I think you make the, IMHO, false assumption that there is some natural right to be able to get paid doing whatever you want. Just because you have been able to get paid for certain services in the past does not mean you will in the future. Compare this to any profession that has died out because something new replaced it.
"Lisp and Scheme I'll lump in "parenthesis hell." I've never seen the allure of list processing languages - they drive me nuts. In the real world, you'll probably never see them even for what it's known best for, AI (python or lua are much more useful these days)."
Thanks for telling me, I have to rewrite my mp3 search engine in some other language then Common Lisp now. And we need to tell everyone doing all those neat CL apps to start using it for AI only, it's all it's good for, right?
I live in Sweden, and when I read the article I almost laughed. Ha! A puny 6 percent! Come on! In Sweden most people pay 30 % and up, regardless if they provide services or goods. But we have a different system here, of course. Instead of paying for different insurances directly we pay the stuff via taxes. The drawback is of course that this isn't as efficient, the system has leaks and other inefficiencies. And we pay for people that cannot otherwise pay; it's called solidarity and it's not the same as communism... I work as a software engineer (since 11 years back) and earn about 5500 USD per month. After taxes I get around 3300 USD to put in my wallet. That's a lot of tax money but I live *very* well on that money, not worrying much about the taxes that gives the poor people "free" health care and medicines, etc. Again, the system we have here is in a way less efficient but I'd choose it any day over the "colder" (no offense intended) system in countries like the US, where only people with money live well. Call me a commy, if you like...
What you describe is of course the quickest possible way of starting a program. The only problem with it is that you might run out of key combinations. And the key combos take some time to learn. With Enso and similar programs you just need to know the program's/place's/whatever name, and presto! Also, something that annoys me with Windows built-in shortcut keyboard shortcuts is that you need two modfier keys (e.g. Ctrl+Shift). There are programs that let me bind a command to Win+q if I want to. I use and recommend Windows PowerPro, a super tool! And, of course, my own little "system": http://klibb.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/MakeSmartShortcut s
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That's why we get things like "C-c C-o C-1" in esoteric modes.
A comment about this. Key combinations like the one above might seem extremely complicated until you realise that you do not have to let go of the Ctrl key; press Ctrl down and type c o 1 (OK, I admit, the "1" there is a bit out of place as I have to reach far with my right hand) and then let go. All in all, 3 and a half keystroke.
I agree to some extent, but the problem is that the production and distribution of these drugs creates problems for our society. Of course, some say this is just because it is illegal, and some countries have more relaxed laws for this (the Netherlands, for example.) I don't know if that has solved their problems (crime, extra health care costs etc) though.
But if you, in your own home, produced and consumed your own drugs, without affecting anyone, directly or indirectly, in any way, then I would agree 100%. I guess the lawmakers actually thinks so too, but allowing such things opens up many gray areas.
Let's say you put 50 hours into this piece of software, and let's say you normally earn $4000 per month (Swedish figures), and you charge $25 for it. Would you, when you have got money compensating for your time, release the software free? In my view, this is the only ethical option. I develop software for a living (not selling it myself) so I know it takes a lot of time. And it would not work letting a single user pay for all that time (if we for the moment agree that you are entitled to make money creating software). That's why we split up that cost into smaller chunks. But, the problem as I see it, is that if we get the compensation for our time, we still continue to charge for it. Apart from other "creative" arts (music, film etc etc), where do we see something like that? Nowhere. If I build a house for someone, I got paid and that's it. I don't demand money for all people using that house. Of course, only one person can own it at a time, and this does not apply to the bits and bytes that we develop (basically zero cost of mass-producing software), and this suggests, to me, that there is something special about things like this that makes normal rules fail, and that all these "information products" should be free, once released into the wild.
Personally I don't care how far-reaching the GPLv3 is. The idea that Dell could take my work and actively use it to take away people's rights is so wrong that there's pretty much nothing the license could do that would be worse. I'll be releasing my code as GPLv3 as soon as it comes out.
This is an extremely clever stragegy by Microsoft. Just dump tons of über-cool gimmicks in MSN, which all kids loooove. This will lock in the kids into Windows, and even if their parents wanted to try GNU/Linux or just some FOSS IM-client, their kids would scream loudly. I know, it has happened to a collegue. Really evil...
