Open source only seems to work if it's backed by a major contributor, like Firefox and seaMonkey by Google. Otherwise it tends to be buggy and non-user-friendly.
I'm fairly certain that Firefox is an excellent counterpoint to that assertion actually...
I'll raise your examples one Debian and FreeBSD though.
Also, floppies?!? Really? It's been over a decade since I've had to touch one of those, but to my recollection dd will in fact work perfectly fine to image them.
Are you human? This post looks like some thing a markov chain barfed out. As far as I can tell, I wasn't even responding to a post made by you. Hell, this is the first comment you've posted in this story, unless of course you are a sockpuppeting whore.
I suspect you are being purposely dense but what the hell, I'll clarify: Everybody knows that patents on ideas are wrong. Most people agree that patents on mechanisms are a good thing.
Aaaah, I see now. If once piece of software is rubbish, then surely any other pieces of software under the same license must also be rubbish!
With this in mind I think it is safe to say that we can write off proprietary software from seriously competeing in the real world, you would not believe how many stories about proprietary software messing up I can find...
What is that? That's not actually what you were claiming, you were just being offtopic? Oh, I see...
You are pulling shit out of your ass and saying "this is the way I want the world to be". Unfortunetly for you, this isn't the way the world is. If you are having a hard time finding sources discussing why patenting ideas is wrong, then maybe it is because everybody but you understands why it is retarded.
Wow, Alan Turingsays that software is math, and some random asshole lawyer with no real mathematical or computer science background says it is not. I wonder who I'm going to go with...
Being physically located in China or not has nothing to do with China blocking them. China could block them if they kept up shop in China, or they could not block them even though they no longer have employees in China.
By removing themselves physically from China they might risk upsetting China (so that they are blocked) but that is not a certainty, and they ensure the physical safety of their employees.
The problem here is they are trying to replace a word ('hackers') that already has plenty of mainstream traction with one that sounds patently retarded. I mean seriously, shit like "cyberwarriors"? "cyber" brings to mind a coked out science fiction genre, and "warriors" implies they are doing something a tad more strenuous than sitting at a damned keyboard. How anyone takes this stuff seriously is beyond me...
This isn't just something you see on slashdot. You actually touched on the issue in your first post. Quite clearly you were moderated by a rabid chicke.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Every citizen eligible for jury duty should know about this.
Nature... finds a way.
It's called "pay someone else to do it for you", just like you pay someone else to install closed source solutions.
Not really a hard concept.
I'm fairly certain that Firefox is an excellent counterpoint to that assertion actually...
I'll raise your examples one Debian and FreeBSD though.
Also, floppies?!? Really? It's been over a decade since I've had to touch one of those, but to my recollection dd will in fact work perfectly fine to image them.
Are you human? This post looks like some thing a markov chain barfed out. As far as I can tell, I wasn't even responding to a post made by you. Hell, this is the first comment you've posted in this story, unless of course you are a sockpuppeting whore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test
Read.
No need, just waiting for Bilski to go through.
Alan Turing may be dead, but that in no way invalidates his work. Fuckwit.
I suspect you are being purposely dense but what the hell, I'll clarify: Everybody knows that patents on ideas are wrong. Most people agree that patents on mechanisms are a good thing.
Aaaah, I see now. If once piece of software is rubbish, then surely any other pieces of software under the same license must also be rubbish!
With this in mind I think it is safe to say that we can write off proprietary software from seriously competeing in the real world, you would not believe how many stories about proprietary software messing up I can find...
What is that? That's not actually what you were claiming, you were just being offtopic? Oh, I see...
Or you know.. buy an open system....
You are pulling shit out of your ass and saying "this is the way I want the world to be". Unfortunetly for you, this isn't the way the world is. If you are having a hard time finding sources discussing why patenting ideas is wrong, then maybe it is because everybody but you understands why it is retarded.
Wow, Alan Turing says that software is math, and some random asshole lawyer with no real mathematical or computer science background says it is not. I wonder who I'm going to go with...
Dumbass.
Being physically located in China or not has nothing to do with China blocking them. China could block them if they kept up shop in China, or they could not block them even though they no longer have employees in China.
By removing themselves physically from China they might risk upsetting China (so that they are blocked) but that is not a certainty, and they ensure the physical safety of their employees.
The chinese government stole all of their bubble gum. That's why google is so upset.
No. Math is not patentable. Software is math. Algorithms are math.
Also, Alan Turing says, "Fuck you."
Why does science need a reason? Once we have this stuff people will dream up creative aplications you or I could never have dreamed of.
The problem here is they are trying to replace a word ('hackers') that already has plenty of mainstream traction with one that sounds patently retarded. I mean seriously, shit like "cyberwarriors"? "cyber" brings to mind a coked out science fiction genre, and "warriors" implies they are doing something a tad more strenuous than sitting at a damned keyboard. How anyone takes this stuff seriously is beyond me...
This isn't just something you see on slashdot. You actually touched on the issue in your first post. Quite clearly you were moderated by a rabid chicke.
That should have been "needn't", not "needed". I completely agree with you.
How do you build a server 'in anger'?
Conclusion: Obama is no better than Bush with respect to FoIA Requests.
Yes, I most certainly would call that damning. You needed be worse than Bush to be considered bad.
n/t.
Except it is big, so that doesn't make any sense...
Yeah, and F=ma? Big whoop! Don't even get me started on boring stuff like E=mc^2.
All of this physics stuff is boring, it will never come of anything interesting.
The trick is adjusting it on the fly, automatically, when the user moves his head.
Dumbass.