The lesson is that if there is one thing open-source is not good at, it's developing highly complex specialized applications for limited markets. Appgen *could not have existed* as open-source, because geeks do not get their rocks off writing specialized accounting framework software, it's as simple as that. So you either pay the $2000, or you use the nearest open-source equivalent, which would probably be graphical abacus software written in ncurses or something, on which development has been stalled for the past 18 months. Or maybe Gnucash, if you can afford to hire enough CS majors to get it compiled.
And the lesson for GNU weenies is: You're only allowed to complain if you have software that can do what Appgen does *as good or better than Appgen*. And you don't, so stfu.
It's like putting all your white socks in one drawer, all your gray socks in another drawer, all your older socks with holes in them under your bed, and all your sports socks in the refrigerator. And randomly selected white, gray, older, and sports socks anywhere from a kitchen cupboard to the garage. So I've got/bin/usr/bin/usr/bin/X11 (or/usr/X11/bin, or/usr/X11R6/bin, or/usr/bin/X11R6, or maybe the X11 is symlinked to X11R6)/usr/local/bin/opt/bin (maybe)
And I've got a program I want to remove. I want to delete ImageMagick because I never use it. OK, let's have a look. "whereis imagemagick". No response. "find: imagemagick: No such file or directory." OK, this isn't working, I'll go to each directory and ls for it myself. Nope, can't find anything........... 2 hours pass and aha! It's not called imagemagick at all, there are 208942 different separate binaries for it and they're in some stupid place I would never have thought to look. I found them all, and I deleted them, but wait, I only deleted the BINARIES. NOW, where are all the config files? And what ELSE might imagemagick have scattered all over my drive? This is one reason the Unix fs hierarchy sucks for the average desktop system... there are many more.
1) Drag mouse over text 2) Move cursor to new location 3) Click both buttons 4) Mutter "god damn it" when you realize that X cut/paste doesn't preserve font styles.
And if you do, please tell me you don't consider/etc,/usr/lib,/usr/bin,/usr/local/bin,/usr/X11/bin,/usr/X11/lib,/usr/local/lib,/var, etc., "organized."
I used Windows for a long time, switched to Linux for 4 years, and then switched to OS X. And I'm 1000% happier now than when I was using Linux. Does that count? I also wiped Linux off my PC and put Win2K on it. Win98 was so shitty for me that it wouldn't even install correctly, but 2K actually works shockingly well (I can't believe it's actually a Microsoft product). And it doesn't even take 6 hours to install a printer. I'm sold.
Since when has GNU cared about making its man pages intelligible? Or helping newbies? Just pop in the CD-ROM and you're learning? You mean after you've spent 6 hours figuring out how to mount an ISO9660 filesystem, download a media player, install all the dependencies, find and download the right codecs, and troubleshoot it when it keeps crashing on startup? I laughed though, B+ troll.
It's a shame she got used to the Gimp's shitty interface before she had a chance to use Photoshop's much better interface. If she had started with Photoshop from the get go, she would probably be twice as productive in it as she is now with the Gimp. (And would have much more power at her fingertips)
Speaking as someone living in a university apartment, whatever the IT guys can do to restrict P2P or even block it altogether is fine by me. There was a lot of moaning from a small subset of users after Packeteer (bandwidth limiter) was installed on the network a couple years ago, but the effect for 90% of the users has been a dramatic increase in general responsiveness. You can still use Kazaa and so on here, but they're throttled down to 20K/sec.
Don't you slashdiots realize there are much, much, much more important things going on in the world right now than the debate over the intricacies of software patents? Voting for a candidate on the basis of whether they support free software is like voting for a candidate on the basis of whether they like blue moon ice cream.
More than a few people in "the community" have made it over 6 months without brushing their teeth or washing themselves. I would say that is pretty much unsurpassed in Apple-land.
