Oh I'm well aware of that. I just like how much it irks certain kinds of people. Getting annoyed by someone saying that something was funny when maybe it only was funny to the poster or might not have even been funny at all is extremely silly. So when I get the down mods for saying that something was funny when I can't reasonably expect a lot of people to agree with me or even better, posters telling me why I'm not funny is endlessly amusing to me.
Flamebait!? You dissapoint me mods! This was quite obviously humor at it's finest. Even if you don't think it's funny, I think anyone in their right mind would register it as a troll and not flamebait. You want flamebait? Here's some: YHBT. YHL. HAND.
So... you think that the only motivation for anyone to do anything is purely ownership and the prospect of making a profit? Tell that to those of us who work in the non-profit sector simply because we believe in causes. My cause is to share as much information as freely as possible with everyone. That's why I work in a public library. Now... tell me about your childhood.
Oh Yea! Let's here it for more extremism! I suppose that means that you cover your mouth and nose and close your eyes when someone in the stall next to you flushes and sends up a cloud of water, piss and crap into the air around you too? Oh... but I forgot, you need to shower too since that cloud likely landed in your hair and all over your arms and any other exposed skin. You'll also need to get a fresh change of clothes as well and run the dirty ones through the laundry. But wait, there's more! Are you sure the water you're showering and washing your clothes with isn't recycled piss with bits of crap in it? Didn't think so. Care to restate your position now Einstein?
There are no other voting machines. Diebold makes all voting machines for the entire planet. Any voting mcahines not made by Diebold are either a figment of the imagination or graven images. The Diebold hath spoken.
No no. You've got it all wrong. According to the software I'm running on my PC that uses my hrad drive to measure for time/space continuum rifts, it looks like everything is just fine in this timeline. I can't speak for the stability of other timelines that you and the parent poster will pass through though.
And I'll bet you're the sort who thinks that buying a new PC every two years is the way it's supopsed to be. Do you realize that a P3 system is plenty of horsepower to playback nearly ANY video format? Probably not. Oh well, you know what they say about fools and their money...
Does the open source community that surrounds Firefox welcome this kind of analysis? I would have to say that's a RESOUNDING YES! As long as the analysis is truthful and reflects real problems that will improve the quality of Firefox I see no reason they wouldn't. Even pointing at minor issues will only help aid Firefox's improvement since it would give the developers a chance to see what people might really care about. And you can bet that if similar analysis was done of Internet Explorer that we'd find the same if not more defects and vulnerabilities. So this is NOT about Firefox vs. IE before anyone goes down that road.
It seems silly to carry around a ton of gadgets when maybe one or two of them would suffice. There is no sense of style in having a belt full of devices or bag with five different gadget in it that weighs a ton. I say, opt for what you've already got. Take me for example. I have one of the excellent Rio Karma music players. It's functionality within Linux as a USB drive is finally "getting there". So much so that the proprietary partition type has made it into the mainline kernel. So instead of having to carry all this crap with me, I just carry my Karma.:) Simple really.
In all seriousness, that REALLY sucks ass but it's not surprising considering that businesses have reached the point where they can fuck your dog and you can't say anything about it. So... anyone still think we don't need protection for employees from their employers?
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Why are you my foe again? That was pretty entertaining...
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You realize how vastly inefficient it is to have all that power sitting there on the desktop? You probably want to own a stretch SUV as well? Personally I think the answer is in on demand clustering with VMs. A cluster of small CPU/RAM combos with centralized storage. But instead of dedicating a CPU to each person, the CPUs migrate to whoever needs the most power on the grid at the moment (within reason). So let's say you're doing some REAL work and editing a huge audio file or rendering video... you get up to 25 CPU/RAM combos allocated to you. On the other hand, you're doing something less important, say... working on a piddly little spreadsheet... you only get one CPU/RAM combo because that's enough. This is all transparent to you. Why is this better? Because it's more efficient use of resources. Everyone has the power of up to a 25 node cluster and if you want more, then you pay for ops/sec rates beyond your base price. Who doesn't want the power of a freight train in their living room sometimes?
