Depends on your definition of “progress”, doesn’t it? I mean our food definitely was healthier. And we moved our asses more.
I read an interesting article, that said, that basically it’s all just a thing of definition. Solely of definition. (If you can’t imagine one of your ideals turning into a non-ideal, you only lack imagination. ^^)
I mean what is the definition of “subversive”? “Does not conform to party lines, like in China”? By my definition, all TV stations and political parties are subversive and perverse. Now what?
What makes you think, you got any power at all to rule over the Internet? The Internet is outside of any nation. You got as much power over it as you got over Saturn or Middle-earth.
So go ahead, make your fantasy rulings, living in your fantasy world. Until you lose any connection to reality, and we’re rid of you.
I left my well-payed day-job because my boss (who was a very powerful player on the net) wouldn’t let go of IE6. (I had to write webapps for that piece of shit.)
I’m happy and would I have the choice, I’d do the exact same thing again. Just earlier. ^^
Remember: The only thing you can achieve by supporting those “browsers”, is to be an enabler. Basically the only reason those people still use IE, is because they can. And the only reason they still can, is because you still code for IE 6/7. And the only reason you do that, is because people still use them. Do you see the circular logic here? Someone has to break the cycle. And you can bet your ass that it won’t be the users. It’s your job. It’s mine. After all we’re the experts for a reason. Don’t be an ass. Be nice. Don’t push them. Pull them. Coming from IE6 to a full-featured modern browser with HTML5-enabled sites, is freakn’ great! It’s like opening the box of your shiny new electronics device (or whatever you like) and playing with it all day long. Get that feeling across! And you will see them getting dragged in in the euphoria, switching in the blink of an eye. People don’t change anything if they think they don’t have to. It’s called efficiency. But sometimes it’s bad. E.g. when there is a lack of information.
So if you think that they should switch, then just code close to the standards. If they want to use their site, it takes them five minutes to install a recent browser, and they know it for years.
Still supporting IE 6/7 is similar to acting like those EA managers, who would never dare to do something innovative, edgy, fresh or even slightly offending, to get a target group as big as possible... and then ending up with a shitty target group because the result of your work is bland, average, plastic-fantastic, non-innovative, boring shit that nobody hates but that also nobody loves.
Not treason? Punishable like murder, with 10 years minimum? Or beheading, in earlier days?
That’s the problem when the king is put on drugs by his royal household. No matter if the king is close to 300 million people. He’s just a dummy figure, sitting in his fancy throne (constitution & co) solely for decoration.
And that theory, as far as I know, is complete and utter bullshit.
My knowledge is, that autoimmune diseases always come up, when you combine something unnatural unhealthy, with something natural and normal. Like Cillit Bang with cat hair. Or denatured proteins (most milk products) with tree pollen.
I know that a German doctor called Bruker had a huge amount of experience to such diseases, in the area of nutrition. With over 30,000 patients over the course of 30 years. Well, anyone can state that. So we did put it to the test. A good friend of mine had a massive allergy-related asthma in the summer months. Without his inhalator he could barely breathe. And he had it since he was a child. Then he started to eat as Bruker recommended it: No denatured proteins (so basically no milk products except for those that are mainly fat.), fresh whole grain flour/flakes/etc (preferably at least once a day in a non-heated sprouted way), meat as little heated as possible, fresh vegetables and fruits, no sugars & co, lots of variation. And lo-and-behold, it worked! The first summer where he started, it got significantly better. The second summer, it was gone! We couldn’t believe it! Later we found out, that it were mainly just the unnatural proteins in his case.
Which makes sense. Because if you think about them, proteins are basically very complex machines. And of course a broken machine will not work as intended. Now it may still be used by the body, as if it weren’t broken. Causing all kinds of wrong results.
I don’t say that this is the magic solution to all health problems. But in case of allergies, I’m pretty damn convinced by that experience fitting exactly what Bruker described as his experience with 30,000 patients...
That is not thet fanboys’ fault. It’s the fault of managers in their greed thinking that “giving people what they want” would result in people being happy about the results. ^^ But you are right: Generally, a good artist is not someone who succumbs to what people tell him to do, and does not imitate. Instead, he leads people into his own fascinating world, to give them new insights, perspectives and feelings about reality.
