I enjoy food so hot it makes others cry from 10 metres and I don't even know what "heartburn" actually is, my teeth are just fine thank you, and sleep is for pussies. Just finishing up pot #2 for today, like most every other day.
Feel free to make up whatever bullshit makes you feel good about yourself though.
Stop wasting time on the Internet and go mow your lawn, now - and do it properly this time. I demand your lawn is kept to my exacting standards. and I demand it is done in a timely fashion, as defined by me, since I plan on spending my weekend relaxing on your lawn, therefore you must accomodate me.
Don't give me any bull about mowing it later because you're busy either, I'm sick of The Busy Cop-Out getting in the way of my enjoyment of your lawn.
You get payed to develop custom software for people, then you go ahead and develop it, keep ownership, and graciously provide the customer with a restrictive license to use your code?
In case you hadn't noticed, you are not Microsoft. Fucking over your customers is probably not a very good business plan when there's a million other companies that would be glad to actually give them what they payed for.
So GCC is not Free Software because my mother can't code in C?
Dumbest. Argument. Ever.
There is more to the software world than desktop applications geared towards the computer illiterate. Some of it is, by nature, difficult to use. Sometimes it amazes me how many people seem to ignore this glaringly obvious fact.
Software freedom is as important to scientific software (say, GNU Octave) as much as it is for to Mommie's email program - if not even more so.
if your primary concern is writing software and getting a job making money doing so. You want Software Engineering.
I suggest you do some research into what Computer Science actually is before assuming you'd like to go to University for it, because if you think you'll spend the majority of your time programming, you'll be unpleasantly surprised (The obscenely high first-year dropout rates of Computer Science programs are due mostly to this misconception)
Yeah, just like the market took care of that nasty DVD technology that took away our fair use rights, not to mention imposed completely illegal limitations on where I'm allowed to play my damn movies, etc.
Whatever happened to that "DVD" technology? Oh, right, it's the only thing we have and there are no relevant alternatives and there never can or will be. That's what happens when a media cartel can dictate whatever the hell it wants on people and they don't have a choice.
Your weird biblical spin on libertarianesque rabid free-market-ism doesn't make it any less retarded and unrealistic.
Price gouging is not "responding to market forces", it's intentionally eliminating the market by leveraging your resources (cash reserves) against the weaker competition. Markets don't magically solve all the problems when there is no market left, now do they?
Monopolies happen, and your idealistic philosophy (lovely as it may sound at first) does not make them go away - even if you manage to come up with silly arguments that Jesus said so.
Uh.. yeah. You're "providing for your own" by raping and murdering for profit too, aren't you? So raping and mudering for money is now okay! Teh bibal said so!
It's like Sony is determined to ruin their business over DRM. First the CD thing, now they're actually pushing back the PS3 by the better part of a year because of DRM issues (and thus letting MS steal all their market share).
Serves 'em right... though if they're the only serious competitor to MS in this arena I wish they could stop being so damned stupid.
The people in power (double plus especially in the US) like this team-ism though. All you have to do is make a word dirty, say, oh, I dunno, "liberal", and start calling everyone you don't like by it. It's not about issues, it's the political equivalent of a Football game.
And that's exactly how they want it. It makes the people easy to manipulate.
Using a document format that anyone, anywhere can implement in their product, and compete solely on the playing field of software quality, hurts competition.
(The fact that some people are insane enough to buy this bullshit is frightening)
Is Slashdot populated by individuals who do nothing but run cables all day, while comparing themselves to the likes of Tannenbaum, Knuth, Djikstra or Gates?
Actually, it's full of gamerz kiddiez who compare themselves to the likes of [...]. Obviously playing video games and watching anime propels you into the stratosphere of genius occupied by Turing and friends.
P.S. How DARE you mention Gates in the company of Knuth and Djikstra?:)
I am almost speechless at how incredibly overflowing with bullshit this entire article and everything surrounding it is.
Know why IT workers are the "worse dressed"? Because they're (generally) skilled people who actually do something, not walking bullshit spewing heads in pretty suits who just talk to people all day and think they're important to the functioning of anything.
Have fun with your meetings and trying really hard to impress each other, we'll be over here, you know, actually getting things done and whatnot.
... will be the death of the free operating system.