On page one of this "article" the author posits a wonderful OS that intuits what you want out of it and arranges itself in such a way that your workflow is made easier. Then page two comes to a screaming halt and slams into reverse with some lame caveat about how any OS that would do all the thinking for you is a tempting lure to "evildoers". There wasn't much substance in that. No. Not much at all. In fact we've all thought about how you would craft the perfect OS. I had an idea a while back for a document type "DNS" system. It would tell ANY OS that used it, which applications for that platform would open which documents and provide download links if you didn't have the software or would just launch it if you did. This Doctype DNS could be local on your network and also would be global just like real DNS with the root controlled by a non-profit organization that way there is no profit motive behind it. Great idea (I think) on paper. But it's not really workable. And that's just one idea. I think just a few of us posters could probably come up with better ideas for an OS of the future than the author of the linked piece did. For a minute I thought I was on Digg when I read that article. Besides, my current kick is the Xen hypervisor. I just love having such flexibility and power that is as yet unheard of on any other x86 system (and no VMWare Workstation doesn't do what Xen does).
The very first application they mention in the article is advertising. That should come as no surprise based on how many idiots are more than willing to walk around like billboards for clothing companies. But... this is far worse. Can you imagine how many stupid people will jump at the chance to run around with the Sprint or Verizon logos and accompanying video ads playing non-stop on their clothes just to get "free" minutes or a "free" phone? Or what about "free" DSL, Satellite or Cable? Where is the dignity in that? I'll bet the same fuckers who sell out their friends and family to DirecTV or some long distance company to get "free" credits will jump all over the opportunity to be a walking ad. Disgusting. Humanity is vile.
Well you're right in a way. That's what Freespire/Linspire is all about. But, if someone does that they really shouldn't try to align themselves with the likes of Debian since they have completely different missions. I think the problem is that ESR wants ALL distros to do what Freespire/Linspire has done.
I think it's a point of view problem. The people who are keenly interested in the success of GNU/Linux in general (I would count myself as one of them) feel the passion for the OS that they do because of how many things they can do with it. Those things just can't be accomplished on other OSes with the same level of flexibility, style or possibly even at all. However, to get GNU/Linux to do those things requires more knowledge than the typical "Joe User" will ever have, so they will never experience the true beauty of the OS. Not because there's something wrong with them, or something wrong with the OS, but due to completely different cultures and needs. If you make a "Joe User" friendly version of GNU/Linux it's very likely going to be very uninviting to someone who is "hardcore" either on the technical or the philosphical sides.
To put it another way, you will never get the catholic church to agree to support a woman's right to choose whether or not she will continue a pregnancy. There is no compromising, and if there was then one side or the other is weakening their position to the point that they don't have a side anymore. If women said, "OK. We agree that abortions shouldn't be legal once a woman has had a total of three terminations" they would pretty much put a hole in any situation where a woman is repeatedly impregnated against her will by her father (fairly common in some cultures). In that particular instance, that woman would have no choice but to carry a child she didn't want unless she wants to break the law. Conversely, if the Catholics believe that God tells them that abortion is a sin but they turn a blind eye to a law that makes it legal, they are acting as hypocrites in the eyes of man. People opposed to Catholicism would be able to point to that issue as a hole in the philosophy of that religion.
It's quite the same with GNU/Linux and the acceptance of proprietary software just to garner popular support/adoption. You do this, and the notion of Free Software is weakened for a dubious cause. On the other hand, you don't accept the proprietary software and those who don't understand the philosophy behind Free (as in GNU) software say you're being disagreeable and should just accept that your doomed to failure. Really? In who's eyes? I'd say GNU/Linux + FOSS is extremely successful in that it leapfrogs the capabilities of other OSes in nearly every arena whether you're talking OS, Multimedia, Business, etc... With the notable exception of proprietary specialized software and hardware (which is only necessary in certain markets), there is nothing you can't do on a Linux box that you can't do on other platforms. And there is also a lot that you can do on a Linux box that you can't do on other platforms.
Interesting. Not a typical stance for the Bush administration since it's a bit anti-business. However, as I said before, this particular issue has nothing to do with the Bush administration in terms of them creating the problem. I find their support of the opposition quite bizarre.
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Oh I'm well aware of that. I just like how much it irks certain kinds of people. Getting annoyed by someone saying that something was funny when maybe it only was funny to the poster or might not have even been funny at all is extremely silly. So when I get the down mods for saying that something was funny when I can't reasonably expect a lot of people to agree with me or even better, posters telling me why I'm not funny is endlessly amusing to me.
