Seriously. I tried Freenet like 3 years ago, and I was disgusted at the speed and the fact that all I could find in any index I tried was CP (Captain Picard).
I'd love to have a truly anonymous network of information exchange, but it seems damned pedos are going to ruin it every time. I hope I'm proven wrong in the future.
Since... never? While I admire and support the GPL and RMS' efforts, and release my work under the GPLv3 myself, I'm well aware that all of this is generally futile, as corporations will still do whatever they want and they get to write the laws and the sentences because they have more money than you.
For example, RMS is an idealistic poor man. Steve Ballmer is a chair-throwing billionaire. Does anybody really think RMS would have the slightest bit of a chance to win a trial against Ballmer, even if Ballmer had stabbed RMS with a knife on TV?
Good post. Universal suffrage is worth little as soon as you realize all that "power to the masses" is reduced to, at the very best, a word shorter than three letters through your life! All democracies evolve to bipartidism, so all you can speak every 3-6 years is a single bit. Even with 6 bit plain Latin characters, all you can speak with your bit-every-4-years is a very short word. How could you possibly call that power?
Indeed, we live in plutocracies, and the USA is the most blatant example of one, where not just extremely rich and influential people decide, but the whole state is ran by corporations like Monsanto or the mafiaa, world-renowned for their disrespect for human life and well-being and their lack of morality and honesty.
The problem is not the repetitive gameplay, it's that it doesn't matter. Doom 3 is a game that just doesn't matter.
OMG! We'll use a gazillion polygons, two fucking hundred lights per object, half a megabyte pixel shaders, and more RAM than Oracle! Wow this game is so good go buy it!
It doesn't matter if the game plays exactly like everything you had and you don't even enjoy the supposedly awesome graphics because they're the same old id Software crap: you're in a dark tunnel made of black walls, black ceiling, black floor, and black everything else, with no light whatsoever (well, it actually has 123890125 light sources, but they're all set in the vicinity of (0.015, 0.01, 0.02)), with monsters which you can't see, and even if you can, are ugly lumps of fat you couldn't care less about even if their model has three million triangles because it's piss ugly and lacks any form. And if paying $60+ for this sounds useless enough, you actually have to pay $400 more on your "rig" (as stupid gamers call it) if you want to get the game running, because it's OMG so hardcore, awesome graphics dude! 3571290702938571249 vertices on screen r0x0r OMG!!11one
If you call environmentally-responsible cars, quality furniture and non-McDonalds restaurants overpriced, then our definition of overpriced is different. But you have a valid point.
"Strange then that Apple have a (far) bigger share of the European MP3 player market than anyone else. Must be all those snobs that you claim we don't have..."
It's not nearly as bad as in the USA, where you can't even find alternative players in stores. At least in my country, most people use non-Apple, non-Microsoft players.
"The list you've given of your reasons for not using iTunes sounds a lot like your claims that we Europeans are less snobbish than Americans, i.e. a load of tripe."
So you're happy to be controlled by the mafiaa, virtually losing ownership of your own device, having to cope with Apple's shit software, and overall using defective by design products? If that's the case, then, what can I say? Perhaps "enjoy your (digital) AIDS" will do.
That depends on your definition of poverty. If you can't access middle education or barely decent health services, you're poor in my book. This goes for the USA too. I know of people who, despite having Internet access and a big TV, can't access good health services.
I never said we don't, but it's a matter of proportions. We have moderately acceptable amounts of inequality and poverty, part of which is due to issues we need to address, part of which is well deserved due to lazyness and crime. But a fucking billion Chinese are poor, and the difference between the rich and the poor is outrageous, and it's not due to them being lazy.
I don't trust American systems (corporate state, consumerist, the crappiest of the rich democracies in the rights that actually matter to have and the services that actually matter to provide, village idiot in the white house, war for oil, tendency to mess up with other countries' politics and fuck it up every time ending in a worse situation, highly hypocritical).
But I'd trust systems coming from nice, independent countries. I wouldn't trust China's because I don't trust communist dictatorships that censor the Internet, but I would trust a Japanese system, or an Australian system, for example.
Well, that indeed sucks. Just read about that. Then the EU is also wasting their money - MY tax money, which angers me. I don't mind funding this at all, but I don't want to lick foreign powers' asses, much less the USA's, much less if it costs me money. In fact, the point of making Galileo was to be independent from the USA and not have to bend over to them anytime. The EU was very stupid and lost sight of Galileo's goal.