Yes, BeOS, they will install an OS that's been dead for 2 years on these new Macs. And everybody is clamoring to be able to run Linux on PowerPC. Literally everyone, I mean, go to Best Buy and interview people and they're like "You know, this Emachines thing is nice and all, but you know, god damn, I wish Steve Jobs would just release a PowerPC Mac running Linux already for chrissakes." It's obvious that this PPC hardware division would be a smashing success with OS X running on x86! Retard
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? He's not talking about the quality of the OS, he's talking about the fact that just because he runs an OS that is GPLed doesn't mean he should have to release the source of ALL the code that runs on top of that OS.
No, your existence is not taxable. I don't see the contradiction. You have just as much right to exist as anyone else does. Raising your taxes by, say, 5% != terminating your existence. Don't get me wrong, I want you to be rich, even filthy rich, because the richer you are, the more power you have to make society better. (The more you can afford to invest in things and pay taxes that will help society.)
You think you're getting ripped off by the government? Let's see how the government has benefitted you. Property and land ownership rights, let's take them away and see how well you do without them. If we took away your right to safety, would you trust your personal bodyguards enough to not turn on you? In a way, you owe everything you have, and everything you are, to those rights. To have those rights and to be rich is a pretty good deal.
I never meant to suggest that race is a measure of a person's worth. I think that all people of any race are equally invaluable. But race does tie in to social factors (class, mobility) and economic factors in interesting ways. Your political beliefs, for example, are a function of your economic class, and therefore, indirectly, your race, which is also related to your class. I don't even know you, but I already guessed a few things about you correctly:
- You're white - You're male - You were born to well-off parents
Now I will make a few more guesses:
- You've spent less than 48 total hours in your life volunteering with lower classes - You've spent less than 48 total hours in your life associating with the poor - You have few/no friends in lower economic classes - You have black acquaintances, but no black friends - You have a secure future, but are not, deep-down, truly and sincerely happy
I hope it's obvious why all of this is relevant. It's interesting that there are so few black and Hispanic libertarians. It's interesting that there are so few poor libertarians of any race/ethnicity. Is it that most poor people, or most blacks/Hispanics are leeches? Or is it that different socioeconomic groups are able to see society from different vantage points? Apparently you don't realize the racism present in your own measure of a person's worth:
1. You have a high opinion of any person who produces more than they consume. 2. Of all people who produce more than they consume, the proportion of whites to other races/ethnicities is much higher than the general population. 3. You generally have a higher opinion of whites.
I'm sure you will protest that the fact that most of the people who produce a lot more than they consume are white is merely coincidence. But how can it be merely coincidental when whites actually comprise less than 50% of the US population? Obviously there's more going on here than you're acknowledging.
I can see the logic behind your opinion that "voluntarily" choosing not to work is a "voluntary" choice to die, even if I strongly disagree with it. Let me point out, though, some other "irresponsible" actions in a purely libertarian society that constitute a "choice to die":
- Not being able to get a job - There not being any jobs for people of X qualifications in X region within X miles - Having a job that doesn't pay enough to afford basic necessities - Being sufficiently socially awkward that nobody will hire you - Having a mental or physical illness that precludes working a normal work day - Having a car break down, not being able to get to work, getting fired, not being able to get a reference from your employer, not getting hired anywhere else because it's the second time that's happened in 6 months and you're seen as too "irresponsible" - And so on
But you don't have firsthand experience with any of that, and can't relate to it, because by golly, if you made it, anyone can, even though you're smarter, had rich parents, went to quality private school, were born with the right skin color...
I won't pay 5% more by my own will, because I'm too selfish. If my tax were raised 5%, I wouldn't groan too much, though. Of course I would demand some accountability from the gov't, and I would like to see some results from that money. No reason supporting a progressive tax has to mean supporting the gov't pissing money away. But you're right, it would be unpopular and unlikely to happen.
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If this were an Apple laptop the steps would be:
- Open the lid
- Pick up using it where you left off last time
And when you're done:
- Close the lid
The lesson is that if there is one thing open-source is not good at, it's developing highly complex specialized applications for limited markets. Appgen *could not have existed* as open-source, because geeks do not get their rocks off writing specialized accounting framework software, it's as simple as that. So you either pay the $2000, or you use the nearest open-source equivalent, which would probably be graphical abacus software written in ncurses or something, on which development has been stalled for the past 18 months. Or maybe Gnucash, if you can afford to hire enough CS majors to get it compiled.