That’s why EA games usually tend to be so shallow, average and non-edgy and non-innovative. EA is solely money-driven. Their criterion for when the game is “good enough to sell”, is not whether it is a good game, but whether people will buy it. After that: GTFO.
Weird. I used a embedded nVidia chip (7050PV) last year, and I never had those problems. Did you forget the following options in your xorg.conf?
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Option "UseEvents" "false" # This option must be either undeclared or false, in order to avoid periodic short-term freezes on beryl and other OpenGL intensive programs
Hey, that sounds actually promising. Thank you for your comment!:)
I always loved the semantic desktop idea. But I really loathe the idea of making everything “simpler”, even if it actually hurts your efficiency. (Which is the case with Windows, Gnome, OS X, and partially KDE4.)
So if they now start to make sense, and add the options and freedom we need, I might actually look into it. I just hope they don’t still insult me with their file dialog and file manager, which seem to require a certain maximum IQ.
I don’t think that’s that special. Teens are really freaking smart, and frightening fast learners. And the difference between men and women is not really that big, to game-changing, as long as those girls have a real incentive to learn it.:) Hell, I know a girl who learned rudimentary C, so she could change the behavior of her weapon in a online game. ^^ (After first customizing it with a pretty texture set made in gimp, and learning gimp to be able to pull it off.)
Never underestimate a girl’s love for looking pretty. ^^
The problem I have with Gnome, is that they deliberately take away your freedom, and even openly admit it. Because they think they know better how we should use it, and what features we need. (I could find you the mails with the quotes, but I’m too lazy right now.)
The other problem, is that KDE, with version 4, has started to do the same.
I don’t get it. both Gnome and KDE are so very anti-free and anti-unix. Trying more to emulate other closed-sources competitors standing by their strengths. (Although I applaud the general idea of the semantic desktop. And although I thing, on the library level, KDE4/QT is really great.)
I’m seriously pondering creating my own desktop environment. From a minimalist set of basic paradigms, with maximum emergent freedom and functionality. (Like piping on the CLI.) So I would not take long to code it, and it would beat anything else right from the start.
I still use KDE 3.5 with the old Amarok. Luckily, this is possible with Gentoo. Just add the kde-sunset overlay, and ln/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset/Documentation/package.unmask/kde-3.5 to your/etc/package.unmask directory. Then you might have to mask certain apps which have no separate slot and whose new versions are kde4-only (notably compiz & friends), and you’re good. Still works like a charm.
But I’ll look into downgrading (as it is deliberately made for dumber people) to KDE4.4 or 4.5, when it’s out.
Although I suppose somebody will now yell at me for being too lazy to contribute to the docs...
Only someone who has never written a real program, would say that to you. Because everybody else knows, that you have to write the documentation right when, or even better: Before you write the corresponding code. Or else even you yourself might stop being able to fully grasp or even understand that code. Especially much later, with many people working on it.
Code that is not documented while or before it is written, will never, or only with huge efforts, become usable. Let alone good.
I have a more easy solution for “losing your laptop”: Encrypt your HDD. Done. And that TPM becomes 100% secure, if you have the master key on an USB stick, and don’t lose that stick at the same time.
Exactly. Not even oxygen or carbon dioxide is required. There are iron, titanium and even uranium breathers out there (near vulcans and in deep seas). And that is just here on earth. There is no reason life should be limited to that somewhere else.
I think the “there must be water, sun and whatnot” view is the same egocentric arrogance, that made us think we were the center of the universe, or the only intelligent lifeform, or the only lifeform with feelings, or the only superior “race”, etc.
Just because it is common, and just because you are used to it, that does not mean that it is in any way good. You know: Correlation is not causation.
