You need to get your head out of your ass. Not everyone agrees with your ultra-right wing, puritanical bullshit. Personally, I don't like having kids stores anywhere in my towns. I fucking hate kids. But, I understand that morons want to breed, and I can't stop them. They have every right to breed and piss me off with the world-wide "but what about the children" attitude. I have every right to sell porn, and to enjoy porn. So really, go fuck yourself.
You're right. Then you should develop websites that work with the strict "W3C" recommendation, and I'll develop 'em for IE. I'd rather have traffic than meet some irrelevant, outdated, arbitrary "standard".
Dude, where have you been? The majority DOES rule. The W3C could proclaim tomorrow that Mozilla is the *only* browser, but that wouldn't change shit. IE's the majority. A very, very strong majority. What IE does, the Web now follows. Whether or not you like it is absolutely irrelevant.
A "standard" is generally defined as the most widely used method that a majority conforms to. At this point, the W3C standard is irrelevant and arbitrary. Who says that W3C is a standard? Just because some group and stands up and says "we make the standards" doesn't mean that's a standard.
TRUE geeks know how to get X Windows working without the latest and greatest.
Poverty ain't the issue. It's the fact that any kid can go down to the local store and buy the latest shit every week. That's fucking lame. Get an old box working well, and that's fucking cool.
I don't even know what an AST Rampage is... All I know is I'm running a PII 250, and it works just fine. If you have to buy new parts because you can't make your old stuff work, sounds like you got some learning to do.
I've got plenty of working ISA cards. TRUE geeks don't buy new hardware just because it's new. TRUE geeks keep working shit working. People who buy the latest and greatest the second it comes out are called wannabe's.
I want to congratulate the company on making a motherboard that is virtually useless to anybody who isn't bleeding edge. I don't even have a single USB device, and I still use ISA cards extensively because they'er so damn cheap. So congratulations, Abit! You've made a product that only the geekiest and wealthiest of geeks can actually use!
Well, it could be "I'm going to make or lose x amount, and I'm gonan stick to it" or it could be "well, shit, this company isn't going anywhere... I'm gonna get what I can while I can." Unless you can read the mind of the people doing the selling, you'll never know. But, it's generally accepted as common sense that when an owner of a company begins to sell pieces of it, and he/she's not planning on retiring any time soon, or starting something else, or selling for any particular reason at all, that's a bad thing. When multiple owners/execs/founders of a company do it at the same time, common sense says that chances are, it's not a coincidence.
A lot of the compensation for the creation of open source software itself is not as immediately tangible as the benefits of closed software. As in direct economic gain.
But I'm talking about things well outside of just open source and software. I'm talking about technology enabling people to have more control over their lives and the ability to see the benefits of their own work.
So then how, EXACTLY, can someone be compensated for writing open source software? Are you suggesting compensation by a "warm fuzzy" feeling? I think that it's a very basic, very simple question that I'm genuinely curious about. How does someone who writes open source software get compensated for their work and skill?
I know this has been said before, but here's another alternative... JVC sells a 7 disc DVD/audio CD/MP3 CD player for only $300. Why would I want to dick with a PC in my living room? If I want to listen to music/watch a movie, whatever, I want to do that, not dick with some stupid, overpriced PC. If I want to listen to music on my PC, I fire up Winamp. What does this product have to offer?
which doesn't typically boost investor confidence. In late March, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Szulik filed to sell 425,000 of his shares after filing to sell 600,000 shares in February, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Company co-founder and Chairman Robert F. Young has unloaded nearly 700,000 shares so far this year, part of a plan in which he sells shares automatically on a daily basis.
When the founders/owners/top execs of a company start dumping shares, that's not a good sign. These guys know how the company is really doing.
I would like to see an economy where individuals are compensated on their merits.
And how does Open Source software compensate individual coders based on their merits? Seems to me that Open Source is geared towards not compensating *anybody*.
Well, a previous/. article talked about sysadmins of by mail servers blackhole-ing Chinese servers that are open relays. It works... still, it seems like you'd be cutting off your nose to spite your face. You'd lose some potentially real email, too.
Even if the US passed the most draconian email laws imaginable, it wouldn't make a dent. I know that personally most of the spam received orginates from Russia/Asia, and the legal entity sending it is an obscure, off-shore company. The Net has largely proven to be unregulateable, and probably will be for a while now. Legislation is largely useless, and by and large, ANY new laws attempting to govern the Net can bring no good.
Unfortunatelly the price for YOU TO HAVE ALL THAT is 80% of the world population been poor and literally "starving to death in the streets" (please, go to Africa or India and you'll understand what you are talking about).
Thsi is complete bullshit. One of the only places in the world that people are starving to death in mass quantities is in North Korea, and that's due to Communism. The standard of living in most of the world is *tenfold* better than it was a hundred years ago. Even as we speak, I'm working on a plan to export tens of thousands of wireless phones and wireless phone equipment to one African country to people who want and can afford wireless phones and *wireless Internet access*!
