You talk as if the GPL doesn't already draw a line. The GPL deliberately limits freedom to protect a wider, more important kind of freedom. We limit the use of GPL'd software to hurt people's rights and their liberty. By the same token, I think we should be limiting use of software to physically hurt others. Their software liberty is no use to them, if they're dead.
Given that air forces seem to be moving to unmanned drone fighters, it seems silly to build a new flight sim for traditional *pilot* training at this stage. I wonder if it's aimed at training remote drone "pilots" instead.
Agreed. Personally I'd prefer the GPL to include an anti-warfare clause. Losing the ability to have your software included in distros or combined with other GPL'd software for the sake of a few militant types is too much, but if the clause was in the GPL from the start, that problem wouldn't exist.
Then again, RMS is pretty aggressive sometimes, so it'd be very strange if he "got" the need for an anti-warfare clause.
I've met a number of people, programmers and tech support included, and I've come to the conclusion that people don't actually suck at being human. In fact, some are quite good at it. The bad rep comes from the fact that society is pushing so much of the populace into human-related fields that they've been forced to draft in people who aren't actually good at it.
1.) Click the dropdown in the search box. 2.) Click the "Manage Search Providers" link. 3.) Select the "Google" provider. 4.) Click the "Set as default" button. 5.) Click on the "Bing" provider. 6.) Click the "Remove" button. 7.) Click "Done"
Yes, it's not like they could just make a dropdown for the search box with google in it, and let you checkmark that. Oh, wait...
The meetings are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft, other Google opponents, and hired third parties to discredit the Web search leader, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.
Anyone else reading "other third parties" as "politicians"?
This idea of their being a golden age of people hand writing letters to each other is bullshit for the vast majority of the populace.
Agreed. More communication is generally good. But there are a few major problems. For one, the signal-to-noise ratio has increased massively. Granted, an old-style letter had pretty poor latency and round-trip times. However, a hand-written letter between penpals or lovers about everything of import that happened in the last two months is, in some ways, a LOT more efficient than a thousand tweets about coffee and confusion and "wtf? moments" and stress, with only one huge and easily missed insight into your current project buried amongst it.
Yeah, it's fucking great for me. Great till one day I end up failing to find a solution to the shit that's going on.
Sometimes I think our society is truly fucked up beyond repair. What on earth makes you think that sitting around drawing weird pictures and writing sad shit will make you happy? Stop thinking, get outside, do PHYSICAL work, see people, laugh, play, relate, share, help, and build a true life for yourself.
Yeah, you're gonna say you CAN'T do those things because you're depressed. Actually, you're depressed because you WON'T do those things. Your choice. Live with the consequences.
A decent editor like Kate will indent stuff like this neatly, without wrapping lines back to the start of the screen. It is available within IDEs, too.
More importantly, if your function is THAT big, it should be broken into separate functions. Big functions == bad code.
And this time MS, for the love of God, please put some effort into making a... design that doesn't cause another... fiasco, or take a step BACKWARDS... That was just shameful.
Oh, wow. Somehow, this just gave me a really strong feeling of deja vu.
The point isn't that you immediately lose your ability to work normally as soon as you start using a DRM-enabled platform. It's that, when you move to a more DRM-enabled platform, you become susceptible to having your freedoms taken away. People complain about "guilty until proven innocent"-style laws, not because they think they'll be thrown in jail immediately, but because they realise it's a slippery slope, and a stand must be taken now.
If you have can point to some part of their argument that's flawed, then do so. Otherwise, stop the smear campaign. I half suspect you're being paid to attack the FSF by the one organisation that has something to lose from the truth getting out.
Yes, having your work vm only on a personal machine is much better than having your personal vm on a work machine. That way, you can at least argue that there is a dedicated system for your work, and only that should be open to scrutiny. The other way, they look at your laptop and everything on it, including the VM image. Which, even if erased as a virtual image, would still be present in physical data on your physical drive.
Ahh, but you won't be using IE for much longer. Now, Mozilla have finally put the last nail in IE's coffin. Now, you MUST upgrade to Firefox 3, or be branded a pervert.
