If by using them you mean burning them, then yes the carbon escapes now and then, making trees carbon neutral. That doesn't help with carbon from other sources, but at the same time can mitigate some of them, such as burning oil for heat.
On the other hand, you can also use these trees to build houses and other useful structures.
Then that carbon is 'fixed' unless those structures burn down.
I'm not sure if you are trying to provoke some kind of reaction by talking about Stallman blessing suff and the Linux kernel, but Stallman's predictions or lack thereof are of no interest to me. I'm a BSD user myself and prefer using products with that license (less hassle to redeploy) but favor the GPL when it is important that new code remains open (for example: paid by the public).
As far as what 'most people' want, you can base market decisions on that, not freedom.
I sure care about having access to source code, even when I don't know if I'll ever have time to look at it. You don't have to, but perhaps should stop trying to push others into that hole.
MS is trying hard to portray themselves as the new friends of 'FOSSies'. You are not helping them.
".. several proprietary games have been hand-hacked using hex editors with great results"
If you think that the purpose of FOSS is to hack games, you are missing the big picture. Even in the context of a gaming console, it is mostly about the journey, not the destination. Hacked consoles have never made a dent in the game console market. Perhaps worth noting is that the vendor has an incentive to keep the console locked so they can sell it under cost and expect to recover the profits.
It can be especially problematic to the vendor if consoles are bought in massive quantities to act in a cluster as opposed to a game platform
".. the real threat to user freedom came from a GPL kernel locked..."
Open source software and open hardware are connected but distinct and not mutually exclusive issues. Open systems vs proprietary hardware is not a new thing.
".. phone of mine crapped its own/system partition and I cannot reinstall the OS.. (like I can with evil non-free Windows.."
So.. you are the guy who bought that last Windows phone?
"They are still people making programs and hardware for the Commodore 64 and other vintage systems such as Apple ][."
An important difference: people making programs and hardware for the C64/Apple][ or even the Commodore PET are not doing it because they have to.
It is similar to people working on old cars. There is certainly no point or intent to kill those; it is for preservation and fun.
"there is a lot of history that could be lost forever once we lose Flash."
Indeed, and that goes for everything made with closed source proprietary format.
If you want to be able to read you own content in the future, be careful what you use to create it.
If one puts enough effort into it there are usually means to transcode just about anything, but it is a bit ironic that this happens because no effort was made to avoid flash in the first place.
Actually, it doesn't end with "It's basically Trump's fault that people in Silicon Valley are in a bubble."
Impressive how quickly got modded up to 5 Insightful for that.
It mentions him as an example of someone who "gets forward in life by saying asinine things" and makes no further mention of him.
More to the point, he goes on saying "I’d say the root is an increasing sense of entitlement.."
The article is still not much of a read, but not in the way you portray it.
It used to be common for people in I.T. to work exceeding long hours because of an emergency, or just stay up all night because they had a new interesting system to experiment with. In either cases, and especially if they were good at what they did, their managers knew to cut them some slack instead of being anal about the hours they would show up in the morning.
Most people who love what they do tend to put more hours into their jobs than those who show up on time because they have to, then leave as soon as they can.
Yes I think you are joking, or trolling, but it would be nice to hear from more credible sources than AC on the topic.
Light pollution from artificial satellites are nothing in comparison to the masses of man made lights on the surface hitting every dust particle and clouds going upwards.
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If by using them you mean burning them, then yes the carbon escapes now and then, making trees carbon neutral. That doesn't help with carbon from other sources, but at the same time can mitigate some of them, such as burning oil for heat.
On the other hand, you can also use these trees to build houses and other useful structures.
Then that carbon is 'fixed' unless those structures burn down.
I'm not sure if you are trying to provoke some kind of reaction by talking about Stallman blessing suff and the Linux kernel, but Stallman's predictions or lack thereof are of no interest to me. I'm a BSD user myself and prefer using products with that license (less hassle to redeploy) but favor the GPL when it is important that new code remains open (for example: paid by the public).
As far as what 'most people' want, you can base market decisions on that, not freedom.
I sure care about having access to source code, even when I don't know if I'll ever have time to look at it. You don't have to, but perhaps should stop trying to push others into that hole.