We need to be doing everything possible to keep our computers our computers. Making life easier for manufacturers to turn Linux into Yet Another Windows is counter-productive at best.
Open source is not that open, because if you take Redhat and make a completely different product out of it, Redhat won't support it. Painfully obvious, but fair enough.
Closed development is more open than open development because... you... can't.... uh.. make the changes.. at all? Smoke some more crack there, PR droid boy.
His point is, quite literally, "Freedom is Slavery". Astonishing.
Why exactly do we give this FUD nonsense the time of day as if it's a relevent opinion in some rational debate?
For those of you unfamiliar with the "Monroe Doctrine", here is another handy analogy to a better well known event in history:
America = Rome Internet = "Barbarian"
Anyway, talking about control of the DNS in "we own the Internet" terms is misleading at best (more like "retarded"). DNS is the system through with pretty text names get mapped to IP addresses. Big. Fucking. Deal.
Even if every single solitary DNS server on the face of the planet was destroyed tomorrow, the Internet would recover (and it wouldn't even take that long). No, it wouldn't be very much fun, but it wouldn't be the end of the world either. A couple million nerds with nothing better to do and the exact same problem to solve tend to get shit done.
A distributed DNS system sure would be nice though, make this problem go away and let the fascists swing their monkey dicks at each other over something else.
Making the jump from multi-core CPUs being available to massive things like clusters, MPI, etc. is a bit of a leap.
Multi-core chips in a typical commodity machine (shared memory, same address space, etc) just means you have multiple threads of execution, but everything else is pretty much the same at the application coding level.
If you're working on an app and want to take advantage of multi-core (or SMP), you just need to have a well threaded app, using the native threading libs (ie pthreads) - nothing fancy. Clusters and big non-shared-memory type supercomputers are a different story altogether from something like a dual-core Athlon.
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Cool, so if we make murder legal, there's no such thing as murder anymore!
Duh.
I enjoy food so hot it makes others cry from 10 metres and I don't even know what "heartburn" actually is, my teeth are just fine thank you, and sleep is for pussies. Just finishing up pot #2 for today, like most every other day.
Feel free to make up whatever bullshit makes you feel good about yourself though.
Despite what the VM fanboys like to spout, performance does still matter for a lot of applications.
What do we lose? Speed. Duh. You had to ask?
Stop wasting time on the Internet and go mow your lawn, now - and do it properly this time. I demand your lawn is kept to my exacting standards. and I demand it is done in a timely fashion, as defined by me, since I plan on spending my weekend relaxing on your lawn, therefore you must accomodate me.
Don't give me any bull about mowing it later because you're busy either, I'm sick of The Busy Cop-Out getting in the way of my enjoyment of your lawn.
You get payed to develop custom software for people, then you go ahead and develop it, keep ownership, and graciously provide the customer with a restrictive license to use your code?
In case you hadn't noticed, you are not Microsoft. Fucking over your customers is probably not a very good business plan when there's a million other companies that would be glad to actually give them what they payed for.
So GCC is not Free Software because my mother can't code in C?
Dumbest. Argument. Ever.
There is more to the software world than desktop applications geared towards the computer illiterate. Some of it is, by nature, difficult to use. Sometimes it amazes me how many people seem to ignore this glaringly obvious fact.
Software freedom is as important to scientific software (say, GNU Octave) as much as it is for to Mommie's email program - if not even more so.
if your primary concern is writing software and getting a job making money doing so. You want Software Engineering.
I suggest you do some research into what Computer Science actually is before assuming you'd like to go to University for it, because if you think you'll spend the majority of your time programming, you'll be unpleasantly surprised (The obscenely high first-year dropout rates of Computer Science programs are due mostly to this misconception)
If you're setting up IIS, you shouldn't be helped, you should be fired.
Yeah, just like the market took care of that nasty DVD technology that took away our fair use rights, not to mention imposed completely illegal limitations on where I'm allowed to play my damn movies, etc.
Whatever happened to that "DVD" technology? Oh, right, it's the only thing we have and there are no relevant alternatives and there never can or will be. That's what happens when a media cartel can dictate whatever the hell it wants on people and they don't have a choice.
The market solves all! Dumbass.
Ah, I see, proof by one specific example. I stand corrected!
Man you knee-jerk fundamentalists are annoying.
