Back in the day, I used to swear by Fluxbox. The only reason I haven't gone back to it (I use XFCE now that GNOME has gone full retard) is that it was always such a pain in the ass to add menu items. Do you still have to hand-edit text files every time in Openbox?
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Not many projects can continue to grow for 36 years
No shit. Thank the gods that RAM and HDDs have kept pace!
It's not even that. I actually enjoy fencing, and if I had a steady opponent, I'd probably be in much better shape than I am now (in true geek fashion, I can't motivate myself to exercise for exercise's sake. Pragmatism takes over). Hell, I don't even mind the massive cash outlay, but I'm not about to drop a few grand on gear to have it sitting in my closet gathering dust while I wait for that once-per-decade event where I meet another fencer, we spar a handful of times, then never hear from each other again.
I'm pretty sure PETA will protest regardless of whether the incidental profits are donated to them or not, because they'll have a problem with the treatment of the unicorns that are supposed to fart out these solar panels!
That doesn't make it any more GNU/Linux than it made my old spam-tracker "BSD/Mjolnir"
The "GNU" part of the claim that it should be called GNU/Linux has nothing to do with the license. It's the (very arguable) claim that the GNU userland warrants inclusion in the title.
You're one of those guys who railed on for days on end about how people who enjoyed playing Guitar Hero should just go learn to play the guitar, aren't you?
I wish I lived where you do, since it's apparently crawling with fencers, too.
That's not the problem. Patents already do expire in X number of years.
The problem is twofold:
1. "X" is an eternity in an industry where "obsolete" means "more than six months old"
2. The patents are being granted on utter bullshit 'inventions,' bogus 'business processes,' and algorithms, and are not properly researched or vetted before being rubber stamped.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
Or, from what I've been hearing (allow for a dump truck full of salt whenever "gloom and doom" meets "internet") it might go the other way, leaving those historic district types with a historic lack of access.
I can't imagine why? In cases like tax info, it's the data that's valuable, not the over-engineered lovecraftian spreadsheet that are the tax calculations.
If it was ONLY in the sweet, mass-produced snacks, that would still be a vast improvement. When it's in things like fucking bread, for christ's sake, things are really spiraling out of control.
Let's be honest here. Even if we got our hands on Rick Berman's time machine and collected video evidence of every stage of human evolution from single-celled sludge to the "Alien Nation Reject" John Crichton, you'd STILL have the noisy nutcases "debating" it, because some 400-year-old book says it was a magic man in the sky.
By that logic, it's the "inbred" families that would be closest, but empirical data tells us that those people just end up posting racial bullshit on slashdot when they should be out barbecuing.
Even if you're right, and it's just not more bullshit government anti-thoughtcrime strongarming, like you said, all else is not equal, so the point is moot at best, and ill-considered at worst.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering I don't even know which 4 cities make up the quad-cities area, I'm going to assume that I don't. ;)
Back in the day, I used to swear by Fluxbox. The only reason I haven't gone back to it (I use XFCE now that GNOME has gone full retard) is that it was always such a pain in the ass to add menu items. Do you still have to hand-edit text files every time in Openbox?
Not many projects can continue to grow for 36 years
No shit. Thank the gods that RAM and HDDs have kept pace!
Young Dave Lister, Is that you?
It's not even that. I actually enjoy fencing, and if I had a steady opponent, I'd probably be in much better shape than I am now (in true geek fashion, I can't motivate myself to exercise for exercise's sake. Pragmatism takes over). Hell, I don't even mind the massive cash outlay, but I'm not about to drop a few grand on gear to have it sitting in my closet gathering dust while I wait for that once-per-decade event where I meet another fencer, we spar a handful of times, then never hear from each other again.
It sucks. :P
1. You can disavow all modern medicine and if you get sick simply suffer and hope to get better on your own.
What does "Working-Class Health Insurance" have to do with medical ethics?
I'm pretty sure PETA will protest regardless of whether the incidental profits are donated to them or not, because they'll have a problem with the treatment of the unicorns that are supposed to fart out these solar panels!
And you implied that it's because of the GNU GPL, which doesn't make any sense.
I do seem to remember someone mentioning porting the FreeBSD userland to linux, which would effectively gut most of the "GNU/" claim anyway...
That doesn't make it any more GNU/Linux than it made my old spam-tracker "BSD/Mjolnir"
The "GNU" part of the claim that it should be called GNU/Linux has nothing to do with the license. It's the (very arguable) claim that the GNU userland warrants inclusion in the title.
*facepalm*
You're one of those guys who railed on for days on end about how people who enjoyed playing Guitar Hero should just go learn to play the guitar, aren't you?
I wish I lived where you do, since it's apparently crawling with fencers, too.
That's not the problem. Patents already do expire in X number of years.
The problem is twofold:
1. "X" is an eternity in an industry where "obsolete" means "more than six months old"
2. The patents are being granted on utter bullshit 'inventions,' bogus 'business processes,' and algorithms, and are not properly researched or vetted before being rubber stamped.
Your solution really doesn't solve anything.
Jar jar Biggs
That's some really disturbing slashfic you've got going there, mate.
What IS ghostery up to?
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan
Or, from what I've been hearing (allow for a dump truck full of salt whenever "gloom and doom" meets "internet") it might go the other way, leaving those historic district types with a historic lack of access.
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spectrum-crunch
I can't imagine why? In cases like tax info, it's the data that's valuable, not the over-engineered lovecraftian spreadsheet that are the tax calculations.
If it was ONLY in the sweet, mass-produced snacks, that would still be a vast improvement. When it's in things like fucking bread, for christ's sake, things are really spiraling out of control.
Denis Leary?
'Fraid not ;)
Let's be honest here. Even if we got our hands on Rick Berman's time machine and collected video evidence of every stage of human evolution from single-celled sludge to the "Alien Nation Reject" John Crichton, you'd STILL have the noisy nutcases "debating" it, because some 400-year-old book says it was a magic man in the sky.
Damn right.
The burgers ain't done till I hear my brother scream "FUCK! Honey, get me the aloe!"
By that logic, it's the "inbred" families that would be closest, but empirical data tells us that those people just end up posting racial bullshit on slashdot when they should be out barbecuing.
So what?
Even if you're right, and it's just not more bullshit government anti-thoughtcrime strongarming, like you said, all else is not equal, so the point is moot at best, and ill-considered at worst.
Both parties in CONgress could care less if he runs the country into the ground...
Now that's not true at all. Let's be fair.
Both parties are absolutely LIVID if the dickheads running the country into the ground are wearing the other team's jersey.
Oh great. Now we've got Pierson's Pupeteers in the HR office...