Did anyone ever wonder why all those kids going on a shooting spree did it at their school? Never at, say, a mall, where the potential amount of victims is usually way higher? Why didn't anyone ever ponder that?
Discussing such things is almost as taboo as talking about how the 9/11 terrorists weren't "cowards" as Bush suggests.
Its quite obvious that social dynamics at school were much more to blame for the various school shootings than video gaming. However, as a wise man once said, the winners write the history books and in this case, the shooters are dead, and the survivors get to be ignorant of the reasons for the violence (often by choice).
The video game generation has already had children. And their children are having children.
I'm sure you bothered to consider how long video gaming has been around before making such a silly comment.
I was introduced to video gaming by adults when I was a child and I now have a seven year old daughter who plays video games alongside me, enjoys art classes, loves skating and gymnastics and who reads and writes better than most of her classmates as well.
Which is why Linus made the very quotable statement "I have named both my projects after myself. First Linux then Git." -- PS, not a direct quote, but from memory.
Your first point is moot; the number of friends in locations other than where I'm going is not relevant to the debate.
Your second point makes no sense since what you're saying is I should use a feature that does not exist on my phone (E-mail via text message) and that requires more effort (looking up each name, adding them to the CC list) and that doesn't have the effect of notifying people that I wouldn't know are also in Toledo at the time.
Thirdly, your friends wouldn't know you were going to Toledo. Do your out of town friends frequently ask you to do lunch when they don't know you'll be in town?
If you hang around some of the more well-organized distributions on the Linux side of the fence, you find that several of them are actually just as involved (as far as I can see) in their distro sources as the FreeBSD people are. Sure, there is some crap out there in the Linux world too, but I'm sure if FreeBSD had more spin-offs, there'd be that problem too.
At one point for example, the Fedora project handled 'core' applications and 'extra' applications (much like the ports tree) but these have all been brought under one roof now -- the new concept being that if it ships with Fedora it should work and be well-maintained. If it doesn't, pull it out entirely.
I said he didn't have to think. You're asking for thought.
BSD licensing requires no thought (unless you want to).
There's nothing ever stopping you from releasing your code under a BSD style license (besides not being allowed to release it at all).
There are however situations in which using other licenses would have repercussions, requiring consulting lawyers or thinking a lot.
My comment was that BSD requires no thought on the part of the author; if you read my posting history, you'll see I'm not pro-BSD at all, it was a simple answer.
While the music itself is now DRM-free, it is still inaccessible to non Windows/Mac users. I realize that we Linux-only households are few and far between, but as a cross-platform version of iTunes already exists, why not make a version for Linux too?
While they're at it, could they just move the store entirely to the web, and let me access it with a normal browser since I don't need to 'activate' the downloaded music at all anymore?
Groklaw is certainly the only thorough one. Many other sites touch on these issues from time to time, but none so frequently and thoroughly as Groklaw. Every single major even in the SCO litigation appears to have been covered, most major documents analyzed and all of the judge's comments and rulings criticized.
I would love to see groklaw's present state archived for posterity in a more convenient to browse format for archival purposes (also easier to mirror).
At the same time, I'd love the site to carry on analyzing legal news (PJ and contributors willing) separately.
If I was going to make a small firewall box using a BSD, it would be OpenBSD not FreeBSD. For an Internet-facing device that's all about security, I can't see where FreeBSD could possibly be a better choice.
I'm sorry, those KDE and Gnome versions are some random software the FreeBSD people maintain that have nothing to do with the third party KDE and Gnome systems available on Linux?
How about SSH? You don't use the OpenSSH maintained by the OpenBSD guys then? This is some other version of SSH that is completely maintained by FreeBSD?
Stop with the FUD. Maintaining a local code base for applications doesn't change what they are. The Fedora people do the same thing, so does Ubuntu and many other distros. Slackware and Debian are pretty hands-on in their code maintenance as well.
Bluetooth to my cell is a saviour in low-service areas where I can't find a quick access point.
I've been doing this for quite some time as well, although some of the new usb-attached modems from local cell service providers are very nice (and work with Linux).
I remember watching a PBS special on early Hollywood and what a public scandal it was that some of the actors had had their teeth filed down to have better smiles on camera.
In other news, those aren't real either.
But seriously, while I accept white-washed actors in certain roles (if he's playing Superman), I'd like to see more average-looking people on the other side of the lens. Its one of the things I appreciate in some European and indie movies.
Secondly, your post shows an immense lack of comprehension of what I said.
I text a message status to Twitter "... is going to be in Toledo this weekend, anyone free?" instead of calling EVERYONE I might know in Toledo and then saying "well hold on, I haven't called Y or Z yet."
X, Y and Z can then either privately message me back or give me a call directly that they're free and want to do something.
Funny, sounds much more efficient than leaving voice mail messages everywhere, or texting everyone I know in sequence. Also consider that many other people I know are also very mobile and might be in Toledo when I am without me knowing it.
Of course, you sound pretty selectively social by comparison with your "I'll call you" attitude. No need to tell your friends they'd be free to call you instead huh?
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Discussing such things is almost as taboo as talking about how the 9/11 terrorists weren't "cowards" as Bush suggests.
Its quite obvious that social dynamics at school were much more to blame for the various school shootings than video gaming. However, as a wise man once said, the winners write the history books and in this case, the shooters are dead, and the survivors get to be ignorant of the reasons for the violence (often by choice).
The video game generation has already had children. And their children are having children.
I'm sure you bothered to consider how long video gaming has been around before making such a silly comment.
I was introduced to video gaming by adults when I was a child and I now have a seven year old daughter who plays video games alongside me, enjoys art classes, loves skating and gymnastics and who reads and writes better than most of her classmates as well.
