That everyone else should have to rearrange their schedules to accomodate you?
Let's see...
Morning meeting: I have to accommodate them.
Midday meeting: They don't have to accommodate me and vice versa. Heck, we can have a meeting and a business-lunch. Everybody wins! I am not hungry in the mornings (=no breakfast), so I'm ready for a lunch around at that time.
But *why* does no one ever mention this game? Was it so easy to copy it only ever sold one copy or something?
Almost right.
It was so easy to copy that Jeff Minter and his axe had quite a job to do before justice had been served. Unfortunately almost no-one was left to mention the game.
Except you.
In fact, now that you've come public with this particular skeleton in your closet, don't you think that you should keep an eye on any axe-carrying Jeffs you might run into.
Reading/. and posting here is also a veritable time-sink.
I'd like to point out that you can avoid traffic also by going late to work and heading home late in the evening or even at night. It'll work fine, if your employer is flexible (i.e. trusts that you do you job even when the boss is not around) and especially if you live in an urban area where you can get food 24h/day.
I used to start working at 11 am and work late into the night. I can't get anything useful done before 10 am and I'm at my peak performance somewhere around 4-5 pm, but these days I have to drag myself to work by 9 am. Thank you very much, you morning people who insist on scheduling meetings early in the morning.
There is an issue with combining code from non-GPLed products and GPLed products into a new product, which is why XFree 4.4 is going the way of the Dodo
Ok. And that's not exactly the issue I was complaining about because...?
the freedom to chose the license we prefer for our code, which for many of us is a "share-alike" license such as the GPL.
Oh, you GPL advocates are so cute when you talk about freedom. I grew out of it many years ago when I realized the only kind of freedom RMS likes is the restrictive kind of freedom: all licenses except GPL are bad.
I remember that. It's ok to choose any license for your software as long as you choose GPL. Right?
rabblerousing from the proprietary sidelines via agent provocateurs, and their less intelligent cousins, trolls such as yourself, notwithstanding.
Yeah, damn those freethinking people who have trouble accepting the GPL dogma.
If you want to contribute code to the world and make it useful and extensible - use MIT/BSD/some other truly free license.
Unfortunately distributing non-GPLd software with Linux is asking for trouble. Linux is the best-selling open software product and choosing any other license than GPL means an extra hurdle for your software.
But I guess that's exactly the kind of "freedom" RMS likes. Even in Soviet Russia you did not have to be a member of the Communist Party. However, that meant settling for low-level jobs and general discrimination.
hidden people with gobs of wealth, power and access to knowledge which rest of us only gets through a filter
Sounds a lot like the shamans, witch-doctors and priests (and more lately politicians) of our history, doesn't it?
These people are often nothing but power-hungry egomaniacs, sometimes outright sociopaths. Any secret knowledge they claim to have (but can never reveal except to the annointed) is just a scam with which to hold on to the power. The "masonic symbols", "magic numbers", "stone tablets" and the like are there just to shock-and-awe the unwashed masses.
It's you who give them their power if you keep looking up whenever you hear Apocalypse, Stonehenge or Kabbalah (thanks Madonna for getting my niece fall for silly mysticism...) mentioned. Don't play along.
It's always rubbish if you can't investigate it, question it or place it in some realistic context within modern science.
break it into something far less dangerous at worse.
So instead of one huge target you could in principle land on, you'd get a swarm of smaller but still deadly rocks that would rain devastation on Earth?
No, the only permanent solution to the extinction level event problem is to get some of us off this goddamn planet.
It might actually be a good idea to keep numbering asteroids, license plates, flight numbers, student union cards, social security numbers and so on with a 666 in the code.
Think of it as an early-warning system. Someone who lives his or her life in the fear of getting tainted by a number from a fairy tale should not be let anywhere near positions of power.
It was my first Gentoo installation ever and it took a bit over 3 hours - including the half an hour I spent trying to figure out why the Gentoo LiveCD kernel panicked upon boot. If anyone else is wondering about the same, just switch off the autoprobe and load the necessary modules manually. After that the installation was a breeze.
Well, I'm sorry to say but you've fallen for propaganda.
Men on the net are men, women on the net are 40-year old hairy men who'd like to be women and both the men and women on the net who say they're under 18 are actually FBI agents.
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And what's the deal with ESR? Who appointed him as an ambassador?
I think we both can agree on that.
Let's see...
