The man was far more interesting than the character he played.

Where are my mod points when I need them?

Citation needed.

Go read his stuff on FSF. He is not against business, he is against business practices that he finds unethical. That is a huge difference.

If RMS hated business, he would have put a no selling software clause in the GPL.

With that definition, no license is truly free since every single one of them have conditions.

BSD, MIT, they all have conditions, although much lighter than GPL.

However, the GPL ensures that no one can take rights away from you, regardless of where you get the code. BSD and MIT-like licenses do not guarantee that.

The reciprocity clause is the main reason why the Linux kernel has thrived despite so have many different corporate interests pulling at it.

You might do better arguing where you consider where the line is rather than putting up a misleading statement.

It appears that you are advocating anarchy, which doesn't really work in any setting with more than 1 person.

I don't know why people don't understand that about Apple after all this time.

Apple is Dell/Samsung with its own OS.

When did this happen? They still offer DVD's by mail and the last quarterly report that I looked at, admittedly about two years ago, DVD's by mail generated more revenue and had a much higher profit margin. something like 8 times more profitable.

When they announced that they were going to spin off DVD's, their stock went from ~300 to ~50 in a short period of time, so they nixed that stupid idea in a hurry.

Does anyone who actually needs graphics performance use the integrated graphics in any CPU?

PHP is a significant barrier for existing projects.

Look at the pile of crap that is Wordpress or any PHP CMS for that matter.

Ask Facebook how much money and time they have spent trying to hack around PHP's many warts.

Anyone using PHP is a non-programmer by definition.

You are misusing that saying.

What it means it that a good craftsman knows not to use substandard tools.

A good programmer knows not to use substandard languages like PHP.

I love that it exists because it is an easy and accurate resume filter. PHP on it? Delete it!

Yeah, what is worse is that some people actually think that a signed SSL certificate is a certification of the safety of website.

Every once in a while I read about some idiot that thought the website was safe because it had a signed SSL cert and gets all bent out of shape because the https site infected his computer and the CA should have not issued the certificate before testing out the website for him.

If they need revenue there are other ways to go about it without using sleazy tactics.

Wikipedia exists with zero ads.

It can be done.

I block all ads and honestly, there is nothing I will be missing if those sites/services shut down.

Even if I didn't block them, I wouldn't click on them and if they annoyed me they would go on my blacklist of things never to buy. I have blacklisted all products from companies solely based on their ads annoying me. I don't base my purchasing decisions on ads anyway. I have no moral, ethical or legal obligation to look at ads, click on them or buy anything because of them.

There is always someone that will do it better. If they can't stay in business without using ads than good riddance. That is the market telling them they aren't wanted or needed.

Sad thing is that any mobo I could buy that would fit my 3Ghz Core Duo was either used or new but lacking in too many features and massively expensive.

It ran everything I needed smooth as silk. That was a sad day

The old machine:
EVGA 750i mobo Nvidia chipset
3 Ghz core duo
EVGA 580 GTX video card
8 GB 1066 Mhz DDR2
1 TB SATA WB Black HD.
X-Fi Titanium sound card

The only thing I disliked is that it was very noisy with the mobo fan, 5 case fans(2 in front/top 1 in back), the monstrous GPU aftermarket cooler and the two fans on the video card. It was annoyingly loud and still ran hot.

I was planning on keeping it for a few more years. For the people wondering why so many are holding on to older machines is because they still run most modern software just fine. No one sane upgrades for the sake of it. The time when a machine started struggling after two years is long gone and is one of the reasons why so many desktop makers are struggling today.

With no viable and reasonably-priced mobo replacement available, I bit the bullet and built a new machine.

EVGA Z97 FTW mobo
Intel i5 3.5 Ghz processor
EVGA 960 GTX Superclocked video card
Gskill 8 GB 2400 Mhz DDR3 RAM
3x 1TB SATA 3 WD Black HD
EVGA 650W supernova gold PSU
X-Fi Titanium sound card - The only part I recycled. Older hardware is worth more today than it was when I bought it. Selling off the old PSU, GPU, RAM and CPU paid for a good chunk of my new computer..

With an Antec case this cost me around $850 and got The Witcher 3 for free and $80 worth of annoying mail in rebates.

Yeah, benchmarks are much faster but aside from games, there is no noticeable performance increase for day to day usage(including running VirtualBox instances) but the fact that the PSU and video card fans rarely turn on and the mobo doesn't have a fan is a huge plus. I don't think I have have heard the PSU fan ever turn on and the GPU fan only turns on when the card hits 61 C.

The CPU is using its stock heatsink/fan which is very quiet. I only have two case fans and the case has sound-proofing.

My machine is very quiet, I rarely hear anything coming from the box.

It also runs significantly cooler than my old rig.

Is this a joke?

I am not entitled to say what can or can not be displayed on a device that I paid for?

Corporations Über Alles