I don't pay anyobdy for MP3's. I use 'em. I make 'em, I copy 'em, I trade 'em. I don't give two shits about who pays who what. I use what works, and what's prevalent. I'm sure as shit not gonna use "ogg" for Apple's behalf, and then get stuck with a machine that's realtively uselss.
compile ssh client/server compile a NFS client/server compile a samba client/server
You're kidding, right? I didn't see any "funny" mod points, so maybe everyone else is just as confused as me. You've GOT to be kidding. This is a PDA. PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant". This is NOT a PC. The point of a PC is not to do any of the things you mentioned. It's a gizmo to help you track your schedule, your contacts, and to burn time while waiting in airports. I'm sure that I could also use my manual, push-lawnmower to mow a golf course, too, but that doesn't make it a good fucking idea.
Yeah, really? MP3? What are they thinking? Where in the hell do you get MP3's, MP3 software, etc.? Talk about obscure! Those idiots at Apple have to go for this bizarre "MP3" format instead of supporting Ogg, which, of course, is mainstream. Dumbasses.
Wow, dude... you sure are one l33t d00d. I'm impressed.
XP is a CONSUMER OS. CONSUMERS at HOME want shit like MSN. If you're not a mommy or daddy at home doing your taxes and letting your kids IM and play games, DO NOT USE XP. Is that so fucking difficult? This is the same as people in businesses bitching about Win 95/98/ME instead of using NT/W2K like they were supposed to. You're buying a fucking Geo and trying to use it as a towtruck. That's fucking stupid. Install W2K and shut the hell up.
People are lazy (yes, there's stupid ones too). They don't want to LEARN anything new. They want to be handed something that they know the person sitting next to them knows because when the person is stumped, rather than hit Google, or try to figure it out, they turn to the person next to them.
No, his point is that people SHOULD NOT have to LEARN about their OS. That's a waste of time for everybody that's not an admin or a developer. Why should a marketing person have to know what thier "desktop" is called? That's a waste of time for them. That's a waste of time just like it's a waste of time for everybody driving a car to understand how the engine works, what the electrical system schematic is, etc. I get in the car, turn the key, and go. I put gas in it, and that's about it. If something goes wrong, I bring it to a specialist. There's no point in me being a specialist. I have other things to do.
Most people who use computers are not techincal, nor should they be. That's great that YOU want to learn Linux, but most people should NOT be spending time playing with their PC's at work.
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You need to get your head out of your ass. Not everyone agrees with your ultra-right wing, puritanical bullshit. Personally, I don't like having kids stores anywhere in my towns. I fucking hate kids. But, I understand that morons want to breed, and I can't stop them. They have every right to breed and piss me off with the world-wide "but what about the children" attitude. I have every right to sell porn, and to enjoy porn. So really, go fuck yourself.
You're right. Then you should develop websites that work with the strict "W3C" recommendation, and I'll develop 'em for IE. I'd rather have traffic than meet some irrelevant, outdated, arbitrary "standard".
Dude, where have you been? The majority DOES rule. The W3C could proclaim tomorrow that Mozilla is the *only* browser, but that wouldn't change shit. IE's the majority. A very, very strong majority. What IE does, the Web now follows. Whether or not you like it is absolutely irrelevant.
It's not a hack. It's simply programatically browsing, reading the results, etc. It's very fucking simple in VB, PERL, whatever.
A "standard" is generally defined as the most widely used method that a majority conforms to. At this point, the W3C standard is irrelevant and arbitrary. Who says that W3C is a standard? Just because some group and stands up and says "we make the standards" doesn't mean that's a standard.
Why is this needed? I've been using Google programatically for a while now. What does this offer that I can't use on my own?
TRUE geeks know how to get X Windows working without the latest and greatest.
Poverty ain't the issue. It's the fact that any kid can go down to the local store and buy the latest shit every week. That's fucking lame. Get an old box working well, and that's fucking cool.
I don't even know what an AST Rampage is... All I know is I'm running a PII 250, and it works just fine. If you have to buy new parts because you can't make your old stuff work, sounds like you got some learning to do.
I've got plenty of working ISA cards. TRUE geeks don't buy new hardware just because it's new. TRUE geeks keep working shit working. People who buy the latest and greatest the second it comes out are called wannabe's.
I want to congratulate the company on making a motherboard that is virtually useless to anybody who isn't bleeding edge. I don't even have a single USB device, and I still use ISA cards extensively because they'er so damn cheap. So congratulations, Abit! You've made a product that only the geekiest and wealthiest of geeks can actually use!
Based on the spelling of your post, I'd guess that you're probably not old enough to be on the Internet without your parent's supervision.
Well, it could be "I'm going to make or lose x amount, and I'm gonan stick to it" or it could be "well, shit, this company isn't going anywhere... I'm gonna get what I can while I can." Unless you can read the mind of the people doing the selling, you'll never know. But, it's generally accepted as common sense that when an owner of a company begins to sell pieces of it, and he/she's not planning on retiring any time soon, or starting something else, or selling for any particular reason at all, that's a bad thing. When multiple owners/execs/founders of a company do it at the same time, common sense says that chances are, it's not a coincidence.
