I don't think "social solidarity" is a necessary or even good thing in society.
It seems to be working quite well in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,...
You don't need to be a socialist or communist to notice you've things in common with your neighbors, and the USA's been through this before itself. I say, stand back and enjoy the show. Every tyrant going down is a terriffic plus for all of us. "Sic semper tyrranus!"
What are you talking about? The true Slashdot hardcore do not even read the TITLES, much less the summaries. The articles? Those don't actually exist. Ever tried clicking on one? Don't waste your time, there's never anything at the other end of that link.
That's insane, no rational human being can justify stealing music from content creators. If you want to listen, buy the media - period.
Yes, that is abnormal, something is wrong with you.
You joke? Okay, I preach. Sorry, not funny. Don't equate different/abnormal with wrong.
Suck it up. vi is fast, quick, everywhere there is *nix, and emacs is a great developer's editor/environment/Operating System that CAN run anywhere vi can run these days. To an old guard *nix guy whose first look at *nix was an amber on black cathode tube display, modern Linux/FLOSS is gorgeous! grep has color support built in! Looking at code in modern vi(m) or emacs can be a trancendental experience to a programmer. Well, it can be to me. Having emacs auto-reformat it to my standard with little more than multiple TabKey entries is marvelous!!!!!!!1 Indent might do it, but emacs does it realtime better. Thanks RMS. # why's that "1" always there?
It's actually good for the soul to be different, or distinct, in any way you can (short of violence or corruption against others). It can lead you into research areas you'd not find otherwise. I recommend it, and you might enjoy it!
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Seems like a refutation to me.
Sounds like massive communication problems on both sides. If you need to talk to one of your customers, don't you follow up? Don't you check your mail and other communications gateways? Or, do you ignore incoming contacts, and cut off your valued customers when they fail to live up to your letter of the law?
Typical miscommunication cockup. Humans don't generally tend to communicate all that well. We shouldn't be designing systems that expect them to.
It's a shame people (in general) don't vote with their wallets enough.
Idealism is dead. Long live consumerism.
I don't agree with either of you. People do vote with their wallets, but usually on price points, not political or philosophical values.
Some of us are idealists and do, but we're not arrogant enough to expect it to work. I just derive great satisfaction in the amount of time it's been since I was in a Walmart, or how long it's been since I had a McD, and leave it at that.
Most people don't create complex docs. Most people can very easily do fine with Wordpad. This includes highly paid technical people in big companies. I've watched an accountant punch a column of numbers in a spreadsheet on his screen into a calculator to sum them.
You can't help them, and your fighting about it can't change that. Face reality. This isn't laziness, it's accepting reality. Some things, you can't change.
Did I really write that?!?
Can I take it back? Obviously some kind of "doesn't get the posting interface" serious cockup, sorry. Eew. Did it somehow append itself to the wrong story/thread? Eew. Embarassing.
PHP sucks balls and no one should use it, but thats not among the reasons why it does.
OK, PHP sucks balls...care to elaborate?
I'd like to know too. WTF's the difference, essentially, between perl:DBI and php? Lot's of people complain perl's too hairy. Why's php getting a hairy rep?
There is no 'routine maintenance' that can be performed on computers to safeguard them.
Pardon? "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" works for me. You need to learn what things, and how to turn them off, but it's pretty straight forward from there.
... you cannot help people who do not want to help themselves. you can only respect their decision.
You can't help them, and your fighting about it can't change that. Face reality. This isn't laziness, it's accepting reality. Some things, you can't change.
The majority smartphone OS is Android, and everybody from IBM to Google to Amazon to Grandma trying to watch DVR'd shows on her TiVo or use the Internet through her wireless router would have big issues.
It's awesome when you think of it that way, but the drawbacks come out, too. It's the Sysadmin's Dilemna. "If all this stuff works so stably and reliably, why do we need a sysadmin?" If they're stably and reliably using FLOSS everywhere else, they should be running FLOSS on the desktop too, yes? Why?
