crashes occasionally, than core memory.
Maybe, but you don't fly your desk. I think.
Yeah it is. It's a chink in the programming that can be exploited for the purposes of Evil.
Good grief... There's nothing funnier than paranoia stemming from delusions of grandeur.
So get over it. It's not the Windows *interface* that screws you over. That's like hating the color blue because it's in the IE logo.
Being different for the sake of being different, especially at the expense of usability and consistency, is stupid.
"Look at me, I'm alternative." Woo.
Correlation is not causation.
The mere fact that some of these kids played Quake-like games does not lead, even logically, to a conclusion that Quake-like games lead them to kill.
Of the millions of kids who play these games, how many have killed? Falling back on simple statistics, and not even bothering with common sense, it should be clear that your position doesn't hold water.
We're calling them "software sets" now.. only a couple are still truly "disk sets." :)
Because there hasn't been time to build and thoroughly test a distro based on glibc2.1. Sorry, but if your distro is using a glibc2 prior to that, it's based on a pre-release developmental C library. Which smacks of stupidity, IMHO.
This makes sense. If you push data at his port all day long, tehre's not so much he can do about it.
Okay. No originality points for Carmack, then.
Woo.
The RIAA can't sue the CDDB for compiling a database of titles, etc.
CDDB does own its database, as per current copyright law... you can own a database without owning the individual data within it. The collection is yours. If someone else is able to assemble a similar database, oh well.
There's a big, big difference between politics and government.