I'm not going to this one. Lucas keeps putting crappy movies out there, and I keep going. If I go to this one, it's over, and Lucas wins every time. This is my last chance not to fall for the same old con.
I remain skeptical. I was around when Star Wars first came out, a long time ago. The critics ripped it up one side down the other, on plot; they _did_ love the effects. Given Episodes IV, VI, I and II, does anyone really think Lucas has profoundly changed?
Smith sounds like he's channeling George Peppard: "I love it when a plan comes together!" He's thrilled about the tie-ins to Episode IV ("ooh, that's so cool how they used the same corridor!") and the darkness. Darkness as a good thing is the sign of someone who was _seriously_ damaged by Jar-Jar.
There was no concept of proprietary software in his environment.
Yes, quite right. But I was thinking about the general culture, and it's something most of us understand, including the guys in the MIT lab. I suppose they just figured software should work the same.
it should be noted that in this case RMS is actually talking specifically about linux, the kernel, and not gnu/linux, the operating system.
RMS really should pursue something like GNU is Not Linux: GNL (pronunciation is uncertain; maybe guh-null?). Using a recursive acronym within a recursive acronym is the extra level of geekness we need today.
This whole 'ethical' line of argumentation. A more mainstream economic argument holds a lot more water.
Instead of inventing an ethical principle out of his head (something theoretical and Utopian like, say, Marxism), he grounded it in the common practice around him: people can do this stuff (disassemble, share, etc.) with the physical objects they own, why not with the software? This reasoning (if I understand it correctly), in this particular instance, seems very old-school conservative / traditionalist to me.
Americans are slobs, face it. They complain about suits being "uniforms", then go out and all wear jeans, t-shirts, and white sneakers. Go overseas, and you can spot the Americans in an instant. They're the slobs.
I could see MS buying PaintShop Pro as an excuse to charge more.
PSP (Jasc) is now owned by...Corel. Who owns WordPerfect? Is that where PSP will end up? And WordPerfect would have been long gone to someone like...Adobe. And the merry-go-round continues.
At one point Jean Valjean jumps over the wall into a monastery and Victor launches into a two hundred page rant about monasteries.
It was only 47 pages. Anyway, you are right about the digressions that Hugo took. They are insufferably tedious. Tolstoy had the same problem with _War and Peace_, because he fancied himself an historian.
But the reality is that they don't know what causes this, they don't claim that it stops mutations on the whole, and they don't know if it stops all mutations. As per the article, it may only stop harmful mutations.
I expect a long series of posts detailing a lot of thought experiments and speculations on how exactly evolution uses this, many outright contradictory, none observed. Just more Evolution of the Gaps from the Crowd of Lawyer-Wannabes.
If you ever step into the land of high-end audio- and video-philes, all your friends and family and, worst of all, we at/. will lose you forever. Don't go there, please!
In a nutshell, this whole discussion can be boiled down to: _every_ statistic out there on IE usage is somehow skewed to make it look like fewer people are using it than actually are.
Scene: a barn, a blustery night. A worn-out but well-loved old cow lies in the straw, the farmer and his friend stand by with concern. Very faint pitiful moo sound. George Lucas: "It's still alive! Bring me the milker!"
I have found that www.nerdshack.com fills my email needs better than google would have.
They're not accepting any new users right now. I need to check back in Feb, 2005. What that really means is "Loser! check back sometime when Time Machines have been invented"
Maybe that's because Mozilla Suite is abbreviated as "MS." Then again, if they emphasize "Mozilla Seamonkey" instead of "Seamonkey," the decision makes no sense.
And Seamonkey gets shortened to "SM". SM, MS, same thing, eh?
If so, then HP has not been a real business for a long time, but has been merely piggybacking on the ignorance of its customers. And that means that Carly Fiorina was not a businesswoman at all, but merely good at giving the appearance of competence. And that, in turn means that people who write for the business press are completely incompetent, too.
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I remain skeptical. I was around when Star Wars first came out, a long time ago. The critics ripped it up one side down the other, on plot; they _did_ love the effects. Given Episodes IV, VI, I and II, does anyone really think Lucas has profoundly changed?
Smith sounds like he's channeling George Peppard: "I love it when a plan comes together!" He's thrilled about the tie-ins to Episode IV ("ooh, that's so cool how they used the same corridor!") and the darkness. Darkness as a good thing is the sign of someone who was _seriously_ damaged by Jar-Jar.
Yes, quite right. But I was thinking about the general culture, and it's something most of us understand, including the guys in the MIT lab. I suppose they just figured software should work the same.
RMS really should pursue something like GNU is Not Linux: GNL (pronunciation is uncertain; maybe guh-null?). Using a recursive acronym within a recursive acronym is the extra level of geekness we need today.
Instead of inventing an ethical principle out of his head (something theoretical and Utopian like, say, Marxism), he grounded it in the common practice around him: people can do this stuff (disassemble, share, etc.) with the physical objects they own, why not with the software? This reasoning (if I understand it correctly), in this particular instance, seems very old-school conservative / traditionalist to me.
Americans are slobs, face it. They complain about suits being "uniforms", then go out and all wear jeans, t-shirts, and white sneakers. Go overseas, and you can spot the Americans in an instant. They're the slobs.
PSP (Jasc) is now owned by...Corel. Who owns WordPerfect? Is that where PSP will end up? And WordPerfect would have been long gone to someone like...Adobe. And the merry-go-round continues.
It was only 47 pages. Anyway, you are right about the digressions that Hugo took. They are insufferably tedious. Tolstoy had the same problem with _War and Peace_, because he fancied himself an historian.
I'm still bitter about what has been done to _War and Peace_ and _Les Miserables_. Completely inadequate.
Especially all the comments. Joke's on you!
I expect a long series of posts detailing a lot of thought experiments and speculations on how exactly evolution uses this, many outright contradictory, none observed. Just more Evolution of the Gaps from the Crowd of Lawyer-Wannabes.
If you ever step into the land of high-end audio- and video-philes, all your friends and family and, worst of all, we at /. will lose you forever. Don't go there, please!
In a nutshell, this whole discussion can be boiled down to: _every_ statistic out there on IE usage is somehow skewed to make it look like fewer people are using it than actually are.
can they help me read my wife's mind?
Go find a real lawyer.
No, identify the top two things you like to do. Do the second one for a living, the first for love.
Scene: a barn, a blustery night. A worn-out but well-loved old cow lies in the straw, the farmer and his friend stand by with concern. Very faint pitiful moo sound. George Lucas: "It's still alive! Bring me the milker!"
There's just one thing you need to understand about women. Too bad no one knows what it is.
They're not accepting any new users right now. I need to check back in Feb, 2005. What that really means is "Loser! check back sometime when Time Machines have been invented"
Boy, they better hope that day never comes!
BTW, _which_ article should we read?
And Seamonkey gets shortened to "SM". SM, MS, same thing, eh?
Now, who will be able to afford the games?
Culture shock? The shock is in moving from a country with a culture to a country with no culture.
And the customers! It's Mutual Assured Stupidity.
IL-2 series of flight sims, with TrackIR. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Maybe PC-Crash just needs some time to "evolve."