To being, or not to being, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler on the Net to suffer
The poor spelling and dupes of lazy editors,
Or to take arms against a sea of stupidity,
And by opposing end them?[1]
Sorry, but a simple mistake like this doesn't deserve more than that.
[1] The editors, of course, and by extension their lack of edits.:)
So if people can't make money on linux, people will magically stop developing for it? See, if you had actually READ THE FUCKING MESSAGE you'd know that's what we were talking about. That's precisely why I don't care if anybody 'develops' for linux -- there will always be people motivated to solve problems for free. I don't care if you or anyone else fails to make money on it or not.
Why do you care if anyone makes money on this or not? You shouldn't. It's not about staying on message, and it's not 'pathetic' either. The only thing pathetic here is you being a judgmental ass because the world refuses to bend over and allow you to profit at our expense. Too bad. So long as there are people willing to develop things essentially for free, I support them, and will show them all the preference in the world. Thankfully, I'm not alone.
I'm not particularly interested if anyone develops for Linux, or even for Windows for that matter. If you can only make money by treating intangible information as though it were property, pissing on natural law in the process, then frankly you don't deserve to make money. That said, giving away the source and making money are two completely different things, as is whether or not Linus allows binary drivers.
Note that neither of our comments will rise above +3, and on a long enough timeline will be modded Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, or simply quietly ignored. Truth hurts.
And who, exactly, will do this pressuring? Linux users, while consisting of a large number of rabidly anti-payware fanatics, are by no means the stooges of ESR, RMS, Linus, or anyone else.
Linux reigns in the server market where, frankly, nobody needs to pressure anyone for anything because we already have all the device support we need. In the desktop market, OTOH, end users are perfectly willing to be practical about things and simply use binary blobs where they're available, or - *GASP!* - NOT USE LINUX when it lacks proper device support for whatever they've got.
Linux users are not a class interest. They are not a community. They're people who happen to use Linux. Period. Full stop. Just because Eric has delusions of grandeur about taking over the world doesn't mean everyone else is going to jump on the bandwagon at wag their fingers at vendors for not bending over backwards to support them.
At the end of the day, this is just more hot air from the master of cranial flatulence himself and amounts to fuck all in the real world. Linux has achieved dominance in the server market, and that's pretty much where it's going to stay. If anyone has a problem with this, I would suggest doing something other than listening to the local Open Farce blowhard for advice. Change can happen, but it will not happen because ESR says so.
Linus: Egads, Eric! BRILLIANT! HAHAHAHAHA, Troz!
ESR: Come, Linus, we must prepare for tomorrow night.
Linus: What are we going to do tomorrow night?
ESR: The same thing we do every night, Linus...TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
This is a GREAT use of their resources as opposed to, oh, I don't know, writing secure software that isn't readily exploitable by rootkits in the first place. Hooray for band-aids!
It's worth noting that Google is not the only search engine out there, and anyone else is free to start their own. Google is nothing special. So, no, it's not a public utility, nor Yahoo, nor anyone else out there for that matter. They're all privately-held companies, offering a service to anyone who visits them, who, if they persist in being complete fucktards, can and will be removed from the market by a competing operation, existing or yet-to-be-born.
The only issue here is that they didn't tell the guy what he needed to know to fix the problem, and perhaps that they took their time relisting him. Focus on that.
I fail to see the problem here. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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No. They're not. They've never had ANYTHING to do with aesthetics. That's part of the bullshit that surrounds Feng Shui. They don't call it wind & water for nothing.
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I thought it was obnoxious and just goes to further the promotion of bullshit pseudoscience. You know, vastu shastra, like feng shui, is really nothing more than prescientific observations on how to situate a building so it doesn't get flooded, have dirt blown in by prevailing winds, etc (hence the 'feng' and 'shui' in feng shui). It makes this article all the more comical. Thankfully, everyone knows it's bullshit, so no one's listening to this jerk, right?...Right? RIGHT?
1. The ideas he's preaching is the first part of the problem. 'Open source' is one thing. 'Fuck intellectual property' is another.
2. He lacks any sense of rhetorical talent. If you don't know how to present your ideas, it doesn't matter how good they are, for no one will want to listen.
3. He comes off like an egotistical ass. Contrary to popular opinion, talent does not excuse being an ass. People really don't like dealing with assholes.
4. Lest someone misconstrue that last point as implying the man has talent, he doesn't, and that in itself is another thing that irks people -- why does this guy feel he's qualified to talk about any of this? Who the hell is HE, anyway? He didn't single-handedly write every GNU tool ever created -- and EMACS? Christ on a crutch, don't get me started. It's just like with ESR and Fetchmail.
