That was the Adam, and it was a major piece of suck thanks to the fricking power cord for the ENTIRE UNIT being built into the PRINTER. lose the printer? you were fucked.
I had pretty much all of the 70s and 80s PCs at one time (thanks to a trucker uncle that would pick up things that "fell of a truck" for me) and out of all of 'em I'd say the Trash 80 and the Commodore Vic and C64s were the most reliable. They took insane abuse with the only real issue being the cassette drives. While I didn't have a PCjr I had a cousin that did and it didn't last long,IIRC the keyboards on those were made of suck.
And let this old guy shake his cane and you young whippersnappers and remind you that you don't know how good you got it! In the 80s the systems cost a mint, were all incompatible as hell, and many of them went from useful to doorstops in no time as there wasn't any easy way to get software if your local B&M. In some ways the 90s were worse, as PCs were compatible but were literally out of date before you got done unpacking, CPUs and sockets were here today and gone by lunch, and programs were taking advantage of every clock jump so a PC that was fast in 97 was slow by 98 and a dino by 99. It cost a crazy amount of money and by the time you paid it off it wouldn't run squat, just a rough time all around.
Compare it to today where a 2006 C2D or Athlon X2 will run pretty much anything you want except games, and a 2008 C2Q or Phenom X4 will game just fine, PCs are cheap and plentiful, easy to upgrade, and can hold plenty of RAM and storage? Life is good guys, never been better I'd argue. Hell my youngest is playing all the latest games on a $60 triple (the Athlon X3 455 are looking at damned near 100% unlocks and can be had for as low as $45, just a crazy cheap deal) and a $100 HD7790, to play the latest games a decade ago I'd be out over a grand for the unit easy and in a year it'd already be dragging. Say what you will but computing has never been cheaper, PCs last longer than ever before, you whippersnappers need to take a minute and just marvel at how far we've come since the days of the PCjr...now get off my lawn!
Exactly. Software is fine for editing, but for recording? Even one of those $400 AIO units is better. ZERO latency, no troubles syncing tracks, no muss, no fuss.
My advice would be to get a stand alone recorder and then use whatever editing software he cares for. I use Audacity myself, its fine, nothing overblown or fancy but then again I don't want a ton of effects added to my music so it works great for me. As for hardware? I do my editing on an AMD hexacore with 8Gb of RAM, 6 real cores does help when you are doing a lot of editing and by buying a kit i got it for less than $500 shipped. Can you get bigger, sure but if you spend that money on a DAW instead of the PC you'll be frankly better off. I've been in plenty of studios across the south and have yet to see a real studio using software record, its all either ADAT or hard drive recorders connected to real boards.
So buy one of those AIO DAWs, you can get several different ones that work quite well under $750, under $500 if you only need 4 tracks at a time, and as your needs grow and your skills get better you can then trade up to an ADAT or HDD based recorder and pro board.
The change in the TOS was nearly a year before G+ was rolled out and has others below you have pointed out they are making android into another proprietary OS and by ramming G+ down your throat with damned near every service the profile they can build on you is Stasi levels of scary. If you use Gmail and YouTube and give up and log in to YouTube they know what kind of shows you like, what kind of music you listen to, YouTube was very separate from Gmail and Google for precisely that reason and Google USED to talk about how well they protect their users while using that as an example.
So anybody who claims someone who no longer trusts Google is an Astroturfer? Sorry but they need to stop sucking Gdick and look at what the company has been doing the last couple of years. If I said a company knows where you are, when you are home, what music and shows you like, who your friends are, where they live, that sounds like something out of 1984, right? That is simply what a Google services user with an Android phone has already divulged without even knowing it.
There are several articles out there showing how much intel Google has on their users, wouldn't want to be called an astroturfer though so I'm sure you can look it up, might want to use Duck DuckGo to do that search, just FYI.
But just like in the battle of France the generals had a good blitzkrieg run going with army group center, such a good run that the supply trucks were having trouble keeping up, but by splitting up army group Center instead of letting the run play out he ended up with 1.- 2 severely weak armies, not capable of fighting past any real resistance without great cost, and 2.- TWO badly stretched supply lines and not enough trucks to feed either one with vital fuel.
If the generals would have done to Hitler what they did in France and just keep him in the dark with old intel they probably could have taken Moscow before Hitler was the wiser and with Stalin as their prisoner they wouldn't have had any problem taking the south.Ever watch "Fatherland"? because that map was based on what many historians thought would have happened if they had captured Moscow and Stalin, they had a small pocket fighting in the Urals near the recently moved tank and plane factories while the center and south of the country would have given up due to lack of munitions and material which was all in the north. By sending every last factory to the Urals Stalin took a BIG risk, if Moscow and the middle of the country was cut off everybody in the south would have been left without so much as a single tank factory so by grabbing Moscow and splitting the country in two it would have been all but over.
Considering we already have 2 people (that I know of, probably more) in jail for thoughtcrime*? I think we can safely say the constitution is now a worthless piece of paper. Also more than 174 million Americans live in the constitution free zone thanks to PATRIOT they can have any and all rights ignored because they are near a border. Finally according to a friend in the state crime lab because the distribution laws in most states were modeled after the drug distribution laws (you can decide whether by malice or pure lazy) which completely ignores the fact that physical rules don't work with bits and bytes it really doesn't matter if like Tor or Freenet you have ZERO access, or that the bits are encrypted, because the bits "changed hands" like a dope deal YOU ARE GUILTY and until/unless the laws are rewritten to take the fact they aren't physical objects into account anybody that runs Tor exit nodes or Freenet at all is looking at decades to life in prison with pretty much no way to defend yourself because hey, the bits did "change hands" from user A to user B at your router which is in your house, that is all that's needed.
*.- The first is the guy who wrote the "pro pedo" book, no pics, no evidence he had ever done anything other than put his thoughts on the subject on paper which if that isn't the very definition of thoughtcrime i don't know what is, the other is a guy that was busted at the border with a "thought diary" his therapist told him to keep, again no pics, no evidence he had done anything other than write his dreams and fantasies down onto paper. I guess you better not write in your diary about that hot dream you had unless you start it off with "I carded her and she was 21" to keep from going to jail,huh?
I'd say it really comes down to pilot training more than anything. Sure not having the missile would cripple the F22...if all the pilot knows how to do is spam missiles.
For a perfect example watch "Dogfights of the Middle East" where for the first half of the program the Israelis are fighting with a bomber interceptor (Mirage 3 & 5) against enemies in the MUCH more agile MiG 17s and 19s. at the end of the day the IAF pilots were hyper aggressive, refused to disengage once homed on an enemy, and just wouldn't let an enemy go. I'll never forget one scene where a pilot talks about having to "talk down" a rookie who is so damned determined to nail a MiG he is about to stall as he is trying to stay behind a MiG landing on the runway!
