None of you have done as much as RMS, and still you pick on that guy just because of the "GNU/Linux" thing.
I don't pick on RMS, I pick on him doing the "GNU/Linux" thing. The reason being is that I want his general message to succeed more. When he uses his position to criticize the decision to use BitKeeper or for things like this topic, his message comes across better.
Worse yet, I just bought a new car stereo that does XM and MP3... now it's going to be obsolete soon because SACD will be all the rage
...and we all know that driving 55 with the kids fighting in the back seat is the ideal audiophile environment.:-) Why would you -- or anyone -- care about SACD in the car?
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This is what capitalism does, people - it tends to monopoly, and restricts human development.
The reason this situation is tending to monopoly is the fixed resource: the number of channels that can be received on a standard radio. Satellite radio is taking it on on one side, internet radio on another. Or on a completely different tack, mp3 collections on computers with autoplay systems are also competition.
You speak very fondly of these "stateless communist" societies. Would you be willing to live there or is it enough that you can consider them quaint at a distance?
The problem with these societies is that they really depend on interpersonal relationships or a common cause. A family could be seen as stateless communism, for example. In the U.S., this is generally just parents and children, but other societies have had greater reach. Other forms include Israeli kibbutzes, an example of the common cause case. You might be able to achieve something similar in space, having one such society per asteroid or colony ship and relatively few ties to the outside world. Alternatively, in a world without significant scarcity, an essentially communalistic system may arise as capitalistic incentives no longer have the same pull.
Avoid this at all costs. (Hide it if you do feel it.) Want a relationship? Don't be desperate, be someon the other person would be interested in hanging out with. Be charming, be funny, be neat and clean. Real relationships are built on mutual attraction, not one party desperately needing the other.
I know I've downloaded more than five songs... legally. They may be trying to figure out how much of a market there is for downloadable music, not whether you're a leech.
the REAL point is that there were nude photos of steffi graf.
No, they're Graf's face on someone else's body. Given that Graf isn't particularly pretty, but has an incredible athletic body, it's the exact opposite of what you would probably really want to see.
I've always wanted some way of saying "I'm sorry" or "thank you."
I recall seeing someone selling an LCD display for the back window that had the option of a couple of (polite) phrases, and a remote with a couple of buttons for thank you, sorry, etc.
I heard the Xbox has a proprietary DVD player that spins backwards.
So where do you buy backwards DVDs for it to play? Sheesh, it's bad enough having region coding, now I have to check if I'm buying a clockwise or counter-clockwise DVD?
Unless the TOS specifically says "We will not log your activity" this lawsuit should be thrown out.
From comcastoneline.com:
COMCAST STATEMENT ON INTERNET PRIVACY
Philadelphia (February 13, 2002) - Comcast Cable Communications President Stephen B. Burke issued the following statement today regarding Internet privacy:
"Comcast respects the privacy of all our subscribers and is committed to fully protect their rights. Comcast has not shared and will not share personal information about where our subscribers go on the Web, either for any internal purpose or with any outside party, except as required by law. Consistent with our subscriber agreement and our privacy policy, which every subscriber acknowledges before receiving our service, Comcast reviews information in aggregate form only for purposes of network performance management to ensure an optimal Internet network experience for our subscribers."
If by writing for Windows you can target both Windows and Linux (and whichever other platforms they support), then why would anyone write any native Linux programs?
Seems to me most people write for X/KDE/Gnome/"posix", not for Linux. Wine or this interface layer just becomes another Linux API that just happens to be identical to Linux, and the programs are effectively Linux-native.
Then, in XP+1, Microsoft introduces major breakage into their API, such that it's a long time to get it working correctly with Trans{gaming,itive}'s kit.
Then no other old program works either, and people dump Windows in droves, or refuse to upgrade. Don't 16-bit Windows programs still work on XP? They may extend the API, but they rarely intentionally break it.
do you honestly think any company would advertise on something you're about to wipe your ass with?
Speaking of which, there are a great number of urinals in this country where the rubber liner has "Say no to drugs" printed on it. Which you are then expected to piss on...
Do you know the difference between "discrete" and "finite"? If a system has energy states with values 1/n^2, they're still quanta, but there aren't finitely many of them.