I can see why they won't trust the American system, but why not the nicer European system? Is there something in Galileo that won't fit their communist dictatorship agenda?
This is yet another lame move from the Chinese government. Instead of trying to reduce their huge inequality, or at least improving the quality of life for the billion living in poverty, they waste their relatively modest budget duplicating efforts just because they want to play big, as if they were some sort of Europe or USA. The problem is, people aren't dying of hunger in Europe or the USA. This is the same crap the USSR (and today's Russia, to a lesser extent) did.
In America's snobbish, consumerist, McDonalds-fat market, sure. But here in Europe, I couldn't buy it even if I wanted. It's a failure of colossal proportions. Even Apple doesn't enjoy such a comfortable majority with their overpriced products for metrosexual, trendy people.
And one of the reasons why the intelligent buyers (note: I'm not saying Europeans are going to be particularly intelligent buyers; it's just that they aren't as snobbish, but definitely not intelligent, beacuse Microsoft still sells other products here) skip major brands and go for cheap, Taiwanese ones, is that the big three - Apple's shit, Microsoft's shit and Creative's shit - are defective by design. They are worthless little toys.
I mean, what the heck. I got a free iPod from some campaign of my employer's partner, and I have to use a Python script every time I copy audio files in order for the thing to play it (and of course, I'm not installing Apple's iTunes malware which will spam me, try to sell me their bullshit, delete my private files, and turn my computer into a vending and surveillance machine for the mafiaa).
You do? Fine, you can get that. However, others could take out everything else from you. I'd rather give up on my freedom to... choose not to understand four basic principles which, when written in legal text which you never read but need there so that lawyers won't come to piss on your wounds, seem to fit several pages.
"If SUN (or any developer) wants to keep things locked up it's their right." --- Then don't ask for code back from the Linux community.
"Just how helpful is the GPL anyway?" --- Does more for you than you yourself will.
"Did ZFS come from the Linux camp? No. Did OS X come from the Linux camp? No." --- So what? Did my penis come from the Linux camp? No, and I still have fun with it. So what?
"While the Linux camp was in a royal pissing match about whether Gnome or KDE was better, and similarly important things, both the hated SUN (slowaris? Huh, you think) and the despised Apple (they're so gay) have out-innovated you." --- Hahaha oh wow. What Apple invented summarizes as metrosexual crap. And Sun? Well, I guess the best I can say is that, even if their OS is free, I still use GNU/Linux, and I'm not the only one to do so.
Not only this is a ridiculous demand because Linux' copyright is shared among everyone and their mother, but Linux' license is crafted to guarantee that software is free AND STAYS FREE. I see no need to change this; in fact, the problem would be that Linux needs to be upgraded to GPLv3 because the previous, obsolete version of the GPL (2) was found to have pitfalls that still allow for corporations such as TiVo to defree it and abuse the community.
Well, it's not being binary what's wrong. PNG is a good quality binary format. It's being closed, and being just a memory dump of a structure that's tightly tied to your particular (and probably patented) proram what's wrong.
Doesn't sound that naive to me, but I doubt Microsoft can be saved; they're far too corrupt and ill-intentioned at the core, and that's not just Ballmer but the big rich shareholders and the oldest people still in Microsoft. Besides, even if they turn acceptable, they'll have to support all their legacy, which is the definition of crap; this happens to IBM as well. I'd rather have Microsoft, Windows, and everything they did die a miserable death, and the good, talented developers Microsoft had move on to open technologies for work... and the marketing and management ones just stay unemployed for life.
That's what I was thinking. Ballmer sucks, so we want him in Microsoft. Hopefully, he can screw it up a bit more. I'd love to see Microsoft going down the flush because some chair throwing monkey dancer got obsessed with fighting with a company that is not even their competition for the most part, spiked their products with defective by design AIDSware and failed to sell them, and marked an inflection point for their biggest product, which got wrong every single thing it could, and became a threat for privacy, development and the whole Earth (Windows Vista is a colossal environmental catastrophe).
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Seriously. I tried Freenet like 3 years ago, and I was disgusted at the speed and the fact that all I could find in any index I tried was CP (Captain Picard).
I'd love to have a truly anonymous network of information exchange, but it seems damned pedos are going to ruin it every time. I hope I'm proven wrong in the future.
*Knock knock*
4chan party van!
