When you have to write that many lines of configuration data in a text file to do something that windows does out of the box, linux is not ready for the desktop.
duh. all that is needed is for a linux distro vendor to set that up for you, then linux will do it out of the box.
windows has just as many 'weird config item options to be put into files' as linux does. the difference is, microsoft makes the assumption that you want this done for you... linux distro's typically don't make this assumption.
Dude, he's the freakin' Emperor, okay, he gets whatever dark points his minions are collecting, times 20 just for being a homicidal lightning-handed badass with the galaxies worst case of acne.
I'm a developer, working for a relatively successful hardware company in a non-U.S. land, and I have every intention of hiding all sorts of stuff in any Open Source code I may (or may not, thats freedom) contribute to!:P
Whether what I hide will be nefarious is one thing, whether or not Easter Eggs can still exist on Open Source Island is another thing entirely...
... Microsoft know that x86/PC-based computing, as a 'significant factor' in computing use among general populations, isn't necessarily as viable, nor as guaranteed as everyone assumes.
Thus, the investment in alternative-platform/embedded computing. XBox.
The way Microsoft will 'embrace' Linux is by becoming a Hardware Company. They certainly have the cash to do it, and they certainly have the cash to compete with other hardware companies.
What they 'need' is a decent operating system code-base that they can use to truly dominate cross-platform embedded-computing application development...
Look around you. You use more non-x86 computing platforms than you realize. x86 is the one thats sucking all your attention, though...
... kismet running in the background, 'wget' running on stuff i want to read offline in a console, and/. running in itty-bitty font mode as i ride from arnheim to münich, using whatever open 'net i find en route to download stuff on my freshly-accidentally-formatted sd card...
not necessarily 'strange' (unless you think germany is strange, i do sometimes...), but the revelation for what i was doing and how weird it was to have so much computing power, so soon, in a place i always wanted it (trainrides) came about quite a few times on that trip.
wasn't up for any compiling, really, but i did make some notes on a pen-based editing 'system' that would be good for plain ol' C code writing/authoring, with pen...
Okay, I don't know how to do it, but wouldn't it be great if we could have some open-network DISTCC farms to use in completing Gentoo builds?
I'm sure this would be something we can get running fairly easily, and see how well it works... the "Gentoo DISTCC Open Net" project would be an interesting Sunday afternoon exercise... for someone...
As for the "right" not to be revised or altered, I wonder from where we derive such a right. I have never seen it established, practiced, or even asserted in the real world. Perhaps you know of some Constitutional or legal or moral principle or precedent that I have missed.
Copyright. Literally, the right to make exclusive copies of ones work.
If you take my work, alter it in some way, I have copyright and trademark law on my side, as the 'owner of the property' to prevent you from doing that. I have a right to prevent your alteration of my work, and must exercise that right, or lose it.
And the paradox is that this 'right' doesn't really exist; Entropy is the only real natural law, all else is arbitrary, no matter what we humans do.
When you take my work, it will already have changed, greatly, from the way in which I produced it, since it will be visible only through your eyes, an experience which simply cannot be shared. So, societies grant creative rights, in spite of this fact, and we get such things as copyright law, designed to protect communication without alteration, in face of the natural state which is constant change.
The right to communicate is a right granted to us by the societies we form, and only exists as a right within those societies.
Some would say that societies can be judged by how well they allow their individual members to communicate without alteration...
I don't believe -- nor did I write -- that "the only true alternative to something is its alternative." In fact, I try my best to escape the dialectical bind. That's what the end of the book is all about.
Views need not always be anti-thetical to each other in order to bear fruit. I will read your book through to the end.
And I don't understand what you mean by "pedantic materialism."
Materialism == the view that new things come about by the force of one thing enacting itself upon the force of another. "Anarchists" and "Libraries", for example, both realms of society which produce much pedantery, on the basis of grand materialism...
No, I did think of that at first, that it was 'just jubilation over the game release', but none of the people doing the jubilation liked that game or worked on it; they really were just turned on by the fact that they had a plebian gameplayer out there who was addicted, and whose life they 'now controlled'... we actually had a meeting later in that week to discuss 'ways and means we can exploit long-period players'. i left soon after that, no way i want to be responsible for building another matrix...
Won't you agree that it's problematic to grant moral rigths (only) on the basis of agreement within a society
Well, isn't that what Democracy is supposed to be? Law and order, morality encoded, at the bequest of the society within which it is created?
"Paradox is just as valuable as resolution"
If you are running around trying to always resolve things, then you're not really free... you're trapped by the things you cannot resolve.
Freedom means knowing that you have to have paradox as well as resolution, and that there is no 'balance', there is only 'existence' of these two states. Sure, sometimes, we'll resolve things in a satisfactory close-to-absolute-way, but yet other times, as a society, we promote paradox.