You very well know that was not my main point. My main point was that if you want to critisize someone for not doing something you should know what you are talking about. And you clearly are not. Richard does a lot of fixes cnd changes to GNU Emacs code base. Hence my reference to the mailing list. I'm not suggesting you read each and every mailing list out there, that would be really silly of me.
In case you forgot what you wrote, here it is again:
"If RMS wants to complain......He can damn well roll up his sleeves and hammer out some code himself."
And, again, my main point was that he does, and that you are mostly an uninformed troll.
I couldn't agree more! I have been using Jabber for some years now. At first I used both Jabber and the "other" clients because I did not find any stable Jabber server and client. Now I do all my chatting through Emacs, using the wonderful "jabber.el" / "emacs-jabber" client. Combining all neat features in Emacs (abbreviation expansion, macros, spell checking etc) with a good chat client (jabber.el has some features that almost no other IM-client seems to have) - simply awesome!
I am currently trying to convice The Powers That Be where I work that the company should use a Jabber server for internal IM, just to be independent on external services and also because chatting about sensitive company stuff through MS' servers does not feel very good...
Why are these abbreviations and acronyms so bad? It is all about communicating, right? And the quicker I can convey a message to my friend/collegue, the better, IMHO... If I need really fast feedback, I use the phone.
Also, if you have a good IM-client, those "annoying" short-hands can be translated, in both directions.
Isn't that about the same Napster did? Napster did not store any "illegal" information, they just pointed out to person X that person Y had something to share. And see what happened to Napster...
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In Sweden we just pay when we send an SMS, and it has always been like that. We have never understood the backward system in the US.
Thanks!
I think you make the, IMHO, false assumption that there is some natural right to be able to get paid doing whatever you want. Just because you have been able to get paid for certain services in the past does not mean you will in the future. Compare this to any profession that has died out because something new replaced it.
"Lisp and Scheme I'll lump in "parenthesis hell." I've never seen the allure of list processing languages - they drive me nuts. In the real world, you'll probably never see them even for what it's known best for, AI (python or lua are much more useful these days)."
Thanks for telling me, I have to rewrite my mp3 search engine in some other language then Common Lisp now. And we need to tell everyone doing all those neat CL apps to start using it for AI only, it's all it's good for, right?
Pshh...
I live in Sweden, and when I read the article I almost laughed. Ha! A puny 6 percent! Come on! In Sweden most people pay 30 % and up, regardless if they provide services or goods. But we have a different system here, of course. Instead of paying for different insurances directly we pay the stuff via taxes. The drawback is of course that this isn't as efficient, the system has leaks and other inefficiencies. And we pay for people that cannot otherwise pay; it's called solidarity and it's not the same as communism... I work as a software engineer (since 11 years back) and earn about 5500 USD per month. After taxes I get around 3300 USD to put in my wallet. That's a lot of tax money but I live *very* well on that money, not worrying much about the taxes that gives the poor people "free" health care and medicines, etc. Again, the system we have here is in a way less efficient but I'd choose it any day over the "colder" (no offense intended) system in countries like the US, where only people with money live well. Call me a commy, if you like...
Nice troll :)
Umm, isn't QuickSilver only available for OS X? I agree with the pinky-part though. And the price.
What you describe is of course the quickest possible way of starting a program. The only problem with it is that you might run out of key combinations. And the key combos take some time to learn. With Enso and similar programs you just need to know the program's/place's/whatever name, and presto! Also, something that annoys me with Windows built-in shortcut keyboard shortcuts is that you need two modfier keys (e.g. Ctrl+Shift). There are programs that let me bind a command to Win+q if I want to. I use and recommend Windows PowerPro, a super tool! And, of course, my own little "system": http://klibb.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/MakeSmartShortcut s
I have used the same system since 1997/8/9 (don't remember exactly). I have described it here:
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That's why we get things like "C-c C-o C-1" in esoteric modes.
A comment about this. Key combinations like the one above might seem extremely complicated until you realise that you do not have to let go of the Ctrl key; press Ctrl down and type c o 1 (OK, I admit, the "1" there is a bit out of place as I have to reach far with my right hand) and then let go. All in all, 3 and a half keystroke.