At the end of the day the tech can make things easier, and nothing can help if the planes are truly gimped (The Imperial navy not having self sealing fuel tanks making one hit kills quite easy for even slow USAAF dive bombers for example) but if you have even a halfway functional plane and a damned good pilot? Even today that still matters a lot.
Actually even the Russians admit the Germans were kicking their asses for the first year, until Hitler made a huge blunder that was practically suicidal. Stalin had refused to vacate Moscow so they had the chance to grab him and pretty much end the war but Hitler took Army group Center and split it in half, believing he could grab the oil fields in the south AND Moscow. this was a foolish move that caused his troops to get bogged down until the winter which they just weren't ready for.
Look up "Soviet Storm" on YouTube, its made by Russian TV and is as good a quality as Battle 360 when it comes to re-enactments and they don't pull any punches, they talk about when soviet strategy was wrong, when commanders failed, and when the Germans were doing well. its an unblinking look at the Eastern front and pretty damned riveting.
Oh please, if you aren't happy with Google now you are an astroturfer? Fanboy much?
Lets see...they made the TOS nastier, so they could monetize the hell out of you, have gotten so bad at bugging the piss out of YouTube users to use G+ that I've had to install a browser just for YouTube so Google couldn't bug the piss out of me, and the amount of tying everything to your user account has gotten so creepy and stalkerish that i made a throw away Gmail for my Android so it would stop trying to dump G+ from my main Gmail onto my phone.
Yep no reason to be upset or unhappy with Google right now, they are doubleplus good citizen!
Oh good lord can you BE any more commie? Why don't you add "you didn't build that" and "from each according to his ability" while you were at it? If you want to follow your "logic" then it all belongs to Intel and the electric company, after all there wouldn't be any code without electricity and a CPU would there?
Communism failed comrade, and trying to apply communism to software development will likewise fail. the ONLY reason Linux and the GPL got as far as it did was GPL V2 left a loophole you could drive a mac truck through and by making GPL V3 so anti capitalism RMS made damned sure it will keep losing devs. Again where is the Bioshock? Carmack has given you all these engines, what has your communist design philosophy created with them? Dozens of MP only CTF Q3 Arena ripoffs, that is what. ZERO innovation, ZERO new ideas, because nobody can work on a quality FOSS videogame without starving.
At the end of the day devs have to pay their bills and RMS has made that as hard as he possibly can, probably because he is a failed programmer. Oh and before you say eMacs and GCC please note that neither has had a single drop of RMS code added in over a decade, both were forked away from RMS a decade ago and to keep from being made to look like a fool and irrelevant he "blessed" the forks. There is a REASON why LO isn't up to MSO 2K3, which the bookkeeping software isn't up to the very first release of QB, its because you can't have any real money sunk into those and ever see a cent back.
BTW it might do you wel to see where the money for Linux devs is coming from, its over 96% from large corps using it in servers and nearly every dime is going into server apps and work on the kernel that is useful for servers. this is why the desktop is so far behind, why Google had to spend over a billion dollars to bring Linux up enough to use it for Android, its because whether you like it or not communism simply doesn't work. How do YOU think the devs should be paid? the state? A tax on every person to pay for this "free" software? To me the fact that the spokesman for the GPL is a squatter at MIT (his own words) that doesn't own anything but the clothes on his back? Better proof than all the words in the world on how communism simply doesn't work.
Which is why you had better be wealthy and without family if you plan on running an exit node or use Freenet, as the way it was explained to me by a friend in the state crime lab anybody whose system accesses CP (which is easy for the cops to find out as they often leave CP sites running after they bust them as honeypots, they simply replace the video files with junk while leaving the screencaps up to entice the pedo to try to download the vids) is legally distributing, doesn't matter if they could actually see the files or even if they were encrypted, if it passes through your IP address to somewhere else its distribution.
This is why I've been saying for years to ALWAYS fight against expanding the CP laws, as the ones that have been on the books since the 70s worked perfectly fine and they purposely make the new ones as vague as possible to cast the widest net. If you want proof just look at the 2 guys in prison now for thoughtcrimes. 1 wrote the supposedly "pro pedo" book, no pics, no telling people to go rape kids, just his thoughts on the subject written down sent him to jail and with the other one his own therapist told him to write down his fantasies and thoughts so they could discuss them, again NO evidence that they were anything but fantasies, no CP found, he was thrown in jail simply for words on a page.
If this doesn't scare the hell out of everybody I don't know what will, we literally have thoughtcrimes landing people in jail and simply trying to help dissidents in China and Syria can literally send you to prison for life and even if you manage to fight back and win in court it will break you, cost you years, probably your job and friendships. I don't know about everybody else but this isn't the country my grandfather fought for in WWII, in fact its looking more and more like the country he fought against.
And its all because of that damned stealth which cripples the HELL out of the aircraft! The ONLY advantage it gives you is on sneaking up, that's it, and in return for the sneaking up? 1.- no external hardpoints means you can't carry shit for stores, 2.- this cuts down loiter times to joke levels, 3.- it limits your new toy to a couple of missiles at best, 4.- it drives the costs to insane levels thanks to the exotic materials and perfectly flush seams required.
Frankly we are making the same mistake that Germany made in WWII, as we are making planes that are extremely complex, have very low flight to maintenance ratios, spend more time on the ground being worked on than anything else,can't afford to have more than a handful built making spare parts costs soar, and are ignoring the fact that any potential enemies are gonna be able to pick up the MiG 29s and SU35s for a song thus enabling them to "plane spam" us with planes that can carry a hell of a lot more stores than our techno turkies ever can.
If we HAVE to buy stealth toys? The stealth eagle can be had for a song, eagles are reliable, when you don't need the stealth it can carry a ton of stores and most importantly we get the line cranked we could easily have 2 or even 3 of those for every F35 which they STILL haven't been able to show will actually work with any reliability. Its the F22 all over again and all TFA does is show me that stealth is just a bad idea with current tech. the Chinese are likewise finding this out, with their F22 copy ending up on the "for sale cheap" pile because after trying it the Chinese air force don't want it.
Not to mention we have seen several cases in the past couple of years of users having their computer equipment confiscated for running TOR exit nodes by grabbing them for CP distribution, who is to say that when they get their PC back it doesn't have a little "extra hardware" to keep an eye on TOR users?
But you should be able to test without risking lives, have those using the exit nodes go to a "political website" that has an address that nobody would come up with by accident and see if that site after using supposedly "good" nodes suddenly has a jump in activity.
Why is this modded offtopic? Seems about as ontopic as one can get and something many of us here have been talking about. Google USED to be this cool "throw cool shit at the wall and see what sticks" kind of company but in the last couple of years...they have started getting nasty. The nasty changes in the TOS, the nasty ways of trying to force you to use G+ whether you want it or not... its gotten so bad I now have a "YouTube browser" just to keep from getting that damned popup trying to get me to tie my real name to G+ and YouTube and had to make a throwaway account for my android phone.
