I agree completely. I see Linus as a more moderate kind of person--pick the best tool for the job. Not all software that's used has to be open; sure, it would be nice, but it's just not realistic. If closed-source software (or non-free) does the job better than any open-source implementation, why the hell not use the non-free/closed-source implementation? If RMS didn't like it so much, why didn't he write a better tool for the job, or is he too much of a tool himself?
Millions? The majority of people who actually went outside and protested were in other countries--who don't elect our gov't. The reason that our letters don't matter is because all you people do is complain here instead of mailing/calling/emailing the people who actually run our country. I have the luck to be in a small state and the ability to go complain directly to the Senators when they're here in the State, if I wanted. If they don't listen, don't re-elect them.
should be doing is stop bitching to a bunch of 14 year olds on Slashdot, head over to here and find your Senators; write them, and complain. Explain to them why sponsoring this bill is bad and that doing so will cause them a loss of your vote--enough of these and they -will- listen.
"This next statement could sort of open up into a tangential discussion on modern game design, but suffice it to say, there are no truly original games. There can't be, at least with modern console games, and I refuse to accept "What about Katamari Damacy?!?" Bullshit, I've played enough Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness to know better. But you need to know recent games, landmark games, the major flops, and the highly expected upcoming releases, because we all copy game design from each other, in every game, going all the way back to Pong and SpaceWar. You need to be able to say "Well, that idea seems like a whole lot of work, when I know that we could just copy the scheme from Super Virtua Soul Machine 9 to do the same thing!""
The same could be said about computers and computer applications of all sorts. Nearly everything has already been done in one way or another, but it's just being built onto and made better (or in some cases, worse. [Insert mandatory MS bashing to get +5 Funny...]) This is a great idea as long as you're not some tinfoil-hat motherfucker.
But, [insert randomly taken out of context TOS clause here]! [Insert randomly paranoid group here] says [insert stupid, standard "talking points" statement].
(I really need to remember to select Plain Old Text more often..)
Share a cell with him? Fuck that. That means no Bubba to ass-rape them. I agree, a year in prison for each year he was governor. He got a lighter sentence because he did well as a public servant--so? Public servants are held to higher standards, which he broke.
Holy shit, as being from Connecticut, I love you for mentioning this. It's complete and utter bullshit that Rowland can get away with raceteering, but if I were to go do it, I'd likely get the maximum (twenty years). It's bullshit, and I wouldn't doubt 95% of people from Connecticut would agree.
Whoops, I also forgot to mention that you might be interested in upgrading to the CVS version of Xcomic, as you have an RSS feed of the news posts--RSS generation is built into the next version, syndicating comics only at the moment, but soon to be news entries too.
Michael C.
I saw this story and was going to look around at your site and suggest Xcomic--but I see you're already using it! I'm glad some people are actually using it (I'm a co-developer along with Helgi and Mike H), and in a production enviroment at that. If anyone's wondering WTF I'm talking about, http://xcomic.sf.net/. You could always try purchasing ads on Megatokyo or such, that should get you a fair amount of hits as those people click the advertisements like crazy and you're a webcomic, and they're reading webcomics, so...
"The start of the move was briefly delayed by the discovery of a crack in the external fuel tank's foam insulation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration later said the crack was no reason for concern.
The flaw was discovered as the spacecraft was being readied for the first shuttle launch since Columbia fell to pieces, a disaster blamed on a chunk of foam that fell off the tank during liftoff and gashed one of the wings.
NASA spokeswoman Jessica Rye described the flaw as a hairline crack and said that, after sending images of it to the tank's manufacturer in Louisiana, the space agency concluded it did not need to make any repairs.
NASA later said the 1 1/2-inch crack was high up on the shuttle in a spot where, if foam flew off, it would not likely hit the vehicle.
"It's a very, very tiny crack. Very, very narrow . . . well within our experience base," said Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director. "It was an acceptable condition for flight."
Livejournal runs on mySQL (with memcached), and has had 970k users update their LJs in the past week. Assume that on average, each journal gets 10 views in that one week (it's probably higher, as there are some really large communities). That's 9.7 million page views in a week, or ~ 40 million a month. Plus the people who just browse and don't have an account.
Slashdot itself uses mySQL..I have no clue about the pageviews, though I know it's in the millions a month.
Just because mySQL doesn't work for your project doesn't mean it doesn't for others. Not to mention that it's free and ships with almost every major Linux distro out there.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, look at the stupid bullshit RMS posts on his website...
http://www.stallman.org/ex-boyfriends-list.html
http://www.stallman.org/republicanBeliefs.html
I agree completely. I see Linus as a more moderate kind of person--pick the best tool for the job. Not all software that's used has to be open; sure, it would be nice, but it's just not realistic. If closed-source software (or non-free) does the job better than any open-source implementation, why the hell not use the non-free/closed-source implementation? If RMS didn't like it so much, why didn't he write a better tool for the job, or is he too much of a tool himself?
http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/download/HTTP/966 02/RevengeoftheBleep.www.Demonoid.com.torrent
Yeah, I'm suprised so many people are drooling over it seeing as Leo took a shot at how shitty (and it's true) Slashdot is...
Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.
They should get Kate in on it. I never cared for Patrick when I knew Kate is still around.