Time is also the only thing everyone of us have the same amount of. In that sense it is very democratic.
"...new good will gestures..."
Is that good-will gestures, or good will-gestures?
I agree to some extent, but the problem is that the production and distribution of these drugs creates problems for our society. Of course, some say this is just because it is illegal, and some countries have more relaxed laws for this (the Netherlands, for example.) I don't know if that has solved their problems (crime, extra health care costs etc) though.
But if you, in your own home, produced and consumed your own drugs, without affecting anyone, directly or indirectly, in any way, then I would agree 100%. I guess the lawmakers actually thinks so too, but allowing such things opens up many gray areas.
Let's say you put 50 hours into this piece of software, and let's say you normally earn $4000 per month (Swedish figures), and you charge $25 for it. Would you, when you have got money compensating for your time, release the software free? In my view, this is the only ethical option. I develop software for a living (not selling it myself) so I know it takes a lot of time. And it would not work letting a single user pay for all that time (if we for the moment agree that you are entitled to make money creating software). That's why we split up that cost into smaller chunks. But, the problem as I see it, is that if we get the compensation for our time, we still continue to charge for it. Apart from other "creative" arts (music, film etc etc), where do we see something like that? Nowhere. If I build a house for someone, I got paid and that's it. I don't demand money for all people using that house. Of course, only one person can own it at a time, and this does not apply to the bits and bytes that we develop (basically zero cost of mass-producing software), and this suggests, to me, that there is something special about things like this that makes normal rules fail, and that all these "information products" should be free, once released into the wild.
My very incoherent 2 cents...
Well, CDDB probably has a few more employees than FreeDB had, and the parent poster already mentioned that. What was your argument again?
I see the movie "Gattaca" mentioned several times in there. Isn't this some kind of "IP" (take your pick) violation...
Personally I don't care how far-reaching the GPLv3 is. The idea that Dell could take my work and actively use it to take away people's rights is so wrong that there's pretty much nothing the license could do that would be worse. I'll be releasing my code as GPLv3 as soon as it comes out.
Amen.
This is an extremely clever stragegy by Microsoft. Just dump tons of über-cool gimmicks in MSN, which all kids loooove. This will lock in the kids into Windows, and even if their parents wanted to try GNU/Linux or just some FOSS IM-client, their kids would scream loudly. I know, it has happened to a collegue. Really evil...
Maybe the point was to *not* make it intuitive, so to not confuse newbies?
You very well know that was not my main point. My main point was that if you want to critisize someone for not doing something you should know what you are talking about. And you clearly are not. Richard does a lot of fixes cnd changes to GNU Emacs code base. Hence my reference to the mailing list. I'm not suggesting you read each and every mailing list out there, that would be really silly of me.
...He can damn well roll up his sleeves and hammer out some code himself."
In case you forgot what you wrote, here it is again:
"If RMS wants to complain...
And, again, my main point was that he does, and that you are mostly an uninformed troll.
It existed in 21.3 too. And, IIRC, even before that.
Nice troll... And, of course you do not read gnu.emacs.devel on a regular basis.
I couldn't agree more! I have been using Jabber for some years now. At first I used both Jabber and the "other" clients because I did not find any stable Jabber server and client. Now I do all my chatting through Emacs, using the wonderful "jabber.el" / "emacs-jabber" client. Combining all neat features in Emacs (abbreviation expansion, macros, spell checking etc) with a good chat client (jabber.el has some features that almost no other IM-client seems to have) - simply awesome!
I am currently trying to convice The Powers That Be where I work that the company should use a Jabber server for internal IM, just to be independent on external services and also because chatting about sensitive company stuff through MS' servers does not feel very good...
Why are these abbreviations and acronyms so bad? It is all about communicating, right? And the quicker I can convey a message to my friend/collegue, the better, IMHO... If I need really fast feedback, I use the phone.
Also, if you have a good IM-client, those "annoying" short-hands can be translated, in both directions.
Isn't that about the same Napster did? Napster did not store any "illegal" information, they just pointed out to person X that person Y had something to share. And see what happened to Napster...