Yes, video games are so evil.
Of course you could -- that's a minor version change, not a major one. Not understanding the difference can get you confused.
Vista to Windows 7 is a major version update. XP to XP SP2 is a minor version update.
Just wait for that call to your insurance company about a car in your living room ... in your 17th floor condo.
Of course he knows -- he's from northern Europe and claims to have named it after himself (only somewhat in jest) just like Linux.
Which is why Linus made the very quotable statement "I have named both my projects after myself. First Linux then Git." -- PS, not a direct quote, but from memory.
So you would consider the Kernel or Gnome to be small projects? Just checking.
Your reply reflects a specific personality type and your assumption does not hold true for all people and how they handle friendships.
Feel free to study some work on personalities like Myers-Briggs sometime.
Your first point is moot; the number of friends in locations other than where I'm going is not relevant to the debate.
Your second point makes no sense since what you're saying is I should use a feature that does not exist on my phone (E-mail via text message) and that requires more effort (looking up each name, adding them to the CC list) and that doesn't have the effect of notifying people that I wouldn't know are also in Toledo at the time.
Thirdly, your friends wouldn't know you were going to Toledo. Do your out of town friends frequently ask you to do lunch when they don't know you'll be in town?
Its been done, repeatedly.
Its also illegal in the United States because of the hacking required of the Copyright-related protocols.
If Apple made the iTunes store API open, then we could do it easily. And would.
Stop the FUD.
I really should preview more carefully.
That's these algorithms on my blog, at http://blog.mikebabcock.ca/2008/08/make-me-beautiful.html ... not the link above which won't work.
Have you seen the existing algorithms for making people look more beautiful?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did this sort of thing on a per-frame basis in the future.
Ironically my post was marked as flamebait :-)
If you hang around some of the more well-organized distributions on the Linux side of the fence, you find that several of them are actually just as involved (as far as I can see) in their distro sources as the FreeBSD people are. Sure, there is some crap out there in the Linux world too, but I'm sure if FreeBSD had more spin-offs, there'd be that problem too.
At one point for example, the Fedora project handled 'core' applications and 'extra' applications (much like the ports tree) but these have all been brought under one roof now -- the new concept being that if it ships with Fedora it should work and be well-maintained. If it doesn't, pull it out entirely.
I said he didn't have to think. You're asking for thought.
BSD licensing requires no thought (unless you want to).
There's nothing ever stopping you from releasing your code under a BSD style license (besides not being allowed to release it at all).
There are however situations in which using other licenses would have repercussions, requiring consulting lawyers or thinking a lot.
My comment was that BSD requires no thought on the part of the author; if you read my posting history, you'll see I'm not pro-BSD at all, it was a simple answer.
While the music itself is now DRM-free, it is still inaccessible to non Windows/Mac users. I realize that we Linux-only households are few and far between, but as a cross-platform version of iTunes already exists, why not make a version for Linux too?
While they're at it, could they just move the store entirely to the web, and let me access it with a normal browser since I don't need to 'activate' the downloaded music at all anymore?
Groklaw is certainly the only thorough one. Many other sites touch on these issues from time to time, but none so frequently and thoroughly as Groklaw. Every single major even in the SCO litigation appears to have been covered, most major documents analyzed and all of the judge's comments and rulings criticized.
I would love to see groklaw's present state archived for posterity in a more convenient to browse format for archival purposes (also easier to mirror).
At the same time, I'd love the site to carry on analyzing legal news (PJ and contributors willing) separately.
Does it have Xen virtualization support? It would be nice to run it as a guest OS for testing on a server without using emulation.
If I was going to make a small firewall box using a BSD, it would be OpenBSD not FreeBSD. For an Internet-facing device that's all about security, I can't see where FreeBSD could possibly be a better choice.
Because he doesn't have to think about the repercussions.
I'm sorry, those KDE and Gnome versions are some random software the FreeBSD people maintain that have nothing to do with the third party KDE and Gnome systems available on Linux?
How about SSH? You don't use the OpenSSH maintained by the OpenBSD guys then? This is some other version of SSH that is completely maintained by FreeBSD?
Stop with the FUD. Maintaining a local code base for applications doesn't change what they are. The Fedora people do the same thing, so does Ubuntu and many other distros. Slackware and Debian are pretty hands-on in their code maintenance as well.
I'm a huge Linux supporter and always have been, but no Linux distribution I've ever seen has the security record of OpenBSD.
Bluetooth to my cell is a saviour in low-service areas where I can't find a quick access point.
I've been doing this for quite some time as well, although some of the new usb-attached modems from local cell service providers are very nice (and work with Linux).
I remember watching a PBS special on early Hollywood and what a public scandal it was that some of the actors had had their teeth filed down to have better smiles on camera.
In other news, those aren't real either.
But seriously, while I accept white-washed actors in certain roles (if he's playing Superman), I'd like to see more average-looking people on the other side of the lens. Its one of the things I appreciate in some European and indie movies.
First off, your post made no sense.
Secondly, your post shows an immense lack of comprehension of what I said.
I text a message status to Twitter " ... is going to be in Toledo this weekend, anyone free?" instead of calling EVERYONE I might know in Toledo and then saying "well hold on, I haven't called Y or Z yet."
X, Y and Z can then either privately message me back or give me a call directly that they're free and want to do something.
Funny, sounds much more efficient than leaving voice mail messages everywhere, or texting everyone I know in sequence. Also consider that many other people I know are also very mobile and might be in Toledo when I am without me knowing it.
Of course, you sound pretty selectively social by comparison with your "I'll call you" attitude. No need to tell your friends they'd be free to call you instead huh?