I'll admit ignorance on the topic in general, but aren't you limited in your 1/n^2 procession by there being a finite amount of energy in the universe?
Freedom is downplayed in Open Source to make it more palatable to business.
I really don't think that's an issue businesses find unpalatable.
Ok, Microsoft, Adobe, et al aren't keen on open source or free software, but then it's in complete conflict with their business model. Changing the name isn't going to help.
But most companies are users of software, not creators of proprietary code. For them, freedom per se isn't an issue, and thus selling them on that is irrelevant. ESR sells them on the technical advantages because that's what they care about.
If you're a politician (and in a sense, RMS and ESR are), and you're talking to a group of senior citizens, do you talk about your program for neonatal care and the environment, or about your prescription drugs policy? A targeted message isn't a lie (or a compromise on your principles) if it doesn't contradict your general message.
Before the pragmatist "Open Source" movement, Linux could only be termed "Free Software" and thus call to mind the GNU philosophy.
To 98% of the world, "free software" is free as in beer. Thus calling Linux "free software" hides the free as in speech aspect. "Open source" does not have an alternative meaning, and thus triggers the "Open source? What's that?" question.
And prepending the GNU just makes the name look clunky. Anyone who knows what GNU is already knows of their software contribution. For the rest of us, KISS.
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One small nitpick ... "achieving a liquidity event"???
Perhaps the dot com was a porn site?
None of you have done as much as RMS, and still you pick on that guy just because of the "GNU/Linux" thing.
I don't pick on RMS, I pick on him doing the "GNU/Linux" thing. The reason being is that I want his general message to succeed more. When he uses his position to criticize the decision to use BitKeeper or for things like this topic, his message comes across better.
Neither Oil nor Nuclear fissionable materials are 'running out'. This is just a complete lie.
No it isn't -- we're certainly using them faster than they are being created/redeposited -- but the 30-40 year estimate is also off.
For a reasonable write-up of how much oil there is, who has it, and how much is being used, see
this BBC News article.
Worse yet, I just bought a new car stereo that does XM and MP3... now it's going to be obsolete soon because SACD will be all the rage
:-) Why would you -- or anyone -- care about SACD in the car?
...and we all know that driving 55 with the kids fighting in the back seat is the ideal audiophile environment.
This is what capitalism does, people - it tends to monopoly, and restricts human development.
The reason this situation is tending to monopoly is the fixed resource: the number of channels that can be received on a standard radio. Satellite radio is taking it on on one side, internet radio on another. Or on a completely different tack, mp3 collections on computers with autoplay systems are also competition.
You speak very fondly of these "stateless communist" societies. Would you be willing to live there or is it enough that you can consider them quaint at a distance?
The problem with these societies is that they really depend on interpersonal relationships or a common cause. A family could be seen as stateless communism, for example. In the U.S., this is generally just parents and children, but other societies have had greater reach. Other forms include Israeli kibbutzes, an example of the common cause case. You might be able to achieve something similar in space, having one such society per asteroid or colony ship and relatively few ties to the outside world. Alternatively, in a world without significant scarcity, an essentially communalistic system may arise as capitalistic incentives no longer have the same pull.
I'm old enough that my hair has started its migration to my ears...
Now, what about worshipping such a woman?
Avoid this at all costs. (Hide it if you do feel it.) Want a relationship? Don't be desperate, be someon the other person would be interested in hanging out with. Be charming, be funny, be neat and clean. Real relationships are built on mutual attraction, not one party desperately needing the other.
I know I've downloaded more than five songs... legally. They may be trying to figure out how much of a market there is for downloadable music, not whether you're a leech.
the REAL point is that there were nude photos of steffi graf.
No, they're Graf's face on someone else's body. Given that Graf isn't particularly pretty, but has an incredible athletic body, it's the exact opposite of what you would probably really want to see.
More importantly - this is just movies guys, NOT religion.
Heretic! Burn him!
I'm not 100% sure, but I thought RMS attitude was 'Free, or not at all'.
Then what did he use to write emacs, et al in the first place? It wasn't from toggling a basic OS and editor into memory on a PDP/11...