Your weird biblical spin on libertarianesque rabid free-market-ism doesn't make it any less retarded and unrealistic.
Price gouging is not "responding to market forces", it's intentionally eliminating the market by leveraging your resources (cash reserves) against the weaker competition. Markets don't magically solve all the problems when there is no market left, now do they?
Monopolies happen, and your idealistic philosophy (lovely as it may sound at first) does not make them go away - even if you manage to come up with silly arguments that Jesus said so.
These corporate analyst wankers really don't understand the world of free software whatsoever, do they?
Uh.. yeah. You're "providing for your own" by raping and murdering for profit too, aren't you? So raping and mudering for money is now okay! Teh bibal said so!
Dumbass.
It's like Sony is determined to ruin their business over DRM. First the CD thing, now they're actually pushing back the PS3 by the better part of a year because of DRM issues (and thus letting MS steal all their market share).
Serves 'em right... though if they're the only serious competitor to MS in this arena I wish they could stop being so damned stupid.
No shit, sherlock.
The people in power (double plus especially in the US) like this team-ism though. All you have to do is make a word dirty, say, oh, I dunno, "liberal", and start calling everyone you don't like by it. It's not about issues, it's the political equivalent of a Football game.
And that's exactly how they want it. It makes the people easy to manipulate.
Using a document format that anyone, anywhere can implement in their product, and compete solely on the playing field of software quality, hurts competition.
(The fact that some people are insane enough to buy this bullshit is frightening)
Actually, it's full of gamerz kiddiez who compare themselves to the likes of [...]. Obviously playing video games and watching anime propels you into the stratosphere of genius occupied by Turing and friends.
P.S. How DARE you mention Gates in the company of Knuth and Djikstra? :)
Everyone knows that in taking operator overloading out of Java, they made it impossible to write confusing code.
Libglade is the greatest thing ever.
Man. You'd have to be one sad, sad bastard to do something like that.
You're so pathetic you attempt to "fashionably" emulate a subculture of people who are stereotyped a being, well, socially pathetic? Congratulations.
I am almost speechless at how incredibly overflowing with bullshit this entire article and everything surrounding it is.
Know why IT workers are the "worse dressed"? Because they're (generally) skilled people who actually do something, not walking bullshit spewing heads in pretty suits who just talk to people all day and think they're important to the functioning of anything.
Have fun with your meetings and trying really hard to impress each other, we'll be over here, you know, actually getting things done and whatnot.
... will be the death of the free operating system.
We need to be doing everything possible to keep our computers our computers. Making life easier for manufacturers to turn Linux into Yet Another Windows is counter-productive at best.
Open source is not that open, because if you take Redhat and make a completely different product out of it, Redhat won't support it. Painfully obvious, but fair enough.
Closed development is more open than open development because... you... can't.... uh.. make the changes.. at all? Smoke some more crack there, PR droid boy.
His point is, quite literally, "Freedom is Slavery". Astonishing.
Why exactly do we give this FUD nonsense the time of day as if it's a relevent opinion in some rational debate?
For those of you unfamiliar with the "Monroe Doctrine", here is another handy analogy to a better well known event in history:
America = Rome
Internet = "Barbarian"
Anyway, talking about control of the DNS in "we own the Internet" terms is misleading at best (more like "retarded"). DNS is the system through with pretty text names get mapped to IP addresses. Big. Fucking. Deal.
Even if every single solitary DNS server on the face of the planet was destroyed tomorrow, the Internet would recover (and it wouldn't even take that long). No, it wouldn't be very much fun, but it wouldn't be the end of the world either. A couple million nerds with nothing better to do and the exact same problem to solve tend to get shit done.
A distributed DNS system sure would be nice though, make this problem go away and let the fascists swing their monkey dicks at each other over something else.
Making the jump from multi-core CPUs being available to massive things like clusters, MPI, etc. is a bit of a leap.
Multi-core chips in a typical commodity machine (shared memory, same address space, etc) just means you have multiple threads of execution, but everything else is pretty much the same at the application coding level.
If you're working on an app and want to take advantage of multi-core (or SMP), you just need to have a well threaded app, using the native threading libs (ie pthreads) - nothing fancy. Clusters and big non-shared-memory type supercomputers are a different story altogether from something like a dual-core Athlon.