Average person doesn't understand copyright, sounds exactly like the kind of thing required to get rid of the stupid law. Stallman calls for reduction, and I agree, but slow reduction must eventually lead to absolution, because copyright does not serve its purpose and people like this guy just dont want it.
No. You missed the point entirely. I dont expect non programmers to learn to develop their own software. I except them to learn how to fix their own bugs and hack their own features, or, I expect them to shut the fuck up. They're not "customers" because they dont pay me, and I dont want their business. I have a guy I wrote some software for a few years ago constantly sending me emails asking me to get some stupid feature to do something different. It is almost always a 3 second fix (like enabling an ifdef) but he refuses to look at the code. Seems kind of pointless to of given him the source, and what's more, he wont even go and find another programmer to do his annoying maintenance. As for an "ideological quest", that's exactly what it is! You dont understand because you dont excersize the freedoms that are taken away from us when we use proprietory software. So as I said, if you want to use lame shit written by the morons at Redmond, you go right ahead, just dont bitch to us.
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Seeing 99% of us think there is nothing proprietory we cant write for ourselves, yer, I think we're doin' ok.
werd. You should also understand that 99.9% of the time, we dont give a fuck. Yah, you want you want you want, think yourself lucky we give you anything. Go use Microsoft, just dont come bitching to us when you're pissed off that some stupid little feature doesn't work the way you like. If you learnt to fucking code you could fix it and get on with your life. But no, that's just too damn hard. Warning: Useless analogy ahead! You're the kind of people who get a flat tire and call the autoclub cause you cant figure out how to use a tire iron. We're not asking you to make design decisions here, just learn how to read code and change that one specific bit that is broken (or doesn't do exactly what you think it should). If you understood what freedoms you were giving up by using proprietory software you would not be so willing to hand them over to billy boy. But no, you're happy being pissed off every day because you forgot that you had to click the print preview button and wait 30 seconds before you could press the print button that doesn't use anything from the print preview view. You're happy having no way of stopping those annoying javascript windows popping up or dismissing a dialog box only to get that same dialog box back in an infinite loop and having to go to the task manager that cant figure out that you want it to have a higher time slice (well fucking duh!) and killing the app that is taking up 99.9% of your processor and causing insufferible locks. You're happy to live with all this shit as long as you dont have to learn anything and risk the possibility of becoming a "geek".
Our dataset cable was busted, we used to count the number of folds of paper you had to put under it to hold the contacts in touch with the pc board. IK+ is loading, no-one move. Just when the game was about to switch to the decompressor by brother would jump off the couch and bam, another 30 minutes to load. sigh.
That's why you have standards. You do code reviews before you check in and you do builds and run test suites and backout changes that cause regressions. But when you start talking about 500 or 1000 programmer teams I think we're both talking out of our asses.
I wrote a script when I was 16 or something where Sam leaps into Conner McCleod (ala Highlander) in the 80's and has to pull some hard core sword fighting out his ass ("oh that's right sam! You know akido! It must of just slipped my mind even though you're the one with amnesia and I'm the fsckin' hologram!" - Al) and because of the effects of the quickening he doesn't leap and so he just hangs around for 12 years and finally gets home (all they have to do is pull some acelerator shit to get the bodies swapped, but it's all good). This was before my Internet days and I dont think a copy ended up on the web -- thank god.
The second actress was a way better cast however for those who read the books. My brother used to go on and on about the bit actors saying how totally unlike the book they were and then *bam* one day they put this exact image into the show. Exactly as she was described in the book. Right down to that pinball smile.
If you want to get ogg vorbis supported I suggest you get it included by default in the xmms source release, or at least make the./configure script stop if you dont have the ogg vorbis libs on your system. Also getting it included in Red Hat and other distributions would be a good idea.
Perfect example. Microsoft could of wrote their own stack but they didn't, they grabbed an already functioning piece of software. If it had been the GPL TCP/IP stack they would have needed to develop their own. It would have been no strain on Microsoft but it might of delayed their entry into the Internet space a little, which is all that was needed around the time that everyone considered Microsoft to be backward because they were ignoring the Internet.
So you dont know how to comment. Your example does not invalidate my argument. So it takes a little disciplin and it requires you to communicate via the code. That is exactly my point.
Why is it that someone who sums it up so neatly is more often than not rated as "Flamebait?" Who would try to flame that? You cant argue with it. It is a perfect sentiment. Step off.
Blah. I'm the first one to bitch about the straight and narrow line of Slashdot dogma. Unfortunately it has become quite regularly one of ignorance and intellectual laziness. You're obviously a smart guy but you'll never achieve anything in life. Now I'm going to call you a Troll, say you are spreading Flamebait and are otherwise Offtopic:)
read the transcript (or listen to the oog) of this story in the yro section. He seems pretty in touch with reality to me. He just doesn't care about games. If someone started talking to me about graphics programs and refered to some aliasing algorithm, I wouldn't know what the hell they were talking about and I wouldn't consider it valid for them to say I was out of touch with reality. Out of touch with graphics programming maybe, but I dont think graphics programming is such an important part of life that I just must know things about it and obviously RMS doesn't think gaming is such an important part of life. Does this make him out of touch? Yer, maybe, about as much as my dad is out of touch. Hardly a reason to forsake someone's opinion.
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Average person doesn't understand copyright, sounds exactly like the kind of thing required to get rid of the stupid law. Stallman calls for reduction, and I agree, but slow reduction must eventually lead to absolution, because copyright does not serve its purpose and people like this guy just dont want it.
