"Not all software is best done by a bunch of hackers working in their spare time, as just a casual look around SourceForge will demonstrate. With such a huge number of failed and abandoned projects, and only a relatively few high-profile success stories (LAMP), I don't believe the FOSS model is a poster child for the end-all and be-all of success."
Too bad there isn't a repository for all the failed closed source applications. If it was it would dwarf sourceforge.
What kind of a stupid conclusion to draw is that? 75% of all businesses fail does that mean capitalism is not the poster child for commerce?
Take all the offense you want. I am simply relaying my experiences. Having been in this industry for a very long time and having called MS support many many times I have a stack of horror stories to tell anyone who is willing to listen.
Take heart in the fact that I didn't call MS tech support people communists or terrorists or anti american or cancer or sores. I am not willing to go down to the level your bosses have.
I don't really need to read any further then I did. Whether indymedia is full of shit or not is besides the point. The point is that you are willing to draw conclusions from irrelevent facts. You dismiss points of view based on what a person looks like not the content of their words. I would not trust any conclusion you have reached about any subject. Note that I have based this opinion purely on what you have communicated to me. I have no idea what you look like nor do I know what you smell like or the last time you bathed with soap. Those things after all are completely irrelevent to what you are saying.
You are confusing easy to use with easy to learn. Windows may be easier to learn (debtable really) but it's not easy to use. Once you learn it linux is supremely easy to use. It never gets in your way unlike windows. In linux I can recurse through a mail directory forwarding every single mail meets any arbitratry criterea to my gmail account with one line of typing. I can't even try to attempt that with windows.
As for support I don't know what age the support people who work at MS are but they sure are some of the most useless people on the planet. Whenever you call MS you spend the first three days trying to convince them that you are actually having a problem with one of their products. The fuckers want to blame everything else except their product. Are you having a problem with access? Oh that's because you installed firefox!.
I have always had fantastic support for my linux apps. In the majority of the cases where I needed help I was able to contact the developers themselves. Frequently my problems get solved by IRC in less time then I would have spent on hold while calling MS.
It seems your brain suffers from lots of zealotry shortcuts.
I was just looking at your blog for example. You have a couple of pictures of young people playing voleyball there and you are somehow convinced that this means indymedia is full of shit. To you these pictures meaningful enough to put on your web page and proves that everything any hippie says is wrong and that indymedia is evil. To me it's just a picture of young people playing voleyball. The weird thing is that neither one of the young guys looks all that different then the young people in my town or any other town.
Zealots suffer from severe brain shortcircuitry. It's amusing to watch sometimes how they react to ordinary things or things that they consider outside of the norm. Watching you react to hippies (or people you think are hippies even though they don't look anything like hippies) is kind of like watching a religous zealot react to a gay person or a white supremacist reacting to a jew or a african american.
It's amazing what kinds of conclusions you guys draw from ordinary behavior.
Your zeal to irritate hippies shortcircuited your brains again huh? Seems like you suffer from a lot of short circuits in your thinking.
"Those damned hippies, if it wasn't for them we could play with the weather without impugnity!. They are the only things standing between us and a world without hurricanes!"
Since you brought New Orleans into this allow me to veer offtopic a bit.
I am a middle class guy. If I heard that a hurricane was coming my way I would lock up my house, get in my car and go to some higher ground and stay in a hotel for a week or so. While I am gone I would have a high degree of confidence that my house won't be broken into and my stuff stolen. Even if it (or if the hurricane destroyed my house) I would still be OK. I have insurance, I have money in the bank to sustain myself for a while, I have a good job, I have credit cards. I would be OK while I am waiting for the insurance process to sort itself out.
Compare my situation to that of a poor person in NO. They don't have decent jobs, they don't have credit, they don't have money saved up. Everything they own is in their house. Everything. Nothing in the bank, nothing in a 401K. No insurance. When you leave your house you leave everything you own behind. Being in a poor part the town you also have a very high risk of getting everything you own get stolen or destroyed by the storm.
It sucks to be poor. If you don't have a car, don't have money to stay in a hotel for a week waiting for the storm to pass you are not going to risk hitching a ride or taking a bus and losing everything you have. It's just too much of a risk.
So before you decide that everybody in New Orleans is too lazy to move take a moment to think about their condition.
Money owed for "peacekeeping"? I would think that money has been paid with taxes from all those contracts handed out to american companies for reconstruction and such.
He is educating you by showing you exactly how far the authorities are willing to go. This was just a name badge for god's sake and he removed the foil when going through checkpoints and they still detained him. I knew about RFID but I didn't realize how serious people were going to be about it.
He also educated me by showing an easy and effective way to make the point. He showed how it was possible to make them look stupid while obeying their orders.
Of course the mass media are going to call him a crackpot. Do you really expect anything else? The same mass media that called John Kerry a coward and accused him of shooting himself, the same mass media that called martin Luther king a communist, the same mass media that called the beatles communists, that same mass media that called kiss satanists for gods sake. The mass media will try to destory anybody who is popular and will try to demean anybody who is fighting for change.