I'm sorry guys but Google just ain't the cool fun nerdy company they was, ever since the IPO and G+ its been about squeezing every last penny out of the users to drum up the stock price, not about just making money off doing cool stuff. How much you wanna bet its gonna turn out to be tied to the "exciting new feature" of tying G+ circle crap into Gmail they recently rolled out?
I swear Brin has a bigger chubby for that crappy G+ than Ballmer has for Metro and in both cases its a giant DO NOT WANT but sadly its not about the users in both cases, its about "gotta beat the FB and make teh monies!" for one and "gotta beat the iPad and make teh monies!" for the other.
I don't see what you are babbling about, as both posts are 100% in agreement with one another. The other posters were pissed about the user having the choice to run non free, and with BSD it doesn't make a damned what you, me, or the "big bad corp" does as the project is still there, its not "taken", its not going away, they are applying FUD and doublespeak when there are so many insanely successful BSD projects (If you'd like an example I'd point to Webkit which arguably runs on much more devices than Linux ever has) that there is more than enough proof the "ZOMG they'll TAKE TEH CODEZ!!" FUD is just that, FUD.
But the fact that you yourself admit that what you look for is the MOST restricting license frankly says more than I ever could, because its not enough that you share something that might make another person's life a little easier, you have to make absolutely sure "the other guy", the one who doesn't think exactly like you or believe like you believe, can't touch your "precious". That to me just shows the kind of mindset that the GPLers have and its really sad, because it went from a way to share to St. iGNUcious and the church of GPL.
I honestly don't even know what to say to someone with an attitude as nasty as that, other than its not healthy and maybe you should talk to somebody. Its a license not a religion, and if all you care about is making sure only people that think like you use it? Well I personally won't have to worry about ever running into your code at least as I doubt it'll be used by many.
Considering Apple sales not to mention Webkit browser control pretty much the mobile web? Its doing pretty well actually.
Oh and if you are talking about old Theo nearly running OpenBSD into the ground? When those donating (for the second time in 2 years has Theo blown all the cash, just FYI) pointed out that pretty much everybody has abandoned VAX and those other early 90s power piggies and that it MIGHT be a good idea to look at VMs or cutting the really old junk nobody uses anymore? He released an EPIC rant about how they HAD to have all these ancient POS systems and why they were just idiots for not just handing him the money!
So no shit Theo nearly ran out of cash, stupid is as stupid does. Everybody else? just fine, thanks for asking.
But that is like saying you are "free" in a theocracy...just as long as you believe exactly the same as them.
RMS can "encourage" although frankly I'd like a citation on that since every writing I've ever seen from RMS is downright communistic when the subject of money comes up, but the simple fact there is A REASON why you've never seen a FOSS game with the quality of Bioshock for example, its because if your software doesn't fall under the "blessed trinity" way of making money from GPL, 1.- Selling hardware, 2.- Selling support/services, 3.- the tin cup? You are just SOL when it comes to GPL.
So you can "encourage" until the cows come home but if i can take your software and give it away for free why the hell should I pay you? Just look at how Canonical and every home oriented FOSS desktop that has come before it has never gotten into the black, its because like the vast majority of software it doesn't fit the blessed trinity and is therefor SOL. Office software, imaging software, bookkeeping, medical, there is a reason why the few FOSS offerings are frankly piss poor amateur hour compared to the proprietary offerings, its because the GPL gives you no way to survive while making that kind of software.
FUD, pure FUD and not only is it FUD it has absolutely not a fucking thing to do with either Apple NOR Google NOR the BSD license, which was the subject of the post you were responding to!
You are making the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS that the RIAA uses against copying, that somehow it will be "taken" from you, that unless you have control it will "go away" but its FUD, nothing but FUD. Did Webkit go away after Apple and Google started contributing? Nope if anything it has never been used more, its now on millions of devices and use by tens of millions daily. Did CUPS disappear? Nope the developer doesn't have to wonder where his next meal is coming from, that is all.
So I'm sorry but bringing up some bullshit attributed to MSFT more than a decade ago has ZERO to do with Apple and Google and the BSD license, not a damned thing, just as this video of RMS munching down on toe cheese don't have a damned thing to do with Apple,Google, or BSD but hey RMS is for the GPL which competes with BSD so that makes it relevant!
If you have troops on the ground and haven't secured some sort of landing area for getting supplies in and wounded out? Well i think you have bigger problems than where you are gonna get the drones from.
Exactly and moreover I have thought of a perfect gaming example to illustrate which in light of the topic at hand would be fitting...
There are companies that make games with always online DRM, you cannot play their game unless you agree to their always online DRM. Even though some of these games look enticing, including Diablo which I quite enjoyed the first 2 in that series I have CHOSEN to not buy these games because I refuse to support always online DRM. I think its stupid, its been shown to be totally worthless at stopping piracy and royally fucks those of us who don't live in a megacity and always have Wifi in range by making sure we can't play our games on the go. Therefor instead of getting D3 I made the CHOICE to buy Torchlight 1&2 whose devs are happy to sell their game without the always online crap, heck you can even buy T1 100% DRM free if you'd like.
I personally have no problem with Steam because it is to me a compromise, in return for checking in once a month minimum I get free MP with hassle free matchmaking, I get chat, i get my games patched hassle free, I get the Steam workshop where adding mods and keeping them updated is as simple as hitting a big green "subscribe" button, I get access to a large community with everything from tips and tricks to maps and reviews, I even get my graphics card drivers updated automatically. Not to mention the constant sales that have let me build a crazy huge library for peanuts;-)
All of this makes Steam worth it to me, if that isn't the case for you, if the ONLY thing you want is 100% DRM free games? That is perfectly fine and I respect your right to feel that way, there are even companies like GOG that are happy to be your DRM free gaming service. But what gives YOU the right to make it a big PITA for ME to choose differently? If and ONLY IF Debian makes the non free repo the default will you have a reason to bitch, but as of today? you have to do absolutely nothing to keep a 100% free Debian, its that way OOTB. But to try to limit others to only be like you, and to only do things your way? I'm sorry but that is wrong, no matter how you try to sugarcoat it.
at the end of the day freedom is about choice, and limiting a person's choice in the name of freedom is about as doublespeak as you can get.
"You can choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"...Rush
The problem is you are equating being for choice as being "Anti-GPL" and THAT is the door through which all the RIAA stye FUD enters, because for the pro-GPL crowd it isn't enough that they choose to run only free, its quite obvious from the posts above and below you that they don't want you to have the ability to run anything else.
Again I'd like it explained how EXACTLY is the "big bad corp" gonna "steal" the BSD code? Its still there, still supported by the same guys as it was the day before, whether you or a corp or the man in the moon downloads the source makes no difference to the original project because the code is still there and just like with the RIAA their FUD doesn't change the fact they are trying to apply rules of scarcity where none exist.
