While my assuming that you know what you're talking about is probably unwise, the fact that you two are dickering over overly prescriptive usage and what is actually not an error bodes ill.
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Information is free. Duplication of artistic works, not so much....Ah, fuck it, I like these people. The world needs more wild shit-disturbers, no matter how crazy, to keep the powers that be in check. Just don't steal too much from real artists. Somewhat cool to make a statement, but not cool to rip them off financially. (By real artists I mean those did not begin their careers on a powerpoint in a boardroom.)
The two ideas are perfectly compatible. Tito's mission could be a proof-of-concept for actually getting people out that far and back. The Mars-One people could learn from his mistakes.
Correction: the The Mars-One people -must- learn from Tito's mistakes because there will be many and Mars-One has pretty lofty goals. Even going to our moon required baby steps, unmanned satellites, first dog in space, first person in orbit, etc.
Lots of homosexuals procreate, lots of people who have abortions have kids. Abortion and infanticide may actually preserve a generational line in times scarcity, in that resources can be concentrated on existing children. Homosexual people procreate in heterosexual relationships all the time, and use IVF or surrogacy to procreate in homosexual relationships. The world is a little more complicated than you think.
If you enter my house at take my photo album, that's theft regardless of whether the door was locked or unlocked. How is this any different? There is a reasonable expectation to privacy for an email account.
Every word in every language is offensive to somebody, somewhere. I must admit I agree with the Gimp developers there- trying to not offend anybody is perhaps the greatest and must futile waste of time imaginable.
Um, yeah. Gimp is pretty offensive. The people at Mozilla managed to give their main product an inoffensive name. So did just about everyone else. Your argument amounts to not bothering to even make an attempt to be mature because some crackpot somewhere might find words like "to" and "the" offensive.
Heck, drop the G and you have Imp. That word may still offend some, but at least it does not target a marginalized group. That took me about 10 seconds. Oh what a futile waste!
The developers can choose to be taken seriously and improve the image of FOSS. They choose instead to try to justify their poor decisions of the past. Christ, look at "optional" single window mode. Would it kill them to cater just a little to Windows users and make single window mode the default on Windows installs? Well clearly they're too proud and know better than us plebs! Just like how they decide that the public is wrong for finding their name offensive. They are poster children for the arrogance that plagues open source.
"GIMP is comfortable with its name and thinks that you should apologise for your rudeness"
Rudeness? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Good for them if they're comfortable with their sexuality, but "gimp" is derogatory slang for a disabled person. These people need to grow up if they want to be taken seriously. Might as well have named it Cripple.
Even a casual observer such as myself can fix this shit:
1. Fire the idiot who wrote the above quote 2. Fix the more glaring UI issues and make single window mode the default 3. RENAME the product 4. RENAME it AGAIN because these people are idiots 5. Release it
People who care about FOSS won't care that it's been renamed and will still be able to find it and won't be confused at all. And everybody else will have a decent free alternative to PS with a name that was not thought up by a grade-school delinquent.
(Or just sit there and whine about how the market doesn't "get" open source.)
The point he was making is this: Who would bring an MRI device to market, at the cost of millions in R&D, only to have it knocked off shortly thereafter? The answer is nobody because it would be a race to the bottom. The only way to do it would be to obfuscate the code and HW, if at all possible, so that it couldn't be kocked off. But this is what the guilds used to do.
The neckbeards hate patents because they want the return of the guilds. It's the same reason UNIX has cryptic CLE commands. Exclusion and guild-mentality. The neckbeads want guilds and secret knowledge. This is where we would be without letters patent, which literally means "open letters", in contract to closed and secretive.
There is evidence. The EU has an economy similar in size to that of the US. The US patent system is widely considered to be stronger and allows much cheaper access to individuals. The US also leads the EU in innovation. There may be other reasons, but to omit the effect of the patent system is unfair.
The patent system is not perfect. The main beefs with the US patent system stem from the cost and time involved in litigation. This is a problem specific to the legal system in the US and not really seen in other countries, at least not need to nearly the same magnitude.
