Then maybe you should keep your programs to your self and not open source them. Or are you only open sourcing them to be cool and you need someone to validate that you know how to write code? The moment you release something under the GPL or LGPL or CommiesAreUs the code isn't "yours" anymore That's the whole point.
Funny how people have been going on and on about open source this and that but when people actually use their code to make extensions they cry foul.
I've read the book as well and I'm not convinced it's necessarily better than what we have right now. I really don't want to be flying around my computer with a zoom-able UI. It would be nice for some applications but hierarchal storage is still the best until search and metadata are strong enough to make it not necessary. However, I think that is still a long way off and may never be perfect. Hierarchal data is just so essential to many systems of organization whereas searching through a huge list of files instead of organizing them places a lot of trust in the reliability of the system. You could never find a file again if you didn't know it was there and the metadata wasn't set up correctly.
We do not practice proactive enforcement of laws in free societies. We have laws, we have a social contract, and we have law enforcement. We DO NOT bind peoples hands until they have committed a crime, and we do not lock people into their houses until they can prove they have a legal reason to step out. That I can use my computer to make a copy a music track does NOT mean that giving up control of it to the copyright owner "is they way it shoudl be."
Well if people never attempt to commit a crime why should they care if there "hands are binded." All your examples are lame. For example:
Beating people up is illegal and considered immoral. If I do it, I can be punished - but that does give people to right to take over my mind and control how I can move my arms.
Right, but if there was a way to prohibit people people from beating other people up that did not restrict anything else they might like to do. What would be so wrong about using it?
Driving too fast is illegal and considered immoral. If I do it, I can be punished - but that does not give people to right to remote control my car.
There's no need to remote control your car, just disable your car from going over the speed limit. If you weren't planning on breaking the law, why should you care about driving that fast? Every speed you were planning on driving at is available isn't it?
Slandering others is illegal and considered immoral. If I do it, I can be punished - but that does not give people the right to control what I can say.
Same deal as beating people up. I'm not claiming these things are possible, but what would be wrong with them if they were.
Copying files with the copyright owner's permission is illegal and considered immoral. If I do it, I can be punished - but that does not give copyright owners the right to take control of my computer and control what I can do with the files.
They aren't taking over your computer. They are just not allowing you to do something you weren't going to do anyways right?
I agree that freedom to get away with breaking the law every once in a while is nice, but your arguments don't hold up.
AOL Instant Messenger and iChat do this as well. AOL Instant Messenger actually says things like "Blah is typing a message." and it disappears if they're not typing. iChat displays a thought bubble with ellipses.
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Then maybe you should keep your programs to your self and not open source them. Or are you only open sourcing them to be cool and you need someone to validate that you know how to write code? The moment you release something under the GPL or LGPL or CommiesAreUs the code isn't "yours" anymore That's the whole point.
Funny how people have been going on and on about open source this and that but when people actually use their code to make extensions they cry foul.
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I've read the book as well and I'm not convinced it's necessarily better than what we have right now. I really don't want to be flying around my computer with a zoom-able UI. It would be nice for some applications but hierarchal storage is still the best until search and metadata are strong enough to make it not necessary. However, I think that is still a long way off and may never be perfect. Hierarchal data is just so essential to many systems of organization whereas searching through a huge list of files instead of organizing them places a lot of trust in the reliability of the system. You could never find a file again if you didn't know it was there and the metadata wasn't set up correctly.
I doubt the average user is looking at the Emacs or Word source code.
The Humane Environment is a text editor not a GUI environment like KDE. By the way, Emacs has had incremental text searching for a long time now.
I'm still waiting for solitaire myself.
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You'd be right if it wasn't a fact that every other thing in that interface has a direct correlation to the iTunes interface as well.
Yeah I wrote that pretty quickly. I take back what I said. You're right.
For what it's worth, I've had mapquest tell me when a freeway exit will be on the left.
AOL Instant Messenger and iChat do this as well. AOL Instant Messenger actually says things like "Blah is typing a message." and it disappears if they're not typing. iChat displays a thought bubble with ellipses.
Who says we won't be the third world planet and they wipe out us?