Like preaching close-minded people, who think that they are much more open-minded than you just because they oppose what they perceive as the majority opinion. When they are really religiously locked on the exact opposite view, even sometimes imitating the opposite.
Or in short: People that don’t think for themselves and people that try to force their reality upon me.
Two examples would be 1) Those that completely and totally avoid putting anything closed-source on their system, even if they only have disadvantages because of it, and even if in the long run, it would help them getting free from closed source. In the case of (graphics) drivers, much more people would use Linux, if they could use all their hardware like on Windows. Which would force other companies to support Linux more. Which would strengthen open source as a whole, and also put more pressure on the still closed drivers, who now would be the worse working ones. 2) The Gnome team, who think they know better than me, what I want to do with my system and how I want to do it, and therefore only include options they think I should use. They even remove options that they don’t want me to use. Only cattle, fanboys and themselves can stand that in the long run. Since others will run into differences. A good programmer also allows options that he does not like. Because he cares for his users. That’s why they are options. He can still make his choice the default. (Yes, KDE4 also fell for this a bit. And Apple practically invented it.)
You might not know it, but there are things that can’t be searched with a web search. For example if you don’t know the words other people use to describe it in the first place. If it can’t be put in words that simply. There are things only a human can recognize as something. Things that defy being put in query form. So while you might be able to find them, that doesn’t mean someone else can. It’s like answering the questions of Family Feud. Harder than it looks.
I only go to IRC if a web search doesn’t turn up anything useful. Or if I have looked trough results for hours. Or in above case. There is one problem with the answers on IRC: Nobody notes them and puts them in a FAQ or knowledge base (perhaps in wiki form). I think that would make the whole thing much easier.
And I always end up answering tons of questions myself. For example when I enter #Gentoo, I often single-handedly juggle and answer all the questions. And they are honest and legitimate questions.
But maybe you just frequent different channels. Or avoid them with prejudice... which will then of course never change.
That was my question too... Until I read the rest of TFS!
Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL compatible with the Apache license, in an effort to 'help projects using the MPL become more flexible about using Apache-licensed code.'
... and about every other government on the planet is trying right now. Including yours, mine, and... well, Italy deserves a special mention, since there, Berlusconi already has the laws written into the books. (Italians, in case you decide to kick his ass, we’re coming to help you!)
It’s like comparing your 10th generation of a sports car, that got optimized for decades, against a brand-new experimental car. Of course the old one will win! But that says nothing about how it will be, when the new one got the same amount of optimization.
But what is important, is that the new car offers so many new freedoms, that it’s worth it, even if it were much slower.
In this case, the seamless embedding of videos, and the native playback alone, are two killer points that you can never ever achieve with Flash. Or can Flash do this: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/
Java used to be much worse about it, when the code was much less open, but it still happens.
You mean “Microsoft’s ugly hack of a JVM was intentionally much worse, to kill off Sun. But since Sun sued MS, and won, it has gone much better. Even for others trying to do the same thing as MS.”.
Huh? Apples and oranges, as far as I know; they're two entirely different companies.
No shit, Sherlock? How could you possibly thing I would mean that they are the same??
As the rest of your “comment” is based on that misunderstanding, there’s no need to answer it.
They were examples for criminal global companies, that walk over dead bodies like nothing, for their own profit. Elsevier with publishing lies in fake magazines, as if they were scientific evidence, and using that, to get doctors to prescribe drugs (the addictive but not healing kind) to patients, to hook them on a life-long addiction that won’t heal anything but just hide the symptoms of the disease that now only gets worse faster. And Monsanto for thinks like genetically altered crops that only survive when you buy Roundup Ready. So the farmers have to buy it. Like extortion. And if they don’t, Monsanto sues them to 10 years in jail for “copyright infringement”. Yeah, you read that right! Because they have a “copyright” on those seeds. And if the wind blows them over to a non-licensed field, you gonna get sued! Also the crops can’t reproduce. So you have to buy new seeds! And the worst of all: Roundup Ready is one of the worst toxic substances on planet earth. If you spray it on your fields, and let goose run trough it, weeks later, they will die nearly instantly. And that is just one of their crimes. The toxic Aspartame, that was once designed as a substance for biochemical war, and then found to be sweet in smaller (but still very dangerous) doses, is another one. It causes cancer and a multitude of other diseases. And the list goes on endlessly. Of course there are many other companies. But those are the two that are most prominent for creating fake medical “facts”, and killing people with it. They are literally mass-murdering for money. On the Hitler scale.
...they are already designing the next bombshell for MS and Sony to run behind. ^^
And that is why they won’t actually catch up. It’s old. Go ahead MS and Sony. Control that market for the time it dies while getting replaced by the next big thing. The big thing that won’t be coming from you.;)
Wrong. It’s called Haskell with QuickCheck. And it offers mathematical PROOF of correctness! If your life depends on it, you better demand mathematical proof.