And the lesson for GNU weenies is: You're only allowed to complain if you have software that can do what Appgen does *as good or better than Appgen*. And you don't, so stfu.
Give it up.
A real political fucking philosopher aren't you?
The GNAA would most definitely agree. Oh wait, you said "grayness"
to take 5 years to release something that doesn't totally suck ass
It's like putting all your white socks in one drawer, all your gray socks in another drawer, all your older socks with holes in them under your bed, and all your sports socks in the refrigerator. And randomly selected white, gray, older, and sports socks anywhere from a kitchen cupboard to the garage. So I've got /bin /usr/bin /usr/bin/X11 (or /usr/X11/bin, or /usr/X11R6/bin, or /usr/bin/X11R6, or maybe the X11 is symlinked to X11R6) /usr/local/bin /opt/bin (maybe)
.......... 2 hours pass and aha! It's not called imagemagick at all, there are 208942 different separate binaries for it and they're in some stupid place I would never have thought to look. I found them all, and I deleted them, but wait, I only deleted the BINARIES. NOW, where are all the config files? And what ELSE might imagemagick have scattered all over my drive? This is one reason the Unix fs hierarchy sucks for the average desktop system... there are many more.
And I've got a program I want to remove. I want to delete ImageMagick because I never use it. OK, let's have a look. "whereis imagemagick". No response. "find: imagemagick: No such file or directory." OK, this isn't working, I'll go to each directory and ls for it myself. Nope, can't find anything.
1) Drag mouse over text
2) Move cursor to new location
3) Click both buttons
4) Mutter "god damn it" when you realize that X cut/paste doesn't preserve font styles.
And if you do, please tell me you don't consider /etc, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/X11/bin, /usr/X11/lib, /usr/local/lib, /var, etc., "organized."
I used Windows for a long time, switched to Linux for 4 years, and then switched to OS X. And I'm 1000% happier now than when I was using Linux. Does that count? I also wiped Linux off my PC and put Win2K on it. Win98 was so shitty for me that it wouldn't even install correctly, but 2K actually works shockingly well (I can't believe it's actually a Microsoft product). And it doesn't even take 6 hours to install a printer. I'm sold.
Since when has GNU cared about making its man pages intelligible? Or helping newbies? Just pop in the CD-ROM and you're learning? You mean after you've spent 6 hours figuring out how to mount an ISO9660 filesystem, download a media player, install all the dependencies, find and download the right codecs, and troubleshoot it when it keeps crashing on startup? I laughed though, B+ troll.
It's Robert Psot... Frist was his middle name.
You were modded down because it's not 1987 anymore
It's a shame she got used to the Gimp's shitty interface before she had a chance to use Photoshop's much better interface. If she had started with Photoshop from the get go, she would probably be twice as productive in it as she is now with the Gimp. (And would have much more power at her fingertips)
I wish I had more freedom to use non-shitty reinventions of the wheel. Something that OSS sadly has way too much of.
REOSpeedwagOS?
Speaking as someone living in a university apartment, whatever the IT guys can do to restrict P2P or even block it altogether is fine by me. There was a lot of moaning from a small subset of users after Packeteer (bandwidth limiter) was installed on the network a couple years ago, but the effect for 90% of the users has been a dramatic increase in general responsiveness. You can still use Kazaa and so on here, but they're throttled down to 20K/sec.
The latest findings of the Cato Institute?
I was thinking more along the lines of the ballooning size of Cowboyneal's hemmorhoids, but those are all important too
Don't you slashdiots realize there are much, much, much more important things going on in the world right now than the debate over the intricacies of software patents? Voting for a candidate on the basis of whether they support free software is like voting for a candidate on the basis of whether they like blue moon ice cream.
