As an addendum to a post I made earlier about Kenshin, seriously - what the hell is wrong with the people who make shows like that one and for the love of all that is holy, Trigun? WHY do action shows that could be cool have to have stupid unfunny comedy segments dominating 50% of the show? Seriously, someone who enjoys Trigun, please explain how it is possible for you to not be an idiot.
Seriously - I tried watching this series when they put it on Cartoon Network. Once again, they advertised it like it was just the coolest damn thing - an action filled gunslinging Western cartoon. Hell I love Westerns. Unforgiven was one of my favorite movies of all time. I was ready for some GOD DAMN ACTION when I turned this sucker on.
Sadly it was not meant to be. The show is filled with main character "Vash The Stampede" making all manner of silly faces, including having his face turn into a cat for no apparent reason, having his face get really gigantic, crying giant rivers of tears, and all manner of insane, inhuman expressions. OH WAIT - IS THIS SHOW A COMEDY OR WHAT? I guess I was supposed to laugh at some point.
My next thought was that this show must obviously be for kids. No such luck there - when there actually is violence (FINALLY) in this "action" series, it's brutally violent. The juxtaposition from slapstick hilarity to gut wrenching action was not handled at all well by whoever wrote this piece of trash. I don't think they felt the need at the time.
I tried to watch it a few more times. I wanted to like it because it was drawn really well (when the characters weren't coming off completely cheesy) and the music was awfully cool, and the action scenes were pretty neat. Every single episode, however, was ruined by some fucking dork writer somewhere in Japan who thought he was funny and was miserably, hopelessly mistaken.
No offense intended to you by this, but Rurouni Kenshin makes me want to vomit in a trashcan. I have rarely laid eyes on anything that made me want to stab an ice pick through someone's eye into their brain more than that show does.
It's not that I haven't seen worse shows, especially among anime, but the previews they kept showing on Cartoon Network made it look so badass. They do this with EVERY DAMN SHOW on their channel. The previews are action, action, action! Look at the bad motherfucking samurai who is feared by ALL and now has taken a vow never to kill again. Watch as an entire outmoded segment of society clashes with him and everything he represents. SWORDFIGHTS SWORDFIGHTS SWORDFIGHTS.
Then, because that seems like it would pretty much have to kick ass, I actually watch the thing and what the show is REALLY all about is thirty seconds of fighting, with interspersed ridiculous goofy faces with fucking swirly eyes and god damn water droplets appearing over people's heads for some reason, and several awkward situations involving women whose faces turn so red at the thought that Kenshin was flirting with them that they must have popped about a hundred blood vessels underneath their skin.
By the way, I just described my experience with every single action show on Cartoon Network EVER except for Cowboy Bebop. Seriously, I don't understand why anyone likes Kenshin at all - the thought of watching it for even ten seconds makes me INSANE.
This is not a new thing with Hollywood as far as your largest blockbuster titles go; however - these movies appeal to the masses in much the same way that the popular Indian movies appeal to their masses.
We do actually have an independent film culture in the US, and movies of very high quality and creativity can be seen almost anywhere in the country because, as someone else commented way above me, the Hollywood film culture and the independent film culture happen to involve a lot of the same people and they are at the very least familiar and friendly with each other. This seems to allow for wider distribution than one would expect for movies which are not likely to make very much money.
Header files? OLD header files from the days before the BSD case? Which of these did IBM allegedly contribute across from AIX? 'Cause I was pretty sure that was the case SCO was supposed to be involved in at the moment.
God damn it, I wish I lived somewhere with no drunk tank. Being a blacked out drunken asshole in public is no fun around here anymore.
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No, actually sometimes phrases adopt a meaning which is not implied in the basic definition of the words involved due to colloquial use. Fox holes in the Vietnam War come to mind as they for instance did not ACTUALLY contain foxes.
AD and BC are generally inoffensive to anyone unless they have a specific problem with Christians. Many of those people may not admit, even to themselves, that they hate Christians because they don't have a problem with individuals of that faith but instead associate the group as a whole with other things they dislike.
Disclaimer before you jump on me about this: I am an atheist. I just also happen to be an individual who doesn't like to see stupid, unnecessary language changes because of extremely whiny people who like to stereotype others of particular groups.
Then it would be up to the public to release their own movies on that standard. It is highly unlikely that the studios that own the already existing content would move to a standard they have no control over out of the goodness of their hearts, when they are already making billions off of DVD.