Could a corp come along and "buy" a BSD company? Sure but they can do that with a GPL company, look at Sun and Open Office for just one recent example. That didn't magically make OO.o disappear, in fact it already had been forked before Sun ever sold it and you were free to use Go-OO instead. You can no more force a BSD project to disappear than you can a GPL because as long as a single person has the original source? A fork can be made and things will continue.
For there to be REAL choice then a person has to have the ability to choose NO, simple as that. Does having a checkbox somehow limit the user? Can they no longer choose to have a gnusense level of "purity" from Debian? of course not, all it does is allow those that don't want to go apeshit over licenses to check a box instead of jumping through flaming hoops. I find it quite telling that those that claim to be so gung ho about "freedom" really don't seem to like the idea that some may choose not to be like them, but that is what freedom is about, its about being able to choose what is right for you.
Didn't Jesus say he wasn't there to throw out the old testament? Sorry I'm not good at the whole chapter and verse thing and my Google-Fu is well documented to suck but I remember that being in there somewhere.
Also show me where Jesus said you were allowed to pick and choose what you followed in the book because i don't remember that chapter. Whether Christians like it or not their "God" in the old testament? Really not nice, in fact if you were to list are the horrible things ordered to his followers like David and attributed it to a person instead of a God they would probably be listed as one of the worst monsters in history.
So either the bible is your book or its not, and if it is then you really have to claim the whole thing. Ironically if western Christians didn't treat the book as a "salad bar" and just pick and choose what they want out of it? they'd be a hell of a lot closer to the taliban than they would be to the modern west. Stoning, slavery, treating women and children as property to be sold or even disposed of if they displease the male? Like it or not its all in there and I don't remember any passage where Jesus came out and condemned the old testament or its laws.
Oh and just one final thing that I noticed and found VERY interesting, you know all those churches condemning gays because of the bible? Well if you look back at the speeches the churches used against blacks in the 50s and Jews in the 30s its damned near identical, you really only have to change the passage and gay to negro or jew and its the same rants, just different targets. I personally found that quite interesting, as it seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
Citation please? Because from what I've seen the two biggest users are Apple, who give back with projects like CUPS, and Google who likewise have been sharing their work upstream.
What I personally find ironic as hell is if you take pretty much any pro GPL rant and change a few words, it looks like yet another letter from the RIAA as with both they rely on FUD instead of facts. Could somebody take without giving back with BSD? Sure but it would become more and more expensive to do as their fork gets farther and farther away from mainline so its in their own best interests to get their work into mainline so their stuff works without major rewrites. the only real difference that I can see is that BSD doesn't hold a gun to your head and make you give back and there is a reason for that...you aren't "taking" anything, you are just making a copy. The mainline is still there, the "big bad corp" can't take it away, all they can do is make a copy and if they want to fork away? That is THEIR business, doesn't affect the mainline one way or the other.
Sound familiar? Its the same argument against attaching artificial scarcity to bits that those against the *.A.A have been using for years and I would argue what both the *.A.As and those that slam BSD FOSS licenses want isn't "more freedom", its you to do things THEIR way. Well RMS burnt a lot of bridges with GPL V3 so many devs are choosing to use something else. its their code, its theirs to decide. Why does this frighten the GPLers? The code is still there, help thyself, what is soooo horrible about not forcing additional rules upon the code that you would use RIAA style FUD?
To me the argument for manned planes and carriers ended when the Chinese started fielding the sea skimmers. We are talking about a missile with a 600+ mile range (the new ones are supposedly 900 miles and insanely accurate) that can be mounted to damned near anything and go Mach 3+. Sorry but that big ass carrier just became target practice at that point because you can just go Macross Missile Massacre and by the time you detect 'em? You be fucked.
Lets face it guys, we knew this day was coming when they had to cripple the F14s and F15s because the plane would easily take more than the pilot could survive, anything newer is just dick waving because the planes are already gimped by the pilots. The drone can take more Gs than the human can survive, can spend days without a bathroom break because switching pilots is as easy as getting up out of the control chair, you can have the drones take care of themselves for the long boring flight to and from the target and because of that you can have one pilot take care of many planes, and of course you don't have to risk your best pilots as a couple of top guns can take care of an entire squadron.
Just as WWII showed us that the days of battleships of the line slugging it out were over* so too is tech making giant carrier fleets into nothing but really big bullseyes for enemy missiles. The only reason we haven't learned that lesson is that the "enemies" we've been fighting have at best a half a century old Soviet junk, or in the case of Iran half a century old American junk (they still fly the F4 and their "great new fighter" is widely believed to be a copy of the F5 Freedom Fighters) so its been as lopsided as the USA versus Grenada. If we actually have to fight anybody with tech from this century? then I have a feeling those big slow carriers will be sitting on the bottom faster than you can say missile spam.
*-Actually Billy Mitchell showed the brass in the late 20s that the era of the big battleship was over when his biplanes were able to press home their attacks with ease against the target ships but the bigwigs simply ignored the evidence right in front of their faces...until Pearl and HMS Prince Of Wales showed them that against carrier aircraft battleships were practically defenseless. If there had been any doubt left the fate of Yamato, slaughtered by aircraft without getting close enough to fire off a single shot against the US carriers ended all debate.
Which is why I'm glad to see so many pointing out their doublespeak when it comes to freedom, because for too damned many the only "freedom" you should have is the freedom to do as they say and be like them, no freedom at all.
I mean look at what we are talking about here? Honestly if you are for freedom, which at its core is simply the right to choose then you should have absolutely zero problem with the non free repo as it is just that, a way to allow those that aren't fanatical about their software licenses the ability to use Debian without jumping through flaming hoops. For fucks sake its not even enabled by default so those that dream of a "license pure Debian" already have that OOTB without raising a single finger, the one that wants the non free has to make the effort to flip the switch NOT the other way around!
To me the entire argument points out an ugly underside that nobody wants to talk about, which is that the so called "Stallman followers" won't be happy until every distro has "purity" whether the end user wants that or not. Sorry but that isn't freedom, that isn't choice, because choice means i can choose to not be like the Stallman followers which is exactly what they don't want. Well too damned bad IMHO, because either you are for choice or you are not and letting the user have a single checkbox that they have to go out of their way to enable is not forcing them to do a damned thing, they can have a Debian as "pure" as gnusense if that is their choice, but they shouldn't be allowed to dictate what choice others get.
Because from the looks of things they got there because of fucking medical bills and we should have had fricking single payer 20 damned years ago like the rest of civilized society?
I bet we see a LOT more of this as all the growth hormones and antibiotics and plastics we ingest daily make the odds of having a perfectly healthy kid go down so we can either clean up the mess with our food supply or with our medical system...which one you wanna go after? The plastic coated drinks and hormone filled burgers, or a medical system where a single illness can wipe you out for life?
