Anyway, I think this got abreviated to chi, so there you go, Jesus = X.
Actually, Chi is quite simply the first letter of the Greek (the new testament was written in Greek, remember?) spelling of Christ, and it just happens to look like an X.
Jesus on the other hand just with an Iota (Greek didn't have a J equivalent).
Holy, shit dude - That would make Revolutions just about the worst movie ever made! If Reloaded was an 8/10 than 3/10 is a movie you watch on a plane as it plunges into the Pacific.
his assertion that free software is the domain of hackers/tinkerers/students
But free software is the domain of hackers - hackers came up with the concept in the first place. Incidentally, wasn't there a survey a while back showing that most hackers contributing to free software are professionals in their 40s? While they are certainly tinkerers, they are hardly students.
I think the biggest problem with Fedora Core is that it doesn't associate itself by name either to Red Hat or to Linux, the two biggest branding assets in the Linux world.
You missed the point entirely - Fedora is a community project, the whole idea is to disassociate it from the RedHat product. RedHat will market "RedHat Enterprise Linux" it will not market Fedora.
Stupid name, nontheless, but purely from an aesthetic point of view.
If there is one thing that's in plentiful, superflous abundance, that would be "thought provoking discussion[s] of the unintended consequences of technological change."
After seeing that, I have no doubts about the future of Windows being bright.
The largest software company in the world (one of the largest companies in the world, period) has a "professional" build process for their flagship product? Well, whew, I was beginning to worry about their complete market dominance there for a second.
God forbid that someone should spoil your day by making you think about something *real*, something outside of your hermetically sealed, supersize comfort zone.
See, that's just the attitude I am talking about. What makes you think that you know more about what's outside of our hermetically sealed, supersized comfort zone, than I do?
And it's not a given that this is a better use for it; it just may be that biodegradeable CDs (and other such massively produced junk) can contribute to better conditions in the future third worlds (or whatever number of worlds we are up to by then). I stand by my request.
So you don't want to feed the "precious third world". Are you really saying that you are happy for others to literally starve to death ? As it stands, that's what I'm taking away from your contribution to this thread.
I am no more happy for others to starve to death than anyone else would be. What I dislike is people pointlessly throwing the misfortunes of others into our faces at every opportunity (however marginal); while they in their turn, do not do anything to distinguish themselves from the complacent majority. I can only assume this happens in an effort to make themselves feel moral ly superior.
The reference to all your disposable income comes from the fact that someone pipes up with this starving third world business every single time that the subject of some quantity of some food being used by some company or group of people for any purpose but feeding the third world comes up. It's just not a reasonable, or for that matter practical, expectation that the non-starving world will ship all of it's disposable food to the starving world (however nice that might sound from an idealistic standpoint). (btw, you seem to be very easily amused to the point of losing your composure).
And by the way, "fuck off" is not exactly a convincing argument.
It was certainly not meant as an arument; more a hopeful expectation, however fleeting.
Oh fuck off with your tired "feeding the goddamn third world" routine! Unless every dollar you make above what you need to survive, goes to feeding the precious third world, then you are not really one to talk either, are you?
Dude, I am as much for MS bashing as the next person, but this is not an inaccuracy. Sure it is a Windows virus, but it is also a computer virus, since all computers that run Windows are still computers - see how it works?
Take Hepatitis C for example, it's called a "virus" (it's implied that it's a human virus), not the Hepatitis C "People-Who-Haven't-Been-Immunised-Against-Hepatit is-C" Virus.
As opposed to all those times when they sued the right people.
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I am pretty sure Xine doesn't decrypt DVDs "out of the box" - you have to install that "plugin" yourself (at least that was the case when I used it a while ago, might've changed).
Sure it's a trivial distiction, but logic isn't really part of the current digital copyright system.
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Well, DUH! There's certainly enough hamfisted symbolism in the movies to make sure that everyone "gets" this "brilliant" allegory.
But, you are forgetting The Oracle as the devil (you know, Smith's "mom", the one that's trying to "unbalance" the the Architect's equation.
I would argue that you cannot, by definition, give "spoilers" to the last two Matrix movies - there's simply nothing to spoil.
Actually, Chi is quite simply the first letter of the Greek (the new testament was written in Greek, remember?) spelling of Christ, and it just happens to look like an X.
Jesus on the other hand just with an Iota (Greek didn't have a J equivalent).
Here's what that actually looks like.
The difference is that there isn't a RedHat Linux anymore (or won't be soon).
Strictly speaking, none of the things you listed are "necessary".
"Still", as compared to the (awesome) effects of the original or as compared to the (horrendous) effects in Reloaded?
I've just started playing Max Payne 2 - the graphics look better than the effects did in Reloaded.
Holy, shit dude - That would make Revolutions just about the worst movie ever made! If Reloaded was an 8/10 than 3/10 is a movie you watch on a plane as it plunges into the Pacific.
But free software is the domain of hackers - hackers came up with the concept in the first place. Incidentally, wasn't there a survey a while back showing that most hackers contributing to free software are professionals in their 40s? While they are certainly tinkerers, they are hardly students.
You missed the point entirely - Fedora is a community project, the whole idea is to disassociate it from the RedHat product. RedHat will market "RedHat Enterprise Linux" it will not market Fedora.
Stupid name, nontheless, but purely from an aesthetic point of view.
If they wanted better market perception, should've just changed their name to Philip Morris.
Um, we are - seems to me like the postership is confused, in this case.
So you weren't that good a patent examiner, were you?
I see his point now.
Someone spilled BlueCurve all over my OSX!
The largest software company in the world (one of the largest companies in the world, period) has a "professional" build process for their flagship product? Well, whew, I was beginning to worry about their complete market dominance there for a second.
Um, no - we've paid for it already.
See, that's just the attitude I am talking about. What makes you think that you know more about what's outside of our hermetically sealed, supersized comfort zone, than I do?
And it's not a given that this is a better use for it; it just may be that biodegradeable CDs (and other such massively produced junk) can contribute to better conditions in the future third worlds (or whatever number of worlds we are up to by then). I stand by my request.
I am no more happy for others to starve to death than anyone else would be. What I dislike is people pointlessly throwing the misfortunes of others into our faces at every opportunity (however marginal); while they in their turn, do not do anything to distinguish themselves from the complacent majority. I can only assume this happens in an effort to make themselves feel moral ly superior.
The reference to all your disposable income comes from the fact that someone pipes up with this starving third world business every single time that the subject of some quantity of some food being used by some company or group of people for any purpose but feeding the third world comes up. It's just not a reasonable, or for that matter practical, expectation that the non-starving world will ship all of it's disposable food to the starving world (however nice that might sound from an idealistic standpoint). (btw, you seem to be very easily amused to the point of losing your composure).
And by the way, "fuck off" is not exactly a convincing argument.
It was certainly not meant as an arument; more a hopeful expectation, however fleeting.
Oh fuck off with your tired "feeding the goddamn third world" routine! Unless every dollar you make above what you need to survive, goes to feeding the precious third world, then you are not really one to talk either, are you?
Um, thanks for stating the obvious.
Well, what can we do? It does.
I'm sorry, but if you spell mod_perl "ModPerl" you just didn't use to "love it."
Take Hepatitis C for example, it's called a "virus" (it's implied that it's a human virus), not the Hepatitis C "People-Who-Haven't-Been-Immunised-Against-Hepatit is-C" Virus.
As opposed to all those times when they sued the right people.
Sure it's a trivial distiction, but logic isn't really part of the current digital copyright system.
Yep, that's pretty much the gist of what happens to legacy hardware; that's kinda the point.