Free software isn't socialism, it's the new capitalism. It's the small guy capitalism.
I've always thought of it as this. Opposition to free software is the broken window fallacy. We keep paying for the same products time and again for the good of the economy. The concept that we make money building on past accomplishments should be a good thing.
I do believe that the freest market possible provides the greatest benefit to the most individuals, though many people who also believe this are unclear that unfettered capitalism will lead to capital concentration and a non-free market.
Thank You!
My issue with Libertarians is that many of the more vocal ones portrayed in the media seem to believe that the government should provide a military, prevent people from using violence to take your money, and stay out of everything else, including and kind of market regulation or interference. This is the naturalistic fallacy applied in an economic context.
This is an issue that affects everyone. My bank is running a promotion. I get free checking if I pay my Nigerian associates using their online "automatic bill pay" option. But, alas, the royal family is using dial-up, and I have to send my checks by USPS.
Once my supervisor told me, there is no need for doctors if there is no disease. If everybody is smart as you said, keeping their computer free of viruses, all IT people will be out of the street, waiting for people to throw pennies to the cup, hope to able to buy something to eat at the end of the day.
And the problem is? So, a cure for all diseases means unemployed doctors. They'll learn a new trade and we'll all be better off. I work in application development, which means that I do not face this risk, but if I did, then I would rather be forced to learn a new skill and move on to a new job, than to subject the world to Viruses, Malware, and other technical issues, just so I can keep getting a paycheck.
Maybe that's the difference between me and the people who write the malware.
If they didn't do this we would be reading about how the upgrade breaks competitor's software. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yep. If you stab a man and leave him for dead, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and left for dead", if you stab a man and dump him in the river, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and dumped him in river"...You just can't win with the media.
That is interesting, but I would suggest that, if they do that, that they find a way to work the icons/ribbon such that it can work either way. Text documents are typically done in portrait orientation, but spreadsheets are often done via landscape orientation. If the UI adjusted to the orientation, that would be cool (but time consuming for some developers, I'm sure)
If you think software developers are weird, you're not getting out enough.
Commission salespeople and futures traders are much weirder. Some CEOs are weird. Low-end rock musicians are weird. (Above the "club band" level, some sanity tends to emerge, or at least the self-destructive ones are filtered out.) Strippers are weird. Successful high-end call girls, though, tend to be chillingly sane when not in their work personas.
You have obviously had a more interesting life than I have.
It's also worthwhile to note that he is trying to say "all software developers are weird. I have worked in the field for twenty years, scoured linkedIN.com for examples, and found these three anecdotes that prove it". And, if that doesn't damage his case enough, one of his anecdotes is the female programmer who calls ex-boyfriends to tell them they have STDs. How often, does anybody see that?
I think the article had the potential to be better, had he found some actual archetypes where people can say "yeah, I knew that guy in college"
Thanks, you just reminded me of a former coworker who drove 30 miles to a large college town, because there was a pro-obama rally and he wanted to tell them his opinion on Obama (as if liberals in the middle of the Bible belt had never heard a dissenting opinion). He was constantly looking for any way he could to annoy people (like setting his ringtone to the siren from "Lost"), to spread his opinion (like, if you didn't go to the same college as him, he would make it a point to say that college sucked), and generally to draw attention to himself.
I think he would be another example of attention getting of the "pulling a little girl's pigtails" type.
There is no "normal" - everyone seems to have something. Developers (and geeks, in general) just wear it out there on their sleeve.
You don't go into computer science if you care too much what other people think of you...Of course this may be changing with the younger generation, but it was certainly true when I was growing up.
"Look, I believe in evolution, but never has there been found a parent species to something alive today. In other words, scientists can not point at any two distinct species, living or extinct, plant or animal, and say that this species evolved directly from that one."
Of course not. That's kind of like pointing to two leaves on a tree and saying one leaf came from the other. It doesn't work that way.
I would say it's like going into a nursery, looking at twins, and trying to determine which baby gave birth to the other one.
Yes, I was referring primarily to the absence of an external population with which to mediate the process. Allow me to address it from another perspective which is more difficult to answer - in the wild, would the group go through a smaller or greater number of mutations?
No study can prove anything, because it doesn't allow for a control group...and no experiment can ever prove anything, because it does not show how things would work in the wild. If that's your standard, congratulations! You just defeated science.
I agree with regards to modern and future games, and I would rather see an in-game billboard, then to have to site through one more screen, before the game starts.
As for fantasy games, I shudder at the thought of them doing "Hercules: the Legendary Journeys" type ads:
Herc: What is this you're selling? Merchant: It be a magical elixir! I call it "Mountain Dew Voltage" Herc: Well, that's certainly awesome! Let's kill us some leprechauns...
all software included in the iso, not the latest-updated-version-of-Amarok or whatever comes with it by default.
