I was raised in USSR, when/where Atheism was a part of a mainstream culture, and even though I disliked that mainstream culture, it did not inspire me to adopt some bizarre beliefs just to be easier distinguishable from Leonid Brezhnev. I now live in US, where Christianity is one of the foundations of the accepted worldview, that I also dislike. This still does not prevent me from having a burning hatred toward all forms of superstition, including religion in general and all forms of Christianity in particular.
But there is room for reincarnation without the religious connotations.
No, there isn't. Without a mechanism to transfer information outside of the dying brain, it is simply destroyed, and anything else is merely wishful thinking.
Obviously, the body (brain) plays a part (for many the dominant part, it seems), but it is not enough to explain what is observable.
We already know that brain is a biological computer with multiple chemical and electrochemical interfaces to the rest of the body. This is understood very well, and was understood even before people had computers and therefore could not yet compress this explanation into such a short statement. The only things unknown about it are the structure and mechanisms, and it's extremely foolish to claim that it breaks the laws of nature known through Physics and Chemistry.
Any alternative to the above is LESS LIKELY TO BE TRUE than "we are all in The Matrix" or "We are in a dream of a sleeping God" hypotheses, what means that it can not be a part of any realistic philosophy and should be relegated to the realm of fiction. All support for this nonsense comes from superstition and nowhere else.
What us? Who the fuck is us? There is no us. Microsoft has a voluntary & optional program for putting MS logo on your product.
There is nothing "voluntary" in commerce.
Oh, and monopoly maintenance is illegal even by US corporate-criminal-friendly standards.
And stop with the "poor oss developers" angle. It is a flat out lie. Billions of dollars has been poured into linux development to get it to its current state from the pathetic state it was a few decades ago.
That does not mean, everyone now has to pay for the privilege of not having a great public resource destroyed.
If all the big Linux based services companies can't spend some money so that a simple cryptographic key is included in the UEFI based motherboards so that THEIR CUSTOMERS can have an easy way to install THEIR PRODUCT,
The "big Linux based services companies" are not the only people affected by this. I am a Linux developer, and my ability to contribute to Linux development depends on my access to those keys. Obviously, no amount of money I (or any company that I work for) would pay to Microsoft will ever convince them to trust me with such a key, so I will never be able to do any development on locked-down ARM devices.
they they are just fucking parasites. But maggots like you are useful to them.. keep dancing you little bitch..
Now I want to BRING EVERYONE'S ATTENTION to the quote above. Microsoft shills claim that we, Linux developers and distributors, people who work for the benefit of everyone, are parasites because we don't pay for their masters' extortion scheme, and Microsoft's attempts to control all hardware manufacturers worldwide are somehow justified.
This is the kind of propaganda they are going to flood the media with, and with enough effort it will work. They must be stopped, and the only way to stop them is to destroy their company. We shouldn't care what they will produce, and if any of that will ever become usable, superior or inferior to any other option. This shows their real face, their real goals, their real methods. The whole mankind is their intended victim, and they are an enemy of everyone but themselves.
1 word...OpenMoko. FOSS "advocates" talk a good game but when it comes to opening their wallets? Not so good.
Another three worts: N900 Community SSU. Nokia's abandoned phone is being better supported with ongoing development than any other mobile phone that currently exists.
Establishing a new MOBILE PHONE MANUFACTURING COMPANY can be only done with Apple-size financial backing. Not even your beloved Microsoft dared to do so (what is, of course, the reason why Sendo is destroyed and Nokia is turning into an empty shell of former self).
Oh wow, hairyfeet is attacking his strawmen again. Linux users, on average, spend more than Windows users by the virtue of not consisting in large part of NEETs and high school kids. They just don't spend on software because they have superior software for free, and software they would consider buying, does not exist. Last year I personally spent something around $500 on Xilinx tools for Linux (not counting stuff that came with the development board that I also bought), just so I won't have to deal with "work-related/non-work-related" dichotomy in my open source projects. Before, when I had a company, I have bought licenses for multiple versions of VariCAD for Linux because I needed a 3D CAD that can interoperate with metal shops that mostly use SolidWorks. I am not much of a gamer, and I believe that open source is a superior way of developing game engines just like it is a superior way to develop all software, however I see nothing wrong with buying games. I have games from Humble Bundles, and would buy games that I find worth playing if they were available on Linux.