Is it not paradoxical that society provides grand media, but yet only a few privileged are allowed to use it?
A dialectic lifestyle is not the only way to resolve paradox... you can embrace paradox.
Time spent playing CompanyA's video game is time not spent playing CompanyB's game.
The people in the video game 'industry' are among the most competitive alpha-dog meat-head types you will find.
I once worked for a fairly successful game company, and I've never been so disappointed in human beings as I have when, after the release of an online mulitiplayer game, we noted that there were some people who had been playing -solidly, the server gave us full stats- for 72 hours straight. the reason i was so disappointed was that the entire company was ecstatic that someone had played the game that long... the notion of having total control over that persons life was really evident... some sort of twisty schadenfreude.
i did everything i could to get fired from that company. those guys are assholes. i stopped playing video games thereafter too, and man do i feel better for it...
Give me a break. Where does this right to permanence come from? You state "I have the right to not have that thing [I produced] be constantly changed and altered by the world at large." You accuse this book of being pedantic but I wonder if you could offer up some argument for your little "right." From whom does this right extend?
From Society of course. Why else would you be so offended at my outrageous assumption?
Fact is ideas survive through time because we all have made an investment in them.
Yup. That was my point, and you were meant to arrive at the same point, un-dialectically...
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When you have to write that many lines of configuration data in a text file to do something that windows does out of the box, linux is not ready for the desktop.
... linux distro's typically don't make this assumption.
duh. all that is needed is for a linux distro vendor to set that up for you, then linux will do it out of the box.
windows has just as many 'weird config item options to be put into files' as linux does. the difference is, microsoft makes the assumption that you want this done for you
The Emperor wasn't even there.
Dude, he's the freakin' Emperor, okay, he gets whatever dark points his minions are collecting, times 20 just for being a homicidal lightning-handed badass with the galaxies worst case of acne.
I'm a developer, working for a relatively successful hardware company in a non-U.S. land, and I have every intention of hiding all sorts of stuff in any Open Source code I may (or may not, thats freedom) contribute to!
Whether what I hide will be nefarious is one thing, whether or not Easter Eggs can still exist on Open Source Island is another thing entirely
... Microsoft know that x86/PC-based computing, as a 'significant factor' in computing use among general populations, isn't necessarily as viable, nor as guaranteed as everyone assumes.
...
Thus, the investment in alternative-platform/embedded computing. XBox.
The way Microsoft will 'embrace' Linux is by becoming a Hardware Company. They certainly have the cash to do it, and they certainly have the cash to compete with other hardware companies.
What they 'need' is a decent operating system code-base that they can use to truly dominate cross-platform embedded-computing application development...
Look around you. You use more non-x86 computing platforms than you realize. x86 is the one thats sucking all your attention, though
... CITZ-A#10000233239232, sure does love the new torso implant he got from 'Uncle Bobs Computer and Health' after his accident with the Portable Micro-Nuke DIY Kit he found in his grandfathers garage ...
hey man, who really has time to read
luke, i am your father, you insensitive clod!
not necessarily 'strange' (unless you think germany is strange, i do sometimes...), but the revelation for what i was doing and how weird it was to have so much computing power, so soon, in a place i always wanted it (trainrides) came about quite a few times on that trip.
wasn't up for any compiling, really, but i did make some notes on a pen-based editing 'system' that would be good for plain ol' C code writing/authoring, with pen...
DISTCC can be configured to use whatever cross-compiler you want
Yeah, I know its 'risky', but seriously: do you really trust your compiler not to be inserting NSA-sponsored func()-wrappers into all your executable?
:)
I mean, you -did- compile your own compiler, right?
All I'm saying: what fun if we could trust each other!
Okay, I don't know how to do it, but wouldn't it be great if we could have some open-network DISTCC farms to use in completing Gentoo builds?
... the "Gentoo DISTCC Open Net" project would be an interesting Sunday afternoon exercise ... for someone ...
I'm sure this would be something we can get running fairly easily, and see how well it works
As for the "right" not to be revised or altered, I wonder from where we derive such a right. I have never seen it established, practiced, or even asserted in the real world. Perhaps you know of some Constitutional or legal or moral principle or precedent that I have missed.
Copyright. Literally, the right to make exclusive copies of ones work.
If you take my work, alter it in some way, I have copyright and trademark law on my side, as the 'owner of the property' to prevent you from doing that. I have a right to prevent your alteration of my work, and must exercise that right, or lose it.
And the paradox is that this 'right' doesn't really exist; Entropy is the only real natural law, all else is arbitrary, no matter what we humans do.