Flamebait!? You dissapoint me mods! This was quite obviously humor at it's finest. Even if you don't think it's funny, I think anyone in their right mind would register it as a troll and not flamebait. You want flamebait? Here's some: YHBT. YHL. HAND.
So... you think that the only motivation for anyone to do anything is purely ownership and the prospect of making a profit? Tell that to those of us who work in the non-profit sector simply because we believe in causes. My cause is to share as much information as freely as possible with everyone. That's why I work in a public library. Now... tell me about your childhood.
Oh Yea! Let's here it for more extremism! I suppose that means that you cover your mouth and nose and close your eyes when someone in the stall next to you flushes and sends up a cloud of water, piss and crap into the air around you too? Oh... but I forgot, you need to shower too since that cloud likely landed in your hair and all over your arms and any other exposed skin. You'll also need to get a fresh change of clothes as well and run the dirty ones through the laundry. But wait, there's more! Are you sure the water you're showering and washing your clothes with isn't recycled piss with bits of crap in it? Didn't think so. Care to restate your position now Einstein?
There are no other voting machines. Diebold makes all voting machines for the entire planet. Any voting mcahines not made by Diebold are either a figment of the imagination or graven images. The Diebold hath spoken.
I was assured by Diebold's press releases that there's nothing to worry about. Just don't look behind the green curtain and everything will be fine...
No no. You've got it all wrong. According to the software I'm running on my PC that uses my hrad drive to measure for time/space continuum rifts, it looks like everything is just fine in this timeline. I can't speak for the stability of other timelines that you and the parent poster will pass through though.
And I'll bet you're the sort who thinks that buying a new PC every two years is the way it's supopsed to be. Do you realize that a P3 system is plenty of horsepower to playback nearly ANY video format? Probably not. Oh well, you know what they say about fools and their money...
Does the open source community that surrounds Firefox welcome this kind of analysis? I would have to say that's a RESOUNDING YES! As long as the analysis is truthful and reflects real problems that will improve the quality of Firefox I see no reason they wouldn't. Even pointing at minor issues will only help aid Firefox's improvement since it would give the developers a chance to see what people might really care about. And you can bet that if similar analysis was done of Internet Explorer that we'd find the same if not more defects and vulnerabilities. So this is NOT about Firefox vs. IE before anyone goes down that road.
Homer Chimpson actually...
I just like posting annoying comments to see how fast they get modded down or up. But I'm not a troll. ;P
Oh great. Another lame Slashdot critic with a humor deficiency. Just what we need. NOT.
It seems silly to carry around a ton of gadgets when maybe one or two of them would suffice. There is no sense of style in having a belt full of devices or bag with five different gadget in it that weighs a ton. I say, opt for what you've already got. Take me for example. I have one of the excellent Rio Karma music players. It's functionality within Linux as a USB drive is finally "getting there". So much so that the proprietary partition type has made it into the mainline kernel. So instead of having to carry all this crap with me, I just carry my Karma. :) Simple really.
Game OVER!!!!
In all seriousness, that REALLY sucks ass but it's not surprising considering that businesses have reached the point where they can fuck your dog and you can't say anything about it. So... anyone still think we don't need protection for employees from their employers?
Why are you my foe again? That was pretty entertaining...
You realize how vastly inefficient it is to have all that power sitting there on the desktop? You probably want to own a stretch SUV as well? Personally I think the answer is in on demand clustering with VMs. A cluster of small CPU/RAM combos with centralized storage. But instead of dedicating a CPU to each person, the CPUs migrate to whoever needs the most power on the grid at the moment (within reason). So let's say you're doing some REAL work and editing a huge audio file or rendering video... you get up to 25 CPU/RAM combos allocated to you. On the other hand, you're doing something less important, say... working on a piddly little spreadsheet... you only get one CPU/RAM combo because that's enough. This is all transparent to you. Why is this better? Because it's more efficient use of resources. Everyone has the power of up to a 25 node cluster and if you want more, then you pay for ops/sec rates beyond your base price. Who doesn't want the power of a freight train in their living room sometimes?