On the other hand, this is how much I have paid for Windows and all Windows software over 27 years that Windows existed: $0.
Has the whole lack of a stable ABI/API changed? No.
That identifies the person posting it as a Microsoft shill.
The "stable ABI" he is talking about is an internal kernel interface. It has absolutely nothing to do with games. It's what crappy hardware manufacturers are supposed to use in their proprietary drivers. It's what both Nvidia (in proprietary drivers) and Intel (in open source drivers) demonstrated to be utterly unnecessary and irrelevant. In other words, it's another "GIMP DOES NOT SUPPORT CMYK, I NEED PHOTOSHOP TO MAKE LOLCAT PICTURES!" crap.
It's only inconvenient for Linux because Linux developers are riding on the tails of the same hardware.
Another Microsoft astroturfer.
Maybe the Linux distros should be talking to Samsung, ASUS, HTC, and whatever other hardware developers you want to name and ask them to start building Linux-specific hardware parts?
1. Linux distributions do not own Linux. 2. "Pay us so we won't sabotage your software" is not the model that anyone sane would want to encourage. 3. Die in a fire.
though I might go back to Gnome2 if I could tap the top left corner and get an Expose view with virtual desktop browser as in Gnome3.
I run GNOME 2 (and MATE on Ubuntu 12.04, as GNOME 2 is not available on it) with Compiz, and I had that exact functionality available many years before GNOME 3. One of my problems with GNOME 3 is that their hare-brained decision to take over window manager broken all my window-switching/preview/multi-monitor settings I have in Compiz. They replaced it with some primitive shit that probably works for developers who never bothered to look what other people are doing.
mystical notion of ownership is created just because someone did a little work on something.
If you knew anything about Marxism, you would not spout such idiocy. When the labor is public (that is, always with few exceptions), private ownership of the product is only "justified" because capitalists say so, and they can get away with it, because they control the means of production.
If someone doesn't want their labor to be "controlled", then just never work for anyone else.
This is the whole point of ownership of the means of production -- to prevent people from doing most kinds of work without working for capitalists who gobbled up all those means of production, and make sure that no other means of production can be produced. It's true that you can suck someone's cock without a need to own a factory, railroad, or oil field, however this does not mean that cocksucking is a viable alternative to the wage slavery on the scale of the society.
Most people waive their rights to ownership of their labor, because it works out much better for them.
Most people also waive their rights to own their wallet when faced with an armed robber, too, however this does not mean that robbery is justified, or that robbers should not be punished.
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the report. If you need to know what parts of what you do need help, then you don't much care if the overall tone is congratulatory... you're looking for the "fix this" and "continue doing this" parts.
GNOME 3 seems to be a result of this kind of research going terribly wrong.
But... FUHREEEEEE ENTERRRPRIIIIISE!!!!11 It should be perfectly fine to introduce incompatibility and leave customers without upgradws to sink a competitor! This is how true American businesses work!
Risk does not inherently deserve a reward. Certainly not a reward that involves control of other people and fruits of their labor.
All that being said, if you are a US citizen,
Not only I am not an US citizen, I also happened to live half of my life in USSR and half in US, what makes me more qualified to comments on matters of Communists, Socialism and Capitalism than most of US population including all US politicians, all US journalists, all US "historians" and, of course, you.
the first amendment does guarantee your right to have and espouse completely stupid opinion
It's nice that you have mentioned that. First Amendment is basically the right to lie to the public with impunity, as your favorite propaganda outlet, Fox News, demonstrated multiple times. If anything, your response demonstrates that those lies were extremely efficient.