I agree that Gimp has a horrible interface. But I think that nearly every single graphical user interface out there is a unacceptable piece of horrible shit. First of all, because it’s all extremely monolithic. You can’t pipe anything to anything. A bit of drag-and-drop does not solve that. You can’t use your gimp brush in your OpenOffice document. You can’t use TeX inside every program with graphical frames, etc, etc, etc. They are basically appliance-simulating programs. Like your hi-fi system or TV. They lack any freedom to combine trough generic interfaces. Then everything nowadays tends to be strongly focused on the retardedly inefficient one-pointer point-and-click system. Despite you having five very flexible fingers on two hands. Despite keyboard combos almost always being quicker. (Acknowledging valid exceptions like drawing like with a pen, here.) (Also, with a good interface, the argument of having to memorize the combos, is invalid. See my Slashdot editor for an example. [Select something, and then hold Ctrl in it.]) Which results in the stupid menus and icon bars/blocks like you see them nowadays. And finally, most developers still seem to live in the not-invented-here world, with respect to property sidebars/boxes. (Like the famous Lotus InfoBox, which unfortunately still was point-and-click.)
I should not assume bad things (like ignorance or lack of intelligence), so I assume lack of information, which is no shame.:)
Let me formalize your statements (commas used as logic element separators): 1. There is a form of downloading, that is illegal. — Paradigm (Assumption) 2. “Putting out” (in this case) means “freely offered on the Internet“ — Paradigm (Agreed) 3. The game was put out, a week before. — Paradigm (Agreed. Based on TFA) 4. Putting out that game, a week before, surely, counted a lot of illegal downloading. — Paradigm (With “surely” as a weasel word and a stand-in for an actual basis.) 5. Putting out that game, a week before, surely, counted people not buying the game. — Ditto 6. People not buying the game and/or illegally downloading it, causes actual damages to companies. — Paradigm (Assumption) 7. Actual damages result in lost money for those companies. — Paradigm (Agreed) 8. One can sue for damages / lost money, caused by someone else. — Paradigm (Generally accepted in out community. I do not agree on a physical level, but I will follow community rules as I am not a part of this.) 9. So there’s nothing wrong to be found, with them suing him. — Conclusion (Following)
I disagree with every single of your paradigms where I wrote “(Assumption)”, and especially the “surely” ones.
1) Accepted when assuming that those laws itself are legal, with which I strongly disagree, since they are based on the faulty assumption, that information/ideas/data would be treatable like real physical/meatspace objects, when they are virtual/bitspace objects. And following from that, that one could own/possess and control such data, that by definition, is out of one’s control and can’t be owned. 4) Putting out something does not necessarily result in actual download. But because of its very high likelyness, let’s assume actual download happened. With the limitation, of not being able to make any assumptions about the actual number. 5) Putting out something has no relation to actual buying behavior or even has a positive effect, as was conclusively shown by [1], [2], amongst others. 6) Offering something for sale does not in any way guarantee a sale. So not buying it does never equal damage, but is the natural default situation. Just like walking past a sausage stand, and not buying one, does not equal damage to the sausage seller. And just like buying a replica of something, does not equal damage to the original producer. One can just as well not buy something, when no other alternative is available. Imagine someone who wants to buy it, but does not have the money to buy it. He would not have bought it (for that price) anyway. So your logic is strongly faulty here. Conclusion: Since there was no damage and loss of anything, that can even remotely be proven, it is, in our community, not acceptable to sue that person.
That would accelerate startup times of programs. (But at the expense of RAM, if not properly done.)
One question: If the chip forces you to use Linux anyway, then why did they not use a ARM chip, and save even more energy? There are so many easy-to-solve problems in this one, that it boggles the mind. Batteries: Use a normal lid. Maybe with a locking mechanism. But not with screws. SD: cut a opening in the case, and you have a SD slot. WLAN: Same thing. Just make it so it has one smooth surface with the case, when the stick in inserted. And offer a way to eject it / pull it out. (A mechanical button will do.) etc.:/
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But I AM a PC, you insensitive clod!
But I have a new pattern for you: :D
I’m NOT Windows!
Next up: US and EU.
Wanna make a bet? I give it between 5 and 10 years.
Depends on your definition of “progress”, doesn’t it?
I mean our food definitely was healthier. And we moved our asses more.
I read an interesting article, that said, that basically it’s all just a thing of definition. Solely of definition. (If you can’t imagine one of your ideals turning into a non-ideal, you only lack imagination. ^^)
I mean what is the definition of “subversive”? “Does not conform to party lines, like in China”?
By my definition, all TV stations and political parties are subversive and perverse. Now what?
What makes you think, you got any power at all to rule over the Internet? The Internet is outside of any nation. You got as much power over it as you got over Saturn or Middle-earth.