The powers that be use the media to try and lable people who oppose them as communists, crackpots, terrorists, haters of america and freedom, cowards and whatever other phrase is pushing the buttons of the ignorant masses that week. If you want to make a difference you can't let the press calling you a crackpot stop you.
So what are you going to do other then calling him a crackpot that's what I want to know. You certainly seem to be content with joining the chorus of the chattering masses in calling him names rather then discussing the points he is trying to make with your parents or neighbors.
All he is saying is that if you aren't paying shut the fuck up. What's wrong with that? Pay or shut the fuck up. If you don't want to pay then don't and shut the fuck up. Better yet pull out of the UN and shut the fuck up.
What do you mean "they" look the other way? I thought it was George Bush's responsibility to deliver freedom to the world. Didn't he say he was going to? I heard him say that on TV. The words were coming out of his mouth.
So fuck off with the "they" shit. WE have been looking the other way. We disobeyed the UN to go to war with Iraq, why do we need the UN to help starving people in north Korea and masscred people in Africa?
"Sure, it was uncalled for, but they have to do what they can"
Exactly. They have said they will sue, they have sued. What's even worse is that most times they simply threaten to sue. When it comes to individuals that's all it takes to stifle innovation. Somebody already pointed out one case I am sure there are many more. No open source developer can afford to be sued by MS so all they do is pick up the phone and threaten to sue and they get what they want.
I just don't get it. What makes you think that MS is so nice, moral or ethical that they would never sue anybody for patent infringement?
The early implementations of remote scripting was done with a tiny little java applet. That's why it worked in both netscape and IE. MS decided to re-do it because they decided they hate java one one day and also to make it a MS only technology. Needless to say that killed the technology until it became cross platform again.
Microsoft tried to squeeze apple with their patents on the ipod interface. Yes after the ipod came out MS rushed out and got a patent on the interface and tried to squeeze apple for money. Apple told them go suck ass and they never pursued it.
Microsoft sued lindows for trademark infringement. They also sued a 16 year old boy who had the temerity to register a domain name with his name in it.
Microsoft has repeatedly said they intend to agressively defend their intellectual property.
What makes you think MS will never sue anybody for patent infringement after their top level executives have said they fully intend to?
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The french have given us great wine and great cheese. Texas has given un George Bush.
Mmmmmm. Tough call that one.
"Not all software is best done by a bunch of hackers working in their spare time, as just a casual look around SourceForge will demonstrate. With such a huge number of failed and abandoned projects, and only a relatively few high-profile success stories (LAMP), I don't believe the FOSS model is a poster child for the end-all and be-all of success."
Too bad there isn't a repository for all the failed closed source applications. If it was it would dwarf sourceforge.
What kind of a stupid conclusion to draw is that? 75% of all businesses fail does that mean capitalism is not the poster child for commerce?
Will they be releasing their patent rights?
Take all the offense you want. I am simply relaying my experiences. Having been in this industry for a very long time and having called MS support many many times I have a stack of horror stories to tell anyone who is willing to listen.
Take heart in the fact that I didn't call MS tech support people communists or terrorists or anti american or cancer or sores. I am not willing to go down to the level your bosses have.
I don't really need to read any further then I did. Whether indymedia is full of shit or not is besides the point. The point is that you are willing to draw conclusions from irrelevent facts. You dismiss points of view based on what a person looks like not the content of their words. I would not trust any conclusion you have reached about any subject. Note that I have based this opinion purely on what you have communicated to me. I have no idea what you look like nor do I know what you smell like or the last time you bathed with soap. Those things after all are completely irrelevent to what you are saying.
You are confusing easy to use with easy to learn. Windows may be easier to learn (debtable really) but it's not easy to use. Once you learn it linux is supremely easy to use. It never gets in your way unlike windows. In linux I can recurse through a mail directory forwarding every single mail meets any arbitratry criterea to my gmail account with one line of typing. I can't even try to attempt that with windows.
As for support I don't know what age the support people who work at MS are but they sure are some of the most useless people on the planet. Whenever you call MS you spend the first three days trying to convince them that you are actually having a problem with one of their products. The fuckers want to blame everything else except their product. Are you having a problem with access? Oh that's because you installed firefox!.
I have always had fantastic support for my linux apps. In the majority of the cases where I needed help I was able to contact the developers themselves. Frequently my problems get solved by IRC in less time then I would have spent on hold while calling MS.
It seems your brain suffers from lots of zealotry shortcuts.
I was just looking at your blog for example. You have a couple of pictures of young people playing voleyball there and you are somehow convinced that this means indymedia is full of shit. To you these pictures meaningful enough to put on your web page and proves that everything any hippie says is wrong and that indymedia is evil. To me it's just a picture of young people playing voleyball. The weird thing is that neither one of the young guys looks all that different then the young people in my town or any other town.
Zealots suffer from severe brain shortcircuitry. It's amusing to watch sometimes how they react to ordinary things or things that they consider outside of the norm. Watching you react to hippies (or people you think are hippies even though they don't look anything like hippies) is kind of like watching a religous zealot react to a gay person or a white supremacist reacting to a jew or a african american.
It's amazing what kinds of conclusions you guys draw from ordinary behavior.