And this is why Marxists are specifically against a category of private property, private owned means of production, as it enables control over other people's labor and gives the owner an unjustified ownership of all products made by those people under such control -- what is, indeed, institutionalized theft. This is something that your friendly anti-Communist propaganda is tirelessly trying to conceal, and conflate with all other kinds of property.
I "assume" (actually know) that the less crap ends up in memory, and the less is the number of components that are not updated automatically with the rest of the system, the more efficient and secure is the resulting system. There are excuses for not following that principle, however it's monumentally stupid not to follow them when there is a choice.
Agreed. So don't do that. Instead, use the Zero Install techniques, both the one's they've implemented, and the ones they wish they had time for. I run $100K software packages on Linux boxes from Cadence and Mentor. The exact same executables run on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. The way they accomplish this is statically linking all the way down to the linux kernel interface (maybe they link to libc - not sure). Now doing that would be bad in general, but if you instead run chrooted in a jail, like recently has been done in Ubuntu, and use hard-links to share the various.so files, you can get disk utilization under control. In my experience,.so files don't fill up much disk anyway, so if I have 2 or 3 versions of most.so files, shared across the various apps that use them, it should not be a big problem.
You, sir, are an idiot.
$100K software is distributed that way because developers can't allow external maintainers touch their source code, and are unwilling to do distribution-specific builds themselves. Their "special" libraries crowd up memory because they are not shared with the rest of the system -- you end up with two copies Qt, two copies of MySQL client, two JREs, and dreaded two libstdc++'es that caused so much grief in 90's. They often use obsolete protocols and don't work properly with other components -- what is usually just fine for EDA or CAD program, but stupid for anything else.
GNAA is far superior to GNOME3, as far as trolling of the public with least amount of real harm is concerned. And LMOSdefault user interface looks better than anything done with GNOME3.
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I was raised in USSR, when/where Atheism was a part of a mainstream culture, and even though I disliked that mainstream culture, it did not inspire me to adopt some bizarre beliefs just to be easier distinguishable from Leonid Brezhnev. I now live in US, where Christianity is one of the foundations of the accepted worldview, that I also dislike. This still does not prevent me from having a burning hatred toward all forms of superstition, including religion in general and all forms of Christianity in particular.
But there is room for reincarnation without the religious connotations.
No, there isn't. Without a mechanism to transfer information outside of the dying brain, it is simply destroyed, and anything else is merely wishful thinking.
Obviously, the body (brain) plays a part (for many the dominant part, it seems), but it is not enough to explain what is observable.
We already know that brain is a biological computer with multiple chemical and electrochemical interfaces to the rest of the body. This is understood very well, and was understood even before people had computers and therefore could not yet compress this explanation into such a short statement. The only things unknown about it are the structure and mechanisms, and it's extremely foolish to claim that it breaks the laws of nature known through Physics and Chemistry.
Any alternative to the above is LESS LIKELY TO BE TRUE than "we are all in The Matrix" or "We are in a dream of a sleeping God" hypotheses, what means that it can not be a part of any realistic philosophy and should be relegated to the realm of fiction. All support for this nonsense comes from superstition and nowhere else.
What us? Who the fuck is us? There is no us. Microsoft has a voluntary & optional program for putting MS logo on your product.
There is nothing "voluntary" in commerce.
Oh, and monopoly maintenance is illegal even by US corporate-criminal-friendly standards.
And stop with the "poor oss developers" angle. It is a flat out lie. Billions of dollars has been poured into linux development to get it to its current state from the pathetic state it was a few decades ago.
That does not mean, everyone now has to pay for the privilege of not having a great public resource destroyed.
If all the big Linux based services companies can't spend some money so that a simple cryptographic key is included in the UEFI based motherboards so that THEIR CUSTOMERS can have an easy way to install THEIR PRODUCT,
The "big Linux based services companies" are not the only people affected by this. I am a Linux developer, and my ability to contribute to Linux development depends on my access to those keys. Obviously, no amount of money I (or any company that I work for) would pay to Microsoft will ever convince them to trust me with such a key, so I will never be able to do any development on locked-down ARM devices.
they they are just fucking parasites. But maggots like you are useful to them.. keep dancing you little bitch..