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That was the Adam, and it was a major piece of suck thanks to the fricking power cord for the ENTIRE UNIT being built into the PRINTER. lose the printer? you were fucked.
I had pretty much all of the 70s and 80s PCs at one time (thanks to a trucker uncle that would pick up things that "fell of a truck" for me) and out of all of 'em I'd say the Trash 80 and the Commodore Vic and C64s were the most reliable. They took insane abuse with the only real issue being the cassette drives. While I didn't have a PCjr I had a cousin that did and it didn't last long,IIRC the keyboards on those were made of suck.
And let this old guy shake his cane and you young whippersnappers and remind you that you don't know how good you got it! In the 80s the systems cost a mint, were all incompatible as hell, and many of them went from useful to doorstops in no time as there wasn't any easy way to get software if your local B&M. In some ways the 90s were worse, as PCs were compatible but were literally out of date before you got done unpacking, CPUs and sockets were here today and gone by lunch, and programs were taking advantage of every clock jump so a PC that was fast in 97 was slow by 98 and a dino by 99. It cost a crazy amount of money and by the time you paid it off it wouldn't run squat, just a rough time all around.
Compare it to today where a 2006 C2D or Athlon X2 will run pretty much anything you want except games, and a 2008 C2Q or Phenom X4 will game just fine, PCs are cheap and plentiful, easy to upgrade, and can hold plenty of RAM and storage? Life is good guys, never been better I'd argue. Hell my youngest is playing all the latest games on a $60 triple (the Athlon X3 455 are looking at damned near 100% unlocks and can be had for as low as $45, just a crazy cheap deal) and a $100 HD7790, to play the latest games a decade ago I'd be out over a grand for the unit easy and in a year it'd already be dragging. Say what you will but computing has never been cheaper, PCs last longer than ever before, you whippersnappers need to take a minute and just marvel at how far we've come since the days of the PCjr...now get off my lawn!
Exactly. Software is fine for editing, but for recording? Even one of those $400 AIO units is better. ZERO latency, no troubles syncing tracks, no muss, no fuss.
My advice would be to get a stand alone recorder and then use whatever editing software he cares for. I use Audacity myself, its fine, nothing overblown or fancy but then again I don't want a ton of effects added to my music so it works great for me. As for hardware? I do my editing on an AMD hexacore with 8Gb of RAM, 6 real cores does help when you are doing a lot of editing and by buying a kit i got it for less than $500 shipped. Can you get bigger, sure but if you spend that money on a DAW instead of the PC you'll be frankly better off. I've been in plenty of studios across the south and have yet to see a real studio using software record, its all either ADAT or hard drive recorders connected to real boards.
So buy one of those AIO DAWs, you can get several different ones that work quite well under $750, under $500 if you only need 4 tracks at a time, and as your needs grow and your skills get better you can then trade up to an ADAT or HDD based recorder and pro board.
The change in the TOS was nearly a year before G+ was rolled out and has others below you have pointed out they are making android into another proprietary OS and by ramming G+ down your throat with damned near every service the profile they can build on you is Stasi levels of scary. If you use Gmail and YouTube and give up and log in to YouTube they know what kind of shows you like, what kind of music you listen to, YouTube was very separate from Gmail and Google for precisely that reason and Google USED to talk about how well they protect their users while using that as an example.
So anybody who claims someone who no longer trusts Google is an Astroturfer? Sorry but they need to stop sucking Gdick and look at what the company has been doing the last couple of years. If I said a company knows where you are, when you are home, what music and shows you like, who your friends are, where they live, that sounds like something out of 1984, right? That is simply what a Google services user with an Android phone has already divulged without even knowing it.
There are several articles out there showing how much intel Google has on their users, wouldn't want to be called an astroturfer though so I'm sure you can look it up, might want to use Duck DuckGo to do that search, just FYI.
But just like in the battle of France the generals had a good blitzkrieg run going with army group center, such a good run that the supply trucks were having trouble keeping up, but by splitting up army group Center instead of letting the run play out he ended up with 1.- 2 severely weak armies, not capable of fighting past any real resistance without great cost, and 2.- TWO badly stretched supply lines and not enough trucks to feed either one with vital fuel.
If the generals would have done to Hitler what they did in France and just keep him in the dark with old intel they probably could have taken Moscow before Hitler was the wiser and with Stalin as their prisoner they wouldn't have had any problem taking the south.Ever watch "Fatherland"? because that map was based on what many historians thought would have happened if they had captured Moscow and Stalin, they had a small pocket fighting in the Urals near the recently moved tank and plane factories while the center and south of the country would have given up due to lack of munitions and material which was all in the north. By sending every last factory to the Urals Stalin took a BIG risk, if Moscow and the middle of the country was cut off everybody in the south would have been left without so much as a single tank factory so by grabbing Moscow and splitting the country in two it would have been all but over.
Considering we already have 2 people (that I know of, probably more) in jail for thoughtcrime*? I think we can safely say the constitution is now a worthless piece of paper. Also more than 174 million Americans live in the constitution free zone thanks to PATRIOT they can have any and all rights ignored because they are near a border. Finally according to a friend in the state crime lab because the distribution laws in most states were modeled after the drug distribution laws (you can decide whether by malice or pure lazy) which completely ignores the fact that physical rules don't work with bits and bytes it really doesn't matter if like Tor or Freenet you have ZERO access, or that the bits are encrypted, because the bits "changed hands" like a dope deal YOU ARE GUILTY and until/unless the laws are rewritten to take the fact they aren't physical objects into account anybody that runs Tor exit nodes or Freenet at all is looking at decades to life in prison with pretty much no way to defend yourself because hey, the bits did "change hands" from user A to user B at your router which is in your house, that is all that's needed.
*.- The first is the guy who wrote the "pro pedo" book, no pics, no evidence he had ever done anything other than put his thoughts on the subject on paper which if that isn't the very definition of thoughtcrime i don't know what is, the other is a guy that was busted at the border with a "thought diary" his therapist told him to keep, again no pics, no evidence he had done anything other than write his dreams and fantasies down onto paper. I guess you better not write in your diary about that hot dream you had unless you start it off with "I carded her and she was 21" to keep from going to jail,huh?
I'd say it really comes down to pilot training more than anything. Sure not having the missile would cripple the F22...if all the pilot knows how to do is spam missiles.
For a perfect example watch "Dogfights of the Middle East" where for the first half of the program the Israelis are fighting with a bomber interceptor (Mirage 3 & 5) against enemies in the MUCH more agile MiG 17s and 19s. at the end of the day the IAF pilots were hyper aggressive, refused to disengage once homed on an enemy, and just wouldn't let an enemy go. I'll never forget one scene where a pilot talks about having to "talk down" a rookie who is so damned determined to nail a MiG he is about to stall as he is trying to stay behind a MiG landing on the runway!
