I disagree. There are instances when this kind of regulation may have a positive outcome on a market. The extremist way you put it just warrant that only popular ideas get sold (have more demands, thus get more or all of the rack space).
Books are kind of an important thing. We are not talking about cheese here.
Are there better engineers out there in fossland? Sure, there are plenty (Linus Torvalds, for example, Cox, the Apache guys and many, many more.). But some of them can be a PR asset to FOSS's interests and some of them cant. Eric is one of our elders just because he has been here for a long, long while and has been consistent in his ideas and very effective in implementing them.
Cant have it all at the same time. But the fact that he isnt working on O(1) schedullers is not argument enough to say he isnt a voice to be heard in the areas where he speaks (youve never seen him complaining about linux's driver engineering the way you see for example linus torvalds whining about which desktop environment is better - which imho is a bit out of his direct engineering influence-).
Guy is an asset. Few have done as much as he has (and those that have, are usually opposed to him and themselves, which is funny and good because we engineers are reasonable people).
I mean, my friend, you are just tongueincheeking a guy you know nothing about. At least educate yourself a bit more before going into mindless critic mode.
Forget about a shady little outfit. The first Amazon kindle app on IOS incorrectly created extra "amazon accounts" and let you buy in-app. Customers like me, that ended up in this hell, have a single login, but two accounts. The result is that you can buy and read some things in your phone and you can buy and read some things in your other "kindles" (cloud, local mac or local windows), thus getting you all fucked over because you have to buy again even if you already had a book in one or the other account, and want to read it in the other.
Im not sure how pervasive is this, but I did get fucked by it. I will never buy amazon again. EVER.
Most crimes are not commited by people addicted to heroin. Most heroin addicts do not commit crimes to feed their addiction and then, most that do both, almost are never caught.
You need to cut down on the Nixon's War on Drugs kool-aid.
Fuck that man. I say let them publish whatever they want and let people buy whatever they want. Spending tax money in this kind of sterile morality is the stupidest thing government does.
Its excrutiating, really, how governments will go to great lenghts to stop people from fucking themselves up willingly. I just pray that the.gov stops this nonsense.
Well I think its time they collect. AP, NYT and news agencies have people on the ground and they pay them to provide info. We as a free society (not the US only, all of occident), need this kind of setup to get information. Even if its slanted, at least the payment is for info itself, not for the slant.
If we leave this market untouched, then all we are going to hear about, is whatever advertisers are willing to pay for.... think about it.
Change: "...it's not clear whether they even want to" [understand how the internet works]
To: "....its clear they dont even want to"
I saw ALL the discussion yesterday. This is ridiculous, the people advocating this act are entirely ignorant of any and all issues regarding WTF they are doing and they dont even realize it will ALL backfire. I ended yesterday thinking this could even be good for "us" (freedom loving people all over the world): its clear that if SOPA passes, bitcoins, tor proxies and ways to monetize darknet access will be a good way to make money.
They want their broken internet: let them have it.
You just dont get it, do you? Without Ritchie, there is NO OSX. There is NO GUI. Hell, there is NO multiprocess envirnoment. There is nothing. Above plain ASM of the machine in hand, there is only C. Everything else was built on top of that and until a couple of years ago, IT STILL IS.
There is no darwin, nor IOS, nor anything else. Every concept of OS design you see today, is a spinoff of UNIX, either through a crtitque of it or an embrace of it.
I mean, Ritchie is like 20 years older than jobs, he is on another league. One that we will never see again until, perhaps, quantum computer brings the need for other algorithms.... There is just no comparission at all.
I will say this. Above the early Unix crew, only the True Elders. You had to buy the Compiler a Fucking BEER before these guys came along. I say Ritchie is up there with Master Turing, Master Von Newumann and that old chap from DEC whose name I cannot for the life of me remember that started the doodling tradition that creeps up in the Unix Red Book.
True gods of computing. Like the (thank god) living Master Knuth....
In ANY case, it is good that we pay homage to the leaders of our tribe. Both living and dead.
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I disagree. There are instances when this kind of regulation may have a positive outcome on a market. The extremist way you put it just warrant that only popular ideas get sold (have more demands, thus get more or all of the rack space).
Books are kind of an important thing. We are not talking about cheese here.
Are there better engineers out there in fossland? Sure, there are plenty (Linus Torvalds, for example, Cox, the Apache guys and many, many more.). But some of them can be a PR asset to FOSS's interests and some of them cant. Eric is one of our elders just because he has been here for a long, long while and has been consistent in his ideas and very effective in implementing them.