There is a star moving close that is very different from ours. It moves to the oort could, and therefore definitely makes it visible. There is so much to learn.
And all you can think about is how it “threatens” earth? Have you seen the space in the solar system? Have you calculated the likeliness? And in 1.5 million years? I wouldn’t be surprised if we manage to have a congested hyperspace freeway to Gliese 710 by then! Or if we are long extinct and replaced by ravens, other apes, dolphins and octopuses. Nature wouldn’t care anyway.
Please stop the fearmongering, if you want to be taken seriously. And enjoy the wonders of nature.
...will be those they expect to find in the genes, but won’t. Like many of those so-called “age-related” diseases. Because then they have to admit it’s caused by the environment. Like the actually food-related group.
If that “medical evidence” came from Elsevier, or Monsanto, etc, it’s worth shit.
Medicine has no credibility anymore. Because the whole system is based on only rewarding them who keep people sick for the longest time. You get money for treating people. For selling meds. But not for healing them. You even get punished for it, since they won’t need to come back and pay more.
And no, that does not mean I’m saying anything about the statements being right or wrong. I‘m saying that the source is not trustworthy either way. Unless some big time proof of trustworthiness appears.
... The fist step towards gaining control over people, is to gain control over their minds. Monkey see, monkey believe, monkey do. And now FOX News is becoming your history and science source.
Please, to the majority of Americans, who are still healthy real Americans: Let Texas secede. Or throw them out. Let Mexico have them if they want. You’d do yourself something good. But wait Mexico, there’s more! You can also get Alabama for the low, low price, of one Taco Bell in every town!;)
But Vietnam, Japan, etc are not in the Orient. The Orient are all countries where you could imagine that Ali Baba could have lived.;) Or: Arabic countries & co.
Actually, there in no real physical ownership of non-physical things at all. We don’t “own” it. But they also don’t. The ones having it control it. But the more there are, the harder weaker the power of the single entity, and the lower the value of what you can ask for in exchange.
Their problem is, that they use sneaky criminal methods (DRM) to try to remove it from under your ass and keep control, after you paid for it. Which is like buying a car, and at home noticing that it falls apart to dust, as soon as someone else drove it 3 times. It’s a crime. And the other problem is, that they really believe they can achieve that. While it’s of course circumvented on day zero. ^^
At least Apple copied the stuff with permission, which the Anti-Apple crowd conveniently never mentions.
Paraphrasing Chris Rock: Of course we don’t. It’s like bragging that you never murdered somebody. You’re not supposed to murder somebody, dumbass!!;)) What we mention, is that Microsoft did it without permission (and got sued for it). Which you conveniently didn’t mention.
Bullshit! If they all run linux, and all are ARM, the all run everything! No imaginary and no real fragmentation here! Even the Chipsets will most likely be only coming from a hand full of companies.
I know that you in the USA (and of course in many other countries, like mine too) hate freedom or choice (look at your government), but this is a good thing!
Yes, and in a community of socially incompetent geeks, emotions are frowned upon and a big taboo.:P
Get over yourself. Pure text is a horribly bad way of communication. It leaves out more than half the brain and more than half the information usually transmitted. It’s prone to misunderstandings all over the place. It should be avoided for all social contacts, and preferably only used for education of topics for the half of the brain that is for logic & co.
Emoticons and things like “LOL” are crutches to partially cope with that. And NO: You can not always detect how it was meant from the pure text alone. What your brain does, is that it inserts your own assumptions into it. And while you may think it is right, and even fit with what your community thinks is right, you may still be completely wrong.
Praise the LOLs and the;)s. Without them we would end in a lot more heated arguing that we do already on the net!
Exactly. And actually, scientifically, games ARE education. They are the original natural form of education. How we are meant to learn.
School has taken out the fun (and hence the natural drive that made us learn all by ourselves) and replaced with drill (blind following/belief and repetitive execution). Which is obvious for a system that has its origins in being military drill, but for children. (Bismarck invented it for just that purpose.) Seen in the long term, school is the non-traditional form. Games are there since before humanity exists. Just look at young animals, like dogs and cats, playing.
Which is why I really hope, we will get back to that. There is no better deal than games. Every child wants to play them. Now all we have to do is make them about things that are useful for humans. Hunting is not so much useful anymore. But social skills are extremely useful. Leadership skills are. Interestingly, MMOs are very close to that already. I think they are for that very reason. But math, physics, language, and all the old stuff, should be just as fun. A good game about those topics is one, that kids play because they WANT. Not because they have to.
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But I avoid that for everything.
Like preaching close-minded people, who think that they are much more open-minded than you just because they oppose what they perceive as the majority opinion. When they are really religiously locked on the exact opposite view, even sometimes imitating the opposite.