Well really, you don't have to distribute code in such a way that it would be USEFUL to some guy who downloads it - you have to distribute the code, not provide a mechanism by which it can be compiled on other architechtures.
Unfortunately, giving away code that is very, very specific to your hardware is not always desirable; if your hardware isn't patented, you may not want your competitors to know the exact nature of it.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but wouldn't distributing the source for whatever GPL'd software you were using or modifying, while NOT distributing source for hardware drivers that are programs you are running on top of that system, be perfectly legal anyway?
The GPL is tied up with Stallman's and the FSF's free software philosophy. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that; just providing a possible explanation for the irony you mentioned. The GPL is designed around the idea that all software should be open source, and it does seem intended to cause more people to release more source code as time goes on. It also really seems to be effective in accomplishing this goal.
Though to tell you the truth, I never got the whole "free as in beer" thing. Beer is expensive, damn it, and when I use it up, it's all gone and I get a hangover.
NO. They are stuck in the late 80s/early 90s when the Tipper Gore censorship brigade used to freak out about every stupid little thing they possibly could, including the Dead Kennedys and Mortal Kombat. For a company to not realize that the atmosphere has changed significantly ALMOST 15 YEARS LATER is their own stupid fault, not ours.
In other words, hey SNK Japan: QUIT LIVING IN THE PAST, WOULD YOU?
I could see how some people might be confused because it's kind of a complicated issue, but it seems pretty clear to me that Linus was arguing over Darl's definition of "profit motive".
1. Darl claims that the GPL removes the "profit motive" inherent in U.S. copyright.
2. Linus points out that the definition of "profit motive" includes the exchange of copyrighted material, which is exactly what the GPL provides for.
So he's basically saying that the GPL does not in fact destroy profit motive.
That's a damn good point, but then again, in his scenario he wanted to get rid of the non standard supply anyway, so if he blows it up, no big loss, right?
What's your point in regard to security flaws being exploitable in all software and their bearing on the discussion of whether software authors should be held responsible for attacks that occur because of them? (Remember that discussion from 10 MINUTES ago? Think back - I know it's hard)
Oh that's right, you never were making a point in the first place. And you couldn't even be BOTHERED to respond to the BSD Apache exploit which WAS in fact a core Apache issue.
Not that it matters - do you think OpenSSL wrote itself or magically appeared out of the sky one day, or did someone AUTHOR that?
What the fuck do you think you know about anything? There was an apache worm about two years ago, you drooling moron. It was a flaw in one of apache's add on modules, mod_ssl. This "microsoft apologist" found this very worm on my apache server which was running on a fucking cable modem in my apartment.
Is it your assertion, by the way, that I am a "microsoft apologist" because I think that you're a moron and your opinions are misguided and ill thought-out? I've been running Linux since 1997, you jackass, so I'll finish this post the same way I started it - what the fuck do you think you know about anything?
P.S. there was a more recent Apache worm that affected some BSD variant or another. TRY READING ONCE IN A WHILE.
Please at least have some rudimentary knowledge of computer history - this was 1988 so unless you're less than 15 years old you have NO excuse for this idiocy. This slashdot article is about vicious attacks by VIRUS WRITERS. You are using it as a platform to espouse your obviously ridiculous opinion about security holes in an e-mail program.
In case you don't get my point, let me hammer it home for you - the link I provided is similar in that some smart guy exploited a security flaw to propagate a virus which copied itself all over the god damn internet and shut large sections of it down. The fact that this wasn't his specific intent is irrelevant. Would you like to sue UNIX for allowing a virus to propagate?
You edgy fuckers think shoving your tired, irritating Microsoft bashes into every god damn article on Slashdot is so clever. Examine the facts, genius - if someone wants to fuck with software, they will find a way.
You're going to come on here and tell everyone that you and your countrymen don't have fucked up attitudes about the law - and in the same breath you're telling people you think it's a GOOD thing that opening your mouth and speaking your mind could get you sued in France? Your perspective on things is completely twisted, man.
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As an addendum to a post I made earlier about Kenshin, seriously - what the hell is wrong with the people who make shows like that one and for the love of all that is holy, Trigun? WHY do action shows that could be cool have to have stupid unfunny comedy segments dominating 50% of the show? Seriously, someone who enjoys Trigun, please explain how it is possible for you to not be an idiot.
Seriously - I tried watching this series when they put it on Cartoon Network. Once again, they advertised it like it was just the coolest damn thing - an action filled gunslinging Western cartoon. Hell I love Westerns. Unforgiven was one of my favorite movies of all time. I was ready for some GOD DAMN ACTION when I turned this sucker on.