Now I want to BRING EVERYONE'S ATTENTION to the quote above. Microsoft shills claim that we, Linux developers and distributors, people who work for the benefit of everyone, are parasites because we don't pay for their masters' extortion scheme, and Microsoft's attempts to control all hardware manufacturers worldwide are somehow justified.
This is the kind of propaganda they are going to flood the media with, and with enough effort it will work. They must be stopped, and the only way to stop them is to destroy their company. We shouldn't care what they will produce, and if any of that will ever become usable, superior or inferior to any other option. This shows their real face, their real goals, their real methods. The whole mankind is their intended victim, and they are an enemy of everyone but themselves.
1 word...OpenMoko. FOSS "advocates" talk a good game but when it comes to opening their wallets? Not so good.
Another three worts: N900 Community SSU. Nokia's abandoned phone is being better supported with ongoing development than any other mobile phone that currently exists.
Establishing a new MOBILE PHONE MANUFACTURING COMPANY can be only done with Apple-size financial backing. Not even your beloved Microsoft dared to do so (what is, of course, the reason why Sendo is destroyed and Nokia is turning into an empty shell of former self).
Oh wow, hairyfeet is attacking his strawmen again. Linux users, on average, spend more than Windows users by the virtue of not consisting in large part of NEETs and high school kids. They just don't spend on software because they have superior software for free, and software they would consider buying, does not exist. Last year I personally spent something around $500 on Xilinx tools for Linux (not counting stuff that came with the development board that I also bought), just so I won't have to deal with "work-related/non-work-related" dichotomy in my open source projects. Before, when I had a company, I have bought licenses for multiple versions of VariCAD for Linux because I needed a 3D CAD that can interoperate with metal shops that mostly use SolidWorks. I am not much of a gamer, and I believe that open source is a superior way of developing game engines just like it is a superior way to develop all software, however I see nothing wrong with buying games. I have games from Humble Bundles, and would buy games that I find worth playing if they were available on Linux.
On the other hand, this is how much I have paid for Windows and all Windows software over 27 years that Windows existed: $0.
Has the whole lack of a stable ABI/API changed? No.
That identifies the person posting it as a Microsoft shill.
The "stable ABI" he is talking about is an internal kernel interface. It has absolutely nothing to do with games. It's what crappy hardware manufacturers are supposed to use in their proprietary drivers. It's what both Nvidia (in proprietary drivers) and Intel (in open source drivers) demonstrated to be utterly unnecessary and irrelevant. In other words, it's another "GIMP DOES NOT SUPPORT CMYK, I NEED PHOTOSHOP TO MAKE LOLCAT PICTURES!" crap.
It's only inconvenient for Linux because Linux developers are riding on the tails of the same hardware.
Another Microsoft astroturfer.
Maybe the Linux distros should be talking to Samsung, ASUS, HTC, and whatever other hardware developers you want to name and ask them to start building Linux-specific hardware parts?
1. Linux distributions do not own Linux.
2. "Pay us so we won't sabotage your software" is not the model that anyone sane would want to encourage.
3. Die in a fire.
though I might go back to Gnome2 if I could tap the top left corner and get an Expose view with virtual desktop browser as in Gnome3.
I run GNOME 2 (and MATE on Ubuntu 12.04, as GNOME 2 is not available on it) with Compiz, and I had that exact functionality available many years before GNOME 3. One of my problems with GNOME 3 is that their hare-brained decision to take over window manager broken all my window-switching/preview/multi-monitor settings I have in Compiz. They replaced it with some primitive shit that probably works for developers who never bothered to look what other people are doing.
mystical notion of ownership is created just because someone did a little work on something.
If you knew anything about Marxism, you would not spout such idiocy. When the labor is public (that is, always with few exceptions), private ownership of the product is only "justified" because capitalists say so, and they can get away with it, because they control the means of production.
If someone doesn't want their labor to be "controlled", then just never work for anyone else.
