Please go read some history. RMS started writing GNU in 1984. By 1991, it was allmost finished, only lacking a kernel. Torvalds with the help of many hackers that were members of the comunity that RMS created, wrote the kernel, Linux. The system is still called GNU, whether you use the Linux kernel or not.
Free Software exists so that you can be a computer user without being held hostage by whomever owns the software you use. That was RMS's idea, that's the whole purpose of Free Software. Comercialization is something that may happend, but it's not the main purpose for having free software.
1: Calling the system by it's proper name is trolling?, wow. 2: You want RMS to die?, do you want 20 years of fight against the stablishment, the GPL, the FSF, and 60% of the software on your average distro to die with him too?.
GNU/Linux is UNIX. It's a real operating system, not a toy OS like micro$oft's one. Unix doesn't need automated update tools, it needs a qualified sysadmin. If you are not, hire one.
It's different. Moore's law is not 100% technicall. There is also an economic issue. What the market wants + What the companys are willing to invest + The nature of transistors = Moore's Law. Some of this can be predicted precisely, that is, the technicall part, the one related to the characteristics of transistors. The other two can only be estimated, but not precisely calculated.
Could Blockbuster + Hollywood + DVD manufacturers create a format that can't be ripped ?. Yes Could Microsoft + RIAA + ISPs absolutely block P2P? Yes.
Why they don't do it? Because they are companys that sell stuff. And they sell stuff because the market buys that stuff. If they stop providing the stuff that people wants, people will either: Crack their products so they can do the stuff they need. Use comercial alternatives. Use Free Alternatives.
They don't want to loose their customers, so they will just push it as much as they can, without loosing their marketshare, but leaving their investor happy. Do you really think the RIAA cares about p2p, or that the RIAA actually thinks that p2p decreases their sells?. Hell no, but if they don't do this shit, what the heck does the artists pay them for?.
Man, I LIVE IN ARGENTINA, Yes, we used to have cables running from the middle of the block, over buildings, etc, IN THE 80's. Electricity, Gas, Water, Phone, Fiber, EVERYTHING is underground now. In Buenos Aires all the phone lines are digital, and you can get a line installed in a matter of days.
And about the US Government, OFF COURSE it's a big piece of corrupt shit, that has masacred millions over the years. From the Dictatorships in Latin America, to Vietnam, to Iraq. And yes, all of the US citizens are responsable for it. I am responsable for what my government does, whether i like it or not. If your government commits a crime against humanity, and you, instead of on the streets trying to prevent that from happening, where at home with your play station, like most US citizens do, then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for it. Besides, you keep voting the same shit over and over.
It's because in this capitalist world money makes the rules, and the big companys rule that they want their product down our throats, all the time. And legislators are part of that system. The law should be a printed reflection of the set of ethical rules of a given society, but in many cases, IT'S NOT, or it's based on the mindset of a group of people that has no ethics, or they ethics has been seriously compromised by their own thirst for power and money. So, NO, the fact that this shit is legal doesn't make it correct or ethical.
For example, i don't consider google's adsense SPAM. But, for example, the ANNOYING flash banners m$ pays EVERYWHERE to get their crap into your mind IS SPAM.
With certain advertisement, you only here about a company once in a while. If a giant like m$ spends millions on publicity, and you just here about them ANYWHERE, all the time, regardless of how much you try to avoid them, then, that's SPAM too.
Just think about this: Try to live an hour online whithout listening about micro$oft. It's just not possible.
Yes, its decided in secret by the right wing shit that you vote over and over. And please don't tell me that you are a democrat, because they are the same, the fact that democrats stand on the left of republicans, doesn't put them anywhere near the center or left.
And that shit about the phone system is only partially right. That is, the MAIN telephone company is a big piece of shit, but not to the point where it can't install phones. That happend about 20 years ago when ENTEL was in charge. Old news. And, Telefonica is NOT the only telco in Argentina.
