Wow. That'd have been the story of my adolescence to the letter, if my otherwise fine secondary school hadn't been an IT wasteland. I got a start in BASIC back in primary school, and was eager to take it further when I moved on. The first chance I got, I logged in and opened the first recognisable name I could see: Visual Basic.
You there! Did I tell you you could run that? No? Well then close it!
And thus endeth my programming career until the lazy days of university some eight years later.
When asked about the future prospects of Microsoft's "Origami" mini-tablet design, Naitoh was sceptical. "I'll have a hard time to convince myself that Origami will be a primary device," he said.
LENOVO LAPTOP DEVELOPER IN COMPETITOR-DISLIKING SCANDAL SHOCKER!
That's Slackware. Slackware generally provides things in fairly vanilla form. I think Ubuntu likes making lots of modifications to things.
As for the password thing, the simple answer is: I don't know. I tried Ubuntu out a few weeks ago, and I just didn't really get it. As far as I could tell, there was only one user (root didn't seem to exist), and to do admin tasks, you type sudo su to get a root shell.
Trying to force anyone to be interested in things they simply aren't is morally wrong... ....not something that should be fought
You're using some very inappropriately strong words to describe what's being done here. Why is that? Are you scared of something?
Traits and interests are not the same. Men and women have naturally different traits, that much is obvious. But interests? My favourite example here is skateboarding, as described in this essay (mirror).
Describing the attitudes of male skaters towards women:
they explained the lack of female participation as a natural inability or as a choice of women not to skate. It appeared that dominant ideology of sex- typed behavior was an assumption of these skaters ... Skaters expressed the assumptions that women either exclude themselves by choosing not to skate (act masculine) or that women naturally would not be interested in skating (in acting masculine)
Sound familiar? That's probably because it's the exact same thing you're saying. And yet:
Skateboarding is a typical female model of sport: it is cooperative, anti-competitieve, a means of self-expression, a means of self-control, it lacks rules, and it lacks a hierarchal structure. In addition, the skills involved are typically seen as feminine such as grace, coordination, and balance. It is not a sport that is based on muscle-bound power.
Correlation does not imply cause. The fact that an interest or activity is male-dominated does not necessarily mean that it's a result of the differences between mens' and womens' natural traits.
Your co-worker ranks on the exact same level as men who seek to 'score' as many times as possible, in that she thinks that a fulfilling life means carrying out her gender's reproductive function. She is also a misandrist, as in the opposite of a misogenist, because she's prejudiced against men, at least according to her own twisted terms: "to make up for their inability..."
Fortunately, her type probably only exists in the same proportions as the equivalent stupid men.
The point is that this kind of difference isn't necessarily natural. It's more likely to be cultural or social, meaning there's no good reason not to encourage them to participate.
Mankind's tendency to assume that most traits are 'just natural' is where we got things like slavery and the holocaust from.
Yeah, but mostly they are used in discussions (aka flamewars). In those cases, it's probably just a standard tactic: try to use reasoning to tie your point to a more difficult to refute point in order to strengthen your position. Unfortunately, most people get greedy and try to tie their points to indisputable facts and truths instead, and I think this is where the real stinkers come from, because it usually takes a lot of stretching [goatse.cx] to pull something like that off.
Yours are flawed because the knowledge of how to lock and secure premises is common. Everyone knows how to lock their home, and most people have the sense to do so. This means that when someone leaves their door open, it's a sign that something is different. And in the case of shops, they have signs denoting that they are shops, and it's a very old and established convention that one is free to enter and exit an open shop.
Here's a hint for you: if you catch yourself typing out an analogy, chances are already know you're wrong. Hit CTRL+W and get on with your life.
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
When it comes to software, I _much_ prefer free software, because I have
very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and
having sources available can be a life-saver.
So in that sense I am an avid promoter of free software, and GPL'd stuff in particular (because once it's GPL'd I _know_ it's going to stay free, so I don't have to worry about future releases).
In other words, Linus likes the GPL for the actual reasons that it is a good license, not out of any kind of narrow-minded 'software ideology'.
The real problem was and is that there are lots of people who disagreed with the FSF on issues (mine was the definition of source code, while I know that some commercial entities felt that the patent language was totally unsupportable). And the FSF took that input, and then totally ignored it.
So as far as I can tell, the whole GPLv3 "process" has been a sham from the very beginning. Eben and Richard talk about "discussion drafts", but it's not "discussion" if you don't actually care what the other side says. And Richard most definitely doesn't care (Eben probably does, but has no actual say in the end result).
So forget about this whole "community input" thing. Input has been given, and then duly ignored.
That said, I'll wait for some hint on lkml that any of this actually is Linus before I attribute it to him.
You aren't paying attention. You have permission to connect to your ISP and POP servers, because you are in a contract with the owners of both. You have no contract or even an informal agreement with the owner of an unknown unsecured wireless access point.
What he means by "we don't need internet providers" is that we don't need ISPs. Obviously, we need internet providers in the sense that we need other people in the network to help transport the data.
The thing is, in that P2P fantasy world where everyone shares their connection and gives back to the community and there are no evil corporations charging us monthly fees, major latency would be the norm and the internet would become much more regionalised than it is now. Online gaming, for example, would all but die, surviving only in tightnit local groups.