No. Just no. The typical Linux distro comes with how many media players? And two or more database applications, where SQL server bugs would not get counted, because Microsoft makes you pay extra for them.
The only fair way to do it would be to compare $default_Linux_app_which_does_x to %default_Windows_app_which_does_x%.
13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning
and I'm glad they did so. I was being lazy and neglected to install a virus scanner on one of the PCs hooked up here, and it got infected with conficker. Basically my ISP (XS4ALL, a Dutch ISP) detects this and blocks most of the traffic (getting mail still works), shows a warning page when you try to open a website, and some instructions on how to get through the blockade with a proxy, and how to clean up your PC. They'll only unblock you once you have gone through a number of steps to clean up your PC (running some trojan scanners etc.). This may seem harsh, but I think if every ISP did this there wouldn't be some many huge botnets out there and perhaps a lot less SPAM as well.
Here in the US, we don't go for that sort of thing. That's why we have guns!:)
False Positives has been stated by INRH, but to add to his point, what if, every time a customer downloads a new distro of Linux, he or she has to call the cable company to get your internet service reinstated because said person transferred 4 GB of data at once.
slightly off topic, but my biggest complaint is when legitimate sites use domains that are not their primary domain for this stuff. You will have a site like mybank.com, and they will have links to banking-mybank.com (I know that First Horizons does something like this, and yahoo.com is a non-bank entity that does this.)
Is it that they don't know that a domain like that can belong to anybody, or that they don't care? this kind of thing reinforces the bahaviors that make identity theft possible.
P.S., I considered a third option: They buy these domains to keep legitimate phishers from grabbing them, and then say "as long as we have this dubious knock-off, we'd might as well use it for something". A fourth option is that they have never heard of vhosts.
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Free software isn't socialism, it's the new capitalism. It's the small guy capitalism.
I've always thought of it as this. Opposition to free software is the broken window fallacy. We keep paying for the same products time and again for the good of the economy. The concept that we make money building on past accomplishments should be a good thing.
Not a Libertarian...just throwing in my $0.02
I do believe that the freest market possible provides the greatest benefit to the most individuals, though many people who also believe this are unclear that unfettered capitalism will lead to capital concentration and a non-free market.
Thank You!
My issue with Libertarians is that many of the more vocal ones portrayed in the media seem to believe that the government should provide a military, prevent people from using violence to take your money, and stay out of everything else, including and kind of market regulation or interference. This is the naturalistic fallacy applied in an economic context.
is online banking.
This is an issue that affects everyone. My bank is running a promotion. I get free checking if I pay my Nigerian associates using their online "automatic bill pay" option. But, alas, the royal family is using dial-up, and I have to send my checks by USPS.
Once my supervisor told me, there is no need for doctors if there is no disease. If everybody is smart as you said, keeping their computer free of viruses, all IT people will be out of the street, waiting for people to throw pennies to the cup, hope to able to buy something to eat at the end of the day.
And the problem is? So, a cure for all diseases means unemployed doctors. They'll learn a new trade and we'll all be better off. I work in application development, which means that I do not face this risk, but if I did, then I would rather be forced to learn a new skill and move on to a new job, than to subject the world to Viruses, Malware, and other technical issues, just so I can keep getting a paycheck.
Maybe that's the difference between me and the people who write the malware.
This is an example of media control gone nuts. Didn't someone in jest say about 3 years ago that this would happen, somewhere in the world?
Yes, but we would have to pay royalties if we quoted them.
If they didn't do this we would be reading about how the upgrade breaks competitor's software. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yep. If you stab a man and leave him for dead, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and left for dead", if you stab a man and dump him in the river, the headline reads "Stabbed a man and dumped him in river"...You just can't win with the media.
Really, what do you guys run that causes all these problems?
Windows </ducks>
MPAA sues Disney over new "DVD Killer"
And the Project Gutenberg is fined 100 trillion dollars when "Not being copyrighted material" is ruled to be a form of copyright circumvention.
The phrase is "yo Joe", unless you're kicking one of them out of a restaurant, in which case "Go Joe", or "Get The Hell Out" are interchangeable.
That is interesting, but I would suggest that, if they do that, that they find a way to work the icons/ribbon such that it can work either way. Text documents are typically done in portrait orientation, but spreadsheets are often done via landscape orientation. If the UI adjusted to the orientation, that would be cool (but time consuming for some developers, I'm sure)
If you think software developers are weird, you're not getting out enough.
Commission salespeople and futures traders are much weirder. Some CEOs are weird. Low-end rock musicians are weird. (Above the "club band" level, some sanity tends to emerge, or at least the self-destructive ones are filtered out.) Strippers are weird. Successful high-end call girls, though, tend to be chillingly sane when not in their work personas.