On page one of this "article" the author posits a wonderful OS that intuits what you want out of it and arranges itself in such a way that your workflow is made easier. Then page two comes to a screaming halt and slams into reverse with some lame caveat about how any OS that would do all the thinking for you is a tempting lure to "evildoers". There wasn't much substance in that. No. Not much at all. In fact we've all thought about how you would craft the perfect OS. I had an idea a while back for a document type "DNS" system. It would tell ANY OS that used it, which applications for that platform would open which documents and provide download links if you didn't have the software or would just launch it if you did. This Doctype DNS could be local on your network and also would be global just like real DNS with the root controlled by a non-profit organization that way there is no profit motive behind it. Great idea (I think) on paper. But it's not really workable. And that's just one idea. I think just a few of us posters could probably come up with better ideas for an OS of the future than the author of the linked piece did. For a minute I thought I was on Digg when I read that article. Besides, my current kick is the Xen hypervisor. I just love having such flexibility and power that is as yet unheard of on any other x86 system (and no VMWare Workstation doesn't do what Xen does).
Glad to see you don't mind wearing handcuffs (DRM media and players). Kinky. ;P
The very first application they mention in the article is advertising. That should come as no surprise based on how many idiots are more than willing to walk around like billboards for clothing companies. But... this is far worse. Can you imagine how many stupid people will jump at the chance to run around with the Sprint or Verizon logos and accompanying video ads playing non-stop on their clothes just to get "free" minutes or a "free" phone? Or what about "free" DSL, Satellite or Cable? Where is the dignity in that? I'll bet the same fuckers who sell out their friends and family to DirecTV or some long distance company to get "free" credits will jump all over the opportunity to be a walking ad. Disgusting. Humanity is vile.
I'm well aware of that. So that's why I'm surprised that he'd side with the EFF on this one. Unless I'm being misled by the other poster.
Well you're right in a way. That's what Freespire/Linspire is all about. But, if someone does that they really shouldn't try to align themselves with the likes of Debian since they have completely different missions. I think the problem is that ESR wants ALL distros to do what Freespire/Linspire has done.
I'm the sort who likes to lob nuclear bombs at flies since they are more effective than fly swatters at hammering a point. :P
Let's keep this going. I think I'm getting wet...
I think it's a point of view problem. The people who are keenly interested in the success of GNU/Linux in general (I would count myself as one of them) feel the passion for the OS that they do because of how many things they can do with it. Those things just can't be accomplished on other OSes with the same level of flexibility, style or possibly even at all. However, to get GNU/Linux to do those things requires more knowledge than the typical "Joe User" will ever have, so they will never experience the true beauty of the OS. Not because there's something wrong with them, or something wrong with the OS, but due to completely different cultures and needs. If you make a "Joe User" friendly version of GNU/Linux it's very likely going to be very uninviting to someone who is "hardcore" either on the technical or the philosphical sides.
To put it another way, you will never get the catholic church to agree to support a woman's right to choose whether or not she will continue a pregnancy. There is no compromising, and if there was then one side or the other is weakening their position to the point that they don't have a side anymore. If women said, "OK. We agree that abortions shouldn't be legal once a woman has had a total of three terminations" they would pretty much put a hole in any situation where a woman is repeatedly impregnated against her will by her father (fairly common in some cultures). In that particular instance, that woman would have no choice but to carry a child she didn't want unless she wants to break the law. Conversely, if the Catholics believe that God tells them that abortion is a sin but they turn a blind eye to a law that makes it legal, they are acting as hypocrites in the eyes of man. People opposed to Catholicism would be able to point to that issue as a hole in the philosophy of that religion.
It's quite the same with GNU/Linux and the acceptance of proprietary software just to garner popular support/adoption. You do this, and the notion of Free Software is weakened for a dubious cause. On the other hand, you don't accept the proprietary software and those who don't understand the philosophy behind Free (as in GNU) software say you're being disagreeable and should just accept that your doomed to failure. Really? In who's eyes? I'd say GNU/Linux + FOSS is extremely successful in that it leapfrogs the capabilities of other OSes in nearly every arena whether you're talking OS, Multimedia, Business, etc... With the notable exception of proprietary specialized software and hardware (which is only necessary in certain markets), there is nothing you can't do on a Linux box that you can't do on other platforms. And there is also a lot that you can do on a Linux box that you can't do on other platforms.
Interesting. Not a typical stance for the Bush administration since it's a bit anti-business. However, as I said before, this particular issue has nothing to do with the Bush administration in terms of them creating the problem. I find their support of the opposition quite bizarre.