As for Linux/FLOSS on the desktop, who cares? It's been on mine for close to 20 years. What's the problem? Your Mom wants to use Windows/Mac/AOL? That's her problem. Warn her that you don't to Windows/Mac/AOL support, and carry on.
I think it pretty odd that Bill Gates managed to build his empire doing it the way he did, but it's no skin off my nose that he got away with it.
Really? Then what are you doing here? I'd wager 80% of the articles posted here can be ascribed to ulterior motives (marketing and sales, raise corporate profile, call out your competitors,...).
I seriously doubt the number's that high, and even if it were that wouldn't be a good thing.
What's a post about an EFF initiative doing for EFF? Marketing, and there's nothing wrong with it. I like to hear about what they're up to. I've got the bumper sticker and t-shirt. I never suggested ulterior motives are bad, just prevalent, but there's nothing malicious about people writing about their hobbyhorses.
So sweeping generalizations are always bad, ok?
Actually, they're not.
Erm, whoosh. That sweeping generalization is obviously wrong, and of entertainment value only.
Really? Then what are you doing here? I'd wager 80% of the articles posted here can be ascribed to ulterior motives (marketing and sales, raise corporate profile, call out your competitors,...).
The Patriot Act is an abomination, we agree on that. Obama is continuing it and supporting it much like most presidents would be in his place I suspect.
To say that is 'worse' than originally proposing it is quite a stretch though.
No it's not. Continuing it after you've learned what it is doing is worse than imposing it in the first place. It was imposed during days of panic, but we've had years to rethink it, so it ought to be gone. Freedom is not to be found there. Disband it.
Everytime I listen to the $POTUS_SUCKS people, I wonder why he'd bother to listen to a word they say. Then I wonder WTF is he continuing this $!@#?
Those things are also outside the ability of most/.ers to influence for good or ill.
So, no point in even attempting to participate in the process, no chance you'll learn how by going through the motions, picking it up as you go along?
Pessimist. You don't care whether things get better or worse? This is basic systems analysis. If you're a geek, it's like breathing. You can't even stop doing it in your sleep.
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It seems to be working quite well in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, ...
You don't need to be a socialist or communist to notice you've things in common with your neighbors, and the USA's been through this before itself. I say, stand back and enjoy the show. Every tyrant going down is a terriffic plus for all of us. "Sic semper tyrranus!"
What?!? No. We're all groups of ones. Individuals are the only group I care about.
Be a mensch, be distinct, stand out, make your mark, be something! It's an adventure. :-) It'll be fun! Don't hurt anyone.
Damn, that's my new .sig!
Ho! Ly! Fuck, are you guys jaded, or what?!?
So, why do people believe vampires exist, again?
What a loser. Aspire to higher things, already.
You joke? Okay, I preach. Sorry, not funny. Don't equate different/abnormal with wrong.
Suck it up. vi is fast, quick, everywhere there is *nix, and emacs is a great developer's editor/environment/Operating System that CAN run anywhere vi can run these days. To an old guard *nix guy whose first look at *nix was an amber on black cathode tube display, modern Linux/FLOSS is gorgeous! grep has color support built in! Looking at code in modern vi(m) or emacs can be a trancendental experience to a programmer. Well, it can be to me. Having emacs auto-reformat it to my standard with little more than multiple TabKey entries is marvelous!!!!!!!1 Indent might do it, but emacs does it realtime better. Thanks RMS. # why's that "1" always there?
It's actually good for the soul to be different, or distinct, in any way you can (short of violence or corruption against others). It can lead you into research areas you'd not find otherwise. I recommend it, and you might enjoy it!
Sounds like massive communication problems on both sides. If you need to talk to one of your customers, don't you follow up? Don't you check your mail and other communications gateways? Or, do you ignore incoming contacts, and cut off your valued customers when they fail to live up to your letter of the law?
Typical miscommunication cockup. Humans don't generally tend to communicate all that well. We shouldn't be designing systems that expect them to.
