That particular peeve can be handled with an Explorer setting.
I think using an escape character for a filesystem separator is a far more pettable peeve.
Nothing like arbritrary incompatibilities to make me trot out my obscene gesture collection. CRLF, anyone?
Given the depth of the Redmond pockets, the fact that they consistently deliver sub-optimal stuff smacks of a meta-design, to me. You and your http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/ link, JC!
It doesn't matter what sort of political or economic philospohy you subscribe to, when pure economics takes precedence over "ethics" then the said economic or political system becomes corrupt and vulnerable to collapse. Slavery did not end in America because someone had a convincing "mainstram economic argument" against it. Nazi Germany did not fall because it had an inferior economy. We triumphed over both because they were morally reprehensible (sorry, but I didn't spot the pre-requisite reverence to Nazis in this/. discussion so I had to add it).
Still working hard, trying to map the concepts of vendor, market, and seller to this "ethical" domain.
Maybe slavery and Nazism are loaded choices for examples. As a child, my parents held my rights in abeyance, pending adulthood. As a member of the armed forces, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against..., and my rights were subsequently abridged for a time.
I wouldn't call either of those situations "slavery". My concept of slavery is "prison without due process", with a heavy dose of physical/psychological abuse.
Nazism ups the ante with genocide.
Let's see now. I've used proprietary products, and had hard drive partitions and valuable data torn up thereby.
I've also experienced frustration, when documentation was at variance with observed behavior.
Furthermore, I've been angered when perfectly good systems are deprecated and scrapped for no good technical, and presumably "good business" reasons.
However, calling a voluntary arrangement between buyer and seller "unethical" still seems handwaving. Heavily loaded historical examples, far from swaying, only drive "the reasonable person" further away from the GNU position.
The crux:
RMS and others might come across as wingnuts at times, but it is their dedication to ther beliefs and their inthusiasm [sic] for the free software movement that has made GNU/Linux as successful as it is.
You may view RMS' idealism as giving ammo to the opposition, but I prefer to think of it as a kevlar vest. The key is to stick to your principles while being informed and aware so you don't shoot yourself in the foot.
Preach it. I get this.
I would go further and say that I never expect RMS to give the question objective consideration. (I'll answer for him in advance that he has, just RTFM).
However, I fear that the zero-sum game approach is going to become more bug than feature. Even MS is trying to grab market share by virtualizing a GNU/Linux kernel. Sad day, when you see more intellectual flexibility in Redmond than Boston.
Ah, but, you see, your arm will be most artfully twisted.
The trick with you hard cases is to sell you the strategically bad idea in small, tactically tasteful packages...
When do we draw the line between normal computer use and invasion of privacy?
Well, you have a vendor, a market, and a consumer.
When the vendor leverages the market information to make the decision for you that you should upgrade, I daresay you may feel invaded, while falling short of concluding whether or not Daddy Knows Best. Time will Tell.
How so? The world is full of people with whom you wouldn't agree at all who would claim themselves 'ethical'.
Do we think that <mogul> gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says "Can't wait to go be unethical today!"?
Time will Tell if Yet Another MicroSoft Handheld will make a difference.
For me, the Treo does all that, and, more, does not kowtow to Redmond.
Fight the power.
I think that the idea of buyer, market, and seller is important.
While I support the GPL (FSF associate #2221, thank'ee) I support and defend the right of people
to be idiots with respect to software
to eat unhealthy food
to watch lousy TV
to waste their sexuality in ways I never would
to live beyond their means, however economically unsound
While I am comfortable with the GPL, and I think that it speaks well for itself, the preaching of the GPL as revealed truth grates on the nerves.
In real life, I daresay I qualify as one of those right-wing fundamentalist Christian types; however, I really don't think my reactionary stances on most issues halt all debate on those topics. No, there is often room for reasonable people to disagree on things.
And so, if someone chooses a transaction with Redmond or Cupertino, affixing an 'unethical' label to them seems a very, very dangerous step to me.
The tremenous failure of Leninist-Maoist pseudo-communism shouldn't be used as evidence against the accuracy of the theory of which they were perversions. Marx said that communism would come after capitalism, and so far even capitalism hasn't covered the whole world yet. Even if he were right, we wouldn't expect to see the results til later.
I think the reason the theory fares poorly outside the covers of its manifesto is that its model of human nature is flawed. Bad seed == lousy fruit.
There still remains an outside chance that we will end up in a society conforming to his ideals. For example, if corporations along the lines of Wal-Mart continue to grow and manage ever-increasing domination of the economy, they could become tantamount to a communist government.
I'm not sure your model adequately handles issues of national soveriegnty and economic feedback well enough. When you consider the Fortune 500 over time, aren't most of the former giants either gone or radically transformed?
