You do know that turbines are considered the most reliable form of engine on the planet... right? Thats one of the reasons you don't see piston engines in helicopters, you see turbines.
For what he paid for the N900, he could have had an iPhone and a developer account, making it effectively pretty close to the N900.
But back to the post you are replying to... the N900 was shit, it was just better than the other shit that was there at the time, until the iPhone came out, and thats why the N900 isn't made anymore.
I had an N900 myself, just like I had a bunch of WinCE devices including a SX66 blue angel phone/pda. Anyone who owned one from before the iPhone knows that when they iPhone was released, it over night made every single preceding device look like a steaming pile of shit, but not even worth its weight as fertilizer.
Nothing you can do on an N900 that you can't do on a iPhone as far as actually getting shit done. Sure, you can tweak your desktop (phonetop?) on the N900... big deal... and useless. And certainly there is absolutely nothing an N900 does that you can't do on ANY android phone, regardless of how cheap it is. Hell, the original iPhone (2007) has more CPU power than the latest N900 (from 2009)!
What RMS says and what he means are two entirely different things, as his mailing list post in this case makes very clear.
He says making money off software is fine, but if you look at his actions, he means no such things. His rants on FSF.org and his actions regarding GPLv3 make it fairly obvious that he is openly hostile to anyone making one red cent off software.
This article and the mail it reference are another example of RMS saying he's all about 'freedom' out of one side of his mouth and then making statements that are clear that it has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with harming commercial software products, in this case, even if that means harming open source options as well.
RMS is whats known as a religious fanatic. His religion is GPL and he has a very large cult of followers, many who visit slashdot.
Not all GPL followers are part of the cult of RMS, but its a pretty common pairing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions on how software should be licensed, but pretending RMS is okay with profiting from the sale of software is much like pretending the Titanic still sails the Atlantic. Its just ignorant fantasy, sorry.
Read the message this whole slashdot article is about.
As an end user, you can indeed do whatever you want as long as you don't distribute whatever you are doing. That is (according to RMS) the entire reason for GPL, to ensure the end user can do whatever they want.
The GCC runtime library exception is due to proprietary software linking with the GCC runtime library and then being DISTRIBUTED TO OTHERS.
GCCs rules are all about distribution to OTHERS defined as other individuals if you are an individual, or other organizations if you are an organization, inside an organization doesnt' even count as distribution, hence Google gets to make so much of its business proprietary without breaking any rules.
... why would you not enable cloudfront? Do you like slow performance?
Cloudfront is nothing more than a content distribution network, and a damn good one at that.
So you block google-analytics... and we needed to be told... why? Does it make you feel more manly know that the site still gets the same information about you anyway because you ignore the fact that their web server knows just as much as analytics?
Seriously, you paranoid nut jobs do the stupidest shit, its stupid only because you do so many other things to completely expose yourself and give them the exact same thing anyway.
He could dump the entire Android fan base and not loose one drop of income.
Contrary to what you think people should do, most of us dont' sit around and come up with ways to provide YOU with free, high quality services, nor do we really care when you go off ranting about like we care.
What you do when you respond like this is re-enforce what probably made his original decision... People like you (Android / Linux fanboys) are a pain in the ass and worth little income.
You're just not worth anyone dealing with, so by all means, go rant about how you won't use it, he'll care... really, he will.
Those bills, coins and cards... those are safe, fast, cheap and reliable payment systems.
BitCoin is neither safe nor reliable for many reasons.
totally against the speculative aspect of bitcoin
What? Its not something you can be against. Are you 'against' the universe as well? What you mean is that you dont' think its a good idea to use a speculative item for currency. Congratulations, you just caught up to what was learned in the original petunia market crash... speculative items are not something you base your business/life on, unless you want to end up poor.
I make money nearly every day buying and selling bitcoins. Mind you, the longer I wait, the more I make, but the greedy will be the ones who will get fucked when the bust happens:)
I've already made my original investment back, so at this point, bitcoin is a win-win situation for me. All I can lose is extra money I made taking advantage of other morons buying bitcoin
No, he's not famous, people just like to keep trodding him about like he ever mattered.
He doesn't deserve any 'props' either. He did some basic social engineering to steal some accounts of systems that weren't even gaurded, hence why his jokes of social engineering got him in.
AT NO POINT did he do any actual 'hacking' or 'cracking'. He did nothing more than social engineering. Period.
If you actually know anything about security and you hear him speak about it, you'll have this overwhelming urge to just shove your foot so far up his fat ass that he can test the leather on it. Its difficult not to actually do it.
Yes, they are real things, no they dont' work anything like a torpedo as people are commonly aware of.
They aren't one-shot for anything more than about 3 inches.
As was previously said, what you're claiming is entirely contrary to the energy requirements for doing what you're claiming. It would be easier to tear up the road and repave it than blast a torpedo under it... as the end result of the blasting is going to be... the road exploding anyway.
You have no idea - unless you also run an adult site! - just how much we hate payment processors, and just how much payment processors hate us.
Actually, I do understand. Having dealt with people in porn and payment processors, its fairly clear.