No. You missed the point entirely. I dont expect non programmers to learn to develop their own software. I except them to learn how to fix their own bugs and hack their own features, or, I expect them to shut the fuck up. They're not "customers" because they dont pay me, and I dont want their business. I have a guy I wrote some software for a few years ago constantly sending me emails asking me to get some stupid feature to do something different. It is almost always a 3 second fix (like enabling an ifdef) but he refuses to look at the code. Seems kind of pointless to of given him the source, and what's more, he wont even go and find another programmer to do his annoying maintenance. As for an "ideological quest", that's exactly what it is! You dont understand because you dont excersize the freedoms that are taken away from us when we use proprietory software. So as I said, if you want to use lame shit written by the morons at Redmond, you go right ahead, just dont bitch to us.
Seeing 99% of us think there is nothing proprietory we cant write for ourselves, yer, I think we're doin' ok.
hangeron. You get what you're given. Now even Jobs is fucking you up the arse with that lame OS 10 shit.
werd. You should also understand that 99.9% of the time, we dont give a fuck. Yah, you want you want you want, think yourself lucky we give you anything. Go use Microsoft, just dont come bitching to us when you're pissed off that some stupid little feature doesn't work the way you like. If you learnt to fucking code you could fix it and get on with your life. But no, that's just too damn hard. Warning: Useless analogy ahead! You're the kind of people who get a flat tire and call the autoclub cause you cant figure out how to use a tire iron. We're not asking you to make design decisions here, just learn how to read code and change that one specific bit that is broken (or doesn't do exactly what you think it should). If you understood what freedoms you were giving up by using proprietory software you would not be so willing to hand them over to billy boy. But no, you're happy being pissed off every day because you forgot that you had to click the print preview button and wait 30 seconds before you could press the print button that doesn't use anything from the print preview view. You're happy having no way of stopping those annoying javascript windows popping up or dismissing a dialog box only to get that same dialog box back in an infinite loop and having to go to the task manager that cant figure out that you want it to have a higher time slice (well fucking duh!) and killing the app that is taking up 99.9% of your processor and causing insufferible locks. You're happy to live with all this shit as long as you dont have to learn anything and risk the possibility of becoming a "geek".
Our dataset cable was busted, we used to count the number of folds of paper you had to put under it to hold the contacts in touch with the pc board. IK+ is loading, no-one move. Just when the game was about to switch to the decompressor by brother would jump off the couch and bam, another 30 minutes to load. sigh.
....and we liked it!
oh yes,
and they never got far enough because they spend $13 million on fsckin' file manager!
will you PLEASE learn to USE italics or STOP talking like Capt'n Kirk!
zero. See topic.
That's why you have standards. You do code reviews before you check in and you do builds and run test suites and backout changes that cause regressions. But when you start talking about 500 or 1000 programmer teams I think we're both talking out of our asses.
short answer: no, because you pretty much have to implement the whole NT kernel.
I wrote a script when I was 16 or something where Sam leaps into Conner McCleod (ala Highlander) in the 80's and has to pull some hard core sword fighting out his ass ("oh that's right sam! You know akido! It must of just slipped my mind even though you're the one with amnesia and I'm the fsckin' hologram!" - Al) and because of the effects of the quickening he doesn't leap and so he just hangs around for 12 years and finally gets home (all they have to do is pull some acelerator shit to get the bodies swapped, but it's all good). This was before my Internet days and I dont think a copy ended up on the web -- thank god.
The second actress was a way better cast however for those who read the books. My brother used to go on and on about the bit actors saying how totally unlike the book they were and then *bam* one day they put this exact image into the show. Exactly as she was described in the book. Right down to that pinball smile.
Doctor! He is, the Doctor.
If you want to get ogg vorbis supported I suggest you get it included by default in the xmms source release, or at least make the ./configure script stop if you dont have the ogg vorbis libs on your system. Also getting it included in Red Hat and other distributions would be a good idea.
so is there a cvsfs project?
So is the time master himself going to be in it? He's already been in a few Star Trek episodes -- would be a shame not to get the old team together.
Gee, and here I was thinking they were associations.
Understand what I'm trying to convey?
Umm, that would be ignorance?
Perfect example. Microsoft could of wrote their own stack but they didn't, they grabbed an already functioning piece of software. If it had been the GPL TCP/IP stack they would have needed to develop their own. It would have been no strain on Microsoft but it might of delayed their entry into the Internet space a little, which is all that was needed around the time that everyone considered Microsoft to be backward because they were ignoring the Internet.
So you dont know how to comment. Your example does not invalidate my argument. So it takes a little disciplin and it requires you to communicate via the code. That is exactly my point.
I dont think RMS knows what a washing machine is :) I see your point.
Why is it that someone who sums it up so neatly is more often than not rated as "Flamebait?" Who would try to flame that? You cant argue with it. It is a perfect sentiment. Step off.
Blah. I'm the first one to bitch about the straight and narrow line of Slashdot dogma. Unfortunately it has become quite regularly one of ignorance and intellectual laziness. You're obviously a smart guy but you'll never achieve anything in life. Now I'm going to call you a Troll, say you are spreading Flamebait and are otherwise Offtopic :)
quote your source please.
read the transcript (or listen to the oog) of this story in the yro section. He seems pretty in touch with reality to me. He just doesn't care about games. If someone started talking to me about graphics programs and refered to some aliasing algorithm, I wouldn't know what the hell they were talking about and I wouldn't consider it valid for them to say I was out of touch with reality. Out of touch with graphics programming maybe, but I dont think graphics programming is such an important part of life that I just must know things about it and obviously RMS doesn't think gaming is such an important part of life. Does this make him out of touch? Yer, maybe, about as much as my dad is out of touch. Hardly a reason to forsake someone's opinion.