So go ahead, make your fantasy rulings, living in your fantasy world. Until you lose any connection to reality, and we’re rid of you.
I’ll be an example to you:
I left my well-payed day-job because my boss (who was a very powerful player on the net) wouldn’t let go of IE6. (I had to write webapps for that piece of shit.)
I’m happy and would I have the choice, I’d do the exact same thing again. Just earlier. ^^
Remember: The only thing you can achieve by supporting those “browsers”, is to be an enabler. Basically the only reason those people still use IE, is because they can. And the only reason they still can, is because you still code for IE 6/7. And the only reason you do that, is because people still use them.
Do you see the circular logic here?
Someone has to break the cycle. And you can bet your ass that it won’t be the users. It’s your job. It’s mine. After all we’re the experts for a reason.
Don’t be an ass. Be nice. Don’t push them. Pull them. Coming from IE6 to a full-featured modern browser with HTML5-enabled sites, is freakn’ great! It’s like opening the box of your shiny new electronics device (or whatever you like) and playing with it all day long. Get that feeling across! And you will see them getting dragged in in the euphoria, switching in the blink of an eye.
People don’t change anything if they think they don’t have to. It’s called efficiency. But sometimes it’s bad. E.g. when there is a lack of information.
So if you think that they should switch, then just code close to the standards. If they want to use their site, it takes them five minutes to install a recent browser, and they know it for years.
Still supporting IE 6/7 is similar to acting like those EA managers, who would never dare to do something innovative, edgy, fresh or even slightly offending, to get a target group as big as possible... and then ending up with a shitty target group because the result of your work is bland, average, plastic-fantastic, non-innovative, boring shit that nobody hates but that also nobody loves.
Corruption?
Not treason? Punishable like murder, with 10 years minimum? Or beheading, in earlier days?
That’s the problem when the king is put on drugs by his royal household. No matter if the king is close to 300 million people. He’s just a dummy figure, sitting in his fancy throne (constitution & co) solely for decoration.
And that theory, as far as I know, is complete and utter bullshit.
My knowledge is, that autoimmune diseases always come up, when you combine something unnatural unhealthy, with something natural and normal.
Like Cillit Bang with cat hair. Or denatured proteins (most milk products) with tree pollen.
I know that a German doctor called Bruker had a huge amount of experience to such diseases, in the area of nutrition. With over 30,000 patients over the course of 30 years.
Well, anyone can state that. So we did put it to the test. A good friend of mine had a massive allergy-related asthma in the summer months. Without his inhalator he could barely breathe. And he had it since he was a child.
Then he started to eat as Bruker recommended it: No denatured proteins (so basically no milk products except for those that are mainly fat.), fresh whole grain flour/flakes/etc (preferably at least once a day in a non-heated sprouted way), meat as little heated as possible, fresh vegetables and fruits, no sugars & co, lots of variation.
And lo-and-behold, it worked! The first summer where he started, it got significantly better. The second summer, it was gone! We couldn’t believe it!
Later we found out, that it were mainly just the unnatural proteins in his case.
Which makes sense. Because if you think about them, proteins are basically very complex machines. And of course a broken machine will not work as intended.
Now it may still be used by the body, as if it weren’t broken. Causing all kinds of wrong results.
I don’t say that this is the magic solution to all health problems. But in case of allergies, I’m pretty damn convinced by that experience fitting exactly what Bruker described as his experience with 30,000 patients...
That is not thet fanboys’ fault. It’s the fault of managers in their greed thinking that “giving people what they want” would result in people being happy about the results. ^^
But you are right: Generally, a good artist is not someone who succumbs to what people tell him to do, and does not imitate. Instead, he leads people into his own fascinating world, to give them new insights, perspectives and feelings about reality.
That’s why EA games usually tend to be so shallow, average and non-edgy and non-innovative. EA is solely money-driven. Their criterion for when the game is “good enough to sell”, is not whether it is a good game, but whether people will buy it. After that: GTFO.
Weird. I used a embedded nVidia chip (7050PV) last year, and I never had those problems. Did you forget the following options in your xorg.conf?
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "false" # This option must be either undeclared or false, in order to avoid periodic short-term freezes on beryl and other OpenGL intensive programs
I think KDE has one of the coolest names of all projects.