Or in short: People that don’t think for themselves and people that try to force their reality upon me.
Two examples would be
1) Those that completely and totally avoid putting anything closed-source on their system, even if they only have disadvantages because of it, and even if in the long run, it would help them getting free from closed source. In the case of (graphics) drivers, much more people would use Linux, if they could use all their hardware like on Windows. Which would force other companies to support Linux more. Which would strengthen open source as a whole, and also put more pressure on the still closed drivers, who now would be the worse working ones.
2) The Gnome team, who think they know better than me, what I want to do with my system and how I want to do it, and therefore only include options they think I should use. They even remove options that they don’t want me to use. Only cattle, fanboys and themselves can stand that in the long run. Since others will run into differences. A good programmer also allows options that he does not like. Because he cares for his users. That’s why they are options. He can still make his choice the default. (Yes, KDE4 also fell for this a bit. And Apple practically invented it.)
You might not know it, but there are things that can’t be searched with a web search. For example if you don’t know the words other people use to describe it in the first place. If it can’t be put in words that simply. There are things only a human can recognize as something. Things that defy being put in query form.
So while you might be able to find them, that doesn’t mean someone else can.
It’s like answering the questions of Family Feud. Harder than it looks.
I only go to IRC if a web search doesn’t turn up anything useful. Or if I have looked trough results for hours. Or in above case.
There is one problem with the answers on IRC: Nobody notes them and puts them in a FAQ or knowledge base (perhaps in wiki form).
I think that would make the whole thing much easier.
And I always end up answering tons of questions myself. For example when I enter #Gentoo, I often single-handedly juggle and answer all the questions. And they are honest and legitimate questions.
But maybe you just frequent different channels. Or avoid them with prejudice... which will then of course never change.
That was my question too... Until I read the rest of TFS!
Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL compatible with the Apache license, in an effort to 'help projects using the MPL become more flexible about using Apache-licensed code.'
... and about every other government on the planet is trying right now. Including yours, mine, and... well, Italy deserves a special mention, since there, Berlusconi already has the laws written into the books. (Italians, in case you decide to kick his ass, we’re coming to help you!)
It’s like comparing your 10th generation of a sports car, that got optimized for decades, against a brand-new experimental car.
Of course the old one will win! But that says nothing about how it will be, when the new one got the same amount of optimization.
But what is important, is that the new car offers so many new freedoms, that it’s worth it, even if it were much slower.
In this case, the seamless embedding of videos, and the native playback alone, are two killer points that you can never ever achieve with Flash. Or can Flash do this: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/
Java used to be much worse about it, when the code was much less open, but it still happens.
You mean “Microsoft’s ugly hack of a JVM was intentionally much worse, to kill off Sun. But since Sun sued MS, and won, it has gone much better. Even for others trying to do the same thing as MS.”.
Huh? Apples and oranges, as far as I know; they're two entirely different companies.
No shit, Sherlock? How could you possibly thing I would mean that they are the same??
As the rest of your “comment” is based on that misunderstanding, there’s no need to answer it.
They were examples for criminal global companies, that walk over dead bodies like nothing, for their own profit.
Elsevier with publishing lies in fake magazines, as if they were scientific evidence, and using that, to get doctors to prescribe drugs (the addictive but not healing kind) to patients, to hook them on a life-long addiction that won’t heal anything but just hide the symptoms of the disease that now only gets worse faster.
And Monsanto for thinks like genetically altered crops that only survive when you buy Roundup Ready. So the farmers have to buy it. Like extortion. And if they don’t, Monsanto sues them to 10 years in jail for “copyright infringement”. Yeah, you read that right! Because they have a “copyright” on those seeds. And if the wind blows them over to a non-licensed field, you gonna get sued! Also the crops can’t reproduce. So you have to buy new seeds! And the worst of all: Roundup Ready is one of the worst toxic substances on planet earth. If you spray it on your fields, and let goose run trough it, weeks later, they will die nearly instantly. And that is just one of their crimes. The toxic Aspartame, that was once designed as a substance for biochemical war, and then found to be sweet in smaller (but still very dangerous) doses, is another one. It causes cancer and a multitude of other diseases. And the list goes on endlessly.
Of course there are many other companies. But those are the two that are most prominent for creating fake medical “facts”, and killing people with it. They are literally mass-murdering for money. On the Hitler scale.
...they are already designing the next bombshell for MS and Sony to run behind. ^^
And that is why they won’t actually catch up. ;)
It’s old. Go ahead MS and Sony. Control that market for the time it dies while getting replaced by the next big thing.
The big thing that won’t be coming from you.
Two words: Linux kernel!
Wrong. It’s called Haskell with QuickCheck. And it offers mathematical PROOF of correctness!
If your life depends on it, you better demand mathematical proof.