Overall, then, it's not surprising that people don't exactly jump for joy when they hear Stallman's name. Still, that piece was a Fox News-style slanderfest, so hopelessly biased it's nauseating.
Now can we stop feeding the trolls? I mean, MUST every troll by every third rate hack on the planet merit a front-page story? What kind of editorial control is that?
There was also a game within Hero's Quest/Quest For Glory which was similar, albeit that was more about guiding a monster through a maze rather than teaching it to run the maze per se. And, of course, Omega, as someone else mentioned.
This isn't entirely a new idea. CROBOTS, for example, put one in the position of designing AIs that control tanks and then pits them against one another in an arena.
Politicians, by definition, have no sense of civic duty. They're nothing more than whores bought by the highest bidder. As always, follow the money. Whenever something works in the favor of civic virtue, rest assured that it was purely coincidental.
Construction outfits already employ Mexicans. You should have a look at my home sometime. Those bastards couldn't lay a concrete foundation if their lives depended on it. We've got walls at odd angles. We've got all sorts of wiring problems. When you employ dirtfarming third-world peasants in construction, you get what you pay for: CRAP.
Your daddy must be a qualified idiot. Windows is a serious pain in the ass, but virii, spyware, and adware are NO PROBLEM on Windows if you follow a few simple rules:
If you're going to use Windoze, use XP. Anything earlier is woefully insecure and has no hope of ever being remotely secure.
Turn on the built-in 'firewall' (if you want to call it that).
Stop using IE and use Netscape or Opera or (your favorite alternative here) and, for god's sake, *DISABLE JAVA*. You don't fucking need it. Turn it on for those few sites that do, and disable it the rest of the time.
Don't use Outlook Express for email, and whatever you do use, make sure that there's no way attachments can automatically execute in any way, shape, or form - and for god's sake, DONT EXECUTE ANY ATTACHMENTS.
Stop downloading so much CRAP. Windows is horribly insecure on your end, so that next program you install could be the one that happily transforms your system into a member of a botnet. So just don't do it. If you have to download something, at least go to a trusted source of some kind to somewhat minimize your risk.
Just follow those few simple rules and - OMG! - you'll find your system will be free of malware, adware, spyware, virii, etc. Remember: Security is not a product, it's not a feature, ITS A PROCESS.
(This message brought to you by the Clueless Fucks Educational Foundation - serving the clue-by-four to your skull for over 25 years)
So, what, this means that he's encoded the behavior of his machines in a form resembling genetic code, in the sense that he intends for his machines to exchange code and recombine program segments to yield novel combinations of behavior?
This article is just so much cyberbullshit it's hard to believe that it was posted.
Time between issues and 'dumbing down' are two different things. I certainly haven't noticed that in Hugi.
I also find it amusing that anyone would even lump Hugi in with Confidence Remains High and Phrack. That's like lumping in Time with The National Enquirer.
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To being, or not to being, that is the question:
:)
Whether 'tis nobler on the Net to suffer
The poor spelling and dupes of lazy editors,
Or to take arms against a sea of stupidity,
And by opposing end them?[1]
Sorry, but a simple mistake like this doesn't deserve more than that.
[1] The editors, of course, and by extension their lack of edits.
So if people can't make money on linux, people will magically stop developing for it? See, if you had actually READ THE FUCKING MESSAGE you'd know that's what we were talking about. That's precisely why I don't care if anybody 'develops' for linux -- there will always be people motivated to solve problems for free. I don't care if you or anyone else fails to make money on it or not.
Why do you care if anyone makes money on this or not? You shouldn't. It's not about staying on message, and it's not 'pathetic' either. The only thing pathetic here is you being a judgmental ass because the world refuses to bend over and allow you to profit at our expense. Too bad. So long as there are people willing to develop things essentially for free, I support them, and will show them all the preference in the world. Thankfully, I'm not alone.
I'm not particularly interested if anyone develops for Linux, or even for Windows for that matter. If you can only make money by treating intangible information as though it were property, pissing on natural law in the process, then frankly you don't deserve to make money. That said, giving away the source and making money are two completely different things, as is whether or not Linus allows binary drivers.
Note that neither of our comments will rise above +3, and on a long enough timeline will be modded Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, or simply quietly ignored. Truth hurts.
And who, exactly, will do this pressuring? Linux users, while consisting of a large number of rabidly anti-payware fanatics, are by no means the stooges of ESR, RMS, Linus, or anyone else. Linux reigns in the server market where, frankly, nobody needs to pressure anyone for anything because we already have all the device support we need. In the desktop market, OTOH, end users are perfectly willing to be practical about things and simply use binary blobs where they're available, or - *GASP!* - NOT USE LINUX when it lacks proper device support for whatever they've got.