The fundamental misunderstanding with patents, particularly from people in software, comes from the inability to place yourself in the shoes of the inventor 5 or 10 years ago. Everything is obvious in hindsight. But if it was so obvious, why didn't you do it?
50,000 BCE - Tree dies and log rolls down hill to the bewilderment of the filthy cave-people nearby.
35,000 BCE - A lunatic Neanderthal pushes a log down a hill to crush his enemies.
3500 BCE - Someone eventually figures out that you can use a bunch of rolling logs side-by-side to move boulders.
3000 BCE - A slave engineer from North Africa narrows the points of a rack of logs to attached a guide so they stay together whilst rolling.
40 BCE - Some Roman stone mason makes a log out of stone and more disc-shaped.
2 BCE - And finally, some brilliant -real- inventor pokes a hole in an old stone log and sticks a wooden log inside as an axle, probably so he can better lash someone to it for a good flogging.
We just don't have -real- inventions anymore like the wheel!
Who said he's being singled out? I'm sure prosecutors have gone after more than just this ass-hat. This guy has many victims, so it makes him easier to prosecute.
Also: --Perfect Solution Fallacy-- Look it up sometime because that's what your whining amounts to.
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Somebody ported some code and it's buggy and it's just another day on da net!
While my assuming that you know what you're talking about is probably unwise, the fact that you two are dickering over overly prescriptive usage and what is actually not an error bodes ill.
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Humans have always been jerks who ignore signs. Sometimes we need a good whupping to make us think.
Europa, here we come. Yeeha!
Yeah and what happens when the car runs out of gas in your analogy, smart guy?
Information is free. Duplication of artistic works, not so much....Ah, fuck it, I like these people. The world needs more wild shit-disturbers, no matter how crazy, to keep the powers that be in check. Just don't steal too much from real artists. Somewhat cool to make a statement, but not cool to rip them off financially. (By real artists I mean those did not begin their careers on a powerpoint in a boardroom.)
Came here expecting net-enabled wheat stalks but at least I learned how to pronounce B4RN because that sure wasn't obvious.
The two ideas are perfectly compatible. Tito's mission could be a proof-of-concept for actually getting people out that far and back. The Mars-One people could learn from his mistakes.
Correction: the The Mars-One people -must- learn from Tito's mistakes because there will be many and Mars-One has pretty lofty goals. Even going to our moon required baby steps, unmanned satellites, first dog in space, first person in orbit, etc.
Or Steve Heymann. Or both of them.
Or maybe I did misread it. In that case, sorry OP for thinking you were a personal responsibility zealot!
Lots of homosexuals procreate, lots of people who have abortions have kids. Abortion and infanticide may actually preserve a generational line in times scarcity, in that resources can be concentrated on existing children. Homosexual people procreate in heterosexual relationships all the time, and use IVF or surrogacy to procreate in homosexual relationships. The world is a little more complicated than you think.
Nice. Blame the dead guy.
An organization certainly contributed. Not all of us have stoney constitutions able to withstand huge amounts of stress.
Yeah, I realize that you're a first-posting AC, but try to have some compassion.
If you enter my house at take my photo album, that's theft regardless of whether the door was locked or unlocked. How is this any different? There is a reasonable expectation to privacy for an email account.
Uh, huh. That's just lazy. How about you structure the output so that you aren't hard-coding English grammar?
printf("Number of files copied: %n\n", n_files);
or
printf("Copied %n %s\n", n_files, n_files > 1 ? UI-text-plural-files : UI-text-one-file);
How hard is it to store all the UI strings in an editable file? Wouldn't that also make your life easier if you decided to tweak the English version?
As for your code being hard to read, name the strings after their English content: $UI_Text_File_Menu_Save
Regional? Hardly.
LMGTFY:
define:gimp
2. offensive. A physically handicapped or lame person.
Every word in every language is offensive to somebody, somewhere. I must admit I agree with the Gimp developers there- trying to not offend anybody is perhaps the greatest and must futile waste of time imaginable.