Why did you even bother to make this post?!? What a buncha' party line drivel!
Try to bring something to the conversation, not just spout platitudes.
I don't agree with either of you. People do vote with their wallets, but usually on price points, not political or philosophical values.
Some of us are idealists and do, but we're not arrogant enough to expect it to work. I just derive great satisfaction in the amount of time it's been since I was in a Walmart, or how long it's been since I had a McD, and leave it at that.
Most people don't create complex docs. Most people can very easily do fine with Wordpad. This includes highly paid technical people in big companies. I've watched an accountant punch a column of numbers in a spreadsheet on his screen into a calculator to sum them.
What do I know? I prefer vi AND emacs.
Did I really write that?!?
Can I take it back? Obviously some kind of "doesn't get the posting interface" serious cockup, sorry. Eew. Did it somehow append itself to the wrong story/thread? Eew. Embarassing.
How does O'Reilly's PHP Pocket Reference First Edition by Rasmus Lerdorf (what I've been thumbing through recently) stand up?
I'd like to know too. WTF's the difference, essentially, between perl:DBI and php? Lot's of people complain perl's too hairy. Why's php getting a hairy rep?
You can write bad code in any language.
So, you're suggesting a class action lawsuit targetting computer science programs? Maybe you can get 'em for java too.
Pardon? "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" works for me. You need to learn what things, and how to turn them off, but it's pretty straight forward from there.
Or were you thinking of Windows? Then I agree.
You can't help them, and your fighting about it can't change that. Face reality. This isn't laziness, it's accepting reality. Some things, you can't change.
There can be no such freedom of unprovoked physical attack. The limit to your freedom is the tip of my nose.
You initiate force directed at me, and I have every right and duty to defend myself. That's hardly anarchy.
It's awesome when you think of it that way, but the drawbacks come out, too. It's the Sysadmin's Dilemna. "If all this stuff works so stably and reliably, why do we need a sysadmin?" If they're stably and reliably using FLOSS everywhere else, they should be running FLOSS on the desktop too, yes? Why?
As for Linux/FLOSS on the desktop, who cares? It's been on mine for close to 20 years. What's the problem? Your Mom wants to use Windows/Mac/AOL? That's her problem. Warn her that you don't to Windows/Mac/AOL support, and carry on.
I think it pretty odd that Bill Gates managed to build his empire doing it the way he did, but it's no skin off my nose that he got away with it.
You say that like it's a bad thing. WTF is an aspie?
What's a post about an EFF initiative doing for EFF? Marketing, and there's nothing wrong with it. I like to hear about what they're up to. I've got the bumper sticker and t-shirt. I never suggested ulterior motives are bad, just prevalent, but there's nothing malicious about people writing about their hobbyhorses.
Erm, whoosh. That sweeping generalization is obviously wrong, and of entertainment value only.
Yeah, let's not bother reading history books. That stuff all happened long ago and has nothing to do with us.
You need to write a flip little joke about him remembering WRH, instead of thinking of the implications of his statement? Sad.
Really? Then what are you doing here? I'd wager 80% of the articles posted here can be ascribed to ulterior motives (marketing and sales, raise corporate profile, call out your competitors, ...).
So sweeping generalizations are always bad, ok?
It doesn't look like the question's settled yet.
No it's not. Continuing it after you've learned what it is doing is worse than imposing it in the first place. It was imposed during days of panic, but we've had years to rethink it, so it ought to be gone. Freedom is not to be found there. Disband it.
Everytime I listen to the $POTUS_SUCKS people, I wonder why he'd bother to listen to a word they say. Then I wonder WTF is he continuing this $!@#?
I just want him to be wrooooooooooooong, so bad. Is he?
Which things (learn to blockquote, ffs).
So, no point in even attempting to participate in the process, no chance you'll learn how by going through the motions, picking it up as you go along?
Pessimist. You don't care whether things get better or worse? This is basic systems analysis. If you're a geek, it's like breathing. You can't even stop doing it in your sleep.