Linux users are not a class interest. They are not a community. They're people who happen to use Linux. Period. Full stop. Just because Eric has delusions of grandeur about taking over the world doesn't mean everyone else is going to jump on the bandwagon at wag their fingers at vendors for not bending over backwards to support them.
At the end of the day, this is just more hot air from the master of cranial flatulence himself and amounts to fuck all in the real world. Linux has achieved dominance in the server market, and that's pretty much where it's going to stay. If anyone has a problem with this, I would suggest doing something other than listening to the local Open Farce blowhard for advice. Change can happen, but it will not happen because ESR says so.
Linus: Egads, Eric! BRILLIANT! HAHAHAHAHA, Troz!
ESR: Come, Linus, we must prepare for tomorrow night.
Linus: What are we going to do tomorrow night?
ESR: The same thing we do every night, Linus...TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
NARF.
Robosexuals have rights too, ya know...not that I'm one...so if anybody asks, you're my debugger.
This is a GREAT use of their resources as opposed to, oh, I don't know, writing secure software that isn't readily exploitable by rootkits in the first place. Hooray for band-aids!
It's worth noting that Google is not the only search engine out there, and anyone else is free to start their own. Google is nothing special. So, no, it's not a public utility, nor Yahoo, nor anyone else out there for that matter. They're all privately-held companies, offering a service to anyone who visits them, who, if they persist in being complete fucktards, can and will be removed from the market by a competing operation, existing or yet-to-be-born.
The only issue here is that they didn't tell the guy what he needed to know to fix the problem, and perhaps that they took their time relisting him. Focus on that.
I fail to see the problem here. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
No. They're not. They've never had ANYTHING to do with aesthetics. That's part of the bullshit that surrounds Feng Shui. They don't call it wind & water for nothing.
I thought it was obnoxious and just goes to further the promotion of bullshit pseudoscience. You know, vastu shastra, like feng shui, is really nothing more than prescientific observations on how to situate a building so it doesn't get flooded, have dirt blown in by prevailing winds, etc (hence the 'feng' and 'shui' in feng shui). It makes this article all the more comical. Thankfully, everyone knows it's bullshit, so no one's listening to this jerk, right? ...Right? RIGHT?
Overall, then, it's not surprising that people don't exactly jump for joy when they hear Stallman's name. Still, that piece was a Fox News-style slanderfest, so hopelessly biased it's nauseating.
Now can we stop feeding the trolls? I mean, MUST every troll by every third rate hack on the planet merit a front-page story? What kind of editorial control is that?
So this is where pirates work for a living...
There was also a game within Hero's Quest/Quest For Glory which was similar, albeit that was more about guiding a monster through a maze rather than teaching it to run the maze per se. And, of course, Omega, as someone else mentioned.
This isn't entirely a new idea. CROBOTS, for example, put one in the position of designing AIs that control tanks and then pits them against one another in an arena.
You forgot to mention this isn't STUFF THAT MATTERS.
Politicians, by definition, have no sense of civic duty. They're nothing more than whores bought by the highest bidder. As always, follow the money. Whenever something works in the favor of civic virtue, rest assured that it was purely coincidental.
Construction outfits already employ Mexicans. You should have a look at my home sometime. Those bastards couldn't lay a concrete foundation if their lives depended on it. We've got walls at odd angles. We've got all sorts of wiring problems. When you employ dirtfarming third-world peasants in construction, you get what you pay for: CRAP.
Oh, and -1 Troll.
Your daddy must be a qualified idiot. Windows is a serious pain in the ass, but virii, spyware, and adware are NO PROBLEM on Windows if you follow a few simple rules:
Just follow those few simple rules and - OMG! - you'll find your system will be free of malware, adware, spyware, virii, etc. Remember: Security is not a product, it's not a feature, ITS A PROCESS.
(This message brought to you by the Clueless Fucks Educational Foundation - serving the clue-by-four to your skull for over 25 years)
...this is how tribbles got started.
Heresy! There's no spyware that a little FORMAT C: can't handle!
So, what, this means that he's encoded the behavior of his machines in a form resembling genetic code, in the sense that he intends for his machines to exchange code and recombine program segments to yield novel combinations of behavior?
This article is just so much cyberbullshit it's hard to believe that it was posted.
Yes, but the Earth was designed to find the question, not the answer. You fail it.
Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape!
Time between issues and 'dumbing down' are two different things. I certainly haven't noticed that in Hugi.
I also find it amusing that anyone would even lump Hugi in with Confidence Remains High and Phrack. That's like lumping in Time with The National Enquirer.