This whole 'ethical' line of argumentation. A more mainstream economic argument holds a lot more water.
The negative spin applied to LM's motives, in the case of this article. RMS wouldn't make those statements without evidence, I'm sure; I simply find them in bad taste.
FOSS will turn a maturity corner when it achieves the unbunched panties of the BSD community about other viewpoints, and lets the intrinsic goodness of the GPL do the talking.
I especially hope that this mellowing can occur before GPL3. One thing I figured out fairly early is, if you give the opposition ammunition, they will shoot it at you. Proceed, therefore, with boldness tempered by wisdom.
Regret if I've appeared to be a Kuhn shill.
Possibly it's personal, but I saw Kuhn as identifying a pattern with broad application across organizations, but best summarized by Schopenhauer :
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The step #2 opposition, in my experience, stems from people who stand to lose money/power/prestige.
TFA in question, IMHO, tries to privilege scientests a bit too much.
But, hey, if people talk about the issues enough, a responsible course of action may shake out.
You bust on people who buy SUVs instead of hybrids and then you use the excuse of cargo room for not buying one yourself. You cannot rationally impose a criteria on others (people should buy hybrids instead of SUVs) and then choose not to follow that criteria yourself (i.e. buying a PT Cruiser instead of a hybrid).
Who determines how much cargo room is enough for everybody? Certainly not you or me.
Ford's hybrid Escape seems to be a step in the right direction and I hope it is very successful for them. Part of the determination of that success will be consumer interest. Consumer interest is, in turn, driven (no pun intended) by building what some of us consumers want, i.e. a vehicle that has cargo space, 4-wheel drive, good fuel economy, etc.
Your valid criticism (overlooking the point where I mentioned the timeframe I was in the market, which was 2002) gets at the whole chicken/egg discussion: should demand drive the market, or supply?
You could likely splice off a version control argument, as the HDTV article on/. is all about. Given that there are some hybrid vehicles that are for more than mere commuting to see the PHB daily, at what point should I trade in the PT Cruiser for such? Thing's paid off in a year, and, while living without a car payment may be called unAmerican, I'm willing to endure such insults.:)
The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path. They hate to admit mistakes or change direction. The scientists are ethicalistic, rebellious against any perceived dominant paradigm, and combative against each other. For them, admitting mistakes is what science is.
Thomas Kuhn debunks at least the latter half of this thesis.
Regardless of where you fall on the Social Security kerfluffle, there is one lovely bit of silver lining; here we see a leader thinking outside the box of his term.
Now, what we need is some intellectual judo to throw this outburst of leadership into other (possibly more) useful directions.
Folks, they never put seatbelts into cars until the likes of Ralph Nader proved that safety sells.
Hybrid cars, not these <expletive> SUVs (that Jesus surely would've eschewed) are what we should endorse.[1]
Focus on the facts, not the hormones. Disagree agreeably, compassionately, and, above all, think. Live in the now, but consider the longer term, please. While I like TFA in general, I wonder whether the polarization of the camps into granola heads/propeller heads that this sort of article can engender is helpful.
You will not be charged for this pep talk.
[1]For the record, I bought a PT Cruiser because the Honda model lacked cargo room when last I shopped.
Will enough people pay for the reasearch to support whatever the/. fee was for carrying this story?
Is research for money a Good Thing, or is it "begging the question" brought to a new level?
Oh, I thought it was about specifying data requirements, so that arbitrary systems could be built against it.
You're right; interoperable version control software would be teh sUx0rz.
Verily thinketh the n00b in his heart: things around here are explainable, foreasmuch as to have meaning, even unto the cusp of there being a point thereto.
Then the depression setteth in...
Oh, come off it: the government is a fine blend of a self-fork and a do-do loop.
It's when people quit whining that you know revolution is spinning around...
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That particular peeve can be handled with an Explorer setting.
I think using an escape character for a filesystem separator is a far more pettable peeve.
Nothing like arbritrary incompatibilities to make me trot out my obscene gesture collection. CRLF, anyone?
Rush just covered that track on "Feedback". Primo.
Given the depth of the Redmond pockets, the fact that they consistently deliver sub-optimal stuff smacks of a meta-design, to me. You and your http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/ link, JC!
Maybe slavery and Nazism are loaded choices for examples. As a child, my parents held my rights in abeyance, pending adulthood. As a member of the armed forces, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
I wouldn't call either of those situations "slavery". My concept of slavery is "prison without due process", with a heavy dose of physical/psychological abuse.
Nazism ups the ante with genocide.
Let's see now.
I've used proprietary products, and had hard drive partitions and valuable data torn up thereby.
