I don't want eBay business to dwindle, but they should be treated the same as Apple Canada or TigerDirect.ca Yeah, and that is: without being forced to pay any taxes.
Yeah the charge of censorship was too much; of course he wasn't censoring anyone, however his attitude is the same one that will condone censorship when it does happen - think hate speech laws. The reason I have high ground is simply that he is a whiny sad excuse for a human being, quick to call for censorship of stuff he does not like. And finally, I don't understand why you called me decent and honorable while at the same time attacking my idea - but it's early in the morning and I'm still confused.
Fine, now everybody has complained, everybody is happy after exercising their right to free speech. Notice however how HE is trying to censor people while I am trying to nurture free expression.
Heh. I am not pretentious about not watching TV, especially because it is not some moral high ground or anything, I simply prefer going out with friends or doing just about anything else than watching TV and I find nothing interesting is ever on. If I want some quality cinema I can simply use a DVD. But really, when you stop watching TV you realize that so many people spend so much time not only watching but even discussing it and it seems to be such a big waste to me. Anyway I keep quite a low profile about this, sometimes I am left out of the conversation and that's it. OK, in those cases I feel some smugness. Some time ago a coworker asked me about some piece of hardware to watch TV on his notebook while away camping. I mean, come on.
I see 4 parenting problems: 1. they don't know their teen daugther is putting up her pictures on the web (via a photographer); 2. they haven't taught their teen daughter that it might be a bad idea to put her pictures up like that and that before doing so she should maybe discuss it with them; 3. they are suing left and right because they are in a panic and they know they fucked up royally on the education front, but why not make some money in the process?; 4. now that the cat is out of the bag, they are not letting their daughter take advantage of this situation reasonably i.e. letting her ride her wave of popularity. This is just your usual, run of the mill, i-don't-do-any-parenting-coz-the-gov't-must-think-for-me episode. I'm told I'm judgemental:)
Interesting, I understand what the issue is now, however I still think this is a money grabbing scheme by the girl's parents. Evidently they belong to the "nanny state ftw" coalition and would rather sue and get rich than do any parenting.
WTF?! Listen, there's a site out there that says "here, please take this picture and use it in your commercial projects". Why on Earth should they feel obligated NOT to do so? They had been given explicit permission to use the picture if they followed the rules, which they did.
I especially liked the author's comparison of people new to videogames to schoolchildren who have just learned to read. In fact I sometimes show a great videogame to someone who's not into gaming and they obviously "don't get it". I think this shows that videogames are progressing and becoming more and more sophisticated all the time, and maybe sometime soon they won't be dissed as some "inferior kind of art" anymore. Even though I, myself, still consider books and music to be somehow superior to games. Good article anyway,/. needs more like this.
No, actually I wasn't trolling. Obviously I was being nasty but there's a difference between that and trolling. Anyway, I see your point, but I disagree. The FSF has changed the license single-handedly and suddenly - one year is nothing when the license of a great part of the FOSS out there is at stake; and the discussions led nowhere - they set out with the intention to "stick it to the man" and they damn well did it, everything else was just fluff and frills. Meaning that their intention has been to fight "Tivoization" since the beginning and it does not look they have given up on that, even though it was obviously the sensible thing to do. Now you might think that GPL v3 is great and all, I don't care much, I was simply stating that after all that's happened I *do* *seriously* believe that they'll try to pull some stunt to place even more restrictions (in the name of freedom of course) on GCC and try to leverage this to force developers to side with RMS. Of course you can fork, *today*. I wonder how long that's going to last. If you have any definitive way to convince me that this is not going to happen by all means go on and reassure me - but please spare me an endless debate about how GPL means freedom, apple trees beyond a fenced wall etc.
Not really. FSF has shown beyond reasonable doubt that they will change the terms of their license according to their whim and to suit their agenda without any regard whatsoever to their user and developer base, at the drop of a hat and without listening to valid criticism. I have no doubt they will do it again. In their power-hungry madness they will try to force their users into complete slavery, and I believe GCC will be one of the first instruments to their supposed rise to world domination - only it will bring about their destruction when everybody but the most foaming-at-the-mouth-zealots moves on to serious OSs and lets FSF and their EFFing lackeys dwindle away into irrelevance.
Aplogies for the tone of utter disgust and somewhat unexplainable epic. The first is inspired by your reference to Stallman. The second, I just felt like trying on for size.
99% spot on and funny to boot. But Linux actually IS more secure than other OSs. Of course it is also less secure than other ones, but overall it does pretty well in the security department both because it is open source and because the most important packages (and the system design that goes along with those) are written by pros.