Porn sites are about as scummy as they possible can come. Porn sites do everything they can to scam you into recurring payments that you really had no intention of doing. They prey on people with low self esteem on BOTH sides of the isle, the 'actors' and the customers. Porn sites are run by the lowest of the low.
So of course payment processors hate you, you fucking rip people who are stupid enough to buy your shit off, and of course you hate them, cause they stop processing your payments and take your stolen money away from you.
I don't actually think you need to be in porn or payment processing to be aware of that though.
So my point is... stop playing the 'poor pitiful me' bullshit, porn and bitcoin go together because paying for either one makes you just a stupid douche who got taken to the cleaners.
Note: I've bought into the bitcoin scam simply as an attempt to jump ship before it goes bust like the petunia. I acknowledge the that the only why I win is if I leave someone else on the losing side of the equation.
Every streaming service I know of uses a single stream per listener, prove me wrong. Show me one that doesn't.
Even with multicast, you know exactly how many clients are in the group, but they don't use multicast since so many ISPs don't fucking support it for shit, or block it outright. Stupid pricks dont' realize how they require more bandwidth because of their own stupidity.
The point is not that it was taught before he was born, the point is that its been studied, understood, AND TAUGHT TO PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE SINCE BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
These guys are redoing something that was known before THEY WERE BORN... just because they're too fucking lazy to do some pre-research.
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You do know that turbines are considered the most reliable form of engine on the planet ... right? Thats one of the reasons you don't see piston engines in helicopters, you see turbines.
Or they just go jerk off instead.
For what he paid for the N900, he could have had an iPhone and a developer account, making it effectively pretty close to the N900.
But back to the post you are replying to ... the N900 was shit, it was just better than the other shit that was there at the time, until the iPhone came out, and thats why the N900 isn't made anymore.
I had an N900 myself, just like I had a bunch of WinCE devices including a SX66 blue angel phone/pda. Anyone who owned one from before the iPhone knows that when they iPhone was released, it over night made every single preceding device look like a steaming pile of shit, but not even worth its weight as fertilizer.
Nothing you can do on an N900 that you can't do on a iPhone as far as actually getting shit done. Sure, you can tweak your desktop (phonetop?) on the N900 ... big deal ... and useless. And certainly there is absolutely nothing an N900 does that you can't do on ANY android phone, regardless of how cheap it is. Hell, the original iPhone (2007) has more CPU power than the latest N900 (from 2009)!
WTF are you thinking is great about the N900?
This is not wrong.
What RMS says and what he means are two entirely different things, as his mailing list post in this case makes very clear.
He says making money off software is fine, but if you look at his actions, he means no such things. His rants on FSF.org and his actions regarding GPLv3 make it fairly obvious that he is openly hostile to anyone making one red cent off software.
This article and the mail it reference are another example of RMS saying he's all about 'freedom' out of one side of his mouth and then making statements that are clear that it has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with harming commercial software products, in this case, even if that means harming open source options as well.
RMS is whats known as a religious fanatic. His religion is GPL and he has a very large cult of followers, many who visit slashdot.
Not all GPL followers are part of the cult of RMS, but its a pretty common pairing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions on how software should be licensed, but pretending RMS is okay with profiting from the sale of software is much like pretending the Titanic still sails the Atlantic. Its just ignorant fantasy, sorry.
Read the message this whole slashdot article is about.
As an end user, you can indeed do whatever you want as long as you don't distribute whatever you are doing. That is (according to RMS) the entire reason for GPL, to ensure the end user can do whatever they want.
The GCC runtime library exception is due to proprietary software linking with the GCC runtime library and then being DISTRIBUTED TO OTHERS.
GCCs rules are all about distribution to OTHERS defined as other individuals if you are an individual, or other organizations if you are an organization, inside an organization doesnt' even count as distribution, hence Google gets to make so much of its business proprietary without breaking any rules.
NYC has the best pizza in the world,
You really shouldn't start the sentence off by saying something that just makes you look like an ignorant moron.
Neither Chicago NOR New York make 'good pizza'. Its really sad that you think American pizza (of any kind) is the best.
5) Don't use Chrome or any other shitty web browser that thinks it needs to be an OS.
... why would you not enable cloudfront? Do you like slow performance?
Cloudfront is nothing more than a content distribution network, and a damn good one at that.
So you block google-analytics ... and we needed to be told ... why? Does it make you feel more manly know that the site still gets the same information about you anyway because you ignore the fact that their web server knows just as much as analytics?
Seriously, you paranoid nut jobs do the stupidest shit, its stupid only because you do so many other things to completely expose yourself and give them the exact same thing anyway.
Perhaps he's trying to get rid of certain people.
He could dump the entire Android fan base and not loose one drop of income.
Contrary to what you think people should do, most of us dont' sit around and come up with ways to provide YOU with free, high quality services, nor do we really care when you go off ranting about like we care.
What you do when you respond like this is re-enforce what probably made his original decision ... People like you (Android / Linux fanboys) are a pain in the ass and worth little income.