When you take my work, it will already have changed, greatly, from the way in which I produced it, since it will be visible only through your eyes, an experience which simply cannot be shared. So, societies grant creative rights, in spite of this fact, and we get such things as copyright law, designed to protect communication without alteration, in face of the natural state which is constant change.
The right to communicate is a right granted to us by the societies we form, and only exists as a right within those societies.
Some would say that societies can be judged by how well they allow their individual members to communicate without alteration...
I don't believe -- nor did I write -- that "the only true alternative to something is its alternative." In fact, I try my best to escape the dialectical bind. That's what the end of the book is all about.
Views need not always be anti-thetical to each other in order to bear fruit. I will read your book through to the end.
And I don't understand what you mean by "pedantic materialism."
Materialism == the view that new things come about by the force of one thing enacting itself upon the force of another. "Anarchists" and "Libraries", for example, both realms of society which produce much pedantery, on the basis of grand materialism...
No, I did think of that at first, that it was 'just jubilation over the game release', but none of the people doing the jubilation liked that game or worked on it; they really were just turned on by the fact that they had a plebian gameplayer out there who was addicted, and whose life they 'now controlled'... we actually had a meeting later in that week to discuss 'ways and means we can exploit long-period players'. i left soon after that, no way i want to be responsible for building another matrix
Unless we fight back against Big Media, we are going to lose, and lose hard, a lot of the things we have come to take for granted in the past 20 years of the Internet...
Won't you agree that it's problematic to grant moral rigths (only) on the basis of agreement within a society
... you're trapped by the things you cannot resolve.
... you can embrace paradox.
Well, isn't that what Democracy is supposed to be? Law and order, morality encoded, at the bequest of the society within which it is created?
"Paradox is just as valuable as resolution"
If you are running around trying to always resolve things, then you're not really free
Freedom means knowing that you have to have paradox as well as resolution, and that there is no 'balance', there is only 'existence' of these two states. Sure, sometimes, we'll resolve things in a satisfactory close-to-absolute-way, but yet other times, as a society, we promote paradox.
Is it not paradoxical that society provides grand media, but yet only a few privileged are allowed to use it?
A dialectic lifestyle is not the only way to resolve paradox
your right to speak ends at my right to ignore you.
you ignoring me doesn't prevent me from exercising the right to speak.
You most certainly do NOT have a right to heard.
Yes. Yes I do. Whether or not I actually am heard is a different story. But I have a right to be heard, just as anyone else in this society.
Or, are you saying that only beautiful people can be rock stars?
There is no such "right". Never has been, never will be. And that's even leaving aside the fact that "rights" are fictions.
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Rights are fictions, you are correct. I don't think I ever said that rights were 'natural'.
But I think you'll find that, in fact, society does grant the unalteration right to artists and publishers
And if I met Bush in a bar, I'd buy him a drink, get him drunk, and throw him under the trash in the back alley, where he belongs
Is it the majority that is always right, or is it whoever is in power?
Either one. Whoever can maintain the most agreement amongst the society they are controlling.
oh yeah, sure, insult me because you don't understand my reasoning.
its simple. things are NOT always "A Versus B". this style of argument is weak. dialectism is a plague.
and you are weak for not seeing it. its clear you don't understand.
Time spent playing CompanyA's video game is time not spent playing CompanyB's game.
... the notion of having total control over that persons life was really evident ... some sort of twisty schadenfreude.
The people in the video game 'industry' are among the most competitive alpha-dog meat-head types you will find.
I once worked for a fairly successful game company, and I've never been so disappointed in human beings as I have when, after the release of an online mulitiplayer game, we noted that there were some people who had been playing -solidly, the server gave us full stats- for 72 hours straight. the reason i was so disappointed was that the entire company was ecstatic that someone had played the game that long
i did everything i could to get fired from that company. those guys are assholes. i stopped playing video games thereafter too, and man do i feel better for it...
Where do you believe your right to have your writings left unchanged comes from?
From Society, which is different to Me.
On what basis do you claim that right?
My membership in Society, and subsequent contribution.
Give me a break. Where does this right to permanence come from? You state "I have the right to not have that thing [I produced] be constantly changed and altered by the world at large." You accuse this book of being pedantic but I wonder if you could offer up some argument for your little "right." From whom does this right extend?
From Society of course. Why else would you be so offended at my outrageous assumption?
Fact is ideas survive through time because we all have made an investment in them.
Yup. That was my point, and you were meant to arrive at the same point, un-dialectically...
yeah ... umm ... as soon as you're done with that dictionary, lets hear your "counter" "point".
so i can ignore it, completely.
bah!
... they are!
"someone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do" may not be a slave to anyone but themselves, and quite often
Anarchy is the assumption that Entropy is greater than Order.
Order is the Anarchy assumption, broken.