personally, i feel that the use of two cases in english ought to be deprecated, as capitalization serves no grammatical purpose not already provided for by either punctuation or context (precedent: the title of books tend to be fragmentary and have no period, thus their context gives their content meaning). as for spelling errors, i generally attempt to write simpler phrases in the vernacular, as i feel that in informal writing it eases the general flow. noteably in that vein, i use the spelling "shur" as a piece of esotericism, which admittedly has no fair place in open forums such as this. any other spelling errors i apologise for, as they are likely due to my own haste and incompetance with the english language.
as an aside, i would like to note that i do appreciate the rules of grammer otherwise, and attempt to follow them whenever it seems necessary for the purpose of disambiguation.
a buddy of mine was talking about it over aim in class and they logged the convo as it went through their server... dang big brother =p
of course, that prompted me to write my own chat client using udp with an encryption method i invented using a randomized 512 byte key and certain "hidden amongst random numbers" algorithms...
dude, last year was my senior year in high school and i got the sam hive from a machine after the network admin had logged on (so his hashes were in the hive) and cracked'em with some rainbow tables. and i got, like, 50 hours community service. those charges are crazy, and prolly cuz he was trying to sell exams... dumb profit mongers...
what is that? red hat? ya... red hat is profiteering, right? black hat is malicious, white is exploring, grey is... wait, is there like a chart somewhere?
i was at the smithsonsian a while back and they had these measuring cups from the fifties that i had in my kitchen! (they'd been passed down) you might be able to give it to them, and they'd keep good care of it too.
maybe its a conspiracy of all the companies that run teh intarnets, and they're keepin the price up so the proletariat can't compete!!! its the man keepin us down! damn the man!
disregarding the immense volume of popcorn necessary...
i suggest removing the magnetron from a microwave (or purchasing a magnetron, whatever's easier) to pop the kernals. most efficient (i think) would be to put the kernals in his apartment and pop them there. it would take a long time (depending on how you decide to power the magnetron, personal experience advises against batteries) but it would be pretty easy. you can likely get popcorn fairly cheap at costco or whatnot, and google yeilds 50 lbs for $20. prolly best to team up with a few buddies with the magnetrons...
man id like to see that done... lazers are fer wusses, im all about the ray-guns.
your final statement is ambiguous, i suggest this interpretation: the wealthy are willing to sacrifice the freedoms of the poor for financial security. its the inherent flaw of the capitalist model.
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As you say regarding GPL, any "half-decent software project can survive pretty well on a handful of interested developers," and thus is not everybody "putting work in?" Your description of opensource communities seems to well match your description of communism, eh?
But your statement rgarding the, erm, half-assed nature of these organizations seems somewhat misplaced. Certainly there are a significant number of such unfinished programs, but there are also many quality programs produced by the open source community, such as mplayer or many of the linux distros (off the top of my head). IMNSHO, mplayer is a much more finished program than any commercial video software I've ever used.
Perhaps the number of so-called "finished" programs (a term I think well defines that subtle difference between solid code and shody hack) in the opensource community might match up with those in commercial software?
Firefox 0.7 felt a heck of a lot more finished than whatever version of IE was out did at that time.
in locke, all concept of ownership (as in property) is an imaginary abstraction, and thus that easily subsumes copywright. more practically, intellectual property rights exist and thusly that point is ultimately moot.
the "communism" you're likely talking about is better described as fascism, which is very, very bad. and never works. thats why fascist states always collapse.
to marx, it is the people who must elect to move toward communism. not just any people, but a well-educated, value-producing people with a representational government. atleast, marx suggests representational government, i believe either he or lenin disregarded it as unfeasable, though.
from a neo-marxist standpoint, both microsoft and the opensource community are clearly communist constructions. (privitization, etc)
therein lies your statement regarding microsoft and communism: microsoft is a hierarchial fascism (a natural state of bussinesses, really, not just "evil bad thing" fascism), but internally a communist organization (also a natural state of bussinesses).
whereas the opensource community, as it conglomerates around different projects, builds small, representational organizations both administered and populated entirely by what is essentially a modern proletariat - computer programmers. the internet, and the attempt to release programs freely therein, allows people to produce value whilst simultaneously having no "property". the quality of infinite multiplicity, as you suggest, plays a significant role in the feasability of property-less value.
what i mean is, when a programmer creates a gpl'd program, he creates something of value while retaining only (essentially) honorary property rights on it. and that makes a programmer a member of the proletariat (proletariat literally means "those without property"), to the extent of that program's sphere.
thus, the opensource community is really communism, as it is the self-organization of a proletariat. and it's a self-representational communism (the first of its kind?), well juxtaposed against the fascist communism of most modern bussiness models.