You're just not worth anyone dealing with, so by all means, go rant about how you won't use it, he'll care ... really, he will.
Look in your wallet.
Those bills, coins and cards ... those are safe, fast, cheap and reliable payment systems.
BitCoin is neither safe nor reliable for many reasons.
totally against the speculative aspect of bitcoin
What? Its not something you can be against. Are you 'against' the universe as well? What you mean is that you dont' think its a good idea to use a speculative item for currency. Congratulations, you just caught up to what was learned in the original petunia market crash ... speculative items are not something you base your business/life on, unless you want to end up poor.
I make money nearly every day buying and selling bitcoins. Mind you, the longer I wait, the more I make, but the greedy will be the ones who will get fucked when the bust happens :)
I've already made my original investment back, so at this point, bitcoin is a win-win situation for me. All I can lose is extra money I made taking advantage of other morons buying bitcoin
If I lose 1 bitcoin, it is lost. You can't divide it into anything.
Eventually, all bitcoins WILL be lost and can not be replaced.
This are simple undeniable facts of the universe. They are not something you can even argue.
You can argue how long it will take before the loss of bitcoins causes an issue, but you can not argue that they will get lost.
By design there is a fixed number, they can be lost. i.e. your pool is ALWAYS SHRINKING.
You've already failed, you just aren't smart enough to realize your failure and as such, you think this ponzi scheme is a great idea.
Please keep thinking its a great idea, I've made a fortune taking money from people like you.
Neither are mirrors or stripes
No, he's not famous, people just like to keep trodding him about like he ever mattered.
He doesn't deserve any 'props' either. He did some basic social engineering to steal some accounts of systems that weren't even gaurded, hence why his jokes of social engineering got him in.
AT NO POINT did he do any actual 'hacking' or 'cracking'. He did nothing more than social engineering. Period.
If you actually know anything about security and you hear him speak about it, you'll have this overwhelming urge to just shove your foot so far up his fat ass that he can test the leather on it. Its difficult not to actually do it.
He's a moron, all the way through.
Fetus are not consider people by law in the first place, thats why abortion is even allowed, otherwise it would be murder.
So of course they can't be citizens, they aren't people, are requirement to becoming a citizen itself.
Wow. That is really evil.
All chromecast did was show how Google can do exactly the same BS Microsoft loves to do.
If they wanted to do something sane, a reasonable priced wireless HDMI dongle pair was the solution.
Chromecast is a an obnoxious 'google only' recreation of a superior technology.
Its only a violation of sexual harassment laws if someone feels harassed.
It doesn't apply when she started the conversation the day they met on her knees unzipping his pants and then she said hello ...
Yes, they are real things, no they dont' work anything like a torpedo as people are commonly aware of.
They aren't one-shot for anything more than about 3 inches.
As was previously said, what you're claiming is entirely contrary to the energy requirements for doing what you're claiming. It would be easier to tear up the road and repave it than blast a torpedo under it ... as the end result of the blasting is going to be ... the road exploding anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Thats a pneumatic torpedo mole. Everyone one of those 'ticks' you hear is an pneumatic impulse. They move it an inch or so at most.
You're not 'one shot'ing anything useful.
You do realize that the MAC subsystem for Linux came from the very organization your claiming 'took it away' from you ... Right?
Are you an Amway salesman too?
You have no idea - unless you also run an adult site! - just how much we hate payment processors, and just how much payment processors hate us.
Actually, I do understand. Having dealt with people in porn and payment processors, its fairly clear.
Porn sites are about as scummy as they possible can come. Porn sites do everything they can to scam you into recurring payments that you really had no intention of doing. They prey on people with low self esteem on BOTH sides of the isle, the 'actors' and the customers. Porn sites are run by the lowest of the low.
So of course payment processors hate you, you fucking rip people who are stupid enough to buy your shit off, and of course you hate them, cause they stop processing your payments and take your stolen money away from you.
I don't actually think you need to be in porn or payment processing to be aware of that though.
So my point is ... stop playing the 'poor pitiful me' bullshit, porn and bitcoin go together because paying for either one makes you just a stupid douche who got taken to the cleaners.
Note: I've bought into the bitcoin scam simply as an attempt to jump ship before it goes bust like the petunia. I acknowledge the that the only why I win is if I leave someone else on the losing side of the equation.
What?
Someone doesn't know how the Internet works.
Every streaming service I know of uses a single stream per listener, prove me wrong. Show me one that doesn't.
Even with multicast, you know exactly how many clients are in the group, but they don't use multicast since so many ISPs don't fucking support it for shit, or block it outright. Stupid pricks dont' realize how they require more bandwidth because of their own stupidity.
Yea, that'll teach them. Buy the music twice, they'll hate you for it!
Seriously, you are doing EXACTLY what they LOVE.
They could give a shit if you own the music if you still pay them regularly to listen to it, which is what you're doing with spotify and the like
The point is not that it was taught before he was born, the point is that its been studied, understood, AND TAUGHT TO PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE SINCE BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
These guys are redoing something that was known before THEY WERE BORN ... just because they're too fucking lazy to do some pre-research.