We are apart of nature, anything we do is natural. If we kill ourselves by destroying the environment then it's no different than if a pack of wolves starve to death because they hunted their food to extinction.
With all due respect to our lupine friends, it's different to me. Also, like it or not, we are above nature. We are operating on a fundamentally different moral level to the rest of known nature because we can foresee the consequences of our actions to a certain degree, or at least we can know that there will be consequences even if we are unsure what they will actually be. That's not to say that we are true meta-men, we are still operating within the system of nature, but in the continuing absence of the gods, it's as good as you are going to get.
The reason that people like whiz-bang technological solutions is that solutions that rely on the cooperation of 6,000,000,000 people (cutting down on those SUVs, restructuring the world economy around a new, undefined, energy source) are hard to implement. So hard that a system with a trillion (!) separate spaceships (!) begins to sound attractive in comparison:)
whereas biweekly means both "occurring every two weeks" and "occurring twice a week". Gotta love that precision.
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In fairness, skin technologies are a developer's acknowledgment that "we don't know how to make it look good, do it yourself if you think that's important".
I've found that lots of pages saved to disk with prior versions of Firefox do not for some reason render properly anymore with version 2. Also a zombie Firefox process was taking 99% percent of my CPU earlier today. I haven't had the well documented problems with the previous releases, but for me at least, this version is proving troublesome.
Well, this is true, but don't most people don't treat the cert as anything other than an indication that the connection is encrypted? I mean, you could just put your self generated cert on your site, and most people would click "accept this cert permanently" just like they do when e.g. hotmail or other sites sometimes have the same problem.
If browsers prominently displayed
"Firefox considers Verisign reliable (ha!), and Verisign certifies that this site belongs to 'Joe Bloggs, 123 main St, sslville'"
or
"you yourself have decided to believe that this site belongs to 'J03 B100g5, 123 main st, fishtown', but firefox doesn't vouch for them in any way."
for every site, then there might be some point to it.
I agree it's for yourself only, but at the same time you shouldn't underestimate the importance of making yourself do whatever it is that is needed for what you want to achieve. Most of the time people don't get what they want because they just don't do what is needed, even when they know themselves what is needed.
I thought the idea that you are not the same person from minute to minute or day to day was insightful, and the suggestion that you should write down the detailed steps when you are an energised or inspired person, so that the usual lazy person you are can just follow a few of the steps without thinking, was good practical advice for any kind of achievement.
I think Adams weakness is that he doesn't seem to have a clear idea of the point at which some of his ideas start to become bunk. (but that hardly makes him unique)
I didn't find it so interesting to be honest. Sure, if you believe that the things he says are true then you might think "oh wow, deep", but as you noted they are not true, and so there is no depth to the deepness. I don't think you can really class it as a "debunking all you know" type book either because the things are mostly what he (well, the character) is asserting as true, not what people hold to be true. Overall I thought it was weak. Incidentally it's available as a free ebook: http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/
That said, he is not without his merits as a practical philosopher and some of his ideas in his other books are quite interesting or good suggestions.
It may not be nice for dreamers to hear it, but ideas are a dime a dozen. Man hours are not. Seriously, it's the implementation that counts. "you want it, you code it" seems like a perfectly reasonable response to "I want it, you code it". I can think of worse.
and refuse to take on the responsibility of being a leader or even trying to become a leader
Those are YOUR aims. How about YOU take some responsibility?
Here's the thing. You are complaining about that $219,375 3 bedroom house. I (not in the USA) would kill for such a good deal. Meanwhile me and my wife and daughter live in our 1 bed apt.
You still have it good, you just don't realise it.
The spirit of the GPL has always been about maintaining the freedom of the end-user against infringement by developers. The people who disagree with the GPL or the proposed modifications, which are all perfectly in line with the "freedom of the end user" objective, mostly care about the freedom of the developer or the freedom of the code.
Because he cares about himself and the success and freedom of Linux as a code project, not the freedom of Linux users. It's a fundamentally different agenda to the FSF. Basically he wants quid pro quo with Tivo. They use his code. They give him theirs. This is what he sees as a fair deal for him. The GPLv2 arranges this quite nicely while having a different overall objective.
I have a hard time seeing how a corporation doing things with the intent of making a positive change is likely to cause more harm than a corporation doing things only for the purpose of enriching its shareholders.
Mr. Catbutt, somebody from The Road to Hell Paving Corporation is on the line, and would like a word with you.
Yeah, GNU applications are mandated to be written in C, which (as a C programmer) I find a highly strange choice. They even expressly mandate against C++, which for appliction programming, while far from ideal, is worlds better than plain old C. So just because GNU mandates something doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. (like using a language that non CompSci students have difficulty with as the "end user" scripting interface).
It's a very slight improvement (hard to be worse than before), though seems they spent all the developer hours on eye candy rather than improving the functionality and workflow. Well, at least you can see the individual downloads in progress this time. I just use it for podcasts & CDs also. Now if they'd only allow a proper way to fill up my ipod mini randomly.
I do get it. The kernel + module is a program, and a proprietary one. You are not allowed to distribute GPL programs that you don't own unless it's all GPL (pretty much).
If the module was a seperate executable there would be no issue. It's not however, it's a part of the kernel, and so must be GPL if you want to distribute it with the GPL kernel. You can "run" it however you like by yourself, just don't break the kernel author's copyright by distributing it outside of the terms of their chosen license.
You can distribute the module, or you can distribute the kernel, but you can't do both together in a distro because it doesn't count as "mere aggregation".