Sadly it was not meant to be. The show is filled with main character "Vash The Stampede" making all manner of silly faces, including having his face turn into a cat for no apparent reason, having his face get really gigantic, crying giant rivers of tears, and all manner of insane, inhuman expressions. OH WAIT - IS THIS SHOW A COMEDY OR WHAT? I guess I was supposed to laugh at some point.
My next thought was that this show must obviously be for kids. No such luck there - when there actually is violence (FINALLY) in this "action" series, it's brutally violent. The juxtaposition from slapstick hilarity to gut wrenching action was not handled at all well by whoever wrote this piece of trash. I don't think they felt the need at the time.
I tried to watch it a few more times. I wanted to like it because it was drawn really well (when the characters weren't coming off completely cheesy) and the music was awfully cool, and the action scenes were pretty neat. Every single episode, however, was ruined by some fucking dork writer somewhere in Japan who thought he was funny and was miserably, hopelessly mistaken.
No offense intended to you by this, but Rurouni Kenshin makes me want to vomit in a trashcan. I have rarely laid eyes on anything that made me want to stab an ice pick through someone's eye into their brain more than that show does.
It's not that I haven't seen worse shows, especially among anime, but the previews they kept showing on Cartoon Network made it look so badass. They do this with EVERY DAMN SHOW on their channel. The previews are action, action, action! Look at the bad motherfucking samurai who is feared by ALL and now has taken a vow never to kill again. Watch as an entire outmoded segment of society clashes with him and everything he represents. SWORDFIGHTS SWORDFIGHTS SWORDFIGHTS.
Then, because that seems like it would pretty much have to kick ass, I actually watch the thing and what the show is REALLY all about is thirty seconds of fighting, with interspersed ridiculous goofy faces with fucking swirly eyes and god damn water droplets appearing over people's heads for some reason, and several awkward situations involving women whose faces turn so red at the thought that Kenshin was flirting with them that they must have popped about a hundred blood vessels underneath their skin.
By the way, I just described my experience with every single action show on Cartoon Network EVER except for Cowboy Bebop. Seriously, I don't understand why anyone likes Kenshin at all - the thought of watching it for even ten seconds makes me INSANE.
This is not a new thing with Hollywood as far as your largest blockbuster titles go; however - these movies appeal to the masses in much the same way that the popular Indian movies appeal to their masses.
We do actually have an independent film culture in the US, and movies of very high quality and creativity can be seen almost anywhere in the country because, as someone else commented way above me, the Hollywood film culture and the independent film culture happen to involve a lot of the same people and they are at the very least familiar and friendly with each other. This seems to allow for wider distribution than one would expect for movies which are not likely to make very much money.
Header files? OLD header files from the days before the BSD case? Which of these did IBM allegedly contribute across from AIX? 'Cause I was pretty sure that was the case SCO was supposed to be involved in at the moment.
God damn it, I wish I lived somewhere with no drunk tank. Being a blacked out drunken asshole in public is no fun around here anymore.
No, actually sometimes phrases adopt a meaning which is not implied in the basic definition of the words involved due to colloquial use. Fox holes in the Vietnam War come to mind as they for instance did not ACTUALLY contain foxes.
AD and BC are generally inoffensive to anyone unless they have a specific problem with Christians. Many of those people may not admit, even to themselves, that they hate Christians because they don't have a problem with individuals of that faith but instead associate the group as a whole with other things they dislike.
Disclaimer before you jump on me about this: I am an atheist. I just also happen to be an individual who doesn't like to see stupid, unnecessary language changes because of extremely whiny people who like to stereotype others of particular groups.
Then it would be up to the public to release their own movies on that standard. It is highly unlikely that the studios that own the already existing content would move to a standard they have no control over out of the goodness of their hearts, when they are already making billions off of DVD.
God damn, I had a 486DX2/66 and Quake FUCKING SUCKED ASS on it.
Well really, you don't have to distribute code in such a way that it would be USEFUL to some guy who downloads it - you have to distribute the code, not provide a mechanism by which it can be compiled on other architechtures.
Unfortunately, giving away code that is very, very specific to your hardware is not always desirable; if your hardware isn't patented, you may not want your competitors to know the exact nature of it.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but wouldn't distributing the source for whatever GPL'd software you were using or modifying, while NOT distributing source for hardware drivers that are programs you are running on top of that system, be perfectly legal anyway?