No, it just means somewhere else is bad because of stupid legislations that are here because the USA domination of south american governments is so big that the corrupt bastards in the government propose paranoid, stupid legislations to catch up to the paranoia in which the USA lives. Now bring on the "On the post 9/11 world" jokes... in this case, they are just right.
I Haven't watches TV on 4 years now. I just turned off the TV, and decided that i wasn't going to turn it on again. I was 17 at the time. I Feel the same way as you do about the lost time, i live in Argentina, and most of the TV is shit imported from the USA, that doesn't really have much to do with you, your way to live or do things, your thoughts and ideas, etc. And i ask the same question over and over, what could i have achieved if i wouldn't have spent so many hours watching TV?.
I Absolutely agree with you. What diferenciates us from the rest of the species on this planet is our mind. We really are information processing beings, And, yes, a big part of this society has developed a fear for knowledge and for joy in general (knowledge is pleasure); and so any activity that is enjoyed and that demands a lot of time, but is not something a dog would enjoy, is called an adiction.
This is the single most insightfull post i have seen on/. in a long long time...
There is also a 5th guy... he posts lame jokes on cheap message boards discussing the activities of the other four, and usually gets replys by some other guy... i mean, SomeOtherGuy.
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Please go read some history. RMS started writing GNU in 1984. By 1991, it was allmost finished, only lacking a kernel. Torvalds with the help of many hackers that were members of the comunity that RMS created, wrote the kernel, Linux.
The system is still called GNU, whether you use the Linux kernel or not.
Free Software exists so that you can be a computer user without being held hostage by whomever owns the software you use. That was RMS's idea, that's the whole purpose of Free Software. Comercialization is something that may happend, but it's not the main purpose for having free software.
1: Calling the system by it's proper name is trolling?, wow.
2: You want RMS to die?, do you want 20 years of fight against the stablishment, the GPL, the FSF, and 60% of the software on your average distro to die with him too?.
You sir, are an uneducated bastard.
They will have to combine 2 three-legged cats, the google network requires at least cat6 ;)
First of all, it's GNU/Linux.
Second, you should download the source and compile your upgrades.
GNU/Linux is UNIX. It's a real operating system, not a toy OS like micro$oft's one. Unix doesn't need automated update tools, it needs a qualified sysadmin. If you are not, hire one.
It's different. Moore's law is not 100% technicall. There is also an economic issue. What the market wants + What the companys are willing to invest + The nature of transistors = Moore's Law. Some of this can be predicted precisely, that is, the technicall part, the one related to the characteristics of transistors. The other two can only be estimated, but not precisely calculated.
Until Murphy's law probes the oposite. ;-)
Hey, nice tool!.
I have learn to parse geekcodes on my head, but not hackerkeys yet.
Thanx a lot.
Are technically possible, and we know it.
Could Blockbuster + Hollywood + DVD manufacturers create a format that can't be ripped ?. Yes
Could Microsoft + RIAA + ISPs absolutely block P2P? Yes.
Why they don't do it? Because they are companys that sell stuff. And they sell stuff because the market buys that stuff. If they stop providing the stuff that people wants, people will either: Crack their products so they can do the stuff they need.
Use comercial alternatives.
Use Free Alternatives.
They don't want to loose their customers, so they will just push it as much as they can, without loosing their marketshare, but leaving their investor happy. Do you really think the RIAA cares about p2p, or that the RIAA actually thinks that p2p decreases their sells?. Hell no, but if they don't do this shit, what the heck does the artists pay them for?.
Hey!
Thx for the tip.
BTW: if you post a hackerkey, or a geekcode, try to post under your user account. That's the whole purpose of such a thing.
ALMAFUERTE
Single smarter and funniest joke i have seen here in a long long time. Thanx, you made my day.
Man, I LIVE IN ARGENTINA, Yes, we used to have cables running from the middle of the block, over buildings, etc, IN THE 80's.