At the end of the day the tech can make things easier, and nothing can help if the planes are truly gimped (The Imperial navy not having self sealing fuel tanks making one hit kills quite easy for even slow USAAF dive bombers for example) but if you have even a halfway functional plane and a damned good pilot? Even today that still matters a lot.
Actually even the Russians admit the Germans were kicking their asses for the first year, until Hitler made a huge blunder that was practically suicidal. Stalin had refused to vacate Moscow so they had the chance to grab him and pretty much end the war but Hitler took Army group Center and split it in half, believing he could grab the oil fields in the south AND Moscow. this was a foolish move that caused his troops to get bogged down until the winter which they just weren't ready for.
Look up "Soviet Storm" on YouTube, its made by Russian TV and is as good a quality as Battle 360 when it comes to re-enactments and they don't pull any punches, they talk about when soviet strategy was wrong, when commanders failed, and when the Germans were doing well. its an unblinking look at the Eastern front and pretty damned riveting.
Oh please, if you aren't happy with Google now you are an astroturfer? Fanboy much?
Lets see...they made the TOS nastier, so they could monetize the hell out of you, have gotten so bad at bugging the piss out of YouTube users to use G+ that I've had to install a browser just for YouTube so Google couldn't bug the piss out of me, and the amount of tying everything to your user account has gotten so creepy and stalkerish that i made a throw away Gmail for my Android so it would stop trying to dump G+ from my main Gmail onto my phone.
Yep no reason to be upset or unhappy with Google right now, they are doubleplus good citizen!
Oh good lord can you BE any more commie? Why don't you add "you didn't build that" and "from each according to his ability" while you were at it? If you want to follow your "logic" then it all belongs to Intel and the electric company, after all there wouldn't be any code without electricity and a CPU would there?
Communism failed comrade, and trying to apply communism to software development will likewise fail. the ONLY reason Linux and the GPL got as far as it did was GPL V2 left a loophole you could drive a mac truck through and by making GPL V3 so anti capitalism RMS made damned sure it will keep losing devs. Again where is the Bioshock? Carmack has given you all these engines, what has your communist design philosophy created with them? Dozens of MP only CTF Q3 Arena ripoffs, that is what. ZERO innovation, ZERO new ideas, because nobody can work on a quality FOSS videogame without starving.
At the end of the day devs have to pay their bills and RMS has made that as hard as he possibly can, probably because he is a failed programmer. Oh and before you say eMacs and GCC please note that neither has had a single drop of RMS code added in over a decade, both were forked away from RMS a decade ago and to keep from being made to look like a fool and irrelevant he "blessed" the forks. There is a REASON why LO isn't up to MSO 2K3, which the bookkeeping software isn't up to the very first release of QB, its because you can't have any real money sunk into those and ever see a cent back.
BTW it might do you wel to see where the money for Linux devs is coming from, its over 96% from large corps using it in servers and nearly every dime is going into server apps and work on the kernel that is useful for servers. this is why the desktop is so far behind, why Google had to spend over a billion dollars to bring Linux up enough to use it for Android, its because whether you like it or not communism simply doesn't work. How do YOU think the devs should be paid? the state? A tax on every person to pay for this "free" software? To me the fact that the spokesman for the GPL is a squatter at MIT (his own words) that doesn't own anything but the clothes on his back? Better proof than all the words in the world on how communism simply doesn't work.
Which is why you had better be wealthy and without family if you plan on running an exit node or use Freenet, as the way it was explained to me by a friend in the state crime lab anybody whose system accesses CP (which is easy for the cops to find out as they often leave CP sites running after they bust them as honeypots, they simply replace the video files with junk while leaving the screencaps up to entice the pedo to try to download the vids) is legally distributing, doesn't matter if they could actually see the files or even if they were encrypted, if it passes through your IP address to somewhere else its distribution.
This is why I've been saying for years to ALWAYS fight against expanding the CP laws, as the ones that have been on the books since the 70s worked perfectly fine and they purposely make the new ones as vague as possible to cast the widest net. If you want proof just look at the 2 guys in prison now for thoughtcrimes. 1 wrote the supposedly "pro pedo" book, no pics, no telling people to go rape kids, just his thoughts on the subject written down sent him to jail and with the other one his own therapist told him to write down his fantasies and thoughts so they could discuss them, again NO evidence that they were anything but fantasies, no CP found, he was thrown in jail simply for words on a page.
If this doesn't scare the hell out of everybody I don't know what will, we literally have thoughtcrimes landing people in jail and simply trying to help dissidents in China and Syria can literally send you to prison for life and even if you manage to fight back and win in court it will break you, cost you years, probably your job and friendships. I don't know about everybody else but this isn't the country my grandfather fought for in WWII, in fact its looking more and more like the country he fought against.
And its all because of that damned stealth which cripples the HELL out of the aircraft! The ONLY advantage it gives you is on sneaking up, that's it, and in return for the sneaking up? 1.- no external hardpoints means you can't carry shit for stores, 2.- this cuts down loiter times to joke levels, 3.- it limits your new toy to a couple of missiles at best, 4.- it drives the costs to insane levels thanks to the exotic materials and perfectly flush seams required.
Frankly we are making the same mistake that Germany made in WWII, as we are making planes that are extremely complex, have very low flight to maintenance ratios, spend more time on the ground being worked on than anything else,can't afford to have more than a handful built making spare parts costs soar, and are ignoring the fact that any potential enemies are gonna be able to pick up the MiG 29s and SU35s for a song thus enabling them to "plane spam" us with planes that can carry a hell of a lot more stores than our techno turkies ever can.
If we HAVE to buy stealth toys? The stealth eagle can be had for a song, eagles are reliable, when you don't need the stealth it can carry a ton of stores and most importantly we get the line cranked we could easily have 2 or even 3 of those for every F35 which they STILL haven't been able to show will actually work with any reliability. Its the F22 all over again and all TFA does is show me that stealth is just a bad idea with current tech. the Chinese are likewise finding this out, with their F22 copy ending up on the "for sale cheap" pile because after trying it the Chinese air force don't want it.
Not to mention we have seen several cases in the past couple of years of users having their computer equipment confiscated for running TOR exit nodes by grabbing them for CP distribution, who is to say that when they get their PC back it doesn't have a little "extra hardware" to keep an eye on TOR users?
But you should be able to test without risking lives, have those using the exit nodes go to a "political website" that has an address that nobody would come up with by accident and see if that site after using supposedly "good" nodes suddenly has a jump in activity.
Why is this modded offtopic? Seems about as ontopic as one can get and something many of us here have been talking about. Google USED to be this cool "throw cool shit at the wall and see what sticks" kind of company but in the last couple of years...they have started getting nasty. The nasty changes in the TOS, the nasty ways of trying to force you to use G+ whether you want it or not... its gotten so bad I now have a "YouTube browser" just to keep from getting that damned popup trying to get me to tie my real name to G+ and YouTube and had to make a throwaway account for my android phone.