The thing about that is that experts are few in number (by definition almost) whereas knowledgeable amateurs are far greater in number, and perhaps more enthusiastic about sharing whatever knowledge they have. So the choice is between an absolutely huge source of knowledge with some innaccuracies and plain wrongness, but is for the most part correct vs a tiny source of knowledge that is almostly entirely correct. Wikipedia wins in my view. People who need more knowledge than wikipedia provides will go to more reliable sources anyway.
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The reason that people like whiz-bang technological solutions is that solutions that rely on the cooperation of 6,000,000,000 people (cutting down on those SUVs, restructuring the world economy around a new, undefined, energy source) are hard to implement. So hard that a system with a trillion (!) separate spaceships (!) begins to sound attractive in comparison
whereas biweekly means both "occurring every two weeks" and "occurring twice a week".
Gotta love that precision.
In fairness, skin technologies are a developer's acknowledgment that "we don't know how to make it look good, do it yourself if you think that's important".
I've found that lots of pages saved to disk with prior versions of Firefox do not for some reason render properly anymore with version 2. Also a zombie Firefox process was taking 99% percent of my CPU earlier today. I haven't had the well documented problems with the previous releases, but for me at least, this version is proving troublesome.
Well, this is true, but don't most people don't treat the cert as anything other than an indication that the connection is encrypted? I mean, you could just put your self generated cert on your site, and most people would click "accept this cert permanently" just like they do when e.g. hotmail or other sites sometimes have the same problem.
If browsers prominently displayed
"Firefox considers Verisign reliable (ha!), and Verisign certifies that this site belongs to 'Joe Bloggs, 123 main St, sslville'"
or
"you yourself have decided to believe that this site belongs to 'J03 B100g5, 123 main st, fishtown', but firefox doesn't vouch for them in any way."
for every site, then there might be some point to it.
No prizes for guessing why Elf children are so rare these days.
I agree it's for yourself only, but at the same time you shouldn't underestimate the importance of making yourself do whatever it is that is needed for what you want to achieve. Most of the time people don't get what they want because they just don't do what is needed, even when they know themselves what is needed.
I thought the idea that you are not the same person from minute to minute or day to day was insightful, and the suggestion that you should write down the detailed steps when you are an energised or inspired person, so that the usual lazy person you are can just follow a few of the steps without thinking, was good practical advice for any kind of achievement.
I think Adams weakness is that he doesn't seem to have a clear idea of the point at which some of his ideas start to become bunk. (but that hardly makes him unique)
I didn't find it so interesting to be honest. Sure, if you believe that the things he says are true then you might think "oh wow, deep", but as you noted they are not true, and so there is no depth to the deepness. I don't think you can really class it as a "debunking all you know" type book either because the things are mostly what he (well, the character) is asserting as true, not what people hold to be true. Overall I thought it was weak. Incidentally it's available as a free ebook: http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/
That said, he is not without his merits as a practical philosopher and some of his ideas in his other books are quite interesting or good suggestions.
Those are YOUR aims. How about YOU take some responsibility?
they could use pressurized water :)
You are missing that the USA are the very ones who refuse to sign up to environmental and labour agreements.
Here's the thing. You are complaining about that $219,375 3 bedroom house. I (not in the USA) would kill for such a good deal. Meanwhile me and my wife and daughter live in our 1 bed apt.
You still have it good, you just don't realise it.
The spirit of the GPL has always been about maintaining the freedom of the end-user against infringement by developers. The people who disagree with the GPL or the proposed modifications, which are all perfectly in line with the "freedom of the end user" objective, mostly care about the freedom of the developer or the freedom of the code.
Because he cares about himself and the success and freedom of Linux as a code project, not the freedom of Linux users. It's a fundamentally different agenda to the FSF. Basically he wants quid pro quo with Tivo. They use his code. They give him theirs. This is what he sees as a fair deal for him. The GPLv2 arranges this quite nicely while having a different overall objective.
What about all the married people?
Mr. Catbutt, somebody from The Road to Hell Paving Corporation is on the line, and would like a word with you.
Yeah, GNU applications are mandated to be written in C, which (as a C programmer) I find a highly strange choice. They even expressly mandate against C++, which for appliction programming, while far from ideal, is worlds better than plain old C. So just because GNU mandates something doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. (like using a language that non CompSci students have difficulty with as the "end user" scripting interface).
It's a very slight improvement (hard to be worse than before), though seems they spent all the developer hours on eye candy rather than improving the functionality and workflow. Well, at least you can see the individual downloads in progress this time. I just use it for podcasts & CDs also. Now if they'd only allow a proper way to fill up my ipod mini randomly.
I do get it. The kernel + module is a program, and a proprietary one. You are not allowed to distribute GPL programs that you don't own unless it's all GPL (pretty much).
If the module was a seperate executable there would be no issue. It's not however, it's a part of the kernel, and so must be GPL if you want to distribute it with the GPL kernel. You can "run" it however you like by yourself, just don't break the kernel author's copyright by distributing it outside of the terms of their chosen license.
You can distribute the module, or you can distribute the kernel, but you can't do both together in a distro because it doesn't count as "mere aggregation".
The thing about that is that experts are few in number (by definition almost) whereas knowledgeable amateurs are far greater in number, and perhaps more enthusiastic about sharing whatever knowledge they have. So the choice is between an absolutely huge source of knowledge with some innaccuracies and plain wrongness, but is for the most part correct vs a tiny source of knowledge that is almostly entirely correct. Wikipedia wins in my view. People who need more knowledge than wikipedia provides will go to more reliable sources anyway.
People who dislike openness dislike choice. Therefore every choice that openness enables is seen as a failure.
Yeah, and pirated MacOSX is better than that, but they had to remove it beause of the license. If you don't like the license use something else.
maybe not today, but when your ears support DRM it will :)