Somewhat O/T
I don't understand the dislike for "software as a service". It makes perfect sense from a management POV and it seems to me like an obvious evolution from fat client to thin client to externally managed thin client. Even for home users: remote administration for, say, 15$/year with upgrades, patches and the likes would be a useful tool. Turn on the PC, suddenly Vista is running and everything just works(tm) (yeah, far-fecthed, I know).
Of course this does not mean that it's a perfect solution for everyone - I for one wouldn't use it - but for a) small groups of people unable to manage their IT themselves and b) huge organizations who would spend too much trying to manage their IT themselves it makes sense.
Finally, it seems to me that upgrading every year to a new release, is in the end the *same* as using SAS, except *you* are dealing with all the headaches. Of course, I guess having a company run out with your files on you might be an unpleasant side-effect. Trust professionalism at best, or cryptography at worst.
Your point is correct: of course, it's a truism. But you'll find many more "idiots making inappropriate gestures in defence" of the GPL then of other licenses such as BSD. Of course, this might be due to the greater popularity of the GPL itself. I was just making fun of RMS and criticizing the ideas behind the move to the GPL3 anyway.
... unless in a few years' time our master decides that he does not like you because you don't fight hard enough for the peeeeeeeeople and arbitrarily changes the rules and generally behaves like a drunkard and a clown, then proceeds to steal other people's code because information wants to be free and even strips credit away from it. There, that's GPL for you.
Ubelievable, somebody finally got it right! The only problem here is people letting these committees rule their life - so you don't like their decision, fair enough, don't respect it. But the moment you respect it by default, you give them political power, and we know what they say about power.
Holy cow, you have missed out big time. Get Deus Ex immediately. Later move on to Half-Life 1 and 2. And there are probably other ones that I don't remember.
A University should be fighting the powers that be, not aiding and abetting them. A University should be *teaching*. No more no less. What is this crap about morality, fighting, powers that be etc? It's a plcae where you go to *study*. Everything else is BS.
"Most consumers" do not care about Linux; those that do, only care because their geek friend is trying to make them switch. Said geek will choose a suitable distro and install it for them. And, for the intended market, any major distro is just as good.
The fragmentation of Linux distros has nothing to do with it being slowly accepted as a mainstream OS; lack of specialized apps, shaky hardware support and the usual suspects are to blame for that. As well as the fact that for most people Windows and pirated Office Just Work(tm) (which they kinda do, come to think of it) so why change?
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Yeah the charge of censorship was too much; of course he wasn't censoring anyone, however his attitude is the same one that will condone censorship when it does happen - think hate speech laws. The reason I have high ground is simply that he is a whiny sad excuse for a human being, quick to call for censorship of stuff he does not like. And finally, I don't understand why you called me decent and honorable while at the same time attacking my idea - but it's early in the morning and I'm still confused.
BZZT does not compute. Try again?
Fine, now everybody has complained, everybody is happy after exercising their right to free speech. Notice however how HE is trying to censor people while I am trying to nurture free expression.
Heh. I am not pretentious about not watching TV, especially because it is not some moral high ground or anything, I simply prefer going out with friends or doing just about anything else than watching TV and I find nothing interesting is ever on. If I want some quality cinema I can simply use a DVD. But really, when you stop watching TV you realize that so many people spend so much time not only watching but even discussing it and it seems to be such a big waste to me. Anyway I keep quite a low profile about this, sometimes I am left out of the conversation and that's it. OK, in those cases I feel some smugness.
Some time ago a coworker asked me about some piece of hardware to watch TV on his notebook while away camping. I mean, come on.
Oh it's easy, he does just like me, he hears all about it from the boring people around him.
Maybe he should say what he feels like saying and you should grow a thicker skin.
I see 4 parenting problems: 1. they don't know their teen daugther is putting up her pictures on the web (via a photographer); 2. they haven't taught their teen daughter that it might be a bad idea to put her pictures up like that and that before doing so she should maybe discuss it with them; 3. they are suing left and right because they are in a panic and they know they fucked up royally on the education front, but why not make some money in the process?; 4. now that the cat is out of the bag, they are not letting their daughter take advantage of this situation reasonably i.e. letting her ride her wave of popularity. :)
This is just your usual, run of the mill, i-don't-do-any-parenting-coz-the-gov't-must-think-for-me episode.
I'm told I'm judgemental
Interesting, I understand what the issue is now, however I still think this is a money grabbing scheme by the girl's parents. Evidently they belong to the "nanny state ftw" coalition and would rather sue and get rich than do any parenting.
