How ironic that ranting about the "offtopic" moderation gets the poster moderated "offtopic"
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That being the case, my question becomes whether people are actually looking for freedom or if freedom is just a nice word that fits closely enough to what they want.
Personally, I want a license that will allow people to view and modify the code for use in their own projects, submit bugfixes back to the originator and allow for greater learning by viewing past methods of problem solving / logic, without taking away the rights of the original author. As far as I know (and I could be mistaken), the GPL does that fairly well. It may not be pure freedom, but it's much better than the usual EULA.
My apologies for being slightly off topic on this, but this is something that's been on my mind for a while now. With the advent of wireless connectivity, have we begun to create things that will eventually shorten our lifespans, or lead to other problems? I may be completely paranoid and I'm completely content to have that be the answer to my question (if it's true), but I'd be glad to hear what others have to say on the matter.
Could the macintosh dock's function be considered grouped taskbar buttons? Multiple windows of a single application are all associated with a single button... It's not the same, but depending upon the wording, it might fit. I'm not saying it's prior art by any means, but it could pose a problem to mac users.
That seems like a very subjective viewpoint to me. Whether or not there were deep philosophical discussions in the movie itself has little bearing in my eyes. For me, the movie generated a lot of thought in a lot of different areas. Questions about the world around me. I think that's a lot more valuable than someone talking in monotone about why we're here.
Personally I absolutely hated Akira. I don't believe it was a bad movie by any means, I just really didn't care for it. Everyone has their own Aesthetic and not everyone is going to like the same movies, classic or not.
Btw, the first Anime I really got into was Princess Mononoke and it remains my favorite to this day (though I haven't seen Spirited Away yet).
Yes, but it doesn't take you half an hour to drive the correct way down the street like it does to read some of the heftier EULA's out there. The inconvienience of reading a long EULA for every single piece of software purchased is a burden that should not be placed on someone when they have paid for the use of something fairly. Wide licensing schemes which multiple products can be registered under would be a fine alternative, but any company who wishes to have you sign your life away is obviously not going to do that.
How about durability? Where's the media that I can throw in the back seat while driving and not worry about scratching it? I wouldn't want to leave a cd on the dashboard either for that matter. Personally, I'm waiting and waiting for something that doesn't kill itself when I look at it wrong. For me, that would be worth a lot more than a little extra quality that I can't even hear.
I'll put in another vote for Objective-C here. I'd really like to see this language take hold. However, I'm not a hardcore developer, so there may be reasons not to use Objective-C that I don't know about.
One interesting thing about Gentoo, is that due to the type of installation, the majority of bugs are actually created by the end user, so there isn't a lot of room for the end user to complain (Except for the obviously more difficult installation).
I'm not saying this is either good or bad, but it does make for a system that can be configured correctly without waiting for a patch for the distrobution. I wonder if this sort of offloaded responisibility scenario might become more common in different areas of computing...
Agreed, and as long as people are bringing out the bad points more than the good points in their reviews of different distrobutions, it's going to hurt, more than help, the situation.
This is a tough situation for a lot of reasons. You obviously don't want to impose on him or his rights, which I respect. However, If he is not capable of making rational decisions about what is real and what is not, I think the internet would be a bad place for him if unsupervised. There is too much false information out there, and the internet requires people to understand that some of what is on it is not real. My inclination would be to have him surf the web with someone he trusts completely, and will be able to help him understand what's real and what isn't. Obviously, this depends a lot on the seriousness of his mental illness as well.
It sucks because removal from the "real world" could have ill effects on him as well, but sometimes a judging the lesser of two evils is needed.
Just because a game is a sequel to another doesn't mean it's not inovative. Look at super mario 64 compared to super mario world. It's a sequel, but completely different.
PC and Console gaming are completely different though. Console gaming is much more of a group thing with 2-4 friends all sitting around the tv interacting with it and each other. That is changing with consoles going online however.
those are some of the things that I really loved about the NES though, all these wacky input devices... I had one called the "rock and roller" which one was supposed to stand on and it would act as the D pad.
Gaming was different back then, it was like it's own world. Nintendo licensed merchandise everywhere, The super mario super show, heck, even McDonalds got in on the action and had mario character Happy Meals.
There was definately something really special about gaming back then. Call it massive commercialization if you want, but I think it was just plain fun:)
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Umm... Howabout windowsupdate.microsoft.com?
How ironic that ranting about the "offtopic" moderation gets the poster moderated "offtopic"
That being the case, my question becomes whether people are actually looking for freedom or if freedom is just a nice word that fits closely enough to what they want.
Personally, I want a license that will allow people to view and modify the code for use in their own projects, submit bugfixes back to the originator and allow for greater learning by viewing past methods of problem solving / logic, without taking away the rights of the original author. As far as I know (and I could be mistaken), the GPL does that fairly well. It may not be pure freedom, but it's much better than the usual EULA.