This is the whole point of ownership of the means of production -- to prevent people from doing most kinds of work without working for capitalists who gobbled up all those means of production, and make sure that no other means of production can be produced. It's true that you can suck someone's cock without a need to own a factory, railroad, or oil field, however this does not mean that cocksucking is a viable alternative to the wage slavery on the scale of the society.
Most people waive their rights to ownership of their labor, because it works out much better for them.
Most people also waive their rights to own their wallet when faced with an armed robber, too, however this does not mean that robbery is justified, or that robbers should not be punished.
Effort has nothing to do with this. "Labor" in Marxism means any human activity that produces something valuable.
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the report. If you need to know what parts of what you do need help, then you don't much care if the overall tone is congratulatory... you're looking for the "fix this" and "continue doing this" parts.
GNOME 3 seems to be a result of this kind of research going terribly wrong.
But... FUHREEEEEE ENTERRRPRIIIIISE!!!!11 It should be perfectly fine to introduce incompatibility and leave customers without upgradws to sink a competitor! This is how true American businesses work!
He put his capital at risk to start it up
Risk does not inherently deserve a reward. Certainly not a reward that involves control of other people and fruits of their labor.
All that being said, if you are a US citizen,
Not only I am not an US citizen, I also happened to live half of my life in USSR and half in US, what makes me more qualified to comments on matters of Communists, Socialism and Capitalism than most of US population including all US politicians, all US journalists, all US "historians" and, of course, you.
the first amendment does guarantee your right to have and espouse completely stupid opinion
It's nice that you have mentioned that. First Amendment is basically the right to lie to the public with impunity, as your favorite propaganda outlet, Fox News, demonstrated multiple times. If anything, your response demonstrates that those lies were extremely efficient.
And this is why Marxists are specifically against a category of private property, private owned means of production, as it enables control over other people's labor and gives the owner an unjustified ownership of all products made by those people under such control -- what is, indeed, institutionalized theft. This is something that your friendly anti-Communist propaganda is tirelessly trying to conceal, and conflate with all other kinds of property.
Hey, someone was wrong -- that means, everything else is wrong.
You are an example of people with defective thinking that comes from lack of studying. Kill all your friends, then yourself.
An OS won't teach anyone about anything..
Windows taught people to be good slaves.
On one word, no. You don't understand how software works.
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FUCK NO.
I am absolutely serious -- GNOME3 UI is worse than goatse.
I "assume" (actually know) that the less crap ends up in memory, and the less is the number of components that are not updated automatically with the rest of the system, the more efficient and secure is the resulting system. There are excuses for not following that principle, however it's monumentally stupid not to follow them when there is a choice.
No, that's your client, Microsoft.
Agreed. So don't do that. Instead, use the Zero Install techniques, both the one's they've implemented, and the ones they wish they had time for. I run $100K software packages on Linux boxes from Cadence and Mentor. The exact same executables run on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian. The way they accomplish this is statically linking all the way down to the linux kernel interface (maybe they link to libc - not sure). Now doing that would be bad in general, but if you instead run chrooted in a jail, like recently has been done in Ubuntu, and use hard-links to share the various .so files, you can get disk utilization under control. In my experience, .so files don't fill up much disk anyway, so if I have 2 or 3 versions of most .so files, shared across the various apps that use them, it should not be a big problem.
You, sir, are an idiot.
$100K software is distributed that way because developers can't allow external maintainers touch their source code, and are unwilling to do distribution-specific builds themselves. Their "special" libraries crowd up memory because they are not shared with the rest of the system -- you end up with two copies Qt, two copies of MySQL client, two JREs, and dreaded two libstdc++'es that caused so much grief in 90's. They often use obsolete protocols and don't work properly with other components -- what is usually just fine for EDA or CAD program, but stupid for anything else.
GNAA is far superior to GNOME3, as far as trolling of the public with least amount of real harm is concerned. And LMOS default user interface looks better than anything done with GNOME3.
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How come the spell checker suggests "Ballgirl" for Ballmer? Damn Chrome.
I think, it's something from /d/...