WTF?! Listen, there's a site out there that says "here, please take this picture and use it in your commercial projects". Why on Earth should they feel obligated NOT to do so? They had been given explicit permission to use the picture if they followed the rules, which they did.
I especially liked the author's comparison of people new to videogames to schoolchildren who have just learned to read. In fact I sometimes show a great videogame to someone who's not into gaming and they obviously "don't get it". I think this shows that videogames are progressing and becoming more and more sophisticated all the time, and maybe sometime soon they won't be dissed as some "inferior kind of art" anymore. Even though I, myself, still consider books and music to be somehow superior to games. Good article anyway, /. needs more like this.
No, actually I wasn't trolling. Obviously I was being nasty but there's a difference between that and trolling. Anyway, I see your point, but I disagree. The FSF has changed the license single-handedly and suddenly - one year is nothing when the license of a great part of the FOSS out there is at stake; and the discussions led nowhere - they set out with the intention to "stick it to the man" and they damn well did it, everything else was just fluff and frills. Meaning that their intention has been to fight "Tivoization" since the beginning and it does not look they have given up on that, even though it was obviously the sensible thing to do.
Now you might think that GPL v3 is great and all, I don't care much, I was simply stating that after all that's happened I *do* *seriously* believe that they'll try to pull some stunt to place even more restrictions (in the name of freedom of course) on GCC and try to leverage this to force developers to side with RMS. Of course you can fork, *today*. I wonder how long that's going to last.
If you have any definitive way to convince me that this is not going to happen by all means go on and reassure me - but please spare me an endless debate about how GPL means freedom, apple trees beyond a fenced wall etc.
Not really. FSF has shown beyond reasonable doubt that they will change the terms of their license according to their whim and to suit their agenda without any regard whatsoever to their user and developer base, at the drop of a hat and without listening to valid criticism. I have no doubt they will do it again. In their power-hungry madness they will try to force their users into complete slavery, and I believe GCC will be one of the first instruments to their supposed rise to world domination - only it will bring about their destruction when everybody but the most foaming-at-the-mouth-zealots moves on to serious OSs and lets FSF and their EFFing lackeys dwindle away into irrelevance.
Aplogies for the tone of utter disgust and somewhat unexplainable epic. The first is inspired by your reference to Stallman. The second, I just felt like trying on for size.
99% spot on and funny to boot. But Linux actually IS more secure than other OSs. Of course it is also less secure than other ones, but overall it does pretty well in the security department both because it is open source and because the most important packages (and the system design that goes along with those) are written by pros.
Somewhat O/T
I don't understand the dislike for "software as a service". It makes perfect sense from a management POV and it seems to me like an obvious evolution from fat client to thin client to externally managed thin client. Even for home users: remote administration for, say, 15$/year with upgrades, patches and the likes would be a useful tool. Turn on the PC, suddenly Vista is running and everything just works(tm) (yeah, far-fecthed, I know).
Of course this does not mean that it's a perfect solution for everyone - I for one wouldn't use it - but for a) small groups of people unable to manage their IT themselves and b) huge organizations who would spend too much trying to manage their IT themselves it makes sense.
Finally, it seems to me that upgrading every year to a new release, is in the end the *same* as using SAS, except *you* are dealing with all the headaches. Of course, I guess having a company run out with your files on you might be an unpleasant side-effect. Trust professionalism at best, or cryptography at worst.
Your point is correct: of course, it's a truism. But you'll find many more "idiots making inappropriate gestures in defence" of the GPL then of other licenses such as BSD. Of course, this might be due to the greater popularity of the GPL itself. I was just making fun of RMS and criticizing the ideas behind the move to the GPL3 anyway.
The sad thing is that now he's all *happy* because he has preserved the racial purity of FOSS. Top marks, indeed.
Ubelievable, somebody finally got it right! The only problem here is people letting these committees rule their life - so you don't like their decision, fair enough, don't respect it. But the moment you respect it by default, you give them political power, and we know what they say about power.
Holy cow, you have missed out big time. Get Deus Ex immediately. Later move on to Half-Life 1 and 2. And there are probably other ones that I don't remember.
Sure, as agreed upon and detailed in the plethora of documents they sign - which now include this notice.
What you say !!
"Most consumers" do not care about Linux; those that do, only care because their geek friend is trying to make them switch. Said geek will choose a suitable distro and install it for them. And, for the intended market, any major distro is just as good.
The fragmentation of Linux distros has nothing to do with it being slowly accepted as a mainstream OS; lack of specialized apps, shaky hardware support and the usual suspects are to blame for that. As well as the fact that for most people Windows and pirated Office Just Work(tm) (which they kinda do, come to think of it) so why change?