Nepomuk is a funny puppet in the Hallo Spencer show. I loved that show as a child. And I only hope they will rename their crash manager to Poldi. ^^
Dolphin: I can’t even imagine what would be wrong with that. Certainly better than “Windows Explorer”.
Gwenview: Well. I look at Gwen with it. Amongst others. Obvious. ;)
Kopete: Reminds me of a nice comic dog. Win for me. I hope it catches and eats the Pidgin pigeon with its tongue twister name. ;)
Akonadi: No idea what it is, but I could imagine a Akira Akonadi, japanese warrior and lover. ^^
K$function: KDE uses many names that just describe what that program does, with a K somewhere in there. (KGet, Kstars, Kauth, etc)
So, from me: :)
A toast to creativity!
Hey, that sounds actually promising. :)
Thank you for your comment!
I always loved the semantic desktop idea.
But I really loathe the idea of making everything “simpler”, even if it actually hurts your efficiency. (Which is the case with Windows, Gnome, OS X, and partially KDE4.)
So if they now start to make sense, and add the options and freedom we need, I might actually look into it.
I just hope they don’t still insult me with their file dialog and file manager, which seem to require a certain maximum IQ.
I don’t think that’s that special. Teens are really freaking smart, and frightening fast learners. And the difference between men and women is not really that big, to game-changing, as long as those girls have a real incentive to learn it. :)
Hell, I know a girl who learned rudimentary C, so she could change the behavior of her weapon in a online game. ^^
(After first customizing it with a pretty texture set made in gimp, and learning gimp to be able to pull it off.)
Never underestimate a girl’s love for looking pretty. ^^
The problem I have with Gnome, is that they deliberately take away your freedom, and even openly admit it. Because they think they know better how we should use it, and what features we need. (I could find you the mails with the quotes, but I’m too lazy right now.)
The other problem, is that KDE, with version 4, has started to do the same.
I don’t get it. both Gnome and KDE are so very anti-free and anti-unix. Trying more to emulate other closed-sources competitors standing by their strengths. (Although I applaud the general idea of the semantic desktop. And although I thing, on the library level, KDE4/QT is really great.)
I’m seriously pondering creating my own desktop environment. From a minimalist set of basic paradigms, with maximum emergent freedom and functionality. (Like piping on the CLI.)
So I would not take long to code it, and it would beat anything else right from the start.
I still use KDE 3.5 with the old Amarok. Luckily, this is possible with Gentoo. Just add the kde-sunset overlay, and ln /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset/Documentation/package.unmask/kde-3.5 to your /etc/package.unmask directory.
Then you might have to mask certain apps which have no separate slot and whose new versions are kde4-only (notably compiz & friends), and you’re good. Still works like a charm.
But I’ll look into downgrading (as it is deliberately made for dumber people) to KDE4.4 or 4.5, when it’s out.
Although I suppose somebody will now yell at me for being too lazy to contribute to the docs...
Only someone who has never written a real program, would say that to you. Because everybody else knows, that you have to write the documentation right when, or even better: Before you write the corresponding code. Or else even you yourself might stop being able to fully grasp or even understand that code. Especially much later, with many people working on it.
Code that is not documented while or before it is written, will never, or only with huge efforts, become usable. Let alone good.
ALL systems are vulnerable depending on the time, money and effort expended to compromise them.
There is one notable exception: XORing with true random data. As long as the key is secure, of course.
I have a more easy solution for “losing your laptop”: Encrypt your HDD. Done.
And that TPM becomes 100% secure, if you have the master key on an USB stick, and don’t lose that stick at the same time.
What you mean is: Yur mind is unable to imagine how it could be automated.
But that might only be true for you.
Exactly. Not even oxygen or carbon dioxide is required. There are iron, titanium and even uranium breathers out there (near vulcans and in deep seas).
And that is just here on earth. There is no reason life should be limited to that somewhere else.
I think the “there must be water, sun and whatnot” view is the same egocentric arrogance, that made us think we were the center of the universe, or the only intelligent lifeform, or the only lifeform with feelings, or the only superior “race”, etc.
Just because it is common, and just because you are used to it, that does not mean that it is in any way good. You know: Correlation is not causation.