More than a few people in "the community" have made it over 6 months without brushing their teeth or washing themselves. I would say that is pretty much unsurpassed in Apple-land.
Yes, BeOS, they will install an OS that's been dead for 2 years on these new Macs. And everybody is clamoring to be able to run Linux on PowerPC. Literally everyone, I mean, go to Best Buy and interview people and they're like "You know, this Emachines thing is nice and all, but you know, god damn, I wish Steve Jobs would just release a PowerPC Mac running Linux already for chrissakes." It's obvious that this PPC hardware division would be a smashing success with OS X running on x86! Retard
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? He's not talking about the quality of the OS, he's talking about the fact that just because he runs an OS that is GPLed doesn't mean he should have to release the source of ALL the code that runs on top of that OS.
No, your existence is not taxable. I don't see the contradiction. You have just as much right to exist as anyone else does. Raising your taxes by, say, 5% != terminating your existence. Don't get me wrong, I want you to be rich, even filthy rich, because the richer you are, the more power you have to make society better. (The more you can afford to invest in things and pay taxes that will help society.)
You think you're getting ripped off by the government? Let's see how the government has benefitted you. Property and land ownership rights, let's take them away and see how well you do without them. If we took away your right to safety, would you trust your personal bodyguards enough to not turn on you? In a way, you owe everything you have, and everything you are, to those rights. To have those rights and to be rich is a pretty good deal.
I never meant to suggest that race is a measure of a person's worth. I think that all people of any race are equally invaluable. But race does tie in to social factors (class, mobility) and economic factors in interesting ways. Your political beliefs, for example, are a function of your economic class, and therefore, indirectly, your race, which is also related to your class. I don't even know you, but I already guessed a few things about you correctly:
- You're white
- You're male
- You were born to well-off parents
Now I will make a few more guesses:
- You've spent less than 48 total hours in your life volunteering with lower classes
- You've spent less than 48 total hours in your life associating with the poor
- You have few/no friends in lower economic classes
- You have black acquaintances, but no black friends
- You have a secure future, but are not, deep-down, truly and sincerely happy
I hope it's obvious why all of this is relevant. It's interesting that there are so few black and Hispanic libertarians. It's interesting that there are so few poor libertarians of any race/ethnicity. Is it that most poor people, or most blacks/Hispanics are leeches? Or is it that different socioeconomic groups are able to see society from different vantage points? Apparently you don't realize the racism present in your own measure of a person's worth:
1. You have a high opinion of any person who produces more than they consume.
2. Of all people who produce more than they consume, the proportion of whites to other races/ethnicities is much higher than the general population.
3. You generally have a higher opinion of whites.
I'm sure you will protest that the fact that most of the people who produce a lot more than they consume are white is merely coincidence. But how can it be merely coincidental when whites actually comprise less than 50% of the US population? Obviously there's more going on here than you're acknowledging.
I can see the logic behind your opinion that "voluntarily" choosing not to work is a "voluntary" choice to die, even if I strongly disagree with it. Let me point out, though, some other "irresponsible" actions in a purely libertarian society that constitute a "choice to die":
- Not being able to get a job
- There not being any jobs for people of X qualifications in X region within X miles
- Having a job that doesn't pay enough to afford basic necessities
- Being sufficiently socially awkward that nobody will hire you
- Having a mental or physical illness that precludes working a normal work day
- Having a car break down, not being able to get to work, getting fired, not being able to get a reference from your employer, not getting hired anywhere else because it's the second time that's happened in 6 months and you're seen as too "irresponsible"
- And so on
But you don't have firsthand experience with any of that, and can't relate to it, because by golly, if you made it, anyone can, even though you're smarter, had rich parents, went to quality private school, were born with the right skin color...
I was especially surprised to hea
I won't pay 5% more by my own will, because I'm too selfish. If my tax were raised 5%, I wouldn't groan too much, though. Of course I would demand some accountability from the gov't, and I would like to see some results from that money. No reason supporting a progressive tax has to mean supporting the gov't pissing money away. But you're right, it would be unpopular and unlikely to happen.