Electricity, Gas, Water, Phone, Fiber, EVERYTHING is underground now. In Buenos Aires all the phone lines are digital, and you can get a line installed in a matter of days.
And about the US Government, OFF COURSE it's a big piece of corrupt shit, that has masacred millions over the years. From the Dictatorships in Latin America, to Vietnam, to Iraq.
And yes, all of the US citizens are responsable for it. I am responsable for what my government does, whether i like it or not. If your government commits a crime against humanity, and you, instead of on the streets trying to prevent that from happening, where at home with your play station, like most US citizens do, then YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for it.
Besides, you keep voting the same shit over and over.
It's because in this capitalist world money makes the rules, and the big companys rule that they want their product down our throats, all the time. And legislators are part of that system. The law should be a printed reflection of the set of ethical rules of a given society, but in many cases, IT'S NOT, or it's based on the mindset of a group of people that has no ethics, or they ethics has been seriously compromised by their own thirst for power and money. So, NO, the fact that this shit is legal doesn't make it correct or ethical.
Publicity in general is each day more like SPAM.
For example, i don't consider google's adsense SPAM. But, for example, the ANNOYING flash banners m$ pays EVERYWHERE to get their crap into your mind IS SPAM.
With certain advertisement, you only here about a company once in a while. If a giant like m$ spends millions on publicity, and you just here about them ANYWHERE, all the time, regardless of how much you try to avoid them, then, that's SPAM too.
Just think about this: Try to live an hour online whithout listening about micro$oft. It's just not possible.
Yes, its decided in secret by the right wing shit that you vote over and over. And please don't tell me that you are a democrat, because they are the same, the fact that democrats stand on the left of republicans, doesn't put them anywhere near the center or left.
And that shit about the phone system is only partially right. That is, the MAIN telephone company is a big piece of shit, but not to the point where it can't install phones. That happend about 20 years ago when ENTEL was in charge. Old news. And, Telefonica is NOT the only telco in Argentina.
No, it just means somewhere else is bad because of stupid legislations that are here because the USA domination of south american governments is so big that the corrupt bastards in the government propose paranoid, stupid legislations to catch up to the paranoia in which the USA lives. Now bring on the "On the post 9/11 world" jokes ... in this case, they are just right.
Yes. YOUR legislators and politicians making OUR country poorer.
Our Country is NOT poor, you just happend to take the money. It's not the same, you know.
I Haven't watches TV on 4 years now. I just turned off the TV, and decided that i wasn't going to turn it on again. I was 17 at the time. I Feel the same way as you do about the lost time, i live in Argentina, and most of the TV is shit imported from the USA, that doesn't really have much to do with you, your way to live or do things, your thoughts and ideas, etc. And i ask the same question over and over, what could i have achieved if i wouldn't have spent so many hours watching TV?.
In Soviet Russia, /.ers from the USA can laugh at themselves buy doing jokes on 9/11 instead of "Soviet Russia"
I Absolutely agree with you. What diferenciates us from the rest of the species on this planet is our mind. We really are information processing beings, And, yes, a big part of this society has developed a fear for knowledge and for joy in general (knowledge is pleasure); and so any activity that is enjoyed and that demands a lot of time, but is not something a dog would enjoy, is called an adiction.
/. in a long long time ...
This is the single most insightfull post i have seen on
Thank you, you made my day.
Actually, we need it, we got a /. overdose on 1112324400 (i don't even want to mention that date ...), rehab anyone?
There is also a 5th guy ... he posts lame jokes on cheap message boards discussing the activities of the other four, and usually gets replys by some other guy ... i mean, SomeOtherGuy.
The other is the PowerPoint guru :-P
IF GNU is not an OS; then Linux isn't either.
GNU Is an OS that lacks a kernel.
Linux is a kernel, which is a part of an OS.
Linux can run in conjunction with another Unix-like operating system, for example, GNU.
GNU can run using multiple kernels, for example, Linux, HURD, etc.