I agree that Gimp has a horrible interface. But I think that nearly every single graphical user interface out there is a unacceptable piece of horrible shit.
First of all, because it’s all extremely monolithic. You can’t pipe anything to anything. A bit of drag-and-drop does not solve that. You can’t use your gimp brush in your OpenOffice document. You can’t use TeX inside every program with graphical frames, etc, etc, etc. They are basically appliance-simulating programs. Like your hi-fi system or TV. They lack any freedom to combine trough generic interfaces.
Then everything nowadays tends to be strongly focused on the retardedly inefficient one-pointer point-and-click system. Despite you having five very flexible fingers on two hands. Despite keyboard combos almost always being quicker. (Acknowledging valid exceptions like drawing like with a pen, here.) (Also, with a good interface, the argument of having to memorize the combos, is invalid. See my Slashdot editor for an example. [Select something, and then hold Ctrl in it.])
Which results in the stupid menus and icon bars/blocks like you see them nowadays.
And finally, most developers still seem to live in the not-invented-here world, with respect to property sidebars/boxes. (Like the famous Lotus InfoBox, which unfortunately still was point-and-click.)
I should not assume bad things (like ignorance or lack of intelligence), so I assume lack of information, which is no shame. :)
Let me formalize your statements (commas used as logic element separators):
1. There is a form of downloading, that is illegal. — Paradigm (Assumption)
2. “Putting out” (in this case) means “freely offered on the Internet“ — Paradigm (Agreed)
3. The game was put out, a week before. — Paradigm (Agreed. Based on TFA)
4. Putting out that game, a week before, surely, counted a lot of illegal downloading. — Paradigm (With “surely” as a weasel word and a stand-in for an actual basis.)
5. Putting out that game, a week before, surely, counted people not buying the game. — Ditto
6. People not buying the game and/or illegally downloading it, causes actual damages to companies. — Paradigm (Assumption)
7. Actual damages result in lost money for those companies. — Paradigm (Agreed)
8. One can sue for damages / lost money, caused by someone else. — Paradigm (Generally accepted in out community. I do not agree on a physical level, but I will follow community rules as I am not a part of this.)
9. So there’s nothing wrong to be found, with them suing him. — Conclusion (Following)
I disagree with every single of your paradigms where I wrote “(Assumption)”, and especially the “surely” ones.
1) Accepted when assuming that those laws itself are legal, with which I strongly disagree, since they are based on the faulty assumption, that information/ideas/data would be treatable like real physical/meatspace objects, when they are virtual/bitspace objects. And following from that, that one could own/possess and control such data, that by definition, is out of one’s control and can’t be owned.
4) Putting out something does not necessarily result in actual download. But because of its very high likelyness, let’s assume actual download happened. With the limitation, of not being able to make any assumptions about the actual number.
5) Putting out something has no relation to actual buying behavior or even has a positive effect, as was conclusively shown by [1], [2], amongst others.
6) Offering something for sale does not in any way guarantee a sale. So not buying it does never equal damage, but is the natural default situation. Just like walking past a sausage stand, and not buying one, does not equal damage to the sausage seller. And just like buying a replica of something, does not equal damage to the original producer. One can just as well not buy something, when no other alternative is available. Imagine someone who wants to buy it, but does not have the money to buy it. He would not have bought it (for that price) anyway. So your logic is strongly faulty here.
Conclusion: Since there was no damage and loss of anything, that can even remotely be proven, it is, in our community, not acceptable to sue that person.
That would accelerate startup times of programs. (But at the expense of RAM, if not properly done.)
One question: If the chip forces you to use Linux anyway, then why did they not use a ARM chip, and save even more energy? :/
There are so many easy-to-solve problems in this one, that it boggles the mind.
Batteries: Use a normal lid. Maybe with a locking mechanism. But not with screws.
SD: cut a opening in the case, and you have a SD slot.
WLAN: Same thing. Just make it so it has one smooth surface with the case, when the stick in inserted. And offer a way to eject it / pull it out. (A mechanical button will do.)
etc.
Because I can’t imagine a easier way to obtain an instant-botnet, than to “spice” such a patch. ;)
By the way: Who came up with remote updates? Why not just compile the kernel locally, like normal people do, and then use a special patching tool?