Millions? The majority of people who actually went outside and protested were in other countries--who don't elect our gov't. The reason that our letters don't matter is because all you people do is complain here instead of mailing/calling/emailing the people who actually run our country. I have the luck to be in a small state and the ability to go complain directly to the Senators when they're here in the State, if I wanted. If they don't listen, don't re-elect them.
should be doing is stop bitching to a bunch of 14 year olds on Slashdot, head over to here and find your Senators; write them, and complain. Explain to them why sponsoring this bill is bad and that doing so will cause them a loss of your vote--enough of these and they -will- listen.
Most people even on slashdot are profoundly igrnorant of [insert any subject here except porn and profuse masturbation].
Welcome to Slashdot. Enjoy your stay.
Why? If they don't want Google to profit off their [great] ideas, why not just do the Capitalistic thing and make yours better, so people use it?
To quote a recent Penny-Arcade news post:
"This next statement could sort of open up into a tangential discussion on modern game design, but suffice it to say, there are no truly original games. There can't be, at least with modern console games, and I refuse to accept "What about Katamari Damacy?!?" Bullshit, I've played enough Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness to know better. But you need to know recent games, landmark games, the major flops, and the highly expected upcoming releases, because we all copy game design from each other, in every game, going all the way back to Pong and SpaceWar. You need to be able to say "Well, that idea seems like a whole lot of work, when I know that we could just copy the scheme from Super Virtua Soul Machine 9 to do the same thing!""
The same could be said about computers and computer applications of all sorts. Nearly everything has already been done in one way or another, but it's just being built onto and made better (or in some cases, worse. [Insert mandatory MS bashing to get +5 Funny...]) This is a great idea as long as you're not some tinfoil-hat motherfucker.
But, [insert randomly taken out of context TOS clause here]! [Insert randomly paranoid group here] says [insert stupid, standard "talking points" statement].
(I really need to remember to select Plain Old Text more often..)
But, ! says .
Share a cell with him? Fuck that. That means no Bubba to ass-rape them. I agree, a year in prison for each year he was governor. He got a lighter sentence because he did well as a public servant--so? Public servants are held to higher standards, which he broke.
Holy shit, as being from Connecticut, I love you for mentioning this. It's complete and utter bullshit that Rowland can get away with raceteering, but if I were to go do it, I'd likely get the maximum (twenty years). It's bullshit, and I wouldn't doubt 95% of people from Connecticut would agree.
Whoops, I also forgot to mention that you might be interested in upgrading to the CVS version of Xcomic, as you have an RSS feed of the news posts--RSS generation is built into the next version, syndicating comics only at the moment, but soon to be news entries too. Michael C.
I saw this story and was going to look around at your site and suggest Xcomic--but I see you're already using it! I'm glad some people are actually using it (I'm a co-developer along with Helgi and Mike H), and in a production enviroment at that. If anyone's wondering WTF I'm talking about, http://xcomic.sf.net/. You could always try purchasing ads on Megatokyo or such, that should get you a fair amount of hits as those people click the advertisements like crazy and you're a webcomic, and they're reading webcomics, so...
I'll drink to that!
That's Ogg (Vorbis) to you.
Except that the recent "crack" was in the foam insulation, not the shuttle itself.
"The start of the move was briefly delayed by the discovery of a crack in the external fuel tank's foam insulation. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration later said the crack was no reason for concern.
The flaw was discovered as the spacecraft was being readied for the first shuttle launch since Columbia fell to pieces, a disaster blamed on a chunk of foam that fell off the tank during liftoff and gashed one of the wings.
NASA spokeswoman Jessica Rye described the flaw as a hairline crack and said that, after sending images of it to the tank's manufacturer in Louisiana, the space agency concluded it did not need to make any repairs.
NASA later said the 1 1/2-inch crack was high up on the shuttle in a spot where, if foam flew off, it would not likely hit the vehicle.
"It's a very, very tiny crack. Very, very narrow . . . well within our experience base," said Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director. "It was an acceptable condition for flight."
Same way you would on the DS--a virtual keyboard.
"we will have a period of a little over 3 months annually (Dec, Jan, Feb) in which DST is not in effect."
Yeah, because we do/would save the least amount of energy then.
Okay, let's see...
Livejournal runs on mySQL (with memcached), and has had 970k users update their LJs in the past week. Assume that on average, each journal gets 10 views in that one week (it's probably higher, as there are some really large communities). That's 9.7 million page views in a week, or ~ 40 million a month. Plus the people who just browse and don't have an account.
Slashdot itself uses mySQL..I have no clue about the pageviews, though I know it's in the millions a month.
Google is a mySQL customer. As is Dow Jones, the people that publish the Wall Street Journal and its online editions. So is the NYSE, NASA, the US Census Bureau, everyone's beloved AOL, the Associated Press, Texas Instruments, among plenty others.
Just because mySQL doesn't work for your project doesn't mean it doesn't for others. Not to mention that it's free and ships with almost every major Linux distro out there.
Yeah, I find it pretty ironic to hear Microsoft talk about not getting locked in to a specific vendor...
Can someone explain to me what the significance of this in the real world is? I'm failing to see this (honestly, I'm not trying to be a troll)