Um, yeah. Gimp is pretty offensive. The people at Mozilla managed to give their main product an inoffensive name. So did just about everyone else. Your argument amounts to not bothering to even make an attempt to be mature because some crackpot somewhere might find words like "to" and "the" offensive.
Heck, drop the G and you have Imp. That word may still offend some, but at least it does not target a marginalized group. That took me about 10 seconds. Oh what a futile waste!
The developers can choose to be taken seriously and improve the image of FOSS. They choose instead to try to justify their poor decisions of the past. Christ, look at "optional" single window mode. Would it kill them to cater just a little to Windows users and make single window mode the default on Windows installs? Well clearly they're too proud and know better than us plebs! Just like how they decide that the public is wrong for finding their name offensive. They are poster children for the arrogance that plagues open source.
"GIMP is comfortable with its name and thinks that you should apologise for your rudeness"
Rudeness? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Good for them if they're comfortable with their sexuality, but "gimp" is derogatory slang for a disabled person. These people need to grow up if they want to be taken seriously. Might as well have named it Cripple.
Even a casual observer such as myself can fix this shit:
1. Fire the idiot who wrote the above quote
2. Fix the more glaring UI issues and make single window mode the default
3. RENAME the product
4. RENAME it AGAIN because these people are idiots
5. Release it
People who care about FOSS won't care that it's been renamed and will still be able to find it and won't be confused at all. And everybody else will have a decent free alternative to PS with a name that was not thought up by a grade-school delinquent.
(Or just sit there and whine about how the market doesn't "get" open source.)
The point he was making is this: Who would bring an MRI device to market, at the cost of millions in R&D, only to have it knocked off shortly thereafter? The answer is nobody because it would be a race to the bottom. The only way to do it would be to obfuscate the code and HW, if at all possible, so that it couldn't be kocked off. But this is what the guilds used to do.
The neckbeards hate patents because they want the return of the guilds. It's the same reason UNIX has cryptic CLE commands. Exclusion and guild-mentality. The neckbeads want guilds and secret knowledge. This is where we would be without letters patent, which literally means "open letters", in contract to closed and secretive.
There is evidence. The EU has an economy similar in size to that of the US. The US patent system is widely considered to be stronger and allows much cheaper access to individuals. The US also leads the EU in innovation. There may be other reasons, but to omit the effect of the patent system is unfair.
The patent system is not perfect. The main beefs with the US patent system stem from the cost and time involved in litigation. This is a problem specific to the legal system in the US and not really seen in other countries, at least not need to nearly the same magnitude.
The fundamental misunderstanding with patents, particularly from people in software, comes from the inability to place yourself in the shoes of the inventor 5 or 10 years ago. Everything is obvious in hindsight. But if it was so obvious, why didn't you do it?
Let's hope all this bro-gramming doesn't result in a coding-gate!
The wheel. Now that was a real invention!
50,000 BCE - Tree dies and log rolls down hill to the bewilderment of the filthy cave-people nearby.
35,000 BCE - A lunatic Neanderthal pushes a log down a hill to crush his enemies.
3500 BCE - Someone eventually figures out that you can use a bunch of rolling logs side-by-side to move boulders.
3000 BCE - A slave engineer from North Africa narrows the points of a rack of logs to attached a guide so they stay together whilst rolling.
40 BCE - Some Roman stone mason makes a log out of stone and more disc-shaped.
2 BCE - And finally, some brilliant -real- inventor pokes a hole in an old stone log and sticks a wooden log inside as an axle, probably so he can better lash someone to it for a good flogging.
We just don't have -real- inventions anymore like the wheel!
Who said he's being singled out? I'm sure prosecutors have gone after more than just this ass-hat. This guy has many victims, so it makes him easier to prosecute. Also: --Perfect Solution Fallacy-- Look it up sometime because that's what your whining amounts to.
Wake me up when they have a plan to mine beyond the heliopause. Yawn.
Solar cells are typically not used for mastication.