Right on, we go on about the evil empires vaporware and FUD, but here we are promoting the same thing. Quite honestly who cares? It's basically pointless. If you have got good ideas, go and suggest them to an existing open source project (or even start a new one), the amiga/ST days are dead and buried, lets leave them there.
Why on earth do you even want to do this, why don't you get a big piece of circular paper and some crayons and amuse yourself with that? Perhaps you can scan them in when you've finished and put them on your 'permanant first post' web site.
I can't agree with you there. Suppose you got an email that looked like spam. Would you respond if you thought that it had only been sent to you? What does it matter who else has been sent it?
I'm amazed that Lars can say that the taping vinyl is OK but MP3ing vinyl isn't, purely on the basis of scale and availability.
Assuming I was incredibly rich and created millions of tapes of one of his albums and made them freely available to everyone in the world, is that the same as taping or MP3ing?
At what scale does it become unethical? It's such a bogus argument, it's almost unbelievable, it's either alright or it's not, there's no half way.
You've totally missed the point. God knows why this is classed as funny, but it's the sort of open source evangleism whilst ignoring the facts that gives us a bad name.
Thank god, Someone speaking sense for once in this forum. What does it gain the community to even dignify this ignorance with a response? Agreed that the response was a well argued piece, but that somehow legitamises the initial article.
This issue has been gone over so many times, why can't we just let the results speak for themselves?
Oh come on "its language is the primary language of the world" !! I wonder why they call it English, could be that it comes from England and SHOCK HORROR not the good old USofA
And I'm sure they'll give up eating and paying rent as well.
Your logic is flawed, I would have thought that they would be more likely to spend spare time on open source if they're in a well paid secure job, rather than if they're living hand to mouth. Think of Maslows heirachy of needs.
Spot on. These sort of people should work on developing their off-line personalities rather than playing games. If anything, this is going to make them even more confused about who they really are and less likely to become a rounded human being. I also think that it's a fairly unhealthy thing to be developing different personas no matter what the circumstances.
Slashdot Mirror
Right on, we go on about the evil empires vaporware and FUD, but here we are promoting the same thing. Quite honestly who cares? It's basically pointless. If you have got good ideas, go and suggest them to an existing open source project (or even start a new one), the amiga/ST days are dead and buried, lets leave them there.
Is this really the place to be asking this?
You completely missed his point while trying to make yourself look clever. Nice one Sig11.
Why on earth do you even want to do this, why don't you get a big piece of circular paper and some crayons and amuse yourself with that? Perhaps you can scan them in when you've finished and put them on your 'permanant first post' web site.
Did I really post that or did I just think it? (Yeah, I know it's a quote from a different psycho but it seemed to fit)
Look at peacefire.org though. The filtering software doesn't work i.e. blocks sites that kids possibly should be looking at.
Plus their whole veil of secrecy about which sites they actually do block seems incredibly dodgy to me.
I can't agree with you there. Suppose you got an email that looked like spam. Would you respond if you thought that it had only been sent to you? What does it matter who else has been sent it?
I'm amazed that Lars can say that the taping vinyl is OK but MP3ing vinyl isn't, purely on the basis of scale and availability.
Assuming I was incredibly rich and created millions of tapes of one of his albums and made them freely available to everyone in the world, is that the same as taping or MP3ing?
At what scale does it become unethical? It's such a bogus argument, it's almost unbelievable, it's either alright or it's not, there's no half way.
That's a good point. What about astronauts as well. Is GMT the divine time?
It's not even that, IBM PC's had a CHOICE of operating systems when they came out. It wasn't just MS-DOS, CP/M anyone?
If my memory serves me correctly there was another one as well, something to do with Pascal (obviously my memory doesn't serve me that well today)
Get out of bed on the wrong side today Sig-11. What's with all the trolling?
It would at least get a lot of celebrity sponsers !!
Hope they used the infinate monkey protocol... would put the link, can't find it though.
You've totally missed the point. God knows why this is classed as funny, but it's the sort of open source evangleism whilst ignoring the facts that gives us a bad name.
Tee-hee !!!
Was this a troll?
And was it just me or was their talkback not working?
Thank god, Someone speaking sense for once in this forum. What does it gain the community to even dignify this ignorance with a response? Agreed that the response was a well argued piece, but that somehow legitamises the initial article.
This issue has been gone over so many times, why can't we just let the results speak for themselves?
Oh come on "its language is the primary language of the world" !! I wonder why they call it English, could be that it comes from England and SHOCK HORROR not the good old USofA
Yeah, it was a year or two ago when MS gave up on the idea of running NT on multiple architectures and stuck to intel.
As far as I can remember, there were disk compression utilities around long before MS 'innovated' them. Anyone remember stakker?
And you've always known, right?
And I'm sure they'll give up eating and paying rent as well.
Your logic is flawed, I would have thought that they would be more likely to spend spare time on open source if they're in a well paid secure job, rather than if they're living hand to mouth. Think of Maslows heirachy of needs.
There's only one sun and times owned by rupert murdick in jolly ole england, don't you know?
Spot on. These sort of people should work on developing their off-line personalities rather than playing games. If anything, this is going to make them even more confused about who they really are and less likely to become a rounded human being. I also think that it's a fairly unhealthy thing to be developing different personas no matter what the circumstances.