You're right. But we earned the right to be surly dammit! Many sysadmins started out in tech support. If that doesn't make you contemptuous of computer users, nothing will.:-)
Honestly, people have been predicting this since the dawn of the PC. I don't expect NetPC's to replace PC's any sooner than public transportation would replace the automobile.
Keep my 2.5 gig of nekkid pitchers on a public server? Not bloody likeley!
I'm gainfully employed, married, and haven't lived off Mum & Dad for about 12 years.
Oh I see. Only the youthful are idealistic, right? If I knew what the "real world" was like, I'd be a crusted humorless capitalist running-dog bastard like all you other sellouts.
"So how do you make money doing that?" Blah blah blah money money money. Linus? Who's he? Do you make royalties? Why, are you an idiot? This is a successful "product" you could be making money money money money! This is a money money show, and we want to talk about Linux, but we won't talk much to the stupid hippie inventor. We'll talk to the RedHat guy, cause he's in the business of being in business and making money money money!
I guess if anything can be inferred from this little exchange, it would be that Brits and Americans are pretty damn similar in outlook and temperment. I don't know of another culture where people make inbreeding jokes.
Other countries have more subsidies than the US does. I hardly think you can place the blame there. I think a better culprit would be the fact that we are so fabulously affluent that no one gives a fuck anymore, and is content to scapegoat government-susidized bastard trash for everything bad that happens.
At least in the US, for most people the freedom they think they have is mostly illusion. Marxism can't take from them what they haven't got.
Marx is very plain about reducing the freedom of the most rich and powerful folks however. The idea being that the common folks will fill the power vacuum in a constructive way.
I don't think this was ever accomplished in the USSR, but the CCP under Mao made this sort of direct democracy and production work spectacularly in the early stages of the revolution. Of course Mao was a bit too picky about the manner in which the peasants filled the upper ranks left by the Nationalists, and we all know what happened after that...
I may have fallen for an urban legend, but that doesn't make me stupid or the feat impossible. I know of cases where virii have been implanted in printer BIOS chips.
Even so, the possibility of trojans (horses, not baloons) being included in commercial software is a real one. Hell, MS Excel contained a whole flight simulator.
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Isn't that what all the hubub about QT was about? Linking against a non-GPL library?
If one was in violation, the other would surely be too.
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IIRC, the GPL has safeguards against linking GPL code to code with incompatible licenses, a la QT/KDE.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean Linus' decision was unconstitutional?
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It wasn't a bad decision when he made it. Coming from a position of weakness as Linux was, it was a good way of boosting 3rd party driver support.
Today however, now that Linux is enjoying a stronger position, I think it would be a good idea to reevaluate that decision.
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I understand that IT professionals working in Mexico can make really decent money.
And if you worked there you'd never have to miss an episode of Sabado Gigante!
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Hallelujah! There's too goddamned many GAP stores around. I'm glad they're deciding to close it.
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Cringely articles come out on Thursdays, usually around 4:00 PM PST.
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You're right. But we earned the right to be surly dammit! Many sysadmins started out in tech support. If that doesn't make you contemptuous of computer users, nothing will. :-)
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Honestly, people have been predicting this since the dawn of the PC. I don't expect NetPC's to replace PC's any sooner than public transportation would replace the automobile.
Keep my 2.5 gig of nekkid pitchers on a public server? Not bloody likeley!
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I'm gainfully employed, married, and haven't lived off Mum & Dad for about 12 years.
Oh I see. Only the youthful are idealistic, right? If I knew what the "real world" was like, I'd be a crusted humorless capitalist running-dog bastard like all you other sellouts.
They don't get anything until it whallops them upside the head six or seven times. They're only paying attention because IBM is paying attention.
Expect to see more articles like these.
"So how do you make money doing that?"
Blah blah blah money money money. Linus? Who's he? Do you make royalties? Why, are you an idiot? This is a successful "product" you could be making money money money money!
This is a money money show, and we want to talk about Linux, but we won't talk much to the stupid hippie inventor. We'll talk to the RedHat guy, cause he's in the business of being in business and making money money money!
money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money
A pox on CNN.
I heard Joel went to be a writer for Paula Poundstone. (anything come of that?) Where did Trace go?
This is the second time I've heard this. Why Mitchell??
Mitchell was so bad even MST3K couldn't make it fun. I cringed the whole time.
Where do I get them? Where where where where where???
I liked Kevin Murphy's Bobo, but I shed no tears for the Observer brain-dude guy.
The Sci-Fi channel controls all distribution, and they won't release all of them.
I will pay a hefty sum to anyone who can get me a copy of "Tormented".
Fight or flight... fight or flight...
Hm. Flight.
There is no god!!!
If the Sci-Fi channel won't take it, nobody will
"Social Anarchism" is oxymoronic, and exists only in the world of KMFDM and British punk.
Anarchism is completely theoretical anyway, like pi, absolute zero, fifth normal form, and the bug-free service pack.
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This is the funniest thread I've read in a while.
I guess if anything can be inferred from this little exchange, it would be that Brits and Americans are pretty damn similar in outlook and temperment.
I don't know of another culture where people make inbreeding jokes.
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Other countries have more subsidies than the US does. I hardly think you can place the blame there.
I think a better culprit would be the fact that we are so fabulously affluent that no one gives a fuck anymore, and is content to scapegoat government-susidized bastard trash for everything bad that happens.
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Well, Czechoslovakia was more or less occupied. That'd piss anyone off, regardless of whatever nice government the conquering nation may have.
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At least in the US, for most people the freedom they think they have is mostly illusion. Marxism can't take from them what they haven't got.
Marx is very plain about reducing the freedom of the most rich and powerful folks however. The idea being that the common folks will fill the power vacuum in a constructive way.
I don't think this was ever accomplished in the USSR, but the CCP under Mao made this sort of direct democracy and production work spectacularly in the early stages of the revolution.
Of course Mao was a bit too picky about the manner in which the peasants filled the upper ranks left by the Nationalists, and we all know what happened after that...
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Europeans began existing as nations in about 1780, starting with France. Prior to that, it was all Kings, landed nobles, and Popes.
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I agree with your post, I'm just a bit too anal to let the 1000 years bit slide by
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There was a post here (again) advocating the removal of sengan. It's gone now.
I don't agree with the sentiment, but is censoring the posts really necessary?
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I may have fallen for an urban legend, but that doesn't make me stupid or the feat impossible. I know of cases where virii have been implanted in printer BIOS chips.
Even so, the possibility of trojans (horses, not baloons) being included in commercial software is a real one. Hell, MS Excel contained a whole flight simulator.
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