Morning meeting: I have to accommodate them.
Midday meeting: They don't have to accommodate me and vice versa. Heck, we can have a meeting and a business-lunch. Everybody wins! I am not hungry in the mornings (=no breakfast), so I'm ready for a lunch around at that time.
Almost right.
It was so easy to copy that Jeff Minter and his axe had quite a job to do before justice had been served. Unfortunately almost no-one was left to mention the game.
Except you.
In fact, now that you've come public with this particular skeleton in your closet, don't you think that you should keep an eye on any axe-carrying Jeffs you might run into.
I'd like to point out that you can avoid traffic also by going late to work and heading home late in the evening or even at night. It'll work fine, if your employer is flexible (i.e. trusts that you do you job even when the boss is not around) and especially if you live in an urban area where you can get food 24h/day.
I used to start working at 11 am and work late into the night. I can't get anything useful done before 10 am and I'm at my peak performance somewhere around 4-5 pm, but these days I have to drag myself to work by 9 am. Thank you very much, you morning people who insist on scheduling meetings early in the morning.
Sounds like an idea for a Ghost Recon mod...
The parent was talking about the best performing memory.
Business practises and evil patents don't change those numbers.
XFree 4.4
It must really suck to be as oppressed as you.
I'm not oppressed.
I just hate hypocrisy and dogma and GPL disciples exhibit loads of both. I should know. I was one of them.
Congratulations. An absolutely hilarious post that should be modded up.
Ok. And that's not exactly the issue I was complaining about because...?
the freedom to chose the license we prefer for our code, which for many of us is a "share-alike" license such as the GPL.
Oh, you GPL advocates are so cute when you talk about freedom. I grew out of it many years ago when I realized the only kind of freedom RMS likes is the restrictive kind of freedom: all licenses except GPL are bad.
I remember that. It's ok to choose any license for your software as long as you choose GPL. Right?
rabblerousing from the proprietary sidelines via agent provocateurs, and their less intelligent cousins, trolls such as yourself, notwithstanding.
Yeah, damn those freethinking people who have trouble accepting the GPL dogma.
Oh no! Welcome to the Internet!
No, they're not saying that.
They're just questioning FSF's sole position to decide what GPL means. About time, I say.
Unfortunately distributing non-GPLd software with Linux is asking for trouble. Linux is the best-selling open software product and choosing any other license than GPL means an extra hurdle for your software.
But I guess that's exactly the kind of "freedom" RMS likes. Even in Soviet Russia you did not have to be a member of the Communist Party. However, that meant settling for low-level jobs and general discrimination.
A most excellent point.
All he has to do is to capture bin Laden. Preferably dead.
Sounds a lot like the shamans, witch-doctors and priests (and more lately politicians) of our history, doesn't it?
These people are often nothing but power-hungry egomaniacs, sometimes outright sociopaths. Any secret knowledge they claim to have (but can never reveal except to the annointed) is just a scam with which to hold on to the power. The "masonic symbols", "magic numbers", "stone tablets" and the like are there just to shock-and-awe the unwashed masses.
It's you who give them their power if you keep looking up whenever you hear Apocalypse, Stonehenge or Kabbalah (thanks Madonna for getting my niece fall for silly mysticism...) mentioned. Don't play along.
It's always rubbish if you can't investigate it, question it or place it in some realistic context within modern science.
Next stop: November elections.
You say that as if there's something wrong with being a perverted pothead...
So instead of one huge target you could in principle land on, you'd get a swarm of smaller but still deadly rocks that would rain devastation on Earth?
No, the only permanent solution to the extinction level event problem is to get some of us off this goddamn planet.
Think of it as an early-warning system. Someone who lives his or her life in the fear of getting tainted by a number from a fairy tale should not be let anywhere near positions of power.
The machine is a dual Opteron 240, 2 GB of DDR333 and two 15K SCSI-drives controlled by the on-board 133 MHz PCI-X U320 controller.
Maybe I should start practising already. "Emerge!". How's that?
So, I guess that makes Slashdot an equal-opportunity blog, then. Here you get crap from the untold hordes of rabid ACs regardless of your gender.
Well, I'm sorry to say but you've fallen for propaganda.
Men on the net are men, women on the net are 40-year old hairy men who'd like to be women and both the men and women on the net who say they're under 18 are actually FBI agents.
Good marketing but still shoddy science.