" .. funny that FOSSies .."
..."
/system partition and I cannot reinstall the OS.. (like I can with evil non-free Windows .."
MS is trying hard to portray themselves as the new friends of 'FOSSies'. You are not helping them.
".. several proprietary games have been hand-hacked using hex editors with great results"
If you think that the purpose of FOSS is to hack games, you are missing the big picture. Even in the context of a gaming console, it is mostly about the journey, not the destination. Hacked consoles have never made a dent in the game console market. Perhaps worth noting is that the vendor has an incentive to keep the console locked so they can sell it under cost and expect to recover the profits.
It can be especially problematic to the vendor if consoles are bought in massive quantities to act in a cluster as opposed to a game platform
".. the real threat to user freedom came from a GPL kernel locked
Open source software and open hardware are connected but distinct and not mutually exclusive issues. Open systems vs proprietary hardware is not a new thing.
".. phone of mine crapped its own
So.. you are the guy who bought that last Windows phone?
"They are still people making programs and hardware for the Commodore 64 and other vintage systems such as Apple ][."
An important difference: people making programs and hardware for the C64/Apple][ or even the Commodore PET are not doing it because they have to.
It is similar to people working on old cars. There is certainly no point or intent to kill those; it is for preservation and fun.
"there is a lot of history that could be lost forever once we lose Flash."
Indeed, and that goes for everything made with closed source proprietary format.
If you want to be able to read you own content in the future, be careful what you use to create it.
If one puts enough effort into it there are usually means to transcode just about anything, but it is a bit ironic that this happens because no effort was made to avoid flash in the first place.
Next Story: "This guy bought the last Windows phone!"
Actually, it doesn't end with "It's basically Trump's fault that people in Silicon Valley are in a bubble."
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Impressive how quickly got modded up to 5 Insightful for that.
It mentions him as an example of someone who "gets forward in life by saying asinine things" and makes no further mention of him.
More to the point, he goes on saying "I’d say the root is an increasing sense of entitlement
The article is still not much of a read, but not in the way you portray it.
".. my conservative friends on Facebook.."
It is amazing what passes as a "conservative" these days.
Good points (pun intended). Missing comma;
" who is worth nothing, is just 33 years old.. "
" who is worth nothing is just 33 years old "
Depending on how you define worth, I think this is a better fit.
Thanks for that :D
No, that would make me want to get another job.
If watching videos made him crazy, he was probably watching something more disturbing, but it is more likely that he had other issues.
I'm not removing my Add blocker, and given there are no other working links provided, can someone tell me where this conference took place?
It used to be common for people in I.T. to work exceeding long hours because of an emergency, or just stay up all night because they had a new interesting system to experiment with. In either cases, and especially if they were good at what they did, their managers knew to cut them some slack instead of being anal about the hours they would show up in the morning.
Most people who love what they do tend to put more hours into their jobs than those who show up on time because they have to, then leave as soon as they can.
Yes I think you are joking, or trolling, but it would be nice to hear from more credible sources than AC on the topic.
Light pollution from artificial satellites are nothing in comparison to the masses of man made lights on the surface hitting every dust particle and clouds going upwards.
Same. Trying to control parody hints at insecurity.
China has a long history and a rich culture.
Your ignorance is no excuse to attack it.
Yeah! Stoopid F$%^!
Why doesn't he build an electric Rocket?
Painting everyone with the same brush and insulting them is not conductive of spreading truth.
Beside speculating on the behavior of others as if they all conformed to your projected image, what truth did you intend to state?
"..the blind, hateful liberals.."
There is no need for this trash talk unless your are a hateful person yourself.
"There are degrees in hell too"
And a never ending argument about whether they should be using Fahrenheit or Celsius. Heaven is in Kelvin.
And if you say it really low, with your inner voice, it says that anyway.
Too bad there is no longer a global super power to act as a moral compass that could actually exemplify what 'better' means.
Pointing out a flawed argument is not being apocalyptic.
If you are interested in constructive responses you should start by offering them. Denial is not constructive.
That well is already tainted, and to accuse people of being alarmist about something that is alarming is just another smoke screen.
You would readily see it if you were willing to open your mind instead of entrenching yourself into deceit.