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only a little off-topic... more birdwalking?
the preamble from the GPL reads almost like a friendlier marx
(i paraphrase) "the proletariat (those without property who produce, ie open-source programmers) must choose to abolish property (restrictive legal rights on source)!"
i just hope we don't get a lenin on our hands... maybe sun?
in, like, 7th grade i wrote a fantastic game based on "galaga" in quick basic 7.1 in a matter of weeks! basic is great for crappy little games!
with visual studio.net, you can prolly pretty easily toss together a very visually pleasing directx-based game in 3-4 months. heck, you could do it in a week or so if you knew what you were doin. maybe two or three if you only have a little background in programming.
and what about his name? "grievous" is as bad as "sleazebaggio"!!!
and dooku has been used before, i think... so his name might not be new (im no expert on star wars here), but dooku is a pretty lame name as well. like "evil mr dookie head! rawr!"
i guess the poor material on the writing side stems from the fact that lucas hasnt seen any of the other kurosawa films yet =p
by avi are you refering to divx? i believe mp3 is still a proprietary format - it costs money to legally use it. correct me if im wrong, but you can make a ".avi" file using xvid and ogg, they're just codecs and avi is just a file extention not explicitly refering to any particular codec. atleast, that's been my impression.
i feel its generally legally safer, cheaper and otherwise equally efficient to simply use free, opensource materials whenever possible.
admittedly there are some applications for which opensource materials simply cannot compare, but i don't beleive this is one of those instances.
I work with a small web-based company which distributes media files in audio and video formats, and we've decided to go with ogm (xvid video, ogg audio) video files and ogg audio for our audio/video content that doesn't require extremely high quality. If you're presently using WMV, quality is clearly not a concern.
actually, the program would be almost trivial. you would simply have it be passed an url, which is what windows does when it calls a browser, like "firefox http://www.google.com". then compare that url to a database, maybe by just filtering it to the domain or whatever. then simply do a shell command for firefox or ie depending on what your database of urls says to use.
the only vinders programming im familiar with is within the.net framework, so unless you have that i couldn't do it. i could helpya if you were runnin xcfe!
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all those names sound about as next-gen as "delorean" or "teenage mutant ninja turtles" or "next-gen"
as an aside, i would like to note that i do appreciate the rules of grammer otherwise, and attempt to follow them whenever it seems necessary for the purpose of disambiguation.
i dont know why this is really news, i mean, they've had this in washington state fer a while now, and im shur a lot of other states too.
of course, that prompted me to write my own chat client using udp with an encryption method i invented using a randomized 512 byte key and certain "hidden amongst random numbers" algorithms...
what is that? red hat? ya... red hat is profiteering, right? black hat is malicious, white is exploring, grey is... wait, is there like a chart somewhere?
can i install bittorrent on my cell now? i've been wanting to dl illegal ringtones fer a while...
i was at the smithsonsian a while back and they had these measuring cups from the fifties that i had in my kitchen! (they'd been passed down) you might be able to give it to them, and they'd keep good care of it too.
maybe its a conspiracy of all the companies that run teh intarnets, and they're keepin the price up so the proletariat can't compete!!! its the man keepin us down! damn the man!
no it isn't! i just tried that! you lie! =p
i suggest removing the magnetron from a microwave (or purchasing a magnetron, whatever's easier) to pop the kernals. most efficient (i think) would be to put the kernals in his apartment and pop them there. it would take a long time (depending on how you decide to power the magnetron, personal experience advises against batteries) but it would be pretty easy. you can likely get popcorn fairly cheap at costco or whatnot, and google yeilds 50 lbs for $20. prolly best to team up with a few buddies with the magnetrons...
man id like to see that done... lazers are fer wusses, im all about the ray-guns.
the microsoft comment is especially salient considering the recent suggestions of a google os.
your final statement is ambiguous, i suggest this interpretation: the wealthy are willing to sacrifice the freedoms of the poor for financial security. its the inherent flaw of the capitalist model.