You have obviously had a more interesting life than I have.
It's also worthwhile to note that he is trying to say "all software developers are weird. I have worked in the field for twenty years, scoured linkedIN.com for examples, and found these three anecdotes that prove it". And, if that doesn't damage his case enough, one of his anecdotes is the female programmer who calls ex-boyfriends to tell them they have STDs. How often, does anybody see that?
I think the article had the potential to be better, had he found some actual archetypes where people can say "yeah, I knew that guy in college"
Thanks, you just reminded me of a former coworker who drove 30 miles to a large college town, because there was a pro-obama rally and he wanted to tell them his opinion on Obama (as if liberals in the middle of the Bible belt had never heard a dissenting opinion). He was constantly looking for any way he could to annoy people (like setting his ringtone to the siren from "Lost"), to spread his opinion (like, if you didn't go to the same college as him, he would make it a point to say that college sucked), and generally to draw attention to himself.
I think he would be another example of attention getting of the "pulling a little girl's pigtails" type.
There is no "normal" - everyone seems to have something. Developers (and geeks, in general) just wear it out there on their sleeve.
You don't go into computer science if you care too much what other people think of you...Of course this may be changing with the younger generation, but it was certainly true when I was growing up.
"Look, I believe in evolution, but never has there been found a parent species to something alive today. In other words, scientists can not point at any two distinct species, living or extinct, plant or animal, and say that this species evolved directly from that one."
Of course not. That's kind of like pointing to two leaves on a tree and saying one leaf came from the other. It doesn't work that way.
I would say it's like going into a nursery, looking at twins, and trying to determine which baby gave birth to the other one.
Yes, I was referring primarily to the absence of an external population with which to mediate the process. Allow me to address it from another perspective which is more difficult to answer - in the wild, would the group go through a smaller or greater number of mutations?
No study can prove anything, because it doesn't allow for a control group...and no experiment can ever prove anything, because it does not show how things would work in the wild. If that's your standard, congratulations! You just defeated science.
No, the TRUE one reason not to like Star Trek is the fact that they solve 95% of problems by reversing the polarity of something.
Yeah. They reversed the polarity of capitalism 300 years ago.
I agree with regards to modern and future games, and I would rather see an in-game billboard, then to have to site through one more screen, before the game starts.
As for fantasy games, I shudder at the thought of them doing "Hercules: the Legendary Journeys" type ads:
Herc: What is this you're selling?
Merchant: It be a magical elixir! I call it "Mountain Dew Voltage"
Herc: Well, that's certainly awesome! Let's kill us some leprechauns...
cfengine? <shudders>
Nope, that doesn't require a patch; it was built into the original release ...
Yup. The hard drive with ME installation will jump out from the chasis, climb the refrigerator and rub itself all over the magnets.
But that may ruin my magnets!
all software included in the iso, not the latest-updated-version-of-Amarok or whatever comes with it by default.
No. Just no. The typical Linux distro comes with how many media players? And two or more database applications, where SQL server bugs would not get counted, because Microsoft makes you pay extra for them.
The only fair way to do it would be to compare $default_Linux_app_which_does_x to %default_Windows_app_which_does_x%.
13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning
13 and 34 ...
So does that mean 47 restarts?
and I'm glad they did so. I was being lazy and neglected to install a virus scanner on one of the PCs hooked up here, and it got infected with conficker. Basically my ISP (XS4ALL, a Dutch ISP) detects this and blocks most of the traffic (getting mail still works), shows a warning page when you try to open a website, and some instructions on how to get through the blockade with a proxy, and how to clean up your PC. They'll only unblock you once you have gone through a number of steps to clean up your PC (running some trojan scanners etc.). This may seem harsh, but I think if every ISP did this there wouldn't be some many huge botnets out there and perhaps a lot less SPAM as well.
Here in the US, we don't go for that sort of thing. That's why we have guns! :)
False Positives has been stated by INRH, but to add to his point, what if, every time a customer downloads a new distro of Linux, he or she has to call the cable company to get your internet service reinstated because said person transferred 4 GB of data at once.
slightly off topic, but my biggest complaint is when legitimate sites use domains that are not their primary domain for this stuff. You will have a site like mybank.com, and they will have links to banking-mybank.com (I know that First Horizons does something like this, and yahoo.com is a non-bank entity that does this.)
Is it that they don't know that a domain like that can belong to anybody, or that they don't care? this kind of thing reinforces the bahaviors that make identity theft possible.
P.S., I considered a third option: They buy these domains to keep legitimate phishers from grabbing them, and then say "as long as we have this dubious knock-off, we'd might as well use it for something". A fourth option is that they have never heard of vhosts.