I've also experienced frustration, when documentation was at variance with observed behavior. Furthermore, I've been angered when perfectly good systems are deprecated and scrapped for no good technical, and presumably "good business" reasons.
However, calling a voluntary arrangement between buyer and seller "unethical" still seems handwaving. Heavily loaded historical examples, far from swaying, only drive "the reasonable person" further away from the GNU position.
The crux: Preach it. I get this.
I would go further and say that I never expect RMS to give the question objective consideration. (I'll answer for him in advance that he has, just RTFM).
However, I fear that the zero-sum game approach is going to become more bug than feature. Even MS is trying to grab market share by virtualizing a GNU/Linux kernel. Sad day, when you see more intellectual flexibility in Redmond than Boston.
Ah, but, you see, your arm will be most artfully twisted.
The trick with you hard cases is to sell you the strategically bad idea in small, tactically tasteful packages...
Can you recommend some good cofiguration resources for us relative FNGs?
Request a "Welcome to my bookshelf" blog at your convenience, sir.
A giant BIOS! Brilliant!
When the vendor leverages the market information to make the decision for you that you should upgrade, I daresay you may feel invaded, while falling short of concluding whether or not Daddy Knows Best.
Time will Tell.
How so? The world is full of people with whom you wouldn't agree at all who would claim themselves 'ethical'.
Do we think that <mogul> gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says "Can't wait to go be unethical today!"?
Time will Tell if Yet Another MicroSoft Handheld will make a difference.
For me, the Treo does all that, and, more, does not kowtow to Redmond.
Fight the power.
Yep. Time will Tell if that shark-jumping troll signifies the end of Debian.
While I support the GPL (FSF associate #2221, thank'ee) I support and defend the right of people
to be idiots with respect to software
to eat unhealthy food
to watch lousy TV
to waste their sexuality in ways I never would
to live beyond their means, however economically unsound
While I am comfortable with the GPL, and I think that it speaks well for itself, the preaching of the GPL as revealed truth grates on the nerves.
In real life, I daresay I qualify as one of those right-wing fundamentalist Christian types; however, I really don't think my reactionary stances on most issues halt all debate on those topics. No, there is often room for reasonable people to disagree on things.
And so, if someone chooses a transaction with Redmond or Cupertino, affixing an 'unethical' label to them seems a very, very dangerous step to me.
This whole 'ethical' line of argumentation. A more mainstream economic argument holds a lot more water.
The negative spin applied to LM's motives, in the case of this article. RMS wouldn't make those statements without evidence, I'm sure; I simply find them in bad taste.
FOSS will turn a maturity corner when it achieves the unbunched panties of the BSD community about other viewpoints, and lets the intrinsic goodness of the GPL do the talking.
I especially hope that this mellowing can occur before GPL3. One thing I figured out fairly early is, if you give the opposition ammunition, they will shoot it at you. Proceed, therefore, with boldness tempered by wisdom.
Hah! America is imperious to your weapons!
Possibly it's personal, but I saw Kuhn as identifying a pattern with broad application across organizations, but best summarized by Schopenhauer : The step #2 opposition, in my experience, stems from people who stand to lose money/power/prestige.
TFA in question, IMHO, tries to privilege scientests a bit too much.
But, hey, if people talk about the issues enough, a responsible course of action may shake out.
You could likely splice off a version control argument, as the HDTV article on
Regardless of where you fall on the Social Security kerfluffle, there is one lovely bit of silver lining; here we see a leader thinking outside the box of his term.
Now, what we need is some intellectual judo to throw this outburst of leadership into other (possibly more) useful directions.
Folks, they never put seatbelts into cars until the likes of Ralph Nader proved that safety sells.
Hybrid cars, not these <expletive> SUVs (that Jesus surely would've eschewed) are what we should endorse.[1]
Focus on the facts, not the hormones. Disagree agreeably, compassionately, and, above all, think. Live in the now, but consider the longer term, please. While I like TFA in general, I wonder whether the polarization of the camps into granola heads/propeller heads that this sort of article can engender is helpful.
You will not be charged for this pep talk.
[1]For the record, I bought a PT Cruiser because the Honda model lacked cargo room when last I shopped.
Will enough people pay for the reasearch to support whatever the /. fee was for carrying this story?
Is research for money a Good Thing, or is it "begging the question" brought to a new level?
Oh, I thought it was about specifying data requirements, so that arbitrary systems could be built against it.
You're right; interoperable version control software would be teh sUx0rz.
Then the depression setteth in...
Have you ever met Navy nuclear power people?
I've seen more flexible thinking in an RMS rant...
Oh, come off it: the government is a fine blend of a self-fork and a do-do loop.
It's when people quit whining that you know revolution is spinning around...