But your statement rgarding the, erm, half-assed nature of these organizations seems somewhat misplaced. Certainly there are a significant number of such unfinished programs, but there are also many quality programs produced by the open source community, such as mplayer or many of the linux distros (off the top of my head). IMNSHO, mplayer is a much more finished program than any commercial video software I've ever used.
Perhaps the number of so-called "finished" programs (a term I think well defines that subtle difference between solid code and shody hack) in the opensource community might match up with those in commercial software?
Firefox 0.7 felt a heck of a lot more finished than whatever version of IE was out did at that time.
the "communism" you're likely talking about is better described as fascism, which is very, very bad. and never works. thats why fascist states always collapse.
to marx, it is the people who must elect to move toward communism. not just any people, but a well-educated, value-producing people with a representational government. atleast, marx suggests representational government, i believe either he or lenin disregarded it as unfeasable, though.
from a neo-marxist standpoint, both microsoft and the opensource community are clearly communist constructions. (privitization, etc)
therein lies your statement regarding microsoft and communism: microsoft is a hierarchial fascism (a natural state of bussinesses, really, not just "evil bad thing" fascism), but internally a communist organization (also a natural state of bussinesses).
whereas the opensource community, as it conglomerates around different projects, builds small, representational organizations both administered and populated entirely by what is essentially a modern proletariat - computer programmers. the internet, and the attempt to release programs freely therein, allows people to produce value whilst simultaneously having no "property". the quality of infinite multiplicity, as you suggest, plays a significant role in the feasability of property-less value.
what i mean is, when a programmer creates a gpl'd program, he creates something of value while retaining only (essentially) honorary property rights on it. and that makes a programmer a member of the proletariat (proletariat literally means "those without property"), to the extent of that program's sphere.
thus, the opensource community is really communism, as it is the self-organization of a proletariat. and it's a self-representational communism (the first of its kind?), well juxtaposed against the fascist communism of most modern bussiness models.
the preamble from the GPL reads almost like a friendlier marx
(i paraphrase) "the proletariat (those without property who produce, ie open-source programmers) must choose to abolish property (restrictive legal rights on source)!"
i just hope we don't get a lenin on our hands... maybe sun?
bought the tshirt?
http://www.splitreason.com/productdetail.php?id=42
i've worn it out =p
rough dogbert quote: "in business, its not a matter of success, its a matter of having someone to blame when you fail!"
and red v blue wasnt mentioned in the article, and they practically invented the genre
in, like, 7th grade i wrote a fantastic game based on "galaga" in quick basic 7.1 in a matter of weeks! basic is great for crappy little games!
with visual studio .net, you can prolly pretty easily toss together a very visually pleasing directx-based game in 3-4 months. heck, you could do it in a week or so if you knew what you were doin. maybe two or three if you only have a little background in programming.
and dooku has been used before, i think... so his name might not be new (im no expert on star wars here), but dooku is a pretty lame name as well. like "evil mr dookie head! rawr!"
i guess the poor material on the writing side stems from the fact that lucas hasnt seen any of the other kurosawa films yet =p
i feel its generally legally safer, cheaper and otherwise equally efficient to simply use free, opensource materials whenever possible.
admittedly there are some applications for which opensource materials simply cannot compare, but i don't beleive this is one of those instances.
I work with a small web-based company which distributes media files in audio and video formats, and we've decided to go with ogm (xvid video, ogg audio) video files and ogg audio for our audio/video content that doesn't require extremely high quality. If you're presently using WMV, quality is clearly not a concern.
and does it come in dvorak?
the only vinders programming im familiar with is within the .net framework, so unless you have that i couldn't do it. i could helpya if you were runnin xcfe!
i dont think them dopey lawyers would understand that, but i agree.