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You talk as if the GPL doesn't already draw a line. The GPL deliberately limits freedom to protect a wider, more important kind of freedom. We limit the use of GPL'd software to hurt people's rights and their liberty. By the same token, I think we should be limiting use of software to physically hurt others. Their software liberty is no use to them, if they're dead.
Well, nothing about wanting to make a particular move towards peace requires that you make every move possible all at once.
Given that air forces seem to be moving to unmanned drone fighters, it seems silly to build a new flight sim for traditional *pilot* training at this stage. I wonder if it's aimed at training remote drone "pilots" instead.
Agreed. Personally I'd prefer the GPL to include an anti-warfare clause. Losing the ability to have your software included in distros or combined with other GPL'd software for the sake of a few militant types is too much, but if the clause was in the GPL from the start, that problem wouldn't exist.
Then again, RMS is pretty aggressive sometimes, so it'd be very strange if he "got" the need for an anti-warfare clause.
I've met a number of people, programmers and tech support included, and I've come to the conclusion that people don't actually suck at being human. In fact, some are quite good at it. The bad rep comes from the fact that society is pushing so much of the populace into human-related fields that they've been forced to draft in people who aren't actually good at it.
Yes, it's not like they could just make a dropdown for the search box with google in it, and let you checkmark that. Oh, wait...
Anyone else reading "other third parties" as "politicians"?
This is not a wiki.
I love how this is modded informative.
Yes, such as Folding at Home.
Agreed. More communication is generally good. But there are a few major problems. For one, the signal-to-noise ratio has increased massively. Granted, an old-style letter had pretty poor latency and round-trip times. However, a hand-written letter between penpals or lovers about everything of import that happened in the last two months is, in some ways, a LOT more efficient than a thousand tweets about coffee and confusion and "wtf? moments" and stress, with only one huge and easily missed insight into your current project buried amongst it.
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Sometimes I think our society is truly fucked up beyond repair. What on earth makes you think that sitting around drawing weird pictures and writing sad shit will make you happy? Stop thinking, get outside, do PHYSICAL work, see people, laugh, play, relate, share, help, and build a true life for yourself.
Yeah, you're gonna say you CAN'T do those things because you're depressed. Actually, you're depressed because you WON'T do those things. Your choice. Live with the consequences.
Saved me the trouble of having to say it. Thanks.
A decent editor like Kate will indent stuff like this neatly, without wrapping lines back to the start of the screen. It is available within IDEs, too.
More importantly, if your function is THAT big, it should be broken into separate functions. Big functions == bad code.
Oh, wow. Somehow, this just gave me a really strong feeling of deja vu.
The point isn't that you immediately lose your ability to work normally as soon as you start using a DRM-enabled platform. It's that, when you move to a more DRM-enabled platform, you become susceptible to having your freedoms taken away. People complain about "guilty until proven innocent"-style laws, not because they think they'll be thrown in jail immediately, but because they realise it's a slippery slope, and a stand must be taken now.
Fine. Stop sending us those ugly Word documents please ;)
If you have can point to some part of their argument that's flawed, then do so. Otherwise, stop the smear campaign. I half suspect you're being paid to attack the FSF by the one organisation that has something to lose from the truth getting out.
Sure there has. I hear Steve threw some chairs around again.
Yes, having your work vm only on a personal machine is much better than having your personal vm on a work machine. That way, you can at least argue that there is a dedicated system for your work, and only that should be open to scrutiny. The other way, they look at your laptop and everything on it, including the VM image. Which, even if erased as a virtual image, would still be present in physical data on your physical drive.
Don't you mean OPENS all the porn bookmarks?
Ahh, but you won't be using IE for much longer. Now, Mozilla have finally put the last nail in IE's coffin. Now, you MUST upgrade to Firefox 3, or be branded a pervert.
Right! But keep the cache around for your company!
No, centralised version control is a subset of decentralised version control. Subversion doesn't support different workflows/teams; it supports LESS.