Or chose to ignore it, which I wouldn't blame him for, :)
My apologies for being slightly off topic on this, but this is something that's been on my mind for a while now. With the advent of wireless connectivity, have we begun to create things that will eventually shorten our lifespans, or lead to other problems? I may be completely paranoid and I'm completely content to have that be the answer to my question (if it's true), but I'd be glad to hear what others have to say on the matter.
Could the macintosh dock's function be considered grouped taskbar buttons? Multiple windows of a single application are all associated with a single button... It's not the same, but depending upon the wording, it might fit. I'm not saying it's prior art by any means, but it could pose a problem to mac users.
Yes, but that's speaking of "people" from each country, or different "peoples." That's how I understand it anyway, I could be wrong
That seems like a very subjective viewpoint to me. Whether or not there were deep philosophical discussions in the movie itself has little bearing in my eyes. For me, the movie generated a lot of thought in a lot of different areas. Questions about the world around me. I think that's a lot more valuable than someone talking in monotone about why we're here.
Personally I absolutely hated Akira. I don't believe it was a bad movie by any means, I just really didn't care for it. Everyone has their own Aesthetic and not everyone is going to like the same movies, classic or not.
Btw, the first Anime I really got into was Princess Mononoke and it remains my favorite to this day (though I haven't seen Spirited Away yet).
Yes, but it doesn't take you half an hour to drive the correct way down the street like it does to read some of the heftier EULA's out there. The inconvienience of reading a long EULA for every single piece of software purchased is a burden that should not be placed on someone when they have paid for the use of something fairly. Wide licensing schemes which multiple products can be registered under would be a fine alternative, but any company who wishes to have you sign your life away is obviously not going to do that.
Being that IE is the most commonly used browser, I have to disagree here. I think it's a fine baseline to compare to.
Wow, you're going to be pretty pissed off when that drive fails.
How about durability? Where's the media that I can throw in the back seat while driving and not worry about scratching it? I wouldn't want to leave a cd on the dashboard either for that matter. Personally, I'm waiting and waiting for something that doesn't kill itself when I look at it wrong. For me, that would be worth a lot more than a little extra quality that I can't even hear.
I'll put in another vote for Objective-C here. I'd really like to see this language take hold. However, I'm not a hardcore developer, so there may be reasons not to use Objective-C that I don't know about.
Can we get an informative over here? This is something that's going to save me (and I'm sure quite a few others) a lot of frustration. Thanks!
Alton Brown is the man. Anyone that can make cooking a geeky project is ok in my book.
I'll second that one, you never know where those little spatters are going till they hit a place that's usually protected by clothing.
I mean the lower stomach of course, what did you think I was referring to?
One interesting thing about Gentoo, is that due to the type of installation, the majority of bugs are actually created by the end user, so there isn't a lot of room for the end user to complain (Except for the obviously more difficult installation).
I'm not saying this is either good or bad, but it does make for a system that can be configured correctly without waiting for a patch for the distrobution. I wonder if this sort of offloaded responisibility scenario might become more common in different areas of computing...
Agreed, and as long as people are bringing out the bad points more than the good points in their reviews of different distrobutions, it's going to hurt, more than help, the situation.
I think anyone who bought a 3DO machine will agree with you on this one.
That's taking up way too much cpu time. You should kill the process the next time you see it acting up like that.
First of all, I am not a psychologist.
This is a tough situation for a lot of reasons. You obviously don't want to impose on him or his rights, which I respect. However, If he is not capable of making rational decisions about what is real and what is not, I think the internet would be a bad place for him if unsupervised. There is too much false information out there, and the internet requires people to understand that some of what is on it is not real. My inclination would be to have him surf the web with someone he trusts completely, and will be able to help him understand what's real and what isn't. Obviously, this depends a lot on the seriousness of his mental illness as well.
It sucks because removal from the "real world" could have ill effects on him as well, but sometimes a judging the lesser of two evils is needed.
Again, this post is all opinion based
I wish you and your friend the best of luck.
Just because a game is a sequel to another doesn't mean it's not inovative. Look at super mario 64 compared to super mario world. It's a sequel, but completely different.
PC and Console gaming are completely different though. Console gaming is much more of a group thing with 2-4 friends all sitting around the tv interacting with it and each other. That is changing with consoles going online however.
those are some of the things that I really loved about the NES though, all these wacky input devices... I had one called the "rock and roller" which one was supposed to stand on and it would act as the D pad.
:)
Gaming was different back then, it was like it's own world. Nintendo licensed merchandise everywhere, The super mario super show, heck, even McDonalds got in on the action and had mario character Happy Meals.
There was definately something really special about gaming back then. Call it massive commercialization if you want, but I think it was just plain fun