Cant have it all at the same time. But the fact that he isnt working on O(1) schedullers is not argument enough to say he isnt a voice to be heard in the areas where he speaks (youve never seen him complaining about linux's driver engineering the way you see for example linus torvalds whining about which desktop environment is better - which imho is a bit out of his direct engineering influence-).
Guy is an asset. Few have done as much as he has (and those that have, are usually opposed to him and themselves, which is funny and good because we engineers are reasonable people).
That aint the catb, its the software list you requested.
Y U NO GOOGLE?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html
I mean, my friend, you are just tongueincheeking a guy you know nothing about. At least educate yourself a bit more before going into mindless critic mode.
Besides having contributed to many project, you are talking about a guy that branded "open source", went out and sold it succesfully.
Now what the fuck have you done lately?
Net result: I get entertained, the world still moves, and vi is still ages ahead of emacs in just about any area.
TFTFY
RUN, YOU FOOL!
Forget about a shady little outfit. The first Amazon kindle app on IOS incorrectly created extra "amazon accounts" and let you buy in-app. Customers like me, that ended up in this hell, have a single login, but two accounts. The result is that you can buy and read some things in your phone and you can buy and read some things in your other "kindles" (cloud, local mac or local windows), thus getting you all fucked over because you have to buy again even if you already had a book in one or the other account, and want to read it in the other.
Im not sure how pervasive is this, but I did get fucked by it. I will never buy amazon again. EVER.
This is stupid. Doing heroin shouldnt even be illegal.
Yeah, why not?
Although I could ask: for what purpose?
Most crimes are not commited by people addicted to heroin. Most heroin addicts do not commit crimes to feed their addiction and then, most that do both, almost are never caught.
You need to cut down on the Nixon's War on Drugs kool-aid.
Do tell, oh nice Law Enforcement and Symantec Execs, what "links" this thieves with anonymous?
Whats the matter? You stiff?
The difference is simple: china already has ICBM nuclear capability. And thats all there is to it.
Fuck that man. I say let them publish whatever they want and let people buy whatever they want. Spending tax money in this kind of sterile morality is the stupidest thing government does.
Its excrutiating, really, how governments will go to great lenghts to stop people from fucking themselves up willingly. I just pray that the .gov stops this nonsense.
Sorry. Your argument is invalid because of ponnies.
Well, and the fact that we are talking about PLC's, not full desktop operating systems.
Well I think its time they collect. AP, NYT and news agencies have people on the ground and they pay them to provide info. We as a free society (not the US only, all of occident), need this kind of setup to get information. Even if its slanted, at least the payment is for info itself, not for the slant.
If we leave this market untouched, then all we are going to hear about, is whatever advertisers are willing to pay for.... think about it.
Change:
"...it's not clear whether they even want to" [understand how the internet works]
To:
"....its clear they dont even want to"
I saw ALL the discussion yesterday. This is ridiculous, the people advocating this act are entirely ignorant of any and all issues regarding WTF they are doing and they dont even realize it will ALL backfire. I ended yesterday thinking this could even be good for "us" (freedom loving people all over the world): its clear that if SOPA passes, bitcoins, tor proxies and ways to monetize darknet access will be a good way to make money.
They want their broken internet: let them have it.
AAAAHAHAHAHAHA....
"Which is why it's important to maintain a relationship with a known honest vendor"
Oracle? Hahawhawhahaha. I...I..... waaaahahahahha. Oh man, im crying and loling now!
Three hideous thoughts came to my mind as I read your post.
4chan!
They ANYPA
They had no good copy-pasta back then, did they?
Well one must say it was written POORLY in the C computing language.
You just dont get it, do you? Without Ritchie, there is NO OSX. There is NO GUI. Hell, there is NO multiprocess envirnoment. There is nothing. Above plain ASM of the machine in hand, there is only C. Everything else was built on top of that and until a couple of years ago, IT STILL IS.
There is no darwin, nor IOS, nor anything else. Every concept of OS design you see today, is a spinoff of UNIX, either through a crtitque of it or an embrace of it.
I mean, Ritchie is like 20 years older than jobs, he is on another league. One that we will never see again until, perhaps, quantum computer brings the need for other algorithms.... There is just no comparission at all.
"Java was inspired by Goslng's experience with Objective C and NeXT's framework"
Now how did this guy fucked THAT up, is beyond me.
I will say this. Above the early Unix crew, only the True Elders. You had to buy the Compiler a Fucking BEER before these guys came along. I say Ritchie is up there with Master Turing, Master Von Newumann and that old chap from DEC whose name I cannot for the life of me remember that started the doodling tradition that creeps up in the Unix Red Book.
True gods of computing. Like the (thank god) living Master Knuth....
In ANY case, it is good that we pay homage to the leaders of our tribe. Both living and dead.