I've always wanted some way of saying "I'm sorry" or "thank you."
I recall seeing someone selling an LCD display for the back window that had the option of a couple of (polite) phrases, and a remote with a couple of buttons for thank you, sorry, etc.
I heard the Xbox has a proprietary DVD player that spins backwards.
So where do you buy backwards DVDs for it to play? Sheesh, it's bad enough having region coding, now I have to check if I'm buying a clockwise or counter-clockwise DVD?
Unless the TOS specifically says "We will not log your activity" this lawsuit should be thrown out.
From comcastoneline.com:
COMCAST STATEMENT ON INTERNET PRIVACY
Philadelphia (February 13, 2002) - Comcast Cable Communications President Stephen B. Burke issued the following statement today regarding Internet privacy:
"Comcast respects the privacy of all our subscribers and is committed to fully protect their rights. Comcast has not shared and will not share personal information about where our subscribers go on the Web, either for any internal purpose or with any outside party, except as required by law. Consistent with our subscriber agreement and our privacy policy, which every subscriber acknowledges before receiving our service, Comcast reviews information in aggregate form only for purposes of network performance management to ensure an optimal Internet network experience for our subscribers."
DVDs are an example of deliberate, intentional, malevolence at work
It's greed, not malevolence per se. Thus the old saying doesn't apply.
EFF condemns the disruptive behavior of hecklers [eff.org] who have been joining the call.
What are the odds the hecklers are working for the MPAA/RIAA?
There's really no better way to "win" something like this than to make your opposition look like idiots.
If by writing for Windows you can target both Windows and Linux (and whichever other platforms they support), then why would anyone write any native Linux programs?
Seems to me most people write for X/KDE/Gnome/"posix", not for Linux. Wine or this interface layer just becomes another Linux API that just happens to be identical to Linux, and the programs are effectively Linux-native.
Then, in XP+1, Microsoft introduces major breakage into their API, such that it's a long time to get it working correctly with Trans{gaming,itive}'s kit.
Then no other old program works either, and people dump Windows in droves, or refuse to upgrade. Don't 16-bit Windows programs still work on XP? They may extend the API, but they rarely intentionally break it.
What what what what what what what?
"Only seven watts? That's not very bright!"
(I would have let you do the punchline, but Slashdot's lameness filter got in the way)
do you honestly think any company would advertise on something you're about to wipe your ass with?
Speaking of which, there are a great number of urinals in this country where the rubber liner has "Say no to drugs" printed on it. Which you are then expected to piss on...
Will the Senator from Disney please call his office!
But what should he call it?
Have a picture [royal.gov.uk] of Queen Victoria.
Fine, fine, fine...
Do you know the difference between "discrete" and "finite"? If a system has energy states with values 1/n^2, they're still quanta, but there aren't finitely many of them.
I'll admit ignorance on the topic in general, but aren't you limited in your 1/n^2 procession by there being a finite amount of energy in the universe?
Freedom is downplayed in Open Source to make it more palatable to business.
I really don't think that's an issue businesses find unpalatable.
Ok, Microsoft, Adobe, et al aren't keen on open source or free software, but then it's in complete conflict with their business model. Changing the name isn't going to help.
But most companies are users of software, not creators of proprietary code. For them, freedom per se isn't an issue, and thus selling them on that is irrelevant. ESR sells them on the technical advantages because that's what they care about.
If you're a politician (and in a sense, RMS and ESR are), and you're talking to a group of senior citizens, do you talk about your program for neonatal care and the environment, or about your prescription drugs policy? A targeted message isn't a lie (or a compromise on your principles) if it doesn't contradict your general message.
Before the pragmatist "Open Source" movement, Linux could only be termed "Free Software" and thus call to mind the GNU philosophy.
To 98% of the world, "free software" is free as in beer. Thus calling Linux "free software" hides the free as in speech aspect. "Open source" does not have an alternative meaning, and thus triggers the "Open source? What's that?" question.
And prepending the GNU just makes the name look clunky. Anyone who knows what GNU is already knows of their software contribution. For the rest of us, KISS.
Gattaca was one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's not a *yawn*!
I think whether you think it's a yawn or not depends on your genetic make-up.