But what day?
There is a star moving close that is very different from ours. It moves to the oort could, and therefore definitely makes it visible. There is so much to learn.
And all you can think about is how it “threatens” earth? Have you seen the space in the solar system? Have you calculated the likeliness? And in 1.5 million years? I wouldn’t be surprised if we manage to have a congested hyperspace freeway to Gliese 710 by then! Or if we are long extinct and replaced by ravens, other apes, dolphins and octopuses. Nature wouldn’t care anyway.
Please stop the fearmongering, if you want to be taken seriously. And enjoy the wonders of nature.
...will be those they expect to find in the genes, but won’t. Like many of those so-called “age-related” diseases. Because then they have to admit it’s caused by the environment. Like the actually food-related group.
You had entropy? You bastards! We didn’t even have time!
The Men Who Stare At The Sun?
(ng anymore.) [Stupid short subject lines!]
If that “medical evidence” came from Elsevier, or Monsanto, etc, it’s worth shit.
Medicine has no credibility anymore. Because the whole system is based on only rewarding them who keep people sick for the longest time. You get money for treating people. For selling meds. But not for healing them. You even get punished for it, since they won’t need to come back and pay more.
And no, that does not mean I’m saying anything about the statements being right or wrong. I‘m saying that the source is not trustworthy either way. Unless some big time proof of trustworthiness appears.
... The fist step towards gaining control over people, is to gain control over their minds. Monkey see, monkey believe, monkey do.
And now FOX News is becoming your history and science source.
Please, to the majority of Americans, who are still healthy real Americans: Let Texas secede. Or throw them out. Let Mexico have them if they want. You’d do yourself something good. ;)
But wait Mexico, there’s more! You can also get Alabama for the low, low price, of one Taco Bell in every town!
But Vietnam, Japan, etc are not in the Orient. The Orient are all countries where you could imagine that Ali Baba could have lived. ;)
Or: Arabic countries & co.
Actually, there in no real physical ownership of non-physical things at all. We don’t “own” it. But they also don’t. The ones having it control it. But the more there are, the harder weaker the power of the single entity, and the lower the value of what you can ask for in exchange.
Their problem is, that they use sneaky criminal methods (DRM) to try to remove it from under your ass and keep control, after you paid for it. Which is like buying a car, and at home noticing that it falls apart to dust, as soon as someone else drove it 3 times.
It’s a crime.
And the other problem is, that they really believe they can achieve that. While it’s of course circumvented on day zero. ^^
I thought that was following out of the general fact that *S != *E.
At least Apple copied the stuff with permission, which the Anti-Apple crowd conveniently never mentions.
Paraphrasing Chris Rock: ;))
Of course we don’t. It’s like bragging that you never murdered somebody. You’re not supposed to murder somebody, dumbass!!
What we mention, is that Microsoft did it without permission (and got sued for it). Which you conveniently didn’t mention.
On the other hand, that is the mother of all statistical biases!
Bullshit! If they all run linux, and all are ARM, the all run everything! No imaginary and no real fragmentation here!
Even the Chipsets will most likely be only coming from a hand full of companies.
I know that you in the USA (and of course in many other countries, like mine too) hate freedom or choice (look at your government), but this is a good thing!
Yes, and in a community of socially incompetent geeks, emotions are frowned upon and a big taboo. :P
Get over yourself. Pure text is a horribly bad way of communication. It leaves out more than half the brain and more than half the information usually transmitted. It’s prone to misunderstandings all over the place. It should be avoided for all social contacts, and preferably only used for education of topics for the half of the brain that is for logic & co.
Emoticons and things like “LOL” are crutches to partially cope with that.
And NO: You can not always detect how it was meant from the pure text alone. What your brain does, is that it inserts your own assumptions into it. And while you may think it is right, and even fit with what your community thinks is right, you may still be completely wrong.
Praise the LOLs and the ;)s. Without them we would end in a lot more heated arguing that we do already on the net!
Exactly. And actually, scientifically, games ARE education. They are the original natural form of education. How we are meant to learn.
School has taken out the fun (and hence the natural drive that made us learn all by ourselves) and replaced with drill (blind following/belief and repetitive execution). Which is obvious for a system that has its origins in being military drill, but for children. (Bismarck invented it for just that purpose.)
Seen in the long term, school is the non-traditional form. Games are there since before humanity exists. Just look at young animals, like dogs and cats, playing.
Which is why I really hope, we will get back to that. There is no better deal than games. Every child wants to play them. Now all we have to do is make them about things that are useful for humans. Hunting is not so much useful anymore. But social skills are extremely useful. Leadership skills are. Interestingly, MMOs are very close to that already. I think they are for that very reason.
But math, physics, language, and all the old stuff, should be just as fun.
A good game about those topics is one, that kids play because they WANT. Not because they have to.