There's something about Slashdot that encourages these terrible analogies, and it's just awful to watch. Sometimes, I see a story, and I can tell beforehand that there's going to be a bunch of these crappy analogies being thrown around, argued over and refined. It's usually around then that I turn my computer off and go outside, so in a sense, they literally send me running.
I've prepared a simple diagram to demonstrate to you exactly why you have been added to my fictional list of People Whose Opinions on Linux Aren't Worth Shit.
GNOME provides no capabilities beyond KDE. BSD provides no capabilities beyond Linux. vi provides no capabilities beyond emacs. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
By the way, being wrong provides no capabilities beyond being dead. Don't be tempted to continue living. You simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
Welcome to the internet. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used as evidence against you in a character assassination on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. That'd have been the story of my adolescence to the letter, if my otherwise fine secondary school hadn't been an IT wasteland. I got a start in BASIC back in primary school, and was eager to take it further when I moved on. The first chance I got, I logged in and opened the first recognisable name I could see: Visual Basic.
And thus endeth my programming career until the lazy days of university some eight years later.
That'll teach me to copy/paste. I left his shebang mistake in there too. A thousand apologies. I tried to be the King of Pedantry, and I failed.
That's Slackware. Slackware generally provides things in fairly vanilla form. I think Ubuntu likes making lots of modifications to things.
As for the password thing, the simple answer is: I don't know. I tried Ubuntu out a few weeks ago, and I just didn't really get it. As far as I could tell, there was only one user (root didn't seem to exist), and to do admin tasks, you type sudo su to get a root shell.
You're using some very inappropriately strong words to describe what's being done here. Why is that? Are you scared of something?
Traits and interests are not the same. Men and women have naturally different traits, that much is obvious. But interests? My favourite example here is skateboarding, as described in this essay (mirror).
Describing the attitudes of male skaters towards women:
Sound familiar? That's probably because it's the exact same thing you're saying. And yet:Correlation does not imply cause. The fact that an interest or activity is male-dominated does not necessarily mean that it's a result of the differences between mens' and womens' natural traits.
Fortunately, her type probably only exists in the same proportions as the equivalent stupid men.
The point is that this kind of difference isn't necessarily natural. It's more likely to be cultural or social, meaning there's no good reason not to encourage them to participate.
Mankind's tendency to assume that most traits are 'just natural' is where we got things like slavery and the holocaust from.
Final text:
Yeah, but mostly they are used in discussions (aka flamewars). In those cases, it's probably just a standard tactic: try to use reasoning to tie your point to a more difficult to refute point in order to strengthen your position. Unfortunately, most people get greedy and try to tie their points to indisputable facts and truths instead, and I think this is where the real stinkers come from, because it usually takes a lot of stretching [goatse.cx] to pull something like that off.
Hypothesis: You are wrong
Procedure: Refute the analogies that made up the core of your argument
Conclusion: You are wrong
Actually, I really think you might be onto something there.
But for the sake of accuracy: we were actually dealing in the present tense, so technically your point is irrelevant.
An interesting thought though. One that gave me some hope for the future of the internet, in fact.
Yet more shitty analogies.
Yours are flawed because the knowledge of how to lock and secure premises is common. Everyone knows how to lock their home, and most people have the sense to do so. This means that when someone leaves their door open, it's a sign that something is different. And in the case of shops, they have signs denoting that they are shops, and it's a very old and established convention that one is free to enter and exit an open shop.
Here's a hint for you: if you catch yourself typing out an analogy, chances are already know you're wrong. Hit CTRL+W and get on with your life.
http://hotwired.goo.ne.jp/matrix/9709/5_linus.htm
In other words, Linus likes the GPL for the actual reasons that it is a good license, not out of any kind of narrow-minded 'software ideology'.
That said, I'll wait for some hint on lkml that any of this actually is Linus before I attribute it to him.
You aren't paying attention. You have permission to connect to your ISP and POP servers, because you are in a contract with the owners of both. You have no contract or even an informal agreement with the owner of an unknown unsecured wireless access point.
http://backslash.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
Why not just take them off your own homepage? That way, you won't be pissing everyone off with this already-redundant offtopic comment.
What he means by "we don't need internet providers" is that we don't need ISPs. Obviously, we need internet providers in the sense that we need other people in the network to help transport the data.
The thing is, in that P2P fantasy world where everyone shares their connection and gives back to the community and there are no evil corporations charging us monthly fees, major latency would be the norm and the internet would become much more regionalised than it is now. Online gaming, for example, would all but die, surviving only in tightnit local groups.
There's something about Slashdot that encourages these terrible analogies, and it's just awful to watch. Sometimes, I see a story, and I can tell beforehand that there's going to be a bunch of these crappy analogies being thrown around, argued over and refined. It's usually around then that I turn my computer off and go outside, so in a sense, they literally send me running.
I've prepared a simple diagram to demonstrate to you exactly why you have been added to my fictional list of People Whose Opinions on Linux Aren't Worth Shit.
Down with diversity! Down with choice!
GNOME provides no capabilities beyond KDE. BSD provides no capabilities beyond Linux. vi provides no capabilities beyond emacs. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
By the way, being wrong provides no capabilities beyond being dead. Don't be tempted to continue living. You simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
Welcome to the internet. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used as evidence against you in a character assassination on Slashdot.
http://pages.google.com/
They have the majority of the code and infrastructure in place in Google Pages. From there, it's a matter of integration.