I'm sorry guys but Google just ain't the cool fun nerdy company they was, ever since the IPO and G+ its been about squeezing every last penny out of the users to drum up the stock price, not about just making money off doing cool stuff. How much you wanna bet its gonna turn out to be tied to the "exciting new feature" of tying G+ circle crap into Gmail they recently rolled out?
I swear Brin has a bigger chubby for that crappy G+ than Ballmer has for Metro and in both cases its a giant DO NOT WANT but sadly its not about the users in both cases, its about "gotta beat the FB and make teh monies!" for one and "gotta beat the iPad and make teh monies!" for the other.
I don't see what you are babbling about, as both posts are 100% in agreement with one another. The other posters were pissed about the user having the choice to run non free, and with BSD it doesn't make a damned what you, me, or the "big bad corp" does as the project is still there, its not "taken", its not going away, they are applying FUD and doublespeak when there are so many insanely successful BSD projects (If you'd like an example I'd point to Webkit which arguably runs on much more devices than Linux ever has) that there is more than enough proof the "ZOMG they'll TAKE TEH CODEZ!!" FUD is just that, FUD.
But the fact that you yourself admit that what you look for is the MOST restricting license frankly says more than I ever could, because its not enough that you share something that might make another person's life a little easier, you have to make absolutely sure "the other guy", the one who doesn't think exactly like you or believe like you believe, can't touch your "precious". That to me just shows the kind of mindset that the GPLers have and its really sad, because it went from a way to share to St. iGNUcious and the church of GPL.
I honestly don't even know what to say to someone with an attitude as nasty as that, other than its not healthy and maybe you should talk to somebody. Its a license not a religion, and if all you care about is making sure only people that think like you use it? Well I personally won't have to worry about ever running into your code at least as I doubt it'll be used by many.
Considering Apple sales not to mention Webkit browser control pretty much the mobile web? Its doing pretty well actually.
Oh and if you are talking about old Theo nearly running OpenBSD into the ground? When those donating (for the second time in 2 years has Theo blown all the cash, just FYI) pointed out that pretty much everybody has abandoned VAX and those other early 90s power piggies and that it MIGHT be a good idea to look at VMs or cutting the really old junk nobody uses anymore? He released an EPIC rant about how they HAD to have all these ancient POS systems and why they were just idiots for not just handing him the money!
So no shit Theo nearly ran out of cash, stupid is as stupid does. Everybody else? just fine, thanks for asking.
But that is like saying you are "free" in a theocracy...just as long as you believe exactly the same as them.
RMS can "encourage" although frankly I'd like a citation on that since every writing I've ever seen from RMS is downright communistic when the subject of money comes up, but the simple fact there is A REASON why you've never seen a FOSS game with the quality of Bioshock for example, its because if your software doesn't fall under the "blessed trinity" way of making money from GPL, 1.- Selling hardware, 2.- Selling support/services, 3.- the tin cup? You are just SOL when it comes to GPL.
So you can "encourage" until the cows come home but if i can take your software and give it away for free why the hell should I pay you? Just look at how Canonical and every home oriented FOSS desktop that has come before it has never gotten into the black, its because like the vast majority of software it doesn't fit the blessed trinity and is therefor SOL. Office software, imaging software, bookkeeping, medical, there is a reason why the few FOSS offerings are frankly piss poor amateur hour compared to the proprietary offerings, its because the GPL gives you no way to survive while making that kind of software.
FUD, pure FUD and not only is it FUD it has absolutely not a fucking thing to do with either Apple NOR Google NOR the BSD license, which was the subject of the post you were responding to!
You are making the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS that the RIAA uses against copying, that somehow it will be "taken" from you, that unless you have control it will "go away" but its FUD, nothing but FUD. Did Webkit go away after Apple and Google started contributing? Nope if anything it has never been used more, its now on millions of devices and use by tens of millions daily. Did CUPS disappear? Nope the developer doesn't have to wonder where his next meal is coming from, that is all.
So I'm sorry but bringing up some bullshit attributed to MSFT more than a decade ago has ZERO to do with Apple and Google and the BSD license, not a damned thing, just as this video of RMS munching down on toe cheese don't have a damned thing to do with Apple,Google, or BSD but hey RMS is for the GPL which competes with BSD so that makes it relevant!
If you have troops on the ground and haven't secured some sort of landing area for getting supplies in and wounded out? Well i think you have bigger problems than where you are gonna get the drones from.
Exactly and moreover I have thought of a perfect gaming example to illustrate which in light of the topic at hand would be fitting...
There are companies that make games with always online DRM, you cannot play their game unless you agree to their always online DRM. Even though some of these games look enticing, including Diablo which I quite enjoyed the first 2 in that series I have CHOSEN to not buy these games because I refuse to support always online DRM. I think its stupid, its been shown to be totally worthless at stopping piracy and royally fucks those of us who don't live in a megacity and always have Wifi in range by making sure we can't play our games on the go. Therefor instead of getting D3 I made the CHOICE to buy Torchlight 1&2 whose devs are happy to sell their game without the always online crap, heck you can even buy T1 100% DRM free if you'd like.
I personally have no problem with Steam because it is to me a compromise, in return for checking in once a month minimum I get free MP with hassle free matchmaking, I get chat, i get my games patched hassle free, I get the Steam workshop where adding mods and keeping them updated is as simple as hitting a big green "subscribe" button, I get access to a large community with everything from tips and tricks to maps and reviews, I even get my graphics card drivers updated automatically. Not to mention the constant sales that have let me build a crazy huge library for peanuts ;-)
All of this makes Steam worth it to me, if that isn't the case for you, if the ONLY thing you want is 100% DRM free games? That is perfectly fine and I respect your right to feel that way, there are even companies like GOG that are happy to be your DRM free gaming service. But what gives YOU the right to make it a big PITA for ME to choose differently? If and ONLY IF Debian makes the non free repo the default will you have a reason to bitch, but as of today? you have to do absolutely nothing to keep a 100% free Debian, its that way OOTB. But to try to limit others to only be like you, and to only do things your way? I'm sorry but that is wrong, no matter how you try to sugarcoat it.
at the end of the day freedom is about choice, and limiting a person's choice in the name of freedom is about as doublespeak as you can get.
"You can choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"...Rush
The problem is you are equating being for choice as being "Anti-GPL" and THAT is the door through which all the RIAA stye FUD enters, because for the pro-GPL crowd it isn't enough that they choose to run only free, its quite obvious from the posts above and below you that they don't want you to have the ability to run anything else.
Again I'd like it explained how EXACTLY is the "big bad corp" gonna "steal" the BSD code? Its still there, still supported by the same guys as it was the day before, whether you or a corp or the man in the moon downloads the source makes no difference to the original project because the code is still there and just like with the RIAA their FUD doesn't change the fact they are trying to apply rules of scarcity where none exist.