A lot of the compensation for the creation of open source software itself is not as immediately tangible as the benefits of closed software. As in direct economic gain.
But I'm talking about things well outside of just open source and software. I'm talking about technology enabling people to have more control over their lives and the ability to see the benefits of their own work.
So then how, EXACTLY, can someone be compensated for writing open source software? Are you suggesting compensation by a "warm fuzzy" feeling?
I think that it's a very basic, very simple question that I'm genuinely curious about. How does someone who writes open source software get compensated for their work and skill?
I know this has been said before, but here's another alternative... JVC sells a 7 disc DVD/audio CD/MP3 CD player for only $300. Why would I want to dick with a PC in my living room? If I want to listen to music/watch a movie, whatever, I want to do that, not dick with some stupid, overpriced PC. If I want to listen to music on my PC, I fire up Winamp. What does this product have to offer?
which doesn't typically boost investor confidence. In late March, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Szulik filed to sell 425,000 of his shares after filing to sell 600,000 shares in February, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Company co-founder and Chairman Robert F. Young has unloaded nearly 700,000 shares so far this year, part of a plan in which he sells shares automatically on a daily basis.
When the founders/owners/top execs of a company start dumping shares, that's not a good sign. These guys know how the company is really doing.
I would like to see an economy where individuals are compensated on their merits.
And how does Open Source software compensate individual coders based on their merits? Seems to me that Open Source is geared towards not compensating *anybody*.
Well, a previous /. article talked about sysadmins of by mail servers blackhole-ing Chinese servers that are open relays. It works... still, it seems like you'd be cutting off your nose to spite your face. You'd lose some potentially real email, too.
Even if the US passed the most draconian email laws imaginable, it wouldn't make a dent. I know that personally most of the spam received orginates from Russia/Asia, and the legal entity sending it is an obscure, off-shore company. The Net has largely proven to be unregulateable, and probably will be for a while now. Legislation is largely useless, and by and large, ANY new laws attempting to govern the Net can bring no good.
Unfortunatelly the price for YOU TO HAVE ALL THAT is 80% of the world population been poor and literally "starving to death in the streets" (please, go to Africa or India and you'll understand what you are talking about).
Thsi is complete bullshit. One of the only places in the world that people are starving to death in mass quantities is in North Korea, and that's due to Communism. The standard of living in most of the world is *tenfold* better than it was a hundred years ago. Even as we speak, I'm working on a plan to export tens of thousands of wireless phones and wireless phone equipment to one African country to people who want and can afford wireless phones and *wireless Internet access*!
All I can figure is what they're *really* planning is the world's best porn-harvesting tool.
Genius.
I don't pay anyobdy for MP3's. I use 'em. I make 'em, I copy 'em, I trade 'em. I don't give two shits about who pays who what. I use what works, and what's prevalent. I'm sure as shit not gonna use "ogg" for Apple's behalf, and then get stuck with a machine that's realtively uselss.
compile ssh client/server
compile a NFS client/server
compile a samba client/server
You're kidding, right? I didn't see any "funny" mod points, so maybe everyone else is just as confused as me. You've GOT to be kidding. This is a PDA. PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant". This is NOT a PC. The point of a PC is not to do any of the things you mentioned. It's a gizmo to help you track your schedule, your contacts, and to burn time while waiting in airports. I'm sure that I could also use my manual, push-lawnmower to mow a golf course, too, but that doesn't make it a good fucking idea.
Yeah, really? MP3? What are they thinking? Where in the hell do you get MP3's, MP3 software, etc.? Talk about obscure! Those idiots at Apple have to go for this bizarre "MP3" format instead of supporting Ogg, which, of course, is mainstream. Dumbasses.
Wow, dude... you sure are one l33t d00d. I'm impressed.
XP is a CONSUMER OS. CONSUMERS at HOME want shit like MSN. If you're not a mommy or daddy at home doing your taxes and letting your kids IM and play games, DO NOT USE XP. Is that so fucking difficult? This is the same as people in businesses bitching about Win 95/98/ME instead of using NT/W2K like they were supposed to. You're buying a fucking Geo and trying to use it as a towtruck. That's fucking stupid. Install W2K and shut the hell up.
People are lazy (yes, there's stupid ones too). They don't want to LEARN anything new. They want to be handed something that they know the person sitting next to them knows because when the person is stumped, rather than hit Google, or try to figure it out, they turn to the person next to them.
No, his point is that people SHOULD NOT have to LEARN about their OS. That's a waste of time for everybody that's not an admin or a developer. Why should a marketing person have to know what thier "desktop" is called? That's a waste of time for them. That's a waste of time just like it's a waste of time for everybody driving a car to understand how the engine works, what the electrical system schematic is, etc. I get in the car, turn the key, and go. I put gas in it, and that's about it. If something goes wrong, I bring it to a specialist. There's no point in me being a specialist. I have other things to do.
Most people who use computers are not techincal, nor should they be. That's great that YOU want to learn Linux, but most people should NOT be spending time playing with their PC's at work.