The GPL is tied up with Stallman's and the FSF's free software philosophy. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that; just providing a possible explanation for the irony you mentioned. The GPL is designed around the idea that all software should be open source, and it does seem intended to cause more people to release more source code as time goes on. It also really seems to be effective in accomplishing this goal.
Though to tell you the truth, I never got the whole "free as in beer" thing. Beer is expensive, damn it, and when I use it up, it's all gone and I get a hangover.
Actually, only interstate feces is under federal jurisdiction.
Looks like I'm going to need some more local enemies in that case.
It's times like this that I wish it wasn't a federal offense to send feces in the mail.
Actually I wish that all the time.
Well there are a lot of legitimate import shops now too, although modifying a PS2 to play import games is still a colossal pain in the ass.
NO. They are stuck in the late 80s/early 90s when the Tipper Gore censorship brigade used to freak out about every stupid little thing they possibly could, including the Dead Kennedys and Mortal Kombat. For a company to not realize that the atmosphere has changed significantly ALMOST 15 YEARS LATER is their own stupid fault, not ours.
In other words, hey SNK Japan: QUIT LIVING IN THE PAST, WOULD YOU?
Uh... ever play Black Tiger? Magic Sword? Mega Twins?
Dangun Feveron? 19XX? Metal Slug? GIGA WING?!
Yeesh, it would be redundant to keep naming names, but I don't know... maybe the problem is that you just don't LIKE arcade games.
That was awesome. Seriously.
Well, that's what it is, right?
I could see how some people might be confused because it's kind of a complicated issue, but it seems pretty clear to me that Linus was arguing over Darl's definition of "profit motive".
1. Darl claims that the GPL removes the "profit motive" inherent in U.S. copyright.
2. Linus points out that the definition of "profit motive" includes the exchange of copyrighted material, which is exactly what the GPL provides for.
So he's basically saying that the GPL does not in fact destroy profit motive.
That's a damn good point, but then again, in his scenario he wanted to get rid of the non standard supply anyway, so if he blows it up, no big loss, right?
What's your point in regard to security flaws being exploitable in all software and their bearing on the discussion of whether software authors should be held responsible for attacks that occur because of them? (Remember that discussion from 10 MINUTES ago? Think back - I know it's hard)
Oh that's right, you never were making a point in the first place. And you couldn't even be BOTHERED to respond to the BSD Apache exploit which WAS in fact a core Apache issue.
Not that it matters - do you think OpenSSL wrote itself or magically appeared out of the sky one day, or did someone AUTHOR that?
What the fuck do you think you know about anything? There was an apache worm about two years ago, you drooling moron. It was a flaw in one of apache's add on modules, mod_ssl. This "microsoft apologist" found this very worm on my apache server which was running on a fucking cable modem in my apartment.
APACHE WORM FOR ILLITERATE MS BASHERS
Is it your assertion, by the way, that I am a "microsoft apologist" because I think that you're a moron and your opinions are misguided and ill thought-out? I've been running Linux since 1997, you jackass, so I'll finish this post the same way I started it - what the fuck do you think you know about anything?
P.S. there was a more recent Apache worm that affected some BSD variant or another. TRY READING ONCE IN A WHILE.
You fucking idiot. Seriously, why are you people so GOD DAMN STUPID?
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Please at least have some rudimentary knowledge of computer history - this was 1988 so unless you're less than 15 years old you have NO excuse for this idiocy. This slashdot article is about vicious attacks by VIRUS WRITERS. You are using it as a platform to espouse your obviously ridiculous opinion about security holes in an e-mail program.
In case you don't get my point, let me hammer it home for you - the link I provided is similar in that some smart guy exploited a security flaw to propagate a virus which copied itself all over the god damn internet and shut large sections of it down. The fact that this wasn't his specific intent is irrelevant. Would you like to sue UNIX for allowing a virus to propagate?
You edgy fuckers think shoving your tired, irritating Microsoft bashes into every god damn article on Slashdot is so clever. Examine the facts, genius - if someone wants to fuck with software, they will find a way.
He provides a valuable service to humanity. Especially nerd humanity. We have no game, remember? Anyway, what have you done for anyone lately?
+1 Insightful. Hilarious AND accurate!
You're going to come on here and tell everyone that you and your countrymen don't have fucked up attitudes about the law - and in the same breath you're telling people you think it's a GOOD thing that opening your mouth and speaking your mind could get you sued in France? Your perspective on things is completely twisted, man.