Could a corp come along and "buy" a BSD company? Sure but they can do that with a GPL company, look at Sun and Open Office for just one recent example. That didn't magically make OO.o disappear, in fact it already had been forked before Sun ever sold it and you were free to use Go-OO instead. You can no more force a BSD project to disappear than you can a GPL because as long as a single person has the original source? A fork can be made and things will continue.
For there to be REAL choice then a person has to have the ability to choose NO, simple as that. Does having a checkbox somehow limit the user? Can they no longer choose to have a gnusense level of "purity" from Debian? of course not, all it does is allow those that don't want to go apeshit over licenses to check a box instead of jumping through flaming hoops. I find it quite telling that those that claim to be so gung ho about "freedom" really don't seem to like the idea that some may choose not to be like them, but that is what freedom is about, its about being able to choose what is right for you.
Didn't Jesus say he wasn't there to throw out the old testament? Sorry I'm not good at the whole chapter and verse thing and my Google-Fu is well documented to suck but I remember that being in there somewhere.
Also show me where Jesus said you were allowed to pick and choose what you followed in the book because i don't remember that chapter. Whether Christians like it or not their "God" in the old testament? Really not nice, in fact if you were to list are the horrible things ordered to his followers like David and attributed it to a person instead of a God they would probably be listed as one of the worst monsters in history.
So either the bible is your book or its not, and if it is then you really have to claim the whole thing. Ironically if western Christians didn't treat the book as a "salad bar" and just pick and choose what they want out of it? they'd be a hell of a lot closer to the taliban than they would be to the modern west. Stoning, slavery, treating women and children as property to be sold or even disposed of if they displease the male? Like it or not its all in there and I don't remember any passage where Jesus came out and condemned the old testament or its laws.
Oh and just one final thing that I noticed and found VERY interesting, you know all those churches condemning gays because of the bible? Well if you look back at the speeches the churches used against blacks in the 50s and Jews in the 30s its damned near identical, you really only have to change the passage and gay to negro or jew and its the same rants, just different targets. I personally found that quite interesting, as it seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
Citation please? Because from what I've seen the two biggest users are Apple, who give back with projects like CUPS, and Google who likewise have been sharing their work upstream.
What I personally find ironic as hell is if you take pretty much any pro GPL rant and change a few words, it looks like yet another letter from the RIAA as with both they rely on FUD instead of facts. Could somebody take without giving back with BSD? Sure but it would become more and more expensive to do as their fork gets farther and farther away from mainline so its in their own best interests to get their work into mainline so their stuff works without major rewrites. the only real difference that I can see is that BSD doesn't hold a gun to your head and make you give back and there is a reason for that...you aren't "taking" anything, you are just making a copy. The mainline is still there, the "big bad corp" can't take it away, all they can do is make a copy and if they want to fork away? That is THEIR business, doesn't affect the mainline one way or the other.
Sound familiar? Its the same argument against attaching artificial scarcity to bits that those against the *.A.A have been using for years and I would argue what both the *.A.As and those that slam BSD FOSS licenses want isn't "more freedom", its you to do things THEIR way. Well RMS burnt a lot of bridges with GPL V3 so many devs are choosing to use something else. its their code, its theirs to decide. Why does this frighten the GPLers? The code is still there, help thyself, what is soooo horrible about not forcing additional rules upon the code that you would use RIAA style FUD?
To me the argument for manned planes and carriers ended when the Chinese started fielding the sea skimmers. We are talking about a missile with a 600+ mile range (the new ones are supposedly 900 miles and insanely accurate) that can be mounted to damned near anything and go Mach 3+. Sorry but that big ass carrier just became target practice at that point because you can just go Macross Missile Massacre and by the time you detect 'em? You be fucked.
Lets face it guys, we knew this day was coming when they had to cripple the F14s and F15s because the plane would easily take more than the pilot could survive, anything newer is just dick waving because the planes are already gimped by the pilots. The drone can take more Gs than the human can survive, can spend days without a bathroom break because switching pilots is as easy as getting up out of the control chair, you can have the drones take care of themselves for the long boring flight to and from the target and because of that you can have one pilot take care of many planes, and of course you don't have to risk your best pilots as a couple of top guns can take care of an entire squadron.
Just as WWII showed us that the days of battleships of the line slugging it out were over* so too is tech making giant carrier fleets into nothing but really big bullseyes for enemy missiles. The only reason we haven't learned that lesson is that the "enemies" we've been fighting have at best a half a century old Soviet junk, or in the case of Iran half a century old American junk (they still fly the F4 and their "great new fighter" is widely believed to be a copy of the F5 Freedom Fighters) so its been as lopsided as the USA versus Grenada. If we actually have to fight anybody with tech from this century? then I have a feeling those big slow carriers will be sitting on the bottom faster than you can say missile spam.
*-Actually Billy Mitchell showed the brass in the late 20s that the era of the big battleship was over when his biplanes were able to press home their attacks with ease against the target ships but the bigwigs simply ignored the evidence right in front of their faces...until Pearl and HMS Prince Of Wales showed them that against carrier aircraft battleships were practically defenseless. If there had been any doubt left the fate of Yamato, slaughtered by aircraft without getting close enough to fire off a single shot against the US carriers ended all debate.
Which is why I'm glad to see so many pointing out their doublespeak when it comes to freedom, because for too damned many the only "freedom" you should have is the freedom to do as they say and be like them, no freedom at all.
I mean look at what we are talking about here? Honestly if you are for freedom, which at its core is simply the right to choose then you should have absolutely zero problem with the non free repo as it is just that, a way to allow those that aren't fanatical about their software licenses the ability to use Debian without jumping through flaming hoops. For fucks sake its not even enabled by default so those that dream of a "license pure Debian" already have that OOTB without raising a single finger, the one that wants the non free has to make the effort to flip the switch NOT the other way around!
To me the entire argument points out an ugly underside that nobody wants to talk about, which is that the so called "Stallman followers" won't be happy until every distro has "purity" whether the end user wants that or not. Sorry but that isn't freedom, that isn't choice, because choice means i can choose to not be like the Stallman followers which is exactly what they don't want. Well too damned bad IMHO, because either you are for choice or you are not and letting the user have a single checkbox that they have to go out of their way to enable is not forcing them to do a damned thing, they can have a Debian as "pure" as gnusense if that is their choice, but they shouldn't be allowed to dictate what choice others get.
Because from the looks of things they got there because of fucking medical bills and we should have had fricking single payer 20 damned years ago like the rest of civilized society?
I bet we see a LOT more of this as all the growth hormones and antibiotics and plastics we ingest daily make the odds of having a perfectly healthy kid go down so we can either clean up the mess with our food supply or with our medical system...which one you wanna go after? The plastic coated drinks and hormone filled burgers, or a medical system where a single illness can wipe you out for life?