Your zeal to irritate hippies shortcircuited your brains again huh? Seems like you suffer from a lot of short circuits in your thinking.
"Those damned hippies, if it wasn't for them we could play with the weather without impugnity!. They are the only things standing between us and a world without hurricanes!"
Since you brought New Orleans into this allow me to veer offtopic a bit.
I am a middle class guy. If I heard that a hurricane was coming my way I would lock up my house, get in my car and go to some higher ground and stay in a hotel for a week or so. While I am gone I would have a high degree of confidence that my house won't be broken into and my stuff stolen. Even if it (or if the hurricane destroyed my house) I would still be OK. I have insurance, I have money in the bank to sustain myself for a while, I have a good job, I have credit cards. I would be OK while I am waiting for the insurance process to sort itself out.
Compare my situation to that of a poor person in NO. They don't have decent jobs, they don't have credit, they don't have money saved up. Everything they own is in their house. Everything. Nothing in the bank, nothing in a 401K. No insurance. When you leave your house you leave everything you own behind. Being in a poor part the town you also have a very high risk of getting everything you own get stolen or destroyed by the storm.
It sucks to be poor. If you don't have a car, don't have money to stay in a hotel for a week waiting for the storm to pass you are not going to risk hitching a ride or taking a bus and losing everything you have. It's just too much of a risk.
So before you decide that everybody in New Orleans is too lazy to move take a moment to think about their condition.
Serenity was a decent movie but it really wasn't all that different then buffy conceptually. The plot devices were also rather worn if you ask me.
It was worth the money to see it which is more then I can say for most movies lately but I don't really think it was all that special.
Money owed for "peacekeeping"? I would think that money has been paid with taxes from all those contracts handed out to american companies for reconstruction and such.
He is educating you by showing you exactly how far the authorities are willing to go. This was just a name badge for god's sake and he removed the foil when going through checkpoints and they still detained him. I knew about RFID but I didn't realize how serious people were going to be about it.
He also educated me by showing an easy and effective way to make the point. He showed how it was possible to make them look stupid while obeying their orders.
Of course the mass media are going to call him a crackpot. Do you really expect anything else? The same mass media that called John Kerry a coward and accused him of shooting himself, the same mass media that called martin Luther king a communist, the same mass media that called the beatles communists, that same mass media that called kiss satanists for gods sake. The mass media will try to destory anybody who is popular and will try to demean anybody who is fighting for change.
The powers that be use the media to try and lable people who oppose them as communists, crackpots, terrorists, haters of america and freedom, cowards and whatever other phrase is pushing the buttons of the ignorant masses that week. If you want to make a difference you can't let the press calling you a crackpot stop you.
So what are you going to do other then calling him a crackpot that's what I want to know. You certainly seem to be content with joining the chorus of the chattering masses in calling him names rather then discussing the points he is trying to make with your parents or neighbors.
He educated you. He is expecting you to educate the masses.
Pssst. Hey you want to know a secret? Come here, let me whisper it in your ear.
there are starving people in the US too.
All he is saying is that if you aren't paying shut the fuck up. What's wrong with that? Pay or shut the fuck up. If you don't want to pay then don't and shut the fuck up. Better yet pull out of the UN and shut the fuck up.
What do you mean "they" look the other way? I thought it was George Bush's responsibility to deliver freedom to the world. Didn't he say he was going to? I heard him say that on TV. The words were coming out of his mouth.
So fuck off with the "they" shit. WE have been looking the other way. We disobeyed the UN to go to war with Iraq, why do we need the UN to help starving people in north Korea and masscred people in Africa?
"Sure, it was uncalled for, but they have to do what they can"
Exactly. They have said they will sue, they have sued. What's even worse is that most times they simply threaten to sue. When it comes to individuals that's all it takes to stifle innovation. Somebody already pointed out one case I am sure there are many more. No open source developer can afford to be sued by MS so all they do is pick up the phone and threaten to sue and they get what they want.
I just don't get it. What makes you think that MS is so nice, moral or ethical that they would never sue anybody for patent infringement?
Once again. How does that link make you any less of a war pig or a republitard?
I have been meaning to ask you? Do you jerk off when you see the coverage of the explosions?
Keep trying to weazel out of it. It's hilarious.
The early implementations of remote scripting was done with a tiny little java applet. That's why it worked in both netscape and IE. MS decided to re-do it because they decided they hate java one one day and also to make it a MS only technology. Needless to say that killed the technology until it became cross platform again.
The anonymous user has an informative post.
Microsoft tried to squeeze apple with their patents on the ipod interface. Yes after the ipod came out MS rushed out and got a patent on the interface and tried to squeeze apple for money. Apple told them go suck ass and they never pursued it.
Microsoft sued lindows for trademark infringement. They also sued a 16 year old boy who had the temerity to register a domain name with his name in it.
Microsoft has repeatedly said they intend to agressively defend their intellectual property.
What makes you think MS will never sue anybody for patent infringement after their top level executives have said they fully intend to?
Today I'd take a java applet over an ajax app. Too bad nobody is writing them anymore.
LOL. Too fucking retarded.
Are you under some delusion that the page you linked to makes you less of a war pig or less of a republitard?