Since... never? While I admire and support the GPL and RMS' efforts, and release my work under the GPLv3 myself, I'm well aware that all of this is generally futile, as corporations will still do whatever they want and they get to write the laws and the sentences because they have more money than you.
For example, RMS is an idealistic poor man. Steve Ballmer is a chair-throwing billionaire. Does anybody really think RMS would have the slightest bit of a chance to win a trial against Ballmer, even if Ballmer had stabbed RMS with a knife on TV?
You're going to complain about corporations' corrupt power to a bigger instance of corporations' corrupt power? Good luck with that.
Lol land of the free.
That's what I'm used to expect from the "land of the free".
Good post. Universal suffrage is worth little as soon as you realize all that "power to the masses" is reduced to, at the very best, a word shorter than three letters through your life! All democracies evolve to bipartidism, so all you can speak every 3-6 years is a single bit. Even with 6 bit plain Latin characters, all you can speak with your bit-every-4-years is a very short word. How could you possibly call that power?
Indeed, we live in plutocracies, and the USA is the most blatant example of one, where not just extremely rich and influential people decide, but the whole state is ran by corporations like Monsanto or the mafiaa, world-renowned for their disrespect for human life and well-being and their lack of morality and honesty.
That was an awesome post of high comedic value. Thanks for the laughs.
Though I haven't been trolled; my own message was kind of a troll (more like hyperbole, but Slashdot can't tell the difference) and moderated as such.
The problem is not the repetitive gameplay, it's that it doesn't matter. Doom 3 is a game that just doesn't matter.
OMG! We'll use a gazillion polygons, two fucking hundred lights per object, half a megabyte pixel shaders, and more RAM than Oracle! Wow this game is so good go buy it!
It doesn't matter if the game plays exactly like everything you had and you don't even enjoy the supposedly awesome graphics because they're the same old id Software crap: you're in a dark tunnel made of black walls, black ceiling, black floor, and black everything else, with no light whatsoever (well, it actually has 123890125 light sources, but they're all set in the vicinity of (0.015, 0.01, 0.02)), with monsters which you can't see, and even if you can, are ugly lumps of fat you couldn't care less about even if their model has three million triangles because it's piss ugly and lacks any form. And if paying $60+ for this sounds useless enough, you actually have to pay $400 more on your "rig" (as stupid gamers call it) if you want to get the game running, because it's OMG so hardcore, awesome graphics dude! 3571290702938571249 vertices on screen r0x0r OMG!!11one
If you call environmentally-responsible cars, quality furniture and non-McDonalds restaurants overpriced, then our definition of overpriced is different. But you have a valid point.
"Strange then that Apple have a (far) bigger share of the European MP3 player market than anyone else. Must be all those snobs that you claim we don't have..."
It's not nearly as bad as in the USA, where you can't even find alternative players in stores. At least in my country, most people use non-Apple, non-Microsoft players.
"The list you've given of your reasons for not using iTunes sounds a lot like your claims that we Europeans are less snobbish than Americans, i.e. a load of tripe."
So you're happy to be controlled by the mafiaa, virtually losing ownership of your own device, having to cope with Apple's shit software, and overall using defective by design products? If that's the case, then, what can I say? Perhaps "enjoy your (digital) AIDS" will do.
The EU, a dictatorial agenda? I wish it had. At least, that would be an agenda.
That depends on your definition of poverty. If you can't access middle education or barely decent health services, you're poor in my book. This goes for the USA too. I know of people who, despite having Internet access and a big TV, can't access good health services.
I never said we don't, but it's a matter of proportions. We have moderately acceptable amounts of inequality and poverty, part of which is due to issues we need to address, part of which is well deserved due to lazyness and crime. But a fucking billion Chinese are poor, and the difference between the rich and the poor is outrageous, and it's not due to them being lazy.
I don't trust American systems (corporate state, consumerist, the crappiest of the rich democracies in the rights that actually matter to have and the services that actually matter to provide, village idiot in the white house, war for oil, tendency to mess up with other countries' politics and fuck it up every time ending in a worse situation, highly hypocritical).
But I'd trust systems coming from nice, independent countries. I wouldn't trust China's because I don't trust communist dictatorships that censor the Internet, but I would trust a Japanese system, or an Australian system, for example.
Well, that indeed sucks. Just read about that. Then the EU is also wasting their money - MY tax money, which angers me. I don't mind funding this at all, but I don't want to lick foreign powers' asses, much less the USA's, much less if it costs me money. In fact, the point of making Galileo was to be independent from the USA and not have to bend over to them anytime. The EU was very stupid and lost sight of Galileo's goal.
I can see why they won't trust the American system, but why not the nicer European system? Is there something in Galileo that won't fit their communist dictatorship agenda?
This is yet another lame move from the Chinese government. Instead of trying to reduce their huge inequality, or at least improving the quality of life for the billion living in poverty, they waste their relatively modest budget duplicating efforts just because they want to play big, as if they were some sort of Europe or USA. The problem is, people aren't dying of hunger in Europe or the USA. This is the same crap the USSR (and today's Russia, to a lesser extent) did.
I know how PGP works down to the algorithmic level, yet I can't break into somebody else's PGP-secured data.
In America's snobbish, consumerist, McDonalds-fat market, sure. But here in Europe, I couldn't buy it even if I wanted. It's a failure of colossal proportions. Even Apple doesn't enjoy such a comfortable majority with their overpriced products for metrosexual, trendy people.
And one of the reasons why the intelligent buyers (note: I'm not saying Europeans are going to be particularly intelligent buyers; it's just that they aren't as snobbish, but definitely not intelligent, beacuse Microsoft still sells other products here) skip major brands and go for cheap, Taiwanese ones, is that the big three - Apple's shit, Microsoft's shit and Creative's shit - are defective by design. They are worthless little toys.
I mean, what the heck. I got a free iPod from some campaign of my employer's partner, and I have to use a Python script every time I copy audio files in order for the thing to play it (and of course, I'm not installing Apple's iTunes malware which will spam me, try to sell me their bullshit, delete my private files, and turn my computer into a vending and surveillance machine for the mafiaa).
You do? Fine, you can get that. However, others could take out everything else from you. I'd rather give up on my freedom to... choose not to understand four basic principles which, when written in legal text which you never read but need there so that lawyers won't come to piss on your wounds, seem to fit several pages.
"If SUN (or any developer) wants to keep things locked up it's their right." --- Then don't ask for code back from the Linux community.
"Just how helpful is the GPL anyway?" --- Does more for you than you yourself will.
"Did ZFS come from the Linux camp? No. Did OS X come from the Linux camp? No." --- So what? Did my penis come from the Linux camp? No, and I still have fun with it. So what?
"While the Linux camp was in a royal pissing match about whether Gnome or KDE was better, and similarly important things, both the hated SUN (slowaris? Huh, you think) and the despised Apple (they're so gay) have out-innovated you." --- Hahaha oh wow. What Apple invented summarizes as metrosexual crap. And Sun? Well, I guess the best I can say is that, even if their OS is free, I still use GNU/Linux, and I'm not the only one to do so.
Easy to fix: licence your original code under the licence that guarantees yours and everybody else's freedom. That is, the GPL.
Not only this is a ridiculous demand because Linux' copyright is shared among everyone and their mother, but Linux' license is crafted to guarantee that software is free AND STAYS FREE. I see no need to change this; in fact, the problem would be that Linux needs to be upgraded to GPLv3 because the previous, obsolete version of the GPL (2) was found to have pitfalls that still allow for corporations such as TiVo to defree it and abuse the community.
Well, it's not being binary what's wrong. PNG is a good quality binary format. It's being closed, and being just a memory dump of a structure that's tightly tied to your particular (and probably patented) proram what's wrong.
Doesn't sound that naive to me, but I doubt Microsoft can be saved; they're far too corrupt and ill-intentioned at the core, and that's not just Ballmer but the big rich shareholders and the oldest people still in Microsoft. Besides, even if they turn acceptable, they'll have to support all their legacy, which is the definition of crap; this happens to IBM as well. I'd rather have Microsoft, Windows, and everything they did die a miserable death, and the good, talented developers Microsoft had move on to open technologies for work... and the marketing and management ones just stay unemployed for life.
Three words: developers developers developers!
That's what I was thinking. Ballmer sucks, so we want him in Microsoft. Hopefully, he can screw it up a bit more. I'd love to see Microsoft going down the flush because some chair throwing monkey dancer got obsessed with fighting with a company that is not even their competition for the most part, spiked their products with defective by design AIDSware and failed to sell them, and marked an inflection point for their biggest product, which got wrong every single thing it could, and became a threat for privacy